Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-12-30
A Review Of Some
Front Page Stories
And Headlines

Farmers Convention at Sandy
Spring :. o. w. Anderson asks
Commissioners for $4,000 for
beetle control-and gets it re-
tirement plan for county workers
presented 1. Windows and doors
flung open, cats bask in the sun as
thermometer gees to so degrees on
February %.
Headline News In March
Dead rat week Democrats
start move for harmony among
three factions Calvin Bready
was 88 on March 9 +. Margaret
Moore, Leap Year baby, cclc-
brated her second birthday = she
was really 8 years old J.. E. Fa-
miliar faces missing at court
house as retirement goes into eff
feet William Aud, eldest, was
85 F.. Supreme Courts 81 deci-
sion ends religious training in
county schools Merton Duvall
calls meeting to revive baseball
league Ground broken for
Olney Community Center :. Com
missioners vote for "fast time"
Over $50 listed for delinquent 1947
taxes Commissioners beset by
financial troubles-roads breaking
up, schools need money, Welfare
head gives up job-Johns urges
lottery as solution s. Rockville
P. o. adds fifth rural carrier
Viers Mill investigation starts
nationwide inquiry on vets hous-
ing.
1t Happened In April
Lacy Shaw weds Miss Eleanor
Huset at st. Paul, Mimi. Hugh
O'Donnell resigns as Deputy Sher-
if after SO years service in the
county ). Injunction filed by HUI
bert A. Schneider designed to keep
Charter off November ballot
Byrne Austin throws hat in ring
for Congress :. Field fires plague
area firemen Arthur LeBaron
Ribble resigns as rector of st.
Bartholomew Parish Johns,
Jamison and Youngblood vote to
eliminate Sauter's Police Commits
sioner job which pays 1000
Did the barn burn? This was the
burning question with the Rock
vile Fire Observation-Disclosures
woman called the department sew
eral times screaming of fire and
giving no location Board of
Education presents estimated bud
get of $4,661, 005 twenty-five
hundred additional pupils expect
ed in September Rockville
Civic Association works for town
registration ,. Rockville Garden
Club donates 40 pin oak trees to
Richard Montgomery School
Many building operations started
in Observation-Disclosures houses be.
ing remodeled-new houses built
-. Charter group asks to inter.
vene as co-defendant in Schneider
validity case Mary Margaret
Fields, last of the six children OF
Matthews Fields, who established
the Sentinel in 1866, died April IA
at the age of SO =. Thomas
O'Sullivan of Bethesda loses bill.
fold containing $765 in Rockville
i. Miss Vivian Simpson appoint
ed a member of State Commission
to study and re-write workmen's
compensation laws SkywaJ
| No. /, which passes directly ovel
Rockville, inaugurated April "a
i. Mayor Kelly. to run for re
election in Rockville-seven file fol
| four council posts 5ryS77 reg,
istered voters in county eligible
| for primary election-34,313 Dem
ocrats, 14,698 Republicans
Garden Pilgrimage in leo6hty OF
| Sunday, April rs. ~ a -,
| Hot Contest In Town Election
| For the first time in years there
| was a real contest in the Rockville
town election on first Monday in
\ May with SOS votes cast out of 7Ot
eligible. The Mayor was unopposet
| for reelection. His slate for coun,
ell was elected with one exception
/ DR.. Welsh losing to Hersperger
The Italian elections, John L. Lew.
is, the coal strike and the Congress
sional race were relegated to the
background during the town cam
paign Harry c.. Perry sue
ceeds William McBain who hat
served for % years as Mayor OF
| Gaithersburg Byrne Austin
wins Congressional race to oppose
J. Glenn Beall in November with
less than one-tenth registered vot.
ers at polls National Home.
makers Week observed here =
Miss Edythe M. Turner Is years
Home Demonstration Agent in
County T.. Viers Mill project still
under attack g. Remember Moth.
er on May D. Rain fails to stop
opening ball games on May q. E.
Move by Commissioner Sauter to
dismiss Supervisor l. G. McNayr
tabled County Home report
accepted by Commissioners, 8 in
mates to be placed elsewhere,
Home may be operated as farm =.
Four generations of the Barber
family in Laytonsville attend din
ner Republicans who take
stand ON Charter do so as individ-
uals," says Republican State Cen
trial Committee :. MAYORS Sea-
food place opens at Wheaton
Bishop Dun lays cornerstone of
Olnev Parish Hall. Ribble family