Evening star. [volume], September 14, 1947, Page A-30, Image 30

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Francis Center Wins
Evening Star Trophy
In Recreation Parade
Francis Recreation Center won
The Evening Star first place trophy
. yesterday in the eighth annual Rec
reation Day parade sponsored by
the Lincoln Civic Association. Its
winning entry was a "Garden of
Roses” float.
• Judged the best marching unit in
the parade, which was reviewed at
Briggs-Montgomery School, Twenty
seventh street between I and K
streets N.W., was Snow's Court,
which won the Times-Herald
Trophy. Briggs-Montgomery won
the Daily News award for the best
arts and crafts exhibit.
The Washington Post’s second
place trophy went to Rose Park for
its rose trellis float on which rode
the queen, 4-year-old Joan Mc
Gruder. Morgan took second march
ing unit honors to win the trophy
donated by the Wocdward-Norris
Real Estate Co.
Besides floats and marching units
from the five playgrounds in Region
H, directed by Clarence Pendleton,
the parade Included the Lincoln
Civic Association Band. Crowds of
spectators were along the line of
march from Francis Junior High,
Twenty-fourth and N streets N.W.,
to the reviewing stand.
Among other floats were "Miss
Spell Right’s Class’’ of Montgomery,
“Arrest Cancer,” Snow's Court,
and Morgan’s "Little Red School
house.” The parade also included
the Francis School "Bugs,” cham
pions of the Walter Johnson Base
ball League.
Judges were Miss A. W. Davidge,
special assistant to Commissioner
Guy Mason; Mrs. Alpha B. Jones,
Northeast Boundary Civic Associa
tion. and William O. Woodson,
president of the Capitol View Civic
Association. Dr. E. F. Harris, presi
dent of the Lincoln Civic Associa
tion, presented the awards.
Playground representatives who
received the trophies were Maurice
Sheffield, 11, for Francis; Elizabeth
Montue, 9, Rose Park; Muriel Dan
ford, 8, Montgomery; Mrs. Sadie
Hankerson, Snow’s Court, and Doris
Bell, 13, Morgan.
Tax Appeals Rise in D. C.
But Refunds Are Smaller
Lawrence Koenigsberger, the Dis
trict’s one-man board of tax ap
peals, handled 20 per cent more
cases in the fiscal year ending last
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f returned less money to taxpayers.
This was disclosed yesterday in
the board’s annual report to the
commissioners.
The office handled 91 cases in
* Volving *535,271, during 1946-47 as
against 76 cases, involving $208,374,
in 1945-46. But it refunded only
, *42,771 to taxpayers in the year that
ended June 30, compared to $50,593
the year before, the report stated.
Benes Cites Gravity
Of World Situation
By tht Associated Press
PRAGUE, Sept. 13.—President Ed
uard Benes told the nation tonight
that the world situation was “ser
ious, really serious.”
“I am not hiding this fact from]
myself, and I have no intention to j
hide it from you,” he said. MrJ
Benes made one of his infrequent
broadcasts on the 10th anniversary I
of Thomas G. Masaryk’s death. j
The elder statesman condemned
“force and terror of any kind, spiri-1
tual or physical,” as he said Mr. I
Masaryk, founder of the republic
would have done.
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The fastest air service ever oper
a ted from Washington to Phoenix j
Ariz., will be inaugurated Tuesday (
by American • Airlines with its 52
passenger, 315-mile-an-hour DC-6
Flagships.
The plane will leave Washington
at 1:10 a.m. daily and arrive ini
Phoenix 8 hours and 40 minutes!
later, with one stop en route at;
Tulsa, From Phoenix, the plane!
will continue to Los Angeles, ar-j
riving at 7:45 a.m., Pacific Stand-!
ard Time.
Bridge Lessons Offered
A series of 10 lessons in beginners’ j
bridge will be offered to the public
by the District Recreation Depart
ment at Central High School start-j
ing October 6. Classes will be held!
from 8 to 10 p.m. each Monday, it
was announced, and the fee of $5!
for the course will be accepted on
opening night.• i
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BEST rtvOAT—Dr. E. F. Harris, president of the Lincoln Civic
Association, presents The Evening Star trophy to Maurice
Sheffield, 11, for the Francis Recreation Center float, judged
best in yesterday’s Recreation Day parade. —Star Staff Photo.
Five Masonic Lodges
To Hold Meeting at
Warrenton Tuesday
Special Despatch to The Star
WARRENTON, Va., Sept. 13.—
Warrenton’s Mount Carmel Lodge
will be host to Masons from five
lodges Tuesday, when Harold R.
Stephenson, grand master of Vir-;
ginia, visits the fourth Masonic;
district.
Lodges to be represented are
Marshall, The Plains and Warren
ton, in Fauquier County, and
Sperryville and Washington in Rap
pahannock County.
This will be the first visit here of j
a Grand Master in three years.
Bowen S. Larkins, Quincy, Fla., a|
former Navy pilot, has been ap- j
pointed coach for the Warrenton!
High School, Supt. C. M. Bradley j
announced this week. This appoint- j
ment leaves only three vacancies in'
the high school faculties, and two
in the elementary schools.
Mr. Bradley announced the clos
ing of Hopewell School, due to lack
of attendance, and the transfer of
its teacher, Mrs. Daisy Hutchinson,
to Upperville. Mrs. Edna H. Con
rad has been named to teach the
primary grades at Catlatt.
—
Dairy Cattle Sale to Open.
Fall activities will get under way,
at the Eastern Breeder livestock |
sales pavilion this week with the [
first sale of dairy cattle ever held I
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11,000 Packing Workers
On Strike in Canada
By the Associated Press
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in Canada’s packing house industry.
Every plant operated by Canada’s
“Big Three"—Swift Canadian Co.,
Canada Packers, Ltd., and Bums—
may be shut down tonight, a Cana
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