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Evening star., 1960-01-08
BY BETTY BEALE
Star stan Writer

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''It was his best speech"
said Vice President Nixon
right after President Eisen-
hover had delivered his state
of-the-Union message. "And
the reason 1t was his best was
because it was his own. He
wrote it himself during his
vacation"
Senator Styles Bridges
chairman Of the Republican
Policy Committee, was less
enthusiastic. 1T was inter-
esting but pretty general"
he said.
Mr.. Nixon's other COM
ment, Its going to be an
interesting year." seemed like
the understatement of the
new decade especially where
he's concerned.
But for all Of Washington
the scene at the joint session
In the House Chamber yes
terday was fraught with both
national and International
interest.
THE FLOOR WAS PACKED
with every top official in
Washington. There were only
one or two exceptions, notably
Secretary of State Herter,
who was represented by Un-
dersecretary Livingston Mer-
chant.
But the rest of the cabinet
was there. and the entire
Supreme Court, the United
States Senate, the House of
Representatives, the chiefs of
foreign missions, the chiefs
Of the armed services, the
President, the Vice President,
and perhaps the next Presi-
dent of he United States, be-
cause the scene included
f1ve presidential possibilities
Nixon, johnson, Syming-
ton, Kennedy and Humphrey.
SOVIET AMBASSADOR
MENSHIKOV was also there
and he couldn't have timed
his arrival for a more dra-
matte second debut in Wash
ington.
Nor was that all. Dotting
the filled galleries were the
most famous feminine faces
In town.
MRS. EISENHOWER,
wearing a deep blue wool
suit and matching hat with
white gloves and an autumn
haze mink stole, sat in the
first seat Of the first row in
the executive gallery. Be-
side her sat Pat Nixon, one
OF the earliest arrivals and a
fashion plate in a rich brown
tweed suit with a collar of
ranch mink and a round hat
of matching mink on her
blond locks.
The House clock read 1910
when the First Lady made
her entrance, accompanied
by son John. her sister Mike
Moore and Col. Gordon
Moore. The members of the
House rose to their feet in a
body and with their faces
turned UP toward the gallery,
applauded her.
Mrs. Ezra Benson took the
last seat in the front row
next to Col. Moore, and di-
rectly across the aisle from
Mrs. Eisenhower sat Welfare
Secretary Flemming's mother.
ALSO IN THE EXECU-
TIVE GALLERY we're Mrs.
Arthur Summerfield, Mrs.
William Rogers, Mrs. J. Cliff
ford Folger, Mrs. James
Mitchell, Mrs. Allen Dulles,
Mrs. John Harlan. Mrs. Will
liam Brennan, Mrs. Tom
Clark, Mrs. Potter Stewart
and Mrs. Fred Seaton.
Mrs. Seaton said the rumor
that her husband plans to
resign as Secretary of Inte-
rior to run for the governor
ship Of Nebraska was not
true.
Nine. Menshikov, whose
absence from Washington
Evening star., 1960-01-08

mented thusly on the speech:
my chief disappointment
was his refusal TO regard the
missile gap as a serious mat
ter and in this respect it
seems to me that the continu-
ing state of the union can
best be expressed with this
verse:
"NoD ne lay US doDn to sleep,
With Ike'S SNUG team the
match to keep;
II tDe die before tDe Wdke,
Well, the bed lDds soft and tDe
slept too late.
Evening star., 1960-01-08
Birthduy
Fete Set

Past presidents of the
Dollology Club of Washing
ton will be special guests at
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Young Rockville Parents and Children
Spur City's Need for More Housing

round out to the 5000 dwelling
units inasmuch as the 65-unit
Lincoln Terrace housing project
had not been occupied when the
plan was completed.
Interesting sidelight of the
super-statistical report was that
Rockville houses had a little less
than 3 bedrooms each while IS
per cent had two or more baths.
Average number of bathrooms
per house was LIS whereas "a
per cent either had no bath
room or shared one with others.
Statistical dissection of the
average household shows that
Mr.. and Mrs. Rockville have
0.S7 children under 5 years of
age, and 1.30 children from 5
to IS years. Rockville homes
also have 200 adults from 18
to IS years of age and 0.08
adults over 65.
The reason one sees so many
women tipping around the front
yard with power lawnmowers or
hanging up the wash is because
the percentage of employed fe-
males in the city has dropped
from 1873 per cent Of the 1850
population t6,934) to III per
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

or the remainder, 80 per cent
pick up their pay from CONNER
cial establishments, IL per cent
punch time clocks in industrial
jobs and six per cent work for
themselves.
The 1850 census showed that
1909 Rockville residents were
employed whereas at the end of
last year, that number had
swelled to 3137.
CORRESPONDENCE, city assess
ments for land and improve
ments used by the expanding
community helped make up a
taxable base Of STA million in
1950-51 as compared to the 1858
So base of S51.7 million, accord
ing to preliminary plan statis-
tics.
The great mobility of modern
Rockvillites accounted In part
for their 1859 spending habits,
experts advised. They said Sc
per cent of the city's wage earn
ers spend their money for hard
goods" furniture, appliances.
hardware, etc. in Rockville, Be
thesda, Silver Spring, Wheaton
and downtown Washington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
High Salaries Place ROckvillites
Among Nations Top Breadwinners

Rockville is the seat of
one of the nations wealth.
est counties, SO it's not hard
to understand why more
than one out Of every five
Rockville families last year
had a purchasing power Of
over $4,000.
The city's brand new prelim-
mary master plan showed this
week that an additional 23.5
per cent of Rockville's families
could have spent between $1,000
and $9999.
Last years city buying power
was based on an average house.
hold income of $7855 and a med
ian income of $3.50, according
to planners.
Where does the money come
from?
Rockville has almost 5000 EN-
ployed resident In the 1854 age
category. Thirty-two per cent
of women in this age range
work in Rockville or elsewhere
in the county.
Twenty.six PER cent OF the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Youth Fined
$50; Loses
Auto Permit

A 16-year-old Bethesda
youth who "panicked" and
led State and County police
On a wild, 120 mph auto
chase last month, was fined
$3.50 and had his driving
privileges revoked for a year
~ Juvenile Court last week.
Judge Alfred D. Noyes said
the private school student had
never been in trouble with po-
lice before, but that he fled from
police because he feared his
license would be taken away if
caught.
The ensuing chase covered
some 30 miles before the boy
lost control of the car. 1t skid
ded across the middle strip of
divided u. S. 240 near Rock.
vile, crashed over a guardrail
and turned a somersault before
landing on its wheels. The boy
was not injured.
He was sternIy lectured by
the judge, who reminded the
boy that by running, he placed
not only his own life In jeop-
ardIy, but the lives of the police
who chased him.
He placed the youth
under the courts probation for
one year and ordered him not to
drive during that time. He also
sent the boys driving license
and an explanation of the chase
to the Department Of Motor
Vehicles in Baltimore.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Rockville Master Plan
Sees Continuing Boom
of Plan

Among the many proposals of the preliminary
master plan for Rockville are:
A broadened selection of singe-family dwelling
zones and more LIBERAL but carefully controlled use
of apartment coming.
More intensive development of self-sustained,
satellite type communities with their own commercial
and public facilities to curb ndiscriminate sprawl and
create better traffic circulation
A grid of one-way streets in the older central
business district as step toward eventual rehabi
tation of the district
Recognition that strip" commercial coming
along Rockville Pike is undesirable and should be cur
tailed possibly substituted by light industrial coming
along the Bro Railroad.
Acquisition of land for new City Hall, perhaps
using Urban Renewal funds
Establish two new parks, each 35 acres, one
surrounding the Civic Center and the other along
Watts Branch near the interchange of U. S. 240 and
Rt. 49,
Increased emphasis on the apparent need for
additional fire protection by the Rockville Volunteer
Fire Department.
Eventual annexation or "orientation" of seven
square miles contiguous to the city, doubling its pres
ent size to attain maximum expansion area that
could contribute to total estimated population of
88,000
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

total work force labor In their
home town, 80 per cent else
where in the county, while %
per cent commute to the Dis
trict of Columbia. Most males
work in Washington.
Perhaps most indicative of
the city's high income level are
the whopping 80 per cent Of all
city employees who are classed
either as professional, technical,
managerial and proprietary
workers, or who have achieved
high level white collar occupa-
tons.
True TO the description Of
Montgomery County and Rock
vile as the "dormitories," or
bedrooms" of the Federal City
are statistics that show that
one-third of working Rockville.
ties toll for Uncle Sam, primarl-
ly in the District.
Still, Montgomery County's
merit employment system
claims IL per cent Of Rockville's
wage earners and another two
per cent work for the State or
city governments.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

cent at the end Of last year.
The apartment picture last
fall showed there were 554
dwelling units at eight locations
containing 40 acres. Proposed
apartment development, when
that portion of the preliminary
plan was made, called for an
additional 733 units.
The then present total and
the proposed additional units,
the report noted, would equal
2,641 units, roughly, by 1865.
This would amount TO around "a
per cent of the city's total
housing supply, compared to
nine per cent available last
year.
Authors of the preliminary
plan observed that "a substan-
tial increase in apartment de-
velopment in Rockville would
be in line with the anticipated
national trend in the 1906"
ITO the extent that some of
those employed in Rockville
live outside the city only be-
cause they cannot find a par
ticular type of housing suitable
for their families, the economy
is weakened" he report said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Gov. TaWes
At Centennial
Kickoff Here

Gov. J. Willard Tawes will be
the principal speaker at cere-
monies marking the Tooth ami
versary of Rockville's incorpor-
alton at $3.50 tonight at the
Civic Center.
The program, which will be
the first in a series of Centen-
NAL Year events, will include
the award of a $25 savings bond
to the winner of a centennial
slogan contest sponsored by the
Rockville Chamber of Com
merce.
Also scheduled is the presen-
tation of the first stock certifi-
cate in Rockville Centennial,
Inc, to Mayor Alexander J.
Greene.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

Backers of a municipal
airport for upper Montgom-
cry County got the go-ahead
from the County Council
this week when that body
OK'd industrial coming of
1877 acres near the inter-
section of Snoufferi School
rd. and the Gaithersburg
Laytonsville I'd.
Montgomery Airpark, Inc,
whose principal officer is VIII
liam E. Richardson, Of Silver
Spring, already had special
coming permission for two air.
strips adjoining the proposed in
dustrial acreage.
Richardson and other MEM
bers OF the corporation intend
to build an airport to service
light aircraft owned by top in.
dustries. They also have said
they will initiate taxi flying
service between the field and
the Washington areas two
fields that can take jet trans
pOrts-DuIles International and
Friendship international - as
well as the smaller Washington
international Airport.
The Council voted So in grant
ing the industrial zoning. Coun-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Airport Proposal Gets
Green Light from Council

cilmen Grover K. Walker (of
Gaithersburg) and Jerry T. Viii
Hams (of Damascus) voted
may"
Council approval came over a
recommendation to deny the
coming, submitted by the tech
nical staff of the Maryland
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission. The staff
said that the area was too agri-
cultural and residential in ma
ture to tolerate industrial oper-
ations that go hand in hand
with airports.
The staff also said that roads
serving the airport, site were
inadequate for traffic generated
by such a venture.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Councilman Calls on City
To Protect VinsOn Park

Councilman Joseph c. Rod
gers on Tuesday, called for
Rockville's Intervention to post
pone the deforestation of the
Vinson property by the county.
The property on Jefferson st.
was purchased recently by the
county to create an additional
parking area.
Mayor Alexander ]. Greene
instructed the city manager to
make preliminary contact with
county officials to determine
their reaction to Rodgers pro-
posal.
Under Rodgers plan, the
city would lease the property
from the county for a period of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

Youthful Rockvillites -
more than half the eity's
residents are Is years of age
and under - today live in
three times as many homes
and apartments as there
were people in the city only
20 years ago.
The 1910 census showed a
Rockville population of just
over 1000. The estimated 1860
city population of $4,000 dwell
in more than 5000 single-family
homes and apartments.
A continuing upward spiral
of new residents has caused
authors of Rockville's new pre-
liminary master plan to call for
more diversified singIe-family
homes and more apartments.
The overall plan disclosed
that about II per cent of Rock
vile residents own their homes,
average value of which is APP
proximately $4,000.
Inside these homes and apart
ments live about 25,000 in fam
lily units of father, mother and
children. 400 relatives and 215
boarders. These figures do not
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
(Second of a Series)
BY Roger b. Farquhar
Sentinel Editor

PIN N E B E RIG, GER
MANY, March ] (By Air
Mail)-The plane trip from
Paris to Hamburg took three
hours and we were totally
unprepared for the reception
that awaited us at the air.
port.
We were met by two
officials of the United States
consulate at Hamburg, the
top assistant to the burgo-
meiSter of Pinneberg, the
editor of Pinneberg's newspa-
per, the Tageblatt, a reporter
from one of Hamburg's biggest
newspapers, and four photog-
raphers maneuvering to get into
favorable position for the best
shots of our arrival.
My wife, Mary, who is ac-
companying me on the trip, was
presented with a large bouquet
of carnations as the photogra-
piers flash bulbs went off and
someone else handed her al
most simultaneously beautiful
bunch of red tulips in full
bloom.
II felt like Marilyn Monroe"
she observed later. l assured
her that /, at the same moment,
was feeling much like a sort of
pOorman's Frank Sinatra or. at
least, Elvis Presley. And Ger.
tainIy Hugh Gillespie, the SEN
tinels staff photographer who
is along to record this "Sister
City" visit on film, was smiling
broadly over the unique expert
ence of being on the other end
of the picture-taking routine.
After an exchange of pleas
antries and Fluctuations, we
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
.ROckville's
Baby Boom
Tops County

The nationwide exodus of
city jewellers into suburbia is
nowhere better illustrated than
in the Washington, D. c., area.
Postwar home building has re-
versed the country-to-city trend,
and some nationally recognized
experts have established that
about half. the nations families
now live in suburbs.
Montgomery County's esti-
mated population of 365,000 for
1860 bears out this trend. And
in Montgomery County, the
county seat of Rockville has ex-
perienced a rate of growth that
has outstripped Silver Spring,
Bethesda and the county itself,
during the last nine years.
Rockville's population in 1910
was a mere 2047. This tripled to
almost 1000 by 1850. And ac-
cording to the April, 1859 sur
vey conducted by E. E. Blanche
and Associates, the number of
city jewellers had scared to
about $4,000 or a 272 per cent
increase in nine years.
The recently released pre-
liminary master plan for the
city disclosed an estimated g.
600 by 1880 and a staggering
$4,000 II the city eventually
stretches out to its maximum
expansion limits.
Perhaps 1.-The main, rom
tributing factor in the city's
looming population is the rel
alive youth of new residents
and their unusually large aver
age families of 4.35 persons.
This compares to the national
average OF 3.35 persons per fam
lily.
Blanche Associates foun d
that half the city's population
was under IS years of age last
year, and 20 per cent were un-
der five years of age. or the
total, 80 per cent were school
children five to II years of age
and only two per cent of the
city's jewellers were IS or older.
The 1850 non-white popula-
ton was 1887, or ISL per cent
of the total, while the 1859 non
white population of 1400 had
dropped to 5.4 per cert Of the
total.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
In Pinneberg
Editor Receives
VH' Treatment

were escorted out of the air
port to a convoy of automobiles
waiting to whisk us and our
baggage to Pinneberg about 10
miles north of Hamburg.
The experience at the airport
was the beginning of an excit-
ing-and tremendously enrich
ing-round of visits, friendly
gatherings and exchanging of
toasts that was to go on al
most continuously for almost
four days.
When it ended, we were left
with a panicky feeling that we
would be unable to commune
cate nearly adequately to the
people of Rockville-on whose
behalf we were accepting this
warm friendship just what had
happened.
1t was a wonderful coming
together of the two cities that
are so far apart-not only in
miles-and we hope the people
of Rockville will believe our
earnest assurances that the peO-
pie Of Pinneberg, Germany, are
genuinely enthusiastic about the
SISTER City" program and ur-
gently want to see it work.
have been charged by the
people of Pinneberg with the re-
sponsibility of conveying this
message to the people of Rock
vile. And I have promised
them l would do my best TO try
to convince Rockville of Pinne-
berg's deep sincerity.
Two of the men who greeted
us at the airport were to be
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

three to five years for parkIand
use as suggested in a Sentinel
front-page editorial.
The house on the land which
would be torn down by the
county, either would house
some groups now meeting at
the civic center or provide ad.
ditional office space for the
city.
Leasing the land for the
three to five-year period would
give the city an opportunity to
study its newly released mas
ter-plan, and to conduct a GEN.
trail area survey before deter
mining the advisability of
spending funds for parkland in
this area, Rodgers said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Checks Barred
After March I8

No personal checks will be ac-
cepted in payment for 1960-61
Maryland auto tags after March
IS, county officials advised this
week.
The period between March 49,
30 will be barred to checks, they
explained, in order that checks
on hand may be cleared through
ha,1lxe
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

officials SKINNED off the plans
highlights at luncheon held at
the Rockville Motor Hotel.
The plan report contains az
pages of text interspersed with
many maps, charts and graphs.
1t is available free to interested
citizens or groups.
Meanwhile. the city will stage
public hearing on the prelim-
mary plan at 8 pm. March %
in the auditorium of the Rock
vile county building.
The plans major objective OF
preventing urban sprawl Of sub
divisions In the city Is based ON
an analysis of present condi-
tons in the city, an estimate OF
future needs, and n definition
Of community detectives.
It is broken down into eight
study segments: Our Economic
Health How Sound? How
Many People--How Soon? Our
City Limits-IIow Big? Our
Housing-What Kinds? Our
Commercial FaciIities--A New
Look; Our Industries ~ How
Much, and Where? Highways.
Traffic and Transportation-A
Growing Problem; Our Conn
munity Facilities What and
When?, and Implementing the
Plan.
The Plan itself has no imme-
date effect on property but
could serve as a guide for fu-
ture legislative and administra-
tive decisions on subdivisions,
coming and property acquisition.
Guideposts set forth In the
plan:
Provide q system OF one.
way traffic through the citys
central business district in the
new few years.
Preserve existing residen-
tial development and, at the
same time, create a broader di-
versification of residential den
sites for a better balance and
choice of housing.
Q Guide new development so
as to bring about self-contained
protected neighborhoods with
their own community facilities.
. Clamp down on further
strip" commercial coming.
. Work toward getting mass
transportation between the city
and Washington.
The plan report Is studded
with statistics that reveal Rock
ville's "AlI America" personal
ity. Better than 65 percent OF
the city's 1884 age bracket are
employed and 81 percent OF
women residents I'm this cate
CORY are breadwinners.
The Federal Government II
boss for one-third Of Roclxville's
residents and Of the city's work
ing thousands; 80 per cent--un-
usually high--are professionals.
technicians, managers, etc. This
explains a relatively high aver
age family income here Of near
ly $4,000.
The city planners have not
taken stiff-necked attitude to-
ward apartment development,
but advise that It should be
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10
Long-Awaited Report Is Released;
Public Hearing Set for March %
b. Steed Evans
Staff Reporter

Wraps were removed Tuesday from the long-awaited
preliminary master plan for Rockville oneme crossroad
village that has its population quadrupe in the last
nine years to a present total of $4,000.
The Rockville Chamber of Commerce listened as CITY
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-10

WILLIAM b. WHEELER, Sill
yer Spring attorney and for
mer member of the Maryland
House of Delegates, was NOM
mated Tuesday by the County
Council to fill a vacancy on
the Washington Suburban San
itary Commission. Gov. j.
Willard Tawes must approve
the appointment. Wheeler is
to fill the position vacated
March 3 by Frank L. Hewitt,
who also was former chairman
of the Commission.
Evening star., 1960-06-27
Haiti Frees Diplomat
In Washington Killing

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti,
June 81 (AP).-Andre Tous-
saint was acquitted yesterday
of murder in the death Of a
fellow diplomat at the Haitian
Embassy in Washington April
IA, 1858.
Although Mr.. Toussaint ad-
mitted shooting Samuel De-
vieux. So, minister counselor
for the embassy, a jury cleared
him after celebrating less than
an hour.
Testimony in the two-day
trial brought out that Mr.
Toussaint had taken up his post
as first secretary of the embassy
only to be recalled a few weeks
later. Blaming Mr.. Devieux,
for the recall, Mr.. Toussaint
went to his desk, pulled out a
gun and shot the minister
counselor before witnesses. Mr.
Devieux died from chest and
meek wounds.
The Government termed the
shooting "a barbaric act that
brought a severe impression oi
Haiti"
The country's current minis