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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Assessment Speedup
And Bill for County
Accounting Signed
BY q Sfar Stoff Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 25.-Gov.
McKeldin last night signed into
law a bill putting annual prop
erty assessments into effect in
Maryland this year instead of
next.
He also approved measures
abolishing the Department of
Finance in Prince Georges
County and authorizing creation
of an accounting department
by the county commissioners.
They were among 81 acts of
the General Assembly signed by
the Governor last night.
The annual assessments speed
up bill will enable Baltimore
City and the counties to put on
their tax rolls. for the first time,
all reassessments made since
January /. 1854. Those reas-
sessments have been frozen I'M
der existing law.
The move will increase the
total assessable bases of the
local subdivisions, thus reducing
State aid to the counties for
schools by an estimated $780,
900.
The two Prince Georges fl
nance bills will fulfill a Demo-
cratic campaign promise to
transfer control of county fl
nances from the treasurer's Of
flee to the county commissioners,
according to Senator H. Winship
Wheatley, jr., Democrat, of
Prince Georges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Holm Hall 10 Open
Branch Post Office

New post Office facilities will
be opened in the Holm Hall sub
division of Fairfax County on
April 16. according to Represent
alive Broyhill. Republican, of
Virginia.
Mail will carry the postmark
of Wellington, Va. but will be a
contract branch of the Alexan-
dria post Office. Mr.. Broyhill said.
The Office will be located in the
Toy & Gift Shop, l611-13 Fort
Hunt road.
The new branch will be open
daily except Sunday from 9 am.
to 6:35 pm. 1t will have facili-
ties for money orders, parcel
post. registry and sale of postal
supplies. There will be no change
in the present mail delivery serv-
ice, but parcels not deliverable by
carrier may be picked up at Hol-
lin Hall instead of Alexandria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
THIS SUNDAYS BEST READING
@he Sunday $taf

WALT WHITktANS AMERICA wos the whole America Of
his doythe width and breadth Of from shore to Shore
yet the descriptions impressions and sensitive, enduring
truths contained in his poetry ring resoundney
century and just applicable today. In The Stor
Pictorial Magazine, Walt Whitmons America comes to
life with picture interpretation OF his beautiful and
eloquent Leaves Of Gross"
WHY MEN FAL-ond why other men succeed Whot is the
psychological key to success? This challenging question
authority thon Dr. WiIIom c. Mennineer, one Of the
Notions most respected psychotrists who discusses the
problem in This Week Magazine. In the qozine
Emily Genouers feature "U S. Art Tokes Pos Voco-
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together send their century French masterpieces
home" for visit S. million good will gesture. Illus
troted with number Of the paintings reproduced in full
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
School Personnel
In Arlington Barred
From Campaigning

The Arlington School Board
has forbidden school employees
to campaign for the election of
a board candidate.
In a statement today by Mrs.
Elizebath Campbell, chairman,
the board decreed that cam
paignipg by school personnel
constitutes IAN improper activ-
ity."
Employees. however, may still
take part in the School Board
nominating convention.
The action came with the
adoption by the School Board
of resolution passed by the
Arlington Education Association.
Mrs. Campbell said this resolu-
ton was being incorporated
into School Board personnel
policy.
The board did not specify
what disciplinary action would
be taken if an employee takes
an active part in a campaign
Mrs. Campbell, after polling
members of the School Board,
issued this statement:
The Arlington School Board
Endorses the statement of the
Arlington Education Associa-
ton regarding citizenship rights
of school personnel, and the
School Board will incorporate
in its policies a statement that
campaigning for the election of
a candidate to the School Board
is an improper activity on the
part of a school employee"
The board had referred the
question to the teachers after
Supt. T Edward Rutter was re-
quested by the Executive Com
mittee of the Arlington indie
pendent Movement to ban teach
ers from the convention.
AIM leaders, in their letter to
Mr.. Rutter, said county govern
ment employees are prohibited by
ordinance from participating in
politics.
The Teachers Association. in
other business, agreed to vote on
a proposed amendment to the
groups constitution that would
permit indignation of the white
and Negro teachers organiza-
tons. The vote will be taken on
April %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Arlington Pupils
To Get SaIk Shots

First and second-grade pupils
in Arlington public schools will
receive the Salk vaccine for polio
in series of three inoculations,
beginning April ID.
Supt. T. Edward Rutter re-
ported to the School Board last
night that the vaccine will be
administered on April 10 and Is
and May % to children who have
their parents consent.
In other business, the board
named as principal of Jamestown
and Madison Schools next fall
William D. Ravens, now princi-
pal at Monroe. Mr.. Ravens, a
graduate of Arlington schools, Is
former Olympic canoe-tilting
star.
The board changed its April
meeting dates because of the
spring vacation schedule. The
board will meet at 8 pm. April IL
at the administration building
and at 10 am. April % at Oak
ridge School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Cutting Of Hedges
Ordered at Arlington

Hedges within rs feet Of Ar
lington intersections must be
trimmed to a height of not more
than three feet, residents were
reminded today.
The county Office of planning
and the Arlington Safety Council
said the ordinance prescribing
the trimming was passed in the
interests of traffic safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
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For Your New Home

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Don't miss the big real estate sec
tion in The Stor tomorrow. Reed The
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Sc Million Budget
To Build Schools Gets
Friendly Reception

The proposed So million school
construction budget for Mont
gomery County received a warm
reception last night from most
of the 200 residents who met in
Rockville for the proposals first
public airing.
Thirty speakers representing
more than so county organiza-
tons took the floor in Richard
Montgomery High Schools audi
forum to quiz School Supt.
Forbes H. Norris on his capital
budget recommendation. The
Board of Education shared the
stage with the superintendent.
Only on three points did the
educators plant calls for ex-
penditure of $3.5 million for
elementary school construction,
$500 million for construction of
secondary schools and $f.4 mil
lion for other capital needs
come under real fire.
Called BADLY Planned"
Mrs. Leo B. Orbach. repre-
senting the Montgomery Civic
Unity Committee, labeled the
proposal badly planned" since
it does not take into conSidera-
ton Impending indignation"
Mrs. Elizabeth Rohr, League
of Women Voters president,
joined Mrs. Orbach in calling for
the immediate -redistricting of
the county's school boundaries
"in the face of indignation"
1T would be impossible" Mrs.
Rohr said, "for us to properly
plan the construction of schools
if we do not know for sure where
those schools are to be needed
the most"
A third criticism came from
Clarke l.. Fauver, Allied Civic
Group. Inc, who charged that
the budget contained too much
scanty and fragmentary ma
terial to make possible a proper
analysis of present and future
school needs"
Some Changes Requested.
Although most speakers in
dorsed the plan, many requested
some kind of change.
Henry G.. Hole, Woodside
Elementary School representa-
tive, called for renovation of
the schools heating system. He
described it as a fire and
health hazard"
/, Joseph P. Goldberg, speaking
for the New Hampshire Estates
Elementary School, requested
construction of four new class
rooms, a library and a health
room.
Supt. Norris will present his
recommended operations budget
to the Board of Education next
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
New Bill Would Gain
Rights-of- for
Montgomery Roads
BY q Star Sfoff Correspondent

| ANNAPOLIS, Mar. rs. - A
measure to pave the way for
obtaining rights-of-way for
major freeways in Montgomery
County left out of the States H.
year road program was to be
introduced in the House of Dele
gates today.
Montgomery delegation chair
man, Blair Lee III, last night said
he would introduce bill au-
thorizing the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission to set aside surpluses for
the purchase of such rights-of-
way.
Roads specifically for which
rights-of-way should be reserved
include the Northern Parkway
out of Silver Spring and the
Outer County Belt Freeway.
Neither is in the 12-year pro-
gram and the State Roads Com
mission has no funds for rights
of-way purchases.
Sees Great Savings
Taxpayers will be saved ire
mendouS amounts If these rights
of-way are obtained before they
are swallowed up by residential
Developments" ME-. Lee said.
Mr.. Lee also intends to intro
duce a measure before the filing
deadline tonight to make tax
exempt the Montgomery County
Historical Society's new home
outside Rockville.
The delegation chairman last
night introduced a measure to
direct the State Tax Commission
to figure property assessments
Statewide at a ratio of half of
actual cash value in establishing
the basis for distribution of
State equalization funds.
The measure would cut deeply
into State school equalization aid
received by some of the small
counties, whose assessment ra-
tics range as low as Is per cent. !
Wide Variation
The bill would not bar a county
from assessing at any ratio it
chooses for local tax purposes.
Baltimore City. for example, as
sesses at about 60 per cent of
actual cash value. while Calvert
County repeatedly runs only
about Is per cent.
Senator Edward S. Northrup,
Democrat. of Montgomery yes
terday saw his proposed 5000
million fiye-year school con-
struction bill killed for this
session as the Senate referred |
it to the Legislative Council for
study. !
A bill, however, doubling the
$10-a-pupil basis on which the
State incentive fund for school
construction is based was passed
to third reading in the Senate.
Senator Northrup last night |
said he would introduce a meas
ure. to provide an additional SIS |
per child on the basis of en-
rollment increases. The latter |
measure is aimed at providing
special assistance for areas hard |
hit by population increases.
A measure tying both incen-
tive fund increases together in
a single package was introduced |
in the House last night by the |
Prince Georges delegation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Rockville Suspends
Trunk Sewer Plans
For Cabin John Area

Rockville's Mayor and Council
wound up a stormy five-hour
session last night by voting to
suspend further engineering
work on the projected eight-mile
Cabin John trunk sewer which
the city planned to build in CO.
operation with the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
Mayor Dickran Y. Hovsepian,
who drafted the stop work reso-
luton, said bills now pending in
the Maryland Legislature cur
failing the powers of municipali-
ties to annex land would deprive
Rockville of a market for sewer
service and the tax base needed
to support the Cabin John prof.
ect.
Re-examine Proposal
The Council agreed to re-
examine a proposal to build a
municipal sewage disposal plant
which would make the Cabin
John hookup unnecessary.
Specific targets of the Coun-
ellis wrath were the bill to ex-
tend the area of the sanitary
commission and two of the ia
amendments to the Implement
ing bill for the home rule
amendment to the State consti-
tuition.
One amendment would provide
that counties would have veto
power over annexations by mu-
inequalities within their borders.
The other would not allow mu-
inequalities to extend their plan
ming and coming powers to newly
annexed areas if any State,
county or regional agency
already had jurisdiction.
The Sanitary Commission bill
would extend the commissions
jurisdiction along the southern
border of Rockville. This is the
area which Mayor Hovsepian
says contains the potential mar
ket and tax base needed to justi-
fy construction of the Cabin
John sewer line.
Would Lay 30-Inch Line.
Rockville has banked $670 900
in bond funds which would pay
for the 18-inch trunk sewer line
the city needs to relieve its over
loaded disposal plant. WSSC
officials had proposed to con-
tribute a further $240, 900 and lay
a 30-inch line capable of serving
the entire Cabin John valley.
Council members also indi-
Gated they might retrieve an
abandoned project and tap the
Potomac for additional water
supply. The city's we'll water sup
ply is now augmented by retail
purchases from the WSSC
water system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
yudae Coleman to Retire

BALTIMORE. Mar. rs (P.-
Chief Judge William c. Cole
man, rounding out his 9th year
on the Maryland Federal Court
bench here, announced his re-
tirement yesterday, effective
June /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25

To me this is one of the great
est passages in the Bible. In these
few lucid sentences Jesus has
summed up the entire Christian phi
losophy and system of ethics. Here
the most profound and comprehen-
sive religious principles are reduced
to their ultimate simplicity and are
expressed with an economy of words
and a beauty of language which
would be difficult to match.
This is a passage which we can
well ponder, not merely as a lenten
thought, but as thought to enrich
and strengthen our lives throughout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
A Thunght fur Tnhay
Lenten Reflections by People You Know
By SomueI Spencer
President CT the Board Of District Commissioners

Then one of them, which lawyer asked Him
question: tempting Him. and saying, Master, which is
the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy SOUL and with
all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy
neghbor thy self MATTHEW, xxi 34-40l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Cause for Embarrassment

MANILA, Mar. Is (P.-A
typewriter stolen last October
from the Philippine American
Life Insurance Co. was found
yesterday in use in the Quezon
city police department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25

In lighter vein, lawyer (my profession)
better answered and put in his place?
Tomorrow-Dr. Edward II. Pruden
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-25
Budget Slated
For Minor Cut
AtAnnapoIis
Hearings on All
Tex Proposals to
Begin Next Week
By Gene Goodwin
Sior SteH Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. IS. - The
Senate Finance and House Ways
and Means committees have
agreed to a drop in the bucket"
cut of about $950,000 in Gov.
McKeldin's $270 million Mary
land budget for next fiscal year.
That was the report today. as
the House committee prepared
Status Of Bills in Maryland Legislature.
Page ALI
Evening star., 1955-07-17
CONTINUED

been great ones for readings. When Charles
Dickens toured, reading his own works, he had
his greatest success in this country not his native
England.
And back in the golden days Of the Chautauqua
circuit, William Jennings Bryan was able to
draw forty acres Of parked FordS" anywhere
he went. But the rise of radio, movies and tele-
vision conspired to lure Americans away from
the pleasures of reading and listening; and what
reading they did fell prey to that terrible predator
the condensation.
However, in recent years the pleasures of read
ing aloud are being discovered all over again, and
recordings by poets like Dylan Thomas and Edith
Sitwell reading their own works have been selling
in large numbers.
/ wholeheartedly agree with the distinguished
novelist, John Hersey, who wrote recently in
Life" magazine: 1--WE believe that parents should
create in the home an atmosphere that is condu-
Give to reading. They should have good books
and magazines at hand. Parents should read to
children. They should try to entertain them with
reading and make reading pleasure as television
is pleasure. If school is where learning to read
belongs, home is where happiness in reading
belongs"
The Dig Discovery
HERE was no such reading in my home when
l was boy. and have always regretted it. My
parents ran hotel in Scarborough, resort town
on the east coast of England, and innkeeping
being the demanding task il is, they had no time
for leisurely gatherings with my two brothers
and me for reading books out loud.
In fact, did not discover books until was
going to college. The discovery was overpower-
ing | rushed from book to book like a child
with its first Christmas toys, and many hapless
fellow student was backed into corner and read
to until he could negotiate his escape.
After graduation from Stonyhurst I concen-
trated on acting in plays and movies, and it was
not until World War ii that found out that my
enthusiasm for reading aloud was in reality a
universal one. Like other Hollywood actors,
had been asked to entertain at military hospitals,
but couldn't sing folk songs or play an accordion
or do much with the interpretive dance.
Now had always enjoyed reading the Bible
and other great literature out loud; my wife and
had often spent our evenings that way, but
Evening star., 1955-07-17
TRY FAMILY

wondered how hospitalized CTS would react to
it. decided to give il try = but ! don't mind
admitting that ! approached my first reading with
great trepidation.
An audience of CT patients had gathered at
Birmingham General Hospital and I'm sure they
expected me to be Captain Blgh and Henry VIII
in the grand manner Of night-club mimic. In
fact. when announced that was going to read
from some of the books was carrying there was
mass groan.
VA Lift Trom Woeds"
As AN icebreaker had chosen James Thurber's
hilarious revision Of Little Red Riding Hood
c'ttle girls are lot harder to fool these days.
observes MIR. Thurber), went on to Andrew
Marvell's splendid early verse, ITO His Coy
Mistress" Then, feeling my way, read passages
from classics had always loved - Shakespeare,
Dickens. Aesop, Thomas Wolfe and as finale,
Lincolns Gettysburg Address.
My audience was enthusiastically apprecative,
and afterward a corporal said to me, 'Mr.
Laughton, never thought I'd get such lift
just from words"
1t was touching thing to say, and in reply
said never to speak of words as if they were minor
weapons. Words have accomplished more than
all the bombs ever dropped
Moses wrote the Ten Commandments on tab
lets of stone from divine inspiration The tablets
Of stone have long been dust, but the words live.
Mans greatest and noblest works of genius built
from brick and mortar crumble and perish, but
words do not die.
After that initial experience I visited Army
hospitals regularly. When the war ended, was
sure that a lot Of Americans wanted more than
televiSion and comic books for entertainment [
began reading the Bible before audiences in cities
all over the country.
wTAle Of Real People"
WAS once invited to read the Bible to an audi
ence of ministers at Occidental College. After
ward, one Of the ministers told me, "You know,
we ministers make fetish of the Bible. You turn
it into dramatic, earthly tale Of real people,
assure you that you can do the same thing if
you will try reading the Bible out loud in your
own living room, just as our ancestors used to
do in their daily Bible readings. Beyond that, on
the next page is listed large selection Of read
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01
Hans Jensen To
Get Royal Honor

Hans Jensen, whose converted
schoolbus ''The Wanderer" brought
him home last Sunday from four
months stay in Florida, California
and Mexico, takes off Sunday for
Europe.
He will get an international IL
cense for his trusty scooter in New
York, and will sail April Z for
Holland. His scooter will take him
for a prolonged visit to the Scan
danavian countries where he has
many relatives, particularly in Den
mark.
High light of the stay comes
May 10 when he will be honored al
a special ceremony at the King:
Palace in Copenhagen, marking the
Golden Anniversary of his joining
the Kings Guard as a youth ir
Denmark. Hans, who is staying
with his daughter, Mrs. John Kuz
ma, for his short stay home, will
visit his son Robert and family al
Fort Monmouth, N. j. enroute tC
N. Y.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01
Mayor Hopes Pay
Raise Will Draw
Police Applicants

Mayor Harold Jeremy Wednes-
day expressed hope that Councils
action on increased salaries for the
police department will attract TO
the force good candidates who have
declined TO apply, due TO the fact
they are now getting better pay
elsewhere.
He said he will give the Civil
Service Commission the go-ahead
signal to schedule another patrol
man examination and an open ex-
animation for captain at an early
date. Plans to give a non-competi-
tive captain exam to Officer Boyd
Austin only have been dropped,
he said.
Under the new wage set-up, start
ing patrolmen will get $500 per
month for the first year, with an
nual increases Of SO per year
till they reach the 1920 maximum
set by Council. Present pay in
1882.
Safety Service director Walter
Wagener told Council Tuesday
night that when the Lemaster liti-
cation is settled and a police chief
exam can be called, "the boys on
the force now will lave the first
crack at it if they want it."
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01
QUICK ACTION
IN PIER WORK
is PROMISED

Outlook for federal aid in repair
ing Port Clinton's east pier, dam
aged by high water and its fill in
danger of being washed away, ap-
peared good this week.
Joseph LaPisa, of the Toledo
district office of U. S. Army Engi-
neers, was here Tuesday with an
assistant to accompany Mayor
Harold Jeremy and Safety Service
director Walter Wagener in an in
spection of the pier which is under
water much of the time and is in
need of raising.
A letter to Congressman Cliff
Clevenger last week brought quick
action in his calling attention of
the engineers office to the local
situation.
Plans for survey of the pies
were mentioned by Mr.. LaPisa dur
ing his visit with city officials
Hopes that a foghorn and light
can be erected on the east pier
during the repair program were
expressed by officials.
Installation of the outboard
ramp at the foot of Jefferson-St
will be made as soon as weather
permits, Mayor Jeremy assured
| boat owners.