Evening star., 1948-06-10
Special UCS Group
Meets Today on Chest
Support for Agencies

The nrst meeting OF lT-mempeI
committee to study agencies desiring
Community Chest Federation sup
port through United Community
Services of Washington for the
coming year will be held at pm.
today at 1101 M street NV.
Frederick M. Bradley, Washington
attorney, heads the committee
whose appointment was announced
yesterday by William J. McManus
chairman OF the interim committee
establishing the UCS to replace the
Washington Community Chest and
Council of Social Agencies.
Mr.. McManus said one OF the
most important and immediate
tasks of the UCS Board Of Trustees
will be to select the Washington
agencies to receive Chest support
next year, and the selection must
be made before plans for the fed
eration's fall campaign are com.
pleted, probably by the middle OF
July.
"The interim committee realizes
that the UCS Board Of Trustees, be-
fore reaching a final decision, will
need to nave complete information
about each agency applying for
Chest support" he said. With this
in mind, we have formed the Chest
Agency Research Committee-a rep
resentative group of men and won1-
en- interested in all phases of health
and welfare needs Of Washington
to undertake q careful review OF
these agencies and report to UCS.
To Report Findings.
Mr.. McManus said the committee
is not intended to determine which
agencies are to receive Chest sup.
port, but to report its findings to
the 2O0-member UCS board of trus-
tees as the basis for its fnal de-
cision.
The interim committee chairman
said Mr.. Bradleys committee will
seek comments and opinions from
the general public and from particu-
lar groups, including contributors
to and solicitors for the federation
campaign.
Such information will be ana
lyzed along with an intimate study
Of each agencys work. financial
practices, efficiency of operation and
urgency of need in the total COM
munity program of health, welfare
and recreation" he explained.
The Research Committee MEM
bers, besides Mr.. Bradley, are:
Bruce Baird, president of the Ma
tional Savings & Trust Co. and
chairman of the Welfare Committee
of the Board Of Trade; David Babp
secretary of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations; E. Cleveland
Giddings. first vice president OF the
Capital Transit Co.; Milton Kron-
helm, business area chairman Of
the Chest federation campaign.
Other Committee Members.
Also Letter Magnusson, retired
assistant director of manpower
studies, Army Industrial College;
Francis H. McGuigan, business agent
of Retail Clerks Local 639-A, AFL:
George E. Muth, president of the
Rotary Club and Boys Club OF
Washington; Mrs. Edna West Pay
ton, principal of Francis Junior
High School and corresponding sec
retary of the Federation OF Civic
Associations, and Mrs. Mary H:
Plummer, retired colored educator.
Also F. Elton Rogers, vice presi-
dent of Thompson's Dairy and
former Washington Chest Budget
Committee chairman; Edward E
Schwartz, director OF statistical re-
search, United States Children's
Bureau: G. Howland Shaw, presi-
dent of the Bureau of Rehabilita-
ton: Hugh Stewart Smith, prin-
cipal OF Jefferson Junior High
School; Mrs. de Forest van Slyck,
former executive of the Association
Of Junior Leagues Of America, and
Theodore Wiprud, executive secre-
tary of the District Medical Society.
A representative from the Fedora
ton OF Businessmen's Associations
will be named.