davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Trimper Wins 9Th Term
As Ocean City Mayor
BY The Associated Press

OCEAN CITY, Md, Aug. IL
Daniel Trimper, Ocean City beer
distributor, has been elected to
his sixth term as Mayor.
Mr.. Trimper's $50. votes gave
him a better than two-to-one
margin over his three opponents
combined. William McCabe
holdover member of the City
Council, got 100. Frank Sacca
whose council term expires, got
70. Robert L. Crooper had 10
Mr.. Trimper will start his 18th
year in the ofice next month
There were 10 candidates for
the three vacancies on the Ave-
man City Council. Harry w.
Kelley led in the race to win re-
election. D. Pasher Bishop ran
second. Capt. Talbot E. Bunt-
ing defeated Councilman Harlan
r. Perdue by one vote for the
third spot. 269 to 268.
Ocean City permits any one
owning property in this resort
city to vote, regardless of legal
residence. A total of 683 persons
cast ballots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Fugitive Still Sought
After Terrorizinq Five

Police still searched today for
q calm and determined" man
who kept a Seat Pleasant (Md.)
family Of five captive for more
than IL hours Monday before
vanishing in Washington.
Harold E. Grimm, his wife,
two sons and brother-in-law
helped police go over picture
files Of possible suspects but
failed to recognize anyone similar
to the short, sharp-featured man
who held them in their farm
house at the point Of a gun.
Because Mr.. Grimm was forced
to drive the man over the. Mary
land line into the District. the
FBI was assisting Prince Georges
and District police. The fugitive
conceivably could be prosecuted
under the Lindbergf Act, involv-
ing kidnapping across State lines.
The man VINO took charge OF
the family's lives for an entire
day may be wanted for murder.
He told his captives that he had
! killed a man and wouldn't hest
tate to kill them.
| However, he did not attack
Mr.. Grimm, Mrs. Grimm, their
sons. Harold and William, or
the boys uncle, Carl Weismuel-
Ter, but left all but Mr.. Grimm
tied up in the house. He COM
PEELED Mr.. Grimm to drive him
to northwest Washington and
fed after robbing Mr.. Grimm,
who is a marine engineer on the
District flreboat. William G..
Belt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Maryland Youth Injured
As Auto Leaves Road

A 20-year-old Ashton (Md.)
youth on his way home early to-
day was hospitalized after an
accident In his car just two doors
away from where he lives.
Howard H. Metcalfe, son Of
q former writer for the New
York Herald Tribune, was adj
mitted to Montgomery General
Hospital. Sandy Spring, with a
deep cash lin his right hip, a
cut over his right eye and other
injuries.
Montgomery County police
said he apparently dozed as he
neared his home and ran OF
the left side Of Route 20. Police
said the car sheered OF a pole,
hit a hydrant and then came to
rest against q tree.
The accident occurred shortly
after midnight. Mr.. Metcalfe. an
insurance clerk In Washington.
is the son Of John c. Metcalfe.
who now is manager Of q lecture
bureau here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
BIadensburg Family Night
To Close Recreation Plans

Bladensburg, Nd. win round
out its summer recreation pro-
gram tomorrow with a family
night at the Bladensburg Ele-
mentary School.
The public is invited along
with the 260 youngsters who
have been taking advantage Of
the program during the summer.
The program, starting at $50
pm. will include games and
contests. including a baseball
game between fathers and sons,
an exhibit Of arts and crafts. and
outdoor dancing.
Sponsors are the Fairgrounds
three directors. Jim Paner, Mary
Lucas and Betty Otley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Burton Back in Jail
After Cafe Burglary

David Burton, who admits
spending more than half his a.
years in jails, Is behind bars
again on a HOUSEKEEPING charge.
Police booked him yesterday
In the $1.523 weekend burglary
Of Napoleon,s Restaurant. 2649
Connecticut avenue NV. Bur-
ton. colored, Of the 500 block Of
U street NV. admitted the job,
said Capt. Joseph w. Shimon
of the General Assignment
Squad.
The captains squad inter.
viewed some 80 former employees
Of the restaurant. Police figured
the burglary must have been
pulled off by some one familiar
with the place.
Burton, who used to cook
there, was prime suspect be-
cause of his record. which in.
cludes burglary. larceny from
mails and HOUSEKEEPING convic-
tons, Capt. Shimon said.
Suspicion deepened when In.
veStigators learned Burton was
fresh from q spending spree,
with all his bills paid and 500
deposited on a car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Race 10 Save Digger
Buried in Ditch Fails

A workman died in q sewer
ditch cavein in Arlington County
yesterday, despite efforts of a CO.
worker and a passing truck
driver to save him.
The victims head was held
free by the truck driver. Frank
T. McGloin, ~, Of 1014 Seven
teenthJ place NE. and Joe Lo-
gan. So. the co-worker. who
leaped into the crumbling ditch.
They began digging with their
hands to free Alexander Gray
son. colored. of 2442 South Low
ell street. Arlington. and were
still working friously when the
Jefferson Manor and Clarendon
rescue squads arrived.
A doctor and an intern rushed
by police from Anderson Clinic
gave Mr.. Grayson shots to ease
his pain while the dramatic
rescue effort went on for more
than an hour. He died 10 min
utes before he was dug free.
Mr.. Grayson had gone to work
Just yesterday for q sewer
subcontractor. william Moore
on q new house at TIC South
Sixteenth place. Arlington. He
was digging a ditch, to connect
q sewer line from the house Il
the county line. The marrow
sewer trench was about IL fee
deep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Traffic 10 Bypass
BIadensburg Rd. Job

An irnprovised bypass Of
southbound Bladensburg road
traffic around the New York
avenue NE. intersection will go
into effect, probably this week,
while q sewer installation is
completed in the middle of the
busy juncture.
p Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss.
engineer commissioner, decided
on this solution after q last
minute field trip to the area late
yesterday. The sewer line is be-
ing laid in connection with ex-
tension of New York avenue east
of Bladensburg road which will
tie in to the Baltimore Washing
ton Parkway. now nearing COM
pletion.
The bypass will cut behind a
gasoline filing station on the
northwest corner Of the inter-
section, funneling all southbound
traffic west on New York. Where
the latter thoroughfare next in
tersects, traffic will have the
option Of doubling back on Mon
tana avenue to return to Blad-
ensburg road. or of aiming down.
town via either West Virginia
avenue or straight ahead on
New York avenue.
Since the sewer job will be
undertaken only in the western
most lanes Of Bladensburg road,
the northbound traffic lanes will
remain open.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Mass Output Sought
For Terrapin With
Maryland U. Tests
By the Associated Press

CHRISFIELD, Md, Aug. IL
The old Maryland argument
over the best way to prepare
terrapin is bound to get a work.
out before the University of
Maryland gets through with an
experiment aimed at speeding
up sales of the slow-moving dia-
mondbacks-a table delicacy.
On Saturday night daylight
travel would be too hot) a truck
will leave Beaufort. N. c., loaded
with, $500 of the tasty creatures.
And early Sunday the truck is
scheduled to roll into this lower
Eastern Shore town, where the
university is building an elabo-
rate seafood processing labora-
tory.
Blanched, Frozen or Picked.
Eventually these terrapin may
be boiled, blanched, frozen, jel-
lied. canned, picked, and maybe
even barbecued in an effort to
make terrapin a dish for the
masses.
Already, eyebrows are lifting
in circles Of epicures, including
the Maryland Club in Baltimore,
where the supremacy of Ter
rapin q Ia Maryland-the dish
Of the house-has never been
challenged by the vagaries of
popular taste.
Louis Nauman, manager Of
the club, shuddered' at the
thought Of terrapin being canned
or otherwise spoiled. He indi-
Gated terrapin is too soft and
delicate to take such lmanhan-
ding.
Fr0wns ON Freezing.
"Some members have tried to
freeze terrapin," Mr.. Nauman
commented, "but this seems to
take something out of terrapin.
We sort Of frown on freezing"
Mr.. Nauman conceded that the
sale of terrapin beyond the con-
fines of the Maryland Club might
go up if q successful way of
canning can be found. but this
he doubts.
People are not eating terrapin
because :. 1t takes all day to
cook the things"
DR.. G. w. Wharton, head of
the university's department of
zoology, said terrapin sales were
Sis, 900 in 1915: $51, 900 in 1919;
and $1,000 in 1852.
Terrapin now are more plenti-
full than in decades.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Easily Named President
OF Virginia Fire Chiefs
BY the Assoeiated Press

DANVTLLE. Va, Aug. IL
Clay A. Easily, fire marshal Of
Martinsville yesterday was
elected president Of the Virginia
Fire Chiefs Association at its
concluding meeting.
The work committee came up
with q recommendation directed
to DR.. Dowell ]. Howard, State
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, calling for renewed en-
phasis on the need Of bringing
fire-fighting training to higher
level.
The resolutions committee
recommended appointment Of q
ire prevention engineer at each
Of the States mental hospitals.
In the meantime the State
Firemen's Association was get
ting down to business with an
agenda Of business, parades and
contests which win keep it Ii
session through most Of Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Sanitary Chairman Unhappy
Over Lund Sold in Road Deal

The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission yesterday
voted to sell two acres of land it
valued at $50. 900 to the Mary
land State Roads Commission
for 1865 an acre, but the deal
m a de Sanitary Commission
Chairman Raymond w. Bellamy
unhappy"
Mr.. Bellamy declined to vote
on a resolution authorizing the
sale for the right Of way Of q
new River road about to be con-
strlCted through Bladensburg by
the roads commission. The
sanitary commission offered the
land at the price it paid for it
instead Of the currently appraised
price "as a public service"
I'm not going to vote for any
thing for the State Roads COM
mission" flared Mr.. Bellamy.
mot until they give US some
decent roads in Prince Georges
County You fellows tCommis-
Sioners ]. Norman Ager and L,
S. Ted" Ray) can do what you
want. but ! say they're being
lousy to u.s."
Mr.. Bellamy, q resident Of
Cheverly, said the roads group
has put stone veneer on all it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Programs for Tonight

Programs sponsored by The
Evening Star in cooperation
with the. Film Center of WASH
ington and the recreation de-
partments Of the District and
Alexandria and Arlington. Prince
Georges, 4 Montgomery and Fair-
fax Counties:
Washington at Dusk.
aailingsE and Twenty-seeond
Tskoma. Fourth and whittier strests
Turkey Thicke.. Tenth street and
sou:s; Thirty-seyenth street and MP
Thomson. Twelfth and L streets NV.
.n rort ose sa. I NICHOLS Is avenue and Chess
aps goT.r ssres so,, S;S and w ..r.... NV
aspDg HoiloW: E,IS..snts s's stss. Tan and
crummell. Galiaudet and Kendall
Lincoln, sixth and L streets Sc.
Arlington County, $50 PM.
Patrick Henry zoo South Fillmore
. Hoffman-Bosto gouth Queen and
South Thirteenth streets.
Prince Georges County. $50 Pm.
Muirkirk Playground. Muirkirk road.
Parklawn Playground RisEs and Asas
Moutsomery County. $50 Pm.
Rock Creek. East Leland street and
Beach drive, Chevy Chase.
iincoIn PARK, Carver Junior Hisn
school odd, Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Prince Georges
Curb on Bottle
Clubs Invalid
Failure to Set Up
Standards Cited in
Morbuy's Ruling

Circuit Court Judge Charles C..
Marbury yesterday declared UNI
constitutional a new Prince
Georges County ordinance aimed
at restricting and controlling
after-hours clubs.
The ordinance was passed by
the County Commissioners last
October shortly after q District
breakdown started q move Of
after-hours clubs to the suburbs.
It gave the commissioners power
to license after-hours or bottle
clubs and provided that they
would have to close at the same
hour as any night club or bar.
Judge Marbury. in his ruling
handed down today in, Upper
Marlboro. said the ordinance is
invalid because it fails to set up
standards and conditions for the
commissioners to follow in issu-
ing or denying after-hours clubs
licenses.
The usual rule with respect
to delegation of police power
to administrative officials or
boards" Judge Marbury said, sis
that they must be surrounded
with such safeguards that the
official or board cannot arbi-
trarily determine whether or
! not such businesses or amuse-
ments can operate"
ITO hold otherwise" the Judge
added, would allow the Board
Of County Commissioners an ar
bitrary field of authority"
The Judge ruled on challeng-
ing suits brought by two after
hours clubs, the Tyre Club and
testers Club. They have contin-
ued to operate while their cases
are being argued under a tenn
porary injunction preventing
county officials from enforcing
the new ordinance.
County Attorney C. Calvert
Lancaster said he would not ap-
peal the ruling. Instead, he said,
he will propose to the County
Commissioners that they re-
enact the ordinance as soon as
possible with an amendment
setting up standards and condi-.
tionS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Group Plans 10 AppI,
For New Swim Pool
In Bethesda Area

An application will be filed
shortly with the Montgomery
County Board of zoning Appeals
seeking permission to build a
community swimming pool near
Fernwood drive and Green Tree
road, Bethesda.
Such action was voted last
night by the board of directors of
Old Georgetown Club, Inc, an
organization formed 18 months
ago which holds an option on a
f1ve-acre tract near the Wyngate
Elementary School.
According to the clubs presi-
dent, William Weitzen, 5809 Jar
Wis lane, Alta Vista Gardens, THE
group will submit the applica-
ton within the next two or three
weeks. Some $50 families have
enrolled In the club, most of
them from the vicinity of Old
Georgetown road and adjoining
areas, the president said.
Mr.. Weitzen said the mem
bers have been led to believe
they would receive favorable
consideration of the application
because county officials want to
show the existing law will per-
nit such pools to be built"
Community swimming pools
operated by private subscription
among neighborhood families
are barred under a new county
coming law if it is shown they
have an adverse effect on adj
joining property values.
Mr.. Weitzen said the Bethesda
site is surrounded by woods and
vacant land. Purchase Of the
site, he added, hinges on whether
the club gets approval to build
the pool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Clothes Worth ST 500
Stolen From Home

Clothing valued at $500 was
taken from a Georgetown home
over the week end. the owner
reported yesterday after return
ing from q tWo-day trip.
He is Russell A. Eldridge, 2720
O street NV.
A laundryman. calling at the
house for business. discovered q
basement door smashed open
police said. Mr.. Eldridge said il
was the second such break-in
in three years. Some $500 worth
Of clothing was taken In the
first theft. when he lived ii
another address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11

new overpasses except the one
carrying the Baltimore Washing
ton Expressway across Landoyer
road near his house.
Its just raw concrete" he
complained.
Turning to Mr.. Ray. who lives
in Silver Spring. Mr., Bellamy
said: ''One side Of Georgia
avenue in Montgomery County is
wider than our main road over
here"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Rescue Squad Pulls
Cow From Gully
Possibly in Vain

A half dozen members Of the
Oxon Hill (Md.) Rescue Squad
labored two hours last night to
extricate q Thoroughbred COW
from Q grassy. l0-foot gully.
After her rescue Bonnie Best.
q Guernsey who had twin calves
eight weeks ago. couldn't stand
up. The rescuers massaged her
legs and fed her q can of beer.
The COW. owned by Charles e.
Robertson. ST., Of 1850 Owens
road. Oxon Hill. was pulled from
the gully with q rope sling
hitched to q tow truck. Today
the SOW was still unable to stand
up and may have to be destroyed
according to q member Of the
Robertson family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Suitlond Child Injured
In Fall From Auto

A 3-year-old Kentland tMd.N
girl suffered q skull fracture yes
terday when she fell from her
fathers moving car on Bladens-
burg road near Seventeenth
street NE. police reported.
The child. Cherry Cornett, Is
the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
William e. Cornett. 1924 Green
leaf road.
She was reported in fair con-
dition today at Prince Georges
General Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Deal May Bring
New Easf-West
Road Extension
Tuymun Says County
And State Engineers
Agree on Project

A trade between the State
Roads Commission and Prince
Georges County may bring
about construction Of q new
East-West highway extension
from the Ager and Riggs roads
intersection to the intersection
Of Colesville and Queens Chapel,
roads.
Arthur w. Tayman, director
Of the county's Department Of
Public Works. said today that
State roads engineers agreed at
q conference with the Prince
Georges County Commissioners
in Baltimore yesterday to rec
.ommend that the Roads Com
mission work the new project
into the States 12-year road
program
The county commissioners, for
their part, tentatively agreed to
the transfer Of Ager road from
the State to the county road sys-
tenn. Mr.. Tayman said.
Extension Long Sought.
The extension of East-West
highway through the Christian
Heurich tract at Colesville and
Queens Chapel road long had
been q dream Of the late Robert
M. Watkins. former chairman
Of the Maryland National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commits.
sion.
The county commissioners had
requested two years ago that the
extension, covering a distance Of
about two miles, be included in
the 12-year program, but the
State Roads Commission by.
passed it.
County officials argued yes
terday that, since they already
have constructed Rhode Is
land avenue extended between
Branchville and BeltSville, which
was in the program. the State
should apply the Rhode Island
avenue project money to the
proposed East-West highway
extension.
Norman M. Pritchett. chief
engineer for the State Roads
Commission, said he thought
that could be done and would
recommend it to the full COM
mission.
Other Work Outlined.
Mr.. Tayman said the county
commissioners also were told at
the annual conference that:
/. Work will begin this fall on
dualization Of New Hampshire
avenue from the District line to
Columbia road in Montgomery
County.
2. Plans are virtually complete
and contracts will be let next
winter for Pennsylvania avenue
extended. a dual highway that
will run from the District line
between and paralleling the
Marlboro pike and Suitland
parkway and connecting with
the Marlboro pike just east Of
Forestville.
8. Tuxedo road will be Wild
ened. Strengthened and relocated
between Columbia Park road and
River road next year, instead Of
at the close Of the 12-year pro-
gram as originally planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Teacher designations
Threaten Fall Quota
In County, Schools

Prince Georges County is
within eight teachers Of filling
all its teaching vacancies for
the fall term. but designations
are still coming. in.
That was reported to the
County School Board yesterday
by George H. Robinson, assist
ant superintendent in charge OF
instruction. 81
The county will need 1,725
teachers when classes are re-
sumed on September z.
Mr.. Robinson said 269 teach
ers have resigned SO far this
summer, most of them this
month That represents a turn
over Of 17.5 per cent. he said
only slightly better than the
turnover at this time last year.
He said he has a good backlog
Of applications for teaching jobs,
but "it's a gamble from here
on in" whether most of the app
plicants haven't already found
other positions.
Find Better Jobs.
Asked by a board member
why the turnover is so high, Mr..
Robinson said most of the
teachers who resigned have
found better positions. Although
the Prince Georges County pay
scale ranks among the highest
in Maryland. it is among the
lowest In the Washington area.
Maternity also has taken its
toll of teachers.
Many OF our resigned zach
ers Rave been surprised by d turn
OF events In their family life, -
Mr.. Robinson said. THAT still
remains 4 major factor III our
lttlrfieyer
The School Board decided to
defer construction Of the Is
classroom Junior high school for
Negroes at Sheriff Knobs, In view
of the possible indignation Of Ne
gro and white schools. It was ex-
planned that Indignation would
make a large Junior high school
in that area less imperative.
U. s. Funds Provided.
The Sheriff Knobs project was
to be financed out Of $2.4 million
in Federal school construction
aid recently made available to
the county. The board voted to
apply the Sheriff Knobs alloca-
ton toward a new 18-room
junior high school in the Oxon
Hill district.
The remainer of the Federal
money will help pay for a 90
room junior high school on a site
adjacent to the present Suitland
Junior-Senior High School, a Is
room addition to Glenridge Jul
nior High, opening for the first
time next month. and a 10-room
elementary school at Oxon Run
Hills.
The board also voted to COM
plete a section Of Fairmont
Heights Junior Senior High
School. The project, which will
cost an estimated $3.50, 900. will
add needed classroom and labo-
ratory space to that building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Virginia Cos Tex Rises

RICHMOND. Aug. Ii R.-
The Division of Motor Vehicles
yesterday said gasoline taxes In
Virginia during the first six
months Of the year totaled sac
S23. 5S8-an increase Of $305 ,4is
over the same period in 1853.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Health Delegate Numed

BALTIMORE. Aug. II P).--
Gov. McKeldin has designated
DR.. Clifton T. Perkins, State
Commissioner. OF Mental Hygiene.
to represent Maryland ct the
NTH International congress on
mental health which opens at
Toronto today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-01
Nursing Home Seeks
Return OF License

An appeal against the revoca-
ton of a Kensington Nursing
Home license is scheduled to be
heard by the Montgomery County
Board of Appeals at 9:15 am
Thursday in the Bethesda County
Building.
The license of the Fairhaven
Nursing Home, l Carroll place.
Kensington. was revoked last
month after county officials re-
ported violations of health, fire
and building code specifications.
The home was operated by Mr..
and Mrs. Sigurd Christensen.
Also to be heard Thursday is
complaint of residents of Bur-
louisville, Md, that a sand pit is
being operated there in violation
of the coming law, and a request
to operate a billiard parlor and
bowling alley at 11156 Georgia
avenue in the Wheaton triangle
Another Board of Appe lis
meeting at OILS am. March
will consider requests for permits
sion to build two private swim
ming clubs at the east end of
Dennis avenue in Silver Spring
and at Cedar lane and Summit
avenue. Kensington.
officials of the Kenwood Coun-
try Club also are to appear at
the second hearing on a request
to build an incinerator and to
provide more Office space at the
club, on River road.