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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11

Dummy Hairston registered
a surprise victory over the
highly regarded Lee Sala and
in w a S h n G t o n, Lightweight
Champion Ike Williams took a
licking from Charley Salas of
Phoenix, Ariz.
Both of the winners are prac-
tically unheard of in this section
of the country but yet came up
with decisions over two of the
nations top-name fighters.
This is a very significant and
good thing for professional box
ing. At long last new faces are
coming to the front in a sport
which had almost hit the lower
depths.
1t was a bitter loss for Will
liams, a great fighter in his day.
and the second defeat in a row.
George (Sugar) Costner won q
10-round verdict over him last
month.
Sala, on the other hand, had
only lost one fight in II bouts
until Hairston's unexpected vic
tory.
EYES of Ohio's high school
II football fans will be focused
on Toledo come next Friday
night when the annual North
South All-Star grid game is
played in Waite Stadium.
Former Indian Coach Frank
Pauly will direct the game and
the clinic and has gone all out
to bring the city the finest in
football talent, brains and en-
tertainment. .
Waite was host to the first
game four years ago and did
such an outstanding job officials
of the affair decided to return to
the East Side this year.
If high school football is your
sport, and it is for many thou
sands of Toledoans, you can see
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
NH e. c. FRED" MAC DONALD

I 1PSETS by two relatively unknown ~swingers rocked the
" boxing world last week and gave further proof that
many of today's champions and ranking fighters are due for
fall.
At Scranton, Pa, a middleweight named Eugene
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
Local II Lassies Win 18Th
Beatinq Westwood 80

4 defeat for the sason,w when they took the measure oft the Wetwood Iases 80 to on
Wednesday,, August End.
q Local IL and Weswood tied up in IN abbreviated game which was called at the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
Gets Into PIay-off 80
Wins By 9 To O

In two games scheduled over the past weekend Local
~ came through with a pair of wins to sew up the cham
pionship in the playoffs to determine the best club of the
two leagues.
On Saturday August 5th at Highland Park the Ware.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11

who highlighted the 1949 flag
chase with their batting title
struggle again were engaged
in a heated struggle for the
Evening star., 1950-08-20
One Killed, Another Hun
In Falls While Painting

A 17-year-old youth was IA
tally injured yesterday when he
fell from ladder while painting
his uncle's bungalow at Berwyn
In a similar accident about
the same time. Washington
electrician escaped with broken
arm and bruises when he fell
as he was painting his Chevy
Chase home.
Kenneth G. Shatel, II, of
Springfield. Long Island, fell
about 81 feet and landed on his
head. Corpl. Roland Sweitzer of
the Prince Georges County police
reported. He was pronounced dead
at Leland Memorial Hospital,
Riverdale.
The youth had been visiting the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jules r.
Sobell, 1913 Pontiac street, Ber-
wyn.
In Chevy Chase. Ernest G.
Lord. IS, fell about Is feet to a
concrete walk at 116 East Brad
ley lane. He was admitted to
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda,
where his condition was reported
as good.
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Baby Girl Fatally Shocked
By Floor Plug in SuitIand

A 7-month-old girl, whose pa
rents are members of prominent
Prince Georges County families,
was accidentally electrocuted yes
terday when she came in contact
with a floor plug.
The victim was Margaret Lynn
Hall, only child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank M. Hall, jr., 4713 Homer
avenue. Suitland. The accident
occurred at the home of her great
grandmother, Mrs. Bernard Down
ing, Nottingham. Md.
DR.. James I. Boyd, deputy
county medical examiner, said the
child had been crawling on the
floor had apparently got in con-
tact with the electric plug while
her mother was out of the room
The Upper Marlboro rescue
squad took her to DR.. Boyd's home
in Forestville where he issued q
certificate of accidental death.
Mr.. Halls father, Frank M.
Hall, ST.. of Upper Marlboro, is
one of the county's leading attor-
neys. The child's mother, Mrs
Margaret Hall, 81, is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Duley OF
Croome. Both the Hall and Duley
families are long, time residents
of theScounty.
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10Y Home Accidents
Include a Fatalities
AS DistrictIsT oil

A year. -old-girl who fell into a
bucket of clothes bleach and swal-
lowed some of the poison was
among the Districts home ac-
cident victims last week.
The District Red Cross Accident
Prevention Service reported that
lot persons were treated at Local
hospitals because of home mishaps
during the week. There were foul
home fatalities, including that OF
a 2-year-old boy who ate paint
containing lead poison from 9
porch.
A woman suffered third -degret
burns when she upset kettle ol
hot jelly. Folding garage door.
fell on the head of an 18-year-olc
boy. A 4-year-old girl fell from
tree and cut her scalp.
A 15-month old boy swallowed
pieces of a broken razor blade
His father was using the blade tt
scrape paint.
A breakdown of the weeks in.
juries list 49 falls, three burns, II
accidental poisonings, % cuts anc
% other types.
Home injuries for 1850 were
tabulated at 4,082, as compared
with 4.097 for the same perioe
last year. Deaths total 122 so fal
this year, as compared with Is:
last year.
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ID. {. Officials Study
Way 10 Speed Mail
AT Municipal Center

District officials are considering
ways to speed up the handling of
mail at the Municipal Center, be-
cause of embarrassment and diff
f1culty' resulting from the present
system.
Frank M. Hally, acting auditor
advised the Commissioners that
unles outgoing mail from the
Municipal Center is ready by 2:45
pm. for delivery to the District
Building by the 3 o'clock shuttle
bus, it must wait until the next
morning.
Mailing delays entail these
hazards, he said:
Late receipt of a voucher on
which a discount is involved may
result in the District losing the
discount.
Delay of checks to vendors
Vendors are constantly writing
the auditor about discounts and
payments. thus increasing his
work.
Late relief checks flood the of
fees of the auditor and the Public
Assistance Division with telephone
calls.
Delay in receipt of a mailed bid
may bring it in too late for con-
Sideration.
Establishment of a mail room
with postage metering equipment
in the Municipal Center. to be
operated by a full-time postal
clerk. has been proposed.
The matter has been referred to
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
c. H. Whitesell for study.
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volve an estimated million regu-
larly employed household domes-
tics-maids, cooks, laundresses.
yardmen, buffers, even perhaps a
few baby y-SitterS.
AS in the case of most others
under social security, an amount
equal to three per cent of their
wages must be paid to the Gov
ernment in taxes. Half of this or
one and half per cent may be de-
Quoted from the workers wages,
and the other one and a half per
cent must be supplied by the en-
ployer.
The social security law permits
an employer, if he wishes, to pay
the whole three per cent out of
his own pocket.
In any case, the employer is re-
sponsible for delivering the whole
amount to the tax collectors.
How will the housewife go about
delivering this money?
The Federal Security Agency
and the Internal Revenue Bureau
would not disclose the method
that will be used to collect the
tax on domestics. They are work.
ing on procedure now, and said
they weren't ready to, announce
details.
May Pay Tax Quarterly.
But a reasonable assumption is
that the housewife will pay the
taxes quarterly, as do the COM
panies which now pay social
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Highway Departments Census
Runs Close to Federal Court

The Census Bureau had better
look to its laurels.
The District Highway Depart
ment disclosed yesterday 1t is &C
cepting bouquets for it's own CEN
sus job on the District.
Included in the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transportation
Study which Virginia. Maryland
and the District began in 1948
and which is now being tabulated
was a population study.
District Highway officials had
compared their population totals
with estimates being made by
other agencies. Finding their own
figures far out Of line, they quietly
placed them at the bottom of the
file.
But Bureau of Public Roads re-
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Washington News
Construction Speeds Along Public Health Service Research Act
Clinical Center
By George Beveridqe

Already changing the COM
plexion of the quiet Bethesda
countryside. the worlds largest
laboratory-hospital is rising stead
lily toward reality.
Behind the trees of the Rock
vile Pike. across from the
Bethesda Naval Hospital. workers
are building the Public Health
Services long-awaited Clinical
Center, on grounds of the Ma
tional Institutes of Health. They
now are at work on the sixth story
of the vast structure. about IS per
cent of the way through the job.
When they f1nish-tentatively
scheduled in October, 1952-an
amazingly sufficient COM
munity, IA stories high and nearly
three blocks long, will be ready
for 500 patients and the $500
scientists and hospital workers
who will occupy 1t.
Center ir-ConditiOned.
Along with the latest in medical
treatment. the project will repre-
sent a revolutionary attack on
medicines biggest problem, the
Gripping and death-dealing raw
ages of chronic ailments.
Completely ir-conditioned, the
center is built like a Lorraine
Cross.
Its planning chief, DR.. Jack
Masur. described it's layout as
patients wrapped in laboratories"
Rooms for the 500 patients will be
on the buildings south side, on
each of the IA floor levels. Twice
as much space will be devoted to
laboratories. which will take up
the north side and each of the
massive wings.
All together, the center will
raise the population of employees
at the NH reservation from the
present 1900 to more than $500
by 1858. In 1858. when operations
begin, the number should rise to
about 2.700.
Officials already have told the
Montgomery County Council about
what this will mean in increased
loads on county schools.
Housing Provides Problem.
But what has them worried
and really worried-is the question
of housing to absorb the person.
mel.
THE need" said one Official, lis
for reasonable housing-reason-
ably priced and reasonably acces-
sible. All we can do is pray that
local builders will provide it,"
Frederic P. Lee, County Council
president, said that group has con-
cluded the area near the center is
not suitable for apartment units.
Several zoning applications for
apartments already have been re-
| jected.
Mr.. Lee said the council feels,
however, that the additional en-
Iployes can be absorbed through
out the county. "It is question
of where, and what type of
houses" he added.
To the original 90-acre site
which holds the six present In
stitutes of Health. meanwhile, Of
f1cials have added 213 acres of
land. some of it extending from
the Rockville Pike to Old George
town road.
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The largest number of beds
$50. will be for mental health
study where. except for a few pio-
neering projects. basic research
is at minimum. officials hope
in the labs. to find out what goes
on in all parts of the bodies OF
mental patients-what one OF
them called the study of the
biology of madness"
In addition, tentative plans call
for cancer patients to have 1875
beds and 270 labs; heart. 100
beds and 246 labs; experimental
biology (metabolic diseases, rs
beds and 100 labs, and micro
biological INFECTIOUS and tropical
diseases. SO beds and 88 labs.
More emphasis will go on prob
lens of war and civilian catas-
trophe. Included are the multi
pie problems of blood use, as%well
as shock, burns and the impor-
tant questions of the effect of ra-
diation on living tissue.
increasingly important, too. is
the part the center probably
would play in serious catastro-
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ports began to indicate that the
dropping off in urban population
levels was being noted in other
cities, too.
Then the Census Bureau an
nounced that contrary to provis-
ional estimates since the end of
the war, the population curve for
Washington was down. 1t found
1922 persons living here.
The Highway Department had
counted 746,780 This rose to 761,-
780 with the estimated $4,000 in
mates of institutions who had been
left out of the study because they
made no trips.
Expanded to 1850, the officials
crowed, the highway figure would
be almost the same as the Census
| figure.
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the center is studying an advanced
method Of treatment. Patients will
be selected from all parts of the
country.
Only a small number of specific
diseases will be studied at any one
time. But. facilities and scientists
of several of the institutes will
collaborate on each case. For ex-
ample. in a rheumatic fever prof.
ect-basically of interest to the
National Heart Institute-experi-
mental biology and infectious di-
sease scientists would be called in
to study certain phases of the di-
sease. The Institute of Mental
Health might even be brought in
to study emotional reactions of
such patients.
Truman Authorizes Institute.
President Truman last week au-
thoriZed formation of two new in
stituteS - one for arthritis and
rheumatism. the other for blind
ness and such neurological diseases
as epilepsy. cerebral palsy and null
tiple sclerosis. These diseases also
will enter the lab-hospital picture.
Evening star., 1950-08-20

Approaching from Bethesda
about 116 acres Of the old Wood
mont Golf Course has been
acquired by NH. Some of the
land is now in use. The rest has
been lent to the county for a pub
lie course. now in operation.
Adjoining this land is 48-acre
tract obtained from DR.. c. Free
land Peter. West of the Peter es-
tate is the original 90-acre tract
formerly the property of Mr.. and
Mrs. Luke Wilson. Adjoining it to
the west is 48 acres acquired from
the Sisters Of the Visitation OF
Washington. The sisters will re-
tain smaller tract for their resi-
dence
Construction costs of the center
was estimated at $40 million, but
the final figure will be nearer $50
million. counting sites. Equipment
and auxiliary buildings.
The latter include radio-isotope
and utility buildings - already
completed-and shops. a laundry,
a storage building. animal breed
ing and feed buildings, ground
maintenance buildings ut storage
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vaults. The self-suffcient devel-
opment will have it's own heating
plant and standby electric
power plant for emergencies. Ar
rangements also have been made
with the country to share the cost
of a new fire station nearby.
Key Personnel Sought.
While the brick-and-mortar
construction proceeds. DR.. r. E
Dyer. NH director: DR.. N. H
Topping. associate director, and
DR.. Masur already are recruiting
key medical and scientific leaders
who will be the real heart of the
center. Likewise, teams of scien-
lists who later will be brought to
the center already are at work
on specific projects in locations
throughout the country.
Basic purpose of the center is to
study certain carefully-s selected di-
sease conditions. linking treatment
with the most promising research
strides.
Tickets Of admission for pa
tients will be simply the confirmed
diagnosis of an illness for which
Evening star., 1950-08-20
HyottsviIIe to Register
New Students Sept. /

Registration will be held from
9 am. to 3 pm. September / at
the Gallatin Street School in
Hyattsville for new, pupils enter
ing grades to 3 and at the For
ty-third Avenue School for those
in grades 4 to Z.
Mrs. Mary A. Petty. principal,
announced that first graders who
were registered in the spring need
not be registered again.
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phe involving Washington. If ci-
william hospitals. mainly located
downtown. should be destroyed or
overcrowded, the center, along
with Walter Reed and Bethesda
Naval Hospitals, would be avail
able for casualties.
The center, built of reinforced
concrete. is being constructed so
f1exibly, officials said. that it could
be converted nearly overnight to
receive, comfortably, several times
the 500 patients in normal times.
DR.. Topping predicted the cen
ter will go a long way toward
developing Washington into one
of the great medical centers OF
the world.
Considering aims of the center
and the caliber of personnel off,
Icials are trying to recruit. some
of them are a little in awe, them
selves, at its possibilities.
What we're trying to do" one
ofathem said. "is to put together
Il for the first time the best medi-
cine has to offer in the fight
against chronic disease
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self-employed. For example. small
businessmen. They must pay 2A
per cent of their income in social
security taxes, and will send it in
once year with their income
taxes.
The other newcomers, who are
in various categories such as year.
round farm hands and State and
local employees, all have regular
employers.
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Milk Producers Bar
Chemical SteriIizers
From Association.

The Maryland and Virginia Mill
Producers Association hopes tc
have between so and so new pro-
ducers in the Washington area by
November. but they won't be users
of chemical sterilization for milk
ing equipment.
An official of the producers CO.
operative said the group will not
accept as members any producer
shipping to Washington or Alex
andria who uses chemical sterili-
zers. despite the recent approval
of such methods by the District
Commissioners.
The association fought the pro-
posed change in local health reg
ulations allowing chemical sterili-
zation for the first time. as we'll as
the practice of steam sterilization
Standards Are Cited.
1--WE see no reason why we
should deviate from steam sterili-
zation," an association spokesman
commented. 1--WE don't want tc
reduce our standards.
The District Health Department
made one concession to steam users
when it ruled that such methods
would be given Is points in rating
milk for shipment to Washington
as against 10 points for chemica.
sterilization.
The association now has q
membership of 1,706, producer.
who are shipping between $780,.
900 and $4,000 gallons of mill
a day into the city.
| Meanwhile, Kirk Miller, former
public relations consultant for the
association, announced last night
he mas invited several Washington
dairies to a meeting to discuss pos.
sible formation of a distributors
association to deal with the pro-
| ducerS.
Miller Hopes For Unity.
He said no time or place had
been set for the initial meeting
as he had not yet had time to
reach all distributors.
Mr.. Miller expressed the view
that all dairies ultimately would
join in an association because
only by solid front at all milk
levels can it ever be hoped to es-
tablish a reasonable price for re-
tail milk in Washington"
He added that "since the farm
ers are highly organized as a
cooperative and since the distri-
butors face this cooperative as
individual units. they are defense
less against the demands of the
farmers"
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Music Fails to Stop QuorreI,
AK Wie|der Is Given d Year

A couple Of the boys were
whooping it up in the 200 block
of Half street S.W. the other night,
and even George Washington S
furious pounding of piano
couldn't calm them down.
The tale of music that failed
to sooth the savage breast came
out yesterday in Municipal Court,
where Cleanzy Rich, 42. colored,
of the Half street address, was
convicted of simple assault for
whacking an acquaintance over
the shoulder with an ak.
A witness was Mr.. Washington
colored, who lives in the 200 block
Evening star., 1950-08-20

security taxes on their workers
For many years, those who
favored inclusion of domestics in
social security have debated the
best method of collection.
Two main suggestions were
made.
One was stamp book" plan
The employer would buy stamps
from the Government-thus, in
effect, paying the taxes in ad-
vance. Each payday for the do
mestic worker stamp would be
pasted in the book, and the COM
pleted book would be sent to the
Government for its records.
The other suggestion was fol
the employer to sand the money
to the Government every three
months. along with a form CIV
ing the necessary information.
| Experts who are familiar with
social security matters indicate
the stamp plan has been rejected
They point out that social security
authorities have had the power
ever since the original act of 1885
to collect taxes by means OF
stamps but have never used that
idea.
Employment by Quarters.
The new bill awaiting presiden-
tial action speaks of the employ
ment of domestics in terms OF
calendar quarters. A tax must be
paid, on domestic for a calendaS
quarter If the ernploye works fol
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security system on January l. They
will become eligible for old age
pensions and survivors benefits
They also will pay social security
taxes. and so will their employers
This will bring some new tax
collecting problems.
Million Domestics Covered.
One Of these problems will in
Evening star., 1950-08-20
White Oak Fire Group
Commended by Nuw

The White Oak (Md.) Naval
Ordnance Laboratory fire depart
ment has been awarded a rating
of "excellent" by Potomac River
Naval Command Fire Marshal
August H. Benson.
This is the first time a fire de-
partment attached to a naval ac-
tivity within the command has re-
ceived such a rating. Harold w
Hirst, Boyd avenue. Takoms
Park. Md, is chief of the MOI
fire department.
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of Half street NV. He said he
and Eugene Hawkins. At, colored,
100 block of Sixth street NE.
were visiting at Rich's home when
the two got into an argument" :"
IF you want the truth" offered
the witness, "it was about a drink !"
To quiet the pair, Mr.. Washing
ton started banging away at a
piano.
Il played Shanty Town" he
told Judge George D. Nelson
earnestly. Man, beat it up,
too"
But it did no good. Mr.. Haw-
kins got the ak. Rich got a year
in Jail.
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By Mox Hall
Associoted Press StaH Writer

If you have a domestic employe
in your home. you may be mailing
the Government check every
three months, starting about next
April.
The check with be for social Sc
curity taxes.
President Truman is expected to
sign the new social security bill
which Congress passed Thursday
II he does, millions of new
people will come into the social
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Domestics Social Security Tax May Be Paid on Quarterly Basis

one employer on some part of at
least "a days during the quarter
(about two days a week. and if
the employe is paid at least $50
by the employer during the period.
This seems to make it likely
that any money or forms mailed
to the Government by the en-
ployer should be mailed after the
end of each calendar quarter.
Most of the newly covered
people, roughly 5 million, will be
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Wheaton Chamber to Meet

The Wheaton Chamber of Com
merce will hold a dinner meeting
at 1880 pm. Tuesday in Naylor's S
Restaurant in Wheaton, Md.
New members will be welcomed.
Thomas G.. Oyster, president,
said.
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Parking Space Fight FotoI

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 19 (P)
B. Snite, jr.. 20, was
killed and Patrick j. Smith, jr.,, "a
was charged with homicide today
in what police said was a fist
fight over a parking space.
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No food shortages. The Presi-
dent has stated that neither food
shortages or rationing are in
prospect. despite the fighting in
| Korea, Don't hoard,