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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
Defunct Wig StyIist Stops Service,
Thousands Still Owe on Notes

mail as to where and when fu-
ture servicings would be, if
there would be any more.
The new tenant of the build
ing at 704 Thirteenth str e t
NV. told customers Mr.. Lenoff
would be in from 5 to 8 pm.
Friday night to pass out the
wigs he had on hand for serv-
icings.
Wigs brought in this week
would not be Serviced.
One customer, who had left
her wig at the shop Monday,
needed it styled to appear in
court tomorrow. She got it
back ELECTROMAGNETIC a
white paper lunch bag.
Another wig owner, a D. c.
Health Department employe,
needed hers set to wear for a
singing recital in her church
today. She got hers back Fri
day, also untouched.
These two were among 80 or
40 women who went to the
store Friday night to claim
their hairpieces. Mr.. Lenoff
self was there to return
them.
The women, amazed, fingered
in the bare and dirty third
floor room.
Learn Bad News
They understood they would
have to continue their $15-a-
month payments to the United
Securities Finance Comp any
until 1896 had been paid. They
checked their servicing guar
antees" from Custom Wig Styi-
lists. The papers were valid, it
stated, "only when signed by
an authorized agent of Custom
Wig Stylists and the client"
Many Of the papers were
signed by the customer, with
only the words Custom Wig
Stylists" on the line where the
signature of authorized agent"
should be.
The wig boom began here
last spring, and Mr.. Lenoff's
Estimates of the number he has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
DC. ChiIdren's Aid PROGRAM
Fails to Win Support of Byrd

matter and his views to the
subcommittee, and added:
IF they wish to support the
program, of course they can
override me, and the same in
the full committee"
Commissioner John B. Dun
can, who is responsible for well
fare matters in the District,
told Senator Byrd, 1T is true
we suffer difficulty in justify
ing the program. He cited lack
of previous experience in run
ming such an operation as a
factor.
"Just as Hungry"
But the hungry child in the
District, where we have a
smaller percentage of unem-
ployment, is just as hungry as
in a State with a higher unem-
ployment rate.
Most of these children are
Negro children. This simply
means we have but a few
white children who are hungry
They deserve to be fed as much
as Negro children.
This has not been an easy
statement, but it's one I'd like
to put in the record"
Mr.. Duncan is the city's first
Negro commissioner.
Senator Byrd replied. I'VE all
share this view. But I don't
think this is a logical basis
for establishment of this pro-
gram. You could say if only
one-one hundredth of one per
cent were involved, this just
flies the program. You have
to look at the overall picture,
which is what we're trying to
do"
Donald D. Brewer, acting
welfare director who is a can
didate for the job, has borne
most of the burden of six days
of welfare testimony. Asked
to comment on Mr.. Brewers
performance after hearings
yesterday, Senator Byrd said
Mr.. Brewer has demonstrated
a high degree of competency
in testifying on the budget"
He would not comment or
whether he feels Mr.. Brewer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

should be the next director,
declaring this is an admins
trative matter within the Dis
trict.
Commissioner Duncan said
he thought Mr.. Brewer had
done very well, particularly
yesterday. when he was deal
ing with a thorny issue.
The proposal for aid to chill
dren of the unemployed is for
an estimated LOO families, TOO
of which would be headed by
employable mothers, and 400
by men, according to District
estimates.
Under present rules, chill
dren are ineligible for assist
ance if their mother has a con-
tinuing relationship with a man
who is considered to be acting
as a husband and father in the
family. Assistance is given now
only to youngsters whose faith
ers are dead, absent or inca
pacitated.
These children would be eligi-
bic under the proposed plan
III the Neutrality-suspicious."
were unemployed.
Senator Byrd told a reporter
after the hearing. in response
to a question. Il have been OBJ
posed to a change in the man
in-the-house rule"
Welfare officials testified
yesterday that the proposed ex-
panSion would cost more than
50 million a year. OF this
amount, more than S1.1 million
would come from city funds
and the balance from Federal
grants.
Senator Byrd sharply cues
toned Mr.. Brewer and other
department officials on cost
estimates and Qualifications for
the program.
At one point. Senator Byrd
asked for figures showing what
increase there would be in the
city's aid to dependent children
relief cases. The answer given
was % per cent-an addition Of
1,105 families to the current
3,949 number.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

men, as one doctor said, who
could charm the gold out Of
your teeth"
John Howard Pavilion
neStles in q corner of the
grounds. DR.. Mauris Platkin. in
charge Of the maximum secur-
ity building, says most of the
criminals ARE much more diff
cult to spot and to treat than
the conventional psychopath.
They are in touch with their
environment but have grave
personality disorders. They
might behave beautifully here,
with no obvious symptoms but
the disorders are there all the
time. like a subterranean river"
There is a calculated risk in
trying to treat them to go back
to society. When one leaves,
during an attempt to rehabili-
tate him, there is always a hue
and cry and yet no one thinks
anything Of a convicted GRIM
inal getting back into society
in five or 10 yeaIs-without any
rehabilitation and Just because
he served his sentence" DR.
Platkin said.
A mystery Of John Howart
Pavilion is how Frazier coult
get through several doors witt
his toothbrush handle key AM
out the back.
The front entrance is a bar
ricade Of two sliding door
which can only be manipulated
by q control. Even then, onl,
one opens at a time. Their
are numerous keys to unlocl
: the doors into the wards.
The sound Of jazz music
floated out Of a ward doorway
AS the door was opened, pa.
tients milling around the slick
modern ward looked around
some curious, some sullen, some
disinterested.
Il An Ancient Ward
The man who graduates
from this maximum security Is
Immediately plunged into the
dark ages by comparison. He
goes to the medium
36-bed Pine ward, so old that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

ANY SERIOUS discussion
of the means by which the
human race tends off chaos
and develops some order and
beauty in its surroundings
had suffered, in the past,
from some Of the same han
dicaps that once accom-
panied discussion Of high
finance.
First of all, there was the
mystery. In the days of the
elder Morgan, a handful of
people were able, in secrecy,
to build and manipulate a
largely private financial
world, impenetrable, unseen,
yet Of controlling influence
over the lives of everyone.
Similarly, in the past, the
physical world was conceived
and built in a mysterious
fashion, based on decisions
reached in private and on
principles as enigmatic and
full of riddles for the aver
age man as was the act of
financing a railroad or the
creation of a giant steel, oil
or chemical trust.
With a bit m ore demo-
cratic control over money,
more sophisticatior on the
part Of people as to the role
money can play and, above
all, more participation by
the people in the decisions
governing what money shall
be made to do, the mystery
has been removed and a
whole new world of reSpon-
sible interest has been
opened to an ever-increas-
ing number of people.
1t might also be said that
this new understanding has
been Of almost universal
benefit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

shoveling dirt around a tree
said "hi doctor" and engaged
a psychiatrist in conversation
A woman smiled as she effici-
emily served lunch in the cafe
terra. They were all patients.
OF course there are the 9TH
ers. One is the King Of Eng
land. A woman with a parasol
and mincing steps engaged a
doctor in a meaningless, pratt
ting conversation. A man sits
for hours with his hands out
stretched, the vacant plea of
a catanonic.
And in the criminal wards
there are often found the more
lucid appearing and the con
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

sold range from 5000 to $4,000
A third of them, he said, were
sold on "the plan"
1.-The plan" worked like this
Custom Wig Stylists woult
furnish the er a wig
Custom Wig would have II
styled 48 times in q four-yeal
period. The buyer paid $2l
down, and the balance of $685.
over two years.
On Friday Mr.. Lenoff said
I'm afriad we won't be able tt
set any wigs for a while. I dont
know if we ever will be-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
By VIRGINIA KOERBER'
Star Staff Writer

One of Washington's largest
wig dealers, Custom Wig Styl.
lists, went out Of business last
week.
The company's quick demise
leaves several thousand area
women obligated to complete
payments to a finance COM
pany on 1896 notes that they
thought guaranteed them 4S
servicings on wigs they had
received.
The notes do not say what
the payments are for-just
that the money must be paid.
The owner of the store, Mon.
roe Lenoff, claims he has rur
out of money, and by the enc
of the week he had even rur
out of promises for appeasinG
the hapless women.
Former Car Dealer
I'm responsible to you, anc
you're responsible to the fl.
nance company. The thing is, !
amt got nothing" he told one
customer.
Mr.. Lenoff is a former useC
car dealer whose firm wa.
among five cited by the Fedora,
Trade Commission for false
misleading and deceptive used.
car advertising" The firm went
out of business after District
officials refused to renew 1t:
license.
The District Commissioner
recently directed the Corpora.
ton Counsel's office to deter.
mine what steps can be taker
to regulate the city's mush'
rooming wig business. At pres
ent, no license is required to
become a wig entrepreneur.
Wig Wearers' Woes
Up to last Tuesday Custom
wig Stylists was accepting wig
for the Gle a min g and setting
servicings. On Wednesday thu
firm had sold all its equipment
and the customers were beini
told they would be notified b!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
Cities
and People
A New
Enlightenment
Enlightenment
By ROBERT J. LEWIS

Tor MANY YEARS re-
sponsible newspapers
have devoted considerable
space to financial pages, not
because there was wide
leadership but because the
few readers were influential
and responsible and be-
cause the subject matter,
itself, was important.
As the country has ma
tured and become more af-
fluent, the financial pages,
too, have become ever more
sophisticated, and the read
ership has, not surprisingly,
increased far out Of pro-
portion to that Of an earlier
period.
There seems to be a certain
parallel between the fl
nancial pages and the space
being devoted, with equally
heartening results, to an
other element Of the social
scene.\
This other element which
recently has come in for
some emphatic attention Is
the physical structure Of the
human environment - a
complexity of matters so
pervaSive and universal as
to seem almost invisible.
In the past, the idea that
an average person could hope
to affect very greatly the
character Of things around
him was so little thought
Of as to have left newspaper
consideration Of the physical
quality of the environment
in about the same category
as were financial matters in
the era Of ]. Pierpont Nor
gan the Elder.
In that day, you paid at
tention to these matters only
because you were convinced
they were important, and
not out Of any conviction
they would interest the mass
Of the readers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
BY BETTY JAMES
Star Staff Writer

The District apparently has
failed to win the support of
Senator Robert c. Byrd, chair
man of the Senate District APP
preparations Subcommittee, for
it's program of aid to children
of unemployed parents.
After daylong hearings yes
terday on this major item in
the welfare budget, Senator
Byrd, Democrat of West Vir-
GINA, said he would present the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

sometime late Thursday or
early Friday. The body had
been searched and the apart
ment had been ransacked, po-
lice said.
Police continued a door-to
door questioning of nearby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
Escapee Problems Plague St. EIizabeths

1t was "refurbished and up
dated" in 1874.
Two keys. a simple skeleton
key and a Yale-type lock, open
the door. One corner Of the
ward, sitting in the autumn
sun, Is q sort Of a recreation
area with a TV set. Opposite Is
the dining room.
In this medium security ward
patients are allowed the privi-
leges Of recreational facilities
In a gym upstairs and social
hours; are talked to about
making a next step into a
closed ward with considerably
more privileges. The decision
Of patients moves is a COM
bined one, made by doctors,
nurses and attendants.
Nearby Cherry ward has q
pathetic grouping Of medium
SICK" non-criminal patients
who sleep and eat in the same
crowded area. Older men, they
stare into nothingness, 60 pa
tients in q place designated
for 80.
Dix, q more modern admit
lance center, has 420 beds.
There are wards for men and
women. Most of the so female
criminal patients are housed
there. Like many Of the SO
buildings housing patients,
there are combined open and
closed wards throughout the
building. No exact count of
closed and open wards can be
given because Of q constant
change in patients, according
to hospital officials.
Many Old Facilities
For example, a ward can be
primarily open and most Of the
patients can come and 20 at
tended or alone. However, one
or two more serious patients
require that the doors be locked.
DR.. Cameron said there are
1000 staff members-every-
thing from grounds crew to
physicians-and that to run
st. Elizabeths properly there
should be double that number.
One Of the few mental hos
pitfalls not State-subsidized, st.
Elizabeths' 1864 Federal ap-
preparation for maintenance
and operation was $27,413, 900.
For building and facility it was
$627, 900. The 1868 So million
building appropriation will be
exhausted in a rehabilitation
building to house 450 people.
At present, with 1888 beds
in so buildings, st. Elizabeths
is Al per cent overcrowded If
you look at any minimum
standards, and 70 per cent ac-
cording to ideal hospital stand
ards. There should be but
1900 beds. With the present
! buildings. even If they we're at
=. ideal level, about one third of
the beds would be in made
quate buildings a half century
d old or older.
h These substandard condi-
d tons mean both poorer care
for patients and reduced pro-
: lection for the community.
s But the Kennedy admins
/ tration-in spite Of its interest
v in mental health-has not at
E tempted to make st. Eliza
( beths the showplace, the dem
onStration institution, that it
. could be.
Nor has the District done
much to help. even when it
was to its own advantage.
He believes that If the Dis
trict Welfare Department were
to raise its payments for nurs-
ing home and foster home care
from the present level of $85
to 500 a month to a new level
; of about $3.50, the city would
, save money and the hospital
. staff would be able to better
perform its true therapeutic
role.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
By MYRA MACPHERSON
star Staff Writer

star StaII writer
With its green lawns and
UNCOVERED red brick buildings.
the st. Elizabeths Hospital
grounds resemble q college
campus.
There is no guard at the
four gates of the Southeast
Washington acres which sur
round the buildings housing
mental patients. This includes
the 10 per cent Of patients con-
fined after criminal proceed
ings. Whole stretches Of the
grounds are not fenced in.
This open, relaxed air is be-
lieved to be an important fea-
ture Of modern therapy In
which an improved mental pa
tient is given more and more
freedom and responsibility for
his own well-being. This pre-
pares him to eventually return
to the outside community where
he will be fully responsible for
his acts.
But there are problems.
Record Cited
On Wednesday, DR.. Dale C.
Cameron, hospital superintend-
ent, was questioned by his boss,
Health, Education and Welfare
Secretary Celebreeze. about the
escape Of John Smallwood. On
the previous Saturday, Small
wood shot two District police
men attempting to recapture
him and then apparently took
his own life.
Police say that in the past
year they have captured on the
outside" II patients commit
ted in criminal proceedings
who left st. Elizabeths on their
own and then became involved
in new crimes. minor and ma
jor.
The hospital itself lists SO
patients committed after GRIM
Iinal proceedings as having es-
capped or left the grounds in
the first seven months Of this
year. Seventy-five in this cate
CORY returned in the same Pc
Rod or were brought back by
their families or police.
Fifty-one prisoner patients"
who escaped st. Elizabeths in
recent years are still at large.
They are among the SO per-
sons hospital records show still
missing to date, most Of whom
wandered away while they were
strolling around the grounds, a
privilege granted to 1000 of
the nearly 1000 patients who
live in the crowded wards.
About $50 Of these 1000 with
grounds privileges are prisoner
patients.
The majority of prisoner
patients are not thought to be
dangerous.
But there are H." Or.
Cameron said, who ! really
wish were here because they
could be dangerous. committing
Grimes against personS-rape,
murder, assault and similar
acts"
He sees three means Of re-
ducing escapes while keeping
the hospitals essential open
character. The foremost need
is increased staff to supervise
the patients. DR.. Cameron
feels.
Meeting Scheduled
Second, security facilities
and routine may need i'm
lprovement. District Police
Chief Robert v. Murray has
asked to discuss this aspect Of
the problem with DR.. Cameron
and the two have agreed to
meet this week.
Third, DR.. Cameron said, II
think if we had facilities with
lperipheral security-say q wall
surrounding certain living
Evening star., 1963-05-28
Inqo Ranks Far Down
Among Foreign Heovies
By FRANCIS STANN

However, this admirable gesture of
sympathetic consideration for Richards
problems was terminated when Carpenter
cracked Dempsey on the chin. The champs
combative nature came forth and he dis
patched his smaller foe in the fourth round.
We'll, it took Gene Tunney IS rounds to
stop Carpenter" Ahearn said. THAT wasn't
any bad showing for the guy. Anyway,
Carpenter started fighting as little guy
-. featheweight, maybe e. and he
made good moves that big fighters never
learned.
HE woulda outboxed Schmeling, who
I put No. O."
ON GoLDIE's LIST the foreign heavies
since 1900 rank this way: /, Carpenter; 2,
schmeling; 8, Tommy Farr; 4, Pauline
Uzcudun; s. Luis Angel Firpo; 8. Tom
Heeney; 7, Camera, and 8, Johansson.
"schmeling was a pretty good fighter"
Ahearn conceded. "At least he could take
punch, give one and get up off the floor
to win fight Johansson, all he could do
was punch little"
Until Patterson came along TO give him
a tussle, Carnera generally was considered
the worst Of all heavyweight champions,
foreign or domestic. Da Preem was hoax,
a glandular freak controlled by unsavory
interests. But he coulda broke Johansson
in half with one punch" Ahearn testified,
anonymously adding, "even II he couldn't
punch"
TOMMY FARR, WHO WENT the dis
tance with Joe Louis, ranked Just behind
Carpenter and schmeling on Goldie's list,
because he didn't fight like no English
man.
II got nothing against the English
Ahearn hastened 10 say. "They invented
boxing, guess. But they never learned no
infighting, they never got any better at II. !"
Reminded that Farr was not English
but a coal miner from Wales our man
Goldie felt this cleared up the matter Of
Tommy's ruggedness and tenacity. INC
wonder he fought like an American" he
said
Uzcudun, spaniard, was a tough
cookie. "He had a STYLE" Ahearn recalled
He wasn't great but he was hard TO hit
and harder TO hurt.
IAN these guys could beat the swede
:. Carpenter, schmellng, Farr, Uzcudun
Firpo, Heeney and Camera / got TO say
one thing for lingo, though. He knew how
TO make money and how to keep It,"
Evening star., 1963-05-28
FALLING SKIRT HELPS GIRL
WIN IN TENNIS TOURNEY

SURBITON, England, May % (AP)-Margaret
Greenwood says she her match the Surrey tennis
championships when her skirt fell down at the strategic
moment.
1t happened yesterday in the match between the
pretty 17year-old brunei and Margaret Lee with the
tied, Pa and the advantage to Miss Lee
Miss Greenwood cracked vicious across the
net. The hard shot separated buttons from skirt. It
fell to her ankles while crowd of schooboys Uttered
at her blue and white striped panties.
The shocked Miss Lee hit her return out and missed
the service break
The bushing Miss Greenwood picked up her skirt.
to the dressing room regained her compoSure and
attire. and went on to win. 2-6 7-5 ga.
II wouldn't have won but for that strip tease" she
said
Evening star., 1963-05-28
VIM LOSE OR DRAW

TOO BAD INGEMAR JOHANSSON'S
TV appearance came so late. He might
have qualified for an Emmy award, per-
haps in the "best in public service" cate
CORY.
On the Swedish screens the other night
lingo reaffirmed his intention to quit the
prize ring. Have Money, Won't Take Punch.
His ellow-countrymen applauded. Never
quite a national hero, even during his
one-year reign as world heavyweight
champion, lingo was embarrassing the
Swedes with his deteriorating skills.
Still, Johansson iazzed up the fight
racket for a time. He came along when
Floyd Patterson was defending the title
against such as Tommy Jackson, Pete Rad
emacher, Roy Harris and Brian London.
In three mutually profitable engagements
lingo posted l-2 record and floored Pat
terson nine times in one winning, one
losing fight.
Now that Johansson is finished - or
90 he says-where does he stand among
the all-time foreign heavies?
"HE STANDS WAY DOWN." Golde
Ahearn said, when the question was put
to our towns only boxing promoter HE
can't take punch and wins only because
Patterson can't take one, either. Johan-
ssons got TO stand in line"
Since 1900 only three foreigners have
won the heavyweight crown Bob Fitzsim-
mons reign was l897-ls99) They we're
Max schmeling, the German; Primo Car
nera, the Italian, and the Vivacious viking.
In our book schmeling would lead the list,
with several imports who didn't capture the
title ahead Of Camera and lingo
Ahearn's choice for the No. / foreign
heavy was a surprise. Georges Carpen-
tier" Goldie insisted, was the best. OF
course, none Of them European guys was
real good Not as good as American fight
ers."
Goldie may stand alone in his lofty
estimation Of Carpenter, but he stoutly de.
fends the F'renchman. "le was In the rine
with Dempsey" Ahern said, bestowing his
biggest accoade
ACTUALLY, CARPENTER WAS only
briefly in the ring with Dempsey. Wher
they drew the first million-dollar Isl i,7so,.
238) gate In 1921 II was a woeful mismatch
The Frenchle was little more than middle
weight AS a favor TO Promoter Tex Rick
ard, Dempsey grudgingly agreed to carry
Carpenter for q few rounds.
Evening star., 1963-05-28
Title on Mend
After Operation
On Right Elbow

NEW YORK, May % (AP).-
Y. A. little, New York Giants
quarterback, is reported resting
comfortably today in st. Vim
cents Hospital following minor
surgery on his right elbow.
The 36-year-old star passer
had complained Of elbow pains
last season after the National
Football League title game be-
tween the Giants and Green
Bay, and subsequent examina-
tions revealed a swollen bursal
sac.
The injury, aggravated every
time Title was hit by an op-
posing tackler, had grown to
the size of a silver dollar be-
fore it was removed yesterday.
Title will remain in the hos
pital a few more days and then
rest for about three weeks prior
to starting loosening-up exer-
cises for the Giants training
camp in July.