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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
John f. Marshall Manages
LOOMS, Sayles ONCE

John Fellows Marshall has
been appointed vice president in
charge OF the Washington ofhce
of Loonis. Sayles & Co.. invest
ment counsel firm. He formerly
was manager of the San Fran
cisco office.
Mr.. Marshall succeeds Miss
Doris Fielding Reid, who has
managed the ONCE since l943
and win continue as a consult
ant.
Richard B. Taliaferro will con-
Itinue as regional vice president
with headquarters here. M
Robert Dec. Frederick e. Howe
and Miss Florence ODonnoghue
complete the staff.
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DONALD B. HADLEY

Net income Of the Chesapeake
81 Potomac Telephone Co.
amounted to $55o.66s In No
Ivember. compared with 4s1.seo
In the same month last year, but
the company's percentage return
on plant investment was below q
year ago. reported H. H. Vogel.
vice president In charge Of the
Washington company yesterday,
Return In November was 4.66
per cent on q plant In service
amounting to $144, 289,575 on
November 80. compared with 49,
Iper cent on a listed plant valu-
alton Of $137. 505.225 on the
same 1854 date. the report added
Net income for IL months
ended November 80 was 1885,
355. compared with $5.284. 063 In
the preceding 10 months. Return
was placed at All per cent on a
plant of $144, 289. 757. compared
with 4.24 per cent on a plant OF
$137. sos. 225 q year earlier.
Nearly So Million Voted
For Plant Additions
Along with the monthly fig
ures. Mr.. Vogel announced that
directors appropriated 1892. 500
for plant additions and improve
ments Thursday. Most Of the
amount viii be spent in the first
quarter of 1856.
November operating revenues
of $4,574.394 were up $240. 25s
from the same 1854 month. and
operating expenses Of $S.l64.673
were $183.844 higher.
Operating revenues for IL
months totaled $54.145.737, q
gain of $4.065.251. while operat-
ing expenses of $37. 450.024 were
81. 387. 1892 above q year earlier.
November dividends to the
parent American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. totaled $525, 00C
VS.. 100000 a year earlier. For
IL months the total was $5,10S.-
1893 VS.. $4,000. 900.
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indianapolis Mayor
To Oppose Utilities

Mayor Alex NJ. Clark Of In
dianapolis completed his term
last night and announced he Is
coming to Washington to head
the Joint Committee Of Con-
|sumers and Small Gas Producers.
He said this group viii opposed
q group Of Eastern utilities seek
ing to "perpetuate direct govern
Iment price, fixing Of natural gas
at the producer level"
Washington counsel for the
Northwest ProSpectors' Associa-
ton will be Steward r. Carter.
jr. The NPA advocates initia-
ton by the Atomic Energy Com
mission Of q buying program for
IuraniferouS Ignite,
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'1 s BUSINESS
Phone Earnings 7 oplo54,
But Yield on Plant Loqs

the Philadelphia Baltimore Stock
Exchange. Garfinckel common
closed the week at 28H. COM
pared with 273z q week ago. and
Peoples Drug advanced to- "a
from 33lz. Hecht common de-
clined to 3SIa from 34ia.
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N. Y. BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK. Dec. so tP,.--The follow
ing table. compiled By the NATIONAL
Association Securities Dealers. Inc,
gives the high, low and last bid price In
1855 of the leading bank. trust and
Evening star., 1956-12-21
|BoIk by Alabama E|ector
May Spur Reform Drive
By J. A. OLEARY

The action Of Alabama eector refusing his
vote Ada Stevenson Monday may new drive in
the 85h Congress to do with the Electoral College
Senator Humphrey Democrat of Minnesota today will
reinroduce next month the election reform resolution
sponsored at the last session It probable other
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gomery, although Mr.. Stevenson
had carried the State.
This is the second time in re-
cent years that an elector has
exercised his independent judg-
ment. In 1948 former President
Truman carried Tennessee, but
lone Tennessee elector gave his
vote to Senator Strom Thur
mond of South Carolina, the
States Rights Presidential can
didate.
System Long Obsolete
The original idea of the found
ing fathers was that the Elec-
toral College would meet as a
body of senior statesmen and
choose an outstanding citizen to
be President. But Senator
Humphrey points out that by
1900. while the men who wrote
the Constitution were still alive,
the intent of the Electoral Col
lege system had been rendered
obsolete with the development
of political parties.
In actual practice the electors
have become mere rubber stamps,
who 60 on the ballot pledged to
their party candidate, and who
are expected merely to register
the outcome of the popular vote
in their respective States.
These two recent isolated cases
OF rugged individualism in the
Electoral College have had no
effect on the outcome of the
elections. But they have caused
thoughtful men to speculate on
what might happen if the prac-
tice should spread, particularly
in a close election.
Humphrey Proposal
Senator Humphrey said he will
reintroduce his proposed con-
stitutional amendment, which
would:
/. Abolish the Electoral Col
lege and the electors, as such.
Q. Retain the 531 electoral
votes. representing the total
membership of the House and
Senate.
3. The equal representation
the States are guaranteed in the
Senate would be retained by as
signing two electoral votes to
each State. These two electoral
votes would go to the presiden-
tial candidate winning a plur-
atty of the popular votes in each
State.
4. The remaining ABS electoral
votes would be divided between
the presidential candidates in
proportion to the percentage of
popular votes received by each
candidate on Nationwide basis.
After the November election
each State would merely certify
its returns to Washington.
This would not only eliminate
the electors and their chance to
upset a States expressed pref
erence, but also bring the dis
tribution of most of the electoral
votes into line with the actual
division of the popular vote.
Some Of the other resolutions
considered in recent years have
sought only to get rid of the
present winner-take-all system
Of awarding the entire electoral
vote of a State to the candidate
who comes out on top, no mat
ter how small his margin.
Evening star., 1956-12-21

48 States Monday to ratify the
results of the November ballot
ing. w. F. Turner. one of the
Alabama electors, insisted on
casting his vote for Circuit
Judge Walter B. Jones of Mont
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both houses will revive a variety
of other remedies.
The Minnesota Dem ocra t
agreed that what happened in
Alabama on December II shows
an "overhauling Of the Electoral
College system is long overdue. "
When the electors met in the
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Boy Steals Pony Here,
Rides 3 Miles in Traffic

A 13-year-old boy who dis
appeared from his Woodbridge
(Va) home on Friday turned up
in Arlington yesterday. stole a
pet pony and rode him three
miles through heavy traffic to
the Two Jima Statue.
Today juvenile Court Judge
Hugh Reid ordered that the boy
remain in the Juvenile Shelter
pending further investigation by
the court staff.
The 24-year-old Shetland pony
is owned by Richard Hagan, the
l3-year-old son Of Attorney j.
Foster Hagan. Of 1890 North
Buchanan street.
Mr.. Hagan said he learned
that the pony had been stolen
after the family returned home
last night from a visit in Mary
land. Police quickly traced the
boy and pony down Wilson bou-
levard, along North Tenth street,
then to Arlington boulevard and
the statue.
The boy said in court that he
Evening star., 1956-07-30

Mr.. Pyle's comments on future
study Of Burke were prompted by
reporters questions about what
further consideration CAA pro-
posed to give the matter. CAA's
request for funds at the recent
session of Congress was not
granted, pending further study
by Senate subcommittee.
Mr.. Pyle said CAA had no OBJ
lection to further study, but he
knew Of no new angle that CAA
could explore.
The number two CAA officer
declared that his agency thought
Andrews Air Force Base would
make an excellent" commercial
airport if military operations
were moved elsewhere, but would
oppose Joint commercial-military
use Of the field. He said the mat
ter Of moving the military out
of Andrews was something for
the military to decide, and could
not be decided by CAA.
Mr.. Pyle said Washington
National Airport definitely" was
not a death trap as some air.
men have called it, but acknowl-
edged that the busy airfield
rapidly was approaching its
capacity. He said CAA would
Evening star., 1956-07-30
House Unit to Compare
Friendship, National

Facilities at Baltimore
Friendship International Airport
will be compared by a group of
Congressman morrow with
those at Washington National
Airport.
A House Interstate and For
eign Commerce subcommittee,
investigating air traffic control,
will inspect the Baltimore facil-
ity. Representative Friedel,
Democrat of Maryland. invited
the subcommittee to make the
trip as part of efforts by Mary
lands congressional delegation
to have Friendship designated a
CO terminal with Washington
National.
Mr.. Friedel said the Subcom-
mittee will fly to Friendship
from Washington. After lunch,
the members will drive back,
comparing the time the trip
takes with the time needed to
drive into Washington from
Burke Va.
Evening star., 1956-07-30

south on Georgia avenue when
his car veered off the roadway
at $3.50 am. near Windham lane
in Wheaton.
Police said the victim had suf-
fered previously from q heart
condition.
Besides his widow, he is sur
vived by two children, Deborah,
3, and Richard, 2.
Mr.. Gravely's car struck the
rear of one driven by Mrs. Molly
"A. Kristen. SIS, of 1927 Whittier
place NV, about $40 pm, on
Maryland Route 4 at the Prince
Georges-Anne Arundel County
line. two miles west of Drury,
Md
Mr.. Gravely was dead when
Mrs. Kristen stopped and went
back to his car.
Mr.. Gravely is survived BY his
widow, Mrs. Lillian A. Gravely;
a son, John F. Gravely, jr.: a
daughter, Mrs. Virginia Carr,
and three grandchildren, all of
College Park.
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Board Grants Permit
For Aspen KnoIIs Pool

The Montgomery County Board
of Appeals announced today it
has granted a special use permit
to the Wheaton Woods SWIM
ming Pool Corp, for construction
of a community pool on a four
acre tract at the end of Land
green street in the Aspen KnollS
subdivision.
Hearings on the pool permit
application were held on May
% and July IA. Several home
owners in the neighborhood sur
rounding the pool site protested
the application and further op-
position was recorded from the
Wheaton Woods Citizens AsSoci-
alton, a recently organized group.
John w. Neumann, attorney
for the pool corporation, said the
appeals board stipulated that the
swimming group offer proof of
its ability to finance pool costs
up to $4,000. Project plans call
for a pool 80 feet long and AZ
Evening star., 1956-07-30

and arrange to lease the mansion
for classes until permanent
buildings are constructed.
The two sites mentioned most
prominently before today are the
Ravensworth Farm near AMMAN
dale, where owners have offered
rs acres free plus SGT GOO for
construction provided the county
makes certain sewer improve
ments, and the Bowman property
near Herndon, where $50 acres
plus 100000 has been offered.
Selection of the site currently
is pending before a three-man
committee appointed by the
Board of Visitors of the Univer-
sity of Virginia. The committee
is headed by Federal Judge Al
bert v. Bryan of Alexandria
Other members are Henry Nc
Wane of Lynchburg and Doweil
Howard, State superintendent of
public instruction.
Other members of Mr.. Alden's
group are French Trammell and
o. L. Brandenburger.
Evening star., 1956-07-30

County Announces
Registration Dates

Voter registrations for the fall
election in Prince Georges
County will be taken from Au-
gust Z through September %
Election Board personnel will
be at the Hyattsville County
Building from 6 to 9 pm. each
Tuesday and Friday beginning
August Z. The Boards Office in
the Upper Marlboro Courthouse
will open Monday through Fri
day and September % from $3.50
am. to 4 pm.
A Countrywide registration
day will be held September II
from 9 am. to 9 pm. at the
regular polling places in the 81
precincts.
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Maryland Traffic Deaths
Blamed on Heart Attacks

Heart attacks were believed re-
sponsible for the deaths of two
Maryland motorists in traffic
crashes yesterday and today.
One victim was Richard M
Perez, 26. housepainter who
lived at Rockville. He was pro-
nounced dead after his car
Swerved into a telephone pole at
Wheaton at $3.50 am. today.
The other was John Franklin
Gravely. 81, of 5002 Cree lane,
College Park, manager of the Fish
Laundry in Baltimore. He was
found dead in his wrecked car
yesterday after it crashed into
the rear of another car and ran
up an embankment near Drury,
Md.
Police said they believed both
men died of heart attacks. Au-
topsies were scheduled in both
cases today to fix the cause of
their deaths.
Mr.. Perez, who lived at 12506
Rosebud drive, was travelling
Evening star., 1956-07-30
All Clubs Will Meet
On MurYlund Campus

About 1900 Maryland boys and
girls are due to arrive on the
University Of Maryland campus
next Monday for the start Of
the saith annual State All Club
week.
Theme Of the program. which
continues through August 10,
will be Live Today and Build
for Tomorrow"
Evening star., 1956-07-30

CenClOH because IL was not IOT
sale.
A group of Mclean residents
yesterday conferred with Col.
Rudolph G. Seeley, manager of
the estate and son-in-law of the
Ulfelders, and announced later
that the property could be
bought for $2,500 an acre for the
University and the proposed new
Fairfax Hospital.
Robert A. Alden, spokesman
for the Mclean group, said the
property was available for the
university site, the hospital or
both, but not for sale to the
public.
Maplewood is on both sides of
Route 123 between Route Z and
Mclean.
The 500-acre estate includes
367 acres on one side Of the road
and about 140 acres on the other.
On the larger parcel is a 24-room
mansion, which is not included
in the $4,000 per acre sale offer.
Mr.. Alden said he believed the
university could buy property
around the mansion, however,
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Moose Plan Feast

A pit barbecue will be spon-
sored by two Moose chapters
from 2 to 6 pm. August IL on
the grounds of the Takoma Park
American Legion Post. opposite
High Point High School in Prince
Georges County. The co-sponsorS
are Columbia Lodge No. 126 of
Washington and Wheaton Lodge
No. IT'S.
Evening star., 1956-07-30

Bill" I said, at looks as
though the university has joined
the atomic league"
In From the Start
"You are all wrong there, -
was his reply. THE University of
Virginia was in the atomic
league from the very start. Dean
j. w Beams was on the original
committee under Vannevar Bush
which started the work that led
to the bomb"
I was disappointed that DR..
Beams was unable to tell me the
story of the wartime work on the
bomb at the university. He said
that it was still classified and
that all he would be able to tell
me was in the Smyth report on
the history of the bomb pub
lished after the war.
From the Smyth report and
from other atomic scientists I
later learned the basic story.
The first problem in making the
bomb was to find the best way
of separating the radioactive
isotope of uranium, U-235, which
is present in natural uranium in
the proportion of l to 12O. Work
on several methods was going
on simultaneously in laboratories
in various parts of the country
against a target date when the
committee was to select the best
one and go all out on that.
At the University of Virginia
the centrifuge was used. Harold
Urey, the developer of "heavy
water" worked with DR.. Beams
on it. Mr.. Urey suggested tall
cylindrical centrifuge which was
used successfully.
In the end an electro-mag-
netic method was chosen but in
the meantime Enrico Fermi had
built the first atomic pile under
the seats Of Stagg Stadium in
Chicago and was breeding"
plutonium-U-239, an. artificial
isotope.
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Silver Spring Rotary
Will Hear MetcuIfe

John C. Metcalfe, Washington
news analyst and a commentator
for radio station WGAY, will ad-
dress the Silver Spring Rotary
Club at its luncheon meeting
at noon Wednesday at Villa Rosa
Restaurant.
His subject will be Where Is
Germany Heading?"-a review
of his recent trip through
Europe during which he inter-
viewed leading statesmen for q
series of broadcasts.
Evening star., 1956-07-30

left home on his sisters bicycle,
rode a short distance and then
caught a bus.
The boys mother told Judge
Reid that the family had lived
in Arlington several years ago
The boy said he remembered the
pony from that time.
According to the mother, the
boy ran away several weeks ago
and got as far as Richmond.
Evening star., 1956-07-30

feet wide. a wading pool and q
parking space for 120 cars or
more.
Directors Of the pool group will
meet tomorrow night to deter
mine a date for the beginning Of
construction.
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Volcano Erupts

KAGOSHIMA, Japan, July 80
P).-Sakurajima Volcano, rum
bling and spouting smoke, erupt-
ed twice today. showering ashes
on KagoShima. No damage was
reported. The big mountain is
near the southern tip of Japan.
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Amvet Worker Cited

RICHMOND, Va, July 80 (A9.
Mrs. Marie Jordan of Chester
field County was honored today
as woman of the year" by the
ladies auxiliary of the Virginia
Department of Amvets for her
work among veterans at Mcclure
Veterans Administration Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Top Maryland,
ID. {. Students
Workshop Set

Nearly 100 high school student
leaders from Maryland and the
District will attend a week -long
leadership workshop at Church,
ton, Md, from August 26 through
81.
Most of the youngsters are
presidents of student councils at
their high schools.
Purpose of the workshop,
which is being sponsored by the
Maryland Association of Student
Councils. is to train the student
leaders for their council positions
and to discuss organization and
lobjectives of student councils.
First Such Event
Felix Simon, counselor at
Bladensburg Senior High and
executive secretary of the spon-
Soring association, said this will
be the first time such workshop
has been held in Maryland.
Site of the workshop will be
the Methodist Camp on North
River in Anne Arundel County.
Mr.. Simon is in charge of
the workshop. He will be as
sisted by Gerald M. Van Pool
director of student activities of
the National Association of Stu
dent Councils, and Ira Rogers of
the Automobile Safety Founda-
ton.
Speakers Scheduled
Educators scheduled to lead
discussion periods are William
H. Babylon of Clearsprings High
School. Charles Benson of Spar
rows Point High, Mrs. Mary F.
Cage of Brunswick High, Mrs.
Jane Guyton of Boonsboro High
and Mrs. Ruth M. Thorne of
North Point Junior High.
The Student leaders who will
assist the adult leaders are Rom
ME Fox Of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Bette Haney of BrynI
Mawr, James johnson of the
University of Maryland, Karen
j. Kenerick of Duke University.
Ronald Monark of Bladensburg
High School, Marcia Paper of
American University and Richard
Preston of Cornell University.
Evening star., 1956-07-30
University Of Virginio
To Build Atom Reoctor
BY GEORGE KENNEDY
star stan Correspondent

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, July 3O-The University of vir-
gnia of the pioneers in atomic research staying in the
forefront with construction of $500OO0
Within few the university will turning
and doctors of nuclear engineering.
Many exciting scientific experiments going behind the
Evening star., 1956-07-30
Ex-Home of Wilson Nav
House u. of Va. Branch

Maplewood Estate summer home of President Woodrow
wilson, became an active competitor for the Virginia
Branch OF the University of Virginia today
pressed a willingness to SELL
The estate owned by Dr. and Mrs Sidney Ufelder
mentioned previously as possible ste but given little
Evening star., 1956-07-30
CAA to Resubmit Plea
For Burke Airport Fund
machine.-Star Staff Photo.

The Civil Aeronautcs Administration request
for funds build Burke Airport the Congress
Deputy Administrator James T. Pyle said yesterday.
"The Burke proposal has been studied
thing to do is get with it."
He guest the WTOP televison program City Side
Evening star., 1956-07-30

not permit National to operate
above capacity.
Evening star., 1956-07-30

Specialization Necessary
This forces specialization. For
instance, a man might do we'll
to plan his career on just one
aspect Of control of radiation.
The faculty Of the engineering
school takes great pride in the
institution. 1t dates, they feel,
from Jefferson, whom they ad-
mire as an engineer. 1t became
a separate school in 1886. (The
university was started, largely by
Jefferson, in 1919. but they are
proudest of William Barton
Rogers. who as professor Of
natural philosophy-physics-
the university had much to do
with the education of young
engineers and who went to Bos-
ton where he founded the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy in the opening year of the
Civil War. Here at the univer-
sity. they jokingly refer to NIT
as the northern branch).
1t was sunny and warm as !
left the School of Engineering
with my guide. Bill Wranek, who
has been doing public relations
work for the university since
1923. The air was filled with the
deep perfume of the English box
wood bushes baking in the sun.
The umbrella-like mimosa trees
we're in bloom and, due to the
heat, the ivy had paused in
climbing the brick serpentine
garden walls which Jefferson
designed.
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