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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-20


welcomed 1t. It would give
him time to read more books
and to go to the track more
often.
He was sitting in the upper
. tiers Of the Pimlico grand
stand. He had been q big,
strong, good-looking Irish
man until this illness.
I am glad he made it. He
took pride-dont we all take
pride in little inconsequen-
tial things?-in the fact that
he had attended every Freak
ness since he came to WASH
ington in the Twenties.
He missed the Kentucky
Derby in May. He had been
IN the hospital Tor surgery.
He had been at Churchill
Downs every year since he
could afford the trip to
houiSville-and perhaps a
few years before that. At
the hospital a brief visit was
ii joy-he was so boyishly
glad to be alive.
I viii never forget the first
time I saw him. It was in
,i942-our first year in the
war. He was news editor Of
The Star and I was one Of
the new (but not young)
temporary reporters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-20
EDITORS DON'T

EDITORS DON'T know
what to do with a new man
they don't know what he
can do. So he sits at his
desk for the first few days.
Mine was directly in front of
the news desk in The Stars
old building.
Egan's weapon was buster.
He would start the day by
shouting there was a war on
and he had to have more
space for news. There was a
war on and newsprint was
stringently rationed. Chuck
usually managed to increase
the daily allotment of the
precious commodity for news
anything to keep him quiet.
He worked the desk hard
trying to read every line of
copy that came to him, &C.
caSionally catching errors
that the copy editors had
passed. Everyone would be
,aware of 1t because he would
let out a roar.
His memory was the talk
Of the staff. He would spot
errors in dates long-passed.
Once he questioned Septem-
Der %, 1923, as the date of
the Dempsey irpo fight.
Look it up" he said, you
will find 1t was September
a."
- I found favor with him not
through any big story ! wrote
come to think of it I didn't
write any big stories. 1t was
when he discovered that /
knew the words to Goodbye,
Girls, I'm Through" from
the 1914 Montgomery and
Stone musical "Chin- Chin"
AT PARTIES OR late
luncheon sessions at Ham
mel's Chuck would sing the
pead in impromptu quartets.
with mock sentimentality, he
would ring the tears out of
my Mothers Rosary" and
bis eyes would automatically
roll up into his head falsetto.
Once he came back from
. New York in high glee. An
actor, who had been a boy
hood friend in South Bend,
bad taken him to the Lambs
/. after midnight. Some sing
ing went on and Wilton
Lackaye had demanded "why
isn't this man a member Of
the clubp He's the only one
who knows the words to
'Mammy's Little Coal Black
Rose"
He was a kind man, moth
ing disturbed him more than
to learn that his believing in
the heat Of action had hurt
somebody's feelings.
He followed the progress
Of the Allied Armies in the
European Theater of Opera
tons In detail-was able to
gauge the Importance OF the
breaks. After all. in his
library, he had followed Ma
poleon from the Nile TO
Borodino on the road TO
Moscow.
A brief dispatch on March
z, l945, said that units Of the
LIST Army had found a bridge
intact at Remagen and had
established a beachhead on
the other side. Our headline,
the largest ! have ever seen
in The Star made the opposi-
ton look very inadequate.
Eight columns wide and 3
inches deep II shouted"
"Yanks Cross the Rhine. 4"
He was the best newspa-
perman ! have ever known.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-20
The
Rambler
Will
Never Forget
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

~ The last time I saw Chuck
Egan was at the Preakness
In June.
Chuck Charles Michael
Egan) was the sports editor
of this paper until his re-
tirement two years ago. He
died yesterday afternoon.
1t doesn't seem right.
Many dread retirement. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-20

Cherries N. E0On Obituary. pOss BIB
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-27

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Developer Seeks
Zone Extension to
1900 Block of K

Extension of the city's GEN.
trail business district coming
classification to the 1900 block
Of K street NV. was urged
yesterday by Morris Caflitz
prominent real estate develop
er, at a District Zoning Com
mission hearing.
Mr.. Cafritz, one of the prop
erty owners applying for the
change which would increase
the height limit for buildings
on this block from 80 to 1870
feet. said the present coming has
held back development of the
block.
He said the recent improve
ment work on K street, the
construction of the Washington
circle underpass and its con-
nection with the proposed Po-
tomac River freeway will
make K street the main artery
through the central business
district"
However, the Zoning Advisory
Council recommended to tn c
City 2 onfn g Commission that
the requested extension of the
central business district coming
be delayed until the eastern
section of the present business
district can be further devel-
oped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Cufe's Request
For SeurchIieht
On Street Denied

A request for a big search
light on the street in front Of
the Casino Royal. SOL Four
teenth street NV, on October
81 has been rejected by the
District Commissioners.
Thomas Airs, deputy high
way director, told the commits
sioners yesterday the city's
Public Space Committee had
received a request for permis-
sion to spotlight the night club
with searchlights that night.
He said the Public Space
Committee h a d recommended
against granting a permit fol-
use of a searchlight truck on
the street in front Of the night
club on grounds it would open
the door for many similar re-
quests.
Commissioner John B. Dun
can asked why the application
had been made. Mr.. Airs said
he had been told some special
entertainment was going to be
provided on that night.
A representative Of the CAST
no Royal, which is now closed
for remodeling, declined to give
details. He said 1t would be q
semi-private Halloween affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
JObIess Youth
Problem Cited

Carl F. Hansen, the Districts
school superintendent, told a
Senate subcommittee yesterday
that the number of jobless
youths in the city add up to a
terrifying community problem.
DR.. Hansen made the COM
ment at a hearing by the Sem
ate Employment and Manpow-
err Subcommittee.
The subcommittee, h e a d e d
by Senator Clark, Democrat of
Pennsylvania, is looking in t o
the question of improving job
opportunities for Negro youths
In answer to the question by
Senator Clark, DR.. Hansen said
he believes that the Districts
unemployment rate is higher
than the official estimates. The
school superintendent said that
many youngsters are without
jobs, but are not counted in be-
cause they have not soug h
employment help.
In support of his position,
DR.. Hansen said that from Feb
ruary to June this year about
400 young men and girls were
listed by police for lettering and
similar offenseS at three
schools in the second police
precinct.
Here, DR.. Hansen told the
subcommittee, is an army with
mo hope, little aspiration and
little chance out of school
and out of work. This kind of
unemployment problem is, I
think, terrifying. 49,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
YOUTHS UNDER HIS WING
He Cleans Streets
And Coaches Football

From 6 am. to 2 pm. Bobby
Lane is a street sweeper, then
he becomes q football coach for
the Junior stonewalIs." Later
in the afternoon he may visit
several Of the many other
youth organizations he works
with in the District.
He also finds time to be a
father to his five children. But
for 29-year-old Bobby Lane his
AFTERNOONS work shows him
more results than the street
sweeping.
Like trying to get a kid to
go back to school," he says.
often the parents don't even
want to bother, so I take them
and sign as their guardian.
You can't beat that kind of
Ieellng you get when you see
them walking to school again. 4"
Mr.. Lane, Of 2844 Langston
place Sc. started up tn e
Junior Stonewalls," q youth
organization in Southeast
Washington, last year. He
works with about 80 youths be-
tween the ages of Is and 19.
The club headquarters are
located at the Arthur Capper
Recreation Center. Fifth and
K streets Sc. Their football
team plays in the Recreation
Department League.
Nominated for the Volunteer
Service Award Of America by
Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy, Mr.. Lane is now trying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
1917 PANES BROKEN
Freewoy Aids VondoI
Attack on Schools

AS a result, window breakage
cost the city S91. 4o9 during the
past year. compared to $50, 9O7
in 1872.
The school system also has
increased the number of flood
lights and window guards in
the rear of buildings in at
tempts to discourage vandals.
In the latest thrust at the
problem, school and police rep
resentatives met and decided to
hold q luncheon next week for
20 youngsters who were picked
up recently for lettering around
schools in the second precinct.
Most Of the youths are school
dropouts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
By THOMAS F. DIMOND
Star Staff Writer

Two Washington elementary
schools are feeling the costly
side effects of progress: AS the
Southeast freeway goes UP near
their buildings. so does the
number of broken win dow
panes.
A total Of 1,071 panes have
been broken since June at the
Lenox School at Fifth street
near Virginia avenue, its annex
at Fourth and M streets, and
at the Giddings School on G
street near Third street Sc.
At the going rate per pane
the replacement cost will be
several thousand dollars.
The main target of the rock
throwers has been the Lenox
building on Fifth street. where
the vandals have worked faster
than the workme n replacing
panes. During the summer 43C
paneS were broken and new
ones put in. Since school begar
last month, another 155 have
been shattered.
At the Giddings School, 24C
windows have been SIN a he {
since June. The number at the
Lenox annex is 246.
The vacation-time win dow
breakage at the Lenox schoo,
and annex is more than double
the mount last year. Mrs
Fannie L. T. johnson. principal
of Giddings, says the damage
there is the highest in the past
several years.
/ Mrs. johnson and Mrs. Jen-
ME T. Gross, principal Of Lenox
attribute much Of the destruc-
ton to the debris created by
the freeway construction.
Community support has been
solicited to curb the vandalism,
but the occasional success OF
such efforts has been Cancelled
out by the rising cost of re-
placement. Over the past year
for example, the breakage rate
was cut % per cen t, fro m
23.648 to 19,307 broken panes
But at the same time, the aver
age cost per pane dncluding
labor expense) has risen from
1894 to $4.73.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18

to raise funds to outfit the
Junior Stonewalls" basketball
team this winter. I'VE also have
been invited to play the New
York Youth Center in New
York on November IL and are
trying to raise money for the
bus fare up" he says.
With the Junior StonewallS
I'm trying to teach the kids
how to be good citizens and
help keep them in school or
get them jobs. Something has
to be DONE" he explains, "and
I might as well help the other
volunteer workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Youth Project
Gets 100000
In U. 5. Grant

President Kennedy today an
nounced an 100000 Juvenile
Delinquency Act grant for g
youth demonstration project as
part Of a three-year So million
human renewal" program in
New Haven, Conn.
Five Federal agencies, along
with the Ford Foundation and
local sources, are financing the
program, which the President
said could serve as a model for
many cities seeking answers to
urban problems.
In urban slum areas, he said
too many children drop out Of
school and, finding no work,
turn to juvenile crime.
To solve problems high
lighted by juvenile delinquency
in urban areas, he said all con-
cerned. including the Federal
and local governments, must
pool their talents and resources
for united action"
He cited the New Haven
project as an example of the
kind of concerted action needed.
Community leaders there,
where a $40 million urban re-
newal proram was launched in
the l950's, now have turned
their energies to an equally am
bilious effort for human re-
newal." he said.
The program includes a $500.
900 one-year Labor Depart
ment grant for Job training for
unemployed youths. Another
Federal grant Of about S100, 900
is being worked out to support
an experimental housing pro-
gram for 40 families with
seven or more children.
The program also is icing
financed by a SIS million
Ford Foundation grant, $780,
900 from the New Haven foun-
dalton and other city funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18

States agreement last summer
provided for help In strength
ening midas air defenses.
American and British rsdAr and
communications experts have
been In India since August. set
ting up detection facilities.
In connection with the test,
q joint training exercise. called
Siksha, viii BE- conducted with
planes from the United States.
Britain and Australia particle
pating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
Lutheruns to Meet

The first fall assembly of the
Washington district of the
Maryland Lutheran Churc h
Women will be from 6 to 1C
O'Clock tonight at st. Luke'S
Lutheran Church in Silver
Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-18
u. S. Jets to Test
Rudur in India

The Air Force will send 10
supersonic F-l00 jet fighters to
India next month to help test
the radar warning system that
has been set up to guard against
possible air attacks from Com
munist China.
An Indian British United
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

The idea may sound like clever stratagem
now, but | don't think it would work. Mr..
Nixon said the debates in 1860 became ''prac.
tically inevitable" when Congress passed the
resolution that made them possible. This sUGs
the resolution GlIo'Uing r0diO-TV networks to
grant free time for debates be'sUeen candidates
Of the t'CO major parties sCithOVt requiring the
giving Of equal time to n'inOr-p~ty candidates.
Now a similar resolution is again before
Congress. 1t is considered certain to pass before
the campaign, and it will compel the next
Republican nominee to debate as surely as its
predecessor compelled Mr.. Nixon to do so. The
networks will bring terrific pressure to bear.
Columnists and editorial writers will cIamor for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

TINE LAST WoRD9 Just as this article ~ent to
press, THIS WEEK disseminate check Ci the press
secretaries Of the considered the leading cOnteDders
for the Republican nomination to make sure that Gold
pGter, Rockefeller, ROmHey and Scranton had not
changed their minds after Washington correspondent
Robert J. DOnOpGn had asked them, You'd you
debdte9'
= Tony Smith, speaking for Senator COIdUGter, de.
ciined comment on Hypothetical question"
> Robert L. McMdnus, for Governor Rockefeller, said
the reply pOuH still Be the same, that is, the Coz.
ernOr feels a debate WOuH be an advantage to the
Republican candidate
> Richard L. MiLiimOn, for COrernOr ROmncy, said,
We're not running any more today than SCere sir
Ioeeks ago."
= William KeidiHg, assistant to Governor Scranton,
declared fatty, THE question is not pertinent. He ~A
not be candidate 4. i. -. he is not candidate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
By ROBERT J. DONOVAN

the Presidential press secretary replied: 1.-THE
President has repeatedly said he sUOGld debate in
1864. There is no question about it,
Governor Rockefeller gave at least strong
hint when asked him the same question orally:
wei, / SOOud say dtGt the advantage in
debate is Gl'Gys 10 the challenger and that the
challenger is more enthusiastic about debates and
the incumbent is less enthusiastic"
But would Rockefeller "a challenger -
really debate? A reporter who inquired around
the Rockefeller camp later got the distinct i'm
preston that some of the governors associ.
ates at least wanted no part of debate with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

President Kennedy. One of them
suggested quite candidly that the
governor, If ne were the Republi.
can nominee, might so snarl nego-
tiatiOns over ground rules that
there would be no untangling them
before Election Day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
WASHINGTON


. sOphically reflected on his defeat in 1860,
he concluded that his most momentous
decision in the whole campaign had been his
agreement to a series of televised debates with
John F. Kennedy. Many politicians believe that
more than any other single factor those four
debates put Mr.. Kennedy in the White House.
Now with the 1864 campaign fast approach
ing, televised debates again figure to be one of
the great imponderables in the contest.
Once Mr.. Kennedy had won his hairs
breadth victory last time, many people, includ-
ing his brother Bobby, who had managed his
campaign, felt that he would astutely decline to
debate in the 1864 election.
After all, some of Mr.. Nixon's shrewdest
colleagues in 1860 had thought it insane for the
Republican nominee to engage in televised de-
bates with Mr.. Kennedy. Why, they asked,
should the Vice.President of the United States
condescend to debate with the junior Senator
from Massachusetts,? Everyone knew who Nixon
was, but millions of voters were hazy about
Kennedy. Why, these colleagues asked, should
the Vice-President offer his lesser.known Oppo-
nent the incompatible build-up provided by
televised debates before huge audiences?
Should a President debate?
If a Vice-President was giving this much
away to an opponent, how much more would
President be offering if he consented to debate?
Even before the days of television, Franklin d.
Roosevelt was so dead-set against build.up for
his opponent that he never mentioned Wendell
L. Wilkes name in the 1910 campaign. Many
feel that it is beneath the dignity of the Office
for President to engage in face-to-face debate.
But the belief that Mr.. Kennedy, having
helped himself to the Presidency by means of
debates, would cagily make sure that no Repub-
ican could turn the tables on him in 1864
was shOrtlived. Twelve days after his Inaugural
ton the President told his press conference
that he would agree to debate his Republican
opponent next year. Thus new round of
televised debates between candidates was as.
sured. Or was it?
A ~itten query sent to the four Leading
Republican candidates - Senator Barry Cold
IOGter, Governor Nelson 4. Rockefeller, Governor
George ROmncy and Governor William W. STGn-
ton, dreO decline TO Comment" GnsuOers. This
doesn't necessarily mean they're afraid to
debate. Those not yet formally in the race
probably did not want to talk about what they
would or wouldn't do if nominated.
There was no such reticence in the White
House. When THIS WEEK asked Pierre Salinger
whether Mr.. Kennedy would be willing to debate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18

IN MY opinion, the first
L and greatest need ex-
listing in the public
schools Of the District of
Columbia today is more
effective discipline. The
steady increase in the
juvenile crime rate in the
city, the Mccarthy Com
mittee's report on the
riots at the D. c. Stadium
last Thanksgiving Day,
the many complaints
which my colleagues and
/ have received from dis
traught parents all
point to q desperate need
for drastic tightening Of
discipline in the d. c.
schools. A child who is
not taught to respect the
rights of others cannot be
expected to grow into a
responsible adult citizen,
and in too many cases the
school children Of the
District of Columbia are
not being so trained to-
day. / acknowledge that
the ideal place for such
holding Of character is
the home, and certainly
many Of the Districts
children are being prop
erly guided and devel-
Oped by their parents.
However, the best Of
home training needs to be
supplemented by a firm
disciplinary control in
the schoOlrOom; and in
those cases where the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18

larry in the lower grades.
This is evident, i think,
from the results obtained
by exactly such a curric-
ulum at the AmidOn
school in the past two
years. Children in this
school, brought from all
parts Of the city and ex-
posed to a steady diet Of
fundamental education,
averaged far higher on
standardized subject tests
this year than did most
classes Of comparable
size and mental ability
elsewhere in the city.
This does not surprise
me, however, because this
Amid0n experiment" is
not new at all, but nothing
more nor less than the ap-
preach to educatiOnwh
was departed from only
when the so-called PRO
gressive" education be-
came fashionable.
Perhaps this in
creased emphasis upon
the fundamental subjects
might also eliminate the
need for so many counse-
lOrs; for it seems to me
that more teaching and
learning would necessi-
tate less counseling. Also,
! am convinced that this
return to the true aims Of
education would make
the District of Columbia
more attractive to good
teachers.
In connection with
curriculum, / believe also
that increased emphasis
upon vocational training,
particularly for the high
school students in the
lower tracks, would cap
tivate these pupils in
terest and help materially
to improve discipline and
to lessen the problem Of
dr0p-0uts on the high
school level.
feel that the greatest
threat to the future Of the