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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
Becraft Wins Grove
Tennis, Tournament

Buddy Becraft fought for the
championship title of the Grove
Recreational Club Tournament on
Sunday afternoon at the Waters
court. In the finals Becraft defeat
ed Leo Federline who played an
uphill game after losing the first
two sets, 6-3, GO, taking the next
two, 4-6, Gil, and losing the fifth
set, rs, after a fine exhibition.
In the mems single, quarter
finals:
Buddy Becraft defeated Harold
Hershey, 60, ct.
Billy Riber defeated George
Young, 11-9, 8-6.
Leo Federline defeated Bill
Hardy, Ga, 6-1.
In the semi-fnals:
Buddy Becraft defeated Billy
Riber, 4-6, GO, 60.
Leo Federline defeated Phil Win
ter, go, 4-6, 81.
In the doubles, semi-final: Phil
Winter and Norman Healy defeat
ed Bill Hardy and Guy Stockwell,
6-2, 4-6, Ga; Buddy Becraft and
Leo Federline defeated George
Young and Marian Waters, (the
only mixed doubles in the tourna-
ment), 6-8, 60, 6-3.
In the finals Becraft and FEEDER.
line defeated Winters and Healy
GA, 4-6, rs, 81, SO.
In the Junior Tournament, which
was an outgrowth of tennis in.
structions given by Miss Marian
Waters during the Recreational
Program this summer, semi-fnals
William Way defeated Rurr Nc.
Cathran, Dale Jackson defeated
Wilmer Matthias. In the finals, Viii.
liam Way defeated Dale Jackson
The date for the presentation Of
the Trophies has not been an.
nounced. On Sunday, September
Fl, at 8 o'clock, on the Waters
court, there will be an exhibition
match between Rockville and Wash
ington Grove. The single match
will be played by Sammy Riggs
Rockville, and Philip Winter
Washington Grove. The doubles
will be Sammy Riggs and Barry
Linthicum, Rockville, and Raoul
Salamanca and Philip Winter,
Washington Grove.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
County Firemen To
Select Beauty Queen

Montgomery County fremen will
select a beauty queen at the annual
convention and silver jubilee of the
County Association of Volunteer
Firemen to be held on Saturday,
September 81, at Kensington.
A joint committee of the Asso-
citation and the Kensington Volun-
teer Fire Department stated that a
beauty contest to select "Miss
Montgomery County Firemen" will
be held the day of the convention.
Each department will send rep
resentative to Kensington to com
pete for prize of $500 in cash
and a silver trophy. In addition,
the winner will represent Mont
gomery County at the state conven-
ton at Ocean City in 1948. The
queen and the contestants will par
ticipate in the parade and will also
be guest of honor at the banquet.
Rules regarding the beauty con-
test are as follows: girl must be
sixteen years of age or over; must
he single and live in Montgomery
County; is to be judged in bathing
suit at Loo P. M, Saturday, Sep
TENDER 81, at Kensington Fire
house; prize will be $500 in cash
and silver trophy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
Schools Invited
To Enjoy Tour
OF williamsburg

Special arrangements inaugu-
rated last year to enable increased
numbers of public school children
throughout Virginia to take adj
vantage of this Giving laboratory"
of early American history will be
extended to the neighboring state
of Maryland during the coming
academic year, it was announced
last week by Colonial Williams
burg, the organization carrying
forward the restoration of this
one-time colonial capital city.
Invitations are being mailed out
to more than 1000 public school
principals, superintendent and
supervisors in all sections of Mary
land outlining the special arrange
ments which are effective between
November l and March 81 when
Williamsburg is the least crowded
and more individual attention may
be given to the school groups.
During the five winter months,
specially-trained escorts are pro-
vided each school group and re-
duced rates of admission to the ex-
hibition buildings are in effect
along with special provisions for
overnight lodging and meals at
Williamsburg Lodge. Institutional
materials are also made available
on a loan basis in order that the
visit to this historical community
may be better integrated with
classroom study of early American
history.
Upwards of 1900 school chill.
dren- representing $40 schools
from various parts of the country
visited Williamsburg during the
past academic year for lesson in
the foundations of American DEM
ocracy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
Olney Horse Show
Features Teams and
Driving Before 5000

Continued from Page y
Hagin entry; yearlings, J. Bur-
rows; two-year ODDS George p.
Plummer.
Pony, under II hands, "Pat",
Bobby Strunk; between IL and
1872 hands, Moonlight, Alloway
Farms; between 1872 and IL hands,
adam, Helen Mcneil. Pony in
Harness, "Billy Boy, Dean Hut
Gibson
Afternoon Glasses:
Open saddle class, Refrain,
owned and ridden by Charlie Car
rico. Junior saddle class, Royal
Boy, owned and. ridden by Billy
Streaker. Junior Hunters, Wye,
owned by Mrs. Steadman Teller
and ridden by Jimmie Downs.
Hunter Hacks, San D, owned and
ridden by Mrs. Fred Hughes.
Five gated saddle class, Annie,
owned and ridden by H. A. Lay
mon. Local hunters, After Dark,
owned and ridden by Mrs. Ann
Christmas. Ladies' Hunters, Wye,
owned by Margaret Aitcheson and
ridden by June Aitcheson. Con-
servation class, A mule, owned and
ridden by Drew Stabler. Hunters,
Gracias, owned and ridden by
Mrs. Steadman Teller. Knock
down and out, Cateer, owned and
ridden by David Martin. Pair
Hunters, Kristi, owned by Mrs.
Lee Counselman and ridden by
Jane Blunt, and Befit, owned and
ridden by Capt. William Walsh.
Saddle class, Red Sensation, owned
and ridden by Don Block. Handy
Hunters, Wye, owned by Margaret
Aitcheson and ridden by Jane Ait
cheson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
Building Permits
Approved By Board

The following building permits
were issued this week:
No. 2-To remodel a courthouse
into a tenant house, located on the
Layhill and Olney Road-contract-
or to be J. B. Marshall, Derwood.
No. $40 erect dwelling on
Piney Meeting House Road-A. d.
Ferris, Rockville.
No. ITO erect a machine shed,
located on dirt road from Barnes
vile to Hyattstown = Thomas E.
Cole, Boyd.
No. $40 erect a tenant house,
on River Road-Ice House Road -
Wilbert McInerney, Washington.
No. 6-To erect dwelling, Ira
vilah Road near Daniels Store =
E. B. Calhoun, Rockville.
No. ITO erect a dwelling. off
Rt. $40, Comus Road, l mile north
of Clarksburg w. M. Musgrove,
Gaithersburg.
No. $50 erect a dwelling, in
the subdivision of Harriet Park
James 0. Wilder, Rockville.
No. 9 = To erect a dwelling,
Ounce Orchard and Choppers
Road-David w. Stang, Gathers
burg.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
Birth Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. William M. Chris
tic of Germantown are parents of
a son, William, Jr., born on Sep
TENDER 9 at Frederick City Hos
pital.
Mrs. Christie was formerly Miss
Molly Waters and was on the fac
ulty at Richard Montgomery High
School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
[ z77ze Box
Falling Green
Derwood, Md.

Falling Green
Derwood, Md.
September ID, 1947
Dear Mrs. Haines:
Here is a little true STORY -
Since reading the interesting
story of Lex Barnsley's hen, we
are sending a little story of our
pet hen of long ago who made
nest in the back of the front hall,
in what we called the "Cuddy".
She came in and out as she pleased
without disturbing US. One day
we all went away, shutting up the
front of the house. But Biddy was
not to be thwarted. She went in
the kitchen door, up long flight
of stairs, through dark passage
and down the front stairs to her
nest, and laid her usual beautiful
egg.
We shut the door and tried her
out but she found her nest the
same long way.
Truly, Edith Brooke Green.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
September II, 1947.

september II, 1871.
Montgomery County Sentinel,
Rockville, Md.
To the Editor:
This is reply to Brooke Johns
statement in your paper that all
county employees had been given a
10 per cent raise in pay beginning
July LIST.
When some of the men working
for the Board of Education asked
why we did not get our 10 per cent
raise, the answer was "You are not
working for the County-you are
working for the Board of Educa-
ton" Now we are not all dumb,
we know the Board of Education is
run by the County. If not, why do
the County Commissioners have so
much to say? Why does the County
Agent do all the buying? Why does
the School Board help with the
County work?
But if we are not working for
the County, well--why doesn't the
Board of Education wake up and
give the $50 and $33 per week men
a decent raise in pay? l am sure
all the taxpayers will agree that
we cannot live on $50 and $33 per
week. Something must be done
about this before the men and their
families get too hungry.
A VOTER
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
Killed Seeking Bird Feed

Chicago. = Riding along the
tracks of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, searching for grain which
had fallen from passing freight
cars to feed his birds, Robert M.
Alsen, 22-year-old newspaper boy,
did not hear a box-car being shun-
ted along a siding. The car hit
and killed him.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15

is living in close contact with some
one who has TB? Suppose the "bom-
bardment" by tuberculosis germs is
continuous? When his body can no
longer resist the tuberculosis germs,
active tuberculosis will develop. Doc
tors estimate that approximately half
million Americans have active
tuberculosis. Yet only half of these
know it and are taking the necessary
steps to arrest their disease and to
prevent others from catching it.
You may wonder how anyone can
have a disease like tuberculosis with
out knowing it, but actually the d.
sease in its early stages is almost
symphonies. The way tuberculosis
can be found in its early stage, be
fore grave damage is done to the
lung, is by chest X-ray Everyone
should have periodic chest X-rays and
physical examinations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15
Danger of Self
Medication Stressed

ut Is an unfortunate fact that
some people are willing to risk their
health-possibly even their lives-by
taking drug that they have read
about in a newspaper or magazine, y
DR.. R. H. Riley, Director of the State
Department of Health, recently warn
ed the public
"Scientific research workers are de-
veloping and pharmaceutical manu-
facturers are providing new drugs
that are often referred to as miracle
drugs. Newspapers and magazines
often contain articles telling how
penicill,n, streptomycin, thiOusacil,
sulfa drugs and other remedies are
cutting death rates from infectious
diseases and shortening periods Of
illness.
"Although these drugs have been
of great value in combating diseases
that have baffled the medical pro-
fession, causing prolonged illness and
high death rates, they are very
dangerous products in unframed
hands. They were never intended to
be used promiscuously for sef-medi-
cation. In fact, it is often dangerous
for laymen to attempt to cure their
own ills with long-used drugs that
are considered safe.
"To protect consumers the Federal
Food and Drug Administration re-
quires that many drugs be labelled:
'Caution-to be used only by or on
the prescription of physician. Even
though it may occasionally be posi-
bic to obtain these drugs by an H.
legal act on the part of the supplier,
people are strongly urged not to try
to diagnose and treat their own i'll
nesses. The physician, who receives
clinical reports concerning new drugs,
is in position to know whether their
use will be advantageous to the
patient. He may also recognize under
lying conditions that make it mad
visable to prescribe them for par
ticular patient. Another strong argu-
ment against Standardization is that
a drug may be taken in insufficient
quantity, which may sensitize the
person and render the drug ineffec-
tive if it is prescribed in the future.
IF a pharmacist refuses to sell a
particular drug and explains that it
cannot be supplied without a physi-
clans prescription the would-be pur-
chaser should not become provoked.
That pharmacist is giving sound
public health advice and is also COM
plying with the law"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15
National Guard Has
Recruiting Campaign

A statewide recruiting campaign
for the Maryland National guard is
being organized. The drive is to have
a two-fold purpose, to recruit suf-
ficient officers and men to gain
federal recognition for all the units
of the New National Guard, and to
better acquaint parents, business,
educational and religious leaders of
the position of the guard in the over
all scheme of the national defense.
Just how soon the state machinery
would get in motion in regard to
establishing an aimorY at Oakland
was not known. Appropriation for
the construction of an armory here
was authorized by a bill passed by
the legislature and just last week
signed by the governor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15
TB Germs
BY State tuberculosis Association

BY State tuberculosis Association
The tubercle bacillus is only .500Jh
of an inch long and yet if this tiny
germ did not exist, we would not have
tuberculosis, the disease which kills
nearly $4,000 Americans year, for
Ibis is the germ which causes tubercu-
losis Although poverty, malnutrition,
poor housing and other such con-
ditions may be factors leading to the
undermining Of a persons health
enough to encourage the work of the
tubercle bacilli, no one gets the dis
ease unless these tin rod shaped
germs have entered his body.
Dr. Robert Koch, a German ply
sician and bacteriologist, discovered
the tubercle bacillus in 1882 and
proved that it causes tuberculosis.
These germs are passed from one
person to another by contact. Germs
are sprayed into the air when a per-
son with tuberculosis coughs. An
other person may then inhale the
germs from the air or pick them up
by using the eating utensils, towels
or bed linen used by person with
tuberculosis.
What happens when someone gets
tuberculosis germs into his system?
If he is strong and healthy to begin
with, and if he doesn't take in too
many germs, his powers of resistance
may overwheIm the invaders. He may
never learn that he has been host to
tubercle bacilli.
But suppose, for instance, that he
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15

Pvt. Merlin l.. Gnegy, field ar
tillery, son of Mrs. Dewey Gnegy, of
Oakland, has been transferred from
overseas to the Oliver General hos
pitaI in Augusta, Ga, for further
treatment. Thousands of service men
who fought N Europe and the Pacific
are receiving medical and surgical
care at this orthopedlc center.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15

The Veterans Administration fig
ures the hardest veteran Of World
War | will live 4S years more and
gives the healthiest participant in
World War II another SO years.
Families of moderate income in
large cities must now devote about AZ
percent of expenditures to food as
compared with 80 percent in 1935-39,
A Senate amendment to the labor
bill restricts health funds, bars
shaking down of employers and bans
dues checkoff
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15
With Our Men
In The Service

Pvt. Lonnie A Mccullough, OF
F'riendsville, recently arrived in
Cristobal, Canal Zone, one Of 1000
regular army troops sent to that sec
ton for requirements in the canal
zone. He has been assigned to the
Fort Clayton general hospital, on the
Pacific side Of the Isthmus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15

Returning from Africa, the British
royal family was greeted at Ports
mouth, England, by 100000 cheering
subjects.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15
OAKLAND HIGH TO VOTE ON
STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT SOON

Janey Adams and Richard Leighton selected April 10
by Student Council nominating committee and approved Ap
m Is by the Student Council nominees for the president of next
council Nominees chosen for vcepresent LaDonna
Bell and Jack Right for secretary Gladys Wense and Robert
Schmidt These candidates will make speeches during the next
semhlY and the election will be held soon after
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15

The Senate rejected an attempt to
tougher the general labor bill by
writing in curbs on industry-wide
collective bargaining.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-05-15

The Brazil supreme electoral tri-
bunal ruled the communist party il
legal.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-09-18

mite visit at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John Scott.
Mrs. L. M. Keene'S mother, Mrs.
Spencer. who has been quite i'll, is
reported to be slightly improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Babcock and
daughter Miss Barbara took a
pleasure trip Sunday to Dry Falls
and Coulee Dam, returning home
by way of Wenatchee.
Mrs. Keith Blackburn with her
daughter Denise returned Sunday
after visiting for two weeks with
her mother, Mrs. Eugenia Robin
SON and the elder Blackburns in
McMinnville, Ore. While there
she had the pleasure of visiting
also an uncle and aunt, MIR. and
Mrs. Roy Curvey from Fort Nor
gan, Colo, with Mrs. Sarah Faw-
cett recently returned from Eng
land bringing news of Mrs. Black
burns relatives, and with Mrs.
Daisy Kaufman, a friend from Sid
ney, Australia.
MIR. and Mrs. Herbert O'Hearn
were back Sunday from vacation
ing for two weeks. They visited
relatives in Wenatchee, Elma, Sc
attic and Puyallup.
MIR. and Mrs. Lance Read with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Barnes motor
ed to Daton, Washington Sunday
to attend the wedding of Mrs.
Reads neice, Jeanne Kingman
and Dan Brown which took place
that afternoon in the Congrega-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-09-18
LITTLE STORIES Of the WEEK
By FLORENCE OLIVER
Phone news to Kennewick 2442 before Tuesday noon

sons. She arrived Friday by
streamliner in Pendleton where
she was met by her son.
Mrs. H. E. Huntington came
home Sunday from Yakima where
she had visited for two weeks
with her son anc family, the Bill
HuntingtonS.
Mrs. Mae Reedy and her sister
Mrs. Lenora Johnson arrived last
Saturday from Los Angeles to Wis
it at the home of their cousin, Mrs.
w. S. Green and family. This is
their first visit to Kennewick in
25 years. They are on a two
months tour and will also visit
at the w. P. Soth home in Spokane
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-09-18

Guests last week of Mrs. Wini-
fred Campbell were her nephew
and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Campbell of Ell Monte, Calf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Hagen
and two children were visitors
from Tacoma at the Herbert Mis-
ners' last week end.
Alma Circle will meet with Mrs.
John Wallace, FOG Howard street,
East, on Monday, September %.
Co-hostesSes are Mrs. Dawes and
Mrs. Martin of Richland.
Mrs. M. M. Anderson is here
from Moberly, Missouri, to visit
for an indefinite time with her
son and family, the Clyde Ander-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-09-18

tional church. In the evening
they We're dinner guests of Mrs.
Reads mother, Mrs. Charles King
man in Waitsburg.
Visitors Sunday at the M. Schus-
ter home were Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
Schuster from Moses Lake.
Maude Thomas Sundie from the
ST. Louis Institute of Music has
opened a piano studio at SIS First
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-09-18

Monday afternoon at the Pasco
hospital.
Mrs. Jessie Beaver is here from
Austin, Texas, to make an indef-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-09-18

, Ave; She will be in her s.usia
Wednesday of each wesS ulo On
ming Sept. II from 9 am, u sesln'
The RNA club will ~, pm,
Salena Blackman on Sen. ee =, with
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-09-18

Chicago is 9ll milac
Francisco. i'om San.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
OAR District Meets Open Sept. %;
Many Planned In The State This Fall

Mrs. Jasper B. Hicks, local re-
gent. Chapters by towns are Cha
pei Hill, Durham, Henderson,
Louisburg, Oxford, Raleigh, Wake
Forest, Warrenton.
Wednesday, October l IL a. m
District No. 8 will meet at Wilson
Mrs. Frank Benton, Wilson is di'
rector; Mrs. Clarence w. Wern.
er, Wilson, secretary : treasurer;
DR.. Esther Long, Wilson,
historian. Miss Clyde Dean is To-
cal regent. Chapters by towns are
Elizabeth City, Farmville, Colds.
boro, Halifax, Mount Olive, Rocky
Mount, Snow Hill, Tarboro, Wash
ington. Wilson.
Friday, October 8, II a. M, Dis.
trict No. 7 will meet at White
vile. Mrs. Earl Westbrooz, Dunn,
is director; Mrs. W. M. Boice,
Whiteville, vice = director: Mrs.
Faison Hicks, Dunn, secretary
treasurer; Mrs. j. S. johnson,
Garland, historian. Mrs. c. Bion
Sears is local regent. Chapters by
towns are Dunn, ElizabethtoWn,
Fayetteville, Jacksonville, Kin
ston, Lumberton, New Bern, Red
Springs, Whiteville, Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
BIRTH

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Abram
announce the birth of a daughter
Jill Ellen, August IA at Marion
Sprunt annex.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
SOCIAL CALENDAR

MONDAY
$3.50 p. m.-The executive board
of the Woman's auxiliary of
the First Presbyterian church
will meet in the church.
$3.50 p. m.-The Fifth Avenue
Methodist Woman's Society
of Christian Service will
meet in the church. Circle
No. 2 will meet at 3 o'clock
in the church.
800 p. m.-Members of the
James Manley post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars auxiliary,
will meet in the Tide Water
hall.
800 p. m.-The executive board
of the Woman's auxiliary Of
1 m m manual Presbyterian
church will meet with Mrs.
Wade H. Allison, Ills S.
Fifth street.
TUESDAY
7:30 p. m.-Carter circle of Glib
son Avenue Baptist church
WILL meet Win MIS-. ASnly
Brown, 40 Spofford.
800 p. m.-Circle No. 2 of Pear
sail Memorial church will
meet with Mrs. F. B. Cur
ganous. Mrs. w. j. Collier
is chairman.
WEDNESDAY
HOO a. NIL p. m.-The Woman's
Society of Christian Service
of Grace Methodist church
will meet at the church. No
luncheon will be held.
$3.50 p. m.-Circle No. l of Pear
sail Memorial. church will
meet with Mrs. Oscar Pear
sail. Mrs. G. W. Martin is
chairman of the group.
THURSDAY
8:15 p. m.-The Golden Rod
chapter, 142, Order of East
ern Star, will meet in the
Masonic temple.
FRIDAY
500 D.. m. The Wilmington
Business and Professional
Women's club will meet in
the Friendly cafeteria din
ing room for supper and
business.