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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02
Cuts
CarDeathsS09t
Marines Give Credit
To Route ! Petrol

Chalk up another victory fol
the Marine Corps, this time in
traffic study.
The Marine base at Quantico,
Va. announced yesterday that
its highway patrol along a 80
mile section of U. S. Route l.
between Fredericksburg and
Woodbridge-has cut the num-
Der of Quantico Marine fatali-
ties by 88.9 per cent.
The reduction, the Marines
said. is b9sed on a comparable
period last year and covers the
nine and a half months that the
highway patrol plan has been
in action.
Nine Marines were killed and
so others injured from October
IS, 1854, to July 81, 1855, in rs
different accidents. In the same
period this year, there was only
I l Marine killed and 10 injured
in 81 accidents.
Enforcement Pays of
Here" said Mai. Donald D
Pomerleau. provost marshal al
Quantico, "are conclusive figures
to prove that selective law en-
forcement pays off,"
Maj. Pomerleau said he anc
his staff made careful studies OF
accidents involving Quanticc
Marines during 1854 when 7 Out
of 10 Marine fatalities occurred
on this one stretch of Route /
In 1855, he added, eight of the
nine Marine fatalities were or
the same portion.
The base started a two.
vehicle patrol last october Is
with three officers and six non.
commissioned officers taking
part.
Deterring Effect Cited
While our patrol has no jur.
iSdiction over civilian violators
it does have a lettering effecr
upon all motorists who see oul
police-equipped vehicles" Mai
Pomerleau said.
Military violators, Maj. Pc
merleau said. are brought int
a triffic court at the proves
marshals office. They are sub
ject to loss of their driving priv.
ileges on the Marine base. 1
they are from other installations
their commanding officers art
notified.
Since its inception, the patrol.
have covered 50,17l miles il
1851 working hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02
Shifting Of Agencies
To Suburbs Studied
Planners to Meet
Today on Issue
Of New Sites

The problems of establishing
big Government agencies in rel
atively undeveloped suburban
areas here are to be featured at
the meeting of the National Cap
ltal Planning Commission today.
Committee reports will be SUBJ
United and discussed on at least
two of these building proposals.
One calls for locating the Bureau
of Standards at Gaithersburg,
Md. The other involves construc-
ton Of a Veterans Administra.
ton hospital near Rockville.
In addition. a report will be
explained to the commission
membership on possible sites for
the Central Intelligence Agency
i'm Washington proper as an al
Tentative to the CIA-preferred
location at Langley, Va.
Site Determined
The latter report apparently
will be mostly academic, since
Congress has appropriated funds
to build CHA headquarters at
Langley, Va. This is the report
requested of NCPC by Senator
Chavez, Democrat of New Mex
leo, shortly before the CHA
appropriation was voted.
All the reports are expected
to bear on such complications
as the water supply and sewage
disposal needs raised by new
building developments and their
impact on the entire Metro.
Ipolitan Area.
Look Into Future
Related to the same subject
will be another report on the
economic base for the future
development of the Washington
area. This bears on the popula.
ton and job opportunity distri-
button in the years to come.
Meanwhile, Representative
Thompson. Democrat of New
Jersey. said today he intends
to push vigorously in the next
session of Congress his resolu.
ton providing for locating with
in the District all agencies which
can be accommodated here.
The resolution, offered shortly
before the end of the recent
session, has for its purpose pres
ervation of the economic basis
iof the Nations Capital by es"
tablishing a basic policy and an
orderly procedure for the loca-
ton of new Federal buildings
in the Metropolitan Area of the
District of Columbia"
CHA Letter Made Public
Mr.. Thompson also made pub
lie a letter from Allen w. Dulles,
head of the Central Intelligence
Agency. Mr.. Dulles letter was
in reply to statements by Mr..
Thompson in the Congressional
Record.
Mr.. Thompson had recalled
that the National Capital Plan
ming Commission had at first
disapproved the Langley (Va)
site for a new SAG million build
ing for the CHA. He pointed out
that two Government employees
serving on the commission we're
replaced by two other employees.
After that he said approval
was given by a 7-to-5 vote, over
turning the earlier 6-to-5 vote
of disapproyal. Mr.. Dulles said
in his letter:
Il would like to emphasize
that any statement made to you
that this agency in any way at
tempted to influence the APP
pointment of members of the
commission is completely with
out foundation.
Other items on the planning
commission meeting agenda in
Iclude discussion of site possible
ties for a National Stadium and
reports on the recent neighbour
hood forums on the Districts
proposed coming revisions and
the development of further plans
for Watts Branch park and vari-
GUS Maryland stream valley
parks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02

THE BIG DOORS opened,
for good this time, and a sigh
of relief went down the lines
like a wheeze from a man.
moth doorstep.
And after all 31l correspond
ents were inside with their
problems, there was the Pres
ident, ready to discuss other
weighty problems.
But, alas, he talked about
relatively unimportant things
such as the Suez Canal,
social security, the 84th Con-
gress, his health, and what
he thought about the hasSle
between Vice President Nixon
and Harold E. StaSsen.
And not a word did he say
about aching feet, the status
of Mickey Nantes home run
total, the size of bills on the
first of the month, the inabil-
ity to find a good vermouth,
television camera magazines,
or the best time to plant lawn
grass.
1t wasn't exactly the Presi-
dents fault, though.
Nobody asked about these
things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02

power plant but company off,
.cials later shifted immediate
construction plans to the Mont
gomery County site.
PEPCO in the past has indi-
Gated it would hold the Loudoun
site for possible future develop
Iment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02
Aaron Gets Come Post

RICHMOND, Aug. 2 (P).-J. C,
Aaron, Martinsville sportsman,
has been named to the State
Commission of Game and In
land Fisheries to serve out the
unexpired term of State Senator
Frank B. Burton of Stuart, who
died Sunday,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02
Virginia School Ruling
Called Moral Victory
Attorney General Halls Decision
Giving Legislature Time to Act

RICHMOND Aug. QVirginas attorney general the
timing of the Arlington County school desegegaton injunction
a moral victory" for the State So.
Counsel for the State county nunc-
ton petition dismissed the premature
eral Judge Albert Bryan denied this request
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02
The
Rambler
Newsmen Have Such
Pressing Problems
BY JACK JONAS

There were. a lot of weighty
problems hanging in the ball
ance just before President
Eisenhower's press confer
ence yesterday.
1t looked as if all of Wash
ington was going to try to jam
into Room 474 in the Old
State Department Building.
BY $3.50 am. the double line
in front of the big oak doors
was already 20 deep.
The television cameramen
were inside, setting up their
cameras, and the reporters in
line outside we're checking
their pens to make sure they
were working.
Within half an hour, the
lines stretched all along the
wide buildings middle corri-
dor, almost out of sight.
One basic problem already
under discussion at the head
of the line was summed up
by one man, who complained:
When are we going to get
to sit down? My feet hurt"
Farther down the line, an
other man was responding to
a colleague:
"You think you'De got
troubles! Here it is the first
of the month, and you ought
to see the size of my bills :"
And still another was peer
ing over the shoulder of the
man in front of him, helping
him read his newspaper.
Mantle hit any more?"
the kibitzer asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02
Street Scenes

A girls red loafer shoe
perched atop a stop sign at
Military road and Western
avenue.
A car on Constitution ave-
nue. with a ~. S. Senator 2"
license plate and dual exhaust
Hollywood mufflers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02

UP FRONT there was a
false alarm as the double
doors opened, and the line
inched expectantly forward
But it was merely a televiSion
cameraman with a weighty
problem.
II could've sworn I brought
another magazine" he NUT
tered, as he rummaged
through an equipment box in
the corridor.
A big man with a fiorid
complexion sighed heavily.
II should have left that
sixth drink in the bottle" he
groaned.
The late-comers-only 20
minutes early-were stray
Cling in now, and gaSplng in
dismay at the size of the line.
We'll never get in," one
said, as he headed for the
end of the line. And l could
have gotten another couple
hours Sleep"
Two men who had become
new friends were discussing
a basic problem in chemistry.
Maybe you could help
me-" one of them said. I've
been looking all over this
town for a good vermouth,
but so far :"
Closer at hand that con-
versation was being drowned
out by yet another man with
a problem.
Everybody I ask tells me
something different" he said.
I've been thinking about
Zoysia grass, and some say
they like it and some say they
wouldn't have it as a gift
Then my neighbor on my left
tells me the best time to SOW
the seed is in the fall, and
the neighbor to my right
says no, it ought to be in the
spring. l don't think I'll ever
have a good lawn"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
Time Held Ripe to Push
Pollution Legislation

able in facing the future. He
cited the formation 40 years ago
of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary District for joint han
ding of water supply and sewage
disposal in parts of Prince
Georges and Montgomery Coun-
ties.
'Past Is Prologue"
whats past is prologue" Mr..
Tisdale quoted from Shake
|speare.
At which Maj. Gen. q. s.
Grant III, acting chairman of
the meeting, chimed in with an
observation he once heard ut
tered by a taxicab driver: What
that quote means is, You amt
seen nothing yet So it is with
the water resources problem,
Gen. Grant added.
Mrs. Helen Dewey Hoffman,
secretary Of the clearing house,
promptly urged member organi-
cations and individuals to urge
close congressional considera-
ton Of pending bills aimed at
studying and remedying water
resources problems Of the Poto-
mac basin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01

Now is the time for hard work
to obtain pollution abatement
legislation for the Washington
area. Ellis S. Tisdale, director OF
the Interstate Commission on
the Potomac River Basin, as
serted yesterday.
The official told a luncheon
meeting of the Washington
Clearing House on Stun Clear
ance, Redevefopment and Hous-
ing that, while he is encouraged
by increasing public realization
of the urgency of water re-
sources problems here, there is
much waking up to be DONE"
Would Consider Dams
Among the most pressing
needs is q comprehensive study
of the Potomac with emphasis
on the possibilities of building
dams at various strategic sites
he said.
"We are on the threshold Of
needing water storage facilities
on the river" Mr.. Tisdale said
Nov is the time for action"
Mr.. Tisdale said q study Of
past solutions Of interjurisdictior
control problems might be valu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
Registrar Who Opposed
Closing Books Gets Notice

what new people have registered
Elmer Duncan, chairman Of
the three member electoral
board, said the disagreement
over registration books had
nothing to do with the boards
decision to let Mrs. Isdell go.
He declined to comment further
Mrs. Lsdell said she asked Mr..
Duncan why she was being lei
out Of her job, and was told that
the board felt the job had got
ten too big for her.
The central registrars job
pays $4,000 a year. When Mrs.
Isdell accepted the position six
years ago the salary was 81, 800.
She has put In q new system
of registration, set UP a master
file Of all registered voters, and
in general organized an Office
where none existed before. The
number Of registered voters has
Increased in the county during
this period from 20,211 to over
40, 1000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
Veteran Bonus Bills Face
Session DeodIine Tohiuht

The Senate early today passed
over to the House the perennial
bonus measure put in every year
by Minority Leader Harry T.
Phoebus Of Somerset County. It
proposes to pay the bonus with
sharply increased liquor and
beer taxes.
The Senate vote. taken with
out debate, was IS to 10, with
Senators Edward S. Northrop,
Democrat of Montgomery, and
H. Winship Wheatley, jr.. Demo-
crat of Prince Georges, voting
for the bill.
The House, in another action
yesterday, enacted a bill to give
the Public Service Commission
power over the Maryland opera
lions of any publicly owned
transit system that might be
established in the District of Co
Ilumbia after the Capital Transit
Co. franchise expires in August
Senator Northrop, sponsor Of
the bill, said it would assure that
suburban Maryland transit serv-
ice would continue in the pos.
sible transition from private te
public ownership in the District
Also enacted last night was a
bill to set the State property taz
rate for the levy year OF 1857 at
l14.07 cents for each 500 as
lsessed valuation. The rate this
year is 10.9 cents.
The House-passed bill to pro-
vide for compulsory automobile
inspection in Maryland appeared
Ito be dead for this session. The
bill has been resting in the SEN
ate Judicial Proceedings Com
mittee for several days, and
Committee Chairman Frederick
C. Malkus said he has had nc
requests to move the bill out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star STAR Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 1.-The
Maryland Legislature today was
faced with a final decision on
two multi-million-d dollar veter-
ans bonus bills.
This 30-day session Of the
General Assembly is scheduled
to end tonight.
Other major issues still hang
ing fire include a $500 pay in
crease for teachers, a tax on big
savings and loan associations
and a bill to curb land specu-
lation on State highway pur-
chases.
The most important Of the
two bonus bills Is a $50 million
package passed by the House
last night, 10 to 40. 1t proposes
q referendum next November on
the question of whether the
State sales tax rate should be
increased from Q to 8 per cent
to pay a bonus Of up to $400 to
all Maryland veterans Of the
Spanish-Arnerican War, both
World Wars and the Korean
conflict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
1t. Gen. Parks Retires,
Returns to D. c. Home

The I'd Army which Gen. Park,
commanded includes the Dis.
trict of Columbia and Mary.
land, Virginia, West Virginia
Pennsylvania. Delaware, Ohit
and Kentucky.
Some 1000 troops paraded yes.
terday during the review, al
which Gen. Parks was awarded
a Department of the Army scroll
for his service. Participants in
|cluded the I'd Armored Cavalry
Regiment and it's famed colol
guard in uniforms of the Mexi.
can War, the I'd Army Bands
Bagpipe and Drum Corps wear.
ing Scotch tartan uniforms, the
I'd Army and Army Field Bands
and a display of tanks and NIKE
equipment.
In addition, 20 light planes
few low over the reviewing
stand, and four helicopters did
a Square dance"
Afterward, about 300 guests
attended a reception.
Gen. Parks, so. led the first
American troops into Berlin In
1945 in his role as commander
of the LIST Allied Airborne Army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
MARYLAND VIRGINIA NEWS
Senate Votes Seizure
OF Baltimore I ronsit

Baltimore City delegation passed
only by a vote of Is to Is.
The bill then was laid over as
the Senate adjourned for q
minutes into a new Legislative
day.
Gets Required Vote
On final passage. the bill got
the required 10 votes. as foul
Senators shifted from nay to yes
and one reversed the procedure
Among those changing theil
votes TO yea on the final tally
were Senator H. Winship Wheat.
ley. jr. Democrat Of Prince
Georges. and Edward S. North.
Irop, Democrat of Montgomery.
The vote came about 1924
am. in q session that ended two
hours later. The Senate ap.
Ipeared to have its deck fairly
well cleared. with Majority
Leader John q. TurnbuH pre-
dieting an early closing of the
Assembly tonight.
The bill had been opposed BY
two of the four Baltimore CITY
Senators.
Shortly after the Senate vote
Gov. McKeldin issued a state.
Iment asserting his pleasure with
the passage of the bill.
The action of the two bodies
he said, demonstrates the re-
Spouse of the General Assembl!
to the demands of a people whit
have been distressed by thi
strike for a month" The Cover
nor limited, in a statement, tina
he planned to give the Baltimor'
Transit Co. and the union one
final chance to settle the dispute
before he invokes the seizure.
The Governor met with unior
leaders yesterday q few hour
after he had met with company
officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
.13-Stute Search Set
For Alexandra Bow

A ESTATE police lookout has
been broadcast for a missing
Alexandria boy last seen Tuesday
when he left home to go to
school.
The boy is Enoch Alan ELL
more, a ninth-grade student at
George Washington High School,
Alexandria. He Is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Enoch L. Gilmore of
1925 Martha Gusts drive, Park-
fairfax.
His parents told police Enoch
missed the regular bus Tuesday
and returned home, only to be
sent to board an A. B. & w. bus.
That was about 8 am, and the
boy did not report to school,
the father said.
His father said the boy never
had left home before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01

Washington is getting back
one Of its most popular residents
Army 1t. Gen. Floyd L. Parks
AS a result of his retirement
yesterday at Fort Meade, Md.
Once more, Gen. Parks and his
family will take up residence at
their home, $3.50 Upton street
NV, after having been on duty
as commander of the I'd Army
at Fort Meade since August,
1858.
He had served in Washington
several times, his last tour of
duty having been as the Army's
Chief of Information at the Pen
tagon from 1850 to 1858.
A number of top dignitaries
were on hand for a formal re-
view at Fort Meade in honor
of Gen. Parks retirement. They
included Secretary of the Army
Brucker, Maryland's Gov. Nc
Keldin, Mayor Thomas D'Alesan-
dro Of Baltimore, Maj. Gen. Guy
S. Meloy, jr., Army Chief of In
formation, and Mai. Gen. John
G. Van Houten, commander Of
the Military District Of Wash
ington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
Wife Sentenced
In Baby Killing

A 23-year-old wife pleaded
guilty to manslaughter today in
the death Of her two-weeks-old
daughter last November. Mrs.
Dorothy T Willow Of Laurel.
Md. was sentenced to an indie
terminate sentence not to ex-
coed five years at Maryland
State Reformatory for Women
Iat Jessups.
She win be given psychiatric
treatment. Sentence was i'm
posed in Prince Georges Circuit
Court
States Attorney Blair II.
Smith allowed the plea and
dropped a murder charge against
Mrs. Willow after the former
Hyattsville night club dancers
attorney abandoned a defense
that she was not guilty by rea-
son Of insanity.
bet. Sergt. John w. Kern
told the court that Mrs. Willow
admitted to police that she had
lstrangled her daughter, Doro-
THY Karen, in her apartment in
Laurel with a strip Of muslin.
! Mrs. Willow, whose husband
Sergt. John Willow. was en- route
from Fort Meade to Fort Di1
at the time Of the child's death
has an 18-months-old son, vii.
liam H. Willow, Sd.
Mrs. Willow was transferred
from the Hyattsville Jail to the
Spring Grove State Hospital in
Gainesville a few days after her
ARREST when she attempted sui
eide by slashing her wrists with
glass taken from a broken light
bulb.
Examination by a State psy-
chiatrist found her to be sane.
Defense Attorney John S.
White asked Circuit Court Judge
Charles c. Marbury that his
client be returned to Spring
Grove for treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01

day. 80 to 10, after a lively de-
bate.
Major features of the bill. as
explained by MIR. Mann. are that
anyone accused Of driving while
drunk could request, within two
hours after arrest, that he be
given a chemical test to de-
termine the amount of alcohol
lin his blood. Failure to make
such a request could not be used
as evidence against him.
Standards for alcoholic con-
tent Of the blood would be these:
If less than .05 of per cent
of alcohol. the presumption
would be that the accused was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01

not under the influence; If be-
tween .05 and is Of / per cent
there would be no presumption
either way, and the trial would
be based on other evidence; II
there was is of per cent o,
more. the presumption would be
that he was under the influence
Defeated by voice vote was an
amendment that would have
made the presumption Of inno-
|cence for persons with less thar
is of ! per cent.
Mr.. Mann said the bill had
been requested by Gov. Stanley
and his Highway Safety Com
mittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
Point System
Is Sought to
Enforce Code

The Alexandria Housing Code
Committee is studying a proposal
which would give the city health
officer discretion in enforcing
provisions of proposed housing
hygiene code.
A. Clarke Slaymaker, CHIEF
sanitarian for the city and
member of the committee, last
night suggested a point system
of enforcement after protests
were registered against space
requirements.
Charles Florance, president Of
the Strawberry Hill Citizens AS
ISOLATION, said that many bed
rooms in that area have less
square footage than the 70-foot
minimum set up in the code.
John Kerr, executive director
of the Alexandria Redevelopment
and Housing Authority, told the
committee that many of the bed
rooms in public housing projects
in Alexandria are under the loo
square-foot requirement for &C.
cupancy by two persons.
Mr.. Slaymaker proposed the
point scoring system which would
rate the various requirements Of
the code. For instance, points
would be given for plumbing
facilities, space and number Of
people occupying the residence
Failure to come up to stand
ards on a single provision would
not necessarily mean that the
owner would be charged with
failing to comply.
Mrs. Robert Andrews, chair
man Of the Housing Committee
said Mr.. Slaymaker was asked
to submit complete details on his
suggestion for consideration al
the committees next meeting
March 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-01
By CHARLES L. HOFFMAN
Star stan Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 1.-THE
Maryland Senate early toda.
passed a seizure bill aimed
at ending the 32-day-old Balti'
more transit strike.
The seizure bill, although di.
Irected at ending the present tie.
up. applies to all public utilities
til authorizes the Governor t.
seize the company and, aftel
Ia mediation period Of Is days
calls for compulsory arbitration
The bill dies automatically /:
days after adjournment of thu
1857 General Assembly.
The measure was expected
to move to the Governors offict
for his signature this afternoon
The bill viii become effective
Immediately upon signing b!
Gov. McKeldin.
Only a technical hurdle lay il
the path of the bill. which mus
have concurrence by the Hous'
on several amendments to cor
rect errors found by Legislative
experts In the House-passet
version.
House Majority Leader A
Gordon Boone said he woul(
press for action as soon as thu
House convenes this afternoon
Tense Voting Repeated
Senate voting on the measur.
was~as tense last night as it hac
been the previous night in tn,
House of Delegates. when thu
bill at first appeared defeated
then during nearly an hour Of
voting passed with a resoundinl
majority.
The bill was reported favor
ably by the Senate judicial Pro-
ceedings Committee by a Ito:
vote.
When debate began last night
an unsuccessful move was made
for passage of another seizure
bill that lacked a compulsory
arbitration feature.
On second reading, the sue
cessful bill sponsored by the