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Evening star., 1963-01-13

Mr.. CeLebrezze, With a touch of
nostalgia Heft), looks at a
picture of his bOyhOOd
home in the recreation room of his
Cherry Chase home. Selection of
the proper necktie (beIOw)
gives the Secretary an
agreeable moment of decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
DISTRICT MAY GET ONE
Halfway Houses Lend PAROLES Hand

mally leave the Youth Center
In the four other halfway Gen.
tiers, he is given a ticket anc
proceeds there on his own.
The house would be stated
with a director. a case worker
an employment placement Of
ficer and two or three correc-
tional counselors and could &C
commodate about rs men at q
time.
They would live at the house
at first under tight supervi-
sion. which would relax SLOW
ly as the time for their parole
date approached.
Job Would Be First
The first priority would be
a job. The inmate would be
free 10 work, once he found Il
job, but he would live at the
center with strict hours. Two
of the already operating GEN.
tiers are in YMCAs. Washing
tons is planned at the former
Temporary Home for Former
Soldiers and Sailors. 92l Penn
sylvania avenue Sc.
II man has a stable fam
lily waiting for him, his half
way house time is used to help
him re-enter their life. This
is often not the case, however
And the return to a broken
home or the squalor OF a de-
pressed neighborhood is a ma
jor cause of a return TO crime
The halfway house gives a
man the opportunity to break
his old ties. something many
PAROLES want but find them
selves unable to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
To Be Taught Phonics
BY THADDEUS FOOTE
Star Staff Writer

You are about % years old,
with a sixth-grade education,
no money in your pocket and
despair in your heart as you
walk the streets looking for
work.
You looked for many weeks.
In each instance, the reason
for refusal was the same, as
you walked out the desperation
was a little deeper.
Sorry, buddy. Can't take a
chance on a convict"
Some are luckier than you,
At the weekly parole meeting,
you sit around the table listen
ing to other PAROLES discussing
their problems. One makes 95
cents an hour as a dishwasher
Another was fortunate. He got
his old job back.
1T takes about three weeks
before you feel free-inside,
mean. not your body-inside, /"
said a Washington nerolee re-
Gently, talking about a new
project which is a major topic
of discussion in penitentiaries
across the country - the pre-
release guidance centers, or
halfway houses"
d. c. Due TO Get Center
There are four such centers
In the country now. Washing
ton is soon to have the fifth, or
so the d. C. Corrections De-
.partment and the Federal
Bureau Of Prisons hope.
Norman A. Carlson, projects
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
Count Differs
On euchers
AtSpingurn

The Senate District Appro'
priations Subcommittee anC
School Supt. Carl Hansen
counted teachers at Spingarr
High School and came up with
different totals today.
Spingarn came to the atten'
ton of the subcommittee
because of a report in the Sec
ond week of school that one
teacher was trying to instruct
a class of 81 pupils in English
That class now has beer
reduced to so pupils, DR.. Han
sen testified.
why did you take II
teachers away from Spingarr
this year?" Senator Robert C
Byrd demanded.
The Byrd staff was told or
September 16 by Spingarn Of
ficials that the superintend'
ent's office had ordered thret
English, three mathematics
three history teachers and
science instructor removed II
other schools.
DR.. Hansen said the tota
was closer to five teachers
Shifts we're required becaus
other schools experience,
greater enrolment increase
than Spingarn, he said.
Spingarn Principal Purvis j
Williams told The Star by tele
phone his senior high staff hat
been reduced by five teachers
He also lost seven junior higl
school teachers who laugh
part-time in high school las
year. These seven regularly
taught a ninth grade, trans
ferred away from Spingarn this
year.
Both the subcommittee anc
the superintendent put the
present complement of senior
high teachers at SO.
But the subcommittee was
told that Spingarn teachers
last year numbered 81. Principal
Williams told The Star this
morning that his high school
teachers totalled SO last year
The exchange stemmed from
demands of Senator Proxmire,
Democrat of Wisconsin, that
the superintendent show why
pupils could not be distributed
more equally among teachers
now at work.
mo matter how we try, the
variety of offerings and the
variety of pupils interests, de-
mands, for example. that we
put As in an English class so
we can put Is in advanced
composition" DR.. Hansen said.
Classroom composition cannot
be reduced to mathematics"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23

getting out Of bed in the
morning." says Edward w.
Garrett, chief United States
probation and parole officer
for the District.
A local parole officer ex-
plains that one Of the biggest
problems a parolee must face
is that OF viewing his position
realistically. 1t is common, he
says, for a man In prison TO
remember the outside world in
its best possible light. He
dreams Of the day when he will
make money again-big money
and drive his own car,
Very Low Wages
The shock is always violent.
Instead Of making SO an hour
as he had expected, the parolee
often finds that he must take
a job that pays $50 a week,
and sometimes even such a
job is hard TO find.
Some employers, said the
parole officer, know they can
get away with exploiting ex-
convicts. They feel they are
doing such a big favor in
hiring a parolee that they can
pay almost nothing.
Most men find themselves
forced into marginal, unskilled
work. such as washing dishes
or sweeping floors. The temp
tation for returning to crime
is great, even greater than
before they went to prison,
because OF the additional
handicap Of having been there.
Realizing the enormous read
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
Week Of Adjustment Ends
For Prince Edward Pupils

week with the signs throughout
the rooms" said Mrs. Sullivan,
the superintendent wife, who
has been filling in where need
ed. When full-day classes be-
gan today, she was ready to
move gradually into her per-
manent job of teachin 6
remedial reading.
To Be Taught PhOnics
1--WE will teach them phonics,
but first we had to teach them
the mechanics, such as top,
bottom and middle" she said.
When a teacher would say
the upper right hand corner,
most of them didn't under
stand what she was talking
about. 1t is remarkable how
well they have done"
Both DR.. Sullivan and James
Virgins, Worsham principal,
agreed that the major problem
has been one of adjustment.
Many of the children had
not been away from home in
four years." DR.. Sullivan said
Just being away from mother
for the mornings only was a
major adjustment they had to
make. But there were only the
normal amount of tears that
could be expected at the be-
ginning of any new school year"
Crying, and getting the
children on the right buses are
our major concerns right now"
said Mrs. Sullivan. Some Of
them hardly know their own
names, and they can't remem-
Der their bus number. Each
teacher is assigned one bus and
she has a list Of children who
ride on that bus. That way we
have been able to keep 1t rea-
sonably well Strengthened out"
The halliday sessions the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23

and Mcintyre of New Hamp-
shire and Republican Senator
Case of New Jersey.
Senator Byrd presided alone
over opening hearings almost
all day last Friday.
Wesley Williams, Board OF
Education chairman, and
School Supt. Carl Hansen came
to plead for immediate funds
to hire 344 teachers. No more
teachers than were on duty
last year are handling 4.13l
additional pupils, they said.
The superintendent was in
terrupted throughout his teSti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23

first week were devoted almost
entirely to testing and CLASH
fication. Formal instruction
began in the elementary schools
today but the testing proce-
dures will continue severa,
more days in the high and in
termediate schools. But already
the children we're setting up
their clubs and the athletic
staff was making plans for the
basketball and spring sports
seasons.
Sports Activities Planned
1--WE hope to have basketball
baseball and the other regular
varsity sports both for boy:
and girls" said w. E. johnson
of Chicago, the high school
athletic director. I'VE also
want to have a strong inter-
mural program, and some
gymnastics with the equipment
we have and whatever else
we can get"
The ungraded system is de-
signed to move children ahead
as fast as their abilities allow
An innovation in Virginia, 1t
will be closely watched by edu-
Gators throughout the country
particularly since four school,
less years provide a unique
laboratory. DR.. Sullivan, an
expert in the ungraded system,
is not unmindful of the at
tention the schools will re-
ceive, but he makes it clear
he believes the primary duty
is to teach the children as
much as possible in the one
year the free schools will
operate.
There never has been a
school like this before" he
said, land I hope there never
will be again."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23

justment problem Of PAROLES
prison officials long age
changed their attitude. Locking
a man up keeps him out Of
the way. But it is expensive
too-about $3.50 per day pei
man in the Federal prisons.
Return 10 Society
And most important, almost
all prisoners will one day re-
turn to society.
So. instead of merely caging
a convicted criminal as was
done until recently, prison
officials now emphasize not
his sentence but his eventual
return to society.
The Youth Center at Lorton
is a showplace for the new
philosophy. Men from 10 TO %
are sent there at the judges
discretion under the Youth
Corrections Act. They are
there only as long as their
counselors feel they need to be
there. The average stay Is
about a year and a half
As contrasted with a so per
cent rate for Federal prisons,
only 20 per cent OF Youth
Center graduates get into
trouble with the law again.
But even this percentage is
too high. prison officials say.
And 1t is to reduce 1t even
more that the halfway house
is proposed.
A man would be released TO
the halfway house several
months before he would nor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
BUT BESIDE SQUADRONS

BUT BESIDE SQUADRONS
of private pilots, close to
200 businesses-big bust
nesses-have private planes.
General Motors operates a
small airline. OF course, most
Of these firms have to do
business In Washington.
One afternoon, a big plane
rolled up and at least Is
men in dark blue suits got
aboard and waited. A red
carpet had been rolled out
on the ground. Soon, Sen
ator Humphrey breezed by,
laughed at the red carpet,
climbed in and off they
went. Very mysterious.
Just last Friday afternoon,
Senator Tower turned up,
and off he went in a private
plane for Illinois and a
speech.
Moments later, Represen-
tative Arch Moore took off.
Then a silver Jet eased up
the runway and waited. Here
came Senator Goldwater. He
shot away for New Jersey
and raped President Ken
needy in a speech that night.
It was the Goldwater flight
that set the envy bubbling
in the Rambler. What a wa!
to travel!
All you do is step out OF
a cab and walk a half a
block and step aboard a
plane that's been waiting for
you-and will be waiting for
you when you want to re-
turn.
Got to thinking I could
run General Motors II I had
a private plane and some
body to fly 1t and handle
all the baggage.
Good way to get away
from the office, anyway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
kaIoranaArea
MaYBeExennpt
Renewal
Officials Consider
Cutting Back on
Adums-Morgun Plan

A 10-block Kalorama Tri-
angle area may be removed
from consideration for rehabil-
itation under urban renewal
powers, officials said today.
The area for the past four
years has been included in the
planning for the controversial
Adams-Morgan urban renewal
area.
The area was part of a plan
approved by the National Capt.
tai Planning Commission last
January, but now the District
Commissioners are having a
special evaluation made of the
area.
The previously approved plan
calls for an urban renewal area
of SGT acres, generally includ-
ing the blocks between Six
tenth street, Florida avenue,
Connecticut avenue, U and
Calvert streets, Lanier place
and Columbia road NV.
Alternatives Studied
The Commissioners held
hearings on the proposed plan
in July, and asked the District
Office of Urban Renewal for
the special evaluation. TIL e
triangle area has only nine
rooming houses and three ten
ementS, officials said, and the
vast majority of such build
ings are scattered throughout
the remainder of the proposed
area.
One of the alternatives under
study would remove the 10
blocks west of Nineteenth street
N. w. from the project.
The Commissioners report
eGly were concerned over
whether the triangle blocks
would qualify under Federal
regulations for urban renewal.
If only a very small number
of buildings are sutstandard,
other factors such as poor
street layout or other blight
ing influences have to be con-
sidered.
The eligibility standards used
in urban renewal projects have
been challenged by investiga-
tors working for the House
District Committee, which has
been reviewing District urban
renewal activities.
Hearings Conducted
A District subcommittee un-
der the Craftsmanship of Rep
reEentative Dow6y, Democrat
of Texas, has devoted several
hearings to eligibility stand
ards.
The National Capital Plan
ming Commission wants the 10
block area to remain in the
urban renewal project. Both
it and the RedevelopmenG
Land Agency have maintained
that their spot rehabilitation
program will affect only the
Substandard buildings, and will
help owners get good financing
terms for rehabilitation.
Some Kalorama Triangle
area residents have vigorously
opposed the project. contend
ing that the 10 blocks have
only upper and middle-income
homes in good condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
The :
Rambler
Watches
The Other Half
BY JOHN McKELWAY

Became quite envious the
other day, sitting in the sun
and haze at National Air
port at a point somewhat
distant from the main ter
minal.
AS indicated here before,
the Rambler is something OF
a nut about watching air
planes land and take off and,
quite by accident, sometime
ago he found the perfect
spot to observe operations at
one of the worlds busiest
airportS.
1t is just outside the wait
ing room and office which
conducts Nationals private
airplane business, formerly
Butler Aviation and now
Page Always.
You can sit there on a
bench and listen to a loud
speaker cracking converse
lions between the tower and
pilots. You can spot the
plane the pilots voice is
coming from-some say $50
long" to the tower as they
roar south over the Potomac
and you can see situations
developing which are clean
ly handled by the quick
thinking traffic control boys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23

officer for the Federal Bureau
of Prisons. estimates that the
center will be in operation by
the first OF the year. The
pressing problem now is money,
The first-year budget for the
other centers New York, Chi
cago, Detroit and Los Angeles)
has been about 100000 each,
Plans are that the cost OF the
Washington halfway house will
be shared by the District and
the Federal Government.
Until next fiscal year, when
budget requests will be acted
upon for both the Districts
share and that of the Bureau
of Prisons, money for launch
ing the project will come from
floating funds in the bureaus
current budget. The site will
be contributed by the District
If the Commissioners approve
the Department Of Corrections
recommendation.
Most Crucial Period
Parole officers agree that
the first six weeks OF freedom
are the most crucial In a con-
vict's readjustment.
It is during that period that
he must get a job and a place
to live. And II is then that he
must adjust his thinking TO
freedom. For many, this re-
quirement is especially diff
cult. They have become &C
customed to the relative Sc
curity Of prison life, where
they need not make any deci-
sions.
Some have a little trouble
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
Hansen Is ScoIded
By Byrd at Hearing
Senator Denies Committee Delay
On D. c. Teachers Salaries
BY GRACE BASSLTT
Star Staff Writer

Senator Robert c. Byrd chassd school officials today for
suggesting that congressional appropriations subcommittee
were unconcerned about local teacher shortages.
AS if his point three other Senators showed up
District budget hearings conducted by the West Virginia
Democrat.
They were Democratic Senators ProXnire of Wisconsin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
Plea
To Mail Fraud
Made at Trial
Objection Raised
By Attorneys for
Other Defendants

BALTIMORE, Sept. % (Spe-
ciaD "A defendant in the mai,
fraud trial involving the Secu-
rity Financial Insurance Corp
of Maryland entered a surprise
plea of no contest in Fedora
court here today.
Charles F. Culver, a Cations.
vile (Md) insurance man anc
former leader of the Baltimore
County delegation to the
Maryland House of Delegates
entered the plea as the court
opened a series of pretriai
hearings.
The motion was not opposed
by the Government but attor.
neys for four other defendants
Immediately asked for a post
ponement of the case. They
commended that such a plea
would prejudice their clients
rights to a fair trial.
POstpOnement Denied
Chief Judge Roszel C. Thorn
sen refused to grant an i'm
mediate postponement noting
that there were II motions tc
be disposed of before the jury
could be selected.
I'VE will have to consider
matters as they develop" the
judge said. He then added
THE jury will not be brought
in tomorrow obviously. :"
He then told the defense
counsel that after the jury
panel had been questioned as
to bias and prejudice he would
consider this motion.
In addition to Mr.. Culver, de-
PENDANTS in the case are A,
Gordon Boone, member of the
Maryland House Of Delegates,
who stepped down as speaker
after he was indicted; c. Oran
Mensik, Chicago savings and
loan operator; Henry McGur-
rem, Chicago attorney. and D.
Spencer Grow, a savings and
loan man from Provo, Utah.
Another defendant. J. ThomaS
Ellicott, has been granted a
separate trial. He was recently
convicted of mail fraud in an
other savings and loan case and
had told the court that he had
not had time to prepare his
defense.
Firm in Receivership
The six men are charged
with using the mails to dis
seminate false and fraudulent
information concerning Secur-
ity Financial.
After the plea was accepted
defense attorneys demanded to
know how long the government
had known Mr.. Culver had de-
cided to enter this plea. Assist
ant United States Attorney
Stephen H. Sachs replied he
did not feel that how long the
government had had this in
formation was relevant.
Judge Thomson supported
Mr.. Sachs, noting that it was
not unusual for a defendant
to change his plea.
Judges Comment
In accepting the no-contest
plea, he said: 1T is the custom
of this court not to accept a
plea of nolo contendere (no
contest) without a hearing to
determine whether the nature
of the crime charged and
whether the participation of
the particular defendant there
in are such that it is appro-
pirate for the court to accept
such a plea.
However, under the present
circumstances with other de-
PENDANTS pleading not guilty,
a full public discussion at this
time Of Culver's activities might
prejudice the rights of the
other defendants.
THE government had I'M
qualifiedly stated that it does
not oppose acceptance of the
plea and I have concluded that
it should be accepted"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
By BILL JOHNSON
Associated Press Staff Writer


FARMVILLE, Va, Sept. %
Ernest Pratt studied the sign
by his feet, then softly read
out floor" He looked toward
the front of the room at an
other sign and read wall"
Around the room in the small
brick building were other signs,
door" window" and chair. "
Ernest could read most of the
words, admittedly not much of
an accomplishment for an g.
year-old. For Ernest, though,
it was the beginning of a new
world, a world of learning he
entered only one week ago.
Ernest and 1901 other chill
dren are enrolled in the priva-
tely financed and gradeleSs
schools operated by the Prince
Edward Free School ASsocia-
ton. When the doors opened
last Monday, it was the first
time in four years that free
education had been available
to all children in this SouthSide
Virginia county. All but four
pupils at the school are Negroes.
THE week was as smooth as
could be expected when you
bring a faculty together from
all over the United States and
there are no textbooks" said
DR.. Neil V. Sullivan of East
WilliStan, Long Island, N. Y,
the free schools superintendent.
THE fact that we survived at
all is a tremendous tribute to
the teachers"
DecOrum Called Excellent
With children who had not
been subjected to classroom
discipline for four years, or
perhaps never in their II years,
the transition from an unregi-
mented environment could have
been difficult. But DR.. Sullivan
said that, except for "one
minor incident on a school bus,
there have been no disciplinary
problems. Decorum has been
excellent"
Since 1859, when the Prince
Edward Board of Supervisors
closed public schools rather
than submit to a Federal court
order to desegregate, Negro
children had no access to free
education in the county. White
children have paid tuition to
attend private schools.
1.-THE date of September Is
is as familiar to the children
in our schools as July 4 is to
children elsewhere" DR.. Sulli-
van said. THE first day Of
classes the children, many Of
whom had no calendars at
home, could tell their teachers
what the date was. 1t was an
epic day for them"
4 White Children Enter
The four white children who
also have entered the new
schools are Letitia Tew, 4:
Richard Moss. II, and a
brother and sister, Brenda
Alternately, Is, and George
Alternately, 7.
DR.. Sullivan said there had
been no incidents involving the
white children.
THE Tew girl is typical OF
all four" he said. 1T is not
unusual TO see her walking
hand-in-hand with her class
mates. Their acceptance has
been complete. They are COM
pletely normal children"
Letitia could print her name
before she entered the old
Worsham School. but many Of
the other children there, like
Ernest Pratt, had never been
Exposed to reading or writing.
I'VE have heen teaching
them sight words this first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23

EVERYBODY APPARENT
LY knows exactly what
he's doing. Pilots seem to
be able to spot more points
around Washington-River-
dale is one-than a lot Of
motorists.
But the thing that inter-
ested him the other day was
the remarkable amount of
traffic in private airplanes.
A sleek, screaming, two
engine Job rolled up about
3 pm, cut its motors and
within seconds a parade Of
distinguished looking gentle
men, clutching briefcases,
piled out. They walked di-
rectly through the terminal
and into taxis and rolled off
to Washington.
There was a three-man
crew, all clean cut, and
dressed in olive drab busi-
ness suits. They saw the
gentlemen off, returned to
the plane, and were gone
shortly.
THAT was the Dow Jones
plane" said a mechanic.
About the same time, an
other distinguished looking
gentleman walked briskly
through the terminal,
clutching two copies Of some
Senate hearing. He climbed
in a smaller, twin-engine
job and away he went. He
was his own pilot.
1t goes on like that all
day. There are, on an av-
erage, about so to 10 flights
a day.
You'll see," a man told
the Rambler, anybody who
is anybody eventually walks
through that gate. Arthur
Godfrey has been flying in
here for years. Arnold Palm
er, the golfer, has come
through. Edgar Bergen and
Danny Kaye are private pi-
lots. You know, there are
something like $4,000 private
pilots.
"They might spend some
thing like $4,000 for an air
plane and then it costs
them about as much as a
Cadillac to operate. Gas runs
about 40 cents a gallon and
they can park for so cents
a day." he said.