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DOUGLAS VISITS THE PHILIPPINES
SAN LUlS.—Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas (center) shakes hands
with the mother of ex-Huk Supremo Luis Taruc while visiting the Philippine
government’s resettlement project for surrendered Communist Huk rebels north
of Manila. With the justice are Ramon Magsajgay, Philippine President (left)
and United States Ambassador Homer Ferguson (right). Taruc is now serving a
prison term.—AP Wirephoto. *•
D. C. TAXES
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a tctal general income of <140,-
764.622 for the fiscal year 1956.
At this moment, he said, the
city is obligated to spend <140,-
650,000 to cover funds recently
appropriated by Congress, a <2.78
million pay raise for classified
Government workers as well as
pay raises for municipal Judges!
and hourly workers. This would
leave a surplus of $114,000.
Pay Increases Cited
Thus, he said, if there is no
further increase in what the Dis
trict must spend this year, the
District will have enough reve
nues.
However, he pointed out, the
Senate has passed a bill which
would increase teachers’ pay by
<2.47 million. Also, Congress has 1
been asked to increase the pay
of police and firemen.
Mr. Lowe said that under a
formula proposed by the police;
association, the cost would range
between <1.5 million and <1.6
million. Similarly, if they were!
granted the same 7ti per cent
raise given to classified workers,!
the cost would be about $1.6
million a year.
If these two measures are
approved before Congress ad-:
journs, Mr. Lowe said, the city:
would be at least $4 million in
the red.
<509,000 Loss Pea Fear
Other possible congressional
actions, he said, could increase :
this. If Congress should exempt
the Capital Transit Co. from the
District's gross receipts tax, in
settling the present strike, it
would cost the city nearly $500,-
000 a year. Approval of a bill
to let new automobile buyers
transfer their license tags for
<l. instead of $22 as at present,
would c6st the city $480,000, Mr.
Lowe estimated.
The commissioners, seeking to
outguess possible spending
ordered by Congress, are debat
ing the idea of using their own
authority to increase the real
estate tax. A 10-cent boost in
the present $2.20 rate for each
SIOO of assessed valuation would
add about $1.9 million a year to
the city’s revenue.
One plan under consideration
by the commissioners is to order
such an increase in the rate and,
when Congress returns in Janu
ary, ask Congress to restore $2
million cut from the Federal
payment in passing the current
budget. This would increase city
revenues about $4 million, or
enough to cover possible pay in
creases to teachers and to police
men.
DIXON-YATES
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is designed to furnish power to
the TVA in the Memphis area
to replace TVA power being used
by atomic installations. The
power would be carried over the
transmission lines requested by
Mr. Eisenhower before he called
on the Budget Bureau last week
to look into the Memphis situa
tion and decide if it would be
feasible for the Government to
go ahead with the Dixon-Yates
contract.
Cancellation Probable
Results of that study may be
forthcoming in the next day or
so from Budget Director Rowland
R. Hughes, who has said "a
probable result” will be cancella
tion of the contract and pay
ment of an undetermined
amount to the Dixon-Yates firm.
Mr. Hughes, ordered by Mr.
Eisenhower to confer with offi
cials of the Atomic Energy Com
mission and the TVA on the
question, had promised recom
mendations “in ample time” for
Senate consideration in connec
tion with the money bill. The
White House said it expected
his report early this week.
Senator Humphrey said in a
statement last night the adminis
tration study is "apparently con
fined to a Fourth of July confer
ence on how best to get out of a
bad deal.”
Many foes of the contract ap
peared willing to accept the solu
tion proposed by the Senate Ap
propriations Committee.
The Dixon-Yates plant, on
which work has started at West
Memphis, Ark., had been planned
largely to fill the needs of the
Memphis area through TVA
lines.
The plant, for which a <lO7
million contract was negotiated
by AEC at the President’s order,
was designed to supply power to
TVA to replace TVA current
used elsewhere by AEC.
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GIRL , 1, BAILS OUT BROTHER
WITH PIGGY BANK MONEY
HOUSTON, Tex. (JP).—A 7-year-old girl with long
brown hair and large, serious eyes walked into room 102
at the police station Monday.
She was wearing a play suit.
Room 102 is where bond is made for prisoners.
“I want to bail out my brother.” she told Bond Officer
T. R. Robbins.
Mr. Robbins checked his list of prisoners needing bond.
Sure enough, her brother, a 30-year-old lineman, was in
jail on a charge of being drunk.
The little girl started counting out pennies and nickels.
“I got it from my piggy bank,” she said. “Nobody else
would help him, so I did."
But she only had <4.90. Tears welled up in her eyes.
But a man, standing by to make bond for another prisoner,
laid down the dime, and the big eyes smiled.
A few minutes later a tall, tired-looking man walked
slowly out of the police station, hand-in-hand with a happy
little girl.
Hennings Sticks to Plan
For Vote Laws Revision
By JACK BELL jl
Associated Press St»B Writer j<
| Senator Hennings, Democrat,'
of Missouri said today he is j
standing pat on a proposed re- t
vision of the Federal election (
laws despite strong—and pos
sibly fatal Republican and v
Democratic opposition. I
A bill by Senator Hennings to c
raise the expenditures limits on J
presidential, Senate and House *
campaigns is on the Senate cal- '
endar with approval of a ma
jority of the Rules Committee.
It also would require more de
tailed reporting of campaign
spending than at present.
But Democratic leaders have
delayed action on the measure
■ in a reported search for a com
promise which would make it
' more palatable to Southern
: Democrats, who oppose what
they term Federal interence in
1 primary elections.
Republicans have demanded
' the bill be amended to prevent
| labor organizations from con
| tributing to campaign funds.
Senator Hennings said he
knows all about these objections
! but is going to stick by the main
features of the fclll.
“I’m going to stand by the
! principles of the bill as it was
I reported from the committee,”
; he said. “Os course, I will be
. glad to consider any amend
• ments that are, offered but I am
. not going to give up on prin
. ciples.”
Before it approved the bill, the
Rules Committee struck out a
provision which would make it
unlawful for “any candidate or
political committee to make any;
, contribution or expenditures in
connection with any Federal elc
j tion from funds received dlrect
, ly or indirectly from a labor
! union, corporation or national
. bank.”
I Republicans have made it clear
: they believe the merger of the
■ AFL and CIO is likely to step
i up labor's total contributions to
1 the Democrats.
1 Some G. O. P. members con
tend that about 40 per cent of
those on organized labor’s rolls
, belong to their party but are
, forced to contribute to union
. funds that are used against the
candidates of their choice.
Some Southern Democrats ob
. ject to a provision of the bill!
I which would extend coverage of
the Federal Corrupt Practices
Act to primaries and conventions
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They contend primaries are
the business of the States, al
though nomination in many of
those primaries is tantamount to
election. \
Because of the opposition
within both parties, leaders are
proceeding gingerly and with In
dications that no material
changes in the law are likely be
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Henpecked Young Men
Replace British Tramps
LONDON, July I (*)<— Young
Englishmen running away titan
their wive* have jostled the old
fashioned tramp off Britain’s
highways.
“The tramp, the knight of the
road.” said Sir Geoffrey Hutch
inson. chairman of the National
Assistance Board, “is dying out.
His place in Britain’s reception
cotters is being taken by younger
men and these seem to be run
ning away from something.”
Sir Geoffrey said several rea
sons lie behind this flight from
home, based on case workers’
observations, they are:
Feelings of insecurity by men
who have been in prison.
Efforts by others to get away
from the police or military au
thorities.
U. S. to Receive
Turncoat Gls
HONG KONG. July 5 (/re
united States officials are ar
ranging a coldly correct recep
tion for three American turn
coat prisoners of war due to
cross into Hong Kong Saturday
from Red China.
The Communist Chinese Red
Cross Informed the Indian Red
' Cross in New Delhi yesterday of
• the July 9 arrival date for the
three Korean war veterans who
stayed with the Communists
after the 1953 armistice, then
recently changed their minds.
The men are Lewis W. Griggs
of Jacksonville, Tex.; Otho Bell
of Olympia, Wash., and William
A. Cowart of Dalton, Ga. Cow
art originally asked to be sent
to Japan but late reports from
Peiping indicate he now prefers
returning to the United States.
Silent on Action
I The United States Defense and
Justice Departments so far have
not said what action would be
taken against the men. The de
partments’ last word, in a joint
statement last month, was that
any American prisoner electing
to stay in Red China would be
held accountable "for any wrong
’ ful act he may have commit
ted.”
The Indian Red Cross asked
the British Red Cross to meet
the trio when they reached the
border by train from Canton.
An American consulate official
said his office probably would
. not send a car to pick them up
| until informed by the border
, (guards that they had crossed
over. The consulate sent a car
I daily to the border for several
‘ days following Peiping’s original
’ announcement, then discon
tinued it when they did not turn
1 up.
Favors Civilian Trial
1 The State Department already
■ has announced they will receive
passports valid only for return
More frequent than any other
excuse given to Officers at hostels
operated for the homeless is
this one:
“It's my wife. 1 couldn’t stand
her. That’s why I’m here.”
Figures show-the tramp is be
ing liquidated. In 1931 more than
17,000 persons nightly used the
public reception centers. In 1939
the figure was 7,000. Last year
the total had dwindled to 2,300
but many of the men were
young.
Maj. Harold Gill, officer in
charge of (me of London's big
gest Salvation Army centers,
says:
“In the last few weeks we have;
had very nearly twice the num
ber of young men asking for free
bed and board.”
to the United States. A depart
ment spokesman in Washington
said yesterday their transporta
tion would be arranged for them
if they have no money, but like
any other stranded Americans
they will have to sign notes for
. funds advanced to them.
Griggs, Bell and Cowart were
■ among 23 American POWs who
■ chose to stay with the Com
i munists. Two later came home
, and are now serving prison
terms. Peiping announced re
cently that another of the men
| had died.
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Segni Appears
Cabinet Winner
ROME. July 5 UP).—Left-of
center Christian Democrat An
tonio Segni appeared today to
have won his fight to rebuild
the four-party center coalition
with which Mark) Scelba gov
erned Italy for 1< months.
The scholarly, 64-year-old ad
vocate of land reform, was to re
port to President Giovanni Gron
chi by tonight to say whether
he could become Italy's sixth
postwar premier and end the na
tion's 13-day-old government
j crisis.
Mr. Segni cleared his final
|hurdles yesterday and early to-:
day in conferences with leaders
of the four center parties that
lasted long after midnight.
After 11 hours of the talks a
spokesman said officially that
I "agreement has been reached on
all points.” The discussion then
settled down to the selection of
ministers for cabinet posts.
Christian Democrats were ex
pected to get 14 of them, as they
had in Mr. Scelba's coalition gov
ernment. But some posts were
expected to go to the party's
rightist “concentrazione” group
which forced Mr. Scelba out.
Social Democrats appeared in
line for four cabinet posts again,
headed by Deputy Premier Giu
seppe Saragat. The Liberals, who
until last night held out against
rejoining the government, were
expected to get three posts as
before.
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
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, • • "Most of us are
* firmly convinced
that “money doesn't
grow on trees.”
++ Fact Is, we hate to spend money for some
thing we don’t want to buy, no matter how
badly we need It.
<s• Take the matter of prescription prices, lot
Instance.
± Our defenses are up when we approach the
pharmacist with a prescription to be filled.
• • -It’s not that we don’t like him, or the drug
store. But to be sick, and have to pay for it,
too, is almost more than a guy can take.
lE* So it's natural, perhaps, to fuss a little
about the prices of drugs.
□ Actually, if you look no further than the
shape of the pills, or the color of the liquid
you get in your prescription, the price you
pay could be called unreasonable.
But that’s not what you’re paying for. You’re
paying out your money for what the
prescription can do for you. And that’s
plenty in these days of potent, specific drugs.
+> The value that modern drugs deliver comes
in the shape of trouble that never happens
... and the money they can save you.
• * ‘Look at pneumonia, for example.
Twenty years or so ago, pneumonia was not
only a deadly disease, but it was also a very
costly one.
± You could count on a lot of “out-of-work”
time, as well as considerable medical and
hospital expense, if you had the bad luck
to come down with pneumonia.
■ Today, however, you can be treated with
drugs that attack the infection with bull’s
eye accuracy. While still a dangerous disease,
pneumonia can be brought under control
quickly. In most cases, the pneumonia pa
tient can be treated right at home and be
\ back on the job in a couple of weeks or so.
& That’s the value your drug money gives
you today.
•» Os course, modern drugs do cost more. And
the simple reason is that It costs more to
find, develop and produce them in quantity.
• • • For example, It cost the pharmaceutical, in
dustry more than $20,000,000 to find ways of
producing penicillin in sufficient quantities
to meet the need.
And the story is much the same for other
modern drugs that you use so confidently
today. It took a lot of hard work... and a
lot of money... to find and produce them so
they would be ready for your prescription.
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