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Evening star., 1959-12-29
CAFFREY, MARGARET S. (nee HOOker)

On Tuesday, December 90, 1859, al
her residence, l236 Pleasant st. Sc,
MARGARET s. CAFFREY. the be-
loved wife Of Joseph ]. Cafirey and
Lecorchick, Margaret Raper, Law
renee H, Milton o. and Burce W.
Iongworth, and sister of Mrs. Ruth
Beuchert, Clifford and Edward
Hooker. Also surveyed by II grand
children. Funeral from the Simmons
Bros. Funeral Home. 1851 Good
Hope rd. Sc parking facilities) +,
Thursday, December 81. at $40
An, thence to St. Teresa's Catholic
Church. where mass will be offered
81 am. for the repose of her soul,
1nterme0t Washington Nation al
Cemetery. 40
Evening star., 1959-12-29

hk' nEk' WILLIE. On Saturday
Tfs9Hf sTRoTHER Of II s2s Eassi.On ESSgi ss WihLIi "
devoted sister Of Mrs. Azalee Hintor
and Oscar StIother, sr.; sister-in.
law Of Cleo Hinton and Bysey Clay
aunt OF Ruth Prince, Willie MAJ
stewart, Elaine Butler, Doris Borum
Ann TAYLOR, Sylvia Hinton anC
oscar Strother. cousin OF Ami
Wiley. Also survived by other Ie.a,
tives and friends. After 5 m
invited TO call at the District Nor,
tic!an Funeral Home, 1900 Yer,
mont ave: NV. where services vii
be held Wednesday, December 80
al : p.m lnterment Lincoln Me.
morlal Cemetery. Arrangements b.
John D. Watson,
Evening star., 1959-12-29

HOWARD, LENA r. On Saturday,
RReSsnes5 RoWaS5 og6i 20 1929, s. LAURA I
NV. Apt. 4. beloved mother OF
Arthur Vernon Howard and sister
Of Charles Richardson Of Columbus,
OHIO, and Mrs Helen Jackson, Also
surviving are two grandchildren,
Arthur L. Howard and Helena New
some; one niece. Pearle C. Burney;
one aunt, Name Nesbit: a sister
in-law. Lucille Richardson: mother
ln:law. Vera Howard. and other rel
atlves and many friends After 4
pm Tuesday. December 20. friends
Funeral Home, 1920 9th st NV
Funeral services at the Florida Ave
nue. Baptist Church on Wednesday,
december 30, at 2:l5 pm, Inter-
ment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
Evening star., 1959-12-29
RICE, MARY JONES (TooTs)

Saturday, December 26, 1859, a
the District General Hospital, MARY
JONES (ToOTS). RICE Of 224 63C
Charles Rice; one % dausbter nSoShe MTs
Mary Lewis: q devoted mother. Mrs
Elizabeth Turner; one sister, Mrs
Carrie Hall, and other relatives anC
many friends. After 3 pm. Wednes.
gay. gay. December. 80, friends are in.
ington g. Sons Funeral Home, 492s
Deane ave. ne, where funeral serv.
ices will be. held at | ON. Thurs.
gay. December 81, the Rev. DAME
washington of1ciating. Inter.
ment Woodlawn Cemetery
Evening star., 1959-12-29

cember !ae, 1859, JOHN ". MfiLER
Nd, beloved husband OF Faith
Miller tnee Neitzey) and father OF
Mary Sribener and Sallie Ann Gull;
prother OF Mary Hurley and Richard
K. Miller He also is survived by
Tour grandchildren and two great
the Gasch Funeral Home 473a
Baltimore ave. Hyattsville, Nd,
services at the Riverdale Baptist
CHURCH, Riverdale rd., Wednesday,
December 80. at 2 pm. RELATIVES
Snd.r Snd i5ieInds Eli invited; Interment
Beach, Fla, papers please copyJ %
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Greek 'ZOningBaHIe
RACES On Key Issues
BY Steed Evans
staff Reporter

The future use of land in the % square miles OF
Upper Rock Creek Watershed will hinge to large
extent on what comes out of public hearing starting
Friday night a preliminary master plan OF tne
area north of Rockville.
The hearing will start at 8 pm. in the auditorium
of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, 8787 Georgia ave.. Silver Spring
The subject is so explosive and so many are inter-
ested the hearing probably will continue at least one
more day. The basic issue: will high density housing
follow trunk up the stream valley, or Will tne
land be reserved for park and recreation use with
limited residential development.
Ranged against each other across the planning
table are the Rock Creek Valley Land Owners Asso-
ciaton-about 70-odd owners of large tracts-and the
Upper Rock Creek Civic Association, an organization
of home-owners.
In support of the home-owne is the Rock Creek
Watershed Association many of whose members hve
below the section of stream valley involved The large
tract owners have only their relatively new philosophy
of satellte-cty planning going for them.
Poised over the issue is the seven-man County
Council that has tabled all applications for rezonng IN
the watershed pending outcome of the final master
plan.
Two main considerations are at stake: flooding OF
lower Rock Creek; preservation of natural parkand
upstream in the face of multiplying subdivisions.
The preliminary master plan would fend off both
likelihoods by imposing low density coming and con-
structng earth dams on Rock Creek.
Two flood control dams proposed for twin
forks of the creek mile or so due East Oh hockVle.
Proponents of the preliminary master plan claim That
subdivisions on the banks of the dams lakes would:
Q) contribute more run-off water than the stream
and dams could handle, and (2 throw enough silt into
the stream cut short the effective life of the DAMS
Would-be subdivders, the other hand, claim
that open pastures contribute more silt to streams
than housing developments. Further they assert that
the dams were designed with upstream subdivision in
mind and can handle the added run-off.
Major premise of the Land Owners Association is
double barreled First they say that there is con-
tinung demand for housing in Montgomery Coun-
ty And second, they argue that If the County is to
accommodate the estimated 1880 population Of $780,
000 then housing must follow existing or proposed
sewers.
The M-NCPPC preliminary plan calls for zoning
of lots in broad swaths straddng Rock Creek
from North of Mill Creek to point below the two
dams.
Easternmost boundary is line corresponding to
Bowie Mill 3D. while the boundary to the West reaches
Rt 355 just North of Rockville City Limits and cuts
back East at the Redand rd.
The whole watershed is bounded by Laytonsville
to the North, Washington Grove to the West, Veirs
Mill and Aspen Hill rds to the South and Georgia ave.
on the East.
The preliminary master plan calls for Satellites"
lPlease Turn to Page BS)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Whittier Asks Board
For $l3 Million More
In Rockville. Up-county
Budget Plans Are Listed
For individual Schools

ted at cost of $426, 275 and con.
tain 10 classrooms; should be
completed by 1861.
Montrose: Only three rooms,
and scheduled for abandonment
because of traffic problems.
Park Street: With help from
Hungerford school, will be able
to handle increased population
in the nearby apartment devel-
opment. Special students will
be transferred to Rock Terrace
school in 1861. Open rooms will
relieve any overcrowding in
West Rockville.
Rock Terrace: May be used
for central reading clinic and
special education classes after
desegregation makes it unfeasi-
BILE to keep open.
TwinbrOOk: Ten additional
rooms recently opened, but sub
standard kitchen and all-purpose
room should be replaced. Budg-
ct asks $4,000 for job.
West Rockville: Re-districting
caused by desegregation will in
crease enrolment for 1960-61
year, but new Travilah school
should relieve burden. Boun-
dairy change between West
please Turn to Page A4)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
8O-Member Band
At Sherwood
Wins HOnOrS

The Sherwood High School
Band won out over II other
marching bands to capture first
prize in that category in last
Sundays Christmas Parade
sponsored by the Bethesda
Chamber of Commerce in Be-
thesda.
Bands vanquished by the so.
member SHS aggregation or
gained and directed by Instru-
mental Music Instructor Bruno
Laakko included those from
Northwestern, Wakefield,
Westinghouse and Walter
Johnson High Schools.
Laakko and three student
members of the band received
the trophy for the school last
night at a ceremony in the Per-
petual Building, Bethesda.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10

The following recommen-
dations for individual school
construction in the Rockville
and up-county areas were
included in DR.. Whittier's
proposed 1960-61 school budget
made public Tuesday:
ROCKVILLE
Hungerford: Now under con-
struction, this eight room ele-
mentary school is expected to
open late in 1860.
Lone Oak: A projected enroll.
ment shows a need for four adj
ditional classrooms by 1861, but
present plans are to relieve the
overcroWding through the con-
struction of a new Meadow Hills
school.
Maryvale: No enrolment
problems expected in the pro-
jected future.
Meadow Halls: Five addition
al classrooms needed, but, as in
the case of Lone Oak, the con.
struction of a new Meadow Hills
school is expected to relieve
crowding.
Meadow Hills: To be construc-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Need for 3 New
High Schools
Cited in Plea
BY Paul Levy
Staff Reporter

A school budget for next
year $13 million higher than
the current one was pro-
posed Tuesday by DR.. c.
Taylor Whittier, county SUI
perintendent of schools.
A conservative" school build
ing budget of $1S,757,517 was
suggested by the official to en-
able the school system to keep
up with the faSt-expanding
county population.
At the same time, he revealed
he would ask today for another
$36, 235,611 with which to op-
crate the schools. No details on
the operating budget were made
public, however.
The total school budget of al.
most $55 million is designed to
serve an estimated school popu.
lation next year of almost
$4,000 children.
Public hearings on the budget
have been scheduled by the
school board for early January.
1t will then be submitted to the
County Council and further
hearings will be held by that
body.
II the budget h finally APP
proved In anything like It's pres
ent form, observers pointed out,
another major tax increase Is In
the offing, A big hike in school
expenditures last year led to .
S0-cent increase in the county's
basic real estate tax.
Funds for 43 new projects
have been requested in the bud.
get. The new projects, II sll
survive final budget pairing, will
bring to 80 the number Of
projects now in the construc-
ton or planning stage.
The capital budget, includes
S3.4 million for West Bethesda
High School that was deleted
from the last budget. 1t in
cludes, as well funds for the
construction of five new ele.
mentary schools, a junior high
school, and two senior high
schools.
Other budget highlights:
Plans for a branch of fast
please Turn to Page A4)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Bethesda
Parking
Looms

No rush-hour parking and
restriction of left turns from
Wisconsin ave. and Old
Georgetown rd., Bethesda,
may soon soothe vexed coun-
ty motorists.
County officials were in
structed this week to get to.
gether with the State Roads
Commission to ban:
. Rush-hour parking on both
sides of Wisconsin ave. from
Bradley la. to Jones Bridge I'd.
Rush-hour parking on Old
Georgetown I'd. from Wisconsin
ave. to Battery la.
All left turns from Wiscon.
sin except at Bradley Ia, Leland
ST., Bethesda ave-, East-West
hwy. and Avondale st.
. All left turns from Old
Georgetown I'd. (as far West as
Battery la.) except at Chelten-
ham DIR. and Battery la.
The left-turn regulations were
expected to be temporary, COun-
ty Manager Reese told the
County Council.
Mason Butcher, director OF
Public Works for the County,
told the Council the traffic pro.
posals came about after official
test averages showed North
bound motorists during evening
rush hours were able to make
from TO to 11.9 miles per hour,
South-bound morning drivers
in the rush-hour melee could
average no better than between
rs and 9.9 miles per hour, he
said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
School Head
Says He Was
Misguided

The county superinten-
dent of schools said this
week he was misquoted by
both the press and the Off
cial minutes of the school
board in regard to the turnover
rate of county teachers.
Whittier was widely quoted
last month as saying that the
number of teachers leaving
county schools dropped AZ per-
cent from 1858 to 1859. The re-
spective turnover rates, accord
ing to news stories and board
minutes, were about 10 per cent
for 1858 and II per cent for
1859.
This week, however, Whittier
admitted that the relative per.
centage figures were not strictly
comparable, since they referred
to different time.period bases.
The 10 per cent rate was for
the entire 1889 school year,
he said, while the II per cent
figure applied only to the four
month period from May to Sep
TENDER of 1859. 1t is evident
that the reports overlapped.
A valid comparison will have
to await the finish of the pres
ent school year, when the total
turnover for I959-60 can be COM
puted, Whittier said.
1t was also reported and re.
corded in the minutes that he
attributed the decline In this
percentage to the higher salary
schedule adopted by the Board
of Education last year and the
favorable atmosphere in the
Montgomery County area for
teachers.
Meanwhile, a school personnel
official said yesterday a survey
of teacher turnover for the
period May IS to September IS,
1858 - comparable period on
which the 1859 survey was made
and reported by DR.. Whittier -
has just been completed.
According to the official, the
study shows that the total staff
was 1884 and the requirements
for May IS to September IS,
1858 we're $50 and turnover per-
centage came to 1874 as com
pared with 11.2 percent for a
like period in 1859. AS in the
other study, the 1884 includes
the number of new positions
added during the four.month
period, according to the spokes-
man.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Essay Winners
Are announced
BY Hospital

Winners of an essay contest
on the subject of what Our
Hospital Means to Our Commu-
nifty" were announced this week
by the Montgomery County
General Hospital at Olney.
The contest was open to all
school children in Montgomery
and Howard counties. Three
prizes of SIS, $3.50 and $3.50
were offered in each of three
categories-grades one through
esSse.eee~~~e~1~sesSSS.~~s..>.
(See Winning Essays on r. B6)
ssssseS~eSe~~~~s~
six, seven through nine, and 10
through IL.
Prize winners we're:
Grades one through six-first
prize: Kathy Irons, 9, 9TH grade,
Lisbon Elementary School; Sec
ond prize: Evelyn Eugenia
Pickett, IL, 9th grade, Lisbon
Elementary School; third prize:
Helen Sheppard, IL, 9th grade,
Laytonsville Elementary School.
Grades seven through nine
first prize: Spencer Z. Robbins,
II, 10, 9Th grade, Sherwood
High School; second prize: Irene
Schwartz, -, 9Th grade, Sher.
wood High School; third prize.
Mary Craig. u, 7th grade, st.
Louis School, GAINESVILLE.
Grades 10 through 12-first
prize: Wayne Phillips, 16, 18th
grade, Howard County Senior
High School; second prize: San
di Nader, IL, 18th grade, Sher-
wood High School; third prize:
Barbara Jackson, Is, 9th grade,
Glenelg High School.
Prizes were presented TO the
students at the hospitals an
nual Donation Day held last Sat.
urday at the nurses home Of
the hospital. The event is one
Of the hospitals two big fun
raising events each year, he
other being the colorful hospital
supper held each July.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Increasing
City Heads
By 2 Urged
BY Joan Stern
Sentinel Reporter

In recognition OF ROCK
ville's leap in population over
the past few years, City
Councilman Frank A. Ecker
Tuesday proposed a two-man
increase on the five-member
council.
Since 1888 Rockville has been
governed by four councilmen
and a mayor. Since the popu-
lation has grown from a few
hundred to more than $4,000
Ecker told the council it was
time to increase the representa-
ton on the council or face a de-
cline in Rockville's typically
personal type of government.
Frequently, because of alb
sences of one or two members,
a quorum of three councilmen
makes major decisions. Ecker
pointed out that an increase of
members would automatically
increase the quorum and there
fore the number necessary to
rule on decisions.
Councilman Joseph c. Rodg-
ers, maintaining that five heads
are as good as seven, indicated
that he would not actively
battle the resolution although
he did not approve of it.
"The County with a popula.
ton of 100000 is run by seven
councilmen," Rodgers said. at
might be held pretentious of
the city to need seven"
When faced with how to pro
mulgate such q resolution the
councilmen expressed devidedly
divided opinions between a pub.
lie referendum and a direct &C.
ton by the council.
It could best be decided by
the council itself, Ecker said,
adding that while the citizens
should have an opportunity to
express themselves to the coun.
Gil In a public hearing, only
those who had served on the
council were equipped to know
the necessity for the increase.
Councilman A. M. Tuchtan
agreed with Ecker, saying q
referendum would almost pro-
vide n campaign ISSUE"
"Councilmen are better able
to decide the issue from per-
sonal experience which the av-
erage citizen has not had" he
said.
Mayor Alexander J. Greene
held the decision should be
madeb y public referendum at
the 1860 election, adding that he
thought it could pass and be
made effective so days after
the election.
The matter was referred to
City Attorney William A. Lin.
thicum for study.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Don't Burn Leaves
On the Highway

The Maryland State Roads
Commission has issued a warn
ing against the burning of
leaves on highways because of
the danger of burning away
asphalt or cracking concrete.
The fine for such an offense,
the commission pointed out,
ranges from SIS in cities to 500
on state highways.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
(See Editorial on Page A4)

e~~~~~S~~N~~~~~~
its granting of apartment ION.
ing for a 12-acre tract at Veirs
Mill rd., and Connecticut ave.
Attorney Howard ]. Thomas
will represent the citizens.
Kay Construction Company
won a coming application to
build apartments in the North.
east quadrant of the intersec.
ton. The Council granted Kay
R-30 apartment coming in a
neighborhood zoned solidly for
singe-family dwellings prior to
the recently adopted Kensing.
ton.Wheaton Master Plan.
The new plan calls for apart.
ment coming at the intersec-
ton. Neighborhood citizens con
tend however, that apartment
coming at the site is wrong, that
their community is still single
family in character.
Their protest echoes an in,
creasingly familiar cry in Mont
gomery County. Homeowners in
the Rosemary Hills area, the
Glenmont-Wheaton area and in
Bethesda subdivisions have
fought strenuously at public
hearings called to consider new
apartment coming.
Arguments against apart.
ments in established single-fam-
lily neighborhoods are pretty
much the same: increased traf.
fic, over-crowding of schools,
decreased property values.
But the unspoken resistance
to apartments seems to stem
from the belief that Montgom.
=
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10

A County citizens group
has launched an about fight
to reverse by any means at
their disposal a recent apart
ment coming approval by the
County Council.
The Connecticut Avenue Park
Civic Association, allied with
three other citizens associa-
tons, hired legal counsel to petit
ton the Council to reconsider
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10

Weather Outlook

Temperatures Thursday
through Monday will average
3 to A degrees above normal
highs, lows of 46 and 81. Little
if any rain expected.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Group Launching Fight
To Upset Apartment OK

cry County should be reserved
as a county of houses. Houses
with plenty Of room around
them where the higher-than-na.
tional average salaried worker
can raise his higher.than.n&
tional average number Of chill
dren in his higher-than.average
accredited schools.
Residents of the neighborhood
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Gamblers
Will Get
Jail Terms


news last week: if they are
convicted in Montgomery
County, they'll go to Jail.
This was the warning of
Circuit Court Judge James H.
Pugh, who Immediately backed
up his words by sentencing
John H. Jones, IS, 4005 Hamp-
den ST., Kensington, to one year
m the House of Correction
plus a $1,000 fine. Jones was
charged with possession of num-
bers slips.
Meanwhile, five other gam
blers were convicted. They were
Paras Colevas, 46, of Suitland,
who pleaded guilty to accept
ing horse bets and possession
of gaming paraphernalia Ito be
sentenced December 28); VIII
liam Ely, AZ, Maryland ave.,
NE, Washington, who pleaded
guilty to possession of gaming
paraphernalia Ito be sentenced
with Colevas); Wilton Hicks, 46,
of Girard St, NE, Washington,
who pleaded not guilty but was
convicted of possession of gam
bling slips and was sentenced
to nine months in the House
of Correction and a 500 fine;
Richard Lee George, So, of P
st., NV, Washington, who
pleaded not guilty but was con-
victed of accepting numbers
bets and possession of numbers
slips.
George was originally SEN
fenced to nine months in Jail
for each charge and 500 fine.
But Judge Kathryn ]. Lawlor
hghtened the sentence to total
of two years in Jail, a $1,000
fine, and suspended both SEN
fences because of Georges large
family = some are sick = OF
which he is the sole support.
His sentences can be invoked
If he gets in trouble again.
Also convicted of possessing
numbers slips was William
Thomas Cooper, Sc, of Hyatts-
vile. Judge Lawlor suspend
ed a six-months Jail term for
Cooper on medical advice that
his serious heart trouble could
be fatal at any time. Cooper
paid a $500 fine, however.
Both Judges Pugh and Law
Tor warned gambling syndicates
that Montgomery County is no
place to fool around. Judge Law
Tor said she was aware that
Washington-based SYN dictate
bosses use men with no records
to make and pay off bets In the
County, never crossing the line
themselves.
Judge Pugh said that al
though the Small fry" mum.
bers runners and their ilk, seem
petty, they were responsible for
the murder by mistake of a
newspaper routeman in the
county back in 1884. Hoodlums
shot Allen B. Wilson, an en-
ploye of the old Times Herald,
after mistaking him for a
gambler who was attempting
to muscle in on rich gambling
territory in the District.
eff anybody is convicted of
gambling in this County, he goes
to JAIL" Judge Pugh warned
sternly.
All six of the men convicted
last week were arrested after
undercover work by Detective
Private Gabriel Lamastra, who
posed variously as telephone
repairman at the Naval Ord.
nance Laboratory and a con-
struction worker on a job at
Four Corners.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10

Preliminary subdivision plans
for forty R-60 lots North of
Halpine Ia, next to Rockville
city limits and of 112 R-90 lots
Southwest of Seven Locks I'd.
adjacent to Regent Park were
approved by the Montgomery
County Planning Board We'd
nesday morning.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-10
Letters to Santa Claus
Contest NOuU Under Way

Cmon, kids! Christmas is right around the corner,
you'd better get that letter off to Old Santa Claus
right away to be time!
The Sentinel wants to help you be that your
letters will get to the North Pole so send them to us
at 215 East Montgomery ave., Rockville.
Four of the best letters will win S. each and four
more will win $3.50 each. Winners will be announced
(See Letters to Santa Claus on Page A5)
in issue of December 81 We will publish as many
of the letters as possible.
Address the letters to Santa Claus, Montgomery
County Sentinel, 215 East Montgomery ave., Rock
vile. Tell him what you want and why you want it,
and maybe, if you've been good he will reward your
wish.
Good luck, and-Merry Christmas
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