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Evening star., 1951-06-06
District Committee
Charts Hearing
On WH Defense

House District Committee Off
cials today urged the public to at
tend a hearing at 10 am. Friday
to review the Districts civil de-
tense program and problems.
The hearing will be conducted
by Representative league. Demo-
Icrat, of Texas, head of special
subcommittee on civil defense.
District Civil Defense Director
John E. Fondahl and other city
officials assigned to civil defense
programs will testify. Committee
Clerk William Mcleod stressed
however, that the league subcom-
Imittee was urging the public tC
participate in the hearing.
The hearing will be held in the
District Committee rooms in the
Old House Office Building.
Evening star., 1951-06-06
Fight Expected Today
In House on 1917 Cut
In Federal Payment
BY Don S. Warren

A floor fight in the House was
expected to develop today over the
size of the Federal payment to
the District.
Coming up for action was the
Districts record $133 million
budget bill for the year beginning
July /. 1t sailed through the Ap-
preparations Committee yesterday,
after passing one major test.
This test had to do with the
Federal payment. A motion was
made by Representative Andersen,
Republican. of Minnesota, to cut
the payment by 10 per cent, or by
I$1.2 million.
The Andersen move was de-
feated by an Appropriations Com
mittee membership vote of 10 to 3,
but this spelled trouble in the
House on the Federal payment
Issue.
The House last year insisted on
such a cut and won out in Dis
ltrict bill compromise fight with
the Senate.
Modest Surplus.
The same issue is shaping up all
over again.
Under the pending 1852 District
bill there is a modest surplus
which could absorb a loss of ST.
million. But city officials have
warned there would have to be a
tax increase or a drastic budget
slash If city worker pay scales
were raised.
Such a pay raise plan now is
pending in Congress. City officials
have warned this would cost the
District between 81 and $6 million
and would create deficit in the
fiscal year 1852.
Nearly So million was Topped of
the new District supply bill by
the Bates Subcommittee in a
move to keep District finances in
balance. A spending plan of about
$138 million, the subcommittee
found, would cover most of the
clty'S urgent needs.
Small Library Cut.
The Public Library Jared well
yesterday in the House Appropri-
ations Committee action on the
city's bill.
In the face of a serious economy
problem, the House committee
sliced only $4,000 from the library
budget. granting $1,756,50o.
The $4,000 cut, officials said
eliminated the proposed purchase
and operation of a second "book-
mobile"
Approved was an outlay of
$343,000 for capital improvements,
including changes in the upper
and lower floors of the Southwest
Brancl. Library to permit the
transfer there of the schools divi-
sion services, now housed in the
crowded Central Library.
officials said the transfer Of the
unit from the Central Library
would make room in the Central
Building for about $4,000 more
books.
Evening star., 1951-06-06
Natural Causes Blamed
In Woman's Fire Death

Death Of a 67-year-old woman
in a Northeast Washington fire
yesterday was due to natural
causes, Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald said today.
The victim was Mrs. Susie A.
Moore. colored, of 1923 Browning
place NE.
Her son-in-law, william H.
Johnson, 80, colored, of 1922
Kearny street NE. is being held
on a charge of arson, accused of
setting fire to the house after
an argument with his wife and
her mother.
The woman collapsed from a
heart attack and died on the
porch roof of her blazing home.
Evening star., 1951-06-06
Panyushkin 10 Leave
Tomorrow for Vacation

Soviet Ambassador Alexander s.
Panyushkin leaves tomorrow for a
vacation in Russia. and said today
that he hopes to return to Wash
ington after about a month.
He talked with reporters briefly
after paying farewell courtesy
call on Undersecretary of State
Webb.
The Ambassador said the rea-
son for taking his vacation now
was mot politics" His last vaca-
ton trip to Russia was in May OF
last year. He said he would spend
his leave either in Moscow or on
the Black Sea. He sails tomorrow
on the Swedish liner Gripsholm.
Evening star., 1951-06-06
By james 6, Deone

Boogie woogie and Sinatra are
on the skids in Prince Georges
County. Here's proof:
Mary Helen Martin, just turned
18, is pretty and blond. You'd
expect to see her in the corner
drugstore or flashing by at the
roller rink. Instead, almost any
time you can find her in the
greenhouse at the University of
Maryland. Her top current inter-
est-pepper seeds.
Jean Spencer, 18, who's also
pretty, has a passion-it would
seem-for black widow spiders
She extracts their poison, and
she'll be glad to show you what
it will do to mice.
Donald Shankweiler, 16, whose
father teaches sociology. isn't in
terested in sociology a bit. But the
properties of sulfa drugs are an
other matter. He makes his own.
These three, for several years
have been students at Hyattsville
High School. This spring they
took honors in the schools annual
science fair-and went on to dc
the same in District and national
competition.
But in Hyattsville there's moth
ing unusual about them. Hyatts-
vile High School put on its first
science fair four years ago, with
81 exhibits. This year, there were
353. And practically everybody
else in school was an interested
spectator-along with 5000 OF
1000 parents and friends.
Science has taken the Hyatts.
vile student body by storm. Hun.
dreds of students have projects
often elaborate investigation.
pointing to the fairs and required
for credit unless the student pre-.
fers to write a paper. But tht
work is done in spare time.
The interests are sometime!
tongue-twisting. "Haploids, Dip.
loids and Tetraploids and Chro.
moSne Doubling" was Mary
Helen Martins title this year
(She terminated 10000 pepper
seeds for it, The range of prof.
ects is astonishing-frorn the
mysteries of an electric brain tx
the anatomy of an oyster, with
the planets, insect digestion anc
geiger counters in between.
Hyattsville isn't the only center
of this atom-age activity. Inter.
est has mushroomed out to 6
dozen other Prince Georges
schools. Some in the District
join in the fairs, too. Next fall
students from Hyattsville, Mount
Rainier and Greenbelt will joir
forces in the new Northwestern
High School and unity is expected
to bring more enthusiasm thar
ever.
Acknowledged by both students
and teachers as the sparkplug o1
all this is Howard B. Owens, Al
Hyattsville Highs biology instruc.
tor and science department head
a selfmade scientist if ever there
was one.
A victim of polio at 8, Mr.
Owens didn't decide to become 9
teacher until well after gradLa.
ton from Washington College
Chestertown, Md, with a degree
In sociology. Then he found the
polio a bar and for years he
couldn't obtain q public school
Evening star., 1951-06-06
Plan for S77O Raise
For Teachers 10 Go 10
School Board Today

A recommendation that teachers
and all other school employees be
given a $770 a year raise, begin
ming July /, was to come before
the Board Of Education today.
The board also is being asked
to seek a minimum salary of
So, 800 for teachers with bachelors
degrees and a minimum of $4,100
for teachers with masters de-
grees. The present minimum for
teachers is $2,830.
Approved by Subcommittee.
These recommendations, pro-
posed by DR.. Hobart M. Corning
superintendent of schools, were
approved by the boards subcom-
mittees on personnel and legisla-
ton yesterday. If the board goes
along with the plan, it will be
sent to the District Commissioners
for their recommendation to
Congress.
DR.. Corning told the subcom-
mittee meeting that the minimum
of $500 for teachers with bach
elorS' degree is reasonable. par
ticularly when compared with
minimum Government salaries in
the lowest two professional clas-
sifications. The $4,000 is neces-
Isary to the welfare of the school
system so qualified teachers car
be recruited and retained in COM
petition with Government employ
ment opportunities. he said.
Hard to Get Teachers.
He said it is hard to get quail.
fed teachers at the present low
salaries and that there are now
SOB temporary teachers in the
public schools here. Many o.
them are employed, he added, be.
cause an insufficient number o.
teachers have qualified for regu'
lar appointment.
DR.. Corning said that, if tn
teachers were granted only thu
same percentage increase tina
may be given to Federal workers
the discrepancy between Govern
ment salaries and teachers pa!
would be broadened and teachel
recruitments made even more diff
ficult.
Evening star., 1951-06-06
Stolen Army Ambulance
Found in Pittsburgh

Fort Myers missing ambulance
was found abandoned today in
Pittsburgh, the post public infor-
nation Office reported.
The 1850 Packard ambulance
was undamaged, according to
Army officials.
1t was taken Sunday night while
the driver was eating.
Evening star., 1951-06-06

as minister. of
t he congrega-
ton. DR.. Hol-
lister came to
his pres e n t
charge on June
4, 1926.
DR.. Willard P.
Soper Of Hugue-
not PreSbyteri-
an Church, Pei
nam, N. Y, a
lifelong friend
Of DR.. Hollister,
will be principal
speaker. TIL e
meeting will be-
Evening star., 1951-06-06


today denied that he had been
intimate with the wife of another
minister.
DR.. Lowell, who is pastor o.
Wesley Methodist Church near
Chevy Chase Circle. made this de-
nial in District Court on the heels
'of testimony by his wife Eileen
that he once confessed" to her
of going to bed" with Mrs. James
Ranck of New York.
This alleged incident took place
i'm Washington during the war
years, according to Mrs. Lowell'S
testimony.
Questioned on the subject by
his own attorney, DR.. Lowell de-
clared:
It deny these confessions. They
ARE fabrications Of a whole cloth
and were made out of vindic-
Itiveness."
His lawyer, Henry Fowler. then
asked the pastor if he would con-
slider a reconciliation with Mrs.
Lowell. They have been separated
since November.
Would Take Her Back.
eyes" DR.. Lowell replied.
Then he added:
"Since this trial Mrs. Lowell has
done me damage I won't be able
Ito make up for in a long lifetime.
II have a terrific hurdle to over
come because of these statements.
that she has made-not in the in
terests of the merits of the case,
but to these people here"
He then made a gesture toward
the reporters at the press table.
But for the sake of the home"
he resumed, "and our three chill
Idren I am perfectly willing to
have Mrs. Lowell back at this
time"
The tall, lean minister yester-
day was quick to deny the cruelty
charges made against him by his
wife.
Never in my life have I been
cruel to my wife" he declared in
clear, ringing voice. Asked by
MI. Fowler if he had ever been
cruel to the three young Lowell
children, the minister answered
with an equally firm Never"
Testifies on Home Life.
Sitting back in a comfortable
slouch in the witness chair, DR..
Lowell then launched, under Mr..
Fowler's guidance, into an intri-
guing exposition of home life with
Mrs. Lowell in the parsonage.
First. he explained, Mrs. Lowell
was a believer in "fads and cult
ish" practices" to such an extent
that her activities became highly
embarrassing" to him as head OF
one of the city's leading congrega-
tions.
She developed, among other
things, an affinity" for the Great
II AM" a mythical faith which
rose on the West Coast some years
ago, DR.. Lowell said.
! 'She read great deal of liter
ature put out by the Rosicruciar
Society, a Hindu group, and ther
took up astrology," he testified
I'm fact, Mrs. Lowell became quite
expert at casting horoscopes. A
!, number of parishioners came tx
our home to get their horoscope!
cast"
!, Dinner Often Lacking.
Effect of his wife's preoccupa'
: ton with such subjects harmed
5 the household very greatly, th'
pastor said.
s. Very often she would be i'm
| mersed in her fad of the momen
and there would be no dinner. W.
would just have to go out, or ca
shredded wheat. And I don't lik,
shredded wheat.
"Or she would get wrapped III
in a television show, so we didn'
have any dinner. I suppose W!
f were the best customers the Ho
: Shoppes ever had" DR.. Lowell de
Evening star., 1951-06-06
Chevy Chase Church
To Honor Dr.. HoIIister
On 18th Anniversary

DR.. j. Hillman Hollister will be
honored tonight by members of
the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church On his 25th anniversary
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
COMMUNISM Crops
UP; CRAPS OUT IN
CATFISH CORNER
Declared Complete Failure;
Wrecks Valuable Fisher
mans Association
By MISS PINKIE PERRY

Communism has omple tely
busted up the Catfish Corner Fish
erman's Association. 1t might not
have happened, but the older fell
lows got lax in attendance, and the
younger men got greedy for more
members and took in lot of new
members from Gar Creek and Fog
gy Bottom and other outside COM
munities, who soon wanted to go
whole hog socialistic.
The old Association had been
formed originally to work for the
fishermen's interests. In the old
days they used to put on socials,
such as chitlin dinners, and barbe-
cues, fishermen liking a change of
diet like anyone else. And then it
had mighty active Committee of
Conversation & Destruction" that
took a TIP two or three times a
year to ask for more favorable
fishing laws, with expenses paid.
And the Association also sought
better markets for the fishermen.
Like most organizations, it got
lax and allowed two or three to run
its affairs and they got greedy
for power and more money to
handle. All a fellow had to pay to
get in was ST., plus so cents a
month dues; and pretty soon, new
crowd had complete control, for the
new members attended regularly
and voted in a block. Within a
month they had voted drastic
changes in the order of business.
First thing, they changed the
name to the Fishermen's Protective
Association, which would seem to
have as an object to protect its
members from oppression from
without. Nobody thought of the
threat of oppression from within,
which of course is where most ev-
erybody's real troubles begin.
Then the Gar Checkers got
through an amendment to inter-
pref the word protective" as
meaning security for the members.
They said security - financial or
otherwise; the preamble to the
resolution read: From our collect
i've wisdom and fraternal interest
in the welfare of each and every
member, we shall strive for equali-
ty for all, as our needs are the
same"
The older members in Catfish
Corner grumbled at the rapid as
tendency of the Gar Checkers, and
but for having so long been in the
association, would have kicked
over the traces, but they didn't
see how badly they might need the
organization in the future. They
were somewhat in the position the
National Democrats have been in
since the radical element took over
with the aid of a few southerners
Who continue to "sell the party
down the river" The old boat
seemed mighty leaky, but there
just wasn't anything else to sail in
And finally one rainy night, the
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
Remember When?
(From the Times fIles)
Fifteen Years ago

Next on the program of enter
tainment by the Elizabethan Play
ers of Roanoke Island will be q
program entitled the Show Boat.
Manteo has one man who knows
how to grow Irish potatoes. Capt.
Nathan Nelson planted a half
bushel of Red Bliss seed. He raised
seven and one-half barrels. He
spent only $5.75 for the crop, and
sold potatoes amounting to S2S.l7.
On July / the new mail contracts
vert into effect in the county. The
chief change was in the operation
of the mail between Manteo and
IIatteras. The mail will now be
run overland from Rodanthe TO
I!atteras. T. H. Medlock of Florida
was the successful bidder for this
Particular contract. This is the
first time in the history of the mail
routes that an outside man has OBJ
tanned mail contract III Dare
county.
The oil tank boat Eleanor Dare
caught fire and burned to the wat
er's edge while unloading gas at
the Herbert Perry landing at Kitty
Hawk last Monday. John Wilson
and Bob Tillett were operating the
boat at the time. The fire is sup
Pc sed to have caught from the
wiring at the rear of the main
engine.
3. H. Hooper, Jimmie Hooper
and Burgess Hooper of Salvo went
to Mays Head beach Friday with
load of cattle bought by Nor
fcIk man. The cattle are being sold
off as the stock law goes into
effect next January.
W. H. Jennette's summer eat
tage at Mays Head was complete
ly destroyed by fire Sunday morn
ing. Mr.. Jennette had opereG the
house with the intention CT his
family moving in Monda.', hut
when he returned from fishing he
found nothing left. The cause is
not known.
Miss Nita Baum, daughtev #
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Baum. and
M'llard Midget of Hatteras were
married at the parsonage i'll Kitty
hawk Saturday night. Rev. M. r.
Gardner performed the ceremony.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
CATFISH CORNER NEWS

Miss Pestie Mae Peele is visit
ing Miss Nautibel Norris of Gar
reek.
Miss Bessie Belle Dowdy and
Miss Pussy Parker are visiting rel
atives in Sappy Sedge.
Miss Bozie Berry, Miss Penice
Payne and Miss Spottie Lee
Spencer have returned from a visit
to Wide Spot.
Miss Glisserene Gibbs and Miss
Friskie Belle Forbes recently spent
several days at Mays Head.
Miss Bombay Bratten and Miss
Fenerola Fitchett have returned
from a visit to Square Hill Creek.
Mrs. Hollie Hook Hooper and
Miss Hexapettie Harris have re-
turned from visit to Hatteras.
Miss Farisoke Foster and Miss
Nimfie Mae Norrie spent Sunday
at the Beach with Tuboleen Tucker
end Gaboleen Green.
Miss Wandaleena Williams of
Vinegar Hill. who is the guest Of
Miss Daffyleen Daniels was koE-
ored Tuesday night with delight
flu! party at which delicious re-
freshments were served. Those
present We're Misses Tizziegig Til
lett, Frenetis Fulcher, Toastie Mae
Tillett, Friskie Belle Forbes, Pinkie
Perry, Birdie and Bozie Berry, DAT
fyiean Daniels, Glisserene Gibbs,
Margarine Morris, Pussy Parker,
Hortense Hooper, Filtrola Fulchnr,
Pestie Mae Peele, Tootsie Tucker,
Pandora Parker, Salvatore Sawyer,
Bessie Belle Dowdy, Filberlena Far
row, and Wagonetta Walker Of
Frog Fork, Parabola Perkins of
Sassafras Center, Haxapettie Har-
ris, Vassie Lean Vendor of Square
Hill Creek, Farisoke Foster of Gar
Greek, Madagascar Mann, FonGe-
leno Fulcher, Pandora Parker,
Blonde Leena Burrus of Cat Cove.
Larkileen Lewis of Bay Level, Mrs.
Oxide Owens and Miss Addie Les
sic Austin of Wide Spot, Pencie
Rose Perry, Miss Galvonetta Gar
rison, Castelia Cox of Clam Point,
Hibernia Hill and Bastobel Bray of
Gar Creek, Spottie Lee and Spicy
May Spencer of Wide Spot, labor
tia Jones, Catalina and Castania
Cartwright, Cantaleva Carter and
Farthingale Foster.
A good time was had by all.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
FINAL JUDGMENT FRIDAY
ON DeFEBIO CHILDREN

Juvenile Court Judge c. S.
Meekins notified Frank ]. DeFeb-
10 by telephone on Wednesday that
firal settlement of the case involv-
ing the three DeFebio children will
be made at the judges office in
Manteo courthouse Friday after
moor at 2:30 pm. DeFebio was re-
leased from Albemarle Hospital y.
Elizabeth City last week aft =, he.
iEg treated for wounds inflicted in
HIS second suicide attempt of re.
cent months. The DeFebio children
a~e row being cared for by the
State Welfare Department.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
WHY NOT LIGHT THE BRIDGE?

Some time ago expression given the suggestion that
the bridge Roanoke Sound should be lighted Mrs
Isabel G. Murphy in her Sude News explained the atrac
tveness would hold Tor tourists and the sense OF security
to little effort to get this job done would pay
off handsomely. Nearly every community is afflicted with
the urge put at its entrance sgnboard other symbol
bearing the word Welcome" which too is
weathered into eyesore and from beginning usually
meaningless many tourists who find similar sights in
countless towns the commonwealth Doesn't
far better for the tourist at night upon cleaning
bridge weighted by lamps that throw CLEAN
enchanting waters Surely the bridge and Roa
noke Sound would ayones eyes and help the forget
ting of tresonne b-boards and weathered well
come signs. 44~.,-
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
CATFISH CORNER NEWS
REPORTED By MISS PINKIE PERRY

Gar Creekers put into effect their
communistic plan-they really put
their security plank to work.
Bristolene Brinn, a native Gar
Creeker, predicted it would be the
end, but they howled him down.
Here is the collective plan they
adopted for all members to follow
under pain of expulsion and dis
grace:
l. All members must pool their
catch, pool their money, pool their
expenses, and at the end of the
month divide up.
/ 2. All would share and share
alike, was the idea advocated.
! So they started out with the
plan.
Before a week had gone by it
( was discovered that all was not
well. There were a number of
flaws, per Sc:
l. The Catfish Corner men for
the most part had good boats and
nets, and were industrious work
ers. Consequently they usually
made good catches. On the other
hand, the Gar Checkers were lazy,
they didn't work early or late like
the men of Catfish Corner. They
did not keep heir nets of boats in
best condition.
! z. Observation of the catches re-
vealed the Gar Checkers complain
ing of bad luck, because they
brought in only half as many fish
as the Catfishers. Some said it was
because they were not working as
they should.
8. 1t took three times as much
'upkeep money to repair the boats
and nets of the Gar Creekers.
! When it came time to settle up
the bills and divide the remainder,
there wasn't anything worth speak
ing of to divide. 1t is true the Gar
Checkers had few more dollars
than they had ever gotten before
from their fishing, plus better nets,
and boats. But the Catfshers had
only about a fourth of what they
had been getting
But, argued the Gar Checkers, it
is only fair that 1--WE poor devils
get something once in a while. This
system gives the poor man a
chance"
But the Gar Checkers had al
ways been in debt, and their credit
ors heard about the good money
they made, so they pressed them
for the dough. By the end of the
second month, all the Gar Checkers
had spent their money, and half of
them had mortgaged their equip
ment to some of the sharpers in
Catfish Corner.
Times were really getting tight,
because the catch had been mighty
poor that month, so nobody had
any money, and some of the GaI
Checkers lost their nets and boats,
and went to work by the day.
J Capitalism gained the day in this
go round, although it was costly
after all, particularly to the Gar
Checkers who were sure the COM
munistic system would do them
some good. AS is so often the case
those who claimed they needed
Communism, through incidence, ig-
norance and greed, failed to get
the benefits they were 80 sure il
offered.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06

A million-bushel Sandhills peach
crop, the largest in several years,
is causing farmers around Rock
ingham to take steps to promote
sales in industrial and metropolitan
centers. Harvesting of early va
rieties began last week, but Ell
bertas and Georgia Bellies, compris-
ing the main bulk of production,
will not reach the height of their
yield until about July 20.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06

The North Carolina Petroleum
Carriers Association and the N. c.
Motor Carriers Association plead
ed before the state Utilities Com
mission Monday that lowered
rate proposed by railroads hauling
petroleum asd petroleum products
was "A conspiracy to destroy
truck competition" which would,
they say, produce destructiyely
competitive situation"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-06
FAIRFIELD O.E.S.

The regular meeting of the Fair.
field Chapter O.E.S. No. 247 will
be held next Tuesday night, July
10, at s pm, Worthy Matron Mrs.
Mary. H.. iCutrell announced this
week. The Tuesday meeting will
be the last for the summer, the.
next scheduled meeting being set
for August .2S =