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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-30
GAITHERSBURG
Call Mrs. James Schroeder
Gaithersburg NE

Gaithersburg has suffered a
great loss in the death in one of
its foremost citizens, DR.. Bates
Etchison. Rich and poor alike in
this and surrounding communities
join in offering sympathy to his
widow.
Elsewhere in the paper you will
find an account of the collection
the Wildwood Christian Center is
making for the destitute of Bridge
water, Va, where the recent flash
flood left whole towns homeless.
So great is their need that a truck
will make trip there on July 18th
with donations from this town and
Rockville. Mrs. William McBain
hopes that anyone who has any
thing, clothes, money, medicine,
food, furniture, etc., will phone
her and she will make arrange
ments with the donor to have the
articles taken to the proper place.
Mrs. Paul Bissett of Crestview is
the chairman of the Wildwood
Center's committee for collections,
and hopesSthat Gaithersburg, in
it's usual generous and sympathetic
manner, will respond to this urgent
call for help among the destitute
of our own United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor
and family of Latta, S. c., spent
week recently with County Agent
and Mrs. o. w. Anderson. The past
week, Mr.. and Mrs. Olin Anderson
and family of PeeDee, N. c., were
the house guests of the Andersons.
Fourteen of the local Boy Scouts
left on Monday morning for Camp
Roosevelt on the Chesapeake Bay
for vacation. Robert Wilson will
attend as counsellor for the boys.
Mrs. Paul Bissett was the Sun
day guest of Mrs. William McBain.
Mrs. Ernest Beale, Mrs. Howard
Abel. Mrs. Clyde Andrews and
Mrs. Clarence Ayton head the
committee on arrangements for the
reception given on Wednesday for
the Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Ewell.
The Junior Class of the local
High School finally were able to
hold their class picnic at Glen Echo
on Tuesday evening. Due to the
heavy rains of the last few days
of school, the picnics planned were
all forced to be postponed.
The Gaithersburg P-TA enter
tanned the mothers who have
served as chairmen of the Lions
Club dinners during the past year,
at luncheon on Wednesday at the
Fairway on Middlebrook Hill.
Eighteen ladies were present. Mrs.
L. M. Griffith and Mrs. C. o.
Bordeaux were in charge of the
arrangements.
Mrs. Forest Walker left on Mon
day for Canton, Ohio, where she
will visit for several weeks with
DIR. and Mrs. w. S. Carnes.
Ted Noffsinger Of Jamestown
entertained a number Of his friends
on Saturday evening at his home.
Included among the guests were
Cecile King, Lanier Floyd, Kath-
leen Schroeder, Ivan Fitzwater,
Ann Winsor, Dick Tetlow, Peter
Beall, Patty Lynch, Billy Bogley,
Jennie Latonia, Edward Cochran,
Beetle Kelley, Thomas Kelly and
Gretchen Poffenburger.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-06-30

Entertaining Saturday night
were Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred w.
Dennis, 1910 Viers Mill Road.
Their guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Gabriel L. Burgee of Twin Brook,
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Magruder, and
Monty Bradshaw of Rockcrest.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Teachers 10 Hear Corning
Discuss Promotion Setup

School Supt. Robert M. Corn
ing will discuss the professional
requirements" which have been
set up for promotions in the
school system at meeting with
teachers at 3:45 pm. Monday at
Roosevelt High School.
The teachers are the IS men,
bers of the Salary Promotion
Criteria Committee, elected by
ballot two years ago. The COM
mittee drew up recommendations
for teachers promotion standards.
The committee has expressed
dissatisfaction with the standards
finally adopted by the Board of
Education on the recommendation
Of DR.. Corning on grounds that
the committees suggestions were
not followed. The present plan
makes it more difficult to show
professional growth" the COM
mittee said. ~
DR.. Corning said the program
which he submitted to the school
board, and which it adopted. is
"basically in line" with that sug-
gested by the teachers. The pur-
pose Of the meeting is to discuss
the whole matter with the teach
ers. he added.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Arbitration Meetinqs
On Capital Transit
Wage Open Today

The five-member board arbi-
trating the wage dispute In the
Capital Transit Co. began exec
utive meetings today to arrive at
their decision.
The board is expected to re-
port next week.
It includes three impartial men,
bers: Alfred A. Colby, Washing
ton attorney. chairman; Charles
A. Horsky, also a Washington at
torney, and Professor Harry Shul-
man Of Yale, and two partisan
members: John F. Curtin of the
Philadelphia labor relations firm
of Simpson & Curtin, acting for
the company. and o. David Zim-
ring of the Labor Bureau Of the
Middle West, for the union en-
ployes.
An award may be made by any
three Of the five members.
The union is asking a wage in
crease Of Is cents an hour and
other benefits, which the company
estimates would amount to an
other 161a cents an hour in wages.
A 25-cent wage increase would
put the top rate for operators at
$1.70 an hour. The company es-
Inmates the total cost Of the union
demands at $4,500,000.
The company, on the other
hand, is asking for contract
changes that would bring a saw
lngs of $500, 900 a year.
AS the arbitration boards ex-
ecutive meeting opened, it was
announced the board will work
tomorrow and Sunday If neces-
sary.
I'VE. will continue without in
5erruptions until we have reached
decisions on all issues involved" I"
Mr.. Colby said. There will be
no tag ends or leftovers."
The board held hearings on IA
days beginning October 20.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Richard Posey Dies;
Retired VA Consultant

Richard Berry Posey, rs. an in
surance consultant for the Vet
erans' Administration for %
years, died yesterday at Sibley
Memorial Hospital. after several
weeks illness.
Mr.. Posey. who lived at the
Broadmoor Apartments, 1901 Con-
necticut avenue NV, was a grad
uate of Georgetown Law School,
He became an insurance consult
ant in 1918 with the old War Risk
Insurance Bureau, which subse-
quently became part of the old
Veterans Bureau and the pres
ent Veterans Administration. He
retired in 1916.
A member of an old Southern
Maryland family, he was born
near Doncaster. Nd, in Charles
County, on his paternal grand
fathers estate, Moore's Re-
gained.
Mr.. Posey was member of the
District and Indianapolis bars
and was admitted to practice be-
fore the Supreme Court. He was
an Episcopalian and a Mason.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs
Merle Ashby ,Posey: a daughter
Mrs. Mary Posey Curren, wife o1
Comdr. Howard F. Curren. U. s.
N, of Philadelphia, and one
grandchild.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow in the Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be In
Edinburg, Md.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Groundbreaking ceremonies for

Groundbreaking ceremonies for
the new amphitheater to be con-
structed in Rock Creek Park for
the Sesquicentennial celebration
will be held at 10:30 am. tomor-
row with Interior Secretary Chap
man as principal speaker.
The proposed amphitheater will
be located in that section of the
park west of Sixteenth street and
of Morrow drive NV, which cuts
into the park near the intersection
of Sixteenth and Kennedy streets
NV.
The role the amphitheater will
play in the sesquicentennial will
be discussed at 7 o'clock tonight
on the Stars Television Station,
WMAL-TV,
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Miss Costello S Death
.-
Still Probed Here

The body of Miss Jean Costello,
21-year- old Washington girl who
died in a Boston hospital Tuesday
night, was en- route to her Kansas
home today while medical au-
thorities still traced the cause of
her death.
An autopsy on the body Of the
pretty airline reservationist dis
closed she had died OF "septi-
cemia (blood poisoning) due to
perforation of a pregnant uterus
Boston police said the girl had
been four months pregnant.
She was rushed to Boston's
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital IN
special Capital Airlines plane last
Saturday from George Washing
ton University Hospital because o1
availability of an artificial kidney
at the Boston hospital.
Medical Examiner DR.. William
]. Brickley in Boston is continuing
microscopic examination OF the
girls internal organs, 1t was saie
in Boston today.
Meanwhile, in Washington
homicide squad detectives were
continuing their investigation or
Boston police and medical beliefs
that Miss Costello had an abortion
Before she was taken to the hos
pital here she denied she hae
undergone such an operation.
Funeral services will be held II
her home town, Harrington. Kans.
at 8 am. tomorrow. Burial alst
will be there.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Map shows location of proposed amphheater with the
marking the spot where the ground ceremonies Will
be held Star Staff Artists Map.

Robert E. Fowler, director OF
public relations for the National
Capital Sesquicentennial Commis-
sion, will appear on the television
program with Bryson Rash Of
WMAL. Sketches of the amphi-
theater and a map showing its
location will be a feature OF the
program.
Edward Boykin. commission di-
rector, will speak at AIS pm.
Sunday on Radio Station WASH
FM. He will discuss plans for the
Freedom Fair to be held next year
in the area near the Armory. Mr..
Boykin will give a general outline
Of the site and the whole program
that has been prepared.
Evening star., 1949-12-16

must be cleaned at night and.
again, when employees begin bot
tling the next day.
Many of the same safeguards
are enforced at ice cream fac
tories. While many complaints
about bad ice cream are received,
about 80 per cent. of them are
baseless, officials said. Occasion
ally retailers will permit foreign
materials to get into the food
while packing ice cream. he added,
but this is beyond control of the
manufacturers.
The bureau also supervises rabid
animal inspections. and for the
last several years, veterinarians of
the bureau have inocculated
nearly $4,000 dogs annually
against rabies.
Known Over Nation.
Mr.. Burdette said the inspection
program here is known through
out the country and that officials
from other cities often come to
Washington to learn the methods.
This month, he said, a delegation
from India also studied the pro-
gram, and it was outlined last
month to visitors from England.
Despite the progress, however,
Mr.. Burdette believes some OF the
food laws are obsolete and that
general revisions of some control
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Police Continue Hunt
In Berwyn Staying

Police today continued their
search for an 18-year-old youth
wanted as a suspect in the recent
Berwyn (Md) filling station hold
up-murder who slipped through a
Gordon of 10 scout cars and
escaped in Southeast Washington
late yesterday.
The youth appeared at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Bridget,
1920 G street Sc, and asked for
Jimmy Bridget, 16, a childhood
playmate. Mr.. Bridget went to
the corner and told Motorcycle
Policeman Francis Raymond that
the youth was wanted.
AS the young suspect passed
within three feet of him, Officer
Raymond called to him to stop.
The youth began running and
Officer Raymond pursued him on
foot, but the policeman tripped
and fell and the youth quickly
outdistanced him. Officer Ray
mond called for assistance and
10 scout cars were dispatched to
surround the area.
The youth went through the
woods to the Anacostia River
crossed over the Pennsylvania
Railroad trestle and was last seen
near Barney Circle Sc.
Prince Georges County police
broadcast a 13-State lookout for
the youth several days ago. They
want to question him about the
murder of Winstan Clay, jr., in a
Berwyn gas station on Decem-
Der 6.
The youth also is wanted In
connection with the theft Of $500
from st. Francis Xavier Church
last August.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Boy Gives Fire Alarm,
Family of II Files Out

The nine children of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Coates of 814 Seventh
street NE. were aroused from
sound slumber early this morning
when fire caused by an overheated
f1ue broke out in a rear room of
their home.
John Coates, jr., 10, discovered
| the blaze and awakened his
parents and his brothers and sis
ters. The family assembled in a
downstairs living room while fire
men extinguished the blaze. which
caused only slight damage.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Christmas Sales
Here Heading
Toward Record
Department Store
Business Booming
After Slow Sturt
Washington appears headed for

Washington appears headed for
a postwar record in Christmas
buying as the Federal Reserve
Board disclosed today that de-
partment store sales here last
week were l per cent above the
same period last year.
At the same time department
store officials reported business
booming this week. which is ira
ditionally the heaviest week for
pre-Christmas sales.
An official of one large depart
ment store observed that business
was "a little slow at the start of
December, but it has picked up
tremendously in the last week. "
He said the cold weather of this
week has brought more shoppers
downtown.
Lower Prices Cited.
A spokesman for another store
said its weekly sales have been
running consistently ahead of last
year. Unit sales are way up while
dollar volume is slightly above last
year. He explained that this was
due to lower prices in some items
and the fact that people were
buying less expensive gifts.
A third department store OFF,
cial said its volume last week was
above the week before. He added:
This week should be our biggest" !"
The Federal Reserve Board re-
ported department store sales for
the Nation drew closer to last
years record high marks in the
week ended December 10. In that
week sales Jagged only 4 per cent
under the same period of 1948.
The previous week had shown an
per cent lag, and the average
for January lilo this year was 6
per cent under. corresponding
1948.
Increases Elsewhere.
Two of the IL Federal Reserve
districts reported sales above last
year for the December 10 week
The Minneapolis district recorded
q 3 per cent gain and the Kansas
City district / per cent increase.
Declines in the other districts
ranged from / per cent for Bos-
ton to per cent for Cleveland, a
district that includes Pittsburgh,
recently hit by the steel strike,
Percentages of decline in the
other districts were listed as: New
York, 4; Philadelphia, 8; Rich
mond, 8; Atlanta. 2: Chicago. 6;
st. Louis, 8; Dallas, 2, and San
Francisco, 4.
Evening star., 1949-12-16

fourteenth street and New Yor
the Health Departments Bure
drinking glasses for cleanliness,
ager, looks on.
If the Health Department re-
ceives a complaint before 3 pm.
about sanitary conditions, inspec-
tors are on their way within four
hours to check it, officials said.
When contaminated food is
suspected. inspectors place hold
tags" on the item, barring it from
sale. If laboratory analysis shows
contamination, inspectors dena-
ture the food with chemicals and
condemn it as garbage.
Federal officials check most
slaughter houses. but a District
inspector is on duty whenever
cattle are being slaughtered at the
Kilsheimer Abattoir on Bladens-
burg road NE. After checking
the live animal, the inspector ex-
amines the dressed carcass before
an official District stamp goes on
the meat.
Milk Sampled Daily.
All milk sold here must be pas-
teurized within the city. and
agents buy samples daily for bac-
THEOLOGICAL checks. At the dairies
themselves, inspectors make GER
tain milk and cream are kept at a
temperature of so degrees or be-
low, and regulations provide en-
ployes must wear clean garments
at all times. In addition. every
pipe, pump and fitting in a dairy
Evening star., 1949-12-16

The coercive detective" meth
ods of yesteryears food inspectors
have given way to a new approach
which, officials say has made food
sanitation programs in Washing
ton a model for the nation.
In past years. the men VINO
safeguarded the food you bought
in stores and ate in restaurants
made routine inspections for clean
conditions. When they found
things unclean, legal action was
started, and arrests and fines fol-
lowed.
Today, education of food
handlers sets the pattern for i'm
proved conditions, Health Depart
ment officials said. and restaur-
ant and store managers cooper
ate to put the program across.
Careful Checks Still Made.
Inspectors of the departments
Food Inspection Bureau still
make careful daily checks Of
larger markets. inspecting res
taurants and hotels twice month
and retail stores at least once
every month.
w. w. Burdette. director Of the
bureau, stressed that the threat
of license revocation still hangs
over the proprietor for health code
violations. But only an average
of four or five revocations a year
must be recommended, he said.
Instead, the bureau holds weekly
meetings of proprietors in the
Municipal Center. with guest ex-
perts to discuss the practical side
of sanitation. During their visits,
the inspectors also observe food
handlers. and recommend changes
to their managers.
Obtain Health Cards.
About rs per cent of the city's
food handlers voluntarily obtain
health cards" from private doc
tors or Health Department clinics.
The result, officials said, has cut
the chances of spreading commun-
icable or intestinal diseases, which
also are likely to thrive with un-
sanitary equipment or cleaning
To improve cleanliness, the bu-
reau has outlawed the use of
towels in restaurants for drying
dishes. requiring that utensils be
thoroughly washed and then air
dried. In addition, inspectors
make certain garbage cans and
trash bins are in suitable recep-
tacles, isolated from the food.
In their checks of markets and
stores, inspectors make sure floors
are clean and proper ice box
temperatures are maintained. Veg
etable and fruit bins must be IL
inches off the ground inside
stores and "a inches If outside.
Another regulation prohibits en-
ployes from smoking while they
handle food.
The bureaus 20 inspectors made
23,187 inspections in 1871 res
taurants here during the last
year. They checked the 2,257
grocery stores 1873 times.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
PUG Figures on Raise
Do Not Include Future
Costs, {. &P. Shows
A Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-

A Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. attorney brought out
at the telephone rate hearing to-
day that a Public Utilities Com
mission of11cial's estimate Of the
company's revenue needs did not
take into consideration certain fu-
ture operating conditions.
v. A. McElfresh, PUG executive
accountant, underwent cross-ex-
animation at today's session of the
public hearing at the District
Building on his testimony Tues
day the company should have an
increase of $2,227,034 a year in
gross revenues. The company
contends it needs an additional
SO 200, 900.
Under questioning by William
G. Gassaway. general attorney for
the company, Mr.. McElfresh ad-
mitted his calculations were based
on a test period Of past opera
tions.
Mr.. Gassaway brought out that
In 1850 the company would be
operating with a revised employe
pension plan. an increase from one
to one ne-and-a-half per cent in Fed
eral Old Age Benefit taxes and
considerable outlay for plant con-
struction, among other things.
Counted Property in Service.
Inclusion in Mr.. McElfresh's S rate
base valuation of $2,856,315 worth
Of plant construction now in pro-
gress would have raised the esti-
mate to $70,806. 1865.
Mr.. McElfresh pointed out the
property being constructed is not
yet in service and that the rate
OF return must apply to property
being used to serve consumers.
Under another line of question
ing, Mr.. McElfresh insisted that
6 per cent was a fair profit for
the company and took business
risks into consideration. The
company has urged a profit Of
nearly per cent.
Mr.. Gassaway pointed out that
Mr.. McElfresh's figures estimated
the cost of debt capital plus re-
turn on equity at $3.50 per cent
and inquired whether the rate of
return should not be higher than
the cost of money invested.
Mr.. McElfresh did not agree to
this and said he merely rounded
out the $3.50 per cent figure to
6 per cent for convenience.
Other Questions Answered.
In answer to other questions,
Mr.. McElfresh said he had used
the Al per cent debt ratio Of the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Co., parent OF the c. and p.
company, as that of the local COM
pany.
This, he said, was to cause A. r.
& T. Co.'S tax saving on debt in
terest to be passed on to c. & p.
operations.
The PUG accountant also said
that the reasonableness Of an OBJ
jective by the A. T. g. T. Co. for
a one third debt ratio might be
open to question"
Mr.. McElfresh added he had
not expressed an opinion on that
matter.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Board Of Trade Calls
For Alternate Airport
To Relieve Congestion

The Washington Board Of Trad.
Is asking that immediate steps
be taken to acquire an alternate
airport for the Metropolitan
Washington area to relieve the
present congestion at National
Airport.
It was explained at a member
ship meeting in the Hotel Statler
last night that the National Park
and Planning Commission has ap-
proved site for the new airport
at Annandale. in Fairfax County,
Va, which is near the new Shirley
Highway and about nine miles
from the White House marker
In Washington.
The Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration also has approved the site,
according to Jesse M. Hadley,
chairman of the trade groups
aviation committee.
He read q report, which cited
recent air disasters and near
misses in this area. and which also
outlined the recommendation for
the proposed new airport.
Would Close Military Fields.
In addition. his report, which
has been approved by the board
of directors Of the trade group
asked for the elimination OF
Boiling Air Force Base and Ana
costa Naval Air Station Ito re-
lieve the air congestion and in
crease safety of commercial
flights" It also indorsed CAA
action urging the banning of mill
tary flights from National Airport.
In his statement, Mr.. Hadley
said none of the recommendations
represent ''cure-alls" for what he
termed the present "unsatisfac-
tory conditions which exist now
at this commercial air center. -
but he added they would be
steps in the proper direction"
Cites November l Disaster.
In referring to the disaster on
November /, when surplus
fighter plane flown by a Bolivian
pilot, hit an Eastern Airlines
DC-4 passenger plane, with the
death of SIS persons, Mr.. Hadley
commented that banning Of COM
bat-type military craft from
National Airport and closing down
of Boiling and Anacostia, would
aid materially in clearing the air
around the Gravelly Point loca-
ton and greatly facilitate use of
commercial aircraft"
DR.. Harris Speaks.
Other speakers last night in
cluded the Rev. Frederick Brown
Harris, pastor of Foundry Meth
odist Church, who spoke on the
meaning of Christmas as "the
birthday of hope;;." Morgan Beatty,
commentator and analyst of the
National Broadcasting Co.. who
discussed current news develop
ments. and their possible effect
on business. and Charles Fahy,
who was sworn in yesterday as a
judge on the United States Court
of Appeals here.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
.Oxon Hill Lions to Hold
YuIe Porty Wednesday

The Oxon Hill (MdD Lions
Club will hold its annual Christ
mas party at the Oxon Hill Ele-
mentary School at 1880 pm. We'd
nesday.
Wives and children Of members
will be guests, and each child
there will receive a present. Gifts
also will be distributed among
needy children in the area.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Carols Will Be Sung
Ry Greenbelt Club

The Greenbelt (Md.) Recreation
Departments Glee Club will sing
Christmas carols from Z to 8 pm.
tomorrow in the center OF the city
while teen-age carolers will tour
the city singing at homes.
Other events planned by the
Recreation Department include
two Christmas plays to be given at
$3.50 pm. Wednesday at the Movie
House by the children's dramatic
group.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Church Card Purty Set

The Ladies Guild of the st.
Barnabas Episcopal Church, Oxon
Hill, Md, will sponsor a card party
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the church
mall.
Evening star., 1949-12-16
Bottle to Aid Safety PorIey

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 16 (R.-
Governor -elect John s. Battle yes
terday accepted the Craftsmanship
Of the 10th annual Virginia State
wide Safety Conference to be held
In Roanoke next June.