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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-04-15
Dateline Damascus
Mrs. Ulysses Griffith Damascus 1852
Damascus 1882

| receiving congratulations on the
birth of their first child, Larry
Ward, born Sunday, April 4, at
Montgomery General Hospital.
Master Larry weighed in at Z
lbs. Is OF.
Mrs. James Mckenzie of Beall
Avenue is a patient at the Uni
versity of Maryland Hospital in
Baltimore.
Mrs. Willard Woodfield and
her sons, Bruce and Doug, re-
turned Sunday from a weeks
visit in Summerfield, New Jer-
sey, with Mrs, Woodfield's
parents.
Miss Mary 10 Boyer spent the
weekend with friends in Anna
polls.
DR.. Klaus SchwarZ is spending
this week in Atlantic City where
he is attending series of scien-
tific meetings. DR.. Schwarz will
address one of the meetings on
his work.
On Palm Sunday evening at
8 p. m. the choir of Damascus
Methodist Church presented the
Easter Cantata, Christ Crucified,
by Roger Wilson. The cantata
was under the direction of the
organist and choir director, Mrs.
Everett Jones.
Notes from the Damascus
Methodist Church: There were
four baptisms this past Sunday,
Mr.. Jack Raines, Miss Lou Ellen
Fee, Edward Keith, Jr., and Ber-
nard Lewis, Jr. The church also
received into membership 49 new
members-18 from the prepare
tory membership class; II by pro-
fession of faith; and 20 by trans
fer of membership.
The sacrament of holy COM
munion will be observed at the
church Thursday evening, April
IS, at 8 p. m. The annual Good
Friday three-hour service will be
held in the Damascus Methodist
Church from IL noon till 3 p. m.
This is a union service with all
Methodist churches in the area
participating. Each church will
provide special music and the
minister of each church will
speak on one of the seven last
words of Christ from the Cross.
Participating charges are Kemp
town. Browningsville, Laytons-
vile, Cedar Grove, Clarksburg
and Damascus.
The members of the Damascus
Church will attend the Easter
Sunrise service on Sugar Loaf on
Easter Sunday morning at 6 a. m.
Parents are invited to bring their
young children for baptism at
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be ready to deliver the tested vac
cine until later in April, it was
the decision of the Health De-
partment to cancel the tests for
the time being, because the six
weeks required for the shots and
booster shots would conclude the
tests too close to the polio sea-
son in their opinion.
The greatest disappointment
was experienced in Montgomery
County, Mr.. Radcliffe said
where great community effort
had gone into a polio vaccine or
ganization where the County
Health Department, the Mont
gomery County Congress of
PTA's, the County Chapter of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, school princi-
pals, teachers and others were
prepared for the mass inocula-
tons. However, Mr.. Radcliffe
added, the excellent ground work
laid in Montgomery County will
not be all lost motion if the po-
lilo vaccine should be available to
Maryland at a future time.
In the event Maryland citizens
have been disturbed by recent re-
marks on the safety of the trial
vaccine by a radio-television COM
mentator, Mr.. Radcliffe submit
ed statements from the National
Foundation, the U. S. Public
Health Service and DR.. Jonas E.
Salk of the University of Pitts
burgh.
ANY product that contains
live polio virus is not the vaccine
developed by DR.. Salk and not
the vaccine to be tested by the
National Foundation" DR.. Hart
E. Van Ripper, medical director of
the National Foundation, said.
'Dr. Salk," he continued, "has
inoculated three thousand chill
dren with commercially produced
vaccine which was found to con-
tain no live virus in the triple
tests by the manufacturer, by
DR.. Salk's laboratory and the Ma
tional Institute of Health. No
vaccine which does not pass all
these tests will be used in the
field trials"
'The purpose of the triple tests
is to prevent the use of any prod
uct not manufactured according
to DR.. Salk's specifications. Four
patches which have failed to pass
the required tests were not
manufactured in that manner
and were, therefore, eliminated
by the testing. This demonstrates
the validity of these tests and the
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safety they assure the public"
DR.. Salk has treasured parents
of children who have received
polio vaccine that there is no
possibility that live virus could
have been contained in any inocu-
lation given" AS recently as last
Friday, his own children receiv-
ed booster shots of commercially
prepared vaccine. The process of
commercial manufacture is being
undertaken with care. Massive
safety tests in three separate
laboratories guarantee that any
live virus will be discovered and
the whole batch destroyed. DR..
Salk categorically stated that
there is no possibility that live
virus can escape detection in
these tests. All vaccine used by
DR.. Salk has been tested, found
to be completely safe, and he
plans to continue with his pro-
gram as already outlined.
The U. S. Public Health Serv-
ice stated that it's Laboratory of
Biologics Control has been CO.
operating in the safety testing
of the poliomyelitis vaccine sched-
uled for mass clinical trial this
spring under the auspices of the
National Foundation for Infan-
tile Paralysis.
In any change-over from limit
ed laboratory to large-scale COM
mercial production, it is to be
expected that technical difficult
les may arise. The Laboratory of
Biologics Control, and other lab
oratories participating in the
tests have found some positives
in some of the lots of commercial
vaccine, thus far tested. All three
laboratories also have cleared
some lots of vaccine which have
passed the prescribed safety
tests. Any lots of vaccine found
positive will not be released for
clinical trial.
The minimum standards for
the tests require that all three
laboratories certify that each lot
of vaccine to be used has passed
the safety test prescribed by the
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Reasons for Cancellation
OF Polio Tests in County
Voiced by Sen. Radcliffe

To reassure the people of
Maryland on the safety of the
trial polio vaccine, George L.
Radcliffe, State Chairman of the
March of Dimes and pioneer in
the fight against polio since
1884, issued a State bulletin
covering not only statements
from the experts on the vaccine
but also summing up the reasons
why the vaccine trials in Mont
gomery County were called off
by the State Department of
Health on March 26.
ed. Note: Mr. Radcliffes
statements on the Health De-
partment's reasons for calling
off the tests were cleared by
the State agency.
First, Mr.. Radcliffe said, we
must understand that Maryland
children will not receive the polio
trial vaccine at this time, much
to the regret of both the Nation
al Foundation for Infantile Pa
ralysis and the Maryland State
Health Department. State health
officials had set the deadline of
April 5 for the trials to start in
Montgomery County. When it
was found that the commercial
pharmaceutical houses would not
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given for Mrs. Ruby Bellison in
honor of her 21st birthday by
Mrs. Catherine Pearrce and Mrs.
Jennie Bellison at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Bellison
on March %.
Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman Bellison, Mrs.
Hattie Bellison, Mr.. Robert Belli-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Pearrce,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Pearrce
and sons, Chester Ray, Milton,
George and Alvin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Edward Bellison and
Gary.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mox-
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Pearrce
and Gregory, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Senseney and sons, Gre
CORY and Bobby, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Burdette and Brenda and
Dianne, Mrs. Ethel Beall Miss
Violet Cue and Miss June Snapp,
all of Damascus. Mrs. Cleo Bur
dette of Washington also attend
ed. Mrs. Bellison received many
nice gifts.
Luncheon guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Bellison
on Monday were Mrs. Mile
Ralph and Mrs. Arvela Crosby
of Washington and Mrs. Ruby
Brake and son, Barry, of Damas-
Gus.
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Mrs. Ulysses Griffith, w
Damascus 1882

DAAlhNoNuS SOCS
Mrs. Monroe Browning and
Mrs George w. Runkles, both of
Kensington, and Mr.. and Mrs.
James M. Browning and son
Maurice of Damascus motored to
Newport News, Virginia, for the
weekend to visit Mrs. Monroe
Browning's son-in-law and daugh-
ter, the Rev. and Mrs. Herbert
f. Hudgins and daughter, Jean.
On their trip home they enjoyed
ride through Kenwood to see
the cherry blossoms.
A stork shower was held Fri
day evening at the home of Mrs.
Clyta Woodfield honoring Mrs.
Vincent Woodfield. A gay spring
lamb cake and masses of yellow
jonquils formed the table center.
piece and bright green and
yellow color scheme was carried
out. Guests were Mrs. James
Browning, Mrs. Robert Brown
ing, Mrs. Sterling Boone, Miss
Nancy Boone, Mrs. Kenneth
Boone, Miss Charlotte Koontz,
Miss Reba Stitely, Mrs. Phillip
Schroeder Mrs. Norman Murray,
Mrs. M. M. Boyer, Mrs. James
Bell, Mrs. Gary Boyer, Mrs.
Richard Boone, Mrs. Audrey Null
lineaux, Mrs. Russell King, Mrs.
B. NJ Woodfield, Miss Grace
Woodfield, Mrs. Elizabeth How
ard, Mrs Lee Cline. Mrs. Thomas
Bellison, Miss Katherine Diller.
Mrs. Alice Diller and Miss Gloria
Sirk.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cartner
of Washington were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. B. M.
Woodfield.
Young Master Jay Bradley
Watkins, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Parker Watkins was christened
Sunday at the Bethesda Metho-
dist Church, Browningsville, by
the Rev. f. T. Harrison. After
the ceremony the baby's grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Watkins, entertained at family
dinner party. Besides little Jay
and his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Smith, the maternal grand
parents, were also present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Snapp, June
and Patsy were weekend guests
of Elec. LIST Glass and Mrs. Emory
Lewis of Yorktown, Virginia.
Mrs. Claudia Browning is
spending some time with her
grandchildren, Wayne and Mari
lyn Broadhurst of Bethesda,
while their mother, Mrs. Broad
hurst. is patient at Suburban
Hospital.
We are glad to report that
Michael Woodfield is out and
around after his recent operation
at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Smith are
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the regular morning service
Easter Sunday at Damascus.

Notes from Damascus High
School: the biology class took q
field trip to the Smithsonian In
stitute and Medical Museum
Tuesday under the supervision OF
Mr.. Vernon Houts and Mr.. Ear
Shaw.
The seventh grade took a field
trip Wednesday to Frederick t.
study such methods of communi
cation as the newspaper, tele
phone and radio under the super.
vision of Mr.. Murray Andrews
and Mr.. Lloyd Hoover.
The annual Easter Assembly
will be presented at the school
Thursday afternoon under the
direction of Miss Nora Frances
Lynch and student chairman,
Joyce Warfield. School will re-
cess Thursday afternoon and will
reopen Monday, April 26. There
will be bunny hop sponsored by
the Junior class Thursday, April
%, in the high school auditorium.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Slacum
and family spent Sunday in
Cambridge where they attended
Slacum family reunion.
The Bloodmobile is expected to
be in Damascus Wednesday,
April 81. If you plan to donate
a pint of blood please contact
DR.. Howard Taylor and sign up
with him.
Miss Nora Frances Lynch
spent this past weekend with
friends in Silver Spring.
The baked ham luncheon and
fashion show sponsored by the
Lions Club Saturday was most
successful. The 300 seat capacity
of the high school auditorium
was filled. The stage on which
the models from the Hecht Com
pany displayed the styles for
spring and summer was attrac-
lively decorated with wrought
iron furniture and spring flowers
to give the effect of an outdoor
patio. Lion models William
Freienmuth and Perry Burdette
showed what the well dressed
man will wear this summer.
Little Bonnie Crawford pulled
the winning ticket number from
the box and the lucky owner,
Mrs. Wordsworth, won the ten
dollar Hecht Company gift GER
tificate donated by the Lions.
Mr.. William Miles was general
chairman and Mrs. Herbert S.
Hyatt, food chairman. All pro-
fits from the affair will go into
the charitable fund of the Lions.
Don't forget the Open House
to be held at E. M. and M. L.
Burdett's on Saturday, April "a.
There will be gifts for everyone
including the children, valuable
door prizes and refreshments.
Expert factory representatives
will be on hand to answer ques-
tons about equipment, etc.
A surprise birthday party was
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National Foundation on the basis
of recommendations of it's vac
cine advisory committee.
Evening star., 1954-05-16
9OTITH RORRTNC

REAL ESTATE CORP.
201S Mt. Vernon Ave, Alexandria.
XII. $4,000. Open 8 It'll 8.
Routh Robbins has established
her own real estate COM
pany and is no longer oper-
ating the old company still
using her name.
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HousEs EoR SALE-YA.
PENTAGON

3-bedrm.. custom-built rambler. Step.
down liv. rm.. with redwood panelet
ceiling and book shelves: unusua
din. rm., equipped kit. with garhag,
disposal; Ice. uttl. rm. with auto
WHIRLPOOL washer, 20x24 f
Sis'ooo.
3-BEDRooM cUsToM-BUMT RAM
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paneled. beamed liy: rm. and din
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baths. 320-sq. IT. screened-in porch
and stone barbecue. S21.5O0.
Both houses located in Lincolnis
Park. Section / on 2s-acre lots. In
oveiy i0w d,stanes ct11msrS sets sleentary scsoo
and only 10 minutes from Pentagon
XII 4-3437 or KI. Q-113H. :
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GARDENERS DELIGHT

Livable, lovable 2-bedroom
frame house on large level lot.
Excellent location. Will con-
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SMALL. cash down. Total price,
$500. Call G.. NJ. HALEY.
Realtnr. 126 Fast Broad ST..
2-3150.
Fails Church. JE. 4-4677, JE.
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$500 DOWN

ANNANDALE
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Catholic school; oil radiant
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ter-acre lot. Call for appoint-
ment.
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CT APPROVED-$19,40O

8 -bedrm. rambler: sep. dining rm.. de
luxe, Kitchen. 13. cabinets: stone
10Ox220; quiet dead-end street.
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ALWAYS A MUST
Little to Compare

3-BEDRM. 2-BATH BRK
With full bsmt. New value In
many ways. Sleepy Hollow Sec
tion, Playground lot with mas.
sive oak trees Conv. location.
Lots are expensive here so
consider the lot valued at
$4,000 and q I'm. product at
S22,950. Terms various ways.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Governors 10 Hold
Conference on Ills
Of Coal Industry
By the Assoeioted Press

Governors of major coal-pro-
ducing States will hold con-
ference here tomorrow to see
what can be done about reviving
the ailing coal industry.
The chief executives Of Is
States were invited to the con-
ference by Pennsylvania's Gov.
John S. Fine who said it is
time the States combine efforts
to bail the industry out Of its
economic Goldrums.
John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, whose
organization represents about 80
per cent of the industry's work.
ers, is to be a principal speaker.
Secretary of the Interior Mckay
is among the invited guests.
President To Be Host.
The coal State governors
conference is prelude to the
special governors conference be-
ginning tomorrow night with
a White House dinner. Tuesday
and Wednesday the State exc
cutiveS are to be briefed on
domestic and foreign problems
by high officials of President
Eisenhower administration.
Also tomorrow, the governors
of five Western States hard hit
by the drought will hold a special
meeting with Gen. Eisenhower
The Chief Executives of Colo
RADIO, Texas, Oklahoma. Kansas
and New Mexico, all States
where dust storms have done
damage, plan to go over the
problem with the President.
Overlapping Topic.
In addition, the governors Of
Texas, Colorado and Virginia.
who are members of the Federal
commission studying overlapping
Federal-State operations, plan to
attend a commission meeting to-
morrow.
At the coal conference. major
speakers besides Mr.. Lewis will
be Frank Earnest, jr., president
of the Anthracite Institute and
Tom Pickett. executive vice
president of the National Btu
minous Coal Association.
The meeting is an unprece-
dented gathering. Gov. Fine said
he hoped to make the organiza-
ton a permanent, continuing
one.
The Pennsylvania governor re-
portedly intends to get members
of Congress from the coal-pro-
ducing States to join in present.
ing a solid front Of government
officials from the States most
concerned with the industry's
problems.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

Meet Dophine Riehman,
Gossord representative. She
will be in Lonsbureh's COR
set department Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday
for consultation about your
figure problems.
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Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson
The Demise of Non-Confornnity
Professional Liberals, With Their Double Standards,
Helped the Development of Conformity in America

1t would be easier to deal
with the Mccarthy story if it
weren't for the exaggerations
of some of the Senator's oppo-
nents here and abroad. who
proclaim that Americans are
living under a reign Of ter
ror."
There is, indeed. a depress-
ing spirit of conformism in
this once non-conformist
country. But we recall the
anecdote about two cockneys
on a London bus:
Whats the matter with
you" says one, you guy me a
narsty look"
The other: "You got a
narsty look but 1 didn't give it
to you"
Senator Mccarthy didn't
give the American people the
narsty look of conformism.
Conformism is created by war,
increase of military power,
growing passion for economic
security, the expansion of
state power, the centraliza-
ton of industry. the mass or
ganiZation of labor, and the
passing Of the unorganized
man.
Modern developments tend
toward one or another form
and greater or lesser degrees
of collectivism, and collec-
tlvism breeds conformity.
American liberals have loud
~ opposed the right of the
American worker not to join a
trade union. or to reject the
disciplines of its bosses or
majority.
When a California mother
asserted her right to educate
her children at home, taking
them successfully through the
public school courses, the out
cry against her came from
liberals"
American liberals prepared
the grave for rugged individ-
ualism." which they identified
with 1.-The forces of greed"
But on-conformism is only
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! Favored Treatment Scandals
Congress Urged to Demand That Pentogon Reveal Mar
Of Every Servcenon Who Enjoyed Political Pull

concerned was initiated with
the letters "P. L." which meant
political influence" This
manner of tagging the file
signified that. when it came to
ordering those boys into other
assignments, the fact that
some one in Congress had a
special interest in them had
to be taken into account by
the military officers in charge
of personnel.
But who is to investigate
the activities of members Of
Congress in these matters?
What committee is to call for
the records from the Army. the
Navy and the Air Force. espe-
cially for the period during the
war when most American boys
didn't have any political pull
to keep them from facing the
enemy overseas?
In the last couple of weeks
some newspaper editorials have
declared that the Senate Com
mittee on Government Opera
tons. of which Senator Nc
earthly is chairman. is ineli-
gible to investigate a row in
volving members of its own
staff, and that the Senate
Armed Services Committee
should take it over. Is 1t to be
naively assumed that not one
of the members of the Armed
Services Committees of Con-
greSs during this session, or
when the Democrats were in
control, ever got any favors
from the armed services? Any
one who knows the facts Of
legislative life knows that these
are the very committees in
behalf Of whose members the
armed services themselves
stretch a point as to the per-
sonal requests of Congress-
men and lean over backward
in order to keep the Senators
and Representatives in a good
humor when they deal with
Army. Navy or Air Force legis-
lation. Each armed service
actually maintains a "legis-
lative liaison"-an officer or
group of officers who often
handle these delicate tasks.
Could the appropriations
committees of Congress do the
investigating job? Obviously
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Dovid Lawrence

The worst scandal in the
operation of the Government
of the United States has never
been exposed by Congress, but
public opinion may force it at
last as a direct result Of the
recent disclosure by the Army
that conversations occurred
between the legal counsel for
the Secretary of the Army and
members of a Senate subcom-
mittee staff with respect to
favored treatment" for a
member Of that staff who had
been drafted into the Army.
Congress cannot very well
confine itself to one case with
out revealing to the public all
the facts concerning hundreds
of other cases of a similar
nature in the files. Plainly,
since the Army kept such mi
mute records in the case of
Pvt. David Schine. it seems
certain that equally minute
records have been kept on the
requests of members of the
House and Senate and their
stats who asked favored
treatment" for the sons or
relatives of their constituents.
Almost everybody who is at
all familiar with governmental
operations, especially on Cap
itol Hill, knows that many a
case is on file of boys who
were kept from overseas serv-
ice through political influence.
But somehow this never gets
written up and, despite the
flare-up about Senator Nc
Carthy'S staff, very little has
been written out of Washing
ton about the big scandal
which this episode may be said
to typify.
The exposure of all the facts
will show that the favored
treatment" practice has been
so widespread that the Army,
the Navy. and the Air Force are
constantly being presumed by
various members of Congress.
Indeed, it is common knowl-
edge that some of the bureaus
of one Of the armed services
had a special marking during
the war for such cases. and
the record of the individual
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bred by real rugged individual
lists.
Recently the eminent Ber-
trand Russell reported in the
Manchester Guardian that
nobody in the United States
ventures to pass a political
opinion without looking be-
hind the door. America is
living under a reign of terror"
The personality guilty of Great
ing this situation is, of course,
Senator Mccarthy.
Bertrand Russell is old, APP
parently becoming hard Of
hearing. and evidently doesn't
read the American press. Are
the Democrats brow beaten?
Or radio and television COM
mentators as far apart polit-
ically as Ed Murrow and
Hans Kaltenborn? Or the
Wisconsin Small-town editor
who started a petition for
the Senator's recall and al
ready has over $4,000 I'M
scared signers?
The other day Arthur
Schlesinger, jr.. attacked Sem
ator Flanders of Vermont for
denouncing Mccarthy on one
ground and supporting him
on another. Schlesinger then
made his own definition of
conservatism" praising the
British aristocratic tradition
of tolerance, and concluding,
that IS why a Mccarthy could
arise in America and not in
Britain"
Mccarthy. during the 1852
campaign. appointed SchleS-
niger to Communist ranks by
documentary evidence" con-
sisting of portions of writings
taken out of context. The
charge was untrue. Schlesing-
erS idol is the British Labor
Party. particularly as repre-
Sented by the late Harold
Lasky. Schlesinger is one Of
the most arrogant. rude. opin-
donated and intolerant egg
heads on or off the Harvard
campus, but that doesn't make
him a Communist.
He is also a professional his