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Evening star., 1954-08-24
Gaithersburg Airman
Dies Of Traffic Injuries

A young Gaithersburg (Md.)
airman who would have been 10
years old Thursday died in Be-
thesda Naval Hospital yesterday
as result of injuries sustained
in a traffic accident August IL.
The victim was Aairman 2/c
Robert P. Offutt, son of MIR. and
Mrs. Walter P. Offutt of 431
East Diamond avenue. His father
is foreman in the beer division
of the Montgomery County
Liquor Control Board.
Airman Offutt was a passenger
in car which ran off Route q
near Cedar Grove, Md, and
struck a tree. He was on leave
from his duty station near Pitts
burgh.
Two other youths. also from
Gaithersburg were injured in
the accident. They were Beverly
E. Rau, 18, driver of the car,
and Ray Rhodes, Is, police re-
ported.
Young Offutt attended Gath
ersburg High School and st.
Martins Parochial School.
Besides his parents, he is sur
vived by seven brothers and two
sisters.
Rosary services will be con-
Quoted at the Pumphrey funeral
home, Rockville, at 8 pm. to-
morrow. Funeral services and
Requiem Mass will be at 10 am.
Thursday at st. Martins Catho-
lie Church, Gaithersburg. Burial
will be in Parklawn Cemetery.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Bank in Takoma Park
To Buy Old Church;
Rezoning Approved

The Citizens Bank of Takoms
Park has agreed to buy the ole
Seventh-day Adventist Church
at the corner of Carroll and
Willow avenues, Takoma Park
I This fact was disclosed last
night during a meeting of the
Takoma Park City Council al
which approval was given to re-
zone part of the tract from resi-
Dental to commercial use.
The bank plans to use the
property for a drive-in window
and parking space for GUS
toners.
The church itself has a new
stone structure across the street.
Appearing before the council
last night were Oliver w. Young
blood, the banks president and
onetime mayor of Takoma Park +;
Henry j. Carr and j.. Douglas
Bradshaw. representing the bank
In another action, the council
approved a zoning petition by
Giuseppe Crupi. owner of a
tract at Roanoke and Kennebee
avenues. 1t rezoned the prop
erty from R-40 zoning, permit
ting 2-family detached housing
to RIO, for multiple family
structures.
Appointment of Barron E. de-
Kalb as a private in the Ia
koma Fire Department was ap-
proved.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Judge Alfred D. Noyes
Weds Rockville Widow

Montgomery County's Juvenile
Court Judge Alfred D. Noyes
yesterday disclosed his marriage
on August II to the former Mrs.
Anna F. Rice, a Rockville widow.
They were married, he said,
in a quiet ceremony at the
Westminster Methodist Church
in Westminster, Md.
Judge Noyes, At, said the
wedding was not formally an
nounced. 1--WE just wanted to
go off by ourselves and be mar
ried," he, said.
Judge Noyes is a veteran Of
eight years on the county's
juvenile bench. Mrs. Noyes,
who is a mother of three chill
dren, is a case worker in the
county's welfare department.
The couple has returned from
a wedding trip through Virginia
and is living at Judge Noyes'
home in Barnesville.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Fruit Shippers
Get Alexandra
Warehouse Permit

It looks like the Fruit Growers
Express Co. can build a big addi-
ton to its Alexandria shop after
all.
A permit was issued by the city
yesterday for foundation work Of
the new building and City Man
ager Ira willard said a prelimi-
nary examination of plans for
the rest of the structure indi-
Gated It would conform with the
city's requirements.
For a time the city and the
firm were at odds over steel spec
ifications for the $26. 900 building
which Fruit Growers said was
the beginning of a big expansion
Mr.. willard held that the city
building code required supports
Of quarter-inch-thick steel. while
original plans submitted for the
building showed steel one-six-
teenth Of an inch thick.
Evening star., 1954-08-24

from Fairfax County. to add
facilities at the city's present
schools and to purchase land
and equipment where necessary.
The council awarded a trash
and garbage collection contract
to H. E. Award at monthly
cost to the city Of $1,349. Mr..
Award submitted the lowest of
two bids.
Water Extension Approved.
Extension of the city's water
service to a 20-acre site outside
the city limits was approved by
the council at the request OF
water department officials. The
extension will cost $4,000. but
will enable the city to sell water
to a large number of homes
along the extension route. Lees
burg pike, to Lemon road.
A request by a group of city
businessmen that the council
create q parking authority to
acquire, build and operate public
parking lots was referred to City
Attorney william Baskin for q
report.
Evening star., 1954-08-24

remain on display till the end Of
the fair. Also to be judged today
were milking shorthorn cattle.
Scheduled for tonight are a
military drill at 1880. style
show at 8 and a fireworks dis
play at $3.50.
Tomorrow is designated as
Children's Day. The program is
as follows:
10 am, judging of Jersey
cattle, sheep, dairy goats. poultry.
rabbits, draft horses.
Bpm, children's milking con-
test; pm, Holstein cattle judg-
ing. pie-eating contest; 4::30
pm, Wild West rodeo; 6 pm,
swine judging; 8 pm, Army Air
Force Band parade; $3.50 pm,
light draft horse pulling contest.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Wounded Wife Of Senate
Aide Still on Serious LIST

The condition of Mrs. Joseph
c. Ellis, shot by her husband
before he killed himself at their
home Sunday, remained serious
today at Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. Ellis was shot in the face
with a .25 caliber automatic
which Mr.. Ellis, finance clerk of
the Senate, then turned on him.
self. Yesterday the coroner's
Office issued a certificate of
suicide.
Relatives and friends said Mr..
Ellis appeared to have been
suffering from overwork oc-
casioned by long hours toward
the end of the congressional ses-
sion. He and Mrs. Ellis had
argued and he had packed his
bag: threatening to leave their
home at 1900 Upshur street NV.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Tukomu Park Acts
To End Hide-Seek
Games in Sewers

Tampering with manhole cov-
ers and sewer drains may cost
Takoma Park residents $5 or
five days in Jail.
Such was the gist of an ordi-
nance approved last night by
the nearby Maryland municipal
ity's City Council.
Earl Thomas, superintendent
of public works for the commu-
nifty, suggested the ordinance
and said it would prevent chill
dren from playing in such sewers
and hideouts and thus avert
possible trgedy.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
County Would
Hold Parents
In vanda| Cases
School Bourd Plans
Court Conference
As Costs Mount

The Montgomery County Board
of Education decided at a spe-
cial meeting in Rockville last
night to meet with County Juve-
nile Court Judge Alfred Noyes
to seek a way to hold parents
financially responsible for dam
age to school property by their
children.
The decision was made after
Supt. Forbes H. Norris told
School Board members that a
new system Of keeping monthly
damage records shows vandalism
and accidental breakage of school
windows has cost $2,316 in the
first two months of school vaca-
tion this year.
DR.. Norris pointed out that
not all the broken glass vas
caused by vandalism because %
schools are used by the County
Recreation Department as day
camp centers. Damages for acci-
dental breakage are recoverable
from the recreation department,
he said.
Figures cited by the board in
this years budget request shows
the bill for vandalism and acci-
dental damage to school property
runs between $4,000 and $50, 900
a year.
School Board Controller Brian
Benson reported at last nights
meeting that families of two of
the three juveniles involved in an
arson case at Takoma Park Ju-
nior High on June 9 have agreed
to pay 81, 900 each for the $4,000
damages to the school. Parents
Of the third child have not yet
responded to the boards request
for payment, Mr.. Benson said.
The board voted to permit the
Ground Observer Corps to build
an observation post on the
grounds of Weller Road Ele-
mentary School. The post has
been operated on top of Pook's
Hill Apartments on Rockville
pike.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Curb on Water
To End Soon
In Alexandra
New Main Sections
Will Boost Supply
Within 2 Weeks

Customers of the Alexandria
and Virginia Water Cos can
expect an end of the partial
ban on water use in two more
weeks with the completion of
two large sections Of a new
transmission main.
Howard c. Richards, general
manager of the two water COM
panieS that serve all Of Alexan-
dria and adjacent sections Of
Fairfax County, declared that
one section of the transmission
line from Franconia road to
Cameron station already was
completed, and another three
mile section from Occoquan to
Shirley highway should be fin
ished by the end of this week.
Mr.. Richards said this would
assure the city of an adequate
water supply. He said it would
take another week or SO, how
ever, to test the new lines, flush
them out and put them into
service.
Other Sections Incomplete.
Other sections of the new 13-
mile transmission line from Oc-
coquan to Alexandria remain
to be completed, but the
two portions now about finished
are connected to the old trans
mission line, relieving the water
supply problem.
The partial ban now in effect
prohibits use of water from any
outside hose connection. The
water company is required by
the order to cut off service from
any customer who violates the
emergency regulation.
The Virginia State Corpora
tion imposed the current partial
water ban on petition of the Al
exandria and Virginia Water
Co.'S after the reservoir sup
ply in the city grew low dur
ing the recent prolonged dry
spell. Mr.. Richards said it would
be necessary for the sec to act
to end the ban, and he said it
would be petitioned to do so as
soon as the new sections of
transmission lines are fully in
service.
Arlington Ban Continues.
Alexandria Water Co. and its
affiliate, Virginia, get their water
supply from Occoquan Greek.
There was no shortage of water
at Occoquan, but transmission
lines to the city were inadequate
to meet the heavy demands in
the dry spell.
Arlington's water ban remains
in effect. Outside use of water
Is forbidden except between mid
night and Z am.
There have been a number of
changes in the restrictions since
they were first announced in
June and water department of
f1cials are reluctant to make any
further change until they can
safely remove all restrictions.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Car Owner Ordered to Remove
Auto Signs Denouncing Deoler

be placed on and about the auto
mobile such as This car stinks.
$3.50 worth of junk" etc.
A string of lemons, the plain
tiff declared. is strung around
the roof Of the car and hood
land the defendant parked or
caused said car to be parked in
front of the plaintiffs place Of
business"
The suit says that Mr.. Woot-
ton bought a 1858 car from the
dealer last November II and
that the Woottons have never
complained about defects Of any
kind.
The dealer sought the injunc-
ton through Attorney Ignatius
j.. Keane.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Police HeckIinq
Hurts Bottle
Club Business
Six Arrests Made
In. Prince Georges
Hurossment Drive

Police heckling is hurting busi-
ness at Prince Georges County
after-hours bottle clubs" which
are technically able to run wide
open until September 8, when
a new ordinance curbing them
is expected to be adopted.
County police made six ar
rests at two clubs early Sunday
as part Of a campaign of har-
rassment launched by direction
Of States Attorney Carlisle j.
Lancaster.
The States attorney yesterday
said the campaign so far has
been "very effective" 1--WE hope
they all close up." Mr.. Lancas-
ter declared.
License Numbers Taken.
Police details have been as
signed from 2 to 6 am. outside
the clubs to take down license
numbers and make arrests for
even slight effenses.
The county's newest after
hours spot, the Meadowview
Club at 1901 Baltimore boule-
ward. College Park, which opened
Thursday, closed down Sunday
night after only n hours of op-
Grafton. It reopened early Tues.
day for a few hours.
Two other clubs, the Lyre Club
In the 5000 block of Marlboro
pike, Hillside, and the testers
Club in the $500 block of Tuxedo
road, Tuxedo, would not openly
admit decline in business or
else refused to comment.
But John F. Lillard, jr., at
torney for the Lyre Club, said
after four arrests were made
near the club Sunday morning:
1--WE don't like it"
The county has been without
a bottle club law since August
9, when Circuit Judge Charles
c. Marbury ruled the old law
invalid on constitutional grounds
because it failed to set up stand
ards for the county commits
Sioners to follow in issuing Aor
denying licenses to after hours
clubs.
Public Hearing Sept. 3.
A public hearing on a new
ordinance. according to County
Attorney C. Calvert Lancaster,
corrects the defects of the old
law, as scheduled for IL am,
September 3, before the COM
missioners in Hyattsville.
Attorneys for the clubs have
indicated they will challenge the
validity Of any new bottle club
ordinance. Mr.. Lancaster said
the county may need a law
passed by the General Assembly
to bring the clubs under the
existing liquor law in order to
take stand against the estab-
lishments which would be i'm
pregnable in court.
The Lyre and testers clubs
have been operating after hours
under a temporary injunction
preventing county officials from
enforcing the former ordinance,
adopted last october. The law,
passed after a District crack
down started a move by the clubs
into the county, would have
given the commissioners power
to license bottle clubs and require
that they close at the same hour
as any nightclub or bar.
Evening star., 1954-08-24
Shuman Gets Housinq
Post in Alexandria:
Redeve|opment Foe

Aubra N. Shuman today was
appointed to a four-year term
on the Alexandria Redevelop-
ment and Housing Authority by
Mayor Marshall j. Beverley.
Mr.. Shuman, owner of the So
year-old Shuman's Bakery in
Alexandria, replaces former Rep
resentative Winder Harris, who
notified the Mayor he did not
want reappointment.
Mr.. Shuman Is a known foe of
the controversial commercial re-
development plan fostered by the
housing authority. The Mayor
also opposed the project. Mr..
Harris, however. was a leading
proponent of the plan.
Plan Apparently Is Dead.
The commercial redevelopment
plan, frequently called the Prince
Street shopping center, appar-
emily is dead, since a majority
Of City Council members oppose
it. but it has been referred back
to the housing authority for fur
ther study.
Mr.. Shuman said he had nc
idea of going on the housing
authority with the sole purpose
of fighting the Prince street
Shopping Center which he op-
posed.
"As far as I'm concerned" he
said, that's a closed issue al
ready"
He added, however, that he
was opposed to the principle of
condemning private property to
turn it over to other private
ownership.
Head of Church Board.
Mr.. Shuman, who lives at 512
Cameron street, Alexandria, is
chairman of the Board of Trus-
tees Of the First Baptist Church
and a diretGor of the George
Mason Hotel. He was a member
Of the Alexandria Draft Board
during World War II.
Mayor Beverley declared the
city was fortunate to have a
man of ability and business ex-
perience who Is so highly re-
garded in the community to
serve on this important COM
mission"
In addition to Mr.. Shuman
other members of the authority
now are Chairman Ward Bos-
well, Frank Fannon, Charles
Pullman and Charles Nicholson.
Evening star., 1954-08-24

Prince Georges County Circuit
Judge John P. Gray. jr., yester-
day signed a temporary injunc-
ton banning operation or park
ing of a car displaying signs and
decorations denouncing a county
automobile dealer.
The court also directed the
defendant, Edward c. Wootton,
and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth
Wootton of Burtonsville, Nd. to
show cause on September 10
why the Injunction should not
be made permanent.
The court action claims the
dealer has been harassed be-
cause the Woottons 'have caused
certain signs and decorations to
Evening star., 1954-08-24
BIust Kills Jeep Driver

PHILIPPI, w. Va, Aug. "a (H1.
"A Clarksburg man was killed
yesterday in an explosion caused
when the jeep in which he was
hauling dynamite ran off a road
and struck a rock. The impact
set off the dynamite, killing
63 year old Joseph Garland
Wheeler, operator Of a strip
mine near Berryburg.
Evening star., 1954-10-31
Honendkers Beware: The Tostemokers
Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out

The tastemakers are at 1t
today as indeed they have been
since the world began. Only
this time their hand has been
called: they've been exposed.
at least those who've been on
the American scene since the
l830s.
In an engagingly written
new book, entitled "The Taste
makers (Harpers), Russell
Lynes. managing editor OF the
old New York publishing firm
of Harper g. Brothers, not only
exposes" these entrepreneurs
of taste with harp-Sighted hui
NOR but more seriously ana
lyzes the effect of their
decrees-many of them COM
mendable - upon American
culture.
1t seems that the victimiza-
ton of the American house.
holder has been going on for
some time. beginning with the
1830s when Andrew Jackson
Downing, the young Hudson
River country architect.
thought smiling lawns and
tasteful cottages" would re-
form the ill-mannered ways
of his countrymen. to the
present with its emphasis on
every home (even If it looks
like it came off a factory as
Evening star., 1954-10-31
By Ruth peon

Do you like sleek, futuristic
furniture that looks as If 1t
walked out Of a cubist paint
ing?
Or, do your tastes run to
the more conventional? Like
that old wing-back chair in
the living room you bought at
an antique sale last year.
Why do you prefer ultra
modern or Early American?
Or for that matter, why did
grandmother keep that stuffed
bird and those flowers under
glass on her favorite living
room table?
That was nonsense. you say
You wouldn't be caught dead
with a stuffed bird in the liv-
ing room. Well. grandmother
would be indignant. She liked
that bric-a-brac every bit as
much as you like what she
would call "outlandish" fur
niture
So what does it all mean?
Do you really like what you
choose, or was the choice subtly
made for you by a magazine
ad or a persuasive TV CONNER
cial? Did grandmother fill her
parlor with all those ridiculous
things because some one told
her it was the latest style?
Possibly so.
Evening star., 1954-10-31

sembly line) rejecting the
personality" of its owner.
Author Of Snobs
Mr.. Lynes, who is also au-
thor of "Snobs," is a scholar
and a humorist. The combina-
ton makes for some lively and
interesting reading. Your only
regret is that he doesn't tell
you more about these men and
women--architects, designers.
merchants, critics, geniuses
and frauds, messiahs and men
of art-who have changed the
face of America.
Unforgettable are his word
portraits of such personalities
as the great architectural
prophet Charles L. Eastlake
whose burning-eyed disdain
of the ornate and promotion
of his "C-ration formula" for
simplicity led every American
housewife in search of "sin-
cere" furnishings; or Richard
Morris Hunt a generation
later, whose Vanderbilt-com-
missioned copies of French
chateaux satisfied appetites
now tired of Eastlake, and
still later, Elsie de Wolfe.
whose battle cry for suitable
ity" in the late 90s scuttled
remnants of the cluttered Vic
torian parlor to the family at
Evening star., 1954-10-31

= tic and set a new trend for
chintz interior decor. g.
Throughout the 18th CEN
tury, Americans conformed to
what the tastemakers wanted
them to conform to, and al
ways it was a strong moral
appeal to one extreme or the
other. Usually a period of in
diligence in the ornate trap
pings of French Renaissance
or Greek and Oriental tenn
Piles would be fine bait for the
reformers to step in with their
preachments of returning to
honesty" and sincerity"
1t Left Them Reeiinq
1t was no wonder then that
the advent of modernism"
with its outraged aftermath of
charges Of immortality in art.
should catch them unawares
and leave them reeling for the
next 80 years on the edge Of
the chasm that yawned be-
tween traditionalism and
conformity.
Mr.. Lynes' account of New
York's now famous Armory
Show of 1918, which over,
turned the art world, is hilari-
Gus. The show, engineered by
a couple of enterprising taste
makers of the day, was Ameri-
cas- first introduction to-
French cubist and post-im-
pressionist art. 1t didn't take
to it kindly at first.
Marcel Duchampss Nude
Descending a Staircase" was
the bombshell that ripped the
taste controversy wide open
into its two opposing camps.
Rush Hour Rude 81.
At first people were apa-
thetic to the Armory show.
Then, out Of curiosity, they
came in droves.
At first they just stared. In
credulity gave way to anger
and then laughter. Cartoonists
had a field day with the
Duchamp painting. A New
York Evening Sun cartoon
satirized it as Rude
Descending a Staircase-at
the subway rush hour" An
other critic called it an "ex-
plosion in a shingle factory"
Enrico Caruso, then at the
height of his operate glory,
visited the show one day and
just for laughs drew carica-
lures of the exhibits and threw
them to the crowd.
Though nothing quite so en-
tertaining as the armory show
has come along since, the
tastemakers are continuing to
have their field day with us.
It's the vice president In
charge of public relations
who's now stealing the show.
And why bother writing little
brochures and books about
what you want the public to
think when there's a TV set
or will be when the taste
makers get through-in every
home. a movie house on prac-
tically every corner and the
department stores are offer
ing specials" on big name
magazine subscriptions?
And so the tastemaking
merry-go-round goes on and
on, and will as long as there
are riders who want to catch
the brass ring.
1.-THE Tastemakers." by Russell
Lyns; Harper d Brothers, $5.00.)
Evening star., 1954-10-31
The Rude Descending Staircase
(Rush Hour at the Subway

CARTooNISTS HAD A FIELD DAY-When tostemoker
Marcel Duchomp produced Nude Descending Stor-
eose," it inspired retorts like this
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-25
Legion Auxiliary
Plans Halloween
Festivities

Halloween Festivities sponsored
by the American Legion Auxiliary,
Unit %, are already underway as
Marion Arrange, chairman for this
occasion has acquired the use OF
Bayview Park on October 20 for a
children's masquerade contest.
Any child from the age of 2 yrs.
to high school is eligible and will
be grouped according to age and
size.
There will be prizes for the pref
test costume, one for the scariest
and one for the most original.
Following the masquerade there
will be a comedy ball game "Hu-
la Girls" versus go" with arrange
ments made through Herman War
rem, petty officer in charge Of re-
creation, at the Seaplane Base.
Hot dogs and cold drinks will be
sold during these festivities.
Following the children's day at
the park there will be Halloween
Ball held at the American Legion
Home on Stock Island Oct. 80, open
to the public, masked or not.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-25
Hairstyles To Be
Featured At Owe
Fit. Taylor Lunch

Fall styles will 60 to milady's
head next Friday at the regular
luncheon meeting of the Officers
Wives Club, Fort Taylor, when
members of the Fleet All Weather
Training Unit are hostesses.
They have arranged for a
demonstration of correct hair
styles for the various types of
faces and figures by Martin, not
ed local hair stylist.
Martin will present models to
demonstrate his talk and give the
guests "tips" on time saving
features of hair styling.
After the demonstration, an open
discussion will be held.
The FAWTU group has planned
an unusual French theme in the
decorations for the luncheon, with
complimentary favors from Martin.
Officers wives in the area are
asked to make reservations for
this gala affair prior to 600 pm.
Wednesday, September 20.
Reservations may be made BY
calling their Fl. Taylor represent
alive or 2-6431.