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GREENBELT NEWS REVIEW
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Published every Thursday by Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn.. Inc;.
Greenbelt, Maryland
Delivered each week to every home in Greenbelt
Editor:
Associate Editor: Bernice Kastner, 474-7129
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rita Fishier,. Russel! Greenbaum, Bess Halperin. Katherine Gough, Sid
Kastner. Thea Lovell, Charles T. McDonald. Robert Philleo, A1 Skolnik,
Elaine Skolnik, Mary Smith. Margaret Thompson, Mary Louise William
son, Claude Wimberly, and Harry Zubkoff.
Business Manager: Adele Mund
Circulation Manager: Victor M. Fisher,' GR 4-6787
Staff Photograoher: George Hall
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Pres., A1 Skolnik: Vice Pres., Bernice Kastner; Secy., Russ Greenbaum;
Treas., Bess Halperin and Mary Smith
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belt), Depostited in our box at the Twin Pines Savings and Loan Office or
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Volume 28 Thursday, December 26, 1963 Number 5
5 GVFO MEMBERS
RECEIVE AWARDS
Five members of the Greenbelt
Volunteer Fire Department and
Rescue Squad were among the 100
students throughout the Tri-State
area that completed the Ambulance
School course under the direction
of Baltimore City Hospitals and
the Baltimore Fire Department.
The school was created in 1962 for
the Certification of Ambulance per
sonnel. It covers a multitude of
topics ranging from lectures in the
Anatomy of the Human Body to
Radioactive Contamination. Labo
ratory sessions on closed chest
cardiac compression were conduct
ed by Dr. Jude, Professor of Sur
gery, John Hopkins University
School of Medicine, one of the men
credited with the discovery of
closed chest compression, and Dr.
"'der, Director of the Ambulance
School, Assistant Chief of Sur
gery, Baltimore City Hospital. A
number of leading doctors in their
special fields lectured during the
course.
Mayor McKelden of Baltimore
City awarded certificates to Red
Cross Instructors: Ca.pt. Dave
Hissey, Vic Fisher, and Joseph O’-
JLoughlin. Others to receive these
certificates from Mayor McKelden
■•we. re Russ Kerr and Ernest Varda
of Greenbelt Volunteer Fire De
partment and Rescue Squad Inc.
Lastner New Head
of Washington Council
Taking over as President of the
Metropolitan Washington Council
of Governments is Prince George’s
County Commission Chairman
Frank J. Lastner. At the Coun
cil’s semiannual meeting, held in
Fairfax County last week, Com
missioner Lastner succeeded Mary
land Congressman-at-Large, Carl
ton R. Sickles, in the President’s
Chair. Mr. Lastner promised the
Council, which is composed of
elected officials from the entire
Greater Washington area, that he
would work to continue their ob
jectives of “voluntary' cooperation
on area-wide problems,” but added,
“‘so long as I am in this chair I
will fight continually to keep our
cooperation voluntary and will do
all I can to block any form of
metro government.”
GENEROUS COLLECTION
To the Editor:
Many thanks to all Greenbelters
who contributed so generously in
the recent collection of goods for
the needy in Mississippi. Clothes,
toys and cans of food were dona
ted.
Mrs. Erika Mayer
! Greenbelt Hemes, Inc. !
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| Extends season’s greetings |
I to all members and their friends |
I with best wishes I
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for a happy and prosperous |
| New Year |
Dr. Melvin Active
In Adult Education
A resident of Prince George’s
County not “sitting down” in his
“retirement years” is Dr. Bruce
Melvin. 33-V Ridge, who has come
forward with a concise plan for
the intelligent use of the older citi
zens of the County still able and
willing to give of their time, wis
dom, intelligence and background
for an educational program in con
junction with that already offered
by Bowie State College.
The proposal is unique in that
it will offer courses to meet all
adult interests as well as provide
experts in community organization
to help the aged and aging to meet
the many' problems of our present
society. Dr. Melvin, who belies his
years with alert blue eyes, a keen
wit and active mind, and a former
Professor Emeritus of Sociology,
says, “I didn’t know I was old un
til the University of Maryland re
tired me two years ago just be
cause I reached 70.”
The “continuing educational pro
gram” as proposed by Dr. Melvin
would include a series of public lec
tures to be held monthly on a
variety of topics. These would be
coordinated with regularly estab
lished classroom instruction which
would be provided during the day
and evenings.
Tentative plans have been made
for a discussion and reading cour
se for persons nearing retirement,
those who have already retired,
and for younger persons who are
interested in achieving their full
potential when they come to older
years.
Another of the immediate con
siderations of the Institute for
Bowie College is the scarcity of
trained teaching personnel who
can be hired by the state and the
fact that there are many retired
personnel whose health is such that
they can contribute much in an
educational way by part-time em
ployment. The plan would utilize
these retired professors and quali
fied teachers on the staff.
THANKS
To the Editor:
Many thanks to the Greenbelt
Rescue Squad for transporting my
son, Bobby, to the hospital.
Mrs. Shirley Belt
MOWATT MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH t
Invites you to
CHURCH SCHOOL 9:30 a.m.
WORSHIP SERVICE -.- 11:00 a.m.
Nursery Provided Lyle E. Harper, pastor
at Service UK. 4-7393
NEWS REVIEW
New Co-op Paper
Planned in Calif.
The following item appeared in
the December 12 issue of the Co
operative Builder, Superior, Wis
consin. It may be of interest to
our colleagues in the co-operative
newspaper 'world, that the
Greenbelt News Review, founded
in. 1937, is generally believed to
be the first cooperatively-owned
general circulation newspaper in
the United States.
BERKELEY, CALIF. (CNS) -
A weekly newspaper of general
community circulation and news
coverage owned cooperatively by
its readers is projected to hit the
streets here sometime in 1964.
Its 200 organizers believe it to
toe the first cooperatively-owned
general circulation newspaper in
the United States. It will publish
local news, plus state and regional
developments with a local angle.
A small, paid, professional staff
will be augumented by volunteer
writers, many commenting on cur
rent questions.
Berkeley Newspaper Cooperative
was organized last January and
incorporated in September. It
plans a membership meeting this
winter at which permanent officers
will foe elected. The co-op has
temporary offices and is seeking
donations of office equipment.
Interim officers of Berkeley
Newspaper Cooperative include an
investment manager, a professor
of biochemistry at the University
of California, a statistician who
formerly published his own news
paper, a poet and novelist, and a
University of California Press edi
tor.
GJ INSURANCE DIVIDENDS
In response to President John
son's directive for the earliest pos
sible payment of the $234-million
GI insurance dividend for 1964, the
VA today said the first checks
would reach veterans by January
2. In reporting this, C. W. Henry,
Manager of tire Veterans Benefits
Office, 21st and Constitution Ave.,
N.W., Washington, D. C., said pay
ments to all of the 4,725,000 veterans
participating in the dividend would
be completed in record time
by January 25.
The President, on December 8,
ordered the accelerated payments
as a stimulant to the economy.
| COMMUNITY CHURCH ij
Rev. Kenneth Wyatt, Minister J>
]> SUNDAY: Family Worship Scr- ,
<[vice at 10:45 a.m. <[
<! Tuesday: New Year’s Eve Party/
j>and Night Watch Service be
]> ginning at 9 p.m. ji
(Affiliated with United Church'
|| of Christ) |
School Board to Form
Parent Study Groups
The Board of Education has an
nounced its interest in the forma
tion of Parent Discussion Groups
which can hold meetings at nearby
schools or private homes once every
two weeks or so from October
through May of this year. Leaders
are now being sought to direct
these groups.
Parent Discussion groups will
encourage meetings between par
ents who may find that they have
the same or similar questions to be
answered. Typical of these ques
tions that parents ask themselves
are “Why do I have to say the
same thing 60 times?” and “Will
she ever learn to be neat and
tidy?” I’he group will help find
some answers to these questions.
In sessions of informal study
and discussion, parents will dis
cuss v/ay in which children will
grow and develop, and the many
reasons they behave the way they
do because of the way they grow
physically and emotionally. They
will consider what their youngsters
learn from other children, what
they learn from the adult world
and what they think and feel about
themselves. It is hoped that as
a result of this study and discus
sion, a better understanding of
children, and their ways will be
gained,
A Leader’s Training Program,
sponsored by the County Board of
Education is being planned now.
Staff members from the Institute
of Child Study at the University
of Maryland, the Mental Health
Study Center at AdeLpbi Plaza, and
the County Health Department as
sist in planning and conducting
these sessions.
Fred S. Cardano, principal of
Greenbelt Center Elementary
School, would like to hear from
parents who might be interested
in participating in the Leadership
Training Program so that they
may be able to assist in the or
ganization and management of
Parent Discussion Groups. Interest
ed parents may contact Principal
Cardano at the Center School or
by calling GR 4-4593.
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1.9:45 a.m Sunday School 6:30 p.m .. Training r t»lor«
|ll:00 a.m. Morning Worship 7:30 pan. Evening Worsh*p«
i 8:00 p.m. Wednesday Midweek Service 3
GREENBELT BAPTIST CHURCH j
1 Crescent & Greenhffi S. Jasper Morris, Jr., Pastor OR 4-4040 i-j
I HOLY CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH
’2 Ridge Road, GreerebeJi, Mary!and, GR. 4-4+77 H
, I ward H turner. Pastor. GR, 4-9200 jgt ‘‘"“X
WORSHIP SERVICES 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. JTJ
SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 a.m. Wf/ j fjli[
Kindergarten registrations now being accepted j<r I*Y«
WEEKDAY KINDERGARTEN j
HP Of j
j NEW YEARS EVE DANCE |
j> Sponsored by Greenbelt Lions Club \
< At the Greenbelt Armory |
< Tuesday Evening, December 31, 1963 l
) 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. I
Music by THE CONTINENTALS
j Free Set-ups Door Prizes Tickets SIO.OO per couple
| Renervations Required Call 474-6012 |
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Note To Self-Employed
Self-employed persons were
reminded today that U. S. Retire
ment Plan Bonds, offered under the
Self-Employed Individual Tax Re
tirement Act v of 1962, must be pur
chased by December 31 to qualify
owners for 1963 tax deferral bene
fits.
The reminder came from Or
mond R. Galvin, State Savings
Bond Director, who suggested that
eligible persons contact their banks
for information about establishing
retirement programs for them
selves and their employees through
a bond purchase plan. IRS Form
3673, which may be used to es
tablish such a plan, is available a£
the District Office of the Internal
Revenue Service.
Most banks can furnish applica
tion forms for use in purchasing
Retirement Plan Bonds. However,
the bonds are issued only by Feder
al Reserve Banks and the Trea
surer of the United States.
A plan for the purchase of Re
tirement Plan Bonds is only one
of several means open to the self
employed to qualify for benefits un
der the Act. To realize an income
tax deduction during this calen
dar year, the retirement plans must
be set up and contributions made
on or before December 31. Self
employed persons are permitted
to claim as a tax deduction a por
tion of such contributions made for
their own benefit, as well as all of
the funds contributed for their em
ployees.
Mr. C-nbMn said that Retirement
Plan Bonds, which have been on
sale since January, are available
at par in denominations of SSO,
SIOO, SSOO, and SI,OOO. They pay
interest at a rate of 3 H 4 percent,
compounded semi-annually, the in
terest accruing through increases
in redemption value at the end
of each six-month period.
The Retirement Plan Bonds dif
fer from Savings Ends in that
they may not be redeemed until
the owner attains the age of 59%
years, except in the event of death
or disability. Those persons over
the age of 59 % years when they ac
quire their bonds may redeem them
at any time.