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WILLIE MAYS MAKES BIG LEAP FROM
SHACK" TO $40, 900 DREAM HOME
''SHAcK

San Francisco CAMP - A
spectacular climb from poverty to
wealth has taken Willie Mays, who
earns more than 100000 a yeaI
playing centerfield for the Sar
Francisco Giants baseball team
from a rundown shack in his ma.
tive Birmingham, Ala, to q 800, ,00C
gold-carpeted home In San Fran.
cisco.
A man Of high taste, Willie
known to millions Of baseball fans
as the Say Hey Kid" says his
new, nine-room mansion Is the an,
swer to a long-cheer1shed dream
He lives alone - but like a mil,
honaire - in his dream home
which was recently featured ir
Ebony Magazine.
WilIe's home is located in ar
exclusive section of the city. Gov
Pat Brown of California Is a
neighbor when he Is in town.
Mays is separated from his wife,
Marguerite. Several months ago
a San Francisco court granted
Mrs. Mays a maintainence settle
ment for herself and their adopted
son, Michael, now 4.
With his fabulous salary (he is
the highest paid player in base
balD and earnings flowing in from
advertisement endorsement, or for
the mere mention of his name,
Willie can afford to live royalty,
And he does.
His home, which he delights in
showing off to friends, is plush
and luxurious. It has gold carpet
ing, gold and white furniture and
gold draperies set off against a
white walled background. The
draperies alone cost Mays $4,000
and the carpeting, $25 a square
yard.
The dining room is done In
French provincial and there are
three bathrooms and four bed.
rooms. At dinners, whether dining
alone or with friends, Mays uses
white, gold-rimmed china plates
monogrammed WIN" A mait
cares for the cleaning and pre-
pares his meals.
I Other luxuries include one color
and three portable television sets
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Lou Brock, stellar outfieldel
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for the Chicago Cubs, and a COM
petent salesman for Humble Oil
and Refining Company, has been
Joined by Charles (Deacon) Jones,
Big Ten NCAA and olympic track
champion.
In their jobs with Humble Oil
Lou and Deacon specialize in heat
ing oil sales in Chicago metro
politan area which Is one Of the
largest fuel consuming centers In
the nation.
Bob Hayes, Of Florida A & M,
set two Jamaican records a couple
weeks ago in sweeping the 100
and 200 meter sprints of an in
ternational meet.
Bob won the 100 in IO.4 and
the 200 in 2O.7 before a crowd
of $4,000 on the final night Of
the meet at Kingston, jamaica.
Bob Kelleher, non-playing cap
tain of the us. Davis Cup team,
said that Arthur Ashe is the most
improved player on the squad.
HE is young and he hasn't had
much experience but the improve
ment he has shown in a week has
been amazing.
Pancho Gonzales, coach Of the
us. team, concurred.
HE moves on the court like
Mays in centerfield. Arhe has
trouble only with his volley. I've
been working on that all week and
he is improving fast. I predict
great things for him..
Arthur is only 20 years old and
with his attitude and ability will
become one of the greats Of tennis
Coach Otto Graham, Of the col
lege All Stars, had this to say OF
Bobby Lee Bell: About the quick
est defensive boy we've had to
Chicago. He has all the equip
ment. How good he becomes will
depend upon Bell and to what ex-
tent he'll push himself"
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last week.
Grier was to start at tackle for
the Rams in the Los Angeles
Times Charity game. Lamar Lun-
dy played the position instead,
switching from his regular deten-
sive right end position. Larry
Stephens took over Lundy's spot.
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The
BELL
By Jesse Bell

Last week Vic Power along
with Earl Battey and Jim Kaat
received gold gloves for being the
most adept feilders at their re-
spective positions in the American
League for 1852. This was not the
first such award for the happy
first baseman he has won this
honor on four other occasions. Vic
is the guy the fans come out to
see and has been known as the
most popular Twin. He Is a show
man of the first class, giving ev-
erything he has to make Twin City
patrons happy.
This year he has not received
his share Of base hits but he easily
makes up for this in the field. How
many games has Vic Power saved
in the field by his sparkling play?
Just too many to count. Vic is a
superb ball player giving his all
to make the Twins a winner.
Last week I read a small item
in one of the dailies stating that
owner Calvin Griffith is thinking
about trading Vic or using him as
a utility man. How absurd can one
be? Mr.. Griffith surely does not
want to give away the hand that
feeds him.
Vic is mighty popular in these
parts and has fallen in love with
the upper midwest-sO much SO
that he purchased a home in
Edna.
I certainly hope that the story
that appeared in last weeks paper
was not accurate. Vic is a valuable
asset on and off the field, and any
one who loves the game as he does
would make a splendid coach.
Mr.. Griffith, if you had thoughts
of trading colorful and versatile
Vic Power, please think it over
again. e.
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Sad Sam Jones, the much trav-
eled right handler, has returned to
the majors. Sam, a big favorite
with st. Louis Cardinal fans in
1858 when he set club record of
225 strike outs, rejoined the Red
Birds.
He was pitching with Atlanta of
the International League when
Eddie Stanky watched him and
said Sam can help us in relief"
Sam, now playing with the Card
inals, was formerly with Detroit,
Cleveland, the Cubs, and Giants.
Lou Brock, stellar outfielder
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Knee Injuries
Hobbies RosoV GPieF

NOUUIo8 NU3UV OFIUT
Los Angeles (ANP) = Roose-
welt Grier, veteran tackle who was
traded to the Los Angeles Rams
from the New York Giants, Is
hobbled with two injured knees
which sideHned him for the Rams
Dallas Cowboys exhibition game
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SEND A KID TO CAMP
I roined CounseIIors
Could Give Boy Help

Things were fine for Frank
until he passed his baby days.
Then his father lost interest,
as he had in three older chill
dren. BY the time Frank went
to school. his father was swear
ing at him and beating him
every night.
Frank had heard the refrain
daily since ne was no longer
a baby: YOU'RE no good"
Father Left
Now all six children are
school age. and Franks father
has left.
And 10 : year old Frank
thinks he is no good. Already
he has been In trouble with
authorities for vandalism. He
just likes to go out and smash
things.
His mother is working. leav-
ing no one to help erase the
awful fears Frank has about
himself.
Two weeks at camp with
trained counsellors would do q
lot for him. He would be with
paople who would take him as
he really is: a normal. intelli-
gent and energetic little boy.
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and Make. The dogs. who
were alone in the house, had
been heard barking earlier by
neighbors.
Mr.. Schenck's survivors in
clude q son, Robert Van
Nydeck Schenck. II, and a
daughter, Susan, IS. Relatives
said the son left Washington
two weeks ago and Is studying
art and Spanish in Mexico
City. The daughter repeatedly
is mentioning In Paris with
her mother, Mrs. George M.
Bunker, and stepfather.
The son and daughter are the
children of Mr.. Schenck and
his ex-wife, the former Natalie
Keeney, Of Washington. She is
now the wife of George Bunker,
president of the Martin Ma
rietta Corp.
Mrs. Schenck's survivors in
clude a son, Cooper Graham.
Of Baltimore, q brother, Ed
ward C. Darlington, of Beau
mont, Tex, and two sisters.
Mrs. Darlington Haxall, of
Baltimore, and Mrs. John F,
Woodward, Of Beaumont.
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LIQUOR BOARD
BARS EVIL EYE
AS CAFE NAME

There will never be an
EVIL Eye" in the District
if the Alcohol Beverage
Control Board has any,
thing to say about it.
The board has turned
down that trade name for
a restaurant-folk singing
establishment at 1900
Rhode Island avenue NE.
The establishment, for
Inerly the Spotlight" re-
Gently changed owners and
is registered under the
Joseph Burdoo Corp.
It now has no name
because the new owners
chose Evil Eye" and the
ABC board chose to say no.
A board spokesman said
that the board Ibid not
consider the name an ap-
propriate one" This Is
supposed to be a restau-
rant and the Evil Eye
doesn't sound like one,"
the spokesman said.
Under city regulations
any change pertaining to a
license is subject to ABC
board approval.
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retired Navy lieutenant COM
mander who lived at 1900
Hoban road NV, was pro-
nounced dead on arrival 81
Georgetown University Hospi-
tai at 1910 pm.
His wife, Virginia Schepck,
died at the same hospital at
1920 am. The couple was
married last summer. according
to friends.
Police Pvts. John C. Vinson
and Kenneth A. Dunn of the
Accident Investigation Squad
said the Schencks' auto, travel
ing west on Virginia avenue
was demolished when it struck
the concrete abutment at about
1880 pm.
A police official said a mo-
torist driving behind the
Schenck's auto on Virginia ave-
nue. reported that the station
wagon appeared at first to be
heading for the service lane
north Of the Twenty-third
street underpass.
At the last minute, however,
the witness said Mr.. Schenck,
who was driving, turned back
toward the underpass and col
lided head-on with a concrete
abutment between the under
pass entrance and the service
roadway.
Their deaths were listed al
the 40th and 41st traffic fatali-
ties in the District this year
Police said 20 persons had died
in traffic mishaps here at the
same time last year.
Mr.. Schenck, formerly Of
Philadelphia, was an account
executive in the Washington
office of Mcdonnell g. Co.,
Inc, a New York stock broker
age firm. He formerly had beer
associated with the brokerage
firms of Bache g. Co. and Blail
q Co. in Washington.
Friends, and relatives here
and in Baltimore were at
tempting to locate and notify
the couples children by previ-
Gus marriages.
A friend of the Schencks
went to their Hoban road homs
this morning and picked w
their two pet dachshunds, Rudy
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D. c. Seeks
To Tighten
Jobs Edict

The District Commissioners
are considering steps requiring
more stringent compliance by
District Government contrac-
tors with equal employment
regulations here.
Local government depart
ments are reported to be mild
ly pleased" with results of a
surprise survey Of building
projects. The survey was or
dered by the Commissioners
June IL to determine how
many Negroes are employed on
Government contract projects.
Under regulations already in
effect, Government contractors
must hire regardless Of race.
Consequently. any action the
Commissioners might take
would be one of enforcement.
The departments involved in
the surprise survey we're High
ways, Sanitary Engineering
and Buildings and Grounds
Forty-two projects involving
about 1900 workers were
covered.
The survey, which the Com
missioners are expected tc
make public this week, viii
show that between As and 50
per cent of the persons en-
ployed on Government contract
jobs were Negroes.
This may be misleading
since the survey took account
of laborers as well as skilled
laborers in the apprenticeship
or journeyman levels. Labor
ers are predominantly Negro
The Commissioners order on
the survey asked the depart
ment heads involved to check
one building project each. But
every department head made q
more complete check than re-
quested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
BY KENNETH CAMPBELL
Star staff Writer

Star staff Writer
Observation-Disclosures"
These were not Marian sig
mails, but sounds heard by Ar
lington (va) high school stu
dents at the start of a 10-week
experiment in teaching them
selves a foreign language.
Self teaching through the
use Of tapes, a tape recorder
and a co-ordinated manual can
be unnerving.
AS one girl declared. 1--WE
never started out learning a
language by 'bleeps'."
The bleeps are signals used
In the elementary lessons after
q sound has been correctly pro-
nounced by the recorded native
speaker.
"Shree- h-sih-bleepi" told
the students learning Russian
that the letter In the Cyrillic
alphabet that looks like a &C"
Is pronounced "sih."
Twelve students will be learn
ing languages this way at York
town High School in Arlington
this summer. Half will learn
Spanish, half Russian. through
the natural" method developed
by the University Of Michigan
with a Federal grant the United
States Office Of Education
made 10 improve the teaching
Of foreign languages.
This system eliminates the
teacher, explained Mrs. Pearl
Macdonald, supervisor Of Ian
guages in the county's schools.
The students are a highly
select group who range from
average to high in natural in
telligence and who have had
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Arlington Students Teach Themselves Languages

which provided the $s.465 pilot
grant. Mrs. Macdonald said
that this is the first time such
a program has been attempted
on the secondary school level.
Equipped with individual
tape recorders, each student
goes at his own pace, mot lock-
step, like in regular school," she
said.
the natural" way Of learn
ing a language is to learn it as
an infant does.
The first step, said Mrs.
Macdonald, is to understand
the sounds; second. to speak
with a proper information; third,
to read for the meaning. and
finally, to write in q structural
ly correct manner.
Harold Sours, a 16-year-old
Junior, said that the initial
lessons teach you not to think,
but to repeat, so you feel kind
Of like a guinea pig"
Later on, Of course, the les
sons will become much more
complex. But If the students
felt like guinea pigs yesterday,
it was all right with Mrs. Mac
Donald.
The students were chosen
for the experiment from vol
unteers before they knew they
were going TO get $3.50 each for
participating in the expert
ment.
Claudia Toy, a 15-year-old
junior, who feels that she could
concentrate "a lot better with
the tape recorder) than hav-
ing a teacher" said that the
money was such a surprise,
but very welcome" Bleepl
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HE ALSO operates a lunch
counter on the @ street side
Of the store. It has the look
of an ice cream parlor about
it, with small tables and
wooden chairs.
LET me show you where we
make the caramel" he said,
leading the way down a mar
row staircase to a room with
a ceiling a little over six feet
in height.
The room was warm and
had a rich, sweet smell about
1t.
At $50 an, each morn
ing, two loyal Velati cooks,
both of whom have worked at
the store for more than 40
years. begin TO mix up with
wooden paddles. caramel
patches - with heavy cream
and corn syrup-in copper
kettles. The heat is sitting.
After about 80 to As min
utes. one dips his finger in
water, then into the boiling
batch Of caramel. then back
In the water. The consist
encv of the sticky candy tells
him whether the batch is
ready to pour over marble
slabs. An ancient machine
cit might have been brought
from Richmond) then cuts
the candy into squares. Later,
1t is broken apart by a metal
hammer. just before sale.
The cooks turn out crumbly
caramel as well as the chevy
kind. Some tcnes are
filled with California almonds,
or black walnuts. or cashews.
"A customer of NINE" said
the candy maker. "a highly
religious woman, once told me
that II she went to heaven
she hoped they'd have some
Of our caramels on hand"
Mr.. Boyer hopes TO start re-
firing soon. The store win be
taken over by his son, VII
liam.
But one Of the cooks. Boyn-
ton Taylor. IS. has an
nounced he win continue TO
make caramel until I drop"
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Blaze in Room
Is FotuI to Man

Ralph w. Mitchner, so, died
last night in Washington Hos
pital Center after suffering
burns over 80 per cent of his
body. "
Mr.. Mitchner was burned in
a fire in his third-fl room
at 1920 Rhode Island avenue
NV, police said.
Police said today the cause
of the blaze, discovered at lao
am. yesterday and confined to
one room, has not been de-
termined.
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They would let him know
they love him for the way he
is.
There will be places to run
on when he feels he has to,
and people to talk to when he
needs a friend.
Your gift could send him.
All funds received BY The EveninI
Star Summer Camp Fund will 20 Ia
Family and Child Service of WASH
lnston, q United divers Fund agency
for the use Of its Summer outings
Committee. Family and Child Services
u registered under the District OF
Columbia Charitable Solicitations Acl
No. 0-07-161.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
CAMP FUND FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund, Mail 1t to The Eve
ming Star, Washington 3,
d. c., or bring cash TO The
Star cashier.
The cost-$43.37 for IL
days for one child; $21.l9
for six days. Lesser con-
tributions are welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Family Reunion Set

Descendants of Hendrick
Brumback, who settled in the
Luray CVa) area about 1760,
will hold a reunion at II am.
July % at the Walnut Springs
Christian Church grounds near
Strasburg, Va.
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rehabilitation and upgrading Of
the area as quickly as possible.
consistent with the minimum
of cost and disruption" he said.
He contended that the re-
newal plan contains little
which promotes this primary
objective or provides incentives
to private enterprise to upgrade
the neighborhood."
Opposes Scattering
Mr.. Brylawski sharply OPP
posed a proposal for scattered
site public housing" in individ-
ual dwellings in the area.
Restoration itself offers
enough code, financing and
marketing problems without
imposing upon the restorer the
burden of upgrading the
neighborhood in the face Of a
certain amount of downgrad-
ing bound to result from the
stigma which unfortunately at
taches to public-housing units,
particularly If such units are
next door," he said.
Mr.. Woodruff called the
plan precedent-setting.
"It is the first conservation
type proposal in the history Of
the Districts urban renewal
program" he said.
'It is aimed at preventing the
encroachment of blight and de-
terioration in one Of the city's
older residential neighborhoods,
and, as such, will have large
consequences on the future of
similar conservation-type &C
tivities in other sections Of the
city"
Opening the hearing in the
District Building, Walter N.
Tobriner, president of the
Board of Commissioners, told
the audience Of 200 persons
the Commissioners were ia
miliar with the background"
of the project.
"They are also aware Of the
divergent and strongly held
views within Adams Morgan
community and throughout the
city as to how to accomplish
the renewal and rehabilitation
Of this particular area.
Can Change Items
THE unusually large num-
Der of private citizens and
organizations that have asked
to be heard is, I believe. with
out precedent for a public hear
ing on any urban renewal pro.
posal in the District"
The controversial proposal
has been estimated by RIA to
require net subsidy of $21
million and five or more years
to complete.
Two thirds Of the net cost
would be met by the Federal
government and a third by
the District in non-cash con-
tributions.
Approval of the Commits
sioners would be needed before
work could be undertaken by
the RIA, the Districts re-
newal agency.
The Commissioners have
authority to approve the total
plan, scale 1t down or change
it in particulars. Changes must
have the agreement of the
Capital Planning Commission.
Official details of the renewal
plan were drawn up by the
Planning Commission and RIA,
after a period in which citi-
zen views were expressed
through neighborhood groups.
The plan requires about %
See RENEWAL, Page B-4
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WI Asks Meeting
OF Summer Students

Students taking summer
school classes at Arlington's
Washington Lee High School
have been requested to attend
a brief orientation in the
schools gymnasium at 1880
am. tomorrow. regardless Of
the time their normal class
day begins, officials said.
Tomorrow is the first day Of
classes for Arlington's six-week
summer session at high. junior
high and elementary schools.
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Students keep a record Of
their progress and problems,
and a faculty monitor (who
does no teaching) sends a re-
port to the Office of Education,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The International Ladies
Garment Workers Union
meets for the second day
at the Shoreham.
This information Is supplied BY
the Convention and Visitors Bu-
reau Of the Metropolitan WASH
inston Board Of Trade.
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Report Backs
Cluster Plan
For Fairfax
Asks Open Space
For Communities
As County Grows
BY WALTER WURFEL
star Staff Writer

The growth Of the Western
part of Fairfax County should
be channeled into cluster COM
munities separated by open
spaces, the county's master
planning staff said today.
The staff prepared a 54-page
report containing arguments
for and against the cluster
concept It is aimed at speed
ing a decision on how develop
ment in the fast-growing
county should be channeled to
handle the expected year 1000
population Of one million.
The planning staff wants the
cluster plan adopted by the
Board of County Supervisors.
1t believes that almost all
public services would be cheap
er to provide to clusters. Some
of the reports points are sup
ported by attached letters from
the heads Of county agencies.
Savings Seen
Clusters, the report says,
would bring these savings:
/. Schools could be built to
a larger, more economical size,
and the county's school bus
fleet-now the largest in the
East-could be trimmed.
2. Falkland in the open
spaces would be cheap. The
Park Authority now completes
with land developers for tracts,
paying relatively high prices.
8. Road networks serving the
clusters would be cheaper to
build and operate than a feeder
system serving all subdivisions.
A. Better and cheaper mass
transit would be available to
clusters with a density of so or
more persons to the acre than
to subdivisions with 10 or
fewer.
S. Storm drainage, sewers,
libraries, fire protection and
trash collection would all be
cheaper.
Disadvantages Cited
However, a letter from Police
Chief William L. Durrer said
he might be forced to add men.
Dense populations create trou-
BILE, he commented.
Another disadvantage of clus-
tiers, the report says, is the pos
sibility that each would incor-
porate as a separate town OF
city. dotting the area with 9
dozen jurisdictions.
Master planner RosSer Payne
warns that if the Western 25C
acres of the county are built
up in subdivisions it runs the
danger of polluting its water
supply with surface run off.
He believes that a decision
for the clusters would give the
county better control of its
growth and force development
to adhere to a plan.
The report is critical of the
current tendency to let the
availability of sewers dictate
where residences are built.
I'VE must make up our minds
now as to whether we want
our sanitary sewers to dictate
the development of the county
or whether we want a COM
prehensive land use develop
ment plan," it states.
The report is likely to stir
comment. The supervisors have
been mulling over the cluster
plan since last year, when Mr..
Payne's office introduced the
concept in a study called THE
Vanishing Land"
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some previous language train
ing, although none has been
trained in the language they
are taking this summer.
The purpose of this research
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experiment is Ito determine
whether a youngster Of this age
(l5-lO can learn a language
in this manner" said Mrs.
Macdonald.