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Evening star., 1949-12-22

Because many; people with
hearing defects loose the ability
to hear their own voices, patients
attend speech classes to overcome
tendencies to humble or speak too
loudly. II there is nerve damage,
nearly every deafened person suf-
fers some speech change.
AS a part of the course. each
patient learns lip-reading. an es-
sential supplement to his hearing
aid. Experience has shown, DR..
Glorig said. that they show 60
per cent improvement in lip-read-
ing ability in just three weeks.
Such devices as the tachisto-
scope are used to teach the eye
to catch movements quickly and
interpret them-the most diff
cult part of lip-reading. The ma
chine. used during the war to
teach immediate aircraft identi-
fication. flashes eight-digit num-
bers on screen for 1/l00th of
a second.
One Of the center's most
dramatic activities. the speech
correction department. deals also
with spastics. apllasics and others
who do not have hearing problems.
To the civilian who needs a
hearing aid, DR.. Glorig suggested
trials of no less than five types of
aids, with friend to serve as the
tester repeating words or
sounds under the same conditions
with each aid.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
D. {. Heads Approve
Federal Grant for
Ga||inger Home Care

The Commissioners today ap-
proved acceptance by the District
of a $65 ,391 Federal grant through
the United States Public Health
Service for a new program of home
care for chronically i'll patients at
Gallinger Hospital.
The funds include $22,436 for
care of cancer patients. s16,132 for
care Of heart disease patients and
assignment of Public Health Serv-
ice personnel equivalent to $26, 1928.
The District is required to match
so per cent of the heart disease
grant-a minimum of $8,066.
Nurse Available.
Health Officer Daniel Seckinger
informed the city heads that the
services of one Public Health
nurse. who performs liaison work
at Gallinger Hospital. already are
available at $4.705 a year. The
rest of the matching sum, about
300 will be made up from lapses
accrued in personnel services dur
ing this fiscal year, he said.
The entire program will be un-
der the direction of DR.. Sidney
Shindell of the Public Health
Service on assignment to the Dis
trict.
The health officer said it was
hoped the work could get under
way soon after Christmas. It will
mean that patients discharged
from Gallinger with chronic ILL
ness will receive care at home
when conditions are suitable.
30 Might Be Covered.
It is not certain vet how many
patients the program will cover,
but DR.. Seckinger estimated that
from 80 to 40 might be included.
The health officer; declared that
he considered the program "en-
tirely in line with our modern
thinking" and one geared to
"aging population"
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Commissioners Reject
Plan for First-Aid Room

The Commissioners today dis
carded a Police Department pro-
posal that a first-aid room be set
up in the basement of the Mu-
nicipal Center Building to care for
sick or injured prisoners.
Superintendent Of Police Rob-
ert j. Barrett had suggested the
step in view Of a report from the
first precinct that from January
l to August, II, 130 persons were
taken from the central cell block
by patrol wagon to Gallinger Hos
pital for examination and found
to need no treatment. In addi-
ton, So cases were diagnosed as
"fakers," it was said.
Health Officer Daniel L. Seek
niger advised the Commissioners
that setting up an independent
first aid unit would not be justi-
fed because Of the cost and lack
of available space.
The health officer recommended
that the officer in charge Of the
precinct be instructed to transfer
i'll or injured prisoners to the
Health Department ambulance in
terms quarters in the basement
|of Municipal Center.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
PotroImon Walks
2 Beats in Day,
|One as Santa

Pvt. Willie ]. (Pop) Matthews
is walking a beat again, and it's
all in the spirit Of Christmas.
During the early part OF the
day. Pvt. Matthews Of No. IA
Precinct, serves as traffic officer
assisting Benning School children
across the intersection OF Benning
road and Minnesota avenue NE.
AS soon as he's off duty. he dons
a Santa Claus suit and patrols
Christmas Lane (the 5000 block
of Minnesota, passing out lolly-
pops to the children.
Pvt. Matthews new duty Is the
idea OF the Benning Business
mems Association. He has been
playing st. Nick all this week and
will continue through Christmas
Eve. Pvt. Matthews joined the
Metropolitan Police IN December,
1924.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Medical Students Assignment
To AmbuIunces Considered

possibility Of student service on
ambulances and have indicated
they will consent to the procedure
if it becomes necessary.
In such an event, DR.. Seckinger
said, minor treatment could be
administered by fourth-year med
ical students followed, when neces-
sary, by referral Of the patient to
the hospital.
DR.. Seckinger made the report
in advising the Commissioners
that a proposal to set up a first
aid room In the basement Of the
Municipal Center for the care
of prisoners would not be justified.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Finnish Sculptor Wins
Commission 10 Create
forrestaI Memorial

Kalervo KaIlio, Finnish sculptor,
today was awarded a commission
to execute a bronze memorial bust
of the late James Forrestal, first
Secretary Of Defense.
Mr.. Kallio is the son Of the
late Kyosti Kallio. President of
Finland from 1887 to 1910, and
his sister is now a member of
the Finnish Parliament. He re-
ceived his formal training in
sculpture at the Ateneum, Fin
lands art institute.
Defense Secretary johnson,
chairman of the Forrestal Me-
mortal Committee, announced
the award.
One Of IS Entries.
The working model submitted
by Mr.. Kallio was one of IS en-
tries in the open competition held
in the Pentagon. His entry was
the unanimous choice of both the
committee and a subcommittee
composed of professionals who
were asked to make recommended
tions.
Mr.. johnson said the winning
sculptor was not known by men,
bers of either committee until the
unanimous decision was an
nounced.
The plaster model submitted by
Mr.. Kallio was judged the win.
ming entry both from the artistic
point of view and because of its
remarkable likeness to Mr.. For.
restal, Secretary Johnson said.
To Be Paid $4,000.
The committee said a commits.
sion of $4,000 will be paid for the
finished bronze. The site selected
for the location of the bust Is al
the west end of the Mall entrance
opposite the Pentagon dedication
plaque.
The fund for the memorial
raised by voluntary individual S.
contributions. totals more thar
[$34, 900. The committee will hole
further meetings next month te
decide what use will be made o1
the remainder of the fund.
Evening star., 1949-12-22

Possibility that the Commits
sioners soon may be asked to allow
medical students to serve on am
balances was disclosed today.
Health Officer Daniel l.. Seek
niger reported there now are IL
vacancies in the intern service at
Gallinger Hospital out Of A posi-
tions allowed in the budget.
DR.. Seckinger said it is ex-
tremely difficult at present to OBJ
tain the services of interns because
of personnel demands Of the mill
Itary service. =
He said the medical schools
have been approached on the
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Education Board Asks
|Dr. Wilkinson 10 Keep
Post Held 2S Years

The Board OF Education again
has asked DR.. Garnet c. Wilkin-
son not to retire from his job as
first assistant superintendent In
charge of colored schools, a posi-
tion he has held for the last %
years.
Meeting yesterday, the school
board asked DR.. Wilkinson, now
II. to serve until February. 1851.
and not retire as he had planned.
The same thing happened a year
ago when he reached the retire.
ment age of 10.
The we'll known educator, who
has served a total of Al years in
the public schools here and is
the Districts oldest employe,
agreed to stay on at least one
more year. But he warned the
board:
I'm travelling down the road
toward the setting sun. The
logical thing to do for yourselves
and for the children is face
frankly the question of choosing
a successor"
He added:
Il warn you I can't carry on
forever"
c. Melvin Sharpe, board presi-
dent, spoke of the valuable service
DR.. Wilkinson is rendering in this
period of great expansion of the
colored schools in the city. He
asked the board to rise in honor
of DR.. Wilkinson as they voted
him another years extension of
his retirement.
In. other actions, the school
Retired Carleton H. Springer,
1847 Mintwood place NV, a
teacher at Coolidge High School,
after 10 years service, because
of illness, and Miss Florence E.
Grant. ia East Clifton Terrace
NV, a teacher at Roosevelt High
School, after % years service,
also because Of, illness.
2 PROMOTED Dr.. BERNARD H. Mel
son. ZIG P street NV, to a full
professorship in social studies at
Miner Teachers College.
Evening star., 1949-12-22

past, we're treated in an Army Med
ical Center program at Forest
Glen, Md, where doctors and
technicians are using the tools of
modern science to help clear the
cobwebs away from diagnosis,
treatment and rehabilitation Of
the deafened.
Thousands Of soldiers have
passed through the Audiology and
Speech Correction Center since
1896, having the advantage of a
program completely out of reach
for most of the 100000 civilians
with hearing problems.
One of the prime "cobwebs" IS
our outmoded method of test
ing hearing ability by whispers,
coin clicks. watch ticks and tuning
forks. *sss
DR.. Aram Glorig. director Of
the Army center, said a test using
words is needed, because speech
communication is the ears main
function. But, to the ear
the delicate drum Of which can
transmit sound by vibrating as
little as .l-10th of the diameter
of a hydrogen molecule-the time
honored tests are a crude ap-
proach.
Even a well-trained voice tester
sometimes varies his voice level
as much as 100 per cent, DR.. Glo-
rig said. Then. sound varies tre-
mendously at distances less than
eight feet. And even slight out
side noise distracts or masks
sound to the point that close hear
ing evaluation is impossible.
Yet. the Veterans Administra-
ton still uses the whisper test to
adjudicate claims for deafness. 1t
is certain. DR.. Glorig said, that
many men with hearing defects
were inducted into the armed
forces as normal.
To develop a substitute suitable
for screening hearing ability, the
center has received $12,500
Army grant.
DR.. Glorig said the resulting
apparatus, which could be used
also for industrial and other
civilian purposes, probably will
use both spoken words and pure
tones on tape recorder, in a
semi portable soundproof room.
To be suitable for mass exams,
he said, the test must be completed
within three minutes and must be
semi automatic, geared to the low
est mental age of the subjects to
be tested.
Army medical authorities. mean
while, are far from happy about
new policies governing deafness.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Trash Collections Here
Suspended on Monduy

There will be no collection of
garbage, trash or ashes next
Monday in the District, William
A. Xanten, superintendent of the
Sanitary Division announced to-
day. ...--.-:.
Christmas is the only holiday in
the year when all activities of the
sanitary forces are suspended.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Wife to Be Questioned
In Bus Drivers Shooting

Prince Georges County police
today continued their investiga-
ton into the shooting of William
Zinke, 48, of 1902 F street, Capitol
Heights, Md, who remains in
critical condition at Prince
Georges General Hospital.
Mr.. Zinke, a bus driver, has
been quoted as saying he acci-
dentally shot himself with a 49,
caliber revolver while examining
it at his home Tuesday night.
Police said they planned to ask
Mr.. Zinke's wife, Mrs. Merle
Zinke, for more details of the
shooting.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Wonted-Cure for Transit Ills
Cinciinnoti's Fare Control
Miqht Aid Situation Here

IL is eSClmaUeQ tnaC lo-CenC
fare without a ticket rate would
add 81, 900, 900 to income. Mr.. Ed
wards said this would mean no
reduction in service and would
mean completion Of the CONVEX
sion program which should yield
such economies that some fare
reduction would be practicable.
The Cincinnati plan does not
mean low fares. as is apparent.
But it sets up the mechanics for
fare changes, as has been noted
before, and appears to have
established good working relation
ships between company and city.
Defects Conceded.
Mr.. Edwards was asked for his
judgment on the Cincinnati plan.
He replied in a letter that he
would have a good many reserva-
tions about reporting it las a
panacea for transit troubles" He
continued:
Our plan has defects-or more
accurately, omissions-which have
subjected it to considerable strain
and have imposed very serious
burdens on the company during
this inflationary period. Being
on the ground it is natural that
we should be sensitive. perhaps
representative, to its shortcom-
ings.
Even so, the latter should not
be allowed to obscure some very
solid values which it clearly has
developed. For rs years-through
a boom, a bust. a war and a post
war period of inflation-it has at
least achieved the result of en-
abling the company to keep alive
although not being really strong
and robust. of providing the city
with transit service which we
think would compare acceptably
with that to which you are &C
customed in Washington, of keep
ing the discussion and treatment
of transit problems on level
markedly higher than that of a
political free-for-all. and of
cementing pleasant working re-
lationships between the company
on the one hand and the public
and municipal regulatory authori-
! ties on the other. ."
Perhaps the net of my views
can best be clarified when I say
that, based on my experience with
the plus and minus aspects of our
franchise and present situation. if
we were UP against the necessity
of a complete recasting of our
arrangements, my preference
would be to keep the essential
elements and theory of our fran
chise rather than reverting to the
scheme of having to petition some
regulatory authority for necessary
adjustments in the rate of fare.
but trying to moderate, or amend
our franchise in certain technical
particulars designed to enable it
to deal more adequately with the
kind Of period we recently have
experienced"
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Wilson College
Students Ask
Censorship End
Council Appeals to
Board Not to Bar
Material From Library
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

Students at Wilson Teachers
College have asked that the Board
of Education stop "censoring"
publications that come to the COL
lege library.
This offshoot of the squabble
over the Soviet Information Bull
letin was revealed at the school
board meeting yesterday. as a
letter from the Wilson student
council was referred to School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning for
report. But the controversy over
Dr. Cornings, action in banning
the Russian Embassy magazine
from school libraries without tell
ing board members apparently has
ended in a peace pact.
The school board opened its
session yesterday by listening. to
Christmas carols by students from
Western High School and Browne
Junior High School. Then every
thing went along quietly with no
reference being made to the
Soviet publication.
Last week, c., Melvin Sharpe,
board president. asked DR.. Corn
ing for full report on the matter,
after criticizing the school super
intendent for not informing the
board of his action.
Informed Members Individually.
Asked after the meeting what
happened to the report he had
demanded, Mr.. Sharpe said DR..
Corning had written to each
board member stating that he was
in error in not telling the board
of his action in keeping the
Soviet publication out of the
schools.
THE matter is closed" Mr..
Sharpe said, adding that DR..
Corning's action was considered
proper by the board.
Students at Wilson Teachers
College. however, have taken a
different view of the situation.
Wilson also has its textbooks and
periodicals approved by the Board
of Education, and only publica-
tions on the approved list are
allowed in the library.
Opposes Censorship.
John Mcmahon. president of
the student council, wrote:
I'VE looked at both sides of the
problem and came to the conclu-
sion that it was unjust to censor
our college library publications. {"
A poll by The Star last week of
the five major universities in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Catho-
lie, George Washington, Maryland
and American Universities-re-
vealed that no attempt is made
to ban the Soviet Information
Bulletin or other such propa-
ganda publications from their
libraries. They are on hand for
study.
Concerned with Curbs.
Mr.. Mcmahon said the student
council was not concerned spe-
cif1cally with the Soviet bulletin
but with the fact that only pc
riodicals approved by the school
board could be used by the STU
dents.
College officials said the Rus
sian magazine had not been
placed in the library. as it was
not on the approved list. but
some copies had been used by
psychology classes for study of
propaganda techniques.
Evening star., 1949-12-22

tne Army S vast
ranks. rel pre-
sent an impor-
tant trend in
t h e f j G h t
against one of
m a n S m o S t
neglected all
ments - deaf
ness.
The so SOL
diers, all of
whom W ou ! d
have been re-
tired or mus
tered out of
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Sorority Aids Hospital

A check for $1,O65 was to be
presented to Miss Edith A. Tork-
ington, administrator Of Children S
Hospital, this afternoon by Miss
Lucille Melting, vice president of
Alpha province Of Chi. Sigma Ma
tional Sorority. The money was
raised by the sorority alta square
dance and fair. ~
Evening star., 1949-12-22
By George Beveridqe

Since last May, the Army has
sent about 80 of its personnel
back to active duty-all wearing
hearing aids.
These men, small number in
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Arlington Forest Program

The Arlington Forest Citizens
Association will light its Christmas
tree at 7 o'clock tonight. The pro-
gram will include the singing of
carols.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
,AAA Dinner Dunce Set

Nearly 500 employees and execu-
tives of the American Automobile
Association will dine and dance at
/ pm. tomorrow at The Terrace
Room Of the Shorehain Hotel.
Evening star., 1949-03-30

estimate and $15.69a,930 less than
the appropriation for the same
purpose in the current 12-month
period.
The waterways money is in
cluded in a $593, ,292,27O appro-
priation bill for Army civil func-
tions. The bill now goes to the
Senate.
House passage came after S.
530,270 had been added to the
funds recommended by the House
Appropriations Committee.
Approved additions were S.
100000 for flood control on the
Evening star., 1949-03-30

and .harbors projects; 1921, ,000, ,00C
for general flood control. $63, ,000.-
900 for the lower Mississippi
S5o0,0O0 for emergency work on
tributaries of the lower Missis-
sippi and $3,500,0O for the Sacra-
mento River in California.
Other items in the bill are S21,-
250,000 for operation of the
Panama Canal, $4,5O0,0O0 for ma
tional cemetery expenses and So
100000 for the Alaska communi-
cations system.
Evening star., 1949-03-30

lower Mississippi River and it,
tributaries, making a total OF
$63. 100000 in the bill for this
project; $496 900 for the Gulf
port. Miss, harbor. and $34,27O
for a small boat harbor at Hast
ings, MINI.
The House also accepted an
amendment by Representative
Dondero. Republican, of Michi-
gan earmarking $500,000 for the
Red Run n-Clinton River food con-
troll project in Michigan.
AS it passed the House. the bill
includes $l76,530.270 for rivers
Evening star., 1949-03-30

year-old son, said she was walk
ing from her job last Friday night,
when the defendant beset her in
the first block cf Fifty eighth
street Sc. She testified that he
forced her into some bushes near
the sidewalk, where the attack
took place.
White, colored, of the 600 block
of Morton place NE. was placed
under $4,000 bond by Judge Ar
mond w. Scott. He denied the
charge.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Man Held in $500 Bond
In Assault on Nurses Aide

A nurses aide employed at Gar
field Hospital yesterday gave tes-
timony in Municipal Court that
led to the detention of Joseph w.
White, %, for the grand jury on
rape charge.
The 25-year-old victim, who is
colored and the mother of a g.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
ReducedF edFIoodContro
Bill Voted by House
BY the Associofed Press

The House voted $564,530.270
yesterday for flood control and
navigation projects during the
year starting July /.
The amount is $172, ,109,950 less
than President Truman's budget
Evening star., 1949-03-30
British Phones Increase

In three months 161,367 new
telephones have been installed. in
Britain, during which time the
number of applications increased
by $500 to 467,461.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
Swiss See Shaw PIuy

Bernard Shaw's latest play,
"Buoyant Billions" was performed
recently for the first time, in
Zurich, Switzerland.
Evening star., 1949-03-30
A Rrief> Bright and Bonny
Wool Topper for Spring

indispensable you everything Here bril-
surprisingly small thot shines wardrobe
wonderful slim and fuller fashions OF SOFT wool
the full compliments the
collar slash pocket cuffed full sleeves In Kelly
doco, red, eroy and navy. Sizes II to 18
wgL-No,h BniGdns SECOND FLOOR
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
Housing Gets BY
Its First Test

COLUMBUS, May 2 - BY a
1875 vote in the House Taxation
Committee, public housing got
by its first hurdle last week.
The bill which would take the
state out of its position of being
an orphan in the distribution of
Federal funds for public housing
was opposed by the state real
estate lobby which staged a "a
hour filibuSter to stall the vote
of the vote of the committee.
AL h ough the Committee
chairman, James Carney Cd,
Cuyahoga) spoke against public
housing when the committee met
behind closed doors, he did not
vote on either bill. Carney's pos
ition is an indication that other
Democrats may join with the
Republicans to fight jublic hous-
ing.
All six votes against the hous-
ing legislation came from rural
members of the committee.
While advocates of enabling
legislation are hopeful, they are
keenly aware that there is con-
siderable opposition to low cost
public housing and know that
the winning of the first test is
not a guarantee that they will
be successful.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
Amended FEPG Bill
Out OF Conference

COLUMBUS, May 2 - An
amended FEPC bill was report
ed out of conference last Friday
after hearings had been conduct
ed by the Senate Commerce and
Labor Committee.
Voting on the bill came on
Wednesday morning of last week
after a week of conferences in
the Governors office. The series
of amendments were sponsored
by Robert c. Ragan (Lucas) and
Clingan Jackson Youngstown
both Democrats.
While other Democrats on the
committee were not too happy
about the amendments, they
went along with the others to
insure passage of the FEPC leg
islation. Actually, the amend
ments which will not affect the
real object of the bill will make
administration more awkward
and legalistic.
Supporters of the bill did not
want any amendments in order
to keep the bill from being re-
turned to the House where ii
had already received a favorable
vote. The opposition to the
amendments was because of the
close vote the bill received dur
ing its passage by the House.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06

Michigan coop shopping centers.
We plan on having one or pos
sible two more in the near fu-
ure. in other sections of town.
This seems to be the best way
of telling our Coop story, and
the volunteer crew of organizers
and workers seemed to enjoy
helping out at both our fairs"
Low-cost items were quickly
snapped up during the brisk
shopping. The fair opened at 10
AM Thursday; April %, and by
nightfall stocks were depleted
on such items as mustard, sar-
dimes, olives, pastry flour, jellies,
candy bars, pickles, soap flakes,
shampoo, bleach, shaving cream,
peas, beans, gelatin, honey, salad
dressing, vacuum cleaners, irons,
clocks, toothbrushes and num-
Der of other things.
Stock sales activity mounted
throughout the fair, as informa-
ton desks and credit union
booths were manned with volun-
teers anxious to explain how the
coop supermarket shopping CEN
ters return the profits to mem
"You have bought
every supermarket in town for
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