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McNayr Post
Council Expected to
Name Finance Chief
ToActinq Role Today

Montgomery County Finance
Director Alex K. Hancock is ex-
pected to be named acting county
manager today by the county
council.
He would succeed Irving G. Nc
Nayr, who will leave the $4,000
a-year managers post on Thurs
day. Mr.. McNayr will become a
public administration consultant
to the Colombian government
with the State Department. In
stitute of Inter-American Affairs.
Mr.. Hancock's service could be-
come a repeat performance.
Mr.. McNayr, formerly county
supervisor in the pre-charter set
up, was named acting county
manager when the charter forces
won in 1948. During the next
few months. he proved satisfac-
tory and was named county man.
ager over large number of out
side applicants.
Delay on Choice Expected.
Chances are it will be several
weeks, at least, before the pres
ent five Republican and two
Democratic councilmen can
agree on a new manager.
An experienced county OBJ
server said Mr.. Hancock-if Sc
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Hyattsvi||e Council
Seats Sought by 8

Eight persons were nominated
last night for the four Hyatts-
vile City Council seats up for
election on May 4.
George O'Hare was announced
as the unopposed candidate in
the first ward. Second ward can
didates are Harry A. Styne, in
cumbent. and Walter L. Tats-
paugh. Third ward candidates
are Sylvan Deitz and Paul C..
Marth. Stanley Machen did not
seek reelection. Fourth ward
candidates are Kenneth Goodger,
incumbent; Warren Creech and
Joseph A. Schwartz, jr.
In a special meeting of the
City Council following the nomi-
mating convention, these loca-
tionS were named as election
polls to be open from 9 am. to 9
pm. May 4:
Boswell Burke Co., 1927 Gal
latin street; Lustine- Nicholson
showroom, $500 Baltimore boule-
ward; Hyattsville Junior High
School, Forty second avenue and
Oglethorpe street, and the Palm
er Form showroom, 3032 Hamil-
ton street.
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lington." Mr.. Grove, who &C
lively campaigned for former
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
after last years Democratic Ma
tional Convention, said:
IF, by active participation In
this primary, I am able to erad-
icate the weeds of discord and
replace them with the seeds of
unity, I shall be thoroughly sat-
isf1ed. regardless of whether I
am nominated"
Veterans of Two Wars.
A native of Strasburg, Va,
Mr.. Grove has lived in Arlington
for 81 years. He practices law
there. He is a veteran of World
War I, having served in the
Navy, and of World War II, with
duty in the Air Force.
The candidate joins a Demo-
cratic field which already in
cludesi Mrs. Kathryn H. Stone,
Harrison Mann, Thomas j. Broy-
hill and an incumbent. Delegate
J. Maynard Magruder.
Mr.. Grove was a founder and
is a member of the council of
the Faith Lutheran Church. He
is active in more than a score
of civic, fraternal, veterans and
service organizations and has de-
voted much of his interest to
parks and Fairgrounds and ini-
tiated the first meeting for the
expansion of the Washington
YMCA into the suburban Vir-
ginia area.
Organizations Listed.
Among his organization &C
tivities are: Founder and first
commander of the Gen. Billy
Mitchell Post, American Legion;
Red Cross director, Community
Chest trustee; organizer and past
president of the Lions Club. for
mer president of the Arlington
Fairfax Chapter of the Izaak
Walton League, past judge ad-
vocate of the Reserve officers
Association of Virginia and past
president of the Washington
Chapter, National Sojourners.
Mr.. Grove also is a member of
Kena Temple of the Shrine, a
past president of Roanoke Col
lege National Alumni Association
and former vice president of Ma
tional University Alumni ASso-
citation.
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A|exandrians 10 Oppose
Razinq Of Old House

AleXandria's Old Town Civic
Association. convinced that an
old house at Duke and Fairfax
streets should not be destroyed
because it is historic, will fight
to preserve the building at to-
nights City Council meeting.
Capt. j. c. Myers, president
of the association. said his group
also will ask the Board of Ar
chitectural Review to reverse its
decision to raze the building.
The board will be requested to
reconsider its action ION the
basis of facts establishing the
historic value" Capt, Myers
said.
The association disputes a
board claim that the building
has no historic Importance. The
association contends it has proof
that the three-Story brick struc-
ture. now owned by the Society
of st. Vincent de Paul, housed
the first parochial school in
Alexandria.
The house, now dilapidated
and for many years a tenement.
dates back to the 18th century.
Capt. Myers said. Architectural
details of the doorway and other
features indicate it was con-
structed between ITS and 1900,
he said.
The board was established by
the City Council to pass on pro-
posed architectural alterations
to old and historic structures in
Alexandria.
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Two Women Hurt as Car
Hits Tree Near Hall, Md.

Two women returning to their
homes from a Southern vacation
were injured yesterday when the
car in which they were riding
ran off Route 301 near Hall,
Md, and crashed into a tree.
Mrs. Mary Schatt, 81, and her
daughter, Mrs. Ruth Blonstein
of Brooklyn, N. Y, were taken
to the Prince Georges General
Hospital in undetermined con-
dition.
Both were jammed in the car
for several minutes before they
were freed by Mrs. BlonStein's
husband Samuel Blonstein, At,
and motorists who stopped at
the scene.
Mr.. Blonstein, Brooklyn at
torney. who was driving, said he
swerved off the left side of the
road to avoid striking another
car, which had stopped just over
the crest Of a hill. He was un-
hurt.
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Falls Church Plans
Bond Vote June9

A referendum June 9 on two
bond issues has been proposed
by the Falls Church City Council.
The municipal election of coun-
cilmen and city attorney will be
held on the same day.
A public hearing on the bond
issue ordinance has been set for
April q.
Mayor Charles E. Kellogg, at
a council meeting last night, said
the council, after the public
hearing, can reduce the amount
Of either bond issue before the
referendum.
Proposed amounts are $775,-
600 for school construction and
$500,000 for street and sewer
work.
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there are about 10000 of them
will receive a refund.
But the Is per cent is not
to be confused with the stand
ard deduction of 10 per cent
by which some taxpayers may
estimate charitable contri-
buttons. land rents, etc.
Befuddled Caller.
Banks, police stations. post
Offices, Federal and county Of
fees have been provided with
tax forms.
One befuddled caller at the F
street Office yesterday thought
Maryland taxes were higher
than Federal income taxes. Not
having reckoned with his Fed
eral withholding payments, he
wanted to know why he had re-
ceived a refund from the ma
tional revenue Office and, at the
same time. owed Maryland $40.
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Daylight Time Bill Likely
To Get Hearinq This Week

The perennial controversy over
daylight saving time for Wash
ington probably will be conSid-
cred later this week by a House
District Subcommittee.
Representative O'Hara. Re-
publican, of Minnesota, chair
man of the Judiciary subcommit-
tee, said he is still opposed to
changing the clocks in Wash
ington but will not attempt to
block legislation from reaching
the House floor.
Pending in the subcommittee
is the Senate-passed bill to give
the District Commissioners au-
thority each year to establish
daylight time here, if two OF
three cities, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York also adopt
ed it.
The House District Commit
tee recently voted against bill
that would have given the Com
miSsioners authority to change
the clocks this summer only.
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lected today-may find himself
in the drivers seat for a period
extending from six months to
the 1854 council elections.
The council has received about
IS applications for the man.
ayers job. Less than a dozen
of these are believed to be pro-
fessionalS in the city manager
field. About half are county
residents, including q number
of Federal Government en-
ployes.
Mr.. Hancock is a nationally
known authority in the munich
pal finance field.
Commended by McNayr.
He has held the $8,5OO-a-year
finance directors post since
April, 1949. Mr.. McNayr often
has commended him and has. at
various times, called him one of
the most qualified men in the
county government.
Mr.. Hanock holds a bachelor
of commercial sciences degree
from Southeastern University
in Washington, where he was
an honor student.
He is a member of the Georgia
and Maryland bars and is a
certified public accountant under
Georgia laws.
The 52-year-old finance di-
rector joined the county as an
auditor in 1882. He was out of
the government for several
years during the late 1930s but
was accountant and controller
from 1889 until 1949.
Mr.. Hancock has not applied
for the county managers post.
He lives at 8447 Woodclif court,
Silver Spring.
Council President George F.
Nesbitt and Mr.. McNayr have
been checking applications for
the job.
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Woman Democrats
Re-eIect Mrs. Guuzzu

Mrs. Victor Gauzza has been
reelected president of the Ar
lington County Woman's Demo.
cratic Club.
She was elected at the annual
meeting, attended by about rs
women last night at Lyon Park
Community House.
Speaker was Mrs. Leone
BuchholZ, member of the Ar
lington County Board.
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Civic Group Urges
Congress 10 Continue
Capper-Cramton Act

Continuation of the Capper-
Cramton Act and the appropria-
ton of funds for development of
parks and parkways in the met
ropolitan area was urged upon
Congress last night by the Mont
gomery County Civic Fedora
ton.
The proposed repeal of the
act would probably involve the
State of Maryland in a legal
problem because of the jointly
acquired land already pur-
chased" a resolution adopted by
the Federation asserts.
Cites Commitments.
Jerome j. Harris, chairman of
the planning and zoning COM
mittee told the Federation that
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
has pending commitments with
many private builders. Failure
Of Congress to appropriate ade-
quate matching Federal funds
will require expensive revision of
the commissions plans and the
probable loss of all this reserve
land, he declared.
Irving G. McNayr, who will re-
sign Thursday as Montgomery
County manager to accept a po-
sition in Colombia, was highly
praised by the Federation for
his services to the county dur
ing the last seven years. The
Federation particularly cited his
"skillful management of the
county's administrative affairs
during the period of transition
to the county manager form Of
government.
Recreation Program.
The Federation received for
study resolution from the
Edgemore Citizens association
asking that the county provide
buildings in Bethesda and Silver
Spring for year-round recre-
alton program.
DR.. Harold B. Rowe. chairman
of the finance and budget COM
mittee, reported that his group
had found no general inequi-
ties" in the county'S current re-
assessment program.
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District
The District Assessors Office
will be open from 8:15 am. to
4:45 pm. tomorrow. Taxpayers
in line at closing time will be
taken care of. The Office is in
the District Building. Fourteenth
and E streets NV.
The taxpayer must submit
half his payment with his re-
turn and the balance by October
Is. Or he may pay the whole
sum now.
Those who must file are:
l. Persons whose taxable in
come exceeded $4,000.
2. Those whose gross sales or
business receipts were more than
$4,000.
3. Married couples whose COM
bined income was more than
$4,000 must file separately, If
each made more than $500.
VdFy1uS NdGCSs
The tax rate is ~ per cent
on net taxable income up to
$4,000, and increases by one-half
of l per cent for each $4,000 up
to $4,000. On the portion of net
taxable income above $4,000,
the rate is 3 per cent.
Failure to file a return by mid
night tomorrow will result in a
penalty of S per cent a month on
the tax due, but the penalty can
not exceed Is per cent.
Each taxpayer gets a $4,000
exemption plus $500 for each de-
pendent. A dependent is defined
as a close relative who earned
$500 or less and who received
over half of his support from
the taxpayer.
Deductions from gross income
are permitted for money. paid in
District sales taxes, and no rea-
sonable amount is questioned by
the assessors Office. The District
has approved a schedule pub
lished by the Board of Trade
showing how much sales tax en-
ployes in different salary brack-
cts probably paid.
Salaries Already Reported.
In addition to the civil penal
ties provided, the law makes
willful failure to file a return
a criminal offense, subject to a
fine of $4,000 or one year in
jail, or both.
February Is was the deadline
for employers to file with the
District the amount they paid
out in salaries. This list will be
checked with the personal in
come files to see that everyone
who should file a return has
done so.
Last year, the District COL
lected about $4.2 million in in
dividual income tax, about $7.8
million from corporation in
come tax, and $1.6 million from
unincorporated firms.
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'MoryIqnd
The local tax Office, designed
to answer queries from Metro
politan Area residents, is at 1919
F street NV. The only other
such Offices are in Baltimore and
Cumberland. The main Office
address is controller of the
Treasury, Income Tax Division,
Annapolis. Md.
Taxpayers may pay one
fourth or more Of their tax
when filing and be billed for the
remainder. or they may pay the
whole sum at once.
Those who must file are:
/. Single persons who received
81 900 or more.
2. Married couples whose COM
Dined income was at least $4,000.
The tax rate is per cent on
unearned income and 2 per cent
on earned income.
Take Is Per Cent OF.
When their computing is fin
ished, taxpayers can lop Is per
cent off the amount of the tax,
as a result of a law just passed
by the State Legislature.
Marylanders who filed before
the tax slash was enacted
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Virginia Motorists
Must Have '53 Tags
To Drive Thursday

Tomorrow is the deadline
for Virginia residents to buy
their 1858 State and local
automobile tags.
Cost of the State tags for
passenger cars this year is
$40. City automobile tags
must be bought in Alexan-
dria and county tags in Ar
lington.
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Arlington Parents
To Discuss Education

Instruction Of bright children
will be discussed by the Arling-
ton Parents Council on Instruc-
ton at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
Little Theater at Washington
Lee High School.
Glenn HaSS, associate super
intendent of schools, will be
chairman Of the meeting, which
will be open to the public.
Other subjects to be brought
up in group discussions are dis
cipline and the Three Rs in the
Elementary School," Family
Life Education" and Junior
High School Instruction.
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Fairfax Board
Hunts Ways 10
Trim Tax Rate
$9,e60,1s1 Budget
Gets More Support
Than Criticism

The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors today is looking for
ways to trim a few more cents
off the proposed new tax rate,
although there were more words
of praise than protest at yester-
days budget hearing.
The total proposed budget for
1953-54 is $1,000, ,181. This would
require tax rate Of $2.84, which
represents an increase of 10 cents
over the current $2.65 rate.
Originally a rate of $2.95 was
proposed. Some additional Fed
eral funds became available for
schools. thereby reducing the
amount of money to be raised by
local levy. The budget must be
adopted by the end of this
month.
Supporters of the budget out
numbered foes by more than two
to one at yesterdays day-long
hearing. There were the usual
differences between spokesmen
OF the rural and urban areas over
who pays the most taxes. But
there was an absence of the bit
terneSS that marked other
budget hearings in recent years.
Opposition Over Schools.
Opposition that did develop
centered on school expenditures.
The proposed school budget &C
counts for about $6.4 million of
the total.
Foes Of higher school outlays
abandoned their angry tactics of
previous years. This time their
views were bundled up in a 12-
page mimeographed pamphlet.
Funny Facts in Fairfax" pre-
pared by James L. Trotter of the
Fairfax Freeholders Protective
Association.
AT least a dozen parent-teach-
er and civic associations gave the
schol budget their unqualified
support. PTA representatives
praised additional funds put in
the budget this year for teaching
materials that parents used to
provide.
Some who spoke for the school
budget thought the county might
look around for new sources of
revenue to ease the tax burden
on real estate. Paul Reiber of
the Franklin-S Sherman Parent
Teacher Association suggested
that the supervisors undertake
an immediate study to determine
whether State funds are appor-
toned fairly.
Proposes Transfer.
Manning Gasch of the Free
holders suggested that the coun-
ty might save money by taking
administration of the school
building and maintenance pro-
gram away from the school
board and placing it under q
county department of public
works.
Only a few small items in the
general county administration
portion of the budget came in
for criticism. Mr.. Gasch sug-
gested a $37,5OO appropriation
for acquisition of the George
Washington parkway right of
way be eliminated because, he
said, the Federal Government
has dropped matching funds
from its budget.
Julian Green of the Belle
Haven Citizens Association pro-
tested the proposed 25-cent spe-
cial tax levy in sanitary districts
and 4 to finance trash and
garbage collection. He said Belle
Haven residents have their own
private trash and garbage COL
lection service three times a
week and did not want the
county to substitute its one-day-
a-week plan.
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II Attorneys Qualify
For Virqiniu Court
BY tho Asseeiuted Press

RICHMOND, April 14.-Eleven
Virginia attorneys qualified yes
terday to practice before the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
They included william G..
Scaife, jr., Horace w. Burgess,
Fred E. Watson and Roberts
Tinsley, all Of Charlottesville: =:
Roger L. Campbell and Earl
Christensen of Arlington and
Richard Rengel, Alexandria.
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zoning
Approved in
Church
Council Reverses Self
In Lee Troct Action;
PIonner Quits Posts

Supporters of new apartment
Zoning for Falls Church won q
victory at loud and long meet
ing last night when the council
reversed an earlier decision.
Councilman Francis A. Wagner
resigned his planning posts as a
result.
Mrs. Margaret King. a mem
ber of the council, switched her
vote as the council granted
multiple housing zoning for the
Lee tract, adjacent to Tyler
Gardens Apartments. G. & o.
Corp. plans to build a 280-unit
project on the site.
Other Case Upheld.
In another apartment zoning
case. the council, in another 4-3
decision, refused to reverse q
September decision which was a
reversal of earlier vote last
June.
Last nights decision rejected
petition for construction of q
Count apartment on the Thom-
as E. Edwards property between
West Park avenue and Great
Falls street near Lee highway.
The council repeated its denial
of the apartment zoning in the
face of warning by City At
torney Lytton H. Gibson that
the decision will be contested
in court.
Last June the council voted
to rezone the five acres for
apartments. In September, it
reversed that decision. Last
nights vote was to decide
whether to reconsider the Sep
tember vote.
Money Invested.
Andrew w. Clark. attorney for
the applicant. said his client has
spent considerable funds for de-
velopment of the site for apart
ments although construction
has not started.
Mrs. King indicated that at
the next council meeting, an
other previous denial of apart
ment zoning will be reconsid-
cred. She said she will ask the
council to reconsider its refusal
to grant multiple housing zon-
ing for the Berman tract on
West street near Broad street.
About 200 people attended the
hearing at Madison School.
Speakers for and against apart
mentS drew applause.
Councilman Wagner, a men,
ber of the City Planning Com
mission, noted that Mayor
Charles E. Kellogg and Council
man W. Raymond Taylor had
opposed the commissions rec
concentrations in both cases.
Mr.. Wagner said he considered
this a lack of confidence.
Quits Planning Commission.
Because of this lack of con-
f1dence," Mr.. Wagner said. Il
submit my resignation as a
member of the City Planning
Commission, the Northern Vir-
ginia Regional Planning and
Economic Development Com
mission, and the National Cap
ital Regional Planning Council"
The mayor wanted the resig.
nation in writing, but the coun-
Gil accepted Mr.. Wagner's verbal
statement.
Il wouldn't blame the plan
ming commission if it resigned
in a body" Councilman Samuel
E. McCrary said.
Mr.. Wagner and Mr.. McCrary
urged the Mayor to appoint Mr..
Taylor to the commission. but
Mr.. Taylor declined.
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Washington County
Tops Red Cross Quote
Special Dispatch TO The Star

HAGERSTOWN. Md. April IA.
The Red Cross has advised
Paul Comegys, chairman of the
1858 fund drive for Washington
County, that his county was the
first chapter of its size to meet
its quota in the 1858 drive.
The goal for Washington
County, which has a population
of over $4,000 was $29, 1903. The
goal was exceeded by over s., 900.
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Foirfox Palsy Group
Headed by Burke Man

Negus Knowltom of Burke has
been elected president of the
Fairfax United Cerebral Palsy
Association.
Other officers are Richard
Stands, Mclean; Allan Young
and John Koons, Falls Church,
and Clarence Collins, Mount Yer
non, vice presidents: Walter Nc
Clanahan, Mount Vernon, treas
urer, and Mrs. JudSon Doyle,
Burke, secretary.
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when George
P. Grove, at
t orne ey and
civic leader,
became tn e
fourth can
didate in the
July IA pri-
mary.
Decla r i n G
there is mot
e v e n t h e
slightest evil
dence of lead
ership in the
Democr a t j c
PARTY in Ar.
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Unit Helping Retarded
Will Hear Russell

The Arlington Chapter Of the
Virginia Association for the Help
of Retarded Children will meet
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the Arling-
ton Health Department Building,
1900 North Edison street.
Bernard Russell, executive di-
rector Of family services of
Arlington, will be the speaker.
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Mrs. Never to Speak

Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer will
speak on "a Plea for Common
Sense" at a public meeting at
8 o'clock tonight at Thomas
jefferson Junior High School,
816 South Walter Reed drive,
Arlington. The meeting will be
sponsored by the Arlington
branch of the American ASSocia-
ton of University Women.
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ber of the
Takona Park
City Council.
H e W a S
chosen by the
council over
Luke j. Ben
nett, jr., pres
ident of the
c o m munity
League, and
G e or e B,
Kennedy. The
vacancy was
caused by the
resignation of
Frank E. Lu-
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influx and re-
solved to bal
ance muSh-
r O o m i n G
growth with
new and eX-
panded serv-
ices
Representa-
tive S m a ii,
Republican, of
Maryland set
the oratorical
theme at the
first annual
booster meet
ing and din
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School Boord Nominees

The Arlington School Board
Nominating Conference will meet
at 8 pm. tomorrow at Stratford
Junior High School. The con-
ference is planning a convention
to name candidates for. two
vacancies on the School q Rard.
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Education OfficiuI to Speak

Harrison SaSScer of the Ma
tional Education Association,
will discuss Education and the
Federal Government" at a meet
ing of the Bladensburg Ele-
mentary PTA at 8 o'clock to-
night at Bladensburg SchoolA
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Church Leader to Speak

S. j. Patterson, director Of
mems work for the Presbyterian
Church. U. S.. will speak on "a
Man and His Church" at z pm.
tomorrow in Trinity Presbyterian
Church, Sixteenth and North
Inglewood streets, Arlingtr4 Va.
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Wheaton Woods PTA

The Wheaton Woods (Md.)
PTA will elect officers at 8
o'clock tonight in the school.
Parkland drive and Farce place,
| Silver Spring.
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St. Burnubus Church Fete

The Ladies' Guild of st. Barna-
bas Episcopal Church. Oxon Hill.
Md, will hold a fried chicken
dinner at 5 pm. tomorrow in
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