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A-10 I •••188 SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. ItHMt. WOW 1, IMS ■ I 1 i j I I MUSIC HATH CHARMS—Warrenton, Va. —Lawrence Haney, 449 Fifteenth street N.E., a striking Capital Trapsit Co. driver in Washington, strums a few on his banjo for an up-eared horse. The horse tried to eat Mr. Haney’s straw hat. —Star Staff Photo. Girl Politicos Turn on Powder Some 100 pretty politicians were up to their powder puff* in campaigning today as Oirls Na tion moved into its fourth day at American University. The girls, representing 48 States, the District, and the Panama Canal Zone, were to present platforms for candidates for president and vice president Os the annual meeting sponsored by the American Legion Auxili ary. The group is divided equally Into the Nationalists and the Federalists. Each party is turn ing on the political pressure to gway at least one member of the opposition party before the flections tomorrow night. Program Outlined j The campaigning often takes tee form of football cheerlead ing, with appropriate slogans. After attending church serv ices today, the girls were to re seive Instructions on the work ngs of the Federal Government j md present the platforms after tarty caucuses. Also scheduled is an address iy Mrs. Percy A. Lainson, na ional president of the Legion luxiliary. and a concert by the Jnited States Marine Corps Sand. Tomorrow' the girls will visit he White House. To Tour Pentagon | Other highlights of the meet tig, which will close Wednesday, i re a tour of the Pentagon and riefing by the directors of the sur women’s branches of the i rmed services, a wreath-laying tremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the in i ugural dinner at 6:30 p.m., tiesday. , Mrs. Wilfreda Lytle, director ts the women’s activities for federal Civil Defense, last night told the meeting the part the girls could play in Civil Defense & their own home towns. « She also described the effects 4f the May 5 atojnlc blast on the Yucca Flats and emphasized tee need for preparation in case if an atomic attack. h iHir - hli w K < v-i MJBsaaß bmt ~ j ffim 4 MiHr B am* ’ * *: * w v », ’M 9B9y<9^^9 ww&MkWl BHHBBHVBBBBHBBBBBBBBHBBBBBBBBB THIS IS POLlTlCS?—Election time finds candidates and •upporters happy and hand-shaking at the Girls Nation activities at American University. Candidates (front row) are Brenda Russ (left) of Trenton, Tenn., and Marlon Mitchell, Louisville, Ky. Behind them, left to right: Lindley Williams, Newport, Ark.; Elinor Bennett, Newman, Ga.; Jane Quale, Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Arden Jayne Cuadra, Blythevllle, Ark.—Star Staff Photo. Hillbilly Music Resounds As 200 Vie for SI,OOO By MARY LOU WERNER Star Staff Correspondent WARRENTON. Va.. Aug. 6 The familiar moap of the hunt ing horn in Virginia’s horse country capital couldn't be heard i this week end above the clanging banjoes and old-time fiddles of the fifth annual National Coun try Music contest. Close to 200 country-style mu sicians, professional and ama teur, lined up at tha Warrenton horse show grounds to compete for SI,OOO in cash prizes ftnd to vie for the attention qf hillbilly talent hunters. The contest is the major fund raising event of the Warrenton Junior Chamber of Commerce. It has grown steadily in popular ity each year. Before the last time* is played Sunday night, the Jay-; cees expect up to 15,000 specta tors. There are five categories for the competitors fiddle, banjo, band, vocalist and miscellaneous. Judging began tonight and was scheduled to continue Sunday afternoon and night. The Sun day show begins at 2 pm. and the night show at 7 p.m., both Standard time. Impressario Presides Connie B. Gay. country music ; impressario well known in the Washington area for his pro grams over Station WARL, is master of ceremonies for the two-day event. Jimmy Dean and ! his Texas Wildcats, a country music combo, came along to play for the spectators diuing! contest intermissions. Sally Starr, country music disc jockey from Philadelphia, brought a bus-load of 40 fans down from the Keystone State. There was no separation of the professionals from the ama teurs in the contest. As one Judge explained it, that would, be Impossible since every country musician is apt to get five dol lars for playing at a Saturday night dance once in a while. First contestant to arrive was 11-year-old Dean Campbell of Route 1, Fairfax. He has been in the contest every year since it started and twice wound up in the finals with his yodeling. He used to live at Culpeper and Imoved this year to Fairfax 1 [County Bus Driver Competes | Despite his age, Dean is no ; amateur. He appears daily on a 1 1 radio program called ‘‘Corn , Shuckin' Time.” His mother. ; Mrs. Virginia Campbell, accom panies Dean on the guitar, al though he also knows how to[ play one. There are four other, boys in the Campbell family. The , oldest, 16-year-old NiCky, is an- , other guitarist. Lawrence Haney, 449 Fifteenth , : street N E., Washington, a Capi- , , tal Transit bus driver who didn't , have anything else to do this j week end. brought hlrflve-string banjo to the contest. "I used to play the banjo for, a hobby." laughed Mr. Haney., "Now I do it to eat.” He has - been playing in a Southern Maryland night club since the \ transit strike began. Mr. Haney , originally hailed from Tennessee i which explains how he comes to ( play a difficult instrument like the five-stringed banjo. The Cavalier Quartet came all the way from Norfolk. They J placed second in the miscellan eosut category last year and J hope to move to the number one spot this year. Members of the 1 singing and guitar-playing quar tet are Doyle Taylor, 26; George : Barker, 32; Don Taylor, 25; and 1 Claude Barnes, who first didn't { want to say how old he was ' but finally admitted 56. A heavy downpour arrived in ] Warrenton several hours before 1 the contest was to begin and ' cooled off the hot horse show 1 grounds. This may be the last year the contest is held there as, the Jaycees are looking around for a shady hillside in the area 1 to stage the event next year. Hot Shoppes' Farm * Fetes 35 Children < At Barbecue Feast I Ten Washington f families, ' top-heavy with children, yester- j day piled into air-conditioned ( buses and spent a day on a farm i ; for the first time in their lives. ' They traveled 60 miles to * Hume, Va., where the Hot j Shoppes raise 1.100 head of steer | and sheep which ultimately find their way to Hot Shoppe tables j as choice cuts. , Everything the kids and their , parents saw was on the hoof, t The spectacle included real cow- I pokes rounding up herds and < performing such technical chores j as disinfecting them. i Barbecued beef, appropriately, was the main course when the i time came around for chow. The i 3o children on hand also put | away nearly 30 cases of soda pop with but little help from their elders. While the WTOP radio-TV personality. Billy Johnson, was twanging out the ditty, '‘Blue Bottle Fly,’’ a nearby nest of hornets became arounsed and exercised their prerogative on six of the youngsters. Hyattsville Legion Elects Officers Robert W. Fey of 3802 Ham ilton street, has been elected commander of Snyder-Farmer- Butler Post, American Legion, Hyattsville. He succeeded Nor man B. Belt. Others elected were: Harry E. Aldridge, first vice commander; Leland G. Worthington, sr., sec ond vice commander; Hugh T. McClay, adjutant; Harry B. Cogar, finance officer; John L. Bassford, chaplain; Robert G. McCartee, historian, and Clar ence E. Mann, sr., sergeant-at arms. Forestville Fete Set The fourth annual community festival will be held at 4 p.m. next Saturday in the Forest Me morial Methodist Church, For estville, Md. proceeds from the festival will go to the church’s building fund. Survey to Seek Transit Solution For D.C. Region First Report Due Within Six Months; Subwoy Studied By FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS A survey of mass transporta tion in the Washington metro politan area gets under way to morrow, with prospects that it will have an important bearing on the area’s development.. William C. McKay, who will direct the survey, said yesterday the Job—and conditions here— are complicated by the fact three independent political units are involved. He described the situation as unique. In addition to the govern mental jurisdictions of the Dis trict. Maryland and Virginia, there are the subdivisions of the adjacent counties and the city of Alexandria, he pointed out. Two-Year Survey The survey is expected to take two years. There probably will be preliminary reports, however. Mr. McKay estimated that the first might be ready in about six months. Congress appropriated $200,- 000 to the National Capital Planning Commission to finance the survey. There is an under standing that the commission would come back next year for an additional $200,000. Mr. McKay. Interviewed by telephone at La Grange, Ga., where he has been visiting, de clined to go into matters which could only be determined by the survey. Here are his opinions on • some subjects, however: I Is a subway needed by Wash ington? He said the survey would have to determine that and whether the volume of pas sengers would be sufficient to [support a subway. Busses Versus Street Can Can a speedy transit service be operated without a separate right of way? Mr. McKay said he did not believe a really rapid : transit system can be achieved without a separation, “unless, of course, you speed up all traffic, or give preference to transit ve hicles by a separate lane." Buses versus streetcars? He de clined to commit himself spe cifically on this. But he said the newly-developed buses, having about the same seating capacity as streetcars, would do about as, well as the trolleys under com parable conditions. The question was raised whether the amount of the fare or speed is the prime considera tion in winning back patrons for transit lines. "It is more a question of speed than a question of fare-speed, convenience and the general at tractiveness of the service,” he said. Study All Transit Systems Mr McKay was assistant vice president for operations of the Philadelphia Transportation Co. He headed a department which has a foroe of about 10,000 persons. He said the first step in the survey would be a complete col lection of facts concerning the population of the area, the traf fic and the travel requirements of the residents. The last takes in the paths they want to take between where they live and where they work, and the num ber of persons involved. i The survey will encompass the .whole area, he said, and also all the transit companies. There are 14 such companies. Discussions of Washington area transit have frequently ad vanced proposals for a transit i authority combining the lines in the three jurisdictions and op erating them. Union Transit Terminal H. Lester Hooker of the Vir ginia State Corporation Commis sion, said, however, he does not believe a unified system would ever come about. He suggested that what might be possible would be a union terminal in downtown Washington for the exchange of passengers between lines operating on either side of the Potomac. "I don’t believe an Interstate authority would work,” he said. "Not here in Virginia anyway. We feel strongly about State's rights. But we would have no trouble in getting along with the District and Maryland in a co ordinated body which would have jurisdiction over interstate traffic.” The Virginia constitution pro hibits any surrender of State control over public utility serv ices within the State. jLodstical Outfit To Train at Meade The 310th Logistical Command with headquarters at Fort Myer leaves today for two weeks’ ac tive duty training at Fort Meade, Md. The unit, which numbers 250 District, Virginia and Maryland Reservists, is commanded by Brig. Gen. John N. Andrews of 4707 Twenty-sixth street, N., Ar lington. Carter L. Burgess, Assistant Defense Secretary for Manpow er and Reserve Forces, will in spect the unit August 17. Ac companying him will be Maj. Gen. John Murphy, his deputy, and Representative Gavin, Re publican of Pennsylvania. 2 Named to Posts On Bar Committee Charles S. Rhyne, president of the District Bar Association, has named William E. Leahy chair man of the group's Committee on Relations with the United States Court of Appeals for the District; John J. Wilson chair man of the Committee on Rela tions with the U. S. District Court for the District of Colum bia and F. Joseph Donohue chairman of the Program Com mittee. Two Dogs Perish In Virginia Fire Two bird dogs were burned to death in a $1,500 fire which destroyed a barn yesterday at Brown’s Chapel on Hunter Mill I road in Fairfax County, Va. ' Forestville Volunteer Fire De partment Chief David L. Tucker said no one was home when the fire broke out. The barn burned to the ground before firemen ar rived He said the bam and dogs, described as "valuable bird ■ dogs,” were owned by J. W. Black. AEC Discounts County Boom The Atomic Energy Commis sion does not expect to cause any great commercial or industrial j development in Upper Montgom -1 ery County as a result of its decision to build its new $lO million headquarters near Ger mantown, Md. Nor does it anticipate any sud den demand for new housing in the area, the AEC said, since fewer than 300 of 1,500 employes polled on the question have in- I dicated they wish to move closer , to the new site than their pres , ent homes. ’ The AEC's forecast of the im . pact of its building program comes from a letter to the , County Council, written Wed nesday, and conversations with ’ members of the Upper Mont j gomery County Landowner’s As , soclation, which held a directors’ j meeting Friday. Points to Other Units At the directors’ meeting, Dyke f Cullum, owner of a 405-acre 1 farm near the AEC site, said he • had talked several times with > George H. Christensen, AEC project engineer. Mr. Christen sen explained that the agency , has found in building tnstalla , tions in other parts of the coun , try that little change has been wrought in surrounding territory I when the AEC moved in. He said that the new building, due to get underway next spring and scheduled for completion in the fall of 1957, will have its own cafeteria, parking for the estimated 700 cars which em- i ployes will drive to work, and its own sewage treatment plant. Speculation Reported New Route 240, which is just east of the building site, is due to be extended down to the Dis-! trict by the time the new head quarters is ready for use. Access to the superhighway would be through Route 118 to the north: and Middlebrook road to the: south. Despite the AEC’s assurances.; however, Mr. Cullum said that evidence of land speculation is already to be seen. He said that Tuesday a Germantown mer chant contacted to buy a 2 or 3-acre tract of land adjoining the William O. Dosh farm on which the AEC proposes to! locate. The land is strategically j placed because it is just at the point where the Dosh Farm touches on Middlebrook road. ' Drycleaners Plan Reunion Friday The "Silver Jubilee Reunion” of the National Institute of Dry cleaning Alumni Society, to be attended by 400 drycleaners and their wives, will begin in Wash ington and Silver Spring. Md., Friday. The institute’s 25th annual get-together will feature talks on sales procedure, a dance at the Shoreham Hotel Saturday night, a tour of the institute’s plant and laboratories in Silver Spring and workshop sessions Sunday. W. I. Peeler, owner of a dry cleaning plant at 2308 Rhode : Island avenue N.E.. is general chairman of the reunion. The institute recently announced that John Jay Daly, Jr., of Chevy ; Chase, Md.. has been named its publicity director. Thermometer Readings Vary—There's a Reason By FRANK SARTWELL 1 If your thermometer reads 120 these days while the Weather; Bureau reports the temperature; as only 94—both of you are right The reason is that heat is where you find it. You are reading the tempera ture on the back porch or on a thermometer on a downtown street. The Weather Bureau reads the temperature in a very special place. i The Bureau doesn’t just put a thermometer out in the open sunshine. They put it in a scien-: tiflc, ivory-colored tower near: the National Airport. The tower 1 1 is full of shade to comfort the j I instrument and full of holes to draw in cool air. The other day, on its wind swept. grassy plot, Science mea-; sured 94 degrees of Fahrenheit.; ■ Science didn't go out into all that; heat to measure it. It has de- j - signed instruments that take temperature outside, but give data inside the air-cooled head ■ quarters of Science, where the ' temperature is a steady 75 de grees So officially it was 94 degrees. On a busy intersection such as Fourteenth street and Pennsyl vania avenue N.W., it reached ’ 120 degrees. Maybe Only 98 A person basking in the cool l shade of the elm trees in a i downtown park, with a breeze 1 . tickling his ears, found it 98 degrees. Big stone buildings and paved . streets and direct sunlight, sci ( ence feels, upset its calculations, just as they upset citizens, by storing heat. AEC and Visa Units Begin to Move Facilities Temporary Space Vacated for New 8-Story Quarters Increased passport facilities and speeded up, modernized ac commodations will be available in the new 8-story building at 1717 H street N.W., to be shared by the Atomic Energy Commis sion and Passport Division, State Department. Yesterday, the vanguard of AEC’s 803 employes involved In the shift began moving out of Temporary Buildings 3 and 5, near the Washington Monument and Seventeenth street and Con stitution avenue N.W. But the main AEC move into the new building is not expected to take place until six to eight weeks from now, a spokesman declared. The Passport Division is mov ing from the antiquated Winder Building. Seventeenth and E streets N.W. There are 284 work ers Involved. But the State De partment will continue to util ize the Winder Building, as it is Government owned. AEC Security Set The General Services Admin : istration Friday night arranged ■ to rent the recently completed building for the two Oovem > ment agencies. Receptionists for both will occupy the ground floor of the new building, so that 1 the public having business with them can be routed speedily. Rigid security arrangements will , prevail in the AEC section of ; the building, the five top floors. The first of the AEC group ' will report at the new building ; Tor duty tomorrow. They will “get things organized,” officials said. The removal of the AEC per sonnel from Tempos 3 and • probably will lead to the demo lition of the unsightly temporary buildings. Edmund F. Mansure, admini strator of the General Services Administration, said last night that Tempos 3 and 5 are high on the priority list for destruc tion, but said no time schedule can be worked out yet. He said that many Government agencies are still demanding office space, and they will have to be cared for before he orders the destruc tion of the tempos. Rent Noted The Government is paying $4 a square foot annually, includ ing all services for the 200,000 square feet of space it will oc cupy in the new building, a GSA spokesman explained. Chairman McClellan of the Senate Committee on Govern ment Operations revealed be tween 60,000 and 65,000 square feet will be used by the Passport Division. He based his informa tion on a* report from GSA and said the move wIU take place soon after Labor Day. The committee enlisted the laid of the Budget Bureau to as sist Miss Frances G. Knight, passport director, to secure ex pert management and technical assistance to work out flow charts and secure equipment to mod i ernlze the office. To meet the increased work load in passports, the committee is asking the State Department to supply sufficient personnel. More than 500,000 passports of various types are expected to be issued this year. How Interest Arose Because constituents experi enced difficulties in obtaining speedy passports, particularly on an urgent basis, the lawmakers became interested in the prob lems of that office. Senator Humphrey, Democrat, of Minnesota , was especially active in pushing for bigger and better quarters for the passport operation. But other Senators also asked the committee to lend its weightMn correcting “existing deplorable conditions” in the office. i 1 Temperature can vary, say every foot, depending on the isurroundings. On the white marble steps of the Supreme Court Building, for example, on a bright summer day, thermom eter needles have been known to hop right off the dial. Temperature differences bring up the problem of why the read ings for Washington are taken in Virginia. District forecaster James Hunter says it doesn't make any; difference. For 60 or 70 years,; District temperatures were taken :on the roof of the Weather : Bureau building at Twenty fourth and M streets N.W. When t}ie airport was built, and the local office moved there. Science kept a close watch on, what the move did to the read jings. | Answer: Nothing. Vary But Slightly Readings in the little white box at the airport, and the little white box on M street vary only about half a degree, Mr. Hunter said. That size difference means nothing, he said, and could even be laid to the human error of the man taking the reading. Throughout the city (except where air-conditioned, as Science is in the Weather Bureau) lay men found it too hot to think. That didn’t stop Science. Cooled by air, Science coufd figure out how hot everybody else was—if everybody else were lying in the shade on a grassy acre. Regrettably, everybody else was not doing that. The curses called down on the head of Sci ence were even more violent (and useless) than usual. ~ ,v ~ m —XgH ■ i; IT’S OFFICIAL—Weather Bureau employe Clarence A. Wollum looks over the official thermometer, which said it was 94. The unofficial gauge, unsheltered, reads 108. ■ ■HHRIIHj;. - -ll mtf JR H L v S9K iff Hr H 1 I*m9| | ■ aIMB WBBmm". : WFjfm m HMH IS m j ■ ■ i - I ... NO COMPARISON —Without benefit of the official reading, the round thermometer shows 98 degrees in the park at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania ave nue N.W. ■ m B jm MM aii»'s., §i ml' - t im jjfl I S jB Vij\ |T t Mm¥ wa HERE’S HEAT—At about the same time it was an official 94, this couple plodded across Pennsylvania avenue at Four teenth street N.W., where it was 120 degrees! Nine 'Miss D. C.' Aspirants Compete Tomorrow Night The third semifinal competi tion in the “Miss Washington” ! contest will be held at 7:30 pm. i tomorrow in the Carter Barron Amphitheater. ; Three singers, three actresses,, two dancers and a pianist will compete. Three of the nine will be chosen to appear with other semifinal winners in the finals August 15 in the Capitol Theater. | Tomorrow night's competition ; will precede the performance of; "Phoenix 55” in the amphi-j 1 theater. There will be no added [ admission charge. The singers are Judith DunkleJ , 19, of 4617 North Ninteenth road, Arlington; Dottie Denning, ( 24. of 4418 Colfax street, Ken sington, Md., and Virginia Pavay, 20, of 706 Emerson street N.E. The dancers are Barbara Floyd, 19. of 3132 Sixteenth street N.W., and Norma Swim-, mer, 18, of 7444 Georgia avenue; N.W. The actresses are Linda Southard. 19. of 2007 Wyoming 1 avenue N.W.; Djanl Williams, i 18, of 2101 North Harrison street. Arlington, and Janet Saveraid, » 20. of 1800 Massachusetts avenue i N.W. The pianist is Rhoda Fal- 1 gen, 18, of 1424 Nicholson l street N.W. Pentagon Lagoon Swimmer Drowns | A Washington man drowned late yesterday while swimming in the Pentagon lagoon. He was identified by Harbor Police as Thurman J. Butler, 27, colored, of 325 Eleventh street 'S.W. Police said he was swimming shortly before 8 p.m. and ac cording to witnesses, got out of breath and sank before he could return to the sea wall just off the Pentagon boat docks. The body was recovered about [an hour later by Harbor Police jPvts. Lawrence Halstead and I Marion Rendall. Professor to Tour Dr. John Hope Franklin, his tory professor at Howard Uni ! versify, leaves from New York j Wednesday for six weeks in Europe. There he will attend two conferences on history, will de liver an address over the Brit ish Broadcasting Co. on "De segregation, the South’s New Dilemma.” ___ Engineer Named ' FORT BELVOIR, Va., Aug. 6. —Col. George E. Pickett, 47. of Durham, N. C„ former assistant district engineer at Seattle, Wash., has been named the post engineer at Fort Belvoir. He replaced Col. Arthur R. Mac- Lean. who has been assigned to SHAPE headquarters in Paris, France.