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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
On the Air
On the Air
Rodgers-H0mmerstein Duo
In an Impressive TV Show
By Harry Macarthur

Staging an impressive tele-
vision show is a fairly simple
thing. actually. All you need is
a virtually unlimited budget.
Then you get Richard Rodgers
and Oscar Hammerstein. I'd.
to contribute the best of 10 years
of their professional lives, have
them supervise the staging. hire
Mary Martin and a dozen or so
top fight entertainers. You're
in.
This is approximately what
General Foods did last night
when it took over all four tele-
vision networks to celebrate it's
25th anniversary with a salute
to Rodgers and Hammerstein.
The result was. well. it was an
impressive television show.
It could hardly have been
anything else. what with this
cast and the best numbers of
half dozen Rodgers Hammer
stein musicals. staged the way
the writer composer producer
team wanted them staged. The
only other entertainment in all
television with which last nights
frolic can be compared is that
mammoth Ford anniversary
show.
Somehow. the comestible CO.
lossus slipped a little there. Ford
got almost as much attention
as its show, simply by skipping
all commercials. In the present
case the more conventional ap-
proach meant that the COM
mericals, even though few and
not too long. interrupted some
thing superior to what is usually
interrupted on television.
There was, it must be noted
in passing. one noteworthy mo-
ment during commercial last
night. Anna Lee. peddling a
cake mix, said that it had been
tested by 1000 women in COM
petition with three other cake
mixes. ut had to be good" said
Miss Lee clearly. ito beat those
other fine mixes" Statistics are
not available. but this probably
is the first time in all broad
casting history that one sponsor
admitted that another's product
had any merit at all.
~ r X
AS she was on that other TV
spectacular, Mary Martin was
the delight of this one. There
probably isn't girl anywhere
who can brighten a room more
merely by coming into it cleo
ironically. And, Of course, Miss
Martin had to represent the
Rodgers Hammerstein South
Pacific" in which she was the
original star. 1t was quite a pas
sage in which she stated with
bit of I'm Gonna Wash That
Man Right Out of My Hair"
joined Ezio PIMA to sing Some
Enchanted Evening"" and con-
cluded singing I'm in Love
With a Wonderful Guy" most
exultantly.
This probably increased the
local demand enough that the
forthcoming run here of South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29
University Of the Air

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WcFM-ss.S Me-, Channel 25S
$3.50 pm. &c EORG
TOWN UNIVERSITY
FORUM: Problems of
Epistemology: The HUI
man Microcosm."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

gested that this Rodgers-Ham-
merstein panorama might reveal
what is the magic, what is the
secret they share" It must have
occurred to many viewers, long
before Miss Martin returned to
the subject. what the secret is.
Mr.. Rodgers and Mr.. Hammer
stein are a couple of fellows who
think everlasting love is here to
stay. (They also are in love, un-
derstandably, with "Oklahoma!"
They got going on the recall of
their shows last night with that
wonderful opening number. "Oh.
What a Beautiful Morning"
sung by Gordon MacRae. And
they wound up with the rous-
ingly orchestrated "Oklahoma!"
which fairly shouts its exclama-
ton point.)
Between, however. it was clear
that their major credo is that
from a mans standpoint there
is nothing like a dame, and vice
versa. It's certainly a handy ar
rangement, but it is a bit of a
surprise to conclude that this
is what the teams fabulous sue
cess in the Broadway musical
field is based on. But the evil
dence was there.
Jan Clayton and John Raitt
returned to their old roles to do
the boy-meets-girl scene in
"Carousel" and to sing If
Loved You" Miss Martin came
along with 1T Might as Well Be
Spring." a love song from the
movie, state Fair" Janice Rule
and Bill Hayes continued the
courtship with the You Are
Never Away From Your Home in
My Heart" ballad from Allegro"
The same vein was followed by
the Martin PIMA enchanted eve
ming when she fell in love with
her wonderful guy. Still in the
mood, out of context at least, was
Getting to Know You," sung by
Patricia Morrison in an excerpt
with Yul Brynner from THE
King and l." Then there came
mo Other Love-" from me and
Juliet" a duet by Rosemary
Clooney and Tony Martin. Final
~, going full circle as Miss Mar
tin said. Mr.. MacRae and Flor
ence Henderson returned to
"Oklahoma!" with People viii
Say We're in Love-"
AS preoccupations go. there are
a lot of worse ones, but Rodgers
and Hannmerstein would have a
hard time denying they were in
love with love.
All of these people did hand
somely by their musical assign
ments, but Rodgers and Ham
merstein did not rest their case
with them alone. They also had,
for short comedy interludes. Jack
Benny. Groucho Marx. Edgar
Bergen and Charlie Mccarthy
and Ed Sullivan.
This reviewer yields to no man
in his admiration for the five of
them, but there wasn't much
they could add in their brief
moments. Groucho did, it must
be admitted, deliver the funniest
written ad lib of the evening.
This came during a discussion
with the men being saluted OF
the Pima song hit, Some En-
chanted Evening""
How" Groucho asked, Ibid
you ever hit on the idea Of writ
ing it In Italian dialect"
It was q swiftly moving, abun-
dant entertainment. a credit to
Rodgers. Hammerstein. Produc-
er-Director Ralph Levy and all
the others involved. If you passed
1t you made q mistake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

with a beautiful widow and
later suspects her of homi-
eide.
500, WRC-Telephone Hour:
Violinist Jascha Heifetz is
guest soloist.
S:3O-WWDC, WASH - Re-
porters' Roundup: Secretary
OF the Treasury George
Humphrey is interviewed.
1915, WRC-Heart of the News:
Commentators give the back
ground of news stories.
1880. WMAL, WRC-Secretarv
OF State John Foster Dulles:
An address on Freedom and
1ndo-China."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-29

Pacific" will have to be extended
several weeks.
In her opening remarks, in
cidentally, Miss Martin sug-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Mans Best Friend
These Days is SIS

The shadow of mans best
friend doomed across the County
Council table Tuesday.
Dog lovers in the county are
distressed that so many poocheS
are being destroyed because so
few prospective owners are will
ing to pay the SIS charged for
spading them, the Council was
told.
But even representatives of
humane societies are at odds on
how to deal with the problem, ac-
cording to A. Morton Thomas, di-
rector of the department of in
spection of licenses.
The Council kicked it around
for a few minutes before Council
man Lathrop E. Smith came up
with the answer.
ITS largely an administrative
matter" he said. There's no
reason why it can't be handled by
the county manager"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08

The demonstration was made
in connection with the Safety
boards interest in the proposed
chemical test bill which will be
introduced at the next session of
the State Legislature.
The proposed law would:
/. Protect the innocent by dis.
tinguishing between alcoholic
symptoms and injury, accident or
shock.
2. Aid in proving in court that
an offenders blood contained So
and.so much alcohol.
Most persons say they have
had only 1.-TWO beers, two cock
tails, or two highballs."
The Safety board noted that
the proposed law would boost the
conviction rate of motorists
charged with operating under
the influence" of drink.
Chemical test laws are on the
books in Is States.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
All for Science
All for Science
Safety Board Members CuzzIe
Booze at Business Blowout

Members of the Montgomery
, County Safety board sat around
drinking and blowing up balloons
at their latest business" meeting.
But it was all in the interest of
science.
Guinea piggishly downing a
bottle of whiskey, the members
were testing out the IntoXimeter,
which determines the amount of
alcohol in the blood.
Three members managed to
jockey their way in front of other
volunteers for the test and drank
certain amounts" of whiskey.
DR.. Henry c. Freimuth, Mary.
land State toXicologist, then had
them blow up small balloons.
Freimuth and his assistant, Mrs.
Doris Fisher, analysed the con.
tents of the balloons, then made
blood tests of the happy volun.
teers.
Laboratory results proved how
much each had drunk.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Public Doesn't Want Swim Pools,
Recreation Board Head Concludes

coming certain residential land in
the suburban metropolitan dis
trict from present restricted resi-
Dental to permit the building of
private subscription, so-called
community pools, Hunt went on.
"The shortcomings of such pri-
vate subscription pools were
pointed out very clearly last
week in a letter to the editors
of the local and Washington pap
ers," Hunt said.
Zoning requirements proposed
SO far to the County Council for
these private pools must meet
minimum standards in regard to
buffer areas that the Board of
Recreation feels essential. Il too
wonder, whether Montgomery
County should undertake all these
responsibilities without receiving
in return swimming facilities OPP
en- to the public rather than to
private subscribers noted Hunt.
The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
has never sponsored a swimming
pool, or indicated any plans for
including public swimming pool
in one of its recreation centerS,
for reasons it has never publicly
discussed. However, Hunt said,
now that the recreation program
has been wholly transferred to
the County, residents of Mont
gomery County have a responsi.
bility to indicate to the County
recreation board and the County
Council just what they expect IN
regard to public swimming ia
cilities. The recreation board, at
its meeting tonight will give final
consideration to its recommenda-
tons for the immediate program
to be undertaken by the County
to meet Countrywide needs for
swimming facilities.
The County Council will devote
its meeting July Is, at 800 pm
in the County Office building to
hearings on re.zoning to permit
private subscription pools in su.
burban residential areas and will
also hear proposals regarding
swimming pool needs in general
These meetings will give
County citizens a chance to make
known their desires for swim
ming pools in the County if there
are any concrete desires at all,
Hunt concluded.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Camp Echo Lake
Enthusiasm and Hard Work
Making a Dream Come True

lines. These are the kids who
make Mr. Fosdck's cry for faith
in these tough times" a very real
thing. These are the youngsters
who represent vitality as opposed
to size.
Pictures would be fine lust
here but we have none. Conse.
quently, let's take a trip to camp
as / did on Saturday, June 26
The long country lane seemed
endless but suddenly, | was there
A clean American flag fluttered
in the breeze atop a handhewn
flag staff. A two acre lake
sparkled in the hot sun. Green
cabins nestled against the green
or slope. Red caps and T.shirtS
identified six boy counselors
swinging scythes in the hot sun
in an attempt to subdue the
weeds. Six boys and a muddy
dog mascot descended upon us
and, in few gulps, the boys had
disposed of a huge thermos jug
of cold lemonade. Then for few
brief minutes, they lay on their
hunks talking. They talked Of
their plans, their fun, their hours,
They all talked at once but a
piture began to evolve. They did
not have much time, it seems,
to spend on US. They had work
TO do but they were gracious in
asking us to look around.
All Of the boys were tanned.
All we're dressed for work. A
couple we're wearing cotton
gloves to delay the blisters. Most
of them had gained weight in the
few days they had been there.
Their hunks were neatly made;
their clothes less tidily arranged.
They were having a lot Of fun
along with the serious business
of making the camp ready for
campers. They had found time to
disscct a snake and stretch its
skin, lamenting,all the time the
fact that the farmer had killed
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Rockville Heads
Oppose Closing
Monroe Street

Closing of Monroe Street was
opposed vehemently Tuesday by
RockVille's Mayor and Council as
the Board of Trade warned it
could snuff out the city's bust
ness district.
The State Roads commission
had planned to shut off Monroe
Street as the Washington Ma
tional Pike stretches through
Rockville.
James Miller, vice chairman of
the Trade Boards traffic and
planning committee, protested at
the Town meeting that Monroe
is the logical access to the bust.
ness section.
A petition containing 10 names
of Rockville businessmen who op-
pose the closing of the street has
been submitted to the County
Council, Miller said.
After a long discussion, the
Mayor and Council voted to 90
on record opposing the closing
of Monroe.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08

Judging from the number of
letters and written requests that
the recreation board has received,
residents of Montgomery County
are not interested in building pub
lie swimming pools, the chairman
of the Montgomery County rec
reation board, Donald H. Hunt,
said this week.
There have been only two
resolutions received from all civic
organizations and only a few let
tiers from individuals indicating a
desire for public swimming
pools" Hunt said.
The standards recommended by
the National Recreation aSsocia-
ton call for one outdoor public
swimming pool for each 10000
inhabitants, and one indoor pool
for each $4,000 population. In
view of these recommendations
the Board of Recreation recon-
mended in its five-year capital
improvement plan prepared in
1852 with the aid of the then
newly-appointed director of the
Montgomery County department
of recreation, Forest V. Gustaf-
son, that five outdoor pools be
constructed between 1858 and
1858 throughout the County.
"Since 1852 there has been so
little public interest in construct.
ing public swimming pools, in
terms of individual letters and
organizational resolutions that
this capital improvement pro.
gram has yet to be included In
any County budget Hunt con-
tinued.
What do you think would be
the effect if the Montgomery
County recreation board received
10000 letters demanding public
swimming pools?" This would
represent the standard for only
one public swimming pool, count.
ing individual writer's only, or ap.
proximately four pools counting
four members to the average
family. OF course Montgomery
County could and should then
construct the pools recommended
by the Board of Recreation" Hunt
concluded.
In the absence Of any such in.
dication of public demand for
public swimming pools the Coun.
ty Council has before it at pres.
ent only a consideration for re.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Carnival of
Rockville FD
August 8-2l

Rockville's annual Volunteer
Fire Department carnival will be
held Aug. S-21.
Volunteer fire-fighters have
been working on the carnival
grounds for the past week to get
it ready for this years spectacle.
Money raised from the carnival
keeps the fire department oper-
ating without expense to the
city's taxpayers.
This year, the department will
spend some $42,500 to remodel
the front of the fire house, buy
a new pumper and a new rescue
truck.
The truck probably will arrive
in time for display during carni.
val-time.
Four automobiles will be
awarded during this years event.
AmusementS will include fer
ris wheel, large and small hobby
horse, dipper, dive bomber, octo-
pus, space chaser tank ride, kid
dy airplane, kiddy train and boat
ride, plus a variety of games.
A floor show will be presented
nightly, followed by dancing to
the music of the Five Tones"
Admission tickets will win val
liable prizes for some carnival
goerS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Deposit : Resource
Gains Listed by
Suburban Trust Co.

T. Howard Duckett, chairman
of the board and executive COM
mittee, announced that Suburban
Trust company during the past
six months shows substantial
gain in deposits and total re-
sources and earnings have been
very satisfactory.
Total resources as of June 30,
1854, aggregated $84, 100000
against $76,906,0OO as of Deem
Der 81, 1858. Deposits for the past
six months were up over $1,000
900, being $7S,6S9,0OO as of June
80, 1854, as against ST., $4,000
on December 81, 1858.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
$272,OOO For
Upper County
Highway Work
Engineer Lists
Primary Targets
For Summer Time

Before the summer is over,
more than $272,000 in Montgom-
cry County funds will be COM
mitted to the construction of new
roads or the improvement of
existing ones in the up-county
area, J. c. Kordella, Chief of the
County Division of Highway En-
cheering, said yesterday.
The funds, which will be
matched in part from Federal
highway monies, became avail
able in the 1954-55 budget passed
last week by the County Council.
Perhaps the outstanding prof.
ect is that calling for the extern
sion of Rever Road for three
miles between State Route 421
and State Route 112. The cost
will be 100000 which will be
divided evenly between the Coun-
ty and the Federal Government.
Involving a new bridge to re-
place the present ford over
Muddy Branch Creek, the new
road is expected to "open up the
entire western end of the Coun-
ty." 1t is understood that an
Annapolis builder has purchased
200 acres of farmland along the
new route which he proposes to
sell in five acre home sites. Work
is scheduled to start on the road
Gin the near future"
Also slated for early work, is
construction of the Whites Ferry
Road gin stages. To be built at
a cost of $4,000, the road will
carry an estimated 1,400 cars
daily between PooleSville and Vir-
ginia. 1t is understood that Vir-
ginia highway authorities have
promised an improvement in the
Ferry road on the Virginia side
and that new ferry service will
be inaugurated by corporation
headed by Edwin Brown, Rock
vile attorney.
Completion of the 1.8 mile
primary stone surface road from
Brink to Goshen is the third
PROJECT that ranks high on the
County road priority list. Two
years ago, the road base was put
in and the new operation will in
volve surfacing it with stone.
The cost to the County will be
$4,000.
Other priority projects" are:
1. The grading and widening of
So. Lawn Lane from the Rock
villeC ity limits to Avery Road
- distanceof Is mile - which
will reduce dangerous curves in
the existing road.
2. The widening and surfacing
of Glen Mill Road from State
Route % to eileen Road - a dis
Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
'Midases' Get
Free Medical
d-M.C. Docs

Free medical service is being
handed out to Montgomery Coun
ty residents who can afford to
pay for it, the County Council
was told Tuesday.
DR.. Austin B. Rohrbaugh, pre-
sident of the Montgomery Coun
ty Medical society, said members
of his group were so disturbed
about reports of medical hand
outs by the county Health De
partment that they called a spec
ial executive committee meeting
last month.
He said the group hesitated to
take public action because 1--WE
didn't want to tread on anyone's
toes"
Under prodding by Council
Lathrop E. Smith, Rohrbaugh
promised to bring back to the
Council evidence of such prac.
tees Gin black and white"
IF this has reached proportions
at which it is a burden on tax.
payers, it is your duty to let us
know about it," Smith told Rohr.
baugh.
But we don't want to do any.
thing on the basis of hear-say,"
he added.
Rohrbaugh said quite a few
patients are referred to public
clinics by school nurses or next.
door neighbors instead of by
physicians.
The medical official also told
the Council many private physic.
ianS feel it would be more ap.
propriate to have public clinics
located in local hospitals rather
than in the Health department.
He made a plea for closer LA
! sion between the governing body
and the Medical society and
charged that neither the Medical
Care commission nor Advisory
Health committee provide en-.
ough contact between the medical
profession and the county govern
ment.
He also asked that the society
be given a voice in selection of
a successor to DR.. V. L. Ellicott,
who is stepping up from his post
as county health officer to work
with the state chronic disease
program in Baltimore.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Pay Boosts
In Offing
For County

A long-awaited pay plan which
if adopted will fatten salary
checks of nearly all county en-
ployes was handed to the County
Council Tuesday.
Mrs. Edith A. Dinwoodey, per,
sonnet board vice chairman, told
the Council the new scale reflects
a national trend toward higher
earnings by State and local gov
eminent employees.
Three schedules - for police,
general employees and hourly
workers - are set up under the
plan. Police would get $4,000,
general employees $4,000 and
hourly workers $4,000.
Funds to provide the hikes
come from a $4,000 appropria-
ton set aside in the budget.
Ponce increases range from
S225 for a beginning private to
1894 for top-scale captain. This
year the board is urging a $3.50
ceiling on raises to any officer.
Earring worst under the plan
are starting corporals and ser
genats who net $3.50 and S93.10
annual raises respectively.
The plan recommends creation
of a private first class rank to
offer "promotional opportunity
for outstanding private. 1t also
sets up twenty disable grades for
general employees in place of the
present seventeen.
The Council will take action on
the pay plan next Tuesday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
Old-Time Style
To Open Antique
Auto Show Here

A style show of antique" bath,
ing suits, a street parade of $50
antique automobiles all operat-
ing under their own power, a dis
play of trophies in the windows
of Rockville merchants and a
city-wide two-day sale are fea-
lures of Rockville's "Old
Fashioned Days, to be held Fri
day and Saturday, July % and
"a.
The "main event" is the antique
car meet Of the National Capital
Region of the Antique Auto
mobile Club of America to be
held on Saturday, July "a, at
Southlawn Farm, home of Sena.
tor A. r. Lofstrand, Jr., who is
a member of the antique car or.
ganization and the owner of
several Of the old.timecars.
Members of the club take great
pride in the authentic restora-
ton of old vehicles and devote a
great deal of effort to the task.
There is keen competition among
them and at this meet as at other
similar affairs there will be judg-
ing of the cars and selection of
the outstanding cars in each
competitive class. There are 20
classes.
Sixty prizes will be given, with
a first, second and third prize
trophy being given in each class.
These trophies are being donated
by the merchants of Rockville
and are being especially made for
the occasion. Delivery of the
trophies has been promised for
July 10. During the two.Week
period between the delivery and
the meet, trophies will be on ex.
hibition in the windows of the
business firms which sponsor the
prizes.
The two "Old Fashioned Sale
Days will feature another city.
wide sale by Rockville merchants
similar TO the Rockville Day"
sale held last March. This sale
will last two days and will be held
on the weeks most popular shop
ping days, Friday and Saturday,
Outstanding values are planned
for these sales days by Rockville
merchants, many Of whom have
already made special purchases
for the event
A parade Of the antique auto.
mobiles taking part in the meet
will be held on Saturday after.
noon, July "a, at 1870. The parade
route will be announced at a later
date.
Widespread interest in the an.
tique automobile meet has al
ready been indicated and a large
influx of visitors is expected in
Rockville for the parade and
during the odd Fashioned Sale
Days.