Evening star. [volume], March 29, 1936, Page A-17, Image 17

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Three Social Agencies Seek
Use of Sites Available
on 19,000 Acres.
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Many of Washington'* under privi
, leged children may be afforded new
recreational opportunities this Sum
mer as the result of a large camp site
which the Resettlement Administra
tion has developed at Dumfries, Va„
near Quantico.
Three of the District's social
agencies already are seeking camping
^ grounds on the area, known as the
Chopawamsic site.
Frank R. Jelleff. president, and A.
F. E. Horne. Camp Committee chair
' man, Washington Boys’ Club, have
applied for a lease on one unit for the
coming season and expect to abondon
the club's Wicomico River camp.
Since the Boys’ Club application is
the first by any local agency, it prob
ably will receive the first permit.
^ The Family Service Association,
which for several years has operated
Camp Good Will in Rock Creek Park
and Camp Pleasant at Blue Plains, is
considering applying for the Family
unit at the Chopawamsic site for
mothers and their children. It would
give up the Rock Creek site.
The Jewish Community Center,
heretofore without a camp project of
any kind, also expects to apply for a
place on the Resettlement Adminis
tration development.
19,000 Acres to Be Included.
Plans at Chopawamsic call for con
struction of three units this year, one
for boys, one for girls and one for
l families. The Government has ob
tained about 15,000 acres of land at
Dumfries and will have about 19,000
acres when the project is completed.
The lease fee is $600 per unit, which
" Includes upkeep of buildings, year
round policing and garbage removal.
Each unit consists of five subunits of
five cabins, a small recreation unit
and a counselors’ cabin. There will
be two counselors for each five cabins
and each cabin will house four.
Each full unit will have a large
recreation hall, dining room, kitchen
and administration building. Campers
will be required to furnish all movable
supplies such as bedding, dishes, cook
ing utensils, etc., but the Government
will furnish cooking ranges, refrigera
* tion and dining tables.
Streams on the site will be dammed
to make aitificial lakes for swimming
and boating. Only one lake will be
completed this season, however.
Plenty of Play Room.
“With no crowding, due to the im
mensity of the site, and with plenty
of room for expansion, I think the
Chopawamsic site is the answer to the
boy's prayer for outdoor vacation,”
^ said Charles M. Fyfe, managing di
rector of the Boys’ Club. ’"The cabin
arrangements, with four boys to a
cabin, is a new idea in self discipline
which should work out to the advant
age of the boys from a youth educa
tion standpoint, teaching them the
honor system of self-government and
making them more self-reliant.”
Establishment of the new camp site
climaxes three years of campaigning
for such an area by the Council of
Social Agencies through Miss M. Edith
Coulson, secretary of the council's
Recreation Committee. It is probable,
« according to officials of the council,
that the project will cause consider
able changes in the disposition of
Community Chest camp funds, re
sultant economies making it possible
to provide more ’'scholarships” for
boys who cannot pay all or part of
the small fee to be charged at the
Boys’ Club camp and enabling other
organizations, which furnish free
camps to mothers and children to
accommodate a greater number of
, persons. ,
* Among the possibilities opened by 1
the project, officials added, are further j
economies through a central purchas
ing agency, in which one head steward i
eventually would buy supplies for all ;
units on a wholesale basis. Co
operative transportation also will be
considered in the interests of economy,
It was said.
STYLE SHOW PLANNED
Exhibition Offered Friday by Con
necticut Avenue Group.
The Connecticut Avenue Association
will stage its fifth semi-annual style
show and exhibition at the Mayflower I
Hotel on Friday. Three shows will
be open to the public—at 5 pm., 8
p.m. and 10 p.m. More than 50
prominent merchants and shops along
Connecticut avenue will be repre
sented.
Models will be brought from New
York to display the latest Spring |
gowns, millinery and footwear. Spe- j
cial attention is being given to the
stage setting this year, according to
C. A. Martin, president. Lawrence
E. Rubel will serve as chairman of the
reception committee, assisted by other
officials and members of the associa- ■
tion.
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423S.
To Aid Flood Relief Ball
JEANNE GOODNER,
Acrobatic dancer, who will be one of the entertainers at the
flood relief ball sponsored by welfare associations of all Govern
ment departments next Thursday night in the main ball rooms
of the Shcreham and Wardman Park Hotels. Both hotels are
donating their facilities for the benefit. The entire proceeds
will be turned over to the Red Cross for flood relief. Tickets will
admit guests to either ball. Barnee will play at the Shoreham
and Phil Lampkin at Wardman Park. Mrs. Roosevelt heads
the Advisory Committee for the ball.
325 W.P. A. AIRPORT
410 Are Being Financed by
U. S. for Employment
of 50,000 Men.
Works Progress Administrator Hop
kins reported yesterday that out of
410 municipal airports and airway
projects being financed with the aid
of W. P. A. funds to employ 50,000
men, 325 of the projects are actually
under construction. Twenty-five have
been completed in various sections.
While the District had tried in vain
to obtain funds from the various
emergency agencies for development of
a municipal airport, Hopkins’ survey
of the Nation-wide program cites
$208,656 being expended on improve
ments at Bolling Field, the Army’s
airport in Washington, as the Dis
tricts share in the Nation-wide pro
gram.
$21,090,965 Involved.
The 410 projects involve funds to
taling $21,090,965, of which over $3,
000,000 is being contributed by local
sponsors. "In every instance,” Hop
kins reported, "the funds for these
projects were requested by public
bodies—municipal, county or State.”
Maryland also narrowly escaped
omission from the report, with only
one project included. That involves
grading the Baltimore municipal air
port at a cost of $29,164. Work there,
as at Bolling Field, is under way.
Virginia has seven projects under
construction at costs totaling $80,070,
with two other projects not yet started.
These two will cost $5,102.
The seven active projects calling for
the grading and landscaping of air
ports and landing fields, Include:
Franklin, $7,390; Petersburg, $13,518;
Hopewell, $7,677 (Department of
Highways); Hopewell. $6,922 (munici
pal): Roanoke, $24,068: Lynchburg,
$14,574 (municipal) and Lynchburg,
$5,921 (Department of Highways).
1,400 Projects Approved.
More than 1,400 airway and airport
projects of various kinds, involving
$110,172,828 have been approved here.
However, as final selection of projects
for construction is for State determi
nation, Hopkins said, the list of all
such projects cleared only at Wash
ington might create the erroneous im
pression that all of them would be
put into immediate operation.
Additional projects are being ap
proved by State W. P. A. administra- I
| tors from day to day. the report just
j made public being as of February 15.
Six agencies of the Federal Govern
: ment have conferred on the program.
In addition to the W. P. A. staff, these
agencies include the Treasury, War,
Post Office, Navy and Commerce De
partments.
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PLANS FOR CHERRY
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Trees Expected to Blossom
Between April 5 and 9
Despite Flood.
With indications the Japanese cherry
blossoms around the Tidal Basin and
in East Potomac Park will make their
appearance between April 5 and 9. of
ficials of the second National Capital
Cherry Blossom Festival are speeding
plans to make the celebration a high
mark in the city’s civic life.
When the Potomac overflowed and
drenched the root* of the tree*, pros
pects for the blossoms were In doubt
for several days. Favorable weather,
however, has helped the situation to
the extent the committees have been
called upon by Commissioner Melvin
C. Hazen. general chairman, to com
plete arrangements for the celebra
tion.
Commissioner Hazen, acting with
the Board of Trade, has announced
the heads of the several committees
planning the fete. Vice chairmen are
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, Stephen Early, Marvin H.
MacIntyre, Maj. Henry Leonard, Ed
ward Martin, John Saul, Ford E.
Young. Robert V. Fleming and Thomas
E. Lodge.
Other officers and committee chair
men are Claude W. Owen, executive
vice chairman; Lanier P. McLachlen,
treasurer; Robert J. Cottrell, general
secretary; Miss Elizabeth Glenn, as
sistant secretary; Curtis A. Hodges,
general promotion manager and pub
licity chairman; Thomas E. Lodge and
L. Perry West, Finance and Budget
Committee: Claude W. Owen and Maj.
Horace Smith, reception; Commission
ers Hazen, Oeorge E. Allen and Dan I.
Sultan, invitations: C. Melvin Sharpe,
Mrs. Patterson and Saul, Queen and
Court Committee; Mrs. Patterson and
Harold Allen Long, ball; Lieut. A. J.
Bargagnl. parade; Sharpe, decora
tions: Louis H. Curry and A. B. Van
Voorhees, transportation; Maj. Ernest
W. Brown and Odell S. Smith, public
order; John O. Gheen, horse show;
Mark Lansburgh, trophies; Arno B.
Cammerer, C. Marshall Finnan and Al
bert Clyde-Burton, grandstand: Arthur
J. Harnett and Augustus Gumpert,
housing; Dr. A. Mat;ruder MacDonald,
medical and first aid; Maj. Brown and
Capt. P. J. Carroll, traffic, and G. R.
Wilhelm, amplification.
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Muskrats are to be scientifically
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BREACH OF PROMISE
VERDICT IS SET ASIDE
Kentucky Court Holds Miscon
duct Is Defense for Re
covery of Damages.
By the Associated Press.
FRA IMPORT. Xy., March 28.—
Holding that since misconduct was
sufficient grounds for a divorce it was
also a complete defense for recovery
of breach of promise damages, the
Kentucky Court of Appeals yesterday
set aside a $15,000 verdict won by Mrs.
Bessie Vender Muelen, 38. against
Thomas L. Barrett. 55, of Louisville,
a river boat builder.
Mrs. Vander Muelen, a former
cashier in a sandwich shop, was
awarded the damages in Jefferson Cir
cuit Court in November, 1934.
At the trial she testified that Bar
rett courted her for three years and
that she presided over his river cottage
as its hostess.
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