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Evening star., 1963-05-24
TIME
Annapolis
Color Girl
Selected

A pretty, 21-year-old Airing
ton CVa.) girl was picked yes
terday as Color Girl for the
Naval Acsdemy's June Week.
and she never had such q
wonderful feeling" in her life.
Miss Diane Lovewell. a senior
at Mary Washington College at
Fredericksburg, was chosen by
Midshipman Charles S. Minter
III, commander of the honor
company at the Academy and
a former classmate of hers at
Westinghouse High School.
I'm trying to calm down."
Miss Loveweli said, "but I'm
not doing too wellP
She will be the Goth Color
Girl at Annapolis and will Off
ciate at the parade June 4 that
bids good-by to the 877 gradu-
ates who will leave the next
day.
Miss Lovewell is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. K. M. Love-
we'll Of 1900 North Illinois
street, Arlington. Mr.. Min
ter's father is Capt. Charles
S. Minter, jr., commandant Of
the Naval Academy and second
in command after the super
intendent.
A call from the academy's
official hostess notified Miss
Lovewell of her selection yes
terday morning. The rest Of
the day was spent making ar
and fittings for
the long white gown she will
wear.
Charles couldn't get in touch
with me until 10 O'Clock at
night" Miss Lovewell said.
"He tells me it's going to get
more and more hectic, but /
think it's just going to be more
and more fun"
Evening star., 1963-05-24

2, 1861, requesting that charges
be withdrawn.
Neither I nor anyone else
in the States Attorneys Of
flee nolle pressed Withdrew
charges) the case.
II am requesting the Mont
gomery County Bar Association
to investigate the matter thor
oughly to determine the facts.
I am ready, willing, and able to
appear before any tribunal to
make an appropriate response. +"
Mr.. Hardy testified before
Judge Burnett yesterday that
he absolutely" did not bring
any pressure to bear on the
husband to force the latter to
sign waiver papers which would
permit the wife to get a quick
divorce in Alabama.
Mr.. Spatola, SO, of the
1900 block of Massachusetts
avenue NV, testified that Mr..
Hardy, acting as attorney for
Mrs. Spatola, said he would
drop an assault and battery
charge filed by the wife against
her husband in Montgomery
County if Mr.. Spatola signed
the paper.
ASsailed by Judge
Under direct examination,
Mr.. Hardy denied that he used
any influence of his public
office in connection with the
case, but Judge Burnett said
II find that he lied and if il
were up to me I would send the
whole record Of this case to
the Governor of Maryland"
The defendant, Mrs. Spatola
who uses the name of Mrs
Ellis H. Iacone as owner oi
the Debonair Cleaners at 261:
Connecticut avenue NV, testi'
fled that no one used pressure
on Mr.. Spatola to get him h
sign the waiver papers.
Evening star., 1963-05-24
PARTYING SYSTEM HIT
Drunk Seen Getting Too Much Help
SYSTEM HIT

the fact that 1t was Just near
ing noon, only a few Of the
IT'S civic group members. doc
tors and lawyers attending the
conference elbowed UP TO the
bar.
But n one thinks It's bad
over here. DR.. Bacon says the
will power gets even more as
saulted In France, where the
most chronic imbibers in the
world reside. "In France It's
real pressure, 10 the point that
II you don't take a drink It's
almost an insult"
Drunks Differ
The French drunk Is DIFF
ferent than the American
drunk. says DR.. Bacon. "our
drinking is an explosive bang.
bang. let's get drunk sort OF
thing. A fellow may start at
3 pm. and end at midnight,
whereas In France, the alco-
holic is never without alcohol
in his system. Many are, as
we would say, slightly fuddled
most OF their lives. Lots Of
ours would like TO do this but
can't. They are always over
shooting the mark and getting
plastered" "
Another American pitfall Is
that In our affluent society,
heavy drinking is within reach
OF many more candidates for
alcoholism than In the past,
Mr. Bacon said.
The old rickety crutches OF
tension and boredom were
kicked away by Or. Bacon, who
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Evening star., 1963-05-24

sions around 1000 years ago
and people have been bored for
a long time. too. They are both
marvellous eXcuses-but / think
they're used more after the
fact"
For anyone set TO throw the
martini mixer out the win
dow, DR.. Bacon came up with
the reprieve that lust drink
ing alone won't do It." The
conditions and attitudes OF the
individual toward himself ano
his life-and, as the conference
stressed, the attitudes OF the
people around the alcoholic
are a large factor.
Indeed an Illness"
An afternoon panel was mod
Grated by Judge James Skelly
Wright OF the District Court Of
Appeals. who said psychiatry is
proving that alcoholism Is in
deed an illness. II is no longer
a crime" Nor is II any longer
Just the skid-row bum found
on the streets. said Judge
Wright, who called IL an era
Of the sophisticated alcoholic 4"
Paul b Cornely. director OF
the department OF preventive
medicine and public health,
Howard University. said: we
have 10 direct our attention 70
the physician who secs a large
majority of these people and
who doesn't do much for them.
II is important for early dag
nosis and detailed histories Of
their drinking habits"
DR.. Cornely said preventative
as well as thpraDoutic assist
Evening star., 1963-05-24

ance should be looked at harsh
ly. II have a pet peeve against
health groups passing out PAM
phlets and showing movies TO
groups at the Mayflower Hotel
and at the PTA places where
the people who need IL don't
90. Work should be done in
the lower classes and with
youngsters who are beginning
to drink early and heavily"
Legal Approach Scored
Professor Henry Weihofen,
director Of the mental compe-
tency stuoy, National Law Gen.
ter OF George Washington Uni
versity. slammed the current
legal approach 10 alcoholism as
"outmoded. pedestrian and un-
imaginative. The idea is that
II a man knows right from
wrong and he chooses TO do a
willful thing. therefore he
should be punished.
our courts and policemen
have a long way 10 90 TO reach
the level OF the soothing cop
In Copenhagen. Denmark, who
Is instructed 10 give a drunk
driver a shot OF orange Juice
and also drive him home n
necessary.
There are some $4,000 drunk
cases In our Court OF General
Sessions each year and another
$4,000 who forfeit bond and
never reach courts. Many,
many come back The real
question is whether courts
should go through this rather
fruitless routine or turn in
stead to therapeutic programs"
Evening star., 1963-05-24
.ImpactedAidVoted
For D. Schools
House Group
Includes City
For First Time
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Mriter

The House Education Com
mittee today voted over
whelmingly to include the Dis
trict in the program giving
Federal funds to areas over
crowded with school children Of
Government employees.
This could mean between 81
and $5 million annually to the
city.
The impacted aid program,
which without action would run
out on June 30, would be ex-
tended for one year.
Also adopted was an anti
segregation clause. To qualify
for Federal help, schools either
would have to be integrated or
certify that they are carrying
out a desegregation plan to be
effective by June 80, 1864.
This is the first time the Dis
trict ever has been written into
the program in a dill reported
from the House Committee.
Similar legislation has cleared
the Senate twice previously.
The Senate twice has added
the District to the impacted
aid program. But the bill never
has cleared the full House Ed
ucation Committee before.
Representative Quie, Repub-
lican of Minnesota, sponsored
the District move at a commit
tee meeting yesterday.
His amendment was tackled
onto the bill, as reported by a
subcommittee, headed by Rep
resentative Dent, Democrat of
Pennsylvania.
Chairman Dent resisted. He
said District school budgeting
should be overhauled to meas
ure local effort" before the
District benefits. He wants the
increase or decline in local
tax dollars spent for schools
clearly indicated in the Dis
trict budget. School spending
now is pooled with other de-
partment budgets.
Other committeeman saw lit
tie point in waiting for District
Committees in Congress to
consider the new budget au-
thorization.
Budget reforms, If needed, will
be given a push by District in
clusion in the impacted aid
program. Mr.. Quie reasoned.
In the Senate, Subcommit-
tee Chairman Morse, Democrat
of Oregon, is himself a spon-
sor of the District proposal.
Maryland suburbs of Wash
ington would receive about SO
million next year and the Vir-
ginia suburbs $6 million from
an extension period.
Evening star., 1963-05-24

John A. Burnett for his part
in the divorce action of Michael
j. Spatola, a bellhop at the
Shoreham Hotel.
Mr.. Hardy said he is asking
the bar association to "inves-
tigate the entire matter thor
oughly" to determine the facts.
Mr.. Spatola sought to set
aside the divorce decree granted
to his wife in 1861. The judge
found in favor Of the husband.
Differ on Charges
Mr.. Spatola testified that
Mr.. Hardy, representing his
wife in the divorce action, Of
fered to drop assault charges
by Mrs. Spatola against him
if he would sign waivers Of ap-
pearance in a court in Ala
bama, where she was seeking
a divorce.
Mr.. Hardy said today that
the charges actually were
dropped by Mrs. Spatola on
May 2, 1861, in a letter to the
Montgomery County Peoples
Court, inclosing a check for
$3.50 and saying IT hereby drop
charges against Michael j.
Spatola."
A photostatic copy of the let
ter, produced by Mr.. Hardy
bore a stamp by Peoples Court
dated May 4, 1861.
Mr.. Kardy's full statement
said:
THE charges made against
me are unfounded, completely
ridiculous and untrue.
THE Peoples Court records
show an application for a war;
rant for assault and battery was
filed March II, 1861. The files
and records of Peoples Court
show the warrant was with
drawn pursuant to a letter
from Mrs. Spatola dated MAY
Evening star., 1963-05-24
Handling Of Job Bios
By D. c. Council Urged

statements should be explored
In answer, Mr.. Lewis sale
he believed that racial tension,
in the Washington area were
no greater, but no less, thar
in any other urban center in
the country.
Pm not in a position to say
that Birmingham is comins
TO Washington" soon, Mr.. Lewis
said. He added. however, tina
'in all probability it (trouble)
will come" some day If progres.
is not made in erasing racial
discrimination in hiring, pro-
motions and other vital mat
ters.
"Wall Coming Down"
Mr.. Lewis said that obviously
frustrated people who "face
a stone wall" tend toward vio-
lent acts. Mr.. Roosevelt re-
piled that I'VE are beginning
to take down" the wall, and
the question Of law-abiding
actions hinges upon how rapidly
the barrier is removed.
The committee also was told
by Mr.. Lewis and Samuel E.
Harris, the Washington Urban
Leagues housing and research
director, that in order to move
ahead rapidly toward equal
employment it might be nee
essary to give the Negro more
than simply equal job oppor-
tunitieS. To close what the wit
nesses described as a gap be-
tween the number of good jobs
held by whites and Negroes. II
might be justified in giving the
Negro preferential treatment
in such matters as apprentice
ship training and hiring.
Mr.. Lewis told the subcom-
mittee that the most tangible
measure of the effects Of dis
elimination in employment is
that of income inequality. He
presented statistics designed to
show that If the current rate
of decrease IN the income gap
during the 1950s between white
and Negro families here con-
tinues, income equality would
not be reached before the year
2060.
Evening star., 1963-05-24
Slump Area Funds

A Senate Banking subcom-
mittee has approved President
Kennedy's request for an addi-
tional $3.50 million authorize
ton for the depressed areas
program. The original act,
passed in 1861. carried a 1894
million authorization. but most
OF this has been exhausted.
Evening star., 1963-05-24

WE TOOK A WALK out
side. The lawn is lush and
spongy, a cool green. 1t shows
up the rest Of The Mall. Mr..
Smith was not satisfied with
1t, however.
Sorry about the weeds" he
said. The Rambler could not
see any.
Out on the Constitution
avenue side, the holly trees
sparkled in the sun and sew
eral gnarled wisterias climbed
up the white wall and then
ran along on top.
Behind an evergreen hedge
some ivy was matted down. A
path ran behind the bushes.
That's where the winos co."
said Mr.. Smith sadly "They
60 In there In the evening""
The site Of the gallery. Mr..
Smith explained. gets ter
rifically hot and humid and
the drainage is poor. In GER
tain areas, trees we're planted
directly In loose fiji piled on
top Of one Of the old streets
that ran through the property.
In another spot, he had DIFF
ficulty bringing up some aza-
leas and evergreens.
There must have been a
sea food place on the spot"
Mr.. Smith said. I'VE dug the
place up and found hundreds
Of oyster shells. Azaleas need
acid soil. Not all that lime
and calcium"
Pausing near the South en-
trance OF the building. as two
fountains we're bubbling
among two handsome pine
trees. and white oaks. Mr..
Smith turned his attention
from the lawn and looked up.
Look at all those steps," he
said,. they should have put
an elevator In Someplace for
the old folks"
Evening star., 1963-05-24
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

Today's drunk has plenty OF
help getting there. said some
speakers at yesterdays confer
ence on alcoholism.
Americas national party sys-
tem-which has nothing to do
with getting out the vote, but
rather with getting out the
martins "is a good setting for
the alcoholic TO expand on his
natural inclination" declared
Seldom Bacon, director OF the
Rutgers University center OF
alcohol studies.
DR.. Bacon said the alcohol
prone person really wants the
alcohol "and TO hell with the
party"
Area OF Permissiveness
And there Is a great area OF
permissiveness by the people
around him. People are afraid
to show disapproval; no one
wants 10 be thought OF as a
party pooper, Alcohol has
moved into the conference. the
sales meeting, the business
luncheon and the party, so that
today we wonder II It's ever
possible 10 have a conference
without a drink" said Mr..
Bacon.
For emphasis. bartenders
we're clinking ice into buckets
at the bar being set UP half
way across the room In the
Mayflower Hotel. Intimidated
by the subject. or perhaps by
Evening star., 1963-05-24
Kordy Asks Bar Group
To Probe Role in Case
Coils Conflict of Interest Accusation
By Judqe in Divorce Suit Untrue

T. Hardy Montgomery County States attorney,
today requested the Association to Investigate thoroughly
his handling of court which led Washington judge
to call him "a liar and big liar"
He termed the conflict of interest accusations by Dis
Domestic Relations Court judge "unounded completely
ridiculous and untrue"
Mr. Hardy criticized in the court Yesterday by Judge
Evening star., 1963-05-24
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

A House Labor subcommittee
chairman suggested today that
Congress might set up an
agency to handle job discrim-
ination complaints from Gov
ernment workers in the WASH
ington area.
The subcommittee chairman,
Representative Roosevelt, DEM
ocrat of California, suggested
that the District governments
Human Relations Council might
be given this responsibility.
The council would be taken
out of the municipal govern
ment and would screen all hir-
ing and promotion discrimina-
tion complaints from Federal
and city government workers in
the area, he suggested.
Mr.. Roosevelt's comment was
made at a job discrimination
hearing before his General
Subcommittee on Labor.
Bill Is Pending
Pending before the subcom-
mittee is a bill introduced by
Mr.. Roosevelt, that would ban
job discrimination on a Nation
wide basis in businesses of an
interstate nature.
The hearings were called at
the request of the chairman
of the Full House Education
Committee, Represe ntative
Powell, Democrat of New
York, on job discrimination
problems in the District.
At today's hearing by the
General Subcommittee on
Labor, Walter B. Lewis, as
sistant executive director Of
the Washington Urban League,
was asked by a subcommittee
member If he had any specific
evidence that tensions we're
reaching the exploding point
here.
The subcommittee member,
Representative Hawkins, Dem
ocrat Of California, said he
had read several statements
predicting the possibility of
trouble. Mr.. Hawkins, who is
"a Negro. said that obviously
this is a serious matter and
that the authenticity Of such
Evening star., 1963-05-24
The
Rambler
Meets
Mr.. Smith
BY JOHN McKELWAY

One of the artists down at
the National Gallery of Art,
one whose art is constantly
displayed in constantly chang
ing conditions, is a man
named Noel Smith.
He's from the plains Of
Kansas and could pass for
either a cattleman or wheat
farmer. He has a drawl, says
little and is candid. He is Sc.
Mr.. Smith is the gallery's
horticulturist and has been
since it opened in 1941.
1t is the Rambler's opinion
that the landscaping around
the Gallery is the best in
Washington and may have
taken more Imagination TO
dream up than the building
itself.
And it seems to get better
each year.
Mr.. Smith inherited the
plan when he took the job.
Much of the shrubbery and
trees were already planted.
He has maintained it and
added a few touches of his
own.
If you stroll around the
gallery and grounds with Mr..
Smith you get the impression
he might be a perfectionist.
He refuses to show he is proud
Of anything. And everything,
he says, could look a little
better.
One of his responsibilities is
to see to it that something is
always blooming in the gall
lery's east and west cour-
yards.
Il don't see how you do 1t
year round" said the RAM
bier.
I'm supposed to know how
to do it," Mr.. Smith said,
matter-of-factly.
Evening star., 1963-05-24
Sisk AssaiIs
Scattered-Site
Plan
Proposal Is Threut
To Urban Renewal, ,
Luwmuker Says
By ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

A House District subcommit-
tee member has condemned
scattered-site public housing as
a dangerous thing" that could
destroy urban renewal here.
Commenting at a renewal
hearing yesterday, Represent
ative Sisk. Democrat of Cali
fornia. said:
II don't know who in the
world dreamed up that one. To
me, it Is political dynamite, or
suicide, whatever you want to
call 1t.
II think this was probably
some pipe dream which some
body must have been out on a
Cloud Z to come up with"
Proposals for such public
housing in individual homes
are contained in two renewal
plans soon to be given public
hearings before the District
Commissioners.
Open to Condemnation
Under the proposals, individ-
ual homes whose owners failed
to rehabilitate them could be
condemned and purchased by
the Redevelopment Land Agen-
eg and then be made available
for permanent public housing
use.
RIA has said it would sell
such homes to the National
Capital Housing Authority only
if private buyers were not will
ing to pay the renewal agency,s
price based in fair market
value"
The California Representa-
tive's criticism came after the
scattered = site proposal was
criticized by a Riggs National
Bank officials and a represen-
tative of the Federation of Cit
izens Associations.
Donald A. Mccormick. a vice
president of the Riggs bank,
said the proposal would have a
depressing effect" on residen-
tial property if it were ap-
proved as part of a renewal
plan for the Adams-M Morgan
area.
Col. William A. Roberts,
vice president Of the $4,000
member citizens federation,
asserted it would be the means
Of taking property from recall
citrant owners" and turning it
over for public housing use.
100 Homes Affected
At present, renewal blue
prints for the North Capitol
West area and the Adams
Morgan area contain the con-
troversial provision. Up to 100
homes in the Adams Morgan
area could be used in this way,
provided the District Commits
sionerS approve the plan as
now written after a public
hearing June 13 and IA.
No limit is set on the num-
Der of dwellings in the North
Capital-West area which could
be purchased by the National
Capital Housing Authority un-'
der the plan for that neighbor-
hood which will have a public
hearing June 20.
Agreeing with Col. Roberts
objection to the scattered-site
proposal. Representative Sisk
said:
ut seems to me that any
logical person could have real
lied this could have destroyed
the hole plan, because it is a
dangerous thing-and I'm GER
tainly in agreement with you
on that"
Evening star., 1963-05-24

ONE OF THE THINGS that
irritated him over the years
was the clash Of azaleas
against the blood-red tunics
of the Marine Band when in
concert.
He has finally developed
the type he wants, spotting
the color in a young azalea he
brought up in an area called
the "moat" which lies be-
tween the building and the
wall which stands out from
the gallery in certain areas.
Azaleas were not in the
original landscaping plan for
the gallery. Mr.. Smith put
them in. The visitor asked
why they had not been in
cluded.
THE landscape architect. "
said the horticulturist, "was
from New York"
Inside the moat, Mr.. Smith
runs three greenhouses on the
Southwestern side of the
building and you would never
know they are there.
They were built in 1854
by private donations" as Mr..
Smith said, mot by Govern
ment."
The Botanic Garden used to
supply the blooming. potted
plants for the gallery. at
didn't work out" said Mr..
Smith, bluntly.
Inside the gallery, Mr..
Smith, at first, had difficulty
getting anything TO grow in
the two courtyards.
There was no beneficial
sun and the place was air
conditioned" he explained.
But. today, he has a good
crop of delicate fish tail palms
standing in nothing more
than gravel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-23

Los Angeles at San Fran
ciSO, postponed.
AMERICAN HOCKEY
LEAGUE
FRIDAY
Providence at Springfield,
postponed.
Quebec at Rochester, post
pOned.
WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
All games postponed for FRI
day, Saturday and Sunday.
EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
FRIDAY
Clinton at Philadelphia, post
pOned.
Greensboro at Charlotte,
postponed.
BOXING
h1DAI
Allen ThOmaS-JOhnny Per-
sol TV fight, Cancelled.
BASEBALL
SATURDAY
All four games in Florida
Winter Institutional League,
Cancelled.
GOLF
SATURDAY
Cajun Classic third round,
postponed to Sunday.
RACING
FRIDAY
Aqueduct, Cancelled after
seven races and racing declared
off for Saturday, Monday and
Tuesday.
NarranganSett Park, Cancelled
after three races and racing
declared off for Saturday,
Monday and Tugbday.
PimilcO, canctIed after five
races.
Shenandoah Downs, can
celed.
Roosevelt Raceway, harness
racing, Cancelled, races declared
off for Saturday, Monday and
Tuesday.
Suffolk Downs, harness rae
ing, Cancelled.
Washington Park, harness
racing, cancelled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-23
Army's Decision
Awaited on Game

athletic programs of both
academies"
Receipts from the Army
Navy game, based on a t tie n
dance of 100000, is the major
source of revenue that finances
extensive intercollegiate ath-
letic programs at both acad-
emies. Tickets. priced at $3.50,
already have been distributed.
Admiral kirkpatrick said the
soccer and cross-country meets
S C h e dule d with Army today
and the Navy 150-pound foot
ball game with Cornell at Itha-
ca. N. Y, were Cancelled i'm
mediately. The 150-pounders
were at Erie n dship Airport
waiting for a flight when they
were stopped.
Should the game be Cancelled
1t would be the first time since
1928 and 1929 that the two
service academies did not play
their annual football game.
Navy refused to play Army
following the 1927 game be-
cause of a difference in eligibil-
ity rules. The series was re-
sumed in 1880.
The Army-Navy game sur
vived World War II when Pres
ident Roosevelt urged that ath-
letic programs at all colleges
carry on. Prior to the eligibility
hassle, World War I caused a
two-year halt to the series in
1917 and 1918.
The 64th game has been a
Sellout for several weeks.