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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1950
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Smith to Back
Area Planning
Commission Bill
House Action to Be
Sought Soon After
Congress Reconvenes
By Don S. Warren
Representative Smith, Democrat,
of Virginia, a key member of the
House District Committee, an
nounced todaf he would support
the Senate-passed bill to reorgan
ize the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
Action on the measure, which
for months Jias been stymied in
the House Committee, is to be
sought soon after Congress recon
venes November 27.
Mr. Smith, who earlier this year
held up action on the bill, said he
would support its enactment be
cause of favorable positions taken
by Arlington County authorities.
The legislation, recommended by
the Budget Bureau after a two
year study;of regional planning
problems in this area, has been
given new'impetus lately by the
needs of joint planning for the de
fense of the Capital area.
Not “Satisfied.”
Mr. Smith had withheld his ap
proval pn the thought that, in the
reorganization of the planning
body, Virginia should be given
larger representation.
But he Isubmitted the problem
to the Arlington County Board and
its planning commission and they
recommended acceptance. Though
not “satisfied ’, Mr. Smith said he
would aid District Committee
Chairman McMillan in seeking
final action. “Even one Virginia
representative on the planning
commission,” he said, “is better
than none.”
In proposing some enlargement
of the powers of the National Cap
ital planning body, the bill also
would enlarge its membership to
specially designated members from
Maryland and Virginia .
3 From District.
Under the pending bill, the com
mission membership would in
clude at least three District repre
sentatives .
There would be five ex-officio
members: Chief of Army Engi
neers, the Engineer Commissioner
of the District, the architect of the
Capitol, the director of the Na
tional Parks Service and the Fed
eral Works Administration, in ad-1
ditton to the chairman of the
House and Senate District Com
mittee.
In addition, the President would
name five eminent citizens, at
leaat one of them a bona fide
citizen of the District.
Three additional citizens would
be named, one each by the Gov
ernors of Virginia and Maryland,
and one nominated by the District i
Commissioners.
/The Smith declaration opened
the way for active consideration
of the measure when Congress
meets again, but a fight still was
in sight.
Mr. Smith said he would add to'
his approval of the planning ccftn
mission bill a call to amend the
Capper-Cramton to include Vir
ginia in Federal .loans for park
and playground land acquisition.
When this law was enacted Vir
ginia did not have the necessary
enabling act, but now has one,
Mr. Smith said.
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Former Winery Owner
Sues Arlington Bank
The Arlington Trust Co., Inc.,
is being sued for $100,000 by the
former owner of the Old Domin-1
ion Vineyards Winery at Rosslyn.
Antoine L. Alaj, 1510 Key boule- j
vard, charges in a suit filed in
circuit court that the bank sold
the winery in 1946 for approxi
mately $6,500 to pay off loans
made by the bank to Mr. Alaj.
The plaintiff says that stock
and equipment at the platf't were
worth at least $30,000 ifnd the
business was worth at least
$75,000.
Mr. AJal also says that no ac
counting of the sale/6f the prop
erty has been made' to him. Be
fore the time the property was
attached by the bank in 1946,
Mr. Alaj said, the property and:
business were under the manage
ment of an agent of the defend
ant by virtue of an agreement
“entered into at the insistence of:
the defendants” in January of the
same year.
Voters in Prince Georges
Register on Two Tuesdays
Prince Georges County’s 47 vot
ing places will be open from 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m. today and next Tuesday
for registration of persons eligible
to vote in the November 7 election.
Revisions and transfers will be
made October 17.
The county Board of Election
Supervisors said registrations will
not be accepted on these days at
the Upper Marlboro courthouse
because records have been sent
to the polling places.
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Shooting of Boy, 15,
At Bryans Road Probed
Special Dispatch to The Star
BRYANS ROAD, Md„ Oct. 3.—
State police are investigating the
circumstances surrounding the
shooting here last night of Henry
V. Lewis, a 15-year-old colored
boy.
The boy was taken to Freed
mens Hospital, Washington, short
ly after the shooting at 10 p.m.
with bullet wounds in the neck
|nd face. The hospital said his
condition is fair.
' Police said shots were fired from
a .38-caliber revolver by Adolph
Woolford, who said the boy was
prowling around his home.
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Dog Owners Facing Eviction
From 5 Alexandria Projects
Mrs. Charles B. Wright of Chinquapin Village holds her pet
Chihuaha, Twinkle. Mrs. Wright, who is partly crippled with
arthritis, said the dog keeps her company when she is alone.
—Star Staff Photo.
Dog owners in five Alexandria
public housing projects face evic
tion November 1 unless they get
rid of their pets.
The no-tjog order was handed
down by the Alexandria Rede
velopment and Housing Authority
which operates the five projects
—Cameron Valley, Chinquapin
Village, John Roberts Homes.
George W. Parker Homes and
Samuel Madden Homes.
Housing officials today reported
that there are 14 tenants in the
five projects who have not com-,
plied with the order and have been I
served notice to move.
380 Sign Petition.
The housing authority has stuck
by its decision, despite a petition
signed by more than 380 tenants1
and a plea by Representative
Smith, Democrat, of Virginia. Mr.
Smith’s letter in behalf of the ten
ants facing eviction was considered
by the housing authority last week,
but it was decided not to change i
the decision made in July. *
Edmund F. Ticer, chairman of
the Housing Authority, said it
would be unfair to tenants who
had got rid of their dogs to change
the order now. He said the Hous
ing Authority had voted‘the dog
ban after receiving many com
plaints from other tenants about
the large number of dogs roam
ing through the project. He said
that pets are prohibited in most
privately owned apartment-type
projects in the area.
Compromise Offered.
Dog-loving tenants, meanwhile,
have sought to compromise with
the housing officials. They wanted
to sign agreements to keep their
dogs from being nuisances.
Their pleas unheeded, the ten
ants now promise a legal battle
to keep their homes and dogs,
said Mrs. Jean Vandenberg of
Cameron Valley, who owns a
cocker spaniel and a dalmatian.
Among those who have gotten
rid of their pets is a little boy
who had to have his blind dog
disposed of. He couldn’t find any
one who would take a blind dog.
West Montgomery
Citizens Preparing
Civil Detense Setup
The West Montgomery County
Citizens’ Association last night
took action to sei up a civil de
fense committee.
The civic group which met in
the Potomac Elementary School,
approved formation of a six-man
committee to prepare the area’s
defense in case of emergency
after Jacques Torfs, chairman of;
a special exploratory committee,
gave his report. Mr. Torfs said
there would be "10,000 to 20,000”
refugees from Washington over
j running the west Montgomery
; area and in need of assistance.
The association elected James
Buchanan as president, succeed
ing David L. Weed, who has be
come president of the county
:wide Parent-Teacher Association..
Other Officers Chosen.
Other officers elected are: Nor
man Parks, first vice president;
Godfrey KaufTmann, second vice
president; Alvin Dunham, secre
tary, and William Robinson, tieas
urer. Valourous Hougen, Allan
Elliot, Arnold Burr, Arthur Sylves
ter and Mr. Weed were named
directors.
Special guests were three county
political figures: Mrs. Stella B.
Werner, Democratic candidate for
'the County Council; Col. Norman
Ames, Charter Committee chair
man, and De Witt S. Hyde. Re
publican candidate for the State
i Senate.
In a spirited political talk Col.
Ames voiced his support of Mrs.
Werner for the counci'., but she
j replied she would have to regard
the charter group as a Republican
unit.
Objects to Brooke Lee Label.
Declaring she was not obligated
, to any one person or group, Mrs.
Werner said, “It is time Democrats
can organize without having an
old Brooke Lee tag put on them.”
Mrs. Werner told the meeting
that Democratic council members
would not tamper with the present
county government or personnel,
except in the interest of good
government.
Mr. Hyde called for a Republi
can administration as proof the
county is not under the Lee ma
chine, and charged Democrats
have never proved they were for
home rule in Montgomery. He
defended the record of the all Re
publican Montgomery delegation
at Annapolis.
Col. Ames hailed the “magnifi
cent job” done by the present
County Council.
Suitland PTA to Meet
The Suitland Elementary School
Parent-Teacher Association will
hold its first fall meeting at 8 p.m.
tomorrow in the school with a re
ception for teachers and introduc
tion of School Board trustees.
Grand Jury to Act
In Larceny Charges
On Arlington Builder
An Arlington builder Is free on
$1,000 bond awaiting action of a
grand jury on a grand larceny
charge stemming from his alleged
failure to complete a house after
he accepted a $3,000 down pay
ment.
Thirteen civil suits, totaling
$12,700, also face the builder, Lu
cian M. Downing of 3712 North
Eighteenth street, in connection
with houses he agreed to build,
but according to his customers
never completed.
The warrant charging grand
larceny was sworn out by Herman
L. Croom of 2 Ashby street. Alex
andria, who said Mr. Downing was
going to build him a house on
North Thirty-fourth street in Ar
lington.
Mr. Downing waived preliminary
hearing in county court yester
day before Judge Hugh Reid.
One of the civil suits was filed
by Mr. Croom. In another suit,
Robert A. Hoover, 802 Tennessee
avenue, Alexandria, says he paid
Mr. Downing $1,275 for construc
tion of a house that was never
completed.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Chowe
of Alexandria asked court action
on a $3,500 payment they say they
made to the builder without any
return.
Ten other claims against Mr.
Downing have been taken to
county court. Six of these are
brought by persons who say they
paid him between $500 and $825
as deposit on homes he did not
complete.
Paul A. Hill to Leave
Arlington Chamber
Paul A. Hill today announced
his resignation as business mana
ger of the Arlington Chamber of
Commerce. He has held the post
for 10 years.
Mr. Hill announced that No
vember 1 he will become field rep
resentative in Northern Virginia
for the Virginia Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults.
Woodbury Appointed
Falls Church Manager
W. Rhodes Woodbury last night
was officially appointed Falls
Church city manager at a special
meeting of the City Council.
Mr. Woodbury, 43, is from Suf
folk, Va. He succeeds Roy S.
Braden, who resigned.
Thomas Gilmer Resigns
Thomas Gilmer, assistant com
monwealth’s attorney for Arling
ton for the last three years, has
resigned, effective October 15. He
will re-enter private practice in
Arlington.
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140 Cases Put
Before County
Grand Jury
Judge Calls List
"Formidable"; Points
To Arson Charges
The Prince Georges County
grand jury today had before it
140 criminal cases. Circuit Court
convened yesterday for the fall
term.
Judge Charles C. Marbury called
the list a “formidable” one and
remarked that the number of
arson cases was unusually large.
A total of 14 such presentments,
most of them connected with
a series of barn fires last summer
in the Porestville-Rosaryville area,
are to be considered. Seven young
volunteer firemen have been ac
cused of starting the fires.
Three Murder Cases.
Included in the presentments
are three murder cases, one of
manslaughter, nine of aggravated
assault, six of rape or assault on
women, three of robbery, nine of
burglary and house breaking, 17
of larceny, 23 of false pretense
and 55 of less serious nature.
Heath Berry, of 7218 Central
avenue, Capitol Heights, was
named grand jury foreman. The
group includes three women. Mr.
Berry is an official in the District
insuring office of the Federal
Housing Administration.
One prospective grand juror
failed to answer when he name
was drawn. He was Frederick
Fischer, a 69-year-old watchman
at the Beltsville . experimental
farm. Judge Marbury issued an
attachment order, but Fischer
showed up while detectives were
en route to his home. He was
ordered to pay $2.50 costs, and was
excused from jury service. Fischer
explained that he was hitch hik
ing to court and that he had to
wait a long time before he found
an accommodating motorist.
Judge Marbury’s Charge.
in his charge. Judge Marbury
said that while the criminal
docket was heavier than usual,
there was no indication of a coun
jty-wide crime wave.
“It is not a situation to cause
alarm.” the judge said, “but rath
er may be considered as the natu
ral and normal result of a rapid
increase in population.”
Referring to the State’s effort
to enforce the Ober Anti-Com
munist Law, Judge Marbury said
county authorities had been in
structed to notify judges in ad
vance of court terms when they
have such cases.
“Neither that State’s Attorney
nor any other person,” has sub
mitted any evidence of subversive
activities in Prince Georges Coun
ty, ne added.
Other members of the grand
Jury are Orrow P. Collins, Clar
ence H. Swick, James H. Ellis,
William R. Wareheim, John
Weems, Quinton C. Stephanson,
Luther H Mumford, Benjamin
Briscoe, E. Ernest Bailey, Ernest
E. Brock. Thurmon Scott, Lewis
Letcher, Mrs. Lydia W. Bram
baugh. Robert Wilson, Leo J.
Loenig, William H. Shockley,
: Thomas G. Foreacre, Albert L.
Moreland, Albert B. Brown, George
H. Keigley. Mrs. Eunice Turner
and Mrs. Verna Sweeney.
H. M. Bradley, Post Office
Veteran, Retires at 70
Henrv M Bradley, 70, a veteran
of over 48 years with the Post Of
fice Department, retired Saturday
without a ceremony.
Mr. Bradley,
who lives at
4109 Lei and
street, Chevy
Chase, Md., re
tired as exam
iner of equip
ment and sup
plies in the Di
vision of Fed
eral Building
Operations. He
had held this
p o s ition since
May 1, 1942.
Ana tive of
Chester, S. C., Mr- Br»dl*>
Mr. Bradley came to Washington
at 13 with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Bradley. In February,
1902, he joined the postal service
as a clerk.
At his retirement he was pre
| sented a remembrance book signed
I by Postmaster General Donaldson
: and fellow employes.
Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Brad
ley live with them at the Leland
street address. They are Patrick
C. and John E. Bradley. The other
son, Major William O. Bradley, is
stationed at Fort Meade, Md.
Planning Delegates Chosen
Col. Lathrop E. Smith, Travi
lah, and Frederick Gutheim,
Mount Ephraim, have been named
delegates by the Upper Montgom
ery County Planning Commission
to the recently formed Washing
ton Regional Planning Council.
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Unpredictable Parking Meters
Trouble Hyattsville Council
It’s anybody’s guess how much
time a nickel will buy in a Hyatts
ville parking meter.
So said Police Chief Howard H.
Holmes at a meeting of the City
Council last night.
"Sometimes when you put a
penny in you get an hour's park
ing, or if you put a nickel in you
get only 12 minutes,” said Chief
Holmes. He thinks the city is
coming out on the short end. The
parking rate is supposed to be 1
cent for each 12 minutes.
The Council decided it had bet
ter look into the matter. City
Clerk E. W. Baker was asked to
have the meter company put the
devices in proper shape.
In addition, Chief Holmes was
given permission to look for an
additional policeman who can be
assigned to patrol meters on a full
time basis.
Mrs. Sue E. Anderson was con
firmed as clerk to City Treasurer
Howard C. Dingee. Her annual
salary will be $2,000.
Because of the uncertain eco
nomic conditions it has been de
cided to postpone the annual
home show held each October in
the Hyattsville Armory. If con
ditions permit, the show will be
held in the spring.
Historic Bladensburg Post Office to Move
By Charles A. McAleer
Bladensburg’s historic post office
—one of the 15 original ones in
the country—soon will vacate the
building it has occupied for nearly
a half-century.
Within the next 10 days, the
post office wijl be located at 4912
Annapolis road, in a new shopping
center just north of the Edmon
ston road intersection.
Since 1904, the nearby Mary
land postal agency has been
sharing the corner of a small
grocery at 4303 Baltimore avenue.
But times have changed in
Bladensburg and there now are
more people to serve. The present
post office has outgrown its
quarters.
When it moves, so will C. How
ard Brown, Bladensburg post
master. Mr. Brown, who is 48,
plans to give up the grocery busi
ness to devote his full efforts to
the postal assignment.
He is the 30th postmaster at
Bladensburg, having succeeded his
father, Hyman Brown, in April,
1937. The elder Mr. Brown had
served in the same capacity from
November, 1904, the date the post
office moved in with the grocery.
Original Post Office in 1775.
Before that—in fact, back to
the days when Bladensburg was
a port—the post office had been
located in private homes or with
other commercial enterprises. Ac
cording to postal records, the Bla
densburg post office was estab
lished in the Revolutionary War
days of 1775, some 25 years be
fore the one in Washington.*
In those days, English sailing
ships would come up the then
navigable Anacostia River to
Bladensburg. Chartered in 1742
as Garrison’s Landing, the com
munity subsequently was named
for Sir Thomas Bladen, governor
of the province at the time.
The register of Ben Franklin,
one of the founders of the Fed
eral postal system, indicates that
Bladensburg’s first postmaster was
Christopher Lowndes, the most
prominent and wealthiest town
merchant of the day. Mr.
Lowndes, history reveals, built
Bostwick, a house still in exist
ence, in 1746. Bostwick, now des
ignated as 3901 Forty-eighth
street, is the home of one of
Bladensburg’s most prominent
citizens, Mrs. Felix E. Cristofane.
Frederick Fair Opens
With 7,C J Entries
And $11,ClJ in Prizes
By th« Associated Press
FREDERICK. Md., Oct. 3.—
More than 7,000 entries, including
new records in at least two de
partments, have been received for
the 88th annual Frederick Fair
which opened today.
The 400 entries in the cattle de
partment and the 1,800 in the
poultry exhibition represent new
records for the fair.
Prize money totaling $11,000 will
be awarded. The fair will continue
through Saturday with tomorrow
Governor’s Day.
Calvert County to Open
Three-Day Fair Tomorrow
Special Dispatch to The Star
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md.,
Oct. 3.—The Calvert County fair
grounds are being put in shape
for a three-day agricultural fair
which will open tomorrow with
$3,000 in prize mofiey and new
facilities for livestock.
In accordance with tradition,
entries will be received only from
Calvert County owners. The
county has, however, some of the
best livestock in Southern Mary
land as well as outstanding farm
and home products.
Exhibits will be brought to the
fair grounds near here tomorrow.
All entries except livestock will be
judged Thursday. Livestock will
be judged Friday.
Among the feature exhibits will
be booths arranged by the coun
ty’s homemakers, 4-H, FFA and
Future Homemakers of America
clubs The Homemakers will set
up a snack bar on the grounds.
Chevy Chase Hadassah
To Give Fashion Show
The Bethesda - Chevy Chase
chapter of Hadassah will sponsor
a fashion show of Israeli frocks at
8:30 pun. Thursday in the Mont
gomery County Jewish Commu
nity Center on the East-West
highway.
The costumes to be modeled
were designed and tailored by stu
dents of the Institute of Fashion
and .Design in Jerusalem, opened
last year under sponsorship of
Hadassah. In addition to modern
creations, three traditional native
costumes worn on the Sabbath by
Jews will be shown.
Choir Alumni to Meet
The Bethesda - Chevy Chase
High School A Capella Choir i
Alumni Association will hold its!
first meeting of the season at 8
p.m. Thursday at the home of
President Paul R. Gowen, 4402
Dahill road, Viers Mill Village.
C. Howard Brown, Bladensburg postmaster, examines sign on
historic post office building. —Star Staff Photo.
The post office once was located
on the Lowndes property.
Current Activity Limited.
Bladensburg now has a second
class post office, which means it
does between $8,000 and $40,000
worth of business annually. Its
^activities currently are limited to
"general delivery, box service and
over-the-counter sales of stamps,
money orders and the like.
Postmaster Brown and other
citizens of the community hope
Bladensburg some day will have
its own home delivery service.
That's a function now handled by
i the considerably larger HyattsVille
] Post Office.
“In 1947,” Mr. Brown declared,
| “they said we would have deliv
ery service when larger quarters
are secured. Now that we’re get
ting them, we should have it.”
Mr. Brown has the active sup
port of Mayor Andrew F. Gasch
and the Bladensburg Town Coun
cil. Recently, the council voted
to circulate petitions for signa
tures of town residents who want
home delivery service.
Bladensburg is one of eight
Prince Georges County communi
ties which maintain their own
post offices. Hyattsville, the larg
est, has numerous branches lo
cated in various suburban com
munities and has been waging
an all-out fight to obtain a cen
tral post office for the county.
Bladensburg residents, however,
like their independence and want
delivery service to boot.
Arlington Board Member
Held as Drunken Driver.
F. Freeland Chew, a member of
| the Arlington County Board, has
been charged with drunken driv
, ing in Fairfax County.
Mr. Chew, Fairfax County police
records disclose, was arrested
about 6 p.m. Saturday on Routes
211 and 29 between the town of
Fairfax and Fairfax Circle by
Virginia State Trooper J. S.
Atkins.
Mr. Chew, who lives at 1502
North Edison street, was placed in
jail after being booked and re
mained there until he was re
leased under $500 bond about
11 p.m.
A hearing is set for 10 a.m.
next Tuesday in Fairfax Trial
i Justice Court.
Mr. Chew today denied the
charge, and said he had witnesses
i who would testify that tie was
jnot driving while drunk,
i “I will let the trial speak for it
self,’ he added.
Child Hurt by Scyid Box
In Fair Condition Today
A 2-year-old Arlington girl who
suffered a skull fracture yesterday
when a sand box fell on her, was
in fair condition today at Arling
ton Hospital.
1 The child, Mary Oman, daugh
ter of Maj. and Mrs. Paul W.
Oman, was hurt in the back yard
of her nome at 5215 South
Eleventh street.
Maj. Oman said he built the
4-foot-square sand box for Mary
and her 9-month-old sister, Patsy.
The box was standing against the
house because the Omans are
rounding up their possesions to
move to 3d Army headquarters at
Fort McPherson, Ga., where Maj.
Oman has been transferred.
First Woman Graduate
Of Maryland U. Dies
By th« Associated Press
CENTREVILLE, Md„ Oct. 3.—
Mrs. Elizabeth Hook Day, the first
girl to be graduated from the Uni
versity of Maryland, died Sunday
night after an illness of several
months.
She was the wife of Frank Day,
Kent County superintendent of
schools. Mrs. Day was born in
Baltimore 54 years ago and grad
uated from the University of
Maryland in 1920. She majored
in biology.
Hyattsville Attorney
Named "Crusade" Chief
Ernest W. Cory, Hyattsville at
torney and resident of Laurel, has
been named regional chairman of
the Crusade for Freedom, the
Maryland headquarters announced.
The Crusade for Freedom,
headed nationally by Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, is a campaign to fight
Communism by enrolling people to
sign freedom scrolls and to con
tribute to the expansion of meth
ods of getting the truth about
democracy to the people behind
the Iron Curtain.
One-Way Traffic Faces
Fight in Harrisonburg
By the Associated Press
HARRISONBURG, Va., Oct. 3.
—The Retail Merchants Associa
tion has employed an attorney to
study the possibility of court ac
tion on the one-way traffic sys
tem which has been installed here.
Beginning yesterday, traffic is
moving north only on Main Street
and south only on Liberty Street
for the length of the city in an
effort to solve the municipality’s
traffic congestion problem.
4-H Teams of Area
Capture Honors in
Atlantic Exposition
By James Birchfield
Star Staff Correspondent
RICHMOND, Va.. Oct. 3. —
Herds from five States will com
pete here today as judging begins
in the beef department of the At
lantic Rural Exposition.
The Aberdeen-Angus herds will
go on parade with Washington
area cattle farms well represented.
In the dairy division, the Guern
sey herds also will be judged
today.
In the junior events yesterday,
young farmers from northern Vir
ginia and nearby Maryland took
their share of championship rib
bons.
Fairfax Prize Winner.
The grand champion prize in
the junioi Holstein event went to
Ben P. Middleton of Fairfax
County, with another Fairfax 4-H
member. Mary Alice Cissel, taking
reserve champion in the Guernsey
contests.
In toe Jersey classes, the grand
championship went to Carol Mills,
daughter of Paul Mills, of Gai
thersourg, Md.
Miss Mills, who showed two
calves for fellow 4-H clubbers who
could not be present, also won
three first places for herself a d
one each for Alice and Clarabelle
Fraley of Derwood. Md.
In addition to young Middleton,
who also took first place in
Daughter-Dam class, other Fair
fax County first place winners in
cluded Margie Ann Sutphin, three
firsts in the Holstein classes, and
Channing Smith, who took a first
in the Guernsey classes. All are
expected to compete in the open
classes.
Maryland Teams Win.
Maryland teams took first place
in both dairy and livestock con
tests.
An all - Montgomery , County
team took first honors in the
livestock judging contest. Mem
bers are Millard Lethbridge, Ash
ton; Donald Hobbs, Sandy Spring;
Harold Mullinex, Damascus, who
was high scorer, and Herbert
King, Damascus.
Members of the winning Mary
land dairy judging team included
Bruce Berlage, Olney; Ellen
Chambers, daughter of Whitaker
Chambers, Westminster; Dean
Hash, Cecil County, high scorer,
and Richard Simons, Harford
County.
In the poultry judging events, a
Loudoun County, Va„ team com
posed of Charles Poland, Robert
Ellis and Phil Marshall, took first
place.
Maryland 4-H Team
Wins in Iowa Show
WATERLOO, Iowa, Oct. 3 (>P).—
The Maryland 4-H dairy cattle
judging team won first place in
the dairy exposition here yesterday
for the fourth time in the last
five years. The group competed
against teams from 20 other
States.
In addition to winning the most
votes in the entire exposition, tht
Maryland team was high in judg
ing Jersey and Ayrshire cows and;
second in judging Brown Swiss
cows.
Members are Barbara Riggs,
18, Gaithersburg; , Janice Palmer,
18, Olney; Glenn McGrady, 16,
Rising Sun, and Robert Barton,
20, Queen Annes County.
Lack of Transit
Hampers Negro
Junior College
19 Carver Students
Of 40 Expected Are
Present on First Day
Carver Junior College in Rock
ville, first public junior college
for Negroes in Maryland, is being
seriously crippled by lack of trans
portation.
Only 19 of an estimated 40 stu
dents who expressed intention of
enrolling in the new college were
on hand for the start of classes
yesterday. The main reason for
their absence is lack of trans
portation, according to Dean Par
lett L. Moore, who has scoured
the county for means of getting
students to the school.
Also to blame, he said, was a
rule requiring full payment of the
college's $85-per-term tuition.
‘‘Many just didn’t have it.” he
said yesterday, “and we are now
making arrangements for them to
pay in installments.
‘ Students Scattered.
“But it is the transportation
difficulty that discourages most
of those who want to come to col
lege,” Dean Moore said. He ex
plained that the county has not
provided public transportation
and that many of Montgomery’s
Negro communities are scattered
; through the upper part of the
county, far from public transpor
tation routes. Montgomery Junior
! College for white students, in
Takoma Park, draws most of its
! students from the suburban areas.
| “In a few cases we have or
I ganized car pools, and a few stu
dents have made arrangements to
spend the night near the school,”
Mr. Moore said. “And we are try
ing for more transportation ar
rangements.” He said four more
students may enroll tonight at the
i college, now situated in Lincoln
High School pending completion
of the new Carver School building.
Dean Moore explained that
school buses now take high school
! children home and then remain
at the homes of the drivers. He
indicated it might be possible for
the buses to bring college students
back to Rockville, returning after
the evening sessions at 10 p.m.
College Has Faculty of Fire.
Dr. Edwin W. Broome, superin
tendent of schools, said today the
transportation problem had not
come to his attention. He said it
was “not a usual pattern” for
school systems to provide trans
portation for college students.
“We have not considered the
'problem,” he said.
The new Negro college has been
set up to offer both vocational and
academic courses and has a faculty
of five, including Dr. Irene Hypps,
head of business education in the
!District colored schools. Most of
the students, including one mother
of three, have chosen such courses
and secretarial work and other
vocational subjects.
’ Montgomery Junior College
opened its fifth year yesterday on
I its new campus, formerly the Bliss
Electrical School, with an enroll
ment of more than 500.
Tremont Citizens Reaffirm
County Manager Stand
The Tremont Citizens’ Associa
tion last night reaffirmed its sup
port of the Fairfax County Feder
ation of Citizens’ Associations in
advocating adoption of a county
manager form of government.
More than 30 members who at
tended the meeting at 125 Fair
mont street voted unanimously to
reiterate the group’s stand. Offi
cers explained the question was
brought up because1 the newly
formed Fairfax League of Civic
Associations had challenged the
right of the Federation to act for
its member groups.
The Federation is fighting for
adoption of a county manager gov
ernment and the league seeks
adoption of a county executive
government. A referendum will
be held November 7 offering those
two alternatives and retention of
the present government.
The association nominated Har
old A. Ward to receive The Eve
ning Star Cup for civic service.
Mr. Ward is past president of the
Tremont Gardens group and of
the federation.
Self-Service Gas Station
Court Fight Postponed
A court fight against Alexan
dria’s, ban on self-service gasoline
stations had been continued to
December 4 with less than half
the case completed.
Attorneys for H. C. Wills, oper
ator of Alexandria’s only self
service station opened the case
yesterday in Alexandria Circuit
Court with testimony to show that
fire officials do not consider self
service stations unsafe.
The City Council adopted an
ordinance outlawing self-service
stations last July after Mr. Wills
already had opened for business
at 3216 River road. The court has
issued a temporary injunction pro
hibiting the city from closing Mr.
Wills’ station pending outcome of
his suit.
John E. Posey, Alexandria fire
marshal, testified he thought Mr.
Wills’ station is as safe as a con
ventional station.
District Fire Marshal Raymond
Roberts said self-service stations
such as Mr. Wills' are allowed in
the District.
Minister of Music Named
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct.
3 (Special).—Robert C. Renfro of
Knoxville, Tenn., has accepted a
call to become minister of music
at the First Baptist Church here.