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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13

In addition TO helping their pa.
tents solve their problems, the
staff psychiatrists at RockWlle's
Chestnut Lodge for the past year
have been asking themselves:
why do we do what we do?"
Their reasons for this intro.
spection are tied TO a Ford Foun.
dation grant Of a quarter-million
dollars, awarded to Chestnut
Lodge a year ago next month.
The grant spans d five.year peri
cd of research
The research program, headed
by medical director Or. Dexter
W. Billiard is aimed at analysing
the hospitals own, famed method
of treating schizoid patients. Put
simply the hospitals technique
puts emphasis on psycho.thera-
quito treatments instead of rely.
ing on the more widely used
chemical or electrical shock treat.
ments. Patients benefit most, the
staff believes. from constant per.
sonal relationship with an ana.
lyst than from dramatic shock
therapy.
Chestnut Lodge was one Of
only four such institutions select.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Chestnut Lodge Ford Grant
Has A More Years To Run

ed by the Ford Foundation for
sychotherapeutic research. To
implement the grant, Chestnut
Lodge is building a $4,000 Re.
search Center on it's S0.acre tract.
Funds for the center came from
the hospital, rather than from
the grant.
Grant funds have been used TO
pay a psychologist, some clerical
workers who corTelate data pro
duced and for the salary OF DR..
Donald l.. Burnham, chief Of re.
search.
Although not new-the center
was formed in 1917--the research
arm Of the institution has been
strengthened by the Ford grant.
DR.. Burnham, and other staff
members now can afford to give
time and inquiry into the hospi.
tails form of treatment.
No research papers or other
visible results have yet been pro.
duced More time than money
has been spent in formulating
methods of reducing individual
methods of treatment to a whole,
related manner Of therapy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Condemnation
Voted For Jr.
College Site

What may have been an at
tempt by Takoma Park residents
to stop the extension of the Mont
gomery Junior College to a lot at
703 New York Avenue was de-
feated Tuesday when the School
Board reaffirmed its May 6 vote
to purchase the Graybill proper.
ty even though it has to condemn
it.
Dean Donald Deyo of the Col
lege informed the board that he
believed that following the May
6 action, the lot had been pur-
chased by neighboring residents
who had protested against its use
as a parking lot and future site of
the colleges science building.
Superintendent Forbes Norris
recommended that condemnation
procedures be started immediate
ly if this were the case. The four
members Of the board, President
Lathrop Smith, Wayne Birdsell,
Helen Scharf and Rose Kramer
who had originally voted for the
purchase backed his recommen.
dation.
Member Wylie Barrow opposed
the motion on the grounds that
the School board may not have
the power to condemn for a jun.
Tor college since the law specifi-
cally mentions elementary and
secondary schools.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
City May
Still Get
AT. Office

The Rockville Planning Com
mission has approved a proposed
building site for a million dollar
Air Force building located imme-
idately northeast of the cloverleaf
on new u. S. 240 at Great Falls
and Seven Locks roads.
The land is owned by DR.. E.
II. hardwood. The Commission
repeatedly gave enthusiastic"
approval to the southern portion
of the land. 1t gave secondary
approval to the northern portion.
Both are known as the Trail
property.
A spokesman for the Commits
sion said it notified the Air Force
of its action yesterday.
The Air Force last month was
turned down by the Planning
Commission on a bid to build on
Great Falls Road on the grounds
that the project would lead to
commercial coming in one of the
city's finer residential areas.
The Rockville Development
Council and the Montgomery
County Chamber of Commerce
came out in favor of the Air
Forces original bid for a site near
the cloverleaf. The plans called
for a combined one and two-story
structure to house 300 personnel.
The two organizations pointed
out the individual tax value of
such group of personnel as well
as the increased business it would
bring TO the city. ~
An Air Force spokesman said
that when its first proposal was
denied, the Air Force would ex-
plore the possibility of locating in
Fairfax County, Va.
When the Air Force was first
turned down, it began exploring
the possibility of locating first on
the Soldiers Home grounds in
Washington and later in Fairfax
County, Va.
The Sentinel also learned of
another move by private bust
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
G'burg Pontiac
Takes New Name

w. Lawson King, of Gathers
burg, has been elected chairman
of the board of King Pontiac, Inc,
of Gaithersburg. The firm,
founded in 1929, formerly was
known as the King Motor Co.
Other officers elected were Max
b. Austell, of Bethesda, president
and general manager, Conrad "
Aschenbach, of Gaithersburg, sec.
retary-treasurer.
King Pontiac Co. is the oldest
Pontiac agency in the county and
still retains several employees who
have been with the firm for more
than 20 years.
The service department is be.
ing remodeled to handle all re.
pairs on all makes of cars and
trucks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13

The Rev VILLA m Wesley
Dodge, who during the last eight
years saw nearly 800 new mem.
bers join his congregation and
who was largely responsible for
the $4,000 building expansion
of the Rockville Methods t
Church, will leave his congrega.
ton June 10 to accept new
charge near Baltimore.
Mr.. Dodge, with his wife and
daughter will move to the Hiss
Methodist Church, 8700 Hartford
Road, ParkvilIe, Md. He will
succeed the Rev. Clarence l..
Fossett, who was named District
Supervisor of Baltimore's East
ern District of the Baltimore
Conference.
The Rev. G. Custer Cromwell,
now of the Brookland Methodist
Church, at Fourteenth and Law
renee Streets, N. f., will replace
Mr.. Dodge. Mr.. Cromwell will
preach his first sermon this
Sunday.
There were fewer than 400
persons in the Methodist congre.
cation when Mr.. Dodge came to
Rockville in 1919. The congrega-
ton now numbers 1912.
Mr.. Dodge cited Rockville's
rapid growth in population as
the reason for his enlarged con
gregation. To cope with it, he
instituted two Sunday morning
services and a departmentalized
Sunday school
Both developments helped, but
more space was needed so a
building fund was started which
resulted in the dedication a year
ago Easter of the new church
wing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Cleveland DR..
Restored To
Road Project

The Cleveland Drive construc-
ton project, busted last week by
the County Council was restored
this week in the Glen Hills-Po-
tomac Highlands road program.
The Council agreed informally
to the restoration after a hear
ing a plea from Harry c. Ways,
community spokesman. The
street was deleted from the prof.
ect because of the high construc-
ton cost and in an effort to re
duce the front-foot costs on the
rest of the project.
Mr.. Ways, however, said some
43 residents had agreed to accept
the higher costs on their own
streets to get the full project
done.
1llC II Olll'lOOI COSJ VIII DC oil
estimated 1888 instead of $6.21,
Public Works Director Mason A.
Butcher Said.S
The restoration caused delay
in the formal approval of the s.
mile street program the county
proposed for the Glen Hills. Poto-
mac Highlands area.
The Council also indicated it
would approve a $500 project to
pave a 20-foot roadway on Mt.
Vernon Avenue linking State
routes 108 and 124 in Damascus.
Opposition was voiced from at
least three residents but the rest
urged its construction.
The Council directed County
Manager M. L. Reese to start col.
Letting fees July 1 from Munici.
palities using the county dump
outside Rockville. In the past
private trash collectors have been
charged a fee with municipali
ties getting a free ride.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
PEPCO Increases
Availability of
Rockville Juice

Installation of two new feeder
lines at the Rockville Potomac
Electric Power Co. plant is near
ing completion, boosting the
county seats electricaLinput five
fold.
A 33,000-volt line already is in
service and a second, similar one
soon viii go into service. The
dual units win replace the orig
inal single 13,000-volt substation.
New brick sheds are being built
ITO house the transformers and
mount the switch gear.
A PEPCO spokesman said the
first line was "energized" near
the end of May but he would not
comment on when it would be put
into use.
He said the expansion of facili-
ties was made necessary by the
growth in residential and indus
trial building taking place in and
around Rockville. He said that
there will not be any rise in con.
sumner cost because of the i'm
provements.
The expansion at Rockville is
part of an overall SIS million
project to beef up the areas cleo
trical output. The substation at
Dickerson is under similar ex-
pansion and, when completed will
create a strong Takoma-Rock.
villeDickerson hook-up.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Viers Mill Road Building Behind
Schedule Chief Roads Engineer
Ask Council
To Negotiate
Library Deal

The Rockville Library Asso-
citation voted 55 to 0 last Trus-
day night at its annual meet
ing to ask the Mayor and
Council of Rockville to act as
agents for the Library Board
in negotiations with the Mont
gomery County Council to pro-
vide better library service for
the city.
In his budget recommends
tons Tuesday City Manager
John Markham proposed that
the city officials request the
county to absorb the Rockville
library into the county sys.
tenn and ask for additional
Bookmobile service or the in
Stallation of a branch library
at the Glenview Civic Center.
The Mayor and Council de-
ferred action.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
WV IL
SAYS HERE" :.

AA- BY LILA THOMsON>A4AAI
ROCKVILLE'S BUDGET for
the coming fiscal year has been
unveiled-all 81 million of it
exactly $2.3 million or more than
double last years figure. A lot
Of money but with it goes a 3
cent cut in the tax rate so there
shouldn't be too much squawking.
TROUBLE IS when you hand
out tax cut citizens generally
are too begged down with lead to
determine how their tax money
is being spent. The foregoing
statement should not be taken as
an indication of disagreement lin
whole or in part) with proposed
expenditures during the next
fiscal year. This reporter will
land so should YOU have her
piece to say on proposals when
budget hearings are held.
WE NOTE BY THE BUDGET,
however, that Rockville's present
water system is to receive a
needed revamping or rehabilita-
ton . and that's good. We
further note, as the City Manager
has noted, there will be a city
election next year and that $1,790
is needed to hold it, Slightly
more than $500 over costs of the
election in 1856.
AND THAT BRINGS US to the
point of wondering where the
political heads will rise and fall
come 1858. Possibly, since the
present Mayor and Council have
made the jobs of mayor and coun.
cilmen reasonably lucrative
Through compensation a few
additional citizens will find their
civic duty more palatable. Moth
ing like a monthly stipend to en-
courage interest.
THIS REPORTER also is hap.
py to note the City Manager has
asked for funds to remove the
abandoned and dangerous water
tower in East Rockville. Tiz
hoped this project receive top
priority.
WE NOTE STILL FURTHER
that a number of big fat salary
raises have been propose
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Bishop OMAN Makes Methodist
Pulpit Appointments for Year

New appointments of ministers
in Montgomery County Methodist
churches were made by Bishop G..
Bromley Oman, administrator of
the Washington area. The ap-
pointments were announced at
the conclusion of the 173rd Bal
timore Annual Conference in
Westminster, which ran from
June SO.
The Rev. G. c. Cromwell was
named to replace Rev. William
Wesley Dodge as minister of the
Rockville Methodist Church.
In Silver Spring, the Rev. E. A.
Ross was appointed minister of
the Marvin Memorial Methodist
Church and will succeed the Rev.
F. Paul Harris, minister for four
years. The Rev. Gene Perry was
appointed assistant minister of
Woodside Methodist Church. He
will assist DR.. j. Milton Rogers,
minister for seven years.
The Rev. James c. Haskins was
appointed minister in charge of
Laytonsville, including Mt. Ia
Dor, st. Paul, and Wesley Grove
churches. He will replace the
Rev. B. Ralph Mark, who is trans
ferring to Brentwood.
The new minister of Mt. Airy
Calvary Church is the Rev. En-
mis- II. Coale.
The Rev. Bruce Graham was
appointed to first minister of
Glenmont Methodist Church in
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
City Budget; Taxes
Down; Costs Double
Citizen Hearings Set
Tuesday, Wednesday

Rockville City Manager
John MARYLAND presented the
good news of a tax reduction
of three cents to a Is cent per
$500 assessable value rate al
though his total recommended
budget for '57-'58 is 81 mil
lion as compared with SIT mil
lion this year.
The new rate which represents
a 20 per cent tax decrease since
the 1854 90-cent rate will raise
$389,647 of the revenue necessary.
The remainder will come from
the sale of $2.6 million water ia
cility bonds; $4,000 ten-year tax
certificates; $4,000 general OBJ
legation bonds; and from various
State shared revenues and city
fees including sewer and water
charges.
The $2.6 million is provided for
the construction of a water line
from the Potomac river, filtra-
ton plant, storage tank and in.
take structure; 100000 for the
rehabilitation of the distribution
system with the city limits; $780,
600, water system maintenance
and operation and $260,000 for
road, sewer and storm sewer con.
struction as the highlights of Mr..
Markland's proposals.
Budget hearings to give the cit.
liens an opportunity to express
their opinion of his recommended
tons have been scheduled for
next Tuesday and Wednesday
nights at City Hall.
The new budget, Mr.. MARYLAND
pointed out, presents water ex-
penses and revenues as a separate
entity for the first time with the
water department on self-sus
tanning basis. This is a require
ment under the terms of the sale
of the $2.6 million Potomac bond
issue.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Crippled Children
Society Holds It's
Annual Meeting

The Montgomery County So
ciety for Crippled Children and
Adults will hold its annual
meeting on Monday, June II at
8 pm. in the County Office
Building auditorium in Rock
vile.
Ample parking is available
on the lighted County Build
ing parking lot adjacent to the
auditorium entrance.
Election of officers and
board members will take place
and brief annual reports will
be presented. Architects draw
ings of the proposed new
Treatment Center will be on
display.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
County Road Program
Moving on Schedule

Mason A. Butcher, Montgom-
cry County Director of Public
Works, released the following in
formation relating to the degree
Of completion Of road building
in the county:
FairmOnt avenue from Old
Georgetown road TO Woodmont
avenue; - per cent complete, fin
ished by July 30;
W0odmont avenue from Cordell
avenue to Battery lane; 10 per
cent complete, finished July 80;
Woodbridge avenue from High
view avenue TO Seward drive;
80 per cent complete, finished by
July ];
Cedar avenue (G'burgl and
Winnie place. northeast 300 feet,
from Summit Hall road, south
west 800 feet, to end of subdivi-
sion; 80 per cent complete, fin
ished June 30;
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
BY DOROTHY WALESKI

With no fanfare, Mrs. G.
Taylor Whittier, wife of the
newly-appointed Superintend-
ent of Schools, arrived in the
county this week on a "whirl-
wind" trip to househunt an
adequate roof for her large
family which includes hus-
band, four children and mother
"Whirlwind," is an apt descrip-
ton of Sara Jane Whittier, l
would say after three-hour ac-
quaintance. Also petite" and wi
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
State Misses
Safety Award
By a Squeak

In a close race for the win.
ming spot in the National Safe
ty Councils program of pub
lie safety education, Maryland
placed second to Massachusetts
last week.
Besides Maryland, there were
only 10 other states in the coun-
try which received the award
for outstanding achievement.
When the present Maryland
Traffic Safety Commission was
actvated in 1850 by Gov. Theo-
dore r. McKeldin, Maryland
was in 39th place. In 1851.
Maryland won first place in the
Nation and has held that hon.
or every year since.
Paul E. Burke is Executive
Director of the Maryland Traf.
fic Safety Commission.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13

Wheaton, which was organized
two weeks ago.
Most of the new appointees
will preach in their new churches
this Sunday.
Ministers re-appointed by Bish-
op Oman include the Reverends
G. r. Alderman, Ashton; Marion
S. Michael, Bethesda; Charles G.
Muradian, Mt. Carmel, Brooke
vile; Charles /. Wallace, Burtons-
vile; William Floyd, Cabin John;
Ira Steckman, Cedar Grove; Cliff
ford H. Richmond, Chevy Chase;
and Charles Rother, assistant,
Chevy Chase.
Ben F. Hartley, Clarksburg;
Paul H. Groseclose, Colesville; A.
Dean Kesler, Damascus; NAL
colin F. Wright, Epworth of
Gaithersburg; and Hardy Muller,
Grace, Gaithersburg; Edward II.
Porter, Kensington; James Nor
gan, Poo!esville; Gloyd E. Allis,
Potomac; Herbert L. d. Doggett,
Good Shepherd, Silver Spring; r.
S. Karpel, assistant, Marion Me
mortal, Silver Spring; Raymond
H. Brown, Grace, Takoma Park;
Chester w. Rill, Washington
Grove; Harold r. Lanman,
Hughes, Wheaton; and Merrill
brennan, MILAN Memorial,
Wheaton.
Appointments are made an.
nually for one-year terms.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Mrs. C. Taylor Whittier Visits to Find
NelU School Heads Family House

vacious' help to picture our new
Montgomery schools First Lady
who wears spike heels and piles
her blonde hair high to add dig.
nifty to her about five feet"
But then she smiles with a
friendly, young girls grin, the
dignified First Lady disappears
and you can picture exactly her
daughters, fouryear.old Penele
and ten.yearold Gee and what
Sara Jane, herself, was like when
she first met her husband at a
University of Chicago's Freshman
Mixer.
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Businessmen Meet

A group of Rockville merchants
met Tuesday night to explore
ways to promote Rockville as a
good place to shop. Committees
we're appointed from the Rock.
vile Center Businessmen's Asso-
citation and the Montgomery Ave
nue. merchants to discuss a pos
sible merger Of the two organi-
cations.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-13
Other County State
Roads Projects Meet
Planned Schedules

Norman M. Pritchett, chief
engineer for the Maryland
State Roads Commission this
week said work on the Viers
Mill Road project, rs behind
schedule, "Not satisfactory"
and may not be completed by
a date early in November.
Other Commission road jobs in
the county, according to l.. e.
McCarl, district engineer for
Prince Georges and Montgomery
counties, are as follows:
The Rockville Pike construction
is progressing according to sched-
ule and should be completed by
early Fall;
The new U. S. Rte. 240, the
Washington National Pike, from
Falls road to Tuckerman lane, in
GLIDING the interchange at Mon
trose, also is up to schedule;
The Washington Circumferen-
tial road, from Wisconsin avenue
to Connecticut avenue through
Rock Creek Park, is a little ahead
of schedule. Road crews will be-
gin laying sub-base material pre-
paratory to pouring concrete next
week.
Mr.. McCarl affirmed Mr.. Prit-
chetts estimation of the Viers
Mill Road project, which was
awarded to the REA Construo-
ton CO., of Charlotte, N. C. He
told The Sentinel, THE job Is
about 20 per cent behind SEIZED
ule."
Mr.. Pritchett said that the REA
company had been allotted 300
working days to complete build
ing Viers Mill road from Viers
Mill Village to the southern tip
of the Wheaton triangle. Three
hundred days are the maximum
allowed for such a project Of this
length.
1.-THE REA company now has
consumed 70 per cent of it's al
lotted time to complete only so
per cent of the work." Mr.. McCarl
stated. Target date for compile
ton Of the job is mid-November.
Mr.. McCarl blamed several
things for the work delay. First,
he said, the REA company doesn't
have enough men for the job.
They have two full paving
trains but only enough men for
one" he said. A paving train crew
numbers around rs. More than
the usual amount of rain last
month also curtailed work.
Mr.. McCarl also pointed out
that the REA company won the
low bids on five current state
road jobs and consequently has
spread itself too thin.
What they're doing, Mr.. Nc
Carl said, lis leaving one group
of road machinery at a partially
completed job and then loading
it's one crew on trucks to 90 TO
another partially done job"
Mr.. McCarl said the builders
reason for doing this was that it
is cheaper than moving the pom
derous machines around at the
expense Of wasted man-hours.
To counterfeit the tagging Viers
Mill road job, engineer Pritchett
instructed Mr. McCarl to demand
that the REA company put on
two full paving crews on the job.
Mr.. McCarl said that if things
go right and the weather holds
good, traffic should be travelling
on one new lane of Viers Mil
road within two weeks" He add
ed that road paving jobs often
fall behind a little but they pick
up once concreate is ready to be
T0urpd
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-06-06
Withhold Decision

The decision whether or not to
participate in a Girl Scout council
was held over until scout leaders
of surrounding communities could
be contacted. il was announced
following meeting last Frday in
the Episcopal Parish house.
The meeting was held to decide
as a community if the Girl Scouts
would participate in a girl scout
council. After a discussion the ma
jority voted in favor of the coun-
ell but leaders felt that since the
meeting was poorly attended that
final decision would not be given
until other leaders were contacted.
since they were not represented at
the meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-06-06
| SEE BY The DALIES

George M. Humphrey, secretary
of the treasury resigned and Rob
ert b. Anderson was named as new
treasury head.
o. S. mildly rebuked Britain for
junking special controls on trade
with Red China and said its total
embargo would continue.
Eight rioters were killed and 20
injured in an outbreak in Lebanon.
Memorial Day traffic death toll
reached 118, ? less than estimate.
A guided missile was fired May
81 from an air force missile test
center in Florida.
Three Democratic Senators pre-
dicted the South would reject
modern Republicanism' and give
solid support to Democrats in
1858 and 1860.
Senator Knowland said he would
try to block any Eisenhower adj
ministration request for money to
ship military equipment to Yugo-
slavia,
Rep. DevereuX of Baltimore
agreed to seek Republican nomina-
ton for governor of Maryland next
year.