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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-27
Architects Sketehbook
Brick Barbecue
BY BILL MEYERRIEcKS
Star SpecioI Writer

it's easy to get into trouble.
An ugly duckling made Of
brick and mortar is not easy
to discard.
This weeks Sketchbook
plan tells you precisely how
many bricks you need and
where to place EACH ONE
to get the result shown in the
illustration. With the plan,
a carpenters square and q
level, it's next to impossible
to go wrong.
Dimensions Of the bar
becue are 671a inches wide,
AZ inches deep. 80 inches at
the cooking level and Just
over 5 feet high at the top
Of the chimney. The brick
work is scaled to accept q
Majestic Model OF-S8 out
door grill, which Is slipped
into place upon completion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

BALTIMORE (AP). Harry
D. kaufman is unlike the
coach who advised his athletes
do as I say, not as I do"
The chairman of Maryland's
Commission on Physical Fitness
makes you feel tired just think
ing about what he does.
He runs four miles, plays
catch and reads a newspaper
lying on his back exercising -
all before breakfast every day.
And then it's a breakfast fit
for an All-American boy. Or
ange juice, bran flakes with
wheat germ added, drowned in
milk and honey, topped with
fruit of the season, and toast
with apple butter.
Mr.. Kaufman is 81 years old.
He's a bug on health, he ad-
mits. But it goes back only IL
years when his own condition
became of concern.
IT had low blood pressure. AT
2 o'clock in the afternoon l
was through, I had no energy.
i weighed 207 pounds. I was
Just a physical wreck"
A doctor advised him to do
more walking.
Across the street from Mr..
Kaufman's house is Lake Ash
burton, a city reservoir. He
went for a walk around 1t.
1T was a cold, windy Febru-
airy morning." he recalls. by
the time I was half way
around, was ready to give up.
But it's a circular lake, so it
was just as far back as around.
I made It,"
BY spring, Mr.. Kaufman was
walking around twice. Then he
divided the distance into siXths
and alternately logged and
walked. Soon he was running
half mile and gradually in
creased to four miles.
II Just became a new man."
he claims.
A half inch shorter than six
feet, Mr.. Kaufman now weighs
1870 pounds.
A lawyer, he is one Of a
group Of professional business
men In his neighborhood who
exercise regularly and play a
softball game every Sunday.
AS the first and only chair
man Of Maryland's physical
fitness commission, organized
in July in 1861 in response to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08
THE BOARD OF COM

THE BOARD OF COM
MERGE, the city's far-left
organization of business men,
recently announced it would
come around to the right if
it would please the Fine Arts
Commission, which holds the
purse strings. But the Com
misSion-itS m e m b erS are
elected by the clerks of the
House and Senate Appropria-
ton Committees-said it was
a dopting a wait-and-see
attitude and promptly can
celed a public hearing on
the need for a little more
discrimination within the
Plumbing Board.
I'VE are helpless" said a
budget officer, doodling with
the same Stubby pencil he's
used for is years, land sub
ject to the whimS of every
Congressman and Senator.
And we have to testify all
the time. If we just had more
time to study some of these
m unicipal problems, the
growing h adach e. of a
world capital, we might be
able to solve something. But
we are always up on the Hill
testifying. Home rule is not
the only answer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

hold a public hearing, which
is necessary before funds could
be transferred from the Fed
eral Highway Trust Fund to
the Park Service.
Then the hearing was abrupt
ly Cancelled, with the excuse
that a design problem had to
be settled for an interchange at
Fifteenth street. Nothing was
said about any tunnel.
Project Questioned
The proposal for the addi-
tional tunneling was unearthed
by Representative hatcher,
Democrat of Kentucky, and
chairman of the House District
appropriations subcommittee,
During budget hearings last
June IL, Mr.. hatcher asked if
a perviouS estimate of $18.4
million for the entire freeway
was still correct.
1t looks like the esti-
mated cost now might be in the
order of $50 to $40 million"
District officials replied.
How do you account for the
difference?" Mr.. hatcher asked.
"Well, it is an extension Of
the concept of the project.
That is, the Park Service is in
terested in more tunnel con-
struction so this freeway will
not disrupt the park features
in this part of the city," Off
Gals replied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

VIRTUALLY everybody in
and out of Washington is for
home rule, this writer found.
But this writer was unable to
find out why 1t never seems
to happen.
Congress" said a church
leader, who asked that his
name be used, "forgets about
home rule at each session
until it's too late. You can't
legislate in a vacuum. We are
the stepchild, sitting on the
doorstep Of the East Front.
/ read that not long ago in
an article about the mess in
Washington"
And so 1t goes. The rag
weed grows relentlessly in
the very garden of the Cap
itol. But as a special adviser
on Capital affairs told this
writer: "Once we get the
Washington Monument fin
ished, things will be better"
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No. ! PLATES
STOLEN FROM
TOBRINER CAR

The lowest numbered Ii
cense plates in town were
stolen last night.
Walter N. Tobriner,
president of the District
Board of Commissioners,
said today that both the
No. / front and rear plates
had been removed while
his private car was parked
overnight at his home
address.
This is the first time
this has happened this
year." said Mr.. Tobriner.
He recalled that previously
thieves have taken either
the rear or the front plate
but never both at the same
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

water were poured into the 125-
by-48 foot brick building. Fire
men were forced to fight the
blaze from the street and near
by rooftops.
At one point, a fire truck
from Engine Co. 8 was aban-
doned in the alley alongside
the Masonic building when in
tense heat caused a small Sec
ton Of wall to fall. The fire
truck was slightly battered and
burned but the firemen all
escaped injury.
Twenty-one OF the city's 80
engine companies were sur
rounding the inferno when the
roof fell in at 3:45 pm. Fire
men continued to pump steady
streams of water into the
smoldering ruins until 4:54 pm.
when the fourth and fifth alarm
Companies were allowed to re-
turn their stations.
Restaurants Open Up
Firemen from the earlier
companies then started work.
ing in shifts, some still wear
ing oxygen masks, as the fire
and the 87-degree mid-after-
noon high temperature began
Subsiding.
District Commissioner Walter
N. Tobriner was one Of thou
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08
Col. Duke Sworn In
As D. c. Commissioner

is held by his former COL
leagues.
with this key" Mr.. To-
briner told Gen. Clarke, "go
the thanks of the District for
a job done with extraordinary
fairness, honesty and effective
ness. You have brought to us
your wisdom, strength and ex-
ample. And you take from all
of us our respect, our love and
our unqualified admiration" .
In addition to being sworn
in as engineer commissioner,
Col. Duke also took the oath Of
office as a member of the Dis
trict Public Utilities Commits
sion, another Of the many re-
sponsibilities Of his post.
Native Texan
A native of Texas. Col. Duke
has held several major posts in
the Army Corp Of Engineers,
including services as district
engineer for the Corps New
York district. In his last as
signment he served as chief of
supply and logisticS for the
Army's LIST Corps Group In
Korea.
The Commissioners took no
action TO name a replacement
for Gen. Clarke on the WASH
ington Metropolitan Area
Transit Commission.
Mr.. Tobriner indicated that
action on this important APP
pointment might be delayed
until he returns from a one
week vacation on which he will
start Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

ANNUALLY, the District
must pay Congress a lump
sum of $50 million so that it
may be permitted to practice
a limited form of home rule.
Actually" one of the city's
IS Commissioners said to this
writer, "even though we must
pay a price to govern our
selves, Congress hardly lets
us get away with a thing.
And it gets more difficult
each year to raise the $50
million. The white families
that have moved back to
town are broke because of
the taxes they had to pay in
the surrounding counties"
In "frightful Franklin" the
seat of school adminiStra-
ton, an assistant Superin-
tendent of schools, forced to
sit on the floor by his desk
because Congress refuses to
buy him a chair, said French
was not taught in elementary
grades because a Senator on
the District Committee hates
General de Gaulle.
And" he went on, "our
history students are not per-
mitted to discuss the Pro-
fumo affair because of a
rid Ter on an appropriation
bill, tackled on by a Congress-
man from Boston"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

Col. Charles M. Duke was
sworn in today as the Districts
new engineer commissioner and
pledged he would serve the
public interest and solely the
public interest"
Immediately after Col. Duke
took office, the Board Of Com
missioners held a reorganiza-
ton meeting at which Walter
N. Tobriner was reelected
board president.
TObriner Praises Duke
Commissioner John B. Dun
can was elected board vice.
president. a post which had
been held by Brig. Gen. Fred
erick j. Clarke, leaving tn G
commissioners post to take q
new assignment as chief OF
military construction for the
Army Corps Of Engineers.
Mr.. Tobriner, in welcoming
Col. Duke TO the board, said
"he comes at a time in the
city's history when a technical
skill, balanced judgment, sea-
soned experience, and, m o S
Importantly, human goodness
and compassion and under
standing, are critically needed
I'm the few weeks we have
known Charlie Duke, we al
ready sense those needed quail
tiles of heart and mind of
which l have spoken
Clarke Given Key
Mr.. Tobriner also presented
Gen. Clarke with a key to the
city as evidence of the genu-
inc affection" in which the de-
parting Engineer Commissioner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08
PROVES 1T CAN BE DONE
Fitness Chairman Is Fit

IS will be organized. They will
do eight exercises for Is min
uteS, each individual at his own
pace, three times a week. The
difficulty of the exercises will
be increased at the end of each
month.
After four months, Mr.. Kauf-
man predicts those participant
ing will be In peak shape.
Mr.. Kaufman lists exercise,
food and sleep as the ingred-
tents of good health.
"You are what you eat and
you should eat what nature has
provided" he believes.
Mr.. Kaufman's breakfast is
the same every morning. He
eats eggs in one style or an
other for lunch land anything
in the way of meat, fish or
poultry for dinner, but always
a couple of vegetables
He doesn't smoke, and that
wasn't an easily discontinued
habit either.
II used to smoke 2la packs a
day, I was a chain smoker"
Mr.. Kaufman said. During the
first five months without ciga-
rettes, he chewed on peach or
cherry pits constantly.
Mr.. Kaufman's morning bit
of exercising while lying down
is because he considers the
back 1.-The Achilles heel Of the
human body"
After reading the paper with
his feet propped up, Mr.. Kauf-
man then does three simple
exercises while still on his
back.
Mr.. Kaufman's two sons
didn't follow naturally in their
fathers footsteps.
Thirty-three- year-old Joseph
recently took physical fitness
seriously when his weight
reached 200 pounds. Hes
down to 1876, his lowest in II
years, and I'm very proud of
him." said Pop.
He had "a hard selling Job"
with 23-year-old David, but he,
too, is working out with us"
How about Mr.. Kaufman's
wife?
She's a pretty good walker
and does exercises every morn
ing along with a television in
structor."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

ing heavy streams OF traffic
around the basin during the
time the cherry trees blossom
each spring.
The traffic circulates along
the parkway network around
the basin, including parts of
independence avenue S.W.
Pedestrian Aid Asked
AS originally planned, the
South Leg freeway would use
the right-of-way Of Independ-
ence avenue. This would mean
that heavy streams of parkway
traffic would mingle with six
lane interstate freeway during
Cherry Blossom time.
The Park Service said also
that pedestrians would have to
be protected against the traf-
fic on the freeway.
The Park Services basic
proposal is for the freeway to
be tunneled underneath the
parkway network, officials said.
Another proposal is to tun-
mel the parkway network. A
third proposal is to bend the
entire six-lane freeway to the
north, to completely bypass the
basin area.
Four Agencies Involved
The Park Service is exchang-
/ ing designs on the latest
proposals with the District
Highway Department and the
Federal Bureau of Public
Roads. No final decision has
been reached, park officials
said.
Other agencies involved in the
design problems are the Office
of the White House, the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission, and the Fine Arts
Commission.
The design of the freewaS
around the Tidal basin ha'
held up the entire South Les
freeway, which would extenC
from the Theodore Roosevelt
bridge along Independence ave
nue. to connect with the South
west freeway at Fourteenth
street and Maine avenue S.W
Settlement Announced
Since 1860, the Park Service
has been negotiating over the
freeway, which is to have a
1400-foot tunnel beneath the
Lincoln Memorial.
Nine months ago, the Park
Service, the District and the
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
announced they had settled
their dispute.
A month later, the agencies
announced they were ready to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

pied by the hardware company
since 1889.
The firm did some remodel
ing in the 1920s and had
planned additional work on the
building this year. The inter-
ior of the store was sectioned
into 80 or 40 display rooms.
The hardware firm was one
of the few in the District that
was considered a contract
hardware firm. The store car
ried a large range of hardware
for building trades and sup
plies for contractors.
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Embraced Walls Now Pose Dancer
Continued From Page Al

backed, blue and cream colored
chairs had been in the building
for more than 100 years, said
John E. Chrisman, superintend-
ent of the Masonic Hall.
"They were priceless" he
said. The list of other antiques
in the museum room Of the
hall is in the safe in the build
ing and has not yet been re-
covered.
Bryce Weaver, SIS, president
of the hardware store in the
first floor, estimated the entire
loss of his stock at $150,000.
Two stores adjoining the
Masonic building were slightly
damaged by smoke and water.
Residents of several apartments
over Macs Georgetown Valet
and Kiki'S Steak House, at 1914
and 1918 Wisconsin avenue re-
spectively, escaped without in
jury.
There was minor water dam
age to the Georgetown branch
of the National Bank of Wash
ington, at the corner of Wiscon-
sin avenue and M street. The
bank is separated from the
Masonic building by narrow
alley.
The fire was discovered by
Elmer Evans, IS, of 1919 Wis
conSin avenue, who was walk
ing near his home when he
noticed smoke coming from the
alley side of the Masonic hall.
Mr.. Evans said he ran to a
neamby restaurant and tele-
phoned the first alarm at
1929 pm. Within % minutes,
three additional alarms were
called for by firemen who we're
driven from the building by
intense heat. 7ge72.e'
Smoke From Paint
At 1:04 pm, the Districts
Plan E was put into operation,
which recalled all off-duty fire.
men in the city to their sta
tons and split in half all re-
naming fire companies to give
greater coverage to outlying
neighborhoods. The fifth alarm
was sounded at 1928 pm.
Thick clouds of smoke from
the fire drifted for blocks in
all directions from the center
of the Georgetown business
district. An estimated 500 gall
Ions of burning paint and
other combutibles in the hard
ware store sent up varicolored
smoke clouds.
Acting Fire Chief Henry A.
Galotta directed nearly 200
firemen and so pieces of equip
ment at the scene.
1.-THE heavy roof kept the
smoke and heat trapped in the
building" Chef Galotta said.
after we saw that the fire had
such an extensive Roadway and
there was no chance of saving
the building, we withdrew all
our firemen from the structure
and the roof rather than risk
lives" the fire official added.
The blaze was controlled only
after the roof fell.
Chief Balotta estimated that
nearly l million gallons of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

the call Of President Kennedy,
Mr.. Kaufman sought to have
every public school offer at
least is minutes daily exercise
for every child.
Now he's ready to go to work
on toning up the adults.
Were going to initiate what
is known as exercise 49," he
said. "A person finds 1t hard TO
do exercises every day alone.
But in a group with an instruc-
tor, l believe they will do It,"
Mr.. kaufman said groups Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08
The
Rambler
Tackles
The Situation
By JOHN McKELWAY

latter reading too many
articles on "the mess In
Washington" as carried in
the big, slick, national maya
zines and after noting they
all seem to include at least
one glazing mtStGke.J
Behind the facade of white
m arble and antique brick
that make up the buildings of
Government in the Nations
Capital, in the very shadow
of the obelisk which stands
in mute testimony to the
memory of Calvin Hoover,
this writer recently saw a
patch of ragweed growing out
of control.
While it can not be said
that the incidence of rag
weed is on the increase in
Washington, it is true, how
ever, that according to FBI
statistics it should not have
the ragweed it does have be-
cause it is, after all, the Capt.
tal-Showplace of the West
and filled with diplomats
from the newly emerging
countries of Africa.
1.-THE whole trouble" one
of the city'S Chinese leaders
told this writer, "is that no
one knows who is responsible
for the ragweed patch. So it
keeps on growing each year
and getting worse while Con-
gresS, eager to protect its own
interests in the Federal City,
blameS the whole situation
on the Board of Education
which should be an elective
body and not, as is the case,
appointed by the Southern
dominated Board of Barber
Examiners who want to keep
things the way they are"
But one of the only active
members of the Urban-Sub-
urban League told this writer
it is purely and simply a
question of funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08

sands of spectators who watched
the firemen work.
This was one of the most
stubborn blazes I have ever
SEEM" the Commissioner said
Our firemen have done a big
job today and they deserve the
highest praise"
The Friendship Fire ASsocia-
ton volunteers threaded their
way among the firemen, serv-
ing ice water, lemon and lime
drinks and cigarettes.
Several restaurants in the
neighborhood, normally closed
on Sunday, opened their doors
to firemen, some serving drinks
and sandwiches without cost
Typical was the Tivoli Res
taurant at 1925 Wisconsin ave-
nue., whose waiter, Ray Min
nick, spent the afternoon
hauling buckets of fresh water
to the FLA volunteers.
The Weaver harware store
closed for the week end at
pm. Saturday. Mr.. Weaver
said he returned to the build
ing at Z pm. to pick up an
electric hammer, at which time
he checked everything, as
usual, before I locked up
again."
Gable in Cornerstone
Fire officials believe that
the blaze started late Sunday
morning.
The building dates back to
August 10, 1858, when the
cornerstone was laid for the
Masonic Temple. Deposited in
the cornerstone were news
papers for the previous day
containing Geographic mes
sages from Queen Victoria and
President James Buchanan
concerning the laying of the
Atlantic telegraphic cable. A
piece of the cable also is in
.cluded in the cornerstone.
The Masons occupied the
structure in May, 1859. A BAN
quet hall and library were
added to the original building
in 1892. In 1888, the building:
interior was renovated for the
first time since original con.
struction.
A $4,000 elevator was in.
stalled this past January al
the rear Of the building Il
provide easy access to the
upper floor for members o.
the lodge.
RemOdeling Planned
The ground floor Of thu
building and a section OF the
second floor had been occu'
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RemOdeling Planned
TODAY
CONVENTIONS

The U. S. Amateur Roll
Ter Skating Association
opens for seven days at the
Willard.
This information Is supplied by
the convention and visitors bureau
OF the Metropolitan Washington
Board Of Trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-08
Chalk Acts to Buy
Arnold Bus Line
Tunnel for FreeWoy
Sought at Tidal Bosin
Proposal Would Channel Traffic
Under Heavily Used Parkway
BY LEE FLOR
Star Staff Writer

tunnel to take the South Leg reeway through the Tidal
Basin is under serious consideration officials said today
National Park Service has proposed the tunnel in
effort the parkke setting of the Tidal Basin and
make Cherry Blossom Festival activities not cur
tailed
The Park Service has complex direct
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04

FLORTsT HELPER. retired status
preferred. Business experience,
some experience in accounts and
cashiering. 2. D. BLACK1STONE,
1407 H st. NV.
Evening star., 1963-12-30
Stop
Mrs. D. r, Olne1

Please! The response by
your readers who sent old
Christmas cards to the Shar-
on Nursing Home has COM
pletely overwhelmed US. We
have more than enough. The
used nylons" are ok, but no
more cards. The poor post
men have enough to do this
time Of year without all of
this.
For those who have al
ready responded, we send
you a big thank you"
Evening star., 1963-12-30
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Evening star., 1963-12-30
Reception
For the
Deckers

Maj. Gen. Charles L.
Decker, Judge Advocate
General Of the Army who
will retire from the service
tomorrow. was honored with
Mrs. Decker at a 4 to 7 pm.
reception yesterday given by
members Of the Army JAG
Corps and their wives.
More than 300 accepted
for the party which was held
at the Fort McNair Officers
Club.
On his retirement, Gen.
Decker will become director
Of the Defender Project Of
the National Legal Aid and
Defender Association, his
appointment having been
announced by the project
chairman, Mr.. Orison S.
Marden Of New York City.
He will assume his new
duties on the first Of the
year.
Gen. Decker is highly
regarded in legal circles and
those invited to yesterdays
reception included legal
personages from both civilian
and military life.
Associate Justice Of the