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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-26
AmeIie New. and soeio! Event.
Home Demonstration Chairman To
Hold Family Life Training Class

genia Lee and sons. Eddie and
Johnnie. attended the All-Western
Rodeo and Horse Show in Chester
field county Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Wayne Bollnger and daugh-
ter. Patty. Mrs. j. A. Lawrence
Mrs. w. j. Royal. Miss Idell Royal
and Mrs Harold Osborne toured
Monticello Sunday.
Tuesday. Oct. 30. the county homo
demonstration club family life
chairmen will meet at 10 am. in
the Union Bank and Trust company
committee room for a program
training class under the direction
Of Dan Fessler, rural sociologist
from VPI He will talk on "Recre-
alton for the Family Child
Training" Health and "Prepar-
ing for the Golden Years At pm.
here will be a training program on
Christmas Decoration" led by
Mrs. E. H. Burke.
Amelia County Home Demonstra-
ton Halloween party will be held
n the War Memorial Building Sat
lrday at 1880 pm. Money raised
will help pay for chairs for the
building.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-26
lilo News and Social Events

The Misses Pearl and B ! ! e
Burke. of Charlottesville. were over
night guests Of their brother. E. H.
Burke and Mrs. Burke, Monday.
Mrs. w. A. Haley. Of Culpeper.
mother of MS. Charles A. Holman.
III. was the speaker at the Village
Garden club meeting Mrs. Haley
spoke on "Corsages'
The Rev. Charles Herman. former
pastor at the Amelia Presbyterian
ch'lrch. and Mrs. Herman. of Rich
rannd. we're dinner guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Mortimer
Tuesday. The Rev. Mr.. Herman was
in Amelia to talk to local organi-
zation
Drive to Greensboro
Mrs. c. Garland Hutcheson and
Mrs. Thomas Starke. Jr. drove to
Greensboro. N c.. Wednesday to
visit Mrs. Starks daughter. Betsy.
who is a student at North Carolina
Womans college
Mrs. j. D. Rand, Mrs James
Courier. Miss Laura Allen and Mrs
j Gordon Dickerson attended the
Presbyterial meeting in Petersburg
Wednesday.
Nancy Jones Farris is attending
business college in Ozark. Ala.
while her husband. John. is station
ed at Fort Rucker
Clerk Has New Job
Mrs. Thomas Zimmerman, clerk
of the Amelia county school board
from l46 to 1856 is working in the
social service department at Medi-
cal College of Virginia Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M Blank
enship, and children. were recent
guests Of her mother Mrs. Thomas
Preston Calbreath
Herbert Daniel. Of Lynchburg
spent Friday with his uncle. r. D.
White. and Mrs White
Byron Ward, a Duke University
student. spent the week end with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. b
Ward
Women Visit Orphanage
Mrs. Donald Flippen. Mrs. Will
liam A. Mortimer. Mrs Lewis Dav-
export. Mrs. James Courier. Jr.
and Miss Hazel Clarke visited the
Presbyterian Orphanage in Lynch
burg Saturday. They are all mem
bers of the Amelia Presbyterian
church Circle 2. which has taken
under its care a six-year- old girl at
the orphanage.
Mr. and Mrs. P B Chlldrcss, and
daughter. Peggy. were guests of
MIS- Childress bro her. John
Eppes and his family. in Goldsboro,
n. C.
Mr. and Mrs j NJ. Noel. of
-ynchburg. who have been visiting
Mrs. Noels daughter. MIS-. Alton
Perdue. left Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs E. NJ Smith. and
daughters. Ellen and Nancy. OF
Lynchburg. drove to Amelia Sunday
and had dinner with Mr.. and Mrs
r D. White.
Judge Sees Son
Judge George Keith Taylor and
his sisters, Miss Mary Byrd and
Miss Courtney Taylor, spent Sun
day in Orange with their son and
nephew the Reverend Richard Tay-
lor and his family
Mus William Navlor. of Airing
ton. her brother. Chaffin G Humid,
ley. Jr.. of Washington, Mrs. Viii
liam Murray, of Richmond. anC
MIS- John Howard of Blackstone
We're in Amelia during the week
end
George Hardy. Jr.. Earl Mann
and L. NJ Sanderson left Monday
10 attend the State Fox Hunters
association meeting in Chatham
Family Goes to Rodeo
Mr. and Mrs. James w Roya
their daughter, Linda and Mrs. Ell
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
10 Countians
Finish Olney
CD Course

Sixteen county and three Dis
trict of Columbia residents grad.
uated from Montgomery Coun-
tvs home protection instructor
course on Sunday, civil defense
authorities announced today.
The graduates are Mrs. Fay
Adams, Silver Spring; Miss Mary
Austen, Brookville; Col. Nelson
Bennett, Bethesda; Ottey Bishop,
Olney; Mrs. Ruth Bishop, Olney;
Mrs. Bessie Byrd, Takoma Park;
Miss Penny Haviland, Brook
vile; and David Joppy, Rock
vile.
Also Don Lamborne, Olney;
Mrs. Barbara Luchs, Washing.
ton; Charles Maxell, Olney; Car.
roll Meyers, Cabin John; Mrs.
Elizabeth Odom, Washington;
Mrs. Virginia Packet, Silver
Spring; Miss Susan v. Richmond,
Washington; Miss Martha SWEET
ger, Cabin John; Miss Nancy
Walker, Cabin John; Mrs. Basil
CONTINUED on Page 60
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Fire Department
Seeks Tax Money
In LaytOnsvilIe

The Laytonsville Volunteer
Fire Department has asked that
a tax be levied on its fire area to
finance the department, accord.
ing to Chief Spencer J. II.
Brown.
AT present the Laytonsville
Rockville, Damascus and Hyatts.
town fire departments are self
supporting. Chief Brown says
his department has made ex.
penses by holding carnivals, auc.
ton sales and dinners. The en-.
tertainments have not produced
enough money lately, he says.
The Laytonsville department is
in debt, according to the chief.
Money is also needed TO buy a
new truck. A tax rate of 10
cents per 500 of assessable pro.
perty would bring about $1,000
annually, Brown said.
The Laytonsville fire area in.
cludes the towns of Laytonsville
and Unity and part of Sunshine.
The area is mostly farm land.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Late News Briefs

Election for three seats on the
LaytOnsville Town Council will
be held Monday from to
p. m. Incumbents Luther How
ard, LaRue Evans, and Lewis
Kibbec seek reelection. w. w.
White hopes to unseat one Of
them.
Two Montgomery County men
we're among the top five scorers
in the Maryland bar examination
held in Baltimore this week. Re
ceiving the high marks were
James r. Miller, Jr., 1888 Battery
Lane, Bethesda, and Ross g. Mac
Aulay, 100 Schuyler Road, Silver
Spring.
Late baseball scores: Richard
Montgomery 7.OxOn Hill IL;
POOIesviIIe 4.Damascus /; Blair
.S-BIadensburg 2; Bethesda
Chevy Chase 5-High Point 3;
Wheaton S-Gaithersburg Z;
Sherwood 2-Frederick 8.
Bethesda and Silver Spring
Naval Reserve units will partici-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Maryland Tax
Refunds Slow,
Tawes Says

The income tax division of the
state comptroller's office has
commented on the delay in 1855
refunds due Maryland ta2 payers.
According to Comptroller J. Mil
lard TaweS, this is the first year
of the pay.as-you-go plan of in
come tax collection under the
Maryland law.
He went on to say that because
of the great amount of detailed
work involved in developing a
new system, some delay will be
experienced in making refunds.
Mr.. Tawes explained that part
Of the tax paid by residents is
distributed to the county, city, or
town where he lives. This means
that all returns must be sorted
and coded so that the proper sub
division may receive its share.
Because the bulk of Maryland
returns were received around the
closing date of the filing period,
a tremendous volume of work
has been created. All available
personnel are engaged in mail
processing and coding, leaving
only a small force available for
refund work, Mr.. Tawes said.
The comptroller emphasized
that calls made by taxpayers in
reference to their refunds only
slows down the process. He
asked that the public bear with
the income tax division.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Health Board
Studies Acc
Sewage Plans

The Maryland Department of
Health says it will give most
careful consideration" to the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission request for permits
sion to dump sewage from the
Atomic Energy Commissions
Germantown office into the Cal
thersburg treatment plant on
Muddy Branch.
At a hearing in Baltimore Fri
day Gaithersburg protested the
sewage dumping plan on the
grounds that the health depart
ment has already branded the
treatment plant overloaded. Cal
thersburg asked that a trunk
sewer line up Rock Creek valley
be completed to the town "coin-
cidentally" with the opening of
the Acc office late next year.
The WSSC plans to complete the
sewer line by 1859.
John M. Jester, representing
the sanitary commission at the
hearing, said it is barely pos
sible" the trunk line project can
be speeded up. He said he was
without authority" to make
commitments.
Mr.. Jester said his commission
favors receiving Acc sewage at
Gaithersburg rather than having
it treated at Germantown and
dumped into Seneca Creek. He
said treatment plant being in
stalled at Gaithersburg's Jenkins
Cannery will cut the density of
some of the towns sewage and
relieve some of the load on the
Muddy Branch plant.
Cecil f. Custer, Gaithersburg
town attorney, told the health
department the town vigorously
favors" Acc sewage being re.
ceived by the WSSC rather than
dumped in Seneca. He urged the
speedup Of the Rock Creek
sewer line. Mr. Clusters farm
adjoins h Muddy Branch
treatment plant.
Two years ago the health de.
partment banned further exten.
sions of WSSC sewer lines in Cal
thersburg because the treatment
plant was overcrowded. Acc
would produce $4,000 gallons of
sewage daily, about one-sixth the
towns present load.
WSSC needs health depart
ment approval to receive Acc
sewage because Of the ban.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Killer, Rapist
Given Lengthy
Prison Terms

The Montgomery County Cir
cult Court handed long Jail SEN
fences to two youths this week.
James Allen Book, 21-year-old
sailor, was given 20 years in the
Maryland State Penitentiary for
the October II rape of 49-year-
old Rockville woman. Police said
Book admitted raping the woman
behind a Rockville elementary
school after hiding in the back
seat of her car.
In pronouncing sentence Judge
Stedman Prescott said the youth
was lucky the jury prohibited a
life term in prison or execution.
Bonnie Lee Slack, Is, was SEN
fenced to Is years in the Mary
land House of Correction for the
December - shotgun murder of
his father, Robert Slack.
The elder Slack was shot down
while trying to wrest the gun
from his intoxicated son, police
said. The shooting took place
on the Sumner Wood estate near
Jamestown where the dead man
was a tenant farmer.
Judges Kathryn Lawlor and
Prescott deferred sentencing
Slack for his part in an unsuc-
cessful four-main Jail break at
tempt at Rockville January %.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03

pate in Standardization and rec
ord firing" of the Garand MI
rifle May II at Quantico Marine
Base. Last year reservists from
local units made outstanding
scores at the firing. New re.
cruits enlisting before next Thurs
day are eligible for the rifle trip.
Montgomery County's Mary.
land State Trooper force has
been upped from four to 10.
Cpl. Joseph ID. Kavanagh, rank
ing county trooper, says per
manent barracks Is "in the
works" Meanwhile a temper
airy barracks will be rented in
the up-cOunty as headquarters
for the local trooper compile
ment. Troopers filling the new
positions and replacing two
transferees are:' Gary X. Grant,
Carl ii. MuchOW, Paul Il. TWigg,
George X. RObinette, Robert b.
Wampler, William j. BrOderick,
Frank G. Woods, and Willis T..
Foreman.
Rockville boys between 1914
and Is years old interested in
playing on the towns senior base.
ball team are asked to report to
the Richard Montgomery diamond
at 2 p. m. Saturday. High school
players may not join the team
until school is out. The team,
sponsored by the Rockville Civil
tan Club, will compete in the
County Boys Base
ball Association league.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Student Showcase
Opens at RMHS

Richard Montgomery High
Schools annual student showcase
will be held Tuesday through
May II in the high school gym.
nasium.
The showcase, open TO parents
and students, has three obiec.
tives--to tell the public what stu.
dents are doing, to tell students
what is happening in other class.
rooms, and to encourage stu.
dents to do work which can be
exhibited.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03

struction Director James Sheldon
received a long-distance tele
phone call from National Homes
Indiana headquarters. A com.
pany official asked that National
Homes be considered Sin the run.
ming" when bids are asked for
the prefab addition.
A school official says he under.
stands National Homes is not
abandoning the prefab school
field. He says the company is
merely refusing to make elabor.
ate changes in its prefab schools
to meet community and official
objections.
The Wall Street Journal article
stated "Prefab schools sound
fine, but National Homes Cor.
poration, the nations largest
prefabricator, says opposition
rises from politically powerful
local contractors, township trus.
tees and building material deal.
ers. It's dropped out of the
school prefab field though it says
it offered a model at half con-
ventional school construction
costs"
Robert c. Smith of Charles
Goodman Associates, consulting
architects for National Homes,
says "As far as l know National
Homes are still making prefab
schools"
Goodman Associates have been
commissioned TO draft plans for
the Viers Mill prefab addition.
Mr.. Sheldon says plans will
probably be completed by July 1,
bids opened July 20 and construc-
ton started August I. He expects
other prefab factories to bid on
the addition.
School Board President Helen
Scharf said she has been advised
subsequent to the Wall Street
Journal story" that National
Homes would bid on the Viers
Mill project.
Mrs. Scharf says the article
may refer to a prefab school
erected in Lafayette, Ind, at a
cost of $4,000 per classroom
compared to nearby convention
ally constructed schools built for
$4,000 a classroom. Montgom-
cry County schools cost between
$4,000 and $4,000 per class.
room, equipped and furnished.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Douglass Is Chairman

A Rockville student, Carroll
Lee Douglass, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. f. Douglass of Tantallon, and
junior at Principal, took active
part as chairman Of the Mary
land delegation in the mock Dem.
ocratic national presidential NOM
mating convention held last
Thursday evening at the Princi-
pia Upper School, st. Louis, Mo.
Keynote speaker was Sen. Thorn
as c. Hennings, Jr., of Missouri.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Council Sets
Dates
For May Bills

The Montgomery County Coun
Gil opened its May Legislative
session Tuesday by setting public
hearing dates for the first 13
bills up for consideration. The
council may enact legislative
bills only during the month
of May.
Largest turnout is expected
for the 8 pm. hearing May Ia
to discuss the bill establishing a
tax mot to exceed 7 cents for
each 500 of asseSsable real pro-
perty" in the 18th election dis.
trict. The tax money would be
used to pay off a So million con-
struetion bond for the Silver
Spring Memorial Hospital. No
place for the hearing has
been set.
Hearings are set for Tuesday
at 2:30 pm. in the council cham
Der at Rockville on seven minor
bills: legalizing h revised
County Code, permitting the
council to establish daylight saw.
ing time, creating the positions
of circuit court crier and IL
brarian, repeating some laws on
fireworks, and affirming several
cactionc NJ tho coda
Next Thursday at 8 pm. in
Rockville hearings will be held
on proposed bills to alter police
relief and retirement payment
procedures, transfer authority to
hear certain appeals from the
County Council to the Board of
Appeals and adjust the police re.
tirement credit setup.
On May II hearings will be
held at 8 pm. in Rockville on
proposed bills that would pro-
hibit trucks and buses from
parking on county parking lots
and ban x-ray fitting devices
from shoe stores.
A number of other bills are ex-
pected to be introduced before
the end Of the month.
In coming actions Tuesday, the
council:
!. Granted commercial coming
to formerly residential tract Of
5000 square feet on the north
east corner of Grandview Avenue
and Ennalls Avenue in Wheaton.
Owners are Elmer NJ. and Ruth
l.. Scott.
2. Granted commercial coming
to formerly residential tract Of
almost an acre on ColesVille
Road near the Colesville-Be
vile Road. Owner is Herbert T.
Yeager.
3. Granted apartment house
coming for two adjacent tracts Of
about one acre each on Battery
Lane near Wisconsin Avenue in
Bethesda. The land was former
ly residentially zoned. Owners
are George, Florence and Emma
Bell and N. f. and Annie Dis.
brow.
4. Denied commercial coming
for a residential tract of 500
square feet at River Road and
Brookside Drive in KenWood.
Owner is Robert c. Deigret.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Three More
In Crowded
.C'burgRace

The number of candidates in
Mondays Gaithersburg mayor
and council election jumped to
nine with the last minute filing
of three council hopefuls just be-
fore last Fridays deadline. Late
entrants are Miss Connie Field,
Quentin "Dinty" Frey and Milton
Walker.
Meanwhile, in two moves with
political overtones the present
administration last week appoint
ed B. 2. Harding, town building
inspector, and Jack Mannix,
assistant town clerk, to serve
until June a when the new ad.
ministration takes over. Hard
ing was frequently mentioned as
a possible candidate for mayor.
Seeking reelection is Mayor
Merton Duvan. He is opposed
by William A. Lynch, who heads
the United Citizens of Gathers.
burg slate which includes coun.
ell candidates Richard B. Perry,
ST., and Rodney M. Thompson.
Another slate includes r. l..
Hebb Freeman and Ward Multi
can running for council.
The two councilmen whose
terms expire, Samuel Briggs and
G. Sprigg Ward, are not seeking
reelection. Two other council.
men, John w. Griffith and E.
Russell Gloyd, have two years re-
naming in their terms.
Miss Field has operated Cal
thersburg's Gather Theater for
more than five years. She was
member of the Zoning Board of
Appeals that recently resigned
after feud with Mayor Duvall.
She is active in Masonic and Girl
Scout work.
She states, THE next few
years are important for Gathers
burg, AS business woman
want to make sure the town gets
the good things" She feels be-
ing a woman will not hurt her
politically. 1T wouldn't be bad
to have a woman's views on the
council"
Walker says he's running "be-
cause everyone should take an
interest in town government"
The 37-year-old native of Cal
thersburg is in the grocery bust
ness with his father and brother.
Thirty.four year.old Frey was
recently appointed to the Zoning
Board of Appeals. A Navy vete-
ran of World War II he is party
chief for Maddox and Hopkins
surveyors.
The United Citizens" slate, in
a statement this week, took a
slap at past administrations:
Our slate will be the road for
ward, not the same old side roads
that lead nowhere" The slate
promises an administration lab
solutely subject to the will Of
the people of Gaithersburg."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03
Delegate,
Congress
Races Hot

Monday is primary day in
Maryland. Primary campaign
ing in Montgomery County has
been almost exclusively by
Democratic hopefuls. Hottest
races have been for the Demo-
cratic Congressional nominal
ton and for the seven county
seats at the Democrtic State con-
vention. In both races the "old
line" organization and the anti
orgization liberals" have locked
horns.
Creating less campaign Juror
have been the races for the Re-
publican and Democratic sena-
torial nominations and the non.
partisan candidates for two cir
cult judgeships.
Though Maryland's Sixth Con-
gressional District includes Gar
rett, Allegany, Washington and
Frederick Counties as we'll as
Montgomery, all three Demo-
cratic candidates are from subur-
ban Washington: John r. Foley,
Kensington, judge of the
Orphans Court; ]. Grahame
Walker, Sumner, a County Coun-
Gilman; and Robert w. Cremins,
Bethesda, chief Of the Bethesda.
Chevy Chase Rescue Squad.
All three candidates strongly
oppose Republican incumbent
Dewitt S. Hyde's voting record
and political philosophy. That's
about all the trio agrees on.
Ever since Foley was endorsed
by a slim majority of precinct
chairman at the urging of vete.
ran Democratic leaders E.
Brooke Lee and Ward Cadding-
ton, Walker has branded the
Judge "the machine endorsed
candidate. T h e councilman
claims the majority that en-
dorsed Foley represents a minor.
ity of the voters.
Foley has fought the ma.
chine" label. Early in the cam
paign he stated, "As an indie.
pendent candidate for Congress /
will not invite nor accept the
support of anyone who would
try to limit my independence and
freedom to represent the in
terests of all Democrats in the
Sixth Congressional District"
Cremins has pleaded for unity
and attacked primary endorse
ments. In press release, why
1t is that we, the Democratic
voters of Montgomery County,
must suffer because two or three
power mad citizens want full and
absolute authority in the running
of our county,"
This week Foley charged Walk
er sought support from Lee and
CaddingtOn. Walker says he
called all precinct chairmen, in
Lee, and the State Cen
trail Committee of which Cadding-
ton is chairman, and stated, IF
you wish to support me it would
be nice" Caddington branded
as IAN unmitigated lie" an early
Walker statement denying that
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-05-03

Eyes
County Site

The Bureau of Standards
wants to relocate in a $40 mil
lion headquarters building in
upper Montgomery County. The
house and senate are expected
to take preliminary action on the
relocation project next week.
The House Appropriations
Committee has already voiced
disapproval of the plan. A
Bureau of Standards budget Off
GER says the committee has turn
ed down a 81, 10000 fund request
for planning, site acquisition and
architectural services. The re-
quest was turned down, says the
official, because in their opinion
the planning stage was not quite
complete"
The budget officer says the re-
location is desired because the
Bureau of Standards is "hemmed
in" by residential and CONNER
cial development surrounding its
present location on Connecticut
Avenue in Washington.
During house hearings the
Bureau of STANDARDS stated that
it wanted the new headquarters
on at least 500 acres west of new
Route 240 between IS and Is
miles from Washington. The
bureau wants its office closer to
the new highway than the Poto-
mac River. The large site is
needed for elbow room.