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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12

Water Vote
May Be Taken
This Summer

Rockville's special referendum
on the question Of obtaining the
city's water supply from the Pot
omac River can be scheduled
late this summer" according to
city attorney David Cahoon's
statement to the mayor and
council Tuesday night.
Mr.. Cahoon said that after a
conference this week with the
city's book counsel he is ready
to present the voters with the
question Shall the mayor and
council authorize the construc-
ton of a water line to the Pot
omac to be financed by the issue
of revenue bonds?" The cost has
been estimated at $2.5 million.
In other action, Mr.. Cahoon
was authorized to inform Harold
Smith, attorney for Aberdeen
Road property owners, that the
city was willing to enter into a
30 percent agreement on the five
year.old assessments for curb
and gutter on that street.
A misunderstanding on the
amount of the assessments and
the failure of the city to bill for
this project until recently had
resulted in protests by Aberdeen
Road residents this past year.
City officials are hoping that the
new proposal will meet the APP
proval of all of the property own
ers involved.
Permits for two additional
buildings in the Congressional
Shopping City, owned by Arthur
c. Hyde, were also approved
Tuesday night. The first build
ing, approved last month, will
house a Giant supermarket.
The new building, one 1862 feet
by 120, and the other, 116 by 81,
have been leased by Peoples Serv-
ice Drug Co., Highs Dairy, Blue
Ribbon Laundry, Pooh Hardware,
a florist and a dispensary so far.
Four other store areas are still
unassigned.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Police Check
Dirt Dumped
In Plane Fuel

Fear Of importing a proposed
new county airport restrained
airplane owners at Rockville's
Congressional Airport from re-
porting recent plane tamperings,
according to Montgomery Coun-
ty detective captain G. w. Linth-
icum.
The owners finally complained
when one plane crashed and an.
other made a forced landing ap.
parently because of foreign mat
ter in the gas lines, he said.
County detectives and the Civil
Aeronautics Administration are
investigating the tamperings. The
foreign matter, taken from the
two downed aircraft and five
others has been sent to the Fed.
eral Bureau of Investigation for
analysis.
The County Council recently
appropriated S250,0O0 to begin
work on an up-county airfield.
Some area residents and citizens
groups have protested the new
field. Congressional Airport is
closing to make way for a shop.
ping center
Detectives posted al the airfield
severa! nights have caught no
one. The icre'gn matter includ-
eS dirt, grass seed, cotton. sui
phur, plaster, and vacume clean.
er waste, according to pilots.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Council Approves
Higher Pay Scales
For Workers, Police

Higher salary scales for county
employees and policemen were
approved by the County Council
Tuesday. All employees except
policemen get an average four
percent pay boost. Policemen get
a nine percent salary hike over
the last permanent scale, a Ion
gevity plan, and an extra year to
reach the top salary for each
rank.
In other business Tuesday, the
Council:,
l. Referred to County Attorney
Charles M. Irelan for study Coun-
ty Manager M. l.. Reese's pro-
posed Charter amendment upping
the budget adoption date 212
months.
2. Heard renewed criticism of
the County Welfare Department
from Welfare Board member
Richard Janney and an eXplana-
ton of Welfare administration
from Welfare Director William E.
Roger.
3. Set a public hearing date on
the controversial dog ordinance.
4. Forced an elderly couple to
fulfill an option agreement to sell
the county land for Silver
Spring parking lot. Charging that
they'd been threatened" into
signing the option, the couple
said they didn't want to sell.
$4,000 for Salaries
The County budget recently en-
acted provides $195,000 for the
four percent pay hike. Manager
Reese says the entire amount viii
not be required.
The police pay boost makes per.
manent temporary salary scale
enacted by the Council April %,
retroactive to Dec. /, 1855. The
temporary scale upped salaries
about 81 per cent. The perma-
nent scale adds another Y per
cent.
Policemen will begin working a
"A hour week in August or Sep.
TENDER, Manager Reese told the
Council. The temporary pay
scale was enacted after County
Attorney Irelan called illegal
the four hours weekly overtime
pay received by policemen who
worked 48 hours but whose salary
was for a 44-hour week.
Policemen must now serve five
years, through seven pay brack.
Z cts to reach the top salary for
each rank. The old pay scale pro.
vided six steps in four years.
The three new longevity brack.
cts provide extra salary for pol
icemen who have served 10, Is,
and 20 years and are at the top
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12

been approached by the govern
ment.
For Mr.. Dosh, tightening has
struck twice. Seventeen acres of
Dosh's 350.acre holdings in the
Gaithersburg area are part If the
Bureau of Standards site. Mr..
Dosh says he and the government
reached agreement this week on
his ITO acres at Germantown
taken for the Atomic Energy
Commission headquarters. (See
box on this page.)
Mr., Dosh heatedly says he
doesn't want the government to
take his Gaithersburg land "but
there's not much 1 can do about
it," He says he doesn't need the
money but he needs the land. He
says he hopes to be paid more
than $1,000 an acre.
Finegan Furor Clinlaxed
For Mr. Finegan condemnation
of the tract Is the climax of what
many believe was an innocent by
stander's nightmore. Mr.. Fine
gan, General Services Admins
tration employee, owns 80 acres
of the Bureau of Standards site.
When it was revealed several
weeks ago that Mr.. Finegan, then
chief of the GSA's real estate ac-
QUESTION and utilization branch,
owned land in the area being con-
sidered for the standards bureau
relocation, he was given a new
job not connected with govern
ment real estate activities.
Mr.. FinegGn says he bought 20
acres of the tract three years ago,
long before he could have known
the Bureau II Standards was COM
ing to Gaithersburg. He was
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
State Dairy
Team Wins
World Prize

Maryland's All dairy cattle
judging team won the world
championship at the 9th Inter
national Dairy Cattle Judging con
test in Newcastle, England, July
4. The annual competition is held
in connection with the Royal
Show of England.
Team members and their indi-
vidual placings were Patsy L.
Messer, Route 2, Gaithersburg -
third high Individual; Franklin l..
Walbert, Henderson fourth;
Eugene c. Bay, White Hall -
fifth and Ian J. Forrest, Relay -
eleventh. Accompanying the team
to England were coaches w. Max
Bucket, assistant county agent,
Baltimore County and John L.
Morris, extension dairyman, Uni
versity of Maryland.
The honor cup for Guernsey
judging was awarded the Mary.
land team.
The Maryland team earned the
honor to represent the All Clubs
in the international competition
by placing first at the National
All Clubs Dairy Judging contest
in Waterloo, Iowa, last fall.
This is the fifth year that
Maryland team has brought home
a world championship from the
international contest. Previous
champion years when Maryland
represented the United States
were 1922, 1923, 1891 and 1851.
This is the tenth year a Mary.
land team has represented the
u. S. in this event.
While in England, the team
members are guests of the Ma.
tional Federation Of Young Farm.
ers' Clubs Of England. The Mary.
landers will return to the United
States by plane July 20.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12

bers who has made the most out
standing contribution to Lions ac-
tivities. Awards were made by
Mr.. Norris for attendance at
meetings.
Judge Stedman Prescott, a
charter member of the club, pre-.
sided and paid tribute to the out
going president.
Other new officers, installed by
Yves Dodge, are Edward A. Os.
born, first vice-president; Robert
w. Bridges, second vice.president;
Milton F. Clogg, third vice-Dresi.
dent, and WilliamsB. Albert, sec.
rotary.
Also II. Douglas Hall, treasurer;
Charles L. Seymour, tail twister;
Stanley f. Carver, lion tanner,
and Charles w. Burke and Aul.
den S. Lowey, directors. r.
Humphrey CisselI and Forest
King Jr. continue in office as di-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Up-COunty Fire Carnival
Gets Under Way Monday

The Upper Montgomery County
Volunteer Fire Department opens
its annual six-day carnival Mon.
day, with a parade, supper, rodeo
and prizes on schedule.
The carnival will be held at
Beallsville with rides, games and
entertainment each evening.
Twenty trophies and four cash
awards will be given to best fire
equipment, marching units and
floats in the parade, which will
begin Wednesday at z pm. On
the same day a chicken and ham
supper will be served in the fire
house at Beallsville beginning at
4 pm. Adults will be given all
they can eat for $1.75.
The rodeo will take place Sat
urday afternoon and will include
real competition and roping
events.
Grand prize, to be given away
at midnight on the last night of
the carnival, is a 1856 Chevrolet
four-door hardtop. A steer and a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12

Low
Rent Plans

County Attorney Charles M.
Irelan has been ordered by the
County Council to rewrite a pro-
posed Cooperation agreement"
between the County and the Rock
vile Housing Authority to re.
strict the agreement to a single
low-rent housing project.
Edward ]. Farrelly, executive
director of the housing authority,
appeared before the Council Tues
day to explain the proposed pro-
ject and obtain County approval
of the cooperation agreement" "
necessary because the project is
tax exempt.
He said the Authority hopes to
build between so and 70 low-rent
housing units, probably in the
form of one-story row houses, on
a five acre tract in Rockville's
Negro Lincoln Park section.
Construction would be financed
through the sale of tax-exempt 40
year bonds. The bonds would be
repaid from rent and a govern
ment subsidy.
In lieu of local taxes, the Au-
thority would pay the county ten
percent of the projects Shelter
rent" annually. The proposed
agreement defines shelter rent as
all rents collected, minus utility
costs. The contribution could not
exceed waived taxes.
Occupants of the project will
be limited TO families whose an
nual income does not exceed five
times the rent, Mr.. Farrelly told
the Council. Rents must be 20
percent less than that charged
for privately-owned units.
The low-rent project will meet
county building code require
ments, Mr.. Farrelly said. But if
the code requires "some little
gimmick that's costly and is not
reeded for safety the Authority
WIN ask for waiver, he explain
ed.
Low-rent housing has never as
sured the elimination of slums
but one slum dwelling unit must
be torn down for each low-rent
unit erected, Mr.. Farrelly said
He stated, There is no excuse for
shacks and novels when low-rent
housing is available"
He quoted from several sur
veys indicating a need for low
rent housing in the area.
A similar cooperation agree
ment was presented to Rockville's
mayor and council Tuesday night
by Mr.. Farrelley and was turned
over to the city attorney to draw
up a resolution approving the
agreement for next weeks meet.
ing.
The agreement with the NUM-
cipality, Mr.. Farrelley said,
would require the city to furnish
water, sewer and streets where
necessary in return for 10 per.
cent of the annual rent in lieu
Of taxes plus the usual front foot
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
POOlesville's
PTA Opposes
Desegregation

The Montgomery County School
Board Tuesday received its first
reaction from the upcounty area
to next years Indignation step
which will desegregate 25 schools
in that area according to an esti-
mate by school officials in June.
Poolesville Parents and Teach
er Association, a combined or
ganization for the elementary and
secondary schools there, voted in
May absolute opposition to inte-
grafton of white and negro stu
dents" as being detrimental to
"the educational and sociological
programs at Poolesville."
The vote recorded SO in favor
of the resolution, % against and
seven abstaining. The resolution
stated that the parents were con.
cerned over the improvement of
Tic COdCQllOlldA anu SOClOlOkICdl
programs; that indignation would
not improve these programs but
would make them more difficult
to operate.
1t also said that the Supreme
Court decision to force integra
ton has met with widespread diff
ferences in individual opinions
and proposed courses of action.
For these reasons the Poolesville
parents were opposed to any pres.
ent or contemplated action on in!
tegration.
Fred Dunn, special assistant on
Indignation in June reported a
possible Is Negro students to be
transferred to Poolesville in the
fall.
The board made no comment
and took no action after receiving
the resolution from Superintend
ent Forbes Norris.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Bureau of Standards
Land Condemned; Site
Owners Regret Choice

The Department Of Justice Yesterday instituted the Fed
Standards United States Attorney filed the Petition Condemnation and the
Taking
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
w alter Baker
New Prexy
OF Lions Club

At the annual ladies and past
presidents night held Tuesday at
Peter Pan Inn, Walter M. Baker
was installed as new president of
the Rockville Lions Club. Mr..
Baker is the owner of Baker Mo
tor Service Inc. of Rockville.
Abel A. Norris Jr., retiring
president, was given leather
overnight case fitted with a
briefcase as gift from the club.
He also received a past presi-
dents PLAGUE.
Edward A. Osborne was named
Lion of the year, as one of the
clubs more than 80 active mem
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Beall, Hyde Seek
C. & o Canal Park

Sen. J. Glenn Beall and Rep.
Dewitt s. Hyde Tuesday intro
duced identical bills which will
establish the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal National Historical
Park from Great Falls TO Cum
berland. The park will be de-
veloped for wildlife propagation,
wilderness conservation, and pub
lie recreation
The federal government now
owns 4S00 acres of land along
the c and o Canal and this bill
will give authority to acquire an
additional 10000 acres.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12

average ten per cent increase was
indicated by president Helen
Scharf's statement on the present
pay scale that poor as it is,
we will have to live with 1t this
next year."
Board members baked, though,
at approving the County Councils
other recommendation of four
percent raise for supervisors and
principals because they felt that
by bringing the teachers and
principals pay scales closer to-
gether they would be destroying
the rewards for the responsible
ties of the bigger jobs.
Superintendent Forbes Norris
reported that the states attorney
general who has been asked to
rule on whether the County Coun-
ellis recommendations were ian
invasion of the boards statuatory
authority would give an opinion
within a few days.
Indications Tuesday were that
the board would vote a six per-
cent raise for the supervisors and
principals also although action
was deferred until after the at.
torney generals decision was Civ
en- and the exact cost of the two
percent difference was deter.
mined. Brian Benson, finance Of
ficer, estimated the cost to be be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
The total cost of the teachers
six percent raise is approximately
$55O,OOO for the county's 1000
teachers. The formula to be used
is the 1856 base scale plus the
annual increment times six per.
cent.
Because of the absence of three
board members and the disagree
ment among the members OF the
committee on the use of school
buildings, the new regulations
brought in Tuesday by chairman
Rose Kramer will be passed at
some later date.
The proposed regulations are
based on a much more liberal fee
policy than the one in effect for
a trial period this past year.
Many organizations, including
PTAs and citizens associations,
have protested the experiment,
one purpose of which was TO point
up the cost of extracurricular use
Of school buildings.
The new fee system which will
charge only overtime custodial
service for PTAS and other civic
and educational meetings, will
definitely not pay for the heat
light, maintenance and secretar-
lal help necessary, according to
Mrs. Kramer.
The committee therefore is rec
ommending that future school
budgets include separate item
for community use of school
property.
The two points of disagreement
were raised by Harrison King,
who wants volunteer fire depart
ment fund raising activities ex.
cluded from the fee system APP
plyig to all adult activities in
volving an admission fee; and
Wyle Barrow, who did not feel
that PTAs should be excluded
from the fees for fund raising
activities.
Mrs. Kramer's argument was
that the PTAs involve all the
schools in the county whereas
there are only few up-county
fire departments that use school
grounds for their activities.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Press Group Holds
Outing at Motel

The Montgomery County Press
Association will hold its summer
outing Saturday on the grounds
of the new Motel Washingtonian
on Shady Grove Road near Rock.
vile.
Plans for the outing include
fishing, swimming, games and a
picnic supper. Refreshments have
been donated by the Gunther
Brewing Co. and the Coca Cola
Bottling Co. of Silver Spring.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12

million to build and $40 to equip.
Congress has appropriated $780,
900 TO rsite acquisition and plans.
The Bureau OF Standards is pres
emily located at Connecticut Ave-
nue. and Van Ness Street in
Washington.
Reactions Vary
Reactions Of land owners whose
property has been condemned
range from resigned to reticent to
profane. All says they would not
sell to the government if they
had choice. In three cases the
new headquarters will almost
eradicate family farms more than
century old.
Owners of land in the condemn
ed tract include Mrs. John B. Dia-
mond, Samuel B. Briggs, Fred T.
Briggs, William o. Dosh. Paul v.
Finegan, Robert Chambers, Will
lard McGraw and the State Of
Maryland.
The owners say newspaper ac-
counts of yesterdays condemna-
ton are the first official word
they've received on the site selec-
ton. All claim that they've never
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Firemen Meet Sunday

The Maryland Fire Chiefs AS.
ISOLATION, Inc. will hold its
seventh annual reunion Sunday
at Colchester Beach. Events
scheduled include a firemen's
parade at 1870 p. m. and a trip
aboard the Bay Belle. which wilt
leave Baltimore at $50 a. m.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Attention, Guessers

You may have your choice
of a free classified listing or
a six-mOnth subscription to the
Sentinel if you are one of the
first three persons to correctly
identify the Mystery Farm pic
ture, appearing this week on
page Be. To the owner or
tenant of the farm pictured
the Sentinel will award a free
one-year subscription, plus a
beautiful photograph of the
farm. Call in early with your
guess to be one of the first
three.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
$4,000 Answer

William o. DOsh says the
government has agreed to pay
$4,000 for his ITO acre tract
near Germantown taken for
the new headquarters of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
He says he wanted SIS, 900 but
made up the difference by sell
ing off $1,000 worth of sod.
Construction of the Acc build
ing has already begun on the
site, at the intersection of the
new National Pike and Rt. II8.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-07-12
Local Teachers TO Get
6 Percent Pay Hike

The Montgomery County School Board Tuesday voted
the six percent pay raise for the county
teachers which recommended by the County Council
after cut the school operating budget million dollars.
That the school board wasn't happy about this compro
mise with it's original request for pay scale with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-06

NV. Friday and Saturday. rum
mage sale, Gym building, Huntoon
court S.W.. back of Barney Neigh
,borhood House.
Kosher Israel ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
$40 pm. MotheTs Day celebrsMti ion
chainS; speaker, Rabbi Philip l.
RabinowitZ.
81. Gertrude's Guild = Thursday. 2
Twelfth and Newton streets N. E.; to
benefit st. Gertrude's school OF Aria
and Crafts. 1901 Sargent road M,
Aides to All Charities - THURSDAY
B'nai Israel Synagogue. SIXTEENTH
and Crittenden streets NV: to elect
new officers,
United Daughters Of the Confederacy,
Vermont avenue NV: speakers.
Mr.. james Stafford and Mr.. william
G. Gavin. "Battlefields of the 1880
tween the States with iilustTs-
District Daughters Of the American
ReyolutioI-Today. 3 pm, Mary
S 5ennsOn 'ha 46 F5s NARY c sieet
Chevy Chase. Md. installation Of
Brewster chapter. with Mrs. Z, E.
Colbert; 473s Old Dominion drive.
Mary Washington chapter, chapter
house, reports of officers and chair:
men; election, and installation Of
officers. Tuesday, 8 pm. President
Monroe chapter. with Mrs. William
A. Bowman. S03I Glendale road,
Chevy Chase. Nd. Wednesday, 8
pm, Marcia Burns chapter. chap
ter house; reports Of ehairmen; in
stallation Of officers. Wednesday. s
pm, Samuel Gorton chapter. chap
ter house; election of officers.
Marshall Chapter. chapter house:
annual meeting to be followed by Q
$40 pm, reception honoring ma
noon. Susan REVERE Hetzel chap
ter. with Mrs. Claude R. Porter,
1852 Kanawha street NV: annual
reports: election of officers. Friday.
! pm. American Liberty chapter.
luncheon at Evans Tea Shop to be
Mrs. Edwin H. Rosengarten,. 1894
Twenty-f1fth street North. Arling-
ton. Va, Friday. $3.50 pm. ,Kath-
crime Montgomery chapter. chapter
house, annual dinner meeting hon
oring State Advisory Council; .in-
stallation Of officers. Saturday,
d lao pm nch.d patriets, t Memorial ,h
Mrs. Charles T. Watson and Miss
Rosemary E. Wright. 1919 clifton
street NV: election and installa-
tion of officers. Saturday. 2 PM.
Colonel John Donelson chapter, with
Mrs. EVELYN r. Burrier. 14lQ Man
chester lane NV. Saturday. 2 pm.
Mrs. Percival Padgett. sofa Harnp-
den lane. Bethesda. Md; election
and installation of Officers
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Opening Night
Performance
To Be Benefit

Chief Justice and Mrs. War
rem will head the list Of dis
tinguished guests who viii at
tend the opening night bene-
fit performance of Tea House
of the August Moon" Monday.
May 81.
$ The opening performance of
the Pulitzer Prize winning
play at the National Theater
will be a benefit for the in
ternational relief agency,
CARE.
Others from official and So
cial Washington who have re-
served seats for the benefit
are Mr.. Eugene Black, Mrs.
Robert S. Bookings, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Harold T. Deu-
termann. Mrs. Eleanor Lam
sing Dulles. Mrs. Wade Ellis,
the Finish Ambassador, Col.
and MRS. NJ. Robert Guggen-
helm, Gen. Wade H. Haislip,
Mrs. Ray Henle, Mai. Gen.
and Mrs. Robert P. Hollis,
Judge Alexander Holtzoff. Vice
Admiral H. S. Kendall, Mr..
and Mrs. Leon Keyserling. the
German Ambassador, Senator
and Mrs. Herbert Lehman,
Mrs. F. H. Mccormick Good
hart, Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan
Phillips, Mrs. Berkeley SIM
mons and Mrs. Sherman
Trowbridge.
Tickets for the opening
night performance are avail
able at the CARE Office, 1923
Connecticut avenue NV.