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CARILLON ARRIVES FOR MEMORIAL
Clifford D. Jory left) and Frederick F. Schondau (center), officials of the
George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association, look over equip
ment for a new $25,000 electric carillon with Walter Shepherd, building super
intendent The carillon, atop the 344-foot high granite tower of the memorial
in Alexandria, will be dedicated February 22.—Star Staff Photo.
Test Borings Okayed
For New School Site
Joseph Geeraert, Rockville de
veloper. said today he has in
vited the Montgomery County
Board of Education to make test
borings on a 30-acre tract the
board has planned to purchase
from him for a projected new
Twinbrook Forest Elementary
School.
Negotiations leading to final
purchase of the tract were held
up Tuesday when school aides
reported the possibility that the
site might be over rode, which
would require extensive excava
tion.
“We have to know whether we
ean use It or not,” said Lathrop
Smith, a board member, who
proposed me delay. .
Mr. Geeraert said he received
the first official request from the
board for the barings yesterday
and promptly gave permission.
He denied declining an earlier
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(verbal request and Dr. Forbes
H. Norris, superintendent of
schools, said a report to this
effect by school aides Tuesday
was the result of a misunder
standing.
The developer, who built the
Twinbrook subdivision and is
now building 300 houses in Twin
brook Forest, apparently became
the first developer in recent years
to face such a condition, as
school board policy up to now
has not called for test borings on
a school site in advance of pur
chase.
Both the location of the site
and the price, of $3,300 an acre,
were determined by school offi
cials, according to Mr. Geereart,
iwho said he gave them a choice
of site on his 200-acre sub
division tract along Viers Mill
road.
He said that the price of $3,200
THE HECHT CO. DOWNSTAIRS STORE
Senator Northrop
To Speak Tuesday
Montgomery County’s State
Senator Edward S. Northrop will
be guest speaker at the meeting
of the Montgomery County Edu
cation Association at 8 p.m.
Tuesday.
Senator Northrop, a Democrat,
ill speak on “Maryland's Future
in Education” at the meeting in
the Richard Montgomery High
School gynasium, Rockville.
Association officers who will
take office at the meeting are
Mrs. Elsie Nelson, president;
Robert A. Gibson, first vice presi
dent; Jdseph J. Tarallo, second
vice president; Mrs. Ann Boyd,
recording secretary: Miss Fern
Will, corresponding secretary.
and Abril A. Norris, treasurer.
an acre is much less than the
acreage price paid by the board
for sites in other parts of the
county.
Voice Aide 'Selling' U. S.
On Air Becomes Citizen
Mrs. Helen Y. Li now has a
vested interest in the product
she “sells.”
Mrs. Li. an attractive Chinese
born Voice of America an
nouncer in her early 30s, “sells”
America to millions of mainland
Chinese under Communist domi
nation. •
Yesterday, in Prince Georges
County Circuit Court in Marl
boro, Mrs. Li became an Ameri
can citizen.
“It’s wonderful to be really
a part of all I’ve been talking
about for the last five years,”
she said.
Mrs. Li. the wife of Another
Voice announcer, fled from her
Fairfax Federation Defers Vote
On $45 Million Bond Issues
The Fairfax County Federa
tion of Citizens’ Associations last
night listened to arguments fa
voring bond issues totalling $45
million but withheld action on
the matter for at least a month.
The proposed bond issues dis
cussed are:
1. A $22 million general obli
gation school bond issue.
2. A S2O million revenue bond
issue for an integrated county
water system.
3. A possible $3 million or more
bond issue toward a county hos
pital.
On the school bond issue, Rob
ert B. Walker, director of infor
mation and surveys for the Fair
fax County Board of Education,
said:
“The school board can not pos
sibly execute its responsibility
. . . without the issue of these
bonds.”
Carlton Massey, county ex
ecutive. estimate! that some
Airman Will Wed
Girl Who Wrote
Him in Red Prison
ORANGE. Va., Sept. 18 VP).—
One of the 11 United States air
men released last month after
2% years in a Red China prison
camp will be married here to
night to the girl whose letters
cheered him up while he was
overseas.
Airman 1/c John W. Thomp
son 3d, 24, will be married at
8 p.m. (EST) to Miss Carole
Reynolds of Culpeper in the
presence of the two families
and close friends.
The romance began with
letters from Miss Reynolds to
Thompson while he was im
prisoned. They had known each
other a few years before he en
tered the service but never had
dated.
After his return to this country
August 13. Reynolds began dat
ing Miss Reynolds—who attends
business college in Washington,
D. C.—on week ends.
native Peking in 1947 just before
the Communists moved in.
Danger was nothing new to
her. During World War 11, she
fled with the entire student body
of her college to the Inland of
China to avoid capture by the
Japanese. She came directly to
the United States and joined the
Voice of America, where she met
her husband, in 1950.
Yesterday she was one of 27
people from 13 countries who
assumed the privileges and re
sponsibilities of citizenship. Ger
many led the field by contribut
ing seven new citizens, followed
by Great Britain with four and
Italy with three.
60.000 persons could be serviced
by an integrated water- system.
Mr. Massey said a firm of New
York financial consultants had
recommended that $lO million
of the revenue bonds be sold
first and the remaining $lO mil
lion be held up until needed.
Benton Bray presented a sur
vey taken of eight of the Fed
eration’s member associations,
showing that 88 per cent of the
432 presept water users con
tacted at random favored a
county-controlled system over a
privately-owned system.
Donald Wilkins, chairman of
the hospital subcommittee of the
Fairfax Health Council, proposed
a motion urging the Board of
County Supervisors to reactivate
the five-member hospital com
mission authorized in 1947. The
motion further urged that the
commission determine what size
bond issue would be needed for
a hospital.
Elkins' Home
Bids Opened
BALTIMORE, Sept. 16 (IP).—
’ The Briggs Construction Co..
Inc., of Bethesda has submitted
' the apparent low bid of $85,-
1 430 ta build a npw home for Dr.
Wilson H. Elkins, president of
; the University of Maryland.
Nine contractors submitted
bids to the Department of Pub
lic Improvements. Prices ranged
from Briggs’ low to a high of
$107,992.
Although all were in excess of
the $50,000 appropriated for the
; purpose, university officials said
it was hoped that through re
duction of plans at least the cen
-1 tral portion of the residence can
be constructed within the avail
able funds..
The proposed president’s home,
as designed by John Carroll
Dunn, Baltimbre architect, would
be a two-story red brick Geor
gian structure with one-story
; wings at each end and a slate
, roof.
It would contain five bed-
U. of Virginia
Branch Plan
Is Approved
Development of the Northern
Virginia University Center into
a full-fledged branch of the Uni
versity of Virginia was given top
priority today in a report by
the Virginia Advisory Legislative
Council, interim study group of
the General Assembly.
A report from a special sub
committee of the VALC, headed
by Btate Senator Robert Y. But
ton of Culpeper, was made to
Gov. Stanley.
Arlington, Falls Church and
Fairfax County have been com
peting against one another by
offering sites for the permanent
university installation. For the
last few years the center hast
been operating in Arlington’s
Washington-Lee High School,
but moves are afoot to obtain
permanent college buildings.
Increasing Need
Establishment of two-year
branch colleges throughout the
State at locations selected by a
legislative commission was rec
ommended by the VALC to serve
the growing number of persons
approaching college age.
Citing success of branch insti
tutions at Norfolk, Richmond,
Danville and in Wise County, the
report had this to say of the
nearby center:
“In order to meet additional
needs which are not now being
taken care of by existing facili
ties, it Is recommended that the
present university center in Ar
lington County be developed into
a branch of the University of
Virginia offering two-year
courses, both in the field of lib
eral arts and in other subjects
for which there is sufficient de
mand in that area.”
None Ruled Out
From the wording of the re
port, it does not appear that
sites in either Falls Church or
Fairfax County would be ruled
out in any future program. The
report merely recommends de
velopment of the university cen
ter already located in Arlington.
The center already offers two
year courses but does not have
the full status of a branch of
the university, such as the Nor
folk Division of the College of
William and Mary. As a branch
of the university, the nearby
center would attain a closer ad
ministrative tie with the par
ent university in Charlottesville.
rooms, three baths, a living room,
dining room, library, entrance
hall, kitchen and breakfast room.
There has been no official
president's home at the univer
sity since the early 19305.
Dr. Elkins, his wife and two
daughters are living in a rented
home off the campus.
THE EVENING STAR, Washington. D. C.
Columbia Pike Studied
As Juvenile Home Site
Advisability of locating the
proposed Northern Virginia re
! glonal juvenile detention home
on a site off Columbia pike in
1 the Annandale area was under
study today.
Members of an organizing
committee for the home last
night agreed to eliminate con
sideration of all other tracts
until a decision is reached.
Their action was taken on a
motion by C. B. Runyon, Fairfax
supervisor.
The 8-acre site under study is
, part of 13-acre tract owned by
Mrs. J. A. Jones, fronting on Co
lumbia pike about one and a
half miles from the center of
Annandale.
' Hammer Site Protested
Last May the committee
: dropped a site it had selected on
Hummer road near Annandale
after citizens protested that lo
cation.
The special committee is made
up of two members from each
of the four participating juris
dictions—Arlington, Alexandria,
Fairfax and Falls Church.
The committee delegated the
necessary legal work for the home
Leigh Opposes Fairfax
Water System Proposal
A Republican candidate for
the Fairfax Board of . County
Supervisors voiced opposition to
day to that agency’s plan for a
$34 million bond issue referen
dum to finance a county-wide
water system.
Claiborne Leigh, who seeks
election from Dranesvllle dis
trict in the November 8 elec
tion, said:
“I do not believe that the new
board taking office next year
should be saddled with $34 mil
lion of bonds that were hastily
conceived, poorly planned and
that could be ruinous to the fi
nancial structure of our county.
“I fail to see why the people
of Dranesville district should be
asked to pay more, for their wa
ter, simply because the county
wants to go into the water busi
ness. Public ownership can nev
er replace private enterprise.”
The supervisors voted last
Monday to ask the Circuit Court
to order a referendum on No
vember 8 on the question of
authorizing a $34 million reve
nue-bond issue.
Mr. Leigh proposed study of a
regional authority “to provide
fair rates and remove its ad
ministration from politics.”
“I would also like to have
definite.assurance that any bond
money for water would be loaned
on a strictly revenue basis and
will not eventually turn into a
general obligation because enough
money cannot be raised on a
Phone NA. 8-5100
Any Hour,
Day or Niykt
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to a citizens' subcommittee head
ed by Attorney Joseph H. Free
hffl.
This group, which prepared a
report on costs, sites and types
of facilities for the tone, waa
named by the Citizens’ Advisory
Committee of the Northern Vir
ginia Regional planning Com
mission.
Bond Issue Omits Fond
The committee was reassured
last night that Alexandria will
meet its $35,000 share of the
$170,000 pledged lot the home.
On Wednesday It was disclosed
at an Alexdbdria City Council
meeting that bond counsel had
recommended that the city elim
inate nearly $1 million from a
proposed bond issue. The city’s
share in the proposed juvenile
home was among the items that
would be affected.
Councilman John T. Ticer
said:
“The fact that this item may
be ommited from the bond issue
under consideration does not
peril the Juvenile home . . .”
He emphasized that Alex
andria will carry out its finan
cial pledge by using funds from
“another source” if necessary.
user charge basis,” Mr. Leigh
added.
The supervisors asked only for
this type of bond—that is a
self-liquidating type that would
not constitute a general debt
against the county.
The candidate did favor an
other proposed bond issue oat
$22 million that would constitute
a general debt against the
county. That one is for echoed
construction.
“As the father of four chil
dren,” he said, “this is of real
interest to me.”
Virginia State Fair
To Open Thursday
RICHMOND, Sept. 18 <*L-
The 1955 State Fair of Virginia
opens here Thursday night for
a nine-day run.
R. O. Glover, executive vice
president, said today advance
preparations are running well
ahead of last year’s, despite sev
eral additions.
Superintendent Quits
MARTTNSBURG, W. Va., Sept.
16 (Special).—Daniel M. Jones,
assistant superintendent of
Berkeley County schools for the
past five years, has resigned to
accept a position as district
manager for the State Farm
Mutual Insurance Co. The board
is to take action next week.