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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
BY the As.eeio,ed Pres.

NEW YORK. Mar. 24.-The
largest commercial hookup in
television hiStory-all four major
networks and 235 stations-will
present music and comedy
program Sunday night.
General Foods Corp. is putting
on the show, in celebration of
its 25th anniversary, at an esti-
mated cost of 100000 to $780,
900 for production. air time and
talent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
235 ~ Stations Will Garry
100000 Show Next Sunday

The scope dwarfs even the
Ford Motor Co. anniversary
program last year on two net
works and ITO stations.
Theme Of the General Foods
showroom 8 to $3.50 pm. EST
will be the words and music of
Richard Rodgers and Oscar
HammerStein.
Singers scheduled to appear in
clude Mary Martin, Ezio PIMA,
Tony Martin and Rosemary
Clooney. The songs will come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24

from Broadway productions such
as South Pacific" oklahoma, !"
"Carousel," 1.-THE King and l."
allegro" and me and Juliet"
Comedy will be presented by
Jack Benny. Edgar Bergen.
Charlie Mccarthy and Groucho
Marx.
Three Washington television
stations - WMAL, WNBW and
WTOP-will carry the full pro-
gram. officials at the fourth sta
ton, WTTG, said they expect to
carry the show, but have not yet
received final confirmation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-24
$4,000 Ballots CHALLENGED.

date, former Secretary Of War
Patrick j. Hurley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-22
Fans Tell National Symphony
They Like Progom Selections

said this sort Of response
coupled with. the knowledge thai
many persons want to hear the
standard works ,indicated ap.
prevail of his programming as II
stands.
The response that most amused
him. he said. was one from 9
member Of Congress from Ver-
mont who crossed out the names
Of every piece written since 1900
and wrote after each, noise"
Others wrote in pleas for less
OF the "hackneyed" music, AND
mo more bromideS."
But the most popular in the
voting were:
Beethoven. Symphonies S, 2
and 8.
Brahms. symphonies.
Handel. Water Music
Franck. D Minor Symphony.
Mozart. symphonies 20 and IL
Strauss, Rosenkavalier Waltzes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-22

The National Symphony Or
chestra conducted a poll to find
out what It's listeners want and
found out. it says. that 1t has
been right all along.
A QUESTIONABLE sent to 10000
persons on the mailing list pro-
duced 1,2l8 replies.
Half favored more modern
music. half less. The "Old War
horses" took q beating.
On top in the ballotlne was
the fourth symphony ny Brahms
and the Ninth Beethoven. The
Cesar Franck d Minor and the
Beethoven Fifth galloped along
side.
Then calnc the Rosenkavalier
Waltzes by Strauss. Such pieces
as Debussy'S La Mel Prokokieff' rs
Classical Symphony, Smetana's
Moldau. Copland's Appalachian
Spring. and music by Berlioz and
Hindemith. won in a walk over
Dvorak.
Conductor Howard Mitchell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-22
260 Patients Flown Out

DARWIN. - The Aerial Med
ical Service of Australia S
Northern Territory few 10000
miles in 1858. Planes Of the ser,
vice few 900 hours on l66 emer-
gency and routine flights and
carried $50 patients.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-22
tungsten Carbide

NEW YORK.-Tungsten car
bide. a synthetic produced in
Germany, is second only to the
diamond as the hardest cutting
object.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-22
SmuIl-Bout Toll

CHICAGO - approximately
1900 persons each year are
drowned in the United States as
a result of accidents which in
volve small boats in fresh water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
White Enters Democratic Race
For 5th District House Seat
Attorney Seeking
Party Nomination
In June 70 Voting

John s. White, one Of Mary
lands most colorful political
figures, announced today that
he will try for the 5th district
House seat In the June % Demo-
cratic primaries.
Colmar Manor'S one-time
mayor, who twice was speaker
Of the States House Of Dele
gates and thrice its floor leader,
said he will file next week for
the post now held by Republic
can Representative Frank Small,
jr.
The 58-year-old Prince
Georges County attorney viii OPP
pose the two Democrats now in
the race, Delegate Richard e.
Landlord of Anne Arundel
County and Robert M. Watkins,
chairman Of the Maryland-N Ma
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Mr.. White was one of the
losers in a large primary race for
the same Office In 1852. and the
winner, MIR. Landlord, was de-
feated in the general election by
Mr.. Small.
A native uf Philadelphia, Mr..
White has practiced law in Prince
Prince Georges for a years. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
u. ). School Grants
Include Fairfax and
ST. Marys Counties

Fairfax County, Va, and St.
Marys County, Md, share in
s1l.5 million in Federal school
construction grants announced
today by S. M. ,Brownell, COM
missioner of education.
The grant of 100000 to Fair
fax County is the largest ear
marked for any of the 80 school
districts participating. Fairfax
school officials said the money
would be used to help build the
new $1.3 million Mclean High
School.
st. Marys County school off,
Gals said the money earmarked
for that county would be used
to build an addition at the
Great Mills High School. The
addition will consist of a wing
containing 10 classroomS, a
multi-purpose room, a home
economics suite and a shop.
The Federal grants are made
according to the impact of Fed
eral employment on local school
enrollmentS. Twenty States
share in the grants announced
today Virginia's total share of
$2.6 million is the largest ear
marked for any State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Dope Arrests Linked
To Maryland Theft

Silver Spring detectives sought
today to link the arrest of two
area men in Tennessee with
the theft of narcotics from the
Four Corners Drug Store. Coles
vile and Old Bladensburg
Roads, February 81.
The Associated Press said Rob.
ert A. Cameron. "a, of WASH
ington, and E. c. Blair, 81. Of
Asheville. N. c., and Alexandria.
Va, were arrested in Johnson
City. Tenn. and held for the
grand jury on narcotics charges.
Police there said a key found
in an apartment fitted a bus
station locker and yielded drugs
valued at about SIS 1000. The men
and four other persons living in
Tennessee were held in Jail in
nearby Joensboro, Tenn.
Detective Ronald j. LOOMS Of
the Silver Spring detective force
said the description of the mar
coticS was similar to those stolen
from the drug store. He was at.
tempting to pin down the iden-
tif1action in talks with TenneS.
see police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Alexandra Ahead
In Fight for Funds
BY a StoH Correspondent Of The S,or

RICHMOND, Mar. 10.-Alex-
andria today emerged the win
ner Of the first round of a dis
pute with Fairfax county over
disposition Of some $4,000 in
Observation-Disclosures funds.
The Senate Finance Committee
reported the bill of Delegate
Armistead Boothe Of Alexandria,
last night. paving the way for
his city to claim the money here
tofore credited to the county.
Last night Alexandria school
superintendent T. c. Williams
appeared with Mr.. Boothe to
support the measure while Mr..
Hirst spoke against it, in COM
pliance with a request from the
Fairfax school board received
since Saturday.
A dispute over the funds arose
as a result Of Alexandria annex
ing q large part Of the county's
territory about two years ago.
The city contends it assumed
the responsibility Of educating
children which the State cred
tied to Fairfax county prior to
annexation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
4-Hour, acknowledgements
To Settle Kensington Pool

An overflow crowd heard more
than four hours of testimony
yesterday in a zoning hearing on
a swimming pool planned near
KenSington, Md.
Arguments still are not COM
plete. Lawyers for both sides
must file briefs with the Mont
gomery County Board of APP
peals. This is expected to take
almost three weeks.
At one time, more than ITO
persons crowded the hearing
room in the county building in
Bethesda, and the corridor out
side the room. Milton Smith
said it was the biggest turnout
in his approximately 80 months
on the appeals board.
The Cedarbrook Club, Inc, ap-
piled for permission to build q
pool on a 2.6-acre tract at Sum-
NIT avenue and Cedar Lane, just
outside the limits of Kensington.
Joseph M. Matthias, lawyer for
the club. said it would be a pri-
vate. non-prof1t pool.
Complicated by Rejection.
Earlier yesterday the county
rejected the clubs application
for a building permit. The re-
lection, by the county attorney,
complicated the coming board
case.
The building application de-
scribed the project as private,
non commercial pool" The
clubs proposal does not qualify
as such, the county attorney
ruled.
Attorneys said the county's
new coming code uses the phrase
''privateA non-commercial pool"
to apply only to one such as
would be built in somebody's
back yard, for the use Of one
family and its friends.
The Kensington site is re-
stricted now to single, detached
dwellings,. The Cedarbrook Club
seeks a special exception.
Twenty-one neighbors are
fighting the application. Their
lawyer, w. p. Benton, asked the
coming board to dismiss the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Prince Georges
Bar Endorses
Judge Morbury

Judge Charles c. Marbury
today has the active support o.
the Prince Georges County Bar
Association in his bid for a seat
on the Maryland Court of APP
pealS.
The association unanimously
Endorsed his candidacy yesterday
and asked the president to APP
point a special committee to
meet members Of the bar in
other circuits with a view to
assuring Judge Marbury's nom
nation and election"
The resolution said in part:
Judge Marbury's experience as
a trial judge, q State Senator. a
member of the House of Dele
gates and 20 years in the active
practice Of law, eminently quail
fies him for an appellate judge
ship"
Judge Marbury filed Monday
for the I'd Appellate Circuit seat.
Judge Hall Hammond Of Balti-
more County also il o candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Our Hidden Memorial
Our Hidden Memorial
ObIiteroting of UnsightIy Mask
To Reveal Beautiful Structure

Success OF the American
Legion's campaign to have
removed the 12-year-old tenn
porary building which borders
the south side of the Reflect
ing Pool would unmask one
of the Capitals loveliest and
most inspiring structures.
It is the District of Column
bia War Memorial. It was
erected to honor those who
served and those who gave
their lives in World War /.
Those who stroll along the
Rejecting Pool east of the
Lincoln Memorial are not con-
scious that the District War
Memorial is behind the un-
slightly temporary building
erected hurriedly in 1912.
But behind that building,
behind a high chain link fence
and. customarily. a row of
parked cars. stands the me-
mortal. 1t is a simply designed
white marble building with IL
Doric columns supporting a
dome.
In Avenue of Trees.
When President Herbert
Hoover dedicated it at solemn
ceremonies on Armistice Day,
1881, Frank B. Noyes, chair
man Of the District War Me-
mortal Commission, said:
THE exquisite beauty of the
memorial. exquisite in line and
in material, carries with it no
suggestion of mourning, but
rather that Of a solemn and
exultant JOY in being thus
privileged to commemorate the
service. the bravery and the
sacrifice Of those here hon.
ored."
The memorial stands in an
open avenue flanked by the
trees of West Potomac Park.
This open space runs from In
dependence avenue to the
south. Motorists using that
road catch a glimpse of the
rear Of the memorial.
The memorial faces to the
north-and the fence and the
serried wings in the rear of
the temporary building. The
structure is actually four
buildings. designated as Tenn
porary Buildings I. j, K and L.
The Rev. William B. Adams,
commander of the District de-
partment of the American Le-
gion, is asking that the tenn
porary building be removed.
He has called for this to be
done before the American Le-
gion holds its convention here
next August. The veterans who
will be here. he said. should
have an opportunity to see the
memorial to their comrades
erected by the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10

He argued the pool should be
judged as a commercial venture
and thus subject to coming laws
which would keep it out of the
residential area around Summit
avenue and Cedar lane.
Taken Under Amusement.
The board took his motion un-
der advisement.
Donald S. StrOetzel, tempo
rary president of the club, said
its members would be from West
Kensington. Chevy Chase View
and Park Wood, all living and
owning property within a mile
Of the pool site.
The club is currently limiting
membership to $50 families, he
said. Mr.. Matthias said 42O fam
lilies would be the absolute limit.
A petition signed by 762 non
members was entered in support
Of the club.
Vary on Effect.
Mr.. Stroetzel said the pool
would fill real need"
Mason Butcher, county public
works director, testified the club
would not increase traffic haz-
ards at the intersection.
Mrs. Margaret Dunkley, first
vice president of the Montgom-
cry County Real Estate Board,
told the board the pool would
increase property values in the
area. But b. Franklin Kahn,
another real estate broker, said
there's no question in my mind
it will hurt the value of those
homes" Immediately adjoining
the tract.
Mrs. Daniel Bontecou, 4021
Cleveland street. said the area S
residents moved there Ito obtain
peace and quiet" The neighbour
hoods character would be
destroyed if the pool is built, she
said.
Mrs. George Fischer, 10207
Summit avenue, on the corner
Of Cedar lane, said the intersec-
ton is a traffic danger spot now
and would be worse if the pool is
built, attracting more cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10

The cornerstone Of the me-
mortal is to the left as the Wis
itor mounts the steps on the
north side of the structure. On
it is carved:
This memorial was erected
through the voluntary sub
scriptions of the people of
Washington. 1t was dedicated
on Armistice Day, 1881. by
Herbert Hoover. President of
the United States. Within this
cornerstone are recorded the
names of the twenty-six thou
sand Washingtonians who,
when the United States entered
the World War. answered the
call to arms and served in the
Army. Navy. Marine Corps and
Coast Guard"
Perpetual Record.
In the marble to the right Of
the steps is this:
THE names of the men and
women from the District Of
Columbia who gave their lives
in the World War are here in
scribed as perpetual record
Of their patriotic service to
their country. Those who fell
and those who survived have
given to this and future gen.
erations an example of high
idealism. courageous sacrifice
and gallant achievement"
Then. carved on the circular
base of the memorial. are the
names Of those who gave their
lives in that war. It is a long
list.
The visitor to the memorial
may wonder what the dead
would think of the memorial
still barricaded behind a dilap-
idated building after the
emergency is past for which
the temporary building was
erected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
SIS Million School Loan

ANNAPOLIS. Md. Mar. 10 CF).
- The Anne Arundel County
Commissioners yesterday ap-
proved a loan of SIS million to
the County Board of Education
for building new elementary
schools at North Linthicum and
JeSsup and additions to existing
facilities at Reviera Beach and
the Glen Burnie Senior High
School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Montgomery Board
Representation
Raise for Teachers

The Montgomery County
Board of Education announced
a new proposed teacher pay
schedule yesterday giving pro-
fessional personnel an average
increase Of $500 a year and
liberalizing other benefits.
School Board officials said the
increase, estimated to cost 81.
million after 200 additional
teachers are hired next year to
staff new schools, would make
Montgomery's salaries for ex-
perienced teachers the highest
in the Washington area. The
county now employees about
1900 teachers. Funds for the
pay increases are subject to the
approval Of the County Council
as a part Of the overall school
operating budget.
Delayed Announcement.
The recommended increase
was approved at a midnight
meeting of the board March /,
but announced only yesterday
H. Stanley Slime, board mem
Der. said persons present at the
March meeting apparently
went home after the board
closed it's doors for a two-hour
executive session. The vote was
taken in open meeting later, he
said.
Teachers with a bachelors de-
gree would start at $3,400 and
get $5.450 after IA years under
the new scale, an increase of
from 5000 to $3.50. Nineteen
years is required under the pres
ent scale for them to reach the
maximum salary.
DR.. Norris said the board
would consider the details of
how to put the proposed salary
schedule into effect at a meet
ing Monday night at Montgom-
cry Junior College in Takoma
Park.
Three-Year Spread.
He said the pay increases
probably would be spread over
three years. This would require
an item of about $500, 900 in the
1885 school budget for the first
year the higher salaries 60 into
effect.
Also adopted was a longevity
program providing increases of
5000 for each five years Of service
computed from September 1.
1850, up to a maximum of $500.
The School Board also pro-
vided for an extra payment of
5000 to a teacher who completes
80 hours Of approved work
beyond the masters degree and
$400 for a teacher who is
awarded a doctors degree.
Administrative secretaries en-
ployed by the School Board in
effect take a cut in pay under
the new scale. They will be put
on a 12-month's instead of a
10-month's basis, at their
present salary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
lS Stenoerophers Rate
Foirfox Delegate Tops
BY O Stoff Correspondent Of The s,or

RICHMOND. Mar. 10.-There
are Is stenographers working for
the General Assembly who have
chosen Delegate John c. Webb
Of Fairfax as their "favorite
freshman" legislator Of the 1854
session.
A resolution" to this effect
was read by the clerk of the
House yesterday. Mr.. Webb had
presented all of the girls in the
House stenographers pool with
carnation corsages earlier in the
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
Byrd Agrees
10 Revision
OF Tax Law
Il.
Move Would Permit
State to Accumulate
Limited SurpIuses
By Alex R. Preston
Sior Stotf Correspondent

RICHMOND, Mar. 10.-State
Senator Harry F. Byrd. jr., to.
day agreed to revision of his au.
tomato tax credit law to allow
the State to accumulate limited
SURPRISES before reductions are
made on tax bills.
Declaring. II have no objec.
ton to this proposal" the Win.
chester legislator for the first
time in the 1854 session of the
General Assembly expressed q
willingness to go along with one
Of several assaults made on his
controversial law.
This development came as the
Senate Finance Committee was
ready to report the three-quar-
ter billion dollar budget bill
without. ST million in additional
appropriations tackled or the
measure by the House of Dele
gates.
1nasmuch as the House
amendments involve suspension
Of the Byrd tax credit law this
year to make that much in sur
plus funds available. the Win.
chester senator expressed "unre.
lenting" opposition to that pro-
poSal.
Compromise Measure.
The plan he agreed to was re-
ported to be compromise meas
ure between the two branches
of the legislature-that is, if the
Senate would accept the bill to
revise the Byrd law, the House
would agree to the Senate re-
moving the extra 81 million
which was to go to equalizing
teachers salaries. mental and
physical health facilities and in
situations of higher education.
mainly.
There were some delegates,
however, who said they would
insist that the Senate accept
both the revisions to the Byrd
law and the House-approved
budget bill.
Revisions to the Byrd law were
approved by the House Saturday
when it passed a bill by Dele
gate N. w. Pendleton of Wythe.
vile. The changes would not be.
come operative until next year.
thus having no effect on the 81
million budget amendment or
the amount due to be credited
to income taxpayers in Deem
Der.
On the other hand. the budget.
as it left the House, carried the
81 million amendment of Dele
gate Armistead Boothe of Alex
andria, and may co-patrons.
Byrd's Comment.
This was Senator Byrd's COM
ment:
Il shall continue to fight Wig
orously and unrelentingly the
Boothe amendment to the appro-
priations bill because:
Il. It breaks a pledge the.
Legislature made to the tax
payers.
20. 1t is thoroughly unsound in
that it would use surplus funds
for recurring expenses. radical
departure from Virginia's sound
financial policies.
with reference to the
amended Pendleton bill (amended
to make it effective next year,,
it does not affect in any way the
principle of the automatic tax
reduction law nor does it touch
on the 1854 tax credit money in
which the taxpayers already
have an equity.
1T would permit the State to
retain approximately SO million
in excess funds, if any, before
tax reductions become effective.
] have no objections to this pro-
posal'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-10
School Board
In Fairfax Asks
$500 Increase
SIG Million Budget
Goes to Supervisors
After Stormy Session

A 5000 increase in teacher
salaries is provided in the SIG
million school budget to be pre-
sented by the Fairfax County
School Board today to the
Board of County Supervisors.
Originally, the School Board
proposed a $500 increase but
agreed to the higher increase
yesterday after bitter exchanges
among its members.
The 5000 increase will cost an
additional $106,820. The School
Board confined the actual in
crease above the original budget
to $50. $50. however. by making
reductions Of $75.370 elsewhere.
AS the school budget now
stands. it apparently requires a
33-cent increase in the county
tax levy. The boards original
budget proposal anticipated a
31-cent boost.
Citizens Favor Move.
Overwhelming sentiment for
the higher teacher pay scale was
expressed at q public hearing
conducted by the School Board
Monday night. The new pro-
posed scale runs from $4,000 to
$500 in II years.
when we asked for a showing
Of hands. only one was raised
against the higher SCALE" said
Mrs. H. c. Crowther. School
Board chairman, recalling the
public hearing.
There were a lot of teachers
at that hearing. Naturally they
all want raises. I discount that
vote completely" said Richard
Stands.
F. w. Robinson nodded agree
ment: Completely"
Robert F. Davis, who lives near
Annandales said every one in his
district, favored more money for
schools, instead of less.
That's silly" replied Mr..
Robinson. 1--WE should try to
do a better job with less money"
Mr.. Robinson, who lives in
Herndon. said the residents of
his. area thought the School
Board was wasting money-"and
I'm not so sure that they aren't
right I'm not convinced that
this budget couldn't have plenty
wrung out of it and still not
affect education"
Budget Cuts.
Here are the cuts the board
made: Supervisor Of fine arts
eliminated, $4,000: four secre-
taries for principals. $500; one
tractor, $4,000; improvement of
school sites, $4,000; two new
buses and drivers. $13, 220; MAIN
tenance of buildings and grounds,
$4,000. and maintenance SAL
aries, $25.l50.
Supt. w. T. Woodson par
ticularly protested the mainte-
nance reductions. He argued
that the county would have
more schools next year, and
needed more money and en-
ployes to maintain them.
Mr.. Darr retorted that Gus
todians should do more mainte-
nance work. instead of calling
for maintenance men every time
a nail comes loose.
The supervisors may reduce
the total amount Of the school
budget, but cannot tell the
School Board what specific cuts
to make. The supervisors pro-
pose to hold a public hearing
April 10 on the complete county
budget.