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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-04-15

sure until next week.
Constitutional Amendments. and
Redistricting
Despite the argument on Thurs
day that this General Assembly
was proposing too many changes
to the state constitution, the Sen
ate was able to muster. although
just barely, the 3/5 majority ne
ceSSary to pass on second reading
two companion measures (Sug-
geSted by Lieut.. Gov. Hodges)
which would eliminate Saturday
sessions of the legislature if APP
proved by the people. Although
one of the bills failed TO pass third
reading on Friday when several
senators were not on the floor,
the vote was subsequently, recon-
Sldcrcd and both bills will be up
again for passage next Tuesday.
On the House side of the capitol.
HE 262. proposing annual sessions
OF the General Assembly. was less
successful and failed to pass third
reading by a slender margin.
Highways and Highway Safety
The well-organized effort to
raise truck axle weight limits met
dedicated opposition in the House
and the bill passed only after
belng rewritten to allow a weight
tolerance not much more than that
already permitted at highway
weighing stations. Meanwhile.
House Judiciary labored over
driver financial responsibility and
how to curb speeding and reckless
driving. Favorable action is cx-
pected for the measure which
would encourage more drivers 10
secure liability insurance. AT the
same time, HB l43. which calls
for mandatory driver license sus-
pensions for certain speeding and
reckless driving violations. was re-
written 10 excuse motorists whose
licenses have been suspended I'M
der the bill from proving financial
responsibility on reinsurance of
their licenses and TO reduce sus-
pension periods. II is now on the
House calendar.
COLUMBUS COUNTY
HB 652 - Introduced by TAYLOR
of Boucombe, Young and Jordan.
Mar. D (Authorizing special pur-
pose taxes Apr. 6. received in
Senate; sent to Finance.
HB 1853 - introduced by Flovd.
Mar. l8 Municipal utility assist
ance appropriation Apr. 9, passed
House: Apr. 10, received in Senate.
sent to Counties, Cities and Towns
lib goo - Introduced by Floyd,
Mar. 25 County and Whiteville
education board Apr. 8. ratified.
lib 1868 - Introduced by Floyd,
Mar. 25 (Whiteville mayor cleo
tom Apr. 8, ratified.
HB llO8 - Introduced by Floyd.
Apr. 8 ITO prohibit fishing in
Lake Waccamaw in Columbus CO.
unity at night makes it a mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine or
imprisonment or both, in discre-
ton of court, to take or attempt to
take fish in or from Lake Wacca-
nav in Columbus County between
900 p. m. and 500 a. m.) To Wild
life Resources.
HB l155 -- Introduced by Floyd,
Apr. 10 To appoint b. B. Court
noy as justice OF the peace in Co.
lumbus County and. TO validate
certain acts performed by him
under color of his office" CAS-
title indicates: appointment is for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Signs 10 Be Posted
Al Districts Quarry

A DiStrict-owned quarry, ad-
jacent to the swimming hole on
the property of o. w. Anderson
of Dickerson, Md, will be posted
with mo treSpassing" signs.
James L. McCallister, admins
trative services officer of the
District, said today the District
Commissioners had empowered
him to issue this order.
Mr.. McCallister said recent
newspaper articles had called
attention to the Anderson quarry
where many people were swim
ming on week ends. He pointed
out the District also owns a
water-fllle quarry next to Mr..
Anderson's. He said legal coun-
sci had advised him the prop
erty should be posted to protect
the District from liability in
the event of an accident.
Mr.. Anderson said he still has
no intention of placing mo tres
passing" signs around his prop
erty.
The District government
bought the QUAR- yin 1898 and
until 1924 used it's stone for
road ballast. Mr.. McCallister
said it had not been inspected
in three years and he intended
to make an inspection soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28

He has been honorary chairman
since then.
DR.. Mott also played leading
role in the founding of the World
Council of Churches and has
been one of the five honorary
presidents Of it's council since
1948. He is the only layman who
has been so honored.
Holds Many Decorations.
The church leader has received
many honors and decorations
through the years. These in
clude the United States Distin-
guished Service Medal. the
French Legion of Honor (Cheva-
lier). the Prince Carl Medal of
Sweden, the Order of Jade of
China and the Imperial Order
of the Sacred Treasure of Japan.
He has also been decorated by
Estonia, Finland, Poland, Portu-
gal, Thailand and Hungary for
his achievements.
DR.. Mott was graduated from
Cornell University in 1888. He
has had honorary degrees be-
slowed on him by Yale. Edin-
burgh, Princeton, Brown and
Toronto Universities.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa
Fraternity, DR.. Mott is a fellow
of the Royal Geographic Society
and of the Yale, Princeton and
Cornell Clubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
District Heads 10 Try
New Curb on Cabbies

The Commissioners are going
to make another try at adopting
a regulation to prevent taxicab
drivers from soliciting passengers
at Union Station and the bus
stations for out-of-town trips.
The practice of some cab driv-
ers is to solicit prospective train
and bus pasengers-particularly
groups of servicemen return
ing to nearby installations. The
bus stations, Union Station and
the city officials don't like the
practice.
A hearing has been set for
August II at the District Build
ing.
An old regulation was out
lawed by the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia in
April as unconstitutional.
Robert Kneipp, assistant ccr-
poration counsel and chairman
of the Commissioners Regula-
tons Committee, has drawn up
a new regulation he feels win
meet the courts objections. It's
purpose is the same as the old
regulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Mrs. McCane 10 Head
Barrett Girls School

Mrs. Charles McCane, former
superintendent of the National
Training School for Girls here,
has been named superintendent
of the Barrett School for Girls
at Glen Burnie, Md.
The school she will head is a
State institution for dependent
and delinquent colored girls,
under the supervision of the
Maryland Department of Public
Welfare. 1t has a staff of 43
and houses about 80 girls.
Mrs. McCane said the institu-
ton has fine facilities as we'll as
the services of a psychiatrist
and psychologist.
Mrs. McCane had headed the
National Training School for
Girls for a year when it was
merged with che Industrial Home
School for Colored Children at
Blue Plains last April and she
became assistant superintendent
of the combined institution.
She resigned July / with a
critical letter charging "repres-
sive and harsh" disciplinary
measures. The charges were
denied by welfare authorities.
Mrs. McCane lives at 1907
Irving street NE. Her husband
is a physics professor at Miner
Teachers College. She is a
Radcliffe College graduate with
a masters degree from Catholic
University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Pay Raise Puts Bite
On Police as Well
As Public, 1t Seems

The regulation which says that
only men with good teeth can
join the police force. has a real
bite in it now, due to the recent
pay raise.
Chief Robert v. Murray in
formed the Commissioners today
that better pay means his force
can be brought up to strength
without waving any of the phys
ical requirements.
Chief Murray recommended
that the applications of two men
be turned down because of par
tial dentures. although the chief
of the Board of Police and Fire
Surgeons had suggested the re-
quirement be waived in one Of
the cases.
The Commissioners agreed
with Chief Murray-for the time
being, at any rate.
Former Commissioner F. Jo-
seph Donohue protested against
the regulation in the past. He re-
marked that plenty of veterans
on the force had no natural
teeth left whatever, and further
more:
I'VE don't expect them to go
out and bite somebody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Prince Georges Lists
18th Polio Case as
Girl, ;, Is Stricken

Prince Georges County re-
ported it's 18th case of polio
today.
Health officials said a 3-year-
old girl of the 1900 block of
Spring street, Suitland, was
stricken with THE disease on
July "a. She has been taken
to- Children's Hospital.
Montgomery County reported
four new cases yesterday, bring
ing the county's toll to Is, COM
pared with one at this time last
year.
The District also reported two
new cases for a total of II.
Fourteen had been recorded at
this time last year.
Montgomery County, hardest
hit of any area, reported polio
struck two sisters living in the
1000 block of Blueridge avenue,
Wheaton, Md. One sister, %,
has been taken to Baltimore City
Hospitals. The other, 10, was
treated and released from Gar
field Hospital.
The two other cases include a
40-year-old man who has been
taken to the Bethesda Naval
Hospital. He is a resident of
Route /, Silver Spring. Also a
4-year-old boy of the 10000
block of Grandview avenue, Sill
yer Spring. He has been taken
to Children's Hospital. Both
cases were said to be nom
paralytic.
The Districts new cases in
clude a 4-year-old boy of the
1900 block of Wyoming avenue
NV. and a 10-year-old boy of
the 100 block of Webster street
NV. Both boys have been ad-
United to Children's Hospital. "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28

the appointment of a permanent
director.
The director of the new de-
partment will have charge of
the centralized licensing and in
spection activities of the District
government, with the exception
of the health departments en-
cheering and food supervision
functions and traffic licenses and
permits.
Health Units Merge.
The present bureaus of public
health engineering and food in
Spection are being merged into
a bureau of food and public
health engineering to remain in
the Health Department.
The new inspection depart
ment will include, however, the
present department of inspection,
the department of weights, meas
ures and markets, the license bu-
reau, the board for condemnation
of dangerous and unsafe build
ings, the license board, the Ii
cense committee, the central per-
NIT bureau and board of special
appeals.
Schuyler Lowe, director of the
Department of General Admins
tration. said he had no indica-
ton as to when a permanent
director would be appointed.
Months Before 1t Works.
Col. Evans, however, will be-
gin laying the ground work. The
new department is created as Of
August Is, but it is expected to
take months to get it actually set
up and running.
Mr.. Lowe estimated it would
take six months or more before
even the first tangible benefits
begin to be apparent"
He pointed out that ultimately
it would require almost complete
rewriting of the regulations par
ticularly those having to do
with intermingling responsible
ties with other departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Butler Works on New
Plan 10 Get Funds
For Peace Cross
By Harold B. Rogers

Senator Butler, Republican, of
Maryland said today he is
working on something else" in
an effort to get Federal funds to
start construction on the Peace
Cross f1ood-control project.
He declined to explain what
his new prospect was. But the
lawmaker declared he had not
given up hope, despite failure
of Marylanders to get funds into
two different appropriation bills.
Sums Refused.
Latest rejection of the Mary
land plea for Federal money to
release funds Maryland's legis-
lature had authorized for Peace
Cross at Bladensburg came last
night. The Senate Appropria-
lions Committee refused to in
sert sums of any size in the
pending supplemental supply bill.
It carries funds for several agen-
cies, and probably will be the
last appropriation catch-all bill
of this session.
Maryland's two Republican
Senators and Representative
Small. whose congressional dis
trict includes Bladensburg, had
hoped for money in the supple
mental measure. Senator Butler
recently had written letters to
Budget Director Dodge and to
Chairman Bridges of the Sem
ate Appropriations Committee,
stressing the dire need of Bla-
densburg for relief from recur-
rent floods.
100000 Asked.
Earlier, the Senate had put
into the Civil Functions Appro-
priations bill 100000 to help
release the Maryland money for
the job designed by the Army
Engineers. The House previously
had refused to include any funds
for the purpose. and in House.
Senate conference in the meas
ure, the Senate amendment was
stricken.
Senator Beall said last night
he favors waiting for the Federal
appropriation in the next session
of Congress rather than to begin
the job in a piecemeal manner.
He apparently was referring to
the decision Of Maryland's Gov.
McKeldin to start the State
Roads Commission work to raise
the level of roads at Peace Cross.
Some opposition has been raised
in different quarters to raising
the roads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Insurance Agent, S.,
Fights off HoIdup Men

A Washington life insurance
agent fought off two youths yes
terday in an attempted holdup
at 1923 Third street NE, it was
reported to police.
Harold Callahan. SIS, of 1910
Twelfth street NV, told police
the two colored youths ap-
preached him while he was
walking down hallway at the
Third street address and ordered
him to hand over the money
bag"
He said one of them struck
him on the head with a rubber
hose when he refused. Mr.. CAL
lahan said he then knocked
down the second youth and both
fled south on Third street.
Mr. Callahan, an agent for the
Atlantic Life Insurance Co., re-
ported there were two other
youths waiting outside the build
ing who also escaped on foot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Plunge From Bridge
Breaks Nurses Lea

A nurse plunged from the Call
vert Street Bridge early today
but only broke her right leg in
the fall from the west end of the
span.
She was identified as Miss
Anne Carol Harrelle, 81, of 1725
New Hampshire avenue NV.
Detective Sergt. Lionel Cou-
ture said the bank slopes away
from the bridge at the spot
where the woman fell. She &C
tually dropped only about As
feet to soft earth and rolled
another 40 feet down the bank
almost to the road below.
Several persons saw her climb
the railing and drop, Sergt. Cou-
ture said.
The detective said the woman
would not say much about what
happened. She said she was a
nurse employed in doctors Of
flee and had been having diff
culties with a boy friend.
At Gallinger Hospital, her con-
dition was described as good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Stowe School PTA
Asks Board TO Uphold
Transfer Of Noyes

The Slowe Elementary School
nt-Teacher Association to-
day told the Board of Education
opponents of the transfer of
the Noyes School to colored pu-
pills had failed to present any
new facts in the case.
The PTA presented its views
in a letter to c. Melvin Sharpe,
president of the School Board.
The Noyes School was trans
ferred in June specifically to
relieve overcrowding at Slowe.
Since then, parents of Noyes
students asked the School Board
to reconsider the decision.
Still Before Board.
The request is still before the
School Board.
Noyes parents contended in
their request for a restudy that
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
and the School Board had acted
hastily and arbitrarily.
The Slowe group, in the latter,
declared:
1.-THE fact remains that the
Moves group neither presented
new facts nor showed the sup
erintendent's recommendation
for transfer to be enormously
based. It follows that the Board
has no legitimate basis on which
to consider a rehearing."
Objected to Hearing.
The Slowe PTA also objected
to the school board hearing the
Noyes people on July II without
notifying the Slowe group that
the meeting was to be held. On
that date the school board held
a special meeting to hear Noyes'
representatives ask for reconsid-
Grafton.
George o. Butler, president of
the Slowe PTA, said he first
learned about the meeting when
he read in newspapers that it
had been held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Newsboys Enlist in Drive
To Keep Streets Clean

Newspaper carrier boys and
route agents have been enlisted
in the campaign to keep the
streets of Washington free from
waste paper.
william A. Xanten, Superin-
tendent of the Division Of SAM
tation, said today he has seen a
vast improvement" in the
streets surrounding places where
route agents distribute news
papers to carrier boys. and the
route agents have assured him
that the improvement will con-
tinue.
Mr.. Xanten said he first took
up the matter with the circula-
ton managers of the different
newspapers here and they PROM
Used to assist. Then he had in
spectors go to the distributing
points and talk to the route men
and carriers and they all prom
ised to assist him in keeping
papers of the streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
John r. Mott, Nobel Winner,
Weds Miss Agnes Peter Here
Churchmon Murries
Descendant of
Martha Washington

DR.. John r. Mott, 88-year-old
church leader and Nobel Peace
Prize winner in 1916, was mar
ried today to Miss Agnes Peter,
70. and a direct descendant of
Martha Washington, in Tudor
Place, Thirty-f1rst and @ streets
NV.
The bride is a member of one
Of Washington's oldest and most
distinguished families. She is
the great = great = great grand
daughter of Martha Custis
Washington, wife of George
Washington.
Tudor Place, now owned by
Miss Peters brother, Armistead
Peter, jr., was built in the early
1905 by Thomas Peter and his
wife, Martha Gusts.
The ceremony, performed by
the Rev. John R. Absolute, rec
tor of Christ Episcopal Church,
Georgetown, took place in the
same drawing room of historic
Tudor Place where Miss Peters
grandmother was married to
Commodore Beverley Kennon,
U. S. NJ, and where her mother
was married to DR.. Armistead
Peter, who was her cousin.
DR.. Mott is internationally
known as a religious leader and
promoter of international under
standing.
Served World YMCA.
He served many years as gen.
eral secretary of both the Ma
tional Council and the Interna-
tional Committee of the Young
Mems Christian Associations.
Since 1926 he has been honorary
life president of the worlds COM
mittee and the worlds alliance
of the YMCAs.
DR.. Mott helped organize the
Worlds Student Christian Fed
Grafton in 1895, serving as it's
general secretary until 1920 and
as it's chairman until 1923.
In 1910 he took a leading part
in founding the International
Missionary Council, comprising
800 missionary societies, and
served as it's chairman until 1912.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
.HouseGroup
Urges U. 5. Pay
For 0verpass
Agrees D. c. Won't
Be Charged for
Parkway Link

A House Public Works sub
committee today took steps to
guarantee the District taxpayer
does not pay for construction of
an overpass to connect New
York avenue with the Washing
ton-Baltimore parkway.
The subcommittee reported
out bill authorizing not more
than $475, 900 be taken from the
Federal Treasury and given to
the District for construction of
the oVerpaSs. The full Public
Works Committee will consider
the bill tomorrow.
Connects With Parkway.
The overpass will carry New
York avenue across railroad
tracks to connect with the park
way after it comes out of Ana
costa Park. The parkway is
part of the Federal highway
system. The District govern
ment favored the bill only if
Federal funds were authorized.
The subcommittee, headed by
Representative McGregor, Re-
publican. of Ohio, agreed the
Federal Government should pay
for it.
The bill was amended to state
specifically that the Federal
funds will not be charged to the
District budget. The amend
ment also would prevent the
funds being taken from the
normal Federal grants toward
highway construction in the
city.
Cut From SIS Million.
The bill, sponsored by Repre-
sentative Fallon, Democrat, of
Maryland, originally called for
SIS million. The subcommittee
set the lower figure of $475 900.
A subcommittee aide said that
sum would cover the actual con-
struction of the overpaSs. The
original estimate of SIS million
included approaches which would
be covered in other appropria-
tionS, he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Squadron 10 Hear Head
Of Air Force Association

Arthur F. Kelly, president of
the Air Force Association, will
address a meeting and precon-
vention rally of the Capital
Squadron of the Air Force Asso-
citation at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in
the Hotel Statler.
Harold c. Stuart, chairman
of AFA's board of directors, and
other key organization officials
will discuss plans for the seventh
annual national convention and
reunion. It also will be held in
the Statler. from August 20 to %.
A color film Target: Ne
vada," will be shown during the
meeting tomorrow. It pictures
the atom bomb blasts and the
role of the Air Force in the tests.
Also on the agenda is the cleo
ton of Capital Squadron officers
for the coming year, to replace
temporary appointees now hold
ing Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
300 Tenants Receive
Eviction Notices in
Rent Raise Move

Eviction notices have been
served to the nearly 800 tenants
of the Chalfonte Apartments
1901 Argonne place NV, as a
prelude to an opportunity
offered by the landlord for them
to sign new leases at a higher
monthly rent.
That was disclosed today by
tenants. who said they had re-
ceived notices by mail notifying
them that the owner desired to
repoSsesS the apartments.
Notices received by tenants
were as follows:
Being DESTROYS to have again
and repossesS the premises, the
Chalfonte Apartments, 1901 Ar
gonne place NV. in the City
of Washington, District of CO.
lumbia, which you now hold as
a tenant, you are hereby given
notice to remove from and to
suit the same at the expiration
of the current term ending next
after 80 days from the date of
service of this notice. This no
tice expires September /, 1853.
Accordingly. your lease is termi-
mated as of September /, 1853"
Stapled to the notice was a
mimeographed note which said:
Within the next few days,
you will be offered an oppor-
tunity to enter into an agree
ment to create a new tenancy"
Signed for Owners.
The notices were signed for
Irving D. Goldwyn and Samuel
Ritter, trading as the Chalfonte
Apartments, 1441 Broadway,
New York City, by Elizabeth L.
Saxton, resident manager.
Mrs. Saxton said the owners
did not wish to evict tenants,
and were "only doing what all
the other landlords are doing"
She said there was mo news
in this, and declined to disclose
the text of the eviction notice.
Reached in New York, Mr..
Goldwyn said: "All the tenants
received was the usual notice of
termination, together with an
other notice advising them that
they would be offered a new
lease at a new increased rent.
It's as simple as that"
A check with the Rent Con-
troll Administration revealed
that serving of an eviction no.
t1ce as a preliminary to a srent
increase is procedure that is
more formal" than most land
lords have been employing, but
that such a notice is proper
and legal"
Notice Is Required.
Actually, according to the
District Code, the only way you
can terminate tenancy is by a
notice to quit" Ernest F. Will
liams. general counsel of the
Rent Administration said. cts
necessary to give notice to termi-
nate a tenancy as a preliminary
to a new lease"
Some tenants were reported to
be disturbed over the mass
eviction" not understanding the
reason for the procedure.
Mr.. Goldwyn said the rent
increases to be put in effect
average roughly 10 per cent. !"
He said tenants were occupying
apartments on month-to-month
leases.