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ARLINGTON JAYCEES OPEN SHORTS DRIVE Even with cooler air and air
conditioning, these members of the Arlington Junior Chamber of Commerce open
their drive For shorts in the summertime at a luncheon yesterday. Left to right
are Bob Rutledge, president; Tony Tramonte, Andy Barr, Charles Venuto (in
White shirt, Argyle sox) and John Schroeder.—Star Staff Photo.
Politicians Asked to Join
Bermuda Shorts Drive
Political forces are being mar
shaled behind the campaign of
the Arlington Junior Chamber
of Commerce to eliminate any
raised eyebrows to Bermuda
shorts.
This strategy was revealed
yesterday when nine Jaycees.
wearing Bermuda shorts and
only slightly self -conscious
6miles. got together for a lunch
eon conference.
The group had voted to rebel
against convention and cam
paign for full acceptance of the
shorts ‘‘at work and at play.”
This week was labelled ‘‘Ber
muda Shorts Week,” with the
Jaycee members instructed to
wear knee-length socks and
open sport shirts along with the
shorts.
The impact of yesterday’s
meeting, with members dressed
for a heat wave, was somewhat
lessened by balmy weather and
the air-conditioned Rosslyn Hot
Shoppe.
In an effort to add stature to
the shorts, every candidate for
local political office is being in-1
CAA Seeking Full Facts
On Bay Crash Fatal to 2
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration today launched an in
vestigation into the cause of
Sunday’s plane crash near Rock
Hall, Md„ in which two Univer
sity of Maryland students were
killed.
It assigned an investigator,
Henry Hamilton, to seek clues
as to what happened before the
plane crashed into the mouth of
the Chester River south of the
Eastern Shore community.
The wreckage was discovered,
yesterday after a search delayed
by failure of any one to report
the crash immediately.
Two Bodies Found
Bodies of its two occupants
also were found. One was that
of Mary Ann Rodgers. 20. of 4804
Wellington drive. Chevy Chase.
The other was Charles Dicken
son. 24, of Baltimore. Miss
Rodgers’ body was washed ashore
on a nearby island. Mr. Dick
enson's body was found inside
the plane when it was towed
to shore.
The pair had taken off from
Russell Airport at Chestertown
about 5 p.m. Sunday. Just after
ward, a violent thunderstorm hit
the Chesapeake Bay area.
Miss Rodgers had been serv
ing as a counsellor at Echo Hill
Summer Camp near Chestertown
and was granted a two-day leave
Sunday to visit her mother, Mrs. |
Robert D. Hagner of Chevy
Chase. Mr. Dickenson flew there
from College Park Airport to
pick her up.
Flight Plan Not Filed
At least one witness saw their;
plane go down, but had difficulty
reaching authorities. When he
Alexandria Considering
One-Way Traffic Plan
Alexandria traffic officials are
studying the possibility of mak
ing two arterial highways j
through the city one-way streets
or banning parking on them.
Plans are in the works for
widening two other sections of;
heeavily traveled streets, ac
cording to Kenneth W. Smith,:
director of traffic control.
Mr. Smith said his office is
studying making one-way thor
oughfares of Duke street from!
Washington street in the center!
of the city to Callahan drive at
the George Washington Mason
Memorial, and of Henry street
(Route 1) all the way through
the city.
An alternative to making these i
streets one-way would be to ban
parking on them, he said.
Plans also are in the works j
for widening Duke street in thej
recently %nnexed area from!
Quaker lane to the Army quar-i
termaster depot, a distance ofj
about 2 mile. He also said plans
are being made to widen or re-!
design Telegraph road, which
now runs under a narrow rail-;
road overpass.
In an annual report Mr. Smith
• vited to attend the luncheon
! tomorrow—dressed in Bermuda
• shorts, of course. The luncheon
' will be held at Burch's Restau
. rant on Wilson boulevard.
The reason for this move, ac-
I cording to Charles Venuto, pub
. licity chairman, is that a num
l ber of Jaycee members have been
i reported slinking to work clad
■ in full-length trousers.
Mr. Venuto said flatly that
I most of the holdouts are law
' yers. He said the attorneys
; seem reluctant to make a test j
' case for the shorts before the;
' bench.
II He added that a proposal Is j
now being considered to try
| and shame “every Arlington Jay
cee into Bermuda shorts.” If
, carried out, members who are
’ in line with the campaign would
abandon shaving as a protest
[ gesture to the less courageoas
members.
Accordihg to the Jaycees. em
ployers and fellow workers alike
have shown only a sympathetic
{attitude toward the drive.
did, they said they had no re
ports of any missing planes.
It wasn’t until Tuesday that
Miss Rodgers was missed—when
she failed to return from her;
two-day leave.
A CAA spokesman said filing
of flight plans for such trips are
not mandatory, but pilots are
encouraged to file them as a 1
safety precaution.
Meanwhile, the delay in re
porting brought criticism here 1
from the commander of the Na
tional Capital Civil Air Patrol. |
Rape Length!y Delay
In a statement. Donald T.
Spiers declared:
"The failure of private citi
zens and local agencies to notify ;
1 the proper aviation authorities
when a plane is reported missing'
or is reported to have crashed is
one of the principal problems of
the Air Force's Air Rescue Serv
-1 ice and the Civil Air Patrol.
“In this case, an eye witness to
j the crash waited 48 hours before;
notifying the proper authorities!
and another 17 hours elapsed
before these authorities passed
the information to those agencies j
charged with the responsibility
of performing air search and,
' rescue. If there had been sur- 1
vivors. they probably would have;
j died from exposure or injuries:
j during the interim period.”
[ When planes are believed to be
.missing or to have crashed, he
; | asserted, “it is the duty of all
. citizens to notify the proper au
thorities —the Civil Air Patrol,
the Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration or the United States Air:
; Force Air Rescue Service." Emer
gency phone numbers for these
■ agencies, he added, can be found
■!in local directories.
noted an 18 per cent increase in
traffic in the past year. He said
if the traffic volume continues to
grow at its present rate the city
will soon reach a saturation
point.
i “We have rush-hour prob
lems now, but the situation is
not real bad,” he said. “But it
i will become serious if the volume
1 keeps on Increasing,” he added.
Mr. Smith noted that a major
i industrial development or de
velopment of the port section
would cause congestion down
town. He also said that down
town parking was a major prob
lem.
His report showed that de-
I.spite increased traffic there were
nearly 300 fewer accidents dur
ing the past 12 months and the
number of fatalities in accidents
| dropped from three to one.
Model Railroad Parley
I BALTIMORE, Aug. 11 (JP).—■
About 1,000 model railroad fans
are expected here for the annual
convention of the National Model l
Railroad Association, August 28-
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WSMHead
Says He'll Slay
WILLIAMSBURG, Va„ Aug.
11 UP). —William and Mary Pres
ident Alvin Duke Chandler said
yesterday. “I feel that I am
right.” and made it plain he had
no intention of resigning as
president.
“I want to carry out my pro
gram In the Interests of the
college, of the people of Virginia
and in the interests of educa
tion.” he said.
| The retired admiral made these
| remarks to a reporter as the
pitched verbal battle between
the pro and antiadministration
factions at America's second old
jest college reached a fever heat,
j On the “anti” side, there was
comment from Dr. James W.
Miller, who has resigned as head
of the William and Mary Philos
ophy Department as of the end
of the month.
Dr. Miller denied that the way
in which Mr. Chandler was
chosen for the college presidency
four years ago had anything to
do with his resignation. It was
only after Mr. Chandler had been
in office for two years. Dr. Mil
ler said, that he decided to seek
other employment.
"By then,” he said, “I had come
to the conclusion that he had
been weighed in the balance and
found wanting.”
Dr. Miller has accepted a
philosophy professorship at Mc-
Gill University in Montreal.
Mr. Chandler said the facts
concerning his administration
;are now being made public. This
was a reference to reports made
'by four faculty and staff mem
bers "based on facts" available
to the W&M board. Mr. Chan
jdler has been given strong back
ing by the board.
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Officials Prod Planners
To Act on Fairfax Draft
Prompt consideration by the
Fairfax County Planning Com
mission of the county’s proposed
master plan was urged yester
day by several members of the
Board of County Supervisors*
after one of them asked what
was holding up the plan.
Supervisor Arthur I. Shaffer,
who earlier called the plan a
“political football,” yesterday
said it is “unfair to the residents
of the county” to delay action
on the $150,000 plan.
The controversial plan was
submitted last fall by consultant
Francis Dodd McHugh after two
years’ study. The planning com
mission must pass cm it before
it is submitted to the supervisors.
Busy on Zoning
Planning Director Herbert F.
Schumann said consideration of
the plan had been held up be
cause the planning commission
was busy considering applica
tions for rezonings.
Supervisor Anne Wilkins made
a motion that all rezoning re
quests be held up for six months
to give the commission time to
work on the master plan. Her
motion failed for lack of a sec
ond. Three months ago Mrs.
Wilkins tried unsuccessfully to
have all rezoning applications
contrary to the McHugh pro
posals deferred until the board
acted on the plan.
Supervisor Maurice Fox said
the planning commission had
had nearly a year to study the
plan,and asked what further
study was necessary.
Keith Price, chairman of the
planning commission, said there
are several features of the plan
which are objectionable to some
of the members. He said a “thor
ough study is needed to come
up with a realistic plan which
will be legal and hold up in
court.” He said the commission
plans to begin considering It
this month.
One of the most controversial
proposals is that suburban de
velopment be confined to the
36 Girl Scouts
Set Off on Trip
A group of 36 Girl Scouts from
five troops in Prince Georges
County yesterday took off on an
800-mile trip for a camp-out on
a lake island in Upper Ontario,
Canada.
The girls were making the trip
in a school bus provided free by
the owner of one. Ranging In
age from 14 to 18 years, the
Scouters are from HyattsviUe,
Rlverdale, University Park, Col
lege Park and Oreenbelt. It is
the longest Junket ever under
taken by Girl Scouts of the area.
To underwrite the 15-day out
ing, the girls helped stage sqaure
dances and toured their neigh
borhoods selling electric light
bulbs. They raised, altogether,
about S3OO. Their families fur
nished additional funds.
The Scouters will live in pup
tents on an island in Lake Tena
gami, 200 miles north of Toronto
Troop 0 of Riverdale sponsors
the camp-out. Making the trip
with the Scouts are Mrs. James
Sinclair, troop leader: Mrs. Ray
mond Wilburn and Mrs. Charles
B. Supple, and JAr. and Mrs.
Martin Barr, all of the Riverdale
area. Mr. Barr owns the bus.
eastern part of the county and
that the large middle and west
ern portions be restricted to
home sites of from three to five
acres.
Accused of Stalling
Mr. Shaffer recently accused
the planning commission and
the county board of refusing to
take action on the plan because
they do not want the public to
know how they feel before the
general election. Mr. Shaffer
was defeated for renomination
in the Democratic primary last
month.
The board also sold $7.1 mil
lion worth of sewer bonds. The
low bidder was the First Na
tional Bank of New York, which
submitted a net Interest rate of
3.17 per cent.
This is the second block to
be sold of a (20 million sewer
bond issue voted in 1953. A (10
million block sold last year car
ried a lower interest rate, 2.95
per cent.
Harry Hale, director of the
sanitation division, said work on
the integrated sewer program is
running ahead of schedule. The
bonds sold yesterday will finance
120 miles of sewers in areas
south and west of Alexandria
and a new pumping station at
Accotink.
The board turned down an
application for rezoning for a
proposed subdivision which would
discharge Its sewage into a
stream emptying into the Po
tomac above the District’s water
supply.
The application was made by
John Bobby, who planned to de
velop 265 acres at Odrlck’s Cor
ner in the northwest section of
the county. The treatment plant
for the subdivision would have
discharged into Scott’s Run.
The treatment plant was op
posed by the Northern Virginia
Regional Planning Commission,
the Arlington County Board and
the Army Engineer Corps, which
operates the Dalecarlia Reser
voir serving the District, Ar
lington County, Falls Church
and part of Fairfax County.
!
'Pageant of Arlington 1
jle Delayed by Rain
j The opening performance of
!the “Pageant of Arlington”—
'annual historical play by the
county’s recreation department
—was rained out last night and
has been postponed until next
week.
The pageant, which was to
jhave been held last night and
tonight in Lubber Run Park, is
now scheduled for 8 pm. Mon
day and Tuesday in the park,
Second and North Columbus
streets.
Officials said the secenery was
damaged when a squall of rain
hit the non-waterproof paint.
In case of rain Monday or Tues
day. performances are to be
held at the Barrett Elementary
School, 4401 North Henderson
road.
Baltimore to Install
Radar Traffic Control
; BALTIMORE. Aug. 11 (JP).—
The Board of Estimates yester
day approved the purchase of a
half million dollars of automatic
traffic control equipment for
Baltimore.
The intricate control system to
be purchased operates through
radar detectors which register
traffic flow and set signal lights
at key locations at the proper;
settings to handle traffic most
efficiently.
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Three Boy Scouts of St. James Catholic Church Troop No. 181 in Falls Church
receive the Ad Altare Dei Medal from the Rev. Frank Hendrick. The Scouts
are, left to right, Timothy Clark, 12, First Class Scout; Gregory Des Jardint,
13, First Class Scout, and John Oyen, 14, Explorer Scout.
Mental Health
Study Hailed
CHICAGO. Aug. 11 (JP). —
Maryland's Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin said today he hopes
other regional governors’ con
ferences will undertake projects
similar to the Council on Men
tal Health Training and Research
of the southern governors’ group.
One of the prime purposes of
the council is to better the
channels of communication
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THTJESOAT. AUGUST 11. IMS
among the member states In
mental research, he said.
In remarks prepared for de
livery at a round table on mental
health at the national confer
ence here. Gov. McKeldin added:
"We live in an age in which
civilization's survival may depend
on the mental balance of hu
manity.”
He said thaat some 14 billion
dollars has been spent on re
search into the development of
nuclear power, but that “we
cculd move too rapidly in our
understanding of nuclear fission
if, in the process, we neglect our
studies into the causes and es
i feet* of the fissions that occur
in the human mind.”
In a brief period of years, he
I said, (625,000,000 was spent in
industrial research and some
$105,000,000 In agricultural re
l search, while only (6,000,000 was
I spent In research on mental
- illness.
i He said more than (30.000 has
i been appropriated for the cur
rent year for research in the
’ Maryland Department of Mental
* Hygiene and the hospitals under
its control. Another SIBI,OOO
i was appropriated to the psychi
atric institute of the University
■ iof Maryland.
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