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THE EVENING STAR
Wadiington, D C., Wtdntday, Dtcambcr 11, 1963
D-16
Rights Marchers See
A College'A wakening'
By ORR KELLY
Star SUM Writer
Five hundred college stu
dents marched to Capitol Hill
through the brisk, cold wind
yesterday afternoon to do their
part for the Civil Rights bill.
What they accomplished in
an afternoon of visits to mem
bers of the House of Represen
tatives probably wasn’t much.
But they were encouraged to
believe that their march, itself,
was a hopeful sign of a subtle
change that is taking place on
the Nation’s campuses.
The half-dozen boys from
Georgetown University who
conceived the idea of the
march last Thursday evening
and organized it with a quick
series of meetings and phone
calls to friends at other colle
ges. were especially pleased
with themselves.
Sees College Awakening
"At Georgetown, we have the
reputation of being apathetic
. . of not being concerned with
the city outside the gates.” ex
plained William Clark, a junior
from Highland Park. 111. “For
too long, we’ve been concerned
with books and a happy social
life.”
"I think the justice of the
civil rights movement has fi
nally cut through this apathy.”
said Casey Brown, a junior
from Los Angeles.
About 100 students from
Georgetown walked across
town from the campus to the
Capitol. Other students came
bus. by car or by foot from
Visitation. Howard, American.
Marymount. Catholic. D. C.
Teachers. George Washington
and the University of Mary
land.
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They had planned to gather
on the West Front steps, over
. looking the Mall. But Capitol
I police told them demon
l strations were not permitted on
• the Capitol grounds and sug- <
rested they gather down below ,
at the Grant Monument
From there, they scattered to
. the two House office buildings
and the House side of the Cap
, itol, where some of the mem
bers were engaged in a debate
on the floor. (
Rebuffed at Smith's Office '
From mast of the Represen- i
, tatives. the students received ]
. polite, if frequently noncom- ,
mittal, responses to the request
; for signatures on the petition ;
. to discharge the civil rights bill j
from the House Rules Commit- ,
I tee-
At only one office did the ;
students report open hostility—
and that was a case of looking
for trouble and finding it.
Calvin Haley, secretary to
i Representative Smith, Demo
crat of Virginia, the chairman
of the Rules Committee and
' chief target of the students’
march, reported that the stu
dents came to Judge Smith’s
office “in droves."
“I listened to the first
hundred They wanted me to
■ tell Judge Smith to sign a peti
' tion to discharge a bill from
his own committee,” he said, a
note of irritation adding a cut
; ting edge to his soft Virginia
. drawl "I told them to get on
, down the road and peddle their
, potatoes.”
Lee Ewing, a white George
town student who went to
i Judge Smith’s office with a
small group of Negroes from
Howard, said Mr. Haley finally
closed the door to keep the stu-i
, dents out.
Dr. Frank Reams, of the
Georgetown English depart
ment, who has written two re
cent articles for Common
wealth. a Catholic weekly, com
menting on the “impediments
placed in the way of those at
Catholic schools who wish to
act on the basis of the Papal
encyclicals,” said he thought
yesterday's demonstration indi
cated a more intense Interest
on the part of a few students.
The Rev Richard McSorley,
S. J„ of the Georgetown philo
sophy department, said he was
encouraged by the march.
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Houston Maples, chief of the
extension department of the
District Public Library, told the
Upper Northwest Community
Group last night that a branch
library or bookmobile service is
needed in the area.
Clarence Travis, an entolo
mogist with the District Public
Health Department, also spoke
on the importance of sanitary
conditions to keep insects or
rats out of homes and neigh
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night by residents of an area
in Prince Georges county pro
, posed for a new sewer service
district with special rates and
. charges.
More than 100 persons at
tended a hearing in the county
courthouse. Upper Marlboro, on
the proposal of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
to build sewers in the Western
Branch drainage basin of the
Patuxent River. The area in
ludes Seabrook, Glenn Dale,
Largo, Mitchellville. Ritchie
and Upper Marlboro.
The proposal calls for a $6 9
million project, Including a $1.6
million sewer treatment plant
near the Branch’s junction
with the river south of Upper
Marlboro. To pay for it, the
commission has suggested spe
cial rates and charges.
Seven persons addressed the
hearings, including two from
the Glenn Dale area which has
been plagued with falling sep
tic tanks. William Rlgoli, an
attorney representing the
Glenn Dale Citizens Associa
tion, generally indorsed the
project but said home owners
who support it were not aware
that special rates would be pro
posed
Thomas 8. Gwynn, assistant
1 superintendent of schools,
urged the Sanitary Commission
I to build the project, pointing to
rapidly Increasing school needs
for sanitary services in the
Western Branch area. He said
i an estimated $14.7 million is
scheduld for new school con
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and Western Dranch areas.
The commission la proposing
a sewage rate charge of 32
' cents per thousand gallons and
a connection charge of S3OO for
i each new house, S2OO for each
i apartment unit and SIOO for
; existing houses.
i Blair H. Smith, Sanitary
Commission chairman, said
that the Commission “has not
made up its mind how this pro
ject will be financed.”
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