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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Well Was Enough
For 1902 Water

The Mayor and Council of
Rockville this year have con-
sidered numerous proposals
for increasing the city's water
supply, including tapping the
Potomac.
Life i'm 1902 was so much
simpler. The SENTINEL of
July IL reported that the May
or and Council had decided to
drill a new artesian well for
the public water supply. Fish
err Brothers signed contract
to lower the new well at 1925
u foot.
The SENTINEL explained,
1.-THE present well is 225 feet
deep and the water is absolute
ly pure but the supply hardly
sufficient for the demands of
the town."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

ing chamber. All powder and
explosives magazines are inspect
ed twice day. Men working
with toxic explosions are given
frequent physical examinations.
Not all the research at MOL
concerns deadly subjects. Scien'
fists there developed Thermenol.
Tighter, stronger and better
than stainless STEEL In Great
ing magnetic airborne detectoI
for submarines, MOL engineers
inadvertently provided oil pros.
pectors with a valuable instru-
ment.
While one division is designing
and making new devices.
another, the Technical Evalua-
ton Department, tries to destroy
them, This group subjects new
discoveries to cold 100 degrees
below zero, to heat near 200 de-
grees, to emergence in water.
shock and explosion. Around
and Mrs. Fielding Ogburn, treas
MOL this unit is called "The
Shake En- and Break En-
Lab"
If the new invention with
stands this testing, it is sent to
a 500-man experimental work
shop where experts in various
construction techniqueS make
pilot models. These craftsmen
may make suggestions for de-
sign revision or may declare the
device too complicated to manu-
facture on a production line.
When MOL has designed, test
ed and approved a new piece Of
equipment it usually contracts
with a private manufacturer to
make the gear to be turned over
to the Navy.
After working at such awe
some business all day (8-4:40)
it's natural that Ordance Lab
employees would want to relax
in their off time. The installa.
ton, maintains a softball league,
bowling league, dramatic club,
glee club and band. An en-
ployee's association supports the
spare time activities with the
proceeds from a yearly carnival.
That long, rolling front lawn is
slowly being converted into a
golf course by volunteer labor
and funds. "Of course" explains
one worker, eff the government
had to erect some more build
ings here, pfft, our golf course
would disappear"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Judge Woodward Sees Sharp
Increase in Juvenile Crimes

/ ance. Freedom of the press
is one of the greatest privileges
we have i'm this country" he
said.
IF we stifle the papers, this
country will be on the decline
Restricting freedom of the press
is always one of the first acts of
dictator"
Asked whether he concurred in
recently-voiced opinions that the
jury system was declining for
want of qualified jurors, Judge
Woodward said that is not true
in Montgomery County.
1--WE have some of the best peo-
pie in the County on jury duty"
he said. Our court has made
people aware of their obligation
to serve on a jury, when they
are called up for jury duty"
THE American people would be
awfully foolish to get rid of the
jury system" he added. ut is
one of the greatest projections
that citizens of this country
have"
Circuit court judges have al
ways prided themselves on the
fact that the court calendar has
never become so crowded that
persons had to wait months or
even years to come to trial, as is
the case in some Jurisdictions.
For years, Judge Woodward says,
he and Judge Stedman Prescott
worked night and day to keep
up with the cases.
AT first there was only one
Circuit Court judge. Then Judge
Prescott was added to the bench,
and now there are three. Judge
Woodward estimates that in an
other two or three years the case
load will increase to such an ex-
tent that still another judge will
be needed.
Before he was appointed to the
Circuit Court in 1882, Judge
Woodward served as judge Of
the County's police court--then
the only one-for four years.
A native of Georgia, he moved
to Poolesville at 20 after attend
ing the University of Georgia.
He served in the army for three
years, then took his law degree
from George Washington Univer-
sity.
Until his appointment to the
police court, he was in private
practice in Rockville.
Judge Woodward married a
Poolesville girl, the former Miss
Clarine Fletchall. They have two
sons-Charles, Jr., a Rockville
lawyer, and Arthur F., a surgeon
and eight grandchildren.
Since his retirement from the
bench, Judge Woodward has trav-
eled extensively, visiting Florida,
California, Canada, and other
places. He plans to devote more
time to his hobbies, hunting and
fishing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

one time had urgent need for a
$3.50 electric motor. To get it,,
it became necessary at one time
to order a motor casing and a
few days later the motor arma-
ture. However, the supplier was
not required to separate the two
parts for delivery!
Today the MOL payroll alone
is Is million dollars.
In 1943 Navy Yard commander
Capt. ]. B. Glennon recommend
ed that the ordnance lab built a
plant of its own. DR.. Duncan,
who knew the areas from visits
to a friend in Iillandale, sug.
gested White Oak as the site.
Construction began in 1914 and
was not completed until five
years later. Several hundred
yards of lawn slope down the
front of the building to New
Hampshire Avenue ''in order
that MOL dosen't detract from
the residential nature of the
area" The separation from its
neighbors is also a safety pre-
caution. Many explosives are
tested at the lab.
Though a large number of the
employees work to increase the
destructive power of Navy
weapons, MOL has an amazingly
good safety record. During one
200-day stretch no accidents
which caused man-days lost &c.
Cured. Such long accident-free
periods are common. One reason
for the low accident rate is the
consciousness among the work
ers that they are handling deadly
products.
Another is the safeguards OBJ
served. No more than one or two
men work an an explosives prof..
ect in a small, explosion-proof
building set we'll away from
other structures. Only small,
non-cased explosions are set off
outdoors at MOL. Large cased
explosions are set off only in a
triple-reinforced bomb-proof test.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

versed by the Court of Appeals
on the grounds that there was
not enough evidence against him.
The paper paid a $1,000 fine,
but the law never caught up with
Mr.. Helgerson. This was because
Montgomery County officers
have no power of arrest outside
the State, and eXtradition does
not apply in such cases, the judge
explained. Mr.. Helgerson was
never caught in Maryland.
But that citation still stands,
and if Maryland officer should
find him in the State today, he
would have to come to court and
answer to the contempt charges
filed in 1886.
Judge Woodward points out
that he prosecuted these men be-
cause they released information
which he felt would lessen the
chance of a fair trial for the ac.
cused wife.
He emphasizes, however, that
he feels that it is essential to
justice that court should be
held In open session, with the
public and the press in attend
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
More Than 100, Sought Beer
Sale Permits at Dry Era End

The reporter seemed be licking his lips thsy when he
the page the April 49, 1888,
gomery County will for the many
many years.
THE State beer bill passed without any interference the
of local and the first official draugt of beer
peced to be quaffed in this county Thursday"
High license did persons apply
ing for permits sell the 80 beverage "On sale permits
$50 plus Sc advertising fee "O sale licenses
advertising fee
applicant had to obtain 10 his application
license If 10 signatures the beerselng permit
produced public hearing was held
'Sn sale" establishments restricted selling beer
table mlst the each bottle before
serving
II bottles could be sold each
"off sale" merchant.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Prisoner Labor
Used by County
During ". W. III

Prisoners from the Rockville
Jail were used to construct and
repair county roads during the
World War II labor shortage.
Some prisoners had been used
previously on road work but a
Commissioners resolution of
August 1913 authorized the use Of
all Jail inmates, male and able
bodied, under a competent
guard" for such related projects
as quarrying and materials pre-
paration.
Roads Supervisor GLAND Har-
vey stated that the county could
not complete its highway pro-
gram without prisoner help.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

Yet the Naval Ordnance La
toratory at White Oak has sue
cessfully performed all those
tasks. MOL is the largest re-
search and development activity
of the Bureau of Ordnance, U. S.
Navy.
World War II and the follow
ing period of tension caused the
expansion of the Naval Ord
nance Laboratory to its present
1878 acres, 100 buildings and
5000 civilian employees, half of
whom reside in Montgomery
County. The MOL buildings
house Is million dollars worth
of the most closely guarded
scientific equipment in the world
A double fence, armed service
personnel, guards and compli-
Gated system of passes protect
MOL from unwanted visitors.
With the laboratory working
on nuclear missiles. new weapons
of all kinds, and other equally
secret projects, the tight security
system is necessary.
What was to become MOL
started modestly as two research
groups at the Navy Yard, en-
Moying about a dozen men =
VIE mine laboratory and the fuZe
laboratory. During the isolation
list wave of the Dos it was de-
cided to eliminate the two labs
and absorb their work into the
regular Gun Factory duties.
But DR.. Robert c. Duncan -
then a mine lab employee, now
general conSultant at MOL -
pleaded SO convincingly for con-
tinuation of the groups that the
Navy not only permitted them
to continue b u t actually
strengthened them by combining
them into the Naval Ordnance
Laboratory.
DR.. Duncan recalls when sos
a month was the budget for
depth charge research. mo pro.
prietory purchase could be made
which amounted to over SIC
cash. For example, the Lab at
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

Investigators discovered that
one Times reporter, Pat Frank,
had hidden in a bathroom next
to the office and listened to the
conversation, Judge Woodward
said. He had passed his notes
out the window to another re-
porter, David Lee.
Judge Woodward cited the
Times, both reporters, and Ray
Helgerson, night city editor of
the paper, for contempt of court.
Mr.. Lee served 80 days in Jail,
but Mr.. Franks citation was re-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Fighting Power of US Fleet
Originates in County's MOL

Hercules had difficult tasks to perform. But the leg
endary hero never had to face THESE problems:
Physically measure an atomic bomb explosion.
Counterfeit the magnetism of ship
Develop plastic-and-coth Eliminates that won't separate
under tons of pressure on the floor.
- Tear down German wind tunnels and reassemble them
N this country.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
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and disability. namely the
chronic diseases"
In a recent statement w. II.
Sebreel, Jr, Director of the Ma
tional Institutes of Health, pro-
claimed, 1--WE appreciate our
great responsibility. We approach
our work with humility, but with
confidence that we can aid ma
terially in mans conquest of
disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-10

Casting was not particularly concerned
with period authenticity. Edmund
Purdom and Lana Turner are co-starred.
The IL girls are strictly local products.
All of them hail from Los Angeles, all
newcomers in pictures, and none of
them, so far as we know, are the nation
atty Hollywood, in its wisdom, has
assigned to them.
We might add that any resemblance in
the script to the parable in the Bible
would probably haveresulted in the script
writer's being fired. - LOUIS BERG
This Week M0rie Editor
Evening star., 1955-01-09
The AlNCA's Half Century
YOUNG WOMEN today are

YOUNG WOMEN today are
Il doing things in the busi-
ness and social worlds that
were unheard of when the
YWCA first offered its lecture
on Dangers to Girls" nearly
so years ago in a local de-
partment store.
Keeping pace with the
girls, the "Y" is doing things
Evening star., 1955-01-09

today that its founders could
not have planned.
What's happened to the
Young Women'S Christian
Association Of the District.
which will celebrate its 5Oth
birthday at a luncheon this
Tuesday. is a dramatic chap
Evening star., 1955-01-09

ter in the story of what's
happened to 10th century
women-the working girl, the
lonely or homeless and the
housewife. Besides its men,
bers, whose number has grown
from l,119 to 10000, the Y has
touched the lives Of countless
women. More than 133, 600
women have been either tenn
porary or permanent residents
in the Y's Strong Residence
on Seventeenth street NV.
And that number does not
include women like Madeleine
GARNER, who willed the Y
$26, ,0OO-her entire estate
for its friendly gesture to a
lonely woman" Her only visit
to the Y was inspired by a
small advertisement in a local
newspaper the day before
Christmas. 1917, which said
that the organization (then
at 619 G street N.W.) would
be "at home to all who are
lonely"
The District Association,
offspring of the international
YWCA founded in England in
1855, began by Offering young
women a lunchroom, a phys
ical culture" class and a series
of lectures. The lunchroom
and gym were over a coal
Office at Twelfth and F streets
NV. The lectures, on such
subjects as Dangers to Girls"
THE Right Kinds Of Amuse-
ments," 1.-THE Value of Keep
ing an Expense Account" and
"Store Manners" were deliv-
cred in department stores
where many Industrial girls"
worked as bundle wrappers.
The first cafeteria in Wash
ington was opened by the Y
in 1907, when an overwhelm-
ing lunchroom business forced
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10

in Pontiac's price field. And it's one of the
many Pontiac advantages you can't get any,
where else. Pontiac alone gives you the terrific
drive of Strato-Streak performance.
This sensational performance, remember,
comes in a distinguished, future fashioned
beauty that is tagged with price any new
car buyer can readily afford.
Here's your wide-open invitation to come
in and try the result--he fastest-selling Pontiac
of oil time. The car is ready whenever you
are! Make it soon.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10
THAT'S HIS NAME

PHILADELPHIA -(P)- Hubert
Blaine Observation-Disclosures
bergderoff, Sr., is quite proud OF
Hubert Jr's accomplishment.
The boy, just a shade over three
years old, surprised us by saying
his name-all nine syllables of it,
says the proud father.
You'd think that being linotype
operator, Hubert Sr. would be SYM
pathetic with people who have to
tussle with his name.
But the telephone directory lists
the full monicker - WOlfeschleg-
steinhausenbergderoff, Hubert b.
Sr.-On one full line and his ad-
dress on another line.
And he told the utility company
he wouldn't pay his bill unless his
name was right. So his name, on
three lines, always comes properly
spelled out.
After all, he explains, "My legal
name is Wolfeschlegsteinh
bergdorff Git sounds shorter when
he says iD and that's the way |
want it.
The city gets away with an alb
breviated form on its voting regis
tration books. There he's listed as
Mr. MISUNDERSTANDING = which
is as far as the city business ma
chimes will go.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10

Both the engineers tests and the
mass feeding demonstration were
planned on the knowledge that
wherever disaster strikes there Will
be a nearby storage point that can
rush gas into the stricken area. A
survey of these plants, undertaken
last year by LPGA, showed that
every important target area in the
United States is surrounded by sew
eral bulk storage plants.
Another basis for the test lies in
the widespread popularity of gas as
cooking and water heating fuel.
In cities manufactured or natural
gas fuels the majority of house
hold and commercial kitchens. Most
of the water heating units-so nee
essary for first aid work-fOund in
major target cities likewise use gas.
LP-Gas men and other trained gas
filters can easily adapt city gas ap-
pliances to propane or butane. as
the Operation Cue demonstration
proved.
Both LP-Gas portions of Opera
ton Cue were directed by Mark An
ton, Suburban PrOpane Gas Corp,
Whippany, N. j., who is chairman
of LPGA's national affairs commit
tee c. j. McAllister, Parlett Gas
Co., Waldorf, Md, directed the
mass feeding operation in his ca
pacity as member of the Emergency
Mass Feeding Advisory Committee
of FCDA. The engineering phase
was directed by w. d. Cook, Sub
urban Propane Gas Corp. Whippany,
New Jersey.
Although Operation Cue marked
the first time LP-Gas was subjected
to atomic testing practically every
civil defense feeding exercise al
ready staged in various cities used
LP-Gas. In these same areas COM
mittees of LP-Gas men have been
formed TO prepare for actual opera
tions and to perfect plans for rush
ing tanks of the gas to mass feed
ing and first aid positions.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10
LP-Gas Proves
Worth In Nevada

The full potential of liquefied pc
troleum gas as an aid to civil de-
fense planning was demonstrated
May at the governments atomic
test site near Las Vegas, Nevada.
A dozen .yp:cal gas installations
stood up to the full fury of an
atomic blast and shortly after the
device was "shot" an estimated 500
spectators were eating hot stom-
ach-filling breakfast cooked with
LP-Gas.
Both of these tests were staged
by the Liquefied Petroleum Gas As
sociation in cooperation with the
Federal Civil Defense Administra-
ton which is sponsoring Operate
Cue. The test showed that LP-Gas
units as close as quarter-mile
from ground zero were serviceable
after a blast rated as equivalent to
$4,000 tons of INT. Other installa-
tions about a half-mile and 4700 1T.
from the impact center were also
ready for service. A bulk installa-
ton 400 #. away from ground
zero suffered only minor damage.
Damage noted by engineers was
limited to two containers valves, a
sheet-metal cylinder charging build
ing and twisted railings at the bulk
tank platform.
At no point was there gas loss
or were there any fires at LP-Gas
installations, the engineers report
ed. The $4,000 gal. bulk tank could
have been put into service at once
filling cylinders or bulk delivery
trucks even without the electric
power normally used. A small
pump-equipped truck such as is
normally used for delivery could
be pressed into service to trans
fer gas.
P-Gas-sOmetimes called bot
tied gas-was used at the test site
to show how a readily available
gas may be brought to disaster
scene to fuel gas appliances found
in most every city of the United
States In the Nevada desert trained
LP-Gas men adapted the ranges to
LP-Gas, then cooperated with the
restaurant people to serve break
fast to the observers already chilled
by the morning air.
On the following day the same
emergency equipment helped to
prepare lunch for the civil defense
and industry people inspecting the
damage caused by the previous
days explosion.
The other phase of the LP-Gas
participation in Operation Cue con-
sisted of physical testing for full
scale commercial tank and bottle
facilities such as were used today
by approximately eight million
American consumers. In addition,
an $4,000 gal. bulk storage tank
with all the equipment that would
be used at any of the nations 5000
wholesale storage plants was erect
ed on the desert.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10
CEDAR NECK
Mrs. Thomas III. Carroll
Phone Milford 1898

Church Services for Sunday, June
18th: Preaching services at 2:30
D. m. Rev. William Revelle, Pastor.
The Cedar Neck w. S. c. S. will
meet on Tuesday evening. June
14th, at the home of Rev. and Mrs.
Revelle, in Lincoln. Devotional
leader for the evening will be Mrs.
Urania Carey, entertainment COM
mittee, Mrs. Caroline Clark and
Mrs EStelle Watson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Davis and
son, Charles, were visitors of Mr..
and Mrs Granville Shockley and
family on Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Messick and
three daughters, Donna, Linda and
Kay, were dinner guests on Sum
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Car
roll.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Benson of
Lincoln, were visitors on Sunday
afternoon of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
Shockley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Potter and
daughter are now living in their
beautiful newly erected home on
Cedar Beach Road
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10
FREE LAKE

LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. = Up -
The lake on a farm near here prob
ably will be drying up. For years,
it was believed an underground
spring fed the lake. But recently
workmen replacing an old water
line discovered the lakes true
source:
A hole had been drilled in the
pipe to assure an ample and free
supply of water.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10
TRAFFIC RATIFIED

BETHEL, N. C. - up - A traf-
fic snarl developed here when a
rattlesnake coiled at an intersec-
tion and struck at passing cars.
Then Jerry Autman drove farm
tractor over it's head and collected
a Souvenirs rattles.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10

Records indicated that average
temperatures in the world are
about two degrees warmer than
they were 100 years ago.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10

Sugar beets are white. not red.
The density of the planet Jupiter
is less than quarter that of the
Earth.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10

Halley's comet which put on a
spectacular show in 1910 is again
to be visible from the earth in the
mid 19S0s.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10

The U. S. Marine Corps was first
authorized by an act of the Cont
mental Congress passed November
10, 1775.
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10
Son Improveme11

Livestock offers farmers m op-
portunfty to increase their incomes
and conserve and increase the pro-
ductivity Of their soils at the same
time
Milford chronicle., 1955-06-10
performance heyz1s!

they're all true all the wonderful things
you hear about Pontiac's great performance.
The way it sweeps uphill or down with the
same effortless ease The tremendous burst
of passing power that answers the nudge of
your toe. The thought-quick response in stop
and-go traffic that makes the car seem part
of YOU The smooth, quiet way it goes about
its business however hard or far you drive.
Lift the hood of Pontiac and you'll be face
to face with the reason. That compact power
plant nested there may look much like other
V-8's-but that's where your eyes deceive you!
The Strato-Streak V-8 is in class all by
itself filled with engineering sfrsts" that
make it the mightiest engine ever to appear
Evening star., 1955-07-14
By the Associated Press

The Eisenhower administration
today was reported ready to ask
Congress to increase salaries of
cabinet officers and a few other
top Government executives.
Chairman Bridges. Republican
of New Hampshire, of the Senate
G. o. P. Policy Committee said
the measure would be sent to
Congress only If congressional
leaders decide passage would be
possible without delaying con-
gressional adjournmer sched-
uled around the e4.a Of this
month.
He said President Eisenhower
Is concerned over designations
OF. some ranking officials who
plead financial inability to live
In Washington and still maintain
aJesidence at home.
Senator Bridges and other
g. o. P. leaders have been asked
to sound out both Democratic
and Republican sentiment and
report to the White House within
day or two.
Already this year Congress
has voted pay increases to ca
reer military personnel. to postal
employees and other rank -and-
file civil service workers and to
its own members. The Congress
raise was from $4,000 a year to
$22.500.
The proposed Eisenhower