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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Private Lease Bill
Aimed at Tempos

To speed destruction Of the
temporary Government build
ings now cluttering up Washing
ton, Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican, of Virginia has intro
duced legislation extending the
limitation for leases of private
property by the Government be-
yong the one-year present limit.
The new measure went to the
House Public Works Committee,
which already has before it the
previous Broyhill bill for taking
care Of Government agencies by
renting or buying privately
owned buildings here.
The Broyhill measure would
provide for transferring agencies
from temporaries to already ex-
listing buildings, instead of put
ting the Government through
the cost Of constructing new
buildings to house the agencies
ousted from the temporaries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Arlington Neighbors Divided on Move
To Tighten County's Dog Control Law

annoying at times" she said.
Her child had been bitten.
A. E. Wright defended loose
dogs. THE dogs don't seem to do
much damage. although there are
lot of dogs in the neighbour
hood" This drew a laugh from
the otherwise restrained crowd
of more than 300.
Mrs. Paul Irvine declared her
opposition to required rabies in
EQUATIONS.
Mr.. Rea Parker proposed a
license fee based on a dogs
weight to discourage ownership
of big dogs in Arlington.
John Noel opposed the revi-
sion for the items of thousands
of happy families that enjoy
their dogs" He urged that dogs
and children be allowed to roam
freely.
Gene Hammill, a former post
man, declared he had often
bluffed aggressive dogs. But an
other man declared Il hate to
walk in my back yard at night"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09

Mrs. Ralph M. Alexander: 1--WE
have just about given up trying
to have a lawn"
John S. Ward of the Canine
Training Association: There is
nothing constructive in the pro-
posed revision. Mr.. Ward an
nounced at the end of the hear
ing, held in Stratf1eld Junior
High School. that he has pleaded
unsuccessfully with Arlington
County officials for space to con-
duct dog training classes.
Mrs. E. w. King, supporting
the proposed revision. said loose
dogs roamed widely in packs do
ing destruction. Fences are
worthless against the large dogs,
she said.
Frederick A. Humm opposed
the combining of dogs required
by the revision. Dogs become
more vicious if they are tied up
he said.
Mrs. Ruth Rideout favored the
proposed control revision for
loose dogs. ".They are kind OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Rising Tide of School Phobio'
neutrality-suspicious.

Montgomery County's Board
of Education had its troubles
yesterday.
First, Owen T. H. knight, SUI
pervisor of special services, told
the board that school phobia"
is on the rise.
School phobia, he said, means
that certain children just don't
want to go to school.
The teachers are confronted
by an increased number of such
disturbed youngsters" - the
product, he said, of a growing
complex of civilization.
4O'ClOck Law Criticized.
DR.. James Prince, who heads
teachers in the county, reported
tha5 teachers are complaining
over the State law land county
regulation) that they must re-
main at school until 4 pm.
One principal lamented to DR..
Prince that at 3:15 pm. she
could find only 6 out of "a teach
ers on the staff. What do
do?" she asked.
No solution was Offered, al
though it was pointed out the
schools break the State law now
by releasing pupils at 3 O'Clock
when the State says they should
stay until $3.50.
Harrison King, a board men,
Der, asked School Supt. Forbes
"A. Norris: IF these teachers de-
eide to teach only three days a
week, would you try to please
them?"
Dr.. Norris said, mo" Mr..
King commented that it seems
to him that I'VE keep adding
to the curriculum with less
school days"
The board heard that the pro-
jected Wheaton Junior High
School, a carbon copy" OF an
existing school. costs nearly
100000 more than the original.
The board tentatively approved
a contract for it's construction
at a figure of STA million.
Over Original Estimate.
James H. Sheldon, supervisor
of construction for the school
system, says this figure is $751;
COL over the original estimate.
The estimate was based on the
cost of North Bethesda Junior
High School, whose plan is being
duplicated in Wheaton.
These differences ran up the
cost:
| The Wheaton school is using
100000 in Federal funds. Fed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Tyre Club 5 Lawyer
Attacks Ban Bill
By d stat staff Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. "a law
yer for the Tyre Club, a Prince
Georges bottle club. yesterday
attacked bill aimed at banning
such establishments as a vicious
infringement on private rights"
Attorney J. Frank Lillard, Jr.,
former Republican member of
the House of Delegates, told the
House Alcoholic Beverages Com
mittee the measure is unconsti-
tutional and would apply to pri-
vate parties in private homes.
Prince Georges States Attor-
ney Blair Smith, who helped
draft the bill introduced here by
the all-Democratic delegation
from his county, denied that the
measure is unconstitutional.
Anything to do with liquor
comes within our police powers
and we can regulate it" he said.
The bill would prohibit the
consumption of alcoholic bever-
ages after 2 am. weekdays and
midnight Sundays in any public
place "or at any place at which
set ups or other component parts
of mixed alcoholic drinks are
served or sold"
Delegate Hervey G. Machen OF
Prince Georges said the bill, in
addition to outlawing bottle
clubs, would affect the closing
hours of clubs such as the Moose,
Elks and American Legion. But
there has not been a single OBJ
lection from those clubs" he
said.
No one besides Mr.. Lillard APP
peared to protest the bill. The
committee took no action on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09

Dog lovers battled a proposed
revision of Arlington's dog con-
troll law last night at an open
hearing Of the Arlington County
Board.
The proposed dog control law
would make rabies incubation
compulsory rather than volun-
tary. It also would forbid all
dogs from running at large. Fees
for release of impounded dogs
would be raised. Enforcement
provisions are widened.
"A child is entitled to a dog
to grow up with" declared Evan
L. Flory, a father of four, for the
dog lovers.
But home owners, supporting
the proposed revision, voiced
their complaints.
Excerpts from testimony fol-
lows:
Mrs. Gladys L. Knight: IF
you want a pleasant place to live,
you certainly can't with all the
dogs in the neighborhood."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
GA Building Project
Runs Into Snag on
Roads, Sewage Plant

Plans for a $38 million Central
Intelligence Agency headquarters
at Langley in Fairfax County to-
day encountered some uneXpect-
ed complications from Virginia
officials.
It was learned in Richmond
that officers of the State High
way Department are unwilling to
give any priority to road i'm
provements near the site, and
that the State Water Control
Board probably will require en-
largement and relocation of a
new sewage disposal plant that
CHA proposes to use.
CHA has been going ahead with
its plans to locate a headquar-
tiers building employing 5000
10000 people on the Bureau of
Public Roads property at Lang
ley, apparently confident that
certain road improvements would
be made and that the county's
new sewage plant could serve the
area.
Roads Designated.
/ CHA wants Route 123-Chain
Bridge road-Widened into a
four-lane divided highway, and
also wants improvement of
Route 193-Old Georgetown pike
! But the State Highway De-
partment, with its pay-as-you-go
road improvement program, does
not plan to make 123 four-lane
highway for another 10 years.
State officials believe other high
ways in Fairfax County, serving
established residential and bust
ness areas. need improvement
first.
| CHA also wants immediate
construction of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway
as far as Langley. 1t would pass
through the CHA site. This does
not appear too much of a prob
lem, however, because the State
and Fairfax County have set
aside funds to match Federal
funds for right of way acquisi-
ton to extend the parkway.
Bigger Sewage Plant.
The Pimmit Run sewage dis
posal plant, which the county is
about to build. is designed to
accommodate a population of
only $500 and it was learned
that the State Water Control
Board is likely to require reloca-
ton of the plant at a site near
the Potomac River and enlarge
ment of it. The Fairfax Board
of County Supervisors has agreed
to let CHA use the plant, but
this arrangement must be okayed
by the water board.
The two new developments
prompted a number of county
officials to suggest that CHA put
up some road and sewer improve
ment funds. CHA officials have
indicated to the county that they
do not intend to do so, however,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Brush-Burning Hours
Established in Fairfax

Brush burning is forbidden in
Fairfax County between mid
night and 4 pm. through May
Is, Fairfax County Forest
Warden Delbert Sheads an
nounced yesterday.
The ban is imposed each spring
during the dry season to prevent
forest fires. The evening hours
are considered safer because
more volunteer firemen are avail
able, there usually is less wind
and fires are easier to spot.
The Virginia State Forest
Service plans to patrol the county
by airplane to check on BRUSH
burning violations. Fines Of IS
to $500 may be imposed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09

eral grants prescribe the payment
of union wage scales for work.
men. The Bethesda school was
built entirely with county funds.
The Bethesda school fitted
nicely on its site. At Wheaton,
the soil set-up will require scrap
ing 6 feet off the surface and
planting deeper footings.
And lastly, the contractor
drastically underbid on the
Bethesda school-so badly, said
Mr.. Sheldon, that he's in the
arms of the bonding company,
who are directing completion of
the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
BY the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 9.-Pro-
ceedings in the Maryland Legis-
latiue Yesterday included.

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 9.-Pro-
ceedings in the Maryland Legis-
lative yesterday included:
HOUSE.
Bills Passed.
HB92--By Anne Arundel elegation--
To prevent any person from working at
the plumbing trade unless certified by
the State.
TO require that insurance polices and
annuity contracts carry a brief descrip-
ton OF the contract at the foot of the
first page
lib I65-By Luber and Schweinhaut--
To prohibit the issuance of combination
insurance policies except for those in
the "group" category.
HBi67-By Luber and Schweinhaut--
To provide that no person holding q
mutual life insurance policy be required
the premium stated in the policy
HBnB3--By Buffington-To require
turn indicator lights on all motor We
HB272-By Parran-To include en-
ployes Of alcoholic beverage licensees in
restrictions imposed in the license in
Charles County.
ployes Of alcoholic beverage licensees in
provisions OF laws restricting hours and
days of sales In Charles County.
HB2S9--By Montgomery delegation
To change the Montgomery County trial
magistrates system, create O people 8
court and a Judge for Juvenile cases,
HB300-By Mach. Urban and Hedrick
TO permit county commissioners OF
Anne Arundel. Baltimore and Howard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Children Plan Operettu

An operetta, I'm Grand Old
Switzerland" will be presented
by youngsters of the Baptist
Home for Children at 8 pm.
Saturday at Leland Junior High
School, Forty-fourth and Elm
streets, Chevy Chase. Proceeds
to be used for playground i'm
provement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Farm Bureau Urges
Wait for New RULINGS
On School |ntegration

The Montgomery County Farm
Bureau yesterday urged that
the Board of Education freeze
all planning for indignation
until the Supreme Court hands
down new rulings on the issue.
If and when indignation comes,
it should be in the form of a
12-year program, the bureau
said in a set of recommendations
announced last night.
If a shorter program is adopt
ed, colored pupils should be as
signed to schools on a percentage
basissregardless of cost or in
convenience that it might cause. +"
No school should have an en-
rollment of more than 10 per
cent colored pupils, the farm
group urged. Six per cent of
the county's 47,000 school chill
dren are colored.
The policy statement said an
overwhelming majority of up
county" residents opposes inte-
grafton.
THE Supreme Court has not
said we must integrate. All they
have said is that segregation is
unconstitutional"
Achievements Compared.
The statement was accom-
panied by a chart listing COM
parative achievement levels of
white and colored pupils in the
county.
The chart was apparently
based on a report of a testing
program, prepared for the Ad-
visory Committee on IntegrationD
II showed that colored pupils in
the sixth grade needed to i'm
prove 31.2 per cent to match
educational achievement of white
SlAtIl-STaQeIS.
A 40.3 per cent shortcoming
was shown for ninth-graders and
a 56,4 per cent deficiency for
colored pupils in the 18th grade,
How can any fair-minded
person think that Indignation
can become effective suddenly
with such wide difference in
achievement levels as this?" The
statement said, Through grad
ual indignation. educators be-
lieve that instead of three years
difference at high school Level
the space can be reduced to one
year"
Would Poll Parents.
The Farm Bureau suggested
the polling of parents of pupils
at Carver High School, as to con-
tinuing their childrens attend
ance at Carver, a colored school
This might solve the high
school problem and conf1ne
indignation to elementary pupils
who would be most easily ad-
justed to the change" the
statement explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
Political and Church
Meetings Banned in
Montgomery Schools

The Montgomery ounty
Board of Education yesterday
banned the use of schools for
political meetings or church
services.
The step was taken reluc-
family, to comply with a ruling
by the Maryland Attorney Cen
erals Office banning such uses.
Church groups now using the
schools on Sundays were given
until June /. 1856, to find new
quarters. At least 13 groups are
in this category.
Mrs.AHelen c. Scharf suggested
that the county's delegation to
the General Assembly be ap-
prised of the action. in the event
the lawmakers want to sponsor
remedial legislation.
She foresaw a quick reaction"
from the Republican and Demo-
cratic State Central Committees.
which use schools for precinct
meetings and rallies.
Schools Need Churches.
Wayne C. Birdsell said the
move, while necessary, was I'M
fortunate, because next fall we
may need space in church build
ings for classrooms.
Harrison c. King, pointing out
the church groups using schools
were planning to build churches,
said "our people can't pay taxes
and build churches, too; were
taxing people as heavily as we
can"
The board tomorrow night will
hold closed door meeting to re-
view the indignation question and
thereafter discuss integration
only in open session. 1
This policy was announced by
Willard G. McGraw, board chair
man.
Mrs. Scharf previously had
called for a comprehensive CEN
sus of white and colored school
pupils by school districts. a re-
port on classroom capacity for
the 1856 school year, and a
list of schools under construction
and on the drawing boards.
Affects Construction.
These facts are needed, she
said, before the board can set up
a news building program.
I'VE must think in terms OF
integration." she said, because
it takes two years from the plan
ming stage to the completion i'll
q high school building"
The boards new building pro-
posals are scheduled to be UNI
folded at a public hearing at
Richard Montgomery School on
March "a. Its operating budget
will be aired on March 81.
Mrs. Rose Kramer, another
member, called upon the schools
administrative staff to develop
as soon as possible proposals for
in-service training for teachers
and student preparation for in
tegration.
The board received but took
no action on petitions calling for
a gradual program of integra-
ton. Tracy C. Coleman, presi-
dent of the Colesville PTA.
spokesman for the petitioners,
said most of the petitions were
signed in the up-county area.
Ignore Challenge.
The board also by-passed a
challenge from the Montgomery
County Chapter of the American
Veterans Committee, which
aruged that the board has the
legal authority to integrate
schools without waiting for
further rulings from the Supreme
Court.
John D. Rice, AVG chairman,
cited court rulings which upheld
Indignation in the Baltimore and
Washington school systems.
Willard G. McGraw said that
the board had received a heavy
volume of mail on the integra-
ton question. Writers generally
are taking a stand for or against
indignation, but offering few new
suggestions on the mechanics Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09

My father was accidentally
killed when was little fellow. My
mother was left with a family Of
five children and another child was
on the way.
The oldest child was 10. My
mother had farm of 40 acres and
no one to work it. So our neighbors
would come each spring, pillow our
field and SOW our corn and other
farm crops. In the fall they would
come and harvest our crops, then cut
and stack wood for the winter.
The friendliness and unselfish-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09

the vivid ecoections of e for could not have
survived that crisis without their help They recognized
the fact that helpless and simply pitched in and
did the Job.
certain this sort of brotherly love has been
rienced by many other people, but has deep and special
significance to Those kind neghbors left lasting
impression.
TOm0rrOw-Elmer Louis Kayser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
A TAnnpht fur Tunay
Lenten Reflections by People You Know
BY Clark Griffith
President, Washington Baseball Club

IS years old now, but philosophy which has re-
NAMED uppermost in my mind since little boy tot
terng around our farmhouse Clear Creek No. Love
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-11

the first flush of annoyance
over the high-handed exiting
of squirrels from the White
House had faded, why are
we so inconsistent? How can
I continue to enjoy spareribs
or a fine savory roast of pork
and still turn faint at the
mention of rabbit stew or
squirrel pie? Certainly I've
remorselessly worn rabbit fur
in my time. and squirrel, too.
Which reminds me that one
of the most devout nature
lovers of my acquaintance
makes a speciality of cooking
pheasant. Another gentleman
I know is stickily sentimental
every spring about a family
of swallows in his garage
but he's all dressed up in his
red jacket with his rifle oiled
the day the deer hunting sea-
son opens every fall.
Whoever heard of a public
hue and cry against a house
wife who wants to rid her cell
lar of mice? Or against a
homeowner who takes meas
ures to dispatch the moles in
his lawn?
Seems to me long ago I did
hear of one consistent ami
NAL lover. Wasn't it the late
Minnie Maddern Fiske who
not only refused to own furs
or eat meat, but also tabooed
leather shoes, and would not
kill a fly? Imagine what a
difficult life her principles
made her lead. Like the In
dian sect which is opposed to
all destruction of animal life,
these people go so far as al
most to stop walking in the
grass for fear of accidentally
treading upon an ant.
'From AP NewsfeaturesJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-11
MARY MARGARET
MCBRIDE
What About the Squirrels?

A few weeks ago I wrote a
column calling Central Park
pigeons that gather round my
bedroom window at 8 am.
noisy nuisances and i'm
mediately received plenty of
abusive mail from pigeon
lovers who seem to be legion.
I've struggled against the
impulse which will probably
start the Nations squirrel
lovers after me. But I can't
resist. now that the heat of
controversy has died down,
commenting on the White
House squirrel tempest that
blew up when somebody dis
covered that employees were
trapping the little animals
and moving them to distant
trees so they wouldn't dig up
the Presidents putting green.
] should like to ally myself
here and now with the pro-
squirrel forces. I felt instant
outrage when I first read
about the squirrel-trapping.
Also I was glad to hear Ca
that it had been halted; (b)
that the President, far from
ordering it. heard of it first in
the public prints.
! should, however, also like
to examine a rather ridiculous
aspect of this great outpour-
ing Of sympathy for our small
nut-eating friends by in
dividuals of a great Nation
which boasts more fur coats
per capita (many of them
sable-dyed squirrel, too, con-
sumes the greatest amount of
meat per person, possesses the
largest number of leather
shoes and uses for its success
stories the theme of the man.
-the-better-mousetrap.
Why, I asked myself after
Evening star., 1955-09-14
Unions Eye Auto
Service Industry
BY the Associated Press

Two major ALL unions. the
Teamsters and the MachinistS,
have agreed on a new 5000. 600
organizing drive among the esti-
mated million employees Of the
automobile service industry.
Dave Beck, Teamsters presi-
dent. and Al Hays, head Of the
Machinists, signed an agreement
yesterday for each union to put
up 100000 to establish a joint
Office here to finance and direct
the campaign.
The drive is to be aimed at
employees Of new and used car
sales and service shops. factory
branches, parts distributors, used
car lots, parking lots and service
stations.
The agreement calls for me-
cfanics. helpers and appren-
tices to be organized into the
Machinists union with greasers,
carwashers, parts clerks, c;~
statesmen and gasoline pump at
tendants to go into the Team
sterS.
The Machinists union now
claims more than 100000 mem
bers. the Teamsters more than
IL million.
Evening star., 1955-09-14

CANBERRA. Australia, Sept.
Il (R.-A royal commission In
vestigating Communist espionage
said today Soviet spies had con-
siderable success in getting con-
fidential information from Au-
stralia's External Affairs De-
partment between 1943 and l949.
Since 194S. a commission re-
port to Parliament said. there
has been no trace Of any sig
nificant information leakage.
The commission was set up
following the detection Of Vlad-
imir Petrov from his post as
Third Secretary at the Soviet En-
bassy here. The Soviet diplomat
and his wife Evdokia were
granted asylum In Australia in
April, 1854. Mr.. Petrov turned
over Embassy documents and