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Copper River current., 1963-06-06
T LOVING PEOPLE !!!i!!!

THESE LOVING PEOPLE !!!!!!!
 No sooner do so1lc of our newer community members get urpacled thanit s time for them to be on the move azain. The Roy Johnson family vas just nicely settled when they were transferred to lendeltna, alon5 with the IrelanGs. The Gou}hnour . family barely had the dishes on the shelf when they moved from of lcCrary's cabins to the old Stewart house, just next door. Pete and Jean HuCdleston moved from the trailer court to their own homo, located across the street from the court. The Ketternan family arc. all packed for the movc to anchorage. The cabin vacated by the Goughnor's has been rented by the -rtie t Johnson family. He is employed by Trinity Oil, and has just been joined by his wife and II year old son from Texas. Faul Spa rks is moving from the l4iI post Cafe to the T0nsin q LoGgc, tJherc he will be employed this sumner as cook; along with D. Connolly. loving also will be the 5hivers family who have taken over the new management of the EilGp0st Cafe. lr. Shivers is also employed by Trinity Oil.
Copper River current., 1963-06-06

Il Taylor of Lower Tonsina was to leave on Thursday, the 9th, for Sacramento, Californif for visit with his mother who is ill. His mother, lr5. Huns acker, used to own the Lower Tonsina 1loadh0use, and she and lr. Huns ackcr left here in the carly 6O's, afterI sollinr the place to the NaCengasts. Il was taking his little girl Lonnie along with hinlI Lonnio has never seen biz city or even heard of a frecWay, so has lots to learn.
Copper River current., 1963-06-06

Ford jcbb is back homo from the University of -Alaska, and on the job again for the State Hi hWay Department. Summer doesn't seem the same without Judy -4shby back in Copper giving us all bad time, but marriag( must have "snartonedn her up, for this slunne] she is spending her time on the beaches of Carmel, California
Copper River current., 1963-06-06
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.Anchorage "vacation", and Nelson made no bones about the fact that he was G3lad to be home again.. says they couldn't give him the city! Hrs. EcCrary still has to cane to get around, but her ankle is getting stronger every day.
 The Norman Poirier family who left Copper Center in 1857, are nou temporarily back in Chitina. Norm is working the bridge at Liberty Falls.
 It's hard to believe that the Dimondes s are REALLY goinr Stateside for trip after all these years in 4Alaska. The change is bound to be exciting, but we're betting that home wi II better after all......
The chronicle., 1963-12-09
See 4 Seasons
In Only ! Day

MCMURDO STATION, Ant
artica (UPI)-You pass through
all four seasons Of the year to
reach this end Of the world
from Washington, DC. but It
only takes 30 hours of flying
time to do it.
Air Force C135 jet transports
make the big leap on the Deep
Freeze run from Washington
to Christchurch, New Zealand.
The flight from New Zea-
lands south island city to Ant
arctica's icy gateway is made
in a C1SO turbo prop Hercules
transport in about eight hours.
The CHS leaves Washington,
DC, in the fall, hits Honolulu
during summerlike Hawaiian
weather and visits New Zealand
in the springtime. Then the Her
culeS takes the polar bound pas
SengerS on the final leg Of their
voyage, landing them on the
Ross Sea ice shelf near here
and debarking them into the
bowling sub-zero Antarctic.
During the more than $4,000
mile trip passengers gain sew
en- hours chasing the sun but
lose "a by crossing the Interna-
tiOnal Date Line.
Cross Equator
In the same trip that brings
them across the 18Oth Meridian
the hundreds of servicemen and
scientists bound for this ice sta
ton cross the Equator and the
Antarctic Circle.
If they continue on to the
Pole another C13O will fly them
to the geographic South Pole
where the US. maintains a sta
ton one half miles from the
Southernmost point on earth
where all 800 degrees Of longi-
tude converge and north lies in
any direction.
The geographic South Pole,
The chronicle., 1963-12-09
Cos Facilities
Contract Is Let

MOBILE, Ala. (UPI)-A con-
tract for construction of high
pressure gas facilities at the
Hancock County, Miss, space
testing pressure gas facilities at
the Hancock County, Miss,
space testing center totaling
81, 1896, 900 has been awarded to
Paul Hardeman, Inc, Stanton,
Calf.
The facility would provide
high pressure gaseous nitrogen,
hydrogen, helium and air to
rocket test stands. Construction
will begin in the near future.
The chronicle., 1963-12-09

also known as the Amundsen-
Scott Station offers some mighty
interesting opportunities to the
man assigned there.
He can live during two days
of the week at once, consider
any hour Of the day or night as
the correct time and walk
around the world for exercise
in a matter Of minutes.
When he is finished at the
Pole and beings his return voy-
age to the States, he can leave
McMurdo Station today and ar
rive back in Washington yester-
day.
Suburb of Civilization
Space age technology is
shrinking the world so rapidly
that even its lost white contin-
ent is becoming a suburb of
civilization, upsetting some age
old traditions.
Crossing the Equator and the
date line no longer mean a
thing.
Il can't be bothered with Ger.
emOnies; there were times
when | crossed the Equator four
times a week." blandly observed
T.Sgt. Pickens H. Stewart, So,
a flight engineer with the 18th
Air Transport Squadron of Nc
CURE Air Force Base, NJ.
Stewart, of Mineral Wells,
Tex, said the CHS was too
small to allow its "a paSsen-
gers room f"~ ceremonies.
Howevf &c. Walter F.
Stang, o. ;, Union Bridge,
Md, OF The Navy still
gives yO~ / certificate if you
cross the Equator or 18Oth Me-
ridian by ship. That's the real
way to do it."
Evening star., 1963-03-21
BoX6,Foces
Humster Bite
Rabies Test

A Montgomery County family
today pressed its search for a
tiny white hamster, weighing
about 3 ounces, which bit
their 6-year-old son and then
escaped.
The hamster, purchased by
Brookhaven Elementary School
in Rockville for study by a
first-grade class, was one of
a litter which a Wheaton pet
shop had bought from a WASH
ington distributor which was
later placed under a rabies
quarantine.
Ricky Lewis, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. Frank Lewis of 1895
Beaver terrace, Rockville, was
bitten on the finger last Thurs
day. Although the bite was not
serious. the hamster could not
be located Friday when his
cage was discovered open.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis instituted
a search Of the entire school
building. on the advice Of
Washington Zoo experts who
recommended traps baited with
bananas. No trace Of the ham,
ster has been found. however.
II the hamster is not found.
Ricky will have to undergo a
IA day series Of anti-rabies
shots.
Evening star., 1963-03-21
Brooding Prison Guard Charged
In SIoying of His Wife by Gunshot

A 41-year-old Virginia pris-
on guard was accused of shoot
ing and killing his 29-year-old
wife in their apartment at 350l
East Capitol street last night
after playing phonograph rec
ords and brooding over his
domestic difficulties for two
hours.
Jack Dempsey Dent, a guard
for a Virginia State prison
camp at Haymarket. was
charged with homicide. His
wife, Mildred Kathleen, was
killed by four bullets shortly
after 1880 pm, police said.
Mr.. Dent was arraigned
before United States Commits
sioner Sam Wertleb this morn
ing and was held without bond
on a police complaint charging
him with first degree murder.
Argument Began Tuesday
Detective Sergts. Roy C..
Schwab and Edwin Coppage of
the homicide squad said Mr..
Dent told them he was suspi-
cious of his wife's activities
while he was on duty at the
prison camp. His work sched-
ule caused him to spend 10
Evening star., 1963-03-21

fact that there were few, if
any, public kindergartens in
Northern Virginia until re-
Gently, Mr.. Booda said. Arling-
ton has only had public kinder
gartens for the past two years,
he pointed out, and many par
ents are eager to give their
children the benefit of early
schooling in small classes, be-
fore they reach 6 years and
enter first grade.
Rock Spring, established 20
years ago, uses space in the
llelghborhood house of Rock
Spring Congregational Church
at SOLO Little Falls road. Yes
terday, parent participation
showed Enthusiastically in three
modern classrooms busting
with 46 nursery. pre-kinder-
garten and kindergarten young
sters aged 4 to 6.
In each room, a mother did
her day of arranging toys,
Evening star., 1963-03-21
Bandit Takes
$1,381 From
Loan Firm

A holdup man got 1881 at
a loan company office in
Vienna. Va. at closing time
yesterday, then ordered the
manager and her son to lie on
the floor until he fled.
Fairfax County police said
the holdup took place about
S pm. at the Vienna branch Of
Arlington Loans, Inc, at ITS
East Maple avenue.
Police said the bandit first
asked for q loan application,
then drew O .32-caliber nickel
plated revolver after Mrs. Ada
Henderson, the manager, had
said she was closing for the
night.
With Mrs. Henderson, who
lives at TIT North Twenty
second street. Arlington. was
her son, James Henderson. jr.,
IS, a freshman at James Madi-
son High School. He was watt
ing TO 60 home with his mother.
The bandit ordered Mrs.
Henderson to lie on the floor
behind the counter while he
scooped up the money.
Evening star., 1963-03-21

each other at the school, start
ing with Mr.. Booda, an Aviation
Week magazine writer, who is
co-president with his wife, Mar
guerite. Now and then the par
ents themselves attend a par
ent education program 70 learn
more about children.
Mothers run car pools. 9th
ers oversee everything from
membership applications to pur-
chasing.
Rock Spring will hold an open
house from 3 pm. to s pm,
Sunday. Eight other federation
schools viii also hold oper
house next week.
To give parents information
on member schools. the fedora.
ton maintains a phone servict
listed under Co-operativ,
Schools, Northern Virginia Fed,
leration of.
Evening star., 1963-03-21

teaching materials, clothing and
other classroom details to free
the schools three licensed
teachers for their job-teach-
ing.
In the pre-kindergarten, Mrs.
d. g. Wilson poured juice for
Mrs. Sidney Bearman's class,
in which young David Wilson
was entrenched behind a fort
Of blocks.
II look forward to this every
three weeks or a month";" said
Mrs. Wilson. "You notice
changes in the children. You
see how your own kids getting
along with the group"
Learning the ropes with other
youngsters gives children better
preparation and confidence to
tackle reading and other staples
In first grade, Mrs. Buckley C.
Merkel explained in her kinder
garten class.
Parents work closely with
Evening star., 1963-03-21
Fund Allotted for Work
On Shirley Highway

tween Triangle. Va. and Spring
field. which now is four lanes
Is to be widened to six lanes
Two overhead bridges are to
be replaced, and four others
are to be widened. Work be-
tween Springfield and the Po-
tomac can not be started until
next year.
Dual Lanes Set
The State Highway Commis
sion said today the Wright
Contracting Co. Of odenton
Md, received the s1.529.5s:
contract TO build. 80 miles o.
dual-lane Capital Beltway from
east of Shirley highway TO west
of Telegraph road In Fairfax
County and Alexandria.
The project will complete vir,
ginia's 22-mile portion Of In.
terstate highway encircling thI
Capital. The State ex'
poets the section 10 be finished
by next December /.
In Maryland. an engineer
said today contracts for thI
last 5 miles of the Free Statei
42-mile section OF the beltwa,
win have been awarded by sum.
mer's end.
According to william L
Shook, Maryland State Road
Commission district engineer a
Laurel, s.5 miles Of beltwa,
are open TO traffic In Mary,
land and another 20 miles ar
under construction. y
Evening star., 1963-03-21
DolT-YoURSELF COOP
Mothers Lend Hand at Preschoo|

Mother need hardly ask how
Juniors getting along at one
Arlington school. She's often in
class with him.
But both are usually too busy
to notice each other much, with
Mother handling a dozen diff
ferent chores for the teacher,
and Junior engrossed in pre-
paration for first grade.
The arrangement helps make
the whole do-it-yourself opera
ton go at Rock Spring Coop
erative Preschool, one of a fed
Grafton of IA similar schools run
by parents in Northern Vir-
ginia.
People join not Just to save
money, but because they like to
participate" Co-president
Larry l.. Booda explained yes
terday at Rock Spring.
Like its non-profit confed-
crates, it grew largely out of the
Evening star., 1963-03-21

signed statement that he asked
his superiors for an additional
three days off Tuesday because
he was having some family
problems. He had returned
to the prison camp Tuesday
morning after his usual five
days off. He said he was al
lowed the additional three days
leave and was due to return to
duty tomorrow.
Police said MFR. Dent told
them that he returned home
from Haymarket at about 2:3O
pm. Tuesday and argued with
his wife because he was suspi-
cious of her activities when he
was at work. He told police
that Mrs. Dent went to work
yesterday as a bookkeeper at
Rudolph g. West Hardware
Store at sos Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE. and that they re-
sumed their argument when
she returned home at sbout
$50 pm.
Anger Built Up
Mr.. Dent told police that he
began playing phonograph
records when his wife went to
bed at about $3.50 last night.
He was upset." he said, and
became more agitated as he
listened to the records. Police
reported that Mr.. Dent told
them that he got hotter and
hotter" as the record playing
continued.
Shortly after 1880 pm.
police reported, Mr.. Dent went
into the bedroom, turned on
the lights and took his personal
.3S-caliber revolver from the
bed headboard. He told police
ne took the revolver from its
holster and threw the holster
against the wall. It was at this
point that his wife woke up.
Mr.. Dent told police. He said
she asked him What are YOU
doing with the gun?"
Police said MIR. Dent admitted
shooting his wife four times.
The shots struck her In the
lower right leg. the upper thigh,
the breast and the neck. He
said he put the revolver on the
sofa, called the fourteenth
police precinct and reported
i've shot my wife" When
police responded TO the call,
Mr.. Dent told them "my wife
Is In the bedroom" and showed
them where he had put the
revolver.
III the signed statement given
police. MIR. Dent said that he
and his wife had discussed a
separation. but they had not
reached any decision. The dis
cussion about the separation
had reached the point where
Mrs. Dent had listed her de-
mands concerning the division
OF their property. he told police.
Mr.. Dent, a native OF West
Virginia, moved TO Washington
about three years ago, police
said. He was employed by
Drinks before he became a
prison guard In July. 1862. The
couple was married In Glen
Lyn, Va.
Evening star., 1963-03-21
100000 TONS
Potomac Silt Load Heavy

An unusually large volume
Of sediment-600, 900 tons-was
carried downstream In the
rain-swollen Potomac River
during one six-day period early
this month. Interior Depart
ment officials said today.
Technicians of the Geolog-
ical Surveys Water Resources
Division reported that the
heavy six-day discharge. re-
corded from March 4 through
March 0. was rs per cent Of
the rivers average yearly sedi-
ment load.
II moved in railroad hopper
cars, the 100000 tons would
require q train more than SO
miles long.
A Water Resources Division
spokesman said the agency. In
cooperation with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission on
the Potomac River Basin. Meas
ured the sediment rate with q
metal "fish"--a device lowered
by reel from q bridge span
to the river bottom.
Sediment collected in the
Fish" is used TO estimate total
sediment in parts per million
of river water. The March
computations we're based on
sediment samples collected
beneath Chain Bridge.
Evening star., 1963-03-21

one-third share of net renewal
costs in the past entirely by
non-cash contributions in the
form of services, such as pro-
vision of streets, highways,
parks, sewers and other facil-
tiles.
Southwest Needs Listed
In Southwest Washington,
Gen. Clarke said, the amount
of such services provided was
$2.6 million in excess of legal
requirements.
The excess can be carried
over" and applied to the Dis
trict's share of the cost of new
projects, under the law.
In Mr.. Doyle's statement yes
terday, RLA's estimate of the
carryover amount was in dis
agreement with that of the Dis
trict by about $3.4 million.
Instead of q $2.6 million
carryover. he said. the District
really will have a total credit
of about $6 million. This can
be increased to So million with
about 50 million in services
which the District would pro-
vide in the two new project
areas when they are started,
Mr.. Doyle added.
Conceding this total would
still leave a deficiency Of So
million. Mr.. Doyle said that
amount should be sought from
Congress.
At a board meeting yesterday
RIA decided to solicit bids fol
four parcels of land in tn,
Southwest Washington redevel
opment area in which building
heights will be limited to g
feet.
Evening star., 1963-03-21

BAOuP A0oV AAAbAAS AAS SAAAAAAAo VAAS
asking Congress to provide So
million to SO million a year over
the next 10 years."
The District official said he
doubted that any new renewal
projects would come to a
standstill this year" for lack Of
funds.
A.current fund shortage has
created doubt as to the speed
with which the District Re-
development Land Agency can
go ahead with new projects.
In his comment last night at
a symposium in the Statler
Hilton Hotel on relocation
housing, Gen. Clarke said funds
to undertake the Adams Nor
gan and North Capitol West
projects may be provided by
Congress lover a two or three
year period"
At Least So Million
The cash amount needed is
expected to be a minimum Of
So million-and may turn out
to be several millions more than
that.
Earlier, Gen. Clarke told The
Star he doubted that the Com
missioners would request re-
newal funds from Congress be-
fore fiscal year 1865 "at the
earliest"
His comment came after a
Washington redevelopment Of
ficial yesterday urged the Com
missioners to request from
Congress about SO million SC
the two new renewal projects
can go ahead simultaneously.
In requesting District action
Phil A. Doyle, executive direc.
tor of the Redevelopment LanC
Agency, said about $l6 million
in local aid was needed to per
NIT the two projects to b
started. Half of this amour
needed would be In cash. b
said.
Of the total needed in Dis
trict contributions. Mr.. Doyll
said, about So million would b
available in District non-casl
grantS-in-aid, and a like
amount would be needed from
Congress.
The RIA officials estimate
of the non-cash amount avail
able was in conflict with the
latest District estimate.
ID. C. Heads Concerned
Brig. Gen. Clarke recently
announced the District was
"scraping the bottom Of the
barrel" Of non-cash contribu-
tions. and said he and the two
other District Commissioners
were concerned at the number
of renewal programs envisaged
by planners and redevelopment
officials.
Pointing out only $2.6 mil
lion In non-cash grant-in-aid
credit is now available as a
"carryover" from present prof.
ects, Gen. Clarke said new prof.
ects must be given priorities as
a guide to Congress.
This is necessary, he said,
since congressional appropria-
tons will be necessary before
all new projects can be under
taken. He indicated the North
Capitol-West project has first
priority. 1t is bounded roughly
by North Capitol street and by
New Jersey, New York and
Massachusetts, avenues NV.
! The District has financed It's
Evening star., 1963-03-21

days at the camp and five days
at home, he explained.
The shooting climaxed a
domestic argument which be-
gan Tuesday afternoon, police
reported.
Mr.. Dent told police In a
Evening star., 1963-03-21
Apprehend Suspect
Photographs Shown

Works by Bert stern. Ameri-
can advertising. portrait and
fashion photographer. are be-
ing exhibited through April 20
at the Smithsonian Institu-
tion's Arts and Industries
Building. (
Evening star., 1963-03-21
Bus Riders Sought
In Police Staying
10-Yeor Renewal Needs
Put at Up to $3OMiIIion
D. c, to Require at Leust $40 Million
In Congress Gosh Aid, Clarke Says
BY ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star staff Writer

District Engineer Commissioner Frederick j. Clarke be-
ieves urban renewal operations in Washington will require
between $40 million and $50 million in cash from Congress in
the next decade.
Brig Gen. Clarke told a Washington Board of Realtors
night he thinks the District Commissioners will "be
Evening star., 1963-03-21
The
Rambler
3. Greets First
Day of Spring
BY GEORGE KENNEDY
Another Springl

Another Springl
At 3:2O this morning the
sun stood directly over the
Equator.
This is the first day of
Spring, the vernal equinox,
one Of the two times in the
year when the day and night
are equal. =.
This morning the sun rose
at GIL, although it wasn't
visible through the snow
flutrieS and clouds. This
evening 1t will set at 6;21.
From GIL am. to 6:21 pm.
is II hours and 10 minutes.
That leaves II hours and so
minutes for night - hardly
equal.
There are two reasons for
this. One is that sunrise in the
ephemeris, or astronomical al
manac, is when the upper
limb" Of the sun first ap-
pears above the horizon. Sum-
set is when it disappears.
The other is the refraction
of light. The suns rays bend
down when they enter the at
mosphere. The result is that
we see the sun before it rises
above and after it has sunk
below the horizon.
Your astronomical corre-
spondent learned all this by
telephoning the Naval Observ-
atory and the Georgetown
University Observatory. It's
wonderful to have such au-
thoritative references handy.
Evening star., 1963-03-21


A TELEPHONE CALL to
Clarence Arata of the Greater
National Capital Committee
brought assurance that this
years visitation Of high school
students win hit a peak.
"A few years ago." he said,
I'VE estimated that half a
million school children visited
Washington in the spring.
This year It should go TO 600,.
600.
I'VE have more room for
them. With the construction
OF new hotels and motels we
have 1000 more rooms than
we had last year.
Most Of the high school
groups are coming on package
tours, with everything wrap
ped UP at q fixed price. Some
packages include symphony
concerts, stage shows and big
league ball games. That gives
them something TO do at night
without spending extra
money.
"some Of the groups are
coming from distant cities by
plane. This plane booking has
increased since the FAA al
lowed the regular airlines to
charter planes for group
flights.
''T'or instance. American has
two Dc-7s coming In from
Houston, Tex, on April 3 with
iSo 'choralettes'. The round
trip will cost them about 500.
where coach fare would be
about $3.50"
Evening star., 1963-03-21

ALLEGATION Of the first funds
for the long-awaited widening
of Shirley highway was made
today by the Virginia Highway
Commission.
The State announced at the
same time that 1t had awarded
q SIS million contract for con-
struction of the final link Of
Virginia's part Of the Capital
beltway around Washington.
The commission allocated
$50 million from interstate
funds 10 pay for work on Shir-
ley. south Of Springfield. in the
fiscal year starting July /.
Officials said the tentative
ALLEGATION was for Interstate 95
north and south Of Woodbridge,
Va. in Fairfax and Prince VIII
liam Countys. Interstate g5
will be the interstate number
for Shirley highway. which will
drop the old designation, Route
$50.
Route 60 Work
The commission allocated also
SO million for Interstate Route
SO. In Arlington, Fairfax, Prince
William and Fauquier Coun-
ties. Some Of this money Is ex-
pected TO be used for starting
Route SO on the north side of
the Capital Beltway. towards
Arlington. Other parts OF the
budget item will be used for
continuing construction of the
approaches 10 the Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge.
The section Of Shirley be-