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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-08
House Unit
Backs Bill on
YouthCenter

Legislation that would estab-
lish a national center in the
Washington area where youths
would live away from unfaYor-
able home surroundings and
train for jobs, was approved
today BY a House EducalIon
and Labor subcommittee.
The measure, introduced by
Representative Sickles Demo-
crat of Maryland. and Repre-
sentative Goodell, Republican
of New York, would authorize
$5.5 million in construction
money for the project.
The national youth develop
ment center would accommo-
date between 400 and 600
youths. from IA to 81 years. The
bill also would authorize SIS
million for operating expenses
over an 18-month period.
The legislation reported out
today by the subcommittee,
h e a ded by Representative
Green, Democrat of Oregon,
also woTld.
/. Authorize IS million over
"a three-year period to help
continue the work of Washing
ton Action for Youth, a local
program tied to the Presidents
Committee on Juvenile Delin-
quency. The local program in
fcludes special help in finding
and keeping jobs.
2. Extend the Juvenile De-
linquency Control Act, now
slated to expire next July /, for
two years. The bill calls for
maintaining the current $40
million a year financing au-
thorization for the program.
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The
Rambler
:. Encounters
Sea Diver
By GEORGE KENNEDY

In covering the waterfront
the other day I came upon
an unusual craft alongside
a destroyer at the Navy Yard
dock.
She was white with a clip
per bow-almost rakish but
not quite-a bit too broad Of
beam for speed. And she had
a mast and heavy cargo
boom amidships that
marked her as a work boat.
This is not a Navy YES
sell" a mustached member of
the crew said in an English
accent.
This is Mr.. Edwin A.
Links Sea Diver. We are in
from two years in the Medi-
terranean."
Ed Link is the developer of
the Link Trainer. His expert
ments in deep-sea diving
have been illustrated in the
National Geographic.
The next morning l met
him by appointment on the
boat. He lives aboard while
working in a Navy Yard Of
flee as a consultant on div
ing.
Ed Link never went to en-
cheering school and learned
how things should and
should not be done. At So,
his tonsure is gaining on a
fringe of grey hair but the
blue eyes behind trimmed
spectacles still light up.
He made his first flight in
1925; his first dive only a
few years ago. He has re-
manned eight hours below at
a depth of so feet.
He has co-authored a
book on celestial navigation
and developed the Link
Trainer which Stimulates
flight. In World War II it
speeded our conquest of the
air and made him a fortune.
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Pupils Lose Plea to Use
School 5 Blocks Away

Two Northwest Washington
families today were "reluc-
family" turned down in court in
their attempt to get a prelimi-
nary injunction against a public
school order that their children
attend an elementary school is
blocks from their homes.
United States District Court
Judge Alexander Holtzoff said
he sympathized with the par
ents, "but I don't think the
court can interfere with the
school board"
The parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Max w. Cook, who have two
sons, and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
w. Coates, who have two sons
and a daughter, live in the 5000
block of Mckinley street NV.
They want their children to
attend the Lafayette Elemen-
tary School which is five blocks
away. Instead, their children
were told to attend the Ben
Murch School, Is blocks dis
tant.
The five children, now en-
rolled in the Lafayette School
under a temporary court order,
apparently will have to transfer
to the Murch School.
Appeal Indicated
Jude Holtzoff today granted
the parents a To-day stay in
order to give them a chance to
seek relief in the United States
Court of Appeals. They indi-
Gated they would appeal.
Attorney Thomas A. Ziebarth
said the school boundary as it
was set UP between the two
schools would force the chill
dren to walk Is blocks on a
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HE WAS GLAD to show
the diesel motored boat
which he had built to his
specifications at Quincy,
Mass, four years ago. The
hull is Of half-inch steel
plates. On the afterdeck
was a tent Of rubberized
fabric in which ne has
reason to believe froginen
will be able to live for weeks
300 feet down with no heavy
diving helmet or pressurized
suit to hamper them in their
work.
Also on the deck was the
2-ton compression cylinder
that's what the heavy cargo
boom is for-which lowers
men TO the pressurized tent
and brings them back.
A diver may have to spend
several days in it being
slowly decompreSsed.
Previous equipment, the
divers helmet, the bathy-
scaphe, have been built to
resist pressure.
Ed Link has shown that
a frogman with nothing but.
a tank on his back and his
artificial web hands, and
feet can work 200 feet down
where the pressure is many
times that of the atmos-
phere.
A mere rubberized tent
will be able to Withstand
this tremendous pressure
because the artificial atmos-
phere within, released from
tanks, is kept at the same
pressure as the water out
side.
Artificial" because at
great depths it is regulated
to 8 per cent oxygen, 81 per
cent helium. Our air is one
part oxygen and 4 parts nj
! trogen. But nitrogen be-
comes toxic as pressure in=s
creases. Years ago the Navy
discovered that helium was
a satisfactory substitute. At
high pressure, 8 per cent
oxygen is enough for breath
ing.
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hazardous" route where there
has been a high rate of acct
dents. He said the long route
would jeopardize the children's
safety.
Altered Regularly
Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Thomas C. Bell, represent
ing the superintendent of
schools and the District Board
of Education, said the District
regularly attempts to alter
boundaries to keep up with the
shifting population. He said,
however, that 81 other children,
who live near the five children
in the court action, also attend
the Murch school.
Mr.. Bell said that if the
boundary were changed to per-
NIT all children in that area
to go to the nearest school, the
Murch school would have an
attendance Of somewhere near
1000 and the Lafayette school
would have under 500. Each
school is designed to hold about
800 students.
Judge Holtzoff, who said he
was more interested in the pos
sibility of accidents than the
nearness of a school, said, 81
don't think little children
should cross heavily travelled
streets"
Mr.. Bell said the intersec-
tons of heavy traffic near the
schools we're controlled by po-
lice, lights or stop signs.
The five children involved
have been attending school
only under the previous Today
court stay. Prior to that, they
were being taught at home by
their parents.
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D. C. Government EnIaroino
Negroes Role, Study Shows

Commissioners Council on HUI
man Relations was requested
ito give special attention to de-
partments having difficulty in
securing employees of various
racial and ethnic groups"
Per Cent by Grades
This was the first manpower
report which gave statistics on
promotions. In the middle and
upper pay brackets, Negroes in
creased their percentage of to-
tai employees in those positions
this year.
In grades 5 through IL, they
held 1913 per cent of the posi-
tons in the classified service,
compared to 28.2 last year. In
grades IL through 18 (actual-
ly none held higher than a
GS-16 post, they held 81 per
cent of the positions, compared
to 7.8 per cent last year.
Negroes still remained pre-
dominantly at the bottom of
the pay ladder, however:
In grades l through 4 they
held 64.3 per cent.
In the first four grades of the
Wage Board Chourly paid posi-
lions, they held 88.8 per cent.
In dollars and cents, Negro
employees did better because of
pay raises and promotions. IN
der all four pay systems used
by the city classified, wage
board, police and fire. school
professional and adIninistra-
tive, and stipends for student
nurses, the percentage of Ne
groes to total employees was:
Below $1,000 to $4,000, SO per
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vacated last February by
Gerard NJ. Shea.
Senator Byrd asked in May
that the District Commissioners
give most careful considera-
ton" to Mr.. Brewers applica-
ton. and indicated then he pre-
ferred that Mr.. Brewer. rather
than any other new director
give the subcommittee a prog
ress report on the years ac-
tivities.
AS the hearing came to a
close yesterday, Senator Byrd
cited the immediate filling of
the position of Welfare Direc-
tor as one of the primary
detectives for fiscal 1864.
Commissioner John B. Dun
can, who is responsible for well
fare matters in the District. is
expected to make his recon-
mendation to his two fellow
Commissioners in about two
weeks. The full Board OF
Commissioners will select the
new director.
Cites Gains
Senator Byrd cited % areas
in which progress had been
made in the last year, and 20
areas in which he looked for
progress in the coming year.
After citing the gains, he
said, II think you've made
progress. Mr.. Brewer. One
cannot argue with this kind
of record. Great progress has
been made, remarkable progress
from where you started. Your
performance in the hearings
have been on the whole very
good. Your facts we're well
organized" 4
Senator Byrd noted that ex-
cept for the testimony of VIII
liam r. Calvin, Welfare's col.
lections and Investigations of.
ficer, Mr.. Brewer had "Vir.
tually answered all the rest o.
the questions. Most Of thu
answers were in your head, ant
those not there were at you
fingertips."
The budget that the Sena
latOr is expected to recommenl
to the subcommittee reflect
the positive welfare program h
discussed with President Ken.
nedy before hearings started.
Concerned Over Village
The one major area Presi'
dent Kennedy did not toucf
upon is extension Of aid Il
children Of unemployed parents
This extension would involve
a change in the Districts man.
in-the-house rule. Senator
Byrd is opposed to the change
Senator Byrd has shown par
ticular concern for reducing
the population at Junior Viii
lage to a hardcore and return
ing as many children as pos
sible to their homes. Junior
Village is the city's institution
for dependent children.
Mr.. Brewer yesterday esti-
mated the hard-core population
at 500. There we're 800 children
lat Junior Village last week
Senator Byrd said he was eager
to provide the tools that woulc
make this reduction possible.
Mr.. Brewer spelled out a fos-
ter home board rate that Il
higher than the one originally
proposed for fiscal 1864, anc
increased child welfare per-
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sonnet, including two more pro-
tective service units, two addi-
tional foster care units, and an
additional intake and study
unit. A unit is composed Of 8
persons including a supervisor
and five social workers.
Il Just want to make sure
I have enough, not too little"
Senator Byrd said in pressing
Mr.. Brewer to ask for all the
help he needed.
Would Add Cottage
Senator Byrd cited as a pri-
mary objective for fiscal 1864
construction Of an additional
cottage at Junior Village. Along
with six other new cottages,
three Of which viii open by No
vember /, this would provide all
new buildings to house the
hard-core population.
Among areas Of progress last
year listed. by Senator Byrd
were these
The clean up of the Aid to
Families with dependent chill
dren and general public as
sistance categories.
The overall case load has
been reduced alt per cent
since investigations that shook
the department began. There
were 1888 cases in September
1861, and 10,154 in August,
1868.
The AFDC case load has been.
reduced 29.4 per cent and the
GPA case load by SIS per cent.
In two years. the amount of
local money for grants for fl
nancial aid has dropped from
$7,396,311 in 1862 to an esti-
mated 81, 800, 389 in 1854.
The addition Of 81 GS o So
cial worker positions in public
assistance last year, along with
the elimination Of ineligibles,
brought the average case load
Iper social worker down from
1855 cases per worker in 1852
to lot today, he said. Sena-
ltor Byrd stressed that investi-
lgations Of public assistance
should be continued and ex-
lpanded to. eliminate ineligible
persons, and restore public
confidence in the welfare pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-08
BY VIRGINIA KOERBER
Star staff Writer

A second Washington area
wig shop closed over the week
end. leaving customers stand
ing at the locked front door.
Fhe most recent closing was
Chez Paris, shop in Claren-
|don IN Arlington County.
Like the closing of the first
firm, Custom Wig Stylists, at
704 Thfrteenth street NV, the
newest CLOSING was lightning
fast. The Chez Paris was APP
parently operating normally
last week. Saturday and yes
terday, women went to the
shop, at 3149 Wilson boulevard,
and found it locked.
All the fixtures, except one
wig dryer (used for servicing)
a telephone and one wig box
were gone.
Monroe Lenoff, the owner OF
Custom Wig Stylists, has
denied having "any financial
connection whatsoever" with
Chez Paris. However, an agent
for the owner of the building
Eugene B. Roberts, said Mr..
Lenoff was one of three men
who came to complete a lease
for the building in July, al
though he did not sign.
Two Names Listed
The names listed on the lease
are Jay Chenkin and Ben
Carey, the two men who ac-
compallied Mr.. Lenoff to Mr..
Roberts office. Mr.. Chenkin is
listed in Arlington County rec
ords as president of the firm.
Custom Wig Stylists folded
last week, leaving 1.500 area
women each owing payments
on 1896 notes. The notes did
not state what the payments
were for. The women believed
they were for As seryicings.
Yesterday the United Securi-
ties Finance Co., which bought
notes from Custom Wig Stylists,
said it would let the women
each have 10 free" settings at
another wig shop Wig-Wam,
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Second Wig Shop Shut,
Customers Left at Door

Inc, at 1858 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV.
An attorney for the finance
company. Bernard T. Levin,
said his firm was obligated in
no way to do this. and that it
would cost about 100000. He
also said women who didn't
want seryicings at Wig-Wam
would be allowed to buy their
notes back "at a discount of at
least 10 per cent"
Community Problem"
1--WE are doing it." he said,
because this is a community
problem with all those women
involved"
Last Friday Mr.. Lenoff told
his customers he had run out
Of money, and could no longer
afford to service their wigs
He pointed out. that he was
responsible for the servicings
and the women were response
BILE to the finance company.
Mr.. Levin also said yester-
day that United Securities
would urge District officials to
include a bonding requirement
in proposed regulations on the
wig trade here. Gilbert Gimble
of the Districts Corporation
Counsel's office, said bonding
would be feasible. but would
require legislation that would
take a long time to enact.
District Commissioner John
B. Duncan last month called
for action to regulate the
booming wig business in Wash
ington after an article on the
wig business appeared in The
Star,
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City to Rule
On Doctors
Outside Jobs

District Commissioner John
B. Duncan said today the
city would have no recourse
but to stop the practice of
public health officials teach
ing at local medical schools
for pay if the corporation
counsel rules against it.
The counsel's office is ex-
pected to give an opinion this
week advising the Commis-
sioners that the practice vi
olates a new conflict Of in
terest" statute.
r The statute, which became
effective in January, makes
it Illegal for any Federal or
District employe to receive
compensation from outside
private sources for services
performed in the line of duty
for the government.
Practice Would Stop
Commissioner Duncan said
that regardless Of how big
a blow it may be-" the Dis
trict would have to stop the
practice. Similar teaching
arrangements are "practiced
throughout the country" and
have been traditional" in the
District, the Commissioner
said.
Asked If he would favor
going to Congress for a law
to exempt the teaching pay
ments from the conflict Of in
terest law, Commissioner
Duncan said, 81 don't know. I
would have to study it and
consult with the other Com
missioners."
Commissioner Walter N. To-
briner had no comment on the
issue.
% Receive Payments
About q doctors at District
General Hospital, the city's
public medical facility, received
payments ranging from $1,000
to $4,000 annually from the local
medical schools in addition to
their city salaries. These
schools also pay several Health
Department officials for their
teaching. including DR.. Murray
Grant, the public health di-
rector. He receives about $4,000
per year on top of his $4,000
city salary.
In addition to the question
of the outside compensation,
the departments policy under
DR.. Grants administration of
not requiring officials to take
annual leave for teaching done
on city time is also under ques-
ton.
Asked today if he was PLAN
ming any change of policies in
regard to the teaching prac-
tees, Dr.. Grant said he was
waiting for the legal opinion
and to discuss the matter with
the Commissioners.
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HOuset0PrObe
BredkOuts at
ST. EIizabefhs
Subcommittee Told
To Look Into Claim
Of Fund Shortage
By MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

Star Staff Writer
An investigation into prob
lens at st. Elizabeths Mental
Hospital will be conducted i'm
mediately by the House Edu-
cation and Labor Committee,
Chairman Powell. Democrat of !
New York, announced yester-
day.
Mr.. Powell, who asked the
House for a $1,000 appropria-
ton to conduct the probe, APP
pointed to the ad-hoc subcom-
mittee Representative Daniels,
Democrat Of New Jersey, as
chairman, and Representatives
Sickles, Democrat of Maryland,
and Goodell, Republican of New
York.
Mr.. Powell said he was made
aware of escapes and problems
of insufficient funds, made
quate housing and stating at |
st. Elizabeths through an ar
ticle in Sundays Star.
He said, Il as chairman and
the committee as a whole have
been negligent" concerning st.
Elizabeths.
SO Still at Large
st. Elizabeths currently has
SO escaped patients still at
large, 81 of whom were COM
mitted after criminal proceed
ings. Police recently reported
capturing II criminal patients
who escaped from st. Eliza
beths and then became involved
in new crimes, minor and
major.
DR.. Dale c. Cameron, hospi-
tai superintendent, has called
for more funds for an increased
staff and better facilities If es-
capes are to be reduced and If
patients are to get adequate
care.
I'VE talked to DR.. Cameron
today" Mr.. Powell said. The
budget for st. Elizabeths has
been cut several times from
original requests. HEW cuts it
first, and the worst cuts came
from the Budget Bureau. In
1858 st. Elizabeths made a re-
quest for 500 additional per-
sonnet. HEW cut it to 400 and
the Budget Bureau cut 1t tol
so and earmarked the jobs for
training and research func-
lions. Congress restored none
of these cuts.
Nursing Home Need Seen
Mr.. Powell, who said the
Education and Labor Commit
tee has the authority to inves-
tigate the expressed need for
an increase in the District
Welfare Departments monthly
payments for nursing home and
foster home care, plans to look
into this area.
At present, DR.. Cameron feels
there are hundreds of patients
who no longer require mental
disqualification and could leave
Iif adequate alternative re-
sources, such as nursing homes,
were available in the commu-
nifty. This would help alleviate
over-crowding.
However, he says, it is next
to impossible to arrange for
the transfer of suitable patients
to nursing homes when the
maximum payments available
through the Welfare Depart
ment to an INDECENT patient
for nursing-home care is $500
per month"
Both Mr.. Powell and Mr..
Daniels said they were
shocked" to read of sub
standard conditions as reported
Sunday in The Star.
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Jury tOPrObe
Montgomery
RedItYDedIs'
Interest Conflict
Charges Raised,
Jurist Declares
By ANNE CHRISTMAS
Star Staff Writer

Star Staff Writer
In a cryptic charge to an in
coming Montgomery County
grand jury, Circuit Court Judge
Walter H. Norman yesterday
instructed the new panelists to
make a thorough investigation
Of recent charges of conflict of
interest in the county govern
ment.
I'm the light of newspaper
publishing. locally published
articles, discussions with the
States attorney and certain
litigation pendin g before the
Court" the judge said "the
Court has reason to believe
that a matter for your thor
ough investigation under your
inquisitorial powers, is the
subject of whether crimina
laws have been violated by vir-
tue of conflict Of interest by a
department or departments Of
the county government"
Pointed Charges
States Attorney Leonard T..
Hardy said that as a result of
Judge Moorman's orders to the
jury, he will make a searching
inquiry to determine whether
criminal laws have been violat-
ed involving conflicts of inter-
est within the government.
Some of the most pointed
charges were made August %
in the Suburban Record, a
county weekly newspaper, in
an article by Mrs. Caroline
Freeland, Republican member
lof the Montgomery Counts
Planning Board. which said In
part:
ITO many Of those in Mont.
! gomery County who know whai
is really going on. a day o.
reckoning may be fast APP
preaching for greedy souls in.
volved in real estate operations
zone hears, for example
ugly rumors of out-and-out
payoffs. To try to avoid atten-
ton by the Internal Revenue
Service, municipal bonds paya-
bic to the bearer are uti-
lized
Investigation Scheduled
mot quite as crude are par
ticipation deals. Ownership of a
partial interest in property
which is up for reckoning can be
hidden by taking title through
an agent. -.
The efforts in this direction
are so strong that one some
times wonders if there aren't
really three political parties in
, the county, the only difference
being that the Third Party
cuts across party lines"
Mr.. Hardy also said he will
Investigate three savings and
loans companies already in re-
, ownership Maryland Thrift,
First General and Maryland
, District-and one in conserva-
, torship, Maryland Financial Of
Kensington.
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Byrd Lauds Brewer
Hearing
Praises Acting Directors Work,
Lists u Areas for Progress
By BETTY JAMES
Star staff Writer

Senator Robert C. Byrd chairman Of District
Appropriations Subcommittee has closed welfare hearings
with praise for Acting Welfare Director Donald Brewer
who almost sngehandedy bore the days
testimony the budget.
Mr. Brewer is candidate for the Job of Welfare Director
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cent compared to SIS per cent
last year; $4,000 to $4,000, 3S
per cent compared to 20, and
$4,000 to $4,000, (actually no
Negro made over $4,000, %
per cent compared to 8 per
cent.
Up to So Per Cent
Among the departments, the
percentage of Negro employ
ment varies from zero in some
of the smaller agencies (the
largest of these being insurance
with % employees to 1854 per
cent in the Recorder of Deeds.
The percentages in depart
ments with 1000 or more en-
ployeS are: Fire, 1875; High
ways and Traffic, 3O.4; Police,
1913; Public He a1th, 571;
School, 70.6, and Sanitary En-
cheering, GLIB.
The report gives the diStri-
buttons of Negroes in the Po-
lice and Fire Department and
the Board of Education pro-
feSsional and administrative
staff including teachers). Most
Negroes for these departments
are shown to be in the lowest
grade.
In the Fire Department, ITO
of total 1879 Negroes are pri-
Yates; in the uniformed police,
395 of 469 are privates, and in
the schools professional and
administrative 3.617 of 1912
are in the lowest grade.
For promotions, the schools
led police and fire in the per-
centage of Negroes.