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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

MAY 1t be our privilege to so
conSecrate ourselves to our task
that God may continue to guide
and bless in ever-increasing
abundance" With those words
an employee explains the spirit
that motivates most of the per
sonnet of Montgomery County's
oldest hoSpital-the Seventh-day
AdventiSt-operated Washington
Sanitarium and Hospital.
The 500 workers, 125 registered
nurses, and eight interns admit
they could make more money at
other institutions but believe they
are advancing the sect at Wash
ingtOn Sanitarium by Keeping
spiritual interests in balance with
health principles" If a patient
requests, the nurses are prepar-
ed to give Bible instructions and
aid in evening prayers. Per
sons of all religions, however,
are welcomed.
In 1903 the Seventh-day Adven-
fist Denomination purchased a
so acre tract in Takoma Park
near Flower and Carroll AYES.
Four years later the 50-bed
Washington Sanitarium opened
with "a friendly Christian at
mosphere that would not only
bring healing to the sick but help
them to live healthy lives upon
returning home"
Among the original staff doc
tors were: DR.. C. A. Hare, DR..
j. A. Neall, DR.. G. H. Head,
DR.. D. G. Harding, DR.. B. H.
Kreff and DR.. Loretta Kreff
husband and wife,, DR.. w. P.
Rugle, and DR.. P. F. Bourdeau.
The first hospital building was
constructed in 1918, raising the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
County General Is Faithful
To Founders Mercy Ideal

The goal set by the founders of
the Montgomery County General
Hospital in 1920. ito the best of
its ability to care for the sick and
to measure success by the num-
Der of patients treated and dis.
charged cured, not by the month.
ly balance" has been faithfully
followed.
1t was necessary to borrow
$4,000 to balance the hospitals
books that first year. In 1854 the
hospital again operated in the
red.
Montgomery County General
Hospital stands as a monument
TO the efforts of lone man to
bring better medical care to the
county-Dr. Jacob w. Bird, now
Chief-of-Staff. From June 1912 to
July 1916, DR.. Bird rented Wren
wood from Miss Sophie Feather
stone for $50 per month DR.. Bird
hired Miss Featherstone "a grad.
uate nurse), two practical nurses,
and two other graduate nurses,
and converted Wrenwood into
five-bed hospital. Washington
Sanitarium was the only other
hospital in the county ar that
time.
In May, 1918, the non-profit
Montgomery County General Hos
pital Corp. was organized and at
the first meeting $500 shares at
$40 apiece were sold. AT the corn
er stone laying ceremonies an
additional $4,000 was raised.
In~addition to corporation pres
ident Charles F. Kirk and DR..
Bird, Rev. F. D. Bohanan of st.
johns Church, and Rev. Roland
Wagner of the Rockville Baptist
Church spoke at the cornerstone
laying Music was provided by the
Washington Grove Band.
During the Winter of 1919
20 deadly epidemic of influ-
enZa swept across the United
States and though unfinished
the Montgomery COutny Gen.
eral Hospital had to open its
doors to patients i'm February
of 1920. Alice Riddle was sup
erintendent of IA seven-wOman
nursing staff. DIR. Bird and DIR.
c. G. TumblesOn headed the Is
visiting physicians and sur.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

geOnS. Fifteen other doctors
provided consultation service.
Twenty.eight beds were avail
able.
Commenting on the flood of
influenza cases, the hospitals
first year report notes, "At no
time in the future will the nurs-
ing staff be called upon for such
unusual service as during Febru-
airy and March, 1920 Twenty
one cases of influenza and 81
cases of pneumonia were treated.
Ten persons died of these two i'll
nesses at the hospital during
1920. Among the dead were DR..
Birds wife and two doctors.
Influenza was not the only i'll
ness treated that first year,
though. In all 500 patients were
admitted, including 40 obstetrical
cases. Operations were perform
ed on 272 patients. The first
years report gives a detailed
breakdown of each case, by i'll
ness, and classifies it Cured, i'm
proved, unimproved, or died"
Today the hospitals staff has
expanded to IA active doctors,
q courtesy doctors, and "a con-
sulting doctors. Marjorie b.
Gallagher supervises the "a
regular nurses, IL relief nurses,
and two OrderIies. Another 10
full-time employees work in the
laboratory, x-ray department,
kitchen, administrative office,
records room, and behind the
front desk.
The hospital is now planning
$4,000 addition. A look at last
years report gives the reason.
Administrator Katharine E. Carr
lists 1857 admissions, $40 births,
and 1928 operations. Patients
came from eight Maryland coun-'
ties, eight other states, and the
District of Columbia.
Husky, jolly DR.. Bird, seeming
ly answering a dozen questions
from nurses, patients, and clerks
simultaneously as he hurries
through the wards of the hos
pital to which he has dedicated
his professional life, beams
We've never turned a patient
down."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Rockville Jail
Called Poor
In rs Survey

A Federal report in 1915 rank
ed the Rockville jail sixth among
% in the state and labeled it
poor"
Who should come to the rescue
of the county's penal institution?
The usual scandal mongering"
newspapers!
The SENTINEL exclaimed,
when reporters from Washing
ton city newspapers find no dirt
when investigating a Montgom-
cry County institution that is
news more sensational than man
bites dog"
A SENTINEL reporter who
toured the Jail joined Washington
writer's in declaring "the Jail of
fers little room for improve
ment."
County officials fired back at
the report, also. Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners president Lacy
Shaw exploded, We've the best
Jail in the state and l don't care
what anyone says"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

Maytag of the washing machine
company. And those girls were
just as nice. There was no snob-
ishness. We had about $50 stu
dents and about SO faculty mem
bers."
In 1912, with casualties flood
ing back to the United States, the
Army Medical Center was search
ing for a convalescent hospital
to relieve the beds at Walter
Reed for the more seriously sick
and wounded. DR.. Davis sold the
National Park College for $685.
900.
Mr.. Poole remembers the two
day auction of antiques that drew
buyers from all over the country.
Before long the Army had con-
verified the 80 college buildings
into wards that can house as
many as 500 beds. The new in
stallation, named Forest Glen,
soon had its own fire and police
departments, post office, chapel,
post exchange, tailor shop, heat
ing plant, gym, baseball park,
and movie theater. Except for
the striking architecture, Forest
Glen today bears little resem.
blense to the girls school.
Forest Glen is now equipped
to handle 152 patients. Its beds
are usually two-thirds occupied.
The average convalescent stay is
three to four weeks.
In the past few years Forest
Glen has become more import
ant as medical school and re-
search center, than as a hOspi-
tai. Located here are the Med
ical Technician Advanced Pre-
cedures School for Nurses, the
Army AudiOlogy and Speech
Correction Center, and the
Army PrOsthetics Research
Laboratory.
Basic research on artificial
limbs, hearing aids, physio
therapy and Occupational Their
apy has been done at Forest
Glen.
On Sept, %, 1854, the many
streets that criss.cross Forest
Glen were named for the officers
nurses, and enlisted men who
have performed distinguish serv
ice at the hospital and overseas:
Ireland Dr., for Maj Gen. Mer
rite w. Ireland; Dewitt Dr., for
Maj. Gen. Wallace Dewitt; Beach
Dr., for Maj. Gen. George Beach
Borden La, for Maj William c
Borden; Hume Dr., for Maj. Gen
Edgar Erskine Hume; Smith Dr..
for Maj. Genevieve Smith; Sacks
Road, for 1t. Col. Jerome C
Sacks; Phillips Pl., for Cpl. Rob
ert c. Phillips; Bowers Rd., fol
Pvt. Jefferson A. Bowers; Seals
Rd., for PFC Otis Seals.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Once Famous Girls School,
Forest Glen Aids Amputees

At the Forest Glen annex of
the Walter Reed Army Medical
Center convalescent soldiers and
airmen lounge about where the
daughters of Americas richest
families once strolled. Before the
Army took over in January, 1943,
Forest Glen had been for nearly
a half century an exclusive girls
finishing school.
The history of the 1876 acre
tract predates even the college.
In the midst of an 1890 land
boom a group of real estate men
built a hotel, aye Forest Inn" on
the site of what is now Forest
Glen. However, because of the
poor transportation provisions "a
vacationer had to walk to the
hotel from the street car termin-
al in Silver SPRING. the enter.
prise failed to prosper. An early
historian quips, "Only men with
tarzan-like inclinations would at
tempt to visit the town very fire.
quently."
So when John Irving Cassidy
and Vesta Harvey Cassidy, prin-
cipals of the Norfolk Junior Col
lege, expressed interest in open
ing a school at the hotel, the real
estate men were fast 10 unload
their white elephant.
On the last Thursday on Sep
TENDER, 1894, the National Park
Seminary opened with an enroll
ment of 40. The first pupil was
Anna Donson; the first teacher
Charlotte Priest.
Discipline was severe during
the schools early years. Girls
were required to wear "heavy
white middies; long, dark blue,
pleated boomers; and long dark
stockings" Each girl was grad.
uated only after she'd walked
100 miles during her attendance.
Candy was forbidden. Smoking
brought expulsion.
Apparently, though many fam.
lilies were interested in having
their daughters finished" for
the enrolment increased, and the
Cassedys launched a unique
building program. Each school
building would be constructed
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Locust Invaders
Judged Tasty

Swallowing gold fish was
not the only odd gesticulatory
fad of the Dos and '30S.
During the 1886 Montgom.
cry County invasion of locusts
some University of Maryland
students decided to try eating
the cicadae as is done in other
parts of the world. Obviously
an insect gourmet, one coed
commented, "They were better
than the Biblical locust but not
so tasty as the African ant
A newspaper reporter retort-
ed Il am quite willing TO take
her word for it,"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
NH Research Aids Drive
To Lengthen Span of Life

Old Georgetown Rd. and the
Rockville Pike, facing the Naval
Medical Center. Personnel at Be-
thesda and at various field sta
tons through the world numbers
almost 5000. About $50 research
projects are being carried on at
NH.
These worldwide research CEN
tiers have grown from a humble
beginning. The Public Health
Service first began medical re-
search in 1887 when a laboratory
of bacteriology was established
at Staten Island, N. Y, under DR..
Joseph ]. Kinyoun, to study di-
seases carried into the country
by immigrants.
By 1880 this research branch,
called the Hygienic Laboratory,
had expanded to occupy four
buildings at 25th and E SITS. NV.
and employ 100 staff personnel.
In May of that year President
Hoover approved legislation
changing the name to the Ma
tional Institute of Health and pro-
viding for further expansion.
In 1885 property owners Mr..
and Mrs. Luke 1. Wilson gave As
acres of the Bethesda tract to
the government (they later gave
As more) for the erection of NH
buildings. An administration
building and two laboratory
buildings to carry on dental,
heart, arthritis, and metabolic re-
search were soon constructed.
Congress authorized the first
institute in 1937-the National
Cancer Institute. Since then six
others have been approved
heart, meteorological, mental
health, dental research, arthritis
and metabolic research, and neu-
rological diseases and blindness.
In 1853, the same year the De-
partment of Health, Education,
and Welfare became part of the
executive branch, the 500 bed
Clinical Center was opened at
NH "to increase the study of
patients" AS additional buildings
have gone up, other tracts of
land have been purchased adjoin-
ing the original Wilson grant.
Much of the NH research pro.
gram is necessarily secret. And
even past discoveries are de.
scribed in such scientific Ian
guage it is difficult for the lay.
man to understand.
THE Record, official NH
publication, states, cover the
past 25 years the contributions
OF NH to medical research
have been numerous and far.
reaching. NH and its predeces.
sor, the Hygienic Laboratory,
contributed much to the know
ledge of infectious and nutri.
tiOnal diseases that has helped
add more than 20 wears to the
average life expectancy in this
country since 1900. In more re.
cent years NH scientists have
concentrated on developing
needed fundamental knowledge
and techniques. These may
some day lead TO a solution of
the problems that have become
the principal causes of death
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

At the beginning of this CEN
fury the average life expectancy
of newborn baby was AZ years.
Today it is 68 years. Claiming a
large share of the credit for ex-
tending the life expectancy are
the National Institutes of Health,
the research arms of the Public
Health Service under the u. S.
Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare.
The 20 NH buildings are To-
Gated on a 305 acre tract between
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
In County
Catholic Rites
May Trace
Back to 1880
In County
BY Mrs. Ulysses Griffith "

The four oldest Catholic
churches in the county are in
order ST Mary's, Rockville; St.
Johns, Forest Glen; st. Mary's,
GAINESVILLE and St. Roses, Clop-
per.
Mass first began to be offered
in the Hutton home and other
private dwellings in the area
around Chopper in the early
1S20'S. The celebrants were visit
ing Jesuit priests from either
Georgetown or Frederick. The
first church building erected on
the present site of St Roses was
built in 1885. This church was
destroyed by fire in 1883 and the
present church was built short
ly after.
st. Roses was for most of its
early existence a mission of st.
Mary's in GAINESVILLE. This lat
ter church has baptismal and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Ford For $3.50

The March &c, 1909 number of
The SENTINEL advertised a
Ford automobile for $780, j. F.
Kelchner, of Rockville, was the
agent.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Parking Ticket Cache
Brings Womun's Arrest

ASHLAND. Ky. (P. - Patrol
man Calvin Hutchinson tagged a
car for overtime parking, then
happened to look in the open
dashboard compartment. There
he saw a stack of old, unpaid
traffic tickets. Each was smudged
with red. They had been used
to blot lady's lipstick.
Patrolman Hutchinson waited
for the woman to appear. then
escorted her to police headquar-
ters. She forked over $14 for
the old tickets, plus Is cents for
the fresh one.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Gamb|eLosf,
Green Is Guilty
|nFir'eDeath

Everett D. Green, 81, lost his
gamble with death last night
if a jury's verdict stands-when
he was convicted of first degree
murder.
Green was convicted of caus-
ing the death of Miss Bette
Brown, 83, on May 26, 1858, by
setting fire to a building in which
both he and Miss Brown lived
at Ills Massachusetts, avenue
NV. DR.. Richard M. Rosen-
berg, deputy coroner. testified
Miss Brown died from inhaling
fumes from the fire.
The jury, in the U. S. District
Court for the District of Column
bia. deliberated approximately
five hours in reaching its verdict.
The death penalty is mandatory
on conviction of first degree mur-
der. Judge F. Dickinson Let's,
who presided at the trial, did not
set date for sentencing.
Appealed Earlier Conviction
Green gambled with death
when he appealed last year
from his conviction on second
degree murder in the case. Sen
tence on that conviction was
from 5 to 20 years.
The US. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia re-
versed the second degree mur-
der conviction, holding that the
previous trial judge had
enormously instructed the jury
that it could find Green guilty
of the lesser charge of second
degree. The appellate court in
dicated that the jury at the pre-
vious trial should have found
Green either guilty or not guilty
of first degree murder.
In reversing the second degree
conviction, the appellate court
declared Green is manifestly
taking desperate chance" The
reversal left him open to retrial
on the first degree charge.
Green also was convicted last
year on a charge Of arson for
setting the Massachusetts, ave-
nue. building on fire. He was
sentenced at the time to serve
from one to three years on that
charge. He did not appeal this
conviction.
Says He Was Attacked
During his trial, Green testi-
fled he found Miss Brown dead
shortly after midnight, nearly
seven hours before the fire
started.
He testified that on the morn
ing of the fire he smelled smoke.
He said he went to the basement,
found a man there and remon-
strated with him. He testified
the man hit him with a wrench
and knocked him out.
Green testified that when he
regained consciousness an ice
pick was sticking in him up to
the handle. He was found by
flremen lying face down in shall
low water in a bathtub at the
Massachusetts, avenue building.
The defendant testified that
after finding Miss Brown dead
he contemplated suicide but
letter, he said he mailed about
six hours before the fire,
described Miss Brown as "a fine
and good lady" 1t added: I'VE
both wanted it this way" The
letter also said: Please have
my ashes thrown on the
Chesapeake Bay"
Green was prosecuted by As
sistant United States Attorney
Thomas A. Flannery.
Evening star., 1955-05-20
Postmon's Holiday

BRADENTON, Fla. (P). -
Highway Patrolman Harry b.
Peterson, who drives more than
1000 miles a month patroling
his beat on the 11-mile Sum-
shine Skyway bridge, spends his
spare time fishing-from the
bridge,
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-26
City council

hospital will grant a sewar ease ment. There is some doubt whether the sewer line will pass over this or adjacent prop erty. Mir. Calvin was asked to check into the matter.
 MAYOR APPOINTED:
 The following council com mittees for the year: finance Andersen, Calvin and Knight; police and fire HWY Eli ason, Knight and Andersen: streets and sewers - Calvin. McClain and Calhoun; harbor inn Mccain, Eliason and Call houn; schools - Calhoun, Me Clain and Andersen; property Knight. Eliason and Calvin.
 Salary ordinance will be considered at the next meet
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-26
Soeiety and Clubs
@mEM
DUO-PIANISTS PRESENT
CONCERT TONIGHT

The music lovers of this com
 munity may look forward to a
 highly enjoyable evening on
 October 18th at Sheldon Jack
 son Junior College Auditorium
 when Jeanne and Joanne Net
 tleton, the celebrated young
 duo-pianists, will be presented
 in the openinlg event of the sixth season of the Alaska Music Trail.
 The identical twins whom Artur Rubinstain labeled as ''terrific'', and who were hailed by the New York Her ald Tribune as a bright, gay and accomplished addition to the ranks of diuo7pianists' IT. have chosen a program which contains am unsurpassably brilliant and varied assortment of the best known masterpiec- es of tWo-piano Literature.
 Beginning with a Prelude and Chorale. "Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring' by Bach and followed by Brahms Varia- ions on Theme by Haydn - the program will traverse a number of the most popular works for two pianos, includ- ing the Perpetuan Mobile by Weber, A Romance from the Suite by Rachmaninaff, and Chopin's Rondo.
 Of special interest on the program are two excerpts from Cop1and's' ballet, ''Billy the Kid", arranged, for two pianos by the composer, and entitled Billy and His Sweetheart" and sCelebration after Bills As original is the InJtroduction and Dance" by Eugene Hermmer, composed for the Nettleton Twins, and giv- en by them its first perform ance in Cincinnati in 1850; a work based on American folk songs, which includes the Ken lucky Devils Ten Questions" the dalshfng and glittering Scar amouche by Milhaud, which in its final movement, Brazil eira" presents a Sarnba. The famous Brazilian dance-rhythm will usher in the final group, one that through Ravel's exot- ic Spanish Rhapsody and two Polovetzkian Dances from Prince Igor" by Borodin, will culninalte in the transcription for two pianos of the Blue Danube perhaps the. most popular waltz that has ever been written, and one loved throughout the world.
 This program is the one on the Boston Herald com mented: ".... some of the words that rush to mind in re- action to the playing of these young artists are vitality, en- thusisiasrn, beauti6ul tone, mu-
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-26
EMBLEM CLUB HOLDS ROLL CALL MEETING

Annual roll call meeting of the Emblem Club of Sitka on Monday evening found most members present. Mrs. Ole Swanberg was inSballed as the new financial secretary, with Mrs. Josephine Garter serving as installing president.
 As the Emblem Club is spon Soring the Brownies, it was decided to purchase pins for the girtls. Mrs. James Reeder volunteered to attend Brown ie meetings.
 A pot luck dinner for all Elks, Emblem Club members and faniIies is to be held Sum day, November 6 at 6 p. m. Mrs. Carl Nelson gave a report on the Eleventh Hour Club.
 Members to aid with the Youth Honor Day party are the Mesdannes Cecil McClain, Daniel McTIale, Ole SwanIberg, George Nelson, Art Peterson. Frank Guertin and Miss Louise Brightrnan.
 Games were played with re- treatments enjoyed later.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-26
Homemukinq
by Arthiel l.. Spaulding U. of A. Extension Service

Too early to start thinking about Christmas foods? The HomemaIkers Clubs in Anchor age didnit think 50 when they met to compare recipes, give demonstrations and exchange Christmas gift and food ideas this week. Some very delilgjht- ful dishes were created and the recipes from the Christmas Workshop will appear in this column.
 This cranberry recipe calls for How bush eranberries but the domestic cranberry may be used.
 De Barr Vista Surprise Pie
 Pastry for 2 crust pie.
 Filling for 9 inch pie:
 1922 cups sugar (arnount depends on tartness of berries)
 4 Tbsp. Flour
 F tsp. Salt
 3 cups Whole Cranberry Sauce
 Bring to boil slowly and continue gentle boil for 15 min utes. Stir constantly. Remove from heat, blend in F tsp. Vanilla, cup chopped Wall nuts.
 Pour into unbaked pastry she'll, cover with top crust, bake until crust is nicely Drowned. Approximately 30 minutes at 425 degree oven)
 Serve slightly warm - top- ped with vajniIlla ice cream.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-10-26
TWO YOUTH HONOR DAY PARTIES PLANNED

As is traditional in Sitka, two Youth Honor Day parties have been arranged for chill dren and young people - the first for the pfe-school group to age 12 at the Moose Hall and the second for teen-agers a dancing party at the Elks CluIbroorls.
 Both are to be held HJallow- cen Eve. Monday, October 31. The smal-fry party is from ' p. m. to 9 p. m., under the aus pices of the Moose Lodge. Teen age dance begins at 8 D. m., under the sponsorship of the Elzs Lodge and American Le- zion.
 Refreshments will feature both affairs, with games and treats as highlights for the youngsters party.
 Admission will be by signed