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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-03
Tomorrow

Wakefield High School in
Arlington; 8 pm. speakers, Del
egate Kathryn Stone or Airing
ton and DR.. Vivian T. Thayer.
educator and author, against the
referendum; Mrs. Louise Gal
legher, member of the State
Board of Education. and Mr..
Winston. for the referendum.
Sponsored by the Wakefield
PTA; Claremont PTA; Clare
mont Citizens Association; Clare
mont Apartment Civic Associa-
ton; Thomas Jefferson
Harrington, Abingdon. Patrick
Henry and Peyton Randolph
iPTA's and the Arlington Forest
Citizens Association.
Centreville Fire House in Fair
fax County s pm. speakers,
.Lytton Gibson. former Falls
Church city attorney, and Norris
IPritchard, president of the Fair
fax Elementary Parent Teacher
Association. sponsored by the
iCentreville Citizens Association,
George w ashington High
School, Alexandria. 8 pm; speak
ers, State Senator Armistead l.,
Bootie, for the referendum. and
Delegate James M. Thomson.
against. Sponsored by the CIV
High School PTA.
Annandale High School, Fair
fax County 8 pm; speakers,
Mr.. Mann, Mr.. Fenwick, Mr..
Webb and Benjamin Muse. Spon-
sors, the Fairfax County Fed
Grafton of Civic Associations and
the Lincolnia Park Civic Asso
citation.
Gadsby's Tavern, Alexandria,
8:15 pm; speakers, Albert
Smoot. Alexandria businessman,
against the referendum, and
David J. Mays, a Gray Commits
sion counsel, for the plan. Spon-
sored by the Old Town Ciciv AS
ISOLATION.
Gunston Elementary School,
Fairfax County, 8 pm; speak
ers, Charles Pickett, an attorney.
for the referendum. and Doug
lass Hunt. an attorney, against.
Sponsor, the Gunston School
PTA.
1l6 Brookhaven drive, Mclean,
$3.50 pm; panel discussion
sponsored by the Brookhayen
Civic Association.
Pine Spring School, 8 pm,
speakers, Donald l.. wilkins
against the amendment, Charles
C. Mccall in favor.
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Police Nab
63 More Speeders
With Aid of Rudur

Fairfax County police con-
tinued their radar war on speed
ing motorists in the early days
of the New Year.
Capt. James M. Mahoney said
the county's mobile radar unit
was being used almost full time.
He said SO new speeding arrests
were made Sunday and yester-
day with the machine.
Were going to try to stop
these accidents If we can since
most of the accidents are caused
by speed" Capt. Mahoney said.
He said the radar machine Is
being used mostly on Route
between Woodbridge and Alex
andria and on Route 236 between
Annandale and Alexandria.
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Coal Still Chief Export
From Hampton Rouds

NORFOLK, Jan. 3 (P.-Coal
is still king of Hampton Reads
exports.
For the year 1855 a record was
established in tonnage dumped
into ships on both the Norfolk
and Newport News sides of the
harbor.
The total for December was
3,717, 638 tons and for the entire
year 37,551,661.
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Foirmont Heights Child
Dies of Burns

A 4-year-old Fairmont Heights
Md girl. critically burned in
her home two days before Christ
mas. died yesterday in District
General Hospital.
She was Sally Mae Settles,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Settles of 624 Sixtieth place.
The child ignited her dress
after sticking a piece of paper
into a lighted gas oven. accord
ing to Prince Georges County
police. The flames were extin-
guished by her l6-year-old broth
err, Charles Thomas.
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Gray Debuters to Air Views
In Two Places at Same Time

Speakers with an overflow
schedule in the Virginia refer
endum debate will be in two
places at the same time tomor-
row night.
While live" speakers are adj
an audience at AMMAN
dale High School, the Pine
Spring PTA will hear record
ings
Donald L. Wilkins, who was
moderator of a Falls Church
High School meeting on Deem
Der 10, had permission of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-03
Maryland Deaths
lin Traffic Rank
9TH in Nation

The long New Years week
end cost the State Of Maryland
Is traffic deaths. five more than
those killed on highways in the
State over the Christmas week
end.
The total boosted the State to
seventh in the United States
for the total number of deaths
reported during the 49, hour
period, ALTHOUGH Maryland ranks
41st among the 48 States ac-
lcording to size The Nation
wide total was 345.
The only ones ahead Of
Maryland were Florida, which
lis comparable in size to the
Free State. and the more popu-
Ilous States of New York. CAL
Eifornia. Ohio Texas and -Michi.
gan. Maryland. which has well
under 2 per cent of the Nations
oopula ton and number of reg
Iistered motor vehicles. had more
than 4.3 per cent of the New
| veer's fatalities.
Virginia. on the other hand.
had eight traffic deaths, we'll un-
der the % recorded the week end
before.
No new traffic deaths were re-
ported in nearby areas OF either
State yesterday.
The District had only one ia
TALLY over the week end. a man
killed in the first hour Of 1855
There were nc traffic deaths here
ove~ the Christmas period.
! Maryland's 18th death oc-
CURED early Yesterday on the
Eastern Shore two miles south Of
SALISBURY. The victim was Mrs
Anna Kitchens, 40, of Fruitland.
Md. a nurse riding in car in
volved in a collision with a train.
Mrs. Kitchens, according to
the Associated Press. was a pas
senger in a car driven by her
husband, Reuben H. Kitchens,
40, a chicken farmer. The acct
dent happened early yesterday
lat a Pennsylvania Railroad
crossing at Cedar lane.
One of the most serious Mary
land accidents Of the long week
end was that early Saturday in
which two District youths were
killed and four others injured
when their car rammed a tree
at 100 miles a.i hour and split in
half.
The driver of that car, Rex
Mcdonald, 10 of 3l9 Anacostia
road Sc, remained in critical
condition today at Prince
Georges General Hospital.
Virginia's total was only five
for the period from s pm. Fri
day until Just 40 minutes before
last midnight. closing time for
the holiday period from stats
Itical standpoint. At that hour
three persons were killed in a
Itrain-car accident at Norfolk.
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speakers to record their state
ments. The speakers are State
Senator Charles r. Fenwick of
Arlington, Mrs. Elizabeth Camp
bell. former chairman of the
Arlington School Board; State
Senator John A. K. Donovan,
and Delegate Omer L. Hirst of
Fairfax Falls Church.
John Everhard of the PTA
announced that in addition to
the recordings, there will be an
address by Charles c. Mccall.
former Alabama attorney gen.
eral.
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1t Took L Stormy Years
To Pick Airport Site

an inspection of sites but with
tout avail.
/ Danger Increases
/ The Military road danger in
creased. despite a bill by Repre-
sentative McSwain of South
Carolina to close it. Noted pilots
of the time denounced the
danger. and Washington's rep
Iutation for aicraft reception be-
came even more unsavory.
I BY February. 1896. with the
military road fight at a crisis,
Airport Manager Samuel J. Solo
mon, announced he would be
Icompelled to remove the traffic
lights which were supposed to
halt motor traffic when an air.
craft approached. Motorists
were ignoring the signs. he
pointed out.
The Post ONCE Department. in
alarm, made arrangements to
transfer all airmail operations to
Baltimore.
i That did it. Within two days,
the Senate and House Military
/ Affairs Committee agreed on a
plan for temporary closing of
the road, pending determination
by Congress on a permanent air
port plan.
They wanted the National Air
port Corp. operators of the COM
bined fields, to pay $4,000 to
build a substitute for Military
road. The corporation baked
too much money"
i On February Is, 1886. a loaded
.airliner, unable to get off the
ground in time. skidded across
the road. carrying away bound
airy light and a fence. No one
was injured, but the following
day the House unanimously
passed q resolution authorizing
the War Department to control
traffic on Military road.
An emergency bill put the po-
|. licing into effect.
: In May, the District Airport
! Commission was organized to Sc
| lect a site and was given funds
, to obtain options on necessary
/ property.
Then they took a survey. The
Operating airport was handling
10000 passengers a month.
Meanwhile, the tidal fats on
Gravelly Point were being COW
erred by dredges deepening the
.. Potomac channels.
The Airport Commission an
nounced in July of 1887 that its
first choice for an airport was 8
2,500-acre site at Camp Springs
Md.
! Veto Used as Wedge
; Congress passed a bill to va.
cate Military road, but President
Roosevelt vetoed it, using the
chance as a strong wedge tc
force action on new airport
somewhere.
The Gravelly Point legislation
land the Camp Springs proposal
were defeated on Capitol Hill.
! Congress adjourned and went
home.
But the President, working
Through the newly created Civil
eronautics Administration
tthen Authority, asked thai
the new airport matter be giver
top priority as an emergency
time.
A month later, the President
announced that Gravelly Point
would be the place and imme-
diately would be the time.
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BY CHARLES YARBRoUGH

/ Building municipal airport
a massive engineering job ever
in the easiest instance, is a small
tchore compared with finding the
place to build one.
4 The history of National Air
port shows at least IL years OF
Iwrangling before Nationals man.
made site was claimed from the
Potomac.
Even before the dredges went
ito work, National was destined
by the glowing estimates to be-
come "the first real air terminal
L in the United States.
National was to be a world
model in every respect"
/ The time was 1888.
As Sites Proposed
During the II years before.
total of As sites for National hac
actually been proposed. but
Gravelly Point, the present To-
cation, was the pioneer of them
all.
In August of 1926 the Ma
jtional Aeronautic Association
the Aero Club of Washington
the Army Engineers and the
National Capital Park anc
Planning Commission agreed
that Gravelly Point was the
number one choice.
/ The Aero Club planned g
congressional campaign for leg
Iislation and appropriation. First
estimates said 1t would cosI
IS740,000.
| Between 1925 and 1929. {
majority of aviation. civic anc
business organizations came ou'
in favor of Gravelly Point.
The old Washington Airpor
and Hoover Field combined or
a site of what is now the APP
proaches to the Pentagon bu
remained physically divided BY
what was then called Military
road and later became Jefferson
Davis highway. leading off thu
present southbound Fourteenth
Street Bridge.
/ Safety Notice Given
i 1t is obvious. in view of ever
the comparatively light air traffic
.Iof the time, what a highwa,
could do bisecting an airport
IIBy 1887, the National Air Lint
.IPilots Association began serving
notice that. if the Washington
.Iairport was not made safer within
$50 days, member pilots woult
refuse to continue operations
: there.
The Commerce Department
: obtained permission for the air
IIlines to use Boiling Field in thu
emergency.
Meanwhile. Congress jus
couldn't seem to legislate. de-
spite perennial (since 1920 in
production of a bill by Repre-
sentative Stalker of New York
, authorizing the Gravelly Poin
project.
) BY 1884. Mr.. Stalker had re
| Inducements
The House District Committe,
was the scene of a long and bit
ter hearing of the airport prob
lem in the spring of 1885. Ate,
: ia month. the House and Senat,
committees progressed as far a.
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Virqinio Referendum
Discussions Listed

The Virginia referendum mex
Monday on the tuition grant
proposal of the Gray Commission
will be discussed at these events
Today
Swanson Junior High School
Arlington. s pm: speakers, Mrs
William Bozman. Mrs. Peter
Henle and Mrs. Roger Marshal
of the Arlington League Of
Women Voters; sponsors, PTA.
of Swanson, Westinghouse
High, Walter Reed and Stone.
wall Jackson.
Pimmit Hills School, 8 pm.
speakers, Lytton H. Gibson. at
torney, and Delegate John c
Webb. sponsor Pimmit Hills
Citizens Association.
Mclean High School, 81;
pm; speakers, Delegate Harri'
son Mann and Delegate-elect
William Winston of Arlington
in favor of the amendment, anc
Fairfax Delegate Omer L. Hirst
and Warren D. Quenstedt, chair.
man of the Fairfax County Save
Our Schools Committee. in OPP.
position. Sponsors. Mclean
Citizens Association and PTA!
of Mclean High. Chesterbrook
Dunn Loring, Franklin Sherman
and Haycock road.
Garfield School, Springfield,
pm; speakers, Delegate J. May.
nard Magruder of Arlington, fol-
the amendment, and Mrs. Eliza.
beth Campbell. former chairman
Arlington School Board, against
Sponsor, Garfield PTA.
Television Station WTTG
Channel S. at l0:45 pm Mrs
Louise Galleher. member Vir.
ginia State Board of Education
on why the board adopted a
resolution favoring constitution
al amendment. Introduction by
Mr.. Magruder.
Fairfax Elementary School
Fairfax, $50 pm; speakers
State Senator John A. K. DON
ovan of Fairfax Falls Church
and Charles c Mccall former
Alabama attorney general. Spon-
sored by the Country Club Hills
Civic Association.
Panel discussion sponsored by
the BRENNAN Park Civic Asso-
citation, 8 pm, at the home OF
Thomas Pearson, 6700 Edsal
road. BRENNAN Park.
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Two Decline to Resign
On Foirfox School Boord
BY MARY LOU WERNER

The ease with which new Fair
fax supervisors expected to pick
a new school board received a
Jolt today as two school board
members announced they would
stick on the job until fired.
Mrs. Almorine Crowther and
Fred w. Robinson declared that
they had no intention of resign
ing even though the Supervisors
from their districts proposed to
nominate new school board
members from those districts.
Mrs. Crowther, a member of
the school board since 1949, has
received a letter from the new
supervisor in her district. Rich
ard P. Ovenshine, stating that he
does not intend to re-nominate
her.
Stuart DeBell, supervisor in
ICentreville district which Mr..
Robinson now represents on the
school board. has let 1t be known
that he does not intend to re-
appoint Mr.. Robinson. For more
than 20 years Mr.. Robinson has
been a member of the Fairfax
School Board. Both Mr. Robin
son and Mrs. Crowther are
former board chairmen.
Their refusal to resign means
that it will take a majority vote
of the Board of County Super
visors to replace them.
Since 1852, school board men,
bers have been appointed by the
Board of County Supervisors in
Fairfax. 1t has been the custom
flor the supervisor in each dis
trict to pick a school board
member from that district. This
has been voluntary arrange
ment, as there is no requirement
that one school board member
come from each district The
final word on each school board
appointment still rests with a
majority vote of the supervisors
School board members serve at
the will of the supervisors, and
have no definite term.
District Appointments Assumed
I 1t had been assumed that the
new Board of County Supervis-
Iors would 60 along with the Gus
tom of school board appoint
lments by districts.
I Mr.. Ovenshine. the new Re-
publican supervisor from Mount
Vernon District where Mrs.
Crowtl1er lives. sent word that
he did not plan to renominate
her. She said she would stick
to her job until a majority vote
of the supervisors replaces her.
j In his letter. Mr.. Ovenshine
told of sending letters to all
IPTAs and civic groups in his dis
Itrict asking for suggestions.
! I'm reply to that letter l have
received many favorable COM
Iments regarding your services on
the school board" said Mr.. Oven
shine in his letter to Mrs. Crow
Their. Il have no doubt that
your service has been worthy of
such concentrations. / have also
received suggestions for the ap-
pointment of 90 other individuals,
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Gateway Requests
Repoving Project

Repaving of Bladensburg road
NE. from New York avenue to
the District line was requested
last night by the National Gate
way Citizens Association.
In other business the group
asked that an additional mailboS
be placed in the vicinity of Thir-
tieth and Charming streets NE
The meeting was held at
Twenty-eighth and Douglas
streets NE. Gilbert c. Vincent
president, conducted the asso-
citation.
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The
Rambler
Rush-Hour Traffic
Stops for Nothing
By JACK JONAS

A lady originally from
Turkey by way of Germany
and France got a glimpse the
other day of what the evening
rush hour is like in downtown
Washington.
She was driving along Con-
stitution avenue on her way
home when she saw a police
man sitting astride a strug-
Cling man in the center of
the street.
She stopped ner car at a
bus stop to watch.
1T was fantastic" she said.
There was nobody walking
along. Everybody was in cars
zone group of cars would
stop for the traffic light, The
drivers would watch the po-
licernan on top the man fight
ing to get up. Then the light
would change, and the cars
would go on, around the two
men.
Then another group of
cars would be stopped by the
light and the same thing
would happen. They watched,
the light changed. and they
drove on.
1T was the same three or
four times, and then two more
policemen came up and they
took the man away.
1T wouldn't be like that in
Europe, rush hour or not. The
policeman would have 500
people standing around in a
few seconds"
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several of whom have excellent
qualifications for services on the
school board. have not yet de-
lcided which individual to NOM
mate for service on the school
board but / think / should tell
you at this time that after care
fully considering your case and
the records of several other in
dividuals, have concluded that
Il should nominate one of the
Others"
Selection Due Soon
He said he expected to an
nounce his new selection around
the middle of January, when he
expected the subject of school
board appointments to come be-
fore the new Board Of Super
lviSorS.
Mr.. Ovenshine would not dis
close how Mrs. Crowther Jared
in the poll. He said he had not
intended it as a popularity con-
test. but only as a sampling Of
opinion to be considered with
other factors.
| Mrs. Crowther said she felt
sure she had strong support from
PTA and civic groups. Mrs
Crowther. a Democrat, suggested
that her party aff1liation prob
ably influenced Mr.. Ovenshine
/ When she first was appointed
to the school board under. the
old school trustee appointment
system, Mrs. Crowther was re.
garded as the county's frs,
progressive" school board mem
Der representative of the grow.
ing PTA organizations in the
county.
| Worked for Bond Issues
She worked for adequate
school construction bond issues
and higher teacher salaries
Some school board members
laughed when she advocated SIC
million for the first school con-
struction bond issue.
/ 1t passed. So have two sue
ceeding issues. as Fairfax Coun-
Ity's school system has more than
doubled in size.
I Mr.. Ovenshine commended
Mrs. Crowther in his letter to
her. stating that he appreciated
1.-THE thoughtful service and hard
work that you have given to the
school board" He assured her
that his decision to nominate
someone else was not intended as
a reflection on that service, add
ing, Il hope that our public
schools may continue to bene-
fit from your interest in them. II
! Two Offer designations
| Two other School Board men,
ibers disclosed today that they
had offered their designations to
the supervisors in their districts
They are Chairman Robert F
Davis and Robert w. Carr. An
other member. Richard Stands,
said he expected to discuss the
matter with the new supervisor
in his district.
The situation prompted the
School Board today to agree in.
formally that School Board
members should have definite
terms. preferably staggered
This is the first time the prob
lem has arisen because it is the
first time new Board of County
Supervisors has been elected since
School Board members be.
came appointive by the super
viSorS.
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Street Scenes

A truck driver stopped for
the traffic light at Arlington
road and Bradley boulevard
in Bethesda getting out OF his
truck to take a pad of matches
to another truck driver wait
ing at the same light. -.
A AIRED and water
soaked mattress lying in front
VI an apartment building on
S e.v e nteenth street near
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
A tiny Christmas tree, with
a few bits of tinsel still cling
ing to its branches, jutting
from a city trash basket. :.
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Squure Dance Saturday

Chuck Wilhilde will be caller
at a square dance at 8 pm.
Saturday at the Happy Acres
School, Cheverly. Md. The dance
lis open to the public.
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Threat

Three boys were walking
along Minnesota avenue Sc.
near ST. Theresa's School. The
smallest of the three was In
the street, Kicking a battered
tin can as he went.
The oldest warnea several
times about walking IN the
street, but the admon;tions
went unheeded. The older boy
finally said, in an exasperated
tone:
"All right, then. If you get
killed, don't come crying to
me-" s.-
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Reminder

A man who says his wife
has for years been an i'm
peceabIe h0usekeeper got a
shock at home the other
day. He saw a big sheet of
paper lying in the middle
of his otherwise neat living
room. Being the helpful
gentleman he is, he bent to
pick it up.
Don't touch that" his
wife said. That's my new
system. It's a list of things
/ have to do, and if it's in
the middle of the floor, I'll
see it and remember"
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Purudise

Community pride runs
high among the commuters
of Riverdale, Md. The other
night a carload of them
aboard a B. & o. local
shouted down q conductor
who shouted a prosaic
"Riverdale" as the train
pulled into the station there.
Not just Riverdale -
Paradise" a middle aged
man yelled.
The Garden Spot"
shouted another.
Goods Acre." a third said.
'|The Happy Place!"
mans Finest Find!"
The train stopped. The
conductor surrendered
"AlI out for Paradise" he
announced.
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Stubborn

A fellow around town
visited a friend the other
day.
1--WE been trying to sell
my English car for $780,"
the friend said. "The high
est offer / can get for it is
$3.50. If / can't get $500, 1
won't sell it. Do you want
it? Here"
He tossed over the keys.
"NO, no." our man pro-
tested.
But the friend insisted
and now there's another
two-car owner in Washing
ton.
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Guide

A pair Of out-of- towners
were walking along F street
arguing about the location of
a tourist attraction here. They
decided to settle it by asking
a policeman at the corner.
The policeman studied,
looked perplexed, lifted his
cap, scratched his head and
said:
Beats me. I'm a stranger
mere myself"
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SUNDAY

continued From Preceding Pose
400
7-coIIese Press Conference.
Guest: Rev. Edward eIson of the
National Presbyterian Church,
Washington.
4:30
5-Mox Rexnick Show. Vori'ty.
7-MedieoI Horizons.
"Christuos in q Community Hos
pitol" A visit with Sonto Clous
to the Mouistown. N. j.. Me-
moriol Hospital.
4:45
9-Pro Football Seoreboord.
500
5-Foith for Today. Discussion.
Must O Man Fight for his Con-
Victions9"
7-Bishop Sheen. Tolk.
How Civilization Fell OF
Bouquet"
9-Stories Of the Century.
Som Boss" Jim Dovis.
$500
4-Copt. GoIlant. Adventure.
The Little Boy Who Found
Christmas
5-Georgetown Univ. Forum.
The Opposition Porty: Notionol
or Sectional Voice." Mr.. Doug
loss Coter, Or. Paul T. Dovid,
Or. Jones D. Atkinson.
1.-The Goldbergs. Comedy.
S-Boins-Boing Show. Color.
6erold McBoino-Boine lectures
little girl singing The Twelve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-23

Doys Of Christmas" Also THE
Freezeyum Story" and two Wig
nettes, "AIouette and "ModeI-
ine".