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Evening star., 1963-02-15

AMONG THE 100 or so
boats to be exhibited was the
owens 40-foot Tahitian
which sleeps eight. It had
been hauled over from Balti-
more.
The Rambler had an ach-
ing desire TO take her down
the Potomac, cross the Bay,
and nose around for awhile
in the Choptank or on
the Miles River near st.
Michaels. The only sound
would be the pleasant gurgle
OF her motors at the stern.
That's why he concentrated
on the skill Of the crane
operator. II kept his mind
off the fact that The Ram
bier Is not about 10 come
into ownership Of the Tahi-
tian. Probably run her up
on some sandbar, anyway.
So he left the Armory, a
bit depressed and boatless,
but planning 10 make thou
sands by staging a crane
show with all shapes and
sizes, picking up everything
from eggs 10, well, Tahitians.
Evening star., 1963-02-15

shot by First Police Precinct
Pvt. Winfred Baytop, jr., q.
The wife, Mrs. Mildred Rob-
inson, 28, of 4606 Eighth street
NV. is reported in good con-
dition at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center with gunshot
wounds In the abdomen and
face. Sergt. Robinson, who is
charged by police with assault
with intent to kill, Is being
held in q locked ward at d. c.
General Hospital. He has a.
bullet wound in the Jaw and
is reported in good condition.
Many Passing BY
The incident happened at
4:4l pm gssteraag at the,
northwest corner Of Tenth
street and New York avenue
NV. as hundreds of pedes-s
TRANS and motorists passed
nearby. Inspector John s.
Hughes said Sergt. Robinson,
who is stationed with the
Washington Armed Services
Police at the Navy Yard. en-
countered his wife on the street
and an argument ensued.
Mrs. Robinson, police said.
has been separated from her
husband since November. She
had just left her job at the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal En-
.ployes at BIS Mount Vernon
place NV.
Pvt. Baytop was driving
Patrol Wagon Is. east on New
York avenue. accompanied by
Pvt. Sherman L. Harvey, N.
when he said he saw the soldier
grab Mrs. Robinson's coat. The
woman screamed and called to
the police for help, Pvt. Baytop
told his superiors.
Draws and Fires
Pvt. Baytop said ne slammed
on the brakes and both officers
leaped out shouting to the
soldier TO stop. They said Sergt.
Robinson let go of his wife,
pulled a .22-caliber pistol from
his pocket and fired one shot
at her at point blank range.
She fell to the sidewalk and
Evening star., 1963-02-15

the soldier fired one more shot
as she fell. Pvt. Baytop' related.
The policeman said he lodged
behind the door of the patrol
wagon and fired one shot
through the open window when
Sergt. Robinson turned to face
him with the pistol still in his
hand. The soldier dropped to
the pavement. wounded in the
face.
The two policemen said they
grabbed the MP's gun. which
was cooked and contained
three live shells.
Mrs. Robinson told police
they had been married for five
years. She said recent argu-
merits with her husband had
caused her to start legal pro-
ceedings toward q separation.
Evening star., 1963-02-15

other agencies and are often
criticized for this.
THE goal must be a society
in which the home. church and
community accept their funda-
mental responsibilities" he
said.
Needs Sketched
DR.. Hansen then outlined
these needs and problems in
the city school system:
/. A lack of personnel TO
properly handle children with
special emotional, speech, hear
ing or vision problems.
2. The large number of In
experienced. not fully certified
teachers responsible for hand
ling the city's slow learn
ing students who need the
most care.
AAlhiOot % pCA VCAlb VI ClC~
mentary school teachers and 80
per cent of junior high teachers
fall into this category, he said,
3. A lack of personnel to ap-
praise District youngsters psy-
Geological problems.
There are 1000 students
needing help on the waiting list
at the school years end. he said.
Further. there is only one psy-
chologist for every 7.755 Dis
trict pupils instead Of a rec
commended one for every 1000
children. he said.
4. Instead OF the recon-
mended pupil teacher ratio Of
Is to / for social adjustment
and occupational training
classes, many have as many as
80 In their classes.
Evening star., 1963-02-15

OF publicly owned
rapid transit systems. such as
the one proposed for the Wash
ington area.
2. Private systems would be
permitted to set aside tax-free
money for capital improve
ments.
Would "AvOid Subsidies"
MY bill will help transit
systems pay their own way,
while avoiding starting a new
Federal subsidy program for
mass transit that could mount
to tens Of billions" Senator
Lausche said.
The bill was introduced as a
counterproposal to the White
House recommendation for a
$500 million grant program.
Under that plan, the Govern
ment would put up So for each
81 from a public transit
agency.
Senator Lausche's bill also
would place the Federal mass
transit operations in the De-
partment of Commerce rather
than the Housing and Home
Finance Agency.
A division of urban trans
portation would be established
under an Office of the Under
secretary of Commerce for
Transportation.
Under the legislation. the
Commerce Department would
be required to take a close look
at the mass transportation FRO
grams now being developed by
the Housing and Home Finance
Commerce officials
then would submit recommen-
dations to Congress with
respect to the expansion or
discontinuance Of such pro-
grams
On the financing end, the
Evening star., 1963-02-15
Inquest Set
Monday in
Wife-KiIIinq

A first-degree murder charge
yesterday was filed against
Robert N. Colomo, a LIQUOR
store clerk accused by police of
shooting his 21-year-old wife
Wednesday night in their
Northeast Washington apart
ment.
Colomo. who told police he
was cleaning pistols and watch
ing a crime drama on television
just before the shooting, was
Jailed without bond after ap-
pearing before United States
Commissioner Sam Wertleb
yesterday afternoon.
A coroner's inquest in the
case will be held at II am.
Monday.
Homicide squad detectives
said Colomo's wife, Mary Kath-
crime. was shot in the chest in
the living room Of the couples
apartment at 40Of Ninth
street NE.
The 23-year-old clerk told
police he had cleaned three re-
volvers earlier in the evening.
Two of the pistols. he said, were
his. He said the third weapon
belonged to his wife and that
she usually kept 1t hidden in the
kitchen.
Shortly before midnight, CO.
lomo told police, he returned
his wife's pistol to her, placed
his two revolvers on the floor
near his feet and began watch
ing television.
At that point, according to
the account Colomo gave police,
his wife said she wanted to dis
cuss their marriage and he no
ticed that she was pointing her
pistol in his general direction.
Colomo told police he went
over to her and that the gun
went off during a struggle.
Detectives said Colomo told
them he and hts wife married
in 1858, were divorced in 1861
and remarked in late 1861 or
early 1862. Their three chill
dren, aged 3, 2 and 6 months.
were asleep in the apartment
during the shooting.
Evening star., 1963-02-15

IllJy dJIbIlClOIl, ilhue JHeSe OD-
servatiohs in reporting some of
its problems to a Board of Ed
ucation committee on health
and special education.
Speaking out on one major
area of concern in the District
the increasing number of
school drop-outs-Dr. Hansen
said:
Since the schools are the
immediate source of the drop
out into society. the schools be-
come the whipping boy for
society's total failure to provide
all of the ingredients necessary
for a climate of successful
learning in adequate schools
geared to the needs of the in
dividual and a place to sue
cessfully market the skills ac-
quired through education.
Blames Society
Schools should not assume
sole responsibility for the drop
out" DR.. Hansen said. THE re-
sponsibility is that of our So
ciety, both locally and nation
ally, of which the schools are
but one vital part"
During the l96l-1962 school
year. DR.. Hansen reported, 356
youngsters left school at the
elementary level; l,225 from
junior high; 1885 from senior
high and ITO from vocational
schoolsD
Washington public schools,
he continued. have assumed
more functions and services
which were formerly performed
by the home, the church and
Evening star., 1963-02-15
The
Rambler
m. Watches q
y Boot Show Built
BY JOHN McKELWAY

Apart of the show is over
now-although the rest Off
cially opens tomorrow.
The Rambler noticed the
back door of the National
Guard Armory open and
wandered in, a few days
back, and came upon a group
of remarkable men.
The vast room was being
fixed up for the Washing
ton International Boat and
Sport Show.
There was only one spec
tator - The Rambler - who
found himself a lonely seat
up in the stands and
watched other people work,
a pastime that has an en-
trancing quality to it.
The electricians were hang
ing lights, working from a
scaffold on wheels which
poked up into the darkness
about 80 feet, above the long
blue curtains which had
been hung in row after row
down the length of the
building.
At intervals, trucks would
hiss and come up the ramp
outside the Armory and then
onto the wooden floor
which squeaked under the
weight. They carried boats
tremendous, heavy, comfort
able hulks looking sort of
naked out of the water.
There were at least Is of
the big girls either in place
on the floor or waiting to be
lifted off their trailers.
They are as impressive as
a new house and cost about
as much-about 81 900 a foot.
But the scene stealer, down
on the floor, inching around
the boats, was a crane which
was making the boat sh wv
possible on dry land.
Evening star., 1963-02-15
THE MAN IN THE CAB was

THE MAN IN THE CAB was
using the touch of a surgeon
in the delicate operation of
unloading the expensive
girls, some weighing as much
as 10 tons.
He had to lower the big
boom down between the cur
tains, inches close to the
flying bridges on some of the
cabin cruisers, then swing it
carefully around while his
driver, in a second cab, rolled
up to the next boat.
Then a team Of men would
loop cables under the hull
and start yelling in a Ian
guage understandable only
to them and the crane oper-
ator. Soon the boat would
swing free and twist and
finally they would ease her
down on the floor as the
truck driver pulled out from
under.
A nervous little man
pounded over the floor, bark
ing orders about the place
ment of the boats and yell
ing things like, Get that rig
out of here" He was largely
ignored by the slow-moving
workmen. One said the little
man would get ulcers If he
doesn't have 'em already"
1t takes three days to set
the show up. The boat man
ufacturers rent floor space
for their products during
the nine-day show. A section
with TAB square feet goes for
$3.50. On this, for example, a
boat worth $4,000 might be
placed and hopefully sold.
Trucked up from Annapo-
lis and sailing across the
floor on a trailer came a
creation Of Chris Craft "a
35-foot fiberglass motor
sailer that can sleep six and
sells for around $25, 900.
After much huffing and
putting they got her into
place. 1t had been a cold trip.
She had an icicle growing
out Of a seacock.
Evening star., 1963-02-15

ever employed by the Federal
Government.
At present, the Federal Gov
ernment collects the Virginia
withholding tax only from Vir-
gihia citizens actually employed
in agencies located there.
Senator Brewster called the
conference to obtain the views
Of Mary1and's top fiscal Off
GERS, other members of its con-
gressional delegation, and rep
resentatives OF the Federal
Government.
What Mr.. Morrissett is talk
ing about is something we are
working on with the Treasury
Department" said BENJAMIN F.
Marsh, chief Of Maryland's In
come tax division.
Mr.. Jackson estimated that
Virginia will benefit by at least
Sl60,000 a year on about 5000
Maryland citizens who are en-.
ployed in the Defense Depart
ment in Arlington. The esti-
mate does not include employees
Of the Central Intelligence
Agency, he said.
The 100000 10 Virginia Is
actually peanuts TO what Vir-
ginia would get II taxes were
withheld on its citizens en-
ployed over here lin the Dis
trict and Maryland" MIR.
Marsh added.
Problem Complicated
Richard H. Lansdale, assist
ant general counsel for the
CIA. said his agency Is In SYM
pathy with the problem which
is complicated by each State
having its own laws.
MIR. Jackson added, "As far
as the Defense Department is
concerned we are anxious 10
eliminate this morale factor
which seems TO be an unwar-
ranted one"
Mr.. Lansdale viewed the
situation this way:
Il think Mr.. Morrissett's
position is that because Vir-
ginia is having difficulty in
collecting its tax on Virginians
working elsewhere. they want
to collect from non-Virginians
working over there. They are
willing 10 horse trade"
Senator Brewster said he re-
CARDS II as very unfair and
impractical" for Virginia to
propose that the Federal Goy-
ernment withhold taxes OF all
Virginians before that State
re-enacts It's reciprocity agree
ment.
Representative Matthias. Re-
publican OF Maryland. yester-
day introduced bill TO relieve
Federally employed Maryland
residents from paying the vir-
ginia income tax. The tax Of
the two States is about equal
on incomes OF $4,000 or less
but virginias is higher over
that amount.
Evening star., 1963-02-15
HoIIines TO Speak
To Democrats

Democrats In Virginia. where
the massive resistance approach
70 racial problems once pre-
vailed, will be addressed by an
advocate OF moderation at their
Jefferson jackson Day Dinner
here February %,
The speaker was announced
yesterday as former Gov. Ernest
T. Hollings Of South Carolina.
On leaving office January Q
he told South Carolina that IL
had run out Of courts" and
called for orderly compliance
with the law.
Evening star., 1963-02-15
Virginia Offers to Swop
Tx for Collection Plan

Virginia has offered to repea
its income tax on out-of State
residents employed in the
State II the Federal Govern.
ment win collect the States taS
on Virginians federally en-
ployed in the District Of CO.
lumbia and Maryland.
This disclosure, at a confer
ence called by Senator Brew
ster. Democrat of Maryland. led
to accusations that Virginia is
attempting to work a horse
trade" to Its own advantage.
Under a new Virginia income
tax Withholding law, reciprocity
with other States was abol-
ished. Effective last month,
residents of Maryland. the Dis
trict or any other State who
worked in Virginia are liable
for any tax difference that may
exist between Virginia and the
other State.
Collects In Virginia
Stephen Jackson, Special
Assistant TO the Secretary of
Defense for Manpower. said
that, in an exchange of corre-
spondence, Virginia State Tax
Commissioner c. H. Morrissett
had agreed to recommend that
the Virginia General Assembly,
reinstate the reciprocity stat
ute, II Congress will pass a law
to withhold that States taxes
from Virginia residents. wher-
Evening star., 1963-02-15

Government would back reve-
INCREASING bonds TO assist
local public transit agencies to
construct modern and efficient
mass rapid transit systems -
The bonds would carry a
maximum interest rate of 334
per cent and a. maximum ma
turity period of so years.
The financing proposals By
the National Capital Transpor-
tation Agency include Govern
ment-backed revenue bonds
Under the Meta plan, these
bonds would not be isaned
within the next several years,
but would be used to raise
revenue in future stages of con-
Struction. ~
In explaining provisions of
his bill, Senator Lausche said /:
"The bond-guarantee ap-
proach would offer that degree
Of Federal assistance that COM
munities having a municipality
owned or transit authority type
operation especially would need
for developing their transit
systems. 1t does not involve
a Federal spending program
and the finances used would
come from private capital"
Would Be Exempt
For the private transit sys-
TENS. a reserve fund for capital
improvements would be exempt
from the Federal income tax.
In addition, any State or
local tax concession would not
be subject to the Federal levy.
D. c. Transit System, for ex-
ample. would benefit under this
provision by escaping the Fed
eral tax on the exemption 1t
sometimes is granted from pay
ment of the local fuel levy.
Evening star., 1963-02-15
Lousche BiILWouId Aid
Public, Private Transit

The Government would offer indirect financial help to
both publicly and privately transit systems under
legislation introduced by Senator Lausche Democrat Ohio
Under the BILL the Government would away from the
proposal for Federal matching grants to
urban transit systems
The key financing points the BILL introduced yesterday
are:
l. The Government would guarantee revenue bonds for
Evening star., 1963-02-15
Hansen Calls Role
Of fWhipping Boy
Unfair to Schools
Society Held Partly Responsible
For Dropouts, Other Problems
BY ROBERTA HORNIG
Star staff Writer

The District school system should not be used a
whipping boy for problems the community has faced
to- Supt Carl F. Hansen believes.
Schools he pointedly observed yesterday providing
services to the cys youth which homes and churches here
used to furnish.
Dr. Hansen whose school system lately drawn
Evening star., 1963-02-15
Soldier and Wife Shot
On Downtown Street

An Army military policeman and his wife recovering
In hospitals here today from bullet received in
shooting affray downtown street corner yesterday at
the height of the afternoon rush hour.
The husband. Sergt Henry Vance Robinson, jr %, Is
accused of shooting his esanged wife before he was
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were disciplinary cases. They
presented a solid front, some
times requesting parents to
cooperate.
No longer was it possible
for a pupil to play one teacher
against another: To blame
school when at home, and
home while at school. When
all of the adults joined forces
the child was forced to face
up to his duties.
Below the. junior high level
the teaming Of parents and
teachers has long brought
good results. But from the be-
ginning Of junior high a more
conscious effort is required.
More adaptable buildings,
better use of specialist teach
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-14
By LESLIE ]. MASON

Professor Of Education
University Of Southern California
Team teaching can be a
wonderful thing-if it's ham
died right.
The trouble is in such prof.
ects that administrators are
apt to lose sight Of the vel
fare Of individual students
and concentrate on the me-
chanics Of the system.
Every discussion of team
teaching that / have read in
months has concentrated on
administration and on the or
ganiZation Of students in large
and small groups and on the
design Of buildings. Not one of
.theSe discussions has men,
toned the possible effect of
the program on the individual
student.
. Before we spend thousands
of dollars on new school build
ings in which large groups of
students can be handled by
teaching teams, we S b ould
consider carefully the aims
and goals Of the program.
Efforts Are Pooled
Parents write me letters
about the situation.
To quote from one letter:
care we as parents expect
ing too much Of a program to
want it more on an individual
basis; that is, aid in establish
ing study habits and seeking
roots of trouble for founder
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THE GOLDEN YEARS
Rich One Finds WAY
To Beet Stotus Loss

successful and who has made
good money.
The wife, you see, has
been developing a lush home
life and a lush social life dur
ing these years the husband
has been advancing" he ex-
plains. "But these are made
possible by the position and
the income Of the husband. So
he retires, cutting his income
down to a third and at the
same moment losing his bust
ness Status-Which to q large
extent had given his wife her
social status. She's left dan
Cling"
And Mr.. wilkins found his
wife making a frantic effort,
as he had seen wives Of fellow
executives do, to prove to her
friends and the world that
everything was still the same
with her. More clothes, more
beauty treatments, more os-
tentation and every week
losing a little more ground.
Zone who loves his wife In
such a situation must finally
tell her candidly that an at
tractive woman Of 20, with a
new mink, whose husband is
on the way, is not the same
one as a 62-year-old woman,
with an old mink, whose hus-
band has already been. -.
sand he must frankly tell
his children, especially his
married and a bilious
daughters, that the fine family
home with maid) that they
like to point out to their
friends with pride, and to
visit, is no longer sensible for
a retired Daddy.
"And that this town where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-14
By THOMAS COLLINS

A retired man we viii call
Mr.. wilkins has obtained a
job as a buyer and supervisor
in a small suburban drugstore
at a salary Of $50 a week. He
believes he is on his way to
the Golden Years.
Mr.. wilkins is rich. He has
$107, 900 In investments and a
retirement income Of $40 a
month (including about $500 a
month in dividends from his
investments, and excluding
social security.
He was retired from an ex-
ecutive job with a large drug
and chemical manufacturing
firm on December 81, 1861.
And from that day until he
got his drugstore job three
months ago he had a rugged
time Of it.
81 made three errors in
judgment before / got out of
the door with my engraved
watch" he says. First, I
thought that a man with
$1O7, 900 would be somewhat
impressive and important and
S om ewh a t catered to, and
found that's not nearly enough
money for that not in a
city. Second, / thought l could
sell my executive experience
for some worthwhile work to
do, and found after IA humili-
ating pitches for a job that I
couldn't. And third, l thought
my wife and children were
conditioned for my retire
ment. :"
This wife problem, Mr.. Will
kins says, is a very serious
one for a man who has been
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ers and cooperation inStruc-
ton are all laudable. How
ever, the most important
criterion of team-t e a ching
should be that it results in i'm
proved learning.
After a program has been
in use, if an administrator
cannot cite improvement in
individual pupils the program
should be revised or diScon-
tinued.
II you hare q question,
tDrite to DR.. Mason in care of
The Star. He tDiH discuss In
his column those OF most
general interest.
Sunday Ion School Poss): oues-
lions answered.
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TODAY
In History
ON THIS DATE
b the Associated Pres

In 1889. New York World
Reporter Nellis Bly, departed
New York in an attempt to
better the record established
by Jules Verne's hero in
"Arourd the World in 80
Days" She turned the trick
with time to spare-R DAYS,
6 hours and II minutes.
In 1905, the first French
settlement was established at
Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
In 1874, the first Anglican
Bishop Of Connecticut, Samuel
Seabury, was conSecrated In
Scotland.
In 1854, Gen william 7.
Sherman began his march to
the sea after burning the city
Of Atlanta during the Civil
War.
In 1871, the Los Angeles
area was shaken by earth
quakes which caused 81 mill
lion damage.
In 1913, Prince Charles was
born to Princess Elizabeth
now Queen Elizabeth II of
England - and her husband,
Prince Philip.
Five years ago Russian
soldiers detained three United
States Army trucks for more
than eight hours at a Soviet
checkpoint on the autobahn
outside Berlin.
One year ago President
Kennedy and West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
conferred in Washington on
the Cuban and Berlin disputes.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY,
The ultimate result of
shielding men from the eff
tectS of folly Is to flu the
tDorId NTH tools.-Herbert
Spencer. English philosopher.