Evening star., 1951-04-23

ForeStville, Md, and crashed into
two telephone poles and a culvert.
Miss Adams was returning from
a fraternity hayride near Marl-
boro early yesterday with Fred
erick H. Real, II, of 2453 Thirty
ninth place NV, reported in good
condition at Casualty Hospital to-
day with minor injuries.
Police reported the car, ap-
parently travelling at high speed,
failed to make a left turn on
Marlboro pike, crashed into the
first pole and sheared off the Sec
ond before ramming into the cul-
vert. The impact split the car
into two pieces.
Friends said the couple had
expected to ride with other stu
dents on one of several trucks.
But when one of the trucks failed
to arrive, several of the hay
riders went to the appointed spot
in automobiles.
Miss Adams was the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Quincy Adams
Mr.. Adams is an economist for
the Forest Products Division Of
the Office of Price Sterilization.
The girl was an all-around ath-
lete at Western. participating in
swimming, figure skating, basket
ball and softball, and was to have
been a physical education major
She also contributed her services
as nurses aide at Doctors Hos
pital
Born in Norwich, Conn, Miss
Adams came to Washington in
194l and attended Rosemary
School in Chevy Chase and Mon
trose School in Rockville. For
nearly two years from 1948 to 1949
she was with her family in Tokyo
while Mr.. Adams was a civilian
economist on Gen. Macarthur S
staff.
During this time Miss Adams
attended the seventh and eighth
grades of the Tokyo American
School and learned to speak Japa-
nese. Returning to this area, she
attended Thomas Jefferson Junior
High School in Arlington.
Killed on Mountain Curve.
Mr.. Stafford, At, and his wife
Juanyta Thompson Stafford, 48
were killed on a mountain curve
on Route SO, near Capon Bridge.
w. Va. 1t was the same curve
where a Marine was killed last
week, and another Marine lost his
life early yesterday.
Their car, headed east on g
sharp downgrade, hurtled across
the road and into the path of 6
westbound bus carrying Is schoo
children from Washington tt
Union Furnace, Ohio. The chill.
dren had been sightseeing here.
All the students and the driver
Omer @. Cosner Of Mount Storm
w. Va, escaped serious injury
Mr.. Cosner said he saw the auto
mobile coming and managed tt
bright the bus almost to a stop.
MI. Stafford, with the Govern
ment for about six years, was re-
turning to Washington from ;
speaking tour.
A native of Indiana, where h
served on the State board o.
health, Mr.. Stafford was educated
in the State and taught physica
education in a number of Indiana
schools
Active in Associations.
This year he was to have become
president of the North Centra
Association for Physical Educa
ton and Recreation. He was hon
orary president and vice presiden
for health education the Nationa
Associations physical education
program.
Listed in who's Who in Ameri
can Education" he was a con
tributor to the Journal of Health
and Physical Education and
member of the board of the Pal
American Institute of Physica
Education.
Surviving is son, Frank
Stafford, jr., who lives with hi
wife at the Boiling road address
An autopsy was to be he'll
today in the death of George W
Hunt, ST., 81, of 1917 U plac
s.e., to determine whether trafh
accident injuries we've responsible
Mr.. Hunt, who died at his hom
yesterday, suffered a fracture
leg April IL when he was struc
near Thirteenth and I street
NV. by a car driven by En-
manuel Harrison, 20, of 181
Wyoming avenue NV. Polio
said Mr.. Hunt was not using tn
cross walk and that the drive