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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
GREENBELT COUNCIL CONSIDERS
DOUBLING PAY-TO $500 A YEAR

City Council members in Greenbet thinking about
raising their pay.
The proposal made last night by Councilman Robert
Hurst who cited increased responsibilities placed board
members since the city sold to its residents by the Fed
eral Government two years
Councilmen, including Mayor James N. Wolfe get $3.50
year for tending the citys business Hurst proposed
increase to $780, amount City Manager Charles T.
Mcdonald said would be in line with council salaries
in nearby communities
Should the increase through, 1t would not become
effective until after citywde elections slated for September
No date was set for public hearing the proposal
Mr. Hurst moved however that be held at O regular meet
ing Of the council when "the agenda isn't too long, 90
public can have its say"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
School Official Defends
Remarks on Inteqrotion

Montgomery County School
Supt. Forbes II. Norris last night
defended his remarks before q
Montgomery Hills Junior High
PTA meeting which drew criti-
cism from some persons because
he said II am proud to be a
white man."
Reading from q prepared
statement at q Board of Educa-
ton meeting In Rockville last
night, DR.. Norris said he had
learned with surprise and re-
gret" Of the feeling aroused by
his statements, which were
made during q question period
on integration.
II cannot help but think that
some things have been magni-
lied unreasonably and that some
people read between the lines
ideas that are foreign to my
thinking and feeling" he stated
DR.. Norris said he had recon-
mended q program for integra-
ton to the board "a month ago.
and that he had tried to steer
clear Of any factionalism," on
the question of migration tim
ing in the county schools.
DR.. Norris statement followed
q closed session Of the School
Board which Board President
Willard McGraw said was called
to discuss construction"
After DR.. Norris read his state.
ment. board member Lathrop e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19

Smith blasted closed discussions
Of indignation problems.
Mr.. Smith said he felt that
closed discussions have led to
the School Boards unwilling.
ly" becoming "a partner in an
effort to confuse the people Of
this county"
at is perfectly obvious that
there is a carefully organized
campaign to defeat" an imme-
date integration program In
the county," he said.
Referring to DR.. Norris state-
ment, Mr.. Smith said he would
mot be a party to gagging the
superintendent. but that he
hoped any future remarks by Dr..
Norris would be ''in accord with
his statement"
DR.. Norris Is scheduled to
speak at a PTA integration meet
ing at Parkwood Elementary
School In Kensington tonight.
Following Mr.. Smiths re.
marks. Mr.. McGraw, who de.
scribed himself as "a friend Of
integration and its philosophy"
set April % for the boards first
full-dress public discussion of its
indignation problems.
The open meeting was agreed
on over the objection of Board
Member Wylie w. Barrow. who
said he feels public discussion
OF the matter viii lead to more
diSSension."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
FALSE FRONTS
ONCE SUPPLIED
LIQUOR HERE

Women once put up a false
front to smuggle alcoholic
beverages into the District,
Mrs. Francelia Butler of Ar
lington writes in her new
book, Cancer Through the
Ages - the Evolution Of
Hope"
To replace the supply dried
up by the Civil War, women
filled funnel-shaped tin busts
with one quart each Of wine
and walked over Long Bridge
from Virginia.
To halt the smuggling,
guards gave the "falsies" the
tone test. II the containers
went ping" the liquor was
confiscated. distilled and
used by the Army Medical
Museum for preservation Of
cancer specimens. Mrs. But
Ter writes.
The author is the widow of
Jerome Butler. q writer for
the old Times-Herald at the
time Of his death from can
GER in 1919.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
School Panel
In Arlington

A panel discussion Oh Arling-
tons public school services for
physically and mentally handi-
capped children will be held at
$3.50 pm. tomorrow at Washing
ton-Lee High School.
The meeting is sponsored by
the Community Council on In
struction. DR.. T. A. McGav.n,
Arlington Medical Society rep-
resentative on the council, will be
panel chairman.
The discussion will follow an
8 pm. meeting of study groups.
Other panel members will DO
Mrs. j. M. Hunter of the Wake
field High School Parent Teacher
Association; DR.. Joseph B. John.
son, supervisor of the Arlington
Public Schools Teaching Mate.
rails Center. and Mrs. McGavin.
wife Of the panel chairman,
representing parents Of pre-.
primary children at Marshall
School annex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
VunduIs Runsuck
Five Schools in
Prince Georges

Police In i've Prince Georges
County communities today were
investigating q series Of break
ins In elementary schools over
the week end.
The schools entered we're at
Riverdale, University Park. Hy-
atsville. Bowie and College Park.
In each case desks and closets
throughout the schools were
ransacked and contents thrown
about the floor. School officials
have not reported anything Of
value missing.
Police theorized that the van
dals were looking for petty cash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
.DetentionH Home
Future Dubious

The fate of nearby virginia's
proposed juvenile detention
home appeared shaky today as
the Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors pondered a demand
to hold back any funds for the
home If it is located in an estab-
lished residential area.
A petition signed by 270 resi-
dents in the Annandale area was
presented to the supervisors at
their budget hearing yesterday.
A $50, 800 item is included in the
budget as Fairfax County's share
toward construction Of the re-
gional home.
The petition asks that any al
location Of funds for the home
be granted only with the stipu-
lation that it not be located
within an established residential
area.
Paul Lain. who presented the
petition, took particular excep-
ton to a 7-acre site on Hummer
road that has been favored for
the site by the joint committee
arranging for construction.
"This site will do great dam
age to the program planned by
the Greater Annandale Recrea-
ton Association" said Mr.. Lain.
He noted that the proposed site
was about two-tenths of a mile
from property recently acquired
by the association for q recrea-
ton center.
where do you think we can
establish it?" asked Supervisor
c. B. Runyon, who Is q member
Of the Joint committee plenning
the regional home. "It has to
be located where sewer and water
are available"
The Regional Home Commit
tee is meeting Friday night to
decide what to do about the
problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Maryland May
Drop Tax Plan
Study of Exemptions
For Virqiniuns Storts
sy . star stan correspondent

BALTIMORE. April 1s.-Mary.
land fiscal officials today were
checking into the legality Of ex.
empting Virginia residents who
work in Maryland from the new
State income tax withholding
system scheduled to go into effect
July l.
Gov. McKeldin said yesterday.
after a conference with Repre-
sentative Broyhill. Republican, Of
Virginia, that he was going to
ask State Controller J. Willard
Tawes to '.look into It,"
Refund Provision Cited
Mr.. Broyhill said he told the
Republican Governor that Mary.
land win lose money If it with.
holds income taxes from Wiz.
ginians working in this State.
He said Maryland law allows the
out-o State resident to receive
q refund Of the money he paid
to Maryland In order to pay in
come taxes Of his home state.
Since Virginia and Maryland
taxes are about equal, Mr.. Broy-
hill said, Virginia residents
working in Maryland would
qualify for refunding Of all In
come taxes withheld from their
pay.
The Virginia CONGRESSMAN
also claims that Maryland Ia
obligated to pay s per cent in.
terest on the amounts so re.
covered by Virginia workers.
McKeldin Sees Logic
what he says makes q lot
Of sense to me-" Gov. McKeldin
commented after listening to
the congressman's argument.
I'VE don't want to take money
from our Virginia neighbors that
we are not entitled to-" the Gov
ernor said, particularly when
we have to give it back any
way"
Under legislation enacted by
Maryland's General Assembly
earlier this year, Maryland will
start Withholding its 2 per cent
income tax from payrolls on July
/. Exemptions also will change
at that time from the present
81, 900 apiece for taxpayer and
wife and 5000 apiece for depen-
dents to q fiat $500 for each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
~ TRUE BILLS
RETURNED BY
COUNTY JURY

A total Of 10 indictments
have been returned by the
Prince Georges County grand
jury which resumed its meet
ing yesterday after q week.
end recess.
States Attorney Blair II.
Smith ordered the names Of
persons indicted and the
charges withheld until bench
warrants have been served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star Stan Correspondent

BALTIMORE. April 19.-Gov.
McKeldin today still had 231
acts of the 1855 Maryland Gen.
eral Assembly to sign or veto by
the May Z deadline.
He signed 1873 In his Baltimore
Office late yesterday, including
the municipal home rule bill, a
$5O0-a-year pay raise for State
troopers and an extension Of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commissions jurisdiction to the
Gaithersburg Olney area Of
Montgomery County.
That brought TO 555 the num-
Der of acts the Republican chief
executive has approved from the
Democratic controlled Legisla-
ture that adjourned on April 5.
Chief among the 231 bills on
which gubernatorial decision is
yet to come Is the measure in
creasing State school aid under
the so-called incentive fund from
$40 to $40 per pupil as Of July
/, 1856.
Veto Threat
Gov. McKeldin has said he
would veto any increase in State
school aid unless it carried with
it legislation guaranteeing that
property assessments would be
equalized so that counties as
sessing at lower rates would not
receive larger shares Of such aid
than is rightfully their due.
A bill introduced by Blair Lee
III, Democrat, of Montgomery
County, would have required
that, for purposes Of distribute
ing State school aid, property
assessments in the individual
counties would be adjusted to an
arbitrary ratio of SO per cent Of
actual cash value. That bill was
designed to meet the Governors
demand, but it never passed the
Legislature.
Also resting in the Republican
Governors drawer is the bill
which would take away his au-
thority to appoint the members
of the Maryland-National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commits
sion and give that power equally
to the Prince Georges County
Commissioners and the Mont
gomery County Council.
The effect Of such q switch
would be that the Democrats,
who dominate both local govern
ing bodies, would again take
over the planning commission,
now in Republican hands.
Mr.. McKeldin signed similar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
State Police Head
Reported Better

BALTIMORE, April 10 Dr.
Col. Elmer Munshower, superin-
tendent of State police who fell
and broke his back April 6, was
reported doing fine" yesterday
at University Hospital.
DR.. Henry Ullrich, Col. Num-
showers physician, said the POI
lice head suffered q fracture Of
q lower vertebra.
Col. Munshower was inspecting
o new building at the Waldorf
barracks when he slipped and
fell of an unfinished stairway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Stanton SchooIboy
Gets AAA Award

Richard Bailey. IL, Stanton
Elementary School pupil, was
presented the American Automo-
bile Associations Meritorious
Service Medal today.
Richard received the award
for saving the life Of another
pupil who fell in front Of an
automobile. The award. pre-
sented by George r. Hammond.
traffic safety manager for the
District division Of the AAA.
makes the youth eligible for the
AAA Gold Medal Life Saving
Award.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Municipal Home Rule,
132 Other Bills Signed

bill localizing control Of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission, but that measure
was sent to him early enough
In the recent session to allow
reconsideration by the Legisla-
ture If he had vetoed it. II he
vetoes the planning commission
reorganization bill. 1t also can
be reconsidered by the Legis-
lature. but not until 1t meets
again next February.
The municipal home rule DILL
signed yesterday implements the.
constitutional amendment adopt
ed by the voters last November.
It spells out the procedures mu-
inequalities will follow in making
use of their new powers Of self
government.
100000 More for Troopers
The State troopers pay raise Of
$500 q year at all grades will
cost a total of almost 5000, 900.
The present trooper pay scale
ranges from $2,450 for rockies
to $500 a year for majors. The
new scale is effective July l.
The extension Of the Washing
ton Suburban sanitary district
to the area north of Rockville
provides for automatic IMPOSE
ton Of the commissions 9-cent
ad valorem tax and makes pos
sible extension Of the agency's
water and sewer facilities to
that fast-developing section.
Two other Montgomery County
bills were signed by the Cover
nor. One allows use Of public
school buildings for religious and
political meetings. The second
permits bowling alleys to open
after pm. on Sundays In -Four
Corners.
Some Fees Changed
Among some minor Prince
Georges measures signed was one
raising fees slightly on some
liquor licenses.
Another major Statewide bill
approved by the Governor was
the authorization for the State
Roads Commission to build a
toll road between Baltimore and
Pennsylvania Delaware n e
roughly paralleling presen t
Route 40. This bill was enacted
by the Legislature after advo-
Gates OF a separate toll road
authority were defeated in the
Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Sicily Seeks Post
In College Park

Paul M. Sicily, 80, Of SCOT Del
aware street. College Park, has
announced his candidacy for
councilman-at-large in the town
election May Q.
An attorney, MIR. Sicily Is mar
ried and has three children.
He is a graduate of Loyola
College. Baltimore, and George
town University Law School. He
served as a naval aviation navi-
gator during World War II.
Mr.. Sicily is employed as Q
trial attorney with the Depart
ment Of Health. Education and
Welfare and is a member Of the
Maryland and District Of Co.
lumbia Bar Associations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Vaccine Eormorked
For Polio Center

NEW YORK. April 10 R.-
Manufacturers Of Salk vaccine
report that most Of the output
to date has been earmarked for
distribution to school children
by the National Foundation for
Infantile paralysis.
Only two Of the six compa-
MES producing the vaccine said
yesterday they are also supply.
ing the vaccine to private phys
icians
The polio foundation intends
to inoculate 9 million first and
second graders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Strosburg Mon Killed
In Truck-Cur Crush

GREENCASTLE, Pa. April 10
Wilbur F Taylor, jr.. 80, Of
Strasburg. Va, was one Of two
men killed in q head-on crash
Of q tractor-trailer and an auto
on Route IL near here yesterday.
Fire destroyed the two vehicles
and a cargo Of rayon yarn, caus-
ing q $4,000 loss, State police
said.
Mr.. Taylor was driving the
tractor-trailer. The auto driver,
Paul J. wadel. Is. Shippensburg.
Pa, also was killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Arlington Fire Ties
Rush-Hour Traffic

A minor fire at a busy Arling-
ton County intersection tied up
rush-hour traffic between 8 and
$3.50 am. today.
Police routed traf1ic around the
intersection Of Washington boul-
evard and North Glebe road and
had the backlog Of traffic moved
past the trouble spot by $3.50.
The fire, believed caused by a
short circuit, started In the side
wall and roof Of the Good Food
Shoppe at 1855 North Glebe road
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Prince Georges Chest
Reflects Roberts

Eugene B. Roberts last night
was reelected president Of the
Prince Georges County Chest
at the organizations annual
meeting.
Other officers chosen for 1886
Sc are: Philip Lustine and Gaze
sar Aiello. vice presidents; Mrs
William Fl. Wood, secretary;
Brice Duckett. treasurer. and
Peter p. Lejins. planning chair.
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Doctors Begin
Polio Shots in
.PrinceGeorges
Housewives Help
With Paper Work
On $500 Pupils


One cubic centimeter Of VIC
tory against a crippling disease
was being pushed into the blood
streams Of Prince Georges chill
dren today.
A mass vaccination Of 1880
Prince Georges first and second
graders started today at 9 am.
in is public. private and paro-
chial schools. The program will
continue throughout the week.
It was a voluntary effort handled
by teams Of doctors, nurses,
health department officials and
housewives who were handling
much Of the paper work.
Get Two More Shots
The paper work was important
the children receiving shots
today still need two more for
maximum protection. One will
come four weeks from today and
the last some seven months after
the second shot.
At Chillum Elementary School
the NEGOTIATIONS were coming of
smoothly. Two youngsters. Carol
Trey, 6, of 2012 Woodreeve road,
Avondale. and Freddie Wolfe. 6,
Of 5723 Chillum Heights drive,
Hyattsville, cried q bit in all the
commotion of being the first to
receive the shots.
But they wiped their tears
away when 1t was all over and in
formed the next children in line
there was really nothing to it.
Children were being guided
from their schoolrooms, along
with their teachers and a corps
Of parents who volunteered to
keep spirits up. Some parents
were carefully checking each
child to see If they felt sick.
Fears Subside
Rumors few, as always they
do when mass inoculations take
place, over the size of the needle.
Fears were quickly ended when
the doctor-nurse team took over,
Swabbing the left arm, then
quickly getting the needle placed
and the vaccine into the blood
stream.
Actually, the children in Prince
Georges were not the first to re-
ceive the Salk vaccine in the
Washington area. Alexandria
beat everybody yesterday by vac
cinating "a children enrolled In
two church schools. Virginia r.
Singleton, 6, the daughter Of
Mrs. Royce "a. Singleton Of
Southdown road, Alexandra, had
polio protection in her blood
stream before everybody else.
| The long-awaited vaccine ar
rived yesterday in Baltimore
enough first shots to cover 81
per cent of the States 100000
first and second graders The
Polio Foundation. which Is fur
nishing two Of the three shots
free. had announced it was only
sending enough vaccine to cover
80 per cent. Health officers
were breathing easier knowing
they would probably have
enough to cover everybody on
the first round Of shots.
To Start Monday
Montgomery County, which
received its vaccine yesterday
plans its first round of shots
Monday. Some 1880 first and
second graders are expected to
receive the vaccine.
Fairfax County starts vac
cinating Thursday. Arlington
and Alexandria will handle the
bulk Of its program starting
Monday. The District. which
received its vaccine shipment
yesterday. is ready to go next
Tuesday. About $4,000 children
in the District have signed UP
for shots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Auxiliary to Meet

The women's Auxiliary Of the
Arlington Presbyterian Church
will meet at 1880 am. tomor-
row at the Church. Arlington
School Supt. T. Edward Rutter
win discuss migration In the
county school system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-19
Langley Park PTA

The Langley Park tMd) Ele-
mentary School PTA viii meet
at Q o'clock tonight ct the
school, Fifteenth avenue and
Merrimack drive, New officers
win be elected.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Protect Consumers, Too

The Virginia State Milk Commission,
having lost its latest case in the courts,
was well advised to defer further legal
action to protect its authority until after
its forthcoming reconsideration of price
fixing activities in this area. The COM
missions 'alacrity in seeking vainly
Federal injunction against Highs Dairy
Products Company to prevent the sale
of milk below the fixed minimum price
was in sharp contrast with its slowness
in calling the price hearing. In fact, the
agency procrastlnated in acting on nu-
merous petitions from nearby Virginia
until it was iolted into action by the
State Supreme Court.
The Virginia high court ruled re-
Gently that the commission must fix
maximum as we'll as minimum retail
prices for milk. Up to now only mini
mum prices, protecting the producers,
were established. The decision assures
an end of the commissions one-sided
operations and gives the consuming
public a promise of protection, too. If
there is to be any fixing of milk prices
in the Washington area, it should be done
with view to protecting the interests
of the consumers as we'll as the pre-
ducerS and distributors.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Joe and His Money

Safeguarding money hardly can be
called reprehensible habit, although
sometimes the methods used are unusual
if not unwise. Mattresses and tin boxes,
for example, have been proved as some
thing less than 100 per cent safe as repos-
itorieS. Happy -go-lucky Joe Johnson,
Chicago butcher, has come up with an
unusual system but his wisdom has not
yet been disproved. Joe has been pawn
ing his currency and redeeming it in due
time at the customary three per cent
commission cost. Puzzled Chicago police
authorities took Joe to court on charges
Of disorderly conduct, whereupon Joe
explained he was merely protecting some
of his favorite bills-including the first
deuce" he ever had won at race track.
Meanwhile, he has use of substitute
So at slight three per cent charge.
Slightly puzzled also, but obviously fair
minded, the court has dismissed the
police complaint. Perhaps Joe has
proved after all that happiness, COM
bined with ingenuity, can buy money.
Evening star., 1955-07-12
Hoax Without Hunor
The fact that "crying wolf"

The fact that crying wolf" Is dan
gerous and sometimes criminal pastime
has been established both in fable and
in law. An example of the criminal
type-a hoax without humor-appearS to
have happened in Atlantic waters off the
New York-New Jersey coast when a tug
picked up false distress signal that
fishing boat with 81 aboard was afire,
ana that passengers and crew were being
taken off by an unidentified foreign sub
marine. An SOS at sea is not taken as a
joke in any quarters and the suggestion
that an unidentified foreign submarine
might be cruising off our shores merely
added to the proper concern over the
reported disaster. Over 24-hour period,
Coast Guard air and sea craft swept an
estimated 1000 square miles in costly
and normally risky search for survivors,
or even evidence of the mishap. A de-
termination that the whole episode was
a hoax led finally to the arrest of two
young seamen. Faking disaster at sea
invites punishment of $4,000 fine or
a year in prison, or both. If guilt of the
two seamen is established, they should
be punished severely and promptly.