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Evening star., 1953-11-23
Encrooching Housing Siences
Rifle Fire at Camp Sinns

The stacatto crack of rifle
fire that has punctuated the
quiet of Congress Heights for
half a century has been per-
manently stilled by progress.
Gone beyond recall is the
District National Guards pistol
and rifle range at Camp Simms.
The range, near Alabama ave-
nue., Fifteenth street and Simms
drive Sc, will not be rebuilt, a
Guard spokesman. said. En-
croaching real estate develop
ments have ringed the Camp
Simms area to such an extent
that a ricocheting slug would al
most certainly do serious damage.
To Be Cut by Parkway.
In addition, District officials
have announced plans for ex-
tending Oxon Run Parkway
through the heart of Camp
SimmS. with one lane of a dual
highway f1anking each side of
the picturesque stream.
Demolition work on a 288-
family unit housing project, con-
Structed in 1876, soon will be
completed. When the site is
finally cleared, little of the prop
erty will be used by the Guard.
Most of it will be taken over by
the District for storage facilities
and re-eStablishment of truck
drivers training center.
Camp Simms was first ac-
quired by the Districts National
Guard ins 1908, when Maj. Gen.
George H. HarrieS, a former re-
porter for The Star, enviSioned
it as a firing range. N
A tract of about ITO acres was
rented from a Mrs. Georgia M.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
S121 Million Housing Bids
To Be Opened Dec. IS

Bids will be opened December
Is on $1219 million of housing
authority bonds. including STA
million for Washington, the Pub
lie Housing Administration an
nounced today.
Washington's bonds will pro-
vide permanent financing for
low-rent housing units in seven
projects either completed or un-
der construction, said Director
James Ring of the National Cap
ital Housing Authority.
The bid openings for the en-
tire $121.9 million of bonds will
be for 90 local housing authori-
ties throughout the country. The
amounts to be offered include
SIT million for Alexandria.
The bonds will mature Serially
over a period of 80 years.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Three Cemetery Stones Left
AtArIington FumiIy's Doorstep

Three cemetery grave markers
were placed at the front door
of an Arlington family over the
weekend, county police reported
today.
Mrs. John M. Terry. 1924 Will
liamsburg boulevard. said she
could not explain the goulish
prank. Two white marble mark
ers, inscribed with the letter H
and Is inches high. were dis
covered on the front porch OF
the home at midnight Friday.
Mrs. Terry said her husband
who is in the construction busi-
ness. was reading in the living
room and the front porch light
was on when he heard a loud
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Eisenhower 10 F|y
To Bermuda Dec. 4

President Eisenhower is ex-
pected to leave here by plane the
morning of December 4 for the
Big Three conference which
opens in Bermuda that day and
runs until December 8 at the
Mid-Ocean Club.
The White House, in reporting
Gen. Eisenhower's plans today,
said the American. British and
French official parties will be
quartered at the Midi Ocean Club
and the Strictest security regu-
lations will apply.
The club will be barred to all
outsiders. Newsmen will be kept
at some distance from the actual
meeting site.
Evening star., 1953-11-23

knocking. The two stones,
which appear to be markers for
a cemetery plot. were placed
against the storm door making
it impossible for Mr.. Terry to
open it,
Last night at HAS the family
was aroused by more knocking
This time they found a grave
headStone. 1t had been re-
moved from the burial place of
a ten-year-old child and was
inscribed. Our Darling"
Arlington police were check
ing area cemeteries.
Police believe the incidents are
the action of juvenile prank
SterS.
Evening star., 1953-11-23

Lea. It was retained on that
basis until the old War Depart
ment appropriated $4,000 for it's
outright purchase in 1917, &C
cording to Col. Peyton hewitt
of 1701 Jackson street NE.
Dedicated in 1920.
The hilly country. we'll out
side settled Washington, was
known only as "the target range"
from 1903 until 1920. In that
year, it was formally dedicated
as Camp Simms in memory of
Brig. Gen. Douglas S. Simms, a
former commander of the Guard
and a secretary of the Capital
Traction Co., as the street rail-
way was known before its merger
with the Washington Railway &
Electric Co.
Until the outbreak of World
War II, Camp Simms was used
frequently by the Guard, the
Metropolitan Police Department,
the Army, Navy, Marines and
recognized pistol and rifle clubs.
During World War II, the
Army erected WAC barracks on
the range site but tore them
down in 1945. New barracks
from Fort Davis, N. c., were
moved in year later, renovated
and made into apartments for
the low-cost housing project,
now being torn down.
The silence that set in on the
range with the outbreak of
World War II will continue. The
civilian soldiers in the future
will use their indoor range at
the Armory and Regular Army
outdoor facilities at Fort George
G Meade
Evening star., 1953-11-23
L0nkford Files for House Seat
From MoryIond's Fifth District

waiting to see what former Rep
resentative Lansdale G.. SasScer
plans to do.
Mr.. SaSScer held the seat un-
til the last elections when he
gave it up for an unsuccessful
bid for the Senate. He was
defeated by George P. Mahoney
in the primaries, but the latter
lost to Senator Beall, Republi-
can, of Maryland, in the general
election.
Preached at his home in Upper
Marlboro today, Mr.. Sasscer
Said
Il appreciated the opportunity
of serving the 5th District and
enjoyed my IA years service in
the Congress, but as have pre-
viously stated, I am not a candi-
date for Office and have no in
tentions of running. I am back
in law practice and expect to
stay Cnere.D
Veteran of Navy.
Mr.. Lankford has been a dele
gate from Anne Arundel County
since 1948 when he was appointed
to fill an unexpired term. He
was elected to a four-year term
in 1850.
He is Navy veteran of World
War II, member of the Legis-
lative Council and chairman of
the county Community Chest
campaign.
The 39-year-old lawyer is a
graduate of the University of
Virginia and the University of
Maryland Law School.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Church Council
Official Outlines
Greed of Hope
Eisenhowers Hear
Statement to Be
Given to Conference

The President and Mrs. Eisen-
hover heard a Dutch minister
preach at National Presbyterian
Church yesterday on a state
ment that will be offered to the
World Council of Churches meet
ing next summer.
DR.. w. A. Wiser t Hooft, gen.
eral secretary of the World
Council of Churches, outlined
the basic features of the state
ment, Christ, the Hope of the
World"
The 20,000-word message will
be submitted to 600 delegates
from nearly every country in the
world at the two-week meeting
in Evanston, Ill. Composed by
Is church leaders, it is an effort
to state agreement on theo-
logical matters by Protestant
churches.
Former Efforts Hit.
Previous efforts by this COM
mittee to formulate a statement
have been criticized by many
American church leaders for
failure to take into proper con-
sideration issues of social reform.
DR.. Wiser It Hooft, Hollander
who now lives at council head
quarters in Geneva, Switzer-
land, asserted yesterday that
hope means very simply that
God will not forsake but con-
tinue and accomplish His work
of salvation.
"The great goal to which this
work of God moves is described
in two ways. We hear of the
Kingdom of God. And we hear
of the coming of Christ in glory.
But these two mean one and the
same thing.
For Jesus Christ is not only
the prophet who announces the
kingdom. In Him the king
dom is embodied. In Him it is
present. And so the coming of
the kingdom in it's fullness is
the manifestation of the king
dom of Christ"
Replies to Criticism.
DR.. Wiser t Hooft replied to
criticism that the statement did
not concern itself enough with
social issues by asserting "it is
utterly untrue that the Christian
hopes mean pie in the sky To
be sure, the churches and the
Christians have often behaved in
such a way that this terrible
misunderstanding became almost
inevitable.
Wherever they have justified
slavery. wherever they have
turned their backs on their So
cial and political responsibilities
in this world in order to enjoy
a private, egoistic caricature of
the Christian hope-they have
in fact amassed evidence for the
MarXist thesis that religion is
the opiate of the people,
Social Reform Not Answer.
But he insisted that world
wide disillusionment with social
reform as the answer to it's ills
calls for another solution. There
fore the New Testament ideas of
the second coming of Christ and
the millennium must remain as
the last hope for man, he de-
clared.
The sermon by DR.. Wiser t
Hooft was the first presentation
here by a prominent European
of the message to be submit
ted to the World Council of
Churches meeting in August. 1t,
and subsequent discussion, is
expected to touch off a vigorous
debate among church leaders.
Evening star., 1953-11-23
D. c. Engineers to Meet

The District Society of Pro-
fessional Engineers. Inc, will
meet at 8 O'Clock tonight in the
Potomac Electric Power Co.
auditorium, Tenth and E streets
NV. The group was incorrectly
listed yesterday in The Stars
Science Calendar as the National
Society of Professional Engineers
Evening star., 1953-11-23

nority. and particularly Negroes
as the largest such minority,
strangers in what is nominally
their home community.
II think" Judge Hastie said,
that a great part of any COM
prehenSive program for the
elimination of racism in Amer
ican life during the second half
of the goth century must be
concentrated upon the breaking
down of urban and suburban
residential segregation"
Evening star., 1953-11-23
Eisenhower 10 Speak
After B mai Birth
Honors Him Tonight

President Eisenhower tonight
will receive an award for fur
thering the Nations heritage of
freedom" at the 40th anniver-
Sary dinner of B'nai Births
Anti-Defamation League.
The President will receive the
1858 Americans Democratic
Legacy award at the closing ses-
sion of four-day forum by the
league here.
Henry Edward Schultz. presi-
dent of the league, will present
the medallion to Gen. Eisen-
hover during the anniversary
dinner at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Speech on TeIevision.
The Presidents address. which
is part of an all-star variety
show. will be televised at pm.
over WTOP. A film recording
will be shown at 11:15 pm. over
WNBW and at pm. tomorrow
over WMAL.
Condensed recordings will be
heard at 1920 pm. on WWDC
and at 1880 pm. on WRC.
At yesterdays meeting, Doug
las M. Black, president of the
American Book Publishers Coun-
Gil, suggested that "some of the
people in this country who are
most conspicuous and articulate
in their hatred of Russia do not
themselves want what we are
fighting for"
Emphasis on Freedoms.
"They don't recognize that the
freedoms of expression, press, as
sembly and worship are the very
essence of our democratic life
he told the delegates.
"They don't believe that with
out freedom there is no democ-
racy," Mr.. Black said. "They do
not understand that we will fight
not only to prevent our freedom
being taken from us by our enc
mics abroad. We will not for
felt them to enemies within"
Mr.. Black, who also is presi-
dent of Doubleday & Co., Inc,
said he thought one reason why
"our liberties are in danger at
this time is because fear is
abroad in the land"
"Fear Will Not Help"
There is every reason for
our being apprehensive, for be-
ing aware of the dangers that
persist in the world, and for
being alert to protect ourselves
and strong in our resources he
said. But fear will not help.
There is a demoralizing ra-
tionalization which goes with
this fear. We say we must make
sacrifices to protect ourselves.
We must give up some of cur
freedoms so as not to lose them
all. And that seems rather
plausible. But it is false"
Mr.. Black added that many
well-intentioned people tend to
look on freedom as an orna-
ment at best, rather than the
firm foundation of our life
There are Others" he said,
mot so well-intentioned, who
see in the atmosphere of feal
which there is about us, an op-
portunity to establish limita-
tions of their own devising, un-
der the guise of reasonable dis
cipline. so as to do away with
the freedom which they fear"
Judge HASTE Speaks.
Another speaker at the Free
dom Forum was Judge William
H. Hastie of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in Phil
adelphia.
He said he believed segregated
housing does more than any
other single feature of Amer
ican urban living to make the
members of the segregated mi
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09

usually in hilly country. The nest
of grass, roots and leaves with a
fine lining is usually hidden in
dense vegetation foot or so above
the ground. Four to five eggs,
each nearly an inch long, blush
gray to whitish and spotted or
dotted with reddish brown or
brown, are incubated for about
two weeks by the female. There
is but one annual brood and the
nesting and rearing period is u.s.
ually in June and July.
If you have not made the ac-
quaintance of this delightful bird
and live within the area of its
northern migration this spring,
then get out and get acquainted.
You will thank me for introducing
you to the bird, the bird for living,
and wildlife protection organiza-
tions like the National Wildlife
Federation for sending you this
message.
e. Laurence Palmer.
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09
White-Crown Sparrow
C1o52 National Wildlifs Federation

When winter has begun to give
way to spring and spring shows
occasional signs of summer, the
White-crowned Sparrows are in
the height of their northern migra-
tion through the northern part of
the United States. They have win
tered south of a line running
crudely from the Potomac and
Ohio river valleys to Arizona and
southern Lower California. Their
winter range extends well into
Mexico. They breed north of CEN
trail California's mountains through
northern Arizona, Wyoming, south
ern Quebec and southern Green
land. The breeding range extends
north roughly as far as trees are
to be found.
The White-crowned Sparrow, like
it's close relative, the White-throat-
ed Sparrow, is about 1s-inch long
er than Song Sparrow with a
correspondingly widerwing-spread.
The length of the of the White
crowned Sparrow is about 71s
inches. The easiest field character
Ito distinguish the White-crowned
from the White-throated is natur-
ally the absence in the former OF.
THE conspicuous white throat Of
the latter. The White-crowned is
ALSO in general grayer. In both,
the top of the head appears at a
distance to be similarly black and
white striped. Both appear as
rather large sparrows and in mi
grafton they may be in fiocl1s of
small size. sometimes with other
kinds of sparrows mixed in.
A college student who was later
a professor of zoology was asked
by his professor to collect some
sparrows for use in laboratory and
for feeding captive alligator.
The student, anxious to please his
tutor, shot the largest sparrows he
could find. They happened to be
white-crowned sparrows. The pro-
fessor probably meant English
sparrows. A dynamic lesson fol-
lowed on the Importance of know
ing one sparrow from another be-
fore any killing is done. This
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09
CONFERENCE
AT UNIVERSITY
DIR. C. w. Washburne to Be
Keynote Speaker at Annual
Educational Event
SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH

Dr. Carleton w. Washburne, di-
rector of the Graduate Division
and the Teacher Education Pro-
gram at Brooklyn College, will be
the keynote speaker at the coming
Statewide Education Conference at
the University of Delaware on Sat
urday, April IS. After gradual
ing from Stanford University and
teaching in rural school and in
a small city in California, DIR.
Washburne became the head of
the Department of Science at CAL
ifornia State Teachers College.
While there he took his doctorate
at the University of California.
For the next twenty-four years he
was Superintendent of Schools in
Winnetka, Illinois. These schools
became known throughout the
world for their modern methods,
their research, their adaptation to
individual differences, their work
in the field of nursery education,
and child guidance, and for their
development of citizenship During
the second World War, as lieu
tenant Colonel, he served as Di-
rector of Education for the Allied
Military Government in Italy,
where he was responsible for the
reopening of school and universit-
les and the elimination of fascism
from their programs and text
books From 1916 to 1948, DR..
Washburne was in the Foreign
Service of the Department of
State, as Director of the United
States Information Service for
North italy. Then, following a
short period as Specialist in Edu-
cational Reconstruction for Unesco
he came to Brooklyn College. Dur
ing the course of his career, DIR.
Washburne has Travelled on all six
continents, visiting schools, lectur-
ing, and comforting with educators.
He is the author of number of
books in the field of education,
several of which have been trans
lated into various languages.
His present work at Brooklyn Col
lege consists of developing a five
year teacher education program to
prepare teachers for nursery
school, and high school. This Col
lege furnishes about one third of
the teachers for New York City.
He has been at Brooklyn College
since February, 1949.
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09

philosophy, according to the Ma
tional Wildlife Federation, could
wisely be applied to many practic-
es associated with casual or inten-
tional wildlife management.
Anyone who has followed a mix
ed flock of White-crowned or
White-throated Sparrows on a
rainy spring morning and listened
to their sweet sibilant songs, or
who may have had any consider
able association with the birds,
would probably be the last to kill
them simply because they were the
largest sparrows available. The
White-crowned Sparrow seems to
be whispering it's call while the
White e-throated gives high-pitch-
ed sweet call that is just out of
this world.
White-crowned Sparrows feed to
a slight extent on grain and to a
great extent en- weed seeds. Their
economic Importance is probably
neutral but their emotional inn
portance ranks high with those
who know them best. During the
summer months their food is pri-
marily insects.
White-crowned Sparrows usually
nest in brushland or open woods,
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09

overall average, and some farm
commodities are getting a larger
price cut than others"
Food prices stay bigh even
though farm prices have dropped
because of increased marketing
costs, McAllister explains. The
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
of the United States Department
of Agriculture, attributed these
high marketing costs to increased
wages for labor, higher transpor-
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09
Consumer Price Still High
But Farm Prices Drop

Food prices are still high, but
the farmers share of the consum-
er's food dollar is down." says w.
T. McAllister, marketing specialist
of the Delaware Agricultural Ex-
tension Service.
''The farmer is now receiving
only 46 cents of the consumers
dollar compared with the so cents
received a year earlier. This is an
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09

Red Cross Service Groups men,
bers last year gave 100000 vol
unteer hours in services to veter-
ans and to servicemen and their
families at home and overseas.
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09

tation costs, and increased rents
for storage and stores.
"Since no reduction of these
costs is in sight, present food price
trends are likely to continue
through 1882, says McAllister.
Farm prices will remain low, but
Mrs. Homemaker will find food
prices still high"
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09

One out of every persons in
the United States is a Red Cross
member.
Smyrna times., 1953-04-09

Total membership in the Amer
can Red Cross is now $1,000, 900.
Evening star., 1953-10-31

Thirty-fourth street NV; L. w. Giles
architect, to erect two 2-story brick
and-cinder- block dwellings, 2406 Thirty
fourth street Sc. and 3401 Bangor street
Sc. to cost $4,000 each.
Evening star., 1953-10-31
ID. Building Permits
.0kay Warehouse,
Houses, Apartments

Recent building permits okeyed
construction Of a warehouse,
apartments and dwellings, and
the remodeling of an Office build
ing.
Among them were the follow
ing:
Middle ATLANTIC Dist, Inc. owner
and builder. 1125 Second street NE;
Michael sto1x PeattsrsOn eat architect to erect
place NE, to cost 100000.
NJ Poilin d Sons; Inc. owner and
Berla & Abel architect: to erect ten 9
s2oo throSgh 20 Eleventh street NE.
Clarence Z. Kefauyer and W. owen
builder not selected; santmyers q Tho
6c nd snder e Block erect Saa ''0f
TWENTY. NTH street Sc. to cost SO; 900.
cons1 Avenue FNySR N% eTns Tboma, 4g44 RTUS %
builder. 1904 Wisconsin % avenue NV NV:
Santmyers & Thomen, architect. to erect
two S.story brick and ocinder block
man avenue NV. to cost S4s, 900:
Charles c. Conner, owner and builder,
1910 Eighteenth street NV; Santmy-
ers and Thomen, architect, to erect
apartments, units each. 1000 Forty
seventh place and 3610-12 Kane place
NE, to cost S4S. 900.
Emanuel Margolis and D. and T. Dat
low, owners, "a Pierce street NV:
builder not selected; Daumit & Sargent,
architect. to erect four 2-story brick
and cinder block dwellings,, 6S25 and 81
sandy spring ROAD NV. and 6900-02
Willow street NV. to cost $4,000
washington Board of Trade, owner,
Star Building; builder not selected
Leon Chatelain, architect; to make
general alterations ofice; stores, win
1915 K street NV. to cost $s5, 900.
AZ Madison street NV; Clifton B.
White, architect: to erect one 1-story
brick-and -cinder- r-block dwelling, 1851
Redwood terrace NV. to cost $25, 900.
David J, Karl. owner and builder, AZ
Madison street NV; Clifton B. White,
architect. to erect one 1-story brick
and-cinder- block dwelling, 1755 Red
wood terrace NV, to cost S25,0OO
John w. Parsons. owner. 1910 Eight
eenth street NV: Charles C. Conner,
builder. 1O19 Eighteenth. street NV;
Santmyers 81 Thomen, architect; to erect
one 2-story brick-and- -cinder-blo fiat
and one apartment. 6 units, 3114 G
street Sc F.. and ND $40 croissant place Sc.
Riggs Investment Corp, owner, 1900
Eye street NV; E. Mortanson, Inc,
builder; Earl Won Reichenbach. archi-
Evening star., 1953-10-31

cinder-block gas service station, 22O
Rigs road NE, to cost $4,000.
Frank s. Phillips, owner and builder,
927 Fifteenth street NV. Frank G.
Beatty. architect, to erect one 2-Story
brick land -cinder- dwelling, 4763
Berkley terrace NV, to cost $4,000.
Washington Waterproofing Co., owner
J. p. Billheimer, architect. to build one
1-story brick-and- -cinder-block office and
warehouse 1114 Half street S.W., to
cost $4,000.
w. A. Lusby. owner and builder. 2412
tect. to erect one 1-story brick-and-
Evening star., 1953-08-02
No Glory Without Effort
BY Doris Kanier

ON COMPETITION DAYS, Coach Jim
" Campbell sits by the pool, watch
ing his 1853 champion national indoor
swimming and diving women's team
swim off with trophies, kicking aside
records that have stood for Is years.
The way his Walter Reed Army Hos
pital Swim Club team does it, record
breaking looks easy. But only on
competition days. On other days,
Sunday swimmer watching the team
work out soon realizes this is no life
for a girl with illusions of glamour or
glory without effort.
1t takes dedicated desire to swim
and willingness to work hard-plus
talent-to swim with the club. (The
women's team is part of the Hospital
Club, which includes members of both
sexes from to 24) And the dark
haired, deeply tanned coach doesn't
hesitate to say so to girls who beg him
to let them train with the team.
you've got to want to swim," he
says in the same serious, professional
tone he maintains in training sessions,
because there just isn't any other
reason for going through steady,
strenuous training which matches that
Of the more rough-and- tumble sports
and amounts to sheer drudgery most of
the time"
Unlike other sports, swimming has
no grand purses waiting for competi-
ton winners. The satisfaction of win
ming, or breaking record, generally is
the only reward
If satisfaction were visible reward,
the Walter Reed team would have
enough, with the 100 or so trophies they
have accumulated, individually and
collectively, to decorate the walls
around the 49-foot hospital pool they
train in when it is not being used by
patients. (They train in other Wash
ington pools when it is not available