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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01

changes in services and facilities.
However, changes will be made
only as the needs indicate and as
the programs and services JUS
tify."
The oath of office was admin
Iistered by Godfrey M. Thornett
clerk to the Commissioners.
Robert E. Mclaughlin, presi-
dent Of the Board of Commits
sioners, said this lis a happy
day for the District Government
because we can elevate one OF
our longtime employees"
He said the promotion should
encourage other long time en-
lployes.
Yesterday, DR.. Seckinger was
honored in ceremonies in Mr.
McLaughlin's Office. The retir-
ing health director was unable
personally to receive a citation
for public service and the award
was accepted by his wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
big Shopping center at Wiscon.

big shopping center at Wiscon-
sin and Western avenues.
The proposed shopping center
lies entirely within the town
of Somerset. The residential
community will fight the Hecht
Co. application. a spokesman
for the town said. '
The County Council is sched-
uling most of the applications
for public hearing during March.
The Council will sit four. nights
a week to speed up the hearings.
Town Asks Rezoning
The Town of Somerset yester-
day also filed an application to
rezone from industrial to resi-
Dental some 10000 square feet
just off Dorset avenue, east Of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
tracks.
The land is owned by Ken
nedy- Nelms Corp. and repeatedly
is slated for warehouse devel-
opment. The application. accord
ing to county aides. is aimed
at stopping development of the
tract and blocking the use by
industrial vehicles Of Dorset
avenue.
Applications also were filed
for commercial rezoning of sew
eral lots along Chase avenue just
of Wisconsin. Rezonings to
commercial previously were
denied by the County Council
in this area.
Bethesda residents are ex-
pected to fight again a requested
Office building classification of
the one-acre tract at East-West
highway and Waverly street,
previously denied by the Coun-
Gil. The applicant is the YMCA
OF Bethesda.
Several applications were filed
for rezoning at the north end of
the Woodmont triangle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
DR.. Finucone Sworn In
As D. c. Health Director

DR.. Daniel L. Finucane today
was sworn in as the new director
of the District Department of
Public Health and strongly
limited at impending changes
in the department.
The former superintendent Of
Glenn Dale Hospital succeeds
DR.. Daniel l.. Seckinger. whose
retirement was effective at mid
night.
After a brief swearing-in cere-
mony in the board room of the
District Building, DR.. Finucane
told about 100 District employees:
Perhaps. when the results of
studies now under way, or about
to be initiated. have been COM
pleted. and the Commissioners
and the Health Department
have had an opportunity to eval-
uate these studies. it may be
necessary to institute some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01

upon being convicted OF two
counts of transporting lottery
slips.
Judge Fletcher imposed a 5000
fine on Mrs. Jean N. Spinger, 33.
of the Adelphi address, for per-
hitting a lottery to be operated
in the house she rented to the
men. All three entered guilty
pleas.
Judge Fletcher asked for pre-
sentencing reports on two other
men who pleaded guilty to CANT
bling charges.
Salvatore Gentle, A, Of the
1900 block of Dickcrson street,
College Park, was charged with
the possession OF lottery slips
when arrested in iS home by
county police on September 10.
Police charged Charles G Fava,
a. Of the 3700 block II Kennedy
street Hyattsville, with book
making ard possession OF lottery
slips when arrested September 5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
Bill Is Drafted
On bu||dozing
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star stan Correspondent

| ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 1.-Legisla-
ton was being prepared today tc
curb overzealous bulldozing by
housing developers in the Mary
land suburbs of Washington.
1 To conserve trees and protect
natural slopes as much as pos
sible, Delegate Blair Lee III
Democrat of Montgomery. sale
he will introduce a bill requiring
subdividers to submit grading
plans along with their subdivi.
sion plats to the Maryland-Na.
tional Capital Park and Plan.
ming Commission.
!! In other Washington area de.
Ivelopments here at the Mary.
land Legislature, the Prince
Georges County senator anc
delegates announced they viii
put in a bill to create a county
Juvenile court as an arm of the
Circuit Court effective not later
than January /. 1858.
!! Delegate Hervey G. Machen
Democrat of Prince Georges. to.
day introduced in the House q
bill to create a State board Of
registration for general con-
tractors.
Sees Streams Damaged
| Mr.. Lee criticized some SUBJ
divisions for needlessly scalp
ing the earth and rearranging
natural grades"
THE more construction Of a
subdivision greatly increases the
Irun-off Of rain water. which in
itself does great damage to
streams like Rock Creek" Mr.
Lee declared.
! But in addition, some SUBJ
,dividers make the problem even
worse by carrying up the earth
and destroying the natural storm
drainage flow" he added.
The Prince Georges group:
decision to require that the new
county juvenile court be in
operation by next January ]
represents a compromise.
Three delegates wanted the
, court 10 be created this year
) despite a request from Circuit
Court Judges Charles C. Mar
+. bury and John r. Fletcher that
it be held UP until new court
room facilities are available in a
courthouse annex scheduled to
be constructed next year at Up
per Marlboro.
State Senator H. W;nshir
Wheatley, jr.. Democrat Of
Prince Georges, said he and the
six delegates agreed the juvenile
court bill should become "be ef-
Elective when ordered by the Cir
cult Court. but not later thar
January /. 1853"
The bill would provide for 8
master of juvenile causes as vel
+. as clerical. lnvestigative anc
probation personnel. 1t would bt
patterned after the Baltimore
County juvenile court system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
Water Added
ssass
.ToOysters,
Official Says

BALTIMORE. Feb. 7 R.-
About one quater of the oyster
packers in this area add water
to packed oysters. Federal Food
and Drug official estimates.
He said it probably will cost
consumers 50 million during the
current oyster season.
Richard Williams, head of the
Federal Food and Drug Admin
istration Office in Baltimore. yes
terday described the watering as
a major and current" concern.
Mr.. Williams said a survey
made during the peak of the
oyster packing season indicated
100000 gallons of tap water were
added to cans of oysters.
More than 200 shipments Of
lOJoVO1o 4lOlAA OO pdNhCko AL Mdly~
land and Virginia were examined
by his Office during the latter
months of 1856, Mr.. Williams
said.
Evidence was found that Is
Iper cent of these shipments con-
tanned added water.
The samples we're taken from
shipments headed for all parts
Iof the country.
Mr.. Williams said he was de-
Itermined to enforce Federal laws
against the shipment of adult
Iterated food in interstate COM
merce.
At present. five cases are pend
ling in Maryland and Virginia
Federal courts against oyster
packers who allegedly shipped
lWatered oysters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01

The Rock Greek watershed
which has seen tremendous
building development in the last
decade or so. is a good example
In the nine years before the war;
time building boom, the creek
had six floods. In the same
period. after 1912, there were Il
floods. And since 1850. there
have been five floods with an
all-time record flood stage OF
1872 feet last year.
To date. soil and water con-
servation in the Potomac River
basin generally is "far from ade-
quate," Mr.. Young asserted.
Mr.. Crooks proposed remedy
for the uncontrolled expansion
OF metropolitan areas is regional
planning on a watershed basis
This would involve the smaller
icomponents of the main river
basin.
Suitable for Boundary
THE watershed boundary line
flor planning purposes is thu
most suitable since it defines ar
area OF common physical prob.
lens and conditions" Mr.. Crook.
said. Community services anc
recreation facilities, moreover
may be grouped naturally in {
stream valley, he said.
THE conservation Of our pro.
ductive soil and the control Of
water on our farm lands shoulc
be one Of the most serious con.
Germs to which this present day
population should focus its at,
tention," Mr.. Cooks said.
Lathrop E. Smith, president
OF the Rock Greek Watershed
Association. asserted that bet.
ter understanding must b,
reached between ort-sighted
land developers and the com.
munities they supposedly serve
THE time has passed." Mr.
Smith said. when we can re,
gard our natural resources al
fair game for all to despoil anc
exploit according to his purpos,
or profit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01

session OF lOLJery slips.
Raymond c. German. 80. Of
the 400 block Of Jennifer street
NV. received six-month term
in the County Jail and a $500
fine on each of the two charges
The two $500 fines for bookmak-
ing were suspended.
Judge John r. Fletcher, in
ordering the sentences to run
concurrently. said he agreed with
States Attorney Blair II. Smith
that the only way to keep gam
,blers out of the county was tc
make them spend time in prison
County police estimated Ger
man and Grove were doing a
81 ,000-a-day business when ar
rested last September 10 at theil
house in the 1900 block Of
Eighteenth avenue, Adelphi.
Mr. Smith said German hac
been fined $50 in Montgomery
County for possessing lottery
slips and that Grove mao beer
lsent 70 jail in another STATE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
Planning Urged to Save
Forms by Orderly Growth

The ever-increasing encroach-
ment of "citified" development
on Americas farmlands may. in
Is years, lead to inadequate food
production unless programs of
orderly growth are planned.
Two conservation officials in
independently prepared papers
delivered yesterday before the
Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin were in
agreement on the point.
The speakers were Gladwin
Young, deputy administrator of
the Federal Soil Conservation
Service. and Malcolm P. Crooks.
executive director of the Stony
Brook-Millstone Watershed Asso-
citation of Pennington. N. j. The
commissions two-day winter
meeting in the Hotel Washing
ton ends today.
Mr., Young referred to recent
surveys showing that, in the last
Is year. II million acres of the
--LATEST. most fertile land has
been converted to such non-agri-
cultural use as housing subdi-
visions, industrial and CONNER
call plants, highways and air.
ports.
Million a Year
If the same rate continues to
1875, he added, there will be "a
million fewer crop acres avail
able to meet farm produce de-
mands than existed in 1850. The
rate of disappearance of CROP
land is now about million
acres yearly.
1T becomes obvious" the con-
servation official warned, that
only short Is years ahead we
can see demands in excess OF
present production from avail
able crop acres"
The big misgiving among con-
servationists is that once the
land is converted from farm tc
urban use 1t is almost certainly
"lost forever" as productive
agricultural resource.
This fact" Mr.. Young said
gives a finality to decisions
made now that puts SOLDERING
responsibility on those who must
make the decisions"
The fact that the Nation may
not begin to go actually hungry
"for another generation or So
does not give "a valid excuse
for covering our best agricul.
tural land with concrete anc
steel when equally good OF
better locations for urban type
development are available or
poorer soil" he said.
AS urbanization smothers pro.
ductive soil. 50 does it jar tn,
natural processes OF water alb,
sorption and run-off. Mr.. Youni
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
Stanley Would Let
Agency Solve Problems

RICHMOND, Feb. l Up. Gov
Stanley says he can see mo rea-
son why the mempers" OF the
existing interstate Potomac
River Basin Commission cannot
handle problems OF flood con-
troll and pollution in the area.
Gov. McKeldin of Maryland
had suggested that Gov. Stanley
the Governors OF Pennsylvania
and West Virginia have legis.
lators from their States meet In
Annapolis next month and that
The District OF Columbia Com
lmissioners be represented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
North Virginia
Airport Backed
Conditiona||y

Without specifically indorsing
Burke, the Virginia Airport Fa-
cilities Commission has con-
Icluded that Washington's sup
Elemental airfields hould be well
coined to Northern Virginia il
the State wants to get into the
airport business.
State Senator Charles r. Fen
wick. commission chairman, told
1.-THE Northern Virginia Regional
Planning Commission last night
that his group has agreed:
/. If Virginia airport au-
thority is created and takes over
National Airport. the supple
mental airport also should be in
4 Virginia.
1 2. Whether the National Air
port is available for operation
by the State will have a direct
bearing on whether Virginia
airport authority will be created.
/ 3. Establishment of the sup
Elemental airport outside Of
Virginia may inhibit the oppor-
itunity of the proposed Virginia
airport authority to take over
National Airport.
! 4. Future industrial develop
ment in Virginia is closely tied
ito airport facilities.
Purpose Explained
1.-THE Virginia Commission is
not advocating construction of
an airport at Burke" said SEN
Iator Fenwick. Our purpose is
to determine the feasibility of
an airport. But we are of the
opinion that the establishment
of an authority depends largely
on location of the supplemental
airport in Virginia.
On an airplane inspection
"trip over Burke last week, SEN
ator Fenwick said, members OF
the commission were surprised
that there was so little develop
ment in the area.
"One commission member even
joked that 1t would be a good
place for a STILL" Senator Fen
wick added.
The Arlington legislator said a
Department of Commerce con-
Sultant had placed an Sll.5 mil
lion deprecated value on Ma
tional Airport. Cost of Burke
has been estimated at S48 mil
lion. He said the consultant's
report showed it was financially
feasible for an authority to ac-
quire both airports and pay off
the debt with operating income.
Senator Fenwick, said National
currently brings in 81 million a
year
j. Maynard Magruder, a mem
Der Of the Airport Commission
said location of Washington S
supplemental airport in North
ern Virginia would expand the
States market region.
Tax Question Raised
William Moss. Fairfax repre-
sentative on the planning group,
asked whether local Jurisdictions
would collect taxes from an air.
port operated by a State au-
thority.
1T would be my recommended
ton that at such time as amor
tization Of the airport is COM
iplete. the land be subject to local
taxation, but l couldn't say when
that would take place." Senator
Fenwick replied.
+. Ralph Raul, Arlington repre-
sentative on the planning COM
mission. said if tax revenue
might not be drained of to other
parts Of the State under a State
authority setup.
But if it we're a regional au-
thority. would not the local juris-
Idictions in Northern Virginia be
assured of all the tax benefits?'
he asked.
4 The planning group took nc
action on the report. but agreed
ito study the authority plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
Trude Bourd to Meet

The Silver Spring Board Of
Trade will hold a dinner meet
ling at 7 pm Wednesday at the
Indian Spring Country Club
George Dixon. newspaper colum-
mist, will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
Area School Asks FIN

Washington Missionary Col
Ilege, Takoma Park, Md, yes
terday applied to the Federal
Communications Commission for
an educational FM radio station
on channel 200.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
Two Prince Georges Men
Are jailed for GombIino

Two with record Of previous gambling convictions
given total of three jail and $4,000 fines yesterday
in Prince Georges Circuit Court.
Jack Grove As. of the 1900 block of Kklyn avenue.
Takoma Park sentenced the House of
econs and fined $500 each charge bookmakng pos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-01
What Santa's Bringing

For boys with constructive tendencies there
are skyscraper building blocks which look
much like the Woolworth Building or the
Tribune Tower when assembled. Young
sters who've reached the gun-totin' stage
but have outgrown the simple six-shooter
may take pleasure in double-barreled
swiveling POM pom gun. Little girls may
go for a pint-size ironing board and iron
to keep their dollies' wardrobes neat. For
children OF either sex. an assortment Of
one-man- band toys Is making 1t possible
for the youngsters TO sound off like full
orchestras. Scientific toys have kept all
the Iuster they had last year. but the trend
is toward putting an element Of fun In them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-01

CANTA has barely had time 70 park his
- reindeer before toy makers are grinding
out new numbers for the next Christmas
sales. In early spring the Toy Guidance
Council exhibits the playthings to educators
and toy dealers so they can express their
opinions as to the suitability and STABILITY
Of given items. BY the time the stockings
are hung for Christmas filling. a toy has
been seen by a lot Of people. including
children on a toy preference panel.
Among the toys children will wake up
to find on Christmas morning this year are
facsimile teletype machines that make
clicking and ticking noises like the real
thing and spin out typed messages on tape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-01

rnt SUNDAY srAs MAGAZINE WASHINGTON {.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-25
FORE AND AFT
BY MALCOLM LAMBoRNE

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Ameri-
can boating shows every sign of
reaching new heights for 1857.
There is no better barometer
than the New York Boat Show,
now in its seventh day. Crowds,
interest and styles tell the story
for the season yet to come.
Attendance is way UP over
last year. with crowds jamming
the Coliseum day and night all
week long. Original optimistic
estimates Of show sponsors that
$4,000 would see the show by
closing time this Sunday at
z pm. seem more realistic than
ever.
Exhibitors report brisk sales
to individuals and dealers, many
of whom are beginning to won
der whether they really have
stocked UP enough for the COM
ing season.
A survey of the sponsoring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-25
With BILL LEETcH

that January. to an angler, is
just twice as long as any other
month in the calendar, and his
determination to do something
about it. known to all fisher
men as the dead Month";" jan
uary is a most frustrating time
when desire to go fishing burns
strongly but the elements say
mol" with a capital IN" So
Ben decided to get together his
friends of the Dry Land Fishing
Club and go fishing at the end
OF the month, just to celebrate
the passage of that dreary
period.
You'll probably find the fresh
frozen over, but there1l be min
nows for bait available, plenty
of free hot dogs and coffee.
BY all means, take your light
tackle along. for you may really
catch a nice mess of yellow
perch. There are all sorts of
prizes for those who do. If the
ice isn't too bad. possibly you
can get down to where the big
carp lay in the deep holes, and
where a three-way hook snagged
into one at the end of strong
line on a bay rod can give you
plenty of thrills.
X 4 4
The Greenbelt Chapter of the
Izaak Walton League will hold
its annual installation of officers
in the club rooms of the Green
belt Fire Department on the
evening of February 2.
We've been trying to find
some sort of leader material
other than diamond drawn gut
that will put out a fly equally
as well as the gut leader. We
believe we're on the right track
through the kindness of our
friend. Reg Ellis Of Du Pont.
Reg says DUPONT makes a special
nylon monofilament which he
believes properly tied, will do
the trick. Well report to our
trout and bass fishing friends
as soon as we can be sure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-25

The warm weather earlier
this week brought a food of
calls from impatient anglers
wanting to know about fishing
possibilities. But outside Of adj
vice that Virginia's season east
of the Blue Ridge is open year.
round. and that you can catch
crappie and bluegills in Mary
land all year, we have not been
able to offer much encourage
ment.
Yellow perch runs aren't likely
to start before late February,
as they depend upon water tenn
lperatures and the fish won't
start to spawn before the water
REACHES 40 degrees or more. It
takes a lot of warm weather
and rain to bring this about.
We've been investigating the
possibilities of taking some warm
afternoon off and going after
Ipickerel in the South River or
some other brackish estuary of
the Chesapeake. Talked with
our friend, Stew Wells, of the
Largo Sport Shop, who is just
back from Florida. Stew was
busy making spinner hooks and
INCLUDING shad darts but said
The. too. had considered such a
"trip.
However, there has been so
much ice that until the blow
"Wednesday, the South River was
frozen clear across. and even
now there is so much ice you
couldn't get out to obtain min
Inows. So we've allowed our fish
ing fever to die down.
~ ~
| Here's one way you can help
THAT old itch to go fishing. Drive
down Route 5 past Waldorf
onto Route 301 Sunday, and
continue about 10 miles to the
turn to the left to Aliens Fresh,
one mile away. There you'll find
an enthusiastic group of anglers
celebrating Ben Dement, Day"
mot so much in honor Of Ben
as in recognition of his discovery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-25

National Association of Engine
and Boat Manufacturers Just
made public gives some idea
OF the heavy volume of business
last year. Thirty-two builders at
the show report their volume
rose 43 per cent to $24,5O7, 297,
and they look for another rise
of $40 million this year.
And so it runs through all
segmentS of the industry.
What will all this mean on
American waterways next sum-
mer and the summers thereafter
in terms of boating safety? A
committee Of Congress has been
doing some pioneer work in
this field. and one of its leading
members had something to re-
port here yesterday,
The speaker was Represen-
tative John Allen. jr., Republic
can of California. and the TO-
rum was the annual meeting of
the American Boat and Yacht
Council. Mr.. Allen, a key mem
Der of the House Merchant
Marine and Fisheries Commit
tee, had some personal predic-
tons on what the committee
would soon be recommending.
| He said that as a result of
extensive hearings over the past
six months. he had found no
evidence of any distress situa-
ton that would require hurry-up
legislation, and he promised
that Congress would approve
nothing that would hamper the
sport.
The Californian suggested
action in these areas:
/. A conservative. basic boat
ing law applicable to Federal
waters and one the States could
use as a model for legislation
affecting boatmen operating on
purely State waters.
z. Extension of the Federal
numbering act to all power
driven boats. which take in all
outboards under 16 feet. But
since the Coast Guard isn't big
enough to take on the Job COM
pletely, there may be a Joint
sharing of responsibility between
the Nation and the States. The
numbering would be renewable
every three or four years, and
the penalty for failing to comply
would be raised above the pres
ent admittedly inadequate $40
| fine.
3. A redefining Of what is
reckless and negligent operation
OF motorboats, plus some changes
in the law to permit civil PEN
alties for violators instead of
the present procedure for GRIM
inal action.
4. The possible establishment
OF a small boat division within
the Coast Guard to handle the
many growing problems of boat
ing, along with increased funds
to help the service do a better
enforcement job.
If this is the way legislation
VIII be developing in the months
ahead, few should find anything
| to earn about