7 20 1089 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/4e55c3081d58fef1c4308ae02cbafd6a.pdf 0c3a137bca78ebf9a15a78f6774396a7 PDF Text Text 'ext of Gov. - +■ " 30 for moretowi 1 * monuis, study- ’s Address or contri _ RICHM OND, Va., Nov. gency, ygigewhere. In addition," if created tind -established by would apply to the children of The text of G Thom B ov. as . states ak fcjgjas many Stanley’s address today to the other and suggestions originat­ two or more states under a parents who decline to send plans this special session of the General ing in Virginia and with its joint agreement to which pur­ them to public schools where state is a party for the Assembly follows: own membership. In my charge j] pose of providing educational pupils of both races may have to the Commission, I expressed facilities for the citizens of been enrolled. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Thus, no pupil would be re*' the firm belief that separate and Members of the Joint As­ schools for white and Negro the several states joining in • quired to attend any school,' such agreement; second, that sembly: pupils were in the best inter­ counties, cities, towns and I open to Negro and white chil­ The call for this extra ses­ est of both races and that it districts may make appropri- j dren, against the wishes of his parents, and sion of the General Assembly was my purpose to do all with- 1 ations to non-s e c t a r i a n porarily withoutlocalities tem­ public schools of Virginia is the direct result in my authority to maintain schools of manual, industrial, : would still have some means of of the decision of the Supreme segregated schools. or technical training, and educating their children. Court of the United States on The Commission, early in its also to any school or insti- j The Commission on Public May 17, 1954, and its decree of deliberations, c o n d u c t e d a tution of learning owned or Education made other recom­ May 31, 1955. We in Virginia, lengthy public hearing at; exclusively controlled by jj mendations for legislative and the people throughout, the which the overwhelming ma-i such county, city, town or ; action—after the amendment of South, had administered our jority of those Who availed school district." the constitution is effected. 1 public schools in accordance themselves of the opportunity The Supreme Court of Ap­ concur in its suggestion that the I . with the law of the land as peals of Virginia on November othert..„ l____ _ interrelated „„ ___ proposals, as enunciated by the Supreme fy, 1955, held that the present they are. be deferred pending Court in 1896 and reaffirmed to appear canflrniwi the belief jlanguage of this section bars .your action, the action of the ' on many subsequent occasions. I which I had-expressed. !the appropriation of public electors, and the action of the In good faith and with firm!; On Nov. 11, 1955, the Com­ funds to the support of private constitutional convention, if resolution, we had moved for-j mission s u b m i t t e d its re­ schools and, specifically, in­ authorized, on Section 141. ward steadily in 4 concerted j port. It was made public on validated payments for tuition, I submit, therefore, with rec­ effort to improve our school j Sunday, Nov. 13, 1955. and the institutional fees and other ommendation for its introduc­ system and provide the best following day I issued the call designated expenses of certain tion and passage, a single bill for this legislative session, in children who attend approved for a referendum on the ques­ possible *educational opportu­ keeping nities for the youth of both tion andwith the recommenda­ or designated private schools. tion of holding a constitutional races. Millions upon millions of "mission. reguest of the Com- The state comptroller, on convention to amend Section dollars have been expended to I concur wholeheartedly in the advice of the attorney gen­ 141 as heretofore described. equalize : 7 and today the recommendations from this eral, has withheld certain The bill is identical with that drafted scope able, conscientious and dedi­ ;funds coming within themoney originallywith twoby the Ci except" including the phyi cated group of legislators. I !of the opinion for equalization mission, One appropriated of insti cannot permit this occasion to of higher educational opportu­ rects change in language an inadvertent transi Negro schools are . pass \vith9ut making public nities heretofore made avail- tion of words, and in no way _ those afforded white pupils in acknowledgment of my great the same localities. The Com­ appreciation, personally and of­ able to a large number of Negro changes the intent or scope of s private monwealth has given unprece­ ficially, to Garland Gray, chair­ students attending privatig in- the bill. The second change * ally limits the bill and dented financial aid to the man, and every member of stitutions outside Virginia,:**! institutional convention counties and cities in meeting the C o m m i s s i o n , its legal still other funds which Slave tion 141. These changes their s c h o o l construction c o u n s e l and staff, and the| been used for teacher scholar needs; salaries of white and Attorney General of Virginia,] ships in private institutions were; submitted to and ap Negro teachers were equalized who collaborated on the re­ within this state. The Commis­ proved by the membership oi long ago, and until the separate port. They have rendered a sion on Public Education, in the the Commission since its report but equal doctrine was chal­ service of untold value to the light of this decision and con­ of Nov. 11. As you know, the lenged in the Federal courts, people of Virginia in bringing scious of the problems in many sion of the General same ses­ ............ Assembly we had every reason to look jlforth a program which* bearsl areas of the state, has offered which authorizes a referendum forward to an era of unsur- 1promjse of attaining two es- f recommendations which, if on a constitutional convention adopted, will have the effect of educational progress. U sential objectives, namely: (1) The decision of the Court I avoidance of enforced integra- overcoming this barrier, inso­ cannot also authorize the sec­ ond election the discarding the law as we had jjon 0f the races in any of our far as nonsectarian private in­ selection of necessary for the delegates to known it, and as the Court it- J public schools, and (2) main-, stitutions are concerned, and convention. To expedite con­ self had interpreted it through- tenance of educational oppor-! of preserving educational op-j sideration of the constitutional' out all these years, immedi-| tunities for the boys and girls portunities in all localities. Itsli change, it therefore appeared ately created problems of' ------ -------------------------- - unanimous report proposes a to enormous proportions. Min- j in all sections of Virginia, de­ limited constitutional con­ desirable and necessarythiscon­ ex­ gling of the races not only was 1 spite the wi<je variation in vention for the sole purpo: vene the Assembly in tra session. Action here—at the prohibited by the constitution problems and density of white of amending Section 141: polls—at another legislrtive of Virginia but was contrary and Negro population. “To permit the General As­ session— again at the polls, and to the customs, traditions and sembly and the governing in a constitutional convention The step j wishes of the vast majority of toward first, and the vital,these bodies, the several counties, will require, at best, several accomplishing cities and towns to appro­ months. If we are to safeguard our citizens, The future of our, objectives involves amendment whole educational system, of Section 141 of the state con­ priate. funds for educational our rights and maintain an purposes which may be ex­ educational -system, it is im­ therefore, was left in dire stitution; This section now pended in furtherance of ele­ perative to act now on this jeopardy. reads: mentary, secondary, collegi­ question. Recognizing the gravity of “No appropriation of public ate and graduate education of the situation, I invited 32 mem- 1 funds shall be made to any As I conclude this message,! Virginia students in public i may I express my personal A bers of the General Assembly! school or institution of learn­ and nonsectarian private gratification in being privileged i in August, 1954,. to serve on a ing not owned or exclusively schools and institutions of to meet again with each mem­ special commission to study the j controlled by the state or learning in addition to those . ber of this distinguished As-j effects of the Supreme Court some political subdivision owned or exclusively con­ sembly. The problems ahead are decision and make recom-! thereof; provided, first, that trolled by the state of any difficult, but pot insuperable, mendations to the Governor j the General Assembly may such county, city or town.” and their colleagues in the appropriate funds to any Such authority would permit legislature: This group, de­ agency,"or to a school or in­ students in localities where signated the Coitimission on stitution of leaminf owned Public Edufeattoitfhas labored public schooling may be inter­ rupted to continue their stud­ ies,^ with state aid, in non; sectarian private schools or in ■if-omer niiblic arbor,' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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H o w S e c tio n 141 O f T h e C o n s titu tio n W ill B e A m e n d e d . Section 141 provides basically and simply that no public funds shall be spent for private schools. The amendment will permit public funds to be spent for non-sectarian private schools, both private elementary schools and private high schools. P o in t 3. T u itio n G r a n ts W ill N o t B e L im ite d . Under the constitutional change tuition grants will n o t be lim ited to children whose parents wish to remove them from integrated schools. If the change in 141 is made, the door will be open to grants to any children at any non-sectarian private school. The Gray Report says that the present intention is to limit grants to the children of parents objecting to integrated schools, but this intention may change. The door, let us repeat, will be open to grants to children in any non-sectarian private school in the state. 3 �Point 4. No Ceiling On Tuition Grants. In answering questions of the Roanoke Times, Governor Stanley said there would be no ceiling upon tuition grants in counties where public schools have been abandoned after the first year. The only limit now proposed is based upon per pupil operating cost in the preceding year. There is nothing in the Gray proposal or in the law to prevent increasing state allotments to such counties in a sum sufficient to cover the full cost of private school tuition. The pressures will be great. Thus the Gray plan actually amounts to an invitation to counties to close their public schools entirely. At the Special Session, an attempt was made to provide that tuition grants should be paid only in those localities where public schools were kept open. This proposal, too, was voted down overwhelm ingly. Point 5. Unjust Distinctions. Tax money should not be used for any private schools. But it is unjust to distinguish between sectarian and non-sectarian private schools. There are in Virginia today 30 private schools run by the Episcopal, Catholic, Methodist, and Baptist Churches, besides paro chial schools operated by Episcopal and Catholic parishes. These are established schools with fine buildings, able teachers and state accreditation. If public funds are sent to non-sectarian private schools which are newly formed, with inadequate buildings, un qualified teachers and no accreditation, then in fairness public funds should go to the students at the better qualified sectarian schools. Any other result would be inequitable both to the better schools and their students. Point 6. Haste. Section 141 was placed in the Constitution of Virginia in 1902 after 33 years of rough going for the Virginia public school system and after the Constitution, including Section 141, was debated for 370 days. Now you are asked to remove Section 141 after 37 days from December 3, 1955. Point 7. History And Meaning Of 141. The history of Section 141 shows how important it is to keep) Section 141 intact, and not to amend it. We quote from the brief of the respondent (pp. 25, 26), the winning brief, in A lm o n d v. D ay, decided by the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Decem ber 7, 1955. 4 “Three streams appeared to feed the movement away from state support. The first was the felt need for tighten ing the public purse in order to prevent raids on the public treasury. * * * The second was the rise of the whole public school system, usually identified with the efforts of a few pioneers, * * * and the subsequent expansion of the public school system owing to industry’s burgeoning need for more trained people. It became apparent that the double drain of supporting both public and private schools was not only expensive but possibly incompatible with democratic tenets. The third was the felt need to resist the growing attempt to secure state aid for sectarian schools * * *” We quote further from the Supplemental Brief of the Respondent in A lm o n d v. D ay (pp. 2-4) : “The overriding purpose which, more than any other, gives to Section 141 its meaning was the felt need to build u p th e public school s y s te m by insuring that the use of public monies, raised by taxation for education should be put exclusively under the control of public authorities. * * * “That this was the dominant purpose is revealed by the debates (i.e. of 1901-1902) wherein it was insistently stated (limited exceptions apart) that public money should be spent only by those who were responsible to the taxpayers. It is also revealed by the history of education in Virginia. “The most authoritative treatment of this history is that of Dr. C. J. Heatwole whose book ‘A History of Education in Virginia’ was published (Macmillan Co.) in 1916. “In Chapter VII (* * *) he shows how slowly the idea of universal public education took hold in Virginia. It was looked down on by the aristocracy as intended for indigents or paupers and its acceptance thus awaited the emergence of a stronger and more powerful middle class. “In Chapter VIII (* * *) he describes the prevalence of so-called ‘academies’ which, with a few exceptions (which re ceived appropriations from ‘The Literary Fund’) were sup ported by tuition fees paid by the students. “In Chapter XII (* * *) he describes the effort to intro duce a public school system following the constitutional provi sions of 1869. He asserts that there were large diversions of school funds especially in the period from 1870 to 1880. The motive back of the diversion — a motive which was not spent until much later — was due to indifference to the need of public education and, indeed, to ‘an effort to weaken and ulti mately defeat the public school system’ (* * *). He then describes the change in public sentiment and the devoted efforts * * * to awaken the people to the need of public education. s �“Chapter XVI (* * *) is devoted to what he terms the ‘Educational Renaissance in Virginia.’ A pivotal meeting had been held at Capon Springs in 1898 out of which grew a gen eral interest ‘in public education, maintained and controlled by state systems’ (* * *). As summarized by Heatwole: “ ** * * In determining upon the essential features in this new development, they settled upon popular education as one of the first and most fundamental factors that would insure stability and sanity to the future progress of her (i.e., the South’s) institutions. The states of North Caro lina, Virginia, and Tennessee led in introducing into their political campaigns the question of a more efficient system of public education for all the children of those states. The governors who were elected at this time gained national reputation as “educational governors”.’ “He concludes: “ ‘All this prepared the way for the provisions for educa tion in the new state constitution. Thus the people of the state were prepared for the constructive work of the admin istration of Jos. D. Eggleston as state superintendent of public instruction, whose election occurred in 1906.’ * * * “The significance of Heatwole’s history * * * indicates that the overriding intent lying back of Section 141 was the strengthening of the Public School System ; negatively it shows that this aim was not one which was being thwarted by in direct aid funneled through the children to sectarian or other private institutions.” Point 8. Need For Public Schools. Today as never before, we need the public schools intact. Never in the history of America or Virginia, has the very life of our civilization so imperatively demanded public education for our children, for each and every one of our children. Our school system divided against itself will fall. It cannot stand half public and half private. Again, to quote from respondent’s brief in Almond v. Day: “To use taxpayers’ money to assist private schools is to suggest that American society use its own hands to destroy itself.” Point 9. Amendment Of 141 Will Weaken 129. The proposed amendment to Section 141 inevitably will under mine and weaken Section 129 of the State Constitution. Section 129 provides: 6 “The General Assembly shall establish and maintain an efficient system of public free schools throughout the State.” To amend Section 129 as Governor Stanley indicated in June 1954 might be advisable, would destroy the public school directly. To amend Section 141 will destroy the public schools indirectly. The difference is between a quick death and a slow one. For the life blood of the public schools is public money, taxpayers’ money. If any of this is taken from the public schools and diverted to private schools, it can serve only one purpose, namely, to weaken the former and strengthen the latter. At the Special Session, Senator Ted Dalton proposed that the General Assembly incorporate in the amendment to 141 a guarantee that 129 should not be affected. It is significant and alarming that this proposal was voted down overwhelmingly. Point 10. Some Are Opposed To Public Schools. Strong forces in Virginia today advocate at least a partial aban donment of the public school system. On Wednesday, November 30, 1955 before a joint hearing of the Privileges and Elections Com mittee of the General Assembly, the “Virginia Citizens’ Committee for Better Schools” presented a resolution asking for tuition grants for children attending private schools, “Both as a measure for preventing enforced integration and also as a legal alternative for parents and guardians who (1) object to public school teaching propaganda or indoctrination, or (2) prefer to send their children to non-public schools for educational, religious, social, or other reasons.” On Monday, November 21, 1955, at a luncheon sponsored by the Chambers of Commerce of Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church and Fairfax, at the George Mason Hotel in Alexandria, a representative of the State Affairs Committee of the Virginia Chamber of Com merce stated publicly: “Down our way we’re not altogether satisfied with what our public schools turn out. Public schools now have no competi tion. If we had private schools removed from unfair competi tion, it might put public schools on their toes.” He suggested that it was a mark of “free enterprise” to use the taxpayers’ money for private schools. Honorable Robert Whitehead, Delegate from Nelson County, stated on the floor of the House of Delegates on December 1, 1955: 7 �“ A n d h e re i t s h o u ld b e o b s e rv e d t h a t th e r e a r e in V ir g in i a m a n y p eo p le, c o n s ti tu tin g a s iz e a b le e le m e n t o f o u r p o p u la tio n , w h o do n o t re a lly b e lie v e in p u b lic f r e e sch o o ls, a n d r e g a r d i t a s s o c ia lis m to t a x th e m in o r d e r to h e lp p a y f o r th e e d u c a tio n o f th e c h ild re n o f th o s e w h o a r e le ss f o r t u n a t e fin a n c ia lly . T h e y m a y b e c o u n te d u p o n to jo in in th e c la m o r f o r th e a b o litio n o f th e p u b lic sch o o ls.” o f t h e S ta te C o n s titu tio n b e a m e n d e d so t h a t p u b lic f u n d s c a n be u s e d f o r p r iv a te sch o o ls. T h is is k n o w n a s th e “ T u itio n G r a n t P la n .” T h is re c o m m e n d a tio n , i t is r e s p e c tf u lly s u b m itte d , is u n c o n s titu tio n a l a n d im p r a c tic a l a n d sh o u ld b e r e je c te d b y th e p eo p le. T o d a y in V ir g in i a w e fa c e a r e a l d a n g e r f r o m th e o p in io n o f th o s e p e o p le w h o to o f r e q u e n tly a r e h e a r d to a s k : “ W h a t is so s a c r e d a b o u t o u r p u b lic s c h o o ls ? ” T h e A s s ig n m e n t P la n w ill w o rk . L e t u s t r y i t fir s t. I f i t d o es w o rk , w e k e e p o u r p u b lic sch o o ls in ta c t, a d h e r e to o u r S o u th e rn tr a d itio n s , a n d ob ey th e la w . I f i t d o e s n o t w o rk , w e s h a ll m e a n w h ile c o n s id e r c o n tin u o u s ly o th e r a d v is a b le le g is la tiv e a c tio n . P o in t 11. V irg in ia ’s D ile m m a . U n d e r th e A s s ig n m e n t P la n in n o p a r t o f V ir g in i a w ill a s in g le w h ite c h ild b e s e n t to a c o lo re d sch o o l. U n d e r t h e A s s ig n m e n t P la n in V ir g in i a c o u n tie s w h e r e t h e so c ia l p ro b le m is m o s t a c u te , n o co lo re d c h ild r e n w ill b e a s s ig n e d to w h ite sch o o ls. U n d e r th e A s s ig n m e n t P la n , in so m e s e c tio n s o f V ir g in ia , a lim ite d n u m b e r o f o u ts ta n d in g N e g ro p u p ils m a y b e a d m itte d to so m e w h ite schools. T h e la w s a y s th is m u s t be. V ir g in i a fa c e s th e g r e a t e s t d ile m m a o f a c e n tu ry . T h e c u sto m s o f o u r S ta te in d ic a te t h a t o u r p u b lic sch o o ls b e s e g r e g a te d . T h e la w o f t h e U n ite d S ta te s f o r b id s t h a t o u r p u b lic sch o o ls b e s e g r e g a te d so lely o n th e b a s is o f ra c e . A s S ta te S e n a to r H a r r y F . B y rd , J r . h a s s a id , a n ir r e s is tib le fo r c e h a s m e t a n im m o v a b le o b je c t. O u r p ro b le m is to d e v is e a m e a n s w h e r e b y w e c a n , fir s t, p r e s e r v e o u r p u b lic sch o o ls, a n d seco n d , p r e s e r v e s e g r e g a tio n in th o s e sch o o ls w ith in th e lim its o f th e law . T h e S u p r e m e C o u r t m u s t h o n o r o u r t r a d itio n s . T h e d e c isio n o f M ay 3 1 ,1 9 5 5 d o e s re c o g n iz e t h a t th e p ro b le m is a S ta te p ro b le m , t h a t lo cal d iffe re n c e s e x is t, t h a t sch o o l a u th o r itie s a n d n o t th e C o u r ts “ h a v e th e p r im a r y r e s p o n s ib ility f o r e lu c id a tin g , a s s e s s in g , a n d s o lv in g th e s e p ro b le m s ” . W e a r e r e q u ir e d to e x e rc is e good f a i t h a n d to m a k e a p r o m p t a n d re a s o n a b le s t a r t t o w a r d c o m p lia n ce . B u t i f w e m a k e a s t a r t , w e s h a ll b e g r a n te d a d d itio n a l tim e . I t is i m p o r ta n t to re m e m b e r t h a t no time limit has been set. W e h a v e indefinite tim e . I n p r a c tic a l te rm s , w e m u s t fin d a s o lu tio n o f o u r p ro b le m so m e w h e re w ith in t h e f r a m e w o rk o f th e la w . P o in t 12. T w o P ro p o s a ls I n G r a y R e p o r t. T h e G ra y r e p o r t re c o m m e n d s tw o c h ie f m e th o d s f o r s o lv in g th e p ro b le m . F i r s t , i t re c o m m e n d s t h a t th e V ir g in ia L e g is la tu r e e n a c t la w s a u th o r iz in g sch o o l b o a rd s to a s s ig n p u p ils to p a r t i c u l a r s c h o o ls a n d p ro v id in g f o r a s y s te m o f a d m in is tr a tiv e a p p e a ls . T h is is c a lled th e “ P u p il A s s ig n m e n t P la n .” I t is c o n s titu tio n a l a n d p r a c tic a l a n d sh o u ld b e a d o p te d b y th e G e n e r a l A ss e m b ly in J a n u a r y . S eco n d , th e G ra y C o m m is sio n re c o m m e n d s t h a t S e c tio n 141 P o in t 13. A s s ig n m e n t P la n W ill W o rk . T h is p ro c e s s w ill n o t b e o n e o f g r a d u a lly in c r e a s in g te m p o . I t m u s t b e tig h tly a n d c o n s e r v a tiv e ly a d m in is te r e d so t h a t n o s o cia l p ro b le m w ill e v e r r e s u lt. I t w ill, to a lim ite d a n d c o n tin u o u s ly c o n tro lle d d e g re e , re c o g n iz e in d iv id u a l a c h ie v e m e n t r e g a rd le s s o f ra c e . In c id e n ta lly , th e r i g h t o f a c itiz e n o f th e U n ite d S ta te s a n d o f V ir g in i a to s ta n d o n h is o w n tw o fe e t, a c c o rd in g to h is o w n a b ilitie s a n d c h a r a c te r , is o n e o f th e f u n d a m e n ta l r i g h t s o f f r e e m e n w h ic h V ir g in i a g a v e to A m e ric a . T h e A s s ig n m e n t P la n is th e b e s t p la n so f a r a d o p te d to k e ep s e g r e g a tio n in o u r sch o o ls to th e e x te n t a n d f o r th e le n g th o f tim e t h a t w e c a n s h o w th e S u p r e m e C o u r t th e c u s to m s o f V ir g in i a d e m a n d t h a t i t m u s t b e k e p t. I n c o m p le te f a ir n e s s w e m u s t p o in t o u t t h a t to t a l s e g r e g a tio n in a ll p a r t s o f V ir g in i a c a n n o t b e s e c u re d f o r e v e r . N o m a n in th e C o m m o n w e a lth , f r o m th e A tto r n e y G en e r a l on d o w n , c a n g u a r a n te e t h a t so m e i n te g r a tio n s o m e w h e re w ith in o u r b o rd e rs , to s o m e e x te n t, w ill n o t o c c u r so m e tim e . U n f o r tu n a t e ly , th e S u p r e m e C o u r t d e c isio n m a k e s so m e in te g r a tio n s o m e w h e re a t s o m e tim e in e v ita b le . P o in t 14. N o R e f e r e n d u m N e ed e d F o r A s s ig n m e n t P la n . T h e A s s ig n m e n t P la n c a n b e e n a c te d in to la w w ith o u t a r e f e r e n d u m . I t d o es n o t r e q u ir e a n y c h a n g e in th e C o n s titu tio n . T h e L e g is la tu r e c a n m e e t in J a n u a r y a n d e n a c t in to la w a ll o f th e 9 �G r a y C o m m is sio n p ro p o s a ls e x c e p t th e T u i tio n G r a n t P la n . R e m e m b e r, w e d o n o t n e e d to a m e n d t h e C o n s titu tio n in a n y w a y , m a n n e r , s h a p e o r fo r m in o r d e r to p u t th e A s s ig n m e n t P la n in to la w . p u b lic sch o o ls in th o s e c o u n tie s f o r th e p e o p le w h o w a n t th e m a t le ss c o s t th a n th e s t a t e ’s s h a r e o f m a in ta in in g a ll th e sch o o ls in th o s e c o u n tie s to d a y . I f th e re f e r e n d u m f a ils to c a r r y w e s till c a n a d o p t th e A s s ig n m e n t P la n . M a n y p eo p le d o n o t re a liz e t h a t t h i s a lte r n a tiv e e x is ts r e g a r d le s s o f w h a t h a p p e n s o n J a n u a r y 9 th . P o in t 17. A d d itio n a l I n f o r m a tio n O n C o st o f T u itio n G r a n ts . P o in t 15. T u itio n G r a n t P la n W ill N o t W o rk . T h e T u i tio n G r a n t P l a n w ill n o t w o rk . I t w ill g iv e u s a S ta te w id e in c u ra b le h e a d a c h e . I t w ill t r a n s f e r p u b lic b u ild in g s to p r i v a te h a n d s , w ill re m o v e te a c h e r s to p r i v a t e sch o o ls a t le ss p a y , w ill e n d a n g e r te a c h e r s ’ r e t i r e m e n t b e n e fits , w ill lo w e r th e s t a n d a r d s in p u b lic s c h o o ls a n d re p la c e th e m w ith fly -b y -n ig h t p r iv a te sch o o ls w h o se a c c r e d ita tio n w ill b e d u b io u s a t b e s t, a n d w ill p e n a liz e th e p o o r e r f a m ilie s w h o c a n n o t a ffo r d to p a y th e d iff e r e n c e o v e r a n d a b o v e th e tu itio n g r a n t s in o r d e r to s e n d t h e i r c h ild re n to p r iv a te sch o o ls. L e t u s ta k e a look a t th e p ro b le m o f b u ild in g s a lo n e . L o c a l sch o o l b u ild in g s a r e o w n e d b y th e lo c a litie s. T h e la w p e r m its th e s e b u ild in g s to b e d is p o se d o f i f th e y a r e n o lo n g e r n e e d e d f o r e d u c a tio n a l p u rp o s e s . T h e r e a r e n o sch o o l b u ild in g s in th e C o m m o n w e a lth w h ic h a r e n o t n e ed e d f o r e d u c a tio n a l p u rp o s e s . F o r th e p a s t te n y e a r s w e h a v e b u ilt 4200 sch o o l ro o m s. I n th e n e x t s ix y e a r s w e m u s t b u ild 4 8 0 0 m o re , M r. D ow ell J . H o w a rd , S u p e r in t e n d e n t o f P u b lic In s tr u c tio n , te lls u s, a t t h e c o s t o f o n e q u a r t e r o f a b illio n d o lla r s ($ 2 5 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 ). F o r te n y e a r s w e s h a ll n e e d 1500 te a c h e r s e a c h y e a r m o re t h a n th e y e a r b e f o re — 15,000 m o re in th e n e x t te n y e a r s a t a n e x t r a co st, a f t e r te n y e a r s , o f fo r ty -fiv e m illio n d o lla rs a y e a r . W ith th e s e d e m a n d s u p o n u s t h i s is no tim e to c u t th e fin a n c ia l h e a r t o u t o f o u r p u b lic f r e e sch o o l s y s te m . P o in t 16. T u itio n G r a n t P la n C o stly T o T a x p a y e r . T h e T u itio n ta x p a y e r s . N o i t w ill re q u ir e r is e o f 2 0 % o r m o r e th a n one. G r a n t P la n w ill c a s t a p ro h ib itiv e b u r d e n on th e p r o p o n e n t h a s f e l t a b le to e s ti m a te its co st. W h e th e r f u n d s in a n a m o u n t e q u iv a le n t to a n in c o m e ta x 5 0 % , i t is c e r ta in t h a t tw o sch o o l s y s te m s w ill c o s t I t is a rg u e d t h a t w ith o u t tu itio n g r a n t s , sch o o ls in so m e c o u n tie s w ill clo se d o w n , t h a t th e s ta t e m u s t m a in ta in th e m u n d e r S e c tio n 129 a n d t h a t t h e c o s t to th e s ta t e ta x p a y e r s o u ts id e th o s e c o u n tie s w ill b e h ig h e r . T h e a n s w e r is sim p le . I f t h e s t a t e fu lfills its h ig h m o ra l d u ty u n d e r S e c tio n 129, th e n th e s ta t e a lo n e w ill b e a b le to o p e ra te io A d d itio n a l in f o r m a tio n a s to t h e c o s t o f t h e T u i tio n G r a n t P la n a p p e a r s in t h e B u lle tin is s u e d b y th e L e a g u e o f W o m e n V o te rs in V ir g in ia . T h e s ta t e m e n ts in t h e L e a g u e b u lle tin a r e a s f o ll o w s : H O W M U C H W IL L T H E T U IT IO N G R A N T P L A N C O ST U S ? A R E W E W IL L IN G T O S I G N T H I S B L A N K C H E C K ? A n y e s ti m a te o f th e d o lla r c o s t o f th e G r a y re c o m m e n d a tio n s , e i th e r lo c a lly o f s ta te w id e , w o u ld b e g u e s s w o rk . C o m m is sio n s p o k e s m e n h a v e b e e n q u o te d a s s a y in g t h a t i t is “ im p o s sib le n o w to c a lc u la te ” . 1. A g r e a t d e a l h in g e s o n w h a t la w s a r e a c tu a lly p a s s e d a t th e n e x t s e s sio n o f th e G e n e r a l A ss e m b ly to im p le m e n t th e s e p ro p o s a ls ( i f th e a m e n d m e n t is a d o p te d ) . 2. W e h a v e no id e a h o w m a n y p u p ils in th e s t a t e w ill r e q u e s t t u itio n g r a n ts . 3. W e d o n o t k n o w w h a t e ffe c t th e s e n e w la w s, i f p a s s e d , w ill h a v e o n F e d e r a l a s s is ta n c e to e d u c a tio n in V ir g in ia . T h is a m o u n te d to $16 m illio n in 1953-54, o r a lm o s t 9 % o f th e to ta l. $65 m illio n c a m e f r o m s t a t e f u n d s a n d $ 1 0 4 m illio n f r o m lo cal fu n d s . T h e r e a r e tr e m e n d o u s p ro b le m s in v o lv e d in b u d g e t- m a k in g w h e n th e n u m b e r o f p u p ils w h o w ill r e q u e s t tu itio n g r a n t s is n o t k n o w n a n d w h e n th e r e is th e n e c e s s ity o f c u ttin g b a c k o r a d j u s t i n g b u d g e ts q u ic k ly a s th e n u m b e r o f p u p ils flu c tu a te s . C o m m e n ta to r s h a v e p o in te d o u t t h a t , s in c e i n t e r e s t a n d r e tir e m e n t o n d e b t f o r n e w b u ild in g s a r e fixed o b lig a tio n s , th e c u ts , in o r d e r to a v o id in c r e a s in g t h e to ta l sch o o l b u d g e t, w o u ld h a v e to b e m a d e in s u c h ite m s a s s a la r ie s , n u m b e r o f te a c h e r s em p lo y e d , m a in te n a n c e , e tc . T h e s e q u e s tio n s a r is e im m e d ia te ly : I f a lo cal sch o o l b u d g e t is in a d e q u a te to c o v e r th e p u b lic sch o o l o p e ra tio n s p lu s t h e tu itio n g r a n ts , h o w w o u ld th e sch o o l b o a r d g e t th e m o n e y to m a k e u p its h a lf o f th e s e “ a d d itio n a l c o s ts ” m e n tio n e d in th e G r a y R e p o r t? H o w w ill th e s t a t e e s ti m a te th e a m o u n t i t n e e d s to b u d g e t f o r t h i s “ a d d i tio n a l c o s t” ? W e h a v e so f a r s e e n n o a tte m p ts to m a k e a n y e s ti m a te s o f th e lik e ly m a g n itu d e o f t h i s p a r t o f th e p r o g r a m . T h e s ta t e g r a n t s m a d e in 1954-55 to s e v e n c o u n tie s w h ic h h a v e s a id th e y w o u ld c e a s e o p e r a tin g t h e i r p u b lic sch o o ls a v e r a g e d $91 p e r p u p il, w h ic h is c o n s id e ra b ly h ig h e r th a n t h e a v e r a g e f o r th e s t a t e a s a w h o le, ( $ 7 4 ) . W h a t s o r t o f s c h o o lin g c a n b e b o u g h t f o r $ 9 1 ? I f th e s e s e v e n c o u n tie s u s e t h e i r ta x - le v y in g a u th o r ity to r a is e t h i s g r a n t to t h e “ o p e r a tin g c o s t p e r p u p il” , th e h ig h e s t 11 �o p e r a tin g c o s t a m o n g th e s e c o u n tie s , $ 1 91, s till s e e m s in a d e q u a te to b u y g o o d p r iv a te sch o o lin g . T h e G r a y R e p o r t d o es n o t m e n tio n a n y s ta n d a r d s t h a t w o u ld b e s e t u p to g o v e rn th e q u a lity o f e d u c a tio n in p r i v a t e sch o o ls, a n d i t s p e c ifica lly s u g g e s ts t h a t th e p r e s e n t r u le o f a n 1 8 0 -d a y sch o o l y e a r ( in o r d e r to b e e lig ib le f o r s ta t e g r a n t s ) b e re la x e d . A t th e p r e s e n t tim e i t is e s tim a te d t h a t 7 5 0 ,0 0 0 c h ild re n n o w a r e e n ro lle d in sch o o ls in V ir g in ia . O f th e s e , so m e 7 1 5 ,0 0 0 a r e in th e p u b lic s c h o o ls a n d o n ly a b o u t 3 5 ,0 0 0 in p r iv a te a n d p a r o c h ia l sch o o ls. W ith 9 5 % o f c h ild r e n in th e p u b lic s c h o o ls to d a y , i t is e a s y to see w h a t p u b lic e d u c a tio n m e a n s in V ir g in i a , a n d ev en e a s ie r to see w h a t w ill h a p p e n i f i t is a b o lis h e d . P o in t 18. T u itio n G r a n t P la n U n c o n s titu tio n a l. T h e T u itio n G r a n t P la n is u n c o n s titu tio n a l. T h is is a le g a l p o in t b u t a s im p le o n e . A la y m a n c a n u n d e r s ta n d i t a s w e ll a s a la w y e r . T w o p lu s tw o e q u a ls fo u r . e q u a ls a p u b lic school. A p r i v a t e p u p il p lu s p u b lic fu n d s U n d e r th e S u p r e m e C o u r t d e c isio n s , State action p ro v id in g p u b lic e d u c a tio n to c h ild re n on a ra c ia lly s e g r e g a te d b a s is v io la te s th e F o u r te e n th A m e n d m e n t o f th e U n ite d S ta te s C o n s titu tio n . T u i tio n g r a n t s w o u ld c o n s ti tu te State action. State action w a s f o u n d to e x is t in th e w h ite p r i m a r y c a s e s w h e re t h e S ta te p e rm ite d so -c alled p r i v a t e g r o u p s to o p e r a te th e m a c h in e r y o f D e m o c r a tic p r im a r ie s . State action w o u ld b e f o u n d to e x is t w h e r e th e S ta te s p e n t p u b lic fu n d s , ta x p a y e r s ’ m o n e y , f o r p r i v a t e sch o o ls a n d w h e r e s u c h sch o o ls a r e o p e r a te d o n a r a c ia lly s e g r e g a te d b a sis . M o re o v e r, u n d e r o u r o w n V ir g in i a S u p r e m e C o u r t o f A p p e a ls d e c isio n in Almond v . Day, i t w o u ld m a k e n o d iff e r e n c e w h e th e r th e p u b lic fu n d s w e re p a id d ir e c tly to th e so -c alled p r i v a t e sch o o ls o r in d ir e c tly to t h e p a r e n ts . I n t h e o p in io n o f o u r o w n c o u r t : “ I n b o th c a s e s, t h e p a r e n t a n d g u a r d ia n to w h o m th e tu itio n fe e s a r e p a id is m e re ly t h e c o n d u it o r c h a n n e l th r o u g h w h o m th e a id f r o m t h e s ta t e to th e sch o o l is m a d e .” A n d a g a in : “ W h e n w e c o n s id e r t h e n a t u r a l , re a s o n a b le a n d r e a lis tic e ffe c t o f th e p ro v is io n . . . f o r th e p a y m e n t o f t u itio n . . . o f e lig ib le c h ild re n w h o a tte n d p r iv a te sch o o ls . . . w e a r e fo r c e d to t h e c o n c lu sio n t h a t i t c o n s ti tu te s a d i r e c t a n d s u b s t a n t i a l a id to s u c h in s titu tio n s . . . .” 12 A t t h e j o i n t h e a r in g s o f N o v e m b e r 3 0 a n d D e c e m b e r 1, 1955 th e e m in e n tly a b le a n d f a i r c o u n se l f o r th e G ra y C o m m is sio n d id n o t a d v is e t h a t t h e T u i tio n G r a n t P l a n w a s c o n s titu tio n a l. H e d id a d v is e t h a t th e a s s ig n m e n t p la n w a s c o n s titu tio n a l. H e a c k n o w l e d g ed t h a t in th e T u itio n G r a n t P l a n w e w o u ld b e tr a v e lin g n e w p a t h s w h o se u ltim a te d e s ti n a tio n w e c o u ld n o t k n o w . T h e G . I. g r a n t s d o n o t g e n e r a lly a p p ly to e le m e n ta ry a n d h ig h sch o o ls. T h e ir c o n s ti tu tio n a lity , m o re o v e r, h a s n e v e r b e e n a tta c k e d . P o in t 19. T o o H ig h A P r ic e T o P a y . T h e v a lu e o f th e T u itio n G r a n t P la n is n e g lig ib le . T h e p ric e to o u r p e o p le is p ro h ib itiv e . P a y m e n t o f t u itio n g r a n t s to p r i v a t e sch o o ls d ir e c tly o r in d ir e c tly w ill c o n s ti tu te S ta te a c tio n a n d w ill c lo th e th o s e s c h o o ls w ith a p u b lic n a tu r e . I f w e c a n n o t p r e v e n t a N e g ro c h ild f r o m e n te r in g a p r e s e n t p u b lic sch o o l on th e b a s is o f ra c e a lo n e , w e c a n n o t p r e v e n t h im f r o m e n te r in g a sch o o l p a r tia lly s u p p o r te d b y p u b lic fu n d s . T h e r e f o r e , i f t h e C o n s titu tio n is a m e n d e d a n d t h e T u itio n G r a n t P la n a d o p te d , w e s h a ll s till h a v e th e v e r y p r o b le m w e f a c e to d a y . W e s h a ll h a v e re m o v e d f r o m o u r C o n s titu tio n o n e o f th e k e y s to n e s o f o u r p u b lic f r e e sch o o l s y s te m a n d w ill h a v e a cc o m p lis h e d n o th in g e x c e p t t h e t r a n s f e r o f o u r d ile m m a f r o m o n e s e t o f sch o o ls to a n o th e r . W e s h a ll h a v e g o tte n n o w h e re . O u r w e a p o n w ill h a v e b e co m e a s w o r d o f a s h e s . A n d w h a t a p r ic e w e s h a ll h a v e p a id ! W e s h a ll h a v e sold o u r b i r t h r i g h t o f p u b lic e d u c a tio n f o r a m e ss o f p o tta g e c o n ta in in g n o th in g e x c e p t c o n fu s io n a n d f r u s t r a t i o n . P o in t 20. R a d ic a l A m e n d m e n t N o t N e c e s s a ry . I t is n o t n e c e s s a r y to a m e n d S e c tio n 141 so r a d ic a lly in o r d e r to a id w a r o r p h a n s , N e g ro g r a d u a t e s tu d e n t s a n d o th e r s f o r m e r ly r e c e iv in g p u b lic g r a n t s a t p r i v a t e sch o o ls. I f s u c h w e r e th e p u r p o se, th e n t h e a m e n d m e n t to 141 c o u ld h a v e b e e n lim ite d to s e rv e th o s e v e r y n e e d s . H o w e v e r, t h e p ro p o s e d a m e n d m e n t e x te n d s f a r b e y o n d th o s e n e e d s a n d c o v e r s a ll s tu d e n t s a t a ll n o n - s e c ta r ia n p r i v a te sch o o ls, e le m e n ta r y a n d h ig h sch o o ls. D u r in g th e p a s t y e a r o n ly 6 w a r o r p h a n s r e c e iv in g s t a t e a id w e re a t p r iv a te sch o o ls. A b o u t 1 0 % o f th e p e r s o n s e n ro lle d in th e R e h a b ilita tio n p r o g r a m w e r e e n ro lle d in p r iv a te sch o o ls. L a s t y e a r 580 N e g ro e s re c e iv e d $ 1 4 9 ,0 0 0 to h e lp p a y th e c o s t o f g r a d u a te s tu d y 13 �a t o u t- o f - s ta te c o lleg es. A p p ro x im a te ly $ 50,000 w a s a p p r o p r ia te d f o r th e c u r r e n t b ie n n iu m f o r 66 te a c h e r s tu d e n t s e n ro lle d a t p r iv a te co lleg es. $ 2 2 ,0 0 0 w a s a p p r o p r ia te d f o r s c h o la r s h ip s f o r n u r s e s b u t a p p a r e n t ly n o n e o f th o s e is b e in g s p e n t in p r i v a t e sch o o ls. T h e H ig h w a y D e p a r tm e n t h a s 2 79 p e r s o n s ta k i n g c o u rs e s a t p r iv a te sch o o ls, m a in ly c o rre s p o n d e n c e c o u rs e s in h ig h e r e n g in e e r in g , a t a c o s t o f a b o u t $ 4 6 ,0 0 0 . A ll o f t h i s a d d s u p to n e a r ly 800 p e r s o n s a t a m a x im u m c o s t o f $ 2 2 5 ,0 0 0 w h o s e e d u c a tio n w a s i n te r r u p te d o r in te r f e r e d w ith b y th e Almond v. D ay r u lin g . I n o r d e r t o ta k e c a r e o f a ll o f th e m , i t s h o u ld b e re p e a te d , th e C o n s titu tio n c o u ld b e a m e n d e d in a m u c h le ss r a d ic a l w a y t h a n t h a t p ro p o s e d in th e r e f e r e n d u m . I t n e e d n o t b e a m e n d e d so a s to p e r m i t p u b lic g r a n t s to a ll s tu d e n t s a t a ll n o n - s e c ta r ia n p r i v a t e schools. 1 4 14 �NEW ELL-C O LE COMPA ALEXANDRIA. VlRGINI � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Virginia Society for Preservation of Public Schools, Information Sheet on Referendum Monday, January 9, 1956 Description An account of the resource Information Sheet compiled and published by the Virginia Society for Preservation of Public Schools against amending the constitution and tuition grants. 9 pages Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Virginia Society for Preservation of Public Schools Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_3_10_6 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/832a3093e8bb61310e3a8d39c6c9c4bc.pdf bc40340df89467d08b23f99d3f10138f PDF Text Text J Dear 1 “r. Robinson: nr. u enderson told rae a week ago that you were coming and that I was to write you more about the meeting. Bob Reod, Chairman of the Education Committee of CCSP told me Tuesday he was nailing me ns memo to send on to you. The memo finally reached me last night having been forgotten in e coat poacket. . 'Vith. respect to enclosed memo: Bon Muse as you know, is wholeheartedly for integration, he is well informed an moderate in tone. Cox is the most conservative member of the Arl Sc. Bd. (Iris term spires next month) he comes from Georgia and ten yearn or so in this area have not changed his prejudices much. Senator Fenwick febls as a member of Gray Com. he should not disagree with Report. The meeting will be at Q p.m. at .Arlington Unitarian Church, 4444 Arlington Blvd. (entrance from S. Pershing Drive.) Will you bo driving or coming on the train? If you come by train one of us could meet you at Alexandria. It would be fine if you could have a little meeting with some of the officers of the Arl. NAACP before the meeting. aybe Atty. E. C. Brown could join us too. To get back to the meeting the Community Council for Social ri*ogress is an i3iterraclal group founded about six years ago. 'e liave had meetings on different agnles of integration (see enclosures) and most of the members are quite well informed. The CCSP requested the Arl. Sch. Bd. to integrate schools last Sept. The Arl. Council cf Church omen and the Arl. Branch Am. Ass, of university Women are co-sponsoring the meeting and there will probably bo an audience of at least S00, If you could plan to get here in time to have supper at about six wi th a small group of us it would be fine. Cordially yours. u. 6897 Washington Blvd. Arlington 13, Va. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter to Mr. Robinson Description An account of the resource Unsigned letter to Mr. Robinson informing him of details for a Community Council for Social Progress meeting he will be attending Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant unknown Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. 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Title A name given to the resource Handwritten Notes Description An account of the resource Handwritten notes containing people's names. 2 pages Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barbara Marx (?) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant unknown Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_3_10_3 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/4ce3ab777cde82cc7213a10a60806a52.pdf 029d8b569fa6a7284c7566a847b8ba18 PDF Text Text MEWS RELEASE HARRIS® M E N NATIONAL 8-5383 11/28/55 RELEASE IMMEDIATELY Harrison Mann, Arlington Delegate, today announced that he would vote to submit the question of holding a limited Constitutional Convention to a vote of the people,* "I believe that the people are entitled to determine for themselves whether or not they wish to amend the Constitution. I cannot subscribe to the contention of opponents to the referendum that the people of Virginia should not be given the right to decide the issue. Such a position shows distrust of democratic forms and is untenable0 "Standing alone this is sufficient reason for me to vote for the bill submitting to the qualified voters the question whether there shall be a convention. However, I shall vote for the measure for the following additional reasons: "First, a clear grant of power to the General Assembly is necessaxy to authorize continuance of the program of providing educational grants in aid to war orphans, financial assistance in the training of the physically and mentally handicapped, tuition grant to those attending regional schools of higher learning and scholarships for teachers and nurses to remedy shortages in these fields. "For years Virginia has appropriated thousands of dollars to be spent for this educational assistance in non-publie institutions. This year there were approximately a thousand people receiving this aid, includ ing those in the industrial rehabilitation program for the handicapped, as �(P a g e 2 , RELEASE, H a r r i s o n M ann, 1 1 /2 8 /5 5 ) w e ll as hundreds o f s t a t e employees who a re re c e iv in g in - s e r v ic e tr a i n i n g from p r iv a te i n s t i t u t i o n s , Payment o f th e s e funds stopped some weeks ago when th e V irg in ia Supreme C ourt held t h a t th e re was i n s u f f i c i e n t a u th o r ity f o r themc " I t seems stra n g e t h a t opponents to p r iv a te e d u ca tio n g ra n ts to avoid enforced in te g r a tio n should suddenly d isc o v e r t h a t what V irg in ia has been doing f o r y e a rs i s now wrong 0 Nor do th e s e same people o b je c t to th e United S ta te s government paying t u i t i o n and o th e r e d u c a tio n a l expenses f o r use in p r iv a te i n s t i t u t i o n s to m illio n s o f v e te ra n s under th e GI B i l l of R ig h ts, "Second, th e e n ti r e su ccess of th e middle-way Gray Commission plan i s based on amendment o f See, lL|.l o f the C o n s titu tio n a A dvocates o f i n t e g ra tio n know t h i s . o u sly . T hat i s why th ey oppose amendment o f Sec 0 lltl so v ig o r M isleading sta te m e n ts a re bein g made denying t h a t th e c o n s t it u t io n a l q u e stio n has anything to do w ith i n te g r a t i o n . The Gray Commission r e p o rt i t s e l f makes t h i s sta te m e n t, 'W ithout such means, enforced in te g r a tio n could n o t be e f f e c ti v e ly ^ v o i d e d ...' "T hird, th e Gray Commission p la n s t o avoid e nforced in te g r a tio n ag a in s t th e w i l l o f th e people i s th e m oderate approach between two ex trem es. I t i s th e a lt e r n a t iv e to t o t a l abandonment o f th e p u b lic school system in many s e c tio n s o f th e S ta te where th e people would v o te to re fu s e f u r th e r funds fo r i t s su p p o rt. C ontrary to a s s e r tio n s o f i t s in te g r a tio n - i s t c r i t i c s , i t i s th e one way to b rid g e a gap and a t th e same tim e p re se rv e th e p u b lic school system ." -3 0 - � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Release, Harrison Mann, November 28, 1955 Description An account of the resource Statement of Arlington Delegate Harrison Mann explaining his decision to vote for the referendum regarding holding a constitutional conventional. 2 pages Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Harrison Mann Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_3_10_1 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/0693eabae67b09f785d889132549e1f3.pdf b2d6c7252c0b236527788fe90e4166da PDF Text Text May 20, 1948 To Supporting Organ!satS on a. The Citizens' O ji.: ittec Against Segregation in Recreation i: Washington, D. C, Friends: As Chairman of the Recreation Co.Timittee of the D. C. Branch of the 1 i A C P, 1 we called a conference of individual citizens and representatives of organizations in July, 1945 to see what could be done to oppose the attempt of the Recreation 3oard to legalize segregation in public recreation. The accompanying report pre sents to you a brief account of what we tried to do to save Washington from another social stigma. It was conceived by all of us most alarming that supposed patriotic leader ship in Washington, D. C. during the beginning of a great war dedicated to remov ing from the world the bestiality of Hitlerism, was moving in the direction of racial fascism right here in the capital of one of the contending nations. Many of us consecrated ourselves to the task of trying to make of Washington a city in which the ideals for which the world was fighting, might be exemplified through maintenance of free recreation. To this task your Executive Board and many other representatives have given a great deal of time, energy, and money, in the work to elLflinate this facet of intolerance. We owe much to the splendid support of some of the reporters and editors of the daily and weekly press. We depended on some individuals more than others, but all were helpful and rendered aid whan called upon. Copies of this report can be secured from the office of the U A A C P at 2002 - 11th St., N W . We hope that from its pages those who in the future will engage in the crusade for right against wrong, will find material that will be helpful. For the Committee Signed: E. B. Henderson, Chairman Contents: SUPPLEMENT TO PI A 3 R REPORT Page Organizations Composing C A S H - -- - - - - 1 formation of C A S R - Protested "By-Lav;" - - - - - - - 2 Protest to D. C. Recreation Board - - Page 3; Interior Dept. Policy 4 Senator Bunton Deletes "Segregation"~3efttion of bill - - - - - - - 4 C A S R Begins Fight on Policy of A A U - Uline - Boys' Club - - - - 5 Tourist Camp Policy - - - Page 6 ; C I O Tests Recreation Policy - 6 C A S K Fights A A U Racial Sanctions Page 6 ; C A S H Pickets - 7 Uline Challenged - - Page 8; Examplesof Interracial Activity - - 9 'Washington Post Supports Anti-Segregation in Boxing - - - - 9 Washington Daily News Battles Prejudice - - - - - - - 10 N A A C P Lawyers Aid Boxers Against A A U - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 Court of Appeals Rules for Colored Boxers - - - - - - - - - - 11 C A S R Works for Open Golden Gloves - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 Discrimination in Boys' Clubs - - - - - - - - - 12 Police Boys' Club Perfect Pattern of Racial Fascism - - - - - - - 13 C A S H , Against Surrender of Federal Recreation to Local Board - - - 13 Recreation Board Puts in Record Complete Jim Crow Policy - - - - - 45 Expensive and Social Waste in Playground Operation - - - - - - - 49 �May 20, 1948 FINAL REPORT OF CITIZENS COMMITTEE AGAINST SEGREGATION IN RECREATION From June - 1945 to Wpril - 1948 In recent years the increased activity of the N A A C P and the C C R made it seem advisable to dissolve the special committee which was organized by the Recreation committee of the D. C. Branch of the N A A C P« Among the organiza tions which subscribed to the objectives of the Citizens Comniittee Against Segregation in Recreation in 1945 were the following: A K A Ncn-Partisan Council N A A C P, D. C. Branch American Association of University Women National C I O , Committee American Legion, Posts Nos, 2 and 5 to Abolish Discrimina American Youth for Democracy tion B'Nai Brith - Anti Defamation League Nat'l Catholic 'Welfare Com, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, A F of L Nat’ Council of Negro l Business and Professional Women’s League Women Nat’ Council for Permanent l Cafeteria Workers and Restaurant Workers Local #471 U F W A, C I O F £ P C C I O Local #10 Nat'l Farmers Union C I O Maritime Committee Nat'l Fraternal Council of Negro Churches Citizens Committee on Race Relations Nat'l Lawyers Guild College Alumnae Club Council of Negro Labor Leaders Nat'l Negro Congress Nat'l Sorority of Phi D, C. Health, Physical Education and Recreation Association Delta Kappa Employees’ Local #9, A F of L Nat'l Women's Trade Union Far Northeast Council League Federation of Civic Associations, Inc, Oldest Inhabitants Ass'n Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Washington, D. C. Federation of P T A People's Action Committee Fellowship of Reconciliation Phyllis Wheatley Y W C A Hotel Service Workers Local #80, A F of L Sigma Delta Tau - Beta Howard University Youth Council Chapter (Legal Frat,) I B P 0 Elks of the World, Southeast House Civil Rights Committee Southern Conference for Independent Funeral Directors Human Welfare Institute of Race Relations Supreme Liberty Life Ins. Interdenomination Ministers Alliance (District Office) League of Women choppers Society of Friends Local Dining Car Union, A F of L U F W A District Council, Mall Tennis Club CI O Pruachors Union U 0 P W A Local #27, C I O Washington Committee on Racial Democracy Washington Cooperative Bookshop Washington Council of Washington Federation of Social Workers Churches Washington Housing Com. Washington Industrial Union Washington Urban League Council, C I O Y M C A, 12th St. Branch Women's Internat'l League f o r Federation of Churches, Peace and Freedom S o c i a l A c t i o n C-oramit t ~ War Registers' League ee �The officers and the Executive Board of C A S R in office at the dissolution of the Committee in April, 3948, .'ere: Executive Board: E. B. Henderson, Chairman Kenneth Pohlimann, Vice President Gladys Edmonson, Secretary Delilah Pierce, Treasurer W. S. Anderson Gertrude Evans Charles S. Hill Wendall A. Parris In conclusion, it is the concensus of those of us who remained until the end of the work of this committee, that a record of what we have done might serve those who will continue to keep up the fight for justice and civil rights for all people. Cd tizens Committee Against Segregation in Recreation Formed The Citizens C A 3 R was formed at a conference called by the Recreation Committee of the N A A C P at the Y M C A on Friday, June 20, 1945. Represen tatives of labor, religious, civic and recreational groups met to plan a campaign for the "abolition of the rule, adopted by the D. C. Board of Recreation on June 12, 1945, providing for racial segregation in public recreation facilities." was Dr. E. Bu Henderson, chairman of the Recreation Committee of the N A A C elected Vice Chairman; Kenneth E. Pohlman of the Southern Conference for Human welfare was elected Vice Chairman; U. Simpson Tate of the U F W, SecretaryTreasurer; Mrs. Delilah W. Pierce of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Assistant Secretary. Other members of the Executive Board were: W. S. Anderson* Gertrude Evans, Charles S. Hill, Rev* Francis McPeek, E. Pauline Myers, wendall A. Parris, and Beatrice M. Reed. Among the organizations responding to the call were the N A A C P, the Council of Negro Labor Leaders, the Washington Chapter S C H W, the Fraternal Council of Negro Churches, the Federation of Civic Associations, the Industrial Union Council and fifteen other groups. The issue of racial segregation in public recreation in the Nation's capital was considered of vital importance to all Americans. At the first meeting, Rev. William H. Jernagin of the Fraternal Council of Negro Churches said that, "this is the only Capital in the world which ic presently attempting to institute separate racial laws with peculiar rights and advantages for one group and under privileged and disadvantages for the oth*r, This is a queer logic for a govern ment to profess which is desirous of assuming the leadership of the world's family of nations - especially when tho majority of the world's people are members of darker races," Repeatedly throughout the years of the life of , C S A R, this argument was presented by many groups to win support for democrat ic operation of public recreation in the Nation's capital. The by-law that aroused many citizens adopted by the Recreation Board cn June 12, 1945 read as follows: Recreation programs for white residents shall be conducted in regions A - F and in designated city-wide centers. Recreation programs for Negro residents shall be conducted in regions G - K abd in designat ed city-wide centers." Immediately many colored and white citizens as individuals and representatives of 3 2 organizations, met to lay plans to protest the by-law adopted and to 3 eek nullification. �- 3 Protest to Recreation Board - June 12, 1945* On June 12th, these representatives to the number of more than 200, assembled in the Board Room of the Recreation Department and presented the follcwing argu ments: 1. There is no legal justification for the regulation in question. The history of the legislation setting up the Recreation Board shows that Congress considered and rejected a proposal to consider segregation in law* 2 0 The effect of the Board's ruling is to force discontinuance of unsegregated use of recreational facilities„ 3. The ruling of the Board imposes embarrassment and unjust hardship upon numer ous organizations with both white and colored memberships, and upon families of one race living where playgrounds are designated for the other race. 4, We are entitled to 144k to government agencies in Washington and the National Capital, to set an example of decent and democratic behavior for the Nation and for the United Nations. Speakers under the leadership of Attorney William H. Hastie against the "by law" were: Rev; Stanford J. Harris of the Mt. Vernon Methodist Church J. B. Tate, Pres. 'Washington Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Lt. Col. James S. Schramm Dr. Rayford Logan of Howard University Rev. Francis W. McPeek of the Federation of Churches Henry Beit sc her of the United Federal 'Workers of America Miss Betty Hays, Chairman, Washington Labor Canteen Robert Sherman, President of the Washington Industrial Union Council Lillian Evanti, for the Northwest Civic Association Ruth S. Ralph of the'United Office and Professional Workers of America Rev. J. F. Whitfield, pastor of the 12th Jt. Christian Church Austin" L. Fickling of the Brookland Civic Association The only proponents of segregation were Ernest F. Henry, Recreation Committee Chairman of the Federation of Citizens association, and Gordon M. Atherbolt of McArthur Boulevard Citizens1 Association. Involved in the controversy was the relationship of the federal recreation areas operated by the Recreation Department in face of an edict by the Interior Department that federal areas "shall be open to all people" without reference to race or color. Under operation of the Interior Department golf courses, tennis courts, and in fact, all federal recreation areas are free from racial restrictions, Mr. Irving C. Rotot, Supt. of National Capital Parks, and Mrs. Alice C. Hunter, Secretary of the Board, moved that the clause be stricken out of the by-laws of the Recreation Board. They were outvoted 3 to 2. Voting for the by-laws were: James E. Schwab, Mrs. George A, Garrett, Walter L. Fowler, representing the D. C. Commissioners on the Board. Mr. C. Melvin Sharpe was absent and Chairman Harry S. Wender did not vote. Supporting the Interior Department's stand. Acting Secretary of the Interior wrote a letter to the Recreation Board on July 11, 1946, ten days before the Board acted, regretting the Recreation Board had incorporated in its by-laws "provisions for the segregation of white and Negro recreation programs." Mr. Fortas, Acting Secretary of the Interior wrote that, "a policy of non-segregation has been in effect in areas under jurisdiction of the United States Department of the Interior for a considerable period of time and has operated satisfactorily within the District of Columbia as well as outside thereof. This jisrm.uiii.ms uso o f park are;® �- 4 by members of both races has demonstrated the practicability of adherence to the principle of equal rights which is affirmed by the Federal Constitution," Mr. Fortas continued, "I hereby advise you that the United states Department of the Interior reaffirms its policy of non-segregation. This policy will be con tinued in all areas under the jurisdiction of this department. It applies to areas under the ..policy control of the .Secretary-.of the Interior,even though pro grams utilizing facilities within those areas are administered by the Recreation Board." The Recreation Board’s chairman, Harry 3. Wender, defended the Board's action on the ground that Public Law 534 (77th Congress) "specifically spelled out that the recreation program should be operated on a colored and white basis as set up by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission before the Board was created." The basis of defense by the Board for its segregation policy largely depends upon the interpretations given to the phrase in the law providing among other things, that "the Capital Parks and Planning Commission, in accordance with a comprehensive plan, as suitable and desirable units of the D. C. Recreata.on System." To offset this contention however, was the decided action of Congress to eliminate Jection 7 of Article III of the original bill which would have recogniz ed the segregation plan under the Community Center and Playgrounds Department. Here follows the action taken by the Congress as quoted from the Congressional record of the 77th Congress: Senator Burton Deletes Section Recognizing Segregation. On March 30, 1942, the senator proceeded to consider the Bill H. R. 5075, to create a recreation board for the District of Columbia, to define its duties, and for other purposes, which had been reported from the Committee on the District of Columbia. Section 3 of Article II Functions and Administrative Responsibilities of the Board provides among other duties, "The public properties utilized by the Board for the above purposes shall include those designated by the National Cap ital Parks and Planning Commission, in accordance with a comprehensive plan, as suitable and desirable units of the District of Columbia recreation system." It is this statement upon which the Recreation Department defends its assumed right to operate a segregated system of recreation. The "comprehensive plan" refers to a diagram showing the Recreation areas of the city as designed by T. C. Jeffers of the Commission in 1929, which shows 26 major centers. In the legend, centers are indicated as follows: Areas enclosed in solid lined circles are marked: "MlGHBGRHGOD RECREATION CENTER," and those with broken lined circles are marked: (WHITE) "NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION CENTER." This is the only indication and could easily (COLORED) be interpreted to mean areas used largely by white or colored people. No act of the District government provides for segregation or isolation of one group or the other from any areas. Section 7 of Article III of the bill reads: "The plan or system for the ad ministration. operation, and conduct of recreation facilities in use by the Comaiunit.y Center and Playgrounds Department of the District of Columbia at the time of the passage and approval of this act is hereby adopted and made the permanent policy for the administration, operation and conduct of all recreation facil ities placed by this act under the jurisdiction of the Board. The Board �- 5 shall continue to rncognize coordinate authority of white and colored personnel in the administ.:..ationoperat ion <:d c onduct of the respective programs to be -t . adopted, conduc ed, E rected,, and supervised by the Hoard under the terms of this act..1 1 As a result of conferences with representatives of the N a A C P and other citizens, Mr. Burton was prevailed upon to remove the above section which would have given legislative sanction to a policy of segregation,. Whereupon, at the end of the reading of the bill in the Jenate, Senator Burton "Moved to strike out Section 7 Article III" for the committee. The amendment was agreed to. v/hereopon the Senator moved to raise sections 8 and 9 to position of sections 7 and 8. These latter two amendments simply repealed an?J acts in conflict with this act and provided for the act taking effect 30 days after passage.* The house con curred in this amendment. It is easy to see that it was therefore the intent of Congress not to legis late "segregation" in the act setting up the Board of Recreation. Throughout the act are references to the use of buildings and grounds under jurisdiction cf ether agencies such as the National Capital Parks and the Beard of Education, but Jection 3 of article III expressly states that nothing in the act "shall be construed to abridge the powers of the Board of Education, the Com missioners of the District of Columbia, or the National Park Jervice to refuse the use of any such ground, building or facility... and nothing herein expressed or implied shall be construed to abrogate any powers vested in the Board of Educa tion by the organic act of 1906.Oo" References to race are also to be noted under Article I, Section I of the bill which provides that "The appointment of the four citizens shall be without regard to race, sex, or creed, and shall take judicious account of the parent, civic, and other organizations through which residents of the District voice their civic-wishes and advance the common welfare." Section 2 of Article II also pro vides, "Their salaries (personnel* and positions shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, without regard to race, sex, or creed..," It has been hard to see how the Recreation Board can interpret the Bill authorizing its existence as granting the Board the right to impose racial segrega tion. It can be construed that the plat indicating certain grounds as white or colored in the "Comprehensive Plan" referred to simply means areas largely used by the races, mainly because of residence, C S A R Begins Fight on A A U, Uline, Boys Clubs. In January 1946, C A J R voted to extend its operations to include in its program opposition to: 1, The Amateur Athletic Union ban on interracial sport. 2, The policy of Uline Arena which admitted colored citizens to boxing and wrestling shows, but denied them admission to ice hockey, the Icecapades, basketball and 3ome othor shows 3, The policy of the Police Boys Club which segregates all colored boys to one building and activities of one club - No, 2 - and which denies colored cit izens membership on the Bor-rd of sixty directors, 4, The policy of the Boys Clubs of Washington whioh denies boy* entry into the elnlxs and aoti v iti . - �On January 2, 1946, C A S R learning of attempted discriminatory racial practioss at the Tourist Camp in East Potomac Park, the Chairman wrote to the Department of the Interior, Mr. Oscar Chapman, Assistant secretary of the Department ^ January 2, 1946 My dear Mr. Henderson: I am pleased to inform you that this department contemplates no change in the established policy of non-segregation in connection with the operation of the East Potomac Park tourist facilities. The Touriit Camp was established by authority of the Congress for the primary purpose of accomodating visitors to the National Capital who, regardless of race er creed, desire adequate quarters convenient to the principal points of tourist interest in Washington at nominal rates. As the federal agency in charge cf the operation of the Nation al Capital Park Jystem, we feel that a visit to Washington should netonly fulfil their recreational requirements, but also should contri bute to their knowledge and their pride in our form of government. Jincerely yours, (Signed) Oscar Lj Chapman Assistant Secretary C I 0_Attempts to Test Recreation Policy In June 1946, the C I O Industrial Union Council announced to the RecreationDepartment that it would stage "mixed" tennis games on the Rose Park playground. These games were played without interference by the Department of Recreation. Throughout 1946 and 1947, C A 3 R and its component organizations battled against bigotry and proponents of race prejudice and discri dnation based on race or color. Some of the projects were crowned with partial success. C A S R Fights a A U Discriminatory Sanctions For years, the Amateur Athletic Union of Washington, D. C. prohibited "mixed" amateur athletics by the device of writing upon the back of sanctions it issues to any organization applying for permission to conduct a tournament, the follow ing proscription: "The Registration Co.!iraittee of the D. C. Association of the A A U does .not sanction mixed racial competition or exhibition in any sport under its jurisdiction. Accordingly, this sanction is grant ed with the dis tinct understanding that there will be no interracial competition on the program for which this sanction is given. Any infraction will result in suspension of the athletes involved and refusal of further sanctioning to the sponsoring organization," After many conference with A A U officials we could get nowhere with them. The Y M C A applied for membership and sent a checx of \^10, for membership. It was returned without comment. We refused to set up a Jim Crow auxiliary. The Y M C A stopped staging boxing events and attempted to enter Y boys in the A A U boxing tournaments. When this was refused, the boys entered suit against the A A U and were defended by Attorneys Hayes, Hastie and Ransom. �C A S R has also attempted to secure abolition of the discriminatory prac tices cf the Boxing Commission ^nd to provide a more democratic organization. Although .aany thousands of dollars accrue to the Boxing Co omission from its opex*ation, very little filters back to colored .athletic groups nor any to color ed people as officials or employees of the Boxing Commission, The salaries of two members of the Commission, the secretary, referees, physicians, inspectors, etc. are paid from the huge sums derived from the percentage of gate receipts and fees received. This has amounted to approximately $30,000 in some seasons. In one year, a sura of $4,000 left over was divided between clubs sponsoring boxing. Of this sum, only Howard University Athletic Department received $200. Yet there were a half dozen colored groups supporting boxing. The excuse offer ed was that they failed to apply for benefits. Of the whole galaxy of paid officials, only one colored physician has been used as a judge. There are all sorts of alibis given. The only sound thing to do is to have colored representa tion on the Commission. This is justifiable largely in view of the fact that colored boxers attract thousands of colored spectators and are responsible fcr the great crowds which pay expenses of the Commission. Before "mixed" boxing, the promoters were operating in the red. Organized citizens should insist upon a fair or equitable proportion of the jobs paid for by the Commission, This is yet to be done. One of the jobs done by C A 3 R, was to supply information to and assist various agencies working in the field of battering race relations. Among the groups ao served were the Social Survey Committee of the Council cf Social Agencies, the Citizens Committee on Race Relations, the President's Committee on Civil Rights and the Rosenwald .Survey. The Committee has also supplied informa tion to many other individuals and organizations concerning discrimination in recreation C A S R Helps Fight for Liberal Theatre C A 3 R also supported the fight for liberalizing the legitimate theatre here in Washington. This has been done by sending telegrams to Actors Equity and by aiding the Council for Civil Rights. flany conferences have been held with individuals and committees in the fight against the Recreation Board, the Boys Clubs and with officials in many of the departmental agencies. Many thousands cf bulletins, letters, dodgers, etc. have been distributed to spectators at athletic events, to the press and to interested persons and organizations. C A S R Pickets Members of the C A S E themselves and with the help of hundreds of individ uals have engaged in picketing and passing out circulars at nearly all the Golden Glcves and A A U boxing events, and at Uline's Arena in protest against his racial policy. Night after night, men and women and boxers from the Y M C A and Police Boys' Club No. 2 walked in all kinds of weather to demonstrate against Hitler's racial policy in effect here in J. C. The wording on sane of the pla cards was: "Mixed Pro Bouts Every Weety Why Not Amateur?" "Washington, D. C. - Only United Nation Capital Condoling Race Prejudice?" "25,000 Negro Boys From D. C. Fought Fascism In This *var." "Boycott the A A U Jim Crow oports: Jim Crow 3ports Are Un-American.""We Oppose American Hitlerism - Youth Council - N A A C P, Boys' Clubs, Y M C A, C I 0." �- 3 " U N O Turns Down D. C. Because of Jim Crow." "D. C. - Jim Crew Boxing Capital of the World," "Why Were 2 5 , 0 0 0 Negro Boys Cent From D. C. To Fight In Europe For Freedom — Denied Came in D. C." "We Salute The Washington Post," "Uline Professes Being Catholic Christian - Practices Racial Fascism." "A1 Weil Promotes Jim Crow." "Don’t Buy Ice Where You Can't See Ice Shows." C A S R Challenges Uline The attempt to cause a change in the exclusion policy of the Uline Arena finally was crowned with success and was a notable one in which C A 3 R played an outstanding part. When it became evident that the policy of barring colored citizens from the Ice Shows, Ice Hockey Games and professional basketball games, while admitting them to what was termed, "low culture" events like boxing and wrestling, was firmly established, C A S H campaigned relentlessly against the policy. Early in 1944* a committee consisting of Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Oscar Chapiflanj former Assistant secretary of State, G. Howland Shaw; Dr. Frederick Reissig of the Federation of Churches and the chairman of C A 3 R, called on Mr, Uline to protest his ban on colored spectators. Following his refusal to modify his policy, C A S R organized pickets which demonstrated every season at athletic events and on many of the nights of the Icecapades. The Committee also did everything possible to dissuade organizations from using the Arena. Among those who were urged not to rent the Hall - e e Billy Rose's wt"Carmen Jones" and the Conference of the Regional Methodist Church, Because of the campaign, many organizations were deterred from contracting for use of the Arena. Despite the fact that the Arena was objected to, professional fight promoters insisted on staging fights there. Little by little, the attendance of colered people grew smaller and smaller until the fight promoters gave up. But the straw that broke the back of Uline management was the continual refusal of colored fans to attend even when the "mixed" Golden Gloves event of 1947 was staged there, as a fielder's choice between keeping colored boxers out of the Golden Gloves which was held at Uline's Arena and the boycott against Uline, the Chairman of C A 3 R, in face of divided sentiment, advocated: 1, 2, That the boys should enter to box. That colored spectators should maintain a boycott. After the first few nights, Dick O'Brien, promoter of the Golden Gloves tourna ment was asked about leasing the hall for the next season. He called attention to the fact that even so popular an event as mixed amateur boxing was not at tracting colored fans. Within a week Mr. Uline called a press conference and announced a cessation of discrimination in any event. Ever since that, colored people have been admitted to any and all events. Thousands of high school child ren have learned to or enjoyed skating and many oclored people have seen Ice dhows for the first time. Credit must be given to many organizations for assist ing in this campaign against Uline's policy. Particularly helpful was th<? work done by a group callin 3 themselves the Peoples Action Committee which was listed among the beginning organizations affiliated with C A S R. �9 Instances of Interracial Activity To substantiate the fact that children are not normally prejudiced and that there are many adults who are bold enough to carry on in the face of a pattern of racial discrimination, we cite a few of the many instances of interracial activity: 1. Although the Boys' Clubs operate a color line, for several years the settlement houses have held interracial track, basketball and softball meets* 2. Colored and white people participate on the Mall, other federal tennis courts and in Rose Park, D. C, Playground courts* 3. Professional and amateur boxing takes place all ever Washington weekly. There has never been a disorderly incident based on race. 4. George Washington University, Catholic University and Maryland University no longer object to playing teams on which are colored players. 5. The Star Indoor Track Meet at the Armory was conductee without color distinction in spectator and athletic participation, 6. Many softball games between white and colored teams occur annually. 7. Professional basketball games take place regularly at Turner's Arena be tween white and colored teams. 8. Howard University is scheduling more and more games with white opponents. 9. White and colored childreh play together in many places all over the city except where supervision by white adults seek to prevent. 10, There are a number of interracial clubs of teen-agers learning to live together,. 11, Several nursery schools and private schools are interracial. 12, The first open Amateur Union outdoor meet was held at the Maryland University track on May 4, 194&. G h S R Aided by Press The C A S R has always depended on the Negro press for much of its program, Publicy in this day is essential to promotion of any cause. The Committee feels what it has achieved and for what consciousness of the problems it has created in the mind of the public, is due largely to the splendid support of the Afro-American, Pittsburgh Courier and occasionally of the Journal and Guide and the Chicago Defended. £ i? On December 27, 1945, the chairman of C A 3 R wrote Mr. Eugene Meywe, Publish er and editor of the Washington Post, again calling his attention to the continued unfair practices of the local A A U. He was informed of the opposition of Dan. Ferris, secretary of the National A A U, to the use of the sanctioning powers t« discriminate against colored athletes, was told of the general unfairness of the A A U, and was urged to withdraw the support of his paper as a sponsor of the A A U events. To this request, the following letter was sent followed by a box announce ment in the Post withdrawing from sponsorship: January 2, 1946. Mr. Edwin B. Henderson, Chairman Committee of Recreation The N A A C P 100 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W. Washington 1, D. C. Dear Mr. Henderson: Your letter to Mr. Eugene Meyer, dated December 27, has been referred to me. I have to-day written to the Sports Department asking that it notify the �- 10- A A U that unless the ban against colored boys be removed, that we cannot sponsor the contest this year. So long as the A A U admits boys in other cities, and so long as mixed bouts are legal in Washington, I do not see where they have a leg to stand on in continuing the present policy. It is a completely stupid viewpoint so far as I am concerned. It may be contended that colored boys in town do not have the type of clubs and the type of training demanded by the A A U and that they must observe certain standards of training or supervision. I would not know about that. But I do know that so.^long as the objection is put on a color basis that their viewpoint is inde.nsible. The line of reasoning which prohibits a white boy from meeting a colored boy in amateur performance in Washington, but allows him to do so in Boston, is something that really goes beyond my slender powers. Yours very truly, Alexander F. Jones. On January 6, 1946, the following announcement was made by the Vvashington Post: "For two years, the Washington Post has s )onsored the District of Columbia amateur boxing championship tournament known as the Battle of Belts. There have been repeated requests that entries of colored amateurs be accepted for the toruanment. The District of Columbia Athletic Union has consistently refused to permit colored boys to compete. It ha3 maintained that position arbitrarily c despite the fact that the National A A U of which it is a member, has set forth that all amateur athletes are eligible for competition without regard to color or race. Bouts between colored and white fighters in the professional ring are sanctioned by the District Boxing Commission, and have been without so-called "incidents." The District A A U, however, chooses to bar colored boxers from the amateur championships because of what it chooses to call its duty to Washington’s social philosophy. The Washington Po 3 t also finds itself with a choice. In the interest of tolerance, it chooses to withdraw from the sponsorship of the A A U boxing tournaments, and herewith does." Washington Daily News, 1/7/46. THIS IS ON ME By Roger Treat Washington’s worshippers of Jim Crow took another slap in the face yesterday when it was announced that the Battle of Belts, a yearly amateur boxing tourna ment, would be abandoned because the local chapter of the Amateur Athletic Union chooses to bar Negro boxers because of its "duty to Washington's social philosophy." This "duty" is a small part of the reason why Washington is unacceptable as head quarters for the U N 0, and of the reason why it is difficult for peoples in foreign countries to have much faith in a nation which talks a great game of high ideals, but fails to live them, even in the Capital city. The local A A U is operating in direct defiance of the national parent body, which wrote a letter to the local Board several years ago. The letter was signed by Dan Ferris, national secretary, and advised the Washington group that the barring of Negro boxers was totally unwarranted. It did not add tnat it was disgraceful, but few would hesitate to add that description, . ." �- 11- Throughout 1946, Roger Treat, sports editor of the Washington Daily News, in many commentaries belabored the officers and governing body of the local A A U. An appeal m s made from time to time to get action on the Washington local A A U by the national officers. Many wrote condemning harshly the policy of the local body. Judge Bonniwell of Philadelphia, president of the Middle Atlantic Association of the A A U, called a meeting of his Board and unanimously the Board adopted a resolution "as exemplary of American amateur sportsmanship," to communicate with the national president and call upon him "to take such steps as will immediately secure to all athletes the same privileges that we accord our white, Indian, Hawaiian and oriental representatives." This was followed by similar action by the A th le tic Commission of the Jtate of Pennsylvania and other organizations. N A A C P Lawyers Aid Y H C A Boys in Legal Fi; ;ht Against A A U Early in 1945, lawyers for the N A A C P, Messrs. Hastie, Hayes and Ransom* sued the A A U to secure a declaratory .judgment on behalf of several of the boxers of the 12th Street Y M C A. Their boys were members of the D C A A U but were denied entry to the A A U meets. The lower court at the instance of the first trial "dismissed and denied the application for declaratory judgment." The case was taken to the United Jtates Court of Appeals, Here Justices Clark, Miller and Prettyman reversed the decision of the lower court* and ramanded the case xor trial on its mefcits. The Justices implied that ’ the A A U did not control through the sanctioning power the participation of local members in championships, local, national, or international; that the constitution and by-laws of the defendant A A U does not per.nit the restrictive sanction, that local athletes are first ualified for national competition by first competing in the District. The Judges averred that: "The gist of the case is narrow. The complaint says that plaintiffs are barred from District-wide, national and international championship athletic competition, by the body which has plenary power over all amateur athletic competition in this country, in violation of the constitution and by-laws of the body. The complaint is not that athletic events are held in which plaintiffs are not permitted to participate. The complaint is that plaintiffs are barred, totally, from the eventual selection of local, national and international champions and that the debarment is beyond the power of the Committee enforcing it. The rights upon which plaintiffs stand are the rights of members of the Unions in good standing. Appellees’ contention, implicit although not expressed, that the constitution, by-laws and regulations of the Unions are no part of the contract between pl^inriffs and the Unions, is beside the point and is also without merit. Members in good standing whose rights are invaded by an ultra virus act of a committee of the organization, are clearly entitled to relief and protection. Me need not speculate as to what proportion of their averments plaintiffs need prove in order to support the relief which they claim. On the record as it stands now, the only questions are whether the complaint and the affidavit show that there are genuine issues of material facts and whether the complaint, if pr proved as averred, states a claim for which relief can ge granted. In our view, the answers to both questions are affirmative. * United Jtates Court of Appeals - No* 9064 - Millie Farrell et al, Appelants~ V District of Columbia Amateur Athletic Union, a Corporation, et al, Appellees. Argues January 16, 1946 - Decided February 25, 1946, �- After the Track when the our lawyer and permit the A A standing being C A S H 12 - action of the A A U in November 1948 lifting the ban on Boxing and casecame up for trial, the A A U lawyer and representative and representative agreed to enter a non-s.iit, This was done to U to gradual]y withdraw its discriminatory practices. The under that the appelants may re-enter the suit for trial. Jorges for- Opening Golden Gloves to all Boxers__ In 1946, the chair.iian wrote to Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Times-Herald, calling attention to the action of the Washington Post in refusing to sponsor the A a U local boxing tournament, and suggested that the Times-Herald was powerful enough an institution to resist the sanction ban against mixed competition of the A A U. thereupon Mrs. Patterson announced to her management that if the colored people objected to conduct of the Golden Gloves under the ban, she would consider abandoning the contests. After a survey of sentiment, we assured her that the colored sports and the public did object to the Times-Herald sponsorship of the Golden Gloves tourney under A a U conditions. Mrs. Patterson then ordered cessation of the Golden Gloves tournament for 1947. A A U Votes to Partially Lift Ban Later in 1947, the A A U announced that a vote would be taken to consider taking the ban off frcm mixed boxing and track with certain reservations. Aided by the representatives of the Evening Star which anticipated an indoor track meet in the new Armory, and of the Times Herald, the A A U voted 12 to 4 to lift the ban on track and boxing, This action resulted in the first Golden Gloves tournament and the first A A U tournament, in which colored and white boys participated, and a track meet run along normal American lines. Colored boys won two of the eight city champ ionships in the Golden Gloves and four of the eight in the A A U championships. All traveled together to the nationals in each sport. Thus an outcome in victory for tolerance. At this writing, the fight is still on, to get the A A U to take off the ban completely. A weight lifting championship under the auspices of the A A U is being staged at the Jewish Community Center and colored boys have been denied entry. The case in the courts has been withdrawn pending an attempt at peaceful settlement of the problems leading to a complete democratization of the A A U policie s . Boys* Clubs Discriminate The C A 3 R has called to the attention of the people of Washington, the injustice of segregation or isolation of colored boys in Boys' Club. Although colored boy3 live in the Ghettos and most depressed districts and contribute the greater amount of delinquency, there are only two Boys' Clubs in which colored boys may participate. Both club houses are located in the northwest section of the city. Both are connected with the Police Department. No colored boys are served by the Washington Boys' Club. The most democratic club is the one known as the Junior Police and Citizens Corps. Its founder is Officer Oliver Cowan. He operates under the direction of Lt. Murphy, who directs the Juvenile Division of the Police Department, Cowan is a national figure and his methods have been studied throughout America, The Board of the J. P. C. C. is a "mixed" board of prominent citizens. The Corjw* participated in by boys of all races although the greatest number of branches compose mainly colored boys. He is doing a great job. �-13On the other hand, the Police Club for colored boys located at 12th and You Jtreets, serves all of the boys of Washington, at the one club house and is operated almost entirely on a segregated basis. It is not permitted to enter its members in events for all of the other clubs. Nor is any colored citizen permitted to serve on its Board of sixty Directors. The irony of the situation is that although police of all races and colors operate in the various precincts of the city, colored boys are not integrated in the various precinct boys' clubs. Many police officers, paid out of the general tax funds, areassigned on full time to duties in connection with these clubs. Police have been granted permission to solicit funds fhom citizens for the support of the police boys1 clubs, a practice condemned in many cities as dangerous to public welfare* The police Boys' Club, located at 12th and You, is supposed to serve colored boys all over D. C. Thus, to use the club, many of these boys must pay two car fares and spend hours of time going to and from the club. This club probably costs more to operate in capital outlay and improvements than any other club. The Board calls it the best club. As a monument to race prejudice, bigotry and stupid ity in the nation's capital, it helps to prove to the world that officialdom condones racial discrimination and segregation. There is no law providing for segregation in the District of Columbia, This club is a perfect example to the nation of the extent to which adult citizenship steeped in racial prejudice will go even in the use of public funds, for although many thousands of dollars are raised for operation of the clubs, the tax payers’ money is involved by possibly •350,000 in the pay of police who work with the club and solicit funds. We have sought by letter, circulars and conferences to publicize these cir cumstances and to persuade changes in policy, dome progress has been made, but the liberal adults are completely silenced by those who follow the pattern of racial bigotry. The Washington Boys Club is a part of a national organization. It raises . much money from the public. It has never permitted colored boys to enter any of its clubs, yet it heralds its work as work for all boys. Many thousands of dollars are invested in the Washington Boys' Club supposedly to prevent delinquency among underprivileged boys, yet it takes no account of the more than a hundred thousand boys who are unfortunate enough to be colored. The C A S H has attempted to get the Police Department and the Board of Directors of the Police Boys' Club to: 1, Recognize the worth and counsel of some colored citizens by placing them on the Board of sixty Directors. 2, Permit the colored boys to play in the scheduled games and tournaments. 3. Permit colored boys to attend the Police Boys' camp. 4. Permit colored boys, who live in the neighborhood of the clubs, in the various precincts, to attend these clubs. C A S R Opposes Surrender of D. C. Federal Recreation to D. C Recreation Board, The Department of Recreation is seeking to bring all of the federally owned and supervised recreation areas in the District of Columbia under its superbvision and control. The great mass of colored citizenry and hundreds of organizations of colored people throughout the Nation have opposed this. �- 14 Under the Interior Department and its subsidiaries, such as tne National Capital Parks, hundreds of acres of Federal grounds and buildings have been conducted for recreation with the ideals of democratic participation by all, free citizens as a policy. All agencies operating projects for the recreational use cf citizens of Washington and visitors to their Nation's Capital have been in structed to keep free from any racial discrimination. Areas operated free from official racial bias are the public golf and tennis courts^on Federal grounds, the tea house, bicycle and boat concessions and others. Frequently, colored children who sought to use bicycles were told that in order for them to hire bicycles they must leave a deposit of from $25. to $50. while white children deposited only < 5. Last year, C A S R reported to the Interior Department such p a case. Immediately an investigator was put on the case. The concessionaire was first warned. Later he was dismissed. One of the best examples of the possibility of democratic procedure in recreation can be seen in the presence of v/hite and colored tennis players on the Mall Tennis courts during the tennis season. Because of the many attempts before Congress to secure to the D. C. Recrea tion Board control over Eederal areas of recreation, our committee asked Mr. Harold Chinn to draw up the arguments for maintenance of control by the Federal Government until and unless the D. C. Board operates programs for all citizens, residents and visitors alike, free from discrimination because of race. The following statement was prepared by Mr. Harold Chinn, an active worker for a democratic program of recreation,.:in 1 9 4 7 : . In view of the fact that an attempt has been made in Congress to secure legislation to authorize the D. C. Recreation Board to operate all Public recreational facilities in the District of Columbia, it has become necessary to cite certain facts which should be weighed carefully before such legisla tion is enacted. At the present time - since June 12, 1945 - the D. C. Recreation Board has, in its by-laws (Chapter 4, lection 2, Paragraph 2) committed itself to the operation of a segregated system of recreation of all facilities now under the jurisdiction and/or control of the Board. This action was taken despite the fact that large sections of the population indicated at an epen hearing before the Board their disagreement with and opposition to the arbitrary policy of segregation adopted by the Board. Since this policy, in effect, prohibits the voluntary non-segregated use of public facilities now under control of the Board, we wish to point out the fact that the further extention of the area of control to facilities now undei the control of the National Park Service but operated for that agency by the D. C. Recreation Board, under private companies under Public Law 534, Article II, lection 2, would cornu-lit to segregated use, all federally owned facij.ities now being operated as open or non-segregated units. Specifically, we offer the following objections: 1. There is no legal justification for the compelling by regulation of the segregated use of such facilities whether they are owned by the District of Columbia or the Federal Government. �-15 The statute which created the Board, Public Law 534 - 77th Congress Chapter 265, 2nd Session, HR 5075) does not specify, and the history of the bill, demonstrates that the Congress considered and rejected by a majority vote, a pro posal to include a provision for segregation in the law (Section 7 of Title III HR 5075) at that time Senator Burton, after oonsultation with citizens* groups, moved and the ienite concurred in the deletion of the section which provided for a segregated recreational system. Later the House of Representatives also voted to delete the provision. 2. There is with the doubtful exception of the public school regulation in the District of Columbia no law or regulation in the District of Columbia code authorizing segregated use of any public facility. It is obvious, there fore, that the Code offers no precedent or authority for segregation in the use of tax supported facilities. 3. The so-called public school law enacted 85 years ago is not a valid precedent making mandatory a segregated recreational policy for the D. C. Recreation Board since the authority for the former is not binding upon the latter. Attention is directed to the rules of the Board of Education for the separa tion of the races for the purposes of education between the hours of 9 a, m. and 3 p. m. and to the by-laws of the Board of Education which state un equivocally that the public school buildings may be used after school hours provided that such use does not interfere with the primary educational purpose of school properties, that the school buildings are used for non commercial purposes, and that such agencies or organizations using them shall not be of a subversive character. The Board (of Education) in response to a direct inquiry has advised that the organization or agencies requesting the use of the buildings.control their own membership and programs as well as participation. It is cle^r, therefore, that the Board of Education has not imposed any limitation or dictated any restricted segregation policy upon the D. C. Recreation Board itself. 4. A further objection to the placing of all recreational facilities under the D. C. Recreation Board is that such control would only unduly restrict the programs of mixed groups who for years have used federally controlled facilities, but it would also impose greater economic hardships upon citizens who, because they are unable to use segregated neighborhood facilities must travel great distances to use federally owned non-segregated facilities, further extension, therefore, would enlarge this condition of displacement and voluntary use, 5. Moreover, the pattern of commercial recreation such as baseball, basketball, foot-ball and many other sports, operates generally in direct opposition to the policy of the Board. Mixed attendance a3 well as mixed participation in sports, is increasing, thereby demonstrating the fact that spectators as well as participants are progressively more democratic than the policy of the D. C. Recreation Board would indicate. It must be emphasized that public properties, the titles of which are in the United otates, should not be controlled by any Board which would impose segrega tion upon the citizens of the United Jtates. People come here from every section of the country to enjoy the facilities provided by their government and their right to do so should not be further jeopardized. �- 16 - The fact that this policy of segregation affects more white than colored is another compelling reason why public property should be free from restric tion, especially in the field of recreation where such use is casual, elastic and unpredictableu These large groups of citizens certainly should not be denied the rights to which they are entitled, 6, Finally, the fact that public funds are being expended to operate a recreational program for all the citizens in Washington, would preclude the validity of any administration action to inaugurate a program in contra diction to public law, whereby any group or groups of citizens are unduly restricted in their voluntary use of such public facilities. It is the intent of this group to support the efficient operation of a recreational program for all the citizens in Washington and we shall approve the control of all such facilities by the D. C. Recreation Board, provided the D. C. Recreation Board will operate all such facilities for all citizens upon a non-segregated basis. The Department of Recreation by May 191+8 has not ‘ ithdrawn its discrimina w tory "by-law." Neither has it attempted to resort to police force to prevent mixed group gatherings on its playgrounds. It is faced with so many contra dictory situations, and operates in so many ways at excessive costs to maintain segregation, that we predict the Board will have to modify its By-Laws" either of its own accord or by persuasion from court action. In 1946, the .'uporint r. c ent of Recreation wa 3 asked several pertinent questions to interpret the -tbitude of the Board of Recreation with reference to operation of the Ldpartm^nt. The letters follow: April 15, 1947 Mr. Milo Christiansen, Chairman Board of Recreation Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Christiansen: The D. C. Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is writing this letter to bring the following to your attention: The Howard University Chapter which is directed by and through the D. C. Branch, held a legislative conference recently in the District of Columbia, We have been informed by them that a Committee from the Howard Chapter requested the use of Banneker Center for the purpose of entertainment. It is said that this consent was granted by those in charge, later to be rescinded with the explanation tnat it is not the policy of the Board of Recreation to permit affairs of an interracial nature to be held in or on the premises under its supervision. More recently, Community Education Incorporated, an organization dedicated to the practice of democratic principles, haj informed us that they were told by your office that their scheduled dance recital at Armstrong High ..School Auditorium would have to be cancelled because of the interracial quality of their organization and expected audience. I have further been informed that this "rule" was waived to save the embarrassment of late �-17cancellation. The management of Community Education Incorporated stated further that a Miss Mayfield of your office informed them that it is not the policy of the Board of Recreation to permit interracial audiences or performers in its auditorium and that this case was not to be interpreted as establishing a precedent. Please advise us immediately of what your policy is in this matter. Very truly yours, /s/ Stephen G. Spottswood Stephen G, Spottswood President, April 18, 1947 Mr. Stephen Gi Spottswood, President National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2002 - 11th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Attention William A. Hill, Executive iecretary Dear Mr, Spottswood: Receipt is acknowledged of your April 15 communication inquiring about our policies relating to inter-racial use of units which this Department operates. The Recreation Department applies the policies of the Recreation Board which in this case afe defined in Chapter IV, Section 2, By-laws, Rules and Regula tions of the iiecreation Department shall include those designated by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, in accordance with a compre hensive plan, as suitable and desirable unit3 of the District of Columbia recreation system, 2, "Recreation programs for white residents shall be conducted in regions A - F and in designated city-wide centers* Recreation programs for Negro residents shall be conducted in regions G - K and in designated city-wide denters," If there is any other information you would like to have, we shall be pleased to provide it for you. Sincerely yours, /s/ Milo F, Christiansen Milo F. Christiansen �- IB April 21, 1947 Mr. Milo r ';r « i .. • Board of Washington, : 0 My dear Mr. Christiansen. we wish to thank you for your letter stating that the policies of the Recreation Department are applied in accordance with Cahpter IV, Section 2, By-laws, Rules and Regulations of the Recreation Board. However, we are requesting clarification of those policies in light of the following specific questions which your letter does not answer: 1. Does this mean that the Recreation Department prohibits white performers from appearing in centers located in regions 0 - K? 2. Does this mean that the Recreation Department prohibits colored performers from appearing in centers located in regions A - F? 3. Does this rule oreclude inter-racial group meetings in centers of either region? 4. Does this deny white persons the privilege of audience partici pation at affairs in regions G - K, and colored persons the same denial in regions A - F? 5. Does this preclude inter-racial performers from appearing in centers in regions A - F and G - K? 6. What is the Department of Recreation’s interpretation of "Contro versial Activities" as applied in contractual relationship with the Board of Education for the use of Public School premises. As an organization with membership of over 10,000 Washington citizens, we are dedicated to civic betterment^ For this reason we wish to become fully aware of the policies now in effect as they may be derived or abrogated from the By-laws, Rules and Regulations of the Recreation Board. Sincerely yours, Stephen G. Spottswood President 3GS:jp Copy to: Dr* Garnett C. Wilkinson First ouperintendent of Schools �- 19 April 29, 1947 Mr. Stephen G. Spottswood, President National Association Tor the Advancement of Colored People 2002 - 11th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C, Dear Mr. Spottswood: In response to your April 21 communication requesting clarification of policies in relation to specific questions contained therein, the answers are a follows: Question 1 through 5, the reply is yes. Question 6 - The Recreation Department does not use the term 'contro ‘ versial activities" in its regulations governing use of school property. The rules under Chapter VI, Section prohibit the use of public school buildings and abounds for "activities tending to create unrest and acrimon ious discussions in the community, etc." The Recreation Department may grant the use of public school buildings and grounds in accordance with these regulations, arid each case must be interpreted in the light of current public interest and feeling. If we can be of any further assistance to analyze or to provide information in the questions contained in your previous communication, we shall be pleased to do so. Sincerely yours, /s/ Milo F. Christiansen Milo F. Christiansen Superintendent of Recreation As a result of this disclosure, several groups have requested a hearing before the Committee on Community Use of School Buildings of the Board of Educa tion to request a modification of the contract between the Board of Education and the Recreation Board in regard to the operation of recreation in public school buildings and grounds. Although a hearing before the Committee on Buildings and Grounds was requested many weeks ago, at this writing no meeting has been held. Terrible Jocial and Economic 'waste by Dept. of Recreation's Policies. One of the serious situations exists in that there are many play areas located in border districts where both colored and white people live. By limiting play to one group or the other, many thousands of children, because of race are denied play. For example, both the New York Avenue Playground and the Jherwood Playground are designated for whites only. Yet a survey taken hourly for a week, and it happened the weather was good that week in October 1947, showed that only ten whites at tended the New York playground and that for brief periods during the entire week. This is a record of the actual number of children on the New York playground between the hours of 9 and 3 o'clock and was taken during the week of October 6 throu October 10, 1947. The weather was perfect every day. The number of children is indicated: �- Period 1 2 3 k 5 6 20 - Mon.______ Tues. _____‘fed,______ / 0 0 c 0 0 L 0 0 J ____ 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 2 Thurs, Fri, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 Total pupils in attendance for the week: ?.0, Yet , across the street is Terrell Junior High icnool with over 1.000 child ren who have no playground and must play in the street. And across on the N street side is Dunbar High Jchool with over 1,000 girls and 500 boys who could use this ground during school time, but are forbidden, Logan Jchool children in 1948 are deprived of play facilities because the present ground is being closed for the erection of a new building. These children could attend the Sherwood Playground a "white play area" at G ot., N. E. between 10th and 11th for their intramural games during the school day, A survey during November showed that practically no white children were on the ground for the week of observation. Much of the same situation exists at Rose Park, Rosedale, Hoover and Happy Hollow playgrounds. There are many large playgrounds attached to schools in the white system in the midst of colored residential areas. The Recreation Department will not put a caretaker or supervisor on these grounds because they are attached to "white" schools. This policy should be abn'Liohod, Here are a fe w areas in this category. a. b. c. Gage Jchool at 2nd & V Sts., N. W. is completely surrounded by colored ^•siden+.c. It is a sur€a»<*i large area. Colored and white children play tog/?thc?xtne ground frequently, but they do it by going through holes in the fence. Wilson Teachers College at 11th & Harvard is surrounded by colored res idences. After school hours, the college students go to their homes all over the city. Colored children climb the fance and play. There is no supervisor or caretaker present, The Old Central High Jchool at 7th and 0 Sts. is a white boys* vocational school. The pupils do not line in the neighborhood. Colored and white children go over the fance or through a hole they cut in the fence. This is a large ground for the old city and here again the Recreation Depart ment ignores the needs of these children. Because of shifting population several play areas supervised by the Recreation Board are maintained as "white" yet there are as many if not more colored children in the neighborhood. There is no sound sensible reason, except the arbitrary rul ing of the Recreation Board, why all the children cannot play on the playground instead of risking their lives in the street. �- a. b. c. 21 - Happy Hollow Playground at 18th & California Sts. should be available to any children. Park View Playground at Otis and Park Place is another such area of changing population. Rosedale Playground south of Denning Road near 17th Street is being surrounded by colored residents. (Note: A citizen’s child living across from the ground was struck by a car and hospitalized while playing in the street, because she was barred from the playground.) It is the opinion of the Citizens Committee Against Segregation in Recreation that the Board of Education should note the policy of the Recreation 3oard and prevail upon this Board to modify any policy which denies children the right to play on tax supported grounds. Even if it can be maintained that pupils in schools may be legally segregated by race, for instruction, there is no legal sanction for arbitrary use of a segregated policy by the Department of Recrea tion. It ir also true that the Recreation Department uses Federal areas and maintains a Jim Crow policy. As this final report is ended, a Board of Education committee is meeting to hear the orgination representatives who are urging that the Board of Education insists in their contract with the Recreation Board that public schools operated for recreation shall not be restricted by the Recreation Department policy of segregation. It is also encouraging to note that more and more Catholic Schools are tending towards dropping color barriers, '/ hope in the near future that the .e Jewish Community Center and the Pa rochialSchools will liberalize their athletic policies. Finally we hope this report and its supplement will prove of interest and value as an historical account of the battle against intolerance and for democracy in America. Signed: E. B. Henderson Chairman, Citizens Committee Against Segregation in Recreation May 19, 1942 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Final Report of Citizens Committee Against Segregation in Recreation," 1948 Description An account of the resource Copy of ""Final Report of Citizens Committee Against Segregation in Recreation," May 20, 1948. Includes cover letter to "supporting organizations." Gives brief history and makeup of the committee, Chronicles the fight to desegregate parks and recreation facilities in Washington DC, including federal, city, and private facilities (including Uline Arena, the Amateur Athletics Union and the Boys Club) up to May 1948. 22 pages. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Citizens Committee Against Segregation in Recreation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1948 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1940s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_24 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/0da2b9b8753f299a3e2524e60476d86e.pdf db2e374192fe79ddcb3946f6bd589f6b PDF Text Text F a ir fa x County F ed eration o f P-TA's Workshop on Supreme Court D ecleio n on p u b lic sc h o o ls A p ril 30, 1955 PROGRAM 12:30 - 1:00 R e g is tr a tio n 1:00 In tr o d u ctio n Legal background o f the d e c is io n 1:30 Some Views o f P u b lic O pinion Mr Benjamin Muse, Manassas Rev 0. Emerson Smith, Richmond Summary o f M aterial from S tate S u p erin ten d en t's Report Mrs Louise Palmer 2:15 Refreshm ents 2:45 Some E xp erien ces in Education Mr Robert Walker, F a ir fa x , moderator Dr Houston R. Jackson, B altim ore Mrs Raemy Burton, A rlington Mrs S id n ie G reen leaf, A lexandria 3:45 P op u lation d is t r ib u t io n in F a irfa x County M Robert Kangan, Vienna r D e sc r ip tio n o f County School and Community H ealth Program Dr Harold Kennedy, F a ir fa x 4:20 Summary 4:30 Adjourn � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Program, "Fairfax County Federation of PTAs Workshop on Supreme Court Decision on Public Schools," 1955 Description An account of the resource Program for "Fairfax County Federation of PTAs Workshop on Supreme Court Decision on Public Schools," April 30, 1955. Lists speakers and times. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fairfax County Federation of PTAs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955-04-30 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_23 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/b0514dcabf3fed5541c4578fefd02368.pdf 355cfc926b90166701a97855aba1b959 PDF Text Text TENTH DISTRICT RESIDENTS! ACT NOW-BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! The spokesmen for many radical organizations in the Tenth Congressional District went before the Gov­ ernor's Commission on Public Education in Richmond recently and pleaded for “local option,” in complying with the Supreme Court edict on integrated schools. This was done in the belief that, if this area could be cut away from the rest of the State, their tightlyorganized groups could force integration upon us. even though the rest of Virginia found means to avoid it. I t is possible the Governor’s Commission may grant their request, and allow “local option”—U N LESS Y O U ACT N O W ! ' IT IS O F T H E U TM O ST IM PO R TA N C E for you to let the Commission know these organizations did not speak for the vast majority of residents of the Tenth District, and that you want the State to act as a U N IT on the matter, and not to allow local option. W e therefore urge you to sign the attached state­ ment, and mail it to Senator Garland Gray, chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Public Education: Senator Garland Gray, Chairman Governor’s Commission on Public Education, State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia Dear Senator G ray : It has come to my attention that a number of spokes­ men for certain organized groups in the Tenth Con­ gressional District appeared before,your Commission on last November 15, and urged that “local option” be granted each County to implement the Supreme Court decision on integration of Virginia schools as it might see fit. In my opinion these spokesmen did not speak for the vast majority of the residents of the Tenth District. They were, I believe, members of a tightly knit “lib­ eral” group who have infiltrated many o f the school, civic and political organizations in this area, and are using them for their own questionable ends. They believe, that, if allowed “local option”, they can force integrated schools upon Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church and Alexandria, even though the rest d f V ir­ ginia should find some method to avoid it. Since some School Board members state that the Negro schools of the Tenth District are now better, both in plant and personnel, than the white schools, it is apparent that those seeking to integrate our schools are interested in the mixing of the races, rather than the improvement of educational opportunities for our Negro residents. Some members of your Commission may feel local option would affect only the Tenth Congressional Dis­ trict. It is true it might at first—but it is equally true that, as soon as integration had been accomplished there, these same agitators would begin infiltrating other counties, and soon the infection would be crop­ ping up in other places throughout the State. I urge, therefore, that. Virginia act as a U N IT in regard to the Supreme Court decision, and not allow local option. Respectfully yours, Name .... Address •VTTTTTTTTTTTtrTrTrtTtrttTrTrTtTrTTTtt^tttttttt+^, • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Flyer, "Tenth District Residents! Act Now Before It's Too Late!" Description An account of the resource Flyer entitled "Tenth District Residents! Act Now Before It's Too Late!" Encourages readers in Virginia's Tenth Congressional District to reach out to the members of the Gray Commission and say they are against a "local option" in complying with school desegregation. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource No date Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_22 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/c23289d27785d658e6814ddf6a206916.pdf 0a4b0bde0c767ce7fd84aafbf7e94eff PDF Text Text CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — APPENDIX 1955 These were the inspiring words of 16-yearold Elizabeth Evans, which are echoed by all true Americans. Therefore, let us resolve on this Memorial Day that taps shall have a new meaning to all of us. Let the beautiful and traditional bugle strains pierce the breezes with those familiar words of Sir Walter Scott, "Soldier rest, thy warfare o’er.” For us, the living, let us sound reveille in our souls on this Memorial Day and re dedicate ourselves to the ceaseless struggle to preserve our great principles of liberty and freedom, which are twin monuments of enduring memory to those who died in free dom’ cause. s A Report on Financial Woes of Schools Training Physicians for a Growing Need EX TEN SIO N O F REM ARKS O P HON. JOHN E. FOGARTY OF RHODE ISLAND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, May 31, 1955 M r. FO GARTY. M r. Speaker, u n d e r leave to extend m y rem a rk s I include a n a rtic le by H ow ard A. R usk, M. D., en title d "A R e p o rt on F in a n c ia l W oes of Schools T ra in in g P hysicians fo r a G row in g N eed." T h e a rticle is fro m th e New Y ork T im es of M ay 29, 1955. T he p ro b lem of th e need fo r increased m edical ed u catio n is a very rea l one, a n d I e n courage all th e M em bers of th e House to review D r. R usk's a rticle. A R e po r t T r a in in g o n F in a n c ia l P h y s ic ia n s f o r W o f .s a Gr o f Sc h o o l s o w in g N e e d (By Howard A. Rusk, M. D.) If our national supply of physicians is to be increased to meet the growing demands for health services and keep pace with our expanding population, it is obvious that the number of our medical school graduates must be increased. Our Nation’ 80 medical schools are now s In need of $10 million a year more than their current financial resources to keep their training, research, and patient-care programs at present levels. The average cost of training a physician is estimated at $13.000—more than double the cost 20 years ago. If the direct costs of free services provided for 2 million people a year in medical school hospitals and clinics were added, this would be much higher. Of the $3,000 to $4,000 a year it costs to educate a medical school student, he pays from $600 to $1,000 in tuition. The remain der must bo met by gifts, income from en dowment, general university funds, or public funds in the case of tax-supported insti tutions. In his excellent public-affairs pamphlet, The Challenge to Medical Education, Robert M. Cunningham, Jr., points out succinctly why these additional costs cannot come from the students. Medical tuitions have in creased 85 percent since 1940. A survey of 6 .0 0 0 medical school students shows that one-third of them borrowed money to con tinue in school. A3777 lower the quality of our health care in the future. Nor can most universities expend a larger proportion of their general budgets on medi cal education. Most medical schools now absorb 30 percent of the total budgets of the universities of which they are a part, although they have but 1 0 percent of the total student enrollment. It is also unrealistic to think that present budgets can be reduced without substan tially lowering the quality of instruction. Many schools have already reduced teach ing staffs to the minimum, and faculty salaries have not kept pace with higher costs of living and opportunities in private practice. Scientific and technical developments constantly mean more expenditures for special equipment so these new advances can be included in the curriculums. An electron microscope, for example, costs $20,000; an analytic centrifuge, $14,000; electrophoretic equipment, $13,000. Up keep and maintenance are also costly. One new source of income for medical education in recent years has been the Na tional Fund for Medical Education, a non profit corporation of leaders in business, education, and welfare, which is soliciting funds for medical education from business corporations. At the same time the Ameri can Medical Educational Foundation is soliciting contributions from physicians. These proceeds are then pooled for distri bution to the medical schools in accordance with a formula developed by the founda tion, American Medical Association, and Association of American Medical Colleges. To date, nearly $7 million has been dis tributed and another $2,500,000 is expected to be available for distribution this sum mer. ing military medicine. Again there have been no problems of Federal control. Our land-grant colleges, which have benefitted from aid under the Morrill Act of 1 8 6 2 and its amendments, have not com plained of Federal control. Nor have there been complaints of Federal control in the administration of the Hill-Burton program for Federal grants for hospital construction. There is a continuing need for industry’s support of the important program of the Na tional Fund for Medical Education. At the same time, however, it would seem that a carefully conceived and administered pro gram of Federal grants to medical schools for the construction of medical, educational, and research facilities would be a realistic and practical corollary to the efforts of the Na tional Fund for Medical Education. If both of these programs arc successful, the current acute financial problems of our Nation’s medical schools would be solved and it would be possible to train a sufficient num ber of physicians to meet our national needs. Failure of either, however, will mean the necessity of resorting to general Federal aid for medical education. There is no alterna tive. Our Nation must have enough physi cians to meet the increasing demands of our growing population. This is encouraging, but it is not enough. The National Fund for Medical Education is a significant and successful venture. It has not, however, provided the level of fi nancial assistance that our medical schools must have if they are to continue their present responsibilities, let alone expand their enrollments. Earlier this month the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare started hear ings on legislation that would authorize a 5-year Federal program of financial grants to medical schools for the construction of medical, educational, and research facili ties. The legislation proposes that $50 million be allocated annually for 5 years to enable the Public Health Service to make grants for the construction of new medical schools and the expansion and improvement of fa cilities in existing schools. Except In certain instances of new schools or existing schools that would agree to increase enrollments, grants would be lim ited to half the cost of such construction. The legislation also provides that no one school would receive more than $3 mil lion during the 5-yenr program. There are some who fear that Federal grants-in-aid to medical schools are not de sirable, as they might lead to some degree of Federal control over medical schools. M r. M ULTER. M r. Speaker, I am p leased to d ire c t th e a tte n tio n of o u r colleagues to th e follow ing ed ito ria l w h ich a p p e are d in th e M ay 29, 1955, issue of th e New Y ork H e ra ld T rib u n e : HELP IS NOT SUFFICIENT FEDERAL AID AT WORK For a number of years, however, the Na tional Institutes of Health have been provid ing Federal grants to the 4-year medical schools for specific teaching programs in heart, cancer, and mental health. Govern ment supervision has been limited to seeing that the funds are used for designated pur TUITION RISE OPPOSED To further increase tuition would restrict poses, and there have been no complaints of medical education to a few chosen on an Federal control. Similarly the Department of Defense has economic basis. I t would not only deny many deserving and capable students the been making grants to a limited number of opportunity to study medicine but would schools for experimental programs of teach The Shifting Vaccine Problem EX TEN SIO N O F REM A RK S OF HON. ABRAHAM J. MULTER OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, May 24, 1955 T h e S h i f t i n g V a c c in e P r o b le m Since the Issuance of the favorable report by Dr. Francis on the Salk antipolio vaccine on April 12, public reaction to the great dis covery has passed through three distinct phases, as various aspects of the situation be came prominent. The first mood was one of unquestioning Jubilation at the knowledge that science had supplied a magnificent new weapon to com bat a disease which had brought fear and suffering to many. That emotion may have been excessive in the sense that it obscured problems certain to arise; there is every rea son for confidence, however, that it is the one which will best characterize the intro duction of Dr. Salk’s vaccine. The second phase was a preoccupation with the problem of distribution. As the limita tions on supply and the magnitude of the demand became clear to the American peo ple, there was a disturbing realization that the precious stuff was not being applied exclusively to those in greatest need. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had, to be sure, contracted for the bulk of the supply, for free distribution under con ditions which it imposed. But the Founda tion's authority was strictly limited, and vac cine outside the contract requirements was going into strange channels. The third stage began late in April, when it became apparent that there was an un expectedly high poliomyelitis rate among those vaccinated with the product of the Cutter Laboratories. The effect of this de velopment still clouds the fight against polio, worrying parents, complicating the distribu tion problem and presenting a number of �CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — APPENDIX A 3778 difficult questions for scientists, manufac turers, and public health authorities. The first two phases could have been readily foreseen. It should have been ap parent that a report endorsing the Salk vaccine, on the basis of last year’s tests, would surely awaken a storm of happy excite ment, and that the pressure for the swiftest, widest, and fairest distribution of the serum would become intense. Until it is definitely known in what respect the two lots of Cutter vaccine that caused the trouble differ from safe vaccine, It will not be possible to say whether this contingency, too, could have been guarded against. But certainly the possibility that some unusual manifestation might appear in a new treatment should have been recognized—not merely as a scientific problem, demanding prompt recall of the suspect vaccine and reexamination of methods of manufacturing and testing (which was done) but as a crisis of public confidence. Unfortunately, no apparatus was available to deal with any aspect of this complex situa tion on a national scale, except by a slowly organized, clumsy, voluntary organization. The scientists have worked hard and self lessly, the manufacturers have cooperated, communities have improvised methods of policing distribution. The President has given assurance that no one in the ages susceptible to polio will be debarred by eco nomic considerations from receiving the pro tection of the vaccine. New and rigorous testing procedures have been introduced to insure safety, so far as is humanly possible. Yet the crisis of confidence persists. It does so for the same basic reason that created it: the lack of a central authority which could speak with equal clarity and force to doctor and layman, to manufacturer and local health official. Such an authority—national in scope, headed by men of national prestige—could have curbed the confusion which has marked the last several weeks. It could still meet the present dilemma, in which distribution is lagging, because of the new tests; in which numerous parents are refusing to have their children Inoculated and in which the period of highest polio Incidence is rapidly ap proaching. Valuable time has been lost in setting up such an Instrumentality, but it is not yet too late—if Congress acts forthwith. American Legion Urge* No Curtailment of House Un-American Activities Committee EX TENSIO N O F REMARKS OP HON. FRANCIS E. WALTER OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, May 31, 1955 Resolved, That the national executive com mittee of the American Legion, assembled in Indianapolis, Ind., May 4-6, 1955, urge that the functions and powers of the House Un-American Activities Committee be not hampered or curtailed by any proposed ad ministrative redesignation or subordination; and be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be forwarded to our United States Representa tives in Congress. PTA’s Are a Vehicle That the Radical Iniegrationists Are Using To Destroy State Sovereignty and Individual Lib erty EX TEN SIO N O F REM ARKS O P HON. JAMES C. DAVIS OF GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, May 25, 1955 M r. DAVIS of G eorgia. M r. Speaker, a m otley gro u p of p ro in te g ra tio n ists p la n n e d to stag e a packed m eeting a t th e A nnandale, Va., H igh School on April 30 fo r p ro p ag a n d a purposes. T h is stag ed m eetin g w as to be know n as a w orkshop on in te g ratio n . T h e w orkshop o rg an izers h a d p re p a re d a p ro g ra m to be com pletely dom in a te d by th o se a d v o catin g m ixed schools fo r w hites a n d blacks, a n d o p posing s e p a ra te schools. L e a rn in g of th is proposed packed m eetin g , PTA m em b ers a n d o th e r c iti zens in te reste d in th e p roper ad m in is tra tio n of th e F a irfa x C ounty school sys tem a tte n d e d th e open m eeting, a n d by th e ir vote showed th e overw helm ing s e n tim e n t of th e m eetin g to be directly opposite th e p ro in te g ra tio n ist views of th o se who sta g e d th e so-called w orkshop program . A t th is m eeting a ta lk was m ad e by M r. P aul Lee Sweeny. F a irfa x a tto rn ey a n d civic lead er a n d a m em ber of one of th e F a irfa x C ounty P a re n t-T e a c h e r As sociations. I am pleased to in se rt h erew ith M r. Sw eeny’s ta lk to th e group m eetin g in th e A n n an d ale H igh School on th e occa sio n above m en tio n ed : PTA's A r e a V e h i c l e T h a t t h e R a d ic a l I n TEGRATIONISTS ARE USING To DESTROY STATE S o v e r e ig n t y a n d I n d i v id u a l L i b e r t y — F a i r f a x C o u n t y PTA C o u n c i l W o r k s h o p T y p i c a l o f T a c t ic s U s e d b y L e f t i s t s T o M is l e a d a n d I n d o c t r in a t e P e o p l e (Preface: An attempt to put the parents and teachers of Fairfax County, Va., on rec ord on the subject of integration was scotched on Saturday, April 30, when a meet ing that had been primed to come up with an integration recommendation was invaded by enough parents and citizens to sway the vote the other way. whereupon the PTA Federation-sponsored group of speakers left R e s o l u t i o n 55 the hall and held a rump session in the Commission: National Americanism com schoolyard at Annandale High School. Mean mission. while. the group of citizens charged with Subject: Urge no curtailment of the House breaking up the preplanned session formed Un-American Activities Committee. a new group to be known as the Virginia Whereas the American Legion feels the Citizens Association for Better Schools. The House Un-American Activities Committee of following prepared statement was read to our Congress has done an outstanding Job the new group by Paul Lee Sweeny, Fairfax in the field of anticommunism: Now, there attorney and civic leader, and a member of fore, be it one of the local PTA's in the county:) Mr. WALTER. M r. Speaker, u n d e r leave to ex te n d m y rem a rk s in th e Record, I include th e following resolu tio n passed by th e n a tio n a l executive com m ittee of th e A m erican Legion m ee t in g held M ay 4 to 6, 1955: M ay 31 As representative of the Fairfax Chapter of the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberty, I have been drafted by a great many deeply concerned Americans to come to what was to have been this PTA workshop and attempt to see that the real facts relating to the school integration issue are made known to the parents and the teachers. Under the guise of presenting all the facts about the grave crisis in public education brought on by the 1954 Supreme Court , opinion holding segregated public schools unconstitutional, the Fairfax County PTA's have been manipulated by the prointegra tionists into holding this meeting at which only those favoring mixed schools will be heard from the platform. When this meeting was first announced it was stated that those favoring alternatives to integrated public schools would be on the program, more specifically, a member of the Virginia governor’s commission. During the last several months a studied campaign has been carried on in the local PTA's to try to place them on record for integrated schools—a campaign involving controlled meetings at which only one side of the issue has been presented, packing of the meetings with proponents of integration without ade quate notice to the opponents, passing out of loaded questionnaires, and all the other devices of trickery and low political maneu vering. At the last minute a panel of mem bers for this workshop was announced without any member of the governor’s com mission. a panel, all of whom are red-hot integratlonlsts or officials who must take a completely neutral position. Yes. we have Mr. Benjamin Muse, a pro integrationist in the allout integrationist Washington Post, a paper that deliberately censors and refuses to publish news that is unfavorable to the integration point of view. We have Rev. Robert Emerson Smith, of the prointegrationist Virginia Council of Churches, and Mrs. Lois Burton, of the pro integrationist Arlington Association of Uni versity Women. It was proposed to have two school officials from Washington. D. C., both of whom would lose their Jobs imme diately If they expressed any opinions or brought out any facts adverse to integration. But not only was the program packed with advocates of Integration, the audience was to have been controlled so that they could not freely express anti-integrationist senti ments and bring out the sordid facts asso ciated with this perverted program. When we asked that a speaker be allowed to present the other point of view, we were told that I might have 5 minutes after Mr. Muse fin ished his 30-minute speech. What kind of speech can you make In 5 minutes on a subject of so great consequence? This refusal to accord me equal time to present my views in opposition to integra tion in the schools exposes completely the biased nature of this meeting. The sponsors were afraid to have the facts surrounding integration brought out at this meeting be cause they did not wish to be fair and to present any objective approach to the subject. For example, they do not wish to allow what is happening in Washington under in tegration to come to light; but let me tell you the newest problem there. Integration has killed the flexibility in the school sys tem that previously permitted children to attend schools anywhere in the city accord ing to their intellectual abilities. Both white to Negro children tended to go to the schools where there were children of their own at tainments or abilities: average, subnormal, or above the average. So the Park View Negro School was considered the best for exceptional Negro children, and was attend ed by Negro children from all over the city if they were intelligent enough. Now it is different. The boundaries are strictly and rigid for all children, white and Negro, must �1955 A3779 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — APPENDIX attend the school In the neighborhood where they live. The individual child’s adjust ment is sacrificed to this rigid ruling. So, Intelligent whites and Negroes are suffering. School standards are deteriorating, for either the drones are sacrificed to the children of average or above the average intelligence, or, these are sacrificed to the drones. Actually, both are sacrificed and educational stand ards are steadily dropping. But the joker is that two-sevenths of the city is untouched by integration, for no Negroes live in those neighborhoods. There is where live many Congressmen. Mr. N i x o n , Mr. Brownell, and members of the Board of Education. They can prate about integration for their chil dren are untouched, as yet, by the agitators. This Just shows what the sponsors of this meeting, and of many others like it, are after. Their object is to dish out propa ganda in order to condition your minds and the minds of the other citizens of the coun try to accept their ultimate aim of complete integration of the children in the schools and the complete amalgamation of the white and black races. This action on the part of the sponsors of this meeting is not in accord with the best interests of the overwhelming majority of the parents and of other citizens of this county. The program which they desire to present to you has been laid down for them by persons outside the State of Vir ginia, with no knowledge of. or interest in, the welfare of the children and the people of Virginia. I refer to the National Congress of the PTA’ headquarters in Chicago. 111. s By their actions here today, the sponsors of this meeting have demonstrated that they are not Interested in the welfare of the citi zens of this county but are willing to fol low the dictates of persons far removed from and with no interest in the welfare of the county. The propriety of such a meeting as this at this time, when the Supreme Court is still deliberating the terms of its decision in the so-called segregation cases, is open to serious question. The bylaws of the PTA groups provide that the local PTA groups shall not interfere in the administrative affairs of the schools. The question of who goes to what school is certainly an administrative prob lem. There are many other considerations involved in such a determination, other than the color of the child. More impor tant are such matters as mental, moral, and health standards. Any intelligent approach to the problem must consider all of these questions. Syphlllls in the blood stream is an insidious destroyer of nerve and brain cells, leading eventually to insanity and death. Any unnecessary exposure of any group of children to this peril is to be avoid ed at all costs as a threat to the very fiber of our civilization. We have only to look to those nations to the south of this country where integration is practiced to see the ef fect it has on the minds of men and the character of the peoples’ civilization. Nor is there anything in the opinion of the Supreme Court of May 1954 that re quires integration in the public schools. The opinion of the Supreme Court at the present time has not reached the stage of being a decision since no decree has been formulated. It therefore does not have any force or effect whatsoever at thiB time, since it can be changed by the Court on its own motion at any time. On the contrary, sec tion 140 of the constitution of Virginia specifically and expressly prohibits the teaching of white and colored children in the same schools. That is the law of Vir ginia, and we are all bound by it. It has not been amended, altered, or repealed in any way. The Supreme Court cannot, by the very nature of our system of government and separation of powers, tell the States that they mu6t operate Integrated schools. There is no mention of the word "education” in the Constitution of the United States, and the entire matter of education Is left to the States. The Supreme Court does not have legis lative power, this being expressly given to the Congress of the United States by section 1 of the Constitution. Decisions of the Supreme Court, when formulated and en tered, do not even then become any part of the supreme law of the land. Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States provides that the supreme law of the land shall consist of the Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land. Nowhere is there any mention in the Constitution of decisions of the Supreme Court as forming any part of the supreme law of the land. Supreme Court decisions are not, and ought not to be, any part of the supreme law of the land. They are handed down in the first Instance by the judiciary and not by the legislative arm of the Government. They are subject to change overnight by the same court that handed them down in the first place, none of the members of which are elected by the people nor directly responsible to the people for their conduct. The approach of the Supreme Court to this question is, and always must be, purely negative. It can only say, within the lan guage of the Constitution, what the States cannot do in the field of public education, never what they must do. It cannot tell the States they must maintain integrated schools. It can say no more than that, upon the facts of a given case, the prac tices of the States in this field are or are not discriminatory. Basis for such a hold ing as this must be grounded on the lan guage of the Constitution. The Court can not by Judicial usurpation of power, legis late in the field of public education, nor in any other field. Enforcement of the Su preme Court's pronouncements can be at tained only by statutory Implementation by act of Congress or through the contempt citation. Not even the power of a con stitutional amendment, fortified by acts of Congress, sufficed to enforce prohibition. In the last analysis, the decision of the Supreme Court, like acts of Congress, de pend upon whether or not they reflect the will of the people. There is a very serious question in my mind as to the reason for the clamor at the present time by this group, and by some others, for integration, in advance of the Su preme Court decision on the subject. Would it not be better procedure at least to wait until the Supreme Court hands down its decision in the form of a decree, in order to see what it provides, before discussing ways and means of bringing about a tremen dous social upheaval as is bound to follow any attempt to enforce the decrees of the Supreme Court? How can anyone intelli gently discuss the best means of dealing with a decision of the Supreme Court when they do not know yet what the terms of the decision will be? The conclusion is ines capable that this meeting here today is but another part of a well-organized program by the proponents of racial and biological integration to condition the public mind so that the people of this country will so far surrender their individual liberties as to meekly accept the terms of the Court decree when or if it is finally rendered. It is hoped in this way to bring about racial amalgama tion and thus help these people to fulfill po litical ambitions even though it means even tual destruction of our way of life and our civilization. It is my firm belief that before the story is told in full the proponents of integration will learn that the white race is not yet ready to abdicate its place of lead ership in our society and that the expected political rewards for their perfidy will not materialize. The myth of Judicial infallibility is ex ploded by a reference to the case of Gong Lum v. Rice (275 U. S. 78) decided by the United States Supreme Court in a unani mous opinion handed down 28 years ago by Chief Justice Taft. That Court, com posed of men of great Judicial stature, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Brandeis, and oth ers, stated in an opinion directly contrary to the opinion of May 1954: "The right and power of the State to regulate the method of providing for the education of its youth at public expense is clear. • • * The educa tion of the people in schools maintained by State taxation is a matter belonging to the respective States, and any interference on the part of Federal authority with the management of such schools cannot be jus tified except in the case of a clear and un mistakable disregard of rights secured by the supreme law of the land. • • * The same question • • • has been many times decided to be within the constitutional power of the State legislature to settle with out intervention of the Federal courts under the Federal Constitution. • • • (citation of 15 earlier opinions). • • • The decision is within the discretion of the State in regu lating its public schools and does not con flict with the 14th amendment.” In its opinion of May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (347 U. S. 483) the Supreme Court brushed aside all of the reason and logic embodied in the foregoing well-settled principles in one sentence and in referring to the Gong Lum case twice erroneously referred to the child involved as a boy when in fact it was a Chinese girl named Martha Lum whose father, Gong Lum. instituted the suit in her behalf. Tills circumstance raises a se rious question whether the Court even read the earlier opinion in the Gong Lum case. It remains to be seen whether or not the opinion of the Supreme Court of May 17, 1954, arrived at solely by a reference to the writings of certain psychologists, and in con sidering as it did only the alleged effects of segregation on the colored child without any discussion of or thought given to the effect of enforced integration on the mental, moral, and health standards of the white child, will be able to stand the test of time and the assault of logic and legal reasoning that may be expected henceforth to challenge its va lidity. The Death of William Burchfield Ross, Vice President and Editor Emeritus of the DuBois (P a.) Courier-Express Re duces the Ever-Thinning Ranks of of Pioneer Newspapermen EXTENSION OF REMARKS O P HON. JAMES E. VAN ZANDT OP PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, May 31, 1955 Mr. VAN ZANDT. Mr. SpeakerTill, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. —Dryden. When the angel of death on May 11, 1955, summoned William Burchfield Ross, vice president and editor emeritus of the DuBois (Pa.) Courier-Express, the DuBois area lost one of its most highly respected residents. �A3780 M ay SI CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — APPENDIX B o rn in DuBois, Pa., 77 years ago. Bill, d e b t o f g ra titu d e to B ill fo r th e k in d ly a s h e w as a ffectionately know n, s p e n t th e criticism a n d wholesom e advice h e gave g re a te r p a r t of 62 y e a rs of a busy a n d th e m a s th ey em b ark ed u p o n th e ir jo u r u sefu l life w ith daily new spapers in t h a t n a lis tic c a re e rs w ith f a lte rin g courage a n d stu m b lin g step s. H e w as in t r u t h a city. N one will d eny th e pow er of th e daily f a th e r confessor to m an y cub rep o rters, n ew spaper in m olding public o pinion a n d w ho to d ay a re b e tte r n ew sp ap erm en be in fluencing th e h u m a n m ind. By rea so n cau se th e y crossed p a th s o n th e h ig h o f th e tre m en d o u s pow er of th e press, w ay of life w ith Bill Ross. th e r e devolves upon new spaper editors W hen speaking o r th in k in g ab o u t th e th e solem n obligation to d ischarge th e ir field of jou rn alism , we a re alw ays re responsibility to th e ir c om m unity fo r f a ir m in d ed o f th e im p o rta n c e to n ew sp ap er a n d a c c u ra te re p o rtin g of th e news. m en o f th e ta s k of a cq u irin g one of th e Bill Ross, fro m h is edito ria l ch a ir, c a rd in a l requisites of th e ir profession— s te a d fastly a d h e re d to th e h ig h p rin c i " a nose fo r new s.” p les of h is profession, a b h o rrin g yellow T h e im p o rta n t ta s k of g a th e rin g news jo u rn a lism conscious of th e fa c t, t h a t a d m its th e m to palaces a n d hovels as above a ll th in g s, i t h a s n o place in a th e y seek interview s w ith persons in all h om etow n new spaper w hich m u st be fit w alks of life. I n following th e ir p ro fo r all th e fam ily to read. fession, th e ir badge of a u th o rity is th e B ill b egan his ap p re n tic e sh ip in jo u r tra d itio n a l "P ress P a ss” w hich a d m its n a lism a t th e age of 15 a n d th e 62 re th e m u n ch allen g ed to every conceivable m ain in g y e a rs of h is life w ere devoted to e v e n t o f public in terest. u p h olding th e lo fty p rin cip les a n d eth ics I n speaking of th is special privilege, I o f th e fo u rth e sta te. H is jo u rn a listic c a a m rem in d ed of a c e rta in sta n z a of verse re e r em braced th e period o fte n re fe rre d th e a u th o r o f w hich is unknow n to m e: to a s th e h o rse -a n d -b u g g y e ra w h en Some day 111 pass by the Great Gates of Gold p u ttin g a p a p e r to bed w as a m an-size And see a man pass through unquestioned jo b fo r th e average editor. and bold. I n th e early 1900’s th e re w as g re a t d if "A saint?” I’ll ask, and old Peter’ll reply: ficu lty in collecting new s a s com pared "No, he carries a pass—he's a newspaper guy.” w ith p re se n t-d a y m ethods. M any of us rec a ll th e com m on p rac tic e of sta n d in g . B ill Ross in th e opinion of h is v a st le in f ro n t of hom etow n new spaper offices gion o f frie n d s w as a rea l new spaper guy. u n til th e wee sm all h o u rs of th e m o rn T h is f a c t is f u rth e r a tte ste d to by h is in g eag er to o b tain th e resu lts of po associates on th e n ew sp ap er staff espe litic a l co n tests, sp o rtin g events, a n d so cially H aro ld T. G ray, p resid en t, a n d fo rth , fro m b ulletins posted in th e w in J a so n S. G ray, se cre ta ry of th e C o u rierdow of th e new spaper office. Express, to g eth e r w ith M arv Bloom, a B ill Ross fo r y e a rs w as n ig h t ed ito r of h ig h ly ta le n te d a n d v ersatile staff w riter. th e D uBois M orning Courier. F o r m an y T hese th re e close frie n d s a n d associates y e a rs h e he ld t h a t po sitio n w orking o f th e late Bill R oss h av e w ritte n eulogies n ig h ts while th e populace sle p t to m ake expressing th e ir d o w n -to -e a rth im p res c e rta in t h a t th e D uBois M orning C ourier sions of h im a n d w hich I wish to m ake like th e p ro v erbial b o ttle of m ilk w ould r of m at conclusion be on th e doorstep of every re a d e r b rig h t p aist trib u y rem a rk s dep th e d friend. of th te to m y a rte a n d early in th e m orning. I n la te r y ears I t is com m on knowledge t h a t B ill Ross th e M orning C ourier acquired th e D u w as in failin g h e a lth th e p a s t several Bois Evening E xpress a n d th e m erger re y e a rs y et h e was r e lu c ta n t to c u rta il his su lted in ch an g in g th e n am e to th e D u d aily activ ities u n til his illness forced Bois C ourier-E xp ress w hich a fte r a pe riod of tim e w as changed to its p rese n t h im to relin q u ish his e d ito ria l d u ties a n d engage in a less stre n u o u s daily routine. s ta tu s a s a n evening new spaper. Bill fo u n d it a difficult ta s k to re tire to O ldtim e resid e n ts of DuBois in p a r th e sidelines a fte r 62 y e a rs o f active tic u la r have long ap p re c iate d th e se rv ices Bill Ross ren d ered th e m as readers p a rtic ip a tio n in th e p u blishing of a daily o f th e DuBois M orning C ourier a n d th e n ew spaper. His re tire m e n t, w hich h e so rich ly e arn ed , proved to be of s h o rt d u r C ourier-E xpress. F o r m any years, H a r old T. G ra y as p resid e n t; Lloyd F. a tio n fo r w ith ebbing s tre n g th , h e a n M ohney, tre a s u re r a n d general m a n a g e r; sw ered th e final sum m ons a s th e evening J a so n S. G ray as s e cre ta ry ; a n d F ra n k shadow s b egan to fall on M ay 11, 1955. " H a p ” G illung as city e ditor; w ith Bill Like th e d rea m e r in th e poem , W hen I S a il Away, by E lizab eth C lark H ardy, Bill R oss a s vice p resid e n t a n d ed ito r com Ross tu rn e d h is eyes to w ard th e e te rn a l p rised the q u in te t t h a t guided th e des tinies of th e DuBois C ourier-E xpress se a in th e evening tw ilig h t of a b e a u ti fu l d ay in M ay a n d w as read y : w ith th e avowed d e te rm in a tio n to m a in ta i n its h ig h sta n d in g a s a n ideal fam ily Sometime at eve, when the tide is low, I shall slip my moorings and sail away, new spaper. T h e long, h a rd g rin d of ed itin g a daily With no response to the friendly hail kindred craft in the busy bay. n ew spaper a n d serving in th e executive Of the silent hush of the twllght pale, In po sitio n as vice p resid e n t took its toll of When the night swoops down to embrace the th e genial, quiet, a n d u nassum ing B ill day. Ross w ith th e resu lt t h a t ill h e a lth forced And the voices call in the water's flow— h is retire m e n t a s ed ito r in 1953. He was Sometime at eve, when the tide is low, nam ed , however, e d ito r e m e ritu s a nd I shall slip my moorings and sail away. co n tin u e d h is in te re s t in th e C ourier- Through purple shades that darkly trail O’er the ebbing tide of the unknown sea, E xpress u n til h is re c e n t d eath . I shall fare me away with a dip of sail B ill Ross perform ed h is w ork dili And a ripple of waters to tell the tale g ently. quietly, a n d efficiently down Of a lonely voyager, sailing away th ro u g h th e years. M any em ployees of To mystic iBles. where at anchor lay th e C ourier-E xpress acknow ledge th e ir The craft of those who have sailed before. O’er the unknown sea to the unseen shore. A few who have watched me sail away Will miss my craft from the busy bay; Some friendly barks that were anchored near. Some loving souls that my heart held dear, In silent sorrow will drop a tear. But I shall have peacefully furled my sail In moorings sheltered from storm and gale And greeted the friends who have sailed before O’ the unknown sea to the unseen shore. er T h e following trib u te s to th e la te B ill R oss a p p eared in th e D uBois (Pa.) C o u r ier-E xpress. T h ese sincere expressions a re fro m th e p en s of th re e of B ill’s close associates, a n d a re eloquent testim o n y of h is noble c h a ra c te r sum m ed u p in th e w ords of B yron: He had kept the whiteness of his soul, and thus, Men over him wept. B il l Ro s s Pa sses (By Harold T. Gray) The office force of the Courier-Express will miss the almost dally visit which Bill Ro6s made to his desk in the editorial office every nice afternoon, when he hadn't been con fined to the hospital for the past few years. Before that, one could have found him in the office at odd hours, both on weekdays and Sundays, for his desk was almost his home, and it was there that he used to sit for hours, looking over local exchanges, and making notes for his next Issue. Bill, during the past few years, seldomly took a vacation, and then for only a day or two, seemingly always glad to get back to his desk. We suggested 2 years ago that he go with one of the James Wick tours to Europe and the Near East, with the Idea that it would broaden his experience, and give him greater perspective in his dally editorials. But he was more content at home, rotating for his meals between the Ho tel DuBois, the Elks Club in winter, and the country club during the summer months, with an occasional visit to one of the other hotels or restaurants of town. We had urged Bill also to spend the winter months in Florida, where he would have the advantage of enjoying the warmer climate, and an op portunity of visiting with many contempo raries in the winter spas. But. again, he ex pressed himself as being more content at home, and here he spent the twilight years, visiting with his business associates and friends, until Father Time wrote “30” to a long and uneventful life. Perhaps Bill missed a great deal of life, for he reached neither the heights of exultation nor the nadir of human despair—he was happy and content, and who shall say that he should have lived otherwise than as he did. So on his last Journey to the bourne from which no traveler e’er returns, we wish Bill Godspeed, with the hope that he may And the same peace and contentment in his life eternal. W i l l i a m B. R o s s (By Jason S. Gray) We can’t help but say a few words about our old friend and coworker. Bill Ross, who passed away recently, and with whom we had been associated for many years. Bill, in his younger and later in his mature years, was regarded as a very capable newspaper man, particularly in the period before the present-day news-gathering methods de veloped. which proved of great assistance in channeling many items across an editor’s desk. Bill worked his shift on the Courier for many, many years as night editor—not a very pleasant duty at many times, and undoubtedly monotonous as the years moved along, missing much of the sunshine and many of the daily contacts that usually fol low a more normal routine. He did this without complaint however, and for years, with his limited staff, turned out a daily � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_21 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/6b89e56df1f1e59387211573410d1579.pdf f83e781e4a37d9e2cd299b92f72f8880 PDF Text Text The If YOU WANT TO TELL IT OR SELL IT TO FAIRFAX COUNTY USE THE PROVIDENCE JO U RN A l VOL. 12, NO. 19 Providence Journal F a irfm * C o a rt Hogue W «s Established E v M ^ '» £ S ^ S ! ^ * M S ! u r * ' Lady Candidate For Supervisor Blasts Integration County Budget Gives Schools Most Of Funds Requested The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors appropriated a total of $9,219,711 to the School Board for 1955-56. .The amount requested had been $9,379,711. Thus there was a reduction of $160,000 in the amount of the request. This equals the sum that had been included for the pur chase of school sites. The School Board in meeting on May 3, 1955, deleted this item of $160,00 for site acquisition from the Capital Outlay category of the budget. In effect funds budgeted for school operation remain as adver tised. Salaries for teachers are in creased $200 on each step of the scale, the base'scale now starting at $3,400 rising in seventeen steps to $5,300. Other aspects of the bud get involving the employment of 120 additional teachers, 18 additional helping teachers and supervisors, 7 teachers of driver training, 12 addi tional librarians and 12 additional workmen for the maintenance staff, provided for. In summary, it might be said that all funds requested by the School Board for the Operation of Schools have been appropriated. The educational program contem plated in the budget can be effected. After submitting the budget to the Board of Supervisors, Federal funds for the current year’s opera tion 11954-55) were received and exceeded the original estimate by $24,000. Thus the Anticipated Sur plus as of June 30. 1955, has been increased bv this amount, from $409,701 to $433.70,1. Encouraging word from the Con gress indicated that estimates of Federal Funds for 1955-56 might well be increased by $230,000, from $921,782 to $1,151,782. It is pointed out, however, that these funds have not been appropriated by the Con gress and it may be some months before it is actually done. County Fire Groups Win Awards At Apple Blossom Festival Several of our Fairfax County fire organizations competed successfully in the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival last week Thursday and Friday. In the Firemen’s Parade the Falls Church Volunteer Fire De partment won third prize of $25 for the best pumper over 500 gallons. For the best pumper under 500 gal lons first prize of $75 went to the Annandale Engine Company No. 8. Second prize of $30 to the best ap pearing Ladies Auxiliary went to the McLean Volunteer Fire Depart ment’s Auxiliary. CHICKEN DINNER AT FORESTVILLE SATURDAY On Saturday, May 14, from 2 to 8 p.m., a fried chicken dinner will be served at the Grange Hall at Forestville bv the W.S.C.S. of the Forcstville Methodist Church. The menu will be: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, giblct gravy, lima beans, cole slaw, pickles, hot biscuits with jellies and jams, coffee, hot or iced tea, and home-made pies and cakes. A bake sale will be held in the lobby at the same time. BAKE AND RUMMAGE SALE AT VIENNA A hake and rummage sale will be held in the old Telephone office, at the corner of Church and Center Streets, across from Burns Bros. Cleaners, in Vienna, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 14. There will be a fine selection of good used mer chandise and excellent goodies for sale. The event will be sponsored by Antioch Christian Church, and will be for the benefit of its Building A * “ The T o w n o f P ro vid e n ce " l a 180S A n d R etained T h a t N am e U n til A f te r The C iv il W a r McLEAN, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 Chamber To Take Stand On Burke Airport Thursday PHONE: ELMWOOD 6-3320 County Considering Smaller-Scale Entry Into Water Business McLoon, Langley. Vienna, Chasterbrook, Franklin Park, Idylw ood, Dunn Loring, Pimmitt H ills, W oodford, F airfax, Oakion, Herndon, fo rostvillo, Chan tilly , Burke, Fairfax Sta., Annandale, Springfield Columbia Pines, Bailey's, Annalee Hgt*., Beiair, Broyhill Pk., Holmes Run »3.00 PER YEAR County Bar Asked To Seek Impeachment If Supreme Court Attempts Legislation Private Interests Offer Large Crowd Expected To Mrs. Cuba Curtice Says "LeftDiscuss Controversial Issue To Run Main From Dalecarlia Wing Planners Have Infiltrated At Corut House To Annandale Water Lines Every Type of Civic Activity” The Board of Supervisors has Members of the Fairfax County Mrs. Cuba Curtice, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Sup Chamber of Commerce will turn out under consideration a proposal ervisor from Centrevillc District, on in force next Thursday, May 19th. under which it can start its pro Resolution By Charles Pickett Tuesday night, denounced integra at 8 p.m. in the old Circuit Court posed County-owned water system Charges Violation Of tion and "the little group of left- room at the Court House. This with the outlay of very little cash. Constitution wing planners who have a consistent meeting is expected to bring the The County would buy the big An history of infiltrating every type of. largest attendance of any meeting nandale Water Company for ap At the annual meeting of the Fair civic and community activity thru- in the County Chamber's history proximately $1,000,000, under a fax County Bar Association last out the County.” Mrs. Curtice spoke with the exception of the Gover iease-purchasc arrangement which night, Charles Pickett, Esq., promi before the Ox Road Citizens Asso nor’s Dinner last winter, for next would require only a small amount nent Fairfax lawyer, introduced a ciation, along with other candidates Thursday evening the proponents of down payment, with the rest to resolution asking the House of and opponents of the Burke Airport be paid out of receipts from cus Representatives to investigate pos for office. A portion of her remarks were as will present their sides in an effort tomers of that company over a sible impeachment proce c d i n g s to sway a ’ ajority decision of the long period of years. m follows: against the members of the United In addition, a private interest has States Supreme Court for violating "Tonight I wish to discuss in de County Chamber on the controver offered to run a large main from the Constitution if they attempt leg tail the insidious vocal pressure sial issue. County Chamber President Y . C. the Dalecarlia Reservoir in Wash islation in implementing their opin V group which seeks to divide us. I refer to a little group of left-wing Wills announces that both groups ington up Rt. 123 to a 2,000,000- ion in the school integration cases. planners who have a consistent his will be given equal time in the pre gallon reservoir at Tysons Corner, After introducing the resolution, sentation. Chamber Vice President and from thence out Gallows Road Pickett asked that it be laid on the tory of infiltrating every type of civic and community activity Henry J. Rolfs will lead off with to connect with the mains of the An table and called up before a special throughout the county. This crowd a half hour presentation in favor of nandale system, thus assuring an meeting of the Fairfax Bar at a later has consistently misused each activ the airport possibly supported bv unlimited supply of water. The time, so that its members might ity for its own sinister purposes. one or more noted figures in aviation County would buv this water whole- j have time to study and discuss it sale at $260 per million gallons, but before voting. Unfortunately many of our office circles. Opposing the Airport Judge Paul would have the right to buy the holders, who are more politicians Pickett's resolution requested the than statesmen—and who have for K. Brown will present conclusions transmission main and water reser expression of the bar on the follow gotten. that they are hut paid pub from his own study and the studies voir at any time it wished for orig ing constitutional questions in of others as to the unfavorable ef inal cost of about $2,500,000. There volved: lic servants—have either, willingly 1. The power to regulate and con lent their support to the aims of fects if the airport should be located would also be a pumping station at Lewinsville. After acquiring the trol schools has not been delegated this crowd or have consistently been at Burke. Each side will be allowed an equal transmission fine, the cost of water to the U.S. Government, but reser outsmarted by them. "Today this same crowd has de period of time for rebuttal under to the County would drop to about ved to the states by the 10th Amend ment; cided to use the issue of integration rules drafted under the supervision $85 a million. Thus, under this arrangement, the 2. The states have not consented in our public schools to the detri of Airport Committee Richard E. ment of both races, and those same Shaiuls who is also a County Cham County could acquire the large to be sued bv their citizens, ami franchise territory of the Annandale therefore are not bound by the im politicians are aiding this crowd be ber Director. "Wc arc going to see that the company between Arlington Boule pending decision, and the 11th cause thev arc afraid to stand up and be counted on this issue. Now meeting is above reproach in total vard and Little River Turnpike, Amendment removes such contro I know that some newspaper or fairness to each side,” announced which now has over 3000 water cus versies from the judicial power of some candidate will accuse me of County Chamber President W. C. tomers,, and which would constitute the Federal government; 3. The 14th Amendment confers making a political issue out of the Wills. "Mr. Shaiuls and the others the heart of a future County-owned segregation question. But far more of the Burke Airport Committee jsystem. It might also acquire fix* no power on the Federal govern powerful figures than I could ever have drawn up . -gnIn,ions which Pimmit Hills utility svstem which ment to exercise any affirmative serves over 1000 customers, and action upon the states. It is purely be-— from Abe Lincoln to Earl YVar- will be announced at the meeting as which would be adjacent to the negative in character and can only (Cont’d on back page) (Cont’d on back page) transmission main from Dalecarlia, restrain states; (Cont’d on Page 2) 4. Any affirmative action of the Supreme Court would invade the COUNTY EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDS powers of the Legislative Depart Firemen’s Festival ment of the Government under the $1,500,000 MORE OF COUNTY FUNDS At Fairfax Next Week Constitution; SHOULD BRING INTEREST 5. Congress is without power to Ladies Auxiliary to th<T Fairfax legislate on this subject by virtue Volunteer Fire Department will of decisions.of the Supreme Court— Invites Suggestions From Supervisors, hold a Fireman’s Festival this tp-wit that the 14th Amendment coming week from Mav 16 thru the confers no power on Congress to Banking Officials and Interested Citizens 21 at the Fairfax Horse Show legislate except in a negative way, On Handling Funds Grounds opposite the Fairfax High and School located on Rt. 29 211 and 6. Supreme has On May 4 County Executive Carlton Massey and Director route 50. Rides, games and novel lated The 10th, 11th.Court is on vio the and the of Finance L. M. Corner reported to the Hoard of Supervisors ties—come and bring the kiddies. verge of violating the 14th Amend Special on the 21st of May the ments. that $1,500,000 more of County deposits could he placed out at Fire Department will hold a Parade "It the peti interest, and said they would welcome suggestions from the Super in the town of Fairfax 6:30 Eastern tion. is useless”, continues Supreme "to apply to the visors. banking officials and interested citizens in connection with, the Daylight Time. Trophies will be Court which has usurped this power. awarded at the Fairfax Horse Show The only remedy is the one provided handling of County funds to the best overall interest of the County. l> the Constitution—impeachment. v According to the report, on April 22 there was $15,131,655 of Grounds. Beginning at 9 p.m. a dance will of cash on deposit, plus $2,016,666 with fiscal agents for debt service, be held Free at the Fairfax High The members of the House andRep: csentatives have the right the of which $7,714,271 was with interest. School Gym. At the dance "Miss duty to move for impeachment of The report of Mr. Massey and Mr. Coyner to the Supervisors Fairfax” will be crowned Queen. any Federal officer who has violated The following girls arc participat the Constitution." was as follows: ing in the "Miss Fairfax-' popular The resolution concludes: "There ity contest that is being sponsored fore we resolve to bring the matter M EM ORANDUM TO BOARD O F by the Ladies Auxiliary to help to the attention of the House of C OUNTY SU PE R V ISO R S raise funds for the Fairfax Volun Representatives, with a request that Several weeks ago one of the local newspapers printed an teer Fire Department. The girls it be referred to the appropriate in various article setting forth the amount of County funds on deposit with have their jars placedFairfax and committee for investigation and re business sections in various banks and how much of this money was yielding a return your donation will help them to be port.” Copies resolution, if in interest. It appears that the facts set forth therein were correct, come "Miss Fairfax" and yo uwill would be of theto the Speakerpassed, sent of the however, I believe the Board of County Supervisors should have also be helping your Fire Depart House, to Senators Bvrd and Rob the benefit of more details in connection with this matter and for ment. Patricia Frum, Barbara Davis, ertson. and the Virginia delegation this purpose Mr. L. M. Coyner, Director of Finance, and I. have Jeanie Shren, Jean Tucker, Faith in Congress. Austin, Janie YVhitmer, Beverley prepared the following information: BASEBALL GAME AT The first obligation of the Director of Finance is the safe Johnston, Josephine . Chamblin, VIENNA SUNDAY Janelle Watson, Barbara Jenkins. keeping of all monies belonging to the County. Doris Jenkins, Nancy Thomas and The Vienna Fire Department The laws of Virginia provide certain safeguards in connection Grace Kline. Baseball Team will plav Columbia with the depositing of County funds, one of which is that all de Heights Baseball lean at 3 p.m. MASTER PLAN MEETING positories must be approved by the Board of County Supervisors AT VIENNA POSTPONED on May 15, on the diamond at the Vienna Elementary School. The and another that the bank receiving such deposit must place in The explanation meeting of the public is urged to come out and escrow with some other bank or with the Treasurer of Virginia Master Plan of Fairfax County see the game. securities (generally U. S. Government bonds) in an amount not formerly scheduled for May 18 at less than the maximum deposit of County funds. the Vienna School has been post CORRECTION The fact that County funds must he kept in appropriate sep poned indefinitely. Another meeting schedu arate deposits; that the amount on hand at any one time cannot led sometime in the will be and the Last week at the foot of a Let future ter to the Editor from Mrs. J. lie considered as a lump su m ; that each fund must maintain sufficient public will be notified. O. Clarke, of Vienna, we erron balance to meet expenditures therefrom ; that the shifting of funds eously appended an editor's note from bank to bank is somewhat complicated by the escrow require MASTER PLAN MEETING stating that she was a candidate AT FLORIS SOON ment ; that many hanks are unwilling or unable to accept large for Supervisor from Centreville A meeting for the purpose of ex District. We regret the error. The deposits with interest and tliat the amount in each separate fund plaining the Master Plan of Fair is Mrs. Ruby Clark, of varies in accordance with its receipts and expenditures make it ex- fax County will be held at the Floris candidatecommunity, and not the the Vale termely difficult and, in fact, impossible to receive the maximum School on Friday, May 20, starting writer of the letter. at 8 p.m. (Cont'd on Page 3) �PAGE TWO THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL FRIDAY, MAY 13. 1955 A re These The Spokesmen For Parents O f Fairfax County’s School Children? SID EW A LK M EET IN G —The above picture was taken by an Evening Star staff photographer, of the followers of the Fairfax County Federation of P-TAs, who left the auditorium of Annandale High School on Saturday, April 30. after the Federation’s “workshop” on integration was adjourned by a vote of 100 to 50. The “moderator” of this sidewalk session was the rather im posing man on the right with the papers under his arm—Dr. E. 13. Henderson, Negro official of the NA A CP and former department head of the Washington Negro schools. Surrounding him are the 3 panelists, who were to have given the “unbiased" talks on inte gration before the meeting in the hall was adjourned. In front of Henderson, speaking, is Benjamin Muse, pro-integrationist colum nist of the Washington. Post. To H enderson’s right is the Rev. C. Emerson Smith, of the Virginia Council o f Churches, and on Henderson’s left is Dr. Houston R. Jackson, Negro assistant superintendent of the integrated Baltimore schools. Next to Jackson is a professor from Morgan College for Negroes in West V ir ginia. All were strongly in favor of integrated schools. The larger lady in gray, to the left, with the scalloped coat lapels, is Mrs. Jane Wellemeyer, chairman of the Federation’s Legislative Committee, who had presided inside the hall. The second lady to her left in white, is Mrs. Dorothy Gray, president of the Federation. The man to the far left, holding the pad, is said to be a reporter for the Afro-American, which reported Mrs. Welle meyer as saying that the “workshop” was attended by representa tives from 36 Fairfax County P-TA s “along with 46 persons from non-P-TA affiliates”. The lady in the hat, between the windows, is Mrs. Muse, wife of one of the panelists: The lady in black holding the brief case is the president of the Northern Virginia Congress of P-TA. When shown this photograph, Mr. Robert B. Walker, the School Administration official who has worked the closest with the P-TA s, was unable to identify moi'e than ten of them. (Editor s N o te : W e would like to leant the identity o f every person in this picture. I f you recognize any o f them, please send the information by mail or phone to The Providence Journal, Mc Lean. Va., ELimvood 6-3320.) GENERAL TO ADDRESS ANNUAL LAY HEALTH MEETING MONDAY The 10th annual meeting of the The following officers were elected at the meeting of the McLean Lions Fairfax County Lay Health Associa . Club on Thursday night of last tion will be held Monday. May 16, a* 8 p.m. at the Health Department in week: President, Howard Thornett; 1st Fairfax. Brigadier General Harold H. vice-president, S. Clifford Browne; 2nd vice-president, Charlton Gaines; Twitchcll, Director of Professional 3rd vice-president, R. Froehlich; Services of the Office of the Sur secretary, Donald Greene; treasurer, geon General, U.S.A.F., will -peak I. Ben Faidley; Lion Tamer, Ray on aviation medicine. Refreshments Warren and tail twister, Henry will be served. Mrs. Emma A. Faulkner McLean Lions Mrs. Emma Austin Faulkner, 84, Elect Officers of Vienna, died on Tuesday morn ing, May 10, 1955, at the Gordonsvillc, Virginia hospital of pneu monia, after a short illness. She had been taken to the hospital from Vienna in an ambulance on April 23) so that her sister-in-law, Mrs. Beatrice Piercy, a nurse there, might look after her. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Money & King Funeral Home in Vienna, with Ayers, Dr. J. McFarland and the burial following in National Me- . Rev. Paul Martin were elected to U N IT A R IA N L E A D E R TO ADDRESS FAIRFAX CENTER mortal Park, Falls Church. Pall the Board of Directors. Rev. Dilworth Lupton. former bearers were Messrs. Robert Hunter, Secretary John Mercer, who suf Moxlcy Piercy, Lloyd Shiflett, fered a cerebral hemmorhage re businessman, journalist and minister, Homer Sloper, Dante Contori and cently, is improving, and has re will speak on “How I Became a Unitarian” at a meeting of the John Stinnett. turner home from the hospital. newlv-formed Fairfax Unitarian Mrs. Faulkner was born in Center, on Sunday. May 15 at 8 p.ir Earlysville, Virginia, near Charlot DINNER AT ST. JOHN S at the Oakton School, Route 123, tesville, the daughter of Wm. F. CATHOLIC CHURCH SAT. and Sara Wood Austin. She mar The Ladies’ Altar Society of St. Oakton. An informal discussion and ried the late Robert E. Faulkner, John’s Catholic Church. ElNido. a refreshment period willisfollow Dr. and they came to Vienna in 1926. will serve dinner at St. John's Parish Lupton’s talk. Everyone welcome. Surviving arc two daughters, Mrs. Hall from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, OPEN HOUSE AT Jacqueline Ledford, of Vienna, and Mav 14. Menu—Spaghetti, Italian ANNANDALE PRE-SCHOOL Mrs. George King. A son, Austin, style, tossed green salad, homemade The Annandalc Pre-School Assn, pastry and beverage. Adults $1, will hold open house at the school died in 1946. children 50 cents: Tiny Tots free. rooms in the Annandalc Baptist Everyone is welcome! Church from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, HEARING ON VIENNA May 14. Teachers will be on hand, ZONING ORDINANCE VIENNA LIONS ORGANIZE there will be exhibits of the various NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT JUNIOR RIFLE CLUB school activities, and refreshments Vienna Lions Junior Rifle Club will be served. A public hearing on a proposed boys and The playground will be available comprehensive zoning plan for the of Vienna. Va., for of twelve girls the ages Town of Vienna will be held by the between has been organized by and to the children while the parents Town Council in the Vienna Ele eighteen,Lions Club. Information the moke their tour of inspection. The Vienna as public is cordially invited. mentary School at 8 p.m. next Tues to dates of registration to be an day, Mav 17. nounced later. RUMMAGE AND BAKE It is understood that some Mr. Earl Leister will be the in AT MERRIFIELD changes have been made in the plan structor. Temporary officers for the SALE Woman’s Society of Christian The since it was presented to the public organization are as follows: Presi Service of Bruen Chapel, Merrifield, by the Zoning Commission at a well- dent, John Shantou; Vice-President, Va., will sponsor a Rummage and Dennis Keogh; Secretary. Jo Ann Bake SaW at the Merrifield Com Fairfax County Chapter Herndon Fire Auxiliary attended meeting last year. Gooding; Executive Officer. Robert munity Hall, Mav 13th and 14th,. Observes Anniversary DAR News Darne and Treasurer, Fred Bear ill. noon until 9 p.m. Everyone is in WATER vited. Descendants of 76 Chapter, Dis ^Continued from Page i. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Hern FRANKLIN SHERMAN P-TA trict of Columbia, and the Fairfax don Volunteer Fire Department MEETING CHANGED TO DINNER AT DUNN LORING County Chapter D.A.IL were guests held its regular monthly meeting at THURSDAY of Mr. Charles C. Wall, resident the Fire Hall, and observed its 25th under a lease-purchase arrangement MAY 24 The The superintendent of Mt. Vernon, on anniversary. similar to that by which the An- hold itsFranklin Sherman P-TA will Loring Ladies Auxiliary of the Dunn' Volunteer Fire Department fourth Tuesday, April 26, at a tea given Mrs. R. E. Holder, presided, and nandale system would be acquired. Tuesday,Mav meeting on the of the will serve a sumptious dinner at the Mav 24. instead for them at Mt. Vernon. Present Miss Lorella James, assistant con It is also understood that the Town were members of both chapters, and ductress of the county auxiliary pre of Vienna might become a customer third Tuesday as has b-cn the cus Fire House Thursday. May 19, from 5 to S o'clock. Menu will consist ot tom in the past. Mrs. Geoffrey Crayke, Librarian sented the llag. Mrs. Thomas Groff of the system. . The program will be in charg< of tomato cocktai1 one half charcoalGeneral of the D.A.R., Miss FousThere is still, however, talk of a the Seventh Graders ami will ' c held . barb* chicken ner person, two tinc Dennis, State Regent, D. C. conducted the devotional service. The following guests of honor large revenue water bond issue later in the old auditorium. The anuu:d i vegetables, hot biscuits with honey Regent of 76, and Miss Anita How were welcomed: Plast President, to expand this system after it has art exhibit will be on ditplav j am! butter, peach -.alad. pickles and ard, Fairfax County Chapter and h me bd.rd cake with ice State Genealogical Records of Alex Mrs. E. M. Armfield; past vice- gotten underway. (Editor’s note: throughout the buildings, in hall- j andria, and Miss Ruth Dobson of presidents, Mrs. J. L. Nachman and The proposals above appear rea ways and rooms, for the benefit crt'im. coffee, tea and milk. Adult« little money or $1.50, children up to 12 years. 75Arlington, acting for Mrs. Robert Mrs. Arthur Buell; former presi sonable. requiring infinitely sounder of the parents. cents; children to 6 years, 30 cents. W. Smith, Regent, of Manassas, dents Mrs. Oscar Costello, Mrs. risk. It'< certainly Leonard Burgess and Miss Mary than the $34,000,000 proposition sug DOUGLAS ADAMS NAMED who wa suitable to be present. ago—though FALLS CHURCH GOP Miss Dennis and Mrs. John W. Hurst, the latter with her mother, gested some inweeks minds of the HEAD OF COUNTY the WOMEN'S CLUB TO CHEST DRIVE Brookfield were hostesses for Mr. Mrs. Cora Hurst and Mrs. Charles that i< still promoters. We think the system out Annandalc attorney C. Douglas ELECT OFFICERS TUESDAY Wall, serving tea at the end of the O’Shaughncssy. lined above could grow normally Adams, Jr., has been named by Mrs. The Falls Church Republican very pleasant social hour. The new officers were installed by fronts its own receipts, without hav G. A. Justusson, president of the Women’s Club will hold its monthly Miss Virginia E. Smith, of Fair Chaplain A. J. Schrader, with Miss Community Chest of Fairfax County meeting on Tuesday. May 17, at the fax, was introduced adn presented Estelle Holden at the piano. The ing to float large bond issues.) and Falls Church, Inc., as red home of Mrs. K. H. Woodward, 510 Mr. Wall a large chart of the Lewis auxiliary voted to give $50 to Fire Linden Lane, Falls Gturch. feather chairman for 1955. Family Tree for Mt. Vernon. men’s Relief, and to pay $378 for The program will include a guest Though the campaign will not get Mr. Wall made a short acceptance 100 chairs for the fire hall. It also memorial service on May 23. The dogwood button sale netted underway until October, plans are speaker and the election of club of speech, thanking the two chapters in voted to join the Fairfax County Who’s name the chart was given. Auxiliary and to serve food at the $81.25. Mrs. R. E. Holder and Mrs. being firmed up now to raise neces ficers. The speaker will be U. S. The guests then toured Mt. Ver Fairfax Hunt Horse Show on May Charles Mundav will represent the sary funds to support the eleven I Representative John Rhodes, of non and strolled through its beau 28. It will also aid the Firemen in auxiliary at the Zone meeting in Chest agencies serving health, wel-' Arizona. Guests arc cordially wel— fare and recreation in the County. < 'omed. tiful gardens. 1planting a dogwood tree at the <Strausburg on May 14. �th e FR ID A Y . MAY 13, 1955 Bailey’s Cross Roads Mary E. Hurst—JAckson 4-0535 Assistant Rector Named At Truro p r o v i d e n c e Freedom Park Opens May 30 PAGE ELEVEN j o u r n a l McLean Vacation Bible School Seeks Volunteers Tlie McLean Vacation Bible Sscliool is being organized and Mrs. Ecklcs, who A'ill he its principal, is sending out this appeal for vol unteer workers. Anyone who can help is asked to call Mrs. Eckles at ELnnvood 6-4286. The Bible School is sponsored by the four McLean Churches—St. John’s Episcopal, The McLean Bap tist, Lcwinsvillc Presbyterian, and the Langley Methodist. It will run from June 7 through June 17 and will include children of four years through eighth grade. LEGAL NOTICE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE THE CIRCUIT COURT FAIRFAX COUNTY. V The swimming pool at Freedom Mrs. Frances Simms was elected Allan N. Zacker, Jr., who will be President of the Bailey’s Ladies' graduated from Virginia Theological Park will he officially open May 30, LELAND S. DENNING, . Auxiliary to the Fire Department Seminary the first week of June, park president I'-. M. Lowcrec an nounced this week. The park is a at tlie annual meeting of the Auxil has been named assistant rector of iary on Tuesday evening. Other Truro Episcopal Church, Fairfax, community project which offers EDITH G. ADAMS DENNIN officers elected were Mrs. Elizabert the Rev. Raymond V . Davis, an swimming, picnic and other recrea V Jones, vice-president; Mrs. Lee nounces. Mr. Zacker will go into bis tion priviliges to members and lawanike, secretary; Mrs. Hattie position—a new one created at Truro guests only. IN CHANCERY NO 1031: Remcikas, treasurer; Mrs. Doris because of the rapidly expanding ORDER OF PUR LI CAT 10: By the May 30 opening date, the Roachc, conductress; Mrs. Lucille parish—on June 15. poll will be completed and the sur MEMORANDUM . The abjec Tillet, assistant conductress; Mrs. The newly appointed assistant rounding land completely sodded. this suit is to obtain for the C Ethel Pickeral, chaplain and Mrs. rector has been active in church af The bath house will he completed plainant a divorce a vinculo nic Marie Schmidt, historian. Officers fairs of this area while lie lias been and the wading pool open for the mouii from the Defendant on will be installed at the June meet studying at the seminary. He lias use of tlie “sand box set.” grounds ing. assisted the rector of St. olin’s Later this summer the picnic Mrs. Mary Newton from Wash Church, McLean, for at least two area will he completed to provide ington was guest of her sister, Mrs. years, including work with the picnic tables and fire places. The LEGAL NOTICE Wm. Westerman on Friday evening, young people of the parish. In the picnic area is already cleared and and attended the Firemen and summer of 1954, lie was employed partially graded. THE F A I R F A X C O U N T Y at the mission church for Franconia. Auxiliary annual banquet. BOARD OF ZONING AP Mr. Lowerec arc Mr. Zacker will lie ordained to still a number of reports there open Mr. Benjamin Dove was toast PEALS WILL HOLD A PUB memberships master at tlie Second Annual Char the diaconate of the Episcopal to purchase. The price is $180 per LIC HEARING ON APPLI Rt. Rev. F. D. Good ter Night of the Bailey’s Cross Church by theof Virginia, following family plus $10 annual dues per CATIONS FOR EXCEPTIONS win, Bishop Roads Lion’s Club which was held OR VARIANCES FROM THE adult member (up to a maximum of at Walnut Hill on Thursday even graduation from the seminary. He $20). Memberships are bought in the ZONING ORDINANCE FOR ing, May 5th. Call to order was by made his decision to enter the min form of stock with total membership CERTAIN REAL ESTATE IN istry during his final year in law limited to the capacity , of the pool the President, Mr. John C. Grille. FAIRFAX VOUNTY, V I R Order of Public is granted, and it Invocation, Walter Bonnet. Wel school. He majored in business ad and other facilities. GINIA come bv Reggie Shaw. The guest ministration and law as WashingNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN is ordered that the above named Person's interested in joining the ton University, St. Louis, Mo., .speaker was Mr. John A. K. Dono where he received bis law degree in nool group mav contact Mrs. James PURSUANT to the Provisions of here within ten days after the due van'7 from Falls Church. Dancing Section XII of the Zoning Ordin publication of this Order and do 1952. He the seminary ni. was enjoyed after the dinner and September,entered Tc lias served 18 D. Coulter, DUnkirk 5-9707. 1952. The pool committee is also inter ance, establishing and giving cer what is necessary to protect her in program. months in the Army. He is married ested in getting applications from tain powers to the Board of Zoning terest in this cause. The beautiful Cariljonic Bells re aiid has one child. persons qualified to become life Appeals, 'that at the Regular Meet TESTE: cently installed at St. Paul’s church guards at the park this summer. ing of the Board of Appeals to be THOMAS P. CHAPMAN. [R. were dedicated at the 11 o’clock held in the Board Room of the will employ * CLERK. service in the church on Sunday IN PIMMIT HILLS . . . The corporation and one other two [County Office Building at Fairfax, on Bv: W. Franklin Gooding. C. Constance Hjertberg, JE 4-0174 full-time guards morning, May 8th. These SchulmerVirginia, a part-time basis. Deputy Clerk. ick Carillonic Bells comprise 25 MAY 24, 1955 A Copy—Teste: Applicants mav he cither male or Feeling sportive? Care to play a notes and can be played manually At 10 O’Clock. A.M.. D.S.T. THOMAS P. CHAPMAN. 1R.. from the organ console or by an few hands? Meld, Bid or Draw—you female hut must he at least 18 years Board will hold CLERK, automatic roll player preset for will find your pleasure at The Card of age. In addition, they must he tlie said on the following: a Public Hearing Bv: W. Franklin Goodihg, stated times during the day. They Party on Saturday, May 14, at 8 currently certified graduates of a 11:25—P. Rupert, to permit Deputy Clerk. ai>e set to play each evening at 7 p.m. at the Dunn Loring Fire Red Cross lifesaving course. Appli dwellings asR. erected to remain DONOVAN X TURNBULL, pin. A church bell or peal calling house. A paltry one dollar hill will cations should he addressed to Mr. closer to side property line than al By: Philip N. Bropliv. people to Worship is part of the admit you to this jovial jamboree of William B. Becker, Box 330, Rfd. lowed by the Ordinance, LoG 89. Counsel for Complainant, 5-13-4* instrument. They are a gift of Mr. chance. The evening is sponsored No. 4, Vienna, Va. and 92, Section 4, Freedom Park, Inc., formed more 90, 91, Gardens, Providence Chestcram. Mrs. D. E. Ball of Raven wood b'v the Dunn Loring P-TA, and di brook District. Please mention The Providence and' an Anonymous donor, and in rected by Mr>. Douglas Crisenian than a year ago. held its first an Journal when you patronize its J. W. BROOKFIELD. ? memory of Philip Beecher Nourse J I" 4-1009. For the lucky there will nual meeting of stockholders April 5-13-lt Chairman. advertisers. It will help us greatly. and his wife, Harriet Ferguson he door prizes and table prizes. Re 6. In. addition to president, Mr. Lowerec and Mr. Becker and Mrs. Nourse and Lawrence Ralph. Ball. freshments wil lbc available. It occurrs to us at this point that Coulter, the following were elected Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newell and their two children visited on Sun perhaps you are wondering why to the hoard of directors; Mr. Her day morning with his mother, Mrs. your events and activities arc not man Miller, Mr. Lee Youngs, Mr. L. 1 . West of Echols Street. Mr. appearing in this column. A tele Ronald W. Blake. Mrs. Faif Smith, C IT IS A PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THAT Newell entered Garfield Hospital on phone call will suffice to have your and Mrs. John S. Stephenson, III. Construction of the pool and nark Sunday evening and was scheduled news or announcements included in EDWARD I. HOBBS, JR. for an operation on Wednesday. ■ this column. Your calls are welcome. facilities was all done bv local builders and contractors, several of. The Girl Scouts of the local St. Anthony’s church will hold honored their mothers with a troop whom arc also park members. tasty IS NOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS OFFICE their second annual festival on May “Cook-out” last Among them: pool construction. 21st and 22ml from 2 p.m., to 10 in the backyard Saturday afternoon Sanders Guild Co.. McLean; plumb of the Delap home p.m., each (lav. There will be rides on Li.-le Avenue. Great quantities ing, P. L. Booze. Vienna; sodding, ELIZABETH WELLS HALL INSURANCE AGENCY for the kiddies, various booths, good oi Mrs. Delap's delicious potato Ronald W. Blake, Fairfax: and confood and fun for all.' They "invite salad and .hamburgers cooked over ceret work, A. H. Leatherwood, everyone to conic early and stay late. hot coals were consumed. Games Vienna. M cLEAN, VA. ELMWOOD 6-3321 Cindy Lou of Dumont Television much merriment—especially Tiie and pool are the vi will he present. There will he clowns addedthe mothers participating. The cinity parkFreedom Hillsin School, with of and other acts. Scouts of the troop arc: Maria Har about one block .from Leesburg Pike Kenny Dove is home from over rington, Vicki Moore. Barbara between Hull and Bvrd Roads. seas duty and is in the process of be Poland, Carole Janes, Susie Dclap, ing discharged from the service. Mary Beth Rowe. Faith Burkhardt, Children of St. Anthony's Cath Barbara Miller, Pat Mahar, Judy Annanclale Fire olic church will be in the May Day Huffman. Mary and Joanne Mc procession to be held at the church Cormick, Phyllis Volovick, Connie Auxiliary Makes Plans on Sunday, May 15th at 4 p.m. Hjertberg and Troop Leader, Mrs. Mrs. Marie Anderson, president, Lt. Col. John R. Barricro and Mrs Thornton C. Miller. The next regular Dunn Loring presidet at the meeting of the Ladies Barricro entertained 22 guests at of the Annandalc Volun dinner on Saturday evening at their P-TA metting will not he until Auxiliary Department on Thursday, May 25. It will include a spring teer Fire home in Dowden Terrace. May 5th, when long range plans presented bv Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Nelson spent festival school grounds.the children for the summer months were dis the weekend with their daughter on the 7:00 p.m. and last It will be cussed. Miss Annie Koustcnis was until dark. Dottie at Waynesboro and attended gin at welcomed into the Auxiliary as a the May Day exercises at the col new member. lege. Buck Henry, local fire chief, an with their long standing friends, the Comdr. and Mrs. Jack Richards nounced that the Annandale group Geers. spent the weekend in Philadelphia. Levi N.Geer had the misfortune to had won first prize at the parade Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clark motored get her right hand badly bruised on at the Winchester Apple Blossom to Martinsburg, West Virginia on Monday of last week when she was Festival for the best pumper. The prize is $75.00 in cash which will be Sunday to 'visit his mother. using her washing machine. The annual banc|tiet of the Birthday congratulations to Mrs. a nice addition to the Building Fund. Bailey’s Cross Roads Volunteer Fire Dorothy Tuck who celebrated her Mr. Henry discussed the plans for the addition to the present building Department and Ladies’ Auxiliary anniversary on April 29th. was held on Friday evening in the Mrs. Fred Pope was in Mt. Ver and called attention to the fact that social hall at St. Paul’s Episcopal non, N. Y. several days recently the kitchen and dining room had been relocated and re-designed to church, and was attended by 12(i. [visiting relatives. > the definite improvement of the Mr. John B. Mr. John Roche, President of the ton where lie Simms went to Stan plan. Details are being worked out Fire Department was master of of the By-Laws attended a meeting witli the architect and it is hoped and Executive Com ceremonies. Rev. A. F. Kramer mittees of the Virginia State Fire that the building program will get gave the invocation. Guests' were men’s Association. underway at an early date. Fire Chief, Bernard Padgett of Alex Mrs. Henry, chairman of Arthur James Dutch) Simpson Southern States Open Formula Fertilizer And andria and Lt. William Durrer of lias been absent from his duties at Ways and Means Committee, the an the Fairfax County Police Depart the Bailey's Fire House due to ill nounced plans for the Auxiliary to Seeds That Really Grow! ment. participate in the Carnival which is ness. Mrs. Dorothy Clark, president of • Open Formula Fertilizers Dutchie Simpson has enlisted in slated to begin on Monday, June the Ladies’ Auxiliary presented tlie Navy and will report to. his 13tli. The ladies will have a White (Most analyses available) Honorary Membership Certificates station today. Elephant booth, rummage and baked to Mcsdamcs, Cora Hurst, Grace The Senior Girl Scout Troop held goods stand and on Saturday, June • Vegetable Seeds Cartre, Minnie West, Mac Tillet and a cook out last week at their lead 18th, Mrs. Vinccn Guidi will he in • Pick of The Crop Seed Potatoes Mary Tyrrell. Mrs. Jane Krummes er’s home, Mrs. W. T. Krummes charge of a Cake walk contest. was also presented with an Honor in Dowden Terrace. Mrs. Frank DeWald reported that • Lawn Grass ary Membership Certificate as she Dogwood Day donations for April Guest in the Ben Davis home re • Clovers, Alfalfas & Grasses and her family are moving in June cently was his brother from Ander I7tli for the benefit of the Firemen’s to their new home in Albuquerque, son, South Carolina. Relief Fund amounted to $94.83. • Grain Seed New Mexico. She also accepted for Mrs. Ada Gorham was appointed Billy Krummes, Herbert McWil • Hybrid Corn her husband honorary membership liams. Boh West, Dwight Edwards, chairman of a Refreshment Com from the Fire Department which Lee Wooster and Terry Lane were mittee to take care of the installation was presented by Mr. John Roche. guests of George Metcalf when he of officers for tlie county ceremonies S o u th e rn S ta te s H erndon C o o p er r v e A beautiful silver gravy boat was celebrated liis 13tli birthday. The at the Annandale Fire House on Phone 18, Herndon, Va; presented to the Krummes’ from group had dinner in tlie yard at the Tuesday, June 28th. She will be as the two Departments as a parting Metcalf home on Calhoun Street sisted by the Social Committee with gift and in appreciation for all their and then attended a movie. Mrs. Ruth Lipscomb chairman in S o u th e rn S ta te s F a irfa x C o o p era tiv e work in the Departments. Mrs. Mrs. John B. Simms took mem charge. Phone Dunkirk 5-7525 Vienna, Va. Carol Westerman, Chaplain of the bers of her Sunday school class Mrs. Marv Dunnington and Mrs. Auxiliary gave the benediction. Fol from St. Paul’h Church to the Zoo Tackla Crawford served dainty re lowing the banquet the group went on Sunday of last week after the freshments and a social hour was NEW SUMMER HOURS—VIENNA STORE ONLY to the Fire Hall where they enjoyed 9:45 classes. enjoyed before adjournment. THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS—8 A M. TO 9 V M. dancing until midnight. Members are requested to assist Mr. Levi N. Geer recently went OTHER WEEKDAYS—8 A.M TO 5 P.M. in the sale of tickets for the boat Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Kunable, to Richmond on business. Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Kutiable, Jr., Mrs. George Metcalf's parents trip down the Potomac on Sunday, June 5th, at 8:00 p.m. from Philadelphia visited recently from Delaware are visiting her. Real Estate Insurance WILLIAM W. M ACKALL JA 8-2133 JE 2-1958 ForCrops“ThatAre Tops” Use Only The Best �t h e PA GE T W E L V E T h e P rovidence Jo u rn a l p r o v i d e n c e Miss Barbara A. Cloud Weds Frederick Little Published weekly at McLean, Virginia RICHARD M. SMITH, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at McLean, Va. TELEPHONE: ELMWOOD 6-3320 Subscription rates: $3.00 a year Advertising rates furnished on request Member: Virginia Press Association Member: National Editorial Association OFF TO A GOOD START County Executive Carlton Massey is to be complimented on his prompt investigation of the County’s idle millions, resulting in his recommendation that at least $1,500,000 more he placed out at interest. H is report to the Board of Supervisors will he found elsewhere in this issue. We feel, however, that several more millions of the idle funds can also he made to bring in some income. Thus far Mr. Massey has only consulted Mr. L. M. Coyner, the Director of Finance, whose past performance in the advantageous placing of County funds certainly has not been impressive, lie . it appears, is the one who should have had these funds out at interest all along. H is failure to do so has. apparently, cost the County hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout his many years as head of the County's treasury. W e would suggest that the Board of Supervisors appoint a committee of the most capable bankers and investment advisors available td make a thorough study of the funds on hand, and to recommend how they should be invested to the best advantage to the County. We feel sure that someone like Mr. David Lawrence or Judge Charles D. Hamel could recommend members of such a committee who would command the utmost confidence of the tax■ payers. W ith another $25,00(X000 school bond issue, and a multi million dollar water bond issue imminent, we certainly cannot af ford to leave things to the hit-or-miss policy of the past. SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DENMARK The picture on page 2 of the sidewalk meeting of the sup porters of the Fairfax County Federation of P-TAs—held after the recent Annandale “ workshop”, on integration had been adjourned by a 100 to 50 vote by indignant members of local P-TAs—should cause us all to find out what is going on in that organization. First, why is Dr. E. B. Henderson, Negro official of the NAA CP and former head of a department of the D.C. Negro schools, so apparently taking Charge of the meeting? H e lives in Falls Church, which has its own School Administration entirely separate from that of Fairfax County. Next, who are these people anyway, who are so active in an organization which supposedly speaks for the parents of Fairfax County's 31,000 school children? It is extremely odd to us that Mr. Robert B. Walker of the County School Administration, who has kept more closely in touch with P-TAs than any other school official, is unable to identify more than ten of them. It is also extremely odd that a member of the Virginia P-TA Congress, who was present, refused to identify any of them when asked to do so by us. We are going to make a point of finding out, if possible, who every single solitary person present in that picture is. We, of course, recognize the panelists, three of the top officials of the Federation, several teachers in local Negro schools, and a few others. But it is the other forty who interest us. One is, no doubt, the M. Alonzo Rodriquez, who lives on upper Connecticut Avenue in Washington, and who’s scathing letter appeared in last week’s Journal. Another, we are informed, is a lady from Arlington, named Marx, who was active in the Virginia campaign of Henry Wallace some years ago. Certainly neither of them, by any stretch of the imagination, represents the parents of Fairfax County school children. Judging by the fact that Mr. W alker was unable* to identify most of the rest, it appears likely that very few in that crowd could speak for the local parents. And yet they have been paraded on the pages of the Washington' press as the “persecute^ ladies of the Fairfax County P-TAs." We saw many more parents of school children among those remaining inside the hall than we can spot in this sidewalk conclave. Perhaps a statement by Mrs. Wellemever appearing in the May 7 issue of the Washington Afro-American gives th e -answer: "Mrs. Wellemever disclosed that representatives from 36 Fairfax County P-TA s attended the disrupted workshop, along with 46 persons from non-P-TA affiliatesA What, pray, are these “nonP-TA affiliates"—and what right had they to speak for the parents of Fairfax County school children? We think.it is time for the rank-and-file of the parents of school children to find out what the P-TA Federation is, and what it’s up to. DeMolay News Col. Leigh Fairbanks, Jr. May 14: Bake Sale at \Vright and On Army Maneuvers Hunt’s store in Vienna, benefit of l»rd Fairfax Chapter. Beginning at 10 o’clock a.m. May 16. Regular DeMolay meeting at 8 p.m. in Henry Lodge Hall, Fairfax. Tickets are on sale for Moonlight Cruise benefit of Lord Fairfax and Win. Mason Saunders Chapters. Tickets may be obtained from any member of these chapters or by calling Charles Johnson at O ver look .3-1398. Boatridc is scheduled f ir July 20, Wednesday. Army Colonel Leigh Cole Fairbank, Jr., \rhosc parents live on Route I, Vienna. Va., will partici pate in LOGFX-55 an Army-wide logistical exercise, at Fort Lee, Va., Mav 2-7. The colonel entered the Army in 19.37. He is a 19.37 graduate of the IT. S. Military Academy at West Point and a 1940 graduate of the* University of California at Berke ley. His wife, Lorcnc, is with him at Fort Bel voir, Va. FR ID A Y , MAY 13, 1955 j o u r n a l Miss Barbara Ann Cloud, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Etienne L. Cloud of 5004 Kirbv Road. Falls Church, and Mr. Frederick K. Lit tle, son of Austin H. Little, 27530 Hanover St., Inkster, Michigan, were united in marriage Saturday, April 30, 1955. at 3 p.m. in the Chesterbrook Methodist Church by the Dr. H. Burnell Pannill. The church was beautiful with palms and baskets of spring flowers. Given in marriage by her brother Etienne L. Cloud. Jr., the bride wore a floor-length gown of white lace with layers of nylon pleated tulle. Her fingertip-veil was of white lace with illusion and she carried a white orchid on a white Bible. The bride’s sister, Nancy Lie Cloud, as maid of honor, wore a pink, ballerina length costume of nylon taffeta and carried a nosegay of blue carnations. The brides maids Bernice Records, Janet Beall. Joan Griggs, and Fredcricka Sehauss wore blue nylon taffeta in ballerina length and carried nosegays of pinkcarnations. Flower Girl was Susan Hamer, dressed in pink nylon with white accessories, and Robert Stow ers was ring bearer. Best man was John Sullivan and ushers were Edward T. Records, Kvcrctte Cloud. Ronald Leopold and Howard Procter. The brides’s mother wore a gown of beige and pink real silk, ballerina length, with pink accessories and the bridegroom's mother was dressed in navy bine with navy ac cessories. Assistants at the reception, which was held in the church, were Betty Towscy, Elaine Strawscr, Rosamund Mohr, Elizabeth Thomp son, Mable Boland. Nellie Williams, Lois Beall, Elsie Loy and Catherine Ball. Mrs. Little is a student nurse at the University of Virginia School of Nursing and Mr. Little is a gradu ate engineer, from Michigan State College. Chesterbrook Baptist Church News Communion Service was observed the first Sunday in April at the Chesterbrook Baptist Church (col ored) with Rev. J. H. Fairfax in charge of the service. He also de livered the sermon on April 17. Rev. E. T Foster was in charge' v. of Easter services, with Sunrise Service music bv the Junior Choir and Mrs. C. Tatum, the organist. The “Never Idle Club ’, of which Mrs. Vashti Gilmore is president, presented a bulletin board to the Church. On April 18 a Citizens’ Associa tion was formed with Mrs. Emily Brown, president. Mr. Holland, president of the Fairfax Citizens’ Association, was guest speaker. Tlu- Health Unit No. 1, Mrs. Cora V. Carter, president, presented a Cross to the Church on April 24. Rev. E. K. Foster delivered the sermon. Vacation Bible School Faith Baptist Church of Vienna announces its plans for another Christ-centered Vacation Bible School this summer. The date.- will be June 13 to 18. Rev. Paul Gelatt, Jr., Pastor of the church, will direct the school. He states that there will he a high emphasis on Scripture, memorization and Bable study. In view of the splendid response last year, added teachers and helpers will be present in order that proper instruction may he given the fellows and girls. The Faith Baptist Church is meet ing presently in the auditorium of the Vienna Elementary School on Center Street. Services are as fol lows: Bible School 9:45, Worship, 11, Bible Training Union 6:30, Gos pel Service 7:30, Prayer Meeting on Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. Applications Open For Annandale Pre-School 10th District’Woman’s Democratic Club Elects New Officers Mrs. Mary B. Doty, wife of Dale E. Doty, formerly Assistant Secre tary of the" Interior and Federal Power -Commission Member, was yesterday elected president of the Woman's Democratic Club of Vir ginia’s Tenth District at the club's third annual meeting in the Penn Daw Restaurant on the Richmond Highway. Mrs. Doty served last year as vice-president of the Tenth District Club and the Woman's Na tional Democratic Club, and she is currently vice-president of the Fair fax Countv Council of Girl Scouts. Vice- presidents elected to serve with Mrs. Doty were Mrs. Willard Van Valkcnburgh, Alexandria. Mrs. Roberta Cox, Arlington, and Mrs. Flora Crater, Fairfax County. Re elected for a second term were Mrs. Alice B. Dunn, of Annandale, sec retary, and Mrs. John W. Edelman, Arlington, treasurer. Mrs. Heurv Carterr retiring pres ident, introduced the l unc he on speaker, Mrs. Henry Reuss, wife of the freshman Democratic Congress man from Wisconsin’s Fifth Dis trict, and a member of tiie women's speakers bureau of the Democratic National Committee. Speaking on the topic. “Congress at the Half-wav Mark,” Mrs. Reuss told the group that the Democrats have kept their 1954 campaign pro mise “to support the President when he was right and oppose him when he was wrong." She cited Demo cratic support of various President ial measures, including the Recipro cal Trade Bill, “over the hitter oppo sition of a Republican majority.” And in opposition to Presidential proposals deemed “against the inter ests of the ordinary tax-p-aycr.’’ she declared it was the Democrats in Congress who disregarded his threat of a veto and voted for a $20 tax cut. continued farm price supports and higher salaries fqr Federal workers.” Mrs. Reuss, wlio beaded volunteer workers in her husband's ’54 cam paign, also answered audience ques tions on campaign techniques. Do you have a child between the ages of three and a half and six who is starved for companionship? If >-o. your answer Iie> in the Annaiidale Cooperative Pre-School .As sociation. This organization runs one one of the largest, best-equipped nursery and kindergarten school- ili the area at a minimum cost to the parent. For a “look-sec” at the school s physical plant, facilities, to meet the teachers, and to see displays of the work of the pre-schoolers, at tend the Open House at the ACPA headquarters at the Annandale Bap tist Church on Columbia Pike next Sunday, May 14th, from 2 to 4 p.m. Applications arc now being ac cepted for the fall term which starts on September 7th. For information on enrollment, call or write M r.-. John Chcckovich. membership chair man, at JF 2-2415—1414 Wayne Drive, Brovhill Crest, Falls Church. INDEPENDENT I P R I N T E R S I Dunkirk 5-5090 We Are As Near As Your Phone ' a s t a t emen t o f o u r POLICY E With the Advent of I Spring, and the Multi tude of Playing Child•j ren. May We Urge You * to DRIVE C A R E - J * FULLY! . . . Does It , . Mean Anything That u * Nearly 4500 Little Ones U N D E R 14 A R E , K I L L E D ANNUA L L Y by Automo biles? . . . Can Any of | Us Drive Sanely With out COMPLETE IN SURANCE? Phone Company To Increase Local Facilities The board of directors of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia at its April meeting authorized expenditures for improvement and expansion of tele phone facilities in Virginia amount ing to $2,019,387. Included for the Falls Church area is a $50,000 addition to the Elmwood dial central office: $9,400 in addi tional appropriation for the FallChurch dial center and 1..3 miles of aerial cable costing $22,600 in the Country Club section of the Falls Church area. More central office facilities costing $13,700 were also authorized for the Forcstvillc dial office. 1 UHLER i and [COM PANYS 1 Established 1944 , INSURORS J Realtors — Appraisers JE 2-7324 I ANNANDALE BUILDING MATERIALS? l a r g e q u a n t it ie s rA' for Contractors and Builders I $ I SMALL QUANTITIES J . for Home Owners Every Item for the Building Industry Get Them All W ith One Call A t Bioyhill Supply Company, Inc. | 1511 North Nelson St., Arl., Va. JAckson 5-5870 SAVINGS AND SERVICE GO HAND IN HAND Reduced prices through carload lot purchases, are passed on to you. A large fleet of trucks insures on-time Deliveries Call NOW For Quotations on Materials Convenient Terms Arranged ® | �FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 THE PROVIPENCE JOURNAL PAGE THIRTEEN ELmwood 6-3609. 10-8-tcb Merrifield Defeats BURKE Oakton BICYCLE HEADQUARTERS. Lee Fowler, BRowning 8-8477 Complete line of American and Centreville 1813 Catherine Onesty, DU 5-9532 English bicycles. Trade-ins accepted. The Minstrel Show at the Burke The Merrifield Independent Base Rebuilt bikes. Repairs, parts and ac Admiral and Mrs. John Henry cessories. Parkway Cycle Co. Lee Shultz arc the -proud grandparents School was a huge success. The In ball team played its first game of Hwy. and N. Kirkwood Rd. (opp. of a new granddaughter who was terlocutor was Mrs. Gwendolyn the season Sunday, winning over Hot Shoppe) Arl., Va. JAckson born Muv 1st. She has been named Benn; the Kndmcn, Clarence Sisson, Centreville 18 to 13. The turning 5-8122. 8-13-tcb Holland Maiian and > the daughter Paul St. Clair, Roy Carson, Amos point of the game came in the fifth s MONEY TO LOAN. LONG of their S''u, Robert, and his wife. Winslow, Ralph Blevins, Raymond inning when pinch hitter Charles time F.H.A. mortgage loans now Lt. Shu It • i- the CoinmamUjtg Of Hawkins, Wes Salvadorc and John Mills drove in three runs to break The Trading Post available. The Vienna Trust Com ficer uf th* U.S S. Brabii.:g which Thomas; the Chorus, Hope Thomas, the tie. pany, Vienna and McLean, Vir Harry Crouch is the manager of is stationed at Green Cove Spring, Lois Avery, Mary Young, Lillian FOR RENT: McLEAN, 1 BED- ginia. Fla., hut lie will report for duty Shaner, Laura Cross, Judy Hall, the team. Next Sunday they will 6-18-tcb room with FOR SALE: AUTOMOBILE, at the Bureau of Ships here in Mary Ellen Young, Laverne Carson, play Centreville again at Centreville. room cottage, living garden. $75fire per Fire and other types of insurance, Wilufa Thompson, Betty Day, The game will start at 2:30 D.S.T. place, kitchen, bath, Washington in June. month. Call ELmwood 6-3294. ltb surety bonds, all written in reliable This evening Admiral and Mrs. Gladys McLaughlin, Roberta Young, Spectators arc welcome. FOR SALE; POWER .Shultz will entertain at dinner for Audrey Hellin, Clara Hawkins, The team also sponsors Square 20” Excello reel type, MOWER stock companies. G. Norman Cobb, \y 2 h.p. Inc., 201 Wright Bldg., Vienna, Va. the Officers connected with the Doris Winslow, Gail Mahon, Lucy dances weekly at the Merrifield Naval Reserve Policy Board. Ad West and Bobby Hawkins. Directed Coininunity House on Saturday Briggs & Stratton. Excellent condi Dial DUnkirk 5-9648 or DUnkirk tion. $60.00 Call DUnkirk 5-9172. ltb 5- 7000. miral Shultz is the newly appointed by Lucille Martin; Piano Accom nights. 3-26-tcb FOR SALE: 5-HORSEPOWER l\xrnitive Secretary of the Naval panist, Mars Hanson; Dance In Dancing i- limited to square danc TREE CUT TI NG. L A N D Reserve Association. Other guests structor, Olive Carson. Elsie Sisson ing and Paul Jones. Smith's hand Husky garden tractor with disc, cul clearing and wood sawing. Wood will include Mr. and Mrs. Joseph and Mary Hopkins “Slay Away provides the music. Admission price tivator, bulldozer blade. Good con for sale. Jack A. Marzano, Elmwood Leopold. Mrs. Leopold is the Secre From My Man" was one of the ter is $1.50 per couple and $1.00 stag. dition, $250. Phone EL 6-3445. ltb 6- 3447. 1-29-tcb FOR SALE: FRESH HOLtary of the Womens Labor Board. rific'numbers! An enjoyable inter-? TRACTOR WORK: PLOWstein cow Zl/ 2 years old, second ing, discing, cultivating, scooping, Mr. and Mrs. B. K Shifflett had as mission was furnished by Barbara Children’s Workshop . calf. Penny Acres, DA 5-8827. ltb grading, mowing, raking. Jack A. their guests at dinner on Sunday Blevins; who did a tap dance; Bar PAINT: OUTSIDE, TITAN- Marzano, ELmwood 6-3447. 4-IO-tcb Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Yearsley of bara Blevins and Jovce Randell, a Dramatizing Lohengrin ium lead and oil. Guaranteed not to Pittsburgh, Petipa.,- and ,tlieir son tap dance duet; “The Pesal Tree” by At Oakton Saturday MOTHER’S DAY, MAY 8, 1955. peel. $4.95 value, Special Factory 1. Rightfully made a law by the U. and daughter, Elaine and'Earl; Mr. William Mall; piano ragtime, Mars price $2.25 gallon. Free sample. and Mrs. Arthur Mar.thei.is and their Hanson; Mammy Skit, Laura Cross; Elsa, Lohengrin, and Frederick Write to Snow White Paint Co., S. Congress, proclaimed by Presi daughtre. Margaret; Mrs. Lena accordion and mandolin duet by have become very real to the Kin dent Eisenhower, gave birth to the 4-13-ltp following Mother’s Day event: Smith and Mr. Albert Wolfiinger. John and Hope Thomas; banjo solo, dergarten children at The Children’s Toledo, Ohio. LOST: 24” ORANGE ENGMrs. Olinda Hurst left by air on Mars Hanson and Violin solo by Workshop, a Nursery, Kindergarten, Place—Rhinehart's barn, Fairfax Monday to return to her home in Harvey Cross, accompanied by and First Grade, school in Jefferson lish Bike without fenders. May 4 County. Va.. being very early in the California after spending some time Laura Cross- We are hoping the Village. The children have been or 5, vicinity Engleside Ave. Any morning with the Holy Mother Minstrel Show will be given again dramatizing the story in pantimime one seeing bike or having informa Mary. Her Babe’s likeness lying in here with her brother-in-law, Mr. at Burke. Clifton or Oakton where and ballet and plan to present it to tion of its whereabouts, please call a real manger, Father, God in C. Owen Fairchild. Elmwood 6-3908. 5-13-ltp Heaven. Hallelujah. Therefore a Mrs. Seller Whitescll is still a wc can see it. their parents and friends on Mav FOR SALE: FIVE ACRES—2- mother above all mothers eternal. patient in Emergency Hospital and The Fairfax High School’s Senior 14th at the Oakton is reported to be getting along nicely Play, "Arsenic and Old Lace” -was ' torium at 10:30 a.m. School. Audi family, asbestos shingle house, Se!ah. The Nursery chicken houses, double garage. after her operation last week. also the same Saturday night, and ancl First Grade children are also Apartment now rented. On Rt. 123 2. God introduced himself. “I am Mr. Howard Gooding is improv many of the high school teenagers the Lord Thy God—Honor thy for big event, with ing steadily and Mrs. Gooding here had gotten tickets for that. It planningshows ’the puppets of their between Vienna and Oakton, near Mother, first written with the finger puppet by expects him to return home from was wonderful. Just too many things own making, rhythm hands, folk school and churches on bus line. of God on a table of stone delivered, Home-Acre Realty, DU 5-9353. ltb to Moses. the hospital this week. to do the same weekend and then ancl LOST: VICINITY BENNETT Mr. Robert Hatton, his sons, Rob a weekend comes along with nothing j songs, pub'icdancing. 3. At The ................. is invited. Rd., Vale, one 400-lb. Hereford Mother”. the Cross. “Behold Thy ert, Jr., and Richard, Col. Hollings- special to do! Steer. If found, please call Ash- the Cross. Christ’s dying words on head, Robert Lee and Billy Watkins On April 28 the Women’s Society LOCAL CORNELL WOMEN’S with, DU 5-9518. 5-13-ltfc spent last weekend fishing in Big 4. Mothers, train your children in the home CLUB MEETS TONIGHT FOR S A L E : C H I N E S E the way they should go, when old, Stoney and Passage Creeks. They of Christian Service met at Jo Bryce x 18. Flow stayed at Dorothy's Inn in Wood- of Mrs. Stewart Bryce. the hosThe Virginia Group of the Cornell hooked rug, all wool, 12ground, rose they will not depart from Mother's and Janie Fitzhugh were ered pattern, tan back stock and brought in a catch of esscs for the evening. Another let Women’s Club of Washington will training. nineteen brook and rainbow trout. 5. Mother, Mary J., the writer’s meet at the home of Mrs. Joseph border. Good condition. Call PLeasAllen was The Oakton P-TA last week ter from Marian Vanspoining us read Swire, 118 E. Greenway Blvd., ant 9-2556. | mother, dead 53 years. and enjoyed. She is and Falls Church, on Friday evening. FOR SALE: EVERGREENS— ! 6. Mother, Vessie L., my beloved elected to office for the coming year we love it. We arc going to look Mr. Marcus L. Beckner, Jr., as forward to a letter from her at Mav 13, at 8 o’clock. Officers for the Norway Spruce 18” to 4’ high; Hy Iwife, mother of our two daughters, President; Mrs. John Buser, vicecoming year will be elected and all drangea plants 2 -years old; some i both mothers, and three sons, now president; Mrs. Alan T. Rains, every meeting. She always was so interested alumnae are urged to white dogwood. Call EL 6-3877. ltb dead 5 years. and entertaining and it FOR SALE: GERMAN SHEPsecond vice-president; Mrs. Janies thoughtful her to think up this de come out and vote. 7. A photo of the President at his herd puppies — AKC registered; Marablc, secretary; and Mrs. Fred is so' like his Mother’s Day For directions and lightful way of keepingus in touch portation call Mrs. help in trans pets and show prospects. Asgard- desk, attached — often proclama erick Craig, Treasurer. Norman C. Arband Kennels. Phone PLeasant tion read on with their interesting activities in Mrs. Emil Lutz, Jr., was hostess Vermont. Mother's Day in silence and aloud Rogers at TEmple 6-7928. 9-2222. 5-6-2tb jin groups. at luncheon on Tuesday when her OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE I am sure all of George and Mar guests were Mrs. C. Nelson Davis, 8. The likeness of Mother Doudr her daughter, Mrs. Nancy Jo Finch, jorie Day’s friends arc delighted to Simpson Triplets, Marshalls, Peggv Town of Fairfax— 3-room office for two daughters kissing her on both lease on second floor of Pentagon [cheeks at the same time. Her her granddaughter, Susie, and Mr's. hear they arc leaving the American Lohr and Fowlers. Realty Co. building. All utilities fur daughter, Mamie, a mother, PresiEmbassy in Lima, Peru the 15th Emil Lutz, Sr. Anne Robinson recently went to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Smith of May and expect to he in Wash Lexington, Virginia to attend the nished. Desirable for Doctor, Law . dent’s wife, therefore, topmost yer, etc. Immediate possession. For were the guests of their son and ington the 22nd or 23rd of this Journalism Lectures . and spent the details call Mr. Thompson 9:00 a.m. Mother of this nation under God. daughter-in-law, Mr. aiid Mrs. P. month. They want to check on their weekend at the University with the j 9. Photos of Mother Vessie in beautiful home at Lake Barcroft and delegation from Annandalc. Sounded to 5:00 p.m. at Crescent 3-0544, or death, wife of my bosom until the C. Smith, at dinner on Sunday. after 5 p.m. call CR 3-0647. 5-6-6tb [end without a quarrel because of Mrs. George Ashworth was offic make a bee-line to Burke and their like an exciting weekend, Anne. FOR SALE; HEAVY DUTY ,her goodness and not mine. Photos ial painist at the P.E.O. State Con many friends. farm wagon with wide iron tires. •of flowers heaped to the ceiling, the vention held at Hunting Towers in Mrs. Robert Rice and Mrs. Ernest 5-6-2tb j beautiful cross, gift of Mrs. Dr. Alexandria last week. Mrs. Russell Priest drove to Florida, week be Trustees’ Sale of Valuable Phone DUnkirk 5-8625. WEDDING CAKES: DELIC- Scott at the top. Photo of the writer, L. Riley was a page at the Con fore last and are bringing Mrs. Zona Construction and Exca ious, home baked and decorated, $1 | sadly beholding the mother still in vention as well as being Music Deardorf Smith home with them. per pound including ornamental top. . death that deeply affected all who Chairman. She composed the music Mrs. Rice received a letter from her vating Machinery Also cakes for birthdays, showers looked. Where is Mrs. Dr. Scott for the final benediction. sister, Zona, and got so homesick Mrs. Charles Walker was elected to see her, she phoned and told In execution of a certain deed of and other special occasions. For ; now? Treasurer of the State Chapter her she was coming right down. trust dated January 15, 1955, here cakes with a personal touch, call I 10. Everyone was agreed—what Their father, Mr. George Deardorf tofore executed bv Fairfax Engi Mrs. Henry KE 8-5329. 4-15-tcb is home and no mother? All day P.E.O. Sisterhood. LAWN MOW E R H E A D - long large Virginia and United Mr. Russell L. Riley has recently was anxiously waiting for the return neering Company, Inc., recorded in returned from a lecture tour and of his daughters, Ethel and Zona the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit quarters. Repairing all kinds of States Fags waved patriotically in visit with relatives in St. Louis and and his grand-daughter, Roberta. Court for Fairfax County, Virginia, hand and power mowers. Motor the May day breeze. northern Missouri. 11. All mothers offered riding on Roberta Rice Priest was so hap in Miscellaneous Lien Book No. 39, service. Trade-in your old mower Last Saturday the Fairfax Music py her mother-in-law, Mrs.. Ellen at page 532, the undersigned on a new machine. Parkway Cycle horseback free Mother's Day 1955. Guild celebrated National Music Priest of Jeanette, Pennsylvania, Trustees will offer for sale at public and Hardware Company. Lee High 12. Mothers train your children to way at N. Kirkwood Rd. (opp. Hot remember their Creator in the days Week, sponsoring a program of was visiting them and could look out auction on terms of cash, on the music at the Burcn Chapel Metho for Ernie while she was in Florida. 20th day of May, 1955, at the hour Shoppe below Cherrydale) JAckson of their youth. Amen. Mothers, 4-1-tcb dist Church in Merrificld. Rev. Wal Mrs. Twardv of Taunton, Mass., of 10:00 o’clock. A.M., E.D.S.T., 5- LOOKING8122. A NEW OR (through the years I have virtually FOR j begged the Board of Supervisors, ter Green pronounced the invocation has been visiting her daughter and at the abandoned Merrifield Colored and the pupils of the teachers who son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Russell School House, one Block off of good used car? All makes and the County School Board, with con down. See arc members of the Guild presented Snaith. Gallows Road, near Merrifield, Vir models as low as $5.00 4034 Wis sent of Mothers, Fathers, tax payers, or call Bill Borneman, for an interesting and varied program. The on ginia, all of the following equipment, consin Ave., N.W. EMerson 3-4040. to loan the free school buses see transportation of children to The Cherub Choir, directed by Mr. April big surprise in Burke wasand to-wit : Lohr 3-18-tcb and learn the way of salvation of Ivan Washburn, appeared in three Milliter27th, when the became the 1—LeTourneau Pan. 6-8 yds. cap., AZALEAS, MANY VARIST- the soul and to have part in thennumbers, and Richard Keller and Millncr Grocery Store The store model No. MA-S27748-MA; Grocerv Store. ies and colors, also boxwood, hollies, first resurrection from the dead to Richard Green were guest soloists. was closed until two o’clock in 1—TDM Angle Dozer Blade, yews, shade trees, Taking part were the pupils of Mrs. afternoon and everyone wanted the Bucyrus-Eric, Ser. No. TD2-7485- rhododendrons,prices. Landscaping. whom there be no second death; to etc., at low Thank God; how to stop war and G. F. Worley, Mrs. Roger Lcestma. the morning. It’ Erie, Ser. No. TDF10478T7CC; Evenings, weekends and holidays to down and none make afraid, Mrs. Stephen Haycock, Mrs. Paul buy groceries inimportant the store 1 —TDM Angle Dozer, Bucyrus- only. HIDDEN LANE NUR all lie no avail. Chairman Robertson funny iust how to Gerhard, Mrs. Russell Riley, Mrs. when it is closed! T7CC: SERY, one block off Chain Bridge come and bring the George Ashworth, and Mrs. Milton 1—Adams Motor Grader, Model Road at Hidden Lane between promised toBoard for inspection. en Mrs. Marv Coleman is home from tire School He Murray. 1* 412, Ser. No. 616, Eng. No. UDF- Vienna and Oakton. 3-ll-12tb set the dav and date but never came, You are invited to attend the An Arlington Hospital. She went to the 223421; 3-ll-12tb never apologized, neither explained. nual Program of the Children’s hospital Monday of last week for 1 —D4 Caterpillar Front End CUSTOM PLOWING, D is c And Chairman Wallace Carper re .n operation on her neck and came Workshop which will be held at Loader Tractor No. 7UH482; ing, grading, mowing, landscaping. fused to look even at the Godly, Oakton School on Saturday. May home Wednesday. Slieis delighted to 1—Dorsev Trailer, Model WK15, Hidden 14th at 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Gordon have her operation over with. Now Ser. No. M529. more partciularly Evenings, weekends only. 3-ll-12tb Christly, patriotic exhibit for a dol Lane Nursery. DU 5-9050. that it is all over, she says it was lar a minute for 10 minutes, and be Amundson and Mrs. Eugene Mur described in Virginia Auto Title ELECTRIC WELDER DE- lieve me. I am telling the truth, so phy will present their students in not so bad. but it took a lot of cour No. 5075070 pulled by sires job in shop. References fur a program of three parts. The Nur age to get her mind made up to have KB6 International Truck Tractor, nished. Available immediately. Call help me, God, Forgive all my sins, it done. Her husband surprised her sery Class will dramatize nursery Model.No. FA109808. more particu Herndon 192J any time after 4:00 Christ Jesus.I earnestly, fervently, Mothers, rhymes; the Kindergarten will dance with a beautiful new green Chevro larly described in Virginia Auto. p.m. 3-11-tcb pray that you will not neglect a foreign dances in costume, and give let with an ivory hardtop. It is Title No 5075071, Serial No. BLDFOR GARDEN PLOWING mother’s duty in looking to the Lohengrin in pantomime and ballet. lovely! 250-20739; Phone TE 2-3250. 3-11-tcb salvation of the sou’s cf your child The William Martins family has The First Grade will appear in sing 1953 Ford, F250—3/4 Toil Stake NOW OPEN: ing folk dancing, a rhythm band, and moved to Vienna. They were almost Body, engine No. F25R3C-16662, SAVE. Fire Chief SAVE — SAVE ren to whom you gave birth in pain. gasoline—26-9/10 Come, say come, see the Constitu a puppet show that they have writ out of their home here before I Title No. 5186224. cents a gallon. Sky Chief gasoline— the finger ten themselves. Oakton children knew they were going. Bill is going 1—1937 International Truck, Ser 30-9/10 cents a gallon. Chantilly, tion written with likeness of of God and the Cross, which taking part are Cheryl Friedman, tojiave quite a trip back and forth ial No. 53661. Va. Texaco Station. Mr. King, Pro Christ died to save sinful men. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. I. every day, but he is going to be 1 —1937 International Truck, Ser- prietor. 3-4-tcb Mother’s, you might persuade the Friedman; Marlene Murphy, daugh nearer his parents and does not ' No. 53592. DESIGN. BUILDING PLANS School Board to loan ter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mur- mind the driving. 500 feet metal curb & gutter forms. and Construction for one price. Call —thev wouldn’t me. you the buses Monday of last week the bridge phv; Edward and Ricky. Schneider, 1 —Roman disc plow. 'or an estimate on remodeling or “E’re long the small and the great sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sch was out this side of the railroad 1 —four-foot diston chain saw. new work. C. E. Reid. Phone EL shall stand before God and the neider; Joe Tobcy, son of Mr. and tracks on the road leading to Fair 1 —10-inch Skill Saw. 63070. 1-21-tcb Books be opened and out of the Mrs. F. J. Tobcy: and Walter Pitico, fax Court House. Manv people had 1—Cement mixer. PLOWING, DISCING, CUL Book of Life all be judged out of to go all the way around, but they son of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Pinco. TERMS: 10% cash on the day of rivaling and mowing. Call French those things written :n the B "k .” didn’t mind because that narrow, sale, balance within five days and Trammell, ELmwood 6-3039. This My Mother’s Dav Me^ige Shenandoah National Park ex noisy bridge was being replaced! before delivery of prop-ertj’. 12-20-52-teb May the 8th, 1955 to all humanity The Methodist Church Confer tends along the Blue Ridge Moun JOHN ALEXANDER and UPHOLSTERING: F U R N I - now and to come—Mothers espec tains of Virginia from Front Royal. ence .was at Vale recently. The Con ture refinishing and repairing. Free ially. See Rev. 20:12. H. WISE KELLY. IR.. Virginia, south some 75 miles to ference was attended by The Caud? Trustees.' estimates. Mahler Furniture Shop, —PAUL E. RHINEHART. SR. Jarman Gap, near Waynesboro, Va le«, Robinsons, Stcrners, Graves, 5-13- 2t WOOD ACRES GARDEN CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY The Wood Acres Garden Club will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at the home of Mrs. Eliy Mali), 613 Symphony. Circle, Vienna. Mrs. Howard Chaille, of the Ayr Mill Garden Club will conduct a workshop on “Corsages". �PAGE THE fo u r t een Dyer-Gunnell Post To Conduct Poppy Sale Commander Glen Cunningham of the Dyer-Gunnell Post No. 180 and Finnic Scnsency, president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion, have named Bettylee and Dan Ncviaser as Co-Chairmen of the 1055 Poppy Sales for the Vienna Post. An all-out sales effort for the Vienna area will he made Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21, with Legionnaires, wives, and daughters, presenting poppies to Vienna shop pers visiting local stores. Proceeds from poppy sales will be used for child welfare in the Vienna area. Ralph Hagmann, former com mander, will be in charge of coin jars in local stores. Merle Fellinger, finance officer, will set up a Legion Booth on Poppy Day, and James Dunlap of Vienna Woods will han dle musical arrangements. J. A. Lawrence To Seek G.O.P. Nomination For Supervisor Coy Dee Ledford Mr. Coy Dee Ledford of Herndon, Virginia, died on Saturday, May 7th at Emergency Hospital, Wash ington, D. C, after an iilneag of one week. Mr. Ledford had lived in Herndon for the past 9 years, mov ing here from Detroit, Michigan. He was born in Marshall, North Caro lina on October 25, 1904. He was 50 years old at the time of his death. His occupation was that of car penter with the Reynolds Construc tion Company. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillian Ledford and 4 children, Joe Dee, Evelyn Mario, Barbara Kath erine, and Helen Louise Ledford, 2 brothers: Marshall Ledford of Arlington, Virginia, Dewey Led ford of Gainesville, Florida, 3 sisters, Mrs. Maude Williams of Fairview, North Carolina, Mrs. Sadie Shelton, Jacksonville, Florida and Mrs. Ber nice Ball of Marshall, North Caro lina. Funeral services for Mr. Ledford took place in Fcrndale, Michigan (subury of Detroit) and burial took place in Oak View Cemetery, Royal Oak, Michigan (suburb of Detroit.) At a recent meeting of the Fair fax Countv Republican Committee Mrs. White Elected James A. Lawrence of Idyl wood State Official Of announced that he would again be Business Women a candidate for Supervisor from Providence District, subject to the The Thirty-fourth State Conven Republican Mass Meeting to be held at Falls Church High School the tion of the Federation of the Busi ness and Professional Women’s Club latter part of June. was held in Richmond, May 6th Mr. Lawrence, 42, lias been a resi thru 8th. The Hotel Jefferson, Con dent of Idylwood for eleven years. vention Headquarters, was a buzz He has three children and four of activity as the well-attended con grandchildren. He is an independent vention got under way. business man, owning and operating Fairfax delegates were elated the Spencer Support Shop of Wash happy to see their candidate for and 2nd ington. In the last election Mr. vice-president, Mrs. Gladys While, Lawrence ran for supervisor-at-large to when the County was redistricted of Springfield, reelected for that Additional and was defeated by C. B. Runyan in office. the certificate causes award joy of an for a close race. At present there is no were Book," incumbent Supervisor from Provi the winnig sheets in "Pressclubs of Class 3, (which designates dence District. over 10 Dmembers) and, First Prize As past-President of Dunn Loring in Class 3 for Weekly News cover P-TA, and presently member of age. Miss J'ulia Gunn, Chairman of both Dunn Loring P-TA and Falls State Press and Pictorial History Church High SPTA, Mr. Lawrence Record Books, presented the awards. has always shown a keen interest The 1955-56 slate of Officers were: in the school activities of the Coun ty. During the last campaign he reelected President, Mrs. Marv favored an elective, school board, Etter; 1st Vicp-President, Mrs. and suggested that the County em Betty McKnight; reelected 2nd ploy a highly trained person, vice-president, Mrs. Gladys White; skilled in architecture and engineer recording secretary, Mrs. Lucia ing, to assume the full responsibility Wolf. Those attending from Fairfax for the County School building pro gram, thus leaving the School Sup were: Mrs. Gladys White, Mrs. erintendent free to handle the ever Ruth Evans, Miss Julia Gunn, Mrs. increasing problems of personnel Irene Uderitz, Mrs. Gladys Isdell. brought about by the huge expan Mrs. Maude Rynez, Miss Merrill sion program in our school system. Chanel, Mrs. Edna Bicksler, Miss At the same; time Mr. Lawrence Sybil Hinds, Miss Alice Haines, expressed belief that with better Mrs. Mary Lynch, Miss Maxine trained leadership the school build Walker, Miss Alice West, and Mrs. ing program could go forward more Mary Nickell. rapidly at less cost per room than under the present plan of operation. As a Republican Mr. Lawrence Pohick Garden Club has played an important part in the Holds April Meeting growth of the two-party system in Northern Virginia in the past few , The April meeting of the Pohick years. He has been a delegate to the Garden Club was held at the home last three Republican State Con of Mrs. D. C. Phillips of the Springventions, is the Fairfax County field area, on Wednesday, April 27th. representative on the State Central Her home, located on Pohick Creek Committee, is vice-chairman of the and surrounded by dogwood, was a County Committee, a member of the beautiful setting for the meeting. Tenth District Committee, and was Three new members were welcomed the permanent chairman of the re into the club, Mrs. W. B. Woodson, cent Mass Meeting at which Con Mrs. Braxton Bryan, and Mrs. gressman Joel T. Bboyhill was Braxton Bryan, and Mrs. Joseph H. nominated, as the Republican can Orendorf. Finishing touches were didate. Mr. Lawrence served as added to the plans for the flower Treasurer and Finance Chairman for show to he held next month at the the Fairfax County Republican home of Mrs. Roger Gordon. The Committee. hostess served delicious refresh Mr. Lawrence has always been ments, assisted by her mother, Mrs. interested in the civic activities of Ross Karns. The fact that she and the County having been particularly her family were practically packed active in fund raising drives for for a move to Japan, put no crimp civic purposes. He has served as in the hostesses ability to entertain finance chairman for the P-TA, ser calmly and beautifully, though the ved his district in Red Cross, Cere spirits of the members were dam bral Palsy, and Community Chest pened by the imminent loss of one drives and is currently working on of its valued members. As the climax the Dunn Loring Fire Department to a pleasant day, Mrs. Robert fund drive for its new fire truck, Wheat made several beautiful flower and he has just accepted the Chair arrangements, explaining the mech manship* of the Northern Virginia anics as she did so. The club to the Cerebral Palsy fund raising com last member, felt that it was a very enjoyable and instructive session. mittee. h E l P!! PROVIDENCE FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 JOURNAL BURKE AIRPORT (Cont’d from page 1) Vienna P-TA To Elect | McLean Demonstration jCIub Meets New Officers At The McLean Women's Home to procedure." Final Meeting Thursday The Vienna Elementary School P-TA will hold its last meeting for this school year on Thursday, May 19, after 41 years of active partic ipation to its credit. There will be the election of officers for next year, the slate being: Pres., Mrs. Bernard Goodkind; Vice-Pres., Mrs. Charles Ellison, Rcc. Sec.. Mrs. Frank Brock well; Corr. Sec., Mrs. Dan Weatherly; Treas., Mrs. Craton Guthrie. The program will be the Vienna Elementary School Band under the able baton of Maestro Morton Guttoff. The band will pre sent a group of selections including solos by Penny Gottlieb and Phillip Schalot, a clarinet trio with George Lcvendis, Kyle Lynn and Bobby Darne, and a trumpet duet with Charles Shumate and Horace Lukcns. The Vienna P-TA has maintained an active program the entire year. Mrs. Bernard Goodkind, president, is proud to report four money-mak ing projects—the Smorbasbord, the May Festival and two family dances arranged by the Ways and Means Chairman, Mrs. Frederick Holland; Mrs. Eugene Wa l k e r , Ro o m Mothers Chairman, made it possible for all mothers to take an active part; and Mr. David Mayer, Pro gram Chairman, arranged a series of varied and outstanding programs for the year. Mrs. Goodkind wishes to thank each and every one who made pos sible such a successful year. Demonstration Club met at Dun ham Hall with Mrs. Gertrude Frank lin presiding. After a short business meeting, the program, was turned over to Mrs. Helen Berkley who showed us how to make and decor ate aluminum trays. It was very interesting and everyone pitched in and made one of her own. We really have some artistic members and everyone turned out a professional looking tray. Our thanks again to Mrs. Helen Berkley for a wonder ful demonstration. After lunch, which the members brought themselves, the meeting was adjourned and everyone went home with her lovely tray. “This will probably be the mu-t important issue of the year befo. .the County Chamber and vve a n urging every member who can po sibiy be present to do so. Each vo. : is important. We want a faithful recording of the majority sentiment in the Chamber's verdict upon this matter," Mr. Wills emphasized. On the Airport Committee with Richard E. Shand>. Chairman are Verlin W. Smith, Keith Price, Pete Ball and Clarence Simpson, ai! members of the Board of Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce ami representing both groups of opinion as to the desirability of the Burke Airport. S-tUSED CARS CABS 1952 Dodge 2-Dr. 1953 Ford 4-Dr. 1949 Mercury 4-Dr. 1948 W illys Sta. Wagon 1952 Ford 2-dr. Sed. 1952 Ford 2-Dr. 1952 Hudson Wasp MISS CERES GASKINS TO WED DAVID SCHROER Mr. and Mrs. Darius W. Gaskins of Vienna, announce the engagement of their daughter, Ceres May, to Mr. David Schroer, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. James Schroer of Washington. The wedding will take place the lat ter part of August. Miss Gaskins is a graduate of the Madeira School ’53 and is currently attending Cor nell University. Mr. Schroer, a grad uate of Cornell '51, is an instructor at Cornell where lie will receive his PhD in June. CUBA CURTICE (Cont'd from Page T; ren have already made this a politi c k issue. I believe the people of Centreville District are entitled to know where their supervisor stands on this vital question. There has been too much pussy-footing in the board room already. My position, ladies and gentlemen, is this: I see no reason for integration in the pub lic schools so -long as we provide equal though separate facilities for the education of our Negro citizens. We are an integral part of this great commonwealth. 1 am proud to have been born a Virginian, in Fairfax County. Our governor on the recom mendation of a special commission composed of some of the leading men in our state has announced a policy of utilizing-every legal means at his command to preserve segre gation in the public schools. I sup port this position fully and believe we in Fairfax should follow the lead of our state and use every legal means at our command to preserve our segregated schbol system. It is with great pride and deep humility that I take my stand beside such great men as Harry blood Byrd, John S. Battle and Thomas B. Stanley. ‘‘Fiscal sanity demands that great care and intelligent caution be exer cised in approaching the day-to-day housekeeping problems of govern ment as well as major capital im provement programs. “As I see it, your supervisor must fight for integrity and economy in the necessary operations of our county government, seek always to broaden the average tax base, and . be ever alert that we get our fair share of the services which our tax money buys.'* 1953 Ford 2-Dr. 1951 Ford 4-Dr. TRUCKS 1953 Ford Sedan Pickup 1948 Chev. Sed. Del. lohyzEnough lo 5 e w e you.-Swdl EnoughloKwivIjou ERWIN-FORD CO..INC. VA. DEALER LICENSE N 0 .5 9 9 tk & iig e d <£ S o h v k e LEE HIGHWAY AND CHAIN BRIDGE ROAD-FAIRFAX Free Mothproofing 0i All Garments Cleaned By Barns Bros. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_20 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/bb4d037dcc7e1e7f26805b832423abec.pdf 721ea28db398e1c18f5cc8a1cd023422 PDF Text Text Providence Journal F a ir fa x C o u rt House V O L. 12, NO. 19 W as E stablished E v i S . t a . ' « £ S n J / c ^ ‘M SS?“ ’ As “ The T ow n o f Providence” M cLEA N , V IR G IN IA , Lady Candidate For Supervisor Blasts integration Mrs. Cuba Curtice Says ‘‘LeftWing Planners Have Infiltrated Every Type of Civic Activity” County Budget Gives Schools Most Of Funds Requested T he Fairfax County Board of Supervisors appropriated a total of $9,219,711 to the School Board for 1955-56. The am ount requested had been $9,379,711. T hus there was a reduction of $160,000 in the amount of the request. T his equals the sum that had been included for the pur chase of school sites. T he School Board in m eeting on M ay 3, 1955, deleted this item of $160,00 for site acquisition from the Capital Outlay category of the budget. In effect funds budgeted for school operation remain as adver tised. Salaries for teachers are in creased $200 on each step of the scale, the base scale now starting at $3,400 rising in seventeen steps to $5,300. O ther aspects of the bud get involving the em ploym ent of 120 additional teachers, 18 additional helping teachers and supervisors, 7 teachers of driver training, 12 addi tional librarians and 12 additional workmen for the m aintenance staff, provided for. In summ ary, it might be said that all funds requested by the School Board for the Operation of Schools have been appropriated. The educational program contem plated in the budget can be effected. After .- jiuitlm g the budget to the Board of Supervisors, F e d e r a l funds for the current year’s opera tion (1954-55) w ere received and exceeded the original estim ate by $24,000. Thus the Anticipated S ur plus as of June 30, 1955, has been increased bv this am ount, from $409,701 to $433,701. Encouraging w ord from the Con gress indicated that estim ates of Federal Funds for 1955-56 might well be increased by $230,000, from $921,782 to $1,151,782. It is pointed out, however, that these funds havenot been appropriated by the Con gress and it may be some month> before it is actually done. County Fire Groups Win Awards At Apple Blossom Festival M rs. Cuba Curtice, candidate for the Dem ocratic nom ination for Sup ervisor from Centrevillc District, on Tuesday night, denounced integra tion and "the little group of leftwing planners who have a consistent history of infiltrating every type of civic and community activity thruout the County.” Mrs. Curtice spoke before the Ox Road Citizens Asso ciation, along with other candidates for office. A portion of her rem arks were as follows: "T onight I wish to discuss in de tail the insidious vocal pressure group which seeks to divide us. I refer to a little group of left-wing planners who have a consistent his tory of infiltrating every type of civic and com m unity activity throughout the county. T his crowd has consistently misused each activ ity for its own sinister purposes. U nfortunately m any of our office holders, who arc more politicians than statesm en—and who have for gotten. th at they are but paid pub lic servants—have either willingly lent their support to the aims of this crowd or have consistently been outsm arted by them. "Today this same crowd has de cided to use the issue of integration in our public schools to the detri ment of both races, and those same politicians are aiding this crowd be cause thev are afraid to stand up and be counted on this issue. Now I know that some newspaper or some candidate will accuse me of making :i political is y u e o u t o f t h e segregation q u e s tio n . B u t fu r more powerful figures than I could ever he—from Abe Lincoln to E arl W ar(C ont’d on back page) In 1805 A n d R etained T h a t N am e U n til A f te r T he C iv il W a r F R ID A Y , M AY 13, 1955 Chamber To Take Stand On Burke Airport Thursday Large Crowd Expected To Discuss Controversial Issue At Corut House Members of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce will tu rn out in force next Thursday, M ay 19th. at 8 p.m. in the old Circuit Court room at the Court House. This m eeting is expected to bring the largest attendance of any meeting in the County Cham ber's history with the exception of the Gover nor’s D inner last winter, for next T hursday evening the proponents and opponents of the Burke A irport will present their sides in an effort to sway a m ajority decision of the County Chamber on the controver sial issue. County Cham ber President W. C. W ills announces th at both groups will be given equal time in the presentation. Cham ber Vice President Henry J. Rolfs will lead off with a half hour presentation in favor of the airport possibly supported by one or more noted figures in aviation circles. Opposing the A irport Judge Paul E. Brown will present conclusions from his own study and the studies of others as to the unfavorable ef fects if the airport should be located at Burke. Each side will be allowed an equal period of time for rebuttal under rules drafted under the supervision of Airport Committee Richard E. Shands who is also a County Cham ber Director. "W e are going to see that the m eeting is above-, reproach in total fairness to each side.” announced County Cham ber President W . C. W ills ., “ v .r. Sfiai.Js v u l th e o t h e r s of the Burke Airport Committee have draw n up regulations which will be announced at the m eeting as (C ont’d on back page) COUNTY EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDS $1,500,000 MORE OF COUNTY FUNDS SHOULD BRING INTEREST Invites Suggestions From Supervisors, Banking Officials and Interested Citizens On Handling Funds On May 4 County Executive Carlton Massey and Director of Finance L. M. Coyner reported to the Board of Supervisors that $1,500,000 more of County deposits could he placed out at interest, and said they would welcome suggestions from the Super visors. banking officials and interested citizens in connection with the handling of County funds to the best overall interest of the County. According to the report, on April 22 there was $15,131,655 of cash on deposit, plus $2,016,666 with fiscal agents for debt service, of which $7,-714,271 was with interest. 'Phe report of M r. Massey and Mr. Coyner to the Supervisors was as follows: Several of our Fairfax County tire organizations competed successfully in the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival last week T hursday and Friday. In the Firem en’s Parade the Falls Church V olunteer Fire D e partm ent won third prize of $25 for the best pum per over 500 gallons. F or the best pum per under 500 g al lons first prize of $75 w ent to the M EM ORANDUM TO BOARD O E Annandalc Engine Com pany No. 8. COU N T Y SU PER VI SO R S Second prize of $30 to the best ap Several weeks ago one of the local newspapers printed an pearing Ladies Auxiliary w ent to the M cLean Volunteer Fire D epart article setting forth the amount of County funds on deposit with m ent's Auxiliary. various banks and how much of this money was yielding a return CHICKEN DINNER AT FORESTVILLE SATURDAY O n Saturday, May 14, from 2 to 8 p.m.. a fried chicken dinner will be served at the Grange H all at Forestville by the W .S.C.S. of the Forestville M ethodist Church. The menu will be: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, lima beans, cole slaw, pickles, hot biscuits with jellies and jam s, coffee, hot or iced tea, and hom e-m ade pies and cakes. A bake sale will be held in the lobby at the sam e time. BAKE AND RUMMAGE SALE AT VIENNA A bake and rum m age sale will be held in the old Telephone office, at the corner of Church and Center Streets, across from Burns Bros. Cleaners, in Vienna, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, M ay 14. There will be a fine selection of good used m er chandise and excellent goodies for sale. The event will be sponsored by Antioch Christian Church, and will be for the benefit of its Building Fund. in interest. It appears that the facts set forth therein were correct, however, I believe the Board of County Supervisors should have the benefit of more details in connection with this matter and for this purpose Mr. L. M. Coyner, Director of Finance, and I. have prepared the following information: 'Phc first obligation of the Director of Finance is the safe keeping of all monies belonging to the County. 'Phe laws of Virginia provide certain safeguards in connection with the depositing o f County, funds, one of which is that all de positories must be approved by the Board of County Supervisors and another that the bank receiving such deposit must place in escrow with some other bank or with the Treasurer of Virginia securities (generally U. S. Government bonds) in an amount not less than the maximum deposit of County' funds. The fact that County funds must be kept in appropriate sqiarate deposits; that the amount on hand at any one time cannot he considered as a lump sum ; that each fund must maintain sufficient balance to meet expenditures therefrom; that die shifting of funds from hank to hank is somewhat complicated by the escrow require m ent; that many hanks are unwilling or unable to accept large deposits with interest and tliat the amount in each separate fund varies in accordance with its receipts and expenditures make it extermely difficult and, in fact, impossible to receive the maximum (Cont'd on Page 3) P H O N E : E L M W O O D 6-3320 County Considering Smaller-Scale Entry Into Water Business Private Interests Offer To Run Main From Dalecarlia To Annandale Water Lines T h e Board o f Supervisors has under consideration a proposal under which it can start its pro posed County-owned water system with the outlay of very little cash. The County would buy the big A n nandalc W ater Company for ap proximately $1,000,000, under a lease-purchase arrangem ent which would require only a small amount of down p-ayment, with the rest to he paid out of receipts from cus tomers of ■that company over a long period of years. In addition, a private interest has offered to run a large main from the Dalecarlia Reservoir ih W ash ington up Rt. 123 to a 2,000,000gallon reservoir at Tysons Corner, and from thence out Gallows Road to connect with the mains of the An nandalc system, thus assuring an unlimited supply of water. The County would buv this w ater whole sale at $260 per million gallons, but would have the right to buy the transmission main and w ater reser voir at any time it wished for orig inal cofit of. about $2,500,000. There would also be a pumping station at Lewinsville. After acquiring the transmission line, the cost of water to the County would drop to about $85 a million. Thus, under this arrangem ent, the County could acquire the large franchise territory of the Annandale company between A rlington Boule vard and Little River Turnpike, which now has over 3000 water cus tomers,, and which would constitute th e h e a rt o f a fu tu r e C o u n ty -o w n e d system. It might also acquire the Pimnrit Hills utility system which serves over 1000 custom ers, and which would be adjacent to the transmission main from Dalecarlia, (C ont'd on Page 2) Firemen’s Festival At Fairfax Next Week BY F A * THE L A * ® 1ST PA IE) CIRCULATION IN McLean, L o ng ky, V ienna, Che*, fe rbfook, Franklin Park, Idyl w ood, Dunn Loring, PimmJtt H ills, W oodford, F airfax, Oakton, Herndon, Forestvillo. Chan filly , Burke, Fairfax Sla., Annandale, Springfield Columbia Pinos, Bailey's, Annatee Hgls., Belair, Broyhill Pk., Holmes Run *3.00 P E R Y E A R County Bar Asked To Seek ' r 1 ' If Supreme Court Attempts Legislation Resolution By Charles Pickett Charges Violation Of Constitution At the-annual m eeting of the Fair fax County Bar Association last night, Charles Pickett, Esq., promi nent Fairfax lawyer, introduced a resolution asking the House of Representatives to investigate pos sible im peachm ent p r o c e e d i n g s against the m em bers of the United States Supreme Court for violating the Constitution if they attem pt leg islation in im plementing their opin ion in the school integration cases. A fter introducing the resolution, Pickett, asked that it be laid on the table and called up before a special m eeting of the Fairfax Bar at a later time, so that its members might have time to study and discuss it before voting. Pickett's resolution requested the expression of the bar on the follow ing constitutional questions in volved: 1. T h e power to regulate and con trol schools has not been delegated to the U.S. Government.-frut reser ved to the states bv the 10th Am end m ent: 2. The states have not consented to be sued by their citizens, and therefore are not bound by the im pending decision, and the 11th Am endment removes such contro versies irovn the judicial power of the Federal governm ent; J. Tiie I4ii'i Amendment confers no power on the Federal govern m ent to exercise anv affirmative action upon the states. It is purely negative in character and can only restrain states; 4. Any affirmative action of the Supreme Court would invade the powers of the Legislative D epart ment of the Government under the Constitution; 5. Congress is without power to legislate on this subject by virtue of decisions of the Supreme Court— to-wit th at the 14th Amendment confers no power on Congress to legislate except in a negative way, and 6. The Supreme Court has vio lated the 10th, 11th, and is on the verge of violating the 14th Am end ments. " It is useless", continues the peti tion, "to appiv to the Supreme Court which has usurped this power. The only remedy is the one provided by the Constitution—impeachment. T he members of the House of Rep;esentatives have the right and the duty to move for impeachment of any Federal officer who has violated the Constitution.” The resolution concludes: "T here fore we resolve to bring the m atter to the attention of the House of Representatives, with a request that it be referred to the appropriate comm ittee for investigation and re port." Copies of the resolution, if passed, would be sent to the Speaker of the House, to Senators Bvrd and Rob ertson, and the Virginia delegation in Congress. Ladies Auxiliary to the Fairfax Volunteer Fire Departm ent will hold a Firem an's Festival this coming week from May 16 thru the 21 at the Fairfax H orse Show Grounds opposite the Fairfax High School located on Rt. 29 211 and route 50. Rides, games and novel ties—come and bring the kiddies. Special on the 21st of May the Fire D epartm ent will hold a Parade in the town of Fairfax 6:30 Eastern D aylight Time. Trophies will be aw arded at the Fairfax H orse Show Grounds. Beginning at 9 p.m. a dance will be*”held Free at the Fairfax H igh School Gym. At the dance "Miss Fairfax” will be crowned Queen. The following girls are participat ing in the "M iss Fairfax'' popular ity contest that is being sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary to help raise funds for the Fairfax Volun teer Fire Departm ent. The girls have their jars placed in various business sections in Fairfax and your donation will help them to be come "Miss Fairfax" and yo uwill also be helping your Fire D epart ment. Patricia Frum , Barbara Davis, Jeanie Shren, Jean Tucker, Faith Austin, Janie W hitm er, Beverley Johnston, Josephine Chamblin, BASEBALL GAME AT Janclle W atson, Barbara Jenkins, VIENNA SUNDAY Doris Jenkins, Nancy Thom as and T he Vienna Fire Departm ent Grace Kline. Baseball Team will play Columbia H eights Baseball team at 3 p.m. MASTER PLAN MEETING on May 15, on the diamond at AT VIENNA POSTPONED the Vienna Elem entary School. The The explanation m eeting of the public is urged to come out and Master Plan of Fairfax County see the game. formerly scheduled for May 18 at the Vienna School has been post CORRECTION poned indefinitely. Another m eeting will be schedu Last week at the foot of a Let led sometime in the future and the ter to the Editor from Mrs. J. public will be Notified. MASTER PLAN MEETING AT FLORIS SOON A meeting for the purpose of ex plaining the Master Plan of Fair fax County will be held at the Floris School on Friday, May 20, starting at 8 p.m. O. Clarke, of Vienna, we erron eously appended an editor’s note stating that she was a candidate for Supervisor from Centreville District. We regret the error. The candidate is Mrs. Ruby Clark, of the Vale community, and not the writer of the letter. �PA GE TW O THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL F R ID A Y , M AY 13, 1955 A re These The Spokesmen For Parents O f Fairfax County’s School Children? SID E W A L K M EETIN G —The above picture was taken by an Evening Star staff photographer, of the followers of the Fairfax County Federation of P-TAs, who left the auditorium of Annandale High School on Saturday, April 30, after the Federation’s “workshop" on integration was adjourned by a vote of 100 to 50. The “moderator" of this sidewalk session was the rather im posing man on the right with the papers under his arm—Dr. E. B. Henderson, Negro official of the NAA CP and former department head of the Washington Negro schools. Surrounding him are the 3 panelists, who were to have given the “unbiased" talks on inte gration before the meeting in 'the hall was adjourned. In front of Henderson, speaking, is Benjamin Muse, pro-integrationist colum nist of the Washington Post. To Henderson’s right is the Rev. C. Emerson Smith, of the Virginia Council of Churches, and on Henderson’s left is Dr. Houston R. Jackson, Negro assistant superintendent of the integrated Baltimore schools. Next to Jackson is a professor from Morgan College for Negroes in West V ir ginia. All were strongly in favor of integrated schools. The larger lady in gray, to the left, with the scalloped coat lapels, is- Mrs. Jane Wellemeyer, chairman of the Federation’s Legislative Committee, who had presided inside the hall. The second lady to her left in white, is Mrs. Dorothy Gray, president of the Federation. The man to the far left, holding the pad, is said to be a reporter for the Afro-American, which reported Mrs. Welle meyer as saying that the “workshop" was attended by representa tives from 36 Fairfax County P-TAs “along with 46 persons from non-P-TA affiliates". The lady in the hat, between the windows, is Mrs. Muse, wife of one of the panelists. The lady in black holding the brief case is the president of the N orthern Virginia Congress of P-TA. When shown this photograph# Mr. Robert B. Walker, the School Administration official who has worked the closest with the P-TAs. was unable to identify more than ten of them. ( Editor's N o te : W e would like to learn the identity of every person in this picture. I f you recognize any of them, please send the information by mail or phone to The Providence Journal, Mc Lean, Va., ELinwood 6-3320.) Fairfax County Chapter DAR News Herndon Fire Auxiliary Observes Anniversary Descendants of 7 6 Chapter, Dis trict of Columbia, and the Fairfax County Chapter D.A.R. were guests of Mr. Charles C. W all, resident superintendent of Mt. Vernon, on Tuesday, April 26, at a tea given for them at Mt. Vernon. Present w ere m em bers of both chapters, and M rs. Geoffrey Crayke, Librarian General o f the D.A.R., Miss Foustinc Dennis, State Regent. D. C. Regent of 76, and Miss Anita H ow ard, Fairfax County Chapter and S tate Genealogical Records of Alex andria, and Miss Ruth Dobson of A rlington, acting for Mrs. Robert W . Smith, Regent, of Manassas, who wa sunablc to be present. Miss Dennis and Mrs. John W. Brookfield were hostesses for Mr. W all, serving tea at the end of the very pleasant social hour. Miss Virginia E. Smith, of Fair fax, was introduced adn presented Mr. Wall a large chart of the Lewis Fam ily Tree for Mt. Vernon. Mr. Wall made a short acceptance speech, thanking the two chapters in W ho’s name the chart was given. T he guests then toured Mt. Ver non and strolled through its beau tiful gardens. The Ladies Auxiliary of the H ern don Volunteer Fire Departm ent held its regular monthly m eeting at the Fire H all, and observed its 25th anniversary. Mrs. R. E. Holder, presided, and Miss Lorella James, assistant con ductress of the county auxiliary pre sented the flag. Mrs. Thom as Groff conducted the devotional service. T he following guests of honor w ere welcomed: Pkst President, Mrs. E. M. Armfield; past vicepresidents, Mrs. J. L. Nachm an and Mrs. A rth u r Buell; former presi dents Mrs. O scar Costello, Mrs. Leonard Burgess and Miss Mary H urst, the latter with her m other, Mrs. Cora H u rst and Mrs. Charles O ’Shaughnessy. The new officers were installed by Chaplain A. J. Schrader, with Miss Estelle Holden at the piano. The auxiliary voted to give $50 to Fire m en’s Relief, and to pay $378 for 100 chairs for the fire hall. It also voted to join the Fairfax County Auxiliary and to serve food at the Fairfax H unt H orse Show on May28. It will also aid the Firem en in planting a dogwood tree at the Mrs. Emma A. Faulkner McLean Lions Mrs. Em m a Austin Faulkner, 84, Elect Officers of Vienna, died on Tuesday m orn ing, May 10, 1955, at the Gordonsville, Virginia hospital of pneu monia. after a short illness. Sh e had been taken to the hospital from Vienna in an ambulance on April 23, so th at her sister-in-law, Mrs. Beatrice Piercv, a ijhirse there, might l o o k after her. t F uneral services were held at 2 p.m. T hursday at the Money & King Funeral Hom e in Vienna, with burial following in National Me morial Park. Falls Church. Pall bearers were Messrs. Robert H unter, M oxlcy Picrcy, Lloyd Shiflett, H om er Sloper, D ante Contori and John Stinnett. Mrs. Faulkner was born in Earlysville. Virginia, near Charlot tesville, the daughter of W m. F. and Sara W ood Austin. She mar ried the late Robert E. Faulkner, and they came to Vienna in 1926. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Jacqueline Ledford, of Vienna, and Mrs. George King. A son, Austin, died in 1946. G E N E R A L TO A D D R ESS A N N U A L LAY H E A L T H M E E T IN G M ON DA Y The 10th annual meeting oi the The following officers were elected at the meeting of the M cLean Lions Fairfax Countv Lay Health Associa Club on Thursday night of last tion will be held Monday, May 16, at 8 p.m. at the Health Departm ent in week: President, How ard T h o rn ctt; 1st Fairfax. Brigadier General Harold H. vice-president. S. Clifford Browne; 2nd vice-president, Charlton Gaines: Tw itched. Director of P r o fe s s io n a l 3rd vice-president. R . Frochlich; Services of the Office o f t h e S o : secretary. Donald Greene; treasurer, / geon G e n e ra l, U .S .A .F .. will s p e a k I. Ben Faidley; Lion Tam er. Rayr ( o n a v ia tio n medicine. Refreshments W arren and rail tw ister, H enry. * iWi\V Vie served. Ayers. Dr. J. M cFarland and the Rev. Paul M artin were elected to U N IT A R IA N L E A D E R TO A D D R E SS FA IR FA X CE N TER thc^ Board of Directors. Rev. Dilworth Lupton, former Secretary John M ercer, who suf fered a cerebral hem ntorhage re businessman, journalist and minister, cently, is improving, and has re will speak on "H ow I Became a U nitarian" at a meeting of the tu rn er home from the hospital. newly-formed Fairfax Unitarian Center, on Sunday, May 15 at 8 p.m. D IN N E R A T ST. J O H N 'S at the O akton School, Route 123. C A T H O L IC C H U R C H SA T. T he Ladies’ Altar Society of St. Oakton. An informal discussion and J o h n 's Catholic Church, ElNido, a refreshment period will follow Dr. will serve dinner at St. Jo h n 's Parish Lupton’s talk. Everyone is wekomeHall from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, O P E N H O U SE A T May 14. Menu—Spaghetti. Italian L style, tossed green salad, hom em ade A N N A N D A LE P R E -S C H O OAssnThe Annandale Pre-School pastrv and beverage. A dults $1, will hold school children 50 cents: Tiny T ots free. rooms in open house at the Baptist the Annandale Everyone is welcome! Church from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, H E A R IN G O N V IE N N A M ay 14. Teacher.-- will be on hand, Z O N IN G O R D IN A N C E V IE N N A L IO N S O R G A N IZE th ere will be exhibits of the various N E X T T U E S D A Y N IG H T J U N IO R R I F L E CLUB school activities, and refreshments Vienna Lions Junior Rifle Club will be served. A public hearing on a proposed boys and T h e playground will be available comprehensive zoning plan for the of Vienna, Va., for of twelve girls and the children while the parents Town of Vienna will be held by the between the ages has Tow n Council in the Vienna Ele eighteen,Lions been organized by the moke their tour of inspection. The Vienna Club. Information as mentary School at 8 p.m. next Tues to dates of registration to he an public is cordially invited. day, Mav 17. nounced later. R U M M A G E A N D BAKE It is understood th at some Mr. Earl L cLtcr will be the in changes have been made in the plan tru d e r. Tem porary officers for the SA LE A T M E R R IF IE L D The W om an's Society of Christian ,ince it was presented to the public organization are as follows: Presi bv the Zoning Commission at a well- dent, John Shanton; Vice-President, Service of Bruen Chapel. Merrineld, Va.. will sponsor a Rummage and attended m eeting last year. Dennis Keogh: Secretary, Jo Ann Bake SaU- at the Merrificld Com Gooding; Executive Officer. Robert munity Hall, Mav 13th and 14th, Darne and Treasurer, Fred Bear III. noon until 9 p.m. Everyone is in W ATER vited. t Continued from P ag e i'. F R A N K L IN S H E R M A N P-TA M E E T IN G C H A N G E D T O D IN N E R A T DUNN L O R IN G TH U R SD A Y AY under a lease-purchase arrangement M The 24 Franklin Sherm an P-TA will The imilar to that by which the An- hold its Mav m eeting on the fourth Loring Ladies Auxiliary of the Dunn Volunteer Fire Departm ent nandak- system would be acquired. Tuesday. Mav 24. instead of the will serve a sumptious dinner It i- a'so understood that the Town Tuesday as May 19. from of Vienna might become a custom er third in the past. has b'-en the cus Fire H k. Mi nu will consist of tom of the system. The program will be in charge tomato cocktnih <nc half charcoalThere is still, however, talk of a the Seventh Graders and will be held ba"h' c :<d chickvi per person, two large revenue water bond issue later in the old auditorium . The annual vi-vetablcs. hot bi -cuits with honey expand this system after it has exhibit will be on display and bu’ter. peach salad, pickles and gotten underway. (E d ito r’s note: throughout the buildings, in hall vd cuke with ice The proposals above appear rea ’s and rooms, for the benefit and milk. Adults sonable, requiring little money or o f the parents. p to 12 y«irs. 75 childrei risk. It's certainly infinitely sounder ; childrei than the $34,000,000 proposition sug D O UG LAS AD AM S N A M E D gested some weeks ago—though H E A D O F C O U N TY F A L L S C H U R C H GOP that is still in the minds of the C H E S T D R IV E W O M E N ’S CLUB TO prom oters. W e think the system out Annandale attorney C. Douglas E L E C T O F FIC E R S TU ESD A Y lined above could grow normally Adams. Jr., has been nam ed by Mrs. Republ The Fall roins its own receipts, without hav G. A. Justusson. president of the W ome s Club w ts m< ing to float large bond issues.) 17. Com munity Chest of Fairfax Countv meeting on Tuesc and Falls Church. Inc., as red home of Mrs K Linden Lane. Fa feather chairman for 1955. Though the campaign will not get memorial service on Mav 23. The dogwood button sale netted i underway until October, plans are speak. and i $81.25. Mrs. R. E. Holder and Mrs. being firmed up now to raise neces Charles M undav will represent the sary funds to support the eleven Representative auxiliary at the Zone m eeting in i Chest agencies serving health, wcl- Arizona. Gues' Strausburg on May 14. �THE FR ID A Y . MAY 13. 1955 PROVIDENCE PAGE THREE JOURNAL (6) School Textbook Fund (no interest): Natl. Bank of Fairfax .............................. $ COUNTY EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDS $1,500,000 MORE OF COUNTY FUNDS SHOULD BRING INTEREST Millwork Made 17,510.96 This is a small fund and must be kept separate for accounting purposes. (Continued from page 1) possible revenue from investment of County funds. We should like to point out that from January 1, 1954 to December 31, 1954 the County earned $71,896.91 in interest on deposits. In an effort to serve the citizens of the County in an indirect way various deposits have been made in the banks of the County, without interest in order to increase the ability of these banks to make loans to the residents of the County. We have listed below in considerable detail the deposits as of April 22, 1955, showing the amount in connection with each fund, the banks in which deposited and the portions paying interest. A brief explanation of some of the funds may be helpful. (1) Cash with Fiscal Agents for Debt Service: School Debt.—Amer. Sec. & Trust ................. $ School Debt—Chase Nat‘1 Bank ............... . School Debt—First and Citizens .................... Screens: Doors; everything! RUCKER LUMBER (7) Police Pension Fund (no interest): Alex. Natl. Bank ......................................... $ 71,532.58 The Police Pension Fund has invested in long-term real estate loans approximately $100,000 and the $71,532.58 now on deposit with out interest is being held by the Pension Board for further real estate loans and reserve. We believe that approximately $25,000 of this amount could be placed at interest and arrangements will be made promptly. (8) Health Center Const. Fund (no interest): Falls Church Bank .................................. $ 6,732.86 (9) Court House and Jail Const, (no interest): First and Citizens—Alex............................. $ 7,715.76 These last two accounts represent small construction funds and are temporary in nature. 132, W IlH D SKIN ITCH HOW TO RELIEVE IT IN 15 MINUTES I f n o t pleased, y o u r 40 c_Jjack fro m •M a n y d r u g g is t. IT C H -h E -N O T deadens n m ln utee ; k i l l* itc h a n d b u rn in g ge rm e a n d fu n g u s on c o n ta c t. W o n d e r fu l f o r eczem a, rin g w o rm , fo o t Itc h and o th e r e u rfa c e rashes. T o d a y a t JONES PHARMACY McLEAN, VA. 373.359.70 467,330.00 282.00 Air Conditioned—Free Parking Total cash on deposit other than cash with pay ing agents ............................... $15,131,665.58 $ 840,971.70 SUMMARY (4-22-55): Cash with paying agents .................................. $ 2,016,666.28 San. Dist. No. 1—Debt— Amer Sec. & Trust $ 444,419.16 Cash deposited at interest .............................. 7,717,271.52 Court House & Health Center—Debt— Nat’l. Cash without interest ..................................... 7,414,394.06 Bank of Fairfax ......................................... $ 52,442.50 Health Center—Debt ......................................... 2,551.25 $17,148,331.86 $ 54,993.75 Interest Received 1-1-54 to 12-31-54: Integrated Sewer—Debt—First & Merchants School Bond Fund ........................................ $ 56,316.19 Sewer Bond Fund (Reed. Sept. 1, 1954) .......... 7,707.55 Richmond ............ $ 676,281.67 General Fund ............. 7,873.17 Total Cash with Fiscal Agents .......... $ 2,016,666.28 $ 71,896.91 With the exception of the $676,281.67 in the First and Merchants Bank of Richmond these funds were deposited at approximately Monthly Receipts: February 1955 March 1955 the time the bonds or interest became due and therefore these monies $ —0— $3,065,525.00 Sale of Bonds (School) are not subject to investment since they are being held in trust ..... 709,488.00 490,710.00 Other Receipts .............. for obligations already due. The amount deposited with the First and Merchants Bank for redemption of bonds and payment of inter Total .........................................$709,488.00 $3,556,235.00 est in connection with the sewer bonds will be expended by July February 1955 March 1955 1, 1956 and the bond resolution provides that these funds may be Monthly Disbursements: $ 343,793.00 $ 491,097.00 Sewer Construction invested by the fiscal agent, subject to authorization from the 584.123.00 School Construction 454.796.00 Board of County Supervisors, provided the maturity of such invest 557.820.00 630.044.00 School Operation ....... ments shall not be later than the next succeeding payment of 25,180.00 School D eb t......... 314.633.00 monies from this fund. I have written the First and Merchants 336.024.00 495.490.00 Other Expenditures Bank requesting their suggestion as to how at least a part of these funds can be invested. Total ..................................... $1,846,940.00 $2,386,060.00 (2) Cash on Deposit Other Than with Paying Agents: Sewer Bond Const. Fund (at interest): The total cash on deposit other than cash with paying agents Alex. Natl. Bank ......................................... $ 300,729.20 was. on April 22. 1955, $15,131,665.58, of which $7,714,271.52 was Burke & Herbert—Alex.............................. 200,000.00 with interest. Mt. Vernon Bank & Trust ........................ 125,392.35 Peoples Natl. Bank, Charlottesville .......... 2,306,836.00 In conclusion we feel that some additional funds can be placed on deposit with interest and arrangements are already under way $ 2,932,957.55 to accomplish this. We feel however, that the extent of such addi Sewer Bond Const. Fund (No interest): Falls Church Bank ............... '.................. $ 1,294,529.66 tional funds to be deposited with interest will not exceed $1,500,000. First and Citizens ..................................... 243,687.83 \Ye will welcome any suggestions from the Board of County $ 1,538,217.39 Supervisors, banking officials or interested citizens in connection with the handling of County funds to the best overall interest The amount of the sewer bond construction fund deposited of the County. without interest was $1,538,217.39 and expenditures are being made at the rate of approximately $400,000 per month and this rate of Respectfully submitted. expenditure will materially increase in the near future. C .\R LTO N C. MASSEY, County Executive (3) San. Dist. 1 Special Fund (No interest): L. M. COYNER. Director of Finance First and Citizens—Alex.............................. $ 265,215.34 The Sanitary District No. 1 special fund represents the residue of funds from the Sanitary District No. 1 sewerage system and appH aH nosg: are being held in accordance with court order. We believe that the majority of this amount could be deposited at interest and arrangements are being made to that end. (4) School Const. Fund (at interest): First and Citizens—Alex ........................... $ 174,826.16 Mt. Vernon Bank & Trust ........................ 204,692.50 Peoples Natl. Bank—Charlottesville .......... 3,541,108.43 Permanent Waves $7.50 up All Types of Beauty Work ► WEONA BEAUTY SALON JEfferson 2-7240 Across Street from New Safeway £ On Lee Highway t408 S. Wash. St. Falls Church £ —Phones— Elm 6-3344 & 6-9595 School Const. Fund (no interest): Natl. Bank of Fairfax .............................. $ 300,000.00 Falls Church B ank..................................... 850.140.00 First and Citizens—Alex........................... 145,823.43 Vienna Trust Co........................................ 100,000.00 Alex. Natl. Bank ......................................... 409 66 Falls Church (Fed. Grant) ........................ 1,156,638.92 McLean, Virginia Contractors in $ 2,553,012.01 Of the school construction funds on hand $2,553,012.01 are de posited without interest, of which amount $1,156,638.92 is money received from tfye Federal Government for capital outlay and must be kept in a separate fund. Depending upon the rate of expenditure of this fund it is quite possible that part of it can be deposited with interest. School construction is now at the rate of approxi mately $500,000 per month. (5) General County Fund (at interest): Falls Church Bank ................... .............. S 205,004.52 Mt. Vernon Bank & Trust ....................... 50,725.50 Peoples Natl. Bank—Charlottesville ......... 607,956.86 S e r v in g CHURCHES $ 863,686.88 General County Fund (no interest) Natl. Bank of Fairfax .............................. $ 1,292,014.97 Alex. Natl. Bank ..................... 96.32 Annandale Bank ......................................... 10,000.00 Arlington Trust Co. .................................. 10,340.00 Burke and Herbert ...................................... 100,000.00 Herndon Bank ............................................ 100,000.00 Falls Church Bank ..................................... 598,199.63 First and Citizens—Alex............................. 643,806.24 Mt. Vernon Bank and Trust ........... 100,000,00 Vienna Trust Co...................................... 100,000.00 S 2,954,457.16 The deposits here designated as General County Fund repre sent the fund from which the major operating expenses are paid, including the General Fund operation of the County and the oper ation of schools. The National Bank of Fairfax acts as depository for all normal daily collections and for all daily expenditures except for those made from special funds. We have an agreement with this bank that they will make no charges for handling the daily de posits or the checking account provided the total funds on deposit average approximately $1,500,000. It appears that some additional deposit with interest can be made from the General County Fund now deposited without interest. It is doubtful that this additional amount could exceed $500,000. °f ALL FAITHS |] McLean Hardware Co. \ EL 6-3293 McLEAN jj SEE US ABOUT OUR LOW COST HOME FINANCING OUR HOME LOAN PLAN GIVES YOU MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS LIKE RENT — includes interest and payments on principal. PRE-PAYMENT PRIVILEGE — Saves you interests costs when you wish to pay off your loan after first year. RE-SALE ADVANTAGES — Should you desire to sell you’ll find your mortgage appeals to buyers. J WELCOME WAGON Gifts & Greetings For You—through from Your Friendly Business Neighbors and Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: The Birth of a Baby Engagements, Announcements Change of residence Arrivals of Newcomers to Area. Mrs. Constance Hjertberg Phone JE 4-0174 McLean-Pimmit Hills Mrs. Dorothy Walker Arlington-Fairfax SAVINGS A N D LO AN ASSOCIATION FAIRFAX MAIN OFFICE OFFICE 6825 Lee Highway East Falls Church 206 East Main St. Fairfax. Va. Arlington 13, Va. Phone: CR 3-8500 Phone: JE 2-1146 Savings Insured Up to $19,000 by F.S.L.I.C. 7} Grading — Top Soil Road Building Excavating Hardware - Paints \ & Household Supplies | Garden Seeds and Supplies Now In 1 [J.H.&O.V. Carper C om plete L in e Ot $ 3,920,627.09 J A 4-1234 | Bi.rJ. Rt. 3, Cedar Lane JE '2-0539 Fairfax- Vienna Mrs, Mariorie Schwellenbach 925 Ridge Road Falls Church, Va. JE 3-1438 Mrs. J. E. Burritt Forestvflle - Herndon PLeasant 9-2257 �PACE FOUR THE PROVIDENCE St. Michael’s Guild To Hear Talk On Civil Defense Many Features Planned For Flower Mart At Truro Next Week As a result of the frightening and sobering reality of destruction pos sible in this Atomic Age—evidenced so vividly last week in Survival City, Nevada—the Home and School Guild of St. Michael’s in Annandale, lias asked Fairfax Civil Defense Coordinator, Police Inspector Henrv Magarity, to address the members at 8:15 Thursday evening, May 19, in the school auditorium. Since Mr. Magarity has already spoken to the children of St. Mich ael’s on survival procedures to be used in schools, he wil Istress the procedures to be followed in the home and community. With summer vacations just around the corner, he will emphasize the need of parents to be physically prepared for any emergency—for instance: parents should locate the safest place in a home and acquaint each member of the family with this room. He should further have at least a three-day supply of food on hand. Considering the present world conditions and the destructive ca pabilities of the atomic and hydro gen bombs, each and every member of the Guild is urged to attend this meeting and learn how he can pre pare himself and his family for any enemy attack. Mrs. Vally Possony of Falls Church will present her exclusive line of hand-crafted flower contain ers at the annual garden mart to be presented by The Garden Club of Fairfax on May 20th at Truro Par ish Hall in Fairfax, Virginia. Mrs. Possonv was awarded the two top awards at the Outdoor Art Fair held in Washington last spring for her ceramic teapot and cups. Last fall at a meeting of the Falls Church Women’s Club she demonstrated her ceramic art at the potter’s wheel. “Her mastery of this art has received international recog nition.’’ She has studied in Austria, Holland and France. From 1947 through 1949 she conducted ceramic classes in the Occupational Therapy Department at Walter Reed Hos pital. Samples of her art were ex hibited last year at the National Museum and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. In addition to Mrs. Possony's in dividually created containers, there will be a .large line of brass and iron _containers presented by the Virginia Metal Casters of Waynes boro. Virginia. Mrs. Eleanor Bolton will demon strate her successful method for preserving flowers in color and form as specified by her in her hand book ‘"Til Summer Comes Again”. Boxes *of preserving equipment will be on sale at the mart. Mrs. Henrv Ludwig will be chair man of the flower booth which will offer petunias, geraniums and other old-fashioned flowers and shrubs for sale. The home of Mrs. Edward F. Howrev, wife of the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, will be featured in a showing of slides during the mart. Luncheon will be served at a nom inal fee and entertainment will be furnished for children. FORESTVILLE By Joan Gallup, PLeasant 9-2355 The WSCS of the ForestviHe Methodist Church will hold a bene fit, a fried chicken dinner Saturday at the Grange Hall from 2-8 p.m. The menu includes, in addition to the chicken, giblct gravy, mashed potatoes, lima beans, coleslaw, hot biscuits, pickles, jellies and jam, homemade cake or pie, coffee or tea. And the price is as usual $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for children. These busy ladies will also have a country store laden with home made baked goods— cakes, cookies, etc., and some bazaar items such as aprons, etc., in the Grange foyer. Proceeds from the dinner and country store will go toward a “whopping", they hope, payment on the lovely deep red carpeting they purchased for the church sanctuary recently. What’s Going On Here . . . Tuesday, May 17th—Meeting of Volunteer Rescue Squad—Fire Hall, 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 18th—Great Falls Grange Meeting—Grange Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 19th—Home and Community Club Meeting, 2 p.m. P-TA meeting, ForestviHe School, 8 p.m. F r i d a y, May 20th — Juvenile Grange Dance at Grange Hall, 8 p.m. Mrs. K. F. Mostek’s lovely “Stoncgatc" will be the setting for the May meeting of the ForestviHe Home and Community Club. Assist ing Mrs. Mostck as hostesses arc: Mrs. J. Schram, Mrs. Melissa Wal ters, Mrs. Lucy Ruble, Mrs. Sydney Rubinow and Mrs. H. Gallup. Mrs. Wm. Wells will be a hostess in absentia while she is recuperating from her recent hospital stay The last meeting of the school year for the P-TA will be held Thursday, May 19th at the Forestville School. Prelude To A June Bride . . . Kadra Lee Martin was feted with a surprise bridal shower last Friday evening at the home of Mrs. E. Schlegel. Mrs. Schlegcl and Mrs. Wm. Keiffer were co-hostesses for the shower. Over forty guests enjoyed the fes tivities of the evening including clever table decorations in the form of a two-tiered bridal cake with min iature replicas of the bridesmaids, completely detailed even to color, surrounding it. Refreshments included punch, nuts, dainty sandwiches and cake. Mrs. Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 13. Y. Martin will be married to Mr. Norman F. Bradford, Jr., of ForestviHe on June 25th. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Marshall of River Bend Road announce the birth of a daughter, Evelyn Louise, on May 5th. Eleven women from the Forestville Methodist Church attended the Leesburg Zone Meeting of the WSCS held at the Harmony Church of Hamilton, Virginia last week. Representing ForestviHe were. Mrs. G. Popovich, Mrs. Fred Utterback, Mrs. Claude Jenkins, Mrs. J. Roy, Mrs. Lawrence Haskins, Mrs. D. E. Cuark, Mrs. Wm. Tavenner. Mrs M. Bragg, Mrs. T. W. Rogers, Mrs. Gertrude Kincheloe and Mrs. Ella Hurst. Mr. W. Woodward, who was in a tractor accident . recently, has re turned home from . the hospital. Box Seats For Boy Scout Circus On Sale FRIDAY, MAY 13, 19S5 J O U R N' A L KENT GARDENS Ann Price, JE 3-0758 Fairfax, Va., at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Final Medical Training May 25th. Lecture Held at Vienna Nurses in Vienna, Oakton, Fair The final meeting of the current fax and Pimmit Hills areas are re series of Medical Personnel Train quested to bring their families on ing Lectures of the Vienna-®&kton May 25th between 7 and 9 p.m., to Area was held at the Vienna Fire the Health Center for blood typing. House on Mav 4th, at which time the nurses were enrolled as Civil Defense Nurses. INDEPENDENT There will be a short meeting of all nurses in the Vienna-Oakton • 5-9090 Area in the auditorium of the Joseph Q u a lity P r in tin g DUnkirkottom Prices a t Bo ck-B Willard Health Center, Route 237. g es= IF TOOLS NEED SHARPENING OR REPAIR W E’LL DO IT! The weatherman’cooperated beau tifully la>t Saturday in giving us a bright suppy day for the Citizens Association picnic at Great Falls. An unofficial count disclosed that ap proximately one hundred persons at tended altogether. Some of the men pitched horse shoes and played badminton before tbe races started. Bill Ja. Jeunesse did a wonderful job organizing and starting the races while Colonel Reinoldi and Mr. John Lange acted as judges. There were first, second and third prize winners in each race but only the first prize winners arc listed below. VIENNA TOOL SHARPENING SERVICE Virginia Lange won first place in Church Street, Vienna, Va. DUnkirk5-8700 the running race for girls under six and Johnny Price came in first in the running race for boys under six.) Rita Gaghan hopped to first' place in the sack race for girls seven through nine while Ike Harris won in the boys sack race. Butch Gilbert won the sack race for boys over ten and in the three-legged race for boys | FORMICA SINK TOP over ten Butch Gilbert again canie in first with his partner Bill Jordan. t 6858 N. Fairfax Dr.—Falls Church Va. JE 2-1605 Kay Bonner was the first prize win ner in the sack race for girls over ten. Children of all ages entered the balloon-blowing contest with Johnny Wagner'blowing the biggest balloon. The last events of the day were tbe races for the grown-ups. Dick Lyman and W. Harris won the men's three-legged race. After two exciting elimination races of AliceOver-Thc-Ice, Rose La Jeunesse and Dick Lyman were the winners. Lee Hwy., East of Rt. 123 The entertainment committee, CR 3-2155 FAIRFAX, VA.S headed by Mrs. Stephen Netolicky, secured the sports equipment and selected the prizes for the races. Other Committee members were o o o o o e c o o Q o o o o o o o o o o c o o o o o o c c c e o Phil Stcece, Rose and Bill La Let us bring your Jeunesse, Marianne Hansen and Ann Price. From all reports, the picnic was a huge success and it is hoped that this will become an annual affair. Mr. and Mrs. James Gaghan, Sr., Save MONEY . . . TIME . . . TROUBLE and Miss Mary Gaghan of Wash ington, D. C. were Sunday dinner guests of the Harry Gaghans. Johnny Hassett was confined to his home with the measles last week. Mrs. Stephen Netolicky flew to 601 W. Main St., Fairfax, Va. Phone CRescent 3-1133 Salt Lake City, Utah Saturday night to spend a few weeks with her fam Member of the Electric League of Northern Virginia ily. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Griffith of 5810 Sawyer Place entertained as house guests last week her aunts, Mrs. Rose Comer and Mrs. Nell Punchur, and Mrs. Punchur's daughters, Mary Ann and Nancy, all of Pittsburgh, Southern States Pennsylvania. I PRI NTERS 1 Clay’s Sink Top Co. F u ll L ine o f G a rd e n S u p p lie s and Lawn Supplies t FITZ-HUGH’S GARDEN CENTER f HOUSE WIRING UP TO DATE A limited number of reserved box seats went on sale Monday, May 9 for the 1955 Bov Scout Circus. The Boy Scout Circus will be held at Griffith Stadium on May 27 and 28, at 7:45 p.m. Although many prominent guests have already received box scats by invitation, the general public can purchase them at the following loca tions: American Automobile Asso ciation, 1712 G. Street, N.W.; Board of Trade, 1616 K Street. N.W.; the Drug Fair, 17th and K. Streets HEATING & AIRN. W.; and at the following hotels: CONDITIONING SALES Statler, Mayflower, Willard, Ral AND SERVICE eigh, Washington, Annapolis, HayAdams and Shcraton-Park. Tickets arc priced at $2. Those having purchased general admission JE 4-5700 tickets ran apply them on reserved Lee Hwy. at Merrifield box seats, if done before May 27. pD iiiiiiiiiiiiD iiim im iiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiim iiiiiiim im iD iiam iiiiiaiiniiiiiiiiD iiiiiiii Home Heating Co. Timberlake JIM SHELDON’S SUMMER DAY CAMP Boys & Girls, 6 to 16 June 13 — September 2 Pioneer & Indian Atmosphere Small groups, close supervision by qualified personnel. Individual adjustments made for the handicapped and exceptional child • HORSEBACK RIDING, PISTOL & RIFLE, ARCHERY • SWIMMING, CANOEING, CAMP CRAFTS • BOXING, WRESTLING. GROUP SCOUTING Call Gates Electric Service, Inc. HYBRI DS Are Bred to Resist Diseases and Insects Treated to Resist Diseases and Insects You’re sure o f bigger and better yields of com when you use Southern States Hybrids because they are both treated and bred to cut down insect and disease damage. 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TO 5 P.M. �THE FR ID A Y , MAY 13, 1955 Enlarged Vienna Little League Opens Games Saturday Tin- Vienna Lion’s Little League thL year expanded to 10 teajns, be cause of the heavy turnout of boys, gets under way on Saturday, Mav 14, at 1:30 p.ni. at the Vienna Park. The playing field lias been dressed up with a new backstop, dugouts for tlie teams, and U-3 Bermuda grass on the diamond. The grass was do nated and planted bv Bob- Lenhart of the Lawn Grass Development Co. He says the turf won’t be ma tured for tlie opener, but will be in fair condition for the annual July 4 doubleheader. There will be nothing missed at tlie opener. Mayor Louis Moore will throw out the first ball, the Fairfax Area Elementary Band, under the direction of Mr. Morton Cutoff, will play and lead the march to the flag pole for the flag-raising ceremonies. Adding a dash of color and pertness will be 16 Majorettes from St. James School Catholic Youth Organiza tion, who will perform for the early arrivals. First game will be between last year's champions, the Rebels and the Nats. The Orioles and the Card inals will meet in the second. All players are 12 and under, and the entire Little League operation is governed by rules as strict as those in force in the American and Na tional Leagues. According to Carter Gibson, Little League President, last year, the first for Vienna in the Little League program, was a great success, and there is no question about another 'successful season this year. How ever, lie is appealing for more help in order that a few people won't have to carry the whole load in this community project. Sponsors are needed for some of the teams. Prospective sponsors are asked to call Lauris Sherburne, Treasurer,, at DUnkirk 5-8070. Also, more umpires, arc needed tfor the Minor Leagifc games. Anyone interested may call Bob Mangan at <JE 2-9282. Umpires are needed for both weekday and weekend games. Mrs. Charles Mangers, chairman of tlie Little League Auxiliary, says' that a great" deal of help in needed front the mothers of Vienna in sell ing refreshments at the games and • in other ways to put the program over. Anyone willing to help in any wav mav phone her at DU 5-8781. The Vienna Little League is broken up into the ‘‘Majors’’ con-' sisting of four teams, and the “Minors"-with six teams. As in or ganized baseball, younger or less ex perienced players .generally play in . the minors, from which they are subject to "draft" as the season moves along. The major teams, thciF managers and sponsors ars as follows: Rebels, managed by Sam Savia and spon sored bv Vienna Woods Corpora tion; Nats, managed by Earl Leister and sponsored by the Vienna Build ing Supply Co.; Orioles, managed by Russ Johanson and sponsored by Vienna Trust Co., Ncwcome Sheet Metal, Earl A. Click. G. Norman Cobb, Inc., Fairfax Radio & Tele vision, Western Auto, Glen T. Al.brecht. Lynn Mover & Co. and The Providence Journal; Cardinals man aged by Charles Mangers and spon sored by Vienna Pharmacy, Arring ton Cleaners, Stenger Typographical Service, P. L. Booze, Plumbing and Heating, Willie's Market, Wright & Hunt. Noah L. Dove, Real Estate, Stinnett's Welding Service, Buddy’s Style Shop, Savia's Barber Shop and outhern tates Corp. The minor league teams, man agers and sponsors are as follows: Acorns manager by Bill Newton and sponsored bv the Oakton Men's Fellowship Club; Maples managed by L. Lcgcman and sponsored - by hell’s Colonial Cafeteria; Cubs man aged bv Jack Dajc and sponsored by Sholl’s New Cafteria; Tigers, man aged by the Rev. Walter Green and sponsored by Glen L. Rogers Plumbing and Heating; Lions, man aged by Mr .Payne and sponsored by Vienna Lions Club; Bobcats managed by Paul Rugers with no sponsor as yet. Horae Collections In County Cancer Drive To Top $15,000 With late contributions still trick ling in following the official closing date of the house-to-house .cam paign of the evening of April 25. this year’s home collection total of $M,703 to date will almost ccrtainlv exceed $15,000 in the -final count, as compared with the 1954 total of $8,000. This was the report from Mr. Dan Ncviaser, Vienna businessman and Residential Chairman, who or ganized the crew of 133 area chair men whose efforts achieved the sur prising high figure. Among the especially outstanding fund-getters, among area chairmen, Mr. Neviascr said, are Mrs. Harrv Weingarten, who collected over $1100 in Springfield, and Mrs. Robert Mead, of the National Council of Catholic Women, who collected over $1000 in Falls Church. ‘‘We’re all delighted exclaimed Mrs. Alfred S. 'Wall, Treasurer, "hard , work plus hearty public response really paid off". Outstanding individual workers included Mrs. Maurice Beisef, who brought in more than $87 from 20 homes in Spring Lake, Vienna, it was announced by Richard Nash of Fairfax, President. Alfred Tureax of McLean, Fairfax County Cam paign Chairman stressed that special thanks .are due to Mr. Edgar Little ton and Mr. F. A. Ritchie of the Fairfax National Bank, who re gained until a late hour counting the money on the closing date, and to Mr. W. Clay Thompson and Mr. Stacy Hherwood. Staff workers Mrs. Walker Ridgely and Mrs. Robert Trumboof tlie Fairfax headquarters office came in for warm tributes from all officials of the county chapter. "I don’t sec how any two Women could humanly have done more, “President Nash commented.. R. M. Townsend, Publicity Chair man, said everybody connected with tin’s year’s drive was pleasantly sur prised at the high total attained, and said the newspapers “particularlv the county papers’’ deserve a ; lot of thanks for their, cooperation. $■15,000 gathered residentially, Town send -said, the County Chapter's ag gregate for the 1955 campaign will probably exceed $20,000. With funds ,front, business firms and i other sources finally pooled with the JOURNAL Music Festival At Fairfax High Soon PAGE FIVE .fr .» + X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 4 - X X X .lX X X X X X X X y Lumber — Building Material — Hardware O. G. DENNIS Tlie Music Department of Fairfax High School will present a "Spring Incorporated Festival of Music" program in the LEE HIGHWAY, % MILE WEST OF High School Auditorium on May 19 at 8:00 p.m. _ JE 2-2111 MERRIFIELD, VA. The Choir, under the direction of ' f t t t T T T T t t T T T t t t f ttT T V T f ttrT T T T T T T T T T T ttT + tt+ tT \ Fddgar M. Turrcntine„ will present a group of sacred music, a group of folk music, and a group of popu lar music. The Girls' Chorus, also directed by Mr. Turrentinc, will pre SERVICE . . . sent a group of sacred music and music from musical comedies. The Band, under the direction of • Depend upon us with com Philip J. Fuller, will present music of the "pops concert’’ variety. plete faith to make all funeral To conclude the program, the arrangements with tact Choir and the Band will combine to present the Fred Waring arrange-; efficiency ment of Onward Christian Soldiers. The public is invited to attend this culminating activity of the Fairfax High School Music Department. FAIRFAX Methodist Church South Payne Street, Fairfax, Va. J. H. CARROLL, Minister Church School ......... 10:00 a.ni. 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BUT, his folks have individual room Air Conditioning units, so he — and they — enjoy the good old Summertime. THE MORAL IS: Be kind to dogs. And be kind to yourself. Buy an Electric Air C onditioner NOW and breeze through Summer! JUST SEE YOUR Electrical Dealer for the cool and happy answer. It costs so little does so much. It's Electric! VIRGINIA ELECTRICAND POWER COMPANY �PAGE SIX THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL young couples already in that neigh Officers Named For borhood. Integrated Private From the vicinity of Forestville 1 School In County had come the MartinStcvensons, the Wade Dorsetts and their new neighbors, the Delphs. With the Arthur Browne, 17 Tauxemont Master of the Fairfax Hunt, Mr. Rd., Alexandria, has been elected James Pease and Mrs. Pease was President of the^ Burgundy Farm Country Day School Board of Mrs. Irving Tier. We wouldn’t pretend to have Directors for the next twelve come anywhere near spotting all the months. Mr. Browne was chosen by vote local foik in that throng of some fifteen thousand, but here are a of the school’s new Board of Di In Virginia the Gold Cup is some few other? who came into our ken rectors at their first meeting at the what like Christmas. Everyone al as we ciung to the claim we and cooperative elementary school May ready knows all about them—except the rest of our party had staked on 2nd. Members of the new Board what will be in the stocking, or who the hillside. There were the De- were elected at the annual Bur will be the winner this time—but Long Bowmans, the W. M. B. Free gundy parents’ meeting April 27th. the full story must be told afresh mans, the Henry Mackalls, the Sam The integrated school, founded in uel Carpenters, Douglas Mackall 1946, is owned and directed by par each year. For some of the Thomas Hender and his date, the Jack Howreys, ents, and conducts a full academic Capt. and Mrs. Beberley M. sons' friends there is an extra chap man and their daughter Vicky,Cole program for pupils fro kindergarten who through the seventh grade. ter—the luncheon before the races is a student at the at the Henderson’s home, Twin James Keiths, nearby Foxcroft, and Othe members of the new Board Carroll Hunter Pines, near Warrenton. The two are: Vice-President, John Visher, giant pines before the house are not Smith Bowman. Route L Falls Church; Treasurer, Among the local subscribers to Knox Krcutzer, 15 Forest Hill Rd., the only twins in the family. On hand on Saturday with their par the meet whom we didn't see, but Alexandria; Secretary, Mrs. Charles ents, the Clarence Vawters of Falls who may well have been there, West, 1006 Cameron Street, Alex Church, were the Hendersons' twin were the John Alexanders, Mrs., andria: enrollment, Mrs. Herbert grandchildren, two adorable little I-'. S. Landstreet, Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn, Route 2. Box 144 W. Alex girls of about three, Ann and Hugh D. Auchincloss, the G. Wal andria; Parent Participation, Mrs. Dorcas, starched and sweet in white lace Carpers, the Alexander Hag- Marvin Davis, 1941 N. Vermont St., uers, Mrs. Wm. Laughlin, the Don Arlington; P'ood Planning, Mrs. dresses with blue smocking. Most of the guests were from ald M'acCleays, the Walter T. Skal- John Henry, 317 Meadow View Fairfax County, where the Hender lerups, Jr., the Keith Merrills, the Ave., Falls Church; Transportation, Martin sons formerly lived, but Mrs. Hen Henry T. McKnights and the from a Mrs. P. H. Gray. 2414 Holmes Run Gaudians, recently Drive, Falls Church; Educational derson’s brother and his wife, the West Indies cruise. returned Policy, Mrs. Walter Washington, Channing Martins, had come from From Hagerstown, M aryland 408 T. Street, N. W., Washington; Richmond, with friends. From Arl ington were the Robert Weiners and were William Beard, William Gift, Buildings and Grounds, Mr. Edward the Wallace Logans and their and Mrs. John E. Stone braker, Jr. Mayer, 2740 Burgundy Rd., Alex da'ugster, Miss Lawrence Logan, with two young Stonebrakers, and andria, and Publicity, Jesse Price, 21 E. Bcllefonte Ave., Alexandria. and among the local people were some of their friends. Among the Washingtonians we the Clay Brittles, of Warrenton, and enjoyed seeing were the Douglas her mother, Mrs. Waller. gold", and to this day The Paul Peters, apparently quite Phillips and the Merrick Parkers. night blue andof evokes restored after their daughter’s wed Our lord had the pleasure of seeing the memory inkyit blue sky.a golden in an ding of last week, were there, as the Curt Macks, who once lived on moon opera was very grand in our the Leigh Mill Road near McLean Yes, were Mrs. Charles Pozer, the Gail even Caruso Landons, the Walter Olivers, the and who are now, we believe, in youth,Galli if the records byon the Curci ,played Frederick Northrups and the Rich New York. Other out-of-towners and present were the Jim Carrs, form Victrola, were more apt to bring ard Smiths. Others were the George and our contemporaries Barnes, the Paul Kincheloes, the erly of Fairfax, who now live in from us derision and silly giggles hoots of Ernest Hudgins, the Robert Roanoke. than the appreciation for which our Right at the head of the list should Grahams, sporting Florida tans, and have gone Judge and Mrs. Howard parents hoped. Dr. and Mrs. Pierpont Buck. We think the press should con We shall not shame, by naming W. Smith and their granddaughter, them, those who preferred lingering Lucinda. Though redistricting has spire to keep the opera grand by in the cool comfort of the Hendcr-. deprived us of Judge Smith as our never omitting this adjective. sons' house to the exertion of watch representative, and though many ing the races, since it was a tempta of us are pleased with his successor, he is still “our Congressman’’ to a tion we could well understand. Needled, perhaps by the Mary vast number of people in the Tenth District. landers who like to boast that their Before' Maryland Cup is the toughest around theturning home, we drove lush Warrenton country steeplechase in this country, the side a little until the traffic should Gold Cup sponsors this year length have thinned out a bit, and then for your fishing needs ened their course to a full four came back by way of Leesburg. miles, and increased the number of Surely, we thought, in the words • MINNOW S fences to twenty-six. That this pro of a seventeenth century visitor to • NIGHT CRAWLERS duced perhaps even more than the Virginia, heaven and earth had never • BLOOD WORMS • SHRIMP desired effect was attested by the conspired to make a better habita Hours 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. fact that of thirteen starters, only tion. Open Sun.—Closed Mon. four finished the race. The main race of the six run was, Certainly there was never a On Rt. 50 next to Mobile Gas ] of course, the Gold Cup, and it was county more abounding than ours in Station, west of Fairfax Circle Phone CRescent 3-1437 marked by many upsets of both interesting people from almost every kinds. At least six different mounts line of endeavor. Living in McLean seemed sure to win it at one point in a beautiful white brick house or another, and none of them even overlooking Pimmit Run are Mr. placed. and Mrs. Thomas Montague Beggs. ?f The excitement mounted as one Mr. Beggs is the director < the rider after another came acropper, Smithsonian National Collection of happily without serious injury to Fne Arts, and as such has a finger man or beast. It began to look as on the cultural pulse of the world. if Dcmocles, a favorite owned by In the field of the opera the Beggs Mr. George Offutt, would win. Mr. have a very personal interest, since Offutt is well-known in Fairfax one of its stellar performers, Miss County as the builder of Pimmit Dorothy Kirsten, is Mr. Begg's ttians Qlitffrr §>ijop Hills. He has what must he a niece. Miss Kirsten recently ap fabulous place near Warrenton. He peared in Washington when the 4770 LEE HIGHWAY had bought Dcmocles after his sen Metropolitan, with which she has Arlington, Va. sational win at the Deep Run Hunt been for the past ten years, pre• & Cup in Richmond in April. A mag ented “Faust". She sang the role of ■ Early American Atmosphere k nificent gray, the horse was a pic Marguerite. ♦ Kiwanis, Lions. Zonia, Quota Miss Kirsten’s thick, golden hair ture as he came to post, ridden by Clubs Meet Here. a jockey in scarlet and gray silks, is very much her own, and she keeps ■ Party Rooms Available k and his stumble at the seventh it long, as in this way it is adaptable •ft Approved by Duncan Hines, fence brought a gasp of dismay to most of her roles and relieves her AAA— Gourmet of wigs. from the spectators. ■ Open Fireplaces k After the performance of Faust, Uncle Pierre, the winner, ridden •k Children's Menus — Prizes by the University of Pennsylvania Dr. and Mrs. Beggs and Mr. and ■ Lunch 65c up. Dinner SI.75 up k law student who last week captured Mrs. Kingman Brewster of Arling -k Open 11:30 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. the prized Maryland Cup, came up ton entertained at a buffet supper for • from behind, somewhat like the Miss Kirsten at the Little Tea plodding tortoise, to prove that the House. Among their guests were Dr. JAckson 7-9888 | race is sometimes to the steady in Brunoc Werner, cultural attache of stead of the swift. The suspense the German Embassy, and Dr. Ger trude Thiry of Germany, who is j lasted until the very last moment, when Gallant Ship appeared likely here at the invitation of our State to overtake Uncle Pierre, but fell Department for a tour of the coun try. Dr. Thiry is with the cultural on the last jump. Racing is not the only sport en exchange program in West Ger joyed at the Gold Cup—picnicking many. and it was she who arranged j and visiting run it a close second. Dr. Beggs' visit there last October Each year the spectators, spread and November. -and speaking of opera, what has over the emerald hills surrounding the course, bring more of the com happened to the term “grand forts of home with them—chairs, opera"? Once it would have been a cushions, small ice chests, etc. It sacrilege to speak of anything but is predicted that next > rear will see light opera without the “grand” in tables served bv butlers. Broiled front of it. When we were a little girl, lobster and champagne were enjoyed Mother traveled all the wav from by a group near us. Among other well-provided-for our small town in the deep South picnickers was a group including for the opening week of Grand the Manning Gaschcs, the John Opera in New York, and we were Birds and Mrs. Bird's mother, visit thrilled to the toes bv the prepar ing here from New England. An ations for the journey and by the other group consisted of the Ted wardrobe it required. Mother had Zimmerman’s the Born Newman’s a reversible “opera coat" which and the Rov Eakins, Jr. The latter seemed to-us a most romantic gar have bought a homesite next to the ment. It was of taffeta on one side Samuel Neels at Langley and will and heavy silk crepe on the other. be a nice addition to the attractive J Mother spoke of it as .being “mid- Going Fishing? T Ed’s Bait &;Tackle ry FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 LEGAL NOTICES IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, V I R GINIA, April 26, 1955. ALBERT F. SUDDUTH, JRComp-iainant, versus MARCELLA F. SUDDUTH, Defendant. IN CHANCERY NO. 10366 ORDER OF PUBLICATION MEMORANDUM: The object of the above-styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the grounds of willful desertion and abandon ment. An affidavit having been made and j filed showing that the defendant in j the above entitled cause is a non resident of the State of Virginia, and that her name and last known post-office address is as follows: to-wit: MARCELLA F. SUD DUTH, General Delivery, Orlando, Florida. Upon consideration whereof this Order of Publication is granted, and it is ordered that the above named defendant do appear here within ten days after the due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect her interest in this cause. TESTE: THOMAS P. tHAPMAN, JR., CLERK, By: Dolores B. Testerman, Deputy Clerk. A Copy—Teste: THOMAS P. CHAPMAN. JR., CLERK, By: Dolores B. Testerman, Deputy Clerk. MARSHALL A. MARTIN, JR.. Counsel for Complainant. 4-29-4t E. B. RAMEY H. A. RAMEY Ramey Brothers Electrical Contractors House and Industrial Wiring 24-Hour Service ELM 6-3343 McLEAN, VA. B FAIRFAX PRESBYTERIAN \ CHURCH Fairfax Elementary School, at t [Main & Locust Sts., Fairfax, Va. * Sunday School—9:30 a.m. I Worship Service—11:00 a.m. f ANNANDALE METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Esdras S. Graver, Pastor Sunday School—9:45 and 11:15 a.m. Morning Worship — 8:30 and 11:15 a.m. Intermediate Fel lowship — 7 p.m. Methodist Youth Fellowship — 7 p.m. Wed nesday — Choir rehearsal at 8 p.m. Johns-Manville Certified Contractor ROOFING Roof Repairs, Guttering SIDING Asbestos & Aluminum INSULATION Spintex Rock Wool AWNINGS Jalousies Enclosures REC ROOMS and Attics Finished Free Estimates 36 Months to Pay Call HU 3-6400 or JA 2-4675 H earn Insulation & Improvement Cc. 1834 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. Listings Invited We Have Clients Waiting for Lots and Acreage RAY BARNEY REAL ESTATE — LOANS — RENTALS Gladys S. Barney, Owner DU 5-8330 and 5-7576 VIENNA Now 2 Locations Main Office: VIENNA, VA. Phone DUnkirk 5-7000 Branch Office: McLEAN, VA. Phone ELm. 6-2222 W e P ay 2 Percent on Savings Complete Banking Services at Either Location The Vienna Trust Co. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation / t tT ttT t tT T T t'l 'tT t T T t + tT tt T + + tT tT T + T ttT T T T T T ttT tt1 �T H E F R I D A Y , MAY 13, 1955 Ravenwood Civic Group Elects Officers Samuel R. Hook, 438 Juniper Lane, in Ravenwood, l ulls Church, was elected President of the R aven wood Citizens Association at the annual m eeting held on April 28, 1955, in the Sleepy Hoi ow School. He succeeds (L iteral R obert W. Grow. O ther officers elected for the com ing year are W esley T. Jones, VicePresident; Robert J. Dolan, tre a s urer; and Mrs. Vincent ii. Welch, Secretary—all of Ravenwood, Falls Church. Chesterbrook M rs. L E . S talcup, K E 8-5365 Fairfax Presbyterians Elect Building Group P R O V I P E N C E PAGE SEVEN J O U R N A L Movies Made of Local National Guard For Army TV Program COUNTRYSIDE GARDEN CLUB MEETS TUESDAY WALLACE & MONROE PHARMACY The Countryside Garden Club of Fairfax County will hold its regular T he congregation of the Fairfax meeting on Tuesday, May 17, at the j Presbyterian Church elected a D uring the month of April many home of Mrs. J. T. Roberts, Dunn "Th* fm §y Hmf0 seven-man building committee to residents of McLean may have Loring, Va. Refreshments will be | PtBCDfTHH make plans for construction of noticed a A rm y Motion Picture served at 12:30. H orticultural speci sptciMtm new church on the former Coding Team taking pictures and holding mens to be brought by members. Vwvicf tract near Joyce Heights in W est interviews in front of many of the Mrs. Randall of Great Falls Gar- I _ 'DEPENOAtfirTf Fairfax. buildings of McLean. These men den Club will speak on "Garden were from the Army Pictorial Cen Clubs W orking W ith the Red J -M m * 7A 9A IP, The committee is composed of SCIVfCE general chairman, Lt. Col. David E. ter in New York City. They came Cross.” Myers, 3 Providence Street, Fairfax, to M cLean to "shoot" a movie for and the chairman and vice-chair use in the A rm y’s weekly television :I f Alcohol Is men of three subsidiary committees, show, "The Big Picture". M I A.M.. It r.U . own they are: B atterv "C” , 125tli AAA Bat Your Problem . . . n u quick o a u v n r talion (Gun 120mm), located in Mc Comdr. William H. Rowen, rt. j | m A I n t i it Ftfk M , M . G et I n T o u ch W ith Fu , A m Hm -I Fairfax; M ajor Robert N. Brewer, Lean, was selected from all tne other Fairfax County Group 203 Railroad Avenue, Fairfax; C. F positions throughout the country as J* M M Elliott of O akton; Francis B. Slich the finest example of a National J l M 490 j Alcoholics Anonymous ter, rt. 2, Fairfax; Richard E Guard On-Site Unit. The reason for ( B ox 71 O ak to n , Va. ; Heaven, 113 Sast B erritt Street, "C” Battery’s selection was due to £ Fairfax; and Claude E. Ware, rt. its close relation to the community, or rather the community operation 4, Fairfax The church, organized less than of a gun-site vitally im portant to a year, plans to have a building pro the defense of W ashington. gram under way next fall. Services Residents who have the oppor Roofing — Canvas Roofing — Guttering in the meantime are being held in tunity to watch this movie, when it the Fairfax Elementary School, with presented, will see their neigh Spouting — Oil and Gas Heat the Reverend Dr. Bernard Bras- bors and neighbors sons actually 106 W . Jefferso n St. P H O N E J E 2-6542 F alls Church, Va. kamp, chaplain of the House of operating the equipment and doing Representatives, acting minister. the various jobs they arc assigned Newest members to join the Pres as Guardsmen. , byterian church are Mr. and Mrs. The Picture will give much pub Joseph H. Steer, route 2, Fairfax, licity to McLean and will emphasize and Mr. and Mrs. William P. th6 fine support tin's community has Haynes, 7 Oddison Road, Fairfax. given its local National Guard Unit. A t recent services, the sacrament Watch for the Big Picture on McLEAN, VA. of infant baptism was administered television over the next few months! to three children: Dorothv Alice N ursery T h ro u g h Third G rade—T ran sp o rtatio n F urnished . . . Gulick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H o t Lunches— Special A rran g em en ts M ay be M ade to Leave T H E U N IT A R IA N C H U R C H Richard Gulick, 136 Richard Ave C hildren until 6 P.M ., U nder Supervision O F A R L IN G T O N , VA. nue, Fairfax; Joan Elizabeth Somer 4444 A rlington B lvd.—JA 4-0720 ville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sunday Service 9:15 & 11:15 a.m. Atwell C. Somerville, route 1, Fair School of R eligion 9 and 11 a.m. ENROLL NOW M inister: R oss A llen W eston. fax; and Junius Mosby West, III, D irector School of Religion: M A R Y R U S H , D irector ELm w ood 6-4282 son of Mr. and Mrs. Junius M. West, Mrs. Lisa H all Lupton. 1002 Mill Creek Drive, Annandale. Special services were held at the Chesterbrook Methodist Church on M other’s Day, May 8—This was also Herm itage Day, and donations were made for the Conference Home for the Aged. The Official Board Meeting was held on Thursday, May 12 at the Church at 8 p.m. At the last meeting of The Men of St. John’s Catholic Church of ElNido, plans were approved to hold the Annual Parish Fair on June 24 and 25. The aims for this year is for a bigger and better fair. Elizabeth Ann Ehrmantrout, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ehrman trout was baptised on April 10 at St. John's Catholic Church of ElNido. There will be a Special Challenge Match Game of all star bowlers against the Glebe Radio, Major Dis trict League Champion, of which William Stalcup is captain, on Sat urday at 8 p.m. at the Clarendon Bowling Center. It is a benefit match for the Epilepsj’ Drive. The Chesterbrook School P-TA met at the school on Wednesday. May 4. The following officers were elected: President, Mr. W. E. John son; First Vice-President. Mr. How ard F. Smith; Second Vice-Presi dent, Mrs. Milo Blade; Secretary, Mrs. Harlan Hall; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. G. E. McKean and Mrs. Clarence Myers. A very nice program was put on bv the child ren. The 7th grade of the school will go on a trip to Gettysburg on Sat urday. Mr. Phipard and Mrs. Piggott will drive the buses. Mrs. Messick, Principal of Ches terbrook School will attend the Principals of the Schools Annual Banquet at the Penn Daw Hotel on Monday, May 16. The faculty of the school is giving i a tea to the parents of the pupils on | May 19th from 3:3G .p.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is in appreciation of their kindness and cooperation to them during the school year, for which they arc very thankful. Eleven of the teachers of the Chesterbrook School went on the Educator’s Air Lift of the Eastern Air Lines last week. They took off from the National Air Port at 11:30 a.m. Members of the P-TA put up a chain fence around the grass adja cent to the new building last week. Mrs. Dorothy McNealy of Free dom Lane is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Robert Engesver of St. Louis, Missouri. She arrived in time to wel- ! come her granddaughter who was horn April 26th in St. John’s Hos pital, St. Louis. Mrs. E. J. Levin of Freedom Lane is a sister of Mrs Engesver. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Billups and children of Edge wood, Md., visited Mr. Bil'ups’ parents Mr. and Mrs R. S. Billups of Franklin Park last weekend. Mr. Billups is with the Botanical Medical Center at Edge- j wood. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Martindale or Byrnes Drive have his mother visit ing from California. Mr. and Mrs. Elton Davis spent last weekend attending a wedding in New Jersey. Mrs. Davis’ mother returned with them for a few day’s visit. Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Matthews of Byrnes Drive visited relatives in in Danville, Va., last week. Mrs. Ray Elkins attended the Ap ple Blossom Festival at Winchester and was entertained by her friends there. Mr. and Mrs. Dusty Rhodes re turned last week from a vacation in Indiana. Mrs. Martindale, her mother, and Mr. Martindalc’s mother attended the Apple Blossom Festival. Seven beautiful blended rolors of the rainbow reached into Chester brook Gardens Sunday morning at 7 a.m. The plaintive call of the whipporwill, which warned the crfrly settlers it was time to plant field corn, the sould thrilling whistle of the bobwhite hiding in the weeds, all tend to herald the advent of summer. All nature is responding to her part in the glorous summer months ahead. J e n k i n s S h e e fm e ta l H ap p y H ill School SU M M ER D A Y CA M P T trh sw y t'oh v hotwatet h tie t a a e tosp heat w ate... ith Gas water-heaters cost less to buy, less to install, less to use. And when it’s speed you need, your automatic gas water-heater gives you tankful after tankful o f hot water — faster than any other fuel! S e e th e la te s t m o d e ls — c o m p le te ly s a fe , a lw a y s d e p e n d a b le ! Pick the size th at answers your • family’s needs from a wide range of brands. New automatic gas water-heaters are lined in such rust-proof materials as monel metal, copper, aluminum and glass. Shown: the new Ruud Alcoa Alloy. S E E T H E N E W A U T O M A T IC G A S W A T E R - H E A T E R S A T Y O U R A P P L IA N C E D E A L E R O R M E R C H A N T P L U M B E R B U D G E T P A Y M E N T S C A N B E A D D E D T O Y O U R G A S BILL �PAGE EIGHT L etter THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL FRIDAY. MAY 13. 1955 to th e Editor County Insurance Rates May Be Reviewed May 6, 1955 My dear Mr .Smith: Thank you for printing my let ter, but I hope you will correct your note saying I was running for t.’ountv Supervisor from Cemreville. I live in Vienna and am not a can didate for any office. Sincerely, MARGARET B. CLARKE. RED 4, Box 18, Vienna, Va. (EDITOR’S NOTE: We regret our error. The Mrs. Clarke who is candidate for Supervisor from Centreville District is Mrs. Ruby Clarke, of Navy Community.) V ienna Mrs. Mattie E. Taylor Rt. 1, Box 212-AA, Vienna, Va. DUnkirk 5-9648 The State Corporation Commis sion, Bureau of Insurance lias in dicated to the Ox Road Civic Asso ciation that Fairfax County Fire Insurance Rates wil Receive con sideration in the very near future. The Ox Road Civic Association on March 15th, following a regular meeting which was addressed by Mr. W. C. Eubank, Special Agent of the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau, corresponded with the Bur eau of Insurance advising of the ex cellent fire protection provided by the 15 well-equipped local Fairfax County Volunteer Fire Departments and requested information concern ing whether credit can be allowed in the insurance rates for such ser vice and protection. The Association has received a reply from the Deputy Commis sioner of Insurance, Mr. Courtenay W. Harris, stating that the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau, which office files rates and rating schedules with the State Corporation Com mission for approval, has been con sidering this rate problem for too long a period and that his office will press -the Rating Bureau to make a filing on the subject. The Association plans to follow the matter closely and press for action which could result in lower ing of the current insurance rate for local residents and businesses as it does not appear justifiable for the local residents to pay the same high rate as those areas with less than adequate protection. The fire insurance rate problem is also being pursued by Mr. G. B. Robinson, President of the Fair fax County Volunteer Firemens’ As sociation and the efforts of that or ganization have focused attention on the rating needs of the Northern Virginia area. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lyle and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Scott have sold their home on Maple Avenue, Vienna, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle have moved into their recently purchased home on Chain Bridge Road, and Mr. and Mrs. Scott and little daugh ter have moved into their new home in Vienna Woods. Announcement has been made of the birth of a fine son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shonto at Arlington Hospital on Saturday, May 7. He has been named Robert Michael. Mrs. Shomo is the former Miss Phyllis Hartford of Falls Church, where they liow make their home, and Mr. Shomo is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shomo, of Vienna. Mrs. Dcaly Collins, of Manassas, Va., and son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Collins and little son, Ronnie, of Alexandria, Va., were Sunday guests of Mrs. Collins' sis ter, Mrs. Gertrude Kiucheloe and family at their home on Route 1 . Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Taylor of Cumberland, Md., spent Sunday Wills Opposes 3- and 5with their cousins, Mrs. Mattie E. Acre Aracts In Taylor and Mr. W. David Cassidy at their home at Great Falls Va. , County Master Plan Mr. and Mrs. J. Lovell Jeffries, of W. C. (Bob) Wills, candidate Fredericksburg, Va., drove up' on from the Mason District for Super Saturday night for a visit with Mrs: visor subject to the July 12th pri Jeffries’ mother, Mrs. Leon L. Free mary told, a room-filled meeting at man, at her home on Church St. the Upper Pohick Community Mr. and Mrs. Lauris N. Sherburne League, that lie was unalterably op and Mr. Al Steele attended an In posed to the three- and five-acVe surance Convention in Washington, feature of the Master Plan. Wills D. C. on Monday and Tuesday of told his listeners that "binding on this week. 3- and 5-acrc tracts of and as called Mrs. Frances Downs has returned for by the Master Plan was "eco to her home on Wolf Trap Road nomic suicide..' after having undergone surgery at Said Wills: "I am for a Master Arlington Hospital. She is reported Plan hut one that will help equitably to be recovering nicely. Her many distribute our tax base. Under the friends trust that she will soon be 3- and 5-acre provision those that well and able to be out again. now live in the county will have Mr. L. S. Willis and little son, to pay more taxes because fewer VChucky,1 went on a fishing trip people will be able to become home ’ to Woodbridge, Va., on Sunday. owners. Under the proposed Master We are happy to report that Miss Plan (3- and 5-acrc tracts) the lay Bonnie Coup, thirteen - year - old ing of water and sewage lines would daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George become so costly as to become phoCopp, of Maple Avenue, has re hibitive." Wills suggested a 12,000covered from an appendectomy and sq. ft tract as fair minimum. was able to return to school on Mon Wills said that light industry and day. personnel headquarters operations A most pleasant Sunday after must be brought to Fairfax County noon was spent at the home of Mr. to also help equalize the tax bur and Mrs. George Copp on Maple den. He cited the figures of the Avenue, the occasion being a double Urban Land institute to show that birthday celebration as well as many of the top-rated firms in the Mothers’ Day. Mrs. Copp and her country such as General Foods, brother-in-law, Mr. Fred G. Zirklc General Electric and Readers Di of South Arlington. Va.. both were gest have moved into urban areas celebration their birthday anniver thereby creating many hundreds of saries. Playing croquet was one of jobs in their new homes and up the features of the afternoon, which ping the assessed valuation by was followed by a delicious buffet thousands of dollars. Wills said: supper served in the dining room. "We need these new tax dollars to Those present were Mr. and Mrs. help pay for our new schools and Fred Zirclc and children, Dorothy, the many improvements we badly Albert and Paul, South Arlington, need." Mr. and Mrs. Oawley I.. Hansard and children, Alfred and Sarah, fo North Arlington, Mr. James Smith, also of North Arlington, Mr. and Mrs. G. Paul Wilkins and children. Virginia May, Freddie, Peggy and Delores, of Chesterbrook. Va.. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilkins of South Arl ington, Berry and Bonnie Copp. An interesting family gathering was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Ward, Jr., on Owissa Road on Sunday afternoon, it being in honor of Mr. Ward’s grandmother, Mrs. Rena Berry, of Randolph, Mass., who with a daugh ter, Mrs. Anna Hoxlev. also of Ran dolph. are visiting "Mrs. Berry’s daughter, Mrs. Charles I. Ward, Sr., and Mr. Ward in Arlington, Va. The afternoon was pleasantly spent and ■pictures were taken of four genera 4 C onvnlanf Location* tions. Delightful refreshments were served bv the hosts. There were eleven great-grandchildren and four Palis Church grandchildren of Mrs. Berry present, including the Ward family and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Kidd East Palls Church and four children, all of Vienna. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dickerson and four children of Forcstville, Maryland. 4774 Lae Highway F O O D S D O N t "TOUCH-O-MAGIC” DOOR OPENER! HUGE SUB ZERO FREEZER! * •k k ALL SHELVES GLIDE OUT! NO DEFROSTING EVER! ADMIRAL CUSTOM DUAL TEMP 12.4 cu. ft. 2-door Re frigerator - Freezer Model CT1381. White Exterior. Also in Primrose Yellow or Sea Mist Green (op tional, extra.) Onions and butter "live happily” together in an A d m ir a l D u a l-T e m p REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER Admiral’s new "Magic Ray” Lamp produces ozone that keeps flavors from mingling...keeps delicateflavored foods from absorbing strong flavors like onions ...keeps the air in a Dual-Temp fresh, clean, pure! It’s big news...like Admiral's famous “HumidCold” Compartment that keeps foods garden fresh longer! 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Five men were elected to 3-year terms on the vestry of Truro Epis SANITARY W EIL DRILLING copal Church, Fairfax, at the an 9,00© Wells Drilled la nual parish meeting held Monday The Past 40 Tsar* and Tuesday, April 26 and 27, of last week. They include: Craighill Burks, I’ Vienna, Va. DUnkirk 5-8868|t E. A. Prichard, Col. E. L. Upson Thomas P. Chapman, and Paul Peter. They succeeded Col. Edward Offley, Ramone Eaton, J. J. Mathy, i Church of The Advent C. R- Wilson and Blake Newton, (Episcopal) whose terms had expired. 3 Annandale Grange Hall j Annandale, Va. this dance, classical ballet technique jT he Rev. Leon N. Laylor, rector has been used in a contemporary ^Communion at 8:00 a.m. manner and uses modern costumes •iSunday School at 10:00 a.m. and setting. It portrays no story, '■Prayer and sermon at 10 a.m. j but interprets the changing moods ' an drhythms of Gerschwin's music - k ’ *C =W =" Mrs. Marvin C. Brown, Mis. Mar Mrs. Robert S. Bray was hostess McLean School of Ballet an to the Herndon Fortnightly Club at vin H. Kirby and Miss Anna Day nounces the presentation of two her home at Dranesville on Wed were hostesses to Freedom Hill new ballets to be given Tuesday, nesday afternoon. Mrs. A. H. Buell Chapter DAR, on the evening of June 7 at Fairfax High School at presided in the absence of the Presi April 28, 1955. The meeting was 8 o'clock. Molly Timms Vick, the held at the home of the former with director of the school, has done dent, Mrs. John Hepncr. Mrs. Richard Babcock reported Mrs. Isabel M. Lewis, Regent, pre the choreography, and the design that all plans had been completed siding. Aabout fifteen members were ing of the costumes and scenery. for tin first annual Food Fair to present. Mrs. Jan Cox and Mrs. Hazel Mrs. Brown reported for the CAR Erskine will provide the piano ac be held at the Library on Saturday, society sponsored by the chapter, companiment. May 14. The Club voted to allow the Hern that the society had won first place Several of the voung people who don Home Interest Garden Club to for the most Patriots; and that Mrs. will appear as principal dancers in have a shelf at The Library for E. Stewart James, former State this forthcoming event were mem Garden Club reference books. Mrs. President, had been elected Na bers of the corps tic ballet or had Bray gave the program “The Over tional President. leading parts in the earlier produc Miss Julia Gunn, JAC, chairman tions which include Rapaccini's all Work and Service of the Library requested that the chapter purchase Daughter, Alice in Wonderland, the of Congress.” Mrs. R. E. Holder, Mrs. B. F. 18-Thatcher award pins for distri Seven Cardinals, Pandora, and RumMcGuire, Mrs. George Kheen, Miss bution to the JAC clubs in the local pelstiltskin. u. s. Estelle Holden and Mrs. H. Arnold schools, which the chapter agreed One ballet has been named “The CHOICE Western Beef at Wholesale Prices Grecar attended the zone meeting to do. The also requested four Amer Minstrel' is a depths of the sea Cut, Wrapped & Frozen, Ready For Your Freezer ican flags to be presented to a local fantasy of a purely classical nature of the W.S.C.S. at the Methodist Fruits and Vegetables in Case Lots Church at Hamilton, Va., on Wed school. This was also agreed to. and uses music from several of the FAIRFAX FROZEN FOOD LOCKER Reports on the National Congress Chopin Etudes. The other, called nesday. Rt. 236 At Kamp Washington Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dawson were were made by the Regent, Mrs. Isa ‘Melodic Mobile’, is chorographed CRescent 3-1020 Fairfax, Va. dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and bel M. Lewis, and by Mrs. Ray, Re to the Preludes of Gerschwin. In Mrs. Thomas Kite in Arlington, gent's alternate, and Mrs. Rynex, other guest was Lizzie Kite of Ma who had worked on the credentials committee. nassas. FEED — HAY — STRAW The chapter initiated plans for the Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Bradshaw, iS p e h - O k m t Complete Line of Miss Margarcf Gillette, Mrs. George June meeting to be held at a nearby WILKINS-ROGERS FEED Bready/ Mrs. Walter Klatt. Mrs. hotel. The program was under the di Buyers of Poultry and Livestock Jffunpral H um e Franklin -Lillard represented Hern don Chapter No. 55 O.E.S. at the rection of Mrs. Cutler Smith, Chair Home-Dressed Poultry and Fresh 51st annual session of the Grand man of American Music, who gave Eegs cn Thursdays and Fridays Chapter of Virginia O.E.S. at Rich an article on.the late John Philip Dj. BERKLEY GREEN, Prop. Wholesale or Retail •Sousa, and some of his marches mond on May 10-11-12. Mrs. R. S. Crippcn had as her were played by her, to the enjovFuniture Movers—General Hauling Serving Fairfax and guests on Tuesday evening her ment of those present' 1 ocal and Distant The May meeting, at which time brotherand sister-in-law, Mr. and Loudoun Counties annual reports will be made by of Mrs. Arthur McMillen and their ficers and committee chairmen, will son of Washington, D.C. Telephone: Herndon 764 Miss Edith Rogers, Holcomb be held at the home of Mrs. L. T. Herndon, Virginia DUNKIRK 5-7969 Rogers and his daughter, Katherine, Day, with Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. i OAKTON, VA. spent the weekend with their bro Caroline G. Berry as co-hostesses. ther-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Gilles Rogers at Lovington, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wood, who spent the past three months in Orlando, Florida have returned to their home in Herndon. Paul T. Powell has returned from a vacation trip to Florida where lie was the guest of his son, Paul Powell, Jr., Miss Katherine Rogers is spend M a g n ific e n tly ing two weeks with friends in Trenton. New Jersey. Mrs W. W. Taylor had as her guests for several days her grand daughter, Mrs. Paul Lindemcycr and her two children of Santa Ana, California. Mr. and Mrs. French Trucksess are visiting relatives in Lafayette, ndiana, where Mr. Truckscs at tended the 55th anniversary of his graduating .class at Purdue Univer sity. Mrs. Charles Burr and Mrs. Rob ert Cheek of Washington were guests Saturday of Mrs. Rena Burr and Miss Mamie Corunce. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Hudson of Miami, Florida were guests of the Rev. and Mrs. H. Hoover Bear. Mr. Hudson is a brother of Mrs. Bear. Herndon Chapter No. 55 O.E.S. will have a card party at the Ma sonic Hall on Fridav, May 20, at 8 p-.m. Admission $1 per person, prizes for each table, door prizes and refreshments. Circle No. 2 of the Presbyterian Church met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Franklin Lillard near Herndon. 12 members were present. Miss Lulah F'crguson gave' the Bible Study on "Newness of Life” Romans 6 1-14-23. Mrs. R. N. Wrenn gave a talk on “Women of The Church Birthday meeting. The next meeting will be at the home Never found on a car o f Chevrolet’s Only car in its field of Mrs. Wrenn on Tuesday, June A new V8 and two new Sixes reach new 7 at 2 p.m. Following the meeting price before with Body by Fisher highs in horsepower and performance refreshments were served. Anti-dive braking that means heads-up Mrs. Edward Fisher is spending Y ou can ’t get any m ore life in auto Y ou certainly w ant life in your en two weeks with her grandson, stopping. 12-volt electrical system de mobile styling than Chevrolet’s “Body gine. A nd with the choice of powerdeShields Fisher in New York, City. livers twice the punch. Ball-Race by F isher.” Those three words say thrillers that C hevrolet offers you this A Little League of Herndon is in steering makes steering and parking all the nice, reassuring things you can year, you’ve got w hat it takes to carry the process of being formed and all easier. But try these things for your hoys between the ages of 9 to 12 say about automobile bodies. “Body you into a whole new world of motor years who arc interested in base self. Telephone o r com e in and let us by F is h e r ” is fo u n d in m any of ing confidence and pleasure. How ball are invited to register. Regis arrange a dem onstration soon. A m erica’s m ost luxurious cars. about trying the V8 soon? tration forms can be obtained from Bill Allen at the Western Auto Store in Herndon or from Bill Hurst at Herndon 177. The month of May has been set aside as Spring Cleanup Month for Herndon and trash will be collected on May 18. Be sure and remember this date. Joyce Smith was named outstand ing girl basketball player of the year at the buffet supper given by the Woman’s Club of Herndon to the Girls' Varsity Basketball Team and cheerleaders of Herndon High OLDSMOBILE CHEVROLET School. Miss Smith was presented with a gift and her name was en graved on the trophy which re mains on permanent display at the High School. At the regular pack meeting of 201 EAST MAIN ST.. FAIRFAX. VA. Herndon Cub Scouts the past week three boys Michael Keys, Harold Herman and Alden Stallings re PHONE:-CRESCENT 3"-0250 ceived bobcat pins ami Ralph Sum mer received his wolf badge, gold arrow point and a years’ service star. FOR ( 0 ^ ) USED CARS & TRUCKS - VISIT OUR USED CAR LOT-ROUTE 5 0 -2 9 -2 1 1 TW O BLOCKS Twenty-one Cub Scouts and a num ber of parents were present at the WEST OF FAIRFAX CIRCLE - PHONE: CRESCENT 3-2450 meeting. J. H. CRAIG & SONS Alive in power ^CHEVROLET/ Alive in features LOGAN CHEVROLET CO. �PAGE TEN THE PROVIDENCE weeks. A new modern school is to be built by the firm of Burroughs and Preston on the recently pur chased 5 acres off Balls Hill Road. It is expected that the new building T stunning blue and grey uni will be ready for the opening of the il forms, our local school safety pa Fall term in September. trol from Franklin Sherman, march A delegation ed in the Safety Parade down Con from largeBusiness and of members the Professional stitution Avenue last Saturday Woman's Club of Fairfax County morning. Those from McLean who attended the State Convention at the made up the unit were: Susan Finan, Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Va., Irving Lawless, Rodney Orrison, over the past weekend. Mrs. Mar Martha Herndon, Joan lawless, guerite Rawalt, National President, Elmo Piper, Steven Wolfe, Sally speaker. Kadic, Jimmy Stoy, Shirley Smith, was the principal President, Mrs. Mary State Gail Christensen and Melvin Dan sented Etter,Rawalt with a checkpre Mrs. for iels. Mrs. Virginia Herndon, the $500 from the State of Virginia, for Patrol ponsor and 7th Grade teacher, the Building Fund of a National accompanied the group to Wash Headquarters in Washington, D.C. ington. Gladys White, of the Fairfax Club, Recent vacationers in Florida was re-elected State 2nd Vice-Presi were Mr. and Mrs. Stanley T. Car dent. Those attending from McLean per and Mrs. Huber P'rear. The were; Maude Rynex, Irene Uderitz, Carpers spent some time at Anna Ruth Evans, Merrill Chanel, Alice Marie Beach on the Gulf of Mexico West, Mary Helen Roe, Ethel Kidand later visited Mrs. Jean Muir in well and Mary Lynch. St. Petersburg. Mrs. Frear stayed We are glad to report that Mr. in Jacksonville with Commander Wallace Hansborough is much bet and Mrs. Hastrcitcr, former resi ter after a seige of pneumonia. dents of McLean. The Mr. and Mrs. Ansel F. Luxford thews Rev. Alfred St. John Mat spent last Saturday with the Walter was in St. John’s Episcopal Church Richmond several days last Windsors at Forest Point, Md., near Annapolis, where they attended a week attending the Spring Diocesan luncheon and went boating on the Clergy Conference. Colonel Byron M. Shipley of the Bay. Corps Engineers, presently on Mr. and Mrs. William B. Snow, duty atof Camp Lee, Va. was the Jr., have bought and moved into the weekend house guest of Col. and home of Admiral and Mrs. Ethclbert Mrs. Calvin C. Campbell of Colon Watts on Waverlv Wav in Lang ial Lane in Hunting Ridge. On Sat ley. The Watts have gone to France urday evening the Campbells enter to live, but hope to return to Mc tained their guest by giving'a small Lean someday. A goodly number of McLean and party for other Army Officers and 1-angley residents were seen at the their wives. Caroline Evans was home with Flower Mart held last Friday on the grounds of the Washington Ca her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Evans, over the past weekend. Caro thedral. Mr. Hill's Sixth Grade class spent line attends Madison College in Saturday on a hike along the Cana! Harrisonburg. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newby from Chain Bridge to Great Falls, a picnic lunch was eaten along the White, Jr., of the Old Georgetown Pike, entertained a few friends at Potomac River. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Diehl, ac dinner last Friday evening. In companied by Jcannie and Jimmie, cluded among the guests were Mr. were the guests of Mrs. Murray M. and Mrs. John Rowland Hill of Copeland, wife of the President of Swink’s Mill Road. the American Cancer Society, at a A large number of mothers and reception held last Saturday after a few fathers attended the excellent noon at the French Embassy. An Mother’s Day-Mav Day program in added attraction was the Salvation the cafetorium of Franklin Sherman Army Auxiliary Fair being held on School last Friday morning. The the Embassy grounds. six 4th and 5th grade classes each Our good friend and neighbor, presented several attractive dances Mr. Hugh Hutchison, is out again and corsages were given to the mowing his lawn, after a serious Room Mothers, who sat in places of bout with pneumonia and bursitus. honor on the stage. Baby kittens have been morn into Mrs. was hostess a number of the best families in Mc for the Robert Murdochher boarding May Lean recently. Anj-one looking for school club, meeting of the Hannah one or more good mousers will be ciety of Washington, lastMore So Tuesday provided with names to contact by afternoon. your guest columnist, who is only Mrs. L. Russell Chase, Den too happy to be of service. Robin Murdoch celebrated his Mother, and Mrs. L. Everett Rob fifth birthday by being host at a erts accompanied Den No. 6 on a Cowboy Party last Saturday. All hige from Langley to the Potomac plans and arrangements were car River last Saturday afternoon. Later ried out by Susan Finan in order to the group returned to the Chases for earn her Girl Scout Merit Badge. supper cooked out on the Cub Those attending were: Graham Scout's hobo stoves. Mrs. Edna DeGarmo of Simsbuo-, Campbell, Sheila Ramey, Margie Dunlap, Sharon Unger. Eleanor Conn., and Miss Gala Porter of Warren and Ann Bazuin. Willie and Cambridge, Mass., spent several Ellen Murdoch assisted in entertain days at the home of Mrs. DcGarmo’s niece, Mrs. Fred Squires of ing the guests. Word has been received from Cedar Avenue. Thcv were on their Shiela and Dick Mason, formerly return trip north after a winter in of Springvalc Avenue, that they are Florida. As a final part of his duty at the happily settled in their new sur roundings in Rcyensburg, Germany. National War College, Abe Sinkov While abroad, they are acting as of Pinwillow, Old Dominion Drive, McLean propogandists, by sending left Saturday for a three-week’s tour all returning service families to our of the various capitols in South America. area! Skip Heiney and bis parents, Mr. Mrs. A. Stuart Gibson and Mrs. William Cocke of Falls Church and Mrs. Robert Heiney, of Lang spent Mother’s Day with lull's. Gib ley, entertained at a unique 10th son’s daughter and her family, Mr. birthday party last Friday evening. and Mrs. Ray Warren, in Hunting The guests were the members of Cub Scout Den No. 1: Tommy LofRidge. The women in the Marching Unit tus, Johnny Irvvinfi Steve Reverof the Ladies Auxiliary of the Mc comb, Stuart Lewis and Charles Lean Volunteer Fire Department Goodman, and their parents. The took second place in the Apple boys cooked supper on their Buddy Blossom Parade at Winchester. Burners for thei rparents, slept over Congratulations, girls! Other Mc night in tents on the Heiney’s lawn Lean residents were also in prize and then cooked breakfast outdoors winning units. Henry and Billy for those parents who returned on Light were in the Band Unit from Saturday morning. Space prohibits Randolph Macon Academy which the listing of all the fine birthday gifts that Skip received. took first place. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. N. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice G. Long spent several days recently at Old Bisseil, III, from Norfolk, Va. Point Comfort, Va. They took the visited their cousins, the Henry Onovernight boat trip down and drove derdonks at Dower House last Wed back by car. nesday. Mr. John Loughran, of Old The Fairfax Council of Girl Scouts has purchased 229 acres of Georgetown Pike, e nt e r t a i ne d land along Aquia Creek, 4J4 miles friends at a barbeque party at his cast of Stafford, Va. In order to de home last Sunday. Mrs. C. E. Cole of Elmira, N. Y., velop a real camp site here, to be named Camp Coles, the family of spent a week recently with her each Girl or Brownie Scout is daughter, Mrs. Wallace Holladay, being asked to contribute $5 through at her home on Georgetown Pike. Mr. Eber Tice of White Plains, her own troop chairman. We're sure each McLean Scout family will do N.Y., arrived Monday to join his wife here at the home of their its part. Mr. and Mrs. Ebert Franklin of daughter, Mrs. Fred Squires. Mrs. Hunting Ridge accompanied Mrs. Tice has been with the Squires for Franklin's mother, Mrs. Carrie the past several weeks. Both Mr. Schlitt, to Cleveland, Ohio, where and Mrs. Tice will return home Mrs. Schlitt will visit her other the end of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Bayard D. Evans daughter. Langley School is making prepar left Monday by plane for Chicago to ations for Ground Breaking Cere spend a week. While there they will monies to be held in the next few attend the National Convention of McLEAK I. B. Murdoch, EL 6-4402 Guest ColumniBt FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 JOURNAL Adult Education Classes Being Held In County N O T IC E TO PUBLIC Something new in adult education is now taking place in Fairfax County, through the efforts of Mrs. Elizabeth Girard Straus. George Washington University, in coopera tion with County School Adminis tration officials, is offering classes for parents to help them understand their children in relation to the school curriculum. The first such class met Tuesday, April 26, in the Wcstlawn School Library, and is undertaking a study of reading prob lems as parents encounter them in their children. Miss Mary Ellen Coleman, Director of the Reading Clinic at George Washington Uni versity, is instructor. Many parents in this area felt there was something definite they should be able to do at home and in cooperation with the classroom teachers to help their children with some of the difficulties they were ex periencing. as a result, Mrs. Eliza beth Straus conceived the idea of classes for parents, and in close co- , operation with Dr. James H. Fox, Dean of the School of Education of George Washington University, and Mr. W. Harold Ford, Director of Instruction of Fairfax County Schools, worked out the details for the first class. The class will include discussion of such topics as Understanding the reading process; Methods of teach ing reading — past and present; Causes of some of the common problems in reading; Problems faced by the school in planning a reading program; and How parents can help in the reading program. In the weeks to some additional reading classes are expected to be set up in other school areas as par ents form themselves into minimum groups of 25 and ask for this type of self-help. Tuition for this man-credit course is $10 for five sessions lasting two hours each. Classes in other fields arc also being planned.. The Gifted Child has not received as much attention in many areas of our nation as he should, and a class is now being planned to help parents of gifted children attempt to create, in co operation with their classroom teachers, atdditiona] incentives and techniques for developing more of the potential abilities of these child ren. Classes concerning arithmetic problems, or other types of problems may be organized if sufficient re quests for such courses are receivedAll requests for setting up any of these classes should be made to Mrs. Elizabeth Girard Straus (JiE 2-0012) or Mrs. William E. Tolley (JE 2-3900) who is helping her. MIRRORS I will no longer be responsible for debts incurred by other than myself. RALPH EDWARD BOWMAN 5-6-55- 3t FAIRFAX GLASS C O . Rear of Falla Church B a a l JE. M 4 I 9 THIS M A N IS IM P O R T A N T TO Y O U R LIFE H e la the dairy farmer w h o produces the millc w hich ia ao vital a part • f your d ally d iet. Hta rarm and n is produ * Registration For University Center Summer Semester are under th e str ic i-st Inspection and aupervi**elon . . . and w hen his m ilk com es to us for pasteurization and pro cessing, you can be sure o f getting th e very best —ALW AYS. H e Is an integral p a r t oi tne . Registration is now in progress for the summer session at the Northern Virginia Center of the University of Virginia. The semester will run from June 15 to September 17, with classes scheduled during morning and evening hours. Courses are given in a variety of degree programs including Archi tecture, Business Administration, Commerce, Education, Engineering and the Liberal Arts. Informal, nonCfedit courses arc given for lay and professional groups. Classes arc held in Arlington's Washington-Lee High School. The Center office is located next to the High School, at 1312 North Quincy Street. Complete information can be obtained there, or by calling the Center at JAckson 8-6660. Northern V irginia eco n om y . . . because h« p rovides a service nec essary to better living. We are honored that we can bring you b is unsur passed d a i r y product* under our label. Try Our Evans will be one of the speakers at the Convention. the Restaurant Association. Mr. I J o h n S. G o o d in g HOM OGENIZED V itam in D Milk Only 7c M o ra | | Upholstering ^DUnkirk 5-9020 A Q u art Oaktonft B R A D FO R D 'S Home-Dressed Poultry TURKEYS Frying, Baking Stewing CHICKENS Cheaper by the Dozen PoreatviDa, Va. Phone: PLeasant 9-2400 ALEXANDRIA DAIRY P ro d u c t* C o m p a n y , In c . PtTT and PRINCESS STREETS T*. 4-3390 • 10. 9-2333 �THE FR ID A Y . MAY 13, 1955 Bailey's Cross Roads Mary E. Hurst—JAckson 4-0535 Assistant Rector Named At Truro PROVIDENCE Freedom Park Opens May 30 PAGE ELEVEN JOURNAL McLean Vacation Bible School Seeks Volunteers LEGAL NOTICE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE THE CIRCUIT COURT FAIRFAX COUNTY. VI The McLean Vacation Bible GIN'IA, Mav 9, 1955 Sschool is being organized and Mrs. Eckles, who will be its principal, LELAND S. DENNING, sending out this appeal for vol Cc unteer workers. Anyone who can versus help is asked to call Mrs. Eckles at EDITH G. ADAMS DENNING. ELmwood 6-4286. Defendant. The Bible School is sponsored IN CHANCERY NO. 10315 by the' four McLean Churches—St. ORDER OF PUBLICATIONJohn s Episcopal, The McLean Bap MEMORANDUM: The object of tist, Lewinsvillc Presbyterian, and this suit is to obtain for the Com the Langley Methodist, it will run plainant a divorce a vinculo matri from June 7 through June 17 and monii from the Defendant on the will include children of four years grounds of willful desertion and through eighth grade. abandonment, which desertion has been uninterrupted, for a period of more than one year next prior to the LEGAL NOTICE filing of this suit. An'affidavit having been made THE F A I R F A X C O U N T Y BOARD OF ZONING AP and filed showing that the defend PEALS WILL HOLD A PUB ant in the above entitled cause is a LIC HEARING ON APPLI non-resident of the State of Virginia CATIONS FOR EXCEPTIONS and that her name and last known OR VARIANCES FROM THE post-offire address is as follows: ZONING ORDINANCE FOR to-wit: EDITH G. ADAMS DEN CERTAIN REAL ESTATE IN NING, Callicoon, New York. .Upon consideration whereof this FAIRFAX VOUNTY, V I R Order of Public is granted, and it GINIA is ordered that the above named NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN- non-resident defendant do appear PURSUANT to the Provisions of here within ten days after the. due Section XII of the Zoning Ordin publication of this Order and do ance, establishing and giving cer what is necessary to protect her in tain powers to the Board of Zoning terest in this cause. Appeals, that at the Regular Meet TESTE: ing of the Board of Appeals to be THOMAS P. CHAPMAN, JR.. held in the Board Room of the CLERK, County Office Building at Fairfax, By: W. Franklin Gooding, Virginia, Deputy Clerk. MAY 24, 1955 A Copy—Teste: At 10 O Clock. A M.. D.S.T. THOMAS V. CHAPMAN. JR.. the said Board will hold a Public CLERK, Hearing on the following: By: W. Franklin Gooding, 11:25—P. R. Rupert, to permit Deputy Clerk. dwellings as erected to remain DONOVAN & TURNBULL. closer to side property line than al By: Philip N. Brophv, lowed by the Ordinance. Lots 89, Counsel for Complainant. 5-13-4t 90, 91, and 92, Section 4, Chesterbrook Gardens, Providence District. Please mention The Providence Journal when you patronize its J. W. BROOKFIELD, 5-13-lt Chairman. advertisers. It will help us greatly. 'Mrs. Frances Simms was elected The swimming pool at Freedom Allan N. Zackcr, Jr., who will he President of the Bailey's Ladies' graduated from Virginia Theological Park will he officially open May 30, Auxiliary to the Fire Department Seminary the first week of June, park president E. M. Loweree an at the annual meeting of the Auxil has been named assistant rector of nounced this week. The park is a iary on Tuesday evening. Other Truro Episcopal Church, Fairfax, community project which offers officers elected were Mrs. Elizabert the Rev. Raymond W. Davis, an wimming, picnic and other recrea Jones, vice-president; Mrs. Lee nounces. Mr. Zacker will go into his tion p-riviliges to members and Jawanike, secretary; Mrs. Hattie position—a new one created at Truro guests only. Rcmcikas, treasurer; Mrs. Doris because of the rapidly expanding By the May 30 opening date, the Roachc, conductress; Mrs. Lucille parish—on June 15. poll will he completed and the surTillet, assistant conductress; Mrs. The newly appointed assistant ounding land completely sodded. Ethel Pickeral, chaplain and Mrs. rector has been active in church af The hath house will be completed Marie Schmidt, historian. Officers fairs of this area while he has been and the wading pool open for the will be installed at the June meet studying at the seminary. He lias use of the “sand box set.” ing. sled the rector of St. olm's Later this summer the picnic Mrs. Mary Newton from Wash Church, McLean, for at least two area will be completed to provide rs, including work with the picnic tables and fire places. The ington was guest of her sister, Mrs. Win. Westorman on Friday evening, young people of the parish. In the picnic area is already cleared and and attended the Firemen and umnicr of 1954, he was employed partially graded. at the mission church for Franconia. Auxiliary annual banquet. Mr. Loweree reports there are Mr. Zacker will be ordained to till a number of memberships open Mr. Benjamin DoVe was toast master at the Second Annual Char the diaconate of the Episcopal to purchase. The price is $180 per ter Night of the Bailey's Cross Church by the Rt. Rev. F. D. Good family plus $10 annual dues per Roads Lion's Club which was he’d win, Bishop of Virginia, following adult member (up to a maximum of at Walnut Hill on Thursday even graduation from the seminary. He $20). Memberships are bought in the ing. May 5th. C.'all to order was by made his decision to enter the min form of stock with total membership the President, Mr. John C. Grille. istry during his final year in law limited to the capacity of the pool Invocation, Walter Bonnet. Wel chool. He majored in business ad and other facilities. come bv Reggie Shaw. The guest ministration and law as Washing Persons joining the speaker was Mr. John A. K. Dono ton University, St. Louis, Mo., oool group interested ir. Mrs. James van from Falls Church. Dancing where lie received his law degree in D. Coulter, mav contact DUnkirk 5-9707. 1952. He the seminary ni was enjoyed after the dinner and September,entered Te lias served 18 1952. The pool committee is also inter program. months in the Army. He is married ested . in getting applications from The beautiful Carillonic Bells re and lias one child. persons qualified to become life cently installed at St. Paul’s church guards at the park this summer. were dedicated at the 11 o'clock will employ service in the church on Sunday IN p i m m i t I i i l l s . . . The corporation and one other two on morning. May 8th. These Schulmer- C. Constance Hjertberg, JE 4-0174 full-time guards part-time basis. ick Carillonic Bells comprise 25 Feeling sportive? Care to play a Applicants mav he cither male or notes and can be played manually from the organ console or by an few hands? Meld, Bid or Draw—you female hut must he at least 18 years automatic roll player preset for will find your pleasure at The Card of age. In addition, thev must he stated times during the day. They Party on Saturday, May 14. at 8 currently certified graduates of a . at the Dunn Loring Fire- Red Cross lifesaving course. Appli arc Set to play each evening at 7 pm. A church bell or peal calling iiouse. A paltry one dollar hill will cations should he addressed to Mr. people to Worship is part of the admit you to this jovial jamboree of William R. Becker. Box 330, Rfd. instrument. They arc a gift of Mr. chance. The evening is sponsored No. 4, Vienna, Va. Freedom Park, Inc., formed more and Mrs. J). E. Ball ol Raven wood by the Dunn Loring P-TA, and di and an Anonymous donor, and in rected by Mrs. Douglas Criscman than a year ago. held its first an memory of Philip Beecher Notirse JE 4-1009. For the lucky there will nual -meeting of stockholders April and his wife. Harriet Ferguson be door prizes and table prizes. Re 6. In • addition to president. Mr. Loweree and Mr. Becker and Mrs. Notirse and Lawrence, Ralph Ball. freshments wil lbe available. It occurrs to us at this point that Coulter, the following were elected Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newell and their two children visited on Sun perhaps you arc wondering why o the hoard of directors: Mr. Her day morning with his mother, Mrs. our events and activities are not man Miller, Mr. Lee Youngs. Mr. L. E. Wes', of Echols Street. Mr. appearing in this column. A tele Ronald W. Blake, Mrs. Faif Smith, IT IS A PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THAT Newell entered Garfield Hospital on phone call will suffice to .have your and Mrs. John S. Stephenson. TIT. Construction of the pool and nark Sunday evening and was scheduled news or announcements included in EDWARD I. HOBBS, JR. this column. Your Calls are welcome. facilities was all done bv local for an operation on Wednesday. The Girl Scouts of the local troop builders and contractors, several of St. Anthony's church will hold whom are also nark members. IS NOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS OFFICE their second annual festival on May honored their mothers with a tasty Among them: pool construction, Cookout" last 21st and 22nd from 2 p.m., to 10 in the hack-yard Saturday afternoon Sanders Guild Co.. McLean; plumb of the Dclap home p.m., each day. There will be rides m Lisle Avenue. Great quantities ing, P. L. Booze. Vienna; sodding. ELIZABETH WELLS HALL INSURANCE AGENCY for the kiddies, various booths, good if Mrs. Delap's delicious potato Ronald W. Blake. Fairfax: and confood and fun for all. They invite ;alad and hamburgers cooked over ceret work. A. H. Lea therwood, McLEAN, VA. ELMWOOD 6-3321 everyone to come earlv and stay late. hot coals were consumed. Games Vienna. Cindy Lou of Dumont Television much merriment—especially The park and pool are in the vi will be present. There will be clowns addedthe mothers participating. The cinity of Freedom Hills School, with and other acts. Scouts of the troop are: Maria Har about one block from Leesburg Pike Kenny Dove is home from over rington, Vicki Moore, Barbara between Hull and Bvrd Roads. ip O O O O C > O C O O O O O O O O » > D O O O C X ^ S > S O = O O C -" seas duty and is in the process of be Poland. Carole Janes, Susie Dclap, ing discharged from the service. Mary Beth Rowe. Faith Burkhardt, Children of St. Anthony’s Cath Barbara Miller, Pat Maoar, Judy Annandale Fire olic church will be in the May Day Huffman, Marv and Joanne Mc procession to be held at the church Cormick, Phvllis Volovick. Connie Auxiliary Makes Plans Hjertberg and Troop Leader, Mrs. on Sunday, Mav 15th at 4 p.m. Mrs. Marie Anderson, president, Lt. Col. John R. Barricro and Mrs. Thornton C. Miller. The next regular Dunn Lorimr presidet at the meeting of the Ladies Barricro entertained 22 guests at of the Annandale Volun dinner on Saturday evening at their P-TA metting will not he until Auxiliary Department on Thursday, May 25. It will include a spring teer Fire home in Dowden Terrace. May 5th, when long range plans presented bv Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Nelson spent festival school grounds.the children for the summer months were dis the weekend with their daughte on the 7:00 p.m. .and last It will be cussed. Miss Annie Koustcnis was until dark. DottR at Waynesboro and attended gin at welcomed into the Auxiliary a the May ,Dav exercises at the col new member. lege. Buck Henry, local fire chief, an long Comdr. and Mrs. Jack Richards with theirGeers. standing friends, the nounced that the Annandale group Levi N. spent the weekend in Philadelphia. had won first prize at the parade Mrs. Geer had the misfortune to at the Winchester Apple Blossom Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clark motored get her right hand badly bruised on to Martiusburg, West Virginia on Monday of last week when she was Festival for the best p-umper. The prize is $75.00 in cash which will he Sunday to visit bis moth using her washing machine. The annual banquet of the Birthday congratulations to Mrs. a nice addition to the Building Fund. Bailey’s Cross Roads Volunteer F Dorothy Tuck who celebrated- her Mr. Henry discussed the plans for the addition to the present building Department and Ladies’ Auxiliary anniversary on April 29th. was held on Friday evening in tin Mrs. Fred Pope was in Mt. Ver and called attention to the fact that social hall at St. Paul’s Episcopal non, N. Y. several days recently the kitchen and dining room had been relocated and re-designed to church, and was attended by 12b. visiting relatives. the definite improvement of the Mr. John B. Mr. John Roche. President of the ton where he Simms went to Stan plan. Details .are being worked out attended a meeting Fire Department was ijiastei of the By-Laws and Executive Com with the architect and it is hoped ceremonies. Rev. A. F. Kramer "of the Virginia State Fire that the building program will get gave the invocation. Guests were mitteesAssociation. underway at an early date. Fire Chief, Bernard Padgett of Alex men’s Mrs. Henry, chairman of the Arthur Janie?- Dutch) Simpson Southern States Open Formula Fertilizer And andria and Lt. William Durrer oi has been absent from his duties at Ways and Means Committee, an the Fairfax .County Police Depart the Bailey's Fire House due to ijl- nounced plans for the Auxiliary to Seeds That Really Grow! ment. participate in the Carnival which is ncss. Mrs. Dorothy Clark, president of • Open Formula Fertilizers Dutchic Simpson has enlisted in slated to begin on Monday, June the Ladies’ Auxiliary presented the Navy and will report to his. 13th. The ladies will have a White (Most analyses available) Honorary Membership Certificates station today. Elephant booth, rummage and baked to Mesda'nies, Cora Hurst, Grace The Senior Girl Scout Troop held goods stand and on Saturday, June • Vegetable Seeds Cartre, Minnie West, Mae Tillet and 18th, Mrs. Vinccn Guidi will he in cook out last week at their lead • Pick of The Crop Seed Potatoes Mary Tyrrell. Mrs. Jane Krununes ’s home, Mrs. W. T. Krununes charge of a Cake walk contest. was also presented with an Honor in Dowden Terrace. Mrs. Frank DcWald reported that • Lawn Grass ary Membership Certificate as she Dogwood Day donations for April Guest in the Ben Davis home re • Clovers, Alfalfas & Grasses and her family are moving in June cently was his brother from Ander I7tii for the benefit of the Firemen’s to their new home in Albuquerque, son. South Carolina. Relief Fund amounted to $94.83. • Grain Seed New Mexico. She also accepted for Mrs. Ada Gorham was appointed Billy Kriminics, Herbert McWil • Hybrid Com her husband honorary membership liams. Boh West. Dwight Edwards, chairman of a Refreshment Com from the Fire Department which Lee Wooster and Terry Lane were mittee to take care of the installation was presented by Mr. John Roche. guests of George Metcalf when he of officers for the county ceremonies S o u th e rn S ta te s H ern d o n C o o p era tiv e A beautiful silver gravy boat was celebrated his 13tli birthday. The at the Annandale Fire House on Phone 18, Herndon, Va. presented to the Krummcs' from group had dinner in the yard at the Tuesday, June 28th. She will he ai the two Departments as a parting Metcalf home on Calhoun Street sis.ted hv the Social Committee with gift and in appreciation for all their and then attended a nioyie. Mrs. Ruth Lipscomb chairman S o u th e rn S ta te s F a irfa x C o o p era tiv e work in the Departments. Mrs. Mrs. John B. Simms took mem charge. Phone Dunkirk 5-7525, Vienna, Va. Carol Wc'sterman, Chaplain of the bers of her Sunday school class Mrs. Marv Dunnington and_Mrs. Auxiliary gave the benediction. Fol from St. Paul's Church to the Zoo Tackla Crawford served daintv lowing the banquet the group went on Sundav or last week after the freshments and a social hour NEW SUMMER HOURS—VIENNA STORE ONLY to the Fire Hall where they enjoyed 9:45 classes. enjoyed before adjournment. THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS—8 A M. TO 9 P.M. (lancing until midnight. Members are requested to assist Mr. Levi N. Geer recently went OTHER WEEKDAYS—8 AM TO 5 P.M. in the sale of tickets for the boal Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Kunahle, to Richmond on business. Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Kunable, Jr., Mrs. George Metcalf’s parents trip down the Potomac on Sunday from Philadelphia visited recently from Delaware are visiting her. June 5th, at 8:00 p.m. Real Estate Insurance WILLIAM W. M ACKALL JA 8-2133 JE 2-1958 For Crops“That Are Tops” Use Only The Best J �t h e PAGE TWELVE T h e P rovidence Jo u rn a l Published weekly at McLean, Virginia RICHARD M. SMITH, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at McLean, Va. TELEPHONE: ELMWOOD 6-3320 Subscription rates: $3.00 a year Advertising rates furnished on request Member: Virginia Press Association Member: National Editorial Association OFF TO A GOOD START County Executive Carlton Massey is to be complimented on bis prompt investigation of the County's idle millions, resulting in his recommendation that at least $1,500,000 more be placed out a t interest. His report to the Board of Supervisors will be found elsewhere in this issue. We feel, however, that several more millions of the idle funds can also be made to bring in some income. Thus far Mr. Massey has only consulted Mr. L. M. Coyner, the Director of Finance, whose past performance in the advantageous placing of County funds certainly has not been impressive. He, it appears, is the one who should have had these fluids out at interest all along. His failure to do so has, apparently, cost the County, hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout hi’s many years as head of the County's treasury. W e would suggest that the Board of Supervisors appoint a committee of the most capable bankers and investment advisors available to make a thorough study of the funds on hand, and to recommend how they should be invested to the best advantage to the County. We feel sure that someone like Mr. David Lawrence dr judge Charles D. Hamel could recommend members of such a committee who would command the utmost confidence of the tax payers. W ith another $25,000,000 school bond issue, and a multi million dollar water bond issue imminent, we certainly cannot af ford to ljave things to the hit-or-miss policy of the past. SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DENMARK The picture on page 2 of the sidewalk meeting of the sup porters of the Fairfax County Federation of P-TA s—held.after the recent Annandale “workshop” on integration had been adjourned by a 100 to 50 vote by indignant members of local P-TAs—should cause us all to find out what is going on in that organization. First, why is Dr. E. 15. Henderson, Negro official of the NAA'CP and former head of a department of the D.C. Negro schools, so apparently taking charge of the meeting? lie Jives in Falls Church, which has its own School Administration entirely separate from that of Fairfax County. Next, who are these people anyway, who are so active in an organization which supposedly speaks for the parents of Fairfax County’s 31,000 school children? It is extremely odd to us that Mr. Robert B. Walker of the County School Administration, who has kept more closely in touch with P-TAs than any other school official, is unable to identify more than ten of them. It is also extremely'odd that a member of the Virginia P-T A Congress, who was present, refused to identify any of them when asked to do so by us. W e are going to make a point of finding out, if possible, who every single solitary person present in that picture is. We, of course, recognize the panelists, three of the top officials of the Federation, several teachers in local Negro schools, and a few others. But it is the other forty who interest us. One is, no doubt, the M. Alonzo Rodriquez, who lives on upper Connecticut Avenue in Washington, and who’s scathing letter appeared in last week's Journal. Another, we are informed, is a lady from Arlington, named M arx, who was active in the Virginia campaign of Henry Wallace some years ago. Certainly neither of them, by any stretch of the imagination, represents the parents of Fairfax County school children. Judging by the fact that Mr. W alker was unable to identify most of the rest, it appears likely that very few in that crowd could speak for the local parents. And yet they have been paraded on the pages of the Washington press as the “persecuted ladies of the Fairfax County P-TA s.” Wc saw many more parents of school children among those remaining inside the hall than we can spot in this sidewalk conclave. Perhaps a statement by Mrs. Wellemeyer appearing in the May 7 issue of the Washington Afro-American gives the answer: "M rs. Wellemeyer disclosed that representatives from 36 Fairfax County P-TA s attended the disrupted workshop, along with 46 persons from non-P-TA affiliates! ’ What, pray, are these “nortP-TA affiliates”—and what right had they to speak for the parents of Fairfax County school children? We think it is time for the rank-and-file of the parents of school children to find out what the P-TA Federation is, and what it’s up to. DeMolay News Col. Leigh Fairbanks, Jr. May 14: Bake Sale at Wright and On Army Maneuvers Hunt's store in Vienna, benefit of Lord Fairfax Chapter. Beginning at 10 o’clock a.in. May 16. Regular DeMolay meeting at 8 p.m. in Henry Lodge Hall, Fairfax. Tickets arc on sale for Moonlight Cruise benefit of Lord Fairfax and Win. Mason Saunders Chapters. Tickets may be obtained'from any member of these chapters or by calling Charles Johnson at Over look 3-1.398. Boatride is scheduled for July 20, Wednesday. Army Colonel. Leigh Cole Fairbank, Jr., whose parents live on Route 1, Vienna, Va., will partici pate in LOGKX-55 an Army-wide logistical exercise, at Fort Lee, Va., May 2-7. The colonel entered the Army in 1937. He is a 1937 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and a 1940 graduate of the University of California at Berke ley. His wife. Lorene, is with him at Fort Bclvoir, Va. p r o v i d e n c e FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 JOURNAL Miss Barbara A. Cloud Weds Frederick Little 10th District Woman’s Democratic Club Elects New Officers Applications Open For IAnnandale Pre-School Mrs. Mary B. Doty, wife of Dale E. Doty, formerly Assistant Secre tary of the Interior and Federal Power Commission Member, was yesterday elected president of the Woman’s Democratic Club of Vir ginia's Tenth District .at the club’s third annual meeting in the Penn Daw Restaurant on the Richmond Highway. Mrs. Doty served last year as vice-president of the Tenth District Club and the Woman's Na tional Democratic Club, and she is currently vice-president of the Fair fax Countv Council of Girl Scouts. Vice- presidents elected to serve with Mrs. Doty were Mrs. Willard Van Valkcnburgh, Alexandria, Mrs. Roberta Cox, Arlington, and Mrs. Flora Crater, Fairfax County. Re elected for a second term were Mrs. Alice B. Dunn, of Annandale, sec retary, and Mrs. John W. Edchnan. Arlington, treasurer. Mrs. Henry Carter, retiring pres M ident, introduced the l unc he on speaker, Mrs. Henry Reuss. wife of Miss Barbara Ann Cloud, daugh the freshman Democratic Congress ter of Mr. and Mrs. Etienne L. man from Wisconsin’s Fifth Dis Cloud of 5004 Kirbv Road. Falls trict, and a member of the women’s Church, and Mr. Frederick K. Lit speakers bureau of the Democratic tle, son of Austin H. Little, 27530 National Committee. Hanover St., Inkster, Michigan, Speaking on the topic, ‘‘Congress were united in marriage Saturday, at the Half-way Mark.” Mrs. Reuss April 30, 1955, at 3 p.m. in the told the group that the DemocratChestcrbrook Methodist Church by have kept their 1‘>54 campaign pro the Dr. H. Burnell Pannill. The mise “to support the President when church was beautiful with palms and lie was right and oppose him when baskets of spring flowers. he was wrong.” She cited Dempy Given in marriage by her brother cratic support of various President Etienne L. Cloud. Jr., the bridp ial measures, including the Recipro wore a floor-length gown of white cal Trade Bill, “over the hitter oppo lace with layers of nylon pleated ; sition of, a Republican majority.” tullfe. Her fingertip-veil was of white And in opposition to Presidential lace with illusion and she carried a proposals deemed "against the inter white orchid on a white Bible. ests of the ordinary tax-payer.” she The bride’s sister, Nancy Lie declared it was the Democrats in Cloud, as maid of honor, wore a Congress who disregarded his threat pink, ballerina length costume of of a veto and voted for a $20 tax cut, nylon taffeta and carried a nose continued farm price supports and gay cf blue carnations. The brides higher'salarics for Federal worker; maids Bernice Records. Janet Beall, Mrs. Reuss, who headed volunteer Joan Griggs, and Fredericka Schauss workers in her husband’s ’54 cam wore blue nylon taffeta in ballerina paign, also answered audience ques length and carried nosegays of pink tions on campaign techniques. carnations. Flower Girl was Susan Hat ncr, dressed in pink nylon with white accessories, and Robert Stow Phone Company To Increase Local Facilities ers was ring bearer. Best man was J'ohn Sullivan and The board of directors of the ushers were Edward T. Records. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Everettc Cloud. Ronald Leopold and Company of Virginia at its April Howard Procter. meeting authorized expenditures for The bridcs's mother wore a gown improvement and expansion of tele of beige and pink real silk, ballerina phone facilities in Virginia amount length, with pink accessories and ing to $2,019,387. the bridegroom’s mother was Included for the Falls Church area dressed in navy blue with navy ac is a $50,000 addition to the Elmwood cessories. Assistants at the reception, dial central office; $9,400 in addi which .was held in the church, were tional appropriation for the Falls Betty Towscv, Elaine Strawser, Church dial center and 1.3 miles of Rosamand Mohr, Elizabeth Thomp aerial cable costing $22,600 in the son, Mablc Boland, Nellie Williams, Country Club section pf the Falls Lois Beall, Elsie Loy and Catherine Church area. More central office Ball. facilities costing $13,700 were also Mrs. Little is a student nurse at authorized for the Forestville dial the University of Virginia School of offic Nursing and Mr. Little is a gradu ate engineer from Michigan State College. Chesterbrook Baptist Church News Communion Service was observed the first Sunday in April at the Chesterbrook Baptist Church (col ored) with Rev. J. H. Fairfax in charge of the service. He also de livered the sermon on April 17. Rev. E. K. Foster was in charge of Easter services, with Sunrise Service music bv the Junior Choir and Mrs. C. Tatum, the organist. The "Never Idle Club", of which Mrs. Vashti Gilmore is president, presented a bulletin botftd to tire Church. On April IS a Citizens’ Associa tion was formed with Mrs. Emily Brown, president. Mr. Holland, president of the Fairfax Citizens’ Association, was guest speaker. The Health Unit No. 1. Mrs. Cora V. Carter, president, presented a Cross to the Church on April 24. Rev. E. K. Foster delivered the sermon. Vacation Bible School Faith Baptist Church of Vienna announces its plans for another Christ-ecntered Vacation Bible School this summer. The dates will he June 13 to 18. Rev. Paul Gelatt, Jr., Pastor of the church, will direct the school. He states that -there will be a high emphasis on Scripture memorization and Bable study. In view of the splendid response last year, added teachers and helpers will be present in order that proper instruction may be given the fellows and girls. The Faith Baptist Church is meet ing presently in the auditorium of the Vienna Elementary School on Center Street. Services are as fol lows: Bible School 9:45, Worship, 11. Bible Training Union 6:30. Gos pel Service 7:30, Prayer Meeting on Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. Do you have a child between the ages of three and a half and six who is starved for companionship? If so. your answer lies in the An nandale Cooperative Pre-School A-sociation. This organization runs one one of the largest, best-equipped nurserv and kindergarten schools in the area at a minimum cost to the parent. For a “look-see” at the school's physical plant, facilities, to meet the teachers, and to see displays' of the work of the pre-schoolers, at tend the Open House at the AGFA headquarters at the Annandale Bap tist Church on Columbia Pike next Sunday, May 1 4th, from 2 to 4 p.m. Application! are now being ac cepted for the fall term which starts on September 7th. For informal ion on enrollment, rail or write Mrs. John Checkovich, membership chair man, at IF 2-2415—i4!4 Wayne Drive, Broyhill Crest. Falls Church. INDEPENDENT I PRINTERS DUnkirk 5-9090 We Are As N ear As Yonr Phone j l T A STATEMENT OF OUR V | i POLICY With the Advent of \ Spring, and the Multi tude of Playing Childlk ren. May We Urge You “ to DRIVE C A R E ’ FULLY! . . . Does It Mean Anything That Nearly 4500 Little Ones ( U N D E R 14 A R E K I L L E D ANNU. 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Repairs, parts and ac The Minstrel Show at the Burke The Merrifield Independent Base Admiral and Mrs, Jolm Henry cessories. Parkway Cycle Co. Lee Shultz arc the proud grandparents School was a huge success. The In ball team played its first game of Hwy. and N. Kirkwood Rd. (opp, of a new granddaughter who was terlocutor was Mrs. Gwendolyn the season Sunday, winning oyer Hot Shoppe) Arl., Va. JAckson born Mav 1st. She has been named Belli!; the Endmen, Clarence Sisson, Centreville l.S to 13. The, turning 5-8122. 8-13-tcb Holland Marian and is the daughter Paul St. Clair, Roy Carson, Amos point of the game came in the. fifth MONEY TO LOAN. LONG of their m u , Robe:!, and his wife. Winslow, Ralph Blevins, Raymond inning when pinch hitter Charles time F.H.A. mortgage loans now 1.1. Shull;: i- the C m.man ling Of Hawkins, Wes Salvadorc and John Mills drove in three runs to break The Trading Post available. The Vienna Trust Com fice.- of the I ,S S. B.-ai/dug which Thomas; the Chorus, Hope Thomas, the tie. pany, Vienna and McLean, Vir Harry Crouch is the manager of is stationed at Green Cove Spring, Lois Avery, Mary Young, Lillian FOR RENT: McLEAN, 1 BED6-18-tcb Fla., but he will report for duty Slniner, Laura Cross, Judy Hall, the team. Next Sunday they will room cottage, living room with fire ginia. FOR SALE: AUTOMOBILE, at the Bureau of Ships here in Mary Ellen Young, Laverne Carson,' play Centreville again at Centreville. place, kitchen, bath, garden. $75 per Wilma Thompson, • Betty Day, The game will start at 2:30 D.S.T. insurance, Washington in June. month. Call ELmwood 6-3294. ltb Fire and other types of in reliable surety bonds, all written This evening Admiral and Mrs. Gladys McLaughlin, Roberta Young, Spectators are welcome. FOR SALE: POWER MOWER stock companies. G. Norman Cobb, Shultz will entertain at dinner for Audrey Heflin, Clara Hawkins, Tlie team also sponsors square type, 1yz h.p. the Officers connected with the Doris Winslow, Gail Mahon, Lucy dances- weekly at - the Merrifield 20” Excello reel Excellent condi Inc., 201 Wright Bldg., Vienna, Va. Briggs & Stratton. Naval Reserve Policy Board. Ad West and Bobby Hawkins. Directed Community House on Saturday tion. $60.00 Call DUnkirk 5-9172. ltb Dial DUnkirk 5-9648 or DUnkirk 57000. 3-26-tcb miral Shultz is the,newly appointed by Lucille Martin; Piano Accom nights. FOR TREE CUT T I NG. L A N D Dancing is limited to square danc Husky SALE: 5-HORSEPOWER Executive Secretary of the Naval panist, Mars Hanson; Dance In cul Reserve Association. Other guests structor, Olive Carson. Elsie Sisson ing and Paul Jones. Smith’s band, tivator, garden tractor with disc, con clearing and wood sawing. Wood bulldozer blade. Good will include Mr. and Mrs. Joseph and Mary Hopkins “Stay Away provides the music. Admission price dition, $250. Phone EL 6-3445. ltb for sale. Jack. A. Marzano, Elmwood Leopold. Mrs. Leopold is the Secre Prom My Man” .was one of the ter is $1.50 per couple and $1.00' stag. 1-29-tcb FOR SALE: FRESH HOL- 6-TRACTOR3447. WORK: PLOWtary of the Womens Labor Board. rific numbers! An enjoyable inter stein cow 3J years old, second ing, discing, cultivating, scooping, A M and Mrs. B. F. Shifflett had as mission was furnished by Barbara Children’s Workshop r., calf. Penny Acres, DA 5-8827. ltb grading, mowing, raking. Jack A. their guests at dinner . on Sunday Blevins,-who did a tap dance; Bar PAINT: OUTSIDE. TITAN- Marzano, ELmwood 6-3447. 4-10-tcb Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Yearslcy of. bara Blevins and Joyce Randell, a Dramatizing Lohengrin ium lead and oil. Guaranteed not to MOTHER’S DAY, MAY 8. 1955. Pittsburgh, Penna- and their sou tap dance duet; “The Pesal Tree” by At Oakton Saturday peel. $4.95 value, Special Factory 1. Rightfully made a law by the U. and daughter, Elaine and Earl; Mr. William Mall; piano ragtime, Mars price $2.25 gallon. Free sample. and Mrs. Arthur Marthens and their Hanson; Mammy Skit, Laura Cross; Elsa,' Lohengrin, and Frederick Write to Snow White paint Co., S. Congress, proclaimed by Presi dent Eisenhower, gave birth to the daughlre. Margaret; Mrs. Lena accordion and mandolin duct by have become' very ..real to the Kin 4-13-ltp following Mother’s Day event: Smith and Mr. Albert Wolfiinger. John and Hope Thomas -."banjo solo. dergarten children at The Children’s Toledo, Ohio. LOST: 24” ORANGE ENG Place—Rhinehart’s barn, Fairfax Mrs. Olinda Hurst left bv air on Mars Hanson and violin solo by, Workshoj), a Nursery, Kindergarten, Monday to return to her home in Harvey. Cross, accompanied by and First Grade school in Jefferson lish Bike without fenders. May 4 County, Va., being very early in the California after spending some time Laura Cross. We are hoping the Village. The ' children have been or 5, vicinity Engleside Ave. Any morning with the Holy Mother one seeing bike or having informa Mary, Her Babe’s likeness lying in here with her brother-in-law, Mr. Minstrel Show will be given again !dramatizing the story in pantimjmc whereabouts, please call a real manger, Father. God in at Blirke, ‘Clifton- or Oakton where and ballet and plan to present ii to tion of its 6-3908. C. Owen Fairchild. Elmwood 5-13-ltp Heaven. Hallelujah. Therefore a Mrs. Sober Whitcsell is still a We. can see it. their parents and friends oil May FOR patient in Emergency Hospital and The Fairfax High School’s Senior 14th at the Oakton School Audi famiiy, SALE: FIVE ACRES—2- mother above all mothers eternal. shingle house, is reported to be getting along nicely, Play, “Arsenic and Old Lace” was torium at 10:30 a.m. The Nursery, chicken asbestos double garage. Selah. houses, after her operation last week. 2. God in’roduced himself. “I am also the same Saturday night, and and First Grade children are also Mr. Howard Gooding is improv many of the. high school teenagers planning for the big event, with Apartment now rented. On Rt. i23 the Lord Thy God—'Honor tby ing steadily and Mrs. Gooding here had gotten tickets for that. It puppet shows by puppets of their between Vienna and Oakton, near Mother, first written with the finger school and churches on bus line. of God on a table of stone delivered expects him to return home from was wonderful. Just too many things own making, rhvthm bands, folk Home-Acre Realty, DU 5-9353. ltb to Moses. the hospital this week. to do the same weekend and then, songs, and dancing. LOST: VICINITY BENNETT Mr. Robert Hatton, bis sons, Rob a weekend comes along with nothing 3. At The public is invited. Rd., Vale, one 400-lb. Hereford Mother”. the Cross. “Behold Thy ert, Jr., and Richard, Col. Hollings- special to do! Steer. If found, please call Ash- the Cross. Christ’s dying words on head, Robert Lee and Billy Watkins LOCAL CORNELL WOMEN'S with, DU 5-9518. 5-13-ltb 4. Mothers, train your children in spent last weekend fishing in Big of On April 28 the Women's Society CLUB MEETS TONIGHT met the home FOR S A L E : C H I N E S E Stoney and Passage Creeks. They of Christian ServiceBryce.at Jo Bryce hooked rug, all wool, 12 x 18. Flow the way they should go, when old, they will stayed at Dorothy’s Inn in Wood- and Mrs. Stewart The Virginia Janie Fitzhugh were the hos- Women’s Club Group of the Cornell ered pattern, tan back ground, rose training. not depart from Mother's stock and brought in a catch of csses for the evening. Another let of Washington will 5. Mother, Mary J., the writer’s nineteen brook and rainbow trout. meet at the home of Mrs. Joseph border. Good condition. Call PLeasAllen was mother, dead 53 years. The Oakton P-TA last week ter from Marian Vanspoining us read Swire, 118 E. Greemvay Blvd., ant 9-2556. and enjoyed. She is and Falls Church, on Friday evening. FOR SALE: EVERGREENS— 6. Mother, Vessie L., my beloved elected to office for the coming year we love it. We arc going to look Norway high; Hy Mr. Marcus L. Beckner, Jr.i as forward to a letter from her at May 13, at 8 o’clock. Officers for the drangea Spruce 18” to 4’ old; some i wife, mother of our two daughters, plants 2 years both mothers, and three sons, nowPresident: Mrs. John Buser, vicecoming year will be elected and all president; Mrs. Alan T. Rains, every meeting. She always was so interested alumnae arc urged to white dogwood. Call EL 6-3877. ltb dead 5 years. thoughtful and and it FOR SALE: GERMAN SHEP7. A photo of the President at his second vice-president; Mrs. James is so like her toentertainingthis de come out and vote. think up herd puppies — AKC registered; desk, his Mother’s Day proclama Marablc, secretary; and Mrs. Fred lightful way of keepingus in touch ; For directions and help in trans pets and show prospects. Asgarderick Craig, Treasurer. portation call Mrs. Norman C. Arband Kennels. Phone PLeasant tion attached — often read on Mrs. Emil Lutz, Jr., was hostess with their interesting activities in ' Rogers at TEmple 6-7928. 9-2222. 5-6-2tb Mother’s Day in silence and aloud in groups. at luncheon on Tuesday when her Vermont. OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE I am sure all of George and Mar 8. The likeness of Mother Doud, guests were Mrs. C. Nelson Davis, of office for her daughter, Mrs. Nancy Jo Finch, jorie Day’s friends arc delighted to Simpson Triplets, Marshalls, Peggv Town on Fairfax— 3-room Pentagon two daughters kissing her on both lease second floor of hear they are leaving the American cheeks at the same time. Her her granddaughter, Susie, and Mrs. Lohr and Fowlers. Embassy in Lima, Peru the 15th Anne Robinson recently went to Realty Co. building. All utilities fur daughter, Mamie, a mother, Presi Emil Lutz, Sr. nished. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Smith of May and expect to be in Wash Lexington, Virginia to attend the yer, etc.Desirable for Doctor, Law dent’s wife, therefore, topmost Immediate possession. For were the guests of their son and ington the 22nd or 23rd of this Journalism Lectures and spent the details call Mr. Thompson 9:00 a.m. Mother of this nation under God. 9. Photos of Mother Vessie in daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. P. month. They want to check on their weekend at the University with the to 5:00 p.m. at Crescent 3-0544. or beautiful home at Lake Barcroft and delegation from Annandalc. Sounded death, wife C. Smith, at dinner on Sunday. after 5 p.m. call CR 3-0647. 5-6-6tb end withoutofa my bosom until the quarrel because of Mrs. George Ashworth was offic make a bee-line to Burke and their like an exciting weekend, Anne. FOR SALE: HEAVY DUTY her goodness and not mine. Photos ial painist at the P.E.O. State Con many friends. farm wagon with wide iron tires. of flowers heaped to the ceiling, the Mrs. Robert Rice and Mrs. Ernest vention held at Hunting Towers in Phone DUnkirk 5-8625. 5-6-2tb beautiful cross, gift of Mrs. Dr. Alexandria last week. Mrs. Russell Priest drove to Florida, week be Trustees’ Sale of Valuable WEDDING CAKES: DELIC- Scott at the top. Photo of the writer, L. Riley was a page at the Con fore last and are bringing Mrs. Zona home baked and decorated, $1 Construction and Exca ious,pound including ornamental top. sadly beholding the mother still in vention as well - as being Music Deardorf. Smith home with them. per who Chairman. She composed the music Mrs. Rice received a letter from her vating Machinery Also cakes for birthdays, showers death that deeply affected all Scott looked. Where is Mrs. Dr. sister, Zona, and got so homesick lor the final benediction. Mrs. Charles Walker was elected to see her, she phoned and told In execution of a certain deed of and other special occasions. For now? cakes with a personal touch, call 10. Everyone was agreed—what Treasurer of the State Chapter her she was coming right down. trust dated January 15, 1955. here Mrs. Henry KE 8-5329. 4-15-tcb is home and no mother? All day Their father, Mr. George Deardorf tofore executed bv Fairfax Engi P.E.O. Sisterhood. LAWN MOW E R H E A D - long large Virginia and United Mr. Russell L. Rilev has recently was anxiously waiting for the return neering Company, Inc., recorded in all kinds of returned from a lecture tour and of his daughters, Ethel and Zona the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit quarters. Repairingmowers. Motor States Fags waved patriotically in hand and power visit with relatives in St. Louis and and his grand-daughter, Roberta. Court for Fairfax County, Virginia, service. Trade-in your old mower the May day breeze. 11. All mothers offered riding on northern Missouri. Roberta Rice Priest was so hap in Miscellaneous Lien Book No. 39, on Last Saturday the Fairfax Music py her mother-in-law, Mrs. Ellen at page 532, the undersigned and a new machine. Parkway Cycle horseback free Mother's Day 1955. 12. Mothers train your children to Guild celebrated National Music Priest of Jeanette, Pennsylvania, Trustees will offer for sale at public way Hardware Company. Lee High at Week, sponsoring a program of was visiting them and could look out auction on terms of cash, on the Shoppe N. Kirkwood Rd. (opp. Hot remember their Creator in the days below Cherrydale) JAckson of their youth. Amen. Mothers, music at the Burcn Chapel Metho for Ernie while she was in Florida. 20th dav of Mav, 1955, at the hour 5- 8122. 4-1-tcb through the years I have virtually dist Church in Merrificld. Rev. Wal Mrs. Twardy of Taunton, Mass., of 10:00 o’clock. A.M., F..D.S.T.. LOOKING FOR A NEW OR begged the Board of Supervisors, ter Green pronounced the invocation has been visiting her daughter and at the abandoned Merrificld Colored car? and the pupils of the teachers who son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Russell School House, one Block off of good used low as All makes and the County School Board, with con $5.00 See Gallows Road, near Merrifield, Vir models as Borneman, down.Wis sent of Mothers, Fathers, tax payers, are members of the Guild presented Snaith. or call Bill 4034 ginia, all of the following equipment, consin Ave., N.W. EMerson 3-4040. to loan the free school buses for an interesting and varied program. The big surprise in Burke was on to-wit: transportation of children to see The Cherub Choir, directed by Mr. April 27th, when the Lohr and 3-18-tcb and learn the way of salvation of Ivan Washburn, appeared in three Milkier Grocery Store became the 1 —LeTourneau Pan. 6-8 yds. cap., AZALEAS, MANY VARIXT- the soul and to have part in their numbers, and Richard Keller and Millncr Grocery Store. The store model No. MA-S27748-MA; ies and colors, also boxwood, hollies, first resurrection from the dead to Richard Green were guest soloists. was closed until two o'clock in 1—TD14 Angle Dozer Blade, yews, shade trees, Taking part were the pupils of Mrs. afternoon and everyone wanted the Bucvrus-Eric, Ser. No. TD2-7485- rhododendrons,prices. Landscaping. whom there be no second death: to etc., at low Thank God; how to stop war and G. F. Worley, Mrs. Roger Leestma. buy groceries in the morning. It’s Erie, Ser. No. TDF10478T7CC; Evenings, weekends and holidays to lie down and none make afraid, Mrs. Stephen Haycock, Mrs. Paul fuiinv. iust bow important the store 1 —TD14 Angle Dozer, Bucvrus- only. HIDDEN LANE NUR all to no avail. Chairman Robertson Gerhard, Mrs. Russell Riley, Mrs. when it is closed! T7CC: SERY, one block off Chain Bridge promised to come and bring the en George Ashworth, and Mrs. Milton 1 —Adams Grader. Mrs. Marv Coleman is home from 412, Ser. No. MotorEng. No. Model Road at Hidden Lane between tire School Beard for inspection. He Murray. 616, UDF- Vienna and Oakton. 3-ll-12tb set the dav and date but never came, You arc invited to attend the An Arlington Hosoital. She went to the 223421: 3-H-12tb never apologized, neither explained. nual Program of the Children's hospital Monday of last week for 1 —D4 Caterpillar Front End CUSTOM PLOWING, D is c And Chairman Wallace Carper re Workshop which will be held at an operation on her neck and came Loader Tractor No. 7U11482; ing, grading, mowing, landscaping. fused to look even at the Godly, Oakton School on Saturday. May home Wednesday. Sheis delighted to 1 —Dorsev Trailer, Model WK15, 14th at 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Gordon have her operation over with. Now Ser. No. 14529. more partciularly Evenings, weekends only. Hidden Christly. patriotic exhibit for a dol Amundson and Mrs. Eugene Mur that it is all over, she says it was described in Virginia Auto Title Lane Nursery. DU 5-9050. 3-ll-12tb lar a minute for 10 minutes, and be ELECTRIC WELDER DE- lieve me. I am telling the truth, so phy will present their students in not so bad. but it took a lot of cour No. 5075070 pulled by sires job in shop. References fur help me, God. Forgive all my sins, a program of three parts. The Nur age to get her mind made up to have KB6 International Truck Tractor, Call sery Class will dramatize nursery it done. Her husband surprised her Model No. FA109808. more particu nished. Available immediately. 4:00 Christ Jesus. Herndon 192J any time after Mothers, I earnestly, fervently, rhymes; the Kindergarten will dance with a beautiful new green Chevro larly described in Virginia Auto. p.m. 3-11-tcb pray that you will not neglect a foreign dances in costume, and give let with an ivory hardtop. It is Title No 5075071, Serial No. BLDFOR GARDEN PLOWING mother’s duty in looking to the Lohengrin in pantomime and ballet. lovely! Phone TE 2-3250. 3-11-tcb salvation of the sou’s of your child The William Martins family has 250-20739; The First Grade will appear in sing 1953 Ford, F250—3/4 Ton Stake NOW OPEN: ing folk dancing, a rhythm band, and moved to Vienna. They were almost Body, engine No. F25R3C-16662, SAVE. Fire Chief SAVE — SAVE ren to whom you gave birth in pain. gasoline—26-9/10 Come, say come, see the Constitu a puppet show that they have writ out of their home here before I Title No. 5186224. cents a gallon. Sky Chief gasoline— tion the finger ten themselves. Oakton children knew they were going. Bill is going 1-M9.37 International Truck, Ser 30-9/10 cents a gallon. Chantilly, and written with likeness of of God the Cross, which taking part are Cheryl Friedman, to have quite a trip hack and forth ial No. 53661. Va. Texaco Station. Mr. King, Pro Christ died to save sinful men. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. I. every day, hut he is going to he 1—1937 International Truck, Ser prietor. 3-4-tcb Mother's, you might persuade the Friedman; Marlene Murphy, daugh nearer his parents and does not ial No. 53592. DESIGN. BUILDING PLANS School Board to loan you the buses ter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mur- mind the driving. 500 feet metal curb & gutter forms. and Construction for one price. Call —they wouldn't me. Mondav of last week the bridge phv; Edward and Ricky Schneider, 1—Roman disc plow. for an estimate on remodeling or “E’re long the small and the great sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sch was out this side of the railroad 1—four-foot distqn chain saw. new work. C. E. Reid. Phone EL shall stand before God and the neider: Joe Tobcy, son of Mr. and tracks .on the. road leading to Fair 1—10-inch Skill Saw. 6- 3070. 1-21-tcb Books be opened and out of the Mrs. F. J. Tobc.v; and Walter Pinco, fax Court House. Many people had 1— -Cement mixer. PLOWING, DISCING, CUL Book of Life all be judged out of son of Mr. arid Mrs. V. C. Pineo. to go all the way around, but they TERMS: IG% cash on the day of tivating and mowing. Call French those things written ’n the B -k.” didn’t mjnd because that narrow, sale, balance ‘within five days and Trammell, ELmwood 6-3039. This My Mother’s Dav Me-"ge Shenandoah National Park ex noisy bridge was being replaced! 12-20-52-teb May the 8th. 1955 to all humanity The Methodist Church Confer before delivery of property. tends along the Blue Ridge Moun JOHN ALEXANDER and UPHOLSTERING: F U R N I- now and to come—Mothers espec tains of Virginia from Front Royal. ence was at Vale recently. The Con H. WISE KELLY. ture refinishing and repairing. Free ially. See Rev. 20:12. TR. Virginia, south some 75 miles to ference was attended by The Gaud Trustees. estimates. Mahler Furniture Shop, —PAUL E. RHINEHART. SR. Jarman Gap, near Waynesboro. Va ies, Robinsons, Sterners, Graves, 5-13- 2t WOOD ACRES GARDEN CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY The Wood Acres Garden Club will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at the home of Mrs. Elly Mahl, 613 Symphony Circle, Vienna. Mrs. Howard Chaillc, of the Ayr Hill Garden Club will conduct a workshop on “Corsages". �•PAGE FOURTEEN Dyer-Gunnell Post To Conduct Poppy Sale Commander Glen Cunningham of the Dyer-Gunnell Post No. 180 and Finnic Scnscney, president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion, have named Bcttvlce and Dan Neviaser a^ Co-Chairmen of the 1955 Poppy Sales for the Vienna Post. An all-out sales effort for the Vienna area will be made Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21, with Legionnaires, wives, and daughters, presenting poppies to Vienna shop pers visiting local stores. Proceeds from poppy sales will be used for child welfare in the Vienna area. Ralph Hagmann, former com mander, will be in charge of coin jars in local stores. Merle Fellingcr, finance officer, will set up a Legion Booth on Poppy Day, and James Dunlap of Vienna Woods will han dle musical arrangements. J. A. Lawrence To Seek G.O.P. Nomination For Supervisor At a recent meeting of the Fair fax County Republican Committee James A. Lawrence of Idylwood announced that he would again be a candidate for Supervisor from Providence District, subject to the Republican Mass Meeting to be held at Falls Church High School the latter part of June. Mr. Lawrence, 42, has been a resi dent of Idylwood for eleven years. He lias three children and four grandchildren. He is an independent business man, owning and operating the Spencer Support Shop of Wash ington. In the last election Mr. Lawrence ran for supervisor-at-large when the County was redistricted and was defeated by C. B. Runyan in a close race. At present there is no incumbent Supervisor from Provi dence District. As past-Prcsident of Dunn Loring P-TA, and presently member of both Dunn Loring P-TA and Falls Church High SPTA, Mr. Lawrence has always shown a- keen interest in the school activities of the Coun ty. During the last campaign he favored an elective school board, and suggested that the County em ploy a highly trained person, skilled in architecture and engineer ing, to assume the full responsibility for the County School building pro gram, thus leaving the School Sup erintendent free to handle the ever increasing problems of personnel brought about by the huge expan sion program in our school system. At the same time Mr. Lawrence expressed belief that with better trained leadership the school build ing program could go forward more rapidly at less cost per room than under the present plan of operation. As a Republican Mr. La\yrence has played an important part in the growth of the two-party system in Northern Virginia in the past few years. He has been a delegate to the last three Republican State Con ventions, is the Fairfax County representative on the State Central Committee, is vice-chairman of the County Committee, a member of the Tenth District Committee, and was the permanent chairman of the re cent Mass Meeting at which Con gressman Joel T. Blroyhill was nominated as the Republican can didate. Mr. Lawrence served as Treasurer and Finance Chairman for the Fairfax County Republican Committee. Mr. Lawrence has always been interested in the civic activities of the County having been particularly active in fund raising drives for civic purposes. He has served as finance chairman for the P-TA, ser ved his district in Red Cross, Cere bral Palsy, and Community Chest drives and is currently working on the Dunn Loring Fire Department fund drive for its new fire truck, and lie has just accepted the Chair manship of the Northern Virginia Cerebral Palsy fund raising com mittee. h E l THE Coy Dee Ledford Mr. Coy Dee Ledford of Herndon, Virginia, died on Saturday, May 7th at Emergency Hospital, Wash ington, D. C., after an illness of one week. Mr. Ledford had lived in Herndon for the past 9 years, mov ing here from Detroit, Michigan. He was born in Marshall, Nortn Caro lina on October 25, 1904. He was 50 years old at the time of his death. His occupation was that of car penter with the Reynolds Construc tion Company. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillian Ledford and 4 children, Joe Dee, Evelyn Mario, Barbara Kath erine, and Helen Louise Ledford, 2 brothers: Marshall Ledford of Arlington, Virginia, Dewey Led ford of Gainesville, Florida, 3 sisters, Mrs. Maude Williams of Fairvicw, North Carolina, Mrs. Sadie Shelton, Jacksonville, Florida and Mrs. Ber nice Ball of Marshall, North Caro lina. Funeral services for Mr. Ledford took place in Ferndale, Michigan (subury of Detroit) and burial took place in Oak View Cemetery, Royal Oak, Michigan (suburb of Detroit.) Mrs. White Elected State Official Of Business Women The Thirty-fourth State Conven tion of the Federation of the Busi ness and Professional Women's Club was held in Richmond, May 6th thru 8th. The Hotel Jefferson, Con vention Headquarters, was a buzz of activity as the well-attended con vention got under way. Fairfax delegates were elated and happy to see their candidate for 2nd vice-president, Mrs. Gladys While, of Springfield, reelected to that office. Additional causes for joy were the certificate of an award for the winnig sheets in ‘‘Press Book,” Class 3, (which designates clubs of over 10 Omembers) and, First Prize in Class 3 for Weekly News cover age. Miss J'ulia Gunn, Chairman of State Press and Pictorial History Record Books, presented the awards. The 1955-56 slate of Officers were: reelected President, Mrs. Mary Etter; 1st Vice-President, Mrs. Betty McKnight; reelected 2nd vice-president, Mrs. Gladys White, recording secretary, Mrs. Lucia Wolf. Those attending from Fairfax were: Mrs. Gladys White, Mrs. Ruth Evans, Miss Julia Gunn, Mrs. Irene Uderitz, Mrs. Gladys Isdell. Mrs. Maude Rynez, Miss Merrill Chanel, Mrs. Edna Bicksler, Miss Sybil Hinds, Miss Alice Haines, Mrs. Mary Lynch, Miss Maxine Walker, Miss Alice West, and Mrs. Mary Nickell. Pohick Garden Club Holds April Meeting The April meeting of the Pohick Garden Club was held at the home of Mrs. D. C. Phillips of the Springfield area, on Wednesday, April 27th. Her home, located on Pohick Creek and surrounded by dogwood, was a beautiful ^setting for the meeting. Three new members were welcomed into the club, Mrs. W. B. Woodson, Mrs. Braxton Bryan, and Mrs. Braxton Bryan, and Mrs. Joseph H. Orendorf. Finishing touches were added to the plans for the flower show to be held next month at the home of Mrs. Roger Gordon. The hostess served delicious refresh ments, assisted by her mother, Mrs. Ross Karns. The fact that she and her family were practically packed for a move to Japan, put no crimp in the hostesses ability to entertain calmly and beautifully, tliough the spirits of the members were dam pened by the imminent loss of one of its valued members. As the climax to a pleasant day. Mrs. Robert Wheat made several beautiful flower arrangements, explaining the mech anics as she did so. The club to the last member, felt that it was a very enjoyable and instructive session.. PROVIDENCE FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 JOURNAL Vienna P-TA To Elect New Officers At Final Meeting Thursday The Vienna Elementary School P-TA will hold its last meeting for this school year on Thursday, May 19, after 41 years of active partic ipation to its credit. There will be the election of officers for next year, tile slate being: Pres., Mrs. Bernard Goodkind; Vice-Prcs., Mrs. Charles Ellison, Rcc. Sec., Mrs. Frank Brockwcll; Corn Sec., Mrs. Dan Weatherly; Treas., Mrs. Craton Guthrie. The program will be the Vienna Elementary School Band under the able baton of Maestro Morton Guttoff. The band will pre sent a group of selections including solos by Penny Gottlieb and Phillip Schalot, a clarinet trio with George Levendis, Kyle Lynn and Bobby Dame, and a trumpet duet with Charles Shumate and Horace Lukens. The Vienna P-TA has maintained an active program the entire year. Mrs. Bernard Goodkind, president, is proud to report four money-mak ing projects—the Smorbasbord, the May Festival and two family dances arranged by the Ways and Means Chairman, Mrs. Frederick Holland; Mrs. Eugene Wa l k e r , Ro o m Mothers Chairman, made it possible for all mothers to take an active part; and Mr. David Mayer, Pro gram Chairman, arranged a series of varied and outstanding programs for the year. Mrs. Goodkind wishes to thank each and every one who made pos sible such a successful year. BURKE AIRPORT (Cont’d from page 1) McLean Demonstration Club Meets The McLean Women’s Home Demonstration Club met at Dun ham Hall with Mrs. Gertrude Frank lin presiding. After a short business meeting, the program was turned over to Mrs. Helen Berkley who showed us how to make and decor ate aluminum trays. It was very interesting and everyone pitched in and made one of her own. We really have some artistic members and everyone turned out a professional looking tray. Our thanks again to Mrs. Helen Berkley for a wonder ful demonstration. After lunch, which the members brought themselves, the meeting was adjourned and everyone went home with her lovely tray. to procedure.” “This will probably be the most important issue of the year befo. the County Chamber and we arcurging every member who can posibiy be present to do so. Each vote is important. We want a faithful recording of the majority sentiment in the Chamber's verdict upon this matter,” Mr. Wills emphasized. On the Airport Committee with Richard E. Shands, Chairman are Verlin W. Smith, Keith Price, Pete Ball and Clarence Simpson, a!! members -of the Board of Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and representing both groups of opinion as to the desirability of the Burke Airport. «*/ USED CARS CARS 1952 Dodge 2-Dr. 1953 Ford 4-Dr. 1949 Mercury 4-Dr. 1948 Willys Sta. Wagon 1952 Ford 2-dr. Sed. 1952 Ford 2-Dr. 1952 Hudson Wasp 1953 Ford 2-Dr. 1951 Ford 4-Dr. TRUCKS 1953 Ford Sedan Pickup 1948 Chev. Sed. Del. MISS CERES GASKINS TO WED DAVIfi SCHROER Mr. and Mrs. Darius W. Gaskins of Vienna, announce the engagement of their daughter, Ceres May, to Mr. David Schroer, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. James Schroer of Washington. The wedding will take place the lat ter part of August. Miss Gaskins is a_ graduate of the Madeira School '53 and is currently attending Cor nell University. Mr. Schroer, a grad uate of Cornell '51, is an instructor at Cornell where he will receive his PhD in June. lwpiwjU)lilo$eMrelJ<M- StnuLL im iq k loK'VJwllau CUBA CURTICE (Cont’d from Page 1) Free Mothproofing ren have already made this a politi cal issue. I believe the people of Centreville District are entitled to know where their supervisor stands on this vital question. There has been too much pussyfooting in the board room already. My position, ladies and gentlemen, is this: I see no reason for integration in the pub lic schools so long as we provide equal though separate facilities- for the education of our Negro citizens We are an integral part of this great commonwealth. I am i>roud to have been bom a Virginian, in Fairfax County. Our governor on the recom mendation of a special commission composed of some of the leading men in our state has announced a policy of utilizing-eVery legal means at his command to preserve segre gation in the public schools. I sup port this position fully and believe we in Fairfax should follow the lead of oiy state and use every legal means at -our command to preserve our segregated school system. It is with great pride and deep humility that I take my stand beside such great men as Harrv Flood Byrd, John S. Battle and Thomas B. Stanley. “Fiscal sanity demands that great care and intelligent caution be exer cised in approaching the day-to-day housekeeping problems of govern ment as well as major capital im provement programs. “As I sec it, your supervisor must fight for integrity and# economy in the necessary operations of our county government, seek always to broaden the average tax base, and be ever alert that we get our fair share of the services which our tax money buys.” ERWIN-FORD CO..INC. IVA. DEALER LICENSE N 0 .5 9 9 ^ A u t k y w j e d * ^ } 9 & L a n S S v tv k e LEE HIGHWAY AND CHAIN BRIDGE ROAD-FAIRFAX O All Garments Cleaned By f Borns Bros. 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U A | v A A n n T r a M n r P a n b r Ma' le Ave" v'enRl^ V a> All Work Guaranteed 8 Y C ljf O O P P I la C I O l 0 6 1 1 1 6 1 PBukirk 5-9282 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper, Providence Journal, 1955 Description An account of the resource Copy of Providence Journal from May 13, 1955. Covers Fairfax County, Virginia. Includes coverage of the Fairfax County Federation of PTAs Workshop on integration, along with other local news, some on school desegregation, and has a short article about fully integrated Burgundy Farm Country Day School in Alexandria. Newspaper takes a segregationist stance. Fourteen pages. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Providence Journal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955-05-13 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_19 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/6527e733ca2747b76e0b6f2adfe48e37.pdf 752a857276b41749fe7ea823c359bf09 PDF Text Text oo-mmutUitn i i tbeadott! ^ w ith co+tuno*i te ttie ! ■ . f i l IRSf'.HIPTICW J RATES: SUBSCRIPTION R A T P R issues a n n u a lly ) Plain envelope, unsealed... $1. Plain envelope, aealed...... $3. Foreign &Canada, (10 mo?) $1. ^ 4 The Nation's Anti-Communist Newspaper Common Sense Copyright Rcgiaternl 1048U States Patent O nited ffice. VOL. X, No. 253. (10th Year) UNION, NEW JERSEY, U. S. A., JUNE 1, 1956 "The Truth, the whole Truth, end nothing but the Truth’’ Without fta r or favor, rorsDEr. a n d e d it o r FIVECENTS Fluoridation— Is It A Benefit Or Menace To Public Health? D u r in g t h e p ro g r e s s o f o u r c o u n tr y in th e p a s t 3 0 y e a r s , n o ty p e o f ty r a n n y see m s to o b ra z e n o r f a n ta s t ic f o r c e r ta in of o u r f e d e ra l, s t a t e a n d c ity le g is la to rs . A m o n g th e s e a p p e a r th e c h a m p io n s o f flu o rid a tio n , w h o c o n s ta n tly ig n o r e th e g u a r a n te e s of o u r C o n s titu tio n a n d th e r ig h t s o f th e in d iv id u a l c itiz e n to life, lib e r ty a n d h a p p in e ss . E v e n th e m o s t a r d e n t a d v o c a te s o f flu o r id a tio n a d m it t h a t it w ill b e n e f it n o o n e e x c e p t c h ild re n b e tw e e n t h e a g e s o f 6 a n d 11. J u s t h o w m u c h w a t e r c a n th is a g e g ro u p d r in k ? A n d h o w m u c h o f th e ta x p a y e r ’s m o n e y is w a s te d o n t h e e q u ip m e n t f o r th is r a t p o iso n ? W o u ld n ’t i t b e f a r m o re s e n sib le f o r th o s e fe w w h o w a n t flu o rin e to g o to th e d r u g s to re a n d b u y it? T h e y a r e d e te rm in e d to fo rc e e v e r y m a n , w o m a n a n d c h ild t o d rin k w a t e r m ix e d w ith r a t p o iso n , a p o is o n called flu o rin e . T h is flu o r id a te d w a te r w o u ld b e u s e d f o r e v e r y p u rp o s e ; b a th in g , w a s h in g y o u r c a r , c lo th e s w a sh in g , s p rin k lin g th e la w n , a s w e ll a s c o o k in g . A s p io n e e rs w h o a r e s u p p o se d ly d e d ic a te d t o t h e t a s k o f s a v in g t h e te e th of o u r c h ild re n , th e y fa il t o te ll y o u o f th e m a n y o th e r m o r e d a n g e r o u s a s p e c ts o f th is d e a d ly r a t p o iso n ...W H Y ? T h e h e a l th of a n in d iv id u a l d e p e n d s u p o n h im s e lf a s w ell a s h is d o c to r. H e a d v ise s a n d t r e a t s y o u a s a n in d iv id u a l, a n d n o t a s a h e r d o f c a ttle . T h is d e a d ly p o iso n in o u r d r in k in g w a t e r re d u c e s u s to th e lev el o f c a t tle w h o h a v e n o ch o ice. O n e flu o r in e e x p e r t s a y s th e r e is n o d a n g e r o f d rin k in g f lu o r id a te d w a te r , a s lo n g a s th e in d iv id u a l ta k e s n o m o re t h a n sev en g la s s e s a d a y . W h a t if y o u d r in k m o re th a n se v e n g la s s e s ? D o e s h e g u a r a n te e y o u will n o t b e co m e in ju r e d ? A lso, w h a t of a m o th e r b r e a s t fe e d in g a n in f a n t? S h e h a s b een d rin k in g flu o r in a te d w a te r , w h a t e ffe c ts w ill t h a t h a v e o n th e in fa n t? D o th e s e flu o rid a tio n z e a lo ts e v e r tell y o u th e r e a r e lo w s p o ts in y o u r in c o m in g w a t e r lin e s a n d sm all q u a n titie s o f th is flu o r in e a c c u m u la te in t h e lo w a r e a s be c o m in g v e r y d a n g e r o u s ? D o th e y te ll you t h a t a n y e x c e s s b u ild -u p o f p re s s u re w ill fo r c e th is a c c u m u la te d flu o rin e in to y o u r d rin k in g fo u n ta in s a n d s o m eo n e w ill g e t a n “ o v e rd o s e ” ? T h e s e a n d m a n y m a n y o th e r q u e s tio n s a re u n s a tis f a c to r ily a n s w e re d by th e “ e x p e r ts .” IS YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PAID UP ? . i I f I You will help us and the cause if you keep your subscription paid in advance. This would save time and labor in send ing out renewal notices and give us funds with which to work. 1 Y e a r ____________________ = ._____$1.00 3 Y e a r s___________________________ 2.50 1 Year first c la s s __________________ 3.00 2 Years first c la s s _________________ 5.00 Foreign, 10 m o n th s____ — — —1.00 L ifetim e_— — — — — — - - 25.00 RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW !! 1 Above you see an actual photograph of a man placing fluorine in the water supply of some un suspecting community. Fluorine is such a deadly poison that it would be fatal to come in contact with it. There is a plan to put it in your drinking water, if it is not already there. Are you aware of this? If not, you had better investigate and do something about it immediately. This particular photo was taken at the San Diego water works, just before they abolished fluoridation._______________________________ Promoters Of Fluoridation Very Deceptive! Promoters of fluoridation made a so-called report on a ten year experiment with fluoridated water in Newburgh, New York, compared with Kingston, New York, where the water was not fluoridated. This report was made in Oct. 1954, giving the number of pupils in schools in both Cities. This repqrt also led the reader to believe that the Newburgh children aged 6—9 experienced 57% less tooth decay than the children of Kingston. The reader will get an idea of just how far the Fluoridation promoters will go in deception, by reading the report by Dr. C. T. Betts, of Toledo, Ohio. “ T h e te n y e a r p e rio d o f e x a m in a tio n f o r t h e e ffe c ts of flu o rid a te d c ity w a te r is o v e r. N e w b u rg h h a s 930 d e c a y e d te e th a n d 521 u n d e r tr e a tm e n t m o re t h a n th e c ity o f K in g s to n , N e w Y o rk . 3 3 9 m o re p u p ils w e re in s p e c te d a t K in g s to n t h a n a t N e w b u rg h . T h e flu o r id a to r s o f th e n a tio n h a v e b e en a n n o u n c in g th e re d u c tio n o f c a v itie s h a s b e e n 5 7 % in th e s e p ilo t c itie s. T h e N e w Y o rk r e p o r t sh o w s c h ild re n ’s in c re a s e o f d a m a g e d o r d e s tro y e d te e th a b o u t t h i r t y th r e e a n d o n e th ir d p e r c e n t o v e r K in g sto n . F lu o r id a tio n s h o u ld b e s to p p e d a t o n c e a s t h e m o s t v icio u s m u r d e r p r o g r a m e v e r k n o w n to m a n .” OPEN LETTER TO PROCTOR & GAMBLE M r. N eil H . M c E lro y , P r e s id e n t P r o c to r & G a m b le Co. C in c in n a ti 1, O h io D e a r M r. M cE lro y : T h is is in re p ly t o a 3 p a g e M a r c h 2 6 th l e tte r f r o m M r. J .E . B u rk e o f y o u r P u b lic R e la tio n s D e p t. E n c lo s e ‘a d d re s s b y G e o rg e R a c e y J o r d a n , M a jo r U S A F ( r e t . ) , e x e c u tiv e d ir e c to r o f A m e r ic a n C o a litio n (o v e r 1 0 0 p a tr io tic s o c ie tie s ), m a d e F e b . 17, 1956, a t H o te l S ta tle r , W a s h . D .C . t o T h ir tie th W o m e n ’s P a tr i o tic C o n fe re n c e o n N a tio n a l D e fen se. I n v ie w o f ig n o r a n c e a d m itte d b y M essrs H o llid a y a n d B u rk e , o n s u b je c t o f “F lu o r id a tio n o f W a t e r ,” u r g e a ll o f y o u to re a d M a jo r J o r d a n ’s ex p o se. A n sw e rin g M r. B u rk e ’s le tte r . A g a in , y o u a c c e p t so -called s ta t is tic s f r o m th o s e guilty; o f m is re p re s e n ta tio n . A s M a jo r J o r d a n p ro v e s, w h b le b a sis f o r so -called c o m p a ris o n s b e tw e e n c h ild re n ’s d e n ta l c o n d itio n s a t N e w b u r g h a n d K in g s to n , N .Y . is o n a fo u n d a tio n o f san d . T r u e , th e f i r s t fe w y e a r s o f c c n ta e . b y flu o r in e w ith e n a m e l p ro d u c e s w h a t a p p e a rs to b e a h a r d e n e d c o n d itio n . H e n c e th e M a rc h 1956 J o u r n a l of A m e ric a n D e n ta l A ssn , r e p o r t o n 1 0 y e a r s stu d ie s, c la im in g a re d u c tio n o f 5 8 % in d e c a y a t N e w b u rg h , (flu o rid a te d w a te r ) v e r s u s K in g s to n , ( n o t flu o r id a te d ) , b a s e s t h a t r e p o r t o n c h ild re n b e tw e e n th e a g e s o f 6 a n d 9. D r. F o r s t ’s R e p o r t is b a se d on c o n d itio n of all school children’s teeth, w ith 6 2 % a t N e w b u r g h h a v in g d e n ta l tro u b le s , c o m p a re d w ith ,o n ly 4 2 % a t u n -f lu o rid a te d K in g s to n . T h a t f a c t is r e fle c te d b y a n u m b e r o f d e n tis ts fo u n d in th o s e tw o c ities. W h a t c a n b e e x p ec te d a f t e r 20 o r 3 0 y e a r s o r m o re o f c o n su m in g flu o r id a te d w a te r , is illu s tr a te d b y s u rv e y of U n iv e rs ity o f A riz o n a a t S t D av id , o f all p e rs o n s te e th th e r e . W a t e r c o n ta in s n a tu r a lly o n ly 9 /1 0 th o f o n e p a r t p e r m illio n , ( c o n tr a s te d w ith a lle g ed ly s a fe c o n c e n tr a tio n o f o n e to o n e a n d o n e h a lf p p m . o f sodium fluoride, w h ic h is 80 tim e s m o r e toxic th a n calcium fluoride a t S t. D av id , fo u n d n a tu r a lly in m a n y c o m m u n itie s t h r u o u t U .S .A .) Y e t, fr o m a g e 2 4 o n w a rd s, 5 0 % o f S t. D a v id ia n s w e a r p la te s! M r. B u rk e s a y s y o u c o n d u c te d n o w a t e r flu o r id a tio n e x p e r im e n ts a t C in c in n a ti, b u t t h e v o te rs o f y o u r c ity le a rn e d e n o u g h a b o u t th e fa ls e c la im s b e in g m a d e b y th e p ro m o te rs o f flu o r id a tio n , to v o te i t o u t! S in ce y o u r c ity f a th e r s h a d w a s te d a b o u t $ 3 0 ,000 t o t r y to fo is t f lu o r id a tio n u p o n y o u r fello w citizen s, a n d y o u r C o m p a n y a n d its p e r so n n el a s b ig ta x p a y e r s liv in g in C in c in n a ti m u s t h a v e b e e n a w a r e o f a t le a s t so m e o f t h e fa c ts , I a m s u rp ris e d a t y o u r w illin g n e ss t o a c c e p t a t fa c e v a lu e th e so -called s c ie n ti fic d a ta s u b m itte d b y th o s e w ith a n a x e t o g rin d . C o n su lt Report of th e House Congress sional Committee of 1952, w h ic h , in c id e n t a lly , a f te r h e a r in g th e b e s t t h a t th e a d m in is tr a tio n o fficials a n d s c ie n tis ts c o u ld o ffer, warned communities to go slow a b o u t flu o r i d a tin g w a te r su p p lies, b e ca u se, s a id “ a u th o r i tie s ” ( ? ) le ft u n a n s w e re d so m a n y q u e s tio n s a ffe c tin g h e a lth n o t o n ly o f c h ild re n b u t o f (Continued o» Page Three) �3>muUH t'le ki! j c * *UU & f oH u _________ CommonSense_______ 3|( {&dolitetyn+ieU <& u cuot *e * ! The Fallacy Of Fluoridation g By Bey. William C. McGrath, SFM, PA f 1 Reprinted with permission from The Scarsboro [ Missions, Toronto, Canada, April 1956. G R A N D R A P ID S . . . N E W B U R G H . V IT A L S T A T IS T IC S T h e C ity -C o u n ty H e a lth D e p t, h a s b e en a llo tte d $5000 in F e d e r a l fu n d s t o le a r n w h y X. T h e C la im s o f its P r o p o n e n ts a r e F a u lty d e a th r a t e fr o m m a jo r d is e a s e s is h ig h e r in T lie f lu o r id a tio n c a u s e w a s g iv e n g r e a t G ra n d R a p id s t h a n th r o u g h o u t M ich ig an .” Im p e tu s th r o u g h c irc u la tio n o f a s to r y t h a t (G r a n d R a p id s H e ra ld , J u ly 28, ’5 5 .) G ra n d In D e a f S m ith C o u n ty , T e x a s th e r e w a s ‘‘a R a p id s w a s f lu o r id a te d in 1 9 4 5 . . . “ L O C A L to w n w ith o u t a to o th a c h e " w h e r e d e n ta l H E A R T D E A T H S T O P U . S .” (H e a d in g in H ecay a m o n g c h ild re n w a s v ir t u a lly u n N e w b u r g h N ew s, J a n . 27, ’5 4 ) T h e a r tic le k n o w n . W e d id n o t h e a r m u c h a b o u t th e s a y s : “ T h e h e a r t d e a t h s in N e w b u r g h in th e f a c t t h a t S o d iu m F lu o r id e , th e p o iso n o u s y e a r w e re e q u a l to a r a t e o f 8 8 2 d e a th s p e r c o m m e rc ia l w a s te p ro d u c t in je c te d in to 100,000 p o p u la tio n . T h is w a s m o re t h a n th e w a t e r su p p lie s, is 8 5 tim e s a s to x ic a s th e r a t e f o r th e n a tio n a s a w h o le, 5 0 7 p e r C a lc iu m F lu o r id e fo u n d n a tu r a lly in th e 100,000.” (T h is w a s p e rilo u s ly clo se to w a t e r o f th is a n d o th e r to w n s (In d u s, a n d d o u b le th e r a t e f o r th e e n tir e n a tio n .) E n g in e e rin g C h e m is try , J u l y ’34, p. 791) N e a r ly tw o y e a r s l a t e r — D ec. 28, 1955— w e n o r a b o u t t h e s ta t e m e n t of D r. G .W . H e a r d , r e a d in t h e s a m e p a p e r : “A c c o rd in g t o th e O ne-tim e lo n e d e n tis t o f t h i s w o n d e r to w n , A m e ric a n H e a r t A ss o c ia tio n , th e U n ite d t o t h e e ffe c t t h a t h e h a d b e e n w id e ly m is S ta te s h a s t h e h ig h e s t d e a th r a t e fro m q u o te d . T h e r e a r e n o w th r e e d n tis ts — w o rk h e a r t a tta c k s a n d s tr o k e s of a n y c o u n tr y in in g o v e rtim e — in “ th e to w n w ith o u t a to o th t h e w o rld . . . D a t a • j u s t re le a s e d b y th e a c h e ” a n d s o m e w a g h a s s u g g e s te d ' t h a t i t F e d e r a l G o v e rn m e n t r e v e a ls t h a t in N e w w ill so o n b e “ a to w n w ith o u t a to o th .” b u rg h , h e a r t d is e a s e is th e g r e a te s t s in g le [(C ap su le N e w s , W a s h . , D .C ., F e b . 4, ’56.) t h r e a t to h u m a n life.” O n e p p m ( p a r t p e r m illio n ) is s u p p o se d ly T h e M e th o d s o f C o m p e llin g F lu o r id a tio n t h e s a fe d o s a g e , y e t D r. W a id b o tt, F A C P , a r e U n -A m e ric a n F A C A , F A A A o f D e tro it, s ta t e s t h a t “ In w h a t I h a d still c o n s id e re d a f r e e “ a c c o rd in g t o d e n ta l re s e a r c h a u th o r itie s , A m e ric a , th e p la tf o r m of th e S e a ttle D is tric t m o ttlin g o f t h e to o th o c c u rs a t 0 .7 ppm , D e n ta l S o c ie ty w a s d e n ie d to m e t o s p e a k a n d a m o ttle d to o th is a p o iso n ed to o th . a g a in s t flu o rid a tio n . W e h e a r d s p ee c h es T h e r e f o r e , h o w c a n th e c o n c e n tr a tio n of f o r flu o rid a tio n a t e v e r y r e g u la r m e e tin g 1 p p m b e c a lle d ‘s a f e ’? fr o m D ec., 1951 th r o u g h M a r c h , 1 9 5 2 .” 2 . I t s C a u s in g a n d A g g ra v a tin g D isea se, (A . B . M ac W h in n ie , D .M .D ., O ra l H y g ie n e, E s p e c ia lly in A d u lts J a n ., ’53.) 1. “ S o d iu m F lu o r id e is a g e n e r a l p r o to “ I t is a d a n g e r o u s s itu a tio n w h e n p r o p la s m ic p o is o n .” 2. “ I t is to x ic to n e rv e s .” fe ssio n a l o rg a n iz a tio n s a n d s c ie n tific p u b lic a 3. “ D a m a g in g to th e b ra in a n d n e rv e cells.” tio n s d e n y th e r i g h t o f e x p re s s io n to a n y on e 4. “ C r e a te s a h ig h in c id e n ce of b o n e f r a c w h o h o ld s a v iew c o n tr a r y t o th e o n e p r e tu r e s . ” 5. “ A ffe c ts th e th y r o i d g la n d a n d v a ilin g a m o n g th e m a jo r ity .” (E . J . R y a n , [d am ag es th e liv e r.” (T a k e n fr o m 59 s im ila r D .D .S ., E d ito r, O r a l H y g ie n e D ec., ’5 3 .) (q u o ta tio n s f r o m p h y s ic ia n s , d e n tis ts a n d “ T r u th w ill o u t, a s e v e n th o s e w h o m a in s c ie n tis ts , 8 3 rd C o n g re ss H e a r in g s o n H . R . ta in th e ‘I r o n C u r ta in ’ a r e d isco v e rin g . I t is 2 3 41, “ A b ill t o p r o te c t th e p u b lic h e a lth t o b e h o p e d t h a t a m in im u m o f h a r m w ill f r o m t h e d a n g e r s o f flu o r in a tio n o f w a te r .” h a v e b e e n d o n e b e fo re t h e ‘F lu o r in e M a y 25 t o 27, 1954, p a g e s 2 3 2 -2 3 3 .) Curtain’ has been t o r n d o w n a n d th e t r u t h [(N a m e s in t h e p u b lic re c o r d .) . . . “ C o n s id e r g iv e n fu lly t o th e p ro fe s sio n a n d th e p u b in g t h e in fin ite s im a l a m o u n t of F lu o r id e lic.” ( J . E . W a te r s , D .D .S ., D e n ta l S u rv e y , a d d e d t o d r in k in g w a t e r a n d . its re a c tio n V ol. 29, N o . 11, N o v ., ’5 3 .) u p o n to o th e n a m e l, th e h a r d e s t s t r u c t u r e of T h e F lu o r in e C u r ta in h a s b e e n p a r tly t h e h u m a n a n a to m y , w e w o n d e r w h a t m u s t t o r n dow n. T h e m in u te s o f a m e e tin g t h a t b e its r e a c tio n u p o n t h e le s s d e n se s tr u c tu r e s w e re “ n o t f o r d is trib u tio n ” h a v e le a k e d o u t. Of t h e b o d y .” (N .Y . D e n tis t w h o r e q u e s ts T h e m e e tin g w a s h e ld in W a s h in g to n , D . C. a n o n y m ity .) . . . “ A m o s t d is c o n c e rtin g f a c t J u n e 6 to 9, ’51, a tte n d e d b y D e n ta l H e a lth is t h e d e a t h o f a y o u n g T e x a n s o ld ie r f r o m O ffic e rs fr o m 38 S ta te s . H e re , fr o m th e S lin k in g F lu o r id e -c o n ta in in g w a te r a s r e C o n g re ss io n a l H e a rin g s , a r e e x c e r p ts fr o m p o r te d b y D rs . L in s m a n a n d M u rra y . I t is t h e “ in s tru c tio n s ” g iv e n t h a t d is tin g u is h e d i n te r e s tin g t o o b s e rv e h o w th is e s ta b lis h e d g a th e r in g b y D r. F r a n k B u ll o f M ad iso n , f a c t is b e in g s id e -ste p p e d .” (N a t. F lu o r id a W isc o n sin . 1. “ I f y o u c a n , k e e p flu o rid a tio n tio n N ew s, 2 9 3 0 W . G ra n d B lvd., D e tro it, f r o m g o in g to a r e f e r e n d u m .” 2. “ W e h a v e J u n e , ’5 5 .) . . . “ A n o th e r w ell s u b s ta n tia te d to ld th e p u b lic i t w o rk s , so w e c a n n o t go c a s e , s e v e re b r a in d a m a g e , co n v u lsio n s fr o m b a c k .” (I d o u b t if I h a v e e v e r r e a d a m o re [d rin k in g S a g in a w w a te r . S T O P . T h o r o u g h s in is te r s ta t e m e n t th is s id e o f th e I r o n C u r in v e s tig a tio n in c lu d in g e x p lo r a to r y b r a in ta in .) 3. “ W h e n w e a r e h a v in g th e p re s s in S u r g e r y . S T O P . P a t i e n t c o n tin u e d t o e lim i d o n ’t h a v e a n y b o d y o n t h e p r o g r a m w h o is n a t e 4 m g s . d a ily o f re ta in e d flu o r in e tw o g o in g t o op p o se u s .” 4. “ W h e n t h e y g e t m o n th s a f t e r flu o r id a tio n d is c o n tin u e d .” th r o u g h a d d in g u p th e p e rc e n ta g e s of d e c a y [(T e le g ra m t h t h e A m e ric a n M ed ical A ss ’n . t h a t w e c a n re d u c e b y s u c h m e th o d s w e e n d f r o m D r. W a lb o tt J a n . 10, ’5 5 .) . . . “ I n J u n e , u p in a m in u s . W h e n th e y ta k e u s a t o u r 1 9 5 3 , M rs. F . Z w e rlin g c a m e to m y o ffice o w n w o rd th e y m a k e a w fu l lia r s o u t o f u s .” W ith a v e r y d is tre s s in g d e r m a titis o f th e (H . R . 2341, p p s. 180 t o 182. “ E x c e rp ts w h o le b o d y , a b a d ly c ra c k e d a n d sw o llen f r o m o rig in a l t r a n s c r ip t o f a b o v e m e e tin g ” to n g u e , p a in fu lly in fla m e d in n e r c h e e k s a n d b y M rs. A . R o b in so n , S e a ttle .) d e e p c ra c k s a t e i th e r c o r n e r of t h e m o u th . F lu o r id a tio n is M o ra lly U n ju s tifia b le W h e n re m e d ie s p re s c rib e d fa ile d t o reliev e, (A ) “ A s lo n g a s, in th e ju d g m e n t o f She d is c o n tin u e d d rin k in g t h e c ity w a t e r a n d c o m p e te n t a u th o ritie s , th e r e is so lid r e a s o n in a fe w d a y s t h e m o u th c o n d itio n s w e re f o r fe a rin g t h a t f lu o r id a tio n m a y h a v e h e a le d . T h e n a tu r a l c o n clu sio n w a s t h a t p e r s e rio u s, h a r m f u l a n d w id e ly p r e v a le n t lo n g h a p s d is c o n tin u in g b a th in g in th e c ity w a te r te r m e ffe c ts, i t w o u ld be w ro n g to im p o se m ig h t re lie v e th e g e n e r a l d e rm a titis . T h is i t o n th e g e n e r a l p o p u la tio n . (M sg r. T h o s. J , p ro v e d t o b e tr u e . Y o u c a n im a g in e t h e R iley , T h e B o s to n P ilo t, J a n . 24, 1953.) p lig h t o f t h i s w o m a n a s s h e is d e p riv e d C o m p e te n t a u th o ritie s , a s q u o te d , h a v e e n tir e ly o f t h e c ity w a te r .” ( L e t te r o f D r. s h o w n n o t o n ly t h a t flu o r id a tio n m a y h a v e , A . R . G ould, 291 G e a r y S t., S a n F r a n c is c o , b u t d o es h a v e s u c h e ffe c ts. T h e re fo r e , sim p ly t o C ity W a t e r D e p t. M a y 5, ’53.) a p p ly in g th e s o u n d th e o lo g ic a l p rin c ip le I d o n o t h a v e to “ im a g in e th e p lig h t o f e n u n tia te d a b o v e, it fo llo w s t h a t i t is “ w ro n g S ev e ra l fa m ilie s w h o h a v e w r itte n to te ll m e t o im p o se it on th e g e n e r a l p o p u la tio n .” t h a t th e y a r e o b lig e d to b u y p u re w a t e r a t (B ) “ E v e n if t h e m a jo r ity o f th e citizen s a n a v e r a g e c o s t o f $250 a y e a r (o n e w o m a n w a n t it u s ed th e y m a y n o t im p o se th e ir w ill f o r a fa m ily o f 17) b e c a u s e o f o u tb r e a k s o f o n o th e rs b y h a v in g th e p u b lic s u p p ly o f m o u th ra s h , d e rm a titis , s tiffn e s s o f jo in ts , w a te r flu o rid a te d , u n le s s it is m o ra lly c e r W hich d is a p p e a re d c o m p le te ly a f t e r c h a n g in g ta in t h a t u ltim a te ly flu o r id a tio n w ill be t o p u r e w a t e r a n d re -a p p e a r e d w h e n th e y m o re b e n efic ial t o p eo p le a s a w h o le th a n w e n t b a c k t o th e f lu o r id a te d c ity su p p ly , if i t w e re n o t u s e d .” (R e v . F r a n c is J . “ j u s t to m a k e s u r e ." C o n n ell, C S S R ., ST D ., L L D ., D e a n o f sc h o o l o f T h e o lo g y , C a th o lic U n iv e rs ity , W a s h in g to n , D .C . S ta te m e n t re le a s e d e x p re s s ly f o r th is a r tic le .) T h e o n ly th in g c e r ta in a b o u t flu o r id a tio n is t h a t i t is fo r c in g m a n y u n w illin g p eo p le t o im b ib e a c u m u la tiv e p ro to p la s m ic poison. I t is f a r f r o m b ein g m o r a lly c e r ta in t h a t i t w ill — e v e r— c o n fe r a n y b e n e f its o n a n y b o dy. T h e r e f o r e , a g a in a p p ly in g th e th e o lo g i c a l p rin c ip le in v o k e d in th is e m in e n t th e o lo g ia n , “ th e y m a y n o t im p o s e th e i r w ill o n o th e r s .” M ay n o t, w ith o u t b e in g g u ilty o f c o n d u c t t h a t is m o r a lly re p re h e n s ib le . (E m p h a s is A u th o r ’s t h r o u g h o u t th is a r tic le ) Note: (More than 500 cities to date have re fused to accept fluoridation and 38 have thrown it out after it had been started- “Fluoridation of New Brunswick water supplies was ruled illegal by the Appeal Division of the New Brunswick Supreme Court today.” (Toronto Globe and Mail, Dec. 16, 1955) If you wish to keep posted on the devious ways of the fluoridators, we strongly advise a subscription to National Fluoridation News, 2930 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit 2, Mich. Published six to ten times a year, §3.50 yearly, group subscrip tions (5 or more) $1.50 apiece. We also suggest that you send for a copy of the Congressional Hearings story, (H. R. 2341) 124 pages, available a t cost (25 cents) from: Lee Foundation, 2023 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Warns Of Fluoridation Danger P o r tla n d , M ain e , F e b . 8, 1956 A to p N e w Y o r k C ity w a te r su p p ly official d e c la re d to d a y t h a t “ p e o p le a r e b o u n d t o g e t h u r t ” in citie s w h e r e w a te r is flu o rid a te d . B e n ja m in C . N e sin , d ir e c to r o f la b o r a to rie s f o r th e D e p a r tm e n t o f W a te r su p p ly , G a s a n d E le c tric ity , a s s a ile d flu o r id a tio n in a speech prepared for deliver}- before th e M a in e W a t e r U tilitie s A ssn . C allin g flu o r id e a “ k n o w n p o iso n o u s su b s ta n c e ,” M r. N e sin s a id f la tly : “ T h e r e c a n b e n o q u e s tio n o f th e h a z a rd s in v o lv ed in flu o r id a tio n , a n d a n y id e a o f m a in ta in in g a p u b lic h e a l th f li r ta tio n w ith i t is n o th in g m o re th a n s o m u c h m a c a b r e p s e u d o -sc ie n tific s o p h is tr y .” M r. N e sin h a m m e r e d a t f o u r m a jo r p o in ts in h is a d d re s s : 1. D a ta s u b m itte d b y th o s e f a v o rin g flu o r id a tio n , to p ro v e its s a f e ty a r e u n re lia b le a n d b elie d b y sc ie n tific a n d m e d ic al evidence. 2 . C la im s f o r f lu o r id a tio n ’s ro le in c o n tro l o f to o th d e c a y a r e “ q u e s tio n a b le .” 3. P u b lic w a t e r s u p p ly is n e ith e r a “ s u it a b le n o r e f fic ie n t v e h ic le f o r a d m in is te r in g flu o rid e .” 4. S a fe r, m o r e eco n o m ica l a lte r n a te m e th o d s a r e a v a ila b le . A c c o rd in g t o M r. N e sin , i t is po ssib le f o r p e rso n s liv in g in a n a r e a w ith w a te r s u p p ly flu o r id a te d a t t h e re c o m m e n d e d lev el o f 1 ppm , t o a c q u ire c h ro n ic flu o ro sis, a flu o rid e p o is o n in g w h ic h is e s s e n tia lly fa ta l. H e p o in te d o u t t h a t w a te r in ta k e o f in d iv id u a ls m a y v a r y a s m u c h a s 2 0 to 1. “ W h en w a t e r is flu o r id a te d , a p e n a lty is im p o se d o n th e a b o v e a v e r a g e w a te r d r in k e r ,” M r. N e sin said . H e a c c u s e d p ro - flu o rid a tio n fo rce s o f fa ilin g to re c o g n iz e p a th o lo g ic a l s y m p to m s in p e rso n s c o v e re d b y t h e i r s ta tis tic a l s tu d ie s o f flu o r id a te d a r e a s a n d w a rn e d t h a t th e d a n g e r of to o th m o ttlin g h a s b e en m inim ized. “ I f N e w Y o rk C ity u n d e r to o k flu o rid a tio n , a t l e a s t 3 5 ,0 0 0 c a s e s o f flu o rid e m o ttlin g ( to o t h d is fig u ra tio n ) w o u ld a ris e e a c h y e a r flu o r id a tio n w o u ld b e in e f f e c t," h e s aid . Read and pass on! �4|( com*nu*tU*H U t'le&io**! OPEN LETTER TO PROCTOR & GAMBLE (Continued from Page One) . | j | a d u lts . Y o u w ill fin d t h a t D r. A .L . M iller, f o r m e r ly re p re s e n tin g U .S . P u b lic H e a lt h S e rv ic e in N e b ra s k a , (d e a n o f C o n g re ss m e n f r o m N e b r .) w h o h a d b e e n in v e ig le d to s p o n s o r th e B ill t h a t f lu o r id a te d W a s h in g to n ’s w a t e r su p p ly , h a s p u b lic ly r e g r e tte d t h a t a c tio n , a n d te s tifie d h e h a d b e en “m is le d ” b y th o s e o fficials. H a v in g d o n e r e s e a r c h w o rk o n th e T a lm u d , I a m w ell a w a r e of th e r e a s o n w h y c e r t a i n p r o d u c ts c a r r y th e c irc le d “ U ” (U n io n o f O rth o d o x R a b b is ) o r th e l e t t e r “ K ” ( K o s h e r ) . I n o te t h a t a t le a s t s ix o f y o u r C o m p a n y ’s w e ll-k n o w n p ro d u c ts — T id e , C h e e r , O x y d o l, D re ft, J o y a n d S p ic & S p a n — •all* c a r r y th e c irc le d “ U ” , in d ic a tin g t h a t s u c h p r o d u c ts h a v e re c e iv e d b le ss in g by J e w is h R a b b is a n d a r e re c o m m e n d e d to y o u r J e w is h c u s to m e rs . Y e t, d e sp ite th e t r e m e n d o u s in v e s tm e n t y o u a r e m a k in g in fu ll-p a g e •color a d s in le a d in g m a g a z in e s , a n d in m a il5 n g s a m p le tu b e s o f C r e s t to h o u s e h o ld e rs t h r u o u t t h e U .S .A , I fa il to fin d t h a t / t h e R a b b i s h a v e b le sse d C re s t. D oes th is m e a n t h a t o n ly n o n -J e w s a r e to r u n th e r is k o f p o is o n in g , b y u s in g C re s t? U n d e r “ D ire c tio n s f o r u s in g C r e s t to o th p a s t e ” , y o u w a rn a d u lt u s e rs to “ b e s u r e to r i n s e th e m o u th th o ro u g h ly a f t e r b ru s h in g .” T h i s is a d d itio n a l w a rn in g to t h a t g iv e n p a r e n t s t h a t “ C h ild re n u n d e r six sh o u ld n o t u s e C r e s t.” Y o u r “ I n s tru c tio n s ” s t a t e : “ C o n s u lt y o u r d e n tis t a b o u t C R E S T if y o u r lo c a l w a te r s u p p ly c o n ta in s flu o rid e .” N o q u a lific a tio n , s o M r. B u r k e is in e r r o r w h e n h e s a y s t h a t w a rn in g “ re f e r s a lso to c h ild r e n u n d e r 6 a n d is a im e d sp ec ifica lly a t th e a r e a s w h e r e th e r e is a n e x cessiv e a m o u n t o f n a tu r a lly -o c c u rrin g flu o rid e in th e w a t e r . ” M a n y c itie s ( n o t j u s t a fe w ) h a v e flu o rid e in t h e i r w a t e r su p p lie s, so w h e re w ould y o u r m a r k e t b e t o sell C R E S T , if t h a t “I n s tr u c t io n s ” w e re lite r a lly fo llo w e d ? T h e m a rg in b e tw e e n s a f e ty a n d d a n g e r ' m u s t b e m ig h ty slim , w h e n flu o r id a tio n ( o f w a t e r su p p lie s) p ro p o n e n ts c la im th e r e i s n o d a n g e r w h e n d rin k in g w a te r c o n ta in s u p t o o n e a n d o n e h a lf p a r t s p e r m illio n . Y e t y o u m u s t c o n sid e r t h a t th e d e a d ly flu o r in e p o iso n in C re s t is so p o te n t t h a t u s e r s m u s t b e s u re n o t to g e t a d ro p in to t h e i r s to m a c h e s . A lso, a r e y o u b y su ch in s tr u c tio n s tr y i n g to a v o id la w s u its t h a t m ig h t r e s u lt fro m h a r m d o n e to u s e r s of C r e s t? D r. H o llid a y d id n o t e x p la in h o w th e sw a llo w in g o f C r e s t w o u ld “ s ta i n ” th e o u t s id e o f to o th e n a m e l. I f th e little flu o rid e sw a llo w e d a f t e r g o in g t h r u th e c le an sin g p ro c e s s e s o f th e b o d y , th e n g o es .in to th e b lo o d -s tre a m a n d w o rk s its w a y fr o m th e in s id e o f th e to o th , t h r u t h e e n a m e l t o “ s ta i n ” t h e o u ts id e o f th e to o th , ho w in G o d ’s N a m e c a n a n y o n e , d o c to r o r la y m a n , p r e te n d t h a t a p p ly in g t h a t s a m e p o iso n d ir e c tly t o t h e e n a m e l, th e g u m s a n d th e te n d e r s u r f a c e s o f t h e m o u th c a n d o “ good” a n d n o t “ h a r m ” ? N o w o n d e r “I n s tru c tio n s ” w a r n “ r in s e th e m o u th th o ro u g h ly a f te r b r u s h in g .” I t j s w e ll-k n o w n t h a t w o m e n d o m o s t of r e ta il b u y in g . Y o u w ill fin d t h a t w o m e n h a v e b e e n th e d e cid in g f a c t o r in th e d e fe a t ( a n d / o r k ic k in g o u t) o f flu o r id a tio n a t o v e r 500 c itie s a n d to w n s w ith o v e r 40,000,000 p o p u la tio n . T h e y a r e le a r n in g m o re a n d m o re e v e r y d a y a b o u t th e T R U T H r e g a rd in g flu o r in e in its v a rio u s d isg u ise s. W itn e ss th is im p o r ta n t Thirtieth Women’s Patriotic Conference o n National D e fe n se , a d d re ss e d b y M a jo r J o r d a n o n “ F lu o r id a tio n o f W a te r ” o n F e b . 17, 1956. T h is s a m e o rg a n iz a tio n re p r e s e n tin g m a n y th o u s a n d s of in te llig e n t p a tr io tic w o m e n t h r u o u t t h e U .S .A , p a sse d a R e s o lu tio n c o n d e m n in g flu o r id a tio n la s t y e a r ! W itn e s s th e d e le g a tio n o f 50 w om en r e p r e s e n tin g 35 o rg a n iz a tio n s (s u c h a s C h ic a g o a n d C o o k C o u n ty Federation of Women’s Clubs, p r o p e r ty im p ro v e m e n t, h e a l th , p a tr io tic a n d re lig io u s o rg a n iz a tio n s ) w h o , o n A p ril 4, 1956, d e cid ed to ta k e c o u rt a c tio n in a n a tte m p t to p re v e n t flu o rid a tio n o f C h ic a g o a n d its 51 s u b u rb w a te r supplies. D id y o u k n o w t h a t c o u r t a c tio n s h a v e sto p p e d flu o r id a tio n v e r y re c e n tly a t O n ta rio , N e w B ru n s w ic k a n d T o r o n to ? D id y o u k now that r e ta ile r s a r e a lre a d y r e tu r n i n g sh ip - ____ CommonSense ^ m e n ts o f C R E S T b e c a u s e lo cal w a te r s u p plie s c o n ta in e v e n a tr a c e o f f lu o r id e ? D id y o u k n o w t h a t D o c to rs a r c w a r n in g th e ir p a tie n ts a g a in s t C R E S T ? D o y o u th in k fo r o n e m o m e n t t h a t th e w o m e n o f A m e ric a w ill fa ll fo r C R E S T T o o th p a s te ? I s n ’t it a b o u t tim e t h a t a n in v e s tig a tio n b e m a d e in to th e in c re a s in g ly w id e sp re a d f o r c in g o f flu o r id e s ( n o a n ti- d o te ) in to th e b lo o d s tre a m s o f th e A m e ric a n p e o p le ? I t is a c k n o w le d g e d t h a t flu o r in e is a c u m u la tiv e p o iso n in th e b o d y , t h a t h a r m s all o rg a n s o f t h e b o d y , in c lu d in g m a k in g th e b r a in im p o te n t. T h e re is a c o n s p ir a c y a g a in s t o u r R ep u b lic, a n d it is fu n c tio n in g in a lm o s t a n y a n d e v e r y c h a n n e l y o u c a n th in k of. I c a n n o t co n ceiv e t h a t y o u w o u ld k n o w in g ly b e a p a r tjK to , n o r a llo w y o u r g r e a t C o m p a n y to b e a v e h ic le fo r , a c o n sp ira c y a g a i n s t th e p eo p le o f th e U n ite d S ta te s . F o r C h r is t a n d C o u n try C h a r le s B . H u d so n P . O . B o x 985 N e w c a stle , W y o m in g N o ted M edical M en P e titio n G overnor T h e H o n o ra b le G. M e n n e n W illia m s G o v e rn o r o f M ich ig an L a n s in g , M ich ig an D e a r S ir: W h e re a s , t h e a d d itio n o f f lo u r in e to d rin k in g w a te r is b e in g v ig o ro u s ly p ro m o te d b y t h e M ich ig an S ta te H e a lt h D e p a r tm e n t and W h e re a s , t h e e v id e n c e p re s e n te d to p h y s ic ia n s a n d d e n tis ts a s p ro o f o f th e b e n e fits is h ig h ly c o n tr a d ic to r y a n d u n c o n v in c in g a n d W h e re a s , th e r e is a b u n d a n t a n d in c o n tro v e rtib le d o c u m e n ta r y e v id e n c e o f h a r m r e s u ltin g fro m f lu o r id a te d w a te r a n d W h e re a s , w h a t is b e in g c a lled t h e “s a f e ” c o n c e n tr a tio n o f th is c u m u la tiv e p o iso n is lik e ly to r e s u lt in c o n sid e ra b le d a m a g e t o a la r g e p o rtio n o f th e p o p u la tio n in y e a r s to com e, b e c a u s e t h e r e a r e v a s t d iffe re n c e s between in d iv id u a ls in tolerance t o d ru g s and W h e re a s , flu o rin e c a n b e a d m in is te r e d e ffic ie n tly a n d e co n o m ic a lly to in d iv id u a ls w h o a r e co n v in c ed o f its b e n e f its a n d W h e re a s , n o m a n h a s th e r i g h t t o fo rc e a n o th e r to p a r ta k e of a d a n g e r o u s d ru g a g a in s t h is w ill a n d W h e re a s , th e r e a r e p ro v e n c a s e s o f p o iso n in g , esp e c ia lly in H ig h la n d P a r k a n d S a g in a w , a f t e r o n ly t h r e e y e a r s o f flu o r id a tio n , W e, th e u n d e rs ig n e d , th e r e f o r e , a s m e m b e r s o f th e re c o g n iz ed n a tio n a l, s ta te , an d lo c a l so cie tie s of o u r re s p e c tiv e p ro fessio n s, p h y s ic ia n s a n d d e n tis ts p r a c tic in g in th e S ta te of M ichigan, h e r e w ith p r o te s t a g a in s t th e re le n tle s s p ro m o tio n a l a c tiv itie s o f th e M ich ig an S ta te H e a lth D e p a r tm e n t, a n d p e titio n th e G o v e rn o r t o c all a h a l t t o th e p e r s is te n t p ro m o tio n a l e f f o r t o f t h e M ich ig an S t a t e H e a lth D e p a r tm e n t o n t h e local THE SUNDAY y« * h t i t w ith cxu*utui*t ic*vLt>! 3 m e d ic al, d e n ta l a n d la y g ro u p s in t h e S t a t e o f M ich ig an , u n til s u c h tim e a s th e y c a n p r e s e n t in c o n tro v e rtib le p ro o f o f its h a r m le ssn e ss t o t h e g e n e r a l m e m b e r s h ip o f o u r re s p e c tiv e so cie tie s. A.D- Ruedemann, M D, Flinn F. Morse, M B > Cecil W. Lcpard, M D. Frank B. Bicknell, M D William II- Gordon, M D, Gabriel Steiner, M D > A. M. Large. M D, Harold B. Fenecb, M I> L. M- Sa'di. M D, Aaron A. Farbman, M S> II. F. Schmidt, 31 D, Edward H-Lauppe:, M 3> Louise D. Stern, M D, Ralph II. Pino, M D,FACS J. W. Becker, M D, Hugh Stalker, M D, F.A.CF Franz Blumcnthal, M D, Fred A. Lanppe, M ft Hugh L- Dill. MD, Geo. L. Walbott, MB' Lyle G. Wagoner, M D, William F. Streit, D.D.8 II. C. Moritz, M D, John E. Andries, D-E-S Earl G. Kricg, M D, Wadsworth Warren, M B Charles II. Steele, M D, Luther R- Leader, M f t F.L. Sperry, M D, C. Stanley Waggoner, M f t Wesley G- Reid, M D, H. W. Vielmetti, D.D S Warren R. Moore, M D, A. E. Catherwood, M f t L. Paul / Sonda, M D, Neil J. Whalen, M B » S- J. .Joyce, .MD, .Harry .Ilomer., DJB.& C. L. Douglas, MD, Harold W. Carlson, MB' B. J. Roafch, D D S, William E. Johnston, M B N. Brllke, M D, A. Gordon Armstrong, M IB John II. Longe, D.D-S, Leslie T. Colvin, M 't Glen E. Millard, M D. John N- Hopkins, D*D.S Prosper D. White M D, H- E. Carnes, M f t R. W. Alles, 31D, T- Percy Clifford, M ft K. K. Latteier, 3ID, L. Baur, .M B Laslo Galdonyi, 31 D, Earl G- Merritt, M D FACS A. Ruedemann, Jr- M D, 31- M. Bravcrman, MB' William S. Sumers, 31 D, Norman W. Brey, M B John E. Pittman, 31 D, Ralph M. Burke, M B Chas.. J. Courvillc, 31 D, Arthur W. Erkfitz, M ELeo Orecklin, 31D, Raymond A. Goux, M B Walter K- Whitehead, 31 D, Ernest Schultz, MEBurcc Proctor, M D, Robert R. Sterling. M H ? H. A- Jarre, 31D, F-A, Geo. C. Thorteson, M D Loren C. Spademan, 31.D- V illage F luoridated W ith o u t K now ledge! T h e v illa g e o f T u c k a h o e , N. Y. was s h o c k e d r e c e n tly t o d is c o v e r that its water su p p ly h a s b e e n f lu o r id a te d for the past f o u r an d o n e h a lf y e a r s . T h e N . Y . T im e s of M a r c h 14, 1956, r e p o r tin g o n th is , s ta te d : “ M a y o r Milton A . G ibbons, s a id in v e s tig a tio n showed that ‘w ith o u t th e k n o w le d g e o r consent’ of the re s id e n ts th e N e w R o c h e lle W a t e r Company h a d been in je c tin g flu o r id e into the water sin ce O c to b er, 1951.” T h e T u c k a h o e V illa g e Board voted u n a n im o u s ly to file a n injunction suit in the S u p re m e C o u r t a g a in s t t h e water company in o r d e r t o p r e v e n t f u r t h e r fluoridation cf th e w a te r re c e iv e d b y the town. T liis is a p e r f e c t example of the tactics f r e q u e n tly e m p lo y e d b y the fluoridators. A re y o u s u re t h a t y o u r water has not been f lu o r id a te d ? ? ? “I’ve Registered To Vote—Have Yon?’9 T h e g r e a te s t th in g y o u can tell your fr ie n d s a n d n e ig h b o rs th is year is that ycu a r e a r e g is te re d v o te r. After all, it’s your c o u n try , a n d your government—and the n e x t p r e s id e n t is going t o be your presi d e n t. E v e ry b o d y w a n ts to have his say at th e p o lls th is y e a r . Don’t cut yourself .out o f it. IS YOUR NAME IN THE BOOK ? E N T E R P R IS E (B e w w n t, Texas) �4 rt com m unilm U t'ieoAo*i! CommonSense ii co**u*toM le+ tie! Fluorine--A Deadly Poison ? ----- (The following quotes were compiled by Mrs. (Sienna R. Post, of Grove City, Pa. and prove Uteyond a shadow of a doubt that many Doctors, ^Dentists, and Scientists all over the nation are against this deadly rat poison called fluorine [being added to our drinking water supply. — Ed.). D r. B e n ja m in N e slin , d ir e c to r of la b o r a to r i e s f o r t h e N e w Y o rk C ity D e p t, o f W a t e r S u p p ly , q u o te d in a n e d ito ria l, “ S low on F lu o r id a tio n ,” in th e N . Y . M irro r , A p ril 2 5 , 1 9 5 5 : “ N e v e r in th e h is to r y of w a te r s u p p ly h a s a substance so toxic in nature, with such a high degree of physiological potency, and associated with s o much ad verse evidence affecting public health, b e en f lu o r id a te d (w ith o u t o p p o r tu n ity f o r a re f e r e n d u m ) w a te r : “ I k e e p a b r e a s t o f th e d is c u s s io n s r e g a r d in g th e f lu o r id a tio n o f c ity w a te r su p p lie s. Until this discussion is settled, I am employing conservative methods in advising the President and Mrs. Eisenhower regarding the water they drink.” 75 REASONS W H Y C O M M U N IT Y W A T E R S U P P L IE S S H O U L D N O T B E F L U O R ID A T E D [seriously c o n sid e re d f o r in tr o d u c tio n in to 3lhe p u b lic water su p p ly .” 1. A S en sele ss S q u a n d e r in g o f th e T a x p S. L . Z im m e rm a n , D .D .S ., A rd m o r e , P a . , a y e r s M oney. 2. C h e a p e r M e th o d s A r e A v a ila b le. p r e s id e n t o f th e P e n n s y lv a n ia P u r e W a te r 3. B ru s h in g T e e th R ig h t A f te r E a tin g A ss o c ia tio n , in T h e P e n n s y lv a n ia O dd F ello w , R educes D ecay 60% . Oct. 1955:“Sodiuin fluoride is a metallic, anorganic, protoplasmic poison, and no 4. T h e O n ly O n e s D e fin ite ly K n o w n to human power can change it. In o r g a n ic B e n e f it fr o m F lu o r id a tio n A r e C h em ica l m e a n s t h a t it d o es n o t belorig in th e h u m a n C o m p a n ies a n d E q u ip m e n t F ir m s . 5. F e w P e o p le K n o w W h a t F lu o r id a tio n Is. foody. It is not the lack of fluorine in teeth tfhat causes dental caries. I t h a s been fo u n d 6. T h e r e is N o S im ila r ity B e tw e e n th e that th e r e w e re m o re d e n ta l c a r ie s in a r e a s C h lo rin a tio n a n d F lu o r id a tio n o f W a te r . w h e r e so d iu m flu o rid e w a s p la c e d in th e 7. T h e r e I s A H e a lt h H a z a r d T o th e O p e ra to r. w a t e r (N e w b u rg h , N . Y .) th a n o th e r a r e a s 8. D e a th R id e s w ith F lu o rid e s. (K in g s to n , N . Y .) w h e re th e r e w a s n o n e. 9. N o “H a rm le s s D o s a g e ” C a n B e D e te r I a d d t h e v o ice o f o p p o sitio n to th e in c r e a s m in ed . ing c la m o r of p r o te s t a g a in s t th is d a s ta r d ly 10. A n O v erd o se I s L e th a l. plot to p o iso n .th e c ity d rin k in g w a te r s u p p ly .” 11. A H a z a r d in W a r T im e. F r e d e r ic k B . E x n e r, M .D ., S e a ttle , W a s h , 12. M ec h a n ic al F a ilu r e o f E q u ip m e n t c o u ld te s t if y in g b e fo re t h e F lo r id a B o a r d of K ill T h o u s a n d s. H e a lth : “No p h y s ic ia n in h is r i g h t m in d e v e r 13. S c ie n tific N o n se n s e E x p o s e d b y E d ito r. gives a patient a p o te n t d ru g , w ith s u c h a 14. D e n tis ts D o N o t “ D o p e ” T h e ir O w n C h ild re p . n a r r o w margin o f s a fe ty , a n d s a y s , ‘T a k e as much as you like; you are sure to get the 15. M a n y D e n tis ts a n d P h y s ic ia n s O p p o se ffight amount/ Y e t t h a t is e x a c tly w h a t w e F lu o rid a tio n . a r e d o in g w h e n w e p u t flu o rid e in th e p u b lic 16. S w e d e n P r o h ib its A ll A r tif ic ia l W a te r w a t e r s u p p ly ... You have been promised F lu o rid a tio n . fthat it will not harm either your children or 17. F o rm id a b le T e s tim o n y Against F lu o r i d a tio n in B rita in . you, and that it will make your teeth less apt to decay. Both promises are false. 18. I t I s “M a s s M e d ic a tio n .” In f a c t, flu o rid e s, a s d ru g s , h a v e b e e n d is 19. I t I s T h e “ E n t e r in g W ed g e ” f o r A ll c a r d e d a s b e in g to o d a n g e ro u s w h e n g iv e n F o r m s o f S o cialized M edicine. m e ffe c tiv e d o s e s .” 20. F lu o r id a to r s F o llo w F o o ts te p s O f G e o rg e A . S w e n d im a n , D .D .S ., G ra n d B o lsh e v ik R u ssia . F o r k s , N . D . , in “ T h e A rg u m e n t A g a in s t 21. C o n tr a r y to F o o d a n d D r u g A ct. F lu o r id a tin g C ify W a t e r ,” O ra l H y g ie n e, 22. C ity C o u n cils S h o u ld N o t P ra c tic e Sept. 1951: “We k n o w t h a t fluorides are M ed icin e. (extremely corrosive and are used in etching 23. F lu o r id a tio n of P u b lic W a t e r S u p p lies glass. Fluorides also are used as a highly is U n c o n s titu tio n a l. potent rat poison. N o w th e s e u s e s m a y 24. T h e P u b lic H a s B e e n “ M isled .” s o u n d lik e sp le n d id q u a lific a tio n s f o r a 25. E n d o r s e m e n t b y A m e ric a n M ed ical r e g u l a r d ie t in th e v ie w of th e d e n ta l A ss o c ia tio n D o u b tfu l. 26. E n d o r s e r s E n d o rse E ach O th e r ’s a s s o c ia tio n , b u t... I do n o t crave r a t poison, ©ven well diluted. H o w do I k n o w th is p o iso n E n d o r s e m e n ts . w ill n o t h a v e a c u m u la tiv e e ffe c t? S u p p o se 27. A g e n cie s P r o m o tin g F lu o r id a tio n D id to is d ilu te d r a t po iso n g ra d u a lly r u in s m y N o R e s e a rc h . [kidneys a n d th u s s e n d s m e to m y g r a v e ? 28. E x p e r im e n ts A re S till N o t C o m p leted . W ill i t b e a n y c o m fo r t to m e if m y d e n ta l 29. E n d o r s e m e n ts N o t B a c k e d b y “ F a c ts .” 30. C o n g re ssio a l C o m m itte e W a rn s O f a s s o c ia tio n s a y s , ‘H e died with p e rfe c t teeth’ ? A s a n A m e ric a n citizen , I crave to “ P r e m a tu r ity .” Ibe treated neither as a r a t , nor as a guinea 31. F lu o r in e is th e L e th a l E le m e n t In p ig ...O p e ra tio n D e n ta l c a r ie s m a y p ro v e a “M ad n e s s G a s.” [success, b u t O p e ra tio n V ita l O rg a n s m a y 32. F lu o r id e s A re P o is o n t o A ll L iv in g Sail.” T issu e. C h a r le s E lio t P e rk in s , W a s h . D . C . , 33. A N e w “ M an -M a d e ” D is e a s e A p p e ars. [scien tist a n d a u th o r , in a l e tte r to t h e L ee 34. D a n g e r to U n b o rn C h ild re n . F o u n d a tio n o f N u tritio n a l R e s e a r c h , O c to b e r 35. D e a fn e s s C a u s e d b y F lu o rid e s . 36. F r a n c e R e je c ts F lu o rid a tio n . 2 , 19 5 4 : “T h e R E A L p u rp o s e b e h in d w a te r [flu o rid a tio n is N O T to b e n e f it c h ild re n ’s 37. F lu o r id a tio n M a k e s B o n es B rittle . te e th . R e p e a te d d o ses o f in fin ite s im a l 38. F lu o r in e H a r d e n s Y o u r T e e th . a m o u n ts o f flu o rin e w ill, in tim e , g ra d u a lly 39. F lu o r in e C a u s e s P r e m a tu r e B irth s . [reduce t h e in d iv id u a l’s p o w e r to r e s is t d o m i 40. D o c to r W a r n s o f “ C h a in R e a c tio n .” n a tio n b y slo w ly p o iso n in g a n d n a rc o tiz in g 41. F lu o r in e I s U se d to E t c h G lass. c e r ta in b r a in tis su e , and make h im submis42. S o d iu m F lu o r id e I s A R a t P o iso n . 3 lve to the will of th o s e w h o w is h to govern 43. L e ss P o is o n o u s A g e n ts W a n te d . (Urn. I s a y th is w ith all t h e e a r n e s tn e s s a n d 44. P r o p e r E a tin g H a b its M o re E ffe c tiv e . [sin cerity o f a s c ie n tis t w h o h a s s p e n t n e a r ly 45. D a n g e r of C u m u la tiv e A c tio n O f [tw en ty y e a r s ’ re s e a rc h in to t h e c h e m is tr y , F lu o rid e s. b io c h e m is tr y , p h y s io lo g y a n d p ath o lo g y - of 46. F lu o r id e s W ill “ S h o r te n ” Y o u r L ife. [fluorine— any person w h o drinks artificially 47. I n te r f e r e s w ith E n z y m e S y s te m s. 48. W h o W ill P a y D a m a g e s in L a w s u its ? 'fluoridated water for a period of one year 49. F lu o r id a tio n P r o p o n e n ts T ell S o m e or more will never again be the s a m e person, “ W h o p p e rs.” [mentally or physically.” 50. T o o M a n y Q u e stio n s R e m a in “ U n h M a jo r G e n e ra l H o w a rd M cC. S n y d e r, a n s w e re d .” p e r s o n a l p h y s ic ia n to th e P r e s id e n t, in a 51. U se of C h e m ic a ls in F o o d I s “ A la r m etter t o M rs. B . E . D oyle, S t. J o h n s b u ry , in g .” M . , M a r c h 21, 1955, a n s w e rin g h e r in q u ir y 52. W h a t I s H a r m le s s t o S o m e M ay K ill v t o e t h e r th e E is e n h o w e rs d rin k W a s h in g to n ’s O th e rs . 53. P r e m a t u r e H a r d e n in g o f t h e T e e th I s A “D is e a s e d ” C o n d itio n . 54. D a n g e r o f A n O v e rd o se . 55. A c tio n o f F lu o r in e o n B o d y I s L ik e T h a t of A rsen ic. 56. G ro u p s P r o m o tin g F lu o r id a tio n L a c k I n f o rm a tio n . 57. P r o p a g a n d a M e th o d s U se d to P r o m o te F lu o r id a tio n . / 58. D e n tis ts A r e N o t N e c e s s a r ily “A u th o r i tie s ” on t h e S u b je c t. 59. D e n tis ts D e n ied R ig h t t o Speak “A g a in s t” F lu o rid a tio n . 60. D e n tis t s “L iv e in T e r r o r o f B ein g Q u o te d .” 61. H i t l e r ’s “B ig L ie ” T a c tic s U sed. 62. D o c to r W a r n s A g a in s t S a c rific in g 2 0 % o f O u r C h ild re n . 63. “ P r e s s u r e ” o f F lu o r id a tio n C ro w d M akes L a w y e r “ S u sp ic io u s.” 64. C itie s A r e “ P r e s s u r e d .” 65. C e n s o rs h ip P o w e rs U sed. 66. F lu o r id a tio n P r o m o te d b y A “ W e lfa re S ta te ” B u r e a u c r a c y . 67. L e f t- W in g P r o m o te s F lu o r id a tio n . 68. B e w a r e o f “In n o v a tio n s ” B a lly h o o ed B y P r o p a g a n d is ts . 69. A r tif ic ia lly F lu o r id a te d W a t e r Is 85 T im es M o re Toxic. 70. F lu o r id a tio n I s “M a s s M u rd e r.” 71. F lu o r id a tio n “ In c r e a s e d ” D e n ta l D ecay I n N e w b u rg h . 72. R e je c te d b y 535 C itie s. 73. F lu o r in e “ D e s tro y s ” T e e th . W h y U se I t? 74. F lu o r id a tio n C ro w d S p re a d s F a ls e hoods. 75. T r u e Science C o rre c ts I t s O w n M is ta k e s . A n e a t , f o u r -p a g e b u lle tin c o v e r in g th e a b o v e s u b je c ts , e a c h w ith v a lu a b le e x p la n a t o r y in fo r m a tio n , h a s b e e n p r e p a r e d b y W . D. H e r r s tr o m . 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_18 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/56a7e0dcb7760eb50fc0cc2e1df2c41c.pdf 9a86125abb9d6f68d212754d8403606b PDF Text Text American m i t e w t y �In the MERCURY’S Opinion . . . Funeral oi " r' ..... By Russell Maguire your ears; I come to Flend meAmericans, countrymen, bury the Constitution, not to praise r ie n d s , it. The ev-il that men and documents do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. So be it with the Constitution. The cunning “One-World Con spirato rs,” the “ in tern atio n alist schemers,” the “ war promoters” have told you that the Constitution is an old-fashioned document and too ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault. And grievously hath the Constitution paid for it. Here, under leave of the con trolled “international press,” the “invisible government,” and the rest — come I to speak at the Con stitution’s funeral. It was our oldest friend, faithful and just to us. It hath brought many rights and safeguards to our people. Under its protection our general coffers were filled. Did this in the Constitution seem ambitious? When the poor have cried or been in need, the Constitution hath fed and protected them and their chil dren. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet the “selected” Supreme Court has said, the Con stitu tio n is ambitious — and are they honorable men? You all did know that our wise and patriotic ancestors had oppor tunities to give someone a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? I speak not to disprove what the un-American United Nations plot ters have spoken. But I am here to speak what I do know. You all did love this Constitution once, not without cause; what cause withholds you then to mourn for it? O, judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts. And men have lost their reason. Bear with me, my heart is in the coffin there with the Con stitution, and I must pause till it come back to me. But yesteryear, the Constitution’s word might have stood against the world, now lies it there. And none so poor to do it reverence. O, citizens of these United States! If I were disposed to stir your hearts and minds to rage. I should do the “ internationalist” tax-exempt or ganizations and the “ One-World” Foundations wrong, who, you all Copyright 1956 by Russell Maguire. A ll rights reserved. From The American Mercury, February, 1956 The t American Mercury know, say they are honorable men. I rather choose to wrong the murdered Constitution. Than wrong such “honorable” men? But here’s the world’s greatest docum ent — the C onstitution — with the seal and love of our wise and courageous God-fearing Found ing Fathers. Let but the people hear this testament and you would go and kiss the Constitution’s wounds. Yes, beg a part of it for memory, mentioning it to your children and passing it on as a rich legacy unto their issue. It is not meet that you know how much the Constitution loved and protected you. For it will inflame you and make you mad. ’Tis good you know not that you are the heirs and owners of this great country — that the so-called ‘ powerful men” and their stooges are but your servants. about the and M holding the Constitutioncoffin I shall read its message to you. And a k e a r in g if you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this heritage, where all the rights and power were reserved to you. And with loving hands the Founders of this country covered it with our flag of red, white and blue. Look in this place ran the United Nations dagger through; see what a rent Supreme Court decisions have made. Through these open ings the well-publicized “advisors” stabbed, and as they plucked their cursed steel away, mark how the blood of the Constitution and the hopes of freedom flowed. These stabs of treasonable people, admitted to our country as “citi zens,” were the most unkindest cuts of all. For ingratitude, more strong than Americans’ arms, quite van quished the C onstitution. They burst its mighty heart, and Bloody Treason now flourishes over us. Stay, countrymen! Good friends, patriotic friends, let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed say they are “ honoi'able” ; what private international plots they have, alas! I know not. They are cunning and clever, and will, no doubt, try to answer you. I am no orator, as our enemies are; but as all you know me, a plain, blunt man, that loves my country, I humbly ask to speak my thoughts. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, nor action, nor utterance, to stir men’s blood; I only speak right out to tell you that which you yourselves do know. I show you the Constitution’s wounds, poor dumb mouths, and bid them speak for me. But were I otherwise, I would ruffle up your spirits, and point to every wound in the Constitution. And then, at last, this should move the people of America to rise and m utiny against the conspirators who are planning to take over our country, and thus avenge the Constitution’s death. �M EM O TO READERS: The dozens of articles in the current issue of AMERICAN MERCURY are just as vitai to you as the reprinted article you have just read. If this reprint stirred your interest, then surely a regular subscription to AMERICAN MERCURY will bring more articles of great urgency to you and your friends. 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Title A name given to the resource "Funeral of the Constitution," American Mercury, 1956 Description An account of the resource Flyer reprinting "Funeral of the Constitution," an opinion piece by Russell Maguire for the American Mercury, February, 1956. Cover shows political cartoon. Maguire laments the death of the Constitution through wounds delivered by the United Nations and recent Supreme Court decisions. Last page promotes subscriptions to the American Mercury. Three pages. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_17 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/38f255f7a6bba80815ea37641bdbf9e3.pdf b78ec28512f8666c0cbc73adca6f9070 PDF Text Text The N ational C o u n cil Of C hurches AN A P P R A IS A L B y Ca rl Mclntire �The National Council of Churches, 1957 An Appraisal BY CARL M clN TIR E CH R ISTIA N BEACON PRESS Collingswood 7, N. J. �THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, 1957 An Appraisal By Carl M clntire HELP CIRCULATE TH IS PAMPHLET Get extra copies for friends, church officers, Sun day school teachers, pastors, civic leaders 25 cents each; 5 for S I ; 55 for $10; 100 for $17.50 This material was first published in the Christian Beacon of December 26, 1957 and January 2, 1958. ORDER ADDITIONAL COPIES FROM C H RISTIAN BEACON PRESS Box 218, Collingswood, N. J. Every Christian in the United States must be concerned about what is happening to present-day Protestantism. That there is an increasing concern regarding the leadership which is being offered the country by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. is evident in many ways at the present moment. The newspaper and radio reports of the Fourth Triennial Assembly of the National Council which have come out of St. Louis, Mo., December 1 to 8, 1957, have brought wide spread reaction. The council movement started in the United States in 1908 when the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America was organized. In 1950 the Federal Council joined with other inter denominational agencies to constitute the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The Council has aided the Communist cause and sided with Russia on point after point in the cold war. It has been a spokesman for socialism, advocated federal aid to education, opposed states rights, stimulated racial strife in the country, pro moted the welfare state, and maintained a political lobby in Washington. It claims to be the voice of some 37 million Americans. All this has its significance and has gradually been working its way down through the life of the country. It has brought about a reaction both North and South and even produced a militant countermovement which is growing in strength! I t is therefore imperative that a fresh appraisal in the light of recent developments be made. �"DISTRUST BETWEEN MINISTERS A N D LA ITY " The keynote speech at St. Louis was delivered by the NCC’s retiring president, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. To admit that such a situation has developed, as he did, must in itself have been a blow to the prestige which the ecclesiastical leaders have sought to maintain. Dr. Blake declared: “There is distrust between ministers and laity —the distrust goes both ways. There is distrust between ecclesiastical officials and ordinary pastors —the grass roots and the hierarchies. “There is distrust of our conservative constitu ency by the liberals, theological and political, and the opposite. There is distrust between North and South, Eastern Seaboard and Middle W est, . . .” Dr. Blake made it plain that he was not speak ing of mere differences of opinion or of convic tions but of “mistrust of the integrity and Christi anity of those persons who hold to the differences.” But he tried to justify these divergencies, for he said, “ So long as a church is a church and not a sect, there will be room in it for a wide variety of conviction and practice, and its life should be en riched by the dialogue that continually goes on among its members.” It is here that the Christian people must pause and recognize that a great apostasy from the his toric Christian faith is upon us. The difference be tween the conservatives and the liberals has pro duced the “mistrust of the integrity and Chris tianity of those persons who hold to the differ ences.” The conservative, or “fundamentalist,” as he is frequently called, holds that Christ was born of the virgin, that He died on the cross for the sins of men, shedding His blood, and that He arose again from the dead on the third day. The liberals deny this. They do not accept the Bible as the Word of God. The dialogue that has gone on continually between those with various beliefs in side of this new kind of church with its new con cept is not a blessing; it is a tragedy. The wide variety of convictions which Dr. Blake recognizes to exist represents the Babylon of the hour. C Actually, there is no place for a wide variety of convictions concerning Christ within a true Christian church, for the position the church has accepted is stated in its creed. For a church to profess a creed and then to allow within its pulpit men who deny that creed results in the dialogue which conflicting positions produce. In this, Christianity has gone bankrupt. A corrupt, im pure, and inclusivist church stands before the na tion in contrast to the historic testimony of the Protestant churches, that each body must be true, pure, loyal to its creed, and faithful to the Christ of the Scriptures who is the Church’s only Head. A PACIFIST PRESIDENT The National Council elected Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg as its president for the next three years. The Council could not have found a man who more adequately represents what the Council it self is. On the religious side he is an outstand ing modernist and pacifist. Speaking before the Baptist W orld Alliance in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1950 as reported in the New York Times, July 27, he called for a “new language” in the church. Such phrases as “the precious Name of Jesus,” “coming under the Blood,” and “saved by grace,” “simply do not register in the mind of the average American listener,” he said. But they are a part of the language of faith! Dr. Dahlberg has been a member of the N a tional Committee of the Church Peace Mission, a radical, pacifist group in the U.S.A. This com mittee has been securing signatures to a pacifist pledge which reads, “ I hereby affirm (re-affirm) my refusal to make or to use the weapons of war; and my purpose to do my utmost to win other Christians to join in this stand and to bring the Church of Christ throughout the world to break with war.” This radical pacifist position Dr. Dahlberg gave immediate expression to when he declared in his first presidential address that it was “utter folly and futility” to spend “forty billions of dol lars on a system of defense that never in the world can defend us.” H e made a plea to the churches to embark upon “a plan of massive reconciliation based on the Christian gospel of love.” Mr. 7 �George Dugan, reporting this in the New York Times, December 6, 1957, called Dahlberg “a prominent Christian pacifist.” This is no time for a pacifist leadership, when America is in peril and facing an enemy who is pressing a cold war with every possible weapon! There can be no reconciliation, massive or other wise, with an anti-God, atheistic, materialistic Russia who is determined to destroy the free world and enthrone Communism. There can never be massive reconciliation with an international beast, such as Communist Party Chief Khrushchev, who has announced to the American people, “W e will bury you.” Such a pacifist leadership at this mo ment is fraught with peril to the security of the United States. The church in St. Louis of which Dr. Dahlberg is pastor is a member of both the Northern and Southern Baptist Conventions, and this undoubtedly was the reason he was selected as President of the Council. Repeated references are now being made to the desire on the part of the National Council to include the Southern Baptist as well as the Missouri Synod Lutheran Churches within the Council. A PR O M INEN T C O M M U N IS T FRONTER Dr. J. B. Matthews, former chief investigator for the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, said : “Mr. Dahlberg’s record of collaboration with the Communist apparatus places him among the leading Commu nist fronters who are clergymen. In choosing Mr. Dahlberg to head the organization for the next three years, the National Council of Churches has followed the precedents of the old Federal Coun cil of Churches which numbered among its presi dents such well known Communist fronters as the late Bishop Francis J. McConnell and Bishop G. Bromley Oxarn.” According to public records, the following in dicates some of Dr. Dahlberg’s Communist-front activities: When H arry Bridges, a self-confessed Com munist, was ordered deported from the United States by the Attorney General, Dr. Dahlberg, on April 22, 1943, joined with a group of Communistfront clergymen in signing an open letter to Presi 8 8 dent Roosevelt calling for the release of H arry Bridges. The letter said: “W e respectfully ask that you set aside the deportation order against H arry Renton Bridges, President of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and afford him full opportunity to become a citizen of the United States of America.” The letter maintained that his deportation would be an “injustice to him,” and it expressed “our own belief in his loyalty.” A Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder has been cited as “ Communist and subversive” by the Attorney General of the United States. Brow der was imprisoned following a conviction for perjury. H e was the general secretary of the Communist Party. One of those affiliated with this committee was Dr. Dahlberg. Another well known Communist-front organiza tion was the National Committee to Combat AntiSemitism. Even Jewish groups in the United States warned that the National Committee was a Com munist front. But, according to the letterhead of the organization, dated March 26, 1946, Edwin T. Dahlberg was one of the sponsors of this National Committee. The Communists set up another front organiza tion, known as the Committee for Peaceful Alterna tives to the Atlantic Pact. This organization was launched by a meeting called “Washington Con ference on Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact ” and, according to The Worker, July 24, 1949, Edwin T. Dahlberg was one of the organi zers of this conference. When a group of American clergvmeti visited Communist Yugoslavia, with all their expenses paid by the Communist government, the delegation returned with a glowing report praising the Tito regime. This report was printed and circulated in the United States under the sponsorship of a group of Protestant clergymen, one of whom was Dr. Dahlberg. Such Communist-front activitv has given great aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. • There is a Communist-front organization iust now known as The Committee to Secure Tustice for Morton Sobel. The publication of this organi- �zation dated August, 1957, reports that Dr. Dahlberg was a signer of an appeal on behalf of the Communist espionage agent, Morton Sobel. Sobel is now serving a thirty-year prison term in Alcatraz because of his connections with the Rosenbergs’ espionage activity. Human Events, December 14, 1957, published in Washington, D. C., quotes material from the files of the National Republic, “Washington’s most author itative reference service on (Communism,” concern ing the record of Dr. Dahlberg: “Member, National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners, 1931 (cited as subversive by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1942, and by the Attorney General of the United States in 1947 and 1948); sponsor, Political Prisoners’ Bail Fund Committee, 1935; signer, open letter to President Roosevelt asking that the deportation or der against H arry Bridges be set aside; one of several ‘prominent Americans’ who favored ‘Presi dential clemency for the release of Earl Browder,’ under auspices of the ‘Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder’ (cited as a Communist front by the HUAC Guide to Subversive Organisations) : one of 17 churchmen asking a Senate probe of ‘perjured testimony by informers’ ( Daily Worker, November 3, 1953) ; signer, open letter to the President urging support of the Lehman bill as substitute for the McCarran-W alter Act (Daily Worker, November 3, 1953) ; signer of open letter to Representatives and Senators urging outright repeal of McCarran Act— sponsored by National Committee for Repeal of Mc Carran Act ( Daily Worker, December 28, 1954) : petitioned President Eisenhower to ban H-bomb tests (Sunday Worker, July 14, 1957) ; signer of open letter to platform committees of Republican and Democratic parties urging them to back repeal of McCarran Act (Daily Worker, July 9, 1952); initiator. National Committee to Repeal McCarran Act (Daily Worker, December 27, 1950) ; this group is cited as a Communist front in the Guide to Subversive Organisations." HUGE RELIGIOUS CORPORATION George W . Cornell. A P religion writer, describ ing the St. Louis meeting, December. 1957. said. “This country’s biggest religious corporation of 10 them all is holding a week-long meeting of the stockholders starting today.” “The council,” he said, “has an 18j4 million dollar budget for this year, and proposals are to up it another million next year. “There are about 700 employes on its payroll, and 4,000 other church leaders and specialists serve voluntarily on its many committees, divisions, de partments and commissions. “It is building a new 19 million dollar head quarters in New York. “Altogether, the council has 76 different units, each carrying on a different type of activity.” There is hardly any avenue of religious activity where the Council’s hand is not felt. It is operating in Korea, Alaska, Africa, and Hong Kong. It produces more than one thousand religious radio and TV programs a year, and it claims to have distributed 35 million dollars worth of re lief goods in 1956. The bulk of this, of course, was an outright grant from the United States Gov ernment. But all of its activity supports the ideological position which its general board directs. It considers itself to be the conscience of the na tion. The November issue of its official paper heads the article describing the Council’s ministry, “When the Churches Speak W ith One Voice.” It has ap propriately been called “the Protestant Vatican.” The Christian Century, outstanding modernist, independent weekly, called the NCC “the national voice of the non-Roman churches” in the United States. The non-member or the separated churches do not count. This presumption is the spirit of monopoly! In Dr. Blake’s presidential address he said : “The council conceives one of its functions to be that of serving as the representative conscience of the churches in relation to crucial developments in the political, economic and social order affecting the life of the churches and the well being of hu manity. It has been referred to as the council’s prophetic role.” Thus the Council throws its weight behind the United Nations and puts tremendous pressure upon John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, who has previously served as chairman of the FCC’s Com mission on International Justice and Goodwill. Its il �main impact is that of a well-oiled political pressure group. With the robes of the church about its work, it is shielded from political attack. NCC GOES TO MOSCOW The visit of an official delegation from the N a tional Council of Churches to Moscow, March, 1956, brings to the fore the collaboration with the Com munists which has been going on over the years, and every true Christian in this hour of national peril should renounce it all. The churches in Russia, what is left of them, are under the complete control of Georgi Karpov, a major general of the secret police. Empire of Fear by Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, pp. 97 and 98, reports Petrov’s identification of K arpov: “A t this conference Stalin suggested that the character and erudition of Karpov made him an ideal man to represent the church on the Soviet Council of Ministers. H is suggestion was applauded, and Karpov was appointed.” Yuri Rastvorov, a lieutenant colonel of the MVD for eleven years who served under Karpov, testified before the Senate Internal Security Sub committee, April 12, 1956, that Georgi Karpov was “head of the so-called religion section in MVD headquarters.” Rastvorov testified, “The state controls all activity of the church in the Soviet Union.” He testified that Karpov sent his secret police agents to the seminaries that he permitted to exist. They graduated and became bishops in the church. Thus the representatives of the National Coun cil of Churches officially went to Moscow and Georgi Karpov entertained them. According to a report in the National Council Outlook, official organ of the NCC, April, 1956, the reception was “in a most lavish Russian manner.” The report says that Karpov “stressed the first visit by rep resentatives of American churches, deplored the short visit, and urged many times that they come again.” Featured on the cover of the NCC Outlook, official organ, was a picture of the delegation march ing across Red Square in Moscow. To be the hon ored guests of a major general of the secret police, 12 who was in charge of the Communist enslavement and infiltration of the churches, created a spectacle which should have shocked the entire Christian world. Emphasizing the accomplishments of his threeyear term as president, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake said in St. Louis: “Let me remind yoif that the National Council during this triennium organized and made possible the deputation of Protestant church leaders in the Soviet Union, and their return visit, a project which worked out more fruitfully and to less crit icism than any of us dared hope before the fact. But we did it as a council because we thought it our .Christian duty whatever the results in council support or council criticism. “Let me inform you that the National Council (here I make a prediction) will similarly arrange for the same reasons and to the same ends further visits, such as with the churches of China, when ever it appears that the Chinese churches them selves wish and are prepared for such a project.” It is anything but a Christian duty for one to permit himself or the churches which he repre sents to be used by the Communists in their cold war. The head of the Russian delegation which re turned the visit to the U.S.A. was Metropolitan Nicolai, the second top ranking churchman of the Russian Orthodox Church, and in charge of for eign relations for the churches. Nicolai, in speech after speech, has been the mouthpiece of the Com munists through the churches, castigating the West. In a speech at the first session of the W orld Coun cil of Peace. Berlin. February 23. 1951. Nicolai said, referring to the Americans in K orea: “From the first day of the lawless aggression the American neofascists began a systematic canni balistic destruction of the ‘lower’ Korean race. . . . “These civilized savages arranged shooting matches with living targets, binding peasants to posts with barbed wire and shooting each of them over the heart of the target. Reviving the cus toms of the young-fascists, young-yankees photo graphed these scenes for their family albums and sent them home to their fiances and wives.” 13 �This material and considerable more was pre sented to the National Council leaders before they went to Moscow. Nicolai, to this day, has never retracted, apologized, or even attempted to explain his charges against the United States’ soldiers in Korea. The April Outlook, with picture after pic ture, shows Metropolitan Nicolai, in a very affec tionate manner, holding Dr. Blake by his left arm as they walk from the air field. Gifts were ex changed. Chalices and crosses given back and forth. But this could not cover up the blood that is on the hands of these church leaders— Commu nists just patiently waiting the day when America will be under their control. Clergymen who serve the cause of Communism and praise the atheistic state of Russia are not entitled to the name “ Chris tian,” and it is certainly not a “ Christian duty” for W estern clergymen to visit them, fellowship with them in the name of Christ, and deceive the Chris tians of the W est as to the true nature of the en slaved churches in Russia. And now the National Council is to attempt the same identical affair with Red China. Shall this powerful church group in America be used now to cross out the lines that have been drawn by our nation against Red China? C O M M U N IS T HUNGARY The National Council Outlook, September, 1956, features on its cover a picture, “W orld Coun cil Leaders Meet in Hungary.” In this picture, left to right, are: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake: Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lu theran C hurch: and then Communist Bishop K. H. Ting of Red China; Bishop D. W ard Nichols of New York. African Methodist Episcopal Church; Communist Bishop Albert Bereczky. head of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Hungary and president of the Hungarian Ecumenical Council; and Dr. Robert S. Bilheimer of Geneva. Switzer land, associate general secretary of the W orld Council. It was October 23 that the freedom fighters led the uprising in Hungary. Bereczky was de posed and repudiated as a Communist. H e was an active leader in the Communist underground bei4 fore the Reds captured H ungary in 1945. These American leaders went to Hungary for the meet ing of the central committee of the W orld Council behind the Iron Curtain in July and August, 1956. I t was a pretty close call all the way around. Janos Horvath, president of the State Office for Church Affairs, representing the government, was also locked in prison by the freedom fighters. He is back now in office. Bereczky is back in his place of power for the Communists. Bereczky’s praise of Communism has been profuse through these years. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the so-called “liberation” of Budapest, he said, “A rich, abundant, flourishing, powerful new life surrounds us, and we decided, as Church, to regard this new, pulsating, hopeful life as the gift of God’s grace which we modestly and humbly try to promote with our helpful min istrations.” Bereczky came to Evanston, 111., in 1954 for the Assembly of the W orld Council of Churches, and was welcomed by the leaders of the National Council as a fine Christian gentleman. H e was an official delegate with others from the Communistcontrolled churches in Hungary. But this collaboration with the Communists on the top level relates to Red China and it is directly connected with the present announced plan of Dr. Blake to go to Red China with a delegation of churchmen representing the NCC. Ting is the Communist-appointed Bishop of Chekiang, and Dean of Nanking Theological Sem inary. In Red China the Communists have taken complete control of the churches. W hat church there is, is Communist-sponsored. Ting, thus far, is the No. 1 exchange delegate. H is article, “The Church in China Today,” first appeared in The Student World, January, 1957, organ of the W orld’s Student Christian Federa tion. When the delegation of church leaders from India went to Red China, Association Men, official organ of Council of Young Men’s Christian Asso ciations for India and Ceylon, dedicated its July issue to a report of the trip and praise of the Com munists. The delegation was pictured with Chou 15 �En-lai, the prime minister. This July issue fea tured Ting’s “The Church in China Today.” Ting preaches the Communist line that there is freedom of religion and that Communism has been a bless ing to China. The coming of Communism to China, he said, “represents rather an act of God.” “ In that act, we discover once again that God loves China, that China has not been out of H is hands, and that He does care for our people.” He de nounces “a small number of missionaries who left China . . . and giving speeches to spread rumours and slanders about China and the Church there.” W hen the top leaders of the National Council of Churches collaborate, fellowship with, and com mend as fine Christian leaders these appointees and spokesmen for the Communists themselves, disaster has come upon the churches. They give the Communist line great advantage and prestige, and the claims of these Communist-appointed church leaders are given respectability. The most important activity of the National Council at the present time is the aid and comfort that it is giving to Communism and the discour agement and disillusionment it has generated in the hearts of refugees and those in Iron Curtain lands who yearn for the day of liberation from their Communist tyrants. REVISED STANDARD VERSION George W . Cornell, in his report from St. Louis, said that the Council “guides the production of uniform Sunday school outlines used by 20 mil lion Protestant children.” These outlines are based upon the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted and published by the National Council of Churches. An advertisement in the December, 1957, issue of the Outlook calls their Bible “The Perfect Gift for This Moment in This W orld.” Nothing that the Council has ever done has brought greater opposition or stirred more controversy throughout the churches of the country. The “new Bible,” as it is called, and indeed it is new, did considerably more than just correct some archaic expressions. Twelve of the 32 trans lators had Communist-front records. A member of the Jewish faith who does not accept Christ as 1G Messiah helped translate the Old Testament, and passages dealing specifically with the deity of Christ were changed or modified. Isaiah 7 :14, the glorious prediction of the virgin birth of Christ, has the word “virgin” dropped from the text and “a young woman” put in its place. The Old Testament quotation in Mat thew 1 :23 uses the word “virgin” and says that it was “spoken of the Lord by the prophet,” when the prophet says nothing of the kind, according to the “new Bible.” Messianic passages like Micah 5:2 eliminate the deity of Christ. Isaiah 45:6 is changed, and Hebrews 1 :8, supposed to be a quo tation, becomes a contradiction. The translators made no distinction whatever throughout the entire Bible between the actual translation of the words of the original Hebrew and Greek texts and their own words which were added. Arbitrarily they used “thee” and “thou” to refer to deity, and “you” and “yours” to every one else. But they always referred to Christ as “you” and “yours,” never recognizing His deity. Quotation marks were inserted although there are none in the original text and the translators took the famous text, John 3:16, out of the lips of Jesus Christ, after they had eliminated from the verse the reference to Christ being the “only begotten” Son. Bible-preaching radio preachers denounced it and pressed the storv into the homes of thousands of Christians inside the National Council of Churches. The American Council of Christian Churches, which had been organized back in 1941 to offset the Federal Council, led the fight in the United States against the perverted book which was offered as a “new Bible.” The announced purpose of the National Council that the Bible would re place the King James Version continues, after these five years, to be their goal. The difficulty is that the Sundav school mate rial of the denominations in the NCC uses the new Bible, and this literature is handed down to the people from the top ranks. No sensible person can read the new Bible, study it critically or carefully, and possibly believe that it is a book inspired by a holy, righteous God. 17 �The Bible says, “Every word of God is pure.” God does not contradict Himself, and the translators of H is Book should be men who believe in Him and who are enlightened by H is Holy Spirit. The point of all this is that, before the founda tions upon which the individual’s freedom which Americans have enjoyed can be broken, the con fidence of the people in the Bible as the infallible and inerrant W ord of God has to be shaken. U n belief has driven a dagger into the Christ revealed to us in the Holy Bible. The book is no longer trustworthy, and multiplied thousands have been deceived by it, and particularly by those who have promoted it as something “better.” The offer of the new Bible as “better English” does not justify or compensate for the serious errors it contains. It should not be used in private or public worship. The King James Version is still the best and most beloved of all. FESTIVAL OF FAITH From the standpoint of the Christian faith it self, perhaps the worst thing that the National Council of Churches ever did in all the years of its history, even when it was the Federal Coun cil, was its co-operation in the Festival of Faith, June 19, 1955, held in the Cow Palace, San F ran cisco, California, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the formation of the United Nations. Representatives of six different religions parti cipated in a united service “of prayer for peace and divine guidance to the United Nations.” These representatives were from the Moslem, Hindu. Buddhist, Bahai, and Jewish faiths. Quotations from the sacred writings of six faiths were woven into one responsive reading. They came from the Confucian (The Sayings of Confucius), Hindu (The Bhagavad-Gita), Buddhist (Selected Read ings), Christian (New Testament), Moslem (The K oran), and Judaism (Old Testament). The National Council Outlook, September, 1955, featured the occasion with a picture of all the participants standing together on the platform, and Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, chairman of the Commis sion of the Churches on International Affairs, rep resenting the W orld Council of Churches and In ternational Missionary Council, presiding. The 18 NCC report said, “They called God by different names—speaking to him in different tongues, but the dream for peace in their hearts was the same.” Dr. John S. Gardner, who prayed for the “ Protes tants” and who is now the executive secretary of the Greater Chicago Council of Churches, said, “I t is probably true that such an inclusive assembly has never before been achieved in a single service.” In honor of the occasion, and as a manifestation of the co-operation of the National Council of Churches, the General Board, June 19, 1955, adopted a reso lution specifically drawn for the occasion and printed as a part of the Festival of Faith’s order of service! There is only one true and living God, and the first command is, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” This flagrant violation of the First Commandment by the National Council of Churches in its official action stands indeed, as it has been called, a “climax of apostasy.” The chairman of “A Festival of Faith” and pres ident of the San Francisco Council of Churches, affiliated with the NCC, Mrs. William Lister Rog ers, welcomed the delegates of the United Nations. The Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, the United States, delivered the main address, “The Moral Foundations of the United Nations.” The prayers were printed. The Buddhists called upon “the Ultimate Reality” and “ the Su preme Buddha,” and “our Lord The Buddha.” The Moslem prayed in the “Name of Allah.” The Hindu addressed, “ O Brahman—Thou God Trans cendent.” And the man who offered the Protes tant prayer addressed the “Eternal God, Father of all.” And thus modernism, apostasy, restated its departure from the glorious faith of our Lord, for He said, “ I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” This fellowship with idolatry and claiming that they just called God by different names is at the heart of the National Council’s appraisal of the present world crisis. It indicates why the NCC leaders are ready to shake hands in Christian fellowship with the Communist-appointed church leaders in Moscow who eulogized Joe Stalin, and constantly commend the atheistic socialist state! Elijah, where art thou? 19 �F B I UNDERCOVER AGENTS TESTIFY In all the years of the Federal Council of Churches and now the National Council of Churches the strangest phenomena in relationship to Communist activity and the Communist fronts have prevailed. W e have watched the situation very closely and never have we seen any recognition on the part of the National Council of Churches that there even is such a thing as Communist infiltration of their churches. In fact, the leadership of the Coun cil has directed attacks against those who have come forth alleging that there is such a thing. P ar ticularly is this true of attacks on the House Com mittee on Un-American Activities. Two F B I undercover agents have given reports that cannot be ignored. H e r b e r t A. P h i l b r i c k , nine years an under cover F B I agent, operating in the top level of the Communist apparatus in the United States, had this to say: “I t is no accident that your church is the num ber-one target of the Communist conspiracy in America today. . . . Virtually no Communist or Communist-front activity takes place today with out ministerial and church support, sponsorship or participation. “Sometimes this shows up in church literature. The Communist Party leans heavily upon publicly printed and distributed magazines, papers and books which do not bear Communist Party identi fication as such. But one can spot the Communist influence by the terminology often used—the scoff ing at capitalism, the labeling of the United States as ‘imperialist,’ the sneering directed at the profit motive. America is not wholly perfect. But neither is it wholly imperfect, as the Communists would have you believe.” Philbrick writes: “ In 1942 I was ordered by the Party to main tain strong ties with the Baptist church, the de nomination with which I had been affiliated since early youth. I did this, joining the First Baptist Church of Wakefield, Massachusetts. . . . “The most shocking jact was that there was 20 also a special subversive cell of hardened, dis ciplined, trained agents of Stalin, men who were ministers of the Gospel/ . . . “ I am not guessing about this. I saw those ministers in action— ruthless Communist leaders, prostituting the Christian ministry to the evil ends of atheism and oppression. They knew exactly what they were doing” (Article, “The Communists A re After Your Church 1 in Christian Herald, ” April, 1953). B o r i s M o r r o s , another undercover F B I agent who testified before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, said that among the instruc tions given to him by his Communist superiors was an order to place an agent in the office of Cardinal Spellman of New York City. Morros warned in general: “The American people are not cognizant of the great danger that looks us straight in the eye. It is much more dangerous, and much more serious, than any of us can even imagine. “And we should start paying more attention to every little detail of what the Soviets are trying to do to us—and there is nothing good they ever have in mind for us. There is always great danger in anything they are doing, and it is mostly danger to our American form of life.” Representative Francis E. W alter, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, commenting upon M orros’s testimony, said: “ Many of our people—and some of our courts —still cling to the idea that Communism is a mere political theory. It is more than that. It is a plot to enslave the United States and the rest of the world.” Judge Robert Morris, Chief Counsel of the U. S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, in an address on November 1, 1957. before the 16th Annual Convention of the American Council of Christian Churches, warned that Communists have infiltrated the churches and he declared, “ Com munists in the United States are the advance guard of the legions that are grinding down Hungarian freedom fighters in the streets of Budapest.” Then he appealed: “I adjure you to take up your own brand of arms in this titanic endeavor. Plunge into 21 �the tasks ahead with all your skill and evangelistic fervor. This is the greatest challenge that man has ever encountered.” Nothing like this has ever been heard on the platform of the National Council of Churches. In stead, Dr. Blake, in St. Louis, said the free world “faces a true crisis in that it will be as dangerous to continue 100 per cent skepticism of totalitarian Communism as it would be to believe all the pro testations of peaceful intentions that come from the Kremlin.” In truth, none of the peaceful protestations can be believed! W orld domination is the goal. In truth, a 100 per cent skepticism of totalitarian Communism should be preached. Atheistic, antiGod, Christ-hating Communism cannot be trusted in any particular by God-fearing lovers of freedom. CONGRESSIONAL IN V E STIG A TIN G COMMITTEES The testimony of former Communists them selves cannot be ignored. Manning Johnson, a former member of the national committee of the Communist Party, testi fied, “Once the tactic of infiltrating religious o r ganizations was set by the Kremlin, the actual mechanics of implementing the ‘new line’ was a question of following the general experiences of the living church movement in Russia where the Com munists discovered that the destruction of religion could proceed much faster through infiltration of the church by Communist agents operating with in the church itself. . . . “The Communists had some small forces in the seminaries and under the leadership of H arry F. Ward. These were quickly augmented by ad ditional recruits and siphoned into the divinity institutions by manipulations of Communist cells in the seminaries. . . . “The plan was to make the seminaries the neck of a funnel through which thousands of potential clergymen would issue forth, carrying with them, in varying degrees, an ideology and slant which would aid in neutralizing the anti-Communist char acter of the church and also to use the clergy to spearhead important Communist projects. 22 “This policy was successful beyond even Com munist expectations” ( Investigation o f Communist Activities in the United States, P art 8, July 13 and 14, 1953— Committee on Un-American Activities). Louis Budenz, former editor of the Communist Daily Worker, in hearings before the Senate Inter nal Security Subcommittee, testified as to Commu nist infiltration into the churches. Naming H arry F. W ard of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, he said, “I knew Dr. W ard very well over a great number of years. . . . I also know from con versations with Dr. W ard personally, of his Com munist affiliation.” (W ard was a member of the Communist Party.) Benjamin Gitlow, a former general secretary of the Communist Party, testified, July 7, 1953, before the House Committee: “The Comintern leaders were of the opinion that clergymen, with Dr. W ard’s point of view, using the cloak of religion, could render service of ines timable value to the Communist cause in China and to Soviet interests. Besides, the missions and church institutions in China could be used, in the opinion of the Comintern, to cover up Communist espionage activities in China. Clergymen, who served in various capacities in China, and who de liberately followed the Communist Party line or were duped into following it. formed an important branch of the conspiracy to turn China over to the Communists.” Joseph Z. Kornfedder, a former member of the national committee of the Communist Party in the United States, testified, July 7. 1953, before the House Committee. Kornfedder gave lengthy testi mony “ of Communist and fellow travelers working inside the churches, giving themselves the coloring of religious reformers and of getting the church in the social side, away from spiritualism into the class struggle.” But such testimony gathered by our Government to protect the security of the country has been ignored by the NCC. It has not deterred the N a tional Council leaders from their program of collab orating with the Communists. In an hour when the entire nation is concerned, and properly so, over the superiority of the Rus- �sians in missiles and sputniks, Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, speaking at St. Louis, de clared that the danger of space missiles “lies not in fantastic scientific achievements but in fantastic human reactions.” H e said that Americans “seem to be acting like spiritual adolescents at a time of scientific maturity.” They could, he emphasized, by “extremist countermeasures . . . betray our genius and endanger the world.” The Communists indeed want the American people not to be aroused or too concerned. This is the slant which, in an hour of peril, the National Council leaders seek, to give to the country. Amer ica must arise, gird herself, and carry on a vigorous campaign to win the cold war as well as maintain adequate strength to deter any aggressors’ ambi tions. C O M M U N IS T "D A ILY WORKER" A faithful barometer registering activity of church leaders favorable to Communist causes is, of course, the New York Daily Worker. One of the major issues of the cold war during recent months has been the Russian demands that the W est dis continue H-bomb experimentation. The W est has insisted that before any cessation of testing can take place an agreement on disarmament, which would be fool-proof, had to be forthcoming. In the midst of this struggle, the central com mittee of the W orld Council of Churches, including the top leaders of the National Council of Churches from the United States, met in New Haven, Conn., July 31 to August 7, 1957, and came out flatfootedly on the Communist side of these issues of the cold w a r! The Daily Worker, August 6, 1957, featured a front-page spread with inch-and-a-half headlines, for the story: “The central committee of the W orld Council of Churches today approved a statement calling for the discontinuation of all nuclear tests, ‘at least for a trial period.’ It said the stopping of the tests would be a first step in what the committee hoped would be disarmament ‘by stages.’ ” This hit the Communist bull’s-eye. In the name of high moral principles, these church leaders pulled the foundations out from under the position of the 24 W estern world. No wonder the Communists glee fully promoted the pronouncement! A little later in August, the Lutheran W orld Federation endorsed the same position. Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, chairman of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, was responsible for the drafting of the WlCC and L W F statements. H e is the same Dr. Nolde referred to above who presided at the “Festival of Faith” in San Francisco. The pronouncement in supporting its demand said: “ Moreover, there is a risk for the sake of peace which Christians, especially in countries pro jecting tests of nuclear weapons, are justified in advocating, in the hope of breaking through the bar riers of distrust. They can urge their governments to declare their resolve to forego tests for a trial period, in the hope that others will do the same, a new confidence be born, and foundations laid for reliable agreements.” This assumption that the Russians somehow will be influenced for good or that they can be trusted is what the Communists want the W estern world to believe. And their strongest ally in this cold war on moral issues has turned out to be the W orld Council of Churches and the church leaders from the United States represented in the National Coun cil of Churches. This pronouncement came at a time when the Moscow W orld Youth Festival had been emphasiz ing the same Communist line—abandonment of Hbomb tests. For the NCC leaders in this country to be a party to a program which is exactly what the Communists desire in their cold war battle ought in itself to be sufficient cause for Christian people to forsake the Council. The Communist - appointed delegates in the W orld Council of Churches who were present at New Haven went back to their countries and re ported most favorably upon their accomplishments. This has been seen " in the Communist-controlled Hungarian Church Press and in the Protestant Churches in Czechoslovakia. The fact that these top church leaders from the United States are willing to sit down in “Christian fellowshin” and co-operate with these Communistappointed church leaders and unanimously—the 25 �above statement was adopted unanimously—produce a statement which undermines the welfare of the W est, places these men in the position of giving Communism a recognition, a respectability, and an influence which it should never have at the hands of the Christian religion. Jesus Christ said, “No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong m an; and then he will spoil his house” (M a rk .3:27). H-BOMB TESTS When the Council, however, does this sort of thing, it does not get called to account in press re ports for some reason. For instance, the United, Press, December 27, reporting from Cairo, Egypt, the African-Asian conference, said that the dele gates from 37 nations “started preparing resolu tions based on reports which voiced the Communist line on familiar cold war themes. “The reports, introduced Thursday, demanded an unconditional halt to nuclear weapons tests. . . Even the UP recognized this as “the Communist line.” When the central committee of the W orld Coun cil of Churches calls for unilateral cessation, with no conditions whatsoever, the United Press and the other press agencies in the United States did not identify it as “ familiar cold war themes.” The Outlook, October, 1957, the NCC’s official organ, as we have pointed out, had this to say: “The Central Committee of the W orld Council of Churches after lengthy consideration of widely diver gent views, voted to commend the CCIA statement to the churches. It went further in urging govern ments to cease atomic weapons tests as a first step at least for a trial period, unilaterally if necessary. It also requested the churches in the countries directly concerned to present the statements to their gov ernments. “ On the basis of this request, a delegation of churchmen representing the W orld Council of Churches, the Commission of the Churches on In ternational Affairs and the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. conferred with the Secretary of State of the United States on Septem ber 13.” 2G The Outlook concluded, “W hat effect, if any, this statement and its presentation to government may have on the United States policy remains to be seen.” Thus a pronouncement which favored the Com munist cold war line was carried to the Secretary of State in the name of these church bodies and this was done in country after country by the groups re lated to the WCC. Both the President and the Secretary of State are accessible to the top leaders of the National Council of Churches. They have received them. It is significant to note that similar requests by leaders of the American Council of Christian Churches to see the Secretary of State and also to see the Presi dent of the United States have been denied. If the President and the Secretary of State have the time to see NCC delegations, as they have, they should be willing to receive an American Council delegation which desires to present a different viewpoint on these issues from that which they have repeatedly received now from the NCC. There is strong feeling in American Council church circles in this country that there is just plain discrimination being manifested by the President and by the Secretary of State. F or instance, when the W orld Council was desirous of getting its dele gates from the Communist-controlled countries into this country for the Evanston Assembly, its leaders —the NCC leaders—were able to see the Secretary of State. But when the American Council of Chris tian Churches requested an opportunity to see the Secretary of State on the same subject it was denied the privilege. Several requests have gone to the White House. The door of the White House in the United States has been open to Dr. Eugene Carson Blake and Dr. Franklin Clark Fry. the chairman of the central committee of the W orld Council of Churches and president of the Lutheran W orld Fed eration, but it has not been open to any American Council churches’ representatives. This was not the case with the former President, H arry Truman. He opened his door to the Ameri can Council brethren as well as to the National Council leaders. 27 �PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE Another familiar cold war theme pushed by the Russians is “peaceful coexistence.” On this score the WCC, NCC again sided with the Russians, though they do not always use the name “peaceful coexistence.” The title adopted at Evanston in 1954 at the Second Assembly of the WCC, was “Living Together in a Divided W orld.” But it was the Communist line. “ Peaceful coexistence” was only “a transitional stage or a point of departure. I t must move, through untiring endeavor, beyond these minimum requirements into an order of gen uine cooperation. The first move into such an order must surely be in the direction of peaceful competi tion with growing co-operation. This order will be facilitated and reinforced through the free exchange of persons, culture, information and goods; through common undertakings for relief and human welfare; and through the growth of the United Nations as an instrument for peaceful change” (Evanston pronouncement on International A ffairs). RACE RELATIONS The. race relations program of the National Council of Churches is a major cause of strife and bitterness within the countrv. It has turned preach ers against laymen and colored against white and has helped create the embarrassment which has come to the United States. Since there is considerable evidence that the Communists have made racial tensions one of their major fields of concern, it is all the more important that Christian people face the issues in the light of the Bible, with Christian love and grace. But the N a tional Council has based its aggressive program upon the false and unbiblical doctrine of the “uni versal brotherhood of man and the universal father hood of God.” Race relations promoted on such an unchristian foundation will not bring peace. The Bible teaches that all men are born in sin, the children of wrath, and that it is not until thev are born again that they become children of God and one in Christ. This comes onlv when the true Gospel with its regenerating power is preached W ith their false gospel, there fore, the National Council has stimulated the emo tions of unregenerate men. 28 It was reported in St. Louis that not more than ten per cent of the churches in the U.S.A. are what is called integrated or interracial, and this has been attained after 40 years of the Council’s intensive propaganda to make all churches interracial and nonsegregated, as they call it. An all-white or an all-colored church is a “segregated church.” In the Year-End Roundup of the W orld Council of Churches, released December 17, 1957, it is re ported, “Dr. J. Oscar Lee, the National Council of Churches’ race relations expert, spent the first three months of 1957 on a round-the-world tour for the W CC to attempt to discover the world body’s role in the field of race.” The report says, “The new race relations program is designed to implement the affirmations of the 1954 W CC Evanston Assembly that ‘segregation, based on race, color, or ethnic origin is contrary to the Gospel and is incompatible with the Christian doctrine of man and with the nature of the Church of Christ.’ ” This is the shib boleth ! So far as the Bible is concerned, there has never been a more segregated people in the history of the world than the Children of Israel. The Old Testa ment demanded it of them. This segregation was based upon race, religion, and ethnical origin. In the New Testament the Gospel brings men— Jew and Greek, bond and free, white and black— into a blessed, eternal fellowship in Christ, the Church Universal. But this does not mean, and has not meant, historically or otherwise, that God’s people have not and do not worship around the world in their various local “segregated” assemblies according to their race, their color, their linguistic and ethnic origins. There are many factors indeed that have produced this, and yet true Christians fully respect and love one another. In the United States, under the doctrine of States Rights, each state has been free to handle its own social, educational, and racial problems, as circum stance required. But the National Council of Churches, denying the true Christian distinction between the saved and the lost, has used its position to try to force certain political and social patterns upon the southern states of the United States. The entire racial agitation of the National Coun cil of Churches should be stopped. The company of �Christians in the United States who endorse it, moreover, is small indeed. The approach to the problem should be, on the part of all Christian people, regardless of their race, or color, or ethnic origin, the preaching of the true Gospel of Christ which alone generates love in the hearts of men for one another. To try to force ‘'Christian love” as a social pattern in the name of the brotherhood of man, which does not exist, can only produce strife. It has. Christians who believe the Bible and love their Lord will love and respect one another, regardless of their race, color, or ethnic origin. The National Council’s racial program is not based upon the Gospel of Christ at all, but it is de signed to complement and to further the Communist ends of strife, turning man against man, color against color! Social patterns are not forced upon people from above by courts or by councils. They are determined in a democratic country by the people themselves and the true Gospel is the only sure remedy for the hearts and deeds of men. Present providential and historical locations of people of different races, colors, and ethnic origins around this earth are all going to have to be read justed and a thorough mixing brought to pass, if the W orld Council is to carry out its thesis for the Gospel. Radical, leftist, and Communist influences, we believe, are mainly responsible for this agitation. Testimony available today, both North and South in the United States, is to the effect that the racial situation is deteriorating and the cause of the colored man and genuine racial tolerance has been set back at least 50 years. Every true, Bible-believing Christian who loves his country, loves his neighbor, and loves his fel low Christian, whether he is white or black, should repudiate the National Council of Churches for the confusion and harm which it has produced even in its churches, where NCC leaders talk big at the top, but in actual practice their own churches are the biggest hypocrites of all 1 > 0 THEO LOG IC AL LEADERSHIP A t St. Louis, Dr. Blake, in his report, pointed up the new emphasis on theology. H e listed, “The practice of bringing to meetings of the general board some of the great theological voices of our churches: Niebuhr, Tillich, Calhoun,” and said, “This is to the end that the thought and discussions shall be deeply oriented in the best available insights into the nature of the gospel itself.” W ho are these men mentioned, and what are their insights? It is just here that the divergence of the Council from the position of the historic Chris tian faith is so clear. Niebuhr has given to the world a “ Niebuhrian” Christianity. It is of his own thinking. He believes that the Jesus of history was a sinner and was mis taken in some of his ideas. To him there is no es sential difference between the Jesus of history and Socrates or Gandhi. H e uses a dialectical approach. The Banner, organ of the Christian Reformed Church, October 4, 1957, appraises his position in these term s: “ It is not at all surprising, therefore, that according to Niebuhr both the Virgin Birth and the Incarnation are to be understood mythically. Heaven and hell are not to be understood literally. The resurrection of the body is another dialectical symbol; ‘to believe that the graves will be opened and men will literally be raised is to Niebuhr liter alistic nonsense.’ The Second Coming of Christ, too, is a mythical symbol; Niebuhr regards with scorn those who believe that Christ will actually appear upon the clouds of heaven.” Niebuhr is vice-president of Union Theological Seminary, New Y ork; and in a review, May 19, 1957, New York Times Book Review, he criticizes Jim Bishop in his book, The Day Christ Died, as follows: “H e constantly weaves the Johannine narrative of the events with that of the Synoptic Gospels without any seeming recognition that the Johan nine Gospel is something more and something less than history and has about the same relation to the actual record of Jesus’ words as Plato’s account of Socrates’ life has to the character of Socrates. “John sometimes actually corrects the record at 31 �important points, but the words he puts into the mouth of Jesus are certainly a poetic elaboration of the actual ‘sayings.’ No, they are the very words of Jesus and they are, as Jesus said, “ Spirit and life” 1 Reinhold Niebuhr is a socialist. His socialism is expressed in such statements as these: “The social power which inheres in the owner ship of the means of production is so irresponsible and so irrelevant to the necessities of the technical civilization that its destruction has become a primary prerequisite of social health.” Such influence in the name of theology and social consciousness at the head of the National Council of Churches only indicates how far afield present-day Protestantism has gone from its historic moorings. Such guidance will lead to social disaster. Paul Tillich also has a philosophy of his own. His book, Dynamics of Faith, H arper & Brothers, 1957, makes it abundantly clear that the historic literalistic view of Christianity cannot be accepted; that even “symbols and myths” cannot be under stood in their immediate meaning. Such literalism, he emphasizes, “ deprives God of his ultimacy and, religiously speaking, of his majesty.” H e objects to the virgin birth of the Messiah being “understood in biological terms, resurrection and ascension as physical events, the second coming of Christ as a telluric, or cosmic, catastrophe.” In fact, he says, “ If the Christ—a transcendent, divine being—ap pears in the fullness of time, lives, dies and is resur rected, this is an historical myth. Christianity is superior to those religions which are bound to a natural myth. But Christianity speaks the myth ological language like every other religion. It is a broken myth, but it is a m yth; otherwise Christianity would not be an expression of ultimate concern.” B ut the historic Christian faith has never be lieved or taught that the Christian religion is built upon symbols and that it is myth. Instead, we hear, “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you.” As the Apostle Luke said, it was “by many infallible proofs” that men were persuaded that Christ had literally and bodily been raised from the dead. It is fact, not m yth! Here again is a pagan philosophy akin to other 32 pagan myths being offered as Christianity and for the leadership of the church of the twentieth century. W hat valid “insight” can such apostasy offer our nation ? Dr. Calhoun of Yale lines up pretty well with the above two. David expressed what should guide any church council: “Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep they precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word” (Psa. 119:98-101). THE O NE-W ORLD CHURCH Co-operation through a greatly strengthened council of churches is not the end which the N a tional Council leadership envisions. There is some “double talk” right here, but the Christian unity to ward which they look is “one church.” This is to in clude all the churches of the world, with the Roman Catholic and the Communist-controlled churches in Iron Curtain lands. Quite a goal! A conference on Faith and Order, the first to be held in the United States, was sponsored jointly by the National Council of Churches, the W orld Coun cil of Churches, and the Canadian Council of Churches, in Oberlin, Ohio, September 3 to 10, 1957. The widespread publicity given to the conference in the United States convinced some of the Ameri can people that the end in view was the “one-world church.” Bishop Hanns Lilje of the Lutheran Church in Germany, addressing the meeting, emphasized the need for this unity and said, “This means that we have to rethink our whole Christian status, our Christian message and our Christian way of living in the light of greater Christian unity” (New York Times, September 9, 1957). The conference closed with a message to the churches calling for “a unity in which every min istry is a ministry of and for all the members, bound together in a worshiping and sacramental commu nity.” Every church was called upon “to examine 33 �the way in which it makes visible the nature of the Church of Christ.” The message expressed “a com mon sorrow over the continued fact of our separa tions one from another,” and, “Although some of our divisions arise out of loyalty to truths that we nowsee, we must acknowledge that Christ calls us to a fuller comprehension of truth and more obedient serv ice.” And it said, “We cannot forget that H is prayer for the unity of H is followers remains unfulfilled.” B ut John 17 was not a prayer for organic union of the followers of Christ into one visible church 1 This is the great error here. It was a prayer that His disciples might be one in Him, in their faith in Him and their love for Him and for each other. It was a spiritual oneness, not visible organic union. Thus the NCC is using Christ, H is name, re gardless of how men may consider Him or believe, or what they may believe concerning Him, as the shibboleth under which they are seeking to bring together all into one visible church. Instead, if all the churches of the land were preaching the Bible as God’s W ord, teaching the people the truth and the authority of the Scriptures, and seeking to win lost men to Christ, there would be blessing and peace in the land. If all the time spent on the unity programs was spent in full and free and independent preaching of the true Gospel, there would be spiritual power and discernment in the land. But men want power. Yet, God’s way is “by my Spirit, saith the Lord.” C O U N C IL OF CHURCHES There is a certain organizational structure con cerning the National Council of Churches which should be understood. It is a council of churches. W e do not in any way question this. Its constitution provides that the various denominations, through their own responsible bodies and by their own proc esses, vote to affiliate with the Council. Each de nomination is accorded a representation on the basis of its numerical strength, and each denomina tion determines who will be its delegates to the National Council. In this way, officially elected delegates from denominations which have officially 34 acted to unite with the Council form the Council itself. H ere is where the administrative power of the body lies. There is a national board responsible to the Council which has on it men who have been elected by the denominations to the Council. From an organizational standpoint none can challenge the representative or democratic charac ter of the Council’s setup. The Council, in fact, is a reflection of the condi tion that prevails in its various denominations. Each denomination operates according to its own setup, and, as it works out, usually the leaders of a partic ular denomination are the ones who are elected to serve in the Council. Thus when the Council claims to represent 37 million Americans, it is claiming to speak for the membership of the churches which have officially voted these members into membership in the N a tional Council of Churches. W hen a person joins a local church of a denom ination which is in the National Council, he also joins the National Council and W orld Council of Churches. The way for an individual to get out of the National and W orld Councils is for him to leave the local church of the denomination which put him into the Council. The philosophy and inclusivist concept of the church which is embraced by the National Council reflects the conditions which have come to exist over a long period of time in the Councirs denominations. There is some discrepancy between what some of the people in the National Council of Churches believe and the position represented by the Council itself. B ut the church leaders are sufficiently in control of the situation and have sufficient support from the churches that they have no fear of any difficulty. The hope of the country, so far as this National Council situation is concerned, is for the people in the grass roots of the country to realize that what is being done in their name through the Council and in the terminology of religion is actu ally undermining the very freedom which the farm ers, the businessmen, and the laborers enjoy. The list of denominations, 30 of them, which have constituted the National Council until its St. Louis convention, are as follows: 35 �African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church American Baptist Convention Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church Church of the Brethren Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Evangelical and Reformed Church Evangelical United Brethren Church Evangelical Unity of Czech Moravian Brethren in North America Five Years Meeting of Friends in America General Council of Congregational Christian Churches Greek Orthodox Church in America International Convention of Disciples of Christ The Methodist Church Moravian Church in America National Baptist Convention of America National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Protestant Episcopal Church Reformed Church in America Religious Society of Friends of Phialdelphia and Vicinity Roumanian Orthodox Church of America Russian Orthodox Church in North America Seventh Day Baptist General Conference Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America United Lutheran Church in America United Presbyterian Church of North America ECUMENICAL EVANGELISM There is one aspect of the National Council’s present activity that is confusing to many Chris tians. In fact, the National Council is using it to commend the Council and to offset its other activi ties. The Protestant Council of New York is the No. 1 local council affiliated with the National Council of Churches. The modernists, as we call them, those who deny fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith and have a wide variety of opinions concerning Christ, are in control of this Council. The NCC joined with the Protestant Council of New York in promoting the Billy Graham Crusade in Madison Square Garden in the summer of 1957. Indeed, the Protestant Council of New York was actually the sponsor of the Crusade. At the conclusion it also received from the campaign $67,618 for its follow up work. 36 Billy Graham, who started out in his ministry as a fundamentalist who faced the evidence of mod ernism, has changed. H e has ceased to question the modernists and would not go to New York until he had the sponsorship of their Protestant Council. Along with this he had, to lead in prayer, on his platform outstanding, present-day modernists who reject the Christ of the Bible. And then, the con verts who responded to the invitation to accept Christ Dr. Graham, without giving them any infor mation on the apostasy, turned over to “the church of their choice.” Converts were directed to all man ner of churches, including modernist Protestants, fundamental Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jewish Synagogues, Seventh Day Adventists, and so on. The National Council Outlook, October, 1957. featured Graham’s visit to the central committee of the W orld Council of Churchees in New Haven, Conn., in August of 1957. Graham was pictured with the Archbishop of Canterbury as the “guest” of the Council. This is the meeting that promoted the Communist line on the H-bomb (see preceding story). Back in 1948, however, when the W orld Council was organized, Graham was asked at the annual convention of the Conservative Baptist As sociation, “W hat do you expect the W orld Council of Churches to do this August when you visit Co penhagen?” He replied. “I believe they are going to nominate the Antichrist.” It is now indeed s e r v ing the cause of Antichrist, but Graham is helping to build their churches! Dr. Graham’s next campaign is to be under the direction of the San Francisco Council of Churches, another NCC affiliate. Of this campaign Dr. Graham has said, “Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman—Protestant, Catholic or Jewish.” Carl Howie, pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, and co-chairman for the Crusade, has announced that in San Francisco “the local com mittee will control policy and not the team.” The president of the San Francisco Council of Churches and the chairman of the financial committee for the Graham campaign is none other than Mrs. William Lister Rogers, who conceived and led the iniquitous “Festival of Faith,” where all joined in praying to 37 �pagan deities. (See “Festival of Faith” section above.) A serious and major reaction in evangelical cir cles across the country has set in. The Scriptures are clear. They require obedience to the commands of Christ. The Bible says, “If there come any unto you. and bring not this doctrine [ the doctrine of C hrist], receive him not into your house, neither hid him God speed” (2 John 10). But Dr. Graham places them on his sponsoring committee and he goes under their direction for the conducting of his campaigns, and then he turns his converts, who have had no caution whatsoever, into the hands of many modernists that they might be fed on husks. The National Council of Churches is using Dr. Graham, featuring him in its official organ, and many people are being misled. True Biblical evangelism will preach only the one Gospel, honor the com mands of God in its preaching, and turn the new born babes over to churches which preach the pre cious blood of Christ and are standing without com promise for the Faith in a great day of apostasy! All Christians should demand just that. God tells His people not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. The duty which God requires is “obedience to His revealed will,” not compromise, expedience, or disobedience in order to save souls. The Hon. James E. Bennet, LL.D., well-known New York attorney and Christian leader, has w rit ten at length on the Billy Graham New York Cru sade. All should have the facts he has gathered. (W rite for pamphlet, “Ministry of Disobedience,” 35 cents each, to Christian Beacon Press, Collingswood 7, N. J.) This inclusivist evangelism, ecumenical evangel ism, as it has now come to be called, is being used to build the National Council of Churches and to defend it when men arise with criticisms such as are reported in this appraisal. WORLD GOVERNMENT A lengthy book could be written on the program of the National Council of Churches to develop world government. The United Nations has had the Council’s enthusiastic support, with the em phasis that it is not enough—it is only the beginning. 38 A world government is the answer. The fact that Russia, with her deceit and subversion, is in the U. N., in explicit violation of the provisions of the charter, does not seem to weigh upon the Council’s conscience as it claims to be the conscience for the nation, and the “voice of the Church.” The General Board of the Council on June 9, 1955, in its official declaration presented to the Fes tival of Faith on the occasion of the tenth anniver sary of the signing of the Charter of the United N a tions, appealed for support, and emphasized that the United Nations had more meaning now than ever before “as sheer necessity to avoid international anarchy and war.” It called the U. N. “both a symbol and a method of strengthening the foundations of freedom, peace and security rn the world.” But, indeed, it is a symbol that two cannot “walk together, except they be agreed,” and it is a method whereby the Communists gain tremendous advantage in destroying “freedom, peace and security in the world.” Gradually people are seeing the moral bankruptcy of the U.N. A world church, toward which the NCC is driv ing, needs a world government which can use its political power to protect and promote the interests of the church. In the Book of Revelation, the oneworld church, the scarlet woman, rides on the back of the one-world government, the beast (Rev. 17). REFUSAL TO MEET CRITICS An appraisal such as this is made against the background of the Christian faith, as it has been taught and understood by Protestants in the United States through the years, and our social order based upon individual freedom. The National Council of Churches, and previously the Federal Council of Churches which it absorbed, has had a profound in fluence upon the churches and the national life of the United States. Its influence has had a great deal to do with the present impasse as the Reds have been strengthened in their drive to socialize all humanity. The strategy which the Council leaders have used in dealing with such criticisms as we are here giving has usually been one of silence. They have repeat39 �edly refused challenges to meet in public discussion those who are making responsible objections. Recently Radio Station W P E N , Philadelphia, scheduled a program, “Frank Ford’s Show,” to which it invited representatives of the American Council of Christian Churches and the National Council of Churches to discuss the subject, “ Social ism and Communism in Religion.” The National Council leaders declined to appear. The defense that they have made is to attack those who have raised criticisms as “apostles of discord,” also they have attempted to discredit such Govern ment committees as the Senate Committee on In ternal Security and the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. The truth is that the evidence which is presented by the Council’s critics stands. OTHER MEANS There are other indirect ways in which the Coun cil is working. It has sought to have the radio sta tions of the country voluntarily adopt the policy of not selling time to religion. This is an official policy which the Council is pressing. W hen radio stations give time, the Council goes to them and claims to represent the Protestants, and so has a monopoly. This procedure eliminates the funda mentalists who are the ones who are in their zeal able to procure enough support to buy time. Mod ernists generally cannot get support of this nature. This monopolistic psychology which abounds in the Council leaders’ program is expressed in their comity philosophy and their activity in working with zoning boards. The local councils presume to have the say as to where churches may be established or located. This, of course, involves threats to the liberty which the American people enjoy under the Bill of Rights and the “free exercise of religion.” The Council in its over-all program emphasizes its relief activities, its interchurch aid, and secures the support of groups which are not connected with it. Surely this is a field where the Council’s program is not being promoted but the Council is using its aid to silence criticism among those who receive it and those who co-operate. It is using its aid in every section of the world to promote the ecumeni cal movement—the one-world church with its corol 40 lary, one-world government. It has purchased with this aid whole libraries slanted to the leftist, so cialistic line, and presented them to schools and in stitutions all over the world. It brings foreign stu dents to study in the modernist seminaries. In fact, there is little that the Council does that is not oriented into its over-all picture. The zeal of the Council is eating it up. Its total impact is that of a powerful pressure group, operat ing under a front, to condition the people for certain social changes which they envision will establish the kingdom of God as a social order here on the earth— man-made, man-controlled—an instrument, as they see it, for world peace, but indeed an instrument of world tyranny. TH E VO ICE OF JEREMIAH The lonely prophet, Jeremiah, needs to be heard in this hour of apostasy and confusion. “Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord” (Jer. 23:1). His day was like ours. And so the Lord emphasized, “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ra n : I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings” (vv. 21, 22). “The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream ; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faith fully. W hat is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. . . . Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith” (vv. 28, 31). “Behold, I am against them that proph esy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them : therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord” (v. 32). The apostasy which has fallen upon the church, the inclusivist concept of the church, the emphasis upon building a one-world church, a man-made powerful system, and a one-world government—all of this is the dream and the fancy of men and is not 41 �in accordance with the W ord of the Lord. In the 15th chapter of Jeremiah, God calls for a taking forth of “the precious from the vile.” The precious and the vile cannot be joined together in fellowship. Jeremiah describes his own estate, “I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy h an d : for thou hast filled me with indignation” (15:17). He was not a member of the NCC or W CC of his day! And his indigna tion was against the prophets who were misleading the people and claiming that they spoke for God when the dreams that they offered them were in conflict with His commands and His W ord. Jeremiah heard the message from the Lord: “Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord. . . . Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. T rust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these [the Council of Churches, the Council of Churches, the Council of Churches]” (7:2-4). And then we read how Pashur, “ who was also chief gov ernor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then Pashur smote Jere miah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord” (20:1-3). But Jeremiah kept crying out, “The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. F o r thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends” (20:1-4). W H A T ARE WE TO DO? We—every true servant of Jesus Christ—should stand in the succession of Jeremiah. It was this spirit that in 1941 led churches that had separated from the National Council, then the Federal Council of Churches, and its denomina tions, to establish the American Council of Christian Churches. There are 14 of the smaller church bodies in that Council today. It is challenging the N a tional Council in its departure from the W ord of God. And as the National Council and the ecumen42 ical leaders established their W orld Council of Churches in 1948, another parallel and opposing council, the International Council of Christian Churches, with which the ACCC is affiliated, was also founded, and now has 58 denominations. This council does not stand for the organic union of the churches. It is calling the churches to stand by their confessions, to build their testimonies, and to co operate together in Christian fellowship, mutual love and respect, and to join in battling the apostasy as represented by the NCC. There are some things that must be done now by every Christian: (1 ) Be informed. (2) Be an active missionary in informing others. (3) Separate from the National Council of Churches and from the denominations which comprise it: the whole system is evil. (4) Take part in the maintaining and establishment of true Bible-believing churches where the W ord of God is preached in its purity. (5 ) Cease to give money to the National Council or to any of the denominations associated with it. The National Council counts all the people and it gets its funds directly and indirectly, in various ways, to support its intricate and involved setup. (6) Give more than ever before to help the true missionary testimonies, the Bible-believing churches, and ail who are engaged in the battle for the Faith and for the freedom of our country. (7) Pray without ceasing! Each individual Christian must recognize that he counts, that he has a personal responsibility in this battle, and that what he does is going to determine the way things go in the future, for the church and for the country! The key to all Chris tian activity and testimony is the individual, obedient and faithful, uncompromising and militant, as he stands by the ancient landmarks, keeps them from being removed, and as he resists the enemies of men’s souls today. " Fight the good tight of faith.” S e e a n n o u n c e m e n t 43 o n n e x t p a g e �READ THESE PAMPHLETS BY DR. M clN TIR E T H E N E W B IB LE, Revised Standard Version, W hy Christians Should Not Accept It B IS H O P OXNAM , P R O P H E T O F M ARX The above sell for 10 cents each; $1 for 12; $2 for 25; $7.50 for 100 T H E C LIM A X O F A PO ST A SY (Festival of F a ith ) ; 15 cents, 8 for $1 ST A T E M E N T C O N C E R N IN G H R O M A D K A ; 2 for 5 cents, 100 for $2 R U SSIA N B A PT IST S IN T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S ; 5 cents, 25 for $1 T H E T E S T IM O N Y O F S E PA R A T IO N (The differences between the American Council of Chris tian Churches and the National Association of Evan gelicals) ; 75 cents, 3 for $2 A PAMPHLET BY VARIOUS AUTHORS A M IN IS T R Y O F D ISO B E D IE N C E (Billy Graham's New York Crusade), 35 cents, 10 for S3; 25 for $7: 100 for $25. BOOKS BY DR. 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C a r 1 M c l n t i r e , D. D., Litt.D., F.R.G.S., the author of the foregoing document, is pastor of the Bible Presbyterian Church of Collings wood, N. J. H e has been pastor of this 1617-mem ber church since October, 1933. Dr. M clntire served as the first president of the American Council of Christian Churches from 1941 to 1943. H e has been president of the International Council of Christian Churches since its formation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 194S. In the last few yeais he has v sited 60 countries and has trav eled around the world four times in the interest of the International Council, which represents 61 Prot estant denominational bodies. Faith Theological Seminary, Elkins Park, Phila delphia, P a .; the Independent Board for Presbyte rian Foreign M issions; the Independent Board for Presbyterian Home M issions; Shelton College, Ringwood, N. J . : Highland College, Pasadena, Calif., are among the separated, Christian institutions on whose boards of directors Dr. M clntire serves. H e is author of a number of books, among which are: Modern Tower o f Babel (now out of print) ; Servants of Apostasy, the story of the meeting of the W orld Council of Churches in 1954: Author of Liberty ” a study in popular style of the Triune God and His principles of liberty: and three volumes on three books of the Bible—For Such a Time as This (E sther), " The Wall of Jerusalem Also Is Broken Down” (Nehemiah), and Better Than Seven Sons (R uth). Dr. M clntire is Editor of the weekly Christian Beacon with subscribers in every state in the Union and 87 foreign countries. He also conducts a 30minute daily broadcast. 20th Century Reformation Hour, on Station W VCH. Chester, Pa., and Station WGCB, Red Lion, Pa. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Booklet, "The National Council of Churches: An Appraisal," 1957 Description An account of the resource Booklet entitled "The National Council of Churches: An Appraisal," by Carl McIntire, published by the Christian Beacon Press, 1957. Author accuses the National Council of Churches as actively working for Communism and Soviet Russia and discusses his proof of this assertion. 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Sept. 23, 58 Dear Mr. Browne, I hope this material will be of some use to you and others. Let us face the facts that communism is the grass roots to all of the evils of the world situation of to day. The time is getting short when we will fold up and into the hands of communist. When we do , you will be no longer desirable as a lot of us others. Liquidation will come quickly. I hope and pray you will give some thought to this and God will give you courage to speak to your people that we may work for a better understanding and America, not a communist Russia^ Who do you stand for? Jesus Christ or atheist Russia. Yours in Christ Irene Compton � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter to James Browne from Irene Compton, 1958 Description An account of the resource Letter to James Browne from Irene Compton, dated September 23, 1958. Letter introduces unknown material and warns Browne that Communist Russia is threatening America and he should think about his actions and speech to work against Russia and for the United States and Jesus Christ. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_12 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/5293df4320cdb9d8fdd87c3fa6319bba.pdf 1767428e09c91e1805da0642ec22d8af PDF Text Text I S p e a k e rs A d journ to Law n Integration Foes Boo Fairfax P-TA, tTake Over Workshop Meeting Hall Opponents of public school integration in F airfax County forced a d jo u rn m en t of a F air fax County F e d eration of P a r ent-Teacher Associations in te gration w orkshop yesterday and took over the m eeting hall fo r th e ir own discussion. A ttem pts of Federation offi cials to carry out the study of problem s p resented by the Su prem e C ourt’s integration edict w ere shouted down at Annandale High School. The p ro testin g group — con sisting of about 100 persons who pu nctuated th eir protests w ith loud booing and hissing— charged from the floor th a t the m eetin g had b e e n “packed” w ith “pro-integrationists.” W hen th e m eeting w as ad jo u rn e d , F ed e ra tio n officials, th e e n tire p anel of nine speak ers a nd about 50 m em bers of Fairfax P-TA groups who had voted to continue th e m eeting moved outside. Standing on the law n outside the school, they continued an inform al and condensed ver sion of the original program , which F e deratio n officials de clared was never intended to be anything m ore th an a “study session.” M em bers of the m ajority protesting /group, led by of ficials of the Fairfax chapter of the D efenders of S tate Sover eignty and Individual L iberties, rem ained in session in the school m eeting room. T hey charged th a t th e aim of the workshop had been to take a vote th a t w ould create a “false im pression” th a t all of the P-TA groups in Fairfax county indorsed the policies of the Federation. M anning Gasch, M cLean real estate m an and p resid en t of the D efenders group, was nam ed chairm an of a new com m ittee u n d e r which th e group which broke up the F e deration w ork shop banded to g eth e r as th e “V irginia Citizens’ Association fo r B e tte r Schools.” Gasch, P a u l Lee Sweeney, a m em ber of t h e D efenders group, and H arley W illiams, a m em ber of the F airfax High School P-TA and the Fairfax E lem entary School P-TA, led the b itte r fight w hich forced th e workshop into adjournm ent. Mrs. J. F. W ellem eyer, of A lexandria, chairm an of the F e deration’s legislative commit- See INTEGRATE, P. A2, Col. 4 �Rayco's famous ORITEX Zephyr 2© Haas . . . »r la z in e ss! Meet our trend-setting Lazy Lacer® . . . an urbanized casual shoe. 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A t one point, she sought to resto re o rder by rem oving h e r left shoe and pounding on the sp eakers’ tab le w ith the heel. She told the crow d th a t the F ed eration la s t O ctober had notified local P-TA presidents th at th e workshop w ould be held and had never stated th a t it would end in a vote to de term ine audience reaction. “We had no in ten tion a t any tim e of having a vote,” Mrs. Donald Gray, F ederation p res ident, said at the outset of the storm y m eeting. This was in answ er to an ad jo u rn m e n t m otion by W illiams, who charged th a t the national by-laws of the N ational Con g ress of Parent-T eacher Asso ciations “preclude th e P-TAs from taking action on admin istrative policies and m atters of admission.” When W illiams’ m otion to ad jo u rn carried in a flurry of hand-waving and shouts for “orderly procedure,” M r s . W ellem cycr said the m eeting stood adjourned “un til equal rep resen tation of two points of view can be arranged.” The w orkshop panel—led by B enjam in Muse, form er M anas sas new spaper ed ito r and Vir ginia S tate Senator, and col um nist for The W ashington Post and Tim es H erald; Dr. Houston R. Jackson, assistant su p erin ten d en t of p u b l i c schools in Baltim ore, and the Rev. C. Em erson Sm ith, of Rich mond, m em ber of the Virginia Council of Churches— moved outside. O ther m em bers of the work shop panel included Dr. H arold Kennedy, F airfax County health officer; R obert M angan, ch air m an of the V ienna P-TA study com m ittee; R obert B. W alker, director of inform ation and sur veys of the F airfax schools; Mrs. Sidnie G reenleaf, retiring; chairm an of th e N o rth ern Vir-j ginia D istrict of th e V irginia Congress of P a ren ts and Teach ers; Mrs. Ram ey Burton, mem b e r of an A rlington County com m ittee to study problem s of integration, and Mrs. Louise Palm er, of the F airfax F ed era tion of P-TAs research comm it tee. M use told th e workshop that while a m ajority of V irginians today “undoubtedly are op posed to m ixed schools such, th at m ajo rity is being visibly reduced as each m onth goes by.” He said the m atter boils down to how m any persons fav o r de fying the Suprem e C ourt and how m any favor abolishing the state’s public school system. Muse and Dr. Jackson late r term ed the action of the group which forced ad jo u rn m en t of the workshop “disgraceful and thoroughly un-Am erican.” “I was born and reared in V irginia and I am thoroughly asham ed of my own state,” Dr. Jackson told a reporter. M eanwhile, Sweeney, an at torney from the F ran k lin P ark area, and a m em ber of the C hesterbrook E l e m e n t a r y ! School P-TA, rea d a 6 ^ -p ag ei statem ent to th e newly form ed! “V irginia C itizens fo r B etter Schools” in th e A nnandalel auditorium v a c a t e d by the workshop. �A Joking President S < P resid en t Eisenhow er and AFL P re sid e n t George M eany apj jS j y J ^ i je j n it ti n g on a little dance a t the cornerstone lay- I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper Clipping, Washington Post, 1955 Description An account of the resource Clipping from Washington Post for May 1, 1955. Reports on breakup of Fairfax County Federation of PTAs workshop on school integration. Also describes the workshop as it was intended to occur. Article spread over two clippings; verso of both has other side of newspaper page. Four pages. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Washington Post Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955-05-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_7 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/00e18a64789052a5f07d23836327bd33.pdf 0da862baa332d39b3932e2e7bd5897b8 PDF Text Text A n n a n d a le D is o r d e r \ I atten d ed th e w orkshop | sponsored by th e P-TA a t the A nnandale High School April 30, w hich w as to discuss the Suprem e C ourt’s decision on in teg ration in public schools. I w ent as a casual observer ex pecting an ord erly discussion of w hat undoubtedly is a very controversial issue, b u t an issue which has been discussed be fo re in an atm osphere of civility and o rd er and resp e c t fo r indi vidual opinions and principles. W hat I w itnessed was w ithout doubt Uncivilized,* shameful, and shocking behavior on the p a rt of a group of citizens onposed to the Suprem e C ourt’s decision on integration. The display of rudeness and lack of courtesy, p a rticu larly on the p a rt of Mr. P a u l L. Sweeney and Mr. Gasch toward the chair wom an of th e m eeting, Mrs. W ellem ayer, w as m ost shock ing. She was n o t given the courtesy of finishing m ore th an a few sentences a t a tim e w ith ou t being rudely in te rru p te d by shouts from the “opposition.” I could not help b u t notice the coiTvast betw een this group ; of citizens who dem onstrated an open fear of w h at the speak ers had to say on integration, w ith th e behavior of the “pro in teg ration” group who tim e I and again, in an orderly fash- I ion, and w ith all due courtesy I and resp ect fo r the feelings of I all present, peacefully but in-1 I 1 k 1 1 ^ sistently requested th a t the speakers (some of whom had come all the way from Rich m ond) be allowed *o speak. Finally the speakers had to leave th e hall and m any, disgusted w ith this dem onstration, followed them out. M. ALONSO RODRIQUEZ. W ashington. �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper Clipping, 1955 Description An account of the resource Clipping from unnamed newspaper for May 6, 1955. Letter to the editor from M. Alonso Rodriquez, shaming segregationists who broke up the Fairfax County Federation of PTA workshop on school desegregation. Verso has other side of newspaper page. Two pages. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource M. Alonso Rodriquez, unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955-05-06 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_6 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/ea7c0f29ae59687866670ea1d987bc77.pdf dc9eaad186cd79fc979dd2be0601cf9c PDF Text Text Knoiv-Nothingism in Fairfax Members of the so-called Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties in Fairfax County apparently are interested only in the liber ties of their own noisy and misguided group. On Saturday, the Fairfax County Federation of ParentTeacher Associations sought to hold a workshop on school integration with a number of guest speakers. This was an altogether proper and highly commend able effort to meet the problems presented by the Supreme Court decision ending racial segregation in public schools. The meeting at Annandale was planned as long ago as last October, and no “vote” on integration was contemplated. But the Federa tion was unable to carry out the program because some 100 self-appointed vigilantes appeared and in thoroughly totalitarian fashion broke up the meet ing, whereupon they held a rump session of their own. This amounted not only to unauthorized use of school property, but also to a flagrant denial of free speech. We suspect that many Virginians, even some who are troubled by the Supreme Court decision, will be disgusted by this display of boorishness. The Defenders, who have now formed a new group they call the Virginia Citizens Association for Better Schools, of course, have every right to hold and express their opinions. They step entirely out of bounds, however, when they seek to prevent re sponsible organizations from exploring ways to meet the requirements of law. It is significant that at least one of the leaders of the vigilante group was prominently identified with a recent effort to frustrate new school construction in Fairfax County. Bad manners and loud talk may cause momen tary confusion, but they never won an argument. Since it evidently is the plan of this dissident group to attempt to break up meetings in the county, it is important for other citizens not to be intimi dated by them. Their activities merely betray how sadly unacquainted they are with the libertarian traditions of the state they profess to defend. �flan Betray the Woman He Loves ss Crimes He Never Committed? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper Clipping, 1955 Description An account of the resource Clipping from unnamed newspaper for May, 1955. Opinion piece opposing segregationists who broke up the Fairfax County Federation of PTA workshop of school desegregation. Verso has other side of newspaper page. Two pages. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG 18, Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource unknown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955-05 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1950s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This image is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 18_2_1_17_5 https://projectdaps.org/files/original/9c0a9bf57e5e76206d081851de553188.pdf e428ef86d615c57166871641e8d53829 PDF Text Text <;i5oitf/icrit H o s p ita lity M I ’m m ost g rateful to Col. Benjam in Muse for stressing in his M ay 8 colum n, as only such a courtly gentlem an could stress it, one of the m ost dism aying aspects of the P-TA F edera tion w orkshop on integration— nam ely, the extrem e discour tesy displayed by those who succeeded in breaking up the m eeting. R epresentatives of this group I of noisy dissidents never fail, at public m eetings in the county, to take it upon them selves ru d ely to lecture th e ir opposi tion on bad m anners. It’s ironic th a t Southern chivalry was so loudly flouted by those pro fessing to speak for the tru e South and the Old Dominion. Many people, even among those p rese n t at the Annandalc affair, d id n 't realize th at the genuine brand of So uthern hos p itality was displayed by the very lady who was so cavalierly shouted down to adjournm ent. A num ber of the dissenters at ten d in g th e w orkship refused to honor a dollar admission fee set to defray expenses, including light refreshm ents, a t the schedu led m idafternoon “b r e a k . ” T hese “guests,” who forced the 1 P-TA group from th e room it had reserved and would pay for, th en blandly asked fo r cola drinks! And the dispossessed P-TA chairm an insisted th at they be served. I, fo r one, still have faith that, em otion-fraught as the decision by the U nited States Suprem e C ourt ending segregation in public schools may be in F a ir fax County, it is yet unques tionably possible to hear speeches and to discuss contro versial su bjects civilly and in orderly fashion. And I firmly be lieve th a t this will be done. SARAH M. LAHR. Falls C hurch, Va. _ L ] I | �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RG 18: Personal Papers of Barbara Marx Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper Clipping, 1955 Description An account of the resource Clipping from unnamed newspaper for May 20, 1955. Letter to the editor from Sarah M. Lahr, shaming segregationists who broke up the Fairfax County Federation of PTA workshop on school desegregation. Verso has other side of newspaper page. Two pages. 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