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Homer news., 1955-03-10
PURSE FOUND

A 1eathe purse, contain ing some money, was found the early part of the week. The purse was turned in at Uminskiss where the owner may claim 1t by properly identi- lying it. The amount of mon ey in the purse was not given
Homer news., 1955-03-10
{ OUR CONGRATULATIONS

the large turnout Tuesday called the volunteers from their work Fire his quick to respond they e of the ire jig assist the firemen had they needed stanc 1arge crowd of that assembled all parts of the community at a rapid Iace
 Homer this winter in not having good It reassuring however fire depart ment vi IL respond to call for help so rapidly.
Homer news., 1955-03-10
SKI PROGRAM CALLED OFF

The recreation program tha t was to be sponso red th is Saturday by the All has been cal led off, according to Mrs. Bill ,Bklof, chairman. A lack of snow has been. given a 5 the reason the program will; not be held.
Homer news., 1955-03-10
LADIES FELL oVBH1P MEETS

The Ladies Fellowship mt Thursday night. at the home of Mrs. Robert Safley. The' 1ad- ies Eorked on pil1oWslips during the even ing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14

Forest fire damage on nation
al forests was estimated at $3.7
million for the calendar year 1854.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14

fire to the Rockville Methodist
Episcopal Church. Trial was set
for July &c.
In other indictments, Harold
Howard Smith was charged with
housebreaking; George Leonard
Young was charged with house
breaking; Elmer James Davis
was charged with manslaughter;
Robert Corners, Johnny Robero,
Gordon Smith, Gerald Kane and
Francis w. Rowe were charged
in the same case with house
breaking, larceny and receiving
stolen goods; Francis Xavier
Hessler was charged with en-
bezzlement, larceny after trust,
and false pretense; Charles He'll
ry Smith was charged with
assault with intent to murder;
Jack L. Rutherford was charged
with housebreaking and larceny;
and Thomas Spencer Calgett, Ed
ward Daymude and James F..
Clagett were charged in the same
case with houSebreaking.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
By Joan Edwards

Ralph F. Martz of the Clarks-
burg Optimist Club announced
change in the schedule of the
Club meetings for the month of
July. Ladies night and visitors
night will be held by the Clarks
burg Club at Kings Park on
July Is. Chicken box lunches
from ,Wilhide's chicken shop will
be on the menu for that date.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Martz
attended the Martz family re-
union which was held at Mt
Tabor Park, Rocky Ridge, on
July 3.
Harvey G. Kemp visited Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph F. Martz Sunday
evening.
Mrs, Archie Hood celebrated
her birthday on July 4.
A group of citizens in the
Clarksburg area are trying to in
terest a Doctor to open an office
in Clarksburg. A survey will
soon be conducted to ascertain
whether the people in the area
are willing to support a Doctor
with their patronage.
The candlesticks and pulpit will
be dedicated at the Dickerson
Church Sunday evening, July "a,
8 p. M, with song service. We
invite all of you to attend this
song service and dedication of the
candlesticks and pulpit.
Are you interested in attending
Stewardship class either this
summer or the early fall. If
you are interested in such a class
would you express your desire by
telling Rev. Ben Hartley about
your interest.
PvtS. Glenn Edwards, Steve An
derson of HyattstoWn, and Rob
ert Case of Rockville returned
home Saturday morning from
their two weeks basic training in
Indiantown Gap Reservation for
the Army Reserve.
Kenneth Morris, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Morris, was
one year old on June %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Mcconnell
and son are vacationing in Ohio.
Mrs. Daniel Catron was hostess
at a surprise baby shower given
in honor of her sister, Mrs. Mar
tin E. MetZyer, Rockville. Among
the guests from Rockville were
Mrs. George Thompson, Mrs. Will
liam Carter, Mrs. Harold Biebush,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
County Program
On Polio Shots
Definitely Halted

Montgomery County Health Or
ficer, Dr. William Peoples, stated
this week that the county's de-
cision to postpone the second
round of Salk vaccine shots
against polio until the opening
of school in the fall had been
backed by advice from the States
Medical Advisory Committee.
The statewide policy will be
to postpone all shots until fall
whether or not the vaccine is
made available this summer. DR..
Peoples gave as the reason for
the postponement the difficulty
of reaching all the children in
volved in the program because
of the school vacation.
He felt that the program would
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
PoolesvilIe Joins in Preparing
For Up-COunty Fire Carnival

at Rose Cottage near Dickerson
while her sister, Mrs. William B.
Everett, was guest several days
last week of her good friends,
General and Mrs. Adam Rich
mond in Bethesda.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Davis
of Baltimore were guests over the
long weekend of his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Davis near Sugar
Loaf.
Sunday dinner guests of Mrs.
G. R. Gray were her family, DR..
and Mrs. Harry Gray of Frede-
rick and Mr.. and Mrs. Bobbie
Gray and family of Silver Spring.
Good wishes go this week to
Mr.. G. w. Norris recuperating
in Frederick Hospital following
major surgery performed there
last Wednesday.
Plan to attend the chicken and
ham picnic Saturday, July 16 be-
ginning at A p. m. at the DECKER
son Methodist Church.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
.125-Year-Old
Piano Given to
Historical Unit

A piano which has been in the
Peerce family for at least 125
years was presented to the Mont
gomery County Historical Society
last week by DR.. and Mrs.
Charles R. L. HALEY, of Bethesda.
Made in New York by the
Worchester company, the piano is
about as tall as a present-day
spinet, but has a large rectangu-
lar top, somewhat like a grand
piano. Its keyboard is shorter
than the standard SO of today,
and it has legs that screw into
the body
The piano can be played, DR..
HALEY says, but it won't hold a
tune.
The Peerce family owned land
in what was Montgomery Coun-
ty before the creation of the Dis
trict of Columbia. When the Dis
trict was formed-about 1900
the Peerces traded their land to
the federal government and got
a tract at Towson in exchange.
The piano. was on the ToWson
place. Mrs. Halley's mother, a
Peerce before her marriage,
found the abandoned piano in a
woodshed on the place and gave
it to the HalleyS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
[. L. McCathran
Wins 10Th Term
AS Grove Mayor

Washington Groves peren-
NAL mayor, Irving L. Meath
ran, was elected to his 18th
unOppOsed term Saturday
night.
Mr.. McCathran received SO
of the 81 votes cast, the Iarg-
est election turnout the town
has ever recorded. The other
six votes were for written can
didateS.
DIR. James NJ. HundIey and
George A. Pughe were re.elect-
ed to the town council, for
three-year terms, also with no
formal opposition.
A bond issue not to exceed
$4,000 for improvements to
the town hall was approved
by the voters. The town meet
ing accepted budget submit
ted by the council, which re-
tains last years tax rate of So
cents per 500 assessed valua-
ton, and SIS per housing unit
garbage and trash collection
levy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
Clarksburg Optimists Shift Meet
Schedule; Session Set for July 10

Mrs. Jim Thomas, Mrs. Mildred
Soper, and Mrs. Harry Thomp-
son. Also those from Clarksburg
were Mrs. Raymond Wilhide, Mrs.
Mary Lancaster, Mrs. Richard
Wilhide, and Miss Lois Lancas-
ter. A close friend, Mrs. Rennis
Graham, attended from Boyds.
Mrs, Mary Wilhide returned
from her short stay in Connect
cut on June 81. Her three grand
daughters accompanied her down
and are going to visit her for a
short time. Their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Schaffer, flew to
Paris where Mr.. Schaffer is writ
ing a movie script.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
POOLesUiHe Boy
Vote Shaver
Treasurer at
FLA Meeting

Jack Shaver, Poolesville High
School Chapter, has been elected
Treasurer of the Maryland AS
ISOLATION of the Future Farmers
of America.
Other county farm youths were
honored at the FLA Annual Con-
vention held recently at the Uni
versity of Maryland. Audrey
Shaver, Poolesville High School
Chapter, received the Maryland
Farmer Degree, the highest de-
gree that can be awarded to an
FLA member on the state level.
Adults honored for their out
standing assistance to the FLA
program with an Honorary Farm
er Degree included ]. Sterling
Bowman, Bowman Brothers Feed
Mills, Gaithersburg, and Harold
Young, of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Young Adult Farmers Associa-
ton.
In the judging contests Damas-
Gus High School Chapter took
second place in the poultry divi-
sion, and Robert Munday, Gath
ersburg High School Chapter,
captured first place in the live
stock category.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
See Progress
In Cabin John
Sewer Lines

Rockville's new Al, 5O0-foot Cab
in John sewer line came a step
closer to construction at last
weeks meeting of the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commits
sion and city officials.
Negotiations for construction
of this proposed line which will
eventually serve Hungerford and
the new Congressional Airport de-
velopment were begun in Janu-
airy, 1854.
Complications arose after Rock
vile had floated a 100000 bond
issue for an 1S-inch sewer line.
The WSSC, with an eye to future
expansion in the area, proposed
financing the difference between
that and a $685., 900, 36-inch line.
Under a contract between the
District of. Columbia and the
WSSC whereby District filtration
plants handle sewage from the
Commissions district, there is to
be an expansion of the Potomac
intersection in 1870. But with the
increased sewerage from the
Rockville area, this construction
may have to be undertaken soon
err.
Preliminary negotiations had
established that Rockville would
pay the interest on WSSC's
bonds necessary to pay the Com
missions share of this construc-
ton for the time period preced-
ing 1870. Left out of the orig
inal draft was previous agree
ment that Rockville. would be re-
imbursed for these interest pay
ments after 1870. At last Thurs
days meeting it was agreed that
this clause would be included in
the final draft.
Also included in the draft was
a flexible" clause that would al
low Rockville TO base its proper
Tomato share of the cost of the
trunk line on it's actual need at
the time of construction. A COM
promise agreement was reached
on charges for ground water in
filtration.
Although no final agreement
has been reached, City Attorney
David Cahoon is taking a copy
of the proposed draft to Balti-
more this week to get the APP
proval of the city's bond counsel,
Warren Buchler. He will then
meet with the WSSC attorney to
draw up the final draft.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
Grand Jury
Returns "a
Indictments

Twenty-four indictments citing
81 individuals were returned by
the Grand Jury sitting last
Thursday in Rockville. One man
was named in five separate in
dictments. Among those against
whom true bills were returned is
the suspended Takoma Park
police chief, Chester E. Thomts.
One indictment charging rape,
assault with intent to rape, car
nal knowledge, and assault and
battery was returned against six
youths in connection with the
assault on a 14-year-old Kensing-
ton girl near Olney. A seventh
boy was cited on a lesser count
in the same case. All the accused
are under Is except two, Herbert
Cheak and George Bowling. Five
were released on So, 800 bond, two
are being held in the Rockville
Jail. Trial is set for August 4.
A former Oakland Terrace Ele-
mentary School teacher, George
Harold Bradford, was also in
dicted on charges of assault with
intent to rape and assault and
battery in connection with the
complaint of a 16-year-old girl.
Bradford is free on $4,000 bond.
No date has been set for his trial.
Virgil Lee Farmhouse will go on
trial July &c on charges of rape,
assault with intent to rape, car
nal knowledge under the age of
IA, and assault and battery.
Howard Cleve Doran faces trial
the same day on similar charges
involving the same girl.
In one other case involving a
sexual crime, Leonard Bruce
Lord was charged with sodomy
and held for trial July q.
Stanley Dewey Tibbs is free on
bond after being named in five
separate indictments, charged
with taking a total of 1874 under
false pretense from Olive ]. o.,
Conner, Gloria Robertson, Stan
ley Blustein, Helen Lieberman
and Grace Orr Collins.
In connection with the S1,400
armed holdup of the Allied
Finance Corp, Maurice Jones
and Thomas Donald Strother
were indicted on seven counts
and held in Jail for trial Aug. 2.
The suspended police chief of
Takoma Park was charged with
stealing $95 from the body of
Raymond E. Azbell. Azbell was
found dead in his Takoma Park
home, repeatedly of an overdose
of barbituateS, and Thomas was
summoned to the scene to take
photographs. The 59-year-old
former official was released on
$1,000 bond.
Counts of bigamy and perjury
were returned against Tillman
Franklin Harmon, charged with
classifying marriage license and
taking a second bride while still
wed to his first
James Robert Brown was in
dicted of attempted arson. He
pleaded guilty to trying to set
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14
Area Reserves Leave for Tank
Training at Fort Knox Center

intensified training in armored
vehicles. Under the command of
Capt. Charles R. Collins, Silver
Spring, the summer training unit
is made up of six officers and 20
enlisted men.
While training at the armored
center, they will receive instruc-
ton in tank driving, tank main
tenance and repair as we'll as in
combined arms tactics and equip
ment operation and care.
Those taking part in the train
ing program are Capt. Charles R.
Collins, Silver Spring; LIST 1t.
James M. Cleary, Marbury; LIST
1t. James S. Greene, Takoma
Park; LIST 1t. Forrest S. Holmes.
College Park; LIST 1t. John M.
McHale, Rockville; LIST 1t David
S. Nancy, Rockville; M/Sgt.
James R. Tyler, Silver Spring;
Sgt. William R. Coupard, Ken
sington; Sgt. Guyman F. Jones,
Brookeville; Sgt. Harry R. Ken
ner, Rockville; Cpl. John R.
Wright, Silver Spring; Pfc. Yves
ley E. Ball, Silver Spring; Pfc.
Lawrence ]. Ginsberg, Silver
Spring; Pfc. James G. Sartwell,
Silver Spring; Pvt. Kent c..
Wayne, Silver Spring; Pvt. Doug
las F. McFee, Chevy Chase; and
Pvt. George R. Stephenson, Hy-
attsville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14

TWenty-siX men from Mont
gomery and Prince Georges Coun-
ties, members of Tank Company,
319th Infantry Regiment, U. S.
Army Reserve, will leave for Fort
Knox, KY, July 10 for two weeks
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-07-14

be just as effective if continued
in the fall. There have been no
more cases of polio reported this
month and only three in the coun-
ty so far this year.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Ridgway Revoiees
y Protest on Army Cut,
Cites Barrier 10 Reds

Gen. Ridgway, renewing his
protest against a reduction In
Army manpower, said today
combat-ready Army forces in
sufficient strength is "a primary
means of hating Communist
armed encroachment."
The Army Chief of Staff tes-
titled at closed briefing OF the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee on the Administrators mill
tary program calling for a sub
stantial cut in Army strength.
"It is probably more than CO.
incidence that up to the present
time the Soviet bloc has not de-
fed the United States by risking
either overt or covert armed
aggression in any area where
United States forces are de-
ployed, although its creeping
aggression in other areas has
continued unabated," Gen. Ridg-
way said.
Testifying With Stevens.
'"It appears to be obvious,
therefore, that a primary means
of halting Communist armed
encroachment is to maintain
combat-ready United States
Army forces in sufficient
strength, suitably deployed, with
adequate air and surface trans
portation and support, for COM
mitment at any threatened
point"
The statement was released as
Gen. Bradley and Army Secre-
tary Stevens went before the
Armed Services Committee for
the closedldoor meeting. Sew
eral Democratic members of the
committee have criticized the
proposed manpower reduction.
Regardless of the nature OF
the conflict which might con-
ceivably develop" Gen. Ridgway
said, "the United States Army
must have adequate forces in
being to carry out its assigned
missions. 1t must also have the
mobilization capability to ex-
pand promptly and rapidly tc
meet any eventuality."
The administrations new mill
tary program calls for reduc-
ton of the Army from about
1,170,000 at present to 100000
by June 80 and to 1,025, 900 ir
the next fiscal year. =.
Secretary Stevens said that
with a smaller strength planned
for next year the Army will have
a higher proportion of that
strength located in the conti-
mental United States and con-
tiguous areas.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Turnabout Witness
Is Hay on Details
By the Associated Press

Lowell Watson insisted today
he was unable to recall exactly
when and how Communications
Commission lawyers coached"
him. as he put it, to testify
against Publisher Broadcaster
Edward Lamb.
Commission Counsel Edward
j. Brown shot question after
question at the turnabout wit
ness, demanding to know on
what day and in precisely what
respects Government lawyers
- got him to revise his testimony.
Mr.. Watson reiterated that
commission personnel rewrote
his prepared testimony several
times before they were satisfied
1t linked Mr.. Lamb to Ohio COM
munism in the 1930s.
He said he could recall only
that his conversations regarding
the revisions on the week end Of
September 1920 just before he
testified against Mr.. Lamb were
with Walter r. Powell. jr., for
mer chief counsel for the Com
mission in the case: Thomas B.
Fitzpatrick, commission law
yer, and Robert Leahy, COM
mission employe. He said he
could not remember just who got
him to make what change or
when.
Mr.. Watson. of Olathe, Kans.,
and a self-described former
Communist In Ohio, was under
Government cross examination
for the second day as the hearing
on renewal of Mr.. Lambs
license for station WICU-TV.
Erie. Pa, resumed.
AS Commission Counsel Brown
kept questioning Mr.. Watson
for specific details, one of Mr..
Lambs lawyers, Russell Morton
Brown. objected that the Gov
eminent was demanding that
Mr.. Watson perform memory
feat"
Russell Brown asked that the
various drafts of testimony by
Mr.. Watson and two other COM
mission witnesses, Mrs. Marie
Natvig of Miami Beach, Fla, and
Clark Wideman of Columbus,
Ohio, be brought to the hearing.
Government lawyers said that
they would see whether they
were still in their files.
Commission Attorney Brown
has called Mr.. Watson's turna-
bout story incredible" He has
made it clear he is very much
interested in Mr.. Watson's state
ment that he served briefly as
q paid communism consultant
for one of Mr.. Lambs lawyers
last November.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-12-16

The CYO Bulletin will again
be published by the CY0 Council
of the central deanery with the
first issue slated for the mails this
week. The bulletin carries news
of parish activity plus articles Of
interest to CY0 members in the
city. The bulletin is sent either
to individuals or to the CYO on
group subscription.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-12-16

Phia attorney, who is counsel
for the Assumpfionisf Fathers,
said there was q likelihood that
Father Dion, even though he
had . visa might Journey all
fhe way TO the gates of Moscow"
and then be refused permis.
sion to enter the city. as q
result Of the refusal by the
State Department 10 grant
Archbishop Boris q visa.
Archbishop Boris, the Russian
Orthodox Exarch of the AIeutians
and North America, is now in
Canada.
Mr.. Doyle said that when the
Russian Embassy in Washington
granted Father Dion a visa last
month, there was an attempt
made to put its issuance on the
basis that visa would be grant
ed to Archbishop Boris to enter
the United States.
we would have nothing 10
do with such an agreement"
Mr.. Doyle said. I'VE made II
plain that we had nothing at
all 10 do with the Arehbishop
Boris case and were willing TO
surrender the visa II II was
based on such an Understand
ing"
Mr.. Doyle said he made it plain
that the application for the visa
was made strictly under the terms
of the 1888 Roosevelt Litvinov
agreement, which provided for
the admission to Moscow of a Ca
tholic priest to minister to per-
sonnel of the US. Embassy staff
in Moscow. The attorney added
that it was under such circum-
stances that the visa was issued
to Father Dion.
1t was reported that Arehbish-
op Boris has made several appli-
cations for permission to enter
this country, each of which has
been turned down.
Father Dion was named to the
Moscow post to succeed Father
Georges Bissonnette, A.A, who
was expelled from Russia last
March.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-12-16
Dionne Quints'
Nursery Turned
Into a Convent

NORTH BAY, Ont. - NC) -
Quintuplet Marie Dionne is not
as i'll as first reports indicated.
This assurance was given by
Marie's doctor when Mrs. Olivia
Dionne visited her 21-year-oid
daughter at the Hospital of Notre
Dame de l'Eperance in Vile St.
Laurent.
1t was disclosed that the doctor
told Mrs. Dionne that Marie is
not suffering from pernicious ane-
mia, as first reported, but that
she was weak and exhausted.
Marie was reported making rapid
recovery at the hospital where
two of her quint sisters, Cecile
and Yvonne, are training as nur-
ses.
III health forced Marie for
the second time to leave ths
clustered convent Of fhs Serv-
ants Of ths Blessed Sacrament
in Montreal, where she was a
novice.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
the former Dafoe Nursery, which
was the home of the Quints in
their early childhood, is now the
home of a contemplative COM
munity, the Missionary Recluses
of Jesus and Mary, which is ded-
icated to a perpetual recitation
of the Rosary throughout the
world.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-12-16
Parties Planned
At VetS Hospital

Members of Holy Rosary and
St. Gabriel parishes and the Cath
olic War Veterans have combined
forces this year to provide the
patients at the Veterans Admin
istration Hospital at Chillicothe
merry Christmas.
The gifts provided by these
groups will be distributed at the
annual Christmas party sponsored
at the Hospital by the Columbus
Committee of the National Cath
olic Community Service. Miss
Margaret Gallen is in charge of
refreshments at the party and Mi
chael Murphy will assume the
role of st. Nicholas.
The Holy Rosary parish group,
under the leadership of Mrs. The
odore Hinterschied, will also fete
the patients in one of the wards
with party, providing gifts and
refreshments.
A group from st. Gabriers par
ish will also provide stockings
stuffed with candy. nuts and 9TH
er articles for the patients to be
distributed at another party.
New officers of the Columbus
Committee of the NCCS, recently
appointed, include Patricia Nc.
Bride of st. James the Less par
ish, secretary; Anthony Panico of
st. Augustine parish, chairman;
Edward McNamee of ST. Aloysius
parish, vice-chairman and hospit-
al representative: Viola Ricci of
st. Catharine parish, treasurer.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-12-16

II UAII IIIG OIIItGU JtdUCSs
Father Dion was TO have left
Dec. z to serve as chaplain to Ca
tholics of the U. S. Embassy in
Moscow. But both the superior
of the Assumptionist Fathers and
the State Department have or
dered the delay because of retail
iatory measures by the Russians.
Michael r Doyle, PhiIadeI-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-12-16
Youth Notes
Youth Notes
Holiday Party Is Scheduled
By Young Adults on Dec. 29

The Young Adult Council of the central deanery has
announced its annual Christmas party event of Thurs
day Dec 29 at 300 pm The party will be held this year
In the club rooms of the Knights of Columbus Club Santa
Maria Council West Broad Street This annual affair is