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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1958-01-25
Sensational
Annie Laurie
And Orchestra
At Stevens
Feb. 7

Promoters have announced
that the next attraction at
Stevens Rose Room, will be the
sensational singing star, AN
ME LAURIE who will be back
ed up by one of the best Or
chestras on the Road Today.
This attraction will come to
Stevens, Friday, February 2.
Watch this paper for details.
Other attractions scheduled
for Stevens soon are: TABB
SMITH and ORCHESTRA;
BUDDY JOHNSON and Or
chestra, featuring Ella john
son.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1958-01-25
Negroes Join
Whites In
Defending Youth

TAVARES, Fla. = Negro cit
rus workers have joined whites
in raising defense fund for
of a white woman. The sheriff
who is being held by Sheriff
Willis V. Mccall for the rape
of a while woman. The sheriff
had been holding a Negro
youth, Melvin Hawkins, for the
same crime before suspicion
turned to the white boy. Nc
Call is noted for his attacks
on Negroes.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1958-01-25
Greenwood
Senior Receives
$500 Scholarship

GREENWOOD, Miss - Miss
Carolyn Yvette Williams, SEN
ior at Broad Street High
School, recently received no.
tice that she had won the COW
eted scholarship of $4,000 per
year to the college of her
choice, given by the National
Scholarship Service and Funds
for Negro Students, New York
City.
Miss Williams became elig-
ible for the scholarship when
she competed in the Scholar
ship Qualifying Test, directed
by the Educational Testing
Service of Princeton, New Jer-
sey. The test was given at
Broad Street High School.
This test was taken by $780,
600 students thruout the Uni
ted States with 1900 qualify
ing for honors. This is the first
time a local student has won a
Merit Scholarship Award.
Miss wilkins who resigned
as the 1857 "Miss Homecom-
ing of Broad Street High" is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilburn Williams. Mr.. Will
liams is an army officer and
Mrs. Williams is an English
Instructor at Broad Street
High.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1958-01-25

dent White has built an instiu-
ton worth better than 312 mil
lion. The schedule now calls
for the immediate construc-
ton of an Administration-Au-
ditorium building, Science-Li-
brary building and a Religious
Social building.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1958-01-25

JACKSON, Miss. - Sunday,
January 10 - In connection
with the beginning of their %
Anniversary celebration, the
Mississippi Enterprise, the
states Oldest and largest cir
culated Negro weekly newspa-
per, presented the New Strang-
ers Home NJ. B. Church, loca-
ted on Subway Street, with a
life size portrait of their be-
loved pastor, REV. c. F. JOR-
DAN.
The presentation was made
by Mrs. Sarah M. Harvey, Edi-
tor of the Enterprise, who
among other things, stated that
this was one of the ways that
the paper planned tosshow ap-
probation to the general pub
lie for the fine cooperation
given during the past years.
The Enterprise, working with
Mr.. Cecil Walton, talented free
lance photographer, will pre-
sent these life size portraits
to the various churches and
organizations of the city thru
out the coming year.
1t is hoped by Mrs. Harvey
that these magnificent por-
traits that measures Is by 20
made by Mr.. Walton, at
a very small cost to the paper
and no profit whatsoever to
the photographer, will not only
show appreciation on part of
the Mississippi Enterprise, but
will bring attention to the fine
work that is being done by this
young artists, with the hope
that m o e organizations,
churches and individuals will
call for him when work of
this kind is needed. Mr.. Walton
can be contacted thru the of
flee of the Mississippi Enter
prise.
Rev. Jordan is considered to
be one of the states outstand-
ing, spiritual preachers. A ma
tive of Madison County, he is
married to the former Miss
Henrene t. Brown. The couple
are the parents of eight chill
dren, two attending college, 3
in high school and 3 in elemen-
tary school. Rev. Jordan, a
graduate of Lanier High
School also attended and grad
uated from the Baptist Semi
nary on North Parish. The
Mississippi Enterprise is hap
by to salute Rev. and Mrs. c.
F. Jordan, the 8 Jordan young
sters and the very fine congre-
cation of New Strangers Home
M. B. Church.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
P-TA Hits
Longview


The Longview P-TA has
objected to county staff sug-
gestions that their school be
used for any other purpose
than a desegregated school.
Mrs. Catherine Dyson, P.TA
president, wrote the school board
this week that a proposal TO use
the S school for boys with be.
havior problems "is a blow to
our pride"
"The basic principle of
desegrcgatiOn aims 10 have
all children of all races at-
tend IL school nearest their
residence" she wrote.
Longview is one of four re
naming all-Negro elementary
schools. Mrs. Dyson wrote:
"Wc have invested much time,
energy and finance in the ever
greens, trees and equipment on
the playground. Our children
have taken care of the school
No vandalism can be laid at the
door Of this community"
Use of Longview as school
for children of both races from
kindergarten through sixth
grade, she said, "is right for all"
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
For 2 Deaths


A jury Of ten men and two
women took less than six
minutes Tuesday to convict
Joseph Goughan, "a, in the
hit and run death of a young
Bethesda mother and her in
fant son last June II.
Circuit Court Judge Thomas M
Anderson sentenced the construc.
ton superintendent to six years
in the Maryland House of Cor
rection. He was convicted on two
counts of statutory manslaughter,
hit-and-run, drunk driving and
reckless driving. The maximum
penalty was nine years.
The defendant sat impassive
during the two-day trial. He
maintained through his attorney,
James S. McAuliffe, jr., that he
could not remember the events
that led TO, or followed the killing
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
$500 Damage

A fire at the Gaithersburg
Volunteer Fire Department
turned in its own alarm last
Thursday.
Flames that started in the first.
floor Town Council meeting room
licked through wiring insulation
and short circuited the siren
which summoned firemen to their
burning building.
They leape onto their !.
bumpers, reared across the
street, hooked onto hydTantS
and fought the blaze into sub
mission.
Damage was estimated at ap-
proximately $500 but the loss
was insured. Fircmen are virtu-
ally positive that the blaze started
in an overhead lighting fixture in
the Council meeting room.
The flames ate through the cell
ing and caused some damage TO
the underside of the building s
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Board Told Of Need
For Curriculum CSaY'

whom recently rem owe d her
daughter from the course. The
mother, Mrs. Helen Burton of Be
thesda, was an observer of this
weeks board discussion.
Board M e m b e r Mrs. Helen
Scharf questioned whether some
aspects of the adjustment" unit
do not delve into depth psychol-
ogy which is beyond the grasp of
most seventh-graders.
One textbook, she said,
seems to verge on the psy-
choanalytic."
Perhaps some of this is a per-
sonal guidance problem and not
a group problem" Mrs. Scharf
said.
In reply to a question by Board
Chairman Lathrop E, Smith, Os.
terwise said complaints about the
course have not been extensive.
He said a certain amount of
criticism can be expected in re-
gard to any program, and he and
the other supervisors conceded
that the entire social studies pro-
gram could benefit from further
study.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Little Theater
Holds TryOuts

Tryouts for Rockville Little
Theater's second play to be given
in February will be held today
and Friday at 8 pm. In the base
ment Of the Kelley Building on S.
Perry st. in Rockville.
Visit to a Small Planet" has
been substituted for the play orig
inalIy chosen as the groups Feb
ruary effort.
The cast calls for eight men and
two women and the play has Just
been released. The Rockville
Little Theater will be the first
theatrical group in this area to
produce it.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11

Recent criticisms of county
school curriculum point up the
need for the creation of a new
office of curriculum director,
the school board was told this
week.
The proposal was endorsed by
DR.. George Osterwise, assistant
superintendent in charge of Sec
ondary instruction, during a Ia
hour discussion of the schools
social sciences program.
Osterwise and four secondary
supervisors said a director of
curriculum needed to coordinate
all levels of instruction. AT pres
ent, they said, it is entirely pos
sible that some duplication and
mis-emphasis of subject matter
exists.
Board members questioned
the supervisors closely in re-
gard to a seventh-grade per.
sonal adjustment unit that
is part of a course labeled as
history.
The unit has been under strong
fire of several parents, one of
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
AT hearing
Two Say School Board
FayOrs Certain Areas

optimum size for high schools is
1900 to 1900.
To ward off eventual over
crowding at Blair, Levin's COM
mittee proposed construction of
another high school in the area
circumscribed by Bethesda.Cheyy
Chase, Wheaton, Northwood and
Blair High Schools.
Humphrey, speaking as a pri-
vate citizen, also drew attention
to the proposed costs for West
Bethesda Junior High, remark
ing:
II don't see why a Ken
wood Country Club area
school should cost more than
schools elsewhere"
Humphrey pointed out that the
overall proposed cost of the West
Bethesda school would be more
than $800,000 higher than the
school systems own estimate of
reasonable high school costs 1885,
600 per teaching station).
Levin conceded that his evi-
dence of disparate treatment is
somewhat circumstantial."
Nevertheless, he contended that
there does not appear to have
been, nor now to be, completely
equitable treatment of the needs
of the various sections of the
county"
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
At Hearing
BY Bob Bernstein
Sentinel Reporter

The school board has been
accused, from two different
sources, of favoring the Be-
thesda area over the Rockville
and Silver Spring Wheaton :
Kensington areas.
The implications of bias were
leveled at last weeks public bud.
get hearing by an Allied Civic
Group committee and by James
]. Humphrey, a defeated school
board candidate.
Louis Levin, chairman of the
Civic Groups education commit
tee, told the board:
Zone cannot avoid the I'M
preston that certain areas of
the county receive somewhat
more consideration than
Others"
He cited the following situa.
tions as evidence of this "dis.
parate treatment:
. Whereas elementary schools
in most areas do not exceed the
stated "optimum" size of 25 class.
rooms or 700 to $50 pupils, five
schools in the Kensington-Whea
ton area are larger than this.
. The proposed 81 million West
Bethesda Junior High is planned
to cost some Is percent more per
pupil than the proposed West
Rockville Junior High, and sub
stantially more than the new
Springbrook and Aspen Ii & i
Schools.
. Montgomery Blair Hig /
School is planned for expansion
to 2300 pupils, although the stated
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Pugh Takes
Oath as 3rd
Judge Here

About 300 friends, rela-
tives, county and State Off
cials assembled Monday to
witness the swearing in of
James II. Pugh as the third
judge of Montgomery County
Circuit Court.
Throngs milled around the
Rockville courthouse for 45
minutes before the ceremony
took place. Clayton X. Watkins,
clerk Of the court, administered
the oath in less than a minute.
On the bench were Chief
Judge Patrick NJ. Schnauffer and
(See Photograph on Page B-2)
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Judges Thomas M. Anderson and
Kathryn j. Lawlor.
Also in attendance were Judge
Pugh's wife and two brothers,
Michael and Robert Pugh, with
their wives.
Judge Pugh, So, was elected to
Il 15-year term in the November
general election. His predecessor,
John r. Reeves, was appointed
TO the bench by Governor Theo.
dore Il. McKeldin in 1856.
Judge Pugh's election climaxcd
a race marked only by The sit
ting judge" issue. Some factions
believe that a judge, once seated,
should not be opposed in an
election.
Others, however, take the posi-.
tion that the sittingjudge prin-
cipIe is groundless. Judge Pugh
campaigncd on the premise that
Judge Reeves was not properly a
sitting judge inasmuch as he was
not elected to the bench.
Judge Pugh leaves lucrative
Rockville law practice TO become
Judge Of the Circuit Court. Cir.
cult Court judges earn $4,000 a
year.
Judge Pugh Is the nephew of
two deceased judges, John c.
Pugh, Of Birmingham. Ala. and
James L. Pugh, Of the District Of
Columbia lie is the grandson Of
the late Senator James l.. Pugh,
of Alabama.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Tighten
Code,
Is Plea

An engineering specialist
has recommended three regu-
lations for Tightening up the
com1ty's fire code as it applies
to fuel storage tanks.
The County Council is study.
ing changes in the code in the
wake Of the spectacular fuel oil
fire in Bethesda November 30.
Or. S. Hanson lngberg. q spe.
cialist in the field. recommended
regulations that would:
Authorize the County Coun.
Gil to require fuel storage areas
10 be diked, so that burning fuel
cannot flow into adjoining areas.
. Require fire.rcsistant sup.
porting structures for tanks.
Require loading areas to be
paved to prevent spilled oil from
soaking into the earth, where II
can act as giant wick" &C.
cordins to Ingberg.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
NetU Rule
On ZOning'
Studied

Regulations designed to dis
courage resubmission of re-
jected zoning applications are
being prepared for adoption
by the Countya Council.
Specifically, the new amend.
ment would require minimum
three-year waiting period for any
application that has already been
turned down twice.
The County Council di-
rected the County Attorney
to draft the legislation this
week, as a protection to har.
ried residential property own
ers who face encrOuchnlent
by commercial and industrial
interests.
Under present rules, any zon.
ing application may be resubmit-
ted 18 months after it has been re
fused. Under the new rule, the
same period will apply between
the first and second reflections
but subsequent applications will
have to wait out the three-yeal
period.
The Council Instructed Acting
County Attorney Alfred Carter to
include provisions to prevent q
large landowner from submitting
frequent applications for differ
ent parcels of the same tract.
Such provisions, we've r.
should be drawn SO as to ex-
clude large farm holdings where
it might be reasonable to put
different parcels to varying uses,
the Council told Carter.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Dog Control.
is Eyed
Plan Similar
To Rockville
Rule Studied

The County Council is con-
sidering adopting an ordi-
nance which would prohibit
dogs running at large in the
urban down-county area.
The law would probably be
similar to the one recently adopt
ed in Rockville, which specifics
that dogs must be under control
Of their masters, though not
necessarily on leashes, at all
times.
The county has received 70
letters, several petitions, and
numerous telephone calls in the
past few years from citizens who
want some sort of control law.
CounciImen directed Act
ing City Attorney Alfred
Carter to draft sample"
ordinance for further discus
sion and eventual public
hearing.
The possibility of a public
donnybrook over the issue was
noted by both County Manager
Melvin L. Reese and Councilman
William f. Hickey.
Reese described the question as
one "permeated by emotion"
"a limited survey by the Sen.
tinel last week, however, turned
up no serious dissatisfaction with
the new Rockville law
A similar county law was pro-
posed two years ago, but the
resultant public outcry caused
the Council to delete most of its
provisions.
All that survived at that time
was a rule banning dogs from
school property, which is still in
effect.
Carter said his sample" ordi-
nance would not apply to the up
county rural area.
Elsewhere, he said, ii would
specify that dogs must at all
times be within hailing distance
Of their masters, or otherwise
under their control.
Carter emphasized that the
ordinance would not be leash
law that is, 1t would not re-
quirc dogs to be kept on leash
when on the public streets.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
A ClassrOOIlls
Abandoned
At Bethesda

Four classrooms have been
abandoned at Bethesda Elemcn-
tary School because their floors
are threatening 10 collapse.
James H. Sheldon, director Of
school construction. said a load
test last week revealed that ter.
mites and dry rot have under
mined supporting members to a
dangerous extent,
The school Is trying TO arrange
temporary quarters In a nearby
church or another school for the
three classes involved. One OF
the condemned rooms was used
for storage.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Municipal League
Will Meet Here

Members of Montgomery Coun.
fy's delegation TO the Maryland
General Assembly and state Scna.
tor Edward S. Northrop will meet
at Sis pm. tomorrow with rep.
rescntatiyes Of the Maryland
Municipal League at the Rock.
Vile Civic Center.
They viii talk about impending
legislation IN the General As.
sembly and IT'S effect on Mont.
gonhery County.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
New Districts Asked
By Civic Federation
Old Ones Seen
As Outnoded by
Recent Growth

A re-drawing of the five
County Council district bound
aries was urged Monday night
by the Montgomery County
Civic Federation.
Purpose of such a move would
be to bring about more equitable
representation on the County
Council and the County School
Board.
At present, hackers of the
plan say, one council district,
the sprawling and popuIous
fifth, which includes Talkoma
Park, Silver Spring, Whea-
ton, Kensington and Coles
vile, contains 55 percent of
the county's population. By
contrast, the sprawling but
sparsely populated first and
second districts in rural
areas contain only six per-
cent of the county's residents.
Each district is assigned to
one councilman.
In addition to the five proposed
equally-populated districts there
would also be, under the Civic
Federation's proposal, two coun-
cilman-at-large as at present =
who could run from anywhere in
the county. The other five coun-
cilmen - and school board mem
bers would be required to run
from the districts in which they
live.
A committee report. submitted
by Samuel Groner, chairman OF
the Legislation Committee, called
for redistricting the county into
seven equal districts with no
councilmen at large. This was
turned down by the group.
The recommendation car.
ried a further pr0viso that a
redistricting take place after
each decenniaI census to keep
the districts in approximate
population equality.
In order to effect the change, ii
was brought out, the County
Council at its legislative meeting
next year would have to adopt
"a proposed amendment to the
county charter. Then the vot-
ers would have to approve of the
change at the next general elec.
ton.
Sunday Blue Laws which are
now under state jurisdiction came
in for their share of comment.
1t was pointed out that many
things now being done by eiti.
zens of the county are actually
in conflict with the law. 1t is un,
lawful for person to NOV his
lawn on Sunday or play golf al
cert4in hours, Groner said.
The Federation voted to ask
that the laws be repealed as they
apply to Montgomery County and
transfer be made to the County
Council for authority to create
such laws as they see fit in this
field.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11

of Mrs. Martha Ricketts,, 19, and
her 11-month-old son, Andrew.
Mrs. Ricketts, was pushing her
baby in a stroller near their bone
on Wilson la.
Judge Anderson told the
jury of county citizens that
they brought in the only pos
sibIe verdict. He then heard
eight character witnesses
from G0uglian's home town
in Pennsylvania.
With solemn face, Goughan
heard the Judge say: Il don't
think for minute that you don't
remember what happened" Judge
Anderson told him that he took
into consideration the testimony
of his friends in suspending sen
tence on convictions of driving
while drunk, reckless driving, and
hit-and-run.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
City Plans Census

Rockville residents are asked
to cooperate during the Christmas
holidays with persons hired by
the city TO take an economic base
survey in line with the city's i'm
pending master plan. The census
will be made from door to door.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Cahoon Named

David L. Cahoon. former Rock
vile city attorney and newly
elected County Councilman, was
appointed this week as the Coun-
ellis ex-officio member of the
County Welfare Board. His term
will run until May 81, 1859.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
$500 Damage
Fire in Fire House
Giues OlUn Alarm

roof. Heat also poured into the
next door room housing the fire
engines but no dams age was
caused.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Late Sports

Northwood, 81; Howard Coun.
ty, 50.
Wheaton, Sc; Sherwood. 20.
Landon, 80; Walter johnson,
IA
Wakefield, 55; B-CC, 81.
Bulls, 80; cambridge Navy,
At
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-11
Bue Heartuu,nning Page b.
Weather Outlook

Snow likely tomorrow or to-
morrow night but warming
trend should set in over the
weekend. Temperatures, how
ever, will average seven degrees
blow the seasonal highs and
lows of As and 81, respectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24

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