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Evening star., 1955-07-31
O'MoIIey Of the Marines
lsAircroft Engine Whiz

81 years, 1t means hearing lee
lures from Douglas representa-
tiyes: reading handbooks and
working.
It means more than showing
up once a month-regular drill
period for VAF 321.
I'VE gotta start almost from
scratch, when and If we get 'em." +"
he said without the familiar
grin.
Mr.. O'Malley, who lives at
32I7 Alabama avenue Sc. goes
back to work at Engine 10 to-
morrow as firefighter. not an
airplane mechanic.
But he's no stranger at his
civilian trade after is years with
the department.
When the Korean war began,
the Marines thought too much
of the fire-fighting experience to
pass him by and pulled him back
on active duty just about his
43rd birthday. They assigned
him to the Air Station at Cherry
Point as fire marshal and crash
crew officer.
Designs Foam Squirter
On the station was crash
equipment designed about 1889.
In the O'Malley mind. it didn't
quite fill the bill. Working with
Alfred Krulee, formerly Of the
Bureau of Aeronautics. the new
crash crew officer designed a rev.
olutionary foam suuirter with
the crashed pilots safety in
mind.
This thing, still in use and as
efficient as they've found to date.
will throw 5000 gallons of foam
per minute from two nozzlts.
IF that pilot is alive and his
plane is burning" Mr.. O'Malley
points out. "the thing to do is
keep the fire away from him til
we can get him out.
This thing'H do it and do it
fast.
tits so simple any average
Marine can learn to operate it
lin half a day." he said with some
emphasis on Marine.
Not because I had anything
Ito do with it," he added going
away, but I guess it's just about
Evening star., 1955-07-31

His course will take up the his
tory of illustration from cave
paintings to photography, the
history and merits Of various
types of cameras, lighting. CROP
ping, retouching. engraving, pic
lture scources and libraries and
the psychology Of color. layout
and design, the university an
nounced.
The course will run 28 eve
ming sessions ~ Tuesday and
Thursdays from 7::35 to $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1955-07-31
BY CHARLES YARBROUGH
star stan CORRESPONDENT

CHERRY POINT. N. c.. July
S0.-Big and amiable Pat O'Mal-
ley, a Washington fire depart
ment sergeant. left here today.
ready to start all over after q
years of working with aircraft
engines.
Charles M. O'Malley to official
Marine Corps records and pat"
to everyone else, he is aircraft
engine and maintenance officer
for VMF 32l, the Hell's Angels
fighter squadron at Anacostia.
which completed two weeks OF
active duty at the Marine Corps
Air Station here.
He left behind on this big base
a revolutionary piece of fire.
fighting equipment he helped to
design and one which still stands
as a mobile monument-if Pat
cared anything about mobile
monuments.
His Crew Sets Record
Currently. his pride is CEN
tered on the record which pilots,
mechanics and crewmen estab-
lished here this year. They
topped reserve squadrons from
every station east of the Missis-
sippi in hours flown and air.
craft availability-meaning that
the O'Malley crew either had
their Corsairs in better condition
to begin with or repaired them
quicker.
And that is where Warrant
Officer O'Malley and his merry
men start over. The squadron
may give up it's venerable Cor
sairs soon and take on the big,
powerful single-engine Douglas
Skyraider--a 100000 airplane
with a million dollars worth OF
radar and electronics.
The only resemblance between
the Skyraider and the once
vaunted Corsair is that both
have one propeller.
Starting Almost From Scratch
Since 1928, Mr.. O'Malley has
been having something to dc
with aircraft engines and a
piston is nothing new. But, after
Evening star., 1955-07-31
CIV Will Teach
News Photography

Kip Ross. assistant illustra-
tions editor of the National
Geographic Magazine. will teach
q new pictorial journalism course
at George Washington Univers-
ity during the 1855 fall term.
The author Of several books on
photography, Mr.. Ross has been
with the Geographic Is years.
Evening star., 1955-07-31

the best thing they've had yet. :"
Pilots of VMF 321 have the
same modest idea about the con-
|dition of their aircraft-and Of
Mr.. O'Malley.
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Death Valley Sized Up

BARSTOW.--Death Valley In
east California and western Me-
yada comprises a land area
about lao miles in length and
from 4 to Is miles In width.
Evening star., 1955-07-31

OMaIey (ight)
1922 Ln
Photo Mai Charles Peterson 96 Manor road Falls Church
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Truns World Adds
Nonstop Chicago Hop

A new nonstop Constellation
flight from Washington to Chi
cago will be inaugurated tomor-
row by Trans World Airlines,
John P. Brock, TWA District
sales manager here, said yester-
day.
The 81-passenger Sky Tourist
flight will leave National Airport
daily at 3:15 tED.T) and ar
rive in Chicago at S pm.
(CD.TD The flight continues
nonstop to the West Coast, ar
irving at Oakland, Calf. at HIP
(PD.T), and San Francisco at
1850 pm.
A new eastbound flight will
leave Los Angeles at 9:25 pm.
P.D.TD, make stops at Bur-
bank, Calf. Las Vegas. New,
Chicago and arrive at National
Airport at 1885 pm.
Evening star., 1955-05-22

Every one should be inter-
ested in the fact that the
Northeast Super Sixty Club
will have a. Hobby Show on
from 1:30 to $3.50 pm. Wednes-
day in the Parish Hall of CAL
very Church, Sixth and I
streets, NE.
The work the craft group of
the Northeast Super Sixty has
done during the year will be on
exhibition, including fancy
needle work, crochet. copper
and leather tooling, etching on
glass and metal and decorative
painting on wood. Also on
display will be toys, dolls, quilt
work. Afghans, aprons, jewelry
and shell work
The public is cordially in
vited to attend. Refreshments
will be served.
prepared by the Committee on the Agin,
United Community ServicesD
Evening star., 1955-05-22
TODAY IN MEDICINE
Pressure Compounds
SoIk Vaccine Confusion

! infallible method of testing the
vaccine's safety? But over S mil
lion children had received the
vaccine and in this group there
were fewer cases than would
have normally been expected.
The Public Health Service
should have waited until the
winter of 1855 to start vaccina-
tions. some say.
Faith Often Reaffirmed
But could the Public Health
Service have done it in the face
of the pressure-pressure built
up by the heartening announce
ment the vaccine was safe, ef-
fective and would be available
in time to beat the peak of the
polio season? Who would have
been the one to remove the
chance of protection against a
crippling disease from the arms
of little children-for even one
polio season?
For, despite all the vaccine's
troubles, scarcely a day passes
when a top health authority
has not "reafirmed" their faith
in the effectiveness of the
vaccine.
Meanwhile, as the program is
stalled, scientists are off into
the night TO catch trains and
planes, pushing to the breaking
point. How long the pace can
be maintained is a matter of
conjecture. How many more tele-
phone calls, statements, meet
ings?
And polio was beginning to
crop up at an increased rate
adding to the pressure.
Rumors Tossed Around
There was the word out that
maybe children who received
Cutter shots were able to pass
the disease to others though they
(the children) showed no out
ward signs Of infection them
selves.
Statements that polio is not a
disease to worry about - COM
pared to other llnesses-seemed
to do little to remove the pres
sure.
There was hint manufactur-
ers might soon be pouring vac
cine down the drain-and that
didn't help calm things down.
There were those in the Public
Health Service who felt their
professional standing was cer-
tain to be injured and others
who felt that soon they would
have no profession. ii
"Hindsight," said a Public
Health official, "is, I know,
sort of a waste of time. But
can't see what we should have
done that we didn't do
everything considered"
Evening star., 1955-05-22
BY JOHN McKELwAY

On April IL the world was
told a vaccine so to 80 per cent
effective against polio was ready
for use.
And at the same time a
small dark cloud appeared.
Since. then this blemish has
grown quite large. 1t is made
up mainlys-of pressure-both
public and political. 1t will hang
over anyone concerned in the
slightest way with the vaccina-
ton program.
Perhaps the worst thing this
ugly mist has done is to hurry
science.
Time is the clouds greatest
enemy. Time alone will work its
needle into this pressurized bug
aboo and blow it away.
1t comes to rest around the
shoulders of a health officer
one who can't get any word on
his supply of vaccine-and in
his dilemma he will remark he'd
like to go into plumbing" as
his livelihood.
Or it will fit off to State
health officer-one in charge Of
other health officers-and force
him to say: II don't care what
anybody says, I'm going ahead
and vaccinate."
And perhaps it has forced top
men in science to say it was only
coincidence" when about 80
cases of polio occurred in about
100000 children who received
vaccine manufactured by Cutter
Laboratories.
Pressure Forces Haste
And since much Of the judg-
ment of the vaccine must-be-
cause of the peculiar nature of
the disease - be interpretative.
how many interpretations have
been hastily arrived at, because
Of the tremendous pressure?
Somehow the pressure has
shifted to distribution and con-
troll of the vaccine from the
question of absolute safety of
the vaccine. And, perhaps be-
cause of the cloud of confusion,
the Public Health Service seems
to be getting the blame for
everything
Suspicion Over Tests
Just what Public Health Serv-
ice scientists were up to at five
manufacturing plants last week
has been a difficult thing to ex-
plain and somewhat harder to
understand. There was sus-
picion that maybe the tests for
safety of the vaccine - tests
which held up last year-were
not designed. after all, to catch
the slightest chance that an ap-
parently good batch of the vac
cine might cause polio. Cutter
Laboratories, it is said, followed
the testing procedure-but there
were the n cases last week. Was
: giving the vaccine to humans,
it has been suggested. the only
Evening star., 1955-05-22
Clubs Take to Air

The largest transatlantic
movement of paying passengers
in the history of commercial
aviation will take place Friday
through Sunday when members
of the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs leave New York
for their international conven-
ton in Geneva, Switzerland via
SABENA Belgian World Airlines
There will be 282 of the club
women, many from Washington
on four separate airplanes.
Evening star., 1955-05-22

Porcelain enameed 4-qt. bowl easily snaps into
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remove any time! Simply stake into ground about
inches. Stands %" high, bowl diameter 16".
The Hecht Co., Pet Shops. Street Floor.
Washington, Slrer Spring and PARKirgton
Cell National $500 Anytime 10 Order
Evening star., 1955-05-22

Famous Cannons, yellow,
blue, green rose. Long 90
twin, 72x108" or fitted
twin.
If PERI. 299 full fitted or 81x1O8"
double
If. PERI. 69c cases --Soe
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Wife Wants Poker-Playing Hubby Arrested So Police Raid , Games, Jail 25

BALTIMORE, R-This is the story of Sergeant Vincent Serio of the Baltimore vice squad, a woman who said she was starving, and fast-floating husband.
 Sergeant Serio got the first call from the woman late Friday night. She told him her husband was spending all his money in poker games and she was starving as a result. Where was he? asked the sergeant.
 She gave him an address, and he dispatched two patrolmen to the spot. They broke up card game, hauled six men to jail.
 But the phone rang again. You didn't get him." said the same voice. She explained she had learned her husband had floated from the game before the police got there. But she gave Sergeant Serio a new address.
 Off went the vice squad again. They broke up two games, took in nine players.
 But the phone rang again. Same woman, same complaint, new ad- dress.
 The next call brought in 13 more sporting gentlemen. It made grand total of 25 players ar rested in five card games.
 The woman never did give the police her name, but Sergeant Serio figures they got her hus- band in the last haul. She didn't t call back.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Tito Assures West He
 Will Not Change Sides

BELGRADE, YugOSlavia, R - President Tito has assured the West that his coming conference with top leaders of the Soviet Union does not mean Yugoslavia is changing sides" He still in tends to keep his country out of all blocs-Western, Soviet or neu- tral third force," he declared.
 Speaking at the north Adriatic port of Phla, Tito said yesterday he wants good relations with both the West and the Soviets. He pro- missed there will be no secret deals "behind the curtains" at his meet ing in Belgrade late this month with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bull ganin, Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev, and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromy- ko.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Austrians .Jubilant Over Freedom After IF Years

VIENNA, Austria, R-Austria' $ independence treaty shows that world peace may be achieved by negotiation, Chancellor Julius Raab said today.
 Freedom for Austria was of the greatest importance and joy for Austria" he told a news con- ference. But not only that. It indicated that pending world problems can be solved-or, at least, that the powers can sit at the same table.
 ''I regard this act as a lessen ing of the cold war and a step toward world peace"
 As he spoke, the flags of the big four powers whose troops had occupied his country for 10 years were lowered and only Austria's red and white banner remained where five flew yesterday.
 Raab said the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union have made no commitment on when they will withdraw their 10000 occupation troops. The withdrawal of the troops, includ- ing about 10000 Americans, need not be completed until 90 days after all five governments have ratified the treaty signed yester- day.
 But, said Raab, the armies are beginning preparations to leave and some installations may be turned back to Austria sooner.
 Jubilant Austrians celebrated until dawn today the signing of the pact pledging their freedom after IF years of hot and cold war and restoring Austria's sov- ereignty for the first time since it was annexed by Hitler's Ger many in 1888.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Marciano Is 8-1 FavOrite To Knock Out COckell In Title Fight Tonight

SAN FRANCISCO, tR = Un- defeated Rocky Marciano puts his treasured world heavyweight title on the line for the fifth time to- night and practically no one thinks that challenger Don Cock ell of England will take it away from the blockbuster from Brock ton, Mass.
 The 30-year-old champion has never been beaten in his AZ fights, dating back to his ring debut in July 1948, and the betting people are laying 8-1 that Rocky will run the incredible string to 48
 Few, indeed, give the pudgy, 26-year-old hog farmer from Horam much of a chance to last the full IS rounds.
 Marciano's blasting fists, they believe, vii make the British Elm pire titleholder No. 42 on the Rocks kayo record.
 The scrap is set to go on at 10 pm. EST, in San Francisco's largest football arena, Kezar Sta dium.
 Promoters Jimmy Murry and Lou Thomas, in conjunction with the International Boxing Club, remained hopeful that 10000 fans will pay $4OO,OOO for seats scaled from $5 to $40. Less optimistic observers looked for a turnout of 3O,OO0 and gate receipts approach ing $3OO,O0O.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Dynamite-Laden Ship
 Disabled In The Pacific

SAN FRANCISCO, R - The Coast Guard cutter Wachusetts has reached the disabled dynamite laden motorship Rican Star 800 miles due west of here and is checking the ships condition.
 The Rican Star, of Costa Rican registry, yesterday reported her engines had broken down and that she had slight leak in her engine room. The cutter and a tug from Victoria, B.C., were sent to her aid
 The 495 ton ship, of Costa Rican registry, was going from Vancouver, B.C., to Sydney, Aus tralia, with 300 tons of dynamite.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
1928 Million Federal Fund Proposed To Provide Vaccine

WASHINGTON, R TIT T h e Eisenhower administration today proposed 28 million dollar fed eral fund to help the states pro- vide polio vaccine for children in low income families.
 The plan is aimed at carrying out a pledge by the President to see to it no child goes without the Salk vaccine because of par ents' inability to pay.
 It was one of eleven recom- mendations submitted to the President today by Welfare Sec retary Oveta Culp Hobby. The White House said Eisenhower ap- proved the report, drafted by top administration experts in the field and endorsed the recommenda- tionS.
 The plan for financial aid to the states would cover children and young people up to 19. It would become effective after com pletion of the program of free inoculations for first and second graders being carried out by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. That program is being resumed in many areas, after re- lease of vaccine from two labor atories during the weekend after a re-check by federal experts.
 The administration also pro- posed an additional two million dollars for extra inspectors and technicians in the Public Health Service to insure maximum pre- cautions in continued testing of the vaccine for safety and poten- cy."
 The report stressed Mrs. Hobby's view that distribution of the vaccine would continue on the present voluntary basis, as inSur- ing what was termed the greatest speed, fairness and effectiveness.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
MOUNTIES RECAPTURE MOST-WANTED CRIMINAL

ALERT BAY, B.C., R - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Saturday captured a Vancouver bank robber who walked out of jail March 20 with a visiting church choir.
 The fugitive, William Allen Bab- cock, 32, was described as one of Canada's most wanted criminals Babcock was convicted for his part in the $27,OOO holdup Jan. IA of the Royal Bank of Canada in suburban Burnaby.
 He was captured at Smith Inlet, about 50 miles north of Alert Bay, aboard a stolen 60-foot troll CT, the Sea Explorer. .
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Communist Migs Appear Near MatSu Islands

TAIPEH, FormOSa, R = Com munist Mig jets today made their second appearance in two days near the Matsus and clashed with Nationalist propeller planes, the Air Force announced.
 Two Migs bearing down from the north swept within 20 miles of the islands at the north end of Formosa Strait, headquarters said. This was the closest ap- proach Red Chinese jets have made to the Matsus.
 The Air Force said two pro- pellor planes challenged the fast CT Migs at 12,00O feet. The Migs made three passes at the Nation alists in an 11-minute dog fight, a cOmmunique said.
 There was no claim the Migs were damtged and the communi- que said the Nationalist planes returned safely to base.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
CAR FLOWS INTO SQUAD MARCHING TO KIP DUTY

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, R - A car plowed into a formation of basic trainees marching to KIP duty at Lackland Air Force Base before dawn yesterday, injuring 29.
 Nine were hospitalized with fractures. The others were treat ed for minor injuries. A3C Roger K. Simpson was listed as the driver. He said darkness and light mist kept him from seeing the men until it was too late.
 Authorities said Simpson was not speeding.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Democratic Legislative Program Ignores Ike'S Recommended Measures

WASHINGTON, LR - D e m O. cratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas outlined a legislative program proposing passage of highway, housing, minimum wage and other bills but ignoring sev- eral of President Eisenhower's major recommendations.
 Johnson told reporters he will call the Senate Democratic Policy Committee together early this week to discuss the schedule under which the Senate may go to work late in the week on a Democratic substitute for the Presidents 101 billion dollar highway program.
 Besides the highway, housing and minimum wage bills, John son said he expects the Senate to approve bills for foreign aid, health research, draft extension, military reserves, and pay in- creases for government workers; a House approved bill to close tax loopholes and the regular depart mental money measures.
 Johnson's program apparently would ignore in this session presi- dential recommendations for a postal rate increase, Taft-Hartley labor law revisions, amendments to the immigration laws, reinsur- ance of private health plans, a proposed constitutional amend ment to reduce the voting age and creation of national transporta- tion policy.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
House Members Launch Drive To Built A Second Atomic Merchant Ship

WASHINGTON, R-Key mem berS of the House Merchant Mar inc Committee today launched a drive to build a second atomic merchant ship. in addition to the one already proposed by President Eisenhower.
 Chairman Bonner O-NC) said the ship proposed by Eisenhower to sail around the world as an exhibit of peaceful atomic energy uses would be some kind of fin ternational side show, carnival or Mississippi River showboat."
 Bonner declared the committee is more interested in an expert perimental ship which would help the merchant marine develop atomic vessels that would be ec- chemically feasible and actually carry some freight"
 Bonner said he was introducing a bill to authorize the second ship, which would require a com pletely different type of atomic reactor from the one planned by Eisenhower.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
Salk Polio Vaccine Arrives And InOculations To Start Soon To 1St-2nd Graders

The Salk polio vaccine has ar rived here stated Public Health Nurse Margaret Mcdonald, and it will be administered very soon to first and second grade stu dents.
 Nine thousand units have been released to the territory and the program will start immediately in all schools. The inoculation pro- gram was held up last week on orders of the US. Surgeon Gen. eral pending a recheck of proceed ures. The Alaska vaccine is from the Parke-Davis laboratories.
 Vaccine from the Cutter labor atories resulted in several cases of polio after inoculation. Em- ployes of Cutter, 465 of them, however, to show their faith in their product, had all their child ren inoculated.
 Any parent opposed to having their children inouculated are ad- vised to send note to the public health nurse or get in touch with her immediately.
The Nome nugget., 1955-05-16
American League

Chicago 3-5, Washington 0-4 Baltimore 40, Cleveland Is Kansas City A, New York 3-8 Boston 10-3, Detroit Az
 National League Brooklyn "A, Cincinnati Ill Chicago 5-4, New York 2-9 Milwaukee 6-1, Philadelphia 5-9 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 1
 Pacific Coast League Sacramento 1-3, San Francisco
 11-2
 Hollywood 1-2, San Diego All Seattle 5-5, Los Angeles TO Oakland As, Portland 5-2