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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11

letcs helped as he enlightened US
on the tricks OF modern profess
sional wrestling. You'd never be-
licve it'll
Lordon played basketball at
West High in Columbus last Fri
day night. And are our neighbors
OH the west ever high As you can
Gee by the 61-G3 score ttheir
favor, darn IT'D our speed and
skill almost made up the differ
enee in height. You boys played
hard enough and we'll enough
that were just as proud as if
you'd Wonl Our hats are off to
the reserves, too. for their victory
and the way they've improved in
even a weeks time.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11
West Jefferson
Triiumphs 5O-4O

West Jefferson won its Madi-
son County League opener Friday
night 50-40 1t was also Jeffer-
sons first win in three starts.
Gary Hay scored Is and Dave
Holland ID for the winners
while Noland's 25 went in vain for
Canaan. West jefferson also took
the reserve game 24-23.
West jefferson will play nom
league game with Madison Rural
Tuesday night at Lafayette. The
game is set for Z o'clock. It IS
anticipated that the West Jeffer-
son gym will be ready for the
game with Mt. Sterling Friday
Dec ii FRIDAYS score:
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11
Totals
FARMER ROBBED

GALLIPOLIS, o., Up Bert A
Hughes, 73-year-old tenant farm
er of nearby Campaign Creek Rd..
was spending a quiet evening at
home listening to his radio.
Three men, two of them mask
cd, came to his home, beat up
Hughes, and carried off S65, the
radio, a banjo, 12-gauge pump
shotgun, violin, Is caliber rifle
and wrist watch.
Hughes was treated for bruises
and lacerations at Holzer Hospi-
tai.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11

Of the evening with "A points on
five baskets and four free throws
The Monroe reserves made il
a clean sweep By winning the
prelim for their fourth victory IN
five starts. The final count was
38 TO II with II Monroe boys
seeing action. Cork Boyd led
Monroe in this game with 26
points, while Phillips was high
for Fairfield with nine points.
Monroe G. r. TIP.
~ Sullivan 5 2 L
Boyd ! D
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11

Got so around these parts that
everywhere a hunter went this fall,
he came up against signs saying
PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO HUNTING,
KEEP oFF.s But not out at Happy
PrestOn's place!
Happy's signs say PRIVATE
PROPERTY, GOOD HUNTING, BUT BE
CAREFUL"
'Don't hunt myself" Happy says,
"but there's plenty of game on my
property. / tell the hunters where
the best spots are-away from
where I'm working and where no
body else is hunting. 1t works out
pretty well all-around."
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11
HOME FROM
INTERNATIONAL SHOW

Among those who have return
ed from the international Live
stock Show in Chicago are, T. K.
Emery, Blooming5urg Road,
George Tomlinson, near Lilly
Chapel. David S. Graham, Green
wood Farms, South Solon and
Henry Troyer, Plain City.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11
Madison Eagles
Lose To Plain
City SIS To 40

Madison Eagles lost their first
League game to Plain City Scot
ties Friday. December Z, 55 to
40. Plain City jumped ahead and
was never behind the rest of the
game.
Phelps of Plain City was high
scorer with 20 points and team
mate Bob Taylor was next with
IL. AL loops of the losers was
high scorer with IS.
In the preliminary Plain City
won over the Madison Reserves
81 to %.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11

Copyright, 1851, United States Brewers Foundatio
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11

AIFNIaIo, 1IGIIlIIIEIBI OH dIIU JUTlta
lColumbusl
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11
From where | sit >. by Joe Marsh
Sign of q Nice Guy

From where I sit, Happy has
once again shown why he gets
along with everyone and why
everyone respects him. Happy's
likes and dislikes might not be the
same as his neighbors', but that
doesn't stop him from understand
ing. When it comes to opinions on
hunting, fishing, politics, ways of
farming, or whether your favorite
beverage is beer or cider, try to be
like Happy and the chances are
you'll be really happy!
9be M~,4x
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-11

Referees LeVlnBsloH, van N1AII=
dy.
This was the first league game
Of the season for both teams.
West jefferson will play non
league game with Madison Rural
Tuesday, Dec. II.
Evening star., 1951-04-16
.Berwyn Storekeeper
Faces Liquor Charge

A Berwyn storekeeper last night
was charged with selling liquor
Illegally on Sunday and he and
his son also were accused of re-
sisting arrest.
Prince Georges County police at
Marlboro said they raided the es-
tablishment of William Katz, IS,
of the 5000 block of Washington
boulevard, Berwyn.
The son, Norman, "a, of the
same address, is charged with an
attempted assault on an officer,
as well as resisting arrest.
Both were released on bond of
81 500 each pending a hearing.
Police said Norman Katz at
tempted to assault Deputy Sheriff
Guy Curtis. The officer was not
injured. The men were charged
by Detective r. E. Bond.
Earlier yesterday, Cedar
Heights (Md0 woman who was
fined $500 recently for having
bootlegged whiskey in her home
was arrested on a similar charge.
She is Mrs. Katie Tilman, SO,
colored, of the $500 block of K
street, who was fined $500 on
April 2 by Judge Alan Bowie in
Upper Marlboro Police Court.
Evening star., 1951-04-16

with previous training, have been
signed up.
The towns civil defense engi-
neering division has sized up its
own problems. Blessed with an
independent water, sewage and
gas supply, the big headache will
revolve around electric failure.
However, three large auxiliary
generators in. the neighborhood
have been earmarked for emer-
gency use and are expected to
provide one-third the normal wa
ter capacity, power for two tenn
porary hospitals and telephone
power within the town.
Vehicles Are Registered.
The transportation section is
engaged in registering all trucks
buses, private cars and taxis in
town. Plans are laid for setting
up two big motor pools, clear of
the main traffic routes, to provide
mobility to civil-defense rescue
teams. All contractors in the
area have been registered, TO-
gether with their construction and
maintenance resources. Plans
have gone so far as the spotting
of all hand-operated gasoline
pumps in the area in case the
alao+ ,.;o ,,,,,,ooc foil
Altogether, Col. Chambers
thinks his organization is about
80 per cent ready to face the
facts of atomic warfare. Ad-
mittedly, what has been done
would not go far toward saving
the District if bomb fell.
"All we have done and all we
can do is peanuts compared to
what we need" he says. "But
the whole point is that if it's done
everywhere, it's important"
Rockville's civil defense leader
is not taking personal credit for
the progress which has been
made. That is due, he says, to
the whole hearted cooperation OF
the people of the community once
they were told the facts and un-
derstood what could be done about
them. Amid general reports OF
public apathy toward civil defense
from all over the country, Col
Chambers pays the people OF
Rockville the highest compliment
in his book:
They've acted" he says, "like
a bunch Of Marines"
Evening star., 1951-04-16
3 Incumbents to Run
In North Brentwood

Three incumbents are candi.
dates for reelection in the an
nual North Brentwood town elec-
ton May Z.
They are Mayor William D
Bellows, Mrs. Emma F. Hawk
ms. and town treasurer, ano
Councilman Harlan A. Carter
first ward. All are completing
their third consecutive two-yeal
terms. None has ever been op-
posed.
Candidates must file applica-
tions with the judges of elec-
tion by midnight Saturday.
Evening star., 1951-04-16
Suit Is Threatened
Over Sewage Survey

The Arlington County Board
has been threatened with legal
action unless it rejects proposed
regional sewage disposal survey
and proceeds promptly with ex-
pansion of the county's present
treatment plant.
Sam Vanderslice, chairman of
"a special committee of the Arling-
ton Izaak Walton League, said
nearly six months had passed
since voters approved a $2,617,000
bond issue for expansion of the
county disposal plant.
"The committee feels that the
County Board should withdraw
from this regional proposition and
go ahead with local construction, +"
said Mr.. Vanderslice. eff that is
not done it may be necessary to
take some legal action"
Mr.. Vanderslice said there ap-
peared to be too much delay at
tached to the regional survey.
Robert w. Cox, chairman of the
interim committee and a member
of the Arlington County Board,
said, however, there has been no
delay to date in Arlington's plan
because of the proposed regional
survey.
The principal time lag. Mr.. Cox
said, has been caused by technical
difficulties arising from legal
quirks of the law under which the
bond referendum was held.
Meanwhile, the interim commit
tee will hold a joint meeting of
the Alexandria, Arlington, Fair
fax and Falls Church governments
at 8 o'clock tonight in an effort
to reach agreement on the pro-
posed survey.
Evening star., 1951-04-16
Lee 5 Maryland News
Is Sold, Will Become
Mildly Democratic

The Maryland News, for "a
years the editorial voice of the
Montgomery County Democratic
faction of E. Brooke Lee, has been
sold. Henceforth. it will be
mildly Democratic.
The weekly newspaper. pub
lished in Silver Spring. has beer
purchased by Robert jerome
Smith, a registered Republican
for $4,000. Mr.. Smith already
publishes two other weeklies, the
Record Of Montgomery County
at Bethesda. and the Rockville
Times.
The purchase price, according tc
Mr.. Lee. founder of the Maryland
News in 1927, includes circulation
goodwill and editorial Office furni-
ture and supplies.
II have retained title to bills
receivable and the printing plant
which will shortly be offered fo1
SALE" Mr.. Lee said. The plant is
at 8081 Georgia avenue.
The sale contract provides that
the paper will continue to publish
under its present name.
"Mr. Smith has assured me, "
Mr.. Lee announced, that he
hopes to retain Arthur Brigham
as editor as well as most of the
other members of the staff and
reporters on the paper and that
the paper will be mildly Demo-
cratic.
II feel considerable personal
loss as well as a very real indi-
vidual relief with the approach
ing end of my work with the pa
per within 30 days.
II plan to divide my time so
gained to store and apartment
building in Silver Spring. to farm
ing and to greater leisure"
Mr.. Smith is a former public
relations consultant. He came
from Pelham, N. Y, and has lived
in Bethesda since 1947. He Is
married and has two children.
An account executive for radio
station WOR, Newark, N. j., and
the Mutual Broadcasting Co. from
1886 to 1914. he headed the ma
tional radio publicity for the fifth
and sixth War Bond drives for
the Treasury Department.
The Maryland News has alb
sorbed three other weekly papers
the former Chevy Chase Gazette,
the Takoma News and the News
Advocate. .
Evening star., 1951-04-16
CheverIy's Mayor
And CounciImen to
Sing at Celebration

Mayor Edward A. Saloon of
Cheverly and four town council
men will form quintet tonight
as feature number in a variety
show opening week-long cele-
bration of the towns Goth ami.
versary.
The show will be held at 7:45
pm. in the Cheverly Tuxedo
School and will include presen-
tations by the Cheverly Com
munity Church choir, children Of
the school and Boy Scouts. There
will be no admission charge.
A highlight of the affair will be
the appearance of IA sets of twins
living in Cheverly.
At 2:30 pm. Saturday Mayor
Saloon and former mayors Fred
w. Cast, John Raymond Fletcher
and j. E. Conover will lead q
parade down Cheverly avenue.
Evening star., 1951-04-16

new houses overlooking the road
appear to have cost in the neigh.
borhood of $4,000 including the
landscape gardening.
Forest Heights has civic spirit
It was Incorporated so that its
citizens could tax themselves to
build roads; and work on the con-
crete cutters to keep the roads
from washing out Is already un-
derway. And new as it is, it has
history. A bronze tablet on ma
sonry in the little village green
reads:
"In memory of our fellow citi-
zens who gave their lives in World
War II. Robert L. Davis, August
8, 1914; Richard N. Ryan, Decem-
ber Is, 1914, and John L. Talbert,
March Is, 1945."
Huge Housing Development.
Across the highway is Glass
manor. vast development Of brick
houses and brick apartments ris-
ing in terraces up the hill. Beyond
is the new Oxon Hill High School.
"A right turn on Oxon Hill road.
which crosses the new highway
Evening star., 1951-04-16

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission has mapped
out a scenic parkway along the
river which will be the equiva-
lent of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway to Mount Yer
non on the other side.
Making Room for More.
Most of the postwar building
caused by the South Capitol
Street bridge and the extension
of South Capitol street south of
Nichols avenue has been within
the District. Apartment devel-
opments, Bellevue Gardens, Up
land and others, cover every hill.
There are shopping centers in
the valleys and power shovels are
eating into hills to make room
for more.
Beyond the District line on the
right is the little village of For
est Heights. Md, incorporated
only last year, whose first house
was built only 10 years ago. The
first houses were built to sell for
$4,000. Some of them have been
resold recently for $4,000. Some
Evening star., 1951-04-16
II Polling Places Set
In darlington Tomorrow
For School Bond Vote.

Twenty-seven Arlington polling
places will open at six am. to-
morrow for balloting by county
voters to decide whether a $4,875,-
900 school construction bond
issue will be approved.
Polls will close at 6 pm.
No other issues will be decided
tomorrow. Results of the referen-
dunn should be known within two
hours after the polls close, since
voting machines will be used.
Approximately 10000 of the
county's 135.000 residents will be
eligible to vote. New voters who
have registered since last Novem-
ber will be asked to, show receipts
indicating they have paid all poll
taxes.
1850 Proposal Defeated.
Last November, a $7.5 million
bond issue proposal was defeated,
1880 to 7,450. At that time, the
School Board had been charged
with building schools containing
unnecessary frills.
Since then, the board has ap-
pointed an Advisory Committee OF
businessmen and taken other steps
Ito assure public confidence in its
building program. There has been
no outspoken opposition to the
present plan.
Polling places at the county's
q precincts are:
Arlington, Randolph School, S
Thirteenth and Quincy streets;
Arlington Forest. Barrett School
400 N. Henderson road; Ashton
Heights, Clay School, BOIL N. Sew
enth street; Aurora Hills, Custis
School, 712 S. Twenty-third street;
Ballston, Jackson School, 855 N
Edison street; Bancroft, Bancroft
School, 625 S. Wakefield street;
Carne, Lee School. 5722 Lee high
way; Cherrydale, Cherrydale
School, 3710 Lee highway; Claren-
don, Maury School, $3.50 Wilson
boulevard; Columbia, Arlington
Firehouse, Columbia pike and S.
Edgewood street; Courtland, Clar-
endon Firehouse, 1905 N. Hudson
street; East Falls Church, Stewart
School, 2400 N. Underwood street;
darlington, darlington School
$500 S. Stafford street; Fillmore,
Pickett Homes Administration
Building, Columbia pike and S.
Courthouse road.
Other Polling Places.
Other polling places are Glen
Carlyn, new Glen Carlyn school,
200 South Carlin Springs road;
Jefferson, Henry school, TOO South
Fillmore street; Lee. American
Legion Hall, 3445 Washington
boulevard; Lyon Park, Lyon Park
Community House, Pershing drive
and North Fillmore street; Lyon
Village, Lyon Village Community
House, 1920 North Highland
street; Overlee Knolls, Reed
school, 1914 North Mckinley road;
Park Lane, Monroe school, 230O
Key boulevard; Rosslyn, Wilson
school, 1901 Wilson boulevard: !:
Thrifton, Cherrydale Garden Mar
Iket, 3725 Lee highway; Virginia
Highlands, Jefferson : firehouse
Evening star., 1951-04-16

The Star. He assisted in the or
ganization of the jefferson Dis
trict Fire Department in 1925 and
was its first chief for six years.
Active in civic and religious af-
fairs, Mr.. Bixler is a charter
member of the Jefferson Civic
League. a trustee of the Calvary
Methodist Church and as former
secretary of the Arlington Public
Utilities Commission.
Installed with Mr.. Davis, who
succeeds John Looney, were Bob
Moran, senior vice commander;
Bob Jenkins, junior vice COM
|mander:: Mr.. Looney. quarter
master: James Neville, adjutant;
Louis Cardarella, judge advocate;
Harry w. Hicks, chaplain.
Auxiliary officers include, be-
sides Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Lois Hyde,
senior vice president; Mrs. Marg-
aret Ewald, junior vice president.
Evening star., 1951-04-16

By George Kennedy
Despite a new bridge and a
new highway the Maryland shore
of the Potomac Immediately be-
low Washington is practically un-
touched territory.
Scrub pine woods and green
pastures go down to the great river
which widens out in coves and
bays and sparkles in the April
sunshine.
Foals with frail legs run after
their mares in the pastures, hens
noisily protest the gathering of
eggs, geese leave the duck pond
to attack the approaching strang-
er and all this goes on only Is
minutes from the heart of the
city.
It has been said that of all
American cities where the popu-
lation approaches or exceeds one
million Washington is the one
where the business section is clos
est to the farm. y
This is because new bridges
across the Potomac and new
highways made rural Virginia a
few minutes from Washington S
downtown.
New Bridge and Highway.
Now a new bridge across the
Eastern Branch of the Potomac,
the South Capitol Street bridge,
and a new highway, the Indian
Head highway which the Federal
Government ordered to reach its
big naval ammunition factory at
Indian Head on the Potomac. have
done the same thing for Mary
land country just south of the
District.
Motorists who use the new high
way and the four-lane dual road
along the Potomac flats past
Boiling Air Force Base and the
Naval Air Station encounter only
one or two traffic lights before
entering the parkway system at
the Mail.
Fort Washington, which used
to seem quite a distance down
river, is now only a 25-minute
drive to F street. It is remarkable
that there has been SO little
change between the fort and Oxon
Run, which flows into the river
about at the District line.
Evening star., 1951-04-16

been too much to suit most Of
the people along the river.
People Resentful.
eve are getting too much of
Washington down here" says Ed
ward Gibbons, owner of Hurri-
cane Hill farm. He was born
AZ years ago on the place which
looks like a Currier & Ives pic
ture of an American farm-white
clapboard, green blinds, big farm
buildings, on a grassy knoll that
grazing animals have kept clipped
like a park. 1t looks across the
river at the new buildings that
have changed the appearance Of
Alexandria, the Hunting Towers
Apartments. the Pepco power plant
and the huge hangers of National
Airport.
They build Glassmanor and
we built a million n-dollar high
school," he says, land it's full
the first day it opens"
This reporter asks him if he
has had any offers for his farm
which is IS acres, all on high
ground.
During the war;" he says. ga
man offered me $4,000 for it.
He said he wanted it for a hous-
ing project, that he was going
to build 400 houses here"
Recalling the experience caused
him to snort with disgust.
Counted on Loan.
Turned out" he said, that he
only had $500 in the bank. He
expected to get the rest from
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
or somewhere. I told him that
/ didn't care where he got the
money; just give me the $50, 900
and he could have the farm. He
came around two or three times
more, but he never. had the
$50 900"
Other farmers told of similar
Evening star., 1951-04-16

South Twenty-third and Eads
streets; Walkers Chapel. Marshall
school, 4751 North Twenty fifth
street; Westover, Swanson Junior
High school, $500 North WASH
ington boulevard, and Woodlawn,
Woodlawn school, 4720 North Six
teenth street.
The $4,875, 900 bond issue would
finance a one-year construction
Evening star., 1951-04-16
Foirfux Legion Seeks
Antiuircruft Buttey

The Fairfax Post of the Ameri.
can Legion has recommended es-
tablishment of a National Guard
antiaircraft battery in Fairfax.
John Sherwood, who with James
F. Marion and William Ebrha~dt
made a study of the plan, was in
structed by the post to seek the
support of the County Board Of
Supervisors.
Evening star., 1951-04-16

near the high school. brings the
|motorist past impressive gates
marked "Oxon Hill Manor"
Oxon Hill Manor, the home of
Sumner Wells, former Undersec-
|retary of State, is one of the most
beautiful country places in Ameria
and it will be open to the public
two weeks from today on the oc-
Icasion of the Prince Georges gar
|den tour.
The big wide Georgian brick
house at the end of the long drive
way overlookS the river from the
Isite of the original manor house
built in the 18th century by John
Arrison, founder of a family which
for several generations played a
leading role in Southern Mary
land. John Hanson, one of those
"believe-it-or-not" presidents of
the United States before George
Washington, died there in 1888.
He was president of the Congress
LOT the Confederation of United
States before the adoption of the
Constitution. The old manor house
burned in 1895.
Those who avail themselves of
the garden tour opportunity to
see Oxon Hill Manor are in for
IA treat. The lawn slopes down
to the Potomac at a wide stretch
of the river. The English box
wood bushes are enormous and
make the air redolent. The SWIM
ming pool has been Handicapped to
become a garden pool rejecting the
house. Beds of tulips are in large
bud, ready to bloom. Camellia
trees are already in perfect bios
som and a number of gardeners
are working in the greenhouses
and starting beds. at a distance
from the house, making ready
for the annual visitation.
While there has not been much
change after one gets a mile be-
yord the District line, there has
Evening star., 1951-04-16
Lehman to Address
Jewish Appeal Dinner

Hal Lehrman. foreign corre-
spondent, lecturer and author,
will be the main speaker Wednes-
day at the Advance Gifts Dinner
OF the united Jewish Appeal in
Arlington. The dinner will be at
the Arlington Jewish Center.
Jerome j. Dick is chairman Of
the Arlington division of the ap-
peal. Mrs. Julius j. Coen heads
the county women's division.
A one-day drive will be held
April 20 in the county.
Evening star., 1951-04-16

Grams OF For
eign Wars, Ar
lin g ton, for
ou ts t a n ding
C o m m u n i ty
service.
Meeting in
t he Jefferson
District Fire
D e p a r t m ent
hall, the post
installed Will
liam z. Davis
as commander
while the aux
Hilary installed
M RS. Darleen
Evening star., 1951-04-16
NURSES NEEDED

Registration of all women
with nursing training is ur-
gently needed to prepare for
a possible attack on Wash
ington. Nurses, practical
nurses and nurses aides are
asked to call the central Civil
Defense registration Office at
Metropolitan 2146. Volun-
teers over ID for the Red
Cross nurses aide course are
also asked to call.