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Vol. 19, No. 18 Greenbelt, Maryland, Thursday, December 9, 1954 10 Cents
GVHC, Green belt To Lose Webster;
’55 Charges Sown For Brick Home
By Bernard Krug
Ralph Webster announced his resignation as president of the
GVHC Board of Directors at the quarterly membership meeting
Wednesday night at the Greenbelt Theater. In a totally unexpect
ed statement, he told the audience of about 75 persons that he is
leaving Greenbelt to become assistant manager of the Veterans
Administration Hines Hospital in Chicago.
A member of the board for two
years and president for the past
year, Webster has been a resident
of Greenbelt for 11 years. The
meeting gave him a rising vote of
thanks for his splendid service to
GVHC and to the community.
The meeting was told that, in a
week or ten days, each member
would receive a notice from the
office stating the amount of the
monthly charges for the coming
year, the amount of interest and
taxes that have been paid during
1954, and the total amount of the
mortgage remaining to be paid un
der the contract.
Tentative figures show that de
fense housing charges will increase
from 40 cents to a dollar per
month, and old Greenbelt home
payments will go down in some
cases as much as $2 per month. All
figures have been computed with
the new garbage collection fee add
ed in, plus other changes in the
city tax structure recently voted
by the City Council.
It was announced that the War
ner-Kanter Company hopes to
build three types of houses on the
undeveloped land if and when it
takes title to the entire tract: 4
-bedroom house with 2 baths, a
three bedroom split level with 2
baths, and a three bedroom 1%
bath rambler, none of which will
sell for more than $15,000.
The Greenbelt Veterans Housing
Corporation will increase the sal
ary of its staff beginning January
1. 1955. The pav boost was voted
last Friday night at the regular
meeting of the GVHC board.
Maintenance and heating em
ployees will get a 10 percent boost,
while administrative and clerical
workers’ pay will be hiked 5 per
cent.
The cost of the entire pay raise
was estimated at about SII,OOO per
year. The new pay schedules were
voted in unanimously as a change
in basic salary, and will not af
fect the GVHC policy of award
ing its staff the usual annual in
crements for satisfactory service.
In another unanimous action, the
board voted to join two other co
operative housing groups in the
Local Girl Wins Car
Mrs. Shirley L. Shaver, 14-B Hillside, is shown above receiving
congratulations from Jaek Fruchtman, Chief Barker of the Washington
Variety Club, for being the recipient of one of seven cars awarded by
the Variety Club on Saturday, November 20. Mrs. Shaver received a 1954
Pontiac Chieftain 8 Station Wagon. The winning ticket was sold to her
by another GreenbeJter, D, W. Reed, who received a 1955 21” Philco
T.V. set
Greeenbelt News Review
Published Every Thursday By The Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc., 9 Parkway, Greenbelt, Maryland
Washington area in an effort to
obtain special legislation govern
ing that type of housing in Mary
land. The total expenditure of
GVHC in this endeavor will be no
higher than $250.
Forced To Continue
Two-Page Newspaper
The Greenbelt News Review
will continue to be issued as a
two-page paper, Editor Russell
Greenbaum has announced.
This policy has been forced on
the newspaper due to the ex
tremely low volume of adver
tising carried by the News Re
view during recent months.
Occasional issues will con
tain four pages when the
amount of advertising warrants
it. It is hoped that a four-page
issue will be published about
once a month.
The News Review anticipates
that by careful editing our sub
scribers will have approximately
the same amount of news as
has been printed in the past,
this will be achieved by elimi
nating certain regular features
that have been carried in the
past, particularly commentary
columns and the weekly church
listings.
We regret the necessity of
discontinuing our free service
to the churches that has been a
tradition of the Greenbelt news
paper for many years. However,
notices of sermons and special
events will continue to be car
ried as news items and in
“What Goes On.”
The weekly calendar, “What
Goes On?” will be expanded to
cover in detail the news of the
meetings of Greenbelt social
aM civic organizations. News
stories on such meetings, when
carried, will necessarily be cut
to a minimum.
It is not intended that the
two-oage edition of the News
Review will be permanent, and
it is expected that increased ad
vertising will restore the news
paper to its previous size.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
| Wliat Goes On? |
Friday, December 10 - Hebrew Ser
vices held at 8 p.m. in Home Ec.
room of Center school. Candle
lighting time at 4:09.
Sunday, December 12 - Open House
at new GCS Wheaton Co-op from
3 to 6 p.m.
CHURCH SERVICES
Community Church - Morning
worship at 9 and 11 a.m. —Rev.
■Braund preaching second in se
ries of Advent sermons, “Wise
Men with Gifts.”
Methodist Church (meeting at
North End School) - Morning
worship at 11 a.m.—sermon by
Rev. Knock, “Follow That Star.”
Lutheran Church - Services at
8:30 and 11 a.m.—sermon by Pas
tor Birner.
Baptist Chapel (meeting in Cen
ter school) - Morning worship
at 11 a.m.
St. Hugh’s Catholic Church -
Masses at 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 and 11
a.m.
Monday, December 13 - City Coun
cil meets in office over Variety
Store at 8 p.m.
Rehearsal of Choral Group in
sections in Center School, Room
201. Sopranos, 8.30-9 p.m.; al
tos. 9-9:30 p.m.; ( tenors and bass
singers, 9:30-10 p.m.
Wednesday. December 15 - Movie.
“Gallant Bess,” at 3 p.m., spon
sored by Greenbelt Citizens As
sociation. Essay Awards.
Holy Name Society meets. Speak
er, Father Troy, headmaster of
Gonzaga.
Thursday. December 16 - Great
Books Club meets at home of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gordon, 4-F
Gardenway, at 8:30 p.m. to dis
cuss Thucydides.
Friday. December 17 - Cub Scout
pack meeting and Xmas party at
Community Church Fellowship
Hall.
Lions To Set Up City
Xmas Tree On Friday
Greenbelt’s community Christmas
tree will be erected Friday, De
cember 11, under the sponsorship
of the Greenbelt Lions Club. The
tree will be the largest one used to
celebrate the Christmas holidays
in recent years. Measuring over
thirty feet tall, it will be placed
in the exact center of the shop
ping area.
Approximately a week later the
Lions Club will use it as a focal
point for the gathering of food
and money to help the unfortunate
families of Greenbelt. Although
the tree will be lighted as soon as
it is erected, the Lions Club will
hold a special lighting ceremony at
that time to signify the beginning
of their food drive.
Baskets will be placed at con
venient spots around the shopping
area and members of the Club will
be in attendance to urge Greenbelt
residents to help them provide a
bountiful' Christmas dinner for
those families needing help. The
American Legion has decided not
to participate in the Lions’ Christ
mas Basket drive this year, ac
cording to Ed Burgoon, member of
the Lions committee organizing the
drive.
GCA To Hold Movie
For Kids On Wed.
The Greenbelt Citizens Associa
tion will sponsor a special showing
of “Gallant Bess” in the Gseenbelt
Theater Wednesday afternoon, De
cember 15, at 3 p.m. Just prior to
the movie, the awards in the GCH
Clean-up Essay Contest will be
made by Mayor James Wolfe.
The movie is a Technicolor pro
duction. and tells a heartwarming
story of a boy and his horse.
All Gerenbelt public schools will
be closed that Wednesday after
noon because of the regular month
ly teachers conference.
What Goes On?
New GCS Wheaton Center To Open
Monday; “Open House” On Sunday
America’s largest consumer cooperative, the Wheaton Co-op
General Store, Service Station and Shopping Center will hold an
“Open House” Sunday afternoon December 12 from 3 to 6 p.m.
and open for business the next day according to an announcement
by General Manager Samuel F. Ashelman, Jr., of Greenbelt Con
sumer Services, Inc.
The Sunday Open House will be highlighted by the cutting
Market To Receive
More Improvements
Additional expenditures of ap
proximately SBOOO were approved
by the GCS Board of Directors at
their last meeting, for improve
ments in the Greenbelt Super
market. Earlier the Board had
approved the ordering of new
frozen food cases, and installation
of new tile flooring in the lobby
and produce department. These
improvements will be made some
time after the first of the year
when the new’ equipment can be
delivered.
GCS management has been con
ducting additional studies for im
proving the Co-op store facilities,
and recommended the installation
of a new dairy wall case and walk
in box behind it. Because of the
large volume of milk sold at the
Co-op, this wil make it more con
venient for customers and more
economical to operate.
The meat department will have
additional display cases. This will
make possible better displays of
the budget-beef, introduced a few
weeks ago. The produce and ba
kery departments will be rearrang
ed, and a belt-driving checkout will
be added.
General Manager Ashelman re
ported that he has had two con
ferences with the people who re
cently purchased the portion of
the shopping center not owned by
the Co-op. Negotiations are pro
ceeding, he said, in the soirit of
trying to work out what is best for
development of the shopping cen
ter.
Post Office Plans"
Longer Xmas Hours
The Greenbelt post office will be
open during special hours, Decem
ber 11 through December 24, to
accommodate the Christmas rush
period, Thomas R. Freeman, post
master, has announced.
During this period the post qffice
will be open on weekdays from 8
a.m. to 7 p.m. The exception will
be Friday, December 24, when the
post office will close at 6 p.m. On
Saturday. December 11 and 18, the
post office will be open from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. On Sundavs. December
12 and 19, the hours of business will
be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Woman’s Club Sponsors
"Stamps For Veterans"
The Greenbelt. Woman’s Club is
sponsoring a “Stamps for Veter
ans” project. All stamps, used and
unused, foreign and domestic (ex
cept the common purple three-cent,
NATO three-cent and the red two
cent) are acceptable.
These stamps will provide col
lections for thousands of bed-rid
den veterans in the 171 Veterans
Hospitals in the United States.
Stamps, old stamp albums and par
tial collections are all in need. Cor
ners of envelopes should be care
fullv torn off or whole envelopes
sent.
All contributions may be left
with Mrs. William L. Moore, Jr. at
14-R Hillside Rd., or telephone GR.
4-8621 for collection.
of the ribbon across an 85 foot ex
panse of glass front by a group of
area civic leaders operating the
handles of a twenty-foot pair of
scissors. Guests of honor for the
afternoon will be Mr. Murray D.
Lincoln, President of CARE, world
renowned cooperative, and Mr.
Gottleib Duttweiler, general man
ager of Migros, the largest cooper
ative in Switzerland, who will fly
here this week especially for the
occasion.
Room To Park
The General Store occupies near
ly an acre of a five acre tract of
land with the balance devoted to
free parking space for more than
350 cars and an ultra modern serv
ice station.
The Shopping Center also houses
a group of seven small specialty
shops leased to independent mer
chants. These include Barber and
Beauty Shops, a Hobby Mart,
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing Store,
Dry Cleaning and Shoe Repair and
a Dispensing Optician.
Win a Color TV
One of the opening week features'
will be the General Store cracker
barrel in which all visitors may
place their names for more than
100 prizes to be drawn on Saturday
night, December 18, by Miss Tippy
Stringer, weather and fashion
telecaster from TV Station WMAL
in Washington. Prizes to be
drawn include 100 baskets of food,
coffee makers, and a Color TV Set.
In keeping with the international
theme of decoration of the General
Store a special sale of Scotch plaid
all wool scarves, gift boxed, is
made possible by direct importa
tion from a Co-oo factory in Scot
land. Murals of Co-ops in other
lands as well as the Co-ops in
Greenbelt and Takoma Park dec
orate the rear wall of the store on
either side of a colorful map of
the world.
Another imported item direct
from a Swedish Co-op will be a
cellulose sponge cloth which cleans
and dries in one stroke.
Special Sales
Special food sales will also be
advertised for opening week, De
cember 13 through 18, with Co-op’s
Own Cornell Formula Bread sell
ing for five cents a loaf. A hot
dog and roll at the snack bar will
also sell for the almost forgotten
nic.kle. Hundreds of other items
from frozen foods to bicycles will
be on special sale for opening week.
The General Store, largest unit
nf the center, occupies more than
33,000 square feet of space and
houses food, drugs and general
merchandise areas. More than
25,000 square feet of open shop
ping space affords beautifully dec
octed d’snlavs and the latest mod
ern conveniences for shoppers.
/‘lso located within the General
Store are a Community Room for
meetings, store offices, stock rooms,
ord a, central bar under a
eo ;i; n <y-hung canopy.
One of the features of the Gen
eral Store is the Food-O-Mat, 125
feet of in-a-hne shelving covering
pnor-o f-n<ar( two- f hirds of the rear
wall. Here packaged products are
fed from a. stock area into sloping
shelf trays. As the customer se
lects an item another slides into
place. This modnr--~ disnlav and
self-service device V expected to
cut shoopine: time in half, elimi
nate aisles crowded bv clerks and
cartons, and offer continually fresh
products.