Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-04-11
Damascus
By Mrs. Ulysses Griffith w


the Inspection Division of the
Atomic Energy Commission last
Thursday at meeting of the
Frederick Lions Club at the Fran
els Scott Key Hotel.
Mr.. Tackman, veteran of
nineteen years with the govern
ment has been with the Acc for
the past nine years. He is Vice
Chairman of the Montgomery
County District of the Boy Scouts
of America and is, of course, a
Damascus resident.
The main theme of Mr.. Tack
mans speech was the effect of
the opening of the Aces new
building in Germantown on No.
vember 2 on existing communities
in upper Montgomery and Fred
erick counties. He pointed out
that the Acc headquarters in
Washington which is the installa-
ton which will move to German
town in November consists main
ly of management and technical
personnel, about half of whom
are highly trained technical and
management experts.
OF this group many already
make their homes in North West
Washington and Montgomery
county within easy committing
distance of Germantown. How
ever large number are also To-
Gated In Virginia. We called Mr..
the phone. He told us that the
figure of 300 families moving in
to this area because of the new
building is the estimated high fig
ure made by their experts. 1t is
not anticipated that these families
will move all at once but rather
that many will try committing at
first and then move later as the
distance to be travelled proves too
firing.
Mr.. Tackman said that he felt
that while the whole general area
would be affected that probably
the greater majority would tend
to settle in the three established
communities of Damascus, Gath
erSburg and Frederick City.
When we asked him about those
families which had already
moved he told us that they num-
Der in the neighborhood of doz-
en- and that these families have
all settled in the Damascus area,
but this of course would not nee
essarily hold for those moving in
the future.
They will seek areas to live in
which they can find good hous-
ing, good schools, good communi-
ty facilities, churches, etc.. Mr..
Tackraan in his Frederick speech
emphasized that most of the
families moving will be high level
management people with an in.
tense interest in community a.
fairs so that they will make them
selves known and felt in what
ever area they choose to settle.
He also said that the Acc
needed local secretarial and cleri-
cal help and that an active re-
cruiting program is being con-
Quoted in the local schools to OBJ.
tain them.
There is big news from the Da.
mascus Elementary School this
week too. The new six room adj
dition to the building is just about
completed and moving day will
be arriving very shortly. The new
addition will house two second
grade groups, three third grade
groups and one fourth grade
group.
This will leave space in the old
er building for a second kinder
garten room and will permit a
breakup into three sections of
the very large kindergarten
group so that there will be two
morning and one afternoon ses-
sion shortly.
Also in the news is another
step taken in the conservation
project of the sixth grade. Some
five years ago There was Just
one sixth grade then under Miss
Constance Mullinix) the group
obtained white pine seedlings
from the state and set them out
in a bed. This week the sixth
graders with an assist from the
maintenance department in the
matter of digging holes set out
sixty trees some four to five feet
high under the supervision of
their teachers Miss Mullinix and
Mr. Donald Boyer. Note there
are two six grade rooms now.
There still remains a sizeable
group of'trees to be- planted next
year which have grown from the
seedlings set out by Miss Null
link group five years ago.
Here is date for parents of
children who plan to enter kinder.
garten next year to note on their
calendar. Wednesday, May will
be pre-school roundup day. Par.