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WASHINGTON. IK C. ^ ‘ 1 ^ gtutVLXViQ JpUET FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1948 ,*
Citizens' Group
Backs Potter tor
i
Arlington Board
2 More Independents
Join Contest; G. 0. P.
'Deal' Is Charged
I. Lee Potter, who is seeking elec
tion to the Arlington County Board
as an independent candidate, last
night was indorsed by the county's
Mr. Potter.
Citizens' Com
mittee for
School Improve
ment as two new
candidates en
tered the race.
The commit
tee chose to
back Mr. Potter
over H Herbert
Howe and Jacob
Bechtel, who
both, announced
their' candidacy
and asked for
the committee's
support Despite
a plea by Oscar
Le Beau mat an oiner uiuepcnucu.
candidates drop out in favor of Mr.
Potter, Mr. Howe and Mr. Bechtel
Indicated they would remain in the
race
Howe Charges “Deal.”
Mr. Howe earlier this week an
nounced plans to seek election as an
Independent unless an •'acceptable'’;
Independent candidate other than
Mr. Potter entered the contest. He
said Mr. Potter, actually a Repub
lican. was selected to run as the
result of a “deal” between Repub
lican officials and independent voters
*o a single candidate would be put
up against Democratic opposition.
Incumbent Alfred E. Frisbie is the
Democratic nominee.
Asked last night whether he was
prompted to announce his candidacy
bv the county Democratic organiza
tion in an effort to divide the
Independent vote, Mr. Howe denied
this. He said he still may drop out
of the race if some acceptable in
dependent candidates comes forth.
The filing deadline for independents
Is September 2.
Resigns League Office.
Mr. Howe announced his resig
nation as secretary of the Arlington
Better Government League. He
explained that the league meets
August 25 to indorse a candidate
and he did not feel it would be
proper to have a league officer
among candidates being considered.
Also seeking the County Board
Beat now held by Mr. Frisbie is l
Francis J. Clair, who announced he
would run as a “regular Republican”
after he failed to win support of
the Arlington Republican organ
ization. Mr. Clair was the first to
charge that a deal had been made
between independents and Republi- j
cans to support Mr. Potter, and;
the charge later was echoed by;
Harrison- Mann, chairman of the
county’s Demomcratic Committee.
Maryland 4-H Hears
Talk on British Farmer
Maryland farm youths yesterday
heard Mylo S. Downey describe the
lot of British farmers, and he in
dicated the picture wasn't rosy.
Mr. Downey, State 4-H Boys’ Club
agent, spoke to about 1.000 boys and
girls attending the annual club week
on the University of Maryland
campus.
His impressions were drawn from
e recent trip to England for an
International cattle judging contest;
in which a Maryland team repre
sented the United States.
Government controls in England,
he said, prohibited farmers from
selling products on the open market, j
and government aid was provided
chiefly to those who could help
alleviate the food shortage, he added.,
As an example. Mr. Downey cited
a regulation under which a farmer
received no grain allowance for
dairy cows unless they produced two
gallons of milk a day.
Among the 4-H Club members
attending the encampment are the
following:
Frederick County.
Ko^encrantz. Ivor
Smith. Robert
Wolfe. Mrs. Wolfon
Burner. Doris
Rhoderirk Betty
Sc'- iflu. Dnitie
Krni.r Gulie
Younn. Barbara A
Montgomery. Roxie L
Ramsburg. M. H . jr
Lenhart. Harold L.
Crum. Clyde C.
Ludy. Lloyd C
Boyer. G. Richard
Mullimx. Virginia
Taylor. T. R . jr.
St up Howard J.. jr.
Smith. Royd R.
Fry. Robert C.
Stup. Roland
Crawford. E S . Ir.
Stull Robert
BlickenstafT George
Wolfe. William W.
XI me. G**“aldioc
K n Per^y E
Pi . Richard L
Rhodenck. A G.
Burner. Kenneth
Thompson Truman
Balizeii. Robert E.
Co-Inin. William
Bunbington. H F. . tj
I ;,'iv. Thomas M.
F kman. Robert G
You nr. Marv L
B v - r Sue
R * *n -ahens Bet»y
Ife . Ruth E:
Rtmes. Patsie
S aley, Jeannette
* Bake*. James
TerreU. Joseph E
'. House. Arthur
.tones i! tjramey
Daws. I oa
Kelly. June
Albough. Sharon F.
Wilrony. B rtv
Trinipoe. Mary E.
Godbee. Chita
Clemson. Yvonne R.
Schnauffer. Diane
. Strine. Dororhv
Foule. Lee
Garst. Virginia
Powell. Peggy
Roderuck. Doris
Wilcom. Mary Jane
Hood. Mrs. Foard
Lud.v. Rachel J.
Lav man. Audrey
Whitmore. Carmen
Eaves, Marjorie Lee i
Wiles, Joyce
Fitze. Ruth E.
Kpller Dottie
Remsberg. Barbara
Warner. Elizabeth
Long. Catherine
Ripeon. Patsy
Stull. Wilma Jean
Buchanan. Nellie
Flyman. Martha J.
Magaha. Johanna
Rick. Janet
. Barnes. Irene V.
Seitz. Patricia
Rooimburg. R .th E.
Thomas. Barbai a J.
Williar. Caiolyn
Thompson Down
Enfleld, Leon
Reeder. Charlotte
Greenwood. Richard
Cobientz. Paui
Holter. Richard
Burdette. Iwell D.
McWilliams. T. G.
Goodmim. Georce
fi'.one. Mary Ellen
Alvey. Barbara i.
Mattenahy, Joan
Bel; Mary Edna
Cauriela. Marianne
Wathen. Richard
Camalier Ruth
Goldsborouth. C.
PereKoy, Diane
Greenweu. Louia
Holden. Louts
Qreenwell. Marian
Wathen. Alice
S mpson. Billy
Mattingly. Bobby
Guy. Frankie
Wathen. Grace
Heultt. James Phillip
Strickland. Scheldon
Thrift. Anita Jane
Star Movies
Community movies, sponsored by
The Star in co-operation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for 9
o'clock tonight. Programs of comedy,
sports, cartoons and travel shorts
W’U be shown at the following play
gu unds and recreation centers.
j t Davis. Pennsylvania and Alabama
av 'nues S E
v*nney. Wisconsin avenue and Albe
street N W.
Jexferson. Eighth and H streets 8 W.
Kintsmer. Fourteenth and E streets
N.E
New York Avenue. First street and New
York avenue N W
Truesdeli. N:n:h and Ingraham streets
N'.V.
Randall. First and I streets 8W.
Shaw. Seven'h street and Rhode Island
•venue N W.
Blow School Nineteenth street and
Bernina road N F
Stevens. Twen*v-flm and L streets
H W.
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U. S. Inventive Genius Piles Up
Record Patent Office Backlog
By Charles J. Yarbrough
Too many people are inventing
too many thingamajigs.
But none of them has come up
with a gadget to help the United
States Patent Office out from under
ihe greatest backlog of applications
in its 138-year-old history.
It hasn’t been so far behind since
George Washington intrusted its
administration to Thomas Jefferson,
who was something of an inventor
himself.
Peering out from under the stag
gering st^k of applications, harried
examiners are 148.180 cases in
arrears—too far back to see the
dawn of completion day.
To smooth way if possible, a
New York firm of management en
gineers are efficiencv-experting the
whole operation of patenting pro
cedure, from mail room to final
action. Wallace Clark & Co., who
did the same thing in 192G, are at
it a gain under a six-month con
tract which began June 30.
The bill will be about $34,000
It now requires almost two years
for final action on an inventors'
application—which might account
for the many "Pat. Pendings.”
Old-timers at the Patent Office
say the ideal situation would move
the applications from mailroom to
final action in six months.
The end of the war stirred the
Nation's inventive genius and also
gave it more time. The backlog in
1939 was 42,215; in 1946 it was 110,
386 after diving to 39.052 at the
height of the war.
In the bulging piles of applica
tions with current patents granted
are such things as mud shields for
women's shoe heels.
Washington's weather being what
it is and mud-spotted nylons being
what they are. women might beat
a path to Charles G. Jacobsen's door
in Chicago. Mr. Jacobsen, whose
application has been cooking since
May 3, 1946, got action on the mud
guard which is “adapted to snugly
embrace the heel.”
Then there is Margaret McNeill
Jones' emancipation for the foot
i sore dog—a dog boot resembling
the hood over your No. 1 wood club.
It's purpose isn't explained in the
Patent Offices's latest Official Ga
zette.
Also in the foot department is
a flexible heel adjuster and a safety
attachment for shoes.
There is an aparatus for prepar
ing dehydrated bread crumbs, one
for a gun sling, an inflatable leak
stopper, a hen marking nest, a cool
ing system leak detector.
Edward H. Lieber, another Chi
cagoan, offers a one-candlepower
boot drier, and Thelma S. Morris of
Phoenix patented an electric hair
brush.
For junior’s emancipation, there
is a nursery toilet seat built like a
saddle.
In the design division, the ex
aminer has approved a new tandem
road roller, a perfume bottle and
an airplane resembling a water
spider. He has granted patents
on baby rattles and a combination
sun glasses and scarf, an earring,
a spoon and a coffee-maker.
Patent Commissioner Col. Lawr
ence C. Kingsland has a three
fold reason for the mounting back
log. The war took many of the
experienced examiners; inventors
became more inventive with more
leisure time after the war, and
trainer examiners have to give
some of their time for training new
ones.
Somewhere in the backlog n ay
be the invention which will help
sort inventions. He hopes so.
3 Virginia Candidates
For Governor to Talk
On School Financing
By the Associated Press
FREDERICKSBURG. Va.. Aug. 6.
—Three candidates for Governor of
Virginia will have a cnance here
tonight to give their views on school
financing before a group of Vir
ginia's educators.
A panel on the subject is sched
uled for tonight's session of a con
ference on "the public and the
public schools in Virginia." spon
sored by the Virginia Education
Association at Mary Washington
College.
Candidates John >S. Battle. State
Senator from Charlottesville;
Francis P. Miller of Albemarle, and
Mayor Horace H. Edwards of Rich
mond will speak.
Last night G. Tyler Miller, State;
superintendent of public instruction,
expressed fear that "an entire gen
eration of Virginia children will be
sacrificed” unless steps are taken to
move forward with a school build
ing program.
Lists Major Problems.
The topic is one that has brought
in recent months a number of re
quests to Gov. Tuck to call a special
session of the General Assembly to
raise funds for school construction.
Mr. Miller appraised the entire
educational picture. He listed as
major problems for school officials:
(11 An adequate supply of comix tent
teachers. >2> improvement in the
quality of instruction, f 3 > better
pupil transportation in the rural
areas, and i4i a State, or State and
local, schoorl building program.
The audience was warned against
too much expenditure for education,
however, by N. W. Kelley of Roan
oke. president of the Virginia State
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kelley
said that continuing expansion of
goverenmental services, at the State
or local as well as the Federal level,
threatened to destroy the free enter
prise system.
To Get I'p-to-Date Data.
Supt. Miller expects to be able to
lav before the State Board of Educa
tion and Gov. Tuck in November
the entire situation relative to build
ing needs. He told the audience he
was going to obtain up-to-date in
formation from local school divisions
on their building needs for the next
5 and 10 year periods.
A provision for more adequate
salaries was listed by Mr. Miller as
one of the main problems facing
Virginia public school educators.
He said the “increasing and un
precedented inflationary spiral, re
sulting in almost unheard of living
costs” has to a large extent offset
the gains which teachers have made
in Virginia in salaries in recent
years.
Dowell J. Howard, assistant super
intendent of public instruction,
spoke last night on vocational educa
tion in Virginia; O. W. Wake,
director of elementary education,
spoke on Virginia's program for
elementary education, and Dr. Fred
M. Alexander, director of secondary
education, discussed consolidation of
schools.
Arlington Primary Results
Unchanged by Official Tally
The Official vote count of last
Tuesday's primaries in Arlington
County ahowed only three minor
changes compared to unofficial re
turns. The changes did not affect
the outcome.
Official returns tabulated yester
day showed Senator Robertson re
ceived 2,795 votes in the Democratic
primary instead of 2.791 as was
unofficially reported. His opponent,
James P. Hart. jr.. polled 1.644 in
stead of 1,545 as was reported
Wednesday.
The official vote gave one addi
tional tally to Charles O. Pratt,
giving him a total vote of 545 in the
House Republican primary.
Official returns in Alexandria
were the same as unofficial reports.
Norfolk Hotel Is Sold
NORFOLK, Va.. Aug. 6 <*>).—'The
Monticello Hotel has been sold to
the Aran Corp., an affiliate of the
national hotel chain headed by,
W. L. Moody, Jr., of Galveston, Tex.'
Alexandria Hospital
Establishes Social
Service Department
A social service department has
been established at the Alexandria
Hospital, Administrator Van C.
Adams announced today.
The new department will assist
indigent patients when they are
admitted and follow up such cases
after they are released.
A professional medical social
worker. Mrs. Nancy H. McPherson,
has been appointed to administer
the new department. Mrs. McPher
son formerly was with the Alexan
dria Department of Public Welfare.
In announcing Mrs. McPherson’s
appointment, Mr. Adams said the
hospital board of directors has be
come “more cognizant of the grow
ing 'needs of medical social service
in hospitals and felt that a full
time professional worker, responsible
to the hospital management, was
indicated here.’’
Mrs. McPherson also will handle
referrals to welfare agencies for
patients unable to pay hospital costs.
Mr. Adams announced at the same
time that the hospital would con
tinue its present policy of requiring
a deposit of $75 on admittance in
all except emergency cases. Although
there has been some adverse crit
icism of the $75 deposit plan, the
board has decided it is necessary
because of the precarious financial
position of the hospital. Mr. Adams
said he also was seeing to it that
“revitalized” efforts would be made
to collect bills from all persons able
to pay.
The hospital is winding up a
$200,000 fund-raising campaign to
eliminate a deficit. More than $190,
000 has been collected.
Wild West Show Opens
As Hyattsville Fire Benefit
A Wild West show and rodeo,
sponsored by the Hyattsville Volun
teer Fire Department, opened last
night at Riggs road and East-West
highway, near Green Meadows, and
will continue each night through
Sunday. Matinees also will be held
at 2 p.m. tomorrow’ and Sunday.
The show is being staged by John
ny Wise, circus cowboy and operator
of the Red Top Riding Stables of
Hyattsville.
Members of the fire department
yesterday participated in a brief pa
rade from Riverdale to the show
grounds along with some of the 75
performers. The show includes calf
roping and tying, "bulldogging’’ and
bronco-busting. Spectators will be
offered a cash prize if they can re
main on Waumpoo, a Brahma
bull, for 10 seconds.
Tonight approximately 300 of the
4.000 seats will be turned over to
hospitalized veterans.
Montgomery Heads to Hear
Miles on Textbook Charge
Franklin P. Miles, Chevy Chase
attorney, who has accused Mont
gomery County school teachers of
using books containing communistic
propaganda, will discuss his charges
at a closed meeting Monday of rep
resentatives of the Board of Educa
tion and the county commissioners.
The attorney had stated previous
ly he would not attend a closed
session.
County officials said today. howr
ever, that Mr. Miles changed his
mind after talking with Commis
sioner Wesley I. Sauter, a member
of the joint committee.
Two District Area Men
Named toM.l.T. Faculty
Two men from the Washington
area have been named to the fac
ulty at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, it was announced
today.
Appointed assistant professor of
economics was Morris A. Adelman
of Washington, former member of
the War Planning Board, the As
sociated Press reported from Cam
bridge, Mass.
Dr. Charles P. Kindleberger II
of Seminary Hill, Alexandria, was
named associate professor of
economics.
Plan to Settle
Control Studied
For Gallinger
Medical Society Unit
Would Put Direction
Under Health Officer
By George Beveridge
The Commissioners had before
them today a strong recommenda
tion for revisions at Gallinger
Hospital to end a "struggle for con
trol” of the hospital between the
District Health Officer and George
Washington and Georgetown Uni
versity medical schools.
Criticism of the present Gallinger
set-up and a number of corrective
proposals were contained in a re
port made public late yesterday by
Commissioner Guy Mason and sub
mitted by the Committee on Medi
cal Care in Public Institutions of
the District Medical Society
The report pointed out that par
ticipation of the medical schools at
Gallinger are “valuable contribu
tions"’ and that “anything which
would destroy the relationship be
tween the schools and Gallinger
Hospital would decidely not be in
the public interest.”
At the same time, however, the
committee, headed by Dr. Maurice
A. Selinger, said it appears that
only patients classed as "suitable
clinical material” for teaching pur
poses "receive the close attention
of the professors, their associates,
assistants and medical students.”
Reports Rooms Taken Over.
It added:
1. Many rooms in the hospital
designed originally for patients have
been converted to offices for repre
sentatives from the schools.
2. “Faculties of the schools are
primarily interested in selected pa
tients suitable for teaching and in
vestigative purposes. In mental
diseases, pediatrics, tuberculosis and
some other conditions, their inter
est is slight.”
3. Capable doctors paid by the
District, "in many instances, are
directed in the care of their pa
tients by junior members of the
teaching staffs of the medical
schools * * * often less well quali
fied from the standpoint of age as
well as experience."
Inadequate funds and small sal
aries of paid resident doctors at
Gallinger was another reason cited
for the considerable criticism that
has been heaped on the institution.
Would Revise Control.
Instead of the present practice of
medical policies controlled by a
chief of staff who, in turn, is paid
by and responsible to a committee
made up of medical school officials,
the committee urged that policies
be directed by the District health
officer.
A "young, energetic physician, j
well trained in hospital and medical;
school administration and without1
previous connection with local in-1
stitutions,” should be named med
ical director of the hospital, "with I
full and complete authority over thej
entire personnel," the report pro-;
posed.
Commissioner Mason said he has
been “turning over in his mind"
;the possibility of hiring "a capable
doctor" who could fulfill the jobs
both of superintendent, now held by
Dr. Alvin R. Sweeney, and chief of
staff, by Dr. P. S. Rossiter.
The city heads are "looking for
such a man" now and have had cor
respondence with several prospects.
Mr. Mason said. First, however, the
Commissioners must get authority
for payment of a salary "adequate
enough to attract the man we
'want," he added.
Rossiter Due to Retire.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mason disclosed
he has asked the medical schools to
request Dr. Rossiter to remain on
duty as chief of staff "for another
six months," in the absence of a
suitable replacement. He is sched
uled to retire September 1.
The medical committee also rec
ommended formation of an advisory
[board consisting of prominent civic
leaders and members of profes
sional, religious and business groups
to "aid the health officer in ad
ministration of the hospital.”
Mr. Mason praised this as a
"sound suggestion." The present
Gallinger Board of Visitors, ap
pointed by the Commissioners, he
added, is “extremely inactive.”
! Another proposal that the Com
missioners seek higher civ'l service
ratings and salaries for resident
doctors at Gallinger "is a prob
lem we already recognize,” Mr.
Mason declared.
But he added that "our present
fiscal situation makes any moves
right now impossible.” At the
present revenue rate, he said, tlie
[city will have a deficit of $5,800,900
in 1950.
[ The committee report said a
further barrier to attracting doctors
has been brought about by “charges
and countercharges which are con
stantly appearing in the local
press.”
Members of the medical society
committee, besides Dr. Selinger, in
clude Dr. Carolyn S. pincocs, Dr
Leslie W. French, Dr. A. Clagett
Gray and Dr. J. Ross Veal.
Playground Field Day
At Belvoir Tomorrow
A field day at Fort Belvoir to
morrow will close the summer rec
reation program of the colored play
grounds in Fairfax County this year.
The program will begin at 10 a.m.
and last until 5 p.m. Events sched
| uled include swimming, horseshoe
pitching, baseball and softball.
More than 500 children and adults
have participated in the eight-week
program at the eight colored recre
ation centers. The program has
been sponsored by the Fairfax Rec
reation Association, a Community
Chest agency. _
Virginia Firemen Open
Convention on Monday
By the Associated Press
HAMPTON, Va.. Aug. 6 —Approx
imately 1.500 delegates from some
40 city and county fire departments
in Virginia are expected to attend
a State convention of the Virginia
State Firemen's Association open
ing Monday at Salem, Wallace
Hicks of Hampton, State secretary,
said yesterday.
The five-day convention will open
with registration, which will be
conducted all day Monday, accord
ing to Mr. Hicks, who Is foreman
'of the Hampton Fire Department.
HERE FOR A BONNIE VISIT—Mayor and Mrs. Daniel Cairns (left) of Kilmarnock. Scotland, ar
rived at Union Station yesterday and were greeted by Mayor D. Walter Harvey and his daugh- j
ter, Mary Frances Harvey, of Kilmarnock, Va. —Star Staff Photo, j
-----* -—
Michael and Dever
To Aid Chest Drive in
Arlington, Alexandria
Appointment of two Community
Chest officials in Arlington and Alex
andria were announced today.
Lawrence Michael, Arlington real
estate man, nas
been named re
gional general
chairman of the
Arlington
Chest's fund
campaign. He
will head an or
ganization of ap
proximately 1,
500 workers who
will solicit funds
for the 1949
Chest activities.
In Alexandria,
Hayes Dever, 35,
secretary and
director of pub
Mr. Defer..
lie relations ior uapnai Airlines,
has been appointed chairman of the
Public Relations Committee of the
Alexandria Chest.
J. Harold Stehman, president of
the Arlington Chest, said he was
"more than pleased that Lawrence
Michael has accepted chairmanship
of the 1949 campaign. His past ex
perience as a Chest campaigner and
his sincere interest in the welfare
of our community make him an
excellent choice.'1
Mr. Dever will co-ordinate the ac
tivities of the radio, press, advertis
ing, display and Speakers’ Bureau
committees of the Alexandria Chest, j
In accepting the appointment, he
said: “Every individual in the com
munity must know what he receives
from the work of the Chest. Then
and only then will he be willing to
contribute in accordance with the
benefits.”
Alexandria Wins Fight
To Evict Army Veteran
The Alexandria Redevelopment
and Housing Authority yesterday
won round three in its battle to
evict Army Veteran John M. Web
ster from the Cameron Valley hous
ing project.
An Alexandria Corporation Court
jury took five minutes to decide
that the housing authority had the
right to evict Mr. Webster from his
apartment. Two months ago the
same case ended in a hung jury.
The case was brought before the
court by the housing authority on
appeal from the city’s Civil and
Police Court, which had decided in
favor of Mr. Webster.
Immediately after the verdict was
announced yesterday, Mr. Webster
informed reporters he planned to
carry his case before the Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals.
Mr. Webster and his family moved
into the Cameron Valley project
while he was in the Army and sta
tioned at Fort Belvoir. In May,
1947, after he left the Army, the
housing authority ordered him to
move, claiming that Cameron Val
ley was intended primarily for use
of military and civilian personnel
at Fort Belvoir.
Mr. Webster, who is a lawyer,
pleaded his own case. He said he
refused to move because the hous
ing authority did not offer him
other adequate living quarters, and
because Fort Belvoir did not need
his apartment.
Housing officials, however, testi
fied Mr. Webster was offered an
apartment in Shirley Homes. Ar
lington, and that more than 600
“homeless” Fort Belvoir personnel
were seeking apartments.
Maryland Medical School
Will Be Reorganized
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Aug. 6.—Plans for
reorganization of the University of
Maryland medical school and hos
pital, including the appointment of
a medical education and research
director, were announced yesterday
by Dr. H. C. Byrd, president of the
university.
The changes were worked out
after studies by the Doard of regents
and an outside professional survey
group. They will involve the ap
pointment of a number of adminis
trative officers, development of
teaching contracts with rural hos
pitals, substantial enlargement of
the university hospital, and the
establishment of a psychiatric unit
here.
Attack Charges Dropped
Against Man in Fairfax
Three chafes of rape against
Linwood Reynolds. 38, of Springfield.
Va.. were nolle prossed yesterday by
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge
Paul Brown.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Hugh
Marsh recommended that the
charges be nolle prossed.
Reynolds was indicted by a
special grand jury last March on
charges of attacking three minor
girls. He was arrested on informa
tion supplied by his wife. Reynolds
was listed as a Treasury Department
employe at the time of his arrest.
Mayors of Kilmarnock Meet;
Bagpipe Welcome Waits Scot
The bagpipes will squeal for the
Mayor of Kilmarnock. Scotland to
night, even if the Mayor of Kil
marnock, Va., has to play them on
his jukebox.
And that he can do!
The mayors of the "only two
towns in the world named Kil
marnock'’ met at Union Station yes
terday in a letter-arranged meeting
with more of the old class reunion
fervor than you'd normally expect
in pen pals.
Informality and friendliness were
thicker than Mayor Daniel Cairns’
burr.
D. Walter Harvey, mayor ol Kil
marnock, Va. and the area's music
box distributor, whisked Mayor and
Mrs. Cairns off to the Tidewater
country in Lancaster county ‘‘to
shake hands with everybody in town
—and that's about 1,200 now."
The cheery Scot in his Kilmar
nock bonnet hopped off the Balti
more & Ohio’s Royal Blue with a
bracing embrace for Virginia's
‘‘Walter.” The Mayor of Kilmar
nock, Scotland, was "Dan.” Mrs.
Cairns was “Sally" but her name,
she pointed out, is actually "Sarah."
Mayor Cairns, in addition to be
ing executive of the city of 40,000
on the banks of Kilmarnock Water,
i is a railway goods checker.
They could sing a duet on their
municipal troubles in the same tune
—"housing." Other than to deplore
the lack of labor and housing they
gave little time to business.
The meeting was proposed five
months ago when a Lancaster Coun
ty native, Dr. Latane Lumpkin, now
a Baptist minister in Lexington, Va„
was studying in Scotland and visited,
Kilmarnock. The two mayors began
an exchange of letters to freshen the
idea.
Dr, DumpKin is to attend tne
elaborately-arranged program for
the visitors—a schedule that in
cludes a round of eating and tour
ing and which included a dinner at
the high school auditorium last
night.
It will spread into Williamsburg
Sunday and to Richmond Tuesday—
when Mayor Cairns is to meet Gov.
Tuck.
The Cairns will return to Scotland
September 1.
Transit Firm Officials
Face Third Day of Quiz
On Fare Raise Need
By Jerry O'Leary, Jr.
Attorneys for organizations oppos- j
ing the Capital Transit Co.’s request
for higher streetcar and bus fares
today were scheduled to submit
company witnesses to a third con- j
secutlve day of cross-examination!
at Public Utilities Commission hear
ings on the proposed boost.
Benjamin C. Sigal. representing
Americans for Democratic Action,
and Harry R. Booth, attorney for
the Washington Copimittee for Con
sumer Protection, planned to ques
tion Capital Transit witnesses and
attack the company's evidence.
The company wants the PUC to
authorize an increase in the 10-cent
cash fare to 15 cents, sale of two
tokens for a quarter and an increase
in the price of the $1.50 weekly pass
to $1.85.
Both the ADA and the Consumer
Committee are recognized as inter
venors by the PUC, with the right
to cross-examine, introduce wit
nesses and testimony and appeal to
the courts. The American Veterans'
Committee also is an intervenor.
Quizzed on Testimony.
A fourth intervenor, the Federa
tion of Citizens’ Association, spent
most of yesterday cross-examining;
J, E. Heberle, vice president and
controller of Capital Transit, on his)
earlier testimony about why the
company needs the fare increase.
The Federation .spokesman was
George Corbin, vice chairman of its1
public utilities committee.
Mr. Heberle also was cross-ex
amined yesterday by People's Coun
sel John O'Dea and Special Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Lloyd B.
Harrison, the city law department's
public utilities expert and counsel
to the PUC
Mr. Corbin told Mr.. Heberle he
did not think the people of Wash
ington would accept the proposed
schidule of fare increases. He
asked Mr. Heberle whether Capital
Transit would seek a fare reduction,
if it were discovered that the fare
increases, upon being authorized,
brought the company more than the
legal rate of return.
Mr. Heberle said the company
would, in such a case, seek a fare
reduction, but added that he did
j not think it a likely occurence.
Return Would Be
The company official contended
the proposed increases would fix
the company's income at about the
7'2 per cent rate of return allowed
on its $30,000,000 investment.
He said it "would be nice" to have
a a-cent fare in Washington but
declared the company could not
exist on such a fare.
Mr. Corbin asked Mr. Heberle if
cut-backs made by Capital Transit
in its service would not permit the
company to continue operating at
its present revenue level. Mr. He
berle replied that, if the cut-backs
had not been made, Capital Transit
previously would have had to seek
a higher fare or go into bankruptcy
The Federation spokesman then
asked Mr. Heberle if the company
could accept a compromise fare
schedule of 12 cents cash, five tokens
for 55 cents and a *1.65 weekly pass
Mr. Heberle said it could not.
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Miss Randolph Resigns
Health Education Post
Miss Stella Randolph has resigned
as director of health education for
the Montgomery County Health De
partment to take a similar post
with the District of Columbia Chap
ter, American Cancer Society.
Miss Randolph, who has been
with the Health Department four
years, will assume her new duties
September 1.
The department also announced
appointment of two new public
health nurses. They are Mrs. Lois
Scoville and Mrs. Evelyn Torrence.
i
Three Youths Escape
As Car Plunges Down
Embankment, Burns
The second near-miraculous es
:ape from death In as many days
i nthe Washington area was re
ported this morning when three
men crawled to safety after their
automobile ricocheted from a guard
rail, cut through a barrbed-wire
fence, rolled down a 15-foot em
oankment and burst into flames.
Montgomery County police said
the three men. all medical corps
men stationed at the Bethesda Naval
Medical Center, crawled from the
wreckage before it started to burn.
The accident occurred about 4
miles west of Rockville.
Injured were:
Robert L. Provencal, 19, the driver,
who suffered head injuries; William
J. Hausherr, 18, head cuts and, and
John Pake, 20, leg scratches.
After being taken to the Naval
Hospital by the Rockville Rescue
Squad, Mr. Provencal and Mr.
Hausherr were admitted while Mr.
Pake was treated and released.
Police said the driver of the 1936
Chevrolet sedan told them he failed
to make a curve on a bridge over
Muddy Branch. They said that the
car struck the guard rail on the
bridge, slid along the rail for about
25 feet and crashed through a
barbed wire fence on the farm of
Tom Garrett,
IrW an accident yesterday, four
occupants of a car escaped death
when the vehicle careened off
Canal road N.W., sheered off a light
pole, rolled over a two-foot cul
vert and stopped against another
pole, v
Girl, 13, Killed, Six Injured
In Crash Near Winchester
By the Associated Press
WINCHESTER. Va., Aug. 6.—A
13-year-old girl was killed and six
persons injured in a two-car col
lision on U. S. route 50 about 10
miles east of here yesterday.
Dead is Joan Wonderlin, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wonder
lin of Merchantsville, N. J Mr.
and Mrs. Wonderlin, a son, Carroll,
il, and another daughter, Mary
Lou, 9, were injured in the wreck.
They were taken to Winchester Me
morial Hospital.
Occupants of the other tar, who
also were injured, were Miss June
A. Abenbrolh, 25, and Miss Janet
Legant, both of Detroit. Hospital
officials said th«ir injuries .were not
considered serious. Miss Aben
broth was driving, they said.
State police said the accident oc
curred at an intersection, and that
both cars were thrown onto clay
banks flanking the road.
The accident took place at Lone
Oaks, Clarke County.
Caudill to Head Study
Of Medical Education
By th« Associated Press
RICHMOND. Va., Aug. 6—State
Senator W. C. Caudill of Pearis
burg, yesterday was named chair
man of the Legislative Commission
by the 1948 General Assembly to
study medical education at the
group's organization meeting.
As vice-chairman, the commis
sion elected State Senator Lloyd C
Bird of Chesterfield.
The assembly directed the com
mission to “consider the costs and
the needs of medical education and
the relationship of medical educa
tion to the services that it renders
and the needs of the people partic
ularly in rural areas."
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raving conrracr Awaraea
HARRISONBURG, Va„ July 6 UP).'
—The city of Harrisonburg has
awarded a contract for the top sur
facing of 15 miles of streets to the
Keeley Construction Co. here foi
137,2*5.
Prince Georges
Citizens Cali
For More Police
Also Urge Action
To Control Floods
Near Peace Cross
By Charles A. McAleer
Enlargement of the Prince Georges
•County police force to provide
"ample protection” for county resi
dents was urged last night by the
county Civic Federation.
Meeting at the County Service
Building, Hyattsville, the group
named a 12-member committee to
I study police needs and to determine
how enlargement of the force may
be financed.
me leaerauon acted alter Kaipn
W. Brown, county police superin
tendent, described difficulties of the
present force because of being un
dermanned. He told the federation
he would "like to see" 100 men on
the force, instead of 38 as at present.
The civic group also adovcated
immediate action to control flood
waters at the Peace Cross. Bladens
burg.
Praises Police Force.
In his appeal to the federation
for more men, Chief Brown praised
members of his force, but added.
“We can’t give the protection we'd
like to give.”
He explained that Montgomery
County has almost 100 more police
men than Prince Georges, even
though the population of the former
county is smaller.
Because of the small forcj, it
sometimes is necessary to have only
one scout car on duty, Chief Brown
said.
Chief Brown suggested the possi
bility of consolidating or replacing
town police forces with county po
lice. Asserting some town police are
“good men,” Chief Brown added
that the “majority have other jobs
during the day and the only time
you can get them Is in the evening.”
Five Towns Have Police Radios.
Police of only five towns, Hyatts
ville, Mount Rainier, Brentwood,
Colmar Manor and Bladensburg,
have cars equipped with police ra
dios, by which they can keep in
contact with county police, Chief
Brown said. But the county police
often have to assist in those towns
as well as the rest of the county, he
added.
A larger, contralized force under
one command would provide more
efficient protection, the superin
tendent said. But, he warned,
people who want a larger force must
also agree to pay more taxes for it.
The majority of those present
last night were in accord with his
recommendations, and stated they
would be willing to pay increased
taxes. Walter F. Mulligan, federa
tion president, estimated that an
additional 62 men on the force
would mean about $155,000 more in
the county budget and aibout 9 cents
more on the county tax rate unless
other means are devised to raise
the money.
.Two Possibilities Suggested.
Members of the group suggested
two possibilities—establishment of a
liquor dispensary system similar to
the one in Montgomery County and
the legalizing of gambling. Discus
sion of both suggestions was de
ferred until the September meeting.
Named to the committee which
will investigate all aspects of the
police situation before appearing
before the Prince Georges County
commissioners were Daniel M.
Greene of Avondale, chairman:
Charles F. Luebner, University
Park: Frank Fierstein, Bladensburg;
George W. Bowen. District Heights;
George L. Ickes, Bowie; Mrs. Gene
vieve Stewart, Riverdale Heights;
Mrs. Betty Tayman, Cheverly; Mrs.
Dorothy E. Sousa, West Hyattsville;
Mrs. Catherine Bull Jordan, Avon
dale; Albert F. Bird, Temple Hills:
Dr. Herman Dubuy, Berwyn, and
Mr. Mulligan, also of Berwyn.
Mr. Ickes told the federation that
twice during the past week’s heavy
rains, the Peace Cross area has
been flooded.
The federation voted to seek the
aid of Senators Tydings and O’Conor
and Representative Sasscer, all Dem
ocrats of Maryland, for immediate
action at Bladensburg instead of
“waiting for long-range plans” to
curb the floods. The group also in
structed a committee, headed by
Fred W. G»st of Cheverly, to con
tact the Army engineers’ office in
Washington and the Maryland State
Roads Commission in regard to their
flood control plans.
3-Sfafe Parley on Pollution
In Potomac Set Wednesday
by the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 6. — Three
States and an interstate organiza
tion will be represented at a confer
ence next week on pollution control
in the upper Potomac River.
Paul W. McKee, executive secre
tary of the Maryland Water Pollu
tion Control Commission, said yes
terday that Dr. Joseph H. McLain, '
president of the agency, will be host
at the meeting in Chestertown on
Wednesday.
*A control program developed there
will be considered by the Maryland
commission two days later.
Officials who will confer at Ches
tertown are:
Dr. McLain, Frank Wachter and
Mr. McKee of the Maryland com
mission; Edwin R. Cotton and
Prince Georges State Senator L.
Harold Sothoron of the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac River
Basin; Kenneth S. Watson of the
West Virginia Water Commission,
and a representative of the Pennsyl
vania Sanitary Water Board.
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