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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-07

however. In spite of the wealth
of licensed cabs only a frac-
ton of them are cruising the
streets at any one time. Fur
thermore, when they are often
most In demand-rush hours,
rainy, wintry or hot weather.
there never seems to be enough
of them.
Az the last renewal period
for taxi drivers, only about one
third Of the Districts cabbies
listed themselves as full-time
drivers.
The sight Of taxis parked all
day around Government build
ings is Just one indication that
hacking is q part time Job
for a great majority of the Dis
trict's $4,000 cab drivers.
Most Are Own Boss
Except for a minority who
are employed by companies,
most cabbies are their own
bosses.
They may drive a cab with
the same colors as hundreds Of
others displaying the same
name association, fleet or COM
pany, but they drive when they
want TO and in some cases
where they want to.
One head Of a taxicab as
ISOLATION blamed the prepon-
derance Of part-time drivers on
the uncertainty and low scale
OF daily earnings. They have
to have another job. he said.
On the other hand, he ac-
knowledged that many part
timers are Just driving TO help
pay the mortgage or earn their
way through school, for in
stance.
Regardless of the disorgani-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-07

proved requests for IA acres
of commercial property and
five acres of high-rise apart
ments.
Prince Georges Rate Stays
John A. Floyd, president Of
the County Council, said yes
terday he had no comment on
the matter.
In exhibiting the same re-
versal rate this year as last,
the Prince Georges County
Commissioners acted on 278
rezoning petitions and reversed
planners In 81 Of them from
May 1. 1862, to the present.
coming was q big issue in
last years Democratic primary
campaign In Prince Georges
County. The insurgents won
only two of the five county
commissioner seats. but all five
commissioners, including the
three incumbents, were elected
on pledges Of coming reform.
Seek Better Apartments
Track J. Lastner, president
Of the county commission, said
yesterday that the 81 per cent
reversal doesn't necessarily
mean that we have zoned for
more apartments or for indus
trial use against the planning
board"
"a percentage Of that Is
where they have denied high
rise and recommended garden
type apartments" he said.
Rather than garden-type," he
said, I'VE would prefer to see
the' better type of apartments
that high-riSe will bring"
The county commissioners re-
versed planning board recon-
mendations and rezoned more
than 900 acres for garden-type
apartments, 100 acres for COM
mercial property, so acres for
high-rise apartments and so
acres for industrial use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-07
BY DAN GOTTLIEB
Star Staff Writer

A Congressman boards q cab
at his home on Capitol Hill.
He rides three quarters Of a
mile to the Capitol. Fare: rs
cents.
A constituent takes a cab
from a hotel at Dupont Cir
Gle. He arrives at the Capitol
after a trip Of about 3 miles.
Fare: so cents.
To any experienced Washing
ton cab hopper. the reason a
trip four times as long costs
one-third less is as obvious as
the taxi zone map he sees ev-
cry time he rides.
One-ZOne, Two-ZOne
The Congressman went from
Zone 2 to Zone /, a two-zone
ride; the constituent had the
good fortune Of starting and
ending his trip within Zone l.
The zone covers Washington's
entire downtown business dis
trict and q large number Of
the major Federal Government
buildings.
This may not continue TO be
the case, however. For the first
time in six years, the District
Public Utilities Commission is
going TO take another. look at
the city's taxi zones and fares.
A public hearing will be held
at 10 am. Thursday in Room
500 Of the District Building,
Fourteenth and Z streets NV.
Hackers Complaining
The cab drivers are COM
planning about their daily take
and, as might be expected, the
vast reaches Of Zone l, where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-07
Republicans to Meet

Fairfax County Republican
Committee members will meet
at $3.50 pm. Tuesday in the
Bailey's Crossroads Firehouse,
1900 Leesburg pike, to hear q
report from its campaign COM
mittee. At least one new
@. o. P. district chairman also
will be named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-07
BY PETER MASLEY
Star Staff Writer

The Montgomery County
Council is acting against the
advice of its planning board
in almost one out of every
three land rezoning cases-a
striking increase from the re-
versal rate a year ago.
This was disclosed after a
search of the records In the
Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
They show that the new
County Council, since its Re-
publican majority took office
last December, has overruled
the planning board in 81 pei
cent Of rezoning cases acted on
so far.
A year ago, under a Demo-
cratic Council, the reversal was
8 per cent.
In Prince Georges County, the
county commissioners are con-
tinuing to act against planners
at the same 81 per cent rate of
a year ago.
Rezoning, along with master
planning, is q key factor in the
orderly development of an area.
Generally, rezoning requests
seek changes within residential
categories - from single-family
houses to apartment projects
or from residential to CONNER
cial or industrial use.
RezOning Affects Value
Planners say that rezoning
gives land "a broader scope of
development" In this respect,
the monetary value of property
frequently increases after 1t is
rezoned.
Rezoning applications in
Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties are filed with
their separate planning boards
The two boards make up the
planning commission.
After a technical report on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-07
Cities
and People
Uncommon Cities,
Uncommon Means
BY ROBERTJ.LEWIs

Tor SOME YEARS, urban
= renewal was like Mother
hood: Everybody was for 1t.
If it is to avoid becoming
like Sin with almost every
body at least vocally against
it,, it is obvious 1t must find
a way to stay within reason
able bounds.
It is one thing for a rela-
lively obscure Government
agency to preside over a
comprehensive program Of
well-defined slum clearance,
rehabilitation, blight preven-
ton and rehousing.
But it is quite another
thing for the agency to ad-
minister a social revolution.
And that--to understand the
implications urban renewal
quite clearly is assuming-is
increasingly the dimension
in which it is being viewed
by some persons.
All this is not news to the
relatively few sophiSticates
in the renewal and public
housing arena, or to many
practitioners in the fields Of
physical and social planning.
Perceptive administrator,
lawyers and social theorists
who have been variously re-
sponsible for the thrust Of
Federal activity have not
been unaware of the formi-
dable role they have been
playing.
Yet so basic Is this pro-
grams involvement with So
cial upheaval, so powerful
are the forces it has un-
leashed, so profound have
been its effects, that the new
directions 1t appears to be
taking seem only to be dimly
perceived even by its few
initiates.
One observer who seems to
be under no illusions, how
ever, is Alvin L. Schorr. He
has constructed the thesis
that urban renewals proper
purpose, present direction
and apparently inevitable
role is nothing less than the
prevention of poverty" in
the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Ceremonies Planned
At Madison National

M e m b S of Congress and
Treasury Department officials
will join with officers and direc-
tors of the newly chartered
Madison National Bank in cere-
monies t morrow afternoon
preparatory to the public open
ing of the new institution at 1870
M street NV. next Non d ay
morning.
Distinguished guests will par
ticipate in signing a ''Declara-
ton of Confidence"
The parchment scroll bears a
message of faith in the future Of
the National Capital in the style
of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. The scroll will be hung
in the lobby of the new bank for
opening day. Along with it will
be a $1,000 bill, the only United
st a t e S currency note bearing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
BY DONALD B. HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

Gross loans Of Washington's
three largest banks expanded
seasonally, but d eposits de-
clined slightly in the week end
ed November 20, the Federal
Reserve Bank Of Richmond re-
ported.
Gross loans Of Riggs National,
American Security & Trust and
National Bank Of Washington
totaled $7S6, 422, 900 on Novem-
Der 20, compared wit h
$732, $50, 900 a week earlier and
were well above 1852, SIC, 900 on
November 81 last year.
D epos sits dipped to
81, $780, 71 900 from 1882, SIS, 900
a week earlier, but remained
far ahead Of $1,274, O36,OOO on
the like date last year. Demand
deposits totaled SEAS, 1884 900 on
November 20 VS.. $3.50, 300, 900 a
week earlier and $9l3,859, 900 a
year ago. Time deposits
amounted to $432, 787, 900 VS..
$431, 753, 900 a week earlier and
$3.50, III, 900 a year earlier.
Commercial and industrial
loans amounted to $3.50, 922 900
on the latest date VS..
$148,617, 900 a week earlier and
$151 1863, 900 a year ago. Real es-
tate loans totaled 1888, O87 900
VS.. $236, 991 900 a week earlier
and S201, SIS, 900 a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Waldorf System
Plans to Acquire
Restaurant Chain

BOSTON (DO.-Waldorf Sys-
tenn, Inc, plans to a cquir e
1887 common shares of Res
taurant Associates, Inc, and
expects to enter into an option
agreement for the acquisition of
an additional 237, 632 shares dur
ing the next two years, Charles
]. Richardson, Waldorf presi-
dent, said.
Restaurant Associates oper-
ates many restaurants including
the Four Seasons, Forum of the
Twelve Caesars, Leone's, La
Fonda del Sol, Tavern-on-the-
Green in New York. Waldorf
o perate S a widely dispersed
chain of cafeterias.
If plans for the initial acquisi-
ton of shares and the exercise
of the options are completed,
Waldorf expects to acquir e
enough additional shares on the
open market to bring its owner
ship up to so per cent or more
of the outstanding stock of Res
taurant Associates, Mr.. Rich.
ardson said.
Restaurant Associates h a d
III, 4O8 common shares out
standing at he end Of its fiscal
year, October 81, 1862.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
VEPCO Lists Gains
In Sales, Profits

Virginia Electric & Power Co.
had net income of $S9, $40, 900 OF
$1.58 a share in the previous Il
months, President A. H.
Mcdowell, jr., reported.
Operating revenues for the IL
m onths rose to $195, 674, 900,
from $18S, 432, 900 in the previous
period.
October net income was
So, O23, 900 VS.. 1882, 900 in 0cto-
Der last year. Operating rev.
enues amounted to SIS, 741, OOO
VS.. $15,O42,O in the same 1862
month.
VEPCO had $4,000 electric
customers and 10000 gas Gus
toners on October 81, gains Of
%, 200 and $500, respectively,
from a year earlier. The COM
pany spent $69.9 million of its
1868 construction budget Of $50
million in the first ten months
Of this year, Mr.. Mcdowell re-
ported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
ON WHEELS
81 Million Cars
Rolling in U. S.

No one, least of all the Wash.
ington area motoriSt, needs to
be reminded about the growing
number of automobiles prowling
about.
But 1t remains up to a recent
report from the Automobile
Manufacturers Association to
really emphasize the impact Of
the auto on the country's econo-
my.
Starting with the dollar sign,
the report points out that auto
motive retail sales total more
than S45 billion annually, includ-
ing gasoline sales. All automO-
tive business-retail, wholesale
and service comes to 500 billion
a year.
BY the end Of this year, Amer
leans will own over 81 mil
lion cars, trucks and buses and
they'll be driven over 74O billion
miles.
In 40 States there are over
$50, 900 people employed on au.
tomotive jobs; dealers totaline
more than 1900 help employ
"a million.
The average driver has a new
champion in James X. vii
liams of the Bureau of Public
Roads.
In a recent address before the
Liberty Mutual Council on Auto.
mobiles and Public Health, Mr..
Williams said that pin-pointing
the driver as the cause Of most
traffic accidents is over-empha-
sized.
1t is, he said, biased on an
unfounded assumption or under
standing of the causes of traffic
accidents; is not particularly
effective in reducing accidents
and is harmful because it di-
verts attention and energy from
the essential things we could
and should be doing to reduce
the traffic accident toll"
An identical thesis was ad-
vanced last October by Federal
Highway Administrator Rex NJ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Poor Workmanship Charges
Denied by Most of Industry

crepancies we're found in the
entire project during four and
two-thirds years Of the pro-
gram-even If borne Out-must
be evaluated in that context"
The quality of equipment
produced by American industry
is not on the decline but has i'm
proved steadily during the last
decade" said ]. W. Young, vice
president of North American
Aviation, Inc, of Los Angeles, a
major aerOSpace contractor.
If the reliability of the Min
uteman missile was somehow
built into a home radio, said an
article in Fortune Magazine, the
radio might be capable of
pl ayin 6 continuously for 100
years.
In Detroit, Chrysler Corp. cit
ed a reliability record of IS per
cent for its Redstone missile
and a perfect showing for its
Jupiter missile.
But quality and how to insure
it in speedy, complicated pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
AirIines Push
MajOrPrOgran1
TOSpeedCargO

NEW YORK (DJ.-Major
United States airIines next week
begin moving to the showdown
stage of a $2OO-miIlio n-plus
gamble of air freight.
Already the lines have or
dered from B being Co. and
Douglas Aircraft Co. SO big all
cargo jets. Each can carry
about three times the load of a
propeller-driven cargo plane at
nearly twice the speed.
At an International Air Trans
port Association meeting begin
ming Monday in Miami, Pan
American World Always, Inc,
will plead for sharp rate cuts on
c certain commodities to be
hauled across the oceans in the
bets. The line which already
has started jet cargo flights to
Europe and the Orient will con-
tend that the economies of jet
flight make cuts possible and
that they're needed to stimulate
traffic.
On Tuesday, Trans World Air
lines, Inc, is scheduled to begin
commercial jet all-cargo flights
within the United States on a
route linking New York, Chica-
60, San Francisco and Los An
geleS. On Friday, it will be
joined by American Air Lines,
Inc, and in early 1864 by Unit
ed Air Lines, Inc.
These lines don't plan to cut
rates much, at least at first, but
they hope to lure freight by Of
fering speedy service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
C&P Board Votes
S4,57o,OOO Outflow

Directors of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. have
approved an additional expendi-
ture of $4,579,OOO for expansion
and improvements in the Dis
trict of Columbia, it was an
nounced by J. Hillman Zahn,
vice president in charge of the
Washington company.
Cross-town bles between
major dial centers will be ma
jor projects in the new pro-
gram. ,.
The company's net income of
1881, 900 for II months ended
October 81 was well below
$8,861, 900 in the preceding II
months. October net income
was $4,000 VS.. $744,OOO a year
earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
BUSINESS BRIEFS

Bank Clearings in 26 leading
cities in the week ended Novem.
Der % totaled $31, 2O9, 1865, 900,
down 1920 from the previous
week, but up 1850 from the
like week a year ago.-Dun &
BradStreet.
Business Loans by member
banks in the week ended No.
We m Der 20 totale d
$37, 19O, 900, 900, up $50 million
from the previous week and up
So, 40S, 100000 from the like week
a year ago.-Federal Reserve
Board.
Electric Power Production in
the week ended November q
totaled 17,727,OOO,OO0 kiIowatt
h ours compared with
1851, 100000 in tn previous
week and was up 10 per cent
from the like week a year
ago.-Edison Electric Institute
Intercity Truck Tonnage in "a
metropolitan areas across the
Nation in the week ended No.
vember % was down GA pei
cent from the previous week,
but up 20.4 per cent from the
like week a year ago.-Amer.
Trucking ASSnS.
Crude Petroleum Production
in the week ended November q
averaged 1882, 760 barrels daily,
up 1850 for the week and com
pared with 7,37S,21O in the like
week a year ago.-Amer. Petro.
leum Inst.
Pennsylvania Railroad an.
nounced it has acquired about
80 per cent of the outstanding
stock Of the Buckeye Pipeline
Co. The investment was de-
scribed as a first step in a pre-
viously announced long-r an g e
program Of diversification. As
ISOLATED Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
By CHARLES YARBRoUeH

Written in an address before
the National Safety Council.
when one considers the as
Economical number Of possible
conflicts in a movement of
80 million vehicles which are
driven about 800 billion miles a
year by IS million drivers, it
must be apparent that the ma
jority Of drivers, most of the
time, are doing a magnificent
job Of avoiding serious acct
DENTS" Mr.. Williams said.
If you want to make a Pom
tiac look like a Thunderbird
from the waistline up, Jack
Blank Pontiac is the franchised
dealer for the new Esquire con-
vertible hardtops.
Built by Riviera, Inc, Of c.
dar Rapids, Iowa, the Johns
Manville fiberglass top weighs
80 pounds and will fit all cur
rent standard-size convertibles.
The tops have the Thunder
bird so-called blind quarter"
at the rear corners; one Of
them with the familiar Third
landau bar effect.
Dodge has announced produc-
ton Of Dart models equipped
with a new, optional, light
weight va engine beginning De-
cember 9.
Standard engine for the Dart
is a six-cylinder, 17O-cubic-inch
power plant. Named the Char
ger, the V-8 Dart will have $50
horsepower.
One of the least-talked about
changes in the 1864 Pontiac
Tempest is the return of the
transmission to the front. Rea-
son for the change from the
tran s-axle concept and
transmission in the rear, Pom
tiac says, is because the 5-inch
longer car couldn't use the flex-
ible drive shaft.
The Sebring IL Hours Edur-
ance race has been scheduled
for Saturday, March 81, from 10
am, to 10 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
D. c. CIeorings Hold
At Record Levels

Washington bank clearings in
both November and the first
IL months Of this year were
the highest on record for those
periods, but the year-to-year
gain in the month was smaller
than in earlier months. reported
William N. Cradlin. clearing
house manager.
November clearings of $74S,-
227,815 were 3.3 per cent ahead
of $719,O47,O96 in November
last year. However, they were
behind 1856, 1899, 116 in October
this year.
ClearingS for II months to-
tailed $8,525, $3.50, $40, an increase
of SIS per cent from $8,O79,-
989, 1858 in the same 1862 period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

duction has been a mushroom
ing problem.
Il think we have lost some
thing with the production line, {"
said a spokesman for a major
space contractor. The worker
has become separated from the
product. In the old days, a man
made a thing himself and took
fierce pride in it. After all, he
signed his name on it,"
Can poor production quality
be blamed on the worker?
No, said Daniel Morehouse, a
Philadelphia machinist and
union officials.
Complaints Of shoddy work.
manship are not valid for the
man in the shop" declared Mr..
MorehouSe. ''The worker STAYS
within the tolerances on the
blueprint or gets fired"
And when the employer is the
Government on a major con-
tract, said other sources, then
he should state exactly how
much quality he wants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Capitol Car Adds
Dealer in ATIinoton

Capitol Car Distributors, Ltd,
Washington VolkSwagen distrib'
utor, today announced the
opening Of its newest dealer.
ship, Cavalier Cars, at 4O45 Lee
highway in Arlington, Va.
Ralph H. Stowe is president o.
Cavalier Cars, and Robert C
Kackley is general manager.
The opening of Cavalier Car:
raises the number of authorized
VolkSwagen dealershipS in the
Capitol Car group to as in the
District, Maryland, Virginia
West Virginia, North Carolins
and Eastern Tennessee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Dividend Declared
By WRIT Directors

Directors Of Washington Real
Estate Investment Trust have
declared a dividend of 91z cents
a share, payable December 81
to stockholders of record on De-
cember 6.
The trust paid the S m e
amount In September, 81s cents
IN June and ~ cents in March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
A SPARROW THAT FLIES
Bank Loans Expand in Area
As Deposits Drop Slightly

were IA per cent behind the pre-
vious week, the Richmond Re
serve Bank also reported.
Area sales in four weeks end.
ed the same date were 2 per
cent above a year ago and
showed a 5 per cent gain for the
year to date. s..
The downtown portion Of the
area sales total was l per cent
behind a year ago in the latest
week and also was II per cent
behind the previous week. -Four
weeks down town sales and
those for the year to date both
were l per cent above a year
earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

share VS.. $66, $40, 766 or 1914 in
1862 period.
Superior Oil Co. in year ended
August 81 earned sci, 7O1, 147 or
$51.55 a share VS.. $2O,815,O 6O or
1914 in 1862.
N. Y, N. H. & Hart. R.R. in
10 months ended October 81 had
a loss Of $40, 40, 45S VS.. a loss of
$40, 797, 1874 in 1862 period.
10th Cent.-FOx Film in 9
m mt S ended September %
e arm d $6,841, 900 or $3.50 a
share VS.. a loss Of $16,S16,OOO in
1862 period.
Times-MirrOr Co. in 40 weeks
ended o ctober 6 earne d
1895, 232 or $1.42 a share VS..
"a, LOG, LIB or "a cents in 1862
period.
Marshall Field & Co. in 9
months ended October 81
e arned $4,439, 439 or $1.1O a
share VS.. $4,5O5, 699 or $1.1O in
1862 period.
Salada Foods, Ltd. in year
ended September 80 e arm e d
81, AGO, 436 or IS cents a share VS..
s., 425, 735 or Sc cents in 1862.
Stop & Shop in 16 weeks end
ed October 10 earned $1,021, 165
or IS cents share VS.. 81, OBJ, 847
or IS cents in 1862 period.
Commercial Metals in year
ended August 81 earned $500, 500
or SO cents a share VS.. loss of
$2,O81, 44O in 1862 period.
Braniff Always in 9 months
ended September 80 earne d
1871 ,079 or Is cents a share VS..
81, 123,427 or 70 cents in 1862
period.
CuneO Press in 8 months end
ed October 81 earned $71,471 or
z cents a share VS.. 1894, 900 or
Sc cents in 1862 period.
Other earnings included:
For Year Ended October 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
NASD OPPOSES
DISCLOSING OF
SOME PRICES
BY Dow Jones

The National Association
of Securities Dealers said it
told the Securities and Ex-
change Commission it firmly
opposes public disclosure of
wholesale" over-the-counter
securities prices.
Wholesale prices in the
over the counter market,
which consists of all trading
not conducted on an ex-
change, are those at which
broker-dealers buy and sell
among themselves.
The NASD stand indicated
a widening breach between
the SEC and the securities
industry over recommends
tons in the SEC special
staff's study of the stock
market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Anchor Post Fence
Cites Improvement

Earnings and the order back.
log of Anchor Post Products
Inc, of Baltimore are running
well ahead of a year ago, Presi.
dent c. W. Burton, jr., told di.
rectors at the monthly board
meeting:
Directors declared the usual
quarterly dividend of 20 cents a
share, payable December q ia
stockholders of record Decem.
Der 2. The company has many
stockholders in the Washington
area.