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Evening star., 1955-08-28
County Fair
Sets Record

The Montgomery County fair
which ended last night at CATH
Iersburg set an attendance record
with final day figures still not
totaled.
Approximately $1,000 persons
had passed through the gates by
Friday night. Last years at
tendance was 10000.
Winners In the Al livestock
champion competition included
Dairy cattle ~ Grand cham
Ipion, Holstein COW. Filbert Lady
Ornsby Weejoc, owned by Fred
die Kramer. Junior fitting and
showing champion, Jersey COW,
owned by Conrad Mills. Second.
Brown Swiss COW. owned by
David Butts.
Senior fitting and showing
champion, Holstein, owned by
Freddie Cramer; second, Jersey
COW owned by Carol Mills.
Baby beef. the grand cham
pion. Short-horn steer, owned
by Charles Lethbridge. Reserve
grand champion, Aberdeen An
gus, owned by Cookie Stewart.
Junior fitting and showing cham
pion. Hereford. owned by Frank
Kricker. Senior fitting and show
ing winner. Aberdeen Angus,
owned by Cookie Stewart.
Sheep-best exhibit of three or
more animals, Nancy Lechlider.
The senior fitting and showing
winner, Edwin Muncaster. Junior
fitting and showing winner, Tim
Mittell.
Switzerland champion hog.
To- Poland China SOW owned
by James e. Welsh, jr. Junior
fitting and showing winner. Ed
gar Biddinger, jr. Senior fitting
and showing winner, James z,
Welsh ir
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solubly wed to the weed. But
observers agree that when the
share croppers get jobs this
winter. many will not return to
the patches. Much hard-won
tobacco land will go back into
scrub woodland as a result, and
III things don't get better. there
will be foreclosures and loss Of
farms.
The writer made a tour Of the
area on Tuesday with Ralph H.
Peters Of Annapolis, State direc-
tor Of the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration for Maryland and
Delaware, and several men in
terested In tobacco.
Emergency Status Asked
After the tour, Mr.. Peters
recommended that Southern
Maryland be declared a produc-
ton emergency area. making
tobacco farmers eligible for Fed
eral loans at 3 per cent interest
for from one to five years. The
Agriculture Department acted
favorably on his recommended
ton the following day.
The others in the party were
DR.. o. E. Street, tobacco expert
of the University Of Maryland; /;
Thomas C. Duley Of the Produc-
ton Credit Association of South
ern Maryland: Lee H. Miller,
Farmers Home Administration
representative at Upper Marl-
boro: Abram z. Gottwals of the
First National Bank of South
ern Maryland, and Representa-
tive Richard E. Lankford. Demo-
crat of the 5th Maryland district.
AS we started out. Mr.. Peters
said something about the tomato
crop on the Eastern Shore being
hard hit.
"Yes." said Mr.. Lankford, but
they have other crops over
there. You have to remember
that these counties have q one
crop economy. In Calvert coun-
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q STATE EDITION
New NeedC Clfed
For More in
Mental Cases
Webb Asks Revision
Of Virginia Rules
Of Commitment

The State should provide Vir-
Iginia localities with the proper
facilities for detention and short
term care Of mental patients,
John c. Webb. member Of the
House Of Delegates from Fairfax
County and Falls Church. said
yesterday.
He also called for a thorough
study and revision Of the States
commitment procedure in the
ease of persons suspected OF be-
ling mentally incompetent.
"The facilities should be where
the patients are" Mr.. Webb
said. He said the State should
assume the responsibility" OF
providing them.
Articles Pointed to Need
The need for detention facili-
ties in Northern Virginia was
pointed up III articles in The
Star two weeks ago. The articles
pointed out that jails are the
only facilities available for de-
ltention Of patients awaiting
commitment to mental hos
pitfalls.
II the proper facilities were
available In the localities, many
patients could be sent from the
State hospitals back to their
own area for treatment.
Mr.. Webb also said the State
should provide enough person.
mel and facilities for intensive
treatment" Of patients during
the first four to six months OF
their stay in mental hospitals.
"The number Of persons re-
leased could be increased by SO
per cent II we provided tnten-
siye treatment" he said.
win Introduce Legislation
He said he will present to the
General Assembly the findings
| Of O study Of commitment pro-
cedures being made by the
Northern Virginia Foundation
for Community Aid to Mental
Patients. He said he would in
Itroduce whatever legislation Is
necessary to correct present pro-
cedures.
Commitments without psy-
chiatric examination and con-
fnement to jail awaiting COM
mitment and transportation to
mental hospitals must be abol-
ished," he said.
He said it is not only possible
In Virginia ''to have sane per-
sons committed to the State
mental institutions, but even
when released as mot mentally
ILL after psychiatric examination
and confinement for several
weeks. these unfortunate per-
sons are not fully restored to
their civil rights"
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4,106 Tax Checks
to Office

RICHMOND. Aug. 27 R.-The
Internal Revenue Service re-
ported today that 4,106 checks
for 1854 Federal income tax re-
funds have been returned to its
office here because Of incorrect
addresses.
The unclaimed checks totaled
500, ,479.52, Virginia IRIS Dis
trict Director C. w. Glotzbach
said
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Civic PorIey Slated

CHARLOTTES ESVILLE, Va.
Aug. 27 (P).-Five hundred city
and county officials from all Sec
tions of Virginia are expected to
attend the three-day Local Gov
ernment officials Conference be-
ginning Monday at the University
of Virginia.
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Murtinsburg Hospital
Graduates 3 Nurses

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Aug.
~ Especially Eight will be
graduated by Kings Daughters
Hospital School Of Nursing here
in public ceremonies tomorrow
afternoon in st. Joseph's Hall.
A reception will follow.
Those to be graduated, all
from the immediate area. are
Shirley Jean Cascaden, Hilda
Foltz, Eugenia Kady. Flora Mori-
arty,- Partician O'Keefe and
Elaine Spano.
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Sermon at Courthouse

LEESBURG. Va. Aug. ~.
Especially The Rev. J. Richard
Winter, Warrenton Presbyterian
minister, will preach on the
Courthouse lawn in Leesburg at
8 pm. Sunday.
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c. of c. to Elect

The Chamber of Commerce Of
Southern Maryland will elect Of
flcers at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
Upper Marlboro Courthouse.
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tomorrow for Washington.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Phillips Wymon, Publisher
Of Redbook and BIuebook

In addition TO his work with
the Mccall Corp. and its maga-
zines, he held q number Of posi-
tions with organizations con-
nected with the magazine pub
fishing field.
On two different occasions In
recent years he served two-year
terms as chairman Of the Ma
tional Better Business Bureaus
Educational Committee. which
conducted studies for the Ma
tional Association Of Secondary
School Principals.
Mr.. Wyman also was author in
1896 Of the book. Magazine Cir
culation-An Outline Of Methods
and Meanings"
Mr.. Wyman was married
twice. His first wife, the former
Mildred Sutton. died In 1882. In
1885 he married the former Nina
Baekeland, who survives.
Other survivors, all children
by his first marriage, include a
son. Phillips, jr.. of Salinas,
Calf. and two daughters, Mrs.
H. B. Rolk of West Redding,
Conn, and Mrs. Carl B. Kauf-
mann of Newark, Del.
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DR.. Bolivar Lloyd, Leader
In Fighting Plague, Dies

DR.. Bolivar J. Lloyd. who
spent part of his Public Health
Service duty fighting the bu-
bonic plague and yellow fever
by being inoculated with ex-
perimental vaccines, died yes
terday at his home, 4342 Warren
street NV. He was 83.
He was assistant surgeon gen.
eral and medical director when
he retired in 1886 from the Pub
lie Health Serevice.
DR.. Lloyd became the first di-
rector of health of Ecuador in
1908. He had been sent there
two years before to fight yellow
fever, and then the bubonic
plague broke out. Earlier, in
1904. he had fought the plague
in Peru. His duty had been to
keep the disease off vessels
bound for the United States and
the Canal Zone and to aid Pc
ruvian authorities in controlling
the plague.
While in Ecuador he married
Josephine Gomez, daughter of
the president of the Ecuador
Senate and a state governor.
DR.. Lloyd organized the Pan
American Sanitary Bureau and
was its managing head for 10
years until 1888. The Bureau
was to exchange information,
methods of tre atm nts and
knowledge of diseases between
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UarAs nf Thanka

BARBER. ELLENORA. I wish to thank
the priests, the Holy Name Society and
choir of st. Vincent De Paul Church;
for their cards. flowers and sympathy
during the ys psssiRE PGiTn 1i onr IncKSnM mSfhsr'
BAYLOR. EMMA; The family of the
fully acknowledge with deep apprecia-
tIon your thoughtfulness and sympathy
during the illness and the passing OF
es5 especsS SfiS'eS wish Te 10 thsnk a the friends
coworkers and organizations for the
beautiful hoTsl tributes. teIegpams; ms
during our recent bereavement.
THE FAMILY.
BRADLEY, CHARLES II. The family OF
the late CHARLES H. BRADLEY wishes
to express its deep appreciation and
neiShbors. % coewoTkers and organiza-
tions for their kind expressions of SYM
pathy, offers OF cars and many acts
of kindness and beautiful flowers re-
ceived during our recent bereavement.
~ THE FAMILY.
HAWKINS, GEORGIANNA. We wish to
express our appreciation ana neaTts IT.
choir and to the Ada Tent, No. 100,
and to the thoughtful neighbors and
friends for their cards, offers OF cars:
beautiful mowers ana Obutf ACtS u
sympathy shown during our recent
HER DAUGHTERS. ALICE H; PHIL
Lips AND CARRIE HENDERSON.
NEWMAN, JOHN NJ. We wish to ex-
T. Hughes, Rev. Leroy Holmes. the
staff of Mount Alto Veterans Hospital,
DR., Henry Hadley, guards and employees
of the Post Office group. Agriculture
employees, Labor Department employees.
neighbors OF Hickman St., all club
groups and our many friends for the
kindness shown during the illness and
passing of JOHN M. NEWMAN and the
expressions OF sympathy, floral tributes.
teiegrams and for. the use OF their cars
MRS MAGGIE /. NEWMAN AND
FAMILY.
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George Horon, S.,
Publishers LAWYER

! George Horan, SIS, tax and
corporation attorney for Prentiss
Hall. Inc, publishers. died yes
terday at his home, 6817 Georgia
avenue NV.
Mr.. Horan was born in Worces-
ter, Mass. He attended Holy
Cross University in Boston: Yale
and the Georgetown University
Law School. He was graduated
from Georgetown in 1923.
Mr.. Horan practiced law in
Detroit before coming to Wash
ington in 1888.
He is survived by his widow,
Katherine; a daughter, Mrs.
Donald j. Olsen. of 1910 Four
teenth avenue. Hyattsville. Md:
son, Pvt. William j. Horan,
with the Army in Germany; and
three sisters. Mrs. Francis
Rooney. of Worcester, Mass,
Mrs. Everett Donnelly. of Leo
mister, Mass, and Mrs. Henry
Nee. of birmingham, Mass.
The time of funeral services,
at the Collins funeral home,
$500 Fourteenth street NV,
and of burial, will be announced.
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Dr.. Thomas Harris
Retired Professor

MORGANTOWN, West Va,
May % (P.-Dr. Thomas l.
Harris. retired professor at West
Virginia University. died at an
Elkins nursing home last night.
He was head of the Sociology De-
partment at the University be-
fore his retirement in 1947. He
was one of the early advocates of
the Public Welfare Service, now
the Red Feather agency, and was
its first West Virginia president.
DR.. Harris was a graduate of
the University of Illinois and be-
fore coming to West Virginia
taught at the University of Pitts
burgh and Miami University of
Ohio.
Surviving are his widow and a
daughter, Mrs. T. A. Fahlberg
of Park Forest, Ill.
Evening star., 1955-05-29

REDDNG, Conn, May % up.
Phillips Wyman, so, publisher Of
Redbook and Bluebook maga-
zines. died Unexpectedly today
at his home. He had spent yes
terday working at his Office.
Mr.. Wyman had been pub
Usher of the two magazines since
1949. He also was a vice presi-
dent and director of the Mccall
Corp, with which he had been
associated since 1928 In various
executive posts.
The Mccall Corp. publishes
Redbook. Bluebook, McCall's and
other magazines.
Mr.. Wyman was q native of
Evanston. Ill.. and a graduate
Of Cornell University. In whose
alumni affairs he played an ac-
tive role.
After graduation from Cor
nell in 1917 he spent three years
with the United States Food Ad-
ministration under Herbert
Hoover.
Then for a time he was asso-
ciated with the paint and varnish
industry. as well as the Periodi-
cal Publishers Association, for
which he once was executive
secretary.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
.M/Set. Raymond ZimmerIing,
Army Engineer and Artist

and pen and ink drawings, in
cluding the portraits of Gov
ernor and Mrs. Bushfield, Of
South Dakota. which he painted
in 1941. The paintings now hang
in the State capitol building in
Bismarck.
He also painted i've scenes
of the landing Of the 43rd Army
division on Basilan Island in the
Philippines during World War
II. One Of these scenes was pre-
sented to General Douglas Mac
Arthur.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mae zimmerling, of 1910
Park road NV. and a son, Ray
zimmerling. of San Francisco,
Calf.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. Tuesday at the Walter
Reed Chapel and burial will
follow in Arlington Cemetery.
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the United States and the 81
countries. of South America.
Translated Pharmac0pOeia
He also directed the transla-
ton of the American Pharma-
copoeia from English into Span
iSh.
DR.. Lloyd decided when he was
a boy to become a doctor. He
picked cotton. chopped wood and
did other jobs to put himself
through high school in his ma
tive Bryan (Texas) and through
the University of Texas. He
sometimes walked 10 miles each
way to school. In the summers
he taught school to earn more
money for his education. He got
his medical degree from the uni
versity in 1897. He was in pri-
vate practice in Texas and
taught anatomy at his alma
mater.
In 1900 he joined the Public
Health Service as an assistant
surgeon in Washington. He
then went to San Fracnisco to
begin fighting the bu b on C
plague. He operate d up and
down the West Coast and rode
Coast Guard cutters to Alaska.
where he also fought smallpox.
Took Plague Vaccines
Often he was injected with
plague and yellow fever vaccines
when these were in the expert
mental stage, but che guessed
right and never suffered any i'll
effects" his family said.
During World War 1, DR.. Lloyd
was medical director for the Ma
val district in Bremerton, Wash.
returning to Washington as a
bureau chief.
DR.. Lloyd was a Mason, Shriner
and a member of the National
Sojourners and the American
Medical Association. He had at
tended many international health
and scientific congresses.
Survivors are his widow: three
sons, Edmund H., Columbus,
Ohio; Bolivar, jr., Bethesda. Md,
a National Institutes of Health
physicist; Roger NJ, Arlington, and
three grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 pm.
Tuesday at All Saints Episcopal
Church, Chevy Chase circle.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
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HIT Mpmurtaitt

TWINE. CARRIE. tribute of love ia
the memory Of my devoted mother
Mrs, CARRIE TWINE, who passed into
eternal rest May 20. 1915.
Death is the quiet haven for us all.
MAMIE TWINE ADAMS.
THE INDEPENDENT FUNERAL DIREC-
TON, ID. &. In memory OF the Inde-
pendent Funeral Directors Association
of Washington, D. C.
There is no death. the sun goes down
To rise upon some other shore.
And bright in heavens jeweled crown,
May they shine forevermore.
JOHN T. RHINEs, HENRY s WASH
INGTON. JOHN T. STEWART SR.,
L. E. MURRAY, sR., L. E. MURRAY,
JR., ROBERT KELLY, ARTHUR
ROLLINS. ARTHUR GARNER. EU-
GENE FORD. ROBERT PLUMMER,
SR.. ROBERT MASON. EARL BET
TIERS. WILLIAM JOHNSON. 80
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Paul Hughes, 81,
Veteran Newsmun

LOUISVILLE, KY. May % (P)
Paul Hughes. 62, former city
editor of the Louisville Times
and Louisville's first winner of a
Nieman fellowship to Harvard
died today of a heart condition.
He was with the Times and
the Courier-Journal for 27 of his
81 years as newspaperman. He
was a war correspondent in the
Pacific in l945 for the news
papers and Radio Station WHAS.
He had worked with the St,
Louis Star, the st. Louis Times,
the Boonville (Md) Advertiser.
United Press, the Ashland (Ky.)
Independent and the Hunting
ton CIV. Va Herald-Dispatch
before coming to the Louisville
Times.
Evening star., 1955-05-29

M/Sergt. Raymond thinner
ling. stationed at Walter Reed
Hospitals Post Engineering
Office, died Thursday at the
Army hospital. He had previously
been a patient at the hospital
and was re-admitted May %.
A native Of Chicago, Sergt.
zimmerling received a degree in
civil engineering at the Illinois
Institute Of Technology. He also
attended the Chicago Art In
stitute.
During World War II, Sergt.
Zimmerling served as a Captain
in Alaska, New Guinea. the
Dutch East Indies, and the
Philippines. During the Korean
conflict. he was with the 93Oth
Engineering Aviation Group in
Japan and Korea for IA months.
Sergt. zimmerling had COM
pleted more than 300 oils, pastels,
Evening star., 1955-05-29
George HortneII,
Survey Veteran

Word has been received here
OF. the death of George Hartnell,
formerly with the Coast and
Geodetic Survey. in Warsaw
N. Y.
Mr.. Hartnell retired from the
Survey in 1941. after 33 years
of service.
He was born in Bergen, N. Y
and attended Drexel Institute
Mr.. Hartnell was in charge OF
the Surveys magnetic observa-
tory at Vieques, Puerto Rico,
from 1908 until 1911 and directed
the base magnetic observatory at
Cheltenham, Md, from 1911
until 1884. Until his retirement,
he was occupied with research at
Survey headquarters in the Dis
trict. So
Mr.. Hartnell conducted theo-
retical research at Cheltenham
relating to the earth's magne-
tism. Many of his findings were
incorporated into the Surveys
program. He was the author of
many technical publications.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Alabama U. Board
Backs Professor
In RuciuI Dispute

TUSCALOOSA. Ala. May %
R.-The University Of Alabama
Board of Trustees today defend
ed a veteran psychology profess
;or against charges he brain
washed" his students with state
nents favoring racial integra-
ton.
DR.. o. G. Carmichael, univer-
sity president, said DR.. Werner
VI. Sims explained that remarks
attributed to him were quota
lions from a textbook to show
various opinions in segregation.
The controversy came to
mead when Willis F. Kern, Ar
tington. Va. telegraphed DR..
Carmichael. II do not want my
laughter, Alice Lee Kern. to be
orainwashed by DR.. Sims on the
question of integration in his
psychology class. His statements
regarding segregation show he is
either propaganda or is gross
y ignorant of race differences"
tMr. Kern lives at 6150 Will
son boulevard, Arlington. He
is retired mathematics pro-
fessor who taught 10 years at
the Naval Academy in Annap-
oils. His daughter. Alice, is 18.
and is completing her fresh
man year at the university.
The family has lived in Arling-
ton since Mr.. Kern's retire.
ment in 1948D
Gordon Palmer. Tuscaloosa
banker and board member, said
that although Mr. and Mrs. Kern
were on the campus during the
last week, Mr.. Kern did not ac-
cept an invitation to discuss his
charges with DR.. Carmichael and
DR.. Sims.
DR.. Carmichael said DR.. Sims
was native of Kentucky who
was named to the faculty in
1928. He said this was the first
criticism of the instructor in
his 27 years on the staff.
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Persons,
Social Worker

w. Frank Persons, 78, director
of the United States Employ
ment Service from 1888 to 1899.
died Friday in Crawford. N. j.
| He had been living there since
he became Ill three years ago
and retired as director of in
dustrial relations for the Air
craft Industries Association
here.
A well-known social worker
and employe relations executive,
Mr.. Persons was born in a log
cabin in Brandon, Iowa. He
worked his way through Cornell
College, Iowa, as a janitor and
later worked his way through
Harvard Law School, graduating
in 1900. He practiced law in
Sioux City, Iowa. and then be-
came director Of the Charity
Organization Society Of New
York.
During World War I he was
here and abroad with the Amer
ican Red Cross and was named
director general of the depart
ment of civilian relief in 1919.
He also was director Of the de-
partment of administration Of
the League of Red Cross So
cieties in Geneva, Switzerland,
until 1920.
A Red Cross Official
He was vice chairman of the
American Red Cross in Wash
ington until 1922. when he en-
tered the field Of industrial rela-
tions with the North American
Company in New York and
worked in several of its affiliated
companies.
President Roosevelt appointed
Mr.. Persons director of enroll
ment of the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps. a job he held until
1912. simultaneously he was di-
rector of USES from it's incep-
tion in 1888 to 1889 and intro
duced the merit system into the
1900 offices of At States.
From 1912 until he retired
from Aircraft Industries Asso-
citation Of America, Mr.. Persons
was director of industrial rela-
tions for Consolidated Vultee
Aircraft Co. and the Ryan Aero
nautical Co., both in San Diego.
He was a member of the Ma
tional Council of Boy Scouts of
America, American Association
of Social Workers and the Ma
tional Conference of Social
Workers. He received the cita-
ton Of merit from the Interna-
tional Association of Public EN-
ployment Services in 1850.
Member of Cosmos Club
He also was a member of the
Cosmos Club here and the Har-
ward Club of New York. He for
merly lived at 4401 @ street
NV
Survivors are two sons, w,
Frank, jr., Crawford, N. j.; Ed
ward B., 6318 Avalon drive,
Woodacres, Md; two brothers,
Charles, Arlington. Va: Howard
Renwick. Iowa: a sister, Miss
Gladys Persons, South Norwalk,
Conn, and six grandchildren.
His wife. Mrs. Eugenia Bray
Persons, was one of the pioneers
Of the neutrality-suspicious.
movement in the District. She
was secretary of the board of
directors of the District Tuber-
culosis Association when she
died in 1941.
Services for Mr.. Persons will
be held at II am. Tuesday at
Hines funeral home. 290l Four
teenth street NV. Burial will be
private.