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Evening star., 1948-04-25
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Unit B of the Cooperating Choir
Association of Washington will give
a sacred concert this afternoon at
S o'clock in the sanctuary Of the
Hamline Methodist Church. This
unit consists of the choirs OF Mount
Vernon Methodist Church, r. Deane
Shure, director: Hamline Methodist
Church, John H. Marville, director
and Second Baptist Church, Edward
A. Carey, director.
Each choir will sing three selec-
tions and combine in others, Kath-
ryn Hill Rawls, Dorothy Girdner
Bailey and Ethel c. Sorrell will be
at the console.
|, Bach's Cantata, "Bide With Me,
will be given a performance this
afternoon at pm. at the Washing
ton Cathedral. The choir will sing
under the direction Of Paul Gala
way, assisted by Frank Campbell
tenor, and Paul Chandler Hume
baritone, as soloists.
Frances and Gwendolyn Hall
pianists, aged and 8 years, re-
spectively, and two vocalists, Helen
and Ruth Davis, will make an ap-
pearance at the National Academy
of Music this afternoon at $50
O'Clock. The proceeds will go for
the benefit of st. Benedict the Moor
Church.
Mrs. Royden J. Keith, president
of the National Federation OF Music
Clubs, will be guest of honor at an
informal dinner Tuesday night at
the Copper Bowl, Alban Towers
The board of directors and various
committee chairmen of the D. c.
Federation will be present. Mar
garet C. Smith, national chairman
of legislation and past president OF
the D. C. Federation, is in charge
of the event.
Lawrence Tibbett, famous BARI
tone, will sing at the annual Thrift,
Shop benefit held at the Anderson
House, 2118 Massachusetts avenue
at 4 o'clock Wednesday. The pro.
ceeds from the concert will 60 fol
the benefit of the Childrens Hos.
pital, Children's Country Home, st
Johns Orphanage, Columbia Hos
pital, Child Welfare and the So.
cial Welfare Department OF thu
Junior League.
The Air Force Band Concert Or.
chestra, Maj George S. Howard
leader, will present its final concert
of the spring series Thursday at
$3.50 pm. in the Departmental Audi
torium. A 145-voice choir from
Rochester interhigh schools, d.
rected by Marlowe G. Smith, super
visor of high school choral training
in Rochester, N. Y, will take par,
in the program.
The Soldiers Home Symphonettt
will conclude its winter series o1
indoor concerts Thursday at $50
o'clock. The Military Band will be.
gin its programs Tuesday night
May 10,
The Newcomb Club Of Bethesda
presented the Newcomb Bethesds
Community Singers, Ruth L. Nor.
gan, director. in a program at thu
residence of Mrs. William S. Corby
last Sunday. The group was as
sisted by Edith B. Athey. orgsnist
and George A. Myers tenor,
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Music Club Finale

The closing event of the 62nd
season of the Friday Morning Music
Club will be a luncheon and frol1c
by active and associate members in
Barker Hall Friday at 1890 pm.
The second annual composers
competition for the Elizabeth Mer2
Butterneld Memorial Award will
take place at II am, in the 4th
floor Assembly Room, Y. w. C. A
The judges are Bainbridge Christ
Mary Howe and Louis Potter. Prizes
will be distributed during the
luncheon.
The Associate Chorus, directed by
Zita Mcbride will sing IT'S Spring
Again" by Dorothy Radde Emery
Mabel Linton Williams Dawn,
and Kathryn Hill Rawls' Carol te
| the Spring"
Evening star., 1948-04-25
High School Singers
In Concert TONIGHT

Choral groups of the Washington
Lee High School will give concert
In the National Gallery of Art to-
night at O'Clock, under the di-
rection of Florence Booker. The
program will consist of music by
early masters, present-day COM
posers, written in madrigal-l
style; Russian sacred and secular
music. English madrigals and Amer
lean folk songs.
Five May concerts will be de-
voted to the Fifth American Music
Festival, beginning Sunday, May 2,
with a recital by John Kirkpatrick,
pianist. The series is under the
general direction of Richard Bales.
who will conduct two orchestral
concerts on May and 30.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
By John CIooett Proctor

By John Cloeett Proctor
HERE are many sports that
have gained great popularity
in this country that were
hardly known, or even ex-
listed, when baseball was in
troduced In this city, ut least ~
early as November 4, 1859, when
The Star published an account OF
what was probably the first base
ball club organized In Washington
Said the press at that time:
"A baseball club has Just been
formed inHths city and promises
to prove an efficient organization
1t is called the Potomac. has II
members, with McLane Tlton as
president, Leonard c. Gunneu as
vice president and Richard B. Irwin
as secretary. 1t is a good sign te
see such health-promoting exercises
taking the place of insipid. ener-
waiting amusements."
The National Club could not have
been far behind the Potomacs, for In
The Star Of May 7, 1860, We fino
recorded q contest between these
teams, and the reporter was good
enough to tell us what part OF the
city the clubs hailed from-the
National Club from Capitol Hill ano
the Potomac Club from the first
ward, which subsequent to 1920 in
cluded the area west OF Fifteenth
street to Rock Greek.
Potomac Club Wins
In the early days of the sport, the
teams that made n runs first Won
the game. but this game was allowed
to 20 to the score of IS to Is, as the
following account states: -.
Base Ball.-A game Of baseball
was played on Saturday last on the
Mall between the Potomac Club o.
the first ward and the National Clut
OF Capitol Hill, in which the latte
club was worsted, IS to Is, in sever
innings. The Potomac Club ha'
challenged q club in Baltimore Il
play q match game here on TIT
9Th of June next, and 1t was under
stood that the National Club accept
ed the challenge, which gave only a
hours notice to prepare in, more tt
get the first-warders in good play TO-
the coming match with Baltimor'
than to exhibit its own skill. TIT
Capitol Hill Club has been organized
lately, and is composed of novices
while the Potomac Club has in it
ranks several f1rst-rate performers
who understand the game perfectl.
and have had much practice
The writer turned the pages unit
he came to June 7, 1860, and ther'
he found the result. 40 to "a, II
favor of the Excelsiors Of Baltimore
During the Civil War, baseball
took quite q slump, since many O.
the best players were scattered
throughout the Northern ant
Southern armies, but whenevel
troops were assembled . good gam'
could be witnessed nearly every da.
or 50. Particularly was this 80 on
the White Lot Grounds and II
Franklin Square.
On many occasions President
Lincoln witnessed the sport in botl
places and in referring to the latte
Evening star., 1948-04-25
DR.. Kinder Signed
AS Guest Conductor

The Philadelphia Orchestra AS
ISOLATION announced last week that
DR.. Hans Kinder will be one Of its
guest conductors next year. Con-
ducting at present in Europe he has
been re-engaged to make another
tour of Great Britain and the con-
tinent next season. Among his
future European appearances are
The London Symphony and the
London Philharmonic, the Concert
gebouw in Amsterdam, Hamburg
Berlin and the leading Scandinavian
orchestras.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Federation Events

Three major events have been
planned by the District of Columbia
Federation of Music Clubs for the
National Music Week. The annual
Sacred Choir Festival will take
place on May 4 at 8:15 pm. in the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church. On May 6 at 6:l5 pm.
a dinner will be held at the Fairfax
Hotel, followed by an entertaining
program of musical surprises" A
recital, featuring original compost
tions by members Of Federated
Junior Clubs will be given at the
Calvary Baptist Church at 8:l5 pm
MAY 8.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

place, We find it stated that In
1868, when stopping in front OF
Secretary Stanton's home, he now
and then saw . large crowd en-
Enthusiastically arranged in q circle IN
Franklin Square. Great shouts rent
the air. Mr.. Lincoln knew this all
but daily occurrence was not the
raising Of the national colors. The
shouts came when . brilliant play
was made or q clout over fielder's
head in the national game. Very
likely he was close to the scene
in June, 1862, when the Jefferson
and Monitor baseball clubs contend
ed. with the close score of A to 43
johnson Was a Fan
However, Mr.. Lincoln's successor
Andrew johnson, is regarded as the
first presidential baseball fan, and
upon one occasion, toward the close
sof his administration, he attended
Q game at Sixteenth and 8 streets
stayed until the end Of the game
and then shook hands with all the
players. Following President john
son, other Presidents were also de-
votees of the great national game.
BY 1867, Washington had develop
ed q team that made real baseball
history. 1t was the National Club
quite likely a reorganization OF the
one which played SO we'll seven
years before. Its players were COM
posed mainly of Government clerks
and included: George Wright
shortstop and team captain; w. F
williams, pitcher, law student;
Frank p. Norton, catcher. clerk In
Treasury: G. A. E., Fletcher, mrs,
base, clerk in third auditors ONCE
e. A. Parker, second base and left
field, Bureau of Internal Revenue
George H. Fox, third base. graduate
(1s60 Georgetown College; s. L
Studley, left field, clerk in Treasury
H. w. Berthrong (said to be
brother -in-la of John Edson,l
center field, clerk. once Controllel
of the Currency; Harry C. Mclean
right field, clerk. third auditor
ofiice; A. v. Robinson, clerk, ant
G. E. Smith, shortstop and substi
tute. fourth auditors office.
Triumphs of 1867
The team made its first tour II
1867. The club was led by Arthu
P. German and the president OF tn
club, Col. Frank Jones, and Henr
Chadwick. the off1cial scorer, &C
companied the team. although tn
writer is told that the latter posi-
ton was filled by Joseph Y. Potts
for many years clerk OF the Polio
Court.
Among the teams defeated Of
that tour were the Capital City Clu
of Columbus, Ohio; the Cincinnati
and Buckeyes of Cincinnati, tn
Louisville Club Of Louisville, KY.
the western Club Of indianapolis
the Empire and Union Clubs OF 81
Louis and the Excelsior and Ath
letics Of Chicago. 1t was to tn
Forest City Club Of Rockford, Ill
that they lost their only game, ant
that by the score of 20 to %. 1t wa
claimed at the time. and vigorously
denied that the game was thrown
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Bach's MASS" Nav f

The Cathedral Choral Society
will give Bach's Mass in B Minor
in its entirety in the Washington
Cathedral May at $3.50 pm. Paul
Galloway will conduct. The chorus,
full orchestra and soloists will
repeat the work which had its first
local performance last season. Nell
Tangeman, contralto; Ruth Diehl,
soprano; Edwin Steffe, bass; VIII
liam Hess, tenor; Jan Tomasow,
violinist; Lois Wann and Engelbert
Brenner, oboi d'amore, and Ralph
Kirkpatrick. harpsichord, viii par
ticiI ate.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Lutheran Chorus.

The National Lutheran Chorus
will give a concert in the Lisner
Auditorium Wednesday night under
the direction of r. E. Snesrud. The
group Is made up Of members from
various Lutheran Churches in the
Washington area and will open its
fourth year of activity with this
concert.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

The Capital Precancel Club will
meet at Weeks Stamp Shop, 1929
New York avenue NV, tomorrow
evening at 8. Visitors are requested
to introduce themselves to George
w. Hawse, secretary.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

and looking back Just Si years it
does seem that there might have
been some justification for this I'm
preston. 70
However, this defeat did not de-
moral1e the Nationals, and the next
day they defeated the Chicago Ex-
celsiors, admittedly q better team,
to the tune Of 40 to I. and in one
of their games in this tour they
made 113 runs to their opponents
rs. After this, they returned home,
accompanied by Messrs. Hodges
Cronin, Brown, Patterson. Munson,
st Clair, Ever, Gramar, Dorsey,
Stewart. Corvan and Price, who left
Washington with them. The ex-
penses OF the trip amounted to
So, 900, which was betrayed by those
who went on the trip, since the
club did not take any gate receipts.
Johnson Ranks Top
During the Districts professional
baseball history, the Washington
or Nationals as they now are called
had some good managers, but per-
haps none the equal Of Clark Grif-
nth, and they have had some fine
ball tossers, too. but none quite as
good as the late Walter Johnson
at least that seems to be consensus.
Among the former managers We
might mention James Manning,
Tom LOTUS, j. Garland Stahl, JOS
eph Cantillion and Jimmy McAleer.
All these have been since the club
Joined the American League. But.
of course, we must not leave out
Bucky Harris, who piloted the team
to a world championship In 1924
ana the American League Cham
pionship in 1925.
Change Made in 1905
1t would be hard to pick out the
best players in past years, but
every one will agree that Win Mer-
Ger, McJames, Farrell and MCGUIRE
were unexcelled in their day.
OF the great players of the past
whom we regard as our own boys,
none will stand higher than Paul
Hines, Joe Gerhardt, Sadie
Houck, Charley Snyder, Arthur
Devlin, George doc" White and
Babe Trott.
However. a new era in profes-
sional baseball seems to have taken
place early in 1905 when the con-
troll of the team. then in the Ameri-
can League, was taken over by
]. H. Rapley, Scott C. Bone, Thomas
C. Noyes, Henry L. West, Benjamin
8. Minor, Henry P. Blair, Corcoran
Thorn and E. B. Walsh. They
elected Mr.. Noyes president, Mr..
Minor secretary and business man
ager and w. H. Fowler treasurer.
II An effort had been made from
1901, the first year the Washingtons
played in the newly formed Ameri-
can League, to bolster up the club.
but no one was willing at that time
or before to dig deep enough into
their pockets for the wherewith to
purchase a team of frst-class play
ers. Indeed, in 1904, the Washing
ton team was so poor that 1t dis
tinguished itself by winning 2S
games and losing 113.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

An editorial on Stamp and Coin
Resolutions" was printed In The Star
on Tuesday last.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Programs OF the Week

giammai m'amo." from verdi's Don
Done" "Sapro." MacGimsey's TO
MY Mother, Land Nv degradashun, :"
Poor Wayfaring Stranger" '.Heave
Away" Night Herding Song, "Se-
landadou," THE Blues Amt Nothin,"
Cape Cod Girls
Evening star., 1948-04-25
TUESDAY.
SOLDIERS

SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHoNEIIE,
The American Girl overture.
suppe's Jolly Fellows; Bennett's
from. Romberg's The Desert Song"
Pinkhard's Here Comes the Show
Boat" Youmans' "Halleluja,,",
Strauss. Strauss. poIss ESsss psrsa. From the South"
Hendrix Essers. conductor; MacRae
Gdtor,m G09dkt pianist os0lOist FSossyfls %ossEss
pss115l. psy1m5Rhons N9; ssi,n Lszt,s sorc.s Les
to No: o.. M. Cook; "se hero"
MeponsIaSssokovsfi MsP SlaT5sok famRRGny Rnaymba'" Mo"
WEDNESDAY.
WADE y, STEPHENS. orsan recital;
NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHORUS. r.
1or,sm snssrsd sso director ys., LisIfT A9si. .
dshfs the Apostles cTeed,'' shgres
Gross Of sorrow" shures THE
2ahts 8a s0f for7ess 7ea EreHsens Rrsss
and Alteration sersei's my God
and j." Davis God Be in NY
Head BoFtnianskys %Angel yoiGss
iuia," choraies from Bach's "Jssu
Music Of Life Younsdahl's "Jerusa-
hen heqd s0id Hand Hfyans pHns In aoSss My sneP go
to Dark Gethsemane, Dickinson's
The Lords Prayer"
THURSDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME SYMPHONETTE,
gFsntn gFsns9 Ha ghs5'e1 sao pm '0nsHss1z sess1z
sinsf.s snnas "Amns sismese sas pfPsssRl Pssrol
selection from Rombergs MY Mary
Gadn. land" rletchers AT the Court Of
Stripes Forever."
AIR FORCE BAND CONCERT OR
c9ndyetSr setSr,t High sshoS, osare Choir
mentai Mnai anditorium. sHsnii 'its ESQ pm ne''
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET, LII
sr,ry n5n Of os Congress- 21s, $40 Pm. Pm
'.Andante. scherzo, op. 81. Nos: l,
Major, Op. 1870"
FRIDAY.
sass5, zin5,r: AS55s. = s.FsS. s.sSs
stitution Hall, $50 pm: Losey,s
ing, Noon and Night in Vienna"
sffss 5usHl.f lEflsas Mieh.si sentl Ss sisn
from Msssenet's Thais." Richard
Brewer. vieliniss; ana Linesss "siamsse 1
pronstu 1snn cfSRans Robsrs Hfsa hsas'sS Si.nlss
.Malseuena," from Leeuona's suite
Espagnole"; Halrs THE New Colo
NAL first oUe mooemens .nnS NaEdinps s,s,p
berg. violinist; Morrissey's Mar
1 ssTsass, HORN TIs een.erso;" s Pss.r y.s
Alien p.ne. horn Of ~: soes. ss. SaSsT 9se
movement Beethoven's Concerto, c
Minor" Patricia Grimm, pianist;
sossoS sons Of 19s hoss saUsa dson
Fencibles."
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET, Ii
brary of Congress, $50 pm. Re-
peating Thursdays program.
MARY CARDWELL DAWSON, soprano,
song recital; Metropolitan A. M. :.
Gmpid GGhaDfh' sao sprnrs. Rm from Handefs
New-Blown Rose from Handers
Joseph; Gries's 'Ich Liebe Dicn,'
Schumann's Die Lotosblume," Coe-
mems ''Fruehlingslied," ocean.
Thou Mighty Monster" from Web
er's "Oberon''; Spross' Let All MY
Life Be Music" Kramer's THE Last
Hour" Liszt -Schipa "Lierestraum. ;"
Schubert's .'Serenade," Dear.
Love You &c." arr. -Nickerson; Were
You Theref arr. King; Prices my
Souls Been Anchored in the Lord" :"
Lawrence's "Let Us Break Bread To-
Eether"
SATURDAY.
WADE n. STEPHENS, organ recital:
l. D. 3. Chapel. Pm.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

The newly organized Capital City
Post Card Collectors Club will meet
at the Thomson School, Twelfth
and L streets NV, tomorrow eve
ming at 7:30. Leslie L. Newsom has
been elected president, John B.
Barker first vice president, May
Murray second vice president. Mrs.
Anna s. Sirola treasurer and Ted
Sehad publicity chairman. Readers
Evening star., 1948-04-25

Specialists in the stamps and
covers OF Austria are invited to af-
filiate with the newly organized
Austria Philatelic Society OF which
Joseph F. Bush. 81 West 74th street.
New York %, N. Y, is secretary.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

WARREN 2. JOHNSON, oRGAklsT
CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS
22d & SITS. NV. 1880 o'clock
"Fugue ALA Handel Guilmant
"Intermezzo' Marcel Lanauetuit
Evening star., 1948-04-25

Uyeno's Stomp Shop
9e6 Penn. Ave. NV. Tel. MI. 9o1l
MADISON STAMP SHOP
1888 Eye st. Medical Center) NV.
Stamps and Coins Bought and Sold
n 2FTR0I1TSA
Evening star., 1948-04-25

ICA GLEE CLUES, Dr. Leo a. Ben
rendt, director: University Gymna-
SUM, sac pm. Franck's Psalm
$50" Browns The Clown and the
Lady DOLL" Rasbachs Trees.
Mems Glee Club Martini Behrerdt
"Plaisir d'kmour" Women's Glse
Club: "Old King Cole. .">"Deep IN My
Heart" "Czechoslovakian Dance
SONG" Gains THE Siesta." Men
Glee Club: Bsch's "Jcsu. 10" OF
Mans Desiring; Bohemian march
Okla: wilson's "Carmena," "oh. No,
John" combined clubs.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

The Newcomb Club Of Bethesda
presented the Newcomb Bethesda
Community Singers, Ruth L. Nor
gan, director. in a program at the
residence of Mrs. William S. Corby
last Sunday. The group was as
sisted by Edith B. Athey, organlst,
and George A. Myers, tenor.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

Since 1s47 stamps Of Austria, Ice
land, Turkey, Persia. Bulgaria and
Liechtenstein have been manufac-
tured in Vienna. The new Gandhi
commemorative of India also are
being produced there.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

The Soldiers Home Symphonette
will conclude its winter series OF
indoor concerts Thursday at $50
o'clock. The Military Band will be-
gin its programs Tuesday night.
May Is,
Evening star., 1948-04-25
STAMPS AND COINS.

a.ls "A SiIvsr pe1Sht md III.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
K. F. EDLER-STAMPS

I3TT 3 st. N.W.-SotuFdoys VhY
COINS, American and foreign gold silver
antiques, cameras, highest price, paid
Hepnsr, 402 18th st. nv. DI. 1868.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10
Navy Discloses
Sea-Coing
Rocket Lab

Washington, Oct. 9 (AP)-The
Navy disclosed today it has a
sea-going rocket laboratory from
which 14-ton W. missiles can be
sent aloft.
The vessel, the converted sea-
plane tender Norton Sound, left
Norfolk, Va, yesterday bound for
a Pacific test range.
Her basic mission" the Navy
said, will be to widen the no.
rizon of upper atmosphere re-
search through rocket firing ex-
periments far out It sea in safe,
isolated areas at various lati-
tudes, extending from the equa-
tor to the polar regions that are
not feasible for land test"
The Norton Sound is the first
Navy ship specifically equipped
for the main purpose of firing
big rockets. Besides handling the
German W., she can fire the
aerobee, an experimental Amer
lean rocket for high altitude re-
search, and launch balloons for
upper atmosphere cosmic ray re-
search.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10

Charlotte. Oct. 9 (AP)-
Three main industries In the
carolinas and adjacent areas
cotton textiles. lumber and
hosiery-have shifted from
a sellers market to a buy
er's market. the Fifth Dis
trict Federal Reserve Bank
reported today.
The bank. in a review of
business conditions in tho
area it serves. added that
there is not likely to be a
serious Unemployment prob
lem in these industries in
the next six months or 80.
But moderate cutbacks in
working time are likely. in
fact. they are already op-
erafive."
The district includes North
Carolina. South Carolina. the
District of Columbia. Mary
land. Virginia and West Vir-
ginia.
Although there have been
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10
Trulnan's Raleigh
Schedule Is Set

Raleigh, N. c., Oct. 9 (AP)-
President Truman's tentative
schedule for his October 10 visit
here was announced today by
Willis Smith.
Smith, who is chairman Of the
State Commission for a Memorial
to three North Carolina Presi-
dents, said the President is
scheduled to arrive at the RAJ
leigh Durham Airport at $50 !.
M, from Miami.
He will be escorted iYnme-
diately to Raleigh where ha
will lead a parade up Fayetta-
vile street to the Capitol.
The exercises for the unveil-
ing of the monument to The
three men North Carolina claims
as native sons - Andrew Jack
son, Andrew johnson and Jam1s
X. Polk - are scheduled to ~
gin at II a. m. President TN.
man will make the dsdicaSory
address.
The Presidents party WIN A.
luncheon guests Of Gcvsxll
and Mrs. Chsrry and 1t 9ao u
m, will leave for the statn fS1
grounds, where Mr.. Tturn
make an address q ~
opening. 's y '3'|s.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10
Truman Cancels Plan To Send Special Envoy To Moscow Talks
Churchill Says Berlin Crisis Gould
Cause 'Hideous World Struggle and
Urqes Showdown With Soviet Union

ION line Gin Poland) as was a.
greed upon in the days when we
were fighting as comrades to-
gether.
"Let them set free the mil
lion or more German and jap
anese prisoners they now hold
as slaves. Let them cease to
Cypress, torment and exploit the
immense parts Of Germany
and Austria which are now in
their hands. Xxx.
"Above all, let them throw o.
pen their vast regions on equal
terms to the ordinary travel and
traffic of mankind. Let them
give others the chance to br-
eathe freely and let them br-
eathe freely themselves"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-10
Local Man and His Son Beat High
Construction Costs by Making Own
Blocks and Building Six-Room House

arthritis that he could not work
properly and came to Roanoke
Rapids for treatment by local
physician. He said he bought
three lots just off Tenth street
extension outside tn city limits
and decided to buy a second
hand trailer in which to live. For
the past three and a half years
he has been making his home
in the trailer and raising a gar
den on the rest of his land. He
said ne made about 500 last
year selling vegetables in town
from his garden.
He has eight children, mostly
scattered all over North Caro-
lima and Virginia now, and a
number of grandchildren.
His son Maryland Herbert Gay
works as a loom fixer at Pat
terson Mill and Mayland's wife,
Mollie, is also employed by the
mill.
Gay said about two years ago
he and his son got in, rested in
building a house and found that
contractors prices were a little
out of reach. Armed with a set
of $40 mail order plans and a
hand-operated cement block ma
chine, the two men set out to
build a six-room house on Gays
lot.
Never had made a block in
my life, but I learned how to do
it," he said. For nearly year
father and son turned out blocks
to build the house and then start
ed the construction. They put
down firm foundation and start
ed to get a pretty straight line"
as straight as could be.
"We usd a spirit level and a
tight piece Of string and manag-
ed to get pretty straight ine,"
he explained.
Except for the electrical
work, which was contracted, in
terror plastering, and some out
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