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Evening star., 1951-03-12
Pepco Outlines
Electric Rate
Boost Details
PUG Opens Hearing
On Schedules for
Approved Raise

The Potomac Electric Power Co
today began outlining to the
Public Utilities Commission de-
tails of the increases in electric
rates it proposes to put into effect
soon.
The PUG last month authorized
the power company to submit rate
schedules which would produce
additional gross operating reve-
nue. up to $26 million year from
it's customers. The company
originally had sought an increase
of $3.5 million in revenue.
The hearing today was called
by the PUG to examine the rate
schedules the company submitted
earlier this month. The proposed
rates would boost the monthly bill
of the average residential Gus
toner about 10 cents a month.
The proposed rates call for an
additional $552,000 from resi-
Dental customers annually; ST.
$4,000 from commercial Gus
toners; a, boost of $266.000 to the
Districts street-lighting bill and
$233,000 more from the Capital
Transit Co. for the power it uses.
Herbert F. G. Main, Pepco rate
engineer. was the only witness
the power company put on the
stand. He explained in detail the
various rate schedules under con-
sideration. AS the hearing opened
Vernon V. Baker, chairman of the
Public Utilities Committee of the
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, told the PUG that the fed
Grafton does not proposed to par
ticipate further in the proceed
ings. He said the federation pri-
marily is interested in preventing
an increase in electric bills and
was not vitally concerned with the
distribution of the increase which
the PUG has authorized.
Our position still is that no
increase is necessary" he de-
clared.
After Mr.. Main concluded his
presentation, cross = examination
began by Lloyd Harrison, PUG at
torney, and John Korby, General
Services Administration attorney
representing the Federal Govern
ment, one of Pepco's biggest Gus
toners.
Evening star., 1951-03-12
Siqmu Chi to Honor Senators

Senators Fulbright of Arkansas
and Hoey of North Carolina, Dem
ocrats; and LANCER of North Da-
kota and Welker of Idaho, Repub-
licans, will be among honored
guests at the annual oyster roast
of the Washington alumni chapter
of Sigma Chi Fraternity at $50
pm. Thursday at the Corinthian
Yacht Club, Second and V streets
S.W.
Evening star., 1951-03-12
By George Kennedy

Friendship is the name of the
estate now occupied by the Nc
Lean Gardens apartments where
1000 people pass a comfortable
existence.
AS boonS to this existence, they
have such conveniences as cafe
terra, cooperative nursery schools
and occasional dances for which
the management supplies the hall
and the band without charge.
Friendship is name that be-
came nationally known when the
estate was owned by John R. Nc
Lean, publisher of the Cincinnati
Enquirer and The Washington
Post. and still better known when
it became the scene of the fan
tastic extravagances of his son
and daughter-in-law, Edward
Beale and Evalyn Walsh Mclean.
1t is strange that the name
was not continued by the Defense
Homes Corp, a Government unit,
when it built the apartment
development. The land did not
come to Uncle Sam as a gift. The
Mclean estate received 81 mil
lion for it. And the name Friend
ship is very old one in the
history of this countryside.
Friendship was an original land
grant of 5000 acres, covering
most of the northern Wisconsin
avenue section. which was pat
ented by a Col. John Addison in
1895.
Highest Part of District.
The area is served by the
Friendship branch postoffice at
Wisconsin and Tilden streets. It
includes the relics of the old
community of Civil War days at
River road and Wisconsin avenue
that was spelled in several diff
ferent ways but pronounced
TenleytoWn. That is the highest
part of the city, an elevation of
420 feet above sea level and from
it rise television tower and
romantic looking stone tower
built for the Fort Reno Reservoir.
Friendship Heights, a name
familiar as the destination sigu
OF many of the street cars run
ming down Pennsylvania avenue
and out Wisconsin avenue, is
small subdivision in Maryland
just beyond the District line
which was started in this century.
Party Tradition Continues.
The stone wall along Wisconsin
avenue and cast iron mermaids
rising from the grass in a little
circle in the center of the apart
fment development are the only
reminders of the estate that got so
much publicity in the days of the
Teapot Dome scandal.
The apartment development,
which is as colonial as resurrected
Williamsburg, is unique in this:
1t has quarters for 1000 single
women and 500 bachelors. That is
why the management continues
the old Mclean tradition of throw
ing parties. Dan Summerford, the
rental manager, doubles as a host
in keeping flowers off the wall at
the dances. Although he is bride
groom still in his honeymoon year,
his wife surrenders him on dance
nights. The management is
determined to keep the tenants
happy.
Mclean Gardens will be eight
years old this summer. There have
been many romances. Mr.. Sum-
merford has attended as many as
four weddings a week in June
with tenant a principal in each.
Some of the bachelors have won
themselves wives from the women's
dormitories. Some of these couples
have continued to live in the
development and their children
are now playing in the co-opera-
Evening star., 1951-03-12

Evalyn Walsh, daughter of
Thomas F. Walsh of the Camp
Bird gold mine, both fathers gave
them 100000 each as wedding
present. They spent it on Euro
pean honeymoon from which they
returned considerably in debt.
They started out with a Packard
roadster with bucket seats and a
rumble space for the chauffeur
and a maid. They bought a Mer-
cedes sport car in Paris and let
the chauffeur drive the Packard.
They had bought one of the larg-
est diamonds in the world, the
Star of the East, and soon were to
buy the Hope diamond.
OF all the stories associated with
Evening star., 1951-03-12
Suicide Verdict Issued
In Man S Shotgun Death

Carlton Lee Bushey, 38, of
RID /, Woodbridge, Va, shot and
killed himself yesterday in an out
building behind his home.
DR.. E. H. Marsteller, Prince
William County coroner, issued a
certificate of suicide. Virginia
State police reported that Mr..
Bushey's body was discovered be-
side .12-gauge shotgun.
David Bushey, stepbrother with
whom the dead man lived, told
police he found the body. He said
his brother had been employed
by the Fruit Growers Express Co.
near Alexandria, but had stayed
home for the last several weeks.
No motive could be established
for the suicide, police said
Evening star., 1951-03-12
From 1895, Now Houses 1000 in Modern Apartments

had Ringing Bros. Barnum &
Bailey come to Friendship and
give him a private performance.
He had team of goats, two
Great Danes, two Russian Wolf
hounds, a snow-white Colorado
burro and 56 Shropshire sheep.
When the McLeans went to
Louisville in 1919 to the Kentucky
Derby two more private detectives
were hired to guard the boy.
That made six. It was then that
little Vinson ran out the gate Of
Friendship across Wisconsin ave-
nue. to greet a gardener with a
load of ferns. He snatched a
fern and ran back in front of a
Model T Ford in which three
women from West Virginia were
touring to Washington. The boy
was knocked down but the car was
going very slowly. He jumped up
and walked into the house. The
women were assured by the serv-
ants that he was all right, no one
even took their names and they
had to be located later by the
license number of their car. Vim
son had a fractured skull and died
that evening.
The Hope diamond was blamed
for the tragedy by the Sunday
supplements which also laid to il
the beheading of Marie Antoin-
cite and the fall of the Caliphate
at ConStantinople.
During the Harding administra-
tion Friendship became a presj-
Dental playground. Both Harding
and his Vice President, Calvin
Coolidge, played golf on the links
and Harding, Harry Daughtery
Charles Curtis and other admins
tration figures played poker in the
house there on summer evenings.
Then came the Teapot Dome ex-
posures and Ned McLean's at
tempt to save Secretary of the In
terror Fall by saying he had loaned
the cabinet officer 100000. Called
to the witness stand he had to
admit it was a lie.
During the remainder of Repub-
lican rule in Washington, Friend
ship had few guests high in ad-
ministration circles, but in the ex-
citing days of the New Deal it
came into its own again. Only the
hostess remained. Her husband
was in a hospital for years before
his death. But it was like the old
days. She had almost everybody
except the President. She lion
lied John L. Lewis and Supreme
Court justices and Leon Hender-
son.
Wing Built for Dancing.
On the last night of 1886 she
renewed her New Years Eve par
ties-this one in honor of the 21st
birthday of Jock, her second son
She built a wing on the house for
the party so that there would be
room for 600 to dance. Meyer
Davis directed his orchestra. That
was for the old people. For the
youngsters the age of swing was
recognized by bringing Bennie
Goodman and his Hotel Pennsyl.
vania orchestra down from New
York. 1t was one of the biggest
parties Grifoni. the butler wht
had served the elder McLeans
was ever faced with. Three hun.
dred sat down to dinner anc
they were served promptly ane
smoothly.
The last of the parties at Friend.
ship was at the end of 1941, right
after Pearl Harbor. Then the
Government purchased Friendship
and the big iron gates and the
cast iron pool of the fountain were
sold in the scrap drive. The house
was torn down and buildings be-
gan to go up all over the rs acres
Only the stone wall and the tror
mermaids remain.
Evening star., 1951-03-12
Alumni to Honor DR.. DunieI

DR.. Robert P. Daniel, president
of Virginia State College, Peters
burg, will be honored at a din
ner given by the Washington
chapter of the college alumni at
7:30 pm. Friday, March 80, in
Frazier Hall, Howard University.
DR.. Levi C. Whiting, 1929 Twelfth
street NV, is chairman Of res
ervations.
Evening star., 1951-03-12
Izuuk Walton Elects

DAHLGREN, Va, Mar. IL P.-
D. C. Sloan has been named presi-
dent of the local chapter of the
Izaak Walton League for the COM
ing year. Other officers are D. K.
Trail, secretary, and E. c. Wolfe,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1951-03-12
Mrs. Warner Elected

ROANOKE, Va, Mar. IL (P.-
Mrs. Bernice R. Warner, a fac
ulty member at Madison College.
was named president-elect of the
Virginia Home Economics Asso-
citation.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26

were: for the donoF-Dayid Farley
Harvey L. Porter, Crawford Bailey
John Wagner and Kenneth Clark.
II officials of the American Stores
Company; representing the school
Elizabeth Emerson, president Of
the Elementary School Student
Council; Jean Ross, president Of
the High School Student Council:
Mrs. o. B. Williams, past president
of the Parent Teachers Association
and w. Calvin Wood, a Student
Council sponsor.
The new set was installed by
Everhardts Television Service Of
Smyrna in the new visual eduea-
tiOn room of the school where IL
will be used for instruction pur-
poses when suitable programs are
available and for recreation during
the noon period.
The school has had a television
set in the cafeteria for the past
two years which bHs been widely
used in the sum- r teen-age can
teen program an Tor special events
during the school day.
School Bonds Sold
Laird and Company of Whining
ton was the successful bidder for
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26
Good Corn Crop Brings
Storage Question

With the harvesting of a good
corn crop underway in Delaware
farmers begin to wonder about
prices and storage.
William H. Henderson. county
agricultural agent, says that corn
prices generally drop during har-
vest. Farmers have more corn for
sale than local dealers and millers
can handle. This same corn Is
often sold back to the farmers later
at somewhat higher prices, accord
ing to statistics.
Where farmers have good stor-
age facilities, it's often good bust
ness to store corn now for sale
or feeding later.
A price guarantee of at least
$40 per bushel for U. S. No. 3 or
better is assured to farmers who
have approved storage under the
PIMA program. Details on this NAV
be gotten at the PIMA offices in
Newark, Dover, or Georgetown.
On the other hand, farmers who
must purchase corn to feed later
should take advantage of low fall
prices and buy now.
Two bulletins for farmers who
might be interested in building
storage space for corn are TEN
pOrary Corn Storage" and "Stor-
age of Small Grains and Shelled
Corn" Both can be gotten at the
County Extension Office, George
town.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26

ply OF st. Louis, Mo-, Mrs. Marietta
Wooleyhan of Wilmington. Miss
Sally Moore of Knox, Pa, Miss Edie
May Lupton of Lewes, Miss Jean
Stambaugh, Lewes, and Miss Eliza
beth Pepper of Lewes. Miss Irene
Ford of Harrington will sing and
the wedding music will be played
by Mrs. William J. Thompson. or
ganist Of the Lewes Presbyterian
Church, Mr.. Vincent D. Wood of
Lewes will be best man for his bro
ther. Ushers will be MIR. Otto Zach
arlas, Lewes, Mr.. Roger WoOley-
ham of Wilmington, Mr.. Paul Gard
ner of MillsbOrO, Mr.. Donald Detts
OF Wilmington, Mr.. Andrew Scarf,
Wilmington and Mr.. Emil Lewis of
PennsgrOve, N. j.
Mrs. Laura +. Schaffer, wife of
John A. Schaffer of Lewes Beach.
died Sunday evening in the Milford
Hospital, where she had been q pa
tient for two days. She suffered a
stroke last Thursday at her home.
She was the daughter OF the late
Elisha A. and Annie Nutter Millman
of Sussex County. In addition to her
husband, she is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. John Stokes, of
Lewes Beach. two brothers, John
c. Millman Of the Lewes Police
Force, Charles Millman of Wilm
ington, three sisters, Mrs. Clara
BraughtOn, Drexel Hill, Pa, Mrs.
James P. Prettyman. Lewes. Mrs
Richard Venn, of Camden. two
grandchildren and two great-grand-
children. Funeral services were held
at the Atkins Funeral Home. We'd
nesday at 1870 p. m. The Rev. A. f.
DOugherty. pastor of Bethel Meth
Odist Church, Officiated. Interment
was held in Union Cemetery. at
Georgetown. Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26

Meade, Md, and has been assigned
to the 101st Airborne Division
Camp Breckenridge, Ky, for Army
basic training.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Henry Nc.
Ginnis, of Lewes, are receiving con
gratulations upon the birth of q
son, named John Henry McGinnis
at the Beebe Hospital, Lewes, Octo-
ber 10th, 1851
Mr.. and Mrs. James Richard Mar
tin are the proud parents of a
daughter, born October 4th, at the
Beebe Hospital The new arrival
has been named Shirley Elizabeth
Martin
( Others who are being congratula-
tied are Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey L. May
field. of Lewes. a son, born October
/, 1851, named Terry Leonard; Mr..
and Mrs. Robert r. Hill, on October
Srd, daughter, named Kathy Ann,
and Mr.. and Mrs William H. Ste
venson of Lewes, a daughter, born
October 2nd, named Lynn Frances
Stevenson.
Mr. and Mrs II. Edward Maull
and son, Ned, who have been spend
ing the summer months at their
cottage on Lewes Beach. are now
occupying their winter home on
Third and Mulberry Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Joseph and
family have moved from their
beach cottage to their home on
Market Street for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Wilson of
Wilmington. were the weekend
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson
at their home on Lewes Beach
Miss Virginia Lee Trader, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Lee
Trader. of Lewes, whose engage
ment was announced last June. has
selected the date and attendants
for her marriage to Mr.. George
Vincent Wood, 3rd, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George v. Wood, Jr.. of Mills
borO, Delaware. The wedding will
take place in the Lewes Presbyteri-
an Church on November oath. at
$3.50 p. m. The Rev. DR.. William
Leishman. pastor. will officiate. as
sisted by the Rev Roy L. Tawes of
Milford, uncle of the bridegroom.
Miss Trader attended the College of
William and Mary at Williamsburg.
Va, and the University of Della
ware. Mr. Wood is a graduate of the
University of Delaware and is now
associated with the General Flec-
tric Company ct Schenectady. n. Y.
Mrs. Vincent D. Wood of Lewes.
will be her sisters matron of honor.
The six bridesmaids will be an
other sister, Mrs. Edna Moore Muir
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26
Caesar Rodney School
Notes
Halloween Dance Patrons and
PatrOnesses Invited

Halloween Dance Patrons and
PatrOnesSes Invited
The senior class of Caesar Rod
ney has invited the following par-
ents to serve as patrons and pa
tronesses at the Halloween dance
being held on Saturday evening.
October q from 9:0O-12:OO in the
gymnasium: Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Scott, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Town
send, Mrs. Mabel Cooper and Mrs.
Lulu Spayd. The members of the
board of education and their wives
have also been invited. Mrs. les
sic c. Duncan and Maurice Daisey
are the faculty sponsors.
Music will be furnished bv Jack
Garnett.
Faculty Elects Delegates
To Convention
The faculty of Caesar Rodney
School has elected the following
delegates and alternates to repre-
sent the group at the meeting of
the delegate assembly of the Della
ware State Education Association
in Wilmington on Wednesday eve
ming, October 24-Lewis ]. Roush-
ey, w. Calvin Wood, Horace E..
Short, VIM. Brown, R. w. MacFad-
din, f. F. Englehart, w. B. Simp-
son, Maurice Daisey.
School Receives
TeleViSiOn Set
AT a recently held special assem-
bly, attended by students of all
grades officials of the American
Stores Company presented a tele-
vision set to the school as a reward
for having collected $125,OOO worth
of sales slips.
Participating in the ceremonies
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26
More Money To Firemen

BUTTE, Mont.-(P)-The city of
Butte is paying more money to it's
firemen than to the fire captains
who command them.
The city council has approved A
budget which pays 1925 a month
wages to experienced enlisted fire
men, but nothing was done to raise
the pay of fire captains from S316
Mayor Thomas r. Morgan says
the BUDGET can't be reopened now.
so it will be that way for at least
a year. And he won't let the cap
tains revert to the ranks. He says
their appointments have been con-
firmed hv the council, and that's
where they'll have to stay.
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26
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Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26
LEWES

Mrs. Mary Rodney Hickman Ev-
ans, widow of a Delaware River
Pilot, Captain Louis Pasterfleld EV-
ans, Of Lewes, and a member OF
the distinguished Rodney family of
Delaware statesmen, died last Tues
day night around 1880 o'clock. She
was born in Lewes on June 1, 1860,
the daughter of the late Nathaniel
Wath Hickman and Hannah Howell
Rodney Hickman. She had lived in
Lewes all her life. She was a direct
T descendant of William Rodney, who
in 1852 came to America with Will
liam Penn on the ship Welcome,
and Of John Rodney, who was ap-
pointed Lord High Sheriff of the
Colony at Lewes by the British
King. Caesar Rodney, a Delaware
signer of the Declaration of indie
pendeDce and Daniel and Caleb
Rodney, early governors of Della
ware, were collateral ancestors.
She was the last surviving member
Of the first graduating class of the
Lewes High School in 1880, consist
ing Of four girls. Until her marriage
to Capt. Evans, she taught awhile
at the Lewes School The Evans
family represents three generations
OF Delaware pilots in Lewes, includ-
ing her late husband, a son, Cap
tain Nathaniel H. Evans, and a
grandson, Capt William Evans. At
81, she was the oldest cOmmunicant
of st. Peters Episcopal Church at
Lewes. She leaves another son,
Louis Leroy Evans, supervisor of
Maintenance at the Delaware Train
ing School at StOckley, Delaware.
She was also the mother of the late
Commander Donald r. Evans, Uni
ted States Navy, who died in Aug
ust 1948, and of one daughter, the
late Mrs. Mary Rodney Evans Lof-
land, who married the late DR..
James P. LOfand of Milford, Della
ware. There are eight surviving
grandsons, one granddaughter, and
two great grandchildren. Two
grandsons were lost during World
War II. Funeral services were held
Friday at 2 p. m, in st. Peters
Church. conducted by Rev. Richard
S. Bailey, rector of All Saints
Church, Rehoboth. Interment was
held in the church yard.
The Boxes Company, Inc. has ap-
piled for Department of the Army
permit to construct a wharf in the
Lewes and Rehoboth Canal. about
1900 northwesterly from the Roose-
velt Inlet at Lewes. Plans provide
for constructing a T-shaped wharf.
l2O feet in length along its outer
fare, extending 40 feet canaI-ward
from the southwesterly high-water
line
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel West have
returned to their home in Lewes.
after spending a few days in Will
mington with their son, Mr. Dodson
West and family
Mrs. Ida Morrix is spending some
time in Lansdowne, Pa. as the |
guest of Mrs. LenOra Murkel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron F. Clifton OIL
Bridgeville, Delaware. We're the
weekend guests of Mr.. Clifton's
brother and sister-in-law. Mr.. and
Mrs. William P. Clifton at their
residence in Pilot Town.
Mr.. and Mrs William S. Jefferson 4
and family have returned home I.
after spending vacation in \
S. C.. with Mrs. Jrf-
erson's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. II
Newton and family.
DR.. Erwin J.. Stambangh has been
elected president Of tho Delaware
State Medical Association
Mr. and Mrs Rradon Duffv. nf
ewes. havo rec"ivod wo~d fro,,,
fhPir son. Pvt VERNON p. nuffv
Y. S. Armv that ho has cc,onletod
processing at tho 9n5th. ord Rocen-
ton Center at Fort George G
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26

the $4,000 issue of school bonds
recently sold BY the Caesar Rodney
Board Of Education. The bids we're
as follows: Laid and Company,
S7O,572.55-2h per cent; Farmers
Bank, $70,005.70-2M per cent:
Laird, Bissell & Needs, $7O.1OO.OO-
Milford chronicle., 1951-10-26
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