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Evening star., 1953-08-28
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND. Aug. %. - DR..
Mack I. Shanholtz. State health
commissioner, said today that
gamma globulin is apparently
even more effective in the pre-
vention of polio than health OIL
cials had anticipated.
Only six children of the 18,2OO
who had received the shots in
Washington County and Bristol
in July have contracted the
disease. he said.
OF the six, five cases were non
paralytic and the other was one
of mild paralysis. The sixth
child had not received gamma
elobulin during the mass in
oculations, but had received
them earlier because of a family
contact and the effective period
of the shots had run out.
One fact that is apparent from
the mass inoculations, the doc
Evening star., 1953-08-28

the variety of foods served in
the field. The rations are de-
signed for so men or more and
provide 575 more calories than
the 1000 required for an active
man in a temperate climate.
The Navy said the meals would
be "less monotonous" than the
old "B" ration.
Served yesterday was pow
dered pea soup, hot macaroni
and chicken, export crackers.
chocolate cake and coffee. Mixed
with the macaroni and chicken
were some powdered eggs that
the Marines said were greatly
improved over the World War
II variety. Their favor and
texture were fairly we'll dis
guiSed, however.
The cost of the ration is
figured at SLOT per man per day,
about the same as the garrison
ration.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
Gamma GIobuIin Polio Shots
Are Effective, Virginia Finds

tor said, is that the shots do not
prevent the spread of the disease.
Persons in the older age
brackets who are unprotected
still seem to get the disease" ne
said.
Because of that fact. he said,
there appears to be an "appar-
ent increase" in the cases among
older persons.
BY apparent increase" he
said, he did not mean any more
cases were created by the inocu-
lations: rather, those cases
merely seem to continue at the
rate they were while The cases
among the younger inoculated
group appear to decrease.
In Marion, DR.. James NJ. Suter,
health officer for Southwest Vir-
ginia, said that mass inocula-
tions have shifted the disease
into the upper age brackets y
His statement came after 4,577
Evening star., 1953-08-28

Meals just like mother used
to make will be closer to reality
for Marines and sailors eating
rations prepared in the field
after a new 15-day field menu
composed entirely of non-per-
ishable foods is adopted, a
handout asserted. Field cooks
will now be able to combine in
gradients to make dishes such
as stew or ice cream, instead of
taking ready-made stew from a
can.
1.-THE new menus are flexible
enough to be adjusted to dietary
requirements in the topics or
the arctic and can be simplified
in forward areas where recipes
for chocolate cake or French
cherry pie might be too elabo-
rate"
Actually the menus increase
Evening star., 1953-08-28

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Evening star., 1953-08-28

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Evening star., 1953-08-28
Dempsey's Daughter
Murries Tomorrow
By fhe Associufed Press

SANTA MONICA, Calf, Aug
28.-The stage is set for the
wedding tomorrow of Jack
Dempsey's daughter, Joan Han
nah Dempsey, 10, and Dennis
O'Flaherty. 81. Loyola University
student They obtained Their
marriage license here yesterday
The young couple will be mar
ried in Our Lady of Loretta
church in Los Angeles by the
groom's uncle, MSgr. O'Flaherty
herty.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
Hikers Will Visit Beech

The Wanderbirds Hiking Club
will take a trip to Bay Ridge. Md.
Sunday. A chartered bus will
leave Twelfth street and New
York avenue N. w. at 8 am. for
the beach and picnic grove.
Evening star., 1953-08-28

Smyth County children were
given shots of gamma globulin
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1953-08-28
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Evening star., 1953-01-23

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Evening star., 1953-01-23
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Evening star., 1953-01-23

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Evening star., 1953-12-20

tain was invented by a group of six
Hungarians and one Yugoslav. On
bicycles, each carrying some planks,
they rode up to the mine fields along
the Hungarian frontier. They laid
the planks across the fields in a long
pathway and rode along them to
freedom.
"The boards distributed our
weight so that the mines didn't 60
off at once" they told officials in
Vienna, "but behind us we heard
seven delayed-action minesexplode."
Four young Hungarians, confined
to a slave-labor camp on the out
Evening star., 1953-12-20

skirts of Budapest, stumbled on a
strange path to freedom. Working
under guard, they dug by accident
into an outlet of the huge Budapest
sewer system. No guards we're in
sight when they made their aston
ishing find. Feverishly they widened
the opening and then all four men
plunged into it. They walked three
miles through the sewer before
emerging into the air. Then for IL
days they walked the back roads
until they reached West Austria.
LAST April, Czech border police
man discarded walking in favor of
tiptoeing! Removing Fis boots one
night, not so much for silence as to
avoid rough patches of mined earth
which he could determine in
stockinged feet, he literally tlptoed
through the mine fields and barbed
wire barriers which he had been
guarding for months. In West Ger
many he put his boots back on and
asked for political asylum. He got it.
EVEN more imaginative in regard
to their feet were the entire gypsy
band of entertainers of the Pan
nonia Hotel in Sopron, Hungary.
They danced across the border.
Their method was to mix gaiety
with shrewd psychology. After the
restaurant had closed late one night,
the orchestra strolled the streets of
the town playing and singing to late
revelers. Still singing loudly, they
approached the guards at the border.
Here they paused to dance, laugh.
flirt and serve befuddling drinks.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

also a clap on the back" the young
Czech reported afterward.
ONLY few escapes have used self
operated vehicles for fight. Franz
Neither, an East German road
builder, made use of a steam roller.
Repairing a road, he told Soviet
guards that it was necessary to drive
the giant roller across bridge into
West Germany to make a U-turn.
Once over the bridge he kept on
rolling.
ANOTHER brand-new method of rid
ing out from behind the Iron Cur
Evening star., 1953-12-20

took her to Switzerland. There, re-
united with Oleg, she divorced the
Dane and became Mrs. Zabrodsky.
They now live on Long Island, just
outside of New York City.
Says lovely Lydia, "A year ago
our son was born. Oleg. who has just
received a degree in international
Affairs at Columbia University, is
announcer of all sports programs
beamed into Czechoslovakia by
Radio Free Europe" Since their
escape, all flights by = foreign mar
riage have been outlawed by the
Communist government
A COMPLICATED escape scheme that
sounds much like the plot of a musi-
Continued on next page
Evening star., 1953-12-20

Then, still dancing and singing, they
disappeared across the border right
in front of the drunken guards!
ANOTHER merry escape - and a
highly romantic one - was carried
out by handsome Oleg Zabrodsky,
ace of the Czechoslovakian national
hockey team. He skipped out on the
team while it was playing a match in
Switzerland, receiving political asy-
lum. Moreover, before starting the
trip, he had confded an involved
escape plan to the beautiful Czecho-
slovakian girl he loved. She was
therefore not surprised when Dan
ish friend of Oleg's arrived in Prague,
wooed her in whirlwind fashion and
married her. Once wed, her husband
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

Power house and contents de-
stroyed by lire between IL and
2 AM" The electric plant, less
than ten years old, was completely
destroyed. The Potomac Electric
Power Company on May 81 de-
clined to furnish lighting because
it would "entail a very large in
vestment." There is no record Of
the plant being restored except
that it was insured in the fall.
In October 1901 the Enterprise
Telephone Company was given per-
mission to erect poles and wires
thereon, within the corporate limits.
Shortly thereafter the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company
requested the same privilege.
In February of 1902 there was
water trouble. Councilman William
w. Welsh was appointed to see
Fisher Brothers" about boring a
well and by summer the Job was
done.
In May of 1906 Lee Offutt be-
came Mayor. One of his first ac-
ions was to request county health
officer, DR.. William Lewis, to con-
fer with the Council concerning
Certain conditions that might
prove injurious to the health Of
the cOmmunitv -
Probably as result of this meet
ing, in October the people were
given 10 days to discontinue the
use of cess pools in the town
limits.
Sometime during 1909 the Poto-
mas Electric Power Company was
given sole permission for IS years
to come in and furnish electrical
energy for light, heat and power
purposes provided that the rate for
electric lighting shall be Toe per
kilo-watt hour.
In March of 1912 everybody was
apparently highly annoyed by a
rise in streetcar fares. On Coun-
ell direction letter was to be sent
to the General Assembly in pro-
test of the passage of law then
being introduced to regulate the
fares Of the electric railroad from
Rockville to D. c., because sucn
law would take thousands of
dollars from the pockets of Rock
Williams riding over the road"
In May of 1915 Martin Smiths
bid to install water meters was
accepted land in July water rates
were published.
Sewage disposal was a continu-
ing problem, and in March 1914.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

"the Committee appointed by a
resolution adopted at a meeting
of the citizens of the town held on
the 4th instance, consisting of
Charles w. Prettyman and Robert
B. Peter appeared" They pre-
sented proposed draft of a bill
to be introduced into the General
Assembly, authorizing an issue of
bonds to construct a sewerage sys-
TEN for the town. "The bill was
read, discussed slightly amended
and unanimously approved by the
council"
In April there is mention of a
Sewerage Commission" meeting.
The bill, which had been passed
by the Assembly, was read and dis
cussed Mr.. Robert Peter moved
that committee be appointed to
prepare an application to the State
Board of Health for a permit to in
stall the proposed system. HE,
DR.. Billiard and Mayor Offutt were
appointed"
Lee Offutt was again elected
Mayor in 1914, two months before
World War | broke upon Europe.
To Rockville it was the year work
finally started on a proper sewer
age system and disposal plant for
the town.
In January of 1919 the Council
needed an office room. In Feb
ruary it was reported room over
Wilson'S Drug Store was available
for SO per month. The Council
accepted.
Following a bad fire in 1921,
Bill Burroughs appeared before the
Council to recommend formation
of volunteer fire department.
About 30 men gathered on March
3, 1921, to elect officers and make
plans. The present fire house was
built in 1926.
The population of the town re-
NAMED nearly static for many
years. Not until the end of World
War IL did the town population
begin to swell. New housing de-
velopments sprang up and were
annexed into the town with re-
sultant increase in demands on the
towns facilities.
A shortage of water facilities
to supply increased water demands
of residents is the latest problem
to plague the town government.
Plans are in the making however
to Salty increased requirements
OF the town. And so the town
on.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22
Rockville, Site OF First Protest
Meeting Against British Supremacy

The Sentinel is grateful to Mar
BOaic Evans for aiioWiHg the uss
Of her aoritings and research "a
compile this brief History of on,
torn.
In tiny, unnamed hamlet in
lower Frederick County a group
of freemen met on June II, l774,
at a tavern owned by Charles
Hungerford to suggest that every
legal and constitutional method Le
used to procure repeal of the
Act Of Parliament for blocking up
Boston Harbor.
A year later 100 men from the
county "all over six feet in height
and carrying tomahawks and rifles
and with their bodies painted like
savages" arrived in Boston to back
up their words with action.
Lower Frederick (now Mont
gomery) County was one of the
first counties in Maryland to urge
independence from Great Britain.
The county leaders who met to
discuss this action had gathered
in the hamlet later to be known as
Rockville.
A resolution was passed in l77G
to erect court house and prison
in the small village. Until the
buildings were completed in l779
the court met in the Hungerfori
Tavern. Neither marriages nor
deaths were recorded in those days,
and few wills and deeds came in.
The land around the court house
was purchased by William Prather
Williams in 1874 and was laid off
lnstreets. He named it Williams
burg, but the name didn't become
accepted. Another suggested name
for the village was Wattsville, for
Watts Branch which borders the
west end of the city.
When the village became a town
by Act of Assembly in 1901, it was
named Rockville for Rock Creek.
a much larger stream, which runs
through the eastern part of the
city.
At the same time it became the
county seat of Montgomery County.
Many of the records of early
Rockville were burned during the
Civil War, not much is known about
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

was erected in Rockville. 1t was
located where the present ten cent
store stands. There was a stage,
and fine dance floor. Dramatic
productions, club meetings, lee
lures, dances and school graduation
services were held there.
The hall was torn down in the
1905 because, incredible though it
seems today, the need for such a
structure appeared obsolete.
In 1883, when Rockville had
been Incorporated % years, it was
reorganized under new charter.
The name commissioners" was
replaced by "Mayof and Council"
and the members were bonded ut
$4,000. 1t also mad borrowing
powers. The first Mayor and
Council were William V. Bouic,
Jr., Mayor; Hattersley Talbot, DR..
Stonestreet. Mr.. Bogley and Mr..
Kelchiner, Councilmen.
At about the same time, bad
sanitary conditions forced city Of
ficials to appoint a "scavenger"
whose unhappy job it was to empty
all privies every fortnight. A
monthly tax was placed on all
privies to pay his salary.
In August 1888 the Domestic
Fire Engine and Pump Company
came out from Washington to give
a demonstration. That fall 3
domestic fire engines and 100 feet
of hose for each was ordered.
In 1890 DR.. Daniel Owen became
Mayor. Not long after he took
office the tax rate was raised to
40c per hundred because the town
was in debt $4,367.13 as result of
road construction projects.
In 1894, Coxe's Army marched on
Washington. Provision was made
to feed them by Mayor Jacob Poss.
Also, a serious attempt was made |
to organize fire department.
In 1896 the bailiff reported
town population of 1851 persons,
That was the first year an attor-
ney was selected to advise the
group on a permanent basis.
Also in 1896 the city officials re-
fused to allow the telephone COM
Dany to put up additional wires
IN Washington Street. In the
same year a water works and cleo
,ric plant were authorized for the
own. Bonds were finally issued
and money was borrowed for the
work.
By April 1897 the town proudly
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22
Information For
Philatelists Concerning
United Nations Stamps

Shown throughout this section
are various postage stamps. These
are the first stamps in history
to be issued by an international
organization. They were author
lied on 16 November 1850 by
unanimous resolution of the 60
members of the United Nations
General Assembly.
Like the organization which is
sues them, these stamps combine
the skill and knowledge of many
nations. They symbolic the facAI
that nations and peoples working
together can do more for their
common god than each can alone.
Each is a graphic reminder of
what the world can do in unison:
proclaim ideals as human rights
and protect them; feed and heal
children; care for refugees, and
build enduring peace.
At this moment, thousands of
United Nations stamps are carry
ing messages everywhere from the
United Nations Headquarters.
They link this organization to the
world which created it in bonds of
human solidarity and of hope for
the better future which interna-
tiOnal action can bring.
United Nations stamps can be
bought by anyone, but can be used
only on mail posted at United
Nations Headquarters in New
York. Requests for information
and orders for stamps should be
sent to the United Nations Postal
Administration at United Nations,
New York; at Russell Square
House, London, Wei, England
(from countries in the sterling 4
area); or at the European Office
of the United Nations, Geneva,
Switzerland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

I the town government until the time
of incorporation in 1860.
For the first four years after in
corporation apparently a group u
tax commissioners performed only
few town governing acts. In
1864 charter providing for town
commissioners was approved. The
earliest record on file in the Mayor
and Couicils Office is dated April l,
1865, when the town commissioners
met in John j. Higgins store.
They are William Veirs Bouic. Sr.,
president; John H. Higgins and
Melcheisideck Green, commission
ers; John B. Miller, bailiff; and
Mordecai Morgan, clerk.
In 1865 the taxes were to be
levied payable June |, on the basis
of lie on each $106 of property
owned in the town. "a people
owed taxes that year, half of them
less than 81 each. Total sum owed
was $152.69.
During the first fifteen years of
Rockvlle's incorporation construc-
tion of badly needed roads and
sidewalks was the major problem.
In 1867 the commissioners ordered
competent surveyor to lay out
and give lines and grades of all
lanes and set coming specifications.
At June 10, 1867, meeting $50
was authorized to repair Wash
ington Street and Wood and Middle
Lanes.
In 1868 John Higgins was elected
Mayor and street and bridge i'm
provements continued.
At the next election 80 votes
were cast, and Matthew Fields,
founder Of the Montgomery County
Sentinel, became mayor. He stay
ed in office for tire years and CON
unued the street and sidewalk i'm
provements, increasing the num-
Der of town bridges by two.
Mr.. Fields successors ordered
nine street lamps in 1871 at price
of $75. \ At first $l50 a month
was paid to keep them lit and in
repair.
In 1881, number of club repre-
sentatives got together, discussed
the need for a common meeting
place, and as result a Town Hail
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

vile to the District line. At a
July %, 1900. meeting an ordi-
nance was passed allowing the COM
pany the privilege of laying street
car tracks within the town limits.
This later was approved by vote
of the citizens.
In May of 1901 the Farmers
Banking and Trust Co. made an
pilcation to erect its first building
at the corner of Commerce and
Court Street"
Also during May 1901 the follow
ing Item was recorded by itself,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

published its water and electricity
rates. Water fees were scaled to
everything from bathtubs ($5 a
year, to cows Isl year,. Elec-
trio lights cost Soc for the first
light and 15c piece for all lights
over Is.
In order to pay for the new i'm
provements the tax rate was raised
to 85c per 500 in 1900 and 1901.
1t then reverted to 60c.
Just before the. turn of the CEN
fury came the electric cars which
transported passengers from Rock
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

Here's good news for United
Nations Week: Wherever the UN's
World Health Organization gets
busy, lives are saved. For example
WHO gave short courses for
midwives in a certain province of
Mexico. AS a result, infant NOR
tality dropped fifty per cent in
less than two years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-22

Be good American. Support
the United Nations-our best hope
for peace. United Nations Week
is October IS "a.
Evening star., 1953-12-03
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