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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Alexandra
Fuel Dealers
Protest ak

Enactment of a proposed in
crease in utility taxes in Alex
andria will drive fuel dealers
out Of business or outof the city,
the Alexandria City Council
was warned last night.
Attorney James M. Thorn
son, representing several fuel
dealers, called the proposal "a
grossly unfair tax" that could
put his clients out of business
in a single winter.
The suggested ordinance, de-
signed to bring the city about
$46l 900 in new revenue, would
place a 10 per cent tax on users
OF coal, oil and heating gas.
Although the ordinance was
scheduled for a first reading
and not for a public hearing last
night, Mr.. Thomson persuaded
the council to hear the dealers
objections and to postpone the
tlrst reading until June IL. A
formal public hearing and final
vote Is scheduled for June 10.
In other action, the council
received previously released
report from the Committee on
Minority Housing. Nathaniel
McKitterick. committee chair
man, commended the council
for being the first in % years
to have "grasped the mettle of
this very difficult problem"
Mr.. McKitterick said that
a recommendation of the COM
mittee to select part of the
Gadsby residential area for
development of non-discrimi-
natory basis has been "misin-
terpreted" as advocating ar
open-occupancy policy.
The council approved the
adoption of a new building
code with 20 amendments.
Also accepted were proposals
to establish a park and rec
reation commission to study
the city's recreation needs and
a department of general serv-
ices to consolidate several city
services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
3Locotions for Housing
Defeated in Alexandra

decision will be reviewed by the
city council in the near future.
The commission. visibly dis
pleased by the package deal,
had expected to be offered
three sites as alternative pro-
posals, each one suitable for a
225-unit project.
Under the housing author
ity's proposal. the 225 units
would be divided among a
block bounded by Payne and
Fayette streets and adjacent to
Parker-Gray High School, a
block bounded by Duke and
West streets and the railroad
tracks. and an area known as
the Dip" at the intersection
Of Columbus and Wilkes streets.
After the meeting, Chairman
Everett c. Weitzell said that
the commission win submit to
the council three other pro-
posals for the projects. He did
mot disclose their locations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

A surprise proposal to split
a new public housing project
among three sites in Alexandria
received the disapproval of the
city planning commission last
night.
The commission voted in
stead to recommend its own
choices for the public housing
areas.
The rejection by the COM
mission places a question mark
on the fate of the city's urban
renewal plans which have been
held up since mid-April pend
ing determination of the city's
ability to accommodate per-
sons who will be displaced by
various Improvement projects.
The rejected sites, which
were offered by the Alexandria
Redevelopment and Housing
Authority, were individually
turned down by the commission
in a lengthy closed session fol-
lowing a public hearing. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

/, District and vicinity - Fair
tonight, lowest about so. To-
morrow, cloudy and cooler. .
Maryland-Cloudy and COOL
Err tonight, low from IS to so.
Tomorrow, continued cloudy
and cooler.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy to-
night, a bit cooler, lowest Sc
to 81. Tomorrow, mostly cloudy
and cooler.
!. Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-North or northeast
winds of Is knots tonight ano
tomorrow. Cloudy tonight ano
tomorrow. visibility 8 miles.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST
District and Vicinity
June I'LL
Cooler tomorrow with 6
warming trend Friday anC
Saturday, cooler Sunday o.
Monday. The temperature viii
average near or a little above
normal. Showers expected ovel
the week end may average Y:
to / inch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
BY CHARLES d. PIERCE
Star Staff Writer

.LEESBURG. Va, June g.
Were going to fight the Sen
eca dam to the last ditch and
we're going to lick it for all
time and be done with it." a
Loudoun County official de-
ciared last night.
Harry Blee, chairman of the
noudoun County Sanitary Com
mission. made the statement
at a hearing held by the Army
Corps of Engineers at the Lou
ooun County Courthouse.
More than 200 persons at
tended the orderly meeting
presided over by Col. Warren r
johnson, district engineer.
20 Speakers Oppose
Not one witness supported
the. recommended 87-foot dan
on the Potomac at Seneca, Md.
which would require Govern
ment purchase of at least 5000
acres of land in nearby Mary.
land and Virginia.
"A parade of 20 speakers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
States Highest Court
To TW' SCI Law

argued by each side for an hour
before the five-man court.
The issue is part of an appeal
carried to the court by the
First Continental Savings &
Loan Association and the Free
state Savings & Loan Associa-
ton. Both have been placed in
receivership, the former on
January 8, the latter on jan
uary II.
Both seek to have the re-
ownership orders nullified. Part
of their arguments contend
that the Maryland law, or the
action taken under it, is illegal.
The constitutionality of the
law, as challenged by M. Will
liam Addison, Baltimore attor-
ney for First Continental, APP
peared to be so important -
aside from whether First Con-
tinehtal's receivership was JUS
titled on the basis of its opera
tions-that another Baltimore
attorney, Richard w. Case. filed
a separate argument with the
court.
1t was in behalf of two saw
ings and loan leagues that
Joined the battle as "amici
curiae," friends of the court.
Mr.. Case, adviser to Gov.
Tawes, is generally considered
the architect" of the savings
and loan regulatory legislation.
Give States Case
Arguing the States case will
be James P. Garland, assistant
attorney general, who has han
died most Of the tangled re-
ownership cases filed by the
State. Attorney General Thorn
as B. Finan is expected to be
in court and may take part
also.
The savings and loan law was
passed at an acrimonious emer-
gency session of the 1861 Leg
islature, specially called by
Gov. Tawes. Administration of
the law was placed in the hands
of Albert w. Ward, director of
the Department of Assessments
and Taxation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
STAND DELAYED
IN MONTGOMERY

The Montgomery County
Council will take no immediate
stand on the proposed Potomac
River Basin Project.
David L. Cahoon, president,
said yesterday the council rec
ognizes the need for long-range
river basin planning and in
dorses the detectives of the
basin study"
He added, however, that the
county's governing body would
neither indorse nor oppose the
Army Corps of Engineers pro-
posals until it can digest
answers to a series of ques-
tons on the impact Of the dam
on the county, it's land and
citizens"
Mr.. Cahoon referred to the
proposed construction of a high
dam on the Potomac River at
Seneca, Md. The engineers
plan emissions erection Of l6
high dams throughout the
Potomac River Basin.
Albert j. Erickson, of the
corps Baltimore district, out
lined the project and answered
questions of Montgomery Coun-
Gil members at a meeting last
week.
Mr.. Cahoon pointed out that
Montgomery is the most heavily
populated jurisdiction which
would be affected by a dam al
Seneca.
Mr.. Erickson told the coun.
Gil that the National Park Serv.
ice has estimated rs million
visitors could be attracted an.
nually to recreation facilitie.
Ipl anned for the proposed
Seneca reservoir area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
#Loudoun Aide Vows Defeat
of Seneca Darn at Gleorinq

County for industrial develop
ment, but that all Of it is in
or near the area that would be
flooded by the proposed Seneca
reservoir.
Stanley Brown of Leesburg,
a member of the Loudoun
County Board of Supervisors
Committee on the Potomac,
said that since two-thirds of
the water stored by a dam at
Seneca would be used for water
quality control, 1T is obvious
that the primary function of
the Seneca dam would be to
dilute pollution"
New Processes Argued
He contended that pollution
could be controlled adequately
without construction of a ma
jor dam on the main stem of
the Potomac if sewage distilla-
ton and other new technical
processes are used.
Several other speakers ar
gued that the dam construction
plan recommended by Col.
johnson does not take into con-
sideration advances being made
in treatment Of sewage.
Coleman Gore, Leesburg real
estate figure, told Col. johnson
that the Corps of Engineers has
greatly underestimate the cur
rent cost of acquiring Loudoun
County land for a reservoir.
You are going to have to
pay at least twice what you
think to get the land you need"
Mr.. Gore said.
/ AS the hearing drew to a
close, Col. johnson was asked
II ne had changed his mind
about the desirability of a ma
jor dam at Seneca.
Col. johnson replied that, he
already had made his decision
about what dam to recommend
before the hearings started.
This brought protests from
the audience that the hearing
was "a farce"
Asked why he had held a
meeting in LeeSburg, Col. john
son replied, Because the Gov
ernor of Virginia asked me to-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

opposed the ecomme n d e d
reservoir.
]. Emory Kirkpatrick, chair
man of the Loudoun County
Board of Supervisors, who had
made statements opposing the
Seneca dam at two earlier
hearings, spoke against it for
the third time.
He said Loudoun County will
be in serious financial difficulty
if the dam is built.
He explained that conStruc-
ton of Dulles Airport has
spanked a population boom that
has sharply increased the de-
mand for schools and other
services.
LAS a result" he continued
"our tax rate is at a record
level" Mr.. Kirkpatrick said
that unless the county can at
tract industry to broaden its
tax base, it will have serious fl
nancial problems.
Cites Land Purchases
He said investors have bought
thousands of acres in Loudour
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Girls Slayer
Tells Of Love

Only her burial remained
today as the final chapter in
the tragedy-ridden life of Jo-
anne May Hillegas, dead at Ia
from the bullet of a sutton who
killed himself rather than SUBJ
NIT to the police.
The quiet, well-mannered
Allentown (Pa0 girls body was
found early yesterday in the
trunk of a car that crashed
about IL miles from Baltimore
on the Baltimore Washington
parkway.
The cars driver, Charles A.
Reppert. 90, an Allentown race
car driver, fired a .22-caliber
rifle bullet into his head as
Maryland Trooper Roswell
Jones directed him to halt be-
cause Of a traffic violation. The
car crashed through a guard
rail against an embankment.
Mother Staying Victim
For all but the first months
of her life. jeanne had lived
with her maternal grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Boder of Allentown. In jan
uary, l948. her mother died in
a shotgun Staying for which
her father spent more than 10
years in prison.
A note found in the glove
compartment of Reppert's car
revealed a twisted, one-sided
romance that led to the final
tragedy.
Reppert said he had fallen
in love with the girl at a
Christmas party last year and
since had showered her with
gifts. But she spurned him.
In fact, her grandparents had
carefully forbidden her to have
dates.
Now she is lying beside me
in the car" Reppert's note
read. Her blood is staining
the seat from the wound in
her head. AS soon as I can
mail this letter I will join her
and let my blood rlingle with
hers"
Gave Reluctant Consent
Reppert had talked Joanne's
unwilling grandparents into let
ting him drive the girl and hel
l5-year-old brother, Thomas
to Raubsville, Pa, about 2C
miles from Allentown, Monday
night. They were to visit the
children's aunts.
Near Raubsville, Reppert
asked the boy to get out while
he talked to his sister anc
then sped away with her. Rep,
pert's zig = tagging car was
seen by he State trooper a.
4::23 am,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
/. BY ROBERT GRUENBERG
F. Star Staff Writer

sMaryland's Court of Appeals
the. highest court in the State
is slated to hear arguments to-
morrow that will determine the
fate of the savings-and-loan
regulatory laws.
On its decision, expected in
a month or more, depends not
only the legality of tine law
under which some 20 associa-
lions with millions of dollars in
savings have been closed OF
restricted in their operation
but also the survival of other
savings and loan firms that the
State may be watching.
Should the law be declared
unconstitutional, or substantial
parts of it be ruled invalid, it
would not follow that the saw
ings and loan firms now in 'e-
ownership would be turned back
tp their owners, high State legal
authorities said.
Possibly another course Of
action, such as proceeding
against the associations through
the States corporate solvency
laws, might be pursued, they
said.
Cite Good Faith
In any case, they emphasized.
the action taken thus far by
the attorney general and the
State Department of Taxation
and Assessments would not be
regarded as illegal because it
vas taken "in good faith" un-
der the existing law.
But other legal authorities
also familiar with the complex
subject say that a reversal of
the States savings and loan
Jaw could concelVaDly open q
Pandora's box.
Also, should the action taken
by the State since last summer
be ruled invalid, the nightmare
Of damage suit piled upon dam
age suit against the State could
arise.
What would go down the
drain, however. the experts ap-
peared to agree, would be the
years Of effort to achieve con-
troll over that small segment OF
the savings and loan industry
which "wildcatted" in Mary
land in the postwar years
specializing dangerously, they
say, with other peoples money
To Be Argued
The constitutionality of thu
savings and loan laws will b.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
To Be Argued

The constitutionality of the
savings and loan laws will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Music Comp Set

RICHMOND, June 6 (AP).-
More than TOO persons are ex-
pected to attend the Virginia
music camp at Massanetta
Springs near Harrisonbure
June 1924. the State Depart
ment of Education said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

| For high and low tides at the follow
| the above: Annapolis, 3A hours; Bloody
Point Light, 4Iz hours; Colonial Beach,
8 hours; Deale, 41z hours: Solomons
| Island, ga hours; Point Lookout, IA
| hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

The Sun and the Moon
Rises Sets
Sun, today 5:43a.m, $40 n m
Sun, tomorrow SAB am. S:3I pm.
Moon, today 9:32 am.
Automobile lights must be turned on
"a hour after sunset.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Citizens Hit
New Site for
Sewage Plant
BY the Associated Press

Owners of property on the
south shore of Piscataway Bay
along the Potomac River yes
terday opposed the proposed
Federal purchase of their land
as means of protecting the
view from Mount Vernon.
William E. Owen, attorney
for the property owners, told
the Senate Appropriations
Committee that George WASH
ington would not have been as
adamant when he lived at
Mount Vernon about develop
ments across the Potomac Riv-
er as some preSent-day per-
sons are.
Mr.. Owen opposed a Park
Service request for 1897, 900 to
buy a park area upstream and
across the river from Mount
Vernon where the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commits
sion has proposed to build a
sewage treatment plant.
He said a better expenditure
of Federal funds would be
Government purchase of
Mount Vernon so that visitors
could enter the grounds with
out paying an admission fee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Glenn Given Medals
By Navy and Marines
By the Associated Press

The Navy and Marine Corps
have presented John H. Glenn,
jr., astronaut and Marine,
their own decorations.
Secretary of the Navy Fred
Korth pinned on Col. Glenn's
uniform the Nays astronaut
decoration, like that already
given Navy Comdr. Alan B.
Shepard, jr.
Mr.. Korth told Col. Glenn
yesterday that this was an
other token of thanks for his
achievements, awarded III be-
half of the Navy "and the ell
tire Nation"
Gen. David M. Shoup, Ma
rine Commandant, then deco
rated Col. Glenn with the Ma
rlne Corps new and special
decoration, a gold space cap
sule with the globe of the earth
beneath.
Gen. Shoup told Col. Glenn:
John, all the words have been
said. 1 simply come here to
present you with a device which
will be awarded to all Marines
who travel in DRIFTING cap
Sules."
This was the first public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Grocery Chains,
Unions Near Pact

Representatives of thre e
union locals and six Metro
politan Area grocery chains
we're hard at work today trying
to agree on new contracts to be
presented to union members.
I'VE hope to have new pro-
posals to put before the men,
berships tomorrow" a spokes-
man for the unions said. mo
details of the new agreements
will be announced until they
are presented to the union
members"
The unions are Locals 393
and 555 of the Meat Cutters
and Local 400 Of the Retail
Clerks. The chain groceries in
volved are A8sP, Acme Markets
Giant Food Stores, Grand
Union, Food Fair and Safeway
Stores.
Last Sunday, rank-and-flle
members of the union locals re-
jected a previous management
offer. Both sides agreed to con-
tinue negotiating for Is days
after a strike Monday by Local
1893 against Giant Food Stores
was called off by order of the
Meat Cutters International
Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Reds Sow Chuff
To Distort Rudur
On Berlin Lanes

BERLIN, Mar. 10 (AP).-
The Russians have tried to in
terfere with Western radar re-
ception on the vital air lanes to
isolated Berlin, an informed
source reported today.
For two hours yesterday the
Soviets showered metallic OBJ
jects known as "chaff" on the
air approaches to Berlin, the
source said. The metallic strips
are picked up on radar screens
causing false images and dis
torting reception.
Similar devices were used IN
World War II by the United
States and British air forces
to confuse the German defenSeS
during bombing raids.
Western aircraft flying the
three corridors in and out of
Berlin are kept on course by
radar controls. Interference
with this system could have a
serious effect on navigation in
the corridors and possibly lead
to aircraft Straying into Com
muniSt territory. There was
no indication that yesterdays
maneuver had had any such
effect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

obstructive measures in the
early days of the revolution
by giving him the top post in
the junta government later.
The court also said it con-
sidered Gen. Chang'S contribu-
ton to the country as a top
officer during and after the
Korean War.
1t also noted Gen. Chang's
alleged offenses were committed
in a period during which the
revolutionary measures were
proceeding with success.
The former army chief of
staff was accused of sending
military policemen in an I'M
successful attempt to block the
entry of coup forces into the
capital on the morning of the
coup. May Is, 1861.
Gen. Chang, 38, also was &C
cuSed Of obstructing enactment
of an extraordinary law by the
junta council last June which
forced him to give up the post
of army chief of staff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Korean Court Reduces
Chang Death Sentence

SEOUL, Mar. 10 (AP).-An
appeals tribunal of the South
Korean revolutionary court to-
day reduced a lower courts
death sentence against former
Junta chairman 1t. Gen. Chang
Do-young to life imprisonment.
The Seven-man panel headed
by Col. Yook Chang-kyun also
committed to life imprisonment
the death sentence against
Gen. Changes secretary, Col
Lee Hoi-Yung.
The court declared that Gen.
Chang was guilty of counter
revolutionary acts but that
capital punishment would be
excessive.
Gen. Chang, who was re-
placed as junta head by Gen.
Chung Hee Park, was SEN
fenced January 10.
The court said it had con-
sidered the fact that the lead
ing group of the coup that
overthrow civil rule in Korea
last May in effect pardoned
Gen. Chang for his so-called
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
REDISTRICTING
Rural Areas to Keep
Reins of Legislature

that of the rural areas pro-
portionately will grow.
Although losing a Senator
to Henrico, Richmond will re-
tain its seven delegates, two
more than its declining popu-
lation of 100000 would warrant.
The redistricting legislation
must be approved by Gov. Har-
rison, but there seems to be
little likelihood that he will
reject it.
He earlier said that it would
keep Virginia among the more
fairly apportioned States OF
the Nation. This statement is
accurate largely because the
legislatures Of numerous states
are so extremely mal-appor-
toned that Virginia would have
compared favorably to them
even if the General Assembly
had done nothing at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Powers Leaves
Hospital Here

Francis Gary Powers, U-2
pilot, left Georgetown Univer-
Sity Hospital today for points
unknown after undergoing what
was described as "a routine
physical examination"
DR.. Charles D. Shields, execu-
tive director of the hospital,
said that while there Mr..
Powers received baskets of
mail every day more than
any patient we have had here
in a long time"
DR.. Shields said Mr.. Powers
refused to see any members of
the press during his hospital
stay. DR.. Shields escorted Mr..
Powers to the hospitals front
door today. The pilot rode away
in car driven by an unidenti-
fled man.
Mr.. Powers entered the hos
pital three days ago. His home
town of Big Stone Gap, Va, is
making plans to welcome him
Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

General Staff and deputy and
assistant chief of staff at the
China theater headquarters.
He became assistant executive
to the Assistant Secretary of
War in 1916 and then was APP
pointed special representative
IN Washington for Gen. Mar
shall, then in China.
That was his entry into the
world of diplomacy. His next
assignment was in the State
Department as a special as
siStant to the Secretary. In
1949 he became deputy to the
ambassador for military as
sistance programs for Europe,
stationed in London. His per-
Sonal rank was minister.
After the War College and
short service as commander of
the 138th Anti-Aircraft Group
in Japan, Gen. Carter Joined
Gen. MarShall's office in Wash
ington. He stayed on with Mr..
Lovett and then, in 1852, be-
came a deputy division COM
mander in Alaska.
He served in 1855 and 1856
as commanding general of the
Fifth Region, Army Anti-Air-
craft Command, Fort Sheridan,
Ill, and then went to Colorado
Springs.
In 1859 Gen. Carter became
chief of staff of the U. S. Eighth
Army in Korea, and just a
year ago went to Fort Bliss,
Texas, to run the Army Air
Defense Center and Air De-
Tense School.
Gen. Carter is widely liked,
by everyone who ever worked
for him." one colleague said. He
has a delightful, subtle sense
of hunor."
In the evenings he likes to
be with a few close friends
not in the Washington social
Whirl.
The city'S hostesses may not
gain from the new appoint
ment, but the country should,
one friend said. "They couldn't
have picked a better guy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
CongressWomun
Hurt in Car Crash

Representative Katharine st.
George, Republican of New
York, suffered minor injuries
yesterday when her car went
out of control on Dupont Circle
and struck a light pole, police
reported.
She was admitted to George
town Hospital with a mild con-
cusSion and a cut on the left
ankle. Her condition was re-
ported to be good.