davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1951-04-03

showing every 2-foot variation in
elevation is made. This map work
lis done at Wilmington. DEL, and
the exact location of the build
ings is decided on from a study
of this map.
Du Pont is contracting out the
work of designing the buildings
called for in reduisitions prepared
by the Acc. AS Of March /. con-
tracts for designing work had been
let to six architect-engineer firms
the American Machine Foundry
Co., the Blaw-Knox Construction
Co.. Gibbs & Hill, Inc, the Girdler
Corp, the Lummus Co. and Voor-
hees. Walker. Foley & Smith.
One contract that will be let In
the next few days will be for a
plant railway. which will be used
both in the construction and the
operation Of the plant.
The Layne Atlantic Co. of Nor
folk, Va. is drilling wells about
the area to supply water for the
concrete work, which has been
contracted to the Anderson Dun
bar Co. of Baton Rouge, La.
Although a vast amount Of de-
Tense construction is being con-
tracted for across the country, Mr..
Mason said that so far there have
been plenty Of competent contrac-
tors eager to bid on jobs and, SO
far. they have had no difficulty in
recruiting labor. However, there
are only about 700 men on the job
today, a figure that must rise to
many thousands.
The telephone company Is
lstringing a cable containing 202
circuits 4o4 insulated wires ont
to the plant area from Augusta
Power lines are being constructed
Evening star., 1951-04-03
D. {. Representation
Effort Reorganized
Under ]. {. Suter

The Citizens Joint Committee
on National Representation fol
the District is being reorganizee
to push the fight which began 81
years ago. Z
Jesse c. Suter was renamed
chairman of the committee. He
has been serving as chairman fol
a number OF years during which
the committee was not very active
IA Groups Represented.
More than Is persons represent
ing IA organizations met in the
Board of Trade conference room
Friday to lay plans for reacti-
waiting the group.
The committee indorsed three
bills now before Congress, all call
ing for national representation fol
the District. Mr.. Suter explained
the group is interested only ir
national representation and will
not concern itself with the vari.
GUS home rule bills that have beer
introduced.
Mr.. Suter said some members o1
the committee favored the Ke-
fauyer home rule bill and Others
did not. He said he was one who
did not.
Prepare for Hearings.
He said it was thought the time
was ripe to reactiyate the commit.
tee in preparation for hearings or
Capitol Hill on national repre-.
Sentation.
Mr.. Suter is the only officer o1
the reactivated committee at pres.
|ent. A Nominating Committee tc
suggest persons to I'LL the other
offices was named and will report
at future meeting.
Mrs. Luther Sheldon, jr., anc
Mrs. Smith Hempstone, daughter,
of the late Theodore w. Noyes
editor Of The Star and long ar
advocate of national representa-
ton, were elected members-at.
large of the Executive Committee
Evening star., 1951-04-03

Ellenton siding of the Charleston
& Western Carolina Railroad. Big
cranes are lifting concrete mixers,
bulldozers and structural steel
from fiat cars. Huge stocks of
lumber are being unloaded and
stacked in tall piles.
Men wearing aluminium helmets
Iare all over the place. They are
employees of the E. I. du Pont de
Nemours Co. of Wilmington, Del,
which is building the plant. or OF
its subcontractors.
Up on the road to Aiken the
Robert Green Construction Co. Of
Oakton, Ind, is building a large
temporary Office building, which
will be the administrative head
quarters of the construction job
and will be taken down, when the
plants big administration build
ing is completed. Ellenton is near
the Savannah River about 27 miles
below Augusta.
Between the plant area. which
covers more than 800 square miles.
and Augusta, men are working
night and day to build macadam
four-lane highway. The r. B.
Potashneck Co. of Cape Girardeau,
Mo-, which is doing the job for
the State of South Carolina, is
using three shifts of workers, and
the night shifts have flood lights
as bright as those that illuminate
Griffith Stadium. #
The road is to be done by June,
and the contractor, who is oper-
ating under a 1,000-a day penal
ty clause, has won the admiration
of the countryside by the speed
with which he is pushing it
through. The new highway will
cut across U. S. Route !, which
also is a four-lane highway at
the intersection, just before it
crosses the Savannah into Au-
gusta. Ga, metropolis of 71.500.
While the South Carolina High
way Department is building the
road, Uncle Sam is paying all the
bills in order to get wide high
way to his new plant.
Road building is not difficult in
the sandy soil of this pine-dotted
area o. South Carolina. Rain
goes right through it, and mud,
which causes the most lost time
on most construction jobs, will
not be a problem on this one.
Workers are building access roads
within the vast area of the site.
For the most part, all that is
necessary is for the bulldozers to
cut the bitches and round off the
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Countryside HUNS With Projects Work Starts on Million HBomb Plant

costs $3.50 to pack a lunch box
with the amount of food a man
working out of doors should have
sandwiches are 40 cents each,
and a man should have three; al
therrnos bottle full Of coffee costs
20 cents, and piece of pie is 20
cents-SI:60 for lunch.
II have two dependents at home.
The Government win take $7.70|
out of my pay for income tax and
$1.20 for social security. I am
carrying insurance of my own at
about SO a week. And I have to-
buy gasoline for my car to go to
work. The way I figure it, I will
only have about $25 left. And
that's not allowing any money for
beer.
Nov I have a mother and a
sister at home at Cape Girardeau,
Mo. I own the house, but I'll
have to send something home for
them to live on. I won't be able
to make ity I'll have to have a
higher rate or more hours work"
I met gate guards and construc-
ton clerks who had found living
quarters and had moved their
families to Ellenton. They were
satisfied with the $50 a week they
were getting.
Housing is the problem. Some
of the families are living in trailers
scattered about Ellenton's lawns
or in trailer courts on the road to
Aiken. But there are only TOO
workers now. Thirty five thousand
are expected at the peak next year.
| The Atomic Energy Commission
hopes to get the job done without
building barracks. but its officials
are doubtful that it can be done.
Housing is tender spot with the
Acc. The Hickenlooper Report
admonished the agency against
becoming involved in more COM
pany towns. To the casual OBJ
server. it would seem that the
Government will have to build
barracks to recruit such force.
The permanent operating force
of the plant will be only 5000
But the spending of so much
money on construction is bound
to have permanent effect. The
peak payroll will go above $2.s
million week. In Augusta (pop-
ulation 71,500) there is talk about
passing Savannah population
I119.50O to become the second city
of the State. Atlanta population
327 ,00O is the largest.
/ In Aiken, IL miles north of the
area. only the real estate people
dealing in big estates are dis.
turbed by the unexpected devel.
|opment. Aiken population 7,067)
had started to interest some new
|millionaires after the war, bu1
there were few such newcomer.
during the season now ending. Blu
Aiken expects the top level of th'
operating force will make it theil
home as many of the construction
Executives are doing now.
i Biggest boom will be experienced
Iby Barnwell population 1,977)
Ithe county seat. Z miles east o
Ithe area. Barnwell is getting read,
for as many more inhabitants
apartment houses and chain stores
Evening star., 1951-04-03
BeIaseo Service Center
Plans Await Approval

The Commissioners today re-
|ceived proposed final terms and
conditions for operation of the
|Belasco Theater as a center for
service personnel.
The center will be operated
under sponsorship of the Commits
|sioners' Armed Services Hospital
|ity Committee by the United Serv-
ice Organization.
The proposed agreement to gov
|ern use of the building was sent
the Commissioners by William A.
Miller, regional director of the
General Services Administration
Its signing by the city heads will
be a step toward permitting the
IUSO to speed up its plans for oc-
Icupancy.
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Recreation Board 10 Hold
Budget Meeting April Il

The District Recreation Board
announced today that it would
hold it's annual budget meeting
for citizens at 8:15 pm. April IL
in the boardroom of the District
Building.
The board emphasized that the
meeting was its annual report to
the citizens on the progress of
the budget now before Congress.
New items will not be considered.
Citizens will be. given an op-
portunity to suggest items for the
next budget at meeting in June
Or July, the Recreation Board said.
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Court Considers Plea
To Supervise Gas Rate
Refund, Set Interest

Former Peoples Counsel William
A. Roberts yesterday told a Dis
trict Court judge that the public
has no confidence in the Public
Utilities Commission as overseer
of the pending gas company re-
fund to consumers.
Mr.. Roberts made this remark
in late afternoon arguments on
behalf of his client, the public,
in the person of Vernon v. Baker,
to have the court supervise the
refund.
He was addressing Judge T.
Alan Goldsborough, who last June
set aside the PUG order granting
Washington Gas Light Co. a $780,
900 annual revenue increase. The
Judge had criticized the commits
sion action as arbitrary and cyni-
cal.
Although he heard opposing
arguments for more than an hour
yesterday, Judge Goldsborough
said he would withhold his de-
cision until after he gives the
matter a full hearing at 10 am.
tomorrow.
PUG Supervision Asked.
Both the gas company and PUG
contended that the latter should
supervise distribution of an esti-
mated $1.2 million in consumer
overcharges between November,
1949, and now.
c. Oscar Berry, company lawyer,
declared that court Intervention
at this time "just isn't necessary. {"
Mr.. Berry said that, in a similar
utility refund in 1947. another Dis
trict Court judge left the distribu-
ton Of excessive consumer pay
mentS up to the PUG.
The lawyer also came out
strongly against the Baker, Roberts
request that the gas payment re-
funds include 5 per cent interest
which Mr.. Roberts had said would
be fair compensation to consumers
for the company's use of their
funds since November, 1949, when
the PUG increase order went into
effect.
Cost Estimated at 100000.
It was estimated earlier that
payment of this amount of inter-
est on the refunds to about lit 900
$4,000.
Mr.. Berry complained that in
JereSt should not be allowed be-
cause the company did not have
the use Of the excessive revenue
The United States Court of Ap-
peals last July ordered the amount
IN controversy kept apart from
other company revenue pending
It's disposition of the appeal.
But Mr.. Roberts called this
argument Specious. He pointed
out that. until the July order of
the appellate court. Washington
Gas Light treated the excessive
payments the same as its other in
come. He said this deprived the
public OF the use of its own money.
Mr.. Roberts particularly at
tackled the company's preference
to have PUG distribute the re-
funds by system of crediting
consumer accounts.
In opposing PUG participation
in the refund, Mr.. Roberts de-
clared fatty that ION behalf Of
the consumer, I have no con-
fidence in PUG supervision of the
refund"
Evening star., 1951-04-03
BY J. l. MichoeI
Star Sfoff Correxnondenf


ANNAPOLIS, April 3.-The 1851
General Assembly, which approved
Marylands biggest budget. did
away with the Jim Crow segre-
cation law and refused to call a
constitutional convention, came
to a close early today.
At least one measure approved
during the final days session faces
a veto. It would give all public
school teachers $300-a-year pay
increase and finance it by increas-
ing corporation income taxes.
Gov. McKeldin has said time
and time again he would not ap-
prove legislation which would raise
taxes. However. any post-session
vetoes will be reviewed by the 1852
Legislature under a 1850 constitu-
tional amendment, and it is posi-
BILE some may be overridden next
year.
Montgomery Bill Killed.
In another ac:ieu last night the
Senate Judiciary Committee killed
a House-approved bill to eliminate
Montgomery County's wholesale
beer monopoly. An Identical Sem
ate bill had been laid on the table
in the upper house last week.
Montgomery County also was
affected by another development
when the Senate apparently "lcst''
a bill which would have given the
County Council the same taxing
powers as those of the State, cx-
cept for levies on alcoholic bever-
ages.
Other Measures Passed.
Among the scores of bills passed
during the closing session were
these:
/. Outlawing all types of COIN
operated amusement" devices in
Prince Georges County, except
claw and pinball machines.
2. Providing a S. million bond
issue for construction of a new
State Office building in or near
Annapolis.
8. Allowing the State to float
$19 million worth Of bonds for
various building projects.
4. Giving the University OF
Maryland broad ''home rule
powers.
5. Setting up a new method OF
assessing property for tax pur-
poses.
Bonus Measure Fails.
One major bill failed. It was
the proposed 500 million veterans
bonus. If passed, it probably
would have been vetoed because
lit provided for increases in beer,
wine and liquor taxes.
A bill providing 81 million for
civil defense was sent to the Gov
ernor after several Senator's un-
successfully attempted to attach
amendments for building projects
in their counties. This would have
raised the bills total to $2.5
million.
Senate Democrats also acceded
to Gov. McKeldin's plan to finance
State police pay raises by shifting
funds from the State Roads Com
mission to the Motor Vehicles De-
|partment.
Elected School Board Approved.
Earlier in the 90-day session,
the all-Republican Montgomery
County delegation won a major
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Hospital Releases Dugan;
Trial Scheduled April q

Daniel A. Dugan, member Of the
Arlington County Board who said
he attempted to commit suicide
last Tuesday, was released from
Arlington Hospital yesterday.
Mr.. Dugan is recuperating from
a .22-caliber rifle bullet wound in
the chest. He is scheduled to be
tried in Circuit Court April % on
a grand jury's recommendation
that he be removed from Office on
charges of malfeasance. misfea-
sance and gross neglect Of dutye
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Admiral Cope to Speak

Rear Admiral Harley Cope, U. S.
NJ. retired, will speak at meet
ling sponsored by the DR.. Elisha
Dick chapter, Virginia Daughters
Iof the American Revolution, at
1918 pm. tomorrow in the Recrea-
ltion Center, 1901 Cameron street,
| lAlsxandria.
Evening star., 1951-04-03

Ito the site. The Clark dam, now
under construction about 20 miles
above Augusta, will be an impor-
tant source, but the plant in oper-
alton will use many more kilowatts
than this installation can provide.
Lumber is plentiful, Mr.. Mason
said, but creosoted poles. hard
ware. mill supplies, steel and cop
per are hard to obtain.
Acc officials forecast that some
of the most serious shortages will
[be in certain labor skills. The
tSavannah plant is not the only
Acc construction underway. "A
large plant for gaseous diffusion,
the process by which the isotope
Uranium 235 is separated from the
ordinary Uranium 238, is being
built at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Another
lis under construction at Paducan,
ky. A secret operation plant will
start soon in Colorado.
These plants call for a great
number of pipe-fitters, a highly
skilled trade of limited personnel
It is estimated that the Savannah
plant alone will need 1000.
There lis a big labor pool OF
|pipe-fittefs in Texas and Okla
homa where they work in the oil
industry. The Acc has hired
Laboratories in Houston. Tulsa, De-
troit and Chicago to test pipe
ftters and qualify them for Acc
Jobs.
There Is also a shortage of elec-
ltricians and sheet metal workers
Atomic energy is only part o1
1.-The picture. With Army, All
Force and Navy plants added
there is a band Of major defense
construction right across the
country from the Savannah plant
at Fort Sill. Ark.
The impact this will have or
the South will be terrific. There
already are reports Of road build
ling machines idle In Georgia be-
cause the operators have gone tx
work on the construction Of th'
Savannah plant and other de-
fense installations.
I The wage rates for the Savan
nah River plant were set in thu
Labor Department in Washing
ton after consultation with labo
unions and representatives O
South Carolina and Georgia. Th'
rates vary from 80 cents for com
. mon labor to $3.50 an hour TO
electricians and pipe-fitters.
i H. E. Esiller, international rep
fresentative Of the Union of Oper
,lating Engineers. who man th'
power shovels and the bulldozers
.4said:
THE contractors were sur
iprised when I did not kick abou
the rates. told them it didn'
..Imatter to me-that they woult
have to put them up to get tn
, men once that old summer SUI
, starts to shine"
!, At lunch time out on the job
, Albert l.. Warwick, a 35-year-ol'
)lcrane operator, undertook to tel
Ime why a man away from hom
5 cannot get along at 50 an hour
$50 week.
g 1T costs $12 a week to get
; decent room around here and So
la week to eat" he said. "Why
Evening star., 1951-04-03
McKenney Hills PTA
To Hear Panel Talks

-Four Montgomery County edu-
cation officials will hold a panel
discussion on various phases of
education before meeting of
the McKenney Hills School Pa
rent Teacher Association at 8
O'Clock tonight in the school.
Participating will be Mrs. Dur
ward Sandifer. DR.. Fern Schnei-
der, T. Owen knight and Miss
Etbeleen Daniel.
Evening star., 1951-04-03
D. c. Traffic Deaths
Jan. | to April 3, 1851 1----21
Jan. l to April 3, 1950----2O
Total for 1850


Traffic violations reported in
official police records on 1851
fatal accidents: Speeding, 6;
driver negligence. 4: passing
stop sign. A; walking into ve-
hicle, 4; driver failure to give
right OF way, 4; jaywalking, Q;
child running into street, /;
bad brakes, l; driving without
lights, l.; driving on the wrong
side OF the street. /; hit-and-
run. l; falling off vehicle, /.
These persons died: Pedes-
trians, Is; passengers In auto
mobiles, S; bicyclists, /.
Evening star., 1951-04-03
Cheerful Inspection
|0f District Is Begun
by Boy Commissioner

Reelection as chairman of the
Boy Commissioners of the District
may crafty a secret ambition of
Wayne Smallwood. II, of 1856
Fourteenth street NE.
Wayne was high vote-getter both
this year and last in the electoral
Evening star., 1951-04-03
By George Kennedy
Star Siaff Correspondent

ELLENTON, S. c.. April 81
The work of building the $3.50
million plant for the manufacture
|of hydrogen bomb materials on
the South Carolina side Of the
Savannah River is already un-
derway.
Construction materials and ma
chinery are being unloaded at the
Evening star., 1951-04-03
'3,l00 at Virginia Tech

BLACKSBURG. Va, April 8
(SpeciaD Virginia Techs enroll
ment for the spring quarter is
Slightly more than 3,l00.
Evening star., 1951-04-03

Lost Of q series Of articles on the effect
Of bomb plant project in South Corolino.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-07-12

Mrs. William Carr, entertained the
group at Glen Echo.
On Saturday, Mrs. Mary Evans
and her daughter, Mandy, Miss
Anne Bouic, and Miss Betty O'Con-
ner of Bethesda are leaving by
motor for Mexico City. They ex-
pect to be away about a month.
Family reunions make the news
this week and the Leimbach fam
lily had a very pleasant one over
the week end. Mrs. Louise
Leimbach of Ellicott City was the
guest of her son and daughter-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis M. Leim-
bach. Other members of the fam
lily who we're guests of the Leim-
bachs were Mr.. Leimbach's cousin
Mrs. Andrew Kraft of Ellicott City,
and his brother and sister-in-law
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles T. Leimbacn
of st. Petersburg, Fla, who are
on months vacation. From Rock
vile Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Leim-
bach went to Detroit to visit their
son, Franklin Leimbach, who is a
reserve captain in the Air Corps.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-07-12
Mrs. John w. Wiley

Services for Mrs. Mamie Virts
Wiley, who died July Z at the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital after being in failing health
for several years, were held on
Tuesday morning from Gartner'
Funeral Home with the Rev. Kari
Newell officiating. Interment was
in Union Cemetery, Lovettsville,
Virginia.
Born ON September 10, 1869 in
Loudon County, Va, Mrs. Wiley
moved to Gaithersburg with her
husband as years ago. After a
few years the purchased a home
on Brooks Avenue where her son
now lives. Mrs. Wiley was a
member of Grace Church, a, char
ter member of the Gaithersburg
Neighborhood Garden Club and a
member of the Rockville Garden
Club. Until her health began to
fail, she was very active in the
church organizations.
She is survived by her son, Car
roll V. Wiley of 16 Brooks Ave-
nue., Gaithersburg, and a brother,
Charles E. Yirts of Lovettsville,
Virginia.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-07-12
Member of Old
County Family
Dies in D. G..

Funeral services were held on
Tuesday, July f0, from the Roy
Barber Funeral Home for DIR. Will
liam E. Boyer, who died on Sun
day at Garfield Memorial Hospital
in Washington at the age of 73.
The Rev. A. Odell Osteen, pastor
of the Damascus Methodist Church
officiated at the ceremony. Inter-
ment was in the Damascus ceme-
terry.
DR.. Meyer, who for many years
was a druggist in Washington at
the corner of 5th and G streets,
was the son of the late Milton and
Elizabeth Boyer and a brother of
the late Mrs. Alice o. Kinsey of
Gaithersburg. He is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Amelia C. Boyer,
three sons, William E. and Milton
B. Boyer of Washington and Ralph
L. Boyer of Silver Spring; a
daughter, Mrs. Helen M. Maloney
of Washington, a sister, Mrs. Nc
Kendree Bowman of Damascus
and a brother, DR.. George M
Boyer of Damascus.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-07-12
UphOlsterer From
Silver Spring Wins
National Award

j. P. Carney, president of the
Alan Upholstery Co., Silver Spring,
has been named one Of the ten top
winners in a nationwide uphol-
sters' contest sponsored by the
United States Rubber Co.
An upholstered period type chair
on which was used elastic nauga-
hyde, a new furniture covering
material developed by the rubber
company, was Mr.. Carney's win
ming entry.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-07-12
Joseph C. Cissel, War
Veteran and Attorney
Dies At Naval Center

Joseph C. Cissel, So, whose home
was at 1904 Second Avenue, Silver
Spring died yesterday (July ~
at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.
Former States Attorney Q925-26)
and veteran of both world wars,
Mr.. Cissel lived in the county all
his life.
The son Of the late James Her
bert Cissel, he interrupted his stud
les at Georgetown University law
School to enlist in Company X,
lst Maryland Infantry, and served
in France in World War |. When
the service company was re-acti-
waited in 1910 he enlisted as a pri-
vate in the company he had pre-
viously commanded. He served in
the Pacific, returned with the rank
of major and resumed his law
practice.
Mass will be offered at $50
am, Friday, July 10, at Fort
Myer Chapel. Burial in Arlington
National Cemetery with full mill
tary honors.
Mr.. Cissel is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Leona Yarnell Cissel,
whom he married in 1945 after he
was divorced from his first wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins Cissel, also
of Silver Spring; three children by
his first marriage, Mrs. Elizabeth
Kelley, wife of Major j. Ford
Kelley, World War II pilotwho now
is serving at Maxwell Field, Ala; i;
Mrs. Margaret Sundermon and
John c. Cissel of Silver Spring,
and two stepchildren, Miss Anne
Speelman and Larry Speelman.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-07-12
Mayors of Safest
Communities to Be
Interviewed Sunday

Leaders of the five safest sub
urban Maryland communities will
appear on Community Forum
(WGAY-1050), Sunday at 1:15 pm.
interviewed by Community Report
er, Ernie Tannen. The interviews
were recorded at a special lunch
con at Mrs. KS Toll House given
by the American Automobile Asdo-
citation on Tuesday, July 10. The
five communities are Rockville, Ta
koma Park, Hyattsville, Mt. Rain
ier, and Greenbelt, none of which
had any pedestrian fatalities in
1850. .r