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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-14
Architects Sketchbook
Colonial Dry Sink
BY BILL MEYERRlEcKS
Ga Cn.n..I Al..A.

made by hand with loving
care, not factory perfection.
The Sketchbook dry sink
shown is 46 inches high. 34llz
inches wide and 171z inches
deep. Its actual conStruc-
ton is not difficult. The S-139
design plan shows you precise
dimensions and assembly of
all parts. The curved patterns
for front, sides and apron are
given to you in scale patterns
easily followed.
Choose the spot in your
home where you would like to
incorporate this gracious dry
sink. II will fit naturally in
the dining room for family
serving, but it also goes well
as an attractive and useful
addition in the living or rec
reation room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-14
District
Building
Permits

Building permits issued
recently by the District in
clude:
Washington Sheraton Corp,
owner, $3.50 WoOdley road
NV; builder not selected;
Clas & Riggs, architects; to
erect addition to Sheraton
Park Hotel; to cost As mil
lion.
National Capital Housing
Authority, 1729 New York
avenue NV; builder not
selected; Berla & Abel, archi-
tects; to erect two 3-Story and
one 2-Story brick and cinder
block, one 6-Story concrete
and masonry apartment build
ings: II units at 4O0414 W
street NV. to cost $181, 200;
six units at 2126 Fourth street
NV. to cost $50, 500; four
units at 1124-34 Third street
S.W. to cost SIS, 1888, and 1O6
units at 2125 Fourth street
NV. to cost $1,213,O11.
KarIa H. King, owner,
Mandalay Point, Clearwater
Beach, Fla; George A. Fuller
Co., builder; VlaStimil KOu-
bek, architect; to erect g.
story concrete and brick
office, stores and garage
building, 1900 Nineteenth
street NV; to cost $4 million
Lawrence NJ. Brandt, own
er, 1901 Eighteenth street
NV; LandOw & Brandt,
builders; Donald H. Drayer,
architect; to erect 8-story
brick, concrete and steel
apartment building, 81 units,
at 54O6 Connecticut avenue
NV; to cost $500, 1000.
Envoy Towers, Inc, owner,
1923 L street NV; builder
not selected; George W. Pet
ticOrd, ir., architect; interior
alterations, stairways, kitch
ems, toilets, etc., Hotel 24OO,
24OO Sixteenth street NV;
to cost 100000.
Embassy of Lebanon, own
er, 2841 McGill terrace, NV;
builder not selected; Henry N.
Shadid, architect; to erect 5
story masonry chancery, 256O
Twenty-eighth street NV; to
cost $50, 900.
Paul c. Warnke, owner, 52O6
Albemarle street NV. Tri-
County Construction Co.,
builder; Nicholas Satterlee &
Associates, architects; to
erect 2-story masonry and
frame dwelling, 54O7 Garfield
street NV; to cost ST., 200.
N. W. Development Co.,
owner and builder, l4Ol X
street NV; Earl Won Rel
chenbach, architect; to erect
five 1-story brick, cinderblock
and frame dwellings, 14OO-Ol-
$500 Forty-second place Sc.
and 4215 Fort Dupont street
Sc; to cost $4,000.
Joseph d. Dreyfuss II,
owner, Fifteenth street NV;
builder not selected; E. w.
Dreyfuss & Associates, archi-
tects; to erect 3-stOry brick
apartment building, 6 units,
1856 New Hampshire avenue
NV; to cost $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-14

Authentic Colonial furniture
is always in style. Those who
furnish their homes with it
enjoy the warmth and home
spun feeling it affords. This
special magic Of early Amer
lean is found in the authentic
dry sink shown in Sketch
book this week.
And Colonial furniture max
ing fits into the home handy
mans area of accomplish
ment. Since this type of hand
icraft has a history of sim
plicity of design and use of
material, it can be made in
almost any home by the aver
age do-it-yourselfer. For in
stance, a mirror finish is
neither expected or desired on
authentic-l o oking work. 1t
should look as though it was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-14
BETHEsDA-FIRsT PRESENT


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-14
THE EVENING STAR

Woshisgton, b. c.
SotUFdoy, December II. 1868
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-14

COLONIAL DRY SINK PLANS AVAILABLE You detoed
tOfOow pons for COLONEL dry sink Send 50 this
Architects etehbOk The Washington stor 25
Post Office, New York I, n. T.
Pleose send COLONEL Dry Sink Plan S-l39
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
Two Boys H. Admit
Staying D. c. Guard
WHY DID THEY DOT?
Explanations Of a Killing

nightmare because of two typical childish
twists of mind: The dream for power and
independence, symbolized by the gun and
by running away from home; and the
children's failure to realize that their
quickly matched plan might go awry.
When Mr. Nickens chased george mot the
boys real name) down the hall instead Of
Surrendering his gun meekly, only little
boys panic was needed to begin the
tragedy.
Georges grandmother, with whom he
lives, said the boy 'just wanted a real
gun. He didn't know why; he just wanted
it.
''He has often told me that he wanted
to be policeman, like his father, when
he grew up. When I'd ask why, he'd say
Sos can have gum"
Both boys attend the same fifth grade
class for slow learners at a Northeast
elementary school. They live down the
street from each other.
Records list George 10 at SO and the
other boys at 49, Scores of 80 to Ito are
considered normal, and SO is just slightly
retarded or low normal.
The boys principal was shocked by
the murder.
Speaking of George, she said they had
had no more trouble from him than you
could expect from fifth-grade child who
is not very we'll controlled by his grand
See BOYS, Page B-1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
Occurred at Rush-HOur
Wet Cong FusiIIode
Kills 2 Missionaries

SAIGON. Wet Nam, Mar. 4
(AP).-Two missionaries, an
American and a Filipino, were
shot and killed In front OF their
wives and children by Com
munist guerrillas today minutes
before government troops could
rescue them.
They we're identified as FL
wood Jacobsen of Foreston,
MINI. and Gaspar Alfonso
Paquebank Mkt.
The two men and their
families we're in a jeep stopped
with about 30 other vehicles by
a Wet Cong roadblock 70 miles
northeast Of Saigon.
The two missionaries and q
South Wet Namese soldier who
had been pulled from another
car and tied up were shot and
killed just before the Com
munists fled before government
troops advancing down the
road, authorities reported.
One Of the wives said the
Wet Cong was looting q few
Of the stopped cars and had
tied I'D the Wet Namese soldiere
when a helicopter flew over
head and government troops
were heard moving on the road.
The Communists began fir
ing, and the women and five
children Of two families tried
10 get out or the way.
The two missionaries and
soldier we're killed instantly in
a fusillade. and two Of the
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Filipino children were slightly
wounded.
Mrs. Jacobsen, Mrs. Mikil.
the one child Of the Jacobsens
and the four Filipino children
were brought 10 Saigon.
United States and Philippine
authorities said there was no
apparent reasons for the slay-
ings.
The two missionaries had
been working in Wet Nam
for an organization called
the Summer Linguistic Insti-
tute, studying tribal languages.
Mr.. Jacobsen had been In Wet
Nam about six months.
The two families, nine per-
sons In all, were driving north
10 visit a friend. Their ieep
was reported carrying medical
supplies.
The Summer Linguistic In
stitute is sponsored by the
Wycliff Bible TranSlators of
Santa Ana. Calf. which has
about 1000 persons working IN
foreign countries. Both Mr..
Jacobsen and Mr.. Mkt were
connected with wycliff.
It works. often in co-opera-
ton with local governments.
at the tribal level. putting tribal
languages into writing and
teaching natives TO read. Tran
station Of the Bible into tribal
tongues Is a leading activity.
The organization is not con-
nected with any church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
BY KENNETH CAMPBELL
Star Staff Writer

Why did they do it?
What were the childish and ultimately
senseless impulses that led an 11-year-
old boy to panic and shoot Theodore S.
Nickens, 62-year-old building guard, last
Friday nightP
A prominent Washington psychiatrist.
said, ut seems to be mainly a case of
juvenile bravado, combined with imma-
ture judgment that might be expected
of any l1-year-old.
Kids just think from step to step;
they don't think ahead The bright ideas
about running away-all kids have these
daydreams sometimes. But these boys put
their dreams into action-unlike most
children"
The psychiatrist also noted that both
boys come from broken homes where they
probably have not had adequate super
vision. Their immature judgment, he
said, may be compounded by the fact
that they are somewhat retarded in their
development at school.
"But people shouldn't get the notion"
he went on, that mental retardates are
bad eggs because of an individual Incl
dent. Most of them behave very we'll.
And it is obvious that many people, with
apparently normal mental development,
commit illogical or senseless crimes"
The boys reasoning turned into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
Eight Feared
Dead as Bus
Falls in River

NEW YORK. Mara Gap "A
bus carrying nine persons,
eight Of them nurses. plunged
off a roadway into the East
River today and disappeared
beneath the surface.
Two persons were known
dead. six others were presumed
dead and a ninth was rescued,
City and Coast Guard craft
rushed to the scene, and an
appeal went 10 the Navy for skin
divers. Rowboats we're padded
out from shore in an effort TO
help.
The bus. taking a load Of
nurses back TO their jobs at
Goldwater Hospital and at Bird
s. Coler Hospital. after lunch,
veered off waterside road on
Welfare Island and hurtled into
the rivers East Channel.
Welfare Island is situated In
midstream, between Maphat-
tan and Queens. beneath the
seth Street Bridge. Several city
welfare institutions are located
there.
The spot was near the
southern end Of Welfare Island,
close 10 the Goldwater Memo
rial Hospital, and at a point
Just across from Manhattan's
5ist Street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla.-On a
forty-mile stretch of coastal dune and
swamp 200 miles north of Miami, a
billion dollar spaceport is in the
making. Officially known as "Com-
pick &c." it is the springboard from
which men will leap moonward late
in the SOS and then deeper into space
in subsequent years.
Only in the last few months have
construction machines begun to
challenge the alligator's supremacy
in the Merritt Island Launch Area,
just north of the missile test center
at Cape Canaveral. But though work
to date hardly amounts to more than
a few scratches in the Soggy ground,
there can be no doubt of the outcome.
In the Nations space plan, there is
no place for the alligator.
Within five years this undeveloped
tract, twice as big as the District Of
Columbia, will have sprouted some of
the most amazing public works ever
seen. Ten years hence, giant Saturn v
rockets will be blasting off from its
three launching pads on a one-a-
month schedule. This will truly be
Spaceport U. S. A.
"A lot of people don't like the term
'Spaceport'," says D. Brainerd Holmes,
director of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration moon pro-
gram. But that is what we are
building at Merritt Island-a true
spaceport. Unlike Cape Canaveral,
which has always been a research
and development center-a testing
base-this will be an operational
area"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
SPACHORT u SA.'
Florida Swamp Being Transformed
Into Doorway to the Moon
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

capable of orbiting 100 tons or sending
a crew of three to the moon 1t will
probably cost close to 500 million to
buy, equip and fire one.
The Saturn v rocket posed new
problems for spacemen-problems of
construction, of Servicihg, of ground
support. Conventional" pre-launch
procedures, which sufficed for even
such boosters as the eight-engined
Saturn I, were unsuitable for the
Saturn v, five times as big. The birth
of the moon program meant launch
hg-area expansion, quite unlike any
thing required earlier.
Two Saturn completes at the
north end of Cape Canaveral had
used up all remaining pad space on
that Manhattan-Sized sand spit by
the end of 1861. For the Saturn v
complex, NASA officials had to look
elsewhere. They needed a great deal
of land for pads, for safety zones be-
tween pads, for ground support, for
industrial areas, for range instru-
mentation, and for buffer" areas to
protect the ears, psyches and property
of neighbors from noise and shock
waves.
The job of site selection was turned
over to DR.. Kurt Debus, a sabre
Scared ex-German professor who has
probably fired more big rockets than
any man alive. An alumnus of
Peenemuende, the German W. rocket
base, and a longtime associate of
Wernher Won Braun, DR.. Debus now
heads NASA's Launch Operations
Center at Cape Canaveral with
jurisdiction over Complex 80.
Eight sites were considered. Two
were eliminated because they would
have involved potentially dangerous
firing over such inhabited areas as
Texas and the Caribbean Islands.
Three were rejected because they were
beyond the continental limits of the
United States and thus extensively re-
mote from major labor and supply
centers One was studied hard but
finally tossed out because 1t would
have meant building an artificial
island on the shoals just offshore from
Canaveral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
3 French Planes
Collide, Killing 5

BORDEAUX. France. Mar. 4
AP)-Three French air force
twin engine bombers crashed
today after a collision in flight.
Five airmen were killed and
five were hurt.
The planes we're flying in
formation at 1000 feet above
the pine forests Of this region.
Two bodies were found in the
forward section Of one Of the
planes which fluttered TO the
ground in two parts. The pilots
Of the other two planes were
killed in the crash landings
followed by fire. One man who
parachuted also was killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
$1,000 Acres

That left two: Cumberland Island
on the Georgia coast between Bruns-.
wick and the Florida line, and the
northern portion of Merritt Island
adjoining the Cape. Cumberland had
the advantage Of being slightly more
godforsaken than Merritt, but the
Florida site shaped up better on al
most all other counts. Its nearness to
the 9,000-mile tracking network OF the
Air Forces Atlantic Missile Range was
a big factor in its favor.
Land acquisition started late in 1851,
the Army engineers acting as pur-
chasing agent for NAsA. Except for a
few struggling citrus groves and a
couple Of tiny seaside hamlets fire.
quented mostly by beatniks and surf
fishermen, there was little improved
land among the $4,000 acres OF the
original acquisition.
Later, another $4,000 acres 10 the
north was spoken for as a future in
terplanetary rocket base. These $4,000
acres plus an almost equivalent
amount Of adjacent water, constitute
the present Merritt Island Launch
Area, the southern half Of which is
Complex 80.
The land cost an estimated SIS
million, and was acquired from its
owners with a minimum OF III will.
Only about rs per cent OF the cases
were taken 10 court for settlement
as compared TO 35-40 per cent in
normal Federal takeover. Several
former landowners queried informally
See COMPLEX 30, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
forget: The Moon

Complex 80 was born with, President
Kennedy's determination to- shoot for
the moon in the SOS. His message to
Congress in May 1851, touched off the
second phase Of an impressive boom in
the Cape Canaveral area boom that
got its start when missiles began
rising off the Cape's first rudimentary
pads in the early SOS. The boom area
is rough semicircle bounded by Day.
tona Beach, Orlando and Vero Beach,
centered on the once-sleepy seaside
resort of Cocoa Beach.
Floridians, caught up in the en-
thusiasm of the accelerated boom, like
to say Merritt Island viii be the door
TO outer space for a hundred years,
or five hundred years, or forever.
The men in charge Of the space effort
are a little more conservative, possibly
because they are close enough to the
picture TO appreciate their ignorance
Of what the future will bring.
Surely 1t will be used through the
1970s," says Brainerd. Holmes, but
I'd hesitate at this stage TO look any
farther ahead" He adds that the
area probably will be able TO handle
rockets Of any size now foreseeable-
even the still-undefined Nova" that
will be at least four times as big as
anything now on the drawing boards.
Until Mr. Kennedy gave the 60
ahead for the moon trip, there was no
real need for base like Complex 80.
Even a single trip to the moon-a
dead-end program-would not Justify
the 81 billion investment here. This
place makes no sense unless we are
planning a high launch rate" one
well-informed NAsA official says. For
one or two shots, II would be cheaper
and more sensible 10 build a con-
ventional pad"
Planning presently calls for 10 10
IS launchings d year from Complex
80 beginning late In this decade and
continuing indefinitely. The rockets
10 be used will be OF the Saturn v
variety, monsters as high as a 80
story Skyscraper, weighing 5000 tons
at liftofi, developing rs million
pounds Of thrust In their first stage,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04

This ruling was affirmed by
the It'll Circuit Court of APP
peals In Chicago. and the
unions carried an appeal 10 the
Supreme Court. Today's de-
cision rejected the appeal by
the unions and affirmed the
action Of the Chicago Court
Of Appeals.
The railroads have said that
they would put the new work
rules into effect as soon as
litigation was concluded. A
fact-finding board appointed by
President Eisenhower earlier
had urged updating Of industry
methods.
The Supreme Court decision
means that the railroads, hav-
ing gone through required
bargaining procedures Of the
Railway Labor Act. are now
free TO put desired manpower
economies into effect.
II they do this. a Nationwide
rail strike would be immedi-
ately threatened.
However. the carriers and the
unions have an informal agree
ment with the White House
not 10 make any moves for 70
hours. This armistice will give
President Kennedy time 10 in
woke procedures that win delay
See COURT. Page as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
INVESTORS HAVE
PICK OF TRUSTS

THERE ARE SOME $50 invest
msnt trusts to choose from. but the
choice Is narrowed when you Try
TO pick one with top management
and whose Investment detectives
correspond 10 your own. Today's
insiollment on Investing for the
Years Ahsod" tells how to select
on Investment trust. us on
Pose A-l9.
THE FIRST ACT wos nearly
over before Victor BOrss ploysd
the piano OF Constitution Hall yes
terdoY, but q capacity oudienee
rocked With Laughter and opplouss
throushOu, the two-hour perform
once. The S.or's music critics re-
view the weekend eOnesns on
Poss Alb.
Hove The Stor Delivered
Daily and Sunday
Diol Lincoln $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
Wanted Gun
To Run Off,
Police Told
BY J. THEODORE CROWN
Star Staff Writer

| obhI otaAl WNlbcN
Two 11-year-old boys, dis
playing neither tears nor re-
morse after admitting the ia
tai shooting of District Gov
eminent building guard, today
are being held in the Receiving
Home while juvenile officials
decide what is to be done with
them
Both boys will remain in Gus
tody of the Welfare Depart
ment until Juvenile Court de-
cides whether they will be
waived to District Court for
trial as adults on the homicide
charges police have placed
against them. The alternative
is commitment by Juvenile
Court to the District Children's
Center at Laurel or a Federal
training school until they are
81 years OlQ.
In the meantime, both boys
are scheduled to appear at q
coroner's inquest at the morgue
at II am. tomorrow. They also
will be given a detention hear
ing in Juvenile Court on
Wednesday.
The pair, both residents of
the Northeast section and
products of broken homes, were
taken into custody by the
Homicide Squad yesterday
morning after admitting the
shooting of 62-year-old The
odore S. Nickens, ST., last Friday
might. The boys are students
in a fifth grade slow-learners'
class in Northeast Washing
ton. Both are colored.
Number Of Points Verified
There's no doubt about it."
: said Capt. George r. Donahue
Of the Homicide Squad. "They
( have given us complete state
2 ments and have verified a
S number of things that nobody
|. except the police have known
n up to this point"
n The boys, Capt. Donahue
: said. re-enacted the crime at
T 1890 am. yesterday.
Meanwhile, police redouhled
efforts to find the murder
2 weapon and the pistol the boys
said was taken from the body
4 of the slain guard. The boys
told police they threw the gun
in trash can in the 500 block
Of O street NV. after the
shooting.
Trash Searched
J When this and other cans In
the downtown section were
searched, and no guns were
found, police checked and
learned that there had been q
trash collection by a CONNER
cial firm Saturday morning.
The trash was taken to the
: Fort Totten incinerator.
Capt, Donahue said police
; have recovered a set Of keys
the boys used to get into q
District records office at 400
Pennsylvania avenue NV. on
the night of the Shooting. One
of the boys, he said, Is the son
of another guard at the build
; ing.
The boys story is that they
See GUARD, Page B-I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-04
HOsmer Hits
Officials View
Of Test Treaty
Disputes Claim
Soviet Cheating
Is No U. S. Worry
BY EARL II. VOSS
Star Staff Writer


A House Republican today
sharply attacked the claim of
a high administration official
that Russian small weapon
cheating on a nuclear test ban
would not significantly narrow
the United States nuclear lead.
Representative Hosmer Of
California, chairman of the
Republican Conference Com
mittee on Nuclear Testing, ac-
cused the administration of dis
regarding the advice Of weap-
ons experts and adopting a
policy of gradual nuclear self
mutiliation."
A statement by Adrian Fisher,
deputy director of the Arms
Control and Disarmament
Agency, indicating that even a
series of small weapons tests
by the Soviet Union would not
alter the strategic military bal
ance flies in the face of re-
peated statements to the con-
trary by United States experts
in the actual making of nu-
clear weapons, Mr. Hosmer
said.
Atomic Committee Member
Representative Hosmer is a
veteran member of the Joint
Congressional Committee on
Atomic Energy which regular
ly hears testimony Of scientists
developing the United States
weapon arsenal.
The Fisher statement also
completely undercuts" Amer
lean negotiations with Russia
for a system to control a nu-
clear test ban treaty, Mr.. Hos
mer charged.
Why, he asked, should ma
chinery to detect secret small
weapons shots be included in 9
verification system for a test.
ban If the Soviet Union coulC
make no significant progress?
The administrations position
must now be that detection ant
Identification machinery ''nee,
no longer be insisted upon,
Mr.. Hosmer said.
The Fisher comments, in
letter to the Washington Pos
this morning answering crit
cism by Democratic Senate
Dodd of Connecticut, must b
of great aid and comfort to tn
Kremlin," Mr.. Hosmer said
The signal is to sit tight Will
the Americans cave in on thu
test-ban talks"
'KowtOw and Concession"
Mr.. Fisher has ratified the
long suspected fact that bar.
gaining and negotiation have
been replaced by kowtow anc
concession on the American
side of the Geneva conference
table," Mr.. Hosmer said,
In his letter, Mr.. Fisher said;
Senator Dodd) states" Mr.
Fisher wrote, "that If the
Soviets continue testing in Sc
cret under an agreement and
we do not test, they can con-
front US with a choice between
surrender or anhilation.' This
is not correct.
1T is true that If the USSR
were able to test small de-
vices clandestinely underground
for an indefinite period, they
could make significant ad-
See TESTS, Page AZ