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Evening star., 1955-08-02
'Voice' Aide at Camp,
Enjoying Life as WAC

District, a reserve group now on
duty at Meade.
She has looked forward to her
Army duty.
What / like about coming for
reserve duty"-this is Sergt
Stones second year-is that !
have time to do things I really
like to do." She said. And I en-
| JOY the companionship Of the
other girls"
She was up at $50 am. yes
terday, had breakfast at $3.50
and was at work in the finance
Office in Building 2840 on Ernie
Pyle street at 8.
Sergt. Stone and the other two
women in her group. all WASH
ingtonians, are billeted in the
WAC officers quarters. That's
because the all-Army golf and
tennis tournament is being held
at Fort Meade this week, and
the enlisted girls quarters are
crowded.
She shares a room with Sergt,
I1fc Verona Longsworth, 1900 F
street NV. Master Sergt. Regina
IGorski. 1923 Connecticut avenue
NV. is billeted in an adjoining
room.
Parakeets Share Room
Sergt Stones yellow and green
parakeets, which travel in her
car wherever she goes, have the
run of the room.
Sergt. Stone became active in
reserve work in October. 1858.
During World War II, she ex-
planned. she was frozen in
Florida" in a post she loved,
with the Army finance Office of
the Air Force radar school in
Boca Ration. She served from
January l943 to November. l945.
She had worked in Toledo,
Ohio, before the war as a bank
teller. Afterward, she decided to
become a secretary. She came
to Washington not long after her
discharge, studied at a secre-
tarial school and George WASH
ington University and worked for
the Patent Once, the Once Of
Price Administration, and the
Civil Aeronautics Board before
going to the Voice" In Novem-
Der, 1854.
Born In Bulgaria
Sergt. Stone was born in Bull
garia but came to this country
at the age Of 2. She learned the
language later on a visit to her
native country.
Sergt. Stone is one of about
SO women from this reserve dis
trict who are serving two weeks
of active duty.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Southwest Up
As Board Topic

Southwest Washington rede-
velopment questions will be
prominent on the agenda for
the National Capital Planning
Commission meeting tomorrow
and Thursday.
Commission Chairman Har-
land Bartholomew conferred to-
day with Presidential Assistant
Sherman Adams, after meeting
yesterday with George A. Gar
rett, former Ambassador to Ire
land, whom President Eisen-
hover requested last March to
spur agreement on a workable
program.
Mr.. Eisenhower wrote to Mr..
Garrett as president of the Fed
eral City Council in expressing
a direct interest in the South
west redevelopment plans, which
have been in the mill for several
years.
Suggests Conferences
He suggested that Mr.. Garrett
undertake to confer with the ap-
propriate agencies in an effort
to bring about agreement.
One big problem pending in
the plans is the location of the
Smithsonian Institutions pro-
posed new National Air Museum.
Smithsonian officials have
wanted the museum building at
the. head of the South Mall.
proposed in the zeckendorf plan
as a broad entranceway into the
new Southwest between Inde-
pendence avenue and Washing
ton Channel along Tenth street
S.W.
Will Get Reports on Studies
Tomorrow the commission will
get reports on school. police. fire,
street, utilities and shopping
center studies for Southwest.
A major question under study
is whether retail shopping area,
as now planned in Area B of
the redevelopment project. should
be eliminated from it in favor
of a more concentrated shopping
center outside the area. which
would serve the entire Southwest.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Norfolk Coast Guard
Has Busy Month

NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 2 R.--
July was the busiest month iE
the peacetime history of the 5th
Coast Guard District, with a new
call for help almost every three
hours.
The Coast Guard recorded 201
assistance cases during the pc
riod, the district headquarters
announced here yesterday, COM
pared to the previous monthly
high of 1873 cases.
The increases were attributed
TO a big build-up in small boat
ing operations.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
18th and 10Th Cuses
IOf Polio Listed Here

The District Health Depart
ment yesterday reported two
new polio cases. neither para
Ilytic.
The 18th case Of the year Is
a 4-year-old colored girl of the
800 block Of Oklahoma avenue
NE, who was stricken last
Wednesday and admitted to Dis
trict General Hospital the same
day.
Case No. Is is an 8-year-old
white boy Of the 1900 block OF
Cathedral avenue NV. He was
stricken on July "a and hos
pitalized the next day.
There were IL polio cases as
of the same date last year.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Final OK Near
For Turnpike

RICHMOND. Va. Aug. 2 Up.
The State Highway Commis-
sion is expected to give speedy
approval Thursday to a pro-
posed route for the SGT million
MISUNDERSTANDING turnpike.
The route was approved yes
lterday by the Richmond-Peters-
burg Turnpike Authority. Un-
der law. it must be approved by
both the authority and the
commission before construction
can begin.
The superhighway will cost
I$67.5 million. making it the
largest and most costly single
highway project in Virginia,
Its closest contender will be
the $50 million Hampton Roads
bridge-tunnel project. now under
construction.
! 1t will also be the first major
expressway OF its type to pass
Through a large Virginia city
and will be the longest stretch
Iof limited-sccess highway in
the State.
34.8 Miles Long
The highway will begin just
north of the Richmond city
limits. near the intersections OF
U. s. 1901. and its southern
terminus will be 34.8 miles south
some 234 miles south of the Pc
tersburg city limits.
| 1t will proceed through Rich
mond. east of the main business
district. cross the James River
on a new bridge, proceed south
Through Chesterfield County
roughly parallel to u. s. /. enter
the eastern portion of Peters,
burg over a new bridge across
the Appomattox River and then
JOIN U. S. / south of the city.
At no point will the turnpike
have fewer than four lanes, and
at some points it will be six
lanes wide.
The route will pass near the
main business districts of both
Richmond and Petersburg. Ear
lier proposed routes that would
have bypassed the cities drew
strong criticism from merchants
who complained that their busi-
ness would suffer greatly.
Bonds will Be Sold
The next step for the turnpike
authority, after approval of the
route by the highway commits
sion. is the sale Of some $67,-
500. 900 worth Of bonds to f.
nance construction of the road.
The bond sale will get underway
by mid-September. Repayment
will be over a 40-year period
from toll revenues.
AS soon as money is availa BILE
from the sale Of bonds, the au-
thority will begin acquiring land
for right-of-way. Completion Of
the huge project has been tenta-
lively set for 1858.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
ID. c. Scouts Entertain
Youths From Is Nations

Seventeen teen -aged boys from
l6 countries are seeing Washing
ton this week as guests of Dis
trict families.
Their hosts are Boy Scouts and
their parents Of Troop So at All
Saints Episcopal Church. Chevy
Chase Circle. And if you think
the foreign boys are having fun.
you should see our Boy Scouts.
Today the group chartered a
bus and toured some of the show
places of the Nations Capital.
They climbed the Washington
Monument. saw dinosaur bones
at the Smithsonian. visited the
Lincoln. Jefferson and Lee Me-
MORALS, ate lunch on the water
front, toured the White House
and had a look at some of the
pictures in the National Gallery
| of Art.
The visitors are spending the
summer at camp at Rhinebeck
N. Y. as the guests of the Louis
August Jonas Foundation, Inc
Mr. Jonas is wealthy New York
/ philanthropist who believes ir
teaching international under.
standing through work with
young people.
! All 16 to II Years Old
1 The boys are all 16 or II years
old and were selected by the
Education Ministries of theil
respective countries. At the
camp, there are also about &c
American boys of the same age
/ When a side trip was arranged
for Washington. the local Boy
/ Scouts asked to care for the
/ foreign boys.
+ Tomorrow. the boys and theii
hosts will meet j. Edgar Hoover
and tour the Federal Bureau oi
Investigation. Then they will
visit Mount Vernon.
Thursday they will hold a
picnic and baseball game in Rock
Greek Park and then go swim
ming at the Chevy Chase swim
ming pool. Thursday night they
will board a bus to return to the
New York camp.
One of the local Scouts. l2-
year-old Daniel Boone of 1920
Wyndale lane. Chevy Chase, has
an English boy as his guest.
Daniel Goyder, Of Pindars. Roth
Evening star., 1955-08-02
District Readers Yeorn for Focts
And Crockett Yarns, Library Says

Cant Read" by Rudolph FleSch.
THE Central Library and the
branches reported the concern
lof parents regarding children's
inability to read we'll" the
library said.
World Affairs Popular
Books of particular interest
to readers concerned with world
affairs included 'Formosa, A
Problem for U. S. Foreign
Policy" by Joseph w. Ballan-
tine; "Formosa Under Chinese
Nationalist Rule" by Fred w.
Riggs; "The Struggle for Indo-
China" by Ellen Hammer, and
l"Peron's Argentina" by George
I. Blanksten.
The desire for more knowledge
about the peoples and problems
iof the world was reflected in a
demand for such titles as IAN
American in India" by Saunders
Redding; Fifty Years in China. y
by John L. Stuart; "Ambassa-
doris Report" by Chester Bowles,
and South East ASIA" by Brian
Harrison.
The Bandung conference and
1.-THE release of the Yalta agree
ments were among the events on
which background information
was sought. There was a no
ticeable desire for information
about Germany, and such books
as Norbert Muhlen's THE Re-
turn of Germany" and Koppel s,
IPinson's Modern Germany
were widely read, the library re-
ported.
Foreign Policy Demand
| Events in Russia continued to
Ibe of interest, as evidenced by
jthe puplarity of American in
Russia" by Harrison Salisbury:
"The Red Carpet: On a Visa
From Khrushchev." by Marshall
IMacDuffie; 1.-THE Soviet Regime
Communism in Practice" by
IWladyslaw w. Kulski. and Prom
ILenin to Malenkov." by Hugh
Seton Watson.
/ Books in demand in the fielt
of United States foreign polio!
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Latham Attacks
Building ofRoad
To Shop Center
$50, 600 Job Misuse
OF Public Funds,
Delegate Asserts

STEVENSvILLE. Md. Aug. :
(R.-Delegate James C. Lath-
am. Democrat, of Talbot has
added more wood to the fire
that has been burning briskly
under the State Roads Commits
sion for some time now.
MY. Latham, a former State
trooper, charged yesterday that
State construction of a $780, 900
service road from the eastern
approaches Of the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge to a Kent Island
shopping center is a piece of
manipulation and misuse Of
public funds"
The Eastern Shore Delegate.
who had indicated previously he
was lukewarm about the idea Of
investigating the roads commits
sion, said he now believes there
should be such a probe.
Wants Legislative Group
ut should not be 4 study by
the Commission III State Pro-
grams, Organizations and FL
nance Green Commission ap.
pointed by the Governor" Mr..
Latham said, but a legislative
group with power to subpoena
and the necessary funus to ham
die the Investigation"
The shoppinp center to be
serviced by the road was de-
veloped by a corporation headed
by David M. Nichols, a former
member of tn: roads comrnis-
sion.
Herschel H Allen, head OF the
engineering firm which served as
consultant or the bridge con-
struction. reco amended the
service road be built to remove
what he called traffic hazard.
But Mr.. Latham said: This
shopping center is Ia miles east
Iof the Bay Bridge. 1t is incon-
ceivable that any traffic hazard
could affect the bridge or should
be paid for from the bridge reye.
nues."
News Articles Recalled
Gov. McKeldin requested the
study Of the roads commission
by the Green Commission after
newspaper articles dealt with
i. administrative irregularities in
the roads commission and with
Speculation in land lying along
1.-THE rights of way of proposed
} highways.
Ben Du Pre-. assistant right.
iof-way engineer in Montgom-
cry County, resigned at a hear.
ing on charges against him after
lit was disclosed that he and a
Washington real estate operator
were joint owners of some land
lin the Washington suburban
area.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Comp Pickett Is Backed
For Reserve Truininq

BLACKSTONE, Va. Aug. 2 up
Rep. Abbitt, Democrat of Vir.
ginia, said yesterday he will ask
the Army to designate Camp
Pickett as the training center
for recruits entering the Army
under the new reserve bill. A
quarter million reserve would
serve six-month periods of ac-
tive duty under a bill nov
awaiting President Eisenhower's
signature.
The 46.000-acre military in
stallation - now deactivated-
has been opened and closed three
times since it was build in 1912
Evening star., 1955-08-02

erfield Greys, Henley on
Thames.
One without Camera
Daniel Goyder stands out
among the foreign group be-
cause he>is the only boy among
them who doesn't carry a cam
era. A student at Rugby, Dam
lei watches his companions
snap, click and focus all day
long and then returns home at
night to record the days ac-
tivities in his own way-in a
bulging diary. He started the
diary the day he left England
by freighter for America.
Daniel was surprised at the
number of cars on Washington, 4
streets as the bus drove through
the Kalorama road embassy Sec
ton and down Connecticut ave-
nue.. Mike Alexander. who is most
to boys from East and West PAX
istan. explained that there is a
bus strike on here.
That's too had" seid Daniel
Hal Wun Rhee of Korea has
to take lot of kidding from the
Americans ne meets because
everybody ask am ] son of Syg-
man Rhee and am not. I am
no relation. But he is fine man,
also from Korea. the fighting na-
ton"
Turkey Makes Error
There were supposed to be l6
boys from >l6 countries here but
there are II boys instead. That's
because Turkey made a mistake.
Two separate government de-
partments in Turkey chose boys
for the trip. Rather than dis
appoint either boy, the founda-
tion accepted both. They are
Ahmet Inal and Ugurman yell
,'kencieglu and they are staying at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Lum, 100 Quincy street. Chevy
Chase.
The other countries repre-
sented are Japan. Malaga,
Greece. Denmark, Sweden, Cey-
Ion. France. Holland, Norway,
Mexico and Finland.
Eliot r. Selinger, assistant
scoutmaster of Troop SO, who
made most of the arrangements
for the boys Washington visit.
says it has been a wonderful ex-
perience for everyone involved.
He only hopes that such trips
can be made every year.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
BY BETTY MILES

WAC Reservist Rose Stone Of
the Voice of America Is Sergt
lic Stone these days at Fort
Meade.
She left her air-conditioned
office In the Health. Education
and Welfare Building, where she
is a secretary on the Bulgarian
desk, closed up her apartment at
1418 Somerset street NV, picked
up her parakeets and set of
Saturday for Meade for a Is
day tour Of duty with the re-
serves.
Likes Reserve Duty
Sergt. Stone Is a finance tech
nical clerk with the 300th Mill
tary Government Group of the
District of Columbia Military
Evening star., 1955-08-02

A preference for fact over fic-
tion-even for the young fry,
who idolized Davy Crockett
marked the reading tastes OF
patrons of the District Public
Library during the last fiscal
year.
international and national
affairs, significant local issues
the desire for self-improvement
and the problems of everyday
living motivated the quest for
information" the library re-
ported in a reading analysis to-
day.
Altogether, during the year
ended June 80, there were $685.
675 books borrowed from the
Public Library. an increase OF
49.939 over the previous year.
While their elders sought
more knowledge of the tension
areas of the world. of United
States foreign policy, politics,
American history and anthro-
|pology, Davy Crockett and the
West mapped the conspicuous
new trend in children's reading.
Nothing has ever rung in our
ears with such vehemence as
the cries for Davy Crockett from
all ages and both sexes" said
one children's librarian.
Daniel Boone, Too
But the library added that
boys and girls also were willing
to read Of other frontiersmen.
especially Daniel Boone. who
was, until recently. their favor
lite pioneer hero"
The influence of television.
movies and radio was apparent
also in many requests for An
ldersen's Fairy Tales" Verne's
Twenty Thousand Leagues Un-
der the Sea-" Peter Pam" Gra-
hams wind IN the willows, "
l"Aesop's Fables" Doyle's "Sher-
lock Holmes" and Men OF
Iron" by Howard Pyle.
Parents and teachers ex-
hibited much interest in the
publication of why Johnny
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Salvation Army Comp
On Yeur-Round Busis

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Aug
2 (SpeciaD Camp Tomahawk
in a rugged section of the
western part of this county is
rounding out its first season as
a division summer camp for
Salvation Army children. It is
being maintained this year for
the first time on a year round
basis with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Thayer as caretakers.
The Salvation Army gave its
Girl Guards a full weeks camp
ing and the facilities are also
being used this year for various
outings. both by the Salvation
Army and by other groups. The
camp, covers about 200 acres,
with a large Quonset village"
supplying ample living quarters.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Plans
Booster Shots
For Polio Soon
Enough Vaccine
Moy Be Received
For 5000 Children

Fairfax County Health De-
partment officials today were
working out a schedule for ad-
ministering Salk vaccine booster
shots after authorization yester-
day to give second injections in
the campaign against polio.
DR.. Harold Kennedy, county
health officer, said he hopes the
program can begin early next
week. He said the county ex-
poets to receive enough vaccine
t for 10000 shots within a few
days from the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis.
Permission to give the second
shots was granted by the State
Health Department after mem
bers of the Fairfax County Med
ical Society voted two to one
in favor Of administering the
vaccine this summer. In a tele-
gram sent yesterday to DR.. Rob-
ert C. Hunt. president of the
society. the State Health De-
partment said it bowed to the
sentiment of the society although
the State agency decided two
months ago not to continue the
Salk program this summer.
Would Be First This Year
The vaccine will be given to
$4,000 Fairfax children in the
first. second and third grades
who received the first Salk shots
this spring and to 1000 children
who were gwen shots in 1854.
Fairfax County will be the first
Virginia jurisdiction to admin
lister the second Salk shots this
year.
The county has recorded %
polio cases and one death from
polio so far this year. compared
with only two cases at this time
last year. Although no cases
have been reported since last
Wednesday. health department
lofficials said this was no indica.
ton that the high incidence ratt
this summer is Stacking OF:
Gamma Globulin Now Given
The health department nov
is giving gamma globulin injec'
tions in the drive to keep dowr
the number of cases. So fal
approximately 13,200 children
from 6 months to s years have
received the serum and add.
tional clinics are scheduled daily
through Sunday.
| State Health Commissioner
Mack I. Shanholtz said permis.
sion probably would be given any
other county or city desiring te
go ahead with the Salk immu-
nization program this summer.
Evening star., 1955-08-02

included Common Sense ant
World Affairs" by Dorothy Fos'
dick; Realities of American
Foreign Policy" by George F
Kennan: "Call to Greatness" b,
Adlai Stevenson: Power ant
Policy" by Thomas K. Finlet.
tier: Essays in the Public Philos'
ophy." by Walter Lippman. ant
Wanted: An Asian Policy" By
Edwin Reischauer.
Requests were frequent fol
such books on politics as "Ad.
ventures in Politics." by Rich.
ard Neuberger; THAT Reminds
Me-" by Alben w. Barkley
Politics in America" by D. w
Brogan, and Grand Inquest,
by Telford Taylor.
The library also cited evidence
of a strong interest in American
history. especially the Civil Wal
period. and a demand fol-
scholarly but readable" books
in the field Of history -anthro-
Ipology.
Local Biography
Books of exploration. adven-
Iture and travel were popular
any many readers asked for bi-
ographies, the report continued
Several of particular local inter-
est carried over from last year
"a Man Called Peter" by Cath
Ierine Marshall, and "Out Oh
These Roots" by Agnes Meyer
among them.
A decline in demand for book.
ion the history of the automobile
was counter balanced by an In.
creased demand for material or
repair and maintenance. There
were more calls for material or
foreign sports cars.
The report said "there seemed
Ito be no definite trend in fictior
Ireading during the past year,
Ibut historical and religious nov
els, mystery adventure tales aI1c
science fiction continued in de-
mand. While the public read th'
"best Sellers" its attention wa
directed also to older titles b!
'lscreen and stage productions.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Gardeners Register

BLACKSBURG, Va, Aug. 2
l(P.--Gardeners and beekeepers
started registering here at VPI
today for their respective sum-
mer short courses.
Evening star., 1955-08-02
Lions Meet Thursday

The College Park (MdJ Lions
Club will meet at $50 pm.
Thursday at the Hot Shoppe in
College Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-03

cesses. A blue curtain was
drawn across the stage and one
at a time the officer escorts
were announced. Each crossed
to the center, introduced his
princess and her State and
tured to welcome her as she
stepped from behind the curtain.
As the introductions went on.
a few Of the military men under
took to make nominating
speeches. from Americas
dairyland. Wisconsin. I present
+. :" from Virginia. gateway to
the south IT now give you,
from the power State. Tennes-
see. ;" and from the great.
great state Of Texas. ] present
Then the curtains were opened
and revealed the princesses sit
ting against q hackdrop Of a
painted pink cherry tree bloom
ing against q pinker painted
sky.
Finally. to the music of "Pomp
and Circumstance" brown
haired JEANNE Raymond, queen
of the festival, was introduced.
Secretary Of the Interior Mckay
proclaimed the Maine beauty
regent of all festivities and
placed on her head q coronet of
brilliants.
May your reign be successful
and very happy" said Mr.. Nc
Kay, to the queen and the show
was on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-03
Yemen Ruler Abdicaies;
Army Coup Reported

CAIRO, Egypt. April 2 (P.-
A spokesman for the Yemen le-
cation in Cairo said tonight the
ruler of his Red Sea desert king
dom has abdicated for health
reasons" -
However, the Yemenite pre-
mier Seifulislam Hassan, In
Cairo for an Arab League meet
ing, said he had a report that the
ruler, 64-year-old Imam Ahmad,
was surrounded by army units
in his palace at Sana. the Capital.
Il presume he has abdicated
by now" said the bearded prem
Ter.
An earlier report from Ye.
mems neighboring British pro-
tectorate Of Alden said the army
forced the Imam's abdication
because he refused it permission
to punish a village that molested
eight soldiers. The Alden report
said Ahmad was succeeded by
his brother. Seifulislam Abdul.
lah, who had been foreign min
lister.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-03
A-BIast Slated Today.
Al Six-MiIe Altitude

LAS VEGAS, New, April 2 az.
Atomic testers said today they
plan to explode at about 1ix
miles altitude tomorrow an anti
aircraft device-the kind that
might wreck an entire formation
of enemy planes.
That's the highest yet in the
current test series, so far as
veteran observers know. Nine
atomic devices and one TINT
blast have been fired on Yucca
Flat since February 10.
An official statement said to-
morrow's device would be "the
one described in a joint Atomic
Energy Commission Department
ct Defense statement" last Sum
day.
That announcement. officially
disclosing plans to add atomic
anti-aircraft weapons to the Ma
tion's already extensive nuclear
arsenal, said: Because of their
great power. atomic air defense
weapons will greatly increase our
ability to repel an enemy air
attack"
The device will be dropped
from one Of about 40 Air Force
planes participating in the test.
No troops will take part.