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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24

the lot over the East Capitol
Street bridge. Gained down, the
bigger ones were put to work
helping to raise the center poles.
But it was manpower that did
most of the work.
Ben Wilson, lot superintend-
ent. had most of the tenting up
shortly after noon. BY then
hundreds of customers were
swarming the lot. Concession
stands were already booming.
The first of the three sections
of the Ringing Bros. e. Barnum
g. Bailey Show arrived on the site
around sunrise. 1t carried the
cookhouse, sideshow and about
$50 workmen in the layout crew
Boss Cook Steven Deus put his
gang to frying ham for a break
fast that didn't come off on time
because the customers were still
on the rails between here and
Baltimore.
First Show at 2 PM.
The hands expected the show
to start on time at 2 pm. Per-
formances will be at 2 and $3.50
pm. each day of the four-day
stand here.
Two attachments of Army
medics from Fort Belvoir were
at the lot. Capt. j. M. Mikulka
had so enlisted men from his
7th Field Hospital. 1t. Robert
Roy had 35 from the 18th Field
Hospital, both units from Fort
Belvoir, studying tent-raising
technioueS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24

The District Commissioners
today ordered withdrawal of a
QUESTIONABLE circulated by a
Health Department official
among employees in his bureau
in an attempt to learn the
source of news stories.
The city heads interrupted
their regular board meeting to
take action shortly after being
informed the QUESTIONABLE was
distributed to some 10 employees
of the Bureau of Food and Public
Health Engineering by its chief,
Walter Burdette.
The matter was brought to
the attention of Henry Hubbard,
District personnel officer, when
several of the employees made
inquiries to him about it.
AS the result of news stories
Commissioner David Karrick last
Monday held a conference with
Mr.. Burdette, William H. Cary
assistant chief of the bureau
and Health Director Daniel
Seckinger. He instructed Mr.
Burdette not to be SO lenient in
enforcement of food sanitation
laws.
Admitted Leniency
Mr.. Burdette has admitted
some leniency to keep from
putting people out of business
The Commissioners rescinded
the QUESTIONABLE pending a
study by Mr.. Hubbard of the
policy of other city administra-
tons in handling such matters,
The questionable asked the
employees whether they had
talked about problems or policies
of the bureau with a representa-
tive of the press within the last
go days, and if so, with whom
and by whose authorization. 1t
also inquired about such discus
sion with anyone which might
have resulted in unfavorable
publicity.
The Commissioners objected
particularly to question as to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24
The
Rambler
Salute to On Old
Cunnonmuker
BY JACK JONAS

Commodore Perry, waiting
on Lake Erie to rout the Brit
ish fleet, knew what he
wanted, and it wasn't a B-52
or an aircraft carrier.
He would have been amazed,
naturally, at the thought of
such advanced weapons, but
nothing would do for him
then but Henry Foxhall's can
non, turned out at the Column
bia Foundry.
The foundry, near today's
Foxhall road and Foundry
parkway, stood beside the
Potomac River a short dis
lance north of Georgetown
University, and Foxhall had a
good reputation, among the
military, as a man who knew
how to make cannon.
When the capital was moved
here in 1900, Thomas Jeffer-
son thought it would be a
good idea to have a munitions
factory close by.
He sent to Philadelphia for
Henry FoXhall, then in part
nership with Robert Morris
at the Eagle Iron Works. Fox
hall arrived armed with a
Government order for forty
24-pounders and thirty 81
Founders, and built his foun-
dry in 1901.
He began making the first
bored cannon to be manu-
featured in this country. In
addition to the cannon, he
made shot, shell and gun
carriages for the War and
Navy Departments.
He sold them by the ton
at $46.6625 a ton.
He turned out 300 heavy
guns and 10000 shot a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24
Inquiries Sent
ToD.C. Students.
Dr.. Hoger Says

Several District Teachers Col
lege students were reported
today to have signed statements,
admitting they cheated on<a
recent test.
The majority of a class in
which the cheating occurred re-
portedly have refused to reply to
letters sent them by School
Supt. Hobart NJ. Corning, how
ever.
DR.. Walter E. ,Hager. college
president, today confirmed that
DR.. Corning had sent individual
letters to the 48 members Of
the class in which the test
cheating repeatedly occurred on
April 81.
Asked to Sign
The letters. DR.. Hager said.
were accompanied by a mimeo-
graphed form asking each stu
dent whether he had helped or
been helped by another student
on the test. The students were
asked to check off the questions
and sign the statement.
An anonymous telephone call
er, who claimed to be a member
of the class. told The Star 40
students had refused to sign the
statements.
From another source, The Star
learned that several students
who did sign the statements adj
mitted cheating. 1t could not
be learned Immediately how
many made the admission, how
ever.
Hasn't Seen Letters
DR.. Hager said he had not seen
the letters. which were sent to
the students sealed.
He asserted recently in a pub
lie statement that he opposed
Furnishing the students for
cheating. He said the students
regretted the action and that
the college authorities felt more
good would be done by not i'm
posing punishment. The class
was lectured by its professor,
DR.. Matthew ]. Whitehead, and
required to write an essay on the
subject.
The Board of Education, de-
spite Dr.. Hager's objection, or
dered an investigation of the in
cident. Dr.. Hager is expected to
be asked to appear before the
board for questioning next
month.
The cheating was reported to
college authorities by several
students. DR.. Hager said he be-
lieved six or eight students may
have cheated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24

The Districts Republican State
Committee has recommended re-
placement Of Robert NJ. Weston
as member of the Public Util-
tiles Commission, it was reported
today.
Recommended successor, it was
understood, is John Lewis Smith,
jr.. a 43-year-old Washington at
torney.
Mr.. Weston's three-year term
in the $4,000 per year post ex-
IpireS June 30.
George L. Hart. jr., chairman
of the State Committee, refused
comment other than to say the
committee has made "a recon-
mendation or recommendations. y
Heads Republican Club
Mr.. Smith is president of the
Republican Club of the District
of Columbia. Washington born,
he has practiced law here for Is
years.
Mr.. Smith is a former AS
sistant United States Attorney
assigned to Municipal Court and
~. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. He served
between 1910 and 1916 except
for a leave of absence for war
duty.
His war service included duty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24
BY HARRY BACAS

Washington'S only male nurs-
cry school teacher-and one with
a deep-sea diving records CIV
ing UP his class. He wants to be
an FBI agent or an Air Force
flyer.
/ 'Mr. Bob" Miller held gradua-
ton exercises for his so pupils
aged 3 to 5. today at the Con-
gress Heights playground He
told them he would miss every
one of them and they let him
know they'd miss him, too.
Mr.. Miller, 25, has been play
ground director for three years
When his pre-school class teach
er left last December, he stepped
into her job, teaching the class
every morning five days a week
He liked it so well. he kept il
for the rest of the semester.
Wants to Enlist
In September. he will leave
the playground to go To- George
Washington University fdll time
and finish work on his B.A. de-
gree. When he graduates ir
1858. he'll try to get a waiver
on the Air Force 26ia-year age
limit and enlist for flight train.
ing. If that doesn't work, he'll
apply to the FBI.
He likes teaching children
"Mr. Bob" says-he'd even like
to open school or kindergarten
lof his own-but, he admits g
little shyly, there isn't enough
money in it.
/ He is a 6-foot-1-inch, 19C
FOUNDER who plays semipro foot.
ball in a weekend Pennsylvania
industrial league to make extra
money. He's a guard, the SAME
position he played at the Uni.
versity of Maryland when HI
went there several years ago.
Mr.. Miller is Washington
native. He says he grew W
on the District Fairgrounds.
That may be why he is such {
good hand with children.
Wonder With Children
Recreation Department off.
Gals and parents say Mr.. Bob
is a wonder with children.
big, freckle-faced man with greer
eyes YOU wouldn't care to fac
in anger, he is the idol of the
small fry at the playground.
"It's a SIM" says one mother
when a person like Bob. whit
has so much to give the children
who is creative and understand,
ing and whom the kids adore
has to leave for some other pro.
fesSion. Such teachers are few
and far between, / can tell you.
Mr., Miller gave up his part
time classes at George Washing
ton this semester to devote morI
time to the pre-school. Wher
the class is going to maxi
iewelry the next day he stay
up at night at home cutting anc
coloring macaroni fragments foi
the children to string together
Joined Navy at IA
He brings napkin boxes for tn,
children TO paint as "lette
boxes, in which they mail" let
tiers to one another. Some day
are pirate days" and the chill
dren scour the playground TO
treasures" of weeds and stone
and then reassemble to describ'
what they have found.
Bob Miller enlisted in the Reg
ular Navy at the age of IA. H
wanted to go to war. When tn
war ended. he revealed his ag
then is. The Navy gave hin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24

HE AND JEFFERS SON,
meantime, b came ia st
friends. Both played the
violin, and they got together
occasionally for a duet.
When the War of 1912 came
around, Foxhall's foundry was
of extreme Importance. 1t
was one of the few private
munitions foundrieS in the
country, the Government had
no foundry of its own, and
Foxhall's cannon were recog-
nized as superior.
When the British sacked
Washington in 1918 the foun-
dry undoubtedly was a target
for the troops bent on destroy
ing everything in the most
distant degree connected with
the Government"
The story is told that Fox
hall, a lay minister in the
Methodist Church, vowed that
if God would spare his buSi-
ness, he would build a church.
A detachment of British
troops had been sent to
Georgetown with the purpose
of destroying the foundry. But
rumorS were persistent that
American troops which had
fled from Bladensburg were
returning full of fight.
On top of those rumors came
a terrific wind and rain storm,
and that was enough to halt
the advancing troops. They
turned back to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24
THAT SAME YEAR Foxhall

THAT SAME YEAR Foxhall
built the Foundry Methodist
Church, then at Fourteenth
and G streets NV. Some
historians say that although
the money came from Fox
halls foundry income, the
church, when it was dedicated
by Bishop Asbury, was named
for John Wesley's Foundry
Chapel in London.
The church at that site was
enlarged three times, then
finally sold in 1902 to make
way for an office building,
when the present church was
built on Sixteenth street.
The year after he built his
church, Henry Foxhall got out
of the foundry business. He
sold it to Gen. John Mason of
Analostan Island. Gen. Mason
enlarged 1t, and most of the
cannon used in the Mexican
War we're turned out there.
But Foxhall was still around
when the hurry-up order came
from the Navy Department for
cannon to equip Commodore
Perry's newly built feet on
Putin Bay in 1918.
The cannon were loaded
aboard wagons drawn by six
spans of oxen each and made
the tedious trip that way over
the mountains to Lake Erie.
Perry put off engaging the
British until Foxhall's cannon
arrived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24
Anti-RingWorn
Program Slated
For Pupils
Seckinger Predicts
Cases Will Be Cut
Sharply Next Fall
By JAMES g. DEANE

District health officials today
said they expect to be able to
reduce scalp ringworm cases
among pupils appreciably dur
ing the next school year.
Health Director Daniel l..
iSeckinger and a number of
aides, in a conference with re-
porters, said the department is
going ahead with plans for an
anti-ringworm drive. using
medicine among school children
starting next fall.
The campaign will include a
breakdown on barber shop SAN
itation, DR.. Seckinger said. He
added. however, that carrying
out the proposed program fully
will depend on obtaining more
technicians and nurses. A fund
request already has been made
to the Commissioners.
Physicians Challenged
The health director and his
assistants took issue at the Ses-
sion with two private physicians
who criticized plans not to use
X-ray in the mass treatment.
The two physicians, DrS.
Arnold Gould and Jack Derzavis,
yesterday were quoted in a
Washington newspaper as blam-
ling the Health Department for
the existence of a scalp ring
worm epidemic.
| The two doctors both denied
making such fiat charge. DIR.
IDerzavis, however, strongly adj
Ivocated the use of X-ray treat
ment in combating the ring
worm. The city's clinic uses
Iointments and other medicines.
DR.. Seckinger and other health
officials said the department OPP
poses the use of X-ray on a
I"maSS basis " however, because
of warnings by radiology ex-
IpertS of possible danger to
patients. The health director
stressed he was not objecting in
amy way to the use of X-ray by
physicians on an individual basis.
Not Backed by School
1 Dean Francis M. Forster Of
lGeorgetown University Medical
School announced at the session
that the university was not sup-
porting the views Of Drs. Gould
and Derzavis as reported yes
terday in a newspaper account
critical of the Health Depart
ment.
/ DR.. Forster read a letter from
DR.. Edward B. Bum, Sd,
Georgetown president, stating
that the two doctors, who teach
part time at the university, made
statements on the ringworm
problem without authorization
or consultation with university
officials.
DR.. Arthur E. Cliff, the Health
Departments medical examining
chief, said the department has
Cured large proportion of
scalp ringworIn cases during the
past few years without use of
X-ray.
Program Outlined
Plans for combating the cur
rent epidemic. which numbers
more than 5000 cases, include
examination of all the city's
school children next fall, as we'll
as check on barber shops, pets.
both in homes and in pet shops,
and expanding the city'S ring
worm clinic from half to full
day operation.
DR.. Frank Eichenlaub, director
of Georgetown UniversityS der
matology department, supported
the health departments decision
not to use mass x-ray. A letter
from a United States Public
Health Service expert opposing
mass x-ray use also was read to
the session.
The Public Health Service has
agreed to cooperate in the anti
ringworm drive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-24
Confessed Cribbinq
Reported at College
43 Elephants Stampede,
Pickets Appear at Circus

Pckes pancky pachydems added handcaps today
Ringngs big top went here to fourday stand
Forty-three elephants wild leaving their railroad cars
siding Capitol street and Anacosta avenue NE
Before handlers could them submission with
clubs elephants numbered about quarter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-27

Kitchen Queen pure vegetable shortening Internationally
guaranteed to give you complete satisfaction in all your bok
ing and frying 1t contains no animal fat only pure
vegetable oils are used Its dgestbe, pure and wholesome
and ideal for every cooking purpose.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13

ty reasons the glass is taken out of
the windshield, windows and head
lights
Gwen says it is quite a thrill to
drive one of the hot little cars
and the power brakes and steering
in her car make it particularly easy
to handle.
The Warwick sons, Michael, y,
and Forrest, IA, started out build
ing their own soap box racers and
entering them in contests Now they
own a motorcycle They let Anita
ride it while they care for her baby,
but with their mother it is a dif-
fcrcnt story
AS the boys explain it, She
leans and wiggles too much SO
Gwen is more or less grounded But
Gwen points out, 4 know more
about sparkplugs than cooking
which means she may be handy to
have around should there be a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13

She flashed an expression of true
appreciation when someone said,
How beautiful as she ended her
talk on how She had interpreted
the great mural of mans struggle
for peace.
Then too, she was delightfully."-
flattered when asked to pose for
snapshots and could hardly be-
lieVe so many wanted her picture.
How Insignificant. you may be
thinking, to be writing of such
when the General Assembly was in
Session-when an amendment to
the resolution to exclude Hungary
from the U.N was being presented
at that very moment Sometimes it
is these little human things that
open up the avenues of commune
cation and understanding
1t was an important day at the
U.N. Even the aides commented on
the crowd For ina. reason only
teachers could attend the General
Assembly session, which made us
pretty SICK that our students
couldn't see with the naked eye
what the world would be reading
in the next morning papers.
Sick that they couldn't see Ham
marskjold, Lodge and the president
of the assembly who is the great
grandson of the King in this weeks
movie, THE King and l."
They were in the Security Coun-
Gil chamber at the same time prob
ably doing the same thing | was
that is-flicking buttons that con
nected the ear phones so they
could hear the speeches in French.
Spanish Russian ana Chinese.
They were a keen bunch-our
students from Southern and North
ern. Left to their own devices they
always turned up with something
interesting. A few of them spotted
the Dutchman Nicholas who
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13
Gwen Warwick Is
Stock Car Racer

Since leaving Garrett county a
few years ago, where she was an
elementary school teacher, Mrs,
Gwendolyn Warwick, now of Albu-
querque, N. NJ, has become very
much Interested in driving stock
cars in competition, along with her
daughter
An article in the Sandia Lab
News from Albuquerque gives the
full story of the Warwick family.
Two stock car race drivers
should be enough for one family
but the Warnicks also branch off
into soap box racing and motor
cycles.
Surprisingly enough the hoped
up car competitors are Mrs. Gwen
Warwick and her daughter, Mrs.
Anita Ransom. Both enter the pow
der puff events each year at AL
buquerquc This year Gwen drove
the car owned by AL Demaree.
Although the exterior of stock
cars is often a great contrast from
sleek, low, late modern automo-
biles, under the hood and on the
dashboard it's a different story.
Some of the racers reach a speed
of 80 mph in second gear For safe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13
AMERICAN HOLLY
Ile1 opdcG)

RANGE: Massachusetts to Flor
ida; westerly to Indiana, Missouri
and Texas. A Maryland native;
common to Eastern and Southern
Maryland coastal plains.
DESCRIPTION: Grows up to so
feet in height; branches short and
slender; gray bark, evergreen
leaves with sharp points; leaves
remain on branches for several
years.
PREFERRED HABITAT: Moist
lands, occurs on sandy, loan, gra-
vel, clay and other soils.
METHOD OF ESTABLISHMENT:
By cuttings or seeds; easy to
transplant when young; slow grow
ing; fruits to years after
planting; $1,000 seeds per pound,
termination 20 per cent, about
1000 disable plants per pound of
iced. Essential to have both male
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13

| The view however was just the
exclamation point at the end OF a
forceful sentence. Thirty of Gar
rett county's sons and daughters
visiting the United Nations is the
forceful sentence am writing
about A sentence yet to be written
for little do we know how great
the impact will be on their think
ing.
This | do know-they were better
prepared for what they saw than
| for they took a bit of the wealth
| of the Indies" with them by study
ing the United Nations, seeing
movies at school and being up on
current events.
None Of us was prepared. how
ever, for the feel" of the United
Nations as far as world outlook.
Five minutes in the public lobby of
this magnificent modern structure
, made one feel that he was indeed
in the lobby of the world and for
/ the first time in my life | felt like
a foreigner.
The center is world i'm outlook.
world in atmosphere, sophisti-
Gated Partisan looking like Helena
Rubenstein may write your pass
while a man from Pakistan collects
your ticket and gorgeous blonde
from Sweden punches the button
of the elevator.
Modak, slender girl from In
dia was our guide, a little lady of
great charm and insight, dressed
as American as you or l, under her
silk sari. She also wore eye make
up and my mind jumped to the
vain things of life for | caught my
self wondering how she would
select the color of her lipstick Her
skin being black, of course
What she was saying at the
moment was that it was so much
easier for an impartial person to
settle quarrel or argument that
a person or committee or council
can be more fair when they have
nothing at stake.
Modak told us the hows and the
why's of the United Nations she
seemed to love the place like we
love Garrett county. While doing
this we recognized that this little
girl from India had far more cdu-
cation and culture and in her
words Il understand the public"
than any of us, yet she was just as
human.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13

answered the questions worth
$4,000 on tclcvision this Tuesday
night They had a few words with
him and he posed while Jane Dull
ing 90, his picture.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13

and female trees in order to bear
fruit.
FLOWERS: Small, white clusters
appearing in April to June.
FRUIT: Bright round, red berries
about the size Of a pea with stone
center; occur only on pistillate
tree; available August to June.
WILDLIFE USE: The berries pro-
vide food for 10 species of birds
including thrushes, hooking bird,
cedar waXwing, robin, catbird,
brown thrasher, bob-white, turkey,
dove, grouse and duck; eaten by
some mammals including deer,
squirrel, and raccoon. Plant pro-
vides all-year protective shelter.
OTHER VALUES: In great use,
especially around Christmas, for
ornamental purposes; the wood is
hard, white and used extensively
in cabinet work, wood interiors and
piano keys.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13
mechanical breakdown.

mHCNdIlItiI DICdkEOWIl.
During the past four years at
Sandia. Mrs. Warwick also found
time TO attend classes at University
of New Mexico. She is a charter
member Of the Albuquerque branch
of the Ground Observer Corps.
which still occupies at least one
evening a week"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13
For convenience and beauty all year long,.
Give Extension Phones in Color

Give the gift that everyone wants. everyone
uses, everyone likes.
Take your choice of extension phones in red,
beige, blue, green, gray, ivory, yellow, brown,
black. Choose them for friends, your family
and your own home. 4
Well help you pick color that blends. or con-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-13

The industrial boom was seen as
rising in 1857.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-11-14
Green Sea FLA
To Promote
Circulation

Members Of the Green Sea
Future Farmers Of America
will begin promotion Of q cir
culation campaign for The
Loris Sentinel, Tabor City
Tribune and The Conway
Field this week.
Extensive effort win be
made by the Green Sea FLA
boys to call on residents Of
that section to subscribe to
one or more Of the local pap
ers and renewals will be
sought from persons already
on the mailing lists.
The FLA Chapter will be
given a good percentage Of the
gross income from the cam
paign and these funds will be
used for various club pro-
jects during the year.