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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
.AnnandaIe
Water Firms
Bond Plea Fails

The Annandale Water Co.,
| fighting an injunction move by
10 Of its consumers. who seek
temporarily to. block the sale Of
company assets. was denied a So
million bond yesterday. 1t sought
the bond as protection from pos
lsible loss arising from the suit.
Fairfax County Circuit Judge
Arthur Sinclair declined to set
the bond and advised attorneys
for the water company and the
CONSUMERS that Judge Paul E.
Brown might hear the case We'd
nesday. Judge Sinclair added.
however, that a crowded civil
docket might force postponement
of the case until April.
Attorneys for the company
originally sought bond Of $2.5
million but scaled the request
! down. They said they feared
prospective buyers might be lost
II the injunction against the
scale were granted.
The IL persons suing AMMAN
dale Water Co. land Fairfax
Hydraulics, another water COM
Epany involved in the contention,
SAY the donated capital of the
two firms should be kept in trust
for their water customers.
They maintain that contributed
assets are responsible for at
least half of the firms growth
and argue that If the Virginia
Water Co. of Fairfax County. q
potential buyer Of both COM
panies, should take over without
setting aside donated capital. the
new owners would be able to ask
higher rates based on book value.
The compliments are asking
the court to block the sale until
the outcome of the suit has been
determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
New All NugggAUBRhR Q 94g]@g4ltion
Outside S.W. Plan Asked
PARKING METERS
GET DAY OFF

PURC ELLVILLE. Va.
(Special) .-Purceliville town
council has unanimously APP
proved a mo parking
charge" from now until De-
cember 81. as a gift to mo-
florists. Paper bags with
Merry. Christmas" greet
ings have been placed over
each parking meter in town.
This gesture expresses the
councils satisfaction at hay-
ing paid in full for the
towns parking meters. They
were purchased in Septem-
: Der. 1851 at a cost of So
482.50. and have been paid
for out Of meter receipts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
Fort BeIvoir to Test
Rcid Sirens Monday

Fort Belvoir will hold a test
of its air defense warning sys-
tenn on Monday. officials there
announced today.
Sirens will sound twice fol
fiye-minute periods on that day
"A steady five-minute blast will
begin the test at $3.50 am. Al
ii!40 am. a series Of short blasts
will sound for i've minutes.
At I1:55 am. an all clear sig.
nal will be sounded with the
ringing Of Fort Belvoir church
bells for five minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
Temple Sinai Drive

Members Of Temple Sinai will
open a 100000 supplementary
building fund drive with a cam
lpaign workers brunch at l pm
tomorrow at the Indian Spring
Country Club. Ground for the
new Temple, on Military road
between Thirty first and Thirty
second streets NV, was dedi-
Icated last Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
Fire Damages Part
OF New Supper Club

Fire damaged a portion of the
basement banquet room of the
new Jimmey Comber's Supper
Club in the 1900 block Of Rhode
Island avenue. Brentwood, Nd.
yesterday afternoon.
The restaurant opened on De-
|cember /. following a $3.50. 900
renovation.
Extent of the damage and the
cause of the fire were not i'm
Imediately determined.
Mr.. Combcr said the fire would
not interrupt business on the
first floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
3 Youths Hurt in Crash;
Driver Held as Tipsy

A 17-year-old Chevy Chase
youth was critically injured and
two other boys were hurt when
their car was struck last night
near Rockville by a motorist
police charged with driving un-
der the influence of alcohol.
A few minutes before the
crash, the accused driver was
involved in a collision near the
center of Rockville with an auto
driven by Montgomery County
Manager Melvin L. Reese.
The suspect. James E. Gard
ner. 26, a carpenter. of Spring
Lake Park. Rockville. was
charged with leaving the scene
of the first crash.
Admitted to Suburban Hos
Ipital with q fractured jaw. frac-
tured skull. broken left arm and
decorations was David S. Gala
way Of $500 Leland street, Chevy
Chase. His condition today was
listed as critical.
The two other injured boys
reported in fair condition al
Bethesda Naval Hospital. were
identified as Don Davis. 10, OF
5 Sedgewick lane, Rockville. and
Guy Stair. II. Of 6416 Western
avenue, Chevy Chase, driver OF
the youths car and the son OF
a Navy doctor. The Davis boy
police said, suffered head in
juries and the Stair youth suf-
fered q fractured Jaw and a
broken arm. Three other boys In
the car were uninjured.
Montgomery County Police
Pyts. j. Wilson Morrison and
Joseph Ganley said the second
crash occurred around Z pm. al
the intersection of Route % and
the Washington National Pike
New Us 240) a half-mile roth
of Rockville.
The policemen said thc Gard
ner auto crashed into the left
side OF the oncoming car in which
the teen-agers were riding
Gardner suffered minor head
CUTS. Besides the hit-run charge
he was accused of driving under
the influence and two counts OF
falling tc drive to the right OF
the center line.
Police jailed Gardner under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
Winston Backs
Gray Proposal
As School Aid

Delegate-elect William L
Winston Of Arlington today an
Inounced his support Of the Gray
Commissions two basic proposals
Jas "the best possible means to-
day for preserving Virginia's
public school system"
The Gray report calls for a
pupil assignment plan and the
limited use Of tuition grants to
avoid forced classroom integra-
ition. Virginia voters will ballot
January Q on a referendum call
ing for a convention to amend
the constitution that would
clear the way for the use Of
public funds for private school.
ing.
! nannouncing his stand, Mr.
Winston commented that:
THE Gray report has beer
public now for over month, and
ito my knowledge. not one OF its
critics has come up with a pro-
gram that will provide educa.
ltion facilities for the children In
those counties that are deter
mined not to appropriate funds
for schools II immediate integra.
ltion Is ordered"
Mr.. Winston reasoned: "A VOTE
against the proposed amendment
lis a vote to deprive those children
Iof schols. and to punish them fol
something beyond their control.
Labelling the commissions rec.
Concentrations 'basically sound,
the new General Assembly dele.
gate said he was particularly
favorable to the "local autonomy
that would be allowed to loca
Jurisdictions.
The stand taken by Mr.. Win.
ston in favor Of the proposed
constitutional amendment leaves
the county's General Assembly
delegation alignment on the issue
unchanged. J. Maynard Magru-
der. Arlington's retiring Delegate
was a member Of the commission
The lone member of the county.
delegation opposing the tuition
grant plan is Mrs. Kathryn H
| Stone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
Bulge
Hearing Ends
With Approval

The 1856 budget of the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission won qualified approval
at the annual budget hearing
yesterday from the principal
critics Of the agency. civic asso-
Citations Of Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties.
The commission, which fur
nishes water and sewer service
In the suburban areas Of the
two counties. presented 70 pages
Of figures telling how the agency
would spend $3.50 million next
year. 100000 under this years
spending.
Five witnesses complained that
the budget report--while more
detailed than ever before
lacked narrative explanations OF
the commissions operations.
Chairman T. Earle Bourne
promised that next year this
omission will be corrected.
New Commissions First
He pointed out that the budget
was the first prepared by tht
present six-man commission
four Democrats and two Repub.
1icans. The commission was re.
organized by legislative edict last
summer, when the former three
member, all-Republican commits.
sion was supplanted.
Stephen Hotsko oil. Silver
Spring, representing the Allied
Civic Group of Montgomery
County, one of the watchdogs ol
commission activities. praised TIT
sawareness" of the new commits
sion to public demands for i'm.
proved budgets.
He said the Allied Civic Group
still would insist that the COM
missions auditing procedures be
amended so that costs would be
equitably allocated between the
various water. sewer and refuse
collection funds.
Mr.. Bourne reported that the
commissions auditors, Arthur
Anderson Co., had been In.
structed to accomplish this
change in the audit Of 1855 op.
erations.
No Rate Increases
The 1856 budget provides fol
no increases in rates by the
agency, except in the field Of
front foot benefit charges where
the rate has been pushed ur
from Is to % cents. However
the bonds which the revenue
from this source amortizes have
been reduced from 80 to 25-yeal
terms.
Mr.. Bourne said the commits
sion will act on adoption of the
budget in the next two weeks.
Other speakers at the hear
ing were: Robert Hacken Of Sill.
yer Spring. former vice pres
ident Of the Allied Civic Group
Lawrence M. Fisher, represent
ing the Montgomery County
civic Federation, Walter Multi.
gan and irving Levine, represent
ifie the Prince Georges County
Civic Federation, and James A
Lynch, treasurer of the commits
sion.
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for adoption. Final action, how
ever, may go over until March.
And even If the air museum
issue had been more directly
divorced from the redevelop-
rnent project in the preliminary
action yesterday. 1t could be
raised at some later point before
final approval is granted.
However, I. M. Pei, chief
architect for Webb & Knapp,
took strong exception to the
planners failure to include the
entire South MALI in its APP
proval Of the land use plan.
Asking to address the commits.
sion, Mr.. Pei said he was very,
very discouraged" that the plan
Iners had failed to approve the
entire South Mall area.
Commission Chairman Harland
Bartholomew said he considered
1.-THE group had cleared about 95
1per cent of it, leaving only the
upper end Of the mall.for fur
lther study.
Architect Dissents
II cannot agree Mr.. Pei said.
"You cannot cut OF the head Of
la person and pretend the body
lstill lives"
| Mr.. Pei said he thought the
action constituted a step back
ward" from an earlier vote Of
tentative approval" already
given the mall. Mr.. Barthol-
iomew said the earlier action,
however, had not been changed.
The action to exclude the up-
iper portion of the mall from
approval followed recommends
Ition yesterday from a special
committee headed by National
Park Director Conrad L. Wirth.
The committee. which had been
told specifically to go into the
Smithsonian matter, said such
problems as building site and
Itrafic how, as well as design Of
the street layout" were still to
Ibe settled.
/ Remon Hits Museum
/ Following this action. John A.
IRemon, commission member and
lRedeyelopment Land Agency
chairman, moved that Smith
Isonian be asked to find q site
Ioutside the area.
He contended the air museum
WAS the size of a Junior Penta-
lyon" which had no place down.
town. John Nolen, jr., commits
'lsion director, said the museum
would be no larger than other
buildings downtown. but Mr..
IRemon's motion carried by q
vote of three to one.
/ In another redevelopment ac-
ltion, the commission approved
land sent to the District Com
missioners a number of amend
'lments to the pilot Southwest
ii"Area B" redevelopment project.
I The amendments removed re-
itail shopping development from
1.-THE 70-acre area. providing that
lit be largely residential in ma
lture. The intention is to pro-
vide Area B shopping facilities
lin a large center designed to
serve all Southwest redevelop-
iment projects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
Court Rejects
Move 10 Block
Referendum
Religious Elements
Line Up in Virginia
| School Race Issue

RICHMOND, Va. Dec. II up,
"A Richmond judge has dis
missed an injunction petition
aimed at blocking the January
9 constitutional convention ref
Ierendum.
The action topped develop
Iments In the campaign to amend
IVirginia's constitution to permit
the ALLEGATION of public funds
for the schooling of children in
Inon-sectarian private schools.
Richmond Circuit Court Judge
Harold F. Snead yesterday dis
missed the petition brought BY
Norfolk attorney Joseph A. Jor-
dan, jr.. colored, without passing
on the questioned validity Of the
Legislatures action in setting ur
the referendum.
Judge Snead based his deci-
sion on a Virginia Supreme
Court ruling which held the
courts ARE not concerned with
the motives which actuate mem
bers Of a legislative body in en-
acting a law. but in the results
of their action"
Mr.. Jordan contended the
amendment plan was Illegal in
that 1t is aimed at preserving
a system Of segregated schools
lin Virginia In defiance of the
Supreme Courts anti-segrega-
ltion ruling.
Religious Forces In Fray
Meanwhile, the Presbyterian
Outlook today became the third
religious journal in Virginia to
announce opposition to the
amendment plan.
At almost the same time, in
a speech In Alexandra last night,
ia Northern Virginia rabbi at
tackled Gov. Stanley for "brash-
Ily" trying to lead the State on
what he called a course Of de-
fiance Of the Supreme Court.
These actions came on the
heels Of a defense Of the amend
Iment plan voiced on a Peters
burg television station last night
by Dowell ]. Howard, State ed
|ucation chief.
Mr.. Howard said the proposed
amendment does not contem-
plate 1.-THE establishment Of q
system Of private schools"
In its opposition the Presby-
iterian Outlook Joined the Re-
Iligious Herald, the Baptist
publication. and the Virginia
Methodist Advocate. which pre-
yiously had denounced the
amendment plan in editorials.
In an editorial published to-
day, Editor Aubrey N. Brown
declared: 1T appears to be the
height OF absurdity to believe
that the already low standards
OF many Southern States can
be maintained or elevated BY
any Of the presently proposed
plans calling for private schools
operated by tuition payments
from the public treasury"
| Rabbi Emmett A. Frank, spir-
itual leader Of Temple Beth e
serving Northern Virginia
charged Gov. Stanley had made
no bones about his illegal in
ltentions" Of trying to circum-
vent the Supreme Court.
Rabbi Frank called the amend
Iment plan immoral and un-
ethical" and added:
ut is destructive to the public
educational system. creating
Igrievous physical. financial and
accredited curriculum problems
THE proposal does not repre-
sent the religious doctrine OF
Judaism and for many articles
expressing the view Of Christian
denominations. one. may draw
the same conclusion.
Earlier, the Alexandria district
lof the Virginia Methodist Con-
ference had come out in opposi-
Ition to the amendment plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17

GETS COURT POST-Mrs.
Laura Lee Courtney, a for
mer Orphans Court judge
in Prince Georges County,
yesterday was reappointed
to the court by Gov. Nc
Keldin to replace Frank L.
Anderson, who has re-
signed. Mrs. Courtney
served in the post from
1850 until she was defeated
last May. She sought re-
election. She lives at 161
Sixty-first street, Capitol
Heights, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17

$500 bond and scheduled a ten.
tative police court hearing fol
Thursday in Rockville.
Neither the county manager
nor his wife was injured in the
first collision, in which Gard
iner's car repeatedly sideswipec
their car two blocks from tbs
business center of Rockville ant
continued north on Montgomery
avenue Route pa. Mr.. Reese
lives on Rifieford road neal
Jamestown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17
NcPc Approves Lond Use Project,
But Exempts End Of South Mall
BY GEORGE BEvERIDGE

Federal planners have taken another stride toward final
approval of the zeckendor Southwest edeveopment plan
asked Smithsonian Institution to nd location for its
huge National outside of Southwest washington
At the time however the National Capital Planning
Commission Yesterday failed clear go-ahead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17

trouble noises because the living
room door had been closed to
keep the room darkened for the
television programs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-17

lighters around the house are
not filled with fluid.
According to the family, the
mother had failed to hear any
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14
Law Offices
Conroy, Williams & Nylen
1920 K Street, NV.
Washington, DC.

Trustees Sale
Of Valuable, Improved Real Es-
tate, located in Montgomery
County, Maryland, improved by
premises known as 40 f. Mel
bourne Avenue, Silver Spring,
Maryland
BY virtue of the power and
authority contained in a Deed of
Trust from Lee c. Chamness and
Catherine E. Chamness, his wife
to the undersigned Trustees da-
ted the 18th day of April 1851
and recorded among the Land
Records of Montgomery County,
Maryland in Liber 1913 Folio 157
and at the request of the parties
secured thereby, default having
occurred in the terms and condi-
tons thereof, the undersigned
Trustees named in said Deed of
Trust will sell at public auction
at the premises on
WEDNESDAY, MAY IL, 1855
AT 400 PM.
all that property in said Deed of
Trust described as follows:
Lot numbered Eighteen Q8)
in Block numbered Fifteen (15)
Section numbered Two (2) in the
subdivision known as INDIAN
SPRING PARK" as per plat re-
corded in Plat Book No. 5, Plat
No. 420 among the Land Records
of Montgomery County, Mary
land.
The property is improved by
one story frame dwelling with
five rooms and bath and full
basement.
TERMS OF SALE
A cash deposit of ten per cent
of the purchase price will be re-
quired at the time of sale. The
balance in cash, with interest at
six per centum per annum from
the date of sale to the date of
payment payable within ten days
after final ratification of sale.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14
Mrs. Edith Beall
Dies at Hospital

Mrs. Edith E. Beall, wife of
Barry R. Beall, died Friday, Apr.
8, at Montgomery General Hos
pital after an immediate illness
OF only one day.
She was born at Brownings-
vile, the daughter of the late
John F. and Florence Turner
Burdette. She was a member of
the Bethesda Methodist Church
in Browningsville and of it's
WSCS. She was also a member
of the Associated Women of the
Farm Bureau in Montgomery
County. Mrs. Beall was sc years
old.
Survivors besides her husband
are 10 children and IL grand
children. The children are: Miss
Julia Beall, Wilmore, Ken; B.
Elwood Beall, Lisbon; Miss
Esther w. Beall, at home; c..
Howard Beall, Clarksburg; John
C. Beall, at home; Miss Ruth E.
Beall, San Jose, Costa Rica;
Mrs. Catherine Watkins, Brown
ingsville; Willis w. Beall and
Indy N. Beall, at home; and
Pfc. Fred P. Beall, U. S. Army
in Alaska.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, Apr. II, at 2 pm. from
the Bethesda Methodist Church
with burial in the church GENE.
terry, Olin Wordsworth, funeral
director.
The family asked that flowers
be omitted. Instead donations
were asked to be directed to the
missionary work of Mrs. BealPs
niece, Mrs. Mabel Burdette
Wagner.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14

jurieS occurred on Saturdays and
Sundays last year.
The pedestrian record reflected
improvement for the fourth con-
secutive year. Pedestrian deaths
were reduced to 100 in 1854
compared with $500 in 1858.
Crossing between intersections,
Gay walking" remains the chief
cause of pedestrian deaths and
injuries.
Seventy-eight percent of the
vehicles involved in fatal acct
dents were travelling straight
ahead.
Saturday was the most danger
Gus day of the week to drive.
Last year was the first year
since 1949 to see a decrease in
the death toll.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14

Adjustments on all taxes, pub
lie charges and special or regular
assessments will be made as of
the date of sale and thereafter
be assumed by the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing,
State and Federal revenue stamps
and all other costs incident to
settlement are to be paid by the
purchaser.
Compliance with terms of sale
shall be made within ten days
after final ratification of sale or
deposit shall be forfeited and the
property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaultant purchaser.
The property will be sold subject
to a prior encumbrance, the
terms and conditions of which
will be announced at the time of
sale.
EDWARD w. NYLEN
RALPH P. RIPLEY
Trustees
Conroy, Williams and Nylen
BY John M. Conroy
Attorney for Trutsees 1902
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14
POOIesUiLIe Area Churches
DruU 1900 Persons Easter

Rhodes of Queenstown motored
to Cleveland, O., over Palm Sun
day weekend and visited friends
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis CHM, and
Kitty and Nancy spent their East
er vacation by motoring to Mi
ami, Fla.
Mrs. Russell Umstead left by
bus last Saturday for two week
visit with her mother at Daytona
Beach, Fla.
1t was nice to see Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Charliebois and two chill.
dren from Norfolk, Va. over the
holidays. Mrs. CharlieboiS will be
remembered as the former Miss
Vivian Winfield who grew up in
FooleSville and returned to be the
guests of Mrs. E. o. Brown and
her daughter, Mrs. Erwin Hamil-
ton.
Guests of the Hoskinsons were
Mr.. and Mrs. Justin Paddleford
and family of LaVale. Another
Poolesville girl, Mrs. Paddleford
is the former Miss Gertrude Hos
kinson and she and her family
are frequent visitors in the viii
lage.
Dinner guests on Easter Sum-
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Hildebrand were Mr.. and Mrs. B.
R. Harrison of Arlington, Va. and
Mr.. and Mrs. B. R. Harrison, Jr.
and daughter of Washington.
Needless to say this was festive
occasion, since it was Mrs. Har-
rison's birthday, too.
Col. and Mrs. Sam Tolbert and
family and her father, Sprigg
Hays, motored to Front Royal,
Va: on Sunday and visited Mr.,
and Mrs. Claiming Delaplane.
Mrs. Clark Myer, Sr. of West.
minister is visiting her son and
family near Comus.
Arriving on Friday evening
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Winder,
Harry and Peggy from Toronto,
Can, for a 10 day visit with her
mother, Mrs. julius Hall.
Visitors at the Rectory on East
err were Mrs. Henry P. Brown of
Philadelphia and Dr. H. P Brown,
Jr. They with the Rev. Mr.. Gil
liss and family, were dinner
guests of DR.. and Mrs. James
Thomas and family in Frederick.
Guests this week of Mrs. L.
A. ChisWell are Mrs. r. ]. Darby
of Baltimore and Mrs. Norman
Wooten, Silver Spring.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14
Prepare County Dogs
For Virginia Show

County dog owners this week
were preparing their animals for
the show and obedience trials of
the Old Dominion Kennel Club,
which will be held at the Thomas
Jefferson Junior High School,
Arlington, Va, on Apr. %.
Among the breeds that will be
shown are cookers, collies, Ger
man shepherds, bull dogs, dach.
shunds beagles and hounds,
boxers and Kerry Blue terriers.
The juding will start at 10 am.
and admission will be 81 for
adults, so cents for children.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14

in 1854, killing 1880 persons.
The 1853 total was 1880. The
injury total resulting from ex-
cessive speed remained about the
same as the preceding year -
$4,000.
Drivers under 25 years of
age were involved in more
than "a percent of 1954's
fatal accidents although they
constitute only about IA per-
cent of the total of all
drivers.
Weekend crashes accounted
for 1880 killed and $4,000 in
jured. The 1858 weekend record
was $500 killed and 100000 in
jured. Misguided Missiles" also
reports that SO percent of the
deaths and 35 percent of the in
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-14
Gets State Office

Mrs. Hugh V. Keiser, Regent
of the Col. Tench Tilghman Chap
ter OAR, has been elected
State Historian of the Maryland
State Society Daughters of the
American Revolution. She was
nominated by Miss Edith P. Ma
gruder, of Rockville, who was at
tending the Baltimore meeting.
Mrs. Keiser will be installed in
office in Baltimore on May 3.