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Evening star., 1960-08-28

Boston citizens against the
British.
The pageant will start each
day at $3.50 pm. A fireworks
exhibition is scheduled after
each performance. Tickets for
the show range in price from
IS cents to SO.
Sky Diving
Centennial week started yes
terday with a sky diving dem
onstration at the new Mont
gomery County Air Park by q
team Of Army paratroopers re-
Gently returned from a jump
ing competition in Bulgaria.
Rockville citizens, a number
of them in historic costumes,
celebrated the centennial yes
terday evening at a ball at the
city's civic center.
Today's activities at the CEN
ter include an art show from /
pm. to 4 pm, a concert by the
Rockville band from 2::30 pm.
to $3.50 pm, and dedication of
the center's new auditorium at
4 pm.
At $3.50 o'clock tonight, the
Army Band and Singer Steve
Lawrence will present a concert
at Broome Junior High. The
school is on Twinbrook park
way between Viers Mill road
and Baltimore road in Rock
vile.
There will be a concert at
1880 pm. tomorrow in the new
auditorium by the Montgom-
cry County Symphony Orches-
ira. Chester Petranek will con-
duct.
At $3.50 pm. tomorrow, Sena.
tor Beall, Republican of Mary.
land, is scheduled to crown Miss
Rockville, Miss Montgomery
and a Little Queen prior to the
first performance Of the pag.
cant at Broome.
| Delegate Charles Mack
Matthias will present mayor
Greene with a copy of the Gen.
eral Assembly's ACTS Of 1860
before the Tuesday pageant
performance. The acts au.
thorized the city's incorpora-
tion.
On Wednesday, rededicatior
ceremonies for the original
Rockville corner stone are
scheduled at $50 pm. across
from City Hall.
A street dance will follow al
9 pm. on the parking lot next
to centennial headquarters.
AT 1880 pm, the bearC
growing contest will be judged
A youth parade is scheduled
at l0:30 am. Thursday. There
will also be a donkey baseball
game at 6 pm. at Broome Jun.
lior High.
= An antique car parade i;
Evening star., 1960-08-28
Gray Ready to Handle
Home Protection Bill

With the Districts home i'm
provement bill awaiting Presi-
dent Eisenhower's signature,
Corporation Counsel Chester
Gray said last night his staff
will get to work Immediately on
regulations to carry out the
measure.
Mr.. Gray hailed the bill,
which cleared Congress Friday,
as an important step in pro-
tecting District home owners
from unscrupulous home i'm
provement contractors.
Evening star., 1960-08-28
HOUSING CODE PAYS OFF
Home Is Not Always Your Castle

( up his home. The Housing
Division went into action after
an anonymous caller-presum-
ably a neighbor - complained
about conditions at the home
Some of the Housing Divi-
sion's inspectors follow up those
individual complaints. But most
of them, like Mr.. Simmons
work a specific area house tc
house. Like so many Fuller
brush men, the inspectors leave
literature describing the en-
forcement program and notify
ing the owner that they will
be back to make a detailed
survey. Often this first call
prompts the owner to make
repairs.
Checks Made
After the inspectors make
their surveys, they tell the
owner what he must do to keep
from running afoul Of the law
The inspectors check up to see
that the work is underway. II
not, the owner may be warned
by the corporation counsel and
ultimately be summoned to
court.
Concerted inspections are
underway in several areas OF
the city. Early next month, a
13-man squad will concentrate
on a section of Northwest
roughly bounded by Fourteenth
street, New Jersey, Massachu-
sets and Florida avenues.
The Districts present hous-
ing code was enacted in 1855
and the stepped up enforce
ment program launched in
1856 under the banner of mo
slums in 10 years." At the half
way point, housing officials say
they are encouraged about the
results.
Evening star., 1960-08-28

The measure becomes effec-
tive 80 days after the President
signs it.
Licensing Required
Mr.. Gray said the regula-
tions, on which preliminary
work already has been done,
will require licensing of home
improvement contractors and
Salesmen and require the post
ing Of bonds as a condition of
the license "for the protection
of people who might otherwise
be defrauded."
He said the regulations to
carry out the measure will fol-
low the same pattern as that
for automobile dealers and
their statesmen. He said the
regulations will require evidence
of good moral character and
integrity as essential prereq-
uisites for a license and q
bond that limits licensees to
financially responsible contrac-
tors.
The goal. he said, is the pro-
lection of the public without
prohibitive restrictions on the
contractors.
with the combination of
licensing and bonding" he de-
clared, I'VE fully expect that
the public will have more pro-
lection than ever before against
fraudulent practices in the
home improvement industry"
He pointed out that most of
the unscrupulous used car
dealers have left town in the
period between Congressional
action on car dealers and the
adoption of regulations to car
ry out the measure regulating
finance charges imposed on
car sales. Fly-by-night home
Improvement contractors and
their statesmen may also leave
town without waiting for new
regulations to drive them out,
Mr.. Gray said.
Exposed in The Star
Both the legislation curbing
the used-car racket and the bill
controlling home improvement
contractors for the first time
came in the wake of a series in
The Star. The bill controlling
auto finance charges was signed
by the President in April after
the attention of Congress was
called to unscrupulous practices
in the used-car business in The
Stars Buyer Beware" series.
The bill to control home im-
provement contractors was in
troduced in the House on June
81 and in the Senate on June
% after The Stars Home
owner Beware" series, pinpoint-
ing unethical practices in home
repairs.
Evening star., 1960-08-28

development to limited and de-
fined areas"
The resolution also promises
conservative and selective de-
velopment of vacant and rede-
velopable land to preserve a low
medium population density =
The Arlington Apartment
Owners Association harge6
that the policy will impose
staggering additions" in taxes
Gives View
Planning in communitie'
which are wide awake is usually
Of the kind which encourage
population growth. But th'
philosophy of Arlington's plan
ming department. which ha
been called the dream depart
ment, wants this county to b.
a country club community will
a very high tax base" it said
What is proposed under tn
philosophy Of this resolution
is a stand-still posture where
in Arlington could stagnat'
commercially while neighbor
ing areas take advantage of ou
backwardness."
These statements received
frigid reception from boart
members and prompted Ernes
Wilt to ask:
Are you saying that Arling
ton should rezone to accommo
date as many residents as yo'
apartment owners say you cal
get over here?
Are we a bunch Of quain
characters because we want t
m aintain our single-famil
neighborhoods?"
Chairman H Herbert Brow
said that the resolution "clari
fies and crystalizeS" objective
of the county's forthcomin
master plan.
AS presently conceived by tn
county staff. the plan propose
restriction of population growt
primarily through maintain
ance Of the present zonin
structure and limitation of ne'
apartment construction.
The Northern Virginia Build
ers Association asserted tina
the boards policy shows "lac
Of perspective in reaching
balance between economic an
aesthetic values" and make
no provision for economi
growth and development of tn
Evening star., 1960-08-28

How does he feel about the
District Government ordering
him to paint and strengthen
the back porch. clean up the
yard and renovate the inside
Of his home?
II needed it," Mr.. Robertson
said with a grin. And after I
get it all done, I'll feel 100 per
cent better" His wife, too,
seemed happy that the work
was finally underway.
Doing Own Work
Mr.. Robertson is doing the
work himself. Other home
owners have to pay out lots
Of money to bring their homes
in compliance. There is talk at
the Federal level of helping
such homeowners get loans at
reasonable terms, perh a ps
through special Government
guarantees.
Naturally, not all the home
owners can afford to pay for
the required repairs all at once.
When there's really a hard
ship case" Mr.. Strang said,
I'VE go along. Our objective is
to get the work started" not
put homeowners in Jail.
Penalties are on the books,
however, if they are needed to
make a homeowner comply.
The Districts housing code pro-
vides up to 10 days in Jail and
5000 in fine for every day the
owner fails to do the ordered
work on his home.
Two-Year Effort
Mr.. Strang said the case
which ended up with a To-day
jail sentence for a owner last
week-which was suspended
after he spent one day in jail
climaxed a two-year effort to
get the man to fix up and clean
Evening star., 1960-08-28

scheduled at $50 pm. Friday
and a float parade will be held
at 2::30 pm. Saturday. It will
include bands. military units
and beauty contest winners.
During centennial week, an
historical picture display will
be shown at the civic center.
Rockville's anniversary cele-
bration will end with the final
performance or the pageant
September 3.
Evening star., 1960-08-28

county" However, the board
agreed to amend the resolution
in accordance with Chamber
Of Commerce wishes that it ad-
vocate promotion Of CONNER
cial activity consistent with the
county's suburban character.
In a corrolary action, board
members unanimously approved
a plan to conserve for public
use some Of Arlington's rapidly
disappearing open space.
However, adoption Of the plan
which urges acquisition of 48l
acres for parks and Fairgrounds
merely represents a statement
Of goals and does not insure
that any land actually will be
bought.
The county currently ha.
little funds for park land &C.
quisition and the voters las
May rejected a bond issue
which would have provided
some.
Planner Fletcher Davis tolc
the board that the county's
future as a well-balanced
suburban community depend!
upon the quality and quantity
Of its open space"
Need Open Space
He warned, "even If the en-.
tire plan is executed down Il
the last acre, the county still
will be proceeding into the fu
ture with an ever increasin,
deficiency Of open space"
The open-space report, .
major component Of the maste
plan, proposes creation of sew
eral large urban parks, devel
opment Of small neighborhoo,
parks, and enlargement of /
existing parks and Fairgrounds
Mr.. Davis said the count.
should utilize all available zon
ing techniques to preserve tn
Army-Navy Country Club an
Washington Golf and Countr,
Club in private ownership.
However, he said that
their land ever is threatened
with development Arlington
should buy it.
Present costs Of acquiring
land designated in the plar
was estimated at about Sc mil.
hon.
Evening star., 1960-08-28
ECHO ! TO PASS
a TIMES TONIGHT

The Echo I satellite will
pass over the Washington
area four times tonight
and early tomorrow morn
ing.
The National Aeronau-
tics and Space Admins
tration said it will be
visible If weather permits
at the following times:
1927 p.m.-North, 50 de-
greeS above the horizon,
travelling northeast.
1882 p.m.-North. SO de-
grees, northeast.
1888 a.m.-South, SO
degrees, southeast.
2:5l a.m.-South, 4 de-
grees, southeast.
Evening star., 1960-08-28

The measure becomes effec-
tive 80 days after the President
signs it.
Evening star., 1960-08-28

power to inspect dwelling
places, either as q matter of
systematic area-by-area search
or to treat a specific prob
lem, is Of indispensable impor-
tance to the maintenance OF
community health ;" the
court said.
Defiance Is Exception
Authority aside. the defiant
homeoWner is the exception
rather than the rule, according
to the inspectors themselves.
Amazingly" said Housing In
spector Joseph H. Simmons,
"the reception I usually get is
very good. And once a neigh
borhood starts getting fixed up,
the people get interested and
want to see the job done"
To demonstrate, Inspector
Simmons led the way through
an alley behind the 800 block
of Euclid street NV, part of
the Housing Divisions Cardozo
conservation project. The divi-
sion is trying to keep the area
from slipping into the slum
category by inspecting each
house and telling the owners
what they must do to comply
with the Districts housing code.
This used to be full of
broken down fences, falling
down porches and heaps Of
trash" Mr.. Simmons said. Now
practically every home glistens
with fresh paint and tidied up
yards are enclosed within neat
and often new-fences.
Hosea E. Robertson of 801
Euclid street NV. is one Of the
homeowners in the Cardozo
area. He has lived in his two
bedroom house for 18 years. He
has a wife and two children,
works during the day as a taxi
driver and at night as a clerk
in the State Department.
Evening star., 1960-08-28
State Group
To Study Plans
For Fund Boost
Maryland Proposal
Asks Income Tax
At County Level
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Stan Writer

The State Association of
County Commissioners today
asked its legislative committee
to study two proposals which
would give local governments
more tax revenues. but it ap-
peared unlikely either would
survive opposition from State
officials.
The two recommendations,
which were Endorsed yesterday
by the associations executive
committee, would:
Give the counties a greater
share Of State income tax COL
lection, and allow any county
to adopt a local income tax
in addition to the State 3
per cent income tax.
Tawes' Opposition
Gov. Tawes, who was speak
ing at another meeting in Ocean
City today, told reporters he
was opposed to giving the
counties authority to impose
their own income tax.
The Governor also said that
a State legislative committee
is studying the relationship o1
State-local finances, and that
he considered it unlikely there
would be any changes in the
fund distribution formula fol
the income tax at the 1861
session of the General AS
sembly.
BY changing the income tax
distribution formula, the State
would have to give up about
So million more to the locali-
ties than it does now. The
change proposed by the as
sociation's executive committee
would mean about 81 million
more state funds a year fol
Montgomery County and more
than $500,000 more for Prince
. Georges.
Opposition Recorded
Although the two proposals
were Endorsed by the execu'
tive committee, there was some
opposition among the member
ship. The members decided they
wanted further study before
indorsing them and therefore
referred the proposals to ar
!. association legislative commit
tee.
Mrs. Stella Werner, a mem
ber of the Montgomery Count!
Council, was appointed to thu
Legislative Committee. Herber
Reichelt, head Of the Prince
GEORGES County commissioners
protested that his county wal
"left out" in the committee ap'
pointments.
Mr.. Reichelt also opposed tht
legislation which would ALLOW
} the localities to impose theil
own income taxes. He said thai
, because of the many towns anc
cities in Prince Georges there
} may be difficulty over who
would get the proceeds from
such a tax.
Leaders in the move to gel
the counties more revenue:
were Mrs. Werner and Chris
tian H. Kahl, county executive
Of Baltimore County.
, Paul Pitcher, county com.
missioner from Anne Arundel
. said he was opposed to letting
, the income tax, which started
on the Federal level and sifteo
, down to the State level. now
be saddled on the people at the
, local level"
The local income tax pro-
posal was referred to the Study
Committee by a 17-8 vote.
Evening star., 1960-08-28
Broyhi|I Will Quit
If Charges Proved
Arlington Will Retoin
Residential Identity
County Bourd Rejects Warning
N1 Ic&nooa.;no To~ Add;&;oneT

The Arlington County Board despite bitter objections by
interests yesterday formally declared its
ention to preserve the county residential suburb
1t adopted resolution pledging retention Of the pre-
domnaey residential character Of the county resistance
acting intense urbanzaon and Limitation Of intense
Evening star., 1960-08-28
Historical Pageant and Dance
Mark RockviIIe's Centennial

The Rockville Centennial
which opened yesterday with
a parachute jumping exhibi-
ton and a costume ball, fea-
lures an historical pageant
city officials hope will draw
crowds from all parts of the
Washington area.
The show, which will be
staged nightly orrow
through Saturday at Broome
Evening star., 1960-08-28

RoekviIle's History Is Recalled in
Sunday, The Stor Magazine.
Junior High School in Rock
vile. traces area history to
early settlement efforts in the
17th Century.
"All Montgomery County
and Washington area residents
share in this heritage" said
Rockville Mayor Alexander j.
Greene.
The Rockville celebration is
the Tooth anniversary of the
1860 incorporation of the near
by Maryland city. Actually, the
community's history goes back
some 300 years.
Early Days
Using a cast of about 500
persons. the pageant traces
events of early days, the In
dian, Revolutionary and Civil
Wars, Gay Nineties and the
Roaring Twenties.
Mayor Greene, who has
grown a beard for the centen-
nial, and other city council
members, will appear in the
show as a group.
The mayor said that Hunger
ford Tavern in Rockville was a
stopping place for Gen. Brad
dock in the French and Indian
Wars and was where Letters
Of Correspondence" were draft
ed prior to the Revolutionary
War to support the stand o1
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-30
Air Pollution Research
Fund Increase Is Uroed

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Support
of the nations research effort to con-
troll air pollution should be increased
from 100000 to about S32,OOO,-
600 year by 1868, committee of
experts reported recently.
The three-fold increase was recon-
mended by an advisory committee to
the surgeon general of the public
health service. The 10-member group
had been asked to recommend ma
tional goals in air pollution research.
The committee recommended that
the federal government assume 40
per cent of the research costs, indus
try 20 per cent and state and local
governments 80 per cent.
These national goals were recon-
mended for 1960-70:
1. Determine the effects of air pol
luton on human health. The commit
tee placed much emphasis on this,
recommending that the financial sup
port should be increased from about
$1,800,00O year to $8,75O,000.
2. Determine the effects on the
agricultural economy resulting from
air pollution damage to animals and
crops.
8. Find better ways of measuring
the economic loss from air pollution
damage to materials, and soiling, and
reduced visibility.
a. Find better ways of measuring
and identifying air pollutants at their
source and in community air.
5. Develop better techniques for
meteorological factors af-
fecting air pollution.
6. Learn through research more
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-30
Joe Martin Won't
Go Along With
"BIind" Coalition

WASHINGTON, D. C.-PAD-
Former COP House Leader Rep. Jo-
seph w. Martin of Massachusetts, says
that he has no intention of going
along with a "blind" GOP-Dixiecrat
coalition that already is being formed
to knock down Kennedy legislation.
The veteran Republican leader,
who was ousted from his House lead
ership by the Republicans during the
Seth Congress because he WASH t
tough" enough, told reporters that
he voted for Nixon but that he still
wants the Kennedy administration
to be given "fair chance"
Martins statement was prompted
by recent meeting between Rep.
Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, pres
emit Republican leader in the House,
and Rep. Howard w. Smith of Vir-
GINA. Democratic chairman of the
powerful House Rules Committee,
and William M. Colmer of Mississippi.
ranking Democratic member of the
rules unit.
Both Smith and Colmer are motor
ious Southern reactionaries who are
determined to continue long careers
of scuttling liberal legislation sup
ported by their own party. They have
already gotten together with Republi-
can Halleck to scuttle any liberal pro-
posals that Kennedy may make.
Their activities have caused great
alarm among some liberal Republi-
cans, including Sen. Clifford Case of
New Jersey, who don't like to see the
old Observation-Disclosures anti-liberal
coalition at work even before the new
Congress convenes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-30
Coop Tours Take
1900 Overseas

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Fifteen hundred u. S. citizens trav-
eled abroad last year on American
Travel Association tours. The coop,
created to stimulate low-cost purpose
full travel, took chartered plane loads
of teachers, trade union members,
homemakers, coop and credit union
members, and farm groups overseas.
Wallace Campbell, Atlas presi-
dent, reported at the groups annual
meeting here last month that sales
rose to $925,000 this year with
net loss of SIP.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-30
Oregon Court Says
All Co-ops Exempt
From Income Tax

SALEM, Ore.-(CNS)-The ex-
emption from state income tax APP
plies to regional as well as local
co-operatives, the Oregon Supreme
Court declared last month.
The state tax commission ruled
that, while local co-ops are tax
exempt, super or regional coop
is not. The commission thereupon
presented Pacific Cooperative
with a 4-year tax bill, covering
earnings on its Oregon business.
The coop paid the tax and filed
suit to recover. A Multnomah
county circuit court found for the
coop, and the state supreme court
upheld its decision.
Said the supreme court: "a true
cooperative makes no profit" Its
job is Ito realize for producer
members the highest return for
their agricultural efforts" and ga
saving in the purchase of supplies"
"By association, two or more
farmers co-operatives can thereby
increase direct benefits to their
members. The income tax exemp-
ton is a legislative effort to assist
the farmer"
The court found no support for
the commissions theory chat a
method of doing business which is
tax exempt at one level should be
x--II. - kha nowtv
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-30
From THE MACHINIST

Defeated in last months national
election, leaders of organized medi-
cine in the u. S. sought to rally their
forces at a meeting in Washington,
d. C. earlier this month. On hand
were more than $500 doctors and
their friends who attended the annual
convention of the American Medical
Association.
The AMA's priority program for
1861 is a drive to block expansion of
the Social Security system so as to
provide hospital and surgical benefits
for old people on pensions. The health
benefits would be financed by a
small increase of 25 cents week III
the Social Security tax paid by en-
ployes and their employers.
Last weeks convention spotlighted
the AMA's split personality, now al
most as much political as it is medi-
cal. On the one hand, more than $500
doctors and their guests crowded
panel discussions and exhibits de-
voted to new humanitarian methods
of helping Americans live a little
longer.
In contrast, the AMA's House of
Delegates, its 229-member policy
making body, spent much of its
time plotting to defeat low-cost,
pay-as-you-go Social Security in
surance against illness after retire
ment.
The delegates applauded ringing
keynote address by the ANA presi-
dent. DIR. E. Vincent Askey of Los
the first post-election attack
on President-elect Kennedy's plan to
give high priority to this extension of
Social Security.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-30
BACK PACKING OF
CONFERENCE ON AGING

The delegates also endorsed re-
port revealing how the doctors have
worked to pack the White House Con-
ference on Aging. The conference,
bringing together $500 from the so
states, will open Jan. 9 in the nations
capital. The report ON the conference
presented by ANA Executive Vice
President F. j. L. Blasingame stated !:
"When the ALLEGATION of delegates
was made by those in charge of the
White House Conference on Aging,
the (AMA) field staff Immediately
took this information to the states,
in an effort to get as many physicians
and qualified lay leaders as possible
designated by the Governors of the
states to be delegates to this confer
ence. At the same time, the CANA
field service) division worked with
che states in getting physician-repre-
sentation on the Governments Com
mittee on Aging, which have the re-
sponsibility of developing statements
to be presented to the White House
Conference.