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Evening star., 1956-08-18
Dr.. }. R. Guyther Heads
New Charitable Unit

DR.. Joseph r. Guyther. OF
Mechanicsville. Md. has been
elected president of the New
Particular Council Of the st,
Vincent de Paul Society for
Charles. Calvert and st. Mary's
counties. Md.
Others elected to serve with
DR.. Guyther include: Francis B.
Gwynn, jr.. Of La Plata. vice
president; Francis j. SCHNEIDER,
of Charlotte Hall, secretary, and
James T. Costello, Of Bryantown,
treasurer. The society is an or
ganization Of Roman Catholic
men pledged to works Of charity.
Evening star., 1956-08-18

westminster, MUS OCPVCuA0CA ~
I2 and 3. Bus transportation is
available by chartered service.
round-trip fare $3.50. For
reservations. contact H. B. Niece.
YMCA, 1886 G street NV.
Col. Wallace M. Hale, chaplain.
USA. has been elected teacher Of
the Dawson Bible Class. First
Baptist Church. Col. Hale is
from Kemp. Tex, and attended
Baylor University and South
western Baptist Theological
Seminary. He currently assigned
to the Pentagon as Chief of the
Training Division in the Office
of the Chief Of Chaplains.
Ralph j. LaVallee, 1853 winner
of the outstanding service award
presented by the Organized Bible
Glass Association, will be the
guest teacher of the combined
Adult Bible Glasses of Emory
Methodist Church at $3.50 am.
tomorrow. Edwin F. Dick, past
president of the Box Bible Glass,
will preside,
Prof. Charles Collier of George
Washington University will be
the guest teacher of the COM
bined adult Bible classes of the
National Presbyterian Church
tomorrow at 10 am. Mr.. Collier
will speak on Isaiah"
c. Vernon Hill. teacher of the
Mems Bible Class of Wallace
Memorial Presbyterian Church.
will be the guest teacher of the
Harrison Bible Class of st. Luke's
Methodist Church at GAS am.
tomorrow. Col. E. B. Wadsworth
will present the scripture les
son.
The Templemen's Bible Glass
of Temple Baptist Church will
meet at 10 am. tomorrow with
A. B. Czachurski presenting the
lesson.
Apostle to the Gentiles" will
be the subject Of Mrs. Blanche E.
Oppegard's lesson before the
Trinity Women's Bible Glass of
Sherwood Presbyterian Church
at $3.50 am. tomorrow.
Marshall r. Baker, vice presi-
dent Of the Organized Bible
Class Association will be the
guest teacher of the Trinity
Mems Bible Glass of Trinity
Methodist Church, meeting to-
morrow in Naval Lodge Hall.
Pennsylvania avenue and Fourth
street Sc.
Louis C. Ellis will discuss the
lesson before the Baraca Bible
Glass Of the Brookland Baptist
Church at $50 am. tomorrow.
The Rev. Edwin Naylor will be
the guest teacher of the Wiles
Bible Class of Keller Memorial
Lutheran Church at $3.50 am.
tomorrow. Mr.. Naylor is a stu
dent minister from Gettysburg
(Pa.r Theological Seminary.
The Pinkham Bible Glass for
the National Baptist Memorial
Church will conduct the evening
worship service at the Central
Union Mission on Wednesday
at 8 p. m. E. C. Deering, of the
United States Office of Educa-
ton, will speak to the class at
$3.50 a. m. tomorrow.
At Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church tomorrow at
10 a. m, the international lesson
will be taught by Martin e.
White in the All States Glass.
by Mrs. Caradine Hooton in the
Esthnaoruth Class and by Miss
Florence Mcdonald in the Rain
bow Class. In the forum Indian
Evening star., 1956-08-18

CAMP WABANNA
Evening star., 1956-08-18
Address on Economy

Charles w. Harbaugh. sales
manager Of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce, will
speak on "How an Expanding
Economy Helps All People" dur
ing the International Crossroads
Sunday Morning Breakfast at 8
am. tomorrow in the Central
YMCA, 1876 G street NV.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Heart Sunday
Canvass Set

Three thousand Montgomery
County volunteers will compose
a Heart Sunday army for a one
day Countrywide collection in be-
half of this years Heart Fund
campaign.
The crusade against heart dis
ease will begin Sunday during the
afternoon hours and continue
throughout the day. The volun-
teers will ring doorbells and leave
envelopes that contributions may
be given or sent to Heart Fund
headquarters.
Our Heart Sunday army has
a single major objective, namely,
support of the crusade against dis
eases of the heart and blood YES
sels," said Francis G. Addison III,
Heart Sunday chairman.
Mr.. Addison pointed out that
living Americans affected by one
or more of the heart diseases total
about 100000 or one in 16. APP
plying the one-in-16 ratio to the
population of Montgomery Coun-
ty, he suggested that it seems log
ical to assume that we include
within our boundaries some 1862
heart sufferers.
Heart Fund contributions will
support three.way attack
against heart diseases - through
research, through public and pro
fessional education, and through
community heart programs.
Sundays house-to.house collec-
ton is the focal point of the
month.long 1856 Heart Fund drive
which began February l. 1t will
be Montgomery County's second
Heart Sunday collection.
Mr.. Addison said a major por-
ton of funds collected Sunday
will be used to advance the war
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Gerwig Heads
State Press
Association

Charles L. Gerwig of the Ellicott
City Times has been elected pres
ident of the Maryland Press As
ISOLATION. Louis NJ Leimbach, CO.
publisher of the Sentinel, is a
member Of the board Of directors.
Other officers, elected at the
associations convention in Balt>
more last week, are Oscar Morris
Of the Salisbury Times. vice-pres-
ident for dailies; Gertrude Poe of
the Laurel News Leader, vice
president for weeklies; William
J. Kerbin Jr of the Snow Hill
Democratic Messenger, secretary,
and Dan Tabler Of the Centreville
Record. Observer, treasurer.
Besides Mr.. Leimbach, direc-
tors are c. Neil Baylor Of the
Hagerstown Herald-Mail, J..
Stephen Becker of the Baltimore
News.Post, William Cronin of the
Aberdeen Hartford Democrat, and
Richard II. Elliott Of the Annap-
oils Capital.GaZette Press.
Also Eugene T. Cunning Of the
Cumberland Evening Times, Ed
ward Hall of the Prince Freder-
lex Calvert Independent, Lee Nc.
Cardell Of the Baltimore Sunpap.
ers. Omer J. Shively Of the POGO
moke City Worchester Democrat,
and Richard Worthington Of The
Aegis of Bel Air.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

Both Mrs. Werner and ]. G.
Walker indicated they we're vot-
ing for the measure only because
this ordinance is better than no
ordinance" Mrs. Werner, in
prepared statement, charged that
the ordinance violates the State
law, does not provide a plan for
orderly development, does not
protect the water sheds, does not
adhere to a plan for future high
ways or for the connections to
public water and sewer lines, and
does not follow the majority and
major recommendations of the
hearing on it."
The ordinance provides half
acre, two acre, and apartment
house residential zones, as well as
commercial and industrial areas.
Half acre lots are permitted
throughout the up-county except
in two estate areas" near Comus
and Potomac where two acre lots
are minimum. Opponents of the
ordinance have urged large areas
in the up-county where two and
five acre lots would be minimum.
Mrs. Werner and J. G.. Walker
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
City Mayor,
3 COuncilnlen
Would Run

The first step in the Citizens
for Good Governments search
for candidates in the coming
Rockville election of mayor and
council was made last week by
determining the eligibility Of the
present city officials.
At a meeting of the executive
board, the neighborhood dele
gates and the delegates-at-arms
to plan the procedures of the
nominating convention on March
7 and 9, egg President Michael
Davis reported that one of the
five officials had indicated that
one of the five officials had indi-
Gated that he would not be avail
able for reelection and that the
other four. while not seeking
office, would accept the egg
nomination.
Although no names were men
toned by Mr.. Davis, members OF
the council when contacted later
by the Sentinel, confirmed his
report.
Z Councilman James Robertson
said that at present he was not
eligible and that he "felt that
Rockville was fortunate in hav-
ing a good many qualified people
and that it would be an advan-
tage to have some change in the
administration"
Mayor Dickran Hovsepian and
Councilman Alexander Greene,
John Oxley and Wendall Turner,
all of whom were elected on the
CONTINUED on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

er board house was partially
insured"
Five-month old Donald LutZ, Jr.,
died Tuesday afternoon of an
acute respiratory infection" at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Lutz, 301A Dawson
Avenue, Rockville. Mr.. LutZ is
at the Rockville Glass
Service.
Robert w. Cremins, chief of
the Bethesda Chevy Chase Res
cue Squad, has announced his
candidacy for the Democratic
Congressional nomination. In
1854 Mr.. Cremins unsuccessful
ly ran for sheriff. In 1852 he
was Montgomery County CAM
paign manager for losing DEM
Ocratic senatorial candidate
George P. MahOney. Mr.. Gre
minis says that he has the sup
port Of Mr.. MahOney, who is
again seeking the Senate seat.
Mr.. Cremins' campaign mana
ger is Robert Scalley, son of
ID. c. Municipal Court Judge
Thomas c. Scalley. Other Dem
ocrats seeking the COMPRESSION
al nomination include Silver
Spring labor leader Frank Pow
ers, County Councilman j. Ora
hane Walker, and Orphans
Court Judge John r. Foley. The
Republican incumbent is De-
Witt S. Hyde.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
County Bonds
Sold to NY
Banking Firm

In an Unexpectedly dramatic
ceremony Tuesday morning
Montgomery County sold its 6.8
million dollar 30-year bond issue
to the First National City Bank
of New York for a low interest
rate bid of 2.87557 percent. The
winning bid was just shade less
than the 2.878505 percent interest
bid of the New York investment
firm of Halsey Stuart and Co.,
Inc.
Other bidders were the Chase
Manhattan Bank and Hartman
Ripley and Co., both New York
firms.
The routine opening of closed
bids was enlivened when Fred
Dixon of the Washington invest
ment firm of Folger, Nolan, and
Hibbs arrived just at the II am.
bidding deadline. County Attorn-
ey Charles M. Irelan ruled that
the County could not accept Mr..
Dixon's bid because the investor
had arrived five seconds after the
deadline. Some observers thought
Mr.. Dixon had entered the Coun.
Gil chamber 80 seconds before IL
am.
The other bidders objected to
Mr.. Dixon's bid being accepted.
1t was later revealed that Mr..
Dixon's bid was 3.05 percent high
er than the other four bids.
Five million dollars of the bond
revenue will be used for school
construction, IL million for gen.
eral Improvements, including
road building, and the remainder
for parking lots in Silver Spring
and Bethesda.
In other actions Tuesday the
council:
1. Agreed to pay Donald l..
Albritton and the May Hardware
Co. $1,972.72 after the Circuit
Court held the County RESPONSE
BILE for February 1854, accident,
in which Mr.. Albritton, driving a
May Company truck, hit an over
hanging tree on Chevy Chase
Parkway.
2. Appointed Allied Civic Group
president Clarke L. Fauver of
Silver Spring and Thomas N.
Leef of Chevy Chase to the Mont
gomery County Financial Advis-
DRY Committee for three year
terms. Mr.. Fauver was named
chairman of the group for one
year.
3. Named Mary Anne Marynan
of Washington a public health
nurse at a yearly salary of 49,
744.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

posite photograph supposedly
showing Sen. Tydings shaking
hands with the then-Communist
Party leader Earl Browder."
A Senate committee investi.
gated the 1850 Maryland Sena-
torial election. Sen. Buffers Of
flee says it has mo comment" on
Mr.. Redgrave's charges or his
candidacy
Mr.. Redgrave may be legally
barred from seeking the Senate
seat, for the Constitution requires
nine years citizenship for sena.
tors. He says he is preparing to
petition "a Federal court, the Su.
preme Court If necessary for a
ruling on his eligibility. In an.
CONTINUED on Page g
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Er- BritOn 1UiU Seek
COP Bid TO Senate

H. John Redgrave of Clarks.
burg, a former British subject
who has been an American citi-
zen since August, 1854, has filed
in the Maryland Republican Sen
atorial primary and hopes to un.
seat the Republican incumbent,
Sen. John Marshall Butler.
Mr.. Redgrave indicates that he
will attack Sen. Buffers disputed
election over Democrat Willard
Tydings in 1850.
The press release announcing
Mr.. Redgrave's candidacy says
Sen. Butler "only just won the
seat from a very fine gentleman,
Sen. Willard E. Tydings, by the
issue, a day or so before election
day, Of the infamous, faxed, com.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
WSSC Moves
To Cut Debts
By $36O,OOO

The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission has an
nounced that it is going to reduce
its debt $360,00o by paying off
parts of two bond issues from
surplus funds.
The commission is calling in
100000 worth of bonds and will
reissue $4,000 worth. Interest
rate on the old bonds was four
and one-half percent. The re-
issued bonds will pay no higher
than four percent interest.
WSSc treasurer, James J..
Lynch, says the commission may
accumulate an additional cash
surplus before the end of 1856
depending on the price of steel,
cement and copper.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Car License
Applications
Now in Mail

Applications for new 1867 IL
cense plates for passenger cars
and motorcycles are being mailed
to owners, and all should be in
the mail by tomorrow according
to Frank Small, Jr., Maryland
Commissioner of motor vehicles.
The new plates will be placed
on sale Monday and may be dis
played on and after March /, &C.
cording to law.
Attention of the motorist is
called to the notice enclosed with
the application, explaining the
correct fees to be RENTED in.
stead Of those printed on the ap-
plication. When a $50 fee Is
shown, remit SIS and when a $50
fee is shown, remit S23.
The applications for motorcy.
cles will show a fee of SO but
owners should pay S., the same
as last year. A self.addressed en-
velope will be furnished for APP
plying by mail.
Two plates will be issued, one
to be displayed on the front and
one on the rear.
If the address on the applica-
ton is, for any reason, incorrect,
owners are requested to furnish
the correct address in the space
provided for that purpose.
Applications for trucks and all
other classes will not be mailed
out until about March 30
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
A Muddy Mess
Muddy Mess
Improvement Asked
On Unpaved Roads
BY Dorothy B. Waleski
Staff Reporter

It's been hard winter. There's no doubt about it.
Everyone will tell you what hard winter it has been ncud
ing the County Department of Public Works and all of the
people who live along the 335 miles of unpaved roads
the County
In fact there is many who has bitten his tongue
going chuck hole in paved road who could tell you
that is, if he still talk.
The worst winter since 1947, says the public works
department We have had IA inches of frozen ground
compared to five inches last year and alternate spells of
freezing and thawng have worked havoc all of roads,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Ordinance ZOning
Most Area ~ Acre
Effective March /

The Montgomery County Council Tuesday unanimously
enacted zonng ordinance for the $50 square mile Upper
Montgomery County Planning District, thus ending
roversy that has covered five and two Councils The
measure, which permits halfacre lots in almost all the up
County becomes effective next Thursday
The unanimous vote was surprise Stella Werner and
j. Grahame Walker longtime opponents of the ordinances
widespread hafacre lot feature joined Wilbur Baughman
Grover Walker Jerry Williams, Council president Robert T.
Snure and Charles amson who largely wrote the ordinance
in voting approval.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
Late News Briefs

IN three separate recent politi-
cal developments: County Attor.
ney Charles NJ. Irelan, former
United States Attorney for the
district of Columbia and one.
tline legal counsel to President
Harry 5. Truman, announced his
candidacy for the Montgomery
0ounty Circuit judgeship; Balti-
tline attorney George Washington
Williams, Democratic candidate
LOT the U. S. Senate, made a
SWING through Montgomery Coun-
" reaffirming his platform bas-
eo on racial segregation; and
ward Caddington, veteran Coun-
~ Democratic force, announced
the formation of a club to back
Adlai Stevenson for president and
orphans Court Judge John r.
Foley for Congress.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert Burris
and their large family escaped
with their lives but little else
when a wind-fanned fire de-
strOyed their tenant-hOuse on
the farm of o. w. Anderson on
MOnocacy Road near DickersOn
Tuesday afternoon. The family
has moved into an apartment
on a nearby farm also owned
by Mr.. Anderson. The former
County Agent believes the fire
started in the attic because of
a crack in the chimney" He
says the $4,000 log and wealth
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
BlOcher Named
New Assistant
County Attorney

Joseph P. Blocher leaves his
position as clerk.treasurer to the
mayor and council of Rockville
next Thursday to become assist
ant Montgomery County attorney
at an annual salary of $5,375.
The 31.year.old Mr.. Blocher is
married and the father of three
children. He lives in Rockville.
The new appointee received his
law degree from the University
of Maryland in 1851. He also at
tended st. Johns College in Anna
polls and Colby College at Water
vile, Me. Mr.. Blocher has held
his position with the Rockville
government since August 1854.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

refused to join the other five
councilmen in approving a de-
claration, prepared by Mr.. Snure,
stating, Without the pretension
that this ordinance is perfect, it is
believed that its adoption is truly
a milestone in the progress and
development of our great and
beautiful county and that it will
serve to promote the health,
security, general welfare and
morals of the community"
J. G. Walker said he was dis
associating" himself from the
declaration because ut can not
erase the onus Of what we have
done today"
Both Mrs. Werner and Mr..
Baughman indicated that they
will seek early revisions on the
coming maps that accompany the
ordinance.
Emergency Declared
The county had to declare
an emergency" so the ordinance
can take effect next Thursday,
instead Of 30 days after passage
as the law requires. Councilman
Williams said he wanted the or
dinance TO take effect "as soon as
possible so that builders do not
use the 30day period to start con-
struction forbidden in the ordi-
nance.
Enactment of the ordinance
came after a week of special
council discussions following a
February II public hearing. A
show Of hands at the hearing in
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23

the residence requirement from
one year to six months bringing
Rockville into line with the
county requirement.
The change in election date
was made necessary by the fact
that the city election comedies
with the primary date for State
and congressional elections.
City Attorney David Cahoon
was instructed by the mayor and
council last week to draft the
amendment because of petitions
submitted by city residents re.
questing the change.
In respect to the voter qualifi-
cation, two alternate amend
ments were proposed. The first
was that the language of the
charter be changed so that any
one who would have been eligible
to vote on May 7 would still be
eligible on April go The purpose
was to prevent persons eligible in
that week from being disqual-
fled.
The other amendment, actually
adopted, sets the residence re.
quirement at six months preced-
ing any election, instead of one
year. This year 1t makes eligible
anyone who has been in residence
since October 30, 1855. The
mayor and council will set addi-
tional registration days in April
next week.
Contracts Awarded
The mayor and council also
awarded the contract for the one
million gallon storage tann to be
constructed at Horners Lane to
the Crom Corp, Gainesville, Fla,
for $60420; and for its mechani-
cal construction TO the Ingleside
Plumbing and Heating Co. of Bal
timore for S8,967 as recommend
ed by the city's consulting en-
gineers, Gilbert Associates.
The award was made in spite
of another bidders arguments
that his company had not been
given proper notification of the
bids and that the specifications
were written to exclude steel tank
construction.
The new tank is of concrete
rather than steel, which was pre-
viously used, as recommended by
the engineering firm, because of
difference in maintenance cost.
The specifications included
both tank and base in one con-
tract in order to avoid the diff
Guilty the county found in build
ing the new county building with
separate contractors. The pro-
testing bidders firm had not
been notified since it did not bid
on both tank and base.
DO-ItYOurself Kept
Teh new plumbing code, the
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
ReuisiOns
In Schools
Suggested

McKinsey and Company, man
agement consultants, have recon-
mended sweeping changes in the
organization of the Montgomery
County school system which, If
adopted, will increase school per-
sonnet and add a possible $125,000
to the annual school budget.
The recommendations were
made public at joint meeting
of the County Council and the
School Board Tuesday night in
Rockville. The report, made
after three months of observa-
ton by the firm, cost the county
approximately $4,000.
The firms major recommended
lions for changes are in the fields
of administration, finance con-
struction, maintenance, transpor-
tation, cafeteria operations, pur-
chasing and site acquisition.
McKinsey and Company sug-
gests combining school purchas-
ing with county purchasing in the
county managers office. Respon-
sibility for setting specifications
would remain however with the
school officials.
Six New Positions
The management consultants
recommend the establishment of
six executive positions under the
superintendent: assistant for per.
sonnet administration, assistant
for research, director of educa.
tional services, assistant superin.
tendent for elementary education,
assistant superintendent for sec
ondary education, and director of
business affairs. The firm de-
clared, "The superintendent is
personally and directly respon-
sible for too many subordinates
and too many different actiW-
ties"
The consultants' recommended
ton that the School Board retain
its own attorney drew fire from
County Attorney Charles M.
Irelan.
The company charged, "Since
July /, 1855, 10 of 81 legal pro-
blems or questions have had to
be referred to private attorney.
Most of these cases could not be
handled by the county attorney
because they involved problems
on which he might have to adj
wise the County Council, or his
office was fully occupied with
other legal activities"
Obviously riled, Mr.. Irelan re-
torted, There is no conflict of
interest that would prevent the
county attorney from represent
ing the School Board" He asked
Frank Douglas of McKinsey and
Company whether the firm had
interviewed anyone in the county
attorneys office before making
recommendations for a separate
School Board lawyer. Mr., Doug
las said he did not.
Funds Questioned
Mr.. Irelan inquired where the
School Board got funds to hire
a private attorney and the School
Board explained that legal ex'
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-02-23
New Building
Falls 6 Percent

The Middle Atlantic states
started 1856 with a January dol.
lar volume Of contract awards for
future construction down six per-
cent from January 1855, accord
ing to Dodge Reports totals. Jan
uary 1856, the second highest
January on record after January
1855, was at $l85, 504 900, an
nounced Robert II. Lysle, district
manager for F. w. Dodge Corp
Grafton.