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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Sheriff Shuts Jail Book ,
NeWsmen urn to Bible

SALISBURY, Md, Sept. 4 up.
Sheriff Jesse NJ. Pollitt has
closed the Wicomico County jail
book to newspaper reporters with
a recommendation they read the
Bible instead.
IF you're so interested in a
book, why don't you read the
Book of Revelation, Chapter Five
v. IA" was the message the sher-
if left for reporters of the Sails
bury Times.
They did. Here's what they
read:
And / saw in the right hand
of him that sat on the throne
book written within and on
the backside, sealed with seven
seals.
And I saw a strong angel
proclaiming with a loud voice,
who is worthy to open the book
and to loose the seals thereof?'
"And no man in heaven nor in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
s. Covered Bridges Dot
West Virginia Highways

MARTINSBURG, w. va,
Sept. 4 Especially Despite in
roads of floods and time, there
are still at least SO covered
bridges in West Virginia, many
of them 100 years or more old
and most of them still disable,
according to the State Road
Commission records.
Modern traffic has outmoded
most of them; changes in road
locations have left some of them
standing away from any road,
and floods have swept many to
destruction.
Sentiment is just about the
only reason that so many have
been kept.
Most famous Of the list and
the only one in the Nation still
in use on a Federal highway is
the one at Phillippi, two-lane
3l0-foot span across the Tygart
River where Union and Confed-
crate soldiers fought the first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Maryland Has Most Winners
In Country Music Contest

WARRENTON, Va, Sept. 4
R.-Maryland contestants won
the lions share of honors as win
ners were selected in five divi-
sions at the conclusion yesterday
of the sixth annual National
Champion Country Music con-
test.
A crowd estimated at more
than 5000 looked on at the nat
ursl amphitheater overlooking
nearby Lake Whippoorwill
bringing the two-day attendance
to almost 5000.
Vocal winner was Saundra Hill
OF Westernport. Md. She picked
up a $3.50 prize. as did all first.
place winners Taking the $5(
runnerup award in this division
vas Charles Waller, Hyattsville
Md
Fiddlers From ID. c. Area
In the fiddle competition. thI
winenr was Scott Stoneman o,
Carmody Hills. Md. John Hal
Of Washington. d. c.. last year,
winner. was second.
Ernest Pop SLOVENIAN oil
S07 Seventy-fourth place. Car.
mody Hills. Md, and his Slu'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
TidoI Busin Death
Report Held Up

Police said today they are
withholding the coroner's report
on John Belcher, 14-year-old
epilepsy patient, whose body was
found in the Tidal Basin yester-
day morning, until the missing
bicycle and clothes belonging to
the boy have been found.
Young Belcher had run away
from the Association for Epilepsy
Institute in Brentwood, Nd,
early Saturday after two earlier
unsuccessful attempts. He was
not seen again until his body was
discovered by Nathaniel VII
liams, IS, Of 1915 Swami street
NV.
Institute officials said the boy
could not swim. but loved the
water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04

and-steel frame building, like
conventional existing schools in
Prince Georges County. the
school will be walled on the ex-
terror with aluminium panels as
another construction timesaver.
Steel Seems Key
1t will cost $305, 900. or about
SIS square foot. The project,
however. includes a kitchen and
all-purpose room in addition to
Iclassrooms.
Mr.. Senseman believes that
once spans and columns Of
school structures can be stand
Iardized. steel professors can
Istockpile them and make them
readily available to builders.
Many of the holdups in school
construction in the last two years
have been traced to shortage Of
steel or delivery delays.
The modular system has been
used widely in England and is
spreading in this country.
Basically, Mr.. Senseman says,
it calls for Standardization of
certain component parts of a
school structure. They would
be used as a series of tinker toys
or meccano SETS" although, he
adds, the system should be flex-
ible enough to allow the archi-
tect to approach the design Of
each school as an individual
problem with its own educa-
tional requirements and site con-
ditionS
Mr.. Goodman's plan embraces
the modular system, too. The
Viers Mill addition is actually
IA combination of two-room units,
each with its own heating plant.
Mr.. Goodman was the designer
of prefabricated school pro-
duced by National Homes Corp.
of Lafayette. Ind, pioneers in
the field Of prefabricated schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04

land battle Of the Civil War on
June 3. 1861.
This bridge was built by Lem
uel Chenoweth Of Beverly in
1882. Tradition has it that
Chenoweth, when he went to
Richmond in 1850 to obtain con-
tracts for bridge building, took
with him a poplar wood model
of his bridge, built without the
use of nails, and to demonstrate
its strength suspended the frail-
looking toy between two chairs
and stood upon it. He built
many covered bridges between
1851 and his death in 1884
Almost all of them lasted
through three-quarters of a GEN.
tury Of constant use.
Longest Of the States covered
bridges is the 339-foot span
now abandoned but maintained
as a relic, which once carried
traffic across the Cheat River
at Camp Dawson, near present
~. s. Route so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04

Grass Champions won the band
division.
The prize must not have
seemed very big to Pop" He
recently won $4,000 on the tele-
vision show. The Big Surprise.
Bug Busby and the Bayou Boys
of Hyattsville finished second to
the champions.
Pete Roberts of Arlington, Va,
won the banjo competition. with
DOME Bryant Of Arlington
second.
Other Awards
The yodeling Of Dom Rey-
nolds. Baltimore. won him first
place in the miscellaneous cate
CORY. Peggy Brain, Carmody
Hills. who played the electric
guitar. took second.
The Warrenton Chamber OF
Commerce and Junior Chamber
of Commerce co-sponsored the
annual event. Judges we're Hank
Stanford. Keyser. w. Va: Berk-
ley Bryant Of Lynehburg. Va.
and Jim Eanes Of Martinsville
Iva.
There were 1876 contestants
Yesterdays show gave the audi
ence almost 10 hours Of country
music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
College Expects
Enrolment of US

Montgomery Junior College
expects an enrolment of 725
when the new school year opens
September II at the Takoma
Park and Rockville campuses.
Nearly SIS faculty and staf
members are on hand for the
colleges 10th year.
Dean Donald E. Deyo said the
college will offer this year for
the first time a course in prac-
tical nursing. The 48-week
course, open to men and women
between 10 and As, includes 80
weeks of clinical experience at
Suburban Hospital in Bethesda.
The Rockville extension
courses. to be held at Carver
High School, will include courses
in cosmetology, auto mechanics,
dry cleaning and building con-
Istruction. These courses will be
held between 4 and 10 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Delinquency PurIey
Set in College Park

COLLEGE PARK. Md. Sept.
4 educational, State and Com
munity leaders in a variety Of
fields dealing with the delin-
quency problem will be on hand
for the second annual Governors
Conference on Juvenile Delin-
lquency September 1912.
The program has been ar
ranged by the Maryland Com
mission on the Prevention and
Treatment Of Juvenile Delin-
ouency. and will be held on the
University Of Maryland campus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04

expected to have an important
influence on future school de-
signs in the area.
One already has been started.
It's a 10-room addition to the
Viers Mill Elementary School in
Wheaton. Md. Target date for
it's completion is December is,
approximately 80 days from start
of construction. This compares
with six to nine months usually
allotted such a project.
Other Project
The second, the new 8-classroom
Parklawn Elementary School near
Lanham, Md. is expected to get
under way later this month and
be completed in slightly less than
four months.
Contractor for both schools is
Hill g. Kimmell. a Silver Spring
firm which submitted the low bio
on both jobs.
The viers Mill project will be
about so per cent prefabricated
construction. according to its
architect, Charles Goodman
Laminated beams and panel walls
will be used. although founda-
tons and utilities will follow
standard construction lines.
Mr.. Goodman described the
project as a fair, but only fair,
test" of prefabrication. He ex-
planned that design was re-
stricted by the fact the project
is an addition to an existing
school and that its placement on
the site was determined in adj
vance by the Board of Educa-
ton.
The addition will cost $213, 039,
or about $l3 a square foot.
The Parklawn School will util-
ize the modular system of uni
form columns and bar joists to
speed up the erection of the
building, according to its archi-
tect, Ronald Senseman.
While primarily a masonry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Appeals Board Approves
Silver Spring Hospital

Construction OF the proposed
Silver Spring hospital has beer
approved by the Montgomery
County Board of Appeals.
The project, estimated to cost
$3,375,000, comes before county
voters in a referendum in No
vember for approval or rejection
The board decision was made
by 81 vote on Saturday.
Approving the request for a
special exception to coming were
the board chairman, John P
Moore, and vice chairman, Will
liam A. Quinlan. Member Henry
j. Bison, jr., said he voted
against the application because
he believed the hospital would
create serious traffic problems.
Conditions set by the majority
In approving the project required
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04

that traffic-control devices must
be installed before the hospital
can open. Also, they specified
that plans for the entrance to
the hospital be approved by the
State Roads Commission.
handspring along Cameron
drive and Forest Glen, the board
majority said, must be COM
Imenced simultaneously with
commencement of construction
of the hospital building"
Also. upon completion of the
building, certification must be
made that screening and land
Iscaping conform to plans, and
that the heating and incinerator
plants will provide smokeless
combustion.
Opponents of the projects have
80 days to appeal the boards de-
cisiOn to Circuit Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Archibald Calls
Reason Vital 10
Bible Teaching
By HARRY BACAS
Star Stan Correspondent

WESTMINSTER. Md. Sept. 4.
Modern Protestant religion is
going astray by emphasizing
security and failing to rely
sufficiently on reason, a leading
Baptist minister declared yester-
day.
DR.. Bryan F. Archibald told
the closing session of the Or
ganized Bible Class Associations
35th annual conference here
that zone of the most damaging
tendencies in modern Protestant
teaching is the attempt to di-
vorce religious experience from
reason"
Nearly 500 delegates to the
three-day conference at West
ern Maryland College returned
to Washington last night. They
represented 245 Bible classes ir
88 Washington churches.
Christian service, unless it is
Ihypocritical. is based on hope
lof reward, DR.. Archibald said
1.-THE things we consider most
good are those which are most
Irewarding."
Calls for Use Of Reason
But, he said, I'VE must classify
good things by the use of intel
lligence and reason, and upon the
choice of what we consider good
land rewarding hangs the whole
dignity of man." He decried
some theologians' use of an I'M
defined revelation" at the ex-
Ipense Of reason.
DR.. Archibald, well known in
the American Baptist Conven-
Ition, served for ii years as pas
tor Of the First Baptist Church
Iof Springfield, Mass. He recent
lily accepted a call to become pas
tor of the Chevy Chase Baptist
Church.
Men in their search for Sc
curity." he said, have become
content with a days wage fol
their labor. They have forgot
ten that the best pay-and
Jesus told men to seek the best
pay for their days works tc
be engaged in a creative
brotherly partnership. In such
work there can be no great Sc
curity."
I'VE are losing our grip or
those realities of human rela-
tionships." he said. "All the
laws to protect the status quo
all our defense might to protect
democracy, all the labor unions
to guarantee the days wage
cannot begin to equal the i'm
portance of the creative fellow
ship OF men who love each other
and seek to bring something
new and better into human so.
ciety."
Vision Of Greatness
Quoting the physicist ALFRED
North Whitehead. he said thai
THE missing factor today is +;
vision Of greatness in human
living. The Christian man will
risk his life itself, if need be, II
assure himself he is in an active
partnership with his Creator
the most fundamental reality il
the universe"
THE realm of science" DR.
Archibald said. has to do with
the practicable; the realm Of
faith has to do with the creative
Living is not worth the candl,
If we place safety above crea.
tive insecurity"
I Socrates was right, he said
in declaring that "the uncriti.
cized life is not worth living
The best days pay is to gain thu
proper relationship to other mer
and to God, a relationship Of in.
telligence, good will and greatly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-04
Counties Testing Speedy
School Construction Plan
BY GEORGE FLYNN

Speeded-up construction of schools major Of
authorities in the mushroomng suburbs of Washingtonw
undergo unique test in the next few months in Prince
and Montgomery Counties.
Two pathfinder projects using construction technques
will be underway simultaneously The finished products are
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31
20 Years Ago

The 225th anniversary of the
founding of "the First Presbyter-
ian Church in st. Georges Hun
dred," as historic Old Drawers,
on the Dupont Boulevard, near
Odessa, was originally known, will
be observed on Sunday, June 7. A
similar celebration is held on the
first Sunday in June, each year,
in this "early landmark of the
new world" Rev. Robert H.
Graham, pastor of the Presbyter-
ian churches in Middletown and
Odessa, arranged for the religious
service and will be in direct
charge.
Frank C. Armstrong, aged so,
alderman and collector of taxes
and revenues for the Town of
Smyrna, died at his home on Del
aware Street at 1910 Monday
night following an attack of
double pneumonia. Mr.. Armstrong
married in early life Miss Ida
Anderson who survived him with
one daughter, Matilda, Mrs. Clar-
ence Miller of Wilmington. He
is also survived by two sisters:
Mrs. John E. Wilson and Mrs.
Elva Truax, widow of the late ].
Fletcher Truax of Smyrna and
Philadelphia.
At a recent meeting of the
Board of Education, Smyrna
Special School District, it was
unanimously voted to change the
name from the Smyrna High
School, to the John Bassett Moore
High School. The original High
School building was erected in
1888.
Quite a number of Smyrna and
Dover folks motored over to An
napolis, Md, Tuesday to attend
the wedding of Miss Sara Eliza
beth Stevens, daughter of Mrs.
Robert c. Warracks, of Coranado,
Cal, and Commander Paul A.
Stevens, U.S.N., son of Mrs. E. T.
Millican and the late Mr.. Mill
can, of New York City.
Mr.. and Ms. Edgar Frazier en-
tertained on Memorial Day Mrs.
Lewis Vouklin, Mr.. Frank Vouk-
lin, and Miss Nan Simpson of
Camden, N. j., Mrs. Raymond
Walker and Mrs. John Lenney of
Westmont, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McCul-
Tough of Philadelphia spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

Chicago and received his doctor
ate at Stanford University where
he held Newell Fellowship. While
at Brigham Young he was given
a Sigma XII award for research
achievement.
DIR. Gibb has had Is years OF
university teaching experience at
Brigham Young, Stanford, Mich
igan State, Colorado and Indiana
University in the field of group
dynamics and human relations He
has been a consultant on leader
ship training and group behavior
for the National Student Associ-
alton, the U. S. Air Force, and
tContinued on PAGE Four)
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

Training Laboratory, and the
Rocky Mountain Training Labor
atory.
'Dr. Gibb is a scholar of con-
siderable reputation both as a
teacher and researcher" DR.. Rees
said. His publications have been
substantial ones and his coming
to the University of Delaware will
be welcomed not only by the staff
of the Fels Center, but by the
University at large"
A graduate of Brigham Young
University, DR.. Glib also received
his masters degree at that insti-
tuition. He continued his gradu-
ate study at the University of
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31
DIR. JACK r. GIBB
JOINS STAFF
Professor OF Psychology AT
Colorado to Join Fels Group
Dynamics Center at I'D.
Is YEARS EXPERIENCE

DIR. Jack R. Glib, professor of
psychology and director of the
Group Process Laboratory at the
University of Colorado, will join
the staff of the Fels Group Dy-
namics Center at the University
of Delaware in September, DR.
Carl j. Rees, provost and director
of research, announced this week.
The newly appointed professor
has been chairman of the depart
ment of psychology at the Uni
versity of Colorado and has serv-
ed as director of an Office of
Naval Research Project for the
past three years. He also has
been a member of the policy and
planning committees of the Ma
tional Training Laboratories, the
Southwestern Human Relations
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31
Photo by Parker

silver mine. They also Wis
tied Curenavaco one of
the oldest cities in Mexico.
Upon returning to the United
States, the Parker family visited
Los Angeles and Hollywood, then
drove north along the Mission
Highway where they visited sew
erai old California Missions in
cluding Santa Barbara Mission,
one of the oldest in the South
west. Among other tourist at
fractions in the family itinerary
was a visit to the San Joaquin
Valley and Yosemite National
Park. They returned via Tucson,
Arizona where they visited a
ranch and a cactus forest.
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

The movement for converting
the old Bombay Hook Railway
way site from Main Street, Smyr-
ma, to "Hudson's gate" into a
speedway is meeting with pro-
gress and sufficient encouragement
has been warranted to call spec
ial meeting of horsemen and citiz-
ems to talk over the nature and
arrive at some definite plans for
starting the work.
Miss Pauline Start, daughter of
Mr.. ]. Wesley Start of this town,
and Mr.. G. Davis Brown, of Phil
adelphia, former editor of the
Smyrna Call and son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George F. Brown of this
town, have announced their mar
riage. The event took place in
New York City on Saturday ev-
ening, February 10 at the Church
of the TRANSPORTATION, by the rec
tor, the Rev. DIR. George Hough-
ton.
Interest points to the coming
annual convention of the Duck
Creek and Kenton Hundred Sab
bath Association, which will meet
at Severson's M. E. Church next
Friday week, June Is. All the
Sunday Schools are members of
the Association and cordial in
vitation is extended to all to par
ticipate in the days proceedings.
A. Lee Clifton, of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, has been
spending a few days with his
parents, DIR. and Mrs. John w.
Clifton. He has just completed
his course at the University and
has passed his examinations with
credit and is now an md"
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Moore, who
twenty years ago were citizens of
Smyrna, now prominent residents
of New Egypt, N. Y, celebrated
their golden wedding at their
home Saturday. There were forty
three children and grandchildren
present.
Miss Mary Mahood of Philadel-
phia has returned from a visit
to her sister, Mrs. H. B. Grieves.
Mr.. Fred J. Osborne, of Point
Pleasant, N. J., and Miss R. Mary
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31
OFFICIAL JACKPOT RULES

Contest any in u S. its territories who
any moke model year passenger registered in his
her except employees and their mmedoe families Of
Plymouth Motor Corporation Plymouth Division Of chyser
Corporation its advertising agencies the American Molers and
Binders, ond Plymouth deoers
q There's nothing to buy Toke your registration certificate
any document proving legal ownership of your any
Plymouth deoIer Register the entry bonk the license
plate number of your cor, its make, model and yeor
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

Mr.. and Mrs. George D. C.
Parker and son, George W., of
Smyrna recently boarded an Am
erican Airlines Flagship at the
Philadelphia International Airport
bound for Mexico and the west
ern part of the United States.
While in Mexico, the Parkers Wis
tied numerous cathedrals, parks,
The University .of Mexico, and
other tourist attractions in Mexi-
co City. One of the highlights of
their activity was a bull fight,
the national pasttime of Mexico.
The trio then motored to Taxco,
a silver mining town south of
Mexico City where they saw many
handmade silver articles and a
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

Hill, formerly of Smyrna, were
married in Camden, N. j., April
s, 1906, by the Rev. H. P. Hill.
Mrs. L. Irving Handy and Miss
Margaret Handy of Newark is
visiting her father, Mr.. w. M.
Bell.
Mr. L. Cairl Price of the Dick
inson Preparatory School is home
for the summer vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland w. Bell
and son, R. William Bell, Jr., of
Portsmouth, Va, are visiting her
parents, Capt. and Mrs. A. H.
Smith and Mr.. William M. Bell.
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31
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contest entry box.
S. Winners will be selected by random drowine by the
American Molers and Binders independent judging orson
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Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

s. All entries become the properly Of Plymouth Division Of
chrser Corporation and will be returned Plymouth and
its advertising agencies will enter into correspondence with
ony eoneston, except winners.
T. opens beginning of dealers business doy
oy 25 1885, Entries be poced in entry box before close
Of deolers business doy, July IA. 1885,
Winners will be notified by mo by September IA, 1856.
Nomes ond addresses Of winners will be posted Plymouth
deolerships Prizes will be oworded Detroit, Meheon.
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Smyrna times., 1956-05-31
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO.
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
so YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

Taken from our old files Of
corresponding week, as near
date Of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature Of the
Times. viii call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

grandmother, Mrs. ]. w. Clifton,
has left for a few days visit with
friends in Washington, D. G.
Smyrna times., 1956-05-31

ter T. Massey.
Miss Margaret Lee Clifton, who
is spending sometime with her
The Lincoln times., 1956-05-03
People Are
Taking Longer
To Get Older

CHAPEL HILL = Folks are TAX
ing longer to get older these days
People like Harold Meyer, UNC
professor of sociology. are prov
ing this by their unveiling of facts
and recommendations on recrea-
ton for the country's senior citi-
zenS.
Meyer has just completed a
study of recreation for alder peo-
pie and has put his results in 8
publications. He said the average
length of life has increased from
40 years in 1900 to SO years and 9
months in 1855.
North Carolina has some 0,000
people in the group of senior cit
liens. And college folks are Won
dering just how these folks are
going to spend their time, not only
now, but in the years to come.
For those planning to get Ole
Meyer says there is a real need
to establish a definite rhythm be-
tween work and recrea il r
throughout all OF the life span
and in order to obtain maximum
results for the recreation life oi
the older citizens there must be
effective correlation of the basic
areas of life - health, education
work and religion along with rec
reation.