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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Market Gets
Bomb Threat

PORTLAND, Greg. May 3 (P).
Fired Meyer. Inc, Portland's
largest independent supermarket
chain, was the target of $4,000
extortion threat yesterday.
Police Chief James Purcell de-
clined to say whether any money
was paid. However, package
which was ordered placed at
contact point in the northeast
Portland suburbs was missing.
Two high school students. age
II and Is, were captured speed
ing from the contact area. Po-
lice withheld their names after
questioning them for several
hours. Chief Purcell said he
didn't know if they had any con-
nection with the extortion, which
they denied.
The threat was that one of
Meyers huge grocery and variety
stores would be bombed.
Mr.. Meyer and his wife are
touring Europe.
City Plagued by Threats
The threat was the latest in a
series that has plagued this city
since April is, when a bomb was
exploded in large Portland de-
partment store in an extortion
attempt.
Since then schools, business
establishments and householders
have been threatened.
Chief Purcell said the extor-
ton demand was telephoned to
Mr.. Meyers Office yesterday af-
ternoon. A male voice directed
that $4,000 in small bills be
placed in package beside a
road on the outskirts of the city.
Police Tour Area
Officers of the firm notified
police A package was placed as
directed and police cars were
alerted to tour the area.
There was no indication
Whetner the package contained
money.
Most Of the earlier extortion
demands in the Portland area
were believed by police to be the
work of juveniles, cranks, or
prankSters.
The extortionist who set off
the bomb in the department
store has not been captured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
D. c. tuberculosis Cases
Set at Record 8, 500

their STATS and other personnel.
The survey began at noon yes
terday and will continue through
May 20.
Offered to 1000
More than 1000 employees on
Capitol Hill and in the Supreme
Court are being offered this free
service through joint sponsor
ship of the United States Public
Health Service, the District
Health Departm ent and the
tuberculosis Association. More
than 300 X-rays were given in
five hours yesterday.
The X-ray unit is operating
tomorrow through Friday. from
9 am. to 5 pm, in the Senate
Office Building, room 1855. Next
week. the unit will move to the
Old House Office Building, room
$50, and the following week, to
the New House Office Building,
in the ante-room of the House
Ways and Means Committee
room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

There are now more than g.
500 known cases of tuberculosis
in the DiStrict-an all-time high
DIR. r. Lomax Wells. president
of the District tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION, said last night
He addressed the groups an
nual meeting in the Sheraton
Park Hotel. at which new direc-
tors were named. Also disclosed
was the fact that the 1854 Tlber-
culosis Seal campaign brought in
$l52. 1850. to be used chiefly for
research.
DR.. Wells said that, last veal
one-third of the Districts pop
ulation was X-rayed-some 254,-
900 persons-and that $4,000 of
these had this service given by
neighborhood mobile survey
units. This was 10000 more than
expected.
Full Results Not Released
However, the physician said
the association, so far. has been
unable to obtain the full results
of these surveys from District
health authorities. DR.. Wells
emphasized how vital it is to
know these results.
Speakers on the panel discus
sion on tuberculosis. Cancer
and Observation-Disclosures of
Man." were DR.. William B.
Tucker. chief of the Pulmonary
Disease Service of the Veterans
Administration in Durham. N. c.,
and professor of medicine at
Duke University; DR.. Brian
Blades, professor of surgery at
George Washington University
and chief surgeon of that
schools hospital, and DR.. Ben
Branscomb of the Laboratory of
ardio-Pulmonary Diseases. of
the National Heart Institute in
Bethesda, Md.
DR.. Branscomb pointed that
emphysemo. a lung disease char
acterized by shortneSS of breath
and with great power to disable
especially older people, probably
will become more common and
offers one of the widest areas
for research of any disease.
Discussing cancer, DR.. Blades
said that, although 1.-The picture
is still melancholy" lung cancer
research is advancing, tuber-
culosis surveys can read" cancer
conditions as we'll as lung condi-
tions. Referring to the con-
troversy over the effects OF
smoking, the physician said the
stresses that make a man a chain
smoker could be as much re-
sponsible for cancer as cigarettes
have been reported to be
New Directors Elected
New directors of the associa-
ton are:
Term expiring in 1958-Dr.
Charles Bish. Commissioner
Renah F. Camalier; DR.. Otis
Farley, the Rev. Andrew Fowler,
Samuel A. Freas, William Leahy.
the Rev. James Magner, Mrs.
Joseph C. Monaghan, Miss Mary
Redmond and Edwin Richards.
Term expiring in l957-Robert
Dulin.
Term expiring in 1856 Mrs.
Velma G. Williams and Ernest
w. Ogram
Earlier in the day, Senator
Flanders, Republican, of YER
mont and six of his staff mem
bers were the first to get free
chest X-rays in the three-Week
survey being conducted on Capt.
toll Hill for members of Congress,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
MARRIAGE
LICENSE
APPLICATIONS

Under d. c. laD couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day. iDait three fun days
and receiue the license on the
fifth day. Sundays and Holt
days are counted the same as
other days.
Paul irons, 90. Andrews Air Force Base.
and Barbara Knight. 10. 20l3 Park
I'd. u.w
John cheakalos. 81. 1871 Madison st.
NV, and Mary ReroakoS. %. l741
Hobart st. NV.
John Foster. Chevy Chase. Nd. and
Margaret Mahorner. 81, 64Ol West-
eTn ave. NV.
Charles Whittinsham, %, Chicaso. and
Mary Bragger. 81 4410 Volta p! W.
Chester Strachocki 80, 2s17 Connecticut
ave. NV. and Thelms Mshrenholz.
80. 300 Wisconsin ave. NV.
walter Miller and Nancy Smith. %. both
Of 2007 o st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

1t would take long time to determine who won the
bet-but we'd be willing to wager that the lad in the
picture winds up owning Cadillac!
We feel so confident because he is starting out like
a typical Cadillac owner.
Preponderately, Cadillac owners self-made men.
They just emerge-from everywhere.
But they are usually Marked quite early in life, by
industry and thrift and the will to succeed.
That's why we say that this wonderful lad-out
earning money to make himself self-suficient-is
very likely to wind up owning Cadillac. Looking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Glass of 1885

at him, as he labors we estimate the class Of 1885!
We hope we are around to deliver his car when the
great day arrives it's great thrill to hand out
the keys when an owner in for his first Cadillac.
It's worth lot to see the smile on his face and the
CLEAN in his eye as he settles himself behind the wheel
studies the instrument panel to make sure of the
controls-and floats away in the direction Of home
and family celebration.
Of course, for the lad in the picture, the thrill Of
that first Cadillac is still great many years away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Andrews Airmun Hurt
As Motorcycle Upsets

An Andrews Air Force Base
airman was seriously injured
early today when his motorcycle
went out of control and crashed
in Fairfax County.
Fairfax Police said Shane A.
Morgan. 81, of the 1401st Field
Maintenance Squadron, lost con-
troll Of the cycle in loose gravel
on a bridge near Chsntilly on
Route SO.
The victim has a fractured
skull and multiple cuts. He was
admitted to Arlington Hospital
where his condition is fair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03

But how about you' Is the time coming close for
your dream of Cadillac to come to happy endings
If so, we'd be happy-ndeed- to see you.
This is wonderful year for owning new Cadillac
whether it's your first your fifth or your tenth
Never before has Cadillac performance been so
marvelous-its beauty so arresting-it comfort and
handling ease so delightful 1t is more decisvey than
ver-the Standard of the World!
Why not come in today-and check this for your
self? Well give you the keys and car-for the most
revealing hour you ever spent in motor car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-03
Pre-Wur Curs

! DETROTT.-About IL million
cars built in the United States
before World War II are still in
use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
Pukistun Economy

East Pakistan Is vital to Paki-
STAINS national solvency, says the
National Geographic Society. Its
monsoon climate and rich allu-
vial soil produce more than 10
per cent of the worlds jute. the
plant fiber used in making bur-
lap and twine. Jute exports pro-
vide nearly half Of PakiStan's
foreign exchange.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
|Dione Plays Week-Long
Trick on Reserve Units

Forester street S.W., Navy liai-
son with the task group. and 1t.
Comdr. Lucius w. Burton, 3731
Thirty-ninth street NV, execu-
tive secretary Of the navigation
panel Of the Presidents co-ord-
mating Committee and opera
tons officer Of VP $50.
The solution was simple: Work
More Work For Others
It meant intensification of the
the men would have had
III the hurricane alert had not
interferred.
In other words. while the crews
of the patrol planes didn't get
as much training. the stay-at-
homes got about twice as much
as the program requires. And no
one complained.
They had increased work In
survival tactics and gear, for In
stance.
They even had time to throng
around O visiting bloodmobile to
donate some. One Of these was
|l9-year-old Navy ''brat." Ray p.
Flatley. q Columbian Prep School
student, whose father is Navy
Capt. James II. Flatley, skipper
of the carrier Lake Champlain.
Young Flatley Is on duty with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23
nv cHARLEs ]. YARBROUGH
star stan CORRESPONDENT

star star CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-The
late and unlamented Hurricane
Diane blew two Anacostia Naval
Air Reserve units $50 miles on
leourse and tore a week-long
tcnunk out of their annual two
week cruise.
Pilots and crewmen Of Patrol
Squadron 662 and Fleet Aircraft
Service Squadron 665 only yes
Iterday got squared away at
nearby Floyd Bennett Field to
begin the training they set out
for some eight days ago.
A week ago yesterday, with six
patrol planes and a two small
transports, Is officers and II
crewmen few away to Battle
Greek, Mich, in the face of hur-
lricane warnings. They had been
| at Floyd Bennett only . few
hours.
Leading the evacuation flight
were Comdr. Edwin j. Swindler,
LOT 13 East Auburn court, Alex
landria, Va, an economist with
1.-THE Federal Reserve System and
commander of this task group,
and 1t. Comdr. c. E. Koontz,
ISIS Timber lane, Falls Church,
Iva, a CAA safety expert.
Missed Program
The hurricane evasion gave
| the men simply eight hours of
cross country flying. They
missed what would have been
Is to 40 hours of tactical train
| ing in attack, anti-submarine
work. survival. gunnery, bomb
ing and training on special cleo
tronics gear.
Planes and crews returned to
Floyd Bennett via Anacostia
last Friday.
Flying in the face Of Diane.
the evacuees left some 110 men
at Bennett on what appeared
to be an empty schedule-but the
efficient Navy can always find
things for idle hands to do.
| Two Washington men figured
this one out. They were 1t,
Comdr. James Manolakis, $50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-23

the squadron as an enlisted man
and soon win start examining for
a Naval Academy entrance exam,
where he hopes to join a brother.
Midshipman James H. Flatiey,
jr.
Crews Of the evacuated planes
will be given the five days they
lost In Battle Creek to catch up
on the tactical phases of the
training, probably next month.
Evening star., 1955-09-13
NEAT GIRL ON BUS
LEADS TO CREATION
OF SCHOLARSHIP

CHICAGO R1. - There
was something about IA
year-old Mary Ann Skrzy-
necki as she boarded a bus
for school that. impressed
three anonymous passen-
gers.
They described their re-
action in a letter received
yesterday by Sister Mary
Theophame, principal Of
Holy Family Academy. In
closed was 500 covering
Mary AIMS tuition for a
year. Said the letter, signed
"A Friend:
-Four girls got on the bus
Wednesday morning at
Thirty-seventh street and
Ashland to go to your
school. One wasn't neat;
the other was neat and loud:
one was stuck-up. But the
last one, she was neat and
clean. So the three Of us
decided to send you 500 for
a scholarship to your school
for her. If God be willing.
we will send you 500 every
year for her four years Of
high school If she will stay
clean and sweet as she is
today"
Evening star., 1955-09-13
Precipitation

Automobile lights must be turned
one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1955-09-13

District and vicinity-Increas-
ing cloudiness tonight with low
about Sc. Mostly cloudy and cool
again tomorrow with chance of
some rain.
Maryland - Some cloudiness,
chance of a little rain tonight,
low 40-48 in extreme west and
$3.50 in east. Considerable
cloudiness and a little warmer
tomorrow with some rain likely
in east.
Virginia-Cloudy and cool
again tonight and tomorrow with
some rain likely tomorrow and
in southeast tonight. Low to-
night in the SOS but 60-65 near
the coast.
Wind - Northeasterly 10 l8
miles per hour over Lower Po-
tomac and 1925 miles per hour
over Upper Bay tonight and to-
morrow.
Ragweed pollen count-lO8
grains per cubic yard of air for
the "a hours ending 8 am. to-
day. the District Medical Society
reports.
Evening star., 1955-09-13
Five Big Stores
Keep Schedules

Woodward g. Lothrop. an
'nounced today its downtown
store will have longer shopping
hours on Mondays and Thurs
days.
In connection with the an
|nouncement, the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association polled
five other department stores, all
of which said they will continue
their present schedules.
Andrew Parker, president of
Woodward g. Lothrop, said eff
fective September 26 the down.
town store will open at $50 am.
and close at 9 pm. on Mondays
and Thursdays.
"These hours will give Wood
ward & Lothrop customers a
more flexible and convenient
shopping period" Mr.. Parker
said in a statement.
Earlier this month the COM
pany had announced it would
open its downtown stores Mon
day evenings as well as on
Thursdays. the custom Wash
ington department stores have
been following. AT that time
the Monday hours were an
Evening star., 1955-09-13
Notch Industry Gives
Own 'Oscur' Awards

NEW YORK (P.-Now they
have academy awards for match
books. The match industry is
offering a Joshua plaque" for
the match book Of the year in
each Of 46 industries.
The awards are named for
Joshua Pussey, who invented
match books in 1892. The 46
best will be selected from 300, 900
cover designs issued each year.
Another award called Henry"
will be given by the collectors
organizations for the person who
does the most for the hobby
during the year. The name is
for Henry Rathkamp, pioneer
match book collector.
Evening star., 1955-09-13

procedure, and the proposal
President Eisenhower will send
to Congress will carry out gen.
orally the recommendations oi
the Kaplan committee.
The legislative proposal calls
for liberalized family survivor
ship and retirement benefits
through supplemental social Sc
curity coverage. The civil serv-
ice retirement system would
maintain its independence. but
Its benefits would be augmented
by social security.
The employees present 6 pei
cent salary contribution would
not be increased. In fact, the
|employes' contribution would be
slightly less than 6 per cent.
Government employe groups
are seeking liberalized retire
ment and family survivorshiE
benefits from Congress this year,
but not through supplemental
social security coverage which
most Of them oppose. They want
the benefits enacted within the
framework Of the civil service
retirement system. Therefore
the administrations supplement
tai social security proposal for
Federal employees promises to
stir up some lively controversy
in Congress next year.
CAREER STATUS PROGRAM
The Civil Service Commission,
by the end of the week, is ex-
|pected to issue its regulations
on the new career status law
approved by Congress this year
Federal agencies have been
awaiting the CSC's regulations
before granting career status to
qualified employees.
Briefly. the new law paves the
way for career status for Federal
employees with three or more
years Of service who have passed
civil service exams or who pass
civil service exams during the
next year. Employees who now
have more than two years of
service but less than three, can
also qualify for career status II
they complete the three years
service requirement any time
between now and next August.
The three years service need not
have been continuous.
CPC-The Civil Service Commits
sion yesterday approved new pay
regulations for the approxi-
mately 10000 Government work.
ers in crafts and labor positions
who have been converted during
the past year from CPC Crafts,
Protective and CuStodiaD to
wage board coverage. It also
applies to those CPC workers
who were brought under the
general schedule of the Classi-
fication Act.
The regulations provide:
/. In general. any overseas
employe continues after con-
version from the Classification
Act schedule to the prevailing
wage system to get not less than
he got before, including what
ever was paid him in the form
OF territorial or overseas allow
ances. #5gE8 Fs
2. An employe serving night
tours must receive. after con-
version to the prevailing wage
system. as much as his former
base rate Of compensation un.
Evening star., 1955-09-13

inounced as 1855 am. to s:45
pm.
Although the store now will
open at $3.50 am. on Thursday
as well as Monday. five other
concerns said they would retain
present policy of no Monday
evening hours, and Thursday
hours of IL noon until 9 pm.
These stores are the Hecht Co.,
IS Kann Sons. Frank r. Jelleff
Inc: Lansburgh's and Raleigh
Haberdasher.
Soon after Woodward & Loth-
rop's original announcement of
Monday evening hours, Charles
Haskins, president of the union
of Woodward & Lothrop EN-
ployeS, protested the move as
repudiating an agreement in
which management had said it
would not open the store any
evening but Thursday unless
competition demanded 1t.
Evening star., 1955-09-13

der the Classification Act. In
addition. agencies may save for
the employe any difference be i.
tween his new base and his
former rate, including night diff
ferential.
3. An employe converted from
the prevailing wage system to O
Classification Act schedule shall
receive his previous night rate
III it is higher than his classifl-
cation Act rate plus night diff
ferential. In this case. however,
he may not also receive the
might differential usually appli-
cable to Classification Act po-
sitions.
4. II an employe is converted
to a Classification Act position
and then moves to another
Classification Act job. his agency
may pay him the new rate If
he would have been entitled to
the same or a higher rate in
the new positions at the time
of its conversion.
4 4 4
WATSON APPOINTMENT
James r. Watson, executive di-
rector Of the National Civil
Service League, will be appointed
director Of the Senate Civil
Service Committees staff investi-
eating the Governments civil
service policies. The announce
ment will be made in a day. or
two. It's an excellent appoint
ment and a good indication that
the investigation will be on a
nonpartisan basis and not mott
waited by politics.
~ \ \
MEETING - The Washington
Chapter Of the Society for Ad-
vancement of Management opens
its new season with a dinner
meeting next Tuesday in the
Occidental Room. 1411 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. The social
hour starts at 6 pm. and the
dinner at Z pm. The speaker
will be DR.. Brantley Watson, vice
president in charge Of human re-
lations of Mccormick g. Co., Inc,
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1955-09-13
First raining
Awards Given

Six Government officials were
given awards today by the Train
ing Ofiicers Confidence for out
standing service in the field oi
employe training.
The awards were the first In
a planned series Of annual
awards to be given each year in
recognition of outstanding Fed
eral employe training work.
This years winners are James
C. Stephens, manager of senior
development programs. Admin
istrative Office. Navy Depart
ment. who received the current
year award; c. o. Henderson,
chief of the Agriculture Depart
ment's Employe Performance
and Development Division, hon.
orary award: James G.. Stockard,
chief of the General Service Ad-
ministration's Training Branch,
certificate Of merit.
Also Mrs. Ruth B. Armsby,
Employe Relations and Train
ing Once. National Bureau OF
Standards, certificate of merit:
Francis c. Crotty, director OF
civilian training, Civilian Per-
sonnel Branch, Chief Of Ord
nance. Army Department, cer-
tificate Of merit. and o. F. Peter
son. director Of the Army Civil
ian Training Center, Army De-
partment, certificate of merit.
The awards were made at a
luncheon in the Lotus Restau-
rant. Civil Service Commission
Chairman Philip Young, who
served as one of the judges, made
the presentations. The other
judges were Chairman Olin
Johnston of the Senate Civil
Service Committee and DR.. Will
son Elkins. president of the Uni
versity of Maryland.
Evening star., 1955-09-13
! W1ATHER BURFAU

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-Showers or thunder
storms forecast tonight along the Gulf Coast in the far
Northwest the Central Plains and the Mississippi Valley
Storms also forecast for the Upper Middle Great
Lakes. Temperatures will show little change over the
Nation.-AP Wirephoto Map
Evening star., 1955-09-13
RESORT FORECAST

Upper Bay--Partly cloudy
tomorrow with high 1880
and east or southeast winds
1915 miles per hour.
Lower Bay-Mostly cloudy
tomorrow with high 1890
and easterly winds 1915
miles per hour.
Ocean beaches and South
Jersey-Mostly sunny but
some cloudiness tomorrow
with high around rs and
light easterly winds.
Skyline Drive 49, Partly
cloudy tomorrow with high
1880, light easterly winds,
good visibility.
Evening star., 1955-09-13
5-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity. Sept. 14-18.

o-Day FOrecaSt Tor washington
and Vicinity. Sept. 14-18.
Temperatures will be near the
normal high of rs and low of 81
trend Wednesday through
Friday. Chance of scattered
showers Thursday and again
Saturday or Sunday totaling one
tenth to five-tenths inch.
River Report
From U. s. Engineersl
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls: Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
Readings Washington National AirporD
! am. am. - -. 81 ! P.m: p.m. - s. 8.
Record Temperatures This Year
Lowest, 10 on February 3.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours
High. 73, at 4:45 pm.
Low, So at 6:l5 am.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by United States Coast anc
Geodetic Survey
Today Tomorrow
High ---~ 6:l9 am. 7:20 am
High -------- 6:54 pm. 7;5i pm
Low --------- 1905 pm. 1857 pm
The Sun and Moon
Rises Sets
Sun. today 6:4S 7:20
Sun. tomorrow B.48 7:1g
Moon today 3:6l I'm, 5.3S pm
Evening star., 1955-09-13
Musical Instrument
Sules Rise FourfoId

NEW YORK.-Although the
Nations top music is presented
free on radio and television,
more Americans are going in for
harmony on their own.
The sale of musical instru-
ments In the Nation has quail
rupled since 1899 and now totals
more than $500 million a year.
Sales Of pianos account for half
that amount.