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Evening star., 1950-09-10
Garden Club Activities

The September meeting of the
Woodbridge Garden Club will be
held tomorrow evening at Taft
Junior High Schools west wing
Eighteenth and Perry streets
NE. A review of recent shows
! including the regional gladiolus
show as well as forecasts of the
regional dahlia and rose shows
and the Bethesda show will be
given. A question box has been
arranged by the program di-
rector. DR.. Freeman Weiss.
The National Capital DahIia
Society will meet Thursday at
8:15 pm. at the National Mu-
scum, Tenth street and Consti-
tuition avenue NV, Room 43.
A showing Of dahlias will be
held with members bringing three
each. Experts will do the judging
while explaining their technique
to the members. DR.. j. L. Bowl
ing will give an award for the
best specimen miniature dahlia
bloom grown from his seeds.
The 18th Regional Dahlia Show
will be held September % and "a
at the United States Botanic
Garden, Maryland avenue and
First street S.W.
Mrs. Paul S. Anderson of 6319
| Delaware street, Chevy Chase, as
sisted by Mrs. Elmer Higgins and
Mrs Lew Mohler, will be hostess
at the first fall meeting of the
Chevy Chase, ID. c. Garden Club
tomorrow at l pm.
Newly elected officers will pre-
side: Mrs. Christian c. Wohlge-
muth. jr.. president; Mrs. Lewis
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Life in the Country
Spanish Needle and Tick Seed
En1bIozon Fence Rows for Fall

Almost over night, our country
has become yellow with blooming
Spanish needle and tick seed
another sure sign of fall
These two plants, so much alike
that many people confuse them,
have little but beauty to recon-
mend them to the farmer. In
fact, I imagine most farmers, see
ing the yellow flowers spread along
fece rows and across meadows,
would gladly accept his beauty
from other sources if he could
only thereby remove the yellow
blossoms from his land.
AS badly as I need cleaner fence
rows and better pastures on the
40 Acres. still enjoy each fall
from the yellow scourge" and
find myself unconsciously admir-
ing the bright blossoms as I stag
ger out to milk each morning
The deep yellow of Spanish
needle is a particularly good color
to introduce fall. The blossoms
are richer yellow than the spring
daffodils, and seem to offer one
last splash of solid splendor be-
fore the turning of the leaves.
They are brightest in the early
morning dew. when most of them
wear a necklace of spider web
that holds the dewdrops like
sparkling jewels.
How can one resist such a gay
mood? I find myself thinking that
perhaps the shaggy farm is the
most enjoyable, and that. after
all, the farm with only clean
pastures and meticulous fence
rows offers very little in the way
of vagabondage.
Out the other DAY to visit
Pierre Parker's new farm and to
see a demonstration of the new
disc tiller. Pierre, who is under
the guidance of c. T. Rice of
Fairfax County, has gone for "a
acres worth of farming in the
upper section of Loudoun. 1t is
a nice farm, too, with gently
rolling fields and strip of fine
old hardwoodS.
The disc tiller, an implement
designed to take the pillow out of
farming. was put to work on an
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Prizes, Trophies
Listed at Bethesda
ChevyChuse Show

Exhibitors at the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Harvest Show to be
held September II at the
Bethesda Chevy: Chase High
School will vie for many attrac-
tive prizes and trophies. The
top prize, which goes to the win
ner of the overall sweepstake is
$25 United States Bond con-
tributed by the Suburban National
Bank. The second sweepstake
prize will be silver plate con-
tributed by Woodward & Lothrop.
A third sweepstake prize will be
pottery piece contributed by the
Takoma Horticultural Club.
In addition, awards will be
given to the winner of the high
est number of points in each sec
ton, except Junior Hobby-Lobby.
These will be in the form Of at
tractive silver plates, the Edward
L. Stock. Sr., Memorial Medal
being awarded in the Garden
Flowers Section. Competitors
judged to have the "best" in each
section will receive wide variety
of prizes such as merchandise,
fertilizer. seed, plants, purchase
orders, etc.
Prizes for DahIias.
Friends and local businessmen
have also responded generously in
donating award.
For the largest perfect dahlia
bloom, the National Capital
Dahlia Society offers a prize of
SIS; also a 1-year membership to
the member with highest
number of points in the novice
classes. The Potomac Rose
Society will award its silver medal
certificate to the exhibitor with
81 or more hybrid tea bushes
having the highest number of
points in the rose section, and
similarly it's bronze medal certi-
f1cate to the exhibitor with l to
so bushes. 1t will also award a
1-year membership to the non
member with highest number of
points in the novice class. Besides
these each blue ribbon will draw
cash prize.
Permanent Trophies.
There will be two permanent
trophies: The Perpetual Trophy
donated by the Record, to be
awarded to the Garden Club with
the best educational exhibit, and
the Bartlett Tree Perpetual Trophy
to be awarded to the Garden Club
winning the most points on a
membership basis. The public
also will come in for it's share in
the form of door prizes.
The Harvest Show Boosters
Award. consisting of Paul
Revere silver bowl, will be pre-
sented to the sponsoring club
! selling the greatest number of
tickets. Tickets are now on sale
/ at Town Crier Shop. 1927 Wis
consin avenue. Bethesda; Blackis-
tone. Inc, 1881 Wisconsin avenue,
Bethesda; c. F. Armiger, Inc, 923
Pershing drive. Silver Spring, and
the Circle Florists, Chevy Chase
Circle.
Mrs. George A. Smith. chair
man of the 1947 Harvest Show
will speak about the show over
Station WBCC on Sunday at
lis pm.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Crop Of Sod Brings $3.50
An Acre for Bluegrass

been able to sell another crop
two years hence.
Bluegrass is a native of this
area. In a few years it will creep
in and take over pastures. Farm
ers, particularly dairymen, who
like orchard grass pastures better
than bluegrass. sometimes sell of
the bluegrass sod, then reseed to
an orchard grass mixture.
The conservationists point out
that when sod is cut from the
land. humus-bearing top soil goes
with it. Even though the cutter
works only a half Inch deep, just
under the grass roots. they point
out that this is the area of most
humus.
They also say that under in
tensive cultivation - particularly
in dairying program, a good
farmer can make more per acre
year in and year out from a live
stock program than from selling
sod.
Evening star., 1950-09-10

Bluegrass sod has become an
important farm commodity in the
Washington area.
Wide-scale developments, new
apartment houses and housing
developments, are calling for more
and more of this farm product.
1t is. nice to offer for sale new
house, complete with well-grassed
yard or to offer apartments in a
new building, complete with an
established lawn.
Farmers usually will take a
pretty definite stand for or against
the practice Of selling sod. The
practice is frowned on by ardent
conservationistS.
Those farmers who sell sod,
however. point to the fact that
the grass brings as much as $3.50
an acre, more in some instances
than the total cost of the land.
Some farmers have sold sod one
year. reseeded the land and have
Evening star., 1950-09-10
BY jones BirchfieId-

old stubble-orchard grass field.
1t did a splendid job. too. making
a good seedbed in about four
times over.
Fred Tavenner, down on Sterl-
ing Farm, bought one last spring
and used it to prepare a corn
field for planting. He said the
corn in that field kept about
foot ahead of the corn in the
fields fitted by the plow-disc-
drag method.
have my eye on that tiller, and
if Pierre doesn't watch I'm going
to have it down fixing up my off
front field.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Fruit Trees in Small Yards
Dwarf Varieties Not Difficult to Crow
No More So Than Raising Roses
Bv W n YoIInomon
Corden Editor

Nearly every home owner de-
sires fruit trees, but unfortunately
the average yard is so small that
the growing of large trees is fire.
quently an impossibility. Not only
is it a question of size of tree, but
fruit trees need to be protected
from insects and diseases If the
fruit is to be useful.
In spite of these considerations
many suburban gardeners attempt
fruit growing only to find that
they are not equipped to grow
good fruit and give up the job in
despair. This is unfortunate be-
cause today many gardeners are
enjoying fruits produced on trees
50 small that they may be pro-
tected from insects and diseases
with the same equipment that is
used on the roses. Not only is the
small fruit trees-we call them
dwarfs-suitable for the modern
yard, but we may have several of
them. This is an important con-
slderation since for most kinds of
fruit we must have two or more
varities of each kind in order to
insure cross pollination. and with
out cross pollination we are likely
to secure very poor fruit crops.
Dwarf fruit trees are not nov
city. They have been grown for a
g"eat many years and even few
commercial growers use them in
place of standard sized trees.
Dwarf fruit trees are normal
varieties that have been grated
on a root stock which prevents
normal top growth. The horti-
culturists have so standardized the
root stocks that you may have an
apple tree that grows no larger
than spirea, or perhaps you
would like a pear tree that grows
as large as a lilac.
Size Predetermined.
Perhaps, your space will permit
and you would like tree that
grows to half normal size. These
root stocks are especially selected
and because they were developed
at an English experiment station,
they are named after it-Malling.
Mailing Crootstock) No. 9 pro-
duces the smallest sized tree.
Mailing rootstocks III, w and
VII produce semidwarf trees. Un-
fortunately not all varieties may
be grown on the same rootstocks
because of incompatibility. How
ever, the fruit specialists know
which varieties do best on which
rootstock and because of this
knowledge many of them are pre-
pared to furnish almost any
variety desired on a suitable stock
which will produce a tree of the
desired size.
So far we have mentioned only
apples and pears on dwarf1ng
rootstocks. The specialists that
grow dwarf fruit trees are pre-
pared to furnish you with almost
any kind of fruit on dwarfing
stocks.
The growing of dwarf fruit
trees is not difficult nor does it
Evening star., 1950-09-10

Pendleton, first vice president;
Mrs. Otis ElZey, second vice presi-
dent: Mrs. E. E. Schnelbacher
treasurer; Mrs. Carl Mack, re-
cording secretary: Mrs. Elmer
Higgins, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. NeWbergh, parliamentarian
The first fall and winter sea
son meeting of the metropolitan
African Violet Club will be hello
at the Engineers Club in the Ma
tional Theater Building at 8 pm
Tuesday. Plans will be made fol
an African Violet Show to be held
in conjunction with the National
Capital Canary Club. November
1912. Mrs. William o. Hustled is
president.
The Blue Ridge Flower Club
will hold a show in the parish
hall of Leeds Church, between
Hume and Markham. Va, We'd
nesday from to s pm. There
will be three sections-one for
garden flower collections, ar
ranged and listed: another for
arrangements and an inter-cluh
class for special arrangement OF
ANIMALS. A sweepstakes prize
will go to the exhibitor receiving
the highest number of points. Mrs
Sam Edison is president of the
club.
The annual flower show of the
Riverdale Heights Garden Club
will be held Friday, September Is
at the Riverdale Heights Fire
House on Roanoke road. The
show will be open to the public
at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Keep After Pests

Summer is the harvest time for
most insects. They will devour
your best vegetables and ruin your
finest flowers If you neglect dust
ing.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06

came by and took the cold and shivering trio aboard.
 They were given treatment for shock and exposure and kept aboard the cutter until
 O:30 am and then sent home to their parents.
 The boys were i'll for two day but Tommy returned to school Tuesday and the other two Wednesday. Wednesday evening they were guests for dinner on the Bittersweet, after turning down a Boy Scout boat trip to Woody Is- land.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06

z 4sfH - I .s $l0O for" three years. ss.
 Last year the Board of Fire Underwriters made an ex-: haustive survey of the city from a fire prevention and protection standpoint, two engineers from the board spending several days here. They tested fire equipment and hydrants and inspected water mains and water pres sure.
 Along with the re-classifica- tion, the board has sent the city a lengthy report with many recommendations for improvements which the city must plan for early accomp- lishment if it is to retain the new classification Ellis ex- plained.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06
NORMAN Photo Shop
NORM SAYS:

Your MOTHERS DAY remembrance should be mailed now to avoid delay in arriving home by May IA
 What gift could be loveier, or more appreciated, than hand painted gift by Aileen Wade Kodiak tst who has succeeded in reproducing the beauty of Ko diak wdfowers in oil on textiles, which give the coors permanency.
 We have large assortment of luncheon sets Irish linen and Indian Head breakfast sets; guest towels tray cloths large assortment of handkerchefs and many Items such novelty ties for women's blouses and sweaters The design each article is diff erent and all moderately priced. We enclose small printed page with the history of the painting with each article. *7 :' f"' =
 Mail that package now! For your convenience we gift wrap and mail.
 Phone 23o3 Il
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06
Kodiak Better Fire-..Risk

' An immediate and substan- tial" reduction in Kodiak's fire insurance rates can be ex- pected shortly as the result of the re-classification of the city blythe Board of Fire Under- writers, Vic Ellis of the Bank of Kodiak Insurance De part ment revealed this week.
 Kodiak has been re-classi- fled from class z to 6, which means that as a fire insurance risk the city is a better one than it was in the past.
 ''The fire prevention and fire protection programs have again paid off," Ellis said.
 The basic fire rate for dwellings, under the new classification, will be reduced from the present rate of $1.10 to a new rate of 80 cents per
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06
DsaaH To 8ags
 Fos k0diak May 18

The Alaska Steamship ves- vel the -Denali will sail from Seattle May IS on it's first spring voyage to Kodiak, o. H. Kimball, local agent, said yesterday.
 The Coastal Monarch sailed Sunday for Kodiak with freight for town, but none for island or cannery ports.
 It will come here via Sel- dovia, Kenai, Snug Harbor. Homer, and Port Graham, and will go to Chignik after it leaves Kodiak.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06
Three Boys Stranded On Bird island Two Nights

Three young adventurous Kodiak boys and their two dogs spent two cold wet days and nights on barren Bird Is- land last weekend before be- i1 picked up oy the CGC' Bittersweet. Monday.
 What started ou5 to be an overnight camping trip turned into a48 hour session of wish ing they were home and prom ising themselves that they would be model boys in the future.
 The boys, Franklin Davis. IA, Tommie Swenson, 12, and Jimmy Fish, IA, loaded some food, camping equipment and la 25-2O rifle aboard an eight foot skiff and sailed from the Kodiak beach last Saturday in search of Adventure. They intended to explore the nearby islands, camp over night and return home Sum- day.
 However, the best laid plans of mice and youthful seamen sometimes goes astray. While they were camping on Bird Is- land (behind Holiday Island) Saturday night, their skiff drifted away on the tide. A cold drizzling rain set in early Sunday and low visibility and fog enshrouded the boys rocky perch.
 Before leaving home Satur. day the boys had left a note saying they were going to Nixon" Island. Late Sunday when they had not returned a search was started.
 Rodney Isaacson and Johnny Lawrence of Fort Greedy, Mike Kerr and Dick Balser boarded a 16 foot skiff with an outboard and went searching for the missing boys.
 They passed the island on which the three boys were marooned but failed to see them because of the darkness and rain.
 The Marshal's office and the Coast Guard were notified and early Monday morning Grant Wheeler of the ACS and Isaac son spotted the boys and found the drifted boat on another is- land. They went after the boat andsMhile gone the motor launch from the Bittersweet
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06
Local Air Services May Expand

Collins Air Service and Bob Hall Air Service have been re- commended for an exemption order for a three year period by the CiviksAeronauties Board. .......
 The exemption order per mits the two local air services to operate on a non-scheduled basis within a 10O-mile radius of the town of Kodiak.
 They may use any type of sea plane deemed necessary for service and may hire addi- tional pilots. The exemption order was made on April IA.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06

John Raft who has been in Bend, Ore, for several weeks, returned by PIMA last Satur- day.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06

Mrs. Woodrow Bailey and Harold Naughton are new em- ployees at Bank of Kodiak. Naughton is a pre-law student at the University of Washing ton, where he is a sophomore.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-05-06

The Palisana arrived : NOE Monday from Seattle.
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Harris Epstein Dies;
Structural Engineer
With Navy Was 50

Harris Epstein, so. chief of the
waterfront structures section of
the Navy's Bureau of Yards and
Docks. collapsed and died of a
heart attack today.
Mr.. Epstein suffered the attack
while getting out of his car in
front of the bureau, which is
located at Memorial avenue and
Arlington Ridge road, Arlington.
He was taken to the dispensary
where he was pronounced dead by
a Navy physician at 8::55 am.
A structural engineer at the
bureau for 33 years, he lived at
1862 Tewkesbury place NV.
Designed Pearl HarbOr Docks.
Mr.. Epstein specialized in the
design of craving docks. piers,
wharves and sea walls. His work
included design of the dry docks
built at Pearl Harbor in World
War II. the recently completed
breakWater at Guam and the 400
ton overhead crane at Hunters
Point, Calf, which is the largest
crane of its type in the world,
yards and docks officials said.
Rear Admiral Joseph F. Jelley,
chief of the bureau, said "Mr. Ep-
stein was one of this country S
outstanding engineers. He origi-
mated many of the Navy's i'm
portant waterfront and structural
facilities during wartime expan-
sion. He was tower of strength
to this bureau
Mr.. Epstein was born in Minsk.
Russia, and came to New York in
1907. Receiving his civil engineer
ing degree from the College of
the City of New York, he came
here with the Navy bureau in
1917.
Active as Zionist.
He was a member of the Adas
Israel Congregation here and was
active in the Zionist Organization
OF America. He belonged also to
several engineering societies.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Ruth r. Epstein; two daughters.
Mrs. Rhoda Gould of New York
City, and Mrs. Gladys Zelinski of
Athens, Ca, and two grandchil-
dren.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1950-02-20
6. H. MuckIey Funeral
To Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for George
Herbert Muckley, 58, attorney here
for the Southern Pacific Railway,
will be held at pm. tomorrow at
Fort Myer Chapel. Burial will be
in Arlington National Cemetery
Mr.. Muckley died yesterday at
his home in the Westchester
apartments after a tWo-month
illness. He came here as an at
torney for the railroad about 1925.
Born in Kansas City, Mo, Mr..
Muckley was graduated from the
University of Michigan Law School.
After his graduation he served
as Navy ensign during World
War I. After the war he practiced
with a Kansas City law firm and
with a Kansas City railway before
joining the Southern Pacific.
He was a member of the Co.
lumbia Country Club.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Bernadette Muckley; sister, Mrs.
Martha E. Kerslake of Chicago,
and two brothers, Robert L. Muck
ley of Chicago and Dwight H.
Muckley of New York.
Evening star., 1950-02-20
Mrs. 0mer Williamson, 78,
BrookIand Resident, Dies

Mrs. Omer Williamson, 78, a
resident of the Brookland section
for more than 30 years, died
Saturday in Sibley Hospital after
short illness. She was a native
of Patriot, Ind. where burial will
take place tomorrow afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williamson came
here in 1918. when her husband
became an employe of the General
Accounting Office. Their home is
at 1908 Eighth street NE.
Mrs. Williamson is survived by
her husband, who retired several
years ago as a section chief in the
General Accounting Office, and a
son, Kenneth T. Williamson of
Greensburg, Pa. She also leaves
three grandchildren.
Evening star., 1950-02-20
John Reitinger Dead;
Pioneer AP Reporter
GOT Start as Copyboy
BY the Associoted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 90
John Reitinger, a veteran of 81
years service with the Associated
Press and one of the pioneers in
wire service reporting in the
United States, died last night at
the age of rs.
Mr.. Reitinger joined the Asso-
ciated Press in 1886 as a copy
body in its Philadelphia offices.
BY the time he retired in 1910,
he had covered and written stories
on such dramatic events as World
Series, political conventions, mine
strikes and thousands of other
events that were the headline
stories of the first four decades
of this century.
His death followed a long ILL
ness. but Mr.. Reitinger main
tanned a great interest in news
paper work He was familiar
figure at baseball parks. political
gatherings and other making
events.
Lugged Coal at Start.
Mr. Reitinger, native of Phila-
delphia, started his Associated
Press career Juggling scuttles of
coal to keep the Offices pot-bellied
stove roaring.
He left the AP for one year IN
1898 to work for the old Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph.
When William Mckinley was
nominated for President by the
Republicans in 1900, Mr.. Reitinger
was on the job. He wrote AP dis
patches from eight Republican
and Democratic National conven-
tions.
He covered the world series of
1905 with a pencil. He was an in
innate friend of Connie Mack, the
Philadelphia Athletics manager !
Headed Philadelphia AP.
Mr.. Reitinger was in charge of
the Philadelphia Office of the AP
for 20 years, from 1920 until his
retirement in 1910.
He is survived by his widow, and
a son, Robert Lloyd, an electrical
engineer.
One of Mr.. Reitinger's favorite
recollections was the time he and
several reporters were covering an
anthracite strike in the early
1900s. The reporters were seized
by the strikers and carried in
front of them toward angry,
armed militiamen. No shots were
fired, though.
When Grover Cleveland died at
nearby Princeton, N. j., in 1908,
Mr.. Reitinger got the first flash
from David Lawrence, then a stu
dent and now Washington COM
mentator. From memory, Mr..
Reitinger wrote, an obituary OF the
former President.