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Evening star., 1963-01-28
By HARRIET GRIFFITHS
star staff Writer

Punctuation marks turned
into people, original poetry
about naughty foxes and sad
clowns, and a newspaper cut
off by a strike are illustrating
the language arts at Macdonald
Knolls School.
A bit of errant spelling here
and there confirms the student
proprietorship of the school
wide bulletin board display
Teachers took q back seat,
while the Silver Spring stu
dents thought up the ideas and
prepared the displays.
Fourth graders turned to per-
sonification in demonstrating
the function Of punctuation
marks. They portrayed Mrs. Pc
riod, with a round face and red
dots on her cheeks, saying. Il
am a period. When you see me.
stop"
Miss Exclamation Point, with
a long, tapering face finished
off by a round brooch. says,
I'm an exclamation point.
When you see me, get excited!"I
Evening star., 1963-01-28
A LANGUAGE IN ACTION
Pupils Put Big Ideas in Print

paper told how students pitched
in to shovel snow off the school
Fairgrounds in half-hour re-
lays for two days. 1t pro-
nounced Operation Snow Re-
moval" q success.
Snow. which makes "the
bushes look like popcorn balls
also was featured in first grade
paintings. Kindergartners con-
contributed string paintings,
fourth graders made a display
Of the stars and signs of the
Zodiac, second graders de-
picted storybook characters in
geometric shapes and sixth
graders put up sentences in
foreign languages among other
displays relating art, science
and mathematics to reading,
writing and the expression Of
ideas.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Gen. Younger, 50,
Resident of Paris
Since Retirement


Brig. Gen. James Wellinger
Younger. 6S, died January II
in Paris, where he had lived
since his retirement from the,
United States Army in l947.
A 1925 graduate Of the Army's
Quartermaster School, Gen,
Younger served here during
part of World War II as chief,
Of the administrative division
in the War Departments con-
struction service. He was CHIEF
quartermaSter of Army Ground
Forces during 1942-43 and In
l945 he organized the Graves,
Registration in Europe. with OF.
fices in Paris. ,
For 10 months during l9497s
so he was deputy chief of SUPP
ply and transportation for the.
international Refugee Organi-s
cation in Geneva, switzerland.
His decorations included the,
Distinguished Service Medal
and Legion Of Merit; French
Legion of Honor; Commander,
Order of the British Empire;
Netherlands Order Of Orange
and Nassau, and the Belgian
Croix de Guerre.
He leaves his wife, the for
mer Marthe Menez Of Paris;
his daughter, Mrs. Starr j.
ProlSdorfer Of Mobile, Ala; his
son. James M. Younger Of
Washington and Paris, and
five grandchildren. '@
Services will be at IL am.
Friday at Fort Myer Chapel,
Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Wilbur Williams, Ex-Editor,
Commerce Department Aide

In 1881, he became night
telegraph editor of the New
York World Telegram and a
year later became associate
editor Of the Foreign Policy
Associations magazine.
In 1894, he helped found
Keystone Junior College, La
Plume, Pa, becoming dean Of
students and registrar.
During World War II, Mr..
williams was graduated from
the School Of Military Govern
ment at Charlottesville, Va,
and served for IA months as
office chief Of staff Of the Civil
Affairs Division.
He leaves his wife, Bessie,
and her mother, Mrs. Nora
Higham, at the home, 6005
Poindexter road, Rockville, Md.
Evening star., 1963-01-28

Leon A. Ransom, jr. Since
June she had been visiting here
with her daughter and son-in
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence H
Hunter at 453 Park road NV
She underwent an operation
Wednesday.
Mrs. Ransom was a member
of st. Luke's Episcopal Church
and a former member of the
Barristers' Wives.
She leaves her daughter
Mary Ransom Hunter of Asa
Park road NV; her son, Leon,
an architect in Columbus,
Ohio, and eight grandchildren
The funeral will be at II
am. Wednesday at st. Luke's
Church, Fifteenth and Church
streets NV. Burial will be In
Carver Memorial Park at
Laurel, Md.
Evening star., 1963-01-28

Wilbur L. williams, 81, chief
Of the metals and minerals
section of the Commerce De-
partment's Office of Export
Control, died of a heart attack
yesterday morning at Suburban
Hospital.
A native OF Scranton, Pa, he
worked on the news staff Of
the old Scranton Republican
before going to Columbia Col
lege, where he received his
bachelor of arts degree summa
cum laude in 1925. He was a
of Phi Beta Kappa,
and later received his masters
degree from the same college.
He won a Rockefeller Founda-
ton fellowship in 1923 which
took him to Korea. China and
Japan for research on Far
Eastern civilization.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Vinson to Receive
Award by Legion

Representative Carl Vinson,
Democrat Of Georgia. chairman
of the House Armed Services
Committee. will be honored
during the American Legion's
Third Annual Washington Con-
ference March l0-l4.
He will receive an engraved
bronze plaque at the groups
banquet March l3 at the
Sheraton-Park Hotel.
James E. Powers Of Macon.
Ga, national commander Of
the Legion, will make the award
for Mr.. Wilson'S long and ex-
emplary service 10 the Ameri-
can public"
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Perry Armstrong,
Ex-FHA Counsel,
Stote Legislator

Perry Miller Armstrong, n
q former counsel for the
Federal Housing Authority and
a former member Of the New
York State Legislature died
Saturday at the Washington
Hospital Center after having
suffered injuries the week be-
fore In fire in his apartment.
He had been Ill before being
injured In the blaze.
A native Of Rome, N. Y, he
served two terms in the Legis-
lature, resigning at the out
break Of World War I to
become custodian over German
aliens in the country.
He came to Washington in
1884 as chief counsel in the
home improvements section Of
the FILA. retiring in the early
l950S.
A 1908 graduate Of Cornell
Law School. Mr.. Armstrong
practiced in New York City
before entering politics.
He was a member of the Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity and
o former member. Of the Uni
versity and Touchdown Clubs
here.
M. Armstrong leaves his wife.
Catherine Mclaughlin ARM
strong. Of 260s Cathedral ave-
nue. NV. the home address,
and a brother, Walter. Of
Columbus. Ohio. Mrs. Arm
strong, also injured in the fire,
is still hoSpitalized but is
in satisfactory condi-
ton.
Services will be at 1880 am.
tomorrow at Gawler's chapel,
Wisconsin avenue and Har-
rison street NV. Burial will
be private.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Barrett Prettymun, Jr.
To Speak in Foirfux

E. Barrett Pettyman, jr.,
Washington attorney who
played q prominent part in the
recent release of Cuban pris-
oners, will speak at Mount Ver-
non High School in Fairfax
County at 4 pm. Thursday in
a program sponsored by the
schools junior class.
Glass Chairman Fred VIII
liams announced that the pub
lie has been invited to hear
Mr.. Prettyman discuss his part
in the release of the Bay of
Pigs prisoners and Of his tour
of Havana with Fidel Castro
The talk will be given in the
school auditorium.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Harvey Payne, &,
Retired RuiIroud
Engineer, Mason

Harvey W. Payne, so. a re.
tired Pennsylvania Railroad
engineer and lifelong Washing.
ton area resident, died yester.
day after a short illness.
Mr.. Payne, Of 2403 Gather
street, Hillcrest Heights, Md.
retired in 1945 after A years
with the railroad.
A native Of Clifton, Va, Mr.
Payne was a 32d-degree Mason,
a member Of Silver Spring
Lodge No. 215, and a member
of Division 100, Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers.
In addition to his wife Elsie I
of the home address, Mr.. Payne
leaves three daughters, Mrs.
Dexter G. Brady Of 1909 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc, Mrs.
James E. Pierson of 2406
Gather street, Hillcrest Heights
and Mrs. Robert H. Hill of 4700
Tallahassee avenue, Rockville,
Md: and three sons, Harvey W.,
jr.. of 2216 IverSon street, Hill
crest Heights; Marine 1t. Col.
Ernest w. of 1904 Elgar street,
Springfield, Va, and George A.
Of Louisville, KY.
Mr.. Payne also leaves three
sisters, Mrs. James S. Higdon
of 1914 c street NE; Mrs. Eu-
gene A. Hutchison Of Culpeper,
Va, and Mrs. John s. Collins
of Centreville, Va.
Funeral services will be at
2:30 pm. Wednesday at the Lee
Funeral Home, Fourth street
and Massachusetts, avenue NE
A Masonic service will be held
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
funeral home. Burial will be in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Skiing Goes Indoors

TOKYO. - An indoor skiing
pavilion in Tokyo, built on a
hillside and covered by q metal
roof, can handle 800 skiers ct q
time. Powdered ice. fed to pow
erful blowers by conveyor belts,
provides an even cover.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
Five Children Die
AS House Burns

DANIELTOWN, Va, Jan. 2S
(AP).-Five children died last
night in q fire which leveled
their frame home on Virginia
Route 644 two miles west Of
this Brunswick County town.
Junious Gayle, his wife,
Christine, and two other small
children escaped from the
burning two-story house.
The others were trapped on
the second floor.
The victims were identified
as: Mary Anne, IL; Robert, 10;
Claude, 0; Ella Mae, 8; and
Patricia, S.
Junious Gayle was badly
burned.
Evening star., 1963-01-28
FIVE-DAY FORECAST
District and Vicinity
January 29-FebPuaFy 2

Temperatures will average 9
to 10 degrees below the nor
NAL high and low for this area
OF 43 and 20. Not so cold to-
morrow, becoming colder again
by Thursday and somewhat
warmer on Saturday. Precipita-
ton will total "a 10 q OF an
Evening star., 1963-01-28
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Evening star., 1963-01-28

ing points subtract times indicated
from the above: Annapolis, 3h hours;
Bloody Point Light, 4ha hours; Colonial
Beach, 8 hours. Deale, AZ hours;
SolomonS Island, oh hours: Point
Lookout. IA hours.
The San ana the Maan
Evening star., 1963-01-28

inch, occurring late tomorrow
and Wednesday.
AAA Road Conditions as Of, &.
3 AN. Today
Wsst-Distriet Of Columbia TO Penn
sylvania turnpike, clear, except from
Irwin 70 AlleEhsny tunnel slippery.
lane, passing lane has some Snow-eoy-
cred portions. u. s. 40 west TO Ohio,
slippery all the way through 10 Ohio;
y. s. SO west 70 Ohio. slippery all
We @t VIZ vrs h5GaEH hs'aTqOls S ,bro1ab STEn % n
Virginia, slippery; everything going
ssutR-shiriey highway and U. s. l
70 Richmond, clear. District OF colum-
Nsrth and Easi-pistrict OF coium-
bia 10 Harrisburg, Pa, clear. Harris
burg 10 Buffalo, N. Y, slippery in
Pennsylvanla. snow-eovered and slip
pery IN. New York state.
Memorial sridgs. clear.
New Jersey turnpike 10 New York
City. clear high winds no traitors
New EnEland. clear.
covered areas.
River Report
Potomae River clear at Harpsr's
Ferry and slightly muddy at Great
Fails. Shenandoah clear at Harper's
Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
MidniEht 900 81 Noon ------ 33
I'm. an. -- a. sPm, P.m, --- Il
Record Temperatures for the Year
Hiehest. so on January 20.
Lowest, 3 on January "a.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED BY the United States Coast
and Oeodetie survey
Today Tomorrow
High g:b7 am. lO:47 am
Low 4:3O Jam. b'i0 am
Hieh 1O:24 pm. Ii:i3p.m
Low 4:4Sp.m. $40 pm
Evening star., 1963-01-28

broad band Of scattered light due tonight from the Western
Lakes southwark through the Central Plains
in the Western Gulf region while predicted
Northern and Central Rockies Colder temperatures for
the Nation with the exception the Southeast
the Southern Pacific COaSt.-AP WrephOtO Map. a
Evening star., 1963-01-28

heeerd Temperatures Tor the Year
Hiehest, so on January 20.
Lowest, 3 on January "a.
Tide Tables
Furnished by the United states Coast
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Evening star., 1963-03-31

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Evening star., 1963-03-31
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Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-03-28
Adam Clayton Is
All Wet Again

No substantial group Of American Negroes who
have supported the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People going to pay any
attention to the irresponsible suggestion of Con-
gresham Adam Clayton Powell (Dec. N.Y. that
the Negroes Of the nation boycott the NAACP be-
the organization has whites in high positions
in the organization.
Powelrs suggestion is frivolous and unworthy
and without merit because he knows that the
NAACP has never been a Negro organization. It
founded in 1910 following call by disting-
uished group of Americans of whom only three were
Negroes and intended to be an association Of
Americans of all races and faiths banded together
to advance and secure the civil rights of the op-
pressed American Negroes.
No aI-Negro organization set up in that era or
operating in the present period could have accomp-
lished the things which have been made possible by
the interracial NAACP.
Adam Clayton Powell knows this. But in true
demogogue fashion, smarting perhaps because the
NAACP and other responsible groups did not come
to his defense when Congress gave him what
amounted to a censure he is striking out in all
directions because his reckless waste and rrespon-
sbility have brought him a loss of power
This newspaper rejects PowelPs attempt to in
flame racist nationalism among American Negroes
We have no more respect for his demogogery than
do of white natonalists like retired Gen. Edwin
Walker or Bill Hargis.
We believe the majority of American Negroes
will reject the blatant hypocrisy and demogogery of
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell who, having
frittered away the opportunity to perform real
service to his race and nation, resorts to the
lowest form of race batting.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-03-28

To ewdered We have always made it policy not to reply
the columns of this communications Be
wdered wants honest ought be
willing to sign the communication sent
We refused state position matter Of
public those requesting such information cou
courageous enough to aff their to communications
questing
write this piece physicians informed
father who months years dying
Dad good father fine
mother who mother three living
daughters and a who lives 500 miles away
a girls
favorites running
usually time supper newspaper distributing
10 did get close father
until late in his life.
motivating large
He without under his
Even a grabbed his magazines
the Illustrations He introduced and
good boozs-the printed page
His intense interest in reading to card from
City public library often the
pring looking something
Thousands of KC Negroes at that time seemed ignore the treasures
library shelves.
good
the he could afford his fault that did not heed his
necessity training
meet Hfe's completing problems
appreciate the teaching parents when they
being offered At basic
od fools trying keep from having funn
what the truth
unfriendly world.
stopped running" little
shy perhaps greater
contribution family community and humanity Perhaps he would
a much better in degree.
to Dad All through
ndposon they have been close by exhibiting
comforting mother
doctors tell that he fighting although it's
struggle great spirit keeping
rewarg his children his dear wife felt that
blessed Now force greater than all
take him by Elysian fields
farewell and for eternal
Cecil E Newman.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-03-28
We NEED A Metropolitan
Transit Authority

Voices again being raised against doing
anything now about mass transportation fac
ilities in the Twin Cities. Legislators are being
asked to wait couple of years more before setting
up Metropolitan Transit Authority.
A Metropolitan Transit Authority, if it is to
have any meaning at all, would be an agency with
full power to order mass transportation service
where 1t is needed and to provide the service If the
responsible private agency fails to; to take firm
hand in all metropolitan engineering affecting mass
transportation, and to bring some order In the met
ropoltan out of the present chaos as exempli-
fled by the fact (for exampe) that taxicab service
has to observe about Is to 20 boundary exclusions
and jurisdictions in providing service to the area
Those who argue against it say they want an
engineering survey first. But such surveys are fI-
tile unless there agencies with power to act
upon the surveys findings. Surely we want studies
and more studies. But more than that we want
action on what we already know.
During the time that action has been paralyzed.
the highway department has gone right ahead with
an incredible program of urban highway construc-
ton in which the department has banned mass
transportation from the freeways Here Is an "ac-
ton" agency that Is acting. The survey and study
agencies go on surveying and studying as much
as they want, but If the actionists don't want to
pay heed to the studies Tin this case the highway
department has ignored such studies) then some
kind Of action program is needed to protect the
people Otherwise the chaos already planned by the
highway department win be thrice compounded
There are many things about the operation of
the mass transportation system in the Twin Cities
that hard to understand. Even more difficult to
understand is the highway departments approach
to the whole problem.
We have discussed this at great length over a
long time, pointing out the implications of current
highway policies for users of mass transportation
Obviously what is needed at this time is an
agency which can properly assess the needs of
of mass transportation and properly represent them
against formidable adversary as the Minnesota
State Highway Department. We need an agency
with resources and authority to act in the present
critical situation.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-03-28
Our Post This Week
Clip for Negro Historv scrnnhoc

NnP Aor negro history ScrnpboolI
March II, 1885 - Texas abol-
ishes slave trade.
March IT, 1919 - Nat King
Cole, singer and entertainer, was
born in Montgomery, Ala. Began
musical career while still a high
school student In Chicago.
March Is, 1898 - Blanche K
Bruce, us. Negro senator from
Mississippi (1s75 81, died In
Washington, DC.
March 10, 17s5 - Tom Moline
aux, a slave and one Of Americas
earliest pugilists, was born In
Richmond, Va.
March 20, 1851 - First edition
of Uncle Toms Cabin" was Is.
sued. Written by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, 1t was published in Boston
by National Era.
March 20, 1888 - Negro inven.
tor ]. e. Matzeliger patented his
famous shoe lasting machine, max.
ing modern footwear possible.
March 21, 1865 - Anthony Over.
ton, founder of Overton Hygienic
company and president Of Douglas
National bank, both in Chicago
was born. He died In 1915.
March 21, 1855 - Henry O.
Fhpper, first Negro to graduate
from West Point Military Acad-
emy, was born In Thomasville, Ca,
in Thon's county.
March 21, 1912 - Ponce de Leon
landed In Florida with a group of
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-03-28

Negroes to search for the Fountain
Of Youth.
March %, 1873 - Slavery abol-
ished in Puerto Rico.
March 25, 1907 - Slave trade
abolished by British Parliament.
March rs, 1891 - Scottsboro
boys (9) sentenced to die. Execu-
ton halted by nationwide protest.
March IS, 1945 - New York
state adopts FEPC. Georgia re-
peals poll tax. Negro GIs black
lacked by police in jackson, Miss.
March 20, 1881 - Richard AL
len, founder and bishop Of the
AME Church, died In Philadelphia.
March %, 1852 - Samuel Sew
all, ant-slavery author, born.
March 20, 1870 - The 18th
Amendment to the Constitution,
giving freed men the right to vote,
was ratified in Congress.
March %, 1899 - New York
legislature passed law abolishing
slavery In the state.
March 81, 1882 - Jack Johnson
heavyweight boxing champion, was
born in Texas.
March 81, 1896 - DR.. william
Edward Burghardt DuBois's monu-
mental study on slavery published.
March 81, 1912 - United States
and Liberia establish agreement on
air bases.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-03-28
Other Approaches
To "Negro Problem"

We certainly would not quarrel with the sugges-
lions of Washington Rhodes in March IA issue
that money is the solution of the problems Negroes
face. and of Hobson r. Reynolds that the ballot box
Is the solution Surely the of the vote is tremend
ously important. And to say that money is not a
crucial matter would be to deny the validity Of all
the efforts that have gone into the fight against job
discrimination.
But to stress these things to the exclusion Of
everything else would be at this stage Of history
most unfortunate. The Negro problem" which Is
today major concern Of our largest centers of
population is infinitely bigger than this. Basically
1t is problem that Is being exported from the
southland to northern cities as one part Of the
problem Of the South. The Negroes who are being
driven out Of their homeands by agricultural auto
nation are unprepared to use the ballot In a way
to win any immediate redress They are equally un-
prepared to use such small economic power they
might have Job discrimination and other exploita-
ton leave them relatively without weapons either
of defense of counter-offensive.
1t is time that all Negroes and particularly
those who WELD effective power, like Rhodes and
Reynolds, pay more attention to the bascs. The
migrants from Dixie to the northern industrial cities
are, to be sure, a national problem. They also,
because of the circumstance that their skins are
mostly dark and the circumstance that this has SUBJ
jected them to discrimination a Negro problem
AS DR.. James B. Conant in his history-maling
survey for the Carnegie Foundation has pointed out
these migrants arrive in the north i-equipped for
city living. They settle in slums and their children
attend schools that in fact, though not by any
rule policy, segregated They attend until they
attain the age the law requires and drop out. They
drop out not to go to work but for the opposite
reason that there are no jobs even If they finish
school. So, what's the use! I'm some slum neighbor-
hoods" says Conant, IT have no doubt that over
half of the boys out of school and out Of work.
Leaving aside human tragedies, I submit that con-
dnuation of this situation is menace to the social
and political health of the large cities"
These boys are not exclusively Negro, but big
percentage of them because the discrimination
against Negroes has worked kind of solution. This
makes it problem of all Americans but it Also we
suggest makes it a concern especially of other VIC
TINS of discrimination. Those who like Mr. Rhodes,
apply economic power to the situation would be
well advised to do AS for Mr.. Reynolds and the
ballot box should not all be raising the roof to
demand that the government quickly adopt meas
ures like that proposed by Senator Hubert Hum
phrey to provide for work discipnes and job train
ing for these neglected young Americans?