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Evening star., 1955-03-03
Witnesses Cite Cost
OF Relocating Lines

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3 (SpeciaD. i.
The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission will have
to spend an estimated $2.7 mil
lion to relocate it's water and
sewer lines to make way for prof.
ects in the Maryland 12-year
roads program unless present
law is changed.
That was argued before the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee yesterday by Arthur C.
Keefer. general counsel to the
commission. He and Chief En-
gineer Harry B. Shaw testified
in favor Of Montgomery
Prince Georges bill to require
that the State Roads Commits
sion pay the cost of relocating
public water and sewer lines
which have to be moved for road
projects.
Spokesman for county and
municipal water and sanitary
commissions around the State
also appeared to back the bill.
The officials of the State Roads
Commission sent word they
could not make it yesterday and
will be allowed to testify against
the bill next Tuesday.
Mr.. Keefer said residents of
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, How
ard, Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties, which are
most affected by the relocation
bill, now pay about 40 per cent
Of the gas taxes that go to
finance the 12-year roads pro-
gram. They also are being
asked to pay for relocation Of
water and sewer lines, which is
nothing but double taxation"
Mr.. Keefer contended.
The Legislature defeated SIM
liar bills in 1851 and 1858.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Two Bandits Get $234
In Gas Station Holdup

A gas station at 6307 Marlboro
pike, Oakland, Md, was robbed
of about 1924 last night by a
bandit who entered at closing
time armed with a high-powered
rifle, Prince Georges County po-
lice reported.
The bandit fed with an ac-
complice in a waiting car and
headed toward the District along
Marlboro pike.
John R. Tilghman, %, 1905
Fairlawn avenue Sc, proprietor
of the station, and his brother
in-law, William Reinberg, 26, Of
3011-A Seventy fifth avenue,
Kentland, Md, were inside when
the bandit walked in.
The man, they told police, was
about 6 feet tall and wore a
green baseball cap and leather
jacket. He took sos from Mr..
Tilghman, $40 belonging to Mr..
Reinberg, and $129 of the gas
station money, police said.
Evening star., 1955-03-03

The concern expressed by the
author of that card, heightened
by recent yokings and purse
snatchings in which women were
the victims. is shared by Police
Chief Robert v. Murray.
Every known means of pro-
lection are being taken by
police-the "saturation" of sus-
pected areas where previous
cases have been reported and
even areas which by remoteness
and by bad lighting lend them
selves to crime.
Some of the police protection
methods aren't divulged.
Obviously. the net of protec-
ton isn't so encompassing as to
provide personal escorts" Chief
Murray said ''It would be fine If
we had that many men,"
1--WE cannot suggest. or even
permit. breaking of the law by
allowing women to carry illegal
weapons, the chief said.
How About Knives?
BY that, he ruled out the in
quiry on so-called commando
knives.
Best advice is to keep yoking
or q purse-snatching from hap
pening.
The means to this end were
pointed out:
TRY to keep from travelling
alone. Walk. If you must walk.
with a co-worker, or someone
else YOU know.
"Try to keep on well-lighted
streets.
take public conveyances If
possible.
Don't carry enough money
that its loss would hurt much
financially.
IF accosted, hand over the
money-without a fight"
The only possible answer to
such robberies. Chief Murray
said, is giving proportionate and
more coverage to the limit of
manpower. II the woman Is
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Six Prince Georges
Bills Poss House

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3 (Spe-
ciaD Six Prince Georges Coun-
ty bills passed the House Of Del
egates and we're moved across
to the Senate yesterday.
They included the measures
to abolish the county Depart
ment of Finance. authorize the
county commissioners to estab-
lish an accounting department
and department Of inspections
and licenses and require semi
annual financial reports from
agencies and organizations re-
ceiving county funds.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Upper ChiIlum Library Unit

The Upper Chillum Library
Association will meet at 8:15
o'clock tonight at 2l06 Wood
berry street. Riggs terrace, to
discuss plans for construction Of
q library In the area.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Lions to Dine at 6:29

The College Park Lions Club
will hold a dinner meeting at the
Hot Shoppe, College Park, at
6:29 o'clock tonight. Business
will include the election Of dele
gates to the organizations Dis
trict 22C convention.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Enactment Near
On Assessment
Speedup Bill
Maryland Senote
Accepts Report,
Kills Exemptions
By Gene Goodwin
Star Stuff cenaspendeni

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3.-A bill
to put Maryland real estate as
sessments on an annual basis
this year instead of next was
within one step on enactmet to-
day.
The Senate, after weeks of
stalling on the measure, yester-
day voted II to II to accept it's
Finance Committees favorable
report and then voted 18 to 10
against an amendment to ex-
empt nine counties from the bill.
Senator H. Winship Wheatley,
jr., Democrat, of Prince Georges,
was one Of those attempting to
put of the annual assessment
system until July. 1856. The
bill approved yesterday and al
ready passed by the House would
make the effective date of the
new system next July.
School Aid Cut Cited.
Senator Wheatley said his
county commissioners have taken
a stand against the bill. He
said it would increase his
county's assessable base by
about $34 million and would
thereby cost Prince Georges
$272.000 in State school aid from
the equalization and incentive
funds.
The effect of the bill would be
that Baltimore City and the
county could put on their tax
books. a year sooner, property
reassessed since January /, 1854.
AS it is now, local assessors are
working under a law that says
that a third of each county be
reassessed each year since
January !, 1854.
Under the three-year assess
ment cycle law, which went into
effect at that time, counties
may not put re-assessments on
the tax books until the end of
the three-year cycle on January
/, 1857.
Exemptions Flayed.
Senate Majority Leader John
G. Turnbull, who led the fight
for the bill, said the move to
exempt nine counties from it
would result in a "hideous
inequity."
Everyone of the exempted
counties would be dipping it's
hand into its neighbor's pocket
because it would not be paying
its reasonable. fair. honest share
Of the cost of State government"
he argued.
A special State tax commission
study two years ago showed that
assessments in Maryland ranged
from an average of 25 per cent of
market value in Calvert County
to more than 60 per cent in
Baltimore City. Small counties
like to keep the assessments low
so they can qualify for more
State aid.
The annual assessment system
would help to equalize assess
ments within individual counties,
but would not necessarily equal
1ze assessments among counties.
The other counties, besides
Prince Georges, which would
have been exempted from the
bill under the defeated amend
ment were Calvert, Queen Annes,
Garrett. st. Marys, Anne Arundel,
Somerset, Cecil and Charles.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
County Ignores
Master Plan in
) Rezoniings
Foirfox Supervisors
Vote Contrary to
Planning Proposal

Fairfax County's proposed
master plan emerged battered
and bruised today, after q series
of rezoning actions by the Board
of County Supervisors.
In three rezoning cases before
the supervisors yesterday, they
voted contrary to recommenda-
tions of the $150,000 master
plan.
The master plan, in its pres
ent form. represents only the
views of the planning consultant,
Francis Dodd McHugh, and his
staff who prepared it. The
planning commission and the
supervisors have not yet adopted
it.
But in each Of the three cases
yesterday. the supervisors checked
to see how the proposed re-
zonings jibed with the master
plan recommendations - then
they went ahead and acted con-
trariwise.
Fox Votes With Plan.
Only Supervisor Maurice Fox
voted each time in line with the
master plan recommendations.
Votes of the other supervisors
varied in each case. Here are
the three rezonings involved and
how the voting went:
/. A parcel containing 146
acres on the north side of
Pohick road. between No. / high
way and the R. F. & P. Railroad
tracks, was rezoned from agri-
cultural to suburban residential
to permit a 450-home subdivision
on 10.000-square-foot lots. Vot-
ing for it was Supervisors c. B.
Runyon. Stuart DeBell, Arthur
Shaffer and c. B. Jett. Opposed
were Supervisors G. Wallace
Carper, Mrs. Anne wilkins and
Mr.. Fox.
The master plan envisioned
this area as an industrial site,
and it is well within a section
of the county wherein the mas
ter plan proposes no residential
development on lots smaller than
three acres. The applicants,
Alexander Hassan and Joseph
Andelman. who were represented
by Attorney Armistead L. Boothe,
agreed to reserve school site
and 150-foot right of way for
a proposed new highway.
Shirley Highway Motel.
2. Eighteen acres at the north
east corner of Shirley highway
and Franconia road were re-
zoned from agricultural to gen.
eral business on application of
Vernon M. Lynch & Sons to
permit construction of a motel
and shopping center. The vote
was the same as in the previous
case. The master plan had pro-
posed that all commercial Zon-
ing in this area be at the north
west intersection, where IS acres
already are zoned for business.
3. Commercial rezoning of eight
acres on the south side of Fran
coma road at Rose Hill sub
division was denied, retaining the
present suburban residential
classification. Votes against this
application were by Supervisors
Jett, Shaffer, Wilkins and Car
per. For it were Supervisors Fox,
Runyon and DeBell. The de-
velopers of Rose Hill proposed to
use the site for a shopping CEN
ter and pointed out that the
master plan recommended a
neighborhood shopping center in
that precise location.
The Rose Hill application was
opposed by a delegation of resi-
dents from Bush Hill subdivision,
across Franconia road from the
property involved.
"It seems to me you are get
ting out of the realm of good
planning to reject this CONNER
cial zoning, which is a specific
recommendation of your master
plan," said Attorney Walter Dud-
ley, who represented the appli-
cant.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Eustern Shore Society

The Eastern Shore Society Of
Washington will meet at $50
pm. Saturday at the Club
Studio Of the Fairfax Hotel.
2l00 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Hackers Cab and $3.50
Taken at Knife Point

A District cab driver was
robbed of $3.50 and his cab in
Arlington early today after being
held up at knife point by two
passengers he had picked up in
Washington.
Theodore Cumberland, 4108
Blaine street NE, told Arling-
ton police he picked up the men
at Ninth and F streets NV, and
was told to drive to Alexandria.
At Route / and Twentieth
street in Arlington, however, one
of the men PVT a knife to his
throat and the other seized the
wheel of the cab, he reported.
After taking the money, they
drove to Alexandria and then to
Mount Vernon boulevard where
they forced him out, he said.
The bandits, both about %
years old, told the cab driver
they would abandon the taxi at
Jefferson and Washington streets
in Alexandria. 1t later was re-
covered there,
Evening star., 1955-03-03
c. Of c. Dinner

The Falls Church Junior
Chamber of Commerce will hold
a dinner meeting at 6:15 pm.
Monday in the Seven Corners
Howard Johnson Restaurant.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
A Ttruught fur Tnhay
Lenten Reflections by People You Know
By Robbi Mormon Gerstenfeld
OF the Washington Hebrew Congregation

eye meant evil against but God meant it for
good" Genesis 5020.) ~
One night few years ago it my pleasure to be the
dinner guest of remarkable person who had made sig
nifcant contribution to his country He had gathered
him 30 who for various reasons good
Evening star., 1955-03-03
A Reader Asks
What Can a Woman Do
To Protect Herself?
Editor. The Star:

I would greatly appreciate
your discussing a subject with
your woman readers sometime
in the near future.
I should think that many
women, who must at sometime
or other be on the streets of
Washington at night and
alone, would welcome some
words of advice from you.
How can we protect our
selves against attack? Is there
some weapon we may legiti-
mately carry? My mother
says a police whistle, and she
got one for me. May we carry
a commando knife that snaps
open? What does the Police
Department say?
Thank you. We respect your
word.
(Signed) READER.
Evening star., 1955-03-03
Status of Maryland Bills

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3.-Proceed-
ings in the Maryland Legisla-
ture yesterday included:
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-01-01
Managing Farm and Ranch
Montana Sheep Production
Shifts From Ranch to Farm
BY MONT Fl. SAUNDERSON


onto the farms This has resulted from
the problems of the ranchers in getting
good help, in holding costs within rea-
SOnable limits and in making as good
an income from sheep as from cattle.
Because of these problems, many Mon
tana sheep ranches have shifted to
cattle where feasible.
With this trend in the range sheep
production, we've seen growth in the
farm flock operations on the irrigated
farms of western and central Montana,
and some development of fenced range
! pasture sheep operations in the plains
country of eastern Montana. An indica-
tion of this trend is the fact that two
thirds of the membership of the Mon
tana Woolgrowers Association now are
those who may be clasSed as farm
flock sheepmen.
Important in the increase in the farm
flock sheep operations of Montana and
of some of the other western states has
been the practice of share-leasing
Ii
subject is to analyze the share-lease
contracts used in the past and those
now used and to make some recon-
mendations. Continued extensive use of
such arrangements are probable in
Montana farm flock sheep operations.
Before proceeding with our analysis
of the sheep farm flock share-1ease ar
engagements, let's look at some of the
factors behind the growth of the prac-
tice, of share-leasing sheep by owners
to farm operators Important among
such factors are: Cd 1t offers a good
outlet for the older ewes from the sheep
ranches, with an experienced sheepman
supplying sheep management know-how
and supervision; % city and town in
vestors who have sheep operational
know-how and capital have found farm
flock sheep share-leasing to be, usually,
good investment; CD farm operators
who have good farm setup for han
ding farm flock of sheep may lack
the initial capital and need the man.
agement advice and help that an ex-
perienced sheep owner can give them in
getting started.
Abuses and Exploiting
Now. with this type of enterprise a
proven thing under the right conditions,
we have some inevitable abuses de-
veloping. Some town and city people
who do not have the needed know-how
for helping a new operator and who
do not know how to pick a good farm
and operator now are buying sheep to
s'put out on shares
A farm flock sheep enterprise estab-
lished under such conditions is almost
certain to prove disappointment both
TO the investor owner of the sheep and
to the share-lessee of the sheep.
For a good operating relationship be-
tween a sheep farm flock share-lease
owner and operator-lessee, the owner
should know his sheep and he should
know how to size up and pick his sheep
men. The latter is fully as important
as being able to Judge whether a farm
is adapted to farm flock sheep enter
prise and of what size and kind. The
lessee should know what he has right
to expect in the share-lease arrange
ments and what kind of an operating
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-01-01


the lessee who operates them? First of
these is the plan for the share division
of the lamb crop and the wool crop.
This has varied between $3.50 divi-
sion to the operator getting SIS per cent,
the owner 35 per cent.
Some of the difference in the share
division may be offset by variations in
the other features of the share-lease
contract. These other features are: How
the eve death loss is shared, how the
Sf1earing expense is shared, who sup
plies the bucks, what provisions are
made for growing out on the farm the
eve lambs that the owners retains for
breeding eve requirements.
AS general guide for the sharing
of the eve death loss, the owner stands
all of the death loss up to a certain
figure, and the lessee all of the death
loss beyond that figure For aged ewes
that figure will be 10 to Is per cent,
depending on how old the aged ewes
are. For middleaged ewes the figure
for the death loss will be to 10 per
cent. For young ewes the owner will
stand the death loss up to per cent,
the lessee the loss beyond per cent
This feature of the arrangement. as
with the others, should be definitely
agreed upon and spelled out.
Shearing costs are as a rule shared
equally The owner as a rule furnishes
the bucks. Where the eve replacements
are met by growing out eve lambs held
back out of the lamb crop, there should
be a clear arrangement for conpensa-
ton of the lessee by the owner for grow
ing them out on the farm to the time
when they are of breeding age. The ar
engagements on this have varied from
that of paying the lessee only for the
hay used for wintering the eve lambs
to allowing the lessee rs cents per,
sheep-month during the growing-out
period
Some arrangements give the lessee
the wool clip from the yearlings as the
compensation for growing out the re-
Of course, the lessee stands
the full operating cost for growing out
of eve lambs that are retained to meet
requirements provided by the lessee due
to excessive death loss. All of the pre-
ceding items should be AGREED upon
and, preferably, spelled out in a memo
randum of agreement.
Good Contract
1t is my opinion that a good contract
will, under most considerations, make
The following provisions: Give the lessee
IS per cent of the lamb crop UP to a
LOO per cent crop and SIS of the lamb
crop above the 100 per cent; give the
lessee so per cent of the wool; give the
essee all of the wool from the yearlings
held for repIacements as COMPENSATION
or growing them out on the farm;
share the shearing cost on $3.50 basis;
tipulate the limits for the death loss
,arried by the owner on the basis of
lge of ewes, as outlined; provide that
he sheep owner furnish the sires.
A definite operating arrangement
UGH as I have outlined here will con-
ribute to the success of the share-Iease
arm flock sheep enterprise It will do
hat by providing some needed man.
Evening star., 1955-02-21

laces were removed, my pants
and padded jacket. They also
took the belt off my trousers.
l had brought my American
flying clothes out of Korea and
they let me keep these.
! had only a couple of pieces
of bread in the previous eight
hours and they brought me a
bowl Of rice. They pointed to
a typewriter list of regulations
posted on the wall and warned
me to read and obey them.
Then they left.
Recalls IA Rules.
As. I remember, there were
IA rules. I was to obey the
guards at all times; was not
to mark the cell in any way:
! was not to sing, talk loudly,
cry or moan.
I was not to talk to the guard
at any time unless I wanted
something; I was not to look
out of the windows; I was to
sweep my cell at least once
q day.
Any infraction would be fol-
lowed by penalties to fit the
crime.
I was given a mattress pad
about half an inch thick, a piece
Evening star., 1955-02-21
Pilot Becomes Sure Execution Is Near;
Red Coptors InfIict 'Sitdown' Siege

Of striped sheeting. a padded
quilt. a pillow, a wash basin, a
new toothbrush, toothpaste, soap
and a clean towel. The guards
who brought these articles told
me to go to bed and left me.
That was one of the worst
nights ever spent. ] was con-
vinced that I had been ferreted
out Of Korea to some prison in
China; where. unknown to any,
one, they would dispose of me.
This was the only possible
reason / could figure for the
clandestine way that had been
brought to my new quarters
from North Korea, only a few
months after being shot down
while fighting for the United
Nations.
Though I was tired, began to
toss, wondering what form my
execution would take. was in
a continual sweat and got UP
every half hour or so to pace up
and down.
Every time I did so, my guard
shouted and motioned me to go
back to bed. At one point the
captain Of the guard was called.
He warned me in sign language
that if I did not go to sleep, he
would handcuff me.
| Worried About Family.
| Strange as it may seem, I did
not feel afraid of dying so much.
But I was overcome by the idea
that I would die without my
family ever knowing what had
happened to me.
Over and over again the
thought came back: if there
were only some way to leave a
message behind.
Finally, it was morning. No
one came to see me that day.
My food was pushed through
the door. At one stage decided
to see what 1 could out the
double windows, their inside
painted white and pretty we'll
blocked tight with ice. l Clipped
along the window and opened
the inside window on one side. l
had grabbed the bar and was
pulling myself up when the
guard opened the door slot and
shouted:
"Paushin, paushin :"
That meant it was forbidden.
He threatened me again with
handouts.
Moved to Another Cell.
About midnight I was awak-
ened by the opening of the cell
door. The Interpreter and two
guards came in. I was told that
1 was being moved to another
cell. 1 passed through a dimly
lit passageway with cells on each
side. and into a further corri-
dor with five cells. I was put
into one of these. This cell was
about half the size of the other,
and had only one window which
opened into the corridor.
1t was now. as far as I could
figure, February /, 1868, nearly
two months since I'd been cap
tured. I discovered next morn
ing that there were four prison.
ers in this block. / could tell
this by sounds of the cell doors
opening as the occupants were
taken out to the lavatory and