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The Sidney herald., 1955-06-09

for more upstream storage to feed
downstream power generators.
Despite all the reasons oppon-
ents r pleading against ratifica-
ton of the Columbia compact.
what is basically involved is an
effort by public power advocates
what the Eisenhower administra-
ton calls its partnership plan for
the development of hydroelectric
resources.
Under the proposed compact,
authority of the commission would
be merely advisory. The real sig
n1ficance of the compact would
be that the states themselves, in
stead of river basin authority
schemes, would be in the ascend
ency.
The Sidney herald., 1955-06-09

The rivers flowing into the
Black Sea provide a surface layer
of fresh water, but the lower
depth are %ususually salt.
The Sidney herald., 1955-06-09

m Pontiac's price field. And it's one of the
many Pontiac advantages you can't get any
where else. Pontiac alone gives you the terrific
drive of Strato-Streak performance.
This sensational performance, remember.
m In a distinguished, futu~re-fashioned
beauty that is tagged with a price any new
car buyer can readily afford.
Here's your wide-open invitation to come
in and try the result-he faStest-seHing Pontiac
of all time. The car is ready whenever you
are! Make it soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
THIS SUNDAYS BEST READING
Ole Sunday .$tar

MOTORING DOWN MEMORY LANE will take you back to
yesteryeor when getting out the fomy automobile ana
ooinq on Sunday drive spelled high adventure at its best
Story BY Philip Love featured through two fu poses
The Stor Pictorial Magazine Illustrated win on OUT
stondnq selection Of memory jogging photographs
REAL BATTLE IS GOING ON for Detroit; Bilon-Dol
Secrets" soys A. e. Hotchner in This Week Magazine
Detroit city where cloak dogoer agents aren't after
stote secrets . they're otter automobile secrets OF
their ryoIs and whoever wins the battle will determine
the cor you buy.
WOMAN WITH A SECRET is Pdtricic Jesse English oefess
whose excellent performance in Witness tor the Fsose-
cution must be discussed evcsyey lest the plot o. the
hit meodroma be given cwoy Audiences, enormeu ~
Miss Jessel ore helping keep her secret soys WILTON
Glover IN his profile Of in the Drama Section
METROPOLITAN ScENE-Be sure to read The Stars ou-
thorito,ye new seoionoi columns offo in the Metro
poIon Area. This Sunday Hector Mclean compares me
HOUSING plons Of the District and BoItmoe; 1ene 6ood-
win reports from Annapolis on how Republican Gov
McKeIdn gets along with Democratic legislcfure cnd
Alex Preston discusses vrsinos accomplishments under
its unusual 60 rood program The columns
oppeor in the Editorial Section.
MIDWINTER RESORT AND TRAVEL Sections you're
yocoson minded and your hopes point toward the North
South East or West be eerfon to check The Stars Big
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HIGHIIGHTs FOR WoMEN-ls the Society and Foshion
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Adventist Publishers
Close Meeting Today

A vesper service will close the
annual publishing convention OF
the Columbia Union Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists to-
day in Takoma Park Adventist
Church, Takoma Park, Md.
The service will follow a SYM
postum of publishing leaders at
3 pm. Dan A. Ochs, president
of the Columbia Union Confer
ence of Adventists, will be one
of the speakers.
More than 275 delegates at
tended the week long meeting
devoted to discussing procedures
in the publishing department of
the church. They came from
Ohio, New Jersey. Pennsylvania.
Virginia, West Virginia, Mary
land, Delaware and the District.
j. F. Kent, secretary OF the
Columbia Union Conferences
publishing department, was in
charge of the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
jewelers. and CIoihiers
Warned Of Forger Here

Police today are searching for
a smooth-talking forger with a
taste for expensive clothes and
jeweiry.
The man has swindled WASH
ington haberdashers and jewell
ers Of about $4,000 since early
November. according to Detec-
tive Sergt. John J. Fitzpatrick
Of the Check and Fraud Squad.
The $4,000 figure may be in
creased as other swindles come
to light, he said.
All jewelry and mems furnish
ing stores we're warned yesterday
to watch for a white man. about
50 years old, 5 feet 8 or 0 inches
tail. weighing about $50 pounds,
with dark. wasy hair, dark eyes,
thin build and 3 saIlow COM
piexions
The forger, police said. buys
$50 suits both mems and wom-
en'sexpensire costume jewelry
and perfume.
He signs checks with the
names Of real persons and pre-
sents forged credentials 70 iden-
ksf<, t,sSxsSn7f
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
.5-io-15-Year Term
Is Imposed in s39l
Liquor Store Holdup

A man was sentenced yester-
day to serve from 5 to is years
in prison for taking part in a
1892 holdup-robbery Of the Co
lumbia Wine 81 Liquor Shop.
HOO block Of Bladensburg road
NE, last January H.
He is Leon A. Edwards, IS. OF
the $500 block of Hamilton street,
East Riverdale, Md, who had
been convicted by a jury. partly
on the testimony Of q co-defend-
ant. John e. Murphy. 80. Of the
400 block Of Sampson road, Sill
yer Spring. Md.
Edwards was sentenced by
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut of
the U. s. District Court for the
District Of Columbia. The court
was informed Edwards had q
prior criminal record.
Shortly after Edwards was
sentenced, Chief Judge Bolitha
j.. Laws gave Murphy concur
rent sentences totaling from one
to six years for taking part tn
the robbery and also for 3 $3.50
Iiuuor store robbery In the $500
block Of Bladensburg road NE.
Murphy was accused alone In
the latter robbery. He had
pleaded guilty In both cases.
Judge Laws mentioned In SEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Nelson Denies Story
He Might Retire
From School Post

Supt. Of Schools Hobart M.
Corning has issued q statement
containing q denial from his first
assistant superintendent, Norman
J. Nelson. that he is planning to
retire.
DR.. Corning,s statement fol-
lows:
IT was surprised and shocked
by published statements that Mr..
Nelson is considering retirement
in April.
1.-THE plans for the administra-
tive reorganization of the schools
anticipate the indefinite service
of Mr.. Nelson who according to
retirement laws is entitled to
continue in service for eight
more years. It is earnestly hoped
that Mr.. Nelson viii complete
his full term.
Il have this signed statement
from Mr.. NeiSon.
"'I have no intention WHAT
ever, nor have I had at any time
to retire on my 62d birthday In
April. I have made no state
ment at any time to any person
that I plan to retire in April. I
have no immediate plans for
retirement. Such plans are my
personal business and when a
decision is reached that I wish
to retire / will communicate my
decision to the superintendent Of
schools.
A story in The Star yesterday
said the school system may lose
Mr.. Nelson this year. The story
reported that G. Melvin Sharpe,
Board Of Education president,
said he had advised DR.. Corn
ing to start looking for a sue
cessor to. Mr.. Nelson, although
Mr.. Sharpe hoped to persuade
Mr.. Nelson to remain on the job
at least until next fall.
Mr.. Sharpe said today that
DR.. Corning two days ago asked
him to try to persuade Mr.. Mel
son not to retire. Mr.. Sharps
said he planned to try to reach
Mr.. Nelson today to discuss the
matter with him.
The School Board president
also said he intended to assure
Mr.. Nelson that no effort was
being made by any one to get
him out of his job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Youth Gives Back
Some Of Loot to
Robbery Victim


A teen-ager who robbed an
other youth last night relented
and gave back part Of his loot.
William Lee. IA. colored. of
903 F street NE. told police a
youngster about Is years Of age
walked up to him and demanded
his money. At the same time.
William said. the youth grabbed
him and took his billfold con-
tanning S..
As his assailant walked away,
William cried out: That's all
the money I goty Please don't
take 1t ell"
Then. William told police, he
turned around and tossed him So.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Traffic Crashes Take Toll Of Is Area Lives

Accompany c, Headquarters Bat
talon. the Marine Corps Schools,
Quantico. They said he died
instantly in the crash at 1880
am.
State police said the car, car
rying four Marines, who were
on weekend liberty. was driven
by Sergt. George A. Stott, 81
Sergt. Stott, Corpl. Ross v
Souva. %. and Corpl. Joseph c,
Picard. %. weer admitted to the
Marine Corps Hospital at GUAM
tico.
A Marine Corps spokesman
said the men were members OF
a casual company at Quantico
Driver Killed, 3 Hurt
In Eostern Shore Crash
WYE MILLS, Md. Jan. 8 t4D.--
Both drivers were killed and
three others were injured early
today when two cars sideswiped
as they met on Maryland Route
404 near Wye Mills.
James Curtis Wise, 80, Of
Greensboro. Md. and Horace
Henry Byris, 48, of Ridgeley. Md.
were pronounced dead at the
scene.
Edward Henry, 30, and Larry
Randolph Nibblett, So, both OF
Denton, Md, and both riding
with Mr.. Wise, were taken to
Memorial Hospital at Easton
Mr.. Henry was described as in
critical condition. with severe
decorations Of the face and chest
Mr. Nibblett's condition was
given as fair. He had lacera-
lions Of the forehead and pos
sible chest injuries.
Riding with Mr.. Byris was
George Franklin Berry, Sc. OF
Hillsboro, Md. He suffered lac
erations of the nose and possible
chest injuries.
State troopers described the
accident as q half head-on col.
lision."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Ex-SiIver Spring Family Of 4
Dead in New Mexico Crash

The lives of a Walter Reed
Hospital medical technician and
his entire family Of three were
snuffed out in a head-on auto
crash in which seven persons
died yesterday near Lordsburg,
N. Mex.
Reported dead by the Associ-
ated Press were:
Serpt. itc Richard Tavern
Hursh, IS. formerly of 20i2 Cos
nell street. Silver Spring.
Mrs. Setsuko A. Hursh. Is, his
wife, a Japanese war bride
Linda Hursh, "a, daughter
Betty Lee Hursh, IA, another
daughter.
Pvt. Ralph Osborn Mitchell,
%, of Adena, Ohio.
Elwood II. Vincent, C6. of Fair
mont, MINI.
Mrs. Amy Vincent. SO. the lat
ter's vie.
New Mexico police said q car
driven by Pvt. Mitchell and
bearing the Hursh family,
rammed head on into that oc-
cupied BY the Minnesota couple
Tracks left by the Mitchell
auto indicated it was 3 feet
over the white line at the time
Of impact. police said.
Sergt. Hursh. stationed al
Walter Reed since 1852, had
just been transferred to Fort
Lewis. WASH. and was en- route
to visit his mother. q resident
Of Fullerton. Calf. before re-
porting for duty.
He was q native Of Waterloo.
Iowa.
Papers found ON the body Of
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fencing that Murphy had CO.
operated with the prosecution
in both cases. Murphy has a
prior good record, authorities
said.
Before sentencing Edwards,
Judge Schweinhaut was told by
Assistant United States Attorney
E. Riley Casey that he had been
Informed Edwards had threat
ened Murphy. This caused both
Judge Schweinhaut and Judge
Laws to recommend that the
two defendants be confined in
different prisons, fudge Schwein-
haut said the reported threat
by Edwards had no bear
ing on the sentence.
In another case Judge Schwein-
haut gave Samuel w. Har-
mon. %. former airman at Boil
ing Field. from one to six years
for the $306 holdup-robbery In
November Of a Western Union
Telegraph ofilce in the 5000
block Of Nichols avenue Sc.
Tommy Perkins. 80. an Indian,
formerly Of the 500 block OF
X street NV. was sentenced by
Judge Schweinhaut to serve from
three to nine years for Illegal
sale. possession and corcealment
OF q narcotic.
Dewey B. Johnston. 81, Of the
1900 block Of Rhode Island ave.
nue. NV. was given from two to
six years by Judge David A. Pine
for passing four forged prescrip-
tons for o narcotic. Johnston
was acquitted Of Q charge OF
forging them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Committees Planning
Close BUDGET Study

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 8 (Rl.
Close and continuous COM
parison of the budget will be
made this year by the House and
Senate Finance Committees in
contrast to the past two years,
when they went their separate
ways until almost the last min
ute.
The plans for constant col
liberation results from both
committee chairmen, Senator
Turnbull and Delegate Boone,
coming from the same county
Baltimore.
Therefore, they will be more
inclined than otherwise to work
out the major problem Of the
30-day session together.
I'VE haven't sat down yet to
work out the specific routine. but
you can be sure we will be in
constant touch with each other
said Senator Turnbull.
The finance committees will
be searching as hard as they can
for places to cut recommended
appropriations.
They win be out to tighten a
tax blow that Gov McKeldin
says is necessary to raise $2e
million more than anticipated in
come.
He will recommend both the
sales and income taxes be raised
from 2 to 3 per cent and that
withholding of the income taxes
from pay start July !. The COM
bination of withholding during
the last half of this year while
taxpayers still are paying of
last year has been labeled as out
right double taxation by some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
REWARD

Intelligent young men and women seek.
ing q future could hardly find richer
rewards than those offered by the pro.
fcssion Of teacher.
II is q secure profession and one for
which there is great and growing
need. In Americas public schools alone,
over 10000 new teachers are wanted
this year -. and more will be required
through the years to come.
Why don't you decide TO seek the
greatest Of rewards by helping children
learn =. helping shape the futureg
pss the free beckett "Asw Cen W. Ger
Enessh Coed fseshsss7s write Better seheeis.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Prospective Riders
viii Be PoIIed on
De Luxe Bus Plan

The Capital Transit Co is
about to find out just how much
it's worth to bus passengers to
have guaranteed seats to and
from work every day.
If the desire is there. the COM
pany intends to start a, daily
de luxe run, with express service
and reserved seats. between
Chevy Chase, Md, and down.
town Washington at a fiat rate
of sis a month.
Figured on a basis of 81 work
days q month, that comes to
Just under IS cents a trip-15
cents over the regular toll.
The Public Utilities Commits
sion gave tentative blessing to
the idea after an informal meet
ing yesterday with E. C. Gid
dings, Capital Transit vice presi-
dent.
WIN Mail Questionnaires.
AS starter. Mr.. Giddings
said, his firm will mail question
naires next week to Chevy Chase
residents to ask about times
they leave for and from work
and whether they're interested
in the plan.
With this data. provided the
interest is there, Capital Transit
will work out schedules. The
final program would be subject
however, to Public Utilities Com
mission approval.
MIR. Giddings said passengers
would be picked up virtually al
their homes. with patrons from
the same neighborhood adding Q
club" touch to the whole thing
In addition, Mr.. Giddings said
the CLUB" privilege would en-
title members to ride any Other
bus or streetcar in the system
for 10 cents q ride.
| Tried i'm Cincinnati.
| The same idea, the official said
has worked well In Cincinnati
He said he hoped it particularly
will appeal to the professional
and businessman now driving hi
own car and who is tired oi
1 fighting traffic and getting
denied tenders"
Letters, which will accompany
next weeks questiofnaires. viii
tell Chevy Chase motorists wht
drive IL miles a day to and from
work they are doing SO at a cost
| of about So cents q day-not
counting parking.
The letters will paint this pic.
ture of the new service:
you can meet your neighbor'
each morning and evening, cha
| with the fellow sitting next X
you. enjoy the camaraderie d
committing together daily--or. 4
| it is your preference, to read thu
newspaper in comfort. smoke Of
catch up with q little Of the sleeI
you lost the night before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
County Police
Seek Changes
In Sick Leave
Prince Georges Unit
Asks to Accumulate
Time Up to 5 Years

The Prince Georges County
Policemen's Association asked
the county commissioners yes
terday to liberalize leave regula-
tons which now prohibit the
accumulation of annual sick
leave from one year to the next.
Detective Clarence j. Vincent,
Corpl. Oral O. Husk and pfc.
John J. Magruder, representing
the association. said rs per cent
of the 11l-man police depart
ment lose from ] to Is days of
sick leave a year "by not taking
advantage" Of the Is days of
sick leave provided.
THAT penalties the men who
don't use-it." Detective Vincent
said. He asked the commission
ers to permit the accumulation
Of sick leave for up to five years.
or q maximum Of rs days. That.
the board was told, would be
comparable to sick leave regula-
tons in other nearby police
departments.
Other Departments.
Montgomery County police
get Is days of sick leave a year
and can accumulate a MAXI
mum of go days. In the Dis
trict, Metropolitan policemen
get 80 days of sick leave year
with no carryover. Both Of the
nearby Maryland police depart
ments work six days q week.
Pfc. Magruder said police are
more exposed to colds because
1--WE work indoors and outdoors
all day" He added that some
policemen have been 'cut of"
without salary because of q
siege of sickness Of more than
Is days. The police department
requires a doctors certificate
from men who are out sick more
than three days. he said.
The commissioners took under
advisement this and another
proposal that the county pay
for illegal arrest insurance on
policemen. Detective vincent
said the insurance. which would
cover policemen up to $4,000
against damages awarded in
civil suits for false arrest or
brutality" would cost SIG q
year for each man.
Seek to Silence Siren.
A delegation Of citizens from
Hollywood, Nd, asked the COM
missioners to remove q civil de-
Tense siren in the 1900 block Of
Lackawanna street, which wakes
up the children and sets the
dogs to bowling" The same
group appealed last year to the
former Republican commissioners
without success. a spokesman
said.
Or. Kenneth Campbell Of 9705
Rhode Island avenue, said the
212 horsepower siren. installed
partially with Federal Civil De-
tense funds. is hooked up to the
county's fire board circuit sin
direct conflict with Federal
policy" He said 1t sounds every
time the Branchville Volunteer
Fire Department gets an alarm,
although 1t is mile from the
fire house.
John Beckham, whose house
is next to the siren, said he Is
selling his home because the blast
sshakes the walls"
The commissioners also re-
ceiyed request for meeting
with ofiicials of Freedmen,s Hos
pital, the only Negro hospital in
the Washington area, to arrange
for county payment for charity
patients from Prince Georges
communities. A letter from the
hospital said 4,795 hospital days
were provided for INDECENT Prince
Georges County Negros in 1854.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
BrookeviIie Mon Better
After Fall From Scuffold

A 3l-year-old construction
worker was reported In good con-
dition today at Montgomery
County General Hospital after
falling 10 feet from a scaffold
yesterday in Silver Spring.
James D. Skeen. the workman
of Brookeville. Md. suffered q
possible broken back when he
fell at a house construction job
of the 1920 block of Georgia
avenue. Montgomery County po-
lice reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Help on Tex Returns

The Arlington office OF the In
ternal Revenue Service has an-
nounced q star of agents viii
be available in the local ONCE.
ESQ North Monroe street. from
$50 am, to S pm. daily TO aid
taxpayers In filing their Federal
income tax returns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Byrd, hahoney
Are Doomed for
State Treasurer
Friends Support
Primary Rivals
At Annapolis
"a THE EVENING STAR
BY IN. A,.oeia..d Pres.

ANNAPOLIS. Jan. 8. Mary
land legislators face the Job next
week Of electing State Treasur-
er and two of the names being
banded about as likely pros
poets are grade-A conversation
shoppers: H. c. Byrd and George
p. Mahoney.
The Maryland Constitution
provides that the treasurer be
elected by the General Assembly.
Actually, however. a man to I'LL
the $2.500-a-year position will
be named in a caucus Of the 1l9
Democratic lawmakers.
They hold an overwhelming
majority of the General Assem-
bly's l52 seats, and they're not
about to elect a Republican.
Supported by Friends.
The Assembly may name q
treasurer Monday night.
Or. Byrd and Mr.. Mahoney,
who staged a bitter Democratic
gubernatorial primary last spring.
are not open candidates for the
Job. But friends Of each are re-
ported to be button holing legls-
lators to sound out sentiment.
II they are candidates, it isn't
the small remuneration they are
seeking. Since Gov. McKeldin
Is a Republican, the election OF
either to the treasurer's post
would reinstate him to COM
handing position in the Demo-
cratic Party.
Mr.. Mahoney's stock slipped
when he lost the nomination to
DR.. Byard, and DR.. Byrd's stock
took a tumble in turn when he
was the only major State DEM
ocratic candidate to suffer de-
feat in the general election.
Reported Considered.
Others repeatedly being con-
sidered. or hoping to be consid-
cred. for the post include:
Hooper S. Miles, who has held
the job for 20 years, but is re-
ported on the party's black list.
John Wood Logan, former ma
jority leader in the House OF
Delegates and now a member OF
the State Tax Commission.
Senator George w. Della, who
recently completed four-year
term as Senate president.
Emerson c. Harrington, jr.,
leader Of a Dorchester County
Democratic clan.
Treasurer Miles apparently has
fight on his hands because
some Democrats feel he has voted
too often on the side of Gov.
McKeldin in deliberations Of the
Board of Public Works-com-
posed of the Governor, the treas
urer and Controller j. Willard
Tawes.
The seat on the board is one
of the most important functions
of the treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Physicist Appointed

Or. Renfrem B. Potts. Austria
han physicist, has been APP
pointed research associate IN the
physics department Of the Uni
versity Of Maryland. Or. Potts
came to the United States I'M
der a Fulbright grant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Marine Dead, 3 Injured
In Fredeicksburo Smcshui

A Quantico tVa.) Marine cor
poral was killed and three others
were injured early today when
the car in which they were rid
ing smashed into a railroad
bridge abutment on Route 3
near Fredericksburg. Va.
Virginia State police identified
the dead Marine as Corpl.
Charles Anderson Ragan. %. of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08

Pvt. Mitchell indicated he was
assigned to the Fort Bliss Army
post. Ell Paso. Tex.
The accident occurred at q
lonely spot on U. s. Route 1890
about 81 miles east Of Lords
burg. near the scene Of another
that took four lives on Decem-
Der Is. designated Safe Driving
nav w. ~