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S WEATHER FORECAST
Clear tonight, low near 46 In city and 40
In suburbs. Mostly sunny and wanner
tomorrow. (Full report on Page A-3.)
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103 d Year. No. 300.
PEPCO Pledged
To Aid Loudoun
Industrializing
Contract for Land
Developing Region
The Potomac Electric Power
Co., by written agreement, has
pledged its support to future
efforts to Industrialise a 1,000-
acre tract adjacent to the Lou
doun County property on which
it proposes to build a huge power
generating plant, The Star
learned today.
This was disclosed by a study
of the contract entered into last
Peace Explore* Maryland Sites.
Page A-30
August 3 between PEPCO and
the Triple Seven Stock Farm
partnership.
The Virginia syndicate, which
owns both the 519-acre PEPCO
tract and the 1.000 acres im
mediately to the south and west,
has given PEPCO an option to
buy the smaller parcel by No
vember 1. v
The agreement itself, was made
available to The Star, in the
form of a certified photostat, by
the newly formed “Citisen* Com
mittee to Bring PEPCO’s Pro
posed 9100 Million Power Plant
to Montgomery County.”
Hope to Get Taxes
The committee is leading
efforts to get PEPCO to lo
cate its 600,000-kilowatt gener
ator in Montgomery County so
the county can reap the tax
benefits such a big installation
would bring. The plant’s service
area would be confined exclu
sively to the District and Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
counties in Maryland.
The language of the key pro
vision is clear and unequivocal.
It reads:
«The vendee (PEPCO) under
stands that, in connection with
Its applying for such soning
changes ... as may be neces
sary to enable to use the prop
erty as the site for a steam
electric generating station, the
vendor (Triple Seven) may ap
ply for soning changes ... to
enable some or all of its remain
ing lands in the vicinity of the
property to be used for industrial
purposes, and the vendee agrees
fully to co-operate with the
vendor in the making and prose
cution of such applications.”
Far Coal Supplies
In another provision of the
agreement, PEPCO agrees to
grant the Triple Seven syndicate
a 50-foot right-of-way on PEPCO
property to build a single-track
railroad spur connecting the
Triple Seven tract to the south
and west with the rail spur
PEPCO hopes to have as a link
to the nearby Washington and
Old Dominion Railroad.
Over its spur, PEPCO would
receive the huge coal supplies
needed to furnish the steam for
its power generates.
By implication, the subsidiary
spur agreed to by PEPCO in the
contract would provide supplies
required by any industrial es
tablishment on the adjacent
property retained by the Triple
Seven partnership.
Still another clause that could
encourage industrial develop
ment on the 1,000 acres held by
Triple Seven to the south and
west of the proposed PEPCO
property provides that Triple
Seven will, if desired, provide
PEPCO a 160-foot right-of-way
across the south portion of the
syndicate’s tract for the con
struction of electric lines from
the power plant to surrounding
areas of Virginia.
This would raise the possibility
of PEPCO selling power to the
Virginia Electric Power Co. for
resale to its consumers, indus
trial and commercial as well as
domestic.
Despite all these contract
specifications, a PEPCO Vice
president. R. W. Wilson, in an
oral statement less than six
weeks after the agreement was
signed, told The Star:
“This company, in no way
whatsoever, has been or wfil be
a party to any industrial de
velopment or change in the
character of this area.” Mr. Wil
son also declared that PEPCO
"would not be able to serve”
Loudoun power users—residen
tial or Industrial.
Mr. Wilson today was out of
town, unavailable for comment
Continued on Page A-12. Col. 1
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Jury Gets Haynes Case,
Warned on 'Sympathy'
Five Possible Verdicts in Slaying
Debated by 6 Men and 6 Women
By RICHARD RODGERS
A District Court Jury of six
men and six women took the case
of Mrs: Katherine A. Haynes,
charged with killing her hus
band's mistress, at 11:63 o’clock
■ today.
They will decide what punish
i ment, if any, she will receive for
the July 19 slaying.
Her prosecutors called yester
i day for conviction. But even
they didn’t demand a first-degree
verdict. They offered the alter
natives of first or second degree,
’ or manslaughter.
The 26-year-old mother of
four, who has been sobbing much
. of the time since her trial opened
Monday, keeled over yesterday
| as she was leaving the court
i room. Moist-eyed women rushed
to help her.
t Aware of this aura of sym
, pathy around the defendant,
Government attorneys hammered
hard yesterday at the Jury’s duty
\ to ignore the "unwritten law.”
Slain in Apartment
Mrs. Haytes is on trial for
' slaying Nancy Penton. 19, her
* husband’s red-headed sweet
heart. The wife had marched
her husband, Willis, 32, at gun
point back upstairs to the apart
■ ment he had Just departed.
"You are not to be governed
by sympathy and you are not
to be governed by prejudice,”
: Judge Matthew F. McGuire in
structed the jury. “The rcapon
slbUity is on you to use your
1 heads and not your hearts.”
The court began Its charge at
11 am. It listed five possible ver
! diets—(l) Guilty of first degree
murder or guilty as charged; (3)
Appeals Court Upholds
'Harassing' by Union
i
By HOWARO L. DUTKIN
A union, whose contract has
1 expired, may rise walkouts and
'■ other “harrasslng tactics” during
' contract negotiations without
1 being guilty of failing to bargain
’ in good faith, the United States
; Court of Appeals for the District
1 of Columbia ruled today.
1 At issue, was a National Labor
1 Relations Board ruling against
the Textile Workers Union of
America. CIO. Tke hoard found
the onfam wge pot bargaining ;
, in good faith with the Personal ,
: Products Co., a New Jersey
corporation with a plant la Chi
cago. The. company manufac- {
. tores sanitary products and
’ surgical dressings.
[ The board had found that the
■ union "decidfed to force the em
t puffer’s hand in the then-
I current negotiations.” not by a
strike "in the commonly under-
I stood sense of the word.” but by
s a series of unprotected har
. rassing tactics.
Tactics Described
These tactics were described,
! as “an organized refusal to work
1 overtime: an unauthorized ex
’ tension of rest periods from 10
' to 15 minutes; the direction of
■ employes to refuse to work
special hours; slowdowns; unan
-1 nounced walkouts; and Inducing
’ employes of a subcontractor
' not to work for the employer."
1 The board found that these
1 tactics were evidence that the
■ union failed to bargain collec-,
‘ tively in good faith with the
’ company for these reasons.
But; today, in a split 2-to-li
• opinion, the appellate court
i held:
"Courts have held that similar
union tactics are unprotected in
' the sense that employers may
: lawfully discharge employes for:
* using them.
"But until now no court, as
> far as we know, hss been called
upon to consider the board’s
; theory that such tactics are evi
! dence that a union is not bar
i gaining in good faith and may
: therefore be forbidden.
1 ‘‘The theory will not stand i
; Uncle Sam Bets His Life Groucho
’Owes Him $68,000 in Back Taxes
By ALAN EMORY
North American Newspaper Alliance
t The Internal Revenue. Service
i has told Groucho Marx that
1 Uncle Sam answered the $68,000
question correctly and the comic
better pay up.
i According to the federal
agency, the television funny man
of "You Bet Your Life” had not
answered all his questions cor
rectly, especially the ones on In
come taxes.
The names of Groucho, Actor
Harold Lang, politico Prank E.
McKinney and Richard M.
Seaton, brother of presidential
assistant Fred A. Seaton, all are
listed In United States Tax
Court records as being asked to
pay more taxes.
Mr. McKinney is former
chairman of the Democratic
National Committee and a resi
dent of Indiana. Mr. Seaton is a
Manhattan (Kans.), newspaper
publisher.
MM Share of Show
The Internal Revenue Service ]
said that Groucho—whose real
name Is Julius H. Marx—owed l
$68,100 for the years 1960-83.
The agency claimed the Nation- :
al Broadcasting Co. had paid i
the funny man funds, under a i
guilty of second-degree murder;
_ (3) guilty of manslaughter; (4)
: not guilty because of insanity;
, (5) not guilty.
J The jury is also weighing a
Z companion count, carrying a
dangerous weapon.
• Good Reputation Noted
r The judge noted that both
sides had stipulated the de
fendant prior to her arrest "had
a a reputation for peace and good
e order in the community.”
- The Fenton girl got short
>, shrift during the testimony. And
Thonfts A. Flannery, one of the
t prosecuting attorneys so noted
h yesterday in summing up.
d "There has been little talk in
y this case about the victim,” he
1 said. He conceded her way of
i life was no morality textbook.
But “did the deceased ever have
. a day in court?" He concluded
. she didn’t.
i He conceded the defendant
a had a right to be Jealous. Her
husband admitted on Monday,
when be volunteered to testify
against her in a trial that could
r mean her death, that he had
r been keeping the other woman,
- showing her sexy cheesecake
i snapshots to his wife, bragging
- to the wife about her rival's
- superior sexual abilities.
j Words Bting Defendant
t But Mrs. Haynes erred in
>• taking the law into her own
. hands. Mr. Flannery thundered
“She set herself up as judge,
r jury, prosecutor and execution
er," he said. And the tiny de
t fendant shrunk at his stinging
. words.
5 Mr. Flannery’s co-prosecutor,
l See HAYNES, sage A-4
analysis. There is not the slight
est inconsistency between gen
uine desire to come to an agree
ment and use of economic pres
sure to get the kind of agree
ment one wants.”
The majority opinion was writ
ten by Chief Judge Henry W.
Edgerton and concurred in by
Judge David L. Bazelon. Judge
John Danaher dissented.
Judge Danaher Dissents
In dissenting with the main
principle of Die majority opinion,
Judge Danaher declared:
“In a lawful strike, the strikers
under Die act still retain the
status of employes arid have all
the advantages to which they
and their organization are en
titled under the law.”
But, the Judge stated, "an em
ploye cannot work and strike at
the same time. He cannot con
tinue in his employment and
openly or secretly refuse to do
his work. He cannot collect
wages for his employment, and
at the same time, engage in ac
tivities to injure or destroy his
employer’s business.”
The case came before the ap
pellate court on the union's pe
tition for review of the NLRB
order and a cross-petition by the
board for enforcement of the
order.
The union was represented by
Attorneys David E. Feller and
Arthur J. Goldberg. Repre
senting the Government were
Attorneys Owsley vAe and Mar
cel Mallet-Prevost of the NLRB.
Atomic Cannon Fired,
Windows Shattered
NAHA, Okinawa, Oct. 27 Of).—
The firing of the United States
280-mm atomic cannot) on Oki
:nawa Tuesday blew 50 windows
out of a school house 500 feet
away and flying glam scratched
four students, it was learned
today. The school, then closed
down for the day.
Thenp were no serious injuries.
The cannon was fired with a
conventional high explosive shell
at Matsuda, central Okinawa.
GROUCHO MARX
No Laughing Matter
1950 contract, 75 per cent of
which were taxable as income,
rather than capital assets, as Mr.
Marx listed them.
Mr. Marx sold his partnership
Interest in "You Bet Your Life"
to NBC for $750,000, to be paid
in an initial Installment of $lO,-
000 and then $74,000 a year un
til the full amount had been re-
Easl and Wesl
Launch New
Geneva Talks
\ German Unification
, And Security for
a Europe Top Topics
GENEVA, Oct. 27 O'?) .—Russia
and the Western powers opened
_ another historic, and not too
d hopeful, conference here today
d to see whether they can agree
upon a formula for unifying Oer-
J many and securing permanent
e peace In Europe,
d Foreign ministers of the Big
Four nations settled down to
a work in the council room of the
e Palace of Nations at 4:15 pjn,
t Secretary of State John Foster
- Dulles, Foreign Secertary Harold
E Macmillan of Britain and French
4 Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay
had agreed beforehand to press
1 Russia's V. M. Molotov to accept
r German unity on Western terms.,
’• They were prepared to con
i’ front the Soviet diplomatic chief
J with a two-part program, offer
-1 tag to guarantee Russia against
*• German aggression in future if
‘ Russia will agree to merge East
1 and West Germany through na
-8 tion-wlde free elections. The
Western ministers are convinced
a free German vote would be
! overwhelmingly anti-Communlst.
1 Compromise Doabtod
Barring a reversal of estab
' fished Soviet policy, Mr. Molo
' tov was expected to insist that
' before Germany can be unified
1 new conditions must be created
in Europe by abolishing the
'North Atlantic Alliance and
■ building up a new European wide
security system.
There appeared to be no pros
pect of a compromise here be
tween the Western and Soviet
approaches.
The conference which began
here today is an outgrowth of
the Geneva summit meeting in
- July when heads of* the four
- governments spent a week of
- cordial but highly generalized
- talk about Germany and other
- world problems. It Is also a
continuation of negotiations car
- ried on at a foreign ministers'
meeting on Germany at Berlin
F in January-February, 1954.
* Mr. Pinay. whose government
at Paris is threatened with dis
solution tomorrow because of
a internal French problems, was
, chairman for the opening see
’ sion. '
s Wilson Sits by D alien
* The seating arrangement had
B Ms Dulles with his back to the
y great windows that look out
‘ toward Lake Oeneva. Mr. Molo
tov was seated at the square
' table to his right, Mr. Macmillan
1 to his left and Mr. Pinay oppo
* site. Each was flanked by ad
“ risers and interpreters.
0 Secretary of Defense Charles
tj Wilson sat on Mr. Dulles’ right.
1 |Mr. Molotov was between Andrei
* Gromyko and an interpreter.
s Mr. Macmillan told the open
ing session there are "consider
* able gaps” between Russian and
- Western policies on the great
1 Issues up for negotiation here
s but Britain believes "these can
s be bridged.”
.The next few weeks, Mr. Mac
s millan said, "present both an
1 inspiration and a challenge.”
■ “We must not be disturbed by
e temporary setbacks,” he said, “or
- thrown out of our paths by ob
>• stacles, however difficult. At
~ the same time we must be real
ists. We must recognize that
there are considerable gaps be
tween the positions hitherto
taken by the Western powers
~;and by the Union of Socialist
18 Soviet Republics.
"We believe that these can be
8 bridged, and we are determined
r.to make every effort to achieve
3 isuccess.”
d
■j Eisenhower Message Urged
Mr. Pinay proposed sending a
[. message to ailing President Ei
i senhower. Mr. Macmillan backed
.1 ( tills proposal and said the Presi-
Continned on Page A-4, Col. 1
ceived. He said this should not
be treated as regular income.
The Government has also
called for John B. Guedel, the
show’s producer and Groucho’s
partner, to pay $21,411 In back
taxes. Mr. Guedel sold his in
terest to NBC for $250,000.
Lang Deduction Rejected
Actor Lang, whose, dancing
and singing In "Kiss Me, Kate”
on Broadway brought him recog
nation and the lead role In the
revival of “Pal Joey,” was-asked
to pay $10,520 for 1952 tax defi
ciencies. Mr. Lang said he had
spent $19,622 for theatrical ex
penses, but the Internal Revenue
threw out $14,000 of this sum.
Tax court records showed that
the Government wanted another
$2,269 from Mr. McKinney. In
ternal Revenue officials main
tained that Mr. McKinney had
underpaid a gift tax. He an
swered that the service had in
correctly disallowed four $3,000
gift« to his children as deduc
tions.
The Seaton case involved a
Government claim of $13,332 for
the years 1947-61 against the
Seaton Publishing Co. of Kansas,
which operates the Manhattan
Mercury Chronicle.
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i BRITAIN’S TOP SEADOG LANDS—Admiral lari Mountbatten of Burma, First
Sea Lord (left), who arrived here today with the Countess Mountbatten, is
greeted at MATS terminal by Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations.
Lord Mountbatten will be here until November 5 rii*mi«sing “routine” problems
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.—Star Staff Photo. '
:GM Profits Due
ToTopsl Billion
Will Set Record
i For All of Industry
. NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (/P).—
! General Motors Corp., the
I world’s largest industrial firm.
> apparently will show net profits
’ of over 61 billion for 1956—a rec
ord figure never before reached
by any business enterprise. GM’s
I net income tor tha first nine
; months of this year reached 6913
; millions, beating the record 6634
. million earned In the full year of
• 1950.
i Disclosing this yesterday, GM
. President Harlow H. Curtice and
. Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
said that "the automobile Indus
i try is experiencing the best year
. In its history.”
i GM factories in the United
States and Canada sold more
cars—3,622.ooo—in the first nine
’ months this year than in all of
I 1954.
Earnings Shatter Record
Total dollar sales of all GM
products set a new nine-month
record of 69,544,000,000. This
, nearly equalled the big automak
er’s total sales for all of last year.
Sales in the first nine months of
1954 were 67.219.000.000.
Earnings for the nine months
shattered all records. After set
. ting aside 61.063.000.000 for
: United States and foreign ln
. come taxes. GM had a net profit
, of 6913 million. This compared
, with 6585 million in the first
; nine months of last year.
Net profits for the third quar
, ter came to 6252 million, against
| SIOO million a year ago.
! ' Auto Sales Seta Pace
Automobile sales paced the
rise. GM sold nearly 60 per cent
, more cars and trucks from its
. United States and Canadian
I plants during the third quarter
. of this year (1.184,961) than in
.the similar ’54 period. Nine
month sales of 3,622,000 cars and
trucks topped the year-ago pe
riod by 1 million and exceeded
all of 1954 by 173,000.
Retail sales of new GM pas
senger cars in the United States
were greater during 1955's third
quarter than In any correspond
ing period of any previous year
t The report showed a substan
tial rise In the third quarter of
> this year in sales of civilian
• products—from $1,833,000,000 a
s year ago to 62,850.000.000. Sales
:of defense items declined to
. 6181.000,000 from $320,000,000._
Egypt Signs Pact
With Saudi Arabia
. CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 27 (£•). —
I ! Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed a
'! military defense pact today. It
was reported to call for a unified
' command of their armies.
Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser
l signed for Egypt and Crown
r Prince and Premier Emir Feisal
. signed for Saudi Arabia. <
Informed sources say the paot
I follows closely the pattern of the
. Syrian-Egyptlan treaty signed
. last week in Damascus.
) The new pact was reported to
. call for the setting up of a per
manent joint command, a joint
i defense fund and a joint war
r council to co-ordinate militaiV
s planning. Informants say Egypt
, and Saudi Arabia will share
i equally the expenses of the joint
command.
The Mountbattens Fly In
i Amid Music and Gunfire j
Countess in Green, Admiral in Brass
And Both Find Weather Delightful
By MARY MeORORY
' All was—to use a favorite ex-
E pression of his—"tickety boo”
i. when Admiral Earl Mountbatten.
s Britain’s first sea lord, arrived
. in Washington today.
* For one of England's moat
1 fabled wartime seadogs, the sun
8 shone brightly on a ceremonial
8 guard of tailors and Marines. An
: 60-piece band played “The Ad-
J mlral's March.” Lord Mount
batten. having been greeted by
, his host. Admiral Arleigh Burke,
j Chief of Naval Operations, and
other dignitaries, took a 17-gun
salute.
r Tea Raws es Ribbons
Lord Mountbatten. looking fit
1 and rested and wearing ten” rows
t of campaign ribbons, was accom
t panied by the Countess Mount
[ batten. She was wearing a dark
green nutria-trimmed suit and a
dark green hat with a coque
feather. They both, in the way
( of the English, began discussing
1 the weather as soon as they got
5 off the Royal Canadian Air Force
' plane that brought them to the
• MATS terminal.
‘ After inspecting the guard,
Lord Mountbatten. who when his
8 flagship, the Kelly, was hit in the
‘ North Sea during the war sent
r ;
i Icelandic Leftist Wins
1 _ i
t Nobel Literature Prize
j STOCKHOLM. Oct. 27 UP).—
. The 1955 Nobel prize for litera
ture was won today by an Ice
g landlc novelist, Halldor Klljan
‘Laxness.
r A leftist, he is actively In the
i Communist-sponsored interaa
. tional peace movement, which
1 previously awarded him a ilt
- erary prise. He has called the
1 North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation “a society of war luna
-tics.”
s Mr. Laxness, 53, has been a
1 candidate several years for the
' prize. Apparently the Royal
Swedish Academy this year
■ overcame the dislike of his po
-1 litical leanings that at least
’ some of its members had felt.
1 He will receive $36,720 at the
s presentation of Nobel awards
5 December 10.
Mr. Laxness writes about the
everyday life of the 150,000 per
sons of his home Island In the
North Atlantic. His “Indepen
dent People” sold heavily In the
United States.
.| Another of his best-known
j novels is “Salka Valka,” which
. he began aB, a movie scenario
N while he was in Hollywood, but
1 never got made Into a movie.
I The academy, making the an
rinual award under the will of Al
l fred Nobel, cited Mr. Laxness for ;
1 "his great epic writing which has
; renewed the narrative art of Ice
t land.
e Mr. Laxness (pronounoed
i Locks’nes) begaln writing as a
boy shepherd. Since 17 he has
> been a perennial traveler. Plung
ing into continental Europe after
1 World War I, he was shaken by
r his experiences in Germany and
r Austria.
t He fled to a Roman Catholic i
s monastery in Luxembourg, where :
t he decided to become a theo- <
logian. But his passion for writ- i
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back a message thgt all was
“tickety boo.” was escorted to the
television microphones.
Be made a little speech, saying
It was Ids seventh visit to the
United States, praising the
weather highly, describing the
nature of his expected talks with
the Joint Chiefs of Staff as “Just
routine” and recalling that he
had spent his honeymoon here
many years ago.
Repeats His Remarks
Inevitably he had finished a
television cameraman registered
a strong protest.
“You weren’t looking at the;
cameras at all,'’ he complained.!
“There are so many.” said
Lord Montbatten a little apolo
getically.
He agreed to do it again.
“This is my seventh visit,”
prompted a reporter.
“Oh, yes,” said the Admiral,
“thank you very much.” And he
made his speech again, even more
warmly praising the weather—:
“so beautiful after the rain of
England.”
When he had finished hejooked
at the accusing camerman.
"Did that satisfy Grand
father?” he asked, amid a roar
, of lau&hter.
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HALLDOR K. LAXNESS
Icelander Cited
—AP Wirephoto
ing and travel persisted, and he
eventually reached Hollywood.
He lists Greta Garbo, Upton Sin
clair and Charlie Chaplin as
friends from those days. He says,
too, that he is unable to forget
the derelict people he saw in
American parks In 1929, when he
left the United States.
He spent considerable time in
Soviet Russia in 1932, 1938 and
1953.
In his book, "The Atomic Sta
tion," he deals with Iceland t
while allied troops were there in !
World War n. It is critical of j
Icelandic politicians, portraying (
them as submissive to American |
demands, but he says the book ,
was never meant to be anti- '
American
He is rich by Icelandic stand
ards and drives a cream-colored
Bulck. He and his wife and two
■mail daughters live in a mod
ernistic villa outside Reykjavik. ;
V
Pollution
Threat Stirs
City Action
Hie District Commissioners
today announced they will ask
Congress to appropriate 61-1 mil
lion more than had been orig
inally programed to insure com
pletion of secondary treatment
facilities at the sewage treatment
plant on schedule by 1959.
The city heads said they had
decided on the move “to speed
D. C Taxpayers Facing Another $lO to
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up tiie urgently needed construc
tion to combat the pollution
problem” in the Potomac River.
Hie Commissioners also re
leased statements on the esti
mated financial program of the
highway, water and motor ve
hicle parking funds for the com
ing fiscal year.
These funds are made up of
revenues such as the gasoline
tax, water charges, parking me
ter collections and the like,
which are earmarked by statute
for use only for specified pur
poses. For example, water funds
can be used only for activities
connected with providing water.
Cause No Problems
Under the public works pro
gram, these activities are fully
financed and do not cause any
revenue problems such as those
in the so-called general fund.
It is in connection with a tax
program to be recommended to
Congress to make up the ex
pected deficit in the general fund
that the city heads are holding
a public hearing at 10 ajn. to
morrow.
The figures released today
brought the total estimated Dis
trict spending requirements for
fiscal 1957 to 6190 million.
The Commissioners concluded
that the treatment plant speedup
would be possible because Mary
land fund contributions to Dis
trict sewage faculties are to be
i handed over during fiscal 1957,
t a year earlier than had been
anticipated.
i The amount that Maryland
: wUI pay totals about 61-0 million.
Total Is 65.6 Million
The total that the District will
request to spend In 1957 comes
to 64.3 mUlion. Another request
will be for 61-3 million to be
authorized in 1957, with the
•funds actually available the fol
lowing year. The grand total
• comes to 65.6 mUlion in au
thorizations.
Also due to the early payment
by Maryland, the District has
concluded that it will not have
to ask Congress for 6575.000 in
loans to the sanitary sewage
fund which had originally been
contemplated.
David V. Auld, director of
sanitary engineering, said the
completion on schedule of the
treatment plant facilities is fur
ther guaranteed by the deletion
of another 6500,000 which had
orlginaUy been planned to ez-
See SEWERS. Page A-4
BULLETIN
Chest Units Report
The Government Unit of the
1956 Community Chest Cam
paign reached 84 per cent of
its goal today. Among agen
cies reporting 100 per cent or
more were the Departments
of Agriculture, Labor, State,
Army, Treasury, and the Gov
ernment Printing Offce.
POLITICAL POT
BOILS IN VIRGINIA
FREE COURSES IN LAW—Yo«
hart to be a Philadelphia lawyer to
follow some phases of Arlington's
campaign for the Commonwealth's
attorney. Opponents in the taco
sometimes confuse voters with their
rapid-fire exchange of legalistic lingo.
One of a series of stories an tha
main racas in nearby Virginia appaars
on page A-30. y
FARM PRICE DROP—Midwest
farmers, hit by dropping grain and
hog prices, ora considering asking
Federal funds to limit production
rather than buy up surpluses. Star
Staff Correspondent Joseph A. Fax
reports from Ohio on pagt A-22.
WORD TO THE WlSE—Just how
should you pronounce the name of
your Nation's Capital? Muybu you
ara pronouncing it tha wrong way.
Chock what Mrs. Frank Colby says
on page C-9.
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