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Evening star., 1951-12-14
College Park Wont Raise
Real Estate Tax in 1852

College Parks real estate tax
will remain at 25 cents for each
$100 of assessed valuation for
1852.
The decision was made by the
town council after a tentative
budget for next year was reviewed,
Mayor C. r. Davis said. Final
approval of the budget is expected
at the next council meeting.
One factor in retaining the
present rate is the new fee which
the town will receive for garbage
collection. AS approved by a ref
erendum last May, garbage col
lection will cost So a year for sin
gle-family residences. and Sc for
the first family in a multi-family
unit, 81 for the second and 50 each
for each additional family.
Garbage collection at business
establishments will be performed
under negotiated contracts.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Man Fined for Drawing
Benefits While WORKING

A gasoline station attendant
was fined s25 and given a 60-day
suspended Jail sentence in Alex
andria yesterday on charges of
drawing unemployment compen-
sation while he was working.
Judge James r. Duncan sus-
pended the Jail sentence on con-
dition that jessie j. Shifflett, 10,
of the 1000 block of Cameron
street, Alexandria, repay the un-
employment money.
Guilford Landes, claims deputy
of the Virginia Unemployment
Compensation Commission, said
|Shifflett had continued to draw
unemployment pay for one week
after he got a job.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Pupils AreGuinea Pigs
In Arlington 5 Core
Class, Miles Charges

Arlington's public school core"
program Is experimental with the
students acting as the guinea pigs,
a group of citizens was told last
night.
The speaker. James r. Miles, sr.,
president of the Arlington Forum
on Public Schools, discussed the
subject before the forum last
night. Earlier, the School Board
and the Citizens Committee on
School Improvement had refused
to debate the subject of "core." "
School Board literature was dis
tributed by the forum, however.
72-Hour Course.
The controversial course is de-
scribed by the public school ad-
ministration as general education
in the ninth grade which COM
bines "skills and experiences
which should be common to all
people in our society" A two
hour required course. it combines
English with other subjects such
as civics and geography.
Mr.. Miles said that because of
GORE" the ninth-grade students
no longer get high school credit
for work done, thus jeopardiZing
their ability to enter college.
Defense of the subject by the
School Board has been undemo-
cratic and parents have been told
it is none of their business. the
speaker charged.
Not Required by State.
About 96.5 per cent of the sec
ondary schools in the country
operate without "core." he said,
and he inquired. why should
Arlington" The decision was
made locally, the State does not
require the subject, he added.
Declaring "core" is the mani
festation of progressive" educa-
ton which urges elimination of
discipline. home work. textbooks,
organized subject matter and COM
|petitive grading, Mr.. Miles said il
|proclaims that all needed infor-
nation will come as a by-product
of experiences.
The subject was regarded by
the speaker as evidence of a Ma
tion-wide movement toward CEN
tralized control of educational
policy by the elements of the Ma
tional Education Association and
at Columbia University Teachers
College.
Evening star., 1951-12-14

only "Kelly's Well" is still in use
today. nearly IA years later.
The Booker well is still usable
and has a good flow. but its situa-
ton in a hollow makes it hard to
keep pump in operation there
the dampnesS harms the machin-
cry.
The councils well. though locat-
ed in likely spot; geologically
speaking. was a dry hole. No sign
of water.
After that, Dowser Booker was
out of a job in Rockville. Mayor
Kelly has never charged the town
Tor his services.
Served In Coast Guard.
The 48-year-old Mayor. genial
man with an inquiring mind, says
he used to feel a little foolish
when he first started wandering
around Rockville with his forked
sticks. Nowadays, though, its a
different story. Most Rockvill-
|ians are used to the sight. They
must approve. since they have
elected him their Mayor three
times. Previously. they kept him
on the Town Council for 10 years.
His political career was inter-
rupted by the war. He received a
commission in the Coast Guard in
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Virginia Cites Procedure
For FIuoridaiion Of Water
BY the Assoeioied Pres.

RICHMOND. Va, Dec. l4.-The
State Board of Health yesterday
indorsed the fluoridation of pub
lie water supplies in Virginia 10
calities under certain conditions.
Before areas desiring f1uorida-
ton may go ahead with their
plans, the Board said they must:
Cd Show. the approval Of local
health officials.
(2) Show approval by local
medical and dental groups.
90 Show evidence of public de-
|mand as in ordinances or resolu-
tions by local governing bodies.
a. Make application for per-
mission to institute fluoridation.
(5) Develop plans, specifica-
tions, operating procedures and
methods of supervision in con-
formity with requirements to be
determined for each installation
by the State Health Department.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Gore Spurns Help
OF 0fNon-MaryIanders
In Drive for Senate
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 14.-H. Grady
Gore. wealthy Potomac resident,
says he's not interested in help
from Senator Mccarthy. Repub-
lican Of Wisconsin, or "any nom
Maryland Senator" in his own
campaign for the Senate.
Nor is Jon NJ. Jonkel, the Chi
cago public relations man who
managed Senator Buffers sue
cessful campaign last year, lined
up with him, Mr.. Gore said.
Connections Denied.
The Montgomery County Re-
publican. who said he already has
travelled more thaa 10000 miles
through Maryland to promote his
candidacy, denied outside con-
nections in letter to the weekly
Southern Maryland Times.
The newspaper had suggested
Senator Mccarthy. Mr.. Jonkel
and others who aided Senator
Butler a year ago may be Mr..
Cores mainstays now"
Mr.. Gore complimented Senator
Butler and said when we elect a
Republican President. the Sem
ator will be the best prospect for
strengthening the COP in Mary
land.
Not interested, He Says.
He wrote that he was certain
Senator Mccarthy "has no in
tereSt in my campaign" and
added he is mot interested in
assistance from him or from any
nom Maryland Senator"
Jon NJ. Jonkel is a friend of
our family" he said, "but he has
no connection with my cam
paign."
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Silver Spring Woman
Burned in Bedroom Fire

Msr. Francis Moore, 81, of 500
East Wayne avenue, Silver Spring,
was reported in satisfactory con-
dition at Washington Sanatarium
today following her rescue from
a burning mattress in a smoke
filled bedroom yesterday.
Pvt. Charles Barrett of the
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment trailed Mrs. Moore's
screams to the second-fioor room
The rescue squad took her to the
hospital. where she was treated
for smoke inhalation and minor
burns.
Firemen said the blaze started
when Mrs. Moore dozed off while
smoking in bed.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Police in Area on Lookout
For Missing RiverdaIe Boy

Washington area police have
been alerted to watch for a IA
|year-old boy missing from his
Riverdale (Md.) home since
Tuesday morning.
The boy, Ralph Frank Kalmus
|of 4707 Tuckerman street. dis
appeared after leaving for his
ninth grade classes at Hyatts-
vile Junior High School. Prince
Georges County police said.
Police said the boys father,
David Kalmus, is lieutenant in
the Riverdale Volunteer Fire De-
|partment. They said Mr.. Kalmus
told them the boy has never
stayed away from home before
and he knows of no reason for
the disappearance.
Police described the boy as S
feet 8, las pounds, with brown
hair and hazel eyes. He was wear
ing a brown plaid jacket. vari-
|colored sweater and either blue
'or Army pants.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Prince Georges Fight
On Patronage Scored

State Senator John Raymond
Fletcher. Republican. of Prince
Georges last night said the recent
patronage dispute in the county
was the work of a few discon-
tented people"
He identified the malcontents as
a handful of Republicans who ran
the party in the county in the past
and who made heavy demands on
elected officials after the COP
scored its almost total victory at
the polls last year.
Mr.. Fletcher. titular head of the
county COP. spoke to the county
Young Republican Club in the
Cheverly American Legion Hall.
He chided the club for recently
approving. % to 81. a resolution
calling on the all-Republican
county commissioners to dismiss
lall machine Democrats" from the
public payroll. Some officials OF
the club claimed that the meeting
was packed when approval was
given to the resolution, which
Originated with the senior Repub-
lican Club.
The Senator urged the Young
Republicans to take their griev-
ances through proper channels
and not involve personalities. The
recent patronage fight, he added
helped only the Democrats.
After his speech, the so mem.
bers gave Mr.. Fletcher a rising
vote of confidence.
The resolution calling for dis
miSsal of machine Democrats
was unanimously rejected by the
commissioners, who argued thai
mass f1rings for political reason.
could not result in efficient gov.
lernment
Evening star., 1951-12-14

ton July 1, Mr.. Robinson was
principal of Bladensburg Junior
High School for three years.
Young Robinson was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at George
Washington Hospital. where he
had been taken by a motorist
Thomas j. Davis of the $500 block
of Wilson avenue. Alexandria, po-
lice said.
j. w. Mankin, high school
speech instructor who was in
charge of the student group at
tending a complimentary per-
formance at the auditorium, said
young Robinson was walking next
to Miss Judy Bygate, a senior,
and the two were among the
large group walking along the
sidewalk.
He just crumpled down and
slightly forward" Mr.. Mankin
said. "The girl called to him, but
he didn't answer. We all thought
he had suffered an epileptic fit.
He was stiff and his eyes were
open and his breath was coming
in short gasps. 1t was about a
minute and a half before we had
him in the first passing car which
we hailed"
Doctors could find no marks on
the boys body to indicate an in
jury. Mr.. Robinson said his son
always had been in good health.
The youth was a senior at Bla-
densburg.
He is survived by his parents
and a sister. Judy Ann, IL.
The Robinsons moved to Prince
Georges in 1948, after Mr.. Robin
son served year as assistant
principal of Fort Hill High School.
Cumberland, Md. Before that, Mr..
Robinson was supervising princi-
nal of SOI1tb Groanch,yry po
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Park Group Indorses
Bill 10 Reorganize 10
Area Wide Agency

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission today ap-
proved a proposed bill reorganiz-
ing the commission into an area
wide agency which would include
similar Maryland and Virginia
agencies.
The bill has already been ap-
proved by the Northern Virginia,
the Maryland National Capital
and the Upper Montgomery Coun-
ty groups.
John A. Remon, chairman of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, said.
within the past SO hours
planning commissions having
jurisdiction over every square
inch of the National Capital re-
gion have indorsed the November
draft of the proposed bill to re-
organize this commission and to
establish a Regional Planning
Council.
This fact is a source of i'm
Ir e qualification to the mem
,srs of this commission and to all
the people throughout the area
who have worked on the bill. The
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission takes this oppor-
tunity to extend its thanks to the
Northern Virginia Regional Plan-
ming Commission. the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission and the Upper
Montgomery County Planning
Commission for their expressions
of support.
81 should also like to express our
gratitude to the two civic organ
izations that indorsed the bill this
week. They are the Committee of
100 on the Federal City, which is
a committee of the American
Planning and Civic Association,
and the Montgomery County Civic
Federation"
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Republican George Burroughs
To Seek Susscer's House Seat

of competing against Senator
O'Conor, who has not announced,
but is expected to run.
Senator Fletcher said he will
sound out other potential G. o. P.
aspirants before setting his course.
These include State Senator
James B. Monroe of Charles
County. DR.. Ralph L. Morrison. a
Seat Pleasant dentist. and Joe
Mulieri Of Annapolis. the only
Republican who has filed.
Small May Run.
Another possible Republican
candidate is Frank Small, jr.,
chairman of the State Racing
Commission. Prince Georges
leaders, some Of whom do not see
eye to eye with Senator Fletcher
on party matters, are urging
Small to run.
Although friends throughout
the district have suggested my
candidacy" Senator Fletcher said,
IT do not propose to split the
party wide open"
"We cannot expect a walkover, I"
he observed. Unity and hard
work will be required. With this
in mind. I will, if I am a candi-
date. close down my law office
January / and devote my full time
to campaigning"
Three Democrats in Race.
Democrats who have announced
for the House seat include L. Har-
old Sothoron, former Prince
Georges County State Senator;
Philip H. Dorsey Of st. Marys
County, former peoples counsel
to the Public Service Commission,
and Kenneth e. Lee. a Baltimore
attorney. The latter two have
paid the 500 filing fee.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
By Joyne Lynn Greene

Just returned from a five-month
round -the-world trip, Mayor G..
Lamar Kelly. jr., has arrived back
in Rockville in the nick of time
the town needs a couple of new
wells, and he is the man who finds
them.
The mayor, who holds a degree
in chemical engineering from
Johns Hopkins University, is a
water witch, or dowser.
Gripping a forked stick of fresh
cut willow, wild cherry, or null
berry, he roams the general area
selected for well until he de-
termines the point at which he
feels the strongest downward pull
on the stick. There he. places
a marker. and the well is dug.
First D0wser Imported"
Having found" Is of the "a
artesian wells the town has dug
since it went into the water busi-
ness in 1898. Mayor Kelly has ex-
perienced only two failures. In
those two wells, water was found,
but flowed at an insufficient rate
for the towns purpose.
Rockville's first dowser was a
man named Booker, imported"
from York. Pa. in 1880. His fee
was in the nature of bet. When
the town hired him. it paid a
deposit of $50. Then. if he failed
to find water the $50 was returned.
If the well was successful, he was
paid an additional $100. During
the 8 years he dowsed for the
town. Rockville never got its $50
back.
Mr. Kelly, who was elected to
the Town Council in 1884, had
never heard of dowsing for water
until he saw Mr.. Booker's work in
the mid-1930's.
He since has said that, with all
engineering studics, he began to
wonder whether he knew of any
better way to find water than US
ing a stick to point to it. Casually,
in 1888, he cut forked stick of
willow. popularity supposed to be
a wood with special affinity for
water. Wandering near the site
chosen by Mr.. Booker. ne was sur
prised to find that the stick pulled
strongly downward over the mark
er Booker had set.
"Kelly's Well" Still Going.
Mainly to quiet the jeers of his
fellow councilmen, Mr.. Kelly pro-
posed that the town dig in three
spots. one dowsed by Mr.. Booker,
one by him. and one chosen by
the rest of the council.
Of the three wells dug then,
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Need Dowser? Rockville Mayor Does 1t for Free

bay, river, and deep-sea trips he
could squeeze into a busy life.
Mayor Kelly planned his recent
nd-the-world junket for 25I
years. He was accompanied by
his daughter Verna Mae, a soph-
omore at the University Of Mary
land, his nephew and a young
friend Of theirs.
The mayor ran true to form on
his trip. making a busman's holi-
day of it in some ways. One of
his most interesting talks. he says,
was with a young town council
man in Siam. He also managed to
find an article on dowsing in
Singapore newspaper. The Straits
Times, in which an English plan
ter called for information on the
properties Of various Malayan
woods when used for water find
ing.
When he encounters persons
skeptical or curious about the
validity of dowsing for water. Ma
yor Kelly patiently refers them to
Novelist Kenneth Roberts exposi-
ton on the subject, Henry Gross
and His Dowsing Rod. He himself
has given up trying to explain it,
saying frankly that ne has no
theories as to why it should work,
but that, for him, it does.
Mayor Kelly points out that
Rockville's artesian water system
is more valuable than ever today,
since area civil defense officials
have marked it to supply refugees
in case of atomic attack. Because
| it comes from underground the
supply cannot be contaminated by
radiation.
Surveyors Took Dark View
The mayor recalls that in the
early 1930s. the Maryland State
Department of Geology, Mines
and Water Resources, made a re-
port on Rockville's water prob
lem. The geologists took a dark
view of the situation. stating that
the town would never be able to
support a population Of more
than 1000 without going outside
the town for water.
Now. nearly 20 years later,
Rockville, Montgomery County
seat. supplies nearly 10000 sub
Scribers. billing them yearly for
water equal to S per cent of the
total annual volume of water sup
piled by the Washington Subur-
ban Sanitary Commission to su-
burban Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties.
Mayor Kelly, who is more proud
of his master plumbers license
than of his engineering degree,
doesn't have to ask who is right.
the geologists or the men with
divining rods. He knows.
Evening star., 1951-12-14

mas put In his
bid for the
United States
Senate.
The 46-year-
oil d Upper e r
Marlboro attor-
ney today add
ed his name to
a growing list
of Democratic
and Republican
C a n did a t e S,
most of whom
are maneuver-
ing cautiously
in the hope of
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Area Planners
New
Proposals
Designed to Speed
Suburban Traffic
In Montgomery

Members of planning commits
Isions in the District and nearby
Maryland were meeting today to
discuss proposed new highway
routes intended to speed traffic
lin the suburban area of Mont
gomery County.
The session results from ac-
tions taken yesterday by the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
At its meeting yesterday the
Maryland group voted against q
proposal to bypass the Silver
Spring business district by ex-
tending Anson and Spring streets
to East-West Highway.
Reaffirm Highway Stand.
Instead. the commission re-
affirmed its stand in favor of ex-
tending East West Highway
across the northern tip of the
District to Sixteenth street and
IColesville road. This would al
|leviate congestion at the Colesville
road East West Highway inter-
section.
Tentative approval also was
given to two proposed cross
county routes, both of which
would be limited to passenger We
hicles.
One is a cutoff from the prof.
ected Washington National Pike
from a pMnt north of Grosvenor
lane and extending across Rock
Creek Park to the Prince Georges
County line at Oakview near
Hyattsville.
The other would run from Six
teenth street along Eastern ave-
nue. to Blair road, Philadelphia
avenue and Sligo Greek parkway
to Prince Georges County.
Plan for Rosemary Hills.
The Maryland commission also
adopted zoning street and high
way plan for the Rosemary Hills
Lyttonsville area north of East
West highway near Silver Spring.
and approved provisions of a bill
pending in Congress to re-organize
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
The Rosemary Hills-Lyttonsville
plan would improve the movement
OF traffic in the area by extending
several streets, including Richland
place and Quinton road and set
up several new streets: establish
a school site off the Brookeville-
Tenleytown road, a recreation area
east of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road. north of Grubb road, and
provide apartment zoning for a
large tract just east of the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission incinerator.
The apartments would act as a
screen for single family homes
in the area.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Volunteer Firemen Elect

The College Park Volunteer
Fire Department has elected these
officers for the coming year. Rich
ard S. Houchens. chief; Richard
E. BrelSford. assistant chief; Nor
ton E. Blanchard, captain; Lana
A. Moore, lieutenant; Alan K.
Waite, sergeant; Milton M. Tall
bott. engineer and Joseph F..
Beattie, jr., assistant engineer.
Evening star., 1951-12-14

fall dead while
walking with
h ig h sc h o oil
t r | e n d S in
Washington last
night.
The yout h,
George w. Rob-
inson, son Of
Mr.. a n d Mrs.
George R. Rob-
inson of 5812
Carlyle street,
Cheverly, Md,
c collapse d at
Twenty first t
apd II streets
Evening star., 1951-12-14

NV. about 11:15 pm. He was
returning from a play at Lisner
Auditorium with a group of about
go other Bladensburg High School
students.
The youths father is an as
sistant superintendent of county
schools. Before taking that posi-
Evening star., 1951-12-14
SeIImun PTA Roises Sl42

The Sellman (Md) School Par
Ient-T Teacher Association yesterday
raised $142.75 from baby popu-
llarity contest to provide glasses
and other health aids to needy
colored children in the area.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Boy, Is, Is Stricken and Dies
While Walking With Friends

An autopsy was to be performed
today to determine what caused
the 16-year-old son of a Prince
Georges County school official to
Evening star., 1951-12-14
By J. |. Miehoel

George T. Burroughs, Prince
Georges County Republican, will
file for the House seat of Repre-
sentative Sasscer, Democrat. who
Evening star., 1951-01-17

Three youths accused Of forcing
their way into a Northeast room
ing house, hitting the landlord
and shooting at a tenant, faced
charges of assault and house.
breaking with intent to commit
assault today.
Held under $4,000 bond each
pending a January "a hearing
before United States Commissioner
Cyril S. Lawrence are William E.
Dredge. %, of the 1000 block of
Parkwood street, Cottage City,
Md; Robert G. Kersey, %. of the
300 block of Ninth street NE,
and Robert P. Joiner. 20, of the
600 block of E street NE.
Detective Sergt. Herbert Young
said the youths broke the lock
off the front door Of the house
at 243 Eighth street NE. early
Saturday. He said they struck
Herbert j. Ackerman, So, the
landlord, in the right eye and
Evening star., 1951-01-17
Librarian, Air Force Man
Fined on Morals CHARGES

An editorial assistant at the Lii
brary of Congress and an Air
Force sergeant pleaded guilty to
morals charges in Municipal Court
yesterday.
Fined $25 for assault was Joseph
J. Waldo, %. of the 1900 block OF
New Hampshire avenue NV, the
library worker. Precinct Detective
Louis A. Fochett of the Vice Squad
said Waldo assaulted him in an
indecent manner Monday night in
the mems room at Dupont Circle
Park.
Harry w. Baker, 81, who is sta
toned at the Andrews Air Force
Base, was ordered to pay $25 or
serve 80 days by Judge Andrew j.
Howard, Jr.. on a charge of soli-
citing for a lewd and immoral pur-
pose. Baker was arrested in front
of downtown hotel Monday by
Pvt. Robert H. Schneider of the
Vice Squad.
Evening star., 1951-01-17
Dental Patients Left
'Curefree' by PentothoI
BY the Associafed Press

DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 17.-It's the
truth, said a dentist, truth serum
is better than laughing gas to
make a patient amiable.
DR.. Joy Roy Bourgoyne de-
scribed the results of the use of
sodium pentothal-the medical
name OF truth serum-at a dental
clinic yesterday. The University
of Tennessee oral surgeon said the
serum leaves the patient in a
rather carefree state of mind.
He said a patient gets too much
serum to tell all, land besides he
couldn't talk anyway with the in
struments in his mouth
Evening star., 1951-01-17
Charges Of HOUSEKEEPING, Shooting Hold ; Youths

fired one shot at 16-year-old
girl roomer as she ran for help.
Mr.. Ackerman said the youths
had come to the house earlier
looking for the girls older sister
Ito have a party" The sister
wasn't home, he said. and they
were told to leave. They returned
later and broke in, he said.