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Evening star., 1953-11-19
Virginia Urged 10 Expand
Mental Health Program

Virginia citizens should press
their State legislators for an eX-
panded mental health program
George Damn, former delegate
to the General Assembly from
Arlington, told a meeting Spon-
sored by the Northern Virginia
Mental Hygiene Society at Bar
rett school, Arlington, last night.
Virginia should appropriate
$3.50 a day per patient for it's
mental hospitals, $500,000 for
more and improved clinics, and
SIS million for additional new
hospital buildings" Mr.. Damn
said.
Mr.. Damn, who is vice presi-
dent of the society, said the
State society is seeking $4,000
for its first years operation as
an independent citizen sup
ported body.
In q new alignment of areas,
eight counties, Loudoun. Clarke,
Frederick, Warren, Fauquier,
Prince William, Rappahannock
and Culpeper and the city of
Winchester were added to Ar
lington. Fairfax. Falls Church
and Alexandria to form the new
Northern Virginia Society.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Top Officials 10 Tell
Of County Functions

Top Fairfax County officials
will become teachers for a day
in a one-day know-your- county
school session Saturday in the
Annandale School on Columbia
pike.
The classes. sponsored by the
League of Women Voters, will
discuss four major areas of
county government.
The first session, at 10 am.
on county administration, will
be conducted by G. Wallace
Carper. chairman Of the Board
of County Supervisors, and Car
Teton Massey, executive of Fair
fax County.
At II am. DR.. Homer Hoyt
of Homer Hoyt Associates. and
Herbert Schumann, director of
the County Planning Commis-
sion, will discuHs the county's
proposed master plan and the
problems created by the areas
rapid growth.
Following a lunch served in
the school cafeteria, sanitation
problems will be discussed by
Mrs. Anne wilkins of the Board
of County Supervisors; Mrs.
Arlene Vokoun of the League of
Women Voters, and Harry Hale,
county sanitary engineer.
The school day will close after
a question-and-answer session
at 2 pm. conducted by Mrs.
Almorine Crowther, chairman of
the County School Board; w.
T. Woodson, superintendent of
county schools, and Mrs. Jane
Wellemeyer. president of the
Federation of PTAS.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
SeIectiVe Service,
Other Units Attain
Chest Drive Oscars

The Selective Service System
was scheduled for Red Feather
honors at today's report meeting
of the Government Unit of the
1854 Community Chest USO
Campaign in the Washington
Hotel.
Selective Service, reporting
100 per cent of a $1,000 goal,
has an average gift of $3.50.
Last year it reached 1916 per
cent of a $1,974 goal, with an
average gift of $6.57.
The Government Unit as of
the latest report had reached
85.06 per cent of it's $1,674,712
quota.
The overall campaign stood at
S1.S9 per cent of it's 81 million
goal.
Scheduled to be honored at a
simultaneous luncheon meeting
by the Business and Professional
Unit at the Washington. Hotel
was the Shoreham Hotel, which
has reported a 800 per cent in
crease in employe giving as COM
pared with last year.
Other Red Feather Oscars"
will be awarded the Riggs Ma
tional Bank, the International
Bank, and Lewis & Thomas
Saltz. Inc.
Business has reported IS per
cent of a $1,643.562 quota.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Half Of Tenants Quit
; Doomed Projects
To Live Outside Area

About half of the former ten
ants of three Federal housing
projects being closed down in
Arlington have moved out of the
Washington area, according to
Benjamin Bengis, general man
ager in charge of disposition of
the homes.
The Jubal Early, Jeb Stuart
and Shirley Projects which origi-
nally housed 1892 families. are
scheduled to close November 80.
The war-built temporary homes
are to be torn down.
Only 1913 families are still in
the projects and they are ex-
pected to move by the deadline.
Mr.. Bengis said tenants who fail
to find other accommodations
can move temporarily to another
Arlington development, Pickett
Homes.
Both Pickett and a fifth Fed
eral installation. Carver Homes,
are scheduled to close January
81. About 280 families have al
ready left the 591 units at Pick
EFT and Carver.
Most of the persons who have
left the area, Mr.. Ben9is said,
are families of military person.
mel. Most of the other occupants
have found homes elsewhere in
Virginia, he said, but some have
moved into the District or Mary
land.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Virginia Clifford Heads
Arlington Nurse Group

Miss Virginia Clifford, 2408
South Knoll road, Arlington, has
been reelected president of the
Instructive Visiting Nurse Asso-
citation of Arlington.
Other officers elected were
Miss Inez Cadet. first vice presi-
dent; Dwight McKeown, second
vice president: Mrs. Ida Moore,
treasurer, and Mrs. M. r. Nc
Cormick, secretary.
Reelected to the Board of Di-
rectors for three-year terms were
Mrs. William Arkin, Mrs. Wal
ter Cronin, Mrs. T. E. Gilbert,
Mrs. Harry w. Lynn, Mrs. P. E.
Middleton. DR.. Verlin E. Miles,
Mrs. Mccormick, Roger Sprigg
and Theodore Hudson.
Col. Emery Woodall was re-
appointed representative to the
Arlington County Civil Defense
Advisory Council and Fred
Wlndridge was named alternate.
Miss Martha E. Flynn, execu-
tive director, reported the four
nurses had worked 6,245 hours
since the first of the year and
gave bedside care during 6.867
visits with a mileage of IA 238
within the county.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Federal Tax 7 axe
In Virginia Climbs
During October
By the Asseeiased Press

RICHMOND. Nov. 10. Fed.
eral tax collections in Virginia
last month ran about 81 million
above collections for September,
Hoke Murray, director of Inter-
nal Revenue for Virginia, said
yesterday.
The social security tax third
quarter filing period for employ
ers is in October. Mr.. Murray
said the payment of these taxes
accounts for most of the differ
ence between the october and
September totals.
Total collections amounted to
73,260.064.34 in October, and
$72.224,752.04 in September.
Tobacco taxes led the field
both months. accounting for
$33.125,128 in October and $780,
32l, ,253 in September.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Hot Rodders Plan
Safety Show in
Prince Georges

Hot rodders will stage a
Safety Road-eo" at 2 pm. Sun
day on the parking lot of North
western High School on Coles
vile road, near University Park.
Contestants will be from the
five hot rod clubs in the recently
organized Prince Georges County
Automotive Safety Association.
The road-eo won't include any
speeding, Instead, drivers will
be tested on their skill over an
obstacle course, in parking ex-
aminations and other similar
events.
They will be judged by Trial
Magistrate Theodore L. Miazga,
1t. Roland B. Sweitzer of the
county police and Attorney Blair
H. Smith.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

him the guidance he didn't get
as a boy.
He hasn't been in a fight for
four years. He has come to
realize that if some one on the
job says something he doesn't
like, it may not be intended
personally.
People Friendlier.
1--WE grown out of the attitude
I had toward people," he says
Nov I can walk along the street,
and some friend will holler
across from the other side, Come
on over and talk They used to
almost cross the street to get
away from me. They acted like
I was a bully and a ruffian,
which is just exactly what I was. y
This hasn't all come at once.
It's been a long pull, as is any
other growing-up. Mr.. Hall
slipped sometimes, but the slips
came at longer and longer in
tervalS.
He had to go back to the
agency for help at times, but he
tried hard to avoid it-as an
adolescent comes to rely less and
less on his parents.
The way ahead is still hard
and Mr.. Hall may we'll need more
help
But with your Chest dollars,
you bought something that can't
be measured in dollars-a man
instead of a boy at the head of
a family.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Montgomery Camp
Fund Totals SIG, 500

Pledges totaling more than
$36,500 were made by a group
of Montgomery County business
and professional men last night
toward construction of a sum-
mer camp.
The money will be used for the
Camp Echo Lake project of the
Montgomery County Youth Op-
portunity. Inc. The camp for
needy children will be built on
a 127-acre tract off Route 240
near Frederick, Md.
The pledges were made during
a buffet dinner party at the
home of George Papanicolas,
chairman of the projects Spe-
cial Gifts Committee, on River
road, Bethesda.
About 80 men attended and
pledged $100 or more after hear
ing talks by ColumniSt Drew
Pearson, who has been instru-
mental in getting the camp prof.
ect started. and Montgomery
County Juvenile Court Judge AL
fred D. Noyes.
Among the major contribu-
tors were Carl M. Freeman,
Bethesda builder, who promised
to construct the camp at cost;
w. K. Trunnell, Bethesda cleo
trical contractor, who said he
would supply $1,000 worth of
electrical equipment; Mr.. Papa
nicolas, who pledged 81 500; An
drew j. Kessinger, Silver Spring
real estate man who pledged
S100 a year for the remainder of
his life; theater owner. Sidney
Lust. who pledged $1,000 and
use of his theaters during the
general campaign start
ing next January 10, and 1. S.
Turover, head of a Bethesda
building supply firm, also a
81 900 pledge.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Neiqhbors Donate St28
For Burned BeItsviIIe Boy

Neighbors of a badly burned
Beltsville (MdO boy last night
began a benefit drive Saturday
by donating $128 to aid his re-
covery.
Members of the Beltsville-
Vansville District Citizens Asso-
citation contributed the money
and will assist some 20 young
sters Saturday when they COL
lect newspapers from homes in
the area.
Proceeds from the sale of the
papers will be given to Jerry
Morris, IL, who was burned last
May. Since then he has been a
patient at Prince Georges Cen
eral Hospital. The boy so far
has received Sc blood transfu-
SiOnS.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Women Voters Re-eiect
Mrs. Leone BuchhoIz

Mrs. Leone Buchholz. a men,
ber of the Arlington County
Board, has been reelected presi-
dent of the Organized Women
Voters of Arlington. Mrs. Dulcie
Potter was named treasurer;
Mrs. Edith Weston. vice preSi-
dent; Mrs. Edith Walton, record
ing secretary, and Mrs Emma
Weekley. corresponding secre-
tary.
other officers elected at a
luncheon at Hogate's Arlington
House were Mrs. Lillian Simms.
registrar; Mrs. Roberta Cox, par
Humanitarian. and Mrs. Betty
Carter, second vice president.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Hens 9-by-7 Egg
IncIoses Another,
Complete With Shell
BY the Assoeiofed Press

WINCHESTER, Nov. 19.
Mrs. H. S. Williamson's
prize hen laid a prize egg
yesterday.
The 7-month-old Hamp-
shire hen produced a whop-
per that measured 9 inches
around, lengthwise, and 7
inches around, crossWise.
A reporter asked Mrs.
Williamson to break the egg.
She agreed. Inside were: A
regulation yolk. a cup of
egg white and another full
size, hard-shelled egg.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Byrd Successor
To Be Named
December Is
University Regents
Say They Will Pick
Acting President
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 19.-Uni-
versity of Maryland regents said
they will name an acting uni
versity president December 16
and continued to shop around
for a permanent successor to DR..
H. C. Byrd-who likely will be
a candidate for Governor.
Judge William P. Cole, jr.,
chairman of the Board of Re-
gents. said after yesterdays
meeting he didn't know if the
temporary president might be a
man now on the university staff.
Desires Relief by January.
DR.. Byrd announced last
spring he would like to be re-
lieved by January /. 1t is gen.
orally supposed he'll run for the
Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor in the primaries next June.
He has said he'd be glad to
stay on at the university IN some
capacity until about January l
OF 1855. That would be few
days before the gubernatorial in
auguration.
Judge Cole said special COM
mittee of regents reported yes
terday its inability to recon-
mend" successor and the COM
mittee felt it would pe in the
same position until after Janu-
ary /.
Cites University Savings.
DR.. Byrd told the regents
thousands of dollars are being
saved under a construction plan
he worked out and they ap-
proved. Under it, the regents
serve as their own contractor,
hiring various firms to do diff
ferent types of work and employ
ing conSultant to manage the
job.
DR.. Byrd said the plan will
save at least $4,000 in the con-
Struction Of a SO million student
union and activities building now
nearing completion at College
Park. And he reported there is
the prospect of saving more than
$500.000 on construction of So
million worth of new dormi-
tories.
OF a big new library, DR.. Byrd
said the preliminary cost figures
were found to be $287, 900 too
low and that the total is now
put at $2,637, ,820,
Tentative Budget Adopted.
Judge Cole said a university
budget for the fiscal year start
ing next July l was adopted in
tentative form yesterday and re-
ferred back to the budget COM
mittee. He declined to discuss
its details. The current operat-
ing budget is S22 million.
DR.. Byrd told the Baltimore
Alumni Club of the university
that the thing holding up a
proposed student union and &C
tivities center in Baltimore is
failure of the student councils
and deans of The Baltimore
schools to get together on what
they want. He indicated he con-
templates that a student union
should be financed by a self
liquidating bond system.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Suburban Hospital
To Open Drive Jan. rs

Suburban Hospitals annual
membership campaign and fund
drive will be held January Is
through February 8. Paul L.
Banf1eld. president of the Board
of Trustees, announced today.
Mrs. Kenneth Donaldson, Of
Chevy Chase. will serve as chair
man, and Mrs. Frederic P. Lee.
of Bethesda, vice chairman, Of
the drive.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
How You Can Lend Hand
Growing Up Was a Slow Affair
Until People Started Helping

Five years ago, at the age Of"
%, Harry Hall had a wife, two
children and the emotions of a
7-year-old boy.
You. through the Community
Chest, brought him up, emotion
ally.
Mr.. Halls mother died of tu-
berculosis when he was 4. His
father was killed in a. building
accident when he was S. He
lived for brief periods with a
sister and brother, but he was
too heavy a burden for them.
Maryland placed him. as an
orphan, on a private farm. Mr..
Hall remembers the things that
helped, in his own words. to
stunt his maturity.
Work and Beatings.
There was no comforting help,
no care. Only work, and beatings.
Once, for example. he threw a
rock at bird, and, fantastically,
hit it. The man who ran the
farm CI never knew he was so
tnderhearted." says Mr.. Hail.
grabbed a bean pole. broke it
across his knee and beat the
youngster almost to death"
He was beaten, Mr.. Hall re-
calls, with a blacksnake whip,
pieces of fireWood and whatever
ready-made clubs came to hand.
He was afraid to tell his brother
about it.
Finally, at IA, he ran away.
He walked the % miles to Wash
ington, where his brother lived.
The brother, when he heard the
whole story, went to the farm
and beat the operator.
Itching for Fights.
Mr.. Hall, himself, was en-
barked on similar course. He
carried a chip on his shoulder
and would take no insult, real or
fancied, from anybody. He began
hanging around in the lower
saloons, ready and willing to
join any fight that might de-
velop, and able to start quite a
few on his own.
He couldn't keep a job. The
chip on his shoulder rocked dan
gerously whenever a supervisor
said anything out Of the way
such as a correction of Mr.. Halls
way of doing things.
II thought nothing of crack
ing him on the jaw, saying, To
hell with this job and walking
Off"
For husband and father that
course inevitably led to poverty,
recriminations at home, more
anger and more violence.
Five years ago, Mr.. Hall struck
what was probably his luckiest
blow, although he thought just
the opposite at the time.
A vicious right, thrown at an
opponent in a brawl in an all
night coffee joint, missed. 1t
struck the plate-glass door, shat
tering it. The broken glass al
most tore Mr.. Halls middle
finger off. Nineteen stitches
were required to sew it on again.
Brought on Poverty.
That threw him out of his
work, driving a dry-cleaning
truck at $40 a week, for a long
time. The children, three by
that time. and his wife and
himself, lacked food. clothing,
rent money.
A doctor sent him to Family
and Child Services, supported by
the Community Chest.
There he got badly needed fl
nancial help. enough to tide the
family over that particular
rough spot. But he got much
more than that.
A trained worker sat down
with him and told him how to
reason things out. as he puts it.
She convinced him, during
series of talks, that everybody
wasn't AGAINST him. She gave
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Roast Beef Supper Set

The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Berwyn Heights (Md) Volunteer
Fire Department will hold a roast
beef supper from S to 8 pm. Sat-
urday in hte new f1rehouSe,
Quebec and Berwyn roads. Pro-
ceeds will be used to equip the
firehouSe kitchen.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
On the Radio TONIGHT

Listen at 10;45 o'clock to-
night as Mr.. Hall tells his
own story to Bryson Rash
over WMAL, The Star Sta
ton. Community Chest Cam
paign Chairman Aaron Gold
man will make a special
statement on the program.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Dr.. B. Olive Cole, 20,
Named Professor Emeritus

BALTIMORE. Nov. 10 (P).-
Dr.. B. Olive Cole was named a
professor emeritus of the Univer-
sity of Maryland School of Phar-
macy yesterday as she ap-
preached retirement after 33
years on the staff.
Dr.. Cole now is professor of
pharmacy administration and
secretary of the faculty. She
was 70 last Saturday and retires
on November 80.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
PriinceGeorges
Held Ideal
For Industries
Hoyt Would Make
Single City Of Towns
To Aid Development

Prince Georges County seems
"a natural" for industrial devel-
opment, DR.. Homer Hoyt said
last night.
And a good way to promote it
would be to make a single city
Of the towns around the District
line, the land economist noted.
Dr.. Hoyt was questioned by the
county's committee of 21, whose
studies include survey of pros
poets for creating Maryland
City" from the numerous inde-
pendent communities in the ur-
ban area.
But such a merger of munich
palities would be very hard to
accomplish" he said at the meet
ing in Calvert Mansion in River
dale.
Among the advantages he cited
were better fire and police pro-
lection, more efficient use and
maintenance of equipment and
better purchases of materials.
Improves Chances.
He said Maryland City would
present a united front and thus
have more chance to attract
industry than the individual
towns have.
Competition among the va
riouS communities can tend to
discourage industrialists from
locating in one, he said.
The industries Prince Georges
should go after are those whose
payrolls permit workers to live
in homes that pay their way in
taxes and whose plants con-
tribute enough taxes to give the
county a surplus, he said
"a big research firm with
highly paid engineers would be
the finest sort of industry of
ALL" he said.
The engineers would have fine
homes, paying more taxes than
the county would have to spend
on services for them, the econ
omist said. And their salaries
would be spread around in other
ways, too.
Requires Promotion.
First, however, the county
would have to create an indus
trial climate"
"That would take some pro-
notion" he said.
Baltimore's port, convenient to
Western shippers, and WASH
ington's rail gateway to the
West and South" make Prince
Georges logical industrial site,
he said.
Baltimore's expanding indus
try could very logically be spread
into Prince Georges, he said. The
county has two main railroads
through it. and the space for
factories and warehouses.
Making the little towns into
one big one to go after this trade
has some disadvantages, he said.
The richer communities taxes
might go up because they would
have to help the poorer areas.
But all would share in certain
benefits" he said.
Cites Bucks County.
The county's industrial growth
could soar at any time, he said.
DR.. Hoyt used Bucks County,
Pa, as an example. Land that
used to be farm pastures there
few years ago is covered with
homes and factories now, he said.
And nobody foresaw it, until a
steel company picked it as a mill
site.
One of the committee of
81 asked how he regards home
values around Andrews Air Force
Base if civilian airlines are per-
mitted to overflow onto that field
from National Airport.
DR.. Hoyt said homes imme-
diately adjoining the field prob
ably would lose values. But the
area generally would be helped,
he said.
can airport usually becomes
the center of things" he SAID.
'The whole area would have an
improvement. Homes within a
few miles of there would gain
an advantage"
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Gurrett Park Fair

Exhibits and foods repre-
senting foreign countries will be
featured at a World Fair Day
on Saturday sponsored by the
town of Garrett Park. Md. at
the community center. A dinner
. will be served from 5 to 7 p m.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Ok Rood Group Elects

Harold Wilcox has been elected
president of the Ok Road Civic
Association of Fairfax County.
Va. Other new officers are Jones
Jasper. vice president; H. L. APP
gar, secretary, and Mrs. Howard
Mccoy, treasurer.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Merchants Plan Dance

The Alexandria Retail Mer-
chants Association will have its
fall dance at $50 pm. Saturday
in the Hangar Room at Wash
ington National Airport.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
School Club TO Give PIuy

The La Plata (MdD High
School Dramatic Club will pre-
sent the play Ever Since Eve"
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the high
school auditorium.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Heads KentLund Group

Mrs. Ann Hodgens of 1902
Inwood street last night was
elected president of the Kent
land Md Citizens Associa-
ton.