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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Sleeping Soldiers
Held as Fuqitives

Two escapes from an Army
disciplinary barracks were liter
ally caught mapping last night by
a Prince Georges County police
man checking out a tip that a
holdup was to occur.
Pvt. Charles S. Keiss. checking
the Chillum Terrace Shopping
Center parking lot, noticed a
parked car with two men inside
asleep. Upon questioning them
and making several telephone
calls, he found that the men had
escaped Saturday in a car not
yet reported stolen from a Pitts
burgh suburb service station.
The escapes are Richard A.
Mansfield and Harold D. Mason,
both 10. assigned to the Disci-
plinary Barracks at New Cum
berland, Pa. according to Pvt
Keiss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
E. 7. DeJurnette
Won't Run Again

RICHMOND, Dec. rs R.-
Edmund T. DeJarnette Of Ash
land said yesterday he would not
seek reelection to the House OF
Delegates seat from which he
was ousted by Delegate Clai-
borne D. Gregory in 1855.
Delegate Gregory, who de-
feated DeJarnette by about $50
votes, said last week he would
not seek reelection in 1857. He
said he would devote full time
to his new Job as secretary OF
the Virginia Petroleum Indus
tries Committee.
Mr.. DeJarnette, a top organi-
zation Democrat. said, II have
no present intention Of running
for any public Office"
He was House floor leader for
administration measures in the
1854 session of the General
Assembly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Father 'sDeath
Laid to- Sons.

BEL AIR. Nd, Dec. Is Dr.
Sheriff Raymond Fulker said two
brothers held in Hartford County
Jail here were charged with MUIR
der yesterday in the fatal beat
ing Of their father.
Maston Hall, 64-year-old con-
struction laborer of RID 2, Bel
Air, died in Hartford Memorial
Hospital at Havre De Grace
shortly after noon. less than
10 hours after the beating. He
had been in critical condition
with a fractured skull, broken
jaw and other injuries. James
B Hall. rs. and his, brother
O'Rear, %. we're jailed on MUIR
der charges.
Sheriff Fulker said that the
two sons argued with their father
about 8 o'clock Sunday night,
over an attempt by the father
to correct O'Rear for cursing.
They did not call an ambulance
until 1910 am. yesterday, the
sheriff said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Mother Burned by Lye
is Home for Christmas

Mrs. Jayne Boyd was home for
Christmas today after being re-
leased temporarily from Arling-
ton Hospital where she has been
under treatment for severe I've
burns.
The 80 year old Arlington
housewife arrived home yester-
day after seven weeks of treat
ment for partial blindness, I've
damage to her vocal cords and
internal burns received when a
janitor threw a boiling I've mix
ture in her face November 8.
Her husband Ralph said the
children were delighted with
their special Christmas present
having their mother home for
the holiday. The children are
Kathleen. 10. Barbara, 8, and
Linda, 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Bids Planned Soon
On State Building

BALTIMORE, Dec. rs P).--
The State expects to call for
bids on construction of a four.
story State Office building at AM
napolis early next year.
Final drawings are being COM
pleted for the SO million struc-
ture. which will be located north
of the State House.
The buildings, which should
be completed in IS months. will
be made of brick and will be air.
conditioned throughout.
Plans for the colonial-styled
buildings were made by Harder
and Dressed of Glen Burnie and
Rogers and Taliaferro of An.
InapoliS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Britons Still Love Seq

LONDON.-More than 100000
workers are employed in Brit
aims shipbuilding and ship-re-
pairing industry, with another
10000 or so in marine engineer
ing, making a total of nearly
100000 workers engaged in
building ships out of Britain's
total working population Of
"a. 900. 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
baItimoreMan
Killed in Fight

WESTMINSTER, Nd, Dec. rs
ga Baltimore man fell, hit
his head and died in q fight
here last night.
Police said the man he was
fighting would be charged with
manslaughter.
DR.. James T. Marsh, Carroll
County medical examiner. at
tributed the death of Gordon
Cootes. so, Of Baltimore, to a
fractured skull.
States Attorney Donald c.
Sponseller said William Henry
Brown. IS. Of Westminster
would be charged with man
slaughter. State Police Sergt.
Frank c. Badger said Cootes
and Brown we're arguing over
a girl friend when the fight
began.
The death occurred outside
the Green Street Inn about 10
pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Pair Is Charged
In Bedford Robbery

BEDFORD. Va. Dec. rs (R.-
Bedford County Sheriff Ruckel
T. Mitchell has filed robbery
charges against two men in con-
nection with the $4,000 robbery
of the Coleman Falls Post Office
safe early last Friday.
The sheriff fled the charges
yesterday against James Noe OF
Lyndhurst, Augusta County
and Wayne Lycons, a parolee
from the West Virginia Peniten-
tiary. n GEE E F*s
They had been arrested Satur-
day in Huntington, w. Va, on
drunk charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Park Visitors Increase

The National Park Service
handled 21,33s.O67 visitors to
areas administered in the first
six months of 1856 compared
with 19.199.594 in the like period
Of 1855. This was an IL per cent
increase. Visitors to the % ma
tional parks rose 10 per cent
to 6,224,539.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25

$l.750 for the Purcellville Lii
brary in Loudoun County to
$903,850 for the new galleries
and theater wing of the Vir-
ginia Museum Of Fine Arts in
Richmond.
Mr.. Mellon and his wife, who
shares his enthusiasts and in
vestigations. made a personal
tour through an unfinished third
wing Of the Museum Of Fine
Arts. After climbing over boards,
cement bags and steel Orders,
Mr.. Mellon asked that he be sent
an estimate Of the cost to fin
Iish. furnish and landscape the
wing. Shortly thereafter his
foundation made a $650,00 grant
to the institution to which it
had already contributed $3.50 900.
The new wing includes a the
alter revolutionary in the art
world. ITO make 1t possible to
finish this specialized tool in our
time was brilliant understand
ing on Mr.. Melons part" said
Director Leslie Cheek, jr. piece
meal. it would have lost much of
its impact. The thoroughness of
the job has galvanized interest
as nothing else could have done"
Another big donation for near
by Virginia was 100000 to
Establish Woodlawn Plantation
near Mount Vernon as a national
museum.
Community Projects Benefit
Other projects in the Northern
Virginia area include: Anderson
IOrthopedic Hospital 22,5O2, Ar
Ilington County School Board for
development of educational tele-
vision programs $1,000, Bailey's
Community Center $4,000, Prot
estant Episcopal Theological
Seminary $155,0O0: Fauquier
County Hospital $4,000: Lou
doun Community College $67,-
$50: Loudoun County Hospital
$80.500. Loudoun art education
project $4,000. Loudoun Health
Department for a guidance CEN
ter $4,000. Loudoun -Fauquier
Health Center $64.5OO, and Win
chester Memorial Hospital $751;
325.
A $4,000 grant for a study OF
Virginia resulted in 1855 in q
book entitled Virginia at Mid
Century" a 500-page volume
written by DR.. Jean Gottman
who toured every county and
city in the State. Legislators
familiar with the study, say the
book should be on every desk in
the General Assembly.
Mr.. Mellon is chairman of the
board of the foundation. Ernest
Brooks, jr.. graduate of Yale
and of Harvard Law School. is
president.
ShunS Propaganda
Monroe Bush. 35-year-old
former minister, heads the Vir-
ginia Division. Mr.. Bush, who
lives with his wife and four
children at Paeonian Springs
near Leesburg, spends much Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25

al lCS VI NITSltlld, UuG O1C Ol LIlc
founders special interests is Vir-
lginia.
The foundation. established in
1941. had distributed $780,
210.81 through 1855. Its projects
have ranged the globe as it do
mates to projects in the found
er's broad fields Of interest-lib-
eral education, psychiatry. con-
servation and Virginia.
The 48-year- old founder, his
wife and four children. live on q
400-acre farm in Fauquier Coun-
ty. His Washington Office is
across from the White House In
a high-ceilinged Victorian house
with q cigar store Indian in the
corner Of the reception room.
Mr.. Mellon moved to Upper
vile permanently in 1887.
Likes Old Dominion
"It sounds corny," he said,
"but / live in Virginia because
I like the way Of life. Virginia S
way Of looking at things. I guess
at heart I'm a conservative"
Money for the Old Dominion
Foundation comes from the
financial empire born in 1858
when Thomas A. Mellon, a
county judge retired from the
bench at Sc and went into bank
ing. His three sons built the
family frotune.
One Of the sons was Andrew
Mellon, Paul's father, who was
Secretary of Treasury and who
gave the nations capital the
Mellon Art Gallery.
Chief among factors shaping
his ideas on philanthropy, says
Paul Mellon, was his fathers
devotion to public service.
I'm an indirect way my IA
lther made it plain that people
who had a lot of money had an
obligation to use it wisely" he
said.
Alma Mater Aided
His gifts in the field of liberal
Education have totaled more
than $14 million including IS
million to Yale University where
he spent his undergraduate
days. He gave 50 million to St
Johns College in Annapolis.
The Old Dominion Founda-
ton put up $347,118 for the pa
Ipers of James Boswell and made
them available at the Yale
library.
] The Old Dominion is a mid
Idle-sized foundation with assets
of about $40 million. Mr.. Mellon
maintains a second avenue OF
giving. the Bollingen Founda-
Ition, which spends about 81 mil
lion a year in aiding individual
scholars in research and publ
cation Of books on the humani-
ties. In addition he has a guild
ing hand in the A. w. Mellon
Educational and Charitable
Trust established by his father,
and is a trustee on the, Avalon
Foundation supported by his
sister, Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce.
The Old Dominioil's SO grants
Ito Virginia range in size from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
New County Treasurer

WARM SPRINGS, Va, Dec.
Is (R.-George Cleek. so. Warm
Springs postmaster for the last
16 years. was named Bath
County treasurer yesterday by
Circuit Judge Earl L. Abbott.
He will fill the remaining three
years Of the unexpire6 term of
Robert M. Mistoe who died De-
cember 16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
MERRY CHRISTMAS
FOR MOTORISTS

BERKELEY SPRINGS.
w. Va. - Hoods marked
Merry Christmas" have
been over all parking meters
here the past week by di-
rection Of Town Council as
a courtesy to shoppers who
wanted to park downtown.
The hoods will be re-
moved tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-25
Old Dominion Still Close
To Heart Of MELONS Son
BY PAUL HOPE

man who likes the Virginia looks things has given
more than 81 million to worthy in his adopted State
Paul Mellon of Upperve quiet-spoken of the former
Secretary the Treasury has kept his background
while his Old Dominion Foundation has carried his phan
thropic
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25

state. The true difference between
public and private power is the diff
ference between a 20 interest rate
for public power and SO interest
rate for private power. Low interest
rates make the difference between
a Hungry Horse Dam, which has all
ready attracted two industries to
Montana, and a smaller dam which
would in all likelihood have but one
customer.
Cheap public power has never
failed to attract new industries.
Such power encourages and pro-
notes private enterprise and brings
greater opportunity for small and
big business alike.
"There is a limit to the federal
money which can be spent for multi
purpose dams. Montana stands in the
enviable position of having the great
est potential damsites in the nation.
An aggressive Governor would solicit,
petition and acquire federal money
to further, without delay, the long
due development of Montana" Olsen
said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25
THE TALL MAN
CAMPAIGNING

Lou Boedecker, who is campaign
ing on the Democratic ticket for
Railroad and Public Service Commits
sion, said this week he had cam
paigned 81 counties, one more than
Edwin Booth, candidate for Supreme
Court.
Boedecker, who has been railroad
conductor for 20 years, has the en-
dorsement of the Railroad Brother
hoods and is one of the five state
chairmen, said if he wins this cleo
ton he will represent "all the peo-
ple", and he twill net give lip service
to the freight rates and utility rates in
this state"
He plans to spend the last days of
the campaign in Western Montana.
Boedecker is one of three Demo-
Gratis running for the Public Service
Commission. The other two are Will
lard E. Fraser, Billings, and Tom
Gleason, Livingston.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25
McCalI's Accords
High Honor To
Montana Teacher

"The selection of Richard Nelson,
Flathead County High School science
teacher, as McCalls' Teacher of the
Year for the nation is high honor
to Montana" Mary M. Condor said
Monday in Helena. 81 felt sure when
| nominated Mr.. Nelson last fall that
the selection committee would be
impressed with this fine, dedicated
young teacher.
"The honorable mention for my
other nominee, Mr.. Russell Bay, Cor
wallis elementary teacher, is also most
gratifying-It is extremely unusual
for two such honors to go to the same
state at the same time.
'"This is the second year that Mon
tana teachers have been honored by
this publication. Mrs. Doris Marshall,
Helena high school dramatics teacher
whom | nominated in 1876? was run
ner-up' for the national honor that
year.
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25
Series Of AFL-CI0s
Meetings Being Held
In Various Cities

AFL-CIO state and regional Off
Gals last night began a series Of
meetings with local union groups in
five Montana cities, reports James S.
TIMBER, state AFL-CIO president.
Officials in attendance in addition
to TIMBER are Charles R. Smith, Boise,
regional AFL-CIO director, and James
J. Leary, Butte, assistant regional
director. Purpose of the meetings, ac-
cording to TIMBER, is to better ac-
quaint Smith and Leary with labor
groups in the state and to develop
greater activity in political and eco
nomic affairs on the part of Mon
tana labor.
The first meeting was held in Kali
spell last evening. Tonight the trio
are meeting with union groups in
Havre. Saturday afternoon at pm.
a similar meeting will be held in
Glasgow.
Monday, TIMBER, Smith and Leary
will talk union activity with Miles
City labor, and Tuesday the final
meeting of the series will be with
Gallatin county labor in Bozeman.
At the Glasgow meeting the posi-
bility of establishing a central trades
and labor council will be discussed.
In addition to regional and state
labor officials, it is expected that
C. Al Green, San Francisco, western
area director of the Committee on
Political Education (COPE), will also
be in attendance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25
People From
All Over Visit
State Capitol

ingval Young has been back in
the main floor rotunda of the Can
itol conducting tours of the State
House since early in April.
With the tourist season hardly
officially open MIR. Young has had
over $500 people sign his guest
book, all of whom received his in
teresting tour of the building.
In just one week 489 people saw
the Capitol guided by Mr.. Young.
In his guest book he has regis
tered people from 81 states of the
Union and Alaska and Hawaii, and
six foreign countries, including
Canada, Guatemala, England, Ice
land, India and Australia.
Last year there were 22 foreign
countries represented in the book.
That people appreciate the tour
and the lectures given by Mr..
Young is evident from the letters
he receives from people he has
taken through the building.
1t is not unusual for him to get
a letter from a school teacher
thanking him for his time and ex-
pressing their pleasure with the
tour, and on the back of the letter
will be the signatures of the chill
dren that were in the group.
Generally MIR. Young is not in
the building on week-ends, but he
will be there by appointment. He
is always willing and happy to be
there at any appointed time to con-
duct a tour.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25

united States government.
STRONG OPPOSITION
EXPECTED
1t is anticipated that strong oppo-
sition to granting the license to the
private power combine will be ex-
pressed by public power groups
throughout the Northwest. Such OPP
position will stem primarily from:
1. The proposed private develop
ment will fall far short of full de-
velopment of the power potential and
other multiple-purpos features so
desirable if the region is to secure
the greatest possible benefit from
the water resources of the Snake.
2. Power costs per kilowatt will
be excessively high as compared with
the cost per XIV if the project was
developed as a full multiple-purpose
power, irrigation and flood control
project. The lowest possible cost pow
er is mandatory, according to public
power spokesman, if the region is to
be able to compete industrially with
areas nearer to major American mar
kets. Likewise, cheap power is
''must" if the huge phosphate beds
of southwestern Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming and northern Utah are to
be transformed into fertilizer at
price low enough for farmers of the
Northwest to be able to use phos-
phate extensively.
3. Increased monopolization of
power production in the region by
private power companies threatens
the very existence of every rural
electric coop, public utility district
and municipally-owned power system
in the area. On this public power
advocates have only to cite a number
of examples, gained from bitter ex-
perience, to prove how utterly ruth
less the eastern-controlled private
power companies can be when it is to
their advantage to destroy a rural
electric or PUD.-HLB.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25

Last week the State Supreme
Court, in a Al decision said: (1) The
Montana Railroad and Public Service
Commission could change it's mind
and ~ That the Great Northern
Railroad could not arbitrarily remove
a train from service without permits
sion of the Commission.
The case has been the more i'm
portant because the constitutional
authority of the Railroad and Public
Service Commission was at stake.
1t came before the Supreme Court
following confusion arising by the
RR&PS Commission first ruling they
had no jurisdiction and then ordering
the Railroad to reinstate service that
had been discontinued. The district
court upheld the Great Northern's
claim that they didn't have to re-
instate the service, and the Commits
sion went to the high court.
The service in question involved
GIN trains Nos. 223 & 224 between
Havre and Williston, North Dakota.
The majority decision was deliv-
cred by Justice Angstman and was
signed by Chief Justice Adair and
Justices Bottomly and Anderson, with
Justice Davis dissenting.
Angstman's opinion stated:
"The erroneous ruling of the board
that it had no jurisdiction over pro-
ceedings to abandon the service so
far as it affected interstate trans
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25

Montana labor's right to collectively
bargain is destroyed?" Olsen asked.
Montana business is only as good
as the purchasing power of its work.
ers. Instead of attempting to destroy
that purchasing power we should be
devising ways and means of increas-
ing it that our entire economy may
enjoy an ever greater level of pros
perity -
He said that, if he is elected gov
ernor, he will vigorously oppose en-
actment of such legislation, will veto
it if it secures legislative approval,
and, if his veto is over-ridden, take
the issue into the courts for final de-
termination of constitutionality.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25

commence June Is and run through
the 10Th in the Junior High School
building. FPC hearing examiner
and staff will then recess the hear
ing until June FL, to resume in the
Lewis & Clark Hotel at Lewiston.
Purpose of the Pendleton-Lewiston
hearings, according to FPC, will be
to permit "the introduction of views
and evidence of non-technical ma
ture :"
After field hearings are completed,
the hearings will be recessed to July
II when the full Federal Power Com
mission will take the license applica-
ton under consideration in the FPC's
hearing room at AL G Street, Wash
ington, D. C. At the Washington
session the commission will hear ex-
pert and technical evidence for grant
ing a license to Pacific Northwest
Power, as we'll as evidence favoring
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25

Inc private power combine, Pac1flc
Northwest Power Company, which in
cludes Montana Power Co., applied
to the commission for license to go
ahead with the project on September
7, 1856.
Following publication of the appli-
cation in newspapers in the area by
FPC, the commission reports re-
Spouse which indicates a "wide-
spread public interest in the proposed
development of the Snake River"
Accordingly, the commission believes
"it is appropriate and in the public
interest in carrying out the provisions
of the Federal Power Act that hear
ing be held on the &. application"
The hearings will be held in
Pendleton, Oregon, and Lewiston,
Idaho. The Pendleton hearing will
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-25

power IN the Treasure State.
Olsen voiced his strong opposition
to such mis-named legislation in
speaking at meetings in Whitefish,
Columbia Falls and Kalispell, spon-
sored by Citizens-For-Olsen commit
tees.
"These laws" said Olsen, mot
only wreck unions, they wreck the
very economy of all citizens. In
the relatively few states where
such laws were effected, the statis-
tics show not only increased man
agement-labor strife, but general
and dangerous decline in the pur-
chasing power" of the people.
"So-called right-to-work laws are
a lie. They do not guarantee a work
er any right to work. The only God
given rights any worker has are the
right to quit job Or not to accept
a job offered. Every other right
the right to a decent living wage,
the right to decent working condi-
tions-the worker has gained through
the efforts of his union. Right-to-
work laws do not guarantee either
decent wage Or decent conditions. To
the contrary their whole aim is to
weaken and destroy both decent
wages and conditions"
"Who is going to buy the wash
ing machines, the refrigerators, the
automobiles, the television sets, from
retail business should this insiduous,
'right-to-work' proposal
become law with the result that