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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1959-02-07
BY MARY BELLE RHODES
Birthday and Family Dinner

Birthday and Family Dinner:
II was a glorious surprise
for Mrs. Bessie VI Thomas Of
Pilgrim. when her brother Dr.
ID W Phelps of Nictoryillc. Cal
called from N.Y.C Central sta.
ton Saturday announcing this
message. Il have come to cclc.
bratc your birthday with you,
which was Feb g. and have a
family reunion dinner with the
other members Of the family
How happy they were, and other
friends were happy also Then
some members OF the current
Topic Study Club. decided they
would rush in for a half OF hour
SINGING songs and with small
tuck-in giit in their pockets.
Mrs. Lsvafs Jones of Wood.
land was hostess TO a gel To-
gcthcr Friday evening at her
spacious home interesting hap
penings in the closing semester
at Sheriff. School Of which thcN
are tutors made an enjoyable
conversation
After delightful repast was
served, dancing was the diver
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
Meters OK'd
For City's
Parking Lot

Parking meters will soon
be put up on the city-owned
and operated parking lot in
Rockville located between
Commerce and Middle las.
and the Safeway and Acme
food stores.
They will be brand new, IL.
hour meters and installation is
expected to be completed in
about 30 days.
Motorists will feed the mach
ines a nickel for every hour
they expect to park. Any com
bination of nickles, dimes, or
quarters will do: for instance,
two quarters and a dime, or two
nickles, will buy II long hours
of time.
Or, one quarter will buy five
hours, a dime and a nickel will
afford three hours, etc.
The new meters will cost the
city $5044, but they'll be a bar.
gain. Scores of businessmen in
the heart of the city have long
sought enough parking to al
low customers time to browse
instead of dash outside to feed
nickle meters.
Also, main-street meters prob
ably will be used more by the
"hit-and-run" customers, assur-
ing the parking public more
chance to stop and shop.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
County UGF Fund Dripe
27.8% Short of Quota

At the end of its first week
extension, the United Givers
Fund campaign in Montgom-
cry County stood at 1872 per
cent of its $4,000 goal.
Campaign chairman Charles
E. Phillips said last Friday that
the still-missing key to success
was contracting the remaining
persons who had not con-
tributed. He pointed out that
the average donation is running
$1.70 higher than last year, but
he said that in the Washington
area there are 117,000 missing
givers," and If they can be con-
tacted, the camapign may yet be
successful.
In the 1858 campaign, there
was a total of 100000 pledges
and gifts made in the Washing.
ton metropolitan area. This
year it's been about $4,000, al.
though the average donation
has been slightly higher.
Final UGF report meeting
will be held tomorrow. Phillips
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
Want Student
For Holiday?

II you live in the Rockville
area and like to have a foreign
student share your Thanksgiv-
ing Day banquet, here's your
opportunity.
A newly-formed committee,
the Rockville International Hos
pitality Program formed as an
offshoot of the SISTER City"
committee, is trying to find so
Rockville area homes that will
invite the foreign students in
TO share in the traditional Amer
lean feast.
II you're interested, call Ken
Kasai. the Sister City Commit
tee chairman. His telephone
number is Garden 1854. The
new committee hopes persons
participating in the program
will welcome the students into
their homes from Wednesday
afternoon until Friday after
breakfast.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
DIR. Harris
Will Speak
By KOko Wittenburg
Church Editor

DR.. Frederick B. Harris, SEN
ate chaplain. will speak at a
Thanksgiving Service at Twin
brook Methodist Church Sun
day at II am. The Rev. Donald
A. MILAN, pastor of the church
since its organization last June,
will officiate.
The group is meeting tempo.
rarily in the Meadow Hall Ele-
mentary School, corner of Twin
brook pkwy. and Norbeck I'd.
The Rev. MILAN has extended
an invitation to the public to
hear Sundays sermon by IAN
outstanding preacher"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
|412-Unit apartment Plan
Is Proposed by Gingery

could expect no more than sc
elementary school children. The
figure WIS based on the mum,
Der of children per apartment.
acre, he said.
Gingery later added that true
luxury apartments produce only
one chilr per so units.
The project carries the en-
dorsement of the Hungerford
Towne Civic Association. Asso-
citation president Woodrow w.
Stevenson presented resolu-
ton of approval Tuesday-not.
ing that the homes in Hunger.
ford Towne have been calcu.
lated to produce 3.3 children
each.
Kronstadt noted that the Hun
gerford Eleentary School is
slated for completion in Sep.
TENDER 1860 and will be able to
take care of the relatively few
children in the new develop.
ment.
Only opposition came from
attorney Harold Patterson, who
represented four owners of
nearby commercial property.
Patterson said his clients see no
reason to "pluck" Gingery's
tract of 16 acres out of an area
used largely by commercial
firms and institute residential
use,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
DIR. Bird From p. j
Hospital May
Change Name

drove around another car that
had halted for a stop sign and
crashed into the side of the
Bird car. DR.. and Mrs. Bird
died within minutes and two
persons in the other car also
were killed.
Meanwhile, members of the
Women's Board of the hospital
have voted formally to grant a
three-year, continuous nursing
scholarship and name it after.
Jean Bird. Members of the
Women's Board have also voted
to support changing the name
of the hospital, if it can be
effected, to honor the 74-year-
old physician who was chief of
staff and chairman of the hos
pital executive committee at the
time of his death.
The hospitals annual "Dona-
ton Day" will be held December
5 at the hospital to receive
gifts Of money, preserves and
canned goods.
The event is exceeded only by
the annual Hospital Supper as a
Embarrassing event by the insti.
tuition which has supported it.
self without State or Federal
aid since it was founded. !.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
County Council Acts
ON apartment Pleas

Equitble Savings and Loan AS
ISOLATION building and Our Lady
of Good Counsel Catholic High
School on Georgia ave.
They took the same action
on an application for IL acres
in the R-30 zone at the intersec.
ton of Viers Mill I'd. and Con.
neeticut ave. extended, across
the road from the Bel Air Club
swimming pool.
The Council turned thumbs
down on an application to zone
IS acres at the White Flint Golf
Course, Wisconsin ave., to either
the RIO or R-30 zones for apart
ments. The close proximity of
the B & o Railroad and indus
trial coming sites nearby went
against this application by Mrs.
Mary E. Conley.
Another application probably
destined for failure next week
is for "a acres on Halpine rd.,
owned by Robert L. McKeever.
Now zoned rural-residential, the
tract stands on the other side of
Halpine I'd. from the Rockville
city line.
McKeever applied for RIO or
R-30 apartment coming, pledging
to improve part of Halpine I'd.
if the application were granted.
The Council pointed out that
apartments proposed by Nc
Keever would impose an over
load on crowded Rockville
schools and would contribute
heavy traffic to an area large
ly zoned low-density residential.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19

A stiffening attitude to-
ward steadily increasing
apartment coming was shown
by the County Council this
week as they gave condition
al approval to two applica-
tons and rebuffed six, in
Guiding two major applica-
tons.
The two applications that will
probably be OKd next week
were located on the Northern
fringe of the Wheaton.Kensing.
ton business district.
The two major applications
that almost certainly will be
turned down next week involve
tracts of the old White Flint
golf course and on Halpine and
Veirs Mill I'd. bordering Rock
vile.
Council consideration Of the
apartment coming applications
came amidst growing appre-
hensiOn that too many apart
ments may be built In the
County.
]. Newton Brewer, chairman
of the Montgomery County
Planning Board, told the Coun-
ell that the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission will hold public hear.
ings on proposed apartment
policies after the first of the
year.
But by the time you hold
hearings and establish a policy,
our policy will already be
fixed" Council President Stella
Werner told Brewer. The Coun.
Gil has asked the Planning Com
mission repeatedly to come up
with an apartment planning
policy but so far, has elected
only a Statistical report"
The Council nevertheless
ordered preparation of a resolu-
ton granting RIO apartment
coming of 1873 acres between the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19

small lot development to the
south justify such a change.
Copies of the plan, as now
completed, are available at the
Silver Spring office of the Mary.
land-NatiOnal Capital Park and
Planning Commission, 1887
Georgia ave. A public hearing
on the plan has been scheduled
for December IL In the commits
siOn's Silver Spring office.
The proposed 500-acre addi-
ton to the plan will be studied
tonight by the Manor Club Com
munity Association, according
to David Macdonald, chairman
of the groups highly atcive
coming committee.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
Small Lots Near Manor Club
Urged in Plans Unit Report

Addition to the proposed
Rock Creek Watershed
master plan of about 500
acres of small lot 10000
square feet zoning south of
Norbeck I'd. near the Manor
Club was urged this week by
the plannin G staff of the
Maryland : National Capital
Park and Planning Commits
sion.
In the staffs proposed plan
as publicized several weeks ago,
the planners had failed to in.
clude 1000-acre area in the
watershed which is bounded by
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
BY Steed Evans
staff Reporter

A proposed 412-unit lux.
ury apartment development
in Rockville, aimed at EN-.
ployes of National Institutes
of Health, the Atomic En-
ergy Commission, and the
National Bureau of Stand
ards, was unveiled to city
fathers Tuesday by builder
Donald E. Gingery.
One of the principal features
of the development would he
its use of parking areas rather
than conventional streets. AS
planned, it would be constructed
on the West side of Rockville
Pike just South of Edmonstor
DIR. with old Monument st. as its
Southern boundary.
The apartment project is mod
eled after Knob Hill, ultra-mod
ern development on Piney
Branch I'd. between Flower and
New Hampshire ayes. Access
from Rockville Pike would be
provided but there would be M
through streets. Each unit
would have its own parking
space.
The fact that the builder
would maintain ownership OF
parking areas in the develop
ment rather than dedicate them
to the city as streets may prove
to be the projects chief obstacle
Mayor Alexander Gree
warned of his concern Tuesday
night. He pointed out that in
dividual apartment buildings in
the development might be solo
to different owners in the flu
ture, thus dividing responsible
ity among owners for street
maintenance. Poor streets, OF
paking areas, would create pres
sure on the city to repair them
he said.
At the same time Gingery
said that he would provide con.
tracts binding the various apart.
ment buildings to one another
as a block, thereby making in.
dividual sales impossible.
The City Attorney was In
structed to deliver an opinion on
adaptability of the projects
parking plan to the city's street
code.
Architect Arnold Kronstadt,
of the firm of Collins & Kron-
stadt, cited the crowded apart.
ment conditions in Bethesda
and Silver Spring, and said the
proposed development would be
a boon to white collar and re.
search workers at the county's
nearby scientific employment
centers.
He also pointed out that a
report by the staff of the Mary.
land-National Capital Park &
Planning Commission, dealing
with children in apartments, ia.
vored Cingery's development.
For the kind of luxury apart.
ment he has designed, Kronstadt
said, county school officials
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
Open Spaces Needed
Lee Urges
Golf Clubs
Tax Breaks

A new Zoning category
for golf courses that would
give them lower taxes in
or der to preserve open
spaces in built-up areas was
proposed to the County
Council Tuesday.
Blair Lee III, chairman of the
Councils committee on Soil
Erosion, Natural Topography,
and Open-Space Planning, which
came up with the proposal, ex-
planned its purpose to the Coun.
Gil.
Law, he said, requires county
tax assessors to estimate worth
of golf courses in light of coming
of abutting land. Most of the
county's golf courses exist as
special exceptions in land areas
zoned for residential use.
Although golf courses are not
used residentially, they have to
pay the higher tax assessments
because they could be SO de.
veIOped, Lee told the Council.
The Committee voted, with
one member dissenting, to
recommend the new zone to the
Council. Dissenter was Arthur
K. Stellhorn, director of plan.
ming for the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission.
Stellhorn took the position
that use of coming measures to
solely what he felt was. essential
ly a tax matter, was not the best
practice of long range land use
planning.
While Lees committee was
first concerned with preserving
open areas in a county fast
being filled with subdivisions,
the proposal showed another
spectre: that of golf courses
either closing or moving away
because of increasing tax assess
mentS.
Wilton T. Allen, County Su.
pervisor of Assessments, told
the Committee that golf courses
and county clubs were due for a
major increase in taxes in the
1860 levy.
Assistant Supervisor F. K.
Metzger estimated the increase
as an average of so per cent.
The county's IA clubs have an
aggregate land assessment of
81, 745, $3.50 which would be in
creased to an overall assessment
of 4,118,000, Lee told the Coun-
Gil.
Lee said Allen planned, for ex-
ample to double the land assess
ment of the Chevy Chase Club
which currently is S623,000.
In defense of a special zone
and, hence, a reduction in land
assessments for the golf clubs,
Lee said it would be unlikely
that clubs would enjoy the tax
cut for several years and then
sell in order to start anew else
where.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
One Dead.
Z Hurt in
Auto Crash

A Sandy Spring man was
killed and seven other persons
in the car We're injured Satur.
day night when the speeding
auto struck a utility pole on
Georgia ave., tended at
Brookeville.
The dead mans brother,
driver of the car, was charged
with manslaughter by auto, un.
reasonable speed, reckless driv.
ing and with driving after being
refused a drivers license.
John Robert Thomas, %, died
about one hour after the wreck
at Montgomery County General
Hospital. County Medical Elk.
aminer DR.. Frank ]. Broschart
said Thomas suffered crushed
liver and right kidney and died
of internal hemorrhage. He was
a passenger on the cars right
front seat.
A sOdcutter, Thomas, was
pinned under a portion of the
wrecked car before being extri.
Gated by members of the Sandy
Spring Volunteer Fire Depart.
ment, whose rescue squad took
him and other passengers to
the hospital.
An ambulance from the
Walter Reed Army Medical
Center picked up the dead mans
brother, Charles Edward
Thomas, 80, Airman 1/c, and
transferred him to the service
hospital. He was admitted in
satisfactory condition. A pre-
liminary hearing has been
scheduled for December 8 in
Rockville Peoples Court.
Most seriously injured of the
passengers was Audrey Gather,
Is, of the 700 block of Rock
Creek Church rd., in the Dis
trict. A passenger in the front
seat, she suffered a fractured
pelvis. She and her injured
companions were admitted to
Montgomery County General
Hospital.
A sister and another brother
of the dead man were injured
in the wreck. They were Alice
Thomas, Is, and Louis Thomas,
10, both of Sandy Spring. The
girl was treated for minor in
juries and released while her
brother was admitted with leg
injuries.
Others injured included were
sisters Shirley and Barbara
Thornton, 10 and Is, of Sandy
Spring, and Celestine Gather,
10, of Brinklow.
The Thornton sisters were re-
leased Monday. Celestine Gather
underwent surgery for her
broken jaw but was expected
TO be released soon, as was
Louis Thomas.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19
County Title Post
Won by De Leon

Victor A. DeLean of sos viii.
son Ia, Bethesda, has been elect
ed vice president and assistant
secretary of the County Title
Company, Inc. At the same time,
De Leon was named manager
of the firms Bethesda office.
A member of the Maryland
and District of Columbia bars,
De Leon has been with the law
firm of Nylen, Gilmore & Simp-
son for the last five years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19

Georgia ave. on the east the
Manor Club and Norbeck I'd. on
the north, and Rock Creek on
the west.
Approximately one-half of the
land located in the southern por-
ton of the new area is already
zoned for 90O0-foot lots. What
the planners did in their master
plan as now proposed was sug-
gest that the northern portion
of the tract, now zoned for one
half acre lots, be rezoned for
9000-foot lot development.
They said a sewer line now
being butt alongside Rock Creek
on the western border of the
tract as well as approaching
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-11-19

stressed, however, that anyone
not contacted by a camapign
worker could still mail a dona.
ton to UGF headquarters at the
Presidential Arms, 1920 G st.
NV, Washington, D. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
SidweII School
Will Mark 10th
Year Tomorrow

Sidwell Friends School. the
Oldest coeducational independ-
ent day school in Washington,
will celebrate its 18th year to-
morrow with an open house
from 2 pm. to 5 pm. and
pm. to Q pm.
Alumni and the public are in
vited to visit the areas only
Quaker school at that time and
meets its faculty Of 80 men and
women. all Of whom will be re-
ceiving in their classrooms
throughout the afternoon anc
evening. With classes from
kindergarten through the 18th
grade. rhe school is located al
1926 Wisconsin avenue NV.
Featured at the open house
will be the annual art exhibit
and science fair, as well as
meeting Of the Student Council
Of the Upper School and re-
hearsals Of the drama and glee
clubs.
A reception for alumni in
hartman House will be another
feature of the day, while still
another special event will be q
luncheon honoring the 81 high
school students, with their par.
ents, who have attended the
school since kindergarten days
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
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ItoIy JoiIs Critic
OF Catholicism

AvEzzANo. Italy. April II
(AP).--Donato crotarolo. an
s0-year-old member Of the
Baptist church In Italy, has
been sentenced to is days in
Jail on charges Of vilifying the
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He was accused Of putting ur
posters on the Saturday before
Easter which said certain dog
mas Of the Catholic religion
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Bible, but were Of more modern
origin. The posters brought q
complaint from the Roman
Catholic priest in nearby San
Benedetto del Marsi. Roman
catholicism is the state re-
ligion in Italy.
Attorneys who defended Mr.,
Crotarolo maintained that re-
ligious freedom, assured by
Italy's postwar constitution
gave Mr.. Crotarolo the right to
express his opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
SCIENCE CALENDAR

sciences. once Of Scientific Research.
Air Force. Members and guests.
American Institute Of Electrical En-
sineers--0.30 pm. dinner meeting at
the ofAeer's Club, Naval Gun Factory.
"A Talk and Color Motion Picture on
Alaska. the 4Dth STATE" Representativ
Rivers, Democrat Of Alaska, Ladies'
Ntght and general meeting.
Chemical Society Of Washlneton-
e:l5 pm. meeting In the John Wesley
powen Audltorium, 2l7O Florida ave.
Chemistry" Or. Warren d. Nieder-
hauser. Rohme and Haas Co. Meetine
Is open TO the public.
Institute Of Aeronautical Sciences
$50 dinner and y pm. meeting, Occi-
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avenue NV. .Nnclear Power for Aero
Armstrons, UsAF. deputy chief. Air
craft Nuclear Propulsion once, and
Col, w. A. Tesch, U6AF, chief OF Air-
craft Projects Branch, Air Force. Joint
meeting with the Baltimore and Ha-
gerstown sections.
Institute Of Radio RnGineers (pro-
iessionai group on microweye theory
dustrial Building. National Bureau OF
STANDARDS. PRINCIPLES and Applications
Of Spiral Antennas," Julius A. Kaiser.
lr., microwave branch, Diamond Ord
nance FuEe Laboratories, Army Ord
nance Corps. Meeting Is open to the
Wednesday
washington Society Of Englneers-
pm. meeting in the John Wesley
fowel AUDITORIUM. 2l7O Florida ave-
nue. NV. Urban Forms and Problems
IN Latin America" Luis Vera, consult
Ing architect 70 the Pan American
Union. Talk Illustrated with slides;
the public Is invited.
National Science Foundation and
American Association for the Advance
ment Of Science (Washington Science
Lecture Sertes)-10:30 am In the
auditorium Of the National Science
Foundatiqn. "organizational Life in
dent, American Council on Education.
Thursday
American Welding Society - 7:I5
p m. dinner and meeting. Ofiicer'S Club,
Naval Gun Factory. Installation OF
washington Academy Of Sciences
s:l5 pm. meeting In the John Wesley
Powell Auditorium, 2170 Florida ave-
nue. NV: Two 30-minute papers by
the .academy's 1853 award winners
will be read: DR.. Lewis r. Branseomb,
tive Ion Physics" DR.. Ellis r. Bolton.
Carnegie Institution, The Ribonuclear
Proteins Of Escherichia Coll"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
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" PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK

The political lineup Of
judges now serving in the Fed
eral judicial system is the
closest 1t has ever been to ar
equal balance.
The number Of lifetime Fed.
eral judges who we're registered
Democrats when appointed Il
l73 while the number Of those
who were registered Republi.
cans when appointed is 1877
Nominations now awaiting
Senate confirmation, however
are expected to bring the totals
very close,
Bernard @. Segal. Philadel-
phia attorney who is chairman
of the Federal Judiciary Com.
mittee Of the American Bal
Association, disclosed this in.
formation recently to the ABA
House Of Delegates.
Rogers Sympathetic"
Mr.. Segal, in an oral report
to the House, said Attorne!
General william p. Rogers hai
indicated much sympath!
toward the idea Of preventing
"gross imbalances" of party
fealty in the future. He saiC
the Attorney General has pro
posed that both parties Civ
serious thought to appropriat,
ways Of preventing weighted
political affiliation among thu
Federal judicial corps-such a