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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Six County Police
Promotions O.H.d

The promotions Of six Mont
gomery County policemen were
approved effective yesterday by
the County Personnel Board.
County officials said three
men will I'LL newly created
posts as trafflc squad sergeant.
In the Rockville. Silver Spring
and Bethesda police stations
They are Joseph E. StolE
"a, Rockville station, a county
policemen since 1913; Robert
M. Sigwald, 81, a member Of
the force for eight years. as.
signed to Silver Spring, anC
George L. Hurd, jr., 81,
county policemen since l949
assigned to Bethesda.
Also promoted to sergeant
were Detective Corpl. ALFRED
F. Mccullough, Il, an identi'
f1cation expert assigned to the
Rockville headquarters, anc
Corpl. William T. Denell, 81. oi
the Bethesda station, a police.
man since 1947.
The sixth promotion went tt
Pfc. Urban F. SeeSman,
Silver Spring motorcyclemar
who has served on the force
for 10 years. He will serve al
a corporal (motorcycleman) II
the traffic squad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
10 Of II Fined
In Parking Case
Win Suspension

Eleven residents of Langley
Park, Md, yesterday were con-
victed of illegal parking on
streets scheduled to be resur-
faced.
Hyattsville Police Court
Judge George j. O'Hare i'm
posed one fine of $3.50 and
10 fines of $3.50, but suspended
the smaller penalties. Prince
Georges County police and q
Public Works Department fore
man testified the roads had
been posted previously with
signs announcing the resurfac-
ing and prohibiting parking.
Judge O'Hare ordered the
heavier fine for Gregory Sex.
ton of the 1900 block of Fiji
teenth avenue. Police and wit.
nesses said he failed to answer
the house bell when workers
tried to ask him to move his
sportScar. They said he finally
came out when police called
garage to tow away the car.
Judge O'Hare said that tbs
county and work crews hac
done all they could to inform
the public of the resurfacing
He also said that testimony
revealed none of the ticketec
motorists Intentionally vio'
lated the no-parking signs
They said they were unable
to see the warnings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17

1885 he became a member OF
the Maryland : Virginia Milk
Producers Association, shipping
milk to Washington.
Mr.. Lewis, a railroad and
highway contractor, said he
was forced to sell the dairy
herd after a fire Of unknown
origin destroyed his dairy barns
at his farm, Quailhayen, near
Remington, Va, last month.
He has been using the facilities
at Glenmore Farm, owned by
A. w. Mills.
Equipment Also
Sale of the dairy cows is ex-
pected to be completed today,
with the Angus going on the
block tomorrow. Farm equip
ment OF George A. Crookes OF
Rixeyville, Va, also will be sold
tomorrow.
Sandwiches and soft drinks
are being sold under q separate
tent for the auction-and each
day a pony is given away.
Mr.. Ownby, who deScl ibed
prices as about average" Is
expecting a record crowd to-
morrow. Buyers yesterday
came from as far away as West
Virginia and the Carolinas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17

nent delegates-at-large from
throughout the Nation. Among
the latter was Herman Hage-
dorm, American poet and
biographer.
It's report states:
"Fulfillment of this project
is relatively simple and mex
penSive and the commission
hopes Congress will pass the
necessary legislation at this
session."
At Islands Center
According to the plan rec
commended by the centennial
commission, the monument
would be placed in a court in
the center Of Theodore Roose-
welt Island.
The court, facing a rejecting
pool, would be about $50 feet
wide and 200 feet deep, ringed
with trees. To the left, right
and rear would be IL granite
panels, 10 feet high and 20 feet
wide, with inscriptions from
the Presidents statements on
government.
The monument itself would
be about 40 feet in diameter,
including a large bronze "celes-
tial sphere" or armillary, with
a bas-relief Of Mr.. Roosevelt
on the granite base.
The memorial plans have
been approved by the Fine Arts
Commission and the National
Capital Planning Commission.
This plan was suggested by
the centennial commission last
year but nothing happened.
The architect and sculptor
who also helped draw up the
original plan, are both well
known in the art world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Charter Granted
CountyCente

Backers Of the proposed 81
million Montgomery County
Arts Center have announced
their 17-member board of trus-
tees has been granted a Mary
land charter as a non-proflt
corporation.
The arts group plans to con-
Struct a contemporary building
with Is classroomS and ar
auditorium, on a 20-acre site
Initial financing of the project
would be derived from a county
wide Embarrassing campaign.
The center's executive di.
rector, Mrs. George Barshay
a Silver Spring housewife, saic
the group hopes that a building
site will be made available BY
the Maryland-National Capita,
Park and Planning Commits.
sion. The commission said il
will consider the request or
August 5.
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Airport Transit
Omission Hit

Charles M. Neviaser, presi-
dent of the Fairfax County
Chamber Of Commerce, has
expressed concern" because
the Metropolitan Area Mass
Transit Study did not recon-
mend a fast rail or bus line to
the new Dulles (Chantilly) In
ternational Airport.
He said it was difficult to
understand how the planners
could fail to recognize the in
evitable development in north
srn and western Fairfax County
and southeastern Loudoun
County" Mr. Neviaser added
that the airport would employ
1000 persons and serve as an
arrival and departure point
for millions Of travellers.
Mr.. Neviaser said the airport
area will attract industrial and
research establishments, hotels
or motels, places of entertain
ment and possibly an air
museum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
5 Pastors Named
To Direct Fight
On Sunday SoIes

Arlington church groups
pressing their attack on Sun
day business activities. have
appointed five clergymen to q
committee which will mobilize
support for an anti-Sunday
sales program.
The Rev. George E. Schnabel
president Of the Arlington
Council Of Churches, said the
clergymen on the committee
will select a group Of laymer
in q drive to enlist the support
Of all denominations.
According to the council
president, union organizations
have joined the movement and
are circulating a letter tc
Northern Virginia residents
The letter pleads for a closed
Sunday and asks the question
Should Sunday be a day Of
worship and rest or SHOULD
Sunday be a day devoted tc
the pursuit of the almighty
dollar?"
Clergy members of the CON-
mittee are the Revs. Robert E
Forrest, Frank A. Erwin
George Yount, Paul J. Harrel
and willard r. Pierce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Road Engineer
Beaten, Robbed

BALTIMORE, July II (AP)
Norman M. Prichett, 40,
chief engineer of the State
Roads Commission, told police
he was beaten on the street
and robbed of 500 by three
youths while on his way home
yesterday.
Mr.. Pritchett was treated
at University Hospital for a
bruise on the forehead and q
swollen right eye and released.
He said he stopped by a
Mulberry street bar on his way
home. AS he left he was at
tackled by three colored youths.
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aucLloneerS.
The sale, conducted by the
w. Hugh Ownby Auction &
Realty Co.. Inc, Of Richmond,
started yesterday. 1t was to
continue through today and
tomorrow.
$3.50 Average
Top grade dairy cattle were
averaging better than $3.50 a
head yesterday before some
300 buyers and other inter-
ested spectators.
One of the highest prices
paid was $685. for Meadow
Farm Noble, a 51a-year old
line bred daughter of the IA
nous Dunloggin Elmaster. Her
score now is nine gallons of
milk a day.
The dairy herd was started
by Mr.. Lewis in 1881, and in
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quarCer-Scale m0oeI OF the
monument.
The model, to be produced
by Eric Gugler, architect, and
Paul ManShip, sculptor, should
be finished by January l, Mr.
StrauS said.
He is a partner in the min
ing firm of Guggenheim &
Co. and the grandson of the
Secretary of Commerce and
Labor under Theodore Roose-
welt.
Mr.. Gugler did the Anzio Me-
mortal in Italy, dedicated to the
World War II soldiers who died
in that battle.
Among the best known works
( of Mr.. Manship, the sculptor,
is his "Prometheus" fountain at
Rockefeller Center In New
York City.
The association Will take the
model to Congress next winter
and ask it to provide $4,000
to finish the project" Mr.
Straus added.
"The association gave Theo-
dore Roosevelt Island to the
Government in 1882 and we've
privately raised funds to gel
the memorial started" he said
Memorial Bills Die
Bills to construct the me.
mortal we're introduced in bott
the House and the Senate dur.
ing the last Congress but wert
never reported out of com.
mittee.
Now, however. the associa.
ton appears to be gathering
congressional backing.
In its final report, the Theo.
core Roosevelt Centennia
Commission, the congressional
appointed group that HANDLED
Nationwide centennial activ'
tiles last year. strongly back
construction of a memoria
monument.
This report was approved b!
Congress last week and is nov
being published.
The commission was headet
by Vice President Nixon al
chairman, Senator O'Mahoney
Democrat of Wyoming, vic'
chairman, and included Rep
resentatives and eight promi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
DEMAND STATE JOBS
Women Say Towes
Broke Promises

Governor, this Is an ulti-
matum. Unless you give some
top appointments to Demo-
cratic women, the Democratic
women will no longer support
you"
The threat included Withhold
ing Of support Of Gov. Tawes as
a "favorite son" candidate for
the presidential nomination at
the 1860 convention.
"Ofhcially we're not backing
anyone, but all the women are
for Senator Kennedy, Democrat
Of Massachusetts," Mrs. Ote-
nasek said.
Several leading Democrats
have conferred recently with
Senator Kennedy about his en-
try In the Maryland presiden-
tail primary next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Labor Leader Says Blue Cross
Runs Interference for Hospitals

Melvin J. Sykes of the Maryland
r a biological Society and
Charles e. Orth, jr., Of the
Maryland Society Of Patholo-
gists
They claimed It was useless
for them to continue in the face
of Mr., Sears refusal to let them
delve into the costs and efil-
cheney Of hospitals.
Question Ruled Out
Without such information,
they said, the hearing was re-
duced to q simple question Of
whether Blue Cross is paying
out more to the hospitals than
it is receiving from its sub
scribers. They we're ready to
concede this. but wanted to try
to show that the hospital costs
could be reduced.
Mr.. Sears, who has been
commissioner since May 6, re-
fused to allow such questioning.
MY position is that the in
surance commissioner has no
control or Jurisdiction over
hospitals" he said. land. there
fore, this is not the forum to
which arguments on this prob
lem should be addressed"
Joseph Sherbow, lawyer for
the Maryland Hospital Council.
Inc, concurred as did Mr.. Dab
ney.
Both Mr.. Sherbow and Mr..
Dabney said they would Coop
crate in an investigation Of
hospital charges by some other
agency.
The Blue Cross rates in
Maryland were increased 1879
per cent last year after the
service asked for a 22.3 per
cent rise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Bond Projects
ToBeWeighed

Capital Improvements that
would mean q bond issue of
$13.9 million II all projects were
approved will be considered
Wednesday by the Fairfax
Board of County Supervisors.
County officials, in giving the
list to the supervisors, explained
that the times we're only re-
quests from individual county
departments and that it was
expected the total would be cut
substantially.
Many items that were cut out
of the current operating budget
are contained in the bond issue
list.
The bond issue is to be voted
on in a referendum in No
Vember.
Park projects come in for
the largest share of money in
the liSt-$8.2 million. The
money would go for neighbor-
hood and community parks, a
stream valley park program,
regional parks at Bull Run
Union Mill. Occoquan. South
Run and Pope's Head Run.
Library projects would cost
S2.4 million. The money would
go for a headquarters building
and six branch libraries,
Other major items include;
A school warehouse, $500, TOO;
county warehouse, $4,000,
air conditioning Of the court
house and part of the county
health center, $4,000; county
airport, $250,00O.
Requests for a new police
headquarters building and po
lice substations at Mclean ant
Annandale would cost $50,
500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17

BALTIMORE. July II (AP).
The Democratic women Of
Maryland are peeved at Gov,
Tawes.
The United De m ocratic
Women's Club OF Maryland
yesterday accused the Governor
Of failing to keep his promise
to give women some Of his top
appointments.
A telegram charging Gov
Tawes with breach Of promise
was signed by the states
d e m ocratic national COM
mitteewoman, DR.. Mildrec
Otenasek.
HE used our organization as
a stage and we pushed him.
she said. I'VE made him as q
candidate and he turned his
back on US. That's not fair
The telegram stated:
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BALTIMORE, July II (AP)
The Maryland State anc
District Of Columbia AFL-CIC
said today that Blue Cross has
sin effect, been running inter-
ference for the hospitals" with
seven hospital members on 1t:
board Of directors.
w. F. Strong Of Baltimore
president of the labor group
read that statement into the
record as a hearing of a pro-
posed Blue Cross rate increase
resumed.
StrOng's Statement
Mr.. Strong's prepared state.
ment said:
I'VE suggest that 1t is dan.
I gerous when a preporderance
of the board membership II
comprised of those who benefit
directly from the financial
transactions involved.
I'VE cannot escape the con.
cluSion that with seven hospita
members on the board of di.
rectors and five physicians
along with nine public mem.
bers, that Blue Cross has, lr
effect, been running interfer-
ence for the hospitals"
Mr.. Strong, urging that the
State insurance commissions;
deny the rate increase request
said cost accounting proce.
dures seem to be non-existen'
or slip-shod and l.
We cannot accurately deter.
mine hospital costs, on what
reasonable basis can we &C.
cept the hospitals owl
| determination Of coStS?"
I Much of the forenoon SEES.
sion was devoted to cross-ex'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Apartment Building
Sold for $255,000

Boone's Hill Road Apart
ments, 1401-1413 Boone's Hill
road, Prince Georges County,
wednesday was sold to DR..
Henry P. Laughlin, $500 Hill
crest place, Chevy Chase, Nd,
for 1886, 900. This was an
nounced by Lemuel Shovel.
director of property manage
ment of the Federal Housing
Administration.
On Tuesday, the FILA sold
four apartment properties in
the District and nearby Mary
LAND for more than SIS million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17

animation Of Reginald Dab
ney, Blue Cross executive d.
rector, with questions pre-
pared by Assistant City Solicit
tor Blanche G. Wahl of Balti-
more, but read by Deputy In
surance Commissioner John H.
coppage.
Lyman FRESHMAN. Baltimore
attorney, had carried his dis
pute over a ruling at the hear
ing to the State attorney gen.
eral.
Mr.. FRESHMAN and other law
yers opposing the higher rates
requested by the hospital in
surance plan walked out of the
hearing yesterday complaining
it had been reduced to a sham"
by rulings Of State Insurance
Commissioner F. Douglass
Sears.
Protest TO Sybert
In a telegram to Attorney
General Ferdinand Sybert, Mr..
FRESHMAN noted that in a 1887
opinion your Office advised
former State Insurance Com
missioner Charles S. Jackson
that it was proper to examine
the cost accounting procedures
of the hospitals.
Now" Mr.. FRESHMAN con-
tinued, Commissioner Sears
rules contrarily
"Over one million Blue Cross
subscribers are entitled to hear
the answer to this question
is the present commissioner act
ing contrary to your advice OF
have you changed your opin-
ion?"
Joining Mr.. FRESHMAN, who
represents 10000 Blue Cross
customers. in the walkout were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Temple ShuIom Service

Rabbi Eugene J. Lipman Of
New York will conduct the first
service to be held by the re-
Gently organized Temple Sha-
lom at $3.50 o'clock tonight in
the Rock Greek Forest Elemen-
tarY School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
3-Doy Sale Disposing
Of Nearly 900 Cattle
BY JAMES F. MOSER
Star stan Writer

BRANDY, Va July 17-one Of the largest cattle sales
held Virginia packing them In at nearby Glenmore
Farm here.
of Holstein and hefers belonging Guy
Lewis r, of Mclean Va and 63S Angus. part Of the
estate Of Mr. Lewis father being sold under the chant Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Byrd Picnic Set

Senator Harry F. Byrd's
annual orchard picnic and
speech-making will be held
August 20 at his Rosemont Or
chards, the Democratic Sem
ator's Office has announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-17
Theodore Roosevelt
Memorial Advanced

proposed memorial President Theodore Roosevelt
be built the Potomac island bearing his name one step
closer to reality
Oscar Saus president of the Theodore Roosevelt AS
ISOLATION New York. disclosed from York yesterday that
his organization has raised $4,000 to commission exact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12
Little Rock Group Acts
ToOust Segregotionists

posed the teacher purge and re-
fused to participate in 1t.
II petitions against the mod
crate bloc are filed before
date is set for the recall cleo
ton against Mr.. Mckinley and
his allies. both groups could b.
voted on at the same time.
State law, however, forbid'
more than one recall election
within a six-month period.
The teacher purge aroused Inn
mediate indignation amone
parent-teacher, church anc
civic groups. STOP was organ
lied Friday and the campaign
for signatures was pushed
through over the week end.
An attorney for the Class
room Teachers Association has
said he will file suit contendine
the dismissals are void. He said
he planned to wait until after
The proposed recall had been
settled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. May IL
(AP) "A. hastily formed citi-
zens group today filed petitions
seeking the custer Of three seq
regationist members of the
Little Rock School Board who
q week ago voted to dismiss "A
teachers. principals and secre-
taries.
DR.. Drew Agar. chairman of
the Committee to Stop This
Outrageous Purge STOP, said
signatures OF 9.603 voters we're
on the petitions for an elec-
ton to recall the three. APP
proximately $500 signatures
were needed to assure the cleo
ton, he said.
The movement is directed
against Ed I. Mckinley, jr.,
president Of the school board.
and members Ben d. Rowland
and Robert w. Laster.
The three have been staunch
supporters of Gov. Orval E.
Faubus in his conflict with the
Federal Government over inte-
grafton. The school employees
they voted to dismiss included
three Gov. Faubus had said he
would GUST If he had the oppor-
tunity.
A counter-move is underway
by segregationist groups to try
to recall school board moder-
ates Everett Tucker. Russell H.
Matson and Ted Lamb. who OPP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12

added siss million more thar
It's Appropriations Committee
approved.
The bills overall total. how
ever. was stlll si26.530. 200 be.
low President Eisenhowers re.
quests for the agencies.
The entire addition vent foI
hospital patient care and gen.
eral expenses Of the Veterans
Administration which already
had more than IS billion OF the
bills t6.4 billion.
Representative Thomas.
Democrat Of Texas. floor man.
ager OF the bill. successfully
defended the rest OF the s145
million in cuts suggested by
the committee. He did so In
the face Of several predictions
that the Senate would restore
even more than SIS million TO
the measure.
The House bin now gives the
VA s5.039, $4,000. about s9.5
million more than Mr.. Eisen-
hover requested.
An amendment to trim the
bill by So million was beaten
A to 80. Its sponsor. Repre-
sentative Vanik. Democrat Of
Ohio. sought to end subsidy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12

payments for experimental
helicopter passenger service at
several metropolitan airports.
I'VE already have the Get
tysburg Express which oper-
ates ON regular schedule" he
said IN an apparent reference
to Mr.. Eisenhower's trips 10
his Pennsylvania farm.
Representative Harris. Demo-
crat OF Arkansas. chairman OF
the House Commerce Commit
tee. and Representative Bow,
Republican Of Ohio. criticized
the Appropriations Committee
for .aving slashed $4S million
fronI the 1926 million urged by
Mr.. Eisenhower for the Federal
Aviation Agency. They did no.
try 10 amend the House bill.
but said they hoped the Senate
would restore at least several
million dollars for air naviga-
ton and other safety facilities.
The committees cut Of S3l
million from the $74.9 million
requested for civil defense was
upheld by the House despite
protests by individual members,
Here. again. there were predic-
tons that the Senate would put
back some of the money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12

A rules committee roadblock
holding up House considera-
ton OF a multl-bllllon dollar
housing bin may be broken late
this week.
Chairman Smith. Democrat
Of Virginia. repeatedly Is ready
10 switch hts vote and permit
the controversial bin 70 come
before the House.
Mr.. Smith was one Of SIX
committee members who voted
against clearing the measure
last month when II was con-
sidered by the l2-man group.
All four Republicans and an
other Democrat. Representative
colmer Of Mississippi. Joined
Mr.. Smith In blocking the
measure.
Mr.. Smiths change Of atti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12
Rules Group Moy Free
Housing BiIIThisW Week

tude repeatedly vas brought
about By the persuasion OF
Speaker Rayburn OF Texas and
with the understandings there
would be full opportunity "a
amend the bill IN the House.
Cost Estimates Differ
The cost tag placed on the
present bin by rs Democratic
hackers Is sal billion. Repub-
lIcans contend the cost would
be SIS billion over the long
term. including an estimated
SGT billion In principal and
interest for lo-year public
housing subsidies.
Senate Has Passed Bin
President Elsenhower's hous-
ing program proposes OUTLAWS
not 10 exceed 1880. 0O0. 900
over a six-year period.
The House measure Is about
$500 million under q bill al
ready passed by the Senate. II
calls for SIS billion In urban
renewal grants and $500 mill
lion for college housing and
housing for the aged. lowers
minimum down payments on
FHA-insured homes and sets
up a new program Of mortgage
insurance for privately oper-
ated nursing homes.
It would put the Federal Ma
tional Mortgage Association
into the lending business by
authorizing 1t TO make short
term loans TO builders on
pledged FLA or CT mortgages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12

The Calvin Coolidge High
School Home and School As
ISOLATION will elect officers at
a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight
in the school auditorium, Fifth
and Tuckerman streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12
Heuss Quits Hospital

BONN. May n AP,-wesi
German President Theodor
Heuss Is back home after II
DAYS IN a hospital with 4 virus
infection. The 7s-year-old
president win remain under
medical supervision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-12

and would authorize Federal
subsidies on an estimated i40.-
900 units OF public housing AZ
the rate Of $1,000 units = year.