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Calvary Baptist Church, at 10
am. tomorrow. William E. Bel
lamy will be the guest soloist. ac-
companied by the Vaughn Class
orchestra under the direction Of
Chester C. Hutchinson. William E.
Harvard. vice president of the
Organized Bible Glass Associa-
ton, will be the guest teacher Of
the Florence NJ. Brown Glass to-
morrow at 10 am. Mrs, William
S. Abernethy, teacher emeritus
of the Burial Glass for Business
and Professional Women, will
speak to the class at 10 am
tomorrow.
Col. E. B. Wadsworth will
speak to the Harrison Bible
Class. of st. Luke's Methodist
Church. at GAS am. tomorrow
Edwin Twingle will read the
Christmas Story.
Miss Mary Edna Morgan will
speak to the Harlan and Susanna
Wesley Bible Glasses. of Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church,
in Joint session tomorrow at 10
am. Admiral Morton Ring will
be the guest teacher of the A. B.
Pugh Glass for Men at the same
hour. Mastin @. White viii speak
to the All States Bible and Fell
lowship Glasses at 10 am. tomor-
row. Mrs. Maude Schofield win
present the lesson before the
Fellow Workers Class tomorrow
at 10 am.
The Box Bible Glass Of Emory
Methodist Church will meet In
joint session with the other
adult classes. Harper l.. Garrett
will present the lesson at $3.50
am. tomorrow.
THE Coming of the King" will
be the subject of James o. Bou-
tons presentation before the
Trinity Women's Bible Glass OF
Sherwood Presbyterian Church
at GAS am. tomorrow.
The Marietta Smith Bible
Glass of Bethany Baptist Church
will meet at 8 pm. Wednesday
in the home Of Mrs. Geneva
Ryan, 10306 Douglas avenue, Sill
yer Spring. The annual Christ
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mas party will follow a short
business session.
The Templemen's Bible Glass
will meet at 10 am. tomorrow in
Temple Baptist Church. The Rev
Norman cambridge viii present
the lesson.
Henry NJ. Folmer. chorister Of
the Keller Memorial Lutheran
Church. will speak to the Wiles
Bible Glass at $3.50 am. to-
morrow.
Walter C. Lowrie will present
the lesson to the Baraca Bible
Glass of the Brookland Baptist
Church at $3.50 am. tomorrow
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Toys Given Children

Members Of the Ladies Home
Journal-sponsored Sub-Deb Club
yesterday presented toy filled
stockings to 10 boys and girls at
the Children's Convalesce n t
Home. Eighteenth street and
Bunker Hill road NE. The mem
bers. headed by Sue Sweeney.
are from Coolidge and North
western High Schools.
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CumuIier to Speak

Renah F. Camalier, former
District commissioner. will speak
on Christmas in Washington
the Other Man" at the Inter-
national Crossroads Breakfast at
% am. tomorrow, Central YMCA.
1875 G street NV.
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
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Tokomu YuIe Pageant

The Evangelical and Reformed
Church, 1900 New Hampshire
avenue, Takoma Park. Md, will
present a Christmas pageant to-
night at 6 o'clock on the church
grounds.
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pageant Of the Green Valley
Presbyterian Church. 5000 Dixon
street, Hillcrest Heights, will be
held at the church at II am.
tomorrow.
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Rodeheuver Memorial

A memorial service to Homer
Rodeheaver. Evangelist Billy
Sundays song leader. who died
last week. will be held at 8 o'clock
today in the Central Union Mis-
sion chapel. 613 c street NV.
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been chairman of Area H Of the
Commissioners Youth Council.
His replacement at the Rock
Greek Church has not been Sc
lected.
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ORGANIZED
BIBLE CLASSES
By HOWARD M. sTAcKHoUsE

international Sunday School Lesson tomorrow Songs
the Saviours Birth"
Mrs John Bayley Jones' wife of the minister Calvary Meth
odt Church. will address the Calvary and the other
adult classes in joint assembly at GAS tomorrow
Dr. Everett Lund will the Class Men
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white supremacy" are spring.
ing UP in increasing numbers
and the so-called citizens
councils and similar agencies
are becoming more numerous
and active.
1t is in this atmosphere that
Virginia has produced its
middle of the road" plan.
Adoption OF the first step
toward that plan in the APP
preaching State referendum
and constitutional convention.
seems probable. Whether, in
that event. the full program,
after its approval. will sur
vive a test in the United States
Supreme Court. is anybody's
guess.
Already q petition for an in
junction to prevent the State
from holding the referendum
has been filed in Richmond
City Court.
North American Newspaper AliiancsI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-11

Stunning accents for the modern
table setting. Made by Towle, these
servers combine supreme practical
ity, versatility and good looks. Cas-
serole and warming stand of black
oven-proof ceramic with sterling
stand and cover. Salad set and jam
pot are black plastic with sterling.
Towle Jam Set, black ceramic jar
with sterling lid and tray ---12.5O
TOwle Swirl Salt and Pepper
Shakers --------------7.5O pr.
TOwle "Silver Flutes Sugar and
Prices include Federal tox
70S 9TH St. NV. Sterling 3-l52S
on Silver Spring Juniper 7.7711
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Normally the commission as
sesses the cost of its regular
hearings on rates and services
against the public utility COM
pany involved - which figures
it as an item Of cost to be paid
by the customers In the course
Of time.
This time the commission
had to get the Tydings group
Of transit applicants to pay for
the stenographic record-of-
fering to let any other appli-
cants join in If they will pay
their own costs at 81 cents a
page. This would require post
ing of some $3.50 or $500, with
a refund of any unspent part.
All these headaches added
to the heat on the commission
during the two months it con-
sidered the applications Of
would-be transit operators.
On the day the commission
decided to hold a hearing on
the Tydings application next
Thursday. Commissioner Rob-
ert M. Weston finally sue
cumbed to the tension and
went home In a spell Of
faintness.
Almost until that time.
though. the commissioners
could still accept with a wry
laugh the classic political ak
ION Of Harry Truman:
If you can't stand the heat.
get out Of the kitchen"
So far nobody has left.
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DISTRICT:
PUG Sits on Hot Spot
In Transit Difficulty

Of $40 million in backing was
made for the Washington
Rapid Transit System. repre-
scented by I. william Stempil.
Soon the commission began
to complain that careless
newspaper readers were indi-
eating they believed the
agency had millions of dollars
spread out on the table be-
fore them. The commissioners
themselves. they said. hadn't
yet seen the color Of the
stuff.
The Koye Affoir
Then Tuesday The Star dis
closed that one of Mr.. Han
kin's oil company hackers, and
its president, had been barred
by Federal court Injunction
from dealing in its stock in
interstate commerce. Also the
president. John A. Kaye, had
been barred by injunction of
the New York State Supreme
Court from following his trade
as a broker in that State.
Not long thereafter the Chi
cago investment firm which
had been reported to have
promised $40 million to the
Washington Rapid Transit
System insisted that no COM
mitments had yet been made.
although negotiations were
under way.
In evaluating these allega-
tons Of financial support, the
commission found itself ham
pered by an embarrassing lack
Of funds. With only q small
staff. the commission had little
manpower for investigation
and no funds with which to
pay for even q Dun a. Brad
street credit report.
Money Problem
As a matter of fact the COM
mission was long uncertain
how it was going to pay for a
stenographic record Of its COM
ing public hearing on transit.
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MARYLAND:
How Sore q Wound Will Be Caused
By Stote's Tax Bite Next Year?

to shun the graduated income
tax plan as q way out of the
States financial dilemma. OPP
position to graduated income
tax rates has been almost O
tradition in Maryland since
voters In 1888 rejected q Con-
stitutional amendment which
would have authorized them.
The graduated system
which taxes higher income
at higher rates and which is
employed by the Federal Gov
eminent. the District and by
all but two of the % States
that tax incomes-is begin
ming to pick up some support
in the legislature, however.
Lee Groups Opinion
The much-hailed report Of
the Legislative Councils Sub
committee on Revenue Ap-
pralSal contains an opinion
from the Attorney General
that there now exists no con-
stitutional obstacle to Q grad
uated scale.
The subcommittee report,
written by its chairman, Del
egate Blair Lee III, Democrat
Of Montgomery, also notes that
although Maryland's retail
sales tax is not as regressive
as that in most other States,
it still puts relatively more of
a burden on the taxpayer of
modest means. The report
suggests, therefore, that a
mildly progressive" graduated
income tax would Offset the
mildly regressive" State sales
tax and redress the balance
Of the overall State tax struc-
ture."
The reports seems almost to
be telling the Governor that
if he decides to base his new
tax program on a higher sales
tax, the graduated income tax
might conceivably provide
Democratic legislative leaders
with the basis for an alter
native tax program.
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More significantly, he told
reporters at that gathering
that chances are he will pro-
pose an increase In the pres
ent sales tax rate Of 2 per cent.
This revelation FITS in with
unoficiai reports that Gov.
McKeldin will shape his new
tax program around a sales tax
increase rather than q boost
in income tax rates.
He proposed both last year
specifically. an increase of from
2 to 3 per cent in the State in
come tax rate and from Q to 3
per cent on the sales tax rate.
He also proposed a withhold
ing system for collecting State
income taxes as a third plank
in a gigantic tax program that
most observers now figure
would have given him so much
OF a surplus that he would
have been able to coast through
an entire four-year term with
out having to ask the Legisla-
ture for another tax increase.
The heavily Democratic Leg
islature adopted only the with
holding plan feature in the
chief executives program,
however, and made enough
other minor tax law changes
to balance the budget for this
fiscal year.
II Mr.. McKeldin does decide
TO propose a sales tax increase
but not an income tax boost,
he may have to fill out his
program with some Of the less
productive tax sources.
He made 1t quite clear the
other day. however, In his
second public indication Of his
views on the new tax pro-
gram, that he still wants
nothing to do with a State
cigarette tax. one Of the most
productive Of the still I'M
tapped tax sources in Mary
land.
The Governor. like most
State officials, has continued
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MARYLAND:
By GENE GOODWIN

Maryland taxpayers. still
licking wounds left by this
years State tax bite, are fear
fully awaiting word from An
napolis on how big next years
bill is likely to be.
The next move is up to Gov.
McKeldin. who is expected to
tell the public about the first
Of the year what size and kind
Of levy he favors.
Then it's up to the Legisla-
ture.
It should be said. before this
piece gets any deeper, that
those Of you who are harbor-
ing hopes that no State tax
increases will be necessary
next year are thinking wish
fully. 1t is true-as you have
read in the press-that re-
venues from State taxes on
sales. income. gasoline and
automobile titles are running
ahead of estimates, but State
fiscal experts still are expect
ing deficit next fiscal year
of between $25 million and $40
million.
SURPRISES accommodating from
certain State tax sources may
cushion next years blow to
the Free State taxpayer, fiscal
officials say. but he still should
be prepared for an ache in
his pocketbook.
Hints on His Views
The Governor has made two
public statements giving some
indication Of his current think
ing on the tax program.
One was during a recent
speech in Rockville where he
went on record for retaining
present exemptions from the
State sales tax of purchases
under 81 cents. He also said
he would be against removing
sales tax exemptions on food.
advertising, soaps. detergents
and baby oils and powders.
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them have not been answer
ed. Indeed State Senator
Garland Gray. chairman of
the commission which drafted
the plan, says some of them
can't be answered now.
Tickiish Questions
There is. for example, the
question as to what buildings
. will be used In the so-called
BLACK belt to house the
thousands Of pupils who will
not attend integrated schools.
Churches, auditoriums and
meeting halls of various kinds
will have 10 be pressed into
service, since it seems to be
assumed that the public
school buildings cannot be
used. Obviously this poses a
problem of enormous proper
lions.
Similarly there is the ques-
ton as to what means will be
available Tor checking up on
the expenditure Of tuition
grants, what will be done
about transporting pupils.
what control the authorities
will have, once the compul-
sorry education law is weak
ened, over parents who prefer
to put their children to work
around the house or else
where. rather than to SEND
them to school. and so on.
The question which prob
ably worried members most
of all at the recent session
concerned the extent to which
amending Section l4l OF the
State constitution, to permit
tuition grants. would weaken
Section 1923, which requires
the General Assembly to "es-
tablish and maintain an effi-
cient system of public free
schools throughout the State"
David j. Mays. counsel to
the commission which drafted
the plan. expressed the view
that the program embodies
the best way to save the States
public schools.
The plan has been termed
an evasion" Of the Supreme
Courts decision. but its advo-
Gates say it is in accordance
with the Interpretation placed
upon that decision by United
States Circuit Judge John j.
Parker of Richmond. Judge
Parker declared. that 1.-The
Constitution does not require
indignation" and he added:
1T does not forbid such seq
regation as occurs as the req
suit of voluntary action. 1t
merely forbids the use OF
governmental power to en-
force segregation
Whereas indignation is max
ing steady progress in the
border States and the District
of Columbia. resistance to it
in most Southern areas where
the Negroes outnumber the
whites is growing. Organiza-
tions designed to uphold
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-11
By vIRGINIUS DABNEY

3S4\11GnS4ND.-G oLC VII
Virginia, following the almost
unanimous adoption by its
General Assembly of a mid
dle-of -the-road" plan for
meeting the Supreme Courts
decision outlawing segregation
In the public schools.
The plan is less integration-
list than those being followed in
such border States as Ken
lucky and West Virginia, but
more so than the 100 per cent
segregationist stand taken in
several States Of the deep
South.
North Carolina, Tennessee.
Arkansas and Texas may be
particularly interested in the
Virginia plan. Virginia has "a
counties with Negro popula-
tons Of over so per cent. but
81 with less than 10 per cent.
Similar conditions prevail in
the four States mentioned. and
in each there is especially
strong resistance to integra-
ton in the regions where
Negroes comprise more than
half of the population.
The feature of the Virginia
plan which distinguishes it
from those in such States as
South Carolina. Georgia and
Mississippi is that it permits
counties and cities which wish
to integrate. to do so. At the
same time. it sets up machinery
designed to prevent mixed
schools where local governing
bodies are against this. A
number of Virginia counties
are reported ready to integrate
when the school year opens
next September.
londslide Vote
BY q vote of SO to S in the
House of Delegates and SO to l
In the Senate, the Virginia
Legislature approved the first
step in this plan at a special
session last week. Even House
Member Robert Whitehead,
leading liberal opponent of the
Byrd machine and regarded as
virtually certain to run for
Governor in 1857. voted for
the step. 1t involves a consti-
tutional amendment. which
must be approved in popular
referendum on January 9. and
also in a constitutional con-
vention.
The Virginia plan, drafted
by a 32-man commission. all
members of the General As
sembly. calls for three specific
steps:
/. Assignment of pupils and
teachers to schools on the
basis of health, aptitude, avail
ability of facilities, general
welfare and other factors. but
not race.
2. A system of tuition grants
from the public treasury to
pupils who do not wish to at
tend integrated schools, or
whose local authorities decide
not to operate such schools,
the grants to go to pupils in
privately operated non-sectar-
ian schools only.
3. Modification Of the COM
pulsory education law. so that
no child, whether white OF
Negro. can be compelled to
attend an integrated school
against his will.
Many questions are raised
by this program. and some OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-11
BY HECTOR MCLEAN

The hottest spot in the Dis
trict these days is the one
occupied by the Public Utili-
ties Commission.
Trying to find a private bus
operator to take over the city's
transit system next August Is.
the three commissioners can't
even find anyone to step onto
the spot with them to share
the glare from the searchlight
Of public attention.
Members of the Districts
Board of Commissioners re-
jected such an invitation only
q week or so ago when the
utilities commission began
what Chairman George E. C.
Hayes called a ''last-ditch eff
fort to persuade private enter
prise" to take over the transit
franchise.
This came shortly after the
utilities commission announced
it had not yet received q salts
factory proposal from any one
Of the five applicants. and as
the commissioners admitted
they were beginning to study
the problems of public owner
ship.
Shuddering at the possibility
this would lead to charges that
they were socialists, they de-
cided to send out a last stern
letter to the applicants. First,
though. they invited the Dis
trict Commissioners to send
the letter. or to join in sign
ing 1t.
Let Them Be Socialists
AS one wag commented, Let
them to be the socialists for q
while"
The District Commissioners.
however. neatly sidestepped
and told the utilities commits
sioners to go ahead on their
own.
Soon they began getting
what sounded like impressive
results. The first claim of big
money backing came from
Gregory Hankin. former New
Deal chairman Of the utilities
commission and counsel for
Metropolitan Transit CO.
operative.
He told the commission two
oil companies had offered to
invest $8.5 million in the CO.
operative, which was to be
altered radically to allow the
oil companies to exercise con-
troll.
Shortly thereafter q claim
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Other Stotes Watching
Fote of Gray Proposal

Becouse Of the greet interest
roised in virsinie by the Groy Com
mission report. virsinius Dobney,
editor Of the Richmond Times Dis
potch, hos written the accompany
ing article explaining the PROPOSED
which will 90 before Virginia voters
Jonuary 9. The article tokes the
place this week Of the regular
"vireinio" column conducted by
Alex R. Preston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-19

RAMBLER. in az q. OF woods. 20
mi. south Of D. CT; $4,000. 24-ft.
liv. rni., firepl., bath. oil heat; bus;
will finance. On q. 8. hwy. 1 at
Davis Garage. 3 MT So. Of Wood
bridge, turn RI. down Pine Lane 900
II. ANDREZEN, 1ps
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LAKE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. home
with 3 tile baths; on lake; 3 pieture
windows overlooking lake; CUSTOM
built brick construction attached
garage, pfivate dock: all utils.; viii
sacrifice for quick sale. JE. 2-31Sl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-19
STORES FOR RENT

BETHESDA - Modern limestone
front. 16x65 IT,, / block from Hot
Shoppe:, good retail spot. near
Giant store and Safeway; reasoua-
BILE rental to satisfactory tenant.
r. D. STIMsoN. Realtor. Ma. 5.
ALI MASSACHUSETTS AVE, NV
SsS. Rsmodeled store, "A ax2l y.
WAPLE co. 1924 14th st. NV.
STORE FRONT. with oi1ices and
storage avail; large bldg: rent
500 per mo. each. 10th and
Micht2an. ave. ne. CaM MR.
SMALL DoWNTtowS sTooRE-Bus,
location: 1402 N. Y. ave. NV;
suitcase avail. to best offer. Ii
silver SPRING, MD.-roeated : on
I'd. store contains 1, 800 SO. IT. Heat
and water included. reasonable
rental, Suitable for most any type
retain business. Cali Mr.. HOLLAND.
II. g. SMITHY CO., S1l 18th st.
NV. ST. $4,000 20
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DESK sPAcE
FARMS

~ ACRES, 9 rms. outbuildings, cleo.
State rd., - mi: south Of D. c.;
$3.50 or $500 dn- s7b mo. TIE,
ABoUT 500 ACRES, 100 a. Unable:
only 8 mi. Breton Bay and County
Courthouse, st.. Marys, Nd. Loaded
with possibilities; Ice. yr.-round
stream: good tobacco soil, saw tim
Der and pulp wood, etc; A swell
place to plant $50, 900 Of your sos
dollars. JU. 5-5533.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-19
OFFICES. STUDIOS FOR RENT

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pvt. layatory and shower: excelien,
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1929 BETHESDA AVE, Beth.-Air.
conditioned ofi1ees. End floor, ALTI.
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$25: other desirable rms. at $50
Wired for air cond. Good parking
s ihnni ~ 81 s-I RMs.. Is. a. coTn.,
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ideal for doctors or dentist'l
URSfURS. PvT. orr. In suit. q Law
ofiees. Use Of reception Tm. 18th
and x location. $50 mo. Avail
FURN. OFFICE In suitei fin. dist.
pvt. entr.: ph. answering; $50 mo.
call ST. 5-O737, Mr.. REINIG.
WILL SHARE suite and steno. pvt
once avail, 18th and Eye. NV
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BOATS

12-FT. Chris-Craft '52; double cabin
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