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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22

apartment developments did not
pay their way in real estate taxes
lin the cost of educating their
children.
DR.. Morris was active in the
charter movement which led to
the first Montgomery County
| Council in 1949. He is on the
boards of the county chapters
Iof the National Foundation for
IInfantile Paralysis, the American
Cancer Society. the Community
Chest and the YMCA.
DR.. Morris. SIS. is a member
Iof the Woodside Methodist
Church. His wife organized the
Silver Spring branch of the
American Association of Uni
lversity Women in 1914 and was
its first president. They have
three sons--Joseph, "a. who plays
the flute and piccolo in the
Navy; Ebert, 20, attending
Montgomery Junior College. and
Emory, ID. attending Cornell
| University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
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RING 25%
TO 4Oe6 OFF
ACTUAL
APPRAISED
VALUE!

s only. Appraided at $3.50 Ladies' Diamond
Rings, l diamond, total weight 80 points,
SLOT
5 only. Appraised at s225, Ladies Diamond
Rings, 5 diamonds, total weight 43 points,
SlS2
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Solitaire Rings, weight y carat S272
4 only. Appraised at $3.50, Ladies Diamond
Wedding Rings, diamonds, total weight
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5 only. Appraised at s235, Ladies Diamond
Solitaire Rings platinum mounting weight
40 points -.--------------- Sl59
4 set Appraised at $780, Ladies matching
Engagement Ring and Wedding Ring, 8
diamonds, total weight L carat Slo6
; only. Appraised at s275, Ladies Diamond
Rings 3 diamonds, total weight SO points,
$l93
only. Appraised at S265, Mans Masonic
Ring with % carat diamond -----.- $loo
only. Appraised at $685., Lady's Diamond
Ring, platinum mounting, 3 diamonds,
weight IS points --------- $440
only. Appraised at $225, Ladies Diamond
Rings diamonds. total weight 43 points,
$l52
DiamondS-Street Floor, Washington,
Siluer Spring and PARKington
EASY BUDGET PAYMENT TERMS: Use
The Hecht Co.'S Ever-Ready Credit Plan.
Pay as little as $ll per month Or use your
shopping plate-pay q in January, "a in
February, and Il in March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
Student Futher of z
Admits Burglary

A 25-year-old George Wash
ington University student yes
terday pleaded guilty in Alex
andria Corporation Court to 10
counts of burglary.
Lester r. Warrington. father
of two. told police he burglar
lied Alexandria and Fairfax
County homes in order to attend
school full time.
Police said, Warrington, who
lives in the 200 block of North
Fairfax street. was scheduled to
appear today in Fairfax on II
counts of burglary. Sentencing
in Alexandria was postponed
pending a report on his back
ground by the probation officer,
Warrington was arrested De-
cember II after some stolen saw
Iings bonds were found under the
seat cover of a car he had traded
~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
THIEVES GET HAMS,
CAKES AND 2 TREES

Thieves were getting
ready for Christmas last
night in Alexandria.
A. H. McLellon, superin-
tendent of National Gene
terry on Wilkes street, re-
ported to police that two Z
foot cedar trees valued at
$50 each were stolen from
the cemetery.
The Royal Meat Market
at 30l N. Patrick street re-
ported someone broke in and
stole several fruit cakes,
four cooked hams and one
raw ham. The meat market
thieves also took $23 in cash
and about 100 cartons OF
cigarettes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
Stanley Silent
On His Plan for
segregation

RICHMOND, Dec. % (P.-
Gov. Stanley has refused anew
to speculate about the legisla-
tive course he will recommend on
the bulk of the Gray Commission
program for dealing with the
school segregation ISSUE
He also has declined COM
ment on former Gov. Darden's
suggestion that proponents OF a
State constitutional amendment
voice strong assurances the pub
lie school system will be main
tanned.
Gov. Stanley, at his press con-
ference late yesterday. said there
had been no change in his plans
regarding the Gray report.
II repeat. my plan is to first
conclude the constitutional
amendment question and then
consider the rest Of the pro-
gram" he said in a prepared
statement.
/ The constitutional amendment
proposal is the subject of q
Statewide referendum January
%. The amendment would per-
init the State to use public funds
to help finance the private edu.
lcation of students in preference
to attendance at integrated pub
lie schools.
The chief plank in the Ora,
program other than the amend
ment proposal is a recommends
ton for adoption of a student
assignment plan. This would
permit the continuation of segre-
cation by allowing students K
be assigned to schools on cited
grounds other than race.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
.RossIyn Council
Backs Gray Plan

Voters in Rosslyn precinct In
Arlington are being urged by the
newly formed Rosslyn Commu-
nifty Council to support the con-
stitutional convention proposal
Ion January 8.
Officers of the Council are
George Jones and Emory w
ReiSinger.
The group issued a statement
calling the Gray Commission
plan the only hope for con-
tinuing public schools in nearly
one-third of virginia's counties
Rejection Of the Gray plar
means immediate abolition Of
public schools in some counties
and in still more at the end o.
the present school year." thu
statement said.
| The one group which viii
suffer most for want of educa-
tional opportunities. the Council
declared, is the Negro"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
BY GENE GOODWIN

Legislation is being prepared
to make it harder. If not i'm
possible, for spectators to profit
from the sale of right-of-way
to the Maryland Roads Commits
sion.
That was disclosed today by
Joseph D. Buscher. assistant
attorney general in charge OF
the roads commissions legal de-
partment.
Mr.. Buscher said he will rec
ommend legislation to the nexi
Maryland General Assembly pat
termed after Perfnsylvania's high
way land acquisition laws. 1r
Pennsylvania. the value OF lane
in the path of new roads Is
frozen early in the planning
stage of highway constructor
projects.
The 1856 General Assembly
meets in Annapolis late nex1
month.
Before that time, Mr. BuSchel
said he plans also to consult
with New Jersey and New York
highway officials and with the
New York Port Authority tt
study their land acquisition laws
Curb on Sums
what Maryland needs" Mr.
Buscher said. lis a modification
of its laws to prevent Spectator:
and a few people from receiving
excess sums for highway lane
at the expense of the taxpayer:
as a whole, which is being done
quite often now"
He added. however. that any
new laws must not infringe or
property rights"
Mr.. Buscher said he is prepar-
ing the legislation at the request
of the Governors Commission
on State Programs. Organization
and Finance. That commission
headed by Baltimore Attorney
Harry j. Green, last month CON-
pleted a study of the roads
commission and recommended
among other things. that more
efficient and economical ways bt
sought for acquiring right-of
way.
Changes in Maryland's high
way land acquisition laws also
were recommended by CRANE
juries in Montgomery ane
Prince Georges Counties. which
recently indicted former roads
commission official and sis
Washington area real estate mer
on charges of conspiring to de-
fraud the commission on lane
sales in the two counties.
Sought in Mexico
The official indicted in both
counties was Ben Du Pre-. for
mer assistant right-of-way en-.
gineer for four major roads
projects in nearby Maryland. He
quit the roads agency under fire
last July and has since vanished
Authorities believe he may have
returned to his native Mexico
and are seeking to extradite
him.
Six real estate men were in.
dicted in Montgomery. One Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
Expert on Cancer Heads
Montgomery Federation
BY MARLEY ROBERTS

A cancer research expert -
and winner OF The Evening Star
trophy for community service
lis president of the Montgom-
cry County Civic Federation.
DR.. Harold p. Morris. now in
his second year as federation
president. is chief OF research
in the relation Of nutrition and
cancer at the National Cancer
Institute in the National In
stitutes of Health.
In 1850 DR.. Morris received
The Star cup for study of the
effect of apartment house de-
ivelopments on the economy Of
Montgomery County and for his
work as chairman OF survey
for Montgomery Junior College.
Studied at Minnesota
/ Born on an Indiana farm
owned by his family since 1920.
DR.. Morris studied animal nutri-
ton at the University of Minne-
sofa After graduating in 1925
he did research in animal genet
les at Kansas State College and
the University of Illinois. He
got a Pho. degree from the
University Of Minnesota in 1880
and won a National Research
Council fellowship to study food
utilization.
Or. Morris came to Washing
ton in 1881 to do research In
the Bureau OF Fisferies-then
under the Treasury Department
After work as a bacteriologist
in the Agriculture Department
and Food and Drug Administra-
ton. he joined the National
Cancer Institute in 1888.
His research on rats. mice and
dogs is aimed at finding the
connections between eating hab-
its and the beginnings Of cancer
1.-THE knowledge of the causes
of cancer is fundamental to oul
knowledge Of how to treat 1t II
humans. says DR.. Morris.
DR.. Morris moved to hi,
; present home at HIP Move.
. drive, Silver Spring. in 1896. HI
, first Joined the Woodside Parl
Civic Association Ito meet peo
pie" and was its president fol
two years. For Is years he ha'
been its delegate to the count!
civic federation.
Wrote College Report
In l947 DR., Morris wrote {
report on Montgomery Junior
College for the federation which
, recommended the site finall,
chosen. DR.. Morris has been ,
member OF the advisory council
for the college since 1850.
The 1850 study Of apartment
projects and the county's econ
omy was responsible for tn,
Montgomery County Council
disapproval OF some apartment
irezoning appeals. DR.. Morri
thinks.
The study showed that rura
homes, single family homes an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
Rockville Cancels
4-6 Parking Bon

The Rockville City Council
heading the protests of store
owners in the Rockville business
center. has Cancelled its ban or
parking along a one-blocs
stretch of West Montgomery
avenue from to 6 pm.
The evening hours on West
Montgomery parking between
Washington and Adams streets
was lifted after nearby merch-
ants presented petitions with
over $50 signatures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-22
County Medical Group
Elects Dr.. Huqon

DR.. William B. Hagan of
Mount Rainier. Md. has been
elected president of the Prince
Georges County Medical Society.
Other officers are DR. Hans
Wooak. vice president; DR.. John
Kehoe. corresponding secretary:
DR.. Lloyd Hughes. recording
secretary. and DR.. Frederick e,
Musser. treasurer.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
No Quick Solutions Seen
For Big Farm SurpIuses

March 31-are not nearly large
enough to absorb all the Ma
tion'S extra food.
How can these difficulties be
solved? Democrats answer:
Through more aggressive dis
tribution. with special empha-
sis on getting food to those
who need it most. Says for
mer Secretary of Agriculture
Charles Brannan: There is
no surplus of food. only a
shortage of imagination"
Boyd-orr Plan
Those who agree with Mr..
Brannan advocate creation of
an international food reserve,
to provide for orderly mar
keting of surpluses along the
lines recommended shortly
after World War II by Sir
John Boyd-Orr, first Director
general of the Food and Agri-
culture Organization of the
United Nations. This is en-
bodied in a bill introduced by
Senator Murray. Democrat, of
Montana. 1t is also the basic
principle behind programs
proposed two weeks ago by
both FAC and the non-profit
National Planning Associa-
tion.
However, Republicans con-
tend that these proposals
Evening star., 1955-05-29
DISTRICT:
Crisis Government
Reaches Local Level

million), and the rest would be
obtained through local tax in
creaseS.
For the following fiscal year,
the revenue rise was calculated
at $8,875,000 ($2 million Fed
eral plus $6,875.000 from a full
years experience with the
same local tax BOOSTS.
A new set or figures on
spending showed the District
might squeak through the next
two fiscal years with a margin
of less than 100000 if the
proposed program were ap-
proved.
The figures, though, had a
built-in BOBBY trap. They
estimated pay raises for all
city employees except police and
firemen, who will be in soon
with requests that will wreck
the figures. Also, the estimate
was low on what classified
workers are likely to get.
The increased tax revenue
would be obtained by lowering
exemptions on individual in
come taxes and levying higher
rates in the upper brackets; by
taxing meals from l3 cents up.
instead of from so cents, as at
present; by levying a new tax
of 20 cents a gallon on table
wines; by increasing the beer
tax from $1.25 a barrel to So
barrel, and by increasing the
real estate tax S cents per $lOO.
Whether these tax increases
can be gotten through Con-
gress is itself problematical.
The Districts present $4,000
personal exemption under the
individual income tax law was
set at congressional insistence
to compensate for imposition
of the sales tax-on the theory
the little man" should not be
,it by the sales tax and the in
c,me tax, too.
And, last year, Congress
turned down a previous pro-
posal that the beer tax be in
creased to So a barrel.
Real Estote Tox
Also, increases in the real
estate tax are always ap-
preached cautiously on the
theory that too much of a hike
might drive both residents and
businessmen into the nearby
Virginia and Maryland suburbs
out of the Districts tax juris-
diction.
In any event, prospects are
strong that the men who run
the District will be facing new
crises and hunting new reve-
niue next year and the year
after-in local taxes as well as
in the Federal payment. Once
again a financial crisis, just as
there was last year, Just as
there is this year and as there
probably will be next year and
the year after.
Perhaps, with the annual
fight to get the full Federal
payment from Congress, It's
really good strategy.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
SENATE

On passage of the postal pay
raise bill over the Presidents
veto. Rejected (veto isus-
tained)), 54-39. tTWo-thirds
vote, or 81 yeas" were needed
to override the veto.)
Against: BeaiI tR.. Md, Butler.
tR., Md, Byrd ID. Va. Robertson
ID, Va.
On an amendment by Sem
ator Edward Martin (R., Pa
to the highway aid bill. The
amendment would have sub
stituted the administrations
1O-year plan for the five-year
program later passed by voice
vote. Substitute amendment
rejected, $3.50. -.. .
Fer: BeslL
Evening star., 1955-05-29
MARYLAND:
Electoral College Foes
Could Stort at Home

pair with the highest number.
Each State is entitled to as
many electoral votes as it has
Representatives and Senators
irfs Congress.
Maryland uses that same
idea in primary elections
to choose Democratic and Re-
publican nominees for State
wide Offices (Senator, Cover
nor. attorney general and con-
troller). Each county and Bal
timore City legislative district
has as many unit votes as it
has senators and delegates in
the State Legislature. In order
to win his party's nomination
to a Statewide Office. q cam
didate has to capture a ma
jority of the unit votes-not
the popular votes.
The trouble with both sys-
TENS is that occasionally some
one gets elected or nominated
without the majority or plu-
ality of popular votes.
1t happened twice in Mary
land in the 1850 primary.
Former Governor w. Preston
Lane, jr., won the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination over
George P. Mahoney, even
though the latter had 17,429
more Maryland Democrats
supporting him. Mr.. Lanes
support, however, came from
counties and city districts with
a total of "a unit votes while
Mr.. Mahoney was triumphant
in only enough counties and
districts to receive 68 unit
votes.
In that same year, on the Re-
publican side, Senator John
Marshall Butler trailed D.
John Markey by 1892 in the
popular voting but wound up
with a unit vote margin of 81
to TO-. A switch of Al votes in
Baltimore's I'd district would
have given the nomination to
Mr.. Markey.
1910 System
Like the constitutional fore
fathers who devised the elec-
.toral college as a means OF
preventing domination of pres
idential elections by heavily
populated States, Maryland
legislators legalized the unit
system in 1910 to prevent Bal
timore from dominating State
primaries.
Electoral college votes are
apt to be closer to the popular
will than Maryland's unit
votes, however, because the
Federal Constitution provides
for reapportionment of the
seats in the House of Repre-
sentatives with each 10-year
census.
Membership in the Maryland
Legislature is now frozen at
1910 levels, and becomes more
heavily weighted in favor of
the small, rural counties with
each passing year. The small
counties, in case you haven't
figured it out by now, also are
the chief beneficiaries of the
INIT system.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
DISTRICT:
By HECTOR MCLEAN

The District of Columbia ap-
peared last week to have been
launched on a calculated
policy of government by crisis.
The conclusion arose when
the District Commissioners
and their top financial aides
went to Congress for prelimi-
nary talks on a proposed reve-
nue. program to boost the city's
income.
1t was not the program with
which they approached the
Federal Budget Bureau several
weeks ago. That plan sought
to raise some $13 million a
year in additional revenue.
And, the Commissioners urged
hopefully, one half Of the
money ought to be obtained
through an increase in the
Federal payment to the cost OF
running the National Capital,
and the other half through an
increase in local taxes.
The Derivation
They got the $13 million fig
ure this way: Recent estimates
by the District Budget Office
indicated that-on the basis OF
present revenue and present
Spending-the District would
be nearly SIS million in the
red at the end of the next
three years. That's an aver
age of almost IS million a
year.
That figure, moreover, did
not include any allowance for
the salary increases the Dis
trict presumably is going to
have to start paying shortly.
How much these may be is
still highly speculative. Back
in the days a month or so ago
when congressional committees
were approving 10 per cent
boosts which might become the
general wage increase pattern.
it looked as though the maxi
mum might be SO million a
year in increased expense to
the District-in addition to
the other SIS million the city
expected to be in the hole.
Thus the bid to the Budget
Bureau for White House sup
port of $13 million a year
revenue increase. So far, Dis
trict officials say, the Budget
Bureau hasn't decided.
Last Monday, though. the
city heads had a talk with the
key congressman who will
handle any revenue-boosting
legislation. They plan an
other next Wednesday.
The program of the lawmak-
ers was considerably smaller
than the one originally sent to
the Budget Bureau. 1t called
for a revenue boost in the COM
ing fiscal year of only $5,025,-
900. OF this, SIS million would
be in increased Federal pay
meht (although the House had
just cut 81 million OF the pres
emily authorized figure Of $40
Evening star., 1955-05-29
.MARYLAND:
By GENE GOODWIN

1t is somewhat ironical that
a new movement to abolish the
Federal electoral college sys-
tenn should originate in Mary
land, one of two States in the
Union still employing the elec-
toral college principle in State
elections.
The primary election systems
Of Maryland and Georgia are
nothing but junior versions Of
the electoral college, which
Maryland's Representative De-
Witt s. Hyde labeled as "an-
tiquated" last month when he
introduced a bill in Congress to
abolish 1t.
Prep Pressure Group
Representative Hyde. a Re-
publican, put his bill in after
a group Of Cumberland tMdo
high school youngsters started
humping the drums to rid the
country Of what they see as an
undemocratic way Of selecting
its President and Vice Presi-
dent.
The teen-agers, students at
Allegany High School, not only
have succeeded in working up
a lot of Western Maryland en-
thusiasm for abolishing the
electoral college. but are now
spreading the message
throughout the country with
special issues of the school
newspaper.
Nowhere in any OF their
propaganda. of course. is there
any mention of the so-called
unit system Maryland has
been using to select party
nominees since 1910. Nor is
attention called to the refusal
of the State Senate only last
February to abolish the unit
system. which has been critl-
cized as antiquated and un-
democratic.
The kids know better than
that. Admission OF Mary
lands own shortcoming in this
regard certainly would detract
from their arguments against
the electoral college.
Actually, they can't be criti-
cized very much for living in
a glass house and throwing
stones because a campaign
against the Federal electoral
college is more practical at
this time than one against the
Maryland unit system. With
the course they have chosen.
there at least is some chance
of achieving their goal while
they still care.
The electoral college that
Mr.. Hyde and his Cumberland
constituents would abolish is
as ancient as the Constitution
itself. 1t is the name given to
the system of electing our
President and Vice President
by the electoral votes of each
State rather than adding up
all the popular votes from
coast to coast and awarding
the White House keys to the
Evening star., 1955-05-29

would call for huge give
aways, with Uncle Sam foot
ing the bill. They look with
more favor upon certain other
of the raft of legislative ideas
for reducing surpluses.
Out of the current contro-
versy and headaches, one CEN
tral fact is emerging: There
is no quick, overnight Solu-
ton to the surplus problem.
Republicans say the best
long-term answer is lower
price supports. Democrats
favor high props, coupled
with broadened distribution.
A year under the flexible pro-
gram may provide the answer.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
NEARBY CONGRESS VOTES

Against: Butler. Byrd, Robertson.
On a motion by Senator
Prescott Bush (R., Conn., to
return the five-year highway
program to committee for fur
ther study. Rejected, $3.50.
For: Beall, Butler.
Against: Byrd, Robertson.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
HOUSE

On a motion by Representa-
tive John Bell Williams d.,
Miss to send the conference
report providing a $4,000 raise
for D. C. judges back to con-
ference and insist on House
amendments. (The Senate
version provided a $500
raise; the, House $4,000
Adopted, l7o-l65:
For: Harrison 3D.. VaD.
Against: HYDE IR.. Md. Lankford
Cd. Md. Broyhill tR.. Va, Smith
ID, Va).
Compiled By Confessional Quarterly