Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
Area Schools
Win Awards
In I'D March
z Area Youths
Honored for
Saving Lives

Sowing Lives
Thirty thousand young
marchers swept past an esti-
mated crowd Of $4,000 in
washington's Esd annual
School Safety Patrol parade
yesterday.
Several area school units re-
ceived trophies following the
AZ hour spectacle on Consti-
tuition avenue. The uniformed
boys and girls. from as far
away as Key West, Fla; Wis
consin and st. Louis. we're pay
ing mass tribute to 100000
others who guard street cross
ings throughout the United
States for their classmates.
Two young boys led the pa
rade and later reviewed their
units from the stand. They are
Frederick @. Burke, jr., IL, Of
1907 Woodbine street, Chevy
Chase, Md, and Ronald T.
Harvey. II, Of 1l07 Independ-
ence avenue Sc.
Both we're awarded Ameri-
can Automobile Association
Gold Lifesaver Medals for risk
ing their lives while saving
young children from approach
ing cars.
The mild weather and the
blare of the SO bands drew an
audience that stood three and
four deep on Constitution ave.
from Ninth street to the end
of the parade near Seven
tenth.
Senator Green Attends
Among the officials in the
stand, across the Washington :
Monument, were 92-year-old
Senator Green, Democrat Of
Rhode Island, Representative
Roberts, Democrat of Alabama,
chairman of the House Safety
Committee, and Representative
Davis, Democrat of Georgia.
Mr.. Davis saw more than
5000 marchers from his State.
by far the largest out-of-town
delegation in the parade.
The Washington area was
represented by 6,578 boys and
girls, including 20 bands and Is
floats.
The Clark Griffith Memorial
Award, given annually to a
District school float with the
best theme of craftsmanship in
safety, went to the Shepherd
Elementary School.
The Shepherd float also
gained a parade award for its
design, which depicted base
ball field with boys disguished
as skeletons. They were tagging
"out" a man at home base
and throwing plastic balls to
the audience which read "Obey
the traffic officer"
Arlington School HOnOred
The Peyton Randolph Ele-
mentary School in Arlington
was a co-winner in the float
division with a rocket model
and the theme Whether on
earth or outer space, safety
first should set the pace"
Other awards for outStand-
ing floats went to units from
the Academy School in Cam
bridge. Md, the Marley Ele-
mentary School in Glen Bur-
ME, Md. and the Brooklyn
Park Elementary School in
Anne Arundel County, Md.
The parade included a
sparkling array of drum ma
jorettes and banner carriers.
One particularly striking line
of girls from Cave Spring High
School in Roanoke, Va, was
asked by the parade announcer
to march back and come past
the reviewing stand a second
time.
The parade included three
units of Uncle Bill" Lafferty's
Belmar Band from Phlladel-
phia. One unit included ac-
cordians. guitars and violins.
Another, clad in imported
Scotch highland costumes.
played bagpipes.
Band Supports Self
Mr.. Lafferty, SO. a Philadel-
phia detective for 81 years. said
he formed the band of 260
members to keep juveniles of
the streets and out of trouble"
The Self-supporting bandsmen
raised $500 to come here for
the march. Belmar, Mr.. Laf-
ferty said, is the name of the
street where he lives.
Police reported an unusually
low number of casualties. About
Is children were treated for
minor ills and four were taken
back to their hotels. None were
reported hospitalized.
/ Several children we're lost,
but most were promptly re-
turned to their units.
/ Park Police Pvt. Joseph B.
Moskaitis, 40, was taken to the
Washington Hospital Center
with a possible broken leg after
he was struck by a car while
directing traffic at Constitution
avenue and Ohio drive NV.
The AAA honored Capt.
Thomas v. Slominski of the
Metropolitan Police, who has
been parade marshall since
1947. He was given some lug
gage.