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Evening star., 1963-05-12

There are the opportunities
Of watching a wide-eyed child
milk his first COW; gather
freshly-layed eggs and take a
plunge In the old swimming
hole-or in many cases, a mod
ern pool.
An editorial section in the
catalogue features a farm
hostess story of what farm
vacationing is really like; tells
how to make reservations
(Which can be arranged direct
with hosts or through travel
agencies).
Evening star., 1963-05-12

The listings describe the 10
cation, whether children are
welcome; culinary specials;
ages of the hosts children and
rates (averaging $45 a week for
adults; $25 for children; what
kind of animals the farm offers
and the host family's hobbies.
1t even notes the hosts who
can speak foreign languages.
A growing program, the farm
vacation plan had its first big
season last year.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
Second Vocation: Fun and Big Business

Who is the year around holi-
dayer? tt
High and middle income
bracket professional men and
business executives swell the
ranks as in the past.
SO do successful Main Street
merchants and their wives
Evening star., 1963-05-12

with trout streams, the Old
West town of Bridgeport with
its quaint gingerbread court
house, holds an unusual July
4 celebration-for the lO2d yea
Evening star., 1963-05-12

pense-paid trip to q vacation
spot, often In the winter. fall
or spring, as an incentive to
statesmen and dealers.
A "quickie" second vacation
increasingly attracts families
and couples away from home
for long week ends built around
Evening star., 1963-05-12

druggists, statesmen, honey
mooners, secretaries and appli-
ance dealers, some bound for
restful places on doctors ord
ers.
The second vacation" trend
has been hurried along by cor
porations which offer an ex-
Evening star., 1963-05-12

some Of the traditional holi-
days Thanksgiving. Labor Day
Easter. New Years and the late
January between semesters"
period at schools.
Hotels In Washington. At
lantic City and other cities,
and resorts off their peak sea-
sons, cater to this growing po-
tential, competing with exotic
foreign spots. =
Evening star., 1963-05-12
NOW WASHINGT0N'S FIRST JET
DIRECT TO MEXICO CITY

Leave Washington's Dulles Airport at
$50 PM, arrive in Mexico City at 9:45 PM
(local times) with no change Of planet
Choose Eastern's first-elass Jet Golden Fall
con service or, for just $2420o round trip,
Evening star., 1963-05-12
By ROGER LANE

Associated Press Business News Writer
NEW YORK.-Once upon a
time, Mr.. American worked all
year for q two-week summer
vacation to relax and store UP
enough energy to work all year
around.
But the pattern has changed
drastically under the impact Of
q growing prosperity.
Now there are off-season va
cations, winter vacations, Sec
ond vacations either as q sup
plement to the summer frolic
or q substitute for 1t, corpo-
rate group vacations, etc.
The net effect has been to
turn vacation going into a
year-long affair.
Not all are vacationers In
the traditional sense Of Pa and
Ma packing the kids off to q
northwoods lake for two weeks
in July. Nor will all who are
such vacationers break away
again for a week or two later
in the year.
Habits Changed
But they are holidayers. And
they attest to a change In
American living habits attuned
to bigger incomes. more leisure.
the quest for status" and
cheaper and speedier travel
among other things.
The year-around holiday fever
has had q big economic impact.
1t has ballooned cruise busi-
ness. air travel. clothing. sports
equipment, hotel and motel
building, advertising, oil, retail
ing, bank and finance company
lending-nearly the whole econ
omy.
A recent trade study showed
that As per cent Of vacationing
is done off season (fall. win
ter and spring. compared with
10 per cent in 1947.
Evening star., 1963-05-12

Jet Tourist. Also, nonstop jet to Mexico
City from New York. And ask about
Eastern's low-cost Happy Holidays"o
vacations in Mexico: days, 6 nights as low
as $1,000 per person, plus air fare, based on
Evening star., 1963-05-12

a party Of two, European plan. See your
Travel Agent or call EX $4,000. For fight
information, tune in Elite Facts, every
hour on the hour, 6 AM Midnight, over
WMAL-630 on your dial Or call 6s4-5272.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Negro Pocifist Details
Rights Fight Strategy

"the white students white radi-
Gals and white liberals who
truly want to be significant in
the civil rights movement :.
stay home and work as hard
as any SNCC worker in Mis-
sissippi to get a civil rights
bill passed and get white peo-
pie to support it,"
He suggested further that
many Of the white students
who join SNCC field workers
in the South could be more
effective by promoting such
things as economic boycotts in
their home communities.
II would like to see some
people not put on blue jeans
and go South, but go into West
Virginia and Kentucky and get
the white unemployed to join
us in this struggle" he said.
when the day comes that the
white unemployed Of the Ma
ton adopt the spirit, tactics
and social unheaval Of the civil
rights movement. then we are
on our way to revolution in this
country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
OdeII Coffey, e.;
District Barber
Over 80 Years

Odell G. Coffey. ST.. a Wash
ington barber for more than 80
years, died Friday at D. c.
General Hospital, where he was
recuperating from brain sur
gerry. He was So.
A native Of Rural Retreat,
Va Mr.. Coffey moved to
Washington as q youngster.
While working part-time, he
was graduated from Dunbar
High School and attended
Howard University briefly.
After leaving Howard, Mr..
Coffey became a barber In the
shop at the Whitelaw Hotel
where he worked three de-
cades.
He attended st. PauI-Augus-
tine Catholic Church.
Mr.. Coffey leaves his wife,
Mary Jane, of 7456 Blair road
NV, the home address; two
sons. Odell G., jr., and Charles
E., both Of the home address,
and q sister, Mrs. Georgia
johnson. Of Chicago.
Services will be at 10 am.
Wednesday at st. Paul-Augus-
tine Church, Fifteenth and v
streets NV, with burial in
Carver Memorial Cemetery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
AIwyn Lowe Merrill, ST., 81
Official Of Peoples Drug

Alwyn Lowe Merrill, ST., the
assistant secretary of Peoples
Drug Stores. Inc, died yester-
day at the National Institutes
Of Health after a long illness.
He was 81.
Mr.. Merrill, a native of Rich
mond, Utah, was graduated
from George Washington Univ
ersity. He had been employed
by Peoples since 1929.
During World War II he
served a year and a half with
the Red Cross in Australia and
the Philippines.
He was a member of the Sim
gleton Masonic Lodge. director
of the Peoples Credit Union, a
member of the Church Of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints
and for IL years served as Sec
rotary treasurer Of Council
Chevy Chase View, a Kensing-
ton citizens group. He was also
a member of Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon fraternity.
Mr.. Merrill leaves his wife,
Mrs. Ida Mae Merrill, of 1912
Glenridge street, Kensington,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Fred Myers, So, Executive
Of U. S. Humane Society

Fred Myers, SO, vice presi
dent and education director Of
the Humane Society of the
United States. died Of a heart
attack yesterday at his Dash
ington home.
tperman, began his work with
humane organizations in 1850,
when he was appointed editor
Of National Humane Review"
In 1854 he joined a group Of
lie a ding humanitarians in
founding the national society,
which grew to include branch
es, affiliates and members in
every State. He was executive
director for eight years.
An outSpoken champion of
the society's cause, Mr.. Myers
once told a Washington au-
dience his group favored "the
advancement and propagation
Of a kind Of ethics-not Just a
BE Kind to Kitty Week.
We're trying to teach chill
dren to be kind to animals be-
cause anyone without the quail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Cambridge Quiet.
Guard May Cut
Its Token Force

CAMBRIDGE, Md, Dec. 2
(AP).-The commander of the
National Guard will decide to-
morrow night whether a token
force on duty to maintain
racial peace will be reduced
further.
Brig. Gen. George M. Gelston
said his recommendation will
depend on what happens at q
meeting Of the Cambridge BIZ
racial Commission.
Negro leaders have been
marking time on their de-
mands for better social and
economic opportunities while
the commission tackles the
problem.
The number of guardsmen in
Cambridge has been reduced to
so, who are rotated every week.
Last summer there were $50
troops here.
Gen. Gelston is considering
whether to station only a
handful in town in the wake
of promise by Mrs. Gloria H.
Richardson, the Negro leader.
that no demonstrations will be
held at least until after Deem
Der %.
She said the guarantee was
out OF respect to the late Presi-
dent Kennedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Md. u. 18th in Nation
In FuII-Time Students

The University of Maryland
ranks 10th in the Nation in the
number Of full-time students
and 18th in total enrolment.
according to a survey report
released today in Cincinnati.
Its attendance statistics were
included in the annual report
on 1868 college enrollments by
DR.. Garland G. Parker. Univer-
sity Of Cincinnati registrar. the
Associated Press reported.
DR.. Parker noted that his
survey of 1907 accredited COL
legeS and universities in the
United States and Puerto Rico
shows a total of 2,594.519 full
time students and an overall
enrolment Of full and part
time students Of 3.702.331.
These totals, he said, repre-
sent increases of ga and SO
per cent. respectively. He
warned that the Nation thus
should be ready for a jolt"
when huge freshmen classes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
By CLARENCE HUNTER
Star Staff Writer

Civil rights organization must
add political and economic
muscle to their campaigns If
they are to upset the racial
status quo, a Negro pacifist
told members of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com
mittee here yesterday.
THE civil rights movement
is in extreme crisis in the North
and South the fact of the
matter is that we have been
slowed down." said Bayard
Rustin. deputy director of the
March on Washington which
was staged August %.
THE black people and the
handful Of white people do not
represent the political and eco
nomic strength to contend with
the forces which oppose U.S."
Mass demonstrations an
other protest techniques have
not produced any significant
breakthroughS against racial
segregation In the South. And
Northern Negroes are continu-
ing to face more severe dis
elimination in housing. educa-
ton and employment, Mr.. Rus
tin claimed.
You do not get rid of these
things by being enthusiastic,
getting hit on the buttocks and
putting people in jail" he told
white and Negro SNCC dele
gates to a conference at How
ard University. You must
think about political and eco
nomic programs"
Mr.. Rustin proposed that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

report to colleges in 1864 and
1865.
The University of California
is first among the 80 largest
universities for full time stu
dents with 62.240. The Uni
versity of Maryland is in 18th
place, the report showed, with
1921 full-time students. Be-
sides California, the top 10 in
cludes, in order. the State Uni
versity Of New York. City Uni
versity of New York, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois
Michigan State. Texas and
Indiana.
The grand-total enrollments
show the University of Mary
land in 18th place with 1926.
City University of New York.
with 101 PAT, is in first place.
Others in the top 10 are Cali
fornia, State University of New
York, Minnesota, New York
University. Wisconsin, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio State and Michi-
gan State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Mostly
cloudy tonight and tomorrow.
Low tonight in upper 20s; high
tomorrow in lows 40s.
Maryland-MoStly cloudy to-
night and tomorrow with snow
flurries in mountains. Low to-
night around 20 in west and 80
on the coast; high tomorrow
in 30s in west and 0s in the
east.
Virginia - Mostly cloudy to-
night and tomorrow with snow
flurrieS in mountains and some
chance Of rain over south CEN
trail and southeast portions.
Low tonight in 20s in west, low
30s on coast. high tomorrow
ranging from sos in extreme
southeast to 30s in mountains.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay - Variable winds
about 10 knots tonight and to-
morrow. Weather cloudy with
possibly a little rain in south
portion tomorrow. Visibility 5
to 10 miles.
Five-Day Forecast
Temperature should average
2 to 8 degrees below normals
for Washington of 48 and 80.
Cold weather will be followed
by rising temperatures in latter
part Of week. Some snow or
rain possibly near the week end.
30-Day Forecast
Temperatures should average
below seasonal normals in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

'ity Of compassion Is not happy
himself" he said. ANY child
who is lacking in the ability to
feel empathy is in need of
help"
Mr.. Myers was elected vice
president and education direc-
tor Of the organization last APP
Ri. Yesterday the society an
nounced plans to build a IA
acre, 100000 National HUI
name Education Center near
Waterford. Va, a project he
had worked on for many years.
Mr.. Myers also was a vice pres
ident Of the World Federation
for the Protection of Animals
and president of the Southern
Maryland Humane Society.
A native Of Appleton City.
Mo-, he was . former reporter
for the Kansas City. Journal,
the Kansas City Star and the
old New York Mirror. He was
also a former editor Of the Am
erican Newspaper Guild Re
porter"
During World War II, Mr..
Myers served as executive di-
rector of the American Society
for Russian Relief, an agency
of the National War Fund. Aft
er the war he became develop
ment officer and provost of the
New School for Social Re-
search in New York City.
He leaves his wife, Barbara,
of 1928 Brandywine street
NV, the home address; two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Insect MicroPhotos
Delight Scientists

Mr.. Sandved is photograph
ing the insects in their natural
colors. He is photographing
nearly microscopic parts. Then
he is enlarging these pictures
with another special technique
so that they can be projected
on a screen. The viewer finds
himself gasping with wonder
in this new, beautiful strange
world.
Mr.. Sandved's ultimate OBJ
jectiVe is a natural history for
children in which the enlarged
pictures will be included. The
readers will see flies and
spiders as they actually are in
their own world-not as the
usually colorleSs, bothersome
things they seem in this mac
roscopic world Of humans.
There were only gasps of
amazement when Mr.. Sandved
displayed a selection of his
pictures for the first time be-
fore a scientific audience re-
Gently. Even the insect special
lists in the audience were be-
holding a realm Of nature they
had not realized before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
By THOMAS r. HENRY
star Special Writer

Actually a creature Of exqui-
site beauty is that contemptu-
ously swatted pest-the COM
mon house fly.
Its loneliness centers in its
two protruding red eyes. Each
compound eye has about 1000
facets. each Of these in itself
a tiny eye. From the flat sur
face of each facet light re-
fleets brilliantly in various di-
rections and in interviewer
patterns.
Such is the way throughout
the insect world where minute
bodily parts often show ex-
quisite coloring and pattern
ing invisible to mans naked
eye and unnoticed when exam
ined with a microscope.
Now, however, KEEL B. Sand
we'd, Norwegian natural history
student, is working with a re-
fined system of microphotog-
raphy in the worlds largest in
sect collection, the aSsemblage
Of Is million speciments at
the Smithsonian Institution. 1t
bugs from all over the
world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Charles B. Groy Dies;
u. S. Lawyer IS Years

the Maritime and Interstate
Commerce Commissions.
He was q veteran Of World
War / and a member Of Lsfay-
cite Masonic Lodge No. 10.
A brother, Chester H. Gray,
is corporation counsel for the
District Of Columbia.
Besides his brother, Mr.. Gray
leaves his wife, the former Rhea
Shank, and a son, william D.,
both Of 6504 Barnaby street
NV. the home address.
Services will be at 1870 pm.
tomorrow at the Gawler Funeral
Home, Wisconsin avenue at
Harrison street NV. 80
The family requests that ex-
preSsions Of sympathy be in the
form Of contributions to q IA
vorite charity. f.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

Charles B. Gray. a lawyer
who served the Federal Mari
time Commission and the In
terstate Commerce Commission
IS years. died of cancer yes
terday at Sibley Memorial Hos
pital. He was 81.
A native Of Pittsburgh, Mr..
Gray moved to Washington in
1917 as the second employe
hired by the old United States
Shipping Board. He began as a
stenographer while studying at
the National Law School. now
a part of George Washington
University, from which he grad
uated in 1927.
After receiving his law degree,
Mr.. Gray became a hearing
commissioner with the Federal
Maritime Commission and for
the next "a years served both
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
President Visits
Walter LiPpmunn
By The Associated Pres

President Johnson took a
roundabout route home from
the White House last night to
pay a 47-minute call on Walter
Lippmann, the newspaper CO.
lumniSt.
Mr.. JohnSon's motorcade.
with motorcycle escort, got
within a mile Of his Spring
Valley home when it turned ar
ound and went to a large house
near the Washington Cathe-
dral.
The President loped up the
steps into the building while
two men and q woman who
were riding with him stayed
behind in his limousine.
Mr.. Lippmann, who lives on
Woodley road not far from the
Cathedral, confirmed later that
the President had paid him a
personal, friendly call before
dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Regional Jail Program
Studied in MARYLAND

Mr.. Weant said his commit
tee will begin its investigation
this month or next.
Gov. Tawes requested the in
quiry.
There have been numerous
complaints in recent years, F"
said Mr.. Weant. There, is def
initely room for improvement. "
Some county jails are more
than 80 years old. A 1862 State
inspection showed their prison.
er populations ranged from 2
in st. Marys County to 1850 in
Baltimore City.
Separate jails are main
tanned by the city and each of
the % counties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

BALTIMORE, Dec. 2 CAP)-
A legislative committee investi-
eating Maryland jails will
check the possibility of setting
up regional jails to serve small
Maryland counties.
Senator Edward o. Weant,
jr., Democrat of Carroll, chair
man of the Legislative Council
Committee on Prison Admins
tration, said this is one possible
solution to the problem of mad
equate or substandard jail ia
cilities.
Some county officials feel
that necessary Improvements
to their jail facilities could not
be justified by the relatively
little use made of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Suxon Will Head
Heart Fund Drive

James j. Saxon. Controller of
the Currency, will serve for the
second consecutive year as gen.
eral chairman Of the Washing
ton Heart Fund drive for 1864.
DR.. W. Proctor Harvey, presi-
dent Of the Washington Heart
Association. said the local drive
will start February / and end
February %, when $4,000 vol
unteers will visit their neigh
bors on Heart Sunday to distri-
butte educational materials and
receive contributions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

the home address; two sons,
Slwyn Lowe Merrill, jr., and
Richard Mariner Merrill. also
of the home address; two sist-
ers, Mrs. Ann Christensen, Of
Salt Lake City. and Mrs. Ruth
Shurtz, of California; a half
sister. Mrs. Fran Sessions, Of
California, and a half-brother,
Charles johnson, jr., Of Logan,
Utah.
Services will be at IL am.
Wednesday at the Robert Pum-
phrey Funeral Home. 1857 WIS.,
consin avenue, Bethesda, with
burial in Parklawn Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

sons. Edward, of Chappaqua, N.
Y. and Robert j., of the home
address, and two daughters,
Miss Mariann Myers, of the
home address, and Miss Ia
mara Myers, a student at Bos-
ton University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

For high and low tides at the fol-
lowing points. subtract times indicated
from the above: Annapolis, ga hours:
Bloody Point Light. 4l7 hours; Colonial
Beach. hours: Deale, 4la hours;
Solomons Island, ga hours: Point
Lookout, IA hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

southwest quarter of the Ma
ton. Above normal tempera-
lures are expected for New
England, the West Coast and
a large area extending from the
Western Lakes to the North
ern Rockies. In other regions
near normal temperatures can
be expected
Precipitation should be greater
than normal in Atlantic and
Gulf Coastal States. Near nor
NAL amounts are anticipated
in a zone extending from the
Eastern lakes through the
Ohio and Tennessee valleys to
the Southern plains. In I'M
specified areas near normal
precipitation is indicated.
River ReDort
Potomac River clear at Harpers
Ferry and muddy at Great Falls. Shen-
andoah clear at HarperS Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
Midnisht - 81 Noon ------- 80
sam am. " 81 sP P.m. g
Record Temperatures for the Year
Highest. 20 on May q, June 10 and
July ~.
Lowest, 3 on January "a.
Tide Tables
Furnished by the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1963-02-02
Tenth Year Noted
By Temple Baptist

Charter members of Temple
Hills Baptist Church will be
recognized at the 10:45 am
services tomorrow marking the
10th anniversary Of the found
ing of the congregation.
Pastor Robert Suite will
speak on Citizens Of ChriSt's s
Kingdom" at the morning
service at the church, 4783 st
Barnabas road Sc. At evening
worship. 7:30 pm, slides will be
shown Of development from q
Sunday school of So members
to the present 1,255-person
congregation.
The church was originally es-
tablished on five acres donated
by its sponsor, Fountain Me-
mortal Baptist Church, and has
plans for erecting a sanctuary
seating 1900 persons.