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$12.950

Clinton area; the loveliest
stone bungalow on over N
acre; house arranged with liv.
I'm, kit, 9 bedrms bath:
stairway to expsndable attic:
small down payment, balance
IN one trust. Ewes. call 10.
6-476a,
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PORCH 10x22

Immac. s-bedrm. brick rambler
with lse. liv. rm. dining IL"
paneled and rlass-encl. porch, pull
down stairway: many bulletins. no
bsmt., 90 steDs: lEe. fenced lot. OIL.
S67b down, Ss4 mo. Call 10. b-2sn0,
HUdG1Ns & HARRISON. INC,
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DEWEY M. FREEMAN

70 hL TOTO. S-TfUU, 10. N-45b.
Mr.. RIGGS RD.-s12,5O0
OF. $3.50 down. Modern, detached
brick and shinele home on large
lot; lovely rooms, newly redec-
GRATED and vacant; 30-year loan
avail can I'll q pm
Hugh T. Peck HE. 4-6400
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HUNTINGTON-G
Sin 05n

$3.50 below VA appraisal Vacant.
Brick, semidet. Immaculate condi-
ton; full bsmt., rec. rm., auto
washer. .liv. rm.. din. area. beautf-
full kitchen, bedrms.. tile bath.
Venetian blinds. gas heat: Anchor
fenced yard: SO down TO qualified
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GOOD NEIGHBORS

More for your money In the
suburbs. 2 bedrooms, q liV-
tng room you will have to SEQ
10 appreciate Full basement.
S2O,h00. Ewes, call Oh.
2-3g6l.
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DOLLHOUSE

This tiny clapboard home
nestleE under maenthcent
magnoliA. The 3ia rooms have
charm. individuality and 2
fireplaces. In excellent eondi-
ton IN q close-in community.
Priced a. $4,000. Ewes,
OIL, 4-4T91.
Walker & Dunlop, Inc.
Uptown once. EN-. 2-67Is
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Sl2,OOO--FHA

S7O65 NO. INCL. TAX. ms.
Brick, near neN Bladensburg High
5 spacious rms. f1repl. roomy heated
Rsm; oct; garage; J. VICTOR
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KING-SIZED VALUE

HAVEN SUBDIVISION
NEAR PT. BEIVOIR
xi.20D down OF. $3.50
down FILA. A real dream cot
tage with . bedrms., living
rm with fireplace. dining rm.
area and equipped kitchen;
garage: u acre ground; lovely
flowers, shrubs and garden
space. Mon4hiY payments ap-
prox. SIS. Listing No. 646-R.
TIE 6-7244 TIE. 6-7344
AL Baker & Son, Inc.
SOS N. washington St. Alex. Va.
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SMALL ESTATE

Country life with every modern
facility. Brick rambler; 5 bed
rms, " baths, paneled rumpus
room on Grade. screened breeze
way, sarage: pony barn; fenced
Just finished. ready to move in.
Located in Meadowood.
Visit Robert II I.nhr Homes
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ONLY $3.50

Well-built, 3-beorm. house: ami
nice yard and garden space. OWNER,
Central s-J6n6. 10
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WHEATON,
4 NEW LIaTINGa


GLENMONT-Immac.: 8 bedrms..
full bsnt.; fenced yard. Only S13.-
600 GI.
CONN. GARDENs-Nearly new 3
bedrm. brick; full bsmt Assume
lge, GI loan. Nj. 81. GATHERINGS,
S16.950.
MONTEREY VILLAGE-Someth
for the discriminating buyer. 3 bed
rm. brick rambler; 1 "a baths. rec.
rm.; exceptional in every way. ST.
$50 OF.
CONN. GARDENS - Opposite 81.
GATHERINGS. Ideal for doctor or
dentist. 3-bedrm. brick: hrepl., day
light bsmt. Excel. financing. ST.
500.
To see these and others. call Q
to 8.
sIGLER a. CO. 10. 1883
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FoRREsTvILLE BRICK CAPE COD
approx. Ss5 mo, incl. taxes and in
kurance to qualified vet, Lee. hv.
rm., sep. din. rm.. equip. kit. 3 bed
rms. bath; full bsmt., lse. lot (T5x
1907. newly redecorated. Cow. to
handy REALTY CO.
RE. 6-75il Ewes. 10, s-5464
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BELL. REALTY co

5I5 wythe St. Alex, Va.
XII. s-ls8s Realtors Till 9
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LARGE MULTIPLICATION
Near langley Park area, Detached
brick, about 2 yrs, old oversize
full bath on each door, Porch,
basement and garage. q blocks TO
Our Lady Of Sorrows School We'll
under original cost. Call Mr.. Clark,
"n MARSHALL J, wAPLE CO.
1874 l4th st. NV AID 4-200o
LANGLEY PARK RAMBLER
Si3 500; WILL 60 Gi
$ BEDRMs. oE ELEC: XII
HUGH +. PECK. HE. &-6400
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$12,950

Close to Andrews Field, q
beauty This lovely home has
nice liv. rm,. din. rm.. kit.
. bedrms, large bath, stair
way to partislly finished
attic: iarRe fenced yard reas.
down payment. Ewes. call 10.
S-416a.
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New Hampshire Gardens

Delishtiul 4-year-old brick ram
bier: near University lane: spacious
rooms, fireplace, master bedroom and
Il bath, level lot. Owner leaving
area.
HUGH n pack uE A-gdnn
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BRICK CAPE COD

ou1Sh OA1 T. SOO
$13,950-GI
y os9 Helog aDp Ids.d !, prise ,,t for
WIN sacrifice. blks. of o. S. ]
highway, the Mt, Vernon High
School; Il acre land. 14xl4 kitch-
en-. range, refgr., auto. washer.
cleo. drier. separate din. rm.. liv.
rm. with firepl., util. rm with y
bath on LIST f.: 2 bedrms.. TIE
bath, End A.: storm windows,
eonyent,on w b sSssps Ki sisss
HIIAITIMCTO CT
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WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER VERY
DESIRABLE 4-BEDRM. HOMES,
Poplar 2-9442 Poplar 2-9443
Ewes. Gail Mrs.. Riley. Pc. a-44ol
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TAKE YOUR PICK
81 Q50

Located in Brsndygine. this
beautiful white home has liV.
rm, extra large fully equip
ped kit large Level shaded
lot 2 bedrms.. bath; small
down payment. Ewes. cali RE.
6-S543.
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HOUSES FoR sALE-MD.

PARK-GI 500 down,
Immaculate corner brick nome; 6
LARGE rooms plus breakfast rm.:
city. HUGH T. PECK. He. 4-e4OO.
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Not Our Responsibility

The belated effort to make the District
share in the cost of maintaining the new
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge at
Alexandria is surprising and disturbing.
The act authorizing the bridge provided
Tor the maintenance and operating costs
to be split between Maryland and Vir-
ginia. The District was not included for
the very good reason that the new bridge
is wholly outside District territory-ex-
cept for short stretch of water under
one part of the structure.
The bridge itself is. to be financed by
the Federal Government. The District
has agreed, however, to assume its full
share OF the task of building adequate
approaches, and will spend about $40
million on extension of the AnacoStia
Freeway to the bridge. Maryland and
Virginia have said they would take care
of approaches on their own territory. To
attempt now to make the District assume
IN addition third of the cost of MAIN
tanning and operating a bridge which is
largely for the benefit of traffic between
Maryland and Virginia is unjustified and
apt to delay construction of the span.
The Commissioners are on sound ground
in vigorously opposing the plan.
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Eisenhower Convert

James Caesar Petrillo, president of
the American Federation of Musicians,
is lifelong Democrat who voted for Adlai
Stevenson in 1852. Now it looks as though
this unpredictable gentleman is about to
switch his political allegiance
Addressing his union at Atlantic City
this week. he was unStinted in his praise
Of President Eisenhower Not only did
hepredict that Mr. Eisenhower would be
reelected; he went on to say that IF
we ever had friend in the White House,
We have one now" Mr.. Petrillo also had
some kind words to say about Secretary
of Labor Mitchell, stating that he hoped
that Mr.. Eisenhower, if reelected, would
keep Mr.. Mitchell in his Cabinet post
Mr.. Petrillo does not speak, of course,
for all of labor'S leaders. Most of them
who take position in the forthcoming
election probably will support the Demo-
cratic candidate. But it is a fair guess
that the Petrillo views are shared by
substantial number of union members,
whose votes the Republicans hope to cor
raj when November rolls around.
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To Save Our Rivers

OF the two antipollution bills which
have gone to conference, the House
measure would provide for a more
realistic and effective attack on the grow
Ing problem of river contamination. It
would enable the Federal Government
not only to give much-needed leadership
to what has become national save-our-
water-resources movement but also to
give substantial financial aid to local
cleanup programs We hope that the
grant-in-aid provisions of the House
version will be retained in the legislation
finally approved by Congress.
The proposed grants of Federal
money to local authorities for sewage
treatment plants would be unprecedented,
1t is true. But the rapid increase in
recent years of sewage pollution in the
Nations rivers, including notably the
Potomac, has brought unprecedented
health hazards that call for extraordinary
measures. Many States and cities, like
those in the Potomac River Basin, have
spent millions Of dollars on sewage dis
posal and treatment facilities, but these
have not kept pace with the growth of
population and the mushrooming needs
Tor expanded and improved plants.
The Federal-loan provision of the
1948 Water Pollution Control Act has
proved totally ineffective as a stimulus to
local action. The Senate bill would
authorize Federal grants for planning
antipollution programs, but not for any
construction. But nothing short of out
right Federal construction grants, to be
matched by States and cities, is likely to
produce the sort of aggressive, Statewide
action that is required if the serious
pollution problem is ever to be licked.
The House (Blatnik) bill would make
available $50 million year for 10 years
as the Federal contribution toward solu-
ton of a problem that is nationally
critical. The time has come to meet this
problem with combined Federal-State-
city attack that will save our rivers and
streams from further degradation.
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Spirited Imagination

Nikita khrushchev told Stalingrad
audience the other day that the Russians
will not ask the capitalists for help be-
cause IF you give them a finger they'll
bite off your hand" This comment is
evidence of significant timidity on the
part of the Soviet leadership. 1t is pos
Sible, in fact, that Mr.. Khrushchev may
later acknowledge his error as contrary
to sound Communist doctrine and mis-
leading in its appraisal of the strength of
the bulls and bears that inhabit the
Western capitalist world. Indeed, if Mr..
Khrushchev had been listening atten-
lively to Radio Moscow he would have
learned that in faraway Khabarovsk, a
community in one of Russia's Far Eastern
provinces, Comrade Pistoyev, president of
the local geographic society, recently
caught two man-eating tigers with his
bare hands. In Khabarovsk they drink
firewater called "spereet" -reportedly
twice as strong as vodka. Either Mr..
Khrushchev should drink more "spereet"
or Comrade Pistoyev should drink less
before they succumb to further hallucina-
tons about the animal kingdom.
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Yemen Moves On-Stoqe

The little kingdom of Yemen has
moved on-stage in the play Of big power
politics. It's Crown Prince Saif, who serves
also as Vice Premier and Foreign Min
lister of the small Arab state, is spending
three weeks in the Soviet Union-on
mission to strengthen the peace and CO.
operation" between the two countries.
The visit and its accompanying homage
to the young Prince are, Of course, part of
the Soviet campaign to subvert the Arab
Middle EaSt-a campaign which appears
to have made material progress in the
past year.
BY itself, Yemen--a primitive strong
hold of the ISlamic world-offers nothing
In terms of military strength There is
only suspicion that the tiny noun
famous corner of the Arabian peninsula
may contain oil, and the exploratory con-
cesSion is held by American interests. 1t
does, however, stand in a potentially
strategic position at the southern end of
the Red Sea, adjoining both Saudi Arabia
and the Crown Colony of Aden--where
British rule currently is being questioned.
1t is joined in a military alliance with
Egypt and Saudi Arabia as part of the
Arab bloc violently opposed to the West
ern-sponSored Baghdad pact. Thus, 1t
was not surprising that Russian greetings
to the Prince emphasized Soviet sym
pathy with Arab nationalism while refer
ring scornfully to Western colonialism.
In the near future, the new Soviet
Foreign Minister, Dmitri Shepilov, is due
to visit Cairo and a series of further ex-
changes between the Soviet Union and
the Egyptian-led Arab group is expected
during the remainder of the year. The
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Likes Our Lines

May I congratulate you on
the design of your new build
ing? After your editorial on
the Air Force Academy, i was
afraid your architects might
be enjoined to turn out another
old State Department Build
ing - instead of which the
famed team of Faulkner,
Kingsbury & Stenhouse come
up with a fine clean design
which will do credit to you,
even if your editorialist re-
sponsible for that Air Force
Academy sermon must be
whirling in his nonfunctional
grave.
/ fervently hope that you will
turn over the selection of in
terror treatments to this same
architectural team. Only by so
doing will you end up with a
completely consistent whole, in
which exterior and interior ex-
press the same design idiom.
Further. may I congratulate
you on your choice of site?
This will do a great deal to lead
other stable firms to relocate
in the new Southeast area.
On the whole. as you must
have guessed, I'm most pleased
to see your new building plans,
modern, clean lined, and
simple. May wish you all the
best?
Robert r. Allen.
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on record was 1883 when there
were 81 such storms. In 1890
there was only one. On the
average, however, not more
than two strike the continental
United States.
In 40 years, however, these
have caused a property loss
of more than So billion, quite
aside from the loss Of life.
The average loss per year ex-
ceeds $40 million.
The energy Of such .
storm is almost incalculable.
Winds of more than $50 miles
an hour have been measured.
There is one instance Of an
neutrality-suspicious. gust. It has
been estimated that in one
minute the energy released
by a single hurricane is greater
than that produced by all the
electric power plants in the
United States in so years.
The storm moves forward
at an average speed Of about IL
miles an hour but in one case
the 1888 hurricane as it
swept through New England
a rate of Sc miles an hour was
recorded. There is considerable
variation in the area of
destructive winds. The width
of this area may be as small
as rs miles but in some Of the
great hurricanes there has
been q path 500 miles wide.
Waves Take Big Toll
Past records show that more
than three-fourths of all loss
of life in hurricanes has been
caused by storm waves, the
sweeping Of ocean water over
the shore. Tides 10 to is
feet above normal have been
recorded during some of the
larger storms.
Actually, there is little any
body can do about a hurricane.
per Sc. The sweep is alto
gether too great for any hui
man device to stop, or even
slow down. The Weather Blu
reau has received many sug-
geStions that such a storm
might be broken up by drop
ping a hydrogen bomb in it's
center. Calculations show
that this might do some good
if the storm could be detected
at the very beginning. Once
it has gathered force dozens
of such bombs hardly would
make a dent in it. They
might, in fact. intensity it.
knowledge of the natural
controls on the path OF a
hurricane is very slight. In
the early stages, while it is
still a small vortex, the storm
tends to drift with the at
moSpheric current in which
1t is embedded. After it has
expanded over a large area,
however. the intersection with
the environment become very
complex as great masses are
drawn into it. Nobody knows
what effect a bomb would
have on the environmental
build-up.
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Lobor's TARGET

While news reports of the
current labor convention in
dictate that all seven Democrat
congressional candidates from
Maryland will be able to count
on the enthusiastic support Of
the bosses Of organized labor
in the coming campaign, Re-
publican Senator John Mar
shall Butler appears to be their
particular target for defeat.
In addition to the usual no.
issue tactics Of trying to cook
a candidates goose with oil,
gas and Senator Mccarthy.
Hugh Mullin, regional director
Of the CIO-AFL's political
education" committee, charged
that Senator Butler hasn't
voted right" even by mistake.
Probably, however. what the
labor bosses are really mad
about is that Senator Buffers
record shows that he never
votes left"
Lila ID. SOnnemann.
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In Appreciation

On behalf Of the Health
School Visitation Instruction
PTA. I would like to express
our sincere appreciation for
your support during our eff
fort to have the new Health
School for Crippled Children
located at the Upshur street
site.
Although faced with what
appeared to be an impossible
task. the aid of your paper
through its fine editorial staff
and excellent reporters, in pre-
senting our problem to the
public. contributed a great
public service which resulted
in our final success.
William A. Rich,
President, Health School
Visiting Instruction Parent
Teacher Association.
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WSTAS IN SCIENCE
By THOMAS R. HENRY
a Three-Pronged Attack on Hurricanes

Weather Bureau, Air Corps
and Navy are cooperating in
an about attack on a destruc-
tive force thousands of times
greater than that of the n.y.
drogen bomb-the West In
dian hurricane.
They now have launched the
National Hurricane Research
Project with a network of about
30 stations-17 already in
operation-in the West Indies
and Florida. 1t is planned to
diSsect, cubic mile by cubic
mile, the coSnic monster which
cuts swathes of ruin over
thousands of miles late every
summer.
The immediate practical
goal is a greatly improved
forecasting service. More sig
nif1cant is the long-range OBJ
jective of a complete under
standing of the titanic mass of
wind whirling around a quiet
center--the eye-which arises
suddenly and often without
detection over the ocean and
builds up rapidly into about
the most devastating force
known on earth.
Early Detection Possible
The network of stations. it
is expected. will make it pos
sible to detect the storms
about at their start, follow
them mile by mile, and get a
complete picture of the mech
anisms and rate of their
build-up. Beyond this is the
microscopic dissection. Three
planes have been assigned by
the Air Force to this job. All
will be equipped with special
meteorological instruments, re-
cording systems and automatic
navigational equipment. Their
job will be to fly around the
moving storm at three levels
10000, 10000 and 10000 feet
TO record the changing char
acteristics with altitude.
Approximately four rockets
will be launched into the CEN
ter of hurricanes, each carry
ing two moving-picture cam
eras. The object is to photo
graph the complete cloud sys-
tenn of the storm and its i'm
mediate environment.
Weather conditions over the
hurricane area will be analysed
daily.
Hurricanes form over all
tropical oceans except the
South Atlantic. Those which
hit the United States originate
in two principal regions-one
near the Cape Verde Islands
of the western coast of Africa
and the other the Caribbean
Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
They are most likely to occur
in August. September and
october and the average life
is about nine days. For the
past 20 years there has been
an average of eight such
storms each year. For the past
20 years there has been an
average of ten. The worst year
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Presidents Operation

In one paragraph, Doris
Fleeson, in her column of June
IL. manages to epitomize her
lack of objectivity:
THE Presidents doctors"
she says g. indicate now,
as before. that somehow, in
some way not clear to laymen,
the President is better than
he was. The fact that the
American people have not al
together swallowed this as
sumption is proved by the
flood of 'heart-disease-is-good-
for-you' jokes that are going
around the country"
Perhaps Miss Fleeson can
understand this simple ex-
PLANTATION of the Presidents
condition: He had a chronic
disorder. 1t has virtually been
eliminated. He is healthier for
it.
AS for the flood of heart
disease Jokes. Miss Fleeson
must get around, because these
Jokes aren't flooding Wash
ington.
J. Russell DOpke.
Because it is practically i'm
possible to decline invitations
from certain groups, we have
an i'll President at a crucial
time for our country.
Perhaps had Mr.. Eisenhower
not dined out the night he was
taken i'll and had enjoyed a
quiet meal at the White
House, he would not have been
stricken.
It's getting so that many in
fluential groups find it impos-
sible to eat without insisting
the President join them. Why
don't we Just kill OF our ma
tional officials early. like the
Russians do, instead Of killing
them by inches at banquetS
that cannot be refused?
H. B. Niece.
= 4
AS soldier and statesman,
President Eisenhower has CIV
en- his country a lifelong serv-
ice: from his youth in uniform
at West Point, to his old age
in multi, as President. Yet his
people. foe and friend. COM
rade and rival, have goaded
him to work and work yet
more.
President Eisenhower has
earned rest and quietude. and
We should let him have it at
once before it is too late.
George Washington set an
example in his retirement from
a long service in war and
peace. He had earned and a
grateful country let him enjoy
an honorable surcease from
toll and anxiety. Let us now
free Mr.. Eisenhower from the
furies of responsibility and
factional strife. to live out his
life in ease and dignity.
Charles Stevens Partridge.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

know about them. when it
comes to bird nests, for the
creatures make their construc-
tons today just as they did
10000 centuries ago.
+ +
The Baltimore oriole, true
beauty, builds her nest-she
is the sole builder-at the
very tip Of q branch.
She makes it q hanging af-
fair, and laces it to the branch
with stout twine which she
flies far to find.
Human engineers, examining
these nests. say that the
mother oriole must know
something about stresses and
strains, so intricately and
properly are the cords twined
and laced.
Our only personal acquaint-
ance with the oriole nest hap
pened 20 years ago, when a
lady oriole made a nest at the
tip end of a locust branch
some 40 feet from the ground.
While she worked, finding
Irvine as best she could. the
male helped by singing to her
all day long his bubbly song.
Then came evening. and
both rested.
The next day seemed per-
feet. and the oriole couple no
doubt decided to get down to
egg laying in earnest. but here,
as elsewhere. there is many
a slip between the nest and
the egg.
A summer afternoon thun-
derstorm tore down the
branch. and with it went
tumbling the just completed
nest.
But already the two birds
had disappeared. They left in
the morning, and were not
seen again. ever.
The question remained:
Did they know in advance
that their nest work was In
vain?
All bird nests are marvellous.
but none more so than those Of
the robin and the Baltimore
oriole.
Smaller nests, such as those
Of the song sparrow and the
house wren, have q beauty all
their own, helped by their
smallness.
The modern way Of viewing
nests, to leave them alone as
much as possible, is a great
help to bird life. and means
that we shall have more birds
as the years pass, provided
inimical factors do not grow IN
scope and extent.