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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-03-19
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report to him on the situation.
The State Health Department
reported last month that the
towns sewage plant, owned by
Gaithersburg but operated by the
sanitary commission, has reached
it's capacity. The plant, located on
Muddy Branch Road, is 30 years
old, according to Town Attorney
Charles X. Davies.
Two new subdivisions with plans
for 500 new homes for the town
are being held up as the result of
the sewage impasse, officials said.
One is projected for just south
of the town on Route 240 and the
other would be on Route 124 on
the west side of the town.
Davies pointed out that the town
can't grow if it can't dispose of
sewage.
Chief Engineer Harry B. Shaw,
of the sanitary commission, said
that some work has been done on
the towns recommendations but
that there are several obstacles to
completion of additional sewage.
The town is on ridge, he said,
and nearby towns that could be
used for sewage dumping are too
small, the entire sanitary district
is a large expanding area and an
adequate plan for the town would
be extremely costly.
Meanwhile, commercial interests
outside Rockville are asking an
nexation by the town, claiming
that the sanitary commission is
unwilling or unable to furnish
water and sewer facilities, the
citizens of section north of
Wheaton have been crying for
sewer facilities for at least three
years and other sections are seek
ing relief from alleged failure of
the sanitary commission to pro-
vide for their needs.
A public hearing will be held
tomorrow at 1870 pm. at the State
House in Annapolis on bill pend
ing in the General Assembly which
would permit $16,000,000 spend
ing program by the sanitary COM
mission.
Bills authorizing all but So mil
lion of the program have been in
PRODUCED in the Assembly but the
Montgomery County delegation
baked at the So million program
for storm sewer work because it
provides for equal distribution be-
tween Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-03-19

Spinach does best in relatively
cool weather. Seed may be sown
early in rows in the family garden.
A half-ounce of seed will sow 100
feet of row, with a probable yield
of 3 bushels. Rows may be a foot
apart and plants l inch apart in
the row. Cover about half an
inch deep.
Long Standing Bloodsdale and
Old Dominion are good varieties
for early planting.
Harvesting may commence as
soon as the plants have 5 or 6
leaves. Medium to large plants
will give larger yields but be care
full and don't let the leaves get
tough. To harvest, cut the tap
root just below the lower leaves
with long sharp knife.
Early potatoes (white or Irish)
have high food value but are not
recommended for very small gar
dens because they take quite a bit
of space. They thrive best on
sandy loan soil, with a good
supply of plant food, moisture and
humus. When the soil has been
thoroughly worked in the spring,
space burrows to suit the type of
cultivation to be followed, i. e.
from 2 to 8 feet apart. Burrows
should be about to 6 inches deep.
The tubers should be cut so that
each seed piece will have at least
2 "eyes" or buds. 1t should be
chunky and weigh IL ounces.
Use only certified seed, placing
seed pieces about a foot apart in
the row.
Commercial fertilizers are used
at heavy rate, from 1000 to
5000 pounds per acre, having
analyses of 5-10-5, 5-10-1O or
1912. Some growers, like to ap-
ply about half of the fertilizer
broadcast and work it into the
soil. Burrows are opened an inch
or so deeper than it is desired to
plant. The remaining fertilizer is
sown in the furrow and with a
rake or wheel hoe is covered with
soil. 1t is important that the seed
piece does not come in contact
with the fertilizer. Or the re-
manning fertilizer may be added in
shallow trenches or bands as soon
as the plants emerge to mark the
row. An application of 5000
pounds per acre would be about
IL pounds per 100 feet of row or
6 pounds, if half had been applied
broadcast.
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Marshal Charles H. Howe, Jr., the
county safety board, the county
traffic engineer, County Manager
Irving G. McNayr and the Mary
land State Board of Fire Under
writers also were rejected by the
majority.
There was feeling around Court
house square and among the fire
departments that political pressure
had been brought to bear on the
council. Others charged that this
was another step in systematic
effort by the county to replace vol
unteer departments with a county
paid system"
The political pressure charge APP
parently stemmed from reports
that State Senator Anders r. Loft
strand had called the council men,
bers urging them to turn down the
fire site. He also repeatedly had
injected the fire site into discus
sions with county officials over
compromise of his support of the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, which
the council has been seeking to
abolish, observers said.
The council five weeks ago voted
81 to approve the site, with GRAY
ellie abstaining because he was not
present at the public hearing last
April. 1t was at Gravelle's insist
ance that the council withdrew its
first action, and reconsidered the
proposal, and Gravelle was out
spoken in his opposition to the site.
Supporting the site-on the basis
"that it is the most desirable site,
and that the council should accept
the advice of it's legal COUNSEL
were Council President George F.
Nesbitt, Mrs. Stella B. Werner and
Grover Walker.
The councils close vote was
victory for 65 residents of the
area, represented by the newly
elected chairman of the county
Charter Committee, Attorney
Plummer Shearin. Mrs. Werner
pointed out, however, that the fire
board had followed the advice of
the county attorneys office when
they learned of the law.
In 1850, Shearin as assistant
county attorney, was the one who
advised the Glen Echo department
that the purchase would be made
legal if the site were advertised,
posted, and public hearing held.
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OF AHuTYutHu, HPuT ms yuIuSH
pm. on Radio Station WGAY)
Favorable temperatures are
from 60 to rs degrees F. An
carly start is essential. Consid-
cradle frost after planting will not
harm the buried tubers. The re-
commended planting date at Col
lege Park is about March 20. In
the central area of the Eastern
Shore the traditional planting date
is st. Patrick's Day. Recommend
ed varieties are Irish Cobbler and
Katahdin.
Onions may be grown from seed
or sets and planted in early spring
as soon as ground can be prepared.
A half-ounce of seed or 2 pounds
of sets will plant 100 feet of row;
probable yield 1l2 bushels. Rows
may be as close as l to IL feet,
for hand cultivation. Leave plants
| 2 to 8 inches apart in row. Seed
should be covered p inch.
Plants may also be purchased
from Southern plant growers.
Yellow Globe and Ebenezer
varieties are recommended.
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increase of 275 percent or from
$9,725,O0O in 1915 to $34,SOO,O0O
in 1852?
The local Democrats always held
the county's bonded debt under 7
percent of the total county real
estate assessments: If the County
Council was as economical or as
capable, why did they have to
prevail upon their Republican allies
in the State Legislature to raise
the county bond limit 80 percent, or
to 10 percent of all assessments?
respectfully suggest to the
County Council that the fairy tale
period concerning the record of
their administration of the county
government is over.
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man, Murray L. Walker, Elsie
Haynes, Isobel E. Ardinger, Leslie
c. King, Walter E. Gosnell, How
ard G. Cissel, Luvie M. Pearson.
Guy L. Carter, Eugenia R.
Arnold, Hazel L. Welsh, Daisy v.
Magruder, Clara j. JAMS, Eliza
beth ]. Cissel, Florence o. Porter,
Eleanor X. Dyson, Clyde S. Ed
wards, Larry F. Diehl, and Alva
R. Beavers.
Members of the second petit
jury are:
Helen w. Darby, Aaron Frieden-
berg, Babette Griffith, Sidney
Thompson, Rean S. Miller, George
Voss Glossbrenner, Robert D. Hag-
ner, John C. Golf, Henry H. Wood
field, Norman E. Pennington, Dora
Lee A. Smallwood, Bertha L. Bur-
ton, George Gilbert Cooper, John
Huntington.
Oscar Felker, Herbert L. Upper
cue, Dell w. Brantley, Harold L.
LaBonte, Karl E. Dampier, Oscar
T. Fraley, Spencer J. H. Brown,
Jr., Malcolm E. King, P. Garland
Lyon and Walter X. Matthews.
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percent higher than the state
average for the year; IS percent
higher than Prince Georges and
So percent higher than Baltimore
County.
9. All existing and proposed
assessments are a nullity unless
and until the State Tax Commits
sion meets statutory requirements.
Parker's suit contends that the
county assessor and the Appeals
Tax Court both admitted that
the assessment was unfair and I'M
Just in relation to other compar-
able property in the same COM
munity but other insisted they
were following the law as con-
3trued in the Calvert County as
sessment case.
He further contends that the
original assessment was affirmed
as being full cash value on Deem
Der 5, 1862, and the Parkers were
required to stand an unfair share
of the tax burden. He asks the
Court how, if this is true, the
Court now can adopt a new as
sessment increase of &c percent
on January 8, 1858.
Parker further points out that
excessive assessments are des-
troying resale values in the coun-
ty and are requiring residents to
pay disproprotionately high share
of the taxes paid into the State.
The brief was rs legal pages in
length and had an appendix of
charts purporting to show the in
justice of the present assessment
system.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-03-19
Letters To The Editor

you have given the price agency.
OF course, we have not met COM
plete editorial endorsement by all
the Press of all our activities, nor
have We expected it. However, in
view of this fact, the fairness with
which our news items have been
handled, when we made news, is
even more pointedly shown up and
more Importantly valued.
! feel that we have been treated
more than fairly and feel nothing
but appreciation, for this continued
good treatment during the two
years of OPS's existence.
Yours very truly,
George N. Adams
Acting Regional Director
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feel the Jail supervisor should be
responsible for transporting pris-
oners not only to the penitentiary
but also from the Jail to various
police courts throughout the
county.
The council also indicated it
wanted the state legislature to
pass a measure limiting the num-
Der of unpaid deputies that Sheriff
Charles s. Lawrenson can APP
point. The figure, $50, has been
banded about council chambers
when the question was asked Chow
many deputies are there ?"
"No one should have the author
ity to raise a private army in
Montgomery county," Councilman
Lathrop Smith said"
"That's dangerous" he added.
The sheriff's duties, which in
the past have been curbed by the
Legislature, go back to Common
Law under which he was the chief
law enforcement officer in a county.
In some counties, this situation
still exists. \
Mrs. Werner said she though
"indiscriminate appointment" of
unpaid deputies should be stopped.
She added she was opposed to re-
ports that the deputies have been
stopping motorists for alleged
traffic violations.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-03-19
To The News Editor

Before the closing of the Office
of Price Solicitations regional
office, wish to express to you
my gratitude for the very great
assistance offered this agency in
its fight against initiation by the
newspapers of the four middle
Atlantic states in my region.
1t is understandable, / think,
that am unable to write individ-
ual letters of appreciation to you,
because of our recent personnel
cuts. But l have constantly fol
lowed your handling of our news
material and want you to know
of my sincere gratitude for the
fair play and objective reporting
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erty values" Council members
held.
In other actions aimed at the
Sanitary Commission, the county
Tuesday withheld it's support of
bills the commission has introduced
in Annapolis to float several mil
lion dollars in bonds for various
projects until the commission is
required by law to hold public
hearings and adopt a budget after
gaining public reaction"
Council members dashed out then
at the Commission for it's refusal
to conduct any of its business in
public, and scored the press for
failure to point up the situation
and create public pressure for
open meetings.
The council itself recently agreed
to conduct all of it's regular weekly
meetings in public session after
two years of pressure by the press
and civic groups.
The Montgomery County Press
Associations Freedom of the Press
Committee has been making plans
for the last month for AN call out
drive" on the commission to open
its meetings to the public and the
press.
The commission operates in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties, and next year has asked
the State Legislature for about
100000 for the next fiscal year,
some 100000 more than the
county's budget for this year. The
council, and members of the press
association, feel the taxpayers
have a right to know how the COM
mission operates in spending such
large chunk of their money.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-03-19

His argument now was that it could
never be made legal.
At the same time, the council
acted in the face of demands by
1855 residents of a half dozen cit
liens associations in the area fav-
oring the site.
Council members who favored
the site were at a loss after the
meeting as to what the councils
next step-if any-should be to
follow up the action. The four
councilmen who defeated the re-
location and apparently set pol
icy, gave no indication.
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groups of Special Spenders, the
League of Women Voters, or the
study groups, will be able to find
that last weeks County Council de-
Tense figures mean anything at all.
1t was stated on behalf of the
County Council that their figures
of last week were issued in re-
Spouse to charges of waste and
extravaganza and excessive spend
ing which had made a few days
earlier. My figures listed increases
between 1915 and 1852. The County
Councils defensive figures make a
comparison between 1912 and 1852.
This, of course, makes it harder
to compare these operating and
spending figures or totals.
The County Council seeks to
prove their 1862 economy and
efficiency in county government by
adding to. 1912 costs of county
government totals of 70 percent for
population increases and SO per-
cent for increased cost of living.
Such defense is political blind
ness. Everyone who has lived here
ten years remembers that the fight
for charter and for councilman
ager government was made with
the promise of better and more
economical government and in
these campaigns the 1912 and all
other Democratic County Admin
istrations were attacked as bad
and extravagant in every particu-
lar.
Yet the present County Council
has been floating along on such a
wave of adulation that they believe
their local worshippers will con-
tinue to call them divine when last
Tuesday they tried to prove them
selves as good and economical as
the Democrats were in 1912.
do not think the people of
Montgomery County have been put
W SlSep IIldI SOuHu1y.
The very formula the Council
seeks to use is unjustifed. They
seek to apply a SO percent cost of
living increase to all county ex-
penditures. Bond issue interest is
their second largest expenditure
totaling something like $1,400,000
year. There is no cost of living
increase in that large item. The in
terest rate on public bonds of sound
municipalities is about what it was
10 years ago. So on this one item
of interest on county bonds, the
County Council would try to give
itself a fake credit of SO percent
or of nearly $750,000 a year.
They actually think their sup
porters will continue to accept any
answer they care to make.
Again, there is very little cost
of living increase in the large
items of electric service, gasoline
for road crews and school buses
and not a complete SO per cent in
crease in the cost of telephone SER
vice, cost of fuel, etc. These and
similar items pad the councils de-
Tense figures. They chose to make
they efforts look as good as the
1912 Democratic records by addi-
tional hundreds of thousands of
dollars a year.
Then, when you accept their fig
ures and allow 70 percent for pop
ulation increase and SO per cent
for cost of living increase, that
total is 126 percent. How does their
own formula explain county bond
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-03-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert T. Brown
of Brookeville announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Roberta,
to Private Louis J. Hood, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Hood of
Damascus. Miss Brown is a gradu-
ate of Sherwood High School and
is now employed at the Montgomery
County General Hospital.
Private Hood is serving with the
United States Army and is temper
arily stationed at Camp Meade. No
date has been set for the wedding.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-03-19

You can count on A or 5 serv-
ings from such meats as ground
meat, boneless stew meats, liver
or other variety or homeless meats.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

held in the church social hall The
devotional service with a theme of
Jesus Call" was led by Mrs,
Emma Short, spiritual life secre-
tary. The speakers were Mrs. Mary
keeler, who talked on the "Mace-
DOMAIN Call" and Mrs. Mildred pet
tlt who told of the african Cali -
Her talk was based on a poem and
an African hymn.
Mrs. Edward B. Green, president
OF the society, reported on the
District WSCS Spring Conference
held in Centenary Church. in Ian
rel, last week The Grace Church
WSCS had II members in attend
ance at this conference, and there
were "a members who attended the
World Day of Prayer Service held
recently in Grace Methodist Church
in MillsbOrO.
The society voted to pay 100000
on their pledge to the building fund
and also to contribute the pro-
ceeds on serving a recent sumner.
5000 for the. same purpose. Thev
voted also, to contribute S25.OO to
The DeacOness Home in Whining
ton
Mrs. Green named committees
Tor the annual Mother-Daughter
dinner, which will be held on
Thursday evening, May z. Mrs
Fred SammOns will head the COM
nittee comprising. the six circle
leaders, in charge of the covered
ilsh dinner. Named as chairman
or the program and in charge of
decorations was Mrs. Frances
Graves, whose committee com |
Drises the following: Mrs. Mildred
Petit, Mrs. Margaret Short. Mrs |
lara Roach, Mrs. Elizabeth Muir
,ay' Mrs. Oleta Smith and Mrs. |
JllVe Bailey HOlsOn.
The previously appointed nomi- |
lating committee will present its
eport in the April meeting and |
ulcers for the ensuing term will
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
be elected at that time.

! be elected at that time.
At the close of the business ses-
sion there was a Lingerie PARTY
conducted by Mrs. Pearl DOdd.
There were a number of prizes
provided and refreshments were
served by Mrs. DOdd and members
of the WSCS.
William Robert Ellis, 18-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Avery H. Ellis.
OF Georgetown, has been designaf-
ed as first alternate on an appoint
ment to the U. S. Naval Academy
by U. S. Senator John J. Williams
Ellis, who is taking post-grad-
uate studies at the PerkHman
School in Pennsburg, Pa. gradm-
ated from the Georgetown High
School IN June of 1852. He was ac-
tive in the local school having NAV
e0 baseball, basketball and foot
pail. serving as cO-captain of the
LoOtDaIl team, in his senior wear
he was awarded the Babe Ruth
Good SpOrtsmanship Medal the
latter part of his senior wear in
Georgetown High School. Ellis
served as president of the Junior
class and also of the Junior Stu
dent Council. He was a member of
the Georgetown High School Band
and of the Glee Club of the high
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Roland Wilk-
ms, OF Georgetown, quietly cele-
Orated their 61st wedding anniver-
'ary on Tuesday of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkins were mar
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

freshments we're served. Hostesses
were Mrs. w. Virden Macklin. Mrs
David r. Pepper, Mrs. Robert Wv
att, Mrs. Roy Layton, Mrs. James
f. Walls, Mrs. Marvin Martin. Dec
orations were done by Mrs. Mack
lin, Mrs. Pepper, Mrs. Walls. Mrs.
Ralph Baker and Mrs. McIlvaine.
Hylon c. Smith, county PIMA
chairman, has issued a reminder tn
farmers that March 81 is the dead
line for obtaining government loans
on their 1852 corn crop.
Mr.. Smith has pointed ont tba+
farmers interested in obtaining a
loan on their corn should contact
the PIMA production Management
administration Office in George
Town, located on Market street. The
loan program, he explained. is de-
signed to aid farmers in marketing
tnelr corn crops in a more efficient
and orderly manner.
The annual membership meeting
OF the Sussex County Dairy Herd
improvement Association will he
held IN the COOlspring Community
Hail. Friday, March 1S, according
TO an announcement by Alden p
Short, president. The meeting will
De preceded by a banquet which
Will start promptly at z D. m.
DelInar ]. Young, extension
dairyman, will present a summary
OF the work of the association for
the past year and discuss the dairv
outlook for 1853. Victor Rust. Jr
Of RehobOth, secretary-treasurer of
the organization, will report on re-
ceipts and disbursements of funds
handled during the past year. Rails !
ton Pepper and Byron Schaurer.
supervisors in charge of the asso- |
will present progress re- /
ports. Officers will be elected and
there will be a reorganization of |
he board and committee reports.
The March meeting of the WSCS
IT Grace Methodist Church was
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

ried March 10, 1892, at the home
OF Mrs. Wilkins brother-in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. William A.
Short, by the Rev. George w. VIII
cox, who was at that time pastor
OF the Georgetown Methodist Cir
cult. They have both been members
of Grace Methodist Church since it
was organized as First Methodist
Protestant Church 62 years ago.
They have one son. G. Howard
of Georgetown; a grand
child, and one great -grandchild.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

munity House.
Mrs. DOllie Mae Lewis accom-
panied her mother, Mrs. Emory
Qulllen and also Misses Elsie and
ElVa LittletOn, returned home on
Sunday after a vacation in Flori-
da.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebe Jones have
moved to their home that they re-
Gently purchased from the heirs of
Garrison F. McCabe on the Roxana-
BishOpville Road.
Cordy Murray is convalescing at
his home here after being confined
in the Peninsula General Hospital
at Salisbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Lynch have
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

returned home after a vacation in
Florida.
Mrs. Elmer Daisey entertained
70 Stanley party last week. Mrs.
charlie Grise was the demOnstra-
tor. Refreshments were served.
Mrs. Jurusha McCabe spent a
part OF the week with her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

Louis Hickman and three daugh-
ters, Rita, Lois and Dixie Lee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vance MeCabe
were weekend guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter McGinnes at Milford.
Mrs. Ronald Lynch receive I'd
treatment at the Milford Memorial
Hospital last week. She has re-
turned home improved.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
ROXANA
BY Mrs. Alice Lockwood
Phone SelbyViIIe 1881

The Sunday School Glass of
Young Men, their teacher, Samuel
r. Lekites, and Rev. C. Wayne
BurWell, enjoyed another break
fast Sunday morning at the Com