Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
Montgomery Groups
10 Seek Relaxation
OF Dog Quarantine
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. 4. -
Aroused over the prospect of keep
ing their dogs tied up this winter
members of the Izaak Walton League
and other sport organizations will
appear before the Montgomery
County Commissioners here Tues
day to seek relaxation of the dog
quarantine regulations, at least con-
corning hunting.
The commissioners last week ap-
proved extension of the quarantine
to include virtually the entire
county, with the exception of the
Laytonsville and Olney districts.
Chief of Police H. Leslie Carlin
emphasized that all dogs in the re-
t stricted area must be Kept tied or
penned during the 9O-day quaran-
tine period.
/ Reuben Riggs, former president of
the Rockville Chapter of the Izaak
Walton League, said the commits
sioners will be asked to permit hunt
ers to take their dogs into fields or
woods until the close of the present
hunting season.
Dairymen Meet.
The first of a series of meetings
designed to help Montgomery County
dairymen meet the feed problem was
held here Wednesday under the di-
rection Of Otto w. Anderson, county
agricultural agent. Principal speak
ers were DR.. Kenneth Turk, head of
the State Dairy Department, and
John w. Magruder, State agrono-
mist. A similar meeting for cattle,
hog and sheep producers is sched-
uled here December Is, and later
there will be meetings for poultry
raisers and other groups.
211 Licenses Issued.
According to the license clerk,
Mrs. Lucille Pennington, 2l1 mar
riage licenses were issued by the
Office of the clerk of the Circuit
Court here during November. The
monthly record for the year SO far
is 212 g -
Homemakers to Meet.
Miss Edythe M. Turner. Mont
gomery County home demonstra-
ton agent, has announced that the
Washington Grove Homemakers
Club will meet at the home of Mrs.
Bertel .Dah1arom Wednesday and
that a meeting of the Brighton
Unity All Club is scheduled for De-
cember H.. =
Birthday Marked.
The Oath birthday anniversary Of
the Rev.. Albert Osborn, prominent
retired Methodist minister, was cele-
brated Thursday night, when Is
members of the Washington Grove
Methodist Church. which he estab-
lished in 1910 and of which he was
the first pastor, gathered at his
home in the Grove.
The observance was arranged by
the Rev Royal A. Rice, present pas
tor of the Washington Grove Church,
who presented him a laudatory
scroll and informed him that he had
been made pastor emeritus of the
Washington Grove Church. With
the consent of Mayor Irving L.
McCathran, who is DR.. Osborns SON
in-law, the minister was given the
keys to the town.
DR.. Osborn for many years was
registrar of American University
and is now its historian and a men,
Der of the Board of Trustees.
Blood Is Donated.
One hundred and thirty-four pints
of blood were donated at the fourth
visit to Rockville of the Red Cross
Blood Donor Mobile Unit, this week,
it was announced by Miss Emily
Blanford, blood donor chairman for
Rockville and upper Montgomery
County areas. Among the contribu-
tors was Mrs. Corrine Buchanan of
Silver Spring, who became member
of the gallon club" by giving her
eighth pint of blood. The next visit
of the blood donor unit is scheduled
for April