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Evening star., 1953-11-24
FaIIs Church Council
Authorizes Arrest Of
Juvenile Loiterers

The Falls Church City Coun-
Gil last night adopted with some
miSgivings, an ordinance en-
powering police to break UP
gangs of disorderly juveniles.
The law had been requested
by City Judge William T. Fin
ley to put teeth into existing
statutes, which he said were in
effective against noisy crowds
gathering outside an all-night
restaurant.
MiSgivings were voiced by
Councilman Grant Hilliker and
by citizens present that the new
ordinance is too broad and might
be misused by police. The ordi-
nance sets maximum penalties
at $500 fine and six months
imprisonment for "habitual loaf
ing and lettering" It empowers
police to arrest loiterers who do
not move on when asked.
Colby Explains Need.
Mayor M. Eldon Colby ex-
planned the ordinance is needed
because, at present, the youths
quiet down when police approach
and do not give sufficient cause
for arrest. He assured doubt
full audience that, 'if the ordi-
nance is abused, we'll revoke it. +"
Councilman Donald G. Benn
said his own early misgivings
were removed after talking to
Judge Finley. He said he be-
lieved the ordinance would help
prevent juvenile delinquency by
removing its occasion and cli-
mate"
The council. in a busy session,
also:
l. Prepared to follow the Elec-
toral Boards recommendation to
purge election rolls of deadwood
and redistrict the city into more
nearly equal electoral divisions.
Water Connection Charge.
2. Established a charge Of
$3.50 a front foot for all new
connections to the city water
system
3. Passed an ordinance requir-
ing that doors or locks be re-
moved from abandoned iceboxes
accessible to children.
4. Accepted a bid of $35, 900
from Falls Church Bank to pur-
chase the old police station lot
and the nearby Kellam tract.
5. Accepted a report calling
for minimum standards for Ii
censing nursery schools. Health,
educational, safety and trans
portation requirements will be
written into an ordinance after
a public hearing at 8 pm. on
December Is.
6. Transferred $4,000 tenn
porarily to the school construc-
ton fund to make the last pay
ment on the George Mason High
School addition, after hearing
School Board Chairman John A.
johnson declare he would in
vestigate a report that a Federal
grant for the addition has been
held up because of complaint
against the contractors labor
practices
Z. Postponed decision on a re-
quested 100000 school bond is
sue until the School Board
decides whether it will build a
new elementary school or erect
an addition to the Mount Daniel
School.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
3 Maryland Students
Get Probation in Prank

A judge struck out the guilty
pleas of three University of Mary
land sophomores yesterday and
put them on six months proba-
ton each in a case he decided
was collegiate prank.
The youths earlier had pleaded
guilty to destroying a College
Park parking meter and taking
1896 from a street stand for
newspaper sales.
Hyattsville Police Judge Theo-
dore L. Miazga. after receiving a
probationary report that the boys
had paid for the damage, deleteo
their pleas so it wouldn't go on
their records.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Hyattsvi||e Prepares
To Invite Bids on
Trash Collections

The HyattSville City Council
last night authorized the city
attorney to draw up Specifica-
tions for bids to contract for
trash and garbage collection.
At a special meeting called
to discuss the matter, council
men said they would not neces-
sarily accept any bids. The Of
flcialS want to, see if leasing the
job to an outside contractor
would bring about economy in
city expenses.
City Supervisor Howard Dingee
announced the city spends about
$1.85 to month to collect garbage
and trash from each of 1855
houses. Apartment houses and
stores were not included in the
report. At present garbage is
collected twice weekly and trash
every other week.
Three Reported Interested.
Councilman Sylvan Deitz,
chairman of the Health and
Sanitation Committee, announced
that three disposal concerns are
interested in the bids. He said
any concern, if awarded a con-
tract. could pick up both garbage
and trash twice weekly, would
not require that garbage be
wrapped separately from cans
and glass and would have an
emergency service to handle
complaints.
The chairman explained that,
if a contract was awarded, the
city would save about 81 300 an
nually on insurance, the city
supervisor could spend more
time on street and road repair
matters, and the city's three
trash and garbage trucks would
be sold.
Mr.. Dingee reported that at
temptS to comply with a previ-
Gus announcement that trash
would be collected weekly have
failed. He cited both equipment
and personnel difficulties as the
reasons.
Truck Purchase Baked.
Last month, the council set
aside $500 for the purchase Of
a trash truck. Shortly there
after, a committee. after lnvesti-
eating the city's motor equip
ment, said it saw no present need
to purchase another trash truck.
No further action or the pur-
chase has been taken.
Several citizens present last
night differed on the need to
lease the collection job. One
woman expressed fear that a
private business might be hit
by strikes and collections would
be stopped, as has happened in
Baltimore.
Another man complimented
the present service, while one
resident complained that the
prohibition of trash-burning in
his neighborhood necessitated
more than an every-other-week
collection.
Savings Estimated.
Mr.. Dietz said collection COM
panies have told him they could
service the city at d rate be-
tween 40 and SO cents cheaper
per house.
He said interested collection
companies have told him they
would accept only a three-year
contract and would need one or
two months to prepare for the
job.
Companies represented at the
meeting were the Capital Trash
& Removing Co., 1245 First
street Sc; Super Service Trash
Co., 200 NJ street S.W., and
Shayne Brothers, Inc, 1341 Halt
street Sc.
Evening star., 1953-11-24

fund is to be apportioned is yet
to be announced.
Mr.. McGarraghy. who is chair
man of the Republican State
Committee for the District, said
final financial statement now
is being prepared and should be
ready within a week.
Within another week there
after, he said, there should be a
formal statement announcing
the exact net and it's division
among charities.
District subscribers who UNDER
wrote 1884 $50 of the costs of the
three-day ceremonies have had
their advances refunded. The
final calculation of the surplus
was delayed to await settlement
of the last bills.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Boy, ;, Left in Cafe Here;
Police Seeking Family

Police are searching for the
family of a 3-year-old boy left
at Haje's Grill, 948 New York
avenue NV. last night.
The blue-eyed, black haired
boy told police his name was
Robert King and that his
mothers name was Juanita.
He was being cared for at the
Receiving Home for Children
while police tried to find his rel
ativeS.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Fairfax Wafer Firm
Asks Rate Increase
Averaging 81 Pct.
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Nov. "a. - The
Fairfax Hydraulics Water Co
has asked for authority to charge
higher rates on the contention
the firm is losing money.
Andrew Clarke, attorney for
the firm, said the water service,
which serves Fairfax County, has
been operated in the red since
the company was chartered in
1949.
He asked the Virginia Corpora
ton Commission at a hearing
here yesterday to approve new
rate schedule that would ad-
vance charges approximately 81
per cent on the average. MIR
Clarke said this would give Fair
fax Hydraulics a profit return of
3.14 per cent on it's investment.
AOC4uCSO OEBGlCAZcus
Horace Edwards. an attorney
representing the Fairfax Citi-
zens' Association, said this group
regarded the requested increase
as too high.
The association will get a
chance to present its side and
crosS-eXamine the company when
the hearing continues Decem-
ber II.
Mr.. Clarke contended Fair
fax Hydraulics "haS been los
ing money since the very
inception. with the exception of
one years operation" He SAID
the company's records would
show that the firm had been
frugal in it's operating costs and
had not paid excessive salaries.
He also said this was the first
time since the company was
chartered as a utility that it
has petitioned for a rate
increase.
At present, the firm charges
Sc for the first 5000 gallons
purchased. Under the new rate
schedule, the price would be
SO, with higher charges for ad-
ditional amounts.
improvements Cited.
G. H Massey, consulting en-
gineer, told the commission that
improvements and expansion Of
facilities contemplated by Fair
fax Hydraulics next year will
cost $100,196
John G. GoSnell, vice president
of the firm, testified the increase
was needed ito put the company
in a better financial condition
to carry out necessary expan-
sion."
He said the residential rates
of two other concerns which
serve the Fairfax area are ap-
proximately Is per cent higher
than those of Fairfax Hydraulics
These companies are the AMMAN
dale and Virginia Water Com
panies.
However. the new rates would
increase Fairfax Hydraulics
charges some IS per cent above
those of these two firms.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Kensington Fire Board
Changes MEETING Place

A meeting to pick members of
the reorganized Kensington
(Mdo Fire Board will be held
at 8 o'clock tonight at the
Oakland Terrace School on
Plyers Mill road, Kensington,
instead of the Highland School,
Wheaton, as previously an
nounced.
The change was made neces-
sary because of the unavailable
ity e. the Highland School.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Citizens Inaugural Committee
To Cut 100000 Melon Soon

That 100000 melon, which
sprouted from the success of last
January's inaugural ceremonies
for President Eisenhower, is go
ing to be cut pretty soon.
The chief of the custodians,
Joseph C. McGarraghy. who was
chairman of the Citizens In
augural Committee, said today he
expects to be able to make a full
statement in the next two weeks.
The net surplus is to be dis
tributed among charities, he said,
as was planned last March, when
rough calculations indicated the
profit would exceed 100000.
There has been no change in
that plan, he said, but how the
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Tax
Laws Raped
ByCon1n1ission
Lack of Uniformity
On Assessments
By Counties Hit
By Chorles L. Hoffmon

The Maryland State Tax COM
MISSIONS survey of the assess
ment situation is a political hot
potato that may burn the hands
of both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis.
The survey, released today by
the commission. is bitter in
dictment Of the effectiveness Of
States uniform assessment laws.
An analysis of the surveys fig
ures leaves little doubt that. on
a Statewide basis, uniformity
just does not exist. County as
SCISSORS apparently have done as
they please.
Uniform in Eight Counties.
That is despite the fact that
assessments in eight counties, in
cluding Montgomery and Prince
Georges, are fairly uniform at
between As and SIS per cent Of
actual sales values.
These eight counties and Bal
timore City-where the ratio is
even higher at so per cent-ac-
count for nearly 80 per cent of
the asSeSSable real estate in
Maryland.
But IS counties are assessing
too low. the commission con-
ceded after getting the report
from the State Association Of
Assessing Officers. They account
for only $452 million of the
States 81 billion.
Five of these counties-Cal-
vert, omerSet, Worcester,
Charles and Howard-are assess
ing properties at about one
fourth their actual sales value.
That means Montgomery and
Prince Georges residents are pay
ing about twice as much in State
property taxes on property
equally valued in the low coun-
ties and are losing on the other
end in school equalization funds
where the poorer counties get
the fatter shares of State aid.
Had Report 8 Weeks.
The seriousness of the situa.
tion as realized by the tax COM
mission was apparent in the way
the commission released the sur
vey to the public.
They sat on the report for four
weeks and then preceded its re-
lease by two days with a state.
ment of the commissions inten-
tionS to bring the low counties
in line with the eight uniform"
counties.
According to Deeley K. Nice,
Republican chairman of the tax
commission, county-wide reaS-
SessmentS are necessary in Kent,
Calvert and Somerset Counties.
Partial reasSeSSments by dis
tricts are needed in IL other
counties. he said.
He added that the reassess-
ments would be made next year.
if not by order of the county
commissioners, then by order Of
the tax commission.
And next year is election year
when few county commissioners
are going to be eager to order
increased assessments.
Montgomery County officials
got taste of the voter resent
ment over last years skyrocket-
ing assessments when residents
voted down two referenda to
raise salaries of council mem
bers and the county manager.
The present State administra-
tion is likely to share the blame
for the assessment increases
which will be made before the
elections, while the resulting de-
creaSes in the tax rates will not
be noticed until after the bal
IOGClng.
Montgomery Session Friday.
Friday night, Montgomery
residents will get a chance to
hear Mr.. Nice explain the COM
MISSIONS efforts to make the as
seSsments uniform. He is to
speak at meeting set for 8 pm.
at the auditorium of the new
county Office building. Rockville.
/ Counties assessed below nor
J NAL:
Evening star., 1953-11-24
PTA to Hear ToIk

The Berwyn Parent Teacher
Association will meet at 8 pm
tonight in the school. A film
will be shown. followed by dis
cussions on Know Your Child
Better" led by DR.. c. N. Cofer
of University of Maryland Psy-
chology Department.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Revolution Relics Shown

Rare OLD American Revolution
relics, including a white-iaced
mantilla worn by Martha Wash
ington, are being displayed today
only in the Stanley Galleries,
S218AM street NV.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
ChupIoins' Chief to Speuk

Maj. Gen. Ivan L. Bennett,
Army Chief of Chaplains, will
speak at the annual Thanksgiv-
ing luncheon of Alexandria civic
and service clubs at noon tomor-
row in the George Mason Hotel.
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08
Heintzleman Names Yaw To Pioneer Home Trustees

JUNEAU - Governor B. Frank Heintzleman has appointed w. Leslie Yaw of Sitka a member of the board of trustees of the Alas ka Pioneers Home.
 Yaw, who replaces J. H. Gil patrick of Sitka on the board of trustees, was for many years pres ident of the Sheldon Jackson School and Sheldon Jackson Jul nior College at Sitka. He is pres ently business manager of the Voice of Sheldon Jackson, radio broadcast station owned by the Presbyterian Board of Missions.
 Byron A. Gillian of Fairbanks has been appointed by Governor Heintzleman as the Fourth Divi- sion member of the Territorial Board of Health. He will serve in place of Donald F. Gordon for the term expiring the fourth Mon day of January, 1855.
 Governor Heintzleman has re- appointed Mrs. Betty Mccormick of Juneau as secretary of the Board of Cosmetology for a four year term. Mrs. Mccormick has served in this capacity for a number of years.
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08
Tankers Collide: l Dead, } Missing; Both Ships Lost

WILMINGTON, Deleware, R- One of Americas largest seagoing tank ships was sliced in two early Saturday in a collision with an- other giant oil carrier in Delaware Bay.
 Eighty-two crewmen, of 86 who were aboard the two ships that burst quickly into flames, leaped into the water or boarded life boats and were rescued.
 The Red Cross listed only one man known dead - a crewman making his first trip.
 Three men are missing, the Red Cross said.
 The bow of the tanker Phoenix sank to the muddy bottom of the Delaware River 40 miles south of Philadelphia. Still flaming at dawn, the ship lay a blackened and charred hulk a few hundred yards from the New Jersey shore.
 A shiplength or two away, the 11,081ton tanker Pan Massachu- sets burned fiercely. Her main deck had sunk almost to the water level and her keel was on Or close to the bottom.
 The collision appeared to have resulted from a mixup of signals between the two ships moving in the opposite directions, survivors said.
 F. L. Judson, port engineer for the owner of both ships, said both were totally destroyed.
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08
BENEFIT LAW NOTICE TO PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS

(The following letter from Al fred l.. Zenger Sr., Department Service Officer of the American Legion in Juneau, is addressed to all Post Service Officers and Veterans)
 More than 100000 applications totaling over $425, 100000 were processed during the 37 months of operation of the Pennsylvania World War II Veterans Compen- sation Bureau, division of the Department of Military Affairs.
 The Pennsylvania Legislature, now in session, has a bill extend ing the closing date for filing ap- plications received after Dec. 31, 1853. If this bill is approved, the 368 applications received after Dec. 31, 1851, and such other ap- plications as are received up to and including Dec. 31, 1853 will be processed.
 An appeal is made to all who read this report to pass the in formation along to veterans of World War II who have not filed for benefits under the provisions of the Pennsylvania World War II Veterans Compensation Act to do so at once. Direct all comnunica- tions to the Pennsylvania World War II Veterans Compensation Bureau, Harrisburg, Penna.
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08
GOVERNMENT PAYS DEBT

WINCHESTER, Va, R - Gus Kaknis, owner of a Winchester restaurant, had almost forgotten the man who came to dinner-at government expense.
 The date was Sept ', 1941, when a serviceman identified as Joseph William Showalter had a 65-cent dinner at Kaknis' restau- rant. Showalter paid for his meal on Selective Service meal ticket 363329.
 At long last, Kaknis has been paid. The other day he got the governments check - more than II years and eight months later for 65 cents.
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, DIVISION NUMBER TWO, CAPE NOME PRE- CINCT.
 In THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
 SALEM ABRAHAM, Deceased
 No. 926
 Notice of Hearing on
 Final Account
 Notice is hereby given that the Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska, admin istrator VIVA of the estate of Salem Abraham, deceased, has filed herein and presented for settlement it's final report and account, and it's petition for distrib- ution of the estate, and that Wednesday, the 18th day of August, 1853, at the hour of 10 AM, in the office of the United States Commissioner, in the Federal Building at Nome, Alaska, has been ap- pointed for the hearing on said account, and all persons interested in said estate are notified to then and there appear, and to show cause, if any they have, why said estate should not be settled, and why distribution should not there upon be made to the devisees named in the last will and testament of the said decedent, without further notice of pro- ceedings.
 Reference is hereby made to the ac- count and petition, on file in the office of the United States Commissioner at Nome, Alaska, for further particulars. Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 9th day of June, 1853.
 Miners and Merchants
 Bank of Alaska By G. R. Jackson. President
 Administrator VIVA of the
 estate of Salem Abraham,
 deceased.
 Publish June 8, Is, p, 29, 1853
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08
Lady Luck Plays Trick On Salmon Fisherman

KETCHIkAN, R - Any man who catches a 60-pound king sal mon should be busting his buttons with pride and kicking up his heels in joy - but not Harry J. Blanchard of Seattle.
 He's the saddest man in Alaska.
 Blanchard boated the 60 pounder earlier in the morning Friday, but he'd neglected to buy a Ketchikan Salmon Derby ticket. The big fish would have put him at the top of the ladder in com petition for the derby prize of free trip to Hawaii for two.
 Of course, the derby doesn't end until Labor Day and Blan- chard consoled himself with the thought a bigger fish might be caught before then.
 Just to be on the safe side, though, he bought ticket for the separate two-day salmon fish ing derby starting Saturday. The sweepstakes have a new car as first prize.
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08
Notice of Hearing on final settlement of account and Petition for Decree of distribution.

Notice is hereby given that Carrie M. McLain, Administrator VIVA of the es- tate of Edwin A. Winfield, deceased, has rendered and presented for final settle ment and filed in this Court, her account of such administration together with petition for a decree of distribution of the assets of said estate, and that Thurs day, the 9th day of August, 1853, at 10 AM. of said day, at the office of the U. s. Commissioner, in the Federal Building at Nome, Alaska, has been set for the hearing on said account and petition, and all persons interested in said account are notified to then and there appear and show cause, if any they have, why said account should not be settled and allowed, and why distribu ton of thereupon should not be imme- diately made to the persons entitled thereto, without further notice of pro- ceedings.
 Reference is hereby made to said account and petition, on file in the office of U. s. Commissioner at Nome, Alaska, for further particulars.
 Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 3rd Day of June, 1853.
 Helen M. Bockman
 U. s. Commissioner and
 ex-officio probate judge. Publish June 8, Is, 9, 29, 1853.
The Nome nugget., 1953-06-08

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
 EDWIN A. WINFIELD, deceased.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

$7.ss Vonity Lamps Of hob
nail milk glass. IS" toll. Drum
type Iunorith shades. In pink,
blue, white.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

$4.98 Milk Glass Table Lamps,
in column design. Hos ivy
decorations and dark green
parchment shode with nnotch-
lne design. n" toll.
Evening star., 1953-05-17

Washington Store Hours
Daily $50 to s Pm.
Thurs. 1890 TO 8 PM.
24-Hour Shopping
Service
Coll DI. 7-72oo
Anytime. Including
Sunday
Evening star., 1953-05-17
79 Set to Boost Bee Population
After u. of Maryland Course

An increase in Maryland's bee
population - already estimated
at about 1.6 billion-may we'll
be recorded soon as 70 budding
apiculturists, awarded diplomas
yesterday, start to apply their
new knowledge of the ancient
lore of beekeeping.
The 79 students and an equal
number of guests and visiting
beemen attended the University
Of Maryland's "Beekeepers'
Field Day" yesterday. The stu
dents were awarded certificates
for the short course in beekeep-
ing they took under George j.
Abrams, university entomologist.
The course consisted of 10 eve
ming lecture sessions and five
Saturday afternoons at an api-
airy.
Variety of Students.
Among the students were Mrs.
Cynthia McCarlie Jones. a Be-
thesda resident an dauthor of a
recently published historical
novel; nine graduate engineers,
eight housewives. three physicists
an dthree Internal Revenue
agents.
A Virginia couple who took the
Evening star., 1953-05-17
ST. John S College Board
Elects Two at Annapolis
By the Assoeiofed Press

ANNAPOLIS, May 10
George Friedland, president of
Food Fair Stores, Inc, Philadel-
phia. and M. Stephen Bremen
of Easton, Md, were elected
today to the St. Johns College
board of visitors and governors.
Mr.. Friedland, a native of
Lithuania. came to the United
States when he was four years
old. He and his brother operated
a chain of food stores in Har-
risburg. Pa, before starting the
chain of supermarkets. He be-
came president Of the organi-
zation in 1941.
Mr.. Bremen, a native New
Yorker. attended college in Vir-
ginia. He was a lieutenant COM
mander in the Navy during
World War II, serving from
1910 to 1916. Since then he has
been in the real estate and food
businesses.