Frederick News-Post (Newspaper) - January 29, 1955, Frederick, Maryland COOP ealy power to evil is trick High 24 Low 1 Vol 42 LEASED WIRE FEATURES THE FREDERICK POST FREDERICK MD SATURDAY JANUARY 29 1955 TWELVE PAGES TODAY CENTS PROPERTY TAX PUZZLE BEFORE LEGISLATURE PORT ABLE X-RAY CAMERA PERFECTED Equipment Designed Far By Medical Personnel Om YOUTH FATALLY NEAR MONROVIA STRANGE BLUE LIGHT OVER OREGON THESE COLD WINTER NIGHTS GOES UNEXPLAINED Five Delegates Would Be- fin Annual Assessment On July 1 DERR LISTED AMONG SPONSORS OF By LOU ANNAPOLIS Jan 29 By trying to change one in an existing law five delegates sought today to brine about the un- scrambling of Maryland's property tax puzzle a year earlier than scheduled They introduced a House to begin annual assessment of real estate next July 1 instead of 1956 as provided by a 1934 act of the Legislature The sponsors were Majority Leader Boone County Minority Leader Derr and Dels Robinson Kirkland Arundel and Hanna Officials have wrestled with the problem for years have said the state's overall money ning would be a great deal simpler if every piece of property were reassessed every year A step toward overhauling the property tax assessment ery was taken after War 11 with the introduction of a year cycle plan A county was divided into five districts and one of these districts was re- assessed every year At the end of the five-year cycle after all districts had been the new assessments would go into effect all at once Led To Complaints This led to complaints from some owners who felt the five-year spread with the wide fluctuations of property values possible in that time could still produce inequities within a county In response to these complaints the cycle was shortened to three years with each county divided into three districts The first three-year cycle began in Oct 1 1953 The dates for the counties vary but in 1 of them the cycle began Jan 1 1954 When the idea of annual re- assessments came up last year tax commission officials expressed doubt that most of the counties were geared to put such a plan into operation To give them time the plan was adopted but its tive date was put off until 1956 This created a setup under which assessors were making the rounds assessing property under the year cycles ending in late 1956 or early 1957 yet knowing some new assessments would not go on the books because they would be super- by those developed by an- reassessment Held In Abeyance Albert W Ward to the tax commission said year cycle figures would not be used in some cases We are holding them in ance he said indicating some may become official as soon as the annual reassessment law soes into effect The tax assessment was one of the of a short ness day during which only one piece of major legislation was enacted This would empower the Health Department to set up Continued On Page Four WASHINGTON Jan 28 Army today demonstrated a able X-ray camera which uses atomic energy It's for use bi medical personnel on the bottle field or wherever bulky equipment and electrical power is not able In a Pentagon office a soldier strapped the gear to his back in the manner of a field pack then took it off set it up on a light tripod snd took a clear X-ray within minutes The energy in the camera came from a tiny nugget of thulium a rare metal that had been made radioactive in an atomic furnace The little source of energy one- sixth of an inch square was em- bedded in a lead sphere with walls about two inches thick The sphere was fixed to a metal plate and held above the ground by three able metal legs This X-ray camera machine was developed at the Army Medical Re- search Laboratory Ft Knox Ky Before the camera is standardized for field use and approved for com- manufacture further tests must be made The estimated cost of the unit was I The Army officers who the portable unit said it had great potential value for tary use and for all humane poses They envisaged its bution among medical units in the field aboard small naval vessels and its eventual use by county doctors caring for people in rural areas Elmo Lee Maupin 18 Clarksburg Pronounced Dead At Scene DAMASCUS GIRL CRITICALLY LEGAL STATUS ON IS IN DOUBT Congressional Demo crats Want To Cancel Yates Deal A Clarksburg youth was fatally hurt and four teen-age companions were injured one critically o'clock Friday night in an accident on Maryland 80 near Monrovia Pronounced dead at the scene by the Frederick county medical examiner was Elmo Lee Maupin 18 Clarksburg the driver Critically injured at Frederick Memorial Hospital is Jill ette IS Damascus serious head and internal injuries and possible broken arm Less seriously injured are Guy Lee 20 Damascus and Myrtle Whirley 16 Route 2 Gaithersburg according to State Trooper R C Dishong who investigated Excessive speed apparently was the cause of the accident said The vehicle came out a curve on Maryland 80 went off the left side of tae road and ed into an electric utility pole The impact broke the off the pole but the pole did not break off The entire left side of the automobile demolished Miss was reportedly on loft ride rear behind Maupin Injured were brought to tbe hospital by State Police ambulance by Sergt Charles D Mades First information about the came from Mr and Mrs Charles Wilcom who live nearby and heard the crash and had their power and telephone lines temporarily knocked out of service LA GRANDE Ore Jan 28 A strange blue light is reported bobbing in the air over the Blue Mountains along the highway these cold winter nights and no one who has seen it has an explanation It was first seen about two weeks ago A State Highway Department snow plow team of Manuel Erickson and Barney Thompson reported that they saw a blue light on the highway ahead of driving told tnis story He dimmed his lights There was no change in the blue light which seemed to be coming toward him on the highway Erickson stopped So did the blue light Then it started moving up down and sideways After a ment of this it moved upward and vanished over the trees to the left with a hum Erickson started up and the blue light reappeared in the sky to the right of the highway emitting a bluish glow with an occasional blue flash then it ished A week later Robert Backus another nught-time driver stopped to check one of his As he flood he noticed with some surprise he was casting a Then he looked up he said and overhead was the blue light bobbing and from it came a bumming Backus started up he said and the light followed a little ways then H moved leisurely down a canyon until it was out of Others report they too have seen u and their descriptions are ilat Last night three reporters from the La Grande Evening Observer went to the scene They saw no blue light but the morning star did rise spectacular brilliance and eerie light Erickson said he thought maybe it was a there is none known in this area Backus veteran of both Army and Navy said the movement could be that of a helicopter but the sound was not He said he didn't know what it was The men said they thought 500 yards was about the closest they had been to the light WILL CONSIDER BRITISH PLEA FOR CEASE FIRE ATOMIC POWER FOR NAVAL SHIPS NEAR Results Of Tests With Submarine 4 Nautilus Thomas Molotov Says Russia Might Urge Restraint On Red China WASHINGTON Jan 25 of the Navy Charles S SENATE ADOPTS RESOLUTION BY LARGE MARGIN AMERICAN POLICIES FOSTER ANOTHER WAR FARM MEETING IS CONCLUDED Drouth And Mastitis Dis- cussed At i ville Friday rnw cm i MAY HF mni Ot WASHINGTON Jan 23 new Democratic majority on the Atomic Energy Com- apparently beclouded the gal status of the con- i tract today by voting a resolution aimed at its cancellation The resolution was jammed through by a straight party line 10- Would De- Fairgrounds Into Sports Center The problems of drouth and mastitis reared their ugly heads during the final sessions of the i annual Frederick County winter meetings in the Walkersville Fire on Friday About 125 1 farmers attended and joined in the discussions Members of the fire I department auxiliary served lunch at noon j During the question and answer period that followed a talk fay Dr R F Davis on use of plant products in feeding dairy cattle farmers raised the question whether mastitis might be CARLIN ESTATE IS PLACED AT Bulk Is Given Four Children Provided For lic Churches BALTIMORE Ian John J Carlin amusement park owner who died last May left an estate estimated to exceed his will probated n Orphans Court disclosed today The bulk of the estate was left to four children Two of them Richard M Carlin and Mrs Elizabeth C Fischer were named along with Andrew M Brown of Buckeye Lake Ohio who formerly was associated with Carlin in the management of lin's Park here The other children sharing in the estate are John J Jr and Mrs C Beers Brown was and was left to the Most Rev Francis P Roman Catholic arch- bishop of Baltimore for tion to of five churches THE WEATHER One GOP member Rep W j Sterling Cole said it j would have no legal effect but others agreed with that it raised issues which courts ultimately would have to settle Calls For Cancellation The resolution calls on the Atomic Energy Commission to cel the contract But it this was the section which raised confusion and a ver granted by the joint committee last Nov 13 to speed action on the contract At that time the Re- controlled the group There was no immediate word from the AEC to its reaction Chairman Anderson of the joint committee indicated he fell the next move was up to the commission So f ar President Eisenhower and his administration including the AEC members have stuck by the controversial con- tract i It calls for building of a 107- plant at West Ark by the private power group under con- tract with the AEC The power would go to the Tennessee Valley Authority to replace TVA current used by AEC Repulsed Republicans on the joint com- futilely raised points of Continued On Page Five i BALTIMORE Jan 28 plan calling for the purchase of I Race Track and fairgrounds 1 by a agency which would have more than five million 1 dollars to spend to develop a sports center complete with coliseum was disclosed today William Schluderberg Timonium president revealed the proposal which he said may spell the end of racing at the ground Schluderberg said the entire plan was revealed to him by Chairman D Eldred Rinehart of the State Racing Commission and he Rinehart was acting as He made it clear that the sition did not come from fair or track officials I had heard nothing about it until Thursday of last week when Mr Rinehart outlined the 1 Schluderberg said I He said following his talk with the racing commission head he presented the proposal to board of directors But the board because of the enormity of the decision deferred immediate I presume said Schluderberg thai the agency would develop a tremendously larger fair and it also involves a sports center com- plete with a coliseum On the continuance of racing president said there was some hedging At one stage of the talks racing seemed to be at another stage it wasn't positive But I do feel personally that racing is an integral factor in the success of Timonium Fair Eisenhower Will Spend Week-End In Augusta The weather forecast for land Fair and continued except cloudy and snow ries in the mountains If he ice isn't heavy enough for skating on Culler Lake today the skaters might as well abandon hope of ever skating there again A lot of new farm are providing sport these dayi 1 WASHINGTON Jan President Eisenhower fly to for a weekend of golf and rest Announcing today the White House said the President plans to i return to Washington Sunday or Monday morning While She House did not say so the President's decision to make the trip indicates he looks for the Senate to complete action today on his James C Hagerty presidential press secretary announced earlier j this for the next two or three months Eisenhower would make no trips which would take him more than two hours away from Washington by plane He said that decision was due in part to the situation i Augusta is only about an hour and 45 minutes flying time from j Washington Hagerty said the trip there would give the chief executive two days of complete rest and an President j would receive DO visitors there DEDICATION MARCH 25 j BALTIMORE Jan 28 calion of Glenn L Martin In- of Technology on the Col- lege Park campus of the sity of Maryland has been set for March 25 The is a group of science schools and laboratories at the university which includes Glenn L Martin College of Engineering and Aeronautical Sciences Tne famed airplane builder contributed ly to facilities Dr L A DuBridge president of the California Institute of gy will be the principal speaker for the ceremonies which will start ai 10 a m They will be lowed by a luncheon honoring gin and an inspection tour of the facilities i changes in feeding methods Dr Glenn Beck said he felt sure ing high protein and high energy feeds cannot be blamed for de- i velopment of mastitis in the animals i Can Beat Drouth Dr A O Kuhn who urged dairymen to harvest more feed by crop rotation said good ment can carry a dairyman through drouth periods such as many in Maryland have faced in recent years He urged planning and planting a variety of crops with storage provided to carry feed through periods when pasture is short He said Maryland farmers are smart to plant enough corn and small grains to insure ingredients for dairy rations He suggested deep-rooted plants which survive drouth I He emphasized that bluegrass is still a valuable asset on the dairy farm He suggested that crop ro- tation and management programs i be designed to provide adequate bedding pasture grain nurse crops grass and legumes with i storage facilities to meet unfavorable weather conditions as come Importance Of Dr Beck and Dr Davis earlier had emphasized the importance of roughage in the dairy program They suggested that dairymen give i attention to raising quality as well 1 as large quantities of Dr Davis spoke on the evaluation i of grain explaining how to mine whether rations are too ex- pensive or economically sound Dr Beck turned to preserving and feeding silage at the after- noon session His remarks were supplemented by those of Merhl Ifert and Earl Remsberg who told 1 of their experiences with grass age Mr Ifert said he has been Continued On Page Four MOSCOW Jai 28 Foreign Minister V M Molotov promised tonight the government will consider a plea to work for a along the Formosa Strait and to urae restraint on Red China But Molotov declared the United States must end its tions in the Formosa area He said American policies are full of the menace of a new war Molotov's declaration spread by Tass Agency and Moscow radio was in reply to British dor Sir William Hayter He had asked Jhe to intercede with Peiping to effect a cease-fire in Formosa Strait visit to Molotov this afternoon an Embassy spokesman said was timed to coincide with a similar plea to tl e Peiping ment delivered by the British charge d'affaires in China today U X Meets Monday The U N Security Council will meet Monday to consider an in- to Red China to pate in cease-fire talks Sir An- lOpS Lieutenants thony Eden British foreign pledged in a speech in land tonight that if Red China Surprises were returned in agrees to a cease-fire its claims loting for and a will receive fair consideration captaincy during the annual The British Embassy saic ness meeting and election of ter making the approach to pendent Hose Co Friday acted vith prior President Benjamin B 5 siale was unopposed for re-election ment After the A three-way race for two vice ence the British described presidencies was won by Melvin Molotov's reaction as pretty Schwearing with a comfortable 133 limited Later Tass gave out a votes but Paul Rhoads Jr was i text described as Molotov's reply elected to office by only two votes It over Frank Smoky i As is known the Soviet Rothenhoefer ment is striving to consolidate the I Secretary Hussell Hahn peace and to ease tension both in rant Secretary Irving Plunkert j the Far East and wherever this is Treasurer Guy V Brust and necessary and it is ready to ant Treasurer Richard Graham i these measures which are 1 Of various Navy ships will be run on atomic power as outstanding the results so far in sea trials of the first atomic submarine Nautilus Thomas said the day when er will be used for other vessels will come much faster than we thought of in the past The secretary did nor spell cu: the type of ship that may be next to get a nuclear engine He did say that atomic propulsion is not involved as yet for a super craft carrier of the Forrestal class Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on the administration's military program Thomas said the Navy is not i Authorization To F Given Eisenhower By Vote Of MINORITY FOUGHT FUTILELY WASHINGTON Jan 28 Senate tonight overwhelmingly passed the resolution authorizing President Eisenhower to order a fight if necessary for defense of Formosa and related areas The vote was The three ning to build all its atomic against were Sens Langer marines in one place The Electric Boat division of General Dynamics Corp at on Conn built the Nautilus and has a second under tion Lehman and Morse The action came three days after the House approved the tration measure Thus the Senate decision com- LOCAL FIREMEN PICK OFFICERS Wisner Elected Captain Of Independents Baker Lieutenants The Navy has plans for five action on the historic more and Rep W Sterling Cole told Thomas he hopes j Rare Display Of Unity 1 there will be competitive j In a display of near unity es for the jobs Senate Democrats and Thomas said the Navy is I cans trampled down every attempt ing the question of additional I a amendment and sent to the sources and I think there are a white House a resolution that lot of places that might be authorize the President sible He declined to name any such places U S ECONOMIC THAT OF RUSSIA Communist Bloc Bett Prepared For War Experts Warn really directed toward this object 17 S Interference Charged cast i As regards the statement of the i A spirited race was run by eight British ambassador in this candidates for six directorships ment a veil as in Sir Anthony Winners Ben Bud Adams Samuel I Eden's statement m the House of Barrick Carmack Charles Commons the question Cramer John F Kennedy and Paul Wisner got the each with a three-figure total Wisner Beats WASHINGTON Jan 28 A group of experts reported to Con- j gress today that in the event of i war the United States and its ern Allies can ultimately mobilize i overwhelmingly greater economic 1 strength than the Soviet Union But the experts warned that the is an gral part of the national territory of China as had already been Interest was strongly manifest in out in thc Cairo and Berlin the balloting for line officers signed also by the les Bucki Wisner was elected governments Britain and the captain with only ten more votes States Use the U S armed forces and any measures he considers necessary to safeguard Chinese Nationalist Formosa and the cadores Islands against a Chinese j Communist attack I 2 Secure and protect related positions and territories j The Senate decision never was in yet a small j minority fought futilely to the end forbid any defense of such lands as Quemoy and the Matsus outside potential mainland vasion ports and any use of ican military forces on the Red China mainland i To them the resolution added up to authority for a preventive in which the United States I might get in the first punch j Even among supporters of the i resolution there were as Sen Mansfield who backed it with deep misgivings All were aware that it assumes the grave risks of war in what Eisenhower has said is an effort to insure peace Back of it is a determination to let the Chinese Reds know that any onslaught on Formosa will bring them into a war they can't win On that basis the administration con- siders it a force for peace Back of this policy now is a strong display of congressional in the session's first big trial of bipartisan cooperation in the field of foreign relations In far away Formosan waters Communist bloc now is better pre- pared for war and the AVest would I need time to convert its industry I and agriculture to a fighting basis j The comparison of economic strength on both sides of the Iron Curtain was submitted to the Joint i Congressional Committee on the It was prepared I at the committee's request by the j the powerful 7th Fleet was pre- to move as soon as it got official word of the Senate action Indications were that its first of than obtained by Jack Fleischman Both are professional firemen at At the same time it is perfectly clear these causes reside in gross Remsberg To State Program Camp Detrick of the United states in Baker led the ticket thc internal affairs of China the for election of four lieutenants two endeavor to separate Taiwan from votes ahead of Kenneth May The china The aforementioned actions other selections for lieutenancies Of the United SUtes represent were Dutch Ray and against the People's Re- i John Eddie Wisner public which has every right to Baker's campaign was given Taiwan and the Pescadores minute impetus by a sensational On the other hand actions of personal exhibition of fighting a the United States and the Chiang from a lofty boom at a clique which is being en- drive-in theater last week and the by it lead to an i appearance of a flattering of international tension in poster in his behalf at the Far East and are full of as the polls opened ace of 9 new war r Kenneth won the position If the United States were to of chief hose director in a split stop its actions in the race Richard Ruthvin was elected area of Taiwan this would chief pipeman without competition iate easing of international as were Surgeon John M Culler tension and Chaplain Rev Paul Althouse i Vote On Amendment Voting on an amendment to the articles and bylaws to chance the quarterly meeting nichts from the last Friday io the last Monday was 75 for and 36 against Officers reports for the parf year showed the Independents answered 126 alarms in the county and 39 in the covering 1.770 city and 3.192 county miles new members were accepted by he Independents at Legislative Reference Service the Library of Congress West Has Greater Capacity The present economic capacity I sion would be to protect and assist of Western Europe the United i a redeployment of Chinese States and Canada is significantly forces There have been greater in terms of absolute predictions that this would diversity and flexibility i involve evacuation of the Tachen than the combined strength of the Islands 200 miles north of For- Soviet bloc the report said mosa A of production factors in i ithe United States and the Soviet j Union it added gives strong FARM PRODUCT PRICES INCREASE 2 PER CENT Boost Reported Between And Mid-January By Government I BETHLEHEM EXPANDING BALTIMORE Jan 28 Bethlehem Steel Co has disclosed plans to spend about for expansion most of it marked for the Sparrows Point plant here the Sparrows Point ex- list is a plate mill capable of rolling steel plates in a wide range of thicknesses to t specification BALTIMORE Jan 28 J Homer of Middletown state and national leader in eral farm organizations today was of a committee guide Maryland's campaign to eradicate brucellosis in The same can be trans- mitted to humans by milk and causes undulant fever The Slate Board of Health and the Stale Board of in recent months have adopted plans and regulations designed to stamp it The committee named today by the Agriculture Board will guide the Livestock Sanitary Service and health department sanitarians in carrying out the program 1 It involves the testing of all dairy cattle throughout the state and the slaughter of those found infected I with the farmer being paid for any animals he loses A has been asked for the coming fiscal year to provide part iof indemnity WASHINGTON Jan 28 reported a 2 per cent increase in last meeting and four farm paces between mid- received December and mid-January Firemen set Feb 13 this year as But il Price index dav their will the church of Chaplain Althouse Prevailing when President in a body Over 150 members and took office two years attended the buffet luncheon served concluding the annual 6 cent n ion ano in tne j micro were representatives of 22 per cent the record irt t and County officers peak reached in February 1951 at and drivers of local the of the fishtine in Korea Higher prices received for cattle chickens strawberries lettuce and MRS ABELL DIES snap beans were primarily BALTIMORE Jan 23 for the January increase Jhe Abell widow of the former department said president of the A S Aneli Co The of prices paid by which publishes the for soods and services used in died today at her home family living and farm production She married Abell grandson of went up nearly per cent during S Abell founder of the the month ended Jan 15 almost Sun in 1911 She was known in the increase in prices for Baltimore for her activity in music products circles and her wide interest in As a whole farm prices i charitable programs aged 86 per cent of parity un- Survivors include three changed from a month ago and ters Mrs Robert Taylor Jr still 7 per cent below the 1954 ton Md Mrs F Sheppard lire for the same period Parity is Mer Jr Virginia Beach Va and a standard declared by law to cive Mrs J A Campbell Colston a fair purchasing power U economies will widen over the next 1 two decades Superiority in economic strength however does not assure political and military security the report stated The present level of economic mobilization in relation to natural i resources is greater in the Soviet bloc than in the United States and especially than in Western Eu- rope it For this reason the Soviet bloc can bring its full military strength into action more rapidly than can the AVest For thc same reason and because the total resources of the West are greater the West can ultimately mobilize insly greater economic strength than can the Soviet Union given time to do so Major Soviet Restraints One of the major restraints economic in the Soviet bioc the experts said is inadequate output and low per man in agriculture This is also a factor in France and the Mediterranean countries they said The two economic were considered to be about equal in 1 mineral resources although in the West their distribution and quality were said to be better Atomic power was held to be one of the keys to economic supremacy in the future Atomic power if it were to be systematically developed by either Western Europe or the Soviet bloc at relatively low cost could alter the balance between the two areas the report said i I farmers WEATHER OBSERVATION OAKLAND Jan 28 E Weber who has been an observer for The Weather Bureau for 52 of his 67 years had only two lions to make on the 26 degrees 1 below zero registered here today 1 It certainly does feel colder at 26 below than it does at say zero i 2 Nobody hut a fool would I the question COMMISSION TO CONDUCT SURVEY AFL Union Leader For tion Into Handling Of Welfare Funds i MIAMI BEACH Fla Jan 28 head of the labor union most frequently investigated for alleged mishandling of union fare funds proposed today that President Eisenhower establish a commission to survey the funds Dave Beck president of the AFL Teamsters Union suggested the commission should make an impartial study and recommend any steps that may be necessary to safeguard the multi-million dollar fund for Beck claimed that congressional committees which conducted probes in past were motivated by politics and that congressmen whom he declined to name had tried to political football with the situation to advance their own political fortunes He said the prior probes had been siar chamber sessions con- ducted by one-man grand juries Since they have stirred up so in the public misci about tbe honesty of these funds we have a thoroughgoing and impartial investigation Beck said at a Teamsters Union tive board If find wrong and I have no reason to believe they will then they should give the unions a chance to set their own house in order before the government steps in 1 would the widest kind of gation so long as it is fair BALTIMORE BALTIMORE Jan 28 f Six persons were hurt today in a i seven smashup apparently caused when the brakes failed oa j a Baltimore Transit Co trackless I trolley I None of the six injured WM i ported in condition
