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Officials and PTA
To Discuss Schools
In Panel al Taft

A panel discussion between
Government officials and repre-
sentatives of the District Con-
eress of Parents and Teachers
will be held at 8 pm. tomorrow
at Taft Junior High School,
Eighteenth and Perry streets
NE.
The officials include Repre-
sentative Harris. Democrat, OF
Arkansas, a member of the House
District Committee: School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning; Schuyler
Lowe, director of the District De-
partment of General Administra-
tion; w. Herbert Gill. education
chairman of the Board Of
Trade, and Charles N. zellerS,
assistant to Mr.. Corning.
The PTA side of the panel will
include Mrs. Richard Radue, leg
islative chairman of the Con-
gress; Charles Smith, Area IA:
Mrs. Samuel Bigio, Area 2-B;
Mrs. Paul Smith. Area 8, and
Bernard c. Eisenberg. Area 6.
The discussion is being held
to find solutions to an "inflexible
and inadequate budget" text
book shortages, overcrowded-
ness and other problems.
Other PTA meetings scheduled
this week, all starting at 8 pm.
unless otherwise indicated, are:
Tomorrow.
Amidon- -Greenleaf PTA-The
group will be guests of the
Southwest Citizens Association
at Jefferson Junior High School,
Eighth and H streets S.W., at
1880 pm.
Hebrew Academy-DiScussion
Of Responsibility of the Home
and School in the Development
of the Child" at the school, 6045
Sixteenth street NV.
Thursday.
Amidon PTA - Bake sale at
1890. pm. at the school at Sixth
and F streets S.W.
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BrideLooks in Horror
As Intruders Kill
Lawyer in Home
Rx the A,,oeiatsd Press

NEWTON, Mass, Feb. 5.-The
bandits masked in silk stockings
turned and one of them shot
him." the horror-sickened bride
of five months said. "They raced
out of the door without a back
ward look"
Fanna Lovinger. %. saw her
28-year-old husband. Merrill p.
Lovinger, just starting a prom
ising law career. shot dead
through the heart last night by
two robbers who broke into her
wealthy fathers house.
Mr.. Lovinger was shot when
he ran to aid his wife and her
mother.
Police quoted the robbers as
saying they had broken into the
house of Mrs. Lovinger's father,
Henry Mintz, by mistake. They
intended to rob the home OF
another wealthy manufacturer
in that area. they said.
Three Men Arraigned.
Mrs. Lovinger was under a doc
tors care today as three men
were arraigned in District Court
on charges of murder and as
sault with intent to rob.
The three were Henry ArSen-
ault, jr., %. Framingham, Ar
thur L. Devlin. 81, and Russell
P. lie Blanc, both of Waltham
II want to die. I want to pay
for it," Arsenault told newsmen
In court he attempted to plead
guilty, but the court ordered
plea of innocent and continued
the case of all three to Monday
Police Chief Philip Purcell said
Arsenault admitted shooting Mr.
Lovinger while LIE Blanc waited
outside in an automobile as Ar
senault and Devlin broke into the
house.
The three were rounded ur
within half an hour after the
Staying.
Mother SObs In Courtroom.
Among the spectators standing
at the back of the courtroom was
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Howard U. Official Elected
Chairman Of Terrell Fund

DR.. James M. Nabrit. secretary
of Howard University, has been
elected chairman of the Mary
Church Terrell Fund.
The fund, dedicated to elimi-
nation of segregation in the Dis
trict, was created In appreciation
of the late Mrs. Terrell's contri-
buttons in the fields Of educa-
ton, civil rights, civic activities,
and international understand
ing.
Robert G. MCGUIRE. jr., 1920
Ninth street NV, was elected
treasurer of the fund and Mrs.
Geneva K. Valentine. 1011 U
street NV. was named secre-
tarv
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Stuge Equipment Exempt
Special stage equipment for
use by theatrical organizations is
now exempt from import duties
in Greece. Athens reports.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
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with it, counterpart Of today
only trombones. bassoons. oboes,
tympsni and possibly clarinets.
Yet the piece, arranged though
it was for modern performance,
had the unmistakable feel of
wind music, and was entertain
ing from beginning to end.
AS for the double trumpet con-
certo Of Vivaldi. it probably is
an arrangement or even an out
right hoax. although certainly
prepared by somebody that has
a good knowlede Of 18th-cen-
tury trumpet technique.
Leontyne Price, among the
finest sopranos now before the
public, was on hand to sing
three standard operate arias,
strangely out of place in the
company of the. fresh music
that Mai. Hugh Curry. the con-
ductor. had dug up for the
band. Nevertheless. it was a
pleasure to hear Miss Price
sing. for she has a voice of
power. beauty and control. The
passionate glissandos at the end
of the Gershwin aria were spec
tacular.
Kenneth D. Wells. president
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Westfall's cast includes John
Riordan. Lorette Nipple. Ann
Siler. Floyd Dominy, Betty Far
well, Tom Upchurch. Nelson
Sieyering, Eugene Murphy,
Emily Corse and Joan MerTick.
Georgetown -on = the Aisle is
looking for monologues. poetry.
comedy sketches and play ex-
cerpts limited to three charac-
tiers. -. Additions tonight
through Saturday at 8 pm. in
the theater. 1909 Twenty sixth
street NV. =. Hal Gould and
Louise Gore will direct.
The Arlington County Depart
ment Of Recreation and Parks
will hold q workshop at 8 o'clock
tonight in the Kate Waller Bar
rett School, 4401 North Hen
derson. road. HEIDI Pope and
Mary Craighill LOTUS will speak
on creative dance for children.
Sarah Baker and Vivien
Lichtenstein on art. An art
film and children's art exhibit
also will be shown.
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Music making Of a high order
last night showed that the Army
Band has come a long way in
the last two seasons. From a
disorganized group of no great
artistic standards and of little
personality, it has grown into
a true musical ensemble that
shows a band is something more
than a poor imitation Of a SYM
phony orchestra.
Music for a Festival" an
11-movement suite for band by
the noted English composer
Gordon Jacob. is an interesting
and capable composition. Its Sec
tons alternate between the full
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NEWS OF MUSIC
Army Band Becomes
True Ensemble

band. with woodwind, and a
smaller choir of brass and tym-
PAM. which last night played an
tiphonally from the balcony in
the back Of the hall.
In general. it is perhaps I'M
wise to compare the many char
acteristic effects Jacob gets from
the band with the sound of a
standard symphony orchestra:
but there is a novelty in the
band that cannot be gainsaid.
and it gives the impression of
being legitimate and success
full medium for music no less
individual than the string quar-
tet, the mixed chorus or the
symphony.
The overture of the 18th-cen-
fury composer Mehul was also
originally written for band, but
a band that could have shared
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No. 2 for strings" which opened
last nights Philadelphia orches-
ira concert. there are conncta-
tons often associated with the
"neo-classica" in music that are
too strong here TO be overlooked.
Bernard Rogers has alluded to
the sober colors" the learning
and discipline" and the con-
trapuntal control" of Bloch in
the work.
It may be added that along
with these qualities, Bloch has
achieved formal compactness,
harmonic clarity. and transpar-
ent texture in the string scoring
that work miracles Of refreshing,
inyigurating sound.
The concert closed last nights
program with an equally re-
Warding performance of Brahms
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Of Freedoms Foundation. . pa
triotic organization that spon-
sors the Array Band on the air.
announced that the foundation
is creating an annual prize OF
$1,000 to be awarded to the
bandmaster Of any high school
band who submits the best orig
inal composition expressing the
"Heritae Of Our Country"
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BY JAMES ROWLAND

When an amateur theatrical
group passes its quarter-century
mark. the unsuspecting win usu-
ally risk the assumption that
time has erased all growing
pains.
A nice thought. granted. but
not one to be applied to Mont
gomery Players. The spirit is
Just as high as on founders day
but obstacles-old and new
continually arise.
"At first we could store prop
critics in the school and pay
about $50 rental for each pro-
duction." explained Jane Plum
mer Rice, one of the organizers,
In describing facilities at Leland
Junior High School.
Through the years they've
made us move all our material.
The rent has gone to around
500 q play, SO we can afford to
run only two nights"
I'VE used to serve coffee back
stage after final performances"
added Frances Spruce, player
and director. Then they said
the hall would have to do. That
was too small. Now food Is re-
stricted to the cafeteria SO we
won't serve anything.
1.-THE stage is all width, very
little depth. Sometimes during
rehearsals and a performance
we've had to compete with q
basketball game on a court adj
joining the stage"
The Montgomery County
Board Of Education has given
sympathetic hearings to the
handicaps but remedies have not
been found. Trying to get the
county's youngsters in available
classrooms during daytime hours
Is O king-sized job in itself.
i Il
Right now we're looking for
young blood to take over opera
tions," Miss Rice said. "Some Of
us have been around so long it's
Just becoming too much to han
die"
Most persons at tryouts want
to act, and II they can't, they
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PhilodeIphions Give
Interesting Program
ru:rn anru a rAnrnnrr =
BY;FRANK C. Campbell

Philadelphia Orchestra. Eugene
Han. Program: Concerto Crosse Ne.
=, for strings. Bloch; Symphony No.
z. OPP. 92, Beethoven; Symphony No
2. op. 73, Brahms.
Although Ernest Bloch, him.
self, considers it superficial to
associate the term classical
with his new Concerto Crosse,
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COMMUNITY DRAMA
Montgomery Players at Is
Still Have Old DiIemmus

disappear" Miss Spruce ex-
planned. "They don't realize how
much one can learn backstage.
Besides. it's often more fun as
there's q lot more freedom back
there"
A community theater building
Is the longed-for solution. Resi-
dents who could help financially
lack interest, and those who
want to help can't afford 1t.
you'd be surprised how many
persons out here depend on anna
teur theater as their only contact
with the legitimate stage" Miss
Rice exclaimed. 1--WE still have
subscribers who helped us start
in that first depression year."
It's not a very rosy picture one
forms frem this series of trials,
but Montgomery Players has met
each in such a way as to make
its name synonymous with the
best in local amateur acting.
Talent and determination,
rather than a physical plant, are
the valued assets that have car
ried the players through one sea-
son after another.
They take particular pride in
their sets, too. using such ad-
jectives as unique" and "au-
thentic."
The group closes its 26th sea-
son this week end, though mem
bers will continue, to meet
throughout the summer. The
final. play is "As Husbands Go"
q comedy by Rachel Crothers.
directed by Tod Triem.
Appearing at 8:45 pm. Friday
and $3.50 pm. Saturday will be
Bev Guenther, Elayne Schociaet,
Pat Smith. Jim Pittman. Hazel
Rodier, John Gealy, Dave Scott,
Win Baxter, Ed Finlayson. Rita
Lowe. Sam Jones and Fred Wal
ton. /,
X 4 4 + ~
ADDENDA: Also completing
its current season this week
are the Oakton Hamsters, with
the comedy "The Man Who
Came to Dinner" /. Perform
ances Friday and Saturday at
$3.50 pm. In the Oakton (Va.)
School. :. pirector. Upton
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NEWS or MUSIC
BY DAY THORPE

United States Army Band. Mai.
hsosntyhs Pris:. sSS 9HnS:0 sers. diiSsst
Mitchell. trumpet; Sergt. Thomas
Wohlwender. trumpet. In the Depart
mental Auditorium. Program: King
Cotton March. Sousa; Overture In r.
pets. Viyaldi: Valley Forge March,
Goldman: Ritorna 1vincitor. Verdi; In
Ouelle Urine Morbide. Puccini: Ny
Mans Gone Now. Gershwin; Music for
o Festival, Gordon Jacob.
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Evening star., 1955-07-21
z 2AIexundrio Boys
Seized in Thefts,
School VondoIism

Two Alexandria juveniles were
being held by police today on
charges of ransacking q city
school and breaking into 9
swimming pool shelter house. :
The boys. aged IL and 13, both
colored, also admitted breaking
Into two soft drink machines al
service stations last night. They
ARE being questioned about
nearly 20 other soft drink ma
chine coin box thefts and sew
Ieral house breakings.
The boys were picked up las'
might by Fairfax County police
after the theft of a coin boz
from a soft drink machine. They
admitted the two earlier theft,
In Alexandra and were turned
over to Alexandria authorities
police said.
Alexandria police said tht
boys admitted breaking intc
Charles Houston Elementary
School Monday where they ran.
sacked classrooms, threw inl
and paper over the floors anc
broke a number Of phonograpf
records. Police said they. broke
Into the johnson Memoria
swimming pool May 20 and July
IL, taking the coin box from q
popcorn machine each time.
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Maryland Parks Seek
S35l 900 for New Lond

BALTIMORE, July u R.-
Joseph F. Kaylor, director Of
Maryland Forests and, Parks. is
asking 1851. 900 to buy more
land, including $4,000 for a
new part at Pen Mar in Wash
Iington County and $4,000 for
a new one at Wye Mills in Queen
Annes County.
The requests were part Of a
i$1.2 million long-range capital
Improvements program Mr.. Kay
lor presented yesterday to the
State Planning Commission.
Maryland, he said. now has
one acre Of public park for each
900 persons. It ought to have
10 times as much. he said.
Rapid population growth. more
cars and better highways have
Increased tremendously the use
of State parks. he said.
He said acquiring the land
should be given top priority over
other requests for buildings and
recreation facilities at the pres
ent parks.
The largest single item in Mr.
Kaylor's request was $500, 900 fol
enlarging Patapsco State Park
on the Patapsco River south o1
Baltimore.
This brought questions about
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what had happened to 5000. 600
appropriated in 1851 and another
500, 900 in 1853 for the Patapsco
project.
Mr.. Kaylor said $187. 900 al
ready has been paid for land:
another 1927 900 has been obli-
gated for acreage the State is
now acquiring, $4,000 +, was
spent for appraisals. surveys and
title searches on the land. and
$50, 900 was put into facilities
James C. Alban. chairman OF
the Planning Commission, raised
the question of whether money
should be spent on improving
sites already owned rather than
buying new ones.
He also said the parks should
be made self-supporting by
charging for parking.
Mr.. Kaylor said the parks re-
turn about 40 per cent Of what
lit costs to run them. He said
they cannot be made totally self
supporting.
r. Brooke Maxwell. chairman
of the commission. urged a more
intensive study Of the question
saying any park system will fall
of its own weight unless income
is brought closer to outgo."
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Montgomery Revomps
Hospital Care Setup

DR.. William J. Peoples. Mont
gomery County health oficer
today announced q new system
for providing hospital care to
medically INDECENT patients.
The health officer said nine
hospital contracts have been ap-
proved. Five are with District
Last year the coun-
ty had arrangements with only
three District hospitals In con-
nection with its welfare program
Under the new plan. DR..
Peoples said. the County Health
Department and Welfare De-
partment will cooperate in the
administration of the program.
The welfare department will rule
on the eligibility of patients to
receive assistance but the health
department for the first time,
will supervise the patients hos
pitalization program and admin
lister hospital payments.
The new contracts for indi.
gent care are with four Wash.
ington hospitals and a conva-
Evening star., 1955-07-21

like tea and used for "all sorts
OF aches and ailments"
The two have been using mari
juana since they were 20 years
old. Mcpherson now is 35 and
Miller 81. 4
They're not addicted" said
their lawyer.
Hamilton P. Fox, States at
torney, also put in an extenu-
ating word for the defendants.
He said he had no evidence they
gave or sold the dope to any
body else.
Judge Taylor gave Mcpherson
and Miller a tip before letting
them go.
IF you need some stuff to boil
there are plenty of American
wild roots" he advised.
Evening star., 1955-07-21
Beauty of Talbot Courthouse
Seen Murred by Any Addition

EASTON. Md. July 81 (R.-
A special committee says that it
would be a shame to mar the
beauty and historic atmosphere
of Talbot County's Georgian
style courthouse by building an
addition to 1t.
The committee. appointed by
the county commissioners last
February, said in its report that
a separate building should be
constructed behind the court
house to provide the additional
space needed.
T. Hughlett Henry, jr.. chair
man of the committee, submitted
the report. The committee took
Evening star., 1955-07-21

Commercial zoning for a shop
ping center in a proposed Negro
community opposite Glen Arden,
Nd, has been approved by the
Prince Georges County commits
sioners.
The board yesterday granted
general commercial classiflca-
ton to some 13 acres on the
George Palmer highway, which
formerly had been zoned rural
residential.
Attorney Hervey G. Machen.
representing the developers.
agreed to a commissioners pro-
vision that 10 Of the 1875 acres
to be developed be set aside for
a school. The attorney said his
clients, Lester M. Lewis and
Willard ]. Hall, do not expect to
begin the shopping center until
the 800 planned homes are
completed.
1--WE wanted This land zoned
commercial now 50 buyers will
not be misled into thinking their
homes will be away from COM
mercial property" Mr.. Machen
explained.
He added that construction on
the homes, to cost about $4,000
each, is expected to begin jan
uary IS. And the town Of Glen
Arden. he said. already has dis
cussed plans for annexing the
$3.5 million development when
it's finished.
In other actions, the COM
missioners approved:
Some $500 square feet on the south
side Of Otis street, Mount Rainier, 400
feet south Of the Baltimore a. Ohio
Railroad changed from .R-55 to Rio.
Property Of st. Luke's Episcopal
Church. Bladensburg, adjacent to- the
west boundary Of the Bladensburg Pri-
mary School. from CO and R-55 to IL.
Parts Of two lots adjacent to the
Evening star., 1955-07-21
Laurel Man Killed
In Truck Crash

RICHMOND, July 81 tR.-A
Laurel (Md.) man was killed yes
terday when the tractor-trailel
he was driving crashed into the
rear of q milk truck on U. S
Route 46O in Prince George
County, Va.
He was identified by County
Officer F. P. King as Edgar
Thomas Burch. 38.
Police said the impact was sc
great that 1t broke the mill
truck into several pieces.
The driver Of the milk truck
Wilbur Peyton Of Beach. Va.
suffered multiple leg fractures
and cuts and was admitted tc
Petersburg Hospital In fair con-
ldition.
Police said Mr.. Burch appar.
emily fell asleep while driving.
Evening star., 1955-07-21
Two Find That Jamaica 'Teo
Is Morijuono in Maryland

SALISBURY, Md, July 81 up.
Morris Mcpherson and Gus
tavus Miller have learned that
what's tea in their native ia
maica is dope in Salisbury.
Their innocence saved them
from a two-year jail sentence
yesterday on charge Of grow
ing marijuana in their gardens.
Circuit Judge Rex A. Taylor
suspended the sentence after
their lawyers told him McPher-
son and Miller didn't know there
was a law against cultivating
the dope weed.
The two farm workers brought
seeds Of marijuana with them
when they came from Jamaica
10 years ago. There, said Nc
Pherson's lawyer, 1t Ia brewed
Evening star., 1955-07-21

lescent home-Freedmen's, Chm.
dren's. Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat: Georgetown and the
Children's Convalescent Home.
In the county contracts have
been signed with the Suburban
Hospital, Washington Sanitar-
ium. Montgomery General Hos
lpital and Cedarcroft Sanitarium.
DR. Peoples said the Maryland
State Health Department in
April announced a policy by
which the State will pay sI2 a
day for each welfare patient
Ihospitalized in Maryland ipsti-
tutions. {
The county has appropriated
$50, 1000 to cover hospital pay
ments both in Maryland and in
the District. Supervision Of the
program by the County Health
Department will permit quicker
transfers of patients to county
hospitals when they no longer
need special facilities available
only in the District.
Evening star., 1955-07-21
County OKs Shopping Center
For Proposed Negro Homes

west boundary Of the St. Luks's property
Property fronting on Annapolis road
and adjacent to the south boundary OF
Igraph. from R-55 to ca.
Property In the Edmonds subdivision.
bounded by Lawrence place to the north,
Scu se't .saans S sas fs et nn
l60 feet west Of Keniiworth avenue
Some 1000 square feet on the south
sSs Ct aSca SFShe soo as e Se 70 he aes sn
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad soc
feet to the east, from R-55 to ii.
Some S.700 square feet in West Ber-
belt road and Forty-ninth avenue, from
About two acres on the southwest
corner Of Briggs road and new Route 8.
Property 400 feet south of Silver Hill
land road. from R-55 and CT to c-2
Property ny..ssg1s ssaSsnt to that
frontage of 244 feet on the Mayhew-
ISuitland. road. from R-55 to CO. The
area of both properties is Prs. acres.
frontage. Of 1870 feet along the south
side of Lincoln avenue and a depth Of
l3O feet Lincoln avenue meets the
Baltimore boulevard 142 feet to the
AANhn b-Ah W
Some 26 acres with a frontage OF
1S0 feet on the north side Of st. Bar
nabas road, about 100 feet northeast OF
the junction Of st. Barnabas and Temple
Hills roads, from R-R to CO.
Property with q frontage OF 42n feet
on the south side Of Tuxedo road. Cabin
Branch road meets Tuxedo road about
800 feet to the west, from R-R to IL
The county head took under advise
ment request for q change from R-55
to c-1 for property containing about
l270O square feet on the southeast
corner of Fofty-eighth avenue and
Greenbelt road, College Park.
The commissioners granted q change
from R-1S to C-1 for property fronting
210 feet on the north side of Benning
road between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
avenues.
They denied change for property
so feet on the west side. Of Shadyside
and Southern avenues, from R-55 to
lC-1. The District line lies Ito feet
north Of the property.
A special exception was granted
property fronting $50 feet on the south
side Of Marlboro pike and fronting on
the east side Of Fifty-ninth avenue,
now zoned C-1. A gas station is planned.
Another special exception was granted
Justine Nicholson Motor Co., for prop
erty in Hyattsville on the west side
Of Longfellow street adjoining the ad-
Joining Columbia a. Maryland Rail-
road, now zoned residential Automo-
lbiles will be parked in the area
Evening star., 1955-07-21
Unemployment Claims
Foil Off in MuryIund

BALTIMORE. July Il R-
New claims for unemployment
compensation fell on sharply In
Maryland last week. The De-
partment Of Employment Secur-
tiy said there were 3.327 new
claims. compared to 5.l43 the
week before.
The department issued $342, ,91s
in benefits to 1922 persons.