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OUR OWN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE—DanieI Boone, 12, of 7420 Wyn
dale lane, Chevy Chase (second from right), shows the sights to a group of for
eign boys visiting Washington. Left to right a,t the gathering near the Jeffer
son Memorial are M. Waliullah Fahmi of East Pakistan, Basil Tsemanis of'
Greece, Daniel Goyder of England, Daniel Boone and Hai Wun Rhee of Korea.
—Star Staff Photo.
Southwest Up
As Board Topic
Southwest Washington rede
velopment questions will be
prominent on the agenda for
the National Capital Planning
Commission meeting tomorrow
and Thursday.
Commission Chairman Har
land Bartholomew conferred to
day with Presidential Assistant
Sherman Adams, after meeting
yesterday with George A. Gar
rett, former Ambassador to Ire
land, whom President Eisen
hower requested last March to
spur agreement on a workable
program.
Mr. Eisenhower wrote to Mr.
Garrett as president of the Fed
eral City Council in expressing
a direct, interest in the South
west redevelopment plans, which
have been in the mill for several
years.
Suggests Conferences
He suggested that Mr. Garrett
undertake to confer with the ap
piopriate agencies in an effort
to bring about agreement.
One big problem pending in
the plans is the location of the
Smithsonian Institution’s pro
posed new National Air Museum.
Smithsonian officials have
wanted the museum building at
the head of the South Mall,
proposed in the Zeckendorf plan
as a broad entranceway into the
new Southwest between Inde
pendence avenue and Washing
ton Channel along Tenth street
S.w.
Will Get Reports on Studies
Tomorrow the commission will
get reports on school, police, fire,
street, utilities and shopping
center studies for Southwest.
A major question under study
is whether a retail shopping area,
as now planned in Area B of
the redevelopment project, should
be eliminated from it in favor
of a morp concentrated shopping
center outside the area, which
would serve the entire Southwest.
Salvation Army Camp
On Year-Round Basis
MARTINSBURG. W. Va„ Aug
2 1 Special).—Camp Tomahawk
in a rugged section of the
western part of this county is
rounding out its first season as
a division summer camp for
Salvation Army children. It is
being maintained this yeai tor
the first time on a year-round
basis with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Thayer as caretakers.
The Salvation Army gave its 1
Girl Guards a full week’s camp
ing and the facilities are also
being used this year for various
outings, both by the Salvation
Army and by other groups. The
camp, covers about 200 acres,
with a large Quonset ''village”
supplying ample living quarters.
Norfolk Coast Guard
Has Busy Month
NORFOLK, Va.. Aug. 2 VP).—
July was the busiest month ir.
the peacetime history of the sth
Coast Guard District, with a new
call for help almost every three,
hours.
The Coast Guard recorded 201
assistance cases during the pe
riod, the district headquarters
announced here yesterday, com
pared to the previous monthly
high of 183 cases.
The increases were attributed
to a big build-up in .small boat
ing operations.
D. C. Scouts Entertain
Youths From 16 Nations
Seventeen teen-aged boys from
16 countries are seeing Washing
ton this week as guests of Dis
trict families.
Their hosts are Boy Scouts and
their parents of Troop 52 at All
Saints Episcopal Church, Chevy
Chase Circle. And if you think
the foreign boys are having fun,
you should see our Boy Scouts.
Today the group chartered a
bus and toured some of the show j
places of the Nation's Capital.,
They climbed the Washington'
Monument, saw dinosaur bones
at the Smithsonian, visited the
Lincoln. Jefferson and Lee Me
morials. ate lunch on the water
front, toured the White House
and had a look at some of the
pictures in the National Gallery!
of Art.
The visitors are spending the
summer at a camp at Rhinebeck,:
N. Y., as the guests of the Louis
August Jonas Foundation, Inc.
Mr Jonas is a wealthy New York
philanthropist who believes in
teaching international under- 1
standing through work with!
young people.
All 16 to 17 Years Old
The boys are all 16 or 17 years
old and were selected by the
Education Ministries of their
respective countries. At the;
camp, there are also about 30
American boys of the same age.
When a side trip was arranged
for Washington, the local Boy
Scouts asked to care for the
foreign boys.
Tomorrow, the boys and their,
hosts will meet J. Edgar Hoover’
and tour the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Then they will
visit Mount Vernon.
Thursday they will hold aj
picnic and baseball game in Rock'
Creek Park and then go swim
ming at the Chevy Chase swim
ming pool. Thursday night they
will board a bus to return to the
New York camp.
One of the local Scouts. 12-
year-old Daniel Boone of 7420
Wyndale lane, Chevy Chase, has
an English boy as his guest,
Daniel Goyder, of Pindars, Roth-
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Programs forTonight
Program sponsored by The j
Evening Star in co-operation
with the Film Center of Wash
ington and the recreation de- ;
partments of the District and;
Alexandria and Arlington. Prince l
Georges and Montgomery coun
ities:
Washington, at T)»k t
Georgetown. Thirty-fourth gtreet aid
Volta olace N.W.
Twin Oaks, Fourteenth and Taylor 1
streets N W.
Turkey Thicket. Tenth street ana
Michigan avenue N E. i
Stead. P street between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets N.W
Howard. Fourth and W streets N.W
Sherwood. Tenth and G streets N E
Richardson. Fifty-third and Blaine
streets N E
Garfield. Second snd F streets 81.
Fort Stanton. Seventeenth and Erte|
streets 8 E
Congress Heights. Savannah atreet 1
and Randle place s.e.
Arlington. M:3O n.m.
Walter Reed. J«44 North McKinley
road.
Four Mile Run. Pour Mile Run drive
and South Sixteenth street.
Prince Georges County. 8:30 p m.
Unlveralty Park Elementary School. ,
Underwood street. University Park. '
Fairmount Heights Playground. AlO3
Jose street. Pairmount Heights. i
Montgomery County, ft:.lo p.m.
Homewood, Edgewood road and Grant I
avenue, Kensington ,
Wheaton Woods. Wheaton City. Rock- 1
vllle.
Wsst End Elementary School, Beall
avenue. Rockville. I
'erfleld Greys. Henley - on-
Thames.
One Without Camera
Daniel Goyder stands out
among the foreign group be
cause he s la the only boy among
them who doesn't carry a cam
era. A student at Rugby. Dan
iel watches his companions
snap, click and focus all day
long and then returns home at!
night to record the day's ac
; tlvities in his own way—in a
bulging diary. He started the
diary the day he ipft England,
by freighter for America.
Daniel was surprised at the
number of cars on Washington's
streets as the bus drove through
the Kalorama road embassy sec
tion and down Connecticut ave
nue. Mike Alexander, who is nest
tp boys from East and West Pak
istan, explained that there is a
bus strike on here.
"That's too bad.” stid Daniel.
Hai Wun Rhee of Korea has
to take a lot of kidding from the;
Americans he meets because
| “everybody ask am I son of Syg
man Rhee and I am not. I am
no relation. But lie is fine man,
also from Korea, the fighting na
tion.”
Turkey Makes Error
There w’ere supposed to be 16
boys from 16 countries here but
there are 17 boys instead. That's
because Turkey made a mistake.
Two separate government de
partments in Turkey chose boys
jfor the trip. Rather than dis
appoint either boy. the founda
tion accepted both. They are
Ahmet Inal and Ugurman Yel-
and they are staying at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Lum, 160 Quincy street. Chevy
I Chase.
The other countries repre-1
isented are Japan. Malaya.!
Greece. Denmark. Sweden. Ce.v-i
ion. Prance, Holland, Norway,
Mexico and Finland,
i Eliot R. Selinger, assistant
scoutmaster of Troop 52. who
made most of the arrangements
for the boys’ Washington visit,
says It has been a wonderful ex
perience for everyone Involved.
He only hopes that such trips
can be made every year.
Silver Spring Moose
Plan Outing Sunday
The Silver Spring Lodge,
Loyal Order of Moose, will hold
;its fourth annual field day from
noon to 7 p.m. Sunday at the
American Legion Hut on Powder
Mill i;oad (Riggs road ex
tended).
An open pit barbecue chicken
dinner will be served. Prizes
will be awarded and a program
of entertainment for children
and adults is planned.
180 New Middies
Are Officers' Sons
ANNAPOLIS. Aug. 2 VP).—
More than one of every six mid
shipmen in the Naval Academy’i
new plebe freshman class Is car
rying on a family tradition of
military service. |
Os the 900 new plebes who
have arrived at the academy to
date in a class that Is expected 1
to total 1,100 before fall, 180 :
have Indicated they are sons of l
officers of the armed forces. i
Pie footing J&faf
Fairfax Plans
Booster Shots
For Polio Soon
Enough Vaccine
May Be Received
For 16,000 Children
Fairfax County Health De
partment officials today were
working out a schedule for ad
ministering Salk vaccine booster
shots after authorization yester
day to give second Injections in
the campaign against polio.
Dr. Harold Kennedy, county
health officer, said he hopes the
program can begin early next
week. He said the county ex
pects to receive enough vaccine
for 16.000 shots within a few
days <rom the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis.
Permission to give the second
shots was granted by the State
Health Department after mem
bers of the Fairfax County Med
ical Society voted two to one
in favor of administering the
vaccine this summer. In a tele
gram sent yesterday to Dr. Rob
ert C. Hunt, president of the
society, the State Health De
partment said it bowed to the
sentimdht of the society although
the State agency decided two
months ago not to continue the
Salk program this summer.
Would Be First This Year
The vaccine will be given to
14,000 Fairfax children in the
first, second and third grades
who received the first Salk shots
this spring and to 2,000 children
who were given shots in 1954.
Fairfax County will be the first
Virginia jurisdiction to admin
ister the second Salk shots this
year. /
The county has recorded 22
polio cases and one death from
polio so far this year, compared
with only two cases at this time
last year. Although no cases
have been reported since last
Wednesday, health department
officials said this was no indica
tion that the high incidence rate
this summer is slacking off:
Gamma Globulin Now Given
The health department now
is giving gamma globulin injec
tions in the drive to keep down
the number of cases. So far
approximately 13,200 children
from 6 months to 6 years have
received the serum and addi
tional clinics are scheduled daily
through Sunday.
State Health Commissioner
Mack I. Shanholtz said permis
sion probably would be given any
; other county or city desiring to
go ahead with the Salk immu
nization program this summer.
; | :
Final OK Near
For Turnpike
RICHMOND, Va.. Aug. 2 <A>).
i —^The State Highway Commis
sion is expected to give speedy
approval Thursday to %, pro
> posed route for the 867 million
• Richmond-Petersburg turnpike.
1 The route was approved yes
terday by the Richmond-Peters
! burg Turnpike Authority. Un
' der law, it must be approved by
’ both the authority and the
1 commission before construction
can begin.
The superhighway will cost
< *67.5 million, making it the
■ largest and most costly single
! nlghway project in Virginia.
• Its closest contender will be
> the SSB million Hampton Roads
. bridge-tunnel project, now under
construction.
It will also be the first major
■expressway of its type to pass
through a large Virginia city,
1 and will be the longest stretch
of limited-access highway in
' the State.
34.8 Miles Long
1 The highway will begin just
north o( the Richmond city
' limits, near the intersections of
! U. S. 1-301. and its southern
1 terminus will be 34.8 miles south,
■ some 2% miles south of the Pe
tersburg city limits.
It will proceed through Rich
mond, east of the main business
district, cross the James River
ion a new bridge, proceed south
through Chesterfield County
. roughly parallel to U. S. 1. enter
the eastern portion of Peters
burg over a new bridge across
1 the Appomattox River and then
1 join U. S. 1 south of the city.
At no point will the turnpike
have fewer than four lanes, and
at some points It will be six
lanes wide.
The route will pass near the
main business districts of both
Richmond and Petersburg. Ear
lier proposed routes that would
have bypassed the cities drew
strong criticism from merchants
who complained that their busi
ness would suffer greatly.
Bonds Will Be Sold
The next step for the turnpike
authority, after approval of the
route by the highway commis
sion. is the sale of some $67,-
500.000 worth of bonds to fi
nance construction of the road.
The bond sale will get underway
by mid-September. Repayment
will be over a 40-year period
from toll revenues.
As soon as money is available
from *hc sale of bonds, the au
thority will begin acquiring land
for right-of-way. Completion of
the huge project has been tenta
tlvely set for 1958.
Gardeners Register
BLACKSBURG, Va.. Aug. 2
VP). —Gardeners and beekeepers
started registering here at VPI
today for their respective sum
mer short courses.
District Readers Yearn for Facts
And Crockett Yarns, Library Says
A preference for fact over fic
tion—even for the young fry.
who idolized Davy Crockett
marked the reading tastes of
patrons of the District Public
Library during the last fiscal
year.
“International and national
I affairs, significant local Issues,
the desire for self-improvement
!and the problems of everyday
Hiving motivated the quest for
information.” the library re
ported in a reading analysis to
jday.
Altogether, during the year
ended June 30, there were 2,065,-
675 books borrowed from the
Public Library, an increase of
,49.939 over the previous year.
While their elders sought
more knowledge of the tension
areas of the world, of United
States foreign policy, politics,
American history and anthro
pology. Davy Crockett and the
West mapped the conspicuous
new trend in children’s reading.
"Nothing has ever rung in our
ears with such vehemence as
the cries for Davy Crockett from
all ages and both sexes.” said
one children’s librarian.
Daniel Boone, Too
But the library added that
boys and girls also .were willing
to read of other frontiersmen,
especially Daniel Boone, "who
was, until recently, their favor
ite pioneer hero.”
The influence of television,
movies and radio was apparent
also in many requests for An
dersen’s “Fairy Tales,” Verne’s
“Twenty Thousand Leagues Un
der the Sea,” “Petei Pan,” Gra
ham’s “Wind in the Willows,”
“Aesop’s Fables,” Doyle’s “Sher
lock Holmes” and "Men of
Iron,” by Howard Pyle.
Parents and teachers ex
hibited much interest in the
publication of “Why Johnny
Student Dies
Os Bulbar Polio
I
Bulbar polio has claimed the
life of a 25-year-old George
Washington University student—
second polio fatality in the
Washington area this summer.
The Arlington County Health
Department reported Howard Lee
Crumley in. 3523 Utah street,
i Arlington, died Sunday at Dis
trict General Hospital where hos
pital officials said death was
caused by the bulbar form of the
disease.
i Mr. Crumley, who entered the
hospital last Wednesday, was a
i senior at George Washington
University. He was scheduled
to receive a bachelor of science
degree in electrical engineering
at mid-term graduation. Two
weeks ago he had started work
as an electronic scientist at the
National Bureau of Standards.
According to members of the
family, the first sign the disease
had struck was a series of severe
headaches which forced him
home from his job at the Bu
reau of Standards last week.
He was first taken to Arlington
Hospital and then transferred
to D. C. General.
The young man was the
fourth of six polio cases in the
county so far this year. Seven
had been reported in that area
at this time last year.
Mr Crumley Is survived by
his mother,. Mrs. Bessie F.
Crumley and a sister. Miss
Susan Elizabeth Crumley, both
of the Utah street address. Mr.
Crumley's father. Howard L.
Crumley 11, died In 1951. He
was an engineer with the Vir
ginia Electric & Power Co.
Funeral services will be held
at 8 o’clock tonight at the Ives
funeral home. 2847 Wilson
boulevard, Arlington.
First death in the area oc
curred July 24 in Fairfax County.
Dead from bulbar polio also was
Eugenie Printzenhoff, 3, of 402
Lisle avenue. Falls Church, Va.
15th and 16tk Cases
Os Polio Listed Here
The District Health Depart
ment yesterday reported two
new polio cases, neither para
lytic.
The 15th case of the year is
a 4-year-old colored girl of the
300 block of Oklahoma avenue
N.E., who was stricken last
Wednesday and admitted to Dis
trict General Hospital the same
day.
Case No. 16 is an 8-year-old
white boy of the 2900 block of
Cathedral avenue N.W. He was
stricken on July 24 and hos
pitalized the next day.
There were 12 polio cases as
of the same date last year.
U. S. Court Denies
Union Has Right to
Audit Firm Books
RICHMOND, Aug. 2 VP).— A
Federal appellate court said here
yesterday that if unions were
permitted to audit the books of
firms it could result in unions
using a refusal of wage increase*
to demand disclosures of highly
confidential Information by man
agement.
The United States Fourth Cir
cuit Court of Appeals denied (he
petition of the National Labor
Relations Board to enforce a
board order which found Truitt
Manufacturing Co. of North Car
olina guilty of unfair labor prac
tices in refusing to permit the
union to audit the books of the
firm.
Since Truitt was bargaining
with the union at the time of the
disagreement, they were not
guilty of refusing to bargain in
good faith, the court said.
WASHINGTON NEWS—COMICS—RADIO
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1955
Can’t Read” by Rudolph Flesch.
“The Central Library and the
branches reported the concern
iof parents regarding children’s
inability to read well.” the
library said.
World Affairs Popular
Books of particular interest
to readers concerned with world
affairs Included “Formosa, A
Problem for U. S. Foreign
Policy,” by Joseph W. Ballan
tine; "Formosa Under Chinese
Nationalist Rule,” by Fred W.
Riggs; "The Struggle for Indo
china.” by Ellen Hammer, and
“Peron’s Argentina,” by George
I. Bl&nksten.
The desire for more knowledge
about the peoples and problems
of the world tfas reflected in a
demand for such titles as “An
American in India,” by Saunders
Redding; “Fifty Years in China,”
by John L. Stuart; “Ambassa
dor’s Report,” by Chester Bowles,
and "South-East Asia,” by Brian
Harrison.
The Bandung conference and
the release of the Yalta agree
ments were among the events on
which background information
was sought. There was a no
ticeable desire for information
about Germany, and such books
as Norbert Muhlen’s “The Re
turn of Germany” and Koppel S.
Pinson's “Modem Germany”
were widely read, the library re
ported.
Foreign Policy Demand
Events in Russia continued to
be of interest, as evidenced by
the puplarity of “American in
Russia,” by Harrison Salisbury;
“The Red Carpet: On a Visa
From Khrushchev,” by Marshall
Mac Duffie, “The Soviet Regime,
Communism In Practice,” by
Wladyslaw W. Kulski. and “From
Lenin to Malenkov.” by Hugh
Seton-Watson.
Books In demand in the field
of United States foreign policy
'Voice' Aide at Gimp,
Enjoying Life as WAC
By BETTY MILES
WAC Reservist Rose Stone of
the Voice of America is Sergt.
! 1/c Stone these days at Fort
.Meade.
She left her air-conditioned
‘ office In the Health. Education
‘ and Welfare Building, where she
' is a secretary on the Bulgarian
desk, closed up her at
1418 Somerset street N.W., picked
up her parakeets and set off
Saturday for Meade for a 15-
day tour of duty with the re
serves.
Likes Reserve Duty
■ Sergt. Stone is a finance tech
nical clerk with the 300th Mili
tary Government Group of the
District of Columbia Military;
!■ - ■ -
District Raises
Vault Rentals
The District Commissioners
today increased the rent paid
the city by users of vaults under
public space.
There are 2.049 vaults, con
taining 449.332 square feet,
chiefly under streets and side
walks adjacent to business build
ings.
Rent is now figured on this
formula: Number of square feet
in the vault times the assessed
value per square foot of the ad
jacent ground times .3 per cent.
Acting on the recommendation
of a special committee headed by
Assessor James L. Martin, the
Commissioners increased the
percentage figure to .5.
The District now gets $57,000
a year in vault rentals. The new
rates would bring in $95,000, the
committee report said. This in
crease was agreed to by the Mer
chants and Manufacturers As
sociation, the Washington Real
Estate Board and the Building
Owners and Managers Associa-
Jtion, the committee reported, i
Camp Pickett Is Backed
For Reserve Training
BLACKSTONE, Va.. Aug. 2 (JP).
—Rep. Abbitt, Democrat of Vir
ginia, said yesterday he will ask
the Army to designate Camp
Pickett as the training center!
for recruits entering the Army:
under the new reserve bill. A
I quarter million reserve would:
j serve six-month periods of ac- 1
tive duty under a bill now
awaiting President Eisenhowers'
signature.
The 46,000-acre military in
stallation now deactivated—
has been opened and closed three
times since it was build in 1942.'
Republican Tosses
Out Democratic Sign
SOUTH CHARLESTON. W.
Va. (/P).— Grocer John Ray, a
Republican, was peeved with the
city's Democratic administration
anyway. When a "no parking”
sign appeared in front of his
store, he bolted over—uprooted
the sign and heaved it into an
empty lot.
G. O. P Mayor Joseph W. Lon
deree said a stenographic error
in the minutes of a council meet
ing put the sign in the wronr
spot.
“That still doesn't Justify Ray’s
taking the law into his own
hands,” he said. "There’s no
politics Involved. I don’t even
know the gentleman.”
Lions Meet Thursday
The College Park (Md.) Lions
Club will meet at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday at the Hot Shoppe in
College Park.
«
.included “Common Sense and
! World Affaira.” by Dorothy Foa
dlck; “Realities of American
Foreign Policy,” by George F.
Kennan: “Call to Greatness,” by
Adlai Stevenson: “Power and
Policy,” by Thomas K. Finlet
ter; “Essays in the Public Philos
ophy,” by Walter Lippman, and
“Wanted: An Aslan Policy,” by
Edwin Reischauer.
Requests were frequent for
such books on politics as “Ad
ventures In Politics," by Rich
ard Neuberger; “That Reminds
Me,” by Alben W. Barkley;
“Politics in America,” by D. W.
Brogan, and “Grand Inquest,”
by Telford Taylor.
The library also cited evidence
of a strong interest in American
history, especially the Civil War
period, and a demand for
“scholarly but readable" books
in the field of history-anthro
pology.
Local Biography
Books of exploration, adven
ture and travel were popular,
any many readers asked for bi
ographies. the report continued.
Several of particular local inter
est carried over from last year—
“A Man Called Peter” by Cath
erine Marshall, and “Out Os
These Roots” by Agnes Meyer,
among them.
A decline in demand for books
on the history of the automobile
was counter balanced by an in
creased demand for material on
repair and maintenance. There
were more calls for material on
foreign sports cars.
The report said “there seemed
to be no definite trend in fiction
reading during the past year,”
but historical and religious nov
els, mystery adventure tales and
science fiction continued in de
mand. While the public read the
"best sellers,” its Attention was
i directed also to older titles by
iscreen and stage productions.
I District, a reserve group now on
iduty at Meade.
She has looked forward to her
Army duty.
“What I like about coming for
reserve du)y" —this is Sergt.
Stone’s second year—is that 1
have time to do things I really
like to do,” She said. “And I en
joy the companionship of the
other girls.”
Bhe was up at 5:30 a.m. yes
terday, had breakfast at 6:30,
and was at work in the finance
office in Building 2840 on Ernie
Pyle street at 8.
Sergt. Stone and the other two
women in her group, all Wash
ingtonians. are billeted in the
WAC officers' quarters. That’s
because the all-Army golf and
j tennis tournament is being held
at Fort Meade this week, and
the enlisted girls' quarters are
crowded.
She shares a room with Sergt. j
1/c Verona Longsworth, 1900 F;
street N.W. Master Sergt. Regina i
Oorski, 1028 Connecticut avenue
N.W.. is billeted in an adjoining!
room.
Parakeets Share Room
Sergt Stone s yellow and green
parakeets, which travel in her
car wherever she goes, have the
run of the room.
Sergt. Stone became active in
reserve work in October. 1953.
During World War n, she ex
plained. she was “frozen in
Florida.” in a post she loved,
with the Army finance office of'
the Air Force radar school in
Boca Raton. She served from
January 1943 to November. 1945.
She had worked in Toledo.
Ohio, before the war as a bank
teller. Afterward, she decided to
become a secretary. She came
to Washington not long after her
discharge, studied at a secre
tarial school and George Wash
ington University and worked for|
the Patent Office, the Office of |
Price Administration, and the!
Civil Aeronautics Board before 1
going to the “Voice” in Novem
ber, 1954.
Born in Bulgaria
Sergt. Stone was bom in Bul
garia but came to this country
at the age of 2. She learned the
language later on a visit to her
native country.
Sergt. Stone is one of about
50 women from this reserve dis
trict who are serving two weeks
of active duty.
BIRDS IN HAND—B/lc Rose R. Stone, a Voice of America
secretary now on active military duty at Fort Meade, takes
time off in quarters to toy with her pet parakeets.—Star
Staff Photo.
B
Latham Attacks
Building of Road
To Shop Center
$60,000 Job Misuse
Os Public Funds,
Delegate Asserts
STEVENSVILLE, Md.. Aug 3
V P). —Delegate James C. Lath
am. Democrat, of Talbot haa
added more wood to the fire
that has been burning briskly
under the Btate Roads Commis
sion for some time now.
■Mr- Latham, a former State
trooper, charged yesterday that
State construction of a $60,000
service road from the eastern
approaches of the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge to a Kent Island
shopping center is a “piece of
manipulation and misuse of
public funds.”
The Eastern Shore Delegate,
who had indicated previously he
was lukewarm about the idea of
investigating the roads commis
sion. said he now believes there
should be such a probe.
Wants Legislative Group
“It should not be a study by
the Commission in State Pro
grams, Organizations and Fi
nance (Green* Commission ap
pointed by the Governor,” Mr.
Latham said, but a egislative
group with power to subpoena
I and the necesstu) funus to han
dle the investigation.”
The shopping cents i to be
serviced by tnr road was de
veloped by a corporation headed
by David M. Nichols, a former
member of th: roads commis
sion.
Herschel H *llen, nvad ol the
engineering firm which served as
consultant or me bridge con
struction. reco, amended the
service road be built to remove
what he called * traffic hazard.
But Mr. La'nam said: “This
shopping centei is IV 2 miles east
of the Bay Bridge. It is incon
ceivable that any traffic hazaid
could affect the bridge or should
be paid for from the bridge reve
nues.”
News Articles Recalled
Gov. McKeldin requested the
study of the roads commission
by the Green Commission after
newspaper articles dealt with
administrative irregularities in
the roads commission and with
speculation in land lying along
the rights of way of proposed
highways.
Ben Du Pre. assistant right
of-way engineer in Montgom
ery County, resigned at a hear
ing on charges against him after
it was disclosed that he and a
Washington real estate operator
were Joint owners of some land
in the Washington suburban
area.
Keneipp to Explain
Proposed New Rule
! Traffic Director George E. Ke
neipp will go before the District
i Commissioners soon to explain
a proposed change in regulations
which would require that every
; motor vehicle other than a
truck-tractor assembled after
September 1. 1955, be equipped
with two tail lamps and direc
tional lamps in order to be reg
istered in the District.
The Commissioners received
the recommendation today, but
refused to act on it until they
get better Justification from Mr.
Keneipp.
“Hand signals are perfectly
effective." Commissioner Samuel
'Spencer said. He declared tha
regulation would simply enforce
an added cost on automobile
owners.
BJaze Hits House
Near Annandaie
A fire believed to have been
started by a short circuit yester
day caused about $5,000 damage
| to a home near Annandaie, Fair
fax County firemen reported.
Firemen at Bailey’s Crossroads
said the house in the Park Lawn
subdivision is owner by Chester
M. Dore. No one was home at
the time.
Firemen said the blaze broke
out in a bedroom, and was dis
covered by a neighbor. They said
the walls, ceiling and floor of
the bedroom were burned and
the remainder of the six-room
house was damaged by smoke
and water.