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content, estimated to bring in
SIS, 900.
City officials stressed that in
almost all cases, these estimates
of new revenues from changes
in taxes were tentative.
Protests Expected
Protests are expected over any
double -barrelled proposals to
lower the exemption on personal
income taxes while applying the
sales tax on restaurant meals to
any bill over IS cents. Some
years ago when Congress finally
turned to the sales tax as a
means of financing District costs
it deliberately raised the income
tax exemptions to $4,000 SO the
so-called little man" would not
have a doubly heavy tax load.
At that time, the increase in
the income tax exemption was
considered an unwritten bargain.
If the exemption is cut to
81, 900 for a single person and
$4,000 for married couple, it
would put the District en- a
level with Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
Whatever tax proposals are
finally submitted would be re-
ferred to the fiscal subcommit-
tee, the chairman Of which is
Representative Smith, Democrat,
OF Virginia. The ranking Re-
publican member is Representa-
tive O'Hara of Minnesota. Both
took an active part in yester-
days closed-door discussions
which lasted an hour and a
half, Another District Commit
tee member participating was
Representative Harris, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas.
The District was represented
by Commissioners Spencer and
Lane and several of their top
aides. These included Schuyler
Lowe, director of general adj
ministration; Corporation Coun-
sci Vernon E. West and District
Finance Officer James L. Mar
tin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-24
AAA Unit Endorses
Frinoe Lot Plan

A committee of the District
Chapter of the American Auto
mobile Association yesterday in
dorsed proposal that the Dis
trict Government be permitted
to develop fringe parking lots
outside its borders.
The plan would require legis-
lation authorizing the District
to spend money on fringe lot
development in the nearby areas.
The Endorsement came from
the parking committee OF the
AAA Advisory Board. The plan
will be discussed by the board
at a luncheon meeting next
Tuesday at the Mayflower Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-24
City HeadsBa
Family Plan for
Welfare Wards
Would Send Children
Home and Grant
Funds for Gore

The District Commissioners
today gave tentative approval
to plan for moving dependent
wards of the Welfare Depart
ment out of institutions and
foster homes and back to the
care of their parents.
The plan would call for sup
! plementing the income of fam
lilies with inadequate means,
rather than spending equal or
greater amounts of money for
care in institutions and foster
homes.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
suggested to Welfare Director
Gerard M. Shea and the Public
Welfare Advisory Board that
1--WE limit it to pretty clear-cut
cases and see how it works for
a while"
Mr.. Shea presented a five.
point program which urged thai
such cases should be decided or
Jointly by the Juvenile Court ano
Welfare Department. He saio
such experimentation of income
should be decided upon when the
Juvenile Court reviews cases in
which children have been taken
from their parents and placed in
homes or institutions.
On another issue, the Com
misisoners told Mr.. Shea to ex-
plore with the District Budget
Office the problem of financing
a bus ito carry staff workers be-
tween the Mount Rainier area OF
Washington and the Districts
growing Child Welfare Center at
Laurel, Md.
The idea of experimenting the
incomes of INDECENT parents
came from Juvenile Court Judge
Edith Cockrill. She made the
suggestion in considering a case
in which seven children of one
family had been placed in foster
homes at cost to the District OF
$45 a month each. She suggested
it would be cheaper to return the
children to their parents. sup
plementing somewhat the family
income.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-24

A single long-range Federal
building program, replacing
"pailid and piecemeal" efforts
now under way, was urged last
night to house Government
agencies in permanent quarters
and wipe out Washington's 81
eyesore tempos.
The proposal. patterned after
post World War I programs. was
made by Rudolph Kaufman IL,
assistant to the managing editor
of The Star. to official and citi-
zen leaders attending a Con-
ference on Parks and Open
Spaces in the Hotel Statler.
Mr. Kaufman spoke at a
"gripe session." with represent
atives of various cities, present.
ing controversies affecting city
planning or park encroachment.
Nye Opposes Park Route
Gerald P. Nye, leader of a
nearby Maryland citizen group,
urged conference delegates to
unite in opposition to the pro-
posed parkway from Maryland
to owntown Washington
thro,oh Rock Greek Park.
Mr., Nye described the long
controversy over the inter-
county belt freeway's passage
through a Maryland portion OF
Rock Creek Park. He charged
that State officials want this
road only in order to aim "a
great super-highway" at the
heart of downtown Washington
and urged his audience to write
to Congress in opposition.
Hermann Hagedorn, director
of the Theodore Roosevelt Asso-
citation, outlined the current has
sic over whether a Potomac
River bridge or tunnel should be
built from the end of Constitu-
ton avenue NV. But he neither
opposed nor supported either
project.
Other Cities Discussed
Other talks covered proposed
"encroachments" by roads or
parking garages at the Boston
Common, Cherokee Park, KY,
and San Antonio's Travis Square.
In a sharp switch from other
speakers, Stuart Constable. New
York park executive, said his city
"has no park problems" This is
due, he said, largely to the firm
hand of Robert Moses. who con-
trolls parks and a good amount
of planning and highway con-
Struction in New York.
Delegates today heard general
problems of zoning, national
park development and conserva-
ton discussed at a morning ses-
sion. Interior Secretary Mckay
will preside at banquet at Z
pm. at which Senator Byrd.
Democrat, of Virginia, will speak.
Analyses Tempo Setup.
In his talk last night, Mr..
Kaufman noted that rs tempo
rary buildings were put up in
Washington during World Wars
1 and II. Of the 81 still left, SO
are World War II structures, he
said.
In the decade after the first
war. Mr.. Kaufman said. these
factors played big roles in re-
moving tempos:
A 48 per cent drop in Federal
employment, depression-spawned
public works programs, agrees
sive administration and Con-
gressional leadership. and revival
of the 1901 plan for Federal
buildings making up the pres
ent Federal Triangle.
In the 10 years since the end
of World War II. by contrast,
Mr.. Kaufman said:
/. There has been only a IS
per cent drop in Federal en-
ployment. with the cold war"
and Korean conflict demanding
high defense expenditures.
2. The Government has re-
duced its rental of private Office
building space from 7 million
square feet to IL million square
feet-lowest in % years-and
has moved most of the vacated
employees into tempos.
3. With no adequate leader
shin. PROPOSALS for a big ScstWar
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NewS5OMi||ion
School BuiIdinQ
Program Urged
Would Include Center
For Administration,
Teachers College
By JAMES G. DEANE

At least $50 million in new
District school construction-ln-
GLIDING an administrative build
ing and a teachers colleges
expected to be recommended to
the District Committee for the
White House Conference on
Education this week.
Charles T. Penn, chairman Of
the school housing subcQmmit-
tee of the District group, said
today in his opinion the $35 mil
lion school construction pros
gram adopted by the city year
ago will fall so per cent short
of needs.
Besides proposing a number
of new projects, his committee
is recommending that the Dis
trict speed the rate of school
construction. Mr.. Penn said. in
the belief that the present pro-
gram is falling behind.
Farley Sat Thursday
The Penn group is one of six
whose recommendations are to.
be made public at a meeting of
the White House conference
body at BIS pm. Thursday at
the Interior Department audi
forum. The full committee in
turn will send a report on Dis
trict school needs to the national
White House conference in No
vember.
Mr.. Penn headed the commit
tee which charted the school
portion of the citys present $396
million public works program.
At the time the school public
works group did its job. school
officials had proposed $50 to
$40 million six-year building pro-
gram. which the Penn group
scaled down to the approx
amtely $35 million approved last
year by Congress.
Mr.. Penn said he now feels his
old committees recommended
tons need to be revised upward
substantially. This includes, he
said. restoring some projects his
original committee rejected.
Analysis Reviewed
Among these projects are the
administrative building and
teachers college. The Public
Works Program excluded both.
moves to existing buildings being
suggested instead.
/ Mr.. Penn said his committee
had reviewed an analysis pub
lished by The Star on May /
of additional school building
/ needs almost doubling the S35
million total of the present pro-
gram. He said he agreed with
most if not all of the details
of The Star analysis, which in
Guided the college and admin
istrative building.
The old Penn committee said
a new administration center was
essential and also Endorsed new
facilities for the two teacher
colleges. But in all three cases
it proposed moves to existing
high schools.
Mr.. Penn said he now feels
all high schools will be needed
as they are In addition the two
teacher colleges are about to
be merged, and now require a
larger plant.
Site Designated
School officials have deSig-
mated Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV. as the site for the
proposed headquarters, which
would replace offices and ware
houses now scattered in a num-
Der of buildings across the city.
Estimated cost of the proposed
building three years ago was
$2.125,0 900. Officials have esti-
mated the cost of a teachers
college at SIS million.
, 1955-05-24
CALL FOR BIDS

Sealed bids ii Septuple will
be received at the Dept. Of In
sular Affairs, Division of Pro-
curement & Supply, ST. Croix,
Virgin Islands, until 800 PM,
Friday June 3, 1855, and then
publicly opened for the mate
rial listed below.
Asphalt. emulsion. (for) road
Copies Of Invitation to bid
may be obtained + ON the
Dept. of Insular Affairs, DiVi-
SIGN Of Procurement & Supply,
St. Croix, VIRGIN Islands, upon
request.
Alphonso A. RomnsY
Clerk in Charge
, 1955-05-24
CARD Of THANKS

Through this medium / wish
to express thanks to all those
who showed sympathy upon
the death of my daughter in
New York City.
Constantia Adams
, 1955-05-24
Clerk in Charge
PUBLIC NOTCH

Motorists using public road
leading to the Charles Har-
wood Memorial Hospital and
the Christianssted High school
are urged to Deserve traffic
signs erected along said road.
AT no t ime shall rate of
speed exceed the speed limit
of IS miles per hour in this
area.
, 1955-05-24
G. A. Matthias

Lieut.. of Police, Commanding
By direction:
Commissioner of Public Safety
, 1955-05-24
i o r N A L

~ u n IN "A IL
OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST LEGISLATURE
OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
First Regular Session 1865
THURSDAY, MARCH TO- 1855
CONTINUED from Saturday.
BILL No. %
THE FIRST LEGISLATURE Oh THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
OF THE UNITED STATES
Regular Session 1855
An Act Concerning the Operation Of the GovernmentOwned
Power plant in ST. John. Virgin Islands, & for other Purposes
BE II ENACTED BY the Legislature 81 The Virgin Islands IN
session assembled:
SECTION /. Beginning March i 1855, the Government
owned power plant in ST. john Virgin Islands shall be operat-
ed on a twenty-four CA hour a day schedule, under the super
vision and control Of the Public Works Department. The gen
Grating capicity Of this power plant shall be increased grad
ually until there is sufficient capacity to facilitate the entire
island of st. John. Funds shall be made available by the Le-
gislature for the purpose Of increasing the generating capa-
city IF the power plant and for installation Of the necessary
distribution system.
SECTION O. Rates for the use ct electric power IN ST
John shall be regulated by the Public Utilities Commission;
Provided, that no rate shall exceed seven ec per kiloWatt
hour
, 1955-05-24
BILL No. 80

BILL No. 80
THE RI LEGISLATURE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
OF UNITED STATES
Regular Session 1855
TO Provide Appropriations for Essential Public Projects for
Expenditure during the Period April /. 1855, TO June 80, 1855
and during the Fiscal Year July ]. 1855 TO June so. 1856
.8
B 1T ENACTED by the Legislature Of the Virgin Islands in
session assembled:
SECTION Il The following sums for essential public pro-
appropriated out Of any funds available in the Special Inter
nal Revenue Fund in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands not
otherwise appropriated in accordance with Subsection 28c
(0 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands for ex-
~pendture during the period April, 1855 to June 30, 1855,
and during the Fiscal Year July ], 1855, to June 80, 1856, for
THE Purposes hereinafter expressly named:
For all expenses necessary for surveys, architectural ser
Continued from page -
Evening star., 1955-02-24

fish boat adds additional layers Of fish
naturally the last days catch will be the freshest and that's the only layer
GIANT will buy it's the Your GIANT SEA FOOD
by Remember you better Your GIANT when
buy the top Of the trip. .#
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Vireinio Committee
Completing Work
On Segregation Act

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. 81 up.
- A legislative program de-
signed to amend Virginia public
school laws so as to prevent en-
forced indignation of white and
Negro pupils was virtually COM
pleted last night by the execu-
tive committee of the State
Commission on Public Educa-
ton.
The 1l-man committee will
meet again tomorrow when it
will consider drafting a report
to accompany the bills that it
has been writing.
Chairman Garland Gray re-
ported after last nights three
hour, closed meeting that the
committee spent the time going
over proposed bills and that to-
morrow it probably will go into
general discussion of a report.
The committees recommen-
dations will be submitted to the
full 32-man commission at a
meeting to be called In Septem-
Der probably late in the
month.
Gray said the question Of a
date for the commission session
will be taken up by the commit
tee tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31
Virginia Beech Policing
Hit as Jury Indicts II

ing to accomplish their purpose. "
said the report.
It said the beach area would
not be a harbor for gambling
and illegal whisky drinking If
there "were the proper kind Of
law enforcement"
While making no direct criti-
|cisn of police work, the jurors
said, "It will be necessary to EN-
Iploy only men Of unquestioned
Integrity with ability and deter
limitation to see that the laws Of
this Commonwealth are strictly
enforced"
Suggests Police Study
They suggested that law en-
forcement experts be called in
ito determine the police needs
|of the area. Bitter coordination
among police Of Princess Anne
County. the City of Virginia
Beach and State Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control agents was recon-
|mended.
The jury said there should be
"a vice squad with plainclothes-
men to keep an ever-vigilant eye
on vices which have plagued
our county"
The IL persons indicted were
residents Of the Princess Anne
area and most of them have
been connected at one time or
another with local night spots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31
Youth, IS. Seized
In Burglary, Linked
To Other Breuk-Ins

Montgomery County police ar
rested q l3-year-old Bethesda
youth while he was burglarizine
q store today and said he may
be connected with about q dozen
housebreakings In private homes
in the area.
Detective 1t. John p. Leahy
of the Bethesda substation said
the youth was questioned about
two hours after his arrest at 2
am. and was to be questioned
again later today.
The youth was picked UP in
the rear Of q grocery at 8404
Old Georgetown road and had
Ia quantity Of cigarettes, candy
and soft drinks on him. He adj
mitted previous entries into the
store and also involved himself
lin housebreakings In nearby
homes. 1t. Leaty said.
The boy was turned over to his
parents after the early morning
questioning and was to be
brought back to the police sta
ton after he had been given
time to rest,
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4 New Polio Cases
Reported in Area

Four new cases Of polio were
reported today in the Washing
ton area.
In Prince Georges, three new
cases brought the county's total
number to 80. compared to is
at this time last year.
County health authorities
listed new cases as: A 4-year-old
girl living in the 400 block of
Mapel road. Morningside. admit
ted to Children's: a 10-year-old
girl of Westwood, Md. admitted
to Children's, and a 25-year-old
Brandywine man. admitted to
D. C. General.
Montgomery County recorded
its gath case, a 24-year-old girl.
living in the 1000 block of Mapel
avenue, Takoma Park, admitted
to D. C. General. There were
10 cases at this time last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31
Virginia Segregation PorIey
Orders BIuckout on News

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Aug.
81 R.-A blackout on press COW
erage was ordered here today as
Virginia's Commemorative at
torneys took up the subject of
the Supreme Courts school
segregation decision.
The panel discussion at the
fourth annual local government
officials conference was ordered
closed over the protests of news
men. Listed as speakers were
r Munford Boyd, professor of
law at the University of Virginia,
A. Smedley, professor
Of law at Washington and Lee
University; Paul Hounshell, SUI
of Culpeper County
schools. and Delegate Armistead
l. Boothe Of Alexandria.
Yesterday a Chesterfield Coun-
ty supervisor and State Tax
Commissioner c. H. Morrissett
gave opposing views over whether
Virginia should levy a sales tax.
Irwin G. Horner of the Ches-
terrified board and Morrissett
on the speakers plat
form at about the same hour.
The tax commissioner spoke to
the commissioners Of revenue in
Maury Hall, while Horner was in
Monroe Hall addressing county
Morrissett, in his first public
statement on the sales tax ques-
ton, called 1t an attempt to
shift responsibility and an
nounced his steadfast opposition
IF local government is to be
healthy" he said, lit must be
revenue raising as well as money
spending"
Horner, chairman of the Ches-
terrified County Board, told his
fellow supervisors q sales tax Is
needed Ito help the financial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31
New Officers Elected
By Virqiniu Elks

DANVILLE, Va, Aug'3l R.-
The Virginia Association of Elks
has chosen a new slate of off,
GERS and selected Hampton as
the site for next years conven-
ton.
Winding UP four-day meet
ing here yesterday. the associa-
ton elected F)rancis Howard Of
Hampton to succeed Walter E.
Barrick Of Danville as State
president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31
New Foirfox Teachers
Include Woman Minister

Miss Hotchkiss taught In
Prince William County the past
four years and moved to Fair
fax this year to take a position
as a helping reading teacher,
"one of my favorite subjects"
Apple Blossom Princess
Another new teacher is 81
year -old Peggy Thompson. who
was an apple-blossom princess
at the Winchester festival last
spring.
Miss Thompson. who said she
went into teaching because she
enjoys working with people"
was graduated this year from
Roanoke College in Salem. Miss
Thompson. whose home town is
Shawsville, Va. represented Roa-
noke College at the Winchester
event. She will teach the second
grade at Vienna.
Inc county gained a nuSDano-
and-wife teaching team this year
when William A. Flaherty, for
mer businessman gave up his
position to re-enter the teaching
field.
Mrs. Flaherty. who has taught
in Fairfax County schools for
five years, will be principal Of
Bailey's Crossroads Elementary
School this year.
Mr.. Flaherty, a former physical
education teacher in Pittsburgh.
was assistant to the president
of Gamlen Chemical Co. OF West
Patterson, N. j., when he decided
to enter the Fairfax school
system.
1T was an opportunity to get
back into the field that I have
always loved" he said. The
Flahertys live at 2l1 Graham
road near Falls Church.
Mr.. Flaherty. who said the new
job will give him a chance toI
stay in one place for a change,
will teach the seventh grade at
Pine Spring Elementary School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31

Heights who discovered that
these courses are not offered at
High Point.
Nine Too Late
The board refused to consider
nine applications that arrived
after the specified deadline last
Friday.
The valid applications were
studied after a one-hour closed
session in Bladensburg High
School Twenty-six colored per-
sons s.sended the meeting as
spectators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31

PRINCESS ANNE COURT
HOUSE. Va, Aug. 81 GA
special grand jury. charging
that the Virginia Beach area
lacks "the proper kind Of law
enforcement" has handed down
indictments against II persons
and called for a sweeping study
of police work in the area.
The jury. completing nearly a
months investigation. handed
down a total of 10 indictments
charging violation of State laws
against gambling and illegal
liquor sales.
The jury. in its four-page re-
port last night, said it had come
up with "undisputed evidence
of gambling and Illicit liquor
sales. The unlawful pursuits,
the jury said. have "stigmatized
this area entirely too long,"
To Continue Jury
Circuit Judge Floyd Kellam
directed the jury to continue In
force for a while longer.
"You are the type of men ]
want" the judge said.
The jury conducted special
raids of its own in an effort to
gather first hand evidence OF
suspected unlawful pursuits in
the Virginia Beach area.
"The greatest danger in open
violation Of the gambling and
liquor laws is that If allowed to
continue law and order will
practically disappear and we will
find ourselves ruled by gangsters
and racketeers who stop at moth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-31
|VirqinioMedicoI. School
Admits Negro Woman

CHARIOT T ESvMLE. Va.
Aug. 81 tSpeciaD. = Anna ].
Franklin. colored. a 1855 gradu-
ate Of Virginia Union University.
viii enter the University of Viz
ginia's School Of Medicine this
fail. the first woman Of her race
to do so.
Three Negro S students have
been accepted by the School Of
Engineering at the university,
the first accepted at the under
graduate level since Gregory
Swanson, first Negro to enter
the university, enrolled as a
graduate student in law in the
fan Of 1850.
The three undergraduates were
admitted to the engineering
school because 1t is classified as
a professional school and no
equivalent offering is made by
the States Negro colleges.
Although Miss Franklin will
he the first Negro woman adj
mitted to the medical school, a
spokesman said a total Of six
Negroes will be enrolled there
this fall.
Nearly two dozen Negroes
have enrolled at the university
since Mr.. Swanson entered, but
only three received degrees. Most
of those enrolled have been on
the graduate level in the School
of Education.
DR.. Walter Ridley. a member
of the faculty at Virginia State
College. received his doctorate
in education in June, 1853, to
become the first Negro to receive
a decorate from a white uni
versity in the South.
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$l.2 Million Estate
Au

BALTIMORE, Aug. 81 R.-
Miss c.. Lavinia Bamberger. a
member of the board of trustees
of the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton University,
left a personal estate Of 81 .2S7.-
1913, an inventory on file at
Orphans Court here showed
yesterday. A philanthropist in
her 90s, Miss Bamberger died
July 81, leaving her main estate
to be divided among relatives
and friends.