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Evening star., 1951-08-19
"A Marines Rewarded
with Silver Stars for
Ga||antry in Korea
BY the Assoeioted Press

QUANTICO. Va, Aug. 18.-Four
Silver Stars "for conspicuous gall
lantry" were handed out here to-
day to Marine veterans of the
Korean war.
The awards were a feature of
one of the largest regimental
parades in recent years at this
leatherneck base. They were pre-
scented by 1t. Gen. Franklin A.
Hart, commandant of the Marine
Corps Schools; Maj. Gen. Henry
D. Lonscott, director of Guam
Itico's Landing Force Development
Center, and Brig. James P. Rise
ley, Chief of Staff of the Marine
Corps Schools.
| Those Hon0red.
Silver Star recipients were
Corpl. Joseph C. Mazuka of Sar
Antonio, Tex; Corpl. Peter H
Duff of Libertyville, H.; Sergt
Clinton F. Harrington Of Boston
Mass. and Capt. Fred F. Eubanks
jr., of Vanderbilt, Tex.
Other Marines were awarded
the Legion of Merit, the Distin.
guished Flying Cross, the Bronze
Star, the Air Medal, Commenda-
ton Ribbon and the Purple Heart
1t. Col. Robert D. Taplett OF
San Francisco received the Legion
of Merit "for exceptionally meri-
torious service with the FIRST Ma
rine Brigade in Korea.
Filler Twice Recognized.
First 1t. Billy C. Marks OF
Oceanside, Calf, received two
gold stars in lieu of his fourth
and fifth Distinguished Flying
Cross.
For heroic service, the follow
ing received Bronze Star Medals:
Sergt. Don R. Nygaard of Halsted
Wis; Sergt. Billy F. Miller of Day.
ton. Ohio; M/Sergt. George w
Olkow, River Grove, ILL.,; Second
1t. William j. Adds, Winterhaven
Fla: First 1t. Robert J. Barton
of Sioux City. Iowa; First 1t. John
J. Cahill, of Boston. Mass. anc
Maj. Harry D. Workman, OF
Rockford, Ill.
Capt. Oliver w. Curtis of Tulsa
Okla. received a gold star in lieu
of the 18th Air Medal for meri-
torious acts in aerial flight against
the enemy over Korea.
Evening star., 1951-08-19
Alexandra Nursing School
Scholarships Awarded

Two 1851 high school graduates
from nearby Virginia have been
awarded three-year scholarships
to the Alexandria Hospital School
of Nursing.
They are Miss Virginia Brad
ford Mizelle. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradford Lee Mizelle of
Fredericksburg, and Miss Marga-
ret Anne Malpass, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Malpass
of Alexandria.
The scholarships were granted
by the Junior branch of the Alex
andria Hospital auxiliary and the
women's auxiliary to the AleXan-
dria Medical Society.
Another three year nursing
scholarship is still to be awarded,
according to Mrs. John D. Hoyle,
president of the Alexandria Medi-
cal Society's women's auxiliary.
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By james Birchfield
Sior Staff Correspondent

JEFFERSON, Md. Aug. 18.-It
is three years ago today that the
magic of conservation touched the
farm of Mrs. Nellie Thrasher just
south of here and changed it from
an eroded ruin to Towering
garden.
1t was on that day that hum
dreds of Mrs. Thrasher'S neigh
bors, manning tractors, trucks and
bulldozers, completed in less than
IL hours a job that ordinarily
might take five years.
Fields were laid out in contour
strips, old fences that had inclosed
square pastures we're pulled down,
hedges planted, fertilizer and lime
spread, gullies filled and acres of
improved grasses planted.
A farm pond was gouged out of
a hillside just below the barn a
new dairy barn and silo welt up
and the farm house was painted.
This all happened while thousands
watched and news cameras ground
out the record of farm transfor-
nation so that those absent also
might glimpse the results of a new
idea that is sweeping American
agriculture.
The Thrasher farm renovation
was a gigantic demonstration,
planned and staged by group OF
Frederick County citizens to prove
that conservation farming would
pay in increased production.
Three years-years that included
weather cycles of drought and ex-
cess rains-have proved to all the
great value Of conservation farm
Evening star., 1951-08-19
ChaQeRebu Rep 3Yea Experiment
Arlington More
For Wafer Used
Concurs With Army
In Plan to Raise Rate
Last Fixed in 1884

The District proposes to raise
its wholesale water rate to Arling-
ton, last fixed in 1884. it was
learned yesterday.
The Commissioners have noti-
fed the Army. which handles the
production end of the water sup
ply. that they concur in the
Army'S proposed new rate of
$66.25 per million gallons taken
from the Dalecarlia Filter Plant.
Increase Anticipated.
Arlington County officials said
an increase in the wholesale rates
from the District had been antici-
pated in the setting of new rates
to county consumers effective
July /.
A combined water and sewer
service charge now is $1.50 for
each domestic unit in residential
dwellings and apartments, plus 26f
cents for each 1000 gallons used.
The total water and sewer
charges are allotted 81 per cent
for the operation of the water
system, and 46 per cent for the
sewer system.
Falls Church buys it's water
from Arlington.
A. E. Schmitt, chief of the water
supply division for the Corps of
Engineers, said the increase to
Arlington is proposed because of
higher costs and expansion and
improvement of Washington's
plant.
ID. c. Rate Is Lowest.
The District has the lowest do
mestic water rate in the Metro
politan Area. The average con-
sumer's bill here is SIS a year,
as compared with about $3.50
quarter in Arlington.
Hints that the District may be
In for an increase in consumer
rates came during House hearings
on the Districts budget this
summer.
David v. Auld, head of the Dis
trict water division, which dis
tributes the water supply, detailed
the effects of imitation on the
city's long-deferred expansion
plan.
Mr.. Auld said it was hopeless
to depend only on the $23 million
Treasury loan authorized by Con-
greSS for the long term expan-
sion, and that additional borrow
ing of millions to keep up with |
imitation might keep the District |
in debt for 73 years and cost S38
million in interest.
AS last resort. he suggested,
a rs per cent water rate increase
would produce enough money to
cancel out the effects of present
initiation.
Evening star., 1951-08-19
Burke Resident Proposes
Airport Be Encouraged

Joseph Staub, of Burke, Va,
site of Washington's projected new
airport, has urged the Virginia
Advisory Legislative Council not
to be "swayed to oppose some
thing that this district needs to
get it out of the woods. !"
In letter to State Senaor j. D.
Hagood, chairman of the council,
Mr.. Staub said he had read re-
port sent to the council by Charles
F. O'Neall, attorney for the Burke
Airport Relocation Committee.
This report. Mr.. Staub said,
contains "some of the most fan
tastic claims that even Buck
Rogers couldn't make"
If Mr.. O'Neall is successful, Mr..
Staub declared, the people living
In the Burke area would lose
something we could never realize
again, which comes under the
. heading of one word: Progress.
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ing. For the Thrasher farm. once
unable to produce sufficient feed
for its small herd of milk cows. is
producing so abundantly that adj
ditional herd enlargements are be-
ing considered.
Most evident is the change in
appearance that has taken place
in three years. Those who saw the
farm before the volunteer crews
did their work saw badly used
farm that had given up most of
it's substance to keep family in
uncertain existence.
Fields were brown, and pastures
that stretched up Catoctin Noun
tain at the back of the farm were
honeycombed with deep gullies.
Now those same fields are green
with rich pasture grasses, alfalfa
and growing corn. Even five weeks
without rain this summer failed
to do the damage here that could
be observed on other farms in the
area. The Thrasher farm had re-
sponded magnifcently to good hus-
bandry.
Quite naturally. the greatest
increases in production were ac-
counted for during the first year
after the renovation. Where pre-
viously the Thrashers had been
forced to purchase some 36 tons
of hay annually, the farm produced
more than 80 tons, an amount
more than necessary for the herd.
Wheat went from complete
failure the year before to crop
that yielded 26.4 bushels per acre;
oats yielded 40 bushels per acre;
barley 20 bushels, and corn yields
jumped from a puny 40 bushels
Evening star., 1951-08-19
Stafford Nominee
Ruled Ineligible for
Supervisors S Race
speeieI pispateh 70 The stor

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Aug.
18.-Because he is a member of
the Stafford County electoral
board, w. H. Moore, operator of
a Roseville hardware and furni-
ture store. has been ruled ineligible
as candidate for the county
board of supervisors.
Mr.. Moore was nominated by
Stafford Republicans recently to
run for supervisor from the Rock
Hill District. Circuit Court Judge
L. M. Bazile ruled Mr.. Moore is
ineligible after county COP lead
ers asked the judge for an opinion.
When nominated, Mr.. Moore
was believed to be eligible if he
resigned from the electoral board
before the November 6 general
election. The electoral board Sc
lects election judges and clerks.
Replacement Sought.
County Republican Chairman
H. Ryland Heflin said a replace
ment is being sought for Mr..
Moore as well as other candidates
needed to fill out the Republican
slate.
Five candidates, besides Mr..
Moore, were nominated by the
party.
Bascom S. Pribble, jr., was
picked to oppose r. H. L. Chiches-
ter, the incumbent common
wealth's attorney.
Gordon M. Byram, present SUI
pervisor from the Rock Hill Dis
trict, was nominated to run
against N. N. Berry, incumbent
county treasurer.
w. T. Sullivan, White Oak farm
er and unsuccessful candidate for
sheriff four years ago, was nomi-
mated for sheriff, a position now
held by A. R. MacGregor.
Falmouth Candidate Named.
j. v. Brooks, a supervisor for
20 years, was named to run for
supervisor from the Falmouth Dis
trict. The incumbent is Preston
IS. Snellings.
Percy Cropp, farmer and saw
mill operator, was nominated for
supervisor from the HARDWOOD dis
trict, position held by w. H.
Abel.
= An independent candidate. Har-
old Knight, has the official Repub-
lican Endorsement for supervisor
from the Aqua District. He is op-
posed by Robert A. Miller, farmer,
and w. P. Plymale. real estate
man.
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to better than 70 bushels per acre.
Furthermore, a farm appraisal
indicated the value of the farm
had jumped from $13,625 before
the Transformation to $26, 400 dur
ing the first year of conservation
farming.
The second and third years have
maintained these production fig
ures. During the second year the
Ievaluating committee noted that
in spite of adverse weather con-
Iditions. the farm show d amazing
returns, and this year the COM
mittee's report indicates that the
farm gradually is increasing in
production potential. No recent
real estate appraisals have been
made, but it is the concensus of
Frederick County farmers that
the farms value has increased
The most noticeable improve
ment' recently has been in the
farms dairy herd. This has been
the first entire year that the herd
has been in the county Dairy Herd
improvement Association and
herd records indicate improve
mentS.
The number of cows MIXED
during the year averaged 26.32,
and the herd averaged AZ per
cent butterfat for the year. Each
COW produced an average of 8,444
pounds of milk and 348 pounds of
butterfat.
With farm production at a
peak, more attention now is be-
ing given to further improving the
herd. E. Earl Remsburg, one of
the countys most outstanding
dairymen. has volunteered as herd
advisor and it is expected that
next years report will show a
vast increase in milk and fat
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CoIIeeions to Teach
At Montevideo School
SpecioI Dispotch 10 The Stur

HARRISONBURG. Va, Aug. 18.
in business education
and home economics will be
taught by Madison College seniors
this fall at the new Montevideo
High School in Rockingham
County.
The student teaching program
for these courses had been con-
Quoted at Bridgewater and Har-
risonburg High Schools. The
transfer to Montevideo will en-
able the student teachers to gain
practical experience in a CONSOLE
dated rural high school, officials
said.
Evening star., 1951-08-19
Londreth Renominuted
For Third Senate Term
By the Associated Press

HILLSVILLE, Va, Aug. 18.-S,
Floyd Landreth was renominated
without opposition today for his
third term in the State Senate at
la 14th Senatorial District Repub-
lican convention.
The district covers Carol, Gray
son and Floyd counties in South
west Virginia.
The group also nominated Jo-
seph Il. Proffltt of Floyd Court
house to represent Floyd and Car
roll counties in the House of Dele
gates.
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annual conven-
ton of the Vir-
ginia C our t
Clerks Associa-
tion meeting
here.
Mr.. Gre e n
was appointed
to the Arling-
ton post several
years ago. He
is seeking elec-
ton for another
term next No
vember.
A n o t h e r
Northern Vir-
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for reelection.
Mr.. Chew, a
Democrat, said,
"It is my ear
nest desire to
serve one more
term on the
board and thus
round out 20
years of public
service. "
For 81 years,
the candidate
has been an
employe of the
Senate in the
Office of the
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Official Reporters of Debates. He
has lived in Arlington for As years.
For three years, Mr.. Chew was
chairman of the board.
IF reelected, "he said. 'I shall
continue diligently and faithfully
to discharge my duties to the
best of my ability"
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ginia man, Thomas P. Chapman;
clerk of the Fairfax County Cir
cult Court, was elected to the ex-
ecutive committee.
+ Other association officers named
are A. B. Correll, Montgomery
County, first vice president;
Thomas r. Miller, Richmond, Sec
ond vice president: Jesse D. Cliff,
Martinsville, third vice president,
and George A. Walters, Prince
Georges County, reelected sec
retary- treasurer.
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Palsy Association TO Elect

The Montgomery County Cere-
bral Palsy Association will elect
officers at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
hearing room of the Montgomery
County Liquor Dispensary Build
ing, Silver Spring. A
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Chew Will Run AGAIN
For Arlington Board

F. Freeland Chew, a member
of the Arlington County Board
for the last Is years. yesterday
formally announced his candidacy
Evening star., 1951-08-19
H. Bruce Green Elected
BY Virginia Court Clerks
By the A.,ocioied Pres,

OLD POINT COMFORT, Va,
Aug. 18.-H. Bruce Green, Airing
ton Circuit Court clerk. was elec-
ted president today at the 41st
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Senators Study Move to Slash Tax Benefits for Defense Plants

ia certificate of necessity is issued
For example, if a certificate fol-
100 per cent of the cost of the new
plant or equipment is issued-the
average so far has been IA pei
|cent-the company can write of
20 per cent of the cost each yeal
for five years. This reduces the
Icompany's taxes in this high-taS
period more than if it took the
normal depreciation allowances
which might be only 5 per cent.
Chapman Explains Stand.
Secretary of the Interior Chap
man appeared before the commit
tee and said he was going to be
blamed for delay in passing on
applications for the tax certifi-
|cates.
But" he added, II am going to
take my criticism now rather than
come back before this committee
10 years from now and be torn to
pieces because I acted hastily and
unWisely on something that did
not know I was doing"
Secretary Chapman said he was
concerned about getting a definite
policy and pattern established be-
fore too many applications are
approved. Subsequently, on March
/, the Defense Production Admin
istration issued memorandum
Evening star., 1951-03-18
LOST Yachtsman and Wife
Safe in Latin America
By the Assoeiated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. Mar. II
-Yachtsman Donald H. Radcliffe
81, and his wife. Dorothy, 36
given up for lost by the Navy and
Coast Guard. were reported safe
today in Buenaventura, Celom-
bia.
Mrs. Jessie NJ. Setnan, mother
of Mrs. Radcliffe. disclosed sht
received a radiogram from tht
Latin American port signed b.
her daughter.
1t read: Arrived safely. Letter
later"
The couple, both experienced
deck hands, sent distress cal
February 81 that their 45-foot
schooner Monsoon was disabled in
heavy seas off the Galapagos
Island.
The Navy and Air Force. out
of Balboa, Canal Zone, made a
two-week air-sea search for them
without luck:
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which discussed the criteria by
which tax benefit application;
were judged.
It presented a table showing
that special purpose tools fol
military production, such as ma
chimes for making barbed wire
were allowed rapid write-offs o1
100 per cent Of the costs. Plants
for making high tenacity rayons
and paper mills of certain types
were allowed certificates for Sc
per cent of the costs.
1919 Applications Filed.
The memorandum also showed
that there had been 1919 appli-
cations for tax certificates by
February % covering facilities
estimated to cost $10.47 billion
Certificates issued totaled AT and
averaged "a per cent of the So
billion total of applications. Sixty
three certificates had been denied
for facilities costing $50 million.
The question of tax certificates
for aluminium companies came up
at the Senate hearing and Mr.
Chapman said that William H
Harrison, head of the Defense
Production Administration had
told him that 100 per cent ap-
plication by the Kaiser Co. mad
been cut back to 80 per cent.
Mr.. Chapman said that an
Evening star., 1951-03-18
JET Hits Power Lines, Reds Korea Reverses
Leaves Trail Of Debris To Stiffen Peace Plan
BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. Mar
17.-Communist military reverses
in Korea may tougher United Ma
tions projected peace terms to Rec
China.
Secretary General Trygve Lie, il
was learned today. now thinks II
may be possible to get a Korean
cease-fire without linking it tc
any IDEAL" on U. N. membership
or surrender of Formosa.
He has been discussing this with
various Western delegations. in
cluding the American, and has
submitted the idea in memoran-
dunn form to others.
The strictly military cease-f1re
was the original U. N. peace plan
supported last December by the
United States. After it was re-
jected by the Chinese Reds this
country went along with an al
ternate plan to offer Peiping a
conference on Far Eastern politi-
Evening star., 1951-03-18
By Froncis P. Douglas

Senate members, scrutinizing
tax benefits given companies to
expand facilities for defense pro-
duction, have questioned whether
taxpayers are not shouldering
more than their fair share of the
cost of plants which continue to
be profitable in normal times.
These suggestions were placed
before the Senate Interior Com
mittee:
/. That allowances of tax bene-
fits which are overly generous
might be renegotiated as is done
in the case of military procure
ment contracts.
2. That the Government might
itself build the needed plants.
Chairman O'Mahoney of the
committee pointed out that while
Congress is being asked to provide
$40 billion more year in taxes,
tax benefits for new production
facilities are cutting down the
Governments revenue.
81 Billion Tas Loss Cited.
One Government economist told
The Star that over the 5-year
period for which the tax benefits
are allowed, the companies affect
ed would be relieved of about $4
billion in taxes.
Discussion of the tax benefit
problem by the Senate Interior
Committee became known yester-
Iday when a transcript of hear
ling in executive session on Febru-
Iary IL was made public.
The tax benefits are provided
in the Internal Revenue Act of
1850. This provides that con-
Icern expanding facilities for nec-
'essary defense production may be
allowed accelerated depreciation if
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Need for Wage Board
May Force Truman 10
Create New Unit Soon
By james Y. Newton

The need for machinery to ad-
minister wage control policy soon
may force President Truman to
create an 18-member Wage
Sterilization Board despite lack
of agreement on it's powers from
both labor and industry.
Government officials said such
action seems to be the only way
of resolving abor-management
differences over the set-up of re-
constituted board. The old wage
board was made imperative by
the resignation of the three labor
members month ago.
Need for Action Is Urgent.
The officials said the need for
immediate action is urgent. They
pointed out that over 100000 en-
ployes of the major meat packing
firms are threatening to strike
March 26 unless their wage in
crease is approved. Similar hot
situations exist in the textile and
other industries.
Labor and industry are in
agreement that a new board to
recommend and administer wage
control policy must be established.
They differ widely over the grant,
ing of dispute-settling authority
to such a board. Management
spokesmen want the authority
limited to disputes resulting from
wage control policy.
If Mr.. Truman acts without
agreement, he probably would
settle the issue along lines pro-
posed by Economic Stabilizer Eric
A. Johnston.
Union Delays Formal Move.
Mr.. Johnston drafted a compro-
mise which would give the board
power to handle disputes over
wages, over Interpretation of the
boards own regulations, disputes
which both parties agreed that
the board should settle, and dis
putes certified to the board by
the President as important to the
defense effort.
Industry groups have fatty
turned down the compromise but
said they would not boycott such
q board if it were created.
The United Labor Policy Com
mittee, composed of union leaders,
has not formally acted on the
compromise. Some labor leaders
say privately the committee may
not officially accept the compro-
mise but that labor members, like
industry members, would serve on
the board anyway.
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By the Associated Press

SAN ANGELO, Tex, Mar. IT.
An F-80 jet plane lost it's power
today, clipped telephone anc
power wires, knocked the tops of
a windmill and a power pole
plowed through a house, hit g
car, set fire to another house
another car and pickup truck
No one was killed.
Fire. fed by kerosene from the
Jets broken fuel line, destroyed
the plane, both houses and the
two cars.
1t. Henry S. Armstrong, jr., 26
of Williams Air Force Base, Ariz.
the pilot, suffered hird-degree
burns and shock. Joseph G. Har-
ris, occupant of one of the houses
was burned about the head and
arms.
The plane shot down shortly
after taking off from Goodfellow
Air Force base here.
Magnesium in the planes struc-
ture burned for more than two
hours after the crash despite a
chemical drenching from eight
fire trucks.
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aluminium production plant "ob-
viously would be valuable at the
end of five years If all the cir
Icumstances we can possibly fore
see would maintain"
Senator Anderson, Democrat, Of
New Mexico, pointed out that the
tax benefits occur in period
when an excess profits tax applies.
II mean," he went on, "if you
are going to write off a $100 mil
lion plant, $50 million of it in four
or five years, you are just taking
$40 million of profits that other
wise might be under an excess
profits tax"
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cal problems in return for a
cease fire.
The Chinese Reds turned this
down, too.
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Slaves were emancipated in New
Hampshire in 1888.
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Borneo is about 800 miles long
and 700 miles wide,
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S6.S60. .01O.35 S16,433. .66
A. A DAHLBERG, Treasurer
CHAS. H. TIEDMANN, Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 27th day of February, 1861.
FLORENCE M. SHEPARD,
Notary Public. State Of New York.
No. 41-3631300. Qualified in County
of Queens. Certificate filed with N Y.
County. Term expires March 80. 1851.