The Virginian-Pilot from Norfolk, Virginia • 50

Section Two Norfolk Virginia Sunday June 4 1950 Sixteen Pages l50()Semors To Graduate I A In Tidewater 4 Plan Tuesday I 4 a it if S' i look toward State to Cut 10 Minutes Off Hampton Roads erry on is A mournful plume trails from the veteran Wauketa Coal Sweat Straining Backs Choice of Men onDoomed erry a reporter and a at a Today at 6:15 I DEPARTMENT 4 r' erry Hearing Set took the that City to Study lice woman Adventurous Seaman Sailed Disabled Craft Inside Virginia Capes Stayed Aboard During Repairs Class of 372 Biggest 2 Smallest Number Virtues of Wauketa Extolled by Wiley Stop Engines Order Today to 49 ederal Judge Sterling Hutcheson of Richmond has complimented Hans Milton for helping bring the disabled yacht Blue Goose into port last November 22 but found that the adventurous seaman was not entitled to salvage compensation Milton was serving as sailing Speed Takes Lives! Take It Easy! Virrinian Pilot Photos by Mays the setting sun The sun sets SCC to Hear Arguments On Its Order to End Service end for both his seamanship and his conduct in his relation to the vessel but he is not entitled to further compensation Milton remained on the Blue Goose during repairs to the vessel until last December 2 He brought a suit for payment for salvage The trial in the United States Dis trict Court lasted several days Ruled Judge Hutcheson ruled that Mil ton was a member of the sailing crew although he was not being paid for his services and was deemed to be a adven with the others aboard The opinion held that Milton per formed services beyond those agreed upon in New York but was not entitled to recover any com pensation through the action Judge Hutcheson also held that the Blue Goose was anchored not aban doned' The libel Was treed here In May By Bynum Shaw More than 1500 high school seniors of Norfolk Norfolk Coun ty Princess Anne County and South Norfolk will pass across rostrums In the next diploma that master aboard the Blue Goose on a Southern voyage from New York when the vessel ran into heavy seas off the Virginia crast Her engines broke down but using sails she came inside the capes four days after setting out for Miami la and anchored An Army tug removed all pas sengers from the 70 foot schooner and landed them at Little Creek and a Coast Guard cutter later ad vised it could not take the yacht in tow unless a representative of the owner was aboard Owner Injured The owner Norman Walker New York writer had injured his hand Milton returned to the yacht and remained aboard unti she was towed in At Miami Milton mas ter of a steamshin in the fruit trade was to board his own ship In an opinion received here Judge Hutcheson ruled: facts shown by the rec ord he (Milton) is to be oommend Virginian Pilot Photo by Haycox A sidewheel churns on the City of Richmond Curfew CaHed On Panther Hunt Until Next Scare The next move is the Norfolk County Game Warden Ansell said yesterday he contemplated no more attempts to locate an elusive which last Tuesday was reported to have been roaming in the vicinity of Oakdale arms we get another report of a real Ansell said last night "we intend to allow an organized He said nu merous parties of boys and men armed with shotguns and rifles have been tramping through the densely wooded area near the spot where the panther was supposed to have taker! cover Ansell said he feared someone might be hurt if such foraging continues He added that any reappearance of a real panther will be met with an organized band of skilled hunt By Charles Rodeffer Tomorrow is the last day which appeals to the South Norfolk annexation decision of ebruary 4 may be filed or it it? question is something of a puzzle in legal circles Virginia court rules allow four months in which to make appeal from a court decision But is the four months counted from the original or the final decision? Also according to Virginia court rules a decree may "rest in the breast of the for 21 days before a final decree is issued That is the court is permitted to change its decree for sufficient reason within the 21 days In the South Norfolk annexation case the special court changed its original decree at the 11th hour last ebruary 25 Called in emer gency session after adoption of the Battle Plan by the General As sembly within the 21 days the court ruled that approximately $150000 of Battle Plan money should be a dowry of the annexa tion area and not remain with the parent Norfolk County Question Posed Thus the question arises: Does the appeal period date from eb ruary 4 the date of the original decree or from ebruary 25 the date of the final decree? As for the South Norfolk case the question maybe purely acade mic City Attorney Jerry Bray Jr noted that none of the four opponent parties to the annexation has the within the 60 days required by Virginia court rules as a prerequisite for an appeal no certified evidence to present to the Supreme Court of Appeals how can there be an ap BVay asked Municipal officials yesterday said the City of Norfolk has made no move to appeal the South Norfolk annexation decision Soon after the Southside was awarded the addi tional territory the Norfolk City Council issued a formal press re lease which said a decision as to what Norfolk plans to do about an nexation would be announced The City of South Norfolk exception to two points in decree: The ruling South Norfolk should assume a portion Of Norfolk $1 07545155 Literary und debt and that South Norfolk should pay the county $2291756 for a major line run to Providence Terrace in 1918 i South Norfolk argued that the equity of the annexation area in the Norfolk Portsmouth ferries which would be lost after annexa tion would more than offset the share of the Literary und debt The Southside city argued that the law said the annexing city had See Annexation Page 2 The State Corporation Commis sion yesterday called a public hear ing for July 13 to determine wheth er it will make permanent an or der granting temporary authority to the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail way to substitute buses for its steamer service across Hampton Roads between Norfolk and New port News Meanwhile the railway Is gear ing its personnel for the substitute bus schedule to begin tomorrow and continue for the next 90 days unless the SCC curtails the trial period authorized by that body In a surprise order issued last week The steamer service Inaugurated in 1886 will be terminated after scheduled sailings tonight In ordering the July 13 hearing the SCC took cognizance of pro tests lodged during a conference the day before on behalf of employees and private citizens af fected by the change in service across the roadstead ArthurJett Norfolk attorney participated 'in the conference on behalf of Dr Ray Temple a dentist who is a regular user of the steamer service in conducting his practice in Norfolk and New port News Charges Inconvenience Dr Temple contends his counsel that the change would inconvenience passengers and that the burden of proof that the new service will be satisfactory should rest on the and not on the public to show that it is unsatis factory Another legal skirmish by pro testants came to nought Thursday when Judge Albert Bryan sit ting in the ederal District Court in Alexandria denied a prelim inary injunction to prevent the substitution However a motion for a permanent injunction is pend ing and will be heard at a later date The petition had been filed by Dr Temple and an engineer on the ferry Virginia Luther Johnson The engineer contended that taking the Virginia out of service would cause him to lose both his job and his seniority rights Yesterday Johnson took issue with that part of the an swer which stated that he will not lose his job and rights as he will be employed in similar capacity on another vessel Johnson contended that if he is assigned an other ship he will replace some other employee with less seniority Protests rom Richmond Moore general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks in Richmond was quoted in that city yesterday as saying that procedure followed by the carrier in its effort to abandon the steamer service to say the least is most A similar viewpoint was ex pressed here Thursday when two top officials conferred with representatives of various civic and port organizations Although the organizations de clded'not to take any action to pre vent the inauguration of the sub stitute service two of them the Norfolk Association of Commerce and the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce will study the public reaction before deciding whether to intervene against permanent abandonment of the steamers By Ralph Winnett at that said Chief Engineer Burfoot of the SS Wauketa 110 degrees in the engine room Back in he motioned proudly toward the stokehole all of 130 phntogranher Whether Tomorrow inal Day for iling Action Is Moot Question Tuesday Churchland High School gradu ation exercises at the school at 8 with student speakers Wednesday Deep Creek High School com mencement ceremonies at 8 in the auditorium with student speakers Thursday Cradock High School graduation exercises in the auditorium at 8 with student speakers Kempsville High School gradu See Graduates Page 2 ighter Pilot hailed in Crash Near Back Bay Local News Sports conclusion that should be continued den Heights to ort Story said the executive com mittee will meet this week to da termine what action If ary will be taken A spokesman for the railroad which won a partial victory by recommendation that the seven miles of the tracks between ort Story and Lake Station be removed hinted that although no decision has been made it prob ably would be to the company's interest to file an exception in the hope that the entire abandon ment project would be allowed Exception Deadline Jane 13 In any event the railroad and other Interested parties have un til June 13 to make exceptions be fore the case is referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission for final action If no exceptions are filed it hi presumed that recommenda tions will be carried through by the commission and activate long projected plans by towq officials of Virginia Beach to pave Pacific Avenue which would give the re sort a second major thoroughfare At the present time the tracks either border Pacific Avenue ot run through the center of th street from the south end of th resort through the business seo tion and extending to the north ern limits of the town Thes tracks would be removed undel recommendations The Lynnhaven association'! primary interest in supporting the petition was th4 prospective removal of the con trestle over Lynnhaven I let which at present is a majol obstacle in a million dollar plui project which would open the li let and tributary "waters to pleaa ure and commercial craft and re store its once vaunted oyster In dustry Segment Not Included Nye in his recommendation ruled against the abandonment ot that segment of track betwees ort Story and Camden Heighti largely on the basis of need See North Route Page 2 Wet But Warm Weather Seen Cooler Monday two weeks for the diploma that comes with graduation The size of classes ranges from Maury High whopping 372 candidates down to the class of two boys at Creeds High School graduating alone because they were caught in Princess Anne County's shift from an 11 to a 12 grade system ministers still are In greatest demand as commence ment speakers At many schools however leading students are slated to bespeak their views on peace freedom and knowledge at several of the closing exercises Norfolk Academy which is graduating its first post war class has landed one of this top military men as its finals orator Rear Adm Davis com mandant of the ifth Naval Dis trict Most Exercises at Schools Most of the exercises are slated for school auditoriums but Maury is requisitioning the City Audi torium for its finals Norview is once again making use of its sta dium and Booker Washington High School has retained the Cen ter Theater for Class Night ex ercises next Monday The latest tabulation of the number of candidates for grad uation at each of the schools is as follows: Maury 372 Granby 170 Booker Washington 170 Norview 262 Holy Trinity 39 Norfolk Academy 16 Great Bridge 62 Portlock 73 Churchland 43 Cradock 143 Deep Creek 48 South Norfolk 76 Kempsville 22 Oceana 30 and Creeds 2 In addition the Norfolk Di vision College of William and Mary VPl will award associate in arts certificates to 76 and techni cal school diplomas to 26 in final exercises Thursday A schedule of graduation events at the various high schools of this section follows: Today Cradock High School baccalau reate services at the school at 2 Churchland High School bac calaureate services at the school at 4 Deep Creek High School bac calaureate services at 11 a Great Bridge High School bac calaureate services at 7 in the auditorium Holy Trinity High School bac calaureate mass at 10 a at the church Norview High School bacca laureate services at 6:30 in the stadium Oceana High School baccalau reate services at 8:15 in the auditorium Kempsville High School bacca laureate Services at 3 at the school Monday Holy Trinity High School com mencement exercises at the church at 8 conducted by Monsig nor Michael Cannon of Rich mond Lynnhaven Waterways Body to Consider Excep tion to inding An exception to the recommen dations of i A Nye Interstate Commerce Commission examiner may be made by one or more parties represented at the hearing conducted here in March on the petition of the Norfolk Southern Railway Company to abandon its some 185 miles of single track from Camden Heights through ort Story to Lake Sta tion at Virginia Beach Leon Seawell Norfolk attor ney for the Lynnhaven Water ways Improvement Association which was adversely affected by conclusion that rail service from Cam Passengers on the ferry Wauketa today on the ferry service Road Hog Is Ham Bad Actor WTAR Transfers To New Studios On Boush Street WTAR the Ledger Dispatch Virginian Pilot radio station yes terday moved its offices anct stu dios from the National Bank of Commerce building to the new WTAR Radio Television Center building at 720 724 Boush Street around the corner from Norfolk Newspapers Inc building Television operations have been carried on from the new building since WTAR TV started on April 2 but radio broadcasts had to be continued at the old location until facilities in the jnew four story center building were completed The radio transmitter equip ment in the bank building will not be moved for a couple of weeks and the new building will not be finished until some time during the Summer When completed the new cen ter building will be one of the finest in the country It will con tain three large studios plus a small auditorium with a stage and will be most modernly equipped The antenna tower for television broadcasts Is directly behind the main building Captain Wiley of the Wauketa younger generation of captains who probably even the Captain Demonstrates Captain Wiley repeated many times that he could do it in a jiffy His pride in the knowledge seemed a pleasant failing and he obviously wanted to demonstrate hear you box the com the press mercifully sug gested The took a long breath north a quarter east north a half east north three quarters east by east by east a quarter a quarter east by east a half east The required some time Wiley standing stiffly like a youngster reciting a poem filled his lungs between cardinal points and reeled the fractions off with relish i Some distance ahead a squat Virginia Highway Department fer ry headed the Pine Beach slip There was nothing pretty about the other boat but it could stand up well on the ledger sheets It would soon be the hated buses "We usually can beat Wiley said cautiously The Wauketa pulled abeam of the competitor and finally swished the ferry with a scornful wake "We do it every the skip per remarked his leathery face relaxing into a smile Back at the passenger wharf In See Wauketa Page 2 Two Men Rob Driver of $85 Louis Chappell driver for a cleaning company reported to po lice at 8 last night that he was held up and robbed of $85 by two Negro men while making a delivery at 894 Johnson Avenue Chappell who lives at 2927 Dey Street said he had made his deliv ery and was returning to his truck when the two men stepped up be hind him and ordered him to put his hands up and walk around the corner on Street He said the robbers threatened shoot him if he looked around Chappell for Copeland's Cleaners Norfolk City Has Been 10 Days Without a Traffic atality Deaths This Year 9 Same Date Last Year 1 1 Showers Thunderstorms Likely at Any Time Today and Tonight A wet but warm Sabbath Is in store for the Norfolk area today the weatherman predicted after analyzing his charts last night To morrow bids to be fair and refresh ingly cool Occasional showers and perhaps a thunderstorm are likely at any time today and early tonight Temperatures should hit a peak near 80 or a 'trifle higher this after noon Lowest by Monday morning will be around 62 This low will be about 68 degrees South to southwesterly winds may increase to strong force today an shift to northerly late tonight or early Monday Small craft warn ings are flying from south of Block Island I to the Virginia Capes including Chesapeake Bay Officially the forecast by Peter Kupchella aide of the Norfolk Weather Bureau office reads: "Cloudy and warm with occasion al showers and possibly a thunder storm today and early tonight Highest temperature this afternoon 80 or slightly higher and lowest by Monday morning about 62 air and cool Monday South to south west winds 15 25 miles per hour today shifting to northerly late to night or early A burning morning sun and growing mugginess combined to make yesterday rather oppressive Starting from a low of 66 (at 4:25 a m) the mercury rose rapidly to 80 by 10:30 and went on up to its peak 84 at 12:20 In spite of mostly overcast skies read ings stayed in the low until 5:30 The mean 75 was four above normal for the date ight Indicated OnAbandoning Of Route California Plane Buried 10 eet in Swamp by orce Ensign Arthur Hamilton 21 USNR was killed instantly yester day morning when the Grumman 8 ighter he was piloting on a routine local familiarization flight crashed into swampy woods about one mile west of Back Bay Post Office Hamilton unmarried is the son of Dr A Hamilton of Rendondo Beach Calif He was notified of the tragedy The fighter he was flying is at tached 'to VC Composite Squadron 62 based at the Norfolk Naval Air Station He joined the squadron in August 1949 The aircraft hit the swampy area with such force that it went 100 feet into the ground It did not catch fire irst report of the mishap came at 9:40 a from a resident of the area near the spot the plane crashed oh the farm of Cliff Ether idge Coast Guardsmen from the Vir ginia Beach Lifeboat Station par ticipated in the search and a heli copter from the Elizabeth City Coast Guard Station also assist ed in locating the wreckage The latter was unable to land near the plane The body of the pilot was re moved to the Portsmouth Naval Hospital The Oceana Naval Air Station will conduct salvage opera tions Complement of 40 Asked to Handle Traffic At School Crossings Recommendations by the Depart ment of Public Safety for forma tion of a complement of 40 po licewomen to handle school cross ing traffic in Norfolk is scheduled for City Council consideration The use of women for traffic control at school crossings has been under study by police officials since early this year The study was pressed after a seven year old Holy Trinity School boy was killed when struck by an automobile near the school on March 15 Public safety officials report that a force of 40 women trained in traffic control would make it possible to 'maintain police super vision at dangerous corners used by school children yet release pa trolmen for regular police duties If favorably received by the Coun ell the use of women could be put into effect in time for the all school term our Hour Day Specifically the proposal would have the municipal civil service system set up physical mental and age requirements for a uniformed complement of women which could be placed on a five day week sched ule with about four hours of duty each school day' On week ends and school holidays the complement would be off duty Proponents of the plan point out that the work would be when measured in terms of normal eight hour work days The rate of pay for women would be lower than the scale for regular policemen which would mean protection could be had at a cheaper rate than by increasing the police force with men avorable Reports Police Chief Amor LeR Sims who was asked to study the feasi bility of using women is reported to have broached the problem with visits to see the effectiveness of the plan in communities already using the system Police periodicals report favorably on the plan in most Instances City Manager A Harrell re ported soon after the March school crossing fatality that some form of recommendations would be made on traffic control near schools Del egations from Parent Teacher As sociations have made specific re quests for the city to furnish more police protection at school cross ings Judge Lauds Blue GooseMaster But Holds Salvage Pay Not Due The representatives of the press maae tneir way Between two sear Ing hot boilers to the stokehole The fiery scene there was like something out of Eugene nearly forgotten play Hairy It was one of the few hand 1 shoveled stokeholes left in the' world A pair of Negro firemen agreed to open the fireboxes and feed the engine an extra ration of coal just to show how it was done A wave of almost unbearable heat shot from the exposed furnaces red light bathed the walls of the chamber It was a dream but could the men face the flames long enough for a series of photo graphs? we mind It used to said one of them flash i ing a grin through beads of sweat The place was a steaming ana chronism a leftover from an' earlier age It was an anachronism too on the cold ledger sheets of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ac countants Today at 6:15 barring an unexpected change in the plans the coal burning steamship Wauketa will ferry its last load of to the Newport News railroad termi nal air conditioned chromium plated buses will take over the job But the men on the Wauketa love their anachronism and are proud to put up with its discom forts They prefer the giant pulse of the 1911 en gine to the whine of diesels and smell of coal and of lubricating oil On hot steel to the odor of motor exhaust the red glare on muscles and riveted bulkheads to the speci ous glitter of chromium The men spoke of the jobs most of them were about to lose but they spoke mainly of the doomed Wauketa got the most beautiful hull you ever set eyes on under the said Ca pt Wiley the 66 year old skipper "Too bad you see it I wish we could haul her out and show you that yachting feller from England? "Sir Thomas i that's the one Well none of his yachts are as pretty as the Wauketa under The skipper gestured toward the compass in the wheelhouse and mentioned proudly that the com pass card was marked In points not In degrees The conversation drifted to the Second News Section ferry Modernization To End Sidewheelers And Speed erries The day of the sidewheeler nearing an end on Hampton Roads Three sidewh'eel ferry boats long a part of the Hampton Roads har bor scene are slated for retire ment under a ferry modernization program scheduled by the State Highway Department The veteran sidewheelers the Seaweils Point Chesapeake and City of are part of the Highway fleet of eight ferries operating between Norfolk and the Lower Peninsula They are the sole survivors of their type still in service on a ma jor ferry run Oldest is the Sea wells Point built in 1887 The ferry New York last of the sidewheelers on the Norfolk Ports mouth run' was retired about a month and a half ago and now is tied up at the Berkley docks for reserve duty She was built at Wilmington (Del in 1892 Along with replacing the side wheelers the $1350000 moderniza tion program will install Diesel engines on three other ferries completely remodel a A outdated units of the ferry fleet and reduce the crossing time between New port News and Norfolk from 30 to 20 minutes Two Year Plan If the program moves along as scheduled within two years the sidewheel ferries will be a thing of the past i Scheduled to replace the veteran craft are two Diesei powered fer ries now operating on the York River between Yorktown and Gloucester Point When the York town Bridge completed the State will purchase the two ferries for its Hampton Roads fleet The Hampton Roads ferries were purchased from the Chesapeake erry Company 1 by the State in early 1948 for $2672930 There are two routes one between New port News and Pin Beach terminal the other between Old Point Comfort and Willoughby Spit An overall modernization pro gram was launched when the State acquired the system Ail vessels have been painted black and white replacing the former orange All night service has been started on the Newport News Pine Beach route New stan dards of cleanliness have been maintained Modern engine order telegraphs have replaced the old fashioned bell communication be tween pilot house and engine room Work is under way to strengthen See Sidewheelers Page 11 No Appeal Seen On Annexation or Southside 4 ZJS st.