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Evening star., 1955-06-23
Virginia Druggists
.Meetin Richmond

ROANOKE. Va, June % up.
The Virginia Pharmaceutical
Association yesterday passed a
resolution recommending that
all Salk polio vaccine released
commercially be distributed
through retail drug stores.
The pharmacists, ending a
three-day convention at Hotel
Roanoke, also passed resolutions
opposing a State sales tax, sup
porting fair trade laws and op-
posing transfer Of the functions
of the State Pharmacy Board to
a single governmental unit
which would administer the af-
fairs of many different boards. "
An Alexandria man was elected
president of the association. He
lis G. E. Henderson. elected to
succeed G. F. Hendley Of Rich
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Official Faces
Suit on House

Chris Sondberg. chief building
inspector for Prince Georges
County. today was charged in a
warrant with violation of the
county coming ordinance in his
construction of q private house.
Mrs. Alfred Hiortdahl, Of 6307
Fifty seventh avenue, Riverdale,
swore out the warrant and
charged that the inspector vio-
lated a decision Of the Board Of
Zoning Appeals issued twice last
year. The house in question is
being erected by MIR. Sondberg
at 500 Rittenhouse street, River
dale.
Mr.. Sondberg told the board
last year he arroneously built the
house not quite three feet from
the Hiortdahl's property line,
but that he would try to buy the
lot. Regulations require a dis
Itance of five feet between the
building and the rear and side
property lines.
The complainant also declared
the coming appeals board issued
10 stop work" order on Mr..
ISondberg's unfinished house late
last year, but that he now has
resumed construction. A hearing
has been scheduled for $3.50 am.
Monday In Hyattsville Police
Court.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Cumberland d Boxer
browns in Potomac

CUMBERLAND, Md. June %
I(P.-Edward Robinette. 80. Cum
Iberland resident once known in
this area as an amateur boxer,
was drowned yesterday when he
leaped into the Potomac River
apparently for a swim.
Two companions, Frank Metz.
81, and Paul Goetz, Is, both also
of Cumberland. told police they
had gone fishing and were going
to swim from some rocks. Mr..
Robinette jumped in first and
when he disappeared, they said.
they dove in after him but were
unable to locate him.
The Cumberland Auxiliary Po-
lice river rescue squad found the
body.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Report Charges Fovoritism
In Maryland Job Security Unit

lof employe and employer alike
were by-passed by this specia
act Of favoritism. This claimant
happened to have q friend ir
the agency who worked at
race track with him and knew
the right people in the right
places"
The investigator said such in.
stances account for the low
morale in the department.
Mr.. Sherbow also pointed out
that employers in Maryland pay
as little as 2 per cent and al
much as 2.7 per cent on theil
Ipayrolls into the jobless fund
the amount depending on theil
employment experience. If little
or no amount Of money has beer
paid out Of the fund to their en-
Iploycs in the past year. the per.
|centage is lower.
The investigator cited an in.
stance in which william II
Mahaney, former administrator
Of the. department, lowered with.
out apparent cause the percent
age required of a trucking COM
Ipary.
This employer took no ap.
peal as provided by law. He
simply went to the top man in
the agency" said the fourth re-
port.
MIR. Sherbow recommended
that a study be made Of the ad.
ministrative problems of the
agency by the Commission on
Governmental Efficiency and
Economy, Inc.
Evening star., 1955-06-23

BALTIMORE, June % (P.--
The fourth investigatiye report
on the Maryland Department oi
Employment Security declares il
failed ito carry out its function.
on the highest level of integrity.
The report, issued today BY
Baltimore attorney Joseph Sher.
bow, is one of a series being pro-
duced as the result of an investi-
CATION of the department ordered
by Gov. McKeldin.
Two Of the three members oi
the Employment Security Board
and the department administra-
tor resigned shortly before the
investigation.
Mr.. Sherbow, in the fourth re-
port, cited alleged examples OF
favoritism and influence in the
agency.
He told of a race track en-
ploye who applied for unem-
ployment compensation unsuc-
cessfully. Instead of exercising
his right of appeal, the worker
went to another claims exam
liner who is a part-time worker
at a race track.
The claims examiner contact
ed the chief Of benefits who in
terceded with the manager OF
the Baltimore Office. The Balti-
more Office manager then di-
rected that the first claims ex-
aminer's report be marked
"void." and the claim allowed.
Said Mr.. Sherbow:
I'm this instance all the safe
guards set up for the protection
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Adventist Camp
Opens Tonight

NEW MARKET, Va, June %
{SpeciaD. - Clinton j. Coon
president of the Potomac Con-
ference of Adventists, will open
the conferences annual Bible
and camp meeting here tonight
at Shenandoah Valley Academy
| Elder Coon will address more
than 5000 delegates from
churches in Virginia and the
District of Columbia.
This is the first time in over
go years that the meeting will
Ibe held at New Market. 1t has
been held for the last 25 years
lat Takoma Park, Md.
Main sessions of the meeting,
which will continue through
July 3, will be held in a new
100000 auditorium seating
8, 900 persons.
Three young men will be or
|dained as ministers on Saturday.
They are Gilbert Goodwin Of
|Tazwell, Va; John Kelchner Of
Big Stone Gap, Va. and William
Carey of Appomattox. Va.
Dan A. Ochs. president Of the
Columbia Union Conference of
Adventists, will preside at the
Iordination rites.
A "tent city" to accommodate
the delegates has been built on
the schools campus.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
.13 Towns Win
Sofety Award

BALTIMORE, June % R.-
Thirteen Maryland communities
six of them in the Washington
ID. c. area-have been awarded
citations by the American Auto
mobile Association for having
no pedestrian deaths during 1854.
Leonard E. Kolmer. general
manager of the Automobile Club
|of Maryland, announced yester-
day that citations were given to
College Park, Easton. Elkton,
Frederick. Frostburg, Greenbelt,
Havre de Grace, Hyattsville,
Mount Rainier, Rockville. Spar
rows Point. Takoma Park and
Westminster.
The State as a whole earned
second-place honors In the as
sociation's 18th national pedes-
trian protection contest, while
Annapolis and Cambridge re-
ceived honorable mention among
the cities.
The PEDESTRIAN death toll in
Maryland last year was 153, ty-
ing the all-time State low set
in 1853.
Hagerstown was given spe-
cial citation for its pedestrian
program and Riverdale got an
other for having no pedestrian
deaths or injuries in 1854.
Maj. Ruxton M. Ridgely. exec
|utive officer of the Maryland
State Police. also received a
citation for outstanding leader
ship in pedestrian protection.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
WARRING FACES
TRAFFIC COUNT

Emmitt r. Warning,
Washington gambler, posted
1925 collateral in Arlington
yesterday after being ar
rested for running a stop
sign.
Police said he failed to
stop at a sign on North
Pierce street while travelling
west on Fairfax drive.
The United States Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals re-
Gently turned down War
rings appeal from a three
year prison sentence
imposed after his conviction
on income tax evasion
charges. Warning. who Is
free on $4,000 bond. has
asked the United States
Supreme Court to review the
record.
Evening star., 1955-06-23

already chosen by the Arlington
ians for a Better County for
two county board seats.
DR.. Detweiler said the execu-
tive committee decided that AIM
candidates shall accept only
four invitations for combined
meetings during the campaign.
He said the committee will stage
three area meetings of its own
to present the AIM standard
bearers. DR.. Detweiler added
that the candidates would be
encouraged to attend informal
neighborhood gatherings.
He went on to say that If
AIM does not receive any in
Ivitations from opposition groups
for platform meetings, his or
ganization will hold additional
area gatherings.
In any event. he declared, the
candidates will not be called
upon to appear at more than
seven such public sessions.
The chairman added that the
committee felt that his group
would attract Outstanding"
candidates in future elections
and bring out a better grade
Iof opposition" by not demand
ing too heavy a campaign
schedule.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Maryland vFW
Convention Set

The 35th annual encampment
Iof the Maryland Department of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
will be held in Ocean City, Md,
this week end, with w. Earl
Griffin of Cheverly presiding.
Mr.. Griffin, the departments
commander, said some 600 to TOO
VFW members from throughout
the State will attend, including
large delegations from nearby
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
The opening session will be at
$3.50 am. tomorrow. at which
the principal speaker will be
Louis Goldstein. president of the
Maryland Senate. A boardwalk
parade will be held at 7 pm.
During the sessions Saturday,
speakers will include Represen-
ltative Lankford, Democrat, of
Maryland. and State Controller
u. Millard Tawes. At a banquet
Saturday night, the main speak
Ier will be Representative Van
Izandt, Republican, of Pennsyl-
Ivania. who was three times ma
Itional commander of the VFW
and is 10 captain in the Naval
reserve.
The business sessions will be
held at the Atlantic Hotel. The
convention will end Sunday with
election of officers. Among the
candidates is Albert Ground of
Takoma Park, who is seeking the
post of State senior vice COM
mander against j. William Nc
Avoy Of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Tobacco Price
Probe 10 Meet
County Seats

A Maryland legislative COM
mittee named to investigate the
low prices currently paid for the
States 1854 tobacco crop an
nounced today it will hold hear
ings in the five county seats of
Southern Maryland.
The investigation will start
with a hearing at 8 pm. Tues
day in the courthouse at Upper
Marlboro To be invited to this
initial hearing are warehouse
men, buyers, representatives of
tobacco co-operatives and off,
cials of the State Tobacco Au-
thority.
Subsequent hearings in An
napolls, Leonardtown. Prince
Frederick and Waldorf will be
primarily concerned with prob
lens of tobacco growers. All the
hearings will be open.
The hearings were agreed on
at a meeting Of the 10-member
committee in Waldorf on Tues
day
Representative Lankford,
Democrat, of the 5th District
(Which includes all of Southern
Maryland tobacco country, at
tended the session. He asked that
the committee, in addition to in
vestigating the price situation.
try to determine the feeling in
the area toward a Federal acre
age control and price-support
program, which Maryland tobac-
co farmers have voted down twice
in the last two years.
State Senate President Louis
F. Goldstein. who named the
investigating committee in his
capacity as chairman of the in
terim Legislative Council, said
the probe will revolve around
"highly suspicious variations" in
prices offered from day to day
and even from aisle to aisle in
the tobacco auction markets.
Senator Joseph A. Mattingly,
Democrat, of st. Marys County,
is chairman Of the committee.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
|Duckett Takes Post
I'm Prince Georges

r Howard Duckett. chairman
of the board Of the Suburban
Trust Co., was named to head
the newly established Commis-
sion for Industrial Development
in Prince Georges County at the
groups organizational meeting
yesterday in the County Service
Building, Hyattsville.
Other members of the commit
tee are Ralph Powers, A. H.
Smith, Harry A. Boswell, jr.;
Philip Lustine, Joseph Deckman
and Hervey Machen.
The committee. appointed by
the county commissioners. will
hold its first business netting
July 6,
Evening star., 1955-06-23
10th District Legion
|WiII Meet Sunday

The 10th District American
Legion will hold a one-day con-
vention beginning at 10 am.
Sunday at Washington-Lee High
School. Arlington
District Comdr. w. Townsend
Reaplee will preside.
Comdr l.. Eldon James Of the
Virginia department will ad-
dress a joint session of the
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Kent Democratic Club
Elects SuntunoeIo

Frank Santangelo has beer
elected president of the Kent
District Democratic Club.
Other officers elected are:
William Wells. vice president;
Mrs. Dolly Wlenecke. recording
secretary; Frank collars, corre-
spending secretary: Jim Nc
treasurer, and Jim Wink
and Robert Noon, sergeants at
arms.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Bus Service to Begin

ROANOKE, Va, June %. Up
Bus service between Roanoke
and Staunton will be started
Monday by Abbott Bus Lines in
the wake Of protests from COM
munities which have been with
out bus service since the strike
of Atlantic Greyhound drivers
began April 16.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
ONE SUNNY HELD nor RECOMMENDED FOR SUMMARIZING

Legion and It's auxiliary during
the morning. District officers
will be elected.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
Why Pharmacists
Enjoy Life

Speaking Of ''dromofie inei-f
dents" phormceiss experiences
occasionally. my most drumofie
incident happened few months
ego. A poorly dressed woman
asked for iar Of *" ointment.
Vaguely troubled. osked:
Didn't you buy q ior Just like
that lost week ond IL I'm NOT
mistuken, the week before lost?
None Of my business. but aren'i
you using quite O bit7 You know.
If sore doesn't heal maybe YOU
should see doctor?"
She replied: ~ isn't for me,
ond I'm so glad you asked. I've
been worried. Ny husbond hos
been using this ointment for weeks
on q sore on his face. Gets mad
when ! tell him moybe he ought
10 see our doctor. Nay ! tell him
what you soid?"
! nodded. Sure tell him lust
thot, and whos's more tell him I
won't sell him any more ointment
I'LL he gets thot sore looked over"
The mons physieion called a week
lofer. with this comment: II
thought IL wus only fair to let
you know shos The biepsy we did
on Mr.. X come back positive, car
einomo--l think we've enusht II
in time" 7 felt dosgons good.
And every time ! see M. x with
Just . poek-like mark 10 indieofe
where rodivm had Just wiped ovs
q killer. feel dosgcns good.
Not Brendwuy stuff. No names
in lights. Just the lights fhas giow
for me ein The eyes Of q simple
working mon. his wife end their
five kids.
BENJAMIN .. oAAiflSkY
$3.50 Gsrmdntown Are.
Philadelphia 22. Pa.
fFron Drug Topics MagdsineJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
BY ALEX r. PRESTON

Any attempt dominated by
political consideration to solve
the public school segregation
problem could lead to a catas-
trophe Of stupendous proper
TONS" 1t. Gov. A. E. S. Stephens
of Virginia warned fellow Demo-
Gratis in Alexandria last night.
Under no circumstances. he
told g. Jefferson-Jackson Day
dinner of the Fairfax County
Democratic Committee. should
Virginia consider abandoning its
public free school system In the
face of the Supreme Court de-
cision.
\ "It is my humble opinion, :"
Mr.. Stephens declared, that
next to our churches, our system
Of public free schools is our most
precious possession. It Is I'M
thinkahle to me that any con-
sideration should be given to its
elimination as a primary means
Of solving our present dilemma. !"
The speaker, who is prom
inently mentioned as likely
candidate for Governor in 1857,
told his audience in Hunting
Towers:
This is not a political ques-
ton. and to approach it on any
such basis should visit upon the
heads of the offending parties
mortal shame"
Mr.. Stephens. who is presid-
ing officer OF the State Senate,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Auto Workers Cut
Ties to Another
Italian Red Union

MILAN, Italy. April 16 (P).-
A second big Italian automotive
industry has followed the lead
of the Fiat Works in breaking
away from Communist-con-
trolled union rule among its
workers.
In shop steward elections yes
terday, the 2.334 employees OF
the Officine Meccaniche truck
and tractor plants gave anti
Communist unions 62.77 per cent
Of their vote.'
The Communist controlled
Italian Federation OF Workers
ana Employees tFIOMo, which
never before had lost. came out
ofsthe election with 1928 per
cent, compared to 80.62 p-i Csnt
last year.
As a result, two free trade
unions will get six seats on the
shop steward council to three
from FIOM.
In the Fiat Works, Italy's big
eest industry, $4,000 employees
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
RAILROAD FANS
TOUR NEARBY
FREIGHT LINES

Eight eoach-loads Of area
railroad enthusiasts left this
morning from the Pennsyl-
yania Railroads freight ter
minus at Rosslyn. Va. on a
trip, largely over freight
lines, to nearby Maryland
towns The excursion is
sponsored by the National
Railway Historical Society.
The rail fans special train
touches at Bowie, La Plata.
Pope's Greek. and Brandy
wine. returning to Rosslyn at
4:30 pm.
The Railway Society has
set May 2S for an excursion
to Chicago over the lines Of
the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road. About $50 reserved
seats win be available for the
three-day trip, according to
the society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
BY GEoRGE KENNEDY

Open house In the Old
Dominion starts Saturday. CO.
lonial doors and garden gates
Of Virginia's finest estates and
historic houses will be open.
Many Of them can be seem
by the public only during the
coming annual occasion which
Is Historic Garden Week In Vir-
ginia and continues through the
following Saturday. April 80. 1t
is sponsored by the Garden Club
Of Virginia. Admission fees are
used to restore and preserve
the historic beauty Of the State.
Old town houses In Alexandria
and country houses In nearby
Loudoun and Fauquer Counties
viii be open.
An ideal tour. which this
writer took on a sunny day last
week in anticipation Of the COM
ing event. is to Orange to see
Montpelier, the home of James
Madison, and on to charlottes-
vile to see Morvern. occupied by
its present owners. Mr.. and Mrs.
Whitney Stone. and Ashlawn.
the historic home OF James
Monroe.
The route is 1921 to War
rentown, then 30 to Culpeper.
Leaving Culpeper, take Is (the
left fork to Orange.
Montpelier is 5 miles beyond
Orange on Route 20. The rail-
road Is on your left and you
come to the little raildoad
station that used to serve
the owners of the estate.
There is sign on the left,
Private Road--No Trespassing. I"
Take it. Everyone with 81 is
welcome during garden week.
Like Supercountry Club
Once you are over the bridge
across the railroad tracks and
through the woods. Montpelier
can be seen beyond acres Of lawn.
It looks too good to be true. like
a supercountry club built for De-
troit millionaires in this century.
But it was built by James Madi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Polio Conference
Held Needless

PITTSBURGH, April Is B.-
DR.. Elmer Hess Of Erie. Pa.
president-slect Of the American
Medical Association, said today
he sees no reason for q national
conference to set up plans for
distributing the Salk anti-polio
vaccine.
There is no need for hys-
teria." DR.. Hess said in an inter-
view. The idea Of a black mar
ket or scanty supply is simply
absurd"
A conference slated to set up
some kind of distribution sys-
tenn for fhe vaccine available
commercially is scheduled for
Washington next Friday. Doc
tors, health officials and vaccine
manufacturers have been in
vited. .
Blasting plans for q national
conference. DR.. Hess said poll
ticians would try to reap credit
for quick distribution of the vac
cine to those who first need it.
However. he said 1t is almost
certain that National, state and
local action will be taken to see
that all the Nations children
get the vaccine, with the Gov
eminent setting aside money to
pay for the polio medicine.
Declaring that physicians
probably won't charge more than
the usual Office fee for the in
noculations, he added:
ANY doctor who attempts to
charge more than a nominal
fee or to exploit, simply should
be denied the vaccine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Open Houses to Mark
|Virqinio Gorden Week

son, ST.. the father of the
President. in 176o.
Tradition has it that the gar
dens were laid out by Pierre
L'Enfant. the man who designed
the pattern of Washington s
streets. The gardens were re-
stored when Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam du Pont bought the property
about 1900.
It is now owned by their
daughter. Mrs. Marion du Point
Scott. former wife Of an Orange
County boy who made good in
Hollywood as the hero Of West
erns. Randolph Scott.
There are five other places on
the garden tour in the Orange
neighborhood, Willow Grove,
Grelen, Yatton and Little Yat-
ton. But We showed on to Char
lottesville.
Then we took the road to
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
and reluctantly passed it by. We
were bound for Morven. owned
by Whitney Stone Of the famous
Boston contracting and public
utility firm. Stone q Webster
Morvern's gardens are among
the finest in Virginia.
On to Monroe Home
Then to Ash Lawn, the home
of James Monroe who followed
Madison in the White House.
Monroe has other memorials in
nearby Virginia-his law Office
at Fredericksburg and Oak Hill,
his home in Loudoun County.
A shorter excursion could be
made during garden week to
Alexandria. There 13 houses and
gardens are open to holders of q
So block ticket. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
VIRGINIA SEGREGATION ISSUE
Stephens Warns Against
Dropping Free Schools

predicted that the 1856 General
Assembly win "be the most inn
portant one since the adoption
Of the Estate, constitution in
1902"
In addition to segregation. he
listed roads and pressing needs
for capital outlays for State In
stitutions as among major items
facing next years lawmakers.
almost overnight. he said, "a
system Of State highways that
was reputed to be among the
finest in the United States was
found to be in some measure
outmoded and inadequate. =. /.
Every consideration dictates that
under no circumstances can we
permit this condition to con-
tinue."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
EIijoh White Seeks
Leesburq MoyoroIty

LEESBURG, Va. April is
lSpecial). - Elijah B. White.
Leesburg, attorney, has filed for
the Office Of Mayor Of Leesburg.
The incumbent, Maurice r. Lo-
wenbach. IT., is not q candidate.
A native of Leesburg, Mr..
White has practiced law here
for 10 years. He served as q
colonel in the infantry in World
War II. He has held important
posts in several county organi-
cations and at present is super
intendent of st. James Episcopal
Sunday School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17

last month voted So per cent
for free trade unions. There,
too, it was the first time FIoM
had lost. The votes in both
plants were regarded as a test
of the United States policy of
withholding aid and offshore
procurement contracts from fac
tories with Red-led labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Wins Fraternity Post

FREDERIcKSBU URIC. Va,
April is R.-Joseph Gutierrez,
student at Georgetown Univer-
sity. Washington. today was
elected president of Eta Sigma
Phi at the annual convention Of
the classic language fraternity
/ at Mary Washington College.
Evening star., 1955-06-02

resulted in widespread confusion
among prospectors.
After uranium was found in
the area. fortune hunters rushed
in. Stakes we're pounded all
over the rough hillsides, which
form the west flank of the
Sierra. Bulldozers and air COM
pressors were hauled in.
And then 1t was discovered
that the land had been with
drawn from the public domain
some 80 years before, at the re-
quest Of the Southern California
Edison Co.. to become a power
reserve. Prospectors Immediately
sought the assistance of the
Atomic Energy Commission in
having the land restored to pub
lie domain.
They were successful, and the
area reverted to public domain.
For o time ii was believed that
the claims already staked would
be validated. But the Bureau Of
Land Management ruled other
wise.
This meant that the stakes
must be driven all over again.
to remove the stigma of tres
passing. and It is the reclaiming
process which win start to-
morrow.