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Smyrna times., 1963-10-31

console. Following the cere-
mony the bridal party was ten
dered a reception at The Way
side Inn by Mrs. Leola John
son, aunt of the bride with whom
she has lived since childhood.
Flower arrangements at The
Wayside Inn we're chrysanthc-
NUNS and cut flowers. Fol-
lowing a short wedding trip Cor
Iporal Jones will return to his
post at the Army Air Base at
Kearns, Utah.
Duck Greek Girls, owned and
handled by Joseph Colds
borough, Smyrna, was first in
the open all-age stakes at the
fall trials of the Del-Bay Field
Trial Club Sunday at Lake Co
mo. Other winners in this class
were: Second, Lovewood Ben.
owned and handled by ]. E. Lof-
land, Dover; third, Big Chief,
owned and handled by William
Holden, Dover, and fourth,
Ches-Del Happy Joe. owned and
handled by DR.. W. L. Parrott,
Dover, In the novice stakes
Corky, owned and handled by
Mrs. c. A. Owens, Baltimore,
was first; second, Bob of Mon
tauk, owned and handled by c.
S. Hopkins, Newark third, Cur
ley, owned and handled by Rol-
and Deemer, Smyrna, and
fourth, Judy, owned and handled
by James Warren, Smyrna.
Austin Smith and Harry Jack
son of Dover we're the judges.
John Hobson, of W. F. Gle
ments Store, Clayton, has been
awarded a Silver Merit Key in
recognition of knowledge of ami
NAL nutrition and feed conser-
walton, by the Training DiN-
sion of Allied Mills, Inc, +,
Fit. Woyne, Indiana. This dis
tinction accorded MIR. Hobson,
will be of interest to the pat
riotic farmers of this COM
munity who are interested in
the efficient production of
milk, meat and eggs needed for
wartime food.
MIR. Hobson's specialized
training in producing FOOD for
Freedom" began last fall when
he attended a school at Al
lentown, Pa. There he received
training under DR.. Cliff Car
Ipenter, now collaboration on
poultry conservation of the u.
IS. Department of Agriculture;
Fred Christen, nationally re-
cognized expert on livestock
production; Ben H. Focht, wide
lly known animal nutrition lee
turer; and H. D. Munroe, for
mer head of the poultry ex-
tension department of Penn
State College.
During the past year MIR.
lHobson has continued his STU
Smyrna times., 1963-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Wilber Waters
gave a birthdayparty inhonor Of
their daughter, Miss Ethel's
sixteenth birthday. Tuesday
evening, Oct. 2l. The evening
was delightfully."- spent In games
and music. AT a late hour the
guests we're invited to the dining
room were the table was beauti-
fully trimmed In green and
white. Refreshments of ice
cream and cake we're served at
a late hour, the guests departing
for their homes wishing Miss
Ethel many more happy birth
days. Those present were:Mr.
and Mrs. Wilber Waters, Jr. and
Mrs. Robert Waters, Misses
Ethel Waters, Margaret Austin,
Mollie Austin, Nora Watson.
Florence Heinold, Mamie Con-
ner, Mabel Connor, Elsie Hol-
land. Mildred Daniels, Mamie
Daniels. Ruth Reynolds, Mar
garet Caulk, Viola FAIRIES, Ply
lis Former, Messrs. Emmett
Cornelius, Roy Austin, Harry
Austin, William Pleasanton,
Harry Steel, Walter Holland,
Clarence Johnson Douglas, VII
liam Daniels, Earl Bradley,
Fred Heinold, Leroy, Earle, and
Colen Waters, Rouden Caulk,
William Reynolds.
Three indictments against
Benjamin F. VanWinkle, Adams
Express agent at Smyrna for
violation of the Hazel law, have
been found by the Grand Jury,
he having tits alleged, delivered
beer sent from Wilmington. Ac-
cording to this law, If a person
be convicted on the second Of
tense calls for Imprisonment
for term at the workhouse. If
the Smyrna expressman, there
fore, is convicted on the second
indictment after having been
convicted on the first, his COM
pany cannot protect him. This
gives the case much interest and
a crowd will probably hear the
contest. Both the Hazel law and
the Webb-Kenyon liquor trans
portation law having been found
"good and of full effect" by the
Superior court, makes the cases
against VanWinkle issues TO fact
before the jury. Express Agents
Harry c. Tee and Richard Hair
grove, of this county we're also
indicted by the jury for violation
of chapter 1913, volume 27 (Hazel
law.
While Samuel Nowland, son of
W. ]. Nowland, residing on the
State Road above Smyrna, was
assisting on the building of the
new stone road last Thursday,
he accidentally fell under his
heavy cart loadedwith stone and
had both legs broken. The wagon
was coming down grade and
young Nowland tried to alight the
cart while in motion when his
foot slipped and he fell under.
The wheel of the heavy team
passed over both legs. He was
Smyrna times., 1963-10-31

MIR. and Mrs. Clark M. Mot
ter of FELTON,, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter,
Helen Elizabeth Twilley, to MIR.
Louis Lafferty, son of MIR. and
Mrs. Charles B. Lafferty, of
Smyrna.
The regular meeting of the
Kent County Pomona Grange No
2 will be held Nov. 4th at Fruit
land Grange Hall. Election of
officers will take place.
The annual Halloween party
of the Smyrna Grange will be
held at the Century Club House
tonight, and members are urged
to come masked. A program is
being planned, and a small ad-
mission will be charged.
MIR. and Mrs. Leslie Sar-
tia of near Odessa have an
nounced the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Pauline Marie
to Sgt. Harvey D. Johnson, son
of Mrs. George Ballinger of
Union City, Pa. The ceremony
was performed on Oct. 18th,
at 7:30 pm. In Elkton, Md,
by Rev. William F. Hopkins
Sgt. Johnson is stationed at
Fort Dupont, Delaware.
A beautiful candle-light we'd
ding took place In St. Paul's
Methodist Church, Clayton,
Tuesday evening at E O'Clock
when Miss Mary Jean Barlow.
daughter of MIR. SamuelM. Bar
low and the late Mrs. Barlow
became the bride of Corporal
James Warren Jones, son Of
MIR. Lewis Jones and the late
Mrs. Jones. Rev. o. G. Brew
er, pastor of St. Paul IS Church,
performed the ceremony. The
church was beautifully decor
ated with chrysanthemums,
ferns and cut flowers with can
dies down the aisle and at the
altar. The bride, who was given
away by MIR. Harvey Pollen OF
Smyrna wore white taffeta
gown with finger tip veil held
in place by a coronet of orange
blossoms and carried a bouquet
of white bridal roses. She hac
as her matron of honor anc
only attendant Mrs. Viola VIII
kins of Milton, Delaware, who
wore a gown of peach colorec
chiffon and carried a bouquet
of tailsman roses. Walter Sam
mons of Smyrna was the groom's
best man. The flower girl was
loan Louise Shorts, the small
daughter ofMr. and Mrs. Homer
Shorts, who was dressed inpinE
taffeta and carried a basket ol
white chrysanthemums and pink
rose buds. Proceeding the bridal
procession Mrs. Walter Sam
mons walked down the aisle
lighting the candles while Mrs
Robert Hollett presided at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Merrywood Project
Passes New Legal Bar

The proposed Merrywood
high-rise apartment project in
Mclean passed another legal
roadblock last night when
Fairfax County planning COM
missioners rejected by an 8 to
2 vote objections to the engi-
neering site plan governing
construction and architectural
details of the development.
Citizen opponents of the
project Immediately announced
they would appeal the commits
sion's action to the County
Board of Supervisors within
10 days, expecting that the
supervisors would hear their
appeal before the end of the
month.
Only Acting Commission
Chairman Robert Egeleston and
Mrs. Harriet Bradley were OPP
posed to a motion to uphold
last months administrative
repeal of the Merrywood plan,
Gives Up Craftsmanship
Mrs. Bradley, a resident OF
Mclean and outSpoken critic
of attempts to introduce high
density apartments along the
Upper Potomac, relinguished
her Craftsmanship of the COM
mission during last nights site
plan hearing.
Give L. DuVal, attorney for
the Mclean citizens opposing
the 1,030-unit, 10-story apart
ment complex, asked the COM
mission to override the plan
ming engineer, John Yaremchuk,
who approved the Merrywood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
ROAD OFFICIALS
REVIEW ROSE
HEDGE PLAN

MARSHALL, Va, Oct. IL
(SpeciaD. - Reacting to
protests from horse and
cattle farmers living along
Interstate Route 66 vest Of
here. State highway Off
cials are reconsidering their
plans to plant honeysuckle
and multiflora rose along
80 miles Of the highway.
E. w. Turner, Richmond
highway department land
scape engineer. has notified
Del. Tom Frost Of Warren
ton that highway personnel
have been asked to study
the possible substitution of
$1,000 paintings Of Amur
privet for the multiflora,
and forsythia for the
honeySuckle.
Leading the farmers and
Virginia garden clubs in
the protests is Mrs. H. L.
Gaddis, 80, of Piedmont
Farm, Marshall.
Mrs. Gaddis said she
understood multiflora could
stop any car leaving a
curve at up to rs miles per
hour. But it would be
awful for anyone to land
in that briar patch. How
could you get him out ex-
cept with tractor mowers,
bush hooks and brave
mem"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Trick or Treat
Fun to Help U. N.
ChiIdren's Fund

Plans for the annual Halo
ween solicitation for the United
Nations Childrens Fund are
under way now in the Wash
ington area.
UNICEF was the recipient
last year of more than 81 mil
lion collected by more than
3 million children of the Ma
ton. The money was used to
help some Sc million mothers
and children of 116 countries
get antibiotics, child health
clinics and milk.
This years trick or treat"
solicitation will be held Hal
loween night, october 81, or,
in some cases, on the previous
night, according to Mrs. Vir-
GINA M. Gray, Washington
representative for the United
States Committee for UNICEF.
Supplies for the "trick-or-
treat" solicitation can be OBJ
tanned at the Washington in
formation office of the organi-
cation, 20 E street NV, OF
from the following in Mary
land:
Bethesda Printing Co., 1885,
Cordell avenue, Bethesda; Mrs
Barbara McGarry. 6400 Wins
ton drive, Bethesda: Mrs. Ed
ward E. Payne, 1900 Dartmouth
avenue, College Park, and the
Rev. John Crock, Christian
Community Pre- sbyterian
Church on Belair drive. Bowie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Polio Is Fought
At Petersburg

PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. IL
(AP).-Health authorities pre-
pared 10000 doses of oral polio
vaccine today for a day-long
immuniZation clinic tomorrow
in an effort to wipe out a local
outbreak.
The 18th case Of polio was
counted yesterday as Federal
health officials described the
outbreak as the worst in the
Nation this year. One person
has died.
A Federal health official said
the outbreak seems to be "pick-
ing up momentum rather than
dying down."
The stricken persons, all Me-
groes, are under treatment at
the polio clinic at the Medical
College Of Virginia in Rich
mond. A 35-year-old woman
died this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Heston H.WoIker Dies;
Disc Jockeys Fother

Heston Hart Walker. 50. ia
Their Of Ed Walker. WRC blind
disc jockey, died Of a heart
attack last night at his North
west Washington home.
For the past 20 years Mr..
Walker had been a statistician
with the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association.
A native Of Illinois, Mr..
Walker moved to Washington
in 1886 from Forrest, NJ, where
he was employed by the Wa
bash Railroad. lie worked sew
eral years with the Railway Re-
tirement Board and the Office
of Defense Transportation be-
fore joining the lumber asso-
citation in 1913.
He was a past president of
the National Office Managers
Association and a former Ma
son. At his death he was
president Of the board of di-
rectors Of Fourth Presbyterian
Church, where he was a men,
Der rs years.
Besides his son, Mr.. Walker
leaves his wife, Marian, of 3719
Warren street NV, the home
address; a daughter, Mrs. Jo-
seph FAINT of Seattle; his moth
er, Mrs. Maude Walker of
Litchfield. H.; two sisters and
four brothers, all of Illinois,
and six grandchildren.
Services will be held Monday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
More Benefits
Are Predicted
For euchers

A prediction Of higher sal
aries. additional fringe benefits
and improved retirement plans
for Virginia teachers was made
last night by Preston Turner.
assistant secretary Of the Viz
ginia Education Association.
Mr.. Turner told about So
members Of District S Fairfax
County, of the YEA that the
teachers group would like to-
see and would work for higher
minimum salary schedule" than.
the State Board of Education.
is recommending for l964-l966.
He said the YEA is seeking a
Statewide minimum of S3,80OI
to $3.50 for degree teachers
in l964-5. The scale would rise
$500 in 1866.
The State board, according
to Mr.. Turner, is recommend
ing schedule of $3,600-$5, 200
for l964-5, increasing to So, TOO
$500 the following year. The
current minimum pay scale as
established by the State board
is $3.400-$4,90O
Mr.. Turner praised State
board efforts to arrive at al
complex financial formula toI
raise education standards and
support throughout the State :.
but indicated that even more
intensive steps would be needed
to boost Virginia's national
standing.
Members unanimously ap-
proved the following nomina-
tons for District s officers:
President. Roy Fry and William
E. Parrish; vice president, Mrs.
Jean Donohoe and Mr.. Glenn
Pond; secretary-treasurer, Miss
Edith Ashworth and Miss Elise
Jones.
The new officers, to be-
elected by Fairfax teachers
holding YEA membership, will
take office January / to re-
place Mrs. Evelyn T. Magarity,
Mrs. Edna v. Dahl, and Mr..
Parrish. A motion to combine
into one slate the executive
officers Of the Fairfax Educa-
ton Association and District s.
was defeated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
By the Associated Press

AS far as the House of Rep
resentatives is concerned, an
American and a Russian won't
go to the moon together.
Regardless of how President
Kennedy feels about co-opera-
tive moon exploration-he's for
1.-THE House made its position
on the matter clear yesterday.
1t nailed into an omnibus
appropriation bill a prohibition
against use of any space agency
funds for participation in a
manned lunar landing Ito be
carrie d out jointly by the
United States and any Commu-
mist" country.
The prohibition was offered
by Representative Pelly, Repub-
lican of Washington, and had
strong Republican and South
ern Democratic support. 1t
carried by a standing vote of
l25 to ITO, with 1913 members
not voting.
The action amounts to a
slap at the President-who sug-
gested the joint flight in a
speech at the United Nations
three weeks ago. Russia has
not shown interest in the idea.
There is a strong probability
the Pelly ban will be eliminated
by the Senate, which now has
the omnibus bill. Represent
atative Thomas, Democrat OF
Texas, the bills floor manager,
didn't even request a roll call
vote. He predicted the ban will
be knocked out in a later Sem
ate-HouSe conference.
Chairman Fulbright of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee said today he does not
agree with the House action in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
20-Month-OId Boy,
Hit by Truck, Dies
FREDERICKSBURG

FREDERICKSBURG, Va,
Oct. II (AP).-A 2O-month-old
SpotSylvania County boy was
fatally injured at his home yes
terday when he was hit by a
delivery truck.
Melvin Douglas Ryckman,
jr., son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
YIN D. Ryckman, died at a hos
pital here shortly after the
accident.
Trooper Clinton Swami said
the child was playing in a
driveway when he was struck
by the truck operated by Carl
w. McWhirt of Fredericks-
burg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Dr.. Butts, Dentist
And Iuchtsmun,
In D. c. 40 Years

DR.. Shannon Butts, 81, a
Washington dentist for 40
years, died Of a heart attack
yesterday at Suburban Hospi-
tai.
A native Of GreenviIle.
W. Va, DR.. Butts moved to
Washington in 1928 after grad
uation from the Medical COL
lege Of Virginia at Richmond.
He practiced at Twentieth and
P streets NV. until he became
i'll a month ago.
He was q past member Of
the board of directors of the
Cerebral Palsy Association Of
Montgomery County and a
member Of Bethesda Presbyte-
rian Church. the American
Dental Association and the
District Dental Society.
A yachtsman, DR.. Butts was
a licensed pilot with the United
States Power Squadron and
affiliated with the Potomac
River Power Squadron.
He leaves his wife Helen Of
1924 Wildwood road, Kenwood
Park, Bethesda, the home ad-
dress; two sons, DR.. Charles
S. Butts of Lakeland Air Force
Base, San Antonio, Tex, and
Lindsay c. of the home ad-
dress, and one granddaughter.
Services will be at IL am.
tomorrow at the Gawler's Fu-
neral Home, Wisconsin avenue
at Harrison street NV, with
burial in Park Lawn Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
FIJI Quarry Held,
LookoutCunceIed

An area lookout for Court
ney Townsend Taylor, SIS, listed
by the FBI as a skilled check
artist" was Cancelled today
when word was received here
that Taylor had been arrested
yesterday in Superior. Wis.
Taylor, a convicted rubber
check passer who in 1851 was
on the FBI's list of the 10 most
wanted criminals. allegedly
cashed about $4,000 worth of
fraudulent Bank of America
travellers checks in the Wash
ington area recently.
Yesterday afternoon, the FBI
said, police in Superior ar
rested Taylor and two associ-
ates after Taylor allegedly at
tempted to cash a phony check
in a Superior bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
D.C.Mun,68,
Is Burned
To Death

A District resident who
worked as a handyman for a
Silver Spring contracting firm
was burned to death yesterday
when gasoline ignited as he
was burning trash, police re-
ported.
Montgomery County police
said the victim was Albert r.
Myers, So. Of 1850 Seventh
street NV, an employee Of the
A. Myron Cowell contracting
firm.
He was burned over his en-
tire body when fumes from a
5-gallon can Ct gasoline ig-
nited and exploded, according
to Pvts. Howard Miller and
Richard Gleason.
The accident occurred about
$3.50 pm. in a storage yard at
1909 Brookville road, silver
Spring.
Mr.. Myers, who had worked
for the firm for about IS years,
ran across the company's yard
with his clothing aflame as he
apparently was trying to reach
a building to get a fire ex-
tinguisher, police said.
He was pronounced dead by
DR.. Frank J. BroSchart, county
medical examiner, who attrib-
uted his death to shock due to
the extensive burns. DR.. Bro
schart issued a certificate list
ing the death as accidental.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
House Votes to Ban
Joint Lunar journey

banning any joint American
Soviet moon project. At the
same time, he denounced the
size of the S5.1 billion space
budget as being twice as big as
it should be.
Republicans weren't success
full in their attempt to reduce
the space agency's funds. They
failed by a standing vote OF
1872 to Al to slash the allot-
ment by $500 million and lost
las a later effort to pare II
by 5000 million.
The $l3.1 billion measure in
cluded $5.1 billion for the space
agency. The President had re-
quested $5.7 billion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11

plan September 26. Mr.. DuVal
argued that the plan was in
adequate" because it depended
on a projected sewer connec-
ton which would have to pass
under the Federally patrolled
George Washington Memorial
Parkway.
The Mclean attorney and
John A. BroSs, a landowner
whose property adjoins the 40
acre Merrywood tract, also dis
puted the blueprint because it
showed water service being fur
nished by the City of Falls
Church.
Hits Speculation
The two men commended that
the plan was not realistic since
the possibility existed that the
Federal Government could cut
off water supplies which go to
Falls Church from the Dale
carlia Federal Reservoir and
that the Government could pre-
vent engineers from cutting
under the parkway by police
action.
Thomas Lawson, former as
sistant Fairfax County com
monthwealth attorney who pre-.
sented the developers side Of
the controversy last night, con-
tended that the opponents
missed the point of site plan
procedure and called their OBJ
jections sheer speculation"
He noted that Federal action
was threatened in a side-wise
manner earlier this year but
that no concrete moves were
taken to implement it. He said
the possibility of cutting off
water and sewer service were
issues for the future and as
such were as speculative as the
possibility that an atom bomb
would fall on Washington and
disrupt all services and COM
munications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Brig. Gen. John E. Wood,
Former D. c. Official

Brig. Gen. John Elliott Wood,
Assistant Engineer c o m m is
sioner for the District from
1921 to 1924, died October / at
the Portsmouth CVaO Naval
Hospital after a long illness. He
was 70.
During his tenure in the Dis
trict government, Gen. Wood
was particularly interested in
city planning and development
and anticipated many of the
urban renewal projects that
have since taken place. Among
these was the Maine avenue
S.W. waterfront development
project.
Born in Hartford, N. c., he
was graduated from the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and Harvard and
studied architecture in Italy.
His Army career was long and
colorful.
Gen. Wood served with the
regular Army in France during
World War I and earned sever
al military honors. Later he
served on the Mexican border
and in the Philippines.
In August. 1910. he went to
Fort Bragg, N. c., to organize
the 41st Engineer Regiment.
During World War II he COM
Task Force "Littlejoe,"
the first American troops in
Africa which landed on the Lii
berian coast in June, 1912.
Promoted to Brigadier Gen.
eral in August. 1912, he served
in Italy on the 5th Army front
from the August, 1914 crossing
of the Arno River offensive to
the end of the war.
He was a ssistant chief of
staff, Army Field Forces during
1948-1949 and retired after 80
years of service in July. 1949.
His military awards include
the Silver Star Medal: Legion
of Merit; Bronze Star; Army
Citation Ribbon. and Order of
the Crown Of Italy and Military
Cross which were given to him
by former King U m b erto in
l945. He was also made an
honorary citizen of Viareggio,
Italy.
Gen. Wood leaves four
sisters: Mrs. Munger Means
and Mrs. Cliff Ward of Eliza
beth City, N. c.; Mrs. William
H. Moore of Norfolk, Va, and
Mrs. Hugh P. Beal of Green's
boro, N. c., and a brother, Col.
Stuart Wood of Fayetteville,
N. C.
He also leaves a nephew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Corn Crop
Hits 4 Billion
BusheI Mark
BY the Associated Press


This years farm production
is being featured by a record
volume of crops and the first
4-billion bushel corn crop
in history.
An Agriculture Department
crop report late yesterday said
total crop production appears
likely to be 2 per cent above the
previous record set in 1860 and
matched in 1862. Generally
good weather and further ad-
vances in agricultural technol-
ogy caused the increased pro-
duction.
The department previously
had predicted a record produc-
ton of livestock products.
The department forecast the
corn crop at 4 billion bushels,
about 10 per cent more than
last years 3.6 billion bushels.
And this years corn crop was
grown on about Is per cent
fewer acres than the previous
record crop of 3.9 billion BUSH
els in 1860.
The wheat crop was put at
IL billion bushels, about 4 per
cent more than last years
crop.
A record Soybean crop of 727
million bushels was indicated,
up 8 per cent from last years
CTS million bushels.
Other groups turning out
larger this year than last in
cluded rice, sorghum grain, dry
beans and peas, peanuts, pota-
toes, sugar cane, sugar beets,
hops, grapes, cranberries and
pecans.
Those running below last
year were oats, barley, rye.
flaxseed, hay, sweet potatoes,
tobacco, apples, peaches, pears
and cherries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Giuseppe Murotto

NAPLES, Italy, Oct. II (AP) .
Marotta, Italian
died Of a brain hem
at his home last night.
He gained fame through his
books on Naples. One of them,
'L'Oro di Napoli" Gold of
Naples, inspired the film of
the same name.