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Evening star., 1955-03-28

| The chances increased today
that Elgin Baylor will be play
ing basketball nearer home from
now on. What with the an
nouncement out of Caldwell,
Idaho, that his coach. Sam
| Vokes, had been dismissed from
! the College of Idaho athletic
staff.
Baylor, considered one of the
best schoolboy players ever pro-
duced in Washington, went from
Spingarn High School to lead
Idaho College to the champion
ship of the Pacific Northwest
Conference in his freshman
year.
Gary Mays, one-armed star
from Armstrong High, and War
rem Williams of Dunbar joined
Baylor out West and were top
reserves on the same team.
Vokes was released yesterday
because of "the necessity of
keeping the athletic activity in
its proper perspective" accord
ing to DR.. Tom Shearer, College
of Idaho president. Vokes. who
also coached football the last
two years of his three-year stay,
said the administration "evi-
IDENTIFY does not approve of my
philosophy of winning"
Dave Brown, Baylor's former
coach at Sgingarn, did not know
today whether the 6-foot-5
Negro star would remain at the
Idaho school. follow Vokes to
another school or return home.
But he admitted that Baylor's
situation has changed, what
with the schools obvious de-
emphasis of sports.
Brown reports that Baylor
scored 825 points in 80 sched-
Evening star., 1955-03-28
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Only last night was it discov-
cred that Bob Lockhart of Ar
lington broke a world record in
the National Duckpin All-Star
Championship, finished week
earlier at Colonial Village.
In the 16-game qualifying
round, Lockhart totaled 2,199.
He topped by 81 pins the all
time 16-game record rolled II
years ago by Ben Kosky Of
Bridgeport, Conn.
One of Lockhart's rivals in the
eight-man finals. Sonny Wee
don, called attention to the
young mans feat. Himself a
world record holder. with 786
for five games, Weedcn was
thumbing the National Duckpin
Congress year book last night
when he came upon Kosky's S
mark and suddenly remembered
Lockhart's figure.
Lockhart, a 2s-year-old ma
son, bowls with the Chevy Chase
Chevrolet team in the District
Major League, and Weldon, 81
year-old carpenter. with the
Standard Auto Body Works
team in the same circuit. In
two respects their records were
in common. Both were rolled in
the same competition. Weedon's S
in the course of a 30-game test
that qualified Washington's en-
tries in the All-Star, and both
were shot against "Mapledge
laminated pins.
Lockhart's record was estab-
lished under more difficult con-
ditions than Kosky's. In the
All-Star the contestants were
required to shift across eight
lanes. Kosky, competing in a
Bowlers Victory Legion match
/ in 1914 in Baltimore, rolled at
two establishments but on only
| two pairs of drives, His eight
game sets were 1920 and 1,148.
Lockhart's were 1882 and LII.
The record for eight games is
1,179, rolled by John Gaise OF
Baltimore in 1858.
Lockhart averaged 1877 in
the 16-game test and 1915 for
the 24-game round robin finals,
in which he finished third, but
was the only contestant besides
the winner, Frank Micalizzi OF
Washington, who ever held the
lead. He was on top briefly two
games from the finish. His
overall average of 1921 paced
the field of 80.
It was a big week end for big
Mark Sperry of the SpillWay
Major League. Friday he shot
a game of 1872 for a Spillway
Major record, Saturday he rolled
172 in mixed doubles, and last
night he won the Arlington
Handicap against one of the
largest fields of the season.
Sperry shot the 1872 just after
Bus Downey had tied the pre-
vious Spillway Major record of
ITS.
Last night he rolled 142, 129,
lot, 1863 and 1873 for $50. With
a handicap of 80, he crossed
719 for $50. There were 1876
entries.
Second place and $40 fell to
Dorothy See of the Miller Fur
niture team in the Capital Major
League, who fired 622 from
scratch with high of 1872. She
crossed 1854.
Two other women were in the
payoff. Mabel Schatz tied for
seventh at 1858 with Norman
Whitehead. 1858, and Kitty
Hamilton tied for 14th at 63-
$50 with Bob Pyles, 51-659.
Other prize winners were: Ed
Evening star., 1955-03-28
Honbury Eighth in Race

MILLSBORO. N. c.. Mar. %
(P.-Mack Hanbury of Wash
ington finished eighth an d
Johnny Dodd. ST., of Baltimore
ninth in the 100-mile Grand Cir
cult stock car race here yester-
day. The winner in a record l
hour, IL minutes and 54 seconds
was Jim Paschal of High Point,
N. c.
Evening star., 1955-03-28
EIgin Baylor May Transfer
Due to Firing of His Coach

uled games for slightly better
than a 37-point average. His
So points in the final game was
a conference record. College of
Idaho won all IS of its con-
ference games, 10 of % overall
and 20 of "a including tourna-
ment play.
Evening star., 1955-03-28
District Deaf Coeers
To PIuy in Los Angeles

The D. c. Club of the Deaf
basketball team, winner Of the
Southeastern Deaf Tournament
here, next sets its sights on the
American Athletic Association of
the Deaf Tournament April 60
at Los Angeles.
The Washington team is seed
ed fourth behind Milwaukee, Lit
tie Rock and Buffalo.
Evening star., 1955-03-28
One-Mon Show by Bokhtior
Amozes Virginia Grid Fans


CHARLOTTESVILLE. Mar.
28.-Jim Bakhtiar was the talk
of the town today. and no
wonder.
The upcoming sophomore full
back gave the biggest one-man
show since Johnny Papit in the
Virginia Varsity's 300 triumph
over the alumni on Saturday
A former all-around backfield
star at Western High School
and Bulls in Washington.
Bakhtiar won rave notices as a
freshman last year, but the
5000 who watched the alumni
game still were pop-eyed
The Iranian-born youngster
made SO yards in IA tries, in
cluding one touchdown on a 23-
yard run. He kicked two extra
points and was superb backing
up the line. His defensive reputa-
ton exceeds his offensive
reputation in some places.
Bakhtiar went out for boxing
at Virginia and some people
wondered why. The 200-pounder
said it was to improve his foot
work for football. There was
nothing wrong with his footwork
against the alumni
With Halfback Ronnie Jenk-
inS also having a big day. the
final spring practice effort was
mighty encouraging to Coach
Ned Mcdonald and his staff
After two losing seasons, Vir-
ginia figures to be a vastly diff
ferent team next year. even
though its schedule is tougher
Evening star., 1955-03-28
20 Prospects Turn Out
As XPi Beqins Drills

BLACKSBURG. Va, Mar. %
(R.-Coach Frank Moseley's
Virginia Tech football squad
starts spring training today.
Moseley expects 10 prospects
to turn out. Among them are
members of last seasons crack
freshman squad which wound
up with a record of four vic
tories and an only defeat by
West Virginias freshmen.
The Tech coach regards his
immediate problem as that of
developing players to fill the
shoes of six linemen scheduled
for graduation.
Twenty-three lettermen are
back. Techs 1854 team didn't
lose a game. but was tied by
William g. Mary. -
Evening star., 1955-03-28
Skier Suffers Broken Leo

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, Mar. %
(P)-Stein Eriksen, top Nor
wegian skier who now instructs
at Boyne Mountain, Mich. broke
his right leg yesterday while
skiing on Baldy Mountain. Erik
sen, who was not an entry, was
here for the Hartman Cup
races.
Evening star., 1955-03-28
Sondlot Champions Drill

The Atchison g. Keller sand
| lot baseball team, last years
City Series winner, will prac-
tice tomorrow and Thursday at
Sis pm. at Fairlawn. Candi-
dates should report to these
workouts or phone Manager
Jack Hoffman at Lincoln 4-2850.
Evening star., 1955-03-28
Hockey PIoyoffs at q Glance

TODAY's SCHEDULE
mo games scheduled)
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston, 4; Montreal . Montreal
leads best of seven series. 2-1.
tOnly game scheduled)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Pittsburgh, A.: Springfield, 3 tover-
time), Pittsburgh wins best-of-dve Sc
ries, 3-D.
Buffalo 6; Cleveland. 4 buffalo wins
oest-of-five series, 3-D.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati, z: Troy, Cincinnati
leads best-of seven final series, gid.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
BY JOHN FULTON LEWIS
Especial to The Sentinel

Annapolis - The Democratic
County Council is making the
same request of the County legis
lative delegation that was made
by its Republican predecessor in
asking for unlimited general tax
ing powers.
The COP legislators rejected
the earlier plea made in 1951.53
and there are indications the Dem
ocrats at Annapolis will do the
same to the latest appeal.
The Council will probably be
granted the right to impose a
levy on cigarettes and some ad-
ditiOnal taxing authority may
he approved but the general, un.
qualified taxing right is meeting
stiff opposition from the Coun.
ty team at the State House.
Meanwhile, the Delegation le
proposing a measure backed hy
the COP from Montgomery in
past legislatures. II would divorce
quasi.iudicial decisions from the
powers of the State Tax Cornnis.
sion and create a Maryland Tax
Court for appeals from tax agcn.
cy rulings.
The measure has bccn referred
to the Ways and Means Commit
tee and may gCt hearing shortly
Another series Of bills affecting
bi.county commissions has been
introduced by the Montgomery
Prince Georges delegations and
are being speedily pushed through
the General Assembly.
In summary these measures:
i Increase the amounts which
the commissions may issue in
bonds 10 finance flood contro'
projects connected with the Ana.
costa River at BladcnsburC. The
Suburban Sanitary agency would
be allowed TO spend up to SL2On.
600 instead Of S7jOOO0 while the
Capital Park and Planning Com.
mission would be permitted 10
issue bonds valued at SS000O0 in.
stead of 100000.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
Mixed Signals
Again Plague CD
In Met District

1t appeared to be another case
of mixed signals" in County, Dis.
trict and National Civil Defense
again this week.
On Tuesday, Val Peterson U. S.
Civil Defense head, announced
new air raid siren signals to be
used in practice drills or actual
enemy attack. The District of Col,
umbia CD office said that it
would conform and released in
formation on the new signals to
all Washington newspapers.
But on Wednesday, Sherley
Ewing, State CD Director, said
that the new Signals would not
be used in the Free State for at
least a month. Time is necessary
to convert existing electronics
patterns, he said. The Montgom-
cry County CD office said that il
would follow Ewing not Peter.
son. Result: mixed air raid sig
nails between the District and the
County.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10

Negro PTAs that have gone on
record as asking the end of
segregation are: Taylor Elemen-
tary of Boyds, Linden, Rock Ter
race, Sandy Spring, Lincoln-Car-
yer and Longview of Gathers
burg. To vote soon are Takoma
Park, River Road and Ken-Gar.
The executive committee of the
County PTA, in apparent reply
to the petition of 5000 persons
opposing immediate integration,
listed an additional II PTAs
favoring quick integration, one
opposed and one wishing to wait
for State legal action.
Listed as in favor of swift
integration along lines recon-
mended by the PTA executive
group are: Lone Oak, Parkside,
Four Corners, Pleasant View,
Montgomery Knolls, Garrett
Park, Brookmont, New Hamp-
shire Estates, Rolling Terrace
and Rock Creek Forest.
Gaithersburg has proposed
waiting for State legal advice,
and East Silver Spring has op-
posed rapid integration.
Many PTAs are understood to
be waiting for April meetings
before voting on the matter.
Countrywide results will be tab
ulated Apr. 20 at a meeting of
the County PTA Council in Sher-
wood High School in Sandy
Spring.
In announcing the vote of the
Negro PTAS, a spokesman said
that all units had asked for
complete integration at all
grade levels of the public schools
of Montgomery County in Sep
tember of 1855" The groups
also maintained that "the pre-
sent school buildings are in no
condition to stand a gradualiStic
approach to integration because
of sub-standard conditions"
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
RMHS to Give
Show on March II
In Auditorium

On March II, the Richard
Montgomery High School student
government will present a variety
show, the Toast of Richard
Montgomery, in the school audi
torium.
The show, the first one the
school has sponsored, will fea-
ture many new acts. Students
will participate in musical acts,
dancing routines and there will
be several surprise acts. The
schools ED Sullivan" will direct
the show.
An afternoon show for the
high school students will be fol.
lowed by the evening show,
which the public is invited to
attend. The evening show will
begin at 8:15 pm
Admission for adults is 81 and
so cents for children.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
County Plans TO GiUe
Polio Shots to IS, 900

Plans for mass innoculation of
some $4,000 first and second
graders with the Salk polio vac.
cine were spurred Tuesday by the
County Council.
The Council gave County Health
Officer DR.. William J. Peoples au-
thority to plan for the vaccina-
ton program which Is slated to
start next month. if state health
officials approve it.
Approval hinges on evaluation
Of last years program in which
a half million youngsters through
out the nation were given the new
vaccine.
Montgomerys participation in
the nationwide pilot test of the
polio-kilIing solution was called
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
Farm Bureau Hits
Negro Achievement

Received by the S ENTIN L l.
just before press time is a inte-
grafton statement of policy by the
County Farm Bureau which pro
claimed that rural Montgomery
does not accept the eventuaIities
of integratiOn."
The statcment goes on to as
sert that the County should wait
for further Supreme Court and
State action, that the 12-year plan
should be followed, and that white
teachers should be used until at
least One.third of all classes are
integrated.
The statement also presents
pupil achievement records aIIeg-
ing that Negroes lag 81 percent
behind whites at the 9th grade
level, 40 behind at the 9th grade
level and Sc percent behind at
11th grade. Details in next weeks
edition.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
Pleas for More Tax
POlUer Dru1U FrOlUns

Permit the Sanitary agency
to enter into contracts or agree
ments with municipalities, the
County and State governments as
well as the Federal or District OF
Columbia governments in con.
Meeting water lines and sewage
facilities.
3 Extend the condemnation
rights Of the Sanitary Commission
TO include cemeteries and remove
some of the rstrictions placed on
the Commission when it seeks to
expand
4-Require any treasurer or
other financial officer of any bi,
county corporation who deposits
funds belonging to such an agency
in a bank or trust company TO re.
ccivc a surety bond on the de.
posts.
; Permit the Sanitary Commits.
ion 10 charge presently exempt
Continued on Page A.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
Light Touch
Is DiScerned
In CityNe,us

News of the week as far as
Rockville or anyone who has
ever passed through Rockville is
concerned has a light" touch.
The stop-light at the corner of
Perry and Montgomery started
to function Tuesday afternoon.
Equipped with a separate set
of controls at the Fire House,
the light is said to be as intri-
cate as a lady's mind and just
about as changeable.
Pedestrians, long harried by
40-mile-an-hour motorists in cross
ing Montgomery have new sense
of freedom and are already be-
ginning to jay-walk.
Meanwhile the City Mayor and
Council this week decided to in
vest the major part of its sec, 1855
surplus in streets, sidewalks and
water and sewer projects. The
breakdown:
Contingency fund, $23,618; paw
ing Denham Road, $4,000; widen
ing Commerce Lane, $4,000;
recreation, $1,000; water and
sewer crossover East Montgom
cry Avenue, $500; emergency
pumping equipment, $500; pur
chase of two-ton truck, $2,500;
sidewalks on Rockland Avenue
$3.50; sidewalk Okinawa Ave
nue., $2,050; replacement side
walk on Falls Road, $1,170; hire
expediting engineer, $1,5O0; curb
and gutter on Manakee Street
S7O0; and contribution to city
cleanup campaign, $500.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
County AHics
To Be PrObed
ByHistOriGns

The historical projects commit.
tee of the Montgomery County
Historical Society made plans
last Sunday afternoon to invade
every nook and Granny of the
county for material which they
may acquire a copy so that it
may be- preserved for posterity.
Miss Martha Poole, chairman
of the committee, outlined plans
which would set up a working
committee of representatives
from many civic and patriotic
groups in the county. Some
would seek out the information,
others would copy, some would
catalogue and index it and still
another group would be respon-
Sible for marking graves and his
torical spots of interest.
One project in which a great
many people can help will be to
report the names and addresses
of residents in the county sc
years of age or older who have
lived in the county for the major
portion of their lives. 1t is be.
lieved these people might be able
to contribute many incidents and
stories worth preserving.
The Historical Society has also
been asked to suggest names
suitable for schools to be erected
in the county and it is hoped that
in time a bureau of information
on county history can be set up
The records will be kept In
"Glenview," the new home of the
society in Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
Cancel March 16 Meet
On School Budget

The public hearing on the
School Board bodget, scheduled
for Mar. 16, has been cancelled
Instead, hearings will be held on
Mar. "a on the capital budget and
Mar. 81 on the operating budget.
Both meetings will be at Richard
Montgomery High school at 8
p. m. The change in plans was
made at the request of the Coun.
ty Council.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
A. LOfstrand, Jr.,
County Leader,
Dies on Tuesday

Anders R. (Rudy) Lofstrand,
Jr., age 43, prominent Rockville
manufacturer, inventor and polit-
ical figure, died at fairfield Hos
pital Tuesday night of cancer.
Born in Washington and edu-
Gated at George Washington and
Washington and Lee Universities,
Mr.. Lofstrand was vice president,
secretary and general manager of
the Lofstrand Co.
Well known for his generous
nature and wide range of inter
ests which included antique auto
mobiles, clock and guns, Mr.. Lof-
strand had represented the Coun-
ty in the State Assembly as a
member of both the House and
the Senate. He was a member
of the Republican State Central
committee for the County.
An Episcopalian, Mr.. Lofstrand
was also member of the Ma
tional Academy of Science, the
Columbia and County Historical
Societies, the Ellks and the
YMCA. He was also a member
of the Board of Directors of the
Citizens Building and Loan as
sociation, the Board of Trade and
a member of the Silver Spring
Trade Board.
Immediate survivors i n clu d c
his widow, Mrs. Violette Lof
strand, a son, Anders r. III, age
9, and his. parents, Col. and Mrs
Anders r. Lofstrand. Funeral ar
rangements are pending.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
Faces Arson.
Theft Counts
Today

Edward G. Melsh, 81, of "a
Commerce Lane, will be arrain-
ed before Rockville Magistrate
Duncan Clark Thursday on
charges of breaking and enter
ing, larceny and arson.
Montgomery County police say
that Melsh, whom they believe
to be a one-man crime wave re-
sponsible for 18 recent thefts in
the city, has confessed to many
of the charges against him.
Melsh was arrested Sunday by
1t. Jesse B. Day who spotted him
as he stood near the second of
two early-Sunday morning fires
with a bandaged hand. Blood
stains had been found on the
scene of the first fire and led to
Melsh's arrest.
The first fire was at the Citi-
zens Building and Loan Associa-
ton office, II S. Perry Street,
adjacent to the firehouse.
Damage, which was total, was
estimated at $4,000. The second
blaze, in the Viett building al
110 Commerce Lane, did damage
estimated at $500.
Police and firemen say that
Melsh apparently broke into the
quarters of Maryland Motors,
Inc, stole some tools which he
used on the loan office, and set
the fire there in anger when he
was unable to open the safe.
The loan association fmme-
diately opened temporary offices
at 20 E. Montgomery and an
nounced plans to erect a new
building on the site of the burned
original office.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10
INTEGRATI0N CONFLICTS SPLIT COUNTY
Majority of Advisory
Unit Says Go Slow

AS promised by Willard G. NIcGraw, County School
Board president the veil of which had been thrown
around the report of the Boards Advisory Committee
ntegraon torn away the weekend and the Boards
position further clarified.
The Board announced that until the Supreme Court
issues its final decree ntegraon it lacks the legal
to act This line with the position taken by the State
Attorney General and State Board of Education.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10

off at the last minute by the State
Board of Health.
If approved all children i'm the
county program would get "the
real Mccoy" unlike last years
plan, explained DIR. Peoples. At
that time only half of the innOc-
ulated children were to get the
Salk vaccine while half were to
be given a harmless solution
which would serve as a ICON.
trOP factor.
The first innoculations would
be given in late April with an.
other in one to two weeks to be
followed by a booster shot three
to four weeks later.
In other actions the Council in.
structcd County Manager M. L.
Reese to work out a plan for
equalizing salaries of state anC
county employees under the coun
ty merit system scale.
The action was primarily aimed
at trial magistrate clerks and
other court employees working ir
the county.
The Council also voted support
of efforts by the Allied Civic
Group and Rep. Dewitt S. Hyde
(R-MdD to recover S1,173,390 lost
by the county in a recent Fedora
administrative shuttle over dis
tribution of school aid.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-03-10

Mr.. McGraW announced, how
ever, that additional considera-
ton would be given to integra-
ton in an executive session
Thursday night in the Board
offices which would be followed
by a public meeting. He declined
to elaborate on what phase OF
integration the Board would con-
slider.
When the secrecy was removed
on the Advisory Committees re-
port it was learned that in
reality there were four reports -
the majority version which calls
for integration over a 12-year
period, and three minority re-
ports.
The majority report - adopt
ed by a 1873 vote-recommends
that the county continue plan
ming in anticipation of eventual
integration and that when inte-
grafton comes it start with the
kindergarten and be extended to
an additional grade each year.
Another plan - a minority one
- called for integration over a
three-year period and termed the
12-year plan "administratively
unavoidable" Just as unwork-
. able, in the view of this group,
would be any plan for integra-
ton in 1855. This report, too,
maintained h a the Board
should wait for advice from
State authorities before going
ahead with integration.
1t was signed by John R.
Reeves, Mrs. Geneva Mason, the
Rev. j. Edwin Prather, Parlett
L. Moore and William S. Pyles.
Still another minority report,
written by Mrs. George Monk
and Mrs. John F. Wolfe, gave no
timetable for integration but
stressed the necessity for avoid
ing "coercive measures" in put
ting the plan into effect. 1t also
warned that the way in which
the matter is handled may affect
race relations for many years
to come.
Another minority report - by
Mrs. Margaret E. Nolte and Mrs.
Marjorie H. Garfield-urged the
Board to make plain its intention
to integrate as soon as the State
Attorney General has advised
that legal barriers are elimin-
ated. 1t also concentrated on adj
vising the Board to make future
plans with integration in mind.
Paul c. Howard submitted the
last minority report in which he
urged integration in 1855 in the
grounds that it could be accom-,
plished without any more over
crowding than exists at pre-
sent. He indicated that he re-
cognized the division of opinion
on the matter within the county
but expressed confidence that
"once the decision is made the
greater proportion of the commu
nifty will be prepared to move
ahead with understanding and
fairness"