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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-31
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material, but they have kept
these methods top secret.
Scientists from the East and
West poured into Geneva for
the conference that opens Of
flcially Monday. Twenty gov
ernments will stage exhibits.
A center of attention at a
press review was the Soviet
stand, where the main attrac-
ton was a life-size model of
Sputnik III.
u. N. Secretary General Dag
Hammerskjold arrived here by
plane tonight for the opening
of the conference. He will open
the donation nuclear exhibit
Of the conference tomorrow and
will attend the formal opening
meeting Monday.
Then he will resume work on
his Mideast peace mission. He
is scheduled to return to Cairo
Tuesday.
Announcing their secrecy
lifting moves, Mr.. Strauss and
Sir John said declassif1ca ton
of the research programs was
expected to speed up attainment
of the goal of obtaining useful
power from controlled fusion
reactions.
Aid to Scientists
Dissatisfaction of the re-
search programs by American
and Britain will make it pos
sible for scientists from other
countries to pursue studies at
some of the research centers
in which work on controlled
thermometer energy is being
performed" the announcement
said.
Devices used in fusion ex-
periments by scientist" of diff
ferent countries, including Rus
sia, are on show in the tech
meal exhibition being staged
along with the conference.
About 100 of the 1900 papers
to be studied by the 5000
scientists and observers at
tending the conference deal
with aspects of the search for
a way to tame the H-bomb for
Industrial use.
Begun in U. S. In 1851
Britain launched its research
program in l947 in London and
later transferred its main eff
fort to the atomic energy re-
search establishment at Har-
well where the famed "Zeta''
apparatus was built.
The United States program
was inaugurated in 1851 and
was stepped up in 1858. Main
lines of research have been
conducted at the Los Alamos
scientific laboratory Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. Princeton
University and the University
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
COP Split
Begins to
Take Shape

The beginnings of an opposi-
ton primary slate to the one
which enjoys the blessing of
United Republican Committee be-
gan to take shape this week.
Early arrivals on the slate, re-
portedly backed by L. S. (Ted)
Ray, and Walter w. Dawson, "Old
Guard" COP leaders, included:
State Central Committee - Wal
ter Dawson, Ferman Plummer,
Gilbert Guide and Dorothy Aubi-
noe, Helen Burkart, James Gil
bert, and Ted Ray; House of Dele
gates Louis w. Enrich, Ronald
S. Senseman, w. Perry Going;
County Council Jay Conger,
4th District.
The move, if it is successful,
would be an effort on the part
of Ray and Dawson TO seize con-
troll of the COP State Central
Committee in the May 20 pri-
mary.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Wrong Man
Shot, Budd
Accused

A preliminary hearing has
been set for Monday in Rockville
Peoples Court for Daniel Budd,
81, of Rt. l, Redland, who has
been charged with murder and
assault with intent to murder.
Budd was charged by Mont.
gomery County police with the
shotgun murder last Saturday of
Edward Chase, 40, of Gathers.
burg.
According to police, Budd had
argued with another man that
night in Johnson's Tavern, near
Emory Grove. He went out to his
car, police said, and returned to
the tavern with a 12.gauge
shotgun.
He pointed the gun at the man
with whom he had argued and as
he pulled the trigger, Chase
walked into the line Of fire. He
was killed instantly. police said.
The other man was not injured.
Chase was pronounced dead OH
the scene by County Medical
Examiner DR. Frank Broschart.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Host of New Projects
Called for in Budget

A capital budget, totaling SIG
million, for construction OF
schools, roads, parking lots, II.
braries and other county build
ings was submitted to the County
Council Tuesday by County Man
ager Melvin L. Reese.
The largest slice OF the capital
budget, $12.9 million, was allo.
Gated to schools.
The remainder of the capital
budget provides for $1.3 million
for road construction, 100000 for
parking lots in Silver Spring, and
$1.4 million for a variety of other
county buildings.
Among these projects all TO be
contracted for this year, are pro.
posals for:
Addition TO the Rockville
courthouse at cost Of $1,917,500.
. Renovation Of the Silver
Spring County building to pro
vide new police station quarters in
the old Park and Planning offices
at cost Of $4,000.
. Renovation OF the Bethesda
County building at cost Of $50.
900.
. Construction Of q volunteer
firemen's training center on the
county farm property In Rock.
vile at a cost of $500.
= Acquisition Of land at a cost
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Congressional Airport
Is Finally Shut Do,Un

comes at time when the county
still has not made up its mind
that: % it wants a business air.
port partially financed by the
Civil Aeronautics Administration,
and ~ if it does want such an
airport, that it will be able to
move in time to secure Federal
financial help.
Closing of Congressional long
has been expected by county avia-
TORS and others. Its principal use
curing the past five years has
been as headquarters for the Con-
gressional Group of CAP, which
the field.
4 Runway and other conditions
'have deteriorated to the point that
most industrial air fleet owners
have not used the 25O0-foot run
way for three years.
The airstrip enjoyed peaks of
activity just before and just aft
ter World War II. FledgIing fly
ers flocked to the field for pilot
training before the war and scores
of CT Bill veterans learned to fly
there.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Caucus Rejects
Slate DrdUn by
NOrthrOp-Lee

A suggested harmony" slate
of candidates proposed by group
of six county Democrats includ-
ing State Sen. Edward S. North
rop and Del Blair Lee III was re.
jected Monday by Caucus Demo.
Gratis.
After rejecting II Caucus lead.
ers called on all well-qualified
potential candidates to file for Of.
flee.
THE Organization slate did not
meet our Standards" said David
Reich, Caucus chairman. Dead
line for filing for the May 20
primary Is March 10.
Some candidates active in the
Caucus group are filing for office
and the Caucus. an lnsurgent
group, Is expected TO announce a
slate of it's own after the filing
deadline Monday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
By Dorothy Walesld
staff Reporter

County Manager M. l..
Reese - for the first time
since he took office three
years ago - has given the
school board a I'm lost every.
thing it has asked for in the
way of funds.
The school board asked for $26,.
1852 in operating funds. Reese
recommended giving them $26,.
28Q,848. The school board asked
for $13,137.643. Reese proposed
to give them $12,987, 643. II,
In the last three years, Reese
has slashed between 81 million
and $4.3 million per year from
school requests. Next year he
suggests cutting them only 1884.
673.
Biggest cut was $150,000 the
school board wanted to apply to.
ward a new $1.3 million head.
quarters building.
Also axed by Reese was $780,
600 requested for a flat $500 pay
hike to 288 older teachers who
have been by-passed by salary In.
creases.
Reese's action backed School
Superintendent C. Taylor Whit
tiers stand that all teachers must
be put on the full salary scale
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06

school budget.
"Much is at stake in spite of
the relatively small amount Of
money involved"the teachers sec
rotary declared. "These teachers
deserve consideration more than
any other group as they have
failed to get proper increases for
a number of years"
Most delighted by the mana.
gers budget including the cuts he
made in the school boards re.
quest was School Board Member
Harrison King.
Expressing appreciation Of the
managers support, King said he
had opposed the $150,000 for site
and plans for a new administra.
ton building deleted by Reese, as
being premature at this time"
The conversion of Lincoln Junior
High will open up lot of space
In the present school headquar.
tiers, the board member pointed
out.
The only dissatisfaction with
Reese recommendation that
King had was the conversion of
Carver Senior High into an int
grated junior high for West Rock
Vile. This could be put off at
least year, the upcounty mem
Der said, and the 81 million saved
over new school would be lost
in the long run
Superintendent c. Taylor Whit
tier was gratified that the mana.
ger found so little to cut in the
school budget. It showed, said
the superintendent, that the man
ager had given serious considera-
ton to the needs of the schools.
However, he disagreed with the
managers deletion Of a curricu-
lum evaluation study on the basis
Of similar study underway by
state committee.
Continued on Page a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06

Congressional Airport died this
week. Suburbia killed it.
The airport was officially closed
at shutdown Sunday, ending more
than 20 years of operations.
1t was shut down at the request
of Arthur c. Hyde, who owns AZ
acres of commercially zoned land
along Rockville Pike in front of
the field and along one side of it.
Hyde, owner of extensive real
estate, was out of town and un.
available for commenet.
The Congressional Group, Civil
Air Patrol and owners of private
planes are expected to evacuate
about As planes from the field by
early next week.
The only other field in Mont
gomery county is a small one
near Laytonsville on land owned
by E. Brooke Lee. 1t is operated
by William Paille. Most of the
planes at Congressional are NOV
ing there.
The closest airport available for
regular use, other than the Lay
louisville strip, is at Frederick.
The closing of Congressional
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Hovsepian
Won't Run
For Mayor

Mayor Dickran Y. Hovsep-
ian, Rockville's Mayor since
May 1854, announced this
week that he would not run
for a third term in the April
% election.
In a public statement, the
Mayor explained that this ac-
ton is being taken for purely
personal reasons and not from
the desire to relinquish my di.
rect association with our city's
government"
Declining to comment further
on the personal reasons the
Mayor went on to say that he
left with no regrets having seen
almost all of our original plat
form pledges accomplished and
even exceeded. The remaining
one or two not completed are
now in the process of compile
ton"
HOvsepian was elected in the
unexpected landslide for the new.
Iy organized Citizens for Good
Government group in 1854.
The Mayor gave full credit to
the support of Rockville citizens,
particularly those serving on spe.
cial commissions and committees
for the success of his adTninistra-
ton.
Calling his terms in office 'the
most gratifying and rewarding
experiences in my life, Hovsepian
expressed appreciation for the
confidence placed in him by Rock
vile and promised that ''in spite
of my withdrawal from activities
at this time, / shall always be
available to advance the cause
of good government in our city"
In the past four years, Mayor
Hovsepian has also served for
the same period as chairman of
the Montgomery chapter of the
Maryland Municipal League, leg
islative chairman of the League
for two years and vice president
of the southern district of the
League.
In that time he also received an
award from the United States Re-
served Officers Association for
outstanding contributions to pub
lie safety and morals.
Hovsepian heads a department
of the planning staff of the Army
Map Service. He and his wife,
Viola, have been residents of
Twinbrook since 1850.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06

of $107,500 for a new central II
brary headquarters In Rockville
TO be built in 1860 at a cost OF
$507,500. The present central Ii
brary Is In rented headquarters in
Gaithersburg.
Acquisition Of land at cost
Of $63,575 for a new Wheaton Ii.
brary to be built in 1859 at cost
Of $230,725.
Construction Of a new Gath.
ersburg library at cost Of S108..
$50.
Construction Of a county
maintenance depot on the county
farm property at a cost Of S144,.
500.
Construction Of a new Jail on
the county farm property at a
cost Of $227, 500.
A Wheaton sub-station of the
Silver Spring Police Department
at cost Of $4,000.
These projects are part Of a
fiye-year capital Improvement and
construction program at a total
cost Of $40 million. Other new
construction planned for 1860 in.
cludes an eastern suburban II.
brary, Rock Greek library, west.
ern suburban library and Bethes-
da library addition. Scheduled
for 1862 Is a Colesville library.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Whittier Funds Plea
Still Almost Intact

adopted by the board last year be-
fore considering a new scale.
This scale, now recommended
by Reese, gives non-degree teach,
ers $4,000 to $500, ABB teachers
$4,000 to $4,000, and MA teachers,
$4,000 to $1,000 in IL years.
Reese also deleted a S22,673 re-
quest for a curriculum evalua.
tion study on the ground such a
study is now under way at the
state level by a committee APP
pointed by the Governor. He
saved $4,000 by recommending
4 film series in black and white
instead of color to be used for
Xsaehipg physics in the high
schools.
Left untouched by the manager
was the school boards request
for six new elementary schools,
two new secondary schools, and
additions and notifications to 16
elementary and seven secondary
schools, and a new S500,O00 sci
ence building at the Montgomery
Junior college.
Reese also passed on to the
County Council his approval OF
the school boards decision to con
vert the Negro Carver Senior
High into an integrated junior
high for West Rockville and the
Negro Lincoln Junior High into
warehouse and transportation
confer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Group Proposes
Zoning Changes

The West Montgomery County
Citizens Association has author.
lied President Wilbur r. Garrett,
Jr., and its coming Committee to
propose three changes in the
Upper Montgomery County Zon-
ing Ordinance:
. The re-establishment of the
RE Presidential estateI two-acre
classification and the elimination
Of all special exceptions thereto;
= Creation of a one-acre classi.
fication to be used as buffer ION.
ing between the two acre and
one-half acre zones;
. Reduction from 20 per cent
TO 10 per cent OF the maximum
land coverage standards in the
two acre classification.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Lee Says
Harmony
Is Gone

There is no slate, no in
dorsed, candidates and no tick
ct in Montgomery County that
has the backing Of any faction
of the Democratic Party, Col.
E. Brooke Lee announced in
Silver Spring Tuesday night.
There is no such thing as har-
mony in this county" Lee re-
ported, admitting the collapse of
compromise attempts between the
Organization and Caucus factions.
Fifty persons attended the PRO
test Rally" staged by the Demo
Gratis Who Think For Them
selves" in the auditorium of the
Park and Planning Commission,
Silver Spring.
David Heller, independent Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress,
scored the secrecy of the so-called
secret six" and the Caucus group
and attacked the record of Con-
gresham Dewitt S. Hyde, Re-
publican. The meeting adopted
two resolutions and proposed a
mass rally for all Democratic can
didates but the old hands took
over command of the meeting
from the novices to attack the
Caucus.
The meeting adopted the fol
lowing resolutions offered by
William Ahlberg:
Selecting candidates for pub
lie office is public business and
should be done in the full open
view of the public and of the
press as representatives of the
public.
Secret political meetings from
which the press Is barred is not
in the public interest, especially
when such meetings presume to
select candidates for public office
and to form the platform of
great political party"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
School Budget Cuts
DraiU Mixed Reaction

Reaction to the county mana
gers school budget recommends
tons this week ranged from
pleased surprise to violent disap
pointment.
Arthur d. Simonds, Jr., execu.
tive secretary of the Montgomery
County Education Association,
said he was 'dreadfully disap-
pointed" by County Manager M.
L. Reese's deletion Of $4,000 for
pay increases to 288 of the coun-
TVS most experienced teachers.
His association, Simonds said,
will oppose this cut at the County
Councils public hearing on the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
I'm a Taller
BY John T. Young
AS Told to Steed Evans-Staff Reporter
One of Series

I've been in Jail for almost eight years. l am the
warden of the county Jail at Rockville.
Like all wardens, live right in the JAIL My wife
and have very nice apartment haffoor over the
main Jail floor
friend once asked my wife, Ann, Doesn't it make
you nervous to live among all those convicts?" Her
swer perfectly described TIE way felt about it when
we first came here and the way feel now: We are
actually safer than people who live on the outside
Who's going to break into Jail?
have lived in Montgomery County since 1916 My
mother the late Mrs Bertha Connolly Young was born
near Whites Ferry and stayed here most of her early
life.
Few people have any idea what it Is like to be a
warden. TV and the movies sometimes give them the
wrong dea-that we all sadsts good guys who
nevertheless are always in kind of trouble with
the inmates
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Reese Asks
s$b59.8Million
Managers Budget Needs
7-Ce1t Tax Rate Hike
BY Marge Flynn
Staff reporter

II
"a 7-cent hike in the county
tax rate, bringing the levy to
$2.22 for eact $500 valuation,
would be retuired to finance
a recommended $43.8 million
budget for Operation of the
county government, County
Manager Melvin L. Reese told
the County Council Tuesday.
A total budget of $59.8 million,
including Sic million for capital
improvements, was proposed by
the county manager.
For the first time in the history
of the county, the assessable base
will exceed one billion dollars,
Reese pointed out in his annual
budget presentation. OF the esti-
dated $1,009, 136,059 base, an esti-
mated 1891 million viii be subject
to the general county and school
tax.
The present operating budget
totals $37 million with a present
tax rate of $2.15. The proposed
$2.22 levy would be apportioned
as follows: $1.49 for school oper-
atoms, compared to $1.41 at pres
ert, % for general county gov
eminent, a decrease of one cent;
three cents Tor county debt, an in
crease Of enc cent; .35 for school
debt, one-cent decrease, and six
cents for pay-as-you-go capital
outlay, the same as at present.
The six-cent portion for pay-as-
you-go capital outlay represents
five per cent Of the capital budget.
The county manager recommend
ed that the Council adopt this five
per cent formula as a future
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Inside
Annapolis
By Blair Lee III

1t will have to be a bobtailed
column this week, composed dur
ing a Commute interval on Mon
day morning between an overdue
haircut and my departure for An
napolis.
OF course, by the time you see
this column the 1858 session Of
the General Assembly will be in
its final throes, or adjourned, and
many Of the issues pending to-
day will have been resolved.
First and foremost is the State
budget.
A joint committee of III mem.
bers Of the House Ways and
Means Committee and the entire
14-man membership of the Senate
Finance Committee attacked the
Governors budget with sharp
hatchets last week. When the
carnage was finished, a total of
ST. million had been chopped out
Of the operating budget alone.
This amount was two and one
half times larger than any previ-
Gus budget cut in the entire his
tory of Maryland. 1t was inspired,
quite obviously, by the gruesome
prospect of tax increase which
will also break all previous rec
ords in It's field.
In my personal opinion the bud
getcutters went too far spe-
officially, In the fields Of public
health and public welfare. l told
them so ut the time, but I was
voice crying In the wilderness.
The biggest cuts in the Health
Department budget were in the
area Of local public health serv-
ices and the Medical Care Pro-
gram, which provides medical and
dental services and drugs to needy
patients.
The Public Welfare Department
was shorn Of some S650,00O that
was earmarked to carry its case
load Of the blind, the aged, the
dependent children. the phsyIcal.
ly disabled, etc. In a period OF
financial recession 1t seems to me
reasonable to assume that Wei
fares caseload will increase sub.
stantially.
Capital Budget
Meanwhile. the House Ways
and Means Committee was apply
ing equally rough treatment 70
the capital Improvement budget.
which IS financed By State bond
issues
One Of the items deleted in the
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Outstanding Farmer

The outstanding" young farm
or in Maryland will be announced
on Saturday evening at the State
Awards banquet of the Maryland
Junior Chamber Of Commerce.
The dinner will be held in the
cafeteria OF the Gaithersburg
High School at Z PM, with the
Gaithersburg Jaycees as hosts.
Tickets are available through An.
drew Hugar, Gaithersburg presi-
dent. Cali 377.W.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06

policy. The percentage would re
main constant at 5 percent, but
the amount could fiuctuate de
pending on general tax receipts
The recommended tax rate OF
four cents for recreational pur.
poses and ten cents for the Su.
burban District is the same as at
present.
Among the county managers
recommendations to the Council
were:
. A library in the Twinbrook
area on rental basis.
A re-study of the IS percent
maintenance cost arrangement
for county recreation facilities
and program now in effect with
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
. Withholding any appropria-
ton for unemployed employables
until local figures are available
showing need for such program
in the county.
. A revised ray plan for county
employees providing an average
increase between 6.8 and Z per
cent, totaling approximately $780,
600.
. Addition Of two plumbing in
spectors to administer the new
Continues on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06
Budget Hearing
Dates Are Set

Public hearings on the pro-
posed 1889 county budget will
be held March rs, ~ and 20 in
Rockville.
Capital and expense budgets
for departments of public
works, civil defense, welfare
and health will be held March
rs in the County Building audi
t0rium, beginning at 1880 PM.
Hearings on budgets for police,
fire, libraries, recreation and all
other items will be held March
% in the County Building audi
torium, also at 1880 PM. Hear
ings on the capital and oper-
ating budgets for schools will
be March 20 in Richard Mont
gomery High school auditorium
at 1880 p. NJ.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06

Feature news and pictures Of
interest to every high school stu.
dent in the SentinePs circulation
area are contained on the High
School Page. Turn to Page B4.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-06

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