SUNDAY STAR A-10 THEWashington. Airline's Perfect Record 42 Million Miles Flown nunuiKwa, D.u. uC. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER k. IM2 Gen. Pick Sees U. S. Industry Limited French Drive 88,500 Chest X-Rays Taken An airline operating in Austra- SYDNEY—In 1951 Australian lia carried 130,791 passengers ) airlines flew 42,030,300 miles in without a single accident over a i 260,727 hours over an air route Spreading Out for Water Supply Against Viet Minh During First Month of Survey period of 11 years. network of 73,788 miles. Army Engineers Look 88,500 persons operate Monday through of More than have N.W. will Chief Engineers had chest X-rays taken since Friday from 10 aJn. to 6 p.m. Appears Successful two-month Washington survey Century of Retiring Soon, Calls the Among the agencies at which Back on By began October 1, the District th* Associated Brass X-rays during next It 100-Year Problem HANOI, Indo-China, Nov. I.—A Health Department annouced yes- will be taken limited drive of French Union terday. week are the White House Execu- Service to District By John A. Giles troops against the Viet Minh in During the last week, 19,000 X- tive offices and a number of Dis- Army Water shortages in urban areas the lower Black River’s big bend rays were taken, which is in ex- trict high schools. The present The Engineers, celebrat- survey is century service in will force strategically-desired sector appeared tonight to have cess of the number taken in other being conducted by the ing a of the a D. District, recalled nostalgically yes- decentralization of industry, in the ended for lack of enemy opposi- surveys throughout the country. C. Tuberculosis Association, the U. S. Public Health and terday that they have done every- opinion of Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, tion. Although purpose Service the main of the District Health Department. thing from wrapping delicate Chief of Engineers. French forces pushed to within the survey is to detect tubercu- glassware to building mammoth Gen. Pick, who soon leaves the a mile of the war-ruined town of losis, it has been found that a cer- structures—but mostly they have Army he had casually “joined up” Phu Tho, 50 miles northwest of tain percentage of enlarged, de- Mother Cow Attacks Boy struggled with water. with for the duration of World Hanoi, without encountering any formed or abnormal heart shad- TRURO, Canada War at (JF). —Four- They have fought to keep flood- n the statutory retirement serious resistance from the Com- ows appear on the films. For the year-old age years, Stephen Height was at- waters out of the District, and to of 62 figures the Gov- munist-led rebels. first time in Washington, referrals cow INSTALLED £ ernment’s most Mm tacked by the mother and bring drinking water in. important long- The French, calling are being made to clinics of those given recently |H At Low As X -~rJ-=9~ 'RH range problem the next 100 years their action a severe mauling The Engineers’ first big assign- a “reconnaissance offensive,’’ persons who indicate a possible when he went to the bam to see ment here came just a century will be to provide adequate water heart condition. struck across the Black River 40 a I l “ new-born calf. The lad was ij# vo nnw\ y= JrHE? supplies. i5 - ago when Lt. Montgomery C. miles northwest of Hanoi Thurs- “The possible heart T • 1 “I am convinced that industry detection of able to get out of the bam and PAYMENT Meigs drew up plans for a Wash- day. The troops were under or- and blood disease is of the taken • ington is going to be gradually decentral- one was to the hospital in fair .98 PER MONTH g water system. destroy supply depots, Important by-products of ized in the years ahead, and while —AP Photo. ders to cut the chest condition. The city was growing so fast communications and test positions X-ray surveys.” Dr. Clayton B. longer could depend that is desirable from a strategic LT. GEN. LEWIS A. PICK. that it no of the Viet Minh. Etheridge, president of the Wash- , in standpoint, going Fully automatic. Exclusive jsLs heavily on four big springs it’s to be ab- Association, said. WEEK valve reduces gas combus- solutely necessary from a water The raiding column was hitting ington Heart ELECTION SPECIAL mid-town. One was on the north and landlord. He has been re- at the Viet “The association and its related tion as boiler temperature and standpoint,” he said. the left flank of Minh .f jte, side of F street between Ninth sponsible for than $5.2 bil- by physicians are anxious to co- rises. Saves fuel. Pin type All States Affected. more offensive launched October 15 sections, Tenth streets; another, in Frank- lion of Army and Air Force three drive south and operate in every way to insure the joined so lin Park. This one the “There are areas in every State worth divisions—a served construction during some 3% apparent full success of this worthwhile they are gas-tight. assure House and other Govern- in which there is an acute water west with the objective maximum heating efficien- White problem, years he has been in office. He of capturing all the mountainous project.” ment buildings. both for domestic use examinations and JIM'S cy. Completely safe. Attrac- and for use. The one was responsible for the two serv- Thai country, a region the size of Follow-up tive Forge Red Jack. But Lt. Meigs conceived the idea Industrial estate study appear thing stops expan- ices’ vast and far-flung real Vermont. of diseases which Mobile TV of drawing water from the Poto- that Industrial chest X-rays Service sion in many is lack holdings. Guerrillas exchanged some shots from the is made mac River above Great Falls and areas the a frequent possible by allocation of funds 1350 H St. N.E. LI. 4-9228 Installed by our own master plumbers and electricians— His orig- of water. And you have to re- Gen. Pick has been with the French, but Viet Minh piping it to the District. and convincing witness before regulars now based in the moun- from the Washington Heart As- Repairs Serving Washington, Virginia and Maryland inal plans were good and, expanded member that our population in- on the Spot every day.” Congressional committees. He has tains to the west apparently re- sociation. through the century, now have creases This at As engineer always fared well before Congress, fused to be drawn out. week, units will operate Horn* Galls $248 Plus Parts helped give Washington as good chief, Gen. Pick critical, permanent any has had conser- even when members were two of the three loca- Diacount on Picture a water supply as almost in much to do with as with the North tions—Seventeenth street and 20% vation of water supplies and of was the case Replacements Heating the united States. African air base construction pro- Hawaii Wages Higher Connecticut avenue N.W. and Tube General flood Cast Name in Steps. controls. One of the biggest gram. HONOLULU Average daily Eighth and NX., from your shop flood control projects—on the H streets Bring set to our I ENGINEERING CO.. INC. f This Is a monument to Lt. Meigs He will be honored at a retire- earnings of Hawaii plantation Tuesday to Saturday between 10 and save. Skilled technicians 4215 the Engineers, Meigs Missouri River—bears the Gen- Fort Belvoir 6 p.m. and but Lt. expects ment review at workers were $9 in 1951, compared a.m. and The third loca- on hand. 4130 Georgia Ave. N.W. lasted. He eral’s name. He its com- birthday. day made sure his name pletion years, November 18—his with $8.30 a in 1950. tion at Fourteenth and E streets had lt cast into each iron step of within 10 thus con- spiral stairways that lead to the trolling all the water above Kan- sas City. pipe chambers. Pick, All this is recorded in an Army Gen. a close personal publication. The Corps of Engi- friend of President Truman, neers in the Nation’s Capital, 1852- pointed out that residents of 1952. The volume was written by Washington are not as conscious Baeket Duryee, under direction of the problem of lack of water L. supplies Special Feature of Miller's 52nd Anniversary of Col. Alan J. McCutchen, Dis- as are those irf other Sale trict engineer. sections. Itpoints out that George Wash- “There is less of a problem ington picked this site for the here,” but it will increase with Capital partly because of its close- population increases,” he said. “In ness to water transportation on New York two years ago the water the Potomac and Anacostia Riv- shortage in that great city was ers. One way or another, this so acute hotel dining rooms were water has kept the Engineers busy. not serving a glass of drinking Big Flood water unless specifically requested In 1879. the patron. to put up by They are still trying "There is a permanent barriers against floods. constant light in some areas for more water sup- The Engineers’ first big flood hit in 1870, and rushing plies and there’s no question that sent waters it will be down Pennsylvania avenue to the more intense in the fu- Anacostia. In 1889, floodwaters ture.” high Pennsylvania Will Retire Soon. got so at and Gen. Pick Fifteenth street that persons rid- retires November 30 and to be ing horse-drawn street cars (the plans a consulting engi- was cents) neer in Auburn, Ala.