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Smyrna times., 1953-07-09
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
so YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, win call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-09

Too great refinement is false
delicacy, and true delicacy is solid
Smyrna times., 1953-07-09
BRANDYWINE OPENS SEPT. Z
Brandywine Raceway to Open For
2O-Night Meet Labor Day

ZU-NlgnG Meet LABOR Day
Brandywine Raceway, the ma
tion's newest pari-mutuel night
harness track, has appointed Joe
Blinline of Randallstown, Md,
one of the foremost mutuel experts
in the country, as mutuel manager
for the inaugural 20-night meet
which opens at the Brandywine
Raceway Labor Day, September Z,
it was announced by track Presi-
dent George T. Weymouth. The
track, well under construction, is
located at Naaman's Road and
Concord Pike on Route 202, just
six miles from Wilmington, and
only 20 miles from Camden, N. J.,
and Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-09
rehnement.-La Rochefoucauld.

Years to a mother bring distress
But to not make her love the less.
Wordsworth.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-09

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Evening star., 1953-10-25
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Evening star., 1953-05-05
.Hyattsvi||e Man
Convicted in Attack

Charles F. Miller. Is. Of the
1000 block of Gallatin street.
Hyattsville, Md. was convicted
of a rape charge in Fairfax Cir
cult Court yesterday.
Miller, who managed a Hy-
attSville lunchroom and played
bass fiddle in hillbilly bands, was
charged with assaulting a 26-
year-old Alexandria waitress in
a parked car near Mount Vernon
last January IL. The guilty ver-
dict was handed down by Judge
Arthur Sinclair, who heard the
case without a jury.
The victim is the mother Of
two children. She is separated
from her husband. She told the
court she met Miller at the Alex
andria restaurant where she
worked on the morning of jan
uary IL and offered to show him
the way to Hyattsville when she
overheard him ask q taxicab
driver for directions. She said
they drank some beer, then he
drove her to a lonely dirt road
near Munt Vernon and attacked
her.
The woman testified she ran
to the home of nearby resi-
dent, who drove her to the bus.
She said she went home and the
next day reported the attack to
police.
Judge Sinclair postponed sem
fencing to May IL. A rape con-
viction can carry the death PEN
atty in Virginia.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Probe Ordered
Into Nurseries
|nMontgonery
Council Directs
Inspection, Although
Control Is Limited

A thorough investigation Of
nurseries operating in Mont
gomery County was ordered to-
day by the County Council.
It will be made by A Morton
Thomas, jr.. director Of inspec-
tions and licenses.
The Councils action came
after Mr.. Thomas reported that
at present the county has no
specific building, fire and health
regulations covering nurseries.
Mr.. Thomas, however, ex-
planned that nursery schools.
which come under the educa-
tional institution classification in
the zoning ordinance. are regu-
lated.
"Some babies in the unregu-
lated nurseries are not as we'll
kept as are our dogs and CATS"
he asserted.
The director of inspection esti-
mated that there probably are
about 100 such nurseries operat-
ing in the county.
Mr.. Thomas cited one case re-
ported to police last month in
wich a 6-month-old baby was
taken from nursery to a Dis
trict hospital, where it died Of
pneumonia. He said the baby
had been kept in a cardboard
carton on the floor of the nurs-
cry.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Darnestown School
Plea Is Considered

The Montgomery County Board
of Education last night promised
to consider the plea of a 25-
member delegation from Darnes-
town for high priority on their
projected six-classroom school.
Russell Roberts, spokesman,
told school board members that
the school is presently housed in
a three-room building with only
two rooms suitable for classroom
use. The school was built in
1869. Supt. Edwin w. Broome
attended it as a boy.
Mr.. Roberts said the COM
munity would have no difficulty
In filling a 12-room school.
The board also:
Renewed its contract with
Pilot Life Insurance Co. for pupil
liability coverage at an increase
from 81 to $1.25 per pupil in
surance cost, to be paid by par
ents who want it. The new con-
tract provides added benefits.
Signed a contract with the
District Of Columbia's Depart
ment of Public Welfare for pay
ment by the District Of $116 per
elementary pupil for wards of
the Department of Welfare in
foster homes in the county this
year.
Moved to open negotiations
with the Maryland State De-
partment of Education which set
the $116 welfare ward figure to
bring the payment up to the
actual education expense which
this year was 1927 per pupil.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Officer jailed in Turkey
Keeps Jump Ahead of U.S..

Aif Force Warrant Officer Ken
meth E. Robertson, who is ac-
cused Of making more than $685.
900 by exchanging American
money on the Turkish black
market, apparently is still one
jump ahead Of the Government
when it comes to finances.
A new attachment case was
filed by the Government yes
terday in Fairfax Circuit Court
against the officers Virginia
holdings.
But Roberson's attorneys say
the bank account named by the
Government no longer exists.
The money was withdrawn some
time between the dismissal Of
the Governments first attach
ment case Friday and filing Of
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Takoma Park LEAGUE
Elects Curtis President

Stephen L. c. Curtis, a resident
of Takoma Park for 18 years.
was elected president of the
Community League of Takoma
Park last night. He succeeds
Luke J. Bennett, jr.. president
for seven years.
Other elected officers include
Mrs. Philip w. Woods, vice presi-
dent; c. A. Railey, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Mildred Burr.
recording secretary; Alfred s.
Holyoke, treasurer; Mr.. Curtis,
Walter Prichard and Herbert
Smith, delegates to the Mont
gomery County Civic Federation.
and Col. William M. Dixon, Mr..
Railey and j. Henry Bison, al
ternates.
Mr.. Smith was appointed
chairman of a committee to
make a study of the widening
of Carroll avenue. Mr.. Curtis
was selected to head a commit
tee to consider the 1953-54 city
budget and submit recommends
tions to the league.
The meeting was held in the
Municipal Building.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
HyuttsviIIe Stations New Roof
Reflects Rail Style Changes

The Hyattsville railroad sta
ton, built in 1884, is getting a
new roof.
The landmarks former top
piece was a. high-pitched job.
with doodads on it and a tower
completing what was considered
back in the '80s to be the last
word in depot fashions.
Railroad styles have changed
in other ways, too.
M. F. Murphy, the Hyattsville
agent for the B. & o., discovered
some papers yesterday in the
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Latimer Named Chairman
Of General Hospital Board

Thomas E. Latimer, president
of the Prince Georges County
Commission, has been installed
as chairman of the new Prince
Georges General Hospital Board.
Six other members of the board.
which the Maryland General
Assembly reduced in size from
18 to nine members. also have
assumed their duties.
Board members appointed by
the County Commissioners were
Mr. Latimer. John A. Scheibel
Of Camp Springs. ]. Russell
Jones of Laurel. G. Carville
Bowen Of University Park and
E. j. Taylor Of Berwyn Heights.
Mrs. Charles Kellogg Of
Hyattsville was appointed by the
Ladies' Guild of the hospital and
DR.. Waldo Meyers Of Mount
Rainier was named by the medi-
cal staff of the hospital.
The two remaining members
will be appointed by the Prince
Georges County Medical Society.
The society was to decide on
selections at a meeting today.
Evening star., 1953-05-05

the new one yesterday after
noon, they said.
The original attachment case
was dismissed Friday after Rob-
erson'S attorney, r. j. Lillard,
protested that the Government
was attempting to introduce tes-
timony of an Air Force investiga-
tor who got his information Sec
ond hand.
Like the old attachment, the
new one also is against a house
at 1885 Poplar drive. Falls
Church, which the Government
says Robertson bought in some
one elSe'S name.
Robertson currently is serving
time in a Turkish prison for vio-
lating Turkish black market
laws. RoberSon'S wife lives at
the Willston Apartments in Fair
fax County.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Homewood Unit Hits
Absence Of Official

Irate members Of the Home
wood Citizens Association in
Montgomery County have voted
to protest to Gov. McKeldin the
absence of a member of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission from a meeting last
night.
The association president, Ger
hard Meyer, said the meeting in
the Capitol View Homewood
Recreation Center had been
called to discuss increases in
sewer and trash collection rates
recently announced by the COM
mission.
Mr.. Meyer said he had sent a
letter and a telegram to the
commissioners, inviting one of
them to the meeting, and had
also telephoned yesterday. The
written communications were
ignored, he said, and he charged
he was given "the run-around"
by the secretary he talked with
by phone.
Today. a commission spokes-
man, informed of the associa-
tion's action, commented on it
and then said, Don't quote me" "
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Taxpayers Group
Praises Slash in
Budget

The Montgomery County Tax
payers Association, Inc, took
credit last night for the SPAR
tan budget" proposed recently by
retiring County Manager Irv-
ing G. McNayr.
Speaking before the Bethesda
Chamber of Commerce, Morris
Allen. professional consultant to
the association, said the year.
old group has brought pressure
to bear on the county manager
and the county council to stem
the tide of rising county gov
ernment costs. The association
worked through eight county,
wide organizations to exert this
pressure, he said.
The associations main objec-
tive now. he said. is to see that
the county council sticks to its
"hold the line" policy.
Asked how the taxpayers as
sociation would meet the cost of
providing schools for an ever
increasing population, Mr.. Allen
recommended:
/. Cutting to the bone the
present so per cent non-class-
room space provided in school
buildings.
2. Increasing the present stu
dent load per teacher, now IS in
elementary and 81 in high school.
3. Standardization of school
buildings to eliminate architects
fees.
If the national administration
continues to cut Government
employment, Mr.. Allen stated,
Montgomery County might well
be faced with a declining popu-
lation to share an enormous tax
Evening star., 1953-05-05
1852 tobacco Crops
Are Placed on Sale
Al Maryland Marts
By J. L. Michael

Auction sales of Maryland
1852 tobacco crops started today
with farmers and buyers ma
neuvering cautiously.
Warehouses in Charles and
Prince Georges Counties were
only partly filled when the auc-
tioneers chant brought first bids
ranging from 70 cents a pound
for bright leaf to Z cents for low
grade tips.
Warehousemen bought a few
baskets at 70 to rs cents.
Growers apparently decided to
bring only small amounts of the
81 grades of type 80 leaf to mar
ket until the price range has
become established.
Low Grades Neglected.
Bidding at the Marlboro To-
bacco Market and at Eden Bros,
where sales began in Upper
Marlboro, was liStless at the
opening. Buyers bid up to SO
cents for top grades, but showed
little interest in the medium and
low grades.
There were few reflections,
however. Farmers expressed
themselves as fairly we'll salts
fed with top prices paid, but
were dubious about what the
low grades will bring. Most of
the latter were purchased by
warehouses.
Tobaccomen said the first hour
of the auction indicated that the
best grades will bring as much
or few cents more than last
years 68 to 72 cents top. But
they were unwilling to predict
what will happen to the price
range for the low and medium
offerings.
Crop Regarded as Inferior.
The 1851 crop sold last year
averaged 44.9 cents a pound, but
last years harvest was generally
regarded of inferior quality and
the five-county area is apprehen-
Sive that the average may fall
to 20 cents or lower this season.
The crop now on sale is being
marketed without Federal price
supports, as was the case last
year, when prices dropped to
about 10 cents a pound below
the average that would have
been recorded if the Federal pro-
gram had been in effect.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Bethesda Library Trustees
Awarded Kuhn Memorial Gun

The board of trustees of the
Bethesda Public Library Asso-
citation received the Oliver Owen
Kuhn Memorial Cup last night
in recognition of it's efforts to
provide a library building for the
Bethesda area.
Donated by The Evening Star,
the cup is awarded annually by
the Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce to an individual or group
making an outstanding physical
improvement to the community.
Using tax funds set aside over
a period of years. the board of
trustees last year matched a
contribution by the county coun-
Gil to make possible construction
Of a $4,000 library building on
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Flower Gardens
Visited by VondoIs
In Silver Spring

Montgomery County police are
wondering who is responsible for
a recent wave of wanton flower
destruction in Silver Spring.
Tulips-some of them of a new
and rare variety-peonies, prim-
roses and wisteria were reported
destroyed in several night raids
on Sligo avenue homes last week.
Mrs. Jack ISeli, member of
the Silver Spring Garden, report
ed about $50 worth of flowers
were hacked off in her garden.
She lives at COS Sligo avenue.
Her losses and those of nearby
neighbors were estimated at
nearly 5000. In all cases, the
blooms were slashed.
Evening star., 1953-05-05

Moorland lane. The building
was then taken over by the
council as a part of the county
library system.
Rudolph Kaufman II. assist
ant to the managing editor of
The Star, made the presentation
to John c. Reid. president of the
board of trustees. Mr.. Kauff-
mann said the library had been
described by prominent librari-
ans as 'one of the finest branch
libraries to be seen in the United
States"
Mr.. Reid declared the library
is a tribute to the people of
Bethesda who allowed them
selves to be taxed over the years
to pay for it.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Board 10 Confer
With Luindberq
On Budget
Arlington to Act
Monday on Adoption
OF 1884 Figures

Another budget session is
scheduled by the Arlington
County Board tonight. this one
a conference at the Courthouse
with County Manager A. T.
Lundberg.
Robert A. Peck, board chair
man, said other board confer
ences, including another session
with the, School Board, will be
held before the County Board
meets at 8 pm. Monday at the
Courthouse.
At the Monday meeting the
board Is scheduled to take final
action on the proposed Sill mil
lion budget and set tax rates for
1y53-54.
School Cut Is Topic.
Mr.. Peck said that in a board
conference with School Board
members last, night. the School
Board was assured that a $70O.-
900 cut recommended by a COM
mittee will not be given blanket
Endorsement.
Bernard Joy, school board
chairman, said the County Board
was given a detailed explana-
ton of the effect of the cut rec
commended by the committee.
Copies of the report, showing
the School Boards prediction of
the effect ON each of the county's
A schools, are available at the
board Offices, 1923 North Quincy
street.
"The good schools platform
on which all five members of the
County Board were elected was
interpreted by most people to
mean a school program at least
as good as that which we now
have" Mr.. Joy said. This is
not the Interpretation of the
County Boards committee that
has recommended a sharply cur
tailed program" he added.
No Added Hearings.
Mr.. Peck said County Board
members again declined, how
ever, to schedule more public
hearings on the budget.
Another hearing was urged
after the boards interim Budget
Committee of seven citizens pro-
posed reducing the school budget,
including giving teachers a $100
salary increase instead of the
$500 recommended by the School
Board.
The hearing had been asked
by the School Board, the County
Civic Federation. and the County
Council Of Parent TEACHER Asso-
Citations.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Officials Are Named
By Four Localities in
Montgomery County

Local officials were elected
yesterday in four Montgomery
County communities.
Three of the communities
Garrett Park, Somerset and
Barnesville - are incorporated
areas. The fourth, Drummond,
is a special taxing area, near
Chevy Chase.
The results follow:
GARRETT PARK-Stanley B.
Woodwell, former town clerk,
with lis votes, and Incumbent
Charles A. Freer, with 104, won
out over Edward Friedman for
two-year terms on the Town
Council. Mr.. Friedman received
81 votes.
GAINESVILLE - Using the
write-in system, voters here
picked two incumbent commits
sioners. Mark P. Jeffers and Mrs.
Cecilia Hershberger and named
Spencer Fisher to succeed Albert
Easter. who declined to run. Mr..
Jeffers polled IL votes, Mrs.
Hershberger, 9, and Mr.. Fisher,
6. Their terms will run for a
year.
SOMERSET-Dr. r. E. Gibson,
an incumbent with n and F. M.
Thunley, with 63, led a field of
four for two council seats. The
losers were Jesse Weinstein, with
50; David Reich, 81 and John B.
Brady, a write-in, who received
2 votes. The winners will serve
two year terms.
DRUMMOND-Three commit
teemen were named for one-year
terms but their vote tallies were
not announced. They were James
B. Carry and Edward w. CASH
man, incumbentS and Rear Ad-
miral James E. Arnold, retired.
Admiral Arnold replaces j. Will
liam Stohlman., committee chair
man who had served on the COM
mittee for some IS years. Mr..
Carry currently is the committee
treasurer and Mr.. eastman, Sec
retary.
Evening star., 1953-05-05

attic while workmen were tear
ing of the roof.
Among them was a manifest
dated November "a. 1885.
It was for a shipment from
the District to HyattSville and
included such, items as a stove
and a bundle Of pipe: freight
charge, Is cents.
Another Washington Hyatts-
vile manifest listed 2,340 pounds
Of freight and the total bill was
SILT.
"It costs more than that to
take q taxi out here now" Mr..
Murphy said.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Nauck Group 70 Check
Iax-Pdid Registrations

The Nauck Citizens Associa-
ton Of Arlington last night de-
cided to make a door door
campaign to locate citizens who
have paid the poll tax but have
not registered.
Meeting in the home Of L. F..
Parker, 1924 South Eighteenth
street, the colored association
also decided:
To give $50 and $25 scholar
ships to the valedictorian and
the salutatorian of the June
class at Hoffman-Boston High
School.
To request more street lights
in the Nauck area.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Greenbe|tPo
Free Of Negligence
In Murder Case

The Greenbelt City Council
last night found its chief of
police and a police lieutenant
free of ANY negligence" in con-
nection with the investigation of
a murder suicide trgaedy last
week, which left a 6-year-old
boy without parents.
The bodies of Mrs. Louise
Ritter D'Amico, q, and her hus-
band Vincenzo, 33. were found
in their Parkway road apartment
about 6:15 pm. Wednesday, four
hours after the boys grand
mother. Mrs. Charles A. Ritter,
81, first told police officials
something is terribly wrong at
my daughters house"
Prince Georges County Medi-
cal Examiner DR. John T. Ma
loney issued a certificate Of mur-
der in Mrs. D'Amico's death and
a suicide certificate for her hus-
band. Both had been shot.
Mayor Orders Inquiry.
An. investigation of the case
was ordered by Mayor Francis j.
Lastner last Thursday, after the
dead woman's parents charged
that 1t. Albert S. Attick and
Police Chief George eanagoulis
refused early in the afternoon to
enter the couples apartment be-
cause they didn't have a war
rant.
According to her father, Mrs.
D'Amico left her husband about
a month ago and returned to
Greenbelt from Canastota, N. Y,
where they had lived.
The council held last night
that the stand taken by the two
police officers was justified since
Mrs. Ritter's pleas indicated the
trouble to be only a routine fam
lily quarrel"
The meeting was attended by
the dead woman's parents. The
police officers were not present.
Mr.. Ritter, a Government
Printing Office employe, told the
council his wife first sought po-
lice aid when their grandson,
Jimmie, came to their apartment
at 6-P Hillside road about 2:30
pm. and said he'd been sent out
to buy a loaf of bread but could
get no answer when he got back
home.
Together they went to the
D'Amico apartment. They were
unable to gain entrance, but
where Mrs. Ritter told the coun-
Gil she heard several moans."
Chiefs Statement Read.
An off f-duty clerk at the police
station summoned 1t. Attick,
who told Mrs. Ritter he couldn't
break into the apartment with
out a warrant. Calls to Chief
Panagoulis brought the same
answer, according to statements
signed by the two officers and
read at the meeting.
Mr.. Ritter told the council,
"Mr. Panagoulis finally agreed
to send Pvt. James Williams to
open the door, but not until I
got home about 6 o'clock and
said I'd be responsible"
The police can't be expected
to enter homes without war
rants" City Manager Charles
Macdonald said last night, par
ticularly If they have no idea
that the matter is really impor-
tant. Mrs. Ritter just didn't
make herself clear-probably
because she was too excited.
Therefore, we can't see where
the officers were negligent"
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Moose Name De Vries
AS Man Of the Year

Montgomery County Police
Corpl. William DeVries was
named Silver Spring (Md)
''man of the year" last night
by the Silver Spring Lodge, 10y
al Order of Moose.
Corpl. DeVries was honored
at a dinner at Stone House Inn
where he was presented a. ci-
tation by Jack Cliber, governor
of the lodge.
The popular Silver Spring Of
f1cer was hailed for his work
as school safety patrol oc-ordi-
nator in the area. He received
a similar honor last year.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Bethesda School Sets
Registration DuY

Kindergarten registration win
be held on Thursday at the
Bradley High School, Brice
drive. Bethesda.
Applications will be accepted
for children who will be 5 by
December 81. Health reports
and birth certificates will be
necessary for registration.
Evening star., 1953-05-05
Dr.. Broome's Successor
To Be Announced Today

Appointment of a new Mont
gomery County superintendent
of schools was to be announced
at a meeting of the Board Of
Education this afternoon.
The new superintendent will
succeed DR.. Edwin w. Broome.
who held the post for SO years.
Selection of DR.. Broome's sue
cessor was made about two weeks
ago but announcement was de-
ferred because of farewell cere-
monies for DR.. Broome.