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I- i 2 3 Jackie's White Home Changes Packing In Weekend Tourists J.J( TilK KEffMU). SATfUriAY. AITJI. I'mV! High-School Students Overflowing Nation's Capital N'liii Sen if-1 hard In kee ti.e Matue fur is' ill." 1 y- s. I i f- White lliiii-B may not look as it Old before put itmi it i far tiHire hutorie, The I'trnl bulk of the vimtori an; hud ud through an the re itur tour, wlui only kl I minute.

A t'rpwins number, however, have learm-d about the V. I. P. tour wimli they ran eel on through their Cungrmman. Thu pet mil a to 11 minute look and include Mime room not Mrn on the regular tour the liin.i Room, (or iiiMaiief, and the Diplomatic Reception Room with ii famous antique wall-paper.

The V. I. P. lour wa limited to a toial of 1j0 perMini during Hie F.iM-ttlumrr Administration, Hut one day thii week, more I han 1,000 went throuuh on It cliuiiiii a 3 hour period. Among Ihem were Art Unkletier and bn time Kotn, who nhowed up at the White House satri at 7 ii A.

M. k'tinli it. Sometime tli'-y nee thr ul A he muvrs (runt one purl itl tlu SVlille to the other. Some are mi Inleii! en raehnis tt fctiiitiM the lint t.illlily th-y ti lmk tit the itiilii'iil tiNiu it the tour. Th rein-lion lo Mr.

Kennedy' chitnues is tml imivcniilly launiible. M.my a viittur ha Iwcn heard lo reiiiiirk. "Mr Kennedy has ruined the White IIoum." These are nften people wlui have keen it Ulme and rumpUun thai It now reeiniile a second h.mil liu iiilui More. The i li st Lii'y that there more lurniiuie in the loom now ami that the is 1 Polio Victim's Plea For Ride Answered Old Friend- Of Service Help After Appeal IUIKS ON' HAT; I.lltle uliind ciuiflly thile lu-r liillu hrr hrad nurlriR Kuttt iiop)iiit; HMOk 1 1 II. II -II II ll I 4 1 I'KKTTV Mary Odior off while Irylng la Diintana llinuiihllully ktudlt-i hrrrll In mirror I lo purrhave lur drelUe an hith Knstrr bonnet tomorrow's f.isliiuo purade.

New Milford Victor Tarditi. who gave many lifts to service men during the Inst 2 years, got a lift yesterday from a friend he hasn't seen in 7 years. i- ti ty -Ki' i I. Only Elite Get Facts In Foreign Schools Dean At Kutscrs Says Its Unlike U. S.

Where Opportunity Is Open To All Special to Tiie Record) New Brunswick. Apr. 21 Foreign schools give facts to the few whereas American schools open doors of opportunity to children at all levels of ability, says the dean of the Graduate School of Education at Ruitim University. Tlitrra AnitniUlioll nf Ankt-r, pl.nt's birr! typi h.it on huvr. ing was to olfer clinllemting programs to children of all abilities.

For for our best students the equivalent of the intellectual elite in other nations we are accelerating learning. Good students now often take college-level work in high schools. Younger children are learning in elementary school what they formerly learned in high school." DROPOUT PROBLEM Schools in South America are structured after systems in Europe, not the United States, he says, "What we stand for is quite foreign to them. They have borrowed very little from us, educationally." In the United States, lhe dropout problem occurs in the hitih schools. "In Africa, literally millions" of Africans drop out from grades one through six.

When they, become adults they have no employable skills," Dean Herge says. Many African leaders are agitating for the American idea of taking all children into the schools and working to improve them no matter what their ability. "This is the secret of the great success of our democratic experiment," Dean llerge says. "We offer equal opportunity to all through twelfth grade. No other nation in the world does that." SPOT.

CHECK VVysecki, Jcrlinski Survey Areas In Hackensack Hit By Floods Hackcnsack Deputy Mayor Kazmier Wysocki said he surveyed the City's flooded areas about 2 weeks ago with Freeholder Frank V. Jerlinski and City Engineer Lester K. Fish-bough. He said they checked the storm sewer outlets into the Hackensack River. Some of the things discussed, which Wysocki said Jerlinski was to take up with the County Engineer lor consideration included filling in some creeks and attempts to minimize the collection of debris there; building up some of the soil banks; and extending the pipes from these storm sewer outlets.

f- Lb, til '--xt, Iw. Jv i i rfm -r fi I t'tiily Apr. 21 It the j'copk' tlu-M' days. JiOl l.S V.MMI Crowd ore in the na tieii citi'iud, piiiticulmly ttrouiul EiHler time. FaitiT VjUiititmn cnim-idf with one t( the lvelieit turn' nf tar litre.

The cither I w.tnn up. The cherry Irct ft and fimythiit nre in bliMim, tliW wii-k, fur lii-tanrr, the eiinmei rs ami niul Hie D.im;lilri o( Hie Ameru wn Revolution niul the lli'iiiihliciin Women nil armed in bmn lit the Mine turn1 lor citnvriitiiiiis, In addition, there c'lttie liilu.nl after busload ot In 1 1 eyi KtiU. The re-ult: every Item of Interest in this liiMorie city either had bvi cruwil round It a line n( people waiting to Co iiiMtle mid tune a look. Record-breaking nnmtiiT were filing through' the White lliace. On the other end of IVntisylvania Avenue, of tfiiuerncur.

ryin vlMturs marched Ihrmiuli the llmiM' and Senate chambers of the Ciipilol. Many of tin-in posed on the Cnpitol steps (or pictures villi their I oimressmeii. Some merwtic wiuN took the stairs fill the way to the lop ot the Wushini'Jim Monument in stead of wailing for the elevator. Those other old favorites, the Lincoln And Jetlerson Memorials, were getting their customary ul-lentimi. So were the Hureuil of Kngiaving and Printing where our money is made, the National Gallery with Dali's unusual portrayal of the L4it Supper, mid the Smithsonian with its Atlas 'and Polaris missiles.

So many visitors were In town this week they filled the city's 15.000 hotel rooms and spread out lo another or so rooms in Virginia and Maryland motels. There were jams all over the place of sightseers, of curs (Government workers left home earlier than usual to get to work on timet, and of shoppers in the stores Hhe tourists sicnd an estimated a year herei. Kenneth Burke, the blue-uniformed inspector of While House police, said that never in his 21 years on the job had he seen so many visitors as there have been in the past few days. "Mrs. Kennedy's television show created so much interest in the White House," he explained.

"They all want to see the changes she has made. Last Saturday took the tour. But even larger numbers are expected in the future. Under a new policy, which will be an nounced in a few days, the White House will be open to visitors for the first time on public holidays such as Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day. The police are bracing them selves for an expected influx of 25,000 on Memorial Day.

KEEP EM MOVING One of their jobs is to keep the visitors moving. This is one way that souvenir hunters and name scratchers are foiled. Even so, some one occasionally is caught the act of trying to scratch his initials on one of the mahogany doors. And enough visitors succeed in snipping off tas- sles from the drapes in the East Lounge a favorite souvenir that they have to be replaced from time to time. "Are we going to see Jackie?" one woman visitor inquired facetiously the other day of a White House policeman.

"Jackie Who?" he came back with a dead pan. Some of the visitors do occasionally get a glimpse of Mrs. Kennedy with Caroline in the A. PROGRAM Curriculum Co-ordinator To Be Guest Speaker Tuesday Fair Lcwn The Edison School P. T.

A. will present Samuel Kaufman, curriculum coordinator, as guest speaker on a program entitled, "What our school Ought to do" on April 24 at 8:15 P. M. Harold Hall, chairman of the Fathers Group, is in charge of the program. It was announced that parents of children entering kindergarten next fall should register at the school on May 15 from 9 to 11 A.

and plan to attend the kindergarten parents meeting on May 22 at 8:15 P. M. Poe is a strange selection for a girl with such a sunny personality but she hastened to explain. "On tour I have a lot of time to myself so I read a lot. But Poe is my favorite; his stores are so weird and unusual.

I especially like the real gory ones like 'The Pit and the Pendulum' These tours are the mainstay of her professional life. Being under age, she cannot perform in clubs where liquor is served, so she is limited to auditoriums and concerts. Since these shows are attended mostly by young people, she hasn't had much of a chance to reach the adult public. Not only can she sing, but Linda is making her mark in the composing field, too. She re- business end of music is essen tial.

Linda's idea of the perfect date consists of dinner, a show, and IS THERE Charles Thalman of shoppers above Northvale takes a rlose look at contents of his wal- yesterday. (The let to see if there is enough money on hand to Rice.) purchase Easter plant for his mother. All the As They Drink In N. Every Shot Is One Men Receives In Paper ROTE TO C. 1 1 The polio victim who was known us the service men's buddy because of his correspondene tn them while overseas, lost his daily trip to and from work as a graphotype operator In Engle-wood because the friend's work schedule was changed.

Ifc made an appeal in this paper Thursday to his old friends to help him. Thursday evening he received a response from a man who works in F.nglewood, but the time schedule was different. A woman who works in Cliffside Park offered to take him to work, but couldn't take him to his home at 133 Center Street in New Mil-ford. Late Thursday night his pica was finally answered by William Bracken of 208 Lawrence Drive, Paramus, a special policeman with the Paramus Police force, who Is also an employee for an auto agency in Englewood. "I read the story in the paper, and thought I recognized the name and what he had done for the service men during the war," Bracken said.

"I worked for 18 years at a garage across from where Vic used to work on West Palisade Avenue. Me was well known in Englewood for his sending letters to the boys in uniform. "I'm a vet myself, and I can understand how he helped the G. I come from Paramus and have to pass New Milford before I get to Englewood, so I can pick him up and drop him off." So at 7:15 A. M.

yesterday Bracken picked up Tarditi at his home and resumed the friendship which had lapsed during the years. In a sense it was a service man returning a favor to Tarditi who was a friend to service men. At the outbreak of World War II, the then 23-year-old Tarditi could only watch as his fellow members of the Laplanders Athletic Association in Englewood marched off to war. He kept a filing system on their whereabouts and religiously sent them news from home. To the kid huddling in a shell-pocked Pacific sumphole, it meant a steady flow of diverting pen-sketches; to the young man under arms in Western Europe it meant a few minutes relaxation; and to the new recruit at a training camp it was a source of new addresses.

The war ended and Tarditi was lauded, feted, and even had a poem written about him. Service men returned to civilian occupations, but Tarditi continued to correspond with those still in uniform. At the outbreak of the Korean conflict he again took pen in hand and brought cheer to those fighting at Inchon, and other battlefields. He exchanged addresses between widely separated buddies, made phone calls for them, subscribed to magazines in their names, and to those in uniform was a 1-man Information ter. LIBRARY TO HAVE BOROUGH'S NAME Board Decides New Structure'! Designation-To-Be Glen Rock The library trustees have rejected a suggestion that the new library be named for Mrs.

Helen II. Griffin, library director. In rejecting the made by the Democratic Club, the board said, "Mrs, Griffin is held in deep regard and admiration by the entire community. But both she and the board have long held that the name of the library should reflect simply the name of the community that supports it." In the monthly report, Griffin discussed the difficulty of finding adequate space for the books in inventory. She said the problem has been aggravated recently by a demand for books held in storage at the Municipal Annex.

The report said that because there in not enough shelf space to accommodate the returns of books, it has been decided to add to some of the present cases. The new building will be available In 18 months. Wiwn you think FI RS FASHION APPAREL think first of vXAEOL 'uti Gardea State PUu, Parana 3.11 Main Harkeniack ITAUAN-AMERICAN DEMOCRATS ELECT Forlenzn Of Krv Is New Head Of State Political League I.oill Felix ForU-na of Essex County was elected president of the Italian-American Democratic League of New Jersey at a meeting held at Miinella's Pink Elephant siaurant Thursday night. Louis A. D'Agosto, of Bergen, wselected vice-president; Sam.

uel Voltaggio was named secretary: Samuel Naples, executive director and organizer: Joseph J. lienucci, treasurer; and Frank IUpo, assistant treasurer. Vice-presidents in eight Counties were approved: Louis A. D'Agosto, Bergen; Dominic Raf. fa, Cape May; Frank Bellino.

Hudson: Joseph P. Merlino, Mercer; John Petillo, Monmouth; Albert J. Cued, Ocean: Anthony J. (irossi, Passaic; Michael J. De.

Martino, Union; and Michael Alercio, Essex. Vice-presidents of other counties have Jet to be conlirmed. The dinner meeting was opened by Foiienza. D'Agosto welcomed the representatives to Bergen County. Former Mayor Joseph P.

Luna then welcomed them to Lodi. In addition to D'Agosto and Luna other Bergen County representatives included: Patrick Te-riesco, Frank Sperduto, Joseph M. Yannette, Louis Ruggiero, and James Pecorella. FAIRVIEff POLICE SEEKING MUGGER Woman Beaten, Robbed; Driver Of Escape Car Also Wanted Fairview Police were looking this morning for two men in the beating and robbing of Mrs. Carmella Rutch, 54, of 289 Day Avenue here, as she was returning from work shortly before 1 A.

M. today. Police reported that at approximately 12:40 A. M. Mrs.

Rutch, who works at Palisades Amusement Park, got off a bus at Anderson Avenue and Broad Street and began walking east toward her home. As she walked, police said, she heard running footsteps behind her and turned to confront an unidentified man who struck her, knocked her to the sidewalk, and beat her. A second man, police said, watched from a black sedan parked at the curb. Police said the mugger took Mrs. Rutch's handbag containing a diamong wedding-ring set valued at $250, $10 in cash, and personal effects.

The two men escaped in the black car. Mrs. Rutch received a bloody nose, cuts, and bruises. She was not. hospitalized.

Police said she described her assailant as about 23 years old, slender, and approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall. Police said she was unable to give a description of the driver of the car. dancing. Linda also has very definite opinions on the recent Bergen-Rockland drinking controversy. "I don't see why they can't wait until they're 21.

If they stopped to consider the tremendous risks involved, I'm sure they would agree that the kicks aren't worth all that trouble." A 1 4" v. LINDA SCOTT TRY TO COMPARE Most foreign school systems have two prominent characteristicsrote and separation, says Dean Henry llerge. who recently toured South America and Africa to observe schools there. The result is that only the best students go on to high school and college, memorizing more facts as they advance than most American students ever are made to learn. "We see this in foreign students who come to Rutgers University," Dean Herge says.

"But that does not make foreign schools better. Any school which admits only the best studentssometimes the top 1 per cent will turn out impressive graduates." Dean Herge observes: "They're trying to compare all of our youth with the absolute best in other nations. "Our schools are geared for all of the children. We give every child the opportunity to go, individually, to the limit of his ability." American schools could move toward schooling only for the elite, Dean Herge says, but few Americans want to. He feels such a system is incompatible with our national goals and aspirations.

"American schools are improving in other ways. They are find- mittee at the next session, after a 10-year wait. Most legislators, lie admits, would prefer to see the bill defeated because they fear the shadowy liquor lobby. But, he says confidently, they will, not dare oppose the will of the peo ple and the people are for a change in the law. Also, there are signs that pressure is building up from within New York itself to an unprecedented height.

In prior years the only pressure has come from scattered local groups and individuals too-easily written off as cranks. Today the pressure is coming from the likes of the New York State Council of Churches, the New York State the powerful Farm Bureau, local governments such vas the Rockland County Board of Supervisors, and Congressional leaders from New York. In addition, the mail from individual citizens has increased. QUESTION Whether all this pressure is enough, even now, to overcome the apathy of the past, the powerful opposition of the liquor industry, and the Legislature's obvious fear of loss of revenue, is a question that can only be answered in the January session of the New York lawmakers. In the meantime the New Jersey Legislature is acting on its own to put teeth Tnto the war against teen-age drivers who drink in New York.

Two weeks ago thj Legislature passed N. J. State Senator Pierce H. Deamer's bill which would enable magistrates to revoke or suspend, the driver's license of any persons under 21 who possess or drink alcoholic beverages in a car or public place. At the same time the lawmakers acted to increase the penalties for any one falsifying his age to buy alcoholic beverages.

And the roadblocks and spot-checks by New Jersey law-eu-forcement agencies will continue. But despite the tougher measures, the long war continues. And as it enters its second decade, one fact becomes painfully ob vious. The problem cannot be solved from the New Jersey side of the Hudson. The only real solution lies with the Empire State.

It is there that the drama be gins, in the dark little taverns and bars. But too often it ends here, on New Jersey roads and in New Jersey hospitals. were at Knrvctte City in Nanuet Record photographs by Sherman Y. Bars For Road Florence Dwyer Sixth) has been hammering away for years at the monolith of the New York Legislature. Now the peppery Congressman threatens to try a constitutional amendment to establish a nation-wide minimum drinking age at 21.

The process, she admits, will be long, and she calls it a last resort. But she is determined and she may succeed. But despite threats, pleas, and general mayhem both from within and without the State. New York's legislative leaders remain unmoved generally. The coldness of the New York Legislature may have its roots in the report of a 1956 committee appointed by former Governor Averill Harriman to look into the problem.

The committee vaj made up of Frederick Osborn, a former American representative to the U. atomic energy agency; Dr. Millicent Mcintosh, president of Barnard College; and former New York City Magistrate Charles F. Murphy. The eminent trio complained in its report about the dearth of reliable statistics bitt still managed to come up with findings that made no recommendation for a change in the law.

The committee put the onus squarely on parents: "The issue must be solved by families and social groups rather than by the law." And that, apparently, was that, as far as the New York Legislature was concerned. In September 1961, New York State Senator John J. Marchi led an investigation into the problem. (Marchi is the same man who will lead a similar committee investigation this summer and fall in New York.) In 1961 Marchi's committee heard 30 witnesses. Twenty-five of them approved the 18-year minimum.

SOME VICTORIES But there are signs that the pressure for a change is beginning to have some effect. Some small victories have Leen won. Senator Marchi himself has admitted that pressure within his own State is building up. As a consequence, he says, he will hold at least some of his scheduled hearings this summer in Rockland, a hotbed of the problem. Assemblyman Lucio Russo of Staten Island, a long-time supporter of raising the age, sees some hope that his bill to raise it will finally come out of com- Atlantic City: New Milestone For Linda Scott Of Teaneck (Continued from page 1) Greenberg.

"To drive an auto while under the influence of alcohol is bad no matter how old jou are when you do it." Raising the age. he says, will not solve anything, just as Prohibition- did not solve anything. And, says Dr. Greenberg, the effects may be just as serious. COMMON ARGUMENT Another supporter of the 18-year rule is Henry V.

Larom, dean of students at Rockland Community College. the lower drinking age in New York results in less rowdyism fewer problems," the dean says. Proponents of the present age rule also argue that it is inconsistent to make a youngster into a soldier at 18 and deny him the-right to drink. "If he can carry a gun," the argument runs, "he can carry a drink." Still others argue that proper parental supervision en the part of parents of New Jersey youths would eliminate the problem of the teen-age drinker. Parents, this faction says, must take responsibility for the behavior their youngsters.

But the opponents of the New YdVk law can reply with some pretty broad and hard arguments, too. "Of comse," they say, "the New York liquor interests want to keep the minimum age. It's in their interest to do so." BUSINESS Again no real statistics are readily' available on the dollar value of the under-21 liquor trade in New York. But estimates are that teen-agers furnish from 20 to 25 per cent of the saloon and package-store revenue in the State. It is also estimated that New York stands to lose $13 million per year in tax revenues from liqi.or sales, if the 18-year minimum is raised to 21.

Part of thej opposition to raising the minimum is no doubt based on the fact that it would apply to New Yjrkers tinder 21 as well as youngsters from out-of-State. And the out-of-Staters comprise only a noisy and bumptious fraction of those under 21 who drink in Hew York. Why should New Yorkers be penalized for the depredations of foreigners? The opposition replies: because New York has allowed its border towns to become alluring oases for a certain kind of youngster from other States. The opposition also deals vehemently with the other arguments put out by the defenders of the minimum age. It is not true, they say, that pressure to have New York raise the age is a violation of State rights.

On the contrary, New York violates the rights of its neighbors with its low minimum. "The movement of our youngsters across the New York border makes New York's laws our business," says the opposition. Critics also take issue with the argument that a raise in the minimum age would create a new form of Prohibition. There is a big difference, they say, in a kid's drinking at home or even at a party and his drinking in a rowdy tavern from which he must drive home. Besides, they say, there is actually less likelihood of kids' drinking much at all once the lure of the forbidden taverns is removed.

The opposition also criticizes the premise that if a youngster is old enough to serve his country he is old enough to be served in a bar. SERVICE RULES They point to the fact that the armed services themselves don't agree with the argument. Both the Army and the Air Force have regulations prohibiting military personnel under 21 from drinking any alcohol at all on military installations. The Navy allows some drinking in service clubs but only in compliance with local law. As for parental supervision being at the heart of the problem, the opposition argument goes something like this: "How do you reply to a youngster who tells you that if it's all right to drink in New York, it must be all right to drink everywhere?" The legal sanction that New York provides, says the opposition, is not only a lure, it is also a club that knocks the props from under any parental argument.

New York knows this, critics say, and all the talk about parental responsibility is pure hypocrisy. And so the argument swirls back and forth across the border. And there Is nothing very new in it on either side. New Jersey, by far the heaviest sufferer from the New York law, has been pleading for years to have the age changed. Former Governor Robert B.

Meyner called the problem a moral question. Representative Top Teen Singer Heads Steel Pier Bill, Reads Poe For Diversion Teaneck Headlining the Easter show at Atlantic City's Steel Pier is just another feather in the professional cap of Linda Scott. NOMINATED BY CASHBOX At 17, Linda can already claim appearances with Dic Clark, Ed Sullivan, and Paul Anka. If these weren't proof enough of her success, she was nominated "Most Promising Female Vocalist" last year by Cashbox Magazine the bible of show business. At a time when most girls her age are interested in boys, school, and clothes, Linda must think of agents, publishers, arrangers, and professional commitments.

Only after these are cut of the way can she turn her attention to jusc being a girl. junior at Teaneck High School, she is enrolled in the college preparatory course. "I'm in no rush, but in a few years, if I have the time. I would like to i cently formed her own publish-go to college." And not as a dra- ing company, a necessary step matics major either, as one I since an understanding of the might suspect. An ardent fan of Edgar Alien Poe, Linda would choose to major in English.