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BETHESDA, MD.
OPEN SUNDAY, 2-6
4511 West Virginia Ave.

$l7,75O-TERMS
Detached, beautiful brick
home. 2-story; immaculate
cond., attrac. liv. rm., firepl..
French door leading to side
porch over built-in garage;
din. rm., kit. . bedrms., bath.
lge. closets; bsmt.. law, gas
heat: beautiful yard with
flowers; cow. to all schools.
transp., shopping. vet in de-
hghtful residential section.
HU. 3-3316. CHAPMAN
REALTY CO.. RA. 3-4SS4.
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B e t h e S d q

w H / T z
v A c A N T
B r c K
Reduced to S16,950! Completely
redec.. 6 rms, level fenced lot.
nr. Edgemoor.
TENCHER- WALKER, INC.
ia. 2-52S0 AID. 4-2644
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SHANNON & LUCHS co.
hnAn Conn Ava N w KE Qnn
QUIET AND COOL

This fine brick rambler situated
next to Sligo Greek Parkway ex-
tended. Offers the finest in con-
struction in the low price field.
Featuring lge. liv. rm. din. rm.,
kitchen, bedrms and bath Full
eesmt, Lse. lot. Excellent financing.
MODERN REALTY CO., INC.
JU 1880 TIL . PM.
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BETHESDA
TO SETTLE ESTATE
$19,500

Opportunity to purchase q lovely Co.
lonial detached brick home on Iarg.
level lot near the National Institute.
Of Health. Consisting of 6 room!
and tile bath plus powder room OF
first floor. Screened porch and at.
tached garage, full basement with
lavatory, storage room and outsid,
entrance. Gas air-conditioned heat
located on dead-end street. Cal
Mr Mott; Elk. 3-24SO or OIL. 9.
FRED A. SMITH CO.
Realtors lib 18th st. NV
BETHESDA CLUB AREA
OPEN TO-DAY, 1-6
Country living at its best. See these
3 and bedrm. brick and redwood
ramblers today. nestled among the
trees on "a acre. Owners leaving
city and must sell. Frepl. in liv.
rm.. lge. delightful kit, ] u baths.
Attractively priced at $20.95O, SOL
$50. Dir: Out Wise. ave, left on
Old GEORGETOWN rd. 3 3/1O mi, left
Bellsmill I'd. l $40 mi, left on
Beacon terrace to 1924 and 1913.
ia. 9-6710. ME. S-4653.
FULTON r. GORDON, JR.. CO.
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COLORED-$1,500 DN., Sc.
Read thisl Nr. Lincoln Park. lst time
offered. II you have been looking and
can't see putting your money out
for . piece Of junk. then let me show
you this fine row brick house Con-
crete front porch: side-hall plan: g
lse: rms; 2 incl. heated. bricked-in
baths; Q kitchens; full. finished
hsmt.; Ice. yard; hardwood flrs.;
ranges, 2 refgrs; oil h.-w.h. Spot
less condition. Open for . trade or
low price. This is your chance. Call
now. FALLIN REALTY CO.. Ii. f.
1900 or 10 4-6O94 III
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COLORED

NO004649N
1f17 8. Carolina ave. Sc. Attractiye
2-story brick, semidet.; 8 rms, bath.
gas h.-w.h., toilet on 1st A.: $4,000.
81, 900 or more cash.
GUY THINNER
1899 18th st. NV. NO. 7-4907
COLORED-4% LOAN
= 432s Z ST. Sc.
OPEN SUNDAY, 2 TO 8
Lovely 5-rm. semidet, brk.. only 5
yrs. old: al metal YOUNGSTOWN kit.
160.ft. I'd. Finished rec. rm. IN
bsmt. $500 DIN! VACANTI COMPL.
REDEc. DI. 7-0713. "a
coLORED-OPEN sun. 2 to 8
1920 MASS. AVE. Sc.
9 COMP. BATHS-2 KITCHENS
Powder rm. on 1st fir.; finished hsmt.
with front and rear entrances: Inn
maeulate condition and ready for
immediate occupancy: nice front
porch, front and rear yards. garage.
1890 down. Mr.. David p. Luck
(RA. S-34s4l on premises.
J. y. BOONE. AGENT. DE-. 1-6420
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ATTENTION, VETS!
1855 down. SOL 81 mo-: immac. IA.
yr.-old brick home: 2 bedrms, day.
light bSmt. with outside entr.: SILL
700, full price. Owner. Navy man
must sell. Open daily, 1-6. LU.
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COLORED-OPEN ~
A1S 18th st. s.e.-Home and income
Must be seen to be appreciated.
large rms, . baths, large mod. kit
on 1St H., plus unusual equip. kit
in bSmt. Finished recr. rm.: hs-w
gas heat; det. garage; nice yard
S D. 3 oUANDER
AID, 2-S997. Ewes, RA. S-7050
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OPEN SUNDAY, 1-6
BEAT THE HEAT

Completely all conditioned new, g.
bedrm.. detached brick Colonial
Every extra. A street of new homes
in finest and convenient area. Will
take your older home in trade.
S19.950, with excellent terms; $3.-
ALDRE. INC.
LU. A.O747 or LU. 1-S1b2
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NEAR ARMY MAP SERVICE, in Gier
Echo Heights-Open Sunday 2 to d
pm. A new 3-bedrm. brick rambler
with II baths, din. rm.. paneled
$1S.450. Out Mass ave. ext, left
on ,Sangamore, right on MadaWaska,
right on Wissioming I'd 5000. MRS
,BQRGESS. Realtor, 61O9 Broad St.,
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First IL AIeo Rood
Open Sum- 7-Anoher thot will be hard beo for the
money Seven 2 bohs. Loroe wooded lot fine
neiehborhood All brick with sIote roof. $23,95o..
DIRECTIONS: Badle
s miles to Woodhapen Blud Alcott left
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terms as elsewhere, for the con-
struction and rehabilitation Of
homes in neighborhoods threat
ened with blight.
But slum clearance and re-
habilitation result in another and
a different blem. Where
salvage from blight is out of the
question, a great many slum
families must be rehoused in
decent homes. Most of these are
very poor families.
Since we do not at this time
have decent private housing
available that these families can
afford, the Housing Act of 1854
authorizes additional construc-
ton of Public Housing 68, 900
units over the next two years.
1t also states that new public
housing must be used for low
income families displaced as a
result Of slum clearance in other
governmental action.
This administrators new
Housing Act will also launch a
program to produce good low
cost private home for the relo-
cation of slum dwellers. It au-
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whole sweep Of our housing
problems and home require
ments.
A year and a half ago the
President instructed me, as the
new housing administrator, to
make a complete review of all
our housing policies and opera
tions. That review covered many
months and represented the
views of people from all phases
of housing and community in
terests-as well as the recon-
mendations of the % members
of the Presidents Advisory Com
mittee on Housing.
The result was the broad-scale
program that the President sent
to the Congress in JANUARY, de-
signed. as he pct it, to ENSURE
that opportunities are provided
every American family to acquire
a good home"
The new act embodies the
principles and philosophy of the
Presidents program, and pro-
vides the key measures he asked
the Congress to approve.
Before discussing what the
new housing law does. I would
like to explain why a whole new
Evening star., 1954-09-18
IS. Now Beginning New Era
In Housing, Top Official Says.

look into the housing legislation
was necessary rather than SIM
ply fix-up of past programs
and policies.
We found that we did not
have a single housing program
directed toward common pur-
pose. Instead of pattern, we had
a patchwork of assorted housing
laws.
We needed to gear our Federal
programs together. We also felt
that Federal programs should
stimulate and implement local
community action. not weak
en- or hamper it. The Housing
Act of 1854 provides just that
kind Of co-ordinated use Of all
Federal housing tools.
Some Serious Problems.
Our review showed that we al
ready had some very good pro-
grams which we undertook to
improve, to up-date, and inte-
CRATE with others. But we also
found that we had some very
serious gaps. some problems and
vital assets that had been COM
pletely overlooked by former ad-
ministrations.
And there were some policies
and operations that had failed in
their purpose and were being i'm
properly used. Among these were
the large rental apartment units
which you have heard about and
the abuse by unscrupulous crooks
of certain provisions of the home
and modernization loans.
This is how the Housing Act
Of 1854 will meet all these re-
quirementS.
We don't have enough good
housing in this country today.
We need to build lot more.
The Housing Act of 1854 will
make more money available to
more people to buy more homes
than ever before.
1t will help to make more
mortgage money available for
home loans. In the past we've
depended-very largely-on Gov
ernment financing when mort
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now is only $60O-just half the
former amount.
To provide more new homes
and to rehabilitate and make
older homes more marketable.
the Housing Act includes a new
element. This is the new urban
renewal program a pro-
gram to, save our cities not only
by clearing slums, but by ar
resting the further spread of
this destructive blight which
eats away at the fine fabric Of
our communities.
Have Slum Program.
We already have program to
help communities clear slums
and redevelop the area. 1t is a
good program, and will be con-
tinued but in a much broader
framework. Slums have always
spread faster than we have been
able to clear them. But this new,
program enlarges the area of
Federal help to include soundly
built neighborhoods that can be
salvaged and dressed up.
In this phase of the slum fight,
community effort is all import
ant. Slums, after all, are simply
what is left of good homes and
neighborhoods@ about which the
owners failed to take proper care.
It is up to the community to
keep that from happening. by
enforcing decent housing stand
ards, and zoning regulations.
Once the community can be sure
that the future of the neighbor-
hood is protected, Federal help
and private capital both can
then be safely invested in it's
rehabilitation.
To encourage this investment,
the Housing Act for the first time
authorizes the FHA to insure
mortgages. on the same liberal
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act. President Eisenhower has di-
rected me to carry forward a
comprehensive and workable
plan from the Federal to the
community level.
I believe the American people
can-and will-move together
with a forward looking industry
to sound and stable period of
growth and the eradication of
slums. This requires complete
integration of all of the Federal
facilities with those of the local
communities.
In that way. you may be sure
that the millions of recondi-
toned and new homes and
neighborhoods will keep pace
with our people-and their
healthy and free growth.
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thorizes liberal FHA insurance
for both new and rehabilitated
houses that, these families can
buy with q minimum down pay
ment 5. or rent with an option
to buy.
Wes also had to take some cor
rective steps. Loopholes in the
old laws allowed crooks to op-
crate with Federal insurance.
These loopholes had to be
stopped up-but no law is any
better than the way it Is admin
iStered.
We will provide that enforce
ment with the enthusiastic sup
port of the great housing indus
try of the United States.
I want to emphasize that only
a tiny proportion of this industry
was in any way involved in the
abuses which grew up ever the
past 10 years. In short, we found
a small malignant growth that
had to be removed. But the op-
Grafton was successful and now
the patient is in fine condition
and excellent health.
In the administration of this
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gage funds were short. This act,
however, provides an additional
and entirely new means of using
private capital to increase the
amount of mortgage money
available to the public. It also
provides new methods for pri-
vate lenders to see that funds
are channeled to those parts of
the country where money may
be short.
For the average citizen. this
means that when you want to
borrow money for q home from
your local lender, you are now
much more likely to get it
wherever you may live.
That is important to every
one. 1t is especially important
to certain groups. such as the
Negro families. They have had
the most difficult time of all
getting money to buy a home.
The Housing Act sponsored by
President Eisenhower will not
only make more housing avail
able for these families. but the
act will also make it easier for
them to get the credit they need.
r The President has made it
clear that our actions will be
directed toward making hous-
ing and home finance available
to minority families. We certain
ly will not approve Federal as
s1stance to any community un-
less the affected minority fam
lilies are adequately housed and
are fairly treated. We are work.
ing with private builders and
lenders to develop the means of
increasing the production of
new houses which will be avail
able to our minority citizens.
But in order to borrow. a
family must be able to repay
Many families can meet rea-
sonable monthly payments which
are paid like rent. But they
often lack the resources to make
the large down payments pre-
viously required. The Housing
Act OF 1854 now makes it pos
sible to buy homes under FHA
insured loans with much smaller
down payments.
Example Given.
For example. on $4,000 new
home under FHA, home buyer
previously had to make a $3.50
down payment. Now the down
payment is only $700.
The Housing Act of 1854 con-
Germs itself not only with new
housing, but also with existing
homes. Up to now, it has been
more difficult to buy and sell
these older houses and it has
been less worthwhile to maintain
them in top condition.
Yet our vast supply Of exist
ing housing can be an increas-
ingly important source of inn
proved living for a great manv
families. The Housing Act of
1854 does something about this
market of existing houses. On
a $4,000 older home, for example.
the down payment under FHA
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First group sold out ;. limited number
available again of the home value
ONLY
$1,000

We haven't overlooked the
smallest detail. Dream Kitchen
has natural birch cabinets, q
912 Gu. IT. Kelvinator, refrig-
orator, a SO" Dixie rangel
Master twin size) bedroom
has a separate dressing room.
Finished den or television
room. And what an ideal To-
cation-miles closer to town
than other new developments
that don't compare with Rock
Creek Palisades! Last but not
least, a new elementary school
is scheduled to open soon
right in Rock Creek Palisadesl
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THE EVENING STAR ca
Washington. D c.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1S, 1854
Festival Of Homes
Starts Second Biq
Week End Today
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ported by any one builder was
86. though quite a few builders
offering medium-price houses
had sales totaling Is or more,
the home builders association
said.
Builders are interested in
making sales. but the purposes
Of the festival transcend this
aspect in Importance" Mr..
Pearson said.
People who come out to
look at the houses, make com.
parisons and see the advance
ment in design, materials and
equipment that are being in
corporated today are just as
welcome as people who buy.
This association has de-
signed this event. in co-opera-
ton with The Star. to be truly
a trade fair Of the home -build-
ing industry in the Metropoli-
tan Area.
Builders around here are
improving their product every
year. They are individualists
in competition with one an
other. Every one of them is
deeply interested in finding out
what the public wants, and in
how to turn out the types and
varieties to meet public de-
mand.
Builders recognize that de-
sign has become far more i'm
portant in the last few years
than it ever was before, and
this years exhibit houses are
demonstrations of this prog
rnSS !"
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Of life. Mil
lions of FAM
lilies borrow
money e a c h
year to buy
and improve
their homes
and anything
that affects
our homes af-
fects all Of us.
This n e W
! e g / S lation
represents a
fresh, compre-
hensive ap-
proach to the
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By Albert M. Cole
Administrator. Housing and Home
Finonee AGENCY

Directly or indirectly. the
Housing Act Of 1854 concerns
every citzen-and his job, his
home, his community, his way
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CHEVY cHAsE-64o0 s3rd Street kWopen Sum- l-7-Dros-
1eoy reduced to s2e5o to sell this week end without fail
fine big home at remarkably low price All brick
root Solid rock and in beautiful condition. bright
rooms with high ceilings includes breofo and powder
room first floor Four twn-sze bedrooms and bath
second floor Splendid neehbohood served by the cs finest
public porooho and privote schools.
plREcTIoNS Nebraska A rioht to Military
Roae tnersecttoH
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First Prssenotion-Lsss Rembler OFF Mass. Ave-6l05 Wal
hendins Resdopen Sum-. l-7-Fne big hree-bedroom
bath brick rombe for $265o0 Full bosement Two-cor oooee
Screen porch Beautiful wooded setting lot 75xl5O Con-
venent foF schools and Transportation s
p%JsEcTt1Ns %c5Tt ~, ,Msssasan.ens r. Ags gast sumner
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National Security

The part OF President Eisenhow-
er's budget marked National Sc
curity" is radical departure from
previous budgets despite the fact
that it is neither much larger nor
much smaller in proportion to toe
total than earlier national secu-
rity funds The 1858 expenditures
for national security were about Ga
per cent of the total; the Truman
budget request for 1854 was about
SO per cent the appropriations
passed by Congress for fiscal "a
allowed nearly 10 per cent for
national security, and this years
budget asks about So per cent Of
the total for that purpose.
The real difference was not
cumulative, but qualitative. Hith-.
erto, defense budgets have been
balanced. This one Ii clearly an
air-power budget. carrying Q post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-24
Health

DRESIDENT EISENHOWER also
4 sent a message to Congress
last week on the Nations health.
Details of what the administration
proposes to do about health were
partially disclosed in three bills be-
fore the Senate. The heart of the
program-broader disqualification
protection for the average family
was still to come, however.
In his message, the President
extolled medical science for its
strides against disease. but en-
phasized that much remains to
be done" Within "a hours the
wheels were turning.
Senator Smith of New Jersey
chairman of the Labor and Pub
lie Welfare Committee, introduced
a bill to amend the Hospital Sur
vey and Construction Act of 1916
to permit increased Federal help
to local communities for hospitals
and medical centers for special
lied services.
The Smith amendment would
provide 1922 million for the next
three years, in addition to the
1916 Act commitments, to help
build diagnostic and treatment
centerS, hospitals for the chron-
ically i'll, rehabilitation and nurs-
ing centerS.
With 100000 persons disabled
annually and only 10000 being
returned tc full and productive
lives Mr. Eisenhower said I'VE
are losing ground at distressing
rate" in rehabilitation Senator
Smith followed with a bill to ex-
pand and improve the Vocational
Rehabilitation Act. He also sub
mitted a proposed amendment to
revise the system of categorical
grants under the Public Service
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Act to help the States IN the hattie
against venereal disease, heart dis
ease, tuberculosis and the like.
The PRESIDENTS message reached
into everypooy'S lives when he said:
I recommend the establishment
OF a limited Federal reinsurance
service co encourage private and
non-prof1t health insurance organ
izationS to offer broader health
protection tc more families. This
service worlc reinsure the special
additional risks invoived in such
broader protection. 1t can be
launched with a capital fund OF
$25 million provided by the Gov
eminent, to be retired from REIN
Surance fees :"
That brought up the question of
whether the Government is PLAN
ming to go into the insurance busi-
ness, Mr.. Eisenhower said "the
Government need not and should
not" but insurance men asked,
What else can the President
mean?"
Admittedly complicated prob
lem, the reinsurance" bill prob
ably will not be ready for another
week or 10 Gays.
Meanwhile, hearings were being
held on four health bills intro
duced in the House by Representa-
tive Wolverton, chairman of the
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee.
They would establish hospital
service reinsurance ard medical
care reinsurance furds of $25 mil
lion each; authorize the Surgeon
General to extend insurance for
loans by banks for construction
and equipment of hospitals and
other medical centers; provide
Government loans to acquire. build
and equip medical centers; and
allow deduction of health insur-
ance payments up to $40 a year
on income tax returns without
regard to the present medical
expense reduction rules.
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Trade, Aid

A MOTHER OF the Governments
n advisory commissions reported
yesterday, and the administration
seemed heading for another intra-
mural Republican fight. :.
The report was on trade policy.
AS expected, it asked for less for
eign aid and encouragement Of
more foreign trade, particularly
imports The report said America
should take the leadership in a
bold" program to lower trade
barriers, a program which also
should be adopted by other
nations.
The 17-man commission, headed
by Clarence B. Randall, chairman
of the board of Inland Steel, made
these major recommendations:
. Three-year extension of the
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
with broader presidential powers
to reduce tariffs.
In general, a IS per cent cut
in tariffs to be spread over a
three-year period.
Q Movements toward establish
ment of free currency exchange
throughout the world.
Reduction in taxes on income
earned abroad.
. Repeal of laws requiring the
Government to favor American
business.
An end to economic aid abroad
in the form of gifts and substitu-
ton, if necessary, of a loan
program.
"Acquiescence" in more nom
strategic trade between Western
European and Iron Curtain
nations.
The bulky report was shot
through with dissent, particularly
from congressional members of
the commission. Most significant
was the criticism by the leading
Republicans on the tax and tariff
committees of both House and
Senate. Representatives Reed.
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee and Simpson,
a ranking member, and Senator
Millikin, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, called the
entire report vague, indefinite
and unsatisfactory" They said
the tariff reforms would be made
"at the expense of American in
dustries, American workers and
American agriculture"
Their detailed criticism indicated
the President would have a difficult
> Continued on Page BAD
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Public Debt

Public Debt
Coupled with his request for new
appropriations. the President ap-
pealed again for a boost in the
present $275-billion public debt
limit. For some time now, the
Government has been operating
alarmingly close to the ceiling. At
the close of business Wednesday,
the net debt stood at $274, 661 3d.
969.25-only about third of bill
lion dollars below the limit.
The President foresees a public
debt of $3.50, 750, 000, 600 on June 80,
1854, the last day of the current
fiscal year. What with the pro-
jected $2,928, 900, 900 deficit for fis-
cal 1855 and some changes in the
public debt amounting to 1922 mil
lion, he forecasts a net debt. on
June 80, 1855, amounting to $273
billion.
All these figures, of course, are
below the $275-billion maximum.
But the President contends, and
most observers support his con-
tention, that because the flow of
money into the Treasury is less
regular than the flow out, it may
be necessary to exceed the limit at
some time in order to end up where
he wants to go.
The increased ceiling asked of
Congress last year was $500 billion.
Congress rejected this. On whether
Congress again refuses to boost the
debt limit could well depend the
success of certain Eisenhower plans
for the coming year.