Evening star., 1947-03-09

American Legion
1Oratory Contest
Nov Being Held
The Tenth Annual High SCHOOL,
IOratorical Contest, sponsored by the
American Legion, is now being con-
Quoted in the local senior and Junior
thigh and parochial schools Of this
city with Ralph ]. Graves as chair
man assisted by Tavern Lauterman
and Lewis Morse.
| Each school entering the contest
will decide its representative in an
elimination contest within the
school and these winning contestants
then entering a sectional contest
and if successful final contest tol
be held in this city on April / tol
decide this city's representative in
the national finals.
The local winning finalist will
receive an award of SIS; second
place, $50; third place, $25, and
fourth place, $40. The winning local
f1nalist is then sent through series
Of national elimination contests and
lii successful enters the national
finals to be held at Charleston,
Nv. Va, April Is. Here the winning
national finalists are awarded schol-
arships in the colleges Of their choice
worth $4,000, $2,500, $500 for first,
second, third and fourth places,
respectively.
/ The local elimination contests will
be held during the week of March "A.
! No publicity is given to the names
of the judges in advance of the
contests and Chairman Graves has
requested the Legion to assign addi-
tional members to assist when the
final contest is held.
The annual oyster roast of Cooley
McC cCullough Post will be held today
from 2 to Z o'clock at the Potomac
Boat Club, Thirty sixth and K
streets NV. There will be dancing
from to o'clock. Charles Kohen
is chairman. The public is invited.
An American Legion Civic Rela-
tions Forum will take place Wednes-
day evening at the American Legion
Club, 2437 Fifteenth street NV.
John Thomas Taylor, national
legislative director, will take the af-
f1rmative and DR.. Frederick j. Libby,
executive secretary of the National
Council for the Prevention of War,
the negative on the subject ''Uni-
versal Military Training, Our Solu-
ton to, Our National Security"
Sylvan King will preside.
The public Is invited and the
forum will be broadcast on Station
WINK from $3.50 to 9 pm.
Potomac Post will celebrate its
10th anniversary next Wednesday
at pm. at the Palisades Field
House.
Plans for the erection OF a club
house in the Macarthur boulevard
area are under way.
Thirty new members were 40
cepted into membership in Costello
Post last week at the Odd Fellows
Hall.
The post will hold its annual st.
Patrick's Day dance at the Shore
ham Hotel next Thursday from 10
to ] o'clock. Reservations may be
made with Comdr. Dave Miller,
Trinidad 1927.
Pepco Post will hold stag party
Friday evening at the Cheverly
(Md) Legion Club for the benefit
of the post, blood donors squad.
J. Comdr. Robert S. Dinger Of Wood
ridge Post, who has just sreturned
from national headquarters where
he was graduated from the Ameri-
can Legion College after completing
a course in legion leadership, Is now
an assistant director of the Legion
National Employment Committee.
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Grand Voiture 174, Forty and
Eight, will meet Thursday evening
at the Legion Club and will continue
to meet thereafter ON the second
Thursday of each month.
Posts desiring the services of the
ritual team should write Gerald j.
Lawler, Grand Chef de Train, Car
negie Institute, Sixteenth and P
streets NV.
The team will induct class of
new members in Agriculture Post
next Friday evening.
The service officers directory, now
being prepared by Paul Flaherty,
department service officer, for early
release will contain a list of post
commanders, service officers, de-
partment staff officers and various
officers of national headquarters and
the Veterans Administration with
their addresses and telephone num-
bers.
The new Junior Baseball Hand
book, containing all rules and regu-
lationS for the Goth annual national
junior American Legion baseball
season, will be distributed to post
athletic officers In a few days.
| United States Department of
Agriculture Post sponsored a party
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Fidelity -Phenix Fire Insurance
Co. Of New York
80 Maiden Lane. of New York 8, N. T., on
the 31st day Of December, 1916.
INCOME
Net premiums $30,25O, ,6g7. 81
Total interest and rents 4,462 ,007 90
Other income ----- 526,097 "a
Total income ------- $35,23S, ,S02.74
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