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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Milk Price Fixinq

A staff writer in the April
issue of The Star wrote. in
part:
THE Maryland General
Assembly has killed legisla-
ton that would have created
a milk commission to regulate
milk prices. Mail is reported
98 per cent opposed to a
price, fixing unit"
That Is exactly how the
people of Virginia feel about
their price-flxing Virginia
Milk Commission which
forces them to pay for milk
lover the counter" the same
high price they would have
to pay if Hoffa'S teamsters
delivered it to their door.
This is why people in near
by Virginia are buying Viz
ginia milk in Washington for
IL cents a gallon less than
they would have to pay in
Virginia.
Under the Virginia Milk
Commission, Virginia is ex-
porting milk which her un-
dernourished children cannot
afford at the senseless high
price fixed by the commission
/ believe that if SO per cent
Of the people of Virginia had
their way, the Virginia Milk
Commission would be abol-
iShed.
X. d. VaSs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09

atomic rocket engines capable of power
ing manned interplanetary ships.
OF course, all such possibilities may
seem to be extremely remote at the
moment, but we have seen SO many
wonders performed In the past 20 years
that the potentialities inherent in the
Los Alamos experiment may well mate
rialize in our children's lifetime, II not
in our own. For good or Ill, ours is an
age in which fantasy and reality often
seem to be one and the same thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Castro as Visitor

What kind of a dictator do
you have to be to get the glad
hand of the State Depart
ment?
According to r. r. Rubot-
tom, Assistant Secretary for
Latin American Affairs, every
courtesy will be extended to
Fidel Castro, as a "distin-
guished visitor" when he
comes to this country. Known
far and wide in Latin America
at least as an ardent pro-
Communist, Castro in the
opinion of competent observ-
ers has become the defacto
dictator Of Cuba.
At the very time that State
is preparing the red carpet
for I-am-the-law Castro. a
strong anti Communist dicta-
tor. who laid the foundations
of Venezuela's prosperity dur
ing his 10 years of loyal CO.
operation with United States
political and industrial in
terestS, has been brusquely
ordered out of the country.
We are about to throw Perez
JimineZ to the wolves.
Discrimination of this kind
has given Latin American
Reds a shot in the arm. This
is apparent as Castro. flushed
with his success in Cuba. now
threatens peace in the Carib-
bean. Now If the Caribbean
should become a Communist
lake, then let nobody say
Castro sympathizers in the
State Department didn't help
bring this about by the same
kind of appeasement that has
been so disastrous for United
States interests in other parts
of the world.
Norman L. Cooke.
Vero Beach, Fla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Not So Wild q Dream

Scientists at our Los AlamoS labora-
tory in New Mexico now have achieved
something which may one day be hailed
as another history making breakthrough
in the atomic age. Working with a
reactor and what they call "plaSma
thermocouple, they have converted nu-
clear energy directly into electricity
enough of it to keep light bulb glow
ing for IL hours
Leaving technical details to one
side, this means that there has been at
least Small-scale demonstration -ap-
parently the first of it's kind anywhere
in the world-proving that it is not so
wild dream to look forward to the fol-
lowing: A time when atomic reactorS
will generate vast amounts of electrical
power in highly simplified process
that will eliminate the present need for
steam turbines and other massive and
costly intermediary equipment In ad-
dition, the Los Alamos achievement has
pointed the way to tremendous posi-
bilities in the exploration of space.
UNDERSTANDABLE enough, the Atomic
Energy Commission has bent over back
ward in an effort to discourage over
enthusiastic interpretations of this &C
compliShment. To that end, emphasizing
that the "plasma thermocouple" is
device still "in very early experiment
tai phase" the commission has been at
pains to declare that sit would be most
preSumptuouS at this time to predict
what practical relationship the develop
ment may eventually have with conven-
tional and nuclear power production"
And Acc Chairman John A. McCone,
while saying that the Los AlamoS scien-
fists have reason to feel enormously
proud" has observed that what they
have done, although important, "must
be looked on as laboratory test, and
very small one at that"
Nevertheless, despite these and sim
liar cautionary comments, the Acc has
left no room for doubt that the test
has opened up a long-range prospect
full of great promise" in number of
fields wholly apart from nuclear power.
Among other things, for example, it has
created a real basis for confidence that
the "plaSma thermocouple" can be de-
veloped in a way that will lead to revolu-
tionary advances in the Instrumentation
OF space vehicles, and even to the design
and production-ultimately-of compact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Reormed Germany

During the recent confer
ence of foreign ministers in
Washington, a headline in
The Star reported: Min
listers Get Bonn Warning"
The warning came from DR..
Heinrich Won Brentano, West
German Foreign Minister.
who said his government is
strongly opposed to the pres
entation of a detailed draft
of a German peace treaty in
the early stages of the forth
coming Geneva conference.
The allied governments, ne
declared, are moving too fast
in meeting the Soviet re-
quests.
Here we have an incredible
spectacle: The Germany that
launched two destructive
world wars presumes to tell
Its conquerorS how to deal
with each other. More, the
present allied governments
listen respectfully. even ca
gerly, to this paragon Of
virtue.
With every sensible human
being well aware of the fact
that another world war would
mark the end of civilization
and prove victorious to no
one, West Germany presses
for rightly and inflexibility-
the same kind of German in
flexibility that twice ignited
the whole world in CHASTITY
flames. Indeed, Hitler him
self might do another victory
jig at DR.. Brentano's posture
of defiance. for was it not
Hitler's obsession to turn the
allies into a holy crusade"
against communism? Hitler
still will win the final war,
in a grotesque symbolization
Of death, if the present allies
prove as intractable in this
hydrogen bomb age as West
Germany insists they must
be, and if Russia remains
obdurate.
Many observers believe that
fear Of a rearmed Germany
Is the key to Russia's con-
tinental policies. Surely Rus
STA has every reason, from
macabre past experiences. TO
harbor such fears. Yet in the
face of this. the allies have
insisted on the necessity of
placing nuclear weapons IN
German hands. This kind of
fantastic folly should be de-
nounced with vigor, openly
and perSiStently. by everyone
who can still shudder at the
memory Of Buchenwald and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Nostalgia Sign

I have an old signboard
that will arouse feelings of
nostalgia among old-timers.
I found it 80 or more years
ago while driving down a
country road near Oxon Hill.
A farmer was about to break
it up for kindling. He said
it had once stood at the exit
from an American Express
horsedrawn wagon yard, on
Pennsylvania avenue South
east. My wife and l thought
it worth preserving and
brought it home. 1t reads:
when children are in the
streets, or when ladies or
children are about to cross
the streets, as they are fire.
uuently uncertain and con-
fused in their movements,
TEAMS SHOULD BE
BROUGHT TO A FULL
STOP UNTIL ALL UNCER-
TAINTY IS REMOVED"
I should be glad to give
this to some organization
that displays authentic relics
of horse-and-buggy days. My
telephone number is Emer-
son 3-4183.
ID. E. Cummings,
Capt, USN, Ret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Against 'Giveowoys'

One of your letter writers
is in anguish because 1000
school children in Washing
ton are hungry. How does she
know they are hungry? Sen
ator Morse told her so. How
does Morse know? Did he
count them? Were they hun
CRY last year? Who fed them?
Now we hear of plans for
$50 billion giveaway for the
worlds hungry people.
We are a nation of givers.
If America gives away $50
billion. added to the Marshall
Plan which was to last only
a few years and is with us
yet, we won't pull nations up,
but descend to their levels.
A world traveller told me
Chinese have been sleeping
in the streets with wooden
pallets for centuries. Let's
send them goose feathers for
pillows since we are geese.
Harry III. Herman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Friend of WHdHfe

Since ! do a great deal of
work with wildlife in the
area, I must protest the
squirrel and pigeon execu-
tons in Arlington. No one
realizes better than / that
an overabundance of any,
thing must be controlled.
However, the method used
now is certainly not a hui
name or proper one. Pigeons
have no season sense: they
raise young even in the dead
of winter. So if you have a
bird shot because he dares
come to you for feed, then
the chances are good that
two babies will slowly die of
exposure and starvation.
Squirrels have young as late
as october and as early as
February. If the mother hap
PENS to be the one shot. then
the babies die of starvation.
Isn't it a shame we can't
put out feed and admonish
those we dislike to keep away
from it? Any eight-year-old
boy can construct a feeder
that neither squirrel nor pig
con can feed from. The cry
of rabies is rather far
fetched. Our health depart
ment keeps a close and con-
tinuouS check on all such
complaints, and no case of
rabies has appeared in Ar
lington in a good many years
/ doubt if Arlington County
officials go out and hire help
to perform such a duty as
this without having enough
complaints to make 1t seem
necessary to take some &C
ton. Let's support our AMI
NAL Welfare League so that
they will be able to include
all animals and birds in their
humane work, and leave our
police and other county de-
partments free to carry ON
the work they are best quail
fled for.
Barbara Hickman.
Editors note: Mrs. Hick-
mans work with wildlife"
includes the voluntary con-
version of her home and
wooded grounds in Arlington
into a sanctuary for wounded,
i'll and healthy animals, such
as birds, squirrels and rab-
bitS.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
Qualification

There seems to have been
a misunderstanding about
the testimony of the Educa-
ton Committee of the Jun
ior Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase on a proposed teacher
salary schedule when we tes-
titled at a public hearing be-
fore the Montgomery County
Council on March 81. This
is what we said:
Concerning the proposed
teacher salary schedule, we
feel that IL years is too soon
to arrive at the top. Other
professions take Is to 20
years to get there"
Mrs. John X. Kern,
Chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
A Tolerant Lady

God in his infinite good
ness and wisdom snatched an
angel from our midst the
other day.
AS a newSpaperman, ! met
world celebrities, some of
whom awed me in my young
er days, but none over
whelmed me like the angel
whose only weapons in the
struggle for life were love and
kindness.
The angel, with her par
ents, was driven out of Ire
land by the British, and in
the 80 years I knew her she
never said an unkind word
about her one-time oppres-
sors. Her husband died on
the eve of making a fortune
as a building contractor in
this town, leaving the angel
with eight wonderful sons
and daughters. The children
often had only peanut butter
and bread but they we're never
hungry because they had love
and laughter, long before we
had the welfare state we now
have
The angel had only two
years of grammar school, yet
she was the most articulate
person l ever met. She taught
me more than all the college
professors / ever had. The
angel was extremely cultured
because she was tolerant and
tolerance is the basis of all
culture.
Her name was Mrs. Nora
Cush. Don't weep for her,
for she's not dead. Mrs. Cush
built a monument of love on
this earth which is more last
ing than gold. Love begets
love and never dies.
En,@a-. KAYuw,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
"Gaithersburg, Md.

"Gaithersburg, Md.
Dear Sir:
81 am worried about taxes,
as every one else is.
after getting my assess
ment, / had to get outdoors
and walk, that's where I've
always fought my battles.
1T seems to me the an
swers come easier and
quicker there.
II feel that / am losing
my home where I've lived for
40 years, for ! cannot keep
paying higher taxes every
year For a widow it is a
terrific struggle.
II walked across the field
and looked at my home. this
little corner on this big earth
that / claim as mine, made
possible by a good husband.
II stood there and the
happenings of past years
flowed in; babies, born in
those rooms; a husband and
son desperately i'll being car
ried away to the hospital;
two dear sons leaving to go
overseas to war.
1.-TWO children being
brought home from the jaws
of death and ! on my knees
thanking God for His good
ness and mercy; caring for
aged parents until the last;
planting saplings that have
grown to lovely tall naples.
holly and dogwood trees.
Happy days spent here
with birthday parties. Christ
mas holidays, wedding par
ties. daughters dressing for
graduation. and new babies
being carried home to visit
grandma.
so many happy days came
to my mind. and | felt it just
couldn't be possible that ]
may lose this dear and won
derful home of mine.
Il came back to the house
with tears running down my
face. Life is a struggle for
most of us. but even harder
for some than for others.
Life is also a challenge,
a battle to be won, so / will
go on trying even harder
than before, for something
good is bound to happen If
I have faith enough.
Sincerely, !. H"
& 4
Tax collectors never think
of these things when they
up" the taxes.
The tax collector has been
on the spot since Roman
days.
In Nero's time, If you didn't
pay your taxes, you not only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
THE POLITICAL MILL
Some Bright Spots for G. o. P.
BY GOULD LINCOLN

As the Republican National
Committee gathers here TO
elect a new CHAIRMAN, pick a
city for the @. o. P.'s 1860
National Convention and Sc
lect the convention date. the
atmosphere-for the Repub-
licans- has cleared percep-
tibly from the murky days Of
December and January.
First, President Eisenhower
appears at a peak of pop
ularity, with his leadership
receiving more and more
acclaim.
Second, the Eisenhower
Dulles foreign policy has de-
veloped many more bright
spots. Our allies Of the West
ern free world are strongly
together in favor of no re-
treat from our obligations
and rights-in Berlin; no
appeasement Of the Russian
Communists, although a will
lingness to confer for the
purpose of reaching agree
mentS.
This is true, despite the i'll
timed attacks of the Demo-
cratic Advisory Council which
charged the administration
with failure while our allies
in NATO and the foreign
ministers of Britain. France
and Western Germany we're
gathering here to frame our
Berlin policy statemnt. How
ever, the solidarity shown by
the NATO nations and the
big three" ministers, with
our own attitude, appears a
ready answer to the Demo-
cratic slurs on the policies
which have been pursued by
the administration. The Ad-
visory Council insisted, as it
has in the past, that because
of the Eisenhower policies
this country has no friends
abroad. Indeed. this soli-
darity makes the report of
the Democratic Advisory
Council sound like a political
campaign document-for use
next year.
Third, to tighten the at
mosphere for the Republicans
and improve their prospects
is the report of Government
agencies that employment
has increased from Feb
ruary to March by 100000
to a total of 63,828,00O en-
ployed throughout the coun-
try. The same report showed
that the number of unem-
ployed dropped in the same
period by 387.00
Admittedly, the unemploy-
ment problem is not solved,
nor the hardships wiped out.
But the picture is of expand
ing business and employment,
including, OF course, the agri-
cultural field. This report
came at a time that the ALL
CLIO was staging a "jobless
march" on WaShington-via
train, bus and automobile
to demand greater Govern
ment spending to give en-
ploymenC ana 10 demand a
wide extension of unemploy-
ment benefits.
Economic Trend Aids COP.
Naturally, there is politics
in all this, and also in the
way the economic cat jumps
during the remainder of this
year and in 1860. The pocket
book vote is tremendous. The
latest example of this was
found in the congressional
elections of 1858. The recess
sion of last year sank the
COP. The present upward
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09

its gas chambers, by every
one who can still feel deeply
about Ann Frank and iler
nameless and numberleSs
counterparts who were wan
tonly murdered by a remill-
tarized Germany.
Edward A. Harris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09

trend. no matter how II is
discounted and derided by
President George Meany and
Vice President Walter Reuther
of the AFL-CIO. is helpful TO
the Republican administra-
ton. and probably to the Re-
publican national ticket OF
next year.
The Republicans can also
feel pleased that they have
two brilliant and able young
men In high Office Vice Pres
ident Richard M. Nixon OF
California and Gov. Nell
son A. Rockefeller Of New
York-to whom they can
look for leadership and for
a presidential candidate. Vice
President Nixon is a hard
hitting, indefatigable cam
paigner, with a real follow
ing throughout the country.
Gov. Rockefeller demon
strated his ability in last
years campaign against for
mer Gov. Averell Hartman.
whom he defeated-even in
that Democratic year = by
almost half-a-million votes.
There are other potential
candidates, among them Sec
rotary of the Interior Fred
Seaton of Nebraska and Sec
rotary of Labor James P.
Mitchell of New Jersey.
Democrats Bicker
Another weapon-and 1t is
not secret-whlch is in the
making for the Republicans.
come next year, is the fight
ing among the Democrats.
Fighting for the presidential
nomination, and fighting be-
tween the Northern liberal
wing of the Democratic Party
and the Southern conserya-
tive wing. With at least six
leading, and possibly seven,
potential contenders for the
first place on the Democratic
national ticket, there will be
plenty of fur flying next
year. before and during the
Democratic National Conven-
ton. In the South, too, there
is a growing sentiment of re-
volt, provided the Democratic
National Convention picks a
presidential nominee who
that section feels is inimical
to the South's way of life.
The prospects are for a
fairly peaceful meeting of
the Republican National
Committee. There was strong
talk of revolt on the part of
Old Guardsmen against the
choice of the President for
national chairman to succeed
Meade Alcorn, who is rettr-
ing for personal reasons aft
err two years of service. The d.
choice is Senator Thruston
Morton of Kentucky, who has
the ability and energy to
tackle this job, IN addition to
a very pleasing personality.
The incipient revolt was led
by Senator Goldwater of
Arizona and Representative
Simpson of Pennsylvania
chairmen of the two congress
sional campaign committees,
who commended that a sitting
Senator could not also fill ef-
ficiently the Office of national
chairman. The revolt appears
to have petered out.
The Republicans also will
have the advantage of OBJ
serving the Democrats at
work as they name their ma
tional ticket in Los Angeles.
before the Republicans tackle
a similar job in Chicago a
couple of weeks later. 1t is
always well to know in adj
vance your top political tar
nnf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-09
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used IT
letters carry iUriter'S correct
names and addresses. AL
letters are subject to conden-
SGttOn.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-18

toner's Exhibit A.
The petition of Patrick A.
O'Boyle, Roman Catholic Arch
bishop of Washington states
that he is the owner of land
AUDITING the road and the por-
tons of the roads sought to be
abandoned; that the proposed
abandonment has been submit.
ted to the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, the Mary.
land National Park and Plan.
ming Commission and the Mont
gomery County Council whose
consents are on file herein; that
the consent of the only other
property owner abutting on
Mauchline Road is on file here
in; that the consents of all prop.
erty owners AUDITING on Black.
lock Road are on file herein and
that it is desirable to the inter.
ests Of the community as a
whole and to the petitioner that
Mauchline Road and a portion
OF Blackjack Road in said sub
division be abandoned, it is by
the Circuit Court of Montgom-
cry County, Maryland, sitting as
q Court of Equity, this 18th day
of June, 1859,
ORDERED, that all persons
having any interest in or af.
fected by the abandonment of
Mauchline Road and a portion
of Blackjack Road as shown on
Plat No. 1890 in Plat Book No.
A among the land records of
Montgomery County, appear
and show cause, if any they
have, why an order should not
be entered as prayed on or be-
fore the 18th day of July, 1859
next, PROVIDED copy of this
order be inserted in some news
paper published in Montgomery
County, Maryland for 3 success
sive weeks before the 18th day
of July, 1859.
JAMES H. PUGH,
Judge of Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Md.
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON K. WATKINS,
Clerk 3t4759-7.2
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-18
Legal Advertisement

in substance that the Plaintiffs
Is a resident of Montgomery
County, Maryland, and that she
has been so resident for more
than one year prior to the filing,
of the Bill Of Complaint; that
the plaintiff and Defendant
were married on or about May
%, 1914 by minister of the Cos
pei; that two children were born /.
of said marriage; that on or
about April 8, 1859, the Defend,.,
ant did without just cause or
reason abandon and desert the :
Plaintiff in the State of Mary
land; that such separation has :
been continuous and uninters !,
rupted and that it is deliberate
and final and is beyond any rea--
sonable expectation Of reconcili.s
alton.
1t is thereupon this 18th day
of June, 1859, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County,,
Maryland, sitting as a court Of
Equity, ORDERED, that the
Plaintiff by causing a copy OF,
this order to be inserted in some
newspaper published in Mont.
gomery County, Maryland, onceo
a week in each of four success,
sive weeks before the 18th day
Of July, 1859, give notice to saids
Defendant of the object and sub
stance of this bill, warning him
to file his initial plea on or be-
fore the 18th day of Augusta
1853, to show cause, if any he
has, why a decree should not be
passed as prayed, or in the az
tentative, by the service Of a.
copy of this Order Of Publicaw-
ton personally on the Defendant,
on or before one month before
the said 18th day of August
1859. e
CLAYTON K. WATKINS, y
Clerk of Circuit Court for y
Montgomery County, Md. ~
True Copy-Test: q
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk. 4t.476O.7.0
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-18
Legal Advertisement
Notice to
Electrical Contractors

Sealed Bids will be received
until 1000 A. M. on Friday,
June 26, 1859 at Room 6O2, Coun.
ty Office Building, Rockville, for
relocation I'd signated as
MCPW Contract No. 989-D2) of
Electric Power Line, owned by
u. S. Government near Army
Nike Battery. Bidding docu.
ments may be obtained at Room
SOC, County Office Building,
Rockville, without charge.
M. A. BUTCHER,
Director of Public Works for
Montgomery County, Md.
1t-4763-6-1S
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-18
Order of Publication

The object of this suit is to
abandon Mauchline Road and a
portion of Blackjack Road in the
subdivision known as Blocks Z
and 8, Part of Block 6, Church
Site, Bannockburn" as per plat
recorded among the land rec.
ords of Montgomery County,
Maryland, in Plat Book No. A,
Plat No. 1920, said plat having
been filed herein marked Peti.