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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07
Six Cab Measures
Ready for House
Rockville Council Fires
MARYLAND as Manager

The Rockville City Council
today dismissed City Manager
John MARYLAND because Of
what It said we're differences"
over policies and methods.
The action was taken at 3
a m. at the end Of a four-hour
closed session which produced
q resolution praising the 49,
year-old administrator for his
fidelity and integrity" while
serving as manager since No
vember. 1854.
Rumors had been circulating
IN Rockville for weeks that the
council. elected last month in a
one-party election. intended TO
release Mr.. MARYLAND, and a
group Of citizens had circulated
a petition urging that he be
kept in the $l0.400-a-year post.
Dismissal Effective Today
The dismissal was made eff
fective today.
Milton B. Million. administra-
tive assistant to the council.
was named acting city man
lager.
Speculation over a successor
to Mr.. MARYLAND Immediately
centered about Dickran Y.
Hovsepian, who stepped out
as Mayor last month in favor
of Councilman Alexander J..
Greene.
Mr.. Hovsepian. however. said
the reports ARE completely un-
founded" He said the city's
charter bans acceptance Of the
city manager job by a Mayor
or council member for a year
after he leaves Office.
II am not seeking the job
and would not take IT," he said.
David Belts, attorney for
Mr.. MARYLAND, participated in
part of the four-hour council
session. He said the final
wording of the dismissal notice
protected the State retirement
rights Of Mr.. MARYLAND, who
has worked under the State
system for rs years.
Mr.. MARYLAND, in statement
released after the meeting,
noted that he had been Sc
lected from 70 candidates for
the city managers job when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07

he receives results of an exami-
nation by private psychiatrists.
The date for the hearing was
set by Judge Laws for May 81.
Ushered into the courtroom
for a few moments this morn
ing. Miss Hough was wearing a
sleeveless black blouse, a black
skirt and black shoes. When
asked by the Judge whether or
not she approved of the delay,
she replied in a subdued voice,
Eyes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07

reau's five-day forecast calls
for temperatures 5 degrees be-
low normal through the week
end.
More rain, averaging about
a half inch, will dampen the
Washington area Sunday and
Mondy. the long-range predic-
ton said.
The Potomac River is at
flood stage at the Letter Gauge
above Chain Bridge today. Ben
nett Swenson, river expert of
the Weather Bureau, said the
gauge was at IL feet this
morning. An average reading
would be about S feet. He said
the water is not expected to
rise much above its present
level.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07
Bon on Meters,
Insurance Bill
Are Included
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
star star writer

Six bills revising District
taxicab laws. including doubling
the required amount Of liability
insurance and permanent pro-
hibition against the use Of
meters. were to be introduced
in the House tomorrow
Representative league. Dem
ocrat Of Texas, chairman Of a
House District Subcommittee
in charge Of the bills, said they
would be introduced following
an executive meeting Of his
group.
Hearings will be held soon.
he promised. on the measure to
double liability insurance re-
quirements.
No further hearings will be
necessary, he indicated, on the
measures to prohibit the use Of
meters in cabs and to prohibit
District officials from limiting
the number Of taxis or cab
drivers licenses. Prolonged
hearings in these two fields
were held last year. ~
Division Uncovered
Last year the public hearings
found the cab drivers sharply
divided on whether meters
should be allowed.
For the last "a years the
meters have been prohibited by
amendments attached each
year to the District appropria-
tons bill. Chairman Cannon.
Democrat Of Missouri, of the
full Appropriations Committee.
has been the chief opponent Of
the meters.
Mr.. league was unable TO
say exactly when the hearings
were to be held on the insur-
ance rates. On April II a Sem
ate. District b-Committee,
headed by Senator Beall, Re-
publican of Maryland, held
hearings on a similar insurance
bill sponsored by the late Sem
ator Nicely, Democrat of West
Virginia.
At present, District cab oper-
ators must carry insurance Of
$4,000 covering death or injury
to one person; $4,000 for two
or more persons and $1,000 for
property damages. Under the
league AND Nicely bills these
amounts would be raised to
$4,000, $4,000 and $1,000 re-
spectively. The District COM
misSioners submitted an
amendment to the Senate SUBJ
committee proposing that the
beverages be further raised to
SOS, 900, $4,000 and $4,000, as
is now required by Arlington
County, Virginia.
Idea of Joint Group
The Commissioners request
carried out the thoughts of the
Washington Metropolitan Re-
gional Conference which wants
to make insurance beverages
uniform throughout the area.
Another of the league bills
to be offered now would carry
out another regional confer.
ence recommendation for uni
formity Of fares. The new bill
would authorize the District
Public Utilities Committee to
establish rates to points out
side the District.
The other two league bills
would provide for legal service
on nonresident taxi drivers
and would pinpoint the
P. U. C.'s powers to license cab
drivers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07

The District Congress Of Par
ents and Teachers today de-
nounced action of the Joint
congressional Fiscal Subcom-
mittee in cutting some SIS mil
lion from funds proposed for
school construction in WASH
ington.
Letter protesting reduction in
the amount the District will
be authorized to borrow for new
schools were sent to the Dis
trict Committees of both the
Senate and House.
In urging the protest r. N.
Shoemaker. legislative chair
man of the congress, declared:
1t is apparent that we still
are meshed in the apron strings
of the Federal Government.
w are like runners forced to
race with bur feet in a potato
sack"
Must Assert Rights
He strongly backed a posi-
ton adopted last week by Mrs.
Ruth B. Spencer, a member Of
the Board of Education. She
declared that it is time for the
District to assert its rights and
abandon the "velvet glove" ap-
proach in dealing with
Congress.
Delegates to the 45th an
nual convention of the PTA
group unanimously approved
two other resolutions aimed
directly at Congress.
They urged that funds to
provide counselors in elemen-
tary schools of the District be
restored. Money for the coun-
sellers was included in the
original budget request Of the
Board Of Education but was
eliminated from the Budget by
the Board of Commissioners.
The delegates also advocated
legislation which would raise
the authorized limit of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07
River Levels Of

Everything depends on how
much more rain falls upriver."
Mr.. Swenson said. But our re-
ports are that the Potomac has
already leveled of at Harpers
Ferry, w. Va, and it is leveling
of here. too" Some Potomac
River lowland areas may face
a food threat if the rain con-
tinues in the mountains to the
west of Washington.
In Alexandria, police said
storm sewer water has flooded
the pedestrian walkway
through the railroad underpass
at Duke street and Telegraph
road. No other flooding has
been reported.
In Southwestern Virginia,
nearly a week of continued rain
has residents worried that the
area will have a recurrence of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07
The
Rambler
-. MinsIes With
Visiting Scientists
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Every American commu-
nifty Of more than 100000
seems TO take pride In being
a convention city" WASH
ington Is one Of them.
Politics Is lis lifeblood. but
II has never been the scene
of q national political con-
vention that nominated a
President.
II has It's commercial con-
ventions in which statesmen
are up-pepped to go in there
and win against recession,
depression or even a buyers
strike.
But II Is unusual In this:
Il is the meeting place Of
learned men.
During almost any week
except in July or August,
doctors Of philosophy in
many fields are likely to be
found In convention here.
Take this week. The
American Geophysical
Union, whose motto is "Un-
selfish Cooperation in Re-
search" is meeting at the
Academy Of Sciences.
The Acoustical Society Of
America is meeting in the
Willard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-07
Roins Swell River;
Floods Held Unlikely
Potomac LeveIing Off at l2-Foot Crest
As More Precipitation Approaches

Rainy cool and windy weather continuing through to-
morning will keep the Potomac River at food stage
for the few but nundaon expected in
this vicinity, LIS
The probably will break through to the sodden
WASHINGTON tomorrow afternoon the Weather Blu
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
Night Flying Proves
 Risky For Birds

URBANA, ILL, tR Crowded airlanes make night flying risky business, even for birds.
 That's the finding of a paper Jack A. Ellis of the Illinois State natural history survey presented Friday to the State Academy of Science.
 Every mile of an Illinois fly ways width is used by more than half-million birds in a single night of migratory season, Ellis estimated.
 He based the figure on the number that didn't reach their destination because of a 83-foot television transmitting tower near Seymour.
 Ellis said 486 birds of 51 species died in collisions with the tower in single week.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12

Jects had thls reaction, another 50 per cent reported themselves ex- hilarated but again, disoriented
 by the sensation. Only 25 per cent seemed indifferent to it. But since the longest of the tests lasted only 45 seconds, US. scientists do not know whether a rocket pas senger would remain indifferent in longer space flight.
 Scientists would also like to know whether the most effective Earthly motion sickness remedies, such as Bonadettes, would offer the same protection against space sickness as they do against car, sea and air nausea. It's even possible that some such experiment was conducted aboard the Soviet satel- lite, Sputnik II.
 However the little dog Laika felt about weightlessness, it seems likely that human beings will soon be finding out about it themselves 25.000 miles out
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
Khrushchev Turns Thumbs Down On Dulles Plans

MOSCOW, Rl-Premier Khrl- shchev says he still wants to sit down with other heads of govern ment but he isn't about to ac- cept Secretary of States Dulles list of what should be discussed at the summit.
 Declaring the Soviets have nerves as tough as Alpine rope" {" Khrushchev told diplomats and officials at the Czechoslovak embassy'S National Day reception Friday night it would take more than world tensions to frighten the Russians.
 Western correspondents were not invited to the reception, but other newsmen present gave this account:
 "We want summit talks" the premier said We want them in the same degree the Western powers should want them. But if they want to maintain a tense situation, then it must be that way. We can live in tension too"
 Commenting on summit topics proposed by Dulles and endorsed this week by Atlantic Alliance foreign ministers, Khrushchev asserted none of them is accept able"
 'sHe wants the German Demo- cratic Republic East Germany to be liquidated," Khrushchev commented. "It is impossible, it's madness. We don't want our heads on the chopping block. !"
 At the windup of their three day meeting in Copenhagen We'd nesday, the IS NATO foreign ministers suggested that the sum- init barley deal with reunifica- ton of Germany and other key East-West issues. Moscow con tends that German reunification should be discussed directly be- tween the satellite regime and the West German government in order to protect the Communist government from being sub merged in alderman free cleo tions under the Big Four.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
Airlines Increase Freight
 Shipments From Portland

PORTLAND, tR - Two air. lines disclosed Friday night they have stepped up freight ship ments here to Alaska because of a warehousemen's strike in Seattle.
 Pacific Northern Air Lines said that since the strike began it has scheduled five freight ship ments week to Alaska.
 The latest shipment .came Fri day night when 4,OOO pounds of produce, including crates of let tuce, left for Alaska, sales man. ager Walter Morgan said.
 The sother line is Alaska Air line, whose Portland manager Bob St. Helen said his firms DC6C craft were carrying extra freight loads. St. Helen said the latest flight was Thursday, when a plane left for Alaska with 2,500 pounds of produce, furniture and auto mobile parts.
 The cargo originally had been scheduled to leave from Seattle, he said.
 Both lines said they probably will put on extra flights to handle the increase in Alaska-bound cargo.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
Legion Supports Plan For Military Reorganization

ST. LOUIS, LR - The Ameri- can Legion's support of Presi- dent Eisenhower's Pentagon re- organization plan was pledged by the organizations national commander. But he said more men and arms are needed to in sure the nations security.
 John s. Gleason Jr. of Chicago said in a speech prepared for an American Legion Founders Day celebration there is "com- polling cause to be concerned about national security"
 ''If Russia is now denied and can be prevented from attaining superior nuclear, missile and air strength" Gleason said, it cer- tainly commands unchallenged supremacy in conventional mill tary arms"
 Russia has an estimated 21z million in it's Army, he said, while the U. s. Army by the end ot next month will be down tC 87O,0OO. Russia has three times as many submarines as America Gleason said.
 Guest of honor with Gleason at the event commemorating the founding of the nations largest veterans organization in St Louis 39 years ago was a blind linotype repairman.
 George Douglas West of the Lafayette Qnd) Journal-Courier, lost his sight six years ago under mortar fire in Korea. He is the only blinded veteran to hold a journeyman's card in the Inter national Typographical Union.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
CAT-LIMIT ORDINANCE SET
 UP BY GLENDALE COUNCIL

GLENDALE, Calif., R I'll How many cats is enough and when does kitten become a cat?
 After a week of speeches and a public hearing, the Glendale City Council has come up with it's answer:
 Three cats is enough. To have more-according to the councils ordinance-youll have to get a permit.
 Now, about kittens:
 If you have three cats, you can keep as many kittens as occur. Until they get to be four months old. At that time, by order of the city of Glendale, they become cats. Illegal cats.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
Director of POland'S Lottery Fired

WARSAW, LR - The deputy director of Poland's lottery was reported fired Saturday for helping other people win money.
 According to the paper Kurier Polski, he and three other lottery officials published book called Eighty Ways to Vim.
 In fact, the paper said, they knew of 81 ways-they had pla- giarized the book from an East German author and pocketed heavy royalties.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
Bird Nest In Chimney Causes Death of Five

BYDGOSZ, Poland, R Two jackdaws were blamed for the the death of five women.
 The birds built nest in the chimney of a state farm dormi- tory. The chimney smoked-and the five women sleeping there died of carbon monoxide poison ing.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
First Recession
 Combating Contract Let In Yosemite
WASHINGTON, R -

WASHINGTON, R - The In terior Department today an nounced the first construction contract for a national park pro- ject under an accelerated pub lie works program designed to help combat the recession.
 The department awarded a $1,738,225 contract for moderni- zation of a road in Yosemite National Park, California
 Seaton announced March 12 that 5 projects in 30 states and Alaska would be accelerated by various Interior agencies from previously appropriated funds which had been held in reserve. Construction on these projects had originally been programmed for the year beginning July or later.
 Estimated cost of the pro- jects is $25,061, ,408.
 "4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12

Recent tests con ducted by the US. Navy School of Aviation Medicine m dicate t h a t
 'welghtless" peo- pie may find them selves dizzy. sick and disol.iented. About 25 per cent of the test sub
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-12
SCIENCE IN YOUR LIFE
Now lf's Space Sickness

That queasy feeling called mo- tion sickness, which often creeps up on car, air and sea travellers with upSetting results, may soon have 2Oth Century counterpart: space sickness.
 One important reason Soviet scientists sent a dog aloft with Sputnik II was to test her reac- tions to living without weight a condition which will affect humans during most of any flight in space.
, 1958-05-19
Editorial
BAD DAY FOR AMERICA

TUESDAY, MAY 13, was a rough day for the Unit
ed States so far as international relations were con-
cerned. In three widely scattered parts of the world the
man in the streets was showing his distrust, disgust and
disrespect for things American. In Beirut, the capital
of Lebanon, the United States Information Agency
library was burned, and attempts made to storm the
US. Embassy. In Algiers, capital of Algeria, a USIA
library was burned. But in Caracas, Venezuela, people
actually spat upon and threatened the life of Vice Pre-
sident and Mrs. Nixon, on a goodwill tour of South
American countries,
MOST LIKELY STUDENTS of international affairs
will want to take a closer look at the situation. Why,
they will want to know, would the people of these ma
tons, and others, show such distaste for America?
AS IS USUALLY the case. pat answers cannot
be had. Forces and circumstances, many Of them remote
and seemingly insignificant, of even emotional, could set
off the spark, On the other hand, it could perhaps be laid
to the door of Communism, and Communism is always
at it's best in an atmosphere of revolution and mass
hatred.
Fl CASE OF South America should cause much
concern to the United States, if for no other reason than
that these nations to the south are part of the Western
Hemisphere, and we look to them, as part Of the free
world, to be friendly and cooperative.
MANY REASONS, IN addition to Communism,
might be considered. There might be the belief that the
United States is I turning all its attention to Europe, and
forgetting the old. reliable neighbor closer to home. In
this connection many South American countries might
think of World War II, during which the United States
bought much from below the border. When the war was
over we did not supply them with consumer goods in
sufficient quantity to balance out the credit they had
built up. The change over from a war economy to peace
, 1958-05-19

time economy and the need to provide our own people
with those goods might have been among the reasons. In
the meantime, initiation could have caused that credit to
diminish.
IN VENEZUELA there was cutback Of oil imports
to the United States. and in other countries high tariffs
affected zinc~and other products, and coffee prices
Our ambassadors, many of whom were appoint
ed for purely political reasons, did not speak Spanish,
nor did they try.
N HAZARD the guess that the internal
racial situation in the United States played its part. 1t
will be recalled that in Venezuela, people were shouting
Little Rock" as the Nixons passed by. That is a delicate
and smouldering question always in the minds of non
white people everywhere, and the United States will
have to face the situation.
FINALLY, INTERNATIONAL Communism is by
now famed for the promptness with which it seizes upon
such situations. The unWary, the thoughtless, yes, and
even the well-meaning could easily fall victim. Also,
Communism has as one of its priority skills, the
whipping up of mobs into violence. Combine a grievance,
real or make-believe, with this ability to whip up mob
can.
IT IS A HIGHLY regrettable situation when a visit
ing d~ignitary, and from a truly friendly nation, could
encounter such treatment at the hands Of a host nation.
even where there are differences of opinion, such be-
havior can only serve to underscore the lack of real I'M
derstanding, either Of the role that nation plays in
relations with it's friends, or its ability to take its place
properly in the family Of nations.
Diario las Américas., 1958-02-06
Consejo de Ia
0TAN Revisard
ST. Posicion
Ante Possible Reunion
de Jefes de Estodo

PARIS, febrero 5 (UP) - El
C~onsejo Permanente de la 0rga-
nizaci6n del Tratado del Atlantico
Sc reuni6 en- esta ciudad para dis
cutir entire otras cosas la disputa
sobre los gastos del ejercito brita-
nico de ocupacion en- Alemania Oc-
cidental.
La reunion del Consejo comen-
70 a las 1918 de la ma1ana en- ell
Palacio Chaillot con los represen.
tantes de las Is naciones que com.
ponen la OTAN.
Ell principal tema de la reunion
de hoy es segun Sc afirma, I'm plan
para mejorar la production de ar
mas; ademas Sc pasara revista ge.
neral a la posicion de la OTAN so.
bre la propuesta reunion de Jefes
de Gobierno del Este y ell Oeste.
Ell lunes pasado en- Bonn ell jefe
de prensa del gobierno de Alema,
MIA Occidental, Felix Won Eek
hardt, declare que "tendra que en-
contrarse en- ell Consejo del Allan.
tico Norte" una solucion al estan,
camiento sobre ell pago de los lac
millones de dolares para ell mantle.
nimiento de las tropas britanicas
de o%cupacion.
Pero segun las autoridades de La
OTAN tendran que realizarse nue.
vas n~egociaciones diplomaticas an
ties de que esa question sea tratada.
Diario las Américas., 1958-02-06

LA HABANA, Cuba, febrero S.
(Por Radiotelefono)-Desde Orien,
te Sc inform6 que no obstante ha-
Der sido suprimida la censura de
prensa en- aquella provincial, las
autoridades militares dieron cuen-
ia a los corresponsales de que no
podran enviar noticias a sus Pc
riodicos y agencias sobre combates
entire rebeldes y fuerzas del Ejer
otto, sino que Sc tendrian que
ajustar unicamente a los parties
oficiales. Ell general Alberto del
Rio Chaviano, Jefe del Regimiento
de Santiago de Cuba, dijo a los
Diario las Américas., 1958-02-06
0Yo Fraeao
Sc Cree L!evaba "Forma Senci|Ia
de Vida" Ell Cohete de Ia Marina

WASHINGTON, Feb. SUPP
luna artificial que iba en- el
cohete Vanguard" de la marina
norteamericana, cuyo disparo
fracas6 esta madrugada, llevaba
"probablemente" alguna 'forma
sencilla de vida", segun mani.
festo ell DR.. John P. Hagen.
Ell director del proyecto "Van-
guard" dijo tambien que Sc ha-
"a 40 mas pronto possible" otra
tentative para lamar ell cohete
con SUI satellite artificial.
Los periodicals. preguntaron a
Hagen 81 ell satellite de prueba de
la marina, cuyo peso era de solo
un kilogramo y medic, llevaba
celulas de levadura para COM
probar Ell efecto que la falta de
peso, debida a la falta de grave
dad, causaba sobre las formas
mas sencillas de vida.
"Probablemente ST., declare
Hagen.
La marina revel6 reciente-
mente que en- uno de los sateli-
ties Vanguard, pondria esas ce-
lulas, pero no concrete en- cual
de ellos.