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Evening star., 1949-09-30
Fairfax Boards Indorse
Bond Issue Referendum

The Fairfax County School
Board and the County Board OF
Supervisors believe county resi-
dents should be given an oppor-
tunity to hold a bond issue elec-
tion for building additional school
facilities.
State law requires that a bond
issue be held if a petition con-
tanning the names of 10 per cent
of the qualified voters demands
it.
In discussing the shortage OF
school facilities, members OF
boards which met this week
pointed out that this years in
creased enrolment has forced the
use of auditoriums, storage rooms
Easements, libraries, cafeterias
church and community halls as
claSsrooms. Double shifts are nee
essay in some county schools.
Enrolment this year has in
creased 1,708 over 1948 and 81
additional teachers have been
hired.
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All were honored yesterday dur
ing q luncheon in the university's
dining hall. Hosts were DR.. George
j. Kabat. dean of the schools
College Of Special and Continue
ton Studies, under whose juris-
diction the off-campus training
program falls, and DR.. Harold s.
Cotterman. dean of the university
faculty. who represented DR.. H. c.
Byrd. president.
Col. William c. Bentley, deputy
chief Of staff for the Air Force In
Weisbaden. Germany, who is con-
inected with the Air Force Infor-
nation and Education program,
also Attended.
Location Of Centers.
According to university
spokesman, the od-campus CEN
ters in Germany will be located
in Frankfort, Berlin, Heidelberg
Munich. Nuremberg and Weisbad-
en-. Glasses will be held twice
weekly for three hours each ses-
sion during eight-week periods
The courses will continue through
next August.
The College of Special and Con-
tinuation Studies. started a little
over q year ago as a means Of pro-
viding colisge instruction at mill
tary installation in Washington
Maryland and Virginia, now has
an off-campus enrolment Of ap-
proximately 1000.
DR.. Kabat recently returned
from Germany where he helped
make arrangements for tha pro-
! gram.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Ownership Of County
School Bus System
Studied in Arlington

The Arlington County Board of
Education has begun a survey to
determine whether a county school
bus system should be started with
the board operating the buses.
William A. Early. superintendent
Of schools, said the survey is being
conducted by Raymond L. VIM
bish. director of transportation of
the Virginia State Board of Ed
ucation. 1t should be completed
by October Is. he added.
The study would determine
whether the county should go into
the school bus business to furnish
transportation for all school chill
dren.
In this respect it differs from
the study being conducted by
school officials in Washington,
who are considering the use of
buses only to transport children
from crowded schools to sections
Of the city where classrooms are
available.
At present, Arlington school
children ride on public transpor-
tation. furnished by the Arnold
Lines, for S cents a ride. Last
week Lester Conley. a member Of
the Arlington Public Utilities
Commission, stated that If the
Arnold Lines were granted the
increase in rates which the firm
is seeking the school fare would
have to 60 up to 10 cents trip.
It was this warning of things
to come which caused the Board
of Education to seek the study.
School officials pointed out that
If . bus system were set up the
parents still would pay for it
through taves. even though the
children would ride free.
The Board of Education now
subsidies few bus trips a day
to and from schools, it was said
These subsidies. however, amount
to only approximately $1.50 a trip
per bus. 49,,
Normally. the students ride only
on regularly scheduled routes, but
IN some cases special routes are
Iset UP to get them to school.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Maryland off, Campus Courses
Extended to Six German Cities

The University Of Maryland's s
off-campus training courses will
be extended to six cities in occu-
pied Germany next month.
About 56Q members of the
American occupation forces, both
service and civilian. and their de-
pendents, already have enrolled
and will obtain full college credits
for the subjects they take.
Glasses actually will begin
October 81. but seven professors
and instructors at the university
will leave Washington this week
end for Germany to make pre-
liminary preparations. The seven
will be there nearly a year.
Program First of Kind.
College officials said the pro-
gram will be the first Of its kind
to be conducted in occupied Ger
many.
Those leaving are Verne e
Chatelain. professor of history;
Davis S. Sparks, a history in.
structor, and his wife, Phyllis. whe
will teach economics: Lyle Mayer
and Warren Strausbaugh, speech
instructors, Bruce l.. Melvin
sociology instructor. and Martir
w. Moser, a teacher in govern.
ment and politics.
The group will leave by trair
from Union Station at II pm
Saturday for Springfield. Mass
On Monday. they will board al
Air Force Constellation plane from
Westover Field, Mass. and arr
slated to. arrive in Frankfort
tGermany, the following mornin>
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Maryland Tax Office
Wont Alter Rate Base
Without Court Order
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. Sept. 30.-The
State Tax Commission will not
assess properties for tax purposes
at their present-day market values
unless it is ordered to do so by the
Court of Appeals.
Chairman Joseph H. A. Rogan
of the commission made that
statement during a hearing yes
terday of Justin Buch's conten-
ton that some tax assessments in
Anne Arundel County should be
upset because they were too low.
Mr.. Buch is an automobile deal
er who lives in Riviera Beach. He
is also president and chief spokes-
man for the Anne Arundel County
Citizens Protective Association.
Powers Seen Exceeded.
His attorneys argued, in asking
the commission for rulings on is
questions growing out of the five
assessment cases in question, that
the levies should have been based
on the values of the properties at
the time they were assessed in
1947.
They contended that the COM
mission exceeded its powers when
it instructed assessors to use 1941
and 1912 values in making their
surveys.
If the attorneys contention were
upheld by the commission or the
courts. assessments throughout
Maryland could be expected to
skyrocket.
Old Standard Used.
Assessors now use the period be-
fore the war-boom inflated prices
as their ground for arriving at
fair value" assessments.
Mr.. Rogan remarked at one
point Of the argument:
Unless and until the Court OF
Appeals rules that property in
Baltimore City and the counties
should be assessed at full value
and that represents full cash
value, this commission is not goine
to change its standard of value"
The commission did not rule
formally on the five cases, but took
them under advisement.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
use Of 5esqui Funds
For Defense Urqed

representative Garfield, Re-
publican, Of New Jersey, thinks
the proposed $4,000, 900 appropria-
tion for the Districts sesquicen-
tennial celebration could be used
to better advantage in providing
the Capital with defense measures
against possible atomic attack OF
in stockpiling strategic materials
II we ruin our stockpile now
there may be no birthday parties
tomorrow" Mr.. Garfield told the
House yesterday in commentina
on a Senate cut in stockpiline
funds and approval of sesuuicen-
tennial money. B
Congressional inquiry will es-
tablish that sufficient funds fo1
the birthday party have already
been pledged" he continued
Twice. the House has rejected
this handout. / am sure it will
do so again"
The charge that sufficient funds
for the SeSquicentennial have
been pledged brought a denial
today from Edward Boykin, direc-
tor OF the National Capital Sesqui.
centennial Commission. Mr.. Boy
kin said such a statement /.
completely untrue"
He asserted: Business interests
have not pledged one dollar for
the celebration. If we do not get
the money from the Congress, we
do not have the celebration. It
looks to me as If Mr.. Garfield has
not taken the trouble to try to
understood what we are trying
to do."
The bill containing the sesqui-
centennial item now is in the
hands OF Senate and House con-
ferees to adjust differences.
Evening star., 1949-09-30

has been torn down, holes have
been kicked in door panels, win
dows are broken and hole even
has been kicked through a first
floor ceiling from the room above
The damage is estimated by
police to be from $2,50O to $1,000.
A real estate agent who lists the
house for sale said the building
was in good order Sunday before
last. Police think most Of the
damage was inflicted early last
week.
They said the vandalism was dis
covered and reported to them by
the father Of one Of the youths
involved. The father learned that
the son failed to report to school
on q school day. He found the
boy and four others playing
hockey. Ia the house.
Two Of the boys admitted break
Ing into this fathers house on
two occasions, stealing S. at one
time and $14 the otter.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Interior Aide eHuds
Potomac Cooperative

Reginald c. Price of Arlington
special assistant to the Assistant
Secretary Of Interior, has been
elected president of the Potomac
Cooperative Federation.
Other officers elected by the
federation for the coming year
were Glen Wall, vice president:
Laverne Oehler. secretary, and
George Davidson, treasurer.
The federation is a group of II
cooperative societies in the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia which
operate q department store. a ra-
dio station, drugstores and other
retail facilities.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Cooperative Storage
For Maryland Grain
Urged by B|andford

Joseph H. Blandford, chairman
of the Maryland Production and
Marketing Administration Com
mittee. has called on the State
Farm Bureau to look into the pos
sibility of providing cooperative
storage facilities for Maryland
grown grain.
In letter to Wilson A. Heaps,
president Of the Maryland Farm
Bureau, Mr.. Blandford pointed
out that adequate storage facili-
ties for Maryland grain would in
crease farm profits by relieving
farmers of the necessity of some
times dumping their crops on a
glutted market at low prices.
Mr.. Blandford's request followed
recent meetings of farmers, feed
dealers and agriculture special
lists in Frederick and Easton.
Purpose Of the meetings was to
aid farmers who must dump grain
at lower-than-support prices be-
cause OF inadequate storage facili-
ties.
$50 far as I can see, there is
little relief in sight for the farmers
storage problems except through
cooperative action" Mr.. Bland
ford said.
There seems little, If any, dis
position on the part of commercial
interests to engage in the business
OF storing farm grains-partly
because of feeling of uncertainty
among the trade as to whether
the demand for storage will con-
tinue. but principally because of
the prospective low rate of return
on capital invested in such an
enterprise"
Describing Maryland as a feed
deficit" State, Mr.. Blandford said
that in spite of this fact much of
the locally grown grain is sold
outside the State and is replaced
with feed products grown and
manufactured elsewhere and
shipped to Maryland consumers
at additional cost.
Cooperative storage facilities,
properly located, he said, would
retain the grains in the State,
save heavy transportation charges
and increase business activity in
the form of processing and mer-
chandising.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Arbitrary Cuts Ruled Out
For Navy, Marine Corps

Defense Secretary johnson says
he Is not planning any arbitrary
cuts Ia the Navy or Marine Corps.
He gave this assurance to Rep
resentative Bennett, Democrat. OF
Florida in a letter in which he also
said he was looking for ways to
cut out waste and ineft1ciency
wherever they may be found" in
the armed forces.
MIR. johnson also promised that
II any changes were made in the
armed services, he first would
submit the plans to the Senate
and House Armed Services Com
mittees.
Mr.. Bennett recently called or
the defense chief to tell Congress
If he planned any Gripping re-
ductions in the naval air arm.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Last Three-Year Class
Capped at Providence

The last Gaping ceermony fol
nurses graduating under the old
three-year system at Providence
Hospital was held yesterday with
five Washington area women TAX
ing part in the ceremonies.
Future classes, which will take
two years of academic courses at
Catholic University before con-
tinuing for the same length of
clinical study at the hospital, will
receive bachelor of science de-
grees in addition to registered
nurse certificates. The university
and hospital recently merged their
courses of study for nurses.
The SD exercises were held for
seven women-one a nun soon to
leave for missionary service in
India-at st. Peters Catholic
Church, Second and c streets Sc.
Those receiving certificates from
this area are:
Miss Doris June Joyce. 3168
Nortn IWenJy-nrSt street, Arllng-
ton: Miss Elizabeth Jane Orlando
502 Oneida place NV; Miss
Frances Reklis, Indian Head, Md;
Miss Florence Talbot, 5204 Fifth
street NV; and Miss Marietta
r. Tana. 1912 Third street NE.
Sister Juliana Matyi of the
Medical Mission Sisters. Phila-
delphia, and Miss Margaret Whal.
ton, Miami, Fla. also received
diplomas from the Rev. Walter
Hayes of st. Peters.
The new training course, now
q separate department affiliated
with the university, will be CO.
ordinated by a former graduate
of both the hospitals school anc
the, university. She is Sister Ber.
nadette, named as director o.
nursing education.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
AIexundrio Council Coils
Special Meeting Today

The Alexandria City Council
will hold a special meeting at 4
pm. today to discuss and act on
the question of a referendum on
nonpartisan municipal elections.
The Alexandria Charter Com
mission, which is in the last stages
of drawing up a new charter Tor
the city, suggested that election
OF municipal officials should be on
2 nonpartisan basis to eliminate
GArty primaries. 4
Evening star., 1949-09-30
PHA Turns Over Site
For Greenbe|t Armory;
Arlington HousingS Sold

The Public Housing Admins
tration today turned over a site
in Greenbelt to be used for an
armory for the Maryland National
Guard and sold two wartime hous-
ing projects in Arlington. Va. to
cooperative groups formed by
Negro tenants.
Transfer of title to an eight-acre
site in Greenbelt was the first step
in construction of an armory for
Battery c of the 224th Field Ar
tillery Battalion.
The transfer took place in a
brief ceremony in the Offices of
John Taylor Egan, commissioner
of the Public Housing Administra-
ton, which administers the
Greenbelt project. Maj. Gen. Mil
ton A. Reckord, adjutant general
of the Maryland National Guard,
of Baltimore. accepted the title.
Gen. Reckord said bulldozers
would be on the site in two weeks
to level the ground and construc-
ton of shop and storage facilities
would begin in 60 days.
Buildings to Cost $150,O00.
This will provide much-needed
facilities for the IS officers and
men of the battery which has
been meeting in the Greenbelt
Community Hall and drilling on
the athletic field nearby.
Ultimately, Gen. Reckord said.
the armory will consist of a two
story-and- basement brick build
ing 40 by 100 feet with an at
tached drill hall so by 140 feet.
The cost will run to about $780,
900, he said. He said it will be
completed in 18 months or two
years.
There was no monetary con-
sideration in the transaction. The
transfer was authorized by special
legislation enacted by Congress.
Acquired in 1945.
The tract is part of the land
acquired by the Government in
1885 in the development of Green
belt, depression project carried
out by the Resettlement Admins
tration.
Also present at the ceremony
in Mr.. Egan's Office was Col. C.
Russell Craven of the Kansas
National Guard. retired, who is
the Public Housing Administra-
tion's assistant commissioner for
disposition.
The housing projects in Arling-
ton are the George Washington
Carver Homes and the Paul Law
renee Dunbar Homes. These are
the first sales of permanent war
housing projects anywhere in the
Nation to co-operatives composed
entirely of colored members.
Carver Homes, a Aunt project
on South Queen street, was sold
for $123,000. Dunbar Homes,
with 86 units, on Seminary road,
was sold for $261 900.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
WCA Unit to Sponsor
Alexandria Musicale

The Bethune Branch of the
Alexandria Y. w. c. A. will spon-
sor a benefit musicale at 8:15
pm. Sunday in the Pendleton
Street Community Center. Alex
andria.
The program viii include songs
by several Washington and Alex
andria singers as well as a violin
recital by Miss Florence Frank,
concert mistress of the Alexandria
Civic Orchestra.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Hoffmon-Bo Boston School
Group Names Officers

Eli Williams was elected presi-
dent of the Student Government
Association of the Hoffman-Bs--
ton School for Negroes in Arling-
ton yesterday.
Other officers are Beverly Cam
non, vice president; Rowena Jack
son, secretary; Mignon Parks, as
sistant secretary; Matte Goodine,
treasurer. and Vietta Madison,
chaplain.
The officers were to be installed
today by Stephen M. Sydnor,
principal. \..,--.-
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Montgomery Toll Cedor.
Plan Dance Tomorrow

The uniformed bodies of Mont
gomery Forest No. 1874. Tall Ce-
dars Of Lebanon, will hold their
second annual fall square dance
from $3.50 pm. to midnight to-
morrow in the Silver Spring In
termediate School.
Proceeds will be used to equip
the groups band and other uni
formed units of the organization.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Must
FightPo||ution,
Commission Told
Major Civic Duty
Of Big Corporations,
Spokesman Says
By jones BirchfieId
Stor Staff Correspondent

CAPON SPRINGS, w. Va, Sept
30.-A representative of industry
told the Interstate Commission or
the Potomac River Basin here to-
day that one of the major civic
duties of large corporations is the
correction of stream pollution.
Addressing the annual commits
sion meeting. Lyman Cox, waste
consultant for the E. I. dupont de
Nemours & Co., said that industry
must attack the pollution abate-
ment problem through co-opera-
ton with established agencies
and by spending its own money
for treatment facilities.
"Since excessive pollution from
whatever source interferes with
many desirable uses of water
Mr.. Cox said. at is every citi-
zen's responsibility to ncern
himself with the pollution prob
lem and assist in every reasonable
manner, including the spending OF
his own money, in efforts, to abate
pollution.
Problem of Management.
In attacking the industrial
waste problem, Mr.. Cox said in
dustry must first develop full in
formation about its own wastes
and then take the necessary cor
rective action.
1t also must keep the public ad-
vised concerning its pollution
problem and the progress being
made toward correction.
Asserting that industrial waste
disposal is problem Of manage
ment, Mr.. Cox said methods of
controlling pollution must be
carefully considered in research,
new product development, plant
construction, plant site selection,
manufacturing and maintenance
and in employe and community
relations.
"It would not be surprising,
he said. Ito see it crop up in ad-
vertising-a new selling point
known as waste appeal"
Round Table Today.
Mr.. Cox's address served as an
introduction for an industrial
round table discussion on pollu-
tion control scheduled this after
noon.
Ways in which industry can
help clean up the Potomac will be
discussed by representatives 'o1
the Celanese Corp, Virginia
Woolen Mills, Crompton -Shenan-
doah Co., Merck & Co., Inc, Key
stone Tanning & Glue Co., Ameri-
can Viscose Corp, and the Ma
tional Fruit Products Co.
Opening the meeting last night
j. Donald Halstead of the New
York bonding Arm of B. J. Van
1nger Co., Inc. led a discussion
Of methods of financing treatment
facilities.
Later during the fall sessions
the commission is expected to &C
on record favoring the creation
OF an authority for financing Po-
tomac River Basin antipollution
facilities. The suggestion for such
an authority came from repre-.
sentative of the Washington Boarc
Of Trade.
An executive committee meet
ing will be held tonight, following
barbecue for commission mem.
bers and guests.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Rutland Urges
New Programs
ForD.C. Health
$50 Honor Retiring
Doctor at Dinner,
Reception Here

Health Officer George c. Ruh-
land last night marked the end
of his long District service with an
appeal for expanded programs tc
improve the city's health.
The 70-year- old doctor, who re-
tires today, was honored by about
$50 persons, representing health
business, civic and Government,
groups. at a reception and Dime,
at the Mayhower Hotel.
Reviewing his career of nearly
Is years here, DR.. Rutland said
Health Department employees
need not apologize for the rec.
ord" but that II am well aware
of the Improvements needed fol
further development"
He cited difficulties in getting
congressional approval for pro-
grams by saying he had found
progress in Washington by nc
means as rapid as in other COM
munitieS." One reason, he de-
clared, is that officials in other
cities "can go directly to the
elected representatives of the pub
lie for needs. In the District, that
relationship is much more re-
mote"
Pay Handicaps Cited.
DR.. Ruhland struck at unreal
istic pay policies" as a drastic
handicap to acquiring and holding
good personnel and said higher
salaries constitute lone way good
health can be bought"
The health officer called for a
vast program of education to
teach the public the essentials OF
healthy living and stressed the
need for more health centers to
cut down and in many cases, sup
plant costly hospital care.
Concerning his future plans, DR..
Rutland said it would be bad
mental hygiene" if he cut off his
active career completely. So he
said he intends to taper off with
part-time duties in some field of
public health" He has been
offered the post Of executive
director of the American Cancer
Society's District division.
The question of a successor to
DR.. Rutland was avoided en-
tirely during the banquet, al
though his assistant and one OF
the leading candidates for the job,
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, was one
of those who paid tribute to DR..
Rutland on the program.
Mason Cites Crusading.
District Budget Officer Walter
L. Fowler was postmaster. and
speakers who Joined in the tri-
butte included DR.. Reginald M.
Atwater, executive secretary OF
the American Public Health As
ISOLATION; DR.. Leona Baumgart-
ner, associate chief of the
Children's Bureau, and DR.. c. l..
Williams, representing Surgeon
General Leonard A. Scheele.
They were headed, however. by
Commissioner Guy Mason, who, as
the top District official dealing
with health and hospitals. fire.
quently has been at bitter odds
with. DR.. Rutland.
Presenting DR.. Ruhland with a
scrool on behalf of the Commits
sioners, Mr.. Mason told the health
officer he has been "a crusader,
doing your best with what you
had, and doing your best to get
what you didn't have"
1--WE have worked together" he
said, mot always peaceably and
not always calmly. But we never
disagreed on principles. only on
methods"
Evening star., 1949-09-30

the Board OF
Public Welfare
for demotion to
his former posi-
ton of assistant
S u p e r i n =
tendent. T h e
Star learned to-
day. He refused
to reveal the
reason for his
action.
DR.. James A.
Alston's request
and the possible
appointment of
his S,Iccossor is
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Indion Head Pupil Honored

INDIAN HEAD. Md, Sept. 80
(SpeciaD Conrad Townes, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Stanmore B.
Townes, Indian Head, has been
elected president Of the student
senate OF Lackey High S3hool.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Superintendent Asks
Demotion al School
For FeebIe-Minded

The superintendent and chief
medical officer of the District
Training School for the Feeble
Minded at Laurel, Md, has asked
Evening star., 1949-09-30
PTA to Meet Monday

The District Heights (Md.) Ele-
[mentary School PTA will hold its
first fall meeting at 8 pm. Mon
day in the school auditorium.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Square Dance Series

Friendship House, at 619 D
street Sc, will hold the first of
a series Of weekly fall square
dances at $50 pm. tomorrow.