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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08
Local Pension
Curb Sought
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star stan Correspondent


ANNAPOLIS, Feb. ga bill
was set for introduction in the
Maryland Legislature today te
amend a 1855 act which had the
unexpected effect Of Furnishing
cities and counties whose local
boys made good in State govern
ment.
Senator H. Winship Wheatley
IT,, Democrat of Prince Georges
County. said he is drafting the
amendment. He was one of the
sponsors of the 1855 act which
breezed through both houses.
What that act did was to allow
any present State employe who
had previously worked for a city
or county to claim credit in the
State Employees Retirement Sys-
TEN for the time he worked as
an elected or appointed city or
county employe.
Since the State retirement law
provides that its employees retire
at their highest salary. the credit
for service on a city or county
payroll was given at whatever
salary the State official is cur
rently caring. And although the
employee himself was not obli-
gated to increase his contribu-
tons to the State Retirement
Fund. the city or county that
once carried his name on their
payroll had to fork up whatever
their share would be at his cur
rent salary for the time he
worked at the local government
level.
Frederick Example
To a city such as Frederick
which has two former municipal
officials making big money now
for the State-this act meant a
bill from the State Retirement
System of $4,000.
The two Frederick boys who
have made good with the State
are Russell H. Mccain. $4,000
a-year chairman of the State
Roads Commission, and Elmer F.
Munshower. $9.350-a-year super
intendent of State Police.
Senator Wheatley said his bill
would amend the 1855 act to
provide that the city or county
contribution to the retirement
fund should be based on the Of
ficial's highest pay while in the
employ of the city or county in
vplved. The bill will further
state that 1t was not the inten-
ton of the Legislature last year
ID make cities and counties con-
tribute in such large amounts to
the State Retirement Fund.
Could Ruin Towns
Ed Mester. executive secretary
Of the Maryland Municipal Lea
que. which is supporting the
Wheatley bill. said that strict
enforcement Of the 1855 act as
now written could ruin some of
the little towns of the State.
He said his organization had
convinced the State Retirement
Board not to press Frederick city
for payment of the $4,000 bill
for Mr.. Mccain and Mr.. Mum
shower until this session Of the
Legislature has a chance to cor
rect the 1855 act.
Mr.. Munshower, incidentally
served in various elected and
appointive positions for the city,
Mr.. Mccain. however, can only
lay claim to being an alderman
at $500 a year.
Meanwhile, the Prince Georges
County bloc here decided to
draft a bill requested by the
county commissioners to au-
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|thorize a s2.5 million bond issue
for an addition to Prince Georges
General Hospital at Cheverly.
The six Delegates and Sena-
tor Wheatley agreed that they
would seek the bond authorize
ton to meet any emergency
situation brought about by the
shortage of beds and space at
the county-owned hospital. The
only local bills constitutionally
allowed in a 30-day session are
those of an emergency nature,
The State Senate yesterday
completed the overriding OF
gubernatorial vetoes on two local
Prince Georges Montgomery
bills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08

ton Endorsed the School Boards
proposed $9.4 million construc-
ltion bond issue. which is to come
before the voters February 81.
Mr., Reynolds presented esti-
mates of future enrolment and
said the need for more space
sis a matter of arithmetic, not
of opinion"
The vote indorsing the bond
issue was Sc to Is.
After hearing Representative
Broyhill. Republican of Virginia,
the federation voted to go on
record as favoring the concept
of Washington area transit
authority.
The Congressman said that
"some central overall ownership
and operation" of Metropolitan
Area transportation facilities is
He said he believes
bus lines can be reasonably &C
uuired under the authority he
proposes in a bill now before
Congress.
Broyhill's Objections
Mr.. Broyhill made it clear he
was not referring to the author
ity proposed by the District
Commissioners to operate the
transit system in the District.
He said, II don't believe Con-
gress is going to approve the
proposal of the Commissioners,
unless we're able to amend it
quite bit"
Appropriation Of $40 million
In Federal money to take. over
the system now operated by Cap
ital Transit should not be neces-
sary, he said. He added he
believes that bonds of the Sue
cessor to Capital Transit can be
sold to the public.
Frank Ellis, chairman of the
local government committee. in
troduced Mr.. Broyhill. Edward
B. Hincks, federation president.
presided at the meeting.
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sources was introduced yester.
day.
In an effort to conserve re-
sources Of the underground wa
ter table. the bill would require
owners of free-flowing artesiar
wells to stop the flow except
when the water is put to some
useful purpose. It would be .
misdemeanor to allow the watel
to run to waste.
Another commission study bill
was sponsored by Delegate w. c
Elliott of Russell County. and 81
co-patrons-more than enough
to pass 1t through the 100.
member House.
The measure would place 9
scent per bottle tax on oil
whisky sold by the State Il
finance a 81 million program fol
the rehabilitation of alcoholics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08
Highway Radar
Bill Advances
Ry ! STAR correspondent Of Ths Sal

BY Q Stan Correspondent OF The Star
RICHMOND, Feb. "a tighter
Iradar law-to make it easier to
Iootain convictions for speeding
Iarrests-was passed by the House
Iof Delegates today by a 90-2
vote.
The bill places the burden on
the accused to prove that the
State has failed to display ''radar
warning" signs at all places re-
Iquired by law.
At present. the law says no
driver may be arrested by a
Iradar speed check unless signs
notifying the public Of the use
Iof the electrical timing devices
have been placed on all primary
highways at the State borders
and outside all cities and towns
Iof $500 population or more.
Acquittals on Appeal
Stafford Delegate Frank P.
Moncure estimated in debate
yesterday that 80 per cert Of
those arrested by radar fail to
contest the charge. But, he
added, "some astute lawyers
have appealed their convictions
and won acquittals because the
prosecution could not prove that
all the signs were posted
throughout the State.
Under the revised law, the
courts would be allowed to pre-
sumo the signs were in place
unless the accused has filed an
affidavit showing the contrary.
Also passed, so to 81. by the
House was a bill by Delegate
John Rixey of Norfolk directing
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board to start selling whisky in
one-half pint bottles at selected
stores as an experiment to de-
termine whether temperance
would be promoted.
Curb on Water Waste
The first Of series OF bills
resulting from a commission
study of the States water re-
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MARYLAND VIRGINIA NEWS
.Loudoun Negroes Move
Hits School Bond Issue

County Chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. said the idea
of segregated schools was based
on Ignorance and superstition.
The resolution further stated
that racially segregated schools
handicap the educational ad-
Ivancement of Negro youth
and that segregated schools
lretard the development of
the cultural and democratic
process of the entire community
In declining to take action or
the resolution, Board member
DR.. w. P. Frazer said there was
no need for the board to con-
slider the matter farther.
1--WE asked for information anc
we got it," DR.. Frazer said.
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Bill Would Extend
Study Agency on
i Transportation
BY q Star stan Correspondent

RICHMOND. Feb. 8.-Contin-
uation of tri-State commission
to study transportation problems
in the Washington Metropolitan
Area is proposed under legisla-
ton offered the General Assem-
bly, yesterday.
A joint resolution by Arlington
State Senator Charles r. Fen
wick calls on the Maryland Leg
tislature and the District Of
Columbia Commissioners to take
concurrent action.
The commission, appointed in
1854 after Virginia requested the
other two areas to take similar
action. expects to release an
interim report next Tuesday
afternoon. There are three mem
bers from each jurisdiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08
.Moncure Bill Opposed
BY Arlington Federation

The Arlington Civic Fedora
ton is on record against the
Moncure bill which would
change the method of naming
the County School Board from
election to appointment.
The federation took this stand
at q meeting last night at the
Barnes a. Kimel auditorium.
Action was taken on q motion
by Robert w. Culbert Of the
legislative and legal action COM
mittee. who presented q resolu-
ton By the schools committee,
headed by Robert Reynolds.
Appointment Of federation
members to speak at the hear
ing on the bill In Richmond at
10 I'm. tomorrow was left to the
executive committee. It was an
nounced that a bus will leave the
Unitarian Church on Arlington
boulevard at North Pershing
drive at $50 am. for the Rich
mond hearing. Mrs. Martha
Wildhack is in charge Of ar
rangements, Mr.. gilbert said.
Spices Loses Fight
The resolution said Arlington's
elected School Board has built
up the Arlington school system
to q position Of national promi-
nence. and the people Of Airing
ton have repeatedly shown their
support Of the elected School
Board.
Opposition to the resolution
came from Karl Spiess, who Of
Ifered another resolution saying
that the School Boards an
nouncement of plans to begin
Indignation was premature. Mr..
Spiess said that ".the wave Of
Indignation which swept through
the General Assembly upon
learning Of the presumptuous ac-
ton Of said School Board is not
at all surprising. ="
Mr.. Spiess' resolution was de-
feated, So to 10.
In other business, the fedora
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08
BY JAMES BIRCHFIELD
Star Stan Correspondent

LEESBURG, VA, Feb. GA
proposed 100000 school con-
struction bond issue apparently
is out the window after notice
from four Negro groups that
they would not accept separate
school facilities.
While the Board Of Super
visors yesterday failed to take
action on a resolution by foui
Icolored groups condemning the
Icounty's segregation stand, II
was the consensus of members
that no bond issue would be
voted for integrated schools.
Stand Remains Same
Board Chairman Emory Kirk
patrick said that he stood to-
day as he had always stood
for better school facilities fol-
Icolored children, but in separate
schools E"
o. L. limerick, of Loudour
School. superintendent. had nc
comment.
Mr.. limerick, who has beer
confined at his home since ar
automobile accident last month
said the School Board woulc
consider the resolution at it,
regular meeting Monday.
The resolution was in answer
to a Joint proposal by the Boarc
of Supervisors and the Schoo
Board to poll parents of colorec
children as to. their willingness
to continue with segregated
schools. The poll was taken be-
for a decision was made on the
bond issue.
Based on Ignorance"
In the resolution. signed by
the Countrywide League. the
Banneker Parent Teacher Asso-
citation. the Bull Run Parent
Teacher Association and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08

The first Of a series OF bills
resulting from a commission
study of the States water re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08
Track Star to Speak

Dr.. Glenn Cunningham. IA
nous mile runner Of the l930s
was to speak at the assembly
today at Montgomery Blair
High School on Clean Living
and the Race OF Life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-08
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-31
Florida Senate
|OK's School Bills

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July 81
IR.-The Senate has completed
legislative action on a committee
program to preserve segregation
in Florida.
The Senate, without debate,
yesterday accepted House amend
ments to three of four bills
recommended by the committee
Of legal experts to avoid lawfully
mixing the races in public schools
and other facilities.
The amendments limited to
five years the extraordinary
police powers and the right to
make regulations governing use
Of public facilities ATanted the
Governor in two Of TIM bills.
The House also amended the
teacher assignment bill to per-
NIT screening Of new teachers as
well as teachers already In the
system.
AS the Senate sent the bills
to Gov. Leroy Collins for his
signature, Sumter L. Lowry told
a House Committee the Legis-
lature should defy the United
States Supreme Courts school
desegregation ruling even II
public officials went to Jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-31
High State Court Asked
To Stoy NAACP Fine

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 81
R.-Ten hours after the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People be-
came subject to a 100000 fine
in State Circuit Court, its at
torneys planned to ask the Ala
bama Supreme Court to stay
the fine.
The request was scheduled to
be made at hearing today fol-
lowing the midnight deadline
for surrendering the NAACP's
Alabama records. The organi-
cation refused to give up its Ala
bama membership list.
Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones
turned down a request yester-
day to settle for some other
NAACP records he had ordered
handed over and not to let an
earlier fine of $4,000 go UP
automatically to 100000. The
NAACP is now subject to the
larger fine, on which a formal
judgment must still be entered
Court Refuses to Act
Shortly after Judge Jones re-
fusal, a delegation Of MACE
attorneys headed by Robert Car
ter Of the New York Office asked
the Supreme Court to stay the
100000 fine Immediately. The
court refused to act late yester-
day because the State Of Ala
bama had not been notified Of
the request.
Attorney General John Pat
terson had asked for the records
TO back UP a June / injunction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-31
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Moscow's Hand Seen in Canal Seizure,
With Drive on Israel Next Possibility

humiliate the Western powers
once more, fully confident that
there will be no retaliation.
Moscow has learned since
1850 when it instigated the
Korean war that the fear Of
Soviet intervention is sufficient
to send shivers down the spines
of leaders in Washington, Lon
don and Paris. They know that
France has engaged her last
combat force in Algeria and
that the British themselves can
i'll afford to make a real show
of force in the Mediterranean
or in the Far East. The United
States alone has such capabili-
ties. The Kremlin knows, how
ever, that we preferred to lose
the war in Korea than take a
calculated risk of measuring
our forces with those of the
Soviets. Moreover, not a sin
gle American would permit a
drop of American blood to be
spilled to protect the stake
which the British and French
have in the Suez Canal Co.,
despite the Importance of keep
ing that waterway permanently
open.
Western Europe, and to
some extent the United States,
needs the Middle Eastern oil
which comes from the Persian
Gulf in tankers through the
canal. Any interference with
the free transportation of that
oil would have disastrous re-
suits on the Western economy.
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Eqypt's Aggression on the Suez

Canal to the "unfettered" con-
troll of a single nation. This
means that he regards Egypt
as q "fettered" nation to-
day. It is "fettered"' by q
dictator's power over the
Egyptian people, whose ballot
ing NasSer controls as Hitler
did in Germany. Egypt is "fet-
tered" also by the Communist
influence to which Nasser has
been beholden right along.
The talk emanating from
Moscow about international
izing" the Suez Canal is a mere
euphemism. Naturally. Soviet
Russia wants a veto in what
shall be done in the Suez Canal
area. It's of military impor-
lance to her. But the only con-
troll that would be safe for the
West would be under on in
ternational plan that keeps the
canal in private hands-that is,
the stockholders in free coun-
tries and, of course, with Egyp-
tan participation. The prece-
dent of putting an important
seaway into the hands of both
East and West governments
could only lead to political
intrigue.
There isn't any objection to
the management of the Suez
by an Egyptian company, as
has been the case for many
years. The trouble isn't in
the problem of ownership. but
in the kind of government that
rules in Cairo. Only under a
free government there can the
continued operation Of the
canal be assured for transport
tation and not political pur-
poses. Until a free govern
ment arises in Egypt-and
that is what is meant by an
"unfettered" country = there
can be no safety for ships that
seek passage through the Suez
Canal.
The major powers may have
to make a military demonStra-
ton to secure respect for their
rights-and to protect them
selves against giving a base to
Svoiet Russia at the eastern
end of the Mediterranean.
It's 2 military as well as a
political crisis the world faces
and if the West falterS again,
it could mean a chain of events
which would again encourage
the aggreSsor to take chances
and bring on a world war.
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THOMAS l. STOKES
GO. P. and Control of Congress

long by the late Senator
Robert A. Taft.
Secretary Humphrey OBJ
.viously wanted to dispel any
such idea and to enlist himself
as openly as possible on the
Ohio front in the uphill battle
to give President Eisenhower a
Republican Senate in the Sec
ond term that Republicans con-
f1dently forecast for him.
The Treasury head is a
powerful figure politically in
Ohio because Of the influential
position he has achieved in its
business and industry, which
he capitalizes most effectively.
1t was hardly necessary for
him to deny published re-
ports that he would direct the
raising of a 100000 campaign
fund for Senator Bender; for
his name at the top of the
Bender campaign committee is
enough to let his fellow Re-
publican industrialists and
businessmen in Ohio know
where to place their chips in
this campaign. He explained
that he would have nothing
to do with raising money,
which would be the function
of the Ohio Republican Sena-
torial Finance Committee.
Secretary Humphreys power
in his States politics was plain
enough to anyone who
checked into the senatorial
campaign there in 1854 when
then Representative Bender
narrowly won election to the
unfinished Taft term over
Senator Tom Burke, the Dem
ocrat who had been appointed
to the vacancy by Gov.
LauSche.
Not only was Secretary
Humphreys influence exerted
among the business and indus
trial hierarcy to steer contribu-
tons George Bender's way, but
also to discourage contribu-
tons to Senator Burkes cam
paign from some who wanted
to help the Democrats but had
business relationships with the
various Humphrey enterprises
that gave the Secretary an i'm
piled veto.
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Was the seizure of the Suez
Canal by the Egyptians, on
whose territory it was built in
the last century, curtain
raiser for more Soviet machi-
nations and intrigues in the
Middle East? Is this move a
prelude to a settlement by
force of the ab-ISraeli crisis?
These questions are being
anxiously asked in, official
quarters in Washington as
some diplomats compare the
present situation with that in
the early weeks of 1899. The
difference, as they see it, is
that while Berlin was acting
directly, Moscow is acting by
proxy.
The Suez seizure will be
accepted in all probability by
the interested powers as
an accomplished fact. The
London conference of foreign
ministers attended by our Dep
uty Undersecretary of State
Robert Murphy is intended to
find some sort of face-saving
solution. All we can expect is
that the already severely dam
aged prestige of the Western
powers in the Middle and Far
East may suffer only a small
additional dent.
In the Suez Canal affair
there is something to be said
for Egypt insofar as Sub
stance" is concerned. But the
arbitrary way with which Col.
Nasser managed the matter
conveys the feeling that the
seizure was not an impetuouS
reaction to our clumsy denial
of funds for the ASwan dam,
but was well planned in adj
vance during his meetings
with Comrades Shepilov and
Tito.
The building of the Nile
dam is not a matter of alb
solute urgency. There is little
doubt that Moscow has been
pulling strings again and told
the Egyptians they could 'get
the money from tolls paid by
International shipping to the
Suez Canal Authority. The
legality of the move did not
bother either Shepilov or
NaSser, for international law
as a basis for relations among
nations is a dead letter inso-
far as the Communists and
their friends are concerned.
Nasser, it is pointed out in
official Washington, easily
could have negotiated with the
Suez Canal Co. and taken a
high-handed action only if he
found the British and French
adamant. 1t is doubtful, how
ever, that in their present
precarious position they could
have stood fast for any length
of time. The SovietS, however,
are interested in slappin g
down the proud West" again
rather than in doing away
with another "veStige of CO.
lonialism." AS in the rest of
the world, they want openly to