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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26

Commissioners are slated to
finish their carving on the de-
partmental requests and send the
result to the Federal Budget
Bureau for inclusion in the
Presidents message.
Meanwhile, yesterdays sum-
mary showed the total spending
request to be l2.06 per cent
higher 20,494,513- than the
budget allowed for the District
by Congress in the current fiscal
year, which ends next June 80.
Biggest percentage jump came
in the Districts newly estab-
ished capital outlay budget to
finance public works and build
ings. Rejecting the impact of
the second year of the 10-year
public works program, $49.8 mil
lion was requested-aIl increase
of 23.44 per cent over the cur
rent year. Operating budget re-
quests were up 8.51 per cent from
this years $129.6 million to
$140.6 million.
Welfare Plans 406 Jobs.
Biggest request for personnel
increases was made by the We'll
fare Department. which asked
for 406 new employees. Second
was the Police Department, with
222; schools were third with 1913,
and the Health Department was
fourth with TIA.
Others among the top 10 re-
quests for new hiring authority
were those of the Highway De-
partment, II; Fire Department,
81; General Administration De-
partment, 80; Traffic Depart
ment, Is; Department of Lii
cenSes and Inspections, %, and
the courts, 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Plans Speeded
On keyBridge,
Parkway Links
Romps Will Help
Cars Leaving Span
On Way to Virginia

Plans are being rushed by Ma
tional Capital Parks to begin
construction next year on ramps
that will permit Virginia bound
traffic to make a right turn off
Key Bridge into both traffic lanes
Of George Washington Memorial
parkway.
The Star has also learned that
In conjunction with this major
undertaking, the Federal agency
Is speeding preparation of cost
estimates for widening and 9TH
erwise improving the two exist
ing downstream roadways link
ing the bridge with the parkway.
At present no connections exist
for Virginia bound traffic seek
ing direct access to the parkway.
This traffic has been fighting its
way past Rosslyn Plaza for years
to get to the suburbs beyond.
The proposed ramps are consid-
cred the best remedy.
The projected improvements
to the existing roadways just
downriver from the bridge are
designed chiefly to ease conges-
ton.
Plan Gets Priority.
Park officials have suddenly
decided to give the project high
priority. mainly because of an
announcement by the Virginia
State Highway Department that
the State is willing and able to
pay a substantial share in the
cost of the rams construction.
Another factor was the incIu-
sion in the District budget esti-
mates for fiscal 1856 of a request
for funds to widen Key Bridge.
The Park people are squeezed
by time to get the ramp item in
their own 1856 budget so that
actual construction can begin
in the latter part of 1855.
fOur.FaFt Program.
In broad terms. the improve
ment project consists OF these
four parts:
/. Down-ramp crossing over
the downstream-bound traffic
lanes and tying into the up
stream bound lanes of the park
way. This would permit Vir-
ginia-bound traffic to turn right
OF Key Bridge and travel down
the ramp to merge with the
parkway lanes leading to Lor-
com lane and points farther up
river.
2. Another ramp branching of
the first. This Sharplv cllrvinp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Home Accidents
Send ITO Victims
TOD. c. Hospitals

A young girl who turned a
water spigot on too hard broke
the porcelain handle and cut her
wrist. and a 5-year-old boy who
stuffed chewing gum in his ear
were among ITO District resi-
dents treated at hospitals last
week because of nome accidents.
The District Red Cross Safety
Services reported 46 falls, 8
burns, Z accidental poisonings. l
revived gas asphyxia. 8 foreign
bodies, % cuts and % unclassi-
fed accidents.
|. In addition. one infant died Of
Suffocation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
D. {. Gets AZ Acres
g
AT Soldiers Home for
Crosstown Project
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
handles half of the bulk Of cross
town traffic. The other half is
shared by Columbia road, at
present one-Way westbound from
Michigan avenue-Park place to
Sixteenth street. West of Six
tenth, Irving street carries the
bulk of crosstown traffic in both
directions to Adams Mill road.
Under the highway improve
ment section of the Districts
public works program, these al
terations in the present made
quate pattern would simplify the
croSstown route:
/. Irving street, including part
OF the Soldiers Home strip, will
be one-way westbound to Adams
Mill road. At that point, the
latter thoroughfare tunnels traf-
flc to and from Porter street,
which. in turn, carries traffic
from and to all points in the
upper Northwest section.
2. The Harvard street branch
off from Adams Mill road will
handle one-way eastbound traf-
flc to Columbia road which will
move that same traffic to the
southwest edge of the Home
tract and swing into Irving
street on the newly transferred
property.
Channelization islands are to
be built at the intersection of
Sixteenth and Harvard (where
Columbia road also merges, Six
tenth and Irving; Park place,
Columbia road and Michigan
avenue, and Hardwood road,
Fourth street and Michigan ave-
nue.. An overpass at the juno
ture of North Capitol and Irving
streets also is planned.
Wider CroSstOwn Routes.
Ultimately, the crosstown
routes west of the Home are to
be widened to four or six lanes.
The property transferred pro-
vides ample space for the east
and west connections to the
Soldiers Home strip of Irving
street and the structures and
turnoffs planned for the inter-
section of Irving and North Cap
itol streets. The Irving street
right-of-way is 100 feet wide,
for the most part.
According to Frank Healy,
District Surveyor, efforts of the
co-ordinating committee of the
National Capital Planning Com
mission played a large part in
the smooth settling of the
District-Federal negotiations for
the transfer.
Another District official added
that the need for access roads
to the new hospitals played a
significant part in the discus
Sions.
Programmed for the future is
the extension of North Capitol
beyond Irving street all the way
through the Soldiers Home
grounds to connect with it's
northernmost segment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Warren Says at WIN Justice Is for ALL
By George Kennedy
Stor SS~ffrorrssnord~n%

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. Sept.
Is. Chief Justice Warren,
f1anked by three of his associates
on the Supreme Court. u was
greeted and applauded in full
measure when he made an ad-
dress today at the College of
William and Mary.
The Chief Justice, making his
first address in the South since
the momentous Supreme Court
decision on public school segre-
cation, said "as a Nation we
make no pretense except to a
passion for justice based upon
the dignity and rights of the
individual"
And without any direct men
ton Of the unanimous decision
he handed down for the court
last May, the Chief Justice
added:
1--WE believe this kind Of JUS
tice is the rightful heritage of
every human being and that it
is his right and duty to achieve
it,"
Marshall HOnored.
Justice Warren was an honor
guest Of the, State-supported
college Of William and Mary at
Marshall-Wythe-B Blackstone ex-
ercises COMMUNICATING the 200th
anniversary of Chief Justice
John Marshall's birth: George
Wythe. first professor of law at
this, the Nations oldest law
school; and Sir William Black
stone. first professor of law in
the English-speaking world and
author of the celebrated COM
mentaries.
About 5000 spectators were on
benches behind the statue of Sir
William Barley, Colonial Gov
ernor of Virginia, at the en-
trance to the college.
Lord Chief Justice Goddard of
England and Prof. Lehman
Goodhart of oxford University
wearing black fioppy round caps,
stood out.
Gov. Stanley of Virginia and
J. Lindsay Almond jr., the
States Attorney General. had de-
clined invitations to attend the
ceremony. 1t. Gov. A. E. S,
Stephens represented the Gov
ernor. Present also were Senator
Robertson and Representative
Gary. both Democrats of Vir-
ginia. Mr.. Gary represents the
Sd district.
Busts are Unveiled.
Justice Warren's address pre-
coded the unwilling of a bust Of
Thomas John Marshall.
Lord Goddard's address was a
prelude to the unwilling Of 9
bust of Blackstone, and Justice
c. Vernon Spratley of the Vir-
ginia' Supreme Court followed
with an appreciation of George
Wythe, the teacher who followed
Blackstone's precepts. A bust OF
Wythe was also uncovered.
All the busts are the work Of
Felix de Welton, Washington
sculptor who executed the heroic
Two Jirna flag raising group now
being erected in Arlington across
from the Lincoln Memorial. Mr.
de Welton also spoke.
The occasion marked the
establishment of the first chair
Of tax law in the MARSHALL Wythe
School Of Law here. Thomas
Atkeson. for many years assist
ant commissioner of Internal
Revenue, was sworn In as the
first professor to hold the chair
He is q graduate OF Georgetown
University where he became doc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Jobs Daughters Coll
Meetings This Week

Jobs Daughters meetings this
week are:
Bethel No. Saturday, Ma
sonic and Eastern Star night.
Bethel No. October 3, Sill
yer Tea.
Bethel No. 5-Friday, Live
Neighborhood and De Molay
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26

RIGHT TURN OFF KEY
BRIDGE-Diagram indicates
plans being speeded to pro-
vide new and better connec-
tions between the bridge and
the parkway in Virginia. A
Ramp leading to upriver-
bound parkway lanes. B.
Branch-off ramp leading to
downriver- bound lanes. c.
Downriver- bond traffic turn
off for Rosslyn Plaza and the
Washington bound bridge
lanes. D-Access road be-
tween the plaza and park
way. Arrows show traffic flow
direction.
roadway "pigtail," in high
way talk-would cross over the
downstream bound traffic lanes
but would continue curving SO
as to connect with those same
lanes.
Thus, Virginia bound traffic
from Key Bridge would hug the
right side of the main ramp
move into the "pigtail," thence
into the traffic lanes headed for
Memorial Bridge and other
points downriver.
Widening of Lanes.
3. Widening to two lanes, i'm
proving the surface and lessen
ing the curve of the roadway
that permits downriver- bound
traffic to turn off George Wash
ington parkway. get up to Ross
lyn Plaza and into the Wash
ington- bound lanes of Key
Bridge.
4. Widening to four lanes the
two-way connecting road be-
tween Rosslyn Plaza and the
parkway. This road connects al
grade with the parkway. 1t re-
ceives upriver- bound traffic that
wants to reach the plaza. II
also takes plaza traffic into the
downriver-bound lanes of the
parkway.
Harry T. Thompson, associate
superintendent of National Cap
ital Parks, said last night that
the overall project will probably
cost between $500, 900 and $780,
900.
Contributing to the expense
Mr.. Thompson said. is the neec
to relocate the parkway road.
and to remove the land-fill where
the ramps are to be built and re.
place it with more substantial
material. Much of the present
I'LL is ashes. he said.
Adding to the cost are the
fast that the ramp piers must
be built at an angle to the park.
way roads and that both ramp
structures will be ornamentee
with stone. The ramps will con-
tain two 12-foot traffic lanes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
District BUDGET ANALYSIS

Following tabular the
Districts various departments with the
requested for fiscal 1856. which begins July l.
OPERATING EXPENSES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
New Tuft Coin?

I recently read Of a proposal
to remove from circulation the
Franklin D. Roosevelt dime and
replace it with a Robert A. Taft
likeness.
Although Robert Taft made
his place in our country's his
tory. beloved Franklin Roosevelt
made his place in the humani-
tartan history of the world.
II our Republican friends
should like to commemorate the
memory of the late Senator Taft
then let them create a new coin,
the lucent piece. In this way the
country will always remember
the highest cost of living in the
history OF our country under
this Republican administration
mus We may remember the
15-cent nickel coffee; the IS
cent nickel beer; the 15-cent
nickel Sunday newspaper, etc.
Let this new coin be made of
stainless steel to help some of
Ohlo'S steelWorkerS who are un-
employed and are beginning to
feel the squeeze of the good Re-
publican times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Letters to The Star.

ment is enjoying some Of its
benefits.
If Congress would do its duty
and restore the integrity" of
the fund. it would not have to
appropriate money to take care
of the temporary increases it so
reluctantly granted Civil Service
annuitants short time ago. If
the fund is not healthy enough
to take care of these increases,
how can Congress justly liberal
ize its own retirement benefits?
Civil Service annuitantS are
sitting on the anxious bench"
wondering from day to day
whether Congress, with all the
unfinished business before it and
the talk of an early adjournment,
will go home" without appro-
priating funds for the continu-
ance of the temporary increases
granted them under Public Law
555, which increases will termi-
nate June 80, 1854, unless Con-
greSS acts before then.
/ see no reason why these in
creases should be temporary.
They should not only be con-
tinued, but in all fairness to the
underpaid annuitantS. the mini
mum annuity should be raised
to $2.400, and in addition these
annuitieS of the Civil Service re-
tirees should be taX-exempt just
as are the annuities of the Rail-
road and Social Security retireeS.
Veronica Quinn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
'Dwindlinq' FOREIGN Service

John Scali's article, February
7, on Undersecretary of State
Walter B. Smiths proposal for
flve-man commission to study
the reorganization of the
"dwindling" Foreign Service
touches on problem At funda-
mental Importance. Despite what
may be said in some quarters.
the career, officers of the De-
partment of State are the eyes
and ears. the hands and minds
OF our vital foreign policy. 1t
IS they who make the ANALYSES
and write the reports; they who
draft innumerable memoranda
and frame instructions: they
who aSsiduously publicize our
honest intentions abroad and
tactfully press for our program.
Now, suddenly, it is recognized
that something must be done to
bolster the ranks of these
savagely maligned and threat
ened career officers.
Gen. Smiths commission ap-
pears to be oriented toward
bringing into the Foreign Service
by lateral entry or through
amalgamation high ranking de-
partmental officers. AS a corol-
larry, it would seem that little or
no attention is to be directed
toward encouraging the recruit
ment of young men and women
whose age, experience or position
does not yet qualify them for
lateral entry. The situation,
thus, is similar to wartime
concentration on Officer Candi-
date School officers while ignor-
ing Military Academy graduates.
1t may safely be asserted that
the gap between the present
Foreign Service officer compile
ment of 1905 and the normal
complement of 1,400 officers
could readily be filled from the
ranks of candidates who have
been certified by the depart
ment's board of examiners, but
who have not yet received the
slightest indication as to when
they will be sworn in.
, TimoleOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
II Just Thought Up a
Dandy About Golf"

Gallup Poll, which show that
Stevenson is believed by seven
out of 10 voters to be the 1856
Democratic candidate. he is baS-
ing his optimism on a will-o-the-
WiSp.
Many Republicans. myself in
cluded. would cast such a
vote and send up a prayer for
StevenSon'S nomination. For we
believe that he'd be just as easy
a pushover in 1856 as he was in
1852. Any Democrat who has
the backing of the Truman gang
and the radical left-wingers who
control 1t must realize that, po-
litically, the kiss of death has
been bestowed upon him.
1t is hard to go along with
Stokes assumption that Steven
son holds out leadership that is
sure and certain" and that "he
encourages confidence.
Could any one in his right
mind have confidence in the
leadership of a man whose main
attraction is a flair for show
manShip and the mastery of the
art of making people laugh? Not
in these days of peril when seri-
GUS thinking is required. A
Charlie Chaplin in the White
House wouldn't be so funny. Mr..
Stokes. Alec Xander.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Boy, II, Held in Beating
Of Another Over a Tin

A 17-year-old boy was held on
assault charges today after police
said he beat another 17-year-old
in an argument over a tip at a
grocery.
Reported in good condition at
Casualty Hospital with head cuts
was Waverly M. Mcknight, col
ored, of 3739 Grant street NE.
Police said the fight happened
at the A. & P. Store, 1929 Mime
sofa avenue NE. Police said the
l7-year-old. also colored, is being
held at the Receiving Home.
In another juvenile case police
said a 14-year-old colored boy
had been arrested on charges of
housebreaking.
Police said the boy had ad-
mitted breaking into a food store
at 400 Third street NV. twice
early this month. Police said the
boy has also implicated a man
and a 13-year-old colored boy in
the theftS.
Police said SIG in cash, cigar
cites and meat were taken in the
two thefts. The boy was also to
be questioned on 10 other house.
breaking cases. police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Ei5EHHoW Err
PoPULARl1Xl

so poorly prepared, from a psy-
Geological point of view at least,
to occupy the prominent posi-
tons they hold in public life?
Is it due to kind of malforma-
ton some of them may have had
in politics and business before
the Eisenhower administration
came into existence? A few of
these individuals are really de-
fenSiVe in spirit though they
seem to be engaged in an of
fenSive. In the case of some
men there is a kind of neurotic
feminiSm in their spirit which
makes them sound like a bunch
of psychic fanatics and hypo-
critics. The politics they practice
has an unmanliness about it, a
petty, nagging, chronic belly
aching sort of thing which
sooner or later will affect the
mental health of the American
people AS q whole.
1t is becoming evident that the
technique of the big lie is going
to be employed in the 1854 polit-
ical campaign as it was in 1852.
That business about a mess in
Washington" fooled a lot of
people in so even though it was
an abstraction from reality.
Now another exaggeration is
coming into play which makes
one question whether the author
of it is in contact with reality.
To hear someone charge that 20
years of Democratic Party rule
represented in fact 80 years of
treason" makes one wonder if it
Is only through organized lying
that the Republican Party can
remain in power.
Loyal Democrat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
ExpIosives-Laden Freight
Hits Tank Truck, 7 Die
By The Associated Press

LAKE CHARLES. La. Feb. l3.
A freight train carrying gaso-
line and chemicals and a gaSo-
line tank truck collided east Of
here yesterday, killing two per-
sons.
EyewitnesseS said an explosion
and fire followed the crash and
that the body of the truck
driver. who was not immedi-
ately identified. could be seen in
the burning area.
Police identified one of the
dead as L. G. Flanagan. 48, of
Alexandria. fireman on the
train. Mr.. Flanagan and Engi-
ner Claude C. Burch. so. also of
Alexandria. jumped from the
lead engine of the train after
the crash. Mr.. Burch was
burned severely and was taken
to a hospital here.
Two other trainmen. H. w.
Pierce. Al. and Jessie Gregory,
So. both of Alexandria. escaped
injury. They said several cars
loaded with sodium nitrate were
in the burning area. Occupants
of several small homes near the
scene were evacuated because of
fears of an explosion.
The crash occurred at a
crossing near Iowa, La. IL miles
east of Lake Charles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Picked in Maryland.
Modern Youth Called
Soft by Professor

Youngsters of elementary
school age are becoming soft
les" according to DR.. Hans
Kraus, associate professor of
physical medicine, at Bellevue
Medical Center New York.
DR.. KrauS says the children,
products of the motor age, lack
sufficient muscular exercises. He
will speak at the meeting of the
District Association for Health,
Physical Education and Recrea-
ton at $50 pm. Tuesday in the
YWCA, Seventeenth and K
streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-13
Postal Fees and Taxes

I was interested in your Febru-
airy 8 editorial Postal Fees and
Taxes" The concluding senti-
ment that it is unsound in prin-
ciple for postal deficits to be met
by those not directly responsible
for the losses, is not debatable,
Debatable. however. and in
deed quite erroneous. are some
of the facts stated in the edi-
torial.
If you will take the trouble to
examine the statement of the
Postmaster General. made last
spring. before the committees on
appropriations of the Senate and
the House. presenting the de-
partmentss budget for the fiscal
year 1854, you will find that the
figures presented showed. among
other things. the following:
A. For the fiscal year 1852,
which showed a total deficit of
about $720 million, about $685.
million was accounted for by
the losses in second, third and
fourth class mail.
q, First-class mail, indeed,
showed a profit in excess of $50
million. this being the only
class of mail service, and in fact
the only item in the statement.
other than postal savings, which
did not show a loss.
c. OF a total of 1914 million
lost in paid mail handling &C
Invites of the department, over
$240 million, or approximately
40 per cent. is represented by the
loss in the second-clasS mail
alone; nearly $192 million, or ap-
proXimately 81 per cent. is rep
resented by the loss in third
class mail alone; and nearly 1854
million. or approximately Is per
cent, is represented by the loss
in fourth-class mail alone. Thus,
approximately 95 per cent of
this total $6l4 million as &C
counted for by the losses in the
second. third, and fourth class
mail.
D. The total loss of $685. mill
lion in fiscal 1852 for second,
third and fourth class mail rep
resents slightly over 80 per cent
of the total Post Office deficit of
approximately $720 million.
In the light of these figures, it
seems hardly correct to say, as
you do in your editorial, that an
increased fee is required to meet
the cost Of delivering letters, in
order to reduce the amount of
unsupported subsidies required
to meet the cost of delivering
letters. Certainly, with a $50
million profit shown for the first
class mail in 1852, it cannot be
said that taxes were substituting
the cost of first-class mail. The
statement in your editorial that
None of these classes of service
is paying its own way at pres
emit is manhestly in error, so
far as concerns first-class mail.
AS pointed out above, handling
of flrst-claSs mail showed a
profit of better than $50 mil
lion in fiscal 1852. If first-class
mail has shown a loss for fiscal
1858, as against a profit in 1852.
the reasons for the difference
are not apparent. S. S.
Editors note: The Post Office
Department says that the first
class mail for which Postmaster
General Summerfield has asked
four-cent rate, namely out-of-
town deliveries, does not pay its
way under the three cent rate.
The editorial referred only to
out-of-town MALL