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Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
By Dorothy B. Waleski
Staff Reporter

We doubt very much if any
one was awake at $50 Christmas
morning to hear the story of
Rockville's Christmas being
broadcast to the world from the
British Broadcasting Corpora
tons studios in London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rockville would
have been asleep only a few
hours after putting the last pre-
sent under the tree and any child
awake then would have been too
busy acting out his own part in
the Christmas story to bother
with voice from overseas.
Even Douglas Willis, the mar
rator, was probably snug in his
bed at that hour, since his part
of the job was finished last Fri
day when he beamed the story to
London for rebroadcast at 10:30
am. British time.
Mr.. Willis, as Washington rep
resentative for BIC, has regu-
lar broadcast at that time every
Sunday called From Our Own
Correspondent" but BIC with
paternal consideration for its
correspondents tape recorded
this weeks program and gave
everyone the day off.
Along with Rockville, repre-
senting a small community, the
story of Christmas in New York
was broadcast at the same time
to give the citizens in the United
Kingdom an all-round picture of
American Yule customs.
Last Thursday, Mr.. Willis
toured Rockville and interviewed
many of its citizens in the COM
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
Mrs. Northrop,
Lewis Named
New Trustees

Two County residents have ac-
cepted appointments as members
of the board of trustees of SUI
burban Hospital in Bethesda. They
are Willmott Lewis, Jr. of Poto-
mac, and Mrs. Edward S. North
rop of Chevy Chase, wife of State
Senator from Montgomery Coun-
ty Edward S. Northrop.
At its December meeting, the
Suburban Hospital board of trus-
tees also elected two new Off
GERS: Hubert A. Schneider of Beth
esda became first vice-president of
the Suburban Hospital Associa-
ton, and Mrs. Benjamin A. Powell
of Kenwood became second vice
president.
Mr.. Lewis, who is production
manager of the Washington Star
newspaper, and a member of the
boards of the Star and of the Star
staff savings group, is a great
grandson of Crosby S. Noyes,
founder of the Star. He is a
graduate of Yale University, 1949,
a member of the Metropolitan
Club, and serves as member of
the Children's Hospital Care Com
mittee. He is chairman of the
Business Solicitation Committee
for Suburban Hospitals renewed
drive to complete the financing
of its $1,5OO,000 new wing, now
under construction.
Mrs. Northrop has long had an
active interest in hospital work.
She has given more than 1000
hours of volunteer service to the
Red Cross as a nurses aide and
as a Gray Lady. She is a Cub
Scout den mother, and a member
of All Saints Episcopal Church in
Chevy Chase. 81
The new first vice-president of
the Suburban Hospital Associa-.
ton, Mr. Schneider, a Washing
ton lawyer, has served on Subur-
bans board of trustees since 1948.
He has been second vice-presidenta
and member of the executives
committee of the board for sew
eral years.
Mrs. Powell becomes second
vice-president and a member of
the executive committee of the
Suburban Hospital board of trus-
tees. She is also treasurer of the
association. Mrs. Powell has just
completed two-year term as
president of the National Capital
Garden Club League, was a mem
Der of the Montgomery County
Community Chest Board and of
its budget committee for a num-
ber of years, and has been mem
ber of the Suburban Hospital
board of trustees since 1949.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29

Bethesda says she remembers the
County flag hanging in the court
room as recently as two years
ago. An employee who went to
work in the Silver Spring County
building in 1945 says he never
remembers a County flag.
County Facilities and Services
Officer Vaughn Coale says that
in the past civic organizations
have been able to borrow the re-
naming flag to display at meet
ings but from now on the flag
will remain at Rockville.
In 1854 Miss Emma McClaf-
ferty of the Copeland flagmakers
stitched a County flag for the
Montgomery County Historical
Society. The 1896" date was
again enormously replaced with
1874" but was later corrected
The flag Is hung with the United
States and Maryland flags at his
torical society meetings.
Though Mrs Stone says IL took
three days to carefully copy the
Richard Montgomery coat.of-arms
at the Library Of Congress, a
Rockville heraldic expert (who
asks that her name not be used)
believes the crest on the flag may
actually be a combination of fea-
lures from the % coats-of.arms
belonging to Montgomery fami-
lies.
The authoritative heraldic book,
"Burke's Peerage," pictures the
coat.of-arms that appears on the
flag as belonging to Sir Hugh
Cunningham Montgomery, a bar.
onet. The coat was created in
1903. General Richard Montgom.
cry died In IT'S.
The heraldic expert says she
has never tried TO locate the genu-
inc Sir Richard Montgomery coat
of.arms. She says that the coat
on the flag could be that Of the
County's name.sake, except for a
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29

of their set-up and of course the
"boys" who can be found at the
fire house most of the time, in.
Guiding Tom Slater, Bill Berry
and Art Flemming, were glad to
oblige.
We noted that there didn't
seem to be any language barrier!
When Mr.. Willis asked what
sort of chaps have your" the boys
answered, quick as a flash, with
a list of the occupations of the
volunteer firemen.
The next stop was Leon
Blacks shop around the corner.
Mr.. Black, out from Manchester
these seven years, had many
questions to ask about the "old
country. In strong British ac-
cents, he and Mr.. Willis discussed
the weather, the petrol situation,
sports, food and how the new
radio commercials on BIC are
going over.
After reaching mutual agree.
ment that in America luxuries
are cheap and necessities eXpen-
sive and vice versa in England
(for example, a house with gar
den can be rented for S. a week.
Mr.. Black extended a cordial din
ner invitation to Mr.. Willis and
his wife which was just as cor
daily accepted and then we were
on our way to cover the rest of
Rockville.
Driving down the main street
to the newer sections of Rock
vile, Mr.. Willis noted the PTA
Christmas tree lot in front of
Richard Montgomery High School
and got the story of Lone Oak
and the high school and how the
money would be used.
Hungerford Towne's historical
namesake, the tavern of import
ance in what Mr.. Willis called
the War For independence, also
caught his interest.
The new subdivisions of Rock.
crest, Rockland, Twinbrook,
Broadwood Manor and Silver
Rock were looking their best.
Here and there, Mr.. Markland
would point to group of houses
and say that was open field a
few months ago or would point
to an open field and say that
will be covered with houses in a
few months"
Mr.. Willis looked slightly dazed
at all this but his notebook came
out again when he heard of the
Twinbrook family that was burn
ed out of its home last month
and what the community and
Joseph Geeraert, the builder, had
done to make the children's
Christmas happy one.
BY way of contrast and to give
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
official County Flag Lies Unused,
But Forgotten NOlU BY Public

No more than a handful of
Montgomery County residents
realize that there is an official,
observation-disclosures Cou n y
flag. No wonder. Only five cop
les of the flag have ever been
made. Two are lost and one of
those remaining is incorrectly de-
signed.
The history of the County flag
is dotted with boners, climaxed
by the fact that the flags central
feature, a coat-of-arms allegedly
belonging to General Richard
Montgomery, may not have been
the coat-of-arms of the County's
namesake after all.
The idea for a County flag orig.
mated with Mrs. Lily Stone, un.
official County historian, now "a
years old. Mrs. Stone is a char.
ter member, former historian,
and former regent of the OAR,
Montgomery County chapter. In
1886, while flag chairman of the
local chapter, Mrs. Stone was in.
structed to bring the Montgom-
cry County flag to a State OAR
conference.
Mrs. Stone discovered there
was no County flag. She decided
to remedy that.
The then.president Mrs. Harry
Corrick helped Mrs. Stone obtain
a $50 appropriation from the
County OAR chapter for a Coun.
ty flag. A committee headed by
Mrs. Stone and including Mrs. f.
Peyton Whalen and Mrs. Hewitt
G. Robinson was appointed to ar.
range for flag.
The group decided on a design:
a Maryland yellow" background
with the coat.of-arms of General
Richard Montgomery in the cen.
ter. Under the crest, in black,
the ladies wanted inscribed,
Montgomery County Maryland
and on either side of the crest
they wanted, in black the dates
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29

County flag. Mrs. Stone says her
committee had to buy the exact
colors in silk material and deliver
the fabric to the flag.maker. Mrs.
Stone owns that first handmade
flag.
In 1914 Miss Ella Moreland Of
the Copeland Flag Co. made three
more County flags for the Coun.
ty buildings in Bethesda, Silver
Spring, and Rockville. On these
enormously substituted for the
three banners the date "1941" was
authorized 1896"
The flags assigned TO Silver
Spring and Bethesda have disap-
peared. A woman employee Ia
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29

Members of the Montgomery
County Delegation to the State
Legislature will meet with the
County Council Tuesday to review
matters coming before the Legis-
lature which will affect Montgom-
cry. The Legislature convenes in
special session to discuss a Bal
timore port authority January %
and meets in regular session in
February.
Philip J. Heffelfinger, Silver
Spring, a member of the Silver
Spring Fire Department, was in
jured early yesterday morning
when he slipped from the rear
of the fire truck responding to
a call. Taken to the Washing
ton Sanatarium by the Silver
Spring rescue squad, Mr.. Hef-
felfinger was found to have a
Iacerated right eye and multi
pie face abrasiOns. The alarm
was for a minor fire on the
third floor of the Hecht Co.
Department Store.
The Montgomery County Fire
Marshalls office is investigating
the possibility of arson in the to-
tai destruction of a two-room
shack on Moore Road, Barnes.
vile. The Upper Montgomery
Fire Department which answered
the call found the shack deserted
and unoccupied. The owner has
not been located.
Maryland Governor McKeIdin
cut the ribbon 10 open a new
section of Columbia Pike (ROute
29) from BurtdnsviIIe to White
Oak yesterday The ceremony
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29

"1776" founding of the County,
and 1886" establishment of the
flag.
With the approval of the Coun-
ty Commissioners, the OAR wo-
men took the flag design to Anna.
polls and asked then.Senator Sted-
man Prescott TO introduce legisla.
ton making the proposed flag
the official banner of Montgom.
cry County.
However the session was draw.
ing to a close and Senator Pres.
colt was unable to get Legislature
approval of the flag until 1887.
Copeland Flag Co. Of Washing.
ton made the first copy OF the
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
Nee Offers
City Land
ForHalpine

Rockville's Mayor and Council
received two proposals this week
from businessman Dermott Nee
that may give the answer to Hal
pine Roads dangerous grade
crossing of the B & 0 and make
that street the main artery be-
tween Viers Mill Road and the
Rockville Pike.
Mr.. Nee of the P. ]. Nee Furni-
ture Co. offered to dedicate land
without cost for an 80-foot right
of way in order to get an over
pass or underpass at either the
extension of Halpine Avenue or
Thompson Avenue.
The latter is the more feasible
since there is no grade difference
necessary for a pass-through be-
Ntween the road and the railroad
Vat the Halpine extension but in
order to extend Thompson on to
Halpine a right of way would
have to be granted through land
of the Parklawn Cemetery.
Even the Thompson Avenue ex-
tension does not have the mini
mum requirement in grade diff
ference for a pass through and
will require considerable study
by the city's engineering staff.
Financing of the project, esti-
mated by city manager John
Markland at well over a million
dollars, could not be done with
out federal aid and to get that,
Halpine Road would have to be
designated as part of the States
secondary road system which it
is not at present.
Mr.. Nee promised to hold his
offer open for go days in order
to give the staff and city Off
cials time to work out possible
solutions to the problem.
At the same time Mr.. Nee urg-
ed the Mayor and Council to con-
tinue their efforts towards the
widening of Rockville Pike and
3 he extension of the Cabin John
Strunk sewer line, both of which
he said were vital to the CONNER
cial development along the Rock
vile strip of Route 240.
Mr.. Nee said that the proposed
four-lane dual highway for which
the State Roads Commission will
let contracts in June will be "a
country road as far as the needs
of the area are concerned"
He said that plans in the area
already call for provision for
parking for 10000 cars and that
a super highway will be needed
before the new road which he
termed inadequate" is compile
ted. 1t was his opinion that pres
sure from Wheaton merchants to
get Viers Mill Road widened has
given that shopping area an ad-
vantage over Rockville.
The Mayor and Council remind
ed him of their appeal to the
governor for the immediate wild
ering of the Pike and also said
MAT the negotiations with the
washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission for the new trunk
sewer line are in their final stage.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
Broadcast Here

ROckville's own station,
WINK, 1900 on your dial will
rebrOadcast the program on the
city's Christmas activities
which went out over the Brit
ish BrOadcasting Corporations
airwaves to the United King
dom on Christmas morning, at
$50 a. m. "Our time"
Since it is doubtful if any
of ROckville's citizens heard the
initial broadcast, WINK has
scheduled the program be-
tween 100 and 1:15 p. m. on
New Years Day i'm answer to
popular demand.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
Approve Zone
Law Proposal
Up for Airing

If no one on the County Coun-
Gil changes his mind, indications
are that the group will pass a
zoning ordinance for Upper Mont
gomery County placing most of
the area in a 10000 square-foot
minimum lot zone in February.
The Council voted AZ Tuesday
with one abstaining, to accept a
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
BBC Meets Rockville
And Gets Along Fine

pany of City Manager John Mark
land to get background for his
background.
After city hall, the first stop
was our volunteer fire depart
ment which interested Mr.. Willis
beyond and above the call" of
its Christmas day activities.
He had to know every detail
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
Another One

Repeating our Holiday Mon
day" box from last week, Mont
gomery County will be shut
down tight again this week for
the alI-day New Years legal
holiday on Monday. All banks,
most business establishments
and city and County offices
will be closed. The Sentinel Of
fico will not bo open for bust.
ness from Friday evening 10
Tuesday at $3.50 a. m.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
Van Ripper Named
City CD Director

Linley Van Ripper, of 300 Falls
Road, Rockville, received his ap-
pointment last week from Gov.
Theodore McKeldin as the fourth
director of civil defense for the
city of Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1955-12-29
Late News Briefs

was held at the BurtonSviIle
end Of the new highway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-01

HOLLYWOOD.
I hear from Paris that Jean
Pierre Aumont is going STEADY
with Dora Pellegrin. and they
win wed when her divorce be-
comes final.
The university city Of Cam
bridge has relented about Mar
Ion Brando's THE Wild One, /"
and will start showing 1t April
"A. And, where Cambridge
leads, Columbia Studio hopes
the rest of the country will fol-
low. s.. Judy Garland is a big
hit in England. by the way, in
"a Star Is Born" They like it
even better there than here in
the United States.
Spencer Tracy wanted to
watch Katharine Hepburn re-
ilearse at the Old Vic In London,
but said he couldn't get In. add
ing, these Shakespeare people
are too srlooty." Still in
London Bessie Love. who used
to make thousands a week In
Hollywood, Is working as q bit
player at the London Ealing
Studios. and sometimes as q
script girl.
+ 5 Z - 4 .5 n
James Mason couldn't afford
to win the Oscar. I'VE made too
many bets with all our close
friends that he wouldn't" re-
lays wife Pam And 6-year-
old Porty Mason turned down q
role at Universal international
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Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
And Time Of Showing
Stage

Stage
National - THE Seven Year
Itch; 6 and $3.50 pm.
Shubert - "Pajama Tops:
I and $3.50 pm.
Arena--"The World Of Sholom
Aleichem";; $3.50 pm.
Lisner - Cry Of rreedom";;
$50 pm.
Screen
Ambassado dor Unclaimed; !.
4:10, tao and 1880 pm.
Capitol--"Hit the Deck; II
am. l:05, 3:l5, 5:25. 7:35 and
Gas pm.
Colony-"The Little Kidnap-
pers"; 8, $40 and 9:55 pm.
Columbia Chief Crazy
Horse; 1i:45 am, las. 3:45,
5:45, TAO and $40 pm.
Dupont-"Gate Of HELP; 1850
am, 1885. 3:35. $40, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Keith's ~ 'sThe Long Gray
Line: Has am. 2;25, $40.
7:50 and 1920 pm.
1.-THE Vanishing Prai-
rie"; ESQ. $40, $3.50. $50. $50
and $3.50 pm.
Macarthur - IAN Inspector
Calls; 6:35. $40 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan - sUnchained":
12:45, $50. Z and 1918 pm.
Ontario"S he Couldn't Say
No.; las. $40, $40. 7.4o and
9:45 pm.
Palace..C Captain Lightfoot";
1880 am. 1:35, $40, 5:45, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Playhouse-sThe Glass Slip
peri; 10:4o am. 1890. 2:20,
l:l0. 8. 7:55. Gas and 11::35 pm.
Plaza "Tonight's the Night;
~, 1850, $40. 5:25. 7:10, 1855
and 10:40 pm.
Trans-Lux 1.-THE Country
Girls;; 10:45 am, 1880, 2:25
400, SIS, BIS and 1915 pm.
warner This Is Cinerarna";;
! and $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-01

: ~ e - !. =
publicity for Tobacco Road" In
which she was starring in Paris.
was the objective. Then, Of
course. MARITIME married Steve
Crane and came to Hollywood.
but failed. However. watch her
smoke now!
4
Cesar Romero, after his fine
performance with Judy Holiday
on Sunday dedicating the new
NBC color studio, was approached
by a gentleman from Dallas
and asked to sing EziO Pinza's
role in South Racine at the
Dallas State Fair this summer.
And here I'd been thinking Cesar
was q dancer, not q singer.
Released By NANA1 e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-01

INNS 20 Q StuQ10 TOT Distribution.
IN @Unchained, . Bartlett pre-.
sents here not merely an on
beat script but an even more
startling leading man.
This would be Elroy Crazy,
iegs) Hirsch. q renowned fellow
on college and football grid
irons. who seems intelligently
TO have decided actors last longer
than halfbacks. Hirsch, who
looks like piece of sculpture,
but Is obviously vastly more anil
mated, turns in q solid perfor-
nance. It is nothing, of course,
10 give Marion Brando the filters
about his future but it does sug-.
gest that Hirsch may have one
himself as a screen actor.
49, kx
Chino, the unwalled prison in
California. is both the subject
and the setting of "Unchained. =.
II Is the creation Of Kenyon J.
Scudder. himself a former prison
inmate. Chino is natural Aim
material If Apnly to compensate
rnoviegoers tor the years they
have spent Gin stir with what
seem like generations of James
Cagneys, Edward G.. Robinsons
and Ida Lupinos.
Actually. there are much
sounder dramatic reasons for
telling the story on the screen
for it represents a humane ven
ture into the correction Of Grim
inals that Is bearing striking
results. Producer Bartlett, who
also directed and wrote "Un-
chained" may be excessive in
his enthusiasm for such an ex-
pertinent but he makes much Of
his picture reasonably convinc-
ing.
The documentary technique,
naturally. is the one employed
In the Nets picture. in which
Hirsch plays a one-time offender
, who Is not, but might become,
an habitual criminal. He has
landed In Chino by taking the
law into his own hands to- beat
up an employee, and he is not at
all happy to find the law taking
him into its hands.
His one deep purpose is to
escape and Chino is made to
order for that. as he cases its
unwalled expanse Of shops and
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fields. He is to discover. how
ever. what Chino sets out to
teach its inmates. that the in
dividuaps responsibility to his
fellow men. even convicts, is d
wall stronger than stone.
The principal weakness of
Unclaimed" is that in spite OF
all efforts to avoid 1t, the stress
falls upon the message it has
to relate. Its inmates are SYM
bols. Hirsch,s man the one too
ready to defend himself against
fancied injustice: the Negro in
mate who is Chino's most
eloquent spokesman; the former
band pianist whose anti-social
attitude needs breaking down;
the inevitable bully who jeopar-
dies the good conduct records Of
each Of his fellow prisoners.
1t is an admirable, II losing
fight. Bartlett and his players
put UP against this peril to ali
such pictures. OF the latter,
those achieving best results id
this direction. in addition to
Hirsch. are Todd Duncan as the
persuasive Negro inmate: John
Qualen as the ken-hearted
stooge of the bully; Johnny
Johnston as the bitter piano
player; and Chester Morris as
Kenyon ], Scudder, the prison
warden.
incidentally. the script makes
provision for prisoners lament
song by Duncan which he turns
into an affecting bit.
Unclaimed" is filmed in
simple black and white and it
is rather agreeable to set eyes
on 1t again.
i 4 ~
ADDENDA: Roald Dahl's 'rThe
Honeys." which comes to the
Shubert for a fortnight begin
ming April II. will be the 10th
and last play Of the Theater
Guilds 1954-55 subscription
series. .. It brings one of the
seasons brightest casts, headed
by Dorothy Stickney. Jessica
Tandy and Hume Cronyn.
"FIit the Deck at the Capitol is
today's sole new picture open
ing -. This Is Cinerama' Is
having its usual holiday period
field day. what with the city
packed with cherry, blossom fes-
tival visitors.
Echo OF the past: 1.-THE st,
Patrick's Players" famous in the
20s under the late Father Fran
els Hurney. turn up again.
They win provide the floor show
entertainment at a dance to be
held April az at the Raleigh
Hotel for the benefit of the st.
Patrick's alumnae group scholar
ship fund. That will be the
goth annual Easter Egg hunt
which Theaterman Sidney Lust
and the Prince Georges Kiwanis
Club sponsor on April IL at Hy-
attsyille's Magruder Park. s..
It Is an all-day affair and has
attracted as many as IL, 1000 chill
dren. Tryouts for '.The Druid
Circle" viii be held tomorrow
afternoon by the Unitarian Play
ers. s.. The time is s pm, with
another addition session set for
7:30 pm. Sunday, s. Candi-
dates should apply at Pierce Hall,
18th and Harvard streets.
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The Possinq Show
The Posing Show
unclaimed q Prison Film
With New Star and Plot
BY JAZZ cARMoDY

Brothers nxaton on prison pictures come
with different unclaimed which opened yesterday
ct the Metropolitan Theater.
really the work Of Hall Bartlett the man who made
Navajo who produces independeny and then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-01

s.UNcHAINEp,. . Warner Brothers
picture; produced, directed and written
Prisoners Are Peope.s by Kenyci, J
Scudder; title song BY Alex North and
Hy zaret At the Metropolitan and AM
6assador. -. 80.
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