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Evening star., 1949-03-17
Committee Will Plan
For Fire Hydrants in
Northeast Fairfax

Residents of the Kirby road
area in northeast Fairfax County
last night appointed a committee
to plan for installation Of fire
hydrants while the new Falls
Church water line from Chain
Bridge Is being laid.
At q meeting attended by more
than so residents in Chesterbrook
School, the chairman. c. B.
Phipard. appointed Stevens Mason
and George James to serve with
him on a committee which will
propose locations of Approximate
ly seven hydrants along a 2-mile
stretch of tn eroad. The COM
mittee, Mr.. Phipard said. will con-
tact residents Sunday afternoon,
and a general meeting will be
held Wednesday at the school to
agree on a request to Falls Church
for fire hydrant installations.
Property owners indicated at
the meeting that they may ask
that their homes be connected to
the new system while it is being
installed.
Roy F. Dunn, Falls Church city
manager. said the city. when re-
quested. will run a connection to
a property boundary for SOS. If
materials are available. He said
installation of a line to the house
or place of business must be made
at the property owners expense.
Cost of purchasing and INSTALL
ing each fire hydrant while the
line is being laid was estimated
by the manager at $297. This
amount must accompany each re-
quest for a hydrant. Cost of a
similar installation after the line
is built would be more than 1000,
he declared.
Mr.. Phipard said fire insurance
rates might be cut in half If
hydrants we're within 500 feet of
property.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Health Insurance Bill
To Be Topic of Forum

A forum on the national health
insurance bill supported by Presi-
dent Truman will be held at pm
Sunday in the Kate Waller
Barrett School, 40 North Hender.
son road, Arlington. The meeting
is sponsored by the Unitarian
Church of Arlington.
Chat Patterson, executive di.
rector of the committee for the
Nations Health, will speak for the
bill and DR.. Herbert P. Ramsey
a member of the District Medica
Society, will speak against it
Robert c. Mace Clinchie will act as
moderator.
Evening star., 1949-03-17

Thirteen Washington area build
ings. ranging from private homes
to. the new hospitals, have earned
for. their owners, builders and
architects the biennial architec-
t,fai awards Of the Washington
Board Of Trade. I
The awards were presented last
night as high light of the boards
general membership meeting In
the Hotel Statler. Winners were
announced by Awards Committee
Chairman Thomas H. Locraft and
presentations were made by 1t
Col. Thomas j. Hayes. newly
appointed Assistant Engineer
Commissioner for the District.
The jury of three noted out-of-
town architects, who studied 147
Evening star., 1949-03-17

The "eyes OF Texas" turned a
jaundiced and scornful glare to-
ward Virginia today because a
Lone Star Congressman's secre-
tary didn't file a 1947 income tax
in the Old Dominion.
A District resident, who until
recently lived in Arlington, was
fined $50 for failing to file by a
f1ve-man jury in Arlington Circuit
Court yesterday. She was Mrs.
Stella Merrill, who now lives at
1904 Twenty-fourth street Sc,
and is secretary to Representative
Gossett, Democrat, of Texas.
Mrs. Merrill said she is "ignor-
ing" the case and had mo COM
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Montgomery Owners
Have Until April Il
To Avoid Tax Sales

Montgomery County property
which became delinquent Satur-
day will not be sold at public auc-
ton if owners pay taxes due. plus
penalties, before the sale date
April II.
Such a reminder was issued yes
terday by Acting County Manager
Irving G. McNayr and Treasurer
John B. Diamond.
In statement. the two Off
cials said recent publicity con-
cerning current delinquent taxes
has given the impression that an
unusually large number of prop
critics will be sold for nonpay-
ment of taxes.
Two-Thirds Reduction Seen.
It can be reasonably" expected
that the properties on which taxes
are now unpaid will be reduced
by two-thirds before the sale date
the statement declared.
The remaining properties, how
ever, will be substantially in ex-
cess of the number sold in
each of the last few years." the
statement said. The number
though, according to the officials
is not out OF line with the average
for the past 10 or IS years.
Montgomery County has had
consistently. one of the best tax
collection records of counties
throughout the United States. .
according to the statement. For
the period from 1884 through
1948 the treasurer has collected
before the end of each fiscal year
an average of SO per cent Of all
taxes billed. For the past i've
years, this average has been 9s
per cent.
Trend to Normal Condition.
"The increase in the number o1
tax delinquencies for the levy o1
1948 as compared with the past
three years undoubtedly reflects q
trend to the normal condition a.
relates to payment of taxes.
THE situation this year Il
somewhat aggravated by the fac
that tax bills have been delayed
and there has been some con.
fusion on the part of the public
as to the date by which payment
must be made to avoid advertise
ment for sale"
Last week end it was unofficially
estimated that there were 2.00(
properties on the delinquent list
compared to about 700 last year
The statement issued yesterday
said there are now 1900 pieces o1
property on which taxes are un'
paid.
However. the Maryland News o,
Silver Spring, one of the three
county newspapers carrying thu
legal listing of delinquent prop
critics, said that a count made
today shows more than 1000 par
GELS are included in the advertise
ment appearing this week.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Church and 2 Houses
Saved From Brush Fire

Montgomery County firemen
manning 10 piece of equipment
yesterday prevented a stubborn
brush fire from reaching two
dwellings and the Little Church in
the Wildwood, Old Georgetown
and Bells Mill roads.
Famed by a stiff wind, the flames
spread rapidly and a second alarm
was sounded. Bethesda f1remen
were assisted by the Chevy Chase
Kensington and Rockville COM
panieS.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
0ber Bill Goes 10 Lane
For Certain Approval
After Senate PASSAGE
BY Ssoff Correspondent Of The Stor

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 17.-Anti-
subversive legislation. described
by it's sponsors as among the most
stringent ever adopted by State,
was on Gov. Lanes desk for his
signature today.
The bill cleared its last hurdle
yesterday in the Senate, which
quickly concurred in a House
amendment striking out the
words "or other unlawful means
after the phrase, convicted Of
attempting to overthrow the Gov
eminent by force or violence"
Under the measure. persons
convicted of subversive activities
could be fined up to $4,000 or
imprisoned for not more than 20
years, or both. Gov. Lane told
reporters yesterday he would
sign it.
Delegate T. Raymond Burch.
Democrat. of Prince Georges
County, a member of the Ober
Commission on Subversive Activi-
ties which drafted the bill, said
it was "one of the most drastic
ever passed by a State Legisla-
ture."
Aimed at Communists.
1--WE need drastic measures to
meet the danger to our institu-
tions," he declared.
Admittedly aimed at the Com
munist Party, the bill sets up an
assistant attorney general in
charge of subversive activities and
requires loyalty oaths of all State,
county and city employees.
Members of subversive organiza-
tions could be fined $4,000 or i'm
|prisoned for not more than five
years, or both.
Meanwhile, it was learned the
House Committee on Constitu-
tional Amendments has voted un-
favorably on bill to give munich
palities home rule by empowering
them to amend their charters.
Committee members said their
action was taken because Of the
announced intention of several
counties to exempt themselves
from the bill, which provides for
a constitutional amendment.
Supporters of Measure.
The measure was supported by
the Maryland League of Munich
palities, which claimed 1t would
relieve the General Assembly OF
the duty of passing on local legis-
lation.
Among those who supported the
proposal at hearing last week
were DR.. Joseph M. Ray. political
science expert at the University OF
Maryland and executive secretary
/ of the league. and Mayor John C.
Post of Takoma Park.
The Senate passed a bill to en-
large the Rockville boundaries to
include the Haiti and Lincoln Park
| communities.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Texas Turns Juundiced Eye
On Virginia Tax Filing Case

menta" when asked whether she
would pay the fine.
But Representative Gossett had
more to say:
1.-THE State of Virginia has fall
len a long way since the days Of
her competence and prestige. She
is now financially and spiritually
impoverished.
Texas would never treat a Vir-
ginian in such a manner. We glad
ly offer asylum to Virginians who
seek better land and better neigh
borS.
Even Virginian." he snapped,
who may travel or sojourn In
Texas will not be abused"
Evening star., 1949-03-17
WEAM Steps Up Power,
Lenathens Broadcast Day

Radio station WEAM, Arlington
today stepped up its power to 5000
watts an dincrease dts air time
from "sun-up to sun-down" tc
1912 hours a day.
Permission to build the more
powerful transmitter was granted
the station last summer. but flnal
approval to start broadcastine
with the increased power did not
come from the Federal Communi-
cations Commission until last
night.
Howard Stanley, station man.
ager, said WEAM will be on the
air from $50 am. until los
o'clock the following morning. He
added there was a possibility the
station will become the second in
the area to broadcast "a hours q
day. WWDC now Is the only all
night station.
The stations personnel has been
increased by a third, he said,
WEAM was bought last summer
by Harold and Meredith Thoms,
owners of several stations in the
South
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Science Fair Scheduled
In HyuttsviIIe Tonight

More than $50 exhibits, includ.
ing insect collections, electric mo.
tors, germ cultures and an "oystel
graph" which measures how often
oysters open their shells, will be
on display starting at 7:30 O'Clock
tonight in the second annual Sci
ence Fair at Hyattsville High
School.
Several exhibits will be chosen
for display in the first annual
Prince Georges County Science
Fair to be held in Seat Pleasant
the following week, from which
the best will be shown in the third
annual Washington Science Fair
scheduled April l to April 3 at the
Commerce Department.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Silver Spring Man Waits
Sentencing for Gambling

Robert Lee Hunter, 81, the 870C
block of Colesville road, Silver
Spring, is scheduled to be SEN
fenced tomorrow in Montgomery
County Circuit Court on two
gambling convictions.
Hunter was found guilty yes
terday by jury of accepting q
racing bet on November S in a
tavern in the $500 block OF
Georgia avenue. Last week Hunter
was convicted of operating a gam
ing table.
Hunter, who pleaded not guilty
to both charges was a part owner
of the tavern.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Scout Troop I'll Marks
I25th Year Tomorrow

Boy Scout Troop No. I'll Of the
Bethes First Baptist Church
will observe its 25th anniversary
at a special program at 8 o'clock
tomorrow night in the Lynnbrook
School.
j. H. Willett, field executive
for Montgomery County district of
the Scouts, will present its 1949
troop charter. Philip M. Guard
and Donald Weinroth will be in
stalled as assistant Scoutmasters.
The Scoutmaster of the troop is
Herbert c. Hunter and Capt. e.
M. McManes is chairman of the
troop committee.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Navy 10 Remove
barracksFrom
Old Polo Field
Planners Approve
Location as Site for
1850 Sesqui Buildings

The Navy Department reported
ly is ready to remove its wartime
barracks from the old polo field
in West Potomac Park by mid
summer to make this site avail
able for exposition buildings of
the Washington Sesquicentennial
Commission in 1850.
Approval of the location was
given by the Fine Arts Commission
at a meeting yesterday, after off,
cials were informed that the Navy
had agreed to surrender the site,
occupied partially by barracks for
enlisted men and Waves.
The polo field, south Of Inde-
pendence avenue and the Lincoln
Rejecting Pool. has been used by
the Navy since the early war years
to accommodate personnel and
provide additional automobile
parking space. The Office of Ma
tional Capital Parks had been try
ing since the war ended to get the
Navy to vacate all it's temporary
buildings in West Potomac Park
without success. The buildings on
the polo field are only a part of
this emergency establishment.
Boykin Outlines Plans.
Edward Boykin, director of the
Sesquicentennial Commission, said
three exposition buildings would
be erected on the site. One of
these would be the commission S
own building, an All-States' Build
ing. Another would house the ex-
hibits Of the Federal Government.
A third has been designed as an
industrial building.
The Fine Arts Commission re-
leased its 18th report, covering all
its recommendations and activities
from July l. 1914, to June 80,
1948. Its 104 pages are replete
with historical pictures. designs
for new Federal buildings and
monuments and sculpture ap-
proved by the commission, as
required by law.
Included are detailed descrip-
tions OF the decorations and de-
sign for the remodeling of the
Senate and House Chambers at
the Capitol. Francis Sullivan,
associate architect of the project,
conferred with the commission
with regard to proposed sculpture
work in the chambers and the
design of panels and other orna-
mentation. These were taken up
for study.
Apartment Design Approved.
Among other actions, the COM
mission approved the design of
an apartment building to be con-
structed along the Mount Vernon
Memorial boulevard north of the
circle at the entrance to Alexan-
dria. 1t also approved designs for
covered swimming pools at the
Fort Reno. Taft and Randall
Recreation Centers.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission. it was disclosed, is plan
ming a World War II memorial
for which expert advice was
sought. Similar advice will be
given concerning a portrait of
former Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson. painted by Alfred JON
niaux of Washington. The Dis
trict Highway Department also
referred to the commission a
landscape treatment planned for
John Marshall place when the
new Federal Courts Building is
erected in the area.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
OYSTER and Ham Supper

The Ladies Auxiliary Of the
Falls Church Fire Department
will hold an oyster and ham
supper at 5 pm. Saturday at the
fire house. Proceeds will 60 to the
Fire Department building fund.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
73 D. G. Area Buildings Win
Boards Architectural Awards

projects built during the last two
years, had some strong words.
for most Of Washing
tons residential construction. They
found much of it "uninteresting
unimaSinative and destructive, In
site Planning" -. IS
The jury was composed of Dear
Leopold Arnaud Of Columbia Uni.
versity School of Architecture
John 4: Harbeson of q Ehiladel.
phia s1rm, who also is censultan
to the architect of the Capitol
and Edward D. Stone Of New
York, who has designed such
buildings as the Museum of Mod
ern Art.
Hear Strayer on Schools.
Board members also heard DR.
George D. Strayer. director of the
2,000-page survey for Congress on
District schools. describe anew
crowded conditions in local
schools. the need for a minimum
$330-a-year salary increase for
overloaded" teachers and for q
$38, 100000 construction program.
The controversial question of
public versus private housing was
aired by Senator Mccarthy. Re-
publican, of Wisconsin and Ed
ward r. Carr, Washington builder
and former president of the Ma
tional Association Of Home
Builders. -
General Chairman H. Randolph
Maddox of the District Red Cross
fund drive reported on the drive
and General Chairman E. c. Gid
dings of the Cancer Society drive
which opens April /, called fol
board support.
c. J. Mack, chairman of the
Cherry Blossom Festival, told o1
elaborate plans between April
and 3 for the festival. He then
introduced Miss Jody Miller, Of
ficial festival hostess, who sang
The Marine Drum and Bugle
Corps played. Leon Chatelain
jr.. board president, presided.
Architectural Awards.
Architectural awards follow:
Pohanka Service, Inc. showroom ant
shops at 1875 Twentieth street NV; Howe
q Foster. architects; Frank s :Pohsnka
Remodeied buildings at 1s4s Tweptieth
street NV: Frank g. Beatty, architect
Mrs; Joanne Doyle. owner, and Frank g.
Remodeled building at 1874 Twentieth
street; Clifton B. White. architect: Mrs
Doyle. cwner. and Roy r. De Haven
Residence at Mclean. Va; Harry E
ormston. architect, owner and builder:
Chase. Ma; Mrs. cSioethiel woodward
onh Smith p and M,s Dsy
Virginia Heights subdivision; Adolf x
n. Waterfall, architect: VirStnia Heights
Development Co., Inc, owners and build.
Automobils showroom at 400 Connect.
and zerkei Construction Co., Inc, build
- Ambassador Hotel parking garage, 121:
street sfr.st nv Leroy L. Werner, arehi
Cafritz Construction Co. builders
Oak View Elementary School, Takom,
Ieet Rensd 81 aTsh
cation. owner. and Opha Mays, builder.
GEORGETOWN University Hospital, $780,
Reservoir Reservoir. rosa NV; Kaiser: Neal 4 Reid
and John McShain, Inc, builder.
George Washington University Hospital
Sfsnhdasss Yfsshhnsson ir GifSls Falkner kinssbusy
and Charles H. 5Tompkins Co., builder
West Central Heating Plant. Twenty
ninth mint sad streets NV; Public RHtld
States Government, owner, and Tomp
kiEs Co., builder
Hangers 8. 8. IL and 12, National Air.
port; PBA. architect: Government. owner
and Dyker building Co, Inc, builder.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
New FREIGHT Stotion Planned

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. II R.-
President Norman Call said yes
terday the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg & Potomac Railroad will
start construction by mid-April on
q new freight station at Quantico.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Roosevelt Holiday Rejected

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. II R.-A
House of Delegates committee yes
terday voted down a suggestion
that January 20. birthday ami
versary Of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, be made q State holi-
day,
Evening star., 1949-03-17
Church. PIons Bake Sole

The Margaret Rice Circle OF
Arlington Forest Methodist Church
will hold q bake sale at 8 am. Sat-
urday at q real estate office at IS
North Glebe road. I. .nington.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
North RIDGE Citizens

The North Ridge Citizens AS.
sociation will meet at 8 O'Clock tos
night at the George Mason School,
Alexandria.
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McGARRY TAKES TO THE WOODS
Continued from page sesen

eight-yard line with three min
utes left and the score tied. And
then my knee buckles under me
and they have to take me out,
and it darn'd near breaks my
heart"
Nanette turns her head and
looks up at him gratefully and
she stops whining.
But her limping gets worse.
Dan stops and tears his handker-
chief into strips and bandages
up her paws, and this helps some
until the bandages come loose
and get lost. By this time the
stony plateau is long overdue,
and Dan is Just beginning to
wonder, when they come to a
clearing. The only trouble is, it
is not the same clearing. It's as
stony as the other, but it's wider
and it has a mountain stream
running alongside of it.
I'LL have to carry you, Man.
ette," he says. you can't navi-
gate over those stones. There's
nothing worse than sore feet"
Nanette weighs a neat eighty
pounds. Dan squats down beside
her and tries to put her ON his
shoulders. and finally she gets
the idea and climbs aboard with
a little help. She lies with her
front feet over Dams right shout
der and her back legs over his
left.
"Nanette," he says, after he
staggers about fifty yards,
you're broth of a girl"
Nanette ticks the back of his
ear with her diversified tongue.
Thanks, but never mind,
Dan tells her. This is sort of
backward, you know" he says.
Here am bent almost double.
You are the one who is supposed
to 60 along with your nose to the
ground. You, not mer'
He gets across the plateau
and plunges into the woodsagain.
He struggles forward, still carry
ing eighty pounds of dog, for an
other twenty minutes. And then
he is right back where he starts
from-at the edge of the plateau.
'Nanette," he says, Il don't
want to worry you, but I think
we're lost. We've been going in a
circle. I don't suppose you can
smell your way home from up
there. can your"
Nanette walls sadly.
Il thought not" says Dan.
And l can't smell my way from
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down here, and l don't see any
pieces of cloth tied to any trees.
He kneels down, and Nanette
slides off his shoulders and sits
there staring at him solemnly.
Its now seven o'clock" Dan
says, looking at the watch on his
wrist. In another few minutes
it Il be dark. l don't think want
to be in them woods after dark,
but it looks as though I've got
to-"
There's a messy bank at the
edge of the clearing, which is the
nearest thing to a bed that Dan
can see. In another ten minutes
he has a nice fire blazing, and
Nanette is stretched out close to
it. Next he goes to the stream
and ruins perfectly good hat by
filling it with water. He drinks a
little himself, gives some to Man.
cite. and battles her cut paws in
what's left. Her hazel eyes keep
watching him every minute.
Darkness comes suddenly. and
it's awfully dark darkness. Dan
throws more branches on the fire
and the flames leap higher. He
sits down next to Nanette. Can
l interest you in a stick of gum?"
he says.
Nanette gives a throaty growl.
IF that means you miss your
Francois, says Dan, Il know
how you feel. l sure wish could
see my mouse Kitty. Right now,
if l was with her. we'd be just
about finishing dinner. l suppose
it's chow time for you and Fran
eois, too. Let's not talk about
food, shall WEI" he says sadly.
HE fire dies down a little and
the black walls all around them
creep closer. In the woods some
kind of an animal walls loudly.
Sort of lonesome up here, amt
it, Nanette?" Dan says. A diff
ferent kind of animal lets out
different kind of wall. Dan edges
a little closer to the fire. Its
not that. I'm scared" he tells
Nanette. But do you suppose
they meant anything when they
called it Bod Bear Trail?"
Nanette puts her head down
between her paws and looks up
at him.
Il know you're strictly a spe-
cialist, Nanette," Dan goes on.
You're supposed to track down
guys and animals and not attack
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