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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-25
College Of Surgeons 10 Meet
AT Hot Springs tomorrow
By the Associated Press

HOT SPRINGS. Va. Feb. "a
A two-day sectional meeting Of
the American College of Sur
geons, open to physicians and
surgeons in the southeastern
region of the United States. con-
venes Monday at The Homestead.
Speakers at the scientific meet
ing are DR.. Daniel C. Elkin, Emory
University; DR.. Roy M. Hoover.
Roanoke; DR.. H. Page ,Mauck.
Richmond, and DR.. Warren H.
Cole, Chicago.
DR.. Claude c. Coleman of the
Medical College of Virginia will
preside at Monday mornings
DR.. Ray M. Bobbitt Of
Huntington, w. Va, will preside
at two afternoon panel discussions.
Speaker at the dinner meeting
Monday night will be Rush D.
Holt, member of the West Virginia
House of Delegates and forner
United States Senator.
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Meeting 10 Consider
Arlington Bond Issue

The amount of a new bond issue
to be sought by the Arlington
School Board is to be determined
partly by sentiment of county
residents at a public meeting at
8 pm. tomorrow at the new
Stratford Junior High School.
The School Board has arranged
the meeting to obtain public opin-
ion on the type of schools favored.
A $7.5 bond issue for school con-
struction was defeated in q
referendum last fall.
Colin c, Macpherson. board
chairman, announced two weeks
ago that it had been decided to
hold another bond issue referen-
dunn. He invited all county resi-
dents to attend the meeting to-
morrow night.
Models and drawings of various
types of schools being built in
other communities will be ex-
hibited. One question to be de-
cided is whether the School Board
should include multi-purpose
rooms in new schools, or devote
all construction solely to class
rooms.
The Stratford Junior High
School is the county's newest
school building and is located at
North Military road, Old Dominion
drive and Vacation lane, Cherry
dale, E..
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There's more to a bee than its
sting, James I. Hambleton would
have you to believe.
Mr.. Hambleton is director of
bee research in the Agriculture
Departments research center at
Beltsville.
He told some 200 farmers from
Montgomery, Howard and Prince
Georges counties at the 18th An
nual Farmers Convention of
Sandy Spring yesterday that we
must find ways to kill injurious
insects without also doing away
with bees and other insects which
are virtually the sole means of
pollination for many crops.
Five other speakers addressed
the convention in Sherwood High
School at Sandy Spring. The ses-
sion was sponsored by three
Sandy Spring and one Upper
Montgomery County farm groups,
The oldest of the sponsoring
groups is the Senior Farmers
Club of Sandy Springs, founded
in the Quaker settlement in 1874.
One of the other speakers was
Calvin johnson. former Repre-
sentative from Illinois who is now
building a housing development
on Viers Mill road near Rockville.
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Montgomery Council
TO Hear Plea for Sidewalk

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil will hear plea at its meeting
Tuesday by residents of Chevy
Chase View and Kensington fol
construction Of a sidewalk for
children attending the Kensing-
ton Elementary school.
The delegation will appear be-
fore the council at 2::30 pm
Comdr. Donald E. Williamson,
U. S. NJ, of 4406 Fuller drive. Ken
sington, who is president of the
schools Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton, will head the group.
The group wants the county to
construct a 300-foot sidewalk on
the east side of Summit avenue
between Cleveland street and
Prospect avenue.
Comdr. Williamson said motor
caravan will assemble at 1870 pm.
Tuesday on Summit avenue be-
tween Everett ano Cleveland
streets and that transportation
will be provided residents who
want to attend the hearing.
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Volunteer Firemen
Get Home Alarm:
Bells Installed

Bells will .jangle hereafter In
the homes of rs Landover Hills
firemen when the siren blows at
the fire house. ..
The Landover Hills Volunteer
Fire Department is installing the
bells to enable it's members to
respond more rapidly to alarms.
The bells, to be paid for by the
volunteers in whose homes they
are placed, will ring simultane-
ously when the fire control board
touches off the fire house siren.
The Mount Rainier, Cottage
City and Riverdale fire depart
ments and the Brentwood Rescue
Squad already have such indi-
vidual alarm systems.
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Two Claim Calvert Assessor Job; Court to Decide

Soon after, the old board sent
the names of three candidates for
county tax assessor to the State
Tax Commission. Two of them
were Mr.. Buckler, a Republican,
and Mr.. Bowen. a Democrat. The
the third was John c. Ward. Farm
Bureau leader, who later dropped
out.
The State Tax Commission in
terviewed the two remaining
candidates and rated both as ELI
gible. The decision on which one
would be appointed was left to
the county commissioners, as the
law provides.
Accordingly, the old Democrat
ic-controlled board of commits
sioners at its last meeting Novem-
Der 20 named the Democrat, Mr..
Bowen. Then the new board with
q Republican majority took over
| at It's December IL meeting the
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Battle Grants $500
For Northern Virginia
Civil Defense Council
Gov. Battle has authorized a

Gov. Battle has authorized q
$500 appropriation to meet
emergency expenses" of the
Northern Virginia Regional De-
Tense Council.
In a letter to Gen. Jacob L.
Devers, regional civil defense di-
rector, the Governor specified that
when the ALLEGATION is spent. the
localities in the council will as
sumo the full expense of admins
tration and operation"
The Governor stressed that the
money he is providing from his
discretionary fund at the request
of the localities, is for the purpose
Iof "affording temporary, emer-
gency assistance of a non-recurr-
ing nature"
Members of the council are the
cities of Alexandria and Falls
Church and the counties of Ar
lington and Fairfax.
Arlington County Manager A. T
Lundberg said yesterday that the
ST 500 will defray the cost of oper-
ating the regional Office until the
end of June. Expenses of the office
for the fiscal year beginning July
/, Mr.. Lundberg said, have been
estimated at $4,000. The proper
ton of this amount that each
jurisdiction would be asked to pay
has not been determined.
The regional council has offices
in the Groveton substation Of the
Fairfax County police department.
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Coroner Rules Suicide
In Col. HaIey's Death
BY The Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. "a. Up
While his wife was asleep in the
same room, Col. George w. Haley
shot himself to death here early
today, Police Chief George w
Rawlings reported.
Haley, 54-year-old colonel in
the Army Reserve, was a former
mayor of Annapolis. He also had
served as city attorney and alder
man.
Police said they were told the
colonel was in good spirits" while
entertaining guests last night.
A .38 caliber bullet entered his
head and pierced the skull. Po-
lice said a .38. revolver was found
near his side. DR.. John M. Claffy
Anne Arundel County medical ex-
aminer. ruled the death suicide
The motive for the shooting was
not explained.
Col. Haley is survived by his
widow and a 10-year-old daugh'
ter, Patricia.
A native Of Massachusetts. he
was a graduate of the University
of Maryland and the University
of Virginia. He was mayor of An
napolis from January, 1899, te
July, 1941.
He served on the judge advo-
cate staff of the American Mill
tary Government in Italy during
World War II.
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group appointed Mr.. Buckler, the
Republican.
On December 10, both ap-
pointees appeared at the Office OF
Circuit Court Clerk Alan w. Ross
demanding to be sworn in. MIR
Ross sent them away because. he
said, their credentials were not
in order. Mr.. Ross, a Republican
who had defeated Mr.. Bowen in
the November election for the
clerks Office, on the following day
swore in Mr.. Bucgler who had re-
turned with papers that the clerk
held we're proper.
Mr.. Bowen promptly filed pc
tition for a writ of mandamus
against Mr.. Ross and Mr.. Buckler
He contended the State Tax Com
mission had given him a higher
rating than Mr.. Buckler. and he
carries a card from that commits
sion identifying him as official
county tax assessor.
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Virginia Civic Group Third
In Beaufificafion Contest
Special Dispatch 10 The s,or

DIES MONIES. Iowa, Feb. "a
The Vienna (Va.) Recreation As
ISOLATION has been awarded third
place in the "cities under 10000"
classification of Better Homes and
Gardens magazines More Beau
tiful. America competition, it was
announced today.
The group will receive 5000 and
a bronze plaque.
Initiated by the Vienna Lions
Club, the project included re-
planting trees on Maple avenue;
landscaping the railroad station,
library, fire station and Negro
school grounds; a new water sys-
TEN; new street signs, and an
improved zoning plan.
First place winner was Sara
toga, N. C. Second was Kirkwood,
Tenn.
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Virqinio Bar Votes Publicity
Then Bans Advertisinq Itself
have been assuming.

have been assuming.
The banks and trust companies
advertise. In Virginia, the law
yers do not. Some of today's dele
gates thought the answer lay in
conservative, institutional adver-
Using by the bar itself. Opponents
expressed fear of trampling on
long established ethics.
The attorneys took no action to
clear up the prevailing confusion.
The bar also recommended that
legal aid programs be established
in counties and cities throughout
the Old Dominion.
Extend Legal Aid.
BY voice vote, with some dis
sents, the lawyers favored the
extension of the programs
through which needy persons can
obtain the services of an attorney
Establishment of the programs
would be left to local groups
They now are in operation in Ar
lington. Richmond and Newport
News areas.
l Stuart T. Saunders. of Roanoke
assistant general counsel of th'
Norfolk & Western Railway. wa
elected president by unanimou
vote.
There are about $500 member.
Of the Virginia State Bar. Mem
bership is required of lawyer.
practicing in the Old Dominion.
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VIRGINIA Civil Defense Chiel
Cool 10 Blood Tag Plan

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 24.-The
Virginia Civilians Defense Office
today declined to indorse a pro-
gram sponsored by Amvets to pro-
vide blood tags for every person
in the State.
j. H. Wyse, defense co-ordinator
said Mass blood-typing at this
time is not Endorsed, as there are
conflicting opinions as the avail
ability of satisfactory standard
serums and other blood-typing
material"
Mr.. Wyse also said he did not
consider that the plastic tag is
sued by the veterans association
concerned is satisfactory"
Amvets-full name, American
Veterans of Warld War lis
sponsoring the national blood
tipping campaign.
Mr.. Wyse said the State Civilian
Defense Office, with the medical
emergency services of the State
Health Department and the Red
Cross, expects to conduct its own
blood typing campaign Every
SOON"
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Planning Group Asks
Denial Of Petition for
Rezoning in Bethesda

The Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
has recommended denial of a pc
tition to rezone a tract on Bells
Mill road, Bethesda, for CONNER
cial use.
The tract, about half a mile
west of Old Georgetown road AND
owned by Richards Properties
Inc, is in an undeveloped section
near the new Georgetown Village
subdivision. Proposed zoning plans
for the area. the commission said
call for commercial development
at the intersection of the roads
The Richards property would moi
be suitable for such development
the commission said.
The commission recommended
approval of a request by Multi
Bros. builders. to rezone to com.
mercial three lots on Cordell ave.
nue. 24o feet east Of Old George.
town road. The lots are within
the area designed for commercial
use in the master zoning plan fol
the Bethesda area.
The commission recommended
deferral for third Commercial
coming petition-three and one
half lots at the intersection Of
Fairmont and Arlington avenue.
in the Woodmont subdivision. The
commission pointed to street re.
vision plans in the vicinity a.
reason for the deferral recon-.
mendation on the petition, made
by Charles c. Limburg.
The County Council has SCI
Wednesday as hearing date fol
the three petitions.
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'Possum, Pike, Unborn Poultry on Display

A barn owl today is winking at
an old mill wheel in the gymna-
SUM of Washington Missionary
College in Takoma Park, Md,
while a few feet away an artifi-
cial kidney is at work and an
oscilloscope is recording atomic
fission.
The colleges Natural Science
Club last night opened its third
annual Science on Exhibition"
show displays covering the entire
gym floor will remain on view
until 10 o'clock tonight.
Students in the departments of
physics, biology and chemistry
have brought dozens of trees. rocks
and building materials from near
by areas to exhibit. There are
live specimens from as far away
as Massachusetts,. placed next to
pickerel from Paint Branch, Belts
vile. a Takoma Park opossum and
Lester Harris dozens of baby cop
perhead snakes.
Mr.. Harris, a biology instructor.
is club sponsor and is directing
the show with DR.. c. E. Winter,
biology department head.
The visitor can watch James
Engel demonstrate water purifica-
ton and can see from Roy Simp-
sons large model the effect Of
mountains on climate. Pull out
one of the rods in model atomic
pile, and complex machine simu-
lates the pattern of atomic flssion.
In another exhibit. an artificial
kidney demonstrates blood purifi-
cation, while through a microscope
can be seen an embryo chicks
heart beating.
Mrs. j. C. Holland of Takoma
Park, a nurse at the Washington
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By J. |. Michael
=, Sx~ff rnrv>snarJsn& ~ The S&c,

PRINCE FREDERICK. Md, Feb
24-Who is Calvert County's tax
assessor?
Any Republican in this land
of bright tobacco and tangled
politics will respond positively:
why, M. Kenneth Buckler, OF
course"
Ask a Democrat, however, and
you get a ringing declaration that
j. Lloyd Bowen is the man.
The fact is, no one will know the
answer until Circuit Judge John
b. Gray, jr., unravels the snarl
at q hearing set for March 5.
It all came as result OF the
November election. In that cam
paign, voters switched the make
up of the Board of County Com
missioners from two Democrats
and one Republican to two Repub-
licans and one Democrat.
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Former Navy Chaplain
New Forestville Pastor

The Rev. Benjamin j. Ridgley
has been appointed pastor of
Epiphany Episcopal Church,
Forestville, Md, succeeding the
Rev. Gerald Catlin.
Mr.. Ridgley received theologi-
cal training at Westminster and
Union Seminary, and was a naval
chaplain from 1914 to 1947.
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Welfare Chief to Speak

The effect of cuts in the Mary
land State welfare budget for
Montgomery County will be dis
cussed by William Roger, welfare
director for the county, and Mrs
Thomas Lee Smith, vice president
of the Montgomery League Of
Women Voters. at 1915 pm. to-
morrow on radio station WGAY.
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West HyottsviIIe Group
Opposes Dispensury

Opposition to establishment of
liquor dispensary system in
Prince Georges County has been
voiced by the West Hyattsville
Citizens Association. The associ-
alton has instructed its delegates
to the County Civic Federation
to vote agains THE system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-25

no re S i d e n t
physician since
last November,
got its new
Methodist pas
tor today.
The Rev. Err
nest T. Harri-
son. formerly
with a circuit
p a S t OR a tie at
M a r ! o W e, w
Va, has taken
over the pull.
pit of Camu
Hill and Boil
var Methodist
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Selection ofFirm
Due Tomorrow
In Sewage Study
North Virginia Group
To Make Its Choice:
3 Plans Submitted

An engineering firm to survey
sewage disposal problems of Alex
andria, Arlington, Fairfax and
Falls Church is due to be chosen
tomorrow by an interim commit
tee set up by the four jurisdic-
tons.
Robert w. Cox, Arlington Coun-
ty Board member who is chair
man of the committee, said that
three engineering proposals which
have been made differ extensively
as to the amount of time which
the survey will require. But there
is no large difference in the cost
estimates. he added.
The object of the survey is to
determine the most economical
and efficient method for the four
communities to dispose of sewage:
for each jurisdiction to have it's
own disposal plant as is planned
at present; for the four communi-
ties to build one disposal plant
in nearby Virginia; to build two
or more regional plants for
Northern Virginia or for all four
communities to join in piping
sewage across the Potomac River
to the District disposal plant at
Blue Plains.
Choice of Firms Delayed.
Last week, the interim commit
tee interviewed representatives Of
firms that submitted the three en-
cheering proposals. A choice Of
firms was deferred, however, be-
cause all members of the interim
committee were unable to attend.
Tomorrow's meeting will be held
at 4 pm. in the Alexandria City
Hall
Once the committee agrees
which firm should make the sur
yey, the governing bodies of the
four Jurisdictions will be asked
to put up a share of funds for the
survey. Cost estimates of the en-
gineering firms will not be dis
closed until a firm is selected,
Mr.. Cox said.
The interim committee, which
was created last December at the
suggestion of Mr.. Cox, had hoped
to have the engineering survey
under way by this time. Diff
Guilty in getting the nine commit
tee members together and in ar
ranging meetings that engineer
ing representatives could attend
has caused some delay, however,
Mr.. Cox said.
Speed Held Essential.
The committee chairman ex-
planned that speed Is essential in
accomplishing the survey be-
cause two of the Jurisdictions in
volved-Arlington and Fairfax
are ready to go ahead on their
own, and the city of Alexandra
has been ordered by the State
Water Control Board to have a
disposal system operating by July,
1852.
Arlington. which is planning
to enlarge its plant. is the only
one of the four Jurisdictions which
treats its sewage.
Engineering firms that have
submitted proposals are: Alex
ander Potter Associates of New
York and Greedy & Hanson Of
Chicago, who have submitted a
joint proposal; Alvord, Burdick &
Howson of Chicago, and Gannett,
Fleming, Corddry & Carpenter Of
Harrisburg, Pa.
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Committees to Report

Reports from education. 1egis-
lation and highways committees
will be heard by the Allied Civic
Group of Silver Spring at pm
tomorrow in the Liquor Dispen-
sary Building.
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Decentralization
Delay Blocks
Dispersal Bill
Chavez Awaits Report
From Budget Bureau
Before Going Ahead

Action of the Governments dis
persal legislation appears to be
stymied behind tagging plans for
decentralization.
Chairman Chavez of the Senate
Public Works Committee said yes
terday that so far as he is con-
cerned there will be no dispersal
without decentralization. He said
he is waiting for a report from
the Budget Bureau on the decen-
tralization plans before calling a
meeting of his committee to act
on the pending dispersal bill.
The House Public Works SUBJ
committee considering the meas
ure likewise wants information on
decentralization.
Dispersal, in Government ver-
nacular, means moving agencies
to buildings to be erected on six
sites about 20 miles from down.
town Washington. Decentraliza-
ton is the transfer OF agencies
from Washington to other cities
throughout the country.
Dispersal List Supplied.
The Budget Bureau has supplied
Congress with a list of agencies,
in part tentative, which are to
be dispersed. They have 10000
employees. The bureau has put
at Is, 900 the number Of positions
in agencies to be moved perma-
nently to other centers. and has
been laboring to complete the list
of those agencies.
Senator Chavez said the num-
Der affected by decentralization
could go to $4,000" in his opin-
ion, but that he had no DISPOSE
ton to hold out for that total.
He said he wanted to make sure
decentralization is to be carried
out before giving the go-ahead to
dispersal.
Dispersal is sound" he said.
Decentralization also is sound,
but there shouldn't be the one
without assurance of the other"
The Budget Bureau had ex-
pected to be ready with the de-
Capitalization list last week. But
the planners drawing up the list
of agencies to be moved, and
matching them with places where
Office space and housing is avail
able, are reported to have eli
countered such additional head
aches as to make, an already
knotty operation acutely painful.
Won't Make Any Prediction.
Bureau officials refused yester-
day to make any prediction as to
Just when the list would be ready.
Chairman Holland of the Senate
Public Works Subcommittee which
held hearings on the dispersal
bill said the subcommittee has re-
ported it favorably to the full COM
mittee except in the case Of some
details.
He said Senator Hennings
Democrat, of Missouri, and he
concurred in the report. He added
that the third subcommittee men,
Der, Senator Dworshak, Republic
can, of Idaho. was generally in
agreement, but reserved the right
to take an independent position
on some points when the full COM
mittee considers the bill.
On the House side. members o:
the Public Works Subcommittee
headed by Representative Trim
BILE, Democrat, of Arkansas. plan
to inspect Government = owned
areas in Virginia and Maryland
which have been suggested as sites
of buildings for the dispersed
agencies. This has been arranged
for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Representative Smith, Demo.
crat, of Virginia. appeared before
the subcommittee and urged tina!
land already owned by the Gov
eminent be used so as to save the
expense of acquiring additional
acreage.
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of Providence. She will be gradu-
ated from immaculate Seminary
here in June.
A former sports editor of the
Immaculate Seminary News. Miss
Smith is member of the basket
ball and field hockey teams. She
is a music enthusiast and plays
the piano. Miss Smith was grad
uated from Dunblane School in
1947.
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been awarded
a gu r-y e a r
scholarship at
st. Mary of the
Woods College,
n e ar T err e
Haute, Ind.
M j S S Smith,
who will be II
NJ o n d a y, won
the scholarship
in competitive
e x a m i nations
offered to senior
students at high
schools taught
lie, 49, c.~I~..
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| Isl 900 Eqqs in Week

RICHMOND, Va. Feb. 24.-(P1.
-Hatcheries in the 10-county
Shenandoah Valley area set l.
251.000 eggs and Matched 1000
chicks during the week ended
February II,
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He fills a vacancy caused by
the departure January % OF the
Rev. Franklin Shrader for active
duty in the Chaplain's Corps OF
the Navy. Chaplain Shrader has
been assigned to duty at Argentia,
Newfoundland.
The only other clergyman in
this community of about 1,400
persons is the Rev. John C, Ryan,
pastor of St. Peters Catholic
Church.