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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07

up in the Rules Committee.
The committee is in charge Of
steering legislation to the
House for action.
Democratic leaders regard
housing as an issue on which
they might well win a test with
Mr.. Eisenhower and are eager
to get the bill to a vote.
Mr.. Rayburn told a news con-
ference the leadership wants
ito follow the usual course
without bypassing the Com
mittee on Rules"
1--WE are willing to wait a
reasonable time" he went on.
but added that if necessary
there are at least three ways
in which the House could get
the legislation UP for action
despite the attitude Of the
Rules Committee.
Asked what he considered a
reasonable time, Speaker Ray
burn said pretty soon."
The three parliamentary de-
vices he mentioned are:
/. A discharge petition. which
would require the signatures of
a majority of the members of
the House to take the bill away
from the committee.
2. A resolution declaring that
the bill is in order for con-
sideration. Such a resolution,
Mr.. Rayburn said, could be
adopted on one of the days
when the House normally sus-
ponds its rules to pass noncon-
troversial legislation.
3. Use of the rarely employed
calendar Wednesday" proce-
dure, under which committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Stock Prices
Drop Sharply

NEW YORK. May 7 (AP)-
Major stocks declined as much
as 50 or So and even the Space
Age group, sharply higher in
recent sessions, became irreg-
ular under heavy profit taking
today.
Trading was active, at times
forcing the ticker briefly be.
hind transactions on the floor,
At noon the Associated Press
average Of so stocks was of 80
cents at 1926. The Dow Jones
industrial average was down
4.63 at 619.76.
In the early afternoon Amer.
lean Telephone g. Telegraph
was $3.50 at $242.50, General
Tire $2.75 at $50, United States
Steel $3.50 at $89.75 and Good
rich $3.50 at $3.50.
Admiral was up $2.25 at
$26.62, Magnavox 1925 at
$68.50, Maytag SITS at $87 and
Haveg 81 at $76.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Live Grenade Found
In Mail Sack Here

He said the package was moi
mailed in Washington. II
came from a sack Of parcels
which were to be separated by
addresses, rerouted, and re-
turned by conveyor belt to the
station. The label bearing the
point of origin had already
been removed from the sack
before it was dumped, he said.
Ofhcials summoned 1t. John
r. Snowden, an ordnance ex-
pert from Fort McNair, who
inspected the weapon and
tapped the handle in a safe
position. Then, surrounded by
sandbags, it was taken to Fort
McNair
1t. SnoWden said the gre
made. a Mark II type. appeared
in good condition. 1t can't be
determined definitely If it is
live until it is taken apart or
detonated. Army officials said.
They said postal officials
have asked that the weapon.
later taken to Andrews Air
Force Base, remain intact until
postal inspectors complete their
investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07

A hand grenade, believed to
be live, came tumbling out of
a sack of parcel post mail when
it was emptied at the City Post
Once about l am. today, postal
officials said.
The weapon, a fragmenta-
ton type designed to shatter
into shrapnel when detonated,
was wrapped only in newspaper
part of the New York Her.
aid Tribune's April % edition.
Acting Postmaster Carlton G.
Beall said the grenade was dis
covered by a mail handler when
the sack was dumped at the
parcel post separation center
after being routed there by
conveyor belt from Union Sta
ton.
The separation center is on
the first floor main workroom
of the building at North Capt.
toll street and Massachusetts,
avenue.
Mr.. Beall said the lethal
package was not wrapped,
stamped, or addressed, and no
broken parcels were found in
the sack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Obsolete Items Pile Up
In Spoce-Bound U.S..

The space age is swapping
the Federal Government with
surplus property resulting from
rapid chronological changes.
General Service Administra-
ton officials told the House
Appropriations Committee re-
Gently the agency is having
trouble screening and disposing
of vast quantities of obsolete
weapons, airplanes, tanks and
other items daily being out
moded as well as less glamor-
GUS but sometimes more useful
items.
The surplus has shot from
a little over 81 billion a year
in acquisition value to So billion
this year and an expected $12
billion in the next year or two.
they said.
Most Of the surplus is in the
Department, they
added.
Clarence D. Bean of GSA's
surplus disposal program said
the Government has launched
a stepped-up campaign to dis
pose of excess property, first
among other Federal agencies
and State and local govern
mentS, and then to the public.
The Defense Department cur
rently has earmarked s26.7 bill
lion in obsolete items available
for disposal, he told the COM
mittee. The highest post World
War IL total in any one year
was SIS billion worth, he added.
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chairmen may call UP bills
which have been approved by
their committees.
The bill has been approved
by the Banking Committee,
headed by Representative
Spence, Democrat of Kentucky,
and went from this group to
the Rules Committee. On "cal-
endaf Wednesday" Mr.. Spence
could move to take the bill up.
Mr.. Eisenhower asked Con-
gress for housing legislation
estimated to cost about SIS
billion.
Democrats on the Banking
Committee not only boosted his
figure but put in an author
ization for 100000 units of low
rent public housing.
Mr.. Eisenhower ha d not
asked for any subsidized public
housing.
Republicans contend tn a t
eventual cost of the Democratic
bill would be $50 billion rather
than the S2.1 billion tag the
Democrats have put on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Twining to Take
Medical Tests
BY the Associated Press

Gen. Nathan F. Twining
chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of
Staff, is in Walter Reed Hos.
pital for a series of medical tests
because recent chest X-rayS
indicated they were advisable.
The Pentagon said today the
81 -year-old air general took his
regular annual physical exam
lination last week. This exam
ination included the X-rayS
which indicated a requirement
for further diagnosis and
study" a statement said.
Gen. Twining was admitted
to the Army Medical Center
"fG these diagnostic proce-
dureS" last Sunday, the state
ment said, adding, "Al proce-
dureS thus far have proved
negative"
Gen. Twining was recently
reappointed by President Eli
senhower to a second two-year
term as chairman OF the JOINT
Chiefs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Hussein SWeurs In
10-Mun Cabinet

AMMAN, Jordan, May 2
(AP) king Hussein of Jordan
sWore in a new 10-man cabinet
last night headed by Hazza
Majali.
Premier Majali will be his
own Foreign Minister, as was
his predecessor, Samir Rifai.
Mr.. Rifai resigned Tuesday,
pleading i'll health.
Mr.. Majali in a statement
said his government will CO.
operate with other states and
that Jordan's relations with
friendly countries will receive
special care and appreciation
as long as they are based on
mutual respect and equality"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
President Cancels
AirAcodemyDote

President Eisenhower today
Cancelled tentative plans to at
tend the An. Force Academy'S
first commencement exercises
at Colorado Springs. Colo,
June 4. but announced that he
hopes to visit the academy be-
fore then.
White House Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty said the
President decided against tying
himself down to the June 4
date because of the pressure
of business in Washington. The
East-WeSt Foreign Ministers
conference looking toward a
summer summit meeting may
be winding UP about that time
Mr.. Hagerty said he did not
know yet when Mr.. Eisenhower
might get to Colorado Springs.
He told a questioner the visit
to the Air Force Academy
might be combined with a week
end visit to Denver, where Mrs.
Eisenhower'S mother lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Realty Official
Is Indicted in
Lester Killing
AIpough Accused
Of Resort SIuying
In Surprise Move
BY JAMES F. MoSER, Jr., and
HERMAN r. SCHADEN
star stan Writer

MANASSAS, Va, May t.
Luther A. Alpaugh, 81. a men,
Der of the prominent family
that developed the Lake Jack
son resort, was indicted in a
surprise move here today in
the murder of Richard L. Les
ter, ST.. a salesman for the de-
velopment firm.
Mr.. Lester, 70, popular sales
manager for the firm, was shot
to death the morning Of Sep
TENDER Is as he sat slipping
coffee in his apartment at the
rear of the company's offlces.
william D. Billy Gavin, IS,
a handyman for the property,
was indicted for the murder
April 6 after making a con-
fession which he repudiated,
and then reaff1rmed.
Gavin and State Trooper
Jack E. Hall we're the only
witnesses to appear before the
five-man special Prince VIII
liam County grand jury this
morning. The hearing lasted
IA hours.
At the conclusion, a true
bill was issued, asserting that
lone Luther A. Alpaugh did
unlawfully, wilfully, deliber-
ately, premeditatedly and with
malice of aforethought shoot
and kill" on or about Septem-
Der Is Richard L. Lester, ST..
against the peace and dignity
Of the Commonwealth"
Sheriff Turner D. Wheeling
and two other officers later
arrested Mr.. Alpaugh while he
was working on a cabin in the
Lake Jackson development. He
was taken to the county Jail
at Manassas, and Immediately
called his attorney.
A member of the Lake Jack
son Realty Co. for IL years,
Mr.. Lester, a man Of good
humor and striking personality.
had been on a years leave and
had returned to the lake 4 miles
south of Manassas only two
days before he was shot.
Members of his closly knit
family, who put up a $1,000
reward, said Mr.. Lester had re-
turned to the lake merely for
a visit and to check up on the
status of his commissions. He
expected later to rejoin one Of
his sons, Hodge Lester, in st.
Louis.
The indictment of Mr.. Al
paugh, vice president Of the
firm which has attracted some
1000 summertime residents to
See LESTER, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Cross-Park Freeway
Project Wins Support
TenIeyCircIe
To 7 Street
Plan Backed
BY JAMES G. DEANE
star star Writer

A new cross-park proposal for
an interstate freeway linking
nearby Maryland and upper
Wisconsin avenue with down.
town Washington was unex-
pectedly approved yesterday by
the steering committee for
washington's Mass TRANSFORM
ton Survey.
The cross park proposal
which would cost about S24
million, far less than previ-
ously suggested plans for
the Wisconsin avenue-down-
town link, is considered certain
to go into the basic freeway
plan which the Mass Transport
tation group is expected to
submit to the White House
within a few weeks.
The expressway, which would
have at least six lanes, would
cross Rock Greek Park on q
high-level bridge. It would
extend from the Tenley circle
area at Wisconsin and Nebraska
avenues NV, along Upton and
Tilden streets and through an
east-west stretch of parkland
known as the Melvin c. Hazen
Park. At the eastern side Of
Rock Greek Park it could pro-
coed toward the Fifteenth
street area either in Piney
Branch parkway, in the vicinity
of Park road, or in the vicinity
of Harvard and Irving streets.
Link to Inner Loop
1t would then swing south
ward, between Fourteenth and
Sixteenth streets. and connect
with the city's projected inner
loop expreSsway at T street.
The exact route has yet to
be determined. However, it
has been agreed to by park and
Federal road officials.
William E. Finley, National
Capital Planning Commission
director. today refused to re-
lease a map showing the new
route and said it was secret"
because "the planning COM
mission itself has not even seen
it yet"
He also declined to discuss
details Of the route but said it
was "a feasible plan developed
by the planning commission"
which he felt was the answer to
the long-disputed Wisconsin
avenue corridor proposal.
Meeting Set Today
The planning commission and
the Regional Planning Coun-
Gil will meet late this after.
noon on the route. 1t is ex.
pected, because of past posi-.
tons, that the groups will
the plan. The ultimate
decision, however. can be made
only by the District Commits
sionerS, who must order such a
road before any plan can be
carried out.
The steering committee ac-
ton has the effect of reviving
See HIGHWAY, Page B-3
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RoofCoIIupse
Pins Workers
In Building

WESTBURY, N. Y, May z
(AP) A large industrial build
ing being erected by scores Of
workers collapsed shortly be-
fore II am. today. At least
one man was killed, a number
injured and an estimated 20
trapped in the wreckage.
Two hours after the collapse
authorities still were trying to
ascertain how many men had
been present and how many
had been accounted for.
There's just no way of
knowing right now how many
still may be in the wreckage, !"
was the only comment avail
able.
Hundreds of rescue workers
rushed to the scene and tore
at the mounds Of twisted steel
Orders and splintered planking
with bare hands in an effort
to free trapped laborerS.
For a time shriekS and cries
arose from the heap of rubble
lying on the floor of the one
story building.
Giant cranes were sped to
the site to hoist heavier seq
ments and permit rescue teams
to crawl underneath.
Eight or more injured were
known to have been taken to
hospitals by ambulances.
The building was under con-
struction at the Westbury in
duStrial park about 80 miles
east of New York City on Long
Island. The steel framework
had been erected and roofing
and brick finished work were
under way. The structure. 200
feet long and $50 feet wide,
was to house an electronics
firm.
A steel girder in the roof
was believed to have given way,
causing the avalanche Of steel
and wood to cascade down.
ward.
AS many as 100 workmen
may have been on the job,
some on the roof.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Hungary Reds Yield
To Gum Chewers

BUDAPEST. Hungary. May 7
(AP) Hungarian Communists,
after years of poking fun at
gum-chewing Americans, are
going to start making their
own chewing gum.
A cookie factory in Gyoer win
open a gum section to supply
some Of the local demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
No Need Seen
ForCityCo|Iege
ConsuItunts Favor
2-Yeur Institution
By JOHN M. McKELwAY
Star stan Writer

A private management con-
sultant firm today reported
there is no pressing need fol-
a city college in the District al
this time.
The firm, Booz, Allen & Ham
ilton, however strongly recon-
mended the "early creation Of
a unsupported junior college.
The findings are certain to be
challenged by some members OF
the District Board of Educa-
ton as well as some school
officials.
In a way the report, released
today by School Supt. Carl F
Hansen without comment,
backfired on the School Board,
which fol years had maintained
there was a strong need for q
publicly supported city college
in the District.
Financed by Gift
The board hired the private
firm to bolster its stand for a
city college before the District
Commissioners and Congress. II
was able to finance the study
after receiving a $4,000 gift
from an anonymous donor late
last year.
Some authorities maintain,
however, that If the board IS
able to sell the two-year junior
college idea, the school eventu-
ally would develop into a four
year institution.
The firm said that, in its
Judgment, the need for a city
college is marginal" as Of to-
day and perhaps for the imme-
date future. 1t added, how
ever: 1.-THE situation is dynamic
and may well change"
1.-The magnitude and char
acter of demonstrated need does
not warrant the early establish
ment of a high standard, four
year, public liberal arts insti-
tuition" the firm stated.
Doesn't Justify Cost
without in any way mini
MIXING the need for and the
deSirability of providing higher
educational opportunity for
those intellectually capable. but
financially unable, to attend
private institutions, the num-
bers involved do not justify the
See COLLEGE, Page ALI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07

bring ali the competing diaries
to within 10 cents Of each other
in the price they will have to
pay for raw milk to be used
for bottling.
With the milk fight here now
going into its third month. the
powerful Maryland = Virginia
coop is maintaining its firm
hold on the Washington milk
shed.
Holding Its Own
Mr.. Hooper says he is con-
fident the co-op's position will
remain strong.
Edgar Brawner, general man.
ager of Chestnut Farms, the
man who fired the opening gun
in the dispute, says he must
admit the coop is successfully
holding its own.
Last February he wrote to
800 member-farmers of the
Maryland-Virginia coop and
urged them to sell directly to
him at prices that would bring
them greater returns than the
coop paid but which would
also mean a saving to Seal
test.
But, Mr.. Brawner said yes
terday, only two farmers took
him up on the offer.
If there had been q mass
acceptance it would have been
a seriouS-if not fatal-bloW
for the coop. Mr.. Hooper says
the co-op'S farmers have proven
"they were solidly behind us in
this fight"
He adds. however, that had
Sealtest started the fight four
or five months earlier it could
have been a sorry story for the
coop.
Nonetheless, the fight has
been costing coop farmers
about $4,000 a month in lost
profits in March and April, Mr..
See MILK, Page AS
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the directors will accept the
Federal market order which
places a yearly average of $40
per hundredweight on class !
milk-that used for bottling.
Approved by Both
Approval of the Federal or
der is satisfactory to both prin-
cipals in the dispute, the CO.
op and Chestnut Farms (Seal-
test.
The farmers want it because
it means a measure of stability
in the price of top-class milk,
Mr.. Hooper said.
And a spokesman for Seal
test points out that the order
twill put us in a better COM
petitive position"
The Federal milk order sets
the bottom price that diaries
can pay farmers for their raw
milk. In this way it stabilizes
the price farmers may expect.
The diaries in this area will
not be able to pay less than
the order price for milk that
is to be sold here.
Retail Price May Vary
The price the consumer will
pay for a quart of milk may
possibly change-lower priced
milk may be increased and
higher priced milk may drop,
dairy operators say. Exact
effect on the consumers prices
cannot yet be determined. they
say.
The MISUNDERSTANDING CO.
op says it will add a Accent
quality premium to the Fed
eral floor price that the diaries
must pay. Sealtest is opposing
the addition of this premium,
paid coop members who pro-
duce high quality milk.
The new price level, with the
premium added, is expected to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
West 10 Push
Unificdtion al
Big-4 Session
'Poekoee' Would
Set Up 35-Mun
German Group
BY EARL II. voSS
star star writer

A "little reuniication" plan
for partitioned Berlin is one
Of the features OF the four
part package plan for q general
European settlement which the
West will present to Russia
at the Big -Four Foreign Min
listers Conference opening
Monday in Geneva, diplomatic
sources reported today.
Identification of the two Ger
NAMES, as well as the two
Berlins. would be set in motion
by a 35-member alderman
commission, IS Of whose mem
bers would be appointed by the
West German government and
10 by the Communist East
German regime.
Principles on which the
United States, Britain and
France propose to base an all
German peace treaty form o
third part of the plan. The
United States idea Of present.
ing a complete treaty to coun-
ter the detailed Soviet draft
has been put of.
Disarmament Proposals
Provisions for European Sc
curity and global disarmament
would be linked to progress to-
ward the political goals of re-
unification and a peace treaty.
But in the early stage, the
Western Big Three would seek
agreement with Russia only on
broad principles for European
security, such as the renunci-
alton of force in settling dis
putes and a pledge not to aid
aggressors.
All points in the Western
package are negotiable. Wheth-
er some sections will be broken
out of the package apparently
has not yet been decided. But
Washington officials say the
plan win be presented as a
package taking three years or
more tn fIIlflI
Details Of Package
These details Of the four
part Western package, agreed
on after months Of negotia-
tons by the Western Big Three
and West Germany, have
seeped through the tight secu-
rity net thrown up by British,
French, West German and
American foreign ministers
when they reached agreement
in Paris a week ago today:
/. Identification. Members Of
the alderman commission
would be appointed by the two
German governments, not cleo
ted. Each commission member
See POLICY, Page AS
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Phone room hours:
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The business counter will
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for the following classified
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The business counter will
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
Royburn to Force Vote
On ST. Billion Housing
Democratic Leaders Eager to Test
Bill Objected to by President
By the Associated Press

House Speaker Rayburn said today he intends to get
House vote ST. billion housing bill resting in
Rules Committee pgeonhoe.
The bill calls for heavier housing spending than Presi-
dent Eisenhower recommended and coalition of Republic
and Southern Democrats has kept the bottled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
GLOBAL RECIPES
ARE OFFERED

EXOTIC RECIPES, gathered dur
ing her troveIs, ore the speeialty Of
Copt. Winifred R. Quick, director Of
the WAVES. She is also dedicoted
outdoor cook, Violet FouIkner, The
Stor's food editor, reports todoy on
Page D-l.
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Milk Coop to Approve
Minimum Price Order
SeuItest Also Approves Yearly Price
Average of $5.40; Premium in Dispute
BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star STAFF Writer

The governing board Of the Maryland Virginia dairy
farmers cooperative meets this afternoon is expected
approve Federal regulation establishing minimum prices
for farmers in the Washington milkshed.
William B. Hooper, general manager of the Maryland
Virginia Milk Producers Association said it is certain that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-07
THE WEATHER: !. .' -. ::' e,

Fair and cooler tonight: low. 50. Mostly
sunny and much cooler tomorrow; high. GO.