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Evening star., 1962-09-13
DishWosher Arrested
In Acid-Throwinq Case

One of two men wanted by
Maryland police on charges OF
throwing acid in the face of a
La Plata woman was being held
by Metropolitan Police today
for Maryland authorities. +
The FBI announced the ar
rest yesterday of Ronald Joseph
Toomer. %, an unemployed
diShwasher of the 1900 block
of Howison place S.W. A second
man accused in the case, Will
liam Edward Rhodes, 80, of the
100 block of Tennessee avenue
S.W., is still at large, the FBI
said.
Toomer was brought before
United States Commissioner
Sam Wertleb here yesterday
and a fugitive charge was dis
missed. He was Immediately
taken into custody by Metro
Evening star., 1962-09-13

politan Police on a charge oi
mayhem.
The FBI said a Federal war;
rant issued by United States
Commissioner Samuel w. H
Meloy in Upper Marlboro ac-
cuses Toomer of unlawful flight
to avoid prosecution in La
Plata on a charge Of armed
robbery and aggravated assault
Charles County Sheriff Fran
els c. Garner has accused
Toomer and Rhodes, the FB1
said, Of entering the La Plata
residence of Mrs. Barbara Ellen
Gray, %. last Saturday. Bran
dishing revolvers, they tied her
to a chair. taped her eyes,
poured acid on her face and
took $40 from her wallet, the
sheriff told the FBI.
Evening star., 1962-09-13
MIRACLE OF HAPPINESS
Billy Smiles in Adversely

forts at talking result in q
humble which can be under
stood only by a few.
But his ever-preSent grin Is
understood by all who for one
reason or another visit tn G
Riverside ConvaleScent Home
where Billy stays.
Billy likes to watch people,
listen to people. He likes to
be where people are.
When he's not listening to
radio or watching television, two
mediums through which the
unschooled Billy has learned
Just about everything he knows
he sits in the nursing homes
main lobby.
Billy makes sounds of recog-
milton as acquaintance pass by
to visit some of the homes sc
patients. Many stop for a chat
Billy was transferred here
from another nursing home in
1855 as a ward of the Airing
ton Welfare Department.
The one time when attend
ants at Riverside said Billy
lost his cheerful outlook was ir
81. Welfare officials said Billy
would have to be moved to
a home for incurables, where
Evening star., 1962-09-13
Sewer Job
To Be Sped
By WSSC

The Washington Suburban
Sa nitary Commission an
nounced today it is pushing for
early completion of the contro-
versial So million sewage sys-
tenn for the Piscataway, Henson
Greek areas of Prince Georges
County.
A spokesman for the COM
mission said property owners
in the area had pledged
$500. 900 in contributions for
the sewer, which was a basic
requirement of commission
action.
Receipts of these contribu-
tions would enable the commits
sion's engineers to select a site
for a sewage disposal plant In
the PiScataway Bay area and
work to extend public sewer
facilities to part of the area
in 1854.
The proposed location Of the
sewage disposal plant has
caused most of the controversy
over the project. The commits
sion had been criticized BY
conServationists and others be-
cause its original site could be
seen from Mount Vernon
across the Potomac River II
Virginia.
In its statement today the
commission said, mo site (fol
the disposal plant) viii be
considered that would affect
the view from Mount Vernon
Evening star., 1962-09-13

| he could be cared for without
charge. Otherwise, the Airing
ton department said, Billy could
not continue to receive welfare
support.
He stopped eating, Just
wouldn't do anything" said
Mrs. Daffin. This was the
only place where he had ever
been happy"
Recalled Carl T. Hill, vic e
president of a bank here: "The
doctor said Billy would die
that he would give up-if they
sent him away"
Nursing home employees Of
fered to donate a dollar a
month from their pay toward
Billy's care to keep him here.
And Mr.. Hill, talking to
cronies on the street corner,
discovered there were many
outside the walls Of the nurs-
ing home who also considered
Billy a friend people like him
self, who made sure Billy was
remembered with new ties,
shirts or a radio at Christmas
time.
Most important, the manage
ment of the Pitts Colonial
Theater offered its facilities for
a benefit movie show.
And so, in 1857, the BILLY
BiggS Fund" was born.
The fund has raised several
thousands of dollars" Mr.. Hill
said. With what help relatives
in Arlington can give, the fund
has kept Billy in Fredericks-
burg and will keep him here,
Mr.. Hill asserts, "as long as
Billy lives"
When money runs low, Mr..
Hill picks up the telephone and
calls the thea ter. Officials
there quickly agree to another
Billy Biggs Day." Mr.. Hill
distributes tickets among
friends for advance sales. 9th
ers are sold at the box office.
Hundreds of persons attend.
Mr.. Hill told of one friend
who is sometimes bothered by
an old hip injury. When the
pain becomes a burden, the
friend told him, "All I do is
go up and have a chat with
Billy, and feel better"
"And that" said Mr.. Hill,
describes Billy Biggs about as
well as anything can"
Evening star., 1962-09-13

to be q public health officer" !"
He said that he was attracted
to the public health service be-
cause you have the opportunity
to do a tremendous amount of
good for so many people. In
private practice, you're limited
to just a few"
A self-possessed but unas-
suming man, DR.. Grant said
that he certainly had never
expected to become director of
the Department of Public
Heath in the Capital of the
United States.
"It's really remarkable where
you end up in this world" said
DR.. Grant, who still has a trace
of English accent. Sometimes
you wonder if your efforts will
ever come to anything, but they
do-at least in my case"
Bigger Challenge
DR.. Grant said that after
carefully weighing the matter
he had decided to give up his
job as Prince Georges health
officer to take the District
health post because he regards
it as "a bigger challenge. I like
taking on difficult assign
ments."
DR.. Grant said that for a
long time the District Health
Department did not have a
good name among health au-
thorities."
He said that while DR.. Dam
lei L. Finucane, former District
health director retired in
March, had accomplished a
lot, q great deal still remains
to be DONE"
DR.. Grant said that the
health directors post here is
complicated "by the fact that
the District is not only a large
Evening star., 1962-09-13
Science Career
Seminars Plunned

Teenagers visiting the sec
ond annual Montgomery Coun-
ty Science-Industry Showcase
next month will be invited to
take part in a series Of seminars
exploring the opportunities Of a
career in science.
The Showcase, sponsored by
the Silver Spring Board of
Trade and the County Council,
will be held October II, IL and
13 at the Silver Spring Armory
John Hassett, County Eco
nomic Development director
and Cyril j. OBrien, of the
John Hopkins University APP
piled Physics Laboratory, win
serve as co-chairman Of the
seminars, which will be held
twice daily on october II and
IL.
Evening star., 1962-09-13
FREDERICKsBURG

FREDERICKSBURG, Va,
Sept. Is (AP).-Mrs. Eugenia
Daffin, the nursing home su-
perintendent, sat down in her
office and acknowledged: "AIl
Of US have been able to learn
quite bit from Billy"
The bookkepper at the next
desk, Mrs. M. E. Burnette, an
amputee, agreed. II have one
leg gone, but he makes me feel
better"
It was seven years ago that
Billy Biggs came to Freder-
icksburg from Arlington an d
brought with him what has
been called "a miracle of un-
explainable happiness"
There was one dark moment
when it appeared Billy would
have to be transferred else
where. and his broad smile dis
appeared. But the gloom was
short-lived, for the city adopted
Billy.
Billy is a totally h helpless
cripple, a victim since childhood
Of multiple scleroSis.
Now 40 years old, he h a S
never been able to use his. de-
formed hands or legs. His ef-
Evening star., 1962-09-13

permit MIN 70 undertake the
drafting Of a charter.
A private planning consult
ant, Mr.. Boswell, of Chillum,
was among five men picked
Tuesday by the county COM
misSioners to comprise a char
ter board. 1t would have six
months to draft a new gov
ernment to replace the pres
ent setup.
If charter advocates clear
present legal hurdles, Prince
Georges voters on November
6 will ballot on both the crea-
ton Of a charter board and
the selection of five candidates
to make up the group, These
same advocates have picked
their own five candidates.
In declining the nomination,
Mr.. Boswell said he felt six
months was not enough time
to write a charter.
There should be numerous
public hearings and thorough
studies Of other governments
before the board even begins to
draft a charter" Mr.. Boswell
said.
The commissioners were not
able to reach Mr.. Boswell on
Tuesday prior to selecting him
Herbert w. Reichelt, vice
chairman of the commissioners,
said others now are being con-
sidered to replace Mr.. Boswell
A selection might be made to-
morrow.
The commissioners nomina-
ton of candidates drew a crit
ical blast from the Project
Marlboro Home Rule Charter
Committee, heading up the
current charter drive.
The group asked, in effect,
Evening star., 1962-09-13
Election Contest
Is Voice Story

A special Voice Of America
radio program to be distributed
in the Near East will feature
the Maryland Congressman-at-
large race between Democrat
Carlton r. Sickles and his
Republican opponent, Newton
I. Steers.
The program, Anatomy Of
an Election" VOA officials say,
is designed to illustrate a
typical United State election
campaign and the machinery
of representative government.
1t will be released this fall.
Evening star., 1962-09-13

city but also has State func-
tionS."
The doctor also said that he
regards appointment to the
District job as a major step
upward in my public health
career" He explained that
while the Prince Georges
County Health Department had
some 200 employees, the District
Health Department has 3.700.
Reviewing his own career,
DR.. Grant said with a smile
that the reason he left Eng
land after being graduated in
1949 from the st. Georges
Medical School, University of
London, was "the shortage of
potatoes"
Postwar RatiOning
"At that time I loved pota-
toes and after the war they
were rationed. 1t was then that
I decided to leave England"
He left for Canada where he
received his doctor of public
health degree from the Uni
versity Of Toronto.
His career in public health
started in Baltimore County,
where he served as assistant
health officer from May, 1850,
through December, 1851. It
was in Baltimore that he met
his wife Trudy. They now have
four children. DR.. Grant has
been Prince Georges health
officer since 1859. He became
an American citizen in 1854.
DR.. Grant and his family live
in a four bedroom, split-level
house at 6119 Westland drive,
West Hyattsville, Md. He added
that he has no plans at pres
ent to move.
Evening star., 1962-09-13

why the commissioners would
name candidates when they
have not supported the Project
Marlboro charter drive. '.e7-
The committee noted that
two of the commissioners
charter candidates, T. Earle
Bourne and Dudley H. Smith,
were among n men who signed
Instant Common Sense. a
booklet rebuking the Project
Marlboro study. -
Evening star., 1962-09-13
New DC. Health Chief
Long Dreamed of Career
BY CHARLES d. PIERCE
Star staff Writer

young English boy who dreamed of becoming public
health officer at an age when most youngsters
fremen or policemen has been washngtons new
health director.
DR. Murray Grant, S. native of London recalled yester-
day that even as very small boy had wanted
Evening star., 1962-09-13
Dinner at Church

Hunting Hill Methodist
Church, Rockville. Nd, will
serve a roast beef dinner at the
church Fellowship Hall on
Saturday from 3 to 8 pm. The
hall is three miles west of
Rockville on Route %.
Evening star., 1962-09-13
Chorter-D Nominee
Turns Down Project

Another charterwriting candidate being sought by
the Prince Georges County take the place
Of Harry Boswell jr who he does not have time for
the job.
Mr.. Boswell, chairman Of Marylands Economic Develop
ment Commission said yesterday his commitments not
Evening star., 1962-09-16
Just 7 QuoIity BEDS
Twin and double sizes, as
sorted styles and finishes MSo
$3.50 to $3.50 EACH

Dixie Chest on Chest French Provincial
FruitWood -------I 1900 60 50
American of MortinsVille Triple Dresser
Mirror, Chest Chest AIS Ponel
Bed, Mite Toble- $500 $4,000
Cox 6oudoir Choir and Ottoman, yellow
and Green floroI skirt------ 6le5 $500
6oudoir Choirs with skirts choice Of F.
blue, gold pink foroI prints each 34e5 z4eS
Teen-Aee Girls Bedroom in powder blue
ond gold Double Dresser, Mirror
Chest and 4/6 Panel Bed --- $1,000 z4e oo
Powder Toble (Pon-Tempo by Drexeu
Fruitwood ----.-7------------- 1900 1900
Hbriten Butternut Bedroom Contem-
poroy, "a" Triple Dresser, Fromed-
Mirror, Chest, 46 Chair Book Bed - $500 $4,000
National Itolon Provincial Chest Cherry 1900 $500
.. and many more!
Evening star., 1962-09-16

DrexeI credenzo and Deck, Custom White
Finish ------------------z5soo 1890
Open Arm Occasional Choir, Wolnut,
Turquoise Cover ----------- 1895 $500
Drexe Lounge Choir, Linen Print Cover,
mooern 1900
Hompton Shops, Contemporary Soto, Blue,
Wolnut Bose 74s.oo
Hickory Choir, Lounge Choir, H-Bock,
WoInut --------------- -----lszoo $500
Modern Lounge Chair Brown Cover,
FOom Rubber Cushion --- $500 $500
Volentne Seover Contemporary Hi-Bock
Lounge Choir, Foom Rubber Cushion,
Pumpkin Cover -----------------l44.oo $500
Turquoise Cover r----~---------lss.oo 800. 1890
Evening star., 1962-09-16
BEDROOMS

Lone 5-pe. Wolnut Suite, Triple Dresser
Framed Mirror, Chest-on-Chest, 4/6
poneI Bed, Mite TobIe- $4,000
American Of MortinsViIIe Chest of
Drawers, Modern Pecon and MopIe 1850
Dixie, Modern Chest, Congo Teok
:, Mork so erOupI ------------- 1895
Kent Coffee French Provincial Antique
White and Gold Double Dresser
Framed Mirror, Twin Bed. Mite TobIe $500
Modern Silver Grey Mahogany Double
Dresser, Mirror, Chest on Chest, Mite
TobIe. 4/6 Bookcase Bed ------- lss.oo
Modern Silver Grey Mahogany Triple
Dresser, Mirror, Chest-on-Chest Mite
TobIe, 4I6 Bookcase Bed 25e 90
Evening star., 1962-09-16

/ ALL REMAINING STOCK or
/ DANISH CONTEMPORARY 80 NJ
/ WALNUT "DELINEAToR" COL Wa
LECTION BY PAUL MecoBB. 49, ~
BEDROOM DINING ROOM, oc- REDUcED
Hi6riten French Provincial Fruitwood
Triple Dresser, Framed Mirror Swino
Size Heodboord and Frone, Mite
TobIe -------------------- ses.oo 1890
Evening star., 1962-09-16
Discontinued SOFAS
ON ALL FLOORS
Reduced 1920 to 331|3%

Century Soto. Mahogany Eohy American
Blue, FOom "------s9ooo 1890
Swivel Rocker. Kick PIeot Skirt, Aqua
Cover --------------- ------- 1895 1900
Gold Topestv 80 -----l5soo - 10000
Donish Style Swivel Chairs, Metol TubuIor
Legs and Frame, Wolnut Arms Ton
eerne Plastic Covers ----------- 2l.95 7.SS ea
Crickett Rocker, Mopie, Foam Cushion
Red and Gold pioid ---------- ~ sss5 1855
Evening star., 1962-09-16

Clyde Peorson Soto, Sooe Green, Kick
Pleot Skirt -44soo z44.oo
Hompton Shops Modern Walnut Sofo
Antique Gold 1880
Thoyer Cooon Contemporary Lounge
Choir Toneerine and Gold Stripe.
ArmIess Style e.------------------ $3.50 $3.50
Kroehler Ape. Sectional Soto, Modern
Beige -5------sI45o 1880
Foqm, Blue ses5o z4S.oo
Drexel Credenzo, Antique White and
Gold ---,---5-77---2Iss5 1890
any, Desk Front ---------ss 90 1890
Evening star., 1962-10-10

WdWd q Lothfop pI D. IUU -
'Quotations for .100-shsfe lets. 9th
ers for 10.shara lots.
Ex-dividend. Plus extra or extras
Evening star., 1962-10-10
Steel Orders
Show Increase

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (AP).-
Steel orders are continuing to
climb, encouraging belief that
better days are ahead for the
struggling industry, the Iron
Age said today.
The uptrend took hold two to
three weeks ago and hung on
despite a drop in Nationwide
steel production last week after
three weeks in a row Of gains.
The Woodworking weekly
said the pickup in orders by
steel users came without any
particular evidence Of strong
support from automakers,
prime steel customers.
The magazine said the order
and production improvement
still was far from satisfactory
"and steel executives are less
than enthusiastic about the
rate of business"
Industrywise, production last
week remained between IS and
so per cent Of capacity.
The Iron Age indicated that
even though automotive order
ing Jagged. an underlying tone
of strength was supplied by
feverish production activity by
carmakers rushing 1868 models
to market.
Evening star., 1962-10-10
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (AP) CusDA) -
Hogs $500; opened moderately active.
late and closing trade slow. butchers
steady To- rs lower; soWs steady 10 20
lover: closing fully 25 lower around
so per cent going to shippers; 1-2 ZOO
23O ID butchers II 7.Sb-1S.25, around
$50 head at 1928; bulk supply mixed
la 1g0-25O lbs ~ 725-1S.Oo; 2-3 S50-
900 lbs 17.0O-l7, 20; mixed LED $50.
400-55O lbs I425-15.5o; boars 1850
Cattle 10000; calves none; tradlnr
on SLAUGHTER steers moderately active.
fully SO hiEher Instances as higher
heifers active, so to 75 higher; cows
strong TO IS higher; bulls slow, mostly
90 lower; vealers steady; two loads
prime 1,2O0-1. $50 ID slaughter steers
1900; bulk high choice and mixed
choice and prime ZOO $50 lbs 29.5O-
31.75; load mixed choice and prime
1850 lbs 90. 0-30 so; comparable Grade
aOO-1 100 lbs. 2s.25-29 so; load choice
92O lbs 2S.5O and load high choice
with few prime 1.09s lbs 1000; good
25. .50-2s.5O; standard including Hol-
stems 23.50-25. 90; load mixed stand
srd AZ and sood i,Mn5 around .ho,Ss 200 lbs lbs
prime ,026 ID heifers $3.50; two loads
mixed rood and choice 925.1 900 lbs
sS2Sto c ssysrs l0sss 81 .S0s. sss EssS' ESsS
1000 lbs 28.7s-Ss.0O Including load
s65 lbs at 27.75: good heifers "a so
26.25; utility and commercial cows
IL .00-I6 80; Gamers and cutters ! . 90
1873; utility and commercial bulls
I6.s0-Ia.00; standard to choice vealers
20.O0-2S 90.
Evening star., 1962-10-10
Stocks Higher,
Gains Small;
IradinQ Gains

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 CAP)
The stock market moved
higher in moderately active
trading early this afternoon
Gains Of most key stocks
were fractional. The advance
was fairly broad. however, TAX
ing in chemicals, oils. aero
space issues, tobaccos and elec-
trical equipments.
The pace of trading. while
not very strong. was the live
lest this week. Yesterdays
late rally which pulled a slug
giSh list to the upside showed
carry-through at the start.
Some Wall Streeters said the
market may be headed for a
renewed test Of the upside re-
sistance level Of about 500 in
the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
Although the overall busi-
ness news was not inspiring,
a number Of brokerage houses
sent out adviSories favorable
to various stocks.
A gain Of more than 2 by
Du Pont helped move up the
averages.
Prices rose in quiet trading
on the American Stock Ex-
change. The Securities and Ex-
change Commission ordered
the temporary suspension Of
trading in Atlantic Research,
Corporate bonds were mixed.
Government bonds were higher.
Evening star., 1962-10-10
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (AP).-corn fu-
lures rallied op the Board Of Trade
today and wheat showed some mid
session strength after q generally
weak opening.
Corn was buoyed by reports that
the Commodity Credit Corp. will not
sell Government surplus corn to the
domestic trade for week because Of
boxcar shortage. Export buying also
helped corn. but some elevators were
on the selling end. Some traders
felt corn was due for technical
rally after two days Of steady de-
cline.
soybeans we're mixed. Better har-
vest weather and early commercial
selling, probably hedging. were bear
ish factors. Rye trended lower on
reports that Western Germany had
bought Russian rye after similar
purchase yesterday IN Canada.
At midday wheat was " tosb cent 9
bushel higher, December S2.03as; corr
Evening star., 1962-10-10
Coosu-KimberIy Clark
Mercer Fiqht Ended

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Oct. 10
(AP "A Federal judge has
dismissed a suit which pro-
tested the merger of the Coosa
River Newsprint Co. of Coosa
Pines with Kimberly Clark
Corp.
A withdrawal decree was
signed by Judge Seybourn H.
Lynne at the request Of the
persons who brought the suit.
Boards OF directors for both
Kimberly Clark and Coosa
River had approved the merger
last February IL and stock
holders of both firms voted in
favor of the union May %,
1862.
Evening star., 1962-10-10
UNITED STATES TREASURY POSITION

By the Associated Press
Evening star., 1962-10-10
COTTON

NEW YORK, oct. 10 tAP).--Price
movements were erratie In distant
ing forenoon DEALINGS The market
rallied at times on short covering but
met renewed selling on each advance,
with losses extending 10 almost $3.50
bale.
The selling reflected possible
changes in the United States cotton
program next year. Current crop
Noon prices were 2S cents a bale
higher 10 $3.50 lover than the previ-
Gus close. October, 33.ls bid, De-
cember 33.66 and March 34.09.
Evening star., 1962-10-10

was u TO ia higher, December
December 63sz; rye was u lower to
"a higher. December S11e1a, and
soybeans were "a lower to u higher,
November S2.41h.
Evening star., 1962-10-10

Act, or securities assumed BY such com
Win bankruptcy or receiverShip NJ
being reorganized under the Bankruptcy
panies. xf exgnterest. ct Certificates
ct Stamped. f. Dealt in fiat. Matureo
bonds, negotiahility impaired by maturity
Evening star., 1962-01-06
MoryIond's Prison Crisis

Governor TaWeS' proposal that
Maryland spend $5.5 million this year
for prison Improvements probably will
satisfy neither economy advocates in
the General Assembly nor penologists
in and out of the State. The figure
represents, however, an apparently rea-
Sonable compromise that will relieve
some of the more dangerously over
crowded parts Of the Maryland system.
The States prisons have been severely
criticized by penal experts, including
Federal Prison Director James v.
Bennett.
Under the Governors program, three
times as much money would be spent
on expansion of facilities at the Jessups
correctional camp as had been asked by
the Department of Corrections. Mr..
TaWes no doubt had in mind Mr.. Ben
nett'S criticism of the Jessups establish
ment as zone of the worst" in the
Nation. The enlargement of the in
Stitution would cost SIS million. The
annex will accommodate 500 prisoners
from the correctional camp at Sandy
Point. Also proposed is 1,OO0-bed cor
rectional building at the Reformatory
for Males in Breathedsville. This re-
formatory is badly overcrowded.
Fate of the program will rest with
the General Assembly,, which must ap-
propriate the money required to make
the improvements. Since avercrowded
prisons have been described by penolo-
giStS as powder kegs" the urgency of
relieving congestion in MarylandS penal
institutions seems evident.