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Evening star., 1954-10-28
Report Urging
FamilyCounciI
Centers 0K'd
Commissioners
Youth Council
lndorses Program

The Commissioners Youth
Council today adopted report
urging establishment of marriage
counseling centers in areas
throughout the city as means
Of improving family life In the
home.
The report was prepared by q
special committee headed by the
Very Rev. Msgr. John s. Spence.
director of education for the
archdiocese Of Washington. The
Family Life Committee has been
working on the report for a year.
It will be distributed among the
% neighhorhood committees of
the council as well as to parent
teacher child welfare and other
interested groups.
In addition to the counseling
centers, which would be operated
by volunteer stats to. assist in
solving family problems and pre-
venting divorce, it was recon-
mended that citizens be en-
couraged to form small discus
sion groups in their neighbor-
hoods that will lead to greater
interest the solution of family
difficulties.
The report further urged that
all families be encouraged that
religious organizations intensity
their efforts to give service to
all their members and to send
their leaders into homes to
stimulate a greater interest in
religion.
Among other recommendations
were: -
Letting a child know he sis
loved and wanted" in the home
and is a part of the family;
convincing parents that they
should give close attention to
the "evil effects" of unsuper-
vised television and radio, which
tends to "vitiate taste, diSSipate
energy and cause intellectual
stagnation." N
The committee boiled it down
to these factors: lack 'of . re-
ligious orientation in the home;
lack of family stability; lack of
understanding and affection.
1ack Of proper authority and
wholesome family recreation.
The council heard a progress
report from its executive .direc-
tor Nina Trevvett on the So
called maximum benefits" pro-
gram in the Thomson and
Walker -Jpnes Schools. Mrs,
Trevvett said nurse service of
one half a day each day of the
school week he's been instituted
in the two. schools This, she
said, will enable q comprehen-
sive health screening program
for the 1000 pupils attending
the two schools. Heretofore,
nursing service was provided
oniV half a day per week.
Evening star., 1954-10-28
VIEW Post to Give fIua

The Free State Post 1850, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars. of West
Lanham Hills, Md. will present
an outdoor American flag to the
Glenridge Junior High School at
ceremonies 1t 1::30 pm. tomor-
row at the school. Those present
win include the Prince Georges
County commissioners and Will
liam S. Schmidt, superintendent
of schools.
Evening star., 1954-10-28
Decision Near
On Pressing for
Second AirfieId.
Must Decide
Whether TO Ask
Congress for Funds

Prodded by critical overcrowd-
ing at National Airport and the
spectre Of early Senate hearings
on the problem, high Govern
ment officials are trying to reach
q firm administration decision
on establishing a second airfield
for Washington.
The decision. which. involves
whether to ask the next Congress
for money-and how much lis
expected to be made within the
next two weeks to meet headlines
for preparation of the Presidents
January budget message to Con-
gress.
Meanwhile. Chairman Bricker
of the Senate Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee
is slated to decide today on when
his Aviation Subcommittee
should hold its hearings.
He is being offered two sug-
,gestioris- either November, dur
ing the special Senate session to
consider the censure of Senator
Mccarthy. Republican, Of Wis
consin, or after the full Con-
gress meets next January. /
New Try for Burke Urged.
One well-irlformed official said
the plan now under discussion
would be to make q new effort
to resume work on the site at
Burke, Va.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration still owns about 1000
acres of the 1000 it wanted
there when Congress blocked
further appropriations and
stopped the project in its tracks.
There was speculation. how
ever, that it might involve re-
consideration of other sites also
in Fairfax County-which were
originally proposed.
One, at Fairfax, lies only q
mile or two west Of the Burke
site and there was speculation
that it might encounter less OPP
position. The Burke site, never
abandoned by the CAA, foun-
dered in Congress on the rocks
of local opposition and that OF
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia.
White House Staying Out.
Two groups of administration
officials are conducting the pres
ent discussions on orders from
the White House To- produce a
final decision without involving
the White House.
Representatives at the cabinet
level are Budget Director Row
land Hughes, Secretary Of Com
merce Weeks. and Secretary of
Defense Wilson.
Representing each Of them at
stan level are Harold 4. Pear
SON, assistant director 9of the
Budget Bureau: Undersecretary
OF Commerce Robert B. Murray
and Maj. Gen. Wiley D. Ganey,
director Of operations for the
Air Force.
An earlier agreement between
Secretaries Weeks and Wilson
Tor joint civil-military use OF
Andrews Field as a second air.
port for Washington was under
stood to Just have petered OUT
early this year because of diff
culties in working out plans for
operational use.
Evening star., 1954-10-28
Five 10 Study
Legal Insanity |! /
Ruling Effects
Group to Consider
Steps to Be Token
On Court Decision.

Commissioner Samuel Spencer.
acting as chairman of the Dis
strict's Council on Law Enforce
ment. yesterday named q five-
man special committee to study
the effects Of a recent court de-
cision on the legal definition Of
insanity.
Named as chairman Of the
special committee was George
Hart. representing the District
Bar Association.
Serving with Mr.. Hart are
Hugh S. Rivers, parole executive
of the District Parole Board:
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West: Donald Clemmer, Dis
triet director of corrections, and
Leroy Mckinney, Of the WASH
ington Bar Association.
Need for New Law.
In announcing the appoint
ments, the Commissioner stated
that the study will be made to
determine whether any legisla-
tion is needed for the proper
administration Of justice in in
sanity cases under the recent
rulings by the U. s. Court Of
Appeals for the District of Co
lumbia which bear on the de-
fense against a criminal charge
by reason of insanity.
The Commissioner added the
committee will consider whether
any other steps, procedural or
otherwise, may be taken in the
light of the court decisions.
Under the committees par
ticular scrutiny will be the Monte
Durham case in which fthe sp-
pellate court established a new
definition of the plea Of insanity
as defense.
Prior to the ruling, a defend
ant could be declared not guilty
of a criminal charge by reason
Of insanity If it could be shown
that he could not differentiate
between right and wrong at the
time Of the crime or was so men
tally disturbed that he sue
cumbed to an Irresistible Inn
pulse"
Court Ruling.
In the Durham case, the court
ruled that a defendant can be
found not guilty by reason Of
insanity if his condition was
caused by mental disease or some
mental defect.
Tn the other court decisions.
the issue of a defendants mem
tai competence to stand trial was
resolved by the ruling that he
must have a court hearing to
determine whether he is fit for
trial after the superintendent OF
a mental hospital has certified
he is mentally competent. Be-
fore this ruling, such ceftifica-
\ ton by the hospital superintend-
ent was sufficient for trial to
proceed.
Still another decision holds
that a defendant must be given
mental examination on his own
request so long as the request
is made in good faith. Prior
to that ruling. the lower courts
held the discretion of deciding
whether a mental examination
| was warranted.
Evening star., 1954-10-28
AAA Dinner TONIGHT

The annual dinner Of the
American Automobile Association
emergency road service garages
win be held at $3.50 o'clock to-
night at the Burlington Hotel.
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Hope for Tomorrow Il
Next Six Months Can Spell End
OfPoIio, if ALLEGES Well

months. That's the length OF
one polio season.
But DR.. Salk has Just made
heartening new find.
Production Scars.
It seems that the first one or
two shots of vaccine alter the
body's antibody mechanism,
make it more sensitive. When
the third or booster shot Of
vaccine is given sometime later.
antibody production scars sky
high. Some children even got
more antibodies than they show
after natural infection with
polio.
And DR.. Salk has a little evil
dence that NATURAL exposure to
polio after one or two shots
of vaccine may act like a booster
shot Of vaccine. The senSitized
antibody mechanism may be
triggered into quick. high pro-
duction of antibodies against the
virus which is making an in
vasion.
These are reasons for think
ing that a few shots Of vac
cine can give lifelong protec-
ton. Whenever live virus came
along, the antibody policemen
would appear in heavy force.
Children in the test are getting
two shots of vaccine spaced a
week apart, with the booster
shot four weeks later. Actually
there may be a better timing or
spacing for the booster shot to
create the most protection, and
this question is being studied.
It's also possible that only one
initial or sensitizing shot is
needed, followed by one booster
later.
Two Questions Arise.
Well. you may ask, If the vac
cine creates antibodies, why is
there any doubt that it won't
protect the children?
There are two questions. One
is whether there are enough
antibodies from the vaccine.
The other Is whether the
virus can attack nerves without
going through the bloodstream
where the antibodies are stand
ing guard.
The evidence is that most of
us get polio because the virus
enters the intestinal tract. then
gets into the bloodstream, and
then moves on to attack the
nerves.
But there is evidence that
sometimes it can bypass the
bloodstream thus escaping at
tack by the antibodies.
The tests on thousands of
children will help show how
often the virus may attack in
this manner rather than
through the bloodStream. But
there is hopeful fact here, too.
1t is that spaced shots of vac
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-30
Inmate Of Lorton
Succumbs 10 Stroke

Samuel D. Mussman, GA, con-
fidence man better known as
Sam D. Mason, died Saturday
night at District General Hos
pital, where he was taken from
Lorton Reformatory.
Mussman was serving a 4-to-
12-year term imposed in U. S.
District Court for the District
of Columbia in November, 1851,
for perjury. grand larceny and
failure to make income tax re-
turns for two years in New York.
Deputy Coroner Richard M.
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cine can create SO many anti
bodies that some spill over"
from the bloodstream into peri
pheral nerves. They would thus
be standing guard along nerve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-30

Rosenberg. who performed an
autopsy. said Mussman died
after a stroke. He repeatedly had
been in the hospital In 1862 for
q coronary ailment.
Mussman, who lost a leg in
World War I, was accused of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-30

was investigating reports he OBJ.
tanned money from gullible spec-
ulators interested in leasing Gov.
eminent property.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington. D. c.
TUESDAY, MARCH

lying about his past income and
business transactions to q Sen
ate subcommittee. The subcom-
mittee before which he appeared
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-30

This is the first Of a series Of three
articles about the field tests Of the
Solk polio voeeine. Several sections
Of the Motion will start the tests
about April II, but there will be
none in Washington beeouse District
health officioIs soy there is not time
to prepore q prosrom before school
ends. Montgomery County. Nd.
postponed its tests. lnoeuIotions will
begin April rs in Foirfox County and
Falls Church, Va.
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Hope for Tomorrow
By Alton [. BIokeslee
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 30.--The
next six months can spell the
absolute end Of polio. if all goes
well.
The weapon is a polio vaccine
developed by DR.. Jonas E. Salk
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pathways against virus which
did bypass the bloodstream.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-30

Tomorrow: How the vaccine is
made; how the tests are being
rum
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THANK HEAVENS! Most attacks
are acid indigestion When it strikes
take Bell-ans tablets. They contain
the fastest-acting medicines known
to doctors for the relief of heartburn
and gas. Get Bell-ans today. Use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-30

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porotine the famous Zenith
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matte changer plus uItro-
sensitive Zenith Rodio and
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Milford chronicle., 1954-06-25
Hospital Births

June Is: Girl, Mr.. and Mrs. viii
liam Johnson, Dover; Girl, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Lovenguth, Milton.
June Is: Male, Twins stillborn) ,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Griffin (col.)
BridgeVille; Boy, Mr.. and Mrs
Howard Kitchens, Milford.
June II: Girl, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Burbage, Milford; Girl, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson Jones, Bridgeville; Girl
Mr.. and Mrs. George Matthews
(col9, Greenwood.
June 1S: Girl, Mr.. and Mrs. Les
ter Draper, Greenwood; Girl, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Hrupsa, FELTON,.
June 20: Girl, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
fred Greed, Pennington; Boy, Mr..
and Mrs. Allan Galloway, Days
boro;, Boy, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Harvey Rust, Pennington.
June 21: Boy, Mr.. and Mrs. Ber-
nard Frankel, Milford; Girl, Mr..
and Mrs. Lloyd Bradley; Laurel.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-25
Interesting News
About Home Bldg.

Information on the amount Of
money home owners spend for
housing repairs and improvements
will be available for the first time
in the Nations history as the re-
suit of sample survey being con-
Quoted locally and in 229 other Sec
tions of the country by the u. S.
Census Bureau, it was announced
today by Supervisor o. G. Demaree
OF the Bureaus district Office at
Baltimore, Maryland.
The information on expenditures
by home owners for repairs and
improvements will supplement sta
tistics on construction activity
gathered by the Commerce Depart
ment and will eliminate a blind
spot in the statistical program
covering this important industry.
The survey is part of the Commerce
Departments program of improv-
ing its statistical services to busi-
ness.
A number of local home owners,
selected through the Census Bu-
reau's scientific sampling proceed
ures, have received report forms on
which they have been asked to
record expenditures made for re-
pairs and improvements since the
first of the year. Information is
being asked concerning materials
and tools purchased and the kind Of
repairs or improvement jobs for
which these items were to be used.
Information is being obtained also
regarding repair or Improvement
jobs which the owners did not do
themselves but hired someone else
to do for them.
The report forms will be coll
lected from home owners early in
June by regular Census enumer-
ators. Supervisor Demaree pointed
out that all of the confidential
features of the basic Census law
will be complied with in the survey.
This means that all information
about individuals is kept in strict
confidence and only statistical
totals will be published. Informa-
tion furnished to the Census Bu-
reau cannot be used for taxation,
Investigation or regulation.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-25
? Girl Scout News

Girl Scout Camp Claiborne opens
Sunday. Carl F. Dynes as chairman
of the camp committee of the Pen
insula Girl Scout Council and his
faithful committee members are
hard at work preparing the sites
at Claiborne on the Chesapeake to
receive up to IS Girl Scouts for
each of the three two week ses-
siOns which start this Sunday and
end August z.
Mr.. Edward Burling, Jr., has
very kindly permitted the use of
this woods and beach at Rich Neck
Manor along the bay.
The camp committee hopes all
girls, whether members of this
council or not, who wish to camp
this summer will send their appli-
cations right away to the Denton
office of the council, which covers
Kent and Sussex Counties, in Del
aware, and Dorchester, Talbot,
Caroline, Queen Annes, and Kent
in Maryland.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-25
Final Exercises At
Calvary Bible School
Sunday

The final exercises of the Calvary
Daily Vacation Church School will
be held on Sunday, June 9th, at
$500 p. IN. The Directors of the
school have been Mrs. Edith Nib
lett and the Rev. Donzel G. Wildey.
The staff included Ellen Wildey.
director of music, Jean Kenton, in
charge of refreshments and Phyllis
Fitzgerald as secretary.
The departments VIII present the
following parts of the program:
Intermediates. with Marie Webb.
instructor and Patricia Walls as
helper, will be in charge of the
opening worship service; Junior
Department, with Maudie Elliott
and Mary Stauffer as instructors
and Betty Sharp, Susanne Mills.
Marian Johnson as helpers, will
present in music and pantomine
their lesson material; Primary De-
partment, with Pearl Hopkins, Mil
dred O'Day and Sadie Favinger as
instructors and Marie ShOckley,
Doris Roberts and Winnie Lynch as
helpers will present the play "The
Good Samaritan" and other pOr-
tiOns from their Bible studies; Be
ginners Department. with Edith
Kline as instructor, Mildred Hall,
Ann POstles and Virginia Green, as
helpers, will portray in pantomine
"a Boy Shares His Lunch" as their
part of the program; the Nursery
Department, Edna ArgO, Ethel
Craft and Mary Camper as workers,
will present songs and recitatiOns
Each department, under the di-
rectiOn of Ellen Wildey, will sing
songs they have learned.
Mrs. Edith Neblett will present
the certificates of attendance to the
children and invite the parents and
friends to inspect the handiwork
accomplished during the two weeks
of the School. The public is cordial
ly invited to attend the program.
This year the school has had one
of its most successful terms with a
staff of adult workers numbering
Is and an enrolment of over $50
pupils. Parents and faculty are to
be congratulated on the success of
attendance and teaching.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-25
Local Board OF
Health ReOrganized

The Board of Health of Milford
organized on Monday with the fol-
lowing present: Dr. Leslie NJ
DobsOn, DR.. Casmir Vileisis, Mrs
Edmund F. Steiner, and ]. Ray
mond Bennett; all were appointed
by City Council. City Manager
Stanford c. Marvel attended in
an advisory capacity.
The present City Board of Health
Ordinances were reviewed. and
plans were made to draft a new
Health Code to be offered to City
Council at later day for council
manic action.
The State Board of Health is be-
ing invired to make an inspection
OF all eating places and all baker
les.
A long range low rental housing
program was discussed. This is in
line with projects being carried
out in other cities to eliminate the
poorer housing conditions of the
low income group.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-25
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

DOVER SWIMmERS-The free
learn-to-swim classes, sponsored by
the Dover YMCA, will be held at
Silver Lake Monday, June %.
through Friday, July 9.
Two certified lifeguards, Frank
D'Armi Of the University of Della
ware and Dodson Elliott of Wesley
Junior College, will instruct the
classes.
The classes will be broken down
into three periods beginning at 9
a. m, 10 a. m, and IL a. m. Parents
will be notified by mail as to the
period to which their child is as
signed.
COMM UTE SENTENCE-The
State Board of Pardons has recon-
meneded a Communication to five
years of a life sentence Mrs. Thelma
Dorothy Powell is serving on a
charge of second-degree murder in
connection with the fatal shooting
OF a man at her home at George
town.
The woman was sentenced in the
Sussex County courts at their June,
1850, term. The term to which her
time was cOmmuted dates from the
date Of her sentence. The board
will submit it recommendation to
Gov. ]. Caleb Boggs.
GUARD PLANS-Plans for the
annual trek of some 1900 Delaware
National Guardsmen to Fort Miles
and Bethany Beach for two weeks
training the latter part Of July and
the first week of August were dis
cussed by staff members Of the
261st AAA Brigade at a meeting
recently at the State Armory, VIII
mingtOn.
Traffic routes and times of de-
parture were outlined by Capt.
Jerome Brokow, transportation Off
Ger of the brigade. 1t was decided
that New Castle County units will
leave for the encampment at the
same time as down-state units. It
was pointed out that most of the
Kent and Sussex counties outfits
will have had time to unpack and
get their trucks out of the vicinity
before the New Castle units arrive.
All units are expected to be in their
respective camps by noon, July 25.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-25
EAR FRIENDS:

AteAAs AtAHNDo.-
Shall we talk
about the weather?
1t is always a safe,
- if variable subject.
The only trouble with it is that
when it is discussed on We'd
nesday, it is likely to be en-
tirely different when you read
what I have to say. We have
been having some warm days
and this one is not different,
except that Old Sol seems to
be a little reluctant to show his
face, and the temperature is
not as warm. We all know it
is summer and that there
should be time each day sor a
visit to the beaches or to the
WV playground that seems to-
be so popular this season. Re-
Taxation and sunshine will do
wonders for all.
On Saturday group of
young people got off for Young
Life Frontier Ranch near
Buena Vista, Colorado, for a
happy two weeks. 'rhe trip is
made by bus and under very
safe and pleasant supervision.
The camp is interdenomina-
tional in religion and many
young boys and girls enjoy the
life and work there and the
time goes by very quickly. Co
ing from town were BArrislt
Ann Ward, Carolyn Masten.
Betty Grier, Beverly Ann 1'haw-
ley, Carol Kimmel, Claire
Humes. Rhea Ireland, Janet
Ward, Eleanor Prettyman and
David Fitchett. Betty Grier,
who has arranged to work, will
remain for a month.
The party given last week on
Thursday by Mrs. C. Bernard
Shortall and Mrs. George H.
Draper. 3rd. at Dinner RaII
Inn, RehobOth. was much en-
joyed by their many guests.
Always in pleasant and artistic
surroundings, which add to the
atmosphere Of any party, the
group enjoyed the luncheon
and then sat for time for
conversation, before separating
for shopping or a return home.
Guests from out of town were
Miss Eleanor Mcknight of
Baltimore, Mrs. Edwin H. Bro
den Of Dover, Mrs. Martin
Black, Mrs. Harry Draper and
Mrs. Richard Draper Of Lewes,
Mrs. Howard Bramhall and
Mrs. Robert Short of George
town. Mrs. Franklin Maull and
Mrs. George Chambers. Jr., of
Lewes.
A card from Mrs. David
Coopersmith came from Scot
land and on the day of mailing
she was in Scotland, visiting
LinlithgOw Palace, the birth
place Of Mary. Queen Of the
Scots. Mrs. Coopersmith is on
an extended tour Of England