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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-12-20

Special musical programs and de-
VOtional services will be presented
during the coming week in the
Oakland area in observance of the
anniversary of the birth of Jesus
Christ. Programs are being pre-
pared for presentation at ST. Mat
thew's Episcopal, St. Peters Cath
0lic, St Pauls Methodist, St.
Marks Lutheran, and the Church
of the Nazarene.
st. Matthew's Episcopal
Members of St Matthew's Epis-
copal church will have a special
communion service on Friday eve
ming at 1880 o'clock, in observance
of st, Thomas Day.
A Christmas program will be pre-
sonted on Sunday morning at $50
during the Sunday School hour.
The Christmas story will be por-
trayed in film, prepared by Cathe-
dral Films.
st. PauPs Methodist
In St PaulS Methodist church
Christmas services will be OBJ
served on Sunday, beginning at
$3.50 O'Clock with the Sunday
School hour Christmas in the Be-
ginners' department will be in
charge of Mrs. Paul B. Naylor and
other teachers. A Christmas pro-
gram for all other departments
will be held in Fellowship hall with
a special feature being a short
play entitled The Manager of Beth
lehem." The annual Christmas
treat will be given at the close of
the service. E. Ray Jones, superin-
tendent will preside.
At the morning worship service
at l0:45, DR.. w. S. Patterson, pas
tor, will deliver the Christmas SER
mon When Christmas Comes. 50
Foster Riggs will sing "Cantique
de Noel" by Adam. Gloria in EX-
celSis Deo' will be sung by the
Junior choir and the senior choir
will render the anthem, Beside
Thy Cradle Here l Stand" The
nursery for children will be open
at 1890.
\ cantata and candle light serV-
ice will be held at 7:3O p. m. The
senior choir, directed by Mrs.
Frederick A. Thayer, Jr., with
julius B. Littman as organist, will
present the Christmas cantata,
Bethlehem" by j. H. Maunder
The cantata is in three parts: l,
The Shepherds Gifts. 2, The Kings
Gifts; and 3, Our Gift. Soloists will
be Mr. and Mrs. Jay L. Bell, B.
Beeson Snyder, Merritt H. Feather,
Carole Savage, H. Robert Dewitt,
Dick Mace and Dick Snyder.
The service will close with the
service of lights, the congregation
leaving the church in a candle
light occasional
Methodist Youth Fellowship will
not meet.
Church of the Nszarene
The Church of the Nazarcnc is
presenting Christmas cantata en-
titled While Shepherds Watched
on Monday evening, December "a
at 1880 o'clock it was announced by
Rev. Glenn Eagle pastor.
The public is invited. The church
is located at Eighth and Alder
streets.
st. Peters Catholic
The schedule for the Christmas
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

ton people and the county build
ing inspectors to get more con.
slant supervision on the job.
School people from Pennsyl
vania, Virginia, and Maryland
took part in the question and
answer periods revolving around
nine points Of interest in school
construction costs. Heated argu-
ments flared in some cases.
Pointed questions were asked
by President Robert Snure of the
County Council and Williams Nc
Kinney, representing the county
manager, on the use of color con-
sultants in the schools. No spe-
cific reference was made to Dr.
Mildred Lands who has aroused
a great deal Of controversy over
her position as color consultant
in the county schools this year.
Shun Color Help
The architects in general felt
that while a wider variety of
Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Sheriff Bennett
Named National
Group Director

Montgomery County Sheriff
Luke j. Bennett, Jr., has been
elected Maryland director of the
National Sheriff's Association. He
was picked at the recent sheriff s
convention at Akron, Ohio.
Sheriff Bennett says he will
attempt to form a Maryland Sher-
ifs Association. Il don't know
if I'll get to first base" he states
but I'll have. the satisfaction of
trying"
He has written "feeler" letters
to all Maryland sheriffs propos-
ing the state association. He
says the association would be
"kery beneficial in many ways"
- AS state director of the national
organization, Sheriff Bennett joins
representatives from each of the
other states.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Demos Favor
Schweinhaut's
Juvenile Bill

The United Democratic Won
ems clubs of Maryland last week
passed a resolution endorsing
House of Delegates Bill 100,
passed during the Legislatures
last session but vetoed by Gov
ernor McKeldin.
The group took action at a
meeting in Baltimore's Hotel En-.
erson after Mrs. Margaret C.
Schweinhaut, delegate from Mont
gomery County, who introduced
the bill, said the measure would
"cure the present unavoidable, in
efficient, and costly administra-
ton of the four training schools
for delinquent juveniles"
Mrs. Schweinhaut charged that
the Governor vetoed the measure
because he disagreed with the
manner of establishing one advis.
tory board for the four schools
This was very minor point on
which to veto this long-overdue
lupegislation," she told the gath
ering of women Democrats.
Two of the States schools for
delinquent juveniles are in Bal
timore County, one is in Prince
Georges County, and one is in
Anne Arundel County. Each
school is run by separate board
Each school has an independent
staff.
Mrs. Schweinhaut says her bill
would put the schools under "di
rect and continuous central au
thority."
She did not reveal her plans for
reviving the bill.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
3 CD Rescue
Unit Members
Finish Class

Five members of Rockville's
Negro Lincoln Park Civil De-
tense Rescue Squad last week
completed a course in light duty
rescue at the Civil Defense Train.
ing Center near Olney.
Meanwhile the squad is seek
ing additional members and con-
tributions of money and equip
ment.
Completing the course were
Carlton Jackson Wesley Davis
Larry Davis, Ronald Davis, ant
Allen Bell.
David Joppy, chief of the
squad, has issued a call for old
newspapers. The squad is sell
ing them to raise money. Mr.
Joppy says the squad Is also
anxious to receive contributions
Of money and equipment. The
unit is now equipping its truck.
The chief. asks people with dona-
tons to phone him at Poplar 2
1855.
New members are invited to
attend the squads Thursday
meetings in the Lincoln Junior
High School, beginning at 8 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

Area Plans
.OBeMade

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil Tuesday voted SO to hire indie
pendent consultants to draft plan.
ming maps for the areas around
the new Atomic Energy Commits
sion building near Germantown
and the Bureau of Standards
headquarters near Gaithersburg.
The consultants have not been
selected. The Council indicated it
will not approve any coming
changes in the areas until the
planning maps have been pre-
pared. Some Council members
think the maps can be completed
in six months.
Opposed to the consultants were
Councilmen Charles Jamison of
Poolesville and Grover Walker of
Gaithersburg, They charged that
growth will be frozen. until the
plans are ready.
The staff OF the Upper Mont
gomery Planning Commission,
which would normally draw the
plans, has been non-existent since
three planners resigned early in
the year.
The decision to hire planning
consultants grew out of a routine
rezoning request. Samuel and
Paul Umberger asked the Council
to rezone from residential to com.
mercial 81 acres on the Neels,
Vlle.Germantown Road. The tract
is about a mile from the Acc
site.
Council member Stella Werner
successfully argued for postpone
ment of a decision until plans are
drawn for the areas around relo.
Gated government agencies.
She labeled the up-county "vir-
gin land" and said, 1--WE must be
sure it gets the best possible de.
velopment."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Virginia Congressman
May Kill PEPCO Plant

FEPCO may revert to its original
site choice and build the plant in
Loudoun County, Va.
PEPCO's option on more than
500 acres near Dickerson expires
September l.
The power company picked the
Montgomery County site after
Maryland residents protested the
Virginia location. Since most of
the power generated at the plant
will be used by Maryland consum-
ers, Maryland counties should re
ceive the annual tax revenue of
the plant, opponents of the Vir-
ginia site contended.
The Army Corps of Engineers
objected to the Virginia site, also.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
County Principal
In Coast Wreck

Mabel E. Baird, principal of
Wheaton Woods Elementary
School is in a California hospital
following an automobile accident
last week. Miss Baird lives. in
Silver Spring.
I She suffered leg and rib frac-
lures and head injuries when her
car went off the road into an
embankment 10 miles outside
Crescent City, Calf.
Miss Baird's condition was sat
isfactory in Seaside Hospital at
Crescent City early in the week.
She was vacationing when the ac-
cident occurred.
School officials say Miss Baird
is anxious TO hear from friends
in the county while she's conva-
lescing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

More than $500 has been do
mated to a trust fund for the vic
TINS two children Joseph, 8, and
Pamela, 4. The Safeway Store in
Gaithersburg, where Mr.. Smith
was meat manager, is supplying
the family with food. Safeway
manager Donald E. Magruder
says the food gifts will continue
"as long as the need exists"
A complete list of the donors
to the Smith trust fund will APP
s, pear in next weeks Sentinel.
Mr.. Magruder also says Gus
toners are making cash contribu.
tons which are being turned over
to the victims widow, Mrs. Grace
Smith. The Smiths lived at 1915
Stanley Avenue in Rockville.
The Gaithersburg Washington
Grove Fire Department will hold
a benefit dance August 4 with
proceeds going to the trust fund
Huge Funeral Tuesday
Mr.. Smith was buried at Park.
lawn Cemetery-near where he
lost his life after a huge funeral
Tuesday. The funeral was given
4 Continued on Page a.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Charles S. Miner,
Ex-Area Editor,
Back from China

Charles Sidney Miner and his
Chinese bride are resting at the
Takoma Park home of Mr.. Miners
mother this week after returning
from nine years in China.
Mr.. Miner, who represented six
American firms in Shanghai, says
he was not physically injured by
the Chinese Communists but was
the target in a war of nerves.
For instance he was kept wait.
ing nearly year for a marriage
license.
Before going to China in 1947
Mr.. Miner was editor of the Mary.
land News and the Bethesda.
Chevy Chase Tribune.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

without cutting quality or space"
was being sought, it was said by
architect Rheese Burket, on the
nine-man panel of building experts
which led the discussions. He was
referring to the cut in the con.
struction budget for 1867 ap.
proved by the County Council in
June.
Four Recommendations Made
Recommendations that came
out of the meeting were:
]. In the drive for lower initial
costs, the possibility Of high main.
tenance costs should not be over.
looked.
2. Subdivision builders should
be required by ordinance to allot
land for schools.
3. In the revision of Montgom.
cry County's building code no re.
provisions should be in.
cluded for schools except those
necessary to protect life.
a. There should be closer con.
tact between the school construc-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

hit the Seneca and Rock Creek
watersheds. Measurements range
as high as eight inches of rain
during the overnight downpour.
A gauge near Laytonsville re-
corded 6.78 inches during the
heaviest storm and another .85
inches Saturday evening.
The police switchboard at Rock
vile received 752 calls for aid
during the storm. County fire de-
partments responded to hundreds
Of trouble calls.
Drowned while aiding stranded
motorists was Elwood II. Smith
of the Rockville Volunteer Fire
Department. (See other story on
this page.)
Five Negroes Drown
Three men and two women, all
colored, persisted when two cars
were swept off Wightman Road
near Laytonsville into rampaging
Little Seneca Creek.
The victims were Rachel Stew
art, SO, Ann Baileye, 80, John H.
Gray, %, and Leonard Beckwith,
81, all of Germantown, and Harold
Plummer, %, Of Gaithersburg.
Mason Butcher, Public Works
Director, told the County Council
Tuesday that the storm knocked
out or severely damaged seven
bridges. Replacement win cost
about $183,000 he said.
Bridge damage, he said, result
ed from debris blocking waterway
openings as well as from pound
ing currents.
Most expensive replacement
project will be the Black Rock
Road bridge over Seneca Creek.
1t will cost 100000, Mr.. Butcher
predicted.
Other bridges damaged, and
their replacement costs: Tucker
CONTINUED on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Town Council
Hears Lengthy
Rezoning Plea

Rockville's Mayor and Council
Tuesday night held hearings of
two rezoning applications and
six sidewalk projects.
The attorney for one of the ap-
plicants in order to prove change
of character in a neighborhood
took lot by lot the block bounded
by Jefferson, South Washington
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

on this controversial issue, which
board member Willard McGraw
called making a mountain out of
a molehill."
Hit Dual Job
One objection, voiced by Wylie
Barrow and with which Mr.. Nc
Graw and Harrison King agreed,
was against the color consultant
holding another school position.
DR.. Lands this year was princi-
pal of Wood Acres Elementary in
addition to her color consulting,
which paid her $2,741 for 81 days
work.
Mr.. Barrow pointed out that
this amounted to one and one
half days per school week which
Continued on Page a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

f.
The proposed 500 million Pc.
tomac Electric Power Company
generating plant near Dickerson
may be doomed because the House
Rules Committee is headed by
Congressman Smith of Virginia,
a state that also has its eye on the
tax-producing plant.
A bill pending in Congress
would permit PEPCO to build a
dam on the Potomac River near
the mouth of the Monocacy River.
The dam would divert water to
cool the plants generators.
The rivers and harbors subcom-
mittee of the House Public Works
Committee held public hearings
on the dam proposal this week.
If the bill passes the rivers and
harbors subcommittee it must go
to the Rules Committee before
reaching the House floor. Chair
man Smith is expected to try to
block the measure.
David Scull, president of the
Montgomery County Chamber of
Commerce, and member of a com
mittee plugging for a county
plant site, says he thinks Con
gress will pass the dam bill if it
is reported out by the Rules Com
mittee.
If the dam bill is lost in the last
minute Congressional adjourn
ment rush, or if Congressman
Smith successfully bottles up the
measure in his Rules Committee.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Maryland Reserve
Command Switched

Army Reserve activities in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties will be transferred from
the jurisdiction of the Maryland
Military District to the District of
Columbia Military District next
Wednesday.
Making the announcement Col.
John L. Keefe, Chief of the Mary.
land Military District, said a
transfer of all Army Reserve per.
sonnet and facilities in the two
suburban counties is being com.
pleted.
About 1900 Reservists are in.
volved in the switch.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Come Aboard, Mates

All of ROckviIle's 1900 citi.
Zens are invited to an open
house board the mine
sweeper USS Rockville this
weekend. The Invitation was
extended by 1t. w. T.. Lindsey,
Jr. in behalf of the crew in
gratitude for the Fourth of
July party which the town
gave crew members.
ROckville's namesake will be
berthed at the Municipal Pier
No. 5, on Maine Avenue,
Washington, ID. G. The hours
of the open house are: Friday,
/ to 8 PM; Saturday, o am.
to 8 pm. and Sunday, 10 am.
to 8 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Glenview Rented

The School Board voted
Monday night to renew the
lease on the Historical Society
Building, GIenview, on the
same terms as last year.
Monthly rent of $3.50 will be
paid on a month to month
basis. The building is being
at TwinbroOk Elementary. SUI
perintendent of construction
James Sheldon reported that
the new Meadow Hall school
which will also give relief,
should be ready by February 1.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Construction Meet
Seeks New Ideas
On School Building

The Montgomery County School Board played host last
Thursday to 8 architects engineers and educators at all
day School Building Institute in the County Building audi
forum at Rockville.
Main purpose of the Institute according to Supernten
dent Forbes Norris, to find ideas and suggestions
for improving the school construction program
"A magic formula to cut school costs by Is percent
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26

and South Adams Streets and all
the surrounding blocks and com.
pared conditions now with those
in 1881.
Bernard Welsh, attorney for
George Maxwell and Paul Cantor,
who are applying for commercial
coming for one and one.fourth
acres on the south side of JEFF.
ferson Street, also brought in let
tiers from the majority of owners
Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Hire Lands
Again Asks
DIR. Norris

At the Montgomery County
School Boards meeting Monday
night it was revealed that Super
intendent Forbes H. Norris had
recommended in a memo dated
June % the rehiring of DR.. Mil
bred Lands as color consultant
at the same $50 per day rate.
With three members absent the
board took no action but those
present made clear their position
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
TwinbrOOk Sermon Set

Rev. John w. Laney will
preach on Searching for a
Treasure" at the Twinbrook Bap-
fist ChapePs Sunday morning
services. Services are held in the
Lone Oak Elementary School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Garden Group Meets

The Monocacy Garden Club
will hold luncheon meeting next
Thursday at the home of Mrs.
John w. Carney in Sellman. Mrs.
Julian j. Chisolm II of Beallsville,
will discuss rock gardens.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Bridge, Road Repair
May Cost 100000

Montgomery County is still hopping up after last week
ends floods that claimed six lives did between $250OOO and
100000 damage to county roads and bridges and cost pr
vate property additional thousands for flooded base
ments, inundated cars, and quilted fields.
Heaviest rainfall Friday night and Saturday morning
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Fireman, 5 Negroes Drown; Smith Fund Grow.
Cash, Food Offered
Family of Fireman

Contributions pouring in for the family of Ewood
H. Smith, 32yearod Rockville volunteer fireman. who per-
ished in angry Rock Creek while mission during
the heavy rains early Saturday morning.
Two other fremen saved from drowning by Police
Pvt. Alfred E. johnson, who is also fireman.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-26
Bulletin

The House Public Works
Committee has approved a
PEPCO dam on the Potomac
near DickersOn by a lilo vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-17

cause in our home my father
and I like things to be as in
formal as possible. We fire.
quently have to change every
thing that comes over from
Protocolp
4 $3.50
HER SECOND JOB is that
of a member of the board of
the Central Social Welfare
Board.
This is only a three-year-
old organization, Nine. Gandhi
explained. Before there had
been no systematic overall or
ganization of social welfare.
Now this autonomous body
coordinates all these efforts.
During the first year we
merely channeled money to
worthy groups throughout the
country. In the second year
we realized the greater need
of the villages for assistance
and organized welfare extern
sion projects for the villages.
Now in its third year, we are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-17
White House Lunch
HOnOrs Mrs. GQndhi

1t was strictly a family af-
fair-only the Eisenhowers,
their distinguished Indian
guests, Mrs. Doud, who is Mrs.
Eisenhower's mother, and the
Presidents son and daughter
in-law, Maj. and Mrs. John
Eisenhower, were present.
II 4 x 4
MIR. NEHRU AND HIS
DAUGHTER, who apparently
can match her famous father
in stamina as we'll as bril-
lance, went to Blair House
after lunch.
She rested briefly while he
received a visit from Secre-
tary of State Dulles. Then Mr..
Nehru and Mrs. Gandhi left
for the reception at the Indian
Embassy for the Indian COM
munity here.
Next they journeyed to the
Supreme Court Building where
Chief Justice and Mrs. War
rem were hosts at dinner in
their honor.
The specially prepared menu,
as released by the White House
and Indian Embassy, consisted
of vegetable soup, filet of sole
with curry sauce and rice pilaf
ring. rice pilaf ring for vege-
tarianS, homeless chicken,
string beans, Parisienne pota-
toes, spinach souff1e for vege-
tarians, caulifiower, sweet car
rots, potato ball, cold aspara-
gus with vinaigrette sauce and
cheese puffs, raspberry, pine
apple and mint sherbert with
cookies.
The Warrens' guest list in
cluded Mr.. v. K. KriShna
Menon, chairman, Indian dele
cation to the United Nations;
the Honorable N. r. Pillai,
secretary-general, ministery of
external affairs and common
wealth relations of India; Mr..
M. G. Mathai, special assist
ant to the prime minister; the
Indian Ambassador and Nine.
Mehta, and the Indian Min
lister and Mrs. Dayal.
American guests were Mr..
Justice Black and his daugh-
ter, Miss Josephine Black;
Justice and Mrs. Reed, Mr..
Justice Frankfurter, Justice
and Mrs. Douglas, Justice and
Mrs. Burton, Justice and Mrs.
Clark. Justice and Mrs. Har-
Ian, Justice and Mrs. Brennan,
the Attorney General and Mrs.
Brownell and Chief of Protocol
and Mrs. Simmons.
X x X
When it did, the jaunty
Prime Minister, wearing a long
black coat (achkan), jodpur-
like white trousers (churadar)
and a white Gandhi cap,
seemed to bounce down the
ramp. He was cheered by one
of the largest crowds ever
gathered to greet an official
visitor.
Chief of Protocol Simmons,
who had accompanied Mr..
Nehru from London. presented
him to the Nixons, to Secre-
tary of State Dulles CMrs.
Dulles was home in bed with
a cold), and Gen. and Mrs.
Nathan Twining.
Mrs. Nixon then gave a
bouquet of roses to Mrs.
Gandhi who made quite a
glamorous picture as she posed
for photographers.
Mr.. Nehru and Mrs. Ghandi
Continued on Page b., Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-17
Mrs. Gdndhi: Woman With 5Lives

Mrs. Indira Gandhi. daugh-
ter of Prime Minister Nehru,
is a woman with five lives.
interviewed this morning at
Blair House. Mrs. Gandhi told
about her interests and duties
as midas First Lady-any-
one of which would be a back
breaking job.
This petite, very feminine
woman first has the duties of
the official hostess for her
father.
This is quite a lot of work.
as we have had an unending
stream of visitors" she said,
Among them, the Shah of
Iran, the Emperor of Ethiopia,
the Dalai Lama, Chou En-lai
of China"
Mrs. Gandhi explained she
not only saw to the details
of the entertainment for these
visitors. but also organized and
conferred with the people who
would be their hosts through
out India.
ut is ever more difficult be-