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Evening star., 1955-06-17
Wafer Supply
Seen at Peak
z Maryland Counties
Are Well Stocked

Residents OF nearby Montgoml-
cry and Prince Georges Counties
can wash, swim and spray their
lawns to their hearts content
this summer, for there's plenty
of water on hand.
Harry B. Shaw, chief engineer
of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, reported
yesterday the commissions res
Iervoirs on the Patuxent River
contain 10.6 billion gallons. Peak
day in usage last year saw only
I58 million gallons consumed.
Not only supply but treatment,
pumping, distribution and stor-
age facilities "all have a greater
capacity than at any other time
in the history of the district and
this should provide adequate
water service at all times to the
Sanitary District during this and
coming years." he told the COM
mission at its meeting yesterday.
The commission, holding its
fourth session since its reorgan-
Iization earlier this month, eX-
tended to all insurance agents
in Prince Georges and Montgom-
cry Counties an opportunity to
bid on a sizeable portion of the
commissions insurance business.
$4,000 Business
Frank L. Hewitt, jr., one of
the new Democratic appointees
from Montgomery County, pro-
posed the move after a commits
sion employe, P, B. Heller, ex-
planned that bids for insurance
on rolling stock had been solic-
tied from only six firms. The
premiums on the liability and
fire insurance for cars and
trucks last year amounted to
.$18,528.
Firms to which insurance in
formation was sent were Perry
10. wilkinson, A. r. Hassall, A.
r. Keir and T. Harmon Welsh.
ST., all of Hyattsville; Paul M.
Coughlin, Silver Spring, and
John L. Fletcher, Washington.
The commissions whole in
surance program should be re-
viewed by the Montgomery
Prince Georges Insurance
Agents Association, Mr.. Hewitt
urged.
A sweeping review of the
|agency's salary scales was or
dered after T. Earle Bourne,
new commission chairman, sug-
gested that the present scales
be scrapped.
Employees now are paid on the
basis of 10-year-old scales plus
Ia 171a per cent cost-of- Living
allowance. The present total pay
should be set up as the base pay
except where job classifications
should be altered, Mr.. Bourne
said.
Audit Report Made
The annual audit report was
presented to the commission by
Boyce, Hughes & Farrell, New
York auditors.
It showed the commission had
eliminated, during 1854. a deficit
of $818,522 in operating expenses.
ending up the year with a $3,398
surplus. The report indicated,
however, that the progress was
made as a result of the first full
year of operation of the sewer
use charge.
The water fund showed a
surplus of $879, ,769, but a deficit
of $344.027 occurred in the sewer
fund, $471, 1858 in the Mont
gomery County refuse fund. and
500, ,144 in the Prince Georges
refuse fund.
The audit listed bonded in
debtedneSs of the commission
at $82.2 million at the end Of
1854. Another $8.5 million in
bonds viii be sold this year.
Mr.. Shaw was given the go
ahead signal on the extension
of services in Southern Hills,
Md, from Owens road. along
Southern avenue in the District
of Columbia, to Wheeler road.
Evening star., 1955-06-17
Continued From First Page

noon GnaG fTluC6 G1eOTSeS dllu
Washington police have been
Questioning a laundry truck
driver who reported hearing a
burst of shots, followed by a few
moments of silence, then an
other burst of shots in the area
at about the time Of the slay-
ingS.
Attorney George McLeish said
he has obtained a writ Of habeas
corpus ordering police to pro-
duce the detained youth before
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court Judge Charles c. Mar
bury at 1880 pm. today in Upper
Marlboro.
The youth has been questioned
almost continuously since his ar.
rest and has undergone two liz
detector tests.
Mr.. McLeish said he became
concerned because his client wa.
twice brought to Washington tx
undergo the lie detector tests
and that he believes Washing.
ton police are einotionally
aroused" about the shooting. He
would not elaborate.
Father Visits Youth
The attorney and the boy s
father, Norman Willis Hagsr
visited the youth in Jail last
night at Seat Pleasant. Md. the
youths first contact with any
one except policemen during
more than 80 hours. ..,
The visit came as Washing
ton and Prince Georges County
police gathered at Seat Pleasant
for a progress conference" on
their cooperative investigation
of the slayings.
Present for the meeting were
Chief George Panagoulis; his
principal aide, Capt. Vincent
Free, and Chief of Detectives
Charles Thomson, all of Prince
Georges County, and 1t. Law
renee Hartnett, Detective Sergts
A. D. Clarke, j. K. McCarty,
Mark Gray and Nicholas Genua,
and Precinct Detectives Arthur
IL. Weber and David Gould, all
of the Metropolitan Police De-
Ipartment.
Meeting with them was Blair
H. Smith, States attorney for
Prince Georges County. County
Commissioner Lansdale Clag-
lgett also was there as, he said,
an observer"
| Evidence Meager
The group met from 7 pm. to
9:35 pm. After the conference,
IMr. Smith said that police did
mot have sufficient evidence at
that time to place a charge
against anyone "at this time
He said that young Hager
would be produced in court to-
day in answer to the writ OF
habeas corpus. After the con-
ference the youth was taken to
Maryland again.
Police, meantime, were press
ling ballistics tests of what Mr.
Smith said was several guns
under scrutiny. He would not
Isay what type of guns were be-
ling examined.
The girls were slain with %
Icaiiber bullets, and firearms ex-
Iperts have said the accuracy of
the shots and the number ap-
Iparently fired indicate an auto-
matte or semlautomatic weapon.
Eleven bullets were fired into
Nancy's body and three struck
Michael Ann. In addition, police
found three other slugs at the
scene.
Police yesterday received an
anonymous telephone call, with
la voice described as that Of a
teen-age boy, which led to dis
covery of a dozen shell castings
at the base Of a tree.
Doesn't Identify Himself.
The caller said he had seen
IA man standing behind a tree
firing a rife. first a burst of
about 10 shots, then silence, then
another burst of shots. The boy
hung up without identifying
himself. and when police checked
his story, they found the shell
castings,
The boy had told them he
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
A Hydra-Headed Serpent

| The Thought Control Faction in Con-
| gress is like the tabled serpent with
many heads. One may be cut off. An
| other head attacks.
The first of such committees was
headed by Texan, Martin Dies. His
work and loud mouthings became so
obnoxious to Americans that he deemed
it prudent not to seek reelection. He
is now back again in Congress after
good absence a chastened man. saying
such committees have gone too far
Then almost as loud as Mccarthy.
came Parnell Thomas. He rode the high
tide of abusing better citizens than
himself with the praise of the Yellow
Press. He even aspired to the presi-
dency. An indictment for stealing from
the government, and from one of his
women clerks, clipped his wings. He
was sentenced after plea of guilty to
one year. He. should have served 10
years, like mail clerks with hungry
children when they yield to the. same
temptation
Then came Joe Mccarthy. AS a Stand
erer of better men than himself, DIR.
Oppenheimer, DR.. baltimore anu others,
he brought America into world dlsre-
pute. This echoed so strong back 70
ourselves that the Senate censured ''The
Great Investigator A committee OF
the Senate finally found all "a govern
ment employees innocent of charges
hurled against them by Joe. The fawn-
ing press that once headlined his praise
now pleases it's public by showing him
in his true light. An exploded stink
bomb.
And now Eastland, senator from Mis-
slssippi, aspires to the place of Dies,
THOMAS, Mccarthy. He was fast 10
beat Jenner to publicity against the
work of Pres. Eisenhower
at Geneva.
| do not approve of Mr.. Eisenhower
giving away the off-shere oil, nor or
his hostility to IVA, and public power
development, and public ownership OF Nc.
or of his vetoing the little raise IN
wages of postal servants, or OF MS
foreign aid of almost 81 billion, with
deficit this year of Sd billion in the
budget. His choice of a Cadillac Capi-
net BODIES i'll for us common people.
His wish to rearm Germany, is serious
", with all respect, insane. vgeev
But his offer to the Soviet Union OF
reciprocal complete inspection of mill
AIRY blueprints. preparations for" wal
rec air travel seems to me the supreme
GESTURE, toward peace on Earth. Gooo
VIII Toward Men" Nothing else equai
% 1T was ever done in history
But Eastland whines against it. Inc
Associated Press headlines Eastland
whine. Some week will explain why
think the presidents gesture so great
-LOWNDES MAURY, Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
Editorial
PATROL SHOULD POLICE COLLECTION OF
HIGHWAY SPECIAL FUEL TAXES

Last week the Montana Highway Commission met with the
Board of Equalization consider proposal by the chairman
of the latter board I Reid that the highway patrol take
the enforcement of laws governing collection highway
levied against such special motor fuels diesel butane
propane.
In making the request Reid stated 1.-The Legislature the
Board of Equalization responsibility for collecting these
but police and funds with which operate
enforcement agency
Because his board has neither funds police Reid
estimates that the state highway fund is losing easily million
dollars due to evasion by truckers Reid based
his estimates spot checks his board
been making through four employees regularly assigned
refunds and collections He further predicted that if the high
patrol assigned the duty of collecting special
fuels such diesel it would be possible collect 100000
short notice.
As the matter stands the highway commission has
committee look Reds proposal report
back the commissions next regular meeting August 2931
Since the Legislature did not fit appropriate funds for
the Board of Equalization to collect the nnecents gallon
fuels and since all such earmarked
highway only makes that the responsibility
should be turned the patrol The patrol has the authority
collect fees from truckers and further has
check stations throughout the state which manned and in
position to do pretty thorough job of collecting fuel taxes
which being evaded by operators of estimated two
thousand trucks regularly raversing Montana highways
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
$50 Rail Officials Paid
$4,000 and Up In 1853

Six hundred eighty-three railroad
officials received $22T99,22O last
year in annual salaries and other
compensation.
Each was paid more than $4,000
last year, the ICC's Bureau of Trans
port Economies and Statistics report
ed. The bureau gave S33,381 as the
average salary.
In 1862, only 643 officials were
paid more than 100000 salaries and
the average was S33,488. Their sala-
ries totaled s21, 532,619.
Twenty-eight p sons received
more than $4,000 in 1853; of these,
ten had salaries that went over the
100000 mark. The report said 78
earned more than $4,000; 1877 earned
between 100000 and $4,000; 139
persons got between $4,000 and $780,
900 and 259 received between S20,-
900 and $2O,499.
Average compensation of the five
officials on Glass | rail
roads totaled S26,396. There were
1,010 in this "top five" position earn
ing an aggregate of $26,659,991.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
The BeIfrage Case !. :.
Speaks Out Against
Muzzling of the Press

THE PEOPLES VOICE:
Enclosing check for $500 for (S)
Voting Record Booklets. Thanks for
making this record public and possible
for distribution.
Glad to see you insert that piece
about Cedric Belfrage 1t is time the
people wake up to the fact that if you
muzzle one, political party, one church,
one idea or one opinion, you will be
muzzling free thought and free speech
and therefore killing democracy. Free
dom should be not just for those in
power or those with money-but for
ALL. Even criminals have the right
to bail and freedom until proven guilty.
why not a man or woman whose only
crime is opposing the war mongers,
the status quo and siding with all OPP
pressed minorities? The yell about poll
teal prisoners in other undemocratic
lands-how can we allow our govern
ment to hold political prisoners and
still call ourselves a democratic gov
eminent? We are acting more like q
dictatorship, and world opinion will
censure and judge us accordingly, while
we citizens allowing it to take place
VIII lose our freedoms, too. Sincerely
MRS. ROSINA WOODHOUSE, Fair
field.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
1.-THE FARM BLOC

To read the newspapers and mass
circulation magazines, you'd get the
impression that about the only sfbloc"
in Congress is the farm bloc" If
you believe what you read, you would
also conclude that "special-interest
farm bloc" activities are harmful to
the welfare of the country.
Actually, of course, the dominant
"bloc" in Congress is that of Big
Business. Yet, somehow, the news
papers and magazines pretend to be
blind to this fact-doubtless because
they are Big Business themselves.
Often the power bloc, the oil bloc,
the railroad bloc, the food professor
bloc, ETC., can be clearly seen operat-
ing in Congress. They are all part
and parcel of the Big Business bloc
But, again, their aims and operations
are never reported as those of a
chloe" The news writer's pretend to
assume that Big Business interests
are the same as those of the rest of
us. They agree that "what is good
for General Motors is good for the
country"
It's because of the lopsided power
of the Big Business bloc in Congress
that "the farm bloc" came into being
-as political counterweight to re-
store some semblance of balance. But
Big Business still has the upper hand
IN Congress. And Big Business will
keep the upper hand, until an effec-
tive farmer-labor bloc is welded
THE MEAT OF 1T (UPWA-CIO).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
Montana's WiIdIife

Going fishing? Wonderful recreation
isn't 1t? On your favorite stream-good
f1shing equipment, pipe lit and drawing
freely-wonderful along the waters
Where there are nice rifles with am
occasional beaver dam, large rock or
overhanging tree, along grassy banks
where an occasional hopper is flushed
to the Waters-immediateI a loud
splash, Mr.. Hopper is gone Yes, those
are real fishing waters. During the
day you approach quietly and try TO
place your fly back under the bank
at the overhanging tree, or just at the
side of the whirlpool by the large rock.
Wham. Isn't he beauty. Near evening
when the sun is low and will not cast
your shadow across the rifles, there
is where you fish--there is where the
fish feed, where the rifle enters the
deep hole or beaver dam. Living the
life of Riley.
Those wonderful waters are fast dis
Why? Biologists have found
that the old method of stream struc-
ture-nature's way, most improper
There are to be no distractions what
ever In Modern streams. The Quarterly
Report: Quarterly progress report as
required by the Federal Aid in Fish and
Wildlife Restoration Acts" This report
approved by r. HI, Lambeth, then State
FISH and Game warden, contains SO
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
Lab REPORTS STUDY ON TAR,
EICOTINE IN CIGARETTES

filter removes more nicotine and tars
than other types, but most of the COM
mon types of filters allow as much OF
more nicotine and tars to reach the
mouth than a regular unfiltered cigar
ette
2. So-called 'sdenicotined'' cigar
lettes, made from tobacco with lower
nicotine content, allow less nicotine
to reach the mouth than regular cigar
cites, but have much heavier tar con-
centrations.
3. A cigarette holder using cigar
cite as filter is most effective, fol-
lowed by holder using cylinder of
silica crystals. Other holders studied
appeared ineffective in screening
nicotine and tar.
Here is the order in which the
chemical lab placed the cigarettes
tested, beginning with the one which
allows the least amount of nicotine
through to the mouth:
1. Denicotined brands; g. cellulose
acetate fiber filter; 8. activated char
coal with paper filter king-size and
ldulHdItO dSDtSIOo-pdpSI IllICI Ming
size; A. no-filter king-size; 5. no.
filter regulars; 6. cotton filters, and
z. two brands of no-filter regulars.
The list holds true only if you
smoke king-size cigarettes about two
thirds through. If you smoke them
any shorter, they give you just as
much or more nicotine and tar than
a regular size. Some of the cigarettes
change places in the list when it
comes to tars. Here's the order for
tar, beginning with least amount:
1. Illuminated asbestos-paper filter
king-size; 2. activated charcoal with
paper king-size; 3. cellulose acetate
fiber, regular or king; a. no-filter
king-size; 5. cotton filter; 6. some
denicotined brands; T. no-filter regu-
lar length; 8. and other denicotined
brands.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05

We took trip down Yellowstone
and Carbon county way last weekend
And hot! Oh N.Y. !.
But | guess the weather doesn {
keep the Company boys home. Ihey
were glad handing at a gathering Oh
about 1000 Elks in Helena and we
heard reports everywhere we stopped
that they are out beating the bushes,
talking with the people. While we all
mop our brow and look at the temper
ature thermometer they shuttle
around the countryside looking at the
political thermometer.
They will have good idea how
Montanans feel about politics before
the leaves fall and then they Will go
back to the "tower" in Butte and
map their strategy.
1t will be campaign designed to
be of little solace to you and me,
rest assured. They are masters at the
art of campaigning.
They are probably hoping they will
come out better on their sleuthlng
than they did in 1854. They always
like to back winner, and when they
thought Senator Murray was shoo-
in they didn't do any surface work
for D'Ewart, but near the end when
Murray was losing ground they start
ed to work like mad for D'Ewart
Republicans pull the Company
chestnuts all the time and it is a mys-
terry to me why. The Company man
ages to keep Republicans pretty well
in public office, but they
are not above pulling the props when
don't show too well
In January, 1854, John Phillips,
Helena tavern operator was sent to
Deer Lodge for forgery in connection
With fraudulent gasoline refund tick
It's.
This week the rumor began the
'ounds that he was going to be re-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

leased from the penitentiary. aftar
serving l year and 8 months of a.
Swear sentence, by the newly or
gained pardon and parole board sat
up at the last Legislature
Two other men who went to tba
penitentiary some time before Phil
lips started his term for being nixad
up in this same affair are now ont
One of them has served his time and
the other is on parole until June of
1856.
The two who are out had cooper
ated with state and federal prosecu-
tors to try and get at the source of
the fraud.
To put it mildly fur flew under
the Dome for about "a hours. The
release was supposed to come about
either on August IL or IL Ct heard
both dates), and Wednesday, the 3rd
of August right after lunch smoke
from the quenched fire seeped out
of the Capitol. The matter had been
dealt with swiftly, and apparently
Mr. Phillips is not going to get his
freedom August IL or IL.
In 1854 the people of Montana
voted to give final authority in mat :
tiers of this kind to the Governor
and the Board of Pardon and Parole.
We changed the constitution. Wesley
Castles wrote the constitutional
and Governor Aronson
it. The amendment gives
him full responsibility had Phillips
release gone through.
My understanding of the Phillips
case is that everything had been
signed, sealed and delivered for the
release of the man until someone
caught wind of it.
However it came about, the Direc-
tor of the Pardon and Parole Board
saw the governor Wednesday morn
ing and approval of the release was
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
EMPLOYMENT IN The
MOUNTAIN STATES

Nonagricultural employment in the
eight Mountain States rose 25.7 per
cent from 1916 to 1853. But the
growth varies among the states and
among the industries of Importance
in them.
This new report presents the first
detailed summary of the estimates of
employment of nonagricultural wage
and salary workers prepared regular
ly for the Mountain States. The sta
tistics were compiled by the Noun
tain States in cooperation with the
u. S. Department of Labor's Bureau
of Labor Statistics. Uniform tech
niques allow valid comparison. The
report shows annual employment
averages (and monthly data for 1859
for all the State industrial detail pub
lished by Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah
and Wyoming.
Monthly data for the Mountain
States as whole by major industry
division and selected manufacturing
industries are also given. A brief
analysis of the trends in the region
IS included as well as charts of move
nents of employment by state and
oy major industry divisions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05

pages. Wonderful reading? Job No
VA beaver dam removal in the Red
Rock drainage. During the month of
May 50 beaver dams were removed on
Tom Creek and 25 dams were removed
on Red Rock Creek. Volumetric sampler
yielded an average of AZ fry per cubic
foot"
Red Rock and Tom Creeks are stu
ated in Beaverhead county. Gone are
the beaver dams. overhanging trees,
the large rocks and the wonderful
RIFLES. We now have am unobstructed
stream Any fishing Ask the biologists,
perhaps? They know.-THOMAS PEAS
LEY. Roman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
Released by American Medical
Association

CHICAGO-It is not only the kline
of cigarette you smoke but how short
you smoke it.
This finding was reported by the
chemical laboratory of the American
Medical Association, which made the
last in series of reports ON cigar
cites, cigarette smoke, and filters in
recent Journal of the ANA.
If you are concerned about how
much nicotine and tar gets to your
mouth when you smoke, you almost
have to have a chart in your hand.
If you want the least amount, you
would do well to smoke a king-size,
Eliminated, asbestos-paper filter cigar
cite, but only if you put it out when
the butt is about an inch and half
long. If you smoke it any shorter,
you get more nicotine and tar than
you do from regular size.
Other filtered king-size cigarettes
let little more nicotine and tar
through. A regular length no-filter
brand screens out still less, but you
can smoke it down to about an inch
and get less nicotine and tar than if
you smoke king size right down to
the filter. You would be better off if
you smoked even non-filter king
size and threw it away when it got
to the inch and a half stage. This
means, the laboratory said, that you
cannot get more protection and
longer smoke at the same time, in
spite of what the advertisements say.
1t doesn't seem to make much diff
ference whether you smoke a regular
cigarette or some filter-tip kind, since
tobacco itself is as good a filter as
some of the tips. But a length of filter
made from cellulose acetate fiber,
asbestos paper, or activated charcoal
with paper is more efficient screen
er than the same length of tobacco
at the end of regular brand
RESULTS OF LABORATORY
INVESTIGATIONS -
In earlier reports of the series, the
chemical laboratory found:
i. A Eliminated asbestos-and-paper
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
THIS IS JUSTICE?

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Attorney General
about the of Val Lorn State
cleared of charges he security only
and thousands of dollars in
Members of the House Appropriations
Justice Department indicted Lon swearing
he Communistandl later admitted
not have enough evidence to back the charge.
Browne replied that the
fore Senate explain why he
ment q
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05

In 1045 AID, the Chinese, Pi Sheng,
made the first movable type from
clay. Koreans were casting bronze
types and printing from them as
early as 1403 A. d.