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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Council
May Air
Building
Code
Walker Calls For
Revision of Up-COunty
Rules If Bill Fails

The long dormant proposed ordi-
nance to require suburban home
builders to put up a bond guaran-
teeing the construction of streets
may get another airing by the
county council.
The council Tuesday asked that
the bill be brought up again as it
received another ordinance amend
ment that would require builders
to file new certificates of building
location with the county.
Councilman Grover Walker re-
Hved the bill which was permit
ted to lie inactive since public
hearings several months ago show
ed strong opposition to the meas
lt,e.
The question is, Mr.. Louis A.
Gravelle said, just how far people
could be regimented. Mr.. Walker
replied that up-county residents as
bonds are required under the con-
troversial Upper County Subdivi-
sion regulations to insure road
construction.
If the down-county bill fails to
pass, Mr.. Walker said, he wants
the subdivision regulations amend
ed.
The new building code amend
ment would require builder to
file a certified plat showing the
location of buildings under con-
struction. The location plat must
be filed before the walls are more
than one foot above the ground.
County Attorney David Macdon-
aid said the amendment was pre-
pared to prevent violations Of the
coming ordinance. Mr.. Macdonald
admitted the proposal probably
would delay the work Of the small
builder but would have little effect
on the big contractor.
Mrs. Stella B. Werner, in dis
cussing the additional building
costs caused by the proposed ordi-
nance, said a home buyer should
be willing to pay little more to
get guarantee his home was not
in violation of the present laws.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08

The Congregation Of Crusader
Lutheran Church, Viers Mill Road
and Broadwood Drive, Rockville,
will dedicate its new church cdificc
at 1880 pm. Sunday. The Rev. Har-
old G. Osterman, d. D., president
Of the Eastern District of the
American Lutheran Church, will
preach. The Rev. Otto G. Schuetze,
pastor Of Christ Lutheran Church,
Bethesda, will serve as Lector.
The choir will sing, How Lovely
Is Thy Dwelling Place" from
Brahms Requiem and "The Cher
ubim Song" by d. S. Bortniansky,
with John +. Preston, organist and
choir director at Christ Episcopal
Church, Rockville, as guest direc-
tor. Miss Diane Dupee is organist.
The building was designed by
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08

To Tax
Sources
Council to Ask
Organization Opinion
On HancOck's Plans

Reaction to nine suggested new
sources of county tax revenue will
be solicited by the County Council
from civic and business organiza-
tions.
The proposals, submitted to the
council several weeks ago by FL
nance Director Alex X. Hancock,
are designed to tighten the tax
burden on the County homeowner.
The Council plans to submit all,
or many, of the proposals to the
County delegation to the General
Assembly for enactment by the
Legislature.
Included in Hancock's sugges-
tions are: /. Amendment of State
School Aid laws to provide that
the county will get larger share
of State funds for construction and
operating costs. He also suggests
that the basis for computing State
aid should be changed from the
present assessed property valua-
ton method to average family in
come or Individual income. 2. Pro-
vide some form of tax on tobacco
products. 3. Enable the counties to
tax anything the State may now
tax, and A. Provide some form of
local business tax, such as a gross
receipts tax, and some form of
occupancy or payroll tax.
Also repeal of the law requiring
the counties to allot their share of
state motor vehicle license fees be
used for schools in the same pro-
portion as property taxes are used
and repeal the law requiring prop
erty be assessed at full cash value
in favor of fair market value and
reproduction costs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Benefit Bazaar
Planned by
Church Women

These past few weeks have
found many little groups gathered
in excited discussion and prepara-
ton for the first bazaar to be given
by the women Of the Rockville
Presbyterian Church.
At meeting Of the various COM
mittee chairmen on September 30,
final plans were completed for the
big event which will take place
Saturday, November Ii, from II
a. m. to s p. m. at the church. The
bazaar will benefit the Church
School Building Fund. The public
is cordially invited.
Among the highlights of the
bazaar will be snack bar, where
sandwiches, drinks and sweets will
be sold for the convenience of
bazaar guests. Special activities
including cartoons and magic
show are also planned for the small
fry.
Named general chairmen for the
event are Mrs. Billy Leigh Mason
and Mrs. Donna Wetzel and assist
ing them are: Mrs. Katherine
Pontius, baked goods; Mrs. Marian
Whelan, canned goods; Mrs. Doro-
thy Haltiwanger, children's acti-
vities; Mrs. Mary Evan, handi-
work; Mrs. Mildred Field, post
office; Mrs. Sara Griffith, plants;
Mrs. Betty Davis and Mrs. Dorothy
Maley, white elephants; Mrs. Paul
inc McKinstry, fortunes; Mrs.
jeanette Wootton, publicity; Mrs.
Mary Schwartz, snack bar; Mrs.
Roberta Mellon. Christmas table;
and Mrs. May NiCewarner, decora-
tionS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08

Mrs. Ronald S. Senseman, Resi-
Dental Unit Chairman, said the
Montgomery County Chest and
Council looked forward to attend
ance by hundreds of the women
who have volunteered to work in
this years Red Feather Camaign.
I'VE have a brand new film to
show at these meetings" she said,
'Onc that we're all will enjoy.
This will give all of us an opport-
unity to get well acquainted with
each other and to pick up any
last-minute instructions that will
help US to make this the best cam
paign over"
Mrs. Theodore J. Downey, is
Chairman Of this years campaign.
Those desiring additional informa-
ton should contact Miss Donna
Hoover, at the Montgomery Coun-
ty Community Chest and Council
headquarters at 81 Pershing
Drive, Silver Spring, Juniper s.
7145.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Women Voters
To Be Briefed

"Techniques of Conducting an
Opinion Poll' will be the subject
of two briefing meetings sponsored
by the League of Women Voters
of Montgomery County on October
ID and II. Mr.. bert Bower,
director of the Bureau of Social
Science Research of American Uni
versity, will conduct the meetings.
The purpose of the briefing
meetings is to train 100 League
members who will set out October
II on countrywide opinion poll
to explore local attitudes towards
international cooperation and to
determine what people know about
he United Nations.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08

Plans for Rockville's participa-
ton in the worldwide celebration
were set into motion by Mayor
Daniel Weddle who this week
Issued a proclamation on UN Day
Asnd appointed a city-wide citizens
committee to arrange the local
observance.
The committees chairman is
AL Stoughton, president of the
Twinbrook Citizens Association,
and members are from all areas of
the city. The committee held its
initial meetings September 80 and
October 5.
Preliminary plans as announced
by the committee call, for par
ade and motorcade made up ex-
clusively of Rockvillites, followed
by a town meeting" at Richard
Montgomery High School, and a
reception. The parade will begin
at pm. at the Court House.
Participating in the town meet
ing at 2:30 will be ambassadors,
attaches, and Notwithstanding
children-from five small nations
from Europe, North and South
America, the Far and Near East,
and Africa. Representatives of the
countries will speak briefly about
small town life in their countries
and will form the receiving line
to personally greet the people of
Rockville.
The Rockville UN Day Commit
tee urges every organized group
\ in the city to actively participate
in the parade and motoreade. A
letter of invitation is being sent
to each group from the Mayors
office. For details call the parade
marshals: Mr.. Nelson Oliver, 203
S. Washington Street; and Mr..
Richard Davis, Lincoln Park.
Other members of the Commit
tee in addition to the marshalls in
clude W. J. FURNACE, 407 Nc
Arthur Drive; Pat Axtell, oil
Lewis Avenue; Walter Hansen,
100 Grandin Avenue; Howard
Ennes, 9C6 Lewis Avenue; Mrs.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08

the total number likely to be pre-
sent for the Service of Dedication
5 between $50 and 300.
The Rev. Howard A. Wilson is
pastor Of this the first Lutheran
Church in Rockville, which came
into being about a year and half
ago. The group has been using
Lone Oak Elementary School,
Woodburn Road and Grandin Ave
nue., Rockville, for both its Sun
day School and It's worship ser
vices.
An ever increasing number Of
families have been served by the
young church. It's new building will
make it possible for the congrega-
ton TO reach even more, as il is
dedicated TO the glory Of God and
the service Of man.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08

I Seventeen new cases of the dis
ease which National Institute Of
Health scientists are studying have
occurred since the 10 cases in July.
Six Of the II cases also occurred
in July but were not made public
information by the County Health
Department. Eleven cases develop
ed in a recent five-day period. The
last case reported occurred last
Wednesday, according to DR.. Mar
vim Adland, clinical director of
Chestnut Lodge.
In press conference called yes
terday by NH county officials and
Chestnut Lodge and held at the
NH clinical center on Rock
vile Pike, DR.. Victor Haas
of NH said the nature of the ORR
ginal outbreak, while possessing
polio symptoms, has not yet been
determined by scientists at the In
stitutes Of Health.
AT the conference, it was stated
hat all cases which have been
reported have occurred among the
nursing staff of the hospital and
their families. No patients have
been involved.
The. cases just reported have
occurred among group of II stul
dent nurses who arrived at the
san.tarium in Rockville on Au-
gust 81 to begin 10 weeks Of train
ing. Onset of their illness, accord
ing to the report, was about three
weeks later.
Officials said four Of the stu
dent nurses stricken recently have
been admitted to the Clinical Cen
ter Ct NH to facilities close study
Of the characteristics of the illness.
An orderly at the Lodge also has
been admitted.
DR.. Adland said all those who
became i'll in July and August are
back on the job, either fully re-
covered or well on the road to re-
covery. The present cases, as were
the original ones, have been called
mild" in nature.
In the meantime, DR.. V. l.. Eli
colt, county health officer, said
the 10 cases at the lodge diagnosed
os POLO in July arc carried on re-
cords as that disease despite the
tact that some doubt still exists on
whether or not polio was present.
He said the remaining II cases
have been reported to the county
health office but are not listed as
polio. He said, however, that all
the cases should either be called
polio or all should be removed
from the polio records.
DR.. Haas said research on the
Chestnut Lodge outbreak is still
under way and there is no way to
set date when study will be
completed.
He pointed ont that in 1884 a
similHr outbreak occurred in
Los Angeles hospital and that il
vas di"Cno'ed as polio at that
time. he said he did not know
whether the health department
Off cial who wrote the report in
1894 would ftill cell the outbreak
nolio or whether he would change
his diagn nsos in view Of studies
made sine, that time He said it is
wnteresting" that both outbreak
have occurred in hospitals.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Book Club Sale

The annual meeting and book
sale of the Gaithersburg- Laytons-
vile Book Club viii be held at the
home Of Mrs. George Vault on
Route 240 near Gaithersburg,
Thursday, October Is, at 3 pm.
Members and their friends are
urged TO attend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Roger to Speak Before
WOmen's Board Oct. II

Mr.. William F. Roger, Director
Of the Montgomery County Wei
fare Board will conduct a panel
discussion at the meeting of the
Women's Board of the Montgom-
cry Hospital in the Community
House, Sandy Spring, OF Monday,
October ~.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Dog Show at Center

The Rock Greek Kennel Club
dog show will be held October IL
at the Fair Grounds at Gathers
burg. Judging will begin promptly
at 10 am. Hundreds Of pure bred
dogs are expected.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Correction

The annual Turkey Supper at
the Nee sville Presbyterian Church
will be held on November 7, not
October "a. Supper will be serv-
ed from to 8 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Singing Convention

The Montgomery County Sing
ing Convention will be held at the
Cedar Grove Baptist Church, Sun
day, October II, at 2:15 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Mystery Disease Strikes
Again at Chestnut Lodge;
IL New Cases Are Reported
Student Nurses Affected as Health
Officials Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Original Polio Diagnosis of Last July

The mystery disease with polio-libe symptoms which
struck down 13 student Chestnut Lodge last July
has broken second time according Lodge county
health Officials.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-10-08
Mayor Proclaims
UN Day at Rockville
Celebration Due
12-Man Committee Outlines Plan for First
International Observance Held Here

On Saturday, October "a Rockville will put out the
welcome mat for diplomats and families from five small
nations of the world part of the cys observance of
limited Nations Day.
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Price Supports

TO protect the farmer from
sharp fluctuations In income, the
Democrats devised the price-sup-
port program. This is the rationale
behind such special treatment for
farmers:
The farmer Is at the mercy of
uncomfortable production. A steel
producer or q furniture nanufac-
turer can cut or expand produc-
ton, but the farmer plants his
crops and must cash In at harvest
time. Consequently, periods Of re-
cession have hit farmers hard and
early.
As agriculture Is basic to the
Nations economy, methods were
sought to protect farm prices from
collapse. IN 1929 d Republican
Congress passed the Agricultural
Marketing Act. setting up q farm
board with funds to purchase farm
commodities on q declining market.
The program proved Intellectual,
however, when everything came
tumbling down later that year.
The New Deal tried q new device
with the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration. That measure,
passed In 1883, was basically an
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Why the Drop?

The decline results from a num-
ber of fluctuations in the market.
The farmers real income has
dropped steadily since World War
II because retail prices have re-
manned relatively steady while
middlemap costs have gone up.
In the last year, 80 per cent
drop in export Of farm goods has
cut into the rural income. This
decline was caused by increased
production in other countries.
Individual commodities also have
run into trouble. Beef is in a long
cycle Of increased production.
Consequently, beef prices have
fallen from 129 per cent Of parity
to 90 per cent in year. But some
farmers are In luck. Wars have
increased Asian demand for our
rice. This cereal was at 50 per cent
last year, and is at 119 per cent
now.
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Administration Stand

Both factions want to know
where the President stands.
In his two most significant CAM
paign statements on farm policy,
at the plowing contest at Kasson,
Mimi, and at Brookings, s. OAK,
he said he would carry out the
existing 80 per cent law and would
like to get the farmer 100 per cent
Of parity. At the time, those
statements were taken to mean
Government support Of prices at
90 or 100 per cent--at least a.
much as the Democrats were able
to offer.
But in Q speech ct st. Paul,
February II, Secretary Benson
changed the picture q bit. Ninety
per cent support through 1854 was
all right, he said. But after that
the q. o. r. would work out
program designed to give the
farmer at least 100 per cent. not
through supports, but through
maximum dependence on free
market prices. 8. :" All national
policies would be "re-orientedp to
Continued on Page CD
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Form Policy

IRON THE CRIES Of some
= farmers and farm bloc Con-
gresSmen last week, one might
have thought the Nations farmers
were about to 60 bankrupt, drag
ging the Nations economy down
with them.
But a closer look revealed that
things weren't so had after all.
Farm prices were down, but the
outlook was rather hopeful, given
general economic stability. There
was definitely no immediate end
In sight for the farm price support
program.
What the turmoil really was all
about was this: Under the Truman
administration the philosophy be-
hind farm programs was that the.
Government must guarantee farm-
ers . "fair" income. The new
administrations view Is not pre-
cisely known beyond the fact that
President Eisenhower and Agricul-
ture Secretary Benson favor q free
economy as the source Of q flair"
income for farmers.
Afroid Of the Fire
The farmers and the Democrats
were protesting because they.
feared being burned by whatever
new farm policy may develop.
Republicans, however, assured
farmers that the new program win
keep the good and revise the bad
In the Democratic policy
Worry over the eisenhower
Benson philosophy was intensified
by falling agricultural prices.
Farm income has dropped II per
cent In the last year. AT the same
Evening star., 1953-02-22
xxruH THE DEADLINE for

vYTTTH THE DEADLINE for
" fling income tax returns
only three weeks away, Congress,
the President and the people were
talking and thinking about taxes
last week.
On Monday the House Ways and
Means Committee approved a 10
per cent cut in income taxes ef-
fective June 80, when the excess
profits tax dies. The same day the
House Appropriations Committee
made a super-ecodomy gesture by
cutting so per cent from q $2.S
billion Truman Defense Depart
ment supplemental appropriation
bill.
AT his first press conference
Tuesday, President Eisenhower
said he was opposed to any tax
cuts before a balanced budget was
in sight.
BY Wednesday the balanced
budget seemed almost visible after
an advisory commission on De-
fense Department manpower rec
commended a 10 per cent cut in the
standing military forces at an an
nual saving of IS billion.
Whot Hope?
These activities in the National
Capital have generated q lot Of
heat around the country but not
much light. What Mr.. Average
Taxpayer wants to know is: Can
expect q tax cut this year?
At this point, nobody knows.
Congress is still wrestling with It's
conscience and there is no telling
how the match will turn out.
There is, however, one comfort
ing certainty: No tax increase will
be voted this year. The House OF
Representatives already has its eye
on the 1854 elections. There is
reasonable ground for suspicion,
In fact, that the lower houses tax
cutting mania stems mainly from
its determination to- make a good,
economical record to show the
voters in 1854. The Senate is more
amenable to Gen. Eisenhower's
program of "f1rst things first" and
Is In a position to prevent Congress
from doing anything rash. But
then, the Senate will be only one
third as vulnerable as the House
In 1854.
Evening star., 1953-02-22
H.. r. !

Hard headed politicians Of both
parties would agree that tax relief
for corporations and individuals
must come ut the same time.
The trouble is, they are going to
have to pass q law to make 1t
come out that way. Through hap
penstance rather than design, ex-
piration dates on these two classes
Of levies, voted to cover Korean
war expenses, fall six months
apart. The excess profits tax
expires June so; the boost In
individual income taxes runs until
December 81.
Representative Reed Of New
York. the 77-year-old chairman
Of the House Ways and Means
Committee and senior Republican
In the lower house. saw this crisis
coming from afar. His solution
was to write q bill before the 83d
Congress opened ending the In
con1e-tax boost six months early,
on June 80, to coincide with the
corporations tax relief date. BY
special arrangement with Speaker
Martin. the Reed bin was given the
distinctive designation H. r. /. It
has been No. ] in other ways, too:
It has been the No. headache for
the 9. o. r. administration since
it was dropped into the hopper
with some IS other tax bills on
January 5.
Mr.. Reeds early tax-relief plan
would cost the United States an
Evening star., 1953-02-22

must originate in the House, but
it gives the Senate unlimited power
to amend.
Still, the Senate will be dealing
with very crusty character in Mr..
Reed. He is in an excellent position
to toss a monkey wrench into the
Eisenhower legislative program If
he wants to. Three of the Admin
istration's II announced legislative
goals expansion of social secur-
ity, extension of reciprocal trade,
and customs simplification-can-
not get to first base without the
Reed committees say-so. Friday
Mr.. Reed dealt what may have
been the death blow to significant
social security legislation this ses-
sion by ordering a lengthy study
of the whole broad subject. This
was clear warning that the House
Ways and Means Committee would
not hesitate to use a little sly
blackmail to get its tax-cut bill
out Of the Rules Committees
pigeonhole.
It is less likely, therefore, that the
Senate or the administration would
rebuff Mr.. Reed directly than that
they would try to dicker with him.
Out Of Senate House conference
on H.R.1 might come something
very different from the present bill,
which at the same time would be
satisfactory to Mr.. Reed.
It seems to be matter now of
getting the House of a sharp hook.
Then, a year from next November,
even If no substantial tax cut goes
through, the incumbents can face
the voters with an air Of injured
innocence and ask, "Well, we tried,
didn't we?"
Evening star., 1953-02-22
Forty Years

Every other November the tax
payer speaks from the voting booth
and presumably gives his repre-
sentative on Capitol Hill an indica-
ton Of where he stands on taxes.
But the following spring he can
only sit back and watch while Con-
gress debates what the voters said.
The ratio of talk to accomplish
ment in tax reduction Is always Of
the order Of 10 to /. This has be-
come a tradition since the 14th
amendment legalized income taxes
40 years ago next Wednesday.
Looking back over the years (see
chart above), q few generalities
can be made about income taxes;
for instance, tax peaks coincide
with wars and depresSions, and
tax valleys coincide with periods
of what President Harding used
to call normally" # the high
and low marks also coincide with
Democratic and Republican
administrations, respectively, this
fact is not prima facie proof that
Democrats are high-taxers and
Republicans low-taxers by nature.
In this century, we have had our
worst wars and struggled out OF
our worst depression under Demo-
Gratis, though not necessarily be-
cause Of them.
Damned as SocioIistic
The income tax, when first au-
tf1orized, was damned by the
upper brackets as arrant social
ism. The lower brackets did not
care much, because 1t affected
them not ct all. And-with bene-
at of hindSight-it is easy to say
that the first income tax levy was
not harsh: For the average family
man, 1t amounted to per cent Of
everything over the first $4,500, In
q day when $500 was 4 very re-
spectacle salary. For the $1O0-a-
week man, the tax bill was only
$500 q year.
Here, in table form, Is what has
happened at significant times to
So 10 and 20-thousand- -dollar-a-
year men leach with q wife and
fmo chiIdrenl.