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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Wheaton 10 Get
Biz Water Tank

A 15-million-gallo steel reser-
voir, believed to be one of the
largest of Its kind in the world.
will be erected soon in Wheaton
by the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission.
Contract for construction Of
the huge tank. which viii triple
the water-storage capacity Of
the commissions main distribu-
ton center for Montgomery
County, has been awarded to
the Hammond Iron Works. Of
Warren. Pa, on a low bid Of
$500, 200. The project Is sched-
|uled for completion by June !.
The reservoir wiz be built on
two acres Of land owned by the
commission. adjacent to and just
north Of the site Of its two 4
tmillion-gallon storage tanks on
the Kensington- Wheaton road,
between Georgia avenue and
VierS MILL road.
The new reservoir will be 238
feet in diameter and 40 feet high
at the caves. The steel in the
bottom ring of the shell. where
the pressure isA greatest. will be
.17s inches thick
Water for storage will come
from the commissions Patuxent
water treatment plant, near
Laurel, through a 42-inch and
36-inch line installed in 1851.
Harry B. Shaw, the commits
sion's chief engineer, said the
additional storage will prevent
any large fuctuation in pres
sure in the areas it serves, insure
large volumes of water for fire
protection and provide better
continuity of service In event Of
any interruptions to service in
the commissions system
Previously the commissions
10-million-gallon reservoir in the
Oxon Hill section Of Prince
Georges County was regarded as
one of the two largest Of its
kind. 1t has been in service
since 1947.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Hackers Push Petitions
Opposing Toxi Meters

Four Montgomery County taxi.
cab firms are getting their Gus
toners to sign a petition against
a proposed law requiring meters
in all county cabs.
The petition to the County
Council argues that assessing
fares by meters would cost the
customers more.
Drivers for the four companies
fighting against the meter law
also are urging their customers
to join them in protest at a pub
lie hearing set for Sis pm
Tuesday in the auditorium OF
the county Office building, Rock
vile.
Not all county hackers oppose
the meter plan. Spokesman fol-
the Black and White Cab Asso-
citation and the yellow Cab Co
Of Silver Spring have hailed il
as a means Of increasing their
own revenues. and bringing
about better drivers. cabs and
service.
Lee w. Jones, president of Sill
yer Spring Taxi, Inc. started the
petition campaign. He said the
idea also has been taken up by
the We Cab Co. of Bethesda
Montgomery Cab Co. of Bethesda
and Wheaton City Cab Co. Of
Wheaton.
Mr.. Jones said the four Arms
had obtained several thousand
signatures to their petition.
He said the meters would
drive customers away because
fares would be higher"
The proposed ordinance pro-
vides for meter fares Of SO cents
for the first mile or less with
10 cents for each additional one
third Of a mile for one or two
passengers. For each passenger
more than two. an additional
fare of Is cents would be
charged, under the ordinance
Montgomery has no uniform
taxicab fare system now. Each
cab company sets its own rates
on individual zone systems.
Mr.. Jones said it Is possible
to ride in his cabs for two miles
now for IS cents. The same trip
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Car Jumps Curb,
Pedestrian

A pedestrian was hurt Seri-
Iously last night when he was
struck by car as he walked on
IA sidewalk on Sixty first street
Sc. near East Capitol street.
police reported.
He is Walter Spence. 81,
colored, Of 104 Sixth street NE.
who was admitted to District
General Hospital with fractures
of both legs and the left arm,
and rib injuries.
Police said a car driven by
Johnnie D. Butler, %. colored, of
the 1900 block of Fifty-seventh
avenue. Chapel Oaks. Md. went
over the curb and struck Mr..
Spence. The driver was charged
with colliding and unreasonable
speed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25

The oft-repeated picture Of
children lining up for polio vac
cine viii be repeated again this
week in the. Districts public and
Iparochial schools.
The District Health Depart
fment Is ready to inoculate about
1000 second and third grade
children, all of whom received
their first shot last April. The
vaccine is being supplied free by
the National Foundation for In
Ifantile Paralysis. The inocula-
Itions viii begin Tuesday and end
Ion Monday OF next week.
| Actually, the vaccine Is differ
Ient in some respects. doctors
point out, from that introduced
last April as the final answer
Ito polio"
Based on three shots In five
weeks. the vaccine was found to
be about go to 90 per cent"
effective. This weeks series of
second shots come almost five
months after the first. The third
which will not be offered by
the foundation--may come In
March or April. Doctors cannot
say whether the vaccine given
under this schedule is as effec-
tive as the dosage of three shots
used in the polio vaccine field
trial of 1854. There is no past
Experience.
DR.. Hart Van Ripper. medical
director Of the foundation, said
the delay--caused by the Cutter
incident and the resultant post
,ponement Of the program in the
District - actually makes little
difference in the amount Of pro-
lection the vaccine produces in
the blood stream. He added that
current tests hope to arrive at
Ia definite pattern" Of shots-as
Is the case with other yaccines-
for the Salk vaccine.
The third shot for second and
third graders. considered to be
the most important. win either
be obtained through private
lphysicians or through a public
program financed by Congress
next February.
This weeks inoculations are
not to be confused with the pub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
ISofety Talks
Arlington Visits
Listed by Mansfield

Inspector Dick MonsfieId, director
Of The Stor's School Sofety prosrom,
will give his sofety eholk folks Of the
following ssehoois in Arlington this
week:
Tomorow-Poss School, 9:l5 an.
ond 10 an.
Tuesdoy--Reed School. s:l5 ON.
and 10 en-.
Wednesday, School. s:l5
ON. and 10 an.
Thursdoy-Drew School, s:l5 ON,
and 10 ON.
Fridoy-Monroe School. s:lS ON.
and 10 ON.
For suggestions - Constance
Ugiss. Ellsworth A. ]. Kell pnd
william c. Pope.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
Water, Sewage
Study Ordered

/ National Capital Planning
Commission officials have named
| a five-man committee to eX-
anime and submit a report or
| the metropolitan areas water
supply and sewage disposal out.
look.
William J., Cox, Loudour
County, Va. Planning Commits.
sion member. was named chair.
man of the new committee. The
group was named by Hariand
Bartholomew. National Capita
Planning Commission chairman
and Max S, Wehrly, who heads
the National Capital Regional
Planning Council.
Appointment Of Mr.. Cox was
expected to assure speedy action
iof the current dispute ovel
locating Potomac Electric
Power Co. plant on the Loudoun
side Of the Potomac River
Working with Mr.. Cox will be
District Commissioner Thomas
A Lane. National Parks Service
Director Conrad L. Wirth
Claude Owen. citizen member Of
the NCPC; and Herbert w
Wells Of the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning COM
mission.
The new group plans to meet
during the week Of October s
to tackle the problem of Po-
tomac pollution.
Plans Of the power company
to buiA. the plant in Loudoun,
meanwhile, still continue to stir
controversy.
Maryland and Virginia have
battled to get the $40 million
plant for its tax potential. The
District. however. has held that
lit will Ito a degree make q
change" in the local drinking
water.
William p. Gulledge. counsel
lof the Senate District Commit
tee. plans informal meetings Of
area water experts this week to
gather information for Commit
tee Chairman Wayne Morse
when the Senator returns from
Oregon next month.
Maryland has long claimed the
Potomac as. its own since the
lines between the Free State and
Virginia we're drawn along the
south shore Of the river in 1885
M. L. Reese, Montgomery
County manager, has called on
the county council to do every.
thing possible to get the plant
built on the Maryland side.
/ Commissioner Lane last night
said he felt reasonably sure thai
IPepco and Army Engineer.
. would arrive at a possible solu.
j tion to the argument within q
week. He made the statement or
la radio program. :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25

More than 1000 blooms Of 3
tremendous variety Of color anc
size are on display today at ths
combined first show OF the mid,
Atlantic Dahlia Conference ant
the Goth annual show Of thu
National Capital Dahlia EocietJ
I'm the Botanic Garden, south.
west Of the Capitol.
The show viii be open from
% am. until $50 pm.
The blooms were judged yes
Iterday before the show wa.
opened to the public. Winner,
In the three major classes were;
IA class teight inches or larger).
John A. Sherwood Of Baltimore:
IB class -four to eight inches)
II. r. Phillips. 807 Philadelphis
avenue. Silver Spring. Md; mini
ture class tunder four inches)
Mr.. Phillips.
L
Harry Franks Of Far Hills
N. j.. exhibited the largest bloom
In the show.
Wins Stars Trophy
The Evening Star Trophy fol
the sweepstakes winner among
growers of up to l25 large bios
SONS was won by e. W.. Toomb!
Iof 62l7 Utah avenue NV. Best
individual flower in this clas'
was exhibited by Mr.. Sherwood
Samuel, Shapiro. sol NORTH
jackson street. Arlington, Va.
won q lawn mower for his ex'
Ihibit of a large flower in a spe-
jcial competition.
Best arrangement was exhib'
Iited by Mrs. Hugh w, Gary o.
|l512 North Nichols street. Ar
'lingtou.
Nosegay Flower Shop. 8l8 Sew
|enteenth street NV. won in the
florists connection.
Sweepstakes winner among the
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|zoning Expert
Files Report on
Building Height
consuItont Differs
From Proposals
OF Aubinoe Group


Battle lines In the coming fight
over revision Of the Districts So
year-old coming code were drawn
sharper last week with . report
by the city's coming coAsultant
on the size to be permitted for
business buildings.
{ u differed sharply In several
respects from similar recon.
mendations made last spring by
Ia special subcommittee Of the
Commissioners, zoning Advisory
COMMITTEE headed by. Alvin L.
Aubinoe, Washington builder.
After q hearing before the
parent groups executive COM
In1ittee. headed by Thomas j.
Groom. president Of the Bank Of
Commerce. the Aubinoe recon-
Inaendations were tentatively ap-
lproved BY vote Of Q to ! and
referred To the consultant for
Icofnment.
The consultant, Harold M.
Lewis, New York planner. made
ibis comment Friday in his own
report on Height and Bulk Of
Commercial Buildings" without
mentioning the Auhinoe recon-
lamentations.
i : 9-35 .
Differ ON Height Limit
| Mr.. Aubinoe's subcommittee
urged establishment Of two
height districts In Washington
lone Of 20 feet for detached resi-
dental areaS and another of
Il50 feet.
Mr.. Lewis. discussing only
commercial and manufacturing
districts. recommended several
different height limits--with q
maximum Of l45 feet for the
central business district.
The Aubinoe subcommittee also
urged that Congress end its con-
ltrol of building heights under the
Act Of 1910 and leave 1t to the
/ District Commissioners TO say
how high buildings should be.
/ The Lewis report urged shift
ling many coming details from
1.-THE law to the Zoning Commits
sion, but urged that the final
word on heights be kept in the
law.
i Both. recommendations urged
THAT the size Of buildings other
than height-be determined by
setting fixed ratios between the
lamount Of floor space which
lcould be built into o building and
1.-THE land on which il stands.
Asked Ratio BE Varied
1 The Aubinoe committee urged
that this ratio be varied among
1.-THE coming districts, as did the
Lewis report. The Aubinoe rec
lemmendations. however. did not
suggest what specific ratios
should be used. The Lewis report
ibid.
| Mr.. Lewis urged that the max
limum floor area ratio be set at
seven. so that even In the GEN.
trial business district no building
Icould have more than seven
times more floor space than its
lot area.
/ Thus. a building covering 100
Iper cent Of the lot could be only
lseven stories tall. II 1t were taller,
lit would have to cover less Of
1.-THE lot.
Mr.. Lewis report said fatty
this was move to cut down the
Isize Of buildings. reduce the
number Of people they can hold
land ease the traffic burden on
downtown streets.
| With the present population
iof the downtown area calculated
lat about 1856 600, Mr.. Lewis esti-
MATED this would increase by
some 10000 In the next is years
under existing conditions and
produce ''intolerahle' traffic con-
EDITIONS. He said his proposals
were designed to keep the down.
town population from growing
more than about 10000 in the
same period.
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$1,000 Children to Get
I'd Polio Shot This Week

lie program. financed by Con-
gress, which will seek to inocu-
late $4,000 children from 5 to 8
years Of age with first shots,
probably late In October. The
vaccine will be given both by
private physicians and in the
schools. Plans have not as yet
been formalized.
Outside Of the District. foun-
dation inoculations will be
started again in October. except
in Montgomery County. where
the program is slated for Novem-
Der. Fairfax County, which
sought to stem what appeared to
be an epidemic at first, COM
pleted 10000 second shots in
midsummer.
Parents and teachers have been
called on to volunteer their serv-
ices for this weeks inoculations
in the District. The Health De-
partment plans to use IS ply
sicians of its own staff to adj
minister the injections, instead
of calling on the city's private
physicians as was done last
spring.
The schedule Of this weeks
inoculations is as follows:
TUESDAY
simmons. wheatley. Davis, Stevens
Key, Jackson. oyster. ST. Thomas. AMI
don. A. Bowen, Patterson.
Ketcham. Turner, Burville. Carver
Harrison, Loyejoy. Health, .,,s Graa =,
Dominic, st. Joseph, Assumption, st
Aloysius. Holy Name (p.mJ,
WEDNESDAY
seaton. Janney.. Benning. Kenilworth
Bryan. Garrison, Morgan, Randle High.
Bowen, Ambush. Bunker Hin. Garfield,
lp.m'l Hayes. Ludlow, Simon. stanton
Teresa Teresa. st. 81. Francis Xavier tp.mr
THURSDAY
Blair, Murch. Blow, Brookland, Madi-
SON, Overwhelmingly, Parkview
Langdon. Keene. Cooke, West. Syphax
Scott Montgomery, Crummen Annex
Phillips. Shepherd, Langston, Draper
Holy Comforter, st. Gabriel Holy Tri.
nifty. St Mary, Our Lady Of Perpetual
Help, Merritt tp.m9.
FRIDAY
Walker-Jones. washington Union
Academy. Orr, Kimball. smoothers,
Tfuesdeii. whittier, River Terrace, Ray
Greenlear. Noyes, Edmonds, Giddines
Male, Young, Birney. Tyler. Moten
Our LADY oueeB Of peacs. Nativity. o.
Ann. 81. Peter. st. Francis DC ale'
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would cost 80 cents under the
meter plan. he said.
He said he and the other Arms
protesting the move are not OPP
posed to q uniform fare plan,
just the meters, He proposes a
plan requiring county approval
|of the individual zone fare sys-
TENS used by each company
which would have the practical
effect of continuing present fare
methods.
Meter opponents point out
that meters are not used either
lin District or Prince Georges
County cabs. Washington has
la uniform zone fare system
Prince Georges law provides fol-
uniform fares OF 40 cents fol
the first mile and 80 cents FOL
each additional mile. based on
Ispeedometer readings. :
County officials backing thu
new ordinance argue that meters
ARE the most efiicient way Of
Ieffecting q uniform fare system
With cabs operating mostly out
Iof the county's three big popu.
,lation centers - Silver Spring
Bethesda and Rockville uni.
form zone system such as thai
used in the District of Columbis
lis impossible, county officials
believe.
The meter provision is onl,
one Of several changes In cal
Operations that would be neces.
STATED under the new ordinance
Mr.. Jones said he and his col.
leagues are opposing only the
meters.
The proposed ordinance, which
would take effect November
liz passed, also would:
!. Limit the number Of cab.
Ito be licensed In the county tx
$50, about 40 more than arr
operating at present.
2. Require all licensed cabs Il
he in operation at least eigh,
hours a day, six days q week.
3. Ban delivery Of liquor BY
hackers.
4. Permit soliciting OF passen.
gers only at designated cal
stands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25

TIME TANGLE TORRENTS TROOPS Boiling Air
Force Base men show what must have happened to
lots of people who didn't remember to take advan-
tage of that extra hours sleep made possible by the
Districts return to standard time. Stimulating the
man who got up too early Is Oeft) Staff Sergt Paul
s. Hamilton and counseling him is T/Sergt. Michael
X. Spayd. (Story on Page ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25

AREA b PLAN REVISED-The area marked for
residential development between and / streets
S.W., designates the portion of Project Area for
morrow will try 10 select builder. Boundaries OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25
FRIDAY

Walker-Jones. Washington Union
44saesfI whittier, River terrace, Ray.
mond,. Hardy. Calvert. Adams. Brent
Male, Young, Birney. Tyler. Moten,
Our LADY Queen Of peaea. Nativity. g.
Ann. ST. Peter. 81. Francis de sales
tp.m).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-25

Blair, Murch. Blow. Brookland. Madi-
SON, Briggs Monteomery. Psrkview,
Langdon. Keene. Cooke, West. Syphax.
Congress- Heights, Thomas, Mott.
Scott Montgomery, Crummel Annex,
Phillips. Shepherd, Langston, Draper,
Holy Comforter, st. Gabriel. Holy Tri:
nifty. St Mary, Our Lady Of Perpetual
Helm. Merritt tp.m1.
Evening star., 1955-09-21
Embassy
Row Notes

A number Of prominent
members of diplomatic and
official society are scheduled
to attend the premiere Of
"Cinerama Holiday" next
Wednesday evening.
The event, under the spon-
sorship Of the Washington
Variety Club, will be a benefit
showing for the clubs vel
fare fund for Children's Hos
pital.
Among the honored guests
will be the Ambassador Of
Brazil and Mime. Muniz. the
Ambassador Of Canada and
Mrs. Heeney, India's Ambas-
sador Mehta, the Ambassador
Of Ireland and Mrs. Hearnes
and the Ambassador Of Thai
land and Mrs. Sarasin.
From the cabinet those who
plan to attend are Secretary
Of the Treasury and Mrs.
Humphrey. Secretary Of Wei
fare and Mrs. Folsom and the
Secretary Of Interior and Mrs.
Douglas Mckay.
\ 4 4 \
Mrs. Richard Blackburn
Black, Mrs. Edwin Gaines Full
inwider and Mrs. John Clinton
Davis went ahead with the tea
they had planned yesterday for
the White House Portuguese
Spanish study group. but the
guest of honor. Sonora de Da-
villa, was unable to be present.
Sonora de Davila. wife Of
Evening star., 1955-09-21
TODAYS HOME
( New Wallpapers
Have Elegance

perspective. add depth and
dimension to plain walls and
open q room for q more spa
cious look.
Leather makes an interest,"
ing room more so. particularly
in a study where. for instance,
. wall Of top-grain natural
colored leather. which has
been scored with quarter-inch
horizontal lines at l5-inch m
tervals. picks up the theme of
leather-covered furniture in a
variety of colors and patterns.
Other ever popular decor
items are a group of related
printed fabrics and wallpapers
in a new collection first intro
duced at the Home Furnish
ings Mart last summer in Chi
cago.
Woven Materials
The new series. In addition
to is related designs on wall
paper and fabrics, includes
group Of four all purpose
woven materials In harmonic
ing ,colors suitable for dra-
peries, draw curtains. uphol-
stery. bedspreads and many
other uses.
Appropriate patterns for just
about every type of interior
are in the collection, such as
small-scale traditional pat
terms, florals. modern textures
and two unusual scenics. In
addition, one handsome docu-
mentary design is printed in
two shades of metallic gold on
both wallpaper and fabric.
The related group. called
"Greenbrook Collection II" is
available locally through
Woodward & Lothrop's de-
partment store as well as in
dividual interior decorators.
Other recent arrivals on the
local wallpaper scene are two
prints Of special historical in
terest, since they reproduce
wallpaper found under layers
Of plaster in the Blue Room
and a White House parlor Of
the mid-19th century.
The hand silk screened
papers by Gene Mcdonald are
of medium scale with the de-
See VAUGHAN, Page B.!
Evening star., 1955-09-21
BY MARY L. VAUGHAN

Choosing wallpaper designs
to At the right type Of backs
ground can be fun with the
wide variety Of patterns and
textures offered this season.
The great diversity in papers
made by machine print manu-
facturers makes a perfectly
correct decor possible whether
traditional, provincial or mod
ern.
There's also a good deal Of
smix and match" underway,
with some using a traditional
type of wallpaper to add dis
tinction to a modern setting.
To satisfy every woman's
love Of elegance. this seasons
living room papers combine
great beauty and warmth Of
design with formality. Many
Of the tone-on-tone papers re-
semble fine brocades, dam
asks and toiles Of a vanished
era. Delicate lacy foliage
forms with no deliberate con-
tinuity are performing a two
fold service, creating an artis-
tic setting and lending o sof-
tening note to the severity Of
some Of today's modern fur
nishings.
{. Designer artists for the in
dustry have surpassed any
previous creations in scenic
effects. They include designs
depicting far horizons with
pictorial garden scenes, wooded
bills, harbors, bridges and
castles and harbor scenes.
Informal Patterns
Casual informal patterns IN
fresh new colors with crisp
all-over designs ranging from
geometrics to traditional forms
and fine line sketch-type pat
terms in Oriental arrangements
of leaves and grasses or con-
temporary drawings of cities
or village street scenes are two
good examples.
OF architectural inspiration
are the designs employing
shutter effects, lattice work.
bamboo screens and natural
materials such as brick, stone
and iron grille work. These
designs with their feeling Of
Evening star., 1955-09-21

the secretary-Gener Of the
Organization of American
States, had to be In Chicago
with her husband where he is
undergoing medical treatment.
Former Ambassador to Tur-
key and Mrs. George c. Nc
Gee gave a black tie dinner
Evening star., 1955-09-21

last night for the Canadian
Ambassador to Turkey and
Mrs. Moran.
The Morans spent the week
end with the McGhees at their
country place in Middleburg.
Va,
Evening star., 1955-09-21

WALL COVERINGS. FALL. is55-Noturol polomino
leather ponels the double door Of this eeeont foyer by
Bess Nicely Of the Anerieon institute Of Decorators
The Leather offers pIeosont contrast to the Gross
Cloth textured wall covering which may be seen in
vorety of tones at Woodward 6 Lothrop's deport-
nent store.