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Smyrna times., 1957-04-25
Delaware Will Be IFYE
Exchangee's Summer Home

Delaware will be host to two
International Farm Youth Ex-
changees this summer, according
to Wayne Bath, acting state All
Club leader.
They are Miss Sophie r. Veg
mann of Switzerland, and William
L. Lewis from England. Bath
said the visitors will live with
six farm families during the sum-
mer. Miss Wegmann will be in
Delaware from May 6 to Aug. 8,
and Lewis from Aug. IA to Sept
IS.
The two youths will be among
nearly 100 farm young people
from more than so foreign coun-
tries living with farm families in
the U. 5. this year in the biggest
IFYE program ever conducted
An announcement by the Nation
al All Club Foundation in Silver
Springs, Md, also said that 12s
American boys and girls have
been chosen to live with farm
families in Latin America, Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa, the Pacific
and the Near and Middle East.
The object of the program is
to provide rural young people
with an opportunity to live in 9TH
er countries in order to gain in
ternational understanding, Bath
said.
Miss Wegmann, school teach
er who speaks English, French,
and German has lived in Switzer-
land on a 35-acre general farm.
She spent four months in Holland
in the summer of 1856 in the
Swiss Exchange Program. Her
hobbies and interests include knit
ting, sewing, crocheting, embroid-
cry, cooking, school systems, cat
tie breeding, travelling, skiing,
swimming, art, and concerts.
Lewis attended Llysfasi Agri-
cultural College in England and
now works as farmer on a 150-
acre farm. Wheat, barley, pota-
toes, kale, fodder, beets, sweet
carrots, cattle, sheep, poultry, and
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25
Poultry Servicemen's Conference
in Laurel NAV

An afternoon conference for
Delmarva peninsula poultry SER
vicemen will be held May 1 in
Laurel 1T Centenary Methodist
Church, Silas L. McHenry, extern
sion poultryman at the Univers-
ity of Delaware, has reported.
DR.. M. S. Cover, poultry path
ologist at the university, will dis
cuss his latest research findings
on synovitis control at 1870 pm.
How to diagnose the disease will
be covered by Dir. l.. M. Greene,
poultry pathologist at the Uni
versity Substation in Georgetown.
Results of research at the Sub
station and in the field with tri-
thadol mixture, new coccidio-
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25

downward motion, and don't pinch
the stems.
To help give the plants a good
start, the horticulturist advises
putting a cupful of starter solu-
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25

sion of the afternoons topics
moderated by McHenry. Repre-
sentatives of major poultry COM
panies will be on the panel.
The Delaware Poultry Improve
ment Association and the Della
ware Agricultural Extension Ser
vice are sponsoring the confer
ence.
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25

stat, will be the topic of DR.. E.
F. Waller, chairman of the de-
partment of animal and poultry
industry at the University.
Cleveland Hastings of Miller
and Bushong Co., Lancaster, Pa,
will outline a summer vaccina-
tion program for broilers and
flock requirements. He will base
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25

tion into each hole before the
plant goes in.
The best time for transplanting
is on a couldy day or late in the
afternoon, Stevens says. Shading
Continued on Page Ten
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25

his recommendations on the re-
suits of experiments and field OBJ
servations. Stewart Kinley of c.
M. T. Corporation, Waterville,
Maine, will discuss the company's
program of broiler flock super
vision.
The session will end with a
question and answer panel discus
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25
Telephone people and their company
bring local Delaware businesses
about $40 million in sales each year

All over Delaware, telephone people and their
families are good steady customers of local bust
nesses of every kind
We are one of the largest employers in the
state, with payroll of more than 81 million
year. Telephone men and women spend their
money for the same things everybody else does
homes, food, clothing, furniture, appliances,
automobiles and automotive products, toys, en-
tertainment, occasional luxuries
And they spend most of it in their home
towns throughout the state, with their local
merchants.
The telephone company itself
is big local customer
AS company, we ourselves buy an endless
variety of products and services from local bust
nesses, large and small, in the communities of
Delaware.
We are spending at the rate of more than
So million a year with local businesses.
Smyrna times., 1957-04-25

Our expansion program means
more business for local merchants, too
Our huge program of expansion and service
improvements in Delaware also helps local
businesses
The program brings work to bricklayers, car
penters, steeworkers, plasterers, and people in
many other trades who are employed by our con-
tractors and suppliers
These men, too, spend the majority of their
earnings with local merchants.
Our success is important to the
economic weII-being of Delaware
1t is in the public interest that the telephone
company be financially strong in order to fur
nish good telephone service. And it is clear that
the successful operation of our company is i'm
portant to businesses throughout the state
Directly or indirectly telephone people and
the telephone company contribute to the economic
well-being of almost everyone in Delaware.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
New Maryland Gas Tax
ToCut District Revenue

motor fuel users may move at
least part of their fuel-buying
out of the District into Mary
land.
This would automatically cut
into District motor fuel taS
receipts,
District government officials
as well as leaders in the truck
ing and bus industries, are
closely studying the Maryland
action.
District officials, it was
learned yesterday, have dis
cussed the impact Of the new
levy with Maryland tax officer:
in Annapolis. They have also
had discussions with spokes.
men for the National Associa.
ton of Motor Bus Operators
Vehicle operators have in.
dictated some hope of having
District regulations altered ir
order to lift the present Dis.
trict levy from gasoline moi
consumed within the Capital
Assessor Kenneth Back sale
yesterday his office has beer
exploring possibilities OF som,
Continued on Page AS, Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
BY JAMES G. DEANE

Maryland is about to levy a
new motor fuel tax which may
work a hardship on some
Washington business interests
and eat into already slumping
District gasoline tax revenue.
On october /, Maryland will
start collecting from motor car.
riers a 6-cents-a-gallon tax for
mileage traversed within the
State.
The new tax is expressly de-
signed to encourage interstate
truckers and bus operators to
buy the gasoline they use in
Maryland within, rather than
outside, the Freestate. Under
its provisions, the operator who
fuels in Washington will still
have to pay the Maryland taS
on the porti,sS used in Mary
land. In other words, he will be
taxed twice.
Just how motor carriers
operating out Of Washington
and businesses having truck
fieets-will react to the new
Maryland move is not vel
known. But there already are
hints that some large-scal,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
Butler Hits Plot to Seize
Democratic Party Reins

Committee Caucus in Los
Angeles.
His charges revived the re-
ports Of a party struggle to
turn Mr.. Butler out of Office
and perhaps substitute for him
former Senator Earle c. Glenn
ents Of Kentucky. who is execu-
tive director Of the Senate
Democratic Campaign Com
mittee. Mr.. Butler has no in
tention Of being forced out
without a fight. The next
scheduled meeting Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee is
in February. But 1t is said that
II any reasonable number Of
committee members should re-
quest an earlier meeting, Mr..
Butler would call 1t.
An official at the ofiices Of
the national committee. queried
about Mr.. Buffers statements.
said he had talked with the
chairman over the telephone
and Mr.. Butler declined to elab-
crate on them.
A belief exists here, how
ever, that Mr.. Butler was aim
ing his shafts at some of the
so-called moderate Democrats
on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.
The chairman is strongly COM
mitted to the liberal wing Of
the party.
Mr.. Butler and his commit
See BUTLER, Page A-6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11

time. The flow recorded just
above washington June 81 was
Z billion gallons daily. In two
weeks time. the water volume
decreased to Is billion gallons.
Ten days later it had dropped
another 200 million gallons.
And last Friday the figure
sagged to slightly more than
l billion gallons daily. q drop
Of 100 million gallons from the
day before.
On the same date in 1890, the
Potomac and its tributaries
were sending a Scant 600 mil
lion gallons daily downstream
to Washington. Sixteen days
later. as the sun blazed and the
rains refrained, the river at
Great Falls sank to its historical
low of 500 million gallons per
day--exactly half the amount
now being received.
Nobody died of thirst at that
time. Nor will anyone's throat
be parched this drought year,
even though the population Of
See WATER, Page Ais
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Democratic National Chair
man Paul M. Butler last night
hurled a charge that a little
group Of mem" saboteurs"
within the Democratic Party
is seeking to capture control
Of the party in order to dc
tate the nomination of the
1860 presidential and vice pres
idential candidates.
Mr.. Butler declined to name
the group, but he spoke with
bitterness Of them. declaring
they were, for their own self
ish purposes. attempting to
wreck our programs and halt
our progress. He charged, to-,
there was an effort in progress
to lessen the power and pres
tige Of the Democratic National
Committee and its chairman.
I'm July, II was reported
that a number of prominent
Democrats. including Senate
Majority Leader johnson OF
Texas. and former National
Chairman Frank Mckinney.
discussed with former Presi-
dent Harry S. Truman strate-
gy on replacing Mr.. Butler as
the present chairmanJ
Mr.. Butler made last nights
comments In a speech prepared
for delivery at a meeting Of the
Southern California Executive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11

Other developments yester-
day were:
/. One veteran Republican
lawmaker. Senator Aiken Of
Vermont. also urged House &C.
ceptance of the Senate bill
with one modification of the
jury trial amendment.
2. Senate Democratic Lead
er johnson of Texas chided
Republican National Chairman
Meade Alcorn for taking q
hand in the opposition Of
House Republican leaders to
the Senate bill. He placed in
the record the statement Mr.
Alcorn issued Friday. AND
added this comment, 1T is 9
sad day for the country when
the chairman of q political
committee openly boasts that
he is on the telephone laying
down the line to the elected
representatives Of the people.
3. Senate Republican Leader
Knowland said this may not
Continued on Page AS, Col. !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11

the Senate version. with OF
without an amendment limiting
trial by jury to voting rights
cases.
Mr.. Mccormack said If the
bill goes to conference, as
favored by the Republicans,
Its passage is in danger. and
it may be years before we again
arrive at this point"
He was referring to the fact
that this is the first time in
more than 30 years both
Houses have acted on q civil
rights bill.
But House Republicans were
still holding out last night fol-
sending the bill to conference
and it was generally agreed al
the Capitol that the Demo
cratic leaders must have some
Republican help before they
win acceptance of the Senate
bill. They need Republican
votes to offset Southern Demo
Gratis who are not expected tt
vote for a motion that would
send the bill to the White
House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
Senate Passes
Police and Fire
Retirement Bill
Increased Benefits
Provided; Measure
Goes to President
By ALEX r. PRESTON

The Senate passed and sent
to the White House q bill for
increased benefits for retired
District police and flremen.
The vote was IS to 10. It
came after two unsuccessful
attempts by Senator Williams,
Republican Of Delaware, to
send the bill back to the Dis
trict committee for further
study.
His motion was defeated by
votes of 10 to AZ and 30 to 80.
Senator williams succeeded
in sending the bill back to the
District Committee last July.
This fact provoked Senator
Beall. Republican of Maryland,
a member Of the District Com
mittee, to comment tartly:
I'VE had two days Of public
hearings on it and any mem
Der Of the Senate was welcome
to appear"
Bible Irritated
Senator Bible, Democrat Of
Nevada, the floor manager for
the bill. appeared to be getting
Iirritated over Senator VIII
liamS' attempts to sidetrack
the measure after debate had
run about two hours. He like
wise referred to the previous
re-referral Of the bill at Sena-
tor Williams request last
month.
I'VE held hearings" Senator
Bible said. Il didn't see my
friend from Delaware there to
ask questions then"
Senator Williams said the
legislation would be setting a
dangerous precedent. He said
that II the increase benefits
were extended to cover all civil
service employees the cost to
the government would be $1.2
billion.
Senator Lausche, Democrat
of Ohio. and q former Cleve-
lander, observed that the meas
ure went further in benefits
than q Cleveland retirement
setup.
Senator Bible said Senator
Williams was making an I'm.
fair comparison In estimating
the cost II extended to all civil
service employees. He said that
II the benefits were extended
to include only those civil serv-
Ice workers in hazardous occu.
pations. the actual cost would
be only 1888 per cent higher.
Contributions Boosted
Contributions. under the
measure. would be increased
from 5 to 6lz per cent. Men,
bers Of the two departments
could retire at the age of so
; years after 20 years service.
Their benefits would increase,
however. If they remained in
the service until q maximum of
20 per cent is reached.
The present law provides re.
tirement pay UP to so per cent
of the salary, while the bill
would change this to a mini
mum Of 662s per cent and q
maximum Of 10 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11

Franc
20 Per Cent

PARIS, Aug. 10 A1.-The
French government announced
tonight a series Of measures
that add up to q 20 per cent
devaluation Of the franc for
most sections of the economy.
Tourists and other individ-
uals and businesses bringing
foreign currency into France
will get a 20 per cent premium
over the official rate Of $50
francs to the dollar.
Each Of their dollars will buy
420 francs. just about the 60
ing rate in the Paris black
market.
French tourists and business
men travelling abroad will have
to pay 20 per cent extra for
their foreign currencies.
French exporters will get a
reimbursement Of 20 per cent
as soon as they convert their
funds back to francs.
All imports. except basic raw
materials and fuels, will be hit
by a 20 per cent tax. A Is per
cent tax on many imports has
been in effect since April.
Finance Minister Felix Gail
lard said so per cent Of all i'm
ports now will be affected. He
said he had avoided including
raw materials and fuels, which
France imports heavily to keep
her economy going, so internal
prices would not be forced up
ward.
Mr.. Gillard said the mea-
sures, effective tomorrow, had
become urgent and inevitable
because Of the nations short
age Of foreign currency. Since
December 1866, France has run
through about Ia billion in
reserves, loans and advances.
The trade balances have con-
tinued to be unfavorable. The
deficit for June was $l37
million in Europe alone.
Tourists avoided official ex-
change counters and traded
their money on the black mar
ket. The Finance Ministry
hopes that the money will now
be funneled into the treasury.
The ministry estimated the
tourist measures will mean a
gain Of about 40 billion francs
($l14,285, 1000 a year for the
governments foreign currency
holdings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
RANCH CENTER
FOR POLITICS

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
Sponsors Of Pay Roise
Grid for Expected Veto

And there are indications
that the Senate also will act on
the postal rate bill, once it is
approved by the House.
Chairman Johnston Of the
Senate Civil Service COMMITTEES
is not enthusiastic about postal
rate increases, but he is ex-
pected to yield to the pleas Of
postal employee union leaders
that he support such q bill.
The reason for the sudden
support of postal rate legisla-
ton is the realization of en-
ploye leaders that only through
its passage will pay raise legis-
lation have a chance of becom-
ing law this year.
Administration officials have
predicted that President Eisen-
hover will veto pay raise legis-
lation even if a postal rate in
crease is included as part OF
the bill.
But Federal pay raise spon-
sors are looking beyond the ex-
pected presidential veto.
They are considering plans
to pass the pay raise bills sep
arately from the postal rate
measure. This undoubtedly
would mean that the President
would sign the rate increase bill
but veto the new raise measure.
V4jns
Strategy May Change
However, the important thing
to pay raise sponsors is that
If this occurs, it would be
much easier to get Congress
to override the pay raise veto.
In other words, they feel that
if a rate increase bill becomes
law, enough Republicans in the
House and Senate will desert
the President to vote to over
ride the veto Of postal and
classified employe pay raise
legislation.
The administrations argu-
ments that pay raise legislation
is too costly would be Offset TO
considerable degree by en-
actment Of postal rate increases
which would raise revenue more
than half the cost of the pay
raises, pay sponsors feel. Thus
their feeling that Congress
would then be more apt to over
ride a pay raise veto.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

Federal pay raise sponsors
spent the week end in strategy
sessions devising plans on how
to muster enough votes to over
ride an expected presidential
veto.
Final approval by Congress
Of the pay legislation, thereby
sending it to the White House,
is regarded as a certainty. The
House already has approved
an II per cent classified and
$546 a year postal employee pay
raises and the Senate is ex-
pected to act sometime this
week.
The big obstacle facing the
classified and postal pay raise
bills is President Eisenhower's
expected veto.
Senate Vote Doubtful
To override. both the House
and Senate must do so by q
two-thirds vote.
Since the House has over
whelmingly approved classified
and postal employe pay raise
legislation by margins far in
excess of the two-third vote
required. pay sponsors are op-
timistic that the House would
override a veto.
The Senate presents a more
difficult problem, with the odds
at present appearing against
overriding a veto. But the out
come will be close. Conse-
quently, Federal pay sponsors
are working on strategy de-
signed to win over enough
Republican votes to permit the
overriding Of a veto.
The strategy centers around
the postal rate increase bill so
urgently desired by the admin
istration.
A few weeks ago the postal
rate bill seemed dead. 1t was
buried in the House Rules Com
mittee and the Senate Post
Office and Civil Service Com
mittee showed no interest in it
However, the postal employe
unions went to work and
rounded enough votes in the
House Rules Committee to clear
the bill for House action. House
approval Of the rate bill is ex-
pected on Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
Copehurt in Quito

QUITO. Ecuador, Aug. 10
R.-United States Senator
Capehart, Republican of Indi-
ana, arrived by plane on Ecua-
doris Independence Day today.
He is on his way to Buenos Aires
where he will be a delegate to
the InterAmerican Economic
Conference starting August Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-11
Wilson Eases Cutback
In Funds For Air Force
$1.2 Billion
Reduction Is
Sliced $50
BY JOHN A. GILES

Defense Secretary Wilson, re-
lenting a bit on his order for
cutbacks, has reduced by IS per
cent the amount of money the
Air Force was directed to trim
from its spending this year in
order to keep within President
Eisenhower'S budgetary ceiling.
He has fixed the Air Force
reduction at 5000 million in
stead of an original figure Of
$1.2 billion. accomplishing this
by transferring $500 million
from other funds.
Approximately 1929 million
came from Army funds and the
rest from Mr.. Wilson's office.
About $3.50 million Of the total
was from appropriations for
programs for which legislation
has not been enacted.
Money For Missiles
This means the Air Force will
spend $17.9 billion in the cur
rent fiscal year instead of SITS
billion allotted to it by the bud
get. The additional money will
be used for procurement of
weapons, mostly guided missiles.
In late May, Air Force Sec.
Rotary Douglas fired a hot pro-
test to Mr.. Wilson on the big
retrenchment program not yet
then under way. He figured
there now is only a temporary
hump" in military expendi-
lures and urged that expendi-
ture detectives be adjusted up
ward to accommodate the hump.
The Wilson action comes as
a result Of that letter and sub
sequent negotiations. The long
range effect viii be that upward
Of 81 billion worth Of procure
ment will be continued. De-
liverieS Of those items will come
two to three years from now.
Economy Continues
Meanwhile. the big economy
drive continues at the Pentagon
with a search Of all three serv-
ices for economies in order to
minimize the disruption and
modernization work that results
from cutting research and pro-
curement.
Announcements of economies
in two more fields are being
readied. They are:
l. Progress payments to man.
acknowledgements on con-
tracts while the weapons are
being made-will be cutback.
2. Civilian personnel will be
reduced. In an effort to mini
mize more drastic measures
later, Mr.. Wilson on Tuesday
ordered an immediate halt in
the hiring of civilian replace
ments this month while studies
are completed to show how
many more must be eliminated
to keep within the budget.
The Defense secretary, with
White House blessing. late last
month first ordered the armed
forces to slash their current
authorized military manpower
(2.8 million) by 100000. He
then turned to the procurement
field and slowed down produce
ton Of the latest Air Force
supersonic fighters and can
'celed the long-range Navajo
missile
He also has ordered q $500
million cut in maintenance and
operations funds. upwards Of
$l70 million Of which will be
accomplished through a slash
in petroleum purchases.