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SOCIETY—CLUBS—RECIPES ^SMjV QwvlllilJJ ^5lvll THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1951
May Days in D. C.
There isn’t a Maurice Chevalier in sight, but District Com
missioners F. Joseph Donohue (left) and John Russell Young
stage a preview of straw hat day (Saturday) with lids supplied
by the Retail Clothiers’ Division of the Merchants and Manu
facturers’ Association.
Lots of honors were handed out in Wilson High School’s
11th annual May Day observance, but Judy Agee, 18, of 3411
Thirtieth street N.W., had only to look pretty to be the May
Queen. She is crowned by Don Scott, 4817 Thirty-sixth street
N.W., president of the Student Council.
With a radiant, curving smile, Screen Star Esther Williams
brings new sights to Walter Reed Hospital. Here for personal
appearances, she staged a swimming exhibition and one-woman
beauty parade for the veterans.
With smiles all around, the University of Maryland’s May
Queen, Eliza Ann Riggins, 20, is crowned by Diane Varn, chair
man of the May Day Committee. —Star Staff Photos.
A 4
Leoffler Terms
Under Fire at
Budget Hearing
D. C. Seeks $275,000
To Take Up Five-Year
Golf Course Contract
By Don S. Warren
Proposals to transfer control
over public golf courses to the
District Recreation Board today
provoked a spirited debate at a
House hearing on the city’s 1952
supply bill.
Operation of .the courses by
S. G. Leoffler was attacked and
defended at the hearing in the
caucus room of the House Office
Building.
Arguments turned on the pro
posed inclusion of $275,000 to take
up Leoffler contract, which has
been renewed for five years.
Hospital Council Asks More.
A fight for an increase in the
medical charities fund, covering
the care of indigent patients at
private hospitals here, was made
by H. L. Rust, jr„ first vice pres
ident of Episcopal Hospital.
Speaking for the Hospital
Council of the National Capital
Area, he urged that the budgeted
item of $500,000 be increased to
$894,000. This would permit an
increase in the rate paid to hos
pitals from $9 to $12.50 a day for
hospital patients a.nd from $2 to
$2.50 for out-patients.
A plea for a 17.5 per cent pay
increase for firemen and police
men earning less than $5,000 a
year was presented by Elmer F
Richter and Mrs. Ernest W. How
ard. representing the Federation
of Citizens’ Associations.
Low Pay Criticized.
These witnesses said investiga
tion showed ‘‘shocking conditions’
under which members of the de
partments have to live because ol
the level of their pay.
A recurring fight over th<
Leoffler contracts in and out ol
Congress for a number of year;
[finally brought an audit of the
Leoffler accounts by the Genera
i Accounting Office. This is th<
[first time the Commissioner;
[have included in their budget re
quests a fund to permit the Rec
reation Board to take control
Under a current agreement, Mr
Leoffler will hnlrt on tn five.
year contract for its full term un
less an appropriation is made thi;
year or next to take up the con
tract.
Chairman Bates of the Appro
priations subcommittee consider
ing the $136 million budget hearc
pleas for funds for recreationa
developments, play directors anc
numerous other improvements.
Debate over golf course contro
was opened by Representativi
Poulson, Republican, of Californii
who made a bitter attack on thi
Leoffler management, charginf
that it had operated with “thi
most loose system of bookkeeping'
he could imagine.
“Baffled” by “Influence.”
Mr. Poulson, a certified publii
accountant, said his study of re
ports on the Leoffler managemen
showed “clever but legal method
of defrauding the Government.”
Mr. Poulson attacked what h
called “fictitious expenses.” H
said $200,000 had been paid out u
cash for the Leoffler payrolls am
that the employes had not beei
required to sign for their wages
Mr. Poulson said he had dis
covered that Mr. Leoffler had “in
fluence” and that he found thi
“one of the most baffling thing
I’ve encountered.”
This brought to the stand Jo
seph Healy, an attorney employei
at the Justice Department, wh
had been mentioned by Mr. Poul
son as one who had written a let
ter supporting Mr. Leoffler.
More Calls for Money Seen.
He expressed surprise at hi
“influence” and said: “If I hav
influence I am unaware of it
I wish I had some.”
Mr. Healy said that last Jan
uary he did write a letter to mem
bers of Congress.
Chairman Bates interrupted t
say, “You’re not the only on
who has written letters to Con
gress.”
Mr. Healy said the propose
expenditure of $275,000 to turn th
management over to the Recrea
tion Board would be only the firs
cost, that there would be mor
iiiwit xuuxicj xatci. n
said people who criticize th
Leoffler management are thos
who do not play on the Leoffle
courses. He argued that the fee
charged on the courses are lowe
than he has encountered else
where, including Covington, Ky
and Cincinnati, Ohio.
What is proposed here, M:
Healy said, is that “a totally in
experienced group” take over th
igolf course management.
Vivian O. Hill, an attorney an
a golfer, also supported the Leof
fler management and said the onl
complaint that he had was tha
• “more people want to play on th
courses than they are designed t
accommodate.”
Mr. Hffl said that Harry S. Wen
der, Recreation Board chairmai
would not have time to run th
golf courses and also to conduct h
private law practice. “He will hav
to give up one or the other.”
Play Centers Urged.
Wilson Reid, president of th
East Potomac Golf Associatioi
also supported the Leoffler man
agement.
Mrs. John K. Berry, speakin
for the Pre-School Play Cent<
Mothers’ Council, urged the con:
mittee to grant a $55,000 budg(
for pre-school play centers. Th
is about $30,000 above past outlaj
for the purpose.
A group of witnesses urge
funds for improvements and moi
directors for recreation areas i
the North Washington, Palisade
4 k
Ice Palace T ransformed Into Ideal Studib for WMAL-TV
Here’s an intimate shot of what it’s like on set at WMAL-TV’s new Connecticut avenue studios. This was made during the
Tailwagers show (6:45 p.m. Monday), with Representative Claude I. Bakewell of Missouri (left) as guest of Mrs. William Arnold
and Bryson flash, conductors of the program. The children are Robin Stephenson, his dog Coffy and Robin Hughes, on donkey.
—
j The Star’* television station has
solved one of the perplexities of
(the still youthful industry by set
ting up housekeeping in a big new
(home.
By gradual stages the station
jhas converted the Chevy Chase:
Ice Palace. 4461 Connecticut ave
nue N.W., and now is conducting
all its operations there.
| With the walls of its downtown
studios fairly bulging, WMAL-TV
:went house hunting and found
' the Ice Palace met the peculiar
requirements almost to a T(V). -
And besides, there was space
for a much-needed auditorium for
1 audience-participation programs.
With no interference from pil
lars or walls, the TV studio de
signers would divide the space as;
’ they pleased. High ceTTings met;
‘ the needs of technicians, con
: cerned with a multitude of lights,
! and there was ample space for
microphone and camera move
l ment.
; It all added up to two large
. studios, called “working studios’’
>by those in the trade, an audi
torium seating 195 persons, con
trol rooms and offices.
Even the building’s mezzanine,
where spectators once watched
(gliding skaters, worked in per
. fectly for control rooms, an an
' nouncer’s studio and sponsor’s
vicirintr rnnrn ftvorlnntinrr tVsn Tnrn
t large studios.
WMAL-TV began moving out of
, its cramped downtown quarters
[ last October. It televised a daily
[ program from a temporary studio
j in the new quarters, monitored
1 and relayed to the transmitter at
American University from a
remote pickup truck outside.
By February, Studio B was
5 ready for occupancy and now both
3 main studios aqd the auditorium
. St. Elizabeths and Cleveland Park
j sections.
} Among specific proposals were
. floodlighting for the stadium at
. Coolidge High School and a utility
building and other improvements
for the Macomb Street Recreation
Center in Cleveland Park .
School Improvements Urged.
The committee heard proposals
for construction of an administra
tion building for the Board of
Education on the grounds of the
Upshur Street Hospital. It also
j was urged to build an addition to
’ the Margaret Murray Washington
'School.
Bernard Finchgrund, represent
ing the Keene-Rudolph Parent
l Teacher Association urged an ap
5 propriation of $4,000 for better
‘ lighting, new flooring and other
1 improvements at the school,
g Mrs. Mildred Mavitte, for the
p Richardson Parent-Teacher Asso
® ciation, protested that the Rich
e ardson School was so crowded
r that classes had to be held In the
s auditorium.
r
L. H. Moses, jr., for the Payne
Webb PTA, said an eight-room
" addition to the Payne School was
. urgently needed.
L. C. Carey filed a statement
e asking for the immediate con
struction of a stadium at Coolidge
j High School.
Dunbar Improvements Asked.
y Robert G. McGuire, jr., urged
t a number of improvements for
e Dunbar High School.
«*»»• wovHUtiiuc IWUUIOUU, icp*
resenting the Brookline Citizens
■ Association, told the committee
>. the Slowe Elementary School, was
e in need of recreational areas be
s cause the children now have to
e Play in the streets at recess time.
Mrs. Joseph L. Miller, for the
Connecticut Avenue Citizens As
e sociation, asked the committee to
! grant $550,000 for the erection of
the projected Cleveland Park
branch library. The budget pro
g posal calls for $275,000.
r She reminded the committee
- that citizens of the area had raised
it $30,000 toward the purchase of
s the library site.
s Gardner L. Bishop, representing
the Consolidated Parent Group,
d protested against what he called
e discrimination on a racial basis in
n budgeting and operation of the
s, schools.
I
Looking over the shoulders of the producer and engineer, this is a control room view of
the show. —Star Staff Photo.
are in use. Each studio has its ducers, directors and other tech
own property room for storage ot nicians watch monitor screens,
scenery. Elaborate new Kliegl lighting
Cameras in any of the studios and scenic facilities brighten the
can be controlled from any of studio effects,
several control rooms where pro- WMAL-TV was the first station
in the country on the high bam
(above channel 6). It went on thi
air October 3, 1947, and threi
months later became the Nation'
first station to schedule program
every day of the week.
D. C. Leaders on New Board
To Raise Medical School Funds
Arnold Buses Crash;
13 Persons Treated
For Minor Injuries
Thirteen persons 'were slightl
injured when two Arnold Line
buses collided at North Wash
ington boulevard and Harriso:
street, Arlington, this mornin?
A total of 80 persons were on bot:
buses.
Six of the injured were treated
at Arlington Hospital for mine
injuries and released.
Arlington Policeman William H
Corsini said both buses were travel
ing east on the boulevard whe:
one crashed into the rear of th
other.
Mr. Corsini said a bus driven b
Marvin Milton Sweeney, 31, of 382
Wilson boulevard, struck the lei
rear of the other bus, operated b
Marvin Linwood Gibson, 42, c
4334 North Fairfax drive.
Mr. Sweeney said he was throw:
from his seat by the impact, whic:
came while he had one hand o
the wheel and was making chang
with the other. The badge on hi
cap was punched into his forehea
so that he had to pull the met£
out but the injury was not seriou:
Mr. Sweeney also suffered a cu
T-1
He was charged with reckles
driving and ordered to appear i
County Court for a hearing a
9:30 a.m. next Thursday. Mi
Gibson was summoned as a mate
rial witness.
Those treated at Arlington Ho;
pital and later sent home wer<
Mrs. Jessie Smith, 58, 819 Wes
Great Falls road, Falls Church
Mrs. Dorothy Sterling, 41, 180
North Tuckahoe street: Mrs. Alt
Hancock, 44, 1512 North Ohi
street: Mrs. Jimmy Dast, 25, c
5711 North Washington street
Mrs. Grace Walther,.40, of 623
North Second street, and Mr
Ruth Barclay, 39, of 6216 Nort
Twenty-second street.
University Park Fair
The University Park Scho<
will hold a parent’s get-togeth<
and community fair tomorro
night at the school in Universil
Park, Md.
4
Three Washington men were
named yesterday to the advisory
council of a new group which
plans to raise $5 million annually
to aid the Nation's hard-pressed
medical schools.
Establishment of the organiza
tion, to be called the National
Fund for Medical Education, was
announced in New York by for
mer President Hoover, its honor
ary chairman, and S. Sloan Colt,
fund president and president of
Bankers’ Trust Co.
Washington members of the
advisory council, which will map
the campaigns for private contri
butions, are: President J. Hunter
Guthrie. S. J., of Georgetown
University; President Mordecai W.
Johnson of Howard University,
and Dr. Walter A. Bloedorn, dean
of the George Washington Uni
versity School of Medicine.
Hopes to Surpass Mark.
The group hopes eventually to
surpass the $5 million a year mark
as support grows nationally.
“This sum will not completely
solve the distressing financial
problem of American medical edu
cation,” Mr. Colt said, “but it
represents an important voluntary
.effort to help relieve the acute
problem of the medical schools.”
H/Ty Unn.mx XT. i.
“short on medical skill’’ and med
ical attention, and added, in urg
ing contributions from business:
“The efficiency of an our com
merce and industry today is de
pendent on the skill of medicine.”
Wide Sponsorship Reported.
Officials of the fund said it has
the sponsorship of Industry, the
medical profession, organized la
bor, agriculture, a group of uni
versity presidents and 12 scien
tific organizations.
Mr. Colt said the fund trustees
have set up appropriate machin
ery for distributing the money
among the Nation’s medical
schools. He said its chief objec
tive is to seek voluntary contri
butions to relieve the problem
faced by medical schools in try
ing to maintain high academic
standards in the face of crippling
budgetary problems.
i
Harold E. Stassen, president of
the University of Pennsylvania,
told the assembled trustees and
advisory council members:
"We are in danger of weaken
ing and deteriorating medical
education by reason of a tragic
shortage of funds.”
Conant Reviews Problem.
James B. Conant, president of
Harvard University, declared:
"The cost of educating a medi
cal student—it is about $10,000
over the four years, on the aver
age—is so high that expansion of
facilities is difficult, if not im
possible; indeed, maintaining high
educational standards in the face
of mounting costs poses problems
of grave severity.”
Among those listed on the 62
member board of trustees were:
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune,
president emeritus, Bethune Cook
man College, Daytona Beach, Fla.;
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor;
Economic Stabilizer Eric A. John
ston; Phillip Murray, president of
the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations; Herschel D. Newsom,
National Grange Master; Owen
J. Roberts, former fustic* of the
Supreme Court, and Mrs. Anna
M. Rosenberg, assistant secretary
of defense.
District Court to Act
Against Tardy Witnesses
District Court Judges no longer
will tolerate witnesses arriving late
in court, unless they have valid
excuses. -
The judges warned in a memo
today that tardy witnesses face
contempt citations, with fines or
jail the possible penalty. Chiei
Judge Bolitha J. laws signed the
memo.
Judge Laws said late witnesses
should be brought either to his
attention or to that of trial Judges
Scouts Plan 'Cub Fair'
Cub Scout Pack No. 220 will give
a "Cub Pair” from 1 to 4 p.m
Saturday at the AltaJ/ista School
Bethesda.
i
Market Bidder
Must Get Own
NPA Approval
D. C. Officials Won't
File Application;
Bids Open July 2
The Commissioners announced
today that the successful bidder
for construction of a new parkins
and market center on the site of
Western Market must get his own
clearance with the National Pro
duction Authority.
The city heads at the same time
postponed opening of bids for the
project from May 28 to July 2
at 2 p.m.
Invitations were issued in May
for bids on a 50-year lease of the
market site by a developer who
would raze the present market
and erect and operate a new one.
Move Up to Bidder.
| District officials had been asked
; about authority for the construe
I nuii uom me city heads
reported today the District has
not presented the matter to the
Federal agency. That will be up
; to the successful bidder, they said.
The Commissioners will, how
ever, support the application.
They emphasized that this did not
I guarantee that NPA approval, "or
jthat the Commissioners will do
I anything more than support and
j indorse action which may be ini
tiated by the successful bidder, to
'whom award of a lease has been
made.”
Temporary Space Required.
The lessee must provide tem
porary market accommodations
l for present tenants during con
struction. At least 16,000 square
Teet of floor space on the ground
! floor must be reserved for a publie
;market, with adequate off-street
I unloading facilities.
In addition, the lessee must pro
vide off-street parking for between
500 and 600 cars. The market is
located at Twenty-first and K
I streets N.W.
Navy Man Nets $8,500
In Suit Over Lost Love
A District Court jury late yes
terday awarded a Navy warrant
officer damages totaling $8,500
against an asbestos worker for
alienation of affections.
The officer is Henry J. Cearns,
jr., 32, now stationed at Little
Creek, Va„ who had sought $50,000
uuuuiftto Xi Will XjU vuuu u. OV/IUft*
Igins, 42, asbestos worker, who now
: lives in the 3600 block of New
|Hampshire avenue N.W.
i Officer Cearns charged that Mr.
Scroggins had alienated the affec
jtions of Mrs. Betty Cearns and
also accused the defendant of
j misconduct with her. The war
rant officer obtained a divorce
|from her last year on grounds of
misconduct. The Cearns were
married in 1943.
The jury awarded Mr. Cearn»
$5,000 on the alienation of affec
tions count and $3,500 on the
misconduct charge. It had de
liberated about an hour and a
half when it returned its verdict
before Judge David A. Pine.
Mrs. Cearns had admitted go
ling to an apartment of Mr. Scrog
igins in the 6600 block of Four
jteenth street N.W., but said she
had gone there for advice and
l denied any wrongdoing. A private
: detective testified during the trial
s to observing Mrs. Cearns and Mr.
>; Scroggins in the apartment.
> | Officer Cearns was represented
| by Attorney Jean Boardman.
«
Five More Area Soldiers
Arrive From Korea
Five more area soldiers have
arrived in the United States from
Korea, bringing to 10 the number
of local veterans returned under
y the Army's rotation plan,
si The men have been granted
-130-day “delay-en route” leaves in
m order to be with their families
I before being reassigned to tram
ming centers as instructors. They
are:
i 1st Lt. Malcolm W. Chandler.
I'ljr., 9702 Monroe street, Silver
Spring; Pfc. Robert M. Edelin,
. [ 1228 Maryland avenue N.E.; Corpl.
-! Ramie E. Hoks, 408 East Monroe
11avenue, Alexandria; Sfc. Arthur
s T. Penn, 3000 South Dakota ave
auu. ivi/ocigt. nauiiia
y L. Smith, 2428 Fourth street N.E.
1 _
\ 1,000 More Girls
j Sought to Help
; At Military Dances
e Recruitment of an additional
s 1,000 girls to serve as dance host
i esses at nearby military camps
1 and service clubs was announced
i. today by Mrs. Harry S. Bernton,
t volunteer training chairman for
the Armed Services Hospitality
s Committee.
i Although 984 girls were trained
t and screened in March, the
growth of the military here has
- made it necessary to recruit more
hostesses.
Girls between the ages of 18 and
: 22 were asked to register with the
it Capital Girls’ Society of the Dis
; trict Recreation Department at
4 the Thomson School, Twelfth and
a L streets N.W. on Tuesday, be
) tween 7 and 9:30 p.m.: Wednes
f days, between 7 and 10 p.m., and
; Fridays between 8 and 11 p.m.
8 They also may register at Ban
i. neker Community Center. 2500
h Georgia avenue, with Miss Almira
Streets, and at Phyllis Wheatley
YWCA, 901 Rhode Island avenue
N.W., on Tuesday evenings.
Arrangements are being mad*
)1 for additional registration through
r the service commission of the
v churches. The volunteer office of
y United Community Services also
will assist.
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