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Evening star., 1948-10-04
Park View Church Acts
To Change Its Name

The membership OF the Park View
Christian Church yesterday took
action to change its name to the
Shepherd Park Christian Church.
AS soon as legal proceedings can be
completed the name will be changed
ofncially. The Rev. DR.. George M.
Anderson is pastor.
The church will observe its rally
day exercises with q Homecoming
Sunday. There will be a basket
dinner after the morning service.
Alex M. Campbell, Assistant Attor-
ney General in charge of the Grim
inal Division, Justice Department,
will speak at an afternoon program.
This rally is one of series leading
to celebration of the church's golden
anniversary In 1949.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Filling Station Wreck
Probed for Cause Of
Shattering Blast

The shattered remains of a fill
ing station at 4521 Fourteenth
street NV. was searched today for
the cause of an explosion which
shook the neighborhood yesterday
morning.
Two attendants who had opened
the one-story brick station were
walking away from the building
when it exploded, bringing down
the roof and two walls and knock
ing out windows in nearby houses.
The blast, at about 8:45 am,
aroused the entire neighborhood
from its usual Sunday calm. -Four
fire engine companies rushed to the
scene to quell a fire in the wreck
age. Fire Chief Clement Murphy
and a fire rescue squad also re-
sponded.
Attendant Knocked Down.
One of the attendants, Charles
Baines. 10, of l415 Webster street
NV, had walked about so feet from
the station, bent on getting coffee
before starting the days work. The
other man, Omey Williams, %, of
26l5 N. Capitol street, had gone
outside for drink of water from
tap on the building.
Mr.. Williams said the conclusion
knocked him several feet and of
his feet. Finding himself unhurt,
he got up and ran. Also uninjured,
Mr.. Baines ran to another filling
station and telephoned the fire
department.
Across the street at 45l4 Four
teenth street NV, Mrs. Bailey Shu-
mate was sitting at bay window
facing the street. The blast knocked
out the window, but the pieces fell
outside. Three other windows in
the house were shattered. In the
Anthony Todaro house at 4516 Four
teenth street, three windows were
broken.
Owner Visits Scene.
The owner of the station, Mike
Dottellis, visited the scene with in
spectors today in an effort to es-
tablish cause of the blast Capt.
Roy Warfield, acting fire marshal,
said there was yet no evidence, as
first reported, that a faulty air COM
pressor was to blame. The blast
may have originated in the COM
pressor room, but the compressor
tank was intact and only the pres
sure gauge damaged, he said.
The north and south walls of the
Sinclair station were caved in, but
the front Of the building, as we'll as
the gasoline pumps, were intact.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Plane Tai|spin1s,
kills Two Men
Near rLeesburq
Manager Of Airport
And Passenger Die;
Investigation Begun
spee;oI Djsoo,eh IA The s,or

LEESBURG. Va, Oct. 4.-The
manager of the Leesburg Airport
and a man from Hamilton, who was
a passenger in his plane were killed
yesterday when the small craft
crashed in a field just off Route 7
about a mile east of here.
George Sickle, "a, the, airport
manager, and James Talton, l9, were
the only occupants of the PT-26
piloted by Mr.. Sickle. The plane
went into a tailspin and crashed
about Is minutes after taking of
from the airport at las pm. Both
men apparently were killed instantly.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
assigned an investigator to the case.
Brother and Cousin on Ground.
1t was believed the men were
taking only short flight because
Mr.. Talton, son of Mrs. and Mrs.
c. W. Talton. was en- route to visit
friend in Aldie. He was accom-
panied to the airport by a younger
brother, Clayton, and a cousin, Les
ter Rawley of Lovettsville, vino
waited on the ground when the
plane took of.
Mr.. Sickle, a former resident of
Buffalo, had lived in Mount Rainier,
Nd, from 1916, when he was dis
charged from the Army, until about
months ago when he became
manager of the airport here. He took
flight instruction under the G. I.
Bill of Rights at the Congressional
Airport.
During World War II. Mr.. Sickle
participated in the Aleutians Islands
campaign.
Leaves Wife and Baby.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ruth Pfeiffer Sickle, and a 51a-
month-old son, Lawrence George,
who were visiting in Buffalo; his
mother and father, Mr.. and Mrs.
Laverne E. Sickle, 27O0 Allison
street, Mount Rainier, and a sister
Mrs. Jean Pawlik, also of Mount
Rainier.
Mr.. Talton, a native of Hamilton,
was truck driver for the Hamilton
Milling Co. He also is survived by
three other brothers, Charles,
George and Albert.
Funeral services for Mr.. Talton
will be held at pm. tomorrow
at the Harmony Methodist Church
Hamilton. Burial will be in the Lake
View Cemetery there. The Rev
G. C. Bentley will officiate.
Arrangements for Mr.. Stickle's S
funeral had not been completed.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
4 More Stricken by Polio
In Nearby Counties

The Health Department today re-
ported four new cases of infantile
paralysis, all from nearby areas.
This brings the total for polio
cases this year to 1875 in the Wash
ington area. SO out-of town and SO
District residents. One District VIC
tim and five from nearby areas have
died.
The latest cases are 31-year-old
man from Annandale. Va, and q
17-year-old colored girl of Prince
Georges County, Md, both in Gal
linger Hospital; a 9-year-old boy
of the 5000 block of Fifty-sixth ave-
nuessHyattsville, Md. and a 6-year-
old girl of Forest Heights, Prince
Georges County, both in Children's
Hospital.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
CAA Revdmped,
Top Jobs Cut in
Efficiency Move
Rented Declares Pldn
Will Save Funds, End
Duplication in Work

A reorganization of the Civil
AeronauticS Administration to
provide more economy and efflci-
ency was announced today by
Administrator D. w. Rented.
Under the reorganization plan,
a number of jobs in the top bracket
of the CAA will be eliminated, Mr..
Rentzell said. The administration
now has approximately 1900 en-
ployes, 1900 of whom are in the
District, but Mr.. Rentzell was not
prepared to say how many of these
jobs would be abolished.
The primary purpose of the re-
organization, he said, is to increase
efficiency of the administration. to
eliminate duplication and overlap
ping of activities and to provide
economies.
The principal jobs to be abolished
are in the Offices of deputy admin
istrators. Two deputy administra-
tors will be dropped, while the third
Frederick B. Lee, will remain as the
oihy dSPdCy dA441144AotA avn.
Burgess To Be Reassigned.
The position held by Charles I
Stanton, a deputy now on leave and
working for the Brazilian Govern
ment, will be abolished, rs will the
ONCE held by George Burgess, also
. deputy. Mr.. Burgess will be re-
assigned to economic problems in
Mr.. Rentzeu's office.
The ONCE of Field Operations
which has served as the Washington
representative of the nine regional
Offices into which the country is
divided, also will be abolished under
the reorganization move.
After the changes become effec-
tive November l, the regional Offices
will report directly to the admins.
traitor.
The revision also calls for five
assistants to the Administrator to
be reassigned. while two jobs OF
assistant to the administrator viii
be abolished One of these jobs has
had to do with statistical research
while the other has been to work
with the military government In
Germany.
New Office to Be Set Up.
Mr.. Rentzell was not prepared t.
give a dollar-and-cents figure ir
the savings to be effected through
the reduction in personnel ant
changes in positions.
At the same time, he announced
that new ofice, Program Planning
and Evaluation, would be set ur
here to meet the need for a rela.
lively small, but highly specialized
group to deal with planning the
CAA programs.
The activities of a number OF
Offices, both here and in the various
regions. viii be transferred to this
new Office.
"All of these changes, I am sure
will best enable the CAA to perform
the tasks assigned to 1t by Con-
gress," Mr.. Rentzell said. THE pur-
pose Of the CAA is to promote and
develop civil aviation, and this re-
vised setup was developed with that
In mind"
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Puerto Ricon Alumni
Give 81. 900 to G. w.

A good neighbor" gift of $1,000
from Puerto Rican graduates OF
George Washington University will
be presented to the university
school of medicine endowment fund
tomorrow.
DR.. Ricardo F. Fernandez of San
Juan. will present the money from
the George Washington University
Club of Puerto Rico to DR.. Walter
A. Bloedorn. dean of the school OF
medicine. DR.. Fernandez was grad
uated from the university medical
school in 1881. He and his brother,
DR.. Luis Fernandez, are recognized
as leading ophthalmologists in
Puerto Rico.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Tobin Cites Job Study
As Campaign Opens
To Employ Disabled

The recent Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics study on the work per-
formance of handicapped employees
has met with an interest that is
encouraging to those endeavoring to
get industry to tap this source of
labor, Secretary of Labor Tobin said
today at the Kickoff" luncheon of
National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week at the Hotel
Mayf1ower.
The study showed that the handi-
capped workers were more careful
and suffered fewer accidents, and
that their average absenteeism was
only slightly above that of the un-
impaired worker.
Presidential proclamation has
made this employ the handicapped
week, and the luncheon was at
tended by many members of the
Presidents committee for the week.
Mr.. Tobin brought message from
the President saying that he was
very interested in the work those in
attendance were doing and that only
the press of public affairs kept him
from attending.
Handicapped Lobbyist Speaks.
ut is my earnest hope" said the
Secretary of Labor, that the day is
close by when every man and woman
can be judged upon proven abilities
when seeking job. Those who dis
criminate against disabled veteran
or handicapped civilian either In
Ignorance or by design are out of
step with progress and with justice
not charity, ability, not disability
shall be the passwords to economic
security for the handicapped"
Paul Strachan, labor lobbyist left
handicapped in vision, voice and
physical operation of the heart
through amoebic dysentery, who
helped push through Public Law
l76 directing the President to cal
for observation of employe the
handicapped week annually BY
proclamation, declared:
mo longer than seven years age
American industry generally tool
the stand that the Handicapped
were undesirable as employees be.
cause of their disabilities. The wal
changed that viewpoint under the
lash Of manpower necessity and 9
million and a half handicapped
themselves given that long aspired
for opportunity rose magnificently
to the challenge and wrote a new
page in production miracles In
thousands Of plants across the coun-
try"
Civilian Amputees Cited.
Harold Russell, the handles vet
eran who starred in The Best
Years of Our Lives" talked to the
press briefly in a conference before
the luncheon.
During the war years." he said
there were 1900 amputations OF
service personnel. During the same
years there were 10000 amputations
OF civilians in the United States
The veteran amputee Is pretty well
taken care of. He wants to call at
tention to the 10 civilian amputees
for every veteran"
He spoke about a friend OF his
former Engineer 1t. Alexander
Hale. who lost both eyes and both
hands with the exception of one
finger in a bomb explosion. Mr.
Hale, he said, is writing the mos,
brilliant papers in his law class al
Boston University and there are
those who believe he will become
one of Boston's great lawyers.
Its matter of giving the handi-
capped training" was his conclu.
sion.
Mr.. Russell was brought here fol-
the luncheon by Jack j. Blank
president of the Federation of Busi-
neSSmen's Associations
Evening star., 1948-10-04

were also announced by Mr.. Myers.
They include:
Elihu S. Estes, administrative
specialist with the Army Air Forces
during World War II, to be office
manager, in charge of dormitary
services; Leonard D. Burns, former
ly with Brookings Institution, to be
assistant business secretary; Frank
McCaleb, Army athletic instructor
during World War II, to be assist
ant physical instructor. and Alan c.
Smith, formerly with the Army Air
Forces to be program secretary.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
1876 D. G. Documents Sold

A total of 1876 District documents
was purchased by the public from
the Division of Printing and Publi-
cations during the last fiscal year,
according to the annual report Of
the division, made public yesterday.
Most popular items we're the gas
fitting code, building code, plumbing
code and zoning regulations.
Evening star., 1948-10-04

without question that this charity
work would be paid by philanthropy
from the community and extra
charges to those who could pay for
hospital care.
For many years, when measures
to curb contagion were unknown,
the stigma of deathhouse hung
over such hospitals. Hospital care
was largely custodial. Young wives
chose to have babies in their own
bedrooms at home and many q
kitchen table served as a hastily
equipped operating table.
Public Gained Confidence.
But through the years modern
nursing revolutionized the care of
patients. Medical treatment became
so complex that care could no longer
be given in homes. Gradually the
public gained confidence in hos
pitals Meanwhile, Government
hospitals had been built to care
for indigents who met residence and
very low income standards.
In the depression of the 1930s
hospitals felt economic pinches
along with the rest of the Nation.
While taxes sharply cut the large
endoWments and contributions on
which hospitals always had de-
pended, improved methods of treat
ment were pushing costs higher
During the 10-year period that
ended in 1947 the number of people
who entered hospitals annually ac-
tually doubled.
Combined, these factors ushered
in the new era of financing that
hospitals are trying to- fight their
way through. Hospital leaders were
thrown face to face, rather sud-
denly, with the problems of big
business. 1t was q role for which
they were not wholly prepared.
Discussions at the American Hos
pital Association convention at At
lantic City recently pointed up the
need for better administration and
at least partial revision of rate
policies. Walter D. Fuller. presi-
dent of the Curtis Publishing Co.,
told hundreds of hospital admins
traitors that many of your present
problems can be solved by good Or
ganization and sound business prac-
tices."
Prepayment Plans Help.
The real challenge facing volun-
tary hospitals, authorities agree, is
the existence Of the charity philos-
ophy that separates voluntary in
stitutions from profit hospitals
where little or no charity work is
done.
Medical prepayment plans have
given both patients and hospitals a
new and easy way of meeting costs,
but they must be greatly expanded
Charity wards, meanwhile, continue
to represent q great many hospital
beds which are not being adequately
paid for.
Through Government acceptance
of responsibility for indigents, VOL
untary hospitals believe they should
be reimbursed for treating indigents
not cared for in Government hos
pitals How far this Government aid
should 60 and how far the COM
munity should support charity are
the Unanswered questions.
Wide differences of opinion in the
hospital field and the absence of
anything approaching a panacea for
these problems spurred the Ameri-
can Hospital Association to approve
two-year $500, 900 study of the en-
tire financial structure of voluntary
hospitals, its shortcomings and its
future needs.
Some hospitals. through commu-
nifty action, already are attacking
the problem themselves. Among ma
tional authorities Washington has
the reputation for tagging far be-
hind.
Tomorrow: Why are so many
voluntary hospitals unable to
meet their costs of operation?J
Evening star., 1948-10-04
PrinceGeorges
bares Teen.Aqe
Tavern Tipping
Warrants Issued;
Clubs Investigated
As Mother Complains

Teen-agers' admissions that they
have been buying liquor and beer
at Prince Georges County taverns
set off an investigation which led to
the arrest of two club operators and
two mattresses during the week end.
County probation authorities said
they would conduct a full-scale in
vestigation Of all public bars in
Prince Georges.
The first tavern operator charged
was Connie B. Gay, hillbilly band
leader and president of a corpora
ton which operates the Club Hill
billy, Seat Pleasant. He posted
$500 bond for appearance in court
Friday to face charges of selling
intoxicants to a minor. Gay is the
only one of the four who had been
booked by police but the other three
have been served with warrants.
Mother Complains.
Roy D Bright, county parole
and probation officer. said the CAM
paign against juvenile drinkers was
touched off by the complaint of q
Prince Georges County mother, who
said her Is and 14-year old daugh-
tiers came home drunk a number
OF times lately. The mother asked
the court to deal with the "incor-
rigible" girls. Their case still Is
pending.
Mr.. Bright said the girls admitted
when he questioned them, that they
had been served whisky or beer in
nearly a dozen county establish
ments. They said no one ever had
asked their ages when they ordered
drinks.
The probation agent said he con-
ferred with county police officials
on launching the campaign against
juvenile drinking. A rookie police
man, Pvt. Donald Forsht, 81. was
assigned to accompany Mr.. Bright
on an inspection tour of taverns
over the week end.
The Club Hillbilly was one Of
three places canvassed Saturday
night. Mr.. Bright said they found
boy who admitted he was only
II drinking alcoholic beverages at
the Club Hillbilly. In addition to
Mr.. Gay, a waitress, Mrs. Anna
Varnell of Seat Pleasant, also was
charged with selling intoxicants to
minor.
Recent Management Change.
Gays corporation recently took
over the Club Hillbilly, formerly
known as the Dixie Tavern. The
corporation was warned by the
County Board of License Commits
sioners at the time it assumed the
beer and liquor license that there
had been complaints of sales to
minors under the previous owner
ship. The commissioners warned
that if this practice continued under
the new management they might re-
woke the license.
At the Campus Club, Hillside,
which also was visited Saturday
night. Mr. Bright said a 16-year-old
girl was found drinking beer. The
probation officer said she told him
no one had asked her age. The
operator and a waitress at the
Campus Club were ordered to ap-
pear in court Friday to face charges
Of selling intoxicants to a minor.
Mr.. Bright said. Warrants were
served but they have not been
booked by police.
I'VE intend to crack down on every
one who is selling liquor to juve-
miles," Mr.. Bright declared. He
said that while he believed such
sales were made only in about 10
per cent of the county's establish
ments, every place in Prince Georges
would be checked during the CAM
paign
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Bethesda ofC. to Meet
With Silver Spring Group

The Bethesda Chamber OF Com
merce and the Silver Spring Board
of Trade will hold joint dinner
meeting at 7 o'clock tonight at the
Bethesda Country Club.
This will be the first time the two
groups have met together. The dele
CATION from Silver Spring will drive
to Bethesda in a motorcade, leaving
at s 80 pm. from the Board of Trade
once.
Evening star., 1948-10-04

dOAPAl LIZ N4y "a .,
executive secre-
tary. has an
nounced.
Mr.. B re W ,
W no W a S a
squadron boat
group command
er in the Navy
during w orl d
War II, trained
for his n e W
duties at the
YMCA College
in Springfield.
9th er addi-
t ms to tn e
vh6r A Ct q ff
Evening star., 1948-10-04
EVANGELIST to Talk

The Washington Civitan Club,
meeting jointly with the Optimist
Club of Washington, will hear a
discussion of conditions in occupied
Germany by Robbie Robinson, evan.
gelist, at a luncheon at 1890 pm,
tomorrow at the Mayhower Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Blackstone College to Open

The 56th session at Blackstone
College for Girls, Blackstone, Va,
will open Thursday. The Rev. John
w. Rustin, pastor of the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church in
Washington, will be principal
speaker at the opening exercises.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
You and Your Hospitols
You and Your HospitoIs
High Hospital Costs a Crisis
I E:or Public and Its Institutions
first OF a Serfes.)
By GEORGE BeveFidoe

Of the Nations industries is having acute growing
pansand zabe part of the ache being passed to
industry the network of voluntary hospitals where
national figures indicate most likely if need
medical These institutions pay and operated
Evening star., 1948-10-04
YMCA Names Director
OF Membership Services

Philip w. Breux, of Springfield
Mass, has been appointed to direct
membership services for the Central
YMCA, 1885 G street NV, Ran
Evening star., 1948-10-04

From Associated Press Newsfeatures.
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Engagement
lis announced
at Tea Party

Col. and Mrs. E. Morgan Pryse
were hosts at a tea yesterday after
noon when they announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Gwenda Rollins Pryse, to 1t
Charles Gurley Williamson, jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Williamson of
Trenton and Owosso, Mich.
The announcement came as a
surprise to friends invited to the
party, each of whom was~given a
dyed egg from large Easter basket.
The surprise was discovered on a
scroll tucked into the shell of each
egg.
Miss Pryse is a graduate of Ma
deira School and will be graduated
in May from Vassar. She is a
descendent of the Lindsays of Scot
land and of William Bradford, Co.
lonial Governor of Massachusetts,.
1t. Williamson was graduated
from West Point in 1916 and at
present is on duty in Ibaraki, Japan.
He Is a grandson of the late DR.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Williamson of New
Brunswick, N j., and the diamond
ring which Miss Pryse is now wear
ing was made from one of his
grandmother's earrings.
Mrs. David st. Pierre Gaillard
Mrs. Douglas E. Bulloch, Mrs. Roger
Needham, Miss Ruth Williamson of
POcaSSett, Mass, and the Misses
Helen and Julia Williamson of New
Brunswick, assisted at the tea table
yesterday, and the bride-elect's
small cousin, Claudia Morgan Pryse,
dressed as an Easter bunny was the
dispenser Of the surprise laden eggs.
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Tea to Be Gipem
1t Forest Glen

Mrs. Raymond W. Bliss, wife
of the surgeon general of the Army,
will be an honor guest at tea which
the wives of the administrative staff
officers of the Forest Glen Section
of Walter Reed General Hospital
will give Wednesday from 3 until
o'clock for wives of the admin
istrative officers at the ARMY Med
ical Center.
The party will be given in the
Forest Glen quarters of Maj. Will
liam r. Finks. and other honor
guests will be Mrs. George c. Beach,
wife of the commanding general
of Walter Reed General Hospital
and the Army Medical Center; Mrs.
Rufus L. Holt, wife of the COM
mandant Of the Army Medical De-
partment Research and Graduate
School; Mrs. Clifford v. Morgan,
Evening star., 1948-03-28

wife of the deputy commander OF
the Army Medical Center, and Mrs
John B. Coates, wife of the execu-
tive officer of Walter Reed General
Hospital.
Co-hostesses will be Mrs. Leroy
o. Funck, Mrs. Maurice j. Fletcher,
Mrs. William r. Finks, Mrs. John C.
Powers, Mrs. Frank D. Thompson,
jr; Mrs. John Butchkosky and Mrs.
James w. Gordon.
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Will We'd in lime

The engagement of Miss Betty E
Bainbridge to Mr.. William Marx
Hummer is announced by Miss Balm
bridges parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Elwood R. Bainbridge of Kilmarock
Md. Mr.. Hummer is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. j. Henry Hummer OF
Washington.
The wedding will take place in
June
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Luncheon Hostess

Mrs. Thomas j. Burke entertained
at luncheon yesterday at the Shore
ham Hotel in honor Of her daughter,
Miss Marion Burke, who is home
from Virginia Intermont College
for the Easter holidays. The guests
were friends of the hostess daugh-
tar
Evening star., 1948-03-28
EestipaL Dates

"A Spanish American festival with
tSmantic music and songs with
topical champagne will be given
4pril 4 from to 0 o'clock at the
Ebbitt Hotel, and another festival
aiso is being planned for the 18th
O. April by the Pro-Americas
Society.