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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
Plan Unfo|ded
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Major Seaport
Deeper and Wider
Potomac Channel
Asked in Report
BY JOHN w. STEPP

An exhaustive report toda!
urged Potomac River naviga'
ton improvements that collC
restore the Alexandria Wash.
ington area to one Of the ma.
jor seaportS of the Nation.
The investigation, summa
rized in a 171-page report, wa
made by the Virginia State
Ports Authority. The agency!
main recommendations:
/. Deepen the Potomac chan.
mel to SO feet and widen it t.
300 feet-or more at the crucia
river bends.
2. Provide a basin of thu
same depth and wide enough
for ocean-going vessels tt
negotiate along the Alexandris
waterfront.
3. Obtain fair and reason.
able" rail and truck rates be.
tween Alexandria and interior
points as far away as South.
western Pennsylvania and the
near Midwest.
World Passenger Ships
In addition to constructing
the usual wharveS and ter.
minals for the ship-rail-trucl
operations, attention also SHOULD
be given to developing pas.
senger ship service to all part.
of the world, the report recon-.
mended.
Moreover, as a matter of eco.
nomic betterment, all possible
support by individuals, group.
and businesses in the area
should be attained in the effort
to develop Alexandria as 6
world port"
The recommendations, baseC
on 10 months of analyses, were
hailed by area business leaders
long active in the port re-
development drive.
D. c. Book. executive vice
president of the Alexandra
Chamber Of Commerce. said hi
and the interests he represents
are deeply gratified for the
tremendous boost the report
gives our chances.
Board Surveys Upheld
Thomas Sandoz. chairman o.
the Rivers and Harbors Com.
mittee of the Washington
Board of Trade, asserted the
detailed study by the Ports Au-
thority substantiates prelimi-
nary surveys conducted jointly
by the boardand Alexandra
officials.
! The report was released at 8
luncheon meeting today in the
George Mason Hotel in Alex
andria. The meeting was at
tended by nearly 100 Govern
ment, planning, business and
civic officials of the Washing
ton Metropolitan Area.
Agreement among the in
terested parties is unanimous
that the first followup step to
the report is to obtain con-
greSsional passage of a $50, OOC
budget item to begin a naviga-
ton survey of the Potomac
below Washington.
The money is included in the
public works appropriations
bill, now pending in the Sen
ate. The measure has won Sem
ate committee backing. The
House has not yet acted on the
item.
Engineers of the Washington
engineer district of the Army
Engineers Corps would make
the study, which, if favorable to
Continued on Page Ais, Col. !
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Vote to Restrict
'Riqhts' Bill Set
Area Youth, 20, Missing
In Rugged High Sierros

A 20-year-old Camp Springs
Md geology student today
was the object of a widespread
search Of the cold and rugged
PaliSade Glacier area of Cali
fornia's High Sierra country.
He has been missing since Sat-
urday.
Walter Griga, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul D. Griga, 6203 Branch
avenue. Camp Springs, left
alone on a week end hike to
Temple Crag Peak, the ASSo-
ciated Press reported. He car
ried a sleeping bag and some
food.
His mother told The Star
today she had a call from the
Inyo County Sheriff's Office at
"a O'Clock this morning I'll
pm. California time) saying
Walters sleeping bag had been
found. But no trace of the
youth was reported, she said.
Ground Search Started
The sheriff's Office in Bishop,
Calf, said a ground party
would begin to search the area
today. A plane carried a dep
uty sheriff over the glacier
area yesterday but no sign of
the student was found.
The area is not far from the
Kings Canyon-Sequoia Ma
tional Park area where Air
Force Lieut.. David A. Sleeves
recently survived 81 days of
wilderness existence after
parachuting from his crippled
plane. Lieut.. Sleeves lost so
to go pounds but lived through
the experience by following
watercourses down from the
IL ,000-foot mountains. He
f1shed, lived of the land and
ate cached food until he found
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
lndonesiu Warned

JAKARTA. Indonesia. July
"a R.-Rebel leaders in Gen.
trail Sumatra today gave the
Indonesian government a
month to grant their area au-
tonomy within the republic.
They warned they will not
be responsible for possible hap
penings in the region if the
central government refuses"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
Girl, 7, browns
In District Pool
Struyed From Group
OF Friends on OUTING

A 7-year-old girl, out with
a group Of friends from q
settlement house, drowned to-
day in the Takoma Park SWIM
ming pool.
Dead on arrival at Children's
Hospital was Donna Harding
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence S. Harding of ais
Seventh street NE.
Trembling at the scene OF
the tragedy by the side of the
pool, her sister, Kathleen, 9
sobbed, Il can't tell my
mother"
1t was the first drowning in
q pool in Washington this
summer.
Donna was one of a group OF
20 children who were taking
park In a program sponsored by
the Christ Child Settlement
House, sos Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NE. The pool is at Fourth
and Van Buren, street NV.
Donna, a non-swimmer, APP
parently strayed from her
friends in the shallow pool and
fell into the deeper pool re-
served for adults.
The group had arrived at the
pool about 1918 for q half hour
Of swimming. Her body was
noticed lying on the bottom
Of the pool at 1855 am. by
Bettijean Liebersohn, IL, of
1905 Drexel street, Takoma
Park, Md. A life guard pulled
the limp body from the pool
and began giving her artificial
respiration.
Later, members of Rescue
Squad No. 2 continued efforts
to save the little girl but she
was pronounced dead on arrival
at the hospital about noon.
Besides her parents-Mr.
Harding is a guard at Union
Station-Donna is survived by
another sister. Betty. /. and a
brother, Michael, 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24

some campers long after he
was given up for dead.
Walter Griga, according to
his mother. is a 1854 graduate
of Oxon Hill High School in
nearby Maryland. He majored
in geology at Carleton College,
Northfield, MINI.
His mother said he has a
summertime job as q junior
engineer with the Union
Carbide Nuclear Co. at Pine
Creek, Calf, not far from the
mountain area where he dis
appeared. The search was
started when Walter failed to
report for work yesterday.
Walters father is owner of
the Rolling Pin Bakery in
BladenSburg. He has two
sisters, both in Wisconsin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
Senate Seen
Limiting 1t
To Ballot
BY J. A. OLEARY

The Senate is ready to push
the civil rights bill over one big
hurdle today by a vote which
is expected to limit use of Fed
eral injunctions to the protec-
ton of voting rights.
Senators have agreed to call
the roll after five hours of de-
bate on a motion to strike out
section Of the House bill I'M
der which the Attorney General
also could seek injunctions in
Federal Courts to enforce racial
indignation or protect any other
civil right.
After today one other big
hurdle-the jury trial issue
will remain. and this may take
another week of debate. Sup
porters of a Jury trial amend
ment believe their chances were
helped greatly by the action of
an all-white jury in Tennessee
yesterday in convicting Z out
of II defendants in a civil
rights case.
Persons charged with con-
tempt for violating injunctions
the Attorney General might
obtain under the pending bill
would not be entitled to jury
trials. Advocates of a jury trial
amendment said today the YER
dict in the Clinton, Tenn. case
refutes the argument that the
amendment would weaken the
bill because Southern juries will
not convict in civil right cases.
May Avoid Filibuster
There is a growing belief at
the Capitol that if the Senate
limits the bill to voting rights
today, and follows that up by
adopting some form of Jury
trial amendment, the bill can
be passed. without a Southern
filibuster.
The combination of South
ern opponents and Northern
moderates in both parties dem
onstrated yesterday it has the
votes to narrow the scope of
the bill by defeating two COM
promises, intended to preserve
some degree of Injunction
power beyond the area of vot-
ing privileges.
First they rejected, 81 to %.
a move by Senator Bricker.
Republican Of Ohio, to trans
fer from the Attorney General
to the President the authority
to decide when the Federal
Government should intervene
with injunctions to enforce
civil rights.
Then they swamped Sena-
tor Cooper. Republican OF
Kentucky. 81 to 8. on a motion
to preserve the power Of the
Continued on Page Ais, Col. :
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Clinton Contempt Trial. Pose AZ
over the Oak Ridge radio sta
ton, WATO, but they weren't
paying it much mind, as they
say here aboutS.
Suddenly, WATO's announ-
Ger broke in with a bulletin
from Knoxville. The jury had
just returned with a verdict
John Kasper and six Of the
Clinton 10 guilty.
Solution Reached
The ball game went on, the
consumption Of Cokes con-
tinued high. and life went on
in Clinton, but it was life with
q difference. Because now a
question had ben answered.
That question was: What
prevails in "a government of
laws, not men"-laws or men?
and the answer, as delivered
to the Clinic defendants by a
jury of their undoubted peers,
was: laws.
There was surprise in Clinton
that so many Clintonians had
been convicted Even Sidney
Davis, the local attorney who
had fought indignation for
years was shaken by the jury's
action Though not, he said. at
its verdict.
There was, for some, shock.
Anger Isn't Evident
But if there was anger. it was
so muted as to be unnoticeable
on the streets Of Clinton yes
terday afternoon.
It is hardly surprising that
Clinton was composed when
the verdict was brought in.
Clinton was something less than
proud Of the events that had
brought about the trial of Kas-
per and the Clinton is dater
reduced to the Clinton l0) /.
Clinton had received a bad
name-a black eye-from the
occurrences of last summer and
last fall.
Extremists of the white-su-
premeacy belief had attempted
to make of the Clinton High
School indignation squabble a
dispute between the solid old
Southern traditionalists and
the wild-eyed radical element.
Except for the fact that this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
FEAR OF POLIO
STRIKES FAMILY

FEAR or POLIO os o hontIe
fother ond mother read every symp-
tom into little girls illness, Is
told in Reporter Jim Bishops col
umn on Pose C-S.
TEACHERS MOVE into the A.
sentine Embassy os the new Am.
bossodor and his wife, both pro.
fessor, toke over new posts. Po-
tricio Susrue writes Of the new or
rivols on Pose 81.
HIGH INTEREST rotes charged
BY loon shork ore blamed BY on
accused mon charged with murder.
Turn 10 Sylvia Porer's story on
Pose ABB.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
British Hold Off Strikes
Against Oman Rebels

LONDON, July "a (P.-Re-
ports that air strikes had been
begun against rebel tribesmen
In the Persian Gulf sultanate
of Muscat and Oman were de-
MED today by Royal Air Force
spokesman at Manama, BAH
rain.
Reports to London papers
from the sultry desert domain
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much fuel the farmers would
rather do without. The state
apparatus for distributing trac-
tors can unload only a few OF
the monsters, mostly TO collec-
tive farms and municipalities
where they are used for haul
ing.
So the state apparatus for
manufacturing tractors has
ordered Mr.. Purzycki to relax
his pace. Instead of turning out
70 tractors a day-the theoreti-
cal capacity Of Ursus-the fac
tory is producing only %.
Tomorrow's article will ex-
plore the reasons why Ursus is
producing the wrong tractors.
The fact that Mr.. Purzycki is
producing an unwanted product
makes him somewhat atyplcal
among Polish factory man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
QUEST FOR FREEDOM
Misfit Tractor Adds
To PoIond's Dilemma
BY RICHARD FRYKLUND
European Correspondent NJ The ct.

URSUS Reconsideration the Ursus tractor factory
only 80 per cent of capacity and factory manager
Purzycki is keeping it that way
1t may seem strange at time Polish farmers badly
need tractors that Mr. Puzyck would hold production down IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
Training School
Proposed
In Congress
Coll for Legislation
Ruises Problem on
D. c. Delinquents

Acting Attorney General
William p. Rogers today asked
Congress for legislation to al
low the sale Of the National
Training School for Boys.
Money from the sale would
be used to acquire q new site
and build a modern institution
probably in the Midwest. The
school now is on Bladensburg
road NE. near the District
Line. 1t is operated by the
Federal Prison Bureau for Of
tenders under II.
If the proposal clears Con-
gress, $50 boys, half bf whom
come from the District, would
have to be relocated.
District Commissioner David
B. Karrick has set up q
watchdog committee" to follow
in view of the possible develop
ments need for q new inStitu-
ton for the local juvenile de-
linquents. This committee
consists Of one representa-
tive for Corrections Direc-
tor Donald Clemmer; one
for Welfare Director Gerard
Shea; and one for the Federal
Bureau Of Prisons.
District officials have set up
three alternative ways of han
ding the inmates Of the Dis
trict Training School in case
it is sold.
A new institution at an ap-
proximate cost of So million
may be constructed at Laurel,
Md.
Transfers Considered
Another avenue open to the
District is continued use of
Federal facilities by transfer
ring local boys to the new Mid
west building.
The third and most likely
possibility would divide the
youthful offenders between Mr..
Shea and Mr.. Clemmer. Mr..
Shea would take the younger,
less sophisticated boys in a
new wing at Laurel.
Mr.. Clemmer would handle
the older. more sophisticated
offenders at his new Youth
Correction Center on the Dis
trict'S penal reservation. This
would require a change in cur
rent law. however, Mr.. Glenn
mer explained that the law
prohibits Juvenile Court from
sending boys under 10 into local
prisons. All the youths to
come to him from the Training
School would be under that |
age limit.
1--WE don't feel action is inn
minent despite the proposal be-
fore Congress-" Mr.. Clemmer
said. Congress this session |
turned down the request of the |
Bureau of Prisons for planning
money for the training school !
replacement, he noted.
Notes NeighbOrhOOd Change
With planning money, the
new school could not be built
for at least two or three years,
prison officials estimated.
In his letter to Congress, Mr..
Rogers stressed that the school
was located on land originally
rural in character. Now it has
become the center of congested
residential and industrial area,
IAN environment entirely un-
suitable for an institution of
this type" he added.
This same change in the
neighborhood character, at the
same time, has increased the
value of the property which
probably would net a good
price, he noted.
The school has been located /
on its present 313-acre site
since 1872. according to Mr..
Rogers. None of the buildings
is fireproof. The utilities are
SO old they must be replaced
in a few years and are very
expensive to maintain. he said. |
Mr.. Rogers urged prompt sc-
ton from Congress because he
said planning. building and |
equipping a new institution to
replace NTS would take at |
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
Flu Strikes Romantic

VIENNA. July "a (R.-Asian
flu has reached Romania and
spread to epidemic proportions,
the Romanian Communist
Party paper Scanteia reported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24

Poland's only tractor factory
but there is a good reason:
Ursus is building the wrong
Nobody wants it. II is so big
and clumsy and it burns so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
Conviction of 7 Fails
To Upset Quiet Clinton
But Segregotionists' GuiIt Conveys
No Hint Of Progress for Inteqrution
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star star Correspondent

CLINTON, Tenn. July 24.-The time was ait pm and
the place cafe in this sleepy little town six miles from
the atomic capital of the world.
1t was hot day-Tuesday, July 49, 1s57-and sticky
one and the sale Of Cokes was brisk
People talking about the possibility of rain but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24

they weren't really thinking
about it.
People were hearing the
broadcast report Of o ball game
North Caroline White Schools Admit
II Negroes Pose AS
Kosper and Six Others Guilty in
Clinton Contempt Trial. Pose A-6
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Mop on Pose Alb
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See OMAN. Page A.
The frontiersman., 1957-06-13

bonds until the city is ready. This is being handled by the National Security Corporation of Seattle.
 A resolution was adopted by the Council authorizing the city essor-collector to proceed with the collection of delinquent tax es for the years 195455-56, to ad- vertise the delinquent tax roll and to file action in court for de- linquent personal property taxes for the said years.
 City Clerk l.. c. Stock report ed that nine stray dogs~had been picked up during the past two months, as substantiated by bill of $62 for their care and disposal.
 The City Planning Commission report was discussed. The city at torney was requested to work with the Commissions recommenda- tions regarding zoning in the city and prepare an ordinance follow ing the suggested zoning. The re- port included reference to house trailers in the city limits. Council members agreed they present a number of problems, and an or dinance will be forthcoming for the control of trailer parking, re- garding health, fire and other safety measures.
 The city clerk announced that the City received $740O in license refunds from the Territory this week.
 Bills approved for payment in cluded $965.36 from the general fund and $6196O from the water fund.
The frontiersman., 1957-06-13
SCHOOL TAX RATE DROPS; CITY UP

During a special meeting held June7 four members of the City Council met and set the tax rate levy for the coming year. AL though the total tax rate Q6 mills) will be the same as last year, it includes a one-mill in crease for streets. The school dis trict levy is one mill lower than last year.
 Because no adequate public mo- tice was given of the special meeting representatives of the press were not in attendance. The following information was taken from the City of Palmer minute book:
 Present at roll call: Mayor Charles Wilson and Council mem bers William Zahradnicek, Jan Koslosky, Ray Lancaster and Charles Logsdon.
 The Palmer school budget was presented and discussed
 A motion by Koslosky, second ed by Lancaster that the school budget be approved and that the tax rate for schools be set at 10 mills.
 A motion by Lancaster, second ed by Koslosky that the assessor be authorized to advertise and foreclose on delinquent 1856 tax eS.
 A motion by Lancaster, second ed by Zahradnicek, that the mill age for the city be set at six mills to be distributed three mills for the water fund and three mills for streets with total city school rate of 16 mills.
 A motion by Lancaster, second ed by Koslosky that an emergen- cy exist requiring a special meet ing of the city council of the City of Palmer on this date said meet ing being necessary III the public interest and the 24-hour notice is hereby waived.
 Motion by Logsdon, seconded by Lancaster that i've" negotiate for the acquisition of the proper ty 9.8 feet by 40 feet triangle from Mrs. Horton and R. B. Hor- ton.
 Motion by Lancaster, seconded by Koslosky i've" declare Horton building and excavation a health and fire hazard and instruct the city attorney to take necessary legal steps to abate same.
 Motion by Zahradnicek, second ed by Lancaster that paImistry be charged $100 business license.
 Meeting adjourned at 5:30 pm.
The frontiersman., 1957-06-13
Sister John
 Continued from page D


 named and according procedures, public relations, and new legisla- tion were all important phases of business conducted by the dele gates while attending the con vention Among stateside busi- ness firms showing at the conven- ton was Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc, represented by Arthur IF. Wilson of Portland. An interesting film on the treatment of severe pain was shown by Wilson
 A special committee will be named by the new president to study the consolidation of the Al aska Native Health Service hos pital under the Alaska Depart ment of Health.
The frontiersman., 1957-06-13
COUNCIL
 NOTES

Five members of the Palmer City Council were in attendance at the June II meeting of the Council. They were Councllmen .Zahradnicek, Logsdon, Lancaster, Peterson, and Koslosky.
 Visitors included Tax Assessor William Wakeland, Mrs. Robert EFardisty, Mrs. James Smith, Russ Felzien. Police Chief Bouwens, Mrs. Allan Mick, and Al King.
 The tax assessor was authoriz- ed to contract with collection agency to collect delinquent per sonal property taxes when hls office is unable to collect. An out standing delinquent tax account was reported by Wakeland. After considerable discussion 1t was voted to reduce the amount as-
 sessed by the assessor, in spite of the fact the tax payer had for
 feited his right to appeal by not saypearing before the board Of equalization. Wakeland told coun- ell members that a new contract between the City of Palmer and ahe Palmer School District, for ahe collection and distribution of aaxes will have to be drawn for 4he coming year. Mayor Wilson requested the budget and finance committee work with the assessor to formulate a plan for deposit 1ng funds to the city and district accounts when a check is receiv- ed for the total amount.
 Al King, owner of Palmer -Altomotive, appeared before the council with problem. Accord ing to an agreement sent to the City of Palmer for signature by ahe Bureau of Public Roads, zshere are to be no encroachmentS eDn the street right-of-way. The gasoline storage tanks at Palmer -Automotive are in the right-of- way. King had dug up one tank eghis week when he discovered it was leaking. At that time Mayor Wilson advised him not to return Ii to the same location until the Iouncil had had a chance to dis scuss the problem Following reading of the Bureau of Public Roads agreement, the council vot eeSi to pay the cost of digging up lthe second tank, and suggested 2hat King place them end for end, which will bring them in toward his building, out of the right-of 7xzay Mayor Wilson pointed out ksast nearly every gas station in .aiaescity is using right-of-way on ssne side of their pumps and that fsinANar problems may be faced by these concerns.
 According to the latest word rsAcaRnFsd thy the city the Bureau Fians to pave 24-foot strip down Valley street as far as the hotel. From that point to Wards corner -arsd up Wasilla highway to the section now paved, paving will be full width, with curbs, gutters, and sidewalks. There remained some confusion as to just what the Bureau will agree to regard ing the right-of-way and Mayor vWilson agrees to get letter off f40 the Juneau office, with pos zsibility of a city representative zaaking trip to Juneau. Mayor TNilson pointed out that this paw rng program by the Bureau might nse held up if the city offers too .rr5aay objections. On the other shand, he said, this is going to be For a long time and we want to be sure this is what we want. G0uncil members agreed with -him in this opinion.
 The lengthy bond ordinance -vmas read, approved and passed as an emergency measure. This naow gives authority to the bond ing company to sell bonds, order athe printing of the bonds, but
 doesn't require selling of the