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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-22
Monsters Meet
When Wheaton
Plays Rockets

Richard Montgomery and
Wheaton both hoping TO profit
at the expense of the other meet
in Rockville this Friday night.
Both schools own Bi.County
League wins over Suitland. Both
schools opened against Sherwood
but with opposite results.
The Warriors upset Richard
Montgomery 1916, while the
knights bombed Sherwood $500.
Both teams are small and it
will be one of the few occasions
these two squads will not have
to look up TO their opponents.
Il look for an even game"
said Carl Fahrner, Richard Mont
gomery coach. Our squad is
coming along well and has its
offensive patterns down. We're
playing much better ball than we
did at the start of the season"
Coach Don browns monsters
as he likes to call them in ref
erence TO their obvious lack Of
height, will again try to out-run
their opponent.
Blair failed to respond to this
treatment last week and won 81
%. Ray Shoots threw in %
points to lead the Blazers. Alex
Ober led the knights with 16
points.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-22

at 42-40 with 10 minutes left. For
tuna remained within three points
until with 43 seconds left Bob
Young hit on a pair of free
throws. AL Bopst tossed in two
more and the Sentinels led 60-54.
Bobby Roman hit with 1S sec
onds left to make the score 60
Sc, but Charlie White and Bopst
each contacted on fast breaks to
ice the game. White was high
man with IA points for the win
ners. Bopst had 10 to take the
league scoring leadership with 81
points. Jim Shipman and Bob
Roman led the losers with Is and
Ia respectively.
Keller Brisk won by forfeit
over Battery ID"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-22
LayoH May Hurt
Hornets in First
B. Game friday

Because of the snow and freeZ-
ing weather last week Damascus
will be up against double trouble
this weekend.
The first obstacle Damascus
faces is two opponents, the Sec
ond the rustiness of a two-week
layoff.
The Hornets had an open date
in their schedule early last week
and last Fridays game with
Poolesville was cancelled because
of the snow.
Since Damascus also had an off
day this past Tuesday, the Hor-
nets haven't played since slaugh-
tering Laurel, GILT, on Janu-
airy 9.
Damascus meets Sherwood this
Friday in its first class "B" con-
test of the year.
Il just don't know how we'll
do" said Coach Leon Swart. I'VE
should take this one but not by
the 25 points we've been beating
these other ball clubs. Sherwood
always gives us trouble"
Whereas Damascus hasn't lost
in seven games this season, Sher.
wood has been getting none of
the best of it. The Warriors man
aged to win but three of their
first eight contests.
Wen give them a battle"
Sherwood Coach Jack Burk
promised.
Saturday night Damascus takes
on Poolesville in a game post
poned from last week. Pesky
Poolesville also hopes to give the
Hornets more trouble than they
have been used to these past
weeks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-22
Wilson Fears
Spartan Size
As Rivals Meet

Northwood faces its biggest
rival this Friday when the
Indians journey to Walter
Johnson for the fourth renew
al of the cross-county scrap.
Northwood, winner of its first
eight in a row, six in the BIZ
County League, before meeting
Suitland last Tuesday, will natu
rally be favored but Coach Kyle
Wilson isn't SO sure that means
too much.
eth be a tough one. They
have big team. With his (Coacf
Allan Swick) size, he'll give any
one a battle. They only lost tc
B-CC by one point and I'm moi
expecting any picnic" he said.
WI lost to B-CC on a deSper
alton shot as the gun was in the
air.
-Four Games Played
There have been four games be
tween the two new Montgomery
County schools. Walter johnson
won the first contest, but North
wood took the next two. The sec
ond game scheduled for last sea
son was cancelled because o.
snow.
Last weeks snow postponed
the Richard Montgomery-Waltel
Johnson game set for Friday
night.
Northwood's game with Oxor
Hill was also called off but wa:
played on Saturday with the In
dians coming out on top by a 62
81 margin.
Kirk Stewart put in his daily
20 and Northwood regained the
high shooting average it ha'
maintained until its La S t two
games. Northwood made AZ per
cent of its shots while holding
Oxon Hill to 10 baskets from thu
floor.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-22

Ben Petite was high with IL as
Hanrahan Insurance raced by
Naval Ordnance Lab 66.44. Bill
Webb led MOL with II.
The Rockville Silents defeated
MEMS Clarke 65-42 behind Pelar-
skis Is point performance.
The County Police Association
downed Stauffer Slenderizers 61-
II. Charlie Benjamin had IA
points for Stauffers while Bill
Thompkins led the Police with 10
points.
The Silver Spring Billiards were
forced into overtime after hav-
ing a 29.19 halftime lead over
Frank 6 Jerry's Service Center.
The Billiards won SLAB behind
the IS point performance of
Leonard Hodgers. II
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-22
Lipseomb, Colts
Beat SentineIs

The Baltimore Colts barnstorm-
ing Cage team made the Senti-
nelS their first victim of 40
game schedule last Saturday
night by a 64-59 margin before
nearly 900 fans at Gaithersburg
High School.
big Daddy Lipscomb scored
81 points to lead the hilarious but
bruising Colts. Big Daddy played
wizard in true Globe Trotter ira
dition.
The Sentinels took an early 6-3
lead but fell behind to trail, 1924,
at halftime. The Sentinels got
their shooting eyes back after a
ragged first half and three times
pulled within three points in the
second half.
Jack Keller hit on a set with
five minutes left. Don Benson
then hit with chandler and
stole the ball for a snow bird to
narrow the score to 56-51. Jack
Kelly's two foul losses reduced
the margin to 56-51.
Big Daddy then took charge
and with three drive shots put
the game out of reach.
Kelley and Keller were high
for the Sentinels with IA and 13
points respectively.
Johnny Unitas, Colts quarter
back, played in the second half
only and had trouble connecting
with the basket.
RALTINIORE COLTS SENTINEIS
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-01-22
Sentinek Lead
County League

The Montgomery County Sen
tinels remain on top of the Mont
gomery County Recreation Bas-
ketball this week after clearing
away a major obstacle in Fortuna
Shoes 64.58.
Fortuna jumped off to an early
1868 lead but the Sentinels whit
tied away at the margin trailing
31.29 at halftime.
The Sentinels went into the lead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-04
At Anniversary Sale Prices

This fine dining furniture has the dwod craftsmanship usually
found cabinet work Of the finest o Done richly grained swirl
mahogany with sepentne fronts and other details Here's
furniture you'll with pride today and call the family heirloom
years Majors Anniversary Sale makes possible you buy
this fine quality furniture at unprecedented savings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

agree, is the Alaskans themselves. Barely 10000 Of
them rattle around in more than twice the size
of Texas and most Of these have arrived since the end
OF World War ii. A rugged i in some cases, ragged
-ndiMdualSt, the Alaskan settler bears most of the
traits and the independent outlook of the American
pioneer. His most outstanding characteristic is sim
oery. and he likes to see it in Others. Alaska is
place for phones, and you can count having good
neghbors. But the other side of the Alaskan picture
Is like the other side of the moon, dark Beginning
with the long, long darkness of winter.
Think OF 1t. If you settled in Fairbanks, AlaSka'S
second city, you would the for only about four
hours daily in md-winter. Your children would go to
school and come home in darkness and most of their
play hours would be spent indoors! Your winter
sports would be enjoyed at night under arc lights
Even worse these far Continued on page II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

ing several hundred persons, most of them Aaskans,
would-be or had-been AlaSkanS. From wealth of
information that filled two notebooks and emptied
three checkbooks, here is the distilled truth about
Unce Sans youngest nephew.
First let us look at the fiashy side of the COIN In
many ways Alaska is quite wonderful. Until recently
this vast peninsula was an American showpiece, a
natural wonderland whose significance was kept
potential for almost a century,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
sy HAL HENNESEV
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
ALASKA is in the IS and not since Milton finished
Paradise Lost" have so many words been written
about place. Unfortunately. those words have led
too many people to believe that Alaska is Paradise
Blinded by the Northern Lights the promise Of free
farm land and the prospect Of living rich, pioneer
life, thousands of Americans are preparing to pull
themselves up by the roots and head north to what
they hope will be a Land Of Plenty. To such glad
spirits give my blessing and this advice: Don't.
Don't move to Alaska until you learn the truth
about this gaudy giddy state II is indeed land OF
plenty - including headaches and heartacheS
In determining this desolate fact, Travelled $1,000
miles by air and auto in two months while interview
Autisor: Hal Hennesey. who has hunted and explored
all over the Americas likes Alaska, plans 10 90 back
"H'S faScin0fiHg he says "YOE almost enjoy freezing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Don't Move To Alaska!

At least unless you're young, rugged and afford
take chance. Here's unvarnished report
fascinating contradictory pioneering 18th state
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05
Easy Gold Is Gone

Much that is good about Alaska is buried in the
ground; it was gold, Of course, that made Alaska
household word at the turn of the century. Most of
the easy gold is gone, although other hardly touched
minerals, including the only tin in America, promise
a bright future for the mining industry.
But the most wonderful thing about Alaska visitors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-05

TINS WEEK Moeo.ins I April S. 1859
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
By Joan Stern
Staff Reporter

The hour of midnight is now
forbidden for the ice cream
mans jangling bell.
So for that matter are the
hours of II, 10, 9 and $3.50. The
Rockville city council before an
all adult audience Tuesday night
passed an ordinance by a 2 to /
vote establishing an $3.50 pm.
curfew on "any whistle, rattle,
bell, gong, clapper, hammer,
drum, horn for the pur-
pose of advertising any goods"
Robert Yount, vice president
of the Dairy Dan Company, ap-
pealed to the councilmen for a
10 pm. deadline rather than the
8 pm. cutoff originally proposed
in Councilman Frank A. Ecker's
ordinance.
1ount, VINO said two of their
three trucks operate in Rock.
vile, said his drivers report an
average of 80 per cent of their
business is done after 6 pm.
The previous day, Yount told
councllmen, SO per cent of their
business had been done after Z
pm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
In Rockville
Big Housing Project
Clears Zoning Hurdle


The Rockville City Coun-
Gil, Tuesday, granted coming
for the second half of a pro-
posed $14.5 million, 140-acre
subdivision to be located be-
hind the Congressional Shop
ping center.
At a previous meeting the
council granted single-family
dwelling zoning for 70 acres but
delayed action on the 70 acres
requested for apartments.
At last Tuesdays session, At.
torney David E. Belts, acting
for developers Milton Pollinger,
Howard Pollinger and Arthur P.
Becker, withdrew eight acres
from the requested apartment
zoning. His clients, he said, will
ultimately request single family
coming for the eight acres, sat
fsfying the councils desire for
houses to back up to apart
ments, rather than face them.
The development which is ex-
pected to get underway by mid
summer, will contain 1000 apart.
ment units and 220 houses to
sell at $21, 900.
In other business the council
heard request from Woodrow
w. Stevenson, president of Hun
gerford Towne Citizens Associa-
ton, for aid in identifying the
entrance to the subdivision.
The Association would like to
buy trees fro the city to plant
on both Richie hwy. and Mt.
Vernon pl., he said, displaying a
model Of the proposed improve
ments.
The plan also calls for a five
foot high head-wall to be placed
in the median strip at Richie
hwy. and two smaller ones
thanking the Mt. Vernon en-.
trance.
He asked the city to extend a
State Roads Commission storm
drainage pipe and to add back
fill to prevent the large head
wall from. being washed away.
City officials estimated this
would cost $1450.
Council members indicated
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
College Plans
To Dedicate
Ne,O Building

Western Maryland College,
Westminster, will dedicate a
$270,000 student union building
May 80.
The building has been named
the Winslow Student Center in
honor of a trustee of the col
lege.
The building is 118 feet long,
81 feet at its widest point and
is an air-conditioned, two-story
structure housing the Student
Christian Association, a post
office, a bookstore, a faculty
lounge, recreation and student
lounges.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
Stella Werner Talk

Mrs. Stella B. Werner, presi.
dent ofNthe Montgomery County
Council, will address the mem.
bers of the Garrett Park Cit.
zens Association at $50 pm.
May 19 on the relationship of
the Council to Incorporated cities
in the county. The meeting will
be held in the Garrett Park Com.
munity Center.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
Expert Judges

Winstead Burdette and Melvin
Shoemaker. members of the
Gaithersburg Future Farmers
of America Club, clinched sec
ond place in the vegetable judg-
ing contest sponsored recently
by the FLA at the University
of MARYLAND.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
Language Defect Group

Parents of children with
speech and hearing defects
gathered at Broadacres Elemen-
tary School last week to start
a program of educational aid
for language handicapped chill
dren.
Another meeting has been
scheduled for June IS at which
time those attending hope to
draft a charter.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
VitrO Lab Move

Vitro Laboratories, of Silver
Spring, moved employees into a
new 100000 wing with more
than 100000 square feet of floor
space.
The new wing became neces-
sary when the plants working
force rose from 425 in 1857 to
$50 at the close of 1858.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14

willingness on the tree project
and took the rest under advise
ment.
City Manager Walter A.
Scheiber reported that Donald
Gingery, developer of Hunger.
ford Towne, had cleared 60 per
cent of his storage yard front
ing on Rockville PIX, at this
time, which is 60 days behind
schedule.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
Livestock Judging

The livestock judging team of
the Gaithersburg chapter of the
Future Farmers of America
placed eighth among SO teams
entered in the FLA judging con-
test held recently at the Mary.
land University.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
In Rockville
Curfe,U Has NOlU Rung
For Ice Cream Man

With drivers not allowed to
use their bells, he said, they
will have to give up the area
after the curfew hour.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-14
Annual May Breakfast

Alpha Epsilon Alpha of Alpha
Chi Omega will hold its annual
May breakfast Sunday morning
at the Kenwood Country Club.
Evening star., 1959-12-13

shop early and late WnGiI Christmas Fee!
Washington, $3.50 am. to pm.
Except Saturdays, 9:3O am TO P.m)
Langley Park and ShirlingtOn, 10 am. to 9:3O pm.
Except Saturdays, 10 am. to pm.
Evening star., 1959-12-13

We were sitting at this restaurant table
when some people asked if we were from
Denmark. One thing led to another, and
pretty soon we we're invited to their home.
And then we began to see what this country
Is really like"
Soon afterward Mrs Hendriks found
Evening star., 1959-12-13

friends among her neighbors, too. Il met
one wonderful couple, and it made all the
difference in the world. Through them,
met Others"
Her children also began making friends
and started attending Our Lady of Lourdes
School. CONTINUED
SUNDAY THE STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON D
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29
In Guithersburg
Tiny Post Office
Readies for Boom

eventual location of the Nation
al Bureau of Standards near
the city'S northwestern limits
to these, plus subdivisions near
the terminus of the new sewer
line fast approaching the city's
southeastern limits, and Spald-
ing's prediction can be readily
understood.
Also, Emerson Research Lab.
oratories will build new head.
quarters on US 240, within the
area served by Gaithersburg
post office, contributing still an
other need for service the one
truck office couldn't possible
hope to handle today.
While industry and govern
ment will make their impact
felt on Spalding's office, the
greatest business will be gen.
Grated, in the long run, by first
class mail to and from new sub
divisions that will follow the
sewer line. 1t is safe to expect
hundreds, and perhaps thou
sands of new homes in the for
seable future.
When this overall expansion
of Gaithersburg and its suburbs
comes, it will find a post office
that only became a first class
office in 1855. A first class Of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29
Corn Price
OF $l.23
Adopted

Price support for the Mary.
land corn crop has been set at
S1.23 per bushel.
This figure represents 80 per
cent of the average market
price for corn over the preced-
ing three years. Under the new
1859 corn program, price sup
port is computed this way in.
stead of being based on parity.
Support price cannot, however,
60 lower than 65 per cent of
parity.
The national average Of corn
support prices for 1859 is SLIP.
Difference is due to varying
demand in different areas,
which resultsi n different mar
ket base figures.
This fall is the last chance
for Montgomery County farm
ers to build irrigation ponds
with financial help from the
Maryland Agricultural Conser.
walton Program, and could be
their last chance for help on
livestock ponds. Decision has
not yet been made on whether
to continue help for livestock
ponds in the 1860 program, &C.
cording to Dorothy G. Brosius
of the ACP office in Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29
Court Needs
Psychiatrist,
Moves Saws

More than 80 children in
need of some kind of psy-
chiatric evaluatiOn go unseen
by a doctor each month at
Montgomery County Juvenile
Court.
Judge Alfred B. NOyes told
the County Council recently
that part-time psychiatric
services provided by the
County Health Department
would provide for diagnOstic
treatment of only three chill
dren.
Between 80 and 40 children
every month should be seen
by a psychiatrist, he said.
"Part-time psychiatry doesn't
begin to meet the needs of the
court" he declared.
he urged The COUNCIL 10
make funds available to hire
a full-time psychiatrist to
round out the existing team
of a psychologist and a psy.
chiatrist social worker. Even
a half-time psychiatrist would
be better than what the court
has now, he said.
Total salaries of the three
man team would be $4,000 a
year, II a psychiatrist were to
be hired on a half-time basis,
Judge NOyes said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29

The Gaithersburg post Of
flee is sitting on a powder
key of expansion that is set
to explode in the near flu
ture.
Cramped into a small office
on Diamond ave-, the Offices Is
employees under Postmaster
Maurice Spalding are eagerly
awaiting construction of their
new building on South Summit
ave-, next year. And they'll
need more space.
AS a matter of fact, Spalding
can already envision the new
building becoming obsolete in
only several years. There is
good reason for this expecta-
ton.
Gaithersburg is the site of
commercial and governmental
building boom old timers could
not imagine. Already, the Colum.
bia Specially Co., Bradley Lum-
Der Co., Operations Research
Office of Johns Hopkins Univer.
sity, and a furniture factory are
building on an industrial tract
Just outside the city on Rt. 24O.
Their mail business alone
could swamp existing facilities
at the Diamond ave. office. Add
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29
Ste Plans
Fete for
Boy Scouts

Sixty-two churches, P-TAs
and veterans groups have been
invited to a golden jubilee din
ner to kick off a campaign for
new boy scout troops in Mont
gomery County.
The dinner will be held at the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory in
White Oak, November II. Each
group invited will be asked to
send six representatives.
Object of the campaign is to
extend the boy scout program
to the increasing population of
boys in the county. Guests will
be asked to either sponsor new
scout troops or to enlarge pro-
grams they may already be con-
Quoting.
The dinner is sponsored by
the Suburban Trust Co. Organ.
izations that are interested but
have not been invited should
call the Scout Service Center.
DE. 2-1962.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29
Rules Breakdown
Civic Center Warning
Issued by City Hall

Rockville City Hall gave
notice this week that it will
consider barring any organ
ization in the future that
damages the Civic Center
facilities or otherwise breaks
the Center's rules.
At the same time, The Mayor
and Council ordered Civic Cen
ter employees to keep a careful
file of organization officers who
might, if barred, attempt to re.
gain entry under guise of new
club name.
An organization was barred
last week after drinking party
October 16 that left the Center's
first floor room in a shambles.
The organization has right to
appeal the order.
Groups are put on notice they
are liable for damage when they
sign use permits at City Hall,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29
Halloween Hop
At Sherwood

A Halloween Hop will be
sponsored Saturday starting at
$3.50 pm. at Sherwood High
School by the Mid-County Chap
ter, Junior Chamber of Com
merce. The affair will end at
11:29 pm.
Vernon Taylor and his band
will play and The SOMEONE'S
will be featured. Price will be:
stag, IS cents; drag, 81. Cash
prizes will be offered for out
standing football player of the
day, best dancers, funniest cos
tune and prettiest costume.
Jaycees and their wives will act
as chaperones.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-10-29

The permits are revOcabIe by
the city.
Civic Center custodial work.
ers will attempt to refinish the
random-width oak flooring in
the Center's executive room that
was damaged by cigarettes and
drinks at the recent party.
If this cannot be done as an
ordinary custodial job, costs
may be assessed against the
club, according to Bert Kurland,
director of recreation for the
city.
Some members of the barred
club belonged to another organ
ization that was barred from
holding social events vast year
at the Center, Kurland said.