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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
Confidence But
Is
Still Faced
BY Charge

Charges levelled against FL
nance Director Alex K. Hancock
are still unresolved despite an
expression of complete conf
dence" in the finance official by
the County Council Tuesday.
The Council issued pre-
pared statement affirming it's
confidence in HancOck'S "per-
SOnal and professional integri-
ty" following a closed door ses-
sion with the director Tuesday.
But it declined to repudiate a
statement in the recent four-man
purchasing probe report that ella
grant violations of the charter
are unchecked and unchallenged
by the director of finance who is
vested by the charter with the
responsibility for disallowance of
payments for illegal or irregular
transactions"
Meanwhile Hancock, i'm his
first open blast at the purchas-
ing groups charge, labelled
them "unwarranted, unfOunded
and untrue"
Council president j. Grahame
Walker insisted under question
ing by neWsmen that the Coun-
ciPs statement of confidence in
its finance director was prompted
by certain published reports
from several sources" He de-
clined to name them.
The Council statement termed
the purchasing report "construc-
tive criticism of the failure of
previous county managers to pro-
mitigate comprehensive and pre-
else purchasing regulations for
the guidance of county employees
and for the exercise of better
control and supervision over pur-
chasing"
Stella B. Werner said she be.
lieves the statement placed re-
sponsibility on the county man.
ayers office and not Hancock.
Councilman Jerry T. Williams,
Charles H. Jamison and Grover
K. Walker declined to comment.
In his own statement to the
Continued on Page d
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
RenlOUe Last
LegaIBarrier
TOMtegraHOn

Attorney General c. Ferdinand
Sybert's formal ruling this week
that Maryland's segregation
laws are null and void, found
Montgomery County well along
the road towards "the ultimate
elimination of racial discrimina-
ton in public education"
Opponents to immediate inte-
grafton in the county have urged
that the School Board delay inn
plementing its program until the
attorney general had given an
official go-ahead. But the board
had already voted on June IA to
back Superintendent Forbes Nor
riS'S actions since June 3 leading
to partial desegregation in
September 1855. The attorney
generals action removes the last
legal barrier to Indignation.
With the closing of the sub
standard elementary schools at
Ken Gar, Linden, Takoma Park
and River Road, $40 Negro chill
dren will be attending former all
white schools in the suburban
area next fall. No decision has
been made on their exact place
ment but Board Member Helen
Scharf stated at Monday nights
board meeting that a majority
of the Linden pupils will. be at
tending the new Rosemary Hills
School as soon as it opens.
The contract for this 14-clasS-
room, elementary school in the
Silver Spring area was awarded
II. o. McAllister for the low bid
of $227,490. 1t is scheduled to
open on Feb. 4. 1856.
The second step in the boards
Indignation program will allow
Negro students to choose be-
tween Carver and Lincoln High
Schools and doWn-county white
schools. 1t was announced last
week that 1877 of a possible PAS
had expressed a preference for
the down-county area.
They will be distributed as fol
lows - junior highs: Montgom.
cry Hills, "a; North Bethesda,
20; Takoma Park, IS; Kensing-
ton, ID; Western, 10; Eastern, 3;
and Leland, /; Wheaton Junior
Continued on Page d
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
Just Drill This Time,
But If Bomb Comes :?

office in the Cafritz Building,
1925 Eye Street NV.
Young Susan left by bus late
in the morning to meet group
of girl friends for a day Of win
dow shopping in Silver Spring.
Mrs. Spurney cleaned house in
the morning, stopping once to
chat with neighbor.
Because only few of the pro
posed radar stations to the north
of the United States are present
ly operating, the enemy bombers
had already crossed the Canadian
border and were over the u. S.
when the II air raid sirens in
Montgomery County began wall
ing at 1905 pm.
Mrs. Spurney, who had taken
an avid interest in Civil Defense,
dropped her mop and switched
her radio to 1910, one of the two
Conelrad stations broadcasting
raid information, to see if it was
a real attack. The radio said it
was.
She quickly visited nearby
neighbors, offering them haven
in the Spurney's 11'x17 steel re-
inforced concrete and cinder
block under-porch shelter The
shelter had previously been
equipped with a battery,operated
radio, first aid supplies, canned
foods, blankets and clothing, and
water.
Mrs. Donald May and her two
children, Mrs. Marie Crossette
and her two children, and Mrs.
Nealsen and her daughter quick.
ly crowded into the shelter, each
bringing an armful Of supplies,
Other neighbors were entering
their shelters, but one woman ran
down Glenrosc Street screaming
for her husband.
Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
3 New CITY
Jobs Draw


Three proposed new positions
in the Rockville City government
came under fire at the public
hearing on the City's proposed
Budgets Tuesday night with APP
proXimately so citizens present.
IThe positions under discussion
Were the proposed jobs of Direc-
tor of Finance at $500, City
Palmer at $500, and assistant
City Manager at $1,000. All are
requested in the $6S2,8O5 operat-
ing budget of City Manager John
MARYLAND
STANLEY Smigel of Twinbrook
questioned the hiring of a Direc-
tor of Finance, subordinate to the
City Clerk but with salary $500
higher. Mr.. MARYLAND said that
the creation of this position was
the result of a conference with
City Clark Joseph Blocher who
had made the recommendation
for personal reasons"
Mr.. Smigel made an alternate
proposal of an assistant city clerk
al lower salary to assume the
financial responsibilities. Joseph
ROdger, a member OF the Finan-
cial Advisory Committee support
ed Mr. Smigel with q criticism
tilat the Director of Finance
would split the City Clerks office
into two empires where one was
gp1i enough.
mayor Dickran Hovsepian said
that the city was not large
enough to support both a City
Palmer and an Assistant Man
ager. Councilman James Robert
son, Wendall Turner and John
OXley approved plan of Mr.. Smi-
gel to create junior position of
assistant to the city manager
with a primary function of plan
ming.
The duties of Acting City Man
ager in event of the city mana
gers absence would be assumed
by a senior officer such as Di-
rector of Public Works.
Mayor Hovsepian and Council
man Alexander Greene also asked
for an entire salary scale review
Continued on Page d
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

of a crystal and a counter that
registers the number of radio
active particles striking h e
crystal. Mr.. Viera told the
amazed audience that the crystals
cost between 5000 and $500 and
are made by only four known
companies.
The LaRoe Company moved
from the basement of Mr.. Viera's
home to a small plant near Rock
ville's Congressional Airport
about Is months ago. Remodel
ing to double the size of the fac
tory will be completed in about a
month. Fourteen people are pre-.
sently employed in research and
manufacturing. Mr.. Viera, who
left the Bureau of Standards to
set up his enterprise, indicated
that he has a difficult time
locating qualified engineers and
scientists.
Some farmers from Montgom-
cry County have come to us to
rent detectors," explained Mr..
Viera. They think they have
uranium on their farms"
When several Board of Trade
members asked about prospecting
possibilities in this part of the
country, Mr.. Viera grinned. 81
hope our prospecting instruments
don't break up any homes"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
Women Plan
Chain Appeals
For Road Care

If your telephone rings after
1920 am. next Wednesday,
answer it - it may bean appeal
to save life, perhaps your own!
Members of the Rockville
Woman's Clubs have signed up to
take part with members of $4,000
other clubs from coast-to-coast
in a chain of telephone calls to
friends urging highway safety.
Each friend called will, in turn,
be urged to call four others adj
vocating safe driving on the ma
lions highways over the coming
July a holiday. On Independence
Day of last year, 348 lives were
lost in traffic accidents.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
basement TO Factory
Success Story Heard

Board of Trade members heard
the success story of LaRoe In
struments, Inc, at their luncheon
meeting Tuesday at the Rockville
Presbyterian Church.
Vice President Frank Viera,
Jr., described how the radiation
detection equipment manufactur,
ing company had begun in the
basement of his home but is now
forced, for the second time, to
move to larger quarters. The
audience intently watched demon
STATIONS of several detection in
struments.
LaRoe Sterilization Detectors
are used mainly by prospectors
hunting uranium deposits. Some
are specially designed for aerial
prospecting. Recently they have
proved effective in locating oil
pools. The instruments are
priced from $500 to $1,000.
A scintillation detector consists
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
Myers Wins Partial
Victory on Taxation

Rockville attorney Robert b.
Myers has assurances Of at least
temporary relief after a five year
fight against dual taxation OF a
plot of ground near the PatuXent
River claimed by both Montgom.
cry and Prince Georges Counties.
The County Council Tuesday,
agreed to abate taxes against
Myers until a new survey of the
county line is ordered by the
1857 session of tse Maryland Gen.
eral Assembly.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
MERCHANTS CELEBRATE LEADERSHIP
New ArmOry
Headed for City
ReckOrd Says

A new armory for Rockville
has been approved by the State
Reserve Facilities Board, accord
ing to Maj. Gen. Milton A. Rec,
kord, Adjutant General Of Mary
land.
An appropriation for the $780,.
900 armory is expected to be in
cluded in the Federal construc
ton budget for 1857.
1t. Col. Robert T. Bard, USAR
of Crawford Drive, Rockville, is
credited with arousing public
interest in the new armory. AT
his urging, the Mayor and Coun
Gil this spring passed a resolu
ton recommending construction
of the new building.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
BY Ronald Nessen
Staff Reporter

Last week the area stumbled
through another Civil Defense
exercise, Operation Alert. 1t
was more elaborate than usual
(even the President took part
but it WAS a practice. SO apathy
came easy.
BUT WHAT IF A REAL
BOMB HAD DROPPED!
What would YOU do?
Here's what would have hap
pened to one of your neighbors
if an atomic bomb had hit Wash
ington.
1t
Felix Spurney, his wife, Eliza
beth, and their 15-year-old daugh-
ter, Susan, began the day in their
brick house at 1904 Glenrose
Street, Kensington, pretty much
as usual: good natured kidding
about who would occupy the
bathroom first, breakfast, good
bye kisses.
Mr.. Spurney fought the Con
necticut Avenue traffic in his
1854 Chevrolet getting to his
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

The dreams of several deter.
mined Twinbrook community
leaders will come true Saturday
afternoon, when the new 100000.
gallon Twinbrook swimming pool
will be dedicated.
Transfer of the title to the At.
lantic Avenue site from the
Catholic Archdiocese of Wash.
ington to the Pool Corporation
will take place at 3 pm.
After the transfer, the Ameri
can flag and the neWly-designed
Twinbrook flag will be raised.
An American Legion color guard
will hoist the banners. The
American flag is a gift of Legion
Post sc.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
)A Us
Civic Units
Get HOnOrs
June 1925

CIVIC and business Rock.
vile were joined this week in
the city's first expression of
common purpose and shared
goals on a widespread and
formally-stated scale.
Focal point for the history
making expression of commu-
nifty solidarity to make Crock
vile a better place in which
to live" is the designation of
June 23-24-25 as Leadership
Days" by the Rockville Board
of Trade.
Rockville merchants will offer
special merchandise bargains
during the three days.
To further signalize the occa-
sion, the Trade Board this week
cited 48 citizens of Rockville, and
through them, the organization
they represent for contributions
to the goal of civic improvement.
Each of the persons honored
was presented with a scrool cit.
ing them for notable achieve
ment in leadership" for civic
betterment in the name Of the
name of the board by Joseph
Steinberg, president.
An accompanying letter, sign
ed by Mr.. Steinberg and John
Rinehart, merchandising commit
tee chairman, noted that the
board itself is dedicated to Rock
ville's improvement.
1--WE have long recognized
that If the whole community
prOspeTs so does the individual
who lives or works in the COM
munity," the letter said. "We
also believe that only through
the efforts of groups and indi-
viduaIs, working i'm different
areas of endeavOr but with IL
common objective, can IA we'll
rounded community be built"
The letter of citation went on:
'"The Board Of Trade through
its merchandising committee, has
sought means of expressing to
the many people who are work
ing for the greater good of Rock.
vile its appreciation for their
efforts. 1t is neither possible nor
practical to single out the thou.
sands of individuals who have
done so much for our city and
convey to them our appreciation.
Therefore we have decided that
the best medium for such express
sion is a leadership award made
by the Board of Trade to the
leaders Of representative organi.
cations which have contributed
to the development of Rockville"
The persons and organizations
receiving the citation are:
The City Mayor and Council;
Erven j. Liljegren, Silver Rock
! Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
Z AA Gun
Crews Eye
County Sky

montgomery county, gate
way to the Nations Capital,
will soon be guarded by seven
military installations design
ed to knock any enemy air
bTaiders out of the sky.
The seven posts are COM
posed of two Army and two
National Guard anti-aircraft
batteries, and three Nike
guided missile stations.
The Nike is a one-ton super
sonic missile launched from the
ground and directed toward
enemy aircraft with deadly ac-
curacy by radar.
One Nike battery on Route %
just past Rockville will be acti-
waited in about a month. accord
ing to Second Army spokesmen
at Fort Meade.
Another site outside Mount
Zion will open in about six weeks.
The third is planned near Hi-
thersburg on Route 240 Air and
ground rights are being obtained.
National security prevents desig
nation of the exact locations of
Nike batteries.
In other areas where sites have
been established the Army has
assured residents that "they are
as safe as gas stations"
\ Battery A of the 10th AAA
Battalion is located near the in
tersection of River Road and
Seven Locks Road behind the
Burning Tree Country Club.
What do the service men think
of the county? It's a good place
to spend an evening bowling,
drinking, or watching a movie.
Girls are in short supply. And
rents are so high they almost
prohibit a married man bringing
his wife and family to the ava.
What does the county think of
the service men? Most residents
don't even know about the isola-
ted batteries. Those that do are
generous. Merchants give dis
counts, volunteer fire depart
ments provide softball opposition
and churches issue special invita-
tons. Some find the batteries
radar interferes with radio and
TV reception.
OF the 10 married soldiers of
Battery A who live offpost, eight
reside in the county - mostly in
Rockville, Bethesda and Cabin
John. Rents are too high, most
Ymen maintain, for them to bring
their families to the county. The
commanding officer indicated
that he would be glad to hear
from property owners willing to
lease to service men at low rents.
Single men in Battery A don't
get passes frequently. Lack of
transportation and high cab
fares ($1.50 to Cabin john pro-
hibit nights off. When they do
leave post the soldiers head in
many directions. There are
plenty of girls at Glen Echo. You
know, these visiting high
schools, grins one single Battery
A soldier.
Battery A freely admits visi-
tors. The gates are open every
night from 6 to 9 pm. and on
Saturdays from noon to 9 pm.
The Cabin John Volunteer Fire
Department, the Marian Chris
tan Church and several indepen-
Continued on Page y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
Late News Briefs

County Manager NJ. l.. Reese
has proposed that top industrial
specialists be invited to address
a Fall conference on county in.
dustrial development. The Mary
land.National Capital Park and
Planning Commission is already
drafting a master plan for in.
dustrial development in Mont
gomcry and Prince Georges
Counties.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

The CAP AT Congressional
Airport raised $685. for Camp
Echo Lake by flying POI per
sons in Is planes for cOntribu-
tiOns. 800 gallons of gasoline
for the flights were contributed
by ESQ.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

The American Automobile AS.
sociation's National Pedestrian
Protection Contest has awarded
Rockville special citation for
registering no pedestrian deaths
in 1851.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

Senator John Marshall But.
Ter has announced that on or
about July I the Suburban
Transit Co. will ask the ID. &.
Public Utilities Commission
TO approve rush.hOur bus ser.
vice bctwcetn downtown Wash.
ington and such Montgomery
County points as Rockville,
Niers Mill, OIncy, GlenmOnt
Wheaton and COlcsvillc.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

The Montgomery County Per
sonnet Board has announced %
Job openings with salaries up to
$3.50 per year. Most Of the posi-
tons are in the Public Works
and Health Divisions. Informa.
ton can be obtained from the
Recruitment and Examination
Clerk, Poplar 2-2121, Ext. 313.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

A new Rockville town police,
man, George Peters, Wheaton
City, assumed doties last Satur.
day. lie will assist Sgt. Walter
X. Atwell.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

A Davy Crockett promotion last
week enabled the Wheaton Coop
10 rack up its highest seven.day
sales volume, S72500, since the
stores opening week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23
Calling All Artists!
If you can draw, The SENTINEL needs you!

If you can draw The SENTINEL needs YOU
Here's chance for you amateur artists to help with
a countrywide project show off your work to the public
and have lot of fun doing it!
Late in August The SENTINEL will publish its 120page
Centennial Edition celebrate is Tooth anniversary of
ice to Montgomery County This edition will all phases
Of county history from fighting TO farming to family welfare
services.
To illustrate these historical stories, The SENTINEL
needs small penandnk drawings So all you artists here's
your chance!
Draw sketches, in black India ink good white paper
TO illustrate the paragraphs below They should be two
inches wide length doesn't matter Put the appropriate para
graph number on the back of each Send these drawings
with your name and address plainly written the back of
each, to The SENTINEL Court House Square Rockville
Md, by July Of want them returned please include
a selfaddressed envelope and return postageJ
Drawings will be judged cleverness, originality
ability TO tell the story economically.
The first place winners will be
Artists The SENTINEL staff with the assignment of illus
trating the Centennial Edition!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

I, "Onc winter evening in
1892, young NOrbcck man
talked his father into letting
him borrow four horses and "a
big sled. With 10 friends
aboard, he drove over the
snow, in the neighbOrhood Of
his family's farm"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

.. I'm 1888 a new industry
sprang up in the forests of
Montgomery County, TO the
CONSERVATION of many resi-
dents, the hewing of hundreds
of thousands of hickory
spOkes near Sandy Spring"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-23

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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-05-18

512, odakle je dosao sa Prestup-
nom Listom u mas odsiek pred ne
koliko godina. Cd samog pristupa
Il mas odsjek pokojnik sa cijelom
svoj' m obitelji bio je uzoran clan,
a 1adasve dobar zajednicar.
Pred samu naglu smrt polk. brat
Labudak je marljivo radio, da ME-
gova kcerka Patricia bude delega-
tica ma cetvrtoj Konvenciji Po-
mlatka HBZ. IL Gary, Indiana. Ali
njegova vrijedna supruga Cathe-
rine / kcerka Patricia sa ostalim
pNjateljima su nastavili tamo
gdje je pokojni brat prestao, MIA
da Patricia &c biti delegatica u
Gary.
Tebi nezaboravni brate neka je
lahka gruda Zemlje, a tvojoj su-
pruzi Catherine, kcerki Patriciji
sinu Anthony, Jr., nase iskrenc
saucesce.
N. j. Nikolac, predsjedniki
Zahvala. zelimo da Sc putem
zajednicara javno zahvalimo swim
! nasim prijateljima rodbini, koji
, su nam bill utjeha tuznim Ca
sovima. Posebno hvala clanstvu
odsjeka broj 676 HBZ., koji SUI pre-
uzeli odgovornost sprovoda u ve-
likom broju istom prisustvovali
Ozaloscena supruga, Catherine
kcerka Patricia sin Anthony
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-05-18

Ike bolesti preminuo dana 3. feb
ruara 1855. Njegovu slilSu ovdje
donosimo, da ga jos jednom vide
clanovi prijatelji.
Pokojni brat Sc je rodio godine
1858. u nasoj krsnoj Liki, Hrvat-
ska. Dosta rano je ostao bez svo-
jih roditelja, pa je kao djecak
cd svoje kute prosao Rijeku, da
tamo izuci svoj dobar zanat, te
kad je bio samo 10 godina star
dosao je u ovu zemlju u kojoj je
ostao do smrti. To je bilo 1907.
godine, kad su u ovoj zemlji bile
vrlo slabe ekonomske prilike BIZ
10 vrlo tesko dobiti posao. Zato
je kao mladic iskusio gorki zivot,
sto ga je napravilo da bude do
bar radnik dobar unijas, tie kao
takav bio je dobar borac "a rad
nitka prava sve do svoje prena-
gle smrti.
liza sebe ostavlja svoju ozalosce-
nu suprugu Katarinu, koja je ta-
kodjer clanica naseg odsjeka, te
diva sina, Josipa Petra dvje
kteri, Margaret Elizabeth, dvfje
pastorke, cetrnaest unucadi tro-
je praunucadi, te wise rodbine ov-
die u staroj domovini.
U Zajednicu je pristupio godine
1927. u kojoj je ostao dobar clan
do svoje smrti. Bio je covjek do
brog srca mirne naravi, pa je
zato i imao dosta prijatelja ovdje
u Chicago okolici. To Sc je mo-
glo vidjeti i oko njegova odra u
pogrebnom zavodu Josipa Pavla-
ka, gdje je bilo dosta vijenaca da
nj mjesta nije bio "a sve, medju
kojima je bio vijenac naseg od-
sjeka znak zadnje pocasti.
Ma 7. februara je povorka kre-
nula il pogrebnog zavoda ma grob-
lie, gdje sno pokojnog brata po-
lczili ma vjecni pocinak. Nadgrob-
no slovo je izrekao mas start Clan
L Braskic.
Neka ii je brate Antoine slava
1 pokoj yjecni, a tvojoj supruzi