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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-06
BY BRIAN KELLY
Star staff Writer

The Fairfax County School
Board has decided to recon-
mend a referendum in late
spring on a $29.9 million bond
issue to finance a three-year
school construction program.
In o unanimous vote last
night. board members asked
the board of county super
visors to petition the Circuit
Court TO set a referendum date
within a week Of May 20.
The bonds would pay for "A
new schools and additions to
existing facilities in order to
house $1,000 new students ex-
pected in classroons by the
fall Of 1867.
The school board will meet
this afternoon with the super
visors. who had requested a
conference on the bond issue,
Last nights move was made
despite warnings from Mrs.
Sarah Lair and Mrs. Martha
Gertwagen that precipitate ac-
ton could affect the interest
rate on an impending sale OF
$40 million in county bonds.
Other board members said
however. en- immediate deci-
sion is needed in order to put
the bond issue to voters before
summer vacations when many
residents can be expected to
be absent.
All agreed, however, that
early approval of the bono
issue would be needed so con.
struction could be started ir
time for the l964-5 school year
Urges Delay
Endorsement Of the bond plar
came from the League Of
Women Voters, the Federation
Of Citizens Associations, thu
Council Of PTAs, and the
Chamber of Commerce.
The Fairfax Taxpayers ALT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-06

DR.. Clyde Francisco. profess
sor of Old Testament Inter-
probation at Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, will de-
liver the first in a series Of
three talks on major themes
from the Bible at 8 pm. to-
morrow in Takoma Park Bap-
fist Church, Piney Branch road
and Aspen street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-06
Clerk of Court Barred
From 'Horossinq' Aide

w. Waverly Webb, clerk Of
Prince Georges Circuit Court,
has ben prohibited by court
order from "harassing or dis
turbing" Mrs. Roberta Laugh
ton, who has been his chief
deputy for is years.
The injunction signed yester-
day by Circuit Court Judge
Ralph w. Powers also enjoined
Mr.. Webb from trespassing on
Mrs. Laughton's property. The
injunction suit. filed February
10, is one Of three actions filed
by Mrs. Laughton, A. naming
Mr.. webb. IS. as defendant.
One court action seeks deci-
sion on Mr.. Webb's constitu-
tional authority TO release Mrs.
Laughton as chief deputy clerk
Of the court and the other
seeks a $1,000 judgment against
Mr.. Webb for his alleged failure
to release salary checks Mrs
Laughton claims are due her
since last December is. Mrs,
Laughton alleges that she is
due S1,38i.95 in back pay.
In her suit for the restrain
ing order, Mrs. Laughton
alleged that Mr.. Webb had
come unlimited upon" her
property despite her demands
that he leave and remain away
Denies Allegations
Mr.. Webb. chief clerk Of the
circuit court since July, 1913
in a statement emphatically
denied the allegations In Mrs
Laughton's complaint. He said
he had seen Mrs. Laughton on
prior occasions with her "spe-
cific invitation"
Yesterdays ruling prohibits
him from trespassing upor
the property Of the plaintiff,
CMrs. Laughton)" and ais
from "harrassing or disturbing
Cher) in her peaceful
pursuits in any other place o.
places away from her prop
erty."
Mrs. Laughton also asked tn
court 10 determine her statu
as chief deputy clerk Of TIL
circuit court. She alleged tina
Mr.. Webb changed the locks OF
her office door on February II
and that because Of this she 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-06

sicians, and more laboratory
room. This, urged the COM
mission. should be financed
during the next two years from
county revenues and Federal
funds.
At the same time, the report
recommended that planning bt
undertaken for enlarging the
hospital to a 610-bed capacity
by 1867. the second stage ir
the program. This and two
other stages by 1880 would re.
quire money from county bono
issues. public subscriptions anC
Federal funds, the report stated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-06

Mr.. Marshall suggested that
an unlimited number Of licenses
be made available for restauA
rants with more than 100 seats,
which could prove that more
than 70 per cent of their busi-
ness was in the sale Of food. 2
Delegates William j. Good
man noted that at present
there are 1854 liquor licenses In
the county and only two inspec-
tors. The highest salary now
being paid an inspector Is SS.-
600 a year. ~ ~
Delegation Chairman Edward
T. Conroy said an earlier pro-
posal by States Attorney Ar
thur A. Marshall asking for q
reduction in the legal beer
drinking age from 81 to 10 ives
we'll intended" but had viz
tually no support. "a
Would Sell Bonds -
In a busy round Of meetings,
the delegation also,
Agreed to sponsor legislation
to allow the County Commits
sioners to sell $650,000 worth
Of bonds ITO contribute to the
building fund for the Greater
Southeast Hospital at Thir-
Iteenth street and Southern av-
enue on the District line. The
305-bed $8.7 million hospital
will serve a large area Of the
county.
Postponed deliberations on
the controversial gas storage
bill because of a lack Of -
quorum. The bill would give the
Washington Gas Light Conn
pany the power to condemn
land for a So million under
ground storage facility near
Brandywine. So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-06
Delegates Agree to End
Club Licenses Ceiling
nya star stati wrIter

ANNAPOLIS, Mar 6.-The Prince Georges County leeis-
delegation has agreed to the ceiling on the
number beverage licenses available for county CLUBS
hotels and fraternal organizations in the county
But after two-hour session yesterday the legislators
failed to resolve the key ssuewheher to raise the ceiling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-06
Fairfax Schools
Seek $50 Million
Bond Referendum

ance, which had opposed the
county's last school bond issue
Of $26 million in 1860. said it
had taken no position on the
new proposal, but advocated
postponing a referendum until
the November general elections,
so that more voters would par
ticipate.
School Board Chairman Eu-
gene Newman said the $26 mil
lion bond fund from 1860 will
have been exhausted two years
earlier than the five years they
were scheduled to cover. He
cited an unexpected increase in
the school population which
now increases at a rate Of
about 1000 annually.
Supt. Earl C. Funderburk had
said in February that attend
ance will rise to some 79,sOO
next fall.
The bond issue recommended
last night would provide $29.S
million for construction Of Is
elementary, three intermediate
and three high schools.
Board members partially in
corporated a suggestion from
the PTA Council to add 5000. 900
to 100000 already proposed
for site planning beyond the
three-year construction pro-
gram.
BelvOir Issue
In other matters, Mrs. Cert
wagon asked the school adj
ministration to find out from
the Department Of Health,
Education and Welfare If some
500 Fort Belvoir secondary
school students will return to
Fairfax schools next fall. The
question has been left in doubt
since January, when the board
turned down a request to in
tegrate IL Negro students from
the Army post at Walt Whit
man Intermediate School.
The board adopted an at
tendance plan that will place
963 students in three grades al
the new Fort Hunt High Schoo
lin Mount Vernon District mex
September.
The opening Of the schoo
will reduce the number Of stu
dents attending Groveton High
from 1924 to 1900 and Noun
Vernon High from 2,l43 K
1910. The next year. wheI
the school is entirely completed
inclusion Of q new freshman
class will give Fort Hunt som
/ 200 students, Associate Supt
George Pope told the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-25
THE EVENING STAR

Washington. D. c, Thursdcy, July Is, 1858
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09

Mrs. Larry Rusty) Lancashire, who homesteaded with her husband on the Kenai.
 "It has been a hard life but rewarding life," she said. ". You get to see something you did with your hands"
 There was a scene in the Male mute Saloon at Cripple Creek near Fairbanks, as Brinkley said Alas kans tried to recreate the romance and legends of the old days.
 Were here to stay ." said bearded Don Pearson, owner of the saloon. statehood was the best thing that happened to Alaska since Seward purchased it."
 At one point Brinkley said that for every Is cents Alaska pays in federal taxes, Alaska gets back $1. In a sense, it is ward of the federal government and in it's pre- sent state couldn't survive with out it.'
 At the end, Brinkley summed up his impressions:
 Alaska has resources that may be developed when others are ex- hausted, but meantime it is the poorest of the 50 states. life is hard, but the people who like it really like it.
 Seeing it is big and beautiful and Americas last if not the worlds last wild frontier"
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09
State Chamber Terms Ii Inaccurate POrtrayaF'

JUNEAU lR - The Board of Directors of the State Chamber of Commerce Tuesday termed a con- troversial television show based on Alaska as an inaccurate portray aP' of the state
 The board urged Gov. Wm. Egan to seek equal time for a presenta- tion of the film Alaska. Americas Brightest Star," which the board said depicts an accurate image of Alaska potential and development"
 The television program in ques- tion was the "David Brinkley Journal" shown over the NEG nework in the contiguous AS states Tuesday night
 The Chamber Board said the pro- gram was highly detrimental to Alaska, contained distortions and was generally an inaccurate DOT trayal of the State of Alaska be- fore the American public"
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09
Gov. Egan Calls 1t
 "Negative Sensational"

JUNEAU R - Gov. Wm. Egan Tuesday termed half-hour tele- vision show purporting to show present conditions in Alaska "an- other example of a tWo-week ex- pert seeking the negative sensa- tional."
 Egan made the comment in con- nection with the "David Brinkley Journal" which was shown to television viewers in the contiguous 48 states by the NEG Television Network Monday night.
 Egan said Brinkley had not even visited Alaska. but apparently had relied upon film and notes obtain ed in Alaska last summer by David Hardy, a member of Brinkley's program staff.
 I talked to Hardy in my office for about an hour," Egan said. "He seemed to be striving for something sensational"
 The Brinkley show was shot through with inaccuracies and "it would take a full book to correct them" Egan said after reading an Press story about the program.
 A member of Egan's staff, who declined to use his name, said the script for the Brinkley show ap- was written before Hardy came to Alaska.
 "All they wanted to do was to get some pictures and comment to fit the script they already had in hand" he said. ]
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09
Boy Scouts Need Your Support

TTN1E BERlNG SEA COUNCIL of the Boy Scouts of America
 have announced their fund drive today and will continue for week.
 Business houses will be solicited by financial drive mttee headed by James Hart and assisted by Martin who members of the Council and Wallace Mcver who of Troop 6.
 Funds raised go into the Midnight Sun District fund from which is derived the professional training for local Boy Scout leaders we'll professional leaders for Boy Scout during the
 Members of the Berng Sea Council Marc Beauchamp Jim Banning Tom Martin, Road Amundsen, R. F. Wilson and James Hart.
 Boy Scouts have been of the outstanding youth groups of the community for years and which Nome has supported wholehearedy contacted and wish contribute check be given mailed any member of the committee.
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09
Commissioner of BIA, Philleo Nash, Will Make 11-Day Visit to Alaska

JUNEAU R - US. Commis- sioner of Indian Affairs Philleo Nash will make an 11-day visit to Alaska starting Jan. 20, Robert L.. Bennett, Area Director for the Blu reau of Indian Affairs, said yes- terday.
 Nash will arrive in Anchorage Jan. 20 to start his visit to the nations largest state, according to present plans, and will visit Nome and Kotzebue the following day, Jan. 21.
 Bennett said Nash plans to fly to Fairbanks for an overnight stop on Jan. 9 and leave the following day for Barrow. He will return to Fairbanks Jan. 25.
 On Jan. 26, Nash plans to fly to Juneau to attend formal inau- guration ceremonies for Gov. Wm. Egan and Secretary of State Hugh Wade and to meet with state off. cials and members of the BIAS regional staff.
 Bennett described Nash's visit as the first of several the Com plans to make to Alaska ito become thoroughly familiar with the situation of the native people of Alaska and how the bu- reau can help them increase their participation in the social, econ- omic and civic affairs of the state." "4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books Available at The Nome Nugget
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09
David Brinkleys Journal Describes Alaska On TV As
 The Biggest, Coldest and Empties State Is the Union

Showing fishing scenes, the com- mentator said this industry "used to be the thing Alaska lived on but for 25 years the government allowed fish traps the yearly (salmon pack dropped from nine million cases to two million"
 Alaska has magnificent stands of timber" he reported, "but not the money to get it out"
 He showed pictures of the Sitka pulp milling operation and com mented that "now timber operations are financed not by Americans but by Japanese" The Japanese, he said, have invested $55 million and employ 200 persons.
 Interviews Don Hoover
 There was an interview with Donald Hoover of Nome, recorded in an airplane flying over spec tacular mountains and glaciers.
 Hoover said he was in favor of statehood, but added his areas economy is based almost entirely on government projects" and added "employment is very sad, really we have only four months of the year to employ our people,"
 There are a number of people, Brinkley commented, "who serious ly advocate return to territorial status"
 George Rogers, economic adviser for the Alaska government whom Brinkley described as "Alaska's Bernard Baruch," said on the pro- gram that "the Alaska we have today cannot survive without con- tinued federal support
 But, Rogers added, "a different and better Alaska" can survive.
 "It won't be Fifth Avenue on the tundra" he remarked, but more like the native people :. identifying ourselves with the land building a new type of society rather than trying to im- port superficialities from outside" Scenes at Anchorage
 Showing scenes at Anchoraoe Brinkley remarked that a two bedroom Rambler costs S6O,OOO. gasoline 60 cents a gallon and "al- though there are only 900 miles Of paved highway in the state" many families have two automo- biles."
 There was a scene at the An chorage Elks Club with a girl in a snoWball costume competing for the Miss Alaska contest. Brinklev noted there were only six con- testants and said there weren't more because of the heavy cost of flying in from outlying areas.
 Television viewers were taken on a trip over the Alaska railroad with engineer Earl Simpson, and Brlnkley said that the railroad ''is more of a family railroad than anything else people climb on and off as it it was a Tooner- vile trolley"
 Simpson said Alaska "has the most beautiful scenery of anywhere in the World," but said he wouldn't aoVlse anyone to come up in the winter. He recalled that it was U below zero at one point on the line once last winter.
 Interviews Homesteader
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09

NEW YORK R - Alaska was described Monday night on a na- tionally televised program as "the biggest, coldest, emptiest state in the union and quite possibly the happiest."
 Life in Alaska is hard, said con- mentator David Brinkley, "but the people who like it really like it."
 The half-hour David Brinkly Journal on NEG was devoted en- tirely to Alaska, stressing it's econ omic situation.
 Opening the commenatory with the remark about Alaskan con- trasts, Brinkley added:
 Tt has great natural resources but they are too expensive to de- velop. For an Alaskan it is cheap CT to import oil from Saudi Arabia than it is to pump it out of the ground from under his feet"
 Although Alaska has been in the union only four years, Brinkley said, it is the only state to be labeled in it's entirety as a dis tressed area.
 Hcped for Financial Boom
 When it came into the union," Brinkley said of Alaska, ''it hoped for financial boom. It has never come"
 Life in Alaska, he added, "has it's pleasures and rewards as well as it's plans for those who are cut out for it.'
 The state has had two booms, Brinkley said - the first in the 18th Century when it found gold and 60,000 came in and "then in 1941 when the US. military sent in 100000 people"
 'Now that one has died," he said of the military boom, "leav- ing most of Alaska out of work, in debt and in the union"
 Films of Alaskan defense work mining, fishing, numbering and other activities were shown as Brinkley gave a running com mentary.
 Chronologically, the account in- cluded:
 Showing pictures of Kotzebue, Brinkley said the most immediate effect of a declining military boom was in such villages.
 The DEW Line is still operating, Brinkley noted "but construction is over and now every Eskimo in town Rotzebue) is on relief.''
 Kotzebue Mayor Robert Baker appeared on the program, saying ''I've never been in favor of state hood when it went through we had nothing to support it if the Department of Defense pull ed out of Alaska, Alaska would collapse"
 Gold Mine Operation
 Showing films of what he de- scribed as the only gold mine still operating, Brinkley said $73O mill lion worth of gold has been mined in Alaska and more than that much is still left "but at the fixed price of S35 an ounce it is too expensive to get it out.''
 'In Alaska, you can't even make money out of gold mine," he said. A uranium mine (also shown) is running, Brinkley said, "but there is no money in that either. The cost is so high the federal gov- ernment has to subsidize it.''
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09
Letter To The Editor
Jan. 3, 1863

Jan. 3, 1863 It is with much appreciation that l endeavor to express a sincere "thank you," to you, your paper and your town, for the wonderful hospitality shown to the All-Star Basketball Team from Northeast Cape during the New Years week. end.
 Again, our deepest "thanks" for a splendid display of hospitality.
 Charles N. Curry,
 S/Sgt., USAF
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09

Someone has figured out that Americans take 500 million baths a week.
The Nome nugget., 1963-01-09

"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books Available at The Nome Nuaqet
Holmes County herald., 1963-10-24

At Mississippi Power & Light Company service IS our
business! In order to assure our customers in the Lexington
area of continued dependable electric SERVICE We are
constantly planning and building ahead. Our new office
Holmes County herald., 1963-10-24

at 400 Telegraph Street is another step in this vital program
we're mighty proud Of these facilities and WEI like you to
drop by during the day next tuesday and visit with US.
Evening star., 1963-02-25

Of the most aggressive chief
Scout executives that we've
had"
A stickler for punctuality,
Mr., Schuck always adhered to
a rigid time schedule. Nothing
interfered If he could help it.
In 1859, Mr.. Schuck received
the Freedoms Foundations s
highest award - the George
Washington medal, and $4,000.
Praised Work
The foundation honored him
for "his monumental contribu-
ton to our constitutional re-
public his fortnight pa
triotism, skilled administrative
works and leadership by ex-
ample in character building
which have made Scouting a
beloved word.
Born in Brooklyn, Mr..
Schuck grew up there and in
New Jersey. At the age Of 1S,
while working in a factory, he
became a volunteer scout
leader. Four years later he
began his career as a profess
sional Scout executive.
Mr.. Schuck leaves his wife.
Olive, Of Santa Barbara; O
son, Arthur, jr., a Methodist
minister in Delano, Calf, and
a daughter, Mrs. Dwight Cur
tbs, Of Portland, Oreg.
Evening star., 1963-02-25
Van Potter, 50,
Former Resident,
College Teacher

Van A. Potter. SO, a former
Washington resident, died of
cancer Saturday night in
Morehead Hospital near Beau
fort, N. c., where he had lived
since his retirement in 1850.
Born in Beaufort, Mr.. Potter
moved to Washington as a
youth and was graduated from
Eastern High School and
George Washington University.
He went to the Indian Ter
ritory to teach at a college,
then moved to Rockville Center,
Long Island, where he was en-
ployed by the Title Guarantee
and Trust Co. of Long Island
from 1910 until 1850, with the
exception Of the World War I
years.
From 1918 to 1921, Mr.. Potter
again resided in Washington,
doing civilian work for the war
effort.
He leaves his wife Josephine
Graham Potter, Of Beaufort,
a former teacher in District
public schools; a son, Frank
Potter, of Rockville Center, l..
l.; a daughter, Mrs. Larry
Pinckney Of Bowie, Md; seven
grandchildren; three great
grandchildren; and two broth
es, Charles r. Potter, retired
Washington patent lawyer now
Of Ft. Lauderdale. Fla, and
Louis Potter. of 54l5 Connecti-
cut avenue, NV.
Funeral services will be held
at 2:30 pm. at the Anne Street
Methodist Church in Beaufort,
with burial in Beaufort.
Evening star., 1963-02-25
Arthur A. Schuck Dies,
Highest Scouterin U. S.

Arthur A. Schuck, who de-
voted his life to the Boy Scouts
OF America in this area and
nationally, died yesterday at
Santa Barbara, Calf. He was
81.
For IL years, until 1860, Mr..
Schuck was Chief National
Scout Executive, the highest
Scouting official. In 1917 he
had become a professional
Scouting leader, and set as his
life's goal the teaching Of boys
to live in friendship without
regard for race, creed or color.
At Camp Valley Forge in
1857, at the fourth National
Boy Scouts Jamboree. he said
the encampment epitomized
what he considered the princi-
pal purpose of the Boy Scout
movement:
ITO give to America a new
generation of men of character,
with ingrained qualities that
make for good citizenship"
Active Since 1913
Mr.. Schuck had been active
in scouting since 1918, and re-
tired in 1860, moving then from
his home in New Brunswick,
N, j., to California.
A close friend and colleague,
Roland E. Dye, Of Glendale,
Calf, called Mr.. Schuck lone
Evening star., 1963-02-25
Henry BIoIock, ConsuItont
To Electric Co-operutives

Henry w. Blalock, ST., 65 a
specialist in public utilities,
died Saturday at Washington
Sanitarium after a heart at
tack at his home, 92l1 Kings
bury drive, Silver Spring.
Mr.. Blalock was a Washing
ton area resident since l94l.
when he joined the Federal
Power Commission as chief of
the Division of Rates and Re-
search, in charge of negotiating
wartime power contracts for
the Government in II Rocky
Mountain and Pacific Coast
States.
In l946 he shifted to the
Southwestern Power Admins
tration as assistant to the ad-
ministrator. He was in charge
of cost and rate programs for
marketing power in Arkansas,
Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri,
Oklahoma and Texas.
He retired from Government
service in 1854 and had worked
since as a private consultant
to electric cooperative associa-
tions.
A native of Evergreen, La.
Mr.. Blalock was graduated
from Louisiana State Univer-
sity. He did graduate work in
economics and public utilities
at the University of Illinois,
where he received his masters
and doctors degrees.
He Joined the faculty Of the
University of Arkansas in 1881
as an associate professor of
business administration. From
1897 to 194l he served on the
Arkansas Public Service Com
mission.
He was on the advisory
board Of the Silver Spring Lii
brary and the Montgomery
County Library system, a dea-
con of the First Baptist Church
of Silver Spring and an officer
in the Gideons, a group that
distributes Bibles to hotels.
He leaves three sons, Henry,
jr., of 2213 Solmar drive, Silver
Spring; John, of California,
and James T., of Texas, and
two daughters, Mrs. Betty Ann
Barrett. of the home address,
and Mrs. Nancy Day, of Clarks-
vile, Md.
Services will be at IL am.
Wednesday at the First Bap-
tist Church, 8415 Fenton street,
Silver Spring, with burial in
Parklawn Cemetery.