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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
FiguresGuarded
After Appeal Of
Health Budget
Requests From
All Other Units
Generally Known

The District Commissioners
yesterday completed hearings of
appeals by department heads on
city budget plans for the coming
year.
They forbade disclosure of the
appeal of the Department of
Public Health, although requests
lof all other departments were
generally known.
The city heads met with off,
Icials of the Health Department,
the Corrections Department and
of the Welfare Department in
concluding two days of such
hearings.
Donald Clemmer, director of
the Corrections Department.
asked the Commissioners to let
him spend 1921 900 more than
had been recommended to the
Commissioners by the budget Of
flee. The funds would provide a
chapel at the Lorton Reforma-
tory and an addition to the hos
Ipital at the Occoquan workhouse.
Shea Asks $1,275,OOO
Welfare Director Gerard M.
Shea asked for permission to
spend $1,275,000 more than had
been recommended by the
Budget Office. The funds would
provide three chapels at the
Laurel ,(Md) Children's Center.
a warehouse at D. c. Village at
Blue Plains and a school build
ing for retarded children at the
District Training School att
Laurel, Md.
The Commissioners also con-
ferred with public health Off
IcialS but ruled that they could
not disclose their request.
Federal law forbids disclosure
of the Commissioners recon-
Imendation to the Federal Budget
Bureau and to CongresS~~btat
makes no mention of depart
mental requests.
New System in Effect
The city is now completing its
first year of experience under.
the new system of publishing
departmental budget requests.
Heretofore, the District has pub
lished the requests of depart
ment heads, and then the Com
missioners have gone behind
closed doors to pare them down
to fit the city'S purse, and send
them to the Federal Budget Bu-
reau for inclusion in the presi-
Dental budget message to Con-
gress.
This year, however, the Dis
trict Budget Office trimmed the
departmental requests to fit
available revenues and published
the results as their recommended
tions to the Commissioners. A
public hearing on these recon-
mendations was held last We'd
nesday. Since then. the Com
missionerS have been holding
hearings for department heads
appeals from the Budget Office
recommendations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
Fairfax Picks
Hospital Site

The Fairfax Hospital Com
mission last night unanimously
selected an Annandale site for
the proposed Sc million County
General Hospital.
At joint meeting of the COM
mission. its building subcommit-
tee and the liaison committee
of the hospital Board of Trus-
tees. the commission voted to
accept an offer of 81 acres of
the Bristow tract on the south
side of Route 236, three-quarters
of mile west of Annandale,
The owner of the property, Mer-
wynn Mace, has set a price not
to exceed $4,000 per acre.
Hospital Commission Chair
man Donald L. wilkins an
Inounced that the commission S
recommendation will be for
warded to the county Board of
Supervisors October 10 for sched-
.uling of public presentation
october II or "a. The board has
the final authority to approve
the sites.
The commission reversed the
recommendations of its building
subcommittee which recon-
mended three sites selected from
IA considered in a closed session
last Tuesday night. Offers con-
sidered included a 48-acre por-
ton of the Chiles tract on Ar
lington boulevard at Gallows
road, diagonally opposite the
Melpar plant. No price has been
set on the property but its value
has been estimated in excess OF
$4,000 per acre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
Builders Attack
Home TdxPI
Encouragement Seen
To House Buyers

The Suburban Maryland Build.
ers' Association yesterday at
tackled as injurious a propose
to tax new dwellings in Prince
Georges County.
Carl Freeman, president Of
the group, said the proposal i:
"tantamount to erecting a sigr
saying New Residents Keep Out
We Don't Want YOU"
The proposal has been drawn
by Prince Georges Delegate Her.
vey G. Machen in an effort tt
finance a stepped-up capital i'm
Iprovement program.
Mr.. Machen has said he be.
lieves the tax would go a Ions
way in providing Prince Georges
with needed funds to finance
future school construction, addi-
tons to county buildings anc
road Improvements.
Freeman'S Views
Mr.. Freeman had this to say
about the plan:
Apart from the discrimina-
tory nature of the proposed tax
which might render the entire
proposal unconstitutional, the
nature of the tax completely dis
regards the real issue. which is
that the county has faileo to bal
iance its overall property develop
lment so that tax surplus received
from the industrial. commercial
and apartment properties would
more than take care of the re-
quirements of the county fol
school and community tacili-
ties"
Mr.. Freeman said his study OF
an economic report on Prince
Georges made by DR.. Homer
Hoyt shows that Prince Georges
accrues 38 per cent tax profit
from apartment houses and 200
per cent tax profits from COM
mercial property and public
utilities. Mr.. Freeman said the
only residences which do not
carry their own community serv-
ice load are homes which sell
for under $13,500.
Size Seen Affected
The proposal to raise the cost
of a home by this special tax
would cause serious injury to
the new home buyer in that il
would make a sharp reduction in
the size. equipment and location
in the house he could afford to
buy, Mr.. Freeman said.
"The way to get new schools
and community facilities is not
by preventing and discouraging
better housing for our citizens
but rather to raise tax funds by
attracting desirable industries
commercial and apartment de-
velopments to the county"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
Disabled Persons
Hired Last Year
In Record Numbers

A record number of disabled
persons was restored to produc-
tive lives last year through the
State-Federal program of voca-
tional rehabilitation, Miss Mary
E. Switzer, director of the Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation
said yesterday.
Speaking in Alexandria at q
kickoff luncheon for Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week
Miss Switzer said Virginia con-
ltributed 1856 rehabilitations tt
last years total, an increase Of
"a per cent over 1854.
She said "age-old prejudices'
against the handicapped must be
overcome in order to provide
jobs for them. She said there
are more than $500 disabled
! persons IN Alexandra and Fair
fax County who can succeed in
useful employment if they re-
ceive the services of rehabili-
tation.
The speaker noted that
Anderson Orthopedic Hospital in
Arlington is being expanded with
aid from the Department OF
Health, Education and Welfare
and with the donation of labor
by the building trades unions.
An award was given to the
Alexandria Gazette for the aio
1t has given physically handi-
capped in the city. Daniel F
lO'Flaherty, chairman of the
Alexandria Employ the Physi-
cally Handicapped Committee
praised the newspaper for hir-
ing handicapped persons ano
publishing the committee's
efforts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
Annual Salute Given
To Newspaper Carriers

This is Newspaperboy Day
journalism's annual salute to thu
carriers who are the final link
b e W cen news gatherers anC
readers.
I There are some 100000 of then
in the country, the freshmen o.
free enterprise. These youngest
Of the Nations businessmen assay
high in character. FBI Chief j
Edgar Hoover has paid then
tribute for the remarkably low
quotient of delinquents among
their ranks.
Once an edition is out of the
hands of the reporters, photogra-
pliers. editors. advertising anc
mechanical departments and all
the others who put newspaper
together, there still remains the
vital matter of getting it into
the hands of the readers. Anc
this is the job of the newspaper
boys. If it isn't done, all the other
toll is wasted effort.
Prelude to Careers
Thousands of the youngsters
have gone on to successful adult
business careers, thankful fol
their training on the routes
Among them are the Curtis
brothers. who operate the furni-
ture company at 204l Nichols
avenue Sc.
/ Harry Curtis served The Stal
in the Hyattsville area in 1912
1t was rural territory then.
His brother. George, now vice
president of the furniture firm
and their late brother, Fred
began carrying The Star in the
early 1920s after the family had
moved into Southeast Washing
ton.
George says it was his first
taste of managing his own
money. And it launched him or
the road to independence, he
says.
I'VE got to know a lot Of peo-
pie, carrying The Star" he said
I'VE travelled all over this part OF
town, and from knowing so many
people we got the idea of selling
ice. Since we did know so many
it was easy to get their trade
away from other icemen.
Got Into Furniture
"Then when we had the ice
truck. we started using it part
time to haul furniture. People
would give us a chair or some
thing they didn't want, and wed
fix it up and sell it,"
j The newspaperboys- turned ice.
men-turned-movers accumulated
a stock of furniture in theil
warehouse under delinquent &C.
counts. From that evolved g
salesroom, and then they begar
mixing new stock with the Sec
ond hand goods. The corporation
has grown to include some 7s
full-time employees.
j One of the more spectacular
successes among Star carriers
was racked up in recent years BY
Billy B. Morrison, 58-H Crescent
road, Greenbelt, Md.
Billy. now 10, left The Star last
May, after serving papers in
Greenbelt for longer than five
years. In that period, his route
furnished his spending money
and paid his school expenses
Well enough. but not particu.
larry unusual. What was I'M
usual was that Billy also sockec
away a bankroll Of S1.700. 1t is
invested now and the dividends
are helping put him through the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
National Newspoperboy Day Brings
Tribute to 100000 From President

President Eisenhower, the Dis
trict Commissioners and most
State Governors have proclaimed
today as National Newspaperboy
Day.
The President greeted the Ma
tons typical newsboy," IA
year-old Andy Williams of AmeS,
Iowa, and gave him packet full
of small gifts, including two PEN
ellis -lettered square deal
candidate, Dwight D. Eisen-
hover"
Mr.. Eisenhower and young
Williams. a delivery boy on the
Ames Tribune. met at the White
House for what the newsboy
called a friendly chat-chewin'
the fat"
the President also gave the
boy q silver dollar dated 1890,
the year of Eisenhower's birth;
two Ike buttons, and a steel
ruler. Young Williams told the
President he wants to become a
surveyor
Andy was chosen by the Ma
tional Circulation Managers AS
ISOLATION and the Inland Daily
Press Association as being typical
Of the Nations 100000 newsboys.
Proclamation Issued
In a proclamation addressed
to some 100000 newsboys
throughout the country, the
President declared:
You boys perform a valuable
service for your neighbors but
/ know your work is done to
mutual advantage, with profit
for you III both immediate and
long-range terms. AS newspaper
boys today, you have a great OPP
portunity to gain the experience
which can make you the leaders
of tomorrow
The strength of our Ameri-
can community life depends
upon the voluntary services of
thousands of citizens like you"
The District Commissioners
wrote:
THE District will join the rest
OF the Nation in paying tribute
to the youngest class of mer-
chants in our country, the Amer
lean newspaperboy. and whereas
from his numerous ranks has
come many of the outstanding
leaders of the country in every
field -
Yesterday Treasury Secretary
Humphrey praised newspaper
carrier boys and circulation man
ayers for their work in selling
savings bonds and stamps.
The Treasury's DISTINGUISHED
Service Award was presented in
a ceremony to Howard Stodghill. I
retired general manager of the
Philadelphia Bulletin, in recog-
milton of his work as national
chairman of the departments
Savings Bond Division advisory
committee for circulation man
ayers and carrier boys.
Autographed Dollar Bill
Pierre Goze, 18-year-old Star
carrier. of 2436 Twentieth street
NV, was on hand to receive
handshake and an autographed
dollar bill from Mr.. Humphrey. /
Also present at the ceremony
In the secretaly's Office were
Raymond Harris, assistant cir
culation manager of The Star: /
Walter Aronof, circulation man.
ager of the Detroit Times and /
national president of the Inter-
national Circulation Managers
Association; Morris Shorr. cir
culation manager of the Woon-
socket CR. - Call and ICMA
board chairman; Richard Slo-
cum, executive vice president of
the Philadelphia Bulletin, and
Louis Trupin. circulation man.
aPpr Of the RlIllatip
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06

University of Maryland, where
he plans to take up law.
Il think serving papers is
good experience" he said. you
learn to deal with people,"
His service was so good he
never lost a customer.
= While the accent is on youth
among newspaperboys not all are
in their salad days. Take the
case of Harry M. Harrison of
Knoxville. Md, a carrier who
was rs last March and celebrated
his golden wedding anniversary
in August.
Mr.. Harrison, lively as noun
tain goat and as rugged as the
Blue Ridge foothills where his
customers live, took over The
Star route about two years age
because a young relative was
falling down on the job.
lest IOF 1OuHser
"He wasn't taking care of it,
Mr.. Harrison said. He'd be late
getting the papers around, SO ]
began helping him to make sure
they were delivered right, and
then it got so I was doing most
of the work and gradually all of
it,"
Knoxville is in Frederick
County, near Harpers Ferry,
w. Va. The town wanders over
tumbled slopes and crags, terri
tory that would test a lot of
young mixers but doesn't faze
Mr.. Harrison.
Its good exercise" he said
I'm going to keep it up as long
as my health holds on. I like it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Clergy-Layman Con-
ference Of the Greek Ortho-
dox Church Of North and
South America winds up It's
sessions in the Sheraton
Park and Shoreham Hotels.
The Zionist ORGANIZATION
Of America concludes lta
meetings in the MsyiioWer
Hotel
The National Humane So
ciety meets In the Sheraton
PARK Hotel.
Region Eight o. the Ma
t.onsl Association OF Podla-
tFisfs meets IN the Hotel
Etatlef.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-06
Sweet Briur Elects

SWEET BRIAR, Va. Oct.
IR.-Thomas c. Boushall, a
Richmond banker, has been
named president of Sweet Brian
colleges board of directors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03

in the Organization for Trade
Cooperation. which administers
international trade agreements.
House leaders are reported to
be preparing to take up the school
construction measure sometime
this month. But its fate hinges
on what happens to civil rights
amendments expected to be Of
fered from the floor.
If hackers of the bill could get
it through the House without any
amendment designed to enforce
the racial indignation decision, it
probably could be passed in the
Senate also before adjournment.
But if one or more indignation
amendments carry in the House,
the bill probably could not be
brought to a vote in the Senate.
where debate is unlimited.
The Organization for Trade
Cooperation bill has cleared a
House committee, but leaders
have not scheduled it for floor
action, and even If it passes the
House it would face difficulties
in the Senate Finance Commit
tee.
Congressional leaders hope to
adjourn by July 81, and much
OF the remaining time will be
taken up with appropriation bills,
including the S36 billion defense
budget in the Senate and a for
Ieign aid money in both houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03
Fraternity Picks
I1o at Catholic W

Nineteen students have been
elected to the Catholic Univer-
sity Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
They are:
John T. Anderson, Joan B.
Aurelius, Brother Kurt Bozzo,
Janis M. Bradley, Robert S. Dell,
IDavy A. Carozza, Brother Delcan
Kane. Brother Shaumus Ma
honey, John NJ. Manion, Sister
IConcetta Millemaggi and Sister
Mary Hilary Mullany.
Also Brother Benilde j. Null
Ter, Martha c. Petraitis, Brother
ICosmas Rubencamp, Eithne Ia
Dor, Philip M. Timpane. Brother
Cosmas GREGORY Vreeland, Jo-
seph S. M. Wnoley and Brother
Joseph Chrysostom Miesenfarth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03
HERE is CONGRESS- RECORD
ON MAJOR BILLS TO DATE

Status Of major legislation the 84th Congress at
end OF this week. including bills carried
session, as tabuated by the Associated Press.
Enacted Military program; Formosa defense;
reciprocal trade extension
sion draft law extension raises for Congressmen
judges and Federal employees reorganization powers
mum wage increase; soil bank program.
Vetoed: Natural bill; farm bill.
Passed Senate and House: Highway construction
Passed Houses Social Security broadening pendng in
Senate Finance); executive pay raises Tin Senate Civil
Servicel.
On House Calendar: Foreign aid extension Tin Senate
Foreign Relations.
Pending in committees of both Houses: Alaska-Hawai
statehood Tin Interior and sular Affairs Federal aid for
schools Tin Senate Education and House Rules. health
insurance lin Senate Labor and Commetce) new
public housing lin Banking).
Pending in House Committees: Postal rate increases Gin
Post Office; immigration law changes Tin Judiciary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03


billion to $3.6 billion. A Senate
committee has completed hear
ingS but will wait to see how
much the House votes.
2. Highways - Conferees are
expected to meet this week to
compromise between the $5l.5
billion House program and a $37
billion Senate plan for speeding
up the building of Federal-aid
roads. Both are in agreement on
a $25 billion Federal outlay to
complete the 40,000-mile inter-
state system.
8. Housing-The House Bank
ing Committee is scheduled to
act this week on the Senate
approved bill to expand the pub
lie housing program and continue
various forms Of Government
mortgage insurance.
4. Military survivors benefits
The Senate Finance Commit
tee may act soon on the bill the
House passed last year, to stand
ardize these BENEFITS and give
servicemen social security status
while in uniform.
S. Executive pay bill-Raising
salaries Of bureau chiefs and
other top-level officials, passed
the House last year and has a
good chance Of receiving Senate
action before adjournment.
6. Customs simplification -
Passed House last year, and
may clear Senate Finance Com
mittee If administration sup
porters can work out an accept
able substitute for one provision
which has encountered strong
opposition.
7. Farm credit-Senate Agri-
culture Committee hopes to meet
Wednesday on this legislation,
with prospects favoring action.
The President also will get a
Social Security expansion bill
which was originated by the
Democratic leadership in Con-
xress, and which in its final
form probably will go beyond
the wishes of the administra-
ton.
AS it goes before the Senate
late this week, the bill has beer
shorn of the main features tc
which the administration OBJ
jected. These would have per-
mitted all women to retire at 6;
instead of IS. and would have
allowed men or women to retire
at so for total and permanent
disability.
Liberal Democrats believe they
have q chance to restore these
features in the Senate. In any
event. they have already passed
the House, and will have to be
dealt with in conference.
There are at least seven other
major subjects on the White
House list for which the outlook
is not bright. Some of these have
virtually no chance Of getting
through, and others are in doubt
because Of their controversial
nature.
Includes Civil Rights
These include the several civil
rights bills, more liberal immi-
grafton quotas. postal rate in
creases. the school construction
bill. Hawaiian statehood, the
atomic exhibition ship, and the
bill for American membership
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03
President Expected to Get
Half of Intended Goals
By ]. A. OTEARY

President Eisenhower probably viii get about half Of the
measures he wants from this session Of Congress.
checkup with informed yesterday indicated that
addition the farm bill which became law recently
the President before adjournment following
subjects listed by the White House 10 days ago.
Foreign aid-Due Wednesday but with its
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1956-01-17
Dairy Products
Make Best Buys

Anyone who has ever I "a ke n
time to figure the cost per pound
of different food items commonly
bought will recognize at once the
truth of an observation this week
by Madison County Agent, John
Moore. He points out that on a
cost-per-pound basis milk and a
good many other dairy products
make good buys. This is true, es-
'pecially when one considers the
food value in a pound of milk pro-
duct foods.
With the price of milk generally
running around 81 or % cents a
quart the price per pound figures
around IL cents, since a quart of
milk weighs two pounds. There are
not many food products these
days that sell for IL cents pound,
and those that do are not by any
means as highly nutritious as milk.
One reason why milk is still
such a good buy is that dairy farm
ers have been able to keep up with
demand. and most of the I m e
even a little ahead of it. Milk
prices are rather generally deter
mined by the price of other dairy
products such as buetter, cheese,
evaporated milk and ice cream;
manufactured dairy products, in
other words.
The dairy farmers share of
every dollar consumers spend for
milk has dropped since 1949 from
81 cents to 46 cents. Prices paid
by consumers for milk meanwhile
have changed little, if any. AT the
same time prices of all foods aver
aged together have risen IL per-
cent.
From these figures 1t would
seem, says Moore, that milk and
milk products become better bar
gains all the time.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1956-01-17

lar job flow out your fingers as
you work on these model rail-
roads"
Railroad companies spur the
hobby in various ways sometimes
by entering it themselves. The Bal
tirnore and Ohio owns a system
with ITO feet of double-track main
line, 20 locomotives, both steam
and diesel, and 100 freight and
passenger cars controlled by
scores of automatic signals and
electric relays. A current display
by dozen railroad companies in
New Jersey has 800 feet of track.
It's trains will run 10000 miles in
30 days.
Other model trains now are used
in atomic age laboratories to trans
port dangerous samples from one
place to another while workers
keep safe distances at control pam
els. Models were used in World
War III to train specialists in dem
clifton of enemy railroads.
Miniature railroading has felt
inroads from model airplanes. but
there always will be trains" an
enthusiast insists. Some 40, 900
lobbyists affirm the view.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1956-01-17

Cars couple and uncouple auto
matically. Engines wall for cross
ings and puff realistic smoke from
their stacks. Semaphore signal
blocks guard against collisions
Station doors open and out come
toy passengers.
Some lobbyist go so far as to
manufacture their own trains,
Several hundred hours work can
go into a locomotive, about Sc
hours in caboose.
The job is never completed-im-
provements constantly be ck o n.
Whistles may be changed to MINI
ic better the haunting walls of
evening trains. Cars may be over
hauled to dump coal faster. Way
side depictions of mountains and
valleys, towns, villages and plants
all necessary adornments-invite
DETER touches.
There, generally, is where the
housewife comes into the game.
More skilled in decorative arts
than her husband, she suddenly
finds herself Mrs. Casey Jones, =
in charge of the landscape.
The hobby claims enthusiasts
from all ranks of society. One de-
votee explained: THE tensions
that well up in you on your regu-