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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-04-26
Bethesda Reducers
Will Meet Tuesday

The last open meeting Of the
Bethesda reducing group will be
Tuesday. Mrs. Irma L. Bell, as
sistant home demonstration
agent will give demonstration
of the quantity and variety of
foods necessary Tor safe reduc-
ing. Time: 8 pm. Place: Be.
thesda Health Center.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-04-26
Shopping Cart
Baseball Broadcasts
Planned by WINK

You can't tell it by the weather, but the calendar says
it's spring and that's enough get the professional baseball
teams going Call subversive and un-Amercan if you
like, but simply do not like baseball think it's just plain
silly and also dull To add to the general camor WINK will
broadcast all the Brooklyn Dodgers games locally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Foirfox Planners
Would Strip Bourd
Powers on Zoninq

The Fairfax County Planning
Commission last night suggested
that the county's board Of zon-
ing appeals be stripped of pow
er to grant what amounts to
commercial coming.
The commission urged the
board of county supervisors to
adopt an amendment to the
county's coming ordinance to re-
move from the coming boards
jurisdiction over requests for GER
tain non-conforming business
uses in agricultural districts.
These include hotels. tourist
camps, restaurants, automobile
filling stations and repair shops.
Planning commission members
agreed that these uses consti-
ltute commercial coming and
hence belong under direct control
of the board of county super
visors.
The supervisors. who passed a
master coming plan for residen-
tial development in the county
August /, now are slated to draft
amendments affecting CONNER
cial coming. The board Of super
visors is scheduled to take action
on the amendment September IL
The commission denied a re-
quest for variation of the SUBJ
division ordinance to eliminate
the requirement of a 400-foot
service road along Route 7 west
of the Culmore Shopping Center
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Virginia Negroes
Are Turned Down
AT White School

WHITE STONE, Va, Sept. 5
tR.-The Richmond Times-Dis-
patch last night reported three
Negroes, including an NAACP
officer, yesterday attempted un-
successfully to register a group
of Negro children at a white
school in this Lancaster County
community.
Times-Dispatch correspondent
Jim Berry said 8 to 10 automo-
hiles carrying some 80 Negro
children and their parents APP
peared at the White Stone Ele-
'mentary School and waited
quietly while their Spokesman
conferred with T. Benjamin Hall.
the schools principal.
Nj. Hall declined comment on
the incident. but It was indicated
he told the Negroes state law
does not permit the enrolment
Of Negro children in q white
public school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Falls Church Won't
Send Delegates to
Segregation Probe

The Falls Church School
Board last night declined an in
vitation to send a delegation to
Richmond to testify at school
segregation hearings being con-
Quoted by committees Of the Vir-
GINA General Assembly.
The board had received a let
ter from Fairfax Delegate John
Webb urging that a delegation
appear in behalf Of the city
school board ito make your feel
ings known"
Richard l.. Saintsing. school
board chairman, said he felt the
less the local board said about
"the situation going on in Rich
mond, the better"
School Supt. Irving H. Schmitt
reported that enrolment for the
first day Of school yesterday was
l,S45, As more students than
I last years first day figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Delegates Approve
Bill Restoring Two
To Arlington Ballot
BY q Star stan Correspondent

RICHMOND, Sept. 5.-The
House Of Delegates yesterday
afternoon passed and sent to
Gov. Stanley the Fenwick bill
to allow the names Of two candi-
dates for the Arlington County
Board to appear on voting ma
chimes in the November election,
The candidates. Curtis E. Tut
hin and DR.. L. H. Blevins. faileS
to comply with the States Serv-
Iicemen's Absentee Voters Law
which requiredS filing with the
State Board Of Elections by
July 20.
The measure. offered by State
Senator Charles r. Fenwick OF
Arlington, passed the Senate last
week. House approval yesterday
sends it to Coy. Stanley. who
indicated he will sign it imme-
diately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Poge Board Answers
School Plans Suit

LURAY, Va, Sept. 5 (SpeciaD
Answers have been filed in
the clerks Office here by the
Page County School Board to a
suit Of Walton Associates Of Ar
lington. instituted several weeks
ago.
The civil suit was for $10.325
with additional interest, claimed
by the Arlington firm for archi-
tectural plans and specifications
alleged to have been made for
a proposed Negro high school
here.
The boards grounds Of de-
Tense state that the firm never
furnished the board any ply
steal evidence Of the work on
which their action is based:
that they are not entitled for
services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Foirfox Baked on Move
TO Drop Planning Board

be abolished until April 81, 1859,
the expiration date of the last
terms of present commission
members.
The supervisors search for a
method to remove commission
members began officially last
July IL. At that time Brig,
Gen. Richard p. Ovenshine,
supervisor from Mount Vernon
district. proposed to reconstitute
the commission He said the
planners we're not responsive to
the boards wishes.
At Odds on Residences
The controversy between the
supervisors and the commission
included differences over resi-
dental coming recommendations
The commission recommended
minimum lot sizes of ! acre in
rural areas and provision fol
|half-acre lots where water and
sewer facilities could be pro-
vided. But the supervisors in
July agreed on a residential
coming plan with 2-acre rural
lots.
:, Meanwhile, a citizens group
interested in the master plan
studies, declared the Common
wealth Attorneys opinion els not
an obstacle" to coming progress
but is "a Qualification of the
ways and means now available
to the Board Of Supervisors"
The statement was made BY
Ross d. Netherton. chairman Of
the Citizens Committee for the
Master Plan. He said county
supervisors are seeking in goo6
faith to improve the county's
coming procedure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
IFoirfox Committee
Petitions Assembly

The Save Our Schools Com
Imittee Of Fairfax County yester-
day urged the Virginia General
Assembly to reject any proposal
in the school segregation con-
troversy that might force public
schools to be closed anywhere
lin Virginia.
I'VE urge you to give Virginia
communities the tools they need
to work out solutions appropriate
to widely varying local situations
and to reject legislation that
would deny any community It's
lrightful share Of school funds
lor deprive local authorities any
where Of their right to assign
pupils in a manner most appro-
pirate TO local conditions. the
committee declared in a tele-
gram TO committee chairman
considering school legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Zoo Renews
Fund Request

Director William M. Mann
again has asked the commits
sioners to support appropria-
lions for two of the Washington
Zoos most critical needs-a new
antelope building and a new adj
ministration headquarters.
DR.. Mann has urged money
for both buildings during the
last two years, but each time his
requests have been cut from the
final budget.
They show up again in the
request for the 1858 fiscal year,
starting next July /.
The current headquarters, 3"
in. a secluded part of the Zoo,
lis a 15l-year-old structure, and
the frame antelope house was
built 50 years ago.
DR.. Mann is asking $3.50 ,0OO
for new administration build
ing, Of stone and cement, to be
located near the Connecticut
avenue entrance to the park
The director wants $4,000 tc
make studies and plans for a
new antelope. house, also neal
the Connecticut entrance.
For the years operating ex.
penSes, the Zoo budget calls fol
$761.700 which is $41.7OO above
the current appropriation. The
request, cleared by District
budget officials, is about $4,000
below the Zoos original request
Part Of the money is needed
to absorb mandatory pay raises
and part To catch up with ex-
panded Zoo activities.
Meanwhile, the National Cap
ltal Parks asked the city heads
to support a $2.67l.00p budget
an increase Of $75,l0O over thu
current years funds.
The funds would be used t6
improve four areas Of now I'M
improved park lands. They in
clude 100 acres of land in Ana
costa Park near the East Capt..
toll Street Bridge. and tracts neal
Georgia avenue, Upshur anC
Ninth streets NV. Sixteenth
and Harvard streets NV. ant
PENNSYLVANIA avenue and Twen.
lty-firSt streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

"A move to abolish the Fairfax
County Planning Commission
was halted today, at least tenn
porarily, when Commonwealth
Attorney Robert c. Fitzgerald
declared it would be legally ques.
tionable to eliminate the present
planning group.
Mr.. Fitzgerald's opinion, to-
gethef with a concurring report
by County Executive Carlton c
Massey, was accepted with little
comment by the county super.
visorS.
However. one supervisor, Mrs
Anne Wilkins. who last spring
urged the firing Of the county
planners. today indicated the
possibility should be studied o.
appointing a new coming body
and ignoring the old one.
The custer Of Planning Com.
mission members was first ru.
mored when i've new county su.
|pervisors took Office last Jan.
uary /. One Of the issues high
lighted in their. election was the
failure Of former county head:
to adopt a master plan-muctl
of the responsibility for neglect
Of the master plan was Ibid tt
the Planning Commission.
Legal Means Lacking
In his opinion, Mr.. Fitzgerald
stated there are no lega,
means to dishand the planning
agency and replace it with a new
group. He said such an attempt
might invalidate the existing
coming ordinance.
Mr.. Massey, in his accompany.
ing report. said the Planning
Commission apparently cannot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Rambling

A sign Of the machine age,
on Bladensburg road Me-:
Men and Equipment Work.
ing"
Pessimism note: The ste
venson for President" head
quarters at TIT Connecticut
avenue NV. is displaying a
"For Rent" sign. -.
The electric sign on the
Alban Towers Hotel, on one Of
those recent hot, muggy
nights. with the last two
letters in the word Hotel"
burned out. -.
A stray dog, collarless and
licenseless. with its forepaws
braced Against the outside
ledge of a pet shop window.
and wagging its tail at an
other dog on display inside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
County Heads
Get zoningC Case

The Prince Georges County
Commissioners on September Is
will decide on approving com
|mercial coming for an 80-acre
tract near District Heights which
could become the largest shop
ping center in Prince Georges
County.
One hurdle to the project was
overcome yesterday when the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission gave
the nod to the coming change
for the O'Donnell farm property
on Marlboro pike, whose owners
plan a 81 million regional shop
ping center.
The commissions technical
staff opposed the change, main
tanning that only one regional
center was justified in the Dis
trict Heights area.
It urged that such a center
should be located at the inter-
section of Silver Hill road anc
the relocated Marlboro pike.
The commission report. how.
ever, said the ODonnell farm
site, located a mile northwest Of
Andrews Field, can attract bust.
ness from a wide area. and noted
that the proposed circum'
iferential highway will provide
an easy flow of traffic from al
sections of the county" to thu
center.
| At the same time the com
mission ruled out, a major shop
ping center on the 250-acrl
D'Argo farm. a half-mile east o
the O'Donnell farm, though ap
proving commercial coming TO
a 50-acre tract to provide for |
department store and a small
lShonninQ center
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
By ALEX r. PRESTON
star staff Correspondent

RICHMOND. Sept. 5.-Attor-
ney General J. Lindsay Almond
jjr., a probable candidate for
Governor next year. has ducked
the overriding issue Of the cur
rent special session Of the Gen.
Ieral NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN
public schools.
Mr.. Almond declined to give
his opinion in answer to an Of
fetal request about the legality
of Gov. Stanley's plan to with
hold funds from integrated
schools.
II do not believe your ques-
Ition is appropriate to the pro-
posed legislation"
That is what Mr.. Almond re-
piled to a letter from Fairfax
delegate Omer 4. Hirst.
Mr.. Hirst. writing in his Of
flcial capacity as member OF
the Legislature. asked: II here-
by request your opinion as tc
whether Gov. Stanley's pro-
gram. will provide you any
appreciable additional defense
in litigation. :"
Letter Is Recalled
Mr.. Hirst recalled in his letter
to Mr.. Almond that. during the
regular session Of the General
Assembly, the Attorney General
had stressed the Importance Of
being provided additional weap-
ons to be used. in your efforts Il
defend Virginia counties anc
cities In suits brought against
them in the Federal Courts, tc
force them to desegregate theil
schools"
4 Under Gov. SANKEY'S 13-bil
package, the State would with
hold tax money from any locality
that integrates its schools. eithel
voluntarily or under Fedora
Court order.
4 Mr.. Almond wrote Mr.. Hirst
Certainly. the General Assem-.
bly, has authority TO appropriate
funds for what it deems to be an
efhcient public school system
and I know Of no power residinl
lin the judiciary to compel thu
General Assembly TO appropriate
or not appropriate public funds.
Under Gov. Stanley's legisla'
tion. an "eficient" school system
Is described a.. one IN which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Fraternity House
Destroyed by Fire

CHARLoTT ESvILLE, Va.
Sept. 5 (R.-A predawn blaze
destroyed the Phi Epsilon Pi
fraternity house yesterday. The
house was unoccupied and un-
dergoing extensive repairs prior
to the opening Of the fall term,
More than so Charlottesville
Ifiremen fought the flames for an
hour before bringing them under
control.
The house. a three-story brick
building, was appraised al
$23,10 by the city assessment
board. Cause Of the fire was
undetermined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
EVEN ASSESSOR
HITS TAX BOOST

HAGER S TOWN, Md.
Sept. 5 up. - Washington
County commissioners have
received hundreds Of pro-
tests in recent weeks from
property owners objecting
to increased assessments.
One such protest. over a
$1l0 increase in valuation,
really CAUSED some raised
eyebrows.
It was filed by John F.
Unger. who is employed as
as property assessor in the
office Of the county super
visor Of assessments. He will
be heard tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
|Oxon Hill to Mark
OPENING of Pool

The Oxon Hill (Md.) Recrea-
ton Club will hold opening
ceremonies at its new commu-
nifty swimming pool at 2 pm.
Sunday.
The 100000 project. COM
Ipleted last week and in use since
Sunday, is located on Tucker
road between Book and Living
ston roads.
Gov. McKeldin and Repre-
sentative Landlord. Democrat Of
Maryland, have been invited to
attend. The pool will be kept
open for use until the end Of this
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05


Two school superintendent,
William j. Story of South Nor
folk and Hugh B. White of Nam
semond County. spoke in favor
of the Stanley plan.
Mr.. Story said fatty he would
regard an assignment plan by it.
self a plain invitation ito make
indignation work."
Mr.. White said public educa-
ton in Virginia must be pre-
served and not allowed to die,
even if some amputations have
to be performed to save it."
Gray Sees LESS Danger"
Senator Garland Gray. who
headed the Gray Commission
and recently repudiated its as
signment proposal. said he be-
lieved the Governors program
represents less danger to eff
cient public schools than the
creeping paralysis of Indignation
forced upon us" by Federal
courts.
In setting the stage for the pa
Irade of speakers, Senator God
win told the Assembly commit
tees that indignation anywhere
lin Virginia's public schools would
lead to their inevitable destruc-
tion.'
Virginia needs a, State policy
such as that outlined by Gov
Stanley. said Senator Goodwin
"as a deterrent to those locali-
ties in Virginia which have. OF
may indicate, a willingness to
integrate," under existing au-
thority given the school boards.
After Assistant Attorney Cen
leral Patty explained the Gov
lernor's funds withholding mea-
sure, Delegate Robert Whitehead
questioned him on several points
Mr.. Whitehead asked if a To-
icality was forced to integratt
under a court decree and lost
State support for its schools
could the locality then operate
an integrated system entirel,
with its own funds.
4 1.-THE bill doesn't prohibit 1t,
MIR. Patty replied.
/ Lever for Volunteers
! Mr.. Whitehead also wanted t,
know if the Governors program
anything beyond present Law
that could be used as a defens'
lin Federal court actions.
Mr.. Patty said he wasn't a.
familiar with that phase of TIN
PROCLAIM as some of the others II
\ the Attorney Generals Office anC
didn't feel qualified to answer.
The Governor, himself, ha
said that the program wasn'
designed as a legal answer bu
was one to encourage continued
segregation on a voluntary basi
with the funds threat the leve
Ito encourage volunteers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05

to present its arguments at pub
lie hearings conducted jointly by
four committees of the general
assembly.
They picked up where others
left off late yesterday. imploring
the assembly to adopt the Gov
ernor's l3-bill legislative pack
age. Gov. SANKEY'S plan for pre-
serving the segregated school
system is keyed to earmarkipS
state school funds solely fol-
efficient schools in
the legislation as schools in
which the white and Negro races
lare not taught together.
Proponents to Be Heard
Proponents of other plans fol
meeting the school segregation
problem were slated to be heard
this afternoon. Among them will
ibe persons urging the adoption
of the original Gray Commits
sion plan of pupil assignment
and public tuition grants for pri-
vate schooling.
/ All testimony at the opening
31a -hour session yesterday was
on the side Of the Stanley pro-
posal with Senator Goodwin
parading "a speakers to the ros-
trum. In addition. he called two
members of the Attorney Gen.
erals staff Kenneth Patty and
Henry T. Wickham. to outline
the legislation requested by the
Governor.
Mrs. Margaret King of Falls
Church, describing herself as 9
native of Pennsylvania, who hac
seen indignation at work, called
conditions in Washington's in
tegrated schools deplorable. Sh'
attacked "the big boys of thu
metropolitan press" for what sh'
said was a failure to bring thu
Indignation picture to the pub
lies attention. She urged tn
Assembly ito hold the line
against indignation and mot Il
give in one bit to the NAACP.
/ Likened to Volstead Act
A retired Baptist minister, tn
Rev. Elmer Lucas of Arlington
predicted the Supreme Court
ldesegregation decision woul'
meet the same fate as did tn
lVolstead Act (liquor prohibition
Iamendment) if the General AS
Isembly stands fast on the no
indignation proposal.
| The elderly minister said 9TH
tide has begun to turn on thi
Issue, too. We hope you vii
hold the line until We have tim
Ito turn it completely"
!. He said any damage to tn
public school system during tn
stop-gap period could be re
paired in time but declared tn,
damage to the children through
Iintegration would be irrepairable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
Arlington Police Breok
Bank of Numbers Ring

Arlington police last night
closed down the bank" for q
high-powered Washington num-
bers operation. officers said.
The raid ON house in the
1000 block of South Eads street
melted three gambling suspects
about $500 and "a couple Of
bushels of numbers slips" ac-
cording to Detective Sergt
Thomas j. Tracy.
A nine-n1ember raiding team
headed by Sergt. Tracy, was
armed with a search warrant
and information supplied by an
undercover man.
Arrested were Edward Nichols
rs, described as the hacker Of
the numbers business: his wife
Agnes, %. and Joseph L. Stone
A, of Carmody Hills. Nd, who
police said was a runner.
The Nichols couple, living al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
The
Rambler
When the Gold Bug
Bit Our '89-ers
By JACK JONAS

A discount house was offer
ing Geiger counters the other
day, but there weren't too
many takers.
Washington nowadays
doesn't feel the lure of pros
pecting as it did in the past,
and it's doubtful if there will
ever be a uranium rush to
equal the Great Gold Rush of
Great Falls in 1889.
The Great Falls boom was
the second case Of gold fever
to hit the Washington area.
Only 40 years before that,
after John Augustus Suffer
found gold in his millrace in
California, a group Of Wash
ington's own Forty-N Miners set
out for the West.
A newspaper account of that
'49 groups journey, published
April 8, 1849, said:
1.-THE pioneers proceeded to
Pittsburgh, where wagons,
tents. etc, were procured and
a steamer was chartered to
take them to st. Louis, the
cargo having been insured.
An odometer was purchased
at st. Louis and attached to
the wheel of a wagon by
which the Travelled distances
were measured.
Numerous Indians were
encountered on the route,
among them the Pawnees,
Sioux, Cheyennes, Crows,
Shoshones or Snakes, and the
Piutes, or as they term them
selves, the Pi-u-tahs."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
County Engineers
To Meet in Oakland

OAKLAND, Md, Sept. S R.-
The County Engineers Associa-
ton Of Maryland viii meet in the
William James hotel Friday and
Saturday. T. r. Pantaleo Of
Anne Arundel county. is associa-
ton president.
Norman M. Pritchett. CHIEF
engineer for the State Road:
Commission, will speak on the
new Federal road program anc
its effect on local planning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-05
PooIesviIIe Tension
OnIntegrationEases
Segregotionists
Quit Picketing;
Attendance Off

Quiet prevailed today at the
Poolesville (Md.) school where
yesterday parents sought to keep
children from attending classes
with IA newly integrated colored
students.
Although no white parents
were seen on the grounds, it APP