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Evening star., 1955-06-07
Civic Group Calls
Special Meeting

A special meeting of the Will
Iliamsburg Civic Association will
be held at 8 o'clock tonight on
the eve of the Arlington School
Board Nominating Convention to
consider whether the associa-
Ition should be represented there.
The Williamsburg group will
meet in the Nottingham School,
Little Falls road and Nottingham
street. The meeting was called
because the propriety of the as
sociation's sending a delegation
to the convention was questioned
by some of its members.
The nominating convention, at
which candidates for the School
Board will be named, is sched-
uled for 8 pm. tomorrow and
Thursday at the Wakefield High
School in Arlington. ~
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Generals Son Is Fined
$500 on Traffic Counts

David Hodge Baker, jr., "a, a
former University of Maryland
ROTC student who graduated
Saturday with first honors but
without an Air Force commits
sion, was found guilty in Hyatts-
vile Police Court last night of
three major traffic violations
committed in 1852.
The youth, son of Air Force
Gen. David Hodge Baker, of
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Dayton, Ohio, drew fines total
ing $500 on charges of driving
under the influence of alcohol,
hit and run driving, and reckless
driving by colliding with three
parked cars on Harvard road in
College Park December 20, 1852.
He Immediately posted $500
bond and noted an appeal of the
ruling by Trial Magistrate w.
Britton Moore.
Baker won the right to stand
trial when former Trial Magis-
trate Theodore L. Miazga set
aside his forfeiture Of SITS in
collateral on the charges.
The forfeiture constituted AM
admission of guilt and stood in
the way of Bakers efforts to win
a commission in the Air Force
upon completion of the ROTC
program.
In recent months he has sought
to get an Air Force waiver of
the traffic violations to pave way
for commission, but, being un-
successful, he resigned from the
ROTC program and failed to
receive his bar at the Saturday
graduation.
Melvin P. Havenner, jr.. of 4610
Harvard road, identified Baker,
Evening star., 1955-06-07
PTA Storts Drive
To Restore Funds

Proposed cuts in the Mont
gomery County school construc-
ton and operating budgets
made by County Manager M. L
Reese have drawn the fire Of
the Glen Haven Elementary
School Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton of Silver Spring.
The group has submitted a
letter of protest to the County
Council and plans to send a
delegation to represent it at
the public budget hearing in
Rockville June 10. Another dele
cation was named to discuss the
with Council Member
Robert T. Snure, local member
of the governing body.
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Bowie Elects Three
To Town Bourd

Three men, including two in
cumbents, were elected to the
Bowie (Md) town board of COM
missioners yesterday.
Reelected were Oscar L. Har-
man, with 106 votes, and Chester
Kreitzer, with 90. Also named
was Charles T. Wood, who re-
ceived 81 votes to replace the
third incumbent, Melvin Buck,
who did not seek reelection.
Runners-up and their votes
were James E. Wildman, jr., 81:
Sylvester C. Bell, Sc; James S.
Clark, At, and Frank Kline, two
write-ins.
The winners were named for
one-year terms. OF the towns
230 registered voters, 1856 cast
ballots.
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Burglar Suspect
Pleads Guilty

An Andrews Air Force Base
serviceman, labeled by Prince
Georges County as the "cat
burglar" of homes in the Hill
crest Heights, Forest Heights
and Deer Park Heights sections,
pleaded guilty yesterday in Up-
per Marlboro Police Court to
eight charges Of housebreaking
and one of auto tire theft.
Trial Magistrate Nita S. Hin
man Crane ordered the man,
Raymond Ybarra. 81, held in
81 600 bond on each of the nine
counts for grand jury action.
Ybarra is accused of stealing
a total of $73 and of household
items from the eight homes dur
ing a siege of housebreaking in
early Nav,
Evening star., 1955-06-07

as driver of the car which
rammed the three parked auto
mobiles.
State Trooper Robert L
Knight said he found pieces OF
glass and a rear trunk door
handle at the scene which
matched Bakers automobile.
He found Baker in a drunken
stupor" in his room on the uni
Versity campus after the acci-
dent and had to assist him into
his patrol car and into the Hy-
attsville Police Station, he testi-
fed.
Baker said after the trial he
graduated Saturday with first
honors in the School of Business
and Public Administration.
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Southern Presbyterions
Vote Against Segregation

and beat it by a vote of 2S7
to 90.
Earlier yesterday the dele
gates, representing 784.o50 menu
bers of 3.805 churches of the
denomination. closed the door
firmly for some time to come
on union with the Presbyterian
Church. U. S. A. Negotiations
between the Presbyterian
Church. U. S (Southern1 and
the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.
tNorthern) for union were be-
gun in 1888. In 1850 the United
Presbyterian Church entered the
negotiations. The General As
semblies of the three denomina-
tions approved the merger plans
last year, and the latter two
churches supported the step in
the Presbytery votes during the
past IL months. But the South
ern Presbyteries voted the plan
down.
Stand on Violations
The meeting also passed a re-
port yesterday that ministers
guilty of moral violations be con-
demned by the presbytery in
which they reside. But the state
ment also pointed out, People
IN the public eye are subject to
rumors. When the
presbytery finds such rumors are
without foundation, it is obli-
gated to clear the good name of
the minister"
Commissioners from the Poto-
mac Presbytery appointed to as
sembly committees are the Rev.
John Mcpherson, of Calvary
Church, Alexandria, women's
work; the Rev. John r. Winter,
OF Warrenton( Va church, ju-
dicial business; the Rev. Ken
meth v. Shick, of Kenwood
Church, Baltimore, minister and
his work, and the Rev. William
H. Foster. Trinity Church. Ar
ington. general council.
Elder commissioners appoint-
I'd are Donald B. Benn of Trim
ty Church, Arlington, inter-
'hurch relations; Edward N.
otlrWalt, of Herndon (Va)
world missions: John
Walker, OF Westminster
Alexandria. church ex-
enslon, and R. B. Foster, ir.,
1unson Hill Church, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1955-06-07
BY CASPER NAMES
Star star Correspnndent

RICHMOND, June 7.-Th,
General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church, U. S., today re
affirmed its stand of last yea
against segregation in church
affairs and American life in gen
eral.
The 470 commissioners ap.
proved this action by a vote o.
293 to l09 after several hour
Iof sharp debate.
The vote came on overture!
by several presbyteries asking
that last years action be re.
Ipudiated.
The arguments today were
substantially the same as those
submitted yesterday.
The majority position insisted
that a Christian viewpoint die
not recognize any color line ir
religion. The minority point o1
view was that social Differences
had little to do with religious
practices.
Further Study Defeated
Efforts to turn the controver-
sial issue back to a committee for
further study. with instruction to
report its findings next year,
were defeated by the delegates
This motion, introduced by the
DR.. Wayte Fulton, jr.. of Miami,
Fla, produced parliamentary
snarl that seems automatically
to accompany church debates on
the issue,
The Rev. Albert C. Winn
chairman of the Christian Re-
lations Committee, started the
debate by introducing the ma
jority report. The heart of the
statement called for rejection of
an overture from the Central
Mississippi Presbytery that the
action of last years General AS
sembly. approving a resolution
asserting segregation was "out
Of harmony with Christian the
ology and ethics" be repudiated.
Then the Rev. L. H. Eikel of
lake City, Fla, submitted a
minority report to take the place
If the majority report. This
statement declared THE 1884
General Assembly did err in de-
laring segregation to be a sin
md in seeking to obligate the
members of both races in the
Presbyterian Church to work for
he integration of the races"
At this point Mr.. Fulton made
lis motion. which was intended
o take the place of both prev
ously introduced reports.
Texan Opposes Delay
DR.. C. l.. King of Houston,
7ex., told the gathering these
matters are too serious for
Ielay. After what last years
did, I don't think this
should hem and haw
nd postpone for a year action
n the question. To do so would
e a setback. if not a defeat, Il
Or the spirit that was expressed
4 the action taken by last years
Ieneral Assembly"
Mr.. Fulton's motion was called
Or, and it was defeated by al
oice vote. The delegates next i
cted on Mr.. Eikel's motion toll
lbstitute the minority report, {
Evening star., 1955-06-07
County Federation
Opposes School Cuts

2. Cutting from 220 to 200 the
number of new classroom teach
|ers requested, despite the fact
that 5.451 new pupils are ex-
pected next fall.
4. Elimination of the IS new
special teachers for the handi-
capped. remedial studies, art and
music.
Concern Over Salaries
Teachers salaries were of par
ticular concern to the group. The
schools committee, headed by
Lewis C. Tuttle, said that, if the
raises are not forthcoming, the
county will find itself com
pletely priced out of the market
when about 500 teachers must be
hired"
"The committee has found the
Board of Education's $14.1 mil
lion request fully justified" Mr..
Tuttle said.
The Federation also called for
restoration of a $4,618 entry
made by the county's planning
and cut by the manager,
providing for a Junior planner
for the upper end of the county.
Police Pay Action Asked
Robert Hacken, chairman of
the public safety committee,
called for an adjustment in the
police pay scale.
The Federation also recon-
nended an $18,700 increase over
Mr.. Reese'S proposed budget of
S52 800 for civil defense.
The group voted for restora-i
ion of $3.50 for public health
nurses which the manager had
tut from the Department of
Health request.
Public hearings, before the
County Council, on the opera
ions budget will be held on Fri
lay. Hearings on the capital
'udget will be held before the
<ouncil on June Is.
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Retain
Kensinqton Posts

Two incumbents were re-
lelected to the Town Council in
Ioff-year elections in Kensing-
ton. Md, last night.
Ralph H. Houser was named to
his third two-year term, and
.Courtland Townsend for a Sec
ond term. Each polled 188 votes.
One vote was cast for Mrs. Mil
dred Harmon.
The two candidates had
pledged themselves to preserve
the residential character of the
town"
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Builders to Meet

The Northern Virginia Build.
ers' Association will meet at 7:15
O'Clock tonight at the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club. The
speaker will be Alfred Friendly,
assistant to the managing editor
of the Washington Post and
Times-Herald.
Evening star., 1955-06-07

Montgomery County Manager
M. L. Reese last night failed to
win support of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation in his
efforts to cut more than 81 mil
lion of the $14.1 million re-
quest of the Board of Education
for operating expenses in the
coming fiscal year.
The Federation opposed the
cut despite the fact that defeat
of the managers recommended
ton could raise the tax rate by
about 13 cents.
Mr.. Reese, who took Office
about four months ago, also was
taken to task for submitting a
budget which 'lacks sufficient
details to properly inform the
public as to what his proposed
budget really means" The Fed
Grafton complained because rec
commended cuts were not ex-
planned.
The Federation voted lopsid-
edly to request that the County
Council approve the Board of
Education'S original $14.1 million
request. Only three of 65 mem-
bers attending an emergency
meeting in Bethesda voted for
the reduction. One member went
so far as to describe the boards
request as conservative.
More Action in Prospect
Although the entire county op-I
erationS budget was considered,
,he Federation spent more than
1alf of the four-hour meeting
discussing the education entry
The managers capital budget
will be considered at meeting
If the Federation next Monday
Committee chairmen said last
hight that the 81 million cut
would necessitate:
/. AboliShing kindergartens.
2. Elimination of all salary
'aises for teachers except for
formal increments.
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Lee Gets 5-Year
Bootleg Term

Michael Lee. a 43-year-olt
Washington man who jumped
bail a day before he was to be
sentenced on bottlegging charges
was given a five-year peniten-
tiary sentence yesterday in Alex
andria Federal Court.
Lee. who also was wanted in
Washington on a charge of
assault with intent to kill when
he jumped bond last February
was sentenced by Judge Albert
V. Bryan. He was given two
years on charge of operating
a still and five years for possess
ing so gallons of illegal whisky.
Both sentences are to run con-
currently.
The former bartender was one
OF four men arrested in a raid
in January, 1854, on q Fairfax
County still, which was described
as the biggest still uncovered in
Virginia since prohibition days.
Raiders Swooped down on the
still the day after it went into
operation on a farm on the An
nandale-Falls Church road.
The defendant was picked up
on March 26 in Annapolis, Md.
Originally, he was scheduled to
be sentenced on February 4 after
pleading guilty to the bootlegging
counts. Instead he jumped ST.
500 bail.
Lee received the stiffest fine of
the four arrested. He still faces
q bail-jumping count, court Of
f1cialS said.
At the time of his flight from
Justice, Lee was wanted byI
Washington authorities on as
Sault with intent to kill and
aousebreaking charges. The
former charge grew out of al
shooting fracas last January inI
which Lee and Walter w.
Pickett, So, shot at each other!
n a taxicab in Washington. |
Pickett, who is now serving a /
.our-year term given by Judge
Bryan, was co-defendant with
lee on the Virginia bootlegging
'harges.
Lee, whose last address was
isted in the 100 block of Four
eenth street NV, has a police
ecord dating back to 1924.
Among previous convictions was
ne in 194S for possessing mari
uana. L
Evening star., 1955-06-07
School SAVINGS
Spark Revolt

The seven members of the
Montgomery County Council to-
day faced a revolt from the
Democratic Party workers who
put them in Office, the Star
learned today.
A petition was being circulated
today among Democratic pre-
cinct workers urging the all
Democratic council to reject
school budget cuts proposed by
the county manager, M. L. Reese.
With nearly two-thirds of the
rs precinct leaders polled, the
leaders of the movement had
obtained a 2 to / expression of
protest against the budget cuts.
Four Won't Be Polled
-Four precinct leaders will not
be polled. They're members of
the council-Charles Jameson,
Jerry Williams, Robert T. Snure
and Wilbur Baughman.
Mr.. Reese has proposed a 81
million saving in the school op-
Grating budget and a So million
cut in the school building pro-
gram for the coming year.
The showdown between the
council and the Board of Educa-
ton comes Friday night when al
public hearing is scheduled inI
Rockville on the school spending
Attacks From PTA
The precinct leaders protest
will be forwarded to the council
in advance Of a closed-doorI
huddle between the council and
the Board of Education oni
Thursday night.
The action by the POLITICAL
workers follows widespread at
tacks on the Reese budget by
Parent = Teacher Associations,
teachers groups and the Mont
yOfn6rV Co1Infv Tiuio Eladoua%;o,o
Evening star., 1955-06-12
on your own Tuble .

When you dine on The 10Th Century
Limited you may have Sexton coffee.
When you stop at Greyhound Post
House for snack. again you arc served
Sexton coffee.
But you don't have to be travelling to
enjoy this exquisite blend of rich Mara
caibo, winey Bogota and selected Mexi-
can and Santos coffees. The fact that
more than half a million cups Of Sher-
man Blend coffee are served every day
means you can make this ambrosia bey-
erage yoW good companion wherever
you arc
Evening star., 1955-06-12
BOTTLE BABY

TNhE thirsty cub shown
Il here had an eventful
life before he settled down
with a bottle. Eskimo
hunters spotted a big polar
bear on an ice foe, shot
it, then found the cub.
They took him to their vii
lage where he was adopt
ed by a local priest - and
the local kids. He thinks
civilization is wonderful.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-07-20
President Invites
Soviet Leaders to
Banquet Monday

GENEVA, President Essen
hover and the leaders Of the So
Wet Union-including his old
friend Marshal Georgi Zhukov-
drank champagne toasts Monday
night to the success of the summit
conference and the winning Of an
enduring peace.
The President and Zhukov got a
chance to chat briefly following a
dinner Eisenhower gave for the
Russian leaders at his Lake Ge-
neva villa. There was no word
whether they made any progress
toward ironing out East West diff
ferences.
Eisenhower and the Soviet de-
Tense minister met for the first
time in almost 10 years at yester-
days opening session of the Big
Four conference. They exchanged
brief enthusiastic greetings then.
Getting together at dinner Mon
day night, they talked through an
interpreter The Presidents son,
Maj. John Eisenhower, joined in.
Eisenhower and Zhukov became
friends when both served as milf
tary administrators in Germany
after World War III. Young Essen
hover also met the Soviet officer
at that time. After the marshal
became Soviet defense minister,
he and the President exchanged
private letters.
Other Soviet officials attending
the dinner were Premier Bulgan-
in, Communist Party Chief Nikita
S. Khrushchev, Foreign Minister
" vi. Molotov and Deputy For
eign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
Secretary of State Dulles and
other American officials also were
present.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-07-20
Two on Boat Rescued
From MonOxide Poisoning
By Passing Wildlife Plane

KETCHIKAN, 1.-TWO Wash
ington State men were reported in
good condition Monday after a
dramatic rescue Sunday from car
bon monoxide poisoning and a
sinking boat in Vixen Bay, about
As miles southeast of here.
The rescue was made by two
men and woman aboard a Fish
and Wildlife Service airplane on
a routine flight after the noticed
one of their motorboats turning
in circles in the bay.
Just as the plane began landing
the boat went on rock. The pi-
lot of the plane boarded the boat
which was filed with gas. He
found Craig Mecklenburg, 10,
slumped over the wheel and Lew
elan Kumatat, %, unconscious on
the cabin deck.
Artificial respiration was APP
piled to Macklenburg while the
woman was holding Kumatat in
side the boat when it began slip
ping off the rock. She was in
water up to, the neck and just
keeping Kumatat's head above the
water when the pilot returned
with skiff and took the two off
the boat.
When Kumatat revived he said
the last he remembered was look
ing at his watch shortly after
lighting the boats gas stove.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-07-20
Let Him Keep His Selt-Restect
STRANGLES SELF WHILE
READING COMIC BOOKS

BIRDSBORO, Pa, LR A high
school senior Topped a belt around
the branch Of a tree, then under
his chin to support his head while
he sat on top of washing ma
chine reading comic books.
State policeman James Woods
said the lid of the washer re-
volved under the boy, 17-year-old
John Mattson, caused the belt to
tighten around his throat and
strangle him.
Woods said there were scuff
marks on the ground by the wash
er where Mattson apparently tried
to free the belt from around his
throat.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-07-20
Woman's Hunger Strike
Protesting Draft Laws
Ends After Three DAYS

CORAL GABLES Fla, R-Mrs.
Martha Blumenbach slipped a
glass of milk Monday night to end
a three-day hunger strike she
started in protest Of the military
draft laws.
She agreed to start eating again
after her husband, Earl, called in
several friends who talked with
her.
She started the hunger strike at
$50 pm. Friday after her dentist
son, DR.. Thomas Blumenbach, &c,
entered the us. Public Health
Service at Savannah, Ga.
He said he volunteered when
his draft board told him he would
have to serve in the armed forces.
Duty in the Public Health Service
is considered equivalent to time in
the armed forces.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-07-20

Steak sterilized by atomic
rays displayed by Joan Dixon.
Swift & Co. home economist. at
Centennial celebration.
CHICAGO-This steak was ster-
ilized by atomic rays.
1t will keep without refrigera-
ton but it has a scorched flavor
1t is displayed at Swift & Cos
research laboratories in Chicago
in connection with the company's
Centennial. Swift has done much
research the past seven years to
find a way to improve foods with
atomic energy.
DR.. H. E. Robinson, director of
Swift Laboratories, says that as
yet no way has been found to
overcome this flavor problem but
the research is continuing.
"While it may take years to
solve this problem, it isn't hope
less and we expect eventual sue
cess" DR.. Robinson said.
Evening star., 1955-06-16
Senator'S Back ),
Vast Alert Sefup,
Rr the Associared Pres.

The Senate Appropriations
Committee yesterday disclosed
it has approved a vast new air
defense communications system
that may cost more than 50
billion.
The system is known by the
code word SAGE which stands
for "semi-automatic ground en-
vironment." Many of its de-
tails are top military secrets.
Some information about it be-
came public through release Of
closed-door testimony before the
appropriations committee.
Lyle S. Garlock. Assistant Sec.
retary Of Defense for financial
management. testified the vast
network is being built under
lease contracts with American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
He estimated that lease costs
may run as high as $240 million
a year over a 10-year period.
The network of telephone and
teleprinters will hook UP all ra-
dar sites, air bases and other
control and command centegs,
within the continental United
States for detection and opera
tions against possible enemy air
attack. =
Mr.. Garlock and other Air
Force officials said the system
was ordered installed by the Ma. ;
tional Security Council and the
Secretary of Defense. = 5p
Mr.. Garlock said the system
will feed the information from
radar that picks up an identified
plane into the control center
and back out to the fighter units.
the anti-aircraft units or the
missile units"
Evening star., 1955-06-16
Blast Kills Three Men
In Explosives Plant

BARKSDALE, Wis, June 16
(P.-The blast Of 5000 pounds
of high explosives-touched of
after a routine inspec-
ton found everything in order
killed three men and shattered
a mixing house at the E. I. du
Pont de Nemours & Co. powder
plant yesterday.
The blast at the isolated ex-
plosive-mixing installation was
down a valley and was
felt in the city of Ashland, five
miles away. However. earth and
concrete barriers saved other
plant structures from serious
damage. He estimated damage
at $75, 900.
The three men in the building
all that regulations permitted
at one time-were Elmer Nelson,
As, of Washburn; Stanley Berg,
A, Ashland, and Russell Nelson,
46, Bayfield,. All died.