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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
BY the Associated Press

MT. SOLON, Va, Aug. 12.-
knights on horseback will gather
here again next Saturday to COM
plete in the Nations oldest con-
secutively-run sporting event.
the Mt. Scion jousting tourna-
ment.
This years renewal will mark
the 129th straight year that color
full spectacle has been staged
against the backdrop of natural
ehimmeys in Augusta County.
At the command, charge, Sir
Knight" Some 20 horsemen will
take turns sweeping down a rs
yard course intent on spearing
three tiny metal rings with nine
foot, steel-tipped lances.
The Mt. Scion tournament was
begun in 1921. Legend says it
started to settle which of two
suitors should marry local belle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
.Symphony's Friends Issue
Book OF Kinder Programs

The programs of the National
Symphony over the 18-year span
of the late Hans Kindler'S con-
ductorShip will be published to-
morrow in book form.
Reproduced in facsimile, the
collection represents the WedneS-
day and Sunday series from 1881
to 1949 when DR.. Kinder died.
In honor of the conductors fac
ulty for devising interesting pro-
grams within the limitations OF
a small budget. a committee OF
symphony Supporters arranged fol
the publication. This group in
cludes John Russell Mason, librar-
ian and curator of art of George
Washington University; Frances
Nash Watson pianist, and Harold
A. Brooks, former member of the
Symphony board.
The publication will be made
available as a reference to Ii
braries. schools, music organiza-
tions and individuals. r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13

but they do not have smoking
chimneys. Two are hosiery mills
and the third is shirt factory.
Next to the Court House on
Fourth street nd on Church
street are fine l. :'ences with ex-
pensive new cars parked in the
driveways. The two largest houses,
both with imposing porticos. have
been converted to other uses. One
is funeral home, the other is e
Seventh Day Adventist hospital
The towns principal income is
derived as a trading center for
the agricultural countryside. The
farms are small. usually with one
or two dairy cows and a variety
of livestock. The sales Of the live
stock in Wytheville total more
than So million annually.
The people of Wytheville and
Wythe County have for the most
part English, Scotch and Irish
names. Their forebearers came to
this country in the 1700s. There
is a lead mine in the county at
Austinville owned by the New
Jersey Zinc Co. The mine brought
settlers to the county before the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Fairfax High Sets Date
For New Registration

New students expecting to at
tend Fairfax High School should
register August 25, % and 90, 1t
was announced today.
Samuel j. Coffey, principal. said
this does not apply to eighth
grade students enrolled in Fair
fax County elementary schools
last year. All new students must
present records from last schools
attended, he said.
Fairfax County schools will open
September 5. Students will at
tend classes from 9 am. to noon
hat day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Prayers Approved
But Arlington Board
Disoqrees on Needs

Member Alfred E. FriSbie yes
terday suggested that the dignity
of the Arlington County Board
might be raised if a clergyman
gave an invocation before eacn
meeting. His motion, which was
passed, provides that the Airing
ton Ministerial Association be
asked to provide a priest, rabbi
or pastor" for the purpose. The
move met with varied reaction.
Robert w. Cox asSented it
might be better to have a prayer
at the end of each meeting to ask
forgiveness for. what the board
has done. Mrs. Florence Cannon
said the clergyman probably
would look at the board, then
pray for the public. Common
wealth's Attorney Denman T
Rucker suggested the clergyman
remain throughout the meeting
and have intermittent prayers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Virginia Counties
Without Doctors,
Survey Reveals
BY the Associated Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, Aug. 12.-
A Virginia educators report on
rural medical treatment shows two
Virginia counties to be without
doctors and six others to have only
one physician for 10000 persons
Added to that, the report, by
DR.. w. E. Garrett, Virginia Tech
rural sociologist, noted that II
other Virginia counties have only
one doctor for each 5000 persons
The urban ration was about one
doctor for each 600 persons, DR.
Garrett found.
He noted, however, that some
rural people receive medical treat
ment at urban centers and from
doctors in Virginia cities which
would tend to make the figures
exaggerated slightly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Old Court RuIinq
Frees Chief Jones
OF Pistol Chorqe

AS far as Norfolk, Va, authori-
ties are concerned, Arlington's Fire
Chief John Paul Jones can carry a
gun if he wishes.
Chief Jones, who also is a lawyer
and notary public, was attending
the convention of the Virginia
State Firemen'S Association last
week and was arrested in a hotel
tor having a pistol.
Appearing before Assistant Po-
lice Justice L. S. Richardson, Mr..
Jones was facing a 500 fine and
jail sentence until former
Georgetown University classmate.
Louis P. Fine. a Norfolk attorney.
remembered a ruling by the Sill
preme Court half century ago.
The high court said a hotary
public is a conservator of the peace
and could carry a pistol anywhere
in Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13

John A. Lester, manager of
one of Wytheville's two movie
houses, adjusts the "clOsed"
sign at the ticket window. The
county health officer said it
was not necessary to close the
theaters, but the managers
decided to do so voluntarily.
There was no business anyway.
July four other children came
down with polio and were sent
to the hospital in Roanoke, there
was no public concern about the
situation. Like everyone else the
citizens of Wytheville were think
ing about Korea. The Enterprise
Wytheville's semiweekly paper
asked the man on the street about
it for their Fourth of July edition
The interviews all were in agree
ment. The Wytheville citizens were
of the opinion that President Tru-
man was right in sending United
States forces into Korea. Many
said he had no choice.
Locally there was great interest
in the coming celebration or dedi-
cation which would mark the
completion of the last five miles
of the reconstruction of Route 81
Gov. Battle and Senators BYRD
and Robertson we're expected to
come to Wytheville for the cere-
monies on July %.
A coming murder trial in Bland
County population $1,000 also
had local interest. 1t was the
first instance of a moonShiner
charged with shooting a "reve-
nooer" in Virginia in several years
and the whole southwest part OF
the State was interested in seeing
what the jury would do.
But in the next two weeks while
the towns doctors were making
calls night and day on children
with summer colds which usually
turned out to be the dread Grip
pling disease. with ambulance
speeding their little charges owe
the long hilly road to Roanoke
and the hospital. with a mobiliza
ton of every iron lung in thu
southwest portion of the State
Korea was forgotten. The high
way dedication was postponed
And although Watts Burton, the
moonshiner, was found guilty o.
second degree murder and SEN
fenced to IL years imprisonment
the story had a hard time making
page one in the Enterprise.
Tomorrow: The story of Wythe.
ville's mounting crisis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Farm Fair Is Scheduled
For Prince William County
Special pispatch 10 The Star

MANASSAS, Va, Aug. r.
A Prince William County agricul-
tural fair will be held at Long
view Park here, August 81 through
September 2.
Harry Swan is general manager
of the fair, which is sponsored by
the Prince William County Vet
Grams Training Class in co-opera-
ton with county extension agents
and vocational agriculture in
structors.
officers and chairmen Of the
fair include Joseph Johnson, pres
ident; William F. Hale, secretary;
Egbert w. Thompson, jr.,> treas
urer; Kemp Clemen, dairy chair
man; Kite Roseberry, beef chair
man; William Young, poultry
chairman; Lou Foster, produce
chairman, and Mrs. Helen Cham
pion, home economics chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
9Th District Republicans
| Back CARRIER for House
BY the Associated Press

HARRISONBURG. Va, Aug. IL,
Seventh District Republicans have
named their former representative
to run for the House of Repre-
sentatives.
He is Jacob CARRIER, fruit grower
and banker, who carried the Dis
trict for the COP. in 1923. Mr..
CARRIER was named party nominee
by the District COP. Committee
last night.
The nominee has served in both
branches of the General Assembly
and is a farmer Rockingham
County treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
School Board Seeks
Ruling on U. 5. Rent
Demand in Arlington
Management Asks
Fee on Ground Thot
Emergency Is Over

The Arlington School Board will
seek legal advice before it agrees
to pay the Federal Government
rent for classroom space.
The board decided on that
course yesterday in connection
with a request for a lease for
units at the Pickett Homes on
Columbia pike. The Government
wants $75 a month rent, plus SIS
for utilities.
Board members said they have
not been called upon to pay any,
thing at the Shirley Homes, a
similar project. Besides, they said.
a cooperative nursery school pays
only 81 month rent at the Pick
EFT Homes.
May Not Permit Use.
School Supt. William A. Early
said the Pickett management con-
tends now that the war emergency
is over, the rent should be paid.
They go so far, he told the board.
as to declare they won't permit
classes to use the units when
school opens September 5, unless
the lease is signed.
The board instructed Mr.. Early
to get a lawyers advice and re-
port at the August % meeting.
About 100 pupils are in the
Pickett classes. More than twice
that many attend school at the
Shirley Homes.
The board heard a protest by
Malcolm D. Miller, a parent, re-
garding possibility of halliday ses-
sion for some pupils at the Charles
A. Stewart Elementary School. Mr..
Miller also objected to use OF a
curtain to separate two classes
in a multi-purpose room at the
school.
Mr.. Early said the halliday
sessions will not be necessary if
no more than the expected num-
Der of pupils enroll at the school.
He said a large housing develop
ment now in progress in the area,
however, might result in addi-
tional pupils. He said overcrowd-
ing will be relieved when the new
Mckinley School in Dominion
Hills is completed.
4 To Call PTA Meeting.
Mr.. Miller agreed to try to call
meeting of the Stewart PTA
Executive Committee to consider
more permanent type of par
tition which Mr.. Early said the
school would erect in the multi
purpose room if the patrons want
it. The committee also would
consider use of classroom space
in a church as an alternative to
halliday sessions, Mr.. Miller said.
In discussing the halliday ses-
sions, Mr.. Early disclosed they
| will be necessary, for a while at
least, at the Hoffman-Boston
School for Negroes. After cur
rent construction is completed
there, full-day session will be re-
sumed, he said.
The board approved purchase
of 10-acre tract on Little Falls
road, between Nottoway and Ohio
: streets, as site for an elemen-
: tary school. The price was $685.
, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
'GreenbeIt Pool Is Free
To Residents in Services

Greenbelt, Md. plans to admit
free of charge to the community
swimming pool all service men
and women who live there.
Sam S. Fox, recreation direc-
tor. said it was proposed to ex-
pand the service in the future to
provide splash parties" for all
service personnel at nearby bases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Luroy Progress Board
Names Industry Group
Special Dlspoteh 10 The Stor

LURAY, Va, Aug. 12.-The re-
Gently organized Luray Board of
Progress this week named the
following Committee on Procure
ment of Industry: j. Lynn Lucas
chairman; Mrs. c. E. Crouch, Cecil
Leedy, Emmett Rodgers, Claude E
Smith and Robert Griffith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Tobacco Yield Small
For Anne Arundel
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. r.
Its just one of those very difficult
years for tobacco" said County
Agent Stanley E. Day today in
describing Anne Arundel County's
tobacco crop this year.
He said the wet spring produced
inadequate roots which later suf-
fered heavily in the dry summer.
Although the acreage planted this
year was normal. he predicted the
yield per acre will be much less
than in former years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Walker Chapel Lawn Party

A lawn party will be held at
the Walker Chapel Methodist
Church, 4102 North Glebe road
Arlington, at 6 pm. Wednesday
1t is sponsored by the Womens
Society of the church for the
building fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13

Society News From Nearby
Areas-On Page B-21.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Five Nobel Prizes To Be Awarded,
Gala E went Scheduled In ockhoIm

Five Nobel prize winners pro-
badly will be announced from
Stockholm this year. Two .litera-
ture prizes will be available for
distribution, no such award having
been made for 1949, and in addi-
ton there will be, as usual, prizes
in physics, chemistry, and medi-
cine and physiology.
The faculty of the Carolinian
Institute in Stockholm, which de-
cides on the prize in medicine,
usually makes the announcement
at the end of October. The d y
cisions of the Academy of Science
in regard to the prizes in physics
and chemistry, are expected early
in November, and the Swedish
Academy, which selects the VIM
ners Of the literature prize, pro-
badly will be ready on the same
day.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Swedish Landslide
Hit Town Hard

Ten million tons of clay and
earth were loosened by recent
heavy rains and caused the land
slide that did great damage to
the small industrial town of Surte,
on the Gotta River some ten miles
north of Gothenburg on SWeden's
west coast. Only one person was
killed, but seventy-five were in
jured and more than three hun
dred made homeless when almost
forty houses were hurled into the
river. Others were split in two, or
settled on their sides. Fire brig
AIDES. troops, ambulance crews, and
Red Cross personnel from nearby
cities, aided by bulldozers, worked
to clear the rubble and help the
victims out of their dwellings. The
loss in building property alone is
estimated at about three million
kronor. Communications through
out the area were paralyZed, and
shipping on the Gotta River was
halted by the avalanche that
clogged the important waterway.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
SAS Shows Big Business Trend
JGrvinen, Head Of Seattle Office, Moves to NY.

Mr.. Backe announced that Har-
ry Jarvinen, head of the Seattle
office of SAS, has been promoted
to new position in New York,
where he will handle the increased
passenger traffic to Finland. He
will be succeeded here by Palmer
Sather, a Norwegian, from Mime
apolis.
Jarvinen has been in charge of
the Seattle office since it opened
about three and a half years ago.
Since then the business handled
through the office has increaseS by
800 per cent.
Arne Ewald, sales representa-
tive for the Seattle office, will
leave shortly for a vacation trip
to his native Norway.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

Many previous Nobel prize Win
ners have accepted the invitation
to attend the Nobel celebration
in Stockholm next December, and
the Foundation hopes that by No
vember 1 a total of some fifty
winners will have announced their
intention to be present. George
Bernard Shaw is among those who
have sent their regrets. On De-
cember 10, the anniversary of AL
fred Nobel's death, the new prize
winners always are invited to be
in Stockholm, and this year the
Nobel Foundation will celebrate
it's 5Oth anniversary at the same
time. The main festival will take
place on December 10. Although
the 10th this year falls on a Sun
day, the Nobel Day thus will be
observed according to tradition.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Morse Home Building To Be Reduced

''There is no longer any reason
for continuing the same special
consideration of war-devasted CT
ties and Districts" states re-
port on housing and reconstruc-
ton prepared by Norwegian Par
Lament committee. Housing con-
ditions in many of these districts
are now considerably better than
before the war, it says.
Noting that a record high of H.
730 new dwelling units were COM
pleted in 1949, the report calls for
gradual reduction of new home
construction, in line with the need
for limitation of Norway's total
investments.
In a similar effort, the Norwe-
gian State Housing Bank will
henceforth require applicants for
building loans to limit projected
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
New Morse Institute For Efficiency

The Norwegian Institute of Pro-
duction Technique, founded only
last April, is now ready to launch
a series of studies that may well
prove of great Importance to the
nations industry.
The Institute has for its purpose
to study and make available to
Norwegian industry, developments
abroad and at home in the field of
production technique. 1t also plans
to undertake Independent studies,
both theoretical and practical, and
to provide advanced training of
production specialists for Norwe-
gian industry.
Generally speaking the task Of
the Institute will be to assist Nor
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Norway. Denmark
Have Moneuvers

Week-long, extensive air defense
maneuvers were held in Eastern
and Western Norway last week, to
afford Norwegian Air Defense
Command and. squadron crews
practical experience under warlike
conditions. A number of radar
stations. observation posts, and air
defense batteries in the South
We're partly alerted during the
maneuVerS.
simultaneously, Norwegian and
Danish naval forces have, for the
first time in history. held joint
naval exercises in the Skagerak
Sea. with aircraft as well as naval
vessels taking part. Most extens-
i've stree the war. the operations
covered 10000 square nautical
miles.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

wegian enterprises in making eff
fective use of the vast possibilities
afforded by modern production
techniques and organization. Spe-
officially, it will take up such mat
tiers as methods, procedures and
organization of production, office
management, accounting, distri-
button, personnel management, in
dustrial hygiene, as we'll as social
and humanitarian activities, as re-
lated to industry. One of the first
and most urgent problems that will
be studied by the Institute of Pro-
duction Technique is the individ-
uai output Of Norwegian labor.
and how it can be improved.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

actually part Swedish. His 75-
year-old mother, formerly Selma
Peterson, born in Vasterg6tland,
Sweden, is living proof.
Adams, who has teamed up with
Ken Turay, fellow democrat, in the
King County Commissioner cleo
ton races, saw parts of Sweden
once as an adventurous seafarer
on merchant marine vessel He
especially remembers a captivat-
ing "barnens dag in Ornsk0ldsvik.
Born and raised In Seattle, a
graduate of the University of
Washington, and well known at
torney with an extensive practice,
Adams is known to have devoted
much of his spare time a few
months ago in the endeavor to
pave the way for a Swedish Center
in Seattle. Though he takes an
impartial attitude toward any pos
sible decision as to where and how
such project shall be undertaken,
as he considers the majority ruling
more important than his own
opinion, he is determined, he says
to back the project with every
ounce of his effort once the ball
gets rolling. 1t remains to be seen,
but if he chooses, he may be the
man to get this long-debated prof.
. ect out of the kindergarten stage,
where it has remained for twenty,
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
Morse Brisling
Co+ch Very Poor

The Norwegian Canning Indus
try reports that this past seasons
catch of brisling sardines was the
poorest in more than 80 years. A
total of POI, 900 cases of brisling
had been canned, compared with
400 cases in 1949. The worst
brisling year on record was 1919,
when only 125, 900 cases were can
ned. Most of the 1850 brisling sar-
dimes were packed in pure olive
oil.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

Starting from scratch less than
five years ago, the Scandinavian
Airlines System has now worked
up $4,000, 0OO-a-year business
with service extended throughout
a large part of the world.
The significance of this success
story was pointed out at a recent
luncheon, sponsored by Scandina-
Wan Airlines System in Olympic
Hotel, Seattle, in connection with
the visit of three of it's top fig
ures. Per Backe, president of
SAS, the main speaker, Tore Min
lert, president of the U. S. division
of the company, and F. Harold
Gyllensvard, general traffic man.
ager from New York, greeted 40
guests at the affair.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

thirty years. In this respect he
carries lot of weight and author
ity in the Swedish community of
Seattle. And with the right CO.
operation and backing from all the
concerned organizations he has a
chance of making a great Swedish
name for himself in the Northwest.
Since Adams took office at the
Swedish Club last year, about 200
new members have been added to
the organization. He is regarded
as a powerful and respected leader
and has won many Swedish friends
during his short term of office.
The teaming up of Adams and
Turay in seeking the central and
third district commissioner posts
respectively is not so much of a
coincidence as'their democratic af-
filiations, alone, might imply. Both
have Scandinavian backgrounds.
Turay, born of Swedish parents,
is longtime favorite conner" in
democratic circles and quite we'll
known in the Swedish colony as
well. His Swedish descent is fur
Their merited by the fact that he
speaks and reads Swedish, having
picked it up on his accord.
Two Scandinavians in the COM
missioner races obviously strikes a
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

homes to a maximum floor space
of $50 So. ft. Greater economy
will also be obligatory in regard
to design, equipment and costs.
The new policy, unanimously adop-
ted at a national conference of re-
gional Housing Bank officials,
suggested the construction of more
multiple dwellings, and fewer in
dividual homes.
According to a survey presented
to the recent Bank conference,
Norway still needs an additional
10000 dwelling units
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

]. c. Berthelsen, an expert on
Scandinavian travel with a back
ground in the steamship business,
dating back thirty years, has been
named manager of the Danish De-
partment of the Swedish American
Line, c. Hilmer Lundbeck, Jr,
American mangling director of the
Line announced
Mr.. Berthelsen was born in Lead
City S. D., the son of the Rev H.
P. Berthelsen of Penn Yam, N. Y.
He is married, has two children, a
son and a daughter, and makes his
home in Brooklyn. =
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19
scandinavian Political Candidates:
Man With Swedish Center Idea
And Fellow Swede Seek Posts

AS president of the Swedish Club,
Seattle's largest Swedish Organiza-
ton, Joseph p. Adams, is known
as a "Swede at heart" but his
name cOnceals, SO to say, half of
his true nature. For Adams is
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-19

responsive and sympathetic note in
Scandinavians, who are considered
a voting power in King County
Since both of these candidates and
that power are progressive-minded,
mutual understanding is virtually
aSsured.-T. N.