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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-06-09

Rev f. r. Overley DID, of Fort
Thomas. Ky, and Rev b. c. Gamble,
DID. Atlanta, Ga, are the cvange-
lists for the seventy-third annual
Mt. Lake Park Holiness Camp
meeting, to be held at Mt. Lake
Park June "a through July 3, it has
been announced.
The sessions are interdenomina-
tional. The opening service will be
Friday evening at 1870 o'clock EST.
Rev Overley was with the camp
meeting group formerly, the last
time being in 1915, while Rev
Gamble was at the Park last year
Workers at the camp meeting
this year will be E. Clay Mildly, of
Valdosta, Ga, for music Miss La
vetta Serrott, Wilmore, Ky, chill
dren and youth; Jerry Henken-
berger, organist; Rev. c. S. Thomp-
son, peoples meeting; Rev. N. l..
Casey, prayer meeting; Rev Andy
Roe ring meeting.
The daily services will open at 8
O'Clock with prayer meeting, fol-
lowed at 9;45 by peoples meeting;
1890, preaching; 100, childrcn's
meeting; 2:30, preaching; 6:30,
young people and ring meeting,
and 7:30, preaching.
A special missionary scrVice will
be held on Sunday, June 26, at 2:30
p. m, at which Rev Earl Newton
will be the speaker. He will repre-
sent the World Gospel Mission.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1955-06-09

We wish 10 express our thanks
and appreciation to everyone who
helped and contributed il any way
to the funeral of oW wife and
mother, the late Maggie Is Fra2ec.
Alex Frazee and Children
A dN
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AAee The champ! The new Chew
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most modern V8 on the road today.
Here's what happened
Doytona Beach. NASCAR Ac-
celeration Tests Over Measured Mile
From Standing Start. Chevrolet cap
tured the 4 top positions in its class!
8 of the first | And on a time basis
Chevrolet beat every high-priced car,
too-but one! But wait.-thiS is just
the beginning
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in the Senate last spring, is being
given special study by legislative
committee which will visit the
county this summer
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Honor In Nation
Wide Photo Contest

sam Moore, Southern junior, has
just been announced as winner of
a Certificate of Merit in the Tenth
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The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14
Hurricane Hilda Weakened by Cuban Mountains

MIAMI, Florida, R-Hurricane Hilda, weakened by her encounter with the towering mountains of eastern Cuba, moved off that rain drenched island into the Carib- bean Sea today with a good chance of regaining her full strength.
 Reports from Cuba were sketchy but storm forecasters here said the eastern end of the island un- doubtedly was pelted with heavy rains.
 Hurricanes always drop a tre- mendous amount of water when they come in contact with noun tains," said Leonard Pardue, the meteorologist in the Miami wealth CT bureau. Such rain would un- doubtedly cause flash floods.
 T wouldn't be surprised if there was heavy damage in the Cuban valleys"
 Hilda's top winds, which were estimated at 90 miles per hour when she moved into Cuba, had dropped to so to 75 in squalls near the center as she left Cuba at Cape Cruz and entered the Carib- bean.
 Tt is very likely that the storm will redevelop over the Carib- bean," Perdue said. Tt has been our experience that hurricane hardly ever dies over tropic seas. 2
 A special bulletin from the weather bureau at San Juan, Puerto Rico, reported strong evi- dence," meanwhile, that a new tropical storm has developed in the Atlantic 1,400 miles southeast of Miami. A hurrican hunter plane was dispatched from San Juan to survey the area and a new ad- visory was promised when the pilot makes his report by radio.
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14
Couple Charged With Heiress' Abortion Death; Mother in Institution

PHILADELPHIA, R-A man and his wife in whose apartment Mrs. Doris Jean Silver Ostreicher died have been charged with per- forming the abortion which re- suited in the death of the 22-year- old heireSS.
 MT. and Mrs. Milton Schwartz, arrested Monday night, were ac- cused of conspiring with the dead girls mother to commit the crime of perjury at the inquest which determined that Mrs. Ostreicher's death was "a homicide" They also were accused of being acces- sories before the fact of a crimin- al abortion.
 The development was a surpris- ing finale to day of much dram atics in the highly-publicized case.
 Monday afternoon the dead girls mother, Mrs. Gertrude Sil- yer, was held in $1, ,500 bail for a hearing, date not set, on charge she conspired in and was an ac- cessory to the abortion.
 Mrs. Silver was unable to testi- fly at her scheduled hearing and three DSychiatriStS testified she was incapable of understanding what was going on about her. She will be committed to mental in- stitution until such time as she can appear and testify.
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14
Alaska Can Avoid Other States Errors In Determining Form of Local Govt

~<A- VAN OSAANA 4ACA4AAy cA0NOAobCS O1 rigid state control of local govern ment have often found their case supported by evidences of mis- management and corruption in local government.
 The absence of suitable stand ards for the establishment of To- cal government units has created a great variety of problems in all most all states. Principal difficult ties have arisen in the vicinity of large population centers where scores and hundreds of small com munities have incorporated to se- cure governmental services, but where too often no local jurisdic- tion has authority to address it's efforts to meeting common needs and problems of the entire area.
 Provision of municipal home rule by constitutional or legisla- tive enactment has in many re- gions greatly strengthened local government by vesting consider able authority in locally elected legislative bodies to resolve their own problems. It has in many cases obviated the necessity for state legislatures to concern them selves with great masses of local bills at each session, or to enact or amend municipal charters when ever some change in local struc- ture is called for.
 However, municipal home rule is possible solution to only one of the problems of local govern ment in many states, for it often leaves untouched the many func- tions assigned to other local juris- dictions such as counties and townships and the variety of inde- pendently elected officials who often function at such govern mental levels.
 Alaska is a vast and diverse re- zion whose pattern of settlement little resembles that which oc- cured in many parts of the US. Outmoded local governmental ar rangements proven to be stum- bling blocks to efficient self-gov- ernment in other states may well be avoided here. Mistakes once made in local government Organi- zation have proved most difficult to eradicate, and improvement eff forts throughout the US. have met bitter resistance. The great variety of special purpose districts that have sprung up in many states reflects little more than the effort to get around governmental forms that have outlived their usefulness but which have proved politically impossible to change or abolish.
 Alaska is presented with most fortunate opportunity to make a clean start in the local govern ment field. It has had no counties, it has had no townships, it's cities are essentially compact and ho- mogeneous units, and much of the vast region has not yet been or ganized for local government pur- poses by reason of federal govern ment control.
 With statehood, Alaska will as sume many responsibilities that it has not heretofore had. It will have to organize it's local govern mental affairs not only to meet
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14
By The Alaska Statehood Committee

The structure of local govern ment lies entirely within the prov ince of each state in the American federal system. Therefore, with the achievement of statehood, AL aska is faced with the necessity of determining what form or forms of local government should be established within it's bound aries. It is matter that undoubt- edly will claim much attention from the delegates to the Consti- tutional Convention at College, for the basic structure of local government is. essentially a con- stitutional matter.
 There is little uniformity in present state practice with respect to local government. Seemingly the only constants in the picture are the county and municipal structures, providing two basic levels of local jurisdiction. Powers vested in such units vary widely among the states and sometimes within a state as the result of municipal classification.
 Some state constitutions grant virtually complete control over To- cal government to the legislature Others give local units constitu- tional status and vest in them broad legislative and administra- tive authority.
 Rhode Island has no counties, but does have townships. All oth- CT states have counties, and in every instance but one, county and municipal jurisdictions over lap.
 Many states have such addition al governmental units as town ships, boroughs, and a great var iety of special purpose districts, e.g., public utility districts, sani- tation districts, school districts, fire districts, irrigation districts, and many others. There are well over 165,O0O local governmental units of one type or another in the United States.
 The general problem of local government is one of the most controversial issues facing the states today. In almost all states the situation is confused, and few citizens comprehend the complex conglomeration of governmental structure that has grown up over the years through a process of ex- pedient accretion designed to meet certain needs without relation to basic structures or policies.
 In those states whose legisla- lures have full and discretionary authority over local government, it has become customary to seek special acts and even constitu- tional amendments to provide sol utions to all sorts of local prob lens. Constitutions and statute books have become cluttered with all sorts of special local provisions through which run few threads of consistency or general policy. In the process, local citizens ire quently have little voice, for all too often decisions made at the state capital have had their basis in the "horsetrading" activities of interested legislators or pressure groups.
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14

the needs of settled communities, but of areas yet to be settled and developed The opportunities are great. Basically, the problem is one of keeping the pattern of To- cal government simple, providing adequate opportunity for local communities to manage their own affairs efficiently and effectively, and achieving a sound and realis- tic distribution of functions be- tween the state and the local gov ernmental units.
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14
Father of Four Dies
 In Float Plane Crash

ANCHORAGE, R-An Alaska coal miner was found dead Mon day in the wreckage of his float plane about 10 miles northwest of Anchorage.
 The CAA said he was Raymond E. Wagner, of Sutton. His plane crashed while he was making a low altitude turn near Lake Tato- dam. The plane exploded when it struck the rugged terrain.
 Wagner was the father of four.
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14
Fairbanks Seeks Identity Of Strange Disease

FAIRBANKS, R-Medical off cers here have called upon the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md, to help identify virus which has stricken Is resi- dents in recent months with an illness resembling mild cases of polio or meningitis.
 Dr. Charles R. Marrow, acting city health officer, said reports are expected from the medical center in a month or so. He re- ported no serious after effects in any of the cases at Fairbanks.
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League

American League Cleveland 3-8, Washington l-2 Baltimore 2-6, Chicago 0-9 Kansas City 6-6, Boston 5-7 New York 6, Detroit 0
 National League St. Louis 8, Brooklyn 2 New York g, Milwaukee l Philadelphia 10, Chicago o Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati
The Nome nugget., 1955-09-14

Alexander the Great died at the height of his career from mos quito bite.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Construction Mans
Trial in Third Day

The trial of Gardner j. White,
Burtonsville (Md.) construction
superintendent accused Of en-
bezzling funds from his employ
ers, was to go into its third day
today in Montgomery County
Circuit Court.
White. indicted on four counts
in each of six alleged offenses, is
a former superintendent of con-
struction for H. J. Korzendorfer
Co., Inc, building firm now in
receivership. He was arrested by
county detectives in July, 1854.
and indicted by a grand jury in
November for embezzlement. lar
ceny after trust. larceny and
false pretenses.
The charges involve salaries
paid to three allegedly fictitious
employees Of the building firm
from 1851 to May, 1854. Mont
gomery States Attorney Alger Y.
Barbee said the money White is
accused of taking in false salaries
amounted to thousands of dol
lars"
Police said the total amount
has been estimated as high as
$4,000.
White, 38. has pleaded not
guilty to the charges. He is reep-
resented by Attorney Joseph B.
Simpson, jr.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Met Company Will Present
? Operas Here April rs, 26

The Metropolitan Opera Co.
will appear at Loew's Capitol
Theater here on April Is and 26
under sponsorship of a newly
formed committee, it was an
nounced today.
Proposed operas for the two
night stand are La Traviata
and Faust Ticket prices will
scale from So to $9.75 per person.
The announcement was made
jointly by the Washington Board
of Trade and the Hayes Concert
Bureau. The plan calls for es-
tablishment of a Washington
Metropolitan Opera Committee
headed by Francis j. Kane, trade
board president.
Patrick j. Hayes, who heads
the Hayes Concert Bureau and is
chairman of the trade boards
cultural development committee,
will be executive secretary Of the
committee.
The April performance will be
the Metropolitan's first appear
ance in Washington since 1858.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Pepco Rate Hearing
Ends With indication
Of Rise Under 1917

Hearings ended yesterday on
the Potomac Electric Power Co.'S
bid for a rate increase, with in
dications strong that a raise of
some kind will be allowed.
Chairman Robert E. Nc
Laughlin of the District Public
Utilities Commission said ad-
ditional memoranda will be re-
ceived for two weeks and that
the commission will hand down
decision early in March.
The company has asked for a
10 per cent increase, which will
cost its 10000 customers S.
785,000 a year and yield Pepco
$2,59l 900 in additional income,
with the difference going for
taxes.
Lower Figure Suggested.
However. the commissions
chief accountant. j. William
Falk, has recommended a raise
that would cost the public only
$2,073,7 1872 and give the company
only about 100000 year more.
Presumably. the increase to
be granted by the commission
would fall somewhere between
the two sets of figures. The only
opposition to giving the COM
pany any increase at all came
from the District branch of the
Progressive Party of America.
Other witnesses, pleading that
the increase be kept to a mini
mum, generally conceded that
some increase was justified.
Yesterdays session featured
attacks by company witnesses On
testimony of commission experts,
which backed up Mr.. Falk's rec
ommendation of the lesser in
crease. .
Based on Fair Return.
Mr.. FaiK DaSed much OF his
recommendation on a proposal
by David A. Kosh, special con-
sultant retained by the COM
mission, that the company's
fair" rate of return be set by
the commission at between Sc
and ST per cent of its investment
in property serving the public.
The company has asked that
its fair rate of return" be set at
6.25 per cent.
Testifying for the company.
DR.. Ralph E. Badger. Detroit and
New York consultant. assailed
Mr.. Kosh's recommendation on
rate of return.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Washington Clinic Opens
To Accept First Patients

The Washington Clinic. West
ern avenue and Military road
NV. opened its doors to patients
for the first time today.
The clinic represents one Of
the largest group practice under
takings in this section of the
country. About 20 to IS physi-
cians-from general practition-
ers to specialists-have merged
their talents in the venture.
The three-story building actu-
ally is one big doctors Office.
Patients will not be hospitalized
there, though minor surgery will
be performed and there are
facilities for emergency treat
ment. Besides the doctors. about
30 technicians and non-profes-
sional personnel will staff the
clinic.
A formal opening OF the clinic
will be held February %.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Institutes Of Heath Aide
Kills Self With Monoxide

Mr.. J. Harry Adams, So, an
administrative officer at the Ma
tional Institutes of Health, was
pronounced dead Of carbon mo-
noxide poisoning yesterday after
being found inside his car in the
garage at his home. 442l Maple
avenue. Bethesda, Md.
Montgomery County police
said the windows on the car
were closed and a hose was con-
nected from the exhaust to q
rear window. Police said the
gas tank was empty but that
the motor was still warm.
DR.. John G. Ball of Bethesda,
acting county medical examiner
ruled the death as a suicide.
Mr.. Adams was found in the
garage by his wife when she
returned home from work shortly
after 8 pm, DR.. Ball said. The,
medical examiner said he was
told that MIR. Adams had been
depressed recently and under
doctors care.
Mr.. Adams also Is survived
by q son.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Ceremony at Eastern
Honors 4Chap|ains

Eastern High School today
commemorated the four chap
lains lost in the sinking of the
Army transport Dorchester in
the North Atlantic in February,
1943. Special mention was made
of Rabbi Alexander D. Goode,
who graduated from Eastern in
June, 1923.
Assembled in the school audi
torium was the faculty, the
student body and many guests.
Mrs. Theresa Goode, widow Of
the rabbi, who gave away his
lifebelt as the Dorchester went
down, was escorted by Rabbi
Hugo Schiff of the Washington
Hebrew Congregation, which
Rabbi Goode served in the early
days of his ministry.
John Paul Collins. principal OF
Eastern. was master of cere-
monies. and Lynn F.. WoodWorth,
assistant principal, was narrator.
Besides Rabbi Schiff, the visiting
speakers we're: Maj. Gen. Patrick
j. Ryan. Chief Of Army Chap
lains; Msgr. John S. Spence,
superintendent of the Catholic
schools of Washington; Chap
lain Charles Walker Thomas Of
Miner Teachers College. and
Chaplain j. K. Borneman. 'front.'
line spiritual adviser who won
three Silver Stars and three
Purple Hearts.
Evening star., 1955-02-10

Performances were presented in
the spring of that year and in
1852. Before that, the company
had not appeared here for 81
years.
Mr.. Kane said the purpose of
the Opera Committee. composed
of business, civic. professional
and cultural leaders and organ
izations. is to assure an under
writing fund in the amount of
$4,000 to cover any possible
deficit.
The Hayes Concert Bureau is
cooperating with S. Hurok and
the Metropolitan Opera Asso-
citation in arranging the April
appearance here.
Mail orders for tickets will be
accepted beginning March %.
and general public sale will open
April 4 at the Hayes Concert
Bureau. 1108 G street NV. Tel
ephone orders will not be &C
cepted and orders received prior
to March % will be returned un-
filled.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Infant Suifocates
In Parked Auto

A 3la-month-old boy, the son
of a Washington couple. suffo-
Gated yesterday while lying in a
car-bed in a parked auto in
Alexandria, police there reported
| today.
The infant, Peter Hamilton
Benziger, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter H. Benziger of 2205 Cali
fornia street NV, was pro-
nounced dead at 4:10 pm. in
Alexandria Hospital by DR.. AL
fred Abramson, who said that
death was caused by suffocation.
Police said Mrs. Benziger, 20,
and Mrs. Carlyle Cochran, a
friend, left the baby in an auto
parked in the 800 block Of South
Washington street while they
went to nearby furniture store.
When they returned a short
time later Mrs. Benziger saw the
child lying motionless and took
him to Alexandria Hospital. Mrs.
Cochran's 7-month-old son. who
was in another car bed, was
sleeping.
The dead child's father is q
test engineer for the Potomac
Electric Power Co.
Evening star., 1955-02-10
Narcotics Men Push
Roundup Of Suspects
After Arrests Of Nine

Federal agents and police ex'
pected additional arrests today
following a roundup of nine per
sons charged with peddling o.
possessing narcotics.
! Included N the catch was &
young woman who last Frida,
resigned as a clerk-typist in the
Office of Senator Lehman, Demo.
crat, of New York.
She was the first OF the sus.
poets bagged in raids by nearly
a dozen Federal agents and g
squad of Metropolitan policemen
under Sergt. Joseph Gabrys OF
the narcotics squad. Heading the
G-men was Leroy Morrison, chief
of the Washington field Office.
List Of Those Held.
Those arrested and the bonds
on which they we're held by the
United States commissioner,
were:
Miss Barbara E. Floyd, 81, of
the 1900 block of Adams street
NE, $4,000. Miss Floyd left her
year-old job in Senator Lehman's
Office last Friday for what police
described as personal reasons. "
William c. Greene, %, colored,
of the 1900 block of Michigan
avenue NE. a musician, $4,000.
| Peter C. Pogue, 27, colored, of
the first block of r street NV,
musician, $4,000.
Mrs. Nancy C. Pogue, 27, OF
the first block of r street NV,
sister-in-law Of Pogue, $4,000.
Solomon N. Levinson, "a, of
the 600 block of Jefferson street
NV, cab driver. being treated
at a hospital.
Mrs. Mary D. Watkins, 80,
colored. of the 4100 block of
Hayes street NE, practical
nurse, $4,000.
Harold Richards, 41, colored,
Of the 100 block of L street NV :,
$2,500.
William D. Johnson, 38, of
IT'S Kastle place NE, $2,50O.
James F. Parker %, of the
$500 block of Garland avenue,
Takoma Park, Md. still to be
arraigned.
Not All Linked.
Sergt. Gabrys said the whole
sale arrests did not mean all
were linked in one ring. Miss
Floyd and most of the others
were arrested at their homes in
different raids.
Sergt. Gabrys said all signed
statements indicating some use
Of narcotics.
Greene was charged with SELL
ing agents So caps Of heroin for
$50. Police said he is presently
charged with forging a check in
Silver Spring and was under
$1,000 bond. Seret. Gabrys de-
scribed Miss Floyd as an agent
who peddled for Greene.