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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
Orange Twp. Farm Women's Club

Guest Night will be held at Orange
Center on May 2 at o'clock. Devo-
tons win be given by Levada Bixel
and roll call will be answered by
introducing your guest. The program
will be given by a guest speaker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
CaIorie Counters

The Calorie Counters Tops club will
hold their next meeting at the home
of Mrs. Elizabeth Hauenstein, Bluff
ton. Anyone interested in joining may
call 628-G or 411-Y. The meeting time
is Wednesday at loo p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
Slenda RelIas TOPS Club

Eleven members were present to
crown Mrs. Irene Robinson, who as
a TOPS club member has droppea
10 pounds. The club members lost
total of 261a pounds and have gained
only four pounds. Sarah Schrock, the
new area supervisor, was a visitor.
visitor.
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Beaverdam w. s. G.. s.

Hostesses for the May meeting
will be Gertrude Long and Eva
Obenour. Roll call will be answered
by Famous Mothers; special feature
given by LaDonna Zimmerman and
program leader will be Lucille Baker.
The meeting time is 7:30 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
Mothers Study Club

Gail Patterson will be hostess to the
Mothers Study Club at their next
meeting on Monday, May 6. Ferne
Ramseyer will be the program leader.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
Society and Clubs

started at the beginning of the year.
Plan to attend.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
G. III. M. g.

The Gertrude Hoy Missionary circle
will meet May 6 with the meeting
theme being 1.-THE Beloved Com
munity." Leader for the meeting will
be Ruth DiIler and music will be
given by Carol Groman. Hostesses
are Margaret Carr, Lucille Frantz,
Martha Schaublin and Mathilda
Mueller.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
WOmen's Fellowship

The Christian Women's Fellowship
of the Church of Christ will meet at
the home of Mrs. Harry Ewing on
Thursday evening, May 8 at 8 o'clock
Mrs. Floyd Basinger will be program
leader. A good attendance will be
appreciated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
Gold Star All


The second meeting of the Gold Star
All club was held at the home OF our
advisor, Mrs. Frank Montgomery on
April %, with 13 members and two
new members Jean Ann Edinger and
Sandra Schifferly) present. During
the business meeting the following
committees we're appointed: Social
Louise wilkins, Jeanne Montgomery
Carolyn Kidd and Sandra Schifferly;
Finance-Marie Bosserman, Myra
Bowman, Martha wilkins and Caro-
Schifferly; Community Service, Jan
ice Gallant, June Montgomery, Lois
Warren and Jean Ann Edinger. Pro
jects were discussed and projec
books were distributed. Next meeting
will be held May 9.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02

Mrs. Kenneth Winkler was hostess
to the Garden Study club April "a.
To answer roll call members brought
a specimen of their favorite spring
wild flower. Mrs. Robert Kreider
presented the program for the eve-
ming by conducting a quiz on wild
flowers and discussing the important
points on planting wild flowers close
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-05-02
Beaverdam p. Il. A.

Beaverdam p. T. A.
On May at 500 p. m. there will
be installation of new officers follow
ing the business meeting. Devotions
will be given by Rev. Dale Dickey
and welcome to the parents of 1857
1st grade students will be given dur
ing the program. Refreshments will
be served by the 1st and 2nd grade
room mothers.
BlufftOn o. K. s.
Bluffton Order of Eastern Star will
meet Tuesday. May 7 at 8 p. m. in
Masonic Temple.
Past Presidents Farley
Past Presidents Farley of the
American Legion Auxiliary will meet
at the home of Mrs Geneva Rammel
Friday evening, May 3 at 8 o'clock.
Program by Mrs. JoAnn Dillman and
Mrs. Margaret Turner.
1
Sans SOuci Club
| The Sans Souci club mel at the
home of Mrs. Arthur G.. Miller Tues
day p. m. Mrs. Robert Barnett and
Mrs. Robert Mcdowell won prizes
Next meeting will be with Mrs
Mcdowell on the evening of May 28
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
BY ALEX r. PRESTON

The Association of Oldest In
habitants today won a House
District subcommittee approval
Of bill to give it a new home on
M street. just west of Wisconsin
avenue.
Legislation by Chairman Aber-
nethy, Democrat of Mississippi,
of the Judiciary Subcommittee
was approved by that group.
Although several officers Of the
association were ready to testify,
only one Of its representatives,
Clifford Newell. spoke. There
was no opposition.
The association is made up
only Of those who have lived
here at least 35 years and are SO
years of age or older.
The association lost its head.
quarters meeting place, the Old
Union Engine House, at Nine
teenth and H streets NV, last
year when that site was taken
over by the International None
tary Fund.
District Commissioner David
B. Karrick told the Abernethy
subcommittee that the city gov
eminent favors transferring to
the association without cost the
old fire engine house on M street
which now is being used by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10

Douglas Adams, ir. and Albert I.
Kassabian. cited four grounds
for their mandamus plea.
They commended the dismissal
OF the two DeFebio boys because
of the mothers refusal to sign
the applications for placement
"unlawfully deprives the infant
plaintiffs of the right to attend
public schools of Fairfax
County. which rights are guar
anteed by law"
They also commended the dis
missal Of the children from
school forces them ITO violate
the Virginia compulsory school
attendance laws
The placement board regula-
lions requiring the parent or
guardian to sign an application
form. the attorneys said in their
petition. violates the State Con-
stitution which places State
supervision Of public schools
solely in the State Board of Ed
ucation and local supervision
solely in the hands Of the county.
In their last point. the at
torneys contended the entire pur-
pose of the pupil placement act
violates the l4th Amendment to
the Federal Constitution.
While the Supreme Court
heard no arguments on the De-
Febio petition today, Robert d.
Mcilwaine Ill, an assistant at
torney general, told the court the
respondents would have the ans
wers ready within 10 days. He
said he thought there would be
no material issues Of law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
Mother Asks Court Ban
On Pupil Placement Act

RICHMOND. June 10 CP.-A
Fairfax County mother whose
two sons were dropped from pub
lie school petitioned the State
Supreme Court today to hold
Virginia's pupil placement act
unconstitutional.
Counsel for Mrs. Theo Defebio
in a mandamus petition filed
with the court. declared the act
violated both the State and Fed
eral Constitutions. The manda-
mus action was resorted to in
an effort TO have Mrs. Defebio S
two sons reinstated in the Fair
fax schools without the mother
signing the placement applica-
tons required by the pupil
placement board.
The Supreme Court gave at
torneys for the respondents
the Fairfax school board, the
State Board of Education, and
the State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction-10 days in which
to file answers to the petition
The three-member placement
board was not named a respond
ent in the petition. Later. Mrs
DeFebio's attorneys told the
newsmen their position is that
the board is an demonstrations,
entity.
The Supreme Court set mid
August as the deadline for the
filing of briefs prior to ora
arguments. This indicated there
would be no decision until after
the courts September term In
Stanton.
Counsel for Mrs. DeFebio, c
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Serious Crimes
Drop 3.8 Pet,
Murray Reports

Serious crimes in the District
last month dipped So per cent
compared to May. 1856. Police
Chief Robert ". Murray told
District commissioners today.
Chief Murray listed the num-
Der of May felonies and more
serious misdemeanors at l,248,
compared to 1927 in May a
year ago. This brought the total
for II months ending May, 1857,
to 1897. a 12.1 per cent de-
crease under the 1887 serious
.ofienSes listed for the year end
ing May. 1856.
Larceny led this Mays list
with 485 cases of theft under
500. Next came aggravated as
sault. with 242 offenses; house,
breaking. 204: and auto theft,
l4l. Chief Murray reported six
cases Of murder and nine of
rape.
In May, he said l.4l8 reports
of misdemeanors were given his
men,. They found 80 complaints
unfounded, leaving a total OF
l 1888 actual offenses. The months
major small crimes were petty
larcenies. 485 in all. Police in
vestigated 325 simple assaults
and 102 false fire alarms.
Chief Murray's reports do not
compare misdemeanors with the
previous years records.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
broyhi|| Weighs
Another Poll on
Burke Airport
Would Take Issue
To Registered Voters
Of 10th District

Another poll Of residents. of
Virginia's 10th District on
whether they favor a second
National Airport at Burke APP
peared as a possibility today.
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican Of Virginia, long an
enemy Of the Fairfax County
site, indicted today he is consid-
ering another poll. He empha-
sized that he considers only a
poll of registered voters in the
district to be a valid one.
He conceded that there is an
honest difference of opinion"
in his district about whether the
airport should be at Burke but
declared he is not convinced
that the airport should be there
or that the majority Of his con-
stituents want it there.
Poll Is Last Resort
A poll would be q last resort,
he added, and in asking for
opinions he would list why he
is against Burke and why others
favor it.
Meanwhile, there is no relax
alton of the opposition Of key
legislators to Burke, he said.
Mr.. Broyhill said Chairman
Holland of the Senate Appropri-
atoms ubcommittee-which has
an unreleased report on the
project reported to be 3-to-2 for
it-still opposes Burke. So do
Senators Byrd and Robertson,
Democrats Of Virginia. So does
he. Mr.. Broyhill said.
his remarks indicated he is
under pressure, however, from
many sources for action now on
the second airport proposition.
Wants Decision Now
IF I'm going to lose on this, y
Mr.. Broyhill said when asked
about the poll. I'D rather lose
now than have the whole thing
stalled for a period of years.
He said he had met with
Commerce Secretary Weeks last
Friday and had another meeting
scheduled with Mr.. Weeks, Un-
dersecretary Louis Rothschild
and Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration officials. later this week
They will review the entire air.
port dilemma. he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
CoveII Pushes
Retirement
Bill for Police

Deputy Police Chief Howard
v. Covell has added a plea for
passage by Congress of an i'm
proved retirement bill for police
men as. a matter of life and
death" for the department.
Interviewed yesterday on the
WTOP-TV panel program. City
Side Chief Covell declared
morale in the department has
gone down ever since the pend
ing pension ran into trouble on
Capitol Hill. The legislation was
blocked in the Senate and goes
before the House this week.
The Police Department wants
the bill. which improves the con-
ditions under WHICH officers re-
tire on time or disability. in
order to keep the men it has and
to recruit others. The depart
ment requires $500 men but has
never been able to keep within
200 of that goal.
Chief Covell also said he was
Opposed to policemen escorting
DRINKS to their homes but that
he approved the idea of sending
DRINKS home in taxicabs or with
friends without police action II
1t appeared safe to do so. He
said drunkenness should not be
regarded as a crime or made a
matter OF record unless there
are aggravated circumstances
and pointed to the great cost OF
charging. prosecuting and i'm
IprisoninR drunkards.
An added cost is the amount
lof time policemen must spend
in court while DRINKS are await
ing trial, he said.
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New Home Is Approved
For Oldest Inhabitants

Sanitation Division for storage
He recommended, however. that
Congress amend the bill in ac-
cordance with a written sugges-
ton from Robert E. McLaugh-
lin, president Of the Board OF
Commissioners.
Mr.. Mclaughlin wrote that
while the building is not in good
condition. it has present mar
ket value of $4,000. Because
of this value. he urged an
amendment specifying tina.
whenever the Oldest Inhabitants
no longer occupies the property
for purposes now carried on by
the association, it will revert to
the District.
The Commissioners believe
that the association is in a posi-
ton to improve the building in
view of the fact that it received
$4,000 from the Government fol-
the old engine house which
served as a headquarters from
1909 until last year.
The subcommittee approved
the amendment which Mr.. New
ell said was agreeable to the
association. Among those from
the association present not called
upon to testify were Francis
Kane. president: Bruce Baird,
treasurer. and Walter Lyddane,
secretary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10

death of the year, died in Cas-
ualty Hospital yesterday of in
juries received when she was
struck by an automobile Thurs
day at Nichols avenue near Chi
cago street Sc.
Police listed the driver as John
D. Weimer. "a, of the 1000 block
of Waller place Sc.
Charged by Police
Mr.. Weimer was to appear at
an inquest today at the morgue
He was charged by police with
driving on the wrong side of the
street and held for the coroner
on a technical charge of homi-
eide.
The third death Of the week
end was the 29th of the year
Miss Emma Bright. 80. of 235
Eighth street Sc, who died Sat-
urday of injuries received
Wednesday in an accident at
New York and Florida avenues
Sc.
A large traffic jam piled UP
at the north-bound Fourteenth
Street Bridge around $50 am
this morning when a tractor
trailer carrying $4,000 pounds Of
newsprint overturned at the COR
ner of Fourteenth and D streets
S.W. Police said the rig driven
by Louis NJ. Tingen. IS, of Sonora
N. c., tried to make right turn
into D street and tipped over
on its side. Traffic was blocked
for more than an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10

TWO YEARS ago Mr.. Ten
nant's wife wrote Ezra Pound
at St. Elizabeths Hospital and
asked if they could come to
see him.
Mr.. Pound answered:
What does Mr.. T. object
to?"
Then Mr.. Tenant wrote,
"You haven't answered my
wife's question"
Mr. Pound replied: "You
haven't answered mine"
Mr.. Tenant tried again. He
wrote Mr.. Pound explaining
what he did not like about the
"Pisan Cantos."
Mr.. Pound answered: in
that case you had better see
H. L. Mencken in Baltimore.
H. L. Mencken died a few
days later" said Mr.. Tenant,
$50 that closed the corre-
spondence."
The sale of verse is enabling
him to pay the rent, but Mr..
Tenant is becoming bit dis
couraged.
when ! first started" he
said, Il thought people were
contributing because they liked
my verse.
i've found out it isn't that. "
He explained that sympa-
thetic remarks were making
him realize that contributors
we're sorry for him and that,
in some instances, when he
would ask them about the
verses. 1t became all too evil
dent they had not read them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
Gress Takes Post
In Engineers Corps

The District government lost
Edgar j. Gress. personnel officer
who earns $l0.500 annually. to
the Corps of Engineers yester-
day.
Mr.. GreSs, as. joined the mu-
nicipal government in October,
1852. AS chief of the employ
ment and training division. he
was responsible for placing en-
ployes in their jobs, attracting
new workers. training and dis
ciplining District personnel. He
came from the Chicago district
office of the corps.
His new assignment will take
him to Honolulu. where he will
direct personnel Offices of the
newly established Pacific Ocean
District of the Corps of Engineers.
Mr.. Gress took a cut in base
pay in the new job to $l0.065.
but won an allowance OF 20
per cent for overseas duty.
bringing his total annual salary
to $l2.078.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
Drive Forms to Give
District $23 Million
3-Cor Crash on Bridqe
Kills Musicians Wife

A Washington musicians per
feet marriage" ended abruptly
last night when his attractive
wife was killed instantly in a
skidding, three-car crash on the
South Capitol Street Bridge.
Mrs. Rose Walter, 81, Of 1900
Mississippi avenue Sc. had just
said goodbye to her husband and
two children about IL o'clock,
Melvin walter said today. She
was on her way to attend a pa
tient at Emergency Hospital. She
was a registered nurse.
Mr.. Walter plays string bass in
the National Symphony Orches-
ira. He was going to play in a
summer orchestra and Mrs. wal
ter. who was prominent in PTA
and Girl Scout activities, was to
wor in Norwich, Conn. A few
minutes later, he said, the police
called to tell him his wife was
dead.
Police said Mrs. Walter, a ma
tive of New York, was crossing
the bridge when her car APP
parently hit a slippery part Of
the grill and skidded across the
lane divider into the path of on
coming traffic. Her car collided
with one approaching car. which
in turn skidded into another. She
was thrown out Of the car by the
impact.
Driven by Pilot
Mrs. Walter was pronounced
dead of a fractured skull on the
scene.
The first car. police said. was
driven by a Navy pilot, John E.
Simpson II. 81. from Patuxent
Naval Air Station. He was not
hurt but his passenger, pilot
John M. Pinney, %, also of
Patuxent. was treated for cuts
and bruises at the Naval Dis
pensary.
Police listed the driver of the
other car as Airman Jack F.
Adams of Boiling Air Force Base.
He was not injured. An inquest
will be set in Mrs. Walters
death. which was the 3lst traffic
fatality of 1857.
At this same time last year,
only 20 persons had died as a
result Of traffic accidents.
His wife's body will be sent to
New York tomorrow for burial.
The Accident Investigation
Unit reported Miss Dorothy
Dawson. %. Of 1912 Pennsyl-
wanna avenue Sc, the 3Oth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10

how to eat with a knife and fork.
In his own home the children
ate with their fingers. When
their parents weren't looking
they stuffed everything left over.
including fried eggs. into their
pockets.
Billy still sees his mother, and
is concerned for her as II she
we're the child. II she doesn't
arrange to see him for a long
time. he gets a bad stomach
ache. 1t helps If he can cry, but
sometimes it takes long time
for the tears to start.
Wants 10 Go 10 Camp
Billy badly needs to know men
who will make him see that all
men are not harsh and cruel like
his father. He would find such
men in the counselors at camp
He wants to 60 to camp. He
enjoys sports. and recently has
been participating on the play
ground instead OF playing his
usual role Of observer.
You can help a frightened
little boy. who trembles even al
kindness, get on the road to hap.
piness by sending him to camp
this summer.
The following contribution.
arc acknnuladuad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
Thieves Rob Firm
Of SIS, 900 in Radios

Thieves broke into the WASH
ington factory branch of the
Admiral Corporation over the
week end and stole $4,000 worth
Of transistor radios. a large
number Of blank payroll checks
and a check-writing machine.
l.. +. Lisee. the general mana
ger of the plant at 2046 West Vir-
ginia avenue NE. warned mer-
chants to be on the lookout for
the checks.
One group of checks, labeled
Admiral Distributors OF WASH
ington. d. c.. and drawn on the
Munsey Trust Co. was numbered
from 3,708 through 1895. The
second group, marked Admiral.
Washington. d. c., and also
drawn on Munsey. was num-
bered 5.534 and $685., and 5,537
through $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10
The
Rambler
Tracks Down
ltinerunt Poet
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

By GEORGE KENNEDY
A friend who lives in George
town wrote the Rambler about
an unusual experience.
A few days ago she an
swered a knock on the door
and there was a poet-a slen-
der, balding, Sensitive-looking
man in his sixties.
The poet left an envelope
containing a sheet of printed
verse and said he would be
back.
He called again the next
day. The whole thing sold her.
She gave him so cents for his
verses and sent them to the
Rambler.
The first was entitled Small
Purses and Big Hearts"
1t was written in clean
couplets of iambic tetrameter.
The vowels we're cognate, the
conSonantS referent.
1t went:
1t has been said, and this is
sure,
"'TiS inconuenient to be poor"
But there are many problems
Which
Come also tchen a man is
rich.
He has no more beneath these
skies
Than I. Except iDhat money
buys.
But money can't buy every
thing.
And money makes no man a
king.
And so in order here it goes,
The joys a rich man neUer
kn0uS-
A little increase in his pay.
A glass OF beer. A holiday.
A hundred dollars in a roll.
A happy home. A ton OF coal
ct cetera
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-10

THE VERSES we're signed
Gilbert Crowther Tenant. The
Rambler called on him in his
little house at els Morris place
NE. and they had coffee.
You know" said Mr.. Ten
nant, Il am not the first poet
to do this. Walt Whitman used
to sell his Leaves of Grass
from door to door and in this
century Vachel Lindsay used
to recite and sell his poems on
street corners"
The Rambler learned that
Mr.. Tenant was born in Bal
timore in 1890 and in 1912 he
sang the romantic tenor lead
IN the Shubert's production of
"RoSe May" on Broadway.
He used to write lyrics for
popular songs. His World War
I songs, one entitled When
God Turns the Trenches to
Gardens Again." brought him
more than $4,000 in royalties.
Then he decided to become
a music publisher and went
broke.
He has been selling his
verses door-to-door in Wash
ington for a little over a year.
He started in Chevy Chase and
is working south into George
town.
He once won third prize in
the annual contest of the So
ciety of American Poets, "the
professionals"