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his motion brought a prompt
second from Councilman John
Henry Hiser, who originally pro-
posed that the measure be
wiped off the books.
II don't agree with the law at
ALL" DR.. Wilson asserted. II
think racial relations should be
handled by other means and
that creation of the Human Re-
lations Commission was a good
idea, but it is a problem that
cannot be solved by legislative
action"
When the measure was
brought to a vote, DR.. Wilson
and Hiser were overridden by
Councilmen Grover K. Walker,
Jerry T. Williams, Mary Hep
burn and Miss Diggs.
John A. Floyd, president of
the council, declined to partici-
pate in the vote. He said he was
generally in favor of the public
accommodations law but that it
included some provisions he op-
posed and, as a consequence,
felt that he should abstain.
An estimated 1900 persons at
tended two public hearings held
by the Council earlier this year
on Hiser's proposal to ak the
law and most speakers argued
in favor of retaining it.
Under the proposal, all places
catering to the public except
establishments deriving more
than one-half of the income
from alcoholic beverages are
forbidden to practice discrimina.
ton because of race, creed or
national origin.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-12
Arguments For and against -
The AmidOn Plan

Pupils of an entire elementary school
here-North Kemp Mill-are being in
structed this year in accordance with
principles of the Amidon Plan, system
followed widely in District schools and
one which has attracted nationwide at
tention. 1t features strong emphasis on
learning the basic subjects in elementary
school. TO help the public understand
more about the county's new educational
experiment, The Sentinel asked two lead
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-12

system will be listed in the new
edition of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company's
suburban Maryland directory,
which will be available through
out the area within a few days
after the program goes into
effect. Distribution of the book
will start Sept. %, according to
officials of the telephone COM
pany.
In addition, thousands of post
cards will be mailed out next
week by county employees to reg
ular contacts to notify them of
the new numbers.
Under the new program, all
four of the county police sta
tons located in Rockville, Whea-
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judgment in regard to school
needs"
He added: under the law, ed
ucational matters are exclusive
ly matters for the Board-not
the Council"
Council and School Board
legal differences stem from diff
ferences over money matters
and Prettyman told School
Board members Tuesday that
revenue resulting from the
school tax should be turned over
monthly to the School Board.
This, he said, has never been
done.
Additional litigation in which
the School Board is involved
was filed earlier this year by
county teachers seeking to block
a 4-3 School Board decision
transferring the fingerprinting
function from the school person
mel department to the cousty
police department.
Also, the School Board has
been ordered by the State Board
of Education to retain the fin.
gerprint function, rather than
transfer it, and state educators
have also scheduled an Oct. 9
hearing on whether state law
was violated when recent major
educational budget slashes were
made.
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CD Units Here
Are Visited By
Swedish Aides

The Swedish National Direc.
tor of Civil Defense, AXE Sude.
lin, and his deputy, Seen Eggert
Rergelin, visited two county
Ncivil defense installations on
Monday.
The underground emergency
operating center, under con-
struction adjacent to the County
Office Building, Rockville, was
the first point visited. Basic
purpose of the structure is 10
enable the county government
to continue operating after at
tack.
The protected classrooms of
RockiHghorse Elementary were
also visited.
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Zone Change
Turned Down
Once Again

A request for rezoning of a
residential tract in Battery Park
subdivision of Bethesda for
commercial use, rejected on sew
eral previous occasions over a
period of nearly 10 years, was
turned down by the County
Council again on Tuesday.
The Redistribution from r.
60 to CO of the tract owned by
Samuel Gentleman, consisting
of 21,533 square feet, was re-
jected by a 4-3 vote of the coun-
Gil. Voicing opposition to the
proposal were President John A.
Floyd and Councilman Grover
K. Walker, DR.. Thomas M. Will
son and Mary Hepburn, while
John Henry 1iser, Kathryn
Diggs and Jerry T. Williams
voted in its favor.
Also turned down by one
vote margin was a request for
rezoning of 1891 square feet at
1904 Fairview Ave-, Silver
Spring, owned by Jason Geiger
and others, from R-60 to CO. In
this case the majority was com.
posed of DR.. Wilson, Walker,
Williams and Mrs. Hepburn,
their votes overriding those of
Floyd, Hiser and Miss Diggs.
Six zone changes were ap-
proved by the council, four of
them combined in a single re-
quest from Thomas A. Anna
tucci, contract purchaser of the
lots. Located at Georgia, Grand
view and Blueridge Avenues in
Wheaton, they were changed
from R-60 to commercial.
Others approved by the coun.
Gil included II acres on Georgia
Avenue adjacent to Hughes
Methodist Church in Wheaton,
owned by Warner E. Humphrey,
Inc, from R-60 to RIO (multi-
ple-family residential; 1880
square feet at Aspen Hill Road
and Connecticut Avenue, owned
by E. Brooke Lee, from R-90
(one-family residential to CT
Qocal commercially, and 102.213
acres at Bel Pre- Road and Lay
hill Road, for contract purchaser
A. Sind, from RIA agricultural
residentiaD to R-R (rural resi-.
dentiaD.
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DORIS FLEEsoN
Misgivings in Capitol Corridors

this so complacently when
they complain so much about
all that is wrong with the
country and the administra-
ton is unclear. They would
surely not wish to imply that
to be conservative is merely
to stand still.
There is growing talk about
lack of leadership in both
parties. Republicans seem the
more confident that they can
soon make a breakthrough
and achieve a party leader
ship which will press strong
ly for alternative policies.
The citize n indifference
may only mean that every
body is on vacation. This
would be, for Congress, better
than If they had written off
this present one as incapable
or had decided they must
look to the White House and
Supreme Court for their cues.
Serious members are I'M
happy about a possible strug-
gle between the President
and the balky Congress over
a railroad strike. Whether or
not the President is at fault,
they can see no dividend in
the form Of increased con-
gresSional stature in the kind
of debate that would almost
surely enSue. A despairing
who needs it yet?" is their
reply to a tussle over labor
policy.
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Trouble for the Administration

count problem Is not Of re-
cent origin and Congress,
rather than the administra-
ton, is largely responsible
for the confusion in the
rules. But the voters win
vent their anger on the ad-
ministration in power.
Z. Civil rights: It looked
for a while as If the admin
istration were on the popular
side Of the argument-equal
rights for all. But the Presi-
dent now is being blamed for
mishandling the whole thing,
especially in countenancing
for several weeks the law
lessness Of those who have
deliberately used the street
demonstration" techni que
and thereby stirred up bitter
feelings in all parts of the
country-in big cities as well
as in suburban areas, North
and South.
This issue is growing in in
tensity, Mlshandling from
the start is blamed for the
present movement of the Ne
gro organizations which APP
pears to have gotten out Of
hand. Even persons who have
long been champions of equal
rights are beginning to be
worried. The fears engendered
and bitter feelings aroused
will grow considerably in the
next several months. This
will cause a big loss Of DEM
ocratic votes in pivotal States
with big electoral votes.
The coming election could
be lost by the administration
not so much because of a
shifting of voters to the Re-
publican Party but because
Of the protest Of the stay-at-
home Democrats. All togeth-
er, the administration has a
political bear by the tail in
civil rights.
The administration will
suffer heavy losses In the la
Dor vote, some of which al
ready is being alienated by
arbitrary plans to hire Ne
groes In place of white work.
ers. The business vote, in
Guiding especially the nom
factory or otfice-worker vote
below the executive level,
will be found lining up
against the administration,
too. The discomfort is becom-
ing widespread, and bitter
feeling already is manifest 16
months before the presiden-
tial election Of 1854.
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Serious-Minded Lawmakers Reported
Worried at Progress on Vital Issues

Curtis spoke. It is almost
possible to say it has never
been anything else during
the six months Of the pres
ent session.
But the Curtis-Javits &C
tivity Is not an isolated island
of responsible behavior in
the passive Congress. There
are other places where capa-
BILE legislators plough a dog
ged furrow across the trou-
bled scene.
The reception accorded
Mr.. Curtis is, however, I'M
fortunately typical. Even
members not normally sensi-
tive to criticism are admit
ting that something is seri-
ously wrong in the Capitol.
Senator Young, Ohio DEM
ocrat, finds it odd that his
mail is diSappointingly light
on the many controversial is
sues before Congress. Others
of varying degrees Of political
philosophy check out this OBJ
servation. One Congressman
suggests that the John
BircheS are making Roadway
because they, at least, believe
something, even if it is total
ly wrong.
Some conservatives argue
that it means the country is
conservative. Why they say
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obviate the necessity Of this
Alliance. That time has not
yet come, as the President
warned, but China and pro-
liberation Of the final weapon
could yet make 1t come. A
third force" so often pre-
dicted, can arise in the Far
East before 1t arises in Eu-
rope. with the whole world
balance and alignment lust
as profoundly altered.
Time, after all, is life; life
Is good in the West and get
ting better in Russia, and
there may be a certain in
born, unconscious but in
stinctive human wisdom In
volved in the painful forward
motion Of common policy
through the incredible clus-
ter of national obstacles.
Speed Of decision somehow
does not comport with the
awful finality Of the stakes,
at least In this part Of the
globe.
Perhaps this is much too
comfortable a sensation, but
1t is the sensation one &C
quires in the new Europe. It
is q question of ones sense of
pace and Of historic continu-
ity and this contest Of Wis
ceral attitudes can be applied
to internal, national societies
as well as TO the external,
international scene. Britain
today is q prime case In
point.
The average Englishman, I
would think, has q sensation
Of living better than he has
ever lived. Employment and
wages are high, the shops are
full. the new cars pour out Of
the factories. berthings for
sporting boats are as hard to
come by now as parking
space for automobiles. New
houses, new colleges are go
ing UP. The Englishman, as
a private person, is doing
very well; but England as q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-09
DAVID LAWRENCE

With the next presidential
election Just 16 months away,
there's something more i'm
portant for the administra-
ton in power to worry about
than a slightly declining pop
ularity poll at the moment.
It's the rate at which griev-
ances are accommodating and
the extent to which they
have already penetrated or
will penetrate the electorate
in the next several months.
Sometimes the disaffection
is produced by direct interest
Of an economic nature, and
sometimes 1t is the result of
a disapproval on such broad
questions as the handling of
the Cuban problem. It is
perhaps helpful to point out
these grievances now so that
they may. If possible. be over
come before it Is too late.
Some of the present-day
criticisms which are reflected
to q varying degree in letters
reaching many members of
Congress and this writer
might be summarized as fol-
lows:
1. Un e m pl cyment: The
impact in certain industrial
States affects various COM
munities and could turn
normally Democratic major
tiles into a shift Of party.
2. Adverse business condi-
tons: Many small businesses
have had or are having hard
shedding. Many of the eco
nomic surveys speak of large
profits and expected i'm
provement, but in politics
such generalities do not wipe
out the blues which prevail
in specific industries. Despite
the ups and downs of the
steel industry, for instance,
100000 unemployed steel
workers have not gotten back
the jobs they had a couple
years ago. This is but an
other way of saying that the
administration has not been
able to encourage job crea-
ton on a broad enough scale
to take care of shifts in the
economy. Unemployment fig
ures today show particularly
an unprecedented number of
young persons of working
age who can't find work.
8. Farmer discomfort: Al
ready in some Of the spe-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-09
Leaders View of the Outside World
Is Found Hordheoded and SkepticoI
CHARLES BARTLETT

The African leaders may
be naive in their expecta-
lions Of a prompt and eff
cacous continental unity,
but they are also discerned,
after their deliberations in
Adds Ababa, to be hard
headed and skeptical in re-
garding the rest of the world.
The Africans maintain
they will surprise everyone
by the speed with which the
oratory of Adds Ababa ma
terializeS into unified defense
and intelligence systems, re-
gional industrialization and
close knit communications,
and accelerated efforts to ex-
punge colonialiSm from their
continent.
White specialists on Africa
doubt the new Organization
of African Unity can bridge
the nationalisms and diver
stiles which confront it to
emerge swiftly as an impor-
tant political and economic
force. The promise of the
new charter does not seem to
them to match the condi-
tons with which it must
cope.
Time alone will tell who
is right, but meanwhile
there is little dispute on the
cold-eyed pragmatism which
these leaders share in their
deep cynicism toward Eu-
rope, their ambivalence to-
ward the United States, their
caution toward Russia, their
acceptance of Nasser, and
their interest in advances
from Japan and Red China.
They know they must deal
with the Europeans for the
external help they require,
but they are disinclined to
replace their colonial yokes
with commercial bondage.
They sense that the Euro
peanS are playing the same
old game to a different tune
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-09
ERIC sEVAREID
Good Life and Brituin's Future

nation competing for trade
and prestige with other ma
tons is doing very badly.
Britain's share Of world trade
has dropped precipitately in
the last 10 years.
If Britain Is dying, as so
many of its intellectuals fear,
its common people are enjoy
ing the process and, indeed,
feeling intensely alive herein.
They have an instructive
aversion to defining "the
national purpose" an instinc-
tive fear that efficiency is the
natural enemy Of tolerance
and kindness. The world
scientific revolution may have
made the British system old
hat, but they happen to like
old hats and find them COM
Portable.
Ones heart Is with them in
this, but ones reason is
obliged to believe that kindli-
ness is not and must not be
incompatible with efficiency,
or this democracy like our
own. is in for the deepest
trouble.
In the very long view, It
may be, indeed, that Britain's
solution Of her internal prob
lem will prove more impor-
tant to this Alliance and to
American world interests
than any new weapon and
command machinery within
the Alliance. Germany is the
immediate key to the Alliance,
and she may become, by the
book figures, our number
one ally. But not by the final
accounting, that Of the spirit.
There Britain is surely secure.
n IOaa
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DORIS FLEESON

Representative Thomas B.
Curtis peered over his semi
circular glasses at q near
empty House and manfully
proceeded to enlighten his APP
parently needless colleagues
on the continuing problem of
the chronic deficit in the
United States balance of pay
ments.
The Missouri Republican,
a member Of the tax-writing
Ways and Means and the
Joint Economic committees,
believes this issue should have
top priority In the formation
Of national economic policy.
He does not attack what the
President has done to meet
it. as such, but considers it's
actions to be mere pallia-
tives" In a crisis situation.
Mr.. Curtis has helped to
prod the Joint Economic
group into hearings this week
on the subject. With Senator
Javits, New York Republican,
he has sponsored a resolution
demanding more vigorous
measures to eliminate the
payments deficit and urging
the administration to take
steps to strengthen the in
ternational monetary system.
The Senate, incidentally,
still was on holiday as Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-09
FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

JFK tries to fly kite from his yacht but fails Usual
New Frontier trouble His left didn't know what his kite
hand doing
Negro James Meredith is reprimanded by the NAACP
He's guilty of studying at Ole Mssnstead of pcketng it.
The United States agrees give Mexico $50 acres near
FL Paso Mexico gets the soil for nothng-which you've got
to admit is dirt cheap.
The New Geography-Dixe: The place that quit plant
ing cotton-and now grows Goldwater buttons
Womans rights leader Britains Christine Xeeer
case SHOWS what happens when trust men to run the
government ~ " ~
Ode TO the Nations Capital: Oh everythings normal
with no intrigue WaShngons last the American League
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-09
Prospects for New Africu's Unity

The Africans do not share
his hatred of the Israelis,
but they believe they can
trust him for the present
and expect to benefit, as
they have gained from the
competition of the Cold War,
from his competition with
Israel for stature in Africa.
The Japanese have hugely
impressed the Africans by
the eagerness and precision
of their commercial APP
proach. They take pains to
seem patient. sincere and
apolitical. They do not bride,
pressure or propagandize
and they concentrate only
on trade relations. They talk
already of establishing the
steel mills, factories and
communications systems
that will form a base for
African progress.
The most sinister of Afri-
cas- allegiances is the one
that is forming with the
Red Chinese, who insist
they want nothing but
friendship and will stay out
of internal politics. They
extend the bond of their COL
ored skin and the protection
of their imminent nuclear
weapons. They offer to
work on Africa's social
problems, fight with the
Africans against the colo
nialistS, and restrain the
Russians from joining with
Europe to impose a new CO.
lonialism. The Africans have
been impressed by their
claim that they will be their
most constant allies in q
world of white vultures.
This is an authoritative
reflection Of private think
ing among the African lead
ers, and it raises the impor-
tant question of whether the
United States can afford, as
the Clay Committee pro-
posed, to leave the future
sponsorship of African de-
velopment to the Europeans.
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and they are steeled against
it. Their new intelligence sys-
tenn will be aimed primarily
against economic Subversion
and the encroachment Of
Tshombe-like puppets. They
want to be aware Of the in
Movements and intentions of
the foreign specialists and
advisers upon whom they de-
eide to rely.
These doubts extend to
Russia and the Communist
nations in Europe, who carry
the threat of theological
bondage and seem anxious to
help only when the cause of
communism may be ad-
vanced. Suspicious of the
Russians have been sharp
ened by their maneuvers in
the United Nations, and few
signs exist of a present readi-
ness to believe that the
Kremlin is genuinely SYM
pathetic to their aspirations.
Their attitude toward the
United States is balanced
between a hunger for her
capital and know-how and
a resentment of her race dis
ordinations. They believe
that businessmen here have
a great opportunity in Africa
and have been short-sighted
in their failure to replace
the Europeans as the prime
investors. Their respect for
the American Negro has
grown with his new struggle
for equality and they hope
that success in this struggle
will augur an era of close
relations between a united
Africa and the United States.
Premier Nasser of Egypt is
accepted as a practical man
who has always been friend
ly to the African cause and
sees the vehicle of African
unity as his chance to be-
come a major world figure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-09
ERIC SEVAREID
Returned Visitor Says Britons Must Find
Efficiency Compatible With Kindness

LONDON. The President
and Premier Khrushchev have
gone home, the foreign policy
carnival Of crowds and ban
ners and speeches is ended,
but the Wall that divides not
only Berlin but the deepest
beliefs Of Western man re-
mains. The "immobilism" Of
the two great powers since
the Cuban crisis continues.
Moscow hints that 1t wants
accommodation, but does not
clearly indicate where; Wash
ington does more than hint,
but finds no piece on the
chessboard 1t can pull back Of
It's own volition. The most
sensitive human antennae
sense that something should
give, but no one knows where.
and in this interregnum what
hopes exist fasten on the
nuclear test ban talks.
NATO, the formal arrange
ment Of the great Alliance.
which the French with some
justice differentiate from the
Alliance itself, remains
stalled at It's center, the
United States fumbling for
practical ways to share the
leadership with allies, no two
Of which agree in their i'm
mediate interests or their
long range view Of political
and military strategy.
One could easily despair
and conclude that no peace
time alliance Of nations equal
In sovereignty but vastly UNI
equal In power can hold to-
gether minus the goad Of
frequent threats from a COM
mon enemy. Yet one feels as
he makes his inquiries around
this new Europe, where life is
so good that even II the ma
chinery dissolved, this Al
lance itself will remain intact
in heart and spirit until and
unless the East makes some
overriding, self enforcing
accommodation that would