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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

for the development of two large
areas important to the city's com
mercial expansion. One is the
! Congressional Airport tract and
the other is the area at Middle
Lane and Hungerford Drive.
The M. L. Reese subdivision,
e. acres south of Baltimore Rd.,
is the newly annexed area. The
present owners are Byron A.
Chaplin and the John HaltiWang-
ers, who recently bought the
former Reese residence, The tract
is in the regional district of the
Maryland National Capital Parks
and Planning Commission.
A 1855 act of the General AS
sembly at Annapolis provided
that coming, planning and santa
ton in areas to be annexed by
a city remain the functions of
the agencies in control before an
neXation.
One of the other three areas
under consideration for anneXa-
ton by the city at this time is
the 220-acre extension of Twin
brook which is also in the MN
CPPC district.
Mayor Dickran Hovsepian indi-
Gated that the Reese subdivision
1Would be test of the Park and
planning Commissions inten-
tons in regard to jurisdictional
problems. How the MNCPPC
acts in this case could affect the
Mayor and Councils decision on
the other tract which is owned
by Joseph Geeraert.
City Attorney David Cahoon,
IN recommending approval of this
first annexation, reported that J..
Bond Smith, general counsel to
the commission, had expressed
the opinion that Rockville's build
ing code and other regulations
could be enforced in this area.
Mr.. Smith has also indicated
that the commission would not
object to any future legislation
which would remove the area
from the regional district. One
such bill was passed by the Gen.
eral Assembly in the last session
but vetoed by the governor. If
the veto is not overridden in the
next session, Mr.. Cahoon feels
that there will be no further Cd.
portunity for legislation until
1857.
= Mr.. Cahoon also reported that
he had been advised by the Coun.
ty Attorneys office that the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
School Board
Junior
College Plans

The Montgomery County
School Board went to Takoma
Park Monday night for a dinner
and special meeting at the Mont
gomery Junior College. In dis
cussion of the report of the Com
mittee on the Junior Colleges
given to the board last spring,
board members approved five of
the eleven recommendations
made by the committee.
Agreement was reached on the
proposals to emphasize courses
for those students who would not
be continuing their education; re-
tain the present school admins
tration; no further expansion of
the present school which has an
enrolment of 621 but an addi-
tional junior college for the coun-
ty when the enrolment reaches
1000; continued use of the pre-
sent building; and a request of
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
to develop the adjacent Blair
recreation area for the college
students.
Continued study will be given
the remaining recommendations
which deal with budget and adj
ministrative matters. One pro-
blem discussed that wasn't cover
ed in the report was the fact that
no Negro students have trans
ferred from Carver High since it
was closed this fall although
the average enrolment there
was SO students. One reason ad.
vanced for this is that the dis.
lance to Takoma Park is too far
for the previous Carver students
who live up-county.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Registration

Attention, ward three in the
city of Rockville! Special reg
istratiOns will be conducted at
the Lutheran Church in Twin
brook, this Saturday and next
Saturday, from 8 am. to noon.
If you want to vote in the city
elections next May Z, be sure
and take advantage of this
special registration.
Ward three takes i'm the Sec
ton east of EdmOnstOn Drive,
bounded by the city limits on
the east and north and by the
b and o railroad on the south.
1t includes TwinbrOOk, Twin
brook Forest, ROckland and
the last two sections of Rock
crest. You are eligible to vote
if you are an American citi-
zen, FL years of age and were
living in Rockville on May Z,
1855.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
.24O Opening
May Increase
Traffic Woes

Route 240, both north and
south of Rockville, was the OBJ
ject of comment from several
quarters this week.
Maryland State Roads Com
mission Traffic Director George
Lewis says he sees no unusual
problems resulting from the open
ing of the new National Pike as
far as Montgomery Avenue. He
admits traffic will be extremely
heavy in Rockville during morn
ing and evening rush hours, how
ever.
The new superhighway is COM
pleted from Frederick to Ger
mantoWn. The traffic is now
shuttled to old Route 240 on
which it by-pasSes Rockville by
Hungerford Drive. If the Pike
is opened as far as the Montgom,
cry Avenue-Route % interchange
highway traffic will pass through
Rockville to and from the roads
entrance.
Mr.. Lewis says he doesn't think
the expressway will be completed
to Rockville before the first of
the year unless the weather is
exceptionally good. Earlier esti-
mates placed the completion date
around Christmas.
Montgomery County Police
Continued on Page y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
rs Subdivisions
Recorded Here
Set New Mark

Requests for subdivision IN
upper Montgomery County dur.
ing the first nine months Of 1865
we're almost double the entire
total for 1854. Twenty.six sub.
divisions containing 81 lots have
been recorded with the Planning
Division and ten more plats con.
taiinng 917 lots are being pro.
ccssed.
Only II subdivisions with SO
lots were recorded last year. A
single subdivision with two lots
was approved in 1858.
From 1927, when Montgomery
County was divided into upper
and lower planning districts. until
1852. only 36 subdivision plats
containing S5l lots were recorded
in the up.county area, excluding
Rockville. Gaithcrsburg and
Washington Grove.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Pepco Option
In LOudOun
Is Extended

The Potomac Electric Power
Company says it has decided to
be released from the contract"
on 519 acres in Loudoun County.
Va, where it wanted to build n
hundred million dollar steam
generating plant, but the owners
have voluntarily extended" the
option for 60 days. The original
option ended Tuesday.
Maryland Senator John Mar
shall Butler has joined the oppo,
nents of Virginia site and
urged PEPCO president r. Roy
Dunn to consider a Montgomery
County location for the power
plant. Officials have specialized
that the giant generating plant
will pay between $750,000 and
$1,000,000 yearly tax revenue to
the host community. Only a
small portion of the plants out.
put would be used in Virginia.
Meanwhile the Bethesda Cham.
Der of Commerce, self styled
leaders in the fight for reloca.
ton of the PEPCO plant in Mont
gomery County" is offering a
cash reward to the county high
school students obtaining the
most signatures on a petition
urging a county PEPCO site.
Chamber official James A. Barr
says $50 will be given to the pupil
collecting the most names and
S25 to the second highest. Mr..
Barr states, Through the cour.
tesy of President Willard c.. Nc
GraW of the Board of Education
and DR.. Forbes II. Norris. Super.
intendent of Schools, the chamber
has requested all students in the
senior high grades in the county
to participate in this civic move.
ment."
The chambers petition and
those of other groups are expect.
ed to be presented next Thursday
at a Senate District Committee
hearing on the proposed PEPCO
power plant. Oregon Senator
Wayne Morse heads the commit.
tee. Council President ]. G..
Continued on Page y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Gets Commentator
For First-Aid Work

The Rockville Volunteer Fire
Department has been praised by
a Baltimore County Fire Depart.
ment first-aid instructor who wit.
messed the emergency treatment
recently given a young car wreck
victim on Norbeck Road.
Allen B. Fisher, in a letter TO
the Rockville company, stated,
Il wish to commend and highly
praise the manner in which your
men handled this case. The whole
community should be proud"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
City Annexes
Reese Tract
To Rockville

County would not object to the
city's issuing building permits in
accordance with the city's zon-
ing ordinance for this subdivi-
sion.
The only problem left unre-
solved Tuesday night is the
double taxation of future resi-
dents of this area by the city and
the MNCPPC. But Mayor How
sepian recommended in favor of
annexation in view of the assur,
ances that Rockville would re-
ceive total jurisdiction as soon
Continued on Page y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
On a Sunday Afternoon
By June RightOr Saylor
American Automobile Association
(NImber one of a new
SENTINEL SerieS.)

Chrysanthemums in an impress
sive display can be seen by visi-
tors to Longwood Gardens near
Kenneth Square, Pa. The I'M
usually fine collection of golden,
bronze, and russell flowers will
be at their peak the first two
weeks in November. These fam
Gus Dupont gardens have formal
landscaping, lovely fountains, and
a conservatory. On Sunday af-
ternoons visitors can enjoy an
organ recital in the conservatory
from 3 to 5.
On the accompanying map es-
pecially prepared by the AAA, a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
By Dorothy Waleski
Staff Reporter

Rockville made history Tues
day night when the Mayor and
Council authorized the anneXa-
ton of the first tract to be taken
into the city since the municipal
home rule amendment posed the
problem of dual jurisdiction.
In the same session, the Mayor
and Council also paved the way
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Judge Prescott Sits
On Appeals Case

Montgomery County Circuit
Court Judge Stedman Prescott
has been asked to sit on the
State Court of Appeals for a
case now being heard. Fred
erick w. Bruno, chief judge of
the Court of Appeals, asked
Judge Prescott to substitute for
a judge who is disqualified to
hear this case.
This is the first instance i'm
this area of a Circuit Court
judge being asked to hear an
Appeals Court case.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
By Ronald H. Nessen
Staff Reporter

NH has produced dogs with
handles of living tissue growing
from their backs. Harrison Fitz-
water, caretaker at the National
Institutes of Health farm, off
Route 240 between Rockville and
Gaithersburg, says he thinks the
animals were altered as expert
mental seeing-eye dogs.
The handle was created by
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil returned its first big batch
of rezoning decisions at Tuesdays
meeting. The council granted II
rezoning applications in whole or
part, denied five and tentatively
denied another.
The council ordered the Coun
ty Attorneys office to prepare a
resolution denying the request of
the Blair Management Corpora
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Council Denies
.OneShop Area,
Passes Other

ton to have nearly nine acres OF
land at Colesville Pike and East
West Highway reZoned from resi-
Dental to commercial. The cor
poration has indicated it wants
to build a shopping center on the
site close to the District line.
The council voted 81 to tenta-
lively deny the application. Only
Council President J. G. Walker
was in favor. Stella Werner did
not vote. The council empha-
sized that Tuesdays denial order
should not be interpreted as a
final decision.
The Twinbrook Development
Corporation was granted two re.
classifications. A tract of more
than four acres adjoining Rock
Vile near Viers Mill Road was
changed from residential to COM
mercial. A tract of over 100
acres on Viers Mill Road also adj
joining Rockville was changed
from ROO to R-60 zone, permit
ting smaller houses. A third
Twinbrook application for an
R-90 to R-60 zone change on IS
acres fronting on Norbeck Road
and adjoining Rockville was not
acted upon.
(Twinbrook developer Joseph
Geeraert was ordered to leave a
50-foot strip between his new
commercial area and nearby
residences.)
William H. Smith Company
was granted reZoning from RIA
(two-acre lots) to RIA Ga-acre
lots) on 48-acre tract east OF
Falls Road on Route 189, two
miles north of Potomac. The
owners say they are going to
build homes on one-acre lots.
Two separate applications for
commercial rezoning on the Rock.
vile Pike near Garrett Park were
denied. One tract of 72.250
square feet on the White Flint
Golf Course belong to Fred and
Anne Salamy. The other across
the Pike near Offutt's Store is
slightly more than one acre and
belongs to George w. Robertson.
Both applicants indicated they
wanted to build a shopping
center.
Two other commercial rezoning
applicants denied were Melvin
Gelman, who wanted to build
local shopping center" near
Falkland and Grenoble Drives,
Wheaton Woods; and William E.
Matthews who owns 20,777 square
feet at Connecticut and Knowles
Avenues, Kensington.
DR.. Austin B. Rohrbaugh and
DR.. George A. Gray, Jr., were
denied their application for re.
coming Of 1864 square feet on
Chevy Chase Drive, Bethesda
from residential to commercial
The doctors said they wanted TO
build a medical office.
In other actions Tuesday:
/. The council appropriated ST.
500 for encouraging desirable
industrial development within
Montgomery County.
2. Three personnel appoint
ments were approved. Miss
Kathryn Ann Bowen, Washing
ton, is new public health nurse
at 1914 annually. Robert Neil
Mcdonald. Rockville is engineer
ing aide in the Division Of High.
way Engineering at S3741 annu.
ally. Mrs. Kathleen Marine,
Rockville, is new Circuit Court
secretary at $1,000 yearly.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

school In session" as part of
American Education Week.
Among the officials accompany.
ing the caravan will be school
superintendent DIR. Forbes II.
Norris.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

New officers of the Rockville
Pike Business Association are:
president, George Moss; first vice
president, Mrs. Willis Howard;
second vice president, Floyd
Kirchman; third vice president,
Darmot Nee; secretary, Harmon
Burns, Jr.; treasurer, Robert L.
Rarper; executive committee,
Arthur c. Hyde, Mrs. Sidney Lust,
and Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

Godfrey Mcdonald Day, faith.
er Of Montgomery County Po.
lice 1t. Leo &. Day, died of
heart attack in his home at 1904
Turner Lane, Chevy Chase, yes.
terday morning. Mr.. Day is sur.
vived by three other children,
two sisters, and his wife Mary
Virginia Day. Funeral services
are tentatively scheduled for II
a. m. Saturday at humphreys
Bethesda Funeral Home with
burial at Parklawn Cemetery.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

The Civil Defense film "Sur.
vival City" depicting damage TO
structures resulting from Mays
Operation Cue test in Nevada
will be shown Sunday, Monday,
and Tuesday at the Viers Mill
Theater.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

An international caravan"
Of educational and cultural at.
tachcs representing 20 cOun.
tries will spend next Wednes.
day at the Parkside School, Sill.
yer Spring, observing a typical
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03
Late News Briefs

A 38-year old man shot and
seriously wounded himself in his
home at $3.50 Raymoore Rd., Ken.
sington, early yesterday morning.
The Bethesda Chevy Chase Res.
cue Squad rushed David Burton
to Suburban Hospital where he
underwent extensive" surgery.
No report of his condition was
Immediately available. Police re-
port Mr. Burton fired a nm.
bullet into his abdomen and the
slug emerged from his back. The
mans family, according TO police,
report the victim has been ode.
spondent for two years"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

One of the three men who
fell from a 30-fOOt scaffOld
while doing pipe work at the
Ursuline Academy i'm Bethesda
Tuesday is being held for OBJ
servatiOn at Suburban Hospital.
His condition is reported
good" Two other wOrkmen,
Joseph and Stephen LiCOuse,
brothers, were treated after the
accident and released.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-03

Fiftecn.month old Kenneth Har
vel, whose parents live near Ira
vilah, is in fair" condition al
Suburban Hospital after swallow
ing kerosene Tuesday evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

some distant country, we must have
conventional forces in readiness to
deal with such situations as they
arise. Substantial strength in
conventional forces has still vital
part to play in the policy of the
deterrent. 1t is perhaps of even
greater Importance in the cold war"
Apprehension in Europe
The tone of this comment would
imply some apprehension on the
other side of the Atlantic over the
reduction in the United States con-
ventional deterrents, which, OF
course, would again bear most OF
the burden in any new Koreas.
There is, then, some confusion
among the Western allfance-and
within the American policy-making
group as well, apparently-on the
answer to this question:
Can nuclear warfare be limited?
Perhaps this is one of the ques-
tions the armed services commit
tees on Capitol Hill are now ex-
ploring.
On the answer hinges the basic
philosophy behind the 1856 fiscal
years military budget -. and the
future of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

might unilaterally OUTLAW" Hwar
and revert to conventional warfare.
in which it is superior, to nibble
away at its neighbors.
The United States and it's allies
are not now strong enough to beat
the Soviet world in conventional
war. America still has the capacity.
Probably its technology could make
up for manpower deficiencies. But
President Eisenhower, since he came
to power, has turned resolutely away
from the combination of conven-
tional-nuclear defense to concen-
trate more and more on the nuclear
side. His latest budget, submitted to
Congress in January, continues this
trend.
Dulles Solution
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles is on record as backing
solution which circumvents both the
problem of about nuclear war and
the risk of conventional war, where
we are now weak His answer. and
that of many of the Pentagon's top
planners, is limited nuclear war.
Confining nuclear bomb drops to
the fighting front. it is maintained,
can overcome the Communist man
power superiority and at the same
time avoid a situation where Mos
COW and Washington would be trad
ing intercontinental nuclear hay
makers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

from China to educate Chinese stu
dents. No Asian will or can forget
that the entry Of the United States
into the Philippines was for the
purpose of educating and assisting
the Philippine people to attain their
independence. No Asian can over
look what the United States is doing
for Korea and China.
The truth is that the United
States is giant only partly aware
of its own strength. When that
giant is awakened by some awful
catastrophe, as it was at Pearl Har-
Dor, its strength is shown to all the
world-as is its generosity and for
bearance after the fighting is ended.
Perhaps it is inherent in any
democracy that its real power is
concealed except in emergencies. In
this period of half-war, half-peace-
when every responsible statesman is
doing his best to prevent a world
disaster-the democracies reveal to
everyone their own self criticisms
and their own tendencies to retreat
as far as possible rather than to
fight.
Under such circumstances, it is
the totalitarian relationships that
look powerful. But while the die
tatorships look, talk, and act fierce,
the facts show that they are moth
ing but paper dragons. Red China
has a large army. but the masses
Of Chinese hate their masters; and
there is nowhere on the continent
OF China any industrial power to
support major war. Russia con-
ducts q tremendous game Of global
bluff. but is weak in oil, coal, and
steel--and has behind It's Iron Cur
tain an uneasy collection of captive
peoples who long for the opportunity
to reassert their historical indie
pendence.
What I do deeply believe is that
our greatest enemy is not the armed
masses of Communist soldiers who
confront us with one gun in their
hands and another gun held at their
own backs. The greatest enemy of
the free world is its own fearful
ness and self-doubt. If this can be
overcome in time. the Communist
relationships can be stopped and the
rot that lies behind the Iron Cur
tain can be exploited to cause Its
own collapse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Rhee to America: Have Faith in Yourself

Last Tuesday President Syngmdn
Rhee spoke In Seoul on the occa-
sion OF the 36th anniversary of
Korea's Mansei Independence Day.
1t commentaries the occasion in
1919 phen Korean patriots dared
to speak out for liberty and justice
against their japanese oppreSSorS.
Much OF phdt President Rhee had
to say should be OF interest to
Americans. Here are excerpts from
his address,.
There is no more ridiculous charge
ever made than the repeated prop
uganda of the Communists that the
United States is building up military
bases in Asia for purposes of colo
nialism and imperialism. Exactly
the opposite is the case. as has re-
peatedly been proved; but they re-
cite their lie in order to deceive the
uneducated masses of peoples and
line them up against America.
The United States entered South
Korea with its armies when we had
NV EoNNAhlAthO uilu llO lIllliOdA y
strength of our own. 1t helped us
to conduct elections and build our
own democracy; and it has armed
and trained for us an army for our
own self-defense. Similarly, the
United States has interviewed in
Chinese affairs solely to help defend
the last outpost of Chinese indie
pendence. for the everlasting benefit
of both the entire free world and
the great masses of the Chinese
people themselves. One Of the great
est proofs Of American generosity is
the great helping hand 1t has ex-
tended to its defeated enemy, Japan.
I wish the people and the Gov
eminent Of the United States were
not so quick to criticize and doubt
themselves. When they hear the
Communist propaganda charging
that the people OF Asia do not like
their interference, they are fearful
that there might be some truth in
such charges and they have
tendency to withdraw.
If I could deliver just one single
message to the heart Of all America,
it would be this: Trust yourselves
little more Have faith in your
own ideals. For truly the American
principles and the American ideal
are the last great hope Of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Britoin's Angles

Mr.. Churchills speech opened a
parliamentary debate on Britain's
recent decision to make the H-bomb
herself, now that she has independ-
entity developed the knowledge to do
So
The Prime Minister made it clear
that his principal motive is to pre-
serve a measure of Britains inf1u-
ence on United States policies in the
fast polarizing hydrogen age.
Domestically, the defense issue has
neatly split Mr.. Churchills Laborite
opposition again. Aneurin BevanS
left wing supporters oppose Britain's
following the American leads. Gle
ment Atlee's wing does not but isn't
enthusiastic about censuring the
Bevan supporters because this would
widen the gap in the Labor Party.
The H-bomb debate last week al
ready has shown that the Laborites
are far from ready to face the cleo
torate later this year.