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Evening star., 1953-10-22
Great Hollow Ball Will Test
Power Plant for Atomic Sub

It's builder, the Chicago
Bridge & Iron Co.. terms it the
largest structure of its kind. The
firm said it's nearest rivals were
five fuel tanks in Connecticut,
each 1872 feet across.
Supported now by steel pillars,
the globe later will be half
buried in earth and paved over
with concrete, the General Elec-
trio Co. said.
1t stands on land of the Knolls
Atomic Power Laboratory. which
CIV operates for the Atomic
Energy Commission.
GE will install the nuclear
reactor in the piece ships hull
being built nearby by the Elec-
trio Boat Division of General
DynamicS Corp. of Groton. After
the tests. a second atomic engine
will be built for installation in
the Sea Wolf.
Splitting of uranium atoms in
the atomic engine will heat
liquid sodium metal, which in
turn will be used to convert
water into steam. The steam
will drive turbines which will
run the submarines propeller
shafts.
Evening star., 1953-10-22

which developed the atomic
bomb. The British government
also decorated him.
Congress Puts on Pressure.
Early in 1853 it became known
that Admiral Rickover, because
Of non-selection for rear admiral,
faced mandatory retirement. A
number of legislators, including
Chairman Saltonstall of the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee,
took up the cudgels for him. At
one point the committee held up
the promotion of 80 captains to
rear admiral as a reminder of
congressional interest in Admiral
Rickover.
On March 10 Secretary Ander-
son notified Senator Saltonstall
he was exercising his authority
to keep Admiral Rickover on
active duty another year and was
arranging a new opportunity for
him to be considered for promo
ton.
In fact, he ordered a selection
board to meet and to promote
one engineering captain expert
enced in the field of atomic
propulsion-an accurate descrip-
ton of Admiral Rickover.
The board announced July 25
that Admiral Rickover had been
selected.
Evening star., 1953-10-22

all the consideration that the cir
cumstances will allow" Mr..
Young declared. mo one will
deny that the Government is
losing the services of some fine
employees, whose only fault is
that they were hired after 1850,
when the Government was no
longer making permanent ap-
pointments. A good many of
them got their jobs through open
competitive exams under the
same standards that career en-
ployes had to meet"
when our separated career
employe program has progressed
to the point where the legitimate
rights of career workers will not
be ieopardized, we plan to take
action toward comforting career
status on eligible indefinite en-
ployes," Mr.. Young said.
The original Whitten rider, in
September, 1850, banned perma-
nent appointments in Govern
ment. It later was amended by
Congress to permit permanent
status appointments up to the
level that existed on the Septem-
ber, 1850, date, which would
permit about 100000 such ap-
pointments.
However, a White House and
Civil Service Commission execu-
tive order issued shortly after
the original Written rider to
carry out its provisions specif1-
cally bars permanent appoint
ments and is still in effect.
Administration officials strong
ly favor the repeal of the Whit
ten rider, feeling this would ease
the headaches Of agency officials
to determine who among in
definite workers should be given
status among the 100000 ap-
pointmentS permitted by the
rider. Repeal of the rider would
give agencies absolute discre-
ton in making permanent ap-
pointmentS among indefinite
employees they felt were entitled
to it.
However, Mr.. Young's state
ment indicates that. even if the
Whitten rider is not repealed,
the administration intends to go
ahead with a program to give
permanent status to indefinite
employees up to the level of Sep
tember /, 1850.
TAX PAYMENTS-The var
1ous agency officials we have
contacted say that, if the In
ternal Revenue Service gives
Evening star., 1953-10-22
BY the Assoeioisd Press

WEST MILTON, N. Y, Oct.
ga steel sphere. 225 feet in
diameter. stands ready to be-
come the bathtub laboratory for
testing a power plant for an
atomic submarine.
The last of 682 plates has
been welded into the 3,850-ton
globe, which towers higher than
an 18-tory building over what
once was farmland outside
Schenectady.
The Atomic Energy Commits
sion and the General Electric
Co. announced completion of the
hollow ball yesterday, after 10
months work.
Water will be pumped into 1t,
partially surrounding a section
of submarine hull containing a
new type of f1ssion reactor-the
prototype of a power plant for
the submarine Sea Wolf now un-
der construction at Groton.
Conn.
The sphere is designed to
simulate conditions at sea. and
at the same time insure against
the escape of radioactive ma
terials, should safety devices
fail.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Britain 10 Start Work
Soon on lis Second
Atom Power Plant
BY the Assoeiated Press

LONDON, Oct. 22.-Britain al
ready is building a full-scale
atomic power plant and is ready
to start work on another. a Supe
ply Ministry spokesman said
today.
The first, announced last May
by Supply Minister Duncan
Sandys, is under construction in
the Calder Hill area Of Cumber-
land. A government spokesman
said it will supply around $4,000
kilowatts to a big atomic re-
search center.
This first station-it should
be ready within three years
would be able to meet the needs
of a fair-sized town." the
spokesman said. I'VE are ready
to build a second and larger
station as soon as we settle on
a site"
The spokesman said the first
power plant Will be baSed on a
conventional atomic pile con-
sc.c1ing natural uranium.
The second, he said. will use
a breeder pile-one which con-
sumes uranium. but at the same
time produces fashionable pluto
mum, and so needs less refuel-
ing. This pile, he said, will help
produce electricity at a cost COM
pairing reasonably with that Of
coal-powered generators.
The spokesman said the sec
ond plant will feed electricity
into the Nations power net
works. He said the British prof.
ect has been spurred by increas-
ing demands for coal.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Boothe, Croghon
Debate Segregation

John A. Croghan. an independ-
ent, said last night that Armi-
stead L. Boothe, his Democratic
opponent for the Virginia House
of Delegates from Alexandria, is
fence sitting" on the question
of segregation, particularly in
schools.
Mr.. Boothe replied that dur
ing his six years in the House,
he has never advocated the
abolition of segregation in the
schools of Virginia because I feel
it won't work" He added that
he favored repeal of a law abol-
ishing segregation on trains and
common carriers because lit is
most important that we remem-
ber Negroes are Americans"
MIR. Croghan said he firmly
and categorically" favors segre-
cation. Both candidates spoke
at a meeting sponsored by the
Del Ray Citizens Association in
Alexandria.
Evening star., 1953-10-22

them the names of employees who
refuse to pay their income taxes,
they will fire the employees on
the spot.
The issue was raised several
days ago by Senator Williams.
Republican. of Delaware, who
charged that $4,000 Federal
workers have evaded payment
Of income tax but cannot be fired
because of civil service regula-
tionS.
CSC officials say that the
Senator is incorrect. These en-
ployeS can be fired Immediately
by their agencies if they refuse
to make income tax payments.
The word is being passed along
to department and agency heads
that they do have the authority
to fire these deadheads.
Privately, CSC officials, along
with such employe leaders as
James Campbell. president OF
the AFL American Federation
of Government Employees. de-
plore Senator Williams state
ment. They feel his $4,000 esti-
mate is far too high. Such
statements are most unfair to
the vast bulk of Government
workers, who not only serve the
public faithfully and we'll but
pay their income taxes the same
as any one else, they feel. They
regard the whole episode as an
other smear" on Federal en-
ployes.
UP IN AIR-Agriculture De-
partment employees are uneasy
these days over the pending re-
organization in the department.
They have been given no de-
tails as to what this will mean
regarding their jobs. So far,
department officials have not
taken employees in their conf
dence.
It's true that scAne Agricul-
ture officials unofficially have
said that the reorganization will
not result in large-scale layoffs.
but until some sort of official
statement is made by Secretary
Benson giving specific details the
departments employees cannot
help but feel uneasy.
n X
POSTAL EXAMS The long
awaited exam among Washing
ton postal employees for super
visory jobs is scheduled to be
held on November ii in the Civil
Service Commissions offices
here. Postal workers in the near
by Maryland and Virginia areas
also will take the exam at the
same time in the CSC offices.
X X y
TALENT SHOW The AFL
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees is getting into
show business. 1t will sponsor
an annual Government en-
ployes' talent show at which rep
resentatives of local television
and radio stations as well as
theaters and night clubs will be
present.
This years event will be held
at 8 pm. November 5 in Cafritz
Auditorium, Sixteenth and @
streets NV. Winners will receive
cash awards and a possible
chance to get a foothold in the
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Rickover Almost Retired
By Navy Only 4 Months Ago
Atomic Power Plant
Chief Won AdmiruI's
Rank After Long Woit
BY hs Assoeio,sd Pre-"

The assignment of Rear Ad-
miral Hyman George Rickover
to boss construction of the worlds
first atomic industrial power
plant comes less than four
months after the submariner-
scientist was almost forced into
retirement.
Strenuous pressure from Con-
gress and Secretary of the Navy
Anderson this year got Admiral
Rickover retained on active duty
and assured him an admirals
gold braid. Earlier. he had been
considered twice. as a captain,
for promotion to rear admiral
and twice passed over by selec-
ton boards.
Under the law, and without
special action, this would have
forced his retirement last June 80.
Helped Develop A-Bomb.
Admiral Rickover, SO, helped
develop the atomic bomb and
has been working with nuclear
propulsion devices since 1947.
first in the Navy's Bureau of
Ships and then as chief of the
naval reactors branch. Atomic
Energy Commission. He was the
top naval officer concerned with
building the first atomic powered
submarine.
Admiral Rickover, a native
of Chicago and 1922 graduate of
the Naval Academy, served
aboard both surface vessels and
submarines and was sent to Co.
lumbia University by @the Navy
for postgraduate studies in elec-
trical engineering.
During most of World War II,
he served in the Bureau OF Ships.
He won the Legion of Merit for
his work as head of its electrical
section. He also was cited for
his service as head of repair
base on Okinawa and his part
in the Manhattan Project" !"
Evening star., 1953-10-22

private industry to spend any
such sums"
But, with improved technology
as the Government-launched
program gets into gear, he said
"the work should gradually be
transferred from the Federal
Government so that eventually
industry will be carrying the
greater burden of this industrial
development"
Wants Information EaSed.
Mr.. Murray said the Govern
ment's monopoly on atomic in
formation, which he ascribed
solely to the need to keep secrets
out of an aggreSsor nations
hands, must be eased enough to
allow industry to shoulder more
of the atomic power load.
While Westinghouse was chosen
as principal contractor. he said,
the Acc welcomes offers from
other firms Ito invest risk capi-
tai on the building of the steam
and turbine portions, as we'll as
in the operation of the entire
plant"
Until recently, defense de-
mands have limited large scale
nuclear power efforts primarily to
military propulsion projects. such
as submarine reactors," he said.
But the world situation, as
well as the evolving progress of
reactor technology, now call for
a great change of pace.
with this in mind the COM
mission has decided that it Is
time for full-scale construction"
The Acc commissioner gave
these details:
/. The design chosen was Gin
herited from a naval project
presumably some modification
of the type originally envisioned
for poWering an aircraft carrier.
2. Westinghouse was picked
as principal contractor because
of it previous experience with
the reactor system chosen"
! Westinghouse had originally
gotten the contract for the
Evening star., 1953-10-22

District and vicinity-Fair to-
night, lowest around So. Tomor-
row, fair and mild with highest
about 10.
Maryland and Virginia-Cloudy
on the coast, partly cloudy in
the interior tonight, lowest
around SIS east and $3.50 west.
Tomorrow, fair with highest
68-72.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Citizen Group Views
Machine Designed 10
Speed Mail Sortinq

A new mail-sorting machine
designed to speed up mail han
ding and reduce operating costs
was exhibited yesterday to mem
bers of the citizen advisory coun-
Gil of the Senate Post Office and
Civil Service Committee.
Members of the group indi-
Gated they would issue state
ment urging the Post Office De-
partment to place these ma
chimes in operation as soon as
possible.
Some of the council members
said the machine would greatly
cut down the number of postal
clerks needed to sort the mails.
Others, however, said it would
still take several years before
the machine is available for gen.
eral use throughout the country
and that there is no need for
postal clerks to worry about
their jobs at this time.
The machine was said to be
able to sort all mail with type
written addresses, regardless of
size or where the address ap-
pears. 1t was developed by two
National Bureau of Standards
scientists, Israel Rodkin and
Jacob Rabinow.
The advisory council is COM
posed of leaders of the publish
ing industry. civic organizations
and postal employe organiza-
tions. 1t is now making a study
for the Senate committee on
how postal efficiency can be i'm
proved and operating costs re-
duced.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Knife Slayer Convicted

BERRYVILLE, Va, Oct. %.
(P).-A 12-man Clarke County
Circuit Court jury yesterday con-
victed Frank Liggins, 27, colored,
of Berryville, of f1rst-degree mur-
der in the butcher knife Staying
of his brother, Samuel Liggins,
SO, and fixed his punishment at
SO years in the State peni-
tentiary.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Atomic
Continued From First Page

our atomic weapon potential.
But we sometimes are inclined
to forget that they also are bet
ting on our great record Of sue
cess in solving industrial and
archaeological problems.
"They are banking on the
United States knoW-how and
United States good faith to help
them build their nuclear power
plants of the future.
"I believe that. unless we en-
bark on an all-out attack on our
nuclear power program lmmedi-
ately, we may be deprived of for
eign uranium ores with the re-
suit that our weapons potential
will be smaller than need be the
case.
And so the two races-the
atomic arms race and the nu-
clear industrial power race-are
strangely related. :"
Says Stakes Are High.
Mr.. Murray said the stakes
are high in either race. Coun-
tries hungry for the new source
of power. no matter how repelled
they are by Soviet tyranny,
would gravitate toward Russia,
he said.
But Mr.. Murray stressed that
the Acc was not putting all it's
atomic reactor eggs in one bas-
ket.
In the immediate future" he
said. I'VE expect to propose the
construction of different types
of reactors that will explore
promising avenues of approach
to practical nuclear power"
Mr.. Murray said the tremen-
dous cost of building, testing
and perfecting an industrial
atomic power plant rules out
any such development by private
enterprise without Government
help.
In the state of reactor
technology. he said, 'it is just
not in the economic cards for
Evening star., 1953-10-22

now-sidetracked large ship re-
actor. It also worked with Acc
to develop the power plant for
worlds first known atomic
submarine, the Nautilus. now
under construction at Groton,
Conn
3. General supervision Of
the new project will be in charge
of Aces reactor development
division, with immediate re-
sponsibility assigned to Adm.
Rickover because of his unique
experience and accomplishments
in building propulsion power re-
actors for the commission and
for the Navy"
4. Costs of power from the
projected plant will be higher
than costs from modern (non-
nuclear) plants"
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Stanley to Address
Democratic Women

Thomas B. Stanley, Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor Of
Virginia, will address the Ar
lington County Women'S Demo-
cratic Club at a luncheon at
1890 pm. Wednesday at the Ter
race room at National Airport.
Reservations to attend should
be made with Mrs. William
HoweS, vice president of the
group, who has charge of the
luncheon program, at her home.
COL North Dinwiddie street, Ar
lington.
Evening star., 1953-10-22

Y oun g said
the csc and
t h e adminis-
tration recog-
nize the plight
of indefinite
workers, W h o
t h + o u g h no
fault of their
own have been
d e n i e d the
S t a US they
would h aV e
re c il ed in
normal times.
We intend
to give them
Evening star., 1953-10-22

world. Additions
for the talent show are being
held at 7:30 pm. tomorrow at the
Commerce Department audito-
rum and Federal employees who
would like to compete in the
show are asked to attend. Tick
cts for the talent show. priced
at ST., are available at national
AFGE headquarters, 900 F street
NV.
X X
TRIBUTE - The Transmitter.
official publication of the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co..
this month pays special tribute
to Federal employees. Praising the
public employees who serve us
so faithfully and so WE'LL" the
publication said Federal workers
"are an outstanding, highly re-
spected and vital part of our
population"
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Grand Jury Accuses
Controller and Nine
In Baltimore Scandal
BY the Assoeioted Press

BY the ASSoeioted PTeSS
BALTIMORE. Oct. 22-City
Controller j. Neil McCardell,
contractor Dominic Piracci and
eight other persons face court
action on charges of bribery,
corruption and fraud in Balti-
more's $40 million off-street
parking program.
They were named yesterday
IN grand jury presentments re-
turned after II weeks of in
vestigation into the city's prac-
tice of lending money to finance
construction of downtown park
ing garages.
McCardell, one of two city Of
ficials charged, was accused of
taking $4,000 in cash and $4,-
800 in work, material and serv-
ices from Piracci "unlawfully
and corruptly" to influence his
judgment in performance of
duties.
Commissioner Member Resigns.
The other official was c. Ed
ward Jones, attorney and men,
Der of the off street parking
commission, which administered
loans to builders. Charged with
malfeasance. conspiracy and
neglect of duties, he resigned a
few hours later.
Piracci. contractor who has
built more than half the 10
parking garages constructed with
the aid of city funds, was ac-
cused of cheating the city out
of $186,532 and falsifying rec
ords presented to the grand jury.
Others cited were Piracci's
bookkeeper, James M. Ashley,
and six officials of firms for
which Paracci built garages;
Aaron A. Baer, who is also an
assistant attorney general for
Maryland; Albert Haar, Samuel
Wink, Armand L. Levinson,
Milton B. Edelson and Albert
Reisfeld.
Plot Charged.
Ashley was accused with
Piracci of falsifying records
sought by the grand jury. The
others were charged with enter
ing a conspiracy with Piracci and
using false pretenseS and rep
reservations, false and subtle
and devices. fraud and
deceit to cheat and defraud the
city"
Piracci is a longtime friend
of Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro
and one of his daughters mar
ried the Mayors son. Thomas. jr.
The Mayor and his wife were
among total of 38 witnesses
called before the grand jury in
its long investigation. They
were among the final witnesses
summoned.
Ptracci made six appearances
during the probe and on one
occasion was hailed before Judge
Joseph L. Carter for refusal to
answer questions.
McCardeII Protests Innocence.
McCardell also appeared sew
eral times. AS city controller snd
q member. of the Board of Esti-
mates he was in a position to
pass on many of the contracts
and business transactions in con-
nection with the building of ga
RACES.
After the presentmentS late
yesterday he declared: I'm inno-
cent" He added that was some
thing the courts will decide"
The charges against Jones
came from his actions as attor-
ney for Haar and Wink in busi-
ness before the parking commits
sion at the same time he was a
member of the commission.
The inquiry was touched off by
Baltimore Attorney Hyman Press
man, who makes a practice of
filing suits in behalf of taxpay-
ers when he suspects anything
amiSS.
Formal indictments by the
grand jury will follow the pre-
sentiments. Meanwhile, however,
the possibility remains more per-
sons may be cited.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

Wind-Northeast to north at
1920 miles per hour tonight and
tomorrow.
River Report.
(From U. S. Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
HarperS Ferry.
Humidity.
(Readings WASHINGTON National Airport }
Yesterday Pct To-day Pct.
Noon --- 80 Midnight -- 6S
4 pm. ~-- 56 s am. ----- SO
8 D M. III
Evening star., 1953-10-22
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Young Pledges Action to Give
Workers Permanent Status
BY Joseph Young

Civil Service Commission Philip promised
that administration will take action
Government indefinite workers
exams have otherwise qualified
csc officials the action most likely will after
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Record Temperatures This Year.

Record Temperatures This Year.
HIGHEST. 100, on Aug. 81 and Sept.
Lowest. %. on March Q.
High and Low of Last "a H0urA
High. 72. at 2:20 pm.
Low, So. at 7:l0 IN.
Evening star., 1953-10-22

In his speech the other day
before the Merchants and Man
ufacturerS' Association Mr..
Evening star., 1953-10-22

showers and thunderShOwerS forecast for
tonight in the Upper Mississippi Valley Western Arkansas
louisiana and South Texas and in the mountain
Wyoming Colorado Generally fair weather is expected
elsewhere will be in Northern New England and
the Canadian border States from the Mississippi
westward -AP WirephotO.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
McKeIdin Ponders Probe

Gov. McKeldin of Maryland
has assured the Allied Civic
Group of Silver Spring that he
will consider ordering an in
vestigation of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
which has been severely criti-
cized for recently increasing
charges to it's $4,000 suburban
Maryland customers.
The Governor made that
promise yesterday in comforting
with four representatives of the
civic group in his Baltimore Of
fee yesterday. The civic group
has been fighting for repeal of
the new charges all summer.
The Maryland Public Service
Commission held a hearing on
the increases, on an Allied COM
plant, but found the new
charges were not unreasonable.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
Doctor of Year Picked

DR.. Bender B. Kneisley. SO, of
Hagerstown is Maryland's gen
eral practitioner of the year" in
the opinion of the Maryland
Academy of General Practice.
He was given the honor at a
banquet of the academy in Bal
timore last night.-A. P.
Evening star., 1953-10-22
The Sun and Moon.

The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today 6:24 $50
Sun. tomorrow 6:25 5:1D
Moon today 5:07 pm. 6:32 m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation
Monthly precipitation in inches in
the Capital (current month to datel:
Evening star., 1953-10-22

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States C
Geodetic SurVey.)