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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-17
Sweet Laura Lee

Going to- Sunday dinner at
the Old Club restaurant prob
ably, is much like going to
grandmother's for dinner be-
fore the grandmother image
was transformed into a lac
quered symbol Of allure in our
never-ending quest for eternal
youth.
There is q great deal of
quiet, country home-like charm
in this big old colonial house at
SIS South Washington street,
Alexandria, Va. AS you may
well know, part Of the building
was originally a clubhouse over
looking the Potomac which was
freQuented by such distin-
guished men Of that day as
George Washington.
A big brick fireplace with
brass pots and kettles, heavy
furniture and other colonial
trappings give it the look of
q three dimensional Currier
and Ives print.
The dinner menu offers a
choice of more than a dozen
entree-all strictly American:
roast turkey with old fashioned
dressing and cranberry jelly.
fried chicken, prime ribs of
beef, baked hickory cured ham,
a seafood platter with sole,
shrimp, scallops, crab cakes and
oysters Cor if you prefer you
may have a larger order of just
one of the seafood items, steaks,
fllet mignon. lamb chops, lobster
tail and others).
You start the complete din
ner with a choice of fresh fruit
cocktail, jellied consomme,
chilled tomato Juice or soup.
And you take your choice of
salads from an extensive tray
brought to the table by your
waiter.
Your entree is served with
carefully prepared fresh vege-
tables that haven't had all the
flavor cooked out Of them.
"A basket of warm homemade
bread. rolls and cornsticks
adornes each table and if you
aren't careful you can fill up on
bread before your meal is
served.
Perhaps the most delicious
item on the menu is Chicken
Laura Lee"-breast of chicken
served on thick slice of hick-
ory-cured ham and bathed in
q rich mushroom sauce.
The desserts are homemade
pies and cakes and buildings.
They are fattening and irresist-
ible. And the coffee hot and
flavorful.
Each item on the complete
dinner menu also is available
a IA carte. And there is a spe-
cial lower priced children's
menu with smaller portions.
The Old Club is open Sum
days from noon to $3.50 pm.
Weekdays 1t offers a modified
version Of some Of its choice
dinner items along with salads
and sandwiches for lunch from
1880 am. until 3 pm. Dinner
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

from pupil personnel work
with the Board of Education to
assistant principal at Gathers
burg Junior High School; L.
Kennard Rhodes, jr., assistant
principal at Montgomery Blair
to assistant principal at Spring
brook. and Miss Mabel D.
Thomas, from assistant prin-
cipal at Carver to assistant
principal at Aspen High School.
The shift of both the prin-
cipal and vice principal at Car.
yer is accounted for by the fact
that Carver-the cOunty's last
Negro high schools being
closed down this year in line
with the cOunty's Indignation
program.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

neering, Hovsepian said he feels
the experience gained through
his professional work and as
mayor of Rockville have COM
bined to qualify him for the
managers post.
Just over a month ago Hovse-
plan was given q $500 service
award by the government for
his work as chairman of q spe-
cial committee appointed to
study the Army's requirements
for highly technical data. In
December, 1858, the Army Map
Service presented him $500 for
sustained superior performance.
Hovsepian's four years as
mayor of Rockville were
marked by annual reductions in
the city's tax rate despite in
novations that provided a sub
stantial expansion in municipal
services, including adoption of
a comprehensive budget pro-
gram, a long-range construction
plan, a merit system for city
employees and other progressive
developments.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Sentinel Offers
Pinneberg Talks

Rockville or other groups in
terested in hearing a short IL.
lustrated talk by Roger B. Far
quhar and Hugh M. Gillespie
on their trip to Pinneberg, Ger
many, should call the Sentinel
at Garden 4-7700 and make
their request.
AS many such talks as pos
sible will be scheduled and the
two Sentinel representatives
will describe as Interestingly as
they can the details of Rock.
ville's SISTER City" and tell
about some of its resident. Get
your bid in early and your
group may be one of the first
such talks scheduled.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Apartment
Plans Of Figs
Due Approval

Tentative approval came this
week for "a acres of apartment
coming west of u. S. 240, mid
way between Rockville and
Gaithersburg.
The land is owned by Sam
Fig, Silver Spring developer,
who also owns the Motel
Washingtonian south of the
proposed SIS million apart
ments and 139-acre golf course
surrounding the apartment prof.
ect.
Final action is expected by
the county council Tuesday.
Councilman Stanley B. Frosh
said he will file a dissenting
opinion and Stella B. Werner
indicated she does not know
how she will vote.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Former Mayor
Housepian to Seek
County Manager Job

Former Rockville Mayor
Dickran Y. Hovsepian said
yesterday he will become a
candidate for the vacant
position of Montgomery
County manager.
Hovsepian, an intelligence spe-
cialist with the chief of army
engineers who stepped down as
mayor in 1858 after serving two
terms, said he will file an APP
plication within the next few
days" for the 25,000-a-year
post vacated last week by Mel
vim L. Reese.
He intends to take the step,
he added, Gin the sincere belief
that / can be of real service to
Montgomery County through
familiarity with area problems,
combined with my experience in
economics, planning and budg-
etary matters"
A former vice president of
the Maryland Municipal League
and its legislative chairman for
two years, Hovsepian said his
experience in those associations
and as mayor of Rockville have
supplemented the knowledge of
economics gained through his
work with the Army.
During his term as mayor, he
pointed out, he was a member
Of the Rockville Planning Com
mission and worked in close
cooperation with county plan
ming authorities and the Mary
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission toward
orderly development of the en-
tire area.
His present job, he added, en-
tails extensive studies of the
economic problems of urban
areas, including transportation,
public utilities, planning and
other facets of governmental
operation. 1t also has afforded
him experience in budgetary
matters Involving considerable
amounts of money" he said.
With a background in engi-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
School Board Fills
3 Principal Posts

Appointment of principals
for two senior higr schools
and a junior high school
slated to open next Septem-
Der was approved by the
Board Of Education Monday
night.
All to be employed at salaries
of $10,800 a year, they include
Richard c. Ahlberg, 3408 An
derson rd., Kensington, assigned
to Springbrook High School;
Frederick Luther Dunn, jr.,
7211 Trescott ave. Takoma
Park, Aspen High School, and
Otis C. White, 1911 Donora
rd., Silver Spring, Gaithersburg
Junior High School.
The appointments are effec-
tive July 1.
Ahlberg has been assistant
principal at Northwood High
School since 1857. Dunn is as
sistant principal at Wheaton
High School, having served
since the start of the present
school year, while White cur
rently is studying at the Uni
versity of Maryland under the
county's internship program.
The board also approved ap-
pOintment of Roy w. Wiseman,
principal of a school for Navy
dependents in Naples, Italy, as
assistant principal at Wheaton
High School at a salary of
$685. a year.
Four other assistant prin.
cipal vacancies were filled
through transfer of school per-
sonnet.
Affected by the shifts were
Silas E. Craft, jr., principal at
Carver High School to assistant
principal at Montgomery Blair
High School; Stanley E. Gaub.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

we chatted over a delightful
meal, about the SISTER City"
program and various problems
that confront the two rapidly.
growing, suburban cities that
are so similar in so many re-
spects.
GIissmann recalled with a
smile how he had saved from
his Rockville visit a quantity Of
watermelon seeds he had SCOOP
ed up from his plate In a Rock
vile restaurant. Last summer,
he said a city gardener raised
20 watermelons from the seeds.
Smacking his lips, he said he
please Turn to Page A10J
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Single Agency?
Study OK'd
On Parks.
Recreation

Tentative approval was
given this week for a COM
mittee to study formation of
a single agency to direct all
county park and recreational
activities.
The county council put off
naming committeeman until
some future date but agreed
generally that such a single
agency was worth a feasibility
study.
Need for such an agency was
cited in a recent report that
noted duplication and conflicts
in programs administered sepa-
rately by the county recreation
department, the Park and Plan
ming Commission, and, in some
cases, by the school board.
Only dissenter on the council,
at first, was Mrs. Stella B. Wer-
ner, who later joined her col
leagues way of thinking. But
first, she said, Personally, I'm
not in favor of another separate
agency"
She also said that the special
report calling for an explora-
tory committee should have in
corporated Eyes" or mo" advice
on the parks-recreation agency
and not passed the buck on to
the council.
She also called on fellow coun-
cilmen to find out exactly how
much money the county is re-
quired to spend on maintenance
of park recreational facilities.
She charged that the rs per cent
share now borne by the county
was an amount "that was pulled
out of the air" by ]. Bond
Smith, former general counsel
for the Planning Commission.
Councilman Joe M. Kyle ar
gued that money for park main
tenance all comes from the tax.
payer anyhow, and said II think
we're wasting our time" on the
issue.
But the council agreed on one
thing. Councilman Stanley B.
Frosh is to bring in resolution
at a later date, outlining his
opinions of the county's need
for a cultural and community
center. Such center was rec
commended in the park-recrea-
ton report.
I'VE are making a business
mistake-not only a social mis-
take-by not having a cultural
center in the county," he said.
He explained that such a facili-
ty would have a "stablizing in
nuence on business and on land
values"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

Ardennes ave. may be conclud-
ed this month.
Longtime members of the de,
partment concede the likelihood
that at least some professional
firemen would have to be hired
inasmuch as the area surround
ing the proposed site could not
be counted on to supply enough
daytime volunteers.
And IL professionals were to
be hired, a fire tax almost GER
tsinly would have to be inn
posed, one veteran department
member said. City residents
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

Regulations requiring the
spaying of female dogs
adopted from the county ami
NAL shelter were proposed
this week by the county
council.
The regulations were intro
duced by the Humane Society
as amendments to the county's
dog ordinance. Desired effect
Is to limit the number of dogs
abandoned or turned over to
the shelter every year.
Indiscriminate breeding OF
strays and pets amounts to in
humane treatment by respon-
sible citizens, they say.
If spaying of stray females
were required by the county,
the additional cost to new own.
ers would virtually assure de-
struction of impounded females.
Now, to adopt a dog, all you
pay is 81 plus So for a rabies
shot. An unspayed female re-
quires a license costing $2.35.
So you can get a female stray
from the animal shelter for
$7.35.
But a spaying operation
costs at least Sis more, and can
cost up to $40 or $50, accord
ing TO DIR. Harold H. HOlbrOOk,
Rockville veterinarian.
Few people can be expected
to pay the possible maximum
of $22.35 for a stray female
dog. And since dogs are kept
only seven days at the animal
shelter before being destroyed,
an increase In the number OF
female dogs killed could be ex
pected If the Humane Society
measure passes the council.
The amendment to the or
dinance was put over for a
week in order to allow council.
men time to find out the cost
of spaying.
But DR.. Holbrook urged eau
ton. "Oh sure, you can gel
some old-time country vets to
do the job in their basement
for $3.50. But they won't keep
the animals for treatment MOI
do many of them have the
proper facilities for the oper.
ation," he said.
DR.. Holbrook said he keeps
the dogs at his clinic at least
two days and sometimes five
days. This board, plus kennel.
mems wages, medicines, anes.
thesia and the actual time
spent on the operation boost
the cost well over S., he said.
Meanwhile, the public can
still go to many pet shops and
buy a female pup for between
50 and Sand have a dog that
can nave puppies.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

names of all persons to whom
money is due in the hope many
aid accounts will be cleared
from his books.
In the event no claims are
made by May 81 this year, the
county win ask circuit court to
declare the money county prop
erty.
Hancock said that 1871 per-
sons or firms have money COM
ing to them. Only surplus funds
realized from sales prior to No
vember, 1855, are listed, mas
much as the county is required
to hold surplus funds five years
after original sale.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
DC. Transit
To Operate
Old Routes

D. c. Transit System will
take over IA bus routes now
operating in Montgomery
County on April 3, a spokes-
man for the firm said yes
terday.
The routes coincide with
others serviced by Intercounty
bus company which Oct hopes
to absorb. A petition by Oct
to take over Intercounty fran
chises is pending before the
Maryland Public Service Com
mission.
1. B. Goad, Oct director of
transportation, said his firm
cannot promise frequency Of
service on the Ia routes will be
improved Immediately. Fur
ther studies must be made, he
said.
Majority Of the lines to be
served by OCT are feeders
starting and terminating at
the Silver Spring and Bethesda
District lines. Larger buses
will be used on lines that con-
meet the Federal Triangle in
Washington with terminals in
the county, Goad said.
He added that present fares
will remain the same: II cents
for the first zone outward from
the District, eight cents for the
second zone, and seven cents
per zone thereafter.
Upcounty communities served
include Olney, Ashton, German.
town, Gaithersburg and Rock.
vile, as well as subdivisions in
Bethesda, Glenmont, Randolph
Hills, Silver Spring, Colesville,
and others.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Hopes Rise
For Vinson
Park Plan

Apparently doomed plans
to make a park of the
grounds surrounding the
Vinson home in Rockville
got an unexpected reprieve
this week when the county
agreed to explore a city-backed
plan to preserve the land.
The council directed acting
manager Mason A. Butcher to
confer with city officials on
their offer to rent the haf-acre
site for three to five years.
At the end of the rental peri
cd, the property would revert
to the county for use in accord
ance-it was hoped-with the
city's new master plan. New
parkland is a major part of that
plan.
Meanwhile, the city would
use the old Vinson home on the
tract for headquarters of a
cultural arts program, accord
ing to a letter the city mayor
and council sent the county.
Until Tuesdays action, it
seemed certain that the county
would go ahead with plans to
blacktop the property for 30 to
40 new parking spaces for
county employees. The county
paid $4,000 for the land and
will take possession April II.
Opposition to the parking lot
plan was started by The Sen
tinel. Former County Manager
Melvin L. Reese, however, de-
clared he would not change his
plans. Supporting letters of
opposition poured in to The
Sentinel and were capped this
week by the city's offer to rent
the property.
Specifically, Rockville offered
to pay interest on bonds the
county sold to purchase the Vim
son tract. Butcher said he did
not believe he would meet with
city officials nor report back
to the council with recommends
tons "for a good while" now
that he and the council are
about TO take up next years
county budget.
He confirmed that ROckvilIe's
offer to rent the property had
the effect of stopping parking
lot construction for the time
being.
County Councilman David L.
Cahoon, meanwhile, advised his
colleagues of the proposal by
Rockville to adopt a master
plan for the city. Inasmuch as
the county is a major land
owner in the heart Of Rockville,
he said, the county has stake
in development of the county
seat and should examine the
plan.
The council agreed and told
Butcher to familarize himself
with the plan and see IL the
county's interests are involved.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

for offstreet parking and roads.
Use of the zone will be re-
stricted to large plots, of %
acres or more with no more
than one major building on
any five acres.
1t is designed, according to
the planning commission which
drew up the regulation, for
large tracts located close to
arterial highways and railroad
rights of ways or adjoining
residential or com mercial
areas"
Uses permitted in the zone
are:
. Laboratory and research
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

an hours drive from Pinneberg.
We were driven out to see him
in a city-owned Mercedes Benz.
The trip took us through Ham
burg, with its great open spaces
created by allied bombs during
World War ii and along one
OF Hitlers famed autobahns,
similar to the big American
turnpikes.
We had met the burgomeister
two years ago when he visited
Rockville and he recognized us
at once. Cordial greetings were
exchanged. And for three hours
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

Gordon Kennedy, research d.
rector OF the economic develop.
ment committee of the Metro
politan Washington Board of
Trade, will address the Mont.
gomery County Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday at 1880 pm.
at the Motel Washingtonian.
Gene Archer and Eddie McIn-
tyre win entertain the group.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

establishments.
. Assembly of merchandise
such as electrical appliances.
. Packaging of previously
prepared materials.
. Storage or warehousing of
such commodities as hardware,
clothing, drugs and foods.
. Agriculture.
. Processing or compounding
(Please Turn to Page ABB
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

accrued to the county when
property seized and sold for
back taxes brought in more
than the tax bill.
Safekeeping of the money and
annual bookkeeping probably
has cost the county more than
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
now do not pay a fire tax.

now do not pay a fire tax.
The Rockville VFD pay7 its
way with proceeds from its an
nual carnival and $500 it gets
from the county every year.
The latter stipend stems from
an old county ordinance that
provides $500 to departments
for each-but no more than
Incorporating apparatus.
Additional income is realized
from rental of office space over
the Perry st. firehouse, but de-
please Turn to Page A10)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24

When we visited Pinneberg
recently, Herr Glissmann was
spending two weeks on the
orders of his physician = in a
small, out-of.the-way hotel about
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Baseball Meeting

Leaders of the Montgomery
County Baseball League will
meet at the home of League
President Merton Duvall, 10
Oak ave-, Gaithersburg, on
Saturday at 8 pm. to discuss
this years contract with an UNI
pire association.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Sister CRY Program
Visit With Burgomeister
Vas An Interesting One
(Fitth in a Series)
BY Roger B. Farquhar
Sentinel Editor

Brgomeister Henry Glissmann, of Pinneberg Ger
many, is jovial of rudy complexion who enjoys
expensive cigars, fine wine and good company He also
is extremely efficient in his job of running the
of Pinneberg, sister city of Rockville
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Solicitor Law
Problems Stump
County Council
Fear Of Hurting !
Honest Firms Is
Cause of Concern
By Steed Evans
Staff Reporter

Staff Reporter
Ex-convicts, housewives
and the sanctity of hearth
and home were the central
points argued this week as
the county council continued
its task of forging a new ordi-
nance controlling door.to-door
solicitors.
The new ordinance would re-
quire perambulating hucksters,
magazine statesmen, cosmetic
saleswomen and others who
take merchandise orders to ID
be fingerprinted, (2) pay So for
a license. CD reveal police REQ
ords and other personal and pro-
fessional statistics, ETC., before
they could be licensed in Mont
gomery County.
The four lawyers on the coun-
ell, led by freshman Joe M
Kyle, protested for instance that
a solicitor shouldn't be denied
a license merely because he'd
been convicted of a crime.
"Ex-convicts have q tough
enough time earning a living
as it is" he observed. As il
turned out, Kyle was the only
councilman to vote against pre-
pairing q draft Of the new ordi-
nance for action next week.
William #. Hickey. another
lawyer, commented that finger
printing of would-be solicitors,
seems to me to approach the
level of discrimination" He
said other home salesmen are
not required to be fingerprint-
ed. These are the persons who
actually sell merchandise at
homes-not take orders as do
magazine statesmen.
Lawyer-councilman Stanley B.
Frosh noted laconically that all
statesmen in the county might
some day have to submit to the
ink pad, Maybe even TV re.
pairmen."
Housewife and c0unclIwOman
Stella b. Werner took that OPP
portunity to say, "And maybe
they should"
Selling her advantage, Mrs.
Werner went on to say, Il look
at this from the point of a wom-
an at home who has to answer
the doorbell, not from the law
yer's point of view"
Controversy over the proposed
ordinance was started last year
when States Attorney Leonard
T. Hardy pleaded with the coun-
Gil to pass a tough solicitors
law. He cited several cases of
assault by itinerant magazine
statesmen.
This week, councilman Kyle
said Lien Hardy is trying to get
after the magazine statesmen,
period. What did he say: They
descend like locusts?'
"But with this ordinance,
you're going 10 get after all
those other people about whom
you've received no complaints"
Kyle said.
In addition to objecting to
fingerprinting, etc, about 200
representatives OF companies
who employ door-to-door sales
men, beefed at a recent public
hearing on the ordinance that
the 10 days delay in getting
fingerprint reports back from
the FBI would seriously impair
their training program for new
statesmen.
One of the amendments pro-
posed this week was that train
ees be given Today probation.
AIRY license which could be re-
yoked If a criminal record was
uncovered.
Another was that such new
statesmen be allowed to work
only with already licensed oper-
ators, pending FBI checks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
Unclaimed $1,000 Goes
Begging in County Till

More than $11 900 in surplus tax sale funds lies wait
ing in Montgomery County for rghtful to claim
their share.
The money has been pilng up 1905 in individual
amounts ranging from two cents to $729 All the money
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-24
In Rockville
In Rockville
'Campus-Ty Zone
For Industry OK'd
By Joan Stern
Sentinel Correspondent

The Rockville City Council Tuesday, created long
awaited campus-type industrial zone.
The new will restrict buildings to 20 percent
of the lot and require that minimum of 30 percent of
the lot be handicapped Remaining acreage will be used