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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-07
Rocket Nine Opens Season
With l2-2 Win Over Prep

Science Fair on Mar. 80 and 81.
The fair was divided into
junior high and senior high Sec
tons. There was a total of 60
projects entered in the junior
division and Ill in the senior divi-
sion. Each of the sections were
separated into botanical science,
C h m try, Photographed
science, electronics, geological
science, physics, engineering, con-
servation and health. A ribbon
was given to the winner of each
of these divisions.
First prize of the fair went to
Bill Snowden, with his exhibit
explaining the vertical take-off
airplane. Second prize was pre-
sented to Nancy Hawse and Nan
Henderson for their illustration
of mitosis of an animal cell. An
exhibit on Bookkeeping by Phil
Polling gained third prize.
The judges for the fair were
Miss Edna Hauke, Mrs. c..
Gregor, Mrs. Hodge Smith, Jack
MARYLAND, John Mcdonald, Fred
Moore, Leslie Able and Mike
Davis. Also judging were DR..
William Peoples and DR.. George
Maxwell.
The Science Fair was sponsor
ed by the physical science class
at RMHS, and their instructor,
A. Fauley.
The Student Show Case will
be held in the Richard Montgom-
cry gym, sponsored by the PTA,
under the direction of John
Maley, May 8 through May 6.
1t will include work from
each department in the school,
with Rockville Junior High con-
tributing to make the display
bigger than last year.
The doors will be open at 7
o'clock Tuesday night from 9
am. to 9 PUN. the following
days.
There will be entertainment
every night - the band, Tues
day; a fashion show, Wednesday;
the Junior High Glee Club, Fri.
day; and Saturday the Senior
Glee Club will perform.
Under the supervision of Miss
Pauline Abeyounis and Mrs.
Dorothy Bills, director a n d
assistant director, the Black
Maskers will present a three-act
comedy called, ooh Father" May
13 in the gym.
The play is all about "poor
father. Somebody's hand is al
ways in his pocket. If it isn't
parasitic cousin Rebecca, it's his
spoiled daughters But a man
like William Baynard can take
only so much, and p-f-f-f-t! He's
apt to throw in a bomb.
Sound interesting? Why not
come out and see it?
Station RMHS broadcasting"
sounds through the halls in the
Music is piped into the home
rooms. Permission was granted
to William Vickers, Harold
Titus and Steinar Nicholson to
act as disc jockeys.
Music is heard from 8 until
8:45 every morning.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-07
RIMS News

COMBINING StrOng pltcnlne
with timely hitting the Richard
Montgomery Rockets downed the
visiting Woodward Prep base
ball team, 1872, on Apr. l.
Coach Henry Miles of the
Rockets practically emptied the
bench, as he used 20 players,
after the Rockets had scared
ahead 70 in the second inning.
Woodward Prep, on the other
hand, substituted only one play
er, George Truitt, who pitched
the last inning for the losers,
walking four men and allowing
two runs.
Llyn Zuck, who started the
pitching chore for Richard Mont
gomery, struck out eight men in
his brief four innings, and gave
up one unearned run. The run
came in the third inning when
Llyn threw two wild pitches to
second and third base, trying to
pick-off Dave Alexander, who
had singled with two outs and
advanced to second on a wild
throw.
Marvin Simpson started the
rout by walking from his lead
off spot in the first and scored
on Al Richardson's single and
left fielder John Russman's two
base error. Richardson went all
the way to third base on the
error, and scored on E a r l
Ricketts, single to give the
Rockets a 20 lead in the first
inning.
Zuck struck out the first two
batters in the second frame and
then walked Carey Frey. Zuck's
attempted pick-off at first caught
Frey flatfooted, and he was an
easy out when Vern Stickley
threw to John Mohler, who tag
ged him out at second base. The
Rockets scored five runs in the
second inning on four hits, one
error and three stolen bases.
One of the hits was a triple by
AL Richardson to drive in two
runs.
Dick Bradshaw scored his
second run on a sacrifice fly
from John Mohler in the third
inning to make the score 81.
Jim Jewell and Joe Rende hit
successive singles in the fourth
inning off Zuck, but were left
stranded when Berger struck-out
and Bill Allen hit into a force
play.
After Richardson grounded
out, Marty Mayes, batting for
Earl Ricketts,, hit home run be-
tween left and center fields for
the Rockets in the fifth.
Jim Jewell of Woodward got
his second hit, triple off Gary
Thompson and scored on an in
field out from short to third.
Bill Allen of the Rockets, who
had replaced Vern Stickley at
first base, was safe on fielder's
choice and then stole second in
the sixth inning. He then pro-
ceeded to steal third, kept COM
ing and scored all the way from
second when the catcher could
not find the ball.
All told, the Rockets banged
out 10 hits to Woodward's five
and stole nine bases to zero for
Woodward. The pitching trio of
Zuck, Thompson and Mitchell
struck out Ia men and walked
only four.
Richard Montgomery High
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-07

The first crop sent to England
by the earliest Maryland settlers
was sassafras roots, to be used
as medicines.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-07

Richard Montgomery High
School held its third annual
Evening star., 1955-05-29

FuIbrieht Committee
Reports Findings of
Stock Market Probe

When Senator j. William Full
bright's Banking Committee an
nounced early this year that it
would investigate the booming stock
market most of Wall Street held its
breath.
There was general worry lest a
rough going-over by the Democrat
controlled committee would break
the bull market, perhaps send it
spinning down into another 1929.
Senator Fulbright was charged with
playing politics with Americas pros
perity.
The hearings were accompanied
by a break in the market all right.
but losses were recovered. So early
fears were proved unfounded.
But what about the politics
charge?
Last week the committee pro-
duced an interim report summarize
ing and analyzing the results of the
first phase of hearings. 1t showed
that most of the committee mem
bers On most occasions were doing
a conscientious, non-political job.
The majority report, concurred in
by all eight Democrats and three
Of seven Republicans, was restrained
and to the point.
Members of both parties, how
ever. found they could not restrain
the impulse to write additional party
line reports.
The majority report made these
principal points:
. Since last fall the signs Of in
creased speculation were multiply
ing, though not at 4 1929 rate.
Still, "complacency in the earlier
stages Of the development Of an un-
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Far East

Three news writer's on the Far
East, including The Stars James E.
Roper, reported their suspicious last
week that the "de facto" cease fire
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles has been seeking may be
going into effect in the For,nosa
Strait.
The Communist Chinese are still
lobbing few shells into Quemoy
and Matsu, but at increasingly wide
intervals. Radio Peiping has soft
pedaled its talk about liberating
Formosa without abandoning this
objective. And reports keep cropping
up that Chou En-lai is preparing to
release the IL airmen and some 40
odd other Americans now held in
Chinese Communist jails.
The Fukien Province buildup OPP
posite Formosa continues, of course.
Work on the jet airfields has not
stopped. But Peiping is playing
down the expansionist side of its
personality at the moment, probably
out of difference to Moscow's high
powered peace offensive.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Graft

The Permanent Senate Investi-
cations Subcommittee turned up
many fascinating scandal in Gov
ernment business back in the latter
years of the Truman administra-
ton. Last week, after a two-year
hiatus in which Senator Mccarthy
led the subcommittee in search of
Communists, the group was back
with graft and corruption.
The center of controversy this
time was Government military
purchasing agency in New York.
The star witness last week was Mrs.
Mella Hort, sultry beauty who
rivaled in charm Mrs. Shyrl Menkin
OF the old Democratic tax scandal
days.
Mrs. Hort said she had accepted
gifts from an Army cap contractor
in 1858 when she was a contract
administrator for the Government.
She said a company representative
had given her coats, slips, luncheons
and dinners. But she said it all had
nothing to do with the contracts.
AlioeAAC1 Witllcoo, bcOIl NJ. Levy, a
uniform manufacturer, furnished
some notes written in Arabic and
testified that he and Mrs. Hort had
tried to blackmail a contractor
whom they found owed the Govern
ment money. Mrs. Hort denied this.
Mr. Levy said also he had heard of
a $4,000 payoff by manufacturer
to an Air Force purchasing officer.
There were indications that the
subcommittee was only beginning
in its probe of Government pro-
curement.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
ATOMIC.
CiviIion Life to Get
Some of the Benefits
Of NucIeur Science

There were signs last week that
the country was moving slowly but
surely into as new age Of atomic
energy for civilians.
The Atomic Energy Commission
proposed a set of rules whereby
private industry may be given secret
atomic information Of non-mili-
tary nature. The Acc will license
firms which want to use atomic ma
terials. Company personnel who
pass rigid security tests will be given
access to secret data useful in pri-
vate production.
Private industry, apparently. was
eager for the opportunity. Some
400 businessmen and scientists met
last week in New York conven-
ton of the Atomic Industrial Forum
to discuss their problems. Both
small and large businesses were
willing to get into the atomic game
as parts and equipment suppliers,
power producers, etc.
Few seemed to be in the get-rich-
quick mood. however. Big companies
thought it would be 10 or 20 years
before they would get their money
back from atomic investments.
The first big civilian atomic prof.
ect might be construction of an
atom-powered luxury ship, G. Jo-
seph Minetti, Federal Maritime
Board member. indicated last week.
The board and the United States
Lines. owner of the 53,000-ton
United States, have been conferring
on construction of a sister ship to
the United States. Atomic propul-
sion, 1t was said, was o possibility.
Evening star., 1955-05-29

Socialists-who couldn't be con-
vinced. He was after the small core
of undecided voters who tradition
ally decide British elections.
The Laborites were after this
group, too. They played down the
fight between Attlee and Bevan,
and played up Hydrogen bomb.
Hunger and H'Eisen'ower as the
bugaboos to be wary of If the Tories
continued in power.
Enough switch-voters bought the
Tory line to give Sir Anthony vic
tory in his gamble. But a goodly
number stayed home on election
day-and most of these were people
who, by rights, should have voted
Socialist. The combination gave
Edens party its most comfortable
working majority in recent times.
Whot Next?
Now that Sir Anthony Eden is
Prime Minister by right of public
demand instead of inheritance. he
cah\go forward on foreign policies
largely of his own making. Amer
ican authorities are cheered by the
Eden victory, if only because they
won't have to contend with the fire.
brand Nye Bevan at this summers
meeting at the summit Eden's
record clearly places him at the side
of America in a united anti-Com-
munist front. He is likely to hold
this position, even though he re-
CARDS United States Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles as some
what lower than the angels.
At home, Sir Anthony has his
hands full. He campaigned on the
full dinner pail, lower taxes and
common sense in government. Faced
now with a shipping strickland
with rail strike threatened at mid
night last night-the new Eden re-
gime seems off to an inauspicious
start.
Still, as the Economist suggested
with classic British lack of enthu-
siasm, the election outcome is prob
ably better than if Labor had won.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
COLD WAR
Disenchuntment Arises
Over Big Four Tolks;
Reds Serenude Tito

The accent in other foreign news
last week was on disenchantment.
Soaring hopes for ending or easing
cold war tensions were definitely
leveling off.
Moscow accepted the Western Big
Threes invitation to top-level talks
this summer, but was deeply pessi-
mistic about prospects for settling
much. The Soviet Union predicted
in its note of acceptance that the
United States would deliberately
doom" the conference by its policies.
Apparently the Reds had refer
ence to two American attitudes:
First, that the top-level talks can be
only the most tentative kind of ex-
animation of the tension areas;
second, that Germany cannot be
neutralized, either before or after
reunification.
The State Department was still
paying special attention to the job
of refining in overly optimistic public
opinion in this country and in Eu-
rope. Secretary of State Dulles re-
peated what President Eisenhower
said before about the heads of gov
ernment being able only to lay out
the broad lines along which lower
level negotiations could proceed. Mr..
Dulles added that the "real test"
would come much later" than the
meeting at the summit"
Anti Neutrality Stond
Early in the week, the United
States, Britain, France and West
Germany all came out solidly against
the Kremlin idea of imposing neu-
trality on Germany as precondi-
ton for reunification. There is much
popular sentiment inside Germany
for accepting the Soviet plan. But
Bonn government leaders-even the
Socialist opposition, when it is
pinned down-admit that Germany
could hardly afford to cut its ties to
the West until Russia dismantles
her huge military plant in Eastern
Europe.
The Big Three were trying to get
Premier Nikolai Bulganin to come
to Lausanne. Switzerland, for the
Evening star., 1955-05-29
JOINT CHIEFS
Burke, Junior Admiral,
Named Over 81 Men
To Head Navy Stoff

President Eisenhower filled out his
new, air-minded panel Of military
advisers last week with the appoint
ment of 53-year -old Rear Admiral
Arleigh A. Burke as Chief of Naval
Operations. He was Carrier Com
mander Marc Mitscher's chief Of
staff in the Pacific during World
War II.
At the same time Mr.. Eisenhower
reappointed Admiral Arthur w. Rad
ford, a longtime flier, as chairman
of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, and Gen.
Nathan F. Twining to the Air Force
post. Earlier, Gen. Maxwell D. Tay-
lor, who took the 101st Airborne
Division into Normandy. had been
promoted from Far East Commander
to Army Chief of Staff.
The Navy was stunned by the
Burke appointment. Admiral Rad
ford had sold President Eisenhower
on two-star Admiral Burke even
though it meant passing over 90
officers who ranked him, and even
though Admiral Robert B. Carney.
present Navy chief, was young
enough to have been reappointed.
Admiral Burke had been a key man
on Admiral Radford's team in the
Navy campaign against Air Force
plans to monopolize strategic air
power.
Admiral Burke's basic field is de-
stroyers. His most recent assign
ment has been commander of the
Atlantic Fleet destroyer force.
to which he was appointed only
last November. Admiral Bull Halsey
dubbed him "31-knot Burke" as a
tribute to the boiler-bursting speed
at which his destroyers went into
action against the Japanese.
Admiral (then Captain) Burke
got his first carrier experience with
Mitscher. and was sold on this new
art of warfare at that time. Four
years after the Japanese surrender
he was one of the prime movers
in the "revolt of the admirals" who
insisted on a Navy role in air STRAIT
egy and belittled the Air Forces
giant B-36 bomber.
Evening star., 1955-05-29

veto. The Senate was told by South
Carolina's Olin D. Johnston, chair
man Of the Post Office Committee,
that the poor, misguided and con-
fused man In the White House" had
done an injustice to the postmen.
Most Republicans supported the
President, however. The vote to
override gained a majority, but not
the necessary two-thirds margin.
Only eight Republicans opposed the
Presidents veto: just two Demo-
Gratis. both from Virginia. voted to
support it. The final score was 81
to 80.
The Post Office Committee
promptly went to work on new
bill. The Presidents friend, Re-
publican Senator Frank Carlson Of
Kansas, recommended a slightly
less-than-8-per-cent bill. He was
voted down on party lines. The
committee then accepted an 8-plus
per cent measure and rushed it to
the Senate.
All predictions were for prompt
passage and reluctant signature.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
AIR POWER
Pentogon AeceIerotes
Plane Program After
Democrats Complain

Two weeks ago Senator Stuart
Symington, Secretary of the Air
Force under President Truman,
started a controversy over relative
air strength by suggesting that this
country may have lost to Russia
its lead in the air. He based his
gloomy estimate on flights Of ad-
vanced bombers and fighters over
Moscow on. May Day.
President Eisenhower said the
Symington estimate "is just not
true" But Brig. Gen. Woodbury.
M. Burgess, an Air Force intelli-
gence officer. was quoted Che said
misquoted) as stating that the Rus
sian air force was as good or better
than ours.
And a week ago the respected
magazine Aviation Week said re-
cent Soviet advances in air power
had shocked" the Pentagon. The
magazine said Pentagon civilian
officials were deceiving the public
about Americas strength.
Wilson's Reply
Defense Secretary Wilson then
stepped in to stop the controversy.
ut is our aim to maintain military
capability superior to that of any
potential enemy" he said. 1--WE can
and are doing this"
That seemed to imply that cur
rent plans would maintain air SUI
periority for the United States.
Democrats on Capitol Hill were
not satisfied, however. A Joint
Atomic Energy subcommittee ques-
toned Secretary of the Air Force
Harold E. Talbot and Air Force
Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining
in a closed session. Senator Henry
M. Jackson, Democrat, of Wash
ington said after the meeting that
this country had habit of under
estimating Russia's technical ability.
He recommended an all-out effort
to increase American aircraft pro-
duction.
Production Increase
Senator Jackson, 1t turned out,
knew what he was talking about.
For two days later the Pentagon
announced that production was in
deed to be stepped UP. Specifically,
production of the B-52, Americas
best heavy bomber-not yet in use
by the Air Force-would be accel-
Grated by 35 per cent. And later
reports from the Pentagon indicated
other jet bomber and fighter pro-
curement programs would be
souped up.
Chairman Richard Russell of the
Senate Armed Services Committee,
after getting advance word of the
production change, said the action
confirmed my position, for some
time. that we have consistently un-
derestimated the Soviet's ability to
design and produce the most mod
ern weapons of destruction"
The public was left to wonder
why Secretary Wilson had seemed
satisfied on Tuesday but had au-
thorized an accelerated program by
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Highways

The Senate approved huge high
way construction program last week,
but not in the form President Eisen-
hover wanted. 1t was scored by
Democrats as a defeat for the Presi-
dent, but by Republicans as quail
fled victory. ...
There was general agreement that
an enlarged Federal-State construc-
ton program was necessary. The
questions were: How big? Who
shall pay? And how shall the Fed
eral share be financed?
The President had advanced a
unique financing gimmick. He
wanted most Of the Federal share to
be raised through special bond
issue. Subscribers to the bonds
would be paid off in 80 years by ap-
preparation of money raised by the
Federal gasoline tax. The bonds
would not be part of the national
debt.
Democrats were indignant. 1t was
all scheme to fool the public, they
said, by borrowing money without an
increase in the debt limit. They de-
mandeo the Federal Government go
in the red in the old-fashioned,
straightforward way.
The Democrats also wanted to
alter the scope of the program.
President Eisenhower had asked for
expenditure of $39.1 billion over 10
year period, the Federal Government
chipping in $32 billion. But the bill
approved by Democrat-controlled
committee called for a $179 billion
program in five years. The Federal
share would be $126 billion.
On showdown votes the Demo-
Gratis won with ease.
When Republicans tried to substi-
tute the Eisenhower program for
the Democratic bill the move lost,
so to 81, with IL Republicans de-
sertlng the President. On another
move to send the whole thing back
to the committee, the Republicans
again were beaten, so to 80.
The final bill, with the Demo-
cratic financing and carrying Dem
ocratic totals, was passed on voice
vote.
So the President seemed sure of
getting highway construction bill,
but it would carry a Democratic
stamp.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Postal Pay

President Eisenhower last week
maintained his record of never hav-
ing a bill passed over his veto-and
postal workers saw part of their
projected pay raise go aglimmering.
The veto came on a bill to raise
postal pay about 8.8 per cent. at an
annual cost to the Government Of
about $3.50 million. The President.
however. insisted the budget could
not stand more than about $l29
million-a 7.6 per cent raise.
Democrats tried to override the
Evening star., 1955-05-29
France

France. still hopeful of continuing
her masquerade as a first-class
power, jolted North Atlantic Treaty
Organization headquarters again
last week by pulling one of its
divisions out of Europe and sending
it to North Africa. New troubles
for French colonial rule in Algeria
prompted the move.
Premier Edgar Faure haught.ly
announced: Whatever may be our
respect for our undertaking and our
duties to NATO, want to say clearly
that the government is resolved to
neglect no means that appear
necessary to restore order in
Algeria"
Presumably the division will be
taken out of West Germany, where
NATO commander Alfred M. Cru
enther has been hoping to beef up
his forces enough to counter Com
munist strength in East Europe.
Evening star., 1955-05-29
Liqht Turnout of British Voters
|ndorses Eden's Conservatives

AH the best hearts slightly the left they always have
suspect elections Conservatives
type they exemped
the left that
rddd with dissension and chained to backwardookng
dogmats bitterly unfarness electoral
system that any effective third party.
election elector who tries to reach his
voting Tory But there is nothing else he do"
Evening star., 1955-05-29

high-powered talks but Moscow was
holding out for Vienna as the site.
Frances Foreign Minister Antoine
Pinay disclosed (prematurely, judg-
ing from Mr.. Dulles sharp reaction)
that July 1921 was under consider
alton by the West for the time.
The Reds were still dickering.
They are not likely to act on site and
time at least until Premier Bulganin,
Party Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev and
Politburocrat A. I. Mikoyan get back
from Belgrade.
Evening star., 1955-05-29

sound speculative psychology is
likely to result in actions at later
stage which car only have harmful
effects on the entire economy"
Q Banks should be more careful
about lending money to spectators.
0 The Federal Reserve Boards ac-
ton in raising margin requirements
in April lfronn so to 10 per cent?
was too little and too late.
Q cover -the-counter" stocks should
comply with the same legal stand
ards as stocks sold on the exchanges.
. Further study is needed on stock
market operations, trading by lin
siders," proxy fights and tax policies.
Copehort ct al.
Bipartisanship ended about there.
A long minority report, signed by
John w. Bricker, Wallace F. Ben
nett and j. Glenn Beall, was sharp
defense of G. o. P. policies. And
Republicans Irving M. Ives, Prescott
S. Bush and Frederick G. Payne
added a brief paragraph to the
majority report, claiming that the
market boom merely represented
public confidence in the Eisenhower
administration.
A group of Democrats, John j.
Sparkman, Paul H. Douglas, A. S.
Mike Monroney and Wayne Morse.
made their additional views" into
an attack on the administrations
Federal Reserve and Treasury
policies.
The committees Investigations
will continue-doubtlessl with more
eyes cooked to the 1856 elections.