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Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
9Th Annual Silver
Eagles Banquet
Plans Completed;
Officers Elected

The membership of the Silver
Eagles, all boy civic youth or
ganization of Smyrna, has elect
ed officers for the ensuing year
as follows: Robert Pritchard,
president; Brandon Jones, vice
president; David Urian, secre-
tary; Austin Pase, correspond
ing secretary; Jeffrey Deamer,
treasurer; Karl Severson, chief
Justice; Andy Roth and Earl Da-
Wis, associate justices; William
Willis, Jr., historian; James
Pritchard, record librarian; John
Biddle, assistant record librar-
ian; Burrill Mccoy, Jr., mem
bership chairman. The incom-
ing officers will be installed at
the June 7th meeting, reports
President Bruce Pearce. The
membership encourage all youth
of this community interested in
making application for the
George c. Fischer Scholarship
sponsored annually by the Silv-
er Eagles to do SO promptly.
This scholarship named on be-
half of the late George c. Fisch-
er, former honorary member of
the Silver Eagles, is given to
a deserving youth for the pur-
pose of obtaining higher educa-
tion. A written request must be
submitted in duplicate Zone
signed and one unsigned stat
ing need and plans for such
education. The amount of the
scholarship and recipient or re.
cipients will be determined by
a simple majority of active
members present and voting
All letters of application may
be mailed to the Silver Eagles
Box l08, Smyrna. Final plans
have been completed for the
7th Annual Silver Eagles Ban
quet to be held at the 10th
Century Club building on Mon
day, June S, at $50 pm. The
banquet committee reports thal
over one hundred acceptance.
have been made to date. In at
tendance will be honorary mem
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Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

William G. Salisbury, Jr., of
Camden, Delaware, was elected
District Governor of the forty
three Lions Clubs in Delaware
at the Annual Multiple District
% Convention in Atlantic City,
N. j., which closed May 27.
1861. MIR. Salisbury, Jr., will
succeed David Clements of Mil.
ford, Delaware, the present ex-
ecutive Lions officer in Della
ware. MIR. Salisbury, in addi-
ton to managing the w. H
Simpson Heating Company ir
Camden, serves as application
engineer in heating and air con.
dition.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Mcdowell Bill
Involves DUPONT
Held CMC Stock

Congressman Harris B. Nc
Dowell, Jr., D-Del.) introduced
last Friday a bill dealing with
the Supreme Courts decision
on Monday, May %, ordering
the Dupont Company to sur
render ownership within ten
years of the So million shares
of General Motors Corporation
stock it holds. The Mcdowell
bill would add to the Internal
Revenue Code of 1854 two new
sections relating to the income
tax treatment of certain tran
sactions pursuant to orders en-
forcing the antitrust laws. Con
gresham Mcdowell said: "The
bill which | have introduced
today in the House of Repre-
sentatives is identical with the
legislative measure approved by
the House Ways and Means
Committee in 1859 and the Sen
ate Finance Committee in 1860
ut is entirely possible that fur
ther action of the Ways and
Means Committee, working E
with officials of the new Demo
cratic Administration in Wash
,ington, may be necessary to
further perfect my bill. This
legislation is necessary in or
der to grant relief to innocent
stockholders who would other
wise be penalized as a result
Iof the Supreme Court decision.
/ introduced legislation having
similar purposes last year.
am confident that an over
whelming majority of my col
leagues in the Congress will
join with me in support of this
legislation. The Wash n g o n
.O.C) Post hit the nail on the
head in its editorial today when
it said: Now that it has won a
crashing double victory in the
Dupont case, the Government
can afford to be magnanimous.
There is no reason why the in
ternal revenue laws should not
be amended to allow the share
holders of E. |. Dupont de Ne
mours & Co., to receive the di-
vested General Motors Corpora
tion stock without paying in
come taxes on it. The distribu-
ton of the stock would repre-
sent a transfer of assets the
DUPONT shareholders already
collectively own, rather than
new income. Beyond generos-
ity, there is the consideration
that tax-free transfer would
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Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Historical Group
To Hold Annual
Meeting June lS

Norman G. Wilder presided
at the meeting of the board of
directors of the Duck Creek
Historical Society held Sunday
evening at the Denney office.
The annual meeting of the So
ciety will be held Sunday, June
l8, at 7:30 p. M, at the Twen-
tieth Century Club. The speak
er will be William Penn Frank,
Morning News columnist, who
will talk on the Civil War. Hen
ry C.Webb, treasurer, was auth
orized to pay outstanding bills,
and the annual report will be
audited by Robert Bamberger.
1t was reported that three life
memberships in the society had
been received during the month
of May, those of Mrs. Arthur
Robert Baker, Alexandria, Va;
Mrs. Paul Dupont Foundation,
and Mrs. R. R. M. Carpenter,
Wilmington. Mrs. Margaret M.
O'Neill told the results of TAX
ing "the pulse of the commun-
ity'' for a proposed Duck Creek
Smyrna Day. The response had
been so favorable that the COM
mittee, which includes MIR. Bam-
berger, will continue their ac-
tivities. A preference was indi-
Gated for the event to be held
in the spring of 1862. The
board voted that the society
should take steps to incorpor-
ate. There will be an election
of officers for the ensuing year
at the annual meeting on June
l8. Horace Hotchkiss, curator
at Corbit House, chairman of
accessions committee for the So
ciety, told of accessions to
date.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Junior Senior
Prom Attended
By 200 Youth

More than two hundred young
people attended the junior-sen-
ior prom held Friday night in
the gymnasium of the John Bas-
sett Moore High School. won
derland by Night" was the
theme for the cabaret-type
dance, and the decorations were
in the senior class colors, blue
and white. The gym was trans
formed into a castle on the
Rhine" with a black portculis
forming the entrance to the cas-
tie, with gold sconces for can
dies. The illusion was heighten-
ed by emergence from the dark
entrance into the brilliance of
the interior, with simulated
walls of gray-blue, and coat
of arms over the door. A sus-
pended ceiling of white para
chute silk had hundreds of sill
yer stars dangling, and a band
stand had been erected in the
center of the room, with a small
blue and white chandelier in its
ceiling, and flower boxes around
the exterior. White trellis franz
ed two doors on the side walls.
There were tables around the
dance floor for members of the
faculty and chaperones, juniors
and seniors, and their guests.
The dance was followed by sew
eral breakfast parties at private
homes. Joyce Thompson was
general chairman, and Jeffrey
Deamer, chairman of decora-
tons.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Agreement Made
On Sewer Line
Extension for
Proposed School

A resolution was passed at
the meeting of Town Council
Friday night on an agreement
between three parties for the
extension of sewer lines to the
site of the proposed new ele-
mentary school on the Leipsic
Road. The groups involved are
the Town of Smyrna, Dover
Builders, and the Board of Edu-
cation, Smyrna Special School
District. Requests to purchase
two separate strips of land from
the town, both on Market Street
Plaza, were considered. One by
Jane Handy, foreground between
the Handy home on South
Street at corner of the Plaza,
a 2l-23 foot strip; the other
owned by Julian R. Stonefield,
corner West Commerce Street
and the Plaza. Each one was
evaluated by council at $500,
Details of operation of the beach
at Lake Como by the town of
Smyrna were discussed, and it
was decided to operate the con-
cessions and beach the same as
last year. Two lifeguards will
be on duty, with the beach
open from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m.
1t was decided to dispense with
the licensing of boats on the
lake. The date for the opening
of the beach to the public has
not been determined. Town
manager Rex D. Gilmore listed
un-collectable taxes and it was
voted to strike off certain such
taxes. James VESSEL, street
committee chairman, suggested
that one-hour parking not be
extended further than it now
exists on West Commerce St.
and recommended that marked
off parking spaces be extended
in one block. Mayor Rober'
Riddagh has been appointed tc
Governor Carvels Goals Com
mittee, which will meet on june
7. Mr.. Vessel, representing the
Smyrna-Clayton Retail Merch
ants Association, asked coun
cils opinion on forming loca
association to work with tht
Delaware Industrial Develop
ment Building Cor pora ito n
which would have power ant
authority to act as go-betweer
between new Industry ant
money lenders working in con
junction with the corporation
Council favored such action
Mr.. Gilmore reported on pro
gress on curbing and resurfac
ing on Tyler Lane, and also re
ferred to weed notices, being
sent.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
State Medical
Society Offers
LIST Scholarships

The state medical society is
looking for qualified college
students who want to be phys
icians. The Society has schol-
arship funds available to assist
residents of Delaware with
their medical school expenses.
Available for the first time
this year, the scholarships are
designed to make possible and
encourage more local students
to enter medicine, with the
hope that they will return to
the state to practice. The funds
are raised by dues increase
voted last Fall by the Medical
Society of Delaware. The grants
will be for a maximum $1,000
per student over four-year
period. The doctors hope to
assist one or two new students
each year. DR.. Leonard P. Lang,
chairman of the administering
committee, said 1--WE realize
that these scholarships will not
pay the major cost of medical
education. We hope, however,
to lessen the gap between the
large amounts of money avail
able for postgraduate education
in other sciences, particularly
physics and chemistry, and the
relatively small amounts in
medicine, which is, after all,
the most expensive of gradu-
ate educations. There will be
no strings attached to the
scholarships. While the Soci-
ETY. hopes that recipients will
practice here, and will point
out that if the money is re-
turned it can be used again,
the money will be given, not
loaned, and the only require.
ment for continued support will
be maintenance of a reasonably
good academic status. No help
will be given to students who
are still in college, on the
grounds that other scholarship
help is more readily available
in undergraduate schools, anc
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Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

the opener at | p. M, with
Clements meeting V. F. w. in
the nightcap. Games are sched-
uled every night at $50 p. M,
Monday through Thursday with
rain dates on Friday evenings
and Saturday afternoons. This
is the fourth season for Babe
Ruth play in Smyrna-Clayton
with interest gaining each year.
Expansion is being planned for
next year to either five or six
teams. Scheduled for next week:
June S, Farmers Bank Clements;
June 6, Rothwell's-V.F.W.; June
y, Clements-Roth June s,
". F. W.-Farmers Bank.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Officers Elected
For kindergarten:
Plan 2 Sessions

The Smyrna kindergarten As
sociation for l96l-l962 met on
Tuesday, May %, at the Youth
Center. The newly elected Of
ficers for the group are Alice
Jane Bryson, president; Ellen
Ressler, vice-president; Cons
tance Sammons, secretary, and
Ruth Collins, treasurer. The
heavy enrolment of twenty
one children has necessitated a
morning session (8:30-ll:30 a.
n.y. and an afternoon session
(l2:00-3:00 p. n.y. 1t has been
decided, therefore, that a total
registration of thirty can be ac-
cepted for the coming fall term.
Anyone interested in enrolling
a child may do so at the pres
ent time by contracting Cons
tance Sammons (OL 3-9970). No
special registration day will be
held prior to the opening date
of October 2, unless the quota
of thirty has not been reached
at that time. The association
is pleased to have retained Mrs,
Kurt Zippe as kindergarten
teacher and all are looking for
ward to a fruitful and reward
ing year for those in attend
ance. The Class of '6l of Smy-
rna kindergarten closed their
season on a fun-filled as well
as informative note. During the
week of May 22nd, they visit
ed the farm of George Scuse,
Jr., where they saw the many
wonders of animal life as well
as a farm at work. The high
light of this visit for the five
year olds was undoubtedly the
pony rides which all were per-
mitted to take. The following
day they were treated to ma
ture walk through the wood
lands of the Kurt Zippe farm
where they had light mid
morning picnic. The final day
was a gala party held in honor
of all those who have summer
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Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Finance Group
Plan Final Meet

The final finance meeting of
Ewelrs-St. Paul M t h o d S
Church will be held Monday,
June 5, at 7 p. M, in the church
parlor. This will be the last
meeting of the committee until
September. Members are: Har-
ry w. Moor, chairman; Julian
H. Dunning, secretary; Dudley
Crossley, James w. Jones, Jean
B. Jones, William Carrow, Char
les Brown, Arthur Thomas, ].
Harvey Dunning, and the Rev
Frank c. Baynard.
Evening star., 1961-03-18

LILLY, AMELIA. The officers and
q members Of Mizpah Chap
WI ter, No. s. o. E. s.. are
NA requested to assemble at
- 3SA the Takoma Funeral Home.
NJ 25i Carroll st NV. IA
koma Park, at IN. Sun
day. March 10. 1861,
where funeral services will be con-
Quoted for our late sister Past
Matron AMELIA LILLY
CALLIE F. LEAVITT.
- Worthy Matron.
CAROLINE L. WILTBERGER, Secy.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Auto Injuries
BeIVoir Soldier

A 20-year-old Fort Belvoir
soldier was critically hurt this
morning when struck by a car
on Shirley highway. Police
charged the driver with leav-
ing the scene of an accident.
Park Police Pvt. George R.
Mcintosh said the driver, Gray
L. Potter, 81, of the 5000 block
of South Twelfth street, Arl-
ington, a student at George
Washington University, turned
himself in to Arlington police
about an hour after the ac-
cident.
Injured was Pvt. Richard L
Travers, stationed at the Army
Engineers School, who was
struck as he ran across the
highway at the Route One in
tersection about 2 am. He
was taken to Walter Reed Army
Hospital with a fractured pei
Wis, broken right leg, possibly
a ruptured spleen and other
internal and head injuries.
Police said the driver told
them he did not think he had
struck anyone but noticed
damage to the front of his cal
when he reached home.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Lester Burnett,
Small Business
Economist Was So

Lester Burnett, SO, a Fed
eral employe for 25 years, died
Thursday at Providence Hos
pltal following a heart attack
Before his retirement last
July, Mr.. Burnett was a bus
mess economist with the Of
flee of Economic Advisors of
the Small Business Admins
tration.
He had also served with the
Small Defense Plants Admins
tratlon, the aNtional Produc-
ton Authority, the Office OF
Price Administration and the
Department Of Commerce.
Born in Glendale, MINI.
Mr.. Burnett received his B.A
from the University Of Mime
sofa and did graduate work al
Georgetown University.
An area resident since 1929
he lived at 4447 Brooks drive
Suitland, Md.
Mr.. Burnett leaves his moth
er, Mrs. c. R. Torgerson anc
a sister, Miss Josephine Tor.
gerSon, both of the home ad-
dress.
Funeral services were to bt
at 2 pm. today at Simmons
Funeral Home. 1861 Good Hope
road. Sc, with burial at Hill.
side Cemetery in Minneapolis
MINI.
Evening star., 1961-03-18

vice president of the old
Morris Plan Bank at Four
teenth and G streets NV, and
the Washington Institute of
Technology.
In 1912 he entered the Army
and served as a lieutenant
colonel in ordnance.
Retiring from the Army
after the war, he moved to
Chicago and opened a gift
shop In the basement of the
shop he set up a stage, which
he made available to amateur
theater groups and on which
he practiced his hobby of magic
in shows he produced.
He was a native of Coshoc-
ton, Ohio.
He leaves his wife, Albertine
Services and burial were yes
terday in Arlington Cemetery
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Mrs. Jenkins, 81,
Formerly in GAO

Mrs. Francis jenkins, e., who
lived in the District for about
20 years, died Thursday in
Richmond.
The former Irene Granger,
she was born in Columbus
Grove, Ohio. When she lived
here, she worked at the Gen
eral Accounting Office. Ten
years ago she and her husband,
who died last year. moved to
LovettSVille, w. Va, and later
to Ransom, w. Va, where she
resided until her death.
She was a member of the
Eastern Star.
She leaves a daughter. Mrs.
Charles A. Atwell of Richmond;
a son, Francis of Martinsburg
w. Va; a sister, Mrs. FloSSie
Haiber of l406 Ridge place Sc;
three brothers; Otis, of Mani
toWoc, Wise, Glen, of Toledo,
Ohio, and Russell, of Redlands,
Calf.
Services will be at 2 pm.
Monday in Ransom, with burial
in Edgehill Cemetery, Charles
town, w. Va.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Fairfax School
Building Program
Speedup Asked

The Fairfax County school
system should speed up its
building schedule in order to
provide work for the conStruc-
ton industry in the Washing
ton area, a school board men,
Der said today.
Waldron E. Leonard said the
school board should expedite
school construction and land
improvement in line with pro-
posalS by President Kennedy
to increase employment.
Bonds already are sold, and
the schools are planned, Mr..
Leonard said.
ITS part of the Presidents
and good common
sense to start construction
now" he said.
Plans are completed for sew
eral schools, but construction
is not scheduled until June.
IF we wait until then, we'll
have only a few months of
building and it'll be winter
again." Mr.. Leonard said.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
julie Smith, IS,
Of DunviIIe

DANVILLE, Va, March 18
CSpeciaD julie w. Smith, IS,
prominent retired local mer-
chant, died yesterday from in
jurieS suffered in an auto acci-
dent at the Danville Memorial
Hospital.
A native of Harnett County.
N. c., Mr.. Smith was a member
of the board of directors of the
Security Bank and Trust Co.,
of Danville, was an Elk and
belonged to the Redmen' S
Lodge and the IOOF, in Dan
vile.
Mr.. Smith leaves two daugh-
ters, Mrs. E. A. Adams, of Tay-
lorSville, N. c. and Mrs. Earl
Hodnett, Of Alexandria, Va; a
son, Rodger w. Of Danville; a
sister, Mrs. B. R. Jones of
Graham, N. c., three brothers.
Graver c., of Burlington, N. c.,
Ernest F., 45O7 Ramshorn drive,
Mclean, Va, and John H. of
Graham; three grandaughters
and one great-grandaughter.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at the
Swicegood Funeral Home in
Danville, with burial in Noun
tain View Cemetery.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Number Druwinq
JobIess Benefits
Shows Decline
By the Associated Press

The number of jobless work.
erS drawing unemployment
benefits declined by $1,000 to
3,346,500 during the week ended
March 4.
1t was the second straight
weekly decline after a steady
winter-long climb. However,
the Labor Departments Bu-
reau of Employment Security
said the improvement was sea-
sonal and noted that the total
is at a record high for this
time of the year.
The bureau said it lacks data
to determine whether the de-
cline is more or less than
seaSonally eXpectable.
Improved employment op-
portunitieS in construction and
other outdoor activities were
described as an important fac
tor in the decline.
Forty States reported de-
clines in the number of per-
sons drawing unemployment
benefits.
The largest reductions were
reported by New York at IT,
500; California, 11,0Oo; Illi-
nois. 5000; New Jersey, $500,
and Pennsylvania, 6,10O.
Michigan reported an in
crease of 14,700 due to new
auto industry layoffs.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Ruoul Trottier,
Banking Official

Raoul A. Trottier, 70, con-
troller of the investment bank
ing firm of Hallgarten & Co..
New York City, died last month
in New York.
Mr.. Trottier, a French Ca
madam, began working on Wall
Street as an office boy.
He leaves his wife, Lucy, OF
Richmond Hill, Long Island, a
son, Raoul, jr., and a daughter
Mrs. Edmund Kelly, both OF
MorriStown, N. j., and six
grandchildren.
He also leaves four sisters
and a brother. They are Miss
Theophile Trottier of Fire Is
land, N. Y; Albert o., of Fall
River Mass, Miss Florence c.
Trottier of 1875 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV. and Mrs
Julia S. NORM of Fall River.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Youth Is Named
Sportsmunship
Award Winner

Carl EppS, l8, received a
SportSmanShip award from the
District Recreation Department
Thursday night in ceremonies
honoring outstanding boys and
teams in a recent basketball
tournament.
Six teams from central
Northwest Washington COM
peted
Carl. whose team is the Dou-
BILE H Club A Team, was named
AS the fairest player in the
tournament.
The Garnet-Patterson play
ground team won first team
prize; the Harrison playground,
second, and the Hawks, third.
The teams received trophies,
and all the players on the
teams received medals.
Freddie Gheddie of the Dou-
BILE H Club B Team. received
the best attitude" award.
Kerry Grant of the B Team
and Robert Stribling of the st.
Stephens team, were honored
for good conduct. Harvey
Cooper of the A team was cited
as most improved player.
-Four of the teams were de-
veloped by the Recreation De-
partment'S rowing leaders, who
go out into the city to find
boys and interest them in the
departments program. Two
were developed by playground
directors.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Miss Hurrop, 80,
Long Of Arlington

Miss Marion Thomas Har-
rop, 80, a longtime resident of
Arlington, died Wednesday in
Philadelphia after a long ill
ness.
Born in Philadelphia, Miss
Harrop came to this area short
ly after the turn of the CEN
tury with her mother and
sister. For a brief time the
family lived in one of the old
est houses in Arlington, now
the recreation center at Daw-
son Terrace Playground.
From 1912 to l947 she made
her home at 1924 Twenty
fourth street North, Arlington.
Miss Harrop was employed for
25 years in the treaSurer's Of
flee of the Daughters of the
American Revolution here.
During most of her lifetime
she was a member of the choir
of the old Grace Episcopal
Church in Arlington.
Funral services were to be
held in Philadelphia today.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Ellen Mae Sussmon
Dies With Tin Crash

A Silver Spring girl, a soph-
omore at the University Of
Tennessee, was killed with two
companions yesterday when
their automobile skidded into
the path of a truck at an inter
section near WatertOWn, Tenn.
Miss Ellen Mae Sussman, 19,
of 9101 Crosby road, Silver
Spring, was en- route from the
University at Knoxville to
Springfield, Tenn. with her
two companions, when the &C
cident occurred.
The Tennessee highway pa
troll said the car Skidded into
an oncoming truck when they
tried to avoid a pickup truck
that drove onto the highway.
The truck driver and a pas
senger suffered minor injuries.
Miss SuSSman, a graduate of
Montgomery Blair High School,
was a member of the ABG
club and the Phi Delta sorority
and took part in university
dramaticS.
A candidate for the title of
queen of several fraternities
at the university, she also was
running for the title of Miss
Venus of the university.
In addition to her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer Sussman,
she is survived by two BROTH
ers, DR.. Derby ]. and Dr.. Ar
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Four Held, 5th Sought
In Wave of Breok-Ins

Four Montgomery County
youths, aged II to 10, have been
arrested in connection with a
series of housebreakingS and
SafecrackingS in the District
and nearby Maryland in the
last six weeks, police disclosed
today.
A fifth suspect, a 2O-year-old
described as the ringleader is
still being sought, according to
District Safe Squad 1t. Will
liam Friel.
In the Rockville Jail awaiting
grand jury action Monday are
William j. McCabe, 18. Of the
1000 block of Heathfield road,
Rockville, and Paul Kreilick, 18,
of the 10000 block of Flack
street, Silver Spring, Montgom-
cry County police said.
They said McCabe is charged
with housebreaking in a $16O
theft at the Wilks Precision
Instrument Co. in Bethesda on
February 2. Kreilick is charged
with housebreaking in a $40
theft at the Fred L. Price