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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
HighwayLin
Priority

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. l (AP).-
A section Of Route 30 between
Burnt Mills and Four Corners
will be one of the first projects
in the States new special pro-
gram of highway construction.
Gov. Tawes made the an
nouncement today as he signed
into law emergency legislation
giving the State Roads Com
mission authority to ignore the
12-year roads program and
pour its funds into rapid COM
Ipletion of main highway links.
The roads bill was the first
to be signed by the Governor
from the 1860 Maryland Legis-
lature, and the Governor said
he was delighted to make it the
first law.
The Governor announced the
SRC will launch its highway
speed-up with these projects:
Construction Of U. S. 90 as a
dual highway from Burnt Mills
to Four Corners. lit miles.
Advertising date April IL. This
is regarded by the SRC as one
Of the worst bottlenecks on the
highway from Baltimore to
Washington.
Dualization of three more
miles of U. S. so south of Wye
Mills on the Eastern Shore. The
project will be advertised for
bids March 8.
Modernization of 3.8 miles of
U. S. 40 from Martin Mountain
toward Cumberland as far as
Cabin Run. Advertising date
March 8.
The roads bill was among
nine bills and two Joint reSolu-
tons signed by the Governor.
One Of the other bills he signed
will permit the State to issue
school construction bonds at an
authorized rate of 4 per cent
instead Of 312 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
Rail Spur
Purchase
Bill Gains
BY 4 Star STAFF Writer


RICHMOND, Mar. /. - An
amended bill authorizing the
State Highway Department to
acquire a portion of the WASH
ington & Old Dominion Rail-
road for the right of way for
Interstate Route 66 was APP
proved unanimously by the
House Roads Committee today.
The Senate-approved bill was
amended to permit outright
purchase of the so-called
"RosSlyn spur" which would
not force discontinuance of the
55-mile railroad running from
Alexandria to Purcellville. The
original bill would have pro-
vided for purchase Of the entire
line.
The Rosslyn spur commences
at a junction with the main
line near upper Wilson boule-
ward and runs for about 5 miles
to a terminal at Key Bridge.
At recent public hearings,
industries located along the rail-
road as well as governing off,
Gals from Falls Church, Fair
fax County, Herndon, Vienna,
Loudoun County and Leesburg
protested abandonment of the
railroad. The said future in
dustrial expansion near Dulles
international Airport makes
freight facilities essential. The
railroad abandoned passenger
service several years ago.
If the bill passes the House
it will be sent back to the
Senate for agreement on the
amendment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

its Gazette stock, to 1857, when
the Sun was sold.
He said Mr.. Carlin's salary
was increased by the Gazette
to subsidiZe the Sun losses. His
salary increases we're S9,208 in
1854, $13,771 in 1855 and SIS
l56 in 1857, Mr.. Lewis said.
He added that the Sun made
a profit of s9,799 in 1856 and
that money was credited to
the Gazette.
Received No Gazette Money
Attorney John Barton Phil.
lips, executive vice president Of
the Gazette, who represents
Mr.. Carlin, said that Mr.. Carlir
received no money at the ex.
pense Of the Gazette corpora
ton from his operation of the
Sun.
He commended that Mr.
Schneidman brought the suit
against Mr.. Carlin to gain con-
troll Of the Gazette or to realize
a profit from the sale of his
minority stock. He added that
Mr.. Schneidman would not CO.
operate in attempts to resolve
the differences.
Judge Hoffman said he would
render a prompt decision in the
case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
Kenny Takes
PlonningP Post

Frank S. Kenny today as
sumed duties as planning direc-
tor for Alexandria, City Man.
ager E. G. Heatwole announced.
He succeeds Denis H. Cahill
who today became director of
the Northern Virginia Regional
Planning and Economic Devel-
opment Commission.
Mr.. Kenny. A, has worked
for the Alexandria planning
department since July, 1858.
He has served as coming ad-
ministrator and as a municipal
planner. He previously worked
as a budget administrator for
the Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration and the ONCE of Price
Sterilization.
Mr.. Kenny attended the Uni
versity of North Dakota and in
1943 received a law degree
from Columbus University. now
a part of Catholic University
in Washington. He is a men,
Der Of the District of Columbia
bar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
Novelist Alec Wouqh
Rooms World for Ideas

Alec Waugh, the British
novelist, has an unusual way
of getting ideas for his books.
And he has an even more I'M
usual way of writing them.
He gets the ideas by travel
ing; and he writes under a
rigid quota system.
In Washington yesterday for
a lecture at the Library Of
Congress, Mr.. Waugh stopped
long enough to confess that
while he has been a resident
of the United States since 1949,
he has no permanent address.
Indeed, he spends only about
three months a year in this
country.
The rest Of the time he trav-
els. After his current lecture
tour he intends to set out for
Australia "to see if I can find
an idea for a book there"
Once he gets the idea, he
probably will sit down in some
quiet, out-of-the-way hotel
room and start writing at the
rate of 1000 words a day-no
more and no less.
Such a system often leaves
him in the middle of a sentence
or a scene at the end of a day.
he acknowledged. But it also
makes it easier for him to
start again the next morning.
The novelist, who probably
scored his greatest popular sue
cess in this country with
Island in the Sum-" said he and
his younger brother Evelyn,
also a noted writer, get along
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
Fritchey to Leave Post
AT North Virginia Sun

The Sun is a daily. The
Super-Sun is a weekly.
Mr.. Fritchey said it would be
neither possible nor practical
to discuss his new venture but
added that he has been think
ing about it for several years.
He said the other Sun part
ners probably will be associated
with it.
Besides Mr.. Fritchey and Mr..
Stern, the other partners are
Arnold Sagalyn, assistant pub
Usher, and George w. Ball,
general counsel.
Mr.. Stern said it had been
understood from the outset
that Mr.. Fritchey would devote
not more than three years to
active management of the Sun.
The Suns circulation was
listed in the 1859 edition of Ed
itor g. Publisher as 1928.
Mr.. Taylor, Al. was vice pres
ident and general manager of
the Beaver Valley Times before
joining the Sun-Telegraph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
BY the Associated Press

Clayton Fritchey announced
today ne is retiring as pub
Usher of the Northern Virginia
Sun.
He is doing so, he said, to
prepare for another journal
istic enterprise, the nature of
which he did not disclose.
Succeeding Mr.. Fritchey as
publisher will be Philip M.
Stern. now editor and a part
ner in the publishing firm.
Ray Taylor formerly with
the Pittsburgh photograph
and the Beaver Valley (Pa)
Times, today became general
manager of the Sun, newly
created position.
Mr.. Fritchey will become
chairman of the Suns board of
directors and will continue in
an advisory capacity.
THE Sun and Super-Sun are
now we'll launched" Mr.. Fritch-
ey said. THE future looks
bright for them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
River Basin Support
Virginia Decried

A Minnesota Representative
has chided Virginia for con-
tributing less than either the
District or Maryland toward
the work of the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac
River Basin.
Virginia's contribution is
$4,000 a year, compared to
$4,000 given by the District and
$500 by Maryland.
At a recent hearing on the
commissions request for a
$4,000 Federal appropriation,
which normally is granted,
Representative Marshall, a
Democratic member Of a
House Appropriations subcom-
mittee, brought up the size Of
Virginia's contribution.
David Aud, chairman Of the
commission and chief of the
Districts Sanitary Engineer
ing Department, was asked by
Mr.. Marshall whether Vir-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

ginia's $4,000 was a fair con-
tribntion compared to the
Districts.
Based on relative popula-
tons, no, sir, I do not" Mr..
Aud replied.
But he added that there has
been "a dramatic change in
the entire Virginia situation
in the last 10 years"
when the County Of Fair
fax floats over $40 million Of
bonds to put in sewers and
treatment plants I am i'm
pressed" Mr.. Aud said.
Il think this Is a good, seri-
GUS effort to reduce pollution"
He also praised Alexandria
for efforts aimed at reducing
pollution and noted the city
has "as fine a Sewage treat
ment) plant as anyone around"
Mr.. Marshall replied u am
glad to hear you say that be-
cause it was not very many
years ago that the State Of
Virginia was quite unco-opera-
tive as far as doing anything
about the Potomac River was
concerned in connection with
the other States and the Dis
trict of Columbia"
The commission seeks to
focus public attention on Po-
tomac pollution and acts as a
forum for the exchange Of
technical information by en-
gineerS and public officials.
The hearings were held on
January % in closed session
and the transcript was released
today.
In another session, Gen.
Wade H. Haislip, governor Of
the United States Soldiers
Home. submitted a budget esti-
mate for fiscal 1851 amounting
to $685. 900.
This is only half Of what
was requested for fiscal 1860,
since officials have temporarily
deferred expansion Of the
homes hospital and no further
construction funds are being
asked.
A new building for housing
residents at the home is ex-
pected to be open in July, 1862.
The home now has about 2,100
residents, compared to 1881 at
the end Of 1856.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
Jackson Case Suspect
Is Given Lie est

Prospects that a 21-year-old
Fredericksburg CVa.) sawmill
worker might become a prime
in the jackson family
Staying appear dim today.
After Virginia State police
and FBI agents questioned the
suspect internationally for six
hours and gave him a lie de-
tector test yesterday. at Cul-
pepper, Va, State Police Capt.
G. M. Williams issued this
statement:
Based on results of the test
given today (the suspect is
neither implicated or elimi-
mated. Information from the
test requires extensive investi-
cation"
The sawmill worker Was then
returned to the Fredericksburg
jail, where he had been brought
Sunday night after his arrest
on a Fredericksburg street for
drunkenness, breach of the
peace and destroying private
property.
After his arrest, police said,
he admitted Staying the four
members of the Carroll Jack
son family of Louisa County
(Va), in January, 1859. How
ever, the suspect went into a
mt" police said, and was
taken to a hospital where he
repudiated his confession.
Mr.. Jackson, 20, his wife,
81. and their two blond daugh-
tiers, Susan Ann, S, and Janet,
Is months, vanished on the
road between Buckner and
their home at Apple Grove on
the night Of January IL, 1859.
Their car was found abandoned
near Mineral, eight miles from
their home. the next day.
Last March 4, the bodies of
Mr.. jackson and Janet were
found under a pile Of brush
near Fredericksburg. On March
81 the bodies of Mrs. jackson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

The Arlington Planning
Commission, caught in a cross
fire between Negro residents
and the Army-Navy Country
Club, has dropped plans for
the controversial Southside
freeway.
The proposed road was a
major proposal of the county's
highway master plan, consid-
cred by the commission for the
first time last night.
The four-lane freeway was
planned to enter the county
near South Twenty-fifth street,
follow South Walter Reed drive
to Glebe road, swing through
the country club and link with
Southgate road and the Pen
tagon network.
A spur would have run east
along South Fifteenth street
behind the proposed Pentagon
City to Route !.
43 Homes Affected
Negro residents, 100 of whom
attended last nights meeting,
said the freeway would require
destruction of 43 homes at the
Glebe road interchange south
of South Seventeenth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
ReopPortionmentMove
Apparently Is Dead

upper chamber, but its passage
looked doubtful.
Reapportionment opponents
claim the bill could not get the
IS votes necessary for passage
in the Senate even if it came to
a vote.
At the conference today leg
islative leaders told the Gov
ernor they still are aiming for
adjournment tomorrow night.
The deadline is Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

information by the committee,
Mr.. Coyle said:
IT don't know a thing about
the cockeyed bill"
After Mr.. Coyle had departed
and the committee prepared to
vote, Delegate John Warren
Cooke of Mathews County in
the oyster belt, said the bill
might run afoul of State oyster
inspection laws.
But Delegate Robert White
head asked the committee not
to do in such an intriguing bill
summarily. He asked the COM
mittee to defer action until to-
day and the committee agreed.
For the animated, stout is
a stouter ale which, in turn, is
a stouter beer. oyster stout
is probably stouter than any.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
By PAUL HOPE
Star stan Writer

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. l.-Ad-
ministration leaders said today
a bill calling for a constitu-
tional convention on reappor-
tionment appears to be dead
for this session of the General
Assembly.
State Senator Edward s.
Northrop of Montgomery Coun-
ty, Democratic majority floor
leader, said that reapportion-
ment opponents have maneu-
vered us into a corner"
The statement was made
after Gov. Tawes met with
legislative leaders to discuss
progress on legislation.
Senator Northrop said that
at this point the Senate rules
would probably have to be sus-
pended to get the convention
bill to a final vote. While il
would take only a majority
Us votes) to pass the bill il
would take 20 votes to sus-
pend Senate rules and reap
portionment proponents don't
have that many.
The bill, introduced by Dele
gate Jerome Robinson, Demo.
crat of Baltimore City, is ex-
pected to be approved today by
the House of Delegates. 1t has
been stalled in the House nearly
a week by Eastern Shore oppo.
nents who used a series of de-
laying tactics to hold of the
vote until the final days of the
session.
Senator Northrop said he will
still put up a fight for the Rob-
inson bill when it reaches the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

up State regulations for private
detectives and investigators.
Delegate John Webb of Fair
fax. patron of the measure,
said it was designed to curb
unethical practices.
The Senate Courts of Justice
Committee yesterday reported
out a bill rewriting Virginia s
obscenity law, but killed a pro-
posal for the creation of an
anti-obscenity agency.
Substitute Bill Sent Out
The committee sent out a
substitute for the original bill
by Delegate Harrison Mann of
Arlington to prohibit obscenity
in any form.
A bill to outlaw capital pun
ishment in Virginia has been
killed at this session of the
General Assembly.
Three Northern Virginia law
makers who sponsored the
measure were among those
making futile pleas before the
House Courts of Justice Com
mittee. The committee action
came yesterday by voice vote.
Purpose Outlined
Fairfax Delegate John C..
Webb, chief patron of the pro-
poSal, told the committee:
This bill was introduced in
order to afford this General
Assembly and the people of
Virginia an opportunity to take
a second look at the question
of the rightness or the wrong
ness. the effectiveness or the
ineffectiveness, of capital pun
ishment.
Delegate Kathryn Stone of
Arlington. a co-patron of the
bill which would have made
life sentence the maximum
penalty, said I'VE are con-
WINGED that capital punishment
troubles the conscience of our
citizens.
Fairfax Delegate Dorothy
McDiarmid, another sponsor,
asserted:
1T is common knowledge
that jurisS will sometimes not
convict when the ultimate pen
atty is death"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

happily" They aren't rivals,
he said. and they are sorry not
to be able to get together more
often.
Since Evelyn also likes to
travel, the brothers came to a
definite agreement some 80
years ago about what parts of
the world each would visit,
Alec explained.
"Evelyn's a devout Catholic
and I'm an ardent cricketer,"
he said. $50 we divided the
world up between Catholic
countries and cricket countries"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
NOW-OYSTERS IN YOUR BREW
Virginia Legislator
Puts StoutUp Vote

RICHMOND. Va. Mar. /.
(AP) Drink a stein to the dear
old House Finance Commit
tee. Shout till the rafters ring.
The committee has kept alive
a bill that would permit the
sale of beer containing oysters.
A strange (ughD product?
Not so strange. friend, to the
Castleton Brewery, Ltd, on the
Isle of Man which bottles a
product known as Manx oyster
stout. 1t contains, or maybe it
contains. bits of oyster or
oyster extract.
Delegate Ed Coyle of Dick
enson offered the bill and APP
peared in furtherance of it be-
fore the committee. The bill
would permit the sale of malt
beverages containing oysters or
oyster derivatives. Pressed for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

president of Mardel Securities,
Inc, of Delaware, which owns
48 per cent of the Gazette's
stock.
The suit contended that
Charles c. Carlin. jr., president
of the Gazette. who owns So
per cent of the stock had
printed the old Arlington Daily
Sun at the Gazette plant with
out making sufficient payments
to the Gazette corporation for
the service. The payments plus
interest should have been
$709,000. the suit alleged.
Sun Sold for S112,5O0
Mr.. Carlin. who owned the
Sun, sold it to the Northern
Virginia Sun Publishing Co. in
1857 for $112,500, His attorney
commended that the Sun was
losing money during its opera
ton and that Mr.. Carlin oper-
ated it as protection from
competition in the Arlington
area for the Gazette without
realizing any personal gain
from it.
Attorney Oren r. Lewis, who
represents Mr.. Schneidman.
said Mr.. Carlin, as president
OF the Gazette Corp, had
charged the Sun "ridiculously
low printing costs" from 1853
when the Mardel Co. bought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
HoIf-Cent Beer Tax Boost
Wins House Unit Okoy

RICHMOND, Mar. / (AP).-
The House Finance Committee
today approved a half-cent-a-
bottle beer tax boost to add
another $3.75O,o0O toward bal
ancing the 1960-1962 budget
1t followed a subcommittee
recommendation to halve the
penny-a-b bottle increase that
originally was proposed.
The committee acted quickly
after a damned public hearing
on another tax proposal-one
to put 5 per cent tax on hotel
and motel rooms which drew
the concerted fire of the tourist
industry.
Action on the room tax was
deferred at the request of the
sponsor of the bill, Delegate
Toy Savage of Norfolk. until
the House has a chance to de-
termine the full needs of the
State when it debates the
budget bill tomorrow. The bill
appeared likely to die in COM
mittee.
Whitehead Agrees
Delegate Kossen Gregory of
Roanoke headed the subcom-
mittee which recommended IA
vorable action on the beer tax
at half the original proposal
which would have brought in
SIS million in the two-year
period. Mr.. Gregory said the
subcommittee felt the increase
from Q to 3 cents a IL ounce
bottle-with proportionate in
creases on other size contain
ers-was too much.
The patron of the bill, Dele
gate Robert Whitehead, agreed
to the downward revision and
the committee sent the bill to
the House floor without dissent.
The boost will raise the tax on
a IL ounce bottle of beer from
2 to 212 cents.
, A $25 million tobacco tax
bill also was sent to the House
today.
Gov. Almonds revised budget,
calling for $80.5 million in new
revenue over the next two years
has been set for q continuing
order Of business in the House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

Of Delegates. beginning at II
am. tomorrow.
The tobacco tax bill, includ-
ing a Scents per pack levy on
cigarettes, cleared the House
Finance Committee yesterdsV
lis. Virginia currently has no
State levy on cigarettes.
Already passed by the House
is 10 per cent tax on whisky
and wine, expected to produce
$23 million, and a bill to speed
up collections of taxes on capt.
tai and intangible property of
businesses, for another $40 mil
lion
Almond opponents hold a go
majority on the Finance Com
mittee. They have charged
there is too much "fat" in the
Governors budget and are out
to trim from $40 million to $50
million from it. To do this.
they are attempting to hold
new revenues to between $50
million and $50 million.
The House last night pushed
into line for passage a bill re-
pealing Virginia's blank sheet
voter law.
The 1858 session Of the Gen.
eral Assembly enacted a meas
ure requiring voting registra-
lions to be made on blank sheets
of paper-not printed forms.
theoretically, the measure was
supposed to curtail Negro reg
iStration.
In presenting his bill, Dele
gate w. J. Moody of Ports
mouth said his investigation
showed some registrars were
unaware of the requirement
anu were SClIl using printed
forms.
Old Law Raped
Mr.. Moody said the bill
would allow registrars to use
any type of printed form they
desired. He said the 1858 law
served no useful purpose.
The House General Laws
Committee yesterday reported
a bill permitting Fairfax to
set up a corporation to provide
a sewerage system for the
Dulles international Airport at
Chantilly.
1t also reported a bill to set
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01

and Susan were discovered in
a shallow grave near Gambrills,
Md, IL miles west of Annapolis.
Police had been looking for
a sawmill worker as a possible
suspect, because the bodies were
found near rural sawmills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-01
Foes Agree
On Aviation
Fuel Levy
BY q Star stan Writer

Ft4Cf1MOND, Mar. IA
compromise has been reached
between major airlines and the
State over a tax on aviation
fuel to be sold at the Dulles
International Airport at Chan
tilly.
In another development, the
House Roads Committee today
killed a bill branded by OPP
ponentS as one to create a
monopoly for a pipeline COM
pany to transmit jet aviation
fuel to Dulles Airport from
oil barges on the Potomac
River.
Action in the roads commit
tee came in executive session.
An identical Senate bill has
been bottled up in a subcom-
mittee and has practically no
chance of survival.
Aviation Fuel REDEEMED
The compromise over the tax
on aviation fuel was reached
in the House Finance Commit
tee yesterday. 1t sent to the
floor today a substitute meas
ure to redefine aviation fuel and
impose a graduated tax on all
sales within this State.
The measure replaces two bills
by Delegate Grady Dalton of
Tazewell. They threatened to
keep intercontinental and over
seas airlines operating out of
Baltimore's Friendship Inter-
national Airport, where there is
no Maryland tax on fuel, in
preference to the Dulles field.
Flat 2-Cent Tax Proposed
One of the Dalton bills would
redef1ne aviation fuels to in
clude all propulsive materials,
such as the kerosene-type used
in jet airliners. as subject to
the tax.
The second would have i'm
posed a fiat 2 cents per gallon
tax on all fuel sold in Virginia,
regardless of whether it was
consumed over this State or
elsewhere.
Mr.. Dalton told the commit
tee that a conference between
the airlines, the Division of
Aeronautics of the State Cor
poration Commission, the Di-
vision of Motor Vehicles, which
collects the tax, and himself.
reached the compromise agree
ment.
Schedule of Taxes
Under the graduated tax in
the substitute bill, 4 cents per
gallon will be paid on the first
100000 gallons bought; 2 cents
each on the next 100000 gall
Ions; / cent each on the next
100000 gallons; y cent each
on the next 100000 gallons and
"a cent each on all over 400, 900
gallons.
The substitute also embraces
a new definition designed to
apply to all types of aviation
fuel.
The levy would go into effect
July !, 1861.