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Falls Church Votes to Study
Nearby Areas' Annexation
The Palls Church City Coun
cil. last night, unanimously
approved a preliminary annex
ation study of surrounding
Fairfax County areas.
f The council gave City Man
ager Lewis Z. Johnston a six
month period in which to com
plete an initial survey of ad
jacent Fairfax County territory
to determine the feasibility of
expanding the city’s present
corporate limtts of 2 square
miles.
The city council will form
itself into a committee of the
whole to work with the city
manager on the study.
Defeated by a 4-to-3 vote
’ was a substitute motion by
Raymond Taylor which would
have instructed the city man
ager and city attorney to work
together on the study and
would have spelled out the re
spective manager-council roles
in making the survey.
Decision in Spring
Mayor Thomas O'Halloran
pointd out that when the study
had been completed next
spring, the council will decide
whether to continue annexa
tion efforts. If the council de
cides to proceed, experts will
be called in to make a detailed
survey of the area under con
sideration with an annexation
Court Priority Ruling
I n School Case Delayed
RICHMOND, Va„ Nov. 11
<AP>.—The Veterans Day holi
day has held up an announce
ment on whether a three-judge
Federal Court will grant a delay
in hearing a suit which attacks
the constitutionality of Vir
ginia's massive resistance laws.
Chief Judge Simon E. Sobeloff
of the Fourth Circuit Court of
Appeals said a decision has
been made and mailed to Dis-i
trict Judge Walter E. Hoffman
in Norfolk. But Judge Sobeloff
declined to say what the de-l
cision was. until Judge Hoffman
gets a chance to look the ruling 1
over.
There is no regular mail de-:
livery today. A spokesman in
Norfolk said Judge Hoffman
won’t get the ruling until to
morrow. The third judge of the
special court is- Circuit Judge
Clement F. Haynsworth.
Hinging in the decision in the
mails is whether the Federal
Court or Virginia’s Supreme
Court of Appeals will rule first |
on the validity of the State’s)
school segregation laws. Under;
these laws, nine white public
schools have been closed Iq
avoid race mixing ordered by.
Federal courts. There could be
Tawes Promises
Economies and
Efficient Aides
BALTIMORE. Nov. 11 <AP>.
—Gov.-elect J. Millard Tawes
says he will work for economies
in the State government, and if
a department head doesn't co
operate, he'll get another one.
Mr. Tawes returned to his
desk yesterday after a five-day
rest from the strenuous general
election campaign.
The Democrat said his main
objective in the next four years
“will be to get more mileage out
of the tax dollar." and added:
"I am going to make an ear
nest plea to department heads
for a crusade for more economy
and more efficiency in govern- 1
ment. If I find a department:
head who is not willing to co
operate—well. I'll get a new
department head.”
Mr. Tawes scheduled a meet-,
ing today with James O. Ren
nie. director of the budget. He
plans to scrutlninse budget pro
posals of various departments
prior to his inauguration in
January.
He said he would consult
“expert observers’’ and outgoing
G. O. P. Gov. McKeldin as well.
SAN MARCOS SAGA
Navy Fails to Blast
Battleship From Bay
TANGIER ISLAND, Va.. Nov.
11 «AP > .—lt may be that old
battleships Just never die.
Take the caae of the San
Marcos. The Navy has been
setting off tons of explosives
trying to blow the old man of
\\«j- out of her resting place In
Chesapeake Bay. So far the
rusty old warrior has refused
to be blown apart.
The saga of the San Marcos
In Chesapeake Bay began in
1921 when Gen. Billy Mitchell
sent the vessel to the bottom
hi proving that the airplane
had come Into 1U own as a
striking force.
' The San Marcos went down
all right. But ever since she
has damaged more ships while
lying on the bottom than she
ever did afloat. At least seven
shipwrecks have been attributed
to the Jagged metal hiding a
few Inches below the surface
of the bay. Ship owners have
been paid an estimated (100,000
in claims.
Tests last year showed the
hulk could be lowered to a
depth of 15-20 feet by using
dynamite.
suit against the county finally
being filed.
Arlington County is protected
from annexation by special
State legislation.
A city attempt in 1949 to an
nex nearly 11 square miles of
Fairfax County, Including Sev
en Corners, was rejected by a
three-man annexation court
and on appeal by the State Su
preme Court of Appeals. The
courts ruled that the city did
not need and could not serv
ice the areas concerned, but
did not bar a future annexation
attempt.
In the wake of approval of
the $1.550,p00 water bond issue
in the November 4 referendum,
the council appointed the State
local debt commission to handle
the bond sale. Anticipating a
two-to-four-month delay in the
bond sale, a first reading was
given to a $200,000 loan from
the waterworks renewal fund
to start immediate construc
tion of pipe lines leading to the
ClA’s McLean site. A public
hearing was set for November
24.
Joins Park Authority
The council, by a unanimous
vote, also agreed to participate
in the newly organized North
ern Virginia Regional Park
Authority. Other members in-
additional closings early next
year.
U. S. Hearings November 19
The special three-judge Fed-:
eral Court is now scheduled to
, hear a Norfolk suit challenging
the school segregation laws No
vember 19. That suit was
- brought by white parents of
' children displaced from sec
> ondary schools in the port city.
A motion for the delay asked
’ the court to defer the hearing
'' until after the Virginia Su
i preme Court of Appeals rules
•'in an action to be heard No
.jvember 24. This suit is in the
l form of a test case brought by
: j the State.
Counsel for the plaintiffs in
. the Norfolk case objected to
, any delay by contending the
closures are unconstitu
, tional and that a Federal court
, should not delay a ruling when
, civil rights are being denied.
Ask for Time
; In requesting delay, Virginia
| Attorney General A. S. Har
jrison, Jr., said the State court
: I suit was filed in good faith to
' obtain a ruling on the validity
. of the laws and the Federal
court should grant time for
) the Virginia court to rule. The
issues in both cases are similar,
he said.
The outcome of the present
i litigation would have a direct
bearing on the future course
of the Arlington County de
segregation suit.
In that case Federal District
Judge Albert V. Bryan has
1 ordered four Negro children
| admitted to Stratford Junior
High School February 2.
i The Arlington County Board
' forseeing possible shutdown of
that school as the situation
stands now, has announced it
is prepared to take whatever
legal steps it feels necessary
to keep the school open.
Judge to Speak
On Deliquency
The problems of delinquency
control in Montgomery County
. will be discussed by the county's
! Juvenile Court Judge. Alfred
D. Noyes, at a meeting of the
Maryland Commission for the
' Prevention and Treatment of
. Juvenile Delinquency at 3 p.m.
Thursday.
The meeting will be held
jointly with the Montgomery
County Youth Commission in
', the County Office Building au
■ j ditorium in Rockville.
; Maurice O. Hunt, executive
1 secretary of the Maryland
| State commission, will lead a
panel discussion on the group's
i legislative program for next
. year.
The Navy went to work Octo
ber 25 and said yesterday it
had made a clearance of 13
feet above the wreck but has
not been able to penetrate the
i 12-inch armor plate. Yesterday
the Navy scurried back to Nor
folk for more dynamite.
The San Marcos, christened
as the USB Texas in 1890. may
yet prove too much for the
; Navy demolition experts.
A spokesman noted that the
original deadline for the pro
ject is at hand. "If she’s not
1 down by Friday we ll just have
' to postpone it." he said.
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clude Fairfax. Arlington and
Prince William Counties. The
authority will be charged with
establishing regional parks and
recreational areas in Northern
Virginia.
As an outgrowth of a discus
sion on budget procedures, the
Mayor was authorized to ap
point the council committee of
three or four members to renew
last spring’s comprehensive Fis
cal Advisory Committee report
and the city manager’s October
report on service charges and
special fees. The committee
will make recommendations on.
budget changes at the Decem
ber 22 council meeting.
Meanwhile, the council
agreed to move final action on
the 1959 budget from June to
April. The «chool board had
asked for the date change pri
marily to facilitate drawing up
teacher contracts.
Other Actions
In other action, the council:
Referred to the planning
commission a request to in
crease building height limita
tions in commercial areas to
permit the construction of four
story building on Anderson
field.
Approved curb and gutter
plans for Pine street. North
.Oak street and Noland street.
Appointed Col. Terry Bald
i win and Walter L. Mess.
! Chamber of Commerce presi
dent. to the historical com
mission.
Agreed to make final the sale
of the old police station to the
, woman’s club with the option
!to repurchase frontage needed
to widen Lee highway.
Approved a $2,780 bid to tear
down the old Jefferson School
on North Cherry street. The
land will be used for a recrea
tional area In the future.
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AUTO SHOW HEAD—
Joseph B. Paul, Washing
ton Oldsmobile dealer
was named yesterday as
chairman of the 30th an
nual Auto Show to be held
at the National Guard
Armory January 10-18.
Navy Considers
Closing Center
At Camp Allen
NORFOLK. Va.. Nov. 11 <AP>
—The Navy may close its train
ing Command center at Camp
Allen next year.
Navy sources said no final
decision has been made. There
were unofficial reports, how
ever, that Camp Allen will take
its last prisoners In December
and will be closed March 31.
The Navy has been consider
ing for some time the closing
of one of its prison camps,
either Camp Allen here or the
camp at Portsmouth, N. H. The
two camps would be merged.
Representative Hardy. Demo
crat of Virginia, has told the
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce
that the Navy has made no
decision.
2 School Bids
Are Accepted
By County
The Prince Georges County'
Board of Education yesterday!
accepted bids for the construc
tion of two new junior high
schools, and moved toward the
purchase of two elementary!
school sites.
The schools will be built in
Palmer Park and District
Heights, and should be com
pleted during the 1959-60 school
year.
The Palmer Park school will
be built for $816,849 by John
Tester 6c Son, Inc., of Clinton,
the lowest of nine bidders. In
cluded in the building will be
18 classrooms, a multipurpose
room, a gymnasium, cafeteria
and library.
The school will be built as an
addition to the present Palmer
Park Elementary School. Anew
18-room elementary school will
be built In a new section of the
subdivision between Sheriff and
handover roads. Bids will be
opened November 24 In the
school board office in Upper
Marlboro.
The secondary school In Dis
trict Heights will Co6t $1,326.-
736. and be built by Opha
Mays of Takoma Park, lowest
of eight bidders. Located on
Seventy-first avenue between
Alpine street and Weber ter
race, the school will contain
129 classrooms, a multipurpose
room, library, gymnasium and
cafeteria.
Board members agreed to
purchase 4 acres in the Prince
ton subdivision, off Auth road
near Camp Springs. The par
cel adjoins an 8-acre tract the
board purchased earlier. In
each case the price is $4,000
per acre.
A 60-day option was taken
by the board on a 10 - acre 1
tract in the Skyline subdivi-j
sion in Mornlngside. ,
800% Growth Forecast
For Downtown Area
By AL AUBRANDO
Star Staff Wriur
Downtown Washington will grow to a metropolitan center
of 8 square miles—eight times its present size—in a little
over 20 years, the city’s top planning official said yesterday.
William Finley, director of the National Capital Planning
Commission, also forecast these developments for the “metro
center” and suburbs:
A high-speed subway carrying as many as 40.000 passen-
gers an hour on one line.
Giant parking garages, above
and below ground, even under
the Mall.
New housing, schools and
commercial buildings covering
150 square miles of now-vacant
land.
Close Some Streets
Many new buildings in the
downtown area.
Elimination of some down
town streets for a better flow
of pedestrian traffic.
Huge new retail and whole- j
sale centers in the downtown I
area. ,
And a general transformation
of the downtown area with 1
apartment towers, art galleries,
restaurant and entertainment'
centers. j,
Mr. Finley, in a speech tdi
the Washington Building Con
i gress, said the flight to suburbia
! by Individuals and Government
agencies has not turned out
well in all cases. He cited the
case of one agency, obviously „
the Atomic Energy Commission,
which moved near German
town, in Montgomery County. ,
He said the agency loßt nearly
40 per cent of its employes, has i
a lot of executives who are un- :
happy because they can't read- i
ily get to downtown meetings I
and is threatened with strangu- i
lation by the subdivisions it
sought to escape. ,
Suburban living, said Mr.
Finley, is "a sterile life” with
its occupants living “a canned i
and pre-packaged life.” Sub
urbanites miss too much, he i
said. “They experience no live
performances ... have no views
of the cross-section of our so
ciety.”
Mr. Finley said the demand
for office space is so great that
even though 70 structures have
been built in recent years, the
vacancy rate is less than 1.2 per
cent of the available space.
“There is reason to believe
that many other organizations
i would build if they could buy a
j decent site at a decent price,”
;he said.
Mr. Finley suggested that
this scarcity of land for private
development might be alle
viated by setting aside larger
areas lor urban renewal. He
cited the case of the proposed
terminal center in a two-block
area between Ninth and
Eleventh and D and E streets
N.W.
Would Expand Area.
“. . Two blocks are not
enough.” he said. “The entire
area should be declared an
urban renewal area—not be
cause it is all blighted—but
because it Is a necessary step
toward using eminent domain
for a public purpose, the only
tool developed thus far which
permits private enterprise to
rebuild the center of the city.”
Mr. Finley said the proposal
of “greatest scale and implica
tion is the designation of all the
land east of the Capitol be
tween Constitution and Inde
pendence avenues for public
snd semi-public buildings.”
B-3
Beating Held
Fatal to Aide
At Boy School
RICHMOND. Nov. 11 (AT?.
■ —Barry Steel Chapman, 24,
I counselor at Beaumont In*
\ dustrial School for Boys In
'nearby Powhatan County, ap
parently was bludgeoned to
death with his own shotgun,
authorities said today.
Mr. Chapman was found dead
In his apartment bathroom at
the school yesterday. The
State medical examiner's office
here said Mi. Chapman died
of multiple blows on the head
and a severe neck wound. His
broken, twisted shotgun was
j found in the apartment.
Tire tentative time of death
was fixed at sometime Friday
night.
Last night State police put
out a general alarm for a light
tan 1954 model Cadillac used
|b.v Mr. Capman and registered
:to his father. Also missing
were a number of items from
Mr. Chapman’s apartment, in
cluding a guitar, banjo and a
table model radio. His wallet
also was taken.
As far as police could deter
mine. he was last seen Friday
night at the building where
he lived. The structure also
contains a dormitory for youths
jat the school.
Mr. Chapman was a native
of Lancaster. Pa. He was a
salesman before joining the
Beaumont staff as a child wel
fare worker last year.
School Boards Elect
RICHMOND, Nov. 11 (AP).—
T. Anthony Pollard, of Pittsyl
vania County, has been elected
president of the Virginia School
Boards Association. He succeeda
Lester I. Bowman of Petersburg.