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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-11-03
Mr.. and Mrs. Home Owner:

WlI dIlu wi ,. nUIIIC UWilCls
Will Rogers who said he put people in two groups
brains than Drawn and those that have more
Drawn only that those with
brains enough brains know how their
difficult to understand the of those with
than Drawn by those of Drawn than brains
Progress like the boards and
entrusted build institution for the ncom
petent They go the place for the building
plans give the job build and
when it built bring in the chosen individuals without asking
them how they like it they injustice
Blufton put the whole them
when there all the people who could put on bake sales
and sos do their bit which would be fun for them
the pool is finished. Then
the who the they live in They also
should be given the chance to do their bit for the community
manufacturing firms could de for
which people would be thankful Many would
give more than if they paid the appoond tax under
with could give labor well
moneys and the older who have steady job could vun
time to help in capacity The steady employed could
evenings through daylight saving me And what
the territory covered by the Business Mems Association
could invite these people for donations since they o would
the pool
is the and how raise the The bond issue
takes the out of the home owners pocket and is carried
out of town. Workers and contractors which would total
loss for the small pool without shelter house bath
house which would need be built later by another bond issue
The only thing left adult baers would be the
the of which fit for fish live in The swimming
pool planned by the Progress Association not worth the
called for by the bond ISSUE The bond issue would
provide enough build enclosed pool that could be used
in all weather and could be put good by Buon College
throughout the They would be pleased help with
such project II would be credit Buton have such
pool put On our map M
benevolent minded effort Bluhton, the
Community hospital made possible and built through
and patient advce and leadership the late president Button
College, Samuel Mosman
of bond ISSUE The Red contributions through
tons and enough without issues The
Womens Christian Associations Army Community
drives Christian organizations get
needs provided for without bond What beautiful
tribute could all show Christian heritage than by
in the spirit of giving for worthy adding
ready fine number of servceabe institutions
financed by the free will offerings people Of Button
We do not need fifty
the swimming pool! the
in the benevolent people you
will of them written Exodus &c. $50
mand and word proclaimed throughout camp
give anything for the offering the
sanctuary So the people restrained from bringing
HOME OWNERS PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
Ed Good Chairman.
IpnidA AduorAirnr
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is prepared to take the test. Delays
in the past have been due to the
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volume of applicants on peak days
such as Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
Virginia Crash
Kills Woman

A librarian at the Quantico
Marine Base was killed this
morning when the foreign sports
car in which she was riding
crashed near Triangle. Va. She
was Miss Elizabeth Dasey, "a,
from Brookline, Mass.
The driver Of the 1855 Jaguar
convertible, Marine 1t. Col. Rich
ard Hey, jr., SO, was injured in
the accident on Route 626, Joplin
road. four miles west Of Route
i. Col. Hey is from Charlotte,
N. c. Both he and Miss Dasey
were found in the car at / am.
still strapped in with safety belts.
Police said the car was trav-
cling east toward Triangle when
it struck the shoulder of the
road at a sharp curve. went out
of control into ditch, travelled
some distance. hit an embank-
ment and was spun around. 1t
continued to traVel backwards
and then Tipped over on its
right side, coming to rest almost
upside down.
Miss Dasey suffered a crushed
skull and internal injuries and
was dead on arrival at the
Quantico Naval Hospital. The
driver, who is attached to Head
quarters Battalion of the Senior
School AT the Quantico Marine
Base, suffered badly cut wrist
and an eye injury. His condi-
ton is not serious.
The new car was demolished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
New Code to Be Applied
In House-to-House Drive

take about it, this housing code
is going to cost money to get
compliance"
The area near the Capitol, he
said, while it may get some "ur-
ban renewal" attention later. Is
not slated for early RIA moves.
Even so. the of1icial said, his
inspectors will have to move
carefully" in some parts Of the
area, through which one leg OF
the city's inner-belt expressway
system is planned.
Another factor in selection OF
the Capitol area, Mr.. Gwathmey
said. was that widespread re-
Mobilization already is under
way there by private owners on
a voluntary basis.
Mr.. Gwathmey said he ex-
pected that only a limited
amount of field inspection would
be necessary in screening
licensed structures against the
new code provisions. The reason,
he said, is that his department
has detailed information on most
of them, so that a paper screen
ing" can be done in many cases.
The licenses and inspection
chief said he expected the new
plans to be ratified at an early
meeting Of the city's newly
formed Urban Renewal Council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
RIA Launches
New Project
Planning Follows
$74o, 655 Grant

The Districts Redevelopment
Land Agency moved in on one
Iof the -city's worst slums today
following yesterdays grant OF
STAG ,655 by the Housing and
Home Finance Agency.
The grant will be applied to
the planning stage Of general
renewal Of 925 acres of the
Northwest section of the city, the
object of the Districts second
major slum clearance project
The area is bounded by the rail-
road tracks north Of Union Sta
ton, Florida avenue, U street,
Fourteenth and K streets and
Massachusetts, avenue. II Is
composed of about $4,000 hous-
ing units and contains about
1864 families.
RIA Cuts Request
Originally. the RIA had re-
quested 81, 100000 for planning
The request was dropped to
$749. 655 when it was agreed the
planning stage Of the redevelop-
ment could be applied by q
sampling type Of survey instead
of one which would have covered
the entire area. The study will
determine what dwellings need
complete rehabilitation and what
homes can be salvaged with i'm
provements under the new hous-
ing code. in effect today.
Yesterdays announcement of
the advance was coupled with q
move on the part of James w,
Follin, slum clearance director
of the HHFA, who set aside $40
million of Federal funds for the
project. The figure is an esti-
mated two-thirds of the entire
cost. The District will pay the
remaining third, either in cash
or through public works projects
in the area.
Estimate Of Agency
The RIA has estimated about
so per cent Of the area will re-
quire wholesale rehabilitation.
The others will be subject to the
new housing code which forces
property owners to bring their
housing up to minimum require
ments
Under law. families rooted out
by the project must be given
decent. safe and sanitary"
dwellings. Their placement will
be handled by the National Cap
ital Housing Authority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
Chlorine Coming to End
Blue Plains Plant Delay

Idelphia supplier. who promised
to get a tank car on the rails
today. 1t should be here tomor-
row or Saturday. Then the $345,-
900 chlorination plant can begin
earning its investment.
1t has just been sitting out at
Blue Plains since February 10.
District lawyers and attorneys
for the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road have kept it idle. They are
dickering over terms Of a con-
tract that would have the B&zO
run about 1856 feet of track to
meet the new spur the District
built to serve the plant.
In desperation, District engi-
neers built a $400 pipeline from
the plant to the existing siding.
But they hope it won't be needed
long.
Tank cars parked on the siding
at the pipeline will block the
siding from its chief mission Of
providing rail entry to another
portion of the sewage center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
BY RICHARD, RODGERS

If the District only had some
chlorine. 1t could get its fine. new
sewage chiorinating plant work
ing.
A pipeline has been built at
the new Blue Plains plant. That
gets around the railroad contract
dispute that has kept tank cars
cut off from the plant, completed
last February.
But some unidentified person
seems TO nave mislaid the Au-
gust S order for chlorine. At any
rate, the order didn't get out
until Yesterday, when The Star
inquired where was the chlorine.
Sanitation division engineers
asked purchasing and purchas-
ing turned crimson when it found
the 26-day-old order still hang
ing around,
Roland M. Brennan, District
procurement officer, saved the
day. He put in a call to Phila-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
Vending Machines
Moved in Pentuqon

Today is moving day for tn,
firm which has been operating
candy and cigarette vending
machines in the Pentagon fol
the last IL years.
Automatic Sales, Inc. Of GIL
Leesburg pike. Falls Church. out
bid G. B. Macke Corp. Of 212 +
street NV. for renewal of the
IPentagon contract.
A spokesman said the Mackt
firms three-year contract ex.
pired several months ago but
that they had continued to oper-
ate while bids were being re.
.ceived. Automatic made the best
offer, he said.
The Macke firm had beer
operating more than 100 candy
cigarette. cigar, chewing gum
machines and upwards Of 70
scales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01

The Districts new housing
code, which goes into effect to-
day, will be-applied soon in ar
intensive enforcement drive tc
Ia 55-block area east of the
Capitol.
Cabell Gwathmey, Department
Iof Licenses and Inspections di-
rector, said three two-man in
Ispection teams will begin q
house by house enforcement
drive in the triangular North
east Southeast area bounded by
First street and Massachusetts,
and North Carolina avenues.
The area compliance survey
will be one of three immediate
applications of the new and more
stringent provisions of the code
drawn after months Of study
Iof citizen official leaders.
To require Year
The other two enforcement
methods will be:
/. A screening. to begin i'm
mediately. of applications for re-
newal of licenses for the opera
ton of Washington's $500 room
ing and tenement houses, as well
as for all apartment houses
hotels and convalescent homes
2. Investigation in response to
complaints to enforce the new
standards.
Mr.. Gwathmey made a trough
guess" that the three inspection
teams will require about a veal
to cover the big 55-block area
near the Capitol.
Notices will be served on own
ers of properties which violate
new standards. The owners will
be given reasonable periods OF
time to comply and will be SUBJ
ject to fines if they fail to do so
They may however, appeal to a
board which is still to be set up
Considerable study, Mr.
Gwathmey said, went into areas
throughout the city before the
big section near the Capitol was
singled out for intensive enforce
ment.
One of the big problems, he
explained, was that the District
Redevelopment Land Agency is
still studying areas in nearly
every part of the city for posi-
BILE redevelopment or less dras-
tic forms of improvement per-
mitted under new housing laws.
In some of these areas, RIA will
clear slums. Mr.. Gwathmey
said his department obviously
wanted to steer clear of such
areas, so as not to require ex-
pensive housing code improve
ments to structures which might
later be razed.
Going to Cost Money
1--WE had to stay away from
such areas, in good conscience
as much as we could" Mr.
Gwathmey said. Make no mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
Van Fleet in Athens

ATHENS. Greece, Sept. ! R.
Gen. and Mrs. James A. Van
Fleet arrived here by plane last
night for a private business and
pleasure visit" The general
served a. director Of the joint
United States Military Aid Group
to Greece from 1913 to 1850.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
Operator Hits
Suburban Bid
etc Employe Fears
Loss of Jobs

The public is entitled to con.
venience, but not entitled tt
knock us out of jobs" a veteran
transit operator told a District
Public Utilities Commission hear
ing today.
Sidney Enten, of 1913 Yuma
street Sc. a Capital Transit
driver for nearly II years, testi.
fed that in his opinion, pro-
posed extension of service by thu
Suburban Transit Co. would have
an adverse effect on the traffic
handled by Capital Transit Co
The suburban company seeks
to operate rush-hour buses from
Montgomery County to down
town Washington. The proposal
is for downtown service from
the Wheaton, Glenmont ano
Silver Spring areas.
Speaks for Members
Mr.. Enten, who said he spoke
on behalf OF fellow members OF
the local transit union, said he
had operated for about the last
10 years from the Seventh street
wl1arves area mostly to the
Georgia and Alaska avenue
terminal.
He said he observed paSsen-
gers arriving from Maryland al
that terminal and that he be-
lieved the proposed express Blu;
service would adversely affect the
traffic now handled by Capita,
Transit.
Walter j. Bierwagen, president
of the union, testified later that
he believed 1000 or more pas.
sengers a day would be taker
away and that there would bt
a serious impact on the amount
of service Capital Transit woulc
operate out of the terminal with
a consequent reduction of jobs.
Opposed by Company
Opposition to the plan also
has come from the Capital Tran
sit Co., which now transport!
the Maryland firm passengers
from the District line at Georges
and Alaska avenues.
Mr.. Bierwagen expressed the
belief that because of the many
years of service both for the
present management of Capital
Transit and for previous ones
going many years back. 1--WE are
entitled to the work that has
been created as a result Of oul
long service to this community
and to this company and its
predecessors
Mr.. Bierwagen said he thought
that the granting of the Sub
urban Transit Co. application
would have a serious effect or
Capltal transit employees.
He explained that when rur
is cut of, the operator loses hi
run and must select from 6
lesser number of runs. Tit
operator may get less desirable
runs until, If the situation con-
tinues downward, a man ma,
be laid off or a job may not b.
filled.
Besides possible loss of worl
from cutting down of service, {
change of run may force al
operator to transfer from on
division to another and fore,
him to move his residence O
transfer his children in schools
the union head said.
Mr.. Bierwagen said the unior
had organized the employees o
Suburban Transit, but that tn,
employer had refused to bargain
with the union. He said tn,
union would, when finally recog
nized as the bargaining agent
work to increase the wage leve
of the employees, who he salt
now have a wage rate Of $1.4O
per hour. Capital Transit EN-
a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
Roads Unit Acts
To Curb Floods
In Edmonston
Drainage bitches
To Be Constructed
At Stute Expense

BALTIMORE, Sept. l tSpe-
IciaD The State Roads Com.
mission today agreed to take
steps to control storm
water in the Edmonston (Md.)
Iarea.
Norman M. Pritchett. chief
engineer of the commission, an
lnounced the plan during a two
hour conference with a dele
cation of angry Edmonston resi-
dents, whose homes and prop
critics suffered severe damage
from rain deposited by Hurri-
canes Connie and Diane.
Mr.. Pritchett said the COM
mission will construct two 1,500-
| foot-long drainage bitches to
channel the water away from the
areas hardest hit by the storm
water. The channels would lead
Ito natural drainage areas ard
would be maintained at STATE
Roads Commission expense.
He said work would begin i'm
mediately on the project.
Leads Delegation
! Edmcnston Mayor George w.
Page led the delegation which
included Town Engineer Roy T.
Fowkes and Town Attorney Bert
! E. Sager.
Mayor Page told Mr.. Pritchett
and other commission officials:
you are responsible for the
damage"
He said the community never
had water like that before the
roads commission put in the
new road"
The new dual Edmonston road
project resulted in changing the
natural flow of storm water in
the community, Mayor Page and
other member of the delegation
said, resulting in streets, base
ments and yards being flooded
during the hurricane-borne rains.
! Carl Nagel. ST., a resident of
Riverdale who owns property
bordering the new roadway, said
Ichanneling of water under the
new roadway by use of storm
drains caused an unusual &C
emulation of water which nor
mally would have drained of
into a nearby creek bed.
His son. Norman Nagel, Of
1908 Fifty-second place, Edmon-
Iston, whose backyard was flooded
by the torrent, said:
Until we complained about it,
lit looked like you we're Just
dumping that water on us to
destroy our homes"
| Mr.. Pritchett said construc-
ton of the roadway had no eff
feet on the storm drainage prob
lem because of the contour Of
the land in the area.
THE same amount of water
would have come down into your
community whether the road
was there or not" Mr.. Pritchett
said.
Mrs. Burton E. Holcomb. Of
52Q4 Emerson street, Edmonston.
described the rush of water
which inundated Emerson street
as a lake which flowed right
down our street"
Urges Damage Reports
Mr.. Pritchett urged that the
residents who suffered damage
report their property losses to
the State Roads Commission in
formal letter. He said he
would forward the letter or let
tiers to the State attorney gen.
erals Office for a ruling on the
question of liability.
j. j. Downey. a staff member
OF the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, who has
been serving as a liaison man
between the WSSC and the Army
engineers building the Peace
Cross Flood Control Project, at
tended the conference. He said
the WSSC will award a contract
September for construction of
"a drainage ditch paralleling
Crittenden street in Edmonston
which will help drain the storm
water from the Edmonston area!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
Is First Woman
To Enter Soldiers Home

Miss Regina c. Jones. 47-year-
old WAC veteran. tomorrow be-
comes the first woman admitted
to the United States Soldiers
Home in its 104-year history.
She remembers Soldiers Home
well. She used to play tennis or
the courts there when she was 9
girl. Now. cataracts have nearly
blotted out her vision and one
leg has been amputated.
| She will join more than 1900
veterans of the Spanish-Amer-
lean War. World War I anc
World War II. Home officials
said she will go first to the hos
lpital as a temporary admission
land then. if approved for perma-
nent admission, to Anderson
Cottage.
How did she happen to wind
up in Soldiers Home?
II can't read the papers even
with a magnifying glass" she
said, "but somebody told me
about an article in the paper
that Soldiers Home was going to
fix up the old Lincoln summer
home on the grounds for World
War II WACs with service CON
Inected disability. I put in an
application. I guess I'm the
first eligible one.
Men Won't be Bother
mo, the men won't bother me.
i make friends with everybody
I hope after I get on my feet a
little bit, they'll give M e,~re
sort of job I can handle to keep
me busy.
Il can't live alone. I try t
do as much as l can for myself
but I can't see very we'll. / fall
over things. After all. I'm 6 feet
tall and I've always held myself
straight. With no side vision
Iat all and just gun barrel vision
in front, / can't see objects that
might get in my way.
I've always been independent
taken care of others, too. hate
mot being able to do for myself. .
Enlisted in 1943
Miss Jones. a graduate Of the
old Central High School and a
longtime employe of the United
States Chamber of Commerce
was working for the French
Military Mission here when she
volunteered for the WAC in 1943
She was shipped overseas early
in 1914. Arst to Naples and Their
to Egypt where she was an ad.
ministrative and technical clerk
at Camp Huckstep some IL miles
out of Cairo.
Il had perfect vision when
got there but about 10 months
later, when I tried to get a
drivers license I couldn't read
the eye chart. I was sent to the
hospital and they found I hac
cataracts." she said.
Blamed on Climate
Then began the years of hos
pitfalls. operations, hope and des-
pair. There was a series of op-
erations at Valley Forge Gen.
eral Hospital. Then her sight
dimmed again and she had to
go through more operations
again in 1949.
Every eye doctor I talked tc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01

told me it was the climate in
Egypt, the sun and the glare or
the sand" she said. They've
also told me I can't take any
more operations on my eyes.
well, still thought coulo
do something with my hands
and feet. But I was hitting my
shins all the time. A blood clot
stopped the circulation in my
| leg and it had to come off. Thai
was in November. 1852, at Mt
Alto Hospital.
"I've been fioundering arounc
Living in boarding homes. Ny
family is scattered. But I tel
myself all I need is a LITTLE
stick-to-it-tiveness and car
help out over there. Look al
this"
Miss Jones pulled out letter
1t was sent to her by Col. Westra!
Battle Boyce, commanding office
of the WAC. while she was a
Valley Forge.
Influence Praised
Recently, wrote Col. Boyce
i"I heard about the example YOU
have set and the splendid morale
influence you have been to thu
other patients at Valley Forge.
realize full well that many, aftel
IT months of disqualification
would tend to develop a yer!
negative attitude toward people
and things.
1.-THE fact that you have mini
miZed your own illness and aidet
nurses and others in caring TO-
patients is most worthy and il
line with the idealism and tradi
lions Of the Women's Arm!
Corps. I hope by this time YOU
eyes are responding to treatmen
and that soon I shall hear tina
you are completely recovered.
I'm the meantime, I want vol
to know how very proud l am o.
you and how completely vol
Ipersonify my idea of 'gooe
WAC"
I Miss Jones fumbled the lettel
back into its envelope. Shit
patted her hair.
I'm going to have it done thi.
afternoon. I want to look gooc
for tomorrow" she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-01
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

American Sociological So
ciety continues its third day
Of discussions today at the
Shoreham Hotel, where more
than 800 psychiatrists, psy-
biologists. sociologists and
social workers are gathering
in the four-day session.
Story on Page BIS.
Evening star., 1955-07-19
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HOUSES for SALE, NE. Cont. J

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front pch.: cony. to transp., schools,
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