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proposed cutting off State aid to
any county which integrates.
Helped by Reassignment
Reassignmert of some pupils
outside their districts has helped
eliminate some overcroWding.
On the brighter side, the pu-
pil-teacher ratio IS comparative
ly low, an estimated 2S.5 children
per teacher i'll the elementary
classrooms.
A new center for about so
retarded junior and senior high
students is to be opened at 1912
North Quincy street. New
schools opening in the county
are Ashlawn School at Wilson
boulevard and Montague street
and Kenmore Junior High
School on Arlington boulevard at
Carlyn Spring road.
Fairfax County's rapidly
growing school population will
find elbow room the growing
problem in its 50 schools when
$500 to 1000 of the $500 stu
dents will go Oh double shifts
more than double the number on
halliday schedules last year.
Completion of all the projects
now under construction would
reduce the numbers of halliday
students only about 1,500.
Temporary Quarters Set Up
In addition to four new
schools, county students will use
eight temporary classrooms set
up in two modern ramblers in
North Springfield. where the
developer of a housing sabdivi-
sion has left the interior walls
out of the buildings so four
classrooms can be put into each
A new 38-room high school
will open at Groveton along with
these new elementary schools.
Cedar Lane at Vienna. Layton
Hall near the town of Fairfax
and Lillian Carey at Bailey's
Crossroads.
No teacher vacancies have
been reported.
I Only the high school will BIZ
overcrowded when Falls Church
schools open. With an addition
at George Mason High Schoo
set for completion by November
/. Until then, the gymnasium
will be used for nine temporary
classrooms.
A total of about 1000 student:
will be in the system this year
with no overcrowding in thu
three elementary schools. WHERE
a pupil-teacher ratio Of % to
is to be maintained.
When District schools reope.
next Monday fewer than 1.o0I
students will be on split-shif
schedules. Total enrollmen
opening day is expected to reach
LOT. 900 but may climb to be-
tween 100000 and 10000 il
|. five or six weeks.
Teacher Lack Cited
The major problem confront
ing local school officials is tn
lack of sufficient teachers
though 4.023 will be on the joh
; The pupil-teacher ratio will b
IS to /. instead Of the desire'
: 80 to / which local officials ar
! striving for.
: The new Woodson Junior Higl
; School at Forty-seconc an
. Grant streets NE. is the big
gest physical addition to tn
school system this year. 1t wi
E hold 1900 students.
Alexandria will have none q
{ its 10000 pupils in double shift
: with George Washington Hig
4 School az normal capacity fo
: the first time in many year
e The new 50 million Harmon
: High School Nill relieve the loa
5 at CIV.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Steuben Society OF
America winds up its meet
ing in the Hotel Statler.
The Armenian Church
Youth Organization con-
cludes a four day meeting in
the Sheraton Park Hotel.
The Society Of the Fifth
Division ends its sessions in
the Raleigh Hotel.
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Seowoy Official TO ToFk

The American Public Relations
Association will hold a luncheon
meeting at 1915 pm. Wednes-
day at the Hotel Burlington.
Edward r. Place, information
officer Of the st. Lawrence Sea-
way Development Corp. will adj
dress the group.
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Drive Planned
BY Quenstedt

Warren D. Quenstedt this week
will work on final plans to make
his name a household word in
the 10th district of Virginia.
He has assurance that he will
have no help in this regard from
his Republican opponent in the
November election, Representa-
Broyhill.
Mr.. Broyhill has refused to
make joint appearances with Mr..
Quenstedt in the fall campaign
and has been reported to have
coupled his rejection with a
statement that he did not pro-
pose to debate with "a political
nobody"
Won Mild Primary
Mr.. Quenstedt. winner of the
mild Democratic primary in
July, says he is hoping for sup
port from "all the political no
bodys in the 10th district"
Inevitably. he compared the
"nobodys" to "the Joe Smiths
who have been told they have
no place in the Republican
Party"
This week the Democratic
challenger, an attorney who has
never held public Office, will
meet with groups OF his sup
porters to plan "coffees" and
door-to-door campaigning de-
signed to make him better
acquainted in the district. par
ticularly in areas outside his
home county. Fairfax.
To Campaign in October
Meanwhile. Mr.. Broyhill has
said he is too busy with SUBJ
committee work and other duties
to begin campaigning before
october /. He has mailed litera-
ture to his constituents citing
his record and urging them u
attend "coffees" that will be helc
throughout the district.
On Saturday the q. o. P. in.
cumbent will speak at a schoo
Of politics at Falls Church High
School. Republican leaders from
throughout the State are sched'
uled TO attend.
I Later. he will launch a seriei
Of eight teleyision programs.
Mr.. Quenstedt says he can
begin to compete on Tv becausI
Of the money but ! definitel,
viii have some programs.
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'Crowding Seen
AS Riot Danger
lin DC. Prisons
CIemmer Requests
$45,000 to Plan
For New BUILDING

OVefcroWdlng IN DlStrlct prlS-
ons has created a condition
that fosters danger in terms OF
escape and riot" Director DON
aid c. Clemmer of the Depart
ment of Corrections has warned
in his third bid for a new prison.
Asking for $4,000 to start
planning such a building at Lor-
ton in the next fiscal year, he
said it might be possible to ask
for construction funds the fol-
lowing year. However, he de-
clared, the city's growing prison
population estimated soon tC
reach 1850 - already would
more than half fill a new inSti-
tuition even if it were immedi-
Iately available"
Wants Money in 1857
His plea was made in a de-
partmental request for permits
sion to spend $6.169,000 mex
year. This has been cleared b!
the District Budget Office ant
recommended to the Commits
sioners. The figure would pro
vide $1,006,000 for construction
at Lorton, Occoquan and tn
District Jail and an operating
budget of $5.163.O00, increased
by $446,852 over the curren
year, which ends June 80.
The operating increase woul'
cover hiring of so new employees
including 40 guards, to keep VI
with a prison population which
has grown 81 per cent in tn
last 10 years.
Although police figures in
dictate a reduction in serlou
crime, Mr.. Clemmer said averag
sentences have increased from
about AZ years in 1858 to 81
years in 1856. Also, he said
under the new District narcotic
law cit is quite likely that larg
numbers of persons involved il
narcotics activities, agains
whom the police had previousl
been unable to make charges
will be arrested and COMMITTEE
to our prisons on charge Q
vagrancy."
RemOdeling is Asked
Other major items include
$50, 900 to remodel three factor
I buildings at Lorton for use 9
dormitories to house $50 in
, mates and $4,000 for a ne
dormitory for $50 men at tn
Occoquan workhouse.
Additionally requested wa
500 900 foraa 48-bed addition |
! the workhouse hospital; $75,0t
to increase the capacity of tn
Lorton sewage disposal plant
$3.50 900 to replace the Occoqua
. dairy barns: $4,000 to build
maximum security housing un
for 80 prisoners at the Occoqua
women's reformatory, and 1892
, , 600 to build a chapel at Lortol
! Justifying the need for tt
, women's unit, Mr.. Clemmer sal
, the population of the women
! reformatory has increased mo-
! than 100 per cent in the la
/ 10 years.
Currently" he said. "inmatI
Y are herded together in most III
/ wholesome and unwise wa.
2 with double decked beds only
4 inches apart. Misdemeanan
: are mixed with felons, and SOM
: times sophisticated offende
\ with amateurs"
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Maryland and Arlington and Fs
in Virginia will open their sch
pupils Tuesday. with the District
and Alexandria. Va, following
suit next Monday
None of the areas has escaped
either the ogercrowding or the
integrations question.
Both nearby Maryland areas
have effected partial irtegration.
In Virginia the question still is
major issue with the General
Assembly now in special session
at Richmond considering sug-
gested ways of circumventing the
Supreme CouI's desegregation
order of two years ago.
District Has Integrated
The District has already in
tegrated.
| Some 100000 students will at
tend tie public schools of the
seven subdivisions. Close tc 50,-
900 more will register at paro-
chial schools in the area When
they reopen Wednesday in Vir-
ginia and the following day in
the District and Maryland.
I Between 5000 and 10000 stu.
dents will be on double shifts
in the suburban erea. This vii
be relieved somewhat with the
completion of new schools be.
fore the end of the tenn.
! Next to the District, with it.
some 10000 students, Mont.
gomery County will welcome the
largest enrolment, 57,341, which
is sofa more than the system
housed at the end of last year
The county will have 2,91(
pupils on double shifts. with
new projects scheduled to TAXI
care of all but 430 of theSt
within weeks or rlonths. Virtu
ally all those who will be or
double shifts for the entire
term are arst graders.
/ More THAI 600 Negroes will b.
attending previously all-whit,
schools, some 1876 more than las
year, as Montgomery moves to
ward integratlon of the up
county areas. Nine Negro teach
ers will be teaching in forme
white schools, three more thar
last year.
The opening of three new
school buildings ard six add
lions still will leave some ITO
pupils on double shifts when 81,
900 boys and girls troop bacl
to schoul in Prince George
County.
A dig dent will be put in tn
overcrowdinS with the opening
of John Hanson Junior High
School at Livingston and Oxol
Hill roads. permitting Oxon Hi
High School to resume norma
class schedules.
Some Glasses Omitted
The teacher shortage is bein
, felt in Prince Georges. with Of
ficials still attempting to fill /
vacancies last week. Seven juno
, high shop classes already hav
been Cancelled because teacher
! are not available
r Only l56 colored students wi
) be attending formerly all-whit
: schools in the county, 80 nor
| than last year.
The situation across the Poto
: mac n Arlington is complicate
by court ,itigst.cn and over
crowding, with 1000 on doubl
shifts compared with none
year ago.
And the county Is caught bt
tween a court order and Stat
policy.
Alexandra Federal Cour
Judge Albert v. Bryan has Of
dered an end to segregation
elementary schools BY next Jar
uary 81. and desegregation in II
secondary schools by the follow
: ing September. Gov. Stanley HI
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Sanitary Units Slash
Budget by So Million
|AIexondrion Prepares
e Compromise School Bill
BY ALEX r. PRESTON

pupil-asgnment approach to virginas school seq
regaton problem being prepared for introduction in the
General Assembly tomorrow.
1t designed to mesh in between Staney's plan to
withhold ntegrated schools and pupil assign
legislation previously oeredheetooe considered by some
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Most Suburban Schools
Will Reopen This Week
By CHARLES PUFFENBARGER

Most Of the public schools this with such
matters indignation and overcrowdng stealing spotlight
from the basic problem of teaching.
Montgomery and Prince Georges neighborng
Maryland and Arlington and Fairfax Counties Falls Church
in Virginia will their school doors to
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The
Rambler
This Man Rutes
= rAMeduI Himself
By JACK JONAS

The lady from Loudoun
County, Va didn't know her
medal could be worth so much.
She brought it from home
and stopped by the Truxtun-
Decatur Naval Museum at
1910 H street NV. She was a
little shy about bringing the
subject up, but she needn't
have been.
She laid it on the desk of
Charles Heineman, an old
Navy man himself. Mr.. Heine-
man looks after things at
the museum, and is ready to
talk Navy to anyone. He
likes questions.
How much is it worth?"
she asked.
Mr.. Heineman looked at it.
1t was a Sampson Medal of
the Spanish American War.
There on the face was the
bust of Admiral William T..
Sam pson, commander-in-
chief of the Naval forces in
the West Indies, and the date,
1898.
ut was my fathers medal"
the lady said.
Mr.. Heineman hated to tell
her the intellectually, the
Medal Concentrating Naval
Engagements in the West
1ndies-had been awarded to
a lot of people, Navy men and
Marines. There must be a
lot of them still kicking
around, he felt, and the medal
in itself wasn't worth very
much.
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BUT / GOT to talking to
her about this and that" Mr..
Heineman said. Il wish I'd
gotten her name.
II told her about the back
ground Rf the medal, how it's
second IN line of seniority
after the Dewey Medal, and
how it was awarded for taking
part in major engagements in
the Cuban campaign. This
particular medal had the
word Texas stamped on it
That meant he'd served
aboard the battleShip Texas.
"'Your father must be draw
ing a nice pension I told her.
"He died in 1925 she said.
swell, then, your mother
must be drawing a good pen
sion,' I said.
"'She isn't drawing any,
thing at ALL the lady replied.
She seemed to be surprised. I
live next door to a Navy man
down in Loudoun County, and
he told me she wasn't entitled
to anything, so we never did
anything about It,
Well, If they were married
before 1922, she ought to be
getting a pension
"Oh, they were,' she said.
"That neighbor Of yours is
all wet I told her. Let's make
a telephone call
II got the Veterans Admin
istration on the telephone, and
sure enough, she was entitled
to a pension.
"It'S something like $50 a
month. l did some fast arith-
metic in my head and figured
out what she should have been
drawing all these years, and
it came to something like
$4,000. The lady was dumb
founded, and l don't blame
her.
Here 1 said, talk to the
man yourself"
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provision when the bill came up
for action because members Of
the House Civil Service Commit
tee strongly objected that their
group had jurisdiction over such
legislation.
However, the Texan still wants
the 70-year mandatory retire
ment requirement. abolished.
Noting that several members of
the House Civil Service Commit
tee have agreed to review the
situation, Mr.. Thomas called for
action to allow employees past 10
to continue on the job II their
health permits it and they want
to keep on working.
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TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

not to travel because of snow
ranging from 4 to IL inches
The snow is drifting to greater
depths in some locations.
South from Washington to
Richmond the snow ends about
10 or Is miles south Of the Dis
trict.
New England - Chains re-
quired. emergency travel only.
Pennsylvania turnpike-Dan-
gerous.
New Jersey turnpike-Snow-
covered, IS miles per hour limit
New York City-Police ask nc
auto travel.
River Report
.From q 8 Engineers,
Potomac River muddy at Harpers Ferr!
and muddy at Great fa"s Shenandoah
muddy at Harpers Ferry,
Temperatures for Yesterday
Readings Washington National AIRPORT
Midnight - 30 Noon 81
4 am. 20 pm. AZ
3 am. % s pm. 81
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District and vicinity-Fair and
quite cold tonight with low about
"a in the city and ID in the sub
urbs. Mostly sunny and rather
cold again tomorrow with high
about 40.
MISUNDERSTANDING and colder
tonight with low 1920 in the
mountains and 1923 elsewhere.
Generally fair with rising tenn
peratures tomorrow.
Virginia-Fair and cold to-
night with low 1924 in west and
north and 1928 in southeast
Mostly sunny and rather cold
again tomorrow with high 49,
AZ in west and north and 42-47
in southeast.
Wind-North to northwest To-
Is miles per hour tonight and
tomorrow. Fair to good visibility
Road C0nditionS-AAA
North from Washington to New
York City motorists are advised
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1.-TWO years. one at the end Of four
years, and one at the end of six
years. At present, the commits
sioners are appointed to indefi-
mite terms and serve at the
pleasure of the President.
Mr.. Murray and his committee
feel that the proposed change
would grant the commission
more independence by giving
the three commissioners fixed
terms and not making them sub
ject to removal by the President.
Also a staggered system would
result in carry-overs from pre-
vious administrations and pro-
duce more freedom of expression
and action. Mr.. Murray feels.
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He points out that the csc
is now the only commission in
Government that does not have
the staggered term system. Un-
der the Murray bill. incidentally,
new commissioners on the csc
still would be appointed by the
President when vacancies occur,
with Senate approval required
Another phase of the Murray
bill would designate one of the
commissioners as vice chairman
to operate the csc when the
chairman is absent. If both the
chairman and vice chairman
were absent or out of town, the
third member would preside
Under present regulations. the
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FOREIGN AID
Continued From First Page

Continued From First rage
two years will result in reducing
|unexpended balances to the dan
ger point by June 80.
He said more money must bt
appropriated than can actually
be spent inethe new fiscal veal
because a substantial period o.
lead time is required to trans
late appropriated funds int
actual payment for nearly al
items of military equipment.
His appropriations request O.
nearly $4.86 billion for f1Sca
1857 compares with appropria'
lions of $2.7 for the current
fiscal year. Estimated expendi'
lures for the new year are about
the same, however-$4.3 billion
as compared to $40 billion.
In arguing for long-term com.
mitment authority, the PreSi'
dent said this would enable ma.
lions on the receiving end Il
mobilize their own funds fol
development projects that TAXI
more than a year to complete
land that it would be difficult fol-
them to organize such project!
unless American aid could b
counted on for more than
single year.
| He described the Middle EaS'
and Africa as "areas in which
lit is specially important to builc
new strength friendly to us" ir
asking for the special 500 mil
lion fund for use in any part Of
those areas for special economic
projects.
The military aid fund he asked
includes $3.50 million to aic
Americas allies in building more
effective defense by utilizing lad
vanced weapons systems, includ'
ing missiles now being procured
for our own troops"
For Asia and the Middle East
he recommended total militar!
assistance of about SIG billion
including support of the SEATC
defense pact allies. His messag'
did not break down in detail tn
military aid proposed for NAT(
countries. He did not propos
any direct economic aid for an,
of the NATO allies.
Some of the mixed reaction
i'm Congress exemplif1ed in frs
comments from Senators.
Senator Sparkman, Democrat
of Alabama, a Foreign Relation
committeeman, said he per
sonally looks with favor on ,
Ilong-range program but believe
it should be handled as tn
Marshall Plan was, with annua
review and appropriations By
Congress,
AS for money, Senator Spark
man said the administration viii
have to justify the amount
sought.
! Senator Mansfield, Democrat
of Montana. another Foreign
IRelations committeeman. SAT-
he is pleased by a proposed in
crease in Point -Four technica
assistance funds but believes tn
military aid figures are to-
much"
! Insofar as 10-year program
is concerned" Senator Mans
field said. I'm not at all con
WINGED that it is the right wa.
to approach the economic de
slvelopment program"
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the negotiating committee. A
union spokesman said, however
that both groups would have to
pass on any settlement terms
He declined to say whether
agreement was reached.
The fate of the SO discharged
workers had provided the major
stumbling block during the last
week. There was substantial
agreement on most other issues,
on the basis of the mediators'
package proposal.
The principal provision was for
a five-year contract provfqtne
annual pay raises of to II cents
an hour and pension-insurance
improvements. Workers aver
aged $2.10 an hour before the
strike
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Written exams would be required
only to the extent that they may
be necessary.
One of the responsibilities Of
each board would be to see to it
that employees are informed Of
lpromotional opportunities.
"This feature of the program
lis of paramount Importance be-
cause it has been the unfortu-
nate experience of many an en-
Iploye that a position to which
he might have aspired had been
filled before he learned that a
vacancy existed" Senator john
Iston and Mr.. Moss declared in a
Joint statement.
The Joint statement added:
I'VE have waited and hoped
that the Civil Service Commits.
sion would offer sensible
workable and long overdue pro-
gram for the promotion of Fed
Ieral employees on the basis OF
merit. Our hope has not been
fulfilled and the wait has been in
vain.
However, we are hopeful that
/ the lack of attention by the csc
Ito this very important matter
lis due to inertia rather than OPP
position to a program for the
promotion of employees on the
basis of merit. We say that for
the following good reason: No
claim is being made that the
program proposed in the bill we
are about to introduce is COM
plete beyond improvement in
every respect or minute detail.
Therefore, should the csc
recognize deficiencies in certain
areas, we invite their co-opera-
ton to the end that they be
overcome and an acceptable
program be enacted into law.
We suggest that on this occasion
no useful purpose would be
served by forwarding to the Con-
gress a run-of -the-mine objec-
ton letter in the event they are
not in complete agreement with
every little detail. Rather it is
hoped that the csc will offer
constructive suggestions"
4 Il X
COMMISSIONERS TERMS
Chairman Murray of the House
Civil Service Committee has
sponsored legislation to provide
staggered six-year terms for the
three Civil Service Commission
ers. Mr.. Murray said the pur-
pose is to insure greater inde-
pendence on the part of the
commission in dealing with the
rest of the Government on per-
sonnet policy and operations.
The six-year term was pro-
posed by Mr.. Murray's commit
tee several weeks ago. Mr.. Muir
rays bill provides that the terms
would be on a staggered six-year
basis, with the term of one COM
missioner expiring at the end OF
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of them members Of the Inter
national Union Of Electrical
Workers GUE).
The unions full negotiating
committee was called into a
morning meeting, and its West
inghouse conference board was
to meet tonight. The board in
cludes representatives of all sc
WESTINGHOUSE IUE locals.
Hold All-Night Session
Tentative agreement was re-
ported reached by Union Presi'
dent James B. Carey and Robert
D. Blasier, vice president ant
chief negotiator for Westing'
house, at an all-night meeting
which lasted until Z am. yes
terday.
The report was not confirmed
and no details of any settlement
plan were announced. In Pitts
burgh, however. the Post-Gazett'
said it had learned that 81
workers discharged for ALLEGED
strike violence would be con
sidered under an indefinite sus'
pension rather than discharged.
The company previously hae
accepted a package settlement
proposal by Federal mediator
which included re-employmen
of 81 discharged workers with
neutral arbitration of the case
of the remaining SO. The unior
sought instead to deal with thu
36 in local negotiations.
Joseph F. Finnegan. Fedora
mediation director, declined Il
comment on developments. Per
haps significantly, however, HI
Cancelled a trip he had scheduled
for today.
Must Pass on Terms
Robert Nellis, chairman Of thu
conference board, likewise die
not say what prompted him tt
call meetings of the board ant