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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Seasons Finale
Good Acting Goes in Vain at OInev

suspect by the police, that he was in fact
breaking the customs laws, and bv implica.
tlon other laws as we'll and that there was q
Unread OF affection between him and the chief.
anyway, to get on with it. the dentist
attempts to aid the priest in escaping the
oppressive antl-clerica laws. The priest at
tne last minute succumbs to an appeal by q
dying woman who cynically refuses to die.
Inc priest, now trapped in the land he tries
TO escape from (the boat has left), indicates
In various ways that he is not a good priest
lie drinks, he is a coward, he has an illegiti.
mate child. he likes money and Just as he
has chance at plush parish he is again
called on to administer extreme JUNCTION this
time to an escaped murderer, back in the
very town he fled from
The priest, as well as the audience.
Is now trapped. He Is caught and exc
cuted after some daletics with the lieu.
tenant and the audience is sprung at last,
Its teeth saved from further assault. its
sensibiIities rescued from jail cells and
unnecessary picturesque language and its
credulity gradually returning to FORMAL
like on Overstretched girdIe in the wash
water.
The story OF the priests unselfish act of
nobility In returning to certain death to full.
I'LL his spiritual dedication is believable and
has its counterpart in history and literature
many times over 1t is just too bad that it
was buried SO deeply in trivia, devices, tricks
and superficalities
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
-Barndrd 7. Welsh

court charged with exceeding IS miles per
hour On the face of it, this is a relatively
Trivial charge and it would normally have
been disposed of by the boy FORGETTING small
collateral, which may have resulted in the
eventual loss of his license. The Peoples
Court for Montgomery County may have sus.
pended the sentence and sent him to traffic
school,
However, the Juvenile Court permitted
counsel for the boy to show that prior TO the
offense his father had deserted his family.
tnat for the school year succeeding this deser.
ton the boys record in school had deterior.
ated, and that the boy was working three
nights week to contribute to the supnort of
MS younger brothers and sisters
These facts were legally irrelevant and
any other court would have ruled them to DO
inaumlssioie. However, the facts were highly
relevant as far as the future welfare of the
BOY was concerned. They were facts, coupled
with the speeding offense Illustrating that
the BOY was acting out his hostile feeling to
ward MS father. The Court viewed the speed
ing charge as danger signal, and arranged
Ior psychological examination of the boy,
ana restricted his driving privileges until his
emotions had quieted down.
INC manner IN which the Court
handled this case is an example of the
unique functions of the Juvenile Court.
The Court here took preventive action be.
fore possible future crime was committed
Normally Court can only punish a defend
ant who has committed crime and cannot
take action to prevent anti-social acts in the
future The action also illustrates the close
relationship which the Juvenile Court main.
tains with social agencies in order to give
youngsters emergency treatment
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
By George Waleski
Staff Critic

The Olney production of "The Power and
the Glory reminded me of hysterical fam
lily knew who frantically plastered, painted,
curtained and cleaned sagging house around
Grandma while she lay dead and ice-cooled
in the August heat They prepared a splen-
did wake for body that even in life had little
unity with the image of God it was supposed
to have initiated in its creation.
Robert Gerringer as the backslid priest;
Sydney Walker as Tench, subversive dentist
who wavers between money, idealsm and
fatalism; and the lieutenant. Philip Bosco. a
dedicated intellectual communist an emotional
hash of nostalgia and brutality bolstered by
his own needs for domination, all put their
best efforts into the play
They needn't have bothered. The Den
mis- Canaan and Pierre BOst adaptation
of Graham Greene's novel wavered be-
tween delicacy and an oppressive con.
trived brutality, none Of 1t convincing.
The play opens in the dental office Of
Tench as he pulls the tooth of the Chief of
Police, Gil Rathbun. Realism is served by
the shocking spectacle of the chief splitting
blood and otherwise going through the mo-
tons Of a difficult extraction This was a
show stopper. Nothing else in the play came
up to 1t except the audiences horror that
there might be a repetition. The scene had
nothing to do with the structure of the play
and simply established that the dentist was
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Zoning Plan

The preliminary Master Plan
Of the Kensington Wheaton
Planning Area, prepared by the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, and
given public distribution recent.
ly, makes certain land use pro.
posals utilizing the conventional
techniques of Zoning. These
methods alone have failed in the
past and give little hope of sue.
ceeding in the future in obtain.
ing the detectives of orderly and
planned development of com.
mercial districts and residential
neighborhoods.
Commercial enterprises are
naturally drawn to locations
near the intersections of major
roads, the merchant wishes to
be where the most people will
pass; as at Georgia ave. and
Colesville I'd, the Wheaton Tri.
angle, Viers Mill I'd. and Ran.
dolph rd., and at Georgia ave.
and the Glenmont.Layhill I'd.
New zoning applications are
made almost daily to extend the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Reporters View
Are Mass Chest
X-Rays Harmful?
Reporters View

The United States Public Health Service
1t would appear is still somewhat at odds with
policy formulated by the Montgomery Coun-
ty Health Department and the State Health
Department regarding the use of chest X-rays
to detect tuberculosis.
The USPFIS feels that while chest X
rays are still strong diagnostic tool, use
OF chemical test as the first step in look
ing for TB should be given weighty con-
sideration.
The test is known as the tuberculin test
and is made by injecting a small amount of
solution under the skin for positive or neg
alive reaction.
But the County Health Department,
the Montgomery County tuberculosis
and Heart Association and the State
branches of both these agencies are firm
in their belief that there is nothing harm
full about mass use Of chest X-rays.
They feel this way particularly about
neighborhoods known as "high incidence"
areas where low-income families live. The
Countys mobile Xray truck visits these
neighborhoods regularly and last year, made
almost $4,000 pictures.
Dul the ID ana heart Association dc-
knowledged that these trucks are familiar
sights in highly urbanized neighborhoods
where the median family salary is well over
$4,000 year. Are these thigh incidence"
neighborhoods?
A spokesman for the TB and Heart Asso.
citation countered last week that TB is no
respector of family income and can strike
anyone any time. Further they point out that
in the $4,000 Xray pictures made in the coun-
ty last year, 642 heart disorders were discov.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Steed Evdns

cred and evidence of 800 chest disorders Of
other nature was uncovered
Like laymen many doctors are unclear on
the relative danger if any - In the use
of mass chest X-rays. Some say the radi.
alton is harmful, others say it is not. DR..
William ]. Peoples, County Health Officer,
said last year that I'VE feel that radiation
from chest films . is harmless"
A report last year by the Joint Tubercu-
Iosis Evaluation Committee, made up almost
entirely of medical doctors, noted that Rock.
vile and Jamestown are high tuberculosis
incidence areas - that is they had more than
seven persons per 1000 to have, or be sus.
pected of having, TB.
AS such, their report declared, these
were areas that should receive mass chest
Xray. Other areas, according to USPHS,
should use other diagnOstic methods, from
an economic point Of view.
But the idea of countrywide tuberculin
testing was rejected by the joint committee
which observed that it is extremely difficult
to plan one treatment for one area and
different treatment for another area Fur
thermore, they said it would be extremely
difficult to substitute tuberculin testing for
X-rays.
There the subject lies. IL seems ndro 10
reconcile the parodox that Montgomery Coun-
ty, long touted to be among the most wealthy
in the country, cannot avail itself Of what
the USPHS thinks is the best, first step in
TB testing because to do so would be Eek
tremely difficult" Further so long as sub
stantial medical opinion exists that some harm
may result from mass chest X-ray programs
it would seem unwise to make it available
to just anybody, anywhere, any time - be it
Sumner, Colesville Potomac or Damascus.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
"A Muffer Of Paw

IN URING the past year. county school system pur-
- chased more than So million worth of goods The tab
next year will be even higher This procurement opera
-ton OF no small proportions and the most rudmentary
economic perception tells that calls for WISE expert
enced capable hand at its hem To the contrary it has
had no hand at ALL for than year, the position of
-dlrector of purchasing has been vacant.
What this has meant in terms of cost to the taxpayer
we probably shall never know That the cost has been
substantial there Is little doubt School board members
Frequently have criticized existing purchasing procedures
But spshod and wastefu practices will be inevitable to
some extent until fully capable and fully experienced in
dvldua can be charged with the daily control and ultimate
responsibility for the operation.
Inc reason for the plight is simple one Such an in
dvdual does not come cheap If he has the education ex-
perence and ability demanded the job he can command
anywhere from $4,000 year up in private industry The
school board however, is offering $4,000 year. and
only recently hiked the figure from $80OO
Placement services find that similar positions in pri-
-Vae industry, paying much $500 more than the
-schoo system is now offering, going begging
These are realities of economic lfe Some solution
shoud be soon the hidden losses con-
tlnue to mount indefinitely Perhaps this will REQUIRE
reorganization of the entire department of business affairs
elf budget considerations will allow an increase in the
salary offered prospective purchasing directors
Whatever the means, the problem demands early at
enon and resolution by the school board and admnstra
-tion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Juyeee Thanks
John ID. McElroy

The success of a Jaycee prof.
ect almost inevitably depends
upon the enthusiasm with which
it is received by the citizens and
businessmen of the community.
Many successful projects have
been carried out by the Silver
Spring Junior Chamber of Com.
merce, but few have received as
much widespread community
help as the highly successful
Miss Maryland Pageant held at
Northwood High School earlier
this month.
First we want TO thank the
press, and particularly your
newspaper, for its wonderful
coverage of this event. Next we
thank the approximately 800
persons who attended the Pag.
cant.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Couture Isn't Dead

C BIOLOGISTS have expressed considerable
y John Pubics increasing attachment to his living
picture tube Teevision say many of these learned
gentlemen is altering national mode of living, and
speeding the process by which becoming society of
spectators instead of doers The art of entertaining oneself
through conversation hobbies active athletics read
ngseemingly longer desirable fashionable it
-once
In view of this general trend, recent report from
montgomery Countys director of libraries is particularly
encouraging He tells that county readers borrowed
than two million books from county libraries in the
-year ending June 30us about double the number they
Checked out in the previous year.
The director, George B. Moreland pointed out that
the statistics should surprise since the educa
ona backgrounds of the people of this county rank with
@the highest in the country Whatever the factors behind
@the figures his report is good We pleased to
learn that civilization in Montgomery County at least
has not been completely overwhelmed by the idiot box
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
: Religious Affair
First Bap+is+s to Hear
Former Pastor SUNDAY

Brice nd. The new minister Is
preparing for the re-opening
OF church and the school of
religion AT the West Rockville
School on September %.
In accordance with Unitarian
tradition, he will be ordained bv
MS first congregation-the
Rockville church. The ceremony
is scheduled for October 25.
The Dedication of Children
Will be a central part Of the IL
am. worship service of the
Iwinbrook Baptist Church Sun.
day. The congregation, now
meeting at Broome Junior High
School, expects to use its new
building by the end OF this year.
Construction of the first unit
has begun at Twinbrook pkwy.
and Norbeck I'd.
The annual Vacation Bible
School OF the Wheaton Woods
Baptist Church will come to a
close tomorrow at the Aspen
Hill Elementary School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Tough Task for Mrs. Werner

@%OUNTY Council President Stella B. Werner returned
~ from short vacation this week to be greeted by
inor flood of mail her doorstep protesting the choice
by the county of site Arson ST. Silver Spring. for the
new County Service Building for that area
Mrs Werner told her colleagues she tabuated the mail
and found that most of it from group of business
men from Silver Spring and from members of the Wood
sid0 Elementary School PTA and other Arson st. resi-
@dents
Mrs Werner, reporting this at Tuesdays meeting,
seemed perurbed She announced that she was sending
letters to all of the 60 persons who wrote to her.
planing the public recorda long one-eadng up the
Councils choice of Arson St.
We wonder how, despite the hard economic consdera-
lions pondered by the Council she will be able to make
Those irate Woodsde Park and Arson residents realize
why Arson ST. chosen Surely there similar
against the Silver Spring Library site and this
abandoned.
Surely there less opposition to the Sligo site
in blighted" Southern Silver Spring And while Arson ST.
is part of the projected expansion of the Silver Spring bust
mess district the edge in fact there is elementary
school and church less than two blocks away from the
proposed service building
Nobody gives great deal of credence to the now fam
ar warning of wailng police sirens and platoons of drks
@and other unsavories who according the citizens will
-swam about the service building with its detention cells
like so many bar flies.
But until there is more credible explanation why
Ansen St was chosen in preference to the Library site
and indeed the Sligo site-surey Mrs Werner might
be pertbed at 60 letters crying out in the wilderness
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
BY Koko Wittenburg

, The First Baptist Church of
|. Rockville will be addressed by
-the Rev. Herbert o. Cooper, a
: former pastor of the church, at
: three services Sunday. The Rev.
: Cooper, field worker with the
: American Baptist Convention
with headquarters in Lebanon,
IN. j., viii conduct the worship
services in the absence of the
Rev. Jacob Gamble, minister of
!. the church.
Services will be at S:45 a. M,
-when the guest preacher will
talk on "The Power That Saves"
; at IL am, with talk on "The
Christians Solo; and at 8 pm,
on "The Adequate Saviour"
Robert Nj. DOss, first minis.
ter of the Unitarian Church OF
. Rockville, arrived from Berk.
ley. Calf, 20 take up his new
) duties last week. He and Mrs.
DOss and their f0ur.year.OId
daughter Kathy live at 1924
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Lower Tuxes

see where Mr.. Reese, the
so-called county manager, has
taken 1t upon himself TO raise
the county tax next year - by
that mean adding two (2)
more experts on the payroll. We
all know that Montgomery
County is operating on the verge
of red" and with two more ex.
perts added to the payroll taxes
VIII have to be raised again TO
pay them a salary - or is Mr..
Reese going to pay them out of
his pocket? Why in Heavens
name doesn't Mr.. Reese put
some one on the county payroll
who knows how to lower the
property tax? Or does Mr.. Reese
want to chase the average small
working (salaried) man out of
Montgomery County so that he
will live in the county all by
himself?
Jack Frv
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20

AS chairman, I also thank the
JayceeS and their wives who
pitched in and worked so hard
to make the event a success. Els.
pecial thanks must go to the
Pepsi Cola Bottlers of Maryland
who gave $500 in scholarships
to the Pageant winners.
Now, with your permission,
we would like to thank the fol.
lowing organizations and bust
neSses for their wonderful help
on the Pageant. Many contrib.
uted awards and stage proper
ties, others gave us advice or
specialized personnel, and all
contributed immeasurably to the
success of the Pageant:
Bell Flowers, Mango Furs,
Montgomery County Police,
Montgomery County Board of
Education, Silver Spring Board
of Trade, Ted Lewis Restaurant,
WTOP (emcee Jim Myers) 4,
Monroe Ford, Toms Chevrolet,
Wilson Pontiacs Hill and San
ders, Loving Chevrolet, Loving
Boats, Martins Dress Shop, Sub
urban Trust Co., Fredland Jew.
elers, Angeles Inc, Henderson's
Restaurant, Toni Corporation,
Joseph r. Harris Co., the Hecht
Co., and Lerner's Inc.
Also, Schwartz jewelers.,
Town and Casual Shoes, Beck
er's Gift Shop, Wondersilk, Hot
Shoppe, Singer Sewing Machine,
Hahn's Shoes, Cameras Inc,
Wright's jewelers., Yaeger's, Su.
per Music Stores, Clark's Flor.
lists, Silver Theater, Virginia
Wallace, Kaytee Mizell Modelling
and Finishing School, Maggie's
Restaurant and the Silver Spring
Sports Shop.
The "Precisionists" singing
group also put on a fine show
at the Pageant, and we thank
them.
I hope I haven't forgotten
anyone, but 1 am sure l have.
To everyone who helped, say:
THANK YOU FROM THE BOT.
TOM OF MY JAYCEE HEART.
Robert f. Herdtfelder,
Miss Maryland Pageant
Chairman, Silver Spring
,IaVoaaa
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Foley 'Weaseled'

l nominate our Congressman,
John Foley, for a place in the
next volume of "Profiles in
Courage" Foley is the perfect
example of all profile, no cour-
age. If there was ever any
doubt about it, he dispelled it
last week when the heat was
on in connection with the labor
reform bill in the House.
Foley was recorded as having
voted against substitution of
the Landrum-Griffin bill for the
House Labor Committee bill.
The Landrum.Griffin proposal
contained, by all accounts, the
very minimum necessary to ac-
complish any measure of re-
form. Mr.. Foley then voted in
favor of recommitting the bill
after the Landrum-Griffin SUBJ
stitute was adopted. Recon-
initial would probably have killed
the bill for this session, at least.
Foley was on the losing side on
both votes.
These votes settled the issue
for all practical purposes. There
remained only the vote for final
passage of the Landrum-G Griffin
bill, which was now assured.
Notwithstanding that Foley had
clearly demonstrated his affin-
ity for the token reform bills
sponsored by the labor bosses
in the two previous votes, he
placed himself in the ridiculous
and indefensible position of vot-
ing present" on the vote for
final passage, thereby refusing
to stand up and be counted
either for or against passage of
this important legislation.
1t appears from the Congress
sional Record that 430 Congress-
men answered the roll call.
Four hundred twenty-nine of
them took a stand. The Sixth
District of Maryland has the du-
bious distinction of being repre-
scented by the only man in the
Congress of the United States
who hadn't the courage to vote
on labor legislation. Congress.
man Saylor voted present" but
announced that he was paired
against the bill with Westland
for, so Saylor could not cast a
vote anyway
If Mr.. Foley thinks he is fool.
ing anyone by such parliamen-
tary manipulation, 1 for one
should like to help disabuse him
of that notion. I have a bunch
that droves of others will re.
sent, as l do, Foley's complete
abandonment of his constitu.
ents, including thousands of
labor union members.
If he opposed any effective
labor reform, which / suspect
he did, he should have had the
courage to vote against it. II,
on the other hand, he had any
concern for the public welfare,
which / doubt, he should have
had the good faith to demon
strate it. AS the matter now
stands, Mr.. Foley is a complete
neuter, apparently possessing
neither courage nor good faith.
Foleys subsequent weaseling
statement that he really was in
favor of labor reform legisla-
ton simply doesn't square with
the facts.
John ID. McElrOy
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-08-20
Letters to the Editor

scope of the commercial and
apartment coming. The pressure
on the Planning Commission to
permit the ribbon development
of the major roads is relentless.
The pattern of the future may
be one of unbroken commercial
development the length of Geor-
gia ave. from the District Line
to Olney, Md, on Veirs Mill I'd.
from Wheaton to Rockville, and
from Rockville the business dis
trict may extend to Bethesda on
old route 240. The latter in.
stance is almost an actually.
With this accomplished, the
traffic function of the roads will
have been seriously impaired,
the character of the residential
communities in the path de.
stroyed, and the best interests of
the business community poorly
served.
We will then build bypass
roads to avoid the congested
areas, disrupting more neigh.
borhoods and isolating more
businesses. The pressure will
then mount to zone the bypass
roads for commercial use, and
eventually we will be building
by'passes of the by-passes. Six
teenth st. is now extended to
bypass the Silver Spring bust
ness district. The pattern is OBJ
Vious.
There are solutions to the
problems, and it is not too late.
The longer we wait the more ex-
pensive the solutions.
I wish to make the following
proposal:
The commercial and apartment
use districts shall be limited and
defined by ring roads bordered
on each side by relatively mar
row strips of dedicated park
to carry the burden of thru traf.
fic and enable by means Of
merging feeder roads, the 81.
phoning off of traffic to and
from the business districts.
The dislocations created by the
expansion of the business dis
tricts is the existing trend. Resi-.
dental areas protected from en-
croachment by ring roads would
be more stable and values would
be protected. Traffic flow would
be unimpeded by congestion and
the business districts would be
more accessible. Road costs
since the construction of the in
evitable by-passes would be
avoided.
The physical limits of the bus.
mess use districts once defined
would result in the increase in
land values and the more inten.
sive use of the land, with a con.
sequent increase in the tax base.
The existing major roads which
presently penetrate the business
districts can be converted to
parking facilities and pedestrian
malls.
The esthetic advantages of this
scheme should also not be over.
looked. In the alternative pres
ent we have the prospect of the
inevitable disruption of estab.
hShed residential neighborhoods:
and a ribbon slum of usually
chaotic major roads, choked
with unnecessary traffic.
Harold Lionel Esten
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