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Evening star., 1953-01-27
81 Million A|Iocated
For Nearby Roads
By q staff ce,re,pondent Of 1he s.ar


ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 27.-More
than 81 million from Maryland
gasoline taxes and automobile
registration fees is allocated for
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties in the new budget Gov.
McKeldin proposed to the Gen.
eral Assembly last night.
The funds are earmarked for
new roads and maintenance Of
existing roads.
The Governors budget for
fiscal 1854 also would allocate
a total of $139.618 to five hos
pitals in the two suburban area
counties, with almost half Of it
going to Prince Georges General
Hospital.
The roads funds are appor-
toned among counties and mu-
inequalities according to their
population. Twenty per cent Of
total State revenues from gaso-
line taxes and auto registrations
are distributed locally under the
So-called Sherbow formula.
Montgomery County would re-
ceive $491 900 and its incorpor-
ated areas would get a total Of
sec, ,081 for roads in the proposed
budget. The Prince Georges
slice would be $4,000 for the
county and $126. .689 for its mu-
inequalities.
Appropriations requested in
the Governors budget for WASH
ington area hospitals for well
fare cases include:
Prince Georges General, $64,-
ATS; Leland Memorial, Riverdale,
$10,00S: Montgomery County
General, $25,571; Suburban, Be-
thesda, $31,895; Washington
Sanitarium. Takoma Park, ST.
$50.
The Prince Georges General
Hospital appropriation repre-
sents big increase over the
$27, 1886 allocated this fiscal year
It reflects the additional load Of
welfare Eases handed by the
hospital since the opening Of its
! new wing last year.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
TakoIna Park Raises
Police and Fire Paw

The Takoma Park City Coun-
Gil has increased starting salaries
of members of the police and
fire departments by $400 year,
effective next Sunday.
The prompt action was taken
last night to prevent further
designations by police and fire.
men to take jobs in adjoining
jurisdictions or in private indus
try.
All privateS who have COM
pleted their probationary terms
of six months will receive the new
starting rate Of $4,000, then So
400 after one year and up to
$3,700; corporals from $3.50 to
$4,15O; sergeants $4,000 to. $4.-
500; and chief from $4,000 to
$4,000. There are six vacancies
in the department.
The council discussed the adj
visibility of improving lighting
facilities on East-West Highway
from Carroll to Boston avenues
and on Maple from Tulip to
Philadelphia avenues. Action
was deferred, however.
An ordinance was adopted pro-
viding for a public hearing on
paving Glenside drive. between
Lancaster road and Kingwood
drive. requested by Doran s.
Platt, jr. The city viii pay one
third Of the cost Of the improve
ment, which will include curbs,
cutters and possibly a storm
drainage sewer.
Approval was given for the re-
subdivision Of land between
CLANCY Terrace and Sligo Greek
Parkway. requested by p. D.
Ford & Son. A similar request
from Emanuel Baskin for re-
subdivision of tracts between
Boston and Baltimore avenues
and Dundalk road was approved.
Appeals to continue recreation
activities in the Takoma Park
firehouse, including basketball
in the gymnasium. were made by
Mrs. Dorothy Cole, Ellery Dem
ison and Mrs. Dorothy Moffett.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Clothing Sought
For Two Families
Routed by Fire

Clothing and household fur
nishingS are being collected for
two young Centreville, Va, fami-
lies who lost all their possessions
in a fire on January IL.
The collection was started by
A. C. Coleman, manager of the
Lee Auto Parts, 1904 North Dan
vile street, Arlington, where one
of the fire victims is employed.
The small, frame house that
burned was being shared by MIR.
and Mrs. James Crotts, q, and
their two infant children. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Wallace and
their f1ve-year-old child.
Mr.. Crotts is employed as a
delivery boy for Lee Auto Parts.
He, his wife and children now
are staying with Mrs. CrottS'
mother on Lee highway. Mr.,
Coleman said the family needs
clothes, a crib, blankets, and
all other household goods. The
children are James, jr., 19
months, and Peggy, 6 months.
The Wallace family moved
into a house at Centreville. They
also lost all their clothes and
household goods.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Green S Suit 10 Gust
; on School Board
Up in Court Today

A suit filed by Attorney John
Locke Green to GUST three mem
bers of the Arlington School
Board who are Federal employees
was to be heard today in County
Circuit Court. A similar pro-
ceeding by Mr.. Green last year
resulted in the ousting of three
members Of the county board.
Judge S. Du Val Martin Of
Lynchburg Corporation Court is
scheduled to hear the case. Ar
lington Circuit Judge William D.
Medley disqualified himself.
Mr.. Green is seeking the GUST
er Of the board chairman, Bar
nard Joy, and Erwin H. Draheim
and Warren Cox. Mr.. Joy and
Mr.. Draheim are employed by
the Agriculture Department and
Mr.. Cox is with the Federal
Housing Administration.
Two Others on Board.
The two other members of
the board are Mrs. Elizabeth
Campbell, wife of Attorney Ed
mund Campbell, who was a can
didate for Representative from
the 10th district last November,
and Curtis E. Tuthill, a psychol-
ogy professor at George Wash
ington University.
The State Supreme Court last
September 10 upheld an Arling-
ton Circuit Court decision by
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy that
Federal employees are banned
from holding local or State Office
in Virginia. Judge Mccarthy
and the higher court based their
decisions on a 164-year-old law.
Mr.. Green had cited a passage
from the Bible, mo man can
serve two masters" in arguing
his case.
warned 70 Resign.
Eight days after the Supreme
Court announced it's decision
Mr.. Green issued an ultimatum
to the three School Board mem
bers, warning them he would
sue to have them removed if they
did not resign.
The School Board members
replied they would not be in
Inundated. The attorney filed
his suit on September %.
Mr.. Green, an independent
Republican, is a former county
treasurer. He has contested a
number of actions of the elected
School Board and succeeded in
blocking sale Of a $50O,00O bond
issue for swimming pools after
it had been approved by the
voters.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Why. You Should
Give Blood Now

There ore thousands Of wounded
in our military hospitols still fighting
for chance to live. There are
other thousands in eiviIion hospitols
who require blood.
In addition. there must be plosmo
ovoiloble os insurance. asoinst q mo-
tionoI emergency.
Coll your Red Cross todoy. Give
blood-now!
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Falls Church Council
| Denies Plea 10 Open
Session Over Schools

The Falls Church City Council
has refused to throw open to the
public its forthcoming joint ses-
sion with the School Board.
A request that it be open was
made to the Council last night
by j. Hugh Rose, chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Com
mittee of 100 to Protect the In
tegrity of Our Schools.
Mayor Charles E. Kellogg told
Mr.. Rose: "AS far as I'm con-
cerned, we do not intend to in
ject ourselves into administra-
tive affairs of the School Board"
To Discuss Mutual Matters" ~.
Councilman Samuel E. Nc
Crary, who proposed the joint
session, said he wants to discuss
matters of mutual concern, such
as the boards plans for develop
ment of recreation facilities at
the new George Mason High
School. q.
Mr.. Rose said his group feels
the meeting, set for pm. Mon
day at City Hall, was planned as
a harassment of school officials.
He termed the Councils request
for the joint session an invitation
to an inquisition and said it was
advocated for personal publicity.
In other business the council
voted to request extension to
midnight of the closing hour of
places selling beer and wine. The
present closing time in the city
is II pm, but councilmen said
stores and restaurants in ad-
joining Fairfax County are per-
mitted to sell the beverages until
midnight.
The request will be forwarded
to the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board at Richmond.
Amend License Tax.
Amendments to the business
license tax were adopted, includ-
ing a new method of determining
the tax on contractors. Under
the old method, contractors paid
tax on their total business, re-
gardless Of where the work was
performed. The change restricts
the fee to projects constructed
in Falls Church.
At the request of Arlington
and Fairfax Counties, the coun-
Gil approved q resolution calling
for study of the feasibility of
joint juvenile detention facility
for Northern Virginia jurisdic-
tionS. The survey would be made
by the Northern Virginia Region
al Planning and Economic De-
velopment Commission.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Maryland Assembly
Gets Plan for 25qo
Federal Tax Limit
BY q s.aff Correspondent Of The stor

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 27.- The
highly controversial proposal to
place a Is per cent cutoff on
Federal income taxes was before
the Maryland General Assembly
today.
It was introduced in the State
Senate last night by six SEN
ators-four Republicans and two
Democrats-and was referred to
the Senate Finance Committee.
Asks Constitutional Convention.
The joint resolution asks Con-
gress to call a Constitutional
convention to amend the 18th
Amendment to limit the Federal
Government from taxing any
individual income more than rs
per cent. Under the Constitu-
ton, approval Of 80 State legis-
latures is required to get Con-
gress to call a convention for
amendments, but there is legal
doubt about whether the action
would be mandatory on Con-
greSS.
So far, % States have taken
the action, proponents Of the
amendment contend.
Sponsors Of the joint resolu-
ton are Senators James B. Mon
roe, Republican. of Charles; Neil
C. Fraley. Republican, of Gar
rett; John Grason Turnbun,
Democrat, of Baltimore County;
Stanford Hoff, Republican, of
Carroll; Harry T.. Phoebus. Re-
publicans of Somerset County,
and Louis N. PhippS, Democrat,
of Anne Arundel.
The same bill was defeated in
the 1851 Maryland Legislature.
State Senator James Raymond
Fletcher, Republican, of Prince
Georges. said last night he favors
the bill. He was seconded by
Delegate William r. Hughes, Re
publican, Of Prince Georges. But
Delegate j. PAUL Marshall, Re-
publican, Of Montgomery, termed
It unrealiStic and impractical.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Prince Georges Awards
Contracts for 7 Schools

Two Washington firms today
have contracts to build schools in
Prince Georges County.
The Conrad Hanson Co.. low
est Of seven bidders, was given a
$l93.450 contract for the North
Forestville Elementary School,
and the Avery Construction Co.
underbid eight other firms to win
q $192.787 award for the Kent
land Elementary School.
Both will have six classroolns
and a multipurpose room and
will be erected on 10-acre county
owned sites. They are scheduled
for completion before the begin
ming of the next school year.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Calvert School Staffs
Paid as Audit Opens
BY q Staff Correspondent Of The stur


PRINCE FREDERICK, Md,
Jan. 27.-December pay checks,
overdue since January 10, were
passed out today to Calvert
County school teachers and bus
drivers.
While hard-hit employees hast
ened to settle their accounts.
auditors began to probe for the
reasons behind a dilemma which
has caused acute of1cial en-
barrassment.
Funds for the December pay
roll were cleared through the
State Controllers Office in rapid
fire fashion and were rushed
here yesterday by special mes
senger, dispatched by county
legislators and State school au-
thoritieS.
The dramatic journey began
when a group Of 25 officials were
about to start Q discussion Of the
impasse in the courthouse here.
DR.. Thomas g. .Pullen, State
school superintendent. explained
the situation. at the request Of
State Senator Louis L. Goldstein.
who presided. DR.. Pullen told
the group he came here last week
at the request Of the county COM
missioners and Harry r. Hughes.
county school superintendent for
u years.
DR.. Pullen said he and fiscal
experts he brought with him
made a quick examination Of
county school records and found
there has been Overspending.
Then he emphasized that there
is mo evidence whatever Of any
dishonesty"
Evening star., 1953-01-27
East Rockville School Bid
Is Accented by Board

The Montgomery County
Board Of Education last night
accepted a bid Of $185. ABS from
Coleman & Wood. Inc, to build
a 1O-clasSroom school in East
Rockville. The Silver Spring
firm was low among nine bidders.
The school, to be called Mary
vale Elementary. is scheduled to
open in September. In addition
to the classrooms. it will contain
an Office and health room.
Supt. Edwin w. Broone told
the board that two county
teachers viii be sent next year
TO Bogota. Colombia. #
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Arlington Chest Unit
Reflects Dr.. c. p. Cuke

DR.. Charles r. Cake was re-
elected president of the Arling-
ton Community Chest and Coun-
Gil at q meeting of the units
Board Of Trustees last night.
Others elected are Mrs. Wal
ter F. Cronin, vice president:
Miss Bridget Duffy, secretary:
Percy L. Hanson, treasurer: Mrs,
c. r. Nicklason, assistant treas
urer. and the following at-large
members Of the Executive Com
mittee: Mrs. Claudia Pitts,
Charles II. Rideout, j. Harold
Stehman. It. Col. Emory Wood
all, retired, and Mrs. Martha
Hynning.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Scouts Plan Hobby Show

Mount Vernon Scout Troop
No. 654 in Fairfax County will
sponsor hobby show from / to
6 pm. Saturday In preparation
for National Boy Scout Week,
beginning February z. The ex-
hibit win be held in the parish
hall Of st. Luke's Episcopal
Church at Fort Hunt road and
wellington drive.
Evening star., 1953-01-27
Wheaton Group
DemandsPr Probe
Of Commission
Suburban Sanitary
Officials AssuiIed
In Assembly Plea

A demand Tor an investigation
of the policies and personal quail
iflcations of the three Governor
appointed top officials of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission was to be sent to
members Of the Maryland Cen
eral Assembly today by the
Wheaton Citizens Association.
A four-pronged inquiry is
asked by the group to determine:
Il. Whether the commission
should be continued in exist
ence.
'2. Whether it's powers, obli-
cations and operations should
be REDEEMED by amendatory leg
islation.
"3. Whether the governing
body Of the commission should
be selected upon a basis of COM
petence, and should have more
direct responsibility to the resi-
dents and governing bodies of
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
4. Whether the present COM
miSSionerS and some of the com.
missions officers should be re-
moved from Office because of in
competence or of dereliction of
duty or of impropriety of their
actions"
Meeting Reveals Action.
The Wheaton group voted to
petition the legislature at a
meeting last Wednesday. But
the plan was not revealed until
last night. at a meeting of the
Allied Civic Group Of Silver
Spring.
Seven specifications, termed a
bill of particulars, are appended
to the petition. Included in these
are charges that the commission
makes all of its decisions in
secret meetings, acts arbitrarily
and shows shocking sense of
responsibility" that the COM
mission, members qualifications
are negligible" and "they give
little time to their jobs with
the commission.
Raymond w. Bellamy, chair
man of the commission which
supplies water and sewer services
to the urban areas of Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
counties. fatty denied all of the
allegations last night.
I'VE will welcome such an in
vestigation, Mr.. Bellamy said.
THE Governor knew what he
was doing when he appointed
the present commissioners, he
knew that we would be honest
and fair"
Appointed in May, 1851.
Mr.. Bellamy and Norman
Ager, both of Prince Georges,
and L. s. Ray of Montgomery
were appointed to head the
commission in May, 1851. They
are appointed for six-year terms.
The Allied Civic Group de-
ferred action on the petition, but
a committee is to be named to
study the request and report
back at the February "a meet
ing Of the group.
Meanwhile, Phillip Marcus,
chairman of the Wheaton Or
ganization's Public Utilities Com
mittee. said he will proceed with
plans to mail copies of the Pc
tition to all members of the
Legislature.
Mr. Bellamy said he believes
the Wheaton groups action is
a deliberate attempt to embar-
rass the commission. 1t stems
from a dispute between the COM
mission and residents of Arcola
subdivision in the Wheaton area,
he said.
The commission chairman said
he and his two fellow members
work "Seven days a week to keep
up with things" He said most
Of the commissions meetings are
open to the public and citizen
delegations are frequently pres
ent at meetings.
Evening star., 1953-01-27

The label carries the slogan
LET Your Light So Shine" It
reads: March Of Dimes 1858,
Mothers March on Polio. Fight
Polio" At the bottom is a space
for the signature of the solicitor.
Evening star., 1953-01-27

In other actions the council:
/. Elected Gen. Prentiss Q
member and second vice chair.
man of Its Executive Committee.
succeeding former Engineer
Commissioner Bernard L. Rob.
inSon.
2. Empowered Executive Com.
nlittee members to appear .before
Congress in behalf Of fund re.
quests submitted by the NCPC.
The council was set UP last year
by q new law. which also re.
vised the planning commission.
The same planning STAFF Is serv.
ing both groups.
8. Voted to hold its next two
meetings on March z and
April 20.
Evening star., 1953-09-28
MERCI!

Thank you Washington, for your greet re-
spouse to our Complete Heat Budget PIon
Now that our office stoff is out from under
the avalanche of applications, we are ready to
accept new Budget series stortine this month.
Here is chance to wrap your fuel bills and
oil burner service costs into one neot little
package You'll ovoid those big mid-wnter
bills around Christmas time by making small,
cosy deposit each month d. . and at no extra
cost! Coll the Fuel Budget Company, John P
Aenew and Co., Inc, 80 Patterson St. NE,
National 8-3O68.
Evening star., 1953-09-28

wealth Of fine, popular music
music written by Americans,
sung by Americans, loved by
Americans. I think the time
has come for American artists
to recognize that American folk
music is as much their province
as Wagner, Beethoven and
Verdi"
Accepted by Audiences.
/. Her letter continued that she
cannot sing works of great
American composers-such as
George Gershwin, Jerome Kern,
Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin
and others-at the Met and,
therefore. is singing them in
night clubs.
II am happy to have found
that night club audiences are
enthusiastically accepting me on
my own terms" she concluded.
(Miss Traubel will open a
two-weekS' engagement Friday
at the Hotel Statler's embassy
room in Washington. All pro-
ceedS Of the formal $5-per-
person opening will go to the
National Symphony Orches-
tra'S sustaining fund, a hotel
spokesman Said.)
Miss Traubel plans to book q
few night club dates while on
a 50-concert tour which begins
at the end of October.
She has been in the area of
popular entertainment the last
two years, making a number of
televiSion and radio appearances
with such comedians as Jimmy
Durante. For a while she taught
voice to Margaret Truman,
daughter of the former Presi-
dent.
Mr.. Bing, reached by newsmen
last night, said he likes night
clubs and folk music. II never
did attack night clubs" he said.
He added that Miss Traubel had
not been expected to make many
appearances, perhaps three or
four, during the coming Met
season. He noted that the Met
would depend on Wagnerian So
pranos Astrid Varnay and Mar
garet Harshaw.
Evening star., 1953-09-28
Helen 7roubeI Gives Up Met
To Become Night Club Singer
Soprano Disoerees
With Bing Over
Art in Cuborets
By the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 28.-Helen
Traubel, eminent Wagnerian So
prano, today put her budding
career as a night. club singer
ahead of Metropolitan opera
roles. Her viewpoint:
ITO assert that art can be
found in the Metropolitan Opera
House but not in a night club is
rank snobbery that undertakes
both the taste Of the American
public and the talent of its COM
posers.
Miss Traubel, successor to Kir-
stem Flagstad as the Nets lead
ing Wagnerian soprano. yester-
day refused to renew her con-
tract in a dispute with Rudolph
Bing. general manager of the
opera company. who had sug-
gested that she refrain from
cabaret appearances in the New
York area while singing at the
Met.
Letter Disclosure Criticized.
A spokesman for Miss Traubel
disclosed the dispute yesterday,
releasing an exchange of letters
between her and Mr.. Bing. The
opera general manager immedi-
ately said the release of the
correspondence was in bad
taste"
These were the important
points in the letter:
Mr.. Bing, on September Is,
wrote Miss Traubel concerning
her contract, which had been Of
fered some time previously and
had not been returned. 1t was
for the coming season, opening
next month.
He noted there had been ere
ports that you are now appear
ing in a night club, which makes
me wonder whether you would
perhaps, for the time being,
rather not appear at the Metro
politan. as I could so well under
stand feeling that these two
activities do not really seem to
mix WELL"
Perhaps you would prefer"
Evening star., 1953-09-28

he added. "to give the Metropoli-
tan a miss for a year or so until
you may possibly feel that you
want again to change back to
the more serious aspects of your
art"
Opposes Publicity.
Mr.. Bing concluded his letter
with a request that Miss Traubel
not appear in a New York area
night club before and during the
coming Met season and for at
least one month afterward.
II would definitely consider it
highly undesirable for any night
club publicity to appear before,
during or Immediately after your
work at the Metropolitan" he
added.
This request, Mr.. Bing said,
would have been put in the con-
tract had he known of Miss
Traubel's cabaret plans.
Miss Traubel, who recently
made her night club debut at
the Chez Paree in Chicago,
wrote her reply yesterday, say
ing she could not sign the con-
tract and adding:
Artistic dignity is not a mat
ter of where one sings.
America has produced q
Evening star., 1953-06-29
Yours
Betty BeoIe

Moon Shines Upon FoxhoT Road Dinner:
Vondenbergs to Be UnreochobIe for Doys
Evening star., 1953-06-29
Sam Ruyburn Honored

Mr.. and, Mrs. George Vournas
entertained yesterday in honor
Of former Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn. The gathering
took place at their country es-
tate. Callithea Farm, which is
near Seneca. Md. This is an an
nual event.
The invitation assured a good
time for all. It said, "A guest
may help himself to q drink or a
snack at any moment he has the
the desire or in lieu thereof,
pitch hay, white-wash the fence,
play horseshoes, milk cows,
gather eggs, feed the pigs. shear
the sheep, play bridge, gin
rummy or even canasta, or Just
relax in a chair. on the lawn, or
on the fence, or just do nothing
and take his time about it,"
Among those accepting were
the Secretary Of Welfare, Mrs.
Oveta Culp Hobby; Senator and
Mrs. Clinton Anderson, Associate
Justice and Mrs. Tom Clark,