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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
'The Beginning of a New Era"
BY Dickran Y. HOvsepian,
MAJOR of Rockville

We are tremendously proud of the selection Of
Rockville as an All America City, The award is made,
not to the Mayor and Council, but to the City Of Rock
vile to all its citizens for their magnificent efforts
The award is a great honor; however, the citizens
cannot afford to rest their aurel. Much remains to
be DONE particularly in the field of recreaton-not only
for youth, but also for the adults.
The heart-warming response to our call for city
wide celebration the first of February especially
gratifying.
sincerely hope that this happy occasion marks the
beginning of in the history of Rockville where
the rich heritage of the past is welded with the promise
of the future.
We most pleased with the way the Sentinel has
presented this occasion in it's special edtion-many
thanks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
City Acts
To Shield
Road Site

Life can be beautiful and SO can
areas zoned commercial, the Rock
vile City Council ruled in effect
Tuesday night.
The council approved the re-
quest of Philip Greenwell to Ze-
zone the Sc corner of Edmonston
Or. and Route 240 to commercial,
out it added a new wrinkle by in
Structing the City Attorney to
write the enabling legislation to
call for an obligation on the part
Of Mr.. Greenwell to screen the
gasoline station he will build with
"evergreens or a suitable fence"
This action was taken to meet
The protests of residents on Lewis
Ave, who had maintained that
window views of gas station op-
arations are not the most desir-
able.
The Mayor and Council also:
i. Officially approved the 40
person committee asked to work
on plans to celebrate the receipt
Of the All America award by the
City and appropriated 5000 from
The contingent fund to cover the
cost of the celebration dinner that
will be held Feb. /.
2. Asked City Manager Mark
land to prepare a systemic inspec-
ton plan for trees, sidewalks and
streets thus providing for more
regular maintenance than when
such work is done in response to
protests arising from extreme de-
terioration.
3. Went into executive session
to struggle with the city road
code which had its hearing on
Nov. %, and indicated that an
agreed upon code would be enact
ed no later than the last week of
February.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
Women s Groups Stage Unusual
Driues to Aid C0unty's Hospital

Haven School made the largest
contribution of the schools with
Olney Elementary second. In all
10 clubs and six schools partici.
pated. The junior auxiliary had
frozen foods as its project and
presented &C quarts Of frozen
corn.
The fresh flowers which were
used on the tea table during
donation day and throughout the
hospital we're the gift of A. Guide
Sons of Rockville, Clark's Of
Silver Spring, Mason's of Whea-
ton and V. A. Frank and Son,
Inc, Of Georgia Avenue extend.
ed. They were arranged by
Mrs. Eugene Scott, Mrs. William
John Thomas and Mrs. Kenelm
Dallam.
The hospital also realized a
profit Of $2,456 from the Mont.
gomery County Thrift Shop dur.
ing 1854. This was an increase
Of $3.50 over the previous year.
Mrs. Everett Wilson, Jr., is presi.
dent of the Thrift Shop.
Mrs. Frank Wilson Thrift
Shop representative for the
Women's Board, has issued an
appeal for continued donations
and urges each contributor to get
one new donor in 1855.
Mrs. Lyon proposed at the
December meeting Of the Execu-
tive Board of the hospital that
each club represented be asked
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
BY MRS. ALLAN BROOKE

II takes more than patients
and staff to run the Montgomery
County General Hospital. 1t
takes at least 125 warm.hearted
women and their friends from
one end Of the county to the
other.
Anyone who doesn't believe
this is invited to consider: on
Feb. 8 the Hospital Guild will
hold style show with funds to
go to the operation of the insti.
tuition. And this week Mrs.
p. Garland Lyon, president of
the Hospital Women's Board,
announced that the hospital has
experienced the biggest donation
day in history.
Gifts included $3,170 in cash;
1000 quarts Of home canned
fruits. tomatoes and jam; 159
pints of jelly; LII tins of com
mercially canned goods and 100
quarts of frozen products.
Exactly 100 pieces of linen
were received. Miscellaneous
items included so pounds of lard,
1856 boxes of jello and buildings
in addition to 108 cakes Of soap,
dried fruits and staples such as
potatoes, sugar, coffee and oat.
meal.
The Cedar Grove Homemakers
Club, a new participant, topped
the clubs with 435 quarts of the
home canned products. Glen
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
EmbOttIed
Land Unit
Sees Win

"Up-County landowners expect
every Cou lcilman to do his duty
Jan. IS"
This was the refrain being sung
this week by spokesman for the
Up-County Landowners associa-
ton who stubbornly maintain
that five out of the seven present
members of the County Council
promised repeal of the controver-
sial Up-County Zoning ordinance
passed by the "old" Council be-
fore elections last November.
On Jan. 25, the County Council
will hold a public hearing on
whether or not the effective date
of the ordinance should be push
ed back beyond the Feb. 1 date
which is now fixed. 1t is under
stood that the Council is now con-
sidering May l as an effective
date.
Meanwhile, authors of the in
junction suit against the Coun-
tvs enforcement of the ordinance
complained that the County At
torney's office has been "evasive"
in pleadings in the County Cir
cult Court. They threatened to
take oral dispositions from every
member of the "old'' Council and
Mr.. Taubin of the Up-County Zon-
ing Commission to prove the H.
legality of the ordinances pass
age.
Opponents of the measure also
claimed the County is being Gin
consistent" in pleading that an
emergency" requires that the
ordinance go into effect Feb. 1 in
Court at the same time that the
County Council is considering
postponement of the measure
thus in effect denying the exist
ence of an emergency"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
Tax Agents to Aid
Harried Husbands

Like to know why you can't
afford a Florida vacation this
winter? Want an argument to
meet the wife with when she
proposes buying a mink coat?
Here's the answer:
Agents from the Baltimore
district office of the U. S. Inter
nal Revenue service will be at
the following locations to pro
vide residents with assistance in
filling out 1854 income tax re-
turns:
Sandy Spring, at the Volunteer
Fire House, on March 3 and A;
Rockville. at the Fire House,
April as, Ills; Bethesda, March
11.1S.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
Gets
Legal Position
At Annapolis

The appointment of Stedman
Prescott, Jr., Bethesda, as an AS
sistant Attorney General was
announced today by C. Ferdinand
Sybert, Attorney General of
Maryland.
Mr.. Prescott is lifelong resi-
dent of Montgomery County, is
35 years old, graduated from the
University of Maryl n d Law
School in 1947 with honors, and
was elected to the Order of the
Golf, a national honorary legal
fraternity.
He is a son of Judge Stedman
Prescott, Rockville, an Associate
Judge of the Sixth Maryland Ju-
dicial District.
Mr.. Sybert stated:
81 am happy to have a man
with the experience, ability and
judgment of Mr.. Prescott as a
member of my staff. / have
known Mr.. Prescott for several
years and am certain he will
prove to be an outstanding addi-
ton to the personnel of the Law
Department"
Mr.. Prescott entered the Unit.
ed States Army as a private in
1871. He served in the Armored
Force during World War II and
left the service in 1916 with a
commission as Captain. He is
pre- sently commissioned in
J.A.G.C. Reserve.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20

to hold a Thrift Shop Day.
Gifts should be plainly marked
for the hospital and with the
donors name and address so that
credit will be received.
Chairman of the Donation Day
affair was Mr.. Roger Whiteford,
first vice president of the board.
Mrs. Hilton Ladson, president Of
the guild, has appointed Mrs.
Thomas Lansdale chairman OF
the style show which will be held
in Jelleffs Silver Spring store on
Feb. Q.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
CitiZenstOHOld
Huge Meeting
On Award Day
Plan Affair for
LOO Persons
Here on Feb. |

With the help of approximately
40 city organizations including
the Rockville Garden Club, Rock
vile was busily engaged in max
ing the dirt fly this week in prep
aration for the Feb. l official re-
ceipt of a national award as one
of IL "civic garden spots" in the
US.
Announced Tuesday in a special
edition of the SENTINEL, the
award is being bestowed on Rock
vile and 10 other localities from
coast-to-coast by the National
Municipal League and LOOK
magazine for citizen initiative"
Complete details on the award
will be found in the second sec
ton of today's SENTINEL.
Frank Ecker, volunteer general
chairman of the Feb. / award pre-
sentation here, joined City offic-
ials in expressing qualification at
the enthusiasm shown by the 40
man citizens committee making
arrangements for the event. The
group has held two meetings
within a 4S-hour period.
Also Indicative of the enthus-
iasm with which the city is greet
ing the award is Mr.. Ecker's an
nouncement that all $50 tickets
for the dinner, which will be held
at the Richard Montgomery cafe
terra, have already been taken up
at the nominal price of So each.
They were distributed by apor-
tionment through the civic
groups making the celebration
plans.
However, to meet the demand
of hundreds of others the COM
mittee has arranged to hold the
actual award presentation in the
high school gymnasium after the
dinner, starting at 9 pm. 1t is at
this event that representatives of
LOOK and the League, City, State
Continued on Page p
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
Let Lines Contract
For Wheaton Forest

A contract for S5,283 was sign
ed by the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission last week
with the Joseph Canova Co. Of
College Park for the installation
of water and sewer mains to
serve IS lots in Rude Dr., Am
herst Dr., and Rose La. of Whea-
ton Forest. The company was the
low bidder on the project.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
Five Groups
Back County
Pool Project

Five Montgomery County
PTAs have recently put their
stamp of approval on the recon-
mended resolution drawn by the
Montgomery County Citizens
Committee for Public Swimming
Pools.
The PTAs of Parkside, Lone
Oak, and Rock Creek Forest Ele-
mentary Schools and Montgom-
cry Hills and Eastern Suburban
Junior High Schools recently
adopted the resolution.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20

John B. Diamond, Gathers
burg, former County treasurer,
died Tuesday night. Funeral ar
engagements were not available al
press time.
Nearly 100 tenagers attended
the COunty's Second Annual
Traffic conference this week
and spoke up against hitch-hik-
ing, and for the establishment
OF a drag strip" and bicycle
rOdeOs. Full details in next
weeks SENTINEL.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20

Half the county took a chance
on guessing the identity of
last weeks SENTINEL mystery
farm, and at least half a dozen
person had the right answer.
This week the SENTINEL pre-
sents Mystery Farm No. 2
(shown above) and again chal-
lenges its readers to supply
identification.
Last weeks farm mo. u was
that Of August w. Nagel. Known
as Red Gate Farm it is on
Avery Road near Rockville. The
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20

original George Shaw place, Mr..
and Mrs. Nagel have owned it
since 1949. Termed "iust a good
piece of dirt" by Mrs. Nagel
who called the SENTINEL, the
farm has been in use for about
80 years, is made up of 1872 acres
which support 100 head of Hol-
stems.
Rules for the Identification
contest on Mystery Farm No. 2
remain the same:
To the first three persons cor
rectly identifying the Mystery
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
In Fatal Accident
On Georgia Ave.

Mrs. Eleanor L. Voris, Norbeck
was injured fatally in a Georgia
Ave. automobile crash this week.
The driver of the other car VIII
liam d Austin has been charged
with manslaughter.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20

Farm of the Week." the SENTI.
MEL will offer absolutely free
credit for one classified advertise.
ment to be used within one
month.
Identification must be made in
person at the SENTINEL office
by Tuesday neon following publ.
cation.
To the owner or tenant of the
farm, the SENTINEL will award
a free years subscription. Also,
a free beautiful framed photo Of
the farm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-01-20
Late News Briefs

The Montgomery Civic Unity
Committee will meet at 8 pm.
Jan. 26 in the auditorium of the
County Office Building to con-
slider the legal aspects of segre.
gated restaurants in Maryland.
The group is expected to decide
whether or not they will extend
their work for de-segregation to
other areas of the County.
An open hearing was held
last night (after Sentinel press
time) by the County Council on
the KensingtOn Volunteer Fire
Department issue. The resigna-
ton of four officers in the de-
partment last week brought the
controversy into the open.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08

fessional circles, manages to wax
enthusiastic about few things Jew
ish-Passover being one of them.
AS A MATTER of fact, it is in
10 Sinclair's "Wasteland" a we'll
conceived and projected novel on
a self-hating Jew, that the Seder
and Passover play a major role.
"Wasteland" won a Harper prize
($1O,0O0) as the best novel of the
year in which it was published
(1946).
1t is a narrative about a Jew
who returns to Judaism after a
bout with a psychiatrist-and he
returns during the Seder ceremo-
ny. Thus the Seder in this novel
is more than an excuse to des-
cribe an "exotic" and colorful
event. 1t is the nub of the plot
and reveals the heart of the pro-
blem besetting Jake Brown, the
alienated Jew. 1t is because the
Seder is so explicitly defined in
this novel and because Passover
is so important in it, that it is
worth pondering. Problems are
projected here, true; but so are
solutions.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08
Capital Spotlight
Tension Near
Boiling Point
- uH.V
By Milton Friedman
(Copyright, 1855,


WASHINGTON = The admins
tration's policy of so-called "im-
partiality' in the Near East has
encouraged Egyptian hostility to-
ward Israel to the extent that
Arab-Israel tension is now on the
verge of exploding into open war
fare.
Government spokesmen here are
congratulating themselves over the
Turkish-Iraqi pact and proclaim
ing the success" of policies ini-
tiated in 1858. Meanwhile, the
Egyptian military dictatorship has
increased it's aggression against
Israel.
Mounting Egyptian pressure on
Israel is accompanied by Nazi-like
propaganda attacks on world Jew
ry. Huge crates of propaganda
pamphlets are being unpacked dali
ly at the Egyptian embassy in
Washington. These pamphlets are
designed to stir up anti-Jewish
prejudice by linking zionism with
Communism. They are being dis
tributed throughout the country.
FOES OF ISRAEL are now seek
ing to exploit the GAIA incident
in an attempt to depict it as
typical Israel aggression. TIL e y
have distorted the truth about Ga
"a and ignored completely the
background of events in which the
GAIA action occurred.
The official mouthpiece of the
Nasser regime sal d recently:
Egypt and the Arabs must turn
in the name of humanity and its
culture to all nations of the world
who will aid in wiping Israel off
the face of the map because of its
barbarism." The official Cairo
broadcasting station, "Voice of the
Arabs" said: Egypt sees Israel
as a cancer endangering the Arab
people. Egypt is the physician who
can uproot this cancer. Egypt does
not forget it's obligation to take
revenge, and it is mobilizing all
its forces in anticipation of the
hoped-for day."
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08

become, to them, measure OF
how much Judaism we still main
tain. And how much it means to
us, consciously or otherwise.
A few years ago, Meyer Levin
discussed his own PeSach Seder
scene in his now-claSsic novel OF
American-Jewish life, "The Oh d
Bunch" Accurately he remarked
that the vulgar Seder celebrated
by his uneasy Jews would not have
the ring of truth today. He is right
and this is proved not merely
by his comments but by the writ
ings of a number of prominent
contemporary novelists whose
books, in recent years, have Great
ed a critical or a public stir, or
both.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08
IN SAMUEL ORNITZ evocative

IN SAMUEL ORNITZ' evocative
novel of American-Jewish life,
bride of the Sabbath" there is
an attempt to recreate an era; the
attempt is only partially success
full, for Ornitz is loaded with pc
culiar ideas of Christian-Jewish
brotherhood and bogs down in the
second half of his book in a weird
mystic message.
A few descriptions and commen-
taries. however, do ring true, and
it is significant that his passages
on Passover are among the best.
In the midst of grinding poverty,
the young hero obviously the au-
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08

cheaply as they can. The author
injects all the warmth of the holi-
day into his story and the festive
aspects of Passover are beautifully
projected.
Even Isaac Rosenfeld, whose
writings on Jewish subjects in var
ious magazines have aroused
storms of protest, has written
knowingly of Passover in his criti-
cally acclaimed novel, Passage
from Home. He writes that
Passover has always been my
favorite holiday" and thereupon
proceeds to depict a Seder, its
food, its ritual and it's songs. 1t is
significant that Rosenfeld, who en-
joys a good reputation as writer
and as a critic in non-Jewish pro-
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08
Bv Harold u. Ribalow
Copyright, 1855,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Incl

THE CREATIVE NOVELIST, to
be a true artist, must have itmus-
paper sensitivity.. Thus it is by no
means remarkable that the Pass
over seder has become the symbol
of Judaism to many of our con-
temporary Jewish novelists w h o
have been wrestling with problems
involving Jewish life and living in
America.
They have sensed-as percep-
tive artists always do-that the
Seder is more than ritual, more
than a celebration of an event in
past Jewish history. The Seder has
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08

thor in his own YOUTH remembers
that mo family was too poor to
put on the big Passover feast
called the Seder; for God always
provided a wedding ring or pillows
to pawn; nor ever too poor to obey
the commandment, All who are
hungry, come and eat! " Pass
over is a delight in the boys mind
as it is in most minds.
TYPICAL OF THIS, too, is the
section in Albert Halper's recent
novel, 1.-THE Golden Watch" called
Warm MatZohS", which describes
how the father in the story takes
his young son to a matzoh factory
to buy matzohs cheap, for they
are poor folks and must buy as
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1955-04-08

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
has established the first direct rad
10 printer circuit between N w
York and Tel Aviv.
Evening star., 1955-08-08
BY ]. A, OTEARY

Is the job Of Senate majority
leader becoming q liability to a
successful political career?
This question has suggested it
self to political observers sew
eral times in recent years, and
bobs up again in the wake Of
the Democratic primary in Ken
tucky Saturday.
Although Acting Majority
Leader Clements of Kentucky
was not candidate in this pri-
mary, he was a leader Of the
regular Democratic organization,
whose candidate for governor,
former Judge Bert T. Combs, is
running far behind former Base
ball Commissioner A. B. Happy
Chandler. staging a political
comeback.
The race was important to
Senator Clements because he
must run for reelection next
year. If former Gov. Chandler
wins this primary. Senator Glenn
entS undoubtedly will have to
go up against a rival from the
Evening star., 1955-08-08
Witnesses Fly
Here From Italy

MILAN, Italy, Aug. 8 R.-
Key Italian witnesses in the war
time Staying of US. secret agent
william Holohan gathered here
today preparatory to flying to-
morrow to the United States.
A Washington grand jury is
to reopen the 1914 behind-the-
line murder Of the New York
major. A published report here
said it would consider q treason
charge against those RESPONSE
BILE.
An Italian court already has
tried two former subordinates of
Maj. Holohan in Absentia and
convicted them of numbering
him. They were former 1t. Aldo
Icardi of Pittsburgh, Pa. and
1t. Carl @. Lo Dolce Of Roches-
tier, N. Y. Both were sentenced
to prison. But neither could be
extradited, so the sentences do
not apply unless they return to
Italy.
FBI agent Alex H. Smith
picked UP 13 witnesses today in
Borgomanero and Arono, 40
miles north Of Milan. to be flown
to Washington by the United
States Government. A total of
II is expected to make the trip.
The group includes:
National Police 1t. Elio Albieri,
who dragged Maj. Hollohan's
body from the water Of Lake
Orto. Mai. Holohan had been
shot through the head and
poisoned.
Marina Duelli, a tall brunette
who was a partisan messenger
for the u. S. Office Of Strategic
Services unit.
Three priests who worked with
the American mission. Don Gio-
vanni Vandoni. Don Carlo Muir
zilli and Don Luigi Calderoni.
Two former partisans original
Il ly charged as accomplices. but
acquitted by the Italian court.
They are Giuseppe Mannini and
Gualtiero Tozzini.
Evening star., 1955-08-08
Kentucky Election Hints Jinx
In Majority Leader Post

Chandler forces for the sena-
torial nomination next year.
In 1850 former Senator Lucas
Democrat of Illinois, was major
ity leader when he was defeated
by Republican Senator Dirksen.
Two years later former Senator
Mcfarland. Democrat of Arizona
was majority leader when he lost
to Republican Senator Gold
water. Mr.. Mcfarland has over
come the setback meantime
however, by being elected Cover
nor of Arizona last year.
Senator Clements was in the
majority leaders chair for only
one month before Congress ad-
journed, because Of the illness OF
Majority Leader johnson of
Texas. Practical politicians prob
ably would agree that any con-
nection between that short
tenure and the result in the
Kentucky primary was purely
coincidental.
But the duties Of acting major
ity leader kept Senator Clements
in Washington during the cru
cial final weeks of the primary
race, when he might have taken
a more active part If he had NOT
been carrying the responsibility
OF bringing the congressional
session to a close.
Evening star., 1955-08-08
Intruder Shot At
In Housebreukinq

Police. alerting doctors and
hospitals, were searching today
for a man who may have suf-
fered gunshot wounds yesterday
when he fled from a housebreak-
ing at 1904 street Sc.
At that address. Russell E
Grimes, SO, told police he fired al
a colored man in a "T" shirt
Mr.. Grimes, an assistant yard
master at the Washington Ter
minal. said the man fled through
a rear door as he fired with his
.22-caliber revolver.
A neighbor reported seeing a
man answering the same de-
Scription climbing over the back
fence of Mr.. Grimes yard.
Mr.. Grimes told police he
bought the gun after his home
was broken into July 2 and SIC
was taken from his wife's pocket
book.