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Evening star., 1952-09-12
Arlington Court
Asked 10 Bar
Rent Controls
10 Project Owners
Claim Action by
Bourd Is Invalid
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Operators of 10 Arlington hous-
ing Developments today asked
District Court to enjoin James
M. Henderson, Federal director of
rent stabilization, from re-instat-
ing rent controls in Arlington.
The suit was filed by attorneys
for operators Of these rental hous-
ing projects: Colonial Village
Apartments, Glebe Apartments.
Lyon Properties, Inc, Fairmac
Corp. First Buckingham Com
|munity. Westover, Inc, Pollard
Gardens. Glebe Court Apart
ments. Lee Gardens and Glenayr
Apartments.
Based on Court Decision.
The suit declares that the
Arlington County Board action of
last Saturday requesting that rent
controls be reimposed was invalid
because the board was illegally
CONSTITUTED" It based this on the
Virginia State Supreme Court of
Appeals decision Wednesday up
holding ban against Federal en-
ployes holding State and local
office, which resulted in the custer
of three of the five Arlington
Board members.
Furthermore, the suit contends,
the board action of Saturday was
not based on any public hearing.
Arlington has been without Fed
eral rent controls since June Is.
1850. when they were abolished
by order of the Virginia General
Assembly. Rent controls had been
in effect there during World
War II.
Two Resolutions Passed.
The County Board Saturday
passed two resolutions. One.
under provisions of Public Law
96 passed by Congress last year,
asks the President to reimpose
controls until September 30.
The second asks continuance Of
controls from September 80 to
next April 80, under new
law passed by the 1852 Con-
gress allowing communities and
counties to extend Federal rent
control if they request it.
The suit asks District Court to
declare the resolutions illegal and
to restrain Mr.. Henderson from
carrying them out.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Mother and ; Children
Escape Fire in Franconia

A mother and three children
escaped injury early today when
fire seriously damaged a house
the family was renting in Fran
coma, Va.
Firemen reported the blaze was
discovered around 4 am. by Mrs.
L. Hibbs. who was aroused by
smoke. Mrs. Hibbs rushed her
three small children from the one
story frame building and called
firemen.
The Franconia and Penn Daw
volunteer fire departments re-
Sponded and fought the fire for
nearly two hours. They estimated
damage to the roof and attic and
personal effects stored in the at
tic at about $4,000. The fire was
believed caused by faulty wiring
in the attic.
Mrs. Hibbs told firemen that
she had packed clothing and
other personal effects in prepa-
ration Of the family's sailing for
Europe to join her husband, q
soldier in Germany.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Northern Virginia S a
Members Of Regional
Planning Body Elected

Northern Virginia's four repre-
sentatives on the new National
Capital Regional Planning Council
were chosen last night at a meet
ing in Groveton. Va.
Elected to membership were:
c. Luckett Watkins of Alex
andria, Bertram Cross of Arling-
ton County, John w. Brookf1eld of
Fairfax County and Francis Wag-
ner of Falls Church.
All are members of planning
commissions in their own COM
munities and all were nominated
as their communities first choices
for the positions.
The appointments were made
by the Northern Virginia Regional
Planning and Economic Develop
ment Commission. at a special
meeting in the commissions Of
fees. The selections will be for
warded to the National Capital
Planning Commission for certifi-
cation. This is a matter of formal
ity, according to Mr.. Brookfield,
chairman Of the Northern Virginia
commission.
Alternates Elected.
Elected to serve as alternates
on the area planning council
created by Congress earlier this
year were:
Mrs. Robert S. Pickens Of Lou
doun County, Philip Hall of Alex
andria, Frank Morgan of Arling-
ton and Arthur I. Shaffer of Fair
fax. All are also members of
planning commissions in their re-
spective communities. This is a
requirement of the law enacted
by Congress.
j. E. kirkpatrick, a member of
the Loudoun County Board of
Supervisors, and Alfred Stefferud,
a member of the Loudoun Plan
ming Commission, requested that
their county be given preference
over Falls Church Tor one of the
delegate seats, instead of an al
ternate seat. Other members of
the area commission said they
felt Falls Church deserved the
delegate seat because Of it's more
urban character.
Four From Maryland.
The new planning council will
have 10 members. Maryland and
Virginia each have four seats.
and the District has two.
Alfred E. Frisbie, a member Of
the Northern Virginia Commis-
sion from Arlington, requested
that a report be prepared for the
commissions next meeting on Oc-
tober % on conflicting proposals.
for new bridges across theI
Potomac River. The report waSI
ordered by Mr.. Brookfeld.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
81 of 80 Prisoners
Freed Because of
Break in Gas Main
BY the Associated Press

HUNTINGTON. w. Va, Sept.
12.-All but one of the 80 short
term prisoners in the city Jail
got out yesterday because q gas
main broke.
There wasn't any way to cook
their meals. The jailers didn't
want to give them cold food.
Neither did they want to stand
the expense of sending out to a
restaurant for meals.
So they just turned the 81
loose.
The 38th? She was being held
for climbing up on the roof of a
building and kicking out the sky
lights. The jailers decided they
would have to keep her until she
sobered up.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Pollution Commission
To Report Shortly on
Abatement Projects

A study of pollution abatement
projects in the Washington Met
ropolitan area. which is expected
to result in an abatement time
table," is being undertaken by the
Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin.
Mark D. Hollis, chairman of a
special commission study COM
mittee charged with the survey
told the commission today that q
report will be made at the next
commission meeting.
He said the committee will work
with the established agencies in
the various political subdivisions
in collecting data for its report.
Question of Speed.
Mr.. Hollis said the committee
after gathering all of the facts
will determine If pollution abate-
|ment projects are being completed
with sufficient speed to correct
conditions in the Potomac and its
tributaries in the Washington
area.
Work now is underway on treat.
ment facilities in all surrounding
areas. with the exception of Alex.
|andria, where plans for treatment
facilities have been made.
The Importance of pollution
control to health was emphasized
at the opening session of the
commissions annual meeting yes
terday by DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger
District health director.
DR.. Seckinger said poliomylitis
virus was first found in sewage in
Charleston, S. c., and is known
to be present In sewage and
streams near cities where cases
are reported.
Menace to Health Here.
He said it is likely that the
virus is present in the District
sewers ana In the polluted P0-
tomac.
He noted that raw sewage en-
ters the Potomac near a yacht
club close to Washington and
added that the menace to nealth
should not be tolerated.
while scientists do not know
the relationship between polio ep-
idemics and pollution" DR.. Seek
niger said, I'VE cannot allow con-
ditionS to remain where raw
sewage may come in contact with
humans"
The commissions sessions, be-
ing held at the Mayfower Hotel,
will end this afternoon following
the annual election of officers.
Evening star., 1952-09-12

do they like children under foot.
So the plan is to put a building in
a project for elderly people. This
would give them the necessary
quiet but not isolate them from
younger people in a special home
or development.
I'm very much interested in
demonstrating that integration
can work without force" he de-
clared. He added he felt the
NCHA policy was a sensible ap-
proach to a difficult problem.
In Many Controversies.
Mr.. Ihlder has been in the thick
of many controversies since he
took over the NCHA job here in
Washington in 1884, and plunged
into the public housing and slum
clearance work with great energy
Mr.. Ihlder was born in Baltimore
and was graduated from Cornell
University in 1900. He went into
newspaper work as a reporter for
the New York Evening Sun and
as an editorial writer for the
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press.
In 1908 he shifted his interests
to the Association of Commerce
of Grand Rapids. Two years later
he became field secretary for the
National Housing Association and
began his long association with
housing and slum clearance work.
From 1917 to 1920, he was man.
aging director of the Philadelphia
Housing Association. He then be-
came manager of the civic devel-
opment department of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, Q
job he held until 1928.
Served Pittsburgh Group.
From 1928 to 1888 he was exec
utive director of the Pittsburgh
Housing Association and also
served as housing consultant to
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission. He was
connected with the Boston Hous-
ing Association and the Wash
ington Committee on Housing also
when he was named executive
director Of the NCHA in 1884.
Mr.. Ihlder said he has no plans
other than just to retire. He is
married, has a son and two grand
children. He lives at 2811 P
street NV.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Cycles TO Be Licensed

Registration of bicycles in Falls
Church will begin next Monday,
Police Sergt. Richard Moore an
nounced today. He said he will
visit schools to issue the licenses,
costing Is cents each. for approved
bicycles.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Reply Sought
On Charge Of Waste
In School Space
By jones 6. Deone

School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
has been asked to provide the
Board of Education with detailed
data on the. use Of all District
school space.
The request was made by
Robert r. Faulkner, new board
member, who, two days ago,
charged that school space is being
wasted.
Mr.. Faulkner told a reporter he
will oppose all further school
transfers and new construction
until he has the information. He
also said he will oppose such
moves as long as any waste exists.
Mr.. Faulkner was appointed to
the board to replace DR.. James A.
Cannon, who resigned recently.
He requested the building infor-
nation in a letter to Board Presi-
dent c. Melvin Sharpe two weeks
ago. A copy went to the SUPER
intendent.
Mr.. Sharpe said he was certain
the superintendent would answer
the questions. He added Mr.
Faulkner was entitled to the
answers.
Called New School palace"
Mr.. Faulkner told a citizens
group. on Wednesday, that the
new Negro Springarn High School
is a palace" and that space is
being wasted there and in the
new Terrell Junior High, also for
Negroes. He challenged the need
for teachers rooms, a locker room
for visiting athletic teams, play
space and a housekeeping suite.
He also attacked abandonment
of numerous old school buildings
which he called still usable.
He told a reporter today old
Cardozo High School. now occu-
pied by the Health Department,
should be taken back. (Cardozo
students took over Central High.)
Mr.. Faulkner also said he sees
mo evidence to justify abandoning
Western High School, which Supt
Corning has suggested converting
Into a new Wilson Teachers
College.
Puts 10 Questions.
The board member said he asked
for answers to 19 questions or
each of the city'S more than 16O
school buildings. The questions
he said, included the number OF
lclassrooms, the number of other
rooms suitable for class use, the
amount of floor space and space
outside available for additions.
He also requested, he said. a
check on the residence of all school
children, to learn whether they are
legally entitled to free instruction.
Several board members have ques-
toned whether part of the mount
ling enrolment is traceable to nom
residents.
The board member asked for
data on the entire school popula-
ton over the last five years. show
ling how pupils had been assigned
to schools.
Mr.. Faulkner said he was told
by DR.. Corning it would take a
year to provide all the data. Mr..
Sharpe said he doubted this.
Points to Storage Use.
The new board member told a
reporter some old school buildings
now are being used for storage,
when they could be reopened for
classes. Pointing out he is q men,
ber of the finance committee, he
declared:
II won't spend money for new
buildings before the old ones are
fixed up
On school transfers. he as
serted:
MY basic theory is you can't
abandon a school just because it
isn't filled up."
The request for space data
brought a mixed reaction from
other board members. All said
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Courses in Troy Painting

Morning and evening courses in
tray painting will begin Monday at
the main center of the Arlington
County Recreation Department,
| 4811 North Third street.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Burruqe Reoppointed

RICHMOND, Sept. 12.-Gov.
Battle has reappointed DR.. r. r.
Burrage Of South Boston to the
State Board Of Examiners in OPP
tometry.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Advisory Group
|dnsHedIriingon
Narcotics Laws
Will Also Air Move
To Give City Heads
Power Over Pensions

Power Over Pensions
The Commissioners Citizens
Advisory Council today announced
it will hold its own public hear
ings on proposed legislation to
strengthen District narcotics laws
and to give the city heads power
to revoke the pensions of retired
police and f1remen.
Chairman Robert w Fleming
passed this word to reporters after
the council had met more than
two hours in a closed session in
the District Building.
Council Views Requested.
Mr.. Fleming said that he
realized that the Commissioners
had already held their public
hearing on the narcotics law pro-
posals. But, he pointed out, the
city heads have specifically re-
queSted the councils views on the
proposed legislation, and the ad-
visory group feels it cannot reach
a conclusion without getting a
sampling of public opinion.
Requests will go out to these
organizations which, Mr.. Fleming
expects. will want to attend the
hearings:
The city's three bar associations, +,
the two citizens federationS. the
medical society and the Board OF
Trade.
"Of course, we welcome the views
of any one else who is interested. !"
the chairman said.
No date has yet been set for the
hearings, which Mr.. Fleming said,
should in no way interfere with
any hearings which the Commis-
sioners have held or intend to hold
on either question.
Urged by Senate PrObers.
Both legislative proposals have
been recommended by the Senate
District Crime Investigating Com
mittee and have been studied in
dependently by District govern
ment officials. One measure calls
for restricting the availability OF
hypodermic syringeS and other
paraphernalia commonly used IN
illicit drug practices. This Dill
would also impose more severe
penalties on convicted drug Of
tenders.
The other measure concerns
granting the Commissioners au-
thority to revoke the pensions OF
police and fremen when the pen
sioners refuse to give testimony
before court or Congress on
grounds of standardization.
This measure stems largely from
former Police Chief Robert j. Bar
rett's refusal to discuss his finances
before the Senate Crime Commit
tee.
Chairman Fleming said the
committee also intends to study
the report made yesterday by Po-
lice Chief Robert v. Murray, who
protested what he considered the
crime committees implication
that the Metropolitan Police force
is under CLOUD of suspicion and
accusation" Chief Murray. at
the same time, went along with II
committee recommendations to
strengthen law enforcement here.
The council forwarded reports
to the Commissioners on three
other legislative proposals. but
Chairman Fleming refused to dis
close what the recommendations
we're. These proposed bills con-
Germ restricting the sale on credlt
of hard liquor consumed of the
premises where sold. requirement
of premarital examination of all
marriage license applicants in the
District as a safeguard against
the spread of syphilis, and a bill
that would allow Importation for
sale here of milk from dairy farms
not inspected by the District
Health authorities.
The advisory council will next
meet at 10 am. october 10.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
School
Still Unfinished,
"Opens Monday
Board Inspects
Building as Workers
Speed Construction

Douglass Junior High School
will open Monday, even though it
won't be finished, school authori-
ties declared today.
Board of Education members
inspected the new building at
Stanton road and Douglas street
Sc. this morning.
They found workmen still busy
with hammers, paint brushes,
|wrenches and blowtorches. Most
of the furniture isn't in.
The Districts construction di-
rector, Archie G. Hutson, said it
will be the closest shave on a new
school opening day in the city's
history.
But the board members decided
getting the children in is impor-
tant enough to outweigh inevi-
table Inconvenience.
Two Others to Open.
The new Negro school is one of
three opening next week. Terrell,
another Junior high, at First and
Pierce streets NV, was approved
earlier in the week. Spingarn
High School, at Twenty fourth
street and Benning road NE, has
been ready for some time.
Both Douglass and Terrell are
far ahead of schedule. They
weren't supposed to be done orig
inally until next January. But
both were speeded up because of
the serious Negro classroom short
age.
Workmen went on overtime two
weeks ago at Douglass. They
have been on the job week ends
and evenings rushing the three
story classroom section.
A wing housing an auditorium,
gymnasium and cafeteria is much
farther from completion. It will
be boarded off Monday and won't
be ready for some weeks yet.
Steel Lockers Delayed.
Even the classroom section of
the $1.8 million, 28-room school
lacked some important finishing
touches this morning. besides fur
niture.
Glass for classroom doors still
hasn't arrived, and steel lockers
haven't arrived for the corridors
yet. No light bulbs were in the
classrooms, but Mr.. Hutson ex-
planned this was a merely a pre-
caution against theft.
Workmen were just beginning
to lay asphalt tile in the ground
floor corridor this morning. Out
side, concrete was being poured
for the sidewalk and steps at the
main entrance. and a bulldozer
sat idle where landscaping has
yet to start.
Bell Ready to Ring.
That school essential - the
automatic clock and bell system
already is in, however. And so
is an up-to- -the-minute public ad-
dress system. All they wait for is
the electricity to run them, which
was expected to be turned on this
afternoon. One telephone was
installed yesterday-the only one
so far. The water already is
running.
The first load of furniture also
arrived yesterday. The rest will
be carted in over the week end,
according to Associate Supt. John
M. Riecks, who is overseeing the
outftting.
Among items already installed
are three dentists drills, complete
with trimmings. They're part of
a Health Department dental
clinic which will serve the Doug
las area. The clinic has been in
corporated in the school for con-
venience.
Twenty-seven new typewriters
also were lined up on the floor of
a classroom this morning. Tables
and chairs still were missing.
Mrs. Fannie r. Dorsey, the
principal, said she expects about
300 youngsters to pile in Monday.
Thatll be so more than the
buildings official capacity, she
said.
Evening star., 1952-09-12
Plan Elevator Apartments.

He said plans now are being
drawn to provide elevator apart
ments in at least one of the other
two projects for elderly people.
He pointed out that elderly peo-
pie do not like to be isolated nor
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-08-01

GOOD CARE of native range
doesn't cost It pays. A lot of our
grassland will produce a quarter to
three-quarters more if given a
chance, because the high-producing
grasses that are left can crowd out
low producers and weeds.
That is what Earl Clark, about 10
miles north of Roundup, will tell
you if you ask him. A co-operator
with the Musselshell Devils Basin
Cooperative State Grazing district,
he operates a unit of $500 acres
made up of land he owns, some that
he leases, and Title III land admin
istered by the Soil Conservation
service on which he has grazing
privileges.
He homesteaded part of his unit
in 1914 and has lived to see many of
his ideas on range management
proved by long experience. He has
seen the area where he homesteaded
go through attempts at farming in
small units that led to many of the
operators going broke. Clark him
self went broke, but was not closed
out and did not leave the country.
Il remember well the comparison
Of a section of railroad land that /
rented for pasture and other pastures
in those days" he said. ''The grass
was good when / rented the land
it hadn't been hurt by grazing as yet.
At that time we had to pay $50 a
section in rent, and the general at
titude was that one had to Craze the
land hard to get his moneys worth.
well, I put only small number
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-08-01

of cattle on my section and by fall
they hadn't made much of an inn
preston on the grass. My neighbor
sort of bawled me out for not using
the grass. That got me to thinking.
I asked him how much hay he had
to buy for his stock and what he had
to pay. had tall grass remaining
on which to winter my stock and
found that it was a lot cheaper than
buying hay.
Il had that piece of land for a
number of years and the grass never
seemed to change, but other pastures
kept getting shorter. They dried out
some years, but mine always had
plenty of forage. It was then that
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-08-01
By TRUMAN C. ANDERSON, Stare Conserpationist

decided that grazing pastures heav-
lily was costly
More than a decade passed before
Clark could apply ranch-wise what
he had learned about pasture. He
couldn't expand his holdings at first,
but when drouths and depression
rang down the curtain on the inten-
sive farming era in the area where
he had homesteaded, he bought land
on contract and changed from grain
to cattle.
Congress passed legislation to buy
some of the privately-owned units
that generally were not suited for
crop farming land now admin
istered by the Soil Conservation
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-08-01

service. After improvements that
included some grass seeding, stock
water developments and fencing, the
administered land was leased
to the local grazing district.
Builds Up Spread
Clark gained grazing privileges on
these lands, which, added to the old
homestead and land he bought, gave
him a well-rounded layout. Now he
has the ranch in full operation, with
production improving from year to
year. He is the first, however, to
point out that some of the grassland
he has is still not in good shape. The
only land he cultivates are two fields
near the headquarters where he
raises oat hay to supplement the ma
tive hay he puts up.
"The effects of overgrazing and
of cultivating land that never should
have been broken are still evident, !"
he explained. Some of the grass
land that was used too heavily has
not fully recovered. 1t was grazed
too hard for too long. Some of the
former cultivated land still has a
long way to CO."
At present, Clark continued, the.
capacity of the ranch is rated higher
by SCS grazing management spe-
cialists than the number being run.
He actually figures on keeping
little below the recommended NUM-
Der. He usually keeps 100 to 125
cows, including requirements, plus
his calves which he holds to market
as long yearlings. He emissions fur
ther Improvement in the condition
of the range and an increase in the
ranch's capacity.
The livestock are in the open year
round. The only shelter provided is
a shed in the winter pasture. Hay
is fed in bad weather; otherwise
grass provides their feed.
Policies Pay Dividends
Clark believes he has the evidence