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Smyrna times., 1962-11-15

decorating committee are Jack
Garis, chairman, william Ken
worthey. Jr.. Lex FAIRIES, Gi
FAIRIES, Wells Campbell and
George Wright. The Smyrna
Girl Scouts have been sent in
vitations to the dance, and the
committee of girls helping with
arrangements are Janet Pyle,
Jacquie Potter. Jean Snow, and
Jane ONeill. The list of Pat
rons and Patronesses include
Mr.. and Mrs. Wells FAIRIES,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph FAIRIES,
MIR. and Mrs. George Wright,
and MIR. and Mrs. Glenn S.
King. About 20 persons are ex-
pected to attend.
Women war workers, whose
homes are many miles away,
will be treated TO turkey din
ner and all the fixin's on
Thanksgiving Day. These wo-
men will be the guests of the
Jerman Chapel Wesleyan Me-
thodist Church, at their Fourth
Annual Fellowship Thanksgiv-
ing Dinner, held each year at
the Twentieth Century Club
House. This dinner is an act of
good will by the church and all
the friends of the church who
are making donations toward the
preparation of the meal. The
committee in charge is making
every effort to give the war
workers the privilege of a
home-cooked Thanksgiving din
ner and family atmosphere. I"
Rev. Uhlendorff stated. The food
will be cooked by women of the
church, and some members of
the Twentieth Century Club have
offered to help with the SER
wing. Among the organizations
who will donate food or funds
for the affair are the Smyrna
Rotary Club, the Daughters of
America, the Rebekah Lodge,
the Morning Star Lodge, No.
6, I.O.O.F., the David C. Har-
rison Post, No. IA, American
Legion, and the Legion Auxil-
larry. The use of the Club House
is being donated by the Twen-
tieth Century Club.
Miss Mary A. Harmett,
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. Pat
Harmett, Smyrna, let Saturday
for Fort Des Moines, Iowa,
where she will train with the
Women's Auxiliary Army
Corps. Miss Harmett is the
first Smyrna girl to volunteer
with the WAAC's.
Miss Grace ]. Desmond, dir
ectress of nurses at the State
Welfare Home for the past nine
years, will leave tomorrow to
enter the Army service at Fort
Dix, NJ. She has been COM
misSioned a I'd Lieutenant.
Monday evening Mrs. Hilda
Harry Davis was hostess at a
dinner party for ten In honor of
Miss Desmond.
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= so Years Ago (
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The home OF MIR. and Mrs.
Howard Jones of near town was
the scene of pretty wedding
on Thursday, at l0o'clock. when
their daughter Anita, became
the wife of Mr.. Harold ]. Car
row, formerly of Cheswold but
now of Philadelphia. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev.
w. E. Matthews. pastor of Smyr-
ma Circuit ME-. Church. under
an arch of cedar and autumn
leaves. The bride was atdred
In white voil with rata trim
mings. She carried white car
nations. Miss Ethel v. Lee of
Townsend, was maid of honor
and was attired In white chally
with lace and satin trimmings
and carried pink carnations.
MIR. Lloyd Jones, brother of the
bride, was bestman. Miss Myr-
tie Ford of Smyrna rendered
mendelsshon's wedding march.
After congratulations theywere
invited to the dining room where
refreshments we're served to
the $50 or more guests. The
couple received many handsome
and useful presents. About 3:l5
O'Clock, MIR. Reynolds Stephen
son of Smyrna, with his large
automobile bedecked with white
streamers and old shoes stop
ped In front of the door and the
entire assemblage congregated
In the front lawn, gave the new
ly married couple royal send
off, using a bountiful supply OF
rice. The auto started and they
we're off for Clayton, where
they took the train for Phila-
delphia, where they will make
their future home.
Smyrna times., 1962-11-15

Lieut.. Cummins E. Speak
man, Jr., US. Army, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Cummins E. Speak
man, of Belmont Hail." is
spending a Today furlough with
his parents before reporting at
Camp Edwards, Mass, where
he will be stationed.
CLAYTON SCHOOL NOTES:
The seventh grade was In
charge of the assembly Friday
November 6. The program was
divided into TWO parts--the val
ue of hobbies, and the use of
slang In our modern trend of
speech. In connection with hob
bies the following pupils gave
various readings; ''What Is a
Hobby" Ned Horn. 'Tony's
Hobby" Laura Darrell. ''In-
dian Spearheads and Relics"
Catherine Houman. 'Wild An
imals Come to Dine," Hazel
Johnson. "Coin Collecting,
Peggy Neggendank. my Stran-
ge Hobby" Ray Mabrey, Mary
Sue Ross gave an interesting
talk enumerating the various
hobbies of her classmates. The
interlude between the TWO sec
uons of the program was succ-
essfully filled with tap dance
by Dorothy Hale. The second
half of the program was a skit
entitled, Animated Slang" In
which Laura Darrell read a let
ter, composed entirely of slang,
supposedly written by school
girl to her mother. The literal
Interpretation of these slang ex-
pressions was enacted by Cath
crime Houtman, Buddy Pryor,
Raymond Mabrey, Patsy Lam
grell, Hazel Johnson, Donald
Unruh. Peggy Neggendank, and
Edward Bailey.
Smyrna times., 1962-11-15
20 Years
Ago

A service flag, with 90 stars
for Smyrna men In the armed
forces, was dedicated Sunday
at Market Street Plaza. The
program was sponsored by
Town Council and David C. Har-
'rison Post, American Legion,
and the Ladies Auxiliary. As
sisting we're the Boy and Girl
Scouts and Atlas Post. Ameri-
can Legion. The flag was for
mally presented by Mayor R.
F. Corley to Capt. ]. D. Quill
len of the State Guard and was
accepted by Postmaster Davis
H. Bell who replaced George
R. Miller, Jr., school superin-
tendent, who underwent an OPP
Grafton Friday In Kent General
Hospital. Others taking part In
ceremony we're the Rev. James
W. Colona, pastor of Asbury
Methodist Church; the Rev.
Frederick Marx Barton, rector
of St. Peters Church; the Rev.
j. W. Parkins, pastor of the
Church of the Nazarene, and
Charles Burrous, Harrison
Post commander.
The Smyrna Boy Scout troop
will hold an informal dance
tomorrow night at the Twen-
tieth Century Club House, with
Bob Cummins and his orches-
ira furnishing the music. Wells
Campbell is in charge of the
program. assisted by Mrs. Ell
lery Ward. and serving on the
Smyrna times., 1962-11-15

Dance
Sat-, Nov. oath
9 to |
Leipsic
Fire House
music by
The Merry-Men
Benefit of
Ladies'
Auxiliary
Leipsic
Fire Company
For Reservations
Call 734-37O6
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Science Urged to Allow
Girls Brains to Show

and sponsored by the Omicron
Chapter of Sigma Delta Epsilon
fraternity, the graduate wom-
ems scientific organization.
A panel of five scientific
professional women, most OF
them mothers, urged the coun-
selors to guide more secondary
school girls into training in
mathematics, biology and phys
les because of the opportunity
for women to meet a severe
shortage of personnel in sci
entific jobs ranging from typ
ing reports to making exact
measurements in laboratory re-
search.
There isn't such a thing as
a mans field" Mrs. Thurman
said, and there should be mo
closed doors" against women
in science.
She told the group that
she could see no reason,
as one who has fought the
needless battle of the sexes
why there should be designa-
tions Of men nurses" and
women doctors"
IF we let the manpower
shortage continue as a battle
between the sexes, the battle
will never be won," she said
and besides, there's too much
determination between the
combatantS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
BY DAVID BREASTED
= Star Staff Writer

Its not unladylike for a
woman'S brain to be showing"
and in science men and women
+ folk alike had better wake up.
This was the strong admoni-
ton from DR.. Ernestine Thur
man, housewife and entomolo-
gist of the National Institutes
of Health, to a group of so
District junior and senior high
school counselors yesterday.
High school girls, she pointed
out, have a fear of letting
their brains show. When it
comes to working hard at sci
entific subjects, in a field cry
ing for competent talent, girls
are held back by fear of be-
coming "a wallflower" because
of their intelligence and intel
lectual competence when prop
erly trained.
Mrs. Thurman told a meeting
on the subject of women in
mathematics, the physical and
biological sciences, that there'll
have to be a continuing change
in cultural attitudes toward
women in the scientific profess
sion, or science will continue
to pass over a good thing.
The meeting was pesided
over by District School Board
| Member DR.. Euphemia Haynes
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But he emphasized the bill
was unsatisfactory" because
of the attitude of members OF
the House District Committee
He said the committee has
"stymied progressive legisla-
ton for the District"
He criticized Representative
Mcmillan, chairman of the
House District Committee, for
refusing to compromise over an
increase in the cigarette tax
and then said he was satisfied
there was a direct relationship
between smoking and cancer.
Oregon Votes Recalled
Turning to the sales tax, in
creased in the bill from 2 to 3
per cent, the Senator pointed
out the people of Oregon have
voted down such a measure five
times by way of initiative, ref
erendum and recall.
How can l." he asked, vote
for such an inequitable tax on
the voteleSs people of the Dis
trict?"
By then, late in the after
noon, five Senators had drifted
back on the floor and when
the vote came they groaned ap-
prevail of the measure. Senator
Morse followed with a long
mo" in the nearly vacant
chamber.
Still, the bill was passed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

The National Capital Plan
ming Commission has unani-
mously decided to call a halt
to further renewal planning
for Georgetown.
The decision was disclosed
in a letter today to Walter
N. Tobriner, president of the
Board of District Commission
erS.
The action will put a stop tc
current staff work on a sketch
plan" which might later have
served as a basis for employing
Federal urban renewal power:
in a 97-acre area including the
industrial waterfront.
A month ago, the District
Commissioners informed the
planning group they believed
other areas of the city SHOULD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
Senate Passes D. c. Tax Bill
With Morse Alone Votina NO

to say on the subject later, Sen
ator Bible, Democrat of Nevada
chairman of the District Com
mittee, seized the floor and
opened the debate on the locaI
measure.
Senator Bible, pointing out
tax bills are never popular
measures, said he felt the pro-
posal was a product which
could be accepted by both
houses.
Senator Beall, Republican OF
Maryland. noted that I'VE didn't
get all we wanted Tin confer
ence). But we did get an in
crease of SIS Million"
Senator Smith, Democrat OF
Massachusetts,, another mem
Der of the District Committee
said the bill would greatly
benefit the District without i'm
posing unfair burdens on its
citizens"
Morse Again Talking
Then, Senator Morse took
over again. Previously he hao
served notice he would have
something to say on the con-
ference report. He was COM
mitted and prepared.
He said it was with sadness
that he stood in opposition to
the efforts of Senator Bible
and his colleagues in bringing
out a tax bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
Shea old to Explain
Six Cases of CHEATING

Senator Byrd, Democrat of
West Virginia, has asked We'll
fare Director Gerard Shea to
explain why three social
workers were unable to detect
cheating in six cases carried on
relief rolls for a total of 210
months.
The request was made in a
confidential letter from the
Senator to Mr.. Shea.
Senator Byrd, chairman of
the Appropriations Subcommit-
tee for the District, made the
full text public today after
parts of it were leaked" to the
press yesterday. The letter was
sent Wednesday only to Mr..
Shea, Commissioners Walter N
Tobriner and John B. Duncan
and Senate Appropriations
Committee Clerk Harold Mer-
rick.
Although he declined to com
ment on the letter, the West
IVirginian obviously was con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09

MORE IMPORTANT to the
box office was the personal
appearance of movie stars,
the featured actors of pic
lures about to be shown at
the Capitol. Some were paid
as high as $4,000 a week for
merely walking on the stage.
There was little more they
could do.
But the most memorable
attractions were the name
bands.
Does anyone remember
Vincent lopez? Or Ted
Lewis? He had a marvellous
orchestra but for show bust
ness reasons he took up
much of its time by clown
ing in front of it with his
high hat and asking silly
questions such as "Is every
body happy"
Or Glenn Miller directing
"In the Mood?
Or Ben Bernie, the "Old
Maestro" whose precision
brasses have yet to be beat?
Do you remember Tommy
Dorsey and his brother jim
my? And Benny Goodman
with his Pennsylvania
$500" and Tuxedo juno
tion?"
And the movies of those
days? And the queues? And
the doorman?
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WINS $4,000
Crash Ends
Music Act
With Toes

DANVILLE, Va. Feb. 9 (AP).
"A Federal jury last night
awarded 100000 damages to the
man who complained an acct
dent cost him a talent to play
the piano and the mandolin
with his toes.
R. Daymon Williams, AZ, had
asked for $250,000 for injuries
received in an auto accident.
He was suing 17-year-old John
P. Hunt w of Chatham.
Mr.. Williams told the jury
the accident cost him one of
the most unusual musical acts
in the CONTEMPLATING the
piano, guitar and mandolin
with his toes. He played for
coon hunters banquetS in
West Virginia" he said.
The jury said it made the
award not so much for Mr..
Williams lost musical talents
as for his losses and potential
earnings as part owner and
salesman for an automobile
leadership"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09

showed him in the past to have
been a substantial citizen.
Then, for what reason we
cannot discern you enticed
people with small incomes to
invest their life savings in the
association, land you circulated
this paper" Judge Northrop
said.
The judge said it was "obvi-
ously a scheme to defraud."
The leaflet which Mr.. Weirer
used in its case against Kane
promised a 5 per cent dividend
for an ordinary savings &C
count, total of 5?4 per cent
dividend for persons keeping
an initial deposit of $500 in the
firm for three years, and made
other promises.
Could Have Got Five Years
The Judge said that Kane
was subject to a maximum fine
of 81 900 and a five-year prison
sentence.
Kane appeared stunned by
the sentence, rocking almost
imperceptibly as he continued
standing. His wife, seated or
a bench behind him, appeared
impressive.
Kane's attorney, Harper M
Smith of Rockville, urged the
judge to treat Kane the man
and not Kane, the image of the
savings and loan industry"
He said the builder made
only one mistake and that was
getting out of his element.
He emphasized that Kane took
no funds of the association.
Three Offices
Armed Forces Association of
fices we're at the Suitlanc
Shopping Center. the Glenmon
Shopping Center and a
Wheaton, according to its leaf
let.
On January 3 a reporte
calling the Suitland Shopping
Center office was told that tn
firm was the Suburban Mary
land Savings g. Loan ASsocia
ton, renting an office to Kan,
on the premises.
The speaker identified tn
president of Suburban as Har'
old Applegarth. Suburban also
has been put in receivership OF
the request of the Maryland
attorney general.
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Planning Unit Calls Off
GEORGETOWN Renewal

have priority in renewal efforts.
In the letter today to Com
missioner Tobriner. Mrs. James
H, Rowe, jr., NCPC chairman,
said she and the other men,
bers of the planning agency
were in complete agreement
with the Commissioners view
point.
THE Commission has come
to the conclusion that the
Georgetown project should be
deferred until further progress
has been made on other prof.
ects now under way" the letter
stated.
1--WE feel that it would be
wise to postpone the work of
the Commissions staff on the
Georgetown waterfront III order
to devote the full staff re-
sources to other areas of the
city"
In announcing the complete
deferral of planning, Mrs. Rowe
said the commission intended
to make available Ito interested
Georgetown groups" all infor-
nation collected so far.
Until the District Commits
sioners sounded a cautionary
note, staff planners who fav-
ored urban renewal for the 81
acre area had received support
from some of the planning
agency's board members.
An earlier effort by a num-
Der of Commission members to
soft-pedal further advocacy of
the proposal was met with a
compromise on January II that
approved a second stage of
staff work designed to yield a
sketch plan" and recommen-
dations to carry it out.
The Georgetown urban re-
newal proposal was initiated by
the staff, with the agency'S APP
proval. After study, the staff
came up with report suggest
ing the 97-acre project area
bounded by Rock Creek Park,
Key Bridge, the Potomac River,
and a line 100 feet north of M
street.
The Commission, itself, never
approved this proposal. But last
month it agreed to permit the
staff to proceed with a further
refinement in the Sketch-plan
form.
After the District Commits
sioners interpoSed an objection,
William E. Finley, executive di-
rector of the planning group,
said the staff would continue
the work of developing the
sketch plan, in line with the
planning agency's directive
January II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
Driver Shot
By Police
After Chase

Trapped between a road
block and two pursuing police
cars, a Forestville (Md.) man
was shot in the hip during a
scuffle with a policeman early
today when he tried to fight his
way out of the net in Prince
Georges County.
Not seriously injured, but
facing eight charges, David C.
Scrivner, 81, of the 1900 block
Of Westphalia road, was ad-
mitted to Prince Georges Hos
pital.
Scrivner told police he simply
was too scared to stop when he
touched off the chase about
1880 pm. Detectives Henry A.
McElvane and James E. Shirley
began following the car only
because it had left a carry-out
shop at 5305 East Capitol street
with a squealing of wheels.
Neighbors had been complain
ing of hot-rod drivers.
AS the car moved toward the
Maryland line, the tempo sped
up and another police car
brought Pvts. Robert E. Ellis
and Jon c. Marden into the
chase. / Htisii
BY the time the car roared
across Southern avenue into
Prince Georges, police there
had been alerted and. with
Park Police, set up a road block
in the 400 block of Suitland
road. Here the chase ended
as the fleeing driver doubled
back toward the District.
Capt. George E. CauSey of
the fourteenth precinct said
Scrivner almost ran over Of
ficers Shirley and Ellis in an
attempt to back out. Scrivner
then grappled with Pvt. Ellis.
whose gun was drawn. In the
scuffle the gun fired three
times, one shot hitting Scrivner
in the right leg.
A passenger in Scrivner's car,
James G. Fletcher, 10, of For
estville, was released after
questioning.
Scrivner was charged in
Prince Georges with two counts
Of assault with a dangerous
weapon (the carr and six traf-
fic offenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09

THE CAPITOL WAS one
of the peoples great theaters
of the day, designed by the
same man who created
Roxy's in New York.
Moorish HiSpanic archi-
lecture, thick rugs and orig
inal oil paintings hung on
the walls of the foyer and
retiring rooms. The last
word in opulence, all for so
centS-25 cents before 6.
1t was a period that future
archaeologists will have no
difficulty identifying - the
romantic period of the boom
of the '20s. There are apart
ment houses on Connecticut
avenue near the Taft Bridge
of the same Spanish motive.
All were started in the late
'20s, although some of them
like the Capitol were not
finished until after the bust
Obituary notices of the
Capitol, which very well may
be premature, all mention it
as one of the last stand OF
vaudeville.
1t was never a vaudeville
house. Vaudeville was dead
when the Capitol opened
Polls had been torn down
for the Department of Com
merce and Keith's hac
changed to a movie house.
The Capitol did have
vaudeville song and dance
acts sandwiched into theil
shows. But its productions
were more pretentious. Gene
Ford, who ran the theater
would put on Commute mu-
steal comedies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
Cites Disappearance
Pathological Course

Courses in Pathological moni-
toring and standard first aid
will be offered through mid
March by the Montgomery
County Civil Defense Division.
Both classes begin at 8 pm.
February 10 at Belt Junior
High School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09
Labor Post Filled

William E. Dunn, executive
director of the Associated Gen
eral Contractors of America
was appointed by President
Kennedy today as a manage
ment member of the Presidents
Missile Sites Labor Commission
Mr.. Dunn lives at 1923 Fort
Sumner drive, Sumner, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-09

Icerned that press report dis
torted the sense of the COM
munication.
Comparison Noted
The letter was written after
Mr.. Shea was quoted as citing
social workers for closing more
cases than investigators. A
special team of investigators
was put to work by Congress
in the budget handled by Sen
ator Byrd's subcommittee last
session.
The Senator apparently be-
lieved that Mr.. Shea's public
statement tended to detract
from the congressionally or
dered investigators.
Seventeen cases were cut off
relief rolls recently after in
vestigatorS discovered evidence
of Misrepresentation to win
welfare aid.
Of the II, two cases-one on
assistance for 10 months and
another for five months-were
handled by the same social
worker, Senator Byrd pointed
out.
Other Cases Cited
Another case worker was in
touch with a family on assist
ance for 81 months and an
other for 10 months until in
vestigators uncovered appar-
ent freeloading.
One woman worker in the
department handled a case
carried for "a months and
worked with a family on as
sistance for So months before
the closures.
Two of the social workers had
the same last name, according
to the Senator, and he asked
Mr.. Shea if they were related
II realize that most of your
case workers, if not all, are
undoubtedly doing a conScien-
tious job" the Senator's letter
said.
Nevertheless, the facts which
I have just stated will indicate
that, in a few instances at least
the case worker had ample time
in which to ascertain the fac
tors of ineligibility, but fol
some reason or reasons the true
facts did not come to light until
the special investigators went
to work"
Mr.. Shea noted in his report
that welfare'S share of the Dis
trict budget has increased only
a per cent since 1857.
Asked to comment on Sena-
tor Byrd'S letter, Mr.. Shea said
My purpose was to help the
morale of the staff, and to cor
rect misinformation on the size
of the budget in the mind OF
the public, reflected in letters tt
the editor"