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Evening star., 1946-11-20

steamers" were the most modern
automobiles.
1T takes quick thinking to control
a skid" he commented. I'm heavy
traffic, I'd apply the brakes gently
and try to keep the wheels in line.
In light traffic, I'd use the brakes
even less"
James #. Tingstrum, taxicab driver,
3104 North Sixth street, Arlington,
Va, with 10 years, experience behind
the wheel, was among. others ques-
toned. He offered another theory
on handling skids.
II wouldn't apply the brakes Mr..
Tingstrum said. I'D turn the wheels
away from the direction in which
the car was skidding."
The Education and Public In
formation Committee Of the advis-
ory board offers these control
suggestions, based on experience OF
professional drivers:
l.. Turn front wheels In direction
rear end Is skidding. Do this care
fully to avoid rapid reverse skid.
2. Keep foot on accelerator. Feed
gas gently to maintain traction II
there are no other vehicles immedi-
ately ahead.
8. If skid Is directly forward and
there are other vehicles immediate
ly ahead. a careful zigzag will in
crease distance travelled and assist
in slowing car.
4. Keep foot OF brake. Using
brake when in skid viii only make
1t worse. When control Of car Is
regained, give brake pedal short,
light jab to stop.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Surplus Sales 10 Veterans
Drop Sharply at Alexandra

Veterans purchases of surplus
property fell off sharply yesterday
at the $4,000, 900 sale being held by
the War Assets Administration at
the Army quartermaster depot near
Alexandria. Officials reported about
40 purchasers for cash total of ap-
proximately $4,000.
The, days attendance was 1870 as
compared with 1,500 Monday, when
285 certified veterans bought $780,
600 worth of miscellaneous mate
rails for use in their own businesses.
The sale to veterans viii continue
through tomorrow. Other priority
groups will have an opportunity to
buy during the remainder OF this
month. SIS
Almost half of the 1,067 items
have been sold out, WAA officials
said. Small quantities of clothing
and larger amounts of miscellaneous
hardware are still available. Virtual
ly all electrical equipment and small
machinery has been sold.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Markey's Aides Ask
Baltimore Recount
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 20.-A recount
Of tabulations on Baltimore's voting
machines was being sought today
by attorneys for D. John Markey,
Republican senatorial nominee de-
feated by Gov. O'Conor, Democrat,
In an official tally Of canvassed re-
suits.
Charles Ruzicka and George Coch-
ran Doub, attorneys for Mr.. Markey,
yesterday asked the Baltimore Board
of Election Supervisors for the re-
count, but the board refused to act
without court order.
The lawyers said they intended to
ask such an order from Judge John
T. Tucker in the Baltimore Court of
Common Pleas.
Representatives of Mr.. Markey,
whom the official tabulation showed
trailing by 1882 votes, said last week
they would ask the Senate to inves-
tigate the election before seating a
Senator from Maryland.
ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 20 (R.-Mary-
lands official election returns were
complete today-except for the re-
suits on constitutional amendments
and showed no changes in the re-
suits of any contest.
The close race between Gov.
OConor, Democrat, and D. John
Markey, Republican, showed the
Governor polled 237 ,232 votes against
Mr.. Markey's 235,000.
In the gubernatorial contest, DEM
ocrat w. Preston Lane, jr., was
elected by vote of 1880 against
Baltimore Republican Mayor Theo-
dore r. McKeldin's 221,752.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Wafer Line Extension
Beyond Falls Church
Violates Ordinance

The town of Falls Church has per-
mitted the extension of a water
main outside the town in violation
OF town ordinance, it was learned
today.
Involved in the case is the extern
sion of water line on Great Falls
street extended beyond, the town
near the intersection of Haycock
road.
The line would be used to serve a
projected subdivision, which had
been temporarily blocked last June
by the Fairfax County Zoning Board
and Health Department, following
protests from the majority 0f resi-
dents of the community. that the
proposed house lots would he TOO
small to permit proper sanitary ia
ciIities.
The town ordinance prohibits the
extension of any water lines
into new subdivisions outside the
town. 1t also was learned that resi-
dents on the street have protested
against the extension of the line.
These residents assert that at pres
ent they are getting insufficient
water and that with the extension
Of the line their water service would
suffer. Town officials have con-
firmed this view.
When his attention was called
to the violation, Councilman ]. H.
Mccarthy, who heads the Water
and Sewer Committee of the coun-
Gil. declared "a mistake has been
made by j. A. McCauley, superin-
tendent of the water and sewer
department"
Mr.. Mccarthy added that the
towns minute books reveal the town
had specifically turned down the re-
quest for the water line extension
and that Mr.. McCauley had mo au-
thority to permit the extension of
the line"
Mr.. Mccarthy said that the mis-
take had been admitted by Mr..
McCaulS. Mr.. McCauley refused
to comment.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Christensen Indorses
Brown School as Unit
In Recreation Program

The E. v. Brown School In Chevy
Chase would suit the purposes OF
the Recreation Department excel
lently" as community center, Milo
Christensen, District recreation
director, told luncheon meeting Of
the Civitan Club yesterday at the
Mayfower Hotel.
3Speaking on school age recreation,
Mr.. Christensen said, in answer
to q question concerning his atti-
tude on conversion Of the school into
a library and recreation center,
"those of us who live In Chevy
Chase know there really is nothing
available for youth in the way Of
community indoor activity"
He pointed out that the building
would lend itself to the recreation
program better than would schools
now In use since here would be
facility for just recreation and
library programmed devoted six or
seven hours to other purposes and
then turned over to u.s."
Some 40 schools now being used
in the Recreation Department.
programs are designed for educa-
ton, the speaker explained, "and
we are trying to adapt those re-
sources to q community program"
He commended the District Board
Of Education's cooperation with the
recreation program, adding that, as
a result, new school buildings are
being designed with more outdoor
space and facilitiessmore easily set
aside for recreational purposes.
The latter are being provided for
by designing of buildings so that
indoor recreation programs may be
carried on after school hours with
a minimum OF supervisory person.
mel, heat and light, he, said.
Mr.. Christensen also praised the
accomplishments Of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission in acquiring space suited
to recreation needs. ~
Fred J. Eden, Civitan Club presi-
dent. conducted the meeting.
Evening star., 1946-11-20

Of neutralizing agents to the af-
fected streams. This at present is
not economically possible.
Realizing the problems involved
In correcting pollution from acid
mine water, both Pennsylvania and
West Virginia have exempted mine
operators In their pollution control
laws until such time as feasible
means Of correcting the condition
are found.
: Planners believe that research
programs now underway will re-
suit in. methods Of eliminating the
acid mine pollution. They point
out that when this time comes, vast
areas in the Allegheny Mountains
win be made available for recrea-
tional development.
This possibility is being consid-
cred by planners In the long-range
program for developing the Poto-
mac Basin.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Falls Church Businessman
Sues Town for $4,000

A suit in which a Falls Church
businessman and his wife ask $20,-
600 damages from the town was on
file in Fairfax County Circuit Court
today.
Filed on behalf of Jesse and Mrs.
Pauline c.. Kellman by Attorney
Caldwell Kendrick, the suit also re-
quests mandatory Injunction di-
recting the town to remove sewer
line running across property owned
by the Kelln1ans.
The suit contends that failure of
the town to remove the sewer line
has prevented the Kellmans from
building a store. The Kellmans'
lease on their present store expires
January l, the suit states.
The property was purchased sex
clusively for the construction of
a store building" is sin the heart
Of the business district" and is "valu-
able only for business or commercial
purposes" according to the suit.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Georges Creek, in Upper Potomac Network,
Is Sewoge-L Laden Menace to Health
By jones BirehfieId
mo. ; of a Series.J

Georges Creek, from rs source
near Frostburg to its confluence with
the north branch of the Potomac
at Westernport, is a natural
sewage treatment plant. This Is
the result OF conditions that are
true Of no other stream in the
Potomac network. While these con-
ditions prevent the creek from be-
coming nuisance, 1t remains q po-
tential threat to the. health of the
people who live along its banks.
Near It's headwaters,. where the
flow is slight, Georges Greek receives
the raw sewage from Frostburg. a
town of 5000 population. Further
down stream 1t picks up acid wastes
from mining operations, and sewage
from is or more small communities
along its banks.
The acidity OF the stream pre-
vents the decay Of organic sewage
wastes, thus. preventing odors that
otherwise might make living in, the
area impossible. Later. as the creek
enters the Potomac, industrial wastes
neutralize the acid and allow the
decomposition of the organic sew
age wastes to take place.
One Of Worst in Area.
This stream is one of the most
heavily polluted streams In the Cum
berland area, and treatment facili-
ties for the sanitary sewage it re-
ceives would do much toward clean
ing up the Upper Potomac Valley.
This project will be attempted
through the formation OF the Ale
gany County Sanitary District, ex-
pected to be authorized by next
years session of the Maryland Cen
eral Assembly.
The correction, or elimination of
acid mine wastes, is being studied
through research programs operat-
ing in Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia. Pennsylvania has appropri-
ated funds for research in this field,
and studies are being made at the
University of West Virginia through
the cooperation Of the Bituminous
Coal Research Institute.
Acid mine wastes, caused by the
gradual seepage Of water from aban-
doned coal mining operations, de-
stroys all fish and vegetable life in
streams where the acid concentra-
Evening star., 1946-11-20

ton becomes heavy, It discolors
stones along the shore and creates
a murky, unpleasant appearance In
the stream.
Research Findings.
Scientists thus far have found no
economic methods Of eliminating
acid mine pollution, although find-
ings reported by research workers
at the West Virginia University In
dicate the condition may be caused
by bacteria action. II further re-
search supports this theory, simple
methods of correcting this evil may
be devised.
The generally accepted theory is
that the acid is caused by oxidation
Of pyrites that have been dissolved
out Of the coal, first into iron, then
into sulphates and into sulphuric
acid. Preventative and corrective
measures include the filling In Of
abandoned mines and the addition
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Bethesda Chamber Fayors
Sacks Parking Lease Offer

The Board of Directors Of the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce
has approved an offer OF George
Sacks to lease to Montgomery Cour-
ty the privately owner off-street
parking facilities In front Of several
properties In the $500 block Of Wis
consin avenue.
The county commissioners win be
requested to limit parking in this
area to one hour, the time allowed
In the areas covered by parking
meters.
IT was explained that since the
property Is privately owned, al
though 1t seems to be q part OF the
street, the parking laws have not
applied and cars have parked there
as long as they wished. M. Sacks
Will not permit the installation Of
parking meters on his properly but
he y willing to lease II for . year st
q nominal fee, ~ " sss ..'' y, 4. 4 Il
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Are You An Expert Driver?
What are Washingtonians' solu-
tionS to familiar driving problems?

What are Washingtonians' solu-
tions to familiar driving problems?
In. cooperation with the safety
campaign of. the Commissioners
Traffic Advisory Board, The Star Is
interviewing motorists concerning
situations which may develop In
everyday driving. Here Is the first
question with four of the replies.
If your car started to skid on wet
or icy pavement, what would you
do?
Mrs. Jean Panther, waitress, los
Kentucky avenue Sc, said:
II that happened while I was
driving, I'd try to stop the car by
releasing the gas and applying the
brakes. Then I'd Jump out"
Compare Mrs. Panther's reaction
and those Of the others interviewed
with the recommended procedure
presented below.
Virgil Wharton, garage manager
l3 T street NE, an operator OF
motor vehicles for 18 years, had q
different idea as to the proper
method of overcoming the hazard
He said.
I'D turn with the skid and
release the gas, but wouldn't ap-
ply the brakes"
BY this, Mr.. Wharton explained
he would turn his cars front wheels
In the same direction as the rear
wheels were sliding.
Walter S. Hawkins, print shop
employe, 416 Tenth street Sc, said
he had been interested in driving
problems since days In which the
Evening star., 1946-11-20

wood road, Silver Spring, was
elected to the newly created post
OF assistant secretary.
The District Baptist Convention
win conduct . city-wide world mis-
sion week February q to 70, Dr..
M. Chandler Stith, executive sec
retary of the convention, announced.
DR.. Stith, Who viii be In charge
of the event, said 30, missionary
speakers from all sections OF the
United States will be present. i
"A city-wide evangelic campaign
will be held in the District during
October, 1e47. The week-long drive
will be headed by DR.. E.sB. willing
ham, pastor of National Memorial
Baptist Church.
Or. Stitf also announced. the
Southern Baptist Conventions an
nual meeting will be held May Z to
II at ST. Louis, and the Northern
Baptist Conventions yearly gather
ing win take place May "a to 2S ct
Atlantic City, N. J.
Mr.. Cooke Is sales manager :of
Judd & Dstweiler and. q member
Of the Executive Committee Of the
Vaughn Bible Glass at Calvary
Church. He lives at zoos Kearney
street NE, -.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Men 0ufnumber Colds
AT Maryland u. ) 10 |
BY the Asseeioied Press

Miss Alma Preinkert, registrar,
yesterday announced there are three
times as many men as co-eds en-
rolled at the University of Maryland
Tor their first full postwar academic
year. .-f
All told, there are s,173 students
attending classes on the College PARK
campus and in the law, medicine
education and graduate schools in
Baltimore.
OF the 1882 on the College Park
campus, an estimated 4,800 are
veterans. The enrolment by schools:
Agriculture, 486; arts and sciences,
2,185; business and public admins
tration, 1,276; education, 524; engi-
neering, 1903; home economies, 345:
military science and tactics, physical
and health education, 10, and grad
uate students, 825.
The 1,911 enrolled In Baltimore
branches include: Law. 311; medi-
cine. 345; pharmacy, 1872; dental,
276; nursing, 1876; education, $50.
eand graduate, 50. II
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Alexondrio 1wig 10 Buy
HospituI instruments

A bronchosccpe and an esoph-
agoscope win be purchased for the
Alexandria Hospital bY the TNie,
junior branch Of the hospital auxii-
iary, It was announced today by
Mrs. r. Hamilton Seeley, new presi-
dent OF the group.
The TWig also has decided 10
sponsor the Old Dominion Kennel
Club dog show and the Thrift
Shop, the latter IN 6qi junction with
the Alexandria YWCA.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Rockville Is Laying
5000 Feet Of Pipe

The town Of Rockville today be.
gan laying 5000 feet of 2-inch pipe
TO Watts Springs, o small tributary
Of the Potomac, In an effort to
increase the municipal water supply.
which almost ran dry Monday.
Last night the fire department
completed pumping water from Rock
Greek into the community's storage
tanks.
The towns drinking water prob
lem still Is not solved, however, as
the creek water must be boiled for
10 minutes. The water from Watts
Springs is considered as badly pol
luted as the creek water.
Acting Mayor O. H. Perry said
that filters, obtained from the Army.
would be tried for purification.
Laying Of the pipe is expected to
be completed by tomorrow. The FIRE
department, nevertheless, Is stand-
ing by to resume pumping If the
work Is delayed and pressure in the
mains goes down again.
The shortage Of water was at
tributed partly to an unusually dry
fall and to breakdown Of the pumps
In artesian wells.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Woodside Park Civic Group
Names Committee Heads

Committee chairmen OF the Wood
side Park Civic Association were
snpounccd today by &. c. Weeks.
president as follows:
n. J. Mehserle, membership; w. K,
Cave. public utilities; Eugene M.
Thore, legal action; s. H. Horne.
buildings and restrictions; Ernest
n. Klinge, public safety; Mrs. James
ia. Membert, social activities and
entertainment; DR.. Floyd Smith,
|gardening, and Wayne Birdsell, pub
licity, printing and circulation.
Mr.. Weeks said the appointments
are subject TO confirmation at a
meeting Of the association in Grace
Church Parish Hall at $3.50 o'clock
tonight.
The group also announced that &
census Of residents in its area viii be
I taken under the arection Of Mr..
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Whites Ferry
Service Will
Resume Dec.
Group Asks County
To Lower Bridge
Over c. & O. CunuI

Ferry service at historic Whites
Ferry, near Poolesville, Md, will be
resumed December /, the Mont
gomery County Board of Commis-
sioners were informed at their
meeting yesterday.
Edwin Brown Of Poolesville, a
member of the corporation formed
to operate the ferry, asked the
county to lower a bridge over the
Chesapeake g. Ohio Canal which
he said has too sharp a grade to
handle heavy trafic. The Park
Service, he pointed out, has agreed
TO. the change.
After he explained that the bridge
could be used in its present state
for several months, the commis-
sioners referred the matter to Har-
vey White, member of the board
from the Poolesville area.
No Service for Six Years.
The ferry is the only traffic link
between Maryland and Virginia
from Chain Bridge to the bridge at
Point Of Rocks, Md. There has been
no ferry service since the last one
was washed out by floods six years
ago.
Mr.. Brown added that the ferry
has already been obtained and ferry
slips built. The ferry is a 69-foot,
3O-ton former scow owned by the
Government, he said, and was moved
to its present location by trucks.
Workmen are currently installing an
engine.
The commissioners authorized two
additional probation officers for the
Montgomery County Juvenile Court
and instructed Judge Alfred D.
Noyes to begin interviewing persons.
Mrs. Madeleine Fennell, the coun-
TVS only probation officer. now has
about $50 children to supervise. The
probation officer jobs are classified
at $4,000 year.
Zoning Protested.
The commissioners were presented
with a petition protesting the pro-
posed commercial coming of large
tract IN the rear of the Silver
Spring Armory. previously desig-
mated as a recreation area.
The petition, signed by residents
OF Silver Spring who had attended
protest meeting Sunday night in
st. Michael's School, was placed
for the time being by the commits
sioners in the coming application
file.
Walter Bachrach requested the
commissioners to reaSsess CONNER
cial property owned by him in the
300 block Of Thayer avenue, Silver
Spring. The commissioners took the
request under advisement.
Complains of "Shacks."
& A resident Of the Germantown
area, who said she lived near the
farm Of Walter johnson, but who
would not give here name ""for fear
of reprisals," complained to the
commissioners about what she
termed the building of cheap
shacks" In the community.
The commissioners informed her
there was no legal means for keep
ing the people she referred to from
moving in.
Miss Charlotte L. Duvall, the COM
nissioners were informed, has been
appointed to work in the county
treasurer's Office, succeeding Mrs.
Isabelle Winner.
The commissioners were invited
to attend a meeting of the County
Commissioners Association of the
Western Shore at II am. December
II, at the. Charles Carroll Hotel,
Westminster.
Evening star., 1946-11-20
Prince Georges
Weighs 9-Point
Road Program
Citizens Group Coils
For Assembly Action
On Recommendation.

The Prince Georges County COM
missioners today had under con-
sideration set of recommends
tions which would provide for a
basic road program in the county If
enacted by the Maryland General
Assembly.
The recommendations, including a
nine-point program, were contained
in three-page letter to the county
heads from the Queens Chapel Citi-
zens' Association. The letter was
signed by G. Edward Pfiuger of $500
Twenty-first street, Ayondale, pres
ident of the organization.
Similar copies of the letter also
were sent to other county leaders
urging them to support such recon-
mendations at the coming session of
the General Assembly, starting In
January, the association said.
Proposals Submitted.
Under the proposals, which were
referred to Waldo Burnside, attor-
ney for the commissioners, for study.
counsel for the board and the county
engineer would be directed to CO.
operate in making a study of past
road legislation and to draft bills,
which, If enacted, would repeal all
laws found to be outmoded.
The association requested that all
authority to control such a program
be vested in the county commis-
sioners for compliance through the
county engineer, instead of with
other groups such as the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
The nine-point program asked:
i. That immediate notice be given
the Maryland State Roads Commits
sion that after six months or some
other appropriate period, the coun-
ty. instead of the Roads Commission,
undertake construction, operation
and maintenance of its county road
system.
2. That the county road system
embrace all roads now known as
county roads.
3. Acceptance as county roads of
those now In special Improvement
districts which meet standards set
up by the county engineer.
4. Acceptance as county roads, all
new roads in special improvement
districts which meet county stand
ards.
5. Acceptance of substandard
roads when they have been i'm
proved to conform with new re-
quirements.
Share In Tax Funds.
6. Legislation to provide that spe-
cial improvement districts receive a
proportionate share of income tax,
gasoline tax and other such Federal
and State taxes to the same extent
as Incorporated towns.
2. Legislation governing issuance
OF bonds to provide for purchase of
road machinery, supplies, construc-
ton Of storage buildings and other
necessities.
8. Legislation to grant the county
commissioners authority to levy a
general property tax to cover cost
of maintaining and constructing
county roads.
9. A broadening of powers and
duties of the county engineer, with
an appropriate increase in salary.