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The Nome nugget., 1963-10-30

More middle class wives are now holding jobs outside the home. In more than half the families with income from $7,OOO to $15,OOO year. ly, the wife works at least part of the year.
The Nome nugget., 1963-10-30

Angry Father: Young man, what is the idea of bringing in my daughter at four in the morn ing?"
 Young man: Tt started to rain"
The Nome nugget., 1963-10-30

Mems fingers are approximately 10 per cent longer and 20 per cent wider than ladies' fingers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-25

WILLIAM |. NICHOLS
Editor and Publisher
ED MCCARTHY, Managing Editor
NELSON cRUPPo, Art Director
STEWART BEACH, Asst. to the Editor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-25
National

BEN G.. WRIGHT, President
EUCLID NJ. CONVICTION
Chairman Of the Board
JOHN c. STERLING
Honorary Chairman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-25
By
LOWeU Thomas

LOWELL THOMAS has been collecting
adventures, both his own and other peoples,
ever since he discovered Colonel lawrence
in Arabia IS years ago. His newest
book, "MoRE GREAT True ADVENTURES"
written in collaboration with his son,
Lowell, Jr., is rePlete with accidents"
that happened to history's great
adventures from Columbus to John Glenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-25


The fabulous c. K c. discovered when he got on the
wrong train by mistake setting out for York and ending in
Liverpool Anyone else might have fumed at the inoonven-
fence Chesterton wrote philosophical essay about it.
How much of life be gathered into the Chesertonian
formula How much of adventure in the strict senseI
Let me give you example from my own bag of accidents
thatareadventureSf youlookatthem-inthe rightway.
WHILE my son and were returning over 1900 foot
Hmalayan pass, from Journey to Lhasa in lo4o
broken horse hurled me into space and landed pile of
sharp rocks My hip broken in eight places Lowell IT,
had to have carried by nomads by monks even by tt
betan women the loftiest mountain range on earth
OF course it was an accident But when read my sons
account of it in Out OF This World" it sounded like
thrilling adventure indeed was despite my inability to
appreciate it fully at the time. However if you must get
smashed up like that Tibet has advantage The scenery
sublime, and look back those twenty days that rode
the shoulders of Tbetans of the most inspiring ex-
perences of my life did make one mistake as they swung
around mountain walls often mile high They sang
song they logged along and asked for translation
Invent as follows
On LORD BUDDHA, LIcHTEN OUR LOAD!
It's easy to rail at the fate that makes you the victim of
haraSsng humiatng mischances It's more philosophical
and fun to be CheSeonian about the whole thing
Just look for the adventure behind the accident
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-25

IAN adventure is an accident rightly
understood; an accident is an Gd-
venture wrongly understood"
&C. K. cHSrERToN
Ike MOST Chestertonian paradoxes,
this one leases the mind like an es-
sential and profound truth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-25

THIS WEEK MosOzIne ! August rs. 1888
Evening star., 1963-03-17

on the eve of President Ken
nedy's summit meeting for
three days this week with the
five presidents Of Central
America and that Of Panama
When the United States
president enters San Jose on
Monday in a ceremonial motor
cade with the other presidents,
he viii find flags waving, bands
blaring, Welcome" brackets
plastered on store fronts and
most of the city's 250,000 per-
sons out 10 greet him.
A dress rehearsal Of Dem
ocratic solidarity" a central
theme Of the conference-came
today when a military band
marched through the city 10
a pro-democratic. anti Castro
rally In the central plaza.
But in official quarters,
pandomonium reigns supreme.
The press from all over the
hemisphere and an equal num-
ber Of confused government
officials swarm frantically
around the National Theater
where the conference is to be
held. The grand baroque halls
OF gilt echo with questions to
which there are few answers
at the moment.
Inside the main hall is an
Old World setting fit for kings
Gold balconies tower to the
Evening star., 1963-03-17

leaving T. Emmett Mckenzie,
one of the last of the clan.
at 412 Fifth street. Two others
who left the street overlook
ing the compound of court
houses are Mr.. Alder and My
ron Ehrlich, both around the
corner at 40i Third Street.
They have left. but they still
talk Fifth street language, for
the street is more a state of
mind than a location. The best
stories Of their beginning
days with such lawyers as
Bert Emerson. Harry Whalen,
Eddie O'Connell. Nike Lane,
Jimmy O'Shea. Denny Hughes
and Charley Ford are pre-
served in memory rather than
on record.
Bert Emerson and Harry
Whalen, two Of the earliest and
''the best" command the re-
spect OF these lawyers. In their
Continued ON Page B-i. Col. .
Evening star., 1963-03-17
THE FIFTH STREET CLAN
The Gold Leaf Days for Lawyers Are Passing Fast

both stories and booze, have
left. Many have died and o
few have detected uptown" TO
become Fifteenth street
lawyers.
The remaining clan members
tell this In hushed tones, rather
as II not wishing TO speak III
: Of traitors but at the same
time making II clear that, to
them, death was q far nobler
exit.
For downtown" Fifth street
and uptown" Fifteenth are not
only 10 blocks, but q world.
apart.
Clifford Alder, a Fifth street.
er and once an associate Of the
late Charles Ford, a betting
orator who always played 10
Q fun house in the courtroom.
defined the difference with
crushing simplicity.
up there they say the mat
Evening star., 1963-03-17

ter was adjusted Down here
we say 1t was fixed"
For those familiar with the
more slang definitions of the
word fix. Mr.. Alder did not
mean fixed as In 'rigged' but
fixed as in the dictionary'S
settled
While Fifteenth street
lawyers were busy being cor
poration counsel and executors
for plush estates. the Fifth
street lawyers were defending
both cops and robbers. pros
titutes and rum runners. They
handled some of the city's
juiciest divorces and murders
with a calculated flamboy-
ance. putting on the best free
shows In town.
Nor was the courtroom the
only stage for these men who
acted at times as II they had
never recovered from q second
grade game Of let's pretend.
Evening star., 1963-03-17

One Of them had q dead
phone in his office, Its sole pur-
pose being to impress clients.
The lawyer would lean back
and carry on long and init
mate. however imaginary. con-
versations with the White
House.
When one case reached Su-
preme Court. another Fifth
streeter showed up in top hat
and morning coat, alighting
from his borrowed Rolls Royce
with regal calm. upholding the
dignity Of the Fifth Street Bar
Association
And on st. Patrick's Day q
Jewish lawyer would stroll past
the offices Of the many Fifth
street Irish lawyers, wearing a
green hat and gloves. "just try
ing 10 start q fight" said
Lawyer James Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes moved his offices
TO 2O22 r street this week.
Evening star., 1963-03-17

gressional committees. what
greater tribute can you pay to
people than to give them all
the information they need to
box you into a corner?"
Characteristically, he Is de-
irving consolation from q 1000
quotation provided him
by a compassionate Pentagon
general. 1t Is a paragraph from
General Lucius Paulus, a Ro-
man fighting in Macedonia who
also received q great deal oi
advice from the sidelines:
"The city in itself furnishes
an abundance Of topics for con-
versation. Let it confine itl
passion for talking to its owr
precincts and rest assured tina
See MCNAMARA, Page Al
Evening star., 1963-03-17
BY CHARLES PIERCE
star staff Writer

district officials have pro-
posed use of q complex math-
ematical formula to solve q
question that has intrigued
poets and nature lovers down
through the years:
What's the value of a treeP
BY classifying trees as to
kind and condition and null
tiplying the number Of square
inches in the cross section area
of the trunk as feet above
ground, District officials have
found that the value Of q
typical" mature oak shade tree
is $1,17S.10.
A flat $45 fee is charged now
by the city to persons who have
legitimate reasons for asking
for removal of street trees on
public property.
Adoption Of the new formula
by the District Commissioners
was proposed last week by the
District Highway Department.
Harold Aitken, department
director. said that the formula
had been worked out by q ma
Itional tree association and
Evening star., 1963-03-17
The VoIue of q Tree?
Oak Roted at $1,l78.10

would deter unnecessary chop
ping Of trees here.
However, when the proposed
order was presented to the
Commissioners, Schuyler Lowe,
whose job as director Of the
Department of General Admin
istration has given him an acute
sensitivity to financial prob
lens. cautioned that the pro-
Iposal might need further study
Walter N. Tobrinsr. presi-
dent of the District Board OF
Commissioners, asked that the
corporation counsel's office
study the matter in consulta-
ton with Citizen Lowe"
This was a wiser move thar
Mr.. Tobriner realized at thG
time because through a slip ir
the gears Of the Districts bu-
reaucracy the proposed order
had not been referred TO the
tree committee Of the Citizens
Planning Advisory Council.
This committee. one Of whose
members just happens to be
Mrs. Tobriner, viii meet thi.
week on the matter, according
to Harold Gray. committee
chairman.
Evening star., 1963-03-17
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star staff Writer

A golden, nude statue stands
in Washington's Judiciary
Square at Fifth street and
Indiana avenue NV, pointing
across the street to @ row of
Fifth street buildings which
even In their day would have
won no architectural awards.
Some are dirt-grey, one is a
has-been red brick and q third
Is like the terra-cotta colored
buildings OF Rome, with white
plaster flecking through q
crumbling tan facade.
Gold leaf letters on windows
and doors still shout the pres-
ence Of bondsmen and lawyers,
but a life that once was lived
on Fifth street Is no more.
Most OF the Fifth street
lawyers Of prohibition days and
the '40s, who could have kept
Damon Runyon supplied with
Evening star., 1963-03-17
NO TINE FOR HUMILITY
McNonoro Stands
Firm on Decisions
BY MARY McGRORY
star Staff Writer

Secretary OF Defense Nc
Namara, one Of the most Or
ganized human beings in
Washington, budgets every
minute of his 12-hour working
day. SO far he has not set
aside any time for learning the
art Of appearing humble before
Congress.
Confronted with complaints
about his attitude from critics
who nevertheless insist he is q
genius, he says:
"I'd be willing to be deferen-
tial in the introductions but
not in the conclusions. ] could
tell them they had been here
much longer and had much
more experience, but I would
still ask them to accept my
judgement on the RS-70."
Congress acted all last week
like a man who has been look
ing too long into a strong light
and has become restive and
red-eyed. The Congressman do
not say that Mr.. Mcnamara
has failed in his supremely de-
manding job. They just wish
he would be more human. and
just once in a while say he was
sorry or wrong or no smarter
than they are.
"I-know-all-the answers Nc
Namara," Republican Whip
Arends called him last week.
Mr.. Mcnamara is aware Of
their dissatisfaction, but his re-
ply is that Of an incorruptihly
rational man.
II have given them more In
formation than any other Sec
retary Of Defense" he says,
tapping the 221-page volume
Of his testimony before con-
Evening star., 1963-03-17

dentally stepped on the accele-
rator instead of the brake pedal.
The car shot over the curb,
across the alleyway and into
the Ransom family which was
leisurely viewing the display in
the Garrison company window
The trunk Of the car protruded
about two feet into the store
interior, police reported.
Mrs. Sylvia Birch of 1922 N
Twenty-third street, Arlington
a clerk in Garrison's for ie
years, said Preston ran into the
store for help Immediately
after the accident and that she
took him to the rear of the
building, She said she had the
boy recite the Lords Prayer
over and over while she went
back for help.
Music Students at Church
The Ransoms visited the
store every Saturday, Mrs.
Birch said, because the two
youngsters have been taking
See ACCIDENT, Page Ali
Evening star., 1963-03-17
Firms Strike Benefit

HELSINKI, Mar. l6 (AP).-
Finland's communication
workers strike has its good
side. says the chief epidemic
officer, DR.. Rauno Tammilehti.
He believes the lack of mail
from abroad helped curb q
spread Of Asian flu in Finland
Evening star., 1963-03-17
3SStersSpan
MayGef Okay
New Compromise
Studied by NCPc
BY LEE FLOR
BY LEE FLOR
Star Staff Writer

"A new compromise that
would permit construction Of
the Three Sisters bridge is un-
der active consideration by the
National Capital Planning
Commission. spokesmen said
yesterday.
The compromise would also
settle the long g-simmering dis
ipute over proposals to build 9
highway through Glover-Arch.
bold Park, and would permit
rebuilding Of Spout Run Park
way to interstate standards.
The compromise would striE
the District Of the 100-foot.
wide right-of-way it now own:
In Glover Archbold. and give II
to the National Park Service
The District right-of-way was
reserved for a highway, but
opposition by the planning
commission and by the Park
Service has blocked construc-
ton.
Virginia Highway Provision
In exchange, the Park serv-
Ice would permit the Virginia
Highway Department to build
Interstate Route 266 through
Spout Run Parkway.
The spokesman said the pro-
posal was considered at the
executive session of the plan
ming commission earlier this
month, and win be presented
again next month.
The compromise also calls for
building the Three Sisters
bridge with six, or four, lanes
instead of the proposed eight
lanes.
Earlier proposals to build an
interchange to connect the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway to the Virginia side
of the bridge would be elm
mated by the compromise.
On the District side, the
approaches to the bridge would
be designed so that northbound
traffic could not turn west to-
wards the Foxhall road and
Potomac Palisades areas. Traf-
fic would be able to turn only
toward downtown, over the
Potomac River Freeway.
Would Relieve Georgetown
This in turn could help the
Georgetown area by taking
truck, bus and automobile traf-
fic off heavily-traveled NJ
street, the spokesman pointed
out.
Spout Run Park is owned by
the Park Service so the land
transfer would be easy. the
spokesman said.
A careful design Of the In
terstate route would avoid ma
See BRIDGE, Page AS
Evening star., 1963-03-17
u. S. Note Protests
Alaskan Overnight
By Russian Planes
Intruders Flee
AS Rudur AIerts
American Craft
BY JOHN M. HTGHTOWER
Associated Presa staff writer

Two Soviet reconnaissance
planes flew over the south
western corner Of Alaska Thurs
day night, penetrating United
States air space about 80 miles,
the Government announced
yesterday. American fighters
scrambled and tracked the in
truders by radar but did not
fire.
In Moscow United States
Ambassador Foy d. Kholer made
a formal protest to the So
Wet Foreign Office on instruc-
ton from Washington. The
United States note demanded
that Russia take all necessary
measures to prevent any repe-
tition" Of violations Of United
States territory.
This Is the first clearly es-
tablished incident of a Soviet
overnight of the United States"
a State Department spokesman
said.
Alaska's Gov. william Egan
and Senator E. L. Bartlett,
both Democrats, said the incl
dent points up what they
termed a need for better air
defenses in their State.
I'VE have been screaming
for protection along the north
west coast, but we don't seem
to get any place with the
Pentagon." Gov. Egan said in
Juneau.
Alaska Defenses Weak
Senator Bartlett told @ re-
porter here that I'VE have in
Alaska a very effective detec-
ton system, but the evidence
Is pretty conclusive that we
are very ill-equipped in Alaska
from the defensive standpoint. {"
The incident occurred
against q background Of a
worsening trend in United
States-Soviet relations. Signs of
the trend are disappointment
OF United States officials with
the slow pace of Soviet troop
Withdrawals from Cuba, the
breakdown Of nuclear test-ban
talks. and the more angry tone
In Soviet propaganda against
the United States. particularly
In Latin America.
Officials said, nevertheless.
that they would not initially
attach great seriousness to the
precedent-breaking Soviet re-
connaissance flights over
Alaska.
Flights over Soviet Union
Russia has complained for
years about United States over
flights of Soviet ships or ter
ritory. In the case of the dra-
matte U-2 spy plane incident
in May 1860, the Eisenhower
administration confirmed that
such aircraft penetrations of
the skies over Soviet Union had
been made for four years. The
Government says they have
been stopped.
The flights Of the two Soviet
information gathering planes
occurred between 8 and 10
O'Clock in the morning Green
wich Mean Time, which was
See ovERFLIGHTs, Page AS
Evening star., 1963-03-17
Car HurIs Mother, Girl
Through Store Window
Woman Shopper Loses Legs us Auto
Jumps Curb and Smushes G St. Shop

weekly trip to Washington for music lessons and
shopping ended tragedy yesterday for Prince Georges
County family
Two members of the family Mrs jeanette Ransom A.
and her daughter Margaret 15 critically injured when
car hurled them into the display window Of Garrisons
Evening star., 1963-03-17
San Jose. Turns Festive
For Presidents Summit

Il
oval table, surrounded by sever
high-backed aristocratic chairs
Outside, on polished floors
Costa Rican women hurriedly
assemble punches of yellow and
white chrysanthemums, which
viii add a final ceremonial
touch.
Tight Security Guard
But peeking through all this
planned pomp and circum-
stance are the strictest security
precautions possible. The host
government of Costa Rica has
determined there shall be no
act of violence to mar the
meeting. To prove the point,
1t refused a Communist backed
request yesterday to hold a
peaceful" dem onstration
against the summit. At several
strategic points along the high
way from the airport, soldiers
in battle green already have
settled into the lush tropical
landscape.
For good measure, the
United States aircraft carrier
Wasp hovers Just off the Ca
ribbean coast of this tiny
country. The borders with
neighboring Panama and Mic
aragua have been closed, and
everyone entering the country
must have a special visa.
These measures are not d.
rected solely at the Commu-
nists. Indeed, many officials
worry more about trouble from
between 100 and 200 political
exiles from Nicaragua who op-
pose the strong-armed regime
OF Nicaraguan President Luis
Somoza.
Mr.. Somoza is coming here
with an armed security guard
See COSTA RIGA. Page AS
Evening star., 1963-03-17


s2.2 billion in defense. SIS bill
lion in foreign aid, $i.2 billion
for space and $l.2 billion for
aid to education.
Actual spending would be re.
duced about $4.5 billion below
the Presidents $s8.s billion es.
innate for next fiscal year. the
chamber said.
President Ladd Plurnley said
the budget cuts would help
clear the way for tax reductions
needed to promote economic
growth. He told q news con-
ference business confidence
would suffer If taxes were cut
without substantial reductions
In Federal spending.
Mr.. Kennedy has scoffed at
See CHAMBER, Page AS
Evening star., 1963-03-17
BY GEORGE SHERMAN
star staff Writer

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica. Mar
i6-"Now we make only Fiests
waiting for Kennedy blurt.
ed out the porter at the sunnJ
airport here.
His words reflect the holiday
mood Of this bulging capital
Evening star., 1963-03-17

Toy and Novelty store at 1915
@ street NV, at about 1890
pm.
Mrs. Ransom, in critical con-
dition at George Washington
University Hospital, lost both
legs when the car swept her
from the sidewalk into the show
window. Both legs were snapped
off about four inches above
the knees. police reported.
Msrgaret's left leg was man.
gled but may be saved. Her
right leg was amputated. She
also suffered multiple lacera-
tions Of the body. She is in
critical condition at Casualty
Hospital.
Firemen on ambulance duty
are under orders to take an ac-
cident victim to the nearest
hospital.
But in the case Of the mother
and daughter 1t was decided to
take Mrs. Ransom to George
Washington University Hospi-
tai and the daughter to Cas-
ualty Hospital so as not to
overcrowd either hospitals
emergency room.
Gene Ransom, the father,
and Preston, ~, the son, also
were standing at the window
but escaped injury.
Woman Drivers Story
Mrs. Virginia L. Tenschert,
SO, Of 622 Mississippi avenue
s. E., driver OF the car, was
charged with failure to give
full time and attention to her
driving and with backing over
a sidewalk. Pvt. Earl ]. Taylor
Of the Accident Investigation
Unit said Mrs. Tenschert's
drivers license viii be turned
over to the Permit Control
Board for a review Of her driv-
ing qualifications. She has a
physical disability as a result
Of an operation. he added. She
was released on $1,000 bond.
Mrs. Tenschert told police
she was backing into a parking
space in front Of the Church
of the Epiphany at 1917 q
street NV. when she acci-
Evening star., 1963-03-17

President Hides Story Of his ssr
Bath. Poss A-s