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A-14 THE EVENING STAR » Wortington, 0. C., Saturday, January i, 1960 j SMB** < : lift ■ x„ - ■*T***rs--1 I - ■■ "'"dM ft --'"i PARKWAY PROGRESSES ON MARYLAND SHORE Grading of the Maryland portion of the George Washington Memorial parkway is well along as this area near Little Falls indicates. The camera, poised atop the new Little Falls raw water pumping station, looks across a specially fabricated concrete bridge built over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Christmas Area Sales At New High Christmas trade in Washing ton area department stores ap parently reached a new high with the help of a late rush, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond disclosed yesterday. Department store sales in the area were 3 per cent ahead of a year earlier in the four weeks ending December 26, the bank reported. Sales in the week ending De cember 26 jumped 23 per cent ahead of a year ago. to give a push to the sales figures. Area sales for the year to data were 5 per cent above a year ago. The downtown portion of the area department store sales total made a much less favor able showing without the aid of suburban branches. Downtown sales in the four weeks before Christmas were 2 per cent behind a year ago al though they were 16 per cent ahead in the last week. For the year to date, downtown sales were off 1 per cent. Baltimore area department store sales were 3 per cent be hind a year ago in the four weeks, despite a gain of 6 per cent in the week, and for the year to date were just even with 1958 levels. Downtown Balti more sales were 11 per cent behind in four weeks and off 2 per cent in the week. For the year to date they were down 9 per cent. For the entire Fifth Federal Reserve District, of which Washington and Baltimore are a part, the week's sales were up 16 per cent, four weeks' sales were up 1 per cent and volume for the year to date was 3 per cent above a year ago. Tawes Receives ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 2 (AP).— About 1,700 Marylanders turned out yesterday to help Gov. and Mrs. Tawes usher in the New Year with the traditional re ception at Government House. MEMO FROM THE EDITOR The 60s Will Introduce Exciting Changes HAPPY (?) NEW DECADE—The 1960 s are likely to see lots of changes In everyday life—flexible homes, cars that steer themselves, cooked-ln-a-minute meals. TV-equipped telephones. These aren’t pipe dreams. Industry already has them in the works. Finance expert Dexter Keezer describles what’s to be expected In the next ten years In This Week Magazine. OUR “SOFT-SELL” SECRETARY—In contrast to the late Secretary Dulles, who made a science of Inter national statecraft, Secretary of State Herter approaches It as an art. For a study of the human side of these two great leaders, see SUNDAY, The Star Magazine. TEEN-AGERS AND RELIGION—TEEN Magazine asks some of the 11,000 youths who attended the Capital Teen Convention at the National Guard Armory whether or not religion helps teen-agers. Their interesting answers appear this Sunday. NEW DISNEY COMIC— “Toby Tyler,” a new and excit ing circus story about a boy who runs away from his uncle’s farm to join the Big Top, begins in The Star this Sunday. I Phone Lincoln 3-5000 for Home Delivery House Cabinetmakers Kept Busy Meeting Congressmen's Requests By HAYNES JOHNSON , Star StaO Writer Louis Gramlich brushed i away some wood shavings from . a long work bench, leaned back ‘ and began to talk about his job I with the Government. I “Well, I started here 29 years ago. Then we only had a cou -1 pie of saws over there,” he ’ said, pointing to the other side of the room where a workman was cutting a board to size. ’ ; “Now we’ve got, well, what you '■ can see here: All kinds of 1 equipment. “What do we make? Just ' about everything. A Congress man may need more book , I shelves—they always need more ’ book shelves or a magazine 1 rack or a table or some knick ’ knacks for his desk. We do [ them all. . “But really we’re cabinet- > makers. That’s the job.” Louis Gramlich is the fore t man of the House Cabinet Shop. , The shop—a long, rectangular ' room lined with tools—is located off a basement cor . rldor of the'Old House Bulld- Jing. ’ There is no sign on the large r wooden door set in the stone [ walls and the passerby gener -5 ally walks past unaware of the 1 shop. t Strange Ideas Checked c “Sometimes they’ll come up ; with some strange ideas,” Mr. 1 Gramlich was saying. “You know, like fancy designs. But 1 we usually talk to them and > decide on something more J simple. And they're pleased. ! “The way it works,” he ex-1 ’ plained, “is the Congressman I will write to the Clerk of the s House saying he wants some work done. Then, when the clerk approves it, we do it. . “And. of course, we do repair work on the House floor furni ture—a table needs a leg fixed, I or a new top. things like that. - I “We do most of our work in ' walnut or mahogany. It’s tra- , • ditional; it's the kind they've . used around here for a long as part of the water simply complex Up the hill, running through the town of Brookmont, Md., are D. C. Transft System’s Cabin John streetcar line, to be abandoned, and MacArthur boulevard. Star Staff Photo by Francis Routt. 3 time. We use a lot of plywood.' i too. 1 “Now look at that piece over ( there.” He picked up a small t piece of wood and ran his t pencil over the edges. “Seven layers of plywood right there, t Why. a sledge hammer couldn’t < break it.” He smiled and put r the board down. “I remember I made two i large buffets for the House. : One is in the Republican cloak c room and the other in the 1 Democratic. They use it for 1 doughnuts and so forth.” i Mr. Gramlich, 66. learned his trade in a firm downtown, i He did some furnitttre work for i the old Supreme Court quar- I ters and then took the job in i the House Cabinet Shop. t Blanketed in |* “No. I wasn't under civil t service then,” he recalled. “But i in 1937 we all were blanketed c in. | “You know,” he said, run- i ning his hand through his i white hair, “it’s funny the way it works. A Congressman’s sec retary will want a magazine rack or something like that, and we ll make it. Then they all want it. “There's no slack time around here, no sir. It keeps someone running up and down- 1 ■I I E AnneArundel ( Water Rate ; Boost Halted i BALTIMORE, Jan. 2 'AP).— ] The Public Service Commission has delayed a proposed increase ; in Northern Anne Arundel County water rates for 120 days and plans to hold a public hearing. County officials went to the PSC and the courts Thursday in an effort to block the 50 per cent rate increase proposed by Baltimore officials for water the city furnishes county . consumers. Judge James K. Cullen re- ( fused to issue an order tern- , porarily restraining the city I from imposing the new rates. f which were to have gone into v effect yesterday. f But the PSC ordered a delay and called for a hearing. The , commission said the boost , sought was a “material in crease” and the city has not shown it was justified. Meanwhile. City Solicitor ' Harrison L. Winter said the ' city will seek a court injunc tion to set aside the PSC sus pension. Het said the commis sion’s move would upset the ‘ city's plans to balance its 1960 E budget. e Purse Snatchers i Rob 2 Women I Blanche Hale. 86, of 2517 r Mozart place N.W., had her c purse containing $5 snatched * as she walked in the hallway of her apartment house about 1 6:30 p.m. yesterday, police ' reported. i 1 Police said the thief was de- . scribed as a white youth, wear- J ing a 'three-quarter length J light coat and dark pants. { In another pocketbook , snatching, Margereta Stull, 56, j of 1300 Clifton street N.W., losti { her purse to a youth who , grabbed it from her left hand as she was in a parking lot at t the rear of the Clifton street < address about 6:55 p.m. ii stairs all day. I used to think I’d get three months off when, Congress adjourns, but it doesn't work that way. There's always something to do.” , He and the four men who , work under him put in a 5 >4- • day week, from 7:30 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon. , Occasionally, he says, a rush- . up job will be needed: A ; rostrum for a committee room , or repairing furniture on the House floor; but most of the time it's steady work, day in and out. “When I came here we were 1 pretty crowded.’’ Mr. Gramlich 1 said. “Everything was all in , this room. Now we have separate rooms for the lumber j and the finishing and up- ' holstery shops. “You’d probably want to see : the finishing shop. That’s i right down the hall. Just cross ' over that board where they’re painting. That’s it,” the fore- : man said and went back to ; work. i Tall Cedars Group ] Picks Silva as Head Joseph F. Silva, local insur- i ance broker, has been elected grand Tall Cedar of Capitol i Forest No. 104 of the Tall Ce dars of Lebanon. Other officers elected were Clarence H. Lutz, former dep uty chief of police, senior dep- i uty grand Tall Cedar: Sergt. i Harold A. Harris, Air Force re cruiting officer, junior deputy.: grand Tall Cedar; James G.'i Reese, treasurer, and Harold C. 1 Keesling, scribe. b OVIUANS BY DAY Elite Reserve Unit Ready for Guerrilla Warfare From Monday through Fri-- day, Erven E. Boettner, a 42- year-old, soft-spoken native of Omaha, Nebr., occupies one of half a dozen desks in Room 6115, audit division. Internal Revenue Service, commutes to his home and family at 9518: Crosby road. Silver Spring. Md., I and generally lives the life of the United States Government worker. But if war broke out in the next few hours, Lt. Col. Boett ner’s desk suddenly would be empty and he would be gone— deep behind enemy lines. For come the week ends, Col. Boett ner commands a reserve detach ment of the Army's elite, little publicized Special Forces (Air borne! whose job it is to con duct guerrilla warfare in the enemy’s heartland. When the 316th Special Forces Operational (Airborne) Detachment was organized at Fort Myer, Va., last summer, Col Boettner became its com manding officer, took up para chuting again for the first time since World War II when he served in the 509th Parachute Battalion attached to the sth Army. “It all comes back real fast.” he says. Special Forces troops rank high among the world’s tough- I est fighting men. and their training is the closest thing to actual combat extant. One SF reservist, who led a regular in fantry rifle platoon in Korea, says the training “is sometimes more real than combat.” In the course of a year, SP training might include para chuting into a pine forest at I night, sloshing for days on end 2 Bondsmen Re-instated In County Two bondsmen have been re instated in Prince Georges County following their payment of past forfeitures and retitling of real estate deeds used as security. Two of the four bondsmen suspended last month have not yet met these requirements, ac cording to County State's At torney William L. Kahler. He said the two re-instated bondsmen are George M. (Mitt Jones of Hyattsville, and George A. Patterson of Fair mount Heights. Still not au thoriaed Co write bonds are Wally Baker of Hyattsville and | Sidney Griffith of Upper Marl boro, Mr. Kahler added. Mr. Jones has paid about $3,800 in forfeitures and had some $ 1.30 d stricken by Hyatts ville Pdfcce Court Judge George J. O’Hare, Mr. Kahler said. He f said Mr. Patterson paid about $4,000. Each has re titled property deeds so they are solely in the name of the bondsmen. C. Herbert Cole of Clinton, a newcomer in the business, was authorized this week to start writin bonds, the prosecutor said. 10 Arson-Set Fires Cause $lOO Damage Ten small fires touched off simultaneously caused about $lOO damage yesterday to a vacant one-story building of .the old St. Ann's Orphanage jin Berwyn Heights, Prince Georges County fire officials I report. 'through alligator-infested Flor ■ Ida swamps, inching up marble smooth cliffs in the Rockies and jumping from landing craft (in full field equipment) into the Atlantic surf at Little , Creek, Va. What It Takes Here’s what it takes to qual ify for the SF’s sky blue ar rowhead arm patch with gold lightning flashes: 1. Applicants must sign a statement volunteering for six (years, “fully realizing that . Special Forces teams will be deployed immediately on the outbreak of hostilities deep be hind enemy lines lo organize. ; train and exploit guerrilla forces and to perform other missions as directed . . .” , 2. At least six months’ ac tive military duty. 3. Qualification as a para trooper. This involves three to' four weeks of rugged training, including five jumps. 4. A “Class 1 physical pro file.” that is, A-l physical shape. 5. Well-above-average grades t in the Armed Forces Qualifica tion Test (if an enlisted man). 6. Willingness to acquire all ' manner of special skills, from ' judo to foreign languages. From tfie American Revolu i tion down through Mosby's ' Guerrillas in thft Civil War to Merrill’s Marauders in World , War 11. guerrilla operations i have played a vital part in this j Nation’s military history. But 1 it wasn't until the spring ofii 1952 that the Army began to 1 ; go all-out, in peacetime, to : 1 prepare for eventual guerrilla l Virginia Luxury Tax Preferred by Mann < King Leads Negroes In Richmond March 1,500 at State Capitol Call for Repeal Os Legislation Curbing Integration i RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 2 (AP). Some 1,500 Negroes marched on the State Capitol yesterday and approved a reso- 1 lution asking the General Assembly to repeal the State’s free dom of choice school legislation and the State Pupil Placement 1 Act. 1 The Negroes, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, also 1 asked the Legislature to give Gov. Almond emergency au thority to reopen Prince Ed ward County's public schools. The 17-block march to the one-time Caoitol of the Con federacy followed a two-hour “pilgrimage of prayer” attend ed by some 2,500 Negroes and a scrattering of whites at R1 chm o n d's Mosque audi torium. Dr. King, leader of Ala bama’s bus boycott, was the featured speaker at the big meeting, a religious rally of | protest against the closing of Prince Edward County's pub lic schools. “Nothing in more sublime than suffering and sacrifice for a great cause,” Mr. King said of the Prince Edward County Negroes. There have been no Negro schools in the county since last spring, when the board of supervisors, exer cising Virginia's freedom of choice plan, abandoned public education rather than accept court-ordered integration. Private Schools Open A private group has been operating schools for white children. Recently another white group announced its in - tention of starting private schools for Negroes. “I do hope,” Dr. King said, “that citizens in that com munity will not accept the of fer of private schools for Negroes. I hope they won’t sell their birthright of freedom for a mess of segregated pot tage.” Dr. King, president of the ' Southern Christian Leadership , Conference, said attempting to resist integration “is like stand- ? City Files Suits Monday To Oust Wharf Tenants v - : d The District will file eviction - suits in Municipal Court Mon- - day to force the remaining e occupants of the Municipal, i Fish Wharves to vacate their - city-owned quarters. The papers will be deposited t in landlord and tenant branch dos the court. City officials - estimated about a dozen of e their former tenants there are 1. still adamant against leaving, d These are the ones to be named . in the suits. y Corporation Counsel Chester e H. Gray pointed out the res i taurateurs and fish dealers a received lease termination no s tices about a year ago. At the t 'occupants’ request, many were it granted extensions of their i leases. _ I Last Tuesday, however, the District Commissioners ordered the property along Maine ave nue S.W. near Twelfth street be vacated and razed ‘with all possible speed.” The clearance ff i project is part of the South it west Redevelopment program, a The existing block of water >f front structures is in the way e of the Washington Channel e Bridge now being built as part is of the Southwest freeway | James H. McCallister, Dis- Jsß <4^, ; ly LT. COL. ERVEN E. BOETTNER i I 1 warfare. The first such unit, the 10th Special Forces (Air- , borne) Group, was activated May 19. 1952, at Fort Bragg, N. C. Crowd in to Join From their inception, SF units have been deluged with eager applicants. The same is true of the reserve. The 316th, which is part of XXI Corps (Virginia, West Virginia, Mary land, Ohio. -Pennsylvania and the District), 2d Army, is typi cal. Its intelligence officer, Capt. Richard Friedman, 34, a District attorney, says: “When we opened up we had so many applicants—good ap plicants—that we had to post MP’s to handle the crowd. Some of them, though, thought ing against a tidal wave.... It 1 is an unstoppable movement.’’ ' In effect, ho said, Negroes J 1 are saying to white segrega tionists: “We will wear you down by our capacity to suffer, |. and in the process we will win your hearts.” The Negro “has a new sense ;of destiny to struggle, sacrifice and even die ... We stand on j the threshhold of the most . constructive period in the Na- , tion's history in race relations We stand on the border of the promised land of integration,”! he said. “Dark Night of the Sool” !( Speakers preceding Dr. King : at the Mosque rally were Robert D. Robertson, president of the Virginia NAACP; Oliver 1 W. HUI. chairman of the Vlr- 1 ginla NAACP legal staff; L. Francis Griffin, president of i the Prince Edward County i Christian Association, and i Robert G. Williams, co-ordina tor of the mass meeting. Mr. Williams said Virginia j “is experiencing the dark night; i of the soul. We have closed : - schools because we have closed I hearts.” Dr. King told the audience that “all men are created equal 1 —that is the universalism at ' , the center of the American < , dream. That shows the eternal . distinction between democracy i and totalitarianism.” However, he said, the Amer- i lean dream “has been scarred : and bruised and never achievedJi America proudly professed the i i principles of democracy but j i sadly practiced the antithesis • of those principles.” , 1 1 trict director of administrative , services, said that, regardless of whether the wharves occu-| pants are out next week, at least one small unoccupied building will be razed as a starter. This is located in the present parking lot area. Tenants who oppose moving will have an opportunity in : Municipal Court to state their objections once the city has < initiated eviction action. , < Dawn Fire Damages Building in Danville • DANVILLE. Va., Jan. 2 (AP). , —The city's worst fire in a year 1 ushered in 1960. ■ The blaze caused consider able damage to the Arcade ( Building on Main street, which ( houses professional offices and business concerns. 1 Fire was discovered around ' 3 a.m. and was under control ( four hours later. It appeared to originate in the flooring be- ( neath the office of a doctor. < we were looking for men with 40-inch chests and 4-inch heads to jump out of airplanes with sacks full of explosives,! raise hell, then beat it. One man, an amateur ‘free-fall’' parachute artist, even came in with his own parachute under his arm.” A pleasant, pipe-smoking in dividual who served with the Office of Strategic Services dur ing World War 11, Capt. Fried man said the accent tn SF is on brains, not brawn. (Cour-' age is taken for granted.) SF units are made up of “teams,” varying in size ac cording to the mission. An average team is made up of about 15 men. led by a captain The men are experts in a wide variety of disciplines, including demolitions, weaponry, com munications. Their job. once ! behind enemy lines, is to or ganize “regiments” of parti sans numbering anywhere from 10 to 1,000 men, and to| see that they are trained, sup plied and co-ordinated with regular military operations.! Based upon World War II ai.d Korea experience, it is esti-1 mated that each 15-man team could organize and direct as many as 1,500 partisans. Strategic Value The value of this sort of op eration was dramatically illus trated during World War II when Tito's partisans effec tively tied down 15 German di visions in Yugoslavia—divi sions that were desperately needed on both the Russian and Normandy -onts. The most-decoiated man in| Delegate Says He Is Opposed To Sales Levy Arlington State Delegate Harrison Mann today proposed a tax on luxuries rather than an across-the-board sales tax if Virginia needs more money. Mr. Mann said he still has not been convinced that a withholding provision on the State income tax levy would not provide sufficient extra funds to meet State needs. Mr. Mann’s position was contrary to that taken yester day by Arlington State Senator Charles R. Fenwick. Senator Fenwick said a sales tax “seems to be the only answer” for meeting Virginia's revenue needs. Tax of “Last Resort” Mr. Mann said: “I have repeatedly stated that I was opposed to a sales tax-. In my judgment it is a tax of last resort. I believe the needs of the State can be met by a with holding tax in connection with the State income tax, as has been adopted by 19 States. In the event witholding does not meet the full needs of the State then excise or sales taxes should be placed on luxuries and not across the board as proposed by the Governor. “In the event, however, that the sales tax forces prove powerful enough to enact a sales tax, certain other taxes will be removed. Heretofore I have suggested that the $2OO , dependency exemption be in creased to. MOO and that the first 2 per cent of Income tax be removed. I have, however, found a great deal of sentiment for removal of the personal property tax on household fur nishings in preference to any other form of tax relief." Publie Opinion Invited Mr. Mann said he would “wel come an expression of opinion from the people of Arlington” on what taxes they would like to see removed if the sales tax is enacted. Delegate William L. Winston of Arlington last month pro posed legislation to exempt food and drugs from the sales tax. State Senator John A. K. Donovan of Falrfax-F alls Church, who opposes the sales tax, has proposed instead a bill to give a $6OO across-the-board income exemption for the tax payer, his wife and each de pendent child. Loudoun Gets New Sheriff LEESBURG, Va.. Jan. Loudoun County's new sheriff, Max Dwyer, took office yester day to begin his ffcur-year term. He succeeded Roger F. Powell, who held the office for eight years. Sheriff Dwyer has named seven deputies. They include the reappointment of field deputies Robert W. Legard of Lovettsville and Lloyd Darr of Arcola. Preston Bell of Hills boro is a new field deputy. Winifred Hardy of Lees burg is the resident jailer and C. R. Turner and W. F. Peach, jr., of Leesburg, have been named deputy-dispatcher-jail er. Mrs. Vivian Cross of Sterl ing is the new deputy-dispatch er-matron. Two special deputies named are Albert Laycock and Lan don P." Compher. Col. Boettner's detachment is Lt. Col. Lennis Jones, 45, from the farming country of De i Quincy. La. He wears the Dis tinguished Service Cross for heroism m Luxembourg on January 7, 1945, where he was serving as a captain with the 1 5th Infantry Division. With his first sergeant, he i was overrun by 30 counter attacking Germans armed with Schmeiser machine pistols. The sergeant was killed instantly. Col. Jones dived for a shallow foxhole and became separated from his carbine in the process. Whipping out his Colt .45 auto matic. he "killed about half of them and ran the rest of them off,” as he puts it. His score: Five dead, six wounded, the other 19 hot-footing back to the German lines through the swirling snow. Came Running Col. Jones, who lives in Ar lington. had retired after 24 years of service in the regular army and active reserve and was working as a civilian em ploye of the Army in the Pen tagon when he caught wind of (this new outfit. He came run ning like a firehorse. Lt. Col. Melvin Blair (U. S. Army, ret.), who helped or ganize the first Special Forces units, has written: “My experience with Special Forces revived my faith in the American fighting spirit. It re assured me that there is no feat of arms that American soldiers cannot perform if they are properly trained and led.” ! By North American Nevapaper Alliance