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THE WEATHER:
District and vicinity—Fair and warmer
today, high near 64. Some cloudiness and
warmer tonight with the low near 42.
Partly cloudy and mild tomorrow.
109th Year. No. 330.
Congressmen
Urge District
Metro Study
Mathias, Broyhill
To Seek Parleys
On Area Issues
By WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Bt»r Staff Writer
Two Washington area Con
gressmen said yesterday that
they will sponsor a study next
year covering metropolitan
government for the National
Capital region.
Both legislators, Representa
tives Mathias and Broyhill, Re
publicans of Maryland and Vir
ginia. respectively, .said they
would initiate top-level dis
cussions in an attempt to deter
mine whether metropolitan
government has anything to
offer this area.
Mr. Mathias, originator of
the proposal, said he would
invite area leaders of all juris
dictions to confer on such
matters as mass transportation,
highways, and communications.
The conferences, he indicated,
would probably begin some
time after Congress reconvenes
on January 10. Mr. Broyhill
said he would support the study
idea because the area should
be alert to any possible im
provements in solving regional
problems.
Mr. Mathias said he hoped
the study would include a look
at the Miami Metro plan which
provides for a “super-govern
ment” with jurisdiction over
many activities in Dade Coun
ty, Florida.
Area Was Split
That area, like Metropolitan
Washington today, was once
split into many jurisdictions,
often duplicating each other
with services and sometimes
in direct conflict with neigh
boring communities.
“We need to take a look at
the 20th-century alternatives;
to the county system,” Mr. |
Mathias declared. "After all,
economically and sociologically,
the Washington area is one!
unit.”
He added, however, he would !
oppose legislation to create any!
sort of a "super-government.”;
even on a limited basis, unless
it were generally acceptable
to the area.
Both legislators emphasized
they had no intention to curb
local autonomy.
"Nothing would be accom- i
plished by removing such things !
as parks, schools and police!
from local control,” Mr. Broy
hill said. "What we should ap
proach in this study are mat
ters of common concern such:
as transportation and commu-1
nication and possibly water !
and sewerage.”
Would Support Plan
He noted, however, that “all!
of us should be constantly seek
ing improvements in the metro
politan approaches to prob
lems,” and said he would whole
heartedly support Mr. Mathias'
study plan.
The National Capital Trans- ;
portation Agency, created by
Congress to plan for just such
an area approach, recently was
criticized in the District and
Maryland, for recommending a
delay in Inner Loop highway
construction.
Although the recommenda
tion later was overruled, one
suburban group, the Maryland
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, charged
that the agency had disre
garded area needs. The Mary
land planners recommended
taking the problem to Congress
in company with Virginia of
ficials.
No Easy Solutions
Mr. Broyhill said he expected
no easy solutions to area prob
lems.
Even if all local jurisdictions !
would be satisfied with a
metro plan, he pointed out,
there would remain the prob
lem of convincing Congress
and the Maryland and Virginia
legislatures of the wisdom of
such an approach.
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When Edward J. Holt, sr., and Mrs. Dorothy
Fitzgerald vowed to love, honor and cherish
yesterday at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 12 of
their 15 children by previous marriages were on
hand to pelt them with rice after the wedding.
Celebrating the marriage ot the widow and
widower are, left from bottom to top, his five;
Glover Roads
Due for Delay
Foxhall Route May
Defer Showdown
By GILBERT GIMBLE
Star Staff Writer
District highway planners
probably will not press for
[ construction of roadways
through Glover-Archbold Park
lat this time, to avoid an im
mediate showdown on the con
troversial parkway issue.
Opponents last week voiced
strong objections to proposals
for two single-lane roadways
that would connect the Three
! Sisters Island Bridge to Re
servoir road. The objections
were made at a public hearing
!held by the District Commis
sioners.
This is what is involved:
At first, highway planners
decided that the need to serve
Northwest traffic using Foxhall
and Reservoir roads requires
construction of two single-lane
roadways through the lower
part of Glover-Archbold Park.
Larger Parkway Feared
These roadways would enable
Northwest traffic to use the
Three Sisters bridge to cross
to Virginia or the Potomac Riv
er freeway, which would lead
from the bridge to downtown.
However, it was evident that
those who fear that a major
parkway might ruin Glover-
I Archbold Park would fight the
See ROADS, Page A-17
Dupont Circle Tunnels
Eyed as Blast Shelters
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer
The Dupont Circle streetcar
tunnels may be converted into
a public fallout shelter.
Engineer Commissioner Fred
' erick J. Clarke says he will ask
I city civil defense officials
whether they think this idea
is feasible.
Asked last night for com
ment, George R. Rodericks, the
District’s civil defense director,
said he was “definitely inter
ested” in the project.
The Dupont Circle streetcar
tunnels are on the Mount Pleas
ant line which, along with the
Eleventh street trolleys, will be
switched to buses next Sunday.
Mr. Rodericks said he already
had given some thought to
turning the streetcar under
passes at the circle into a fall
-out shelter. “If our interest
in it proves to be feasible, we
may develop something unique
here,” he said.
Gen. Clarke, who emphasized
that no final decision has been
>made on the shelter question,
explained that his idea is to
seal off the tunnels at both i
Sunday Sta
X X WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION
THIS MARRIAGE IS A MERGER
Virginia Legislators
Hit Redistricting Plans
Fairfax, Arlington Representatives
Dissatisfied With 5 Additional Seats
By JOHN LAWSON
Bttr Staff Writer
Northern Virginia legislators yesterday attacked proposals
s of Gov. Almond’s Redistricting Commission while key political
r leaders elsewhere in the State remained virtually non-com
s mittal.
k While some legislators in the State were saying privately
that Northern Virginia would be lucky to get the additional
five seats propsed, Fairfax and’
Arlington representatives were
3 preparing to fight for more.
s Gov. Almond characterized
s the report, made public yester
e!day, as “sound, practical and
* realistic.” Gov.-elect Albertis S.
s Harrison, jr., said the recom
? mendations would make "a good
- basis for study and examination
by the General Assembly.”
But Senator Garland Gray of
s Waverly, who heads the Senate
e Privileges and Election Com
-1 mittee and who was a member
s of the commission, would not
e comment and did not even sign
r the report.
Other political leaders said
they had not had time to read
the report and did not wish to!
e comment on it. Metropolitan
e areas would gain considerable
s < representation, largely at the
_ expense of rural areas.
d Battle Possible
There were some rumblings
1 from the rural sections of the
r State that a battle may be
staged to keep the proposals
e from being implemented.
7 1 Delegate W. C. (Dan) Daniel
ends. There are nine pedes
trian entrances from the street
level.
The plan would provide about
70,000 square feet of covered
area, according to highway de
partment figures. The under
pass is 13 feet high.
A report by city officials last
year on the Dupont circle
tunnels said that, because they
are narrow and curved, buses
could travel through only at
prohibitively slow speeds. The
limited visibility at the entrance
and ejtft curves would pose
driving hazards for auto traffic,
the report said.
Gen. Clarke said he has not
decided on the future use for]
the Fourteenth street terminal
near the Bureau of Engraving]
when this line and the U street
trolley route are abandoned
next year.
The fate of the streetcar
underpass at Capitol Hill, on
the Mount Pleasant line, is up
to George Stewart, Capitol
architect, the Commissioner
said.
City officials have said that
i See UNDERPASS, Page A-6
WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 26, 1961—370 PAGES
Martha, 9; Edward jr., 11; Betty, 13; Jean, 15,
and Richard. 17. At right, bottom to top, are
her seven: Kevin, 4; Stephen, 8; Shirley, 9;
Michael, 11; Kathleen, 13: Barbara, 14 and
Ellen, 16. Mr. Holt also has three married
step-children. (Story on Page B-l.)—Star Staff
Photo by John Horan.
I
■ ot Danville, for instance, pre
dicted “an uphill legislative
1 journey for the proposals” and
■ cited in particular the addi-
I tional representation given
• Northern Virginia.
’ Mr. Daniel said more than
one-half of those employed in
1 Northern Virginia work for the
, Federal Government and many
, of these maintain their voting
\ privileges in their home States.
. “There is considerable feeling
that more weight should be giv
' en to voter interest other than
population,” he said.
I The realignment recom-
I mended by the 20-member com-
II mission would give, for the
11 first time, a majority of the
■ 40 Senate seats to metropolitan
■ areas. It also gives increased
representation to urban areas
See REDISTRICTING, Page A-6
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The Hecht Co.'s Gift Supplement in
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Week in PerspectiveD 1
Reds Ease Up
On Finland •
Soviet Defers Plan
For Military Talks
MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (AP).—
The Soviet Union today eased
the pressure on Finland,
abruptly dropping demands for
defense consultations with its
little neighbor for the time
being.
Returning from talks in Si
beria with Premier Khrushchev,
Finnish President Urho Kek
konen said he was gratified the
Soviet Union "wants to con
tinue supporting the neutral
foreign political line adopted
by Finland.”
Now that the Soviet has
dropped its demand for joint
defense consultations against
what the Russians call a rising
West German military menace
in Northern Europe, Mr. Kek
konen can return home a hero.
Communique Notes Fears
He got Mr. Khrushchev to
back down from a demand
that might have ended with
Soviet bases installed on Fin
nish territory and Finland’s
neutrality seriously impaired.
A communique announcing
the decision conceded that the
See FINLAND. Page A-4
Today’s Star
CHUBBY BABIES are cute, but
a definite danger exists if excess
weight continues through childhood.
A leading physician gives some ad
vice on what to do about "The
Trogedy of on Overweight Child"
today on Page 4 of This Week
Magazine.
THE AREA'S FINEST high school
football players for 1961 are lined
up in story and pictures today. The
Star sports staff names its All-
Metropolitan teams on Page C-3.
A ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER,
Volkmar Kurt Wentzel of the Na
tional Geographic staff, is the sub
ject of a picture-story by Corl
Purcell. Some of his hair-raising
adventures are related on Page 8 of
SUNDAY, The Star Magazine. In
the same issue, Harold J. Flecknoe's
photo-story on Page 6 tells what a
man has to go through to learn how
to run a hospital.
AMERICA'S VASTNESS is impres
sive even to a native. Does it awe
a foreign visitor enough to keep
him oway? Travel Editor Charles
Yarbrough provides one answer to
this question today in his column
on Page D-15 of the Travel Section.
TEAM TEACHING is regarded by
many experts os a challenging so
lution to the problem of how to
provide adequate attention to an
individual child in a huge school.
Prof. Leslie J. Noson discusses this
system today in his column on the
Education Page, D-12.
U.S.-Soviet Talks
On Berlin Dispute
Seen in Early '62
De Gaulle London Visit
Stirs Little Optimism
Macmillan Seen Unlikely to Agree
With French President on Berlin
By CROSBY S. NOYES
yoi«i»n Corretpondeni ot The Star
PARIS, Nov. 25—Despite the official cordiality, the visit
of French President de Gaulle with Prime Minister Macmillan
this week end in London is arousing conspicuously little
optimism here.
No doubt the two leaders have much of common interest
to talk about, including Britain’s proposed entry into the
European Common Market. On ——
these questions the visit could INTERPRETIVE REPORT
be fruitful and timely.
But on the most important
item on the agenda—the ques
tion of negotiations with Russia
on Berlin—it seems to most
observers that Mr. Macmillan,
among major Western leaders,
is the least likely to reach any
kind of agreement with Gen
Ide Gaulle.
From the outset Mr. Mac
millan and Gen. de Gaulle have
represented opposite poles of
Western opinion on Berlin.
Among the allies, Mr. Macmil-i
lan has been quite clearly the
most eager for negotiations!
with Soviet Premier Khru- j
shchev. He has believed further
more that these negotiations
should be broadened to include
the larger question of Germany
and European security as a
whole.
For his part Gen. de Gaulle
has steadfastly opposed anyj
suggestion of negotiating as
long as the Russian threat to,
Berlin endured. His argument!
has been that such a move by
the West could lead only to I
disastrous concessions at the I
expense of West Germany. His!
Soviet Newsman Gets
A Kennedy Exclusive
I HYANNIS PORT, Mass, Nov.
[25 (AP). President Kennedy
;gave an exclusive interview to
day to the editor of the Soviet
newspaper Izvestia, who said
they touched on many world
problems, including Berlin.
The interviewer was Alexei T.
Adzhubei, son-in-law of Soviet
Premier Khrushchev.
! Without going into details of
I his questions, and the answers
he got from the President dur
ing the two-hour interview, Mr.i
Adzhubei said the session was
partly questions and answers,
and partly just discussions.
“We had a very Interesting
conversation—and a very im-!
portant conversation for oui;
understanding of many im
portant problems,” Mr. Ad- !
jzhubei said.
Kennedy Uses Rocking Chair
After his interview with the
President, he returned to the
White House press head
quarters in a hotel, sat in on
a briefing session by White
House Press Secretary Pierre!
Salinger, and then took the
floor to be interviewed himself.
Mr. Adzhubei, a chunky man
of 37 with a shock of wavy
blond hair, by chance chose the
same clothing the President
had for the interview. Both
were blue suits and neckties
and white shirts.
The Soviet editor and his in
terpreter sat on a couch, the
President in a cushioned rock-
Is Your Life Span Set
At Time You're Born?
CHICAGO. Nov. 25 (AP).—
How much life span is ouilt
into your system? Is the time
left before final breakdown ,
certain or uncertain?
Conflicting theories have
arisen at the University of
Chicago.
Leo Szilard, pioneer atomic i
scientist and professor of bio
physics at the University’s
Enrico Fermi Institute for Nu
clear Studies, holds that death
is literally inherited, a direct
result of the genetic makeup
of the individual.
His theory maintains that
the time of death is precisely
determined by a progression of
“aging hits” added to an in
herited load of genetic “faults.” ]
However, George Sacher, ra
diobiologist at the Argonne Na
tional Laboratory, operated by |
the University for the Atomic ]
Energy Commission, contends ]
that both hereditary and en
vironmental factors are joined
m the processes of aging and |
death.
His theory maintains that the.
time of death is uncertain be- ]
cause there are chance flue-'
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obvious concern has been to
avoid any move which might
result in reorienting German
policy away from its attach
ments to Western Europe and
NATO and toward a reap
proachement with the Commu
nist Eastern bloc.
Washington Visit Cited
In Britain today there is hope
that the recent meeting in
Washington between West Ger
man Chancellor Adenauer and
! President Kennedy may have
I done much to reconcile these
j viewpoints. A reported agree
ment on the desirability of
negotiating on Berlin and the
terms of such a negotiation is
expected in London to soften
the inflexible attitude of the
French President. After all. it 1
is argued, Gen. de Gaulle can
hardly be “more German than,
the Germans themselves” on
this question.
There is, however, little evi
dence to support the idea of
any real change of heart on
Gen. de Gaulle’s part. Just last
See De GAULLE, Page A-13
. I ing chair similar to that he uses
' at the White House.
Also there were Alexander
; Akalovsky, a State Department
I Russian language expert, Mr.
I Salinger and Jack Romagna,
White House shorthand re
porter.
■ The interview was through
I the interpreter, with Mr. Ad-
Jzhubei asking his questions in
; i Russian.
Discussed Berlin
Mr. Adzhubei appeared sur
' prised when a reporter asked if
;the interview touched on the
Berlin problem.
“Berlin—of course,” he snap
ped. and with some heat added
| “it is we, the Russians, who
! live in Europe—not you.”
When he was asked his age.
j Mr. Adzhubei said right away
ihe is 37. “I’m not a young
! lady who would hide the age.” |
He said President Kennedy;
made a “very good impression”
on him and added:
“You have a young President
! of a great country—you should
be proud of that.”
He said he had noticed older
j people in the United States,
“look down on young people—!
that’s not so in Russia, the!
young have every door open to
them and the old have respect.”
Mr. Adzhubei said he expects
to print the entire transcript
of the interview in Izvestia, but
"that has not been decided
See KENNEDY, Page A-6
I tuations both in the inner phy
siological condition of the hu
man being and in the external
(stresses and strains on him.
In Professor Szilard’s concept,
life might be compared with an
i individual on a tightrope. In
ner forces (“aging hits”) are
constantly lessening his sense
of balance.
He falls (dies) when his
capacity to keep balance drops
below a critical value.
Since “aging hits” come at
] the same rate for all individ
i uals, the length of time he
1 remains on the tightrope de- i
] pends on his condition or sense
] of balance at the start.
Dr. Sacher concedes that
genetic makeup is a factor in
a person’s life span.
But he holds that fluctua
j tions occur both in physiologi- ]
!cal condition and the external
] environment.
For example, a person’s blood
pressure fluctuates both aboW
and below its average level.
Should a chance event, such
] as sudden exertion, occur when
, a person’s blood pressure is
at its highest or lowest rate,
death might result.
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Khrushchev
And De Gaulle
Still Uncertain
By JOHN M, HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Staff Writer
United States officials fore
see the possibility of negotia
tions between the Western
powers and Russia early next
year on a peaceful settlement
of the Berlin crisis.
But authorities said yester
day two problems must be dealt t
with before such negotiations
can be considered reasonably
certain. One problem is to win
the agreement of French Presi
dent de Gaulle, who is in
London this week end confer
ring with British Prime Min
ister Macmillan.
The other problem is to get
some indication from Soviet
Premier Khrushchev that he is
prepared to negotiate for a
compromise settlement instead
of insisting on his demand that
West Berlin be made a "free
city.”
Adenauer Flexible
The talks here last week be
tween President Kennedy and
German Chancellor Adenauer
| gave the Western powers a
major start on resolving dis
putes and misunderstandings
in their own ranks—a step that
had to be taken before they
could seriously consider negoti
ations with the Soviet Union.
I Mr. Adenauer is scheduled to
meet with De Gaulle in Paris
! Thursday.
The 85-year-old West Ger
man leader, often regarded as
| the personification of rigid pol
icy positions in relations with
was represented after
the Washington talks by both
United States and German dip
lomats as having shown con
siderable flexibility here on
! Berlin issues.
This strengthened Kennedy
administration hopes that a
basis for fully agreed Western
negotiating policies would be
worked out by the middle of
next month when United
| States, British, French and
West German foreign ministers
meet in Paris.
The decisions of those four
then would be presented to
a meeting of the North At-,
llantic Treaty Council with the ,
aim of winning NATO-wide
J support.
If Soviets Are Reasonable
West German Foreign Minis
ter Gerhard Schroeder, who
(was here for the Adenauer
i Kennedy conference, was re
ported in dispatches from Bonn
yesterday to have told parlia
mentary members of Ade
nauer’s Christian Democratic
Party that he looks for East-
West negotiations on Berlin
early next year.
Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Ade
nauer announced they had
reached agreement which
would permit “peaceful reso
lution of this (Berlin) crisis'
through negotiations if there
is reasonableness on the part
of the Soviet Union.”
They agreed, officials said,
that there could be no bar
gaining with Russia over basic
Western rights to keep troops
in Berlin, to hold access routes
to the city open and to main
tain close economic ties be
tween West Berlin and West
Germany.
Mr. Kennedy is reported to
have given Mr. Adenauer flat
assurance that in spite of ru
mors and reports to the con
tarry in recent months, he
never had any intention of
yielding on those vital interests.
At the same time, Mr. Aden
auer is reported to have told Mr.
Kennedy that he is prepared
for negotiations on marginal
issues related to the Berlin
problem, including such ques-
See BERLIN, Page A-6
Sports Roundup
Virginia shocked Maryland, 28-16,
in one of the big upsets of the college
football season yesterday and probably
knocked the Terps out of a bid to the
Gator Bowl.
Other bowls began to shape up,
with UCLA nailing the host berth in
the Rose Bowl with o 10-7 win over
Southern California. The opponent
probably will be Ohio State, which won
the Big Ten title and closed out its
season with a 50-20 triumph over
Michigan. Louisiana State, Orange
Bowl host, swamped Tulane, 61-0,
while Colorado took the other berth
after beating lowa State, 34-0.
Rutgers rolled over Columbia, 32-19,
to complete its first unbeaten, untied
season in its 92-year history, while
Harvard blanked Yale, 27-0, in the
78th gome of a classic series and tied
Columbia for the Ivy League title.
Penn State beat Pitt, 47-26; lowa built
up a 35-7 halftime wedge over Notre
Dame en route to a 42-21 victory, and •
in the game televised in this region,
Syracuse defeated Boston College
28-13.
(Details in Sports Section.)