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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS - WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
3Y A SHIN G T OX, D. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1947 #
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Renewed Zoning
Pleas for Year
Agreement Reached
On New Policy at
Silver Spring Meeting
Reapplications for zoning changes
would be prohibited within a year
under'a new policy that was shaping
up today in Montgomery County.
At present requests may be renewed
after three months.
A decision to adopt this one-year
plan w as agreed to last night by rep
resentatives of the Maryland Na
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the Board of County
Commissioners and County Super
visor I. G. McNayr.
They spoke at a protest meeting
of residents, most of them from the
Silver Spring area, w'ho demanded
an end to the present practice of
having some rezoning requests
denied only to be renewed again
after a 90-day lapse.
Cp-operation Pledged.
Politics apparently was laid aside
as the four Republican members
of the Board of Commissioners, Mr.
McNayr and E. Brooke Lee, Vice
chairman of the planning commis
sion, who is the Democratic leader
of the area, pledged to co-operate
In carrying out the proposed policy.
Brooke Johns, president of the
commissioners, told the gathering in
St. Michael's Parish Hall, Silver
Spring, a resolution carrying out the
one-year waiting requirement as an
amendment to the zoning code will
be presented to his group for action.
Mr. Lee disclosed proposed master
zoning plans for Georgia avenue
from Silver Spring through Brooke
ville, and for Colesville road from
Silver Spring through Ashton, will
be ready for distribution by the
planning commission September 9.
The planning official also revealed
that members of the planning staff
of the commission now are working
on master zoning plans for Mac
Arthur boulevard. White Oak-Laurel
road, and the land adjacent to the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from
Garrett Park to Rockville. The staff
soon will begin work on similar plans
for Old Georgetown road from Be
thesda to Halpine and the Layhill
pike from Glenmont to Sandy
Spring, he added. In addition, fu
ture plans call for studies of a por
tion of the Piney Branch road, east
of Flower avenue, and Old Bladens
burg road, between Franklin avenue
and the Prince Georges County line.
Master Plans in Effect.
The park commissioner reported
master zoning plans already are in
effect in Silver Spring, Bethesda,
Kensington and along the Rockville
pike from Bethesda to the town
limits of Rockville.
No additions are necessary to the
present commercial area in • Silver
Spring, an area described as “4,000
feet wide and running a mile from
the District line,'’ Mr. Lee asserted.
Plans of the commission, he re
vealed, call for no apartments north
of Silver Spring. About 100 acres
of unimproved land in the com
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use, along with another 50 acres
near the vicinity of New Hampshire
avenue and University lane, just
over the Prince Georges County
line, he reported.
Commercial areas are planned, In
order, for Montgomery Hills, Wheat
on, Glenmont, Norbeck, Olney,
Brookeville and at the vicinity of
the intersection of Georgia avenue
with the extension of Connecticut
avenue, between Norbeck and
BrookeVille. The rest of the county
would remain as residential or as
it is at present, Mr. Lee stated.
Details of some of the proposed
new zoning regulations were out
lined by Mr. McNayr. They include
provisions that zoning hearings be
held in the vicinity of the place
where the change is sought and for
more advance publicity, including
advertising in county newspapers.
Agrees With Johns’ Plan.
He said he agreed with Mr. Johns’
plan for the commissioners to con
tinue to hold zoning hearings every
three months, instead of twiee
yearly as suggested by Citizens' Zon
ing Committee speakers.
Mr. McNayr said the county could
not afford to remain strictly resi
dential as many would have it.
“You are going to pay, and con
tinue to pay, if you want it strictly
» residential,” he declared. “You’ve
got to have commercial afid apart
ment zoning, or taxes are going to
go higher than the land owners can
afford.”
Promising assistance of the com
missioners. Mr. Johns told the gath
ering the zoning problems “can be
straightened out in a jiffy * * * but
we must dismiss certain political
feelings * * * for the good of the
people in the county.” He said he
favored a good master zoning plan.
Other officials who spoke included
Commissioners O. W. Youngblood
and Wesley I Sauter, and J. Earnest
Hawkins, clerk to the commissioners.
Commissioner Ace Esworthy also
was present at the hearing.
Victor H. Richter, president of the
Allied Civic Group of Silver Spring,
ngurea uu jjeuuiug utcu
figures on the number of rezoning
cases pending before the commis
sioners which already had been de
nied. Of the 40 applications now
’pending, 22 previously were rejected,
' and 11 of them less than 90 days ,
ago, he pointed out.
"We’ve got to do something now,’’
he said. “We're not going to get
worn down, but we want to know
we don’t have to fight again every
90 days to protect our residential
areas.’’
Other speakers included Samuel
H. Horne of Woodside Park; W. H.
Simpson! jr., Pinecrest; Roy Schnei
ter, Seven Oaks Manor; Stephen
James, Linden; Dr. C. M. Derr#
berry, of Woodmftre, secretary
treasurer of the citizens committee,
Frank J. Duane of Seven Oaks
Manor, and Donald K. Staley, pres
ident of the Silver Spring Board of
Trade, who, on behalf of merchants
of the community, opposed some of
the views expressed by other speak
ers.
Before adjourning, the gathering i
unanimously adopted a resolution i
by Howard M. Kline of the Sligo !
Branview Citizens Association pro
posing that the committee urge i
adoption and adherence to the pro- ’
posed master zoning plans and the i
proposed amendments to the regula- <
tions. 1
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New York, BoyxW ants to Stay
With RAF After 'Hitch-Hike'
Bertil Anderson, 16, of Nassau, Long Island, N. Y„ thanks
Group Capt, W. P. J. Thomson, Royal Air Force, for taking him
along on the British squadron’s tour of America. The RAF
flyers were greeted on their return to Andrews Field yesterday
by Brig. Gen. Yantis Taylor, center, commandant at the field.
—Star Staff Photo.
The first thing 16-year-old Bertil
Anderson wanted to know when he
landed at Andrews Field yesterday
after an uncheduled tour of the
country with a Royal Air Force
squadron was how long he could
stay wdth the British airmen.
‘‘I understand your outfit is going
ta stay in Washington about eight
days. I can stay with them, can t I
sir?" Bertil anxiously asked Group
Capt. W. P. J. Thomson, who was in
charge of the good-will British
flight.
Bertil. who lives in Nassau. Long
Island, N. Y., was attending a Civil
Air Patrol camp at Andrews Field
August 3 when the RAF left there
for its tour of American air bases.
‘‘I met most of the guys in the
mess hall while I was on K. P. duty,”
he explained. He said he liked them
all so much, he decided he wanted
to take the trip with them.
"So he came up to me and said
‘I want to go with you,’ ” interrupted
Wing Comdr. C. D. Milne of the
British squadron. “I, told him it
would be all right with us if he had
the proper authority.”
Bertil admitted he had to go
through ‘‘a lot of red tape" in order
to legalize his air hitchhoke," but
finally the right .generals signed the
right papers in time for him to
circle the United States with the
visiting airmen.
“It was swell—almost like being
a member of the RAF.” the youth
declared. He didn't stick to any
special ship throughout the flight
and got to know “just about every
body.”
There were about 58 officers and
170 enlisted men on the flying tour.
The squadron of RAF Lincoln
bombers left Andrews Field on the
first leg of its American tour August
3 for Selfridge Field, Mich. From
there the trip itinerary was Smoky
Hill Field, Kans.; Mather Field,
Calif.; March Field, Calif.; Fort
Worth, Tex.; Maxwell Field, Ala.,
and return to Andrews Field yester
day.
After eight days here, the squad
ron plans a tour of Canada. The
brief stay in Washington has been
arranged for them to “rest up from
exhaustive American hospitality,”
the flyers said.
They will be quartered at An
drews Field during their stay here.
And Bertil will be there, too. He
wsk granted his wish to stay as long
as he could with his British^ “pals.”
26 New Classrooms
To Be Placed in Use
In Arlington Schools
A total of 26 new classrooms, con
tained in a new building and in four
additions to old structures, will be
placed in use September 3 when
Arlington schools open for the fall
term.
The new construction, valued at
6500.000, was completed during the
summer. Work is now in progress
m two more additions, which will
provide seven classrooms, under a
6232,000 contract awarded a few
weeks ago by the County School i
Board.
The new classrooms are distrib
uted as follows:
Six in a new elementary school,
is yet unnamed, at Fourteenth and
South Quincy streets.
Six in an addition to the Walter
Fteed Elementary School, Washing- j
ton Boulevard and North McKinley ;
road, which brings that structure to i
i total of 10.
Six in an addition at the Kate
Waller Barrett Elementary School,
4400 North Henderson road, a total
pf 10 for that school.
Four , in an addition at the John
Marshall Elementary School, North
Glebe road and Twenty-fifth street,
a total of 12.
Four in an addition at the Bar
croft Elementary School. Sixth and
South Wakefield streets, a total of
eight.
Additions under construction are
at the Stonewall Jackson Elemen
tary School, seven rooms, and the
Woodlawn Elementary School, three
rooms.
The new school at Fourteenth and
South Quincy streets brings the
county’s total to 31 buildings includ
ing two high schools and two junior
high schools. Two additional junior
high schools are operated in the
:.wo high school buildings.
Assistant Schools Supt. Charles
J. Walsh said today that an en
rollment of at least 12,000, the num
aer on record when school closed
n June, is anticipated. He added
hat the system will have about 375
reachers this year.
Hyattsville Police Push
Traffic Safety Campaign
Drive safely through Hyattsville,
ar else—that's the warning today of
Hyattsville town police who current
y are conducting a campaign in the
lommunity against traffic violators.
The drive against speeders and
•eckless drivers was launched offi
rially yesterday and will continue
'or a month. Each day the police
nen will concentrate on a different
.v/vaiivu.
In little more than an hour yes
terday, the local police issued per
ionar summons to 19 drivers, mostly
for passing a stop sign, at the inter
section of Queens Chapel road and
Hamilton street, West Hyattsville.
The main shopping center of the
town, Rhode Island avenue and
Hamilton street, was to be the cen
,er of police activity today.
3 New Pojio Cases Bring
District Area Total to 16
Three new infantile paralysis
:ases in the Washington area were
■eported this morning by officials of
.he Health Department, bringing to
t6 the number of patients now under
reatment here for the disease.
New cases involved a 3-year-old
;irl living in the 7900 block of Slea
ord place, Bethesda; a 9-year-old
x>y in the 800 block of Longfellow
street N.W., and a 10-year-old boy
n the 900 block of North Kansas
treet, Arlington.
Of thb cases listed in the District
irea, only five are residents of
Vashington, officials said. Others
ire residents of nearby areas or
mt-of-town patients brought here
or treatment.
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Texas Teacher Killed
And 4 Hurt in 2-Car
Crash Near Berwyn
A Texas teacher was killed and
four other persons injured shortly
before midnight last night in a
two-car collision on the Baltimore
boulevard near Berwyn, Md.
Prince Georges County police at
Hyattsville identified the dead
woman as Miss Fay Cooper, 27, of
Petrolia, Tex. Her two companions,
with v/hom she was touring the
East, Mrs. Edith Touchstone, 38, of
Graham, Tex., and Mrs. Gertrude
Hughly, 27, of Meridian, Miss., were
admitted to Prihce Georges Gen
eral Hospital where their condition
was reported as fair. Mrs. Touch
ston was driving, police said.
Occupants of the second car were
listed by police as Raymond Curtis
Ross, 21, of 1727 North Rhodes
street, Arlington, Va.. driver of the
car, and Miss Nancy Gluscevich, 18,
of 3733 Benton street N.W. Both
were taken to Leland Memorial
Hospital. Mr. Ross was released
after receiving first aid, and Miss
Gluscevich was reported to be in
good condition this morning.
Prince Georges County police
said the accident occurred as Mrs.
Touchstone attempted to make a
left-hand turn into a side road
from the .boulevard. Technical
cnarges oi mansiaugnier ana recx
less driving have been placed
against each driver and bond -for
each has been set at $1,500, police
said.
Great Falls Property
Title Asked by Pepco
Potomac Electric Power Co. ex
pects to take title formally to about
1,050 acres at Great Falls, mostly in
Virginia shore, if an application
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission is approved, it was
learned today.
This was disclosed following an
nouncement by the Virginia State
Corporation Commission that it
had approved dissolution of the
Great Falls Power Co., the Associ
ated Press reported from Richmond.
The Great Falls company, char
tered by the Virginia General As
sembly in 1894, has “never engaged
in the performance of any public
service,” according to the order
which dissolved the company yes
terday.
Pepco officials said today the
Great Falls company was a “paper
company” which held title to the
acreage at Great Falls for a pos
sibie nyaroeiectnc oam site.
The State commission order au
thorized transfer of all assets of
the defunct enterprise to the Wash
ington Railway & Electric Co. and
Pepco has applied to the SEC to
take title to the land from Wreco.
Wreco, a holding company, is
scheduled to be dissolved this fall.
Principal officers of the former
threat Palls company were officers
cf Pepco, it was stated.
Rent Increases Asked
At 4 Apartment Houses
Tenants of four apartment houses
here have been asked to pay in
creased rents estimated at $9.50 a
unit in a petition filed with the
Rent Commission today. The apart
ments are at 1417-23 Sheridan street
N.W., 1418-24 Somerset place N.W.,
4585-89 MacArthur boulevard*N.W.
and 5112 Connecticut avenue N.W.
The petition was filed by the own
ers, E. M. Willis & Sons, and in
volves 112 units. The present rents
range from $.60 to $65 a month.
Hungary Takes Over Forests
About 75 per cent of all forests in
Hungary are now owned by the gov
ernment. as a .result of a land reform
nitiated there in 1945.
Mount Rainier
Fails to Ballot .
On Town Merger
Deadline Ignored
For 10-Day Notice
Of Referendum
A referendum under which three
communities would have voted to
consolidate with the town of Mount
Rainier will not be held next Tues
day, it was learned today.
Legislation enacted at this year's
session of the General Assembly
authorized a referendum September
2 on the question of whether Avon
/Inin iirnnJnln J
.. . A * »VV l/ll
Woodridge residents would be an
nexed by Mount Rainier. Legal
notices were required to be pub
lished not less than 10 days prior
to the referendum. Such notices
were not published, however.
Mayor Floyd B. Mathias of Mount
Rainier said the town had not taken
the initiative in the movement, al
though officials would have wel
comed residents of the J-hree areas
into the' town. The deadline for
publishing the notices was Satur
day.
The legislation authorized a com
mittee composed of Joseph J. Ansel
mo, William Mosher, Loi^is Mayola
and Mrs. Marion Cord to conduct
the referendum.
Mayor Mathias and Bert E. Sager,
town attorney, said members of the
committee had been approached
about calling the referendum, but
that no action had been taken by
the committee.
In June, residents of Avondale,
Avondale Terrace and North Wood
ridge as well as those of Chillum
and Green Meadows, held a ref
erendum on a plan to form a new
town of Springdale, not to include
Mount Rainier. The vote was about
2-to-l against the plan. The Sep
tember 2 referendum was authorized
in case the June vote was against
incorporation.
Mr. Mathias and Mr. Sager said
they believed failure to hold the
second referendum was due to lack
V/X UilUPCt.
Better Government
League to Meet
The Arlington Better Government
League will "make plans and set up
an organization for most effectively
supporting league-indorsed candi
dates for the County and School
Boards at a meeting at the Lyon
Park Community House at 8 p.m.
tomorrow, Chairman Harley M.
Williams announced last night.
The league, formed last year at
a rally for Daniel A. Dugan, who
was elected to the County Board
as an independent, has indorsed
County Board coandidates T. Oscar
Smith and Mrs. Florence Cannon,
the five-man School Board slate se
lected by the recent nominating
convention of county civic groups.
Mrs. Edmund D. Campbell, Colin
C. MacPherson, Barnard Joy, O.
Glenn Stahl and C. E. Tuthill are
backed by the league' in the race
for the county’s first elected school
board. They will be present at to
morrow night's meeting and will
give short talks. Mr. Williams said.
Federal employes, Mr. Williams
pointed out, may participate active
ly in the election of local officials
when such activities are on a non
partisan basis. The County and
School Boards contests will be on |
a nonpartisan basis under stands:
taken by the Republican and Demo- \
era tic Parties, neither of which in
dorsed candidates in the two races.
The nominating convention's slate
also will be presented Thursday
night at a meeting of the Citizens
Committee for School Improvement
at the Rock Spring Congregational
Church, 5000 Little Palls road.
Virginia Convict Escapes,
Another Is Recaptured
Another prisoner escaped yester
day from the Virginia State Work
Camp No. 30 in Fairfax County
when Daley O. Childrey, 22, of
Richmond, broke away from a road
gang on Columbia pike between
Annandale and Bailey's Crossroads.
Camp officials said Childrey was
servin a seven-year term for theft,
carrying a concealed weapon and a
prior escape. His escape followed
a recapture of a prisoner, who
escaped* last week, at this home in
Lynchburg. The prisoner was Len
tvood Fitzgerald, who eluded guards
last Friday by jumping from a mov
ing truck.
It was estimated by camp officials
that from three to six prisoners
escape from Camp 30 road gangs
each month.
Teen Festival Will Open
In Riverdale Tomorrow
Arts and crafts exhibits, commu
nity sings and the crowning Of a
king and queen will high light a
two-day festival to be sponsored
by the Calvert Homes YMCA Teen
age Club and the Prince Georges
County Playgrounds. The festival
will be held tomorrow and Thurs
day at 6600 Calvert Courts, River
dale. Md.
The crowning of the queen and
king Thursday night will be pre
ceded by a concert by the Green
aelt Boy's 'Band. Art Brown, radio
announcer, will be master of cere
monies.
Picking Methods Cited in Rise
Of Maryland Tomato Prices
Better tomato picking methods by
Maryland farmers and the advent
if Pennsylvania and New York buy
srs on the State tomato market to
iay was credited with more than
ioubling prices.
Dr. Howard L. Stier. head of the
University of Maryland marketing
service, explained that Maryland
farmers this week were selling to
matoes for as high as 50 cents a
lasket while last week they could
inly get 20 cents. A standard to
mato basket holds about five-eights
if a bushel.
This price rise has been brought
about, Dr. Stier said, because farm
ers have begun heeding advice of
agricultural services to pick tomatoes
at the proper maturity.
“Canners don’t face such a loss
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due to sunburned or green tomatoes
when this is done and they can
afford to pay higher prices,” Dr,
Stier emphasized.
In addition, he said New York and
Pennsylvania canners iast week were
notified by the marketing service of
the heavy tomato crop in Maryland
this year, and have started buying
in Maryland. Crops in those two
States suffered this year because of
late frosts and light rainfall.
Maryland’s 220,000-ton crop now
is expected to bring $4,500,000. Last
year’s tomato crop was only 139,000
tons.
Dr. Stier said the situation created
by the big tomato crop had been
relieved also by the conversion of
12 Eastern Shore com canneries to
tomato processing.
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Convention of Carillonneurs
Fills Lurav's Air With Music
By Herman F. Schaden
Star Staff Correspondent
LURAY. Va„ Aug. 26.—The caril
lonneurs have converged on this
peaceful, green .valley to fill the air
with music from the Singing Tower
of Luray.
Hardy pioneers of a once for
gotten art, they blithely climb 108
steps t'o the bellfry for recital after
recital, thus regaling the natives
and the tourists with Hhe finest
assortment of bell ringing since*Col.
Northcott erected the tower 10 years
ago.
Col. Northcott—97 when they laid
him away—would have been very
proud today were he alive to sit
home by his magnificent Luray
Caverns and have the carillon music
piped in to him as he once had the
54-degree atmosphere of the caverns
piped into the first air-conditions
house in America.
It was the first time the Guild of
Carillonneurs in America had hon
ored Col. Northcott's remarkable
tower by using it as convention
headquarters.
Native Carillonneur Is Host.
T. C. Northcott, Union veteran,
preacher and later heating and
ventilating expert, took the money
tourists had left in his “Beautiful
Caverns of Luray” and put up this
tower in memory of his first wife,
Belle Brown Northoctt. Assisting in
the project was his daughter, Mrs.
Katherine Northcott Graves.
The man he selected back in 1937
to ‘'operate” the carillon 117 feet
above the green carpet of grass has
been playing it ever since and was
the first Guildsman to display his
talent during the three-day con
vention.
The bellmaster of Luray is Charles
T. Chapman, 42. and a native. He
had heard a carillon only once when
Col. Northcott asked hipi to “oper
ate1’ the new instrument and
offered to pay for a "few weeks” of
instruction.
A musician of some note, with
organ and piano background, Mr.
Chapman sought out Anton Brees,
noted carillonneur of Florida’s Bok
Tower. It took more than a few
weeks—so many more than Mr.
Brees kindly consented to dedicate
the tower and play five weeks while
his pupil was learning.
Pleased the Colonel.
For more than a year after that,
Mr. Chapman played the carillon
from anonymous heights, but well
enough to please Col. Northcott.
“Oh, yes, he told me several times
I was doing nicely,” recalled Luray's
bellmaster. Mr. Chapman could
speak with modesty, for Col. North
cott’s critical appreciation was
dulled by impaired hearing.
“I think he heard the carillon only
once,” Mr. Chapman mused. “That
was when I gave him a special con
cert, struck the keys with full force
and stomped as hard as I could
on the pedals.”
Today, the colonel’s carillon,
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bellmakers, would cost more than
$100,000 for the bells alone. There
are 47 of these, ranging from one
weighing 7,640 pounds and spanning
6 feet in diameter, to the smallest
12% pounds.
The bells, which add up to about
20 tons, are suspended stationary in
a structural steel framework. In
stead of a keyboard, such as a piano
has, the instrument is played by a
clavier of oak levers and pedals,
each one connected to one of the
bell clappers.
Most carillonneurs seem to be
rather on'^the gaunt side. This
might, in Mr. Chapman’s case, be
attributed to the six trips daily up
108 steps he has averaged eight
months of the year for 10 years.
Takes Steps Easy.
"I don’t think the climbing has
helped my health, or hurt it either,"
said the 42-year-old master bell
ringer. “I learned a long time ago
to take it easy on the way up.”
To avoid extra steps, he had a
telephone installed in his concert
cubicle, and there’s a stove there for
chilly days. From the windows there
Is a broad vista of some of the pret
tiest hills in Virginia, and no setting
could be lovelier for the resonance
of blended bells.
Ten years after Col Northcott gave
him his "operating” license. Mr.
Chapman is a confirmed carillion
neur. As the novice might suspect,
there is a force greater than man
that pulls him up those 108 steps
almost daily. '
“Yes, there Is something that
impels me, almost drives me to the
bells,” said the man who plays in
the clouds. It is a tug more relent
less than he feels who plays the
organ.
Critics Are Silent.
The neighbors are very kind. If
they don’t like the bells, they don't
say so. And there are many people
who do not like the bells.
"Matter of fact, there are three
kinds of reaction to the bells,” said
the man who keeps ringing them.
“There are people who love them
immediately; those who are rather
cool at first, but later warm up to
them, and a third class who hates
them and never changes. The first
group is in a minority.”
There is something haunting
about a first audition. The bells, to
be perfect, must have five distinct
tones—one strike or fundamental
note and four overtones. The re-*
suit, may be one of discordance to
some ears, but this “out-of-tune”
effect is the magical quality that
can make addicts out of some listen
ers.
Right now there are less than 60
carillons in North America* but the
Guildsmen patiently point out that
the first one did not arrive in
Canada before 1922. Some 400 years
before ,that, they were ringing in the
low countries of Europe. But 100
years before 1900, there was a hiatus
when the special art of bell-tuning
was lost and none was forged.
Gruelling to Play.
Carillon playing is .no boy's play.
Besides its demands for real musical
skill, it is wearing physically and
emotionally. A 45-minute concert
often leaves the carillonneur spent.
He must strike the oaken levers
with the heels of his hands and even
a leather padding worn by most
artists does not eliminate all, dis
tress.
Some players wear no protection :
on their hands—only callouses and l
gristle as a kind of individualistic
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Each carillonneur has his own
style. Some, like Mr. Chapman,
believe in simplicity, striking not'
more than three or four notes in
a chord, when eight are possible,
and keeping the tones low. Others
have a flare for frills, tremolos and
crescendoes. This type makes it a
little tougher on the neighbors who
do not care for bells.
Individuality in Music.
One thing that makes for inter-’
esting listening at a carillonneur
convention is the individuality of
performance. Since the business
is so limited, no manuscripts are
published, and each player must
arrange his own music.
One of the best in this line is
Percival Price, professor of music
composition at the University of
Michigan, and head man of that
school’s carillon. Mr. Price called
the first Guild meeting in 1936
while he was Dominion carillonneur
of Canada at Ottawa.
He is among the most gifted artists
at the convention and bears the
added distinction of being the first
carrillonneur in both Canada and
the United States. <
Among the other early arrivals
were Sidney P. Giles, assistant at
Michigan: Herman Dresher, Simcoe,
Ontario, Canada; Kamiel Lefevere,
Guild president and players of the,
country’s largest carillon at River
side Drive Church, New York; Prank
L. Johnson, St. Paul’s College, Con
cord, N. H.; Ernest Parsons, St.
Peters Church, Morristown. N. J.;
Ray Wingate, Alfred (N. Y.) Uni
versity, and Melvin C. Corbett, St.
James Church, Danbury, Conn.
Man Dies of Injuries in Fall
At Vepco Alexandria Plant
Joseph Bair, 41, of Baltimore died
Sunday at Alexandria Hospital of
injuries received the day before in
a fall at the Virginia Electric &
Power Co. plant at Alexandria,
where he was working.
Vepco power plant officials said
Mr. Bair fell from a scaffolding
while working on the installation of
mechanical precipitators designed to
reduce the amount of ashes and
cinders expelled from the plant's
chimney.
Installation of the precipitators
was ordered recently by the State
Corporation Commission, and Vepco
faces a trial on nuisance charges in
Alexandria September 9 in connec
tion with the ashes.
Mr. Bair sustained a fractured
skull and other injuries in the fall.
Vepco officials said Mr. Bair had
been employed through a Balti
more boilermakers’ union, and was
not a regular employe at the plant.
BELLS OF LURAY—At the
keyboard of the Singing Tower
carillon is Charles T. Chap
man, carillonneur of Luray, Va.
Below 4S Luray’s Singing
Tpwdr, where the national con
vention of carillonneurs is be-*
ing held. —Star Staff Photos.
Falls Church Council
Rezones Lot to Permit
Auto Sales Building
The Falls Church Town Council
last night lezoned a parcel of land
at .the intersection of West and
Broad streets to permit construction
sf a buildipg to be occupied by an
automobile dealer. The request for
the' rezoning was made by the Com
nonwealth Realty (Jo.
Councilman J. H. McCarthy.re
ported that a contract had been
warded to C. E. Nance of East Falls
Jhurch for construction of a water
nain to the new 600,000-gallon tank
,n the Virginia Forest section of
falls Church.
Mr. McCarthy said no word had
seen received from Arlington Coun
ty in reply to the town’s' request for
Dermission to use more water from
\rhngton mains.
Town Clerk Claude Wells said the
State Highway Commission has not
yet submitted a report on the traffic
situation on South Washington
street, where a controversy has
irisen over a proposal of colored
property owners to erect a service
station adjoining historic Falls
Church. The town is withholding
a building permit "until a report has
been received from the highway
commission on whether the erection
of the service station will constitute
a traffic hazard on South Washing
ton street.
Town officials admitted, however,
that despite protests from the Falls
Church and the Fairfax County
DAR. it probably would have to is
sue the building permit as the land
now is zoned for general business.
John C. McRae, councilman-elect
who will succeed Sargent White on
Monday, was present at the meet
ing. The councilman informally
discussed the needs for recreation
areas in the town in anticipation of
the new year’s budget, which will be
drawn up as soon as the new town
manager, Roy Dunn, acquaints him
self with the problems of the town.
The Mayor announced that Mr.
Dunn is expected to assume his du
ties tomorrow.
Preschool Registration
In Woodside Area Planned
The preschool registration for
the children of the Woodside area
of Silver Spring. Md., who were not
registered and examined last June,
will be held at Woodside Elementary
School, Ballard street and Georgia
avenue, on Friday.
A doctor and three nurses will
be available between 9 and 11 a.m.,
to give" the examination. They also
will eive booster shots for dinhtheria
to those children who have not re
ceived them.
If parents have any questions \
about this examination, they should
call the Montgomery County Public
Health Nurse, Mrs. Helen Grover,
between 9 and 10 a.m., any day
between now and the examination*
at the Silver Spring Health Center.
The telephone number is Silver
Spring 0535 or Shepard 4316.
Naval Academy Reduces
Enlisted Men to 1,025
Ey the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md„ Aug. 26.—Re
duced appropriations for manpower
have cut the enlisted strength of
the Naval Academy to 1,025 men. a
drop of 400 from a month ago.
Capt. J. R. Wallace, chief of staff,
said the personnel slash has meant
doubling up in some duties and the
retirement of some of the Academy’s
craft.
Transfers began July 18, he said,
and the new authorized strength al
ready has beep achieved. Many of
the men moved out were assigned to
sea duty.
Some of the Academy's yawls and
patrol boats, two yachts and a
number of smaller craft have been
put out of service, Capt. Wallace
said. The number of enlisted in
structors has been cut, as has the
complement of Marine guards.
Farley to Speak in Virginia
LYNCHBURG, Va., Aug. 26 </P).—
An address by James A. Farley,
former Postmaster General, will be
featured on the program of the
fourth annual Hereford Field Day,
September 6, at Ivy Hill, home of
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Thomson.
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County Police
Pay Parley Set
For Tomorrow
Montgomery Board
Accepts Resignations
Of Three Officers
Resignations of three policemen,
all for jobs with higher pay, were
accepted by the Montgomery County
commissioners today as members of
the County Police Association
planned to confer with the officials
tomorrow to seek an increased salary
scale for the entire police force.
The three officers who are leaving
include a corporal and two privates.
Pvt. Robert L. Phillips, 41, of 6703
Firty-sixth street, Chevy Chase, Md„
already has turned in his equipment
and left the force. He was stationed
at Bethesda.
Also resigning are Corpl. W. M.
Waddell, 33, of 314 West Mont
gomery avenue, Rockville, who is
stationed in Takoma Park, and Pvt.
Joseph W. Saunders, jr„ 25, 210
Albany avenue, Takoma Park, of the
Bethesda station. The latter was on
leave from the force all last week
attending the first postwar encamp
ment of the Maryland National
Guard at Camp Ritchie as a warrant
officer in the service company, 115th
Tnfont ri * DanimAnf i n CiliiAa n
t Act Today on Resignations.
Their resignations come at a time
when the county police force,
through the association, has voiced
dissatisfaction' with the current
wages, asserting they were tired of
a scale characterized by "stew meat
and grade B eggs."
The commissioners tentatively set
10 a.m. as the time for tomor
row’s conference with a committee
Of the Police Association.
Their decision to meet with the
policemen followed an all-day plea
yesterday by the group to the com
missioners individually at their
offices or dromes.
Commissioner Charles H. Jamison,
the board's only Democratic mem
ber, was the lone official not con
tacted by the special committee,
which started with three and grew
in numbers at each stop.
Meet With Commissioner.
The group decided on this method
of contacting the county board, fol
lowing a two-hour meeting yesterday
afternoon with Police Commissioner
Wesley I. Sauter and Chief Charles
M. Orme at the commissioner*
office in Bethesda.
At that time, the committee
asserted it sought a pay scale com
parable to that of District police
men.
Attending the meeting as repre
sentatives of the 108-n*an force were
Capt. Joseph B. Nolte, in command
of the Silver Spring station and
president of the association; Capt.
James S. McAuliffe, in command of
tne tsetnesaa station ana a trustee
of the police organization; Detective
Corpl. William Whalen of the
Bethesda station, and Pvts. Kenneth
Miller of Rockville and John Hig
don, Silver Spring.
The latter two officers were mem
bers of the original three-man com
mittee chosen to represent the
group. The other policeman was
Pvt. Lester Jones of Bethesda, who
was on leave yesterday.
At yesterday afternoon's closed
meeting, the group was advised to
draw up a program it will Request
in an official resolution to the com
missioners and was urged to take it
up with the entire association first
before submitting it.
Sauter Impressed.
Following the conference, Com
missioner Sauter said the group
“presented a very logical and intelli
gent argument as to their needs,”
adding, however, they required "fur
ther study.”
"I was very much impressed with
their intelligence and spirit of co
operation,” Mr. Sauter declared.
“They’re not going about it in a
half-cocked manner.”
Meanwhile, it was learned through
a committee spokesman that the
group would compromise for a pay
raise of about 50 per cent of the
difference in salaries between Mont
gomery County policemen and those
of the District.
It would mean, for example, that
where a captain’s annual salary is
$4,000 in the county and $5,000 in
the District, the proposed increase
would be $500.
Recently Raised 10 Per Cent.
The police were given a 10 per cent
raise in the budget approved in
June, according to County Super
visor I. G. McNayr. In addition,
the amount of deduction from pay
envelopes for their retirement fund
was reduced from 5 to 2% per cent.
Since the money for the county
already has been appropriated for
the current fiscal year, the only
way a pay increase could be ordered
for the policemen would be by the
issuance of short-term bonds, Mr.
McNayr said.
Other county commissioners, in
cluding Brooke Johns, president of
the board, were noncommittal about
what action they would take.
All said they were "willing to hear
the policemen’s side.”
Irving Named Palls Church
Roads Superintendent
T. F. Irving, Wytheville, Va„ has
been appointed superintendent of
roads and streets for the town of
Falls Church. Mayor Fenner Hazel
grove has announced.
Mr. Irving, who held a similar
position at Wytheville and was for
merly employed by the Virginia De
partment of Highways, was named
on recommendation of Roy F. Dunn,
who will assume his duties tomorrow
as the town’s first manager. Mr.
Dunn formerly was town manager
of Wytheville. •
The Wytheville man will be the
first to hold the job of streets
superintendent, which was created
last year by the Town Council. It
carries an annual salary of $3,600.
Supervision of road work had been
handled by the town building in
spector.
Mayor Hazelgrove also has an
nounced appointment of Carl Lem
ming, Wytheville, as a draftsman
in the water department. ''Mr.
Lemming was recommended by Mr.
Dunn,
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