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Smyrna times., 1951-10-11

ed out to be a very successful Tag
Day.
Smyrna times., 1951-10-11

VTE would like you to come in
w and hear a wonderful story.
First of all, it's the story of a great
cara car whose name is respected
and admired everywhere in America.
We are sure that the word Pontiac"
means something distinct and diff
ferent from any other name In the
motor car world.
The word Pontiac means a good
solid citizen-a thoroughly good
cara beautiful cara car with
reputation for delivering years and
Smyrna times., 1951-10-11

years and years of driving pleasure.
But there's another important part
of this story you should hear: It's the
wonderful story of POntidc's price!
For this great car, desirable as 1t Is,
is one of the lowest priced auto
mobiles In America-just one step
above the very lowest. AS a matter
of fact, If you can afford any new
car you can afford the pride and
pleasure of Pontiac!
Come In and get our deal-it's a
wonderful story all the way around!
Evening star., 1951-12-12

24-hour shopping service -.
7 days q week sounds
wonderful ;. and it is. Just
dial DI. $500 to give your
order.
Let q Service Manager check
your list and tell you in what
department to find gifts to
save you hunting time.
We wrap your Christmas gift
purchases in merry red with
out charge, or you may have
a really "super" gift wrop
at q nominal charge.
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Mrs. Lloyd Luther
.ToAddress Club

The Coast Guard Wives Club
will hold the second luncheon
meeting of the season Tuesday in
the Blue Room of the officers
Club at the Naval Gun Factory
with Mrs. w. E. Fuller presiding.
The guest speaker will be Mrs.
Lloyd Luther, president of the
District League of Women Voters
who has chosen as the subject of
her talk What Will the 1852 Elec-
ton Mean to U.s."
Major emphasis has been placed
by the club on its sponsorship OF
special projects for improving the
welfare of service personnel. To
date funds raised by committee
activities have enabled the club
to present a check to the Public
Health Hospital in Baltimore, Md.
for installation of reading lamps
in many of the individual rooms
and a television set which is used
in the ward.
In addition the Coast Guard
Wives Club has also participated
in interservice club activities de-
signed specifically for enlisted per-
Isonnel in this area.
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Members Of the Services Have Busy Schedules
Gen. Potton's
Son toWed
In June

Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Willard
Ames Holbrook of this city today
announced the engagement of
their daughter jeanne Stanley to
Capt. George Smith Patton, USA,
son of Mrs. George Smith Patton
and the late Gen. Patton.
Miss Holbrook is senior at
Sweet Briar College and a grad
uate of Mount Vernon Seminary.
Her maternal grandparents are
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John Knowles
Herr Of this city. Her paternal
grandfather was Maj. Gen. Willard
Ames Holbrook who, like Gen.
Herr, was Chief of Cavalry of the
Army. Her father was a combat
tank commander under Gen. Pat
ton during World War II and re-
ceived the Silver Star and Bronze
Star for gallantry in battles of
the Third Army.
Capt. Patton attended st. Al
bans School here and the Hill
School and is a graduate of the
United States Military Academy at
West Point. class of 1916. He
graduated from the Infantry
School at Fort Benning. Ga, and
has served overseas for four years.
Currently. Capt. Patton is sta
toned at Fort Knox, KY.
The wedding will take place in
June.
Evening star., 1951-11-11

theater during World War II.
Among the guests were Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. A. L. Hamblin, 1t. Col.
and Mrs. r. N Cooley, 1t. Col and
Mrs. H. A. Miner. Col. and Mrs.
Clement B. Murphy. 1t. Col and
Mrs. r. G. DeVecchio, Col. Lloyd
Boose. Miss Susan Hammond of
Boston. Mass. who was formerly
an ambulance driver with Ann
Morgan; Maj. and Mrs. Ross F.
Black, Maj. and Mrs. Thomas
Davis from Fort Lee, Va: Mrs.
Charles Colson. wife of Gen. Col
son, who is now in Japan; Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Jones. Col. and Mrs.
Rollo Van Kirk and Miss Marjorie
Hendricks, who was with the Red
Cross at that time. and Maj.
Miriam Butler. who followed the
5th Army through Italy. Also
Col. and Mrs. G. F. Blunda and
Maj. and Mrs. Fred Hazard.
Col. Boffier is now in Washing
ton with the Public Relations OF
flee and was formerly in San
Francisco. She was the last of this
group to leave the Italian theater
at that time.
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Miss O'DonneII
lis Bride of
|Comdr. Ropp

Miss Jeanne Marie ODonnell.
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. William
Francis ODonnell. exchanged
marriage VOWS yesterday with
Comdr. William Anthony Rapp,
U. S. NJ, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Anthony Rapp. who came
from their home in San Mateo,
Calf. for the wedding. The cere-
mony was held at 10 o'clock at st.
Thomas the Apostle Church. with
the Rev. Joseph M. Moran
officiating.
The bride. escorted to the altar
by her father, wore a gown of
ivory satin trimmed with pearls
and sequlns at the neck. the skirt
ending in a circular train. Her
veil of Brussels lace was worn over
ivory illusion and fell from a Mary
Queen Of Scot cap. Her bouquet
was of white orchids. stephanotis
and lilies of the valley.
Mrs. Joseph A. Dugan was
matron of honor and the brides
other attendants were Mrs. John
E. Bacon Of San Mateo. and Mrs.
Peter Van Kuran. Arcadia. Calf.
sisters of the bridegroom; Miss
Elaine Trimble and Miss Jane
Ulymen of New York. Dr.. Robert
Joseph O'Donnell. twin brother Of
the bride. was best man. Ushers
Included Mr.. William Francis
IO'Donnell III. brother OF the
bride; Comdr. William Huey,
Comdr. Paul Cosgrove, 1t. Comdr.
Norton j. Alst, 1t. Comdr. Alan
Brown and 1t. John Holmes.
After a Bermuda wedding trip,
Comdr. Rapp and his bride will
make their home in Washington.
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Planned

The Army and Air Force Dental
Wives Club plan to hold its meet
ings at luncheons and evening
parties on alternate months.
November "a will be an evening
affair at Fort Belvoir Officers
Club, Mrs. Oscar Ogren announced
at the second meeting Of the fall
season which was a luncheon at
the Walter Reed Army officers
Club October 25,
Evening star., 1951-11-11
to Be
Honor Guest

The Chief of Finance, Mai. Gen
Bickford E. Sawyer. will be the
guest of honor at the annual fall
dance of the civilian employees OF
the Office of the chief of finance
and the Army regional accounts
office in the Hall of Nations
Room, Hotel Washington, on Sat-
urday.
Dancing will begin at $50 to
the Bradley Clay Orchestra. In
charge of ARRANGEMENTS are Mr.
Peter Mergenovich and Mr.. Glenn
E. Sorenson.
Evening star., 1951-11-11

One OF the most popular Navy
families. the Bauernschmidts, leave
Washington at the end Of the
month for Honolulu. Rear Ad-
miral George w. Bauernschmidt is
to command the supply center at
Pearl Harbor and Rear Admiral
Murrey L. Royar will become chief
of the Bureau of Supplies and
Accounts in his place.
Wednesday Mrs. Bauernschmidt
entertained at the Army Navy
Club at luncheon and dinner. The
luncheon was in honor of Mrs
Royar and the dinner for IL ladies
had Mrs. Charles w. Fox, wife OF
Vice Admiral Fox, chief Of the
Bureau of Naval Materiel, as hon.
or guest.
Miss Sarah Bauernschmidt will
accompany her parents to Ha-
waii, until then Admiral and Mrs.
BauernSchmidt will divide their
time between here and Baltimore
spending as much time as posi-
BILE with their respective parents
before they sail.
On Friday Capt. and Mrs. Wal
ter r. Wright were hosts at a
small dinner in their home for the
Bauernschmidts and it was prob
ably the forerunner of many such
affairs for this popular couple.
In New Home
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Royar
recently arrived from Oakland,
Calf, where Admiral Royar was
in command of the Navy Supply
Center. They have bought house
on Devon drive, Falls Church. and
are expecting their daughters,
MIS-. Robert A. Schelling and Mrs.
Paul Lof1in. together with their
families to spend Thanksgiving
with them.
Comdr. and Mrs. Schelling (she
was formerly Miss Mary Ann
RoyaD have also found house
In Falls Church. They came here
early last month from San Diego,
Calf, where Mrs. Schelling and
their children, Patricia Ann and
Pamela, had been staying while
Comdr, Schelling was at sea.
Mrs. Lof1in. who before her mar
riage was Miss Mabs Royar, is
the wife of DR.. Loflin of Berk-
ley, w. Va.
Vice Admiral and Mrs. Laurence
T. DuBose have as their house
guests for the week end Mr. and
Mrs. Walker White of New York
They arrived in town on Friday
In time for Mrs. White to join
her friends at the Army Navy
Club for luncheon.
Admiral and Mrs. DuBose and
their guests attended the Navy
Maryland game at Baltimore yes
terday.
Gen. and Mrs. Royal Ingersoll
have returned to their apartment
at the Kennedy Warren after a
four-month trip through the
Middle West.
McAuIiffes Hosts
1t. Gen. and Mrs. Anthony c.
McAuliffe are settled in their new
quarters at Fort Lesley ]. McNair
and on Tuesday were hosts at a
reception and supper for the
chiefs of sections and branches
of the Office of the assistant chief
of staff G-I personnel and their
ladies.
They plan a series of such
events when Gen. McAuliffe re-
turns from Europe. where he went
with the Secretary of the Army
on Wednesday.
Gen. and Mrs. Virgil Lee Peter
son are entertaining this after
Evening star., 1951-11-11
Popular Navy Family Plans
Move Soon to Honolulu
Royors Ensconced in Falls Church Home
Notes on Activities in Wonen's Corps
Bv EVELYN IA Dent
BY Evelyn M. Dent

noon from 6 to 8 o'clock in Their
apartment at the Wyoming.
Col. and Mrs. Hoel Smith Bish-
.op, jr., were at home yesterday
to their friends from 6 to 8 O'Clock
in their quarters at Fort Lesley
j. McNair.
Mrs. Charles P. Bellican ano
Mrs. Alfred M. Roster will be CO.
hostesses at a farewell luncheon
on Friday at the home of Mrs
Roster. Eighteen guests have beer
invited to say good-by to Mrs
Robert P. Hollis. wife of Brig. Gen
Hollis. who leaves shortly for theil
new duty station in New York.
Millers to Move
Col. and Mrs. Edward c. Miller
jr., have bought house at Wood
land avenue, Falls Church, and
expect to move in about the first of
next year. Since their return
from Japan, they have been stay
ing in Arlington. Col. Miller is at
present on duty with Ga.
Col. and Mrs. George j. Zim-
norman have as their house guest
Mrs. Paul Lapp of Dayton. Ohio
sister of Mrs. Zimmerman, who
arrived earlier this week. On
Thursday Mrs. Zimmerman enter
tanned at luncheon in her home to
introduce her sister to some of her
friends.
Comdr. Robert Cobb is visiting
his family in Massachusetts, this
week end and later Mrs. Cobb will
go to Montreal to spend a week
with her brother in-law and sister
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Holland
Comdr. Cobb first plans to spend
some time with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Franklin Cobb, al
Harvard and then to see his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Dawson. and hi:
brother, Mr.. Edgar Cobb, in Hing
ham.
Mrs. Cobb is staying in towr
with their small son. winthrop
Colwell Cobb, this week end ano
expects to leave in about 10 days
for Montreal.
Women in News
Maj. Selma Herbert has arrived
from Los Angeles. Calf, where
she was on duty with the join1
public information Office of the
armed forces and is at the moment
at the Hotel Fairfax. She has
been assigned as the WAC liaisor
officer with the Department of De-
fense Advisory Committee fol
Women in Service.
1t. Mildred Stewart Carson l:
the WAVE liaison officer fol
that particular committee and /.
at present living in Alexandria
She arrived here from Charleston
S. C. Her Navy husband, 1t
Comdr. Bruce Carson. is aboarc
the Stoddard at the Boston Navy
Yard.
Col. Herrod C. Miller has been
assigned to the office of the Sec
retary of Defense. Col. and Mrs
Miller with their daughter Rovene
arrived from Fort Monmouth. N
J., recently and now have a home
in Columbia Pines.
Mrs. Miller's brother-in-law and
sister, DR.. and Mrs. P. C. Witt OF
Kahoka. Mo, have returned home
after a stay Of several weeks here
Capt. Bayna Anderson has re-
turned after 33 months duty ir
the Canal Zone. She has charge
of the WAC detachment al
Fort Myer and is presently living
in quarters on the post.
1t. Col. Helen Boffier acted as
hostess last evening at the Water
gate Inn at dinner for those who
had served together in the Italian
Evening star., 1951-11-11

One Of the most popular Navynoon from to o'clock
families the leave the Wyoming
Co1 opdM uoo1S Soith pi
Evening star., 1951-08-08
Anent the first automobile:

Anent the first automobile:
A child of that era, seeing the first
steamer going down the street, called
out:
"Oh mother, come here quick! The
horse has run away, and now the buggy
is running away!"
Perhaps that word buggy needs
some explanation for younger readers.
It has nothing to do with insects. but
was the name of a certain type of horse
drawn vehicle.
Come to think Of it, there are many
scores of words no longer in popular
usage.
There is constant dropping out of
the dictionary, and constant adding
to it. .l
Our beloved tongue never stands still.
It moves along with us, whether for
good or bad. time will tell, but in the
main 1t must be for good.
A sulky was and is light two-wheeled
vehicle.
It is best known as a sort of racing
machine, very popular at country fairs,
and now being revived on the outskirts
Of large cities.
It has two wheels, is very light, prac-
tically just seat suspended between
shafts. with rubber tired wheels.
The name is supposed to come from
the adjective. sulkys because when one
is by himself. evidently, as one must
be in the sulky, he must be moody.
The buggy was light vehicle or car
riage. with four wheels, drawn by one
horse. usually. but occasionally by two.
Evening star., 1951-08-08
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweN

The English buggy was two-wheeled,
with one horse.
The buggy is most seen today on
country roads in Pennsylvania.
X
A surrey is flat-f1oored carriage with
two seats and four wheels. and some
times has "the fringe on the top" as
the song said.
These and many other vehicles were
commonplace in the gay '90s.
It was the thing, then, to have horse
and carriage.
The standing of the family in the
community was influenced in this man
ner.
1t was not until about 1914 that the
cost of hay and other feed began to
rise to the point that keeping horses
began to be prohibitive for the great
average well-to-do family.
We recall that in 1915 one of the first
stories we wrote for The Star as a cub
reporter was about the great increase
in cost of feed.
In those days there were harness
shops just south of Pennsylvania avenue
at 10th street, with mounted horse heads
outside the door, with stock of whips
upright on the sidewalk.
Not long agoswe were talking to an
old-tiine Washingtonian, who recalled
the days when D famous Massachusetts
avenue physician was called to his IA
ther's home.
The house happened to be on the
other side Of Rock Greek, which was
then at flood. , - o. r
Evening star., 1951-08-08
Postage Rates

Your editorial July "a on postal def
cits and proposed increased postage
rates seems to call for bit of elabora-
ton.
Government should ever be limited to
its constitutional functions. but it
should never tolerate inroads on these
or abdicate its lawful duty.
The power and authority Of Congress
to establish and protect postal system
is found in 10 words in the Consti-
tuition.
Faced with competitive practices in
the carriage Of letters and packets"
more than 100 years ago, which were
almost certain to heavily deplete the
revenues Of the service, Congress passed
prohibitory laws, upheld by the courts,
which put such private companies out
of the business of carrying letters and
packages of goods, newspapers, maga-
zines and other mailable matter.
Were these laws presently enforced
there would be no occasion to raise rates
on letters to 4 cents, increase the rates
on newspapers and magazines, have
postal deficits, or need to decrease the
service of this most useful item of pub
lie service
Every careful study of the subject
has confirmed this view.
Nathan Boone Williams.
Evening star., 1951-08-08

The physician at first said he could
not come, since it was then past mid
night, but the father insisted, and said
he would drive down and get him in
the buggy.
To this the doctor agreed, and they
set out, but when they came to the
raging creek, the physician refused to
go across.
He at last gave in, and the fording
was achieved.
After the i'll one had been attended
to, the doctor asked to be driven home
again, but by this time the other had
enough, and declared, ''You are here,
and here you are going to stay until
daybreak." And the doctor stayed.
There was nothing else he could do.
One Of the strangest vehicles on the
streets of Washington in the old days
was the herdic. These ran on 18th
street from U street south to 18th and
H streets. They were entered by steps
at the rear, had straw on the floor, and
were drawn by two horses. In the
winter the straw was nice and warm
to snuggle your feet in The company
lost so much money that it finally threw
in the sponge, and probably never did
know the reason. although here again
the cost of feeding the horses was a
factor. What really did 1t was the way
the dear old public cheated the COM
pany. One could ride both ways on
the same transfer, and could use the
same transfer over and over again. It
was said the same persons used the
same transfer for years.
Evening star., 1951-08-08
Pensioners Forgotten

The House Civil Service Committee
has Just approved a $4oo-a-year perma-
nent pay increase for all Federal and
District government classified employees.
including Washington policemen. fire.
men and school teachers. Also included
in the bill are employees Of the foreign
service, the Veterans Administration
departments Of medicine and surgery,
legislative and judicial employees.
I failed to see anything about the
Federal annuitant who gave the best
years Of his life in doing loyal and
conscientious job for Uncle Sam. When
we answered some 80 or 40 years ago
the call, "Uncle Sam Needs You," which
could be seen on signboards from coast
to coast, we did not expect that after
we had put forth our best efforts for
Uncle Sam as loyal Americans that he
would turn his back on us in time Of
need.
We are now paying Federal income
tax on our annuities. District income
tax, District personal tax, a District
sales tax. and, as Of August /, 1851,
20% increase in rent in a city which
had already carried among the highest
rents of the cities of the country.
,Annuitant.
Evening star., 1951-08-08

taken at face value there is certainly room for
doubt as to the helpfulness of the indoctrination
that the people of Japan are getting in the
ways Of democracy as understood in the United
States.
MIR. PAGES letter is double talk. There is
little doubt that Senator Hoey right in saying
that DR.. Brimley was dropped, not for fear of
offending the japanese, but to appease the AFL.
Mr.. PAGES evaSiveness does not set good ex-
ample for the Japanese of the workings of
American democracy Neither does it set good
example for the boys at West Point who are
expected to adhere to the highest standard of
candor and forthrightness.
Evening star., 1951-08-08
Optimistic Toxpoyer

The best thing for Congress to do with
the present tax bill is to scrap 1t en-
tirely and wait until they reconvene in
the fall before writing a new one. Not
only is 1t poorly conceived, but the back
ground upon which it is based has been
changed and the sacrifices for which it
calls are no longer necessary.
With the ending Of hostilities in Ko-
rea. the whole picture will be altered
and the necessity for continuing the
present high rate of spending will no
longer exist. A tremendous cut can be
made in Government expenditures. The
innumerable bureaucracy can be cor
rected. Many expenses are tolerated in
time Of national emergency. but there
can be no justification for continuing
them when the emergency has passed.
Placing an added burden upon business
and the taxpayers can only harm the
country by checking its prosperity.
Conditions have greatly improved In
Europe and the fear Of war no longer
hangs ominously over its people. Com
munism has lost ground all over the
world and Russia is becoming less Of a
menace every day. We have done our
share in helping the world and it is now
time that we think about helping our
own people. The place to start is with
the poor taxpayer who has been strug-
Cling to keep his head above water for
the past several years. Instead of tax
ing corporations to death. let us help
them make money. The Government
will collect more from them in the long
run. It would be much wiser to tax less
Evening star., 1951-08-08
A Great Pity

It is very sad thing that often in the
summer girls best friends the mail and the
telephone. seem to let her down. Ask any
Madame Butterfly sitting unclaimed in her
apartment and she will tell the same story of
a seasonal breakdown in these essential services.
For some reason or other when anybody fasci-
mating is dialing her number, the mechanism
fails and he gets the wrong number, to be told
only "She's not here" which makes him think
she has left town or is on vacation. 1t happens
all the time, Then, too, as she bends discon-
solately over her ironing board she can hear
the telephone in her neighbors empty apart
ment ringing madly, and she knows that the
cables have viciously knotted the wires have
been crossed, and her call will go unanswered.
Just when she gets to the point of calling up
the telephone company to report this intoerable
state of affairs, the telephone does ring, but
who is it? radio survey, an upholsterer want
ing to recover her couch, man who wanted
the liquor store or some woman friend, equally
forlorn suggesting an improving expedition to
the Smithsonian. In time, she has suspicion
that some invisible censor in the telephone COM
pany is screening her calls, shooing away all the
desirableS. It goes away in the fall
It is the same way with the postal service,
which, too, is ordinarily reliable. AS she surveys
her empty mailbox, she knows that there is
new postman, a summer substitute, on the route
He has done one of two terrible things with all
the invitations that should be there. He has
dropped them in a mudpuddle SO that her name
is obliterated. Or, he has put them in her neigh
boris box. and there they lay unclaimed, because
her neighbor has left town taking her mailbox
key and will not return until Labor Day. when
all the parties will be over.
This is a very sad state of affairs, one which
should be called to the attention OF the proper
authorities.
Evening star., 1951-08-08
ReIox-the Machine Age Isn't Here Yet

complex electronic calculator works on
binary system-a system of ''yes" or
mo" answers.
You feed data into the electronic
brain and ask it question. Essentially,
it gives you an affirmative or mega
tive answer-or no answer at all.
To achieve the happy end of having
nothing to do but watch television and
read newspapers. we first must develop
a. machine that can give us q Eyes,
but - reply to our questions.
This is necessary because even the
simplest of us rarely ask questions that
have but one possible answer. Even
the reply to, "How far is it to winston
Salem?" must be prefaced by the state
ment. well, 1t depends on what route
you take :" And when man is asked
how much money he makes, his answer
is conditioned as much by the nature OF
the questioner as by the size of his pay
check.
And no machine has yet been devised
that will give the obvious answer: None
Of your business"
On higher plane, most Of mans
thinking is done outside the realm of
demonstrable fact. To be sure, we can
feed data into a machine and ask
whether there will be a solar eclipse
next year. There either will be, or will
not be. The machine will answer yes
or no; plus or minus; black or white
however it is geared to respond.
But what Of the myriad questions to
which there is a maybe, minus
plus. gray-or million Of these as
possible answers? Can machine be
constructed with q built-in ethos? And
more important to present-day living,
can it be built with an ethical cutoff
switch that will enable it to give us the
practical solution when such a solution
Is ethically undesirable?
Granting that code Of conduct can
be made an integral part of thinking