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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Government by Clique
Runs Rockville Now,
Mrs. Thomson Says
By Lila Thomson
Council Candidate

/ Your invitation to present the
independent side of the Rockville
city election is appreciated. / re-
gret l was unable to state in a
signed column in the Rockville
Shopper except in the end
paragraph - that such an invi-
tation had been received by me.
{ When your request for q state
ment did come, my paper was al
ready in the forms and the
printer agreed to remove the last
paragraph of the column and in
sert the notice that your request
had been made.
My stand throughout the cam.
paign has been and remains this:
| am opposed to any election
wherein only one slate of candi.
dates is offered. | believe un.
opposed and unchallenged States
are undemocratic and serve to
disenfranchise many voters who
might not like a slate or what il
stands for
Unopposed states, whereve
they exist, are likely to believe
once elected they operate under
a mandate from the people. Man.
dates, to my way of thinking,
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26

have no place in the democratic
system.
am further opposed to what l
consider to be the Closed, Guard
ed, Guaranteed vernmen @ n t
which CGG, the organization back
ing the slate in this election, pro
poses to perpetuate in Rockville.
If CGG had been interested in
truly representative government,
it would have selected one candi.
date to run on its slate who was
not member of the CGG orga-
niZation.
The fact is, the Independent
candidates at. the CGG nomin-
ating derby never had a chance
of being chosen to run for office.
CGG wanted and chose only its
own guaranteed candidates. CGG
would have done a civic service
if it had not confined its choices
to a slate - but had nominated
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ToWne, has been abandoned be
cause the property south of the
school site, originally intended
for apartments, has been reZoned
commercial and the area imme.
diately south of Hungerford is
not ready for development, DR..
Norris said.
Another factor in this action is
the expansion of Hungerford to
the west instead Of its originally
planned growth to the south.
Rockville Junior High will re-
vert to an elementary school in
1857 with the opening of South
Rockville Junior High. At that
time Hungerford ToWne children,
who will continue being trans
ported to Maryvale next year,
will be transferred back 70 the
nearer school.
Richard Montgomery High, DR..
Norris said, can accommodate all
senior high students for the next
seven or eight years but the
School Board is planning an
eventual expansion there to a
1600.student capacity.
Sites are being considered on
the county poor farm and near
the Hunting Hills development
for new elementary schools, and
possible sites further out on Nor.
beck Road and north of Rock.
vile also are being sought.
Integration will change Lin.
coin High to headquarters for
the maintenance department;
Carver TO be enlarged to a six.
year secondary school and Rock
Terrace possibly as a special
education center or another
junior high, the superintendent
said.
One solution TO Rockville's
problem Of site acquisition. Dr.
Norris conceded would be 10
change the county ordinance to
require developers to make land
concessions for schools.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26

Harrison King was the only
board member who voted against
the plan which will allow pupils
in six up-county Negro schools to
transfer to the school nearest
their home where classroom
space and transportation service
are available"
Four elementary schools, Tay-
Tor, Longview, Sandy Spring and
Rock Terrace; Lincoln Junior
and Carver Senior are the
schools specifically mentioned.
DR.. Norris estimated that 225
Negro elementary and $50 Negro
secondary pupils from these
schools can be absorbed by 81
formerly white schools near their
homes.
These 375 students will be in
addition to the 400 Negro stu
dents integrated in the present
school year through the closing
of four down-county substandard
elementary schools and allowing
Negro secondary students in the
areas of Bethesda Chevy Chase,
Kensington and Wheaton to go
to the schools of their choice.
Before approving this new
step, the board considered hold
ing an open hearing on the super
intendent's proposals. Without
taking formal action, five of the
board and DR.. Norris indicated
that they would be against
another hearing, although a num-
ber Of letters requesting it had
been received in the past week.
Member Willard McGraw said
that in the past two years every.
one in the county has been given
an opportunity to express his
views on the subject and that
since the new proposal is "a
modest one" more hearings
would not be in the best interest
of the school system.
DR.. Norris agreed and added
that another hearing might do
more harm than good. Wayne
Birdsell was another member
opposing hearing because, he
said, 1t would pit neighbor
against neighbor." Mr.. King and
Mr.. Wylie Barrow were the only
members in favor of another
hearing.
A second point in DR.. Norris
plan will allow students in any
county school to request a trans
fer under the same conditions as
outlined for the six up-county
schools. DR.. Norris indicated
that the deadline for considera-
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
ACC Asks Names
For StOtt Award

The Allied Civic Group is ac-
cepting nominations for its an
nual Charles G. Stott Award. The
bronze and walnut plaque will be
awarded in June to a resident of
the greater Silver Spring area
who has made IAN outstanding
contribution to the civic develop
ment of the community" or who
has rendered meritorious service
on behalf of Silver Spring during
the past year."
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Brush Fires Set
Record, 4 PM.
Code Cited Here

A record breaking total of AZ
brush fires were reported and
responded to in Montgomery
County on March 3, Fire Marshal
Charles Howe reported. He went
on TO say that the problem of
brush fires 1s driving the fire
department crazy"
Saturday there were 16 brush
fires and 13 were reported the
following day.
Fire Marshal Howe cited the
law on burning brush fires be.
fore 4 pm. Residents of Mont
gopery County. except those in
the city of Rockville and other
municipalities, are forbidden by
law 10 burn brush before 4 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26

acres of the Viers tract owned
by them has paved the way for
the building of the sixth and larg
est store OF the Hechinger Co., in
Rockville.
Sidney Hechinger, head of the
company purchasing five acres of
the VierS tract for the new store,
appeared at the hearing and told
the mayor and council that he and
his son, John w. Hechinger and
son-in-law, Richard England, part
ners in the company, would make
Rockville proud of the Hechinger
store, expected to be completed
by fall and cost over a quarter
million dollars.
Plans are on the drawing table,
he said, for a building that will
be so percent larger than any of
the five existing stores. Located
at the intersection of North Wash
ington Street and Hungerford
Drive, it will be a complete lum-
ber, hardware and paint store.
The Hechinger Co. terms itself
one of the originators of the do
it-yourself movement and special
ize in material and supplies for
house and garden as we'll as
hobby and workshop products.
Mr.. Hechinger, who has been in
BUSINESS 45 years in the metro
politan area, told the council that
he takes great pride in cooperat-
ing and becoming a part of any
community in which he builds.
He cited the architectural award
given to his Falls Church branch
this year.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
City Fathers
Hold Hearings,
Let Contracts

At the last full meeting Of the
present mayor and council before
the city elections Monday, the
city fathers held seven public
hearings, awarded two contracts,
took another step in the direction
of the temporary closing Of Mon
roe Street and Strengthened out
a misunderstanding by the Pro.
gressiVe Citizens Association on
the extension of water and sewer
to North Street among other
items Of business.
The next meeting Of the mayor
and council will be next Thurs
day when the present officials
turn over the reins to the newly
elected body.
The mayor and council Tuesday
night approved the rezoning from
residential 10 light industrial 1.58
acres on Hungerford Drive, part
Of the Viers tract; from residen.
tial to commercial, 12,4l8 square
feet on Monument Avenue; and
from commercial 10 light indus
trial, 1.6 acres on Stonestreet
and Frederick Avenues.
Also approved was curb and
gutter and the widening Of Maple
Avenue TO 26 feet from Wood
burn to First Street. This project
will be considered in next years
budget with a front foot asses.
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Paul HOMard
PTA Council
NeW Prery

Paul G. Howard of Bethesda
was elected president of the Mont
gomery County Council of Par
ent-Teacher Associations Tuesday
night by 168 of 233 votes cast.
Elected with him from the
councils nominating committees
slate were eight Wce-presidents:
Mrs. II. S. Hyatt, Damascus, 221;
Philip M. Burnett, Bethesda, 180;
Harvey J. Everett, Kensington,
ia; Miss Edith Throckrnorton,
Gaithersburg, 173; Frederick j.
o. Blachly, Chevy Chase, 1863; w.
Stewart Lester, Silver Spring,
1865; Mrs. Leo Mccarthy, Rock
vile, 1862; and Mrs. Joseph M.
Stoll, Bethesda, 159.
Reuban Sanders of Silver
Spring was elected treasurer;
Mrs. Kenneth r. More, Kensing-
ton, secretary, and Mrs. Thomas
L. Toone, Kensington, assistant
secretary
Defeated for the office of pres
ident was Brian Il. Kile, Gathers
burg, leader of an opposition
slate that claimed that the PTA
County Council had been pushing
too hard for integration and for
costly school additions and i'm
proponents. Support for this
opposing slate was given by Of
ficers Of the Maryland Petition
Committee at the election meet
ing. Mrs. Hyatt was nominated
by both states.
John Roper, president of West.
ern Junior High Schools PTA
and former president of Wood.
acres, gave the nominating speech
for the Kile site which he char
acterized as typical American
people with no extremists
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
At Council
At Council
Pay Raise
For Police
Is Passed

The Washington Suburban San
itary Commission wants Mont
gomery County to pay the cost o
moving the commissions ma.
holes, hydrants, pipes, etc. whe.
the county paves or improves ,
street. Representatives of tn
WSSC appeared at Tuesday
County Council meeting to ure
approval of the payment pla.
which they call fair"
Also at Tuesdays meeting, Il
Council approved a pay raise fol
policemen, retroactive to Decel.
Der /, 1855. This will permit Pc
licement to keep the four hours
weekly overtime pay they've r.
ceived since December. Count
Attorney Charles M. Irelan ha
ruled the overtime pay illegal
Spokesman for the WSSC wa
attorney Nicholas Orem, Jr. H
said all municipalities within tn
sanitary district and the Primo
Georges County Commissioner
have agreed to pay the cost O
moving WSSC structures whe.
roads are altered.
County Finance Director Ale
K. Hancock says he has paid som
bills for moving WSSC structure.
But, he wants the County Counc
to establish policy on the payini
of future bills.
Mr.. Orem told the Council
Since you decide what roa
work is to be done, you shoul
pay the cost of moving our strut
lures in the streets. We have n
funds for this purpose"
County Manager M. L. Rees
told the WSSC representatives
1--WE will pay our just obligation
as long as we don't surrender ou
right to negotiate" The Stat
Roads Commission negotiate
with the WSSC on a price whel
a state road effects water ant
sewer installations,
Joseph Kordella, County Publ
Works Department official, crit
cized WSSC engineering prac
tees. He said old roads are FIRE
quently not restored to their orig
inal condition after the WSSC ha
trenched them to lay pipe. Kor
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Six Seeking
Gaithersburg'
Council Jobs

Six Gaithersburg men this
week announced their candidacy
for the towns May 7 mayor and
council election. Two more may
enter the race before tomorrow's
filing deadline.
Mayor Merton Duvall is seek
ing reelection. He is opposed
by William A. Lynch who heads
a slate on which Richard B. Per
ry, Sr., and Rodney NJ. Thomp-
son seek the two vacant council
men positions. Also seeking the
councilmen openings are Ward
Mullican and T. L. Hebb Free
man, running as slate.
The two councilmen whose
terms expire, Samuel Briggs and
C. Sprigg Ward, are not seeking
reelection. Two other council
spots, held by John w. Griffith
and Z. Russell Gloyd, are not up
for election this year.
Mr.. Duvall was elected mayor
in 1854 after being defeated in
the 1852 race. He is i'm the sec
ond year of a five-year term on
the Upper Montgomery County
Planning Commission. He is part
owner of Franklin Press.
The mayor says he seeks re-
election because ! don't like to
get in the middle Of program.
then leave it unfinished.
The Lynch slate is backed by
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Rockville Candidates
Make: Final Appeal
CGG Officials Have
Improved Conditions
In City, Mayor Says
BY Dickran v. HOvsepian
Mayor of Rockville

No man or woman can hold the
respect of his fellow human be-
ings for long by first blowing
hot and then cold or remaining
lukewarm on fundamental issues.
A person must take his stand
on what he believes is right and
tolerate differences of opinion
when he is free to fight them.
An elected official must have
singleness Of purpose in the
achievement of the good of the
city and its citizens. l believe
the Citizens for Good Govern
ment have shown these attribut-
eS.
believe in local government
administered by people from with
in our city. Certain aspects how
ever, should be administered by
our county, where countrywide
operations are more economical,
such as health, welfare, police,
schools, etc. as at present.
Community Services
Local government on the other
hand can provide community serv.
ices better in a greater degree
and can be geared to the growth
of the community, spending mon.
ey where it is most required.
This is characterized by the
building of necessary trunk wat
er and sewer facilities; the con.
struction of a community center
when we need it - now, provided
the voters approve the referen'
dunn; the extension Of water,
sewer, streets, lighting and re.
creation Improvements % all
areas of the city.
\ We must not forget that a mum.
ber of the areas were for long
time part of the county; none of
these improvements had been eff.
fected.
l believe the voice of each citi-
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plant on Muddy Branch.
Health Board permission is re-
quired because the board has pre-
viously ruled that the present
285,000 gallon daily sewer load is
capacity for the Gaithersburg
plant. For this reason the WSSC
has refused to extend it's sewer
lines in the town for the past two
years. At town council meet
ing last week Mr.. Custer charged
that the added load of Acc sew
age poses the threat of more
severe strangulation."
A trunk sewer line up Rock
Creek valley will relieve Gath
ersburg's overloaded plant by
1859, say WSSC officials. The
Acc office is expected to open
late next year. Willard Morris,
commissioner of the WSSC, said
this week, "The Rock Creek sew
er line could conceivably be
speeded up" Harry Shaw, head
WSSC engineer, however, stated,
Il don't think it will be necessary
to speed up the Rock Creek trunk
line"
The Acc has asked the Army
Corps of Engineers to design
and construct" water and sewer
lines from Germantown, which is
outside the WSSC district, to the
Gaithersburg town line.
The Acc says it will use 1885,
600 gallons OF water daily.
A state health official says he
believes permission to dump Acc
sewage at Gaithersburg will be
granted tomorrow because it's
a desirable development to pro-
tect Seneca watershed" The Acc
considered construction of its
own treatment plant dumping
into Seneca Creek near the Ger
mantown site.
John M. Jester, head of WSSC' S
maintenance and operations diVi-
sion, who will represent the Sani-
tary Commission at tomorrow S
hearing, says no arrangement for
the Acc to pay for water and
sewer service has been worked
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
4 Rockville Men
Sought by Draft

The Rockville draft board is
trying TO locate Carvel Lorenza
Johnson Spring Lake Park;
James Nicholas Higgins, 4O5
Blandford Avenue; Russell Gar
ner Anderson, General Delivery,
Rockville; and Fred Rachel,
Westmore, Rockville.
Mail addressed to them has
been returned. Anyone knowing
the whereabouts Of the men
should call PO. 22i20.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Nab Negroes
In Fatal Car
Wash Robbery

Montgomery County P ollie e
have charged three colored men
in the hold-up murder at Silver
Spring auto wash Sunday. The
man believed to have fired the IA
tai shot, Eddie Lee Daniels, was
captured in Prince Georges
County yesterday morning after
he'd been chased by Washington
police.
Daniels allegedly fired 80 cal
iber bullet into the head of Ar
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
ROund-ups Planned
For kindergarten

Pre-kindergarten registration
round-ups will be held next week
for all children who will be enter
ing school in the fall at Glen
mont and Glen Haven elemen-
tary schools.
The round-ups are scheduled
for Tuesday from 9 am. to 3 pm.
and Wednesday from 8 am. to
noon. Birth certificates and
records of immunization shots
should be brought.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Judge Candidates
To Speak Monday

A meeting to introduce candi-
dates for Montgomery County
iudgeships will be held at 8 pm.
Monday in the Wheaton Coop.
The meeting is sponsored by Mrs,
Helen Burkhart, Mrs. John b.
Merrill and George Heightman,
leaders Of the 29th, 33rd and Goth
Democratic precincts.
Judges Thomas Anderson and
Kathryn LaWlor and r. Duncan
Clark will speak.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Judge LawlOr Guest

Judge kathryn ]. Lawlor will
be an honorary guest at a square
dance, bake sale, and bazaar to
be given by the North Chevy
Chase Elementary School Parent.
Teachers Association on Friday
at $50 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
WSSC Asks State Okay
To Treat Acc Sewage
At Overloaded Plant
By Ronald HI. NeSSen
Staff Reporter

Gaithersburg will formally protest tomorrow the pro-
posed plan to dump sewage from the Atomic Energy Com
missions office building at Germantown into Gathers
burgs overloaded treatment plant Town Attorney Cecil E.
Custer will appear before the Maryland Board of Health in
Baltimore at IL The Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission has asked the health board for permission to
receive $4,000 gallons of Acc sewage daily at the treatment
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Time to Vote

Rockville city officials re-
mind federal government EN-
pl0yes that under civil service
regulations they are entitled
TO time off Monday to vote in
the city election for mayor and
council and the referendum on
the proposed civic center bond
issue. The polls will be open
from Z am. to Z pm.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
Gburq Protests Acc Sewer PROPOSAL
Hechinger Co.
Plans Branch
In Rockville

A rezoning petition granted by
tie city council Tuesday night to
Marvin w. Simmons and Charles
A. Froman for part of the 43
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-04-26
375 Negro Pupils
Board to Integrate
Part of Up-County

The Montgomery County School Board Monday night
approved the second step in its ntegraon plan proposed
by Superintendent Forbes Norris begin desegregatng
county schools for the first time this coming fall.
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an environment and which are
in progress today.
A different view was ex-
pressed by DR.. G. W.~Lasker of
Wayne University, Detroit, who
held that races may have orig
mated from small, isolated, in
bred human groups which under
went rapid expansions. 1t
couldn't happen today because
there are no such groups.
An exception however, might
be found among the butterflies,
"a German religious group who
settled in North Dakota in 1880
and since have had a l9-fold
expansion. This may have been
more common in the past where
a partly isolated island popula-
ton, the British, expanded from
about 3 million in 1900 to $50
million in the world today. But
the British were not too much
isolated, either by nature or,
like the butterflies. by religious
convictions.
AS for the future-man will
probably be much the same ex-
ternally $4,000 years hence as
he was $4,000 years ago. He
may be hairless and toothless.
He may be less able to combat
nature physically, perhaps bet
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drift towards observation-disclosures
which probably is associated
with better living conditions, is
not hereditary, and would be
reversed If living changed.
Discussions before the con-
gress today revolved primarily
about the origin of races. This,
lit was stressed, has been a
stumbling block for evolution
lists since Darwin and even
Istumped the father of evolution
himself.
He fell back on the now I'M
ltenable theory of natural selec-
Ition-that somehow or other a
dark man preferred a dark
woman and thus arose the black
race. Some were even driven to
saving that the three basic races
white, black and yellow-de-
scended from different species
OF great apes.
Theory Debunked
This, DR.. earn stressed, is all
nonsense. Natural selection
probably never has operated as
a major evolutionary force in
man, he said. Rather, his races
have originated in gene muta-
lions, such as the sickle-shaped
red blood cells mentioned above,
which happened to be adapted to
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in the RH-positive and RH mega
tive blood factors in Americans.
For the world at large they may
be considered about equal. For
the American population, how
ever, the former is present in
IS per cent of the people and
the latter in only IS percent.
Thus American man, at least. is
evolving towards q pure RH-
positive organism. 1t is Of sur
vival value in the blood trans
fusion age. Probably it was not
in a primitive human popula-
ton.
Hundreds of Changes
Doctors happen to know about
this, DR.. earn said. There prob
ably are hundreds of changing
internal factors of which they as
yet know nothing.
Another notable example is
that of a sickle cell anemia. This
is due to a peculiar type of red
blood cell, first recognized among
American Negroes and later
found abundantly in Africa and
Southern Europe. Normally, it
condemns the victim to an early
death or an invalid life. 1t is
hereditary, but it protects
against malaria.
Hence, sickle cell victims have
a better chance to become faith
ers and mothers. Hence, in a
part of the human race, sickle
cells may become a racial charac-
teristic.
Much Of the contention that
man has not evolved in $4,000
years. DR.. earn said, is based
on the fact that fossil bones
show no great change and
certain hereditary Characters
tics were believed to be as
with bone structure.
Now it has been found this
is not an hereditary condition
at all. The American population,
for example. is showing a strong