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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Girl, II, Hit by Car,
Listed as Critical

A 12-year-old Silver Spring
girl was critically injured yes
terday by a car which struck
her as she ran across Georgia
avenue on her way to school.
/ Montgomery County police said
the child was hit during the
morning traffic rush at Georgia
avenue and Hildarose street, just
a block north of an intersection
at which a school crossing guard
was stationed.
The child. Elaine E. Dough-
Ierty. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley S. Dougherty of 1908
August drive. was admitted to
Washington Sanitarium, where
she was listed in critical condi-
ton with skull fracture.
I County Police Pvts. Jesse
Crown and ROLAND O. Cooley
said the school girl and three
other children apparently dashed
across the heavily Travelled ave-
niue in the face of southbound
traffic.
| The driver, Michael Sam
March, 40. of 1902 Eldon lane.
Silver Spring, was charged with
speeding and failing to yield the
Iright-of-Way to pedestrian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Arlington Trust
Loses Raft Suit

The Arlington Trust Co. toda,
failed in the United States Cour
of Claims to collect $79,073 in
suit growing out of World Wal
II construction of life RATS.
| The trust company sued as as
signee of Leyde & Leyde, a part
nership composed of Glen w
Leyde and his late wife Ards M
ILeyde, which had it's principa
place of business at Falls Church
Va. They contracted with the
Government to furnish the RATS
Mr.. Leyde lives at 400 Villa lane
Ravenwood, Falls Church.
In its decision, the court hele
that the United States Govern
ment is entitled to a judgment
of 1913 on its counterclain
against Mr.. Leyde. He also suec
the Government in this case.
Later, he designed and received
patents on a number of life RATS
and items of life raft equipment
The business partnership was
formed in 1941.
On April 10. 1945, the Mari
time Commission awarded Leyde
g. Leyde four contracts to con-
struct and deliver 391 RATS, fol
$487.125 total. Leyde g. Leyde
subcontracted with various other
firms to do the actual manufac-
turing. In August 1915, con-
] acts were terminated. ..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
State Departments
|BIust at Beer Bon
Called 'Hogwosh'

BALTIMORE, Mar. 8 (P.-
Senator Goldstein, Democrat of
Calvert County. said yesterday
the State Departments reaction
to the Maryland Legislature s
beer bill was "a lot of hogwash. >
The bill, awaiting Gov. Nickel
din's signature or veto, would
prevent the Canadian controlled
Carvings brewery from establish
ing a $12 million plant just out
side Baltimore.
In a letter to Gov. McKeldin,
the State Department commended
enactment of the measure could
have IAN unfortunate impact on
this country's foreign relations. -
Speaking at an Advertising
Club luncheon in his honor, Mr.,
Goldstein called the State De-
Ipartment's attitude "a hoax"
1.-THE Government of tn G
United States will go on" he
said. "The government of Can
ada will go on.
Our little old beer bill won't
upset any of their plans
Mr.. Goldstein then turned to
Gov. McKeldin. who was sitting
nearby. and said. Il don't be-
Ilieve he'll sign the bill"
The Governor has announced
he will hold closed meetings with
proponents and opponents of the
bill before deciding what actor
| to take.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
md. U. Man S Story
Wins Sufety Prize

A University of Maryland en-
try today was named first prize
winner in its field in the eighth
annual college newspaper con-
test to promote safe driving
among students.
James S. Kemper, chairman of
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty
Co. which sponsors the contest,
said a feature article written by
James M. Smith and published
in the Diamondback won the
$500 first prize in the individual
feature competition.
The University of Maryland
entry was one of 10 top award
winners in the Nationwide con-
test. Colleges and universities
throughout the country SUBJ
mitted some 800 entries in the
competition for $4,000 in prizes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
S2OMi||ion US.
Fund Expected
House Also Roises
New Teacher Hopes

New hope was raised on Capt.
toll Hill today that the House APP
preparations Subcommittee in
charge of the Districts 1857
spending bill will give approval
Ito a full $40 million Federal
payment and money to hire
about 100 additional teachers.
The Rabaut subcommittee also
will consider the addition OF
more than $13 million for public
permanent improvements when
Congress approves the new rev.
Ienue program. This calls for an
increase in District taxes OF more
than $40 million and an increase
in the Federal payment to $22
million.
| The House last year proposed
la 81 million cut in the Federal
payment, from the authorized
$40 million to SIG million. but il
compromised with the Senate
for an actual grant Of $18 mil
lion.
1t was understood the Rabaut
subcommittee will recommend
more funds for schools. However,
many of the extra teachers would
be obtained by transferring SAL
aries from Junior and senior high
schools.
School officials have testified
there can be no such transfer
without causing trouble on the
elementary level.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Study Group to Hold
Four County Meetings

The Suburban Area Study
Group of Montgomery County
will sponsor a series of four meet
Iings on Montgomery County
schools beginning with a panel
discussion at Montgomery Hills
Junior High School at 8 o'clock
tonight.
The topic of tonight's meeting
will be 1.-THE Significance of the
White House Conference on Edu-
cation for Montgomery Schools. !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08

mark, "Am I my brothers keeper" This availed him
nothing for the earth itself came the
to the Lord O Though not literally brothers keeper
cannot avoid accountability for situations which
create and for which are responsible.
The Lord treated this heinous crime with compassion
in melting out punishment and guarded Cain against
the extreme penalty go In spite of the enornity of
sins, He is abundantly able to
Tomorrow: Miss Neny Jahnke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08

applied to our daily living Three
of these lessons are here set forth.
This first fratricide was caused
by a jealous reaction stemming
from an original good deed. Cain
slew Abel because Abel's offering
to the Lord found favor when his,
Gains, did not. u We should
avoid sinful passion distorting us
from worthy intentions and
efforts.
With realization of the crime
he had committed, Cain answered
the Masters query as to his
brothers whereabouts with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08

| District Commissioner Samuel
Spencer yesterday denied there
lis a split in the Board of Com
missioners over transit policy.
| He branded as a fabrication"
the suggestion that this was in
dictated by a closed-door con-
ference with hackers of a re-
Ijected would-be operator about
which Commissioner Robert E.
Mclaughlin did not learn until
lit was ended.
Although Brig. Gen. Thomas
A. Lane, Engineer Commissioner,
was present for virtually the en-
tire session, on invitation from
Mr.. Spencer's Office, Mr.. Spencer
insisted he had invited neither
Gen. Lane nor Mr.. Mclaughlin.
Gen. Lane" Mr.. Spencer
said, "just turned up" Mr..
Spencer said his secretary had
invited the general.
The session came less than a
week after Mr.. Mclaughlin had
refused TO join his fellow com,
Imissioners in rejecting the ap-
Iplication of Max M, Kampelman.
attorney for a group of Min
Ineapolis investors, to take over
the dying franchise of Capital
Transit Co. next August Is.
Attributed to Request
Mr.. Spencer's secretary said
she invited Gen. Lane to Mr..
iSpencer's office at the request of
mfr. Kampelman's local hackers,
Edward r. Carr, president of the
Washington Board of Trade;
Donald Mccormack, vice presi-
dent of Riggs National Bank and
chairman of the Board of Trades
Transportation Committee, and
William H. Press, the boards
Executive vice president.
They left after IS minutes, and
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West was called in by Mr.. Spen-
Ger for the balance of the two
hour meeting. After it was over,
Mr.. Spencer returned an hour
old telephone call from Mr.. Nc
Laughlin. who had just been
notified by reporters that the
meeting had been held.
Split over Rejection
Later, Gen. Lane said the only
split in the board was in the
fact that he and Mr.. Spencer
had been convinced the Kampel-
man application should be turned
down. whereas Mr.. Mclaughlin
was not ready to vote on it.
| Mr.. Mclaughlin said he was
not ready to vote because turn
ing down the proposal would kill
lit" and "the proposition was
Strengthening all the time"
Besides" he said, 1--WE always
favored private operation" He
denied however. that he is a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
% Bills are Filed
For Special Session
'One-Meusure'
Porley Turns Into
Major Meeting
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star stan Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 8.-TWenty-
three bill were tossed into the
hopper today as the Maryland
Legislature convened in a special
session that leaders hoped to
wind up this week end.
The special session originally
was called to re-enact one bill
the measure creating a Maryland
port authority.
But since the close of the
regular 30-day session a week
ago more and more legislators
have come forth with bills they
feel cannot wait until the next
regular session in January.
More may be introduced later
today. House Speaker John C.
Luber said he is not going to
stop any Delegate from introduce
ing a bill.
Controversy Seen
One of the late starters that
lis apt to cause controversy is a
bill put in by the Baltimore City
delegation to amend the seizure
law under which Gov. McKeldin
earlier this week seized the
strike-bound Baltimore Transit
Co.
The new bill would provide
that the findings of the arbitra.
'tion board, to which the COM
|pany and the union are COM
PEELED under the seizure law to
submit their differences, be
binding on the two parties for no
longer than one year after the
termination of the seizure.
Another provision in the new
bill would make the Rev. John
-. Wise. S. j., of Baltimore the
public representative on the
|three-member arbitration board.
That is the provision that is apt
to cause a fight here.
University Expenditure
Another late starter is a bill
to authorize a $4,000 expendi-
Iture by the University of Mary
land for the expenses of putting
faculty and staff members under
Federal social security.
The Prince Georges delega-
ton, in addition to the measure
authorizing a SIS million bond
issue for an addition to Prince
Georges General Hospital, in
Itroduced a bill to clear up q dis
Ipute that has arisen over collec-
|tion of a fire tax in the second
precinct of the 14th election
district of that county. The
county treasurer has taken the
position that 1855 act of the
Legislature took away his au-
ithority to collect a fire tax in
that precinct.
The Montgomery delegation.
as expected, introduced bill to
clarity the powers of commits
ting magistrates under the coun-
tvs new peoples court system.
Other bills introduced would
authorize bond issue for Mary
lands proposed first toll road,
the northeastern eXpressway.
Permit the University Of
Maryland to include dormitory
facilities in its student union
building on the Baltimore
cannIlS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Man Hurt in Fall
From Motor Scooter

| A Chantilly (VaD man was
CRITICALLY injured early today
when he lost control of his three
wheel motor scooter on Route so
in Fairfax County and fell from
lit.
| Fred Eugene Hunt, 48, suf-
fered a possible skull fracture
and other head injuries and was
admitted to Alexandria Hospital
unconscious.
Fairfax police said the acct
dent occurred about $3.50 am.
2 miles west of Camp WASH
Iington.
The injured man was taken to
Alexandria Hospital, even though
Arlington Hospital was closer,
because the latter was filled TO
capacity at the time. police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
.Tydines to Campaign
.ln Nv Speech Series

| BALTIMORE, Mar. 9.-Former
Senator Willard E. Tydings will
launch his campaign for the
Democratic nomination to the
Senate next Monday with the
first of a series of television
speeches.
Tydings headquarters an
nounced his first speech entitled
Lets Look at the Record" will
be partial review of Mr.. Tyd-
Iings record during his "a years
lin kne Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Meeting Will Discuss
Lincolniu Junior Hioh

| A meeting to discuss the pos
sibility of a Lincolnia area Junior
high school will be held at 8
o'clock tonight in the Weyanoke
School cafeteria.
Scheduled as speakers are
j. Dan Hall. chief of the second
ary education section of the
Office of Education, and Clyde
Nv. Gleason. member of the
Fairfax County School Board
and chairman of the secondary
education com mittee of the
County Federation of PTAs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Vote League Topic

Unit meetings of the Arlington
League of Women Voters next
week will discuss the proposed
international Organization for
Trade Cooperation. The league
nationally is urging prompt pas
sage of a House of Representa-
tps resolution to establish OTC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Spencer Denies Board Rift
Over Transit Policy

! proponents" of the Kampelmar
plan.
| After turning down the
IKampelman plan, the other
Commissioners began lobbying
ION Capitol Hill to speed UP action
on their bill to establish a pub
licly owned transit authority
Mr.. Mclaughlin has not joined
them.
Agency's Former Chairman
Mr.. Mclaughlin, former chair.
man of the Public Utilities Com.
mission and a frequent spokes-
man during last summers drive
Ito cancel the franchise of etc
when he assured Congress that
there would be several salts,
factory private operators seek
ing to take over the franchise
has been superseded as a spokes-
man by Mr.. Spencer and Gen
Lane. He, has been missing from
an but the most formal Capitol
Hill visits concerning transit
since the current session of Con-
|gress met.
He denied. however, he was
being frozen out" in the han
ding of transit. Gen. Lane, ex.
planning Mr.. McLaughlin's alb.
Isence from the Capitol Hill
visits, said he was busy with
other affairs and that his pres.
ence was not needed. Gen. Lane
pointed out that Mr.. Spencer
speaks for the board as its
president and that he himself
Gen. Lance is the one member
of the board who also belongs
to the utilities commission. Gen
Lane said he probably knows
more of the technical details Of
the transit situation than Mr.
Mclaughlin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
The
Rambler
A CuIIous View
Of Flower Show
BY JACK JONAS


Never were so many women
gathering so many ideas for
putting so many men to work
in the garden. The Flower
Show at the Armory was
packed with them.
I'VE could put in a little
terrace like that" a woman
said, looking at an deliberately
groomed formal garden. wed
have to- change it some, Of
course, to fit our yard"
She was one of the lucky
wives. Men were making
themselves scarce, but she
had hers in tow.
Minimum" said the hus-
band non-committally. His
eyes strayed to a display Of
tools designed to make gar
dening easier. There were
enough ideas around to keep
a man busy all spring, sum-
mer and fall, and a few tools
would help.
Two other women eyed an
azalea exhibit at the entrance.
A large pool of water was
surrounded by azaleas and
rhododendrons in full bloom.
"It looks real pretty the
way it is here" one said. I'D
ask Jim to put in something
like that, but it always looks
bare before it starts to grow"
George says he doesn't
have a green thumb her
companion replied. 81 think
he's just lazy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Traffic Picks Up
At Tax Office as
Dead|ine Nears
'SeIf-HeIp' Program
Speeds Processing;
Rush to Stort April |.

Inc annual uaClOnAl pain II
approaching apace and traffic
is picking up at the Internal
Revenue Service Offices here.
Last month, the taxmen gave
assistance to 1886 citizens who
called in person at the Offices
on Constitution avenue NV. be-
tween Tenth and Twelfth streets
and furnished information to
28,714 others, who telephoned
The service whacked its service
last year. Before that, a tax
payer could drop around. dump
his papers on a desk in front
of a tax man, sit down and wait
while the agent filled out the
return.
Then the self help" program
began. The men assisting tax
payers began making them fill
out most of their own returns
One. aide thus could take care
of four or five persons stimuli
taneously, walking from desk to
desk as needed.
Few Howl
Accustomed to having the en-
tire return filled out free, some
taxpayers snarled over the with
drawal of assistance. Most OF
the complainants seem to be re.
signed to the system, now, how
ever. A spokesman for the serv.
ice said today the. Office here
has had few loud howls.
Some persons still need the
fun assistance treatment. Han.
ldicapped taxpayers - elderly
ones, illiterates and semiliter.
Iates-muSt be given the velvet
glove works. But such visitors
Iare outnumbered more than
to ! by persons able to heir
themselves. the spokesman said
The deadline for getting right
with Uncle Sugar is April Is.
"Ninety-five per cent of the
callers we get here could file
before February 15," a spokes.
man for the Service. said
There's really no need to put
lit off to the last minute"
But he and his associates are
gloomily sure that hundreds o.
tardy victims will delay films
their returns to that final day
1T happens every year." ths
spokesman said.
| The peak rush is expected
to begin about April /. From
then to the 18th. the agent,
will be run ragged by frantic
sometimes furious, contributor.
to the National Treasury.
In five years. if the self-helr
plan continues smoothly here
the assistance program ir
Washington may be reduced tt
nothing more than telephone in.
formation and an information
booth in the revenue building
lobby. The only special as.
siStance will be that given tx
the old folks, non-readers ane
the like.
Worst-Ever Form
AT least, that's what We
think" said the Interna
Revenue official. But at thai
it might not come about unles.
they stop changing the form
every year. We're trying tx
educate the public to make out
their own returns, but how car
we when the form keeps chang.
ing? This year it's the worst
one ever, in my opinion"
! He added that he didn't. care
to be named.
| In addition to the seasona
dealing with puzzled taxpayer.
filing new returns, the tax mer
are working on a backlog OF
delinquent accounts, checkine
on old returns and running
down tips about tax-dodgers.
About IS per cent of the tip:
come from women" the spokes.
man said. AND about 100 pei
cent of their trouble is pretty
evldent-some other gal has
moved in on their man, anc
they want to get even with him
and her"
I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
Mrs. Corcorun Elected

The Washington Forest Citi-
zens' Association of Alexandria
last night elected as president
Mrs. William F. Corcoran of sos
Seminary road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08

THAT POOL, like many of
the others set up on the big
floor, was getting a bottom
layer of pennies, nickels,
dimes and quarters-tossed in
by the visitors as contribu-
tons for crippled children.
A woman studied a display
of roses.
Some of those would look
pretty along the back fence
at home" she said, specula-
lively, to her female friend as
she penciled notes from in
formation on the display card.
Nearby another woman
wore a more determined air.
She was making a crude dia-
gram of a garden.
The men, when the women
get home, can take heart in
the knowledge that it took a
lot of green thumbs many
days and hours of sweat and
toll to get the exhibits look
ing the way they are.
And they might take a
pointer from the Green
Thumb Garden Club, and
make most of their gardens
into a graveled patio.
1t was a photographers
field day. among the gerani-
ums, chrysanthemums, by
drangeas, hyacinths, camelias,
tulips and roses. Nearly a
fourth of the visitors carried
cameras.
Some of the flowers seemed
to be moving about the floor,
but that turned out to be the
women's hats. All the hats,
somehow, had flowers on
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
CRISIS IN THE SCHOOLS
Ignored 40 Report
Saw Todoy's Needs
By JAMES G. DEANE

Many Washington find it hard understand the
District sitting for blueprint that might
have solved many of todays yexing school problems
Congress sitting too, parents
stand that, either
Last fall voiced bitter indignation when teachers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
A Thn11gtt fur Unhay
Lenten Reflections on Fovorite Stories
From the Bible by People You Know
BY GEORGE E. C. HAYES

Utilities Commission
Perhaps because of legal background, have always
been intrigued by the Biblical story of the killing of Abel
keeper of sheep by his brother Cain, tier of the
soil and I find therein lessons which be helpfully
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08

The District Boord Of Education hos de-
elored thot Washington public schools
urgently need more teachers. This is
the fifth Of O series OF articles on
whot o Stor staff reporter found in
the eity's elossrooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08

A SCHOOL CLASS, with
teacher, was admiring the
display of the Florida Muir
serymen and Growers Asso-
citation. 1t featured an orange
tree.
Look" a boy said. pointing.
"Shhhhh!" a prim little girl
Scolded.
He had pointed at wire
hooks which had been used to
attach the oranges to the
tree. Luckily, there were no
California people around to
boot.
A woman passing that ex-
hibit was reminded of some
thing.
"At the flower show in
Florida, they had benches for
you to sit on" she said, look
ing longingly across the aisle
at a lawn chair on a patio
protected by sign, please Do
Not Enter"
In this fantasy of flowers
and greenery, there was a
realistic touch. The Falls
Church Garden Shops small
garden had a cut-out rabbit
ready to nibble the leaves Of
one of the plants.
Street Scenes
A group of pigeons pecking
at a frayed spot in a hose be-
ing used to clean the sidewalk
on Pennsylvania avenue at
Thirteenth street NV. -.
A truck driver, leaning
against the window of a cab at
Sixth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV, saying "Hiya,
Joe. How's the cab bust
ness?" ..
Kodiak mirror., 1956-02-18
A City Without A Newspaper

them was another matter, without newspaper advertising space.
 The community problems that arise from lack of newspapers are certainly not limited to the big cities. The smaller towns are equal ly dependent upon the weeklies and dailies that serve them. In the small town, especially, the newspaper is a running record of its history-a thread that constant ly touches the lives of all the peo- pie who live there. And, despite the newer media, it remains the most effective means of advertis- ing for merchants and others.
 Infinitely more important, the newspaper, small or large, is a guardian of our rights and liberties which is always on duty.
Kodiak mirror., 1956-02-18
Local Beef Is Good Beef

We are not going into a deserta- tion of the ways and means of achieving such needed facilities. nor try to give the answers to all the other problems facing the cat the raisers. We are primarily con- cerned with an attempt at dispell- ing all the loose talk that some times is rampant, that local beef is not up to a quality that ranks it with beef brought in. That is unfair and creates a prejudice in the minds of some people who have never tried it.
 It is for an outsider, withal an authority, to come in and tell us we have a home products equal to that which we bring in from State side. It looks like we can look in our own pastures without and not into the supposedly green ones miles away.
 It brings to mind the phrase: "A prophet is never appreciated in his own country" So it goes for many of the things at hand. Import them and they take on an aura of good ness.
 Sirloin is a gentleman beef even if he is homegrown. Patronize home industry