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Greenbelt Cooperator Published Every Thursday By The Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc., 9 Parkway, Greenbelt, Maryland Vol. 19, No. 6 Greenbelt, Maryland. Thursday, September 16, 1954 10 Cents Variety's Petroff Blanks Drug Store For Co-op Babe Ruth League Title Variety Store, sparked by its pitcher-captain Barry Petroff and catcher Billy Andrusic - who hit safely in both his team’s scoring innings, defeated Drug Store, 7 to 0, to win the first annual Co-op Babe Ruth League of Greenbelt championship. Since the second half ended in a tie between these teams, this game was a play-off for the half-Variety had already won the first half. This stunning Petroff shutout - second in league play this summer - gave Va riety top spot in both halves and the 1954 title. For three innings it was a score less duel between Drug Store’s captain, Mike Canning, and; Pe troff. Barry had fanned six of the first nine outs and Drug Store’s infielders were terrific in killing off Variety smashes for outs. Variety switched tactics in the fourth and put two men on by bunting. Andrusic laid, one down first and Bob McKenzie dumped one to third. Throwing errors placed the boys on second and third and they both romped home on Petroff’s line drive double to right-center. Paul McDonald was hit by a Canning pitch to start the fifth inning rally. Bill Morin followed with a single -and Ronnie Donßul ilan drew a walk. Andrusic’s two bagger got McDonald and Morin home. After two infield outs Jim my Hahn plated Andy and Don- Bullian with another rollicking double. Hahn tallied the game’s last run when Carroll “The K” Barcus booted Sam Barron's grounder. Shortstop Bobby Canning made a couple of plays bordering on the sensational and collected two of his team’s 4 hits off Petroff. Box Score —VARIETY STORE AB R H Ron Donßullian, ss 3 10 Bill Andrusic, c, lb 4 2 2 Bob McKenzie, 3b 4 11 Barry Petroff, p 4 0 1 Jimmy Hahn, If 4 11 Sammy Barron, 2b 4 0 1 Eddie King, cf 4 0 0 Paul McDonald, rf 110 Ken Dean, lb 10 0 Bill Morin, lb, c 11l TOTALS 30 77 DRUG STORE AB R H Carroll Barcus, 2b 3 0 0 Chuck Clark, c 3 0 1 Tommy Iveson, 3b 3 o 1 Bobby Canning, ss 3 0 2 Mike Canning, p 2 0 0 Kenny Reamy, lb - 3 0 0 Edwin Link, cf 2 0 0 Dennis Murray, If 10 0 Dick Bragonje, If 10 0 Bobby Oring, rf 10 0 Earl Doss, rf 10 0 TOTALS 23 0 4 Score by innings: Variety 000 250 0-7 Drug 000 000 0 -0 Summary: Errors - Clark, Mike Canning, Iveson and King. Runs batted in—Adrusic 2, Petroff 2, Hahn 2. Two base hits - Petroff, Andrusic, Hahn, Barron and Ive son. Hit by pitched balls -by Pe troff (Mike Canning); by M. Can ning (Paul McDonald). Struck out -by Petroff, 12; by M. Canning, 6. First base on balls - off Petroff, 1; off M. Canning, 3. Umpires - Moore and Baker. CHILDRENS DANCE GROUP Children’s Dance Group spon sored by the PTA Center School will register pupils for the 1954-55 season this Saturday, September 18, from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. in front of the theater. At the meeting held on Tuesday, the parents present voted over whelmingly in favor of Erika Thimey, who teaches modern dance techniques. The age groups for these classes are from 5 J 2 through 12 years for both boys and girls. Tuition will be $5 per month, no charge for registration. For further information call Fran ces Miller, 5466 or Elaine Skol nick, 3253. Center PTA Plans Full, Varied Season Planning activities for the Cen ter School Parent-Teachers Asso ciation shifted into high gear this week. Committees have been formed and are already at work. The offi cers have met several times with the principal and a schedule of membership meetings been formulated. The first PT-A meetings will be held on Tuesday, October 5. The date was changed from September 28 to avoid conflict with the Jew ish holidays. Officers of the Center PT-A for the coming year are Harold Huf endick, president; Mrs. Harold Yeager, vice-president; Mrs. The ron Tompkins, secretary; and Mrs. Louis Lushine, treasurer. The program committee is headed by Morris Solomon, and the membership committee by Vincent Caruso. Chairmen (in some cases co-chairmen) of other committees are: Mrs. Thomas Rit chie. budget and finance; Mrs. Nel son Chapman and Mrs. Harry Weidberg, character and spiritual education; Mrs. Mathew Amberg, health; Mrs. Donald Kern, home room mothers; Mrs. Irving Ger ring and Mrs. David. Falter, hos pitality; Mrs. James Daly, legisla tive; Mrs. Frank Galvin, PT-A magazine; Mrs. Charles Slaugh, reading and library service; Mrs. James Ott and Mrs. Ralph G. Mil ler, publicity. 3 Cars Looted In 17 Court of Ridge Three automobiles were burglar ized last Monday evening in the 17 court of Ridge. The radios and overhead interior lights were re moved from all three vehicles. Al though all cars were locked, the thieves forced entry. Police Chief George Panagoulis is conducting an intense investiga tion. He disclosed that two teen agers were apprtehended the pre vious night, ransacking cars on Parkway. They were from the Brentwood area of Maryland. Sev eral other teen-agers from the Brentwood area were also appre hended by Hyattsville police earli er in the week. Panagoulis says authorities be lieve an organized gang of teen agers from the Brentwood area are engaged in theft of auto accesso ries and are disposing of the loot through a “fence.” He warns all local motorists to lock their cars and take other safety precautions until the gang is taken into cus tody. HOSPITAL DANCE A special invitation to the Green belt Woman’s Club to attend the annual benefit dance of the Prince Georges Hospital Guild on Satur day, September 15, has been issued by the latter organization. Proceeds of the dance, which will be held at the Marlboro To bacco Market in Upper Marlboro, are to be used in purchasing equip ment and linens for the hospital. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER _____ What Goes On? Saturday, September 18 - Com munity Church Fish Fry and Carnival on church grounds throughout afternoon and evening. Saturday, September 18 - Job’s Daughter’s bake sale in front of Greenbelt Theater, 9:30 to 12:30 a.m. Saturday, September 18 - Jew ish Community Center special membership meeting at Cen ter School at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, September 18 - Reg istration for Children’s Dance Group in front of theater, 10- 12 a.m. Sunday, September 19 - Co-op | Barbecue at Gaithersburg, Md. Monday, September 20 - City Council meets in city offices 1 Variety Store) at 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 22 - | Democratic Club meeting at Center School at 8:30 p.m. Friday, September 24 - GVHC beard of directqrs meeting Hamilton Place, at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, September 25 - An nual benefit dance of Prince Georges Hospital Guild in Upper Marlboro. Sunday, September 26 - Tryouts for touch football at Braden Field at 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 5 - Center 1 School PTA membership meeting (note new date). r- 1 f ■- ’ Church Carnival Rain or Shine “Rain or shine, the Community Church Carnival will be held on Saturday, September 18,” accord ing to an announcement from Rob ert Fisher, carnival coordinator. “If it rains,” Fisher stated, “we’ll move just about everything except maybe the ponies, inside.” “The fish will taste just as good in the Social Hall,” he added. When asked, what the fish would be, he smacked his lips. “Take your choice of spot or haddock, oyster patties or shrimp, all serv ed with potato chips, cole slaw and hush puppies, done to a turn by that old fish fry hand, Stanley Ed wards.” Other food, in addition to the fish, to be served throughout the day are hot dogs, individually or with cole slaw and hush puppies, cup cakes, pie a la mode, ice cream, coffee and soft drinks. “The booths will open about noon on Saturday and close about 7:30 or 8, and. prizes will be given out as soon as they are won,” Fish er said. “Prices for everything, including food, will be reasonable, in keeping with the ‘family’ spirit of the event.” “In addition to the events an nounced in last week’s Coopera tor,” Fisher said, “there will be two ponies (which may answer to the names of Trigger and Smok ey) to take the kids on a ride, a number of cartoon movies, and a snowball booth operated by the Men’s Bible Class. Admission to all events and booths will be tickets, in small de nominations, sold by cashiers at the carnival. Final action on the carnival plans were taken last Sunday at a general church council meeting with the acceptance of volunteers Eric T. Braund, church pastor, James Beck, Robert Halpin, Bruce Bowman, Chris Mullady and Ralph Bartholomew, to act as a “clean up” committee. Paper Is Renamed “News Review;” New Board of Directors Elected After X7 continuous years of publication under the name of the Greenbelt Cooperator, Greenbelt’s weekly newspaper will ap pear with a new name as of next week’s issue. The name, which, will appear in a new type form, is the Greenbelt News Review. FLASH James Smith, Greenbelt Mo tors prexy, a former profes sional tobacco auctioneer, has agreed to serve as auctioneer at the old-fashioned auction to be put on by the Women’s Guild at the Community Church Carni val Saturday, September 18, ac cording to information received from the carnival publicity committee. PCF Sponsors Talk ByT oyohikoKagawa Toyohiko Kagawa, world renowned Japanese cooperative and church leader, will speak in Washington on Monday, Septem ber 20. He will talk at 8 p.m. in the Calvary Baptist Church, Bth and H Sts., N.W., at a meeting sponsored by the Potomac Coop erative Federation, a regional as sociation of consumer co-ops. f Many thousands of persons in all parts of the world have been thrilled by Dr. Kagawa’s story of how cooperatives, churches, labor unions and other institutions are helping to rebuild democracy in his native country. On his last trip to Washington, in October 1950, he spoke to audiences totalling more than 2,000. For some 40 years Kagawa has led a crusade for slum clearance in Japan. The son of a wealthy businessman, he chose to live for 14 years in the heart of Shinkawa, an infamous slum area in the city of Kobe. He shared fully in the incredible poverty and misery of Shinkawa’s inhabitants to gain a compassionate understanding of their problems. Dr. Kagawa exposed Shikawa’s squalor in his first book, “Across the Death-Line” and dealt with the causes and cures of poverty in his second, “The Psychology of Pov erty.” Royalties from his writings helped him to carry on a campaign to abolish the slums and in 1926 the Japanese government appro priated $lO millions for slum clearance projects. In addition to his evening talk on September 20, Kagawa will speak at 12:10 p.m. in the First Congregational Church, 10th and G Sts., N.W., at a meeting spon sored by the Washington Federa tion of Churches. Both meetings are open to the public and admis sion is free. The name was formally selected by the board of directors of the Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association following an indica tion of preference for the name by a majority of staff members at the annual membership meeting Monday, September 13. A previous public opinion poll) conducted by the newspaper had resulted in -a disappointing turn out, in which less than one hund red ballots were cast. About one third of the votes preferred to re tain the name of the Cooperator, while the' remaining two-thirds of the votes were scattered among a variety of names. A majority of the board of direc tors felt these results indicated a large majority preferred, some name other than the Cooperator and therefore reaffirmed a prev ious decision to change the name. The new name was originally sug gested by Harry Zubkoff, editor of the newspaper. New Board A new board of directors was also elected at the annual meeting Members of the new board, which will take office on October 1, are Isadore J. Parker (reelected), El eanor Ritchie, Russell Grecnbauni,— Carolyn Miller, and Miriam Solo mon (reelected). Retiring mem bers of the old board are Zub koff, Bernard Krug, and George Bloom. Zubkoff’s one- year term as ed itor of the newspaper will end as of October 1, at which time the new board will select a new edi tor as well as elect officers. BRL At Gaithersburg For One Last Game Final Co-op Babe Ruth League of Greenbelt function of its maid en year will be performed at Gai thersburg Fairgrounds Stadium this Sunday. Members of Co-op Variety Store championship team will be presented their trophies by store manager Jack De Kowzart just prior to the league’s last ball game of the season. The exhibition ball game is one of the features of the annual Greenbelt Consumer Services’ an nual barbecue and picnic. Game time is one o’clock. Two squads for the game will be chosen from the entire league roster. Cbach Bill Moore is very desirous of a large turnout of his Babe Ruthers. All players are to be in full Babe Ruth League uniforms for this last game. Tickets for the barbeeue will be free for all the participat ing players, . Transportation for players from* Greenbelt to Gaithersburg and re* turn is needed. Players and rides are requested to meet in front of the swimming pool at eleven o’clock Sunday. Moore will take the first carfull in order to make the diamond ready fori the game. Coach Don Wolfe will remain at the swimming pool terminus until the last of the players leave, keep ing a departure list. Players’ parents, who are willing to take a couple extra players in their cars, are urged, to observe above departure point and time.