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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
In Suburbio Today
Are You Weary Comnluter?
Here's What One Guy Did

Tired Of fighting morning
and evening traffic to and from
work?
Is it your experience that you
aren't spending as much time
with the family because you
spend so much Of that time just
driving or riding between sub
urban home and city job?
Well, so was j. r. Carr, Of
New York, and he threw the
whole problem right out the
window by trading his city job
for another close to home.
Now he reports he has up to
three hours extra each day to
watch his children grow. Cars
story is just one Of the absorb
ing features In Suburbia Today,
the color-filled magazine sup
plement I'm this weeks edition
Of the Montgomery County
Sentinel.
Suburbia Today In free, an
added bonus for Sentinel read.
ers. We think this edition Of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
2 Planners
.Reappointed
By Council

John A. Floyd and Louis A.
Gravelle, Montgomery County
members of the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan.
ring Commission, were reap.
pointed to four year terms by
the County Council this past
Tuesday.
Floyd was appointed only last
October to fill the position va.
Gated by the resignation of Da'
vid Scull, who resigned after
claiming that fellow commits.
sioners were playing political
football" with planning issues.
The two jobs carry salaries Of
$1,000 a year. The old terms ex-
pired June 1. Both men are Re-
publicans. Two other Montgom-
cry County members of the
commission are ]. Newton Brew
er and Donald E. Gingery.
Appointment of the two men
was considered a foregone con.
clusion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
Summer Activity
Program Listed

The Montgomery County De-
partment of Recreation is ac-
cepting registrations for its Fes-
tival of the Arts program that
will be conducted at ID locations
throughout the county this sum-
mer.
Adult activities will include
square dancing, bridge and
flower arranging. Programs for
teenagers will be offered in cop.
per enameling, leather tooling,
outdoor sketching, etc.
For a complete schedule of ac-
tivities or to register, call Miss
Sally Wilkinson, Juniper 1910.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
Big Trucks
Barred from
Five Streets

Trucks weighing over one
ton will be barred from five
Rockville streets under an
ordinance enacted Tuesday
by the City Council.
Consideration of a similar
law for IS other city streets
was held over for later consid-
Grafton.
The five streets affected by
the new law are: Dawson from
North Washington to N. Van
Buren,; N. Van Buren, from West
Montgomery to Dawson; Ed
monston from Baltimore I'd. to
Rockville Pike; Ardennes, Mid.
way, and Atlantic and Vande.
grift from Veirs Mill to Ar.
dennes.
In other business the city
heads set a plan in motion to
give city employees a compen'
satory day off when a holiday
falls on their regular day off,
as was the case last weekend.
City government workers toll.
cd all day last Friday while
county and State employees en-.
joyed a day off. Federal gov
eminent employees worked, too,
but Congress has under consid-
Grafton a law that would give
U. S. aides an extra day Off
when they would otherwise be
deprived Of their holiday time.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
By Joan Stern
staff Reporter

Sewer charges in Rock
vile would be doubled, GER
tain city fees would be
raised, and property owners
would bear the whole cost
of sidewalks under a recon-
mendation handed to the
City Council by Manager
Walter A. Scheiber.
The development highlighted
consideration of city staff rec.
concentrations for the 1959-60
fiscal year as the town heads
met in two conference sessions
during the past week.
A public hearing on the coun-
ellis proposed budget will be
held June 10 at the Rockville
Civic Center.
In the request for the 100
percent increase in Rockville
residents sewer bill, the staff
report stated that current sewer
revenues carry less than half
the cost Of maintaining the sys.
tenn. Sewer charges, now com.
puted on the basis of 25 percent
OF the residents water bill,
would be so percent under the
staff recommendations.
II was also recommended that
property owners pay the full
cost for sidewalk construction al
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04

upheld, 1t will have cost the tax
payers $7400, plus attorneys
fees for the appeal. How can
anyone justify that?" asked
Welsh.
The Council, however, has
taken the stand that the Circuit
Court ruling, handed down by
Judge Kathryn Lawlor, would
adversely affect not only Cal
thersburg but every NUM-
cipality in the State.
II upheld, the Council be-
lieves, the order would prevent
any city or town from doing
any sort Of business whatsoever
with any elected official.
Duvall himself is the only
member Of the present Council
not involved in the original
suit. He said he personally has
refused any payments from the
town because 81 felt It was
wrong"
The payments were made by
voucher, technically as compen-
sation for odd jobs such as
painting curbs and crosswalk
fines, hauling materials, and
similar tasks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
Extra Hour In School
For Students Studied

tually no elementary school
counselors.)
. "Individualized" course pro-
grams tailored to each child's
own needs, rather than a re-
strictive system that labels him
in a certain category (such as
college preparatory" or "com.
mercial') with a rigid, pre-or-
dained curriculum.
. Grouping by ability subject
by-subject, rather than by gen.
eral, overall ability.
County high schools already
are tending toward the Conant
prescriptions concerning individ-
ualized programs and subject
ability grouping, according to
George L. Osterwise, director of
secondary education.
Osterwise told the board that
another Conant standard-that
each student be required to
write at least one theme a week
also is being met in the
county.
. Compression of the junior
high program for bright stu
dents from three to two years,
to give them an extra year in
which to take additional high
school courses.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
Ken Kasai's
Parents Die
In Tragedy

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kasai,
parents of Rockville civic lead.
err Ken Kasai, died last week,
apparently from gas fumes that
leaked from a refrigerator at
their summer home at Warwick,
N. Y.
The couple repeatedly went to
their summer home earlier last
week and died a few days before
their bodies were discovered by
a neighbor on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kasai, both Is,
made their permanent home in
New York City, where Mr.. Ka-
sal was a tailor.
Funeral services were to be
held in New York, but the bodies
will be brought to Rockville for
burial, friends here said Tues.
day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
In Rockville
City Manager Seeking
Higher Fees, Charges

a flat rs cents per lineal foot.
Currently the city UNDERWRITERS
a portion of the cost. The Is.
cent assessment Is expected to
build up a surplus which would
be used for street maintenance.
In proposing increases for
about half the various city fees
the report stated a.. almost all
of our fees and charges are 70
low that they do not reflect
the actual cost of administering
-"
The staff recommended fees
paid to the city for carnivals,
circuses and rodeos be raised
from no fee to $50 per day; thea
trical productions from no fee
to $72; bowling alleys from no
fee to $12 per alley; trash col.
lectors, from 81 per company
to SIS per company plus $40 per
vehicle; dances where admission
is charged, from no fee TO SIS.
Also included are proposed in.
creases in building fees and pro.
visions for several new building
and installation fees.
Use Of Civic Center rooms
when admission is not charged
would be upped from no fee to
fees ranging from 81 TO So for
Rockville groups and 81 to SIS
for others.
For groups charging admis-
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
HE magazine Is the best vet.

the magazine Is the best yet.
For instance, June is vaca-
ton month and there's a story
in Suburbia Today about the
hazards involved in leaving
ones house unprotected from
burglars while you are away -
and an outline on how to bur-
glar-proof your house before
you leave.
And there Is a tender and
moving article, "A Summer to
Grow On" that speaks for the
children and urges us TO provide
enough space and air and soil.
tude this summer to give them
room to grow in, spiritually as
we'll as physically.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
License Unit
Again Headed
BY ID. StaIey

Donald K. Staley, chairman Of
the Board of License Commits.
sioners for Montgomery County,
was reappointed Tuesday by the
County Council.
Other members are Mrs. Cen
evieve Wells, of Silver Spring,
and Maxton S. Lee, Of Bethesda.
Members serve terms Of six
years. The Board considers APP
plications for new licenses and
review re-applications.
Staley has been chairman Of
the Board since it was created
in 1851. Members are paid $1,000
a year in salary. Staley lives at
Norwood.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
County Hires
Audit Firm

Arthur Young & Co., of 1000
Connecticut ave-, Washington,
D. c., was designated as the au-
diting firm selected by the
County Council this week to au-
dit the county's books for the
fiscal year ending this June 30.
The county will pay up to
$4,000 for the job which is to
be completed by the end of Sep
TENDER, barring unforeseen and
unavoidable circumstances.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04

A set of standards for
measuring teachers ability
"a potential first step to-
ward a merit pay system -
was submitted this week to
the county school board.
Initially, the yardstick will be
used to determine which of
some 435 veteran county teach.
ers will become eligible for the
final two steps - $500 and
$500 respectively = of the new,
high teachers pay scale.
In the long run, when and II
the board adopts a full-scale
merit pay system as has been
recommended to them by an ad.
visory committee, 1t could be
used as the basis for giving
extra pay to all teachers Of out
standing ability.
In adopting the new pay
scale for 1959-60, the board
ordered that advancement to
the 18th and 18th steps of the
masters degree scale should
not be automatic, but should
require the recommendation Of
the superintendent OF schools.
The new standards of evalua.
ton were worked out by a COM
mittee Of As, including both pro-
fessional and lay persons, to
guide the recommendation.
They provide the following:
. The teacher shall sit in
with his principal and super.
visor at conferences designed to
rate his competence.
All ratings shall be subject
to review by review boards
composed Of teachers, prin.
oipals and supervisors from
throughout the county.
. Any teacher whose applica-
ton is rejected shall have the
right to carry his case to an
appeal board, also composed Of
fellow teachers, principals and
supervisors.
o A teacher will be rated on
his classroom competency and
initiative, knowledge of his sub
ject and of educational methods
and such personal character.
istics as leadership, ethics and
community activities.
. Anyone asked to evaluate
a teacher should spend a mini.
mum of 10 hours with the
teacher.
o Evaluation OF classroom
Continued on Page 14)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
MuFder-Suicide
Wife Killed BY Mate
Who Then Kills Self

A Monrovia couple apparent.
ly beset with marital and finan-
cial troubles were the principals
of a murder-suicide shooting
last Saturday night.
The victims were Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson Carroll Clay, 81
and so, respectively. Clay lived
in the Monrovia home while his
wife stayed at a restaurant she
operated at Derwood.
When the Damascus Rescue
Squad was summoned to the
scene by Wilson Eugene Clay,
a son Of the dead couple, they
found the Clays' bullet-ridden
bodies lying close to each other
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
Foster Care
Payment
Hike Asked

The Montgomery County
Foster Parents Association
this week asked the County
Council to approve a flat So
a-day rate of payment to
foster parents caring for
Montgomery County welfare
charges.
The highest pay a foster
parent gets for regular board
of a 12-year-old child today is
$45 a month.
They appeared at a public
hearing before the council and
asked that the welfare pay
ments be increased to match
the up to $50 a month granted
foster parents by District of
Columbia child placement agen-
cies and the Welfare Depart
ment OF the District.
A spokesman for the group
said that although the organiza-
ton appreciates a boost in pay
ments requested last week by
county Welfare Director VIII
liam E. Roger, the organization
did not think Rogers plea of up
TO $54 month for board of a
12-year-old child meets today's
high cost of living standards.
He said that the foster
parents are not asking for the
money as fees, but simply to
support the children adequately.
Recent legislation in the Cen
eral Assembly gives county
governments the means to in
crease child welfare in addition
to that money coming from the
State. Rogers requests would
total $35.700 over the figure al
ready budgeted for annual child
welfare needs in the county.
The Associations plea for
more money had the backing OF
the Health and Welfare Coun-
Gil of Montgomery County. The
HWC did not, however, endorse
any specific boost in foster care
payments.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
- Staff Photo.

on the grass outside the house.
Mrs. Clay had been shot
three times, in the chest and
head, with a 22.caliber pistol
found later under Clay's body.
He had been shot twice, in the
chest and head. Both were dead
upon the arrival of county
medical examiner DR.. Frank J.
Broschart.
Only witness to the double
killing was the Clay's nine-year-
old daughter, Jennie Lou, who
CONTINUED on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
FRUSTRATED
CD Board
Is SOOthed

Frustrated and discour-
aged" members of the Coun-
tvs Civil Defense Advisory
Board, some of whom want
e to resign because the
County Council hasn't acted
on any major Advisory
Board recommendations,
were soothed this week by
the Council which quickly
voted to reappoint the Al
man body.
The Committee, headed by
Worthington Thompson, brought
in a statement that said in part,
I'VE took office in the belief
that we would perform a useful
and desired public service. Now,
however, after five years Of
dedicated effort, involving nu.
merous studies, reports and rec
concentrations, we can see only
very slight impact thereof on
the County government"
Thompson told the council
that If an OperationaI Civil De-
tense organization could be de.
scribed by the figure 100, then
Montgomery County's status
was somewhere below 10.
Little progress toward an op-
irrational Civil Defense in the
County is apparent to this
Board. The response of the Di-
rector of Civil Defense County
Manager M. L. Reese) to our
recommendations does not indi-
cate that he is acting under a
clear directive to provide our
citizens with the best chance of
survival" Thompson asserted.
The Advisory Board presented
a 10-point program they said
was imperative for an opera
tional civil defense. Only a few
of these points have been wholly
or partially planned for, accord
ing to Reese.
One was the future hiring of
N ftit time communications Of
I (cer who will head up CD COM
munications in revised depart
ment that will have quarters on
the first floor of the Rockville
county building with the police
department and fire radio sys-
tens.
Another was the establish
ment of a transportation service
that could pressed into action in
the event of an emergency.
Reese said that the County
school buses and other county
owned vehicles could fill this bill
and that conferences with School
Board and County officials along
this line are going on regularly.
On the issue of establishing
of Is district control centers,
Reese said that Rockville al
Continued on Page y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
Reese Role
In PEPCO
Aired
Manager Says
He Didn't Act
Improperly

Speculation was rife this
week over whether County
Manager M. L. Reese or APP
peals Board Member William
A. Quinlan had emerged the
victor in the widely publi-
cized case of a thigh county
official" who allegedly tried
to help Potomac Electric
Power Co. get a favorable
decision in a key coming ex-
ception case.
Some observers after Tues.
days two-hour hearing by the
County Council on evidence in
the case felt that Quinlan, who
brought the charge that a top
county official had ATTEMPTED
wrongly at a private meeting to
interfere with the case, came off
second best. ~
Others said privately they
thought that Reese, who admit
ted he had interviewed in the
case, was the loser.
For nervous hour before the
Council, Quinlan, a lawyer, ex-
planned why he brought the
charge in the first place. And
he stuck by his guns that it was
wrong for the "high official"
whom he declined to name, to
approach the appeals board and
say: I'VE would like TO see this
exception granted" or in any
way try to influence the boards
handling Of the case.
He emphasized he did not
mean to 'lmpugn the motives"
Of the high official. But the OF.
fetal, he stressed, should have
communicated with the board In
writing or expressed his views
at q public hearing.
Reese, after he was publicly
identified by Council President
Stella Werner as the official in
volved, issued a statement in
which he said he had been in
terested only in discussing pro-
cedure with the appeals board.
The requested coming excep-
ton which gave rise to the case
involves two micro-wave towers
needed by PEPCO in connection
with its transmission lines from
the new generating plant at
Dickerson.
Reese explained that he and
the county attorney were insure
whether the type of tower that
Is new to the county was COW
cred under the coming ordinance.
I'm order to be sure that the
public interest was being pro-
tected," he said, I'VE had direct
ed PEPCO to file for a special
exception with the Board Of AID.
peals pertaining to the erection
of a micro wave tower"
He then asked the Board of
Appeals-after Quinlan had left
the room - what procedure
they wanted to be followed in
order to set up the hearing as
early as possible because at the
previous public hearings, PEP.
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
By Bob Bernstein
Staff Reporter

Addition or an extra hour
to the high school day - at
least for brighter pupils -
is under consideration by
county school heads.
The suggestion was one of
several revolutionary proposals
growing out o. a four-hour
school board discussion of edu.
cational aims this week.
The heightened cay would al.
low tighter academic require
ments while still leaving room
for a student to take additional
non-required courses of his own
choice.
The board asked the school
staff to study these other pro.
posals for county high schools:
Q Addition OF seventh class
period within the framework of
the present six-hour schooi day.,
by cutting the time allotted to
each period, as an alternative to
frightening the school day.
. Reduction Of physical edu-
cation from five to two or three
periods a week POSSIBLY at the
same time increasing the num-
Der of years physical education
would be required).
. Use Of large Goo or more
students) lecture classes one day
a week in English courses, there
by giving most teachers an ex-
ira hour a week for grading
compositions.
Superintendent C. Taylor
Whittier suggested that the sew.
en-period day might be applied
only to so-called academically
talented children, with others
staying on the six-period sched-
ule. He did not elaborate, how.
ever, as to how this might be
worked out in practice.
The issue arose during board
discussions of the "The Ameri-
can High School Today" the
well-publicized Conant Report
that lists 81 specific recommen-
dations for U. S. high schools
forwarded by former Harvard
University President James B.
Conant.
Conant urged a minimum, re-
quirement of IL or IS credit
course for high school gradua.
ton. Brighter students, he said,
should have to take four years
of mathematics. four of foreign
language and three of science.
County schools now require
is credits for graduation. II this
load is to be increased, Whit
tier said, there is mo question"
but that an extra period must
be added.
Several board members OBJ.
jected to the Conant prescrip.
ton for talented students on
grounds it ignores the child
whose special abilities tend to.
ward the liberal arts.
"Just because a child is smart
doesn't mean he is particularly
talented or interested in science
and math," said board member
Paul C. Howard. "He might
have a genius for art"
The board agreed, however,
that most of Conant's recon.
mendations might be profitably
applied to county schools.
Among these are the following:
. An expanded counselling
program, particularly in the ele.
mentary schools. (Conant rec
ommends at least one full-time
counselor for each $50 or 300
children; the county has vir-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
You Help Is Needed

Camp Echo Lake at Myers
vile, Nd, the summer fun spot
for hundreds OF underprivileged
Montgomery County youngsters
has achieved only half of its
camp fund subscription of $20,-
600. Unless camp officials re-
ceive more donations, scores Of
deserving children will not 60
to camp. Send donations to Post
Office Box 1884, Bethesda, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-04
Merit Paw
Criteria
Submitted

A set of standards for
measuring teachers ability
"a potential first step to-
ward a merit pay system =
was submitted this week to
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08

Democrats, q conservative
group, in tomorrow's balloting
This is based on the Peronists'
blank-ballot advice and reac-
ton to MIR. Frondizi's admit
tedly unpopular austerity pro-
gram.
Mr.. Frondizi's government
declared that the state Of siege
In effect to combat Peronist
and Communist strikes
throughout the nation viii be
lifted in San Luis for the cleo
ton. Among other things q
state Of seige bans public gath
erings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08

province have ordered their fol-
lowers to abstain OF. cast blank
ballots. a tactic they have used
some earlier elections to show
their strength.
In last years elections. Mr..
Frondisi was helped to ofiice
by the votes Of many Peronist
groups who voted for his
Radical Intransigent Party.
The Peronists are centered now
in the Justicialista Party, but
its status has been questioned
BY some electoral courts. Part
Of the price for Peronist sup
port was said to have been
recognition Of the Justicialista
Party.
Observers feel Mr.. Frondizi's
Radical Intransigent Party
may lose votes to the Liberal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08

The rules involve lots Of red
tape for casino operators in
GLIDING bank references, police
certificates and-for foreigners
written approval OF their
embassies.
The casinos also will be taxed
heavily. with the revenue going
70 the Savings and Housing
Institute.
Concessionaires must post a
$4,000 cash bond and pay a
$4,000 license fee. They also
win have to pay $1,000 a month
for the first seven tables oper-
ating from 8 pm. to 8 am.
The first seven tables operating
from noon to 8 pm. will be
subject to an additional. levy
Of $500 a month. Additional,
tables will also be taxed.
The games are limited to