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Evening star., 1953-10-21

At last Fridays commission
session, Mr.. Waters remarked to
the PTA group, from Langley
Park elementary school, most OF
you ladies live in apartments,
presume"
He also told them the county
bard intended to protect home
owners" from "confiscatory
taxes"
Mr.. Winfree's editorial said an
apartment Tenant has just as
much right to call on our elected
servants as the biggest landown-
ers in Prince Georges County" 1"
Apartment dwellers do pay
taxes" he said, mentioning that
he himself pays them every
month when he pays his rent, as
well as the other levies apart
ment tenants pay.
The EDITORIAL said Mr.. iWnfree
wanted to set the record straight
land inform the uniformed, es-
pecially a certain misguided,
duly-elected public servant
The editorial didn't name Mr..
Waters. But Mr.. Winfree told
The Star that's who he meant.
Evening star., 1953-10-21

Only about one out of three
children who visit social service
agencies in Montgomery County
gets the psychiatric services he
needs.
That's the conclusion of the
County Youth Commission, which
has reported the results Of q
study it made Of 470 cases before
social agencies in 1852.
A resume Of the study was pre-
sented the County Council yes
terday by Mrs. Stella B. Werner
Some 65 per cent of the chilI
dren are getting the services
needed, Mrs. Werner noted. The
study was made of cases handled
by the Health Department, Wei
fare Board, Juvenile Court, So
cial Service League and Mental
Hygiene Clinic.
The adequacy of existing serv-
ices varies from agency tc
agency. Mrs. Werner said.
Only about one out of 10 emo
tionally disturbed children who
show up in Juvenile Court gel
adequate therapy, she said
Seventy-two per cent. however
get some sort Of substitute serv-
ice.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Apartment DWeIIers Challenge
|F0voritism' to Home-Owners

The Kent Village (Md.) Civic
Association, apartment dwellerS
all, got a call to turn out tonight
to elect officers who will fight a
county commissioner who favors
home owners over apartment
tenants.
Harris M. winfree, 7340 Forest
road, Kent Village, the groups
president, wrote an editorial in
the civic units Kent Village Post.
He was aiming at Commits
sioner Edward j. (Ned) Waters.
Certain elected Prince Georges
County officials look down on
apartment dwellers," Mr.. Win
free wrote.
Recently a group of ladies. re-
siding in another apartment
project, representing a PTA
group, called on the county COM
missionerS to request additional
school traffic officers for our
schools.
"One Of the commissioners
spoke out in resentment against
the troublesome apartment dwell
lers."
Evening star., 1953-10-21
County Boards GET
Show Cause Order

Members Of the Arlington
County Board and the Arlington
School Board have been ordered
to show cause next Tuesday why
they should not be removed from
Office for allegedly permitting CO.
mingling of white and colored
persons.
Circuit Judge Walter T. Nc
Carthy signed the show cause
orders directing the five men,
bers of each board to appear at
10 am. Tuesday.
A grand jury asked the court
to consider action against the
school board after it heard testi-
mony regarding joint gathering
of white and colored in the
schools. The original complaint
against the school board was
brough by Attorney John Locke
Green.
The complaint against the
County Board was filed by Lin
dell F. Shrum, who said he de-
cided to take the action after
reading the grand jury's report
regarding the School Board. Mr..
Shrum said he liked the county
schools and that he believes "the
School Board is being made a
goat for something that is COM
mon practice"
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Burrage Appointed
Planning Director
Of Maryland Group

William c. Burrage, 80, a plan
ming engineer with the Mary
and-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission since 1916
is its new planning director.
His appointment, announced
Yesterday, is effective November
!.
The parks group has been
without a chief planner since
Fred Tuemmler quit the post
last spring to join a private
planning firm.
Mr.. Burrage will receive $10,-
900 a year-a $1,000 raise.
His promotion announcement
said he will concentrate on long
range planning. Commission
Chairman Robert M. Watkins
said it hasn't been decided yet
how many new people will be
hired to help him.
Until now the commission has
had two planning engineers, Mr.
Burrage in the Montgomery
County region and Warren
Giaque in Prince Georges.
Mr.. Burrage Is a graduate OF
Harvard University and Massa-
chusettS Institute Of Technology
He studied planning in both
schools. He joined the Maryland
planning group, after working
with the Boston City Planning
Department. -.----.---..-----
Evening star., 1953-10-21

cations of the Blair Management
Corp. for commercial rezoning of
Residential c property at East
West highway and Colesville
road, Silver Spring.
One of the applications was
for a Six-acre tract in the middle
OF a larger tract bounded by
East-West highway, Colesville
road, Eastern avenue and Blair
Mill road. The other was along
East-West highway at it's inter-
section with Colesville road.
Rezoning to commercial and
apartment house use of two
tracts at Macarthur boulevard
and Harvard avenue, Glen Echo,
also was denied.
Other Denials.
Other applications denied
apartment house zoning in
cluded:
No. 1062-A 91a-acre tract in
Capitol View Park about one
fourth mile north of Forest
Glen road and just east of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
tracks.
No. 1042-Some 777,000 square
feet on the north side of Gros-
venor lane about midway be-
tween Old Georgetown road and
and the Rockville pike.
No.-1058-A tract fronting
700 feet on Georgia avenue with
250-foot depth at northeast
corner of Georgia avenue and
Forest Glen road.
No. 1051-A flve-acre, 200
foot wide tract at Avenel road
and New Hampshire avenue ex-
tended.
No. 1034-A lot at 19 Columbia
avenue, Takoma Park, opposite
the city hall and adjacent to q
new city parking lot.
No. 1012-Lot 81, Block 81, B.
F.. Gilbert'S subdivision, Takoma
Park.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
School Board Starts
Paying Backlog of
Bills in Arlington

The Arlington School Board
today started paying bills which
have been accumulating all
summer.
The board yesterday sent
School Supt. T. Edward Rutter
to Richmond to pick up $2.5
million. That's money due the
board from sale of a bond issue
on September 30 to the Virginia
State Retirement Board.
The retirement board bought
the bonds after private bond
firms refused to bid on them be-
cause of litigation against the
School Board by Arlington At
torney John Locke Green.
Inability of the board to sell
its bonds made it impossible to
pay several contractors most OF
whom were due to be paid July l
A spokesman for the board esti-
mated today that those July
bills, plus a few others, total
ever 81 million.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Mount Vernon to Bar
Public Saturday
During Reception

Mount Vernon will be
closed to the public at 2 pm.
Saturday, when a reception
by the Mount Vernon Ladies'
Association will be held to
commemorate their Tooth
anniversary.
Gov. Battle of Virginia will
be among 900 guests attend
ing the reception.
The ladies' association to-
day opened its annual coun-
Gil with a wreath-laying
ceremony at George Wash
ington'S tomb.
Mount Vernon was pri-
vately owned and in disrepair
before the association took it
over after Miss Ann Pamela
Cunningham of South Caro-
lima set about raising money
to buy the historic estate.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Escaped Virginia Convict
CAPTURED in Alexandra

Alexandria police today re-
captured one of three prisoners
who escaped from a State con-
vict road gang at Cherry Hill,
Va, October IA. He is George
w. Slater. 80, of Wytheville,
Va, who was serving two years
on a burglary charge.
Pvts. Amos Green and George
Gensmer said they found Slater
in a parked automobile in the
1900 block of King street. They
questioned him and said he ad-
mitted being an escaped convict.
The other two who escaped
are still at large.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Citizens Of Ade|phi
Rap Highway Plan

Opposition to the projected use
Of Northwest Park through
Prince Georges County for an
express highway was voiced last
night by the Adelphi Citizens
Association.
The group voted strong dis
approval. according to Mrs. Zella
P. Sayler, to the plan drawn up
for the park area by the Mary
land National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
In a resolution. the association
said it was opposed to use of the
park right of way as a speed
way of the dimension of the new
Washington Baltimore parkway
The commissions master plan
of highways includes the park
land on it's program for the fu-
ture as the site of a parkway
between the District line, near
Chillum and New Hampshire ave-
nue., north of Langley Park and
west of Adelphi.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Conservatives Hold
Control Of Alexandra
Democratic Group

Conservatives retained control
of the Alexandria Democratic
Committee today after dismissal
of suits challenging the election
of three committee members.
The suits, brought by mem
bers of the liberal Alexandria
Democratic Committee. were dis
missed by Judge William P.
Woolls in Alexandria Corpora
ton Court yesterday. Both suits
were dismissed after presenta-
ton of the plaintiffs cases, and
the defendants did not have to
present any evidence.
Judge Woolls held in both
cases that the plaintiffs had
failed to present sufficient evi-
dence to prove their claims.
One suit challenged the elec-
ton of Mrs. Virginia Acton and
Thomas Moncure in the 5th
ward, and the other suit chal-
lenged the election of Mrs. Mar
garet F.. Bailey in the 4th ward.
The plaintiffs contended that
the 5th ward results were invalid
because Mrs. Acton had with
drawn from the Democratic Com
mittee race. Court officials testi-
fed, however, that a woman
identified as Mrs. Acton tele-
phoned she was going to with
draw, but never came to the court
in person to make the withdrawal
official.
The 4th ward suit asked for a
recount. Mrs. Bailey defeated
James E. Hall by four votes.
Judge Woolls upheld the results.
Mr.. Moncure said the conserv-
ative wing of the Democratic
Party retains a 9-to-7 majority
on the committe as a result of
yesterdays decision. The liberal
wing of the party. represented by
the Alexandria Democratic Club,
would have won control of the
committee if the suits had been
successful.
The election was held July IA.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Montgomery Rejects IA Pleas
For Rezoning; Delays Others

The Montgomery County
Council yesterday acted on IA
applications for rezoning, and all
ID applicants struck out.
Seven cases seeking CONNER
cial rezoning and seven others
asking for apartment house clas-
sif1cations were denied by the
council.
The council delayed action on
a number of other petitions in
Guiding some seeking commercial
clasSifcations along Rockville
pike just south of Rockville.
ZOning Proposal Is Bar.
A number of rezoning requests
for apartment house develop
ment have drawn unfavorable
action from the council because
of it's consideration of a pro-
posed new coming ordinance.
The council hopes to send the
new ordinance to the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission next. week for
it's consideration. The ordinance
breaks down the apartment
house zone into several classi-
fcations. It probably will go
into effect January /.
Among those denied yesterday
was commercial rezoning of a
12.4-acre tract on Viers Mill road
just opposite Viers Mill Village.
The council said it feels there is
sufficient commercially zoned
property at Wheaton and Twin
brook to meet the. needs of
residents.
Silver Spring Denied.
Also rejected was commercial
rezoning of three lots on Ellis
worth drive between Fenton
street and Cedar street, Silver
Spring. The three lots, known
as the Battle of the Bulge" {"
would have extended the busi-
ness section beyond its present
limits.
Also rejected were two appli-
Evening star., 1953-10-21
State Urged 10 Expand
Aid 10 Handicapped
BY the A.soelated Press

RICHMOND, Oct 21.-A leg
islative study commission has
recommended that the State in
crease by more than half a mil
lion dollars over the next two
years it's aid for rehabilitation Of
handicapped children.
The commission suggested
that the State Education De-
partment be given an additional
$434,000 for 1854 and 1855 to
broaden it's special services in
the handicapped field.
To carry out the expansion
of handicapped services to chill
dren, the commission recon-
mended that local school boards
be empowered to employ doctors.
nurses, psychologists. physical
therapists, occupational thera-
pists and attendants needed for
the operation of special facili-
ties.
The commission advocated
gradual broadening of the State
Health Departments programs
of aid for medically INDECENT
children who are handicapped
but whose deformities may be
corrected with treatment.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Candidates From Fairfax
Will Speak at AnnandaIe

Candidates for the Virginia
House of Delegates from Fairfax
County and for county supervisor
at large will present their views
at a countrywide candidates
meeting at the Annandale School
at 8 pm. tomorrow.
The program is arranged by
the Fairfax League of Women
Voters under the direction Of
Mrs. j. Howard Sheble, voters
service chairman for the league.
ASpirants for the House of
Delegates who will appear are
Omer L. Hirst of Annandale and
John c. Webb of Lee Forest, the
Democrats, and Mrs. Cynthia
Zimmerman of Mclean and Col.
Harris T. Richards of Tauxe-
mont, Republicans.
The candidates for the super
visor at large seat are Warren
Quenstedt of wellington Heights,
tn eodore ArrantS of Falls
Church, c. B. Runyon of Falls
Church and Walter B. Jamison,
all Democrats, and j. A. Lawrence
of Idylwood, Republican.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Bridge Sites
To Be Topic Of
Farley Monday
Area Conferees Set
Meeting on 2 Spans
Across Potomac

The outlook is brighter now
for bridging the Potomac at
Cabin John and Jones Point,
thus clearing the way for the
ng-delayed innerbelt highway
around Washington.
Conferees from the District,
Maryland and Virginia finally
will get together on Monday to
decide where the two spans
should be built.
The meeting was announced
yesterday by Chairman Robert
M. Watkins of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan.
ming Commission.
Clears Barriers.
Donald E. Gingery of the park
group hailed it as a sign that
most roadblocks can be cleared
from the belt highway project.
MIR. Gingery pointed out the
entire plan is stymied until the
bridge locations are decided. The
approaches must necessarily
wait upon that decision, he said.
Mondays meeting will be at
2 pm. in the Interior Depart
ment Building.
Besides the nearby Maryland
planners, speakers will be present
from the National Capital Plan
ming Commission, the Maryland
State Roads Commission and
Virginia's roads body.
Representatives Small and
Hyde, Maryland, and Beall, Vir-
gjnia, all Republicans, also will
attend.
Park Road Dispute.
The wrangle over building
roads through parkland may
come up at the meeting. The pro-
posed innerbelt highway would
go through Rock Creek Park in
Montgomery County to hit the
Potomac wherever the Cabin
John bridge is finally built.
An even livelier discussion Of
highways versus parks seems
assured a week from Friday,
when the Maryland planners
have a date with the National
Capital Planning Commission to
listen to alternate plans for
Route 240 and the innerbelt road.
That highway is to have two
legs" One proposal would put
one leg through Rock Creek
Park. Considerable opposition
has been voiced from groups de.
manding no more roads be per-
mitted through the park.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Mayor Beverley Asks
Fire Engines 5 Return

Alexandria Mayor Marshall ]
Beverley will meet with the
Board of Fire Commissioners OF
Baltimore tomorrow to discuss
his request for return of an
ancient fire engine.
The engine is the one bought
by George Washington and do
mated to the Friendship Veteran
Fire Company in Alexandria in
IT'S. Friendship sold it many
years ago and Baltimore bought
it from junk dealer.
The historic relic is now housed
at the George Washington Mon
ument in Baltimore.
Mayor Beverley recently wrote
Baltimore Mayor D'Alesandrc
and Maryland's Gov. McKeldin
urging return of the old pumpel
to Alexandria to be exhibited al
the Friendship Fire House, 1O7
South Alfred street.
His request was turned over tc
Baltimore's Board of Fire Com
miSsionerS, which invited him to
come to Baltimore,
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Inspection System
For Maryland Autos
Urged by December
By the Assoeiofed Presa


ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 21.-State
Senator Louis N. Phipps, Demo-
crat. of Anne Arundel, believes
new laws are not needed to re-
quire motor vehicle inspections
in Maryland. He asked that an
inspection system start Deem
ber /.
In a letter to Thomas B. r.
Mudd, commissioner of motor We
hicles, Mr.. Phipps said,A 1T find
that there are sufficient laws al
ready on the books for you to
declare an inspection on We
hicles."
Such a theory was expressed
at a meeting of magistrates re-
Gently in Montgomery County, a
hotbed of sentiment for inSpec-
tions over recent years.
A District of Columbia COM
mittee only last month recon-
mended that Maryland adopt
some form of inspections such
as those in Virginia and the
District.
Maryland has not required in
SpectionS since World War II.
Mr.. Phipps, an Annapolis auto
dealer, quoted the law he was
referring to-:
THE department may at least
once a year, but not more fire.
quently than twice each year,
by public announcement, desig-
nate a period not to exceed three
months during which all resi-
dent owners of motor vehicles,
traiIers and semitrailers must
submit such vehicles to inspec-
ton and approval duly issued by
an official station.
Thereafter for a period of
three months every resident
owner of any said vehicle must
display a certificate of inspection
and approval duly issued for such
vehicle either upon the lower
right-hand corner of the wind
shield thereof when required by
the department or upon such We
hicle in such position as to be
visible from the outside"
He suggested the December l
date because it is the beginning
of the winter season "and cars
should be in the best of condi-
ton"
Evening star., 1953-10-21
State Urged 10 Help
Pay for Fairfax Park

The State of Virginia should
be called on to carry large
part Of the cost of operating
Great Falls Park iu Fairfax
County because it is used pri-
marily by visitors from outside
the county, a candidate for the
Board of County Supervisors de-
clared yesterday.
Theodore r. Arrants, one Of
the candidates in the November
3 election, said that the people
of Fairfax County, being rural
residents, having all the beau-
ties of nature at their back door,
are ipfrequent visitors to our
Great Falls Park. :"
He also proposed that volun-
tee f1remen should be exempt
from the personal property tax.
The exemption should be
given all f1remen who attend a
fixed percentage of fires and
meetings because of the expense
Of travel and risk to their lives
to give their friends and neigh
bors this protection. This
would be a small token of ap-
probation for services rendered"
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Wheaton Resident
Charged in Fraud
On Job Application
Special Dispoteh 10 The stor

BALTIMORE, Oct. 21.-Fraud
in a job application was charged
by the Federal grand jury here
yesterday against Raymond La
mont Austin, 40, of 1927 Center
hill street. Wheaton, Md.
Austin. a former civilian work.
er for the Navy, and an electrical
engineer. was accused of making
false statement last March 10
to the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion in a personal security ques-
tionnaire submitted at White
Oaks, Md.
The indictment charged that
he had attended Pennsylvania
State College from 1881 to 1887
and that he held a bachelor OF
science degree from that college.
The indictment said he had not
attended the school.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Silver Spring Lot
To Be Ready for
Christmas Porkino

The Silver Spring Armory lot
should be a parking lot before
long.
Yesterday its sale agreement
was made formal between the
Montgomery County Council, its
new owners. and the Maryland
National Capital Park. and Plan
ming Commission.
The park group said the agree
ment, while still unsigned. will
permit the county to start black.
topping the lot to get it ready in
time for Christmas shoppers.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
Virginia Areas
.Prodded on
Sewage Project
State Asks Fuirfux
And Alexandra for
Operation Report

Alexandria and Fairfax Of
f1cials have been notified to ap-
pear before the Virginia State
Water Control Board on Novem-
ber 5 to discuss the status of
their proposed joint sewage dis
posal system.
That is the day after the Alex
andria Sanitation Authority plans
to present a joint sewage service
contract to the Fairfax Board of
County Supervisors for final ac-
ton.
Notice of the water board hear
ing and the latest contract de-
velopments were disclosed last
night at a regular meeting of
the Alexandria Sanitation Au-
thority. It was the authority's
first meeting since several mem
bers of the Fairfax Board of
County Supervisors publicly in
dicated several weeks ago that
they had some doubts about the
proposed joint system.
Definite Proposal.
"We feel the time has come to
make a definite proposal to Fair
fax County and let them accept
or reject it," said James j. Cor
balls, jr., engineer director of the
authority.
He read a letter the authority
addressed to Fairfax County Ex-
ecutive c. c. Massey. expressing
concern over the county's ap-
parent change of heart at a time
when the joint deal is ready to
be consummated.
Mr.. Corbalis gave members of
the authority a tentative draft
of the 25-year contract, requiring
Fairfax County to pay its share
of the project cost in 25 annual
installments. According to pres
ent estimated costs of the dis
posal system. Fairfax's annual
payments would be $182,262. In
addition, Fairfax would pay
operating costs for it's share of
sewage carried by the system.
The amount of Fairfax sewage
would be measured by meters.
Court Test Needed.
w. w. Koontz, legal adviser to
the authority, said the contract
would have to be put to a court
test before sale of any bonds to
finance the joint system.
Meanwhile, Fairfax officials
plan to meet with their engineer
ing and legal advisers this week
to re-evaluate the joint plan. Mr..
Corbalis said Fairfax should
know by the end of this week if
it wants to back out of the joint
arrangement.
According to engineers who
conducted the regional sewage
survey of Northern Virginia,
Alexandria and Fairfax can save
a total Of $2.4 million in initial
construction costs by cooper
ating in the construction of a
sewage disposal system. Alex
andria has no disposal system at
present, and Fairfax needs addi-
tional sewage facilities to aug
ment the new plant under con-
struction.
II hate to think of the time,
effort and money that would be
wasted if Fairfax pulls out now,"
said Mr.. Corbalis.
The water board once ordered
Alexandria to have a sewage
disposal plant in operation by
July, 1852. This order has been
held in allegiance while the
regional sewage survey was con-
Quoted, and while Alexandria
and Fairfax have been nego-
tiating the joint deal.
Evening star., 1953-10-21
PTA Sponsors BloodmobiIe

The Glen Haven PTA will
sponsor a Red Cross bloodmobile
seeking blood donations from 2
to 8 pm. Friday at the Church
of the Atonement, Georgia and
Plyers Mill road, Glen Haven,
Md.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-15
Bridge Club Entertained
At Gialiombardo Home

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Giallombardo
entertained members of their
bridge club at their home on Bel
ford street last Saturday even
ing.
Three tables were played with
Mrs. Harry YontZ and Clarence
Estadt winning the prizes.
A delicious lunch was served
by the hostess to Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Paxton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Dimmerling, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Yontz, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Estadt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Scherr and Mr.. and Mrs.
Len Lucas.