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Evening star., 1951-01-16
Parking Meter Coins
lin 7 Towns 10 Aid
Polio Fund Campaign

Starting this week. parking
meter patrons in College Park
and Hyattsville may aid the in.
fantile paralysis fund drive.
Persons who put a dime in the
meters will get IL minutes park
ing, but 9 cents will go to the
polio fund. The usual charge fo1
IL minutes parking is one cent.
The plan has been approved
by the mayor and council of
each town.
1t will continue through Janu-
ary 81 when the polio campaign
ends.
A total of 10000 letters and
circulars have been mailed to
residents of Prince Georges
County, including cards in which
So in dimes may be inserted
March Of Dimes banks in the
shape of an iron lung have been
placed in business places and
coin cards distributed among the
schools. Donations may also be
mailed to March of Dimes head.
quarters in the County Service
Building, Hyattsville, or given t.
volunteer leaders in each area.
William Bowie, Hyattsvill,
banker, again heads the count.
Special Gifts Committee. Mrs
Edward Beck, mother of polio
victim, and Mrs. Mabel Wilkin.
son are in charge of school con.
tributions. Mrs. Ida Lee Briley
heads the Women's Division while
Miss Natalie Greaves is taking
care of contributions from com.
merce and industry.
Last year the polio drive ir
Prince Georges County netteo
16,160.64, but the cost of pa
tient care for county victims
of the disease amounted to
$34,647.28. Advances from ma
tional headquarters of the Infan.
tile Paralysis Foundation were
necessary. The county's goal this
year is $4,000.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Sale Replaces Marshall
As M| Board President
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va, Jan. 16.-E.
Ashton Sale of Martinsville has
taken over the presidency Of the
Virginia Military Institute Board
Of Visitors to replace Defense Sec
Iretary Marshall.
The Martinsville executive was
elected here yesterday after Gen.
Marshall turned down a plea that
he continue in Office. The De-
fense Secretary, a VMI graduate,
retained his place on the board but
bowed out as president because of
the pressure of his official duties.
A 1919 graduate of VMI, Mr..
Sale is the president of the Sale
Knitting Co. in Martinsville and
is a director of the Virginia Manu-
facturers Association. He was
named to the Board of Visitors in
1914 by former Gov. Colgate w.
Darden, jr.
Reelected as secretary Of the
board was Maj. j. Harry Ebeling.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Baggett Made President
Of HYattsviIIe Democrats

Jesse S. Baggett, "a member OF
the Hyattsville City Council, has
been installed as president of the
Hyattsville District Democratic
Club for the ensuing year.
Other officers indicted were:
Karl M. Steele, executive vice
president. and these precinct vice
president: William F. Gasch,
first; Howard H. Holmes, second;
Hervey q. Machen, third; Harry
A. Shinn, fourth, and Hugh A,
White, fifth.
Smith H. Purdum was installed
as secretary; w. Stanley Machen,
treasurer; Robert A. Baker, SER
geant-at-arms, and Paul p.
O'Dowd, chaplain.
Evening star., 1951-01-16

Ia cA4AAuA4 e&1kA4AAS
that their colleague be allowed to
remain in service.
DR.. Bennett lives at East Falls
Church. His retirement-unless
Mr.. Brannan recommends an ex-
ception to President Truman-was
disclosed at the Rocky Mount
convention.
Announcement of DR.. BENEFITS
possible retirement comedies
with the publication of his biog-
raphy by Wellington Brink. The
book, issued by the Macmillan Co.,
New York, is titled big Hugh
the Father of Conservation"
Tells Story of BENEFITS Life.
1t tells the story of DR.. Benefits
life, from the days on his fathers
cotton plantation in Anson Coun-
ty, N. c., to his present recogni-
ton as the worlds great authority
on land. On his fathers planta-
ton. Big Hugh first saw rich farm
Evening star., 1951-01-16

Mudd's as soon as he returns.
Two Republicans Chosen.
The Governor also said he ex-
poets to name his Roads Commis-
sioners soon. He's definitely set
he said, on Russell P. Mccain OF
Frederick as chairman and Avery
Hall of Salisbury. both Republi-
cans. He said he wants to have
further talks" about Thomas
Hubbard, chairman of the Balti-
more Planning Commission, as
the third and Democratic Com
missioner.
Arthur H. Brice will continue
as motor vehicles commissioner
until Mr.. Mudd, a Charles County
resident, who once was doomed
for the Republican gubernatorial
nomination which Gov. McKeldin
won. returns from Florida.
Vacancy Remains.
Mr.. Brice agreed to stay on the
job, although he was appointed
last week to a new one as chair
man of the Tidewater Fisheries
Commission. Another vacancy on
the Tidewater commission has yet
to be filled by Gov. McKeldin.
Mr.. Mccain is on the Roads
Commission now. Mr.. Hall and
Mr.. Hubbard would replace Jo-
seph M. George, present chairman,
and Leonard E. Kolmer.
The Craftsmanship of the Roads
Commission pays $4,000 a year
and the other two members
get $500.
The motor vehicles commissioner
is paid $4,000 a year.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Rockville Child Burned
As She Upsets Bean Pot

A 14-month-old Rockville girl
was badly burned yesterday when
she upset a pot of beans her
father was cooking.
Alma M. Davidson, daughter OF
Mr., and Mrs. Harry Davidson OF
Old Beantown road, is in Subur-
ban Hospital with second degree
burns to her face, chest and arms
The hospital described her con-
dition as poor"
Police said Mr.. Davidson TOLD
them he was cooking the beans
when Alma accidently struck the
pot handle with her head, spilling
the beans over her.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Retirement of Dr.. Hugh Bennett
Opposed by Soil Supervisors

soil swept away by the muddy Pee
Dee River near Wadesboro, an
Associated Press summary of the
book discloSes.
It was not mere chance then
that young Bennett, having COM
pleted a chemistry course at the
University Of North Carolina in
1908, became a $1,000-a-year
chemist in the Bureau of Soils of
the Agriculture Department.
From Maine to California, the
young chemist saw the same pat
tern being repeated endlessly: A
tiny gully. left unchecked, deep
ening into rivulets and then into
deep ravines through which the
rich topsoil oozed and later gushed
toward the ocean.
Appointed by Ickes.
During these years Mr.. Bennett
was building his case against soil
erosion, case by case. He was
shocked when in 1909 his boss
the chief of the Bureau of Soils
declared fatty that "the soil is the
one indestructible, immutable as
set that the Nation possesses. It
is the one resource that cannot be
exhausted: that cannot be used
up"
Finally, in 1888. Mr.. Benefits
big chance came. Secretary of In
terror Ickes selected him to be
chief Of the newly authorized Soil
Erosion Service. In a matter of
days, he called in hundreds of en-
gineers, agronomists, nurserymen,
biologists, foresters, soils surveyors,
economists and accountants and
sent his technicians to the field
to start the biggest face-lifting
job in the. history Of the world.
Later the service was transferred
to the Department of Agriculture.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Arlington Woman Found
Hanging From Bannister

Mrs. Tobias c. Stocksdale, A, OF
1915 North Larrimore street, Ar
lington. was found hanging from
a bannister in the hallway of hel
home yesterday afternoon.
Her husband, a Washington Gas
Light Co. employe. said Mrs
Stocksdale had been under the
care of a psychiatrist for eight
years. She was found by a neigh
Dor, Mrs. Coreen Mansell, 1921
North Larrimore street.
A suicide certificate was issued
by the county coroner, DR.. w. C.
Welburn.
Survivors include a daughter,
Margaret Louise, 13: Mrs. Stocks
dale's father. Albert E. Finlayson
of Washington; two brothers
Edward A. Finlayson, Kensington,
and Maj. Douglas Finlayson
now stationed in Germany, and a
sister, Mrs. Doris L. McWilliams
of Washington.
Mrs. Stocksdale was a past no
BILE grand of the Martha Washing
ton Lodge of Rebecca.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Prosecutor 10 Probe
Statements Made by
Bowie Track Officials

The Maryland Racing Commis-
sion yesterday referred a steno-
graphic report of statements made
by officials of Bowie race track to
the Prince Georges County prose-
cutor for possible legal action.
H. Courtenay Jenifer, commits
sion chairman, refused to reveal
the nature of the statements prior
to an examination of the report
by States Attorney Carlyle j.
Lancaster of Prince GeNrges
County.
Investigation Made.
An Associated Press report from
Baltimore, however, recalled that
last week commission Spokes-
man said an investigation Of the
track was being made. especially
with reference to assertions that
bookmakers had been active there
during the last fall meeting.
Bowie is operated by the South
ern Maryland Agricultural Asso-
citation.
Representatives Of the States
three other major tracks-Pim-
lico, Laurel and Havre De Grace
apperaed before the commission
yesterday and were questioned on
the handling of comeback money"
Bowie was not represented. Later
Chairman Jennifer gave the three
tracks a clean bill of health.
Represents Excess Wagers.
("Comeback money" is bet
ting term used to refer to money
which Is bet at a race track by
a bookmaker or his agent. The
money represents an excess of
wagers received by the book
maker which he does not want
to hold, so he protects himself
by betting 1t off,
John w. Farrell, Bowie board
member who was ousted from the
presidency last week at a stormy
board meeting, said he knew moth
ing about illegal activities during
the last racing meet.
He refused to comment on the
report sent to Mr.. Lancaster.
Mrs. Josephine M. O'Hara, the
tracks new president, and L. Ed
O'Hara, general manager and vice
president, were unavailable.
Mr.. Lancaster said II will want
to read and study the report be-
fore I decide what to do"
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Call to North Carolina Church
Accepted by Alexandra Rector

native of Atlanta, was senior as
sistant at st. Georges Church in
New York before coming to Alex
andria. He is a graduate of Ho-
bart College in New York and the
Virginia Theological Seminary at
Alexandria. He attended the
University of Jena in Germany.
He is chairman of the dioscesian
department of Christian Education
of Virginia and a member of the
Cathedral chapter committee of
the College of Preachers at WASH
ington Cathedral and of the exc
cutive committee of the diosce-
sian Missionary Society.
Mr.. Fraser was president several
years ago of the Alexandria Min
isterial Association. He Is mar
ried and has two children.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
BIadensburg Council Fights
Hiqh School Name Chance

The Bladensburg Town Council
sent letter today to the Prince
Georges County School Board op-
posing a proposed change in the
name of the Bladensburg High
School to the A. s. Cook High
School.
Mrs. Ruth B. Young, town clerk,
said the Bladensburg Town Coun-
Gil never had been notified that
the School Board was considering
the change.
Mrs. Young announced that
copies of the revised town ordi-
|nances may be obtained for $3.50
at her home, $3.50 Tilden road,
Bladensburg.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Argyle Citizens Hear
Report on Wafer Tastes

Argyle Citizens Association mem
bers were told last night to report
Immediately any bad taste or
smell they detect in their water
supply.
At the groups meeting in the
Sligo Recreation Center, President
Otis L. Turner reported an inter-
view with John M. Jester, main
tenance and operation division
engineer of the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, about
a recent unpleasant water taste
that caused complaints.
Mr.. Jester said the treatment
plant had the latest facilities fol
combating tastes and odors.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
HyafsviIIe Businessmen
Back Parking LEGISLATION

Hyattsville's Professional and
Businessmen's Association hac
adopted resolution favoring ell
actment by the General Assembly
of legislation that would permit
the County Commissioners to ac-
quire land for off-street parking
in special taxing areas.
The association unanimously
elected these officers for the en-
suing year:
Daniel j. Burke, president; John
T. Norman, vice president; Ed
ward A. Fuller, secretary; j. w.
Taliaferro, treasurer, and George
S. Banning. j. Edwin Hutchinson
and Jesse S. Baggett, directors.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Navy 10 Spend S. Million
On Cincofeaque AirfieId
By the Associofed Press

SALISBURY, Md. Jan. 16.-
The Navy advised a Salisbury firm
yesterday it plans to spend about
S. million to provide facilities for
jet planes at it's auxiliary air sta
ton at Cincoteague, Va.
Only a few months ago the
Navy had acknowledged it planned
to curtail activities there.
The Navy's notice was directed
to Victor w. Buhr, Salisbury en-
gineer whose firm was awarded
a $4,000 engineering and archi-
lecture contract to plan the work.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Maryland Assembly
Votes Another Probe
OF Mental Hospitals
BY q stoff Correspondent. Of The star

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 16.-For the
second time in two years, the Gen.
eral Assembly has voted to investi-
gate Maryland's mental hospitals
The move came as a result of
adoption by the House and Senate
last night of identical resolutions
calling for appointment Of a 12-
member legislative committee to
look into the matter and report
back within so days.
The resolutions instructed the
committee to determine the results
OF the $40 million mental hospital
program adopted by the Legisla-
ture two years ago.
Delegate Jerome Robinson, DEM
ocrat, one Of the sponsors of the
resolution, was a member of a
similar Joint committee at the
1949 session which undertook the
first official investigation of the
mental hospital program in many
years.
Phipps Named to Committee.
Its findings at that session re-
suited in passage of legislation
reorganizing the Department of
Mental Hygiene, readjusting sal
aries Of hospital workers and ap-
propriating $40 million for capital
Improvements.
The Senate version of the reso-
luton last night was adopted with
little comment. But there was q
sharp verbal furry in the House
before the, resolution was passed
there on a voice vote.
Mr.. Robinson, In urging imme-
date passage of the resolution,
insisted it's purpose was mot nee
essarily fault-finding or a white
wash"
Delegates J. Raymond Bufhng-
ton, jr., and Chester w. Tawney,
Democrat of Baltimore's Sd dis
trict, contended, however, that the
resolution should be sent to COM
mittee so 1t could be amended.
Baltimore Primary Bill Passed.
Mr.. Burlington complained the
1949 investigation was conducted
behind closed doors and that re-
suits Of a $4,000 survey made by
a group of Philadelphia experts
at that time have never been dis
closed.
After passage Of the resolution,
the House sent to the Senate q
bill setting Baltimore's primary
election on March 81 of this year.
The measure was the first to pass
in either House at the present ses-
sion. which opened January 3.
Among the bills introduced in
the House was one by Mr.. Tawney
providing for a 90-day suspension
Of a drivers permit upon a drunk
en- driving conviction and perma-
nent revocation of the license for
a second offense.
Another measure would put
money available for payment Of
unclaimed pari-mutuel tickets into
the school incentive fund when
tickets have not been redeemed
after three years.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
GuIIuudet to Hear Envoy

The Midweek Student Assembly
of Gallaudet College for the deaf
will be held at 10 am. tomorrow
to hear Don Rafael Heliodorc
Vale. Ambassador from Hon
duras, talk on cultural relations
Joseph P. Youngs Of the college
staff will translate the ambassa-
doris talk into sign language.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Building Tools Stolen

Building tools valued at $500
were stolen last night from con-
struction sheds of the Clarendon
Plumbing. Co.. 3471 Wilson boule-
ward, Arlington police reported.
The sheds are at Nineteenth and
South Pollard streets and at
Twentieth and North Harrison
streets.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Arlington Zionist Meeting

"An Evening Of Israeli Folk
Song" with Aviva Halaban, So
prano, will be featured at a meet
ing at $3.50 tonight of the Airing
ton-Fairfax Zionist District. The
meeting will be held at the Airing
ton Jewish Center, Lee boulevard
at Fenwick street.
Evening star., 1951-01-16

Winston = Sal
sem, N. c.
: Mr.. F r a S e r
; has been active
: in church and
/: civic circles in
: t h e Washing
/; ton area since
he assumed the
re t o rship in
: Alexandria in
; November 1914.
He expects to
take up his new
Id u les around
April l.
MIR. Fraser, q
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Ba|ks
.AtMontgomery
School Plan
McNoyr Addresses
Delegates on Bill
For Elected Board
By J. B. Zotmon
Stor Sfoff CorHaspondenf

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 16. The
Montgomery County delegation's S
plan to sponsor legislation for an
elected School Board has run into
opposition from County Manager
Irving G. McNayr.
Mr.. McNayr expressed his opin-
ion on the controversial question
at a delegation meeting last night.
Emphasizing he was speaking
only for himself, the county man
ager told the all-Republican
group: -
II know you are committed to
an elected School Board-I wish
you weren't. I think it would be
far wiser to have a county council
appointed board or one named by
the Governor from a list submitted
by the council"
Stresses Home Rule.
And he made it plain he pre-
ferred the latter alternative for
CIleSe reasons.
l. It would afford a large meas
ure OF home rule-the foundation
Of the county's charter form of
government.
2. The council would retain
financial control over schools.
3. 1t would take the board out
Of politics by abolishing the pres
ent plan under which the Gov
ernor appoints board members
recommended by the State Gen.
trail Committee of the party in
power.
If you must propose an elected
board" he said. you should give
it full taxing authority (for school
operation) and the power to issue
school construction bonds.
Warns of Competition.
"Unless you do so, you will have
two elected bodies competing to
see how much each can spend
for schools and using each other
as sounding board"
But he expressed grave doubt
whether election Of board would
result in better members than
under the present system.
"Of course" he said, "you could
expect to elect an all-Republican
board because of the present po-
litical trend in the county. But
don't think that would be a
healthy condition, and it certainly
would not fit in with the stand
that it would be better to have a
bipartisan board"
At present all members Of the
county school board are Demo-
Gratis.
Although the delegation took no
official action as result of Mr..
McNayr's statements, some men,
bers indicated they would have to
60 through with their plan to in
troduce a bill for an elected school
board in view of their campaign
pledge.
Rough Shedding Expected.
They conceded, however, that
such a measure probably would
encounter rough shedding in the
Democrat-controlled General AS
sembly.
In addition, State Superinten-
dent of Schools Thomas G. Pullen
has come out strongly against such
plan.
One Montgomery delegate said
that if the bill appears headed for
defeat, it probably will be with
drawn in favor of a substitute pro-
viding for a board appointed by
the Governor on recommendation
Of the county council.
Meanwhile, it was learned two
Montgomery delegates have been
elected minority chairmen of their
committees. They are j. Douglas
Bradshaw. who has been named
minority chairman of the Judici-
ary Committee, and j. PAUL Mar
shall, minority chairman of the
Entertainment Committee. Mr..
Bradshaw also Is chairman of the
Montgomery delegation.
Evening star., 1951-01-16

missioner and
has just about
decided on his
three r a d s
Commissioners.
The Governo.
said last night
that Mr.. Nude
would be the
Vehicles Com
missioner now
except he haC
to go to Florida
to re uperate
from a slight
In e S S. The
ion will he Mr.
Evening star., 1951-01-16

Brannan TO eX-
tend his service
beyond the stat
utory etire-
ment age of 10
next April Is.
Th e N or t h
Carolina ASSo-
citation of Soil
S u p ervi S ors,
which is hold
ing its annual
m e e tin 6 a t
Rocky M ou n t
this week, has
W rit ten M r.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
PTA Topic Announced

Athletic activities at Washing
ton-Lee High School will be dis
cussed at the Parent
Association meeting at 8 O'Clock
tonight In the school at ala
Fourth street North. Arlington.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
PTA Meeting Called

The Parent Teacher Association
of the Dolly Madison Junior High
School in Arlington will meet at
8 pm, tomorrow to see a film on
atomic defense and witness q
first aid demonstration by Boy
Scout troops.
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Hume PTA to Meet

The Parent Teacher Association
OF the Hume Elementary School,
Arlington, will meet at 8 pm.
Thursday to hear Calvin Best, of
the Arlington schools, discuss the
new school bus schedules.
Evening star., 1951-01-16

Friends. and associates of DR..
Hugh H. Bennett, chief of the Soil
Conservation Service, have ap-
pealed to Secretary of Agriculture
Evening star., 1951-01-16

The Rev. Thomas A. Fraser,
rector of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Alexandria, has accept
ed q call to st. Paul's Church in
Evening star., 1951-01-16
Thomas Mudd Chosen
For Auto Commission,
|McKeIdin Announces
BY the Assoeioied Press

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Jan. 10
Gov. McKeldin has definitely Sc
lected Thomas B. R. Mudd of La
Plata for his Motor Vehicles COM
Valley frontiersman., 1951-07-20
Ruth Hodgson Resigns School Secretary Job; Successor Takes Over

Come this September Mrs. Ruth Hodgson will be missed as school secretary and one of the key per sonnel in the Palmer Public School, Superintendent William T. Zahradnicek announced this week.
 The announcement followed the arrival of Miss Alice McCann who will take over Mrs. Hodgson's duties.
 "All of us will miss Ruth" MT. Zahradnicek said. Her duties have been those of registrar, school secretary, and bookkeeper. During the past three years, she has turned out a tremendous amount of work accurately and efficiently.
 If any of us had a question or a problem, we asked Ruth" he added. ''The Board of Education and I take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Hodgson for a job we'll done. We really appreciate her sincerity and loyalty to those of us with whom she has worked. We're going to miss her.
 "When Mrs. Hodgson decided to resign her position, she gave suf- ficient notice so that another capable person could be found to take her place"
 Miss Alice McCann is already on the job getting acquainted with her duties. Mrs. Hodgson Is staying on for a few days to fin ish some of the work for the year and to assist Miss McCann III get ting oriented.
 Miss McCann arrived in the
Valley frontiersman., 1951-07-20

the analysis of previous plant ings, flax should be considered as a crop in the Valley.
 The yield and quality of oil meal, fiber are all equal or better than Stateside flax. The big ob- stacle would seem to be the pro- cessing of the crop. Perhaps, In time, some enterprising concern or individual will look into this possibility.
 World Collection of Oats About Ready for Harvest
 Due to the early planting of the World Collection of Oats at the Experiment Station most of the varieties will be ready for harvest in the next week or so. To all Valley farmers interested in gram production, this collection of all the varieties of oats that the USDA can lay it's hands on-and all growing at the Station-pre- sents an interesting picture. We'll worth the time taken to see It.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-07-20
HIGH-BROW CHURCH MICE BECOME PHILATELISTS

While tuning a piano in a church last week, Juan Miller found mouse nest in the pay dirt" under the keys.
 The nest was built almost en- tirely of old pre-war postage stamps, some from nations that no longer exist. Among the col lection were stamps from Czech oslovakia, Finland, South Amer ica, Canada, Mexico and the United States.
 There was also a five-cent piece of the aluminium scrip used by the Coop in former (ARRC) years.
 The mice used good Judgment and exercised self-restraint. None of the stamps vas torn or mutll- ated, although the mucilage would have tasted good-to a church mouse