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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21

brother. Marion. are his father,
David. an employe of the Cen
eral Accounting Office. and his
mother. Mrs Virginia Petite,
2510 North Mckinley street,
Arlington.
Two sisters also survive. They
are Mrs. Lois Bethel. of the
Shirley-Duke Apartments. Al
exandria. and Mrs. Dorothy Will
kinson. of Willston Apartments.
Fairfax County.
Funeral services will be held at
1880 pm Monday in the Ives
Funeral Home, 2847 Wilson bou-
levard. Arlington. Burial will be
in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21

Although the commissions
job was confined to studying ex-
penses in the transit case, the
members said: 1T is, of course,
our duty SO to act as to avoid
any possibility of infringing
Constitution rights"
The commission said, more
over. that insufficient evidence
was produced by the company
and the transit operators union
to show that hiring Negroes
might provoke a strike or walk
out among white operators. The
commission promised. however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Buck Lecture Monday

Pearl S. Buck. author and lee
turer, will speak on the Men
tally Retarded Child and the
Community" at $3.50 pm. next
Monday in the Woodward and
Lothrop auditorium, Chevy
Chase. Md. A story in The Star
yesterday incorrectly gave the
date as today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Notation by Judge
On Order Warned
OF Parks Gun

Arlington County Judge
Paul d. Brown. who issued
the order that Jack Carl
Parks be taken into custody
for mental examination. at
tached a note saying:
The man is supposed to
be dangerous and is armed
sleeps with a gun and keeps
it on him day and night"
Parks fatally shot Detec.
tive Russell c, Petite before
he himself was MORALLY
wounded as dozens Of police
men fired on his home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Youth Council Names
More Committees
For Juvenile Work

The Commissioners Youth
Council today approved two
more of its area committees and
voted to direct the existing area
groups. to set up special units
to help teen-agers get jobs in
their neighborhoods.
In other actions at its regular
meeting. the council.
I. Noted %he appointment of
three special committees COM
posed Of its members and others
to deal with city-wide problems
involving the schools. recreation
and the family.
2. Asked the newly appointed
family committee to study and
report on proposed legislation
to establish a family court here.
3. Approved the proposal of a
council member, Sidney Lust,
theater owner. to ask theater
managers to make a certain
number OF movie passes avail
able to area committees to dis
tribute to children as they see
fit. The passes were suggested
as a possible reward for desery-
ing children or as a recreation
measure to get children of the
streets.
4. Tabled a motion from a
council member, Mrs. John C,
Payne, for the council to go on
record as favoring a policy of
making treatment, services and
facilities in neighborhood areas
and in the community as a whole
available to all children and
citizens on an integrated basis
without respect to race. creed,
color, social or economic posi-
ton.
5. Voted not to accept an in
vitation from the Greater WASH
ington Educational Television
Association. Inc. to serve on the
associatioI1as Advisory Commit
TEE. was decided that this
was not within the functions OF
the Youth Council.
The special committees named
by the council chairman, Mrs
Henry Grattan Doyle, will work
with existing agencies on prob
lens affecting the city at large.
They are:
Family-Msgr. John s. Spence
chairman: Recreation Director
Milo F. Christensen, School SUI
perintendent Hobart M. Corn
ing and Mrs. Payne.
Schools--Dr. Zigmond M. Leb-
ensohn. chairman: DR.. Addison
NJ. Duval, Mrs. Bessie w. Cra-
mer,. L. Roscoe Evans, Ferdinand
". Grayson. DR.. M. Virginia
FO'Neil, Welfare Director Gerard
M. Shea and SCR. Spence.
Recreation - G. Rowland
Shaw, chairL.ali; Mr.. Christian
sen, Mr.. Evans, DR.. c. Herbert
Marshall. Ralph D. Pittman and
Mr.. Lust.
DR.. Duval. assistant superin-
tendent Of st. EliZabethS Hospi-
tai and head Of the Kiwanis psy-
chiatric clinic II Anacostia, and
Mrs. Bessie w. Cramer, in charge
Of special services in the public
schools, were the only non-mem-
bers of the council named to the
special committees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Chevy Chase Group
To Fight Erection Of
PEPC0 Subsfation

Residents Of Section 4. Chevy
Chase. Nd, are making plans
to fight a decision Of the Mont
gomery County Board of Zoning
Appeals granting the Potomac
Electric Power Co. permission to
construct q new substation in
the 5000 block of East West
highway, just west Of Connecti-
cut avenue.
The matter will be discussed
in detail at the annual meeting
of the Citizens Committee Of
Section 4 at 8 pm. February 2,
at the Chevy Chase Elementary
School,
This is revealed in a notice
now being distributed to residents
Of the area by Loren g. Pol
hamus. chairman Of the Citizens
Committee.
Committee to Act.
Mr.. Polhamus announced that
the committee plans to take "all
possible action to block a viola
ton Of the sections building
regulations"
Permission to erect the struc-
ture was granted by the Board
Of Zoning Appeals on January
IL. following a hearing at the
Bethesda County Building De-
ceinber 8. at which opposition
was expressed by a spokesman
for. the committee.
The spokesman. Attorney
Kenneth N. Parkinson. objected
on grounds the appeals board
did not have legislative author
ity to grant a special coming
exception In. special taxing
area such as Section 4. He con-
tended the action was contrary
to rules and regulations set up
by Section 4, was contrary to
covenants that went with the
land in that area. and that
nothi1i but single-family dwell
ings could be built ana Cor res
idential purposes only
Two Restrictions added.
In its application filed with
the appeals board last Novem-
Der 20. Pepco said it would erect
a building which would look
like a house from the outside.
It would be a two-story Colonial
type building. with brick facing
over cinderblock, at a cost Of
about $4,000.
The appeals board, however,
added two restrictions to the
original plans in handing down
its decision. One specified that
such acoustical material shall
be installed as viii make any
sound eminating from the in
terror Of the structure inaudible
at the applicants property line. I"
The second directed that shut
tiers shall be installed on the
outside windows at the front,
east and west sides Of the struc-
ture so that it will be harmonic
Gus in appearance with reSiden-
tial buildings in the vicinity. I"
The appeals board Office said
today that the next step could
be an appeal to the county Cir
cult Court contesting validity Of
the boards action. This must
be done within 80 days of the
decision or by February IL.
Also scheduled at the same
meeting will be the fixing of the
special tax rate for the area for
the fiscal year beginning July l
and election Of two committee
members for two-year terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Action 10 Force
Transit 10 Hire
Negroes Seen
Legislative Move
Threatened Unless
Firm Settles Issue
BIZ Don S. Worren

v
Members Of the Payne sub
committee Of the Senate said to-
day they would seek legislation
to deal with failure Of the Capt.
tai Transit Co. to hire Negroes
as streetcar and bus operators
If the. issue cannot be resolved
yoluntrily by the company and
the union.
A statement to this effect was
made first at today's transit in
duiry nearing by Senator Morse,
Independent, Of Oregon. and was
quickly backed up by Genator
Payne. Republican. Of Maine,
subcommittee chairman.
The development came after
Walter j. Bierwagon, president
Of the local transit workers
union. assured the subcommittee
his union would not sanction
violations Of the union consti-
tuition forbidding racial discrimi-
nation.
Would Be Violation.
Mr.. Bierwagon told the sub
committee: ANY union member
who violates the union law is
violating the unions concept of
fair play.
II can't give assurances as to
what individual union members
might do. I can give assurances
that any dissident member will
not be supported or condoned by
the association (union)."
Senator Morse interpreted this
as a declaration by the union
president that the union would
take disciplinary action against
union members causing work
stoppages if the etc proceed
ed to hire Negro platform oper-
atorS. Mr.. Bierwagon agreed
with that Interpretation.
Senator Morse specifically sug-
gested that the card of a union
member be taken up If he re-
fused to work because a Negro
operator were hired.
BrOadwater Denies Ban.
j. A. B. Broadwater. company
president. has testified the COM
pany has no ban on the employ
ment Of Negro operators, but
last Tuesday fatty declared the
company would not hire such
Negro employees as long as there
was threat Of a strike over
the issue.
He and other company off,
Gals attended today's session but
had no immediate response to
the Payne-Morse statements.
Senator Morse said This places
the question squarely up to the
company management"
He said the ball had been
batted back and forth much too
long, that the time had come to
end che batting practice and
to get on with the ball game.
Broyhill Testifies.
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican, Of Virginia appearing
before the subcommittee yester-
day, resumed his fight for the
creation Of a Metropolitan Area
transit study commission and
against proposals for a regional
regulatory body.
81 have often heard it said
facetiously that the District of
Columbia is a 'one-horse town
when it comes to the handling
Of problems such as these and
traffic and snow removal" he
said.
"The setting up of a Federal
regulatory transit commission, in
my considered opinion. COM
pounds that jestful Indictment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Mckinley High
Shift Linked 10
Court Decision
Dr.. Corning Awaits
Segregation Ruling
TO Signal Action
By jones G. Deone

The future of Mckinley and
Armstrong High Schools now
appears tied to the forthcoming
Supreme Court decision on school.
race segregation.
School Superintendent Hobart
M. Corning yesterday said he has
decided colored Armstrong; stu
dents should be moved to Nc
Kinley. But he said the Supreme
Court decision must come first.
If the court bans segregation.
McKinley's white students would
stay, and the big plant at Sec
ond and T streets NE. would
become the city'S only technical
high school. If segregation con-
tinues, the white students would
move elsewhere.
Apart from waiting for the
court decision, however, DIR. Cor
ming said it also will be neces-
sary to get money for alterations
and new equipment and that
any move would take months.
He made 1t clear that for these
reasons no shift is likely before
next fall.
Board Action Later.
Board Of Education members.
to whom the superintendent
made known his decision yester-
day. did not discuss it formally.
The boards approval would be
necessary.
The board accepted with only
one dissent, however. a report by
the superintendent which-be-
sides making the Armstrong-Mc-
Kinley proposal-defended steps
taken to improve conditions in
the colored schools.
DR.. Corning's report was made
in response to instructions by
the board last month to end GER
tain inequalities between the coll
ored and white schools or ex-
plain why this can not be done.
The instructions were inspired
by complaints by Mrs. Margaret
j. Butcher. colored member. that
inequalities haven't been ended
fast enough.
Wanted Immediate Move.
One Of Mrs. Butchers COM
plants was about conditions at
Armstrong. She wanted ARM
strong students moved to Nc
Kinley this, month. The colored
member also complained that
white schools have teacher sur
plus while colored schools have
a shortage. And she charged
that colored schools have too few
kindergartents.
The superintendent report
said, in effect. that everything
possible is being done. Oily Mrs.
Butcher voted against accept
ing it.
Then the colored member
twice tried to get the. board to
admit that the colored and white
schools cannot be equalized. No
one seconded either motion.
Finally, Mrs. Butcher asked
the board to order DR.. Corning
to supply detailed answers to A
questions regarding equality. On
this the board split evenly, but
President C. Melvin Sharpe cast
the deciding vote against her.
DR.. Corning's report admitted
inequalities within the school
system. He blamed them. how
ever, on rapid enrolment
changes. Since 1945 white en-
rollment has dropped 9.5 per
cent. but colored enrolment has
jumped over 81 per cent.
Since 1945 many white teacher
posts have been abolished or
frozen" and the salaries
switched to the colored schools.
The white schools now have SO
fewer teachers than a year ago.
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Campus Light Stops
Speeder as Police
Fail to Catch Him

A 24-year-old Philadelphia dry
cleaning worker was charged
with speeding at 100 miles an
hour on Baltimore boulevard
from Laurel to College Park after
a 15-mile chase early today.
State Trooper Jack R. Corum
said campus police at the Uni
versity of Maryland turned a
traffic light at University lane
red "or / might never have
caught him." Held in default
of $1,100 bond on charges of ex-
ceeding 70 m.p.h. and driving
without a permit was Theodore
Freeman, colored.
Freeman stopped at the red
light after Trooper Corum alerted
police down the line by radio.
The trooper said Freeman, driv-
ing late model convertible, "had
to be going at least 100. It looked
like I was standing still, and /
was doing 90."
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Wafer Ban Ordered
In Rockville SHORTAGE

Rockville residents are facing
their first serious water shortage
OF the summer today.
City Manager John Mcdonald
reported to the City Council last
night that water pressure had
fallen.
The council interrupted a zon-
ing hearing to order sound trucks
to be dispatched through the
city today warning residents of
the water shortage and asking
householders not to use hoses.
Later the council acted to give
the Mayor power to curtail out
side water use during summer
dry spells. The ordinance, which
the Mayor may invoke when
water storage falls below 25O.OOO
gallons, provides a maximum fine
OF $50 for use of hoses for
watering, Sprinkling or car wash
ing. Council members empha-
sized that watering by bucket
would be permitted.
City officials expect the towns
hookup to Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission lines to be
completed by August /.
Until last nights emergency
arose outdoor water use had been
curtalled on a voluntary basis
with odd and even numbered
houses using water on alternate
days,
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Parking Site Action
Set in Silver Spring

The Montgomery County
Council yesterday took the first
step toward acquisition of addi-
tlonal public parking land in
Silver Spring.
The council ordered prepared
a resolution for a public hear
ing on a tract of $4,000 SQUARE
feet at Second avenue and Fid-
lers lane. The council will take
up the proposal at its meeting
next Tuesday.
The Department of Public
Works informed the council that
the property would cost $4,000.
about $2.42 a square foot. 1t
would serve the area of the Sill
yer Spring business community
near ColeSville road.
The council commended Will
liam w. Hodges for his service
as a member of the County Tax
Appeal Court from June, 1852
until June l, this year, when his
term expired.
In another action the council
ordered the fire naaSshal's Office
70 prepare report on the fire
which destroyed Derwood Mill
Monday. Councilwoman Mrs.
Stella B. Werner questioned
whether such fires could be
avoided in the future by tighter
safety regulations.
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Arlington Sets Funds
For Pre-SchooI Plan

The Arlington County Board
has agreed to appropriate $780,
600 to finance a pre-primary
school program next September
for five and one-half year-old
children.
The board acted last night
after receiving a request for the
funds from the School Board.
In a letter to the School Board,
Mrs. Leone B. Buchholz, chair
man of the County Board, said it
is the County Boards under
standing that "the training pro-
gram for the youngsters so en-
rolled will be such that they will
be eligible for promotion to the
second grade next year in those
instances when they have fin
iShed one year of this training
and their abilities and capabili-
ties so warrant. It is our under
standing" Mrs. Buchholz said,
that this is not a kindergarten
program but in a sense a five
and one-half year-old program.
Children whose sixth birthday
comes after october / but before
January 2 will be eligible for
the pre-primary program.
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Deputy Sheriff Found
Guilty in Fraud
By the Assoeiofed Press

HAGERSTOwN, Md, June o.
One deputy sheriff was ac-
quilted and another convicted
yesterday of charges of irregu-
larities in the purchase of sup
plies for the Washington Coun-
ty Jail and sheriff's Office.
Charles w. Fred Crowl, Boons-
boro automobile dealer and hon.
orary deputy sheriff, was con-
victed of trying to defraud the
county of $32.16.
Later in the day a jury ac-
quilted Michael Farrie, another
deputy, of a similar charge Of
trying to defraud the county
commissioners.
The trials were the first since
the May grand jury indicted
Sheriff Edward L. Rowland,
Crowl. Farrie. two other depu-
ties and a meat dealer, charg-
ing irregularities in the pur-
chaSeS.
Crowl'S sentence was deferred
until all the cases are heard.
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Police CurnivuI Aids
disqualification Fund

The first of two outdoor car
nivalS sponsored by the Prince
Georges County Police Associa-
ton for benefit Of its hospitali-
zation fund is in progress this
week on Ager road. near Riggs
road, Green Meadows.
The affair opened Monday
night and will continue through
Saturday night. A similar carni-
val will be held later ip the
lower section of the county.
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Citizens Challenge
County,
OF School Costs

Validity of statistics contained
in a report by the Montgomery
County School Board showing
the county spends less on school
costs than comparable communi-
ties has been challenged.
The Montgomery County Tax
payers, Inc, in a letter to the
County Council, charged that the
school report "is filled with sig
nif1cant statistical errors of omis-
sion and commission.
The citizens group charged
that one-fourth of the school
boards proposed operating bud
get for the coming fiscal year is
devoted to attempting to prove
that Montgomery County COM
pares unfavorably with similar
communities in respect to funds
allocated for school costs and
services"
This charge was contained in
an analysis of the school boards S
report on the $11 1892 900 operat-
ing budget. The analysis accom-
panied the letter which was
signed by James R. Miller, presi-
dent of the group.
The analysis was prepared by
Chester E. Rightor, Statistician
at the United States Bureau of
the Census, and the summary of
the analysis was prepared by
Morris Allen, executive director
OF the taxpayers group.
The boards report was chal-
lenged on three grounds by the
citizens group which contended:
/ Higher dollar expenditures
do not necessarily mean school
children receive a better educa-
ton.
2. Montgomery County differs
in many important respects from
the communities with which it
was compared.
3. Few communities in the
country have grown as large and
as fast as Montgomery County
and yet provided the educational
opportunities the county has.
The finding in the board re-
port that Montgomery ranked
low in the communities studied
on the basis of per pupil cost and
pupil-teacher ratio as well as
teacher salary schedules was
challenged on the ground that
one of the primary factors de-
terming school costs - popu-
lation per square mile-was not
considered.
On the basis of their analysis,
the citizens report declares,
Montgomery County need make
no apologies regarding it's school
costs and services"
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Couple Learn Whereabouts
Of AT Son Via Radio Ham

A Falls Church couple, waiting
for word of where their Air
Force pilot son had been as
signed overseas, learned of his
whereabouts from an amateur
radio operator in nearby Vienna,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Heating, 220
Buxton road, received a message
from 1t. Comdr. David G. Cowie
of Vienna that their son, 1t.
Ray Keating. jr., had arrived in
Korea.
The message received by Comdr
Cowie last week end had been
relayed by amateur operators
across the Pacific and then
across the Nation to Vienna.
1t. Heating. a fighter pilot.
left the United States about
three weeks ago.
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Her Grondud Also
Made a Phone Call
Without Paying
BY the Associosed Press

FREDERICK, June 9. The
telephone company opened q
swanky new outdoor toll booth
at Jefferson and West South
streets, near the junction of
U. S. 40. U. s. 240 and U. s. $40.
Walter Lanius. company man
ager. stepped out and hailed q
driver waiting at a traffic light.
Would she like to make q free
call just to demonstrate how the
thing works?
Surely" said Mrs. Walter X.
Myers, wife of a Washington
physician on her way home from
Mercersburg. Pa.
She called her aunt, Mrs.
David Fairchild, In Miami.
'This is hard to believe" Mrs.
Myers saiA MY aunt is q
daughter of Alexander G1hham
Bell and I'm q granddaughter"
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Boost Is Urged
On Sewage Tax
For Suburbs
Commission Plan
To Affect 100000
In Maryland

A substantial increase in sew
age use taxes is contemplated in
an extension of service by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission.
About 100000 residents of
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties would be affected by
the increase if present plans
materialize.
1t is estimated that by 1858
the commission will raise it's sew
age tax from IA to 18 cents per
1000 gallons of water.
Keefer Gives Prospects.
The prospects were outlined
last night by Arthur C. Keefer,
chief counsel of the commission,
in a discussion of sewage disposal
projects. The attorney spoke at
a meeting of the Morningside,
Camp Springs and Forrestville
Citizens Associations at the Odd
Fellows Hall in ForreStville.
Mr.. Keefer explained that a
sewage tax increase is the only
way the Sanitary Commission
can finance a $13,473 500 pro-
gram for extended service. 1t is
a 10-year program.
The commission proposes to
construct seven large trunk
sewers and one water line. Under
the engineering plan, the COM
mission facilities would connect
with District lines, so the District
could treat sewage from the sub
urban areas.
Mr.. Keefer said there is no
way to meet the acute sanitary
and water problems in the county
communities except to enter into
a contract with the District
Commissioners.
There isn't a single stream
In the WSSC area in which we
can dispose of sewage" he de-
clared. What else can we do?
Its a question of, Take it or
leave it. What the people want
to do about it, can't tell you"
If the contract is closed, it is
estimated the District would be
paid SIS million over the 10-year
period.
Airlines' Use of Andrews.
In another talk. Col./Marshall
Elkins. commanding officer at
Andrews Air Force Base, told the
citizens the Pentagon again is
considering the use of Andrews
for commercial flights, to relieve
congestion at National Airport.
i have been asked for facts
and figures which 1 must sup
ply" Col. Elkins said. He added
the field would continue as
military base.
IF the airlinerS come" he
said, sit will be on a temporary
basis and the commercial planes
will apparently use Andrews un-
til 1883"