Evening star., 1943-10-04
lefebvre's Garden
Wins 500 Bond
Al Harvest Show

DR.. c. L. Lefebvre, 56l9 Greentree
! road, who last week won $25 War
bond in The Stars Victory Garden
Contest, yesterday carried off the
500 bond offered by the Mont
gomery County Victory Garden
Committee for the best garden in
the Bethesda Chevy Chase area.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Jarnagin and
Mr., and Mrs. Harry w. Farmer,
Chevy Chase, tied for the $50 bond
and Mrs. Lillian M. Essex, Chevy
Chase, won the $25 bond. Awards
were made by Commissioner w. H.
Prescott at the Harvest Show in the
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School.
Honorable mention, CARRYING IS
War stamp awards. went to Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Akers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bushrod Allin, Preston E.
Groome, A. E. Monroe and P. F..
Allen, all Of Bethesda, and to War
rem Heap, Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Lang Wins Sweepstakes.
More than 1000 exhibits of flow-
erS, fruits and vegetables were on
display.
Mrs. Frederick Lang, Kensington,
carried of the sweepstakes for flow
elS; Mrs. Farmer and Mrs. Jarna-
gin. who did their canning together,
won sweepstakes in canned goods;
M. and Mrs. Akers won with their
vegetables, While Mrs. Whitman
Cross and Mrs Arthur Hilland, Be-
theSda, tied for sweepstakes in ar
tlstlc arrangements.
DR.. Henry G. Parker, washington
won the prize for best dahlia. and
the Potomac Rose Society silver
medal went to Robert E. Scammel
Washington, and the bronze medal
to Mrs. Craig Hunter, Alexandria.
Area awards for good gardens
went to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Eaves,
CheVy Chase; Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn
ton B. Titus, Cabin John: Mrs.
Henry Ravenel, Chevy Chase: Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Cad. Glenbrook
Village; James w Brandenburg,
Brookmont; James L. Barber. Be-
thesda; Mrs. George Phillips. North
Chevy Chase, and Mrs. Gerard M.
Cahill, Chevy Chase.
Community Gardens Cited.
Special awards for the best COM
munty gardens went to DR.. Fred Coe
Tor the group at York Lane. Be-
thesda; DR.. Lefebvre for the group
at Sonoma, and T. Ritchie Ed
monston for the group at East-West
highway and Beech drive.
For valiant effort special award
went to Duke Dumars.
Victory Garden Corps prizes went
to the following boys and girls:
Peter Carter, Duncan Cameron,
Roger Martin, Roberta Ashburner,
Robert Nation, Walter Saunders,
Peter De Rosay, Dick and Ned Van
doren and John Shepherd.
H. w. Hochbaum, chairman of the
Victory Garden Committee of the
Department Of Agriculture, con-
graduated the sponsors of the show
on the number and variety of ex-
hibits. He spoke on the benefits of
Victory gardening, calling particular
attention to the 100000 tons of
food produced throughout the Ma
tlon.' the neighborly spirit en-
gendered and the new variety of
story-tellers resulting. He said the
department hoped that Victory gar
denlng would be continued next year
on an even larger scale.
Officials and Sponsors.
Ile show was held under the
sponsorship of the County Victory
Garden Committee. the Bethesda
Garden Center and six garden clubs
OF the area. T. Ritchie Edmonston
was chairman Of the show and judge
Albert E Brault, county civilian de.
tense chief, acted as master of cere-
monies. Ed Stock, county garden
chairman. and Mrs Chase Donald
son. sectional chairman, spoke of
their work during the summer and
their plans for next year.
Awards to the Victory Corps were
made by Pfc. T. H. Cunningham. U.
S. M. c., Bethesda. who is home on
leave after being wounded at Qua
dalcanal.
The show started at pm. with a
concert by the A Capella Choir of
the high school and closed at
II. after an exhibition Of square
dancing under the direction of Mrs.
Webster pnuel1