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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
School Setup Should
Include Nurseries,
DR.. Pu||en Says

Kindergartens and nurseries
should be made an integral part
of the Maryland public school
system, DR.. Thomas G.. Pullen,
State superintendent of schools,
declared last night.
DR.. Pullen also warned Of
heavy increases in enrolment
expected in the next seven years
that will demand thousands of
new teachers and classrooms. He
said:
Last year 10000 children were
born in Maryland, more than in
any other year in the States his
tory-and more are coming"
He said there are more chill
dren under 6 years of age in
Maryland than are enrolled in
the first 10 grades.
DR.. Pullen was the principal
speaker at the first of a series
of meetings scheduled by the
Camp Springs Elementary
School Parent Teacher Associa-
ton in an effort to find ways to
provide more classroom space
and a larger teaching corps.
He was accompanied last
night by pr. David w. thinner
man, assistant State superin-
tendent. Philip McCray. the PTA
program chairman, introduced
the State officials.
More than $4,000 children
under school age live in the %
counties and for them no pre-
school State aid is provided, DR.
Pullen observed.
81 believe that kindergartens
and nurseries should be an in
tegral part of the public school
systems" he declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
HyattsviIIe Council Acts
To Get New Post Office

Ar option to permit the Post
Office Department to purchase
$4,000 square feet of a 100 1000
square foot municipal parking
lot within six months has been
prepared by the Hyattsville
(Md.) City Council.
The sale price has been set
at $50. 600. The remaining area
will park about $50 cars. City
officials announced the offer was
drawn in an effort to locate a
central post office in H~yattsville.
A branch Office now located on
Gallatin street would be housed
in the new structure. Council
men said other sites in nearby
towns are being considered for
the new building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

to come pack for another X-ray.
Miss Hall knew it was tubercu-
losis."
She was wrong. Not TB, but
her heart again. Now it had
swelled even more.
She began making regular
visits to the heart clinic at
Georgetown University Hospital
where, incidentally, she had been
taking her mother who had heart
trouble.
On September IL, 1852, Miss
Hall was operated on and she
began to feel a new life squirt
through her body. A soft ticking
she could hear had started with
the operation. It had not come
with two previous operations,
for the patients did not live. She
had known these things.
81 never realized just how bad
I had felt most of my life until
about two weeks after the oper-
ation," Miss Hall said. That's
about the best way I can describe
how I feel now"
Successful Surgery.
Miss Hall, unidentified up to
now, was the first person to have
successfully come out of a new
surgical attack against a heart
condition which accounts for 10
to Is per cent of deaths from
heart disease. And heart disease
is the big killer today.
After those spells of pain in
childhood and later on, she had
been left with a defective aortic
valve. Normally, the aortic valve
keeps blood flowing in one di-
rection from the heart. But in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
New Wheaton
School 10 Open
6 Months Early
Sl.2 Million Project
Due to Receive
Students in February

Montgomery County's new
Wheaton High School will be
ready for use in February, about
SIX months ahead of schedule,
the county School Board was
informed last night.
The progress report on the
$1.2 million project was handed
to the board by Frank st. Clair,
director of supporting services
on the school administration
staff.
Equipment Fund Approved.
An additional $4,000 was
voted for equipping the new high
school. The money will be de-
rived from 1854. 900 placed in un-
Gllocated funds after it was de-
cided to defer construction of the
SIT. 900 Bannockburn Elemen-
tary School.
Supt. Forbes H. Norris said
the need was not sufficient to
justify building the Bannockburn
school at present.
In other business, Board Mem
her William F. Bulls failed to
draw a second on his motion OPP
posing board participation in
United Nations Day exercises in
Rockville on Saturday.
II still believe the United
States is the Government we're
working for" Mr.. Bulls said.
II won't swear allegiance to the
U. NJ"
Invited as Head of Board.
Board Chairman H. Stanley
Slime said he had been invited
to the ceremony as president Of
the Board of Education and,
that's the way I'm going"
eff you don't want to be repre-
sented," Mr.. Slime told Mr.. Bull
lis, II won't represent you"
The board also authorized DR..
Norris and Mr. st. Clair to meet
today with County Manager Ed
ward T.. Beall to discuss f1nanc-
ing for the purchase of new
buses. The school board also
will request that the County
Council order paving of sections
of Jones Bridge road and Weller
road to permit some students
who now ride buses to walk to
school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Cabbie's Slayer
Sentenced 10
Die on Dec. 19
Kensineer's Death
Set as Accomplish
Gets 12-Yeur Term

John Clay Kensinger, itinerant
magazine salesman convicted of
the holdup Staying of a District
taxicab driver, was sentenced to
death yesterday by Judge Will
liam Medley in Arlington Cir
cult Court.
Kensinger and Richard Lee
McCaughey. %. of Geneva-on-
the-Lake, Ohio, both pleaded
guilty in the fatal shooting Of
Leroy E. Apologize. 46, of Ia
koma Park, Md, in Arlington
County last July "a.
Judge Medley fixed the date
for the electrocution as Deem
Der 10.
The 29-year-old prisoner was
to be taken to the Virginia State
Penitentiary today.
Judge Medley found Nc
Caughey guilty of Second-degree
murder and sentenced him to IL
years in the State Penitentiary.
Woman Screams in Protest.
When Judge Medley pro-
nounced the word death" in
his sentencing of Kensinger, a
woman at the rear of the court
room screamed:
"Oh, no, no, no, you can't -.
no, dear God, no." She re-
peated the words time and again.
She is Mrs. Agnes Johnson of
Pittsburgh, a half sister of the
condemned man. She had teSti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Citizens Group 10 Hear
Alexandria Candidates

Candidates for. Alexandria and
State Offices will voice their views
at a meeting of the Del Ray Citi-
zens' Association at 8 pm. to-
morrow in the Mount Vernon
School auditorium. Mount YER
non avenue and Mount Ida
street, Alexandria.
The candidates include Demo-
cratic Delegate Armistead Boothe
and his opponent for the House
of Delegates, John A. Croghan;
the two candidates for COM
monwealth's attorney, Earl F..
Wagner and William c. Bauk-
night, and three candidates for
two seats as civil and police
court judges, James N. Cola
santo and James r. Duncan, in
cumbents, and Denis Ayres, in
dependent candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Arlington Man Found
Shot 10 Death in Attic

A 42-year-old Arlington man
yesterday was found shot to
death in the attic of his home at
1869 North Quincy street.
He was identified by police as
Albert o. Brockman. Members
of his family said he had been
depressed and in i'll health for
some time.
Capt. Dudley H. Rector, chief
of Arlington detectives, said
death was caused by a gunshot
wound in the head. He said
Mrs. Brockman was brushing her
teeth when she heard a falling
sound, found her husband miss
ing from the bedroom and called
police.
DR.. John H. Judson, county
medical examiner, said a certif1-
cate of suicide will be issued.
Funeral services for Mr.. Brock
man, who was an accountant,
will be held at II am. tomorrow
in Ives funeral home. 2847 Will
son boulevard, Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
By John McKeIwoy

It's nearly every day that Miss
Martina Hall talks about her
operation.
She doesn't grab your lapel and
force you to listen. She rarely
brings the subject up herself.
Rather, people ask her to tell
about it, and she willingly does
SO. For Miss Hall is not en-
barraSsed or wrapped up in her.
self. She is proud and quite
aware of the wonderful thing
that was done to her.
About this time last year, Miss
Hall. a small colored woman Of
81, with a pleasant smile. began
to realize these things. 1t was
at this time she gradually be-
came aware of the constant and
soft ticking" deep in her chest.
This ticking sounds like a
wrist watch you stop to listen to.
You can hear it when Miss Hall
is seated nearby and pauses in
her story about the operation.
Somehow. the ticking is a
powerful sound. 1t is the differ
ence between a tired, faltering
life-and a strong, new one.
Born in Rockville.
Miss Hall was born in Rock
vile, Md. Soon after, her family
moved to Fairfax. Her father did
some farming and later. for
eight years. was janitor of the
Georgetown University Medical
School Building.
When Miss Hall was 7, her
mother put her to bed for about
two months. The child had Sc
we're pain in the joints of her
knees. It was diagnosed then as
some form of arthritis.
She had similar pains in her
high school days and had to go
back to bed for long stretches of
time. She remembers how
tagged out" she was at the end
of each day.
Then, when she was "a, she
picked up a bad cold while work.
ing as a file clerk at the General
Accounting Office. A family doc
tor examined her and told her
his chilling dia pnOSiS.
"You have an enlarged heart.
And you'd better stop work right
away"
For two years Miss Hall sat
around her home, trying to do
absolutely nothing" She found
this somewhat difficult, however.
and entered the old st. Paul
Institute. where she was gradu-
ated later as a practical nurse.
Accepted Jobs.
She took jobs in private homes
and at various hospitals.
Later, she quit her job at Ar
lington Hospital to care for her
father. Because of a blood infec-
ton, he had both of his legs
amputated and died of a heart
attack at So.
Miss Hall went back to work
after his death and caught an
other cold. Once. during a cough
ing spell. she saw blood.
"It was the first time I had
ever really been afraid" she said.
Il finally let myself realize some
thing was seriously wrong"
She was X-rayed by the Dis
trict tuberculosis Association.
When the association asked her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
A New Heart VoIve-ond a New Life

Miss Hall, and for most of her
life, the valve was permitting
blood to leak back into the heart.
The heart was gradually
stretched and strained.
Surgeons at the hospital were
able to give Miss Hall a new
valve. They cut through her
aorta-the main trunkline of
blood from the heart-then
slipped in between and tied to
the two parted ends a plastic
tube about an inch long. Inside
the tube was a small plastic ball.
AS Miss Halls heart contracted
in it's pumping action. the blood
rushed through the tube push
ing the little ball forward. Blood
swept over and around the little
ball as it was pumped out of the
heart.
When her heart relaxed, the
ball slipped backward, plugging
one end Of the tube so blood was
not backing up into the heart as
before.
"Tick- Tick"
AS the little ball moved back
and forth there was a tick
tick" which meant the patched
up heart was working right for
the first time in Miss Halls life.
It's tick ticking today.
Without the operation, she
might have been kept alive for
a number of years on drugs
or, doctors say. she could have
been dead by now.
After the operation, the news
spread throughout medical
circles all over the world. Doc
tors came from far and wide to
examine Miss Hall; to get out
their stethoscopes and listen to
the ticking. There were fat ones,
tall ones and thin ones, Miss Hall
remembers.
"They were fascinated" she
said land they seemed much
happier when they left"
She works at the hospital now,
filing away X-rayS. Doctors still
drop by to look over Miss Hall.
And the young medical students
sooner or later get to meet and
listen to the remarkable thing
about Miss Hall.
She makes it a point to talk to
other patients about to undergo
the same operation. as well as to
members of their families. Seeing
Miss Hall looking so well, they
seem to pick up a better attitude
toward the whole thing. Some
| 80 operations of the same nature
have been performed since Miss
Halls.
Shows Confidence.
"She gives these people hope
and confidence" one doctor said.
by now, she can almost lecture
on the subject of a defective
heart valve and its cure"
Miss Hall shows a complete
confidence in the operation and
in her doctors.
1.-The tick doesn't bother me-"
she said. II hardly hear it unless
/ pause and think about it. You
know, I find it even comforting
Last month, the doctors who
have been close to Miss Hall and
her case held a simple, quiet an
n~iversary celebration for her on
the date of the operation.
There was a cake and one
candle In a way, it was her
birthday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Laurel Authorizes
$4,000 in Bonds

Residents of Laurel, Md, have
voted approval of three bond
lsues authorizing expenditure Of
up to $4,000, but have rejected
two others totaling $780,
In municipal balloting yester-
day, the voters paved the way
fo1 construction of a new sewage
treatment plant, an in~cinerator
plant, and purchase of a new
fire truck.
Turned down were bond issues
to provide public off -street park
ing facilities and for renovation
OF the Laurel Town Hall.
The results are unofficial so
far, but there is little likelihood
of a change in the outcome. &C
cording to Mayor Merrill L. Har-
rison. The Town Council will
meet at 8 pm. tomorrow to ratify
the returns.
Approval of the three bond is
sues, the major one of which was
for $500, 900 for the sewage dis
posal plant. will mean a tax rate
increase for Laurel property
owners. The amount has not yet
been determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Greenbe|t Group Studies
Tax and Fiscal Policies

The Greenbelt City Council
last night passed a resolution
setting up a seven-man commit
tee to study and make a report
on the tax structures and fiscal
policies of nearby communities.
The report will be used as q
guide when the council begins
holding public meetings in a few
weeks, looking toward passage
of next years budget.
Committee members will be
named at the next meeting on
November 2.
Frank M. Holmes and Verl D.
Ward, Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co. officials, notified
the council that Greenbelt resi-
dents-who at present can dial
only limited numbers-will be
able to dial District, Baltimore,
Annapolis and Frederick, Nd,
numbers by March is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Arlington Boy 5, Dies of Polio;
Area Reports Six New Cases
D. c. TotuI Is So;
Are Stricken in
Nearby Counties

A 5-year-old boy died yesterday
from polio at Children's Hos
pital.
The boy, Robert Summers of
$500 South Sixteenth street, Ar
lington Village, was the first from
Arlington to die of polio this year
and the seventh polio fatality in
the Washington area so far this
year.
The child was the son of Lewis
P. Summers, an attorney for the
Veterans Administration Board
of Veterans Appeals. He had
contracted the disease last week.
his father said, and died yester-
day at the hospital from the
worst form of the disease-bul-
bar polio.
The Summers have another
child, Linda Anne, 4, who was
inoculated with gamma globulir
when her brothers illness was
diagnosed as polio.
Funeral services have been sci
for 2 pm. tomorrow at Nationa.
Presbyterian Church, Connect
cut avenue and N street NV
Burial will be in Arlington Gem
etery.
Meanwhile, polio continued tc
crop up in the Washington area
The District reported it's fifty
seventh and ffty-eighth cases
a 4-year-old boy of the 200C
block of Yorktown road NV
and a 9-year-old girl of the $500
block Of Seventh street NV.
Both children are being treated
lat Children's Hospital. The Dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

Orrin Beard, SO, of 200 Grove
avenue, one of the candidates for
city treasurer, is employed by
the finance Office of Fairfax
County.
A Falls Church resident for
nearly 20 years, he studied &C.
counting at National Business
College in Roanoke and later
was employed by the Federal
Government.
He writes a weekly newspaper
column, 1T Seems to Me-" and
has been active in the Great
Books Discussion sponsored by
the Falls Church Library.
Mr.. Beard is a member of
Knox Presbyterian Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Ex-Boxer Seeks G. O. +. Post
On Prince Georges Committee

AS was his wont in the 1920s
when he was well-known in
District area ring circles. fight
ing Bob" yesterday came out
swinging,
He let go a sharp left at the
county's trial magistrate system,
and then crossed a right to the
central committee itself.
Mr.. Ennis asserted that costs
levied in cases handled in the
county's police court are excess
sive and, in some cases. higher
than amounts fixed by statutes.
OF the central committee, he
said:
Most of its members hold at
least two posts in the local gov
eminent and some have packed
the payroll with relatives"
Mr.. Ennis, who has long been
active in party affairs, lives at
403 Sixty-hrst avenue with his
wife and two children. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

trict at this time last year had
1875 cases.
Also reporting new cases were
Fairfax and Montgomery Coun-
ties.
Two new cases in Fairfax
brought the county's polio toll
to As cases, compared to II at
this time last year. These in
cluded a 6-year-old boy of the
1900 block of Tucker avenue,
Falls Church; a 4~-year-old girl
of the 200 block of North Wash
ington street, Falls Church,
In Montgomery County new
cases included a 17-year-old girl
of the $500 block of haywood
avenue, Silver Spring: a 3-year-
old boy, 300 block of Plyers Mill
road, also in Silver Spring. The
two cases brought the county's
number of polio cases to SO,
compared to 48 cases this time
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Man Sought in Fairfax
For Accusing Woman

Fairfax County (Va.) police
today are searching for a man
on a complaint that he tried TO
assault a woman on Harrison
lane near Route / in Alexandria
yesterday.
A neighbor of the 27-year-old
woman called the police. They
were told this is what happened:
The woman was walking home
on Harrison lane when a large
colored man threw a rock at
her. He also had drawn a knife
and motioned to her to come to
him.
She screamed and was heard
by a neighbor. The man ran
off into the woods. He was
described as wearing a tan shirt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
Star Entront Wins $500 Prize
In National Snapshot Contest

and third prize was won by j. t.
Robertson of Brandon, Manitoba,
Canada.
Comdr. Driscoll's picture was
taken last summer, when the
family was visiting in Austria.
He actually had intended to take
another picture but, spying his
daughter in her winsome pose on
the curbstone, snapped her in
stead.
It was the first time since 1850
that an entrant in The Star con-
test had finished among the top
winners in the national contest.
In that year, Henry Gichner, of
the Gichner Iron Works, won a
$500 prize.
In addition to Comdr Driscoll.
three other Washington amateur
photographers won prizes. all in
the $25 Honor Awards group.
They are Daniel ThurSz, 1446
Tuckerman street NV, Julius
johnson, jr., $500 Porter street
NV, and DR.. Bernard Berman
of the Shoreham Hotel.
Judges in the national contest
were Robert Keene, nationally
known Photographic illustrator;
William Taylor. chairman of the
school of journalism, Kent State
University. Kent. Ohio; Walter
M. Edwards. assistant illustra-
tions director of the National
Geographic magazine; Herbert
S. Wilburn. also of the geo.
graphic magazine: and Kenneth
w. Williams Of the Eastman
Kodak Co.. co-sponsors of the
contest.
The $50 pictures in the ma
tional judging will remain on
exhibit in the National Geo.
graphic building through No
vember 1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20

A quickly taken roadside
snapshot yesterday won a Dis
trict-area naval officer $3.50 in
contest prizes.
He is Comdr. Francis x. Dris-
coll. whose picture of his little
daughter Mary Elizabeth was
awarded a $500 prize in the 18th
annual Newspaper National
Snapshot Awards at the National
Geographic Society Building.
Previously, the picture had
won SIS as a weekly winner in
The Stars Amateur Snapshot
contest and, later, $25 as a final
winner in The Star contest.
The national contest is the CHI
max to contests sponsored by 80
newspapers throughout the coun-
try and in Canada. More than
5000 snapshots were entered in
The Star contest.
The pictures are divided into
four classificationS: Babies and
children; adult activities; scenes
and still life, and animals. First
prize winners get $1,000 in each
classification. Second-prize win
ners get $500 and third-place
winners, $3.50.
Other Awards.
In addition there are SO Spe-
cial Merit Awards of $50 each
and 200 Honor Awards at $25
each. The prizes total $4,000.
In the animals classification
the $1,000 first prize went to
little Patricia Delaney, II, of
Schenectady, N. Y, for her pic
ture of two raccoonS on a tree
limb. Hope S. Paul of Wayne,
Pa, won second prize and David
Metz of Roxbury, Mass, third.
A picture of sunlight fltering
through a grove of trees won
first prize for A. Rubendunst OF
Cincinnati, Ohio. in the scenes
and still life group. Lucille Ivy
of Hickory. N. c., won second
prize and j. w. Leadbetter OF
Portland, Me-, third.
F. w. Keeney of Bremerton
Wash, took first place in the
babies classification with his pic
ture of a woman holding heI
beaming infant high over her
head. Comdr. Driscoll, who lives
at $40 Arlington Mill drive, Ar
lington, Va, took second prize
in this group, with F. E. Cooper
jr., of st. Petersburg, Fla, third
Taken in Austria.
In the adult activities group
a picture of a young couple
standing silhouetted against the
moon on a beach won first prize
for Bernard Brockett of Joliet,
Ill. Second prize went to Marion
Shapiro of the Bronx, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-20
He is running as an indie

He is running as an indie
pendent.
James E. Durant was a men,
Der of the City Council for eight
years. He was not a candidate
for reelection last June because
of his decision to seek the post
of city treasurer.
In 1851, Mr.. Durant led the
council ticket in the municipal
election.
He is controller for radio sta
ton WARL.
Mr.. Durant lives at 100 West
Cameron road and has lived in
Falls Church since 1941.
He has been prominent in
Falls Church Lions Club activities.