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befall us--defeat for our per-
fidy, defeat for our deception.
defeat for our hypocrisy. and
finally the inevitable loss Of
the confidence of the voters"
Gov. Furcolo. the next
speaker. promptly took issue
with Mr.. Murphy. who, he said,
was EITHER trying to kid the
public or he doesn't have the
solution to our problem" The
Governor said the platform
plank applied to a general
sales tax, while he has sug-
gested a limited tax which
would exempt food, fuel, chill
dren's clothing. medicines and
similar necessities.
Deficit and Surplus
Gov. Edmund G. Brown OF
California, a Democrat, has
asked a politically friendly
legislature TO tax cigarettes
oil and gas and increase taxes
on horse racing, beer and in
come to provide 1856 million
| in new revenue. His headache
A rapidly expanding deficit.
up to now it has been pos
slble to avoid facing up to the
fiscal realities because sur.
pluses built UP during anc
after the war have beer
used to meet the deficits" hi
says. by using the fund sur
pluses to meet annual deficits
we have succeeded only in post.
poning the day of reckoning.
But. says @. o. P. Assembly.
man Joseph c. Shell of Lol
Angeles-and he has support.
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Carolina and New York. Five
more States are seriously con-
sidering them.
Big New Tax Plans
Some tax programs have
been whoppers. Gov. Michael
v. Disable of Ohio has presented
the legislature with plans to
increase cigarette. beer, cor
poration franchise, gasoline and
diesel fuel taxes. Sales taxes
are to be raised to produce
some $119 million in the next
two years. Adopted without
change, Gov. DiSalle's program
would produce $3.50 million in
new revenue in the next two
years.
New York raised its tax
revenue $239 million. The Penn
sylvania Legislature is studying
Gov. David L. Lawrence's pro-
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States financial worries is
heaven-sent. North Dakota is
entering the new biennium
with a $40 million surplus,
thanks to last years fine crop
harvest.
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STATE FINANCES
Higher axes Invoked
AsSoIutiont to Problem

Beset by voFious Fiscol ailments. Stoss
governments generally have resorted
to on old. Il never pOpuIor. remedy:
more and higher taxes. This Lost Of
three articles describes the steps
Stotes ore ticking TO eose theiI
finoneiol problem.
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April Is Aspirin Time for Tax Men

work Unfortunately to the city or national tax
authorities.
In consequence, the District and Federal in
come tax Offices keep up daily exchange Of mis-
directed returns at filing time. In some cases. the
taxpayer finds himself in jam when the Federal
return he has prepared on a District form slides
into the city processing mill, and Uncle Sam marks
a big delinquent sign by his name.
For the first time in the 20 years of District
income tax the tax Office stopped filling out forms
this year for residents who GO down to seek help.
Now" explains Robert }. Durham, chief Of
the income tax division I'VE give them chair,
couple of forms and pencil and set them to work.
We tell them to raise their hands if they reach
trouble spot, and tax auditor goes to help them"
On the whole, say the officials, the public
seems fairly well conditioned by now to the fact
Of paying taxes. At least. few complaints are re-
ceived that score. Some even may be over
resigned, such as one who duly forwarded check
to cover a reasseSsment notice plainly marked,
This is NOT tax bill"
But voteesS District residents frequently take
the occasion of their tax payment to sound of
about the lack Of franchise. A familiar theme of
taxation without representation" pervades these
comments, with notice that the tax is being paid
under protest"
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By HARRIET CRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

IF INCOME TAX time sent you running for
aspirin consider the gigantic headache down
at the tax Office right now.
The cityS revenue men are working out from
under the last big push over the Wednesday deal
line. About 100000 of the total estimated 100000
turns descended as usual, between Wednesday and
Friday.
Nearly half come in one fell swoop" says Will
liam Hartage chief of the processing division Of
the Finance Office.
Once the bullying mailbags arrive at Municipal
Center, 300 Indiana avenue NV, the returns go
through a detailed man-and-machine processing
which includes about Is steps of recording and
checking each form and payment The tax office
is open weekdays from BIS am to 445 pm.
Last year, up to $4,000 returns we're sent back
to taxpayers because of filing mistakes, mostly
failure to attach Do form on which taxes with
held by an employer are recorded. Many others
forgot to sign their returns. rendering them invalid
The penalty for filing late is per cent per
month, up to a maximum of IS per cent.
To some taxpayers apparently, a tax form is
tax form, and tax collector looks like aHsther.
They bithely make out their District returns
Federal forms and vice versa, and mail their hand
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HIGHLlGHTS OF CAPITAL
SEEM BY BLIND GROUP

Thirty-one usually handicapped New Workers yes
terday took "touch-see" tour of Washington
The group. which includes eight totally blind per-
used their sensitive ngertps to "see" the White
Capitol.
Mrs Eisenhower gave permission for the visitors to
touch the White House furnishings during special tour
yesterday morning
1t the third annual tour for the blind sponsored
by the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind
The group taken boat tour of the
Tidal Basin where guides described the scenery.
For most it their first trip to Washington. Those
that have visited before have vivid impressions of the
city Mr. and Mrs. James Cccarello of New York said.
I'VE have clear picture of the city and it is all very
wonderful"
Representative Lindsay Republican of New York,
made arrangements for the group to take special tour
of the floor of the House.
They were to return to New York today.
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He never has to get up in the
middle of the night to help an
animal deliver a young one.
He did come out once at 2 am.
to watch one of the British
park cattle which was having
a difficult labor. And one time
he took a dead kitten from a
Puma, but first he had to grab
the big cats tail to anesthetize
her.
A lot of his practice is on
the claws, paws and hooves Of
his charges. When he has to
trim the hooves of the wild
sheep or the dew claws of a
tiger, he uses wire clippers in
stead of nail scissors.
Pistol Fires Injections
A COZ pistol is his best
weapon for giving injections
or tranquilizers to the larger
animals who cannot be safely
approached. The weapon shoots
a hypodermic injection of the
desired medicine into the rump
of the sick animal. painlessly
and without danger to either
party.
Other medicine are given by
putting 1t into the food or
water. Once there was a broad
noSed crocodile with a skin
condition. DR.. Wright simply
indicated the entire pool in
which the croc was staying and
healed his hide that way.
DR.. Wright tries to see every
creature in the menagerie each
week. Here are some of his
cases:
He had to amputate the tip
Of a cheetah's tail on which a
door had slammed. The cats
have to be inoculated against
feline distemper. The Bactrian
camel was treated for a skin
growth and spat on the veteri-
marian for his trouble.
He had to put a cast on the
broken leg of a brown fallow
deer. The female gaur "a
species of wild cattle lost an
argument with her mate and
DR.. Wright had to dust her
with indictments where the
bull had gored her.
The penguins were treated
for botulism. The king cobra
needed a small operation to re-
move the eye scales that did
not come of with the rest of
the skin at a melting time.
There was a canine tooth to
be removed from the aching
jaw of a griSon, a South Amer
lean monkey. There was an elk
witt. stomatitis. There were
kangaroos with jaw ailments.
There was an Gland with an
abcess. gorillaS with stomach
aches and orang outans with
roundwormS.
It's all in the days work to
DR.. Wright.
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welfare youngsters. The County
Welfare Department said it will
need an extra 1900 next year
to keep payments to dependent
children at their present level.
Mrs. Edwin L. Kahn, presi-
dent of the Arlington League,
said that the allowances for
food "are extremely low" She
said there have been only two
revisions in the past 10 years
in the maximum allowable
amounts lin spite of rapidly
rising costs of living"
Mrs. Kahn pointed out that
the maximum food allowance
for a child under four is 38
cents a day. and noted that
four children had been hospi-
talized in the past l8 months
for malnutrition.
IF reductions are made in
the food allowances, we may
we'll have increases in expend.
itures for disqualification" Mrs
Kahn said.
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pleted before the recent Easter
recess
Home rule hearings will be-
gin at 10 am. Wednesday be-
fore a subcommittee headed by
Senator Hartke. Democrat of
Indiana, at a place still to be
announced. The sessions are
scheduled to run from 10 am.
to l pm. daily through Friday
and if necessary, on the follow
ing Tuesday and Wednesday.
One pending bill, backed by
the District Commissioners and
the White House, provides for
an appointed Governor, a Is
member territorial-type elected
assembly and a nonvoting
House delegate.
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon. has proposed a char
ter commission to-. study va
rious home rule possibilities.
followed by a District referen-
dunn ON the subject, and nu-
merous home rule advocates
other than the Eisenhower adj
ministration have urged an
elected Mayor and council
form of government. All these
ideas are expected to come up
during the hearings.
Solution Seen
Senator Pastore, Democrat
of Rhode Island, chairman of
the Appropriations Subcom-
mite which is handling the
Districts budget, suggested at
a recent hearing session that
home rule might solve the
city's money difficulties.
However, some other legisla-
tors, particularly in the House,
have predicted the opposite re-
suit. And the House District
Committee has additionally
been hostile to the home rule
idea. although Chairman Nc
MILAN, Democrat of South
Carolina, said yesterday that
the House unit will hold hear
ings on the subject during the
present session.
Mr.. Mcmillan, an opponent
of home rule, said he did not
know when the hearings would
be scheduled. They are in the
jurisdiction of a subcommit-
tee headed by Representative
Davis, Democrat of Georgia,
another home rule opponent.
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he is the veterinarian at the
Washington Zoo.
The 35-year-old Philadel-
phia-born veterinarian was a
Psi fighter pilot with the goth
Air Force in the Pacific during
World War II before he studied
under the CT bill at the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania. His
career with the animal kingdom
began soon after he graduated
from the Penn School of Vet
Urinary Medicine.
Came to Zoo in 1857
After tour of private prac-
tice and service at the Agricul-
ture Departments Plum Island
IN. " Animal Disease Labora-
tory the raised cattle, guinea
pigs and mice), DR.. Wright
came to the National Zoologi-
cal Park in August, 1857.
A look at DR.. Wright's rec
ords gives an insight into his
clientele and its problems.
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Some civic leaders and Con-
gress members recently have
suggested home rule as a solu-
ton to the city's recurrent
money problems, although this
idea has been disputed.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee is being counted on
to act favorably on the city's
plea for an $821.750 boost in
a pending $14 million supple
mental appropriation to carry
municipal expenses through the
June 30 end of the fiscal year.
Curtailments Feared
The Commissioners told the
committee last week that with
out the increase, the health.
welfare and other departments
will be forced to halt or hobble
many activities, They also
strongly urged a $3.1 million
increase in a supplementary
Federal payment of IS million
which was voted along with the
$14 million appropriation by
the House.
Among the cuts threatened
by the House appropriation ac-
ton are public health doctors
and nurses visits, hospital care
and clinic schedules, food and
sanitation inspections. polio
and other NEGOTIATIONS for chill
dren, and all routine dog catch
ing. officials said. The Welfare
Department has already re-
duced public assistance checks
Is per cent because of the fund
crisis, and other departments
have ordered economies.
Federal agencies which also
suffered fund cuts by the House
in the supplemental bill which
includes the city funds, report
edly have put pressure on the
Senate to act as quickly as pos
sible on restoration pleas, and
there is hope that the appro-
priations unit, headed by Sena-
tor Hayden, Democrat of Ari-
iona, will complete its action
and get the fund bill to the
Senate floor before the weeks
end. The unit is expected to
wind up hearings tomorrow.
Once the supplemental bill
has been settled, the Senate
group is expected to deal with
the Districts budget for the
fiscal year beginning July 1,
on which hearings were COM
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be in where Mr.. Flemming hap
pens to be living and working.
The county still feels the
burden"
Area Unique
That burden, school officials
say, is peculiar to what they
term "the Federal bedroom"
The suburban areas are the
homesites Of the bulk of Fed
eral employees in Washington.
Government workers, and those
who have come to service their
living needs, have caused a
burgeoning population in just a
few years.
School systems geared to a
smaller enrolment we're unable
to accept the huge increase.
This is the reason for the Fed
eral Unprecedented program in
other parts Of the Nation, they
point out.
Officials in Montgomery and
Fairfax say each county ex-
poets enrolment increases Of
5000 new pupils next year.
That has been the past trend
and it will continue to be, they
add.
I'VE are in constant need Of
new facilities to provide for
these additional students" says
w. T. Woodson, Fairfax County
school superintendent.
Untaxed Business
Falls Church School Supt.
Irwin H. Schmitt points out
that the Federal Government
represents this areas big bust
ness.
Representative Broyhill. Re-
publican of Virginia, said he
will take the floor of the House
this week to answer Secretary
Flemming's proposal to drop
area school aid. Representatives
Foley and Landlord, Democrats
of Maryland, say they will pre-
sent united front against any
move to cut the funds.
The PROPOSED cut is unreal
iStic, Mr.. Foley said. This is a
federally i;npacted area, he
added. whether the toothache
is the result of the National
Institutes of Health or the
Federal Triangle"
Some school officials believe
that a sudden cutoff would be
unfair" even if justified other
wise.
If it is to be taken away"
said William S. Schmidt, super
intendent of Prince Georges
County schools, then it should
be done gradually" He said the
day will come eventually when
this will no longer be considered
an impact area, but so far the
population boom does not
appear to be leveling off.
Following is a breakdown of
Federal payments made here
under the impactad-area pro-
gram for the current school
year:
Arlington, 81. million; Fair
fax, So. million; Alexandria,
$500. 900; Falls Church, $780,
900; Montgomery, 81. million
and Prince Georges, So. million.
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after officials decided to take
the pageant out of the rain.
While the setting-u was in
progress, a few hundred spec
tatorS wandered around the
Armory lobby. The princesses
had managed to dash inside
without getting soaked when
their buses drove up to the rear
of the building.
Some of the musicians,
though, were dripping wet, and
there was some confusion as
they sought instruments mis-
placed during the shift of To-
cations.
Finally, about $3.50 o'clock,
the show got underway, with
huge blocks of empty seats fac
ing the performers. Many per-
sons had tired of waiting and
drifted away. but a large crowd
of latecomers swelled the audi
ence to about 5000 midway
through the performance.
Imagination Needed
The spectators were asked to
use their most vivid magma
ton as the four-par musical
show began. The huge stage,
finished minutes before. was
bare of decoration or back
drops.
An implanted wooden stair
way, originally designed for use
behind an elaborate backdrop
at the Jefferson Memorial, was
placed on the stage for the first
act, and then could not be
moved although it did not
figure IN the ensuing drama.
What was supposed to be
an elaborate Washington night
club scene had nothing but
austere folding chairs for props.
. However, the shows featured
performer, singer Steve Law
renee. maintained high good
humor, and received a rousing
ovation from the happy-go-
lucky crowd with his spirited
up the Lazy River"
But multi-colored humber
shoots turned K street into a
field of peoples last night for
the parade.
Leading it was Miss Harris,
backed by what seemed to be
at least 10000 rain-soaked
trombones.
Behind her came a 2-year-
old drum majorette, twirling
like a professional, accompanied
by a matronly woman who
probably was her mother.
IF you're going to walk in
all this rain. at least I'm going
to march with you" the chap
erone said through clenched
teeth.
Another little girl about three
feet tall reached the reviewing
stand a good five minutes be-
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FESTIVAL
Rain Forces Shift
To Armory Site

fore the rest of her contingent.
The wet route was strewn
with dropped batons.
Deputy Police Chief Howard
v. Covell estimated that 1885,
900 persons lined the parade
route.
Police were kept busy towing
away some so cars that were
parked on the parade route
shortly before the march got
started.
A high-spirited crowd lined
the pavement from Seventh
and K streets where the parade
assembled, to Nineteenth and
K, where shivering marchers
were bundled in raincoats and
hustled away in waiting auto
mobiles.
To the children who lined
the curbs, the sights of Rim
Tin-Tin and the prancing ner-
vous horses of the Park Police
were perhops the most thrill
ing.
Cheers also followed in the
wake of the United States Ma
rine Band, which strutted
proudly in wet, red coats.
AS the downpour intensified
at least one princess aban-
doned vanity for good sense.
The beauty from Massachusetts,
gratefully accepted a huge
black mans umbrella to shield
her couture and bare shoul-
defs.
officials at the Hargrove
Display Co. of Cheverly, Md
where many of the colorful
parade floats were made, said
they waited until the last pos
sible moment to start the man.
moth exhibits toward the stag
ing area.
The longest float in the line
of march was the entry by the
Washington Merchants and
Manufacturers Association
three gigantic pink elephants,
each IA feet high. The entry
was lis feet long. 1t was pulled
by an amazingly small tractor,
about four feet long and about
IA inches wide.
The Almas Temple Of Wash
ington put on a big display,
also, with 10 separate units en-
tered. The Districts float car
ried Miss Washington, Lee
Berkow, in an exhibit depicting
six white horses pulling a cart
filled with cherry blossoms.
81 Floats Entered
Altogether. 80 floats were
in the big show. In addition,
$500 marchers, 81 bands. so
drill teams, 40 majorette groups
and about 100 horses partici-
pated.
Meanwhile, yesterdays bleak
weather kept all but a handful
of hardy visitors from strolling
the Tidal Basin to view the
blossoms.
Park Police said traffic
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around the Basin was less than.
on a normal Saturday, and
special police details on hand
to handle the anticipated
throngs were sent home.
Even so, some quarter-million
tourists were in town, a new
record for festival week. Hotel
rooms were still available but
scarce.
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Arlington Women Ask
ChiIdren's Aid Boost

The Arlington County League
of Women Voters yesterday
asked the County Board to
approve extra funds asked by
the Welfare Department to
make up cut in State funds
for the aid-to-dependent chill
dren program.
The State Board of Welfare
has reduced its payments to
the localities for food for the
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sTRANGEsT MEDICAL PRACTICE
This Doctor Levies
No Charge at All
BY JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Star STAFF Writer

DR. F. Wright has by all odds the stranges medical
practice in Washington. tssssss
His obstetrcal have their babies all by themselves
He does his podatric work with pair of metal cutters
He anesthetizes his surgical with pistol.
He can't touch most of his 236 patients for fear they will
bite him
He gets complaints and he charges fee
Dr. Wrghts practice has all these peculiar
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District Hopes Senate
Can Avert Health Cuts

District leaders hope for Senate action this week to
Washington citizens from threatened slash health and
other public services.
Home rule will also become live topic again with the start
wednesday of Senate District Committee hearings
posas to give the Drct governmental ndependenee
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House Appropriations subcom-
mitee.
1t would mean real estate
tax increases in all surround
ing areas and probably would
eliminate teacher pay raises
until new tax money allows
budget adjustments.
Members Of Congress repre-
senting nearby counties say
they will fight any move to
eliminate the aid to area
schools. They say Secretary
Trimmings proposal will get a
cold chill in Congress. They are
confident the Federal payments
will be continued.
SS.5 Million Involved
Northern Virginia and near
by Maryland school systems
expect to receive about SIS
million in Federal aid next year,
to be used for construction and
operating expenses. This year
they received nearly the same.
Under the law. school dis
tricts are paid a certain
amount for each pupil who is
a dependent of a Government
employe. A higher amount is
paid for pupils whose parents
both work and live on a Fed
eral reservation-Such as per-
sonnet assigned to a military
base and living on the base.
Thus a student attending a
Montgomery County school
whose parents live in Bethesda
and one of whom works for tile
Government brings the county
a Federal payment.
One such case is that of Sec
rotary Flemming. He has two
boys attending Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School and each
represents a payment of about
$50 from Federal funds.
Mr.. Trimmings argument is
that his residence in Bethesda,
while working in downtown
Washington, should not entitle
the county to any payment.
Pays County Taxes
Mr.. Flemming does pay taxes
those on his home property
in the county. This amounts
to about $3.50 a year. OF that
amount some $4l9 is used for
schools; the rest is divided
among other necessary services
such as police and fire pro-
lection.
But it costs about $439 to
educate boy in high school in
Montgomery this year and next
year the cost is expected to go
up to 5000, county officials say.
They make this point:
Under the Federal impaeted
areas program, sums are paid
for those students whose par
ents are living and working on
a Federal reservation. In Mont
gomery, the National Institutes
of Health is an example.
Suppose" an official said,
"Mr. Flemming were tempo
rarily transferred from his post
at HEW and went to work at
NH and lived on the grounds.
His boys probably would still go
to Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School. The only change would