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THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1976 WASHINGTON — When Presi- nt John Quincy Adams turned the ^OllEdl fii spade of dirt for the Chesapeake nn St Mob' 0 Canal in 1828, he envisioned aj successful commercial waterway S29 Brough the Potomac Valley to the —Wliio River. “I regard this event as the most [rtunate incident in my life,” he marked in a bit of presidential ESI, Bperbole. t Pi I ^ a ^ )01 l rou hl es > lawsuits, floods . ^ Bid railroads eventually doomed the Biancial success of the waterway, ation |ut for years the canal allowed ansport of coal, grain and lumber to he nation’s capital. Operations slopped in 1924. -OVER B Thanks to retired Supreme Court ^ssociafesBistice William O. Douglas, the j85-mile towpath route through Bfaryland to Cumberland is now a itional park instead of the highway Juggested by a newspaper editorial lin the 1950s. ■ Douglas, a seasoned outdoors- Bian, dared some journalists to a i Backpack the entire distance with j him, He wanted them to absorb na- Bure’s spring offerings undisturbed Iby the roar of wheels. ■ Only a few stuck with Douglas ■irough the entire journey. But the \ ■ensuing publicity, maintained by a I yearly repeat performance, killed "e highway idea and eventually made the park possible. For a sesquicentennial celebra tion, the National Park Service is doing its best to bring back a 19th century flavor. Mule-drawn pas senger barges still ply the canal from the Georgetown Visitors Center. Barge ticket purchasers at the center are treated to a colorful exhib ition of watercolors by artist Earl Minderman of Bethesda, Md. Min- derman, a former Ohio newspaper man, is fascinated with the canal era in America. Some of his scenes, peopled with characters in period costumes, show historic buildings such as the Great Falls Tavern, the Abner Cloud House and a block of Georgetown homes built in the 1800s. Another Minderman canal subject is the Seneca aqueduct, now under going restoration, which adjoins Maryland’s Seneca State Park. A building near the canal in Georgetown, the Forrest-Marbury Mansion, is another link to the U.S. Supreme Court. Minderman decided to paint this building just because “looming against the sky” it interested him. Later he found it was once the home of William Marbury, the justice of the peace who sued President James Madison and precipitated the fam ous 1803 high court decision that de clared its own right to declare acts of parksite Congress unconstitutional. Minderman admits he has an un likely background for an artist. A graduate of Ohio State University journalism school, he worked with various newspapers before entering the public relations field. He later worked in Washington with the Federal Communications Commission. During all these jobs he maintained an interest in paint ing, sandwiching in lessons from var ious artists when time permitted. His canal exhibit, which will con tinue through September, is a pro duct of those years. “I never thought 1 wanted to be anything but a newspaperman, Minderman said, “but the artist was there too. Finally it came out.” University Lutheran Chapel 3i5 N. College Main nil iguez j ega 7< fficials say GSA till has ‘crooks’ United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — Recit- galong list of cases detailing wide- read fraud and corruption, Gen- ral Services Administration officials old Congress Tuesday there is still a |uxl core of crooks” in GSA who mst be rooted out. Appearing before the Senate Fed- rai Spending Practices subcommit- le, GSA chief Jay Solomon dis- losed major reorganizational hanges he has made within the candal-rocked agency but cautioned hat many more abuses remain to be incovered. You’ve got a hard core of crooks in there and they have to be rooted out,” Vincent Alto, GSA’s Acting In spector General, told the panel. “It is going to take a combined federal effort tt) root out this corruption nationwide. Calling it an “ugly and disgusting saga, Solomon said disclosures made so far “may represent only the tip ol a gigantic iceberg. "Tlie fraud, the corruption, the I thievery, the mismanagement and dmwiriglit abuse of the public trust that have been exposed to this date are only the beginning,” he said. Officials said six cases already have been turned over to the Justice De partment and other cases were being pursued in Louisiana, Texas, Brook lyn, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. Declaring that he has “made a MAKE TIME Is! 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WILL BE HELD EACH EVENING TO AID THOSE WHO CAN ONLY COME EARLY OR THOSE WHO CAN ONLY COME LATE (OR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO TAKE TWO DIFFERENT COURSES). professional hair designers FEATURING SEEKING MON.-SAT. 9-5:30 693-1772 1510 HOLLEMAN (ACROSS FROM THE SEVILLA APTS.) dramatic turn in the right direction,” Solomon outlined sweeping reor ganization steps which included tougher guidelines to restrict un competitive contract awards, cen tralization of budget functions, crea tion of a new office of audits and in vestigations, and establishment of an Office of Acquisition Policy to de velop and control government pur chasing policies and procedures. The panel heard top GSA officials recite several cases of fraudulent use of GSA credit cards which have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. In one instance, a Department of Education employee gave her GSA supply purchasing credit card to a parking lot attendant in exchange for a free parking space. 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