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Evening star., 1952-10-14
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Civil Service Commission, the
chairman of the Board of Cover
nors of the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn, and the director of the
Budget Bureau. The sixth men,
ber would be the chairman, an
outsider appointed by the Presi-
dent.
Since. all the positions on the
board are those filled by political
appointments and would depend
on who is the next President. there
has been no hurry to set up the
board so far. It's felt that at least
some of the men, and perhaps the
majority of them. now filling
these positions probably will no
longer be in Office after the new
administration takes over. There
fore. it would be a waste of time
to set up the board now.
This probably will mean a delay
in the boards report and recon-
mendaticns to Congress. The
deadline has been set for next De-
cember 81, but under the circum-
stances, the board probably could
get a six-month extension If it re-
quested it.
NUPTIALS-Harry S. Mitchell,
84-year-old former chairman of
the Civil Service Commission, has
Iremarried. Mr.. Mitchell's first
wife died last year.
Mr. Mitchell, who retired as
commission chairman last year,
married Mrs. Jessie Lincoln in
California last month. Mrs. Lin
coin, a widow. is prominent
sculptress and did the bust of Mr..
Mitchell that was placed in the
Civil Service Commission build
ing's rotunda several months ago.
The couple has gone to Honolulu,
where they intend to stay for the
present.
PROBLEMS AHEAD The ad-
ministrative and personnel prob
lens that will result from the
Forthcoming change Of admins
trations-whether Gov. Stevenson
or Gen. Eisenhower is the next
President-will be discussed at a
luncheon of the Washington
Chapter of the American Society
for Public Administration at 1890
pm. tomorrow in the Willard Ho-
tel. The speaker will be Louis
Brownlow, director emeritus of
the Public Administration Clear
ling House and former chairman
of the Presidents Committee on
Administrative Management.
COOPERATION - It's always
news when an employees unior
Igoes out of its way to praise the
personnel director of an agency
That's what happened recently al
: the Public Housing Administra.
!, ton. when Ivy N. Potts, president
of PHA Lodge No. 476, American
| Federation of Government EN-.
lployes, publicly praised Charles G
Stern, PHA personnel director, fol
his cooperation and understand.
, ing in solving personnel problem.
in the agency.
,
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Arm.
and Air Force Departments Loca
261, National Federation of Fed
{ eral Employees. holds its MONTH,
meeting at 8 o'clock tonight il
the Willard Hotel. The Mill
! tary District of Washington ha
= jobs open for sales store workers
e dry cleaners, machinists and ju
S nior carpenters. at salaries o
1922 to $1.99 an hour. Apply II
Ailisl.
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The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Administration Change Delays
Study of Retirement System
By Joseph Young

There will be delay until year setting up the
Federal board that will make comprehensive study and
report the Governments retirement system
Shortly before adjournment Congress ordered creation Of the
board whose work expected the for widespread
Evening star., 1952-10-14

Showers tonight in the extreme northern sections
of New England northern portion of the Middle Atlantic
States Valley and the Central Mississippi Valley
Showers for Southern Florida while snow
hures will fan Upper Lakes Region and the Central
Rockies in the northern portion of the Nation
from Atlantic to the Mississippi and far south as the
Valley Colder weather expected in the Northern
Plains the Rockies and Southern Plans ZAP Wirephoo
Evening star., 1952-10-14

rain and cooler. north portion. IN
or evening.
Wind cat National Airport:
Northwest, 10 miles an hour, at
11:18 am.
Five-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity, Oct. 1913.
Temperatures will average near
normal for the period. Cooler
tomorrow and Thursday and a
rising trend during the week end.
Washington area normals are 68
and 48 for the daily high and low.
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BE sure to listen to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast each Saturday at 6:15
pm. oUer Station WMAL)
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Rain likely tomorrow and Friday
totaling 14-12 inch.
River Report.
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
HarperS Ferry.
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Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 10l on June 26.
Lowest. 10 on January 80.
High and Low Of Last "A Hours.
High, 76, at 3:05 pm.
Low, As. at 6:15 am.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
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Evening star., 1952-10-11
kensington Firemen Plan
Annual Memorial Service

The third annual memorial
service for deceased. firemen. OF
the Kensington Volunteer Fire
Department will be held at 1880
Sunday morning at the Holy Re
deemer Catholic Church on Saul
road, Kensington. Md.
The local firemen will attend
the service lin body.
Chief Millard Sutton Of the
Washington Fire Department and
Chief Charles Orme of Mont
|gomery County Police will be the
speakers for the occasion. A spe-
lcial- mass will be said for the
families of the 80 deceased fire.
men and there will be O musical
program by the Kensington
School Of Music.
Following the church services,
lfiremen and their guests and mem
Ibers Of Auxiliary will adjourn to
MAYORS Restaurant in Wheaton
for breakfast.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
State Prison '0ver|oadinq
Danger Seen in Virginia
Rv the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Oct. II. Vir-
ginia's present increased rate o1
committal is overlooking the State
prison, Ito dangerous point,
Supt. w. Frank Smyth said yes
terday.
Mr.. Smyth called attention to
overcrowding in the penitentiary
in his annual report to the State
Department of Welfare and In.
StitutionS.
He expressed the earnest de-
sire that serious consideration be
given to suitable facilities for de-
creasing the population at this in.
stitution."
The report noted the prisons
population was 1857 on June 80
but said the total that "shoulc
not be exceeded" is about 1,400
The present total is 1909. prison
officials said.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Uniformed Maryland Students
Fool Guards to Grab NovyGou

It appeared that Bill VII. the
Navy's goat, would be missing to.
lday when the Middies played Their
homecoming game against Viii
liam and Mary College at Annap-
oils.
And there were no plans for a
substitute to replace the mascot
spirited away from beneath
Thompson Stadium by University
|of Maryland students Thursday
might. It would be difficult to find
Ia Bill the Temporary to take Bill
kits place.
"Bill XII is a very special goat, !"
Ia Naval Academy spokesman said
sadly. Hes a purebred Angora,
and you don't flnd those long
horns on just any old goat"
Anyway. he added. nobody has
set up a special howl for sub.
There were substantial reports,
meantime. that Bill XII was
housed at or near the University
OF Maryland campus. The Ter
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Arlington Group Asks
Repeal Of Virginia Ban
|0n Federal Workers
The newly organized Arlington
Independent Movement has sent
kilograms to Gov. Battle and

The newly organized Arlington
Independent Movement has sent
kilograms to Gov. Battle and
State Senator Charles R. Fenwick
urging action by the Virginia Gen.
eral Assembly in December to re-
peal a 1887 law barring Federal
employees from holding elective Of
fees in the State.
Repeal of the ban on Federal
workers was part of the groups
10-point program announced ear
lier this week. Three members of
the County Board were unseated
by a State Supreme Court decision
because they were Federal en-
|ployes.
Cite Act of 1928.
The kilograms state. in part:
THE decision illustrates the
policy of the State of Virginia.
which has been repeatedly ex-
pressed and implied. A 1923 act
clearly indicated the intent of the
Legislature that Federal employees
be permitted to hold local Of
flee. ...
1.-THE immediate effect of the
Supreme Court decision was to
unseat three members of the
County Board who had been duly
elected by the citizens of the
county. It thus ran counter to the
will of the people. as we'll as to the
precedent set by legislative action
and intent.
Invoking the 1887 law works
particular hardship on the cause
of representative government and
the citizens of Arlington County.
Families with members work.
ing in the Federal Government
comprise more than half the
population of Arlington County.
Act Ruled Invalid.
The Supreme Court decision
held that the 1923 act referred
to in the telegram was invalid
because it was special legislation.
That act specified that Federal
employees could be elected to local
Office. The 1887 law bans Federal
employees from such offices.
The Arlington Independent
Movement has three candidates in
the race for the three County
Board seats vacated by the court
decision. They are Mrs. Leone B.
Buchholz, DR.. Robert H. Detwiler
and Alvin F. Kimel.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Two Hurt in 4-Car Crash
On Highway Near Laurel

Two men were injured today in
a four-car crash on the Baltimore
boulevard 2h miles south OF
Laurel, State police reported.
Taken to Prince Georges Gen.
|eral Hospital were Herbert r. Eel
mar. SO, Of Baltimore, with severe
face cuts and bruises, and 1t.
Henry E. Stann, %. colored, of
the 200 block of Twentieth street
NV, stationed at Fort Campbell,
KY. The officer, who was the
more seriously injured with pos
sible skull fracture, cracked ribs
and cuts, was being transferred
to Walter Reed Military Hospi-
tai.
State police said 1t. Stann's
northbound automobile collided
and glanced off two southbound
vehicles and then crashed head
on into Mr.. Zelmar's car.
The drivers of the other two
cars were only shaken up. Police
identified them as William II.
Bunce. Is, of Laurel. and Phillip
Whitman, %, for whom no ad-
dress was Immediately available.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Accept Assessments,
Hold Down Tax Rate,
County Group Urged

Montgomery County home
owners were urged last night to
accept their sharply increased re-
assessments and hold their fire
for the county budget session next
June.
The suggestion came from
Mayor Irving M. Day of Somerset
after Wilton T. Allen, county su-
pervisor of assessments explained
his assessment procedures to some
$50 Somerset residents at the
school there.
Mayor Day and others at the
meeting urged the residents to
accept the higher assessments but
fight to keep the tax rate as low
as possible next year.
Mr.. Aliens appearance-one of
a number. slated before, enraged
homeowners, many of whom have
received so to 80 hikes in assess
ments-drew out more than seven
times the usual attendance at
Somerset community meetings.
S10O Million Increase Seen.
The assessment supervisor esti-
mated "conservatively" the assess
able base by July l would be $1O0
million higher than this years
$496 million.
His estimate brought exclama-
tions of hope from homeowners
that it should mean the tax rate
would be lower next year.
One resident, however. recalled
that the sharp increase in the
base this year-it jumped nearly
$50 million-did not prevent the
tax rate from moving from $2.03
to $2.10 per 500 valuation.
Mr.. Allen said that theoreti-
cally an increase in the assess
able base should be accompanied
by a lower tax rate.
McNayr Not Optimistic.
County Manager Irving G. Nc
Nayr sounded a note of warning
last Tuesday to council members
who spoke of a tax rate cut next
year.
The county manager said that
as long as Montgomery County
continues its present rate of
growth. the demand for new
schools and other services is not
likely to decrease. He added he
was not optimistic concerning an
cut in the tax rate.
Mr.. Allen reiterated his previ-
ous statement that his Office isl
aiming at appraisals so to 60 per-
cent of actual market value of
homes. He said if a home is as
sessed at more than so per cent
Of actual value, II don't think
we have done a good job, and it
should be reviewed.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Arlington Club Program
To Feature Traffic Safety

Traffic safety will be featured
at the annual Achievement Day
program of the Arlington Home
Demonstration Club Thursday.
The program will be held at the
Mormon Church, at North Six.
teenth and Inglewood streets. be-
ginning at / pm.
It was announced that club
members will be offered the OPP
portunity to take a driving reac-
ton test through the cooperation
of the safety bureau of the Airing
ton Police Department. The test
measures a drivers reaction time
in halting a vehicle when a
dangerous situation confronts him
The 10 home demonstration
clubs in the county have prepared
exhibits on the theme Of safety
for the Achievement Day pro-
gram. Other exhibits will include
furniture ref1nishing, home light
ing. tailoring. textile painting,
hooked rug making and weaving
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Bethesda Again Asks
County TO Approve
New Fire Station

The Bethesda Fire Department
has asked the Montgomery County
Council to reconsider it's stanc
|against the departments plan tt
build a new fire station on Ma
Itional Institute of Health ground
To provide closer fire protec-
ton for the fast-growing and
heavily populated northern part
|of Bethesda, the department pro-
posed some months ago to build
a secondary fire house at the COR
ner of Old Georgetown road and
Cedar lane.
The site would be donated by
the health Institutes, which also
would donate up to $4,000 to-
ward the cost of the new fire
house. 1t would be Bethesda S
second. The other is on Old
Georgetown, close to where it
forks away from Wisconsin ave-
nue..
Turned Down Months Ago.
The plan was turned down sew
eral months ago by the council.
It objected on the ground, among
others, that the Federal Govern
ment would have too great a
degree of control over the station.
The departments request for
reconsideration was made by
Capt. Preston B. Haines, U. S. NJ.
retired, and president of the de-
partment, in a letter to the coun-
Gil.
He acted after being notified by
DR.. w. H. Sebrell, jr.. director of
the Health Institutes, that unless
the council approves the site by
Wednesday, the Federal agency
will make other plans for fire pro-
lection.
Points to Site Approval.
DR.. Sebrell in letter to Capt.
Haines expressed hope that. the
station would be built on the site
in controversy. But if not, he
said other arrangements must
soon be made because the InSti-
tutes' Clinical Center is scheduled
to receive it's first patient next
April. /.
Capt. Haines told the council
the proposed site is the best loca-
tion from which to give the
northern Bethesda area closer fire
It has been approved,
he said, by the Montgomery
County Fire Board, the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, the
Montgomery County Volunteer
Firemen's Association and the
Alta Vista Gardens, Maplewood,
Locust Hills, Alta Vista -Wyngate
and Chevy Chase Terrace Citizens
Associations.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
|Won,on Loses $50
In Swindle STAGED
with Play Money

Two film fam artists yesterday
Exchanged about q quarter mil
lion dollars in play money for $50
legal tender by duping an Alex
landria woman with the old lost
pOcketbook trick.
Victim was Mrs. Lille Jones,
colored. of the 600 block Of South
|St. Asaph street. She told police
she put $50 Of her money in an
envelope. sealed it and gave it
to two colored men who promised
to let her share in $1,000 which
they said they found in a lost
pocketbook. Mrs. Jones $50 was
supposed to be a sort of deposit
to show her good faith. she said.
Somewhere along the line, Mrs.
Jones got separated from the two
men-and from her $50. She was
left holding a similar envelope
stuffed with colored bits. of paper
labeled "hunky dory money"
There was another printed lire
on the phony lucre: This Amt
Hay"
Evening star., 1952-10-11

lrapinS are Nays foes q week from
today at College Park.
This tale was told Of how Bill
was taken from the heavily guard.
ed Academy grounds:
Several University of Maryland
students donned their Air Force
|ROTC uniforms and drove to An
|napolis. They drove past the
guards, stiff and proper, and or
to Thompson Stadium.
There they chloroformed Bill
and loaded him Unto the trunk
of the car. and drove back through
the gates past the guards. Acad.
emy officials scanned newspaper
photographs purported to be oi
Bill XII at the University ot
Maryland.
1T certainly looks like old Bill,
one said. But we're not accusing
anybody" he added, hastily.
Bill XII is one Of the long chain
of goat mascots dating back tc
1890. He was presented to the
Middies by the Texas Centennial
Exposition.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Bethesda Contest Attracts
1000 Anti-Fire Posters

School children of the Bethesda
area have designed more than
/ 900 posters in a fire prevention
week contest sponsored by the
Bethesda Volunteer Fire Depart
ment.
The posters, on display at the
firehouse. 1920 Old Georgetown
road, will be judged next
Wednesday. Winners will receive
cash or merchandise.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Paving Contract Awarded
For Ocean Beach Road

Leon Ackerman, Washington
real estate man and president of
ocean Beach, Inc, announced
today contract has been awarded
to pave a 15-mile road at Ocean
Beach, Md, located on Assateague'
Island. &
He said the road will extend
from a point 10 miles south of
Ocean City, Md, to the Virginia
line. The contract was awarded
to Clyde w. Wood & Sons, Inc,
of North Hollywood. Calf. Charles
M. Upham, Washington highway
engineer, has been retained to de-
sign and supervise construction.
Mr.. Ackerman said the roadbed
will be made Of asphalt.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
AIMED Admira|s See
Middies in Review
AT Homecoming
By George Kennedy
Stor Sfoff Correspendsnf

ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 11.-Many
of the admirals whose great feet.
swept the enemy from the Pacific
or bottled him up in Europesr
ports are here for homecoming
day" at the Naval Academy.
This afternoon they will witness
the Navy-William and Mary foot.
ball game. The former midship-
men whose classes 60 back into
the last century are expected tc
swell the crowd by 5000.
One of the first to arrive was
90-year-old William B. Fletcher
of 3540 Davis street NV, Wash
ington, who was graduated in the
class of 1920 years ago. when
Uncle Sam still had ships Of the
line under sail.
Asked at the review of the mid.
shipmen yesterday II he did moi
want to be seated, the elderly ad-
miral, who is a little man, said he
thought he would stand through
it-and he did.
Vice Admiral c. Turner Joy. su-
perintendent Of the academy, also
had as his guest Admiral William
F. Bull" Halsey. whose Sd Fleet
reopened the Philippines in the
battle for Leyte Gulf. Admiral
Thomas c. Kinkaid, whose 7th
Fleet Joined in battles that ended
japanese sea power. will be at the
football game this afternoon.
Other hish-ranking officers ut
the review were Admiral William
ID. Leahy, who was President
Roosevelt's chief of staff. Admiral
Henry K. Hewitt, commander OF
the 9th Fleet, whose battleships
knocked out the Nazi installations
at Casablanca; Admiral William
H. Standley, former Ambassador
to Russia; Admiral Arthur j. Hep
burn, Admiral Louis e. Denfeld,
former Chief of Naval Operations,
and Admiral Dewitt C.. Ramsay,
former commander in chief, Pa
cif1c Fleet.
A downpour started just as the
2,100 midshipmen marched onto
Worden Field. It did not faze
them. The student commander,
at the head Of q small formation,
advanced to reviewing stand and
said:
"A brigade Of rnidshipmen., sir. u
Admiral Joy replied:
pass in review"
And they did with their usual
precision.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
E O OTIw UnITTon
New PropdId|
To Redistrict
Fairfax Unveiled
Civic Federation Files
Plan for Seven Areas
Based on Residents

Another proposal for redistrict-
ing Fairfax County was unveiled
today by the Fairfax Civic Fedora
ton.
The new seven-district plan was
prepared by Arthur Bissell, men,
ber Of the Mount Vernon Citizens
Association, and is being submit
ted to the county's official Re-
districting Commission for con-
|sideration.
A five-district plan earlier was
made public by the federation
Neither plan has been given the
federation's Endorsement and Of
ficials said they are being pub
lished principally to show various
ways by which redistricting can
be accomplished.
Range, in Population.
The seven districts proposed by
Mr.. Bissen would range in popu-
lation from 5000 to- $4,000. &C
cording to present population es-
Inmates. The. six districts into
which the county now is divided
range in population from 4,67a
to 24,519.
The addition of a seventh dis
trict would add a seventh men,
ber to the Board of County Su-
pervisors, since each district has
one representative.
The proposed districts in Mr..
Bissell's plan and the estimated
population of each, are described
generally as follows:
/. All territory between No. /
highway and the Potomac River,
10000 population.
2. The area between Shirley
highway and No. ! highway. 49,
600 population.
3. A strip between Shirley high
way and a line running almost
straight across the county from a
point near Seven Corners to the
District Workhouse property, pop
ulation $4,000.
4. The area between the No. 3
boundary and an almost parallel
boundary from the outskirts of
Falls Church to Occoquan Run,
Just below Makeley'S Store. popll-
lation 1880.
Land Beyond Falls Church.
5. All that land beyond Falls
Church which lies between Route
2 and the Potomac River, plus a
small parcel between Route Z and
Route S, population $4,000.
6. Bounded by Route z, Route
236 (including the town of Fair
fax), Route 620 and the Prince
William County line, population
1890.
Z. A large triangle in the west
ern corner of the county, extend
ing eastward to a point just be-
yond Herndon in the north, and
just beyond Clifton in the south.
population 5000.
The redistricting commission,
appointed by the court nearly two
years ago to redistrict the county.
has not yet completed its work.
John w. Rust, chairman, an
nounced last week, however, that
a tentative plan has been ar
ranged and will be made public
before January !.
sided.
Evening star., 1952-10-11
Arlington Civil Defense
District Names Warden

William r. Murphy was named
warden of Arlington's Civil De-
tense District F yesterday.
The district includes parts OF
Ballston, Clarendon, Lyon Park
and Ashton Heights. Mr.. Murphy
lives at 1882 North Fairfax drive
Another appointment an
nounced yesterday was that OF
Mrs. Teresa C. Clark, 813 'Cleve-
land street. who will represent
private schools in the Arlington
Civil Defense Setup.