Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-12-29

dllu pay AOOlIl VI JOllIL Z Lewis,
Bethesda, win annual competi-
ton Rockville denies Twin
brooks third shopping center at
Viers Mill Road and Atlantic Ave
nue. -. Silver Spring realtors
Sterling and Soul offer Central
Intelligence Agency 50 acres ad-
jacent to planned Acc headquar-
tiers in Germantown . Six pub
lie hearings held in up-County
communities on Reese-Ireland-
Taubin zone law revision Sill
yer Spring man, Howard w. Kacy,
elected president of Acacia Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company
Leonard H. Hoyle, head of Gath
ersburg's First National Bank,
elected president of the Montgom-
cry County Bankers Associa-
ton . Tax bills for SD, 100000
from County mailed to Montgom-
cry property owners 11-year-
old retarded boy charged with set
ting $4,000 house fire on Fields
Road {. Three doctors announce
plans for multi-story medical
buildings in Gaithersburg {.
One week after teen-age club be-
gins at Wheaton's Candy Land
Center, adjoining businessmen
complain of serious disturb
ances 3. Rash of furnace fires
strikes County as cold weather
arrives Potomac Power Com
pany announces plans to build
$100,000,000 steam generating
plant on Potomac in Loudoun
County, Va. Montgomery Coun-
ty officials protest. Want plant
in Montgomery County where it
would provide $750,000 to $1,000
600 annual tax revenue o. w.
Anderson takes over Gathers
burg locker plant from Southern
States Cooperative. Town won't
allow slaughter house on the
property :. 87-year.old circus ele
plant gets birthday party, cake
in Wheaton . Sentinel cele
brates Tooth anniversary by issu-
ing giant, historic Century Edi-
ton.
October
New $2,OO0,0 1000 Lansburgh's
department. store opens in
Langley Park Ground brok.
en- for industrial community"
north of Rockville between
Route 24O and B&O tracks :.
County Civil Defense sets
$SS6,000 as price of removing IL
evacuation "bOttlenecks"
Adult education and special
child classes in County inte-
grated 100000 Dalamar
Bowling Lanes open in Gath
ersburg Rockville Civic As
ISOLATION asks salaries for town
mayor and council Subur.
ban Transit Co. begins rush
hour Montgomery County
Washington express bus serv-
ice j. C. Dnnney first to
sign lease for Congressional
Airport shopping center -.
Junior WOman's Club sponsors
dOOr-tO-dOOr survey TO deter
mine what Rockville wants in
proposed civic center, 1873 per-
cent questioned favor cen,rr :.
High school football coaches
officially warned not to over
work players, following COM
plants Five children hurt
in Wheaton car-station wagon
crash 17-year-Old Rockville
woman raped by assailant who
hides in back seat of her car -.
Temporary up-COunty zOning
ordinance effective date post
pOned again, to January 10,
1856. Veteran planner Irving C.
Root hired to draft permanent
ordinance with emphasis on
half-acre lots S1.2O0 taken
from flimsy vault at Gathers
burg High School Recrea.
ton center replaces Candy Land
Can'Ten as home of Wheaton
teen club Police gun fire
stops Air Force private min
utes after he steals "a car in
Bethesda 277 auto acct
dents in October second worst
monthly total in history
County taxis ordered TO install
fare meters :. Wheaton Cham
Der of Commerce reverses it,
self, decides to decorate bust
ness area for Christmas, after
Victor LeiSner offers to raise
$4,000 himself :. Civic groups,
PTAs, officials join battle to
bring PEPCO plant to Mont.
gOmery County With right
of.way costs SO percent higher
than expected, State Roads
Commission plans for Mont
gomery County construction
tagging.
November
Montgomery County Historical
Society launches half-million dol.