Evening star., 1947-09-11
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Rally Tomorrow
Prince Georges Group
To Hold Convention
In HyottsviIIe

tllc EIl1C6 CGOTS6S COuQCy VOluu-
teer Firemens Association will be
held in Hyattsville tomorrow night
and Saturday With more than 5000
Maryland and Virginia firemen and
their families expected to attend.
A record number of more than 12s
volunteer fire departments from
throughout the two States, includ.
ing the % member companies Of the
association, have been invited to
participate.
The Hyattsville Volunteer Fire
Department will be the official hcsts
for the two-day affair
The highlight Of the convention
will be a parade, starting at l pm
Saturday, and a number of fire
equipment demonstration contests
to be held after the parade in Ma
gruder Park, Hyattsville.
10 Bands in Parade.
George M. (Mitt) Jones, general
convention chairman, announced
yesterday that at least 10 bands
including the large Army Ground
Forces Band of Fort Meade, will
march in the parade, along with
representatives of the various fire
departments and their equipment,
members of the ladies' auxiliaries,
Boy Scouts, Prince Georges County
Boys Club members and others.
The official program will get
under way with registration of the
visiting flremen in the Hyattsville
fire house at $50 pm. tomorrow.
The first formal assembly of the
group will be held at 8 pm. In the
Hyattsville Elementary School
Forty- third street branch) with
speakers to include Mr.. Jones,
Mayor Caesar L. Aielle of Hyatts-
vile, and John M. Brswn, chief of
the Seat Pleasant Volunteer Fire
Department and retiring president
of the county association.
Oficers for the coming year also
will be nominated at tomorrow
nights assembly.
Auxiliaries to Convene.
The ladies auxiliaries of the
county also will hold their conven-
ton in Hyattsville during the same
time, with registration in the First
Methodist Church of Hyattsville
from z to $50 pm. tomorrow.
Speakers at the official business
meeting of the group, following reg
istration, will include Mrs. Marie
Read of Hyattsville, president of the
county's auxilaries; Mrs. Madalene
Schmidt, and Hyattsville City Coun-
Gilman Frederick M. Coxen The
women will elect their officers to-
morrow night.
Election of officers of the firemen's
association will take place at busi-
ness meeting following brief me-
mortal services in the ,Hyattsville
school at 7:30 pm. Saturday. Two
hours earlier, the f1remen will at
tend a dinner in the st. Jerome's
Parish School cafeteria, served by
members of the Hyattsville ladies
auxiliary group.
New officers will be installed by
John j. Fainter, past president of
the association and member of the
Hyattsville Fire Department for so
years. The site for next years con-
vention also will be set at Saturday
nights session.
Dance Closes Convention.
The convention will conclude with
a dance and party in the Hyatts-
Vile Armory at 10 pm. Saturday,
during which time prizes for win
ners in the parade competition and
various contests will be awarded by
Miss Lorraine Sullivan, o. of 4409
Underwood street, University Park,
who will reign as queen of the con-
vention.
The parade route will be along
the Baltimore boulevard and Oliver
street, south past the reviewing
stand at the County Service Build
ing to Crittenden street and west
to Magruder Park. Convention off,
cials announced the main Washing
ton Baltimore thoroughfare will re-
main open to traffic on one side
only during the parade.
The queens court includes Ruth
Specht, II, of Cheverly; Patricia
Seufert, II, Glenn Dale; Clara Koch,
IT, Riverdale Heights; Kathleen
Justice. ID, West Lanham Hills;
June Lehner, 20, Colmar Manor,
and Frances Dillon, II, Seat Pleas
ant. One other girl, Martha Perry,
%, of Bladensburg, who also was
in the contest, was married last
week and will not participate.