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Evening star., 1961-03-30

Charles Long, Democrat OF
Somerset who stayed home to
tend his plants, meant the diff
ference Monday between life
and death for the Northrop-
Pine Bill.
Last night on the House floor
Delegate Hervey Machen, Dem
ocrat of Prince Georges, pre-
sented Mr.. Long with some
rapidly growing" tomato
plants" which he said he was
"sure will increase the tomato
plant population Of the Eastern
Shore"
Enlisted BY Tawes
Mr.. Long, who was only sup
porting the Northrop-Pine Bill
at the request of his fellow
Somerset Countian, Gov
Tawes, flushed a deeper rec
than his tomatoes when
House aide carried Mr.. Mach.
ems gift to him. The genera
feeling among the reapportion'
ment advocates was that Mr.
Longs absence Monday might
was not accidental.
The convention bill faces {
State Senate which in the pas
has buried numerous measures
to give the urban areas mort
representation in the Legisla'
ture. It appeared likely tht
present one will get the SAM
treatment.
Evening star., 1961-03-30
z Prisoners Beat Youth
In Cell, , Parents Reveal

jury. The doctor said he doesn't
remember when he first re-
ceived a call from the Jail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daras said the
sheriff asked them not to dis
cuss the incident with news
papermen.
Sheriff Ball said he has filed
assault and battery charges in
the beating against two pris-
oners, William B. Phipps, 81,
who is accused of Staying a
Riverdale widow; and Thomas
Price, IT, of the 5000 block of
Charming street NE, indicted
on two counts of housebreaking.
Phipps, of the $500 block
Iof Fifteenth place, Chillum
Heights, faces a murder trial in
Anne Arundel County in the
Staying last August 20 of Mrs.
Grace M. Cochran, 10, of 4S10
Tuckerman street, Riverdale.
Sheriff Ball said Daras had
been in another section Of the
jail with about 80 men, but
asked to be transferred because
ther prisoners had been
bothering him.
Needs Psychiatric Care
Asked about a razor re-
portedly used by one Of the
prisoners, the sheriff said
guards are supposed to retrieve
safety razor blades between
shaves but sometimes a prisoner
is able to hide a blade.
Il just hope Jimmy doesn't
have to go back to the same
place, Mrs. Daras said. Il don't
want to alibi for him, but what
he needs is psychiatric care"
Sheriff Ball said II try to
take every precaution in the
operation of the Jail. But we
don't have a regular jail doctor.
I've been trying to get one."
He said that locking a ju-
venile charged as an adult in
with adult prisoners was part
OF the normal jail procedure.
The Prince Georges County
Jail was the subject of criticism
by Federal inspectors last year
after a prisoners kangaroo
court" sentenced an inmate to
sexual abuses because he re-
fused to defend himself in a
fight. The report urged more
frequent cell checks by the
guards.
Evening star., 1961-03-30
BY a Star staff Writer


ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 30.-Ur-
ban county hopes for reappor-
tionment of Maryland General
Assembly seats is in the hands
of the rurally controlled State
Senate.
The House of Delegates
which Monday killed one reap
portionment bill-last night
approved another.
This bill, which won a 67-54
vote in the House, provides for
the calling of a constitutional
convention to handle the mat
ter Of reapportionment. No
specific plan is outlined but II
would be up to the delegates
elected to the constitutional
convention to determine what
kind Of reapportionment pro-
gram to carry out.
Different Votes Needed
!, The convention bill needed
only a majority vote (62) tt
get through the House last
night. The Northrop-Pine bill
killed Monday, which set up {
specific plan for adding q
members to the House Of Dele.
gates, needed a three-fifth'
majority (74) and died wher
/ 1t received only 73.
: A tomato-planting delegatI
from the Eastern Shore, r
Evening star., 1961-03-30
Appeal Fails
In Sale of
Obscenity

Conviction of a newsstand
empolye for knowingly possess
ing and intending to sell OBJ
scene and indecent material,
has been upheld by the Corpo-
ration Court of Alexandria, Va.
John w. Corvin, SO, of 705
King street, Alexandria, had
appealed his conviction by Mu-
nicipal Court Judge James N
Colasanto which brought a $3.50
fine and 30-day suspended jail
sentence.
Judge william P. Woolls re-
imposed the penalty after turn
ing down Corvin's contention
he was unaware of the con-
tents Of the magazines and
books on sale. A similar de-
fenSe last October by an Arling-
ton newsstand operator won an
acquittal.
Judge Woolls, however, after
looking at the evidence COM
mented. anybody with one
good eye can look at these
things and tell they are not to
be Sold"
Judge Woolls said sale Of the
material was a filthy thing
that ought to be stopped" ano
told assistant Commonwealth
Attorney A. John Scarlet thai
the owner of the newsstand
Irving S. Cicero, was lust as
guilty" as Corvin.
The newsstand, located ir
the 700 block of King street
will be closed soon after the
owner arrangeS to dispose Of
the business, Mr.. Scariot said
The prosecutor asserted tine
conviction of Corvin is part oi
a breakdown in the last two
weeks on the sale Of obscene
material,
Evening star., 1961-03-30
ESQ in Montgomery
Attend Budget Session

A regional library for the
North Bethesda area, an access
street to Wheaton Plaza and q
$4,000 appropriation for emo
tionally disturbe d children
dominated last nights Mont
gomery County Council budget
hearing.
More than $50 persons
turned out for the third night
Of hearings on the county man.
ayers proposed $97.1 million
budget.
The nearly $3.S million pub
lie works budget consumed
more than half Of the four -houl
hearing. Seven persons spoke
at length on the extension OF
Reedie drive to serve as an &C
cess from University boulevard
to Georgia avenue at Wheaton
Plaza.
Mothers Protest
Some mothers held ur
Safeguard Our Children -
Don't Open Reedie Drive" post.
ers in protest. Ralph T. Haller
o highway specialist hired by
the Wheaton Forest Citizens
Association, told the council
THE extension Of Reedie woulc
shave 20 seconds of the present
route to the plaza"
The Wheaton Chamber ot
Commerce Endorsed the project
for 'the good of the COM
munity as a whole"
More than so persons stooc
up to be counted as favorine
a North Bethesda regional Ii.
brary. All speakers on the
topic agreed that the current
Bethesda Public Library is in.
adequate but differed or
Evening star., 1961-03-30

II think something's got to
be wrong somewhere when they
put a young boy like that in
the same cell with a man ac-
cuSed Of murder"
The speaker was James
Daras of 6317 Kennedy street,
Riverdale, Md, who yesterday,
along with his wife, broke a
silence requested by the Prince
Georges County sheriff to tell
about a beating their 17-year-
old son received last Sunday
from two prisoners in the
County jail at Upper Marlboro.
The parents had just visited
the room at Prince Georges
General Hospital where James
jr., was taken on Tuesday. He
is suffering from bruises and a
possible kidney injury but was
reported in fair condition.
Their report of the incident
had differed in several respects
from that Of Prince Georges
County Sheriff ]. Lee Ball, who
termed the occurrence at the
jail he supervises as nothing
unusual"
With Other Prisoners
The father said the boy, who
is awaiting grand jury action
as an adult on an auto theft
charge, had been locked in a
cell with five other prisoners
one Of them accused of murder
On Sunday they kept taunt-
ing him, the father said.
Three of them grabbed him
and beat him." Mr.. Daras said
knocked him down and kicked
him. The man accused of mur-
der put a razor against hi.
throat and threatened to Kill
him"
The father says one of tn,
three prisoners apparently
feared for the youths life anC
called out. The call was taker
up by other prisoners on th'
same floor.
The boy was unconscious
when a guard finally arrived
the father said.
Sheriff Ball says a jailel
separated the participants, ar.
irving from his post at tht
front of the jail about a min
ute after hearing screams fol
help. The youth was conscious
the sheriff said, and was place.
in a separate cell.
The parents say the boy asked
for medical treatment but that
a doctor didn't arrive to lool
at him until Monday night.
Sheriff Ball says the youth
didn't request medical treat
ment.
DR.. Dayton o. Watkins, whit
has offices in Bladensburg. sale
he examined young Daras latt
Monday night and asked tina
he be taken to the hospital be-
cause Of a possible kidney in
Evening star., 1961-03-30
Homestead Estates
Civic Group Elects

Earl Spiker has been elected
president of the Homestead
Estates Civic Association Of
Silver Spring for the coming
year.
Other officers include George
Broome, vice president, Otis
O'Flaherty, recording secretary,
Mrs. Vincent Baratta, cor
responding secretary and Lee
Ryan, treasurer.
Evening star., 1961-03-30

whether to expand it or build
the regional library as pro-
posed by the county manager.
The STA million welfare
budget was vigorously praised
by three speakers, but the
health budget totaling the
same amount did not fare as
well.
Item for Children Urged
The county education as
sociation. the American Asso-
citation of University Women,
the Commission for Youth, the
Montgomery County Mental
Health Association and the
Montgomery Health and Well
fare Council all urged restora-
ton Of a $4,000 appropriation
for residential treatment of
emotionally disturbed children.
All of the speakers on the
health budget deplored person.
mel cuts from the departments S
requested budget. Several
urged expansion of the clinic
and services offered.
Stories of muddy roads, snow
drifts higher than our chill
dren's heads" subdivisions of
300 families with a single road
leading to town and waist
deep floods" were related by
persons requesting public works
projects.
Council President William
Hickey ended the hearing at
1915 am with % people still
waiting to speak on the library
budget. The hearings will be
resumed at 8 o'clock tonight in
the Montgomery County Office
Building Auditorium.
Evening star., 1961-03-30
Ashes Set OFF Blaze
At New Fuirfux Home

An estimated $4,000 damage
was inflicted by fire on a new
home at 6l02 Greeley boule-
ward in the Keene Mill Manor
subdivision of Fairfax County
last night, county fire officials
said.
The fire at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Royal K. Schellen-
berg was started by fireplace
ashes that had been put with
the trash under a rear window
outside the house, according tC
the county fire marshars Of
flee.
Evening star., 1961-03-30

finance a $9.5 million program
of aid to localities for school
and welfare programs. The
tax bill calls for lowering the
starting point of the tax to
items costing 25 cents and ex-
tending the tax to meals of
81 or more.
The Governor also has ap-
proved a doubling of the s.
cent-a-pack State cigarette
tax. This would raise another
$5y million, which also would
go to localities. The cigarette
tax increase was approved today
by the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Substitute Ready
Senator Harry T. Phoebus,
Republican of Somerset, had
a beer tax bill ready today
which he viii try to substitute
for the sales tax legislation.
Senators from the tobacco
growing areas of Southern
Maryland were ready with
seven amendments with which
they will try to knock out the
cigarette tax increase.
Yesterday in the House, a
group of delegates tried un-
successfully to get a beer and
wine tax increase passed. The
bill was fought by administra-
ton leaders who implied that
the legislation was designed to
embaraSs Gov. Tawes. One OF
the Governors closest advisers
is George Hooker, a spokesman
for the beer industry in Mary
land.
House proponents of the beer
and wine tax bill had to pc
tition the bill out of committee
to- get it on the floor. They
argued that Maryland has one
of the lowest beer taxes in the
Nation. but the bill was turned
down by a 56-54 vote.
Involved in the fight over the
Governors tax program is a
move to provide more funds for
teacher salaries. A proposal
to give the teachers more
money by dropping the per-
sonal exemptions on the State
income tax from $500 to $500
was reported gaining ground
among House members, but ad-
miniStration leaders were con-
fident they will be able to beat
it down.
The Governors capital i'm
provements program. with ar
addition of about Sis millior
put on by the Senate Finance
Committee, also goes before
the Senate today. The pro.
gram now totals $18.1 million.
The House gave tentative ap-
Evening star., 1961-03-30

proval to a bill placing the mo-
tor vehicles commissioner un-
der the State merit system. The
bill, which was Endorsed by
Gov. Tawes, was turned down
early in the session by the
Ways and Means Committee,
but was reconsidered this week
and reported out favorably.
Park Bills Pass
/ The House passed bills to in
crease the size of the Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
park districts. One would add
about 80 square miles of the
upper Rock Greek watershed
in Montgomery to the metro
politan district" of the Mary
land National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
The other would add about
Is square miles to the park
district in Prince Georges
County. The new sections
would be in the Laurel-Bowie
area, the Berwyn district and
a section of the central county
between Seat Pleasant and
Forestville. The planning COM
mission had wanted to include
the big Bel Air housing project,
but it was excluded after OBJ
jections by the developers.
The Senate passed and sent
to the Governor a bill which
allows the State and localities
to purchase Jointly land along
the PatuXent River. The bill,
introduced by Delegate Hervey
Machen, Democrat of Prince
Georges, is aimed at acquiring
the land for open spaces before
it is taken by developers.
The Senate, after some polit-
ical pickering, yesterday agreed
to give the attorney general
immediate authority to approve
the issue and sale of stock by
savings and loan associations
prior to June l. 1861.
The question is now up to
the House.
The bill is designed to pre-
vent the wholesale sale of stock
by multi-stock organizations
between now and June /, when
the provisions of the recent
enacted Case bill to regulate
the industry take effect.
Evening star., 1961-03-30

doubt that I will, but it's some
thing the Democratic leader
ship should consider in view of
the great public interest and
concern with this group"
Representative Utt, another
conservative Republican from
California, said in an interview
today that he will continue to
have serious reservations about
the Birch Society as long as Mr..
WEIGH is connected with it.
Mr.. UT said the organization
has some strong chapters in his
district, whose members have
energetically opposed commu-
nism and what they regard as
dangerous and wasteful eco
nomic projects in the State and
community.
Wrote TO Welch
Declaring that he was not a
member of the society and knew
of no others in Congress ex-
cept Mr.. Hiestand, Mr.. UT dis
closed that within the last year
he wrote to Mr.. WEIGH and
other society members to eau
ton them against letting the
organization become a sort Of
Gerald L. X. Smith outfit"
He added. however. that so
ciety members in his district
were "all reputable people
some of whom have supported
me in the past" Mr.. Utt SAID
he differed with Chief Justice
Warren and other Supreme
Court members on many is.
sues but thought it was fan.
tastic" to urge Impeachment
Of the Chief Justice.
The John Birch Society was
founded by Mr.. WEIGH in late
1858 as an organization to com.
bat Communist subversion ir
the United States. It takes its
name from a 27-year-old Bap-
tist missionary from Georgia
who was an Army intelligence
officer in the Far East during
World War II and was killed
by the Chinese Communists 10
days after vi Day.
The organization functioned
In near secrecy for a year, but
recently it has been the target
of criticism from conservative
newspapers and magazines,
who have charged that its tao
tics breed distrust of American
institutions and damage the
conservative cause by bringing
all conservatives under sus-
picion.
Evening star., 1961-03-30

COntlnueo from FIST rage
society has done that would
bring it within the purview Of
this committee"
Reuss Backs Inquiry
Representative Reuss, Demo-
crat Of Wisconsin, said today
he also has requested an in
vestigation as a result of nu-
merous letters he said he re-
ceived attacking Chief Justice
Warren.
He reported that many Of the
letters were mimeographed and
followed the same general line
but usually did not identify the
writer's as members Of the John
Birch Society.
In a letter to Chairman Wal
ter, Mr.. ReuSS said he believes
the letters he has received orig
mated with the society. He said
propaganda organizations have
a right to express their opin-
ions, but that in this instance
there should be an investiga-
ton to determine "who is be-
hind these activities, how they
are financed and how they are
carried on"
Mr.. HieStand became the
first member of Congress to
disclose his membership in the
semi-secret society today when
he was asked about a letter he
sent a number of fellow Con-
gressmen yesterday, urging
them to make no attack on
the society until you know
the facts"
Mr.. Hiestand told an inter-
viewer he had joined the group
in California quite a while
back" He said, I'm quite
sure there are other members
CT Congress who are also men,
bers of the society" But he
said he believed each should
have the right to decide for
himself whether to reveal his
membership.
The Congressman said he
was prompted to send his eau
tionary note to his colleagues
yesterday because "a member
of the other body (the Senate)
has been putting a lot of stuff
in the Congressional Record
that is simply not accurate"
Young Attacks Group
Mr.. Hiestand declined to
identify the Senator of whom
he spoke. Senator Milton r.
Young, Republican of North
Dakota, early this month began
Evening star., 1961-03-30
Easter Party Sunday

An Easter party for children
of the Northwest Branch Citi-
zens Association in Silver
Spring will be held Sunday
from Q to $3.50 pm. at the
intersection Of Colesville road
and Meadowhill road, Silver
Spring.
Evening star., 1961-03-30

I speaking in the Senate against
the Birch Society.
/ Senator Young called thC
charges Mr.. WEIGH has made
against Mr.. Eisenhower, Mr.
Warren and others fantastic
and also said the society wa!
dangerous to democracy be.
cause it condoned Semi-secret
operations and harasSing tactics
against public officials and pri.
vate citizens with whose view.
it disagreed.
/ Mr.. Hiestand said he thought
an investigation of the Birch
Society by the House commit.
tee would put these charges Il
rest. He confirmed that mem.
bers Of the society have en-.
gagged in letter writing cam.
paigns to Congress and to other
public officials, but denied that
the society condones secret
pressure tactics.
The Californian blamed the
charges on an inaccurate story
that first appeared in what he
called a California Communist
publication" and said members
Of Congress should beware oi
echoing accusations whose
origin they do not understand
Won't Take Fifth
Mr.. Hiestand said he wa.
sure that if members of the
Birch Society are called before
a congressional committee
none of them will take the
Fifth Amendment. know
these birds pretty well and
they're rugged individualists
intensely anti-C Communist anc
intensely patriotic. 1t woulc
be a good thing to hear theh
story from the members them.
selves"
Mr.. Hiestand said that NJ
individual in the society Il
obliged to carry out any activi.
ties that violate his own con.
science. II don't indorse abso'
lutely everything the society
stands for" he said, "but thu
big SO per cent Of its program
is intense patriotism and anti.
communism"
AS for the charges against
Mr.. Eisenhower and other higl
Republican officials, Mr.. HE.
stand said, "some of these were
taken out Of context. They
were made by the founder (Mr
Welch) some years ago, befor,
the society was founded, in 9
circular letter that was not fol-
general distribution and was
supposed to be confidential"
He said they were beinl
dredged up now in an effor'
, to destroy the organization ii
public opinion. when an anti.
Communist group begins tC
hurt" Mr.. Hiestand said, IL
begins to get smeared."
Stands by Statement
Senator Young said today h
would stand by the statement
he made about the society. H
: noted that the Recommendation
he supplied came from som
: of the most responsible and, Il
some cases, most conservativ
: newspapers in the country"
AS for the proposed investi
: cation, Senator Young said: "
haven't suggested 1t and
Evening star., 1961-03-30
Towes Is Facing
Senate Bottle ON
Sales Tax Boost
By a Star stan writer

ANNAPOLIS, Mar 30.-OpponentS in the State Senate
were ready today with series Of amendments to to knock
out Gov TaweS' sales and cigarette tax programs
But administration leaders confident they will
to beat down the amendments and get the through
unscathed
The Governor has called for expansion of the sales
Evening star., 1961-03-30
Tax Rute to Dip

CUMBERLAND, Md. Mar. 80
(AP) ).-Allegany County's tax
rate for fiscal 1862 will be $2.1O
per 500, a decrease of 10 cents
a $100 compared with 1861, the
board Of county commissioners
said this week.
Evening star., 1961-03-30
HIESTAND
HIESTAND
Young Stands Firm
On Senate Charges

Continued From First Page
society has done that would
bring it within the purview Of
this committee.
Evening star., 1961-09-05
Britoin's Chance for Recovery

advantages of free enterprise
and luxuries which money
can bring in a free society,
they willingly work even
more than 48 hours a week.
And, regardless of what So
cial theorists say, hard work
still remains the core of a
nations prosperity.
The years when the Labor
Party ruled England and
made it into a welfare state
encouraged workers to con-
slider leisure as a fundamen-
tai condition for their we'll
being. And Britain's indus
trial workers are still follow
ing that dictum. The taxa
ton system in the United
Kingdom may also be re-
Sponsible for the situation.
In continental Europe the
direct taxes imposed on the
laboring man are either non
existent or so small that they
are barely felt.
Whatever the cause, how
ever, the fact remains that a
country lacking in so many
raw materials as Britain can
not expect to enjoy the same
recovery as the Germans,
the French or the Italians
unless it settles down to hard
work. But an attempt must
be made, SpokeSmen for the
Common Market say, to give
Britain the best chance to
recover. And her best chance
lies in her impending inclu-
sion in the Common Market.
Evening star., 1961-09-05
Two From D. C..
Attend Friends
Kenyo PurIey

Two Washington residents
were among the $50 delegates
from "a countries to the
Friends World Committee for
Consultation which closed yes
terday in Kaimosi, Kenya.
Miss jeanette Hadley of 245
Second street NE, and Alfred
Stefferud of Gil A street Sc,
attended the Today meeting
OF the organization whose
main purpose is to strengthen
contacts among members of the
Religious Society of Friends
throughout the world.
Miss Hadley is a staff mem
ber of the Friends Committee
on National Legislation. She
also is active in Quaker educa-
tional and social service pro-
grams.
Mr.. Stefferud is editor of the
Yearbook of Agriculture of the
Agriculture Department. He is
a member of the executive
committees of the Friends
World Committee and the
Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Both participants will tour
several African countries re-
turning to Washington.