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5Neter0ns

Three important services to
Washington area veterans will be
dissolved II the $47,20D reduction
prevails In the District Veterans
Center budget. 75ssiss II
The pnotostat service will be
discontinued. There free dupli-
Gates of important papers have
been prepared for al average 0f
25.0O0 veterans q year since 1s46.
They are essential to, servicenen
seeking housing, employment, ap-
prentice training and similar
needs. ......5..,.
No longer will claims work be
available. Veterans have always
depended on this source Of legal
advice. which saves the expense
OF consulting private sources.
Economy Didn't Pay on.
The Washington Housing Gen.
ter also must 60. This is the out
f1t. according to Waldron e.
Leonard, present director. which
under Federal auspices required
$4,000 and "a employees. In 90
days. District officials using five
employees cut the operation cost
to $4,000.
II guess this is the recognition
we get for being economical" Mr..
Leonard said. He added that the
center, has been consistently
praised for its penny-pinching and
efficiency - most recently by the
House committee which cut its
budget.
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Recreation

A cut of $4,000 from this
budget, entirely aside from the
$275. 900 which the department
will not get to take over the pub
lie golf courses, means depriving
children of pleasures they have
come to depend on.
All 80 school Fairgrounds will
be closed on Saturday. Each of
the 40 youth centers featuring
nighttime entertainments and
pastimes will curtail their opera
tions by one night week.
Finally. the summertime thrill
Of street-showers will be denied
the children. Of half the 81 SWIM
ming pool-less areas served last
year by the. special portable
sprinkling system.
!; Recreati tional ID Director Milo F..
Christensen predicts that recrea-
ton center attendance will be re-
duced hy from k25 900 To s5O, 900
because of these ctrtailmentS.
In addition, the capital outlay
program reduction means that the
hard -surl facing Oh two Fairgrounds
--KeepeR and Emory Elementary
Schools will 30 by the board.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Gen. Baiisfa 10 Proclaim
Himself Cuba 5 President
~ ne AsseeiaIi.d Pres. 8.

4 HAVANA. Cuba, Mar. 29.-
Fulgencio Batista plans to pro-
claim himself president of Cuba
next week, a Propaganda Minis
try spokesman said today.
He confirmed reports that fol-
lowers of Gen. Batista-who rode
back to power in q coup three
weeks ago-are drawing up a new
document to replace Cuba's 1910
constitution which DEGREES the
president should be elected and
provides q line Of succession in
case Of his death. illness or alb
Sence.
The spokesman said the new
document. to be considered by
the cabinet Monday, is needed to
clear up the legal tangle resulting
from the ousting of President
Carlos Prio Socarras. It provides
for a president who will be
"Batista himself" the spokesman
said.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Streets and Bridges |

BY taking $6S2.0OO Oh this
budget request, the House made
the completion OF four essential
highway and bridge links that
much farther away. ,.@
The Congressmen speciflcally
ordered the, East Capitol Street
Bridge project slashed by 5000
OOC, the Kenilworth avenue land
survey by 500, 900. New York ave-
nue. 100000 and South Dakota
avenue $l05, 900.
The first two programs are de-
slenec to ease traffic from the OUT
lying sections east of the Ana
costa River. The latter two must
De completed in time to tie into
the Baltimore Washington Park
way, appropriations for which
were speeded by Congressional ac-
ticn In the past week.
In addition to these sums, a
$120. 900 reduction will necessitate
reduction Of contract repair work
and slower Improvement Of exist
ing roadways.
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Disruption Most Services If House Budoet SLnsh Sfonds

possibly two irehouses. with ~
signrnent OF territories to some
of the remaining stations.
Department spokesman en-
phasized that no equipment cuts
can be afforded, notwithstanding
the $l77; 900 budget reduction.
Little Replacement,
The 1itefightersA equipment re-
placement program win continue
To limp along IL the reductions
stand. This program, designed to
cover q, 15-year period; has sheen
carried ont with practically no
consistency due to- money prob
lens In only one year. in recent
history. has the force received its
stipulated replacements four en-
gines, four bumpers and i truck.
Last year only two bumpers
and . truck were forthcoming
and the same IS true d. the 1858
Setup.
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Broadcasiers. Meeting
Today on TeIeyision Rush
ey The As,oeioted Pres,

CHICAGO. Mar. 29.-The Ma
tion's broadcasters assembled
today to appraise their stake in
Ia new gold rush-one that will
spread television to Ill corners Of
the country.
The imminent lifting Of the 31z-
year freeze on new Tv stations
will occupy the major share Of
attention at the four-day conven-
tion of the National Association Of
Radio and Television Broadcasters,
opening here tomorrow.
The stakes will be high when
the Federal Communications Com
mission ends the freeze-probably
April Is. And most radio
not already in TV
will enter the scramble for about
1000 station permits to be pro-
vided for in the ECC's master plan
for nationwide television in more
than 1900 cities.
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" 'Unfreeze' Seen
Likely by April IS
BY The Assoeiatsd Press

The most likely date for the
"unfreeze" Of television appears to
be April 15-considerably wide OF
the target the Federal Communi-
cations Commission was aiming
at month ago.
The hope then was to complete
work by the last week of March
on the permanent table of local
channel assignments needed be-
fore any new station grants can
be resumed.
Most of FCC's technical staff
has been at work on the project
for several months but word has
now got around that the March
deadline cannot be met.
Commission Chairman Paul A.
Walker is expected to tell the Ma
tional Association of Radio and
Television BroadcasterS at its
annual convention in Chicago
Wednesday that the final table
will come out in about two weeks.
In anticipation of the unfreez-
ing action, the General Electric
Co. yesterday started setting ur
an advisory bureau here to as
sist prospective TV station oper-
ators in preparing applications
for new outlets.
A staff of experts from the
company's main plant at Sche-
nectady, N. Y. has been brought
In for the purpose.
Television was frozen October
1, 1948 Just 312 years ago tomor-
row. The 108 stations now on
the air currently reach only about
half Of the Nations population.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Police

The old and despised six-day
week looms for Metropolitan Po-
licemen should the departments
staggering $938. 900 budget cut be
sustained.
Supt. Robert v. Murray said
that in addition to the 222 vacan-
cies now existing in the author
lied strength of the force. the
lower budget will necessitate
dropping another 81 police posi-.
tions as officers resign or retire,
Mai, Murray now has to use
unexpended funds. accumulated
from job vacancies. to pay police
privates the necessary overtime
to work b sixth day. lis the
only way We can keep an adequate
patrol Son the streets, |. be said. Il
dom see how we could possibly
operate crI n dye- day. week if ST
more men must leave the force. :
Fewer on Streets. q
Maj. Murray emphasized that
II the reduction stands he will
lessen the street patrol rather
than cut the number OF plain
clothes detectives. Il,
Even police duties during inau-
gural ceremonies will suffer. The
House voted a $4,000 slash ii
the special inaugural fund. This,
according to Mai. Murray. may
mean the importation. of fewer
pickpocket detectives from out-of-
town to protect the throngs.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Sewer

This departments whoupine
$340. 600 cut will be reelected
largely by less frequent cleaning
Of the city's 28 1000 catch basins.
which win mean more flooded
Easements and complaints by Cit
izellS.
Preventive maintenance vital
Tor q sewer system more than rs
years 0ld--will have to suffer gen
eraly In q relatively short time
sewer lines may be expected to de-
teriorate to the point where re-
placement becomes necessary or
lines become checked on, accord
ing TO Young J. Wright, superin-
tendent Of the division.
In this connection, the diyisio.
had counted on $25O, 900 for 4 COM
piete survey OF the present and
future needs Of the sewer system
This was part OF the requested
funds that the House whacked of.
Mr. Wright pointed out that the
sewer system already Is $40 mil
Ion behind In construction needs
over q 10-year period. In so years
the required amount will be about
$196. Now even basic planning has
70 wait for another year, unless
the Senate steps in.
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Woter


General maintenance suffers
here. too. in the form Of slower
installation Of new meters, less
frequent roaming of corrosion in
water mains and delays in pipe
line installations.
David Auld. superintendent of
division, said the Silt, 900 budget
slash will mean $25, 1000 of main
cleaning and lining operations,
$4,000 of downtown main re-
placements and the sacrifice Of q
new $4,000 trenching machine.
which actually would pay its own
way In view of the high cost of
manual labor which will have to
be used instead.
The remainder Of the cut will
show in reduced number of per-
sonnel accomplished by gradual
stages.
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Porking

SThe Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency, which has to do without
$37 200 Of the amount it counted
on. now plans q cutback ON the
number Of collections from the
city's parking meters. ma
This means more pilfefings OF
nickels, which win cause o loss Of
revenue that will more than or
set sums the House sought to save,
according to Charles M. Upham.
agency chairman. ee
Lack Of sufficient maintenance
will lead to more breakdowns Of
meters and fewer in actual op-
eration-another revenue loss.
And further, the appropriation
cut will mean curtailment Of the
agency's campaign to interest
more private interests in pro-
viding additional ff-street park
ing space in the downtown area at
this critical STAGE" according to
Mr.. ,Upham.
All this despite the agency's
fve-year record Of providing 49,
600 new off-street parking spaces
in an operation consistently ham
pered by insufficient personnel.
Mr.. Upham said. M
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Continued From First Page.1
grades because Of the declining
white school population.
Thus. on top of this agreed cut
of $3.50. 600. the white schools will
have to bear the greater burden
|of saving the extra $500, 900 which
the House slashed from the budget.
1T seems to me obvious that
the members of the committee
could not have realized the dam
age being done by the extent Of
this cut" DR.. Corning declared.
1T is much more drastic than
anything ever cut before. We don't
know yet how II will be accom-
plished."
While this was going on, DR..
Corning sent to the School Board
a construction program covering
the next six years. It totaled $40
million.
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Sanitation

{ Primary effect on a $50, 900 Gu,
VIII be q reduction in the size o1
the street-cleaning brigade-pos.
Sibly to the extent of Is laborers
and i've truck drivers.
Sanitation Director William A
xanten said that under these cir
cumstances. the Nations Capital
viii begin to assume a less reput-
able" appearance. Street cleanine
VIII have 20 suffer because the
collection of garbage and trash
has q higher priority.
II the House has its way, the
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Store Robbery Suspects
Shot During Chase

Two men were shot by Prince
Georges county police early today
during a chase through Hyatts-
willie and into the District.
The men. reported involved in
q robbery of a Safeway store in
College Park. were stopped when
their car struck two others and a
tree In the 5000 block of Eastern
avenue NE. They were taken to
Prince Georges county hospital.
Several police cars from Prince
Georges county and the District
converged on the route of the
chase. In a net set up by County
Police Dispatcher Pvt. Louis
Weaver.
Pvt. Weaver said the chase
started after he received an
anonymous telephone tip that a
car containing men involved in
the robbery would be coming
through HyattSville. n
A county cruiser saw the car.
and gave chase.
Pvt. Weaver said police in the
cruiser were shooting at the car
as it passed the Hyattsville
station.
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Peterson explained that the re-
quest for personnel for part 81
the 1853 fiscal year was made to
set Z stan trained and books Sc
lected and ORGANIZED ia advance
of the branch library opening.
TO take employees from the rest
of the library service to do this
work for the new branch would
simply mean . general reduction
Of service.
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3. Iibrory

A cut here Of $128, 900 not only
viii necessitate further lags In
the city's already modest new
book fund hut raises a threat for
the new Cleveland Park Branch
Library.
This branch may be completed
by April, 1853. With the House
slash of $83,074 which would have
equipped and stated this branch,
there just won't be anything to
go into the new institution until
July, 1858, by which time, per-
haps. the 1854 budget would take
the needs Of the Cleveland Park
branch into account.
Public Librarian Harry N.
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the EXPANDED inspection system
now will have to be cut back to
the levels which brought the
congressional cornplaint-one OF
two inspections . year Of each
farm.
Rat Controls to BE abandoned.
Rodent control work Of many
years development will have to be
abandoned. leaving the way open
to the dangers Of rat-transmitted
typhus and thousands of dollars
of property damage.
Laboratory work in connection
with communicable diseases will
suffer q 10 per cent cutback.
This is the clinic picture: One
|of three tuberculosis centers,, one
Iof two venereal disease centers
and one Of "A prenatal and child
welfare centerS must close: q dem
tai clinic, now nearing completion.
will remain SHUTS equipment
|idlefor the same reason, insuffi-
|clent personnel.
In addition to the clinics. one
of five nursing center will close.
These are the operation bases Of
the nurses who watch for out
breaks Of communicable diseases
and administer prenatal care,
without which District hospitals
would be more overloaded than
they are now.
Gallinger to Suffer.
Because $152, 900 Of the budget
cut affects Gallinger, that hos
pital will be getting along ON
poorer food. inadequate building
and equipment maintenance, few
er medical supplies and ultimately
fewer interns, DIR. Seckinger said.
adding that it already is difficult
to get interns because Of the food
and housing conditions at Gallin-
ger. sa
The Health Director cited as
poor business the looping OF of a
requested new employe to handle.
benefits Of health insurance poll
cies OF patients. This $3,5O0-a-I
year worker would be paid for fiveI
times over by the. estimated $2O,-
900 in insurance BENEFITS that
would accrue to the municipal
hospital.
Glenn Dale Sanitorium also will
see worsening fobd and supply
conditions. Six requested dietary
and maintenance employees for
the sanitorium's 600 tubercular
patients were rejected.
DR.. Seckinger declared the re-
duced budget .'leaves us with MOI
hands or feet. to do our work"
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Public WeIfure

Children are hit hardest by the
House cut of $260.000 in the
budget of the Welfare Department.
Because of the cut, the welfare
board win be unable to increase
payments to foster homes and
private institutions from $45 to
$50 month q child. This comes
at a time when private institutions
are threatening to refuse admit
tance to the children and foster
homes are getting harder to find.
The only alternative is to put the
children into public institutions at
three times the cost-but the Dis
trict doesn't have room for any
more in it's already overcrowded
institutions. To increase over
.crowding. the board says, would
"endanger the lives and health
and property"
The plan to isolate sick chill
|dren in separate unit of the In
|dustrial Home School Annex
now called Junior Village. D. C..
Home for Chilren-will have to
be abandoned. That means that
sick children will have to remain
with well children in the dormi-
tories and the entire institution
will have to be closed periodical
ly. This year, 26<of 80 children in
one building fell sick at the same
time because OF. the lack of isola-
tion facilities and the institution
was closed for months. Children
desperately in need of shelter had
to be turned away.
One Home Closing.
Because a Croome Md home
housing As teen-aged colored
girls from the District is closing
this June, the welfare board had
planned to expand the capacity
of the National Training School
for Girls from IS to 80 girls to
care for them. Money was spent
to fix up two other buildings so
these dependent and mildly de-
linquent girls could be separated
from serious offenders. Funds
to staff these buildings and feed
and cloth the girls are out and
no one knows where these girls
from Croone will 60 now.
The capacity of the Industrial
Home School for white children
will have to he cut arbitrarily
Evening star., 1952-03-30
4 DPS Burn TO Deoth

SEPT LIES. Quebec, Mar. 80 tHl
-Four italian displaced persons
were burned to death today in a
flre that destroyed q bunkhouse
near here on the Quebec North
Shore and Labrador Railroad
line. They had only recently ar
rived In Canada.
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Health

-Four of the vital public health
clinics will have to go if the House
cut Of $470.000 in the health bud
get is allowed to stand.
And that is by no means all,
according to District Health Di-
rector Daniel L. Seckinger.
There will be insufficient per-
sonnel to handle reports Of career
cases, and Congress only recently
passed law decreeding that Dis
trict doctors must report cases of
the disease to the Health Depart
ment.
Although Congress has IN the
past criticized the department Tor
conducting insufficient farm in
Spection Of milk consumed here,
Evening star., 1952-03-30

from l25 TO ll0 children. Thf
welfare department is required b,
tiaw to accept children committed
lby Juvenile Court. Welfare Of.
flcials say they will take in chill
Idren by the front door and lei
Others go by the back because
they can only care for 1I0. This
means that children may be sent
back into the community months
before they should be released
because Of their delinquent be-
havior.
Expansion Impossible.
The overcrowded Industrial
Home School for Colored Chill
Idren was to be expended from q
capacity Of ITO to 100 by opening
and stating a vacant cottage. The
home now has l84 boys, although
1t is budgeted to feed, cloths and
house ITO. The expansion plan
will have to be abandoned and this
institution also will have to turn
boys loose on the community be-
fore they are ready to 90. If
they then get into worse trouble,
they will be committed to the
Nationals Training School for Boys
where the District will have to
pay for them until they are 81,
In District institutions. they are
held for indefinite periods but only
until they are Is.
Both the Temporary Home for
Soldiers and Sailors and the
Municipal Lodging House viii have
to be eliminated completely.
The welfare board said it chose
to eliminate whole units of service
because conditions in children,s
institutions already are at rock
bottom. ~
No Help for Many.
Welfare officials said they were
aware that there will be needey in
the community for whom they will
do nothing.
These persons the welfare
boardssaid, will be just as much
in need Of our services as those
for whom we are rendering service
but it Is our feeling and opinion
that nothing will be gained if we
reduce our standard of main
tenance to the point that all Of it
is a failure"
Fred S. Kogod, vice chairman
OF the welfare board, said If the
budget cut stands, children will
be put back in the community be-
cause there is no money to care
for them. n
Evening star., 1952-03-30
1900 Air Force Men
In Chair Corps Get
Extra Flight Pay

Approximately 1900 Air Force
officers Of the so-called chair
corps" in this area fly during week
ends and on off-days and there
by qualify for extra pay.
The average extra fight pay
was placed at s1.450 annually dur
ing recent House Appropriations
Committee hearings. Most of the
flying desk officers here are as
signed to the Pentagon.
World wide, the Air Force re-
ported some 10000 Of its total
officer personnel assigned to desk
jobs qualify for fight pay at an
overall cost of $50 million. or
40 per cent of the total fight
pay bill Of that service. It plans
such pay for some 109 900 men.
Navy Release Figures.
The Navy did not furnish a
breakdown for this area but it
did reveal that 42,790 officers and
enlisted men were qualifying for
the extra money and that 90 of
them were admirals and Marine
generals. The Navy seeks over
$48 million for flight pay in the
1858 fiscal year.
Congress members have been
particularly critical Of paying
chair corps officers for flying on
weekends but both the Air Force
and Navy stoutly defend the prac-
tice. They say it is necessary to
provide the incentive for such
officers to keep up their flying
proficiency for the time when
they are reassigned to flying units.
Otherwise. they maintain, expen-
sive and time-consuming refresh
er courses would be necessary
when the pilots return to flying
units.
Outside Washington, Air Brig.
Gen. L. P. Hopwood explained.
chair corps personnel also per-
form essential flying functions.
He cited the Alaskan Command
where 86 per cent of the fights
performed by the desk pilots In,
volved the airlift of fuel, food and
medical supplies to outlying fields
and radar sites in the Arctic
Circle.
Cites Value Of Seasoning.
IF by seasoning the officer
carefully. we can prevent the
crash of one BAT, we will have
saved his flying pay 1000 times
over" commented the general
"He will never get it on an on
again, of again system of flying"
The law requires a minimum of
four hours time for pilot each
month to qualify for flight pay.
The committeeman also were
told that the Air Force maintains
IL So-called special mission planes
at National Airport to transport
top officials on governmental bus
iness throughout the world.
Among them are eight four-en-
gine Consultations, including the
Presidents Independence"
In addition to these craft there
are 35 special mission planes based
ut Boiling Air Force Base and an
other 81 assigned to Army area
headquarters throughout the
country and the Air University at
Maxwell Field. Ala. Fifty-seven
are CAT transports.
Evening star., 1952-03-30
Fire

The force would be cut 81 men
under the Is vacancies already
existing, or, in the alternative,
the numerical strength of the
f1refghting units would be low
cred.
Still another course would be
to close down altogether one or
Evening star., 1952-03-30

next inauguration parade NAV
well be over streets considerably
dingier than would be proper for
the occasion.
Evening star., 1952-06-29

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Evening star., 1952-06-29
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Evening star., 1952-06-29

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see how FormStone lends dignity
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Ask your neighbor. FormStone
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