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The
Rambler
. . . Follows
'Silent Spring'
to “
* By GEORGE KENNEDY
S A title doesn’t make a
pnok.
* A good title helps.
- "I Cover the Waterfront.”
.’“A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,”
come to mind.
. Matthew Josephson’s
/‘Robber Barons” and Ken-
. John McKclway, who normally write*
“ Hi is column on Monday, Wadna*-
' day and Friday, I* on vacation.
.neth Galbraith’s “Affluent
''Society” are among many
titles that have entered the
language.
St We are now In a period of
books —about the
«kmb.
The titles, in contrast to
the contents, are Inadequate
rt»-‘‘On the Beach,” “Fall
iafe,” “Seven Days In May.”
* 2 When It comes to the hor
fendous, how are you going
tp beat “The Silent Spring?”
/ The very thought of no
jioblns, no squawking from
Jays, no trilling of mocking
Birds, gives us pause.
; Yesterday the Associated
Press schedule contained this
Item under meetings of com
mittees of the House:
Z “Agriculture. Departmental
Oversight and Consumer. Re-
Mtions Subcommittee. 10
a.m. Open. On HR 6828, HR
•13, and HR 7336 providing
for registration of pesticides,
Room 1310 Longworth bulld-
* Undoubtedly this would
have something to do with
Rachael Carson’s best seller.
The Rambler was in at
tendance.
o
FIRST WITNESS WAS
Representative John D.
Dingell, Democrat of Michi
gan.
Mr. Dingell Is a fisher and
a hunter. He is a dry fly man
when it comes to trout. He
has boated a whopping Mar
lin. His dread of the “Silent
Spring” is that no longer
would he hear the mourning
dove or the sound of that
wonderful songbird who says
“Bob White!”
In answer to a question
from the chairman, Paul
Jones of Missouri, he said
that HR 6913 (his bill) and
HR 7336 Introduced by Rep
resentative Halpern, Demo
crat of New York, and HR
6828 Introduced by Rep
resentative Rosenthal, Dem
ocrat of New York, were
Identical with a bill Intro
duced In the upper chamber
by Senator Rlbicoff of Con
necticut
Your correspondent is so
Ignorant about such simple
and easily explained legisla
tive matters that he followed
Mr. Dingell into the hall
after the conclusion of his
brief testimony. I wanted to
know why there were three
bills In the House identical
with a bill introduced in the
Senate.
That three bills before
the House were Identical
with one Introduced In the
upper chamber by Senator
Ribicoff was easily ex
plained.
o
“WHEN A SENATOR In
troduces a bill It lies on the
desk for 10 days,” said Mr.
Dingell. During that period
any Senator can add his
name as a sponsor.
“The rules of the House
are different. If a member
wants his name on a bill,
he must Introduce It him
self.
“This bill was drafted in
Senator Rlbicoff’s office
from suggestions submitted
by Agriculture and HEW.
“But there were attempts
to legislate before this.
“In 1960 a man named
Gerald Walkup of the Na
tional Trappers Association
got Leonard G. Wolf, Demo
crat of lowa, to Introduce a
bill to protect wildlife against
what we now call pesticides.
“About the same time I in
troduced a bill which called
for reference to fish and
wildlife and similar agencies
in the states of any federally
financed pesticide program.
It passed the House but was
bottled up In the Senate.
“Then came Rachael Car
son’s ‘Silent Spring.* It first
appeared In the New Yorker,
then as a book published by
Houghton Mifflin, and then
as you know, It was serialized
In The Star.
“This caused the Presi
dent’s advisory committee on
science under Jerome B.
Wiesner to set up a panel to
study the problem. The find
ing was that ‘decisions on
safety are not as well based
as those on efficacy.*
“These bills are not go
ing to solve this problem.
But they call for a step In
the tight direction.”
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Attorney General Kennedy risked writer’s
cramp last night as hundreds surged around
Man Who Shot
His Son Gets
15-YearTerm
A Bethesda man today was
given the maximum sentence
of 15 years in Jail on charges
of assault with Intent to mur
der his teen-age son.
Montgomery County Circuit
Judge Ralph G. Shure imposed
the sentence on Joe 8. Massie,
sr., 47, who shot his son, Joe,
jr., 18, last September, when
the youth came home and dis
covered his father drinking
with another woman.
The youth had testified that
the shot, fired by the senior
Massie into a car where Joe,
jr„ sat with his mother and
sister caused complete blind
ness in one eye and left only
limited vision in the other.
Defense Attorney Affected
Massie’s attorney, Barnard
T. Welsh, told the court:
“I have never had a case
affect me as much as this one,
particularly when the son took
the witness stand followed by
testimony by his mother. It
had all the elements of a
Greek tragedy. . . . .There is
something m Mr. Massie that
needs to be expiated; the court
must make him pay his debt
to society.”
He urged that Massie be
given psychiatric treatment to
assist him in returning “to
mental stability.”
Jqdge Shure said he had de
layed sentencing, after Mas
sie’s conviction two weeks ago
by a Jury, because he wanted
time to reflect.
Judge's First Maximum
“I agree with vour attorney
when he said that he never had
a case affect him as much as
this,” Judge Shure told Massie.
“I have practiced law 25 years
and been on the bench four
years, and the case has affected
me very deeply, too.
“I have never said this be
fore from the bench, but I have
found nothing in the way of
mitigating circumstances in
your case. You were leading
a life of infidelity. You were
In your own home with a woman
not your wife, drinking to ex
cess. You displayed bragga
docio about your gambling
exploits.
“I have never imposed the
maximum penalty before, but I
sentence you to the Maryland
State Penitentiary for a period
of 15 years.”
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
The Star Presents POISE
For Young Women Sunday
THE FIRST ISSUE . . . FULL OF SURPRISES
POISE, The Star’s new monthly magazine for high
school, college and career girls leads off this Sunday
with an exciting world of entertainment news . . .
City and Country fashion
views . . . and special features
on hair-dos, make-up, family
relationships and men. Is it
myth or a matter of fact that
social life is easier for men . . .
or that men always go for a
pretty face? That’s what “they”
say .. . but are “they” right?
POISE answers the question*
uppermost on the minds of to
day’s young women and gives
easy-to-follow advice on how to look prettier, dress
smarter, feel more alive . . . and have more fun.
For the poise men can’t resist, smart young women
read POISE, starting Sunday with The Star.
SMITHSONIAN CHUCKLES . . . Watching tourists at
the Smithsonian Institution can be as Interesting
as viewing the exhibits. A cartoonls| depicts comi
cal visitor reactions to some bizarre items displayed
at the famed museum Sunday in The Star’s This
Week Magazine.
Phone Lincoln 3-5000 for Home Delivery
METRO AREA
DON'T BE A DROPOUT
Celebrities Warn Students
More than 2,000 Washington'
school children last night were
urged by Attorney General
Kennedy and singer Nat King
Cole to complete their high
school education if they expect
adequate job opportunities.
The two-hour pep rally, spon
sored by the “Future for
Jimmy” project of the Wash
ington Urban League, was held
primarily for Junior and senior
high school students at East
ern High School stadium.
Afterward, hundreds of
school youngsters swarmed
around the Attorney General
and Mr. Cole to collect auto
graphs and handshakes.
During the ceremony, the At
torney General read an open
letter signed by 15 of the Na
tion’* top athletes.
The letter urged all teen-age
girls and boys not to be
"tempted to join the ever-in
creasing number of students
who are dropping out of school
before, finishing the twelfth
grade.”
The athletes, the Attorney
General and Mr. Cole urged the
youngsters to return to their
classes this fall "and stay there
until you graduate.”
The pep-rally ended with a
45-minute variety show per
formed by members of the Sec
ond Army “Showmobile Unit
18” from Fort Meade, Md.
The District Recreation De
partment co-sponsored the pep
rally.
Average earnings of high
school graduates are more than
twice as high as earnings of
those who have received less
than eight years of schooling,
Mr. Kennedy read.
Officers Chosen
John C. Foltz of 408 Marshall
drive, Alexandria, has been
named president of the Mount
Vernon Terrace Community
Association in Fairfax County.
Other new officers are Mrs.
Virginia Webster, vice presi
dent; Wilson R. Pierpont, sec
retary, and Mrs. Julia Donovan,
treasurer.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1963
him seeking autogranhs at a back-to-school
rally at Eastern High School.—Star Staff Photo.
This is the text of the letter signed by 15
athletes and read to students last night by
Attorney General Kennedy:
This is an open letter to you, if you are a
teen-age boy or girl.
Don’t be tempted to join the ever-increasing
number of students who are dropping out of
school before finishing the twelfth grade. It
makes no sense.
This is why:
Almost one-third of current school drop-outs
are unemployed. A few may be lucky enough to
earn a decent living, but the odds are heavily
against them. In fact, the average earnings of
high school graduates are more than twice as
high as earnings of those who have received
less than eight years of schooling.
You owe it to yourself and your future
family not only to earn more but to under
stand more, to appreciate more, to see more—in
other word*, to be a bigger person, through
education.
And self interest is not the only reason for
staying in school. Only an educated America
can meet the challenges of the years ahead.
This country has the right to expect of its
citizens the highest possible performance—
whether on the job, in sports, in local govern
ment, or on the national and international
scene. This means education—as much of it
as possible.
Statistics show that during the 1960’s some
seven and a half million teen-agers are ex
pected to drop out of school. This cannot be
allowed to happen, for the sake of everyone’s
future.
We most seriously urge you to return to
your classes in the fall, and to stay there until
you graduate.
Jim Brown, Bob Cousey, Otto Graham,
Mickey Mantle, Rocky Marciano, Bobby
Mitchell, Stan Musial, Arnold Palmer, Bob
Richards, Jackie Robinson, Wilma Rudolph,
Bill Russell, Y. A. Tittle, Gene Tunney, and
Maury Wills.
Ban Urged
On Aug. 28
Liquor Sales
Representative Broyhill to
day urged the District Com
missioners to close the liquor
stores next Wednesday to re
duce chances of trouble dur
ing the civil rights demon
strations.
“The risk is too grave for
the Commissioners to ignore,”
Mr. Broyhill, Republican of
Virginia's nearby District, said.
In letters to the three Com
missioners, Mr. Broyhill said:
“There are serious dangers
confronting us when 100,000
people descend on Washing
ton with their emotions at a
high pitch. A spark of any sort
could set off a holocaust.
"It behooves every responsi
ble official who is concerned in
making plans for that day to
use every precautionary meas
ure available. The sale of
whisky in so many easily avail
able locations is one that the
District of Columbia cannot af
ford to overlook.”
Mr. Broyhill also said that,
in light of the possible train
shutdown at midnight Wednes
day, he recommended that the
Commissioner* give serious
consideration to keeping the
liquor store* closed Thursday.
Manassas Man
Struck by Auto
A Manassas man was crit
ically injured Just after mid
night when he was struck by
a car while crossing Route 28
near Centreville, Fairfax Coun
ty police reported tpday.
Warren H. Stevens, 26, a
landscaper for the H. J. Pullen
Co. of Catlett, Va., is reported
in critical condition at Fairfax
Hospital.
According to police, Mr.
Stevens was hit by a car driven
by Robert W. Sanderson, 28,
of Manassas.
'Retarded' Center's
Head Gets New Post
Richard E. Sheppard, direc
tor of the Help for Retarded
Children occupational and
training center at 3705 Benning
road N.E., will leave Septem
ber 1 to take a post with the
Montgomery County public
schools.
Mr. Sheppard, who is mar
ried. lives at 4408 First place
N.E.
ZOOLOGISTS BLAME MAN
55 Species Face Extinction
By MYRA MacPHERSON
■tar SUff WrlUr
The time has come to pity
the poor rhinoceros.
Here he is with that face
which only another rhino could
love, and according to several
wildlife conservationists attend
ing the International Congress
of Zoology here, there are get
ting to be fewer of his buddles
around.
Three types of Asian rhinos
are among 55 species of mam
mals facing extinction. Also 48
species of birds and six species
of reptiles are on their way out.
The cause of it all, in 99.9
per cent of the cases, say the
zoologists is man, who kills
them, or moves in to populate
the land where animals used
to roam.
The poor Asian rhino, for
example, has been tracked
down by the Chinese who found
away to make a quick buck.
Some Ingenious Chinese public
relations man spread the word
that the rhino horn is an aph
rodisiac and today powdered
rhino horns provide the basic
ingredient for the Chinese Na
tional Drink.
It’s all psychological, it hasn't
got the slightest effect, but it
doesn't seem to matter to
them,” said one of the zoolo
gist* who reported that rhino
Arlington Outlines
Flood Control Plan
Downtown Renewal Bill
Gets Key House Support
McMillan Urges Proper Safeguards;
Tighter Controls Are Predicted
By LEE FLOR
Star Staff Writer
A bill to permit urban renewal for a 128-block area of
downtown Washington will receive support from some key
members of the House District Committee, the last major
stumbling block to legislation approval, Congressmen said today.
But the bill may be amended so that the District will have
more strict controls over displacement of businesses, relocation,
and on requiring competitive
bidding on resale of cleared
land to prevent possible favor
itism to developers.
Representative McMillan,
Democrat of South Carolina,
the Influential chairman of the
House District Committee, to
day made a personal appear
ance as one of his subcommit
tees held hearings on a bill
to permit urban renewal in
commercial areas of the Dis
trict.
“Proper Safeguards"
At the opening of the hear
ing, Mr. McMillan said: “I
know we want a proper bill—
one with proper safeguards.”
At another point in the hear
ing, after asking about the
number of businesses that would
be displaced, Mr. McMillan
said, “I want this bill also, but
I know these questions will
have to be answered on the
floor.”
Mr. McMillan and members
of the subcommittee today
heard testimony from officials
of the National Capital Down
town Committee, Inc., infor
mally known as Downtown
Progress. The organization for
several years has been working
on plans for a downtown urban
renewal project between North
Capitol street, Pennsylvania
avenue, and Fifteenth and M
streets N.W.
The District’s present urban
renewal legislation now permits
only projects in residential
areas that are declared blighted.
Legislation passed by the
Senate would permit urban re
newal in commercial areas de
clared blighted, and this legis
lation is being considered by
Persian's Penalty Is Cut
In S&L Fraud Case
John O. Persian, 38, who
turned State's evidence in a
case against officials of the
Family Savings and Home
Loans Association of Silver
Spring, today was given a sus
pended sentence in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court.
Persian returned to court this
morning on a motion filed by
his attorney requesting suspen
sion of the original one-year
Jail sentence and a 82,000 fine
imposed on him Tuesday by
Judge Ralph G. Shure.
The judge changed the earlier
punishment to a suspended
sentence of three years in the
Maryland House of Correction.
The judge told Persian:
“Everything I said about you
still stands. You knew what
you were doing and you are an
Intelligent man. I felt, and
still feel that you must be
punished.
"However, I recognize the
need for witnesses in a case
against other persons Involved,
and you have been so co
operative that I must give you
the benefit of that assistance
which you gave the State in
helping to prosecute a vicious
horns sell for 85,000 apiece.
The plan among rhino sav
ers is to get the pharmacists
to manufacture synthetic plas
tic rhino horns with hormones.
The Sumatra Rhino is down
to between 100 and 107 and
I they are so scattered around
Asia that they can’t find each
i other to breed. There is one
lonely female rhino in captiv
ity in a Copenhagen zoo and
efforts are now being made to
catch a boy friend for her in
Sumatra. However, even if one
is caught, according to the zo
-1 oligists. there is a likelihood
1 that the notoriously fussy
rhinos "maybe just won’t like
each other."
In Northern America there
are 28 threatened mammals
and two of these really have it
tough. They are the Black
Footed Ferret and the Mexican
Grizzly Bear. About 30 of the
latter are currently hiding out
from man, who in his efforts to
poison coyotes, ended up poi
soning grizzly bears. Also fac
ing extinction are the Wood
Bison, the Key Deer, the Red
Wolf and the Mexican Tapir.
In birdland the Whooping
Crane is still stirring up a tre
mendous amount of publicity
and excitement, according to
the zoologists who say there
are now 28 of them, six in cap
tivity.
The goose and a
Metro Area News, B-l-4—Weather, B-4
Obituaries, B-s—Sports, B-6-10
Comics, B-11-13—Teen, B-14-15
House District subcommittee
under the chairmanship of
Representative Dowdy, Demo
crat of Texas.
Urges Amendment*
Mr. Dowdy said he felt the
bill passed by the Senate
should be amended to require
open competitive bidding, bet
ter planning, better schedul
ing of clearance of buildings
and resale of land, better relo
cation for families and busi
nesses and more strict use of
taxpayers’ money.
He also indicated that his
subcommittee might legislate
a tighter definition of sub
standard and blight conditions
that an area has to have be
fore it can be declared eligible
for slum clearance and urban
renewal.
Mr. McMillan asked James
C. Wilkes of the executive
committee for Downtown Prog
ress about the approximately
2,000 businesses which his or
ganization estimated would be
displaced by the downtown
project.
Mr. McMillan said he was
concerned because of the de
lay In the 500-acre Southwest
urban renewal project, and
indicated he did not want this
to happen downtown.
Mr. Wilkes replied that the
downtown project would be
mostly a rehabilitation project,
“not similar to the South
west,” and “not bulldozed.”
Mr. Wilkes went on to explain
that many businesses were
being displaced today through
the normal operation of down
town regrowth and revitaliza
tion.
conspiracy affecting thousands
of persons.”
Sherman S. Cohen, 43, who
served as legal counsel to
Family Savings, was sentenced
Tuesday to five years in the
Maryland Penitentiary. Both
Cohen and Persian were
charged with conspiracy to de
fraud.
At that time, Judge Shure
said that Cohen had been the
“guiding spirit and in com
plete control” of the firm, which
went into receivership in Oc
tober, 1961. The company’s
13,000 shareholders have been
told that they can expect to
get back only about 40 per cent
of the 85.2 million they in
vested.
The motion for reconsidera
tion of Persian’s sentence was
supported by State’s Attorney
Leonard T. Kardy, who told the
court that Cohen could not
have been convicted without
“inside information” from
Persian.
James H. Norris, Jr., a special
assistant Maryland Attorney
General, said that Persian had
been helpful in recovering funds
that otherwise would have been
lost to the shareholders.
big vulture in Europe are among
the near extinct, and the
Monkey Eating Eagle is a vic
tim of its uniqueness. Des
cribed as a "good size eagle
with an enormously powerful
bill” this bird went around eat
ing monkeys in the Philippines
before the zoos and other
trophy hunters wanted the
eagles for rumpus rooms. There
are 25 of them in captivity but
fortunately for the monkeys
they never breed in captivity.
Asked why we should save
the vanishing breeds, lan Mc-
Taggart Cowan of the Univer
sity of British Columbia’s De
partment of Zoology said “we’re
not the owners of the world.
We have part rental while we’re
here. It is up to us to leave it
as complete as when we got it,
and that includes saving the
present day animals.”
He said there was a great
deal of enjoyment derived from
nature’s inhabitants— ” and
that’s not just cows and
horses."
The zoologists left on the sad
note that it’s possible to face
two extinctions, so to speak.
"For example, take the Dodo
bird. There was only one stuff
ed specimen of it sitting in a
museum in Oxford,” said one
zoologist. "One night the cura
tor sent it out to have it burn
ed. He said there were moths
in it."
Project Involves
Surveying Bed of
Four Mile Run
Arlington County announced
today It will take steps to re
vamp Four Mile Run and ad
joining land to head off future
flooding such as occurred dur
ing Tuesday’s downpour.
Thomas W. Richards, chair
man of the County Board, out-
Picture on Pag* 8-4
lined a six-point program de
signed to recondition the
streambed. He noted a 1954
study showed a swollen Four
Mile Run can carry 10 million
gallons of water per minute.
Mr. Richards today said Ar
lington’s six-point program
would be carried out in close
co-ordination with any similar
activities in Alexandria and
Falls Church.
Six Points of Attack
The six points of attack are:
1. Conduct a survey of the
Four Mile Run basin to de
termine what further dyking
and channel improvement is
necessary.
2. Seek public land where
heavy runoff can be channeled
and temporarily stored in sock
embanked collecting basins. Mr.
Richards said that one of these,
for example, might be feasible
in the Bluemont Junction area
on Wilson boulevard.
3. Prepare a runoff retention
and erosion prevention plan
for public lands. This would
Include, he said, planting rye
grass and “hundreds of seed
lings” on open slopes.
4. Try to tighten the county
zoning ordinance to prevent
further building on privately
owned land in the flood plain.
Thirty-one acres on the banks
of Four Mile Run between
Shirley highway and U. 8.
Route 1 now are publicly
owned and vacant, he stated.
5. Solicit aid and advice from
Army Corp, of Engineers and
the Soil Conservation Service.
6. Consider adding flood
control projects to those to be
financed by bonds which the
county may seek in a Novem
ber referendum.
Red Cross Helping
Victims of the flood #ere
urged to discuss their needs
with the Small Business Admin
istration or the Red Cross.
SBA has set up a special
office in Hayman’s apparel
shop, 3903 Mount Vernon ave
nue, to handle loan applications
by residents and businessmen.
The representative will be there
today and from Wednesday
through Friday next week.
In special cases the Red
Cross may be able to provide
direct grants. The Red Cross
emergency office is in St. Rita’s
School at West Glebe and
Russell roads.
The Red Cross office will be
open until 6 pm. and will
reopen at 9 am. tomorrow.
Would Widen Channel
Philip B. Hall, director of
Public Works for Alexandria,
said the only way to end floods
in Arlandria would be to tear
the section down, fill in the
ground to a higher level and
then rebuild. Since this is
impossible, officials concen
trated on the channel widening
project and its financial
aspects.
Meanwhile, workmen con
tinued pumping water and'
clearing away mud. The water
rose 5 feet over an eight block
area during the flood Tuesday
night. Thirty-one businesses,
100 apartment families and •
private homeowners suffered
substantial losses. Arlandria
has been declared a disaster
area.
Mr. Hall said the flood con
trol project would widen the
channel, from which the water
rose 15 feet, and involve new
bridges across U. 8. Route 1
(Jefferson Davis highway) and
in the Potomac Yards of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg *
Potomac Railroad.
Widening of the channel
from Commonwealth avenue to
U. 8. Route 1 would cost 8100,-
000. including land acquisition,
and an additional 8500,000
would be needed to widen the
run from the highway to the
railroad property.
In 2 Jurisdiction!
The two existing bridges tn
Potomac Yards, he said, were
constructed in 1905 and span
a 40-foot channel.
Alexandria City Manager Al
bert M. Hair, jr., said the
distressed area is in both hi*
city and Arlington County, and
each jurisdiction would pay
12*4 per cent of the widening
project.
The proposed U. 8. Route 1
bridge, he said, would cost an
estimated 8400.000 to 8500,000.
which would be borne one-half
by the Federal Government,
three eighths by Virginia and
one-eighth by Alexandria. Th*
city has about 875,000 in a
contingency fund that could
be applied to this purpose.
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