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Evening star., 1950-09-21
Group Formed 70 Push
School Bond Issue
Plan in Arlington

A co-ordinating council to work
for passage Of $7.5 million school
bond issue was formed in Arling-
ton last night by representatives
of eight countrywide organiza-
tions.
o. Glenn Stahl, personnel di-
rector Of the Federal Security Ad-
ministration and a former school
board member, was named chair
man of the new organization, for
mally called the Co-ordinating
Committee for School Bonds.
Petitions are being circulated
in the county by parent-teacher
associations and other groups
asking the Circuit Court to set a
referendum on the bond issue pro-
posal. The school board has ex-
pressed the hope that the vote
will be held on general election
day, November 7.
Would Finance High School.
Included in the program which
would be. financed by the bond
issue are q junior senior high
school, three new elementary
schools and additions to six ex-
isting buildings. Remodeling of
twelve schools and acquisition of
sites for others also are provided
for in the program.
Represented at last nights
meeting at Washington-Lee High
School were the Better Govern
ment League. Arlington Council
of Parent-Teacher Associations,
Citizens Committee for School
Improvement, the American AS
sociation of University Women,
the Business and Professional
Women'S Club. the League of
Women Voters, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Arlington Ed
ucation Association.
Oscar R. LIE Beau, of the School
Improvement Committee. urged
that campaign be launched to
register potential voters before
the deadline 80 days prior to the
election.
Backs Committee Plan.
Mr.. LIE Beau supported a pro-
posal that a research committee
be appointed. In an obvious ref
erence to John Locke Green,
county treasurer, Mr.. LIE Beau said,
"It is hard to believe there are
public officials who use this sit
uation to get publicity for them
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Civil Defense Manual
On Sale in Star Lobby

Copies of the new Govern
ment civil service manual now
are on sale at the business
counter in the lobby of The
Star Building.
The booklet was issued by
the National Security Re-
sources Board with the ap-
proval of President Truman.
1t is intended particularly for
persons who may act as air.
raid wardens, fire wardens or
first-aid workers. The official
price is Is cents.
Also available are a few
copies of the Governments
official atomic bomb booklet at
$1.25 each.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Truman Phone Call Marks REA Event
BY The Asseeioted Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Sept,
21.-Eugene Dickinson's first call
on his new telephone was any
thing but a private conversation
With an untold number of lis
teners tuned in by radio. the Ali
Force veteran picked up his hand
set yesterday afternoon to hear
President Truman talking from
the White House. The President
congratulated him and has wife
for being the first persons in the
Nation to get a telephone under
new Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration loan program.
1t was the climax of an all-day
celebration of the occasion. The
celebration centered here, but the
DickinSons received the call at
their Spotsylvania dairy farm Is
miles away.
Claude r. Wickard said the
REA's lending program to tele-
phone companies marks an 'im-
portant forward step toward
bringing modern conveniences to
the Nations farms
Not Federal Operation.
Under the Rural Electification
Administration program, said Mr.
Wickard, there is mo Govern
ment ownership nor Government
operation of any telephone sys-
tenn"
The program merely extends a
helping hand to local initiative
by loans to local people to bring
more telephones and better serv-
ice to farm people" the REA ad-
ministrator declared.
Mr.. Wickard was a principal
speaker at ceremonies which
marked the Inauguration of dial
service over the Fredericksburg &
Wilderness Telephone Co.
Kellam Talks on Aims.
Much the same theme was fol-
lowed in the address by Sidney
E. Kellam, director of the State
Conservation and Development
Commission.
I'm taking advantage of Fed
eral loan funds" Mr.. Kellam con-
tinued, I'VE have not surrendered
any part of our independence. It's
our own people who are building
Evening star., 1950-09-21
High School Children
From Germany Arrive
For Year in America

Six German teen ayers arrived
tired but excite dhere yesterday
after a stormy ocean crossing to
begin q year of life in American
homes and study in high schools
The six, who arrived by bus
yesterday. were among several
hundred students who landed in
New York for a years schooling
sponsored by the American Field
Service.
Seventeen-year-old Peter Neu-
hofer OF Bavaria settled down to
a ham and mashed potato dinner
with Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Wiley
OF 81 Prince Georges avenue, Ken
sington, and friendly talk that
went on until nearly midnight.
Today he reported to Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School with
the Wiley's 16-year-old son. Bob.
Soon Peter will be seeing his first
baseball game and joining Bob
in an Explorer Scout Troop.
Friendly and Delighted"
Peter is so friendly and de-
lighted with his room which he
said would house a family of four
in his refugee-crowded home town
near the border of the Soviet zone
of Germany. There is a note OF
seriousness in his talk, gay as he
Is. for his family lives in fear. >
Mrs. Wiley said today.
Peter expressed surprise at the
freedom of choice in American
schools. being used to years OF
Latin and Greek and no text
books" Mrs. Wiley said. English
has been his favorite subject and
ne speaks it well, though some
times when a peculiar phrase
comes out he grinS and saws,
That's my Oxford English, I'll
have to learn the American"
Along with Peter at Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School will be
Helga Cramer. II, of Coburg, who
is staying with DR.. and Mrs.
Richard H. Price, 9724 Bexhill
drive. Kensington.
"Helga and my two daughters,
Minerva and Ann, started right in
chatting about clothes and boy
friends" said Mrs. Price. 1--WE will
hate to Sc her go at the end of
the year"
Off to School Today.
Attending Montgomery Blair
High School this year will be
Heinz Erich Myennich, II, Nuern-
berg, and Dagmar Anna Sabathil,
II. Landschut. Both will have the
company of children of their
American hosts during the year.
Heinz, who is staying with Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Troxler, lit
Normandy drive, Silver Spring
went to school today with the
Troxler's son, Tom. Dagmar was
helped in getting settled by Anna
Marie and Dorothy Herzig, daugh-
ters of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph K.
Herzig, 728 Thayer avenue, Silver
Spring, with whom the German
girl will make her home.
Betty Joe Booker, 16-year-old
Washington-Lee High School stu
dent. Arlington. welcomed Irm-
gard Stabb, 16. to her school and
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ivan A. Booker, GIT North
Lincoln street, Arlington.
Sixth German youth to spend a
year here is Horst Kuendel, 18.
Interested in Journalism and anx-
iouS to work on the Washington
Lee school paper, he will stay with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest j. Stocking,
GIG North Kenmore street, Ar
lington.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Truck Hits School Bus
AT La PLATA; Man Dies,
! Children Injured
Specioi pispaieh 10 The Sior

LA. PLATA, Md, Sept. 21.-One
man was killed, another seriously
injured and seven children were
bruised and shaken up yesterday
when pickup truck crashed into
the rear of school bus on the
Grain highway near here.
The bus, which had stopped al
"a Pennsylvania Railroad crossing
about 8 miles from La Plata, was
Icatapulted Is feet down the roac
by the impact. Forty three other
children on their way home from
public and parochial schools were
unhurt. p
Killed was Claude Eugene
Mudd, 43. Newburg, Md, who had
been picked up a few minutes be-
fore the accident by the truck
driver. James B. Purcell, 81, also
of Newburg. .. 80
Victim Father Of 5 Children.
MI. Mudd, a carpenter and IA
ther of five children, suffered head
and chest injuries. fractures of
both legs and a broken jaw. He
died about five hours later in Cas-
ualty Hospital, Washington.
Mr.. Purcell, a toll collector at
the Potomac River Bridge, was
taken to Physicians Memorial
Hospital here with head, chest
and eye injuries.
State police said the crash oc-
CURED at 800 pm, seconds after
the bus driver. Robert H. Hayden.
20, of Issue. Md. had stopped be-
fore crossing the railroad.
The seven injured children were
identified as Shirley Burroughs,
6, Tompkinsville; Barbara and
Marion Wise. 17-year-old twins,
of Rock Point; NADIA Zagami, 16,
Cobb Island; Janet Edwards, IL,
and her brother, Daniel, IA, of
Issue. and Carolyn Bridget, 10,
of Newport.
Treated by Virginia Doctors.
Thomas Maloney of Newburg,
owner of the bus, said the injured
children were seated near the
rear of the vehicle. All were
treated at the scene by five Vir-
ginia physicians. who were driv-
ing nearby.
Police said the doctors are in
structors at Medical College Hos
pital. Richmond. They gave their
names as J. j. Dobbie. F. A. Car
mine, A. A. Kirk, Larry Miller and
Richard Fisher.
Hugh C.. Gardiner, jr.. a farm
machinery dealer, of Faulkner,
brought the children to the hos
pital here in a private car. They
were given further treatment and
released. No charges were placed
pending further investigation.
Evening star., 1950-09-21

lines, our own people who will
own and operate the company and
who will pay back the loan on
schedule, and with interest"
w. Marshall King, chairman of
the State Corporation Commis-
soin, served as master of cere-
monies for the program. which
followed a parade of bands and
marching units through Fred
erickSburg.
Truman Talks to Couple.
When the time came for the
telephone call to the Dickinsons,
the President said:
II bet you will find your new
Evening star., 1950-09-21

telephone quite a help on the
farm"
Mr.. Dickinson, who has dairy
farm with some 80 cows and 139
acres of land, told the President
it was a pretty lucky day" for
him. He won about a dozen rib
bons at the Fredericksburg Fair
yesterday.
Then MIR. Dickinson introduced
his wife, who told the Chief Ex-
ecutive II have enjoyed my con-
versation with you, Mr.. Presi-
dent" .....
Apparently misunderstanding
her words, Mr.. Truman replied:
II bet you are"
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Maryland Begins
Official Canvass
OF Primary Vote
Several Candidates i
Hopeful Of Changes
In Close Counties
BY the Assecioted Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 21.-The
official canvass of votes cast In the
Maryland primary election gets
under way in earnest today.
1t will settle some big questions
left hanging by the unofficial
tallies collected after Mondays
primary election.
Incomplete unofficial returns in.
dicated that John Marshall But
Ter, Baltimore attorney, won tho
Republican nomination for the
Senate, on the basis of the decisive
convention votes.
Markey Hasn't Conceded.
However, D. John Markey, the
1946 nominee for the post, was
leading in the popular vote, and
there was a slight possibility he
could garner, enough convention
votes to get the nomination.
Mr.. Butler is claiming the nom.
ination, but Mr.. Markey has not
conceded.
The Republican contest between
Miss Helen Elizabeth Brown, a
Baltimore lawyer, and William A,
Gunter of Cumberland for the at
torney general nomination also
was not decided definitely by the
incomplete, unofficial tally.
Mr.. Gunter holds a wide lead in
the popular vote, but the question
OF who will win the majority Of
the 152 convention votes was un-
decided. Miss Brown is certain Of
81 convention votes and is lead
ing for three others.
All Returns Not In.
Mr. Gunter is certain of So con-
vention votes and is leading for
% others. There were no unoffi-
cial returns for Baltimore and
Worcester Counties, which have q
total of II votes.
Representatives of George P,
Mahoney have been assigned to
each counting place for the can
vass. Mr.. Mahoney, on the face
of unofficial returns, lost the DEM
ocratic gubernatorial contest to
Gov. Lane.
Although Mr. Mahoney led in
popular votes. Gov. Lane appar-
emily won 81 convention votes to
Mr.. Mahoney's 68.
Gov. Lane won several counties
by narrow margins. however.
Mahoney forces are hopeful
that the official canvass will show
that he-and not Gov. Lane
won some of those counties.
May Ask Recount.
There were strong indications
that after the canvass is COM
plete, Mr.. Mahoney will ask for
recounts in at least three counties
if the unofficial results are borne
out.
Counties mentioned in the re-
ports of possible recount are
Garrett, Wicomico and Dorches.
ter.
Carroll County jumped the gun
on Baltimore City and the other
% counties and held it's official
canvass yesterday.
The official results from that
county paralleled the unofficial
tallles in every contest.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Fairfax Studies
Way TO Provide
Mclean Sewers
Sanitary Engineers
Are Questioned on
Special Sub-District

The Fairfax County Board OF
Supervisors is seeking ways to
provide sewer facilities for the
Mclean area, where overflowing
septic tanks are believed to be
threatening the health Of resi-
dents.
G. Wallace Carper, chairman OF
the board, said sewage frequently
flows across Old Dominion drive
in Mclean and that he had seen
school children walking through it.
James j. CorbaliS, county sani-
tary engineer. agreed the Mclean
problem 'is about the worse sew
age condition I know Of"
Mclean is within Sanitary Dis
trict No. 3, created by court order
in 1947. Although the sanitary
district has the right to issue
bonds for sewer district, the
supervisors agreed it is unlikely
one could be approved in ref
erendum because most of the dis
trict is rural and residents do not
feel the need for sewer facilities
Mclean is about the most heavily
populated area in the entire sani-
tary district.
Special Permits Urged.
The supervisors asked Mr.. Cor
balls to determine whether sub
sanitary district could be created
for Mclean. Mr.. Corbalis said
the problem also might be solved
by a bond issue that would re-
quire no tax levy. but would be
repaid entirely with sewer service
revenues.
On motion of Supervisor Ar.
thur Schaffer, the board ordered
preparation of an ordinance to re.
quire special use permits for the
operation of tourist camps ant
gasoline stations. Mr.. Schaffel
said such permits are required ir
most other areas nearby.
The tourist camp problem came
to the boards attention wher
John Hardbower asked for recon.
ing OF 212 acres near Belle Haven
to build tourist cabins. About sc
residents of Belle Haven appeared
TO oppose the reZoning.
Mr.. Hardbower's request TO.
commercial zoning was denied
The property is located at Bel
field road and No. highway neal
the Belle Haven Country Clut
golf course.
Two Petitions Granted.
Two rezonings granted by the
board involve: About one acre or
the northwest side of No. / high
way near Woodlawn School, from
rural residence to general business
for a tourist court; and 21a acres
on Route TAB south of Pohick
Church, from agriculture to rural
business for a filling station and
tourist court.
A request to rezone 2la acres or
the north side of Lee highway al
Graham road from suburban resi-
dence to rural business was denied
County Assessor Graham James
reported on the progress of the
current real estate reassessment
He was authorized to delay prep
aration of assessment maps until
the job Of assessing is completed
so the new assessments can be
ready for next years budget. Mr.
James said reassesSments already
have been completed in the Gen.
terville and Dranesville districts
and are nearly finished in Lee and
Mount Vernon districts. Eight
State assessors are doing the job
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Hospital Chief Named

CUMBERLAND. Md, Sept. 81
R.-John A. Moberly, SO, super
intendent of the Clearfield (PaD
Hospital, has been named super
intendent of Cumberland's Me-
mortal Hospital, according to Will
liam A. Gunter, president of the
board of governors here.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
PTA to Hear Supt. EurIy

Arlington Schools Supt. William
A. Early will speak on Education
IN Arlington" at meeting at
O'Clock tonight of the Parent
Teacher Association of the York
town Elementary School, Twenty
eighth and North Florida streets,
Arlington.
Evening star., 1950-09-21

on express highways from Wash
ington and from other Govern
ment installations. Commuter
traffic now, according to one
planner. "is choking itself to
death"
Roughly one third of the county
is a highly developed suburban
area. The other two-thirdS
are rural. 1t was in the rural area
that the Upper Montgomery
County Planning Commission was
organized around July /.
Col. Lathrop E. Smith, chair
man of that commission, said
news of the Government dispersal
plans was received with dismay
and alarm"
Explains Reaction.
He explained today that this re-
action was occasioned by realiza-
ton of the necessity-and the
difhculties-of expanding county
facilities quickly to meet the needs
of people establishing homes in
the area, if a Government office
is located there.
Government officials have been
careful to stress that no Govern
ment town" is contemplated in
connection with any of the
projected centers. But Frederick
Gutheim, member of the Upper
Montgomery Commission, said he
is not prepared for any other
assumption but that a Govern
ment installation employing 10000
persons would ultimately mean a
satellite community of $4,000.
Therefore, he maintained, Gov
ernment building sites should be
chosen with the idea of providing
also desirable conditions for con-
tiguous residential development.
He said it should be high and
well drained, comparatively level
and with an adequate water sup
ply.
Water Sources Plentiful.
Water sources and highways
will be conditions on which the
location of the proposed buildings
will depend. In Montgomery
County there are plentiful water
sources in the Potomac, Monocacy
and Patuxent Rivers and Seneca
Creek.
Col. Smith stressed that resi-
dents of rural Montgomery Coun-
/ ty now are strained trying to
balance the tax bill against all of
the governmental services de-
manded. He did not see, however,
that the establishment of a
couple of we'll located Govern
ment installations would be an
adverse development.
The chief reason for the forma-
ton of the commission was the
spilling over into the rural area
of speculative subdivision develop
ment. 1t is an area. outside the
jurisdiction of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, which so far
has no planning, no zoning and
no building code.
Problem of Population.
Formed to cope with this and
other conditions for an extensive
area with only about 25 900 popu-
lation, the commission now faces
the need of planning for an accel-
Grafton of residential develop
ment for population which
might be more than tripled.
Blair Lee, Sd, vice chairman of
the Maryland NCPPC, said he be-
lieves any Government Offices in
the county will be located in the
rural two-thirds, rather than in
the third for which the Maryland
NCPPC has planning RESPONSE
bility.
Whatever comes,' he said,
will inevitably bring dislocation
and problems" 1t was he who
remarked that the commuter
Evening star., 1950-09-21

traffic is choking itself to death,
and he added that the No. prob
lem is that of traffic arteries.
Three Projects Outlined.
Planning in this direction has
produced these projects:
The relocation of Highway 240
from Frederick into Washington.
1t is now being built as far as
Brink, but it's course from there,
around Rockville and into Wash
ington still is unsettled. 1t is be-
ing built by the Maryland State
Roads Commission.
The Columbia Pike project re-
locating Route 20 from Washing
ton to Baltimore by way Of White
Oak, Burtonsville, Columbia and
Ellicott City.
The George Washington Me-
mortal Highway skirting the Po-
tomac on the Maryland side of the
river. 1t is a Federal project, but
Maryland put up half the money
to buy, the right-of-way as far as
Great Falls. 1t is also proposed
to extend this to Cumberland, fol-
lowing the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal.
Other Road Building.
Other road building is in prog
reSs, of course, but Mr.. Lee eSti-
mated that at the current rate of
construction by the State, with
its limited resources, it will take
so years to do all the road build
ing necessary.
He urged a measure previously
suggested-and assailed. 1t is to
run an express highway through
Rock Creek Park. In Montgomery
County. according to Mr.. Lee. this
highway should fork, one branch
going northwest to the highway
from Frederick, the other north
east to the Columbia Pike.
He reached the same conclusion
others have reached: If express
highways are to be built to the
new Government buildings, the
Federal Government will have to
aid in the financing.
Evening star., 1950-09-21

INCINERATOR TO END RAT NUIsANCE-This ncinerator
South Eads street Jefferson highway Arlington
the site Of the county dump completion
about November l. The county trying to rid the Of
rats but the problem complicated the continued operation
Of the Alexandria city dump only short distance away.
Star staff Photo
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Recommissioninq Planned

PORTSMOUTH, Va. Sept. 81
R.-The Navy will recommission
two attack transports Saturday at
the Norfolk naval shipyard. They
are the Latimer and the Botetourt.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
Johnson at WILLIAMSBURG

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Sept. 81
fP.-Former Defense Secretary
johnson is spending a few days
here to rest UP after his cabinet
tenure.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
The Expanding CopituI
BY Froncis P. Douglas

Dispersal of Government Offices
into Montgomery County, Md,
will pose a tough highway prob
lem will have to be solved as
rapidly as Federal Office build
ings are erected.
Each outlying Government de-
velopment will need ready access
Evening star., 1950-09-21

Second in q series of orticles on whot
oreos adjoining the CopitoI ore doing
to prepare for exponsion or dispersol
Of Federal agencies.
Evening star., 1950-09-21
he EXPdhdIh9 NdPfuI
Road Problem Must Be Solved
With Federal Offices Dispersal
Star Staff Photo.

traffic is choking itself to death,
and he added that the No. prob
lem is that of traffic arteries.
Evening star., 1950-02-03

Des Monts, near Montreal, was by
invitation of the Canadian spon-
sorS. 1t marks the first appear
ance of a USAF dog-sled team in
competition at these races.
The Ottawa Derby will be run
in three heats-one a day-of 80
miles each, and the st. Agathe
race will be a cross-country course
of IS miles.
The racing dogs are part of a
kennel of so huskies used by the
9th Rescue Squadron of MATS
Air Rescue Service. These sled
dogs have established excellent
records at the isolated Arctic out
post of the Newfoundland Base
Command.
S/Sergt. Charles o. Laine, %, of
Norwich, Conn.,. and Corpl. Ro-
land E. Rhodes. 10, of Gardiner.
Maine, who will race the teams,
have quarters in the kennel area
and spend practically all their
time there. This is necessary so
that the huskies can get to know
the men and learn to obey their
commands,
Evening star., 1950-02-03
Central Businessmen
Vote 10 Protest Rise
In D. {. JobIess Tax

Opposition to the announced in
crease in the District unemploy-
ment compensation tax was regis
tered last night by the Central
Businessmen's Association, at a
meeting in the Burlington Hotel.
c. A. Wharton, director of the
District Unemployment Compen-
sation Board, disclosed recently
that the tax imposed on employers
to maintain the fund will be in
creased an April /. He estimated
the payroll assessment would go
up from the present average of
four-tenths of / per cent to six
tenths of l per cent.
Called Unwarranted.
The exact amount of the tax
for each employer depends on the
extent to which his former en-
ployes draw against the fund set
up in his name. The entire fund
is maintained by employers. with
no deductions made from the
wages of his workers.
The businessmen's association
declared the increase is "unwar-
ranted and unnecessary"
A committee was appointed to
look into the matter further, and
the views of the association will
be conveyed to the Commissioners
and Congress, it was said.
In another matter, Herbert p.
Leeman, president of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations,
urged return to the system where
by the Federal Government con-
tributed 40 per cent of the Dis
trict budget with the city paying
the remaining so per cent.
Cites Tax Payments.
He pointed out that, in 1916,
Federal income taxes from Dis
trict sources were about $153 ,000,-
900 and that, out of this sum, Fed
eral contributions to the city gov
ernment were $12,000,000 In 1948,
tMr. Lehman said figures show