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GK/M REMINDER FOR HOLIDAY MOTORISTS
Gordon Jones of the District Heights Rescue Squad bends over a “dummy” vic
tim of a simulated crash set up by the squad in front of its headquarters. The
display is one of nine staged by rescue squads in a contest sponsored by Prince
Georges County Police and the College Park Rotary Club. Prizes will be
awarded for the three most realistic crash scenes.—Rescue Squad Photo.
E. T. DeJarnette
Won't Run Again
RICHMOND, Dec. 25 UP
Edmund T. DeJarnette of Ash- |
land said yesterday he would
seek re-election to the House of
Delegates seat from whfch he
was ousted by Delegate Clai
borne D. Gregory in 1955.
Delegate Gregory, who de
feated DeJarnette by about 250
votes, said last week he would
not seek re-election in 1957. He
said he would devote full time
to his new Job as secretary of
the Virginia Petroleum Indus
tries Committee.
Mr. DeJarnette, a top organi
zation Democrat, said. “I have
no present Intention of running
for any public office."
He was House floor leader for
administration measures in the
1954 session of the General
Assembly.
Britons Still Love Sea
LONDON—More than 200,000
workers are employed in Brit
ain's shipbuilding and ship-re
pairing industry, with another
80.000 or so in marine engineer- j
lng, making a total of nearly!
300.000 workers engaged in
building ships out of Britain’s
total working population of
24.000,000.
Park Visitors Increase
The National Park Service
handled 21,338,067 visitors to
areas administered in the first;
six months of 1956 compared 1 !
with 19,199.594 in the like period 1
of 1955. This was an 11 per cent!
Increase. Visitors to the 28 na
tional parks rose 10 per cent (
to 6,224.539. i
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Baltimore Man
Killed in Fight
WESTMINSTER, Md„ Dec. 25
(JP). —A Baltimore man fell, hit
his head and died in a fight
here last night.
Police said the man he was
fighting would be charged with
manslaughter.
Dr. James T. Marsh, Carroll'
County medical examiner, at-.
tributed the death of Gordon
Cootes, 50, of Baltimore, to a
fractured skull.
State’s Attorney Donald C.
Sponseller said William Henry
Brown, 35, of Westminster,
would be charged with man
slaughter. State Police Sergt.
Frank C. Badger said Cootes
and Brown were arguing over
a girl friend when the fight
began.
The death occurred outside
the Green Street Inn about 10
p.m.
Pair Is Charged
In Bedford Robbery
BEDFORD, Va.. Dec. 25 UP
Bedford County Sheriff Rucker
T. Mitchell has filed robbery
charges against two men in con
nection with the $2,000 robbery
of the Coleman Falls Post Office
safe early last Friday.
The sheriff filed the charges
yesterday against James Noe of
'Lyndhurst, Augusta County,'
and Wayne Lycons, a parolee
from the West Virginia Peniten
tiary. ■ |
They had been arrested Satur
day in Huntington, W. Va., on i
drunk charges.
Sleeping Soldiers
Held as Fugitives
Two escapees from an Army
disciplinary barracks were liter
ally caught napping last night by
a Prince Georges County police
man checking out a tip that a
holdup was to occur.
Pvt. Charles S. Keiss, checking
' the Chillum Terrace Shopping
Center parking lot, noticed a
parked car with two men inside
asleep. Upon questioning them
and making several telephone
calls, he found that the men had
escaped Saturday in a car not
! yet reported stolen from a Pitts
burgh suburb service station.
The escapees are Richard A.
Mansfield and Harold D. Mason,
both 19, assigned to the Disci
plinary Barracks at New Cum
berland, Pa., according to Pvt.
Keiss.
SIOO,OOO Approved
jFor Urban Planning
BALTIMORE, Dec. 25 (JP). —A
SIOO,OOO Federal grant has been
approved for Baltimore city and
five Maryland counties, under
the urban planning assistance
program of the Housing Act of
1954.
Representative Lankford, Dem
ocrat, of Maryland, who made
the announcement, said the
money would be used to draw up
population studies, land - use
plans, industrial surveys and
sewerage studies for Baltimore
and the counties of Anne Arun
del, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford
and Howard.
The sth district Congressman
said the planning work is ex
pected to take two years and will
be co-ordinated through an un
official Baltimore Regional Plan
ning Council. The city and most
of the five counties already have
planning staffs.
Old Dominion Still Close
To Heart of Mellon's Son
By PAUL HOPE
A man who "likes the way Virginia looks at things" has given
more than $4 million to worthy causes in his adopted State.
Paul Mellon of Upperville, a quiet-spoken son of the former
Secretary of the Treasury, has kept his name in the background
while his Old Dominion Foundation has carried out his philan
thropic work.
Actually the foundation’s work extends far beyond the bound-I,
arles of Virginia, but one of the
founder’s special interests is Vir
ginia.
The foundation, established in
1941, had distributed $23,962,-
210.81 through 1955. Its projects
have ranged the globe as it do
nates to projects in the found
er’s broad fields of interest—lib
eral education, psychiatry, con
servation and Virginia.
The 48-year-old founder, his
wife and four children, live on a
400-acre farm in Fauquier Coun
ty. His Washington office is
across from the White House in
a high-cellinged Victorian house
with a cigar store Indian in the
corner of the reception room.
Mr. Mellon moved to Upper
ville permanently in 1937.
Likes Old Dominion
"It sounds corny,” he said,
“but I live in Virginia because
I like the way of life, Virginia’s
way of looking at things. I guess
at heart I’m a conservative.’’ |
Money for the Old Dominion
Foundation comes from the
financial empire bom in 1869
when Thomas A. Mellon, a
county judge retired from the
bench at 56 and went into bank
ing. His three sons built the
family frotune.
One of the sons was Andrew
Mellon, Paul’s father, who was
Secretary of Treasury and who
gave the nation’s capital the
Mellon Art Gallery.
Chief among factors shaping
his ideas on philanthropy, says
Paul Mellon, was his father’s
devotion to public service.
“In an indirect way my fa-;
ther made it plain that people
who had a lot of money had an
obligation to use it wisely,” he
said.
Alma Mater Aided
His gifts in the field of liberal
education have totaled more
than sl4 million including $5
million to Yale University where!
he spent his undergraduate
days. He gave $2 million to St.
John's College in Annapolis. |
The Old Dominion Founda
tion put up $347,118 for the pa
pers of James Boswell and made
them available at the Yale
library.
The Old Dominion is a mid
dle-sized foundation with assets
of about S4O million. Mr. Mellon
maintains a second avenue of
giving, the Bollingen Founda
tion, which spends about $1 mil-!
lion a year in aiding individual
scholars in research and publi
cation of books on the humani-!
ties. In addition he has a guid-i
ing hand in the A. W. Mellon
Educational and Charitable
Trust established by his father,!
and is a trustee on the Avalon
Foundation supported by his
sister, Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce.
The Old Dominion's 58 grants
to Virginia range in size from
7 ■ —
$1,750 for the Purcellville Li-1
brary in Loudoun County to|
$903,850 for the new galleries
and theater wing of the Vir
ginia Museum of Fine Arts in
Richmond.
Mr. Mellon and his wife, who
shares his enthusiasms and in
vestigations, made a personal
tour through an unfinished third
wing of the Museum of Fine
Arts. After climbing over boards,
1 cement bags and steel girders,
Mr. Mellon asked that he be sent
an estimate of the cost to fin
ish, furnish and landscape the
wing. Shortly thereafter his
foundation made a $650.00 grant
to the institution to which it
had already contributed $250,000.
The new wing includes a the
ater revolutionary in the art
world. “To make it possible to!
finish this specialized tool in our'
time was brilliant understand-!
ing on Mr. Mellon’s part,” said |
Director Leslie Cheek, jr. “Piece
meal, it would have lost much of
its impact. The thoroughness of
the job has galvanized interest
as nothing else could have done.”
Another big donation for near
by Virginia was $300,000 to'
establish Woodlawn Plantatlorf
near Mount Vernon as a national
museum.
Community Projects Benefit
Other projects in the Northern
Virginia area include: Anderson
Orthopedic Hospital $22,502, Ar
lington County School Board for
development of educational tele
vision programs $5,000, Bailey’s
Community Center $2,500, Prot
! estant Episcopal Theological
Seminary $155,000: Fauquier
; County Hospital $10,000; Lou
doun Community College $67,-!
450; Loudoun County Hospital
$80,500, Loudoun art education
project $12,800, Loudoun Health
Department for a guidance cen
ter $2,600, Loudoun-Fauquier
Health Center $64,500, and Win
chester Memorial Hospital $154,-
325.
A $70,000 grant for a study of
Virginia resulted in 1955 in a
book entitled “Virginia at Mid-
Century,” a 500-page volume
written by Dr. Jean Gottman
who toured every county and
city in the State. Legislators
familiar with the study, say the
book should be on every desk in
the General Assembly.
Mr. Mellon is chairman of the
board of the foundation. Ernest
Brooks, jr., a graduate of Yale
and of Harvard Law School, is
president.
Shuns Propaganda
Monroe Bush. 35-year-old j
former minister, heads the Vir- j
. ginia Division. Mr. Bush, who;
! lives with his wife and four;
children at Paeonian Springs!
near Leesburg, spends much of!
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i’MCRKY CHRISTMAS’
FOR MOTORISTS
BERKELEY SPRINGS.
W. Va. Hoods marked
“Merry Christmas” have
been over all parking meters
here the past week by di
rection of Town Council as
a courtesy to shoppers who
wanted to park downtown,
j The hoods will be re
moved tomorrow.
Father's Death
Laid to 2 Sons
BEL AIR. Md„ Dec. 25 CflP).—
Sheriff Raymond Fulker said two
brothers held in Harford County
jail here were charged with mur
der yesterday in the fatal beat
ing of their father.
Maston Hall, 64-year-old con
struction laborer of RFD 2, Bel
Air, died in Harford Memorial
Hospital at Havre De Grace
shortly after noon, less than
10 hours after the beating. He
had been in critical condition
with a fractured skull, broken
jaw and other injuries. James
B Hall, 26, and his brother
(O’Rear, 23, were jailed on mur
der charges.
Sheriff Fulker said that the
two sons argued with their father
, about 8 o’clock Sunday night,
over an attempt by the father!
to correct O’Rear for cursing.
; They did not call an ambulance
until 12:40 a.m. yesterday, the!
sheriff said.
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J New County Treasurer
WARM SPRINGS, Va.. Dec.
25 (VP). —George Cleek, 50. Warm
Springs postmaster for the last
il6 years, was named Bath
l County treasurer yesterday by
■ Circuit Judge Earl L. Abbott.
• He will fill the remaining three
■ years of the unexpired' term of
i Robert M. Mlstoe who died De
• eember 16.
•!
. his time traveling the State
. looking for worthy projects.
I These three, with secretarial
i aid, run the Old Dominion. Al-;
l though many smaller gifts are,
. decided entirely by the trio,!
■ larger grants are the subject of
. hours of deliberation by a five
. member board of trustees which
meets quarterly at the founda-
I tion’s New York office.
, The foundation’s charter pro
. vides that the non-profit, non-j
i stock organization will aid re--
i ligious, charitable, scientific.!
I literary or educational programs!
i that will advance the public wel-j
fare “and tend to promote the!
i well-being of mankind in!
general, reglardless of race.
, color, condition or creed.”
None of the foundation funds
! shall be "devoted to carrying on
propaganda or otherwise at
tempting to influence legisla
tion,” the charter says.
The Old Dominion tries to
avoid "clinging vine” ventures
j that can’t expand. ,If prefers
j projects that can grow and after
one or two years of foundation
{backing become self-supporting
lor find new sources of revenue
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New $76 Million Route
To Be Financed by Tolls
BALTIMORE, Dec. 25 (VP).—j’
Gov. McKeldin said yesterday 1 1
that Maryland’s $76-million i
northeastern expressway would 1
be financed as a toll project, 1 1
rather than a free facility with!<
Federal highway funds.
* The expressway would run >
from Baltimore to the Delaware 1
line, roughly paralleling heavily 1
traveled U. S. 40. Gov. McKeldin !
said he was anxious to see it <
started as soon as feasible and 1
“so are the members of the State
Roads Commission.”
After Commission Chairman ,
Robert O. Bonnell reported De- ,
eember 13 that a method of fl- 1
nancing the 54-mile project had |
not been settled. State Senator,
William S. James, Democrat of,
Harford, contended the commis- ,
sion was "dragging its feet.”
BUI Passed in 1955 1
Senator James Introduced the j
bill, passed by the 1955 General
Assembly, which gave the com-!,
mission authority to build the (
road as a toll facility.
The Governor’s statement 1
came in the wake of a meeting!l
Mother Burned by Lye
Is Home for Christmas
Mrs. Jayne Boyd was home for
Christmas today after being re
leased temporarily from Arling
ton Hospital where she has been
under treatment for severe lye
burns.
The 33 - year -old Arlington
housewife arrived home yester
day after sevefi weeks of treat
ment for partial blindness, lye
damage to her vocal cords and
'internal burns received when a
I janitor threw a baling lye mix
ture in her face November 3.'
Her husband Ralph said the
children were delighted with
their special Christmas present
—having their mother home for
!the holiday. The children are
Kathleen, 10, Barbara, 9, and
Linda, 4.
Home Decoration
Winners Are Named
R. E Klein of 9122 Eaton
jroad. Silver Spring, has been
! awarded first prize in the
{Christmas home decoration con
i test sponsored by the Sligo-!
IBranview Community Associa-'
tion.
The winning home was de
corated to resemble a church,
complete with a 100-pound cell
on the chimney, colored windows'
and a public address system
playing Christmas carols.
Other contest prizes were
awarded to: C. H. Deery, 4 East
Hamilton street; H. L. Wills, 12
Oldham road; G. Orlitski, 9015
Bradford road: R. V. Smith, of
4 Oldham road and K. H
Daniels of 9126 Flower avenue.
(with Mr. Bonnell and other
commission officials last week.
Gov. McKeldin said the condi
tion of the bond market was the
major factor in delaying start
!of the road.
"It must be borne in mind,” he
added, “that the selling of bonds
for a major toll project is big
business and one that is deserv
ing of every consideration in
connection with the bond mar
ket and future toll income.”
Sees Saving Possible
The governor also said it
would be "foolish in the mere
interest of haste to commit our
selves over a period of years for
the payment of an interest rate
which weU may be considerably
reduced as the result of a little
patience ”
Mr Bonnell has expressed
hope that a trend toward im
provement in bond market might
be seen by February or March.
The governor said the present
market is not favorable, noting
that as recently as December 4
(Michigan received no bidders on
highway bonds and Connecticut
(had a similar experience.
f “Linda wont’ leave her
’ mother’s side,” Mr. Boyd said.
' Mr. Boyd had the pre-Christ
; man chores to do by himself,
including gift shopping and
decorating the family apartment
. at 22 South Old Glebe road.
Mrs. Boyd is to return to the
. hospital tomorrow for further
j treatment and operations. She
t has been on the critical list
. but now is reported doing well.
Her alleged attacker, Lemuel
Howard Kelly, 31, Negro, ar
rested in Newark. N. J., after
the assault, is in the Arlington
jail under $50,000 bond awaiting
action of a county grand pury
on a mayhem presentment. The
jury is to reconvene Januray 14.
Bids Planned Soon
On State Building
BALTIMORE, Dec. 25 (JP
The State expects to call tor
bids on construction of a four
story State office building at An
napolis early next year.
Final drawings are being com
pleted for the $3 million struc
ture, which will be located north
> of the State House.
The buildings, which should
be completed in 18 months, will
i be made of brick and will be glr
; conditioned throughout.
t| Plans for the colonial-styled
i buildings were made by Harder
’ and Dressel of Glen Burnie and
Rogers and Taliaferro of An
napolis.
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