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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-05

hand, the more firmly the bal
bit.
Finally, Pvt. Leacock shook
him off and dashed him to the
floor. Thoroughly annoyed by
this time. he picked him up
and threw him down again I'M
til he was quite sure the bat
was dead. Then he tossed him
out the window.
The policemen repaired to
Sibley Hospital where Pvt. Lea
cock was treated for bat bite
and returned to duty.
But the bat wasn't yet com.
pletely out of their lives Some
body in the Police Department
thought the bat might have
been rabid.
The policemen were ordered
to return to the scene. There
they searched the yard till they
found the little brown creature
by this time thoroughly dead
They took it to the Health De-
partment for rabies testing.
Said Pvt. Leacock: II had no
idea bats had such teeth. He
had a full upper SET"
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Volunteers BuiIdHomes
For Hurricane Survivors

CAMERON, La, Aug. 5 (Pl.--
Five modest houses are ready
for survivors of Hurricane
Audrey after organized labor
first weekend building bee.
More than $50 volunteer
AFL-CIO members moved into
Cameron Parish county Sat-
urday morning. When they left
late yesterday the houses were
finished.
The labor men plan several
more weekend projects as their
contribution to REBUILDING the
area ravaged in June by the
disastrous hurricane tn a t
claimed 500 lives.
A crew from Alexandria built
the largest house, at Creole. for
Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley Richard
and their four children. A
Shreveport crew built two
houses at Grand Chenur for
Mrs. Charlse Broussard. g. and
Mrs. Frances January. s.. both
widows.
A New orleans crew worked
at Cameron, where it built
house for Mr.. Gilbert Lasalle,
80, and his surviving child Mr..
Lasalle lost his wife and four
children in the hurricane.
A crew from Baton Rouge
built a home at Creole for Wan
Richard, 5l-year-old disabled
bachelor.
The union men. working with
materials furnished by the Red
Cross, plan to build IS homes
during the weekend building
bees. Each crew was a self
contained unit of 35 to SO men
complete with carpenters, cleo
tricianS. plumbers and other
specialists.
The crews spent Saturday
night in National Guard tents
and were fed by a Red Cross
mobile kitchen unit. The Red
Cross also supplied furnishings
for the completed homes.
Many of the home sites were
surrounded by debris from the
hurricane.
c. X. Carter "a Shreveport
contractor and member of the
city's carpenters local. said. q
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-05
Nixon Plans
To Vacation
I'm California

Vice President Nixon sale
today he intended to spend {
couple of weeks vacationing il
California after Congress ad,
journS.
Mr.. Nixon said he woulc
spend week in Northern
California and a week in the
southern part of the State
Asked if he would talk any
politics, he just grinned anc
didn't answer.
Mr.. Nixon's visit is generally
regarded here as in the nature
of a check on the Californis
situation, which will be Of
major Importance to him in his
expected bid for the 1860 Re-
publican Presidential nomina-
ton.
Mr.. Nixon obviously expects
Senator Knowland. Republican
of California, to announce this
fall his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination for Gov
ernor of California next year
Senator Knowland has sched-
uled a series of speeches in the
State, beginning Labor Day
unless Congress still is in SEES
sion then.
If Senator Knowland takes
on Gov. Goodwin j. Knight fol
the State Office nomination the
move will be regarded as
signaling Senator Knowland' S
intention to bid for the G. O.P
presidential nomination two
years later.
Senator Knowland has said
he will not seek reelection to
the Senate. Beyond saying that
he will have an announcement
after he returns to California,
the Senate's Republican leader
has kept his future plans to
himself.
If Senator Knowland and
Gov. Knight tie into each other
in the 1858 State primary, Mir
Nixon is expected to preserve
a highly neutral role although
he might benefit by the elimin-
alton of Senator Knowland
from the national picture in
such a contest.
Mr.. Knight is not now re-
garded generally as major
contender for the 1860 Presi-
dental prize. He might have
other ideas. however, if he
could dispose of Senator Know
land in the State race.
The identification of Senator
Knowland and Mr.. Nixon with
civil rights controversy now
under way in Congress has
given each of them an issue
they believe will be helpful
not only in California but
nationally.
Senator Knowland's cham
pionship of tough civil rights
bill could help him Immediately
in populous Southern Califor-
mia, where the minority vote is
strong. Mr.. Nixon could use
popularity in that area if a
battle develops over control of
the California delegation to the
1860 convention.
But Senator Knowland was
unable to push through a bill
with all the civil rights provi-
sions he and the Eisenhower
administration had sought.
BY virtue of his Office, Mr.
Nixon publicly was on the side
lines when the coalition of civil
rights supporters led by Sen
ator Knowland took a political
lacing from Senator Lyndon B.
johnson of Texas. the Demo-
cratic leader.
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saw the London blitz and lot
of other things in World War II
and this would sure match it.
1t may even be worse"
w. A. Polk of New Orleans,
a Greyhound bus driver who
brought in the New Orleans
crew. took one look at the area,
then traded his uniform for
work clothes and pitched in.
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TotoI Disagreement

CINCINNATI (P).-Our COM
pick modern world. A local
couple, John F. LEBLANC. 80
and mis- wife. Emma. 80. nave
filed cross complaints in divorce
court here because. among
other things. they could not
agree on what television pro-
grams to watch.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Charles Mitchell
Heads D. C. Area
Gasoline Dealers

Charles w. Mitchell. oper-
ator of the Lake Amoco Station
at $3.50 Connecticut avenue,
Chevy Chase, Md. has been
elected president of the Metro
politan Retail Gasoline Dealers
Association.
Formerly vice president of
the association, he becomes the
first Amoco dealer to head the
organization. A native of Dam
vile. Va, he served with the
Army Air Corps in World War
II and entered the gasoline
business as a partner in the
Brookville Amoco Station in
Chevy Chase. He moved to his
present location in 1852.
Other new association off,
GERS: Charles w. Rinehart, vice
president; c. Edward Duvall,
treasurer; Norman Manning
secretary. New directors in
clude: James H. Carpenter,
Romuald T. Hite, Lacy J. NAL
colin. Paul v. Noonan and A. F.
HipSley.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
NALU Spokesman Opposes
Social Security Bill

Social security amendments
recently proposed by Repre-
sentative Kean, Republican of
New Jersey, are unsound and
mot in the public interest" a
spokesman for the National
Association of Life Under
writer's charged.
Albert c. Adams of Phila-
delphia. a vice president of
NALU and chairman of its
Social Security Committee said:
we think it is extremely
regrettable that Mr.. Kean has
bowed to the philosophy of
less able men who would Sacri-
fee the SoundneSs of the
OASDI program to its vote
getting appeal. He would have
served the interests of the
Nations workers best if he had
called for an objective cost
study of the program as it
exists now instead of proposing
the series of patchwork amend
ments contained in his bill"
Evening star., 1957-08-14
japan to OHerCur
For u. S. Market

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. IA
(R.-Japan is planning to en-
ter the United States small car
market this fall with a six
passenger automobile priced
under $1,000. according to a
visiting japanese businessman.
The businessman, Giichiro
Tanaka. told newsmen here
yesterday that, details of the
new auto were still a closely
guarded secret. He said the
Japanese Automobile Industry
Association has announced a
goal of $500 units for overseas
shipment during fiscal 1857.
Mr.. Tanaka, one of IL Jap
anese businessmen touring
American industrial sites under
sponsorship of the United
States State Department, is
president of Tanaka Precision
Industry Co., Ltd, in Nagoya.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Banks Raise
Acceptunces
Third Time

NEW YORK. Aug. IA (R.-
The cost of borrowing money
through bankers acceptances
rose for the third time within
a week when major dealers to-
day announced a "a percentage
point increase across the board.
effective Immediately.
This makes a total increase
of % of a point since last
Wednesday, when a "a per cent
rise was announced, after the
increase in the bank prime loan
rate from 4 to az per cent.
The new bid and asked rates
for bankers acceptances are for
30-to-90-day bills 41s-4 per
cent, l20-day bills 4A-4ls per
cent, 180-day bills 43s-4A per
cent.
Dealers said the latest in
crease stemmed primarily from
a growing volume of bills COW
ering the 1856 cotton crop.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
|Used-Cor Buyer Warned
of SoIesmon's Pitch

get his money back-nor should
he. But most dealers offer to
apply it toward the price of
another car.
The worst part about the
suggested sales pitch is that
it is based on fear. you are
going to lose the best buy of
the yearl" is, in essence, what
the salesman would be telling
the prospect. It's fright selling,
on a par with, Even your best
friend won't tell you'll"
The veteran dealer" who
suggests selling cars this way
ought to have his morals re-
ground and the NADIA Maga-
zine should have it's editorial
carburetor thoroughly recon-
ditioned."
Meanwhile, Gustave, if a
used-car salesman tells you a
heap is the best buy he's seen
this year and that he would
be glad to hold it for you but
can't speak for the other
statesmen, don't hesitate! Give
him the money right away!
Stuff 1t in his manicured
hands! Shove it in his pockets!
You don't want to miss a
chance to become member of
the Loyal Order of Gullible
Americans, do you?
tMcClure Newspaper Syndicate)
Evening star., 1957-08-14
BY ELMER ROEsSNER

The July issue of the Ma
tional Automobile Dealers As
sociation magazine has an item
on selling used cars. 1t pre-
sents the suggestions of an un-
named veteran dealer with 40
years experience"
The dealer. the NADIA maga-
zine says, believes selling used
cars is the best training for
new salesmen. 1t continues:
when a buyer is looking for
a new car he can say, oh we'll,
I'll think about it and get one
next week. Therell be plenty
more Just like this one
"On the other hand, the
used-car salesman can say to
the buyer. This car has low
mileage, it's thoroughly re-
conditioned, and it's the best
IuSed-car I've seen this year
OF course. if you would like to
wait until tomorrow I'll be
glad to wait but l can't speak
for the other statesmen here
and l imagine it will be gone
tomorrow That last sentence
clinches the sale"
Best Of Year How Often?
Isn't that a piece of busi-
ness?
If the salesman is honest,
he can use that pitch very few
times a year. How often does
"the best used-car buy I've
seen this year" come along?
Surely not very often-unless
almost every used car is a bet
ter buy than the last. And if
that's true. the prospect would
be better of waiting.
We may assume the car has
low mileage and is thoroughly
reconditioned. Some cars do
have low mileage and almost
all are reconditioned these days.
But the. business of waiting
until tomorrow although not
being able to speak for the
other Salesmen-and imagining
the car will be gone by that
time-is a pocket full Of Squir-
rel food.
If you have ever browsed in
used-car lots and salesrooms
you have seen the same cars
day after day. Even the flos-
-sied-up job labeled Best
Buy!" often fingers for a long
time. Some cars. to be sure,
are sold right away. But the
used-car turnover isn't so fast
that statesmen can count on
any one car being gone tomor-
row. OF course. a salesman can
imagine" any car being sold
in a day. He can imagine the
entire stock being sold in the
next 10 minutes.
Can Take Deposit
II the salesman has his wits
about him. he can prevent
other statesmen. from selling a
car out from under his pros
poets nose. He can take a
$40 or $40 deposit, reserving
the car for a day or two
Hundreds Of used-car dealers
do just that. If the prospect
changes his mind, he doesn't
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Folding Carton SoIes
Show Shurp Increase

NEW YORK. Aug. IA (R.-
The folding carton industry is
cashing in on increased use of
folding boxes for packaging
cigarettes and candy.
According to the Folding
Paper Box Association, sales of
folding cartons for the first six
months this year totaled SAB 5
million. a gain of $8.4 million
over the first six months last
year.
Expanded use of the fiip-top
cigarette box has increased
sales to the tobacco industry
by 100000 a month.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
PEOPLE
BUSINESS

Harold Massinger has been
appointed Washington branch
manager for Victor Adding Ma
chine Co. He has made an out
standing record as sales super
visor at Boston.
Dick Gilmartin has been
named sales service manager
for Station WTTG-TV. He has
had seven years of experience
in sales and television.
William j. Noonan has been
appointed assistant district pas
senger service manager for
Trans World Airlines. He for
merly was district passenger
service manager at LaGuardia
Airport in New York.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
SafewayP Plans
|3-for-1 Split;
Lifts Dividend.

OAKLAND, Calf. Aug. IA
up. = Directors Of Safeway
Stores. Inc. recommended yes
iterday a three-for-one split of
the grocery chain common
stock. A special stockholders
meeting will vote on the split
plan November 4.
Robert A. Mcgowan. board
chairman and president, told
a directors meeting in New
York the three-for-one split
was urged to bring the price
within the reach of the aver
age investor. Safeway closed
at 1874 on the New York Stock
Exchange yesterday.
The directors also declared
an increased quarterly dividend
of rs cents on the present
common stock. The previous
quarterly rate has been go
cents.
The company reported a net
profit of $l3.978.0l0 or $3.41 a
common share. after income
taxes in "a weeks ended June
Is. compared with $685. or
$2.5l a share in the same period
last year.
Sales in the "a weeks ag-
gregated $3.50, ,48O, ,O72, COM
pared with 1891 ,252,3 a year
earlier. Profit before income
taxes was $29.837,176, COM
pared with $21. .052.937.
The balance sheet for June is
listed current assets of $237,-
250.355 VS.. $258.5l2,409 a year
earlier and current liabilities
of $125.873.310 VS.. $155.422,130.
The current ratio was 1873 to /,
compared with l.66 to / on the
same 1856 date. Book value of
common stock on June IS was
$4,000 a share VS.. $34.7l a year
ago.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
.EIqin Gets Contracts

ELGIN. ILL.,, Aug. IA (R.-
The Elgin National Watch Co.
said yesterday its micronics
division has been awarded three
research and development con-
tracts for guided missile COM
ponents.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Why an .nDzpEnDEn,

insurance man can SerUe you best
In insurance, in many other fields, there is no
monopoly on good ideas. good service, good rates.
One company may have developed better policy for
the homeowner in some Another company may
boast lower rates certain forms OF insurance Still
third may be especially noted for prompt service.
Which OF these companies should you insure with?
II you ask company representative. he will usually
try to persuade you that has company-and only his
company-is best for YOU
That in fact good reason for buying insurance only
through an independent insurance agent or broker
heeaHs nc ''prs's"fi not me bai
eo"paHeS he be impartial in piekina the best COM
pany Tor your individual needs
Because hes NOtsssiOs0 Gnsm0ses MAS no, lust
salesman he keepS with types Of insurance
eraRe and makes certain insurance 10 up TO date
because he Is indepssdsHf you count on him 10
assist YOU with your claim when you suffer loss and to
represent your interests to the fullest all times
Our advice To be certain about your insurance pro.
lection and service, see US who are Indsbsndsrt
brokers.
Business Established 1926
J. BlaiSe de Sibour & Go.
Insurance Brokers
1900 Eye ST. NV. nae. 1896
Property TOa, Automobile
CaSuGtt
Evening star., 1957-08-14
District LithOgraph Co.
InStaIls New Press

District Lithograph Co. has
completed installation of a new
two-color Offset press pur-
chased through the district
Office of Harris-Seybold Co.
The new press is designed
especially for fast-production
color work of high quality to
met the increasing demand fer
color in modern publications
and advertising. 1t is capable
of speeds up to 1000 sheets an
hour.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Merrill Lynch Distributes
Security, Industry Survey

Merrill Lynch. Pierce, Fenner
g. Beane is distributing its
quarterly survey Of securities
and industries.
This analytical guide for in
veStors provides an impressive
amount of detailed information
for investors.
Bache g. Co. has compiled an
interesting study OF Lorillard.
Smith Barney e. Co. has re-
viewed Louisiana-Delta Off,
shore Corp.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
METAL PRICES

NEW YORK, Aug. IA R.-Spot
nonferrous metal prices today. Copper
2SH-2S12 cents pound, Connecticut
Valley. Lead IA cents a pound. New
York Zinc 10 cents a pound East St.
Louis. Tin 94Ia cents a pound, New
York Foreign silver 91h cents per
troy ounce, New York At Pittsburgh
scrap steel No. / heavy was quoted at
55. .OO-56. 90.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Earl Macintosh. jr., Added
ID Board of Interstate

IN D0dFO OI AntCA SNabC
Earl M. Macintosh. ir., vice
preSdent OF Weaver Bros. Inc,
has been elected a director of
Interstate Building Association.
4 was announced yesterday. He
fills the vacancy left by the
cath of his father in July.
Interstate also announced
transfer Of Herbert Haller, who
recently was elected vice presi-
dent and assistant secretary, to
me downtown office from man.
aeership of the Friendship
Office
Harry Krebs, jr. assistant
vice president, has been named
manager OF the Friendship
oeice and Robert A. Barton,
ir,, has been named to succeed
Mr.. Krebs as manager of the
south Capitol street office.
Interstate assets totaled a
little more than SAT million on
.July 81. up around SO million
from a year ago, and invested
capital of 1924 900 was aoout
as million higher, the an
nouncement SAID.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Gilpin Co. Establishes
p.t;rement Plan

THE Henry b Gilpin Co,
wholesale drug firm of Balti-
more. Norfolk and Washington,
has established an employe re-
tire ttrement plan with all person.
nel participating President
James E. Allen announced yes
terday. a. -,
noer ec'r made available for all EN-
e,,os Deea with al least five years
pioy.S so,.,,ice and at least 80 years
" " sse es, The company WI con-
" trtbute butte abqlt two-third Of The
Evening star., 1957-08-14
'9s'' M BUSINESS
Continued Rise Shown
.ByCommon Trust Funds
By DONALD B. HADLEY

Common trust funds which permit consolidation of the
investments of small trusts to provide divershcaton
and operating continuing among
and trust companies of the Nation.
survey Federal Reserve Board which keeps
close watch them showed that 243 trust funds
Evening star., 1957-08-14

gregate market value of ST.
974.000.000 at the end of 1856.
The latest figures contrasted
with 10l funds and principal
of $3.50 million in 1850 and
only 10 funds and principal
of $1S million in 1870.
The Reserve Board reported
that 81 new funds we're, estab-
lished in 1856 and five States
that previously had none were
j added to the list. They are
Arizona, Arkansas. Mort h
Dakota, Rhode Island and
South Carolina. There were
funds operating in 40 of the
| 40 jurisdictions that permit
them (47 States, District of
Columbia and Hawaii.
The number of tiduciary ac-
lcounts invested in them in
creased around 5000 during
1886 and totaled nearly $4,000
lat the end of the yeaS This
lcpntrasted with only around
$4,000 in 1850.
! &However, Sl06i million in
crease in holdings Of the funds
| during 1856 was less than half
/ the gain in the preceding year
/ Major factors were smaller ad-
lditions from new participationS,
llarger Withdrawals and a net
! decline in market values in
scontrast to appreciation in 1855.
the survey found.
Investment Transactions
Total S6O3 Million
I Gross investment tranSac-
stions of common trust funds
r5etaled S603 million in 1856.
compared with s578 million IN
1855. Purchases were practi-
cally unchanged, but sales and
redemptionS were larger.
The net amount of new
money going into the funds
during the year was $119 mil
lion, or S26 million less than
in the previous period.
! II was estimated that SIS per
cent Of the new money went
into bonds, IS per cent into
/ common stocks, II per cent
into preferred stocks. 6 per
cent into real estate loans and
savings accounts and 5 per
cent was held in cash.
Compared with 1855. this
represented decline in the
proportion invested in bonds
and an increase in cash hold
ings, real estate loans and saw
ings accounts The proportion
invested in common and pre-
ferred stocks was about the
same as in 1855.
About so per cent Of the
common trust assets are held
by funds in the Boston. New
York and Philadelphia Reserve
Districts The total for the
Richmond Reserve District was
sl44.5 million at the end of
1856.
Four Washington Banks
Are Operating Funds
Common trust funds are
operated by four Washington
banks and trust companies.
The District of Columbia law
authorizing the funds went in
to effect late in 1949 and Amer
lean Security g. Trust Co. or
ganized a discretionary fund
on February %. 1850.
Washington Loan e. Trust
Co. since merged with Riggs
National Bank. started a legal
fund in July of the same year
Riggs now administers this
fund
National Savings g. Trust
Co started a legal fund in 1851
and Union Trust Co. instituted
a. discretionary fund in 1858
In a discretionary fund, in
vestments are made at the dis
cretion Of the trustees while
legal fund investments are
limited TO the legal list for in.
vestment Of trust funds in each
jurisdiction.
Reserve Board regulations
now limit the maximum par
ticipation of an individual
trust IN a common trust fund
to 100000, but some New York
banks are reported seeking an
increase in the limit to $780,
600 The original limit was
$4,000.
Evening star., 1957-08-14
Realty Experts to Teach
Courses at American u.


A wide range of real estate
courses will be taught at the
School of Business Administra-
ton of American University
again this fall in cooperation
with the Washington Real Es-
tate Board. it was announced.
The following real estate ex-
pertS will teach these courses: /:
David Sachs of George S. King
Co real estate practice; George
M. Carpenter of Frank S. Phil
lips, Inc, mortgage financing; !;
A. M. Protho, Federal Housing
Administration. real estate law;
Milton A. Pearl with the Army
Corps of Engineers, home build
ing; Bernard T. Dodder of
the Dodder Mutual Insurance
Agency. property insurance.
Registration for the courses
has been scheduled September
1918