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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11
FORUM
THE FAMILY ROOM q The
BY NORMA AND DON

THE FAMILY ROOM = The
recent interest in family rooms
finds the average apartment
dweller in a very fortunate po-
sition.
The family room is an outcome
of the general trend toward more
informal living and is designed
to satisfy the needs for casual
family activities-television, mu-
sic. sewing, games and informal
entertaining.
Most apartments have always
had a basic family room in the
living-dining area. This space
usually is decorated in the ira
ditional terms of formal living
and dining areas. But the entire
area can easily be arranged along
the lines of a family room.
Fortunately. the new interest
in family rooms has introduced
many new ideas and materials to
make such rooms pleasant. use
full and attractive.
The first requirement Of a
family room is that the room
should be simple and easy to-
care for. This calls for scatter
rugs. or one of the less expensive
rag or fiber rugs: Western. CO.
lonial or informal furnishings;
furniture such as a low coffee
table which can be elevated to-
dining table height. and unfin-
ished cabinets and storage pieces
which can be painted to ut into
any informal decor.
II there is a family hobby. such
as music or photography. this
can provide the decorating motif
Cardboard replicas OF phono-
graph platters and musical notes
might be used for wall decorar
ton, or framed photographs OF
family members engaging in
their favorite hobbies could pro-
vide the needed point Of interest.
Be sure to allow adequate stor-
age space for books. games, toys.
records and hobbies. particularly
If there are youngsters in your
family.
This family room" approach
to decorating your living-dining
area in many cases will permit
you to use less expensive furnish
ings and floor coverings, and yet
enable you to create an area
which will be pleasant for the
entire family.
Your informal furnishings can
be used in family or party room
If you move into house later on.
ROOM DIVIDER-"We think
that a room divider would make
our living-dining area more at
tractive. But we don't want to
spend much money on one until
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l4,5OO square feet" Mr.. Stubbins
explained. This roof Is econom-
ically desirable as the least ex-
pensive Of all clear-span shell
tiers to construct. but at least
equally important is its symbolic
value as an expression Of the
ultimate purpose Of the hail."
Under present plans, bids for
construction Of the memorial
will be invited in April or May,
ground viii be broken shortly
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( Condensation Remains
Top Household Problem

should be closed and the room
ventilated when drawing hot
baths.
Windows should have tight
fitting storm sash. Electric or
chemical deEumidifiers can be
used. Heating plants should be
fitted with devices to dry out
basement dampness. Reduce the
moisture in the house atmosphere
and you reduce the amount of
sweating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-11

thereafter. and q eornerstone-
laying ceremony win be held In
June or July. Bids for the build
ing itself viii be sought In Au-
gust this year. and completion is
expected by the corresponding
month in 1857. A start this year
will coincide with the 250th an
niversary Of the birth of Frank
lin. among whose many claims to
fame is that he was Americas
first ambassador to Europe.
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Man CriticoIIyHurt
In Bluze in Fairfax

A man was critically injured
early today when a fire broke out
in a home in Fairfax's County's
Pimmit Hills development.
Fire Dispatcher Hugh Robert.
son identified the man as August
Carpenter, Sc, a roomer at 23O5
Peabody drive.
Mr.. Carpenter was in Airing
ton Hospital with burns over &C
per cent of his body.
Fairfax police are trying to get
in touch with the owner of the
home, Edgar w. Blackburn, who
is in Winston Salem. N. c. Mr.
Carpenter was alone in the house
when the blaze broke out about
1890 am.
Fire Marshal Alfred Savie esti-
mated $4,000 damage to the house
and Sl.500 to the furnishings.
Firemen were investigating the
cause of the blaze.
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Maryland Asks Bids
On Road Bonds

BALTIMORE, July 6 (P.-
The State Roads Commission
has asked for bids on $1,567 900
worth of bonds to finance new
projects in eight Maryland
counties.
To be opened July 81, the bids
involve work in Baltimore, Cal
vert. Frederick, Garrett, Mont
gomery. Queen Annes, st. Mary
and Washington counties.
The commission also an
nounced awards of contracts on
these projects:
Allied Contractors, Inc, of
Baltimore, widening three-span
steel bridge on Maryland 1893
over Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad
at K ensington, Montgomery
County. $l30,857.
The Bituminous Construction
Co., Baltimore, grading and paw
ing causeway at Point Lookout,
st. Marys County. $56.977.50.
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acceptable, Magistrate Small is
the nephew of Commissioner
Small.
Alger Y. Barbee, Montgomery
County States Attorney, said to-
day "a study" is being made 20
determine how to use the State
records in county courts. He
said two courses appear likely
an attempt in another traffic
case to show that Judge Dia-
mond was wrong. or establish
ment of a new certification pro-
cedure to circumvent the rub
Der stamp" claim.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Davis has OBJ
jected to the continuance of his
clients case after the State rec
ord was ruled inadmissible. He
said the defendant. who is
charged with driving with a re-
voked permit for the second
time, would be given a manda-
tory jail sentence if convicted.
He claimed that yesterdays
postponement may be a form
of double jeopardy"
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dCCuS6u Oh driving dICer his IL
cenSe was revoked. claimed the
rubber stamp signature" of
M otor Vehicle Commissioner
Frank Small. jr., was an i'm
proper certification of the al
legged driving permit revocation
imposed on the defendant.
Rockville's People Court Judge
John B. Diamond. III, promptly
threw the traffic record evidence
out. but postponed further de-
liberation in the case against
the accused driver, Wesley L.
Beckwith. colored, who was ar
rested on June 2.
In recent weeks, Hyattsville
Magistrate Grover L. Small he's
ruled that mere copies of the
traffic offense records kept in
Commissioner Small's Baltimore
Office were not admissible as
evidence. However, the Mary
land attorney generals Office
last month said in an opinion
that properly certified copies of
the traffic violation records are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06
Ousted Lee Republicans
See Issue in House Race

will greatly influence the con-
gressional race in the 9th dis
trict."
The Republican candidate for
Congress in the 9Th is former
Representative William Wamp-
Ter of Bristol. who is seeking to
defeat the 1854 victor, Repre-
sentative Pat Jennings of Marion.
Mr.. Jennings. a Democrat, de-
feated Mr.. Wampler by 999 votes
out of a turnout of nearly 10000,
Democratic spokesman de-
clined comment on the state
ment. They said a list of pros
pective requirements for the
ousted Republicans would be
submitted to the circuit judge,
who will name new officials. The
judge can choose others If he
wishes
About 100 persons, many of
them opponents of the decision,
met here last night and decided
to circulate a petition asking
Circuit Judge George Morton to
name the requirements on a
nonpartiSan basis.
Gene Parsons, "a st. Charles
miner and spokesman for the
group, said they would urge that
one Of the appointees be Hobart
Belcher, who lost his Job as
sheriff under the ruling. BEL
cher received a large majority
and has done a good job" said
Mr.. Parsons.
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'FbI Holds Man
On Check Count

A 2l-year-old Capital Airlines
Iamploye here suspected of writ
ing some $4,000 worth of unau-
thorized checks drawn on the
airline'S account was arrested
Yesterday in Winston Salem. N
c.. by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation.
Harold Dean Kyser, a native OF
Spartanburg. S. c.. allegedly took
about $50 of his employers blank
checks and has written and
cashed some at Raleigh, Greens
boro, High Point, Winston-Salem
Myrtle Beach. S. c., and Airing
ton, Va, according to the report
Ray j. Abbaticchio. special
agent in charge of the Charlotte
FBI Office, said Kyzer had been
employed in the shipping depart
ment of the airline in Washing
ton. He is being held under
$500 bond.
1t. David Higgins of the Met
ropolitan Police check squad here
said it was understood Kyzer had
used one or two of the checks
in Washington, and that the po-
lice are investigating.
The FBI arrested Kyzer at a
hotel on a warrant charging him
with interstate transportation OF
stolen property. The checks re-
portedly were written in amounts
ranging from $50 to Sl10.
A local address in the 600
block of H street NV. was listed
for Kyzer by the airline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06

TOWNSVILLE. Va, July 6 up
-Four ousted Republican off,
Gals of Lee County predicted to-
day their removal will greatly
influence the congressional race
In the 9th district"
The four were ordered to give
up their Offices by a three-judge
court which upheld Democratic
charges of illegal bulk poll tax
payments by the Republicans in
last November's election.
The Republicans had denied
making the lump-sum payments
which the Democrats said helped
swing the county races in the
G. o. P.'s favor.
In a 200-word statement, the
four deposed officials said the
contest clearly showed the State
was badly in need of legislative
changes in the election laws.
The statement continued:
1.-THE citizens generally Of Lee
County are very much opposed
to all appointive powers which
prevail in the Commonwealth
and for that reason the Repub-
lican Party is taking no part In
the appointment to fill the va.
cancies.
I'VE consider it strictly Dem.
ocratic partisan proposition.
I'VE further feel that the
custer of these elected official,
~ill have far-reaching effects anc
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Maryland Prisoner
Slips Up in Attempt
To Break Out

BALTIMORE. July s (R.-
Doyle Delmar Royal got out Of
the Maryland Penitentiary the
hard way yesterday.
He was climbing out and
landed IN the University Hospital
with serious injuries.
The 21-year-old prisoner had
climbed so feet up a rain spout
when it evidently broke. He fell
to a macadam roadway.
He suffered two broken legs, q
fractured jaw. and possible heac
and internal injuries.
( Warden Vernon L. Peppersack
said Royal had only 20 feet more
to go to freedom. At the top oil
the spout on the wall of the
west wing cell house he coulc
have gone over the roof anc
escaped.
! Royal was on a work detail
repairing the roof of the dining
room next to the cell house wher
he slipped away to start hi,
climb.
He was sentenced on December
81, 1854, to a 20-year term
for seven armed holdups anc
five auto thefts.
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HyuttsviIIe Firemen to Put
New Ambulance in Service

The Hyattsville Volunteer Fire
Department will put an am
bulance in service as part of its
regular equipment tomorrow for
the first time since 1929.
Purchase of the new $500
ambulance was completed by the
department this week and the
kays turned over to Fire Chief
Charles DiVincenzo.
1t will be available for calls on
a 24-hour-a-d day basis through
out the city and elsewhere if
needed under Prince Georges
CountyS cooperative program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06

Mayor DAleSandro. sparkplug Of
Michael j. Birmingham, leader
signed a formal truce yesterday.
d conjecture that the two sides
at the national convention in
during the November elections.
attitude, Mr.. Birmingham agreed
He'll even drive to Chicago
August 9 with Mr.. Birmingham
and will introduce him to the
members of the national COM
mittee and otherwise facilitate
the carrying out of Mr.. Birming-
hams duties as the new Demo-
cratic national committeeman for
Maryland.
And they both promised "they
will work together in a spirit Of
harmony for a Democratic VIC
tory in November"
The two had been on opposite
sides in the Democratic primary
for Senator. Mayor D'Alesandro
backed Willard E. Tydings, who
won. while Mr.. Birmingham
directed the campaign of the
losing George P. Mahoney.
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2Citizen Groups Protest
Proposed Hospital Site

the intersection of Forest Glen
road and Cameron drive.
However, the County Council
measure establishing the bono
issue provides that countrywide
referendum on the SO million
issue will be held if 5 per cent OF
the county's registered voters
sign petitions for the referendum
by August Is.
Campaign for Signers
A county referendum commit
tee has been organized and
within the last three weeks, has
begun active campaigning to
obtain the necessary petition
signatures.
Yesterdays opposition from
Northmont and Forest Grove
residents was based entirely on
the effect the hospital would
have on their property values,
traffic safety conditions and the
character of the neighborhood
Arthur Eden. spokesman fol-
the Northmont group, declared
hospital-generated traffic would
be a grave threat to the safety
OF school children who must pass
the intersection of Forest Glen
road and Cameron drive. He
also said the hospital tract is toe
small and undesirable fror1 q
Typographical point of view.
The opposing civic groups SUBJ
mitted a protest petition signed
by 207 area residents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06

With Fraud
On ForYestaI

NORFOLK, Va, July 6 (P).-
The FBI has charged a former
Navy lieutenant commander and
a steward aboard the U. S. S.
forrestal with fraud in connec-
ton with supplies for the giant
aircraft carriers wardroom
mess. A third man was charged
with bribery.
Charged with fraud were
Sidney E. Kreger, Al, of Ports
mouth, Va, now in the Naval
Reserve, and Ebert Dimple Nc
Lammey, 80, chief steward in
charge of the Forrestal's ward
room mess.
Leslie B. Kreger, 80, of Vir-
ginia Beach. was charged with
bribery. The Kregers, whose
relationship could not be deter
mined Immediately, are asso-
ciated with Kreger's Ship
Stores, Portsmouth.
Ray L. Faisst, special agent in
charge OF the FBIs Norfolk Of
flee, announced the arrests yes
terday.
$4,000 Bonds Set
The Kregers were released on
$4,000 bond each after a hear
ing before United States Com
missioner George v. Creole. jr.,
yesterday for another hearing
July IL.
McClammey was arraigned
later
Leslie Kreger was arrested as
he stepped off the ForreStal,
which is in drydock at Ports
mouth. Sidney Kreger was ar
rested at the company's Ports
mouth Offices
Leslie Kreger is charged with
offering $3.50 on or about June
IA to Thomas F. Guinand, a
chief petty officer serving as
caterer to the Forrestal'S CHIEF
petty officers mess. The FBI's
complaint filed before Creole
charged Leslie Kreger offered
Guinand the money to influence
Guinand to assist in perpetrat-
ing a fraud against the Govern
ment by making or using false
writings or documents, knowing
them to contain false, fictitious
and fraudulent entries"
Faisst said the United State,
attorneys office had issued 2
Federal subpoena for Guinand as
a Government witness for the
November term of United States
District Court here. He said thi,
affords Guinand certain statu-
tory protection as a Government
witness.
False Invoice Charged
Sidney Kreger, a University OF
Virginia law graduate. is charged
with attempting to have Guinano
perpetrate a fraud.
McClammey is charged with
classifying a material fact through
the use of a fraudulent Kreger's
ship stores invoice dated May IL
1856. for $81.88. The FBI's com.
plant said the invoice purportec
to show delivery of provisions tt
the wardroom mess of the For.
restal.
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Homeowners in the residential
area around the site of the pro-
posed 81 million Silver Spring
Hospital yesterday testified be-
fore the Montgomery County
Board of Appeals that the hos
pital would constitute a neigh
borhood nuisance.
Spokesman for two groups, the
Northmont and Forest Grove
Citizens Associations. presented
their objections as the appeals
board held its third session on
the hospital associations appli-
cation for a special exception to
build the 225-bed hospital on
residential land.
Hospital hackers have won
County Council approval of a
SO million bond issue to finance
the project. The bond issue
would be paid of by a tax not
to exceed 7 cents per 500 as
sessed valuation in the county's
18th district. which encompasses
the Silver Spring Wheaton area.
Federal Help
In addition to the bond issue
funds. the hospital would be
built with an estimated 100000
IN Federal community hospital
funds and a similar amount
that would have to be raised
in a public drive.
The hospital site is 10.4-acre
tract east of Georgia avenue at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-06
School Building Delay
Seen From Steel Strike

The Nationwide steel strike
is expected to disrupt Fairfax
County's multi million dollar
school construction program
which already is tagging behind
enrollments.
J. H. Rice. assistant school,
superintendent, said prolonged
strike could affect 35 projects
expected to be under contract
within the next year. These total
about $14 million worth of con-
struction.
Mr.. Rice said the strike came
just as the supply of structural
steel was catching up with de-
mand. He said it has only been
within the last month that regu-
lar deliveries could be expected
The strike could make a very
serious situation in Fairfax
County," he said. Even if the
strike only lasts a few days il
will affect the building program
considerably"
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Maryland Democrats
Sign Formal Unity Pact

BALTIMORE. July s (P).-
the "Old Guard" Democrats. an
of a coup which seized control.
1t virtually enoed widesprei
would go their separate ways
Chicago next month and possibl
AS a token of his relenting
to make former Solicitor Gen.
eral Philip B. Perlman a delegate
to the convention. Mr.. Perlmar
and a couple of other old party
horses had been ignored at the
State convention in May, which
also ouSted Mayor D'AleSandrc
as national committeeman ano
gave the Job to Mr.. Birmingham
1t had been limited that Mayor
D'AleSandro wasn't going to take
it lying down. According to the
party rules he continues as ma
tional committeeman until the
convention ends and so will be
Maryland's recognized leader
out there until 1t ends.
AS such. he could give the
brush-off to the new committee
man and his henchmen.
But the mayor dissvowed any
such intention yesterday.
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one acre might not pass a con-
stitutional test" if taken to
court. Chairman Freehill chided
Mr. Fitzgerald I'VE should have
been given a written opinion
long ago. We've been consider
ing this since January"
The board took no official
notice of Mr.. Fitzgerald's warn
ing.
Incorporated towns within the
county-Fairfax, Vienna, Clifton
and Herndon-are not covered
by the new plan. They have
authority to control coming with
in town boundaries.
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Seven projects have been let
on contract within the past few
weeks and several others are
scheduled to be let in the coming
weeks.
If we can't get steel and don I
get the schools under roof before
Christmas, it means the bad
winter weather could hold up the
projects until spring" he said
Delays in the building pro-
gram would complicate an al
ready overcrowded school Situa-
ton.
Fairfax County has adopted a
policy of double shifting all first
graders next year. About 1000
students are affected. In some
critical areas. students in the
second grade and possibly the
third grade will be double
shifted. The county is studying
the possibility of using trailers,
demountable classrooms and
private homes for housing some
students.
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among fire departments and res
cue squads, Chief DlVincenzo
said.
Until now the Hyattsville de-
partment has had to depend on
ambulance service provided by
units outside the city. The chief
said that the purchase price and
maintenance costs for the am
bulance will come from donations
and not through city taxes.
The new ambulance will be on
public display during tomorrow
nights delayed independence
Day program at Magruder Park,
! HyattSYille.
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CleneCkS IN Prlnce Georges
County. but scored a lack of
plans for remedial road con-
Istruction.
Mr.. Peterson named no names
but made it plain he was talking
about testimony given last week
by Robert H. Silvers, Prince
Georges County civil defense
co-ordinator, and other area Of
ficialS at House military opera
lions subcommittee hearing.
Mr.. Silvers testified that the
Interim Voluntary Evacuation
Plan here is "unrealistic," "ridic-
ulous" and suicidal" because
of limited traffic facilities out
side the District.
Master Plan Urged
He told the subcommittee the
Prince Georges County Evacu-
alton Committee reached a
unanimous decision that I'VE
would rather be vaporized in
the comfort of our own homes
than stuck out on a highway
subject to radiation. blasts and
heat ;"
He held that impossible
bottlenecks at Sheriff road and
George Palmer Highway and on
Suitland Parkway and Marl-
boro road would strangle evac-
uation traffic. He called for a
master plan and Federal aid
to eliminate the bottlenecks.
The Prince Georges County
Commissioners backed Mr.. Sill
vers lin principle"
Col. John E. Fondahl. the Dis
trict's director of civil defense,
defended the plan as 1.-The best
under the circumstances.
He said he had not known it
was not fully accepted and its
principles understood. There
are bottlenecks in both States he
said.
Section to Cooperate
Col. Walter M. Oates, civil de-
tense director for Northern Vir-
ginia, said that area would CO.
operate with the District in a
practice evacuation during Civil
Defense Week, which begins
September 9. He said State
headquarters at Richmond would
so notify Col. Fondahl.
Col. Fondahl said the District
is not committed to any evacu-
alton test.
I'VE have talked about it, but
we do not have any detailed in
formation on which we can make
a decision" he said. I'VE are
in favor of it but only under
conditions which are realistic"
1t was indicated that realistic
conditions would mean clearing
eoreSS roads So that nerSonS
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Water Pollution Kills
Fish in Shenandoah

HARRISONBURG. July 6 (H)
Hundreds of fish, mostly bass
and suckers. were killed this week
in the south branch of the Shen-
andoah River below Grottoes.
A State Water Control Board
engineer attributed the kill to
the discharge of chemicals from
a manufacturing plant.