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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-17

opening session OF It's 39th
annual convention.
Mr.. Higley called in a pre-
pared address for establish
uaent Of an official or legisla-
tive policy on the care of sick
and disabled nonseryice- con-
nected veterans-those whose
disabilities were not incurred
In military service.
''If the policy shall be not
to take care of the nonservice-
connected, this should be
frankly stated" he said. $50
that others-StateS, counties
and ciies-may take up the
load.
For remember. we are not
talking about cases. We are
talking about sick men who
served their country when it
was in sore distress-men who
cannot afford to pay for hos
pital care.
THE question. whose prob
lem is this?' should be an
swered."
$4,000 on Waiting List
Mr.. Higley said that at pres
ent all service-connected cases
are cared for Immediately" but
we do have $4,000 nonservice-
connected veterans on our
waiting list, Of whom 1900
are suffering from mental ILL
ness"
He said Congress never has
declared the Veterans Admins
tration should hoSpitalize the
nonservice-connected. but
rather that they can be hos
pitalized if they cannot pay and
II the VA has beds available.
so long as a definite policy
Is lacking" said Mr.. Higley,
requests for new and addi-
tional beds will receive little
II any consideration"
Philip M. Talbot, president
Of the Chamber Of Commerce of
the United States. urged in a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-17
Legion Sees Lesseninq
OfGrotitude to Veterans

eS-ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Sept. II LP0-The American
Legion today heard that the Nations feelings
obligation and gratitude toward veterans to have ened
t. afnotieeabe degree"
The report came from Harvey " Hgley administrator Of
veterans affairs the Legion parading to the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
In z Counties
Plan Would Clear
Towns Confusion

joint meeting of the Montgomery and Prince
Georges County chapters of the Maryland Munich
pal League met December 10 and passed II pro-
posals suggested by the Montgomery chapter for
better relationships with various agencies.
Rockville Mayor Dickran Y. Hovsepian, chair
man of the Montgomery chapter, introduced the
slate at the meeting in Takoma City Hall Rep
resented were IS Montgomery and 81 Prince
Georges municipalities.
Hovsepian's plan is aimed at staving off Con
fusion of purpose, maze of legality and dis
AIRY OF residential, commercial and industrial
areas brought on as separate communities grow
closer together in the population boom.
The plans sections were designed to coincide,
as closely as possible with projected plans of the
Maryland-NationaE Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the Suburban Sanitary Commission
and other ntre-urban agencies.
Briefly the sections of the plan were:
sAppoint persons in liaison to the State Roads
Commission, County Council etc, to insure COM
munication of relevant data;
Transmit all city and town planning and
coming actions to the Park and Planning District
for their recommendations;
Get all planning and coming actions from
the MNCPPC having an impact on the munich
pality and transmit them to the County Council;
Give pertinent or all master and general
plans to the Planning Commission for their rec
concentrations.
Get information from and coordinate with
the State Roads Commission on all planning
coming and construction of particularly to
rightof'way relative to the community;
The same with the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission;
Advise the County Council of municipal
planning, legislative coming and construction items
having an impact on county operations;
Advise State and U. S. Senator and Repre-.
sentatives of studies affecting the municipalities;
Advise affected agencies of all coming ord
inances, master and general plans;
Press for enaction of the Urban Renewal
Act;
Urge more action on the problem of expand
ing the school system;
Same for hospital facilities.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26

NATIVE thinking regarding the future demands
upon agricultural resources"
Facing the issue of partial treatment and
flushing of sewage, the comment is, There is
no safe, hygienic method of dealing with sewage
once it is in the river, and any method proposal
which attempts to compromise with the provision
of adequate treatment plants can only be stop
gap"
The subject of industrial development is in
troduced with the following assertion:
TOO often we are misled by concealed as
sumptions, and the answers to problems are pre-
determined by the form in which the questions
are posed. This is particularly evident in the
debate over industrial development. In recent
years many communities have engaged in COM
petitive efforts of rather shortsighted nature
to induce industry to build plants in their par
tcular areas. Most of these sales efforts have
behind them development program based upon
the question: How much of what kinds of in
dustry can our community attract?
A comprehensive setting for public recreation
and nature conservation is developed with varied
proposals for the Potomac River region.
In presenting picture of the difficulties
involved in governmental action section on the
Governmental Complex gives Illustrations of con-
fusion overlapping, and lack of authority Among
Illustrations is list of major government units
In which representatives of the Army Engineers
participate as members
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
Marso Lueey. Too
Four Star
In Play at
University

Misses Margo Lucey, Sandra
Stack, Judith Fine and Jeanne
Ceranton, all of Silver String,
and Eileen Iskrant, or Kensing-
ton, were cast in University The
ater's recent all-female produc-
ton "The House of Bernardo
Alba"
Miss Lucey, a second SemeS-
ter junior in speech, portrayed
Magdalena, one of Bernarda's
five daughters. Magdalena be-
comes involved in a family re-
belllion which follows the at
temptS of Bernardo to isolate
herself and her daughters in
eight years of mourning for her
deceased husband.
Miss Lucey, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George X. Lucey
of 1000 Orchard Way, played
Dorothy Shaw, chaperone to eff
fervescent Loreli Lee in UTs
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
last spring.
A 1854 graduate of Sherwood
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
WotchfuI Guardians

Tor many years the Washington Subur-
ban Sanitary Commission was accused
OF being autocratic. These charges were not
without some foundation in fact The all
important water and sewer agency, serving
both Montgomery and Prince Georges coun-
ties, was virtually a law unto itself The then
three commissioners" were appointed by
the Governor and after their appointment
the Governor and everyone else in Anna
polls proceeded to forget about their new
appolntees until the time rolled around again
for some. more appointments In the in
term, the three commissioners ran the
agency as they pleased being answerable, in
actual practice, to neither the counties they
served nor the State Government. The
WSSC had established for itself sort of
wonderful, never never land. This was too
good thing to last however, and the politi-
cal powers finally acquiesced to reorganiza-
ton which resulted in the present method
OF appointment - two commissioners named
by the Governor, one from each county: two
by the Prince Georges commissioners and
two by the Montgomery County Council.
ms IS much more democratic method and.
at least four of the six commissioners are
now subject to some local control
AT the time of the reorganization it
was the group sometimes referred to caus-
ucally as professional citizens" who carried
the ball. These are the people who par
ucipate actively in citizens associations and
closely scrutinize government operation. They
performed an immense public service.
The other day. the WSSC held its an
nual budget hearing, custom it inaugurated
oniy after much goading from citizen groups,
ana IL was the same professional citizens"
VINO attended still keeping watchful eye
on the public agency The average citizen,
OF course, wasn't there But the WSSC
should not fall into the error of thinking
that the average citizen doesn't care. He
does, emphatically. He has merely dele
gated his participation in budget hearings
and the like to these alert citizen groups.
Our professional citizens" deserve the
thanks of all of us for their conscientious
watch dog ZEAL
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
In 'Thunk YOU
Red Cross Lists
It's Is Services

The Montgomery County Red Cross in a pub.
lie statement, thanked all donors to the United
Givers Fund who earmarked their donations for
the Red Cross
AZ emphasized that free services are made
available to county residents because they gave
Some of the services it noted were:
1904 pints of blood were collected processed
and distributed locally free OF charge. II this
blood had been procured commercially its cost
would have been $76,350.O0.
106,772 hours of Red Cross volunteer service
transferred to a salary basis represent the equiv.
alent of 50 paid employees at $240o minimum sal.
airy. or $124,920 during the year.
1893 certificates in Water Safety and SCI
certificates in First Aid were issued.
249 certificates in Mother and Baby Care and
2lT certificates were issued in Care of the Sick
and Injured formerly known as Home Care of
the Sick.
SS4 Gray Ladies, so Volunteer Nurses Aides
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
Letters
Protest Justified
A few wears ago a group OF

A few years ago a group Of
parents of children in Montgom-
cry County schools, alarmed by
the then school superintendent
theory that education should be
fun, and that school children
should not be made to study
anything arduous or distasteful,
formed an organization called
the Parents League for Curricu-
la Improvement.
This organization was dedi-
Gated to the proposition that edu-
cation does not jump into ones
lap like a cat, that anything
worth having must be worked
for, and that school children en-
couraged to dodge all hard tasks
were not being trained for meet
ing the problems of earning a
living.
The members of this move
ment were ridiculed and abused
no end by the professional
schoolmen and the trained seals
indoctrinated by Columbia
Teachers College, which started
this poisonous theory of educa-
ton by frivolity.
Now it appears that SO many
school children have been select
ing major courses in cutting out
paper dolls, chocolate eclair dec
Grafton and crewcut designing
that not enough have had men,
tai stamina to study courses in
mathematics and the sciences.
No less an authodity than Her
bert Hoover has inveighed
against the course-of-least-resist-
ance in public school education,
and his views have had substan-
tial and growing Endorsement.
The Parents League for Cur.
ricular Improvement is now en-
titled to say II told you So"
We thought that with the de.
parture of the late Superintend.
ent Broome conditions would be
improved, but apparently the
dust stirred up is still getting in
the eyes of our local school au-
thorities.
F. S. WILSON,
Cdr, USN (Ret.)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
University
Scientist
Is Honored

S. Fred Singer, associate
physics professor at the Univer-
sity of Maryland and world au-
thority on space travel and satel-
lites, was elected a Fellow Mem
Der of the American Rocket So
ciety in New York last week.
DR.. Singer, a 33-year-old as
trophysicist, has headed numer-
Gus experimental projects since
he joined the staff at Maryland
in 1858. The Austrian-born sci
enlist made the first public pro-
posal for an earth satellite in
1851, and is the father of Prof
ect Far Side, which recently sent
a rocket to the record height of
200 miles above the Pacific
Ocean.
He designed the Terrapin and
Oriole high altitude rockets
which were built and launched
by Maryland physics depart
ment personnel.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
Anything Goes
Here's List
Of Possible
Fire Runs
By George Waleski

The Sentinel no longer pub
fishes Fire Runs" But during
the holiday season, the follow
ing fire runs might occur.
8:15 p. Nj. Wednesday. Theo-
dore McKeldin removed to Johns
Hopkins Hospital with a blister,
incurred cutting ribbons on
your indulgence" roads.
$3.50 A. Nj. Thursday. Mem
bers of the 7th Precinct, Rock
vile, called the ambulance to
remove a 240-pound Caddington
from the State Central Commit
tee. Necessary to get crane.
9:10 p. NJ. Friday. Leighton
Dudley resuscitated at Twin
brook Swimming Pool. The pool
was empty. Al Stoughton had
talked him into il.
11:01 p. Nj. Sunday. The May
or and Council, singing carols,
rescued from a pack of COM
planning dogs.
$3.50 p. NJ. Monday. Hugh Rus
sells hand removed from a
Monograph machine that was
printing a press release. He had
run off 1856 copies before his
fingers were pried off the crank
handle.
Ais A. NJ. Monday. Baby
born in Maryvale.
4:16 A M. Monday. Twins
born in TWinbrook.
All A. NJ. Monday. School
Board votes to include Planned
Parenthood in their annual bud
get. Rescue Squad rounds up
members.
500 P. NJ. Monday. Stella
Werner rides ambulance to
meeting to decide fate of rescue
squads and volunteer firemen.
Three firemen overcome by or
child fumes.
1880 A. NJ. Tuesday. Wylie
Barrow chokes on a lamb chop
frill thinking it was a school
frill. Obstruction removed.
1900 p. Nj. Tuesday. Treasurer
of Little Theater taken to hos
pital in restraint. Condition fair.
1880 p. Nj. Tuesday. Joseph
Geeraert taken to Suburban
Hospital for observation on adj
vice of associates. He had not
made a request for rezoning or
opened new project in three
weeks. Condition undetermined.
1850 p. NJ. Tuesday. Hos.
pitalization of three people at
a Twinbrook party held to pre-
vent a liquor store in the area.
Assisted by County and State
Police.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26

High School, Miss Lucey is a
member of Kappa Alpha Theta
sorority. In 1856, she won
the Miss Washington title.
Soon after that conquest, she
entered the Miss America con-
test and took first runner-up
honors to Miss America 1857.
Miss Stack, Maria Josepha in
Bernardo Alba" is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur E.
Stack, ST., sol Fleetwood Street
in Silver Spring. A junior in the
College of Arts and Sciences,
she is a member of Kappa AL
pha Theta sorority and is vice
president of the ROTC Angel
Flight.
Miss Fine, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Fine, of 30
Franklin Avenue, portrayed
Poncia, faithful servant and re-
tainer of the Alba family. Miss
Fine, a 1856 graduate of Mont
gomery Blair High School, is a
sophomore English major in the
College of Education.
She is a member of Sigma
Delta Tau sorority and Alpha
Lambda Delta, the Freshman
women's academic honorary.
Miss Ceranton, a villager in the
UT production, is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Julia II. Ceranton,
of 1913 Dublin Drive. A 1853
graduate of Montgomery Blair
High School, she Is presently a
junior in the College of Arts
and Sciences.
Miss Iskrant, also a villager,
is the 17-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Iskrant of
1927 f. Stanhope Avenue, in
Kensington. She is a freshman
in the College of Arts and Sci
ences.
Miss Iskrant was graduated
from Bethesda-Chevy Chase
High School last June.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
Try, and Try, and Try

\AI ELL, George P. Mahoney has done it
wv again. Maryland's perennial candi-
date is still being perennial. And it would
have been quite surprising if he had not run
true to form.
There is every reason to believe that
George will keep on running for something
until he gets it. George apparently doesn't
care toe much what it is. But he certainly
feels he's qualified for something. In 1885,
it was Governor of the State of Maryland.
Then, couple of years later, he decided it
was the Senate of the United States that he
was qualified for. Unsuccessful in those
two tries, he did some more hard thinking
on the subject and decided that the Execu-
tive Mansion in Annapolis was really the
place where he belonged so he ran again
for Governor. Maryland voters again al
lowed as how they didn't necessarily think
George was the answer to all their prayers
SO George again went into a hudde with
himself and, knowing thered be another cleo
ton, decided his talents were too great to
deny them to the United States Senate. So
he tried again. And of course, lost again.
Did all of this discourage George? Not
In the least George always knows there'll
be another election in the offing. And sure
enough, there's one coming up in 1858. So
George has decided this time that he'll give
the people still another chance to give him
the title of Senator" He's going to rum
Now George is not as unclever about all
this as you might think. He knows that
If you keep on trying for something long
enough - no matter what it is = the law
of averages says you've got to win some
time. So George is going to wear us down.
He's gonna get that title yet You wait and
see.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
congressman DeWitt S. Hyde's-
Along the Potomac

1t is SOLDERING thought to recall that in the
last 25 years we have spent well over SD billion
dollars on programs to help the American farmer.
About half of this sum spent to stabilize
farm prices and incomes Yet, despite the pro-
grams which called for these expenditures farm
income has steadily decreased. This decline has
occurred in period in which total domestic con-
sumption of u. S. agricultural products has in
creased
Congress- during the coming session must
tackle again the problems facing the farmer 1
am certain that one would deny that magic
formula has not been found, nor is one likely
to be found, that will erase all of the problems
that American agriculture faces. have hopes
though, that this Congress will be a little less
inclined to listen to the siren song of political
expediency and enact farm program that real
istically strikes at root causes
Many feel that our present agricultural aid
programs serve only to help big farms get big
ger. What is needed is a clear separation be-
tween large-scale farming and family farming
Future legislation, believe, should be tailored
TO the needs of the family farm
Then, too, I feel that we have neglected to
provide facilities for adequate research into new
uses for agricultural commodities The Score
tary OF Agriculture - Mr. Benson - considers
research on new outlets for farm products sound
er than price supports or production controls as
a remedy for our overproduction of farm prod
ucts.
believe that a congressional study of ways
and means of intensifying research in new uses
for farm products is justified l also am inclined
to believe that it might be wise for Congress to
consider setting up a permanent commission to
supervise and direct research into widening mar.
kets for agricultural products. Such an Agricul.
tural Products Research and Development Com.
mission might be patterned after the Atomic
Energy Commission.
Perhaps, too, the Congress ought to look
into the advisabilty of providing incentives TO
industries that put promising laboratory discov.
cries into commercial USE
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
; New Scout
Units Set Up

Three new scouting units have
been added to the Montgomery
District, National Capital Area
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
G. P. Thompson, president of
the Northwood P.TA has re-
quested a charter for the newly
organized Cub Pack 944. This
pack is for mentally retarded
children, the first of its kind in
the county. Curt H. Sundell of
Bethesda, is Cubmaster.
The st. Michaers Mems Club
of Silver Spring has organized
Explorer Post 458 with Homer
Carey as explorer advisor. The
club already sponsors Cub Pack
and Scout Troop 468.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
100000 Pupils
Peak at Year 1000
Taken by Whittier
By Dorothy WalesLi
Staff Reporter

The countys new school superintendent,
c. Taylor Whittier, until recently Florida educa-
tor has taken hard, critical look at the Mont
gonery County school plant.
And in his recently-submitted budget he has
peeks at the year 1000 when, he says, there will
be vast infinitely complex school system here
taking care of more than 100000 children
Such a school system, for example, could not
even begin to operate in its present, overcrowded
and ancient administration building a small
lot in Rockville.
The 1889 budget includes $150000 item
for site purchase and planning of new admins
tration building to be built in 1959-60 for $1.3
million.
School officials in the past have expressed
interest in the County Poor Farm on the outskirts
of Rockville as possible site for this building.
Expansion of the Junior College is another
need anticipated. Next years budget requests
$518,000 for a new science building there.
Facilities included viii be three biology labs
two chemistry labs and one physics lab with Of
fices, storage and preparation related plus
three lecture rooms.
Field House with related facilities is called
for in the 195960 construction program. This
will exhaust the possibilities of the present site
in Takoma Park Whittier says
new site, probably in the center of the
county and a SIS million auxiliary Center will
be needed by 1861 according to the superintend-
ent's forecast.
Special education is not neglected either in
Whttier's five-year PLAN An average of $4,000
is to be spent each year to expand facilities for
handicapped children and special instruction.
Top priority in the five year period is given
to new, and additions to old, secondary schools
Projects listed for 1880 are: a new Senior
High in the Western suburban area and a new
Senior High in the Western suburban area and
"a new Junior High in Burtonsville Colesville area;
plus additions to Gaithersburg and Sligo Junior
and Wheaton and Damascus Highs.
In 196061: new projects = North Whea-
ton Junior and KensingtonGarrett Park High;
additions, Gaithersburg and Springbrook Highs
and Newport Junior.
In 1852: projects, North Silver
Spring East Wheaton High and Potomac area
High additions, Belt Junior and Richard Mont.
gomery.
In 1929: new projects, Germantown and
Norbeck Highs.
In estimating the cost for the secondary
schools, Whittier has used an average of S505OO
per teaching station. This includes all auxiliary
facilities as well architect furnishings and
land cost.
The average elementary classroom is esti-
mated at $36,700 covering auxiliary costs such
as the all-purpose room, kitchen, library office,
health and teachers rooms, land, furnishings and
architect.
The total cost of the added secondary facl
tiles, Whittier estimates at 1854, 1923 and the
total for elementary at $18988,161 There is no
breakdown yet for the location of the elementary
additional facilities.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26

and Staff Aides served in of the county hos.
pitfalls.
Motor Service gave 6,09S hours and drove S.
469 miles transporting patients to county clinics
in addition to its regular patient transportation to
therapy centers.
Montgomery County Red Cross services are
available "a hours day
In all, sixteen Red Cross services are offered
to residents of Montgomery County