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Evening star., 1952-09-04
City-Counci| Use
Of Sewage Plant
To Be Studied
Fuirfux Officials and
Alexandra Council Set
Meeting Tomorrow

A proposed compact between
Alexandria and Fairfax County,
providing for joint use of a single
sewage treatment plant. will be
discussed tomorrow at a meeting
of the City Council and Board Of
County Supervisors.
The two governing bodies will
meet in closed session at 8:15 pm.
in the City Council chamber in
Alexandria City Hall.
At a meeting of the super
visors in Fairfax yesterday. San
itary Engineer James j. Corbalis
said the joint project would save
$5.5 million over the cost of sep
arate facilities.
This estimate was made, Mr..
Corbalis said. by engineers re-
tanned by a committee set up
by four Northern Virginia juris-
dictions to study Sewage-treat-
ment problems.
Separate facilities, he said.
would cost $11,351 900. In one
plant. the cost would be $9.018.000.
Savings of $5 Million.
In addition to the saving of
about So million in construction,
there would be a SO million saw
ing on operation during the So
year estimated life of the facili-
ties. Mr.. Corbalis said.
The county is completing a
treatment plant near New Alex
andria built with part of the pro-
ceeds of a SO million bond issue.
The capacity of this plant will be
exceeded by 1862. Mp. Corbalis
estimated. BY 1860, he told the
supervisors, the Holmes Run trunk
sewer will be inadequate and al
new line will be needed to supple
ment the present one.
Alexandria has no treatment
plant but is under orders from
the State Water Control to install
facilities as soon as possible.
Mr.. Corbalis said that city and
county officials had considered
creation of q joint authority to
build the proposed plant. This
idea was rejected. he said, because
the Fairfax proportion of the
operation would be relatively
small.
One Of the proposals to be
discussed Friday would result In
a compact between the jurisdic-
tions. Alexandria would raise all
the money for the project, and
Fairfax would agree to pay itsl
shsI share of Hhs debt service each
Avard Sewage Contract.
In other business, the super
visors awarded the final contract
on the 50 million sewage facilitiesl
bond issue. The contract for about
$181 900 went to L. S. Sorber of
Vienna. the low bidder. The bid of
Nance & Vivadelli of East Falls
Church. was only $500 higher, Mr..
CorbaliS reported. He recon-
mended that the Sorber bid be
accepted.
The contract calls for installa-
tion Of connecting pipes between a
pumping station on Belle Haven
road, south of Alexandria, and the
sewage treatment plant now under
construction.
The board also voted to con-
tribute $100 to a League of Vir-
ginia Counties fund to fight rate
increase requested by the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.
County Executive Carlton c.
Massey announced he will attend
the convention of the Interna-
tional City Managers Association
in Kansas City from September
% to October l. He also was au-
thorized to attend the annual
meeting of Virginia managers on
September IA. during the League
of Virginia Municipalities conven-
ton at Old Point Comfort.
Evening star., 1952-09-04
Command Of Missouri
Goes TO ARLINGTON CAPTAIN

ABOARD THE U. S. S. MIS-
souri,, Portsmouth, Va, Sept. 4
Capt. Warner r. Edsall. u. S. NJ,
OF Arlington, Va, today took COM
Evening star., 1952-09-04
Muyor Elected Third Term

WILLIAMSBURG. Va, Sept. 4.
The Williamsburg City Council
has reelected DR.. H. M. Stryker
Mayor for q third term.
, 1952-11-22
(Formerly So. John's club

can mean only complete destruction to humanity, there might
be more willing ears to the words Of the prophet Of old: And
he shall Judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into ~plowshares, and
their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more
Isaiah 2: a
, 1952-11-22
HYDROGEN ERAP

HYDROGEN r
NOVEMBER i, around 7:30 in the morning,
Eniwetok time, a bomb, believed to be a hydrogen bomb ex-
ploded on that tiny atoIl in the Marshall Islands. The
announcement Of the explosion Of this super weapon was not
made until two weeks later, though there had been leaks in
the secrecy surrounding the trial, Or experiment. Thus was
opened a new ra-dispLacng the atomic era.
NO SOONER HAD official announcement come from
Gordon Dean, chairman Of the Atomic Energy Commission,
that serious minds everywhere began to think even more seri-
ously. Here was he'll let loose. Here was the last word in a
destructive force made BY man, and more and more men must
either learn to live together Or die apart-and quickly. Among
the reports coming out Of the test unofficial Of course, was
that the glare could be seen for so miles, that earth shot
5000 feet into the skies, and some even 90 so far as to think
that the atola on which the explosion took place has disap-l
peared beneath the sea. There is no doubt but that one of
these bombs can wipe out whole cities, but more, it can, once
exploded, make all form Of life extinct.
WHAT DOES THIS all mean? Simply that one Of these
bombs dropped on a city ends life completely, for not only
will buildings Be destroyed beyond repair, but no form Of
Life may be able to exist within so miles Of the place for an
indefinite time after the explosion. The imagination can run
wild as to what would happen if a dozen Or more such bombs
were dropped. Nothing like il has ever taken place before,
and this might be the end, as man will now have to look him
self in the eye and decide that his achievements have gone
in the wrong direction.
NOW THAN ever the United Nations is neces
sary. There must be a conference table to which nations may
come with their grievances and set them down for settlement
No longer can the force Of arms bring victory. Wars il the fu
ture can only mean destruction both for the victor and van
quished Man might have stumbled upon the ironic solution
to war, that solution have come because the very instruments
have become 50 deadly that man dare not venture forth II
that direction.
PERHAPS NOW that man has invented . weapon which,
, 1952-11-22

Announcement!!I
Proudly announcing the
THE GRAND OPENING
THE HIDEA-WAY CLUB
Formerly 81. Johns Club
On Thanksgiving Eve ~ November rs. 1852
and every night thereafter.
The Hide-a-Way Club is under the management Of
Mr.. & Mrs. Eryle Rohlsen
Specially featuring for your entertainment and amusement
THE MOTTA BROTHERS
The Virgin Islands No. | Orchestra
also
TWO TERRIFIC FLOOR SHOWS
starring
THE LATIN KIDS and sAiHFSA & CALYPSO JOE
Local Native Comedians
Dancing starts al 1000 pm. = Floor Shows 1900 & 400 o'clock
Come on. to the Hide-a-Way Club for evenings packed full
Of wholesome fun and outstanding entertainment.
Your patronage viii always be greatly appreciated
No table Reservations. Come early and enjoy YOURSELF
ADMISSION: 81 per person - $3.50 per couple
Note: Plan tobe at the Fide-a-Way on Christmas Eve
and Old Years night from midnight until?
Evening star., 1952-01-09

secret police are finding 1t increasingly difficult
to stem the tide even with wholesale arrests and
almost daily executions" However, the puppet
tyranny apparently has been having some success
with "bogeyman" propaganda designed to make
the public believe that Yugoslavia Italy and
Greece are plotting to attack the little land.
Hence the proposal for the joint declaration.
OF course, since refugee groups frequently
get inaccurate reports from their homelands, all
this must be viewed with measure of reserve
Nevertheless, the leaders of the Committee for
Free Albania have been so emphatic in stressing
the reliability of their Information that they
merit an attentive hearing. It is not unthinkable
that their country-which is completely cut of
by Yugoslavia and Greece from the Kremlin's
others satellite states-may be on the verge Of
overthrowing Hoxha If feasible, the issuance
of Yugoslav-Italian Greek pledge might there
fore be of some value. Certainly, from the
propaganda standpoint at least, successful
anti-Red Albanian revolt would be an event
Of great Importance.
Evening star., 1952-01-09

commercial food should be selected. Old
fashioned white sheets of "fish food"
will not de. for any tropical specimens.
For them, there are small cans of food
Incorporating mosquito larvae or other
proteins.
Every person who receives guppies at
this season should inquire about these
proper types Of food, and not attempt
to raise good guppies on less.
A happy guppy, despite his smallness.
, is one Of the most interesting of all the
finny tribe. He is worth having, and
If worth possessing. then worth taking
proper care Of, because, though he is
just mite Of silver, he is life, as it is
lived.
No one can watch a bowl of guppies
without realizing that here is mystery
in miniature. Here is hope. happiness
and good cheer: here alas. may be
moping, sickness and death
The guppy tank is small world of its
own on which the larger entity, the
owner. can make his impression for good
or evil.
Surely II one takes on guppies, one
should do the best he can for them, and
not neglect them. Keep them at an even
warmth. see that they are fed daily, but
not too much. give them little spinach,
now and then, and keep their aquarium
clean, but not too clean. These instruc-
tions are easy to carry out. and they viii
result in a little world" of happiness
and cheer in the new year.
Evening star., 1952-01-09
By Charles E. Trocewen

without the intermediate step Of laying
eggs.
These young are the cutest little fell
lows you ever saw, perfect little fishes
about one-eighth Of an inch long, with
bright little eyes, and almost instant
ability to swim for their lives when their
mamma or papa tries to eat them.
The way to prevent this is easy enough.
1t is simply to keep plenty of plants in
the aquarium.
Nothing could be simpler, but to listen
to some persons you might think 1t is the
most impossible thing in the world.
Having been brought up, in pisca-
torial sense, on the goldfish. they leave
water plants out, and then the miniature
guppies are eaten up.
Given plenty Of greenery, the babies
are not in danger after the first few
minutes. They swim swiftly into the
green lace, and there hide from their
own parents
Many forms Of tropical fishes win eat
their own children.
Even the gouramis, which build bubble
nests, and guard their children fero-
ciously for q few days, win eat them
for breakfast on the fourth morning.
**
Feeding the young guppies is not
difficult.
The 80 or more newcomers eat with
oldsters, after week. and get their full
share of the food.
For the little ones. finer grade Of
Evening star., 1952-01-09
This and That

This column hasn't had anything
about guppies for long time, and it
should. for these little fishes deserve to
be remembered.
More important, they deserve good
care.
This care is not difficult, fortunately,
SO the hundreds of persons who received
Christmas guppies will not be over
burdened.
Though tropical specimens, the CUPS
will Withstand lower water temperatures
than any other tropical fishes.
= Those who leave the house during the
day. however. and turn the thermostat
down to so degrees, or thereabout, had
better make some provision to keep their
finny pets at a mean average of 10
degrees.
This may be done either by an INNER
sion heater. or placing small lamp with
a 25-watt bulb against the outside Of the
tank.
Or the entire aquarium may be
covered with an old sweater. The gup-
pies being masters Of their own situation,
do not mind darkness in the least.
A glass cover lid should, of course, be
placed over the top Of the aquarium.
This is q necessity with any tropical
fishes, since all Of them are jumpers.
The main feature Of the guppies, or
GOODIES, as some persons insist on calling
them, is ability to produce young alive.
Evening star., 1952-01-09

But, as you all know, there was q COM
plete exposure. My childhood recollec-
tion is a full page with pen and-ink
sketches by VIII Chandlee.
It was big stuff in Washington news
paperdom in those days. It thrilled me
-. made me head toward journalism.
Eorl Goodwin
Editors Note-Earl Godwin's inter-
esting recollections of the time the
late George Harries, as Star reporter,
exposed conditions in the "workhouse"
are not to be confused with the Incl
dent referred to in The Stars centennial
sketch, printed on January /.
In this incident, another Star re-
porter got himself locked up in jail,
some 81 years after the Harries episode.
The reporter was Philip c. Kaufman,
who in 1926 was Assistant City Editor Of
The Star and is now living in Florida.
Evening star., 1952-01-09
Revolt in Albania?

The National Committee for Free Albania
an Communist refugee group-has proposed
that Yugoslavia, Italy and Greece issue joint
public declaration pledging themselves to respect
the frontiers of the tortured little land now
tyrannized by the puppet Red regime of Premier
Hoxha. Although the proposal itself may be
impractical. the committee has made an inter-
esting statement in connection with it. Indeed,
if the statement is factually sound, it is not
only interesting but highly significant, for it
suggests that the Kremlin may soon lose its
Adriatic satellite.
At any rate, according to the statement,
reliable information from inside Albania has
convinced the committee that the Hoxha regime
in spite of resorting to the most savage kind
of terrorism to stay in power-is on its last legs
The Communist Party behind it, after numerous
purges, now is reported to have only $4,000
members of doubtful loyalty. Over 80 per cent
of the soldiers in the country's army are said
to be ready to join in popular revolt. The
people at large, facing winter of hunger, are
described a. being openly rebellious, and the
Evening star., 1952-01-09
GHF's Backward Step

Many subscribers of Group disqualification,
Inc, will share the regret expressed in his letter
to The Star today by DR.. Howard P. Parker. over
the reduction in hospital benefits in obstetrical
cases to take effect next october. Instead of
providing insurance against hospital charges for
eight days in obstetrcal cases. as in the past the
future benefit will take the form of maximum
payment of SO per day, which may represent less
than half the hospital charge.
This is an unfortunate departure, on the part
OF CHI, from what has been the most attractive
feature of the CHI system of benefits. Those
benefits hitherto have covered practically all
hospital charges as distinguished from the cash
mdemn1ties of ordinary insurance-to be applied
against whatever the hospital bill may be-
Furthermore, this departure from past policy is
confined to obstetrical caSes-in other words, to
young couples who are getting started in the
expensive business of rearing families and who
need the help of CHI protection more than any
other single class of patients.
The Star has been investigating the matter
and tomorrow will publish the first of two
articles explaining the background of the change
in policy. GHIs board of trustees has, no doubt,
taken the step reluctantly, and was forced into
it by rising hospital COSTS It may be able to
discover some other method eventually that will
meet the situation without departure from what
has been accepted as fundamental principle
of CHI protection. That, at least, is the hope
of many people who have seen, in the growing
popularity of the Blue Cross plans, the workable
alternative to compulsory health insurance ad-
ministered by Government. But if rising hospital
costs result in too great departure from the
principles underlying CHI, compulsory health
insurance is apt to be inevitable.
Evening star., 1952-01-09
Letters to The Star
Pen-nanaes may be used If letters carry
aDriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

sets Blue Cross apart from ordinary
hospital insurance . this plus the
fact that Blue Cross is non-prof1t and,
therefore, provides greater benefits at
less cost. Ordinary disqualification in
surance assumes a known risk, insofar
as possible :. Blue Cross assumes an
unknown risk.
"H is the protection of Blue Cross by
the medical profession that makes un-
limited coverage of the unknown cost Of
disqualification possible. Without the
protection of the medical profession, it
would be impossible to prevent the over
usage Of hospital services and unneces-
sary hospital stays"
Mr.. Rawlings, the director of Group
disqualification. Incorporated, states that
the basic reason for the new policy is
that diSproportionate amount of sub
scribers' money in the CHI fund has
been going for maternity benefits. Con-
fronted with this disproportionate claim
load, Mr.. Rawlings said CHI was faced
with the alternative of either increasing
fees further or of reducing the maternity
benefits. This is certainly sound actli-
arial thinking; but why not increase the
fee only to those contract holders who
would be interested in obtaining the
maternity coverage. Undoubtedly thou
sands Of satisfied and grateful contract
holders enrolled in CHI at the present
time made first use of their contract as
maternity cases.
In Mr.. Hines letter of December is,
1949, to policy holders, he says: " i.
The new contract limits obstetrical
benefits to days in any contract
year" Subscribers and the medical pro-
fession have not abused this 8-day hos
pitalization stay; in fact the opposite is
true. By GHI's own statistics of 1851,
they state that the average stay for OBJ
stetric patients is 65 days.
Mr.. Hines further states, 'young
childless couples make considerable use
of maternity benefits ;" Certainly
Mr. Hines as well as the CHI officials,
must realize that upon young childless
couples rests this Nations hope for an
increasing population of healthy Amer
lean citizens.
Why can't CHI and the other Blue
Cross plans continue with their present
plan which has proven to be universally,
accepted and appreciated by the Amer
ican public, on a voluntary basis instead
Of compulsion, with the stipulation that
maternity coverage will be provided with
Evening star., 1952-01-09
CHS ObstetricuI Benefits

Proponents of compulsory health in
surance must have been enthusiastic
about the recent announcement of Group
disqualification, incorporated, the local
afiliate Of the Blue Cross organization.
that drastic reduction in maternity
benefits will be effective as Of October
!. 1852.
The last previous upward adjustment
Of subscription rates was announced in
a brochure issued by CHI December
is. 1949, and read in part: "The contract
between CHI and its participating
hospitals provides benefits to subscribers
in the form of hospital service regard
less of the established hospital charges.
This arrangement Is in contrast to con-
tracts offered by insurance companies
which give cash indemnities to apply
against the established charges of hos
pitals. The Group disqualification sub
Scriber is assured of adequate hospital
service without worrying about the cost.
The holder of cash indemnity policy
never has any assurance that the amount
he receives will meet the cost of the
hospital services he may need. For a
fixed indemnity offers less protection
than guarantee of service and is pro-
portionately reduced as hospital rates
increase"
Another argument in favor Of Blue
Cross disqualification over ordinary hos
pital insurance benefits was brought out
by recent remarks by Doctor Charles E.
Hauser, Secretary. Medical Advisory
Committee Hospital Care Corp, as fol-
lows: Ordinary hospital insurance limits
payments to so many dollars toward
each hospital service, or to so many dol
lars for each day in the hospital. In
this manner. benefit payments are
rigidly controlled and unaffected by the
number and cost of the services pre-
Scribed.
BLUE Cross. on the other hand, pro-
vides unlimited benefits. Blue Gross pays
the entire cost for every service the
member may require as a bed patient
receiving treatment in any member hos
pital. In addition, the standard contract
provides room allowance of $5 per
day +. the extended benefit contract
allows up to So per day for room .
and the comprehensive contract covers
the full cost Of semiprivate room.
"It is this unlimited coverage Of the
unknown cost Of disqualification that
Evening star., 1952-01-09
Words

The liquid tongues that try to sing
The oceans song,
KnoD not tD1lGt depth mag lie beneath
OF right or Urong.
For they are born OF wind and moon,
And though part
OF the ioild sea, they cannot reach
The seas tDild heart.
Thus. words are only surface ,Daues
That chance creates
Mere hints OF i0lsat the Spirit feels
But neuer states.
John D. EnsIs, JE
Evening star., 1952-01-09
Inflotion's Threat to Defense

How imitation is undermining the defense
program is strikingly evident from some cost
figures released by the Department of Defense.
1t costs more than ever before to raise an army
and to equip it for combat. In short, the size
Of defense appropriations no longer is an accu-
rate gauge of military strength, for todays in
hated dollar buys less security than at any time
In the past.
The Army says that the cost of preparing
the average inducted soldier for combat now
has reached approximately $500. In other
words, it now costs $3,6OOOOO to train enough
draftees to make up single infantry battalion
of about 1000 men, It takes four times that
amount to train a group of regiment size. And
that does not include their fighting equipment
the guns, artillery, rolling stock, ammunition,
communications facilities and other supplies
required to put them 1.-THE field against foe.
The cost of outftting an infantry division
has jumped from $19 million in World War II
to $91 million today, according to a recent
article in the New York Times. In the case of
an armored division the increase has been even
more staggering-from $40 million to s293 million.
In the past war the "fy-away" cost of the big
bomber the B-29, was about $680,O00 Today it
costs $35 million to produce the B-29s big
brother the B36. An anti-aircraft gun which
cost the Army 900 when the Korean war
started has price tag now of $25O000. The daily
ration for soldier just before Korea cost about
30 cents, whereas today it costs $1.19.
Imitation has not been the sole factor in
the sharp rise in defense costs, however. War is
becoming more complicated every day. More
complex weapons and equipment are needed now
than were standard in World War II. Radar and
other electronic devices were just coming into
their own in that war. The Norden bombsight,
now obsolete, cost only $4,000, compared with the
intricate eectronic sighting equipment of today's
big bomberS. The K-2, modern radar bombing
and navigational system, costs nearly quarter
of million dollars for single airplane.
It is estimated at the Pentagon that about
81 billion out of every S. billion appropriated for
defense in 1851 went down the imitation drain.
That is why the battle against rising prices is
as important to our men in Korea as the battle
to keep supplies moving to the front. For the
flow of those supplies is dependent on how much
equipment our military funds can buy and send
overseas If those funds are to be further de-
pleted by the inroads of imitation, the supplies
will be correspondingly affected.