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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
Report First
Sale Victim
In Acc Area

An elderly, illiterate colored
woman who owns three acres of
land in Germantown may become
the first victim of the activities
of land spectators in that
Atomic Energy Commission area.
Mrs. Mae Bailey was reported
ly approached by a land buyer
last Tuesday, three days after
the Acc announced its decision
TO build a new $40 million office
building on the William Dosh
farm near Germantown.
The businessman offered Mrs.
Bailey $1,000 for her three
acres adjoining the Dosh farm,
said by experts to be worth $10,-
900 now. The land has been in
her family since the Civil War.
According to Barnard, Il.
Welsh, Rockville attorney retain
ed by Mrs. Bailey to stop the
sale, she signed a contract of sale
for the land and received 800
deposit. However, her husband
and son have signed nothing.
Mrs. Bailey, who can neither
read nor write, claims she knew
nothing of the Aces decision to
mo eeto Germantown. She says
the speculator told her he plan.
ned to build a sawmill on her
property. Since the Acc an
nounced its intention to relocate
in Germantown, land values
have scared.
Attorney Welsh states bluntly
Mrs. Bailey will not sell this
land" He indicated that his
client is returning the $500 de-
post to the businessman. Mr.
Welsh says he will stop the sale
if necessary, by charging the
would-be purchaser with fraud.
Indications are that a long
legal battle will rage around the
sale. Because the Negro fami-
lies in the Germantown area
have not kept accurate records
and in some cases have eXchang-
ed land without altering the
title, clear right to the land is
difficult to establish.
The purchaser was out of
town and could not be reached
for comment.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
Area Beauties
Will Compete
At Top Event

Twenty.six trophies will be
awarded in the various events
at the Gaithersburg Labor Day
celebration September 5. Prizes
will go to the best looking units,
the hook-up contest winners, the
champion drum majorettes, the
floats and the tUg.of.war champs.
Leading the parade will be
Honorary Marshall A. ]. Bar.
gagni, chief of the Bethesda Fire
Department, and Marshall Joe
Boland, well-known area resi-
dent. The hook.up contest that
will climax the parade will be
conducted by Spencer j. H..
Brown, chief of the Laytonsville
Volunteer Fire Department.
Host for the day will be Chief
Byron H. Miller, Of the Gathers
burg-Washington Grove Fire
Department.
Outstanding drum majorette
units from Virginia and Mary
land will compete on the Ag
Center ball diamond for the 36
inch Harry Pollock Trophy; and
a fireworks display will burst
over the fair grounds in two
other events Of the 18th annual
Labor Day celebration.
For the first time this year o
beauty contes; will be part of the
festivities. Each contestant will
be sponsored by q merchant of
Rockville or GaitherSburg and
each will receive an 8" x 10"
photo of herself and either a
piece of luggage or Catalina
swim suit. miss Labor Day"
will be presented with complete
fall wardrobe.
Congressman Dewitt S. Hyde
will head the guests.
In the evening the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Gaithersburg.
Washington Grove Fire Depart.
ment will serve dinner and the
Addie Lawyer Orchestra will en-.
terrain at the traditional dance
in the Ag Center, auditorium.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
AdUice Issued
By CD office
OnHuTvicane

If hurricane Connie continues
on its present course, its force
is expected to hit Maryland some
time today. The Montgomery
County Civil Defense office has
issued the following list of pre-
cautions, in case the hurricane
should come:
/. Keep a radio or television set
turned on Do not call the wealth
er bureau.
2. Clean the bathtub and fill
it with water for use if water
service is interrupted.
B. If electric power fails, do
not inspect refrigerators and
freezers to check on thaWing The
contents of the average freezer
will not thaw for two days if
the door is kept tightly closed.
4. Have flashlights and other
emergency lights in working con-
dition and keep them handy.
5. Have on hand a seven.day
supply of emergency food and
water.
6. Check everything that might
be torn loose, become adrift or
blow away.
7. If the center or "eye" Of the
storm passes directly over, there
will be lull in the wind lasting
from a few minutes to a half
hour or more. Remain in a safe
place, unless emergency repairs
are necessary. If so, remember
the wind will return suddenly
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
County Fair Backers Giue Ike
C0,U; Offer SIS, 900 Name Prize

Want to win some $4,000 in
prizes? Just submit the best
name for President Dwight D..
EisenhoWer's new thoroughbred
Holstein heifer.
Sponsors of the Montgomery
County Fair, to be held in Cal
thersburg August 1927, announce
that the cow, which already has
been presented to the President
in ceremonies at his Gettysburg,
Pa, farm, will be on exhibition
at the County Fair and visitors
invited to submit a name for the
bovine which has a long
pedigree.
The President accepted the
animal Tuesday in a presentation
made on behalf of the Holstein
Club of the Montgomery County
All Clubs. 1t was donated by
Mr.. w. Lawson King of Mont
gomery County, one of the
largest HolStein breeders in the
world.
All Club members Roberta
Messer of Gaithersburg AM
Tommy King of Gaithersburg
made the presentation. County
Fair officials attending were:
Chairman r. w. Farmer, Ralph
Walker, treasurer of the Mont
gomery County Agricultural Cen
ter, sponsors of the fair; w,
Lawson King, member of the
Fair Committee. William Bog
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
Land Unit
Promises
To Assist

A zoning ordinance for the
Upper Montgomery County Plan
ming District, satisfactory to all
parties, may be a reality on
November l, after three years of
confusion.
At its fifth special night meet
ing Monday the County Council:
ID postponed the effective date
of an ordinance passed by the
former council, at a lame duck"
session, until November /; ca
finished consideration of a re-
vision of that coming ordinance;
and 81 set October 10, tentative
ly, as the date for a public hear
ing on the proposed ordinance,
with September 10, IA, 16, 20 and
81 the tentative dates for little
hearings" in the up-county cleo
ton districts.
Meanwhile at a Board of Di-
rectors meeting last week at the
Dyke Cullum farm, Germantown,
the Upper Montgomery County
Landowners Association pledged
cooperation with every instru-
mentality of local government"
to prevent unwise development.
At the Landowners Association
meeting, Cullum announced that
he was Withdrawing from an in
junction filed in November 1854
/ seeking to prevent the "lame
duck" ordinance from taking
effect. Cullum said he was with.
drawing because 1 think the
council is making a sincere effort
to revise that ordinance SO that
everyone will be satisfied"
The other parties to the in
junction, Marvin Simmons, o. w.
Anderson and Marjec, Inc.
Through president Donald r..
Lamborne) indicated that they
will neither drop nor press the
suit at this time.
The way to final passage of
the up-county coming ordinance
is far from smooth. The effec.
tive date of September Is had to
be set aside because many of the
council members will be out of
town on vacations or business
and unable to attend the required
public hearings.
The little hearings" in the up
county districts are unofficial
and required by law. They will
seek to determine public opinion.
Damascus Councilman Jerry Will
liams charged that the council is
holding the up-county hearings
merely to satisfy the people and
will not really listen to what
they want" Mrs. Werner denied
the charge.
Basically, the provisions of the
revised ordinance are:
l. The up county will be
divided into five zones, agricul-
ture, country home, residential,
commercial and industrial.
2. The minimum lot size in
the agriculture zone is five acres,
in the country home zone one
acre, in the residential zone $500
to 10000 square feet, depending
on wafer and sewage facilities.
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11

the fair will simply drop their
suggestions into a box, and the
best, in the opinion of the judges
will win long list of prizes in
GLIDING new gas range, a skill
saw, a $3.50 down payment on a
house, a sewing machine, a beef
steer, a stainless steel cookery
set and other prizes totalin2
more than $1,000.
Judges in the contest will be
Deane and David Heller of Sill
yer Spring and Col. James w.
Pearson of Bethesda.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11

Rockvilles Mayor and Council
at their Tuesday night meeting
passed a memorial resolution of
sympathy to Charles G. Hollands
family. At the same time plans
were launched to name a street
in the city in his honor and also
install a plaque in City Hall to
honor the names of all deceased
mayors Of the city.
Five Rockville Army Medical
Service reservists return home
Saturday after two weeks ac-
tive duty at Fort BelvOir. Mai.
William j. PEBBLES, Capt.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
Five New Polio Cases

Four new non-paralytic polio
cases and one paralytic were re-
ported this week by the Mont
gomery Health Department. A
35.year old man in Kensington
was the paralytic case. Two chill
dren in Rockville, boy on Falls
Rd. and a girl on Claggett DR..
have been diagnosed so far as
non paralytic. The other two
cases are in the Silver Spring
area.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11

ley and w. l. King managed the
complicated job of transporting
the heifer to the Presidents farm
and back.
After the Montgomery County
Fair is over, the animal will join
the Presidents herd perma-
nently.
The presentation was arranged
by Congressman Dewitt S. Hyde.
Sponsors of the fair empha-
size that there is no entry fee
whatever or any entry blanks to
fill out in suggesting a name for
the Presidents COW. Visitors to
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
Weather Bureau Wants
To Come to County

Weather Bureau officials have
recommended Rockville and
Gaithersburg as the best sites for
the bureaus proposed new build.
ing. No decision, however, can be
made until Congress returns.
One authority in the Weather
Bureau claims, Most people who
work here hope the new building
is in Montgomery County since
most live there or in Northwest
Washington"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11

Thomas l.. Auth, Capt. Ben.
jamin NJ. Gutterman, Master
Sergeant James w. Adams, and
Sergeant First Class Robert A.
Renner, members of the 354th
General Hospital Unit, have
been undergoing training i'm
stating a 1000 bed hospital,
the units primary wartime
function.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
Late News Briefs

James Spring, Gaithersburg
businessman, today appealed to
County residents to assist in To-
eating quarters for a family of
5-husband, wife and 3 children
who are being evicted today
from their apartment because the
landlord objects to children. Mr..
Spring will take calls of help on
Gaithersburg 419.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11

NIIITOT mITTOf, on The wall,
Who's the most courteous of them all2
The SENTINEL wants to know the 0
Gus cop in the County and there only days
readers to make THEN nominations County police officer
judged to have hest beyond the call duty nice
TO citizen will receive dinner himself his lady at Nor
mandy Farm Restaurant "The King and
T. at the National Theater.
He will be picked the basis reayed TO The
SENTINEL by grateful citizens been especially
nice TO tell US about it, your and be sure
include the officers and station plus your own name
address Nominations The SENTINEL office Coh
House Square Rockville, by Monday Aug The winner w.
be announced in next weeks paper VI
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11

IL was learned this week that
not more than 300 employees
of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion have indicated a desire to
take up residence in the COun-
ty. The survey was taken on
the basis of the location of the
Acc headquarters in German
town. G. II. Christensen, Acc
construction head, will move to
the site area around the first
of the year.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-16
Worthy Cause

A S a rule, we do not editorialiZe concerts
sponsored or co-sponsored, by Lodges
of the Croatian Fraternal Union.
TO do so with any frequency would IN
time call for common courtesy on our part
to treat all such undertakings alike. Any
thing short Of that would certainly be tan
tamount to partisanship.
X X
Today - with good reason - we choose
to make an exception to an otherwise fast
rule in the specific case of the United Gro
attain Organizations of Aliquippa, Pa, in
which are represented Lodges 423 and 72O
of the Croatan Fraternal Union.
Sunday next, February 20, the UCO will
sponsor the famed Duquesne University
Tamburitzans in concert at the Allqulppa
High School Auditorium and turn over its
share of the proceeds to the Aliquippa Hos
pital Fund, truly worthy cause if there
ever was such thing.
The UCO some months ago pledged
no less than $5,OOOOO to this Fund, the
goal of which is to erect sOrely needed
Hospital in this widely known steel CEN
ter Better than One-half of that pledge
has been carried out by this group.
A packed Aliquippa High School Audi
torium on Sunday, February 20, will inch
the UCO that much closer to its pledge of
S5,O0O0O, a vow it cannot violate.
X
Everyone agrees that Aliquippa needs
a modern Hospital in the worst way.
The nearest such institutions are loca-
ted miles away in South Side Pittsburgh,
Rochester, New Brighton and Beaver Falls,
miles fraught with danger, possible death,
in an emergency case.
There is no excuse for this civic short
coming in a city which houses one of the
largest steel corporations in the United
States = Jones and Laughn.
Hence the interest Of the Croatlan Fra
frfnaI Union in the United Croatian Organ
izations concert of Sunday February 20,
and it's appeal to every member of the So
ciety in Beaver County to support chart
table undertaking par excellence.
We could do no less for our fellow mem-
bers and neighbors in Aliquippa.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-16
Salute To Lodge IA

| HISTORICALLY, there are great many
and varied answers to the age-old ques-
ton: "Am l my brothers keeper"
The siXty-year-Old annals of the Gro
attain Fraternal Union show, time and
again, that the members of the Society
answered "Yes." when that question was
put before them for action.
AS witness the latest such magnanimous
deed on the part of the members of our
Cleveland, Ohio, Lodge IA, who have taken
to heart the plight of the 43 boys and girls
housed in the Home for Crippled Children,
Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
Responding to an appeal which appeared
in the February 2 issue of the zajednicars
English Section, Lodge IA donated S25 500
and it's members collected among them
selves another $4,000 for the purpose of
buying bed sheets for this Home
Not much, money-wise, but God
send to those unfortunate children when
the $500 are translated in terms of
what they need so badly - bed sheets.
In this land of plenty we live in, it may
be difficult for us to understand what
common, ordinary bed sheet means to those
who can only dream of such luxury. But
to those who once lived in Yugosavia, those
who suffered privation, those who came to
America to live better life, bed sheet
means great deal.
Perhaps memories Of their own dire
needs in days gone by lead the members
of Lodge IA to come to the aid of those 43
pitiful boys and girls in Zagreb
But whatever it was, whatever the rea-
son, we know those S45O0 came from but
one place - the Lodge IA heart.
Yes, dobar je mas narod!
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-16
Junior Convention

\A/E must profess that we are not salts
w fled with the number of Candidates
who arc currently striving to qualify as
Delegates to the Croatian Fraternal Unions
4th National Junior Convention, to be held
July 2-3-4, 1855, at Gary, Indiana
Considering the relative ease with
which both juveniles and adults can quail
ify for the honor, we simply cannot un-
derstand why "onIy' 25 Candidates have
been heard from to date.
Nor can we fathom the why's and where
fores of this impasse afield when we take
stock of the many, many reams of publicity
which the zajednicar has given the highly
lucrative Membership Campaign directly
associated with the Junior Convention
Frankly, we should have at least SO -
if not IS to 100 = Candidates endeavoring
to qualify as either Junior or Honorary
Delegates to this Convention
Certainly that isn't asking too much
OF the 10000 members now affiliated
with the Croatian Fraternal Union.
In fact, we are asking for virtually
'next to nothing" when we appeal for at
ltdSI lOU 10 declare IIelI III
tentions of participating in the Societys
Membership Campaign honoring the 10th
Anniversary of it's Junior Order and attend
ing its 4th National Junior Convention.
Nor are we going out of the way in ask
ing at least 80 juveniles and adults to quail
ify as Junior and Honorary Delegates - 2
for each of the 40 years in the history of
the Junior Order.
X X X
True, to appeal - to ask - is our privi-
lege if not our editorial duty.
But to participate in the Campaign and
become Delegate to the Junior Convention
is your privilege as a member, for all hon
ors will be yours, and not ours.
In that sense, let us encourage as many
boys and girls as possible to become Candi-
dates for Delegates to this Convention and
then do all we can to help them reach their
coveted goal - Gary, Indiana.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-16

young American of Slav
descent is taught the beauti-
full language of his parents,
given at least a rudimentary
acquaintance with a great
cultural background, while he
is told of great personalities,
who according to his parents,
are world renowned, he hears
nothing of this in school, so
he begins to doubt his par
ents.
He is constantly torn be-
tween the pull of the home,
club and socials which radi-
ate Slav culture and the out
side life which engulfs him
as soon as he leaves these
islands of Slav influence.
History Books Shun Slavs
Only a few days ago our
daughter, a fourth grader,
asked for assistance in her
geography homework.
We leafed through the text
book and found pages, and,
yes chapters, devoted to
African tribesmen and South
Sea Island aborigines, but
not a single sentence about
that great segment of the
human race-the Slavs.
We wondered whether she
will believe us when we tell
her that the Croats had an
Independent nation flourish
ing over a thousand years
ago. We wondered whether
she would believe us that that
land produced Tesla, the
greatest wizard of electrical
technology without whose
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-16
American People
Put Away Billions
Average Man Is
Wary Of Future

Chicago, Ill. - The United
States Savings and Loan
League last week reported
that American families have
more money in savings than
at any time in the history of
the United States.
The League said that total
savings in Americas thrift
organizations rose to the high
Of 1921, ,30O,000,000 at the
close of 1854, an increase of
an estimated S14, 900, 900, 900
during the past year. The in
crease was reported as being
the greatest of any year since
World War II.
The national survey in
cluded life insurance compa-
nies and organizations, banks,
savings and loan associations,
and United States Savings
Bonds and Postal Savings.
The 1854 total represented
a 1850 increase over the
total savings at the begin
ming of World War II and a
$3.50 gain over the total at
the end of the year 1945, a
healthy sign of the stability
of the economy of a great
people of a great nation.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-16
Government Hit
By "GIamor" Liars
Star Witness Is
Exposed As PhOny

One of the Governments
star witnesses against suspect
ed Communists has turned out
to be an admitted liar who
chose the life of professional
witness because it was, in his
words, a good racket"
II wanted to see my name
in print" explained Harvey M.
Matusow, II wanted the type
of glamor which professional
ex-Communists have in the
United States" So he posed
as an ex-Communist and his
testimony helped to convict 13
of the so-called Second string"
Communists. He is also an ac-
cuser of Owen baltimore.
Now the Government isn't
sure what to do about Matusow
or the people whom he helped
TO convict. 1t ought, however,
to be a little surer in the fu-
ture about how much reliance
to put in apostate Communists
who might just possibly be
Red plants.
AS for Matusow, he is hop
ing to capitalize upon his
"glamor" through a soon-to-
be-published book entitled, with
an inspired sense of appropri-
ateness, False Witness" It is
safe to assume that, no matter
how the publishers label it,
this volume is fiction.
-Pgh. "Post-Gazette"
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-02-16

ton workers putting up new
buildings for the Atomic
Energy Commission. Over
$4,000 are working on the
bombs themselves, with some
$4,000 scientists and engi-
neers directing the huge
working staff.
If true, this would enable
the United States to hurl
back at an enemy at least
ten times what a foe might
throw at us.
No Military Base Safe
Another respected estimate
of American strength was
contained in an article writ
ten by Richard H. Revere for
a recent issue of the New
Yorker magazine.
Mr.. Rovere believes that
the United States has suffi-
cient nuclear power to de-
stroy every worth lille mili-
tary target on the face of the
earth and do SO at its own
choosing.
The amazing development
of American bombers, Mr..
Rovere adds, "has very near
ly reached the point at which
bases outside this hemisphere
will be no longer needed;
with the coming of pilotless
intercontinental m S 81 | e
bearing hydrogen warheads,
the need will disappear alto
gether.'
All this may be beyond the
ken of the American man in
the street, but it certainly
speaks volumes for the safety