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Evening star., 1953-06-24
Water Mains
Set for County
Development
Sanitary Commission
Approves New Lines
In Prince Georges

Water lines for a big industrial
development and a big residential
development, both in Prince
Georges County, we're approved
yesterday by the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
The business settlement will be
one of the biggest of its kind in
this area, the utility board was
told. It will be located on the
Baltimore Washington boule-
ward between the highway and
the outdoor theater at BeltSville.
Big Lumber Fire Cited.
The Sanitary Commission
noted that one of the firms to be
located there will be a lumber
yard. Commissioners recalled
Silver Springs worst fire was in
a lumber yard.
The residential development is
proposed for the old Mattingly
area near Oxon Hill High School.
Planners reported they intend
to build SGT single dwellings
there.
The water line was approved
for the 187-home section Sched-
uied initially.
Other subjects discussed at
the sanitary commission Ses-
sion in its Hyattsville Office in
cluded rate negotiations between
the WSSC, the District and
Howard and Anne Arundel.
The District wants the sani-
tary commission to serve it's new
training school in Howard
County. Howard. and Anne
Arundel Counties want to tap
into the line.
Water Use Heaviest Of Year.
The commission also learned
yesterday that customers used
38,773,000 gallons of water Mon
day-heaviest consumption so
far this year. Last years biggest
day passed 40 million gallons.
We'll go above that this year" I"
said Harry Shaw, chief engineer
for the WSSC.
One commissioner wondered
whether Mr.. Shaw didn't have
Mondays figure confused with
Sundays.
No, Monday was the big day,
Mr.. Shaw said.
Some one suggested that that
was because more people were
home Monday than on Sunday.
"And it was washday, too," Mr..
Shaw added. r
Evening star., 1953-06-24
New 0vercrowding Study
Voted for County School

Prince Georges school author
tiles will restudy overcrowding
problems at the Langley Park
Elementary School before de-
Gliding whether 5th and 9Th
grades will be shifted to Hyatts-
vile next fall.
Parents of the Langley Park
community voted 238 to 214 in
favor of the move, the school
board announced after a special
meeting at Upper Marlboro last
night.
The 214 votes were cast by
parents who preferred that
pupils remain at Langley Park
even though several grades would
have to be placed on double
shifts in September.
School Supt. William s. Schmidt
estimated that the school enroll
ment will jump from ESQ to
more than 1000.
Mr.. Schmidt said the board
also decided last night to con-
slider further a similar problem
at the Landover Hills Elementary
School before announcing q de-
ciSion.
Evening star., 1953-06-24
Fire Destroys Barn
Contuinino Model T

A wooden barn at Riggs road
and University lane was de-
stroyed last night by fire.
It contained an old model T
Ford car and some tools, accord
ing to the College Park Fire De-
partment.
Also responding was the new
Chillum Adelphia department
and those from Riverdale and
Branchyille.
Evening star., 1953-06-24
Arlington Democrats
To Elect Officers

Election Of officers Of the Ar
lington Democratic Council will
be held at . meeting Of the group
at 8:15 pm, Friday in the Bau-
serman Building. $3.50 Columbia
pike.
Arlington Attorney william n
Chadwick, retiring president
will preside. The nominating
committee has submitted the
names Of Carl Hill and James NJ
Briscoe as candidates to succeed
Mr.. Chadwick.
Evening star., 1953-06-24
Veterans to Hear BroyhiII

Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican, Of Virginia, will ad-
dress Fairfax County Disabled
American Veterans Chapter No.
IS and other disabled veterans
of the area at 8 o'clock tonight
in the Dardanelles Restaurant,
Lee highway and Hillwood ave-
nue., in Falls Church.
Evening star., 1953-06-24
Cool. Company Suspends

ST. CHARLES, Va, June "a
(P.-The Blue Diamond Coal
Co., at one time one Of Virginia's
largest mining firms. yesterday
announced it was suspending
operations because It's Bonny
Blue and Mayhower mines have
been exhausted of their coal
supplies.
Evening star., 1953-06-24
Sanitary Commissioners Learn
About Jobs After Appointment

/ ting the commission'S bills ap-
proved by the Prince Georges
and Montgomery legislators.
since that traditionally is tan
tamount to approval Of the en-
tire Legislature.
@ Status Is Hazy.
Although the sanitary COM
mission is State agency. held
to be above local accountability
the Legislature land the Gov
ernor look upon it as a local
agency. Sanitary commission
legislation is treated as local
legislation, which means that in
virtually all cases, the law
makers from other sections of
the State go along with what
legislators of the two nearby
counties decide will and will not
become law in the sanitary dis
trict.
Various proposals have been
made to de-emphaSize politics in
the utility. The Montgomery
County delegation has tried un-
successfully to get the Maryland
General Assembly to approve a
bill transferring some control of
the agency to the two counties.
The bill which died in the 1853
Legislature would have increased
the commission to five members,
with two being appointed by the
Prince Georges commissioners.
two by the Montgomery County
Council and one by the Gov
ernor.
Walter F. Mulligan, president
of the Prince Georges County
Civic Federation, says he's still
in favor of that plan.
But Henry H. Smelling, retir-
ing president of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation, doesn't
feel appointment by the local
governing bodies would make for
such improvement.
He said he believes the ap-
pointive power should remain
with the Governor but that Spe-
cif1c qualifications for sanitary
commissioner should be written
into law.
One Requirement.
"The only requirement now,"
he commented, "is that they are
able to read and write. There's
too much money involved for
that"
Both Mr.. Mulligan and Mr..
Smelling favor hiring a general
manager for the agency.
So does State Senator j. Ray
mond Fletcher of Prince Georges
County. chairman of his coun-
tvs Republican State Central
Committee. He said he believes
an experienced utility manager
would save the agency much
more than he would have to be
paid in salary.
Willard "A. Morris, president
of the, Allied Civic Group of
Silver Spring, which has been
going to the mat with the COM
mission regularly for more than
a year now, said the two civic
federations have agreed to help
his group work out some pro-
posed legislation Ito remove the
commissions quasi-autonomy."
Mr.. Morris said it is his hope
that for a starter a law can be
passed by the Legislature re-
quiring the sanitary commission
to submit proposed rate in
creases to the Maryland Public
Service Commission for ap-
proval.
Mr.. Morris's group has been
leading the fight against the
rate increases announced by the
sanitary agency two months ago.
The allied civic groups protest
petition caused the Maryland
Public Service Commission to
schedule a public hearing in
Baltimore July % to review the
rate increases. Mr.. Morris said
his group is trying now to get
the hearing transferred to the
Washington area.
Evening star., 1953-06-24
By Gene Goodwin

Special knowledge Of water
and sewers is not required to be-
come a member of the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commis-
sion. But never has a commits
s1oner been appointed who was
not a member of the ruling po-
litical party. Now all must be
Republicans. The same unwrit-
ten law applied to their Demo-
cratic predecessors.
That is not to say that the
commissioners of the past and
Evening star., 1953-06-24

Fourth Of O Series.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

1945 to $32.60 in June of this
year.
Heavy Increases Cited.
The average rate on property
damage increased from $6.25 to
-$21.27.
In the New York city area, the
bodily injury rate rose from
$50.50 in 1912 to $92 in 1853.
Litigation over insurance cases
is on the increase generally
under the new law, Mr.. Mcleod
said.
For instance. the New York
State Joint Legislative Com
mittee study of insurance rates
and regulations shows that
court cases rose from SO per
cent of all insured cars in 1947
to "a per cent of insured cars
in 1852.
District Rates Shown.
The present rates for bodily
injury and property damage in
surance with $4,000 protection
in the District, Maryland and
Virginia. based in comparable
so-called territories" follows:
District: Injury, $28 for So
called low classification, $71 for
highest classification; property,
$18 and $45.
Richmond, Va: Injury, $21,
and $27; property, SIT and $22.
Baltimore: Bodily. $50 and
$75; property, $22 and $50.
In the District, reports show
that about "a per cent of all
registered passenger cars are
insured. But if the new law
becomes effective, it is estimated
the coverage probably will in
crease to somewhere between 90
and 81 per cent of all those
registered.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. IA love-
frustrated grocery clerk was
pulled from a cable of the George
Washington Bridge tonight after
a fierce struggle $50 feet above
the Hudson river.
Three policemen and an elec-
trician graSped a handrail while
struggling with the clerk.
Riders from more than 1000
automobiles witnessed the drama
- the glare of Searchlights.
Westbound traffic was halted
about an hour.
The clerk, identified as Vir-
gilio Perez, %, a Puerto Rican,
told police his Sweetheart'S fam
lily refused to let her speak to
him by telephone and so he
wanted to kill himself.
Making his way to the bridge,
which connects New York and
New Jersey, Perez climbed a lamp
Evening star., 1953-11-15
U. 5. Lawyers in German,
Charge Telephone Taps .
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov
14.-The American Associa-
ton of Lawyers in Germany to-
day sharply criticized the poll
cies of United States High Com
missioner James B. Conant and
named a committee to investi-
gate whether telephones in his
headquarters were equipped with
recording devices.
Chief Justice William Clark OF
the United States Appeals Court
in Germany, was named head
of three-man group to go to
Bonn to investigate the wire
tapping reports.
1--WE know the telephones are
equipped with recording de-
vices" attorney Earl Carroll OF
San Bruno, Calf, said later.
Justice Clark, in recommend
ing a resolution calling for the
investigation, declared:
"I think we are put in the
position of being spied upon, and
that is dirty business.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Auto Surety Rates
Jump in States With
Responsibility Law

Automobile insurance rates
have increased generally in
States using the new drivers
financial responsibility law SINH
lar to one proposed for the
District.
This conclusion has been
reached as result of survey
made for a House District sub
committee to consider early in
the next session of Congress.
The survey was conducted by
District Committee Clerk William
N. Mcleod. jr., in preparation
for public hearings on a Senate
passed bill for tightening re-
Sponsibility of drivers here.
Despite the increase in rates
Tor insurance policies covering
both bodily injury and property
damage, Mr.. Mcleod said, the
new law is widely accepted as
protection Of the public against
financially irresponsible drivers.
No such act has been repealed.
Hearings Due in January.
A mass of statistics and re-
ports from the survey will be
ready for the District subcon-
mittee when it holds public
hearings probably in January
The subcommittee on Public
Utilities, Insurance and Banking
is headed by Representative
Tale, Republican, of Iowa.
The measure. sponsored by the
American Automobile Associa-
ton, and others, was unani-
mously supported by witnesses
during public hearings by the
Senate District Committee. 1t
passed the Senate last July q
shortly before adjournment of
the first session of Congress.
The elaborate report compiled
by Mr.. Mcleod is concerned spe-
cifically with figures on passen-
ger cars, he said.
Detailed reports on Is of the
States having the financial re-
sponsibility law indicate that
rates, with one single exception,
rose within two or three years
after enactment, Mr.. Mcleod
said.
Property Loss Rates Jump.
In Montana, one of the Is,
rates on bodily injury decreased
within two years, while rates on
property damage rose substanti-
ally.
In the other IA States rates
In both categories were increased.
They included Maryland and
Virginia.
A similar new law now is effec-
tive in all except three states:
Kansas. South Dakota, New
Mexico, and the District of
Columbia.
Rates on both bodily injury
and property damage insurance,
the survey showed, have been on
a substantial increace since 1945
due to many factors.
A report from the Association
of Casualty and Surety In
surance Companies discloses
that the average rate on pas
Senger cars for the whole
country Excluding Massachus-
etts, which has a compulsory
insurance law rose from $13.99
for coverage on bodily injury in
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Police Pull Lovesick Clerk
off New York Bridge Cable

post near the center of the span.
A motorist reported him.
When the first policeman ar
rived Perez had climbed about
100 feet up the suspension cable
which is three feet in diameter.
Three policemen and an elec-
trician went after him.
Perez said he wanted to reach
the tower on the New York side
of the river before jumping. But
at a point about 200 feet above
the roadway he suddenly changed
his mind. He said later it was
too cold and too windy" so he
started back down. At this point
he was caught in the search
lights and did not see his would
be rescuers. When they grasped
and subdued him they tied him
with a rope and lowered him to
the roadway.
Once on the ground, the clerk
was placed in a straitjacket and
sent to Bellevue Hospital for OBJ
servation.
Evening star., 1953-11-15
Arson Theory Probed
In Prince GEORGES Fires

Prince Georges County arson
investigators are checking into
two fires which broke out yester-
day on Osborne road, in the
Columbia Highlands section of
Cheverly.
Both were in unoccupied
houses.
County Police Pvt. j. j.
Magruder said neighbors told
him there had been three other
fires this month in the same
neighborhood..
Evening star., 1953-11-15

You KNOW you're safe when you deal with the Big Ten
because the Big Ten Dealers Washngtons leading app
stores They have had nearly 100 years combined
experience in the appliance field They in business
Get fbD Rect Ro
Evening star., 1953-11-15

With the purchase of this deluxe model
refrigerator, you will receive absolutely
free of extra charge 64-piece set of
Rogers Bros. International Silverware
worth S59.95 anywhere in town. This
offer Is good only until November 25--
buy now-get this Thanksgiving Day
Silver Special-use II for that special
gift on your Christmas list. BUY NOW
SEE YOUR BIG TEN DEALER
TODAY.
Evening star., 1953-11-15

stay! When you make your big appliance purch
you can be sure of expert service and complete sa
year in and year out, and you always save real mo
you buy from your friendly neighbor-the Big Tt
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20
ExSNoAFF
W SAYS.

1t is most heartening to rea-
lize that the American people
are possessed of gOOdly portions
of common sense and fundamen-
tai decency. In spite of the con-
slant bOmbardments of radio and
TV commentators, along with
the cruel and dangerous distOr-
tions by irresponsible newspaper
publishers and pOwer-mad dema-
gOgues, our fellow citizens gen.
orally manage to keep their feet
sOlidly on the ground.
However, it is unfortunate
that many of us do not yet rea-
lize fully the evil forces that
promote the violent hate and
smear campaigns now being
conducted in almost every COM
nunity of the United States.
Suspicion of ones friends and
neighbOrS, hatred of other peO-
pies ideas, these are the wea-
pOns our enemies use as they
seek to weaken the nation.
Much of the confusion and dis
tOritOns we daily receive over
the waves and through the news
papers are deliberately planted"
for the purpose of misleading the
people. Our enemies hope thus to
choke out any possible opposition
that may spring up to protect
American democratic institutions
against the rabid forces of reac-
ton communism and faSciSm).
Fundamentally the assaults
now being made against the
clergy, scientists, teachers and
other groups are for the sole
purpose of weakening resistance
to the vicious enemies of our
democratic way of life. Certainly
the destruction of free inquiry,
the promotion of insecurity and
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20

When sorghums are damaged by
drought and a second growth ap-
pears after the sorghum has had
some moisture, this new succulent
growth may be dangerous to live
stock. This new growth is par
ticularly poisonous after the first
frost because hydrocyanic acid may
be present in the new growth, and
this acid is extremely poisonous
to livestock Farmers are eau
toned against turing livestock on
to the new growth until it is
known whether or not the hydro
cyanic acid it present.
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20
&c !.!lZ

November 20, 1858
Well, Folks,
On the day after Christmas,
And not at all strange,
Are the crowds flOcking in
With their gifts to exchange.
Their socks are too large;
Their ties are too bright;
Their slippers are wrong;
Their shirts aren't right.
They have too many pencils;
Their books they have read,
Or have two of a kind
And wish something instead.
Now / have no gripe,
For L make a good living
From people who give
And keep giving and giving.
But if you are anxious
And eager to learn
How to give and be sure
Your gifts won't return.
For what it is worth
The suggestion is mine,
Nobody brings back
Their liquor or wine.
I'll have to confess! / didn't
write this-but it is certainly my
sentiments.
Thanks,
Freddy"
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20

unrest, as well as the widespread
promotion of "hate campaigns"
never serve the nations well
fare.
Therefore, it seems to me that
love for our nation requires
united action to provide the
very maximum of sound infOr-
nation to the people of our
country. An informed citizenry
is our best protection aaginst the
Onslaughts of our enemies who
always seek to divide us by dis
tOrtiOnS and confusion.
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20

When the seam is basted, press
to bring both seam edges in place
for machine stitching.
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20
SURPLUS VEHICLES TO BE

SURPLUS VEHICLES TO BE
AUCTIONED. The Finance Direc-
tor will hold a public auction at
p.m,. November II, at the City
Yard, 18th Avenue and the River,
to dispose of surplus autOmOtive
equipment consisting of 13 trucks,
10 passenger cars, air compress
sOr, 1 truck chassis, 1 steam clean
er and Ia motorcycles. The equip
ment is no longer needed and un-
fit for use by the City. 1t is esti-
mated the surplus equipment will
net the City approximately $11,75O
The passenger vehicles are mostly
police cars which have been driv-
en- more than $4,000 miles. 1t has
been proven from operation cost
records that it is more economical
to dispose of high-mileage passen-
ger vehicles rather than to keep
them in service. The vehicles and
trucks range from 1929 to 1850
models. Replacement of the sur
plus equipment has been made i'm
accord with the five-year autOmo-
UAVC ICP1dCCAiiCHt SuIuC pICRdICu
by the Superintendent of Mechan-
ical Maintenance. The total value
of new equipment. purchased dur
ing the current fiscal year
amounted to $222,718, and con-
sisted of passenger vehicles, trucks,
motorcycles, a lotion scraper, trac-
tors, a motor broom, an air COM
presSOr and fork lift truck.
BUS SAFETY SUPERVISOR
GAINS RECOGNITION. Ralph Tai
bott, Safety Supervisor for the bus
system, received national recogni-
tion in the transit field as a result
of his election to the Executive
Committee of the Transit Section
of the National Safety Council. Mr..
Talbot was elected at the 41St
National Safety Congress held in
Chicago in October.
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20

FOR RENT-One bedroom apart
ment, toilet and bath, and
kitchenette. See owner, 1903 East
Monroe Street. Call nights from Z
to o'clock or all day Sundays. Phi.
AL. 4-7615.
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20

ARE YOU throwing away money
for taxes on an empty lot? If so
we can put an efficiency rental or
little home on your property with
NO MONEY DOWN and payments
as low as $1.50 per day. Full cost
of this modern home $1,500. Call
or apply to Mr.. A. Lifgren, zoos
N. End st. AL 2-4465.
BEST OFFER TAKES = 5000 or
less for $4,000 equity 3-bedroom
house. New F1exa xalum blinds
throughout; we'll Handicapped cor
ner lot; city sewer; school and city
bus at door. Assume S59.75 pay
ments Owner at SCOT N. 23rd.
Ave. AL $500.
Arizona sun., 1953-11-20

FOR YOUR plumbing needs, see
Cherry the Plumber, 1418 East
Washington. AL 3-3425.
Evening star., 1953-09-16
REpLrEs no QUERIES.


Does anyone in your column
have a recipe for making pick
les out of watermelon rind
which is not sickening sweet?
Also a recipe with lots OF
orange and lemon flavor for
preserves.
In reply to Mrs. j. w. G.'s
inquiry as to whether oil. hot
water. or gas hot water systems
would be better. we have both
systems. The gas should be
cheaper to install as you do
not have to install an oil tank;
also, tanks do not last forever
and some day have to be re-
newed; also, you do not have
the mess of the oil man deliv-
ering oil and spilling it on
lawn, shrubs, etc. Also a gas
burner should outlast an oil
burner; perhaps the gas COM
pany could give you some fig
ures on that. also the Bureau
of Standards if they aren't
afraid to talk. With gypsum
board, if it has been applied
properly as to not leave cracks,
you should have a very warm
house and gas should not be
expensive. OF course, a great
deal will depend on the size
and make boiler you have.
After investigation we found
there were two rated tops. but
it is very important to get a
boiler with enough square feet
to cover the size of your house,
and it is also very important
to have enough square feet OF
radiation throughout your
house. A distant member of
our family had an oil burner
replaced with a gas burner
when her oil burner wore out,
and in her place the gas cost
was so terrific she had to have
it replaced with oil. But in our
case, the radiation. size and
make of boiler being suited,
we find gas cheaper than our
oil.
Sometime ago, som cone
asked for information re land
Scaplng and the only reply I
saw was a suggestion to let a
landscape firm do it. That is
all right if you don't enjoy
gardening, but 1 personally
like to visit nurseries as we'll
as in the United States gar
dens here in Washington and
select some of the more or less
unusual plants than the usual
run of evergreens which get
very monotonouS. Nearby
nurseries will be glad to give
advice and consultation free.
Some Of the more expensive
evergreens are so beautiful.