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Estimates for
Capital Reach
AII-Time Mark
By John W. Stepp

Congress today was handed a
$143,849,200 budget to carry the
District through fiscal 1854.
In placing the Districts needs
before its "city council" Presi-
dent Truman was giving his sup
port to the Commissioners
premise that an appropriation
$8.2 million higher than that of
the current fiscal year is justi-
fed.
The biggest budget estimate
in the city's history, it reflects
constantly increasing opera
tional costs as well as the
chronic and worsening need for
capital improvements.
Budget officials strove for close
economy in the 1853 estimates,
and Congress scrimped even
more. But soon after adopting
a shriveled supply bill, the leg
islators got a dramatic glimpse
of part of the city's needs when
a sewer line went bad and be-
fouled Rock Greek Park. They
swiftly appropriated a supple
mental $12 million to meet the
emergency.
In formulating the bigger es-
Inmates for 1854, budget officials,
according to one, were trying
to "cure some of the defects"
caused by the severe cuts i'm
posed by Congress on the 1853
budget.
$38 Million Requests Cut.
AS it is. the meatier 1854 bud
get estimates represent a slash
of $38 million from the requests
by city agencies. Proposed new
construction took the heaviest
cut-$36 million.
It is in this field of capital
outlay that city officials and
civic leaders even now are work.
ing to get extraordinary help
from Congress. A 1868 million
public works Improvement pro-
gram is being prepared for pres
entation to the legislators.
In the process of granting as
many departmental requests for
1854 as possible, the budgeters
allotted expected revenues to
the point where they anticipate
a bare $100,488 surplus at the
end Of the fiscal year.
Budget Officer Walter L. Fow-
Ter declared: We've given vir-
tually all we expect to get"
Some Top Items Listed.
Here are some of the top items
recommended for Congressional
approval:
l. 100000 to provide 106
more members for the Metro
politan Police. Although this
raises the strength of the force
to 2,190, there would still be 100
authorized positions left vacant.
2. 81 million reserved to begin
work on the proposed Childrens S
Center at Laurel, Md: additional
funds to staff the new Industrial
Home School for white children
and the new infirmary of the
Home for the Aged and Infirm
at Blue Plains.
3. Funds for 80 new teachers
and school officers. three new
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G.O.P.CoNs Budget Fantastic,
Expects Eisenhower oRevise 1t
$40 Billion Reduction, Plus Tax Cut
Promised by Some Republicans

Some lawmakers voiced conf
dence that as much as $12 bill
lion could be whitfield out of the
spending plans. Others were
more cautious.
Foreign Aid Seen Target.
Budget-cutting talk has al
ways been prevalent on Capitol
Hill in January. In past years,
with Democrats in control of
Congress, performance has often
fallen short. It remained to be
seen whether things would be
different under the G. o. P.
Both Democrats and Repub-
licans expressed surprise at an
estimate of $7.6 billion for for
eign aid. Promises to slash this
were nearly unanimous.
Senator Bridges, Republican,
Of New Hampshire. who will
head the purse-string Appropri-
ations Committee, said the lob
which lies ahead is staggering"
1T will require complete
teamwork between the new
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Truman Asks
Full Status on
100000 Jobs
Requests Eisenhower
To Issue Order for
Permanent Rutinqs

President Truman today asked
President = elect Eisenhower to
approve an executive order
which would lead to eventual
permanent status for more than
100000 Government temporary
indefinite employees.
In a letter to Gen. Eisenhower,
President Truman submitted a
draft of the proposed executive
order. He requested the Presi-
dent-elect to approve it as soon
as possible after taking office.
Under the proposed order, all
Federal workers who have passed
civil service exams since Sep
tember. 1850. to get their jobs
would receive reserve status"
This eventually would lead to
permanent status. Since Sep
tember. 1850, when the Govern
ment went on national emer-
gency hiring basis, all Federal
workers hired have been given
temporary indefinite status.
Truman Explains Delay.
In his letter to Gen. Eisen-
hover, Mr.. Truman said he had
deferred issuing the executive
order because political implica-
tions" might be read into it.
The text of the letter follows:
Dear Gen. Eisenhower:
"I am herewith forwarding a
draft of an Executive Order 'es-
tablishing special personnel pro-
cedures in the interests of the
national defense which has re-
Gently been developed and has
come to me for approval.
II am deferring issuance Of
the order inasmuch as the ef-
fective date would be consider
ably after the Goth of January.
1858, and inaSmuch as it has
been said that if the order Is
issued at this time, political i'm
plications will be read into it.
with the possibility of injury to
the loyal. hard-working civil
service servants affected by it.
Nevertheless, I consider that the
proposal merits early and care
full consideration.
Notes Present Restrictions.
under present law, there is
a restriction on the size of the
permanent civil service so that
nearly all appointments are
made on an indefinite basis.
However. the Civil Service Com
mission has continued its ex-
amining program and employees
are appointed to this indefinite
status from competitive civil
service registers in the same
manner as appointments were
formerly made to the permanent
service.
"The proposed order would es-
tablish a civil service reserve
composed of persons appointed
from competitive civil service
registers and would afford an Or
derly method for absorption Of
such appointees into the career
civil service over a period of time
as vacancies in the permanent
service occur without the costly
and time-consuming process Of
re-eXamination.
THE proposed order is the re-
suit of many months study by
experts in the Civil Service Com
mission and the Bureau of the
Budget. 1t has had the consider
alton of Mr.. Sherman Adams Of
your staff, and I believe it is Of
such Importance that I am call
ing it to your attention as being
in the best interests of the Fed
eral civil service"
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Creased Lamp Posts
Guard British Dignity
Rv the Associated Press

LONDON, Jan. 9.-Sightseers
who may be planning to climb
Westminster lamp posts to see
Queen .Elizabeth's coronation
procession got some sad news
today from Sir Hugh Casson, an
official route decorator. The
lamp posts will be creased with
petroleum jelly to stop such un-
dignified rubber-necking.
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Senate D. {. Group
Is Reduced 10 Nine
In nCompromise Plan
Revisions Are Approved
Without Debate; Many
Committees to Expand
By J. A. O'LeoY

The Senate today approved,
without debate, a last-minute
compromise which scales down
the number of new places the
Republicans were trying to Gre
ate on Senate committees.
It reduces the District of Co.
lumbia Committee from 13 to
o members. The original reor-
ganization plan provided for II.
The Committee on Rules and
Administration also was cut
from 13 to 9.
The Labor Committee, which
was to have been boosted to
Is, was left at 13.
Case Approves Move.
Senator Case, Republican, of
South Dakota, who will be chair
man Of the District Committee.
said he believed the reduction
OF the size of his unit would
help its work.
Il think it will make member.
ship on the committee more sig
nif1cant. Each member will have
a definite responsibility instead
OF a feeling that others would
attend meetings. It probably
will make it easier to get a
quorum at meetings, a ques-
ton that has been a bugaboo
in the past
The question of what assign
ments Senator Morse, the Ore
gon independent, will get, was
still unsettled, but informed
sources said this compromise
weakens his chance of keeping
his present places on the Labor
and Armed Services Committees.
Many Committees Expand.
Under the new plan, the Ap-
preparations Committee will be
increased from 81 to %, and 8
other major committees from 13
to Is. These are:
Agriculture, Armed Services,
Banking and Finance, Foreign
Relations, Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, Judiciary and In
terror and Insular Affairs.
The original plan, to which
Democrats objected, would have
given the Republicans 18 and
the Democrats 3 extra places by
the device of allowing that many
Senators to serve on a third COM
mittee. Most Senators get only
two. This ratio of extra places
was cut to IA for the Republicans
and 3 for the Democrats. It was
to accomplish this cut that the
District and Rules Committees
were made 8 instead of II.
Morse May Hold Key Vote.
Indications were thet under
the plan adopted. Senator Morse
would hold the deciding vote on
Armed Services and Labor If he
wins his fight to keep those as
SignmentS.
Minority Leader Johnson OF
Texas said today that the Demo-
Gratis have nothing to do with as
signing Senator Morse. Repub-
licans were silent on the Morse
assignments.
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$3.50 Billion Asked by Truman
81 Billion Over 1853 Budqet;
D. c. Allotted $143>849> 200
73 Per Cent of
Total Eurmurked
For Security
By Gornett D. Horner

President Truman today es-
timated Government expenses
during the next fiscal year at
$78.6 billion, a 81 billion increase
over the current year.
This would mean an estimated
deficit of 800 billion on June 30.
1854, raising the national debt
to $274 billion.
In his valedictory budget mes
sage to Congress, Mr.. Truman
asserted the spending program
heavily weighted with defense
and security items-he outlined
was Eat the minimum level con-
sistent with our national objec-
tives."
The new Republican admins
tration coming into power in just
II days hopes to trim the Tru-
man figure, however, and come
up with a balanced budget of it's
own next January for the 1855
fiscal year.
Mr.. Truman told a news con-
ference he is honestly hopeful
that conditions will make it pos
sible to balance the budget soon,
but said there is no way to do it
now without raising taxes if the
Government continues to meet
its present obligations.
Spending Drop Seen.
His message to Congress fore
saw a possible drop in total Fed
eral expenses of about SIS billion
a year when defense expenses
level off, but said such a drop
cannot be expected for at least
two or three years."
AS in the last three Govern
ment budgets, defense costs ac-
count for the bulk of expenses.
For the 1854 fiscal year start
ing next July /. Mr.. Truman
estimated that six major ma
tional security programs will cost
$57.3 billion, or 73 per cent of
the whole budget.
This is an expensive pro-
gram" the President said of the
military budget, "but our ma
tional security depends on it. We
cannot afford to lower these goals
until the free world is secure
against the Communist menace"
World War III Costs.
Continuing cost of World War
II will take another IA per cent
-$6.4 billion for interest on the
debt built up during the war and
$4.6 billion for veterans services
and benefits.
The remaining 13 per cent, or
SOB billion, is for all other &C
tivities of the Government.
Of the $57.3 billion budgeted
for national security programs,
(See BUDGET, Page A-5.)
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unprecedented rush of reserva-
tions by mail, telephone and
friends of visitors.
Several limousine rentals have
been made to confident individ-
uals or big corporations, who
made their reservations "even
before the election" one firm
revealed. Virtually all requests
are for from three days to a
weeks use of the chauffeured
vehicles. In fact. the rental
agencies can do much more busi-
ness on the longer basis, and
few will even handle one-night
stand.
Some rental firms are now
forming waiting lists of persons
willing to stand by for a late
cancellation of a limousine.
LimousineS rent from about $6
an hour up, and the rental basis
is an on-call arrangement, "a
hours o day.
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Admiral Joy Improving

The condition of Vice Admiral
Charles Turner Joy, Naval Acad-
emy superintendent. was de-
scribed as excellent" by doctors
at the Bethesda Naval Hospital
today. The admiral underwent
an operation yesterday for re-
moval Of the spleen.
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Other Budget Stories
On Inside Pages
DISTRICT.

DISTRICT.
Trumon Proposes Extension Of Parks
and Area Porkwoys. Pooe A
Funds Asked to Stort Building Of Hospi-
tol Center ond VA Unit. Poee A
New Request Made for Fund to Build
Airport at Burke. Pose AS
Three New Schools ond III Teachers
Requested for D. c. Poee A
City Government Reorganization Has No
Specific Place in Budget. Pose AIT
FEDERAL
Billion More Asked in Foreign MiIitory
ond Economic Aid. poae AS
Evening star., 1953-01-09
Sudden Twister Rips
Through Surusotu Area
by the Associoted Press

SARASOTA. Fla, Jan. "a
sudden. violent windstorm swept
through Sarasota today sinking
boats, overturning trailers and
knocking out windows over a
wide area.
Residents described the storm
as a twiSter and said it moved
In rapidly from the Gulf of Mex
leo about $40 am. (EST).
Damage was estimated unoffi-
cially at between $500,00 and
81 million. No deaths were re-
ported.
Evening star., 1953-01-09

The Inauguration visitor with
money and inclination to hire
a limousine and chauffeur after
he gets here may end up thumb
ing a ride.
Limousine rentals and drive
yourself Offices are reporting an
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present Congress indicated they
would ignore Mr.. Truman'S pro-
posal for spending $78.6 billion
in the fiscal year starting July
/. and wait to see what Presi-
dent-elect Eisenhower has to say
on the subject.
They expect Gen. Eisenhower
to submit a revised, much lower
budget some time after he takes
office. One top Republican said
substantial reductions already
have been outlined by men who
will head the big Federal de-
partments after January 20.
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Pictures and Other Stories Related TO
Inauguration. Poee All
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BY the Associated Press

Some congressional fiscal spe-
cialistS shouted confusion" and
fantastic" today at President
Truman's new budget. Some of
them promised to cut it at least
$40 billion and also reduce
taxes.
Republicans who will control
the Federal purse strings in the
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Eisenhower Confers With Coudert on
Budget and Tex PIons. Poge AS
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(See BUDGET, Page A-5D
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Continued on Page AS, Col. 2)
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Rain ending tomorrow morning, becoming
windy tonight. Temperature from upper
30s to mid-40s. Gull report on Page A-2)
Temperatures Today
Evening star., 1953-09-17
|vAChief Explains
Efforts in Hospitals
To End Segregation
By the Asseeiatad Pres,

Veterans Administrator Harvey
Higley said today his agency is
moving "as rapidly as possible"
toward wiping out segregation in
veterans hospitals.
"We find any semblance Of
segregation unsocial, uneconomi-
cal and undesirable" he said,
land we hope the day is not
far removed when there will be
no Semblance of racial Segrga-
ton in VA hospitals"
Mr.. Higley made the state
ments in an exchange of letters,
released today, with Clarence
Mitchell, an official of the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
Mr.. Mitchell had asked Mr..
Higley in an August 7 letter what
he was doing to end segregation
in veterans hopsitals in line with
President Eisenhower's stated
stand against segregation in any
Federal institutions.
In an interview, Mr.. Mitchell
said segregation was practiced in
most VA hospitals in II South
ern States.
Mr.. Higley told Mr.. Mitchell in
his letter, dated August IA. that
the VA has attempted to take
the lead in minimizing segrega-
tion," and he continued: I'm
certain areas, however, it has
been found that segregation to
some decree Is necessary for the
medical well-being of patients.
We are continually reviewing
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Bv jones 6. Deone

Two District School Board
members want to take a closer
look at what's being taught in
the schools.
But their colleagues slapped
them down Observation-Disclosures
not before the two won unex-
pected support from an associate
school superintendent.
Mrs. Frank S. Phillips and
Robert r. Faulkner were the
two board members and DR.. Carl
F.. Hansen, the associate super
intendent. The subject arose at
the first board meeting of the
fall, when Supt. Hobart M.
Corning asked approval Of sew
eral new teaching handbooks-
on aviation, China, the settle
ment of New England and other
topics. The books were sub
mitted by DR.. Hansen, who has
charge of curriculum.
Mrs. Phillips and Mr.. Faux
ner both objected. They said
they had not had time to look
the books over.
Mrs. Phillips proposed a new
standing committee to review
such items. She said a commit
tee should handle the job 80
it will get little more study
than the board as a whole gives
it,"
Mr.. Faulkner came out even
more bluntly. He said there had
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Board BoIks Plan to Check
What Schools Are Teaching

been widespread complaints
across the country "that schools
are teaching a little bit of every
thing and not much of any
thing"
The curriculum, said Mr..
Faulkner, is "a very serious
thing" which board members
ought to look into.
West A. Hamilton took the
other side. He said about the
proposed curriculum study:
81 don't think we have the
time nor the inclination nor the
capacity to do that"
Mr.. Faulkner replied indig-
nantly that the board has
enough intelligent members"
At about this point, DR.. Corn
ing got into the fray. He said the
proposed committee would have
a bad effect. 1t would "dampen
the enthusiasm and ardor of the
professional people," he said.
Then the superintendent in
vited DR.. Hansen to speak.
81 think the suggestion is q
very good one" DR.. Hansen de-
clared. He said it would give the
board a better understanding of
what school officials and teachers
are trying to do, adding:
II feel in the long run it would
be a real gain to the school sys-
tenn"
Mr.. Hamilton accused DR..
Hansen, good-naturedly, of pull
ing the rug out" from under the
superintendent. The superin-
tendent. though, kept mum.
When it came to a vote, only
Mrs. Phillips and Mr.. Faulkner
voted for their proposal.
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Board Asks CorninQ
To Compare White
And CoIored Schools

The District Board of Educa-
ton has asked Supt. Hobart M.
Corning for q detailed compari-
son of conditions in the city's
white and colored schools.
The board also has asked for
a report on plans to equalize the
two divisions.
DR.. Margaret Butcher. who
joined the board last June, pro-
posed the board action. She
asked the superintendent to
make the report next month.
Other board members voted
unanimously to join in the
request.
There was no indication, how
ever, on what if any action
might result once the report is
made.
Mrs. Butcher, Howard Uni
versity professor, said she favorS
racial integration of the school
system as the "only effective So
luton" of teacher and space
shortages in the colored schools.
But a long list Of questions
which she submitted to DR..
Corning asked for plans for
meeting the Negro school prob
lens under the present dual sys-
tenn.
Mrs. Butcher listed the ques-
tions under three main head
ings. One group dealt with the
colored-teacher shortage, the
second, with kindergartens and
the third with the status of
Armstrong and Mckinley Tech
nical High Schools.
Mrs. Butcher asked for a re-
port on the extent of the teacher
shortage and plans to equalize
class sizes in the two divisions,
the number of prospective kim
dergarteners on waiting lists and
when Mckinley might be trans
ferred to colored use.
She also sought an explana-
ton of why no funds have been
asked for such a transfer either
this year or in 1954-55.
A possible Mckinley transfer
has been mentioned by DR..
Corning, but last spring he said
he was deferring any action
pending the outcome of the Su
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preme Court anti-segregation
cases.
Wesley S. Williams, another
colored member. said he would
call on the board to take a stand
on the segregation issue at it's
next meeting.
Board members are defend
ants in one of the Supre m e
Court cases, which come up for
new argument next month. The
position of the District Govern
ment-and the boards majority
is that segregation is legally
required in the city'S schools.
Mr.. Williams said he and sew
eral other members did not want
to be represented as taking that
view, however. He did not name
the others, and no one else COM
mented.
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D. c. Pupils Total
Record 707,067;;
1000 More Due

District public school enroll
ment has reached an all-time
high, and officials expect it to
go even higher.
The school system yesterday
Tailed 101.061 pupils. Previous
high was last November-100,871.
Fifty-six per cent of the new
total is colored pupils, compared
to 81 per cent a year ago.
officials expect another 1000.
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this situation and are elimi-
mating segregation as rapidly as
possible without sacrificing
medical considerations"
Mr.. Mitchell on August >18
wrote Mr.. Higley asking about
the reference to necessity of
segregation for the well-being of
patients. Mr.. Higley replied:
This statement was directed
particularly to the field of neuro-
psychiatry (treatment of mental
ailments) the area in which
we may expect unpredictable and
often violent reactions to preju-
diceS and outside stimuli. :. We
must take precautions to avoid
clashes and f1areups detrimental
to the well-being of patients.
"This problem is being seri-
ously studied in the hope that a
solution may be found to accom-
pliSh this objective without
segregation"
Evening star., 1953-09-17
School Board Vetoes
Need of Degree for
Driving Instructors

1t looks as if District school
auto-driving teachers won't have
to earn master of arts degrees
after all.
Last week school board COM
mittee approved a recommenda-
tion by Supt. Hobart M. Corning
to keep a masters degree re-
quirement for driving instruc-
tors
Yesterday the full board re-
versed the committee 5 to 3.
Evening star., 1953-09-17

NTow that the shooting in Korea is over, should
~ we recognize the Chinese Communists, admit
them to the U.N., as we have Poland, Czecho.
slovakia and other Red satellites?
Few men are as well qualified to answer that as
Ernest A. Gross, who Represented the United
States at five sessions of the United Nations
General Assembly.
Today in Golfers, Mr. Gross gives you both sides
of this exasperating issue that divides us from
many of our allies. And he tells you what his
decision would be, based on his own frsthand
Evening star., 1953-09-17
Should the U.N. seat Red Chino?

knowledge Of the problem.
Would recognition Of Red China help turn
Peiping away from Moscow? Is Peiping truly
representative of the will of the Chinese people?
Is Formosa?
The security of the United States, perhaps even
the future of civilization, may depend on our
relations with the Chinese Communists. That's
why this Golfers article, with its fresh and fear
less viewpoint is for every American.
Don't miss WHAT DO WE DO NOV ABOUT
RED CHINA?-in Golfers, on newsstands now.