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A squad of Marines, who normally act as ceremonial troops, streets S.E., to practice for their combat role in event of a
clerks or members of the Drum and Bugle Corps, deploy on national emergency. That’s the home of the commandant,
the parade ground at the Marine Barracks, Eighth and I Gen. David M. Shoup, in the background.
200 D. C. Marines Form Rifle Unit
Ready for Short Notice Deployment
By JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star Staff Writer
Two hundred Marines sta
tioned at the Eighth and I
Streets S.E. Marine Barracks
have been formed into a
standby rifle company for de
ployment with the Fleet Ma
rine Force on eight days’ no
tice in event of emergency.
The Washington Leather
necks have been designated by
the Commandant, Gen. David
M. Shoup, as H Company, 2d
Battalion, Bth Marine Regiment
and are now an organic part
of the combat-ready 2d Ma
rine Division based at Camp
Lejeune, N. C.
If an emergency arises, the
Marines explained, the Wash
ington contingent would Join
nearly 1,000 more Marines
from the Marine Corps Schools
at Quantico, Va„ and prepare
to move out.
The Washington - Quantico
Battalion Team is commanded
by Lt. Col. D. W. Price of Quan
tico. H Company is com
manded by Capt. Arthur L.
Stewart, Jr., of 325 Roseld
courts, Glassmanor, Md. It
consists of three rifle platoons
and a weapons platoon, each
commanded by a lieutenant.
More Teams Planned
Meanwhile, as part of the
Marine Corps' program of gen
eral readiness for war or brush
fire. Gen. Shoup disclosed that
five more Battalion Landing
Teams will be created between
now and June 30. 1961. The
six new battalions will raise
to 27 the number of combat
BLTs on active duty with the
Marines.
The Washington contingent
will carry out its regular duties
here unless an emergency
arises, according to Lt. Col.
Donald L. Mallory, executive
officer at the barracks.
He said the commanding
officer, Col. Charles J. Bailey,
already has begun extending
the training of the men desig
nated for the standby com
pany. Normally they are
ceremonial troops, clerks or ,
instructors . with the Marine 1 ,
Corps Institute, members of I,
the Drum and Bugle Corps or '
members of the Headquatrers j
and Service Company at the
barracks. (
However, since Gen. Shoup s
ordered their formation into a i
rifle company on September 1, ,
the officers have had one com- 1
mand post exercise at Quan- i
tico and large-scale maneuvers [i
Reception Planned
For New Residents
New residents of Falls Church
have been invited to a recep
tion to be given by the League
of Women Voters at the Cross
man Methodist Church, 384
North Washington street, at 8
p.m. Friday.
The Mayor, city manager,
councilmen, superintendent of 1
schools, and city department .
heads will speak at the gather
ing, which is open to all who
have become Falls Church resi
dents since January, 1960. ,
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Safety Talks
Mansfield Lists
District Visits
Inspector Dick Mansfield,
director of The Star's School
Safety Program, will give his i
cartoon safety chalk-talks at
the following schools in the
District this week:
Tomorrow Edmonds,
10:45 am.
Tuesday—Drew, 9:15 a.m.
Wednesday Mott, 9:15
and 10:45 am.
Thursday—Eckington, 9:15
a.m.
Friday Cleveland. 9:15 i
and 10:45 a.m.
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The contrast in the Marines’ duties is shown by a sentry in dress blues
at the main gate, Pfc. John Kaczynski (left), pnd Corpl. R. W. Gregory,
who is in combat uniform.—Star Staff Photos by Paul Schmick.
sre planned for early Novem
-ser.
Meanwhile, the Washington
Marines have their rifles and
equipment. They also are
irmed with light machine guns
ind rocket launchers, in addi
tion to their basic rifles. Brown
ng automatic rifles and pistols.
They cannot train adequately
or combat on the green parade
ground in front of the Com
nandant's House at Eighth
md I streets, but there is a
reavy program of schooling on
veapons, tactics and other
nilitary arts in progress. i
Machine Tests Blood *
With Just a Pin Prick
By CHARLES G. BROOKS ’1
Star Staff Writer |
A pin prick in the finger or d
the heel is all that’s needed to
get enough blood for testing ’
with new precision equipment ,
just installed at Providence (
Hospital and the Andrews Air
Force Base hospital. |
The new system requires only i
one-hundredth to one-thou- i
sandth the amount of blood (
that must be taken from a pa- j
tient by a syringe for conven- j
tional tests. j
Dr. Kenneth L. McCoy, chief i
pathologist at Providence said i
the equipment is valuable for <
the very young and the very|<
old. i
It also enables technicians to ’
make precise blood chemistry p
determinations on accident vic-' 1
tims. or others in shock who '
cannot safely give blood in the I
amounts required by conven- !
tional tests, he declared.
Regular testing methods, Dr.j
McCoy noted, require up to 25 p
cubic oentimenters per day i
from one individual for the i
many tests demanded by mod
j ern medical practice. While the .
(average adult can stand this, i
the newborn baby has no more i
[than 150 cc’s and cannot. Nor :
can the very old person, who :
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The Marine Corps manpower
ceiling is the same now as it
was in 1959—175,000 men. Re
establishment of the six new
Battalion Landing Teams
(about 1,350 men each with
supporting units) was made
possible, according to Gen.
Shoup, by reducing the number
!of Marines assigned to train
ing. security and support duties.
He said the Marines, with
175.000 men. can carry out all
assigned missions except that
of mobilization in event of a
(general war.
may have developed complica-I
tions after surgery, afford ton
lose that much blood, he said.
Dr. McCoy declared that the j
ultramicrochemical system can s
analyze drop-size samples of j
blood as small as one-millionth (
of a liter within a few minutes. f
As a result, he said, certain ,
blood chemical changes other- ]
wise fatal in very young in
fants can be quickly detected
and checked. This, he said.l!
is particularly important when 1
it comes to the Rh blood factor ’
in babies. H
The machine is so compact 1
that it can be assembled on a '
desk or table top and is an
entire laboratory system in 5
miniature, Dr. McCoy said. It; (
was perfected only within the 1
i last year and only a few oper-1
ational models have been pro
duced to date. It is, he re-i
ported, capable of keeping it
self clean and is almost fool
proof to operate.
The new equipment will be ■
reserved for the time being for
the newborn, the elderly, small
children, accident, post-opera
tive and shock cases. Some
53,700 biochemical tests are
performed each year at Provi
dence, he said, and the new
machine could not carry the i
load alone.
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Sunday Star
WASHINGTON, 0. C., SEPTEMBER 25, 1960
D. C. Police
Cost Ranks
6th in U. S.
The District paid more for
police protection in fiscal 1959
than any other city of com
parable size, according to a
report released yesterday by
the Census Bureau.
Expenditures for police work
here amounted to $20.3 million
in the year ended June 30,
1959, the report showed. Balti
more ranked a close second
with expenditures totaling $19.8
million.
Five major cities—with pop
ulations of a million or more—
paid more for police protection
than the District did in the
same fiscal year. The five are
New York, $159.8 million; Chi
cago, $70.7 million: Los An
geles. $42.6; Philadelphia, $32.8
million, and Detroit, $30.6 mil
lion.
The District ranked third
among all cities below New
York and Chicago in its total
expenditures for capital pro
jects. New York spent $413.7
million in this category; Chi
cago spent $116.9 million and
the District spent more than
$73 million. Los Angeles rank
ed fourth in this category with
a total of $67 million.
Capital outlay expenditures
cover such matters as construc-
I tion of new buildings and
property and street improve
ments.
The District ranked highest
among cities of comparable
sjze in amount of income col
lected through licenses in
cluding automobile registra
tions—with a total of nearly
$11.3 million. Detroit, one of
the five major cities listed, col
lected only $4.1 million in this
category, and Baltimore’s total
was $5.2 million.
Staggered
Hours Plan
Report Near
A Budget Bureau study on
staggering the working hours
of certain Federal employes in
the Washington area is nearing
completion. The bureau ex
pects to submit its proposal
to the White House within a
few weeks.
The purpose of the plan is
to alleviate rush-hour traffic
jams.
George G. Mullins, chief of
the bureau's office of property
and systems management, said
that the report, compiled after
discussion with the various
Federal agencies involved and
the District Highway Depart
ment. should be ready soon.
The bureau has been pre
paring the report since Jan
uary. when several Federal
agencies objected to a stag
gered hours plan suggested by
the District government.
To aid its work the bureau
received up-to-date statistics
from the agencies on the times
and numbers of the employes
wijo droxe to work.
The large-scale building pro
gram going on in the District
has slowed work on the report,
Mr. Mullins said. Planners
have had to adjust their find
ings to take into consideration
the imminent relocation of
many thousands of employes
from one area to another.
“We've made many analyses
of the information received,"
Mr. Sullivan said, “but we have
not yet taken a stand in the
agency on a definite proposal.”
The idea for staggering the
hours of workers originated in
September, 1959, with the D. C.
Transit System. The District
Government conferred with the
firm and eventually proposed
their own work schedule in
November.
The District’s plan was re
jected by the bureau for sev
eral reasons, the paramount
one being that it affected too
many people. Mr. Mullins said
in January that'he hoped the
bureau’s own recommendation
would only affect a quarter of
the Federal employes in the
Washington area.
Echo Not Visible
The Echo I satellite is
moving into the Southern
Hhemisphere and no longer is
visible over the Washington
area for an indefinite period.
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Traffic on Shirley highway in Arlington piles up in both directions
during the evening rush hour as a freight train of the Washington and
Old Dominion Railroad makes its daily journey across the highway.
—Star Staff Photo.
Metro Area News, Pages B-l-3
Business, Pages B>-5-8
Case Will Expand
On Art Center Site
NO SOLUTION IN SIGHT
Freight Traffic Irks
Shirley Motorists
By JOHN LAWSON
Star Staff Writer
Motorists travelling the modern, controlled-access Shirlej
highway through Arlington are caught up daily in a traffic jam
thejl do not think is really necessary.
A freight train keeps getting in their way.
The crossing of the Washington and Old Dominion Rail
rood tranlrc and rnngrnnpnf.lv nhmit RH frpio'ht. r.arA a dav—
has been disturbing rush-hour, :
motorists who don’t like things
c "X lh , Advisory Unit
Everyone sympathizes, but
no one seems to know what to I nUiTICU TUI
do about it. k I A
Railroad officials have re- Naw C
peatedly answered complaints I” C ” vvl ltd
from irate'motorists and con
gressmen and other interested President Eisenhower yester
parties but say their hands are day appointed 13 members of
tied. The tracks are there, they the Advisory Committee on the
say. The freight cars must go Am for the National cultural
through. _ . .
The tracks have been there Center here.
for over a hundred years. Until The appointees, including
' 1943 they didn’t seem to bother three from Washington, are:
anybody. Mrs R O b er t ix> w Bacon of
Then Shirley highway was j .
built, and highway officials 1801 F stleet NW - and West '
from the Federal Bureau of bury. Long Island, N. Y. Mrs.
i Public Roads were faced with Bacon is former chairman of
’ a 'yar-created steel shortage. the Metropolitan Opera Asso-
Besides, only one or two , . . . ...
1 trains a day went across the clatlon - and ls a member of the
• road, and the railroad was in D. C. Commission for the New
■ receivership and expected to go York Philharmonic Symphony,
I under any day. Philadelphia Orchestra, and
. The highway was built with
grade separations for all roads Boston Symphony.
but the railroad, and it never Robert Richman of 3102 R
> did go under. In fact, its busi- street N.W. Mr. Richman is
: ness increased slowly through! director of the Institute of Con-
the years and by 1952 five or temporary Arts. >
r six trains crossed daily. It is Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe oi
. owned by the Chesapeake and 1821 H street N.W. and New
-1 Ohio Railroad. port. R. I. Mrs. Howe is a com-
poser and music patron.
. Four Trains a Day Davjes of San Diego
1 Today four trains a day on calif. Mr. Davies, a lawyer, is
. the average cross the highway. I a member of the Fine Arts So
blowing their whistles and C j e t y o f San Diego, and the
. setting off stop lights and mo- san Diego Symphony Associa
. torists’ tempers. tion. and president of the Old
1 They cross, according to J. R. Globe Theater.
- Cary 111. superintendent of the Le onai . d H . Goldenson ol
/ W. & O. D, at about 7:30 a.m.. Mamaroneck, N. Y. Heispresi-
10 a.m.. 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. den t; o f the American Broad
i A trip is made from Rosslyn to cas ting Co
s Potomac Yards at 7:30 with an Hurok New York gr
engine or two and a few cars. R
thE t ?‘ n oads „ up Wlth and other arts.
building materials and comes „ , , „ „ „ ,
■ back across on its way to Pur- Frank Stanton of New York
t celville above Leesburg with 20 President of the Columbii
.Ho 40 cars. Broadcasting System.
*| In the afternoon the loaded Robert W. Sarnoff of New
• and empty cars come back York, board chairman of th*
1 across the highway on their; National Broadcasting Co.
[ , way to Potomac Yards, then : Huntington Hartford of New
5 return for their final 6 p.m. York, a patron of the arts.
trip to Rosslyn. j Miss Ima Hogg of Houston
5 There have been a number of president of the Houston Sym
accidents at the crossing when phony Society.
; motorists moving along the Howard Lindsay of New
, highway have failed to notice York, a playwright, producei
the warning lights and crashed and ac t, O r.
> int^ u tralns J . . , Albert Christ-Janer of Tux-
> The accidents and traffic tie. pdo Park N Y dean of the
• ups have prompted highway of- Arl School at Pratt Institute in
ficials to seek a solution The Brooklyn> N . Y .
- j portion of the highway between; „ 4 . . ~ , „ „ ,
i the Potomac River and Route 7 K “ rt Weinhold of New York
> was built and. is maintained by President of Columbia Artists
the Federal Bureau of Public Management, Inc.
■ Roads. Mr. Eisenhower also asked
.: each of the following organiza-
t Virginia Sidesteps tions to designate a representa
j The Bureau has offered to tive to serve as an ex-officic
1 give the highway to Virginia, member of the Advisory Com-
> but Virginia doesn’t want it mittee on the Arts:
! until something is done about Theatre Library Association
t the crossing. And there it re- Poetry Society of America
> mains to this day. American Academy of Arts and
Mr. Cary, who is used to re- Letters. Academy of America!
ceiving complaints about the Poets, American National The
(crossing', believes the trains, a ter and Academy, America!
which he says take only about Educational Theater Associa
a minute to cross, do not seri- tion, National Institute of ArtJ
ously interfere with traffic. and Letters, National Musk
5 As for the timing, he said the Council, American Symphonj
1 company tries to avoid the peak Orchestra League, National
s rush hours, crossing before the Federation of Music Clubs, and
1 traffic is too heavy. “But we’d National Recreation Associa
.. he rrit.iri7.rd if wr went onrncc t.iOTI.
Land Purchase
Is Fought by
Five Firms
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer
A small waffle shop is ex
panding on the Potomac shore
site of the proposed National
Cultural Center. •
It is one of five businesses—
Including the Water Gate Inn
—which eventually may have
to move off land eyed by Center
sponsors.
Blue Bell Inc., waffle and
doughnut shop owners, plan to
improve their property and in
crease their clientele. Work
[ now under way is bound to in
crease the value of the land
planned to be bought or con
demned with public funds.
Water Gate owners have
fought to remain. This resis
tance has removed the Water
Gate Inn from the National,
Capital Planning Commission
[ list of tracts to be acquired for'
the center. The commission is
the acquiring agent for the Na
' I tional Park Service, which, in
| turn. Is the agency through;
' which center sponsors hope to
.[obtain the land.
Problems Face Committee
f Tire center’s board of trus»
■ [ tees could try to negotiate a
«j purchase with private money,
,' should the commission continue
ito shy away from the Water
’ Gate Inn deal.
1 These problems are among
property decisions to be con
t sidered tomorrow by the execu
s tive committee of the center
■ board. Committeemen will re
ceive reports also on activi-
f ties which could be carried on
. in the center, on architectural
. plans and on contacts mada
(with potential donors, accord
ing to Jarold A. Kieffer, sec
’,retary.
. Mr. Kieffer said both the
, Blue Bell and the Water Gate
1 Inn were aware they were in
I possible “taking” areas. But
the timing of property moves
. has yet to be fixed by center
_ trustees.
' Congress in 1958 authorized
the center to be built on nine
acres bounded by the Innerloop
1 freeway on the east, the Theo
-5 dore Roosevelt Bridge ap
proaches on the south, Rock
, Creek parkway on the west and
i New Hampshire avenue on the
north.
Shop Blocks Acquisition
A design by Edward Durrell
j, Stone encircled an area just
past F street on the north and
pushed the western parkway;
’ boundaries to the river
Two more acres of land will b(j
needed to build the center un4
' der the Stone plan.
r The waffle shop, the Watei;
Gate Inn. a stone-carving firm,
■ a parking lot and a liquor store
! are within this two additional
i acres needed for the center and
a rerouted parkway away from
. the river around the rear of
j the center.
The whole center might be
1 shifted to the south to save the
Water Gate Inn if costs of
. acquisition are prohibitive.
, Shift or no shift, the waffle
. shop is clearly on land that'
center sponsors want.
"Our expansion should be
’ finished for a January 1 open-.
■ ing.” James West, of Blue Bell,
1 said.
i
Got Zoning Action
’ “We were too small to com-9
’ ply with District restaurant
, regulations. So. we got zoning
J permission to enlarge to com-
I ply with those regulations. The'
j Federal Government didn’t pay
. any attention to our arrange
ments with the District gov
ernment.
“Zoning permission was ac->
tion.” he added. “Land acqui
sition is just talk. As business
men, we have to rely on
action.”
Mr. West said he felt thafc
eventually the Federal Govern-}
ment would own all the land,
bordering the Potomac River.
But businessmen could notl
( afford to stand still until such.
a time as public officials de
cided to buy or condemn land,
[he indicated.
The planning commission has
available about $750,000 of so
called Capper-Cramton funds
for acquisition of park land
bordering the Potomac River.
The commission has agreed to
co-operate with center spon
sors by using these funds to
acquire some land needed by
the center.
Center Plan Elaborate
In addition, the center trust
ees are collecting privately do
nated funds for land, planning
and construction. Their goal
is $75 million.
At tomorrow’s meeting, Mr.
Kieffer and Ralph Becker, cen-i
ter counsel, will propose prop-,
erty acquisition policies.
Architect Stone is expected
to brief the executive commit
tee on borings of soil and water
on the site, foundation require
ments, and problems of flood
control and freezing of the
river in the form of a grace
fully curved terrace.
L. Corrin Strong, executive
vice chairman of the Center [
organization, will summarize
the reactions of private citizens
and foundations to bids to con
tribute.
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