davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-13
Mess Service May Eliminate
KIP Duty in Armed Forces

industrial plants, schools and
large Office buildings plus the
Senate Restaurant in Washing
ton. will do it all. This means
potato peeling and pan washing.
as well as cooking and serving.
# the Vance experiment due
to start July 21-works out as
Nationwide says it will. the Air
Force will consider similar con-
tracts at other bases.
Ben Regain. executive vice
president of Nationwide, con-
tends his firm can operate mess
halls more cheaply than the mil
itary and, at the same time, give
armed forces morale q shot in
the arm by eliminating kitchen
police duty.
The armed forces have found
dislike of KIP to be a primary
cause of AWOLS.
But Mr.. Regain says his ex-
pertinent Is aimed at the peace
time military"
NationWide's mess service al
ready is a going business In Can
ada, where it began as . test at
two military bases two years ago
and since has spread to nine
more bases.
Mr.. Regain estimates that the
commercial operation at these
bases has effected a saving of
probably 20 to IS per cent for
the Canadian government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-13
One Of Raft 5 Crew
Wants 10 Give Up;
Boat 10 Offer Help
BY The Assoeiaisd Press

4 4
SAN FRANCISCO, July 49,
Another search party sails out
after the raft Lehi todaycon-
fident after air sightings and
radio contacts that she is still
floating southwark in the Pa
cific.
The Lehi only about 20 miles
of central California-refused a
Coast Guard tow yesterday.
Four Of her i've crew mem
bers still hoped she would change
course and drift the 1900 miles
southwest to Hawaii.
The fifth, radio operator Don
Smith of Santa Rosa. Calf. re-
peatedly radioed from the 81
foot box-like craft:
Get me off this damned
thing"
Complains Of Flu.
He complained he was COM
ing down with the flu and
threatened to call the Coast
Guard for help.
The motorless raft was lowed
out Of the Golden Gate Friday
with no provisions.
The adventures planned to
live of the sea. They have
caught one salmon and one
small shark and made "a little
water" in their solar still.
The expeditions sponsor, DR..
Arthur Fearon, a University Of
San Francisco professor, planned
to set out from San Simeon,
about $50 miles south Of San
Francisco today.
| DR.. Fearon said he was prom
Used boat by Jack Reynolds of
San Simeon. He complained
ship captains in Monterey asked
500 an hour for their craft.
Will Provide Tow.
He plans to remove Mr.. Smith
and tow the raft farther out to
sea where it can pick up the
current to Hawaii.
Most. of yesterdays develop
ments took place in. radio ex-
changes.
Mr.. Smith messaged in Morse
the rats voice transmitte1
was out of commission-''the
rest of the crew all feel fine but
I feel lousy.
sect on a boat and gel
started =. now, not next week.
/ Skipper Devere Bakers wife
Nola said the voyage represents
his eight-year dream of "beine
something" After the Pacific
Venture, she said, Mr.. Baker, 81
q Mormon preacher, plans to &C
on q six-month lecture tour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-13
optimists InstuII Officers

The Northeast Optimist Club
of Washington has installed Will
liam Ryan as president. Other
new officers are Charles Sum-
merS, Henry Turner and w. c
Barnett, vice presidents; George
Cole, secretary; Melvin oksner,
treasurer and I. Di Francis, SER
geant-at-armS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-13
Bv The As,oe;usetl Pras.

CHICAGO. July 13.KP duty
the most universally cursed
aspect Of military service may
become q thing Of the past.
That is, if an experiment to
be tried at the Vance Air Force
Base, Enid. Okla. proves sue
cessful.
The Air Force has signed q
six months contract under which
Nationwide Food Service Of
Chicago will turn out the chow
for some 5000 airmen at Vance.
Nationwide. which operates
dining facilities in more than 200
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
District Department
To Lead VIEW Parade

The District Of Columbia De-
partment. Veterans Of Foreign
Wars. announced yesterday that
the local department had won q
Nationwide membership drive
For the first time in SO years
the local department will lead
the parade at the National En-
campment in Philadelphia Au-
gust g..
Membership in the VFW here
increased by 81 per cent from
1000 to 1890. Last year the
Department placed 33rd in the
contest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Life in the u. S.
Life in the u. S.
Hospitality
|Bockfires as
Towels Vanish

!. AURORA. Neb.. July 3.-An
elderly couple whose car had
broken down voiced to Nebraska
State Senator Lester Anderson
their suspicious garage opera
tor here might "Swindle" them
with, his bill.
Senator Anderson assured
them they were wrong and to
build up the hospitality" of his
home town, installed them in
his private guest room at the
hotel he owns.
Checking the room after the
couple left the next day, Senator
Anderson found the room towels
and the bath mat gone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Tipping Made Eusier

ST. LOUIS (P.-It's easier
to get intoxicated in st. Louis
now-from a legal standpoint.
The Board of Aldermen yes
terday changed an ordinance
to provide that any person
found by an intoximeter test
to have an alcoholic content
in the blood of "at least" is of
per cent shall be considered
intoxicated. The ordinance
formerly set the standard at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
'in excess" Of that figure.
= The new standard conforms
with that in several other large
cities.
Utility Asks Rate Cut

FRANKFORT. KY. (P).-There
was no precedent for the State
Public Service Commission to 60
by-but it granted the Citizens
Telephone Co. request immedi-
ately.
Yesterday the firm made the
first voluntary request to cut
telephone rates ever presented
to the PSC. It explained the
move to chop 1921. $50 a year or
some $1,000 Northern Kentucky
bills was in line with policy Of
keeping Cincinnati and Northern
Kentucky rates the same.
An Ohio court order had forced
its parent firm. the Cincinnati b
Suburban Bell Telephone Co., to
reduce Cincinnati rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04

sick man happy, but more i'm
portant, on board.
It might be years before the
Clinical Center sets any more
speed records, for research in
disease is a difficult, time-con-
Stunning thing.
But with a year behind her,
she looks like a good ship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Rough Ridino Kitty

MAGNOLIA. Ark. (P).-Two
men who had been following
a truck tagged 1t down at a
busy intersection here.
The driver joined them in
probing between his rear dual
wheels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Auto and Coffee Deul /.

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (R.-
Coffee was sold here at $685. o
pound for one week, but the car
dealer who sold 1t threw in .
1949 car with each pound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Out came q Whispering lit
tie kitten that had lodged be-
tween the tires when 1t scooted
under the truck.


WASHINGTON, Pa. (R.-A
mother of Is children--includ-
ing three sets of twins-gave
birth to triplets yesterday, in
creasing the size Of her family
to 16.
The triplets, all girls, were
born in Washington (Pa.) Hos
pital to Mrs. George Hradil. 80.
Of nearby Avella. Her husband
is an unemployed laborer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Boyd Succeeds BOYD

WEsTPoRT. Conn. R.-
Municipal Judge John w. Boyd
resigned, He was succeeded by
Virginia p. Boyd. The Boyds are
not related.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-04
Planes Spot Fires

WEST GLACIER, Mont. P.-
Airplanes are being used as fire
spoilers In Glacier National
Park. Their use cut the number
Of tower lookouts to 10 from 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
AB&W Asks End
To Pentagon Tokens
BY the Associated Press

The Alexandria. Bancroft and
Washington Transit Co. today
asked for permission to stop at
once the use of token fares on its
bus lines operating between
Washington and the Pentagon
area in nearby Virginia.
1t petitioned the Interstate
Commerce Commission on the
basis of an ICC examiners rec
concentration last week that the
tokens be dropped. This would
result in an increase in the pres
ent token rate of 1919 cents q
ride to fiat 15-cent cash fare.
The examiner rejected a pro-
posed advance in the cash fare
from IA to 20 cents. A. B. g. w.
served notice today that it in
tends to file exceptions to this
finding.
The ICC examiners report
dealt with all service between
Washington and the Pentagon
area. involving A. B. & w., the
Arnold Lines and Capital Transit
Co.. which has a transfer ar
rangement with the Virginia
suburban bus companies.
In today's petition A. B. & W..
noted the examiner said that of
the three companies involved in.
the case, A. B. & WIS showing
for additional revenue was the
most convincing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
President Would End Control
Of National Airport by CAA

A plan to remove the WASH
ington National Airport from
control of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration and place it
under a separate corporation
was urged today by President
Eisenhower.
In his budget message the
President disclosed he was rec
ommending legislation later for
such a move.
The budget carried no funds
for operation Of the airport, one
Of the busiest In the Nation. It
has been self-supporting for
years, bringing in more income
than it costs to operate. The
income is estimated at about
$1.8 million this fiscal year.
Legislation is being prepared
to incorporate this activity in
1885," the budget said. "Ac-
cordingly no estimate has been
included 70 rthis appropriation.
The program for 1855 will be
included in q business-type
budget. to be transmitted as a
supplemental estimate after
enactment Of the proposed legis-
lation."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Over Is, 900 Cheer Launching
Of First Atomic Submarine
Mrs. Eisenhower Christens the Nautilus
As NotobIes See Pioneer Croft's Debut

quilted the launching area and
hid the river from view for a
time.
Mrs. Eisenhower. wearing a
Powered, off-the-face bonnet
and pink gloves, carried bou-
quet of red roses as she assembled
the christening platform. She
was Joined there by Mrs. Eugene
p. Wilkinson, wife of the pros
pective commanding officer of
the Nautilus: John Jay Hopkins,
board chairman of General Dy-
Monies Corp. builders of the
ship, and Comdr Edward L.
Beach, naval aide to President
Eisenhower. '& l
On the viewing platform, di-
rectly behind, were Secretary Of
the Navy Anderson; Lewis L.
Straus, chairman Of the Atomic
Energy Commission: Admiral
Robert B. Carney, chief of Naval
Operations; Rear Admiral w. D.
Leggett, jr.. chief Of the Nays
Bureau of Ships; Gwilym A.
Price. president of Westinghouse
Electric Co.. builders of the
atomic reactor in conjunction
with the Acc, and Rear Admiral
(Contiuued 0y, page "A Col II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Nationally

Spend SOS, $50 100000 COM
pared with $70.902. 100000 being
spent this year and 81" 1892 ,000,-
600 spent in the IL months ended
last June 80.
Collect, $62. SAP 900, 900, COM
pared with SCI. 628, 100000 this
year and $64. 500. 900 900 in fiscal
1858.
Incur a deficit of $2,928 ,000,-
600. compared with 1924. 000,-
600 this year and $9,389. 900, 900
last year.
Revise and overhaul present
tax laws to bring about a saw
ing. of $l.3 billion to individuals
and businesses but delay the
scheduled April / drops in cor
poration income and excise
taxes.
Increase the present $275 bill
lion debt limit because during
the low taA yield period late this
year there will be no way of
operating within thu present
debt limit"
Safeguard national security by
spending $44,860. 900 900 in
Guiding a record $2,425 900. 900
for atomic energy and $4.275,-
000.000 for foreign military aid
compared with $40, 720 900, 900
thi. year and $50,274, 0O0, 900 in
fiscal 1853. Atomic spending
would be up $225 million over
this year and 1894 million over
1858; foreign aid would be up
SITS million and 1921 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Congress Receives
Districts Budget
Of S14t.2 Million
President Asks Action
On .DeIicotely BELONGED
CupitoI Finance Setup
By John w. Stepp

Congress today received the
Districts shriveled $l4I.295, 600
budget estimate for fiscal 1855.
with q clear call from President
Eisenhower to do something
about it.
AS the legislators demand, it
is a balanced budget. But with
a trifiing $4,230 General Fund
surplus in sight by the end of
the year beginning July /, the
balance is precarious.
The supply measure, as fore
warned by city officials, emer-
ges entirely devoid of construc-
ton money for such vital insti-
buttons as health, welfare and
schools. For these general con-
struction projects, the city was
provided $15.7 million for the
current fiscal year.
The budget calls for $50 new
positions in various District de-
parLmentS out this was a cut
from the 1,725 new jobs asked
by department heads.
Thus. the Nations Capital
winds up in its worst financial
shape in nearly a decade. To
remedy the condition, the Presi-
dent, in his message to Con-
greSs, gave full support to the
District Commissioners 10-year
$685. million works improve
ment program.
If Congress authorizes the
program. which calls for higher
local taxes, a bigger Federal
share IN city expenses and a Sc
ries Of Federal loans, the con-
struction fund deficiency would
disappear.
Budget officials estimate that
II the tax program took effect
before June /, this source would
realize $3.915.000 during the fis-
CONTINUED on Page At CoI ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21

The proposal to take control
OF the airport from CAA, which
is regulatory agency, has been
discussed for a number of years.
The theory behind the move
apparently is that a regulatory
agency shouldn't be operating
a business it regulates.
Representative Fallon. Demo-
crat. Of Maryland, said today
there is no provision for funds
in the budget to convert a por-
ton Of Andrews Air Force Base
into a supplementary CONNER
cial airport for Washington.
Mr.. Fallon is a supporter of
the move to use Friendship Air
port near Baltimore to relieve
heavy traffic at Washington Ma
tional Airport. Utilization Of a
part of Andrews was advocated
as compromise last year by
Commerce Department officials.
The Government has cancelled
plans for building an airport at
Burke. Va, to serve Washington.
Condemnation suits against
owners of some $500 acres of
land at Burke have been
dropped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
By |. Edeor Primo
Sfnr Sfnff corra.nondenf

GROTON. Conn, Jan. al
The worlds first nuclear-
powered submarine. the U. S. S.
Nautilus, was launched here
today. marking mans success
full struggle to turn the power
Of the atom to practical use.
Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower
smashed a bottle Of champagne
across the pale green bow of the
3.000-ton vessel at 1857 am.
declaring: II christen thee
Nautilus
Al split second before. James
II. Cade, an electric Boat Co.,
Si1ipyard worker who formerly
lived in Westmoreland County,
Va. released the trigger which
sent the deadly new undersea
ship sliding stern first into the
waters of the Thames River.
More than $4,000 persons, in
Guiding high Government. in
dustrial and scientific digni-
taries. damned into the ship
yard to watch the colorful cere-
mony. After the speeches got
underway. a bright sun broke
through a fog, which had en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Budget Calls
For Few Cuts
In i. ). Jobs
Attrition Likely
To Take Care of
g., 900 Reductions
By Joseph Young

President Eisenhower's 1858
budget request sent to Congress
today calls for only minor cuts
in Federal employment during
the next fiscal year
About $4,000 Of the 2.3 million
Federal jobs would be eliminated
under the budget requests sent to
Congress. About 5000 of these
positions would be among the
$4,000 Government jobs in the /.
Washington area.
Administration officials said
the relatively minor job reduce
lions could be taken care Of
entirely by not filling vacancies.
At the same time the Presi-
dent asked Congress to enact UNI
employment compensation bene.
fits for Government employees,
repeal the Written rider which
curbs permanent appointments
and promotions, increase over
time payments, lnodernize the
employe incentive award pro-
gram. and increase the number
of Federal super" $4,000 to
$14,800-a-year jobs.
Sharp Reversal.
The Presidents budget re-
quests represent sharp reversal
of the employment trend in
Government during the past
year when $4,000 Federal jobs
were eliminated.
Budget Director Joseph Dodge
estimated that during the new
fiscal year starting July /, a
total reduction of 10000 Federal
jobs would take place in the nom
defense agencies under the Pres
ident's budget request.
These reductions would be
scattered and could be absorbed
by attrition rather than firings,
Budget Bureau officials said.
OF the more than / million
civilian jobs in the Defense De-
partment. only $4,000 would be
eliminated during the 1865 fiscal
year. Mr.. Dodge said.
The budget director said this
minor reduction is due to a new,
policy whereby civilians in the
defense agencies will wherever
possible I'LL the Jobs now .occu-
pied by 100000 military person.
mel due to be released from the
armed forces.
Defense Department officials
g.. (See JOBS, Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
In the D. c. Area

In the D. c. Area
Appropriate $141,2 95, 500 to
operate the District government
in fiscal 1855.
Authorize a long-term $305 2
million public works improve
ment program for the District.
Grant $545.000 for the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission to extend parkways in
Maryland and Virginia and pro-
vide new District playground.
Make only minor cuts in Fed
eral employment during the next
fiscal year. About 5000 among
$4,000 Government jobs in the
Washington area would be elm
mated.
Spend $4.5 million to continue
construction of the Hospital
Center on Soldiers Home
grounds.
Appropriate 81 million to re-
lieve flood conditions at Bladens-
burg Peace Cross.
Spend $4,708,000 to continue
the building construction pro-
gram at Howard University.
Add $240.000 to the $4,000
raised privately for a new Ii
brary-classroom building at Co.
lumbia Institution for the Deaf.
Take Washington National Air.
port from under the Civil Aero
nauticS Administration and place
it under a corporation. Future
legislation will be presented for
this,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
House Group Bars Rise
In Income Tax EXEMPTION
By the Assoeloted Press

The House Ways and Means
Committee today voted down a
proposal by Democrats 10 reduce
individual income taxes by $2.5
billion annually through increas-
ing personal exemptions by 500.
All is Republicans on the
committee opposed the proposal;
all 10 Democrats voted for 1t.
Chairman Daniel A. Reed in
sisted the committee had pre-
viously agreed unanimously that
the question of increasing indi-
vidual income tax exemptions
would not be taken up until the
committee had completed its
work on a general revision of the
tax laws.
The action of the committee
today in rejecting now the in
crease in personal exemptions
merely affirmed that orderly
procedure, previously agreed to,
would be followed" Mr.. Reed
said. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Temperature May Drop
About 81 Degrees Tonight

Washington's unse sonably
warm weather, geared in the
middle COS today. is due for a
fall tonight Of about 81 degrees,
the Weather Bureau warned.
The frigids blast is coming from
the Northern Plains where tenn
peratures have been reading far
below zero this week.
The bureau said the ther-
mometer may read as high as IS
degrees today. only 2 degrees
of Che all-time high for this
date. But. before morning it will
stand at a chilling %, the fore
caster said. Normal high tenn
perature for this time of year is
A. degrees.
Tumbling temperatures prob
ably viii be preceded by showers
and even thunderstorms today
Tonight the edge of the cold
wave should arrive and it will
be windy and cloudy.
Tomorrow's high mark will be
about % or 80 degrees and there
is some possibility of snow by
night. the bureau said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
cave LOOphOle for Men.

Tie neutral zone ana walk away,
according to Panmunjom dis
patches.
Leave LOOphole for Men. -
The Pentagon chose it's middle
course in dealing with the 81 to
avoid possible legal difficulties
in the way Of sterner action.
and to leave a loophole for the
men to clear>thenselves, should
any of them get back to the
United States.
One month ago the Defense
Department said that it had
narrowed the Army's choices of
action against the men to three:
/. Keep them on Army rolls
and defer a decision for the in
definite future: 2. Give them
undesirable discharges by ad-
miniStrative action of the Army
Secretary, and 3. Drop them
from the Army as deserters.
The first course would have
permitted the men to accumu-
late and perhaps some day draw
their pay. This course was ruled
out by legal opinion that the
armistice terms specifically pro-
vided that prisoners on both
sides who had refused to go
home must be released as
civilians.
DeSertiOn Label Questioned.
Some Army officers held out
for declaring the men deserters.
II this were done. any of the 81
who eventually returned to the
United States would be liable for
automatic arrest and court mar
tial. They could not actually be
convicted Of desertion without a
trial at which they were present.
Pentagon lawyers pointed out
that the agreed armistice terms
sought to guarantee the free
right to choose sides. Therefore,
reasoned the lawyers. a charge
OF deSertion might not be sus-
tainable.
The moment the undesirable
discharges become effective for
the 81. their service pay will
cease to accumulate. It will be
difficult though not impossible
for them to qualify for veterans
benefits. Should any Of them
ever come home he will still have
the right to ask for a review of
his discharge and be given an
opportunity to show. if he can.
that he was coerced into making
his decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Eisenhowers to Attend
Red Mass January 81

President and Mrs. Eisenhower
will attend mass at st. Matthews
Cathedral on January 81 the
White House announced today.
The invitation was extended
by Archbishop Patrick A.
O'Boyle. The service, custom
arily referred to as the Red
Mass" because officiating clergy
wear red vestmentS, is held an
nually to mark the opening of
the Congress and the courts and
to invoke the divine blessing on
those institutions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21

LONDON, Jan. 81 (P).-Scotch
whisky exports last year were
the highest ever. The total Of
13,202,464 proof gallons earned
Britain 81. 768, 1873 pounds t$1O5,-
,750.758), the Scotch Whisky AS
ISOLATION said today. More than
half the exports. as usual. went
to the United States-7,163 TAT
gallons.