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Evening star., 1963-05-08
StudyPIonned
For FreeWuy
Bus Routes

A special study will be made
to see if express buses could
use exclusive lanes on a pro-
posed freeway between Silver
Spring and downtown WASH
ington, transit and highway
officials said today.
Consultants now studying
the engineering and right-of-
way problem of the proposed
freeway will be asked to review
the express bus possibility.
Highway officials also will
study use of express buses and
reservation of special lanes for
bus service on Shirley Highway
and Interstate Route 66 in
Virginia.
The decisions to make the
special study came during a
meeting today of the Traffic
and Highway Board of the
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Commission in Engineer
Commissioner Clarke's office.
The board met to review the
National Capital Transporta-
tion Agency recommendation
for a 98-mile rail transit sys.
TEN. but members decided
against commenting because
their parent agencies already
had submitted reviews.
A special committee under
the chairmanship of District
Highway Director Harold Ait
ken reported that freeways Of
fered a good potential for ex-
press bus systems.
The report said that it would
be justified in setting aside
exclusive lanes for bus use If
the buses in that lane would
carry as many passengers as
would be carried in automobiles
This would mean that if
buses carried as many as 1900
passengers per rush hour, they
could qualify for exclusive
rights to a highway lane. Some
of the traffic studies for the
Washington area show volumes
this high for potential bus
express routes.
Evening star., 1963-05-08

OF the city and small industries
thrived along the Potomac
An identifying plaque has
been removed for safe keeping
until construction is completed
next year.
Evening star., 1963-05-08
IN PATH OF PROGRESS
Old Georgetown KiIns to Be Saved
BY BARBARA SIGEL
Star Special Writer

Two old lime kilns, which
prepared mortar to pave the
streets Of Geogetown, are in
the path Of steamshovels that
are making way for traffic
ramps to the Potomac River
Freeway.
But history minded officials
Of the Park Commission have
seen to it that two kilns will
remain.
Gody's kilns, located at
Pennsylvania avenue and Rock
Greek, NV. (just north of the
X street bridge underpass on
the Rock Greek parkway were
built in 1888. That same year
the Gao Canal was completed
from Georgetown to Seven
teenth street.
Three bridges across the
Rock Creek allowed access to
lime shipped down the c & o
canal from quarries above Sem
eca, Md,
Evening star., 1963-05-08

issued a permit for building
ramps to link the Whitehurst
freeway with the Potomac Riy-
er Freeway. it was contingent
on preserving the two stont
Evening star., 1963-05-08

ovens which are not In tho di-
rect path Of the protect.
They will remain as a monu-
ment to the era when George
own was the industrial center
Evening star., 1963-05-08
Bosic Group Reduced
In D. c. High Schools
Many Slow Learners Stuy On,
OfficiuI Tells .PTA Congress
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

The percentage of high school basic students has been
half in the past six in the District school official
reported today.
The number of students in the slowlearnng basic track
dropped from "a cent in 1857 to IL last
according to figures prepared by the school statscan
further encouraging sign is the fact that last year 249
Evening star., 1963-05-08
Bill 10 Protect
Mentally Sick
Gets Backing
Proposals Luuded
By Civil Liberties
Union, BuzeIon

n OSlidJC oubCOAAlllIIOcC JOudy
continued painstaking attempts
to protect both medical and
legal rights Of the mentally i'll
in the District.
A draft bill proposed by the
subcommittee headed by Sen
ator Erwin, Democrat of North
Carolina. was supported in its
aims by the Civil Liberties
Union and Chief Judge David
L. Bazelon of the United States
Court of Appeals.
Judge Bazelon, in a statement
given to the subcommittee
asked that projections be ex-
tended to the mentally retarded
as well as to the mentally i'll
Otherwise, he agreed In general
with the Civil Liberties Union
position, explained by Elyce
Zenoff and Lawrence Speiser.
They praised proposed legis-
lation for requiring periodic
examinations Of persons CON-
mitted to mental hospitals
Voluntary disqualification and
emergency commitments would
be beneficially simplified under
the suggested law changes, they
added.
Volunteers Rights
But they stressed that pa
tients who volunteered to go tc
mental hospitals should be free
to enter and leave.
Persons under 81 also must
be protected from possible
placement as a voluntary
patient in mental hospitals BY
parents or guardians, without
the right to leave. it was argued
The Civil Liberties spokes-
men also sought two protec-
tions for mentally i'll persons
arrested in their homes fol
emergency commitments. Al
least one psychiatrist first
should certify the patient
needs emergency hospitaliza-
ton, they said. After admis-
sion, they said. the patient
should be guaranteed, by law
an immediate examination by
a psychiatrist.
Jury Trial Rule
The witnesses would retain
the provision of present law
making a jury trial mandator!
whenever a patient or his agen
requests one. But such a pa
tient should also be given thu
help of a psychiatric expert
as well as a lawyer, at such
trial, the subcommittee wa!
told.
The District Bar Association
Committee on Mental Health
favored retaining the Menta
Health Commission, as a uni
for hearing commitment re.
quests, and trials by jury fol
involuntary commitments.
Patients should have thu
right to periodic examinations
visits and other communica'
ton with friends and rela'
tives. and expanded privileges
of legal counsel, according Il
Hyman Smollar, committee
chairman.
Evening star., 1963-05-08

WASHINGTON is not con-
sidered one of the problem
areas in the United States.
Noise is a problem in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, New
York City, DallaS S and At
lanta.
What the Council is up to,
generally spe g, is to
spread the word that certain
steps can be taken to cut
down on aircraft noise. 1t
also emphasizes that the air.
lines have spent something
like $73 million to equip their
turbojetS with sound sup
presSors.
1t also is quick to pick up,
and distribute, any little item
which indicates airplaneS are
noisier for some than others.
A woman in San Francisco,
during one of those strange
alertS in which all CONNER
cial planes are grounded,
called up a tower and de-
m a n d e d that the usual
sche edule of jets over her
house be resum e d. Their
noise was useful in putting
the baby to sleep.
The reporters for the Phil
adelphia Bulletin, in another
item sent aroun d by the
Council, set out with an au-
diometer to measure sound
decibels.
A jackhammer hit 112 deci-
bells; a jet plane, taking off
from International Airport,
registered 104.
ut was also found that a
nook in a library was quieter
than a certain cemetery
The Council also works
with city planners, trying to
encourage lakes, or golf
courses, or cemeteries, in
stead of suburban develop
ments, around new airports.
Mr.. Zimmerman talked of
one Of the lawsuits whic h
reached the Supreme Court
over noisy airplaneS.
Evening star., 1963-05-08
Superior Quality"

Columbia Historical Society
records indicate that another
kiln was added in l845 for
lime OF a superior quail
ity, furnished TO builders at
half the price formerly
charged and giving en-
ployment TO many hands"
BY 1851 five different lime
kilns we're established and "a
vast quantity was burnt" for
building purposes.
The lime was heated TO re-
move impurities and then
mixed with sand and water TO
make mortar for bricklaying. It
also provided whitewash, dis
infectant. and fertilizer.
These and other kilns in the
area were active until the turn
OF the century when modern
equipment made cement a more
practical construction fixative.
Gody's kilns were closed
down In 1908.
Evening star., 1963-05-08
Ovens Were Preserved

The National Park Commits
sion purchased the land where
they stand, adjacent TO the
Rock Creek parkway, In the
l930s. When the commission
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Evening star., 1963-05-26

"have made no substantial efforts
to experiment, TO develop your
tastes. or TO give you in-depth
portraits of significant areas of
controversy"
With greater diversity In pro-
gramming as one OF his chief
goals, Mr.. Henry is not unaware OF
the need (dramatized by Mr.
Minow in his vast wasteland"
speech) TO educate the public TO
It's power and its role.
Steps he thought the Commits
sion might take we're:
"A rule TO require all broad
casters 10 carry over their facili-
ties regularly-scheduled announce
ments concerning the legal re-
sponsibilities Of television stations
TO serve their listening publics
needs and interests at the same
time soliciting public response,
criticism and suggestions for inn
proved programmine."
"A rule to re-evaluate our policy
with respect TO sustaining or nom
commercial proRramming. While
public service proRramming may
well be commercial or non COM
mercial, and entertaining as well
as not, the percentage OF sustain
ing time in the broadcast day is
one OF many appropriate yard
sticks or guidelines for use In the
Evening star., 1963-05-26
Behind Congress Silver Monetary Move

electricity, switches, colloidal sill
yer solutions. antiseptics and as
tringents In medicine, etc. Today,
not only have those uses enorm-
ously increased. but many new
ones have appeared. especially
since the advent OF the age Of
missiles.
One OF those is In silver-cad-
MUM and silver-zinc batteries,
which go into missile and Jet air.
craft Instrumentation. IL is esti-
mated that the silver battery pro-
gram last year consumed In ex-
cess OF 5 million ounces In the
United States alone and that II
will continue 10 expand. Another
new and rapidly expanding use
Of silver is In electronic appli-
ances, such as data processing
equipment, In automobiles, In
portable radios and communica-
ton equipment. And a third. and
most promising use is in silver
iodides which serve for cloud
seeding and make II possible TO
bring under cultivation many
millions OF desert acres.
Evening star., 1963-05-26

tends to Chairman Minow, who
pumped for his appointment. I'm
extremely pleased" Mr.. Minow
said. "He will bring exceptional
ability and dedication to this
heavy responsibility"
Mr.. Henry, in turn, admits that
it wasn't until Mr.. Minow drama
tized the fight for better pro-
gramming that he had thought at
all of the FEC.
Il was like most other people,"
he said. II was unaware to a great
extent of the details of the broad
casting field and the pervasive
powers of the FEC in relation to
it. was not really aware that
the responsibilities Of the broad
casters were so heavy. I pretty
much had the impression that
whatever we got, we were lucky
to get"
Prior to his original appoint
ment august 30. 1852, Mr..
Henry's only connection with
broadcasting had been as an an
nouncer and continuity writer for
WYBC, Yale University's Indoor"
r-dormitory radio system. AS
Evening star., 1963-05-26
The New Head Of FEC Has His Own Philosophy on TV

history-nor his lack of experience
in the broadcasting field prior to
his original appointment seems to
fret him. He told the Georgia
Radio & TV Institute on jan
uary "a:
Il stopped using that greasy kid
stuff a year ago."
The industry has sized him UP
sharply. Certainly there will be
attempts at toughnesS, undoubt-
edly more than under Minow," the
authoritative TV Guide predicted.
CHS President Frank Stanton
observed: Il would prefer a bright,
tough man against me than a
bureaucratic hack on my side"
I'm complimented," Mr.. Henry
said.
A gray-haired gentleman with
a merry twinkle in his eye put it
another way in the anteroom to
Mr.. Henry's office one day last
week. His arrival had caught Mr..
Henry's staff by surprise and the
Commissioner came out Of his Of
flee, grinning to see him. He
was being interviewed and would
Evening star., 1963-05-26

examination OF a stations per-
formance in the public interest"
On other subjects. he told a re-
porter that the FCC's major Jobs
are satellite communications and
making the all-channel law work.
Shortly after the conference,
Mr.. Henry's vote Gin a 4-3 squeak
err. demonstrated his position on
recommendation. The Com
mission is inviting comments from
the industry on the proposition
that II adopt the TV Code OF the
National Association OF Broad
casters, TO which most TV stations
subscribe, or some other limiting
restrictions.
On ratings, he believes the in
dustry should set It's own house In
order. II don't believe the answer
now is regulation by FEC. We're
concerned about broadcasters fol-
lowing inaccurate ratings like
lambs to the slaughter"
The green shoots" that he sees
IN Newton Minow's vast waste
land are the expansion by nett
works OF their i5-minute nightly
news shows TO a half-hour next
fall, more studies Of public events
on radio and a move by broad
casters toward more controversial
areas
one thing sure: he means to
nurture these.
Evening star., 1963-05-26
The Main Thinqs

How little do we know Of the
business of the earth. not to speak
of the universe, of time. not to
speak of eternity. 1t was not by
taking thought that man survived
the mastodon. The acts and
thoughts that will serve the race,
that live in the sun, the air, the
earth, the sea, now and through
all time, are not known and never
will be known. The rumor Of
much toll and scheming and tri-
umph may never reach the stars,
and what we value not at all, are
not conscious Of, may break the
surface of eternity with endless
ripples of good. We know not by
what we survive. : Edward Thomas
in THE South Country"
Evening star., 1963-05-26
A Vast System

This momentous decision on
nuclear attack is the Presidents
alone. Pushing the button" is
an easy but oversimplified way of
describing how he would put it
into effect. And the details of
the vast, complex communication
system available to him are
guarded and secret.
But wherever MIR. Kennedy goes,
in the air, on land or at sea, a
command post for the Commander
in Chief is there, too. BY radio,
telephone or teletype 1t can put
him In touch almost instantly
with the Strategic Air Command
(SAC) headquarters at Omaha,
Nebr., with United States military
commands around the globe, or
with almost any spot on earth
that can be reached by means
better than TOM tom beats.
Since Mr.. Kennedy is a flying
President-he seldom travels more
than a few miles except by air.
an aerial command post, always
goes along. in a separate Jet
crammed with intricate electronic
gear and a switchboard. On the
ground, an armed guard is posted
around the plane around the
clock, as is one for Mr.. Kennedy's
plane.
At sea, the cruiser Northampton
is an alternate national command
post. 1t too, has elaborate COM
munications, plus a helicopter
Evening star., 1963-05-26

ness. 1t gets so much without
trying that 1t is difficult at times
to scare up a plane for anyone
other than the President.
When SAM flies Secretary of
State Rusk to Paris on business,
the State Department pays the
Air Force at international tariff
rates. Other agencies are billed
similarly. And if Mr.. Kennedy
uses SAM for political trip, the
Democratic National Committee
is billed.
The White House and the COM
mitUee learned about this last fall
when Mr.. Kennedy went cam
paigning and SAM put no food
aboard for Mr.. Kennedy or any
one else-that was up to the COM
mittee.
One of the stewards found time
at one stop in Michigan to dash
to a store and buy a steak for
the President at least-out of his
own pocket.
Evening star., 1963-05-26
Sofety Requirements

The Federal aviation agency
requires at least a 300-foot ceiling
and three-fourths of a mile visi-
bility for take-offs and landings
of commercial planes and Swindal
said he observes about the same
standards.
What kind of passenger is Mr..
Kennedy?
He works just about all the
time. Once in a while he wants
to know about weather at destina-
ton. Sometimes he comes up to
the cockpit on long trips. Some
times at the end of a trip he tells
US it was grand flight"
The pilot and the crew try to
keep Mr.. Kennedy content with
special cigars, a supply of hard
candy and gum and tasty food.
The President likes cold milk and
hot, thick soups particularly.
AS presidential pilot and presi-
Dental aircraft commander, Col.
Evening star., 1963-05-26
The Presidents Pilot

Col. James B. Swindal, the lean,
bronzed, 45-year-old presidential
pilot, says the worst thing that
has happened in the two years.
plus he has been flying Mr.. Ken
nedy was a tire blowout. That
was when the plane was landing
at the Naval Air Station at Quon-
set Point, R. I.
1T wasn't too serious" Col.
Swindal said. because there are
double wheels and tires. The
President wasn't aware of it,"
Col. Swindal has logged more
than $4,000 hours since he en-
listed in the Air Corps the day
after Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Sitting in his office at Andrews
Field the other day, he picked up
a book, tilted back in a chair,
checked figures and said that at
that point-there have been trips
since-he had flown the President
an even 300 hours and $4,000
miles.
The decision on whether weather
is all right for presidential flying
is Col. Swindal's. Could the Chief
Executive over-rule him?
That's never come up" he
said. I'VE did sit around for 80
minutes once on a trip to Ohio
last year. But he didn't put on
any pressure.
He likes to get to his destina-
ton, but he wants to get there
safely"
Evening star., 1963-05-26

pad, and quarters for the Pres
ident and other key civilians.
At times, when the Chief Execu-
tive visits other countries with
limited outside communications
the Northampton stands by off
the coast.
On land, extra channels are
available through the talking
bird" This is a four-engine piston
plane converted from a former
SAC tanker. 1t is assigned to the
Air National Guard and is used
also for other than presidential
purposes. 1t could serve as a
presidential command post,
though. A Kennedy aide said that
"it protects his capability of push
ing the button"
Evening star., 1963-05-26

be only a few minutes more, he
said and went back in.
"I'll tell you what you've got
in Henry" the visitor said in the
kind Of courtroom voice that in
vites no cross s-examination. Hes
honest. he's hard-working and
he's bright"
The speaker was Walter Chan
dler, a former Congressman Tin
the late 30s) and senior member
of the Memphis law firm of
Chandler, Manire and Chandler,
where Mr.. Henry was engaged in
general trial and appellate mat
ters at the time of his appoint
ment to the Commission.
The new chairman's name had
given several columnistS trouble,
Mr.. Chandler was told. He was
named for his grandfather, Emil
William Tschudy. His father was
Joseph Henry, an allergist."
The door opened. the reporter
left, and Mr.. Chandler went in
to congratulate his boy"
The regard with which Mr..
Henry is held by his ex-boss ex-
Evening star., 1963-05-26
Smaller Jets Used

Besides the four large jets, SAM
has six smaller JetStars. Vice
President johnson frequently uses
one of the latter. Mrs. Kennedy
does. too. on occasion.
SAM also operates the Air Force
equivalent of three dogs, six
Super Consultations, nine Con-
vairS and four Aerocommanders.
The Convairs and the Aerocom-
manderS are the only two-engine
planes in the fleet.
The Special Air Mission is an
elite outfit of 1850 especially
picked officers and men. the 80
planes, and a goodly quantity of
pride and spirit.
The commanding officer is Col.
Evening star., 1963-05-26
Airborne Switchboard

But its main assignment with
travelling White House is to sup
ply additional channels for ordi-
nary messages. 1t has a SWITCH
board, too, and it carries collap-
sible antennas that can be erected
on the ground to Is or 80 feet.
The talking bird doesn't wing
along on every presidential trip.
But it was used on two to Latin
America. One took Mr.. Kennedy
to Colombia and Venezuela and
the other to Costa Rica for a con-
ference last spring with six other
presidents.
The big air force Jet Mr.. Ken
nedy uses most often also can put
him in touch with SAC or mill
tary commands anywhere. But it
has fewer channels than the trav-
cling command posts. On the re-
ceiving end, it also has televiSion
Evening star., 1963-05-26
BY BERNIE HARRISON
Star Staff Writer

II have donned my chaps and
l0-gallon hat as a working men,
Der of the New Frontier" E. (for
EmiD William Henry told the Bar
Association of the Federal Com
munications Commission shortly
after his appointment as a COM
missioner last year. Next Satur-
day, Deputy Henry takes over the
badge of Chairman Of the FEC
from the retiring sheriff, hard
riding Newton Minow.
When someone asked Mr.. Henry
after the White House announce
ment If he would be as tough or
tougher than Mr.. Minow, his la
comic phrase was straight out Of
Dodge City:
That's probably correct"
Mr.. Henry. Bill" to his friends,
has the 1.-THE. athletic look of the
New Frontier (tennis, hunting and
fishing are his hobbies, a Kirk
Douglas jaw and a sense of humor
that he will need.
Neither his youth-at "a, he's
the youngest FEC chairman in
Evening star., 1963-05-26
How an Air-Bome White House Functions

for entertainment of the president
and his guests. Last fall the Pres
ident saw some of the baseball
World Series from $4,000 feet over
Ohio.
The intricate communications
system at Mr.. Kennedy's finger
tips is vital element in national
security. So is the safety and
survival of the man at the top
and some of the other key mill
tary and civilian officials under
him.
In the 20 years of presidential
flying by Mr.. Kennedy and his
predecessors, there never have
been any reports of close brushes
with danger. The records do show
minor difficulties, plumbing trou-
BILE, a broken gasket, a bit of oil
on a brake lining that caused
squirt of smoke.
Evening star., 1963-05-26

Eisenhower demonstrated to the
fascinated incoming President
Kennedy that there was almost
instant air service at his new
house.
The two we're chatting in the
White House when Gen. Eisen-
hover mentioned it. Mr.. Kennedy
was a bit skeptical - until the
general picked up a telephone and
a helicopter settled down in the
back yard five minutes later.
Now, in any emergency, word
from Mr.. Kennedy can bring a
newer, bigger, faster, jet-powered
chopper spinning down onto the
south lawn to whisk him away
from the White House.
On 80 minutes notice, a 600
mile-an-hour jet can lift him out
Of Andrews Air Force Base.
And wherever he goes, emer-
gency or no emergency, "the but
ton" goes with him-the only one
that can send nuclear-tipped mis-
siles and undetermined bombers
flashing away to attack enemy
targets.
Evening star., 1963-05-26

silver production in Canada. Peru
and Australia-the traditional Nos.
3, 4 and in the global scheme
has not sufficed to compensate for
the loss among the big two" OF
silver. Thus the global production
of silver on this side OF the Iron
Curtain has declined from 254
million ounces for the yearly aver
age OF l925-l929 to 1899 million
ounces In 1862. But the global-
minus Communist consumption
has risen to 1863 million ounces
in 1862, of which fully 1893 mil
lion ounces was industrial con-
sumption.