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Evening star., 1951-02-11
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Rich In History.
For q comparatively young op-
Grafton, it has a rich history.
Most all Of the Nays flight
tests were made on its runways
and in its buildings until the Air
Test Center was moved to Pa
tuxent, Md. in 1943. In 1918.
even before it was commissioned,
Capt. N. E. Irwin took of there
to set a hydroplane speed record
to Hampton Roads, Va. His av-
erage was nearly 100 miles an
hour.
Tests conducted with the Curtis
F9C fighter plane proved it was
practical to launch and recover
fighter aircraft from dirigibles. A
midget scouting plane for use
aboard submarines was developed
there.
In 1890. Rear Admiral Apollo
Soucek, then a lieutenant, set a
world altitude record of 43.166
feet over Anacostia's runWays.
During World War II, many a
Jap aircraft was sent to the
notable fats for evaluation by the
Nays air experts.
Time and a dixie hasstaken care
of the troublesome Anacostia
River. It doesn't get in, but the
flats remain that way. The alti-
meter setting for MAS is only 13
feet above sea level.
Capt. Taylor Commands.
Today. the bustling spot is In
command of husky. affable Capt.
Herbert Watson Taylor, who
served there as a station pilot
in 1926. An Academy graduate
of 1921. he had his wings by
1924. BY 1914. he had a Navy
Gross for action in the Battle
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Convention 10 Choose
Montgomery LIST Of
School Board Names

For the second year, residents
of Montgomery County will hold
a convention to select five candi-
dates for the School Board va
cancy which will occur in May.
The convention will take place
April S in Leland Junior High
School, Chevy Chase. At that
time, the names of those nomi-
mated to succeed Mrs. Herman
Wilson, whose term will expire
this year. will be presented to
Gov. McKeldin.
Appointed by Governor.
Under the law, the Governor
makes all School Board appoint
ments. The Montgomery County
delegation to the Maryland Gen
eral Assembly has introduced a
bill for partisan elections of
board members.
At last years convention, Mrs.
Ben B. Baylor, one of the five per-
sons nominated. was appointed
later by, former Gov. Lane to sue
coed James w. Gill, who resigned.
At the same time, H. Stanley
Stine was reappointed for another
term.
This years meeting will be
sponsored by the County Council
of Parent Teacher Associations
the Civic Federation, American
Association of University Women,
League of Women Voters and the
Negro PTA Council.
McIntire Heads Planning.
In charge of the convention will
be a five-member planning COM
mittee, headed by John McIntire
Other members are Herbert Eaton,
vice chairman; Mrs. Arthur Tufts,
secretary; Mrs. Maurice Jansky
corresponding secretary, and Lau-
renee Shea, treasurer.
Under rules adopted by the
group, each organization planning
to send representatives must SUBJ
NIT the names of it's candidates to
a special nominating committee
before the convention. The dead
line will be announced later.
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Meade Droftees
Told toCome With
Warm Clothing

If you are a draftee headed for
Fort Meade, Md, take some warm
clothes with you.
That was the advice last night
from Representative Harrison
Democrat, of Virginia. who has
been looking into complaints from
his seventh district that some in
ductees were not being given ade
quate clothing at Fort Meade.
Mr.. Harrison said his investi-
CATION showed the Army is max
ing "every effort" to provide a
full clothing issue for each in
ductee at the post, but there are
still shortages in some items and
in certain sizes.
Mr.. Harrison quoted part of a
letter from Brig. Gen. o. c. Mood,
End Army chief of staff, stating
that draft boards have been asked
ito advise all inductees to bring
warm clothing with them to the
(Fort Meade) reception center"
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Civic Group to Discuss
.GreenbeIt Bus Chance

The proposed rerouting of the
Greenbelt bus through Berwyn
Heights will be discussed at a
meeting of the Berwyn Heights
Civic Association at 8 pm. tomor-
row at the Berwyn Heights Ele-
mentary School.
This bus service is needed for
school children particularly. resi-
dents said, pointing out that the
county does not provide a school
bus.
The town Commissioners have
written the Capital Transit Co.
about this service. The Civic As
sociation is expected to go on rec
ord in favor of it. =.
= Under the plan, the bus would
run from Greenbelt, turn left to
Edmonston road, right on Pontiac
street, right to Fifty-eighth ave-
nue., then left to Greenbelt road
it's sponsors said.
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Early Approval Asked
For Emergency Radio
In Prince Georges

Prince Georges Civil Defense
Director P. E. Clark will ask the
County Commissioners for early
approval of plan to set up an
emergency radio communications
system.
The detailed proposal was placed
before the Commissioners several
weeks ago.
Mr.. Clark said it is important
that work on the project begin at
once to take advantage of an
offer from radio amateurs which
promises to save the county $780,
900 a year. Another reason was
given as the increasing scarcity OF
radio materials.
Would Donate Services.
About 100 of the county's $50
licensed radio amateurs have in
dicated, Mr.. Clark said. that they
will donate their services and
equipment, provided an overall
communications plan is author
lied. The radio amateurs have
designated the Capital Suburban
Radio Club to coordinate their
efforts with the county civil de-
fense program.
If the county does not act
promptly, Mr.. Clark said. it may
become necessary to purchase ex-
ira equipment and employ more
than 80 operators at salaries of
$4,000 a year.
The proposal before the Com
missioners is made up of two plans.
The first interim plan would cost
$17,674. 1t would be merged later
into an ultimate plan, which
would require an additional $1,000.
Mobility Would Increase.
Two mobile and two non mobile
two-way radio units, each gener-
ating it's own power, would be
placed in operation in the interim
plan. Licensed radio amateurs
would man all the centers on a
volunteer basis.
The final plan calls for conver-
sion of the two non mobile units
to mobile equipment. Thus, with
four mobile stations ready at all
times, county civil defense heads
could designate any one of them
as control center in accordance
with the nature and location OF
an emergency.
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Daniel A. Abbott Heads
Prince Georges Survey

Commissioner Daniel A. Abbott
yesterday was named chairman of
a three-man committee set up
last week to initiate and guide
professional survey of Prince
Georges County government.
The committee met for the first
time yesterday in Mr.. Abbott's
office. The other two members
are Delegate Harry E. Taylor, jr.,
and Charles r. Parker. MIR. Tay-
lor was named secretary.
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S45 Million Program
For Maryland Schools
Is Urged by PuIen
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 10.-A
$45 million building and spending
program for Maryland public
schools was asked today by DR..
Thomas G. Pullen. State super
intendent Of schools.
Included was request for $500
yearly pay raises for all teachers,
bigger subsidies for local school
construction and increased grants
from the State treasury to local
library systems.
Acceptance of the program
would add almost $40 million to
the State budget which already is
at the record level of nearly $3.50
million.
Grants for Construction.
Major item in the program is a
proposed 15-year $35 million bond
issue to provide outright grants
to county and city school construc-
ton funds at the rate of 500
per pupil.
In addition, DR.. Pullen's pro-
gram calls for a $5-per-pupil in
crease in the incentive fund for
school construction (now a maxi
mum of $40 per pupiD at an an
nual cost to the State of about
$1,775,000.
The the board pay in
creases for teachers would cost
the State $7.3 million, plus $685.
900 more that the State would
have to contribute to the retire
ment fund.
Library Funds Called For.
The library program calls for
a subsidy of 40 cents more per
person in each area of a county
wide library system. The cost
was set at 100000 year for
the present, with an ultimate
advance to $913, 900 annually.
Declaring that school construc-
ton is urgent" DR.. Pullen said
that within the next seven years,
including the current year, the
increase will be 1859 students.
Arguing for the $500 salary in
creases, DR.. Pullen said that Mary
land is in danger of losing its
most desirable teachers to other
States because of discrepancies
in salary standards.
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College Park Group Lauds
County Heads on Survey

The District 2 Citizens Asso-
citation of College Park has COM
mended the Prince Georges
County Commissioners for taking
steps to speed up survey Of
the county government.
The commissioners recently de-
cided to appoint three member
committee to lay the groundwork
for the study, in accordance with
a request by the Citizens Coms
mittee for Good Government.
In other actions, the associa-
tion has recommended the in
stallation of speed limit signs
throughout the town, urged the
Town Council to adopt an ordi-
nance requiring owners of vacant
residential lots to keep them free
of debris and weeds and re-
quested that new schools be
named after localities, rather
than persons.
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Three Students Honored
In Science Talent Search

Two Hyattsville High School
students and one from Washing
ton-Lee High School, Arlington,
have received honorable mention
in the Westinghouse Science Tai
ent Search contest.
They are Jean Elizabeth Spen-
Ger, II, of 6811 Dartmouth road.
College Park, and Ethel Jane
Wiederhold, IT, of 4413 Under
wood street, University Park, STU
dents at Hyattsville, and Richard
Kenneth Lyon, IT, of 1910 North
Greenbrier street, Arlington, a
student at Washington-Lee.
Last week, another Hyattsville
High School student was an
nounced as one of 40 winners in
the contest. She is Mary Helen
Martin, II, of Box 2o5, College
Park.
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Mary K. Manhardt, 16-year- -old
WaShington-Lee High School
student, was reported fair but in
improved condition last night in
Arlington Hospital with injuries
suffered in a shedding accident.
Miss Manhardt was hurt criti-
cally Friday afternoon when her
sled crashed into a parked auto
mobile near her home at 5110
North Twenty-fifth road, Arling-
ton. She underwent an emer-
gency operation for internal in
juries.
A junior at Washington-Lee,
Miss Manhardt is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard T. Man
hardt. Her father is an employe
Of the Civil Aeronautics Author
ky.
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Senate Probers
To Ask 1ydings
10 Air Charges
Both Former Senator
And Butler to Testify,
Monroney Announces

Former Senator Tydings, DEM
ocrat, of Maryland, said last night
he would be prepared to testify
if invited-before a Senate SUBJ
committee investigating charges
growing out of the election of
Butler, Republican, to succeed
him.
Mr.. Tydings said he had not
yet received a formal invitation,
but presumed one would reach
him in time.
Both Mr.. Tydings and Senator
Butler will be invited to appear
under plans announced by Sena-
tor Monroney, Democrat, Of
Oklahoma, chairman of the in
vestigating subcommittee.
Public hearings in the case will
open February 20, probably in the
Senate Office Building, although it
had been indicated earlier they
might be held in Baltimore.
Witnesses Undecided.
No decision has been made yet
as to the list of other witnesses,
in addition to Senator Butler and
Mr.. Tydings, it was indicated by
Chairman Monroney. This prob
lem will be taken up at meeting
of the unit sometime this week.
he said, but the exact day has not
yet been picked.
{ Not only the witnesses but also
the "order of the hearing" and
sequence of witnesses will be de-
termined at the executive session
of the group, its chairman ex-
planned.
The defeated Senator will be
given ample opportunity to air his
complaints, it was indicated, and
Senator Butler will be given his
full chance to reply.
The two principal factors to be
inquired into, according to recent
announcement by Senator Gill
lette, Democrat, of Iowa, chair
man of the subcommittee on elec-
tions, of which the Monroney unit
is a part are:
"Scurrilous and defamatory" lit
erature alleged to have been used
in the Butler campaign.
Campaign contributions and ex-
penditures charged with being ex-
cessive.
Demanded Denial of Seat.
Mr.. Tydings earlier had de-
manded that Senator ELECT Butler
be denied his seat when the 82d,
Congress convened January 8. On
that date, however. the new legis-
lator was seated without preju-
dice" to a further investigation OF
his campaign.
4 The Tydings demand to deny
! Senator Rutfef- his seat was di-
\ rected to Chairman Gillette of the
Senate elections subcommittee OF
the Rules Committee. He charged
his opponent had used "scurrilous
and untrue" printed matter in the
campaign.
Senator Butler retorted that tha
campaign literature of Senator
Tydings contained false, fraudu-
lent and misleading statements"
The investigating subcommittee
consists of Chairman Monroney.
Senator Hennings, Democrat, Of
Missouri. and Republican Sena-
tors Smith of Maine and Hem
erickson of New Jersey.
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Mrs. GiIIies Takes Over
Recreation Center

Mrs. Hazel Gillies, former Ar
lington County and District recre-
alton worker, took Office last week
as director of the Cameron Street
Recreation Center in Alexandria.
Mrs. Gillies, the first full-time
director of the center, takes it over
after serving four years as play
ground director and leader in
teen-age groups with the Arling-
ton County Recreation Depart
ment. She was employed as play
ground director for one summer
with the District Recreation De-
partment.
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Montgomery to Offer
SecretoriuI. Glasses

Glasses in tipping and shorthand
will be offered by the Montgomery
County Adult Education Depart
ment in cooperation with the
county employment Office to help
train typists and stenographers
for business establishments and
the Government.
Registration at the employment
Office, 8119 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, will be held Tuesday
through Feb. 10. Glasses will be
organized after registration, S.
Gilbert Brown, employment Office
manager, announced.
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Civic Group Calls
For More Heorinqs
In Tokonu Park

The Community League of
Takoma Park has accused city
officials of adopting ordinances
without a public hearing.
In a letter of protest to Mayor
Ross H. Beville and the City
Council, the league has urged that
citizens be given an opportunity
to discuss matters of impor-
tance" before official action is
taken.
The organization also com-
planned about an ordinance
eliminating parking on certain
streets. AS a result, according to
the league, many homeowners
who were unable to drive into
their garages because of bad
weather were given parking
tickets.
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of Leyte Gulf, the Legion Of Merit
and a unit commendation.
Actually, MAS has three COM
mands-the Station itself. the
Naval Air Reserve Training Unit
and the busy Naval Photographic
Center.
The Air Station side of the field
has a multiple purpose. 1t sup
plies administrative and utility
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The Station has no raw re-
cruits, but gets its supply from
training stations. The Air Reserve
Unit, on the other hand. trains
it's own, but in it's ranks are many
a decorated combat veteran from
World War II.
The Reserve Unit is commanded
by Capt. Thomas B. Payne, 40,
a Western High School and Acad-
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Educational
nocostiu Mud Flats Is Young in Years. Rich in History

emy graduate. and a japanese
prisoner from 1912 to 1945 after
being listed as missing from the
cruiser Houston.
Week end Warriors.
The reserves haven't stopped
since the last war. They, with
the Marine air detachment, are
the widely deserving weekend
warriors" Grinning, youthful
1t. Comdr. Kenneth F. Miller,
NARTU'S operations officer. prob
ably puts it best:
Korea made few changes with
us. We were ready on June rs and
we're ready now. No changes-we
still don't want to CO."
At 80 he has 5000 flying hours,
l 900 of them off carriers. many
of them in combat, many more on
commercial airlines and still more
on the Berlin Airlift.
He also has a Navy Cross for
a fleet strike off the Philippines in
torpedo bombers.
Commanding officer of Hells
Angels is Maj. G.. Howard Robert
shaw, veteran of action at Bou-
gainville, the Philippines and Oki-
nawa. In his squadron are two
men who were at Cherry Point
m. c., in 1943 when the squadron
was picked-Lt. E. L. Abner of II
Sunset drive, Alexandria, and 1t
William M. Emshwiller, 5507 Mda-
ison street. Riverdale. Thirty-two
Of his men are combat veterans
Skipper Of the Marine Air de-
tachment is lanky 1t. Col. w. F
Cornnell, native Alexandrian and
veteran of air campaigns in the
Solomons.
Even NARTU's hangers are war
veterans. Made of metal, they
were knocked down. Grated and
shipped to France during World
War I; then returned here fol
duty. IL,
Comparatively Small Unit. /,
A small unit when compared. tc
such installations as Pensacola
and Quonset Point, the Air Sta
ton has only one man with living
quarters aboard-Capt. Taylor
whose family occupies a two-story
frame. white building aptly namec
"Flattop."
Personnel housing problems ART
their own. Single enlisted men live
aboard in barracks. Officers anc
married enlisted men are scat
tered about the many apartment!
and houses east of the field.
Aboard is a theater seating les
than 800, a recreation hall, gym.
nasium, tennis courts, handbal
and squash, a rife range.
A new newspaper. the Air Ways
blossomed in 1850 to give the sta
ton its first publication since 1945
In charge of 1t. Comdr. Waynl
Pomfrey from the Reserve sid
and 1t. r. P. Sullivan, from MAS
it already has drawn praise from
the Armed Forces Press Service
Bulkiest, most technical AM
most secretive facility on the sta
ton is the Photographic Center
Much of the World War II docu
mentary-and one of its finest
Fighting Lady, was prepare
here. %
/ Commanded by Comdr. L. Y
| Paris, the Center is the Navy
focal point of production, researc
and development and service.
It's motion picture head, L
Comdr. w. r. Cronenwett, sal
| the center's workload has in
creased so per cent since Kores
He said:
"I'll give you an idea. We n
sooner get through making film
on how to mothball a fleet thai
we're called on to start making
films on how to demothball EN-
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By ChorIes J. Yorbrouqh

If they hurry, Hells Angels may
get away from the. Anacostia mud
fats just in time for the mire of
Korea's spring thaW.
Departure of that famed Ma
rine Reserve fighter squadron for
active duty March l, is one OF
the war signs visible at the Naval
Air Station. where runways, ramps,
regulars and reserves are squeezed
in between the diked Anacostia
River and the hills of Congress
Heights in Southeast Washington.
The other signs are ample.
The executive officer just got
back from carrier duty off Korea,
the former commanding officer
is there now and the Naval Pho
tographic Center is processing its
smashing new documentary on
the evacuation at Hungnam.
Marines sent a reserve ground
intercept control squadron to ac-
tive duty last September and the
Naval Air Reserve Training unit
is calling non-rated reservists back
for 90-day training to f1ll war
pocked ranks.
New Order Cited.
Navy flyers are concentrating on
new order that every pilot must
have an, instrument rating. Other
orders have formed a new rifle
company of sailors in a move so
classified officers can't tell why.
They're even moving supply Of
fees back to former noisy quar-
ters along the flight line to make
room for more sailor sleeping
quarters.
Thus it has been-all too fire.
quently-since the late Navy Sec
retary Josephus Daniels put his
name to a communication for au-
thority to "use portion of Ana
costa flats as a seaplane station"
1t was dated October II, 1947.
His use of the word ''fiats" was
probably one of the greatly ad-
mired Mr.. Daniels best under
statements. Since then, the Ana
costa River has been in and out
of the Naval Air Station more
times than the admiral's RAD
plane.
Construction started for a place
to run tests on an early seaplane
model. The Anacostia Indians
whose artifacts have been un-
earthed in the area, would have
gladly given the place away when
the first tests were staged.
Appropriation Recalled.
The project dragged along due
to lack of buildings, but the Gov
|ernment loosened up with $4,000
Oess than the price of today's |
twin-engined Beechcraft) and the
place doomed.
Commissioned on January IL
1919, the Air Station had two run
ways, two hangers, barracks,
100 men and a small office build
ing. 1t also had nine planes and
SIC pigeons in its pigeon school.
Now it has about the same number
of gulls and more than 200 air.
craft. = ss.s.s.. u
AS a matter of fact. the place
was quite famous for its spigeenl
school until radio communicate
proved faster.
The place had its troubles and
it's higher moments. ....
A hangar fire in 1921 and a |
tornado in 1927 are documented
in the Air Stations history along
with such events as the christen-
ing of the Dirigible ZR-3 by Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge in 1924; the ar
rival of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
and his ocean-hopper, the Spirit
of st. Louis" in 1927.
Also noted succinctly is arrival
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flights for Navy high echelon; 1t
supplies logistical support for
other aviation units and supplies
aircraft for proficiency and train
ing flights for more than 800
Naval flyers stationed at other in
stallations in the Washington
area.
Currently, it is at 100 per cent
capacity.
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Economist Appointed

BLACKSBURG, Va, Feb. TO-
IR.-Cecil M. Smith of Carters-
vile has been appointed associate
economist at the Virginia Expert
ment Station here. He will work
primarily on a regional project in
fruit marketing.
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Sedwick Named in Luruy

LURAY. Va, Feb. 10 (SpeciaD
The Page County Committee has
forwarded its Endorsement of G.
William Sedwick for the post
mastership at Luray, to Repre-
sentative Harrison, Democrat. OF
Virginia.
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Marshall PTA to Meet

School construction in Arling-
ton County will be discussed at
q meeting of the John Marshall
PTA at pm. tomorrow in the
school, Twenty fifth street and
Glebe road.
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Board Reports
1888 Passed Tests
For Virginia Bar
Names Are Posted;
306 Took Exums
Lost Dec. II and 13
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. ION.
B. Watts. secretary of the Vir-
ginia Board of Law Examiners,
today announced the names of
1873 persons who passed the exam
nations given by the board last
December IL and 13.
A total of 3O6 persons took the
exams, Mr.. Watts said. Those
who passed include William P.
Woolls, jr., son of the Alexandria
Corporation Court judge. Mr..
Woolls recently was appointed
law clerk to Federal Judge Albert
v. Bryan at Alexandria.
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Hoteheries Set Record

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 10.-(P).
-Hatcheries in the 10-county
Shenandoah Valley area set
1,164,000 eggs and Matched 772,-
900 chicks during the week
ended February 3.
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-iremen Elect Van Gosen

BERKELEY SPRINGS, w. Va.
Feb. 10 (SpeciaD Harry Van
Gosen has been named president
'of the newly organized Bath Fire
Department here.