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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-13

have been running between 3
and 4 feet above normal and
will continue that way during
today.
The flow from upstream will
mot be felt here until late today
or tomorrow. But, in any event.
1T probably will not cause any
particular difference, so far as
high water at Washington is
concerned.
At the Letter estate gauge of
the Weather Bureau in Virginia,
ON the Potomac River near Little
Falls, the reading was ST feet
at 8 am. today. Flood stage is
10 feet. The low water stage is
two feet.
81 Feet Above Normal
At the Weather Bureaus
gauge at Georgetown, high tide
at 4 am. today was 81 feet
above low water. Normal high
tide is 3 feet there.
The Army Engineers said the
Ireading at their wharf near the
Naval Gun Factory on the Ana
costa River was 81 feet above
mean low water at 4 am. today
The normal reading there would
be "a feet, officials said. The
reading this morning was nearly
three feet above normal.
The District Government main
tains a gauge at the Fourteenth
Street Bridge and the Potomac
River and this showed a reading
of is feet clearance for water
craft. officials said starting
about noon today they will have
to open the drawbridge for every
craft of any size that desires to
pass, as the tide begins to rise.
The draw span at the Airing
ton Memorial Bridge at normal
low tide has a clearance of 80
feet, officials said-higher clear
ance than at the Fourteenth
Street Bridge. Now, they esti-
mated, clearance is about 26 OF
81 feet. due to the higher water
So that, even with rising waters,
the draw span would have to
be opened only for larger craft,
officials pointed out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-13
z BRIDGES to Open

CHARLOT TESVILLE, Va.
Aug. 13.-Two new bridges in this
area will be opened about the
middle of September, according
to Highway Engineer w. w
Shields. They are the new Car.
ter's Bridge, over the Hardware
River on Route 20 between Char
lottesville and Scottsville. and 9
new northbound Route 20 bridge
over the south fork of the Rivan.
ma River north of Charlottesville
, 1955-01-03
]. HAROLD

versary in 1854.
His brother, Knud, is with
the General Electric Company
in Schenectady, New York.
The entire family IS favor
ably impressed with st. Croix
and may locate here some day.
They are guests at the Buc-
cancer Hotel.
, 1955-01-03

con, Georgia; Mrs. Hilton Har
rigap Ramos Urgent, Mrs.
Elaine Stephens and Phillip
Thompson.
The Harrigans are relatives
Of the late great labor leader
and legislator, Ludwig Harri-
gan. They were entertained
at q party given by Mrs, Mil
dred Harrigan, her daughter
and son, Ruth and Ludwig, jr.
on New Years morning, to-
gether with a few personal
friends of the family.
, 1955-01-03
S

Dut impressive 41CdS WdS 2
boat mounted on a truck sur
rounded BY sea grape leaves
and q boy rowing with q
sign marked From the Depths
of the Sea-, following behind
was Or. James baseball team
"The Crucians, resplendent In.
their new uniforms. Another
impressive float carried an
odd man. with snow white
hair and beard representing
the year 1854, and behind him
stood a little boy representing
the New Year 1865.
The Northside Clowns Of
Antigua with the Hellsgate
Steel Band, always an excit-
ing group, cracked their whips
and did all manner Of acroba-
tics, while the band, the pre-
mier Of Steel Bands and the
very first to visit St, Croix,
held the spectators spell
bound.
In the line Of march also
were a group of "flapper girls
also the well-known disk jock
ey Of WIVI, Luz James in his
white flour bag suit, with
brand names and all. Miss
Jenny" Thurland drove a
donkey cart, followed by q
group Of colorfrlly dressed
men and women, also a truck
on which a transit was mount
ed with Vicorp's Architect
Engineer Klint ION the job"
There followed some tiny ma
jorettes from the Peter Pan
Riddles, and a large truck on
which the King and Queen,
with agold' crowns looked
down on their subjects; the
ladies in waiting and their es-
corts were seated. The Queen
was dressed in white with a
red robe; the King wore 4
robe of blue.
RESIDENTS
, 1955-01-03
RESIDENTS

through the night giving re-
ports at intervals on the move
ments Of the storm, until the
danger was definitely passed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

Willod Poker ond Horny Louter orve at the scene Of
bonk hoIdup too loe to prevent bondts from fleeing
They'll eotch them 'ToIes Of the Texos Ronaer"
Evening star., 1955-06-13

to be avoided If 1t Is at all possible to
do so.
OF course, there should be no illu-
sions. Operation of the public schools
for another year on segregated basis
will solve nothing. Soon or late, some
afarmative action win have to be taken
respecting the Supreme Courts ban on
segregation. Meanwhile, however, de-
lay should be especially welcome in such
places as Prince Edward County, one Of
the defendants in the Supreme Court
case. The ruling of the high court re-
quires Prince Edward officials to make
"a prompt and reasonable start toward
full compliance" The response has been
to initiate move to set up a private
school system for white children and to
abandon schools for colored children.
This cannot be happy solution for
anybody. One would think that the
Prince Edward parents and officials
would want to reconsider, hoping that
after another year better solution can
be devised within the framework of
Statewide adjustment.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
Hospital Crisis

Concern of the city's private hos
pitfalls over the INDECENT patient program
Is based on more than financial consid-
erations. The decline in financial sup
port from the District budget not only
poses fiscal problems for the hospitals
but threatens disruption of their vital
training systems. INDECENT cases have
been the main subjects Of study for
interns and residents in need Of expert
ence.
The hospitals have charged the
Health Department with lack Of interest
in the assignment of INDECENT patients
to private hospitals, rather than to the
District General Hospital. Health Officer
Seckinger has pointed out in reply that
he has urged larger appropriations for the
INDECENT program, but without success.
Last year, for example, he recommended
an allotment Of more than 81 million
to private hospitals for treatment Of
indigents, but the budget economists
reduced the amount to $870000. The
hospitals had requested an appropriation
of SIS million. AS a result Of the reduc-
ton, number Of the hospitals incurred
deficits in treating indigents
Despite thise situation, the Commis-
sioners this year have requested no more
than last year, $870,O00. The prospect,
therefore, is for further deficits and
fewer referrals of patients by the District
to private institutions. The eventual
effect of this reduction could be ex-
tremely serious to the hospitals, both
economically and from the standpoint
of doctor training. It is problem that
merits careful study by Congress in
weighing the Districts budget for next
year.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
Virqinio Marks Time

On the face of the matter, at least,
the report Of Virginia's Legislative Com
mission is kind of holding operation,
designed to maintain the status quo in
the States public schools for another
year.
This does not mean that nothing
more is going to be done. For the COM
mission advised Governor Stanley that it
will continue its work, and that another
report, containing specific bills for enact
ment by the Legislature, will be sub
nitted.
It cannot be doubted that more time
is needed for report of this character.
At best, the task is difficult and COM
plex one. And, as the commission stated,
"hasty action could well result In the
serious impairment or destruction of the
public school system" This is something
Evening star., 1955-06-13
'One of the Great

zone of the great statesmen OF the
world"-to quote President Eisenhower at
his most recent news conference-comes
back to Washington this week for brief
but timely consultations with the Chief
Executive and with Secretary Of State
Dulles. The welcome visitor is Dr.. Konrad
Adenauer, 7e-year- -old Chancellor of the
Federal Republic OF Germany, staunch
friend of Western unity who has brought
his own country step by step into full
partnership with the free nations.
The timeliness of DR.. Adenauers visit
stems from two forthcoming events-the
Big Four conference expected to take
place next month in Switzerland and the
probable meeting Of the German Chan
cellor with top figures of the Russian
government, at their invitation. Al
though Chancellor Adenauer will not be
a participant in the Big Four Omitted
States, Britain, France and Soviet Russla)
meetings, the role of rearmed west
Germany and the prospects for UNIFIED
Germany assuredly will be important
subjects on the agenda. With equal Ger
tainty, these same questions will be high
on the program of the proposed Russo
German conversations. 1t follows then
that DR.. Adenauer's talks here with Presi-
dent Eisenhower and with Mr.. Dulles will
deal, in part at least, with these same
subjects.
With his domestic political position
strengthened by recent tests. at the polls,
Chancellor Adenauer within the past
fortnight has delegated to trusted
younger associates increasing response
bilities in his government. His own great
est concern at the moment, along with
the forthcoming international meetings,
is the implementation of the West Ger
man rearmament plan. And while the
upper house of the Bonn Parliament has
baked temporarily at speedy enactment
of the necessary legislation, there are no
serious fears that the program will not be
approved in good time. DR.. Adenauer
comes here with his prestige and his ef-
fectiveneSS at high point He Is well
coined as an old and valued friend.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
Thought Borrowed
From Whitman

"Oh, / am tDondertul."-and
am doomed,
Though / surviue cutting open
remoudl of bone,
Loss OF blood and the haSty
sewing of flesh together.
EUen as the crisp. bronze oak
leaf In December.
Euen as that / am doomed.
Even as the robin,
Found dead in the garden tDith
never a hint of injury,
The wonderful me the tUorld
knows is doc m e d,
doomed, doomed.
The responsible blood and the
faithful, obedtent heart
beat,
The fingers that clutch a PEN
cil--turning out some
thing
Eternal as rain or feet as the
April rGtnbotD,
Lopely as tDinter or ugly as
anger unbridled-
"Oh, / am wonderful" tWalt
said it before mel:
The body that rises, the body
lDith all its organs,
Each i0ith name and use.
iUith nothing hdphas-
ard.
The SDeet body doomed and
the soul / cannot un-
derstdnd,
Immortal, doomed. too, by the
fact that ! breathe to
torever.
Alma Roberts Giordon
Evening star., 1955-06-13
Annuitonts' PIiqht

I read the recent letter OF
Hopeful Annuitant" with
mixed emotions: Sympathy,
astoniShment and indignation
that the richest country in the
world expects its retired en-
ployes to live in poverty.
Twenty years ago, when
food, rent, clothing. ETC., were
lower in price than today, a
study made of living costs in
the District showed that q
person could barely exist on
$l00 a month. And this an
nuitant has only 500.
Don't suggest that this 73-
year-old woman find a job,
even a part-time job, to aug
ment her income. The Gov
ernment agency for which /
work, although it receives large
appropriations from Congress
to further the interests of the
aging" has a policy Of never
hiring anyone over 10. even
one of its own retired en-
ployes.
This policy prevails in other
Government agepcies, too.
The Secretary of Labor re-
Gently rehired one of his TO
year-old retired employees. but
the Labor Department will not
consider an older person from
another agency.
Indepe ndent employment
agencies cannot place older
people in industry, and the
United States Employment
Service is of no use to retired
job hunters.
I am sure many people still
will be amazed as I was to
learn of the plight of this an
nuitant. Surely the President.
who is so kind hearted, would
rectif4 the situation if he
knew more about it. Surely
Congress, which appropriates
millions for foreign aid, would
act in behalf of annuitants If
it knew the facts.
This annuitant's pension
was calculated by multiplying
her average five-year salary by
l1a per cent, multiplied by the
number of years of service.
Perhaps if it had been multi
piled by 21a per cent. as is
done for employees Of the leg
islative branch, she would have
enough to live on. 1t seems
strange that the 6 per cent
contributed to the Civil Serv-
ice Retirement Fund brings
her a lower return than the
6 per cent contributed by
employees of the legislative
branch. How can such discrim-
ination be justified?
Government Employe.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
Slow Burn

Browsing through the Con-
gressional Record, ! noted a
bill passed for research into
the control of lamprey eels,
which are repeatedly Destroy
ing fish in the Great Lakes.
This brought to mind a local
problem where "fish" are the
culprits and people" are being
haraSSed.
The people are those who
buy or rent summer cottages
along the shores of the Chesa-
peake or manage a weekend
cruiser-happily intent upon
enjoying healthful saltwater
swimming. The fly in the oint-
ment, the little jellyfish.
These pests begin to appear
in June. BY mid-July or earlier
they are in full swing and the
water is so infested with them
that for the rest of the summer
families find themselves. as
far as swimming is concerned,
marooned on piers or boats.
The kids net these "sea-net-
ties" for their water sports.
The sting is, of course, not
too severe. But added to the
repulsive burning touch of
these globs. it's enough to dis
courage competing with them
for the water. Thus the very
purpose of investing in a place
or boat of your own--to get
your family away from
crowded beaches for saltwater
swimming-is defeated.
I do know whether jellyfish
have any purpose or whether
they do any particular harm
except to annoy swimmers.
The most startling information
in my encyclopedia is that in
some waters they may have
bodies 20 feet around with
tentacles reaching 100 feet.
However, with scientists find
ing either uses for or control
of pra c tically everything.
wouldn't it be a happy day for
us people" If these FISH"
could be controlled.
Lila Douglas.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
MoryIond Matter

In reply to a recent letter in
The Star, I'd like to explain
how we, Of the Library Council
of Upper Chillum. attempted to
get library facilities for our
area.
House Bill 464 enabled the
unincorporated areas of Prince
Georges County to get such
municipal services as they de-
sire. Street cleaning, lighting
and library services have al
ways been recognized as mu-
nicipal functions. To restrict
the bill to merely street clean
ing and lighting is to attempt
to place the citizens of this
area on "half rations," insofar
as the services they may get
are concerned. It seems abb
surd to say to the people of
this area that you may provide
for your garbage but not for
your children or your own lei
sure, cultural and educational
activities. 1t should be self
evident to anyone who has
taken the trouble to read House
Bill 464 that this bill is merely
a tool enabling the unincorpo-
rated areas to get as much of
the municipal services as they
want and can afford without
burdening the tax rate Of the
rest of the county.
The Library Council of Up
per Chillum contacted the
civic associations and parent
teacher groups in the entire
unincorporated area of the
Chillum district. The delegate
from the Adelphi Association
indicated they were not inter-
ested in participating in this
movement for a large-area Ii
brary. However. the civic as
sociations representing Adelphi
Manor, Green Meadows, Lane
Manor. Lewisdale, Parklawn
and Riggs Manor, and the Lew
isdale PTA. Parkway PTA and
Ager Road Mothers, Fathers
and Teachers Club, over
whelmingly supported the
movement for a library. In
view of this overwhelming sup
port, the charge that only a
small group Of people in the
7th precinct supported the
move for a library is a COM
plete distortion of facts. I
might point out that Adelphi
Manor lies in the 10th pre-
cinct, and Parklawn is in the
4th and 6th.
Betty Manheimer,
Secretary, Library Council
of Upper Chillum.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Area extending for miles in all
directions.
One must see the miles and
miles of new housing to be-
lieve the changes.
The suburban districts have
come into their own with a
bang
Everybody is busily dis
covering the suburbs" for him
self and his family.
The editors of Fortune mag
azine wrote a book about it,
as a manifestation of Ameri-
can vigor and love for home.
Whole new markets for
goods Of all kinds are the re-
suit. Great stores have been
moving to the suburbs as fast
as they can, as the people ex-
tend themselves in all direc-
tions.
\ 4 4
1t was very different back in
the old days. the gay '90s and
thereafter, exactly up to 1910.
In those dear, dead days.
Columbia Heights and Mt.
Pleasant were suburbs"
Many housewives brought up
in the swank Dupont Circle
area simply refused to move
as far out as Lanier place.
just back of Eighteenth street
and Columbia road.
Why" exclaimed the lady,
almost in tears. Il don't want
to live way out there!"
One might have thought she
was threatened with removal
to Korea.
1t is possible for this writer
to recall roaming all over
Washington late at night,
especially Saturday night, with
never a thought as to ones
safety, have gone from us. the
The most that ever happened
was one Saturday evening,
about 8 o'clock, a man came up
and said, Mister, do you want
to buy a ruby ring?"
mo-" I answered, IT do not
want to buy a ruby ring"
And that was that.
If a great deal of the simple
joy Of life, and much of its
safety, have gone from us, the
question remains, whose fault
is it?
Some will be inclined to put
it all squarely at the door of
population growth. Once q city
or metropolitan area grows to
a million people, the problems
grow, too.
We will be fortunate If we
can face them with the same
intrepidity the people Of the
gay '90s did.
Evening star., 1955-06-13

agreement. But in the long
run it would hold more hope
for peace if the countries COM
posing it were disarmed. The
fears repeatedly expressed to
me of a reSurgence of naziism
seem prophetic in view of re-
cent news that Hitler's former
officers are now commanding
the West German army.
The talk we hear of the
dangers of a power vacuum
belongs to the puerile game OF
power politics which we are
now playing. but which is too
immature to be tolerated in
the atomic age. In the earth's
crust are the remains of many
animals which became extinct
because they could not adjust
to changed conditions. Unless
we want to join the ranks Of
the extinct species or to be
reduced to a miserable rem
nant eking out a degraded
existence in radioactive ruins.
we are going to have to stop
the arms race by securing and
putting into effect an agree
ment for mutual disarmament
under inspection. The crea-
ton of a zone Of neutral, un-
armed states would be an ex-
cellent first step.
Alice Franklin Bryant.
Seattle, Wash.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
Rain on a Tin Roof

The patter of rain on tin roof, one
has been told, is an agreeable sound, be-
fitting cracking blaze in the fireplace
and an evening with good books. One
does not dispute the pleasures of such
combination. The fire banishes the damp
chill of the soggy outside and there is
music in the rain as it drums the tin roof.
There is warm sense of security in being
able to sit at the hearth and listen to the
symphony. Dreams keep pace with the
rains rhythm, and, lulled by the flames
and the rain, one stays up far too long
past ones bedtime
But what of the morning, when the
fire has died, and the damp chill has
crept into the bedroom, and one must get
up and go to work? The rain still falls
on the tin roof, with presumably the same
rhythm; but the music, if any remains. is
discordant. The dreams are as cold as
the ashes. AS one goes about the business
Of getting awake and ready for work, one
realizes that last nights fire and the
rain on the roof caused important things
to be left undone.
The last of the dry wood, for example,
has been used, and that piled outside now
is sodden. 1t is remembered, too, that
this is trash collection day, and that the
barrel has not been moved to the front of
the house where it is required to be. The
portable grill, abandoned on the patio
when the rain came, will be difficult to
clean. The tight morning schedule leaves
no time for bringing in more wood to dry
or hauling trash barrels to the front of
the house or cleaning grills.
The prospect of leaving the house
when rain is falling on the tin roof in the
morning is not bright. There will be a
need for the raincoat and umbrella, and
a need to step around puddles in the
street 1t is hoped that If the rain
makers ever conquer their art, the patter
of rain on tin roof will be reserved for
late evenings, and banished from early
mornings.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
DR.. Peters Case

In editorial comment on the
Peters case, The Star makes
the statement that the firing
of DR.. Peters by the Loyalty
Review Board was a miscar-
riage of justice. Unfortunately
a majority of the Supreme
Court agreed with you. How,
ever, the Loyalty Review
Board was not set UP by for
mer President Truman to act
"a la Supreme Court" in
which only the disloyal would
have their cases reviewed. It
was set up definitely for them
to review the cases of all peo-
pie concerned and to see If
the department loyalty boards
had been lax in reviewing in
dividual cases.
To make this situation more
ridiculous. the Supreme Court
should next rule that John
Stewart Service should have
his job back in the State De-
partment!
Dewitt 0. Burke.
Evening star., 1955-06-13
Neutral Zone

The proposal for a zone Of
neutral European states is a
recent note in American news.
However, in 1851, during the
course Of world tour, l dis
covered a desire on the oart
of well-informed democratic
elements in Germany and Ans
tria to have their countries
part of such a zone. ! did not
visit Italy at that time. but
heard it mentioned as another
possible component Of the pro-
posed neutral belt. Those who
expressed this desire to me
also wanted this zone of states
to be unarmed.
There are advantages for
East, West and Middle IN hav-
ing a neutral zone Of states:
and that is very important, for
to be workable an interna-
Evening star., 1955-06-13
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Those Queer Creutures-Vruses
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

long, thin, hair-like structures.
These are particularly ahuu-
dant at the tip Of the tail. and
appear not to be made up Of
nucleic acid. They seem to be
to the tail as unraveled strands
would be to a rope. The tail
itself is protein. or at least
coated with protein.
Electron microscope photo
graphs indicate that these
hair-like f1bers make it pos
sible for the virus to stick
to the cell as the first phase
OF its attack. They could sup
ply a positive or negative force
to be drawn enthusiastically
towards an opposite force on
the cell membrane. Or by
chemical action they could
destroy compounds on the cell
surface which normally would
repel the virus. In any event.
the observers found, the hair
like structures disappear as
soon as the virus makes con-
tact with the cell, and pre-
sumably adhere to the cell it.
self.
DrS. Williams and Fraser
found that the tail Of the virus
has an inner core. or plug"
When this plug is removed.
the rest Of the tail appears
hollow. 1t is likely that the
virus squirtS this plug into the
bacterial cell before it can
inject its nucleic acid.
Viruses Gang Up
Some of the studies have
been carried out with the
virus which is responsible for
the mosaic disease OF tobacco.
The California scientists have
some evidence that many in
dividual viruses may some
times join together and form
long, rod-shaped organisms.
Several years ago they found
that blood proteins also
seemed to be able to come
together to form long mole
cules or split up into short
molecules.
The work, supported by the
American Cancer Society, may
have no direct bearing on the
problems of cancer but. the
workers say. it is throwing
new light on some Of the deep
est phenomena Of life which
may have ramifications in
many fields.