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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Plaque to Dr.. White
To Be Unveiled at
Loudoun Hospital

LEESBURG. Va. Feb. 4 (Spe-
ciaD "A bronze plaque honor
ing DR.. Charles Stanley White,
prominent Washington surgeon,
will be unveiled at 4 pm. today
at ceremonies at the Loudoun
County Hospital here.
The plaque will be presented
by friends and former patients
OF DR.. White, headed by, a COM
mittee consisting of Miss Flor
ence Manning. Mrs. J. R. H.
Alexander and Harry /. Tiffany.
The memorial will be received
by Robert j. McCray. president
of the hospital board. The
plaque will be unveiled by
Charles Stanley White III.
DR.. White, an internationally
known surgeon. has been con-
r1ected with the Loudoun Hos
pital for the last As years.
For many years he main
tanned q summer residence in
Loudoun County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
County Legislators
And School Boord
Weigh Moncure Bill

Reaction in the General As
sembly and In Arlington to the
Moncure bill was discussed last
night, at a conference OF the
county's legislators and school
board members.
II the bill Is enacted. the elec-
tive status Of the school board
would be abolished in favor OF
an appointive method.
The meeting was held at the
home OF State Senator Charles
r. Fenwick, who will head OPP
position to the bill at a public
hearing in Richmond.
The date for the hearing Is
expected to be set next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Explosion Kills
Murylund Youth

BALTIMORE. Feb. 4 R.-De-
spite the frantic efforts Of his
mother and sister to save him, q
14-year-old boy died yesterday
after a can Of infiammahle liquid
exploded in his hands.
The youth, Charles Edward
Fidler, IT,, was trying to light o
wood stove at his home In SUBJ
urban Pikesville.
His mother. Mrs. Mildred Fid-
Ter. tried to beat out the flames
with her hands.
His 17-year-old sister, Anna
Marie, tried to smother the
flames by throwing two overcoats
ION him.
Finally. as the house flied
with smoke, they fled with Anna
Marie's baby sister, Sandra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04

Emery N. Hosmer has won the
Endorsement of the Arlington Bar
Association for the county's third
Circuit Court judgeship.
The only other nominee was
former Delegate George Damn,
who lost by a 73-to-54 ballot.
No motion was offered at the
meeting last night to change the
19-vote margin to a unanimous
Endorsement.
Democratic members Of the
General Assembly have been
called into caucus to nominate
candidates for five additional
judgeships. including one for Ar
lington. They will meet Wednes-
day night In the House Of Dele
gates in Richmond.
Served as Judge
A native Arlingtonian. Mr..
Hosmer. SIS. has served as Judge
protein of the county's Circuit
Court for four years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Ministerial Group
Fuvors HOUSING Code

The Alexandria Ministerial
Association yesterday votec
unanimous approval in prin.
ciple of a housing code for the
city.
Specific provisions of the pro.
posed code released by a citi.
zen's advisory committee this
week were not put to a vote
Members Of the association
representing some IS churches
said they would have guest
speakers talk to their congre-
cations about housing standards
and hygiene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 4 R.-A
complete, formal investigation
Of the strikebound Baltimore
Transit Co. by the House Of
Delegates appealed imminent to.
day. Gov. McKeldin's settlement
proposal for State seizure
seemed to have little chance Of
passage.
Yesterday the Senate judiciary
Committee saw parade Of man.
agement and labor representa-
tives assail it as unconstitutional
strikebreaking and union bust
ing. A motion for an unfavor-
able report was made ct q meet
ing of the committee, which de-
cided to hold OF any vote until
Tuesday.
Before that, on Monday night
the House will be asked to APP
prove its first grand inquest
ii this century. The inquest con.
Quoted by the entire House oil
a23 members will have authority
70 subpoena and hear testimony
under oath.
Delegate Mandel, Democrat Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Girl Burglar, Is,
Seized; Left Her
Picture in Store

A lS-year-old girl who left her
coat and picture behind was ar
rested today for breaking into
the J. c. Penney Department
Store in Alexandria.
Police said the girl. who is
colored. escaped two days ago
from q training school where
she was sent last December after
breaking into the same store.
D. w. Duke. manager OF the
store, said the girl took dresses.
shoes, jewelry and other items,
using stolen suitcase to carry
them away.
The manager said an employee
found the girls old coat which
she left behind after donning a.
new outfit. The coat contained
a screw driver which police said
apparently was used to take the
hinges Of a store door. The girl
was identified by letter with
her name on 1t and a picture
left in the coat. Police arrested
her at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
|Wi|dercroft
Area Assured Of
Wafer
County Heads Make
Pledge Thot Supply
Won't Be Cut Off

Residents OF Prince Georges
County's Wildercroft area won a
promise from the County COM
|missioners yesterday that their
only supply Of drinking water
will not be cut OF, regardless of
what the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission says.
The residents in the area OF
Good Luck and Cipriano roads.
lied by Mrs. Virginia Crisp. APP
|pealcd to the Commissioners yes
|terday at their meeting In Hy-
|attsville for help in retaining q
public water faucet on Auburn
avenue. The Sanitary Commits
sion has decided to discontinue
the faucet and six others in the
sanitary district on March !.
wont Cut Water on"
"We'll assure you that they
won't cut that water off," Com
missioner Frank j. Lastner told
the Wildercroft residents. after
cidad IN o. before the sanitary
|-ornn,iss,on nersonallv to f,cht
the order
49,, a.,
imes can uo = t.nlis ilhe
.lae, saiu ooaau Slai nan
|zens of this county and. regard-
less of who doesn't like 1t, yoil
people have got to have water"
Mrs. Crisp said previous esti-
mates by the Sanitary Commits
sion to service the area with wa
ter were excessively high. She
said q compromise plan offered
by the commission to meter the
water and bill one individual Is
impractical and that the resi-
dents will have no source Of
drinking water II the faucet is
discontinued.
Mrs Crisp took issue with a
claim made by Sanitary Commits
sion Chairman r Earle Bourne
at 4 Thursday NIGHT meeting Of
the civic Federation that as
MANY as IN a,,tnmobi,ex have
been reported lined IN at the
faucet WAITING for : "wash iob {"
MOL stoom TOT ~ Cars
There would not be enough
room for 20 cars on the full
length of Auburn avenue" Mrs.
Crisp said, adding that the COM
mission has failed to properly
designate with a sign that the
water is for drinking purposes
only and to promptly repair the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
New Look in Post Offices
Attracts Mclean Chances

/ All you have to do. MIR. Geiel
said. is to drop in coin and the
machine viii give you your
stamps. And, what's more, II
win make change.
He said the machine win dis
Ipense almost all denomination
stamps, including special deliv-
lery and air mail.
First 10 Try Device
Mr.. Geier is proud of the fact
that Mclean was chosen to try
the new machine first. He said
these machines are scheduled
ito be placed later in post offices
lin Washington. Detroit, Flint,
Mich, and New York.
The Mclean post office is
something Of a guinea pig for
the Postmaster General. Some
|of the new ideas in equipment
design are being tried out there.
And Postmaster General SUM
|mertleld is expected to be on
hand February II when the
new office is dedicated.
There viii be a parade and
band music by the Mclean High
School Band. The arrangements
are being made by a committee
headed by william H. Loving.
Speakers. in addition to MIR.
|Summerfield, will include Rep
Iresentative Broyhill, Republican
of Virginia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Scout Birthday Marked

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. Z R.-
Maryland Boy Scouts yesterday
marked 46 years Of scouting in
America by presenting Gov. Nc
Keldin with a copy Of a Norman
Rockwell painting of George
Washington kneeling in prayer
above the heads of a Cub Scout.
a Boy Scout and an explorer.
The painting is a copy of the
original being presented to Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Study Of Sales Tax
Asked at Richmond
POLICE TO TOW AWAY CARS
IN SILVER SPRING PARKING DRIVE

Chronic parking vioators who make a habit Of ig-
noring police in Silver Spring may find
their cars towed away from Illegal parking places.
Montgomery County Police Capt. Charles Peter said
hvepage list OF persons who have failed to return
or more parking tickets has been compiled.
When their found illegally parked again. they
are to be towed at the expense of the owner Capt
Peter added that the twote denquents have been
cleaned police will start the onetine violators
Parking tickets issued under county ordinances cost
only 81 II paid within 10 hours. After that time ticket
Folders are subject to fines to $50 80 days in jail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
.'Dixiiecraf' Race
Seen Unlikely

Representative williams, DEM
ocrat Of Mississippi. told a pro-
segregation audience in Arling-
ton last night prospects are slim
for creation of another Dixie
crat" drive this year.
Answering a question by q
woman who expressed dissatis-
faction with both the Republic
can and Democratic stands on
the segregation issue, Mr.. Will
liams said:
you had Truman to shoot at
in 1913. There's too many ex-
cuses they can make for Eisen-
hover"
Decision Called Treason
Mr.. Williams, a resident of
Arlington. spoke to- an audience
of more than 100 at the Broy-
hill Auditorium. The meeting
was sponsored by the Defenders
OF State Sovereignty and Indi-
vidual Liberty. Jack Rathbone
presided.
The Supreme Court decision
banning segregation in public
schools was ian act Of treason. /"
Mr.. Williams said.
If the Federal Government
tries to enforce the decision, he
said. white children in Missis-
sippi viii be sent to private
schools AND there will be no
public schools.
"Brainwashing" Charged
The Congressman criticized
the press as helping to brain
wash the American people" by
failing to publish statistics" on
Negro crime, moral standards
and health.
During the meeting petitions
were circulated In behalf Of
the Moncure bill now before the
Virginia General Assembly.
The bill would change the
of SELECTION of the Ar
lington School Board from cleo
ton by the people to appoint
ment by q school board electoral
board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
BY JAMES BIRCHFIELD

For the new look in post Of
fees, take q glance at the new
one just opened in Mclean, Va
The Mclean office isn't off,
cfally open yet, but postal
workers moved in this week when
the lease on the old building ex-
pired.
There will be q grand opening
February IL. when the new Of
fee In q section of the o. v
carper Mclean Business Center
Is officially dedicated.
Meanwhile. Mclean residents
are getting the first look at the
future Of post office design. And
from all indications. they like it
Glassed-in Lobby
Postal business is transacted
along . long counter facing q
glassed-in lobby.
The letter boxes, or lock boxes
as they are sometimes called, are
located in a separate lobby,
which will remain open "a hours
o day.
And another innovation---the
first in any post office in the
United States-will be q special
automatic stamp dispenser.
r he machine, according to
Post Master Conrad S. Geier, ST..
viii do the work of q postal clerk
during OF hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Mon Is Fined
For 90 Birds
In Locker

BALTIMORE, Feb. . R.-
Ralph L. Frey. IS. Of Lancaster
Pa. was fined 500 and costs
lin Federal Court today for hav-
ling excessive migratory birds in
his possession" to wit: 81 wild
ducks and eight wild geese.
The legal limit is eight birds.
Judge r. Dorsey Watkins also
handed out fines of $50 and costs
each to George p. Rasmussen,
I56. of Annapolis and Joseph l..
Usilton. n, Of Chester, Md. both
Iof whom he convicted Of shooting
over baited ground.
Two Others Fined
Judge Roszei c. Thomson, in
another section OF Federal Court.
handed out similar fines on the
batting charge to Sebastian Ma
con Of Chevy Chase and James
IR. Warrington Of Washington.
All Of these offenses occurred
on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
MIR. Frey, a Lancaster lumber
man. testified he rents a hotel
room In Chestertown at the start
of the season each year and
keeps his cunning equipment
there.
Found In Food Locker
Federal agents opened Mr..
Frey's food locker in Chester
town on a search and seizure
warrant and found the 80 ducks
and geese.
In court Mr.. Frey said they
did not all belong to him, that
the birds represented kills Of his
hunting guests as well but that
he kept them all under his
name because he didn't know
the law.
The bag limit for duck hunters
lis four ducks and Federal law
sets a possession limit Of eight.
Judge Watkins said he fined
Mr.. Frey only 500 and costs
because his was not a COM
mercial violation. There was no
evidence that he had shot all 90.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Lee to Speak on Panel
At Montgomery PorIey

Col. E. Brooke Lee, president
|of the Upper Montgomery County
Landowners Association. will re-
place Charles H. Jamison, men,
her OF the County Council, at a
panel discussion Of upper county
coming at the Homewood Recrea-
ton Center on Edgewood road,
Monday at $50 pm.
Irving C. Root, planning con-
|sultant to the County Council
win also speak at the meeting
sponsored by the Homewood Citi-
gems Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Blume Laid to Parents
For Whoopino Cough

"A false sense of security on the
part Of parents is responsible for
the needless 80 whooping cough
cases in Alexandria last year.
: DR.. T. F. McGough, city direc-
tor Of public health, said parents
become lax about immunization
because doctors today can better
stave of the fatal effects of
whopping cough.
He urged the vaccine for
every child under year of age.
Those who cannot receive the
shot from a private physician
may obtain 1t at the health de-
partment's imnunization clinic
at o am. Tuesdays and Thurs
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
School Robbed of $50

Thieves broke into the Viers
Mill Elementary School last
night and stole some $50 from a
cabinet safe. Montgomery County
Police reported. The money
taken had been collected from
pupils Tor photographs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Now It's Fort Derrick

FREDERICK, Md. Feb. 4 (P).
The Army yesterday changed
the name of Camp DERRICK.
Chemical Corps installation out
side Frederick, TO Fort DERRICK.
The Army considers a fort a per-
'manent facility and a camp q
temporary one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04
Polio Fund Dance

The Bailey's Crossroads Vol
unteer Fire Department will hold
its annual polio fund dance to-
night in the firehouse on Lees
burg pike from $3.50 pm. to 1890
a m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
ID. c. Man Elected
By Urban League

George o. Butler, president OF
the District Federation of Civic
Associations. today was elected
to the directors board of the
National Urban League at the
leagues annual convention in
Cincinnati.
Mr.. Butler also is director Of
education for the President:
Committee on Government Con-
tracts whose responsibility is tt
eliminate racial and religion;
discrimination in employment or
work done under Government
contract.
The new director is vice presi.
dent of the District industrial,
Unions Council, a member of the
Urban Renewal Council and q
director of the Washington Ur-
ban League.
He lives at 1860 Hamlin street
NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07

United States last night and
early today hid the planet from
the naked eye.
The 200-inch telescope of the
Palomar Observatory in Cali
fornia was not used on Mars.
It's great power also magnifles
the smudging from the earth's
shimmering air. and it doesn't
give pictures with clearer detail
than those from smaller tele-
scopes.
The wide observations last
might and early today were the
climax of a series of studies Of
Mars which extended over weeks
For months before and after
the 35-million-mile Closeup
Mars is near enough to the
earth for valuable observations
The astronomers who have
concentrated on Mars as il
neared will now follow it as Il
pulls away from the earth again
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
Radiation Tests
In Virginia Set

BOYCE, Va, Sept. 7 B.-A
Clarke County hillside is going to
be center for experiments in
the improvement Of crops by
nuclear radiation.
The hillside is on the Univer-
Isity Of Virginia's Blandy expert
mental farm Of TOO acres in the
Northern Shenandoah Valley
The man who will head the staff
conducting the experiments Is
DR.. w. Ralph Singleton, a spe-
cialist in radiation biology, direc-
tor of the farm, and professor
lof biology at the university.
/ DR.. Singleton will continue
here at the farm work he begar
lin the radiation biology field al
the Atomic Energy Commission''
IBrookhaven Laboratory, where
The was senior geneticist before
joining the university faculty Q
year ago.
One corner Of the Blandy farm
has been chosen for the atomic
radiation experimental area. A
circular enclosure, built arounC
a pit bulldozed into the red clay
will house a lead container o.
radioactive cobalt provided b.
the Acc.
! The hillside Enclosure will pro,
vide complete protection, say
DR.. Singleton. Neither ground
building nor plants treated will
became radioactive. When w
J close our radiation source. it will
be just like putting out a light.
The plants to be used in tn
experiment will be grown in larg
buckets that can be brought clos
: to the radioactive cobalt.
portable cornfield to be grow
: next year will be one Of the item
included in the study.
One of DR.. Singleton's dis
coveries at Brookhaven was tina
: to produce genetic changes corr
needs to be exposed to radiation
only while pollen is forming. d.
Singleton says he's using corr
: in what biologists call mutation
breeding because the control O
its heredity has been well under
stood for several generations.
: Rows of many varieties of corr
: are growing at the farm Just out
: side the experimental area. som
from seed produced at Brook
. haven. Growing nearby ar
4 chestnuts in the first stage Of Al
E experiment to try to produc
disease resistant chestnut trees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
Visit by Planet Mars I
MARRIED by Bod Weather

The planet Mars moved into
the vicinity, some 35 million
miles away, last night for a two
week stay, but the big Red Eye
was well-hidden from Washing
ton observers.
Most active project to do
something about the planets
closest brush with the earth in
80 years is under way at the
Naval Research Laboratory
where experts are attempting to
pick up radio signals from Mars
Bad weather and a simmer
from the earth's atmosphere
hamper visual projects. DR.. John
Hall of the Naval Observatory
said the atmosphere over Wash
ington, at its best, is poor fol
viewing the planet or attempting
to photograph it.
Last nights intermittent rair
didn't help and some cloudinesS
is due again tonight and tomor.
row with a temperature high oil
n today: a low tonight of SIS
The areas first appreciable rair
since August % spilled slightly
over half an inch.
Faint Signals from Venus
The Research laboratory
work on Mars is an attempt II
get radio signals from the plane
- a feat never accomplished
Scientists at the Laboratory
only a few weeks ago, receive,
faint signals from Venus.
1t doesn't mean there are radi
stations on either planet.
simply means that any plane
with heat will emit radio signal.
Astronomers around the worl
have busy months ahead G
them correlating up-to-date in
formation on Mars based o.
observations taken on its "close
up" visit, the Associated Pres
reported.
The red-hued planet was
r mere 35,120,00O miles away a
Il am. today. Sometimes it
235 million miles up yonder.
, This is the closest that Mar
has been since 1924, and
won't be as close again unit
: 1871.
5 Hidden by Overcast
Although II observatories i
: 10 nations were geared to stud
: Mars at the closest point o
t its current visit, there was n
S immediate report on any find
e ings.
J. Overcast skies in the Easter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
Anne Arundel Group
To See Space Devices

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. Z Dr.
The Anne Arundel County Trade
Council will get a look into the
future of interplanetary travel
during its meeting September
10 at Friendship Airport.
Through Westinghouse new
Space Rama the council will
see demonstrations of communi-
cation from spaceship to space
ship, radar warnings against
meteorites and space beacons as
navigation aids.
The Space-O-Rama makes use
of unusual lighting with fluores-
cent colors and ultraviolet light
to create the effect that models
of spaceships and satellites are
actually travelling through space
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
Funds to Expand
Courthouse OKd

An application by Arlington
County for planning funds has
been approved by the Commu-
nifty Facilities Administration OF
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency. Representative Broyhill,
Republican of Virginia, has an
nounced.
The sum Of $4,000 will be
granted for planning alterations
and additions to the present
courthouse. These include an
addition to the south wing, re-
moval Of the present center Sec
ton and installation of a six
story center section. The county
also proposes to air condition
the entire building, and to buy
additional land for Office and
parking facilities.
Estimated total cost of con-
struction is $2,545, 900, to be paid
for from county bond funds
Construction is scheduled tt
start in 1858.
The planning funds are au-
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Council OKs
Zone Proposal

A proposed change in Mont
gomery County's coming regula-
tions to permit research Offices
as a special exception in resi-
dental zones was approved last
night by the county council.
A resolution amending the
coming law is expected to be
adopted Tuesday.
The change, which would per-
init research Offices in low
density residential areas, was
recommended by the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Must Vacate Quarters
The Johns Hopkins Operation
Research Office, which must va
cate its rented quarters on Con.
necticut avenue in Chevy Chase,
will be benefited by the change.
The Office wants to locate in a
residential zone on Cedar lane
in Bethesda near the National
Institutes of Health.
The Johns Hopkins Office still
will have to get approval for
the move from the County Board
of zoning Appeals.
During an earlier hearing yes
terday the council was asked by
Lawrence J. Heller Of Pooles-
vile to rezone from residential
to commercial a 1.2-acre tract
in Germantown near the new
Atomic Energy Commission
headquarters.
Opposes Delaying Decision
r. Robert Linowes, Mr.. Hell
Iler's attorney, asked the council
to ignore a request Of the Upper
Montgomery County Planning
Commission that a decision in
the case be postponed until
preparation of a master zoning
plan for the area. Mr.. Linowes
said there is no need to delay
a decision because Mr.. Heller's
tract is small one.
The council also was asked to
reconsider the rezoning from
residential to commercial of a
tract on Route 240 in Clarksburg
owned by Samuel H. Mobley.
The request came from resi-
dents in the area.
The requests were taken under
advisemerit.