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Anti-Patterson Plot
Denied in Guatemala
BY the Associoied Press

GUATEMALA, Guatemala, April
Leon Strecker, undersecretary
of foreign relations, told newsmen
the Guatemalan government has
no information of ANY intent
against the life of United States
Ambassador Richard c. Patterson,
as rumored here and abroad.
But despite the Guatemalan
government and United States
Embassy contention that Mr.. Pat
terson's sudden departure for
Washington on Tuesday was "rou-
tine" rumors in this capital are
rife that Mr.. Patterson has been
recalled.
(Mr. Patterson arrived in
Miami, via Havana, on Thursday
and left later for Washington.
He would neither deny nor con-
firm his life had been threatened
and referred newsmen to the
State Department. Mr.. Patter-
son, who formally was Ambas-
sador to Yugoslavia, said he
would undergo medical treat
ment in Washington
A generally accepted story
among diplomats here is that the
Guatemalan Embassy in Washing
ton notified the State Department
that Patterson's life was endan-
gered-presumably by would-be
aSSassinS.
There was speculation the Qua
temalan government chose this
course of action as a polite way
Of declaring the Ambassador per-
iona non grata.
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Dr.. Charles R. Drew
OF Freedmen 5 Killed
When Car 0verturns
; Other Doctors Riding
With Chief Surgeon Are
Injured in North Caroline

DR.. Charles r. Drew, chief sur
geon at Freedmen's Hospital. was
killed and three other doctors on
the hospitals staff were injured
when their car overturned today
near Greensboro, N. c.
DR.. John r. Ford. resident in
surgery, received a fractured arm
and cuts. DR.. Samuel Bullock OF
the department of surgery and
DR.. Walter S. Johnson, resident
in orthopedics, were slightly in
jured but did not require hospital
attention.
The four ph3scians were en-
route to Tuskegee Institute. Tus-
kegee. Ala. for medical meeting
They left Washington early this
morning. When they were about
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Red Invasion Forces
Launch New Attempt
To Capture Hainan
NotionoIists Report
Situation in Hand,
5000 of Foes Slain
By the Associated Press

TAIPEI, Formosa, April L.
Chinese Communist invasion forces
today began a new assault on
Hainan Island but the National
lists claimed they had the situation
in hand.
CA Nationalist news agency
broadcast heard in San Fran
cisco said the invasion attempt
failed" II asserted more than
80 Communist junks were sunk
and some 5000 Reds killed.
Remnants of the invasion
flotilla fed northward. it said)
There were only fragmentary
reports of the operation directed
at the big Nationalist island 10
miles off Luichow Peninsula, which
juts out from the South China
coast. These reported:
Nineteen, of 40 craft making up
the Reds first wave were sunk by
Nationalist warships.
At one point 1000 Reds got
ashore but the Nationalists said
these were contained" At an
other point, 200 Reds were re-
ported to have surrendered.
Landings on North Coast.
The landings were made on
Hainan's North Coast near Hoi-
how. the capital.
Air force headquarters said its
planes sank 8 of 20 Communist
junks spotted off Northern Hal
nan.
PRESUMABLY these were part
of the Red invasion force, but
there was no indication whether
they were among the 40 craft
of the first wave or folloW-up
forceS.)
Reports said Civil Air Trans
port, which has a terminal at
Hollow, was pulling out from
there. This airline is operated by
retired United States Maj. Gen.
Claire L. Chennault.
(There was nothing to indi-
cate how the Red strength in
this invasion compared with the
strongest previous attack-a
(See CHINA. Page A-3.)
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Indonesio Fund Approved

JAKARTA. United States of In
donesia, April l tP.-Dutch and
Indonesian ministers approved an
agreement for Holland to provide
Indonesia credit of 200 million
Netherlands guilders for the cur
rent year, a communique of the
U. S. I. Information Ministry said
today at the close of the ministers
seven-day conference. The guilder
is worth about 26 cents.
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Thomas of the Senate Appropria-
ton Subcommittee, before which
he testified Wednesday, that Con-
gresS should increase defense
spending to assure:
/. The strengthening Of Alaska
and its major airfields against
surprise airborne attack, by a per-
manent force of well-trained and
equipped ground troops and a
radar network to detect and warn
against air forays.
2. A 48-group flrst-line Air
Force equipped with the most
modern aircraft and backed by a
modernized 12-group Air National
Guard.
3. Sufficient funds for the Navy
to start a special anti submarine
force. including destroyers, small
aircraft carriers, aircraft and
other necessary equipment.
Had Promised Letter.
The general, now president of
Columbia University, promised the
Senators in his public testimony
that he would write the letter sug-
gestlng changes in the budget
calling for more than $13 billion
in military spending which he
helped to draw up.
Senator Thomas said he would
support the Eisenhower proposals
The general estimated that they
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With nearly 1000 ballots tabu-
lated. it appeared today that
Washington residents were voting
heavily in favor of daylight saw
ing time this summer.
The returns were admittedly
fragmentary. with five of the
city's IA police precincts making
no report today. But Of the bal
lots counted the sentiment was
running in favor Of daylight saw
ing by as much as 3 to /.
The returned ballots are among
100000 distributed by police on
orders of the District Commis-
sioners. In most cases, police ap-
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z Children Die in Fire;
BIust Blamed on Still
BY the Assoeioted Press

SHELTON, Conn, April 1.-Two
children died early today in a
fash fire blamed by State police
on an exploding still.
The fire, which occurred in a
combination garage and apart
ment building, took the lives of
3-month-old Linda Reilly and her
cousin, John Kiley. 4.
State police Capt. William
Schatzman said 1,00O-gallon
still was found in the garage sec
ton of the building just beneath
the living quarters of three re-
lated families.
He expressed the belief that
the side of a coke stove used to
heat the still boiler exploded,
spraying live Goals.
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Teacher Reports Loss
OF SITS 10 Card Sharps

An Arlington high school teacher
told Fairfax County police today
he had been tricked out of SITS
bl a couple of card sharps.
1t was first reported that he had
been held up and robbed of $4,000
by two hitchhikers.
The teacher, John Boone, %,
colored, GIT South Scott street, a
science instructor at the Hoffman
Boston School for Negroes, Ar
lington. said he met the two men,
also colored, after he had drawn
the money from the Old Dominion
Bank, Arlington.
He said he lost the money while
playing cards with them in his car
at Baileys Crossroads.
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House to take out of the bill
amendments which would have:
l. Stopped further economic aid
to Britain as long as North and
South Ireland are partitioned.
2. Tied down 81 billion of the
European recovery funds for use
only in the purchase of farm
products in the United States.
With these restrictions elimi-
mated, the only serious damage
done to the measure during week
of stormy debate was the shaving
of $270 million from figures the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
had recommended. OF this reduc-
ton, $3.50 million was taken from
ECA and the balance from the
fund to start President Truman's S
Point -Four" plan of technical
help to backward areas of the
world.
AS it awaits Senate debate about
10 days from now, the bill wraps
into one package the economic
assistance this country will extend
to all anti-Communist regions, as
follows:
/. For ECA, chiefly in Western
Europe. $2,7 billion of new money
and a carryover of $3.50 million
not spent this year.
2. For continuing aid to Korea.
500 million.
3. For economic assistance to
non Communist parts of China,
$94 million.
4. For continuing to feed Arab
refugees. $27 ,45o. geo.
S. For making a start on the
Point Four technical assistance
plan. to encourage private capital
to go into underdeveloped areas,
$25 million.
Battle on Cash Expected.
All of these figures. when finally
reviewed by the Senate, will be
permissive ceilings. The admin
istration then will face another
battle in both houses to add the
actual cash to the omnibus ap-
preparation bill, on which the
House will start debate next week.
The Irish amendment, which
went into the bill by tentative
vote of SO to 66 late Wednesday,
would have disrupted the European
recovery program. There was
never much doubt that it would
come out. but in an election year
a roll call on it could have been
(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-2.)
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DC. Voting for Daylight Saving
By 81, Eur|y Returns Show

pointed a civilian captain" for
each block of the city to conduct
the house to-house canvass.
Here are the results tabulated
so far:
No. 2 precinct-200 ballots, 3 to
l in favor of daylight saving. No.
3-8 ballots, 6 for, 2 against. No.
8-370 ballots. 3 to ! in favor
No. 5000 ballots, 3 to l in
favor. No. 10-2.486 ballots, more
than 2 to l in favor. No. 11-100
ballots. heavily in favor. No. l2-
1000 ballots. 2 to ! in favor. No.
1900 ballots. 2 to / in favor
No. 14-409 ballots. more than 3
to in favor.
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2 miles north Of HaW River. a
little town near Greensboro, the
accident occurred. The time was
am. DR.. Drew was rushed to a
Greensboro hospital and died
shortly thereafter.
DR.. Ford said Dr. Drew appar-
emily dozed at the wheel and the
car overturned when he tried to
straighten it out on a road shoul-
der.
DR.. Drew also was a professor of
surgery at Howard University and
did outstanding blood plasma
work during the last war. He
served for a time as medical di-
rector of Freedmen's Hospital.
A native of Washington, the
45-year-old doctor attended Nc
Gill University in Montreal, Can
ada, and Columbia University. He
won a Rockefeller Fellowship in
(See DREW, Page A-3D
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New York at $50 am. by air
from a United Nations mission to
Afghanistan.
AS reporters swarmed around
him as he stepped from an over
seas plane, the short, bespectacled
director of the Walter Hines Page
School of International Relations
at Johns Hopkins University said
he felt "unutterable contempt" for
Senator Mccarthy, the Associated
Press reported.
Met at Airport by Lawyer.
"I am glad to be back in Amer
lea where I can get fair hear
ing" Mr.. baltimore said, and
added:
"Of course, I am not a Com
munist, nor a fellow traveller, nor
have I ever BEEN"
He declined to submit to ques-
tions in advance of 3 pm. news
conference he scheduled at the
ST. Moritz Hotel in New York. Il
want time to catch up on details" p"
he explained.
Mr. baltimore was met at Idle
wild International Airport by his
wife, his son David and Abe
Fortas, former Undersesretary of
the Interior and a member of the
Washington law firm Of Arnold,
Fortas and Porter.
Mr.. Fortas said he worildsrep-
resent Mr.. baltimore. Paul Por-
ter, another member of the law
firm, also was in New York.
Scheduled to Testify Tuesday.
Before the family left the air.
port to 60 to a New York hotel.
Mr.. Fortas said Mr.. baltimore is
tentatively scheduled to appear
Tuesday before a Senate Foreign
Relations subcommittee investi-
eating Senator McCarthy's charges
of communism in the State De-
partment.
But Mr. FortaS said Chairman
TydingS of the investigating Sab-
committee had assured him Mr..
Lattlmore could have more time
to prepare his reply to the Nc
Carthy charges.
The law firm was retained by
Mrs. baltimore after it became
known that Senator Mccarthy
had given the subcommittee the
name of Mr.. baltimore in secret
and described him as Russia's top
spy in this country.
The law firm has demanded
that Senator Mccarthy retract his
charges. 1t warned him that even
such a retraction would not re-
lieve him of legal responsibility if
Mr.. baltimore decided on court
action.
When Mr.. baltimore. while still
in Afghanistan. was informed that
Senator Mccarthy had labeled
him as a spy, he cabled back that
the charges were pure moon
shine
After Senator Mccarthy told
the Senate Thursday he could
(See LATTIMORE, Page A-SD
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Cherry blossom festivities for to-
day were Cancelled because of cold
weather and rain, with the excep-
ton of the band concert sched-
uled for pm, at the Watergate.
officials of the Greater National
Capitol Committee announced
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o MADRID, Spain. April / tP.-
The Spanish cabinet has approved
a commercial agreement between
this country and Western Ger
many, a communique said today.
The decision was taken at meet
ing at which Generalissimo
Francisco Franco presided. No
details were given.
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-AP Wnephoto.

affairs. I am a Christian and a
socialist and I am against any
order that interferes with that
objective.
II would like to be buried by the
side Of my mother in Springfield.
Mass"
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Picture Of Cherry Blossom Queen Page A-3

their decision to cancel today's ac-
tivities at 1870 am. Tomorrow
program will take place as sched-
uled, it was said.
At the same time it was an
nounced that the entire tWo-day
ceremony will be repeated next
Saturday and Sunday. Persons
holding tickets for today's pro-
gram may use them Saturday. Or
they may be redeemed before
Wednesday at Greater National
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Late News
Bulletin
Gen. Smith in Hospital

1t. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
former Ambassador to Russia,
is a patient at Walter Reed
General Hospital, the Army
said today. The general is
commander of the 1st Army
area with headquarters at Gov
ernors Island, N. Y.
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Far East Expert
Denies He Is Red
Or Ever Has Been
By Cecil HoIIond

Owen baltimore returned home
today, and in his first words called
Senator Mccarthy, Republican, of
Wisconsin, a base and miserable
creature" for accusing him of be-
ing Russia's top spy in this coun-
try.
Mr.. baltimore, widely known
Far Eastern expert, arrived in
Evening star., 1950-04-01
Eisenhower P roposes
3-Point Program 10
Defenses
General Renews Plea
For Increased Funds
In Letter to Senate
By John A. Giles

Gen. Eisenhower today backed
up his public testimony before
Senator'S with q letter proposing
a three-point program for stif1en-
ing the Nations defenses.
The wartime Allied commander
in Europe wrote Chairman Elmer
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BuIIitt Chorges Stote Department "Dupes
Do Red Agent Job. Page A
Humphrey Condemns Attoeks on Ache
son os Vicious Crusade" Poge Az
Bridges Jury in Second Day Of Delibero
ton in Communist Case. Poee A-3
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Borueh Urges Nation to Be "Reody to
Go" in Event Of War. Page A-3
CiviIion Defense Chief Says Job viii Be
Up to Stotes and Cities. poge A-3
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Three objeetives Set by Johnson at PorIey
on AtIontie Defense. Poge A-3
Western Europe Plans Its Defense at
FontoinbIeou. Page As
Bronnan Sees Former Playing Big Role in
Point-4 Progrom. Poae b.
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Lottimore Returns to AnswerForeign Aid Bill
McCorthy's Charges, Calls Him Goesto Senate
Base and Miserable Creature After House CUT
$270 Million Shaved;
Irish Issue and Food
Amendments Killed
By J. A. O'Leory

A $3,096, ,450,0 900 foreign aid bill
to the Senate today after
passing the House late yesterday.
saved at the last minute from
two Gripping amendments.
, Before the final 287 to 86 vote
of approval, leaders persuaded the
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(See EISENHOWER, Page A-33
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Irvmon Greets Census Toker Todoy.
Pose Al
Pictures OF District Census -tokers
OF Work. Pose A-22
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Staff Of 145,000
Census Takers
Begin Big Task
Count Of Population
Greatest Statistical
Operation of All Time
BY Crosby S. Noyes

The 18th Decennial Census Of
the United States-the greatest
statistical operation of all time
started today,
The Nation wide count marks
the elimination OF 10 years OF
planning by the staff of the
Census Bureau at Suitland. Md.
But the effectiveness Of that
planning, in the last analysis, de-
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(See POLICY, Page A-3O
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Cloudy with occasional rain and high
about so today. RAIN ending tonight with
low about 43. tomorrow sunny and windy.
(Full report on Page A-2D
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Guide for Rea d ers

An Associoteo Press Ne~spoce
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Spain Approves Reich Pact

(See DREW, Page A-3.
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(See LATTIMORE. Page A-8.)
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(See HOLDUPS, Page A-3D
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(See CENSUS. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-11-17
Sites Picked in Baltimore
For State Office BuiIdinq
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. II. - The
Baltimore Planning Commission
has recommended that the pro-
posed new State Office building be
erected on one of three city sites.
The three sites were selected for
special study by the commission
from a list of IS. The special
studies were made in collaboration
with John B. Funk, State chief
engineer and secretary of the State
Office Building Commission.
Sites chosen by the commission
were:
An area east of the present civic
center, In downtown Baltimore,
which has an estimated market
value of $2,419.208.
A tract including part of the st.
Mary's Seminary property, west
of the downtown area, which has
an estimated market value of So
1886.
An area fronting on the harbor
near Pratt and Light streets.
which has an estimated market
value of $5,766,46
The report was made public by
Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro yes.
terday.
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sculptured panels are located over
the three doors leading to the
corridors. Over the doorways are
these Inscriptions in the frieze:
Novus Ordo Seclorum GA new
order of the ages is born"): An
mutt Coeptis c'He has favored our
undertaking"), and In God We
Trust. Behind the Vice Presidents s
rostrum is the inscription E Pluri-
bus Unum cone out of many')
the motto Of the United States.
New Carpeting Planned.
And as a final flip for the
handsome halls, there will be
thick, rich looking carpeting.
The seed from which this "face-
lifting" Job blossomed was planted
in 1888 when an inspection by the
architect of the Capitol revealed
that the wrought iron and cast
iron rof of the House and Senate
wing. constructed in the 1850s
was obsolete and far short OF
modern safety requirements.
Funds were provided for recon-
struction of the roofs and sky
lights in 1940, but the war made
it impossible to proceed. Instead
the temporary steel supports un-
der the ceilings of both chambers
were installed to relieve the old
trusses of the danger of collapse
of the roofs.
Project Enlarged.
In 1945 the scope of the project
was enlarged to provide improve
ments to the interiors of the
chambers. Also the funds au-
thorized were increased from the
original $685. 900 to $1,446. 900.
After both the special Senate
and House committees on the re.
construction of the chambers anc
roofs approved plans submitted
by the architect, they agreed with
his recommendation that, due tc
Evening star., 1950-11-17
Hagerstown G| Sentenced
10 IS Years for Desertion
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov
IA United States Army private
who got a three-day pass in
England in 1945 and never re-
turned to duty. was sentenced to-
day to Is years in prison for
desertion.
Pfc. Raymond o. Young of
Hagerstown, Md, was found guilty
by a martial court and given a
dlshonorable discharge.
Officials said Young entered the
service in 1912, and served in Eng
land until 1945. While his unit
was being returned to America,
Young got his pass. Court
officers said he met girl during
his stay and never came back" "
He was arrested in London last
September Is. The verdict is
subject to review by higher au-
thorities.
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Man, 68, Held on Charge
OF Firing at Policeman

A 68-year-old man was charged
with attempting to shoot an Alex
andria policeman during an arrest
last night.
Police said Thomas E. Carter
1700 Holm lane, fired one shot al
Pvt. Mason Saunders when the
officer went to Carter's house to
answer a trouble call.
Forewarned that man was
inside with gun, Pvt. Saunders
walked in the front door of Car
ter's house. Through partly
opened bedroom door he could see
Carter.
Pvt. Saunders said when he
ordered Carter to throw his gun
on the floor Carter responded by
firing a shot at him through the
partly opened door. Pvt. Saunders
went outside and told Pvt. Lee
Allen to summon more help
While they were waiting Carter
came out and Pvt. Saunders over
powered and disarmed him, police
said.
Carter was charged with at
tempted felonious assault on Pvt.
Saunders and on Carrie Shiff1ett,
who had called police.
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Hughes 10 Present
Data on Gambling 10
Senators tuesday

William r. (Huck) Hughes
newly elected Republican member
of the Maryland House of Dele
gates, said yesterday that investi-
gators for the Senate Crime In
vestigating Committee will meet
with him next Tuesday to discuss
his charges that gambling i;
rampant" in Prince Georges
County.
Mr.. Hughes said the appoint
ment was made yesterday after
his visit to the office of Committee
Chairman Kefauver.
Two investigators will be sent
to ascertain what information he
has on the gambling situation in
the county, Mr.. Hughes said.
Asserting he has the proof. .
Mr.. Hughes said the information
will be submitted by the investi-
gators to Senator Kefauver on his
return from the West Coast.
Mr.. Hughes, a Brookside Manor
resident who is in the real estate
business, conducted one of the
most vigorous one-man campaigns
in county annals. Gambling was
one of his principal campaign is
sues.
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days but was released when the
American End Division captured
the enemy position where he was
held.
Pfc. Wently had been in Japan
since last December. He entered
the Army in 1945 and was sta
toned in Germany for four years
He was drafted for military
duty, according to his father, six
months before he would have
graduated from Westinghouse
High School in Arlington.
The soldier was born in Pitts
burgh. The family moved to Ar
lington about 10 years ago.
In addition to his parents, Pfc.
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Wise County Schools
"A Model for Virginia,
Senator McCue SAYS
BY the Associoted Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Nov.
17.-State Senator Edward o. Nc
Cue, jr., frequent critic of some
Iof Virginia's public school poll
cies, said today that the Wise
County school system is "a model
for the State"
In statement, Senator McCue
declared that in II years on edu-
cation committees of the General
Assembly Il never discovered a
model school system in Virginia
until recently"
Calls 1t Exceptional.
The State. Senator McCue said,
and its localities have appro-
Ipriated and spent millions of dol
lars for the public schools during
the past II years (but) a CORE
spending improvement in the sys-
tenn has not been effected"
He added that Wise County
"has been the exception"
Senator McCue said Wise Coun-
ty achieved its present high
standing despite overcrowded
buildings, a school-age population
80 per cent of the county'S total
population, and relatively low
tax policy.
yet" his statement said, "he
esprit de corps of the administra-
tive and teaching personnel is ex-
cellent and lends itself to the sue
cess of the education program of
the county"
Stresses Fundamentals.
Wise County school graduates,
Senator McCue said, rank near
the top" in the State in tests given
by the armed forces.
The county's curriculum en-
phasizes the fundamentals as it
should and incorporates only those
new ideas which are sound and
workable, he declared.
Senator McCue gave credit for
the success of the Wise schools
principally to Supt. Joseph j.
Kelly, who has served In that ca
pacity for 80 years.
Wise County educators have
"drastically minimized" the valid
ity of claims that Virginia "tax-
ing authorities" are responsible for
"the weakness of the Virginia
school system" Senator McCue
said.