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Evening star., 1953-04-21

Surely bad off put
mothers in order to raise 13 million dollars To look another
does make cripple industry close its
plants and of work and really
of the dollars?
They used call this being penny-vise pound foolish
In this case congressman :. worked
Repeal lower the this
will enable the housewives again and
oners We tell eoey housewife the land by special
Dryer and Ioner sold that the loed by action
congressman the well this piddlng
by revvg business and larger income
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Fall Hurts Fireman
In Storeroom Blaze

A fireman suffered a leg in
jury today in a fall down base
ment steps during a fire in the
storeroom of a three-story brick
apartment building at 2423 E
street NV.
Capt John Raymond Barry,
so, of 7004 Wildwood drive,
Takoma Park, Md, was removed
to Emergency Hospital for X
ray examination. A member of
No. 90 Engine Company, he was
hurt while fremen were carrying
a hose. to the basement of the
building O~verStuffed chairs and
other material burned, but dam
age was slight.
In another, two-alarm fire,
early today the vacant second
floor of a two-story frame
dwelling was burned out at 1925
Sixth street NV. Russell Camp
bell, 35, the occupant of the
first floor. escaped uninjured.
A third fire occurred last night
in the kitchen of the Bob White
Sea Food House. 319 Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc. The blaze was
confined to a flue from which
flames shot before firemen put
them out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Navy to Practice
Bombing on New
Target in Boy
By the Associated Pres,

The Navy plans to practice
bombing on a new target vessel
in Chesapeake Bay.
This was disclosed yesterday
in an application to Army En-
gineers for establishment of a
restricted area at the proposed
bombing site.
Engineers said the target YES
sci already has been located at
the site and is marked by wreck
buoys.
The site is off Smiths Island
across the bay from the mouth
of the Patuxent River.
Unless protests are filed with
the Baltimore Office Of the en-
gineers by November 16, the en-
gineers said approval of the
restricted area will be automatf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Symphony Season
Opens Tomorrow

Nearly ITO instrumentalists
and choisters will appear on the
Constitution Hall stage tomorrow
night with the Metropolitan OPP
era baSso. George LONDON. in
the opening concert of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra's
23d season.
Theodore Schaefer's choirS
from the National Presbyterian
Church will join with the or
chestra to support Mr.. London.
DR.. Howard Mitchell will con-
duct the entire ensemble for the
basSo's presentation of scenes
fro mthe opera Boris Godou-
nov" Also on the orchestra's pro-
gram r two works by the
American composer. Samuel Bar
Der, and the Beethoven SYM
phony No. 4. The concert starts
at $3.50 pm.
Tickets now are on sale at the
Symphony Box Office, 1880 G.
street NV Prices for single adj
missions are $1.20 to $3.50. and
season tickets. still available.
start. at $9.40 for a 10-concert
series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
; District Men Held,
Accused Of Break-in
Al Damascus Store

Three District men, one of
them picked up on the scene,
were arrested by police today
on charges of breaking into a
gas station and automobile &C
cessory establishment at Da-
mascus, Md.
The suspect caught inside the
King Floor Service Co. garage
in Damascus was identified by
Montgomery County police as
Thomas A. Grissett, "a, of the
100 block of Bay street Sc.
The other two men, arrested
at their home by District police
about three hours after a look
out had been broadcast, we're
listed as Stuart w. Salmon, 20,
and William Eckloff, 81, both
sheet metal workers living in
the TOO block of West Virginia
avenue NE.
Two Break Away.
Pvts. Walter Hef1in and Rubin
Hett of Montgomery police,
spotted three men inside the
Damascus establishment while on
patrol at 1889 am. The men
were loading tires, batteries and
other accessories into a company
the police said.
Grissett was seized immedi-
but the other two got away.
Police said they fed on foot and
then stole a car parked near the
Damascus High School. The car,
owned by Roy Collins of Dam
ascuS, later was found near the
West Virginia avenue address
when District police went there
to pick up Salmon and Ecklof
about 4 am.
SalmOn's Car Found.
Montgomery Detective Sergt.
Frank GriggS said a car owned
by Salmon was found abandoned
at Damascus. The detective said
Ecklof was arrested about three
years ago for breaking into the
same place. Eckloff served time
in Jail for that incident, police
said.
GrisSett was charged with
breaking and entering and was
held at the Rockville Jail. The
other two were picked up. as
fugitives from Montgomery po-
lice and were turned over to
county authorities on the same
charge as Grissett and with au-
tomobile larceny.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Commissioners
4 More on
Youth Council
15-Member Group
Holds Its First
Meeting Thursday

The Commissioners yesterday
announced appointment Of four
additional members of the Com
missioners' Youth Council. Elev-
en- were named Friday.
Those named today we're Msgr.
John Spence, director of educa-
ton, Archdiocese of Washing
ton; G. Rowland Shaw, presi-
dent of the Juvenile Citizens
Committee; Ralph D. Pittman,
attorney and president of the
Board of Directors of the Police
Boys Club, and DR.. M. Virginia
O'Neill, chairman of the Youth
Problems Committee, Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations.
The Is = member council will
hold it's first meeting at 3 pm.
Thursday in the Office of Com
missioner Spencer in the Dis
trict Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Taxi Group Renews
Plea for D. T.. Limit
On Number Of Cabs

E. Erwin Dollar, president of
Associated Taxi Operators, Inc,
today asked the District Com
missioners to support legislation
limiting the number of taxis in
the city.
He said there were 1925 cab
bies in Washington, far too
many for the size of the city.
1.-THE men are not able to
make a suitable living" he de-
clared. DRIVERS are earning 25
per cent less now than they did
last year"
The Commissioners several
years ago took the position that
competitive factors would take
care of the situation. At that
time they voted to oppose such
legislation. None of the present
Commissioners were in Office then.
Mr.. Dollar said his group wants
the number of cabs limited and
eventually wants the present zone
rates replaced by meters. To
emphasize his point that there
are too many cabs, he stated New
York City had only 1892 taxis
licensed.
The Commissioners took the
matter under Amusement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Lonesome Blind Spaniel Flies
To Join Master in Puerto Rico
InconsoIubIe Dog
Wings Toward
Joyful Reunion

A dog has trouble being mans
best friend when the man is
away.
A situation like that confronted
Bucky. 14-year-old totally blind
cocker spaniel, until yesterday.
His master. Fred j. Huber. ir.,
"a. had gone to San Juan. Puerto
Rico, last June with his bride.
Since then Bucky had been in
consolable. He lived with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred j. Huber on Lega-
ton street NV. until two months
ago, when they moved to an
apartment at $3.50 Tunlaw road
NV. and placed Bucky in a
kennel.
Then the son and his wife. the
former Margaret Montgomery.
decided to do something. So he
asked his father to send the dog
down.
Bucky left last night on a Pan
American World Always plane
for San Juan. where the son is
production manager for a plastics
company.
We've been that dogs seeing
eye since Fred went away" Mr..
Huber remarked. I'D sure like
to see that reunion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Shepherd Park Names
Delinquency Committee

The Shepherd Park Citizens
Association last night appointed
a committee on juvenile delin-
quency and referred to it the
question of establishing a mid
night curfew for children up to
Is years of age -
Named to the committee were
DR.. Clarence w. Crawford, chair
man. Harold Henegar and Maj.
Ernest w Brown.
Bernard Margolius, president.
announced his intention to in
vite Police Chief Robert v. MUIR
ray to speak on the problem Of
juvenile delinquency at the next
meeting.
The association met in the
Shepherd Park School, Four
teenth street and Kalmia road
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

Arlington to die of polio this year
and the seventh polio fatality in
the Washington area so far this
year.
The child was the son of Lewis
P. Summers, an attorney for the
Veterans Administration Board
of Veterans Appeals. He had
contracted the disease last week,
his father said, and died yester-
day at the hospital from the
worst form of the disease-bul-
bar polio.
The Summers have another
child, Linda Anne, 4, who was
inoculated with gamma globulin
when her brothers illness was
diagnosed as polio.
Funeral services have been set
for 2 pm. tomorrow at National
Presbyterian Church, Connect
cut avenue and N street NV,
Burial will be in Arlington Gem
etery.
Meanwhile, polio continued to
crop up in the Washington area.
The District reported it's fifty
seventh and hfty-eighth cases
a 4-year-old boy of the 1000
block of Yorktown road NV.
and a 9-year-old girl of the $500
block of Seventh street NV.
Both children are being treated
at Children's Hospital. The Dis
trict at this time last year had
1875 cases.
Also reporting new cases were
Fairfax and Montgomery Coun-
ties.
Two new cases in Fairfax
brought the county's polio toll
to As cases, compared to II at
this time last year. These in
cluded a 6-year-old boy of the
1900 block of Tucker avenue,
Falls Church.; a 4-year-old girl
of the 200 block of North Wash
ington street, Falls Church.
In Montgomery County new
cases included a 17-year-old girl
of the $500 block of haywood
avenue, Silver Spring; a 3-year-
old boy, 300 block of Plyers Mill
road, also in Silver Spring. The
two cases brought the county'S
number of polio cases to SO,
compared to 48 cases this time
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Move Under WAY
To Set Up Code for
School ~Fratenities

A move is under way to set
up a code for all fraternities and
sororities in District area high
schools.
It's an unofficial move, just as
the fraternities and sororities
are unofficial and not recognized
by the schools. Edward Haverty.
a student at Roosevelt High
School, who lives at 2701 Four
teenth street NV, is taking the
lead.
Young Haverty said he is the
acting chairman for the local
branch of the Interfraternity
Congress of America.
This group. formed in 1947,
seeks to improve fraternities and
sororities on the secondary
school level. 1t lists some 20
national fraternities as men,
bers.
Young Haverty said he plans
to arrange a meeting of repre-
sentatives of all high school
fr%aternities and sororities in the
area before the year is out. Eff
forts will be made to form a
council made up of local frater-
mites and ~sororities.
The aim of the council would
be to set up a code opposing
drinking and gambling, abolish
ing foolish" public demon
STATIONS and limitations and
encouraging scholarship and
extra-curricular activities in the
school.
Last week, parents of boys
who are members of Sigma Phi,
a fraternity at Roosevelt. Cool
idge and Mckinley Highs, banded
together to control the groups
activities. The parents have
an advisory council and
are drawing up a code of ethics.
This particular fraternity was
involved in a much-publicized
stag party raided by police last
spring. More recently some
members were arrested during an
outdoor initiation in Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
School Board
Member BoIks at
u. N. Birthday Fete

The Montgomery County
School Board, minus one mem
Der, will be represented at a
United Nations birthday cele-
bration in Rockville Saturday.
Board Member William F.
Bulls told his colleagues last
night: II won't swear allegiance
to the U. N"
Chairman H. Stanley Slime
said he had been invited to the
ceremony as president of the
Board of Education and that's
the way I'm going"
eff you don't want to be rep
resented" Mr.. Slime said to Mr.
Bulls, II won't represent you"
MI. Bulls. who operates the
Bulls Preparatory School, moved
that the board pull out of the
Saturday ceremony, but none of
the other members would second
the motion.
Afterwards, Mr.. Bulls said:
II don't see why we should dig
nifty a date by treating it as a
national holiday, which it is not.
I don't think we should try to
supplant in the minds of tie
people the u. N. for the U. S.tX
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
7 AIexandnans Buy
VOL for S125,OOO

Two Alexandria men have
purchased Radio Station VOL
for $125 900, subject to the ap-
prevail of the Federal Commune
cations Commission.
New owners are Henry Rau Of
628 South Lee street and Charles
Dillon, 313 South Lee street. MI.
Rau is a former appliance dis
tributor and Mr. Dillon has been
in charge of the radio-TV branch
in the Defense Departments
Office of public information for
four years.
The announcement said the
purchase was made in the name
of the Washington Broadcasting
Co., of which Mr.. Rau is presi-
dent and Mr.. Dillon vice preSi-
dent and general manager.
VOL has been under the own
ership of the Peoples Broadcast
ing Co. since 1850. That COM
pany is a unit of the Murray
Lincoln Farm Bureau, a mutual
insurance company in Ohio
which has other radio outlets
in Trenton, N. j.; Fairmont, w,
Va, and Columbus, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
House Units Lawyer Fined
500 on DRIVING CHARGE

William r. Foley, jr., an attor-
ney for the House Judiciary Com
mittee. was fined 500 on a reck-
less driving charge today and
also was convicted of driving
with an expired permit. The
case came up before United
State Commissioner Stanley King
in Alexandria, who postponed
sentencing for two weeks on the
expired permit charge.
Park police placed the charges
against Mr.. Foley after an acct
dent October IL on Mount Ver-
non boulevard near the Sailing
Marina. Police said Mr.. Foley
crashed into the rear of another
automobile driven by Ralph Allen
of 1920 P street NV. Two pas
sengers in Mr.. Aliens car were
hurt. Mr.. Allen and Mr.. Foley
were not injured.
Mr.. Foley, 38, lives at the
Hunting Towers Apartments in
Alexandria. Police said the only
permit he produced was one from
New York, which expired Sep
TENDER 80, 1852.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
BY John McKelwoy

It's nearly every day that Miss
Martina Hall talks about her
operation
She doesn't grab your lapel and
force you to listen. She rarely
brings the subject up herself.
Rather. people ask her to tell
about it, and she willingly does
So. For Miss Hall is not en-
barrassed or wrapped up in her.
self. She IS proud and quite
aware of the wonderful thing
that was done to her.
About this time last year, Miss
Hall. a small colored woman of
81, with a pleasant smile. began
to realize these things. It was
at this time she gradually be-
came aware Of the constant and
soft ticking" deep in her chest,
This ticking sounds like a
wrist watch you stop to listen to.
You can hear it when Miss Hall
is seated nearby and pauses in
her story about the operation.
Somehow. the ticking is a
powerful sound. It is the differ
ence between a tired. faltering
life-and a strong, new one.
Born in Rockville.
Miss Hall was born in Rock
vile, Md. Soon after. her family
moved to Fairfax. Her father did
some farming and later. for
eight years. was janitor of the
Georgetown University Medical
School Building.
When Miss Hall was Z, her
mother put her to bed for about
two months. The child had Sc
we're pain in the joints of her
knees. It was diagnosed then as
some form of arthritis.
She had similar pains in her
high school days and had to go
back to bed for long stretches of
time. She remembers how
tagged out" she was at the end
of each day.
Then, when she was "a. she
picked up a bad cold while work.
ing as a file clerk at the General
Accounting Office. A family doc
tor examined her and told her
his chilling diagnosis:
"You have an enlarged heart.
And you'd better stop work right
away"
For two years Miss Hall sat
around her home, trying to do
absolutely nothing" She found
this somewhat difficult. however,
and entered the old st. Paul
Institute. where she was gradu-
ated later as a practical nurse.
Accepted Jobs.
She took jobs in private homes
and at various hospitals.
Later, she quit her job at Ar
lington Hospital to care for her
father. Because of a blood infec-
ton, he had both of his legs
amputated and died of a heart
attack at 63.
Miss Hall went back to work
after his death and caught an
other cold. Once. during a cough
ing spell, she saw blood.
1T was the first time ]. had
ever really been afraid" she said.
IT finally let myself realize some
thing was seriously wrong"
She was X-rayed by the Dis
trict tuberculosis Association.
When the association asked her
to come back for another X-ray.
Miss Hall knew it was tubercu-
losiS."
She was wrong. Not TB, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Pair Looking for Food
Now Will Find 1t Behind Bars

Francis, 10, of Monroe, La, was
held for action of the grand jury
on $4,000 bond when brought
before United States Commits
sioner Cyril S. Lawrence. They
are charged with one count of
housebreaking and two attempts.
Police caught them on the roof
of a building in the $500 block
of Twelfth street NE. Police said
they admitted trying to break
into a delicatessen and entering
a residence at 1882 Thirteenth
street NE. and cleaning out
the icebox for food" They also
tried to enter a Highs Ice Cream
Gore, police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Lax School Discipline
Blamed for Delinquency

Modern methods of handling
children in the public schools
contribute to juvenile delin-
quency, the Lincoln Park Cit
liens Association feels.
The group last night asked
more authority for the teachers
and more individual attention
for pupils. Teachers should have
more freedom in the matter OF
discipline, it was said.
The association also opposed
door-to-door soliciting for men,
berShip in the Eliot School PTA
by children in the Southeast
area. 1t was moved to ask the
school board that the children
confine their activities to par
ents of Eliot School students.
The meeting, conducted by
j. w. Flanagan, president, was
held at Epworth Church, Thir-
teenth street and North Caro-
lima avenue Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Flower Show Exhibits
By Woodbridge Club
Fill Church Basement

The Woodbridge Garden Club
annual flower show last night
filled the basement of the Nc
Kendree Methodist Church at
South Dakota avenue and
Lawrence street NE.
Nine judges chose the best
exhibits from the 81 competitors.
The prizes included a silver cas-
serole, garden tools, flowers and
fertilizer.
C. L. Armentrout, 3416 Twen-
ty-second street Ne, won dahlia
honors and Rixey F. Gray, presi-
dent of the club. had special
mention for his dahlia, Prairie
Fire"
A pale pink rose, Peace"
entered by A. P. Hofmann, 1716
Evarts street NE, was the best
rose in the show.
The best chrysanthemum in
the exhibit was shown by Mrs.
Orell Bell Holcombe.
A coin toss decided a three
way tie for flower arrangement
honors. Mrs. Darrell st. Claire,
1910 Linnean avenue NV, won
after being tied with Mrs. Mary
A.. Ellis, 3409 Newton street,
Mount Rainier, Md, and Mrs.
M. w. Cogar, 47O5 Edmonston
avenue, Hyattsville, Md.
The best arrangement award
went to Miss Hazelle Johnson,
1900 South Dakota avenue NE,
for her display of roses and crepe
myrtle foliage.
Bert w. Wilson, 4234 Edmon-
ston road, Bladensburg, Md, a
first-time competitor, won the
arrangement prize for men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

An approximate sketch of
the valves location in the
aOrta - main trunkline of
blood from the heart. The
aOrta curves sharply after
leaving the heart, branches
off three times, then goes di-
rectly downward behind the
heart.
her heart again. Now it had
sWelled even more.
She began making regular
visits to the heart clinic at
Georgetown University Hospital
where, incidentally. she had been
taking her mother who had heart
trouble.
On September IL, 1852, Miss
Hall was operated on and she
began to feel a new life squirt
through her body. A soft ticking
she could hear had started with
VIC OPC4 dGlO1As AZ 41dO 11OU OO111C
with two previous operations,
for the patients did not live. She
had known these things.
II never realized just how bad
/ had felt most of my life until
about two weeks after the oper-
ation." Miss Hall said. That's
about the best way I can describe
how I feel now"
Successful Surgery.
Miss Hall, unidentified up to
now, was the first person to have
successfully come out of a new
surgical attack against a heart
condition which accounts for 10
to Is per cent of deaths from
heart disease. And heart disease
is the big killer today.
After those spells of pain in
childhood and later on, she had
been left with a defective aortic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

One prime requirement for
regular eating at an Army mess
is that you have to be there to
get it.
Two soldiers who haven't been
at one for several days were ar
rested by 18th Precinct police
yesterday and accused of trying
to steal a little chow from civil
ian iceboXeS.
Both admitted being AWOL
from an airborne unit at Fort
Bragg, N. C. One. Billy Joe Gore.
of Clinton KY, answered a new
muster with juvenile authorities.
hes only II. The other. Almond
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Changes in City
Proposed
In Alexandra
Merged Finance PIun
And Administration
Setup Is Suggested
BY Mary Lou Werner

A consolidated department of
finance and a new Office of gen.
eral administration are the
major recommendations of a
proposed Alexandria Govern
ment reorganization plan made
public today.
The plan represents the first
phase in the administrative sur
yey being conducted by the In
stitute of Local and State Gov
eminent of the University of
Pennsylvania.
City Manager Ira Willard ex-
planned that the plans recon-
mended by the surveyors are
tentative and subject to revision
after members of the City Coun-
CT, and department heads can
study them and make sugges-
tons.
Consolidate Finance Setup.
In their report, the surveyors
give a general outline of de-
partmental organization for the
city. The principal difference
between their outline and the
present municipal setup is a con-
solidated department of finance,
in charge of all the city'S fiscal
function.
Alexandria now has a direc-
tor of finance who prepares
budgets and serves as a con-
troller. but there are three other
independent observation-disclosures
missioner of revenue, treasurer
and city collector-in charge of
tax collection, assessment and
tax billing.
The report comments that leg
iSlation would be necessary to
bring all financial functions UNI
der one department. This was
proposed in Alexandria several
years ago, but voters rejected
the idea in a referendum.
Office Under City Manager.
The outline provides a new
office under the city manager in
charge of general adminiStra-
ton. The surveyors say it would
be the task of this Office to con-
duct work programs and produc-
ton analyses, procedures analy-
ses, research work and reports,
communications, records and leg
iSlative liaiSon.
The outline emissions Is major
departments under the City
Council and city manager. The
city now has 16, excluding the
elective offices.
Those departments that would
be absorbed within the new plan
are: Assessments, plumbing in
spection and coming. Five of
the Is departments under the
new setup would serve as staff
and management units, directly
under the city manager. These
departments are: City plan
ming, finance, personnel, general
administration and civil defense.
Personnel also would be a new
department, but the city already
has provided funds for it's crea-
ton in this years budget.