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McNayr Attacks
School Board
Budget Letter
Plea to Parents Called
"Worst Outrage
I Have Heard Of'
The Montgomery County Board
of Education has been accused of
Issuing a "completely misleading
and emotion-arousing" letter m an
attempt to obtain the county com
missioners’ approval of its proposed
$3,429,969 budget for the coming
fiscal year.
The accusation was made yester
day in a statement by County Su
perviser Irving G. McNayr.
He referred to a letter signed by
H. Stanley Stine, school board pres
ident, protesting Mr. McNayr’s pro
posal to cut $544,501 from the Board
of Education’s request.
Mr. McNayr issued his statement
after receiving a mimeographed let
ter brought to him by his 7-year-old
daughter Mary Ann, who said she
had received it from her teacher at
the Rockville Elementary School.
Sent Via Children.
The letter, signed by Nathan R.
Gilbert, president of the County
Council of Parent-Teacher Associa
tions, was attached to a copy of Mr.
Stine’s letter. It was addressed “to
all parents" and asked them to write,
call, wire or see personally the
county commissioners and to urge
them to support the proposed Board
of Education budget,
Mr. Gilbert, when called later, said
similar letters had been distributed
in all county schools. The names,
address and telephone numbers of
the commissioners were given on the
letters.
Mr. Stine’s letter, which was pub
lished Wednesday in The Star, said
that in order to give the teachers
the raises promised them it would
be necessary to make six drastic |
changes in plans. They were to hire
no additional teachers, to eliminate
kindergartens, to eliminate music i
art and physical education classes,
to reduce librarian and counsellor
service, to eliminate the driver- ■
training program and to make it
necessary for elementary school
principals to teach thus reducing
supervision of instruction.
Budget Held Adequate.
Mr. McNayr’s answer was that 50
additional teachers and all the serv
ices threatened with elimination
were provided for in his revision of
the Board of Education budget.
Terming Mr. Gilbert’s action "the
worst outrage I have ever heard of,”
Mr McNayr declared:
"I feel the activities of the Board
of Education, its administrative staff
and the Parent-Teacher Association
council are to be deplored.
Deplores "Demagogic Tactics.”
“I also deplore the demagogic
tactics which have been employed
by these pressure groups in an age
and time when co-operative effort
would achieve far better results."
He denied it would be necessary
to eliminate or curtail any school
services under his proposed budget,
as claimed by Mr. Stine, adding that
the School Board would get ap
proximately $500,000 more than its
current appropriation. He said this
sum represents the additional reve
nue expected by the county as a
lesult of the increase in the county’s
realty tax revenues.
The proposed budget of the county
supervisor,” Mr. McNayr said, was
based on giving teachers the same
salaries they received last year plus
between $100 and $200 additional.
It also provides for 50 new teachers
at a starting salary of at least $2,600
a year each, he said.
Would Curtail Teachers’ Pay.
Mr. Stine's letter, however, said
that $333,099 of the proposed bud
get cut would force the Board of
Education to place more than 70
per cent of the teachers on a pay
schedule below the amount they
should get according to “their train
ing and experience.”
The limitation of last year’s bud
get, the letter said, held teachers’
pay below a "publicly approved”!
schedule for the same teachers.
"This places a penalty on prepara
tion and long service which will
discourage all teachers,” the letter
went on.
Board at Fault.
"The Board of Education appar-!
ently is trying to lay the blame for
failure to put older teachers on the
new pay schedule on the county ,
commissioners,” Mr. McNayr said.
"It is pointed out to all teachers;
and taxpayers that failure to recog
nize training and experience in j
determining salaries for a period of
years is clearly due to faulty ad
ministration on the part of the
Board of Education itself.”
Mr. McNavr said the salaries of
the county’s 733 teachers range from
$2,600 to the principals’ top pay of
$6,700, and average $3,569.
He explained that his proposed
budget wouid raise the average to
$3,896 with top salaries for princi
pals at $6,900. The Board of Educa
tion’s proposed budget, he added, !
would raise the average to $4,015 i
with a maximum for principals of
•7,100. 1
Highest County Pay in U. S.
The county supervisor contended
the county is paying teachers more 1
than any other county-operated
system in the United States.
He pointed out sufficient funds
were appropriated last year to place
all teachers on a new salary sched
ule recommended by himself and '
County Controller Alexander K.
Hancock. But he claimed school
authorities drafted a "much more
liberal ’ schedule and apparently ex
hausted their funds in trying to put
it into effect. "■
His views were echoed by Brooke
Johns, president of the Board of
County Commissioners, who warned
that “pressure tactics” may have an
adverse effect on the commissioners’
decision.______
Virginia Liquor Profits
Reduced in Quarter
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND. Va„ June 12.—Vir
ginians tapered off on drinking dur
ing the quarter ended March 31,
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
earning figures showed.
A total of $3,910,414 in liquor
profits for the first three months of
this year was reported by the State's
treasury. But this was almost a
half million dollars less than the
first quarter of 1947 and in excess
of a million and a half less than the
record $5,595,963 profits that were
realized in the quarter ended last;
December 31,
CADET TO VISIT CANADA—S/Sergt. William M. Jeffries, 18, Central High School Student of
1014 South Scott street, Arlington, Va., (second from right) was selected last night as the
Civil Air Patrol representative in this area to visit Canada in the Cadet Exchange Program. Also
' shown are Maj. Gen. Lucas V. Beau (left), national commander of the CAP; First Sergt. John
G. Copley, 17, Western High School student of 1901 K street N.W., named alternate to Sergt.
Jeffries, and Maj. Woodrow W. Dickey, Air Force, and CAP liaison officer. —Star Staff Photo.
Hundreds of Children Dance
At Southwest Sidewalk Fair
Hundreds of children stepped to
square dance music and toured the
exhibits yesterday at the third an
nual Sidewalk Fair, sponsored by
the Southwest Branch of the Dis
trict Public Library, at Seventh and
I streets S.W.
One group of dancers, fifth
graders at the Fairbrother School,
wore colorful muslin aprons and
paper bonnets of their own handi
work.
Especially for the occasion, they
had painted bright stencil designs
on the aprons and fashioned bon
nets of painted craft paper and
wax paper.
Tony Prencipe, 12, of 234 Ran
dolph place N.E., exhibited the racer,
not quite finished, in which he in
tends to compete in the Soap Box
Derby.
Tonv, who took part in the Police
Boys’ Club exhibit section, confi
dently had labeled the racer, “Derby
Champion-to-be for 1948.”
There was a puppet show made by
the class for crippled children at
Anthony Bowen School, art, sewing
craft, woodwork and metal craft.
The "new-look house” of South
west Washington was depicted in an
exhibit made by the primary special
class of George Bell School out of
scrap material.
The Nutrition Services of the Dis
trict Red Cross Chapter compared
the usual noontime meal of an
American child with that of a Greek
child, and a wasteful, overflowing
garbage can with the empty can of
the economical home.
Participating in the varied ex
hibits were public and welfare
agencies, schools, churches, busi
nessmen's and civic groups. The
fair illustrated functions of the or
ganizations by maps, charts, posters,
models and demonstrations.
Residents Try in Vain
To Get Ditch Drained
Where 2 Nearly Died
Residents of East Riverdale, Md.,
were stymied today in their efforts
to get official action to correct the
danger offered by a water-filled ex
cavation ditch in which a 3-year-old
child nearly drowned Thursday.
So far. appeals to volunteer fire
men, police and town officials to
correct the situation have been un
successful, according to persons liv
ing in the vicinity of the 5400 block
of Patterson road where the ditch
is located.
“They say it is on private prop
erty and that they can’t do any
thing without the consent of the
owner.” Mrs. Jessie Rohme of 6113
Fifty-fourth street declared.
Mrs. Rohme, the mother of two
children, also was almost drowned
when she jumped into the nearly
6-foot deep hole to rescue Jane
Hoover, 3, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James Hoover, of 5410 Patter
son road. Mrs. Hohme was called
to the scene by the shouting, of
Tommy Hankins, 3. of 5404 Patter
son road, who was playing with
Jane. The ditch is opposite the
Hankins residence.
After the rescue Mr. Hoover and
Mrs. Rohme went to the Riverdale
Volunteer Fire Department and
asked them to pump the water out.
They were told it would cost $5 for
the first six hours and extra for
each additional hour, Mrs. Rohme
said.
“Why should we have to pay for
something on somebody else’s prop
erty?” she asked.
Mayor Harry A. L. Barker of
Riverdale said today that "nobody
has ever officially reported this to
me.” The ditch, he said, surrounds
the basement of a private house
which has been under construction
by its prospective oocupant nearly
seven months. Efforts to find the
builder have not yet been success
ful, Mr. Barket said. Prince
Georges County police said the
same thing.
Arlington Officers Named
By Zionists and Hadassah
Newly elected officers of the Zion-1
ist Organization of America and
Hadassah in Arlington were an-j
nounced today at the Arlington Jew
ish Center.
Samuel Karp has been chosen i
president of ZOA and Mrs. Hanson |
Buchner has been elected president!
of Hadassah. Installation cere
monies were conducted by I. S. Tur
over, member of the ZOA National
Executive Committee.
Other Arlington ZOA officers in
clude:
Israel Sonenshein, first vice pres
ident; Sol Stieber, second vice pres
ident: Seymour Friedman, corres
ponding secretary, assisted by Sid
ney Saperstein: Irving Sragow, re
cording secretary; Arnold Kravatte
treasurer, and Leon Lassen, finan
cial secretary. Trustees are Rabbi
Ira Sud. William Arkin, Asher Ende,
Alec Jacobson, David Klein and Ar-;
thur Smotrick.
New Hadassah officers also in
clude Mrs. Sonenshein, first vice
president; Mrs. Kravatte, second
vice president; Mrs. Sydney Jervis,
administrative secretary; Mrs. Irv
ing Rogosin, corresponding secre
tary: Mrs. Irving Weiss, recording
secretary; Mrs. Arthur Rosenhoch.
treasurer, and Mrs. Lassen, secre
tary. Serving as directors are Mrs.
Nathan Levy, Mrs. Charles Parker
and Mrs. Julius Siegel.
Evensong Service Planned
A solemn evensong service w'ill
be sung by the St. Paul's Choir
at 8 p.m. tomorrow <at St. Matthew’s
Episcopal Church, Seat Pleasant,
Md. The offering will be for the
benefit of the church Altar Guild.
Postmaster Nominated
President Truman yesterday sent
to the Senate the nomination of
| Edward V. Dorsey to be postmaster
I at Upper Marlboro, Md., succeeding
R. M. Buck, resigned.
Almond Issues Rulings
For Double Primary in
8th Virginia District
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va., June 12.—At
torney General J. Lindsay Almond
has ruled that voters should stick
to their party labels in the double
primary election in the 8th Con
gressional District August 3.
In an opinion requested by Com
monwealth’s Attorney Hugh B.
Marsh of Fairfax County, the At
torney General passed on a number
of questions on the conduct of the
Republican and Democratic pri
maries which will fall on the same
day.
In reply to Mr. Marsh's question
whether a voter would be entitled
to ask for either a Democratic or
Republican ballot regardless of his
former affiliations, Mr. Almond
ruled:
“If any person voted for the
nominees of one party in the last
preceding general election in which
he participated, he is not entitled,
in my opinion, to vote in a primary
held by another party. If he is not
entitled to vote in such primary,
I do not think he is entitled to ask
for a ballot for such primary.”
The Attorney General added, how
ever, that this seemed to be a mat
ter for the voters own conscience
and that he did not feel it was up
to election officials to ask whether
he desired Democratic or Republi
can ballot.
On other matters pertaining to
the unique primary, the Attorney
General held:
The voting should be done in the
same room; ballots should be sep
arate, one for Democrats, one for
Republicans; a separate set of
judges should decide the winner
for each party; ballot boxes should
be separate; voters may use the
same both and the registration
book and voter list shall be managed
by a judge representing each of the
parties participating.
Virginia Motor Inspection !
Changes Asked by Schilz
Harold L. Schilz, who is seeking
the Democratic nomination to the
Arlington County Board, has called
on Gov. Tuck of Virginia to change
the present system of motor vehicle
inspections in the State.
In a letter to the Governor, Mr.
Schilz suggests that additional per
sonnel be detailed to supervise the
inspection stations to see that an
“adequate force is available.”
He also suggests the Tuesday in
spection deadline be extended at
least 15 or 30 days, “and that the
Governor and his advisory council
be requested to give serious study
and consideration to the establish
ment of State-maintained and op
erated inspection systems in crowd
ed urban areas such as Arling
ton * •
Alexandria Red Cross Unit
Re-elects Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Albert L. Miller has been
re-elected chairman of the Alexan
dria Red Cross Chapter. She first
became chairman in 1945.
Other officers elected at- the an
nual meeting Wednesday were:
Glen U. Richard, first vice chair
man; Mrs. Stanley King, second
vice chairman; Miss Evelyn Dil
lard, secretary; Mrs. Howard Rich
ards, treasurer; Mrs. Rathbone
Smith, historian and parlia
mentarian, and Rabbi Hugo Schiff.
chaplain.
New members elected to the
Board of Directors include Warren
I Grubbs. Mrs. W. W. Demaine.
Harry Harris, Mrs. Charles Hooff,
i jr., Mrs Armistead Boothe, Mrs.
Benton Milster and the Rev. J. H.
Lovell. _ i
Children's Day Service
The First Christian Fellowship
Church, Monroe avenue near Mount
Vernon avenue, Alexandria, will ob
serve children’s day with a service
at 10:30 am. tomorrow.
Almond to Take Over
Prosecution of 178 in
Virginia Lynch Case
By tht Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va., Jun« 12.—Gov.
Tuck yesterday directed Attorney
General J. Lindsay Almond, jr„ to go
into the Circuit Court of Buchanan
County and take over the criminal
prosecution of 178 men charged with
violating the State’s antilynch law.
In a seldom invoked move the
Governor said he was ordering pro
secution by the State’s top legal
officer because of the apparent lack
of interest by Buchanan’s local law
enforcement officials.
The 178 men were Indicted after
an assault upon R. L. Gilliam, one
of the proprietors of the Gilliam
and Hodgins strip mining operation,
last April in which the operator was
seriously injured.
Blames Union Miners.
This attack, the Governor wrote
Mr. Almond, wgs committed by a
group of union miners bent upon
stopping the nonunion operation and
intimidating the workers.
“Local law enforcement agencies
offered no protection,” Gov. Tuck
said, “and but for the timely Inter
vention of the State Police more
serious consequencies to property
and human life would have beer
wrought.”
The wholesale arrests were made,
he added, solely through the dili
gence of the State Police at his
direction.
The Governor’s action evoked no
immediate comment from county
law enforcement officers. Sheriff
Isham Fletcher was away from his
home in Grundy and could not be
reached. The county’s Common
wealth’s attorney, R. E. Williams,;
died two days ago and no successor
has been named.
May Seek to Move Trials.
It was learned reliably ^that the
Governor’s action contemplates the
Attorney General taking the almost
unprecedented step of seeking to
move the trials out of Buchanan
County or, at least, getting a change
of venire—that is, bringing a Jury
in from some other county of the
State.
The beginning of the trials have
been set tentatively for the July
term which opens July 12.
Death of Mrs. La Falce
Is Ruled Accidental
The death of Mrs. Virginia La
Falce, 36, whose body was recovered
from the Potomac River at Alexan
dria Thursday night, has been ruled
accidental by Alexandria Coroner
Dr. John A. Sims.
Mrs. La Falce, who lived at 115
South Patrick street, was the
estranged wife of Frank ft. La Falce,
Washington publicity director for
Warner Bros.
Police said it was believed Mrs.
La Falce fell into the river from the
edge of the Duke street pier, where
she had been sitting. Police were
called by a passerby who heard a
splash. Mrs. La Falce was pulled
from the river shortly after police
arrived, but efforts of the Alexan
dria Rescue Squad to revive her
were unsuccessful.
Mrs. La Falce was the daughter of
Mrs. Thomas Fones of the Patrick
street address. She is survived also
by two brothers, Joseph R. Jester of
Fresno, Calif., and Randolph A.
Jester of Alexandria. Until recently
she had worked at Jelleff's in Wash
ington but left due to illness, her
family said.
Funeral services are to be held at
2 o’clock this afternoon from Cun
ningham's in Alexandria. Burial
will be in Mount Comfort Cemetery.
Welles Will Be Speaker
At Oxon Hill High Exercises
Sumner Welles, former Under
secretary of State, will speak at the
Oxon Hill High School Commence
ment exercises in the school at 8:15
p.m. Tuesday.
Students will conduct the rest of
the program. Roger Milstead will
give the address of welcome and
Marjorie Souder will give the fare
well address. Barbara Meyer, Paul
Kilbourne, Fred Adler, Margaret
Misenheimer and John Kane will
speak on “Basic Concepts That Make
for Sound Living.”
Baccalaureate services will be con
ducted by Father J. T. O'Brien of
Andrews Field at the school at 4:15
p.m. tomorrow.
Following is a tentative list of
graduates:
Academic.
Adler, Frederick J. Unkle. Wtlltim E.
Kane. John E.. Jr. Meyer. Barber* J.
Milstead, Roter C. Souder. Marjorie A.
Commercial.
Fullerton. Harry D. Misenheimer. M. P.
Kilbourne. Paul W. Moaarch. Joan I.
Batch. Catherine E. Robinson. Helen F.
Blandford. Virginia Shadier. Edith M.
Chllda. Winifred A. Summers. Thelma L.
Elkinton. Marguerite Unkle. Mary G.
Gibbons. Doris M. ,
General.
Andracsek. William Tllch. Philip W.
Beverage. Ellsworth Underwmod. Charles
Cochran. Gene White. Franklin E.
Frye, Donald 8. Broyles. Virginia E
Langley. Frank W. Bntmmett. Elaine J.
Mawyer. Ernest W. Fauver. Millie G.
McKenzie. William Johnson. Dorothy H.
Powell. George C. Mosley, Joan M.
Sheriff, James W. Mend. Roberta M.
Summers. Coleman Shegogue, Betty A.
Tllch. Edwin F.
Discord Clouds
Monday Primary
For Democrats
Hearing Set Same
Morning on Court
Order Barring Poll
By Chalmers M. Roberts
Charges and counter charges
■aked the local Democratic Party
today with a resulting uncertainty
over whether there will be a primary
election Monday to name delegates
to the Democratic National Conven
tion.
District Court Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough yesterday granted a
temporary restraining order de
signed to prevent the scheduled
Monday vote. But, later in the day
at the,request of attorneys for the
Democratic organization here, he
scheduled a hearing for Monday at
11:15 ajn.
The Democratic Central Com
mittee, which is fighting a move
by four candidates backed by the
liberal anti-Communist Americans
for Democratic Action to gain a
place on the local ballot, has sched
uled the election for Monday from
4 to 8 p.m. Newspaper advertise
ments yesterday carried this notice ,
with locations of the six polling
places.
Polls Opening Claimed 2 P.M.
Hence, If Justice Goldsborough
should throw out the restraining
order, the election could be held
within a matter of hours. However, i
the ADA-backed group claimed to- i
day that earlier newspaper adver- :
tisements by the Democratic Central ;
Committee had stated the polls
would open at 2 p.m. instead of 4
p.m.
In the flurry of conflicting state
ments, these are the latest:
The Democratic Central Commit- i
tee announced it has retained Leslie
C. Garnett and Samuel F. Beach
to represent it in the court action.
The committee said it feels that
“representatives of the CIO-PAC
and Americans for Democratic Ac
tion would be representing not the
District of Columbia but the policies
of an outside organization,” The i
statement added:
“The Democrats of Washington
further believe that people whose
first political loyalty is to organiza
tions outside of the Democratic Party
obviously are not entitled to partici
pate in our convention deliberations
as Democrats. Neither the Ameri
cans for Democratic Action nor any
other political group has a right to
demand a place for representatives
on a Democratic ballot.” <
Rauh and Dudley Comment.
The references to ADA and CIO- !
?AC were to two of the anti-organ- J
Ization candidates who brought the j
ourt suit. Joseph L. Rauh, jr., is
ADA’s National Executive Commit
tee chairman and Tilford Dudley is 1
assistant national director of PAC, 1
the vote-gathering wing of the CIO. <
This morning Mr. Rauh pointed J
out that "approximately 100 mem- ,
bers and officers" of ADA chapters •
in the several States have been
elected delegates or alternates to 1
the Democratic National Commit- '
tee. 1
Mr. Dudley stated that CIO-PAC’s *
national director. Jack Kroll, is an 1
elected delegate from Ohio and that
Phillip Murray, national president
of CIO, is a delegate to the conven- ]
tion from Pennsylvania.
ADA issued a statement saying i
that the “action of local party i
politicos” such as Melvin D. Hil
dreth, chairman of the District
Democratic Central Committee, in
“shunning or ignoring progressive
groups and individuals will bring
certain disaster next November” to ]
the Democratic ticket.
McGrath Views on Seating
Democratic National Chairman
McGrath, in a message to ADA, said
that Mr. Hildreth's action in bar
ring the ADA-backed group from the
local ballot “is not in accordance”
with the Senator’s previous telegram
to Leon Henderson, national ADA
head. Senator McGrath added:
“While I have no power to inter
fere in the District of Columbia, if
they send delegates to the con
vention in accordance with their
announced procedure, and another
group also choses delegates, I will
recommend to the Credentials Com
mittee of the convention that it
seat these delegates most demo
crtically elected.”
Mount Rainier Church
To Honor Chaplain Elsam
The congregation of the Mount
Rainier <Md.) Christian Church will;
honor Chaplain Harold G. Elsam, 1
interim pastor, on his completion
ui 40 ycaia *u>
a minister of
the Disciples of
Christ, with a
reception after
the evening serv
ice at 7:45 p.m.
tomorrow.
Chaplain
Elsam, who has
been pastor of
the Maryland
church since last
February, holds
the rank of
major in the
Army Corps of
Chaplains. He
I
Chaplain Elsam.
was ordained in June, 1923, alter ^
graduation from Bethany College,!(
Bethany, W. Va. jj
Chaplain Elsam served in -
churches in Pennsylvania, Indiana
and Illinois before entering the ,
Army in 1942. After two years of!
domestic service, he served in the' ]
China-Burma-India Theater until
the end of the war. He has received
the Army Commendation Ribbon, i
In addition to his regular duties,
Chaplain Elsam is associate editor )
of the Army and Navy Chaplain and
executive secretary-treasurer of the
Chaplains Association of the Army
and Navy. He lives in Arlington with
his wife and family.
Boy Cyclist, 11, Injured
By Truck in Alexandria
Alex John Morris, 11, of 222 South
Henry street, Alexandria, was in-;
jured yesterday when struck by a
tractor-trailer truck while riding his
bicycle near his home.
He was admitted to the Alexan
dria Hospital with abrasions and
possible spine injuries. The hos
pital this morning described his
condition as good.
Alexandria police said the driver
of the truck was Eddie Cherry, 37,
colored, of North Carolina. Police
said the truck driver was not!
charged.
Camp Fire Girl, 13, Gets Award
For Saving Drowning Child
The Rev. Vincent Campi as he presented life-saving award |
to Beth Burroughs.___
Beth Burroughs, 13, of 201 Dresden
street, Kensington, Md., last night
received one of the highest Camp
Fire Girl awards for saving a
drowning child.
The presentation of the National
Honor in Life Saving testimonial
was made at the annual Grand
Council Fire of the Potomac Area
Council of Camp Fire Girls, at the
Sylvan Theater on the Washington
Monument Grounds.
Beth and a companion were sun
ning themselves on a dock at An
napolis, Md., last August when she
heard a commotion and saw a small
girl bobbing in the water near
another pier where other children
were playing.
She ran to the pier, stretched out
and grabbed the girl, who was
drowning in water 8 feet deep.
The testimonial was presented in
behalf of the Camp Fire Girls by
the Rev. Vincent Campi of the
Blessed Sacrament Church in Alex
andria, Va.
Beth is an eighth-grade student
at Kensington Junior High School.
She is the daughter of Roy J. Bur
roughs, an economist, and Mrs.
Burroughs. A member of the O
Ki-Hi group, she has been with the
Camp Fire Girls for two and one
half years.
About 700 girls from 50 area Camp
Fire groups in the District, Alexan
dria, Va., Arlington, Prince Georges,
Fairfax and Montgomery Counties
attended the ceremonies last night.
Awarding of ranks was directed
by Mrs. William Harvey Young,
presentation of birthday honors by
Mrs. C. C. Alvord. awarding of group
honors by Mrs. Carl Izzard and Mrs.
Alfred Andrews, awarding of indi
vidual honors by Mrs. William Heck
endom, Mrs. E. W. Aiton, Miss Mar
garet Patterson and Father Campi,
find presentation of civitan citizen
ship awards was by Charles Eveland.
Mrs. Reynold A. Lee, president of
the Potomac Area Camp Fire Girls,
conducted the ceremonies.
70 Montgomery Suits
Filed on Personal
Property Taxes
Suits against 70 Montgomery
County residents for failure to pay
personal property taxes have been
filed by County Tfeasurer John B.
Diamond in Rockville Police Court
and County Circuit Court, it was
learned yesterday.
Sixty-eight of the persons against
whom legal action has been taken
have been ordered to appear Tues
day in Police Court. The remaining
two cases are scheduled for trial in
Circuit Court. Trial dates have not
yet been set for them.
Approximately $5,000 in back taxes
is involved. Mr. Diamond said. He
explained that those who owe up to
$300 are tried in Police Court while
those owing more than $300 must
be tried in Circuit Court.
Owe for 1947 Taxes.
Almost all of the 70 persons owe
personal property taxes for 1947, the
treasurer said. He added the
amounts sought range from $15 to
approximately $900.
The two persons to be tried in
Circuit Court, according to Mr.
Diamond, are Joseph Brenner,
identified by the treasurer as oper
ator of the Montgomery Hills Phar
macy, Silver Spring, and W. Law
son King, Gaithersburg, prominent
county dairy farmer. Mr. Brenner,
Mr. Diamond said, owes about $310
in back taxes for 1947, while Mr.
King owes nearly $900 in taxes for
1946 and 1947.
The suits are the first to be filed
against individuals under a law
passed at the 1945 session of the
General Assembly replacing one
which Mr. Diamond described as
vague and without “teeth.”
Items in Tax Levy.
Property on which the tax is levied
includes office fixtures, stor- goods,
livestock and farm rrr 'finery.
Household furniture was e mpted
by the County Commissioner .n Jan
uary, 1947.
Mr. Diamond said action will be
taken against those owing less than
$15 after the 70 cases have been
disposed of. He added suits also
will be filed against about 25 cor
porations in the county who owe
back taxes.
Zoning Board in Arlington
Resigns Under New Act
The five members of Arlington’s
Board of Zoning Appeals have sub
mitted their resignations to afford
the county board its newly-won
prerogative of appointing the zon
ing appeals group.
In a letter to County Manager
A. T. Lundberg, the board members
point out that the last session of
the General Assembly passed ah act
giving the County Board that
authority.
“We understand this act becomes
effective as of June 29," the resigna
tion letter declares.
The members of the present board
were appointed by the judge of the
Circuit Court. They ask that their
resignation become effective July 15.
The next Zoning Board meeting is
July 6. The five resigning members
are Gilbert L. Hall, J. H. White, Jr.:
Ashton C. Jones, jr.; J. W. Trick and
E. P. Goucher.
Alexandria Woman Found
Guilty of Animal Cruelly
mim Mary Louise Nicol yesterday
was convicted by Alexandria Civil
and Police Court Judge James R.
Duncan of cruelty to animals and
maintaining an unsanitary residence
at 316 North Washington street.
Miss Nicol was found guilty dur-,
ing a private hearing in Judge Dim
can’s chambers, which was attended
by her minister. She was arrested
about a month ago when police
found a number of dogs housed in
the ramshackle mansion where she
lived with a sister, Mrs. Prances
Nicol McKone, who has been ar
rested by Arlington police on a bad
check charge.
At the time of her arrest Miss
Nicol was under a court order not
to keep any dogs at the house. Im
position of sentence on yesterday’s
conviction has been continued until
Wednesday.
3 Property Owners
Back Moves to Block
Academy Airport
By the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md„ June 12.—At
tempts by William H. Labrot, jr.,
to block construction of a Naval
Academy airport at Sandy Point
have received the backing of three
Sandy Point property owners.
Mr. Labrot, wealthy Southern
Marylander, recently offered to sell
150 acres of Sandy Point beach-side
property to the State for use as a
park plus 300 acres free. Thurs
day he increased the area of the
free grant to 400 acres. The price
he set was $150,000.
Yesterday property owners Ed
ward S. Corcoran, W. T. Emory and
Mrs. John E. Pettebone informed
John E. Clark, chairman of the
Board of Natural Resources, in a
letter that they wished “to express
our support (to Mr. Labrot) in
tangible form.”
To Give Land for Road.
The three said they would give
the land necessary for a road right
of way to the beach area.
‘‘Should this road not prove the
most desirable,” the letter contin
ued, “we hereby pledge our full
co-operation in finding another and
more desirable access route.”
Meanwhile, the Park Advisory
Committee of the Board of Natural
Resources recommended to the
State that it acquire Mr. Labrot’s
property for use as a bayside park.
Board May Act Monday.
The committee’s recommendation
will be presented to the full Natural
Resources Board Monday. It it re
ceives favorable action there, the
proposal would be submitted to the
Board of Public Works for actual
purchase.
Both houses of Congress have ap
proved a bill which includes a
$12,000,000 airport project for the
academy. It was sent to the Pres
ident yesterday. The bill carried no
appropriations.
Gov. Lane has said he would not
comment until he had studied Mr.
Labrot’s proposal fully.
Missionary College
Graduation Tonight
The Washington Missionary Col
lege at Takoma Park will graduate
a class of 66 at 9 o’clock tonight in
the Sligo Seventh-day Adventist
Church.
Commencement exercises began at
8 p.m. yesterday with the conse
cration service conducted by the
Rev. J. A. Buckwalter.
At 11 a.m. today the baccalaureate
service was held. The Rev. Denton
E. Rebok, president of the Seventh
day Adventists Theological Semi
nary, gave the baccalaureate address.
Principal address at the com
mence will be by the Rev. Francis
D. Nichol, editor of the Review and
Herald. Degrees will be conferred
by College President William H.
Shephard.
Benjamin Jack Williams, president
of the graduating class, and his wife
soon will sail to India where both
will serve as missionaries at the
Poona Training College.
Miss Anna Evelyn Kwapinski, an
other graduate, also will go to Africa
this summer. She will serve in a
training school there.
The graduates:
Bachelor at Art*. _ _
Bartlett. Alice M. Mattlnilr. Owen F.
BJorline. Carl O. Meaeer. Norman L.
Bohr. Vernon C. Moore. Elmer L.
Booth. Charle* R. Mowry. Oeorte C.
Booth. Mary L. Nowfel. Camille B.
Brook*. Roy E. Olson. Hazel M.
Burns. O. Richard Pohle, Myrtle B.
Bush. M. Bruce Poo e. Loren E.
Chaney. LaPilse. ir. Pratt. Lloyd P_
Christofldes. C O. , Saaty. Thomas L.
Coegln. Charlotte J. Steadman. O.W.
Davis. T. Austin Stevens. JozeOb B.
Dunkel. Joan Thazton. Ernest L.
Parley. Anna A. Varney. Alpha L.
Peltmzn. E C. Jr. Ward. Jack P_
Harris. Richard E. Wetherell. Wm C.
Hartshorne R H. Wheeler. Ira P
Heiney. Alice C. Wi cox. Vivian A.
Johnson. J. Vincent Williams. B.J.
Johnson. L. J. Winch. Lioyd Ln
Korean. Evelyn B Wo jott. I^Vern C
Ludineton. D. C.. Jr. Wolfe. Lawrence E
Maeoon. David A Woodruff. Oeoree M
Manuel. Raymond E. Wynne. Lillian
Bachelor* ef Art* In Elementary Education
Kwapinski. Anna E. Lamneck. Pau£ I.
Anderson. Helen A. M*nn. Ellada B.
Andrews. E. M. Mcyfr. Ann? E
Armatron*. Myra A. Ohashi. June M.
Blasko. Dorothy Rebpk. Jean E
Hunt. Edith M. SImKm?'ad»*N
Jack. Rose A Williams. Ada N.
Lamb, Junita D.
Bachelor ef Selenee.
Wlnaor. PhUip
Bachelor ef Moaie.
Howard. Yvonne C.
Two-Year Carrie*la.
Cummins*. Laura J., blble instructor.
House Vote Due
Monday on $200
Teacher Raise
: Would Be Effective
Next Fiscal Year if
Others Get Increase
Legislation to give all teachers
and school officials here a 9300 pay
increase for next fiscal year only
was sent to the House calendar
today and will come up for action
on the floor Monday.
Approved late yesterday by the
House District Committee, the
measure is intended to help teach
ers meet the cost of living increase
since the 1947 pay act set up a
new scale of salaries.
The District Committee also ap
proved three other bills and sent
them to the calendar. One would
correct certain inequities in the 1947
teacher salary law. It was recom
mended by the Board of Education
and discussed at length yesterday
morning at a hearing of the joint
fiscal subcommittees of the House
and Senate.
Bills Duplicated In Senate.
Two bills identical to these teach
ers’ measures have been introduced
in the Senate by Senator Cain, Re
publican. of Washington, chairman
of the Fiscal Subcommittee of the
Senate District Committee.
The two other measures approved
by the House District Committee
would authorize the Commissioners
to lease city property up to 50 years,
with the understanding that struc
tures for parking automobiles would
be erected, and would direct the
Commissioners to investigate the
charges made by auto parking lots
here.
Representative Beall. Republican,
of Maryland said many complaints
have been received at his office and
by other members of Congress
against high prices charged in park
ing lots here.
Bates Pilots Bills Though.
The bills to benefit school teach
ers were piloted through the Dis
trict Committee by Representative
Bates, Republican, of Massachu
setts as chairman of the District
Fiscal Subcommittee.
Reporting that teachers’ organi
zations yesterday had asked for
more than $200, Mr. Bates empha
sized that the $500 pay raise, al
ready approved by the House for
policemen and firemen, is intended
to take care of a two-year period
increased cost of living.
The $200 increase would become
effective only if the general pay
raise for Federal and other District
workers is granted by Congress.
The major change made by the
Bates bill in the present teachers’
pay law would correct a situation
that allowed teachers with masters’
degrees, entering the public school
system here for the first time, to
receive more money than a teacher
with the same experience and also
holding masters’ degrees, who al
ready were teaching in the schools
here.
System Revised.
When the 1947 pay bill was en
acted, teachers holding masters’ de
grees were allowed a $100 stepup
and placed in the new scale accord
ing to the salary they were receiv
ing. In many instances, their sal
ary was below the $3,500 minimum
allowed by the 1947 act for teachers
with masters' degrees.
Consequently new teachers enter
ing the system started with $3,500,
causing dissatisfaction among the
others who were receiving less. -
The Bates bill would allow teach
ers in the school system who pos
sessed the masters degree on June
30, 1947, or received one during the
fiscal year ending this June 30, and
whose salary during the past fiscal
year was less than $3,500, to receive
a salary of $3,000 per year, plus
$100 for each year of service in the
public schools, up to five years.
This change in the law would cost
about $22,000 a year, school officials
testified, but they said funds would
be available to cover it.
B. & 0. Continues Inquiry
In Wreck Near Laurel
As the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
continued its investigation today
into the cause of Thursday’s wreck
near Laurel, Md., which killed one
man and injured more than 50
persons, the most critical case among
the victims took a turn for the
better.
He is Nathaniel Sullivan, 34, a
colored track worker who was struck
by a derailed car and suffered spinal
injuries and a broken leg. Surgeons
at St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore,
were to put his leg into a cast
today. It had been almost severed
in the accident.
The track worker was one of a
group which had been replacing
rails on the northbound track. Rail
road officials think the accident was
due to failure to replace all the
spikes before letting traffic resume.
The railroad will make a report on
the accident to the Interstate Com
merce Commission in a few days.
Missing Man Carrying
$300 Hunted in Arlington
Fairfax and Arlington police have
been asked to be on the lookout for
Albert E. Slaughter, 25, of Vienna,
Va„ by his parents, who reported
that he disappeared last Saturday
while carrying oetween *300 and
*500.
Mr. Slaughter was in the pro
duce business in V:enna. Police said
his truck wa3 found parked In
Rosslyn last Saturday and he has
not been seen since.
A veteran of the merchant marine
during the war, Mr Slaughter was
described as abouf 5 feet 9 Inches
tail, about 160 pounds in w eight and
with light brown hair. When last
seen he was wearing tan gabardine
slacks and a white shirt. 1.
Arlington Man Acquitted
On False Pretense Charge
Roy Philip Perry. 38, of the 3800
block North Ninth street. Arlington,
has been acquitted on a charge of
accepting money under false pre
tenses.
He was cleared of the Arlington
charge Thursday by Judge Hugh D.
Reid in Arlington County Court.
Mr. Perry was arrested May 17 by
Arlington and State police and
charged with accepting money for
advertisements under false pre
tenses. Police said he claimed he
represented a State agency. Mr.
Perry said he is editor of the Vir
ginia State Labor Newa.