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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

for the best entry in a city-wide
essay contest for school children.
Stubby has recovered from his
clerks" now, Ellen's essay said,
and the veterinarians say that
soon he will be entirely well.
Other essay winners are
Stephen Cowan, IL, of 1850
Harvard street NV, $50. and
Neenah Payne, of the Bruce
School; Merle Smith and Sandra
Voolfolk of the Mott School:
Margie Wong of the Murch
School and Fred Robinson of the
Slowe School, $40 each.
In another contest, for scrap
books on animals, the $75 first
prize went to Mary Beth Martin.
a first-grader at the Shepherd
School. A $50 prize was awarded
to Dobert Dade, a f1rst-grader
at the Burrville School. Ten
dollar winners are Susan Stras-
ser, Fillmore School; Donald
Brame. Burrville School: Paula
Greenbaum, Keene School; Paul
Davids, Murch School. and John
Stroman, Walker-Jones School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Four Swedish Jets
Crash in Lake
In Formation

STOCKHOLM, May 3 (P.-
Four missing Swedish jet fighter
planes were discovered today to
have crashed in close formation
through the melting ice of Lake
Glottern.
An air force officer said "the
four planes all fell in a line
about 20 yards long"
The Swedish built aircraft
disappeared yesterday soon after
their takeoff from a base at
Norrkoping, IA miles south of
the lake. Each carried only its
pilot.
The air force could not ex-
plain the accident. The forma-
ton had just received and ac-
knowledged permission to pass
through clouds that should
have sent them upward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

he more conscious of the true
attitude of the people Of his
own State, he would know that
they are united behind the
Presidents foreign policy Of pa
thence. f1rmness and friendliness
which has brought us closer to
peace than at any time since
World War H."
Senator Jenner could not be
reached Immediately for COM
ment. He and Gov. Craig have
clashed frequently In the past.
The Governor is the leader of the
Eisenhower Republicans in his
State, while the Senator be-
longed to the old Taft wing.
by any measure" the Gov
ernor's statement said, "Sena-
tor Jenner is a Johnny-come
lately to the field of self-styled
experts on foreign affairs. An
examination Of his voting record
will reveal that he has voted
consistently against necessary
preparedness programs and
against international co-opera-
ton with other nations.
I'm view Of his past perform
ance, the spectacle of Senator
Jenner Second-guessing Presi-
dent Eisenhower is not unlike an
elementary school pupil second
guessing EinStein."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Indiu Sets Penalty
For UntouchubiIity

NEW DELHI, May 8 P1.-A
bill setting up strict penalties
for the practice of untouchability
went to President Rajendra Pra-
sad today for his formal assent.
He is expected to sign the meas
ure into law later this week.
The bill aims at stamping out
age-old restrictions on midas
estimated so million untounch-
ables-members of the lowest
castles in the Hindu social and
religious system. To devout Hin
dus, their touch is considered
defilement Of members of the
higher classes.
The practice of untouchability
forcing members of the lower
castles to live apart, generally
shunned-has been banned Off
cially since India became indie
pendent in 1947. Penalties have
never been clearly defined. how
ever.
Under the new bill, approved
by Parliament's upper house
yesterday, persons convicted OF
discriminating against any I'M
touchable can be sentenced to
three months in prison and fined
500 rupees ($105). Parliament's
lower house approved the meas
ure last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Governors Are Briefed
On SoIvoging Road Plan

officials sitting in an ivory tow
err" oblivious to criticism. He said
that in honestly sharpening our
wits in dealing with honest men
:. We have the best assurance
that our country will stay in the
pattern laid out ITO years ago."
Urge Civil Defense
Although the Governors ses-
sions are held In secret. Frank
Bane, secretary of the conference,
gave newsmen a f1ll-in on points
Of interest.
Mr.. Bane said the only heated
discussion yesterday came after
Val Peterson, civil defense adj
ministrator, reported the latest
nuclear weapons can totally dew
estate 80 square miles.
Mr.. Bane reported a general
feeling among the Governors that
the civil defense law of 1850 no
longer is adequate in the light of
big new nuclear weapons. He
said there was broad agreement
that the Federal Government
should take a bigger hand in civil
defense planning. Mr. Bane
added the Governors probably
would meet Mr.. Peterson and
other administration officials to
try and map out a new program.
A Senate Public Roads sub
committee last Friday approved
Swear, $22-billion Federal
State highway improvement pro-
gram considerably at variance
with the Presidents 10-year.
SOL billion plan.
The subcommittee dropped an
administration proposal for a
new Federal agency to issue 30
year bonds to finance Federal
expenditures on an interstate
highway network. Instead, the
Senate group recommended an
increased Federal-aid highway
program and a 1-cent increase in
the present 2 cents-a-gallon
Federal gasoline tax. It also
suggested new limitations on
truck weight and size.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

delphia Office was pretty high
handed. It will take the case
directly to GSA Administrator
Edmund F. Mansure and ask
him not only to overrule the
Philadelphia Office, but to repri-
mand it for its "deplorable atti-
tude toward employees"
y ***
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Brig.
Gen. K. E. Fields is the new
general manager Of the Atomic
Energy Commission. i. Christian
E. Rogers, jr. has been ap-
pointed engineering assistant to
Chairman George c. McCon-
naughey of the Federal Com
munications Commission. Mr..
Rogers previously was an official
with the Office Of Defense Mobili-
cation. The Government and
Civil Employees Organizing Com
mittee (CIO) has officially asked
the CLIO to grant it status as a
full international union. Eliot
v. Parker, under whose direction
the Army's safety programs were
conducted during the last IA
years, has been appointed chief
of the Safety Division Of the
Labor Departments Bureau of
Labor Standards. Edwin L.
Kahn has resigned as Internal
Revenue Services director Of the
Technical Planning Division. He
will practice law here with the
firm Of Berge, Fox and Aren't.
. . William J. Stahl Of the For
est Service has been elected
president Of the Agriculture De-
partment's Welfare and Recrea-
ton Association. Others elected
are Roy K. Souders and Robert
C. Mckee. vice presidents; Ed
ward j. Moriarty, secretary;
Ralph Koebel, legal counsel. and
A. E. Johnson, information direc-
tor. Washington Postmaster
Roy M. North has called atten-
ton to city post Office employees
the recent announcement Of POST
master General Summerfield Of
an expanded postal services
incentive awards program.
Members of all retired groups
are invited to attend a spring
festival sponsored by the United
Community Services on the
Aging at 2 pm. Thursday in the
Jewish Community Center, Six
teenth and @ streets NV. j..
Three Navy Bureau Of Yards and
Docks employees have received
cash awards for beneficial sug-
gestions. They are Mrs. Lee M.
Goettling, Alfred H. Juliano and
Mrs. Ella q. Walmsley. Nays
David Taylor Model Basin has
job openings for mathematicianS,
electronic engineers and cleo
tronic laboratory mechanics and
technicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Girl Who Kept Sick Dog
Alive Wins Essay Prize

A girl who defied experts to
save her dogs life got surprise
birthday present today.
Ellen Heathcote is IL years
old today. One year ago, on her
18th birthday. she was given a
cocker spaniel puppy which she
named Stubby.
Soon after the. dog became
seriously i'll. Veterinarians said
Stubby had distemper and adj
vised Ellen's parents, Army Sergt.
and Mrs. John w. Heathcote, of
1921 T street NV, that the dog
should be destroyed.
Ellen begged for her pets life.
The veterinarians said that even
If he could be saved, the disease
would cripple him unless he were
given intensive daily care. Ellen
promised she would do anything.
The girl took her dog for reg
ular walks. taught him to ex-
ercise his enfeebled muscles. fed
him a prescribed diet.
Today the Washington HUI
name Society awarded Ellen the
$75 first prize in its annual BE
Kind to Animals Week" contest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Community Plans
Bomb Shelter
For Is Persons

Plans for q small community
bomb shelter in the Shepherd
Park area were made by Is citi-
zens at a meeting at 1908 Alaska
avenue NV. last night.
The reinforced concrete shell
ter, to house about Is persons.
is scheduled to be built on the
property of S. Roland Furman,
20. of the Alaska avenue address.
Mr.. Furman is air raid warden
for the Shepherd Park section
and is chairman of civil defense
at Montgomery Junior College,
Md.
The warden, who says he
hopes to see similar shelters
throughout his area, asks that
he be contacted for advice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

Administration leaders briefed
the Nations Governors today on
their plans to salvage what it can
out of its proposal for a $101
million highway construction
program.
Treasury Secretary Humphrey.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who headed
the Presidents Advisory Com
mittee on Highways, and F. v.
dupont, public roads commits
sioner, spoke at a closed ses-
sion in the second day of a
Governors meeting called by
President Eisenhower. The gov
ernors were called here for
briefings on international. ma
tional and State problems.
Gov. Robert F. Kennon OF
Louisiana, chairman of the con-
ference, said he and his sup
porters will campaign among
members of the House of Repre-
sentatives to revive the admins
tration'S controversial plan.
Some of the governors, nota-
bly, Averell Hartman of New
York and George M. Leader Q;
Pennsylvania. Endorsed Senator
Cores ''pay-as-you-go" plan.
Mr.. Eisenhower told the Gov
errors at a dinner at the May
flower Hotel last night that he
welcomed their honest differ
snces of opinion with him, even
though these differences may be
violent.
"CI0ser to People"
In a brief and informal talk,
the President called this third
annual get-together a Every sal
utary thing" He said it served
to bring us back closer to the
people of your States"
Chief Justice Warren, most
members of the Cabinet and
many members of Congress who
once were governors joined the
States chief executives and their
wives at the dinner.
Mr.. Eisenhower spoke out
against the idea of Government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03


majority of Government workers.
The various employe unions
are expected to oppose the pro-
posed change.
They declare these Navy
employees always have been paid
on a weekly basis and to place
them on a bi-weekly basis would
impose severe hardships on
them. It's pointed out that
these employees have patterned
their financial obligations on a
weekly pay basis and to change
this now would make them prey
to loan sharks" as they tried
to readjust to a bi-weekly
system.
The proposed change would
result in an annual saving to
the Navy of $936,000. Employe
leaders charge this is peanuts"
and wouldn't justify the change
to a bi-weekly pay system.
Xxx
PLAIN PAY TALK-Repre-
sentative Burdick, Republican, of
North Dakota has issued warn
ing to his G. o. P. colleagues
that a presidential veto this year
of Federal pay rase will result
in an Overwhelming" Demo-
cratic victory in next years con-
gressional elections.
Mr.. Burdick said President
Eisenhower's pay veto last year
"had more to do with turning a
Republican House over to the
Democrats than any other single
issue"
Another presidential veto this
year would result in even more
disastrous results for the Repub-
licans in next years COMPRESSION
al elections, Mr.. Burdick said.
This will be especially true
since the President insisted on a
raise in the pay of Congressman"
he said.
Administrative officials have
said President Eisenhower will
veto any postal pay raise in ex-
cess of 7.6 per cent or any class
flied pay increase higher than
6 per cent. However, even IL
such vetoes occur and are not
overriden, congressional leaders
express confidence that a Fed
eral pay raise for classified and
postal workers will become law
this year. They declare that
Congress, after the bills were
vetoed, would then approve the
7.6 per cent postal and 6 per
cent classified pay raise bills,
which the President then would
sign.
Mr.. Burdick expressed hope
that President Eisenhower would
change his mind and agree to
higher Federal pay raises. cat
any rate, he (Mr. Eisenhower
didn't hesitate to ask for $3.5
billion in new funds for foreign
aid programs, Mr.. Burdick said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

District and vicinity-Fair to-
night with low about 81. Fair
and warm tomorrow.
Maryland-Fair tonight with
low 44-52 but $3.50 along bay
and ocean. Mostly sunny and
slightly warmer tomorrow.
Virginia-Fair tonight with low
1854. Fair and a bit warmer
tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Diplomat to Talk

Mordechai Shalev, second Sec
rotary of the Israeli embassy,
will be the speaker at the Tenn
pie Sinai lecture at $3.50 pm.
tomorrow in the Friends Meet
ing House, 2111 Florida avenue
NV,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Gruenther Sees Pope

VATICAN CITY, May 3 (R.-
Pope Plus XII received Gen. AL
fred M. Gruenther, supreme COM
mander Of allied forces In Eu-
rope. in q Commute private
audience today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

SICK LEAVE "ABUSE"-A
number of Government employe
unions charge that the General
Accounting Office and the House
Civil Service Committee have
unfairly blown UP" scattered
instances of sick leave abuse by
Post Office Department employees
to make it appear that such is
the practice throughout Gov
eminent.
They say that, even in the
Post Office Department, most Of
the cases involved temporary
rather than regular employees.
The General Accounting Office
confined it's sick leave report to
postal employees. In releasing
the report the House Civil Serv-
ice Committee asked other Fed
eral agencies to review their own
programs to see if any such
abuses exist.
HIGH-HANDED-A General
Services Administration employe
in Philadelphia asked permission
to use his so days of accumu-
lated annual leave so he could
take a trip to Italy to visit his
mother. The GSA Office in Phil
adelphia not only brusquely de-
MED the request, but told him
in a letter. IF you don't like
our decision you can quit and
travel as much as you please"
The employees union, the Ma
tional Association of Post Office
and General Maintenance En-
ployes, feels the GSA'S Phila-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
US. WEATHER BUREAU MAP

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-Tonight there will be
scattered and thunderstos along the northern
border Maine to the Lower Lakes in upper Michigan
and portions of the Central and Southern Plains Scat
tered showers with furres In the higher elevations
are forecast the Central and Northern Rockies Rain
expected in the far Northwest 1t will be much cooler in
the Northern and Central Plains-AP Wirephoto Map.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
BIue-CoIIor Workers
Fight Pay Plan Change
By JOSEPH YOUNG

of Navy has under consideration proposal
pay 100000 diem (blue collar workers
b-weekly basis.
employees paid weekly. the Nays
troer proposed they paid bi-weeky the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

Wind-Gentle and variable to-
night and tomorrow.
5-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity, May AS
Temperatures will be 5 to
7 degrees above the normal
high of II and low of 81. Warm
weather for most of this period,
with little or no rain expected.
River Report
(From U. 8. Engineers)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy
at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

Record TEMPERATURES This Year
Highest, 81, on April 10.
Lowest. 10. on February 3.
High and Low of Last "a Hours
High. II, at 3:45 pm.
Low. SO, ct 1850 m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
The Sun and Moon

Rises Sets
Sun, today - sos 500
Sun, tomorrow - 6;O7 SOB
Neon, today 5:l4p.m 4:06 q. m
Automobile lights must be turned OF
one-half hour after sunset,
Evening star., 1955-11-27
HIGH FASHION
REACHES
A NEW LOW

DIGEST HEADACHE for Germanys fashion designers
- these days finding attract the
the cke public Other countries captured the
and the Germans have had trouble getting attention
their styles Germany capture pubics
the fashion houses there have shows aane
tantopS in railway stations factories and apors
these fashion fantasies held Euope biggest
mines at Bad Rechenhan nearly surface
of earth
The mannequns who modelled dresses made of
Terene the latest wonder hber began their journey
250O-foot descent into the mine In lift normally
transport salt At the bottom Of the shaft they
railway which carried them through
gstening tunnels Of salt until they cavern
some 500 feet long and than 65 feet high
salon" In which the show held.
While the mannequins paraded hundreds
gathered in the for the Jumps
salt and served with food drink
Every round Of applause echoed through
until 1t seemed that 1t continuous
the fashions were appropriately named For example,
Miners Dream afternoon dress Crystal"
baleEina dress.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-03-31
Rafters Will ResOund at Recital
OF Rockville Nursery School Apr. |

rhymes will display the child
ren's growing skill in enunciat-
ing words.
The "threes" will be featured
in musical games as well as
nonsense verse and orchestra"
numbers. They will be led by
their teachers, Mrs. Earl Fry of
Glen Hills and Mrs. Betty Nc
Donald of the Berlin Apartments.
The lively two-year-old group,
youngest in the school, will be
heard in orchestral selections
and animated songs. They will
also act out favorite nursery
rhymes. Mrs. Richard B. Cleaves
of Claggett Drive, is the teacher
of the "tWos" and Mrs. Packard
is in charge of their music.
Following the program, re-
freshments will be served and
the small performers will enjoy
their own "tea party. Mrs. Rich
ard A. Rogers of Aleutian Ave.
and Mrs. Warren Milor of West
Montgomery Ave. will serve as
hOSteSSeS,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-03-31
The Letter Box

lawyers, policemen, housewives,
office workers, mechanics, fac
tory workers, sportsmenAa cross
section of the American popu-
lace-your next door neighbors.
Those $4,000 airplanes carried
their pilots back and fourth
across the country netting air
port operators and their localities
many millions of dollars.
Doctors attended medical con-
ferences at hospitals like the Ma
tional Institutes of Health and
the Bethesda Naval Medical Cen
ter when the hospitals were near
airports. Scientists and business
men flew into small communities
to visit industrial installations
like Thieblot Aircraft Corp. in
Bethesda, or the Johns Hopkins
Applied Research Laboratories in
Silver Spring. Journalists and
groups like those who recently
visited and honored Rockville
travelled into many communities
easily because they could fly
their own planes.
About $50 of the country's
pilots live in Montgomery Coun-
ty. Many of them own airplanes
which they keep at Washington
National Airport at great cost,
because the County doesn't have
a decent airport for their use.
Many others use Congressional,
although it doesn't meet their re-
quirements, because Washington
National is too costly or too far
away. Others, and there are
many of them, just don't fly be-
cause they are Disguised and dis
couraged by the lack of local
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-03-31

aviation facilities. These imme-
date and potential customers for
a new county airport represent
a good sized investment.
Many progressive communities,
less distinguished than Montgom-
cry County have hardened to the
growth of private air transporta-
tion-it actually has tripled in the
last seven years-and have pro-
vided small, inexpensive, eff
ciently-operated, local airports
that have put them on the map
with the ever-increasing groups
of important and just plain peo-
pie who fly their own airplanes
like most people drive their cars.
Consequently, those communities
have proposed and will continue
TO prosper as this new element
in the transportation world con-
tinues to grow by leaps and
bounds.
Can Montgomery County af-
ford to do less?
Richard StimsOn,
Commanding Officer,
Congressional Squadron
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-03-31
LaytOnsville & WOOdfield

Continued from Page p
tended the Holstein banquet at
the Agricultural Center last
Thursday included Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Mumford and Genevieve,
Mr.. and Mrs. John McElfresh,
Mr.. John King and Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Kemp.
Mrs. Leah Iglehart, Mrs. Ar
thur Watkins, Mrs. Phillip
Brown, and Mrs. Fred Linthicum
all of Cedar Grove spent Tues.
day as guests of Mrs. Ava King.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Hines
spent the weekend in Salisbury
where they were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Tindle. While
there they visited Mr.. Hines
brother who is in the hospital
there.
Franklin Grimes, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Tommy Grimes cele-
brated his 18th birthday Mar. 81.
Guests at the birthday supper
and party were Carlton Hill, Jr.,
Christopher Keats, Tommy Sta
ley, Wayne Barnhart, and Wood
row Ward, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Moore, Jr
are visiting Mr.. Moore's parents
in Florida.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-03-31
Editor, Montgomery County
Sentinel

Although the exact date that
Congressional Airport will be
closed and developed as a real
estate project is not known, it is
an established fact that the fields
closing is imminent.
When Congressional closes,
more than 100 pilots and over 30
airplanes are going to be with
out an operating base. The local
Civil Air Patrol squadron-which
now stands ready with its planes
and communications network to
assist the County's Civil De-
Tense organization in time of
emergency, and currently flys
blood for the Red Cross and per-
forms civic flights like the re-
cent polio flyathon) when called
upon to help-Will be homeless.
Montgomery County's industry
and economy will feel the loss
maybe not Immediately, but
within the not so distant future.
Area pilots and airplane own
ers and the Civil Air Patrol
who will be the first to feel the
loss of a local airport-believe
that the time to act on the grave
problem of replacing Congress
siOnal with another county air
port is now, not when the closing
time comes. They are ready to
meet the problem because they
know the facts which prove the
importance of an airport to a
community.
But do the county leaders and
residents know the facts? Are
they ready to understand the ur-
gent need every community has
for an airport in this age of
rapid growth of private, non
commercial civil aviation? May
be these almost unbelievable, yet
true, figures will help.
According to a recently re.
leased report from the Civil Aero
nautics Administration, over 300,-
600 private individual pilots
they outnumber airline pilots 50
to flew over 80 900 private air.
planes (the airlines combined
own only 1,500 planes) for a 1854
hourly total which was twice the
hours flown by the airlines in
the same period. That, even
though the airlines operate day
and night, some of them averag.
ing as much as 16 hours a day.
Those 100000 individuals are
farmers, industrialists, doctors,