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Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25
SHOWER FETES MARY BLUNCK

Miss Mary Blunck, who will become the bride of Pat Cullison at a service at St. Michaeps Church this evening, was honor guest at shower held last Fri day in the former library room at the Rec Hall.
 Shower gifts were heaped in a yellow umbrella on the gift table, which was decorated with yellow streamers and lace tablecloth. A buffet lunch was served from a table decorated in an Alaskan theme. White candles in na- tural birch log candleholders were backed by miniature spruce trees. A three-tiered bridal cakt topped with a miniature bride and groom, formed the centerpiece. Wedding bells decorated the tablecloth.
 Shower guests included Mrs. Luclus Ross, Mrs. Clair Patten. Mrs. William Bouwens, Mrs. Lin nebur, Mrs. Victor Falk, Sr., Mrs. Victor Falk, Jr, Mrs. Francis Plack, Mrs Edna Davis, Miss Erickson, Miss Gregg, Miss De- lores Bouwens, Miss Kathleen
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25
WToM PARTY TOMORROW

Another in the winter series of parties planned by the women of the Moose will be held tomorrow evening, it vas announced today by Genevieve Moffitt. To begin at the Moose Hut at 8 D. m., the evenings plans include games and refreshments for lodge mem bers and their guests. Esther brager is assisting Mrs. Moffitt Tn planning the party.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25
PATROLMAN ASSIGNED HERE TEMPORARILY

MT. and Mrs. Al Lubcke of Halnes, arrived in Palmer last Tuesday. MT. Lubcke has been assigned to temporary duty here as territorial highway patrolman. Stanley Laird, regular patrol of 1icer for this area, left Monday for vacation Outside. MT. Lard expects to be gone until mld-January. Patrolman Lubcke Will remain here until Laird re- turns: The Lubckes are living Tn the Laird home during their stay here.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25
Soil Payment Applications Have Been Forwarded

Applications for l949 soil con- servatlon payments have been forwarded for processing, it was announced this week by Parker Lester, local Extension Service agent. However, there are seven applications held in the local of flee, awaiting the signature of the applicant. MT. Lester urged that Valley farmers take care of
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25
SHERRODS LEAVE ON PRIZE TRIP

Mir. and Mrs. Max Sherrod of Palmer, will leave Monday for an extended stay Outside during the coming winter months. MT. Sherrod is only now able to take advantage of the flight to Chica- go which he won al last Septem- ber's Matanuska Valley Fair, for his winning display of farm pro- duce
 The Sherrods will fly to De- troit to pick up new automo- bile, and then will return to Chi cago. After visiting with rela- tives in the Middle West, they plant to drive through Texas in January, there to study the latest methods of vegetable farming. They expect to drive back to Palmer in early March. Margaret Reed, Mrs. Henning Blunck, Miss Betty Blunck, Miss Ann Holbrook, Mrs. Iris Sch1nitz and the hostess, Mrs. Dorothy Moore
 Patten, Miss Joyce Hecker, Miss
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25
AGRICULTURAL MEN MEET

Charles w. Wilson, territorial conservationist, spent last week Tn Fairbanks studying soil con- servation activities in that area. While at Fairbanks, MT. Wilson conferred with G. w. Gasser. territorial commissioner of agri- culture, and with Lorin T. Old royd, director of Extension Serv- ice.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25
Valley FrOntiersman

thls matter at once, lest they lose their eligibility for payment this year.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25

Give Enough
 for your Valley Health Council
Valley frontiersman., 1949-11-25

Read the Classified ads on page 2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Two Barber Shops Raided
In Drive on Numbers

The police drive against the
numbers racket cente.ed on Dis
trict barber shops yesterday. Two
establishments were raiSed and
three persons were arrested on
gambling charges.
In a shop in the $500 block of
Colorado avenue NV. police ar
rested Clarence M. Simms, IS. of
the 1900 block of Emerson street
NV, a barber, and Vincent Sea-
letta. 81, of the 200 block of
Fourth street NE, identified as
owner of the esta blishment.
At a barber shop in the 4700
block of Fourteenth street NV.
police arrested Peter Eamureian,
so, barber, who lives at the same
address.
Simms and Eamureian were re-
leased under $500 bond each.
Both were charged with operating
a lottery and possession of num-
bers slips, and Sims also was
charged with setting up a gaming
table. Scaletta was released
under $500 bond, charged with
permitting gaming.
All will appear for a hearing
before United States Commission
Ell Cyril S. Lawrence on Novem-
Der 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
D. {. Can I Find Cause
INTERCHANGEABLE

District health officials yester-
day surveyed sanitation conditions
in the $500 block of Southern
avenue Sc. and came up with the
same results as those Of an earlier
study-no clue to indicate reasons
for recent high incidence Of
polio in that area.
At the request Of residents,
Prince Georges County, Md, Of
ficials made similar study last
Tuesday and reported that water
supply. sewage. garbage disposal
and other sanitation measures
were entirely satisfactory. The
block is just across the District
line in Maryland.
E. M. Dulin. acting head of the
Bureau of Public Health Engi-
neering, headed yesterdays in
spection, ordered by Acting Health
Officer Daniel l.. Seckinger. He
reported that no unsanitary con-
ditions were found but that the
inspectors would also study con-
ditions across the line in the
District on Monday.
The Prince Georges County
Health Department officially has
four cases of polio in the
$500 block, including two adults
who died of the disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Janitor Fined $500
In Toombs Stabbinq
SpeeioI Dispotch 10 The Stor

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Oct. 20.
Joseph R. Thomas. a Washing
ton public school jaintor charged
with stabbing Alfred Toombs,
writer and former Star reporter,
during a roadside melee near here
August 81, was acquitted yesterday
of charge of assault with intent
to kill. but was fined 500 for
assault and battery.
Thomas. who is colored and
lives in the 1000 block of Girard
street NE, was convicted by Trial
Magistrate J. Ralph Abel of St.
Marys County.
According to testimony. Mr..
Toombs, SO. was driving toward
his home at nearby Coltons Point
with his wife Constance when he
came upon crowd around two
cars that had collided.
A colored man broke away from
the crowd and ran to parked
automobile. He was followed by a
white man who struck him several
times.
Believing the colored man had
been severely beaten. Mr.. Toombs
went up to the car to offer aid
The man, he said, jumped out OF
the car and struck him. He has
been hospitalized at Johns Hop
kins until few days ago.
Thomas, janitor at the Park
view School, admitted the stab
bling, but said he acted in what
he believed was self-defense. He
was represented by Attorneys Jo-
seph D. Weiner and Paul ]. Bailey
of Leonardtown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Neiehborhood School Study
Peak in Overcrowded Glasses
Yet to Come as Enrolment Rises

of separate schools for white and
colored pupils bring about.
This is seen most markedly in
the senior high school enroll
ments.
Seven Schools Half Empty.
Excepting AnacosLia High
School Qocated in crowded South
east). the seven other white high
schools are operating half empty.
These schools are we'll placed to
serve all areas of the city.
In contrast. the three colored
senior high schools are all
damned into a few blocks of
downtown Washington. Enroll
ment is well over capacity and
the only thing in sight in the
near future is the start of con-
struction on the new Spingarn
High School.
Indignation of all children, re-
CARELESS of race, would eliminate
the need for some new buildings
and enable the present high
school facilities to be utilized to
capacity. critics of the dual sys-
tenn maintain.
The same argument applies to
the elementary schools, this group
points out. In some sections.
where the colored population has
increased in proportion to the
white, the white grade schools
find enrolment dropping, while
the colored schools are becoming
more and more crowded.
Disagreement on Point
School officials have not gone
into the possibility of relieving
congestion by breaking down race
barriers and have stated many
times the Board of Education is
bound by law to maintain a dual
school system. There is disagree
ment on this point, of course.
But the problem of overcrowded
classes, part-time instruction for
more than $500 pupils and the
lack of schools in certain neigh
borhoods remains with the Board
of Education. 80
Granting the dual system is
here to stay for some years yet,
the only solution obviously is
rapid construction of great
many new buildings.
Dr.. Strayer. whose recommen-
dations for an immediate build
ing program agreed in most res
poets with the long-range build
ing program of the Board of Edu-
cation, estimated this would cost
more than $37,000,00O and his
estimates did not include cost of
land. He recommended that the
Federal Government grant an in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Senators Say Strikes
Prove Need for Higher
Social Security Pay
BY the Associated Press

Three Senators today cited in
dustrial unrest over pensions for
workers-underscored by the steel
strike-as evidence of a need for
increasing social security retire.
ment benefits.
Senators Humphrey of Mime
sofa. Murray of Montana and
Thomas of Utah. all Democrats.
predicted in separate interviews
that the drive by labor unions for
company financed pension plans
will figure prominently in Senate
rebate next year on the House.
approved social security bill.
That bill would add about H.
100000 workers to the social Sc
curity rolls and increase retire
ment payments generally. The
hike in those payments would
average about 70 per cent for
those who already have retired,
and about 80 per cent for those
who have not yet retired.
The retirement age under the
Federal program is IS. At present
both employer and employe are
taxed l per cent of the $4,000 of
the workers annual wage.
Rate Would Climb Until 1870.
Under the House bill the levy
would be against the first $4,000
and the tax rate would climb
gradually to 314 per cent by 1870.
Both Senators Humphrey and
Thomas said enactment of the
House measure would encourage
more companies to adopt pension
plans such as the Ford Motor Co.
and the CLIO United Automobile
Workers recently agreed on.
Senator Thomas called the Ford
plan "a great idea" and Senator
Humphrey said "it's the proper
approach to industrial peace" so
far as pensions are concerned.
Under the Ford-UAW contract,
the first in the auto industry,
Ford workers can retire at IS on a
of 500 monthly. In
cluded in that are the workers
social security benefits under the
Federal program.
The difference between those
benefits and the total pension will
be paid by the Ford company, at
an initial cost of about $40. 1000, 900
annually. The company payments
will be at the rate of 10 cents an
hour per worker, with most of it
going toward pensions.
Union Seeks to Avoid Paying.
In the steel strike, the CLIO
United Steelworkers are insisting
on company financed plan. The
steel companies want the workers
to share the cost.
1.-THE Ford's plan" said Senator
Humphrey, represents the kind
Of Government = industry labor
dovetailing that is required TO
iron out all this trouble over pen
sions."
Senator Murray said a top in
dustrialist told him the demand
by unions for company financed
pensions could have been averted
if the Federal program had been
liberalized earlier.
There Is no doubt about it."
Senator Murray said, Congress
has got to increase retirement
payments just as soon as possible"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Mrs. Betty Ashton Retires
After 40-Year u. 5. Service

Mrs Betty Price Ashton, an en-
ploye relations counselor with the
personnel division of the Produc-
ton and Marketing Section of the
Agriculture Department, retired
yesterday after 40 years of Gov
eminent service.
Starting out as a clerk in the
Treasury Department., she later
transferred after 10 years. to the
old Bureau of Markets in the
Agriculture Department..
Fellow employees yesterday gave
her a party and presented her a
check for 500.
Her plans for the future include
a cruise with her husband Shir-
ley Ashton to South America next
But first she's awaiting
the return of her only child, 1t.
Shirley S. Ashton. jr., of the
Army. who is leaving Japan to-
after two years of duty.
The couple lives at 37l3 Window
place NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Two District Men Named
To UNESC0 Commission

Keith Berry. 17-year- old Den
yer high school boy. has been
named one of the 100 members
of the United States National
Commission for the United Ma
tons Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization GUNESCO).
The youngest member of the
commission. he will represent the
National Association of Student
Councils.
Other new members include two
Washington men-Livingston L.
Blair, vice president of the Amer
lean Junior Red Cross, and
Charles E. Odegaard, executive
secretary of the American Council
of Learned Societies. a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Concession Applications
Pour In for Freedom Fair

Although work has not yet
started on the buildings and
grounds for next years Freedom
Fair, applications for concessions
are pouring into the National Cap
ital Sesquicentennial Commission
Office.
Edward Boykin. director for the
commission. said more than $50
applications have already been re-
ceived, one of them offering $780,
900.
No application is being consid-
cred at this time. This is wait
ing for the appointment of a con-
cessions director for the fair,
which will celebrate the 150th an
niversary of the establishment of
the Government in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Man Discovers Brother
Hanged in Apartment

George E. Skarvoones, 81, was
found hanged today in the bed
room of his second-f1oor apart
ment at 1867 Mintwood road
NV, police reported.
Homicide detectives said Mi
Skarvoones' body was discovered
by his brother. Thomas B. Skar-
voones, who had gone to the
apartment today to pick up his
mail. Mr.. Skarvoones, police said
obtained a master key to enter
the apartment when no one an
swered, and found his brother
hanged by a rope from clothing
hook on a bedroom door.
Police said Mr.. Skarvoones
lived alone at the apartment ano
was seen last yesterday afternoon
by the apartment manager, John
Adlung.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
VFW Will Seek
Early Passage
0f Bonus Bill
Legislative Group
Will Press Congress
At Next Session

The Veterans of Foreign Wars
will seek the passage of veterans
bonus legislation in the next ses-
sion of Congress.
s. The national legislative COM
mlttee, meeting today at the Hotel
Statler, gave the bonus legislative
No. l priority on its legislative
program. The bonus, or adjusted
! service compensation, program
calls for SO a day for home serv-
ice, with maximum of $500
and 81 day for overseas service
with a maximum of $4,000, plus
{. $500 for any wound or wounds.
1. From the total for each veteran
4 under this program would be de-
: Quoted the amount of any none
4 tary benefit he received under the
Gil bill, such as schooling and sus-
tenance.
Service Disunity Deplored.
The Security Committee of the
national organization also met to-
{ day at the Mayf1ower Hotel. It
B discussed the current Mayfair
4 Force dispute and declared it de
i plores any evidence of disunity in
5 the armed forces"
1t was indicated the committee
) might go beyond this after it
hears reports concerning the dis
pute at its meeting here.
The Legislative Committee is
headed by Adrian J. Grobsmith of
Syracuse. N. Y, and includes Ed
ward K. Inman of Washington.
Another measure the committee
favored today was the release, I'M
der certain restrictions, of public
lands for homesteading by vet
Grams.
Sessions Continue Tomorrow.
The programs of this committee
and of the Security Committee
will be referred to Omar B.
Ketchum. VFW legislative direc-
tor, and the organizations legisla-
tive service here. They will try to
get the measures enacted by
Congress.
The Security Committee has be-
fore it the resolutions adopted by
the last convention on three sub
Jects: The armed services, ma
tlonal security and foreign affairs.
Head of the committee is Rob-
ert K. Christenberry. president of
the Hotel Astor in New York.
The committee includes Brig.
Gen. Bonner Fellers, U. S. A., re-
tired. of Washington. vice chair
man, and Robert F. Sutphin, COM
mander of the District Depart
ment Of the VFW.
Both committees will continue
their meetings tomorrow. Clyde
A. Lewis of Pittsburgh, N. Y, ma
tional commander, will arrive to-
morrow and confer with commit
tee members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
William J. Quig|ey,
Widely Known Bowler
And Freshman, Dies

William j. Quigley, SO. a Gov
eminent Printing Office employee
Of 80 years service, who was we'll
known in Washington bowling cir
cles for many years, died this
morning at his home. 1903 Fourth
street NE. He had been in de-
clining health for several years.
Mr.. Quigley's wife, Mrs. Kath-
crime E. Quigley, is one of the
city's outstanding women boWlers
Together they had shaped an un-
beatable husband-and-wife duck
pin bowling combination which
won the John Blick Trophy here
IL years ago. To win the trophy
they had to win the husband and
wife tournament three years in a
row.
Wife Set Record.
Mrs. Quigley set a record last
February by bowling 400 con-
secutive games, beginning her long
chain in 1922. Her husband was
her greatest booster and she never
boWled game without him
watching.
Mr.. Quigley, native of Brook
Ign. spent his early life in Hart
ford, Conn. where he went to
school. He came here in 1918 to
join the Government Printing
Office as a pressman and held
that position at the time of his
death.
Bowled for PGO.
For many years he had bowled
for the Government Printing Office
and for st. Martins Catholic
Church, where he belonged to
the Holy Name Society. He also
was former member of the
Knights of Columbus.
In addition to his widow, he
is survived by three sons. who,
in the past helped make up a
championship family bowling
team. They are Ray of Silver
Spring, Robert, 1918 Otis street
NE, and William j. Quigley, jr.,
of Arlington Ten grandchildren
also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
9 am. Monday in st. Martins
Church, 1900 North Capitol street.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
New Bibles Given Truman,
Library Of Congress

The first two copies of a new
special printing of the Holy Bible
were presented to President Tru-
man and the Library of Congress
yesterday.
The edition. known as the
World Bible" is the work of
Bruce Rogers. 79-year-old dean
of American book designers. The
volume contains approximately
1000 pages and sells for $3.50.
An ornamental title page and dec
grated initial letters are among
the features.
B. D. levin. president of the
World Publishing Co. of Cleve-
land, made the presentations to
Mr.. Truman and DR.. Luther H.
Exams, librarian of Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Baltimore Drivers Strike,
Closing Meat Packing Plant
By the Associated Press


BALTIMORE, Oct. 29.-Fifty-
seven truck drivers and helpers
have gone on strike, closing one
big meat packii,-g plant and hold
ing up weekend deliveries.
The Corkran Hill & Co. plant
closed yestere y when unionized
meat cutters refused to cross the
picket lines. At the Swift & Co.
plant a spokesman said it might
be necessary to cut or suspend
operations if the strike continues.
The strikers are members OF
Local 355 of the AFL Truck
Drivers and Helpers Union. Plant
spokesman said wages were not
involved, but strikers at Corkran
Hill denied this.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Adventists Collect Fund
For Relief in Europe

All Seventh-Day Adventist
churches in the Washington area
today held special services at
II am. as part of the denomina-
tons fourth annual Nation-w
drive for famine relief funds for
Europe.
Elder Howard j. Detwiler, presi-
dent of the Potomac Conference
OF Seventh-Day Adventists, an
nounced that the special offerings
following today's servic e
throughout the country will be
sent to the director of the
Seventh-Day Adventist European
Relief in Bern, Switzerland, for
distribution to Eastern Germany
and other needy areas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-29
Neiehborhood School Study
Last OF a Series.)

One definite conclusion is ap-
parent from a study of the neigh
borhood school situation in Wash
ington-the Northeast and South
east sections of the city, and
Southwest to a lesser extent. have
serious problems in overcroWded
classes.
And the worst is yet to come as
school enrolment continues its
steady climb to the predicted
peak or 10000 by 1858 from to-
days enrolment of more than
$4,000.
Dr.. George D. Strayer of Co.
lumbia University. who conducted
study of school needs here last
year, made this prediction about
elementary school enrolment:
BY 1856, elementary school en-
rollment will reach $1,000, about
$4,000 more than it is now.
School officials Shudder.
Mere contemplation of the task
of examining that many more
elementary school children into
the present available schools
brings shoulders to the Board of
Education and school admins
trative officials. Yet, that is what
is facing them if DR.. Strayer's
predictions are near correct.
And school officials have no in
formation to show that Dr..
Strayer will not be an accurate
forecascer.
In five of the critical neigh
borilooos, colored SCHOOLS are
overcrowoeo, while White schools
are not too badly off. in two crit
ical areas, both white and colored
-cllooIs are equally damned. In
one critical area, the white schools
are overhowing.
In the five other neighborhood
studies all in Northwest, the
problems were relatively minor as
compared to the critical sections.
Due to Population Shift.
The shift of the population to
the fast-growing sections on the
eastern limits of the District has
contributed to this situation.
Housing developments are mush-
rooming in these sections. The
high birth rate of the war years
also is contributing.
The Board of Education has
recognized the need for more
schools and several months ago
sent to the Commissioners a list
of some 40 projects it considered
top priority"
Critics of the Districts dual
school system point to some OBJ
vious conditions that maintenance