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|WindfoII' Profits Cases
Near Decision by Court

Alexandria Federal Judge Al
bert v. Bryan today pondered
two "windfall" profits cases be-
fore handing down a decision
that the Government expects will
determine whether it can re-
cover millions in Federal Hous-
ing Administration loans that
developers are accused of pocket
ing improperly.
The cases under consideration
involve the Shirley Duke Apart
ment project in Alexandria and
the Beverley Manor project in
Columbus, Ohio.
Judge Bryan yesterday heard
final arguments in suits brought
by the directors of these two
projects to prevent the Govern
ment from taking them over and
proceeding to recover "windfall"
profits. Testimony in the two
cases was heard last September.
The major question to be
decided is the Interpretation of
the charters approved by FILA
for the two development syndi-
Gates.
Questions Use OF Dividends
The charters, like the char
tiers Of other firms building with
FILA help. stated that "the net
earnings Of the corporation
may be applied each year in
payment Of dividends
Carl Eardley, Justice Depart
ment attorney, argued that this
language in the charter re-
stricted payment Of dividends
from any source except net
earnings-and that would not
include windfall profits.
The windfall profits were paid
as dividends out Of funds that
represented the difference be-
tween the FHA-approved loan
and the actual cost Of construc-
ton, which was lower. The
Government claims the Shirley
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New Franchise
Offered PEPC0
'ByMontqonlery

! Inc FOCOIIlaC EleCtTlC SOWeT
Co. today has an offer from
Montgomery County that would
give the utility a new 25-year
franchise to operate in the
county.
The county council offered the
company the new franchise yes
terday and added that on &C.
ceptance the county would drop
a suit pending in circuit court
over the company's status in
the county.
The former county council
three years ago filed suit in
Montgomery Circuit Court for a
declaration that PEPCO was OPP
Grating illegally without a
franchise in the county.
Yesterdays action was taken
after County Manager M. l..
Reese had asked the council to
drop the suit.
Hope to Get Plant
| Mr.. Reese and the council
have been wooing PEPCO to get
1T to locate its new 500 million
plant in the county.
PEPco originally had planned
the plant for site on the LOU
ldoun County (Va.) side Of the
Potomac River. The Virginia
Isite was criticized by Army Engi-
lneers and q special Senate sub
committee headed by Senator
Morse of Oregon.
| Mr.. Reese stressed his belief
that PEPCO had decided to To-
cate in Montgomery County.
| He said one hurdle PEPCO
wanted to remove before meet
ing of its Board of Directors to-
morrow was removal Of the legal
ramifications Of the franchise
suit.
In answer to a question from
Mrs. Stella B. Werner as to
whether or not the council might
be acting too hastily. he replied:
Il don't think we're taking
any speculative chances, al
though I cannot guarantee it."
The manager added that he
was assuming PEPCO already
has made some commitments"
prior to the Thursday meeting.
: Renewal Sought in so
PEPCO had 25-year fran
chise to operate in the county
land in the spring of 1852 sought
to have 1t renewed.
The former councils answer
was a revocable franchise carry
ing with it an $4,000 annual fee
with a proviso that PEPCO could
be required to put its lines un-
derground at any time.
PEPCO declined to sign the
franchise and maintained that
it no longer needed a special
franchise to operate in the
county because of a perpetual
franchise obtained from the
Great Falls Power Co. in a mer-
ger in the late 1905.
The council then filed the suit
that has lain dormant in Cir
cult Court.
! County Attorney Charles M.
Irelan yesterday said he felt the
suit had not been brought "in
the best judgment" of the for
mer council.
The site favored most strongly
by Montgomery residents is in
the Dickerson md area near
the junction Of the Monocacy
and Potomac Rivers.
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said the 49-year-old lawmaker.
Mr.. Carter, one Of six legis-
lators who opposed the refer
endurn when it was set UP by
the recent special session Of the
q eneral Assembly. expressed
agreement with Senator Byrd's
statement declaring he saw no
need for "precipitous action in
the immediate future"
Senator Byrd announced Sat-
|urday he was supporting the pro-
'posal to amend the State con-
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Daily Pageant Program
Today
.Todoy

1880 pm.-Regina Academy Glee Club.
$3.50 pIn.-"Why the Chimes Ring" Christmas narrative
with choral by st John Baptist de la Sale
Grammar School Glee Club
500 pm-Prince Georges County Schools-Laurel High
School Chorus. under the direction of Mrs
Bertha Curtiss. and the Suitland High School
Band under the direction Of Mr.. James Lally.
TOO pm.-Puppet Show.
1880 pm-Polish Folk Dance Group Representing the
Free Poles.
500 rm-The western Players, Western Presbyterian
Church present "Amahl and the Night Wis
itors" tGan-Carlo Menotti). Director Mrs.
Nancy Poore Tufts
$3.50 pm-Brass Choir Christmas Concert-Amercan
Federation Of Musicians
800 p.m-The Glove Repertoire Theater Company pre-
sents scenes from Christmas play. Di-
rected by Richard D. Waters
Tomorrow
Noon-The Rev. @. g. Lacy Central Presbyterian
Church
400 pm,-wheaton High School Choir
TOO pm.-Puppet Show
1880 pm.-Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School Capela
Choir under the direction of Mrs Faye Finley
~ Shaw
$500 pm-The Parish Players of St. Thomas Episcopal
Church present where Love Is Born" by Toll
.-a..zI stoy. Robert Rush. director
$40 international Night European folk dances and
Christmas music. Legation of Estonia. Legation
OF Lthuania, Baltic Womens Council, Lithu-
anian Club OF Washington; Free Poles, Polish
Club Of Washington and Polish Choir; Hun
garian children Of Bethlen Home OF the Hun
str sartan Reformed Federation OF America Ro-
manian American Foundation, and Latvian
=..a'es Youth Group.
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MUST DECIDE
Boothe Resists Tuition,
Halls Assignment Plan
BY ARMIsTEAD L. BOOTHE
Member of the House of DELEGATES and
State Senator -elect Eaom AleXRndria

The Gray report makes two chief recommendations First
that the Virginia Legislature laws authorizing
school boards assign pupils to particular schools providing
for system of administrative appeals This called the pupil
assignment plan"
The plan constitutional and practical It will pre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-21
Referendum Delay
Urged in Virginia
Carter Asks Postponement,
Cites Byrd's Slow Advice

RICHMOND Va Dec. 81 Q9-Delegate Stuart Carter Of
Boecour today suggested posponement Of the January State
constitutional referendum in the light Senator Byd go slow
advice legislation dealing with school segregation.
at becomes obvious each day approach the refer
endum that should rush headlong in the unknown
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for a system of administrative 8
assignment plan"
The plan is constitutional a.
serve segregation in our Virginia
public schools within the frame
work of the Supreme Court de-
.cisions for as long a time as
society in different parts of Vir-
ginia so demands. This portion
of the Gray report should be en-
acted into law at the regular ses-
sion of the General Assembly in
January of 1856.
Second. the Gray report rec
ommends that a referendum be
held on January 9. 1856, leading
to amendment of Section l4l Of
the Virginia Constitution. Sec
ton 14l now provides that pub
| lie funds shall not be appro-
priated for private schools. If the
referendum carries. public funds
can be appropriated for private
schools under what is called the
tuition grant plan"
Opposed to Portion
I am opposed to this portion
| of the Gray report, certain in
my mind that it will lead to q
degeneration of the Virginia
public free school system, and
that the tuition grant plan" re-
sulting therefrom is impractical
and Unconstitutional.
The assignment plan will work.
Let's try it first. If it does work.
we keep our public schools in
tact, adhere to our Southern
tradition, and obey the law. If it
does not work. we shall mean
while consider continuously other
advisable legislative action.
Under the assignment plan in
no part of Virginia will a single
white child be sent to a colored
school. Under the assignment
Iplan in Virginia counties where
1.-THE social problem is most acute.
no colored children will be as
signed to white schools. Under
the assignment plan. in some
sections Of Virginia, a limited
number Of outstanding Negro
pupils may be admitted to some
white schools. The law says this
must be.
This process win not be one
of gradually increasing tempo.
It must be tightly and conserva-
lively administered so that no
social problem will ever result.
1t will. to q limited and con-
tinuously controlled degree, rec.
Iognize individual achievement
regardless Of race.
One .af BASH Rights
Incidentally, the right of a
citizen Of the United States and,
of Virginia to stand on his own
two feet. according to his own
abilities and character, is one Of
the fundamental rights Of free
men which Virginia gave to
America.
The tuition grant plan will not
work. 1t will give us State
wide incurable headache. It will
transfer public buildings to pri-
vate hands. viii remove teachers
to private schools at less pay, will
Iendanger teachers retirement
benefits. will lower the standards
in public schools and replace
them with fly-by-night private
schools whose accreditation will
be dubious at best. and will
penalize the poorer families who
cannot~afford to pay the differ
ence over and above the tuition
grants in order to send their
children to private schools.
Most important of all. the
tuition grant plan is undeniably
Unconstitutional. Payment Of
tuition grants alone to private
schools will constitute State ac-
ton, and will clothe those schools
with a public nature. A colored
child seeking entry to one of
those schools cannot be denied
admission on the basis Of race
alone. We shall still have our
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The first phose Of the Groy Commission
plan to prevent forced school intesro-
ton in Virginia will be voted on
January 3. The Stor asked M.
Boothe. q leoder Of opponents Of the
referendum. to write this. the seventh
of o series exploring both sides Of
the controversy The other side will
be discussed tomorrow in on article
written by Arlington stote Senator
Charles R. Fenwiek.
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]
problem and we shall have done
nothing except to transpose our
dilemma from one set Of schools
to another.
We shall have gotten nowhere.
Our weapon" will have become
a sword Of ashes. And what q
price we shall have paid! Let
me repeat, We shall have sold
our birthright Of public educa-
ton for a mess Of pottage con-
tanning nothing except confusion
and Illustration.
Importance Weighed
For a moment, let US consider
the Importance Of keeping Sec
ton 141. This section Is one Of
the two constitutional corner
stones of our public free school
system. Section 1919 is the other.
Section l29 provides that the
General Assembly shall estab-
Ilish and maintain and efficient
system Of public free schools
throughout the State. Section
Il4l guarantees financially that
this duty will be fulfilled by pro-
Ihibiting us from spending public
money to pay for private schools.
Section l41 was put in the
Constitution in 1902 after 80
years of the toughest kind of go
ing for the public school system.
1T represented a triumph over
the system Of private academies
which had been financed partly
by the State in the l9th century.
Section 14l was adopted be-
cause our tax revenues were
limited. and because the compe-
tition Of modern civilization de-
Imanded that all Of our children
be educated. This demand was
never more overwhelming than
1t is today. It will become In
Icreasingly crucial in the imme-
Idiate future.
I'm the past 10 years in vir-
Iginia we have built 1900 class
rooms. In the next six years we
must build 1890 more. In the
next l0s years we shall need
1000 new qualified teachers each
year more than the year pre-
ceding-l0.0o0 more, in other
words. in the next 10 years. This
is no time to temporize. no time
ito weaken. no time to cut the
financial heart out Of our public
free school system.
Look at the Facts
Prominent Virginians, many of
them dependent upon the Legis-
ilature for financial aid to their
organizations and institutions.
have felt compelled to state
publicly their approval Of the
iamendment 10 SecCion 14l.
You. as citizens in this free
and literate land. have the
privilege and the duty of looking
Iat the basic facts yourselves
under the glaring light of truth
and of drawing your own con-
illusions.
There is but one test. II deep
in your hearts you believe that
public education Is q vital bles-
sing Of liberty, you will vote
AGAINST the convention to-
amend Section 14l.
The next article In this
series will appear tomorrow.
1t will be written BIZ Arlington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-21

The next article In this
series will appear tomorrow.
1t will be written By Arlington
State Senator Charles r. Fem
wick, member Of the Gray
C0mmission,l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-30

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH" a comedy
in three acts by George Axelrod pro-
duced by Courtney Burr and Elliott
Nugent. directed by John Gerstad. design
and lighting by Frederick Fox. sons
The Girl without a Name" by Dana
Suesse. At the National.
Richard Sherman Tom Ewell
Helen Sherman Rita Morley
Miss Norris --- Shirley Ballard
Elaine Fayne Blackburn
Marie Whatever Her -Name-Was
Dorothy Love
The Girl Louise King
DR.. Brubaker Robert Emhardt
Tom Mackenzie William Woodson
The Voice Of Richards Conscience
The Voice Of the Girls Conscience
Victoria Van Dyke
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Community Drama
Four Virginia Groups
To Stage One-Act Plays
BY JAMES ROWLAND

A stepped-up interest in COM
munity drama is a strain that
surges through the plans of anna
teur threatricals-the Arlington
Players being no exception.
Out of one facet of its ven
turesome thinking has come a
four-in-one event scheduled for
Friday and Saturday evening.
It's the Players idea to activate
a spirited push for local acting
talent by having performers dis
play their abilities in a series of
one-act plays.
Accomplishment of this feat.
coupled with closer co-opera-
ton among amateur groups, will
help topple all immediate bar
riers now slowing operations.
This. anyway, is the way the
picture appears in blueprint.
The Players invitation has
been readily accepted by the
Little Theater of Alexandria,
the darlington Players and the
Falls Church Community Thea
ter. Stratford Junior High
School will house the program.
The hour is BIS o'clock.
The group from Alexandria
will be using the services of
Helen Doniphan, Helen Todd.
Dorothy Wood and Dorothy Orr
for its production of THE
Brampton Sisters" an original
by H. Clifford Irion.
The Harrington Players have
scheduled "Hi-Fidelity," an orig
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girl upstairs brushes a ported
plant of her terrace wall. It
crashes onto the chaise lounge
the guy Just left. It's fate.
A thought like this admitted
to the mind sets Mr.. Ewell off
on a comedy performance that
is a sheer masterpiece. He didn't
ask for the girl. Heaven might
have sent her, and it couldn't
have chosen a more enticing one.
Why? To give him a chance to
check up on his attractiveness?
What age has done to him? To
amuse himself perhaps as his
absent wife was amusing herself
where she was?
Questions like these can drive
a man 1aft which might, after
all, be better than being bored
to death. AS Mr.. Ewell and Miss
King 60 about finding the an
swers. it certainly is better than
being bored to death. They are
both nice people but thu more
vulnerable for all that to the
thrills and terrors of propinquity
and privacy.
John Gerstad, co-producer
Elliott Nugent's son-in-law, has
done a remarkably artful job of
directing 1.-THE Seven Year Itch"
He permits his hero and heroine
to talk aloud to themselves, pro-
vided inner voices to talk back
to them, and allows the figures
of their dreams and reveries to
materialize on the stage.
He has even made plausible
provision for a psychiatrist to
wander in and out of the affair
at moments of crisis, than which
nothing could be more clever or
funny.
While Mr.. Ewell's portrait of
a man being wracked by ro-
nance, and Miss Kings as the
blithely enticing girl are the
dominant ones. there is nice sup
port for them from the others in
THE Seven Year Itch" Rita
Morley is Just the pert wife such
a good man as the hero deserves,
William Woodson is a novelist.
with the good taste to fiirt with
hel, and Robert Emhardt is a
psychiatrist several cuts above
those who usually represent the
profession in comedies.
Frederick Fox designed the
terrace apartment which could
not be more attractive and func-
tional, and Dana Suesse COM
posed the song, THE Girl With
out A Name" which has just the
right haunting note for its pur-
pose.
1t is nice to know that while
spring may not be here, 1.-The
Seven Year Itch" is.
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing

Stage
National - THE Seven Year
Itch; 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Shubert "Pajama Tops;
$3.50 pm.
Arena-"The World of Sholom
Aleichem"; $3.50 pm.
Lisner - Cry of Freedom;
$3.50 pm.
Ambassador - THE Ameri-
cano";; 1870, $3.50, $50. 1880 and
e:35 pm
Capitol - Man Without a
STAR; 1880 ans. 1885, $40. 5:45,
1850 and $50 pm.
Colony-"Anna":; $40 pm.
Columbia Chief Crazy
Horse: 11:45 am, las, 3:45.
6:45. TAO and $40 pm.
Dupont-"Gate of He'll; 1880
am. 1885, 3;35. $40. 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Keith's - 1.-The Long Gray
Line; 1920 am. 2:05, 1850,
Ills and 9:45 pm.
Little-A Night With Charlie
Chaplin; /. $3.50, $40, 8 and
1920 pm.
Macarthur AN Inspector
Calls; 6:35, $40 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan THE Ameri-
cano":: 11:15 am. /. 2:45, 4:30.
6:15. 8 and $50 pm.
Ontario THE Bridges Of
Toko-Ri";; /, 2:25, $40, 7:25 and
$40 pm.
Palace - Captain Lightfoot":;
1880 am, 1875. $40. 5:45, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Playhouse-"The Glass Slip
per-; l0:40 am, 1890, 2:20,
4:10, 6, 7::55 and 9:45 pm.
Plaza-"Tonight's the Night:
1920, ais. 4:10. Cos, 8 and 10
pm.
Trans-Lux - THE Country
Girl; 10:45 am. 1890, 2:25.
4:20, 6:15. 8:15 and 1918 pm.
Warner-"This Is Cinerama';;
2 and $50 pm.
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weeks date here. E street has
not been so hilarious all season
and clearly Mr.. Ewell. an ex-
traordinarily funny fellow, is
just the man to wipe out our
bitter brooding on the frozen
tulip magnolias and the poor.
unwise crocuses.
Every happy advance word
about THE Seven Year Itch"
turns out to be justified. 1t is
one Of the funniest case his
tories ever written about summer
widowers who find themselves
at the mercy of loneliness and
fatally attractive girls who live
In the overhead apartment.
It might not be as uproarious
without a soul-searcher as thor
ough as Mr.. Ewell, but this is a
silly speculation. The New York
company is here, by the way,
as a result Of an ingenious de-
cision to let it travel by bringing
the road company into New York.
This should happen more often,
but 1t won't.
Il Il y
Mr.. EWell, with the blithe as
sistance of a breath taking girl.
Louise King. makes it clear he
probably was born to play Author
Axelrod's hero.
There have been many YER
sions of this character, the poor
devil left to grub for a living in
the city while the wife and kids
retreat to summer paradises like
Cohasset, Mass.
The number Of these, indeed,
puts the author and his star on
their mettle to keep the type
from looking hollow. Ewell's man
is anything but. He is a fellow
with a conscience, but he is also
one with impulses. a seeing eye,
and a lively response to plausible
stimuli, especially if they are
blond. young, naive and adven-
turous.
What gives 1.-The Seven Year
Itch" its hilarious distinction is
that it is only Incidentally con-
cerned with the surface of its
theme. 1t goes after the inward
ness of one of these affairs,
which turns out to be more
amusing and charming. This is
q report on the voice of the
mourning dove as it is heard in
the lonely homes and apart
ments of the$land, about which
Solomon could have guessed but
not known.
y y n
Mr.. Ewell and Miss King make
It clear that there is much more
to summer madness than even
its, more observant victims re-
alize. A man is sitting there on
his apartment terrace innocently
listening to the Dodgers and
Cubs on the radio. His wife left
that morning. He is being good,
and being lonely; not drinking
and not even smoking. Then the
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inal by Leo Gardin. The cast
includes Frank Moon, John
Vance. Martha Gentsah, Jona-
than Farwell, Pat Costello and
Louise Brandwen.
The Falls Church Theater will
present 1.-The Flattering Word"
by George Kelly. Players are Pat
Bond. Bob Mullen, Patsy Straw
See ROWLAND, Page A-37
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The Posing Show :.
Seven Year Itch Arrives,
Atoning for Tordy Spring
BY JAY CARMODY

Washington finally gets its chance to join the merimen
the last two years over George Axerods The Seven Year
Itch" and its willingness to do is unquestioned.
This last night at the National Teater where
the New York company headed by Tom Ewell opened
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