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Evening star., 1952-09-18
Council
Opposes Milk
Law Revision
Rejects Plan to Okuy
Importation From
Non-Inspected Areas

The Citizens Advisory Council
opposes legislation that would
Importation of milk into
the District from dairy farms not
by local health author-..
tiles. -.
The council stand on this issue,
as well as two other pending leg
islative measures, was disclosed
by the District Commissioners to-
day.
The advisory group discussed
these matters and made its recon-
mendations to the commissioners
last Tuesday, without revealing
the nature of their action.
No Liquor on Credit.
In the other two proposals, the
advisory group opposed the sale
of hard liquor on credit, and
favored requiring pre-marital
physical examinations for mar
riage license applicants.
The council reported that it Is
satisfied with the Health Depart
ment announcement that the Dis
trict is receiving an ample supply
of milk from farms under District
inspection. One local dairy re-
Gently contended that unless the
ban on non District inspected
milk due to go into effect in No
vember is raised. a milk shortage
will develop here.
Area Being Widened.
The council declared that It
understands that the District milk
shed is gradually being widened
and that the city is enjoying ex-
Icellent results from the present
milk regulations and control"
Credit sale of liquor in restau-
rants and hotels was opposed as
IAN outstanding evil in the bever-
age industry" which the present
alcohol beverage control law has
eliminated. To ammend the law
as proposed would be a "step
backward"
In favoring the pre-marital
check-ups to prevent the spread
of syphilis. the council pointed
out that such a Jaw has been en-
acted in at least 80 States and
has been indorsed by District
Health Officer Daniel L. Seckinger.
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Mrs. Phillips, With Son at Deal,
Asks Action to Open Cafeteria

Alice Deal Junior High School
is having lunchroom problems.
And a Board of Education mem
ber wants them solved.
The board member has special
knowledge of the situation-her
son attends the school.
Mrs. Frank s. Phillips aired her
feelings at the first board meeting
of the new term yesterday. Her
son, Frank, jr., IL, entered Alice
Deals seventh grade last Monday.
Alice Deals cafeteria isn't op-
Grating, Mrs. Philips brought out,
because it hasn't any manager or
staff. The last manager retired
last spring and the school hasn't
been able to find new one.
Parents, she said, have banded
together to meet the emergency
They are manning a snack bar.
Two Month Delay Seen.
Mrs. Phillips said she was told
the situation wouldn't get better
for two months. She wanted to
know what was going to be done
about it.
School officials put their heads
together. Supt. Hobart NJ. Corning
told the board he couldn't guaran-
tee starting the cafeteria before
two months.
Assistant Supt. Norman j. Mel
son and Associate Supt. Lawson j.
Cantrell said they thought they
could get something started.
The school system now is organ
izing new, centralized cafeteria
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Irene Rice Appointed
Principal at Western
After 33 Years There
Western High School has new

Western High School has new
principal-Miss Irene Rice.
A veteran Western teacher and
recently assistant principal, Miss
Rice was named to the post on a
temporary basis yesterday to sue
ceed Nathaniel A. Danowsky. Mr..
Danowsky recently requested re-
tirement.
The appointment was approved
by the Board Of Education at it's
first fall meeting. 1t came as
something Of a surprise, since
Supt. Hobart M. Corning had
stated earlier he would make no
move to name a. principal until
Westerns future is settled.
The superintendent, several
months ago, suggested future con-
version of Western to Wilson
Teachers College.
Entire Career at Western.
Miss Rice joined the school sys-
tenn as history teacher in 1919.
and she has spent her entire
career at Western.
The school board yesterday
also:
Named Francis A. Gregory to a
permanent post as associate
superintendent in charge of
Negro junior and vocational, high
schools.
Gave permanent status to DR..
Harold A. Haynes as first as
sistant superintendent in charge
of Negro schools: Birch E. Bayh
as director of health, physical
education and athletics in the
white schools. and Edwin B. Hen
derson, as director Of the same
activities in the colored schools.
Sewell Named.
Appointed Bernard s. Sewell as
sistant director Of colored evening
and summer schools.
Appointed Howard F. Bolden as
sistant principal of Dunbar High
The following teachers were re-
tired: Mrs. Irene r. Blythe, Will
son High School: James M. Mont
gomery, Randall Junior High;
George n. Murray, Cardozo; joy
VI. Schmitt, Keene: Miss Daphnel
La zelle Stebhins, Brent, and
Henry Z. Grant. Dunbar.
Also retired was Mrs. Ruth B.l
Hall, placement counselor at|
Roosevelt High School. +
Evening star., 1952-09-18
D. T.. Will Ask
Payment byU.S.
For Killing Pigs
Huge Expense Seen
As Infected Lorton
Herd Is Doomed

Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue today instructed city officials
to ask the Agriculture Department.
lif It will reimburse the District
for the destruction Of Lorton Re-
formatory's disease-ridden swine
herd.
The Virginia State Health De-
lpartment has ordered the entire
herd of 3,100 hogs slaughtered toI
prevent the spread of a virus dis
ease, apparently from garbage.
The herd is valued at $50, ,000,
the Commissioners were told this
morning.
The District is confronted with
heavy costs because of the order
about $4,000 monthly to buy pork
for Lorton, and possibly $500, 900
a year to dispose of garbage up toI
now consumed by the hogs.
The Agriculture Department in
some cases compensates farmers
for losses from livestock diseases,
officials said.
Two Collectors Stop Pickups.
City officials also reported that
two private garbage collectors
here have quit making pickups.
Others, however, are taking it to|
the city's transfer station at New
Jersey and K street Sc. for ship
ment to Maryland instead of
Virginia.
The affiiction, harmless to
human beings, was first noted last
Friday, and by Saturday symp-
toms had appeared in most Of the
3.100 hogs. The disease has at
tackled herds all over the Nation,
and Virginia authorities have or
dered slaughtering all over the
IState.
Donald Clemmer, director of the
District Department of Correc-
tions, gave the estimate on the
cost Of replacement pork.
Fear Garbage "Strike."
Col. Thomas ]. Hayes Sd, assist
ant engineer commissioner, voiced
the fear that Virginia farmers,
who haul off nearly half the Dis
trict's $4,000 tons Of garbage an
nually to feed their hogs. may stop
the service as precaution against
infection.
In that case, Col. Hayes said,
the city would have to pay for
garbage hauling previously done
free bysthe farmers.
An alternative would be for the
farmers to "cook" their garbage, ),
which would make it safe for hog
consumption. Or the District could
grind its own garbage and flush
it into the sewer system. Avail
able grinders can handle only less
than one-third of the total gar
bage tonnage, however.
The only other alternative would
be for the District to increase the
amount of garbage it collects and
buries at a fill-in at Cherry Hill,
Iva. 7
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Montgomery Infant Dies,
Apparently Of Sufocation

A 2-month-old boy was found
dead in his home near Rockville,
Md, today, apparently as the re-
suit of suffocation.
The child was Douglas e. Mel
lon, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
H. Mellon of 1923 Lemay road,
Twinbrook subdivision.
His unconscious body was found
by his parents about 7:15 am.
They called the Rockville rescue
squad and the baby was pro-
nounced dead at 8 am.
The body was taken to the
Pumphrey funeral home in Be-
thesda. where an autopsy was to
be performed.
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Ballot Information Booths
Slated for Alexandra

Three voters service booths will
be opened by the Alexandria
League of Women Voters tomor-
row to answer questions about
registration and voting.
The booths will be at the corner
of King and Washington streets,
at the Shirley Duke shopping
center, and at the Arlandria shop
ping center.
The leagues booklet. Voters
Guide" will be distributed at each
place. Residents may find out
about poll tax requirements. and
learn whether they meet Virginia s
vating requirements. .
Evening star., 1952-09-18

management. This is supposed to
be ready to take charge about two
months from now. the officials ex-
planned. At present, however,
schools still operate their own
cafeterias independently.
Low Salary Blamed.
One of the problems, Mr.. Can't
rell said. is the low salary offered.
"A new. higher salary schedule pre-
sun1ably will be set up when CEN
trail operation begins, he added,
and this is expected to help re-
cruit a staff. =
A complaint that there still
aren't enough teachers in the
Negro schools was made by an
other board member at yester-
days meeting.
Mrs. Velma G. Williams said
she was disturbed that the new
Spingarn High School has "only
half enough teachers"
Albert E. Steinem, Personnel
Committee chairman, urged ask
ing supplemental appropriation
to hire more Negro teachers, once
enrolment figures are complete.
Mrs. Williams said this would
mean a month delay, how
ever. and expressed the fear this
would hamper the pupils educa-
ton.
Mrs. Williams also said the
white schools have 10 more at
tendance officers than the COL
ored and asked that the totals
be equalized.
Mrs. Phillips told the board her
own calculations shown that only
the junior highs are short of
teachers among the Negro schools.
She said the need was 40 more.
DIR. Corning declined to discuss
this statement at his weekly press
conference today. Assistant Supt.
Harold A. Haynes, in charge of
the Negro schools, said he would
stick by the official shortage esti-
mate Of 117-55 in elementary
schools. So in Junior highs and 8
in the senior highs. A final figure
won't be determined until new
enrollments are completed next
month. he said.
Hiring Forecast Soon.
A spokesman at Spingarn said
later the school lacks about a
fifth of the teachers supposed to
be assigned. Some or all of these
will be hired soon with funds re-
leased in the recent shifting of
surplus white teachers, officials
said.
The board also heard three
speakers on the teacher situation.
The Rev. billiard H. Brown, presi-
dent Of the District Branch. Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, criti-
cized the white teachers shutting
as discriminatory and unfair" He
called for integration of the col
ored and white schools.
Andrew Rice of the American
Veterans Committee urged as
signment of teachers without re-
gard to race and asked the board
to seek legislation ending segre-
cation.
Mrs. Doris Foster of the Wash
ington Chapter, Americans for
Democratic Action, charged that
DR.. Corning had underestimate
the white teacher surplus. She
said it is nearer 200 than 100.
She also advocated assigning
teachers regardless of race.
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Citizens Show Big-Fight Interest
But ShodoW-Box at BoIIotinu

ballot. Furthermore, unlike the
present requirements for only a
years residence in the State. the
franchise usually was confined to
property owners.
Fear of Inconvenience.
Registration and voting in the
18th Century generally entailed
horseback or coach rides over
many miles of rough roads to a
central place in a county. The
process of registering and voting
was no matter of mere minutes
in thats.era, yet it was taken more
seriously than today.
More pronounced than the
present day fear Of Inconvenience
is the often-heard supposition that
q single ballot, especially in a
county, is hardly. worth the bother
Of going to register and to vote.
A variation of that view was
expressed in a card from an
Arlington woman. She observed
that the electoral system is Every
confusing" and that many people
think the personal vote does not
count because of this"
The electoral system has so
many modern-day critics that it
eventually may give way to a di-
rect popular election arrangement.
It nevertheless is not system of
wasting individual votes. Nor is
it necessarily unrepresentative or
undemocratic.
In the case of Maryland, with
its nine electoral votes for the 1852
presidential election, the vote of
every individual citizen could have
a highly important bearing. It is
possible that nine electoral votes
might mean the difference in an
exceedingly close election or in
throwing an election into the
House of Representatives.
1948 Tally Recalled.
Such a comparatively small
number of electoral votes in Mary
land hinged on only about $500
votes out Of sos, 900 in Maryland
in 1948. That was the slim ma
jority by which Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey carried Maryland four years
ago. That was roughly less than
400 votes for each of the % coun-
ties in the State.
The only vote that is completely
lost in an election is the vote
which, because of indifference, in
ertia. cynicism or hopelessness. is
never cast.
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Let's Get Out the Vote
By Robert K. Walsh

Citizens who put personal con-
venience and a no-count attitude
ahead of registering and voting
this year can find ample remind
ers that they are running contrary
to current events and past hap
penings.
IA letter and telephone response
to articles in the "Get Out the
Vote" series showed that other
wise eligible voters in Washington
and Virginia have a strong aca-
demic interest in exercising the
democratic franchise. But In
some instances it apparently is
a talk-a-big-fight interest, with
more shadow voting than an
actual trip to the polling place.
There was, for instance. the
Montgomery County resident who
complained - with considerable
justice-that it's a long trip for
some one in Silver Spring to reg
lister at Rockville or even at oc-
caSlonal part-time registration
places elsewhere.
Plant From Ex-Jerseyite.
where we came from, in New
Jersey. there were special ar
rangements for people to register
in factories or in department
stores and sometimes on down.
town street corners" a caller re-
called. 1--WE intend to register
and vote this year but I think you
will find that registration could
be stimulated a great deal if there
were many more convenient ways
Of registering in Maryland and
Virginia"
One answer. although incom-
plete, is that Montgomery County
registration boards have stepped
up a rowing" schedule until the
registration books close October
4. Moreover, the Rockville Office
will be open from 7 to 10 pm.
September %, %, "a. 81 and 80
and October through 4.
One Historic Answer.
Since last Monday and through
next Saturday country residents
have an opportunity to register at
the Silver Spring Armory and the
Bethesda County Building from
"a to $50 and Z to 10 pm.
Another sort of answer, best
described as historic but still ap-
lpropriate in the course of demo-
cratic progress, Is that the poten-
tial voters of 1852 in Maryland
land Virginia might profit by read
ling of the voting Inconvenience
when those areas were newborn
States more than a century and
a half ago.
In those times, according tc
historians. something like half ot
the eligible voters actually voted
That percentage. while not es.
pecially impressive. seems over
whelming in comparison to the
approximately 40 per cent who
voted in Maryland in 1948 and
the 81 per cent in Virginia al
that presidential election.
But those early day voters. II
should be noted, often had tt
stand up in the presence Of candi-
dates and election officers and be
literally counted as they voiced
10 vote In the absence Of . secret
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Recruiting Indicates
Cadet Corps Gains
In District Schools
By james 6. Deone

The Districts once -dwindling
High School Cadet Corps may
climb another enrolment notch
this fall. @
1t. Col. William s. Barkman,
cadet head instructor in the white
schools, reported today recruiting
is going well and some schools ex-
pect bigger rosters.
Maj. BENJAMIN L. Hunton. in
charge of colored cadets, said the
Evening star., 1952-09-18
West Virqiniun Named

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Sept.
18 (SpeciaD Ernest c. Alther.
jr., Of this city, was named by
Gov. Patteson Tuesday as a mem
Der of the West Virginia Aero
nalIticS Commission
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Board Of Trade
Pushes Aid for
Downtown Area
Drive Seeks to Check
Decline in Business,
Committee Reports

The Washington Board of Trade
now is concentrating its effort on
preventing a decline in downtown
business.
The board also is urging more
congressional funds for the Dis
trict, national representation and
an effective congressional relations
program.
These are among items reported
to the boards administrative coun-
Gil by its Planning Committee.
They are activities being con-
Quoted during the current admin
istrative year which ends June 80.
Projects Listed.
Under its project for develop
ment of the Greater Washington
area, the board lists:
l. Complete the organization of
the Metropolitan Development
Council.
2. Encourage dispersal of Fed
eral agencies in the Washington
area and discourage .decentraliza-
ton to other parts of the country.
8. Continue study of the feasi-
bility of a Metropolitan Washing
ton Authority with power to op-
crate bridges, tunnels, airports
and similar facilities.
4. Encourage improvement of
transportation, both by private
auto and mass transit.
Specific Work Suggested.
Tied in with the first objective
is the preservation of the down.
town business districts vitality.
Specific work suggested in this
connection includes:
l. Provision of adequate of
street parking.
2. Research activities such asI
. sales pattern study. a
3. Promotional activities to en-
courage shoppers to do business
downtown.
The boards third project also
is related to the first two. It calls
for obtaining more Federal funds
for operating the District govern
ment.
Expenditures to Be Large.
Large expenditures must be
made by the District to ac-
complish (the above). and to serv-
ice adequately those using Dis
trict facilities" the planning COM
mittee's report stated.
"An indication Of the magnitude
Of these expenditures lis the $356l
million program of public works
proposed by the D. c. department
heads. Much of this money must
be spent to preserve the economic
health of the District.
"At the same time, it seems
clear that large additional local
revenue may not be collected
without threatening the Districts
economic stability. It is therefore
a matter Of the most pressing inn
portance that Congress recognized
the responsibility Of the United
States toward the solution of these
serious problems by promptly pro-
viding increased appropriations
from Federal funds"
Drive Continuing.
The board said it's work toward
securing national representation
in the District is continuing.
"Since 1916" the report de-
clared, "the Board Of Trade has
consistently sought a constitu-
tional amendment which would
grant to the people Of the Dis
trict representation in Congress
and the right to vote for Presi-
dent and Vice President as the
essential first step in giving resi-
dents a greater measure of self
government. This policy is still
sound. :"
The report added:
ut is obvious that the success
full accomplishment of the objec-
tiveS listed, plus many others in
cluded in the overall program,
requires the most cordial and un.
derstanding relationship between
the Congress and the people of
the District of Columbia"
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Young 6. o. p. Will Meet

An organizational meeting Of
the Young Republican Club Of
Alexandria. win be held at 8 pm.
tomorrow at Republican Head
quarters. 1903 King street. \
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Glenn Dale PTA to Meet

Local and county PTA organiza-
tion will be discussed at the first
meeting of the school term of the
Glenn Dale (Md) PTA at 8 pm
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1952-09-18
Rector Visits Quebec

The Most Rev. P. j. McCor-
mick, rector of the Catholic Uni
versity. left yesterday to attend
the Congress of the Federation Of
Pontificial Universities at Quebec,
Canada.
Evening star., 1952-08-24

Bayreuth Festival of the second
and part Of the third act of Rich
ard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger
Won Nurnberg" are heard.
4:3O, WTOP Pick the Winner:
John Foster Dulles and Averell Har-
riman are guests.
500, Neutrality-suspicious. Mu-
sic Camp Concert: James Chris
tian Pfohn and Hall Bryan con-
duct the student symphony and
chorus.
500, WRC - Hollywood Star
Playhouse: Richard Basehart
stars in zone Minute to Twelve"
700, WRC-Hollywood Bowl
Concert: Wilfrid Pelletier con-
ducts the orchestra. Leonard War
rem is soloist.
1880, WMAL-Time Capsule:
John Carradine is guest.
$3.50, WRC-Best Plays: Russell
Hardie stars in "Home Of the
Brave"
$3.50, WTOP-Inner Sanctum:
Barbara Weeks has the lead in
"No Rest for the Dead.">
$3.50, WOL-Georgetown Uni
versity Forum: The topic for con-
sideration is Flying Saucers."
10:OO, WRC-Meet the Press:
Senator william Benton is inter-
viewed.
1000, WWDC-District Round
table: The topic for discussion is
SHOULD the Antitrust Law Be
Made Applicable to Unions?"
1880, WRC-American Forum
of the Air: Ellis Arnall and Clem
johnson discuss "How High Can
Prices Coz"
1880, VOL - So Proudly We
Hail: Conrad Nagel stars in Ter
ror at Polgar."
10:45, WMAL-Bob Edge: Col
umniSt Robert Ruark is guest.
11:0O, WWDC - Chicagoland
Music Festival: Rise Stevens and
Louis Sudler are featured. Henry
Weber conducts the 100-piece fes-
tival orchestra.
Evening star., 1952-08-24
By Cynthio Lowry
Associated Press Staff Write

Thirty years ago. on the
stroke Of 5 pm. on August %.
owners of 1929 crystal radio
sets tuned their cat whiskers on
a historic program.
At that moment a man whose
name is recorded today simply
as III. Blackwell" began a 10
minute broadcast over Station
WEAF in New York.
It was the first commercially
sponsored broadcast in history,
according to trade archives, the
egg from which has come an ad-
vertising device which last year
brought $500 million to radio
networks and stations.
Scot Took the Risk
Radios first sponsor was the
Greensboro Corporation, which
was then busy developing a 400
acre section Of Queens County it
had named Jackson Heights. It
paid WEAF (now WNBC) the
sum Of $100 in exchange for per-
mission to extoll the joys of liv-
ing in garden apartments.
The gentleman who first de.
cided to risk cold cash in the
fledgling medium was a Scots
man. Edward A. MacDougall,
president of Greensboro, who
died a few years ago. Robert
r. Lassiter, vice president of
the corporation, says Mac
Dougall experimental because
"a few people had sets but
everyone was talking about il"
"Our sales manager was the
fellow who did the talking" he
Evening star., 1952-08-24

said. "The station sent q rep
resentative over and together
they worked out a script.
Few Direct Results
I'VE picked a time when
housewives would be listening.
And, I'm sorry to say, we didn't
get an awful lot of direct re-
suits from sponsoring the talks,
although we continued them for
two or three weeks. You couldn't
gear results, although I suppose
it generally helped build up
interest in the development"
Unfortunately for radios his
torians. the manuscript of that
first commercial has been lost.
But the daily log of the
broadcast's engineer. one r.
S. Fenimore. remains in radios
archives. It notes simply and
quite without q sense of his
tory:
"5-5:10 pm. - Greensboro
Corp, our first customer"
Evening star., 1952-08-24
HiehIights
Radio Today.

1880, WNIAL-College Choirs:
The Benedict College Choir of
Columbia, S. c., is heard.
1880, WASH - Northwestern
University Reviewing Stand: The
topic for discussion Is Private or
Public Ownership of Electric
Power"
11:35, WTOP Invitation to
Learning: The 10th century Por-
tugese epic poem, 1.-THE Lusiads," "
by de Camoens, Is discussed.
100, WTOP-Your Invitation
to Music: Recordings made at the
Evening star., 1952-08-24

Evening news broadcast, di-
rect from The Stars news
room. Monday through FRIDAY
over Stations WMAL and
WMAL-FM; 6 pm.
Evening star., 1952-08-24

THE BEGINNING OF 1T ALL-Joe Cunningham, p Ne,ps-
features artist along his impression of things
looked that day 30 oen radios first commercial
broadcast 1t ad New Yorks Jackson Heights
OF all things. and the historic date August 28 1922