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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27

the board agreed to file a for.
NAL notice of its opposition to
the proposal and named three
of its members to draw up a
statement outlining its position.
Robert E. Morrow, DR.. Clifford
K. Beck and Mrs. Rose Kramer
were appointed to the COM
mittee.
The boards action is in sup.
port of the position of DR..
Thomas G. Pullen, jr., State SUI
perintendent of schools, who is
spearheading a drive to keep
control of the teachers colleges
in the hands of the State Board
Of Education. Under the War
field plan, they would come I'M
der the jurisdiction Of the Uni
versity of Maryland's board of
regents.
While the county board joined
DR.. Pullen in his opposition to
the Warfield plan, it also
singled out the State superin-
tendent for criticism of what
Morrow called a "stand pat" at.
titude toward the colleges.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Blair Stiles Wins
Prize for Yearling

Blair Stiles of Rockville won
first prize in the Senior Year
ling in milk at the 1860 ALI
American Junior Jersey Show
at Columbus, Ohio, held this
month. There were 152 Junior
entries from II States and Can
ada on hand for the show.
Blair is a sophomore at
Gaithersburg High Sch o 0
where he is an active member
of the FLA, the school band,
Key Club and Junior Varsity
football squad. He is a member
of the Montgomery County
Jersey Calf Club and the Shady
Grove All Club. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stiles,
of Shady Grove Road, Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Border Shift

Continued From Page II
or submitting to local option the
manufacture or sale of alcoholic
beverages"
The section, he said, is in ZAP
parent conflict with the pro-
posal to revise the district bor-
ders for the specific purpose of
authorizing the sale of liquor at
the country club.
Legitimate" Purpose
1T is my opinion that, by
granting the county the power
to rearrange election districts
the General Assembly intended
that such districts should be
changed when a legitimate and
clear public purpose would be
served, as, for example, where
population shifts or concentra-
tons have occurred or where a
substantial segment of the pub
lie desires such change" Carter
said. 1T is difficult to attribute
to the Legislature an intent to
permit the county to alter cleo
ton districts to serve the pur-
poses of a private club"
He noted that his office pre-
viously has held that changes
in election district boundaries
must be authorized at the May
legislative sessions of the
council.
When the border shift was
requested, Attorney Plummer
M. Shearin told the Council that
the clubhouse had been located
on a section of the club tract
through "misapprehension." To
revise the plans and provide for
the buildings construction in
the wet" third district, he said,
would cost the developers about
$4,000 and delay completion of
a golf course and allied facili-
ties for. about a year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Rockville Authorities Criticize
School Board on City Properties

cation might be taken to re-
move the fence.
Scheiber observed that pre-
vious requests for removal of
the fence have brought, no salts
factory action. Councilman
Glen Koepenick said he had re-
ceived three complaints in the
last week from citizens who
wanted the fence removed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
City Council
Deaf to Two
Zoning Pleas

The Rockville City Council
this week refused to recon
slider two coming decisions in
the Lincoln Park area, leaving
the way clear for lawsuits
against the city.
Attorney James r. Miller, ir.,
representing the two property
owners, said he has filed suit
in one and will file another on
the second. In both cases the
council refused industrial zon-
ing for the property stating
that there was a desperate need
for more residential property
in this all-Negro area.
One of Miller's clients, Lewis
Golfer, who owns seven acres
on N. Horners la. which was re-
Gently annexed over his protest.
The plots, which carried county
industrial coming was then par
TALLY rezoned residential. Miller
has filed suit against the city,
charging the city acted con-
trary to all evidence presented.
He will file spit on behalf of
Harrison and Curry England
who own two lots on Stone
street ave. where industrial zon-
ing also was denied by the coun-
Gil.
At the same time the council
adopted text amendment al
lowing annexation and rezoning
to occur concurrently, giving
property owners some assur-
ance of knowing how their land
will be zoned before the annexa-
tioi becomes final.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27

Montgomery County's Board
of Education was accused by
Rockville officials M nd a Y
night of failing to pay its own
way and of fostering blight"
within the city.
The charges were level dur
ing a meeting of the Rockville
City Council, at which City
Manager Walter A. Scheiber as
serted the West Rockville High
School is being built on a city
tract which is subject to $500
in front foot benefit assess
ments.
Either the city will bill the
Board of Education or will have
to pay the bill itself, as has hap
pened in many cases." Scheiber
asserted.
Since the city is powerless to
levy taxes against government
al properties, the county has
on occasion agreed to pay half
the cost of Improvements abut-
ting school-occupied land in
Rockville. However, according
to Councilman A. M. Tuchtan,
School Superintendent DR.. Tay-
lor Whittier fused this as a
point against having the junior
college located in Rockville"
Mayor Alexander j. Greene
noted that the city faces "big
problems on streets like Seven
Locks rd.," where the county
has large holding of non-assess-
able property. 1--WE could get
around it by not giving build
ing permits without their agree
ing to help finance road inn
provements," he suggested.
He said a new city policy
would require settlement of
payable assessments on public
ly-owned property at the time
of the title transfer.
The school boards alleged
contribution to blight" in the
city emerged from a discussion
of the boards warehouse prop
erty in Rockville.
Referring to a fence erected
by the school board across
Stonestreet ave-, Mayor Greene
said the board "has the street
closed and this creates and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27

Kaiser, was appointed to his
present position as Appeals Tax
Judge by the Montgomery
County Council in 1859. In 1858
he. was defeated in the Demo
cratic Primary for Orphans
Court Judgeship. He is co-au-
tor of the book Supreme Court
Practices, an accepted author
ity on Court practices, and is
currently at work on laymen's
guide to the Supreme Court.
Gresham, along with his wife,
Nan, has been active in county
Democratic affairs for several
years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27

Board members called for a
strengthening of the programs
offered at the teachers colleges.
DR.. Beck asserted that Pullen
has discussed steps for improv-
ing the teachers colleges "only
when their status quo was chal.
lenged" by proposals such as
the Warfield commissions sug-
gestions.
The board acted after DR.. C.
Taylor Whittier, superintendent
of schools, submitted a mem
orandum criticizing the report
of the Warfield commission and
the manner in which its study
20 fthe educational program
was conducted.
The scope of the study, he
said, was "far too limited to
meet the needs of the future. 4"
At another meeting on Mon
day night, the board agreed to
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of linn
iting the size of elementary
schools to be built in the flu
ture.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27

forum featuring university stu
dents and Sen. George Smath.
ers, of Florida, at the Robert
E. Lee Hotel in Lexington.
A junior in the pre-law school
at Washington and Lee, Hyatt
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert S. Hyatt and a grandson
of Montgomery Councilman
Jerry Williams, who is serving
his second term on the council
as a representative of the First
District.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27

fosters a blighted area"
Several members of the school
board, said Greene, never have
even seen the place"
Il am prepared to talk to the
board as a body, if necessary, to
let them see the blight this has
created" the mayor continued.
He said he would contact board
members to see what course of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Eugene Gresham
Writes Article On
Justice F. Murphy

A Montgomery County APP
peals Tax Court Judge declared
in national weekly news maya
zine last week that Roman Cath
olics in high public office have
been historically free of re,
ligious control or influence in
the conduct of their official
duties.
Eugene Gresham, 7709 West
field dr., Bethesda, speaks with
authority in his discussion of
THE Catholic Issue and the SUI
preme Court" in the October "a
issue of United States News and
World Report. AS legal assist
ant for five years to the late
Frank Murphy, Associate JUS
tice of the United States Su.
preme Court, Gresham was
able to observe the devoutly
Catholic Justice in action on
many issues, some of which "di-
rectly affected the interests Of
American Catholicism"
AS the son of a fundamental
list Protestant minister, Gress-
man says he was sensitive to
any pro-Catholic proclivities,"
but can emphatically state that
Justice Murphy was never
given any ecclesiastical direc-
ton, subtle or otherwise, to ad-
vance the Catholic cause
through his Supreme Court
work."
Emphasizing that religious
oriented issues are far more the
concern of the Supreme Court
than of either the President or
the Congress and it is the
Court that must ultimately give
definitive dimensions to free.
dom of religion and to the wall
of separation between church
and state" Gresham declares
that a Catholic Supreme Court
Justice would be the Ideal We.
hicle for carrying out any aim
or purpose of the Roman heir.
archy," should such exist. Yet
ne states, "the freedom of &C.
ton and belief {. exhibited by
Frank Murphy, as a Catholic
judge, Is by no means unique
or unusual" and quotes the
well known Catholic critic Paul
Blanshard's recent statement
that never in the Supreme
Courts long history ''has the
religious affiliation of any JUS
tice been shown to have deter.
mined his decision in single
case" CThere have been. six
Catholic Justices within the
past century,
Gresham also points to sew
eral decisions Murphy made
which "elicited bitter criticism
from Catholic voices" among
them his vote to uphold the con-
stitutional rights of members of
Jehovah's Witnesses freely to
disseminate their attacks upon
the Catholic Church.
The local jurist concludes
that "the volume of religious
matter coming before the SUI
preme Court is so much greater
than that before any other or
gan of the Federal Government,
including the Presidency, that
this documented history of
Catholic Justices may fairly be
taken as indicative of the ca
pacity of a Roman Catholic to
serve faithfully in any govern
mental position"
Gresham, a partner in the
law firm of Van Arkel and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Jerry Hyatt Active
In Political Club

Jerry H. Hyatt, of Damascus.
has been named chairman of
the Students for Kennedy and
Johnson Club" at Washington
and Lee University in Lexing-
ton, Va.
AS head of the student unit,
Hyatt presided recently at a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-27
Teachers College
Plan Drn1Us Fire

The Montgomery County Board of Education took
issue this week with the Warfeld plan for the operation
versty of Maryland
Meeting at Montgomery Junior College Tuesday night
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14
At Many Churches
Bible Schools Start

Bible School at the Farmville
Methodist Church is being held
daily Monday. through Friday
from to 1870 am. Mrs. John
Mitchell is in charge of the
school with Mrs. A. More
handling the kindergarten group;
Mrs. w, M. Burger and Mrs. A.
D. Wilson the primary depart
ment: and Mrs w. II, Baldwin.
Jr., the junior department. They
started Monday with 104 pupils
and IS workers.
The + arm VILE Wesleyan
Methodist Church will hold Bible
School from June 20 to "a. The
classes will be held in the eve
ming from 7 to 9 pm. The Rev.
G. R. Phaup will be in charge
Of the program.
Bible School at the Farmville
Baptist Church will be held from
July q through August 5. The
Rev. Dr.. w o. McClung will be
in charge of the school and de-
partment heads and other details
will be announced later.
Many other Bible Schools in
churches throughout the area be-
gan today.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14

With regular academic studies
over for the year in the area
schools, thoughts and efforts are
now turning toward Bible Schools
at many of the churches.
In FarmVille three of the
churches began Bible School to-
day Monday with excellent at
tendance.
The Presbyterian Bible School
will end Saturday morning with
the mothers and a h r S as
special invited guests. at the
final program and worship serv-
ice. Their school IS held daily
from to II so a m. Mrs. J M
Watkins is in charge of the
school, with classes from kinder
garten to Pioneers.
The Episcopal Bible School is
being held in the Parish House
en- High Street, daily from $50
to 11:30 This is the first year
the Episcopal Church has spon-
sored a separate Bible School,
having in previous years joined
the Presbyterians for b b ! e
School. Mrs. w. j. ellis. Jr., is
in charge of the school, which
will run through Friday.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14
Widespread Damage
High Winds Hit Hard,
Interrupt Quiet Sunday

A sudden. violent thunderstorm
hit the Farmville area late Sun
day afternoon. 1t blew over sew
eral trees. ripped off many
branches and deposited IS
inch of ram. before continuing
eastward
E. F.. Striplin. local weather
observer, estimated gusts of wind
up to 80 mph. The wind preceded
a thunder and rain storm. Strip
lin measured IS inch of rain in
addition to the thunder, lightning
and wind.
The Farmville street force was
busy Monday morning picking up
broken limbs, leaves, and debris
scattered by the wind.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14
Subscription Contest Underway
With Trip To New York As Goal

What could be more wonderful
than a five-day trip to New York
with all expenses paid? A
steamer trip up Chesapeake
Bay?
That is what The Farmville
Herald has planned for the
members of the Herald New
York Club in exchange for a
few days of concentrated work
gathering subscriptions for The
Herald.
See the advertisement on
Page "a today for details: The
campaign began Friday and
closes July %
Had Good Time
The Herald's New York Tours
are well known as we have con-
Quoted them periodically for
many years. Invariably the club
members who earn this trip
have a good time for five big
days. The last party in 1858
numbered 30 and we hope to
have even a larger party this
year.
Five Day Trip
The New York Club will leave
Farmville Monday, August | by
chartered bus for Norfolk,
where they will sail at $50 pm.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14

on the Old Bay Line for Balti-
more. Dinner on the steamer,
and a delightful night up scenic
Chesapeake Bay.
Tuesday, August 2, arrive in
B a t j m ore after breakfast
aboard the steamer. Leave by
Greyhound for New York, ar
irving in the early afternoon.
Dinner and a night tour of New
York. with its millions of glitter
ing lights.
Wednesday. August 3. sight
seeing tour of lower New York,
fabulous Wall Street. lower East
Side. the famous BcWery, Civic
Center. East River and Hudson
River piers, with stors at China
town and the Battery Park.
There. you will be taken on a
boat ride across New York Har-
Dor to Bedloe's Island to visit
the Statue of Liberty. and a view
of the New York Harbor and
lower Manhattan Skyline.
The afternoon will be free with
dinner and visit to the
glanorous Music Hall Theatre
in the evening.
Thursday, August 4. a tour
will be made of uptown New
CONTINUED from page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14

Telephone service was inter-
rupted slightly in several areas,
but E. j. Lord, district superin
tendent, reported only minor
damage. All the trouble was
cleared up quickly, he said.
w. M. Cummins, local VEPCO
manager, reported similar
situation with electric power.
We had scatter trouble, he
said, with limbs across power
lines" A defective fuse near
Kingsvllle cut off service beyond
that point and Workmen had to
search for the source of the
trouble. before cutting the power
in again in that community One
transformer at Cumberland burn
ed out, cutting off a half dozen
power users, but the trouble was
quickly corrected.
Repairmen stayed on the job
until about midnight clearing up
the minor trouble spots.
Unusual Wind
The farm of j. Monroe Foster
on Route 3, Farmville, caught
the full force of hurricane winds.
Mrs. Foster and daughters had
Just driven into the garage and
headed for the house, when the
storm hit. Two large trees were
blown over and tumbled on top
of the garage, causing extensive
damage to the building and trap
ping the pickup truck in the ga
rage
Mrs. Foster looked out of a
window from her home in time
to see the granary roof blown
off and settle in a hay field some
800 feet from the point of origin.
After seeing that she and the
children started for the basement
to seek shelter, but the worst Of
the storm had passed then.
Neighbors came over with power
Continued on page ?
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14
FOrestcrs Attend
Management
Session

Farmville area foresters as
ISOLATED with the Virginia Di-
vision of Forestry were in Salem,
June 9 and 10 for forest manage
ment sessions.
The purpose of the meeting
was to allow foresters inter
change of ideas on intermediate
age timber problems. A field
trip to nearby forest plantations
and observation of the Roanoke
City Watershed area were fea-
lures of the meeting.
Among those attending were
R. P. Brierley, district forester
j. c. Hayes, Maynard Stoddard
Bill Haag, Don Drake, Don Nor
ton, James ton, Sydney
Jones. A. B. viii S N, Bob
Holmes. of Buckingham. and
Homer Smith, of Charlotte
county.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14

vides for the election of three
cOuncilmen at one election. and
the mayor and four councilmen
in the other. This is the three
councilmen year, since Mayor
Watkins and four members of
council have two years remain
ing of present terms.
FarmvilIe
FarmVille, however, Will have
what is seen as lively activity at
the polling place in the town
council chambers Of the Munich
pal Building. Thre are seven can
didates for three council seats,
including two incumbents. The
fouryear terms commence july
l.
John E. HarWood and James
H. Forbes, the incumbent mem
bers of council, will contest with
Mrs. John G. Griziani, James B
Clark. Charles H. DoWdy, Jr.,
James NJ. Watson and c. Lewis
Spurlock, Jr., for the three seats.
The third incumbent member
of council at Farmville, Mrs.
Grace c. Gordon, is not a candi-
date for reelection after serving
term. She was elected four
years ago, the first woman ever
to hold the municipal post here.
keysville
At Keysvllle. Mayor Howard H.
Hammer is without opposition,
but the race for six town council
seats includes four incumbents
and four new candidates.
Incumbent councilmen seeking
reelection at Keysville are Fred
Hammer. Jr., Ray Driskoll. Har-
Ian White and Avis Thompson.
Contesting with these are new
candidates, j. D. Mccall Leland
Claybrook, James D. Ramsey
and Mrs. Hazel B. Dodson.
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14
Forced Public Schools Aim
Observation-Disclosures
Move To Restrain
Supervisors Will
Be Made June q

Legal maneuverlng to force the
opening Of public schools IN
Prince Edward county and to
prevent the sale Of school build
ines to any private groups has
been initiated by the National
Association for the Advancement
CT Colorcd People CNAACPi
The effort was disclosed Fri
DAY when NAACP attorneys filed
motion in federal District
GnuGt af Richmond for pernns-
sion 70 file supplemental com
plant in the long -standHle school
segregation case volVing
Prince Edward county.
The motion stated the NAACP
plaintiffs will seek the Courts
permission to file the complaint
on June y at 10 am
If permission is granted, the
filing of requests for the restrain
ing orders would follow, as would
litigation testing the validity of
procedures suggested by the
NAACP.
Two Restraints
In the event the Court author
ICES the filing of requests for re-
strainirg orders, the NAACP. ac-
cording to its brief published at
Richmond. would ask the federal
court to:
~ Restrain Prince Edward Of
ficials from refusing to maintain
and operate an efficient system
of free public schools. and.
(2) Enjoin. or prevent. ap-
propriate county officials from
conveying, leasing or transfer
ring title to the public schools
to any private corporation, as
ISOLATION partnership or indi-
vidual.
The complaint to be placed be-
fore the court. if it is accepted
on June q. charges that Negro
children are being denied public
free education in violation of
rights guaranteed by the Virginia
| Constitution and the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States
Constitution
State Brought In
The planned action names the
county board of supervisors and
the school board as defendants.
The NAACP brief, however. in a
significant new development, also
names the State Board of Edu-
cation and Davis Y. Paschall,
state superintendent of public in
struction. as additional defen-
dants.
The former were named be-
cause the board of supervisors
is the appr0priating authority for
local funds to support public edu-
cation The latter board and sup
erintendent were included on the
ground that they have failed to
discharge the states obligation,
Incorporated into the State Con-
stitution, to provide and maintain
a system of free public schools
in Prince Edward county
The new legal maneuver. if it
comes before the court, opens
fundamental issues not previ-
ously tested under the school seq
| regation litigation, which led to
| the Supreme Courts 1854 school
mandate
Down 10 Fundamentals
On that mandate alone, after
/ six years. the NAACP has not
\ succeeded In forcing mtegrated
| schools here When a federal
court order required resegre-
| cation in September 1850. the
county withdrew from public
education and the supervisors re-
fused to appropriate tax funds to
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