Evening star., 1952-10-02
Home Rule Foes
Seek Places on
Charter Group
Two Prince Georges
Nominees Cite Ties to
Opposition Runks

Two candidates nominated by
the Prince Georges County Com
to draft a home rule
for the county today con-
firmed they are officers of a new
ly formed group organized to fight
the charter movement.
: H. Winship Wheatley, jr., and
Edwin A. Glenn. both charter
board candidates in the November
4 elections, said they are members
of the Executive Committee of the
Voters Committee Against Char
ter Government.
The majority of leaders in both
the Democratic and Republican
parties are supporting the new
group in its fight against charter
government, MIR. Glenn said.
Creation of the Anti-C Charter
Committee marks the first organ
lied opposition to the Citizens
Committee for Good Government
which has fostered the home rule
movement.
Nominated for Board.
Ten persons have been nomi-
mated to serve on the charter
board which will draw up a home
rule charter for Prince Georges
Iif the voters approve November 4.
Five of the candidates were put up
by the all-Republican county COM
misSioners and five by the Nom
partisan Good Government Com
mittee.
If the home rule issue is ap-
proved in the election a charter
will be written after public hear
iings by the five victorious board
candidates for submission to the
voters in 1854.
Mrs. Ralph ]. Shelter, one of
the organizers of the new anti
charter group and also a member
lof its Executive Committee, said
the organization will urge voters
to mark their ballots against the
charter question and then vote for
the flve-man slate named by the
county commissioners.
"All in Same Boat"
In effect, even if the charter foes
lost on the question of creation Of
a Charter board, they would still
win if the country commissioners
slate is elected, Mrs. Shelter said.
Mr.. Glenn said today that the
entire commissioners slate is lin
the same boat as far as I know"
II the charter board gets the
voters okay, and the commissions
ers' slate is elected, Mr.. Glenn said
they would be duty-bound to draw
up a charter to present to the elec-
torate in 1854.
"But it will be charter based
on the county commissioner form
OF government" he said. S"Well
write a charter form, but not q
county manager form"
Mr.. Wheatley said the commits
sloners' slate, if elected. would
draw up a charter under which
those elected would perform the
duties of actual management of
county affairs.
Group to Work "OuietIy."
According to Mrs. Shelter the
antl-charter group has held num-
Der OF meetings. She said she had
felt the group should work quietly
without letting the opposition
know what it was doing.
The Anti-Charter Committee an
nounced it planned to set I'D a
publicity committee and a speak,
ers' bureau to carry its fight
throughout the county.
Others who have agreed to serve
or are considering serving on the
anticharter groups Executive Com
mittee, according to Mrs. Shelter.
include:
Former State Senator L. Harold
Sothoron; Cottage City Council
man r. A. Donley; former Mayor
William Zundel of Landover Hills;
James Hildebrand and Daniel
Greene, members of the County
Civic Federation, which is sup
porting the home-rule charter
movement; T. Raymond Burch.
former Democratic member of the
House Of Delegates; Adrian Fisher.
former attorney to the present
county commissioners: Roland
Ryon, clerk to the Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors; Daniel Burke.
Hyattsville business leader, and
Samuel Wyvil, publisher of the
Marlboro Enquirer Gazette and
Election Board president.