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pair the proficiency of this
department" Mr.. Willard said.
Cuts in funds for medical
supplies. including gas mask can
listers, may impair the safety
and efficiency of fire fighters, y
Mr.. Willard said.
3 Medical Clinics Closed
The Health Department already
has closed three clinics and
curtailment of other services is
threatened. A cut of approxi-
mately $4,000 in the depart
ment's request will allow the
department to employ only two
additional personnel instead of
the eight whom DR.. Thomas F.
McGough. Health Officer. said
are necessary.
The Recreation Department S
request was cut by about $25, 900.
The total $156,000 recommended
docs not provide for adequate
supervision or qualified person.
nel." Mr.. Willard said.
A Welfare Department cut of
baout $4,000 may necessitate a
percentage reduction in all assis-
tance grants. Mr.. Willard said.
The traffic control reouest was
reduced by $4,000.
The planning department said
a $4,000 reduction in its request
would slow down work on a mas
ter plan.
Among other services that
would be affected are building
and construction inspection, elec-
trical inspection. sanitation, city
hall maintenance, street cleaning
and city garage operations.
Urges Higher Tax Study
Mr.. Willard urged the Coun-
Gil to seriously consider" the
possibility of approving q tax
increase in January. 1857. 80
that some relief might be made
for the urgent needs Of the city"
during the last half of the fiscal
year.
Mayor Leroy S. Bendheim crit
icized DR.. McGough for closing
three clinics before the Council
has acted on the budget. He said
that if it were necessary to close
the clinics. DR.. McGough should
have so advised the City Council.
He said the Council probably
will hold several hearings on the
budget.
We'll see then if it's neces-
Isary to restore any items cut
out" he said.
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Prince Georges Growth
ISeen in More Businesses

Prince Georges County's great
est opportunity for growth lies
i'm winning more factories
wholesale distribution centers
and research Offices. according
to an economic specialist.
DR.. Jerome P. Pickard, director
of research for the Economic De-
velopment Committee of the
Washington Board of Trade,
listed these opportunities for the
county last night at a meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce at
the Prince Georges Country Club
DR.. Pickard noted that Prince
Georges is served by two major
railroads and a network Of ar
terial highways. which make it
exceedingly favored for future
development"
Prince Georges has gained
10000 of the $50. 900 population
increase in the total Metropoli-
tan Area since the 1850 census,
DR.. Pickard said. Most of these
people still live within a 10~mile
radius of the Capitol.
A 20 per cent jump in popula-
tion. mostly within a 10 to Is
mile radius of the Capitol, is
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Z in Armed HoIdup
In Richmond Get
30-Yeur Terms

RICHMOND (P).-Two Rich
mond men who admitted the
gun-point holdup of two restau-
rants here in January we're SEN
fenced to 30-year prison terms
yesterday.
Hastings Court Judge w. Mos
coe Huntley imposed the sem
tences on Lewis s. Hicks. 20,
and James j. Clemmons, %.
They were sentenced to 15-year
terms to run consecutively on
each Of two charges.
Each was charged with rob-
bing Robert L. Wheeling. Toddle
House employe, of $210; James
B. Horner, an employe of the
Wakefield Grill, of $100 and
Jerome J. Thorner. Wakefield
customer who was shot in the
shoulder during one stickup, of
$55,
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predicted for the county during
the next five years.
Although grocery stores, gas
stations and eating places have
IdecentraliZed in proportion to
the areas growth pattern, retail
trade has failed to keep pace.
DR.. Pickard said. Apparel and
shoe stores have big field for
future expansion" in the county,
he said.
In 1854, the county's total
volume of general merchandise
sales was $18 per resident, as
compared to an area average of
$145. In Fairfax County, the
total volume per resident was
$40. These low volumes reflect
the absence, at that time. of de-
partment store branches, DR..
Pickard said. A branch store
opened at Langley Park in Prince
Georges last fall, and two are
now under construction at Seven
Corners in Fairfax.
Family income in Prince
Georges was found to be slightly
above the area median. The
average income in the county
last year was $500, as compared
to S5,625 for the entire area.
The District rated low with a
81 750 average. ~
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Mayor of London
Will Crown Queen
AT Blossom Fete

WINCHESTER, Va, Mar. q
R.-The Right Honorable Lore
Mayor of London, Cuthbert
Lowell Ackroyd, has accepted ar
invitation to crown Miss Laura
Macarthur queen of the 29tf
annual Shenandoah Apple Bios
som Festival here April 26.
The announcement came today
from Thomas G. Scully, presi-
dent of the festival.
The lord mayor will crown
Miss Macarthur, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas Macarthur III
of Washington. and then tour
Colonial Williamsburg. the re-
stored capital of Colonial Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. Ackroyd and his party will
be entertained while in VIM
chester at "Rosemont," the
nearby Berryville home of Sena-
tor and Mrs. Byrd. Their official
host will be Mr.. and Mrs. Beverly
Byrd,
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'Mohoney Out to Battle
Foes in Prince Georges

scheduled to tour Talbot County
today.
The announcement from his
Baltimore headquarters that he
had been Endorsed by Prince
Georges Democratic organization
leaders came as no surprise. Mr.
Tydings is expected to carry both
Prince Georges and Montgomery
Counties.
The Prince Georges indorse-
ment was signed by former Rep
resentative Lansdale G. Sasscer
of Upper Marlboro, who was de-
feated by Mr.. Mahoney in the
1852 primary when he attempted
to win promotion to the Senate
Joining with Mr.. Sasscer in
the Endorsement. the announce
ment said, were State Senator
H. Winship Wheatley, jr.: all
six members of the county's
delegation to the House Of
Delegates: and six of the seven
members Of the county's Demo
cratic Central Committee.
Chairman Doesn't Sign
The only committeeman who
did not sign the Endorsement
was its chairman, L. Harold
Sothoron. who is seeking the
Democratic nomination to Con-
gress from the 5th District.
Mr.. Tydings also appointed
DR.. William F. Reinoff, jr., a
Baltimore surgeon, to head a
doctors committee working for
his candidacy; Clarence E.
Miles. former president Of the
State Bar Association, to head
a lawyers committee, and Jo-
seph Letter and Harry Singer
man. past commanders Of the
Maryland Veterans of Foreign
Wars. to head a veterans COM
mittee.
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'Lankford Gets
Howard 0kay

The Democratic Central Com
mittee of Howard County last
night became the third one to
join in backing the candidacy OF
Representative Lankford. Demo-
crat of Maryland, in his bid for
from the States 5th
district.
Meeting in Ellicott City, the
| Isix-member Howard County
group was unanimous in it's in
dorsement of Mr., Lankford who,
it said, had earned another
term"
Previously, Mr.. Lankford was
Endorsed by central committees
lin Anne Arundel and st. Marys
Counties. Prince Georges
County's Democratic Central
Committee has indorsed Mr..
Landlords opponent in the
May 2 primary. L. Harold Soth-
oron, former State Senator from
that county.
The other two counties of the
district-Charles and Calvert
have made no committee in
dorsements in the race yet.
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County OverruIed
On Deer Fund Use

RICHMOND, Mar. 81 P.-
Attorney Gen. J. Lindsay AL
mond, jr., ruled yesterday Gray
son County cannot use its spe-
cial deer stamp damage funds
to prevent orchard damages by
browsing deer.
Mr.. Almond ruled the use Of
che money is restricted to paying
for damage that has occurred.
The county's board of super
visors wanted to use part Of the
money to build a fence around
an orchard owned by a county
resident to prevent deer from
damaging his trees.
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BY GENE GOODWIN

George P. Mahoney toured
Prince Georges County today ir
the wake of an announcement
from dominant Democratic or
ganization forces in that coun-
ty that they are backing Mil.
lard E. Tydings.
The two men are seeking the
Democratic nomination to the
Senate in Maryland's Maryland:
May 7 primary.
Mr.. Mahoney, who has never
done well in Prince Georges
during his previous four State:
wide campaigns, was scheduled
to start his tour today at Laurel
where he was to be met by his
county campaign manager. Viii.
liam j. Millar.
Yesterday Mr.. Mahoney tour
ed Howard County, distributing
candy Easter eggs. shaking
hands and slapping backs.
At one spot, Edward Ballow
cattle dealer of near Ellicott City,
told Mr.. Mahoney: you've been
trying hard enough. Any man
who has tried that hard ought
to get it,"
Tydings in Talbot
Mr.. Tydings, who represented
Maryland in the Senate for "a
years until his 1850 defeat by
the Republican incumbent, Sem
ator John Marshall Butler. was
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Women Ak Slayer
Found Incompetent
To Stand Trial

WARRENTON. Va. Mar. 81
IP. = A 26-year-old Fauquiel
County woman was found in.
competent to stand trial yester-
day for the ak Staying of Ray
mond Nails, her 67-year-old
former employer.
Circuit Judge Rayner "
Snead dismissed the charges
against Mrs. Mary Furr Stone
of Rectortown after receiving a
letter from DR.. Joseph r. Blay-
lock, superintendent of South
western State Hospital at
Marion. where Mrs. Stone has
been confined since January 26.
DR.. Blaylock said tests at the
hospital showed Mrs. Stone "has
been mentally deficient since
BIRTH
The accused, a former house.
keeper for Nails, admitted strik-
ing the tenant farmer at his
Rectortown home December 7.
Evening star., 1956-03-27

Ira F. Willard, acting on instruc-
tions Of the city council to keep
the budget within current reve-
nue..
One of the hardest hit will be
the police department. The de-
partment's request for $669,00O
was cut by nearly $4,000, of
which $4,000 came out of sal
aries.
Ten new clerks had been re-
quested so policemen could be
freed for patrol duty. Since the
fiye-day week was established
last year, the number of police
men on duty each shift has
dropped from an average of "a
to Is.
Mr.. Wizards budget message
assessing the effect Of the reduc-
tion says the city should have
las policemen instead of the
present 100.
The fire department request
was cut from $487 900 to $445,-
900. The cut sis certain to i'm
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Richmond Hospital
Names Director

RICHMOND. Mar. 81 P). -
DR.. Donald Louis Drummer, act
ing assistant director of Biggs
Memorial Hospital at Ithaca,
N. Y, has been named medical
director of the Ennion G.. Will
liamS tuberculosis Hospital here.
DR.. Drummer, 35. will begin
his duties April Is, according to
State Health Commissioner
Mack I. Shanholtz, who an
nounced the appointment.
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School Board Approves
Central Cafeteria Plan

A centralized school cafeteris
system, recommended by the Nc
Kinsey management survey. will
be extended to all Montgomery
County schools by Septem-
ber, 1857.
Last night the Board of Edu-
cation approved by a Al vote a
program which will embrace &c
elementary and secondary schools
in the Bethesda -Kensington area
starting this fall. The dissenting
vote was cast by Harrison King,
with Wylie Barrow abstaining
Mrs. Rose Kramer was absent.
Starting in September, the
board. under the terms of the
program, will purchase bread
milk and ice cream "by bid and
Evening star., 1956-03-27

contract" for the whole county.
The number of vendors from
whom cafeterias may purchase
food will be limited, standard
lied salary scales for cafeteria
employees will be introduced and
the accounting system will be
made uniform for all schools.
The 26 Bethesda -Kensington
schools will purchase all their
food for standardized menus by
bid. and uniform prices for all
meals will be set.
Capitalization will be extended
to Silver Spring and the Upper
County by September, 1857.
DR.. Norris said Capitalization
would cost the board about $1,000
annually for additional person
mel.
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Ante e-BeIIum Houses
To Be Subject of TuIk

The Takoma Park Historical
Society will hear talk tonight
on te-bellum houses of New
Orleans and Natchez by Henry
E. Marschalk. He is head of
the publications branch of the
Nays Bureau of Ordnance.
The program will be part of
the society's meeting in the Ia
koma Park Municipal Building.
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CITIZENS CAN VOTE
AND GET X-RAY, TOO

Takoma Park Md resi-
dents can vote for municipal
officials and get their chests
X-rayed at one stop today.
Polls were to be open at
the Takoma Park firehouse
until Z pm.
Set up across the street
was a mobile X-ray machine
under sponsorship of the
Montgomery County Tuber-
culosis and Heart Associa-
ton, the Public Health Lay
Council and the Community
League of Takoma Park.
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Fairfax Water
Suit Dismissed

A suit by IL Fairfax County
residents seeking public control
Of donated capital held by pri-
vate water companies was dis
missed in Fairfax Circuit Court
yesterday.
Judge Arthur Sinclair held his
court could not grant what the
suit asked.
Donated capital is the term
applied to facilities installed by
developers in new subdivisions
and then turned over without
charge to the private water COM
panieS.
The IL residents, who brought
the suit in their own behalf and
for others similarly situated,
claimed they paid for the water
company facilities when they
bought their homes and there
fore were entitled to an interest
in them.
The suit asked that all such
donated capital be placed in trust
for the general benefit of county
residents who had helped pay
for water companies facilities.
Two county water companies
the Annandale Water Co. and
Fairfax Hydraulics-were named
defendants. The suit had asked
that these firms be prevented
from selling out until the ques-
tion of donated capital was de-
cided. Annandale is reported to
be on the verge of selling out to
the larger Virginia Water Co.
The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors had voted to inter-
vene in the suit in hopes Of
settling the long disputed do
mated capital question, but Judge
Sinclair refused to permit the
Intervention.
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Stute Aide to Brucker

BALTIMORE, Mar. 81 P1.-
The Army yesterday announced
. the appointment of Baltimore
attorney william A. Graham to
be civilian aide for Maryland to
Secretary of the Army William
M. Brucker. He succeeds Stuart
e. Hopper Of Towson. -
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MARYLAND-V VIRGINIA NEWS
Alexandria Cutbocks
Seen in Proposed Budget
By PAUL HOPE

proposed million Alexandria budget for 195657 would
force approximately halt the divisions departments to
limit cuta services according budget
sage of the city manager
budget last WEEK. will presented officially to
the city council tonight.
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I"in this State where I don't have
la good chance of winning. and
that includes Dorchester and
Somerset"
1.-The same thing goes for the
six legislative districts Of Balti-
more City" he added.
Other banquet speakers in
Guided Mayor D'Alesandro of
Baltimore, former Gov. w. Pres
ton Lane, jr., and former Solicit
tor General Philip B. Perlman.
Would Erase 1850 Fraud
Mr.. Lane said he hoped he
could help to correct the perpe-
tration of fraud that was prac-
ticed" on Mr.. TydingS in his de-
feat by Republican Senator John
Marshall Butler in 1850.
And Mr.. Perlman referred to
that defeat as "the crime OF
1880"
Mr.. Lane said he cannot and
will not be a candidate for pub
lie Office again"
Meanwhile Mr.. Mahoney was
telling a meeting Of supporters
in the city's first district, where
Mayor D'Alesandro lives, that:
I'm your man. the rank-and-
| file man, who will stand up, and
be counted for the little fellow
Promising that he wouldn't
let them down." Mr.. Mahoney
told the O'Donnell Heights audi
ence that some people like to
say that Mahoney is not as well
educated as some of my OPP
ponents."
We'll. they said that Andrew
jackson was uneducated," he
added. Then they said he was
undignified. All Of the news
papers practically crucif1ed
him"
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Four Tukomu Park Students
React Positively to TB Test

j -Four of the 248 New Hamp-
shire Estates students given tu-
berculosis tests have shown a
positive reaction. DR., William j.
Peoples, Montgomery County
health officer. reported today
The school is in Takoma Park.
Dr.. Peoples said the number
reacting positively is very low
The health officer said the
tests had been scheduled rou-
timely but were given added
emphasis as a result of pre-
sumptive diagnosis" that a
teacher at the school had tuber-
culosiS.
None of the children in the
teachers room showed a posi-
tive reaction to the tests, he
said.
This is the first year the tests
have been given. At Carver
High School in Rockville. where
they were given to about ITO
students, there we're six posi-
tives, DR.. Peoples said.
The 10 students will be X
rayed and health officials will
follow up the cases to arrive
at a final diagnosis. If there
Is a TB contact in the family,
the child may be separated from
the contact, Dr. Peoples said.
The tests were given at Cal
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Refrigeration Controls Fail,
So Blood Pints Jeopurdized

Fifty-eight pints Of blood were
under observation today at the
Prince Georges County Hospital
after the blood bank Tefrigera-
ton unit partly broke down
Sunday night.
A spokesman for the hospital
explained that whole blood is
kept under a 40-degree Fahren-
heit temperature. The thermo-
stat control failed to function
and the temperature rose to SIS
degrees overnight, the spokes-
man explained.
He added that the alarm sys-
tenn failed to work.
Whole blood, he said, may be
kept for 81 days. After that it
is shipped to laboratories where
1t is fractionated and broken up
into plasma or albumen, re-
turned and used in cases Of
shock and for other treatments,
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MARYLAND PRIMARY PROFILES
3 Democrats Oppose
Mohoney and Tydings

Three leSSer-knoWn candidates
are vying with Willard E. Tyd-
ings and George P. Mahoney for
the Democratic Senatorial NOM
nation in Maryland's primary
on Monday.
1t would be a major upSet-to
say the leaSt-if one of the three
won the nomination, although
George Washington Williams is
expected to run strong in GER
tain areas.
Mr.. Williams is the Maryland
Petition Committees candidate
and is campaigning openly for
States rights and racial segre-
cation.
The other two second level
candidates are Andrew j. Easter
of Washington and Baltimore
and Thomas l.. Christian, pub
Usher of The Maryland Farmer,
monthly magazine.
Here, in alphabetical order
are brief biographical sketches
of the three men:
Thomas L. Christian, so, lives
>st Green Haven in Anne Arundel
County. a 500-acre community
developed by his family since
1914. In addition to The Mary
land Farmer, he publishes The
Maryland Gardner.
He and his late father founded
the weekly newspaper, The
Southern Maryland Times, and
he published it for Is years until
he entered the Army in World
War II. The father and son
team also authored a history of
Maryland entitled, 1900 Years
With the Maryland Gazette"
; Mr.. Christian is a widower
He has a son, who is stationed
~ California with the Marine
Cc~ps.
y n X X
A-lrew J. Easter, SO, says he
Is registered Democrat who
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Tobacco Crop
Auctions Start

First offerings of Maryland's
1855 tobacco crop sold at prices
ranging from IA cents a pound
to % cents as auction markets
opened today.
The top price for type 80 leaf
grown in the five southern coun-
ties was about the same as at
first sale on May 3 last year.
Middle and low grades were SUBJ
stantially higher. however.
Bids on top qualities Of bright
crop ranged from II to "a; dull
crop from so to 60; second from
I55 to IS, and tips from % to
IS cents a pound.
On the basis of initial bids by
buyers for American and over
seas cigarette makers, expert
enced observers predicted that
today's average will be from so
to SIS cents a pound.
They said, however, that OPEN
ing bids are not certain indi-
Gators of daily or seasonal av-
erages because buyers and sellers
customarily Jockey for advan-
Itage for the first few hours and
sometimes the first few days.
Last year the price average on
opening day was 1875 cents, but
dropped steadily through the
season until it reached 39.5 cents
for the volume of 81 million
pounds.
Tense farmers listening to the
sing-song chant of auctioneers
at Upper Marlboro appeared sat
isf1ed with bids and rejected
none in the first hour.
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3 Brothers and q Sister
Reunited After Al Years

Three brothers and sister,
now under three flags, are to-
lgether again in Arlington this
week for the first time in Al
years.
Bjorn Oddsson. Ga, of 1916
North Seventeenth street, Ar
Ilington. is showing the Nations
Capital to his brothers, Sveinb-
Ijorn, SO. Of Iceland, the Oddsson's
native land, and Sveinn, 70. of
Winnipeg. Canada.
Sveinbjorn Oddsson and his
daughter, Halldora, few here
last week from Reykjavik, Ice
land. They were met by Sveinn,
down from Canada for the re-
union, and Bjorn.
Also joining the reunion is
their sister, Mrs. Kristrun Sig
Imundssop, of 1903 North Twenty
first avenue. Arlington, who came
ito this country with her husband
lin 1922.
Sveinn OddSson was the first
emigree. He came to Canada In
1908, lived in this country. then
returned to Iceland in 1913 as
the representative there for the
Ford Motor Co., where he intro
duced the first Model T. In 1915,
he returned to America with his
brother, Bjorn. on "the first boat
to come directly from Iceland
since Lief the Lucky"
He and his brother who re-
manned in Iceland are both print
ers. He has visited Bjorn here
before, but this is the first time
all three brothers have been re-
united,
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County toGet
School Funds

Prince Georges County has
been allotted $85S.011 for school
construction and maintenance
for the coming fiscal year under
the Federal aid program, it was
announced yesterday.
Representative Landlord,
Democrat Of Maryland, made the
announcement. He said $554,457
of the allotment has been certi-
fed for immediate payment. The
remaining funds will be paid on
the basis of information relating
to the school needs of the county.
School Supt. William Schmidt
said the school board included
100000 in anticipation of the
Federal grant, in its budget for
the fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Maryland for "a years before
his defeat in 1850. told about
$50 persons at a $100-a-plate
banquet here las night;
This will be my last fight. /
don't expect to be a candidate
for any other Office in any FORE
seeable circumstance. in the flu
ture."
Last week the 54-year-old Mr..
Mahoney told a Baltimore Coun-
ty audience that if he doesn't
win Mondays primary he'll
never run for Statewide Office in
Maryland again. He ran for
Senator in 1852 and for Cover
nor in 1850 and 1854, but was
defeated in all three attempts.
MahOney in Anne Arundel
Today Mr.. Mahoney was cam
paigning in Anne Arundel
County. He was scheduled to
speak at 8 O'Clock tonight in
Democratic headquarters in Glen
Burnie.
Movie cameras were recording
his tour and speech today for
showing over a Baltimore tele-
vision station tomorrow night
while he speaks at his own $780,
a-plate dinner in the Lord Bal
timore Hotel here.