Evening star., 1943-06-30
26 Play Areas
SET 10 Open in
Prince Georges
Centers Will Handle
Children 6 to ID
Six Days q Week

Twenty-six recreational centers
for children between the ages OF
6 and IA will open tomorrow in
Prince Georges County following
one scheduled to open tonight at
the Cottage City School.
Meanwhile plans have been vir-
tually completed for the opening
about August l of 10 day-care CEN
ters for children between the ages
of 2 and whose mothers are
working.
The recreational centers, five of
which are for colored children, will
be operated until August 81. No fee
will be charged, although children
are urged to bring their own lunches.
In some cases, however. communities
will provide food. The hours at
each center will be set by the COM
munity in which it is located.
Volunteers Sought.
G. Russell Hull, principal of the
Bradbury Heights School, who is in
charge of the entire program, asked
that residents of the various COM
munities volunteer their services to
supplement the trained supervisors
at the centers. Those desiring to
volunteer should register at the
center in their community.
The schools at which the % white
centers will be operated and the
names of the supervisors at each of
the areas are:
Ager Road. Miss Gertrude Amoss;
Beltsville, Miss Ailene Mudd; Ber-
wyn, Miss Violet Younger: Bladens-
burg, Mrs. Annabelle Field and Mrs.
e. j. Scullen: Bradbury Heights,
Mrs. Edith Forshee, Miss Pearl
Hart and Miss Lois Fafig.
Other Appointments.
Capitol Heights, Mrs. Leo Bennett
and Miss Mary Himmelberg; Chev-
erly, Miss Bess Lennon and Lewis
A. Briner; College Park, Miss Emma
Rawlings and Mrs. Gladys Bollin-
ger; Cottage City, Mrs. Sally Phil
lips and Mrs Helen Murray.
Edmonston, Miss Elizabeth Lynch;
Greenbelt Elementary, Robert Por-
ter; Hyattsville Elementary and
Primary, Mrs. Anna E. Bracken,
Mrs. Margaret Webb and Mrs. Louise
Yates: J. Enos Ray CTakoma Park
Mrs. Frances Lindahl and Miss Car
rie Liggett: Lanham, Mrs Margaret
Kline and Chauncey Newkirk; Laur-
el, Mrs Katherine Everhart and
Miss Eleanor Frizzell.
Upper Marlboro, Mrs. Elizabeth
Burroughs and Miss Isabelle Zim-
norman; Brentwood, Mrs. Lillian
Walsh and Mrs. Christine Mills;
Riverdale, Miss Mary Ellen Nation
and Miss Miriam Farwell; Univer-
sity Park, Miss Elizabeth Molster
and Charles Hudson; Suitland. Mrs.
Eloise McCauley and Miss Emily
buckworth; Seat Pleasant, no ap-
pointments made as yet.
The five colored centers, for which
no supervisors have been appointed
as yet, will be located at the North
Brentwood, Fairmont Heights, Lake
land. Bladensburg and Laurel
Schools.
Will Be Open Six Days a Week.
The programs at the various
schools will include games, both in
door and outdoor; handicraft, dra-
matics, music, folk dancing and in
struction in health and nutrition
The centers will be open six days
a week.
The Today care centers, for which
funds have already been authorized
by the Federal Works Agency, will
be set up in the Suitland, Bradbury
Heights, Riverdale, Laurel, J. Enos
Ray Schools and in the North
Brentwood Baptist Church (coloredD
and Hyattsville First Methodist
Church.
Two centers will be located in
Greenbelt apartments, which have
been set aside for that purpose. A
site for the Mount Rainier-Brent-
wood area has not yet been selected.