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Vol. 19 Thursday, November 18, 1954 No. 15
The Crucial 5 55 Budget
One of the most crucial city budgets in Greenbelt’s history
will be discussed this Monday night in the Center School auditor
ium when citizens gather to express their views to the city council.
On the surface, the issue appears simple enough. Should the
council cut the city tax rate by reducing city-subsidized services
and replacing them with county services and, in addition, eliminate
some services altogether or should we keep the status quo and
saddle ourselves with a tax rate that will apparently be even high
er than last year? Unfortunately, the problem is more compli
cated than that. Everyone agrees that a tax cut is desirable.
What we do not agree about is whether the proposed cuts in Green
belt’s traditional services are worth the advantages that are ex
pected to result from a tax reduction.
The editoral staff of the News Review feels that there are
reasonable and cogent arguments on both sides of this question.
It is obvious that a reduction in services will cut our tax rate,
but the question that must be asked and answered is whether or
not this will accomplish the purpose of reducing the tax rate to
the point where the building of homes here around the price of
$15,000 will be really encouraged. In connection with this, the
analysis of the budget committee of the Greenbelt Citizens As
sociation points out significantly that the owner of such a home in
Greenbelt will have to pay more than S3OO a year in city, county,
and state taxes even after all possible cuts have been made. Will
such a tax bill still be too high to attract new expensive housing
and will FHA still be reluctant to underwrite loans for the con
struction of homes in Greenbelt?
Another question that the city council must answer before it
accepts county services in place of what has been provided by the
city is what exactly will the county give us. Although it appears
that the county will give us adequate library service, there is com
plete confusion and lack of information as to what we can expect
in the way of recreation services. Unless we know of a concrete
program that the county can present us, we should have serious
doubts about making cuts in this item.
The establishment of a volunteer fire department appears to
be a sensible idea, but here again we might ask such questions as
will it affect our insurance rates which most of us pay as members
of GVHC. High insurance rates would be even more seriously felt
by new homes. There are several other angles to be considered
before we take the crucial step of dropping or reducing our many
and varied services here.
The News Review is not yet ready to make up its mind, and we
believe that the citizens of Greenbelt should come to the Monday
night meeting with open minds. Come with a list of questions to
ask and be ready to ask questions as the occasion arises. Above
all, do not come with the idea of venting grievances but with the
purpose of obtaining as much information as possible.
What is the future of Greenbelt to be ? An important part of
that answer may be settled Monday night.
Holiday Diet
This is not a column about the
frightful dangers of overeating.
Of course, at Thanksgiving dinner
everyone will eat more than he
really needs, but no serious illness
is likely to result. Go ahead and
plan a menu with all your favorite
dishes. It’s a once-a-year feast.
It’s a time to enjoy.
How long has it been since you
have had any fun? How long since
you laughed right out loud? If it
hasn’t been very recent, if you’ve
been too busy, or life has been too
serious, you had better do some
thing about it right away. The
doctors tell us we need to have
some fun in our diet of living in
order to be healthy. Their advice
to many housewives who come to
them tired, nervous, irritable, and
heading for a nervous breakdown
is to practice playing.
Let’s start with Thanksgiving
Day. It won’t be easy for some
neople to stick to a diet of pleas
ure. However, by starting slowly
on November 25, you may be real
’ able to enjoy yourself by New
Year’s Day.
There’s no single formula for
having a good time. Your pleas
’'e may be someone else’s bore-
Ym. Is a big gathering of rela
hves a nightmare to you? You
hnn’t have to have one every holi-
Perhaps it’s just preparing
e huge meal that you dislike. Try
dividing the production up among
vour guests, and save for your
self some part you really enjoy.
If you want to go to the football
game with your family, stack the
dishes just this once. If you real
ly hate sitting in a windy stadium,
stay home and enjoy yourself in
your own way for a few hours.
Don’t stop with Thanksgiving
Day. Start each day by asking
yourself how you can make it more
fun. Add spice to your life by
changing your daily routine. See
more people. Go out to the movies,
theatre, dances, concerts and club
meetings. Take some exercise in
the form of a sport you enjoy.
Discover your hobby. Choose
something that comes easily to
you. not something you feel you
ought to enjoy. You will find that
your body’s machinery will run
better on a balanced diet of work
and play.
This column is sponsored, in the
interest of better health, by the
Maryland Tuberculosis Associa
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The Long View
By A. C. Long
Well, if the city councilmen have
not earned their liberal salaries so
far this year, they surely will be
tween now and the end of the year
—of course, I mean adopting a
budget for 1955.
Everybody has been clamoring
for them to cut the tax rate.
Among the loudest were GVHC
and the Greenbelt News Review.
Yet, when the City Manager sug
gests a proposed budget which
would cut the tax rate from 2.359
to 2.023, a small reduction of only
14 percent, the News Review had
a critical editorial about leaving
the town unprotected (or is it that
they are afraid of leaving it to
the mercies of "a disgruntled, un
satisfied police force”), and the
president of GVHC pleads for a
more expensive library, “in these
troubled times.”
Council will know what he means
by “these troubled times” before
they are through. In fact, I am
afraid they will all end up with
strabismus, what with keeping one
eye on the 1955 budget and the
other eye on the 1955 elections.
I am glad I do not live in low
taxed, poorly-policed, illiterate,
and crime-ridden communities like
Chevy Chase, Takoma Park or Col
lege Park. Those dogpatchers just
do not know enough to raise their
taxes and live like Greenbelters
(broke most of the time). Imag
ine the chiselers depending on the
county for services. It smacks
suspiciously of State—no, I mean,
county socialism to me. Well, any
how, somebody ought to get after
somebody. I am sure everybody
will agree with that.
* * *
Einstein says that if he had it to
do over again, he would like to be
a plumber. He hasn’t anything
on me. If I had it to do over again,
I would like to ibe a multi-million
aire.
* * *
Best wishes to the Great Books
Group which will meet every other
Thursday. May I suggest that
they add to their list, two very im
portant books of our civilization —
the check book and the cook book.
* * *
To save you the trouble of look
ing it up in the dictionary* Strabis
mus - A visual disorder masked by
inability to direct both eyes to the
same object, due to in-co-ordina
tion of the muscles of the eyeballs.
S. s4ttic&. fa.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday for Albert S. Attick, Jr., 18,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert S.
Attick, Sr., of 1-A Gardenway, who
was the victim of an automobile
crash in Pennsylvania last Satur
day.
The Community Church was
crowded as friends of young Bud
dy, as he was known throughout
Greenbelt, came to pay tribute to
him and to show their sympathy
for the bereaved parents and
younger brother, Jimmy.
Buddy was a Greenbelt boy from
the age of two, when the Attick
family moved here from Berwyn
Heights. He attended the Center
School and served as a member of
the patrol force. Going on through
Greenbelt Junior High and North
western, Buddy was outstanding in
athletics and a member of the
honor society of both schools. At
the time of his death he was a
freshman at Slippery Rock State
Teachers College and a member of
the soccer team. It was his plan
to become a physical education
teacher following graduation.
The service Wednesday was con
ducted by the Reverend Eric T.
Braund, minister of Community
Church, assisted by the Reverend
Eldon Koch of the Berwyn Bap
tist Church and the Reverend
Calude A. Brubaker of Bethesda,
who performed the wedding cere
mony for Mr. and Mrs. Attick.
Among the many out-of-town
friends and relatives attending the
service were John R. Eiler. Dean
of Men at Slippery Rock and Mrs.
Eiler. Buddy’s two room-mates
were present. Also, the brothers
and sisters of David Wheeler, kill
ed in the same tragic accident,
came to Greenbelt Wednesday.
See ATTICK, Page 4
Governor Endorses
P.G. Clothing Drive
Governor Theodore R. McKeld
in called upon the people of Prince
Georges County this week to “Be
Prepared” when more than 3,800
Scouts stage their county-wide
Good Turn Day Clothing Drive for
Goodwill Industries on Saturday,
December 4th. The project is be
ing sponsored by the Prince Georg
es District of the National Capi
tal Area, Boy Scouts of America,
to help the Industries provide jobs
for the handicapped.
In urging wide public support
of the Scouts’ Good Turn Day ef
fort, Governor McKeldin declared:
“I am confident that the people of
Prince George’s County will ob
serve the Boy Scout motto ‘Be
Prepared!’ and participate gener
ously in this fine project.”
More than 3,800 Scouts, repre
senting 116 units, are distributing
special Good Turn Day bags this
week among friends and neigh
bors who are invited to fill them
with repairable clothing, shoes
and household textiles. The Scouts
will return on Saturday, December
4th, to collect the filled bags. They
will then be transported to Good
will Industries sheltered workshop
where handicapped people will re
pair the discarded materials. The
reconditioned articles will be sold
in Goodwill Industries’ four retail
stores at prices that will aid fam
ilies with limited incomes.
HEBREW SERVICES
Hebrew services will be held Fri
day night at 8 p.m. in the Home
Economics room of the Center
School. For the present, services
are conducted by the members.
Candle-lighting time is at 4:16 p.m.
this week.
MOWATT MEMORIAL
METHODIST CHURCH
North End School
Stanley F. Knock, Jr., Minister
42-L Ridge Road - Phone 9410
Sunday, November 21 - 9:30 a.m M
Sunday School Service. Classes for
all ages. Herbert Irvin, Superin
tendent. 11 a.m., Morning Wor
ship, conducted by Rev. Knock.
Sermon entitled “The Mayflower
Still is Sailing On.” A nursery is
provided for the smaller children.
Sunday, November 21 - 4:45 p.m.,
Methodist Youth Fellowship meets
?.t the Bailev residence, 21-P Ridge,
to go to the Library of Congress
" d Methodist Hymn Sing. 8 p.m.,
Methodist Hymn Sing at Consti
tution Hall, Washington, D. C.
Monday November 22-8 p.m.,
Church School Worker’s Confer
ence Rooom 225, Center School.
Wednesday, November 23-8
P.m, Bible Study Class, Room 225,
Ce’-ter School.
Thursday, November 25 - 10 a.m.,
Cemmunity Thanksgiving Day
Service.
GREENBELT BAPTIST
Meeting in Center School
Rev. Wm. J. Crowder, Ph.D.,
Acting Pastor
4 Woodlond Way, GR. 4-9242
Sunday, November 21 - 9:45 a.m..,
Sund.av School, John S. Stewart,
Jr., Supt. Classes for all ages.
11 a.m. Morning Worship, sermon,
Doctor Crowder. A nursery is
maintained during all services.
6 p.m Baptist Training Fellow
ship meeting in five units -for
entire family. 6:45 p.m., Evening
Worship - Visual message - “The
Mission Churches and Chapels ot
the D. C. Baptist Convention.”
The Thanksgiving Service will
be held Thanksgiving morning at
10 a m The choir will sing the
anthems “Praise Ye the Father’
by Gounod and “Count Your Bless
ings” arr. by Lorenz. The Paste
Dr. Wm. J. Crowder, will preside.
The sermon will be by the pastor
of the sponsoring church, Dr. J.
Walter Carpenter, pastor of the
Metropolitan Baptist Church,
Washington, D. C. Everyone is in
vited.
The Chapel has appointed a spe
cial committee consisting of Mrs.
Helen Cratty, chairman, Mrs. Roy
Taylor, and Mrs. Edith Stewart,
to lead in preparing a basket as
help to a needy family.
GREENBELT LUTHERAN
Edward H. Birner, Pastor
Telephone: GRanite 4-9200
Sunday, November 21: 9:45 a.m.,
Sunday School and adult Bible
Class. Classes are held for all age
groups. Raymond Carriere, Super
intendent. 8:30 and 11 a.m.,
Church Services. Sermon by the
pastor. Visitors are always wel
come to our services. 4 p.m., The
Walther League society meets at
the church. 8 p.m., University
couples meet at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Trytten, 13-A
Laurel Hill.
Thursday, November 25: 10 a.m.,
Thanksgiving Day services at the
church. Sermon by the pastor.
Clothing for world-wide relief may
be brought to the church on this
day.
ST. HUGH’S
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Rev. Victor J. Dowgiallo, Pastor
GR, 3-5911
Confessions: Saturday afternoon
from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for children
and in the evening from 7 to 9 p.m.
for adults.
Sunday: Masses - 7:30, 8:30, 9:30
and 11 a.m. Eleven o’clock Mass
is a High Mass sung by St. Hugh’s
Choir. This is children’s Com
munion Sunday for the parish. Re
ligious instructions are held each
Sunday for Catholic children en
roled in public schools after the
8:30 Mass in St. Hugh’s School.
Baptisms: Sunday, 1 p.m. Please
contact Father Dowgiallo before
hand.
Wednesday: Miraculous Medal
Novena at 8 p.m., followed by Ben
ediction of the Most Blessed Sacra
ment.
Thanksgiving: Mass will be cel
ebrated at 8:30 a.m., followed by
prayers for civil and religious au
thorities and Benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament
November 21 through 28 has
been set as the date for the Bish
ops’ Annual Thanksgiving collec
tion for relief of needy victims of
war in Indochina and refugees in
the Near and Far East. The La
dies of Charity are directing the
drive and are asking particularly
for wearable clothing, Bidding;
and shoes in good condition which
are urgently needed.
Pick-up service is available to any
one who desires to donate his bit
for the needy by calling Mrs. Fitz
maurice, GR. 9208 or Mrs. Cusick,
GR. 7007 at any time during the
collection period.
The Sacrament of Confirmation
will be administered in St Hugh’s
Catholic Church on Sunday, De
cember 19. Catholic children who
will have reached the age of 10 by
the end of the school year are eli
gible. Instructions in preparation
for reception of this sacrament
are already under way under the
direction of the Sisters of the Holy
Cross.
COMMUNITY CHURCH
Eric T. Braund, Robert C. Hull
Ministers
A. Elizabeth Goetze
Minister of Music
Saturday, November 20 - Pre-
Christmas Bazaar from 10 a.m.;
Turkey Dinner 5:30-7:30.
Sunday, November 21 - Morning
Worship at 9 and 11 a.m., Rev.
Braund preaching the third and
last in the series of sermons on
Colonial Christianity in America -
Colonial Religion' in Maryland.
Church School as follows: 9 and
11 - Nursery, Kindergarten, and
Primary. 10 - Juniors, Junior
High, Senior High (with Mrs.
Denson as teacher), College Age,
Mens and Womens Bible Classes.
3-6, Community Festival for
Teachers, Center School. 6, Junior
High Fellowship, Fellowship Cen
ter. 7, Senior High Pilgrim Fellow
ship, Social Hall.
The Fourth Annual Union
Thanksgiving Day Service will be
held on Thursday at 10 a.m. at
Community Church. The Clergy
men of the community have been
invited to participate, and the Ser
mon “Thanks be to God” will be
given by the Rev. Stanley Knock,
Pastor of Mowatt Memorial Meth
odist Church. Since the Jewish
Community Center is at present
without a Rabbi, Ben Rosensweig,
president of the JCC, will repre
sent that congregation, and Mrs.
See COM. CHURCH, Page 4