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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
County
Delegates
To, Offer
Z Bills
Auto Inspections and
School Funds Aid Are
Included for Assembly

Bills to establish compulsory
semi-annual motor vehicle inspec-
lions in Maryland and secure more
state funds for county schools have
been readied by the county delega-
ton for introduction when the
General A S emily convenes
Wednesday in Annapolis.
A total of seven measures have
already been drafted, and the all
Republican delegation is consider
ing several others, State Senator
Anders R. Lofstrand told members
of the Allied Civic Group of Sill
yer Spring Monday night.
Minimum Age
A companion bill to the inspec-
ton measure would raise from 16
to 10 the minimum age for obtain
ing a chauffeur's license, in order
to prevent newly-licensed drivers
from driving private school and
day camp buses.
The inspection bill also requires
that private school buses, in adj
dition to having the inspections re-
quired of all vehicles between May
l and July 81 and November l and
January 81, must be inspected in
August, or before their use to
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Failure to
Post Peace
Bond Lands
Man i'm Jail

A 44-year-old Gaithersburg man
was jailed Tuesday when he failed
to put up $500 peace bond in Cir
cult Court.
Otis E. Keplinger, a carpenter
who lives on Snouffer School road,
was ordered to put up the bond
after appearing before Chief Judge
Charles w. Woodward.
The court heard Maurice Spauld-
ing, 81, neighbor say his family
lived in constant fear of their lives
as a result of threats made by
Keplinger.
Keplinger told the court there
was two sides to every question
and that the Spauldings annoyed
him and interfered in his private
life.
Keplinger was brought into po-
lice court several months ago after
Mr.. Spaulding asked that the peace
bond be set. Mr.. Spaulding told the
court Keplinger had awakened him
and his family about 3 am. last
August threatening their lives.
KepIinger appealed the peace
bond in police court and was
held under $1,000 bond pending
circuit court action.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
County to
Establish
New Liquor
Councilman Walker
Opposed to Stream
Lined S. S. Project

The County's Silver Spring
liquor dispensary will soon become
victim of a modern sales fad
the drive-in-store.
The Council Tuesday approved a
plan to lease $4,000 square feet
on the ground floor of new seven
story office building at the corner
of Georgia Avenue and Cameron
Street when it is completed in
February, 1866, in order to set up
a streamlined Liquor Store.
Liquor will be dispensed "a la
carte from a window across a
driveway from the drive-in-win-
dow of the Bank of Silver Spring.
The new store will replace the
present dispensary in the county
owned Colesville Road building.
County Manager Edward T. Beall
said it has been estimated the new
store will top receipts of the pre-
sent location by 25 percent. The
present dispensary took in over
100000 last year.
Three of the seven councilmen
opposed the plan. Councilman
Grover Walker objected that the
drive-in feature will make it too
easy to buy liquor. He also pro-
tested moving out of free space
and paying $4,000 rent.
Beall replied that the old space
would make a good police head
quarters in the future.
Councilmen favoring the plan
pointed out that the county is
obligated to follow modern sales
techniques in order to compete
with District stores and noted, that
the new store would increase pro-
fits.
"This is a better way to get
business than shopping" Council
man Lathrop Smith commented. He
referred to the preChristmas acti-
vities of the Maryland Border
Patrol which arrested three coun-
ty residents for violating the i'm
portation law after watching them
make purchases in the District.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Rockville Boy
Heads Safety
Teenagers'


Kenneth Heisler, 17-year-old
senior at Richard Montgomery
High School, Rockville, and Ralph
Lopez, 16-year-old junior at Mont
gomery Blair High School, have
been named co-chairmen of the
first Montgomery County Teenage
Traffic Safety Conference to be
held February rs at Rockville, it
was announced today by Arthur
F. Johnson. chairman, School
Safety Committee Of the Mont
gomcry County Safety Board.
The Board is sponsoring the
conference with school and police
authorities.
The youths were named at a
planning conference for the event
which brought together students
of ten of the county's public and
private high schools, who also
selected Karen Buoy, 18-year-old
senior at the County Day School
of the Sacred Heart, as secretary,
and Fred Warren, 17-year-old
junior at Bethesda Chevy Chase,
as parliamentarian.
Other students who attended the
planning conference were: Donald
Griggs, Damascus High School;
Joyce Perry, Gaithersburg High
School; Roberto Romulo, George
town Prep; Charles Rideout, Jr.,
Landon School for Boys; Ted
Humphrey, Leland Jr. High School
and Hughey Griffith, Poolesville
High School.
"The conference on February 25,
in the new County Office Building
at Rockville, will bring together
some so teenagers representing all
of the high schools in the county"
Mr.. Johnston said. They will take
critical look at the driving habits
and practices of youthful drivers
and attempt to suggest ways in
which the situation may be i'm
proved. They will tackle such i'm
portant uestions facing parents as
"Can Use the Car, Tonight ?"
and "Why Can't ! Drive Our Carr"
The general topic Of the confer
ence will be: How to Improve
Teenage Traffic Safety.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28

The councils interest in the
hearings was stimulated when it
was learned that some Is or 20
persons, most of them prominent
county residents, sat outside the
closed hearings for more than six
hours waiting to testify.
Then, because of the lateness of
the hour, an attorney for one of
two policemen involved in the
hearings, suggested that they be
permitted to submit character
testimony in writing to the board
for insertion in the record.
County Manager E. T. Beall
disclosed the situation Tuesday in
an appearance before the council.
Mr.. Beal made it clear that a
number Of residents were up in
arms over the closed door policy
of the Personne Board and the fact
they were not permitted to enter
the hearing room. He said their
anger was being directed at him
and the county council.
Buzz-Saw
Mr.. Beall described the hearings
themselves as orderly but "too
long"
He said, when he walked out
side the barred doors after the
hearing it was like running into
a buzz saw"
Councilman Louis A. Gravelle
added he heard It almost developed
into fistfight as the enraged and
waiting witnesses vented their
wrath on the official.
Councilman ]. Louis Monarch
defended the closed hearing prac-
tice as being necessary to protect
the person appearing before the
beard. Such hearings are open to
the press in the District of Col
umbia.
Thursdays hearings were on APP
peals by veteran Police Sergt.
James l.. Burdette and Pvt. Harry
Wards dismissal by the county
as an aftermath of an incident
more than year old.
Gravelle Scores
Mr.. Gravelle scored last Thurs
days "fasco" as Shocking" and
"unheard Of" He said the council
would not go along with such a
practice.
Council members suggested the
board recess hearings until a new
date when they go late into the
night.
Councilman Lathrop E. Smith
said the personnel board by this
time should know that such hear
ing are difficult to handle.
Council President Harold F.
Hammond said the county and the
personnel board owed apologies to
the persons who had been kept
waiting more than six hours out
side the hearing room.
The personnel board has not vet
reached a decision on the appeals.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Fire Losses
In County
Show Large
in '53

Montgomery County's fire losses
in 1858 dropped 81 per cent. from
the previous years figures, ac-
cording to a report released this
week by the Department of Public
Safety's Fire Protection Division.
In dollars and cents fire losses
in the County last year totaled
$562,771 compared to $713,957 in
1862. Despite the decrease in dol
lar losses, the number of fire calls
in the whole county jumped from
1,54S in 1862 to 1922 in the year
ending December 81.
OF the twelve fires in the County
last year where losses ran over
$4,000, six were in the Upper
County. They include the Christian
Church at Rockville where fire
damage totaled $4,000; a vacant
store and hall at Poolesville,
$4,000; the J and NJ Food Store
at Cloverly, S2G,S00, and a barn
on the Hadley farm near Laytons-
vile, $29,S90. Also, a barn on the
Chisolm farm. Poolesville, $13,370,
and the All States Motel, Gathers
burg, $4,000.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Bill Dee's Team
Holds Top Spot
In Bowling League

Bill Dee's fast-rolling ladies
bowling team still stands in the
top spot in the Rockville Ladies'
Commercial League with "a games
won and ID lost as of January 10.
The ladies who roll for Agnew's
Inn are in second place with 81
won and II lost. Suburban Refuse
is in the third place spot with 30
wins and Is losses.
Other standings in the league
are Millers Tavern, 90 wins and 10
losses. The Twinbrook team also
has 20 wins and 10 losses but Mil
lers holds a total of 22,482 pins
against 1854 pins for Twin
brook.
Tolmur Restaurant is in sixth
place with Rockville Laundry sew
enth and United Carburator in the
eighth place spot. Mode Beauty
Shop is ninth; Norris Brothers
tenth; Chuck's Mobile, eleventh;
Hepburn's Pet Shop, twelfth;
Budd's Crest Market, thirteenth;
Hits Electric, fourteenth; Modern
Furniture, fifteenth, and the Loyal
Order of Moose is in sixteenth
place with 10 wins and 80 losses.
First high team set honors be-
long to Millers Tavern. Bill Dee's
team is in second place and Twin
brook is third.
Individual standings are as fol-
low:
High Individual Average =, LIST,
Jane Schneider GU. c.; End, Mel
lie Brake Oh. P. s.; Bird, Mary F.
Davis IN. D. IT,.
High Individual Spares 1st,
Jane Schneider (U. c.; End, Mary
F. Davis IN. D. IT,; Bird, V. Null
lican en- D. To-; 4th, T. Parks,
Or. L.; 9Th, E. Barnsley IS. r.;
9th, G. Ankney (B. d..
High Individual Strikes - 1st,
Dorothy Book &c. To-; End, Jane
Schneider (U. c.; 3rd, R. Partin
"a. ~.
High Individual Set-1st, Mary
F. Davis On. D. To; End, Jane
Schneider GU. c.; 3rd, Nellie
Brake Oh. PIP. s.; 4th, L. Wad-
dell IN. B. s.; 5th, V. Mullican
On. d. To-; 9th, r. Partin CA. ~.
High Individual Game - LIST,
Mary F. Davis on. d. IT,; End,
l.. Waddell on. B. 81; Ord, Jane
Schneider GU. c..
High Flat Game-Helen Thorn
as Oh. E..
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Rev. James Kerr Will
Be Honored at Boyds
By Christian EndeayOr
Continued on Page A.

A joint observance of the be-
ginning of the Rev. James Kerr's
twenty-fifth year as pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Boyds and
the seventy-third anniversary of
the Christian Endeavor Union
movement will be held in the
Boyds church hall, Tuesday, Febr-
uary 2, beginning at z pm.
Highlight of week of Christian
Endeavor activity will be the Tues
day banuet given by the Montgom-
cry County Christian Endeavor
Union which Rev. Kerr has been
associated with since he came to
Boyds.
Rev. Kerr came to Boyds in
1924 from the Dundalk Community
Church. He studied at Johns Hop
kins and Princeton before enter
ing the ministry as assistant pas
tor at Westminster Presbyterian
Church in Baltimore. Along with
Mrs. Kerr, he once operated a
business school to earn money to
study for the ministry.
About a dozen of the 1924 men,
bers Of the Presbyterian Church
at Boyds are still in the congrega-
ton, Rev. Kerr said.
In his many activities in the
County, Rev. Kerr has been active
in interdenominational church
work. He acted as Counsellor for
the County Christian Endeavor
Union for many years and was
president of the Montgomery
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Saul Alper Heads
Wheaton Chamber;
SissOn Elected

The Wheaton Chamber of Com
merce at its meeting Tuesday
night elected Saul Alper to head
its activities for the current year.
Clinton Sisson was named vice
president.
Other officers elected were Lloyd
Sims, treasurer; Edwin Broomall,
secretary, and Raymond Bailey,
sergeant-at-arms. Earl Blundon,
Thomas Oyster and Francis Add
son were named to the Board Of
Directors.
The new officers will be installed
at the Chambers February 0
meeting which will be held at
Town and Country Inn, beginning
at s pm. A buffet supper and din
ner dance will highlight the even
ing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Powder Puff
Minstrel at
Masonic Hall

A unique show, the Powder Puff
Ladies Minstrel, will be presented
by an all-female cast Friday and
Saturday at 8:15 pm. at the Ma
sonic Hall on Russell Avenue,
Gaithersburg.
The minstrel will be the first
attempt by members Of the Oak
Grove Rebekeh Lodge No. "a,
LO.O.F.
All phases Of the production, in
Guiding the music, will be handled
by the women members. Mrs. Mar
ion Cundiff will direct the music.
Refreshments will be on sale
and a special cake and pie sale
will be held-made by the ladies'.
Admission is rs cents for adults
and 35 cents for children under
IL years old.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
State 4-H Poultry
Teams Fifth in
N. W. Regional

The Maryland All Poultry
Judging Team made up of George
Kemp, Jr. of Woodfeld, McKen-
dree R. Fulks, Laytonsville, Rudy
Ricketts, of Rockville, all of Mont
gomery County, and William Gallo
way of Salibury, Wicomico Coun-
ty, just returned from Boston
where they competed in the North
western Regional All Poultry
Judging Contest.
The team placed fifth with 10
states participating. Virginia, took
first honors, followed by New
York, second, West Virginia, third
and New Hamsphire, fourth.
The team left by train last
Thursday morning accompanied by
Mr.. Perry Twining, Extension
Poultryman, University of Mary
land, and R. N. Whip, Assist
ant County Agent, Montgomery
County. 1t judged Friday morning
and members were guests of the
Sears Roebuck Foundation in the
afternoon, at which time they
toured Boston and then attended
dinner in the mail border house
where the results were announced.
They returned to Maryland by
train on Saturday.
Individual placings of the team
were as follows: George Kemp, Jr.,
$50 points; McKendree r. Fulks,
1886 points; William Galloway, S31
points, and Rudy Ricketts,, alter
nate, $40 points.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Voters to
Register
At Three
Rockville Council
Makes Plans for
Registration Jump

The Rockville Mayor and Coun-
Gil agreed late last week to set
up two additional registration
points this year to take care of
the expected heavy increase in the
number. of voters in town cleo
tions.
At a meeting called by Mayor
Daniel Weddle Saturday, the Coun-
Gil at the same time voted to
divide the town into two or more
voting precincts after a tally is
>lnade on the registration.
New Precincts
New precincts will be set up
for each 1900 registered voters.
Present registration for town cleo
tons now stands at 1900 but lead
ers of citizen groups in Rockville
have stated they expect an addi-
tional $500 or 1900 new voters
will drop their names into the reg
istration hat during the seven-day
registration period set by the
Mayor and Council several weeks
ago.
Registration points agreed on by
the Mayor and Council Saturday
include Twinbrook Elementary
School, Maryvale School and the
Fire House on Perry Street.
Citizen Request
The decision of the Mayor and
Council followed joint recon-
mendations by a number of citi-
j zen groups who last December
urged the longer registration per-
iod as well as establishment of
additional precincts.
While the citizen groups had
asked town officials to Immediately
establish new precincts along with
registration points, Mayor Weddle
pointed out that the wiser course
\ would lie in setting up the pre-
'cincts after it was determined by
registration just where they are
needed.
Saturdays meeting was attended
by Henry Redkey, president of
the Twinbrook Citizens Associa-
ton; John Rausch, president of
the Silver Rock Citizens broup;
Raymond Smith, president of the
Progressive Citizens Association;
Mike Davis, of the Rockville Civic
Association and E. Theodore Arndt,
president, of the New Rockcrest
Association, as we'll as a number
of other representatives of these
groups.
Dates Set
Mayor Weddle said when the
new precincts are set up that each
polling place will be equipped on
election day with one voting ma
chine for every 500 registered vo-
tiers.
Both town officials and citizen
group heads agreed considerable
confusion will exist this year, or
until voters can be informed on
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28

County Singing Convention for
several terms.
Mrs. Kerr also will share in the
honors at the February 2 celebra-
ton. She is a graduate of the
Maryland Art Institute and has
painted many of the County's
scenes in oils. Her painting of
Sugar Loaf Mountain hangs in
the Damascus High School and
last summer she made a rush
ORDER painting of the previously
unrecorded scene of President
Madison seeking refuge at the
Brookeville Post Office in 1914.
The Kerrs live in the manse at
Boyds, along with their two daugh-
tiers. Their son, DR.. j. p. Kerr, is
a well-known physician in the
Damascus area.
Wilton Boswell, president of the
Montgomery County Christian
Endeavor Union, will act as toast
master at the banquet. Mahlon
Hetrick, president of the Washing
ton, D. c., Union will lead pep
singing. The Rev. A. w. LEM of
the Germantown Presbyterian
Church will give a devotional talk
following the banueqt.
The banquet will be served by
the ladies Of the Boyds church.
Tickets are SIPS and may be
secured from Jimmie Spring,
Boyds, vice president fthe Coun-
ty Christian Endeavor Union.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Democratic
Victory Is
Predicted
By Lee
Cautions Against
Party Fights in
KensingtOn Talk

Democratic victory in Montgom-
cry County and Maryland cleo
items next fall was predicted by
Col. E. Brooke Lee, oldtime party
leader, speaking before an open
meeting of the Kensington Demo-
cratis Club at Parklawn last
Thursday night.
The Colonel said he didn't see
how the Democrats could lose with
things the way they are, unless
they split off into factions and
start fighting among themselves.
But, lie added, the chances for
party harmony seem better now
than he's seen them for a long
time.
No One Mad
s'Pve been to three or four meet
ings lately where everything was
peaceful, nobody got mad and no.
body walked out. I've hardly got
ten used to it yet, but it's wonder
full"
Before Colonel Lees address, the
election of Kensington club off
GERS for 1854 was, conducted by
the retiring president, John R.
Foley. The new ones are: Wolf
Won Eckardt, Bethesda, president;
Mrs. Marcia Gilmartin, KensingA
ton, vice-president; Mrs. Lenora
Kahn, Silver Spring, secretary;
Miss Lois Kahler, Kensington, cor
responding secretary, and Frank
Smith, Kensington, treasurer. Mr..
Won Eckardt presided during the
rest of the meeting.
Informed Vote
{ Discussing party organization
necessary to win, Colonel Lee
said, Its totally foolish to talk
about one, two, ten or even a hun
bred leaders of the Democratic
Party in this county. With the
kind of highly educated, informed
and politically experienced voters
we have here today, every Demo-
crat should participate in the party
leadership. That's why we have
the Democratic Assembly, which
was set up to formulate party
policy in the most democratic way
possible"
He predicted success for the As
sembly set-up if the members, who
are all registered Democrats de-
string to join, refused to let it
become "a debating society" and
got down to the business of con-
sidering issues, deciding on a plat
form, studying candidates and "if
they have the courage to express
a preference for candidates before
the primary"
This apparently was a reference
to last summers controversy in
the Assembly over whether it
should endorse candidates or keep
hands off in line with the "open
primary" system advocated by
many Democrats. The prospect of
candidate endorsement won.
1t Says Here
Describing the Democratic
Party's achievements in the coun-
ty up to 1916 when it went out
of office, Colonel Lee said that
the reason so many people moved
to Montgomery County after the
war was that the Democrats had
made it such fine residential
county in which to live-for ex-
ample, by protecting it from I'M
CONTINUED on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
.Women's Republican
Club Meets

The Upper Montgomery County
Women's Republican Club will
meet every Tuesday at Goshen
Club House on the Lee Counsel
man farm, according to an an
nouncement made this week.
Mrs. Counselman, president of
the group, said meeting time is
2 pm. All interested persons are
invited to attend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Moving Day

The Rockville town govern
ment will move into it's new
offices on South Washington
Street, Friday and Saturday OF
this week. Town Clerk Sara
Mortimer said business activi-
ties of the office will cease at
a pm. Friday but everyone will
be back on deck Monday morn
ing at the new location.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
New Station Manager

Ralph J. Baron Is the new man
ager Of Rockville radio station
WINK. Mr.. Baron formerly was
with a Baltimore station. He is a
commuter until he can find home
here for his wife and two young
sters.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28
Citizens Brush Off
At Personnel Board
Hearing Irks Council
Beall Claims Irate Waiting Witnesses
Gave Him Buzz-Saw Treatment After
Waiting More Than Six Hours to Testif,

County Councilmen unhappy with the Personnel
Boards handling of police trial board hearing held IN
new County Building that went until 235 last Thurs
day night What's more the council wants to take careful
look at the Personnel Boards written procedure any exists
for conducting such hearings.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28

For a good, cOlorful account
Of pursuing the willy Coon in
Montgomery County read Roy.
Lee Yinger's column this week,
BEAUTY AT YOUR BACK
DOOR, which appears on page
BID.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-01-28

r conducting such hearings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
BY Nelson M. Shepard

A small group Of embattled
Georgetown homeownerS are
united against the threatened
additional invasion of their rear
yard privacy by the proposed
erection Of a commercial garage
IN their midst.
The disputed space-behind
the 1000 blocks Of Thirtieth and
Thomas Jefferson Streets-now
serves as a private parking lot
for personnel of two commercial
concerns, owners of the property.
Historically, the area is tied
In with the early history Of old
Georgetown and the Chesapeake
g. Ohio Canal on which it abuts.
Ancient slum dwellings Of two
sides of the streets were con-
demned in February, 1852. Now
remodeled at considerable cost
to present owners, the area con-
stitutes a typical example of pro-
greSSive changes taking place
everywhere in Georgetown.
The line of the rear-yard fences
on the Jefferson street side forms