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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

rectly responsive to county vot-
ers.
Another new bill would author
ize issuance of $250,000 in bonds
for parking lots in Silver Spring.
The Council postponed action
on bill 8 to create a Laytonsville
fire tax area after Councilman
Grover X Walker introduced an
amendment which would keep
large segment of the new district
in the Gaithersburg fire area.
Councilman Lathrop f. Smith
said II the entire area in the first
election district were not turned
over TO Laytonsville the assess
able base would be too small to
support a fire department.
The Council adopted bill 8.
which tightens restrictions on
building permits in the Upper
county planning district; bill 10,
which raises from S2.5 million to
S35 million the amount Of Ger.
tificates Of Indebtedness which
can be outstanding at one time
and bill Is. to extend the Mont
gomery Hills parking lot district.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
County Council
County Council
Front Foot Hearing Shift Studied;
LaytOnsviIle Fire Tax Area Boys

A bill to shift responsibility for
conducting front foot benefit
road hearings from the County
Council to a specially.appointed
board was introduced Tuesday by
Councilman Louis A. Gravelle.
Although the measure, aimed
at cutting the Councils workload,
was introduced at the suggestion
Of Public Works officials, II was
first outlined by Morris Allen,
executive director of Montgom.
cry County Taxpayers, Inc.
Currently all front foot bene.
fit hearings are heard by the
Council. Under the proposal the
appointed board would send its
recommendations together with
written records of the hearings
TO the Council for final action.
Residents two weeks ago scOr.
ed proposal 10 shift coming
hearings from the Council to the
board of appeals on grounds that
1t would take policy.making au.
thority from the elected council
and transfer II TO body not di-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Gum called for a "big vote" to
depose "the political machine
whose trickery against the pub
lie includes changing the cleo.
ton date so that it comes at the
very worst time of the year."
The Montgomery County farm.
er-lawyer said McKeldin's bench.
men set June % as primary day
ibecause it would be a busy time
for farmers and other working
men.
The answer, Gum asserted, is
for all Republicans to get out
"even though it means some
small sacrificing of time" - to
vote for him.
Eyeing McKeldin's numerous
speech-making tours around the
country, Gum interposed that he
is IAN un-hyphenated Republi-
can" II will devote my full
time and efforts to the Job of
Governor"
Byrd will appear at the first
Countrywide Democratic rally
next Thursday in the Kensing.
ton armory.
A box supper affair, the rally
will open at 7 pm, and the ex.
Continued on Page d
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
HOmeOWnerS on
Need for Tax
ReaSSeSSnentS

Following is a resolution passed
by the H I'm owners' Tax
League, detailing the wrangle
which led up to the County Coun-
Gil threatening to take the State
Tax Commission into court in its
fight over assessments:
Whereas, report entitled IRE
port Of Committee to Determine
Ratios of Assessment to Sale Of
Accessible Real Estate within the
State of Maryland was com.
pleted in October, 1858, at public
expense, by employees of the
State Tax Commission. whose au.
thority and official standing to
make such a report has been ac-
cepted by the Maryland State
Tax Commission; and
Whereas, the said Report not
only failed to establish that as.
sessments are uniform within the
several Counties, but reveals the
most gross and shocking dispari
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Maniacal CT
Caught After
Terror Spree

A maniacal CT who stabbed
two Montgomery Countians dur
ing a 24.hour terror spree was
re-captured in Baltimore Thurs.
day afternoon.
Army Pvt. Fred c. Pierrou,
"a, surrended meekly on the
Baltimore waterfront when police
spotted him.
Returned to Walter Reed Hos.
pital-where he had escaped We'd
nesday by climbing a 10-foot
wire fence-Pjerrou was tenta-
lively identified by the Goshen
mother and daughter he is ac.
cused of slashing.
Pjerrou waylaid Mrs. Adele
Thomas, 80, and her five children
on their farm and stabbed the
mother and child in his flight to.
ward freedom.
Walter Reed physicians said
he is psycho-neurotic. He was
placed in a top security" ward
at the Army hospital awaiting
action Of police.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Memorial DAY
Memorial Day
Montgomery County Honors
War Dead i'm Rites Sunday

Montgomery County-and the
rest ofathe nation-will mourn its
war dead Sunday with the usual
church services, speeches-and
death.
Safety experts predict $40 per-
sons will be killed in traffic ac-
cidents during the three-day
weekend.
Burglars will choose Decoration
Day to add 5000 thieveries to
the crime toll.
County employees will get a
holiday Monday, the day after
Memorial Day, but school kids
will have to go to school Mon
day.
Here is the Memorial Day story
locally:
All churches will hold special
Memorial services in honor of
the nations servicemen who
sacrificed their lives in wars.
CThe story of church activities
is carried fully on Page A-2)
A m orial service for
deceased firemen of the Gathers
burg-Washington Grove volun-
teer fire department will be held
in the Wesley-B Briggs room of the
firehouse at 4 pm. Sunday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
SmallmOuth Bass
Being COddled
By Degrees

State researchers are taking
the Potomac Rivers temperature
these days-to find out when she
will become a mother to small
mouth bass.
r. D. Van Deusen of the Mary
land Department of research and
education explained it this way:
The smallmouth bass spawning
period starts when the water
temperature reaches 60 degrees
and is past when the temperature
warns up to 68 degrees. The
temperature-taking will enable
authorities to decide whether
closed bass seasons should be the
same for all parts of the river
system.
One of the six recording loca.
tons is at Edwards Ferry.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Governor to
Break Ground
For Pike at
Caithersburg
ID. c. Frederick
Highway Halfway
Done; Year to Go

Governor McKeldin will break
ground June 4 for erection of an
overpass to carry Washington
National pike over Middlebrook
Road near Gaithersburg.
With local and State Roads
commission officials attending,
the brief ceremony at $3.50 pm.
will bring the road about helf-
way to completion between Fred
erick and the District of Column
bia line.
The limited access expressway
was commenced at the Frederick
terminus in December, 1919,
when contracts were awarded
for a bridge over the Monocacy
River and other facilities near
Frederick. The road was opened
as far as HyattstoWn last year
and another 4-mile link to the
Clarksburg Interchange wa S
opened to traffic early this year.
The road is expected to be ex-
tended to the Germantown con-
nection next fall and will move
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Politics
Cum Pledges
Full Time to
Governor Job
Other Candidates
Join Race for
June q Primary

Politics ruled the roost this
week as campaigners crowed
about their record and lambast-
ed their opponents.
Some highlights of the week:
l. James w. Gum, opponent
of Governor McKeldin for the
Republican gubernatorial nod,
said the primary date June 28)
was fixed for "the machine"
2. DR.. H. c. Byrd readied him.
self to move into Montgomery
County in his bid for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination.
3. George P. Mahoney, Byrd's
opponent, continued his paper
war" against the former Mary
land university president.
4. Harmony" candidates on
the County Democratic ticket
finally got together on a plat
form.
Taking them one-by-one, this is
what happened during the week:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

forward to Gaithersburg and be-
You'd Rockville in 1855.
During the past 60 days, adj
ditional contracts have been
awarded on this highway in the
Gaithersburg area. In addition to
the contract for the Middlebrook
Road overpass which will be the
occasion for ceremonies on June
4 the following contracts have
been awarded by the State Roads
Commission at the following con-
tract prices:
bridge over Great Seneca
Creek, $271,671.00; 2-Stretch of
highway 264 miles in length
from south of Md. 119 to north
of Md. 124, 1,159,516.00; B
Underpass at Muddy Branch
Road, 1922, $500; 4-Overpass at
Md. 124, S124,951.00; 5-241 mi.
from Md. 124 to Shady Grove
Road, $914,387.00.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

$l.3
Million Bond
Issue Sold
Lone Bidder Buys
Issue as Council
Seeks Own System

Rockville sold its $1,300,OOO
bond issue for sewer and water
extensions Tuesday.
Mayor Dickran Hovsepian APP
proved the lone bid, by the Mer-
camille Safe Deposit company of
Baltimore, at 31a per cent inter
est rate.
ITS the best we can do" How
sepian grumped.
The Baltimore firm represented
several other investment corpora
tons in the purchase, it was re-
ported.
Approval of the bond sale per-
mitted the city to proceed with
its plans for hooking up with
the Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commissions water line on
Wisconsin Avenue, and building
an eight-mile sewer extension
and dispose plant in Cabin John
Valley.
City Councilmen, however,
said Friday at a special meeting,
that they want to consider the
possibility of the city building
its own sewer system, because
sewer costs by 1870 will total
more than 100000.
They approved the sewer bonds
after the State health depart
ment removed its objection to
the city building its own sewer
disposal plant in the Cabin John
area.
Letters will go out this week
Hovsepian announced, asking
Rockville residents to ration
their use of water.
Residents of even-numbered
homes will be permitted to water
lawns, etc, between 1880 and
Continued on Page d.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

In a fourth resolution the
Council called on all county resi-.
dents to cooperate in a nation
wide alert on June ID ordered by
the Federal Civil Defense Agen-
cy.
The last resolution noted that
the Director of Public Safety has
been instructed to sound sirens,
halt traffic and require pedest-
rians to take cover during the
drill.
Councilwoman Stella B. Wern-
er praised the work of the Mont
gomery County Civil Defense AS
ISOLATION in paving the way for
development of a countrywide
program.
Named to the advisory board
were Maj Gen. Lewis B. Hersh-
ey; Col. Robert Ransome; Mrs.
Kathryn Taylor; John r. Reeves;
F. Lee Hardesty; Blair Lee III;
Worthington Thompson; Wilbur
N. Baughman; Mrs. Lois Sprigg
HAZEL; William r. Armstrong;
Kelley Literal; Edward L. Fos-
ter; Howard Larcombe; DR.. Man
ming w. Alden; P. B. Lonely; Ry.
der Ray; Don Huntington; Col.
Paul Griffith; Eldon Sweezy;
Gerhard Meyer; Mrs. Ralph
Beall; Henry B. Hickerson; Rev.
Carter Gilliss; Herbert F. Hyatt;
Col. ]. NJ. Chambers and Melville
Peters.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
EnbeZZlenent
Is
False Beall
"Best Interests"
OF County Guide
His Resignation

Montgomery County Manager
Edward T. Beall indicted four
days earlier in Portsmouth, Ohio
on a charge of ENLARGEMENT
resigned under fire Wednesday.
In a hallway interview with
reporters outside the County
Council chamber after he hand.
ed in his resignation, Beall main
tanned he is innocent, but:
Primarily, ! feel that this
action is in the best interests of
Montgomery County"
A grand jury in Portsmouth,
where Beall was City Manager
for two years before coming here
Sept. l, indicted him on one
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

count of embezzling $738.S1 from
the city owned Portsmouth hos.
pital.
Beall had been on leave from
his post since the Portsmouth
story first broke several weeks
ago. After a brief stay in hos
pital for an operation, he flew
to the Ohio city ito clear my
name"
Both he and his former secre-
tary, Mrs. Nadine Pierce, took lie.
detector tests in their dispute
about alterations of the hospital
records while Beall was doubling
as its director.
Secret Indictment
Beall, 45-year-old Baltimore
native and Johns Hopkins uni
versity graduate, then was in
dicted in a secret true bill re-
turned by the grand jury.
He surrendered Saturday after
noon and Is free on $1,000 bond.
The seven-member County
Council accepted his resignation
with little comment.
President Harold Hammond
called Bealls action honorable"
Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Sycamore Blight
Statewide; Cure
Fungicide Spray

Sycamore trees in Maryland
are undergoing one of the worst
blights in recent years, patholog.
lists reported this week.
The outbreak of anthracnose
is widespread, Maryland univer.
sity watchers have warned
Symptoms of the disease are
brown, dead areas around the
veins of young leaves.
The cure: Spray the foliage
with a copper fungicide such as
Bordeaux mixture $500, incor.
porating a spreader sticker. Three
of four sprays should be enough.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Party HOpefuls
Invited to Speak
At Blair Rally

A Candidates Rally will hear
four candidates for U. S. Re-
preventative and IS candidates
for the County Council June l
at 8:15 pm. at Montgomery
Blair High School, Silver
Spring.
No topic has been given,
each candidate will speak on
the issues he feels are most
important. The rally is spon-
sored by the League of Women
Voters.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Safety Contest
On for Parents
In Montgomery

Parents in Montgomery Coun.
ty have been urged to enter the
safety play yard" and play
room" contest sponsored by the
County Safety Board.
Prizes totaling $500 will be
awarded after the contest ends
September 1. Application blanks
will be distributed to $4,000
school children and will be avail.
able at police stations in Rock.
vile, Bethesda and Silver Spring.
Five prizes will be given for
the best play yards and five for
the best play room. 1t. C. o.
Seek is in charge of the program.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Council AbsOrbs
Control of Civil
Defense Program

Montgomery County's tagging
civil defense program got a shot
IN the arm Tuesday as the Coun-
ty Council voted to make it an
official function of county gov
eminent.
The Council adopted three reso-
lutions which ID set itself up as
the responsible agency for civil
defense; (2) called on the Cover.
nor to name the County Manager
as Director of Civil Defense and
90 created a 26-man advisory
committee to work with the
Council.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Glen Hills Citizens

The Glen Hills Citizens associ.
alton will meet June 2 at 8 pm.
in the county auditorium to elect
officers, adopt a constitution,
and hear committee reports.
Owners of undeveloped lots as
well as Glen Hills residents are
invited to attend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Pool for Scouts
OK'd by Parents;
Building Begins

Rockville parents this week
gave the go ahead to plans for
construction of a swimming pool
for Scouts and their families.
Backers of the idea for a
$1,000 swimming pool for the
use of children in scouting work
said that enough money has been
collected to begin the project.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27
Scholarship Winner

Miss Marilyn Shaw Of Sher.
wood High School was the recipi-
ent of one Of three Board of
Education scholarships to Mont.
gomery Junior College for the
year 1954.55, it was announced
by Harvey Cheston, chairman of
the college scholarship commit.
tee. She will receive full tuition
for her first year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Late News Briefs

President Eisenhower will top
the program during commence.
ment exercises June Z at Wash.
ington college in Chestertown.
He will be the fourth President
to receive an honorary degree
from he college. Alumni will
hold their annual reunion at the
same time.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
will discuss county civil de-
tense at a joint meeting of
civic groups in Rockville on
Tuesday, June 1 at 8 pm. in
the gymnasium at Richard
Montgomery High School.
A technicolor film of the
H-bomb explosion will also be
shown. The meeting is being
sponsored by the Rockville
Elementary School PTA.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Saturday will be National Rally
Day for the American Federation
of the Physically Handicapped
one of every four Ameri-
cans is, to some degree, physic-
ally handicapped.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Lincoln Park and Haiti resi-
dents will get a chance for free
chest x-rays Wednesday when
the tuberculosis associations mo-
bile unit makes special stops in
Rockville. The unit will be at
A.M.E. Zion church lot from 4
to 6 pm. and at Jim's ESQ serv-
ice station from 6 to 8 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Rockville Christian church will
hold strawberry festival to-
morrow from 7 to 10 pm, on the
parsonage lawn, West Jefferson
and South Adams Streets.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

The four area units of the
Montgomery County Real Estate
Board will meet at 8 pm, June
1, in the Shoreham hotel, Wash
ington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Emory A. Twyman, 38, Negro,
was killed in West Rockville
Wednesday morning when he fell
beneath the rear wheels of a
backing truck.
Police reported Twyman - ia.
Their of two stumbled as
he was directing a second truck
driver to his stalled vehicle. He
died of a crushed skull.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-05-27

Maryland members of the We
teranS of Foreign Wars will hold
their 34th encampment June o.
81 in Baltimore.
The Germantown Methodist
Church will hold its chicken and
ham supper June 5.
Montgomery County Baptist
Churches organized new associ.
alton last week. Members are
churches in GAINESVILLE, Glen
Echo, Germantown, Georgia
Avenue, Kensington, TTaNilahy
Upper Seneca and Viers Mill.
The group calls itself the "Old
Historic Seneca Association"
The sixth annual May festival
of st. Johns Episcopal church
in Olney will be held Saturday.
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone company directors have
authorized $280,000 to be spent
on a new building for dial equip
men tat Ashton. Another $4,000
was okayed for underground and
aerial cables along suburban
Georgia Avenue.
Fillmore Cleaners and the
Western Union Telegraph office
in Rockville, formerly located on
East Montgomery Avenue, will
Evening star., 1954-12-10

long-wearing, easy to
care for :. in sizes 1-6
1'99 to 7.@
s. toddIer boys eobIe-knit eordigon in
cherry red wool. New-lookine 900
wee necklne. Sizes to 3x.
7. toddIer boys white cotton broodcloth
shirt with convertible neckline. 90
Nicely tailored. Sizes to 4.
8. little boys shirt and shorts set Of
woshqbIe Thomas cotton, styled by Ok
ford. Plod shirt and tweed-effect boxer
shorts with tob front. Pink and charcoal,
brown and white. lemon and gray, navy
and White, or groy and white. 90
Sizes 3 to 7.
9. toddler boys machine washable San
forIon slocks in warm combination Of
85oo wool and 1915 nyon. = 90
Navy, red or eroy. Sizes to4. -
TO- little boys butter soft reindeer
sweater Of 500 orion, 259d vieoro and
259o nylon Cardigan style in A 90
red only. Sizes to 6x
II. little boys orion spon sweater with
wee neckIne. White with red or red with
navy jocquord stripe. Sizes 3 2oo
to 6x.
L. little boys snowflake -pottem orion
cordeon. Green or navy with white.
or red with navy. Sizes to A 90
6x.
WGL-Boys and Girls Apporel, 4th Floor
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Evening star., 1954-12-10
Rules for Preventing
Christmas Tree Fires
Listed by Sutton

Fire Chief Millard Fl. Sutton
today issued q list of safeguards
TO prevent Christmas tree fires
In District homes.
Chief Sutton said Christmas
trees can be kept from catching
fire by observing the following
rules:
/. Make sure the tree is fresh.
AS soon as o tree liz acquired,
saw of the trunk diagonally,
one inch or more above the orig
inal cut and stand 1t In water
before 1t is set UP for display.
Maintain the water level above
the cut.
2. Secure the tree well with
wire during the display, not
string. Do not put 1t near sources
OF heat such as fireplaces or
radiators, or where it could block
an exit in case of fire.
3. Use non-combustible mate
rails to decorate. Make sure
decorating materials Is flame
proof, particularly if they are
to be used near the tree.
4. Make sure tree wiring for
lights is in good condition. Test
and make necessary repairs be-
fore installing it on the tree.
5. Avoid giving dangerous toys,
especially ones requiring the use
Of tnfiammable liquids.
s. Dispose Of tissue paper and
wrappings from gifts immedi-
ately. Accommodations of such
material is dangerous.
Chief Sutton pointed out that
Christmas trees burn like
torches" and many homes and
places of business can be seri-
ously damaged or destroyed II
safeguards are ignored.
Evening star., 1954-12-10
Lecture on Buddhism

Chun Prabha, public relations
attache Of the Royal Thai En-
bassy, viii speak on Buddhism
in Thailand at a meeting of the
Friends of Buddhism Society at
4 pm. tomorrow in the Royal
Thai Embassy, 1900 Kalorama
road NV. A moving picture,
"Scintillating Thailand," will
also be shown.
Evening star., 1954-12-10

CHEVY CHASE: Wisconsin Western Ave Oliver 4-7eoo
9Thursdoys December through December 81 Fdey
November rs hrouek December H. other Days $50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
National Symphony
To Play in Falls Church

The National Symphony Or
chestra. In its first Fairfax
County appearance. will present
two student concerts Tuesday at
the George Mason Junior-Senior
High School. West Broad and
Haycock streets. Falls Church.
The concerts, at $50 and 1O:45
am, will be sponsored by the
Women's Committee Of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra in
Falls Church.
Tickets may be purchased at
the following schools: George
Mason, Ma olson Jefferson
Mount Daniel, Falls Church
High School. Oak Street. Ches-
Textbook, Willston, Bailey's,
Westlawn. Graham Road. st.
James parochial and st. An
thongs parochial.
DR.. Howard Mitchell will con-
duct. The program will include
Dvorak's Carnival Overture"
the first movement from Mo-
zart's Symphony No. IS, Grieg's
peer Gynt Suite" and four
dances by Shostakoyich, Proko-
fieff, Gould and Gliere.