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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-24

games with a 67-54 victory at
Garfield.
Hanes, deadly from side-court,
pumped in q points and Fox
scored 10 as Herndon won its
fourth game in District 8 of Vir-
ginia's Group II League. Frank
Pattie scored IA points, Marvin
Dent IL and Dennis Fullenwider
II for Garfield. which lost its
seventh game in eight.
Bob Carroll of Gwynn Park
bucketed 26 points yesterday but
they were not enough to prevent
a 59-43 defeat at Charlotte Hall
military Academy.
Charlie Wiles and Clark Kirk
man Offset Carroll with Is and
III point efforts as the Cadets
won their fourth game in five.
Gwynn Park dropped its sew
enth Of nine decisions.
Two games called of last
Friday have been rescheduled.
Friends will play at Landon on
February 10 at 3:i5 pm. and
Hoffman-Boston will go to Lu-
Ither Jackson Thursday at 7:3O.
Already reset for today was the
Wakefield Annandale game at
Annandale at Z.
! The Bell-Chamberlain game
today was put off to tomorrow
and will be played as the second
game Of an afternoon double
header at Eastern. Bulls meets
Eastern in the first game at $3.50.
The high school schedule:
TODAY
Phelps at Fairmont Heishts. /.
Mackin at Coolidge, $50.
| s.. , Adams At Wilson. 800, ,,o
Wakefield at Annandale. Z.
Hoffman: Boston at Manassas Re-
Northwestern at Bethesda-chevy
suitland at Montgomery Blair. $3.50.
! High Point 81 Bladensburg. 2:l5.
| Georgetown Prep at Wheaton. 800
,s-S ox9 sn,o Hill at Richard Montsom-
/ DeMatha at Gaithersburg. T.
| Sherwood at Kendall, $3.50.
/ Lisbon at Poolesville 2:30.
I Charlotte Hail at SurrattSville. 2:3o
| Calvert County at Frederick SasScer. z.
I Great Mills at Lackey, Z.
LaPlata at Southern, 8.
! Carver at Hagerstown. $50.
| Gonzaga at Landon, 800
! Woodward Prep at Western, 3.
| TOMORROW
! Anacostia at Priory, 4.
| Bulls at Eastern, $3.50.
| Bell VS. Chamberlain at Eastern, 4:45
| Tech at DeMatha. 3.
Carver VS.. Dunbar at Terrell. 3:i5.
Laurel at St Mary'S tAnnapolis). 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
BY WILLIAM H. LEETCH
outdoor Editor Of The Star

DEALE, Nd, June 25.-The
blessing Of boats and fishermen
dates back to pre-Christiar
times. However. as far as is
known for certain. it was never
performed on a large scale in
Maryland until yesterday, when
the Solemn Blessing of the Boats,
set forth by authority of the
Bishop of Maryland. the Rt. Rev
Noble C. Powell, was performed
by the Rev. William D. White,
rector of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Shadyside, Md.
Tarpon Springs. Fla, where
Greeks have a large colony en-
gagged in the sponge fishing in
dustry, makes a gala as well as
a solemn affair Of its annual
Blessing of the Fleet. which
started more than SO years ago.
Gloucester, Mass, has an an
nual blessing of its fishing fleet
on a large scale.
With Chesapeake Bay appear
ing to have been in Hurricane
Alley" for several years. the
people of the bay area who make
their living to such a large extent
from fishing, Clustering and crab
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25

widowed. said he had to quit
school in the fifth grade to 90
to work, continuing his educa-
ton at night.
Facilities C0ntrasted
He contrasted the facilities
for helping children in his boy
hood days With those of today,
and urged that the gains in such
services be foStered.
Mr.. Mckee, representing the
early generation of campers. was
assisted in the unwilling of the
plaque by Lena johnson, repre-
|senting the youngest campers.
The pool was officially 'inaugu-
rated" when four counselorS
tossed Mr.. Schneider, fully
clothed. into the pool.
The new design deck-overfiow
type pool is 40 feet wide at the
shallow end and rs feet wide at
the deep end. 1t graduates from
three feet in depth to nine feet.
Equipped with a diatomite fl
tration plant, the facility is ca
Ipable Of purifying 100000 gall
Ions of water four times a day,
providing q complete turnover
every six hours. 1t has a gas
chlorinator.
The pool is surrounded by
stately trees in its woodland
setting and enclosed by a six
foot fence. 1t has two drinking
fountains. and National Capital
Parks has installed a black-top
apron around it.
Equipment for Teaching
The facility is completely
equipped for teaching beginners
and advanced swimmers, as well
as for recreational swimming.
1t was designed through the
cooperation of John B. Thomas,
public health engineer of the
United States Public Health
Service, as consultant to Ma
tional Capital Parks, and the
engineering Office of National
Capital Parks under the direc-
ton of Robert c. Horne, chief
engineer.
Assisting we're Everett O'Brien,
civil engineer. and Thomas F.
Condor. mechanical engineer, Of
the parks Office,
The plans were developed
further by the Payne-Oliyer
Construction Co. Of Falls
Church. the builder, under the
direction of John Hall. Ted
Smith, manager Of Prince Will
liam Forest Park, supervised the
project for National Capital
Parks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25

died and the pollution threat
doomed.
Camps Goodwill and Pleasant
have the capacity for providing
.12-day vacations for 1000 chill.
dren this summer. The Star
is conducting its annual appeal
for contributions through The
Evening Star Summer Camp
Fund to make it possible for all
the children for whom there is
room to go to camp during the
season.
Master of ceremonies for the
dedication yesterday at Camp
Pleasant, where the new pool is
situated. was Rudolph Kauff-
mann II, chairman of the Sum-
mer Outings Committee of Fam
lily and Child Services of Wash
ington. a Red Feather agency.
The pool was turned over to
National Capital Parks by Rus
sell w Schneider, chairman of
the board of Family and Child
Services. 1t was accepted by
Edward ]. Kelly. superintendent
of National Capital Parks.
Was in Rock Creek Park
Mr.. Kaufman introduced
Jerome B. Mckee, former presi-
dent Of the Washington Fedora
ton of Business Mems Associa-
tions, who attended Camp Good
will as a boy in 1904. The camp
was located IN Rock Creek Park
then. Mr.. Mckee recalled the
early days Of the case and helped
to unveil the dedicatory plaque.
Mr.. Mckee. now a delegate to
the business federation and act
ing as secretary to the George
town Business and Professions
Association, is a director of the
Citizens Federal Savings and
Loan Association of George
town. He lives at $500 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
Active in the Georgetown
Lions Club. he was for eight
years a director of Georgetown
Settlement House, a past mem
Der Of the board of trustees of
United Community Services, and
has been active in the American
Legion.
He has fond memories of going
to the old Camp Goodwill with
his brother. the late Thomas c.
in a group of some 20
boys when Rock Creek Park was
country" They swan in Rock
Creek, slept on cots in a tent and
cooked and ate frog legs with
relish.
Mr.. Mckee, whose mother was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
First Lorge-ScoIe Blessing
Of Fleet Marked in Maryland

bling as well as taking visitors
pleasure cruising. more and more
have been asking the protection
of God from these fierce mani
festations of nature.
Last year. William M. Hunter.
an area resident, asked Mr.. White
to bless his boat and in a cere-
mony here. his craft and those Of
three others were blessed.
Local residents hope annually
to hold such an event as oc-
CURED yesterday when at S pm.
the Rev. Mr.. White solemnly
blessed the feet. first holding
services at the Berlitz Marine
Anchorage. after a procession
accompanied by altar boys,
acolyte and choir, onto the
docks. After this. the feet of
fishing boats, under Andy Kim
ball. held a rendezvous in Her
ring Bay and after being mar
shalled in line, paraded back
up the creek past Manifold Dock
where each boat was formally
blessed. AS the craft passed in
line the Potomac Band played
and voices sang the Mariners
Hymn.
A portion of the services was
recorded and will be broadcast
over the Voice Of America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Crash Iniuring Six
Brings Five Charges
Grocer Totally Injured;
I roffic Deaths Rise to 80

Howard r. Myers. 46, of 1851
Roxanna road NV, was fatally
injured yesterday when struck
by a car on Georgia avenue. near
Underwood street NV.
Police said the driver of the
car. Edward G. Moore, Is. OF
I6519 Seventh street NV, was
charged with failure to yield
|right-of way to a pedestrian
failure. to give full time and
attention to driving and techni-
cal homicide.
Police said Mr.. Myers, a
grocer, parked his car shortly
after 1890 am. and was walking
to a restaurant across the street
when struck. He was taken to
Emergency hospital where he
died at AIS am.
The fatality was the SD traffic
death in the District this year
as compared to % this time last
year.
Mr.. Myers is survived by q
daughter, Shirley v. Myers, Of
1921 Sixteenth street NV: two
sisters, Mr.. John H. Fowler Of
the Roxanra road address. Mrs
Elwood Clevenger, Albany, N. Y.
and a half brother, Vernon
Kennedy, Harrisonburg, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Summer Outings Group
Dedicotes Bowman Pool

A brand-new, 75-foot modern
swimming pool to serve campers
in Prince William Forest Park,
Va, was dedicated yesterday by
the Summer Outings Committee.
The pool will help to answer
one of the biggest needs in the
park, where the committee OPP
crates Camps Goodwill and
Pleasant.
1t was named the Lille j.
Bowman Pool in memory of the
late Mrs. Bowman, whose be-
quest made possible the con-
struction of the $4,000, facility.
Mrs. Bowman, who formerly
lived at 2301 Connecticut avenue
NV, died on October IS, 1916.
She was the widow of Brig. Gen.
AlpheuS H. Bowman.
The pool, first of its type in
the park where five organized
group camps are operated, viii
insure summer-long swimming.
unlike the made lakes and other
natural bathing places there.
when Drought Struck
In times Of drought, camp
officials in the past have had to
halt swimming as a safety pre-
caution when stream flow dwin-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
z Killed, 3 Injured
In Virginia Accident

OAK GROVE, Va, June Is up
Two men were killed and three
other persons injured yesterday
when a car plunged of State
Route 3 in Westmoreland Ceun-
ty. three miles east of here. and
slammed into a telephone pole
The dead were identified as
Louis Edward Reamy, Is, -oi
Rollins Fork in King George
County, and Albert Roberts, %
of Odenton. Md.
Sidney L. Daniels, jr., Of Col
lege Park, Nd, identified by po-
lice as driver of the car: Mrs
Kathryn OVERLY, 80. of STRAIT
ford Hall. Va. and her 21a-year-
old son. Frank OVERLY, were adj
mitted to Mary Washington Hos
pital in Fredericksburg where
their condition was listed as fair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
SEND A KID TOcAMP

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out check or money
order to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund. Mail
it to The Evening Star,
Washington 4, D. c., or bring
cash to The Star cashier.
The cost-$36.40 for IL
days, 1920 for six days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25

|pital as a result of a traffic acci-
dent near Gambrills. Md.
John Thomas Watts, 10. COL
ofed, Of l24 o street NV, suf-
fered a skull fracture when he
was thrown from a car which
overturned while returning to
Washington from Sparrows
Beach. Nd. Saturday night.
Anne Arundel County police
said the youth was taken to the
hospital by a passing motorist.
He died there short time later.
The car was driven by Robert
IS. Caldwell, Is. colored of 1911
Sixth street NV. according to
police. Neither the driver nor
two other persons in the car.
Robert Watts, 10. a brother of
the dead youth, and Yvonne
Liverpool. 20, were injured, po-
lice said.
Technical charges of man
slaughter and reckless driving
were lodged against the Cald-
well youth, police reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs sponsored by The
Evening Star in cooperation
with the Film Center of WASH
ington and the recreation de-
partments Of the District and
Arlington, Prince Georges and
Montgomery counties.
Washington, Al Dusk
Janney. Wisconsin avenue and Abe
marie street NV.
Rudolph Second and Hamilton streets
TAFT Eirhtssnth and Perry streets
!, Powell. Sixteenth and Lamont streets
New York Avenue, First street and
New York avenue NV.
Langston. 221O II street NE.
Ridge Ridge road and Burns street
East Capitol S725 East Capitol street.
:, Douglass D'uE Js rHish Douslass and
Simon, Fourth and Mississippi avenue
Arlington County, $50 PM.
y. Barnard. South Oakland and
Walter Reed drive.
Maury 1850 wilson blvd.
Montsomery County. $50 PM.
Rock Greek. East Leland street and
Beach drive, Chevy Chase
Colesvilie, l4105 Colesvilie road. adj
accent TO coiesvilie Elementary School.
Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park. Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Victims Struck
Bycor as They
Leave Church

A 3l-year-old motorist accused
of fleeing and pulling a knife
on his pursuers after his auto
injured six persons leaving Holy
Rosary Catholic Church. today
faced five charges. including as
sault with a deadly weapon.
Police said Jacob Keith, col.
Iored, of 627 Florida avenue NE,
was to appear in Municipal Court
today on the assault charge. He
also is charged with leaving after
Icolliding. failure to have a Dis
trict permit. failure to give full
time and attention to drivings
and driving with improper tags
and title.
Pvts. John C. Giles and Charles
Monroe said Keith's car struck
a parked car at Third and F
streets NV. and knocked it into
another parked car. The second
parked auto was pushed over the
curb and rolled across the side
walk. striking a group leaving
the church.
so Persons Join Chase
The officers said Keith got out
of his car and fled north on
Third street. About so persons
-parishioners and witnesses
chased Keith, who was cornered
in a parking lot in the 600 block
lof New Jersey avenue NV.
The policemen said Ray +.
Perone. 6003 Riggs road NE,
ordered Keith to drop the knife
and he did. The two officers ar
rived and took him in custody.
! Seriously injured when the
parked car jumped the curb was
Guiseppi Ferrante, 81, of 10810
Barnesdale drive, Adelphi, Md.
reported in fair condition in
Casualty Hospital with a pos
sible brain conclusion and hip
injuries.
/ Pvt. Giles said Phyllis Marinucci.
3, was pinned briefly under the
auto, but was quickly released
when churchgoers pushed the
auto backwards. She suffered
bruises. A sister, Christina. s.
suffered a cut on the right foot.
and their mother, Ida Marinucci.
%, of 1917 Powder Mill road.
Adelphi, suffered shock and q
bruised right foot. t1
Archie Dellelos. AZ, Of ITO v
street NE. suffered head and
back injuries. The two girls.
their mother and Mr.. Dellelos
we're treated at Casualty Hospital
land released.
Also injured was Marco Fer
rante, 9, of 1903 Everest drive,
Hillcrest. Md. who suffered
bruises on the right leg. He was
treated at Casualty and released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
200 Boys Open Season
AT YMCA's Camp Let's

More than 200 boys have re-
ported for the opening of the
50th summer session Of the
YMCA's Camp Let's, at Edge
water, Md.
The majority of the boys. rang
ing in age from 8 through Is,
will stay at the camp for two
weeks. About so will stay eight
weeks.
The camp can accommodate
about 240 boys. Emphasis this
year will be placed on a trail
blazer program for older boys.
The program consists of hikes
and canoe trips. using the camp
as a jumping of base.
The camp occupies 219 acres
of a peninsula jutting into the
Rhode River. two miles from
Chesapeake Bay. Camp Director
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Bethesda Airmun Dies
In Auto Truck Crosh

A young airman from Bethes-
da. Md. was killed yesterday in
an auto-truck accident near
GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
He was identified by the State
highway patrol as Airman &c
Mark C. Hymes. 10, of Wilson
lane, Bethesda. according to the
Associated Press.
The airman was killed when
his car collided with a truck
trailer on U. S. Route 40, about
g miles west of GAINESVILLE. He
repeatedly was returning home
from Lowry Air Force Base, Dem
yer, when the crash occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Police Hold Woman
In FutuI Stubbinq

Police said Lucy NJ. jackson,
81, of the 800 block of F street
NE, yesterday fatally stabbed
Wheeler McIver, 38, of 948 Shep-
herd street NV, following an
argument in which they broke
records over each others heads.
Homicide squad detectives said
the stabbing in the kitchen Of
the F street home climaxed an
argument that started earlier in
Baltimore. Both are colored.
Police said homicide charges
were filed against the woman
and that an inquest would be
held today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25

Fred D. Carl said the camp owns
rs rowboats and as many ca
noes. The boys sleep in tents and
cottages.
The camp was founded in 1906
on the South River and moved
to its present site in 1922. 1t
was established through the gen.
crosby of MIR. and Mrs. John
Cowen Let's of Washington.
In a record camping season
last year. 1851 campers were
served as compared with 3.4l6
in 1854 and 1929 in 1858.
There still are some openings
for the family camp to be held
during the week starting August
10. This program includes fish,
ing, archery, crafts, hikes, ten
mis-, dancing. movies, canoeing
and swimming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
3 Democrats in 10th
To Speak Wednesday,

The three Democratic candi-
dates for Congress in Virginia's
10th district will speak at a
rally at $3.50 pm. Wednesday in
the Bailey's Crossroads fire
house.
The candidates are Morten S.
Boyer of Herndon, Va; Warren
D. Quenstedt. a Fairfax County
attorney. and Julius Bremen OF
Arlington.
District Democrats will name
the Congressional nominee in
the July 10 party primary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25

1T WOULD not have hap
pened that way when the city
was young. Early Washing
ton had some ear-inspiring
ghosts.
1t took a brave man, for ex-
ample, to cross the Rock
Greek bridge in Georgetown
at night in the early 18OOs.
Those were the days when
the creek was wide enough to
admit ocean-going ships. The
bridge was a long wooden az
fair, and served quite ade-
quately day and night for
many years.
But during a fierce storm
on one of the darkest nights
of the year it collapsed as a
stage coach was crossing it.
The coach, the horses and the
driver plummeted into the
stream, and the driver and
horses drowned.
The inhabitants did not let
reality interfere with ro-
nance. They began telling of
seeing a ghostly coach with
an equally ghostly driver,
whipping up his horses as If
in a panic to cross the bridge
before it collapsed.
The ghost coach was seen,
Of course, only on dark nights
and during raging storms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Gifts Continue
For Summer
Comp Fund

The following contributions to-
The Evening Star Summer Camp
Fund are acknowledged today:
Previously acknowledged,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Maryland Accident
FutuI to D. c. Youth

A Washington youth died yes
terday in District General Hos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
Rambling

A sign on Eleventh street
promises: "Air : Conditioned
Shoe Shines" !.
A White House release on
the chronology of disarma-
ment points out that all dates
listed are "Pre-World War H."
then starts off with 18th Gen.
fury B. c." y.
A lady we know says Wash
ington cab drivers may not
take goats, but that she saw
a hacker take an elephant
aboard the other day, and
she had to look twice before
she realized it wasn't a real
one-merely an diversified toy
coming out of Republican
National Headquarters. :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
The
Rambler
Hardy Ever See
Ghosts Any More
By JACK JONAS

What this town needs is a
good old-fashioned ghost or
haunted house.
There was enough basis for
one some time back. That was
when there was all that furry
about tearing down some
of the extensively restored
homes near the Capitol to inn
prove its vista.
AS everyone bemoaned the
fate Of the houses, a story
was passed around concern
ing early occupants of one
Of the homes.
This house had been built
as a wedding present. On the
day Of the wedding the young
couple moved in. That night
the bridegroom disappeared
and was not seen again. His
bride lived on in the house for
some so years.
But nobody picked this up
and made anything like a
ghostly legend out of it. No.
body bothered even to specu-
late much on what might
have happened to the BRIDE
groom.
This may have been because
it was a bright afternoon, and
not the eerie hour when night
meets morning, the only
proper time for ghosts to be
born. But it seems more logi-
cal that romance has lost its
battle with reality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25
WATER PLAYED

WATER PLAYED a part,
too, in the Drummer Boy Of
Little Falls" During the Rev
olution, a drummer boy was
on his way to a muster on the
Virginia side of the Potomac.
This ghost differed from the
coachman. When the coach
man crossed the bridge, there
was no rattle of trappings or
clatter of hooveS-the coach
glided across silently.
The drummer boy, on the
other hand, was not seen. But
when the time was right, the
inhabitants swore, they could
hear the muted roll Of his
drums.
The "Headless Man of K
Street Bridge" was a different
breed. His origin was hard to
pin down, but he was there
to scare the wits out of any
one who CHANGED to cross the
bridge at the wrong-or, for
the ghost, the nighttime.
Some said he lost his head
to the law for a heinous
crime, and some said he lost
1t in battle. But whatever
his history, he was as real to
early Washington as the
drummer boy and the coach
man.
Haunted houses once were
so numerous in Washington
that it would be impossible to
list them all. They were diff
ferent from the firm ghosts
like the coachman, drummer
boy and headless man. 1t was
seldom known whose spirit
inhabited a haunted house
all that was necessary was for
the house to be empty, and
the spirit would appear.
1t would be nice to have a
good ghost or haunted house
around today to tame down
some Of the other frightening
things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-25

Kennedy, Harrisonburg. Va
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-05-05

was. So let's address our public
and government relations problems
with the same spirit that conquers
business problems. Let's seek pub
lie understanding and support with
the same dauntless vigor that has
served us so well in seeking oil.
The odds may seem to be against
us now, but if oil men had ever
worried about odds most people in
this country would be still riding
around on bicycles.
AS the first point Of his prepared
ness program, Porter cautioned oil
men to conduct themselves with
propriety, for "our critics have
succeeded in getting this principle
written into the rules of the game:
the industry will be judged by the
behavior of any one Of its men,
bers," and any nisstep, or any
action that can look like a mis-
step, can result in the whole in
dustry being blackened.
His second point urged oil men
to learn the intimate details OF
their industry, and to become artic-
ulate about these things, noting
that the affirmative, constructive,
progressive things our industry has
done overshadow and dwarf what
ever shortcomings there may be. )"
Porter's fourth point called for
more effective public relations ac-
tivities by oil companies, large and
small.