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, 1956-11-20
CALL FOR BIDS

Sealed bids in quintuple
will be received at the Dept.
Of Insular Affairs, Division of
Procurement & Supply, Chris
tiansted, Virgin Isands, until
100 a. m. December -, 1856,
and then publicly opened for
furnishing GROCERIES AND
H TO
The Insular Training School.
Copies Of Invitation to bid
may be obtained from the
Dept. Of Insular Affairs, Divi-
sion of Procurement & Sup
ply, Christiansted, Virgin Is
lands, upon request.
Alphonso RornneY
Proc. and Property Clerk
, 1956-11-20
CALL FOR BIDS

Seaed bids in quintuple
will be received at the Dept.
of Insular Affairs, Division Of
Procurement & Supply, Chris
tiansted, Virgin Islands, until
100 a. m. November 80, 1856,
and then publicly opened for
furnishing SEW
Err PIPES to the Dept. of
Public Works.
Copies Of Invitation to bid
may be obtained from the
Dept. Of Insular Affairs, Divi-
sion Of Procurement & Sup
ply, Christiansted, Virgin Is
ands, upon request.
Alphonso RomneY
Proc. and Property Clerk /
, 1956-11-20
FOR SALE

1 Electric Burroughs Adding
Machine
1 Hand Operated Burroughs Add
ing Machine
2 Royal Standard ~Typewriters
2 Underwood Standard Type
writer's
These machines are slightly
used but in perfect condition
Hospital Street No. /
Phone 347J
, 1956-11-20

make their own arrangements
for forwarding on to s.. Croix.
Rob't. L. Msrwin & Co. Inc.
November 18th. 1856
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28

tional Independence Day celebra.
ton will begin at 10 am. when
more than 200 units-marching
groups, military exhibits, floats,
bands and fire equipment start
out on the parade route.
Maj. Gen. John G.. Van Houten,
commanding general, headquar-
tiers, Military District of Wash
ington, will be honorary grand
marshal Of the parade.
Honorary guests will include
American, Canadian and French
military officers, Congressman
Dewitt S. Hyde and Richard <.
Landlord, the Montgomery
County Council and Prin C e
Georges County Commissioners,
officials Of the city of Takoma
Park, and Montgomery County
sheriff Luke J. Bennett, Jr.
The parade will be followed by
marathon races and baseball
games, a concert at 7:15 pm,
patrioticc exercises at BIS pm,
and a fireworks display at 9.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28

the dry cleaning plant; Grady
Thomas, 81; and Philip Hukins,
%. The men were rounded up in
Washington with the help of D.
c. police, county officers say.
Maryland will get some $780,
100000 In Federal funds over
the next Is years for highway
construction and improvement.
This is the states share of ex.
penditures authorized by the
FEDERAL highway bin passed by
Congress this week.
The Police Department this
week listed the seven most "acci-
dent prone" road sections in the
county: ColeSville Road from the
d. {. line to Sligo Creek; Geor.
gla Avenue from the D. C. line
TO Colesville Road and from
Colesville Road to Wheaton; Con.
necticut Avenue from the ID. C.
line to kensington; Wisconsin
Avenue from Bradley Boulevard
to Jones Bridge Road and from
Jones Bridge Road to Hunger
ford Drive; and East-West High
way from Wisconsin Avenue to
Philadelphia Avenue. The sew.
en- sections accounted for 756 &C.
cidents and three traffic deaths
from July 1, 1855, to April 80
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Congressiona
Shop Center
Work Begun

Ground was broken Saturday
for the multi.million dollar Con.
gressional Shopping City, on the
site of Congressional Airport on
Rockville Pike.
Rockville mayor Dickran Y.
Hovsepian and Arthur c. Hyde,
president of the firm developing
the shopping center, turned the
first spadeful of earth. Others
present at the ceremonies We're
State Sen. Edward Northrup,
County Councilman Wilbur
Baughman, county manager Mel
vim L. Reese, and Bud Martin Of
the ]. C. Penney Co.
When completed, the center
win include about rs stores in
Guiding. two. department stores.
and parking for more than a,00O
cars. The 50-acre tract has an
eignt-block frontage on Rockville
Pike.
John X. Kilbane, vice.president
of the development company,
numbered among tenants of the
first section j. c. Penney, Giant
Food, S. S. Kresge, Peoples Drug
Store, E. d. Edwards Shoes, Kin.
ney Shoes, Fanny Farmer Candy
Shop, Highs Dairy, Blue Ribbon
Vadet Shop and Pooh Hardware.
An additional feature will be
office In a separate section for
doctors, dentists and other pro.
fessional and business persons.
The shopping city will be built
by the Standard Construction Co.
The architectural firm of Rinau.
dot and Coupard designed the
cener.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Area Research
Center Given
$25O,OOO Gift

Chestnut Lodge Research In.
stitute in Rockville has been given
a $25o,0oo grant by the Ford
Foundation.
DR.. Donald L. Burnham, direc-
tor OF research at the institute,
says the money will be used TO
Investigate the effect of psyche
therapy on schizonphrenic pa
tients." The grant, says DR.
Burnham, will lay the ground
work for a sustained research
program and permanent research
staff.V
The grant was one OF 81 giver
for reasearch over the next five
years. The grants total 1926,
$50. There were 231 applicant,
for money.
DIR. Burnham says the Fore
gift is the largest grant in Chest
nut Lodge history. The institut,
hopes TO. publish the results O.
its research from time to time, re
ports the doctor.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Charles Welt,
Ex-Builder,
Buried Today

Charles II. Welt, a retired gen
eral contractor of Rockville, died
Monday at his home, $40 Rock.
vile Pike. For the past year he
had not been well. Mr.. Welt was
SO.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. today at the Humphrey
Funeral Home in Rockville, with
burial in Rockville Union Gene.
terry.
A Mason, Mr.. Welt was born in
Rockville and lived here all his
life. He was a graduate OF the
old Rockville Academy.
His wife died about seven years
ago. Survivors include a daugh
ter, Mrs. Lenore Welt Ruiz; a
brother, William L. Welt OF Rock
vile, and three sisters, Mrs. f. C.
Ramey Of Rockville, Mrs. A. ]
Burrows of Richmond, Va, anc
Mrs. Charles Larkins of Oakland
Calf.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Fannie Smith
OF Rockville
Dies at SO

Mrs. Fannie Tschiffely Smith
Of Rockville died Friday at Sill
yer Spring nursing home, follow.
ing a stroke. She had been Ill
for some time. She was SO.
Mrs. Smith was the widow of
Robert f. L. Smith, who practiced
law in Washington. The family
home is at SOC South Washington
Street, Rockville.
A native of Jamestown, Mrs.
Smith was member of the Rock.
vile Methodist Church and a for.
mer member of the Inquiry Club.
She was among the founders Of
the Rockville Public Library.
She is survived by a daughter,
Miss Katherine T. Smith, of the
home address; a son, r. Z. l..
Smith, Jr., Of Kensington; a sis.
ter, Miss Mabel Tschiffely, OF
Washington; brother, Fred l.
Tschiffely of Tampa, Fla, and
three grandchildren and one
great.grandchild.
Funeral services were helC
Monday at the Humphrey Funera
Home in Rockville, with Rev. VIII
liam w. Dodge officiating. Buria
was in Darnestown Presbyterian
Church Cemetery.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28

DIR. Mildred NJ. Lands will de-
sign color schemes for no more
schools after Saturday unless the
School Board approves, School
Superintendent Forbes II. Norris
announced at Mondays board
meeting. He said he will present
arguments for her continued en-
ployment as a $50 per day color
consuItant at the boards next all
day meeting July 10.
The board ordered DIR. Norris
to bring in a total summary"
of DR.. Lands activities, including
any complaints about her color
selections.
DR.. Norris revealed two weeks
ago that DR.. Lands, $3.50 a year
principal at Wood Acres School,
is paid extra to select paint
schemes for county schools. Last
week he admitted that she was
paid $415 to fly from her SYRIA
cuse University job last year to
choose equipment for Walter
Johnson High School in Bethesda.
The revelations have touched
off a Juror among other princi-
pals, architects, and parents
groups. A number of people have
criticized DR.. Lands use of vivid
colors in schools.
Paid Almost $500
Meanwhile it was learned that
DR.. Lands has submitted bills
for almost $500 for her color
consulting work and is likely to
submit bills for several hundred
dollars more before the fiscal
year ends Saturday. DR.. Norris
previously estimated her fees at
between $1,000 and $500"
In addition to the $415 she re-
ceived last year, DR.. Lands has.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
-Colorful Story
-Colorful Story --
Lands Hats Work
Pending Board Okay

been paid $1,756 this year. She
has submitted bills for about $500
which have not yet been paid.
The principal has checked out
of her $105-a-month apartment
at the Dupont Plaza Hotel and left
for her upstate New York farm,
where she is working on color
schemes for the Glenmont add
ton, Bethesda Elementary Jo-
seph Belt Junior High and Wal
ter Johnson High School, accord
ing to DR.. Norris.
DR.. lands is expected to sub
NIT a bill soon for the work she's
doing at her farm.
The color consultant leaves
next week for a month and half
tour OF Europe.
Principals Shun Repainting
Three principals say they will
not have their schools reprinted
as long as DR.. Lands selects the
colors, according to Mrs. Leo A.
Mccarthy Of Rockville. Mrs. Nc.
Carthy is making a survey of DR..
Lands activities for the County
Council Of Parent.Teacher Asso.
Citations.
Mrs. Mccarthy says some prin.
cipals are mot at all pleased" by
the color consultant's work. The
principals resent" DR.. Lands
air Of Superiority" states the
PTA official.
She says the principals are dis.
gruntled because they are not
consulted when the colors for
their schools are selected. Some
oppose the bright, sharp" colors,
according to Mrs. Mccarthy.
Some principals are asking how
DR.. Lands got time off from her
Continued on Page D
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Dial System
Opening Set
In Rockville

4 RocNville's new $1.4 million dial
phone system will be switched on
at five minutes past midnight
Sunday morning on the 50th an
niversary of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co. opera
tons in the area.
Maryland Republican Congress-
man Dewitt S. Hyde will make
the first call on the new equip
ment. He will phone Rockville
Councilman John Oxley during
the dedication ceremony of the
new c and P building, 200 Oak
Avenue, at 8 p. m. Saturday. Mr..
Oxley will be seated a few feet
from the congressman.
Circuit Court Judge Stedman
Prescott will make the first dial
ed long-distance call. He will dial
for the recorded weather forecast
in a western city.
William X. Hodges, manager
of the Rockville c and p office,
will speak at the dedication on
the so year history of the phone
spuapany in the area, John c.
livingston, local wire chief, win
give information on the new
building.
Other notables at the dedica-
ton will include c and P vice
president II. Holmes Vogel, and
Rockville and county officials. :
C and p bought out the Enter
prise Phone Co. in 1906. At that
time there were II lines and 40
subscribers in the Rockville area.
The change-over will permit
Poplar subscribers to call other
exchanges without dialing "8"
and waiting for a second dial
tone. To dial other Poplar num-
bers, Poplar subscribers will have
to dial the exchange and the five
digits, instead of just the final
four digits.
| Poplar and Garden subscribers
will be able to reach Gathers
burg by dialing ISL" and ask.
ing the operator for the number.
After the change.over no
charge operator will cut in to
record the callers number. Toll
calls will be timed and charged
automatically.
Il The new equipment will also
permit area subscribers to dial
station-to-station long-distance
calls to many points. A directory
listing cities which may be dial
ed directly is being sent TO one.
and tworparty subscribers.
Ground for the new Rockville
telephone company building was
broken in June of last year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Big Fourth
Celebrations
Slated Here

Montgomery County will cele'
brate July 4 with two community
independence Day observances
Wednesday.
The Rockville KiWanis Club is
putting on what chairman Paul
Pfeifle calls "an old fashioned
family Fourth" at the Agricul'
tural Center in Gaithersburg
from 10 am. to 10 pm.
Events on schedule range from
beauty contest to a band con-
cert, and include children's and
adults baseball games, a tug OF
war between the Optimists and
the Rockville Civitan Club. a
creased pig contest and three
legged race. Featured baseball
game will be between the Rock
vile and Beallsvile teams.
The Bethesda Chevy Chase
Drum and Bugle Corps, the Pc
tomac Band, and service band
will provide music.
A Commute fireworks display
will be put on at dark. Box
lunches will be sold, or families
may bring their own picnic, said
co-chairman Charles Durbin.
Admission price is 81 for adults
and so cents for children over
eight. Younger children will be
admitted free. All proceeds will
go to the Optimist charity fund,
Mr.. Pfeifle said.
In Takoma Park, the tradi.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28

we are not looking to the fu.
ture." He says If no development,
land, and planning policies for the
upper county are formulated, the
operation of existing ordinances
will sink TO the worst kind of
spot coming"
Mr.. Gutheim urges the Council
to indicate that it views this mat.
ter with gravity" and TO request
Of County Manager NJ. L. Reese
periodic reports on his efforts to
recruit a planning staff.
The Council last week approved
"a budget of $41,571 for the up.
county planning office, a jump Of
$4,000 over the present years
appropriation
Mr.. Gutheim lives near DECKER,
son. lie is, a member OF the Up
per Montgomery County Plan
ming Commission and is the coun
ty representative on the Nationa
Capitol Regional Planning Coun
Gil.
Mr.. Gutheim, in his letter, say
the county needs a planning stat
for three major reasons:
]. To aid DR.. Dorothy Munc,
who will probably be hired TO SUI
vcy the up.county for possible ir
dustrial sites. IF the county /
CONTINUED on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Late News Briefs

Robert C. Edmison, 6S, died
Tuesday night at Suburban Hos.
pital five hours after police saw
he was accidentally shot in his
Wheaton home by William d.
LOmax. Both men are cOlored
Police report that before he
died EdmisOn asked that no
charges be placed against Lo-
AK. LOmax has not been
harged, pending a decision of
he States Attorney, say police.
The shooting occurred while
LOmax and Edmison were
4s"playing with" a .41O gauge
shot gun, according to police.
The fatal blast struck the vic.
tim in the lower right side.
Three Washington colored mer
have been booked on house break
ing charges after police say they
admitted last Fridays safe rob.
berry at the Silver Spring Day
Cleaners in the 5000 block of
Georgia Avenue. A safe contain.
ing $oOO IN cash was stolen, pol
ice report. The safe was later
recovered in the Chapel Oaks
section OF Prince Georges Coun.
ty but the money has not turned
up. Booked are William Francis
Moore, 80, a former employee of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28

Bond OK'd
By Council

For the second time in week
the Montgomery County Council
has given its backing to bonds
issued by bi-county quasi-gov.
ornamental organization. Tuesday
the county pledged its guarantee
of $1,750,000 in bonds to be is.
sued next month by the Mary
land National Capitol Park and
Planning Commission.
Last week the county backed
with its full faith and credit a
81 million dollar bond issue of
the Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commission.
The Park and Planning Com
mission bonds will be advertised
July 6 and bids will be opened
July 3D. Bonds for 100000, back
ed by Prince Georges County,
will be sold at the same time.
County finance director Alex
K. Hancock said the timing of
bond issues this year is the best
ever" He said the market had
time to absorb" county bonds
before the WSSC issue and time
to absorb" the sanitary commits
sion bonds before the MNCPPC
issue.
A half million dollars of the
revenue will be used to construct
the planning commission office
building in Silver Spring. A mil
lion will go for stream valley
and neighborhood park acquisi.
ton. The remaining $250,0OO
will be used for development of
the Little Falls Park near Beth.
esda.
The planning commission has
issued list of areas in which
neighborhood parks will be ac-
quired, and the approximate size
Of the parks: Wheaton, six acres;
Falkland, 20 acres; Wexford Old
Georgetown Road, 10 acres; Ken
wood Park, eight acres; Hermit.
age beyond Wheaton off Geor.
gia Avenue) IS acres; Bannock-
burn, five acres; Somerset, five
acres; Oakview, five acres; and
Aspen Hill, 20 acres.
Jesse F. Nicholson, secretary
treasurer of the commission, told
the council that his unit eventual
ly hopes to put one and a quar-.
ter mile four-lane highway from
Bradley Boulevard to River Road
through the Little Falls Park.
The new bond issue will finance
a two-lane highway, he said.
Mr.. Nicholson also advised the
council that he will ask the State
Legislature to raise the seven
cents per 500 of assessed value
park tax in the county.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
Sanford Appointed
To New York Job

Ernest E. Sanford of Silver
Spring has been named admins.
trative manager of Vitro Engin'
eering Division of New York. The
division is part CT Vitro Corpor'
alton of America.
For the past six years Mr.. San
ford has been administrative
manager Of Vltro Laboratories
Division at Silver Spring, where
he has served since l947.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28
PEPCO Needs
No Dam Says
State Senator

The Potomac Electric Power
Company will not have to build
a dam on the Potomac River at
it's planned generating plant near
Dickerson if Congress approves a
Corps of Engineers proposed
dam at River Bend, the president
of the Maryland State Senate
stated this week. Louis L. Gold.
stein said the reservoir behind
the River Bend dam would pro.
vide plenty of cooling water" for
PEPCO's generators.
The statement was made in a
press release announcing that
Senator Goldstein has asked the
Maryland Legislative Council to
appoint a committee to review
"the work which has been done
by Federal, State, and interstate
agencies looking to improvement
of this great (Potomac) river
basin."
Maryland Senator Butler has
introduced a bill in Congress
granting PEPCO authority tc
build a dam on the Potomac neal
the mouth of the Monocacy. The
dam would divert water to COO,
the generating equipment.
Senator Goldstein says the
PEPCO dam will be flooded out
by the River Bend project. Con
sumers would be able to buy
cheaper electricity if the power
company cools its generators in
the River Bend reservoir, the
State Senate president asserts.
The River Dam reservoir would
also provide "a wonderful recrea
tional lake" extending almost to
Harper's Ferry West Virginia
the Senator says.
In urging a review of Potomac
River development, Senator Cold
stein brands the river in the
Washington area little more than
an open sewer" Except for navi
cation in the Tidewater area, the
Potomac is about the least devel
oped of the great rivers of the
United States" he charges.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28

Will be an Interpretation of the
County charter" She declared,
THE Council has got to know we
have the convictions to fight for
what we want"
The resolution states that the
Intent" of the Council in passing
the Board of Education budget
! Friday was to give classroom
teachers six per cent pay raise
and principals and supervisors a
four per cent salary hike. The
resolution also advises the Board
that in approving a school for the
Seven Locks Road.Bradley Boule-
ward area, the Council favored a
more suitable site.
The resolution was passed after
the council had approved a bud
get slashing 81 million from
school operating requests and $2.2
million from school construction
requests. The Board had sought
new salary scale that would
have increased the pay of instruc.
tional personnel about 10 per
cent.
School Board member Rose
Kramer charged Monday that the
resolution is an attempt by the
Council to make policy for the
school system" School Superin-
tendent Forbes H. Norris quip-
ped, "He who holds the purse
strings controls the policy"
Rockville lawyer Charles w.
Prettyman has declared that the
Council "has no right to tell the
School Board where to build
schools" DR.. Norris advised the
Board Monday. The lawyer, how
ever, does not believe the Board
has a right to "go behind" the
Councils appropriation for teach
ers' salaries, Norris stated.
Norris Seeks Qualification
Meanwhile DR.. Norris has an
appointment with the Council
Tuesday morning. He will ask
that the Councils statement on
salary hikes be clarified. He
wants to know If the four per
cent raise for principals and sup
ervisors should be applied only to
their base pay or to their total
pay, which includes allowances
for added responsibility.
At Mondays meeting the
School Board approved a letter to
DR.. Norris, copies of which will
be sent to councilmen. In the let
ter the Board pledges itself to
Continue to plead for full imple-
mentation" of a higher pay scale.
The letter asks DR.. Norris to
appeal to his Institutional staff
"as professionals" to put tn, well
fare of the students "above self"
DR.. Norris is also urged to exert /.
every effort" to maintain the
quality and quantity" of service.
In the letter the Board says APP
preparations for school admins
tration will accomplish "a more
equitable distribution of the work
load" and will free DR.. Norris for
professional leadership of your
teachers and your Board"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-28

East WOOD Lane.
The mayor and council granted
Mr.. Rmmel building permit for
the store Tuesday night. Mr..
Myers said he win consult with
his client before deciding on fur.
Their action.
Before the permit was granted
city attorney David Cahoon adj
vised the mayor and council that
Rockville owns only a drainage
easement in the strip.
Mr.. Myers; told the council the
strip has never been formerly
dedicated to the town but is a
street by implication" because it
appears on the original map OF
the town drawn in 1903. "You
can't just give this street away
Mr.. Myers asserted. He said peo-
pie will be able to claim all un-
paved and undedicated streets
merely by squatting on them"
Kelly is a political foe of the
present administration. The dis
puted strip leads from North
Washington Street to the side OF
his lumber yard.
Mr.. Cahoon told the council he
has affidavits from two longtime
town residents swearing that
strip has never been used as a
street. Mr.. Myers claimed that
the town has spent tax money to
maintain the strip as a public
right Of way. He said Mr.. Kelly
used the strip last year to move
q building onto his lumber yard.
N. Richard Kimmel, son of the
developer, protested that the
strip cannot be a street because
it's cut by a "meandering ditch
and blocked by trees. Young Kim.
mel said ground will be broken
for the controversial store this
week.
Hechinger Gets Permits
Hechinger Co. was granted
building and use permits Tues
day by the mayor and council
for a $250,0O0 lumber yard, gar
den shop, and hardware store al
Hungerford Drive and NORTH
Washington Street.
John w. Hechinger told thu
council that the building will Gov
err 21,000 square feet of the five
acre lot. The parking lot vii
cover $4,000 square feet, he said
Mr.. Hechinger said. I'VE are 20
! ing to get started Immediately