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Evening star., 1950-05-18
Former Alexandra Scout
To Be Honored as Hero

Hugh Very, former Alexandria
Boy Scout. will receive a certifi-
cate of heroism from the National
Court of Honor at luncheon
meeting Of the Alexandria Rotary
Club Tuesday in the George Ma
son Hotel.
Hugh. who was a member of
Troop 122 of the st. Mary's Cath
olic Church, is being honored for
his rescue Of a drowning 4-year-
old boy last summer at Wareham,
Mass.
The 14-year-old Scout was a
tenderfoot and had not had life
saving training when he saved
the child. who had fallen from a
boat.
Hugh's father, Coast Guard 1t.
Earl A. Very, will accompany him
to Alexandria for the ceremony
to be conducted by the Alexan-
dria District Of the Boy Scouts.
The family now lives In Eliza
beth City, N. c.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Arlington PTA Seeks
Vote on Bond Issue

The Arlington Council of
Parent-Teacher Associations last
night called for a referendum on
a $8.7 million bond issue for
school construction in the next
three years.
The council estimated that float
ing a bond issue of that amount
would necessitate a 30-cent rise
in the property tax rate.
The association acted on a re-
port of a special study committee
named originally to investigate
high school needs but later ex-
panded to include all needs of the
next three years.
LAS proposed, the $8.7 million
would be used for a new senior
high school, a new junior high
school and $50 new elementary
classrooms. The latter would be
constructed at the rate of SO per
year.
The committee report estimated
that school needs of the next
eight years, including the three
year program, would amount to
about $18 million.
A current construction program
is financed by two bond issues
totalling more than sos million
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Falls Church Seeking
Agreement on School
Funds With Fairfax

Falls Church officials are seek
ing an agreement with Fairfax
County school authorities on how
a proposed sos million county
school bond issue should be spent
Mayor Albert M. Orme and Mrs
Helen Regan, Falls Church School
Board chairman. have asked for a
conference with the county School
Board to discuss the location of
schools which may be built in the
territory Falls Church is seeking
to annex.
A referendum on the. county
bond issue is set for May 81. The
city has asked a three-judge an
|nexation court to grant its request
for 10.75 square miles of surround
ing Fairfax County lands. The
court reconvenes June 10.
Agreement Sought.
Ina letter to the county School
Board, the city has suggested that
the county agree now to build
any schools in the annexable area.
AS an alternative, the city has
proposed that schools be built in
the annexable area only on sites
mutually agreed on by the two
Jurisdictions.
The county also has been asked
to agree, before the referendum,
that the city will be requested in
the annexation suit either to COM
pensate the county for new schools
or to. assume a proportion of the
bonded indebtedness. but not both.
every Remote" Possibility.
If no agreement is reached be-
fore the referendum, 1t was learned
today, Falls Church will raise the
issue of school locations when the
court reconveneS.
Some Falls Church officials have
asserted there is only "a very re-
mote" possibility that the county
will erect in the annexable area a
number of buildings proportionate
to the areas assessed valuation.
If agreement can be reached now
on where schools should be located,
these officials maintain, residents
Of the county. the city and the an
nexable area will be spared the un-
certainty regarding what liabilities
will have to be assumed after an
nexation is settled.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
7 Virginia Chambers
.Urqe Localities Share
Flood Control Cost
By jones Birchfield
4Sfur Stuff Correspondent

STAUNTON, Va, May 18.-The
Army engineers had before them
today a new suggestion on flood
control. At a hearing here yes
terday on measures to control
floods in the North River area
of Augusta and Rockingham
Counties, the Staunton-A Augusta
County Chamber of Commerce Of
fered a suggestion that counties
and municipalities bear a portion
of the cost of flood control
projects.
This idea was seconded by the
Harrisonburg- Rockingham Coun-
ty Chamber of Commerce. North
River, a headwater stream of the
Shenandoah River, rises in the
northwest section of Augusta
County. It flows through Bridge
water, in Rockingham County,
where floods last June 18 took
three lives and caused heavy
property damage.
Chamber spokesmen said the be-
lief that local areas should bear a
part of flood control stems from
a dislike by many Virginia leaders
to Federal encroachment. There
also is a strong feeling among
business leaders, it was stated, that
Federal spending should be re-
duced.
The first Of a long list of wit
nesses called by Harrisonburg
Mayor L. l.. Loewner, William K.
Glidden of the Virginia Highway
Department said last June'S flash
flood in the Bridgewater area cost
the State nearly 100000 in
washed out bridges and highways.
1t was the concensus of those
testifying that a three-phase con-
troll program be adopted. This
would include constructing small
reservoirs or catch basins on the
upper mountain streams coupled
with proper land practices on the
farms and in the forests; dredging
the streams where silt has lifted
the river bed. and cutting a chan
mel so that flood waters could by
pass the town of Bridegwater.
Representing Col. Henry C.
Wolfe. district engineer for the
Washington District. were 1t. Col.
H. r. Davis, district executive off,
Ger; Donald v. C. Birrell, chief of
the Districts flood control and
power branch, and Byron Bird,
chief of the districts engineer
division.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
State AFL Convention
To Close Today After
Voting on Resolutions
BY The Associotsd Press

HAGERSTOWN. Md, May 18.
The Maryland-District of Co.
lumbia Federation of Labor con-
yention will adjourn today after
passage of resolutions and install
lation of officers.
Resolutions up for the dele
gates approval include two
against the State Ober Anti-Sub-
versives Act and number dealing
with Government printers.
The AFL group had assurance
from Gov. Lane today that prison
work methods would be found
that would not be ''in direct COM
petition with free labor"
Gov. Lane addressed the con-
vention yesterday.
He noted that complete idleness
for prisoners could not be toler-
ated in a properly conducted penal
system. but their employment in
competition with, to the detri-
ment of. free and respectable, re-
sponsible citizens must be avoided"
Labor Men Appointed.
The Governor also told the del
egates that he had named two
labor representatives to the new
State Commission on Prevailing
Wages, board setting minimum
pay scales for State contracts.
Frank Clark Ellis, president OF
the Baltimore Building and Con-
struction Trades Council, and
Clement Preller, president of its
Washington counterpart. were
named to the commission, the
Governor disclosed.
Columbia Typographical Unior
No. 101 of Washington put dozer
resolutions up for consideration
yesterday. asking, among othel
things:
Shorter hours for Government
printers, retention of the presen
sick and annual leave schedul.
for Government workers, protec.
ton against importation of chear
labor under the displaced persons
program, and protection againsr
foreign products.
The union also proposed cam
paign to set up a union labor
league in Prince Georges County
1t said a strong anti-labor feel
ing is reflected by virtually every
publication in the country.
Mail Suggestion Made.
The printers also suggested the
Post Office could balance its
budget if it withdrew subsidie.
paid to ship, rail and airlines anc
charged more for the distribution
of magazines and periodicals.
The lowering of protective
tariffs, another resolution said
has brought an influx of chear
foreign goods and this is havine
a bad effect on competing product.
made by union labor. The resolu.
ton cited watches. shoes and hats
The resolution on a 35-houl
work week for Government print.
ers pointed out that newspape
printers in Washington alread,
have it and commercial printer
are on a 3712-hour week.
The passage of two bills il
Congress which would cut dowl
on sick and annual leave of Gov
ernment employees, the union said
might set off a trend which woult
be followed by private industry
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Armed Forces Day
To Be Observed al
White Oak tomorrow

Armed Forces Day will be OBJ
served one day early-tomorrow-
at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory
at White Oak, near Silver Spring
and in Falls Church.
The laboratory at Colesville
road and New Hampshire avenue
will open its facilities to the pub
lie from $50 am. to 4 pm.
In addition to going through
the various laboratories and ex-
perimental shops, visitors will see
Navy divers in action, a crack
Army infantry drill team, a dis
play of captured enemy weapons,
a naval carrier aviation exhibit, a
collection of historical and mill
tary relics and motion picture,
the mol Story"
There also will be hourly air
sea rescue demonstrations by a
Marine Corps helicopter from
Quantico and a side show" con-
tanning scores of scientific gadgets.
One of the days top drawing
cards is expected to be a collecG
ton Of japanese surrender ex-
hibits. These include the table
on which the surrender was signed
aboard the battleship Missouri.
A snack bar will be installed in
front of the administration build
ing and the MOL cafeteria will
sell lunches. The public also may
use the laboratory's picnic
grounds.
Three bands, from the labora-
tory itself. Montgomery Blair
High School and the Naval School
of Music, will provide a contin-
uous musical background during
the day.
The Falls Church observance
will begin with a parade at 3 pm
Military units scheduled to par
ticipate are the Air Force BanC
from Andrews Air Force Base. tn,
Boiling Air Force Base Drum ant
Bugle Corps, a detachment Of For
Belvoir engineers and contingent.
OF Marine and Navy personnel
Veterans organizations and youth
groups also will be among the
marching units.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Move 10 Raise
|Sizeof Lots in
Fairfax Studied
Proposal Affecting
Glasses of Property
Will Get Hearing Soon

An increase in minimum sizes o.
two classes of lots in Fairfa,
County real estate developments i.
proposed in a new ordinance OF
the Board Of Supervisors.
Total areas of urban lots woulc
be raised from at least 1900 tc
10000 square feet and minimum
widths from go to 10 feet, under
provisions of the ordinance which
the supervisors yesterday ordered
set for public hearing. The date
will be determined later.
In the suburban category, areas
would be raised from 10000 tc
$4,000 square feet and widths from
IS to IS feet.
Calls for improvements.
Another provision would require
owners of lots up to $4,000 square
feet to install such improvements
as street cutters and subsurface
drainage. A third residential clas-
sif1cation relating to one-half acre
lots would remain unchanged.
The supervisors voted to limit
apartment construction to urban
zoned areas. This ordinance
which will be advertised for two
more weeks, will give the SUPER
visors more control over apart
ment construction in the future
Heretofore, such construction has
been permitted anywhere ap-
proved by the Board of Zonng
Appeals, but the new ordinance
will give the supervisors a direct
voice in the matter because they
establish urban zones.
Another ordinance strengthens
dumping regulations. After two
more weekly advertisements, the
county may issue special permits
for land without specific rezoning
for commercial dumping opera
tions. At present there is only one
public dump in the county.
hequlreS ApplIcatlOn.
The ordinance requires applica.
ton to the Board of Zoning Ap.
peals for authorization and 8
$100 permit from the supervisor.
for sanitary fill operations.
In other action the supervisor.
appointed committee of five tt
act as Park Commission. Named
ito the committee were John w
Brookfeld, French Fleming, C. B
Runyon, Elmer Andrews ane
G. Albert Schmidt
At the same time, another com.
mittee was authorized to study
the making of a master plan O.
the Annandale area, as requested
by the Annandale Businessmen.
Association.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Good Housekeepers
Sought for Jobs
Aiding Families

HouSekeeperS - sensible and
mature"-are being sought by the
Montgomery County Housekeeping
Services.
The new organization, sponsored
by the Public Health Lay Council
and the Community Chest in the
county. aims to employ house.
keepers to assists In homes where
some emergency exists.
The women would be employed
TO work with families where due
to illness or disqualification of the
mother there is no one to care for
children, or where finances are
inadequate for paying regular
rates to o housekeeper.
The group is seeking applica-
tions for this work from sensible,
mature women who really like
children" A car is necessary for
the job.
Headquarters for this service is
et the Farmers Banking and Trust
"a building in Rockville. Mrs.
Pearl Mack is administrator Of the
program.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
VioIafor Of Trailer Law
Gets $500 Fine or so DAYS

Mrs. Marian Barber, IS, Silver
Spring, was sentenced in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court to-
day to pay a $500 fine or serve GO
days in jail on a charge of vio-
lating the county's trailer law.
The penalty was imposed by
Judge Stedman Prescott. Mrs.
Barber was convicted last week.
1t was the first case brought to
court under the law. passed two
years ago by the General AS
sembly.
The law prohibits trailers in
the county for more than three
days in any month except in a
trailer park. Mrs. Barber ad-
mitted she had lived in her
trailer on a lot at Patton drive
and Miles street about five years
but claimed there was no place
she could move.
Owner of the property is DR.
Ernest @. King. 314 Garland ave-
nue., Takoma Park. He testified
he told Mrs. Barber TO move last
February.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Ragersfown Mayor 10 Join
6. 0. P. Race for Senate
BY the Assoeiofed Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md, May 18
Mayor Herman L. Mills con-
flrmed yesterday he will be a
candidate for the Republican
nomination for the United States
Senate this fall.
The seat is now held by Senator
Tydings, Democrat, who is ex-
pected to seek a fifth term.
Republicans have expected fol-
some time that Mayor Mills woulc
become a candidate. Only one
other Republican has announced
He is John M. Butler, Baltimore
attorney and a member of the
city Civil Service Commission.
Mr.. Mills was elected Mayor o.
Hagerstown two years ago, becom.
ing the first Republican to hole
the job in many years.
Evening star., 1950-05-18

OF ueXC WEEK.
When big Week" is over, May
27, most of the scheduled building
and grading should be finished,
officials said.
During a big Day" program
last year, volunteers laid out an
athletic field, a 10-acre wooded
area for picnics, cattle barns and
other installations. At various
times, heavy grading and other
jobs have been done.
More Help Sought.
w. Lawson King, chairman,
said a full week is set aside this
year so more people can help
with the project. He said it is
easier for some persons to spare
time on days early in the week
All kinds of skilled and un-
skilled labor can be used, said
Joseph B. Morris, the new as
sistant county agent in charge OF
Evening star., 1950-05-18
County Volunteers to Finish
HEAVY Work on Farm Center

rural recreation. Much of the
work during Big Week" will be
masonry and there will be some
light grading. There are numer-
GUS odd jobs, too. however.
In reporting for work. volun-
teers were urged to bring theil
own tools. For those unable tc
do this. some other tools will be
available.
1--WE are especially anxious tc
have anyone present who can lay
cinder blocks on the first Satur-
day and as early during (next)
week as possible" said Mr.. King
1--WE can use many unskilleo
block layers on foundations ano
swimming pool where workman
ship will not show"
Skilled Carpenters Needed.
The officials added there will
be work for skilled carpenters
too. Plumbers, painters and elec-
tricians will be needed later next
week.
The farm center will be worth
more than 100000 when COM
pleted. 1t is valued now at
$215, 900, of which only $4,000
has required cash outlays. A
major item was SIT 900 for ath-
letic field lights. Most materials
and services have been given free
Of CHARGE
Parts of the center already are
being used. This year, about SO
picnics are scheduled there, as
well as the Montgomery County
Agricultural Fair August 1926
and a horse show to be held by
the Gaithersburg Lions Club fol
benefit of the project.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Bishop Gum Is Named
Episcopal Hiqh Trustee

The Right Rev. George Purnell
Gum. Episcopal Bishop Of South
ern Virginia. has been named a
trustee Of the Episcopal High
School in Alexandria.
He replaces the Right Rev.
William Ambrose Brown, former
Bishop OF Southern Virginia, who
served as trustee Of the school
since 1888.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Leesburg Garden Club
To Present Flower Show

The Leesburg Garden Club will
hold a country-style flower show
from 2 to 5 pm. (EST) Saturday
at Rockland estate, four miles
north of Leesburg on Route Is.
It will be the 22d annual flower
show the club has held to raise
funds for the Loudoun County
Hospital vegetable garden.
Besides the flower specimen and
arrangement competitions. there
will be an auction. food and plant
sale, pony rides. dart games ano
other entertainment.
Mrs. Stanley N. Brown and Mrs
Burdette Wright are cochairmen
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Warner Church to Hold
Country Fair Tomorrow

The Warner Memorial Presby-
terian Church. Kensington, will
hold its country fair from 3 to 10
pm. tomorrow at Connecticut
avenue and Calvert place.
For the children there will be
games, movies. pony rides and
other amusements. Entertainment
has been arranged for adults and
various home made goods will be
for sale.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Court Again Rebuffs
Montgomery Attempt
To Get Relief Refund
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, May 1S.-Mont.
gomery County has received an.
other rebuff in it's effort to col.
lect a refund from the estate o1
a former old-age relief client.
Maryland's Court of Appeals
dismissed the county's appeal in Q
lawsuit against Lydia Lyles Don.
nally, administrative of the estate
of Mary Lyles Potts. The decision
left the door open for further pro-
ceedings, however, by stating &C.
ton is still possible in lower
courts.
Plummer M. Shearin, assistant
county attorney, said the County
Welfare Board paid $2,014.30s to
Mary Potts under the old-age as
siStance program.
Court Denied Refund.
When she died leaving an estate
Of unspecif1ed size, the board
asked the County Orphans Court
for a refund. It was denied.
The appeals court decision ap-
parently indicated the Welfare
Board must prove in some lower
court proceeding that it actually
did pay out money to Mary. Potts
before the appellate court can
consider the case.
The board has "full power" to
sue in such cases, Judge c. Gus
GraSon said. The relief-recovery
law would be perfectly idle and
useless if the board could not sue
in a court of law for the debt or
for the claim against a recipients
estate" he added.
Injuncti0ns Ruled Out.
In other opinions, the court:
/. Declared landlords cannot
seek an Injunction to oust bad,
surly" or rent-owing tenants.
2. Said two Prince Georges
County policemen Illegally ex-
plored paper bags on the floor
of a stalled car they pushed to the
side of the Marlboro pike, April
10. 1949.
Their search uncovered num-
bers slips and $172 in cash, which
led to the conviction of Raleigh
E. Walker on a lottery charge.
Walker had received a three
month sentence and 5000 fine in
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court.
Judge Grason reiterated an APP
lpeals Court conclusion that police
must have solid grounds for sus-
lpecting gambling "at a particular
locality" to make an arrest or OBJ
tain search warrant. General
knowledge of trade tricks is not
enough. Judge Grason said. The
case was sent back for retrial.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Fuirfox 10y Health Group
Elects 1o to Bourd

The Fairfax County Lay Health
Association has elected 10 new
directors to its board.
They are Mrs. Sargent White,
Edwin Lynch. Mrs. Neal Lynch,
Mrs. George Balm, David Bayliss.
r. Lee Kennedy, Mrs. Walter
Macomber, Hills Larry. Mrs. Gray
son Haynes. Merrell Armour, Mrs,
George Kirkley, Mrs. Thomas
Clore. Walter Mess, Robert Walk
er, Mrs. Donald wilkins, James
j. Corbalis. jr.; Lyman Kirk
patrick. DR.. t. B. McCord and
w. A. West.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Londiody Refuses
To Repay Tenant,
Now Is Fed in Jail
BY the Associated Press


RICHMOND, May 18.-
Federal Judge Sterling Hutch
eson had decided to be len
lent.
Mrs. Bessie M. Nicholas, he
ruled, had overcharged a ten
ant $126. But the judge
would give her until June /
to pay it back.
II don't owe it and I'm not
going to pay it. Lean stay in
jail and they can feed me
:" the irate landlady said.
She's in Jail, and the peo-
pie are feeding her.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Mrs. Byron Marshall
Heads MudriIIon Group

Mrs. Byron Marshall has been
elected president Of the Madrillon
Citizens Association in Fairfax
County.
Other new officers are Thomas
A. Johnston. vice president; Mrs.
Leslie Lemert. secretary. and Rob-
Iert VoSkuil. treasurer.
Evening star., 1950-05-18

erative Agricul-
tural Center in
Gaithersburg.
The day will
mark the OPEN
ing of what is
known as big
Week" for the
64-acre recre-
alton and expo
sition grounds.
- I II t + VOluu>
teers will offer
their services
on the six
working days
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Group to Give Play

The Rockville Little Theater
Group viii present the play,
Dear Ruth" at $3.50 pm. tonight,
tomorrow and Saturday at the
Episcopal Parish Hall in Rock
vile.
Evening star., 1950-05-18
Squore Dance PIunned

The Arlington Recreation De-
partment will sponsor a benefit
square dance jamboree at the
Fort Myer gymnasium at $3.50
pm. Saturday.