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Evening star., 1952-09-24
Planners Repeat
Sligo Housing
Removal Order
Councils Appeal
To Save Veterans
Project FoiIs

The Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
has issued another order to the
Montgomery County Council to
remove the Sligo Creek Veterans
Housing Project by October, 1858.
The commission, last August IL,
gave the council IA months to re-
move the 167 low-cost housing
units to make way for future park
Expansion.
The council, however, urged the
commission to defer its request
until after it had determined
whether there was a substantial
shortage of housing in the county.
In its letter to the council, the
commission said there is no change
in its stand on the request that
the units be removed.
Council members expressed dis
appointment that the commission
had offered no facts, as requested,
to substantiate its contention that
the housing situation in the county
had been somewhat abated." The
council last week extended rent
control, after finding there was a
shortage Of rental housing.
No Course for Vets.
Some council members indicated
they felt some action should be
taken by the county in the matter.
However, they were at a loss as to
what could be done. The county
attorney previously advised them
they have no means to upset the
commissions demands.
The council yesterday directed
County Manager Irving G. McNayr
to inform the veterans in the
project of the commissions stand.
Mr.. McNayr reiterated his prom
Use OF last month that the county
would set up some arrangement
for aiding the veterans in finding
suitable rental units they can
afford.
There were some indications that
relocation of the project might be
considered if the low-coSt housing
situation is shown to be critical.
The cost of such a move, however,
might be prohibitive.
Recommendation Is Withheld.
The planning commission yester-
day also turned down a council
request for q copy ofsthe planners
technical stairs recommendations
on the pr0rOsed e zoning
ordinance.
The planners, however told the
council the planning engineer,
William c. Burrage, would be
available to assist them in study
ing the ordinance.
The planners also refused to
submit its technical staff's recon-
mendations on applications for
zoning amendments. The plan
ming commission submits only its
own recommendations to the
council which must approve the
amendments.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Mrs. Everson Named Member
of County Recreation Board
First Womun to Get
Job in Unit Formed
Four Years Ago

Prince Georges County today
has a woman as a member of its
County Recreation Board for the
first time.
She is Mrs. Clyde L. Everson,
44-year-old University Park (Md.)
housewife and mother of two chill
|dren.
Mrs. Everson, former play
ground worker and teacher, was
named to the non-salaried post
yesterday by the county commits
sioners. She was picked as the
peoples representative" on the
four-member board. She will
succeed Smith H. Purdum of Hy-
attsville. whose term is up this
month.
Appointment Long Urged.
Her appointment to the post
had been urged since the board
was founded initially about four
years ago. Her supporters in
cluded the County Civic Fedora
tion, the League of Women
Voters, the College Park branch
of the American Association of
University Women and other or
ganizationS and individuals.
Other board members are Earl
H.. Wilkinson of District Heights,
the commissioners representative;
James H. Harrison of Laurel, rep
resenting the Board of Education,
and Robert M. Watkins of the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
Mrs. Everson, who lives at 66O2
Forty-fourth avenue, University
Park, has lived in the county for
% years and taught in schools
there until 1886 when she became
assistant in the Office of the dean
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Maryland {. 10 Seek Bids
On S3.8 Million in Bonds

Bids are to be asked in about 10
days on $3.8 million worth Of reve-
nue. bonds to finance new building
on the University Of Maryland
campus at College Park.
DR.. H. C.. Byrd, president, an
nounced that the bonds will fl
nance a physical education and
auditorium building. 10 fraternity
and sorority houses and a student
union with supply store and post
office boxes.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Candidate Withdraws
From Nomination Race
AT Arlington Meeting

One of seven candidates who
filed for the Arlington Town Meet
Iing's County Board nomination
withdrew from the race today, ex-
pressing satisfaction with the
other candidates.
George A. Quincy, jr., a civil
engineer, of 829 South Quincy
street, filed yesterday for nomina-
ton to one of the three seats to
be filled in a special election No
vember 4. The Town Meeting will
convene at 8 pm. tomorrow at
Jefferson Junior High School GIG
South Walter Reed drive.
After reviewing the names 0f
the other six candidates he said
he has no reason to oppose them
and announced his withdrawal.
Those Still in Race.
Deadline FOR filing candidates.
was yesterday. Those who remain
in the race for the nominations
are: ~
Robert r. Meier. a physics pro-
fessor at George Washington Uni
versity, of 722 South Twenty-sec-
|ond street; Mrs. Martha w.
Cannon, a housewife, of 4019
South Eighteenth street.
Also, Lawrence D. Byers, Sc, a
builder, of 1926 North Edgewood
street; William j. DeMik. a law
yer of 129 South Buchanan street;
Mrs. Ruth Cox. wife of former
County Board Chairman Robert
w. Cox. and Daniel A. Dugan,
former board member who was
|ousted by court ruling Septem-
ber 10.
Candidates who present them
selves to Town Meeting agree to
withdraw from the race fnot
nominated.
Mrs. Cannon to Moderate.
Mrs. Florence Cannon, former
County Board chairman, will be
moderator. The Rev. Ross Allen
Weston, pastor of the Arlington
Unitarian Church, will give the
Invocation.
The three non-partisan nomi-
Inees will oppose candidates in
dorsed by the Republican and
Democratic Parties, and any in
dependents who file before the
lOctomer 4 deadline.
All qualified voters of Arling-
ton are eligible to participate in
Town Meeting, according to Ed
ward B. Hincks. acting chairman
Iof the sponsoring committee.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Eisenhower Committee
To Hear Stute OfficiuI

John r. Reeves. Maryland Sec
retary Of State, will address q
meeting Of the Prince Georges
County Citizens for Eisenhower
Committee at 8 o'clock tonight
in the County Service Building at
Hyattsville.
A representative of the State
Citizens for Eisenhower group also
will speak. Permanent chairmen
and district leaders of the county
organization will be named.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Arlington Child Group Meets

The Arlington County branch
Of the Association for Childhood
Education will meet at 8 O'Clock
tonight in the Board Of Education
building. 1926 North Quincy street.
The speaker will be Miss Con-
stance Carr. editor Of the maga-
zine childhood Education"
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Home Rule Fund Meeting

A campaign fund to put home
rule across in the November 4
election will be discussed by the
directors Of the Prince Georges
County Citizens Committee for
Good Government at an open
board meeting In Ager Road
Methodist Church, Green Mead.
ows. Md. at 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1952-09-24

least the same proportion holds
true this year. Yet. almost S mil
lion fewer women than men voted
for President four years ago. More
over. whereas the number Of wom-
en- registered to vote in 1910 was
about 81 per cent of the total
estimated registration in this
country. it dropped to 47 per cent
in t948.
The Korean fighting and Sc
lective service complicate the
forecasts about prospective first
voters this year. Census Bureau
reports indicate that about mil
lion young men and women will
be eligible. by age, to vote for the
first time this year. Approx
mately one million of the men are
in the armed services which have
undertaken an intensive drive TO
enable them to vote conveniently.
Part of Overall Picture.
Registration authorities have
no detailed data on the number
Of 21-year-olds in Maryland and
Virginia this year. They, never
theless. estimate that. despite an
encouraging response in recent
weeks, several thousand have not
yet registered or otherwise quail
fled to vote in November.
They hope that still another
discouraging trend in elections
since 1882 will be reversed this
year. There has been a long
downward trend in the percent
age Of voters between 81 and Is
years old. War accounted for
some Of that drop, they explain.
Yet the trend was almost as pro-
nounced in some Of the presi-
dental elections in the 1920s and
l930s.
All Of this seems to be part Of
the overall picture in which the
number Of Americans of voting
age has increased more than 10.6
million since 1910. At the same
time the ratio Of actual to po-
tential voters fell from a high of
62.3 per cent in 1910 to Sis per
cent in 1948..
The declining rate-of people
who decline their Democratic
obligation to register and vote
has been even more rapid in gen.
eral in Virginia and Maryland and
especially in some of the nearby
counties. And this has continued
despite occasional spurts in voting
interest such as the 81 per cent
off-year showing in the 1850
Maryland gubernatorial and sena-
torial election.
Could Have Last Word.
According to some get-out-the-
vote observers, women could well
have the last word in determining
whether registration and voting
in nearby Virginia and Maryland
this year will set all-time records.
Young people. otherwise eligible
to vote for the first time, also
have an unusual chance to get of
to an early and a good start in
the responsibilities Of active, alert
citizenship.
AS for the men-a get-out-the-
vote worker declared that there's
still time between now and Octo-
ber 4 for thousands of men in this
vicinity to come to the aid of an
effective. representative system Of
by registering before
October 4 and voting November 4.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
How to Register
in
Alexandria

Office of Alexandria Registrar,
118 North Fairfax street. next
to city hall.
Between 9 am. and 5 pm,
Monday through Friday. On
Saturday. October 4. from 8
am. to / pm.
Deadline for registration of
qualified voters is October 4.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
.36 Residents Support
Document Criticizinq
BroyhiII Park Homes

A veterans housing report criti-
cizing the building firm of Joel T.
Broyhill, Republican candidate for
Congress in Virginia, has become
a storm center in the 10th District
political campaign.
Thirty-six residents Of Broyhill
Park, a Fairfax subdivision, and
a spokesman for the House COM
mittee, which issued the housing
report. yesterday took issue with q
resident of the community who
had said most Of the home -buyers
are satisfied.
John H. Callow, OF 1916 Hickory
Hill road, Broyhill Park. held a
lawn party at his home for Mr..
Broyhill Saturday. He released a
statement which praised the work
of Mr.. Broyhill's firm, M. r. Broy-
hill g. Sons, and denounced use of
the housing report as a political
issue.
Mr.. Callow had said the firm
moved promptly to correct all
complaints reported by home buy
ers in the community.
Delays Are Charged.
Nothing could be farther from
the TRUTH" the statement issued
yesterday by the SO residents de-
clared. Several of us have main
tanned personal files of documen-
tary evidence showing the diff
culties we have. had in attempt
ing to get even some of the most
minor repairs made"
Oliver Meadows, staff director
for the league committee, said
Mr.. Callow's lawn party, to which
all OF the 100 home buyers in the
subdivision were invited, was "ob-
viously a political maneuver."
He said there were 26 items
listed as noncompliance in the
Broyhill Park file turned over to
the committee by the central office
of the Veterans Administration.
He said the league committee
made no separate investigation of
these complaints but included
them with it's report.
Mr.. Meadows said the league
committee was swamped with calls
from residents of Broyhill Park
requesting aid in obtaining cor
rection of complaints.
Broyhill Disputes Report.
Mr.. Broyhill, general manager
of the building firm, challenged
Mr.. Meadows to back up what Mr..
Broyhill said were statements in
the committee report that garages
were not properly insulated and
access to powder rooms was pos
sible only through furnace rooms.
"The plain fact is" Mr.. Broyhil!
declared, these houses have no
garages and no powder rooms"
Mr.. Broyhill said he would well
come an investigation of Broyhill
Park by Mr.. Meadows and re-
porters to see if the garages and
powder rooms can be found.
Naturally. if such an investi-
cation proves me right and Mr..
Meadows wrong, I shall expect a
public apology from him." Mr..
Broyhill added.
He said the statement issued
yesterday by the SO home buyers
was politically inspired" by Ed
mund D. Campbell, his Democratic
opponent in the congressional race.
Evening star., 1952-09-24

apartments that have never been
controlled. Tenants in those
places aren't concerned with the
fate of controls.
Another answer is that rela-
lively few apartment rentors be-
long to civic associations, the
groups that can put pressure on
county commissions and city coun-
ellis.
Apartment people don't attend
commission meetings the way
property owners do.
Most apartment tenants are
more or less transient citizens who
don't stay put the way q home.
owner does. They don't have the
interest in county or town affair.
a permanent resident has. And
a man who owns his own home
isn't bothered about rent controls
and isn't going to argue for them
The commissioners and council.
men and other authorities have
varying ideas on the housing
shortage.
Mr.. Thompson's rent office say.
there most certainly is a shortage
In Prince Georges County. The
town fathers Of Greenbelt, Hyatts.
vile, Mount Rainier, Brentwood
Cottage City,. Forest Heights anc
Riverdale apparently agree with
him. since they have extended
rent ceilings beyond next Tues
day.
Extended by Council.
Most of Montgomery Council
will keep controls. too. The
County Council voted to extend
them. Washington Grove will let
them die, but Montgomery Coun-
tians in Rockville. Gaithersbure
and Glen Echo already are as
Isured Of extensions.
Walter F. Mulligan Of Berwyn,
Md, q town councilman Of Col
lege Park and. for more than Il
years. president Of the Prince
Georges County Civic Association,
said members OF his civic group
just don't care much. one way
or another.
They own their own places
some may even own rental prop
ertieS-and thus are not stirred
by the plight Of tenants.
Others limited that home
ers in crowded Prince Georges
would be pleased to see apart
ment tenants caught In a rent
squeeze.
These people say the county's
permanent citizens have growled
for months about the immigration
LOT tenants who. the permanents
lsay. aren't carrying their load of
the bill fnr schools ana ~ Oh.
"a big jump In rents might keen
lshort-term tenants away. 4
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Prince Georges Police
To Sponsor Tournament

A jousting tournament. supper
and dance, sponsored by, the
Prince Georges County Police
Association. win be held at O'Don-
nells Farm on Marlboro Pike
Forestville. at 2 pm. saturday,
Proceeds will 60 to the asso-
Citations disqualification fund.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Massey Speoks Tonight

Carlton Massey. Fairfax County
executive. will address the county's
League of Women voters at 8:15
O'Clock tonight at the Annandale
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Tenants in Prince Georges Face
Rent Rise as DecontroI is Voted

Thousands Of tenants in Prince
Georges County will be paying
sitter rents next month, mostly
because they haven't got together
to lobby for themselves.
The County Commissioners voted
yesterday to end all rent control in
the county's unincorporated areas.
And four incorporated towns
also have decontrolled. Eight
others have decided to keep the lid
on. The rest haven't made up
their minds yet.
William L. Thompson. the areas
rent director. said the end of con-
trolls in the unincorporated areas
will affect about $500 families.
Most Of them are in Chillum-not
counting Mount Rainier, Takoma
Park and Brentwood, all Of which
are incorporated-and in Suitland
and the neighboring Andrews Air
Base section.
The other Prince Georges cor
porations that are going to let
controls expire are Bladensburg,
Capitol Heights. District Heights
and Takoma Park. Takoma Park
has produced q lot of complaints
in the past about rent violations.
Must Act by Tuesday.
The other Prince Georges towns
still must decide whether to keep
the roof on rents, or let tenant
and landlord fight it out privately.
They have to act by next Tues
day. if they want to extend Fed
eral controls.
Economic Stabilizer Roger L.
Putnam warned yesterday that
the Federal Government cannot
bail you out If rents skyrocket''
unless the municipalities have ex-
tended controls. After September
80 the Federal Government will
not reimpose the rent curbs, un-
less the Defense Department de-
clueS the area IN question Is q
critical one.
Prince Georges has q population
of more than 100000, q lot Of
whom are ''cliff- ff-dwellers"-
ants In apartments.
The question arises: Why didn't
they do something about keeping
their rents down?
There are a number Of answers.
Some Never Controlled.
For one thing. many Of them
live in places that weren't under
rent ceilings in the first place.
Their homes were built recently
enough to escape the controls.
Big developments like Kent VII
|lage, adjoining the Prince Georges
Country Club on L.andover road.
and Langley Park, ut New Hamp-
shire avenue and University lane.
near TakOma Park. have 3acres OF
Evening star., 1952-09-24
Candidates. Laud
Stevenson al
Baltimore Rally
Governor Crosses
Eisenhower Picket
Line at Hotel
By Alex R. Preston
Ster Stoff cerresnendent


lands congressional candidates
today were welded to the presi-
dental campaign of Gov. Steven
son.
At a Stevenson rally here last
night this is what Richard E.
Lankford, fifth district candidate
. for the House, said:
Il am proud to be on the win
. ming team. The Democratic
party offers honest, efficient, ex-
perienced men. The Governor of
Illinois is one Of these men who
is offering his honest, untiring eff
forts and his great wealth of ex-
perience to our country"
Mrs. Stella B. Werner, the DEM
ocratic candidate from the sixth
district. said, IT agree with Adlai
Stevenson, our great candidate for
President, when he said The peo-
pie are wise-wiser than the Re-
publicans think I do not think
the people of my district will be
fooled"
Symbolic Of Change.
And George P. Mahoney, the
Democratic senatorial nominee,
said:
I'VE are told that the people
want a change. Gov. Stevenson
and his running mate, Senator
Sparkman. are symbolic of that
change"
About 1000 persons were on
hand when Gov. Stevenson's plane
landed at Friendship Information
al Airport. With the candidate
was Maryland's Democratic Sen
ator O'Conor.
The Senator said he had been
invited to New York by Gov. Ste
venSon to go over the Maryland
situation" Senator O'Conor
went to New York Monday, con-
ferred with Gov. Stevenson Mon
day night and lunched privately
with the candidate yesterday be-
fore flying on to Baltimore.
When Gov. Stevenson alighted
from his plane he was besieged
by a mob.
"If; get through this alive" he
said. "I'm sure I'll enjoy it. If I
don't get through it alive, I'll have
to stay here, I guess. In any case,
7 expect to enjoy it,"
Tydings at Airport.
/ Former Senator Millard E. Tyd-
ings, one of those in the reception
party at the airport, said, 81 think
itts b grand turnout. This was a
voluntary thing, you know"
On the way in to Baltimore, re-
porters estimated that between
$4,000 and 10000 people lined the
streets as the Stevenson motor
cade wended it's way downtown.
This was considered by Baltimore
newsmen to be small turnout.
One Snag was encountered at
the door of the Emerson Hotel
where Gov. Stevenson made his
headquarters. A group from the
Citizens for Eisenhower picketed
the hotel doorway.
Gov. Stevenson. however, kept
a smile as he passed through the
Eisenhower ''pickets" and entered
the hotel.
In the hotel a reception, by in
vitation, had been planned for
about 500 guests. Instead an esti-
mated 5000 showed up.
Later, a weary candidate called
q halt to the hand-shaking and
bedlam. Gov. Stevenson thanked
those who had honored him by
coming to the reception. Then
he begged off to get a few minutes
rest before he made his radio and
televised speech last night.
Evening star., 1952-09-24
St. MichoeI's PTA to Meet

st. Michael'ss P-TA viii hold its
first fall meeting at 8:15 pm.
Tuesday In the school auditorium,
Wayne avenue, Silver Suring.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-04-09
A Lost Art With A Silver Lining

designs and fabricates special chal-
ices as gifts for newly ordained
clerics. Commemoration plaques
and awards are hand-wrought at
Zapffe's. He has made silver skis,
an interesting novelty.
The process OF silver plating is
electrolytic in principle, and older
than you'd think, the books will
say well over hundred years, but
zapffe says it's older. 1t is
method of depositing silver metal,
upon base of lesser metal. A tank
containing alkaline solution of sill
yer is fed by a positive and mega
tive pole of an electric current. The
solution is he electric carrying
medium from pole to pole. With the
current, the alkaline eats away
suspended silver bars and the sill
yer is deposited on the articles
being plated in the tank. The pro-
cess takes about three hours.
Zapffe. whose son, Roald, died
unexpectedly some years ago. is
past president of the Norwegian
Commercial Club, Norwegian Male
Chorus in Seattle, and past secret
airy of Pacific Coast Norwekian
Singers. In the old days he APP
peared often in amateur plays.
Now approaching what he con-
siders the retirement age. the So
year-old silversmith lives quietly
with his wife, hailing from Eskil-
stuna. Sweden whom he met at a
night school in America.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-04-09
Swedish Trade
With L. s. More
Vital Than Ever
Saws Bohem an
Says Bohemian

Trade with the United States
is more vital to Sweden than
ever" the Swedish Ambassador,
Erik Bohemian, said in an address
at the forty-sixth annual lunch
con of the Swedish Chamber of
Commerce, which was held at the
Waldorf Astoria on March %. TT
is still true that many things can
be bought better and at lower
prices here than anywhere else,
if you have the necessary dollars.
AS it is our declared policy that
we should stand on our own feet.
these dollars can only be earned
by hard work, efficiency, intelli-
gence and craftsmanship" We
certainly have not always lived
up to the mark in all these re-
spects. the Ambassador admitted.
but greater efforts are being
made.
Alex ]. Pagel, president of the
New York import-eXport firm of
Pagel, Horton & Co., Inc. was
elected president of the Chamber.
succeeding Elon w. Ekman, chair
man of the Electrolux Corpora
ton. Mr.. Pagel was born in
Stockholm, Sweden, and came to
the United States in 1905.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-04-09

Left Haslund, SO, professor of
music at Forest Ridge Convent,
died last week at his home. 500
18th Av. NJ, of heart ailment.
Professor Haslund was a COM
poser of Norwegian songs, a num-
Der of which have been used by
concert singers. Some of his
songs have been published in
Norway. A number of Has
lunds songs and compositions
were presented at a special pro-
gram in the p l. auditorium
about two years ago. His home
was often the meeting place of
many Norwegian newcomers.
Professor Haslund born in
Oslo, studied music both in Nor
way and Berlin. He came to
Seattle in 1907 He had taught
piano at Forest Ridge since 1909.
Professor Haslund is survived
by his wife, Ruth; a daughter,
Crete Haslund. and son. Left B.
Haslund, both of Seattle, and a
brother in Norway.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-04-09
WELLINGT0N'S
BAKERY & CAFE

"When You Think of Food,
Think of Wellingtons'
Broadway 4 Market ABB. 156
Aberdeen
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-04-09

Seven scholarships for studies in
the USA, totaling $500, were
awarded at the annual meeting of
the Norway-America Association
in Oslo.