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and could not survive" with
out the requested increase.
The WMATC granted a par
tial increase to ala cents in
the token rate. stating that the
company's request was Gin ex-
cess Of" its financial require
ments. d. c. Transit has ap-
pealed this decision to the
courts.
A quick look at the outward
symptoms of the company's
past financial condition APP
pears, at the least. to dispel
any picture Of an enterprise
tottering on the brink Of dis
aster.
From 1857 through 1862, for
instance:
Dollar profits rose about SO
per cent (from about $3.50, 900
to about SIS Million: gross
operating revenues about 20
per cent (from about SIS mil
lion to $50 Million.
Dividend Maintained
An annual dividend of about
$500,000 has been maintained.
This sum represents a return
Of 100 per cent annually on
the original investment in
d. c. Transit by Mr.. Chalk's
Tea Investment firm lnow
d. C. Transit System. Inc, of
Delaware) and a return Of IA
per cent on the present stock
holders equity as measured by
the WMATc equity equals
original investment plus earn
ings not paid out in dividends)
Outside financiers have ex-
pressed their confidence In
lending the company money
for the purchase Of new buses
costing about SIS million. For
the last group Of new buses
purchased, the company did
not even have to put up q
down payment to get a loan.
the records Of the WMATC re-
fleet.
The price Of the parent COM
pany's stock. d. c. Transit
System Inc. Of Delaware. all
Of whose income comes from
d. c. Transit Of the District.
has risen from about SO TO Sill
since 1859.
Nonetheless. Mr.. Chalk is
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THE MONEY had been
spent a few generations back
when Peter was born in New
Mexico in 1891. His father is
Oliver La Fargo whose work
in anthropology and Indians
took him west after Groton
and Harvard. His story Of In
dian life, Laughing Boy"
was the Pulitzer Prize novel
OF 1929.
When Peter was six his
parents were separated by
divorce. His mother, who had
custody of the children (Peter
has a sister, married a cow
boy who was becoming a sue
cessful Colorado rancher.
Something was wrong OF
an evening"" he said, when
the music Of q guitar was not
In the air"
Nv hen I was 10 I left
school TO become a rodeo per-
former. I was good. After
Korea I rode broncos TO work
my way through acting
school. / have a lot OF metal
In me, braces for broken
bones. My whole body signals
a change In the weather.
81 toured with a Shake
Speare company for a while
walk-on parts. ! knew the
lead roles. / was ready TO
step in II the opportunity
ever came.
"A young actress said TO
me, You walt and you wait
I'll a door opens"
II am now a major record
ing artist" he said.
"This Is my door"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-04
TRANSIT SHOWDOWN
Chalk Seeks Chance at Greater Profits

INMATES granting of lesser
fare increase than that sought
by the company this year, said
the minimum profit allowed
should have been at least 61a
per cent instead of the 40 al
lowed by the majority of the
.WMATC.
THE customers should pay
for good service and should re-
ceive it." Judge Hooker said
"Penny-pinching, misery rates
of return are adverse to the
best public interest. Investors
cannot be expected to invest
in securities Of a transporta-
ton company when its rates
of return are so low as to
raise doubts in the minds of
the investors as to the wisdom
of such investments"
Tomorrow: Other investor
rewards
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now saying CIlaL CIle regulatory
agencies have not complied
with the intent Of Congress
that d. c. Transit be allowed
"the major inducing benefit
of its franchise, namely at
least 6h per cent profit on
revenues.
His claim that the company
has been shortchanged Is
based on a section Of his fran.
tchise which states:
:. as a matter Of legis.
lative policy /. in order to
assure the Washington Metro
politan Area of an adequate
transportation system operat-
ing as a private enterprise, the
Corporation, In accordance
with standards and rules pre-
scribed by the Regulatory
agency. should be afforded
the opportunity of earning
such return as to make the
Corporation an attractive in
vestment to private investors
and that Congress finds a re-
turn Of at least 61z per cent
ION either the system rate base
or on gross operating revenues
would not be unreasonable"
Switch in Basis
There is an important differ
ence in what base figure the
6l2 per cent is applied to. The
same dollar profits usually have
shown a lower percentage re-
turn on the basis of revenues
than they have on investment,
The franchise also directed the
regulatory agency to switch
from the old investment basis
Con which Capital Transit's
profits were computed) to the
revenue basis not later than
August is, 1858 "if conditions
warrant"
The company's first regula-
tors, the District Public Utili-
ties Commission, did not make
the switch TO the revenue base
until 1860, in spite Of protests
by the company. Therefore, un-
til 1860 d. c. Transit's profits
were officially calculated on
the investment basis. On this
basis. the profits from 1857
through 1859 averaged 6.e per
cent, according TO the COM
pany's own dollar figures OF
profit and the P.U.C.'s invest
ment figures.
II figured on the basis of
revenues, which Mr.. Chalk says
they should have been, the
same dollar earnings yielded
only half as much percentag-
wise. or an average of 3.3 per
cent. Since the PUG. switched
TO the revenues method in 1860,
the percentage profit earned
has ranged between 4 and 5
per cent.
To date. the courts have up
held the view that the regu-
lators can set q lesser return,
In ruling on this point in the
1860 fare case. the United
States Court Of Appeals said
The commission, we think
properly, did not consider a re-
turn OF 6la per centum net 10
be required. II less were rea-
sonable and met the need 10
attract private investors"
Some Backing
Nevertheless, Mr.. Chalk has
won backing for his claim from
at least two authorities. SEN
ator Morse, Democrat Of Ore
gon. In introducing a resolu-
ton 10 give Mr.. Chalk q
hearing on his claims, said thai
as a members Of the Congress
which passed the franchise, he
felt I'VE held out a carrot anc
the carrot was a ga per cent
return"
Commissioner H. Lestei
Hooker, In a dissent 10 tn,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-04
The
Rambler
Meets
Modern Troubodor
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Peter La Fargo, q tall, dark,
slender young man wearing
cowboy boots, egg-shell trou-
sers, an orange pullover shirt
and a big Stetson, is singing
at the Unicorn, ITO Seven
teenth street NV.
The Unicorn is an espresso
cafe, devoted to folk music
IN a store space that was q
bakery. Little remodeling has
been done. Steam and water
pipes are exposed beside the
off-white walls on which
hang several large non-rep-
resentative paintings, for the
most part variations Of the
red associated with barns.
The other night about 10
o'clock, Peter, hat and all,
mounted the low platform,
elevated his left knee to
cradle his guitar by stepping
on a footstool thoughtfully
provided and sang some old
favorites. He opened with
Roger Young" the sad story
of a young man, who was the
everlasting glory Of the in
fantry and who died on the
island Of New Georgia.
Then he sang 1.-THE CHS
holm Trail" with blood
eurdling yips and yipee yeas.
He followed that with sew
eral songs Of his own ar
rangement and ended with
one for which he wrote both
words and usic, ira
Hayes" Ira Hayes, a Pima
Indian, was one of the five
Marines photographed rails
ing the flag on Mount Surf
bachi on Two Jima. He died
of alcoholism.
Call him drunken IRA
A Hayes.
He mont GnstUer any more;
Not that whisky drinking
Indian,
The Marine iUho weHt to
tDGr.
That last word is on a low
note. Peter, whose voice is as
m IN bass as baritone,
sounded it it like a tuba in a
band.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-04

HEARING THAT it was his
first trip to Washington, I
offered to show him around.
The next afternoon we en-
tered st. Matthews Church,
now the c a tn e dral of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese
Of Washington. This interest
ing Romanesque structure
Ground arches), was designed
by his grandfather, Christie
pher Grant La Fargo.
The architects youngest
brother, the Rev. John La
Fargo, ST., the former editor
OF America" is in New York.
He is So.
At the Capitol, Peter was
shown the top billing given
another of his ancestors, the
painting Of Oliver Hazard
Perry at the Battle Of Lake
Erie. The huge canvas hangs
on the grand staircase on the
Senate side.
Peters great-grandfather,
John La Fargo, whose murals
decorate the Church of the
Ascension in New York and
Trinity Church in Boston
and whose stained glass pea
cock window Eliminates Me-
mortal Hall, Harvard, ar
ranged this ancestry by
marrying a great-grand-
daughter Of the naval hero.
The artist was a son Of the
immigrant, Jean-Frederic de
Ia Fargo, who left France as
a young naval officer in 1901
in an expedition to capture
Toussaint louverture, the
leader of the Haitian slave
revolt. Failing in that, he ar
rived in New York and made
a fortune. His m ansion at
Lafargeville was a show
place.
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Waterfront Plan
Gains During Tour
Project Oriented
To Pedestrians
Wins Booking
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS
Star staff Writer

A pedestrian-oriented water
front plan appeared to gain
support today during a tour Of
the Washington Channel area
by about SO planning officials.
A. M. Woodruff, a member
of the National Capital Plan
ming Commission, expressed
what seems to be a growing
consensus of planners when he
said:
I'm very strongly for the
concept developed by Wash
ington Channel Waterfront,
Inc. The waterfront is much
too limited to permit wide
streets in the area"
The hour-and-a-half inspec-
ton tour by sightseeing boat
also included a look at the
Anacostia River shoreline of
the Boiling Air Force Base and
Anacostia Naval Air Station.
Part of this 900-acre area is to
be abandoned by the Defense
Department and is to be
planned as an urban renewal
area.
ShOreIine Noted
Also taken into consideration
by planners was deterioration
of the shoreline of East Poto-
mac Park, across from the
Observation-Disclosures Wash
ington Channel waterfront
along Maine avenue.
T. Sutton Jet, National Park
Service official in charge of
parks in the Washington area,
said a major program for i'm
provement of the 4-mile- long
bulkhead around the park on
Hams Point is being studied.
The apparent leaning of
planning officials to the water
front plan developed by the
non-profit Washington Chan
ntl Waterfront. Inc. may save
this plan from major change,
it was indicated today.
Mrs. James H. Rowe, jr.,
chairman of the Planning Com
mission, said she was very
much impressed With the plan
and that it had largely gained
the support of the Planning
Commissions professional staff.
Walkway Included
The plan includes a 20-foot-
wide pedestrian walkway ex-
tending virtually from one end
of the waterfront area TO the
other. Revisions of the plan
tentatively suggested by the
Redevelopment Land Agency
would widen this pedestrian
area for part Of the distance
to provide for automobile traf-
fic along the waters edge.
RIA proposals also would make
other changes. principally to
provide more parking.
Mrs. Rowe said the planning
commission would consider its
staff proposals at a meeting
Thursday.
THE commissions judgment
win be made at that meeting"
she said. II can only say that
the professional staff feels that
the plan developed by Wash
ington Channel Waterfront.
Inc, the RIA consultant. has
great merit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-04
Stote Official Questions
School Fingerprint Plan
PuIIen Asks Montgomery to Delay
Police Screening of Job Applicants

Maryland State School Supt Thomas c. Pulen said today
he has asked Montgomery school officials delay
gram, allowing police to fingerprint school employees
II have grave doubts about the consttutonay of the
Montgomery program understand it," Dr. Pulen said 'I
hope the county board will withhold action until office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-04
BY DAN GOTTLIEB
star staff Writer

After seven years Of faith
full and productive efforts to
convert Washington's transit
system from q rundown, in
efficient conglomeration of out
moded vehicles to the most
modern and estheticalIy pleas
ing all-bus transit system in
the world. ] believe / have
earned the right to seek your
help"
This is the plea d. C. Trans
it's president, o. Roy Chalk,
sent to Congress in a letter last
month.
Mr.. Chalk did not spell out
in dollars and cents what he
wants, but 1t is clear his eye
is on greater profits. He is
asking Congress to agree with
him that. under D. C. Trans
it's franchise, the company is
now entitled to at least 615
per cent profit on gross operat-
ing revenues.
81 Million q Year
This could mean millions
more in fares or subsidies over
the remaining IS years the
company's franchise has to run.
At current fares and riding
levels as projected by the
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Commission, 1t would
take about 81 million more in
revenues per year to bring the
company's profits UP to 6z
per cent.
This is not the first time
that d. c. Transit's chief has
indicated dissatisfaction with
the company's financial re-
turns. He told Congress on May
26. 1861, for instance, that the
company desperately needed"
a school fare subsidy. A school
fare subsidy law was finally
passed in 1862. but the COM
pany's earnings. under the
formula set by the law. were
too high to justify q payment
last year.
This year Mr.. Chalk's repre-
sentatives pleaded for a fare
increase TO eliminate the 20
cent token fare in favor Of q
straight ascent cash fare
They said the company would
be 'in dire financial straits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-04

Tomorrow: Other investor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-10

of one nation to alter deeply
rooted social and class Struc-
lures in an alien nation is
extremely limited. We are
beginning to know that the
accumulation of capital and
SkillS that required genera
lions in America or Europe
cannot be done in semi
primitive societies in a de-
cade, modern science or no
modern science. We are a
relatively young people, and
we are only now coming to
terms with the true pace of
the long pilgrimage of the
human race and the i'm
menSe variety of the human
condition. Europeans in
herited this knowledge from
their total race experience;
we have had to learn it for
ourselves, the hard way.
This is the significant result
of these crash" programs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-10
CHARLES BARTLETT

The reaction to the Soviet
fishing armadaS off both
coasts seems likely to stimu-
late this country's concern
with its fishing industry in
somewhat the same way that
Sputnik brought attention
to bear on the space effort.
The intrusion of these
fleets within the three-mile
territorial limits has
prompted Congress to a
move, with the support of
the State Department, that
would attach stiff penalties
to such poaching. Concur
renee on the inadequacy of
the present prohibitions is
broad enough to portend
that the bill will be passed
swiftly.
This country will decide
soon whether to follow the
example of some 40 nations,
including Canada, in extend
ing the fishing restrictions
in its territorial waters from
the traditional three to IL
miles. In either case, the
new law will serve to keep
these visiting fleets a res
pectable distance off-shore
and lessen the immediate
concern.
But the new law will not,
as it's sponsors concede, an
swer the basic threat to the
American fishing industry
that is implicit in these for
eign fleets with their great
mother ships, advanced
trawling equipment, and CO.
ordinate d efficiency. The
clear implication of these
fleets is a present in which
the American fishing indus
try is falling behind and a
future in which it will be
unable to compete at all.
1t is not merely a matter
of Russia, although that
country's expansion of its
fleet has been the most dra-
matte fact of the new era.
Nations like Japan, Canada,
Peru and even Ghana have
also been launching modern
fishing vessels during a per-
iod of steady decline in new
construction in the United
States. Subsequently the fish
catch has risen only slightly
in the United States while it
was doubling in the world as
a whole.
This country now relies
with increasing emphasis on
imports for its fish supply.
Established processing plants
are obliged to turn to for
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Friends and Political Differences

has his brother, the Attorney
General.
But those who analyze the
news feel a responsibility to
the constituency they serve
particularly to readers who
really want an evaluation of
issues and events based on
history, on honest judgment
and on convictions formed
over years of observation and
awarenesS of the difference
between sound and unsound
policies. To color the argu-
ment, however with ones
personal likes or diSlikes is
to ignore the main reason
why public confidence is re-
posed in a free press.
A view expressed by a
news writer or analyst may
subsequently be proved
wrong, but there's also a
chance it may be proved
right. If it is wrong, no
harm is done because it will
be disregarded by the persons
in office who have the final
responsibility for the action
taken. But if the criticism
happens to be right, it could
serve as a deterrent if the
issue arises again. These are
matters that have nothing
to do with likes or dislikes,
with personal feelings or
emotions. One can like PreSi-
dent Kennedy very much and
still write impersonally about
policies that need revision.
In fact, if there were no ad-
verse criticism, there would
be little chance to make re-
visions OPPORTUNITY, and the
public interest would not be
served.
Senator Goldwater may be
Mr.. Kennedy'S opponent next
year, and it may be taken for
granted the two men will
emphatically disagree and
earnestly criticize one anoth-
er in the campaign. But-and
let the portrait painters of
Americas Image" abroad
take notice-the two political
adverSaries will remain
friends.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-10

nesses like those who passed
before the Senate Armed Serv-
ices and Foreign Relations
Committees? Did they, too,
have their sullen chiefs of
staff choking down objections
and bowling to higher civilian
authority? Did they. too, have
a brilliant, adamant, dramatic
Middle European-born scien-
fist like DR.. Edward Teller, ex-
horting them to consider that
the Americans have surpassed
the Soviet in anti-missile de-
lenses?
And right now in the Pre-
sidium, is some party chieftain
from the Ukraine interrupting
a Khrushchev spokesman to
ask if he is sure the Americans
will sign and warning him not
to trust Uncle Sam?
If this is the case, then Mr..
Kennedy and Mr.. Khrushchev
will have to get on the hot line
and try to synchronize the
ratification, so that neither
Senate nor Presidium will lose
any face in these delicate first
days of the new life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-10
DOUBTERs' TREATY QUERY
Who Ratifies thirst?

oratorical effort. the speech
was already in the newspaper
when Senator Miller got up
and said, II wonder if we
know if the Soviets Presidium
will ratify the treaty. When
will it do SOP"
And he further wished to
know whether their ratifica-
ton would be by deposit Of
documents or exchange and if
so when and where.
Senator Fulbright peered at
Senator Miller over his horn
trimmed glasses. He said he
didn't think there was a
chance in a hundred thousand
that they wouldn't.
II am not very trusting"
said Senator Miller doggedly.
He would feel, he said "a
little bit more comfortable" If
he knew for certain for the
Russian would ratify 1t first.
Two months ago no such
doubts would have haunted a
Soviet-doubter. When the cold
war was going full tilt, Sena-
tors were sure that under the
tyrannous Soviet dictatorship,
anything the dictator decided
automatically went into eff
feet. Senators and Presidents
have sighed at the efficiency
Of the hated dictatorship, the
speed with which 1t can move,
unencumbered by balky con-
gressional committees and
slow-poke Senates.
But Senator Fulbright even
tually got word from the State
Department TO the effect that
the ratification of the test-ban
treaty had gone through a
Joint committee in the Soviet
and was now being considered
by the Presidium.
The Russians might have
done it with more despatch
and less dissension, but is 1t
possible that they have been
going through a family similar
procedure in the past weeks.
Did the Soviet Joint COM
mittees watch a parade Of wit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-10
ERIC SEVAREID
Taking Stock on Foreign Trade

America shows it's willingness
to take up the slack virtual
ly everywhere, the Europeans
will sit on their hands, or at
least on one hand. A good
many plain travellers as we'll
as sophisticated students of
Machiavelli have been trying
to make this point for quite
a while.
But the phenomenon in
Congress represents, or so this
writer thinks, a deeper, if less
specifically measurable, Nhift
of feeling by informed and
responsible men. 1t represents
the beginning of Americas
coming to terms with the
reality of the worlds size and
compleXity and with the true
pace of history. We are ad-
juSting in our sense of time.
We have tended to act as if
the tragedy of the human
condition in many lands was
just recently diScovered-by
American eXplorers-as if the
tools for progress were in
vented by Americans, and as
if some kind of worldwide
collapse was about to occur
which would be averted by
the rapid spending of Ameri-
can dollars. We know now
that the proposition is not
really one of foreign aid at
x number of dollars per year
or a world collapSing into
communism; we know that
Soviet economic aid is not
everywhere dangerous and
undesirable; we know that in
some countries - Venezuela
for example-the heaviest
American dollar infusions will
not guarantee an end to the
Communist threat.
We know that the ability