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WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-Northern New England
and the Northern Appaachans expected to have
tonight while rain forecast in the of the east
of the Mississippi Snow also expected the Central
Plains in the Rockies while Southern California will
rain will be colder in the Upper Mississippi Valley
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-06
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Threat Of Automotion
Gets Congress Eye
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

The House Appropriations Committee has taken positive
stand protecting Federal empoye Jobs from the threat of
donation.
In reporting its first bill Of the year-the 1857 Treas
Post Office Appropriations measurhe committee
the threat the Jobs of employees in the Bureau
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-06
Weather Delays Search
For Lost Antarctic Plane
By SAUL PETIT
Associated Press STAFF Correspondent

ABOARD THE USS ARNEB IN ROSS SEA- Antarctica Feb
6The command of Operation Deep
weather to throw all available aircraft Navy
plane missing with aboard
Two ground search parties the sterday
the Little America base and trail post miles eastward
which the missing craft took off.
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AM. Sunday 10 Monday
Hieh. 81. at $50 pm.
Low, 80, at 4:05 pm.

FURNISHED by the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
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sparing other employees from
illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-06

| RETIREMENT HEARINGS
The Senate Civil Service sub
committee on Federal retirement
legislation will resume its hear
! ings Wednesday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Fire Carnival
To Continue
In Rockville

The Rockville Volunteer Fire
Departments annual carnival con
tinues each evening except Sun
day through August Is, with
grounds prizes every night.
Three automobiles will be given
away the last three nights Of the
affair.
This carnival, the Goth in a Sc
ries, is the princial support Of the
fire department, which gets no
tax money. 1t is held on the de
partments own grounds on Rock
vile Pike.
Attractions include rides for
adults and children, games of
chance and skill, luncheon ane
carnival fare, and round and
square dancing TO Sid Graham's
Five Tones" every night. In ad.
dition, special entertainment is
scheduled each evening.
Admission to the grounds is 20
Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Water Vote
Set Sept. 10
For Rockville

Rockville citizens will vote Sep.
TENDER 10 on whether the city
shall issue S2,600,000 in water
revenue bonds to finance con.
struction of water system in.
volving tapping the Potomac
River.
The plan involves construction
OF a filtration plant, intake sta.
ton and total of eight miles of
24-inch transmission line. City
manager John MARYLAND says il
is the most economical method
of increasing Rockville's water
supply proposed by consultants
on the problem.
Mr.. MARYLAND also says con
sentative estimates indicate" that
the $2,600,000 bond issue can be
financed with no increase in
water rates or the city tax rate
Principal and interest on the
bonds will be paid from water
revenues.
Since 1854, Mr.. MARYLAND says,
the city water system has been
improved by buying one million
CONTINUED on Page d
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Flood Control
Federal Aid
Here

In the wake of Rock Creek
floods which cost six lives and
hundreds of thousands of dollars
in property damage in Montgom-
cry County, the Montgomery Soil
Conservation District has an
nounced that it will seek Federal
assistance to build flood-control
facilities on up-county streams.
Conservation district chairman
George Lechlider said the group
will apply lin the near future"
for U. S. Government help.
The Rock Creek Watershed AS.
ISOLATION, group of citizens or
gained to promote conservation
of the watershed, has hit the soil
district for what it calls delay
in applying for Federal assist
ance.
Soil district officials replied
that a preliminary survey of
Rock Creek area needs has been
in the works for some time. (See
Letter Box, page d.
The July 20 floods, says the
soil district board of supervisors,
demonstrated the need for prop.
erly designed upstream flood de-
tention structures.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Registration
Board Sits
For Voters

The registration board will
make the following appearances
to register voters, who did not
register for the May primary, for
the general election in No
Vember:
Tuesday, Damascus Firehouse;
Wednesday, Gaithersburg Fire
house; Thursday, Olney Elemen.
tary School; August 81, Four
Corners Elementary; August 81,
Laytonsville Elementary; August
% and %, Glenmont Elementary;
August %, Clarksburg School;
August %, Colesville Elementary;
August %, Kensington Armory;
August %, Burtonsville Elemen.
tary; August %, Hillandale Ele.
mentary; August 20, Broad Acres
Continued on Page d
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
II ,048 Ask Referendum on Hospital
Foley Opens Campaign
With Diverse Helpers

Surrounded by members of his
advisory committee-eight Dem
ocrats of widely differing polifi-
cal complexions--John r. Foley
Tuesday night kicked off his cam
paign to unseat Republican De-
Witt S. Hyde in the Sixth District
Congressional election in Novem-
Der.
Mr.. Foley, a lawer and judge
of the Orphans Court, was host
at an informal reception opening
his campaign headquarters at
10305 Kensington Parkway in
Kensington.
Beside the Democratic candi-
date, in the reception line from
the advisory committee were:
]. Grahame Walker, County
Councilman, who lost to Foley in
the May Democratic Congress
sional primary.
Stella Werner, County Council.
woman, who frequently opposes
the "old line" county Democratic
organization which backed Foley's
primary campaign.
! State Senator Edward S. North.
rop.
Margaret Schweinhaut, member
of the Montgomery County Dele
CATION to the State Legislature,
and one of the most outspoken
critics of the "old line" group.
William B. Wheeler, member OF
the State Legislature Delegation
]. Forest Walker, longtime
party leader in the Gaithersbure
area.
James c. Gildea, assistant to
the secretary-treasurer of the
AFL-CIO.
David L. Cahoon, Rockville city
attorney, an da political maverick
who ran in May for seat at the
State Convention independent Of
both the "old line" and "insur
gent" states.
Edward ]. Ryan, Frostburg law
yer and unsuccessful Democrat
candidate for Congress in 1854, is
chairman of Mr.. Foley's advisory
committee. He was not present
Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Foley told the
Sentinel he hopes to make his
first major campaign speech or
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Board May
ExploreAid
From State

The Montg cry County
School Board is considering an
appeal to its Annapolis delega-
ton for legislative help with
some of it's problems.
In a discussion at Monday
nights meeting on proposed
items to take UP with the dele
cation, Eric Rhodes, executive
secretary of the Montgomery
County Education Association,
suggested that the delegation be
asked to fight for increases in
the states minimum teachers
salaries.
Mr.. Rhodes pointed out that in
refusing the proposed teacher
pay scale this year, the county
manager had recommended that
the board look into the possibility
of getting more state aid by this
means.
1--WE can't afford to pass the
buck back and forth on this too
many times" the representative
of the teachers association told
the board. Board members
agreed that this would be the
first and most important item at
any meeting with the delegation.
Also at Monday nights meet
ing, the board okayed two more
appointments as recommended in
the McKinsey survey. Maxwell
Emerson and Robert Eliot were
approved as bus inspectors at
starting salaries of $4,000 with
the county manager to be given
notice of the appointments.
Carried over from last week
were preliminary plans for addi-
tons to MasDonald Knobs Ele-
mentary and Poolesville High
Schools. Frank Duane brought
in revised plans for Macdonald
Knobs that won approval this
time from the board.
James Sheldon, supervisor OF
construction, recommended elm.
mating two classrooms from
Poolesville as means of keep,
ing within the budget for that
school rather than cutting out
essentials that would lower the
standards. The board asked that
alternates be taken in the bidding
on all proposed cuts so that il
could evaluate the costs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Group Gets TtUice
Needed Petitions

a referendum. Workers in the
Supervisor of Elections office are
counting and checking the sigma
lures.
The hospital bill would have
become law next Wednesday had
the two.month referendum petit
ton campaign failed. The bill
authorizes construction of Sill
yer Spring hospital with the pro-
ceeds of So million county bond
issue. The bond would be repaid
over 80 years from special tax
not to exceed &c per 500 of as
sessed value in the Thirteenth
(Wheaton-Silver SPRING. Election
District.
The petitions were handed to
Rose Dawson and Ward Cadding-
ton in the elections supervisor
office by John r. Kidwell, vice
chairman of the Referendum AS
ISOLATION. Some of the 313 volun-
teers who collected the sigma
lures witnessed the ceremony.
Mr.. Kidwell stated, THE pre-.
sentation of this document Is a
unique event in the history of
Montgomery County. 1t is the
(See Picture, Page p
first time that the voters of the
county have exercised their right,
under our charter, to petition for
a vote on a local public law"
Meanwhile, the association is
considering an educational cam
paign" prior to the Fall vote. A
speakers bureau may be set up
"to accommodate groups who
may want to know not only the
facts about the hospital bill, but
also our opinions on any other
issues that may be involved"
say association spokesman.
The greatest number Of sigma
lures, 1,131, were collected by
Mrs. Ruth A. Spindler of Silver
Spring. Esther e. Galbraith of
Silver Spring gathered 676 names
and Eric Reisfeld of Silver
Spring collected Gil.
The pile of petitions was not
orized by so notary publics who
donated their services.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
New Yorker
Gets School
Business Job

DR.. Arthur D. Templeton OF
Yonkers, N. Y, has been APP
pointed director of business af-
fairs for the Montgomery County
school system. He will super
wise the departments of planning,
purchasing, construction, build
ings and grounds, cafeterias,
transportation and payrolls.
The position is one of six new
ones created by the Board of Ed
ucation on recommendation of a
survey made by McKinsey and
Co., management consultants, of
the school system.
DR.. Templeton, presently school
finance officer in Yonkers, will
take over his new $11,500 post
August 81. He is a graduate of
New York and Columbia Univer-
sites, where he specialized in
public school administration and
school plant planning.
A Marine veteran, DR.. Temple
ton is married and the father Of
two daughters. He is AZ.
Other new positions recon-
mended by McKinsey are assist.
ant superintendent in charge of
elementary education mot yet
filed, assistant superintendent
in charge of secondary education,
assistant in charge Of personnel,
director of education services and
controller
Brian Benson, former director
of finance for county schools, will
take over the controller job.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Record Breaking Entries
Expected for County Fair

area people are expected to come
out for the fairs many attrac.
lions. Well over 10000 attended
last year, Judge Farmer said.
Among the bluebloods OF the
animal kingdom who will be on
display are lin the dairy cattle
division) 2f0 prize Holsteins, 81
Guernseys, 81 AyIshires, 26
Brown Swiss and 156 Jerseys.
SiXty.one Herefords are enter.
ed in the beef cattle division as
are 13 black Angus, % short.
horns, and 81 Ill beef cattle en-.
tries.
A record 288 blueblood swine
are entered this year, followed
by a capacity PA sheep. Horses,
rabbits, goats and poultry will
swell the entry list TO some 5000
this year.
Judge Farmer says that a full
program of entertainment is on
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Mental Clinic
Support Vote
Awaits Study

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil has postponed a decision on
whether or not to support the in
dependent Mental Hygiene Clinic
until Health Officer William j.
Peoples determines how many
county referred patients use the
clinic.
Dr. Peoples says he will prob
ably recommend that the county
pay the clinic for each county
referred patient or county-re-
ferred visit.
The Health officer told the
Council Tuesday that under a
new plan for distributing State
funds, $5,720 formerly given an
nually directly to the clinic by
the State, is now given to the
County to spend at will.
County Manager M. L. Reese
told the Council that 1t must de-
eide whether or not the county
will "subsidize" private clinics.
DR.. Peoples says the clinic will
operate Eat a very reduced" il
the county fails to contribute the
S., 100
The Health Officer told the
Council that patients are referred
to the clinic by the Juvenile Court,
the Welfare Department, the
Health Department, and other
county agencies.
DR.. Peoples says he has asked
the State Health Department to
survey all mental health facilities
in the area.
The mental hygiene clinic has
received no county funds since
July l. The clinic still gets 81, ATE
annually from the State for a
stenographer and psychiatric soc
ial worker. Largest supporter OF
the clinic is the Community
| Chest.
Though the S., 720 is not in the
budget, DR.. Peoples says the con
tribution could be made from a
$23,649 incentive" fund given the
county by the State.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
White Oak
Industrial
Zone Asked

The Contee Sand and Gravel
Company has asked the Mont
gomery County Council to rezone
224 acres on Columbia Pike near
White Oak from agricultural to
industrial.
Contee, which operates gravel
pit in the area, repeatedly plans
to develop an industrial park. ="
The industrial application was
one of 68 rezoning requests on
which the Council will begin
hearings September 4. No hear
ing dates have been set.
R. Robert Linowes, attorney for
Contee, has requested light indus
trial Zoning on 80 acres of the
tract, which is on the east side
of Columbia Pike, and heavy in
dustrial coming on the rear 142
acres.
Mr.. Linowes has asked the
Council to allow him one hour to
present each case, instead of the
usual 'half-hour.
The attorney says about one
third of the area will be occupied
by buildings. Parking and load
ing, he says, will be back from
property lines.
The sand and gravel company
will continue its operation, accord
ing to Mr.. Linowes, but will fill
and regrade the land as it com
pletes each excavation.
The lawyer says he is prepar
ing deed covenants which will re
strict the use of the land anc
prohibit nuisance-type industries
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
TuinbrOOk
p. o., Route
Change Set

Rockville postmaster Hugh H.
Hassell announced this week that
the Post Office will build a sub
station in Twinbrook, and con.
vert rural routes one and two
to- mounted city routes.
Plans for the TWinbrook clas-
sified station call for 1000 square
feet of floor space plus loading
platform and maneuvering area.
Carriers serving the surrounding
residential area will operate di-
rectly from the new station.
Bids for the new building will
be received until August 81, Mr..
Hassell said. Builders seeking
further information may contact
him.
Conversion Of the rural routes
will be made August u, Mr.. Has
sell said, with carriers William
Fl. Mathers and Clarence +. An.
ders continuing to serve resi-
dents of those areas as mounted
cry carriers.
The change in service will al
low carriers to deliver direct
packages too large to fit into
mail boxes, the postmaster said
Persons now living on rural
routes one and two must use
street names and house numbers
as soon as they are available, said
Mr.. Hassell. The Montgomery
County planning department is
now preparing a numbering sys
tenn for these two routes. House
holders within the Maryland.Na
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission district may get
their house numbers from thai
office.
Until numbers are provided
Mr.. Hassell added residents may
continue to use their rural route
numbers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Park Named
For Fireman
Killed Here

The bravery of Rockville's
first volunteer fireman to die in
action will be commemorated by
the naming of the Elwood H.
Smith Memorial Park unanimous
ly approved Tuesday night by the
mayor and council for the new
city park of approximately four
acres in the Hungerford subdiVi-
sion in southeast Rockville.
The resolution cited "the Rock
vile volunteer firman whose
spirit and effort typified the com
munity at its highest" Mr.. Smith
lost his life during rescue work
in the flash flood of July 20.
Meanwhile the fund for Mr..
Smiths family initiated by the
Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment for which Mr.. Smith served
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09

The Montgomery County Fair,
which will be held in Gathers.
burg August 81 10 %, has al.
ready broken one record and is
expected TO shatter others, Judge
r. w. Farmer, fair chairman,
announced.
Four new barns have been
added TO house he record mum.
Der of entries, Judge Farmer
says. The Montgomery Fair,
largest county fair in Maryland,
has been bursting at the seams
for each Of the past several
years.
More than $4,000 in prizes
and premiums will be awarded
TO exhibitors, Judge Farmer said.
Among the major divisions are
dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine
and horses among others and
full competition will be held for
All youngsters.
More than 100000 Washington
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Man SuffOcates
In House Blaze
At KensingtOn

James M. Swingle, 80, died early
Tuesday morning in a fire at his
home, 1926 Saul Road, Kensing.
ton, apparently from suffocation.
His body, clad only in shorts,
was discovered near the tele.
phone. Police say he was probab.
ly trying to phone for help when
he was overcome.
The victims wife and two
daughters, Sandra, II, and Caro-.
Ign, II, were not at home when
the blaze was discovered about
4:30 am.
A nine-foot hole was burned in
the living room floor, apparently
started by an ash dropped on the
carpet.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09

The Silver Spring hospital ques-
ton apparently will be on the
ballot in November. The Hospi-
tai Referendum Association Tues
day morning presented to the
Supervisor of Elections office in
Rockville $40 red-white-and.blue
tied petition sheets signed by
11,048 county residents asking a
referendum on the hospital bill
passed in May by the County
Council.
Signatures from only five per
cent of the county's 100000 regis
tered voters are required to force
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Ground Broken
At MNCPP Site

Gov. Theodore r. McKeldin
was. the principal speaker yes
terday at COMMUNICATING cere-
monies for the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Com.
missions 100000 regional office
building in Silver Spring.
The new structure, located at
Spring Street and Georgia Ave.
nue., is expected to be finished
next summer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
NH Building Planned

Ted EngIehardt OF Silver
Spring has been awarded the
architectural and engineering
contract for a new five-story, So
million biologics standards lab
oratory at the National Insti.
tutes of Health in Bethesda. Con
struction of the air conditioned
structure is expected to begin
early next year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
City Plan
Commission
Established

A Rockville planning commits
sion was set up under Maryland
law Tuesday night by the mayor
and council to replace the advis-
DRY planning and coming commits
sions, as of September Is.
Councilman John Oxley said
that the new five-member plan
ming authority was "a step in the
right direction" Frank Ecker and
Oxley objected to having a mem
Der of the mayor and council serv-
ing on the commission.
Mr.. Oxley felt the two bodies
should be completely indepened-
ent of each other. City attorney
David Cahoon pointed out that
this was requirement set up
by state law and was the usual
practice throughout the area. Mr..
Ecker suggested that the Mont
gomery County delegation be con
suited on ways of changing this
regulation.
The other four members are to
be appointed by the mayor and
confirmed by the council for a
five year term serving without
compensation. The commission
elects its own chairman and is
authorized to hold public hear
ings on all plans and make rec
concentrations to the city council
for action.
Decisions Reached
Four decisions pending since
last month were made by the
mayor and council Tuesday. Four
new building line restrictions
were added to the 1916 ordinance,
making total !, of IS setback
lines for the city.
The only opposition had been
to the 75-foot line on both sides
of the Rockville Pike. Although
the great majority of the prop
erty owners on this street express
sed approval, Joseph Tammara
asked that an exception be made
in his case as all Of his existing
building lies within the setback
line and henceforth he will be
prevented from any structural
changes. Mayor Dickran How
sepian and Mr.. Ecker felt an ex
ception in this case would be dis
terminating against the other
property owners.
An exception was allowed for
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Beauty Contest

Entries are due August 10
for the beauty contest spOn.
sOred by the Gaithersburg Vol.
unteer Fire Department in con.
nectiOn with the Labor Day
parade. Single girls between
is and rs are eligible, with pro-
fessiOnaI models excluded.
Jack Griffith, chairman OF the
contest, says the department
will try 10 find sponsors for
girls who want TO compete.
For further information call
the fire department or Mr..
Griffith at Gaithersburg 1929.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Demos Seek $4,000

A meeting last week of Demo
cratic precinct chairmen and cam
paign workers at Rockville de-
cided to raise $4,000 in Mont
gomery County for this falls pc
litical campaign.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-08-09
Industry Zone Okayed

The County Council has re-
loned from residential to indus
trial 80 acres belonging to Kelvin
Wade between Route III, Buck
Lodge Road, and the BIO rail-
road tracks near Buck Lodge.