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coffee to adults and provided
pony rides for the children.
Easy financing provided under
the new Housing Act helped
sales along, builders said, since
it lowered down payments and
extended mortgage terms so that
monthly payments are far lower
than previously.
A whole new group OF fami-
lilies thus have become potential
buyers, builders pointed out.
One developer said more than
80 sales had been made from
about>2 PIN. Saturday afternoon
till late yesterday afternoon.
1--WE had 1000. persons here
Evening star., 1954-09-13
BY The As.osi1ssd PRESS

The Agriculture Department
reported yesterday United States
farm exports for the fiscal year
ending June 80 gained 4 per cent
over the preceding year, due
chiefly to increased cotton ship
ments.
The total was $2.933. .OOO. 900,
compared with $2,819, 900 900 for
Evening star., 1954-09-13

ward and it is stalemated by the
other wing that is trying to fly
backward"
Senator Jackson said the con-
gressional committee chairman
ships are held by the most re-
dictionary men in the G.. o. p
They are opposing, he said. "the
Presidents housing program. his
foreign trade program. his farm
program and his foreign poll
cies."
Evening star., 1954-09-13
U. S. Troops in Koreo
Get Tons of Butter
sx the Associosed Press

SEOUL, Sept. 13.-For the
first time in years, United States
soldiers in Korea this week will
be spreading bread with butter
instead of oleomargarine.
. Army quartermaster authori-
ties said today thousands OF
pounds of butter were arriving
in Pusan for use at mess tables.
Oleomargarine will be used for
cooking.
Evening star., 1954-09-13

Houston, Tex, was indicted on
false pretense charges accusing
him of passing three bad checks,
one for $3.50 at the Statler Hotel
and two for 500 each at the
Woodward & Lothrop store.
The indictments were among a
total of Is returned by two grand
juries before Chief Judge Bolitha
j. Laws of the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1954-09-13
Senator Jackson Scores
G. 0. P. Majority Plea

PEORIA, ILL.,, Sept. 13.-Sen-
ator jackson, Democrat. of
Washington said yesterday Presi-
dent EisenhoWer's program
would fare far better with a
Democratic majority than with
the Republicans in power.
Campaigning for Senator Doug
las at Peoria and LaSalle, Ill,
Senator Jackson hit at the Re-
publican argument that a party
majority is necessary to organ
ize Congress in support of the
President. ss
THAT is a phony argument
from start to finish" he said.
EVERY one knows there are two
wings to the Republican Party
and they are at war with each
other.
lone wing is trying to fly for
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stop off for dinner on the way
from Miami, and some spend
the night at a wayside motel.
Breaking the four-hour trip to
Key West, they can inspect the
mangrove-dotted keys at leis-
ure.
Until recent years almost bar
rem except for fishing camps.
Florida's Keys today have every
modern convenience, as well as
an abundance of bars. The eli
mate is warm in winter and not
too hot in summer, being tenn
pered by the trade winds.
The Keys possess fishing
grounds among the worlds fin
est. I watched recently at Grey
hound Key. 30-acre atoll SO
miles south of Miami, as tour
lists stopped off to spend the
night. Early the next day they
hired a skiff with cupboard mo-
tor. took a course into the Gulf
of Mexico and returned a few
hours later with some 20 pounds
of grouper, mackerel, snapper
and barracuda. They selected
their supper out of the catch.
Element Of Danger
Any one can catch a mess of
big fish in this section, but there
is an element of excitement.
The water has its quota of shark
and moray cells. If the white
moray, for instance, ever gets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05
Ell Puso Preserves
.Grotesque Stump at
Busy Intersection
Ell PASO, Tex

Visitors to this Southwestern
border city often wonder why
the grotesque stump Of a COM
pletely dead cottonwood tree is
allowed to remain standing, pro-
tected by an iron railing, in the
center Of one Of the city's bust
est downtown street intersec-
tons.
The answer involves colorful
local history.
During the last 20 years Of the
10th century. when Ell Paso was
a wide-open frontier town COM
plete with saloons, gamblers,
gunner and plush sporting
houses, this tree was used as q
public bulletin board.
Any one who had anything to
relate to another party or
parties merely tackled his corre-
spondence to the tree.
Some say that libelous state
ments were so hot the tree died
q premature death.
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Florida Keys
More Popular
With Ferry
By Harry Lever
ssar Ssuff Correspondent
KEY WEST, Fla.

x64 V&904p y A1s
The new ferry between this
balmy port and Cuba, which en-
ables a motorist to take his car
with him to the Caribbean is
land. already is offering the
tourist new vistas for his ex-
plorations on wheels. More than
that. 1t is playing a part in
bringing unprecedented travel
onto the Keys. a tropical adj
venture land not duplicated any
where else in the world.
Once the stronghold Of pirates,
buried treasure and later drifters,
the Keys in the last several years
have come to be one Of Americas
most interesting Fairgrounds.
Vacationers are discovering them
by the thousands.
The swift development Of this
chain of coral islands Is pointed
up by the fact that some $l4
million have been spent in the
last six months alone on facilities
built primarily for pleasure
travellers.
Many Stops on Keys
The 154-mile trip from Miami
to Key West is over U. S. l..
Well paved, it hops from key
to key over a number of bridges.
The islands are dotted with
small hotels, large motels and
such tourist eye-catchers as
aquariums, exhibits of ancient
treasure, orchid and other hor-
ticultural exhibits and bird sane
tuarieS. Admission usually is
charged.
Most ferry-bound motorists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05

into the boat. you get out. Best
thing to do is to club them and
then cut the line. That goes
for big shark, too. You don't
want to boat them.
There are many places on the
Keys where tourist accommo-
dations, in season, are nowhere
as expensive as on the Florida
mainland. The rates run as
low as 81 double for good clean
rooms with shower. Meals and
fishing are extra. If women
don't like to fish, almost every
Key. has it's modern swimming
pool.
This will be the first winter
since its construction that the
overseas portion of U. S. l will
be completely toll free. Tolls of
$1.25 and up, each way, were
charged passenger cars until last
June.
Among elaborate Keys resort
developments is Key Colony,
whose lagoons and beaches were
once Ravens for some of the
most notorious buccaneers.
Flanked by the Atlantic Ocean
and the Gulf of Mexico, Key
Colony offers more than 200,
bungalows, eficiencies and motel
units and an aforementioned
restaurant and lounge.
$4,000 Pool and Club
A new addition to the resort
is its $4,000 Olympic-size
swimming pool and cabana club,
managed by Olympic swimming
champion Katherine Rawls. Miss
Rawls also gives swimming les
sons and stages elaborate daily
aquatic shows.
Located on Key Vaca, 106
miles southwest of Miami, Key
Colony can be reached by plane
as we'll as automobile and boat.
An 8.000-foot airstrip provides
an excellent landing field.
The Keys serve as a delightful
introduction to the ferry trip
and Cuba itself. But getting
aboard the City of Key West, a
225-foot converted landing ship,
takes more than just driving on.
So poplar is the seven-hour run
that passage should be reserved
in advance. Most trips are sold
out from January through April,
according, to the Caribbean Ferry
System, Inc, operators. Advance
reservations already are piling
up for next summer, officials re-
port.
Requests for reservations can
be made by writing to the COM
pany at either Key West or
Miami. The Miami address is
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Cheaper Possoge
Besides the novelty of visiting
the Keys, a reason for the ferry's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05
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popularity is the cost factor.
1t is considerably cheaper to
transport a car to Cuba on the
ferry than putting it aboard a
steamer at Miami. The round
trip on the ferry, including car
and one person, costs $8l. Each
additional passenger pays $3.50
each way.
The ferry does not go directly
into Havana Harbor, but to Car
denas, 100 miles east. The drive
along the northern coast Of Cuba
to its capital city is considered
a treat by many tourists. al
though the company may even
tually build a dock close to Ha-
vana.
Since service was inaugurated
with considerable civic fanfare
at Key West on october Q. the
ferry has been making three trips
each way weekly.
Auto Papers Needed
The ferry's appointments in
clude two air conditioned
lounges, a bar and a cafeteria.
No passport is required and there
are no custom duties. Car title,
registration certificate and driv-
er's license, however, are re-
quired, as well as some form of
identification showing that the
bearer is an American citizen.
The ferry company presently
is dickering for second vessel
and eventually plans to tie to-
gether all the major islands of
the Caribbean. Envisioned is
the opportunity for snow-bound
Northerner ultimately to reach
South America with his car
through the ferry network.
| H. C. Hines, the company's
executive vice president. reports
Mexico has informed him the new
highway to the ferry terminals in
the Yucatan Peninsula is ahead
of schedule, and will be ready for
the ferry service in 1855.
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Sugar Estdte House
Had Calendar Theme
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica.
Window-washers would have
had a field day at tabled Rose
Hall, once Jamaica's finest estate
house but now in crumbling
ruins.
Built at q cost of $4,000 in
1850, the mansion boasI,d 1865
windows. one for each day of the
year. Architects planning the
structure-built in the center of
one of the island colony's richest
sugar estates-held to the calen-
dar in their drawings, providing
for So doors and IL staircases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Firen1en Put OFF
Parade Awhile
To Put Out Fire

Fire delayed the annual parade
of the Prince Georges County
Volunteer Firemen's Association
for half an hour today.
Firemen from College Park, the
host company at the associations
32nd annual convention and
parade. were called to an oil
burner blaze at 1906 Rittenhouse
street, in Riverdale, as the
parade was scheduled to begin.
The fire was doused quickly and
the firerhen returned to the
parade route, along Baltimore
boulevard, in about 80 minutes.
Gov. MeKeldin and his Demo-
cratic opponent in the Novem-
Der election, DR.. H. C. Byrd, were
to share adjoining seats in the
reviewing stand at Baltimore
boulevard and College avenue.
The association last night NOM
mated Frank P. Briguglio, its
vice president, to be president of
the association next year. Elec-
tons are to be held tonight in
the Maryland University Coli
scum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Man Gets 9 Months
In Camera Theft "
From Policeman

A man charged with grand
larceny of $135 worth of camera
equipment was convicted of petty
larceny from an Arlington police
man after testimony at a hearing
yesterday disclosed a pawn shop
allowed him only $40 for it.
William J.sSherwood, 20, of
24O7 Griffith road, Falls Church,
was sentenced to nine months in
Jail by Judge Paul Brown in Ar
lington County Court after it was
disclosed he had a juvenile rec
ord of auto thefts.
Policeman Frank Hardy, who
rented a room from Sherwood S
mother at 1924 North Vernon
street, said his Polaroid camera,
case and light meter, for which
he paid $135 about three months
ago, was stolen from his room
by Sherwood.
In Virginia, a grand larceny
charge involves property valued
at $50 or more.
Following Sherwood's arrest, he
made a statement to police that
he had pawned the equipment in
Cumberland, Md, for $40. Judge
Brown said the State had failed
to establish the value of the
equipment and reduced the
charge to a misdemeanor.
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the tax inspector and the ma
chine tabulation unit"

the tax inspector and the ma
chine tabulation unit"
Other Recommendations.
Other major recommendations
made in the report included:
/. The director of finance
should prepare both the oper-
ating and the capital budget.
Otherwise, the capital budget,
now the responsibility of city
planners, sis just a fond dream,
a list of projects without money
to pay for them"
2. The tax assessor should be
placed under the director of
finance
3. Assessments should be at
true" value rather than at a
fictitious market" value. The
city bases it's assessments at 42.5
per cent of appraised value, a
practice widespread in Virginia,
although the State constitution
requires assessments at 100 per
cent of appraised value.
Would Drop Coercion. Y
4. The city should stop the
practice of using the local auto
license tag as tool of enforcing
payment of personal property
taxes. A city ordinance pro-
hibits sale of the tag to persons
who have not paid a personal
property tax, making them liable
for arrest and prosecution for
failure to have a city tag. The
effect is to invite avoidance of
both taxes.
5. Consideration should be given
to changing the rate structure of
the business license tax, which is
based on gross receipts. A sliding
scale should be applied, varying
with the mark up" or profit
margin customary in different
types of business.
6. The city should discontinue
financing on repayment-later
basis installation of streets and
sewers in new subdivisions, a
practice favorable to builders
which cost the city $163, 900 be-
tween 1949 and 1858,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Boy Found Stunned
In Woods; Cause Of
Injury Still Uncertain

A 14-year-old boy found un-
conscious in woods near South
Capitol street and Atlantic ave-
nue. Sc. Thursday night was
semi-conscious at Emergency
Hospital today but still unable
to tell police or hospital authori-
ties what happened to him.
The boy, John C. Alexy, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Alexy, 81
Mississippi avenue Sc, was semi
conscious yesterday morning but
lapsed into an unconciousness
last night, Emergency Hospital
reported.
He was able to respond in a
mutter today but his condition
was still undetermined, and he
was too drowsy to be questioned.
The hospital reported that
head-to-foot X-rays failed to
reveal any bone damage. His
mother said she understood he
had suffered a brain injury.
Homicide Squad Detective
Sergt. Keith Gosman said he
thought the boy might have
fallen from tree-particularly
because of brush burns found
under the arms which indicated
the boy had been hanging on to
tree limbs.
John is a student at Kramer
Junior High School. His father
is a tool supervisor at the Naval
Gun Factory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Richardson Appointed

W. A. Richardson, director of
Arlington County Department OF
Recreation and Parks, has been
appointed to a three-year term
on the National Advisory Com
mittee on Recreation, Training
and Placement of Recreation
Personnel, a division of the Ma
tional Recreation Association.
The committee is headed by DIR.
Paul F. Douglas, former president
of the American University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
Victims Eye Is Quicker
Than Pickpocket' S Hand

A clumsy pickpocket had his
loot knocked out of his hand yes
terday by his intended victim.
Ester Brodie, 46, colored, of
New Rochelle, N. Y, told police
she was in Union Station waiting
for a train. From the corner OF
her eye she saw a hand dip into
her purse, a shoulder bag.
Whirling, she knocked her
wallet from the pickpocket's
hand.
Porter Silas Lipscomb pur-
sued the man from the station.
Communicating a taxi, the bag
gage carrier cornered a suspect
at Third and S streets Sc. said
police, who booked the man as
James C. Murray, q, colored,
of Emporia, Va. on a robbery
charge.
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Thousands Deprivedo Clothes
As Cleaning c hahn Goes Broke

Lines, 1922 Nebraska avenue
NV. He told The Star:
'All my khaki shirts are in a
Kent store, except the one I've
got on my back. My wife will
have to wash it every night"
The BANKRUPTCY petition said
the chain, which deals in laun-
dry as well as dry-cleaning,
closed down as of Thursday.
Judge Let's granted the COM
pany a delay until September 81
in filing a schedule of its assets
and liabilities.
Assistant United States At
torney Alfred M. Burka, assigned
to Municipal Court, said police
have received complaints about
more than 200 worthless checks
issued by the Kent Company.
He said the firms president
was released after posting $500
bond on a bad check charge. A
hearing on the case is scheduled
later this month.
Complaints Invited.
Mr.. sBurka also urged busi-
nessmen who have cashed the
Kent checks to come forward
and file complaints"
At the time the firm was first
quizzed about the flood of COM
plants over its checks, a COM
pany spokesman declared the
checks were issued in good faith.
He said the stores were to be
sold the first of this month and
that the checks would be made
good then, Mr.. Burka said.
But, according to Mr.. Burka,
complaints kept coming in even
after that.
The chain that went "to the
cleaners" in 1947 was w. D.
Towards, Inc. It operated II
stores. It's sinking left custom
erS in quandary.
Even when they finally recov-
cred their clothing, many of the
garments were still soiled.
The Kent petition yesterday
mentioned that the clothes it
has includes garments not yet
cleaned.
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Furnace Sold Quickly
By Star Want Ad

Mr.. l. E. Us judgment wos not
premature. He Ieorned there were
mony people preparing for the colder
months just oheod. Hovins furnoee
to sell he placed q small I'D in The
Stor Classified. He sold the item the
first doy his I'D appeared.
Yeor in and yeor out The Stor
Classified produces the best year
round results for classified odyer-
tisers. Thot's why The Stor publishes
more classified DDS thon the other
Washington papers combined.
If you hove something to buy. trode
or sell. tell it to the long established
audience of The Stor readers.
Phone Sterling 5000 and osk for
an I'D tokeF.
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Developments Cited
As Corning Opens
School " Series

SASA1AAAS<A1AV AiCW OCFC1OplIlClltS
in the elementary schools were
outlined yesterday in a telecast
over Station WNBW by School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning.
This was an introduction to the
District Public School System TV
series, which starts it's fifth con-
secutive year on Monday.
DR.. Corning spoke at 2:45 pm,
from the WNBW studios in the
Sheraton-Park Hotel to school
faculties assembled in their vari-
GUS buildings. Yesterdays ses-
sion marked the third such an
nual faculty meeting.
The superintendent listed
these among significant new de-
velopments:
The instrumental music pro-
gram is being expanded through
addition of 10 teachers in about
on elementary ScnOOlS.
An experimental program is
being developed at the Thomson
and Walker-Jones Schools to de-
termine whether smaller classes
and combined efforts of all
child-serving agencies will re-
duce juvenile delinquency. The
Commissioners Youth Council,
under leadership of Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, initiated this
program.
New nv Program.
Two classes for severely re-
tarded children are being estab-
lished at the Military Road
School.
Teh District public schools
television series begins it's fifth
consecutive year with addition
of a new program, Behind the
News" The series will be seen
from 2::45 to 3 pm. each school
day over Station WNBW.
Carlton D. Smith. WNBW gen.
eral manager, said the Perpetual
Building Association will spon-
sor the Tuesday and Thursday
programs. This is the first time
an educational series for ele-
mentary schools has had COM
mercial auspices, he said.
DR.. Corning said last year 35,-
600 public school children fol-
lowed the programs and that he
expects "even greater usefulness
for the series this year."
1000 New Pupils.
Speaking at the outset about
desegregation. DR.. Corning said
on Wednesday and Thursday an
estimated 1900 new pupils were
registered and that mo new en-
rollee was denied admission to
any school because of race"
Wen see this job through to-
gether," he said.
He said teachers, for the first
time, are assigned where their
services are needed, rather than
according to race.
He described some of his own
convictions about responsibility
for the education of children.
He disagreed with the opinion
that children should be spared
distasteful tasks.
"A strong, rugged school pro-
gram built upon what we know
about how children grow is our
airn," he said. 1--WE must get
the best work possible from each
child"
He said the mistake is made
of concentrating on the prob
lens of pupils having trouble
learning at the expense of the
gifted.
Actually our national security
depends in large part upon the
development of the intellectual
powers of our brightest children"
narticlllarlv in science he said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-11
To-Day Revival Opens
In Tent Near Pentaqon

1.-THE church today faces the
greatest opportunity of it's his
tory" if it can save the world
from communism, the Rev.
Tommy Hicks said last night in
opening a To-day revival stand
in a large tent near the Penta-
gon.
About 400 persons attended
the meeting at Army-Navy
drive and South Fern street,
Arlington.
The meetings are being spon-
sored by the District Chapter
of the Full Gospel Business
mems Fellowship international.