Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-08-22

IN swimming pool ventures.
The Park Forest pool opened
Monday on Norbeck Road on an
unofficial basis with both the
large pool and the wading pool
ready for use and the bathhouse
lacking only plumbing connec.
tons. When an important piece
of filtration equipment failed to
arrive the pool closed down
temporarily.
The attractive bathhouSe has
air space separating the walls of
plywood panelling and cinder
block from the translucent roof
of fiberglass. The landscaping, 10
be engineered by T. D. Donovan,
ASIA, will begin early in the
fall, with the plans calling for
picnic and play areas. In the
meantime, the pool will be open
from 1920 am. to 8 pm. with
the hours from $50 until 9
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days reserved for adult swim
ming. Sunday and holiday hours
are from 100 pm. until 900 pm.
For the past three weeks Twin
brook swimming pool has been
ablaze Tuesday and Thursday
evenings with flood and under
water lights during the newly in.
stigated adult swim. This 8 to
10 pm. period is proving so pop
ular, with a turnout of $50 mem
bers ON one particularly warm
evening, that the teenagers are
wrangling for an evening. Under
present rules only those aged 81
or more are allowed in the pool
after 8 pm. During the first
week of the night swimming ses-
sions the pool was closed for the
two hours preceding the adult
swim. Since then the manage
ment has been able to provide
guards for a continuous ten
hours.
Eighty tOddlers participated in
graduation exercises this week at
the Calvert pre-school play
ground. The program geared to
the three-four, and five year-old
interests consisted of their max
ing mortar-board hats which they
then wore while eating their grad
uation awards -gingerbread-man
cookies. The beheading of the
last gingerbread-man signaled
the end of another successful sum-
mer. The two pre-school play
grounds sponsored by the home
makers are possibly the home
maker groups greatest contribu-
lions to the community. 1t does
unreasonable good for the chill
dren, and the occasional freedom
thus afforded the mothers is
measurable and appreciated.
A recent block party (block
TOO Farragut Ave.) disintegrated
when the men gathered around
one TV set, watching the fights.
This was temporarily remedied
by one wife who had learned the
ways of the fuse box from her
children; in particular which fuse
affects which room. The fuse was
turned off, the TV set went blank
and the wives hilarity hit its
peak as the men with common
urgency jostled through the door,
across the lawn and disappeared
into the next house. We under
stand the owner of the apparently
defunct machine paused for one
anguished look but still managed
to be fourth out the door. Viva
la fights.
Richard Irwin of 1908 Bradley
Ave. read a paper on curare at an
100 member symposium on cur
are last week in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil Curare, initially used as
an arrow-tip poison, is currently
useful in the field of medicine as
a muscle relaxer. The group is
now completing week-long tour
of the Amazon basin, after
which Mr. Irwin hopes to spend
an additional week in Peru be-
fore returning home. Mr.. Irwin
is with the National Institutes of
Health.
Some in the area feel Twin
brook has a plentitude of chill
dren, but evidently this view is
not shared by the John Beans Of
1913 Farragut Ave. who recently
added twins, one boy, one girl to
the community's population. my