Evening star., 1946-11-01
PrinceGeorges:
Celebration 10
Open Tomorrow

Sounty 10 ODSeIVe
Holiday at Start of
250th Anniversary
With flags and colorful decoration
In place, Prince Georges County il
set to celebrate the 250th anniver
sary Of its founding tomorrow. Th'
county commissioners have declared
the day holiday.
H. The program will begin with 6
~parads( starting at 1890 pm. OF
the Washington Baltimore boule
ward at the University of Maryland
Other high spots will include {
pageant on the fair grounds a
Upper Marlboro and two dances II
the evening, and a banquet at thu
Prince Georges County Bar Associ.
alton at Upper Marlboro.
Upward of 10 floats will be in the
parade. Eight floats will depict his
torical county events, and one will
carry Miss Prince Georges" and hel
seven princesses. Miss Norma Cur.
tis of Brandywine is Miss Prince
Georges"
Floats to Represent Towns.
Charles T. Hartley, chairman o.
the committee on general floats, an.
nounced these towns will be rep.
resented: Hyattsville, Bladensburg
Mount Rainier, Colmar Manor
Brandywine, Edmonston, Bowie, Seal
Pleasant, Brentwood and Capitol
Heights. Business groups entering
floats include the Independent Trade
Association, Harvey Dairy, Merit
Cleaners, Cliff Piercy g. Co., En-
gineering and Research Corp, Serv-
ice Welding Co., F. L. Watkins Co..
Stewart and Hartley, Standard
Brands and Lustine- Nicholson Motor
Co.
Clubs and other groups to be rep
resented are All clubs, Hyattsville
Volunteer Fire Department, ladies
auxiliary; the 40 and 3, Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts, Hyattsville Lions Club
Decatur Heights Community Club
College Park Rotary Club, County
Veterans Service Council, Red
Cross, County Soroptomist Club
and Daughters of the American
Revolution.
The 935th Riding Club of the Hy-
attSville area will be in line in the
upper county and its place will be
taken at Upper Marlboro by men,
bers of the Suitland Riding Club
Many fire departments and several
rescue squads will have apparatus
In the parade.
Awards for Best Floats.
The outstanding floats will be
awarded a copy of the official cele-
bration seal designed by Richard H
Mansfield. Judges will be LIE Roy
Pumphrey, chairman of the county S
delegation in the House of Dele
gates; Mayor Thomas A. Shaw of
Capitol Heights, Daniel M. Greene,
official anniversary historian; Dr.
H. c. Byrd, president of the Univer-
sity of Maryland, and Mayor J. H.
Fetty of Laurel.
M. Hampton Magruder Is chair
man of official county floats. Among
these will be one depicting the visit
of Capt. John Smith in 1903 when
the captain and his crew sailed
up the Potomac to the Piscataway
Creek area and presumably were the
first white men to see the county.
The erection" or organization of
the new county, April %, 1896, at
Charles Town" will be shown in
another float.
Convening of the county's first
court, its original governing body on
March %, 1921, in Marlborough" !"
will be the subject of third float.
Carroll to Be Portrayed.
Archbishop John Carroll the first
American archbishop of the Catholic
Church who was born in 1735 in a
house that stood close to the present
courthouse in Upper Marlboro will
be portrayed.
Archbishop Carroll brought about
the founding of Georgetown Uni
versity and on August 18, 1911, be-
came the first American archbishop
He died in Georgetown December
8, 1915, and his remains were placed
under the altar in the crypt of the
Baltimore Cathedral.
Bishop Thomas John Claggett
born in 1743 near Nottingham ano
the first Episcopal bishop to be
consecrated in the United States
will be represented on another float
The Rev. Clyde Brown, missioner Of
the Episcopal Diocese of Washing
ton, will be shown presenting a COM
munion class to the bishop for con-
firrnation in 1903 in Page Chape.
at Groom.
Inspiration for the Star Spanglec
Banner" will be the theme of g
float. John Compton of Piscataway
whose grandmother was a Key, will
impersonate Francis Scott Key
author of the National Anthem.
A. c. F. Wolfe of Townshend is
in charge of two trucks that will
depict the evolution of farming ma
chinery. One truck will carry the
yoke, plough, cradle, and other i'm
plements of the 1750 and 1850
periods, and the other will transport
more modern machinery. The trucks
will take part under auspicies of the
Brandywine Grange.
Parade Schedule Announced.
The parade is scheduled to ar.
rive at the fair grounds at 3:45. Al
4:35 the historical pageant will start
The floats will be described over the
microphone by David Ginsburg. Al
$50 there will be an introduction
of dignitaries, followed by an ad.
dress by Gov. O'Conor. Other speak
ers will include Mr. Magruder; State
Senator L. Harold Sothoron, genera
celebration chairman, and Repre-.
sentative Sasscer.
The Star Spangled Banner will be
sung by Thomas McNulty of Balti-
more, member of the Maryland
House of Delegates. There will be
band concerts and other features
and at $50 a 45-minute fireworks
program will start.
A dance will be held at Upper
Marlboro from 9 TO l and in the