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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-23
8 Ways to Cut

You can stretch your famiIy's medical-care
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Director. OndAs Services -
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TINS WEEK Msss.I.. I iy.. %. IVss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
4 in AT Band Checked,
Liquor on Plane Seized

session. where the musicians
had appeared at an American
installation. Kindley Air Force
Base. Only four are under in
yestigation.
The stringed-i n /
group. the Air Force said. Is
often booked" for perform
ances at official functions here
and elsewhere and has appeared
at the White House.
An Air Force official said
customs agents. apparently act
ing on q tip. were waiting at
the base when the "Strolling
Strings" deplaned.
The 100 bottles. the Air Force
spokesman said. were fifths.
He said the Air Force Is still
checking out some OF the
facts" and that no charges have
been placed.
No one 30 far has claimed
the liquor. according 10 the
Air Force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

-Four members Of the stroll
ing Strings" the Air Force
Bands symphonic ensemble.
are being investigated In con-
nection with the seizure Of 100
bottles Of undeclared liquor
aboard a military transport
plane last night.
An Air Force spokesman said
the spirits-found In footlock-
ers and instrument cascs-were
conflscated by Customs Bureau
agents and Air Force officials
when the group returned from
Bermuda aboard a c-5i arr
craft which landed at Andrews
Air Force Base.
Customs agents said the con-
traband whisky was In excess
OF the one-gallon-per-p person
limit on duty-free liquor. The
23-man musical group had
completed q four-day engage
ment at the British island pos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
'FirebuII Meteor
Awes Watchers
In q Wide Area

A "fireball meteor" flashed
across the Middle Atlantic
Coast sky last night, drawing
awed looks from Norfolk. Va.
10 Long Island Sound.
A forecaster In the District
Weather Bureau said the glow
ing ball generated more calls
than anything he could recall.
Astronomers at Georgetown
University described the object
as a "fireball meteor" Il was
sighted here about 10 pm, low
In the northern sky and travel
ing south.
AT first I thought Il was
a plane IN trouble" recounted
one Washington area house,
wife. Then II looked like a
flare or a skyrocket. II had a
reddish glow" Other spectators
described green and white
colors as well.
The astronomers noted that
q meteor is q chunk Of stony
or metallic matter that hurtles
into the earth's atmosphere
from outer space. burns itself
out and usually disintegrates
long before reaching the earth's
surface.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
Burglar Binds.
Robs Man in
Fuirfux Home

A former Fairfax County
policeman was robbed Of $500
in his own home last night
when he surprised a burglar at
work.
Police say Wray Dawson Of
2O6 Glenmont street. near Falls
Church. returned home at 7:45
pm. to find a man ransacking
the house. The intruder drew
a gun, took the money from
Mr.. Dawson's billfold and
bound him to a chair with ad-
hesive tape. according to the
report.
Fairfax police broadcast a
lokout for a white man with
a ruddy complexion. 40 TO As
years old, 5 feet. 7 inches tall,
weighing 1875 pounds. who wore
dungarees. a brown jacket,
brown boots and a peaked cap,
Detectives say he entered the
house by breaking a window
in the basement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
Youth Shot From Auto;
Rider Calls 1t Accident

passed and they heard three
shots.
The car stopped. and a ju-
venile and two adults got out
of the car and asked: "Are you
hurt?" When they were told
no one was hurt the three got
back In the car and drove off.
When Young Santiago ar
rived at home. he found that a
sore place on his leg was a
bullet wound. When the IT.
year-old who allegedly fired
the pistol was picked up. he
told Detective Taylor he had
been trying 10 eject a shell
from the chamber OF the load
ed automatic when the gun
discharged.
Found IN Playground
The youth told the detective
he had found the pistol on the
playground OF the Turner
School about a week ago.
Young Santiago told police
that Just a few minutes before
the shooting a group Of Negro
youths had started throwing
stones at them as they walked.
He said he and his compan-
ions ran away and. about a
block down the street, the car
passed and the shots were
fired. The Santiago youth and
his companions are white. The
youth charged In the shooting
Is a Negro.
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testified yesterday she and
Ward spent the afternoon at
a swimming pool before the
murder.
Skip said that Billy was
planning to kill his parents
that afternoon" she said. She
AID not believe bin. she added.
Later, Ward teIephon d
Bodmer from her home and
asked if he wanted help, she
testified. II sail. no, l don't
want you to go there" and he
said. 'Okay. okay.'"
Another teen-ager, Patricia
Weaver. II, who was to have
a date with Bodmer the next
night. testified she saw the
two youths at a drugstore in
the Shirley-Duke Shopping
Center shortly after the MUIR
der.
Later, still unaware Of the
she drove Ward past
the Cooley home. The house
was surrounded by police
cars and Ward ducked below
the car dashboard so he
wouldn't be seen from the road,
she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

an emotional dependence on
drugs when he undertakes
to stay away from drugs, fun
damental psychic distresses
overcome him and give rise to
an irresistible impulse to re-
turn to the use of the drug A. i.
"An addict possessing drugs
to satisfy this impulse can
not be regarded as responsible
for this conduct (possession) !"
The eight psychiatrists who
supported Horizons defense
were william C. Menninger.
president Of the Menninger
Foundation; Joseph Satten.
psychiatrist for that founda-
ton: Herbert Modlin, director
Of law and psychiatry for Men
ninger, and Or. Winfred over
holser, retired superintendent
Of st. Elizabeths Hospital.
Control Need Cited
Also Leo H. Bartender, med
ical director, the Seton Psy-
chiatric Institute in Baltimore
and former chairman Of the
American Medical Association
Council on Mental Health:
Francis j. Braceland. former
president of the American Psy-
chiatric Association, and Of the
Association for Research in
Nervous and Mental Diseases:
Lawrence Kolb, retired assist
ant surgeon general Of the
United States Public Health
Service, and Leon Salzman
clinical professor Of psychiatry
at the Georgetown University
Medical School.
William H. Wilcox, who ar
gued the case for the Govern
ment, said that drug sales ar
a serious crime which must b
controlled under the law.
Mr.. Wilcox said that q dag
nosis of drug addiction shout
not and does not now excus
crimes. He added that neithe
physical nor mental disease
stemming from drug addiction
are legally sufficient for a ples
lof criminal insanity.
Mr.. Wilcox said that the
defense's proposal that addict'
should be found innocent be-
cause they are impelled TO COM
NIT crimes would leave society
with an increased narcotic
crime rate mitigated only ir
those periods when the addict
was being treated in a hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

Represen tative Waggoner,
Democrat Of Louisiana. will
address the Americans for Con-
stitutional Action in the COM
munity room. Of the Citizens
Building and Loan Association
Building, Connecticut avenue
and Farragut street, Kensing-
ton. Nd, at $3.50 O'Clock to-
night. y
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Statement at Word Youths Trial
Describes Role in Cooley SIoyinq

the living room and Ward sat
down by the TV while Bodmer
took a seat behind the sleeping
Mr.. Cooley.
Billy coughed and said.
NO. Billy in a low voice, i
don't want to do it,"
Minutes later Mrs. Cooley
left the room and Ward
watched as his friend attacked
Mr.. Cooley with an ice pick.
Ward was in the kitchen about
to leave, when Mr.. Cooley came
into the kitchen with Ibis arms
up"
He looked like he was COM
ing after me-"
Ward said in the statement
that he was trying to back out
the kitchen door and "the gun
went off,"
'Billy's father stopped a lit
tie and went back into the liv-
ing room"
Mother Returned
Bodmer's mother came back
into the house at about that
time, and her son attacked her,
too. After all was quiet, the
two boys drove off to a nearby
drugstore.
Defense Attorney T. Brooke
Howard did not object to adj
mission of the two statements.
The Ward trial opened yes
terday in Alexandria before a
jury Of 10 men and two women.
Commonwealth Attorney Earl
F. Wagner said Nhe would seek
a first-degree murder convic-
ton and either a death penalty
or life sentence.
Mr.. Howard said his client
showed stupid" behavior in
getting involved in the Incl
dent, but cautioned the jury
that a rst-degree conviction
would carry a minimum SEN
tence Of 20 years.
The Bodmer youth. who has
pleaded guilty to the Staying
Of his step-father and felonious
assault on his mother. is await
ing sentence.
Girl Friend Testifies
Linda Light. Is. who said she
had been Wards girl friend,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

BRITISH MARINERS were
mapping a world empire.
Navigation was of utmost
national Importance. 1t was
easy to determine latitude, a
mere matter Of noting the
angle Of the sun, when it was
directly to the south.
But longitude called for
the exact time as well as ce-
lestial observation. An error
of a few minutes would mean
an error Of many miles to
the east or west (about II
miles to the minute at the
Equator).
Sir Isaac Newton was one
Of those consulted in TIA.
He suggested q watch that
would keep time exactly, but
added that due to the motion
Of a ship and variations in
temperature and humidity
such a Watch has not yet
been made" There were ac-
curate clocks on land. Cali
leo had discovered the con-
stancy Of the pendulum In
1881. Christian Huygens Of
Holland had adapted the
pendulum to q clock. But a
pendulum would not work at
sea.
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resistably impelled him to
possess 124 capsules Of heroin.
The defense attorney and the
psychiatrists limited their plea
for acquittal to crimes specif-
ically involving addiction and
not to other crimes such as rob-
berry which may have been
motivated by a desire for drugs.
Horton, of the 500 block Of
Seventh street Sc, was con-
victed last July on one count
of possession and use under the
Federal narcotics law (Har-
rison Act).
Found Mentally Competent
He was examined at st.
Elizabeths Hospital, found to
be mentally competent to stand
trial and free Of mental dis
eases and disorders.
The Districts Durham Rule
on criminal insanity only pro-
tects those defendants who have
mental diseases or disorders
at the time of the crime, pro-
viding the crime was a direct
product of the disease or defect.
Horton pleaded not guilty by
reason of insanity. Several
psychiatrists testified at the
trial that his craving for drugs
was so great that he was un-
comfortably impelled to possess
them.
Some irresistible impulses.
like kleptomania, have been
recognized under the District
rule. But, so far, crimes
relating to drug addiction have
not.
Prior Criminal Acts
1 Although there was evidence
at the trial that Horton had
committed prior criminal acts
to obtain money for narcotics
purchases, Defense Attorney
J Richard Arens was careful II
point out that the psychiatril
; arguments were solely con
cerned with violations of tn
! Harrison Act.
The eight psychiatrists
. whose brief was presented h
the court, said:
When an addict seeks drug
he is acting under the impell'
ing force Of his physical needs
He is not a responsible agent
To hold him crlmjnally respon-
sible for possessing drugs un-
der these circumstances 1;
contrary to the traditional
American precepts of justice"
The eight psychiatrists
added:
IAN addicted person forms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

HARRISON SPENT six
years (i729-l735) on his first
timepiece. II was no watch"
It weighed ~ pounds. The
wheels we're Of oak. 1t never
went to sea, but 1t ran for
thirty years without stop
ping.
His second took two years
and weighed l02 pounds. His
third took II years. The
fourth, the timepiece now on
exhibit, was designed as a
check on the big timepiece,
which never went to sea. It
kept as good time as the
larger mechanism, and Har-
rison decided TO try for the
prize with the smaller time
piece. II was taken on a voy-
age 10 Jamaica. On arrival II
was five seconds slow, at that
latitude, an error of less
than a mile.
Harrison had difficulty
collecting. The committee
paid him 10000 pounds and
seemed inclined TO let him
60 at that. He appealed TO
George III, who gave him an
audience and put the heat
on Parliament 10 pay the
rest. II did. Harrison was
then n and had only three
years 10 live.
Before he died, he pub
Ished a pamphlet on time
m easurement which like
other Of his unaided writ
ings, Is almost unreadable.
He could do, but could not
describe"
There seems 10 be a moral
for today In the story Of the
carpenter surveyor me-
chanic who solved a problem
that stumped even Sir Isaac
Newton.
Il Is that genius Is likely 10
be found among the people
and that nations win do well
10 see 10 II that the able can
obtain an education without
regard 10 their economic and
cultural background.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
The
RambIe
Inspects A
Chronometer
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

At the Naval Observatory,
on the hillock where Massa-
chusetts avenue takes a tack
to the north, a history-mak-
ing timepiece, loaned by the
Royal Observatory Museum
Of Greenwich, England, is on
display.
It is the John Harrison
Chronometer of 1859, which
won its maker an award of
10000 pounds offered by the
British Government for a
timepiece that would be ac-
curate enough to enable de-
termination Of longitude
within 80 miles after a six
week voyage.
The prize-winning inven-
ton, a watch q little more
than five inches in diameter,
revolves in a glass case in the
lobby of the Administration
Building.
Its hands - hour, minute
and second - are turning
with almost perfect accuracy
after more than 200 years.
The brass plate at the back
which encloses the works is
chased with intricate fill
gree. It is a handsome ma
chine made by a man whose
skill was a Joy to him and
whose goal was perfection.
It is difficult to suggest
the value of 10000 pounds in
the mid-eighteenth century.
1t was a princely reward,
such as a grateful nation
might give a general for win
ming a war. 1t was q fortune.
More remarkable, it was
won by a carpenter from the
north country (Yorkshire)
who was self-educated in
surveying and mechanics.
The prize had been await
ing a successful claimant for
almost half d century. 1t had
been offered in TIA by a
committee appointed by the
government at the instance
Of London shipping interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
Bya star stan writer

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 26-With
permanent reapportionment Of
legislative seats dead for the
current Assem- bly, session,
Maryland lawmakers girded
for final action tomorrow on
another representation matter
Congressional redistricting.
Reapportionment legislation
persisted when the House Ju-
dietary Committee yesterday
voted to refer a Senate-passed
bill to the governors commits
sion, which is studying Assem-
bly, representation.
The move killed any prospect
Of the Houses being perma-
nently reapportioned until next
year.
Divisions Provided
A stop-gap reapportionment
plan. adopted In a special ses-
sion last year. expires In 1866.
The measure killed by yester-
days committee action would
have returned the House Of
Delegates from the present
temporary LA seats TO Its orig
inal 1913 seats. No changes we're
provided in the Senate.
The bill. introduced by Sena-
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Plan
Killed for This Session

tors James Clark, jr., Democrat
Of Howard, Edward o. Weant.
jr., Democrat Of Carroll. and
Frederick c. Malkus. jr., Demo
crat Of Dorchester. would have
required metropolitan areas
gaining seats in the House Of
Delegates from smaller counties
to divide into districts for elec-
ton of their legislators. This
had brought opposition from
the metropolitan counties.
Gov. Tawes had said action
on a permanent reapportion-
ment should wait until next
year when the General As
sembly receives q report Of the
study commission.
On Congressional redistrict-
ing. Washington suburban del
egates fighting TO gain more
Capitol Hill representation for
their areas will make one last
try tomorrow.
Horseshoe" District
The amendment. sponsored
by Delegate Royal Hart. Demo-
crat Of Prince Georges County,
would have given Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties
each their own congressman
by creating a horseshoe" dis
trict Of counties on both sides
of Chesapeake Bay.
The suburban delegates have
been trying for q week 10 beat
the administrations plan which
calls for a new eighth district
stretching from the Pennsyl-
vania line into Southern Mary
land. Suburbanites claim the
proposed district does nothing
10 relieve misrepresentation
In the large. quickly growing
counties. including Monteom-
cry and Baltimore.
The amendment defeated last
night would have placed
Charles. Calvert. 81. Marys and
part OF Anne Arundel Counties
with the nine counties across
the Bay on the Eastern Shore
In one district.
Mr.. Harris amendment,
which win be voted on tomor-
row. follows the same general
pattern. The difference Is that
part OF Baltimore County as
well as part Of Anne Arundel
County will be put into a Bal
timore City district.
Attempts 10 amend the Gov
ernors bill during debates In
the past week failed because
they would require the city 10
giveup one Of is three Con-
gressmen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

More than s73s In cash was
stolen In a safe from the Brass
Lantern Tavern. o0ol Balti-
more boulevard. College Park.
yesterday. Prince Georges
County police reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
Discipline Hearing
Sets off Fireworks
insanity Rule Acquitted
Urged for Drug Addicts
Psychiotrists Beck Horton Defense,
Cite Irresistible Nature of Habit
BY JACK LANDAU
Star staff Writer

The United States Court Of Appeals told today that the
Districts criminal insanity rule should exonerate confirmed
narcotics addcts charged with crimes directly connected to their
addiction-the possession, use and sale of drugs.
Counsel for Frank Horton 49, backed up by eight
prominent psychatrists who said that Horizons addiction IT.
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Study
Policy on VD
Among Youth
Prouty and Morse
Weigh Secrecy
From Purents

The stock question Of whether
to let the Government treat
venereally diseased children
who are afraid to tell their
parents troubled two Senators
today.
Senator Morse, Democrat Of
Oregon, said he was having a
terrible wrestle" with proposed
legislation to permit public
health treatment.
Senator Prouty, Republican
of Vermont. admitted he was
frustrated" His concern was
that parents, fit to be parents.
had the right to know about
their children's disease.
But Senator Morse asked
whether the public did not have
q responsibility to help young
sters whose parents probably
had failed them.
1900 Gases Listed
Some 1900 cases Of gonor-
rhea and syphilis were dag
nosed In boys and girls under
20 in the District last year,
DR.. Murray Grant, Public
Health Director, told a Senate
District Subcommittee.
OF these, $500 suffered from
gonorrhea, which usually can
be cured with one shot of
penicillin per patient. Syphilis
sometimes requires two treat
ments Of penicillin, or more Of
q less effective drug.
DR.. Grant warned Senators
they must deal with reality,
not theory. The fact is that
youngsters who want to be
cured Of venereal diseases here
hesitate to come back to health
Officers II they must tell their
parents before treatment.
Reinsurance Sought
But Senator Prouty wanted
reinsurance that the Health
Department would use author
ity proposed in the pending
bill to treat without parents
consent "only when necessary"
He got that policy promise.
Senator Morse elected a |
seeming reversal from DR.. |
Grant with this question:
IF this bill passes, and If
a child comes to you, will you
treat him and, afterwards, If
he says don't call my old
man. you won't. win you?"
IT would not contact any par
ent If the child did not want
his parents to know"
Senator Morse said he was
inclined to agree with Senator
Prouty that the parents bear
the primary responsibility.
"Yet, we have to admit we
have a lot of irresponsible par
ents, he added. MANY of these
diseased children come from
broken homes, where parents
aren't models Of morality and
would give them little advice.
Asks Medical Warning
He suggested that treatment
would be not only medically
helpful, but would give doctors
an opportunity to reach dis
eased young people and warn
them Of the road they are
travelling.
Senator Morse ordered pre-
else statistics on the number
Of children who sought Health
Department treatment last
year. OF those, he wanted to
know the number treated. the
number in public schools and
the number Of boys and girls.
The Senate subcommittee
considered this legislation last
year, but failed to answersques-
tons raised by Senator Prouty
in time for full committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

When william B. Billy
Bodmer. II, planned the stab
bling of his parents last sum-
mer, his friend Malcolm (Skip)
Ward, jr., 10, suggested shoot
ing them instead, according TO
q statement admitted as evi-
dence at the older boys muir
der trial today.
But at the last minute, Wards
statement said, he tried to back
out of the plot, only to have his
gun accidentally fire.
Wards account of the ma
cabre events last July 2 un-
folded today in two statements
which police said he made after
the attack on Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald @. Cooley. Mr.. Cooley,
who was stabbed and shot, died.
Mrs. Cooley recovered.
Early Plan Told
One Ward statement intro
duced today alleged that Bod
mer started telling him Of
plans to kill his stepfather and
mother about three weeks be-
fore the attacks. Mr.. Cooley,
SO, and Mrs. Cooley, A, both
were teachers at Mount Vernon
High School in Fairfax County.
According to Wards state
ments, this is what happened
the evening Of July 2 at the
Cooley home, 305 East Taylor
Run parkway.
Ward and Bodmer had dis
cussed the younger boys plans
earlier on the day Of the STAY
ing. When Bodmer told Ward
he had bought an ice-pick,
Ward suggested shooting them
instead because he wouldn't
kill an animal" by stabbing.
Bodmer said he had a gun,
but no bullets. Ward took
Bodmer to a friend who gave
the boys seven shells.
Cough Was Signal
Bodmer gave Ward these in
structions: when he coughed,
I was to shoot his mother, and
he would stab his father"
Then the two boys went into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26

A 17-year-old restaurant
worker was hit In the leg last
night by gunfire from a pass
ing car as he and two COM
panions we're walking In the
2400 block Of Alabama avenue
Sc.
Police said a youth they
picked up later told them the
shooting occurred accidentally
when he was trying 10 eject a
shell from a .22-caliber auto
matte pistol as he rode by.
The victim Of the incident
was identified as Albert p San
tiago OF 3206 Buena Vista ter
race Sc. He was reported In
good condition today at d. C..
General Hospital with O bullet
wound In his right leg.
The youth in the car. also II,
was picked up and charged
with assault with a deadly
weapon. He was sent 10 the
Receiving Home after his
father heard a description Of
the car involved on the radio,
realized II was his own and
called police.
Heard . Shots
Detective Milton 7. Taylor
OF the Juvenile Squad gave this
account: Young Santiago and
two companions were walking
on Alabama avenue when q car
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-26
Cough Was signal

Bodmer gave Ward these in
when he coughed,
was to shoot his mother, and
he would stab his father"
Then the two boys went into