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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Councils
Stop Sign
Policy Hit

The Rockville City Councils
recent removal of four.way stop
signs met its first test last week
when Ardennes ave. residents
protested the action.
Stop signs were removed on
Ardennes ave. at Crawford DIR.
but remain on Crawford DIR. at
Ardennes.
Bernard F. Burke, 1903 Craw.
ford dr., read before council a
letter asking reinstatement of
the stop signs on Ardennes ave.
The letter, he said, carried 80
sig natures representing all
homes but one neighboring the
intersection.
I'VE depended on the stop
signs to slow traffic on the
narrow, heavily Travelled road"
The stop signs were erected
nine years ago, he told the coun.
Gil, when residents complained
about the traffic.
At that time. Burke said, two
children had been hit by cars.
Durant Burton, 1902 Crawford
dr., appearing with Burke, com.
planned Of youths using the
road for drag-racing.
ut is worse now that the
signs are removed" he reported.
Mayor Alexander ]. Greene
recommended the matter be
referred back to the Traffic,
Transportation and Safety Ad.
visory Committee which recon-
mended removal of the signs.
In other business the council
appointed Mrs. T. c. Gordon
Wagner to fill Richard Bohemus'
unexpired term on the Board of
Review.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Cap Stabler, lO2, Dies;
Familiar County Figure

Edward r. (Cap) Stabler,
who erected the first tele-
phone line in the Brighton
area while operating a gen.
eral store more than so
years ago, died last week at his
home, 9505 Woodely ave-, Forest
Glen.
A retired druggist, Mr.. Stabler
has his roots deep in the his
torical past. In 1892, his grand
father founded an apothecary in
Alexandria which has since be-
come a museum. And as a child
in his native Lynchburg, Va, he
frequently saw Gen. Robert E.
Lee at church services.
1t was in 1893, Immediately
after the Bell telephone patents
expired, that Stabler decided to
string a line from Brighton to
Sandy Spring, about four miles
away. The purpose was to get
orders over the phone as well as
to supply medicines from physi-
clans requests.
He built the line with the as
sistance of his cousin, James
Stabler, and the latter's son,
Harold, who Is now a retired
c & P Telephone Co. executive.
Mr.. Stabler came to the Sandy
Spring area from Lynchburg at
the age of ID and remained
there until 1901, when he be-
came a pharmacist. At that
time, it was operated by the
Leadbeater family to whom Mr..
Stabler's father had sold it in
the mid-1800s.
The shop went out of business
in the early 1905 and was
opened as a museum shortly
afterwards by the Alexandria
Landmark Society. Located at
King and South Fairfax sts., it
Is known as the Stabler.Lead.
beaten Apothecary Shop.
On retiring, Mr.. Stabler and
his wife, the late Miriam Shreve
Cutler, moved to their Forest
Glen home where the three
quatrer acre grounds soon be-
came his pride and Joy.
Despite patrial blindness, he
supervised the excavation of a
2O-foot long lily pond which he
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25

From experience we have
learned that the best way to
learn to prune the shrubs and
trees correctly is to see the
actual operation. Each year we
conduct many pruning demon
STATIONS for various groups
around the County and several
of our Rockville groups have
scheduled these Informative
demonstrations which will be
announced in this column at a
later date. Right now, / would
like to call your attention to a
training session to be held this
Friday, February 26th at the
Civic Center.
This special meeting viii begin
at / pm. and will be attended
only by representatives Of
groups who wish to be trained
in conducting pruning demon
STATIONS. These folks have a
special interest in pruning and
the meeting will be small and
informal In order that all ques-
tons may be answered and all
of the pruning principles an
swered. AL of the pruning prin-
ciples will be demonstrated on
the Civic Center plants. Now
of you would like to be trained
so that you could conduct a
pruning demonstration in your
neighborhood for your friends
or for a group, you are welcome
to attend this demonstration. A
similar meeting will be held on
Saturday at the garden of Mr..
Kane, 1928 Onendaga I'd, Be-
thesda. Please call our office
Pc. 2-2121, X,259-if you plan
to attend either training session
Research has produced a very
dependable new crab grass con-
troll for special distribution in
the Washington area. It has
been tested by the University Of
Maryland and I will discuss it in
detail next week in this column.
The best vegetables for this
year have recently been named,
as well as the All-America award
ANNALS. So, you see there is
plenty of news for early bird
gardeners!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Latest Drama Offering
I'm Rockville Is a Hit

full children were thoroughly
convincing and hateful, and
quite comic. No one minded
their humiliation. / should GER
tainly like to see more of the
newcomers and am, of course,
always entranced by old hands
like Lucy Redkey, Virginia
Fetyko and Ray Maryman.
I'm not sure whether the pair
Of Jeans who directed the play
had an easy or hard time of 1t.
Certainly they cast the best
group from the available ma
terial and then made a good
play. depending, in some cases
on type-casting and natural
hamminess.
I have never seen a more
charming set. Margaret Paradis,
who became active a few plays
back. was responsible for its
design. Shirly Hatch and Rich
Everhart helped. Twice during
the play a scene was momen.
tarily played on a darkened set
In front of the steel latticed
window, back lighted. For all of
its decorations, the lattice really
barred the window.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Master Plan Hearing
Is Set For March %

A public hearing will be held
in Rockville on March % to hear
from citizens on the proposed
master zoning plan that has
been in preparation for more
than a year.
The document, drawn up to
guide Rockville's future growth,
will be made public March 8, &C
cording to officials.
Members of the city's plan.
ming commission have now
given final approval to the re.
port and its accompanying maps
and charts and the plan is now
being printed.
John McElroy, chairman OF
the Commission, this wee k
mailed letters to a number OF
civic associations alerting them
to the approaching release date
and the public hearing. He
urged all interested groups to
have committees set up to study
the Plan.
The Commission has also an.
nounced that individual mem.
bers of the Commission. and
Bruce Watts, planning director,
will be available to appear be.
fore meetings of organized
groups after the plan is released
and before to the hearing, to dis.
cuss phases of the plan, with
them.
In his letter to civic associ.
atoms this week. McElroy said
that while your interest in the
Master Plan will be of great as
sistance to the commission, /
think it will, in the final anal.
ysis, be of even greater impor-
lance to your members as the
Plan will when officially adopt
ed, affect to some degree, the
welfare of every person who re.
sides or does business in the
City of Rockville"
In other activities last week,
the Commission granted Donald
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Reese Plea:
Don't Call
Fire Board

Scores of callers asking
whereabouts Of a fire in Takoma
Park two weeks ago caused
County Manager Melvin L.
Reese to issue a don't call
plea last week.
Reese said the flood Of calls
received at the Silver Spring
fireboard hainpered dispatchine
Of fire equipment and posed
serious problems by handicap
ping dispatchers trying to handle
other emergency calls. The fire
was in Juvenile Clothes store.
Reese asked residents not to
call their fireboard unless a
real emergency exists. people
who telephone out of idle curl
osity are preventing other citi-
zens from reporting other
emergencies and depriving Off
Gals of vital time to work on
the emergency at hand" he said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Group Will
Study Costs
OF Hospital

The State Health Department
announced recently that charter
ing Of the Hospital Cost Analy-
sis Service, Inc, represented a
long-sought goal of establish
ment of a non-profit, independ.
ent firm to analyse and report
Department of Health; Blue
on hospital costs in Maryland.
The new organization was
developed by the Health Depart
ment, the Blue Cross and the
Hospital Council of Maryland.
1t will conduct systematic, on
the-site examinations of finan-
cial and statistical records at
hospitals to determine actual
patientcare costs. This informa-
ton will be used to aid the State
in its INDECENT care program,
whereby is pays 80 percent of
the cost of such care. County's
pick up the 20 percent.
Four of the directors of the
corporation will be appointed
by Governor ]. Millard Tawes.
The organizations bylaws pro.
vide that they come from four
different parts of the State.
One director will be designated
by each of the following: Mary
land State Bar Association; the
State Insurance Department;
Cross; Maryland Association of
Certified Public Accountants,
and the Hospital Council.
Chief goal Of the corporation
Is to develop uniformity in cost
accounting and cost finding
throughout the States partic-
ipating hospitals.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25

filled by hose until about IL
years ago, when he dug a 20.
foot pipeline ditch.
Several years ago, when to.
tally blind, he built a hand-rail
made of pipe on the front steps
and did the same for a druggist
friend in Chevy Chase. He fitted
the pipe together in his base.
ment.
Stabler had a large collection
of momentoes, including a note
written by Martha Washington
to Stabler's grandfather, re-
questing a quart bottle of his
best castor oil" The note is
dated 1902.
Only survivor is a son, z. Ken.
meth (Mike) Stabler, of the
home address, editor of the Ma.
tional Institutes Of Health Rec
ord. a bi-weekly house organ.
Funeral services were held
last Thursday at the home.
Burial was in the Woodside
Cemetery, near Brinklow.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
IEdw. Clarke
To File for
Convention

Edward J. Clarke, chairman
and POSTMASTER of the COP
Lincoln Day Dinner at the
Indian Spring Country Club last
week, and president of the
Matthias For Congress Club, /"
said he would file this week as
a delegate to the Republican
State Convention.
The one-day Republican con.
vention, which will elect dele.
gates to the National Conven-
ton, will be held in Baltimore
this summer.
Clarke is president of Clarke
Laundries Inc, in Washington.
He and his wife Catherine, and
two daughters, have lived in
Bethesda the last IL years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
BY George Walesid
Seminal Drama Critic

The nice thing about the Rock
vile Little Theatre Is that 1t
win rise, like the Phoenix, from
the ashes of past mistakes and
confound both its critics and
apologists.
Friday and Saturday nights
the group put on THE Curious
Savage" by John Patrick. Jean
Holmes and Jean Everhart d.
rected the three-act comedy
which leaned heavily on char
acterization and was practically
plotless.
Briefly, the play tells Of a
rich widow whose three STEP
children commit her to an insti.
tuition on the ground she Is In
competent to manage her own
funds. She has converted her
money into negotiable bonds, at
first refusing to reveal their
location. then doing so after
subjecting her step-children to
some embarrassment.
The action takes place in a
private institution, some what
like our own Chestnut Lodge,
apparently competently run by
Woodrow Stevenson, as DR..
Emmett. Betty Brigham, Jack
Roth, Marion Mack, Joe Fair
and Margaret Paradis, as the
older inmates. who view the in.
trusion Of Lucy Redkey first
with suspicion and then with
affection, make up an interest
ing, not uncomfortably UNI
balanced group, sort of the types
one might meet at a Twinbrook
party.
They're unbalanced, but not
enough to affect anyone's sensi.
bilities.
Marion Mack as Fairy May,
in asking the mirror on the wall,
who's the fairest of them ALL"
says. coyly. after a pause,
Fairy who?" Jack Roth played
his part sensitively with an
elfin, other world quality, sort
of like an awfully sick child
smiling. Margaret Paradis and
Joe Fair were tragic figures,
who came out Of themselves a
little under Lucy's influence.
Ray Maryman, Barbara Crago
and Tom Kelley, as the migrate.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25

cussed before the busy season
arrives. That early date (spring)
is just a few weeks away, Incl
IDENTIFY. It's not too early to
begin thinking of the garden.
1t is time right now to begin
pruning the trees and shrubs
around the garden. In order to
really help the plant you must
know about its growth habits
and also some of the general
principles of pruning. Fruit
trees are best pruned right now
before they begin growth and
the same is true of many flower
ing plants. Others are pruned
after they bloom. The subject
Of pruning is often treated as a
great mystery but the principles
are fairly simple.
If you're cutting a large limb,
first saw part way through the
limb from the bottom side, 2
or A inches from where it grows
out of the tree. Then, make a
second cut from the top Of the
limb, an inch or two further
out on the limb. Saw until the
limb falls off. Then cut the
stub off flush with the main
branch Of trunk of the tree.
(The whole purpose of making
three cuts is to keep the limb
from tearing the bark, as il
would If you make only one cut
When you prune a large
branch from q shade tree,
make your cuts In this fashion
to avoid splitting the wood.
Wounds need to be smooth
and regular to heal properly
Trim the bark with a SHARP
knife so you leave an egg.shapet
wound with the pointed end al
, the bottom. so 1t won't collect
water. The wound must bt
trimmed evenly. with smooth
edges. Leave no torn or loost
bark.
After the damaged wood hal
been cut off and trimmed. thu
wound should be treated with {
wound dressing, preferably q
black asphalt compound. This il
q must II the wound Is Larger
than q quarter, but viii hell
smaller wounds heal more
readily and safely.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
DIR. Burdette to Talk

DR.. Maxwell Burdette, direc.
tor of research for county
schools, will address the Ken
sington Elementary School Par
ent-Teacher Association at 8
pm. Tuesday at Kensington
Junior High School. His sub.
ject will be How Our Children's
Talents Are Discovered and De-
veloped by the School,"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25

Gingery a use permit to begin
construction of 400 apartment
units on a 20-acre tract on the
west side of Rockville Pike just
south Of Edmonston DIR. Mr..
Gingery expects to start con-
struction as soon as the loca.
ton of the proposed extension
OF Edmonston along the norther-
ly side of the tract is finalized
by the City Public Works De-
partment.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Jackson Day Dinner

The annual Jefferson-Jackson
Day Dinner, staged by Mary.
land Young Democrats, will be
held March 10 at the Emerson
Hotel, Baltimore. Tickets will
cost $40 a plate.
Sen. Gale MCGEE (D-Wyo)
has consented to address the
annual event
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Young Heller
Sells Article

Montgomery County's young.
est professional author may be
14-year-old David Heller, ir., of
612 Ellsworth dr., Silver Spring.
The youth, son of the free
lance husband and wife writing
team of David and Deane Hell.
Ter, has sold a by-lined story
to King Features Syndicate
which told of the work of the
U. S. Forest Service in prepar.
ing for the Winter Olympics. 1t
will appear in hundreds of
newspapers from coast to coast.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
New School
Contracts OK'd

A 1851, 300 contract for con-
struction Of an elementary
school to serve the Dickerson.
GAINESVILLE area was awarded
by the School Board Tuesday to
Farragut Builders, Inc.
The building win have II
classrooms, an all-purpose
room. library, kitchen, offices,
health and faculty rooms and a
storage area.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
James A. Davis.
Wins Award

James A. Davis, Kensington
chiropractor, who ran q Mont,
gomery County Christmas prof
ect, was recognized by the
Kensington-Wheaton Junior
Chamber of Commerce Satur
day evening.
He was recipient Of the
groups Distinguished Service
Award as the Outstanding
Young Man of 1859" in the
Kensington-Wheaton area.
Davis, IS. was chairman OF
the Montgomery County Christ.
mas Bureau, which distributed
food, clothing and toys during
the two weeks prior to Christ.
mas to needy families through.
out the County. In all, 2546
people, representing 431 families,
were served and benefited from
the Bureau.
He also has been active in
other community and profes.
sional activities during the year,
including service on the Ken
sington Area Fire Board and the
Executive Committee of the
Health and Welfare Council of
Montgomery County, and men,
bership in the Southern Mary.
land Chiropractic Association,
Maryland Chiropractic Associa-
ton and the National Chiro.
practic Association.
He has also long been active
in the Jaycees, being a charter
member of the Kensington.
Wheaton chapter, of which he
is a past vice president and
president. In addition, he has
served as a State vice president.
National director and Inter.
national director.
A lifetime resident of the Ken.
sington area, Davis is a 1912
graduate Of Montgomery Blair
High School. Following four
years in the Air Force, he at
tended the National College of
Chiropractors in Chicago.
The presentation was made
during the Jaycee groups an
nual Wives Night gathering at
the Merlands Club in Wheaton.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Before the Robin
First Sign Of Spring;
Here's Garden Column
BY David 4. Kidd
Assistant County Agent

"a garden column already" Yes! Here is the first
for this season and happy that the Sentinel has in
vited us back.
The reason for appearing with garden news so early
in the season is that there many matters to be dis
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Freeman Manages Sales

Maxwell M. Freeman, of 21o
Baltimore rd., Rockville, has
been named new sales manager
for the Florida property division
by the Sidney 2. Mensh Com
pany, Of Washington. D. C.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
Auxiliary At Community
Hospital Is n OR Will
Planning Fair Sing Sunday
Annual Looked For Fete
Will Be Held Saturday,
May 21; Exten sive
Plans Being Made.

Extensive plans are now under
way for the Third Annual Hospital
Fair sponsored by the Women's
Auxiliary of the Milford Memorial
Hospital. It will be held on Sat-
urday, May 21. The committee has
secured greater variety of free
entertainment this year. This will
include band music. square dane
ing and musical novelties.
Mrs. John Baker is presently
contracting the chairmen in the
surrounding area which is served
by the Milford Hospital Their
names will be announced shortly.
Mrs. Francis Leithiser and Mrs.
Thomas Garbutt will be in charge
of the Flower Cart. They are ask
ing all members to start saving
plants and bulbs now.
Mrs. /. d. Short and Mrs. Edwin
Messick are again in charge of the
White Elephant Booth. Spring
housecleaning is an ideal time to
get rid of all articles to fill up this
corner. Members are asked to start
contracting these chairmen now,
and getting their donations in so
they can be priced and refurbished
for the Fair.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
COP
Ladies Attend
Capitol Meet
Mrs. Frank r. Grier OF
Milford Among Those
Attending Sessions In
Washington This Week.

Mrs. G.. Herbert Calhoun, Presi-
Republican Women, Mrs. Paul
West, State Campaign Activities
Chairman, Mrs. Frank Grier of
Milford, Program Chairman are
attending the National Federation
of Republican Women's first board
meeting of 1860 at Sheraton Park
Hotel here.
The three-day meeting got UNDER
way with dinner Thursday night
honoring Republican congress-
women and women presidential ap-
pointees living in the Washington
area. Committee reports are sched-
uled Friday and until adjourn
ment, expected Saturday noon, ac-
cording to Mrs. Peter Gibson,
NFRW president.
State presidents reports this
year are stressing special projects
for the 1860 campaign, Mrs. Glib
son said.
New ideas and ingenious use OF
old ones will undoubtedly be pre-
sented," she said. "Such state re-
ports and discussions have been
popular in the past and are eager
ly anticipated by both experienced
and new board members and pro-
vide perfect opportunities to ac-
quire successful ideas from other
areas.
Mrs. Calhoun plans to remain in
Washington for the Eighth Annual
Spring Conference for Republican
women, April 2-5.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
Second Annual Palm Sum-
day Concert Will Be
Given At Calvary Meth
Odist Church At A p. M.

The Community Choir will pre-
sent its second annual Palm Sun
day Concert at the Calvary Meth
odist Church in Milford at p. m.
April 10. Under the skilled direc-
tion of Mrs. Norma Heyde, Choir
listers from Harrington, Green
wood, Lincoln, Lewes, Dover and
Milford will present three choral
works by Johann Sebastian Bach
followed by Theodore Dubois sa-
cred cantata, The Seven Last
Words of Christ" Mrs. Alice Shat
er will provide the organ accom-
paniment.
Irene Nelson, Jean Gruwell, Alan
Stewart and Leon Donovan will
add dramatic color to the presen-
tation through their individual solo
work. Mrs. Nelson and Mr.. Dono-
van are well known to Milfordians
both for the exceptional quality
of their voices and for the gem
erous donation of their talent to
civic affairs. Mrs. Gruwell is reg
ular soIoist at the Peoples Con-
gregational Church in Dover. She
has been vocal student of Mrs.
Edward Gloyd and for the past
two years has studied with Mrs.
Norma Heyde. She sang the "Ha-
banera" from Bizet's Carmen" in
the 1857 Junior Board Follies in
Dover and was soprano soloist in
the 1857 performance of THE
Seven Last Words" in Dover. Mr..
Stewart attended the University
of Delaware and graduated from
Continued on page sevenJ
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
School Payments Top
All In The Nation
State Paid Highest School
Taxes On The Same
Basis

Delaware spent more on edu-
cation on a per capita basis than
any other state taxes in the ma
ton on the same basis, according
to a new Census Bureau report.
According to the report, Della
ware spent $137.O7 per person on
education, compared with a ma
tional average of only $45.S6 per
person. (The report deals with the
state expenditures for education;
in Delaware a high proportion of
all costs for education are met by
the state).
The figures on state taxes in
dicated Delawareans put up $149.47
for every man, woman and child.
The average state tax bite in all
the states was $90.29 per capita.
And Delaware's per capita out
standing debt continued to pace
the nation, standing at $453.14 for
tcontinued on page TEN
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
Milford Library Is
Observing NapL Week
Building Has Been Crowded
All Week With Interested
Readers

This is National Library Week!
The new Milford Free Public Lii
brary is in full cooperation with
the event. All of this week library
hours have been crowded with
readers, eager to see the exhibits,
the new books and the old, and to
participate in the celebration
whose slogan is Wake Up and
Read" From the beautifully equip
ped children's section to the last
row of books in the adult section
the shelves bulge with all kinds Of
reading, all profitable to the read
er. The children are delighted TO
find copies of the perennial favor
ties of many IN new edition, topping
the several shelves of the room.
Tables are exhibiting many more of
several categories. All are arrang-
ed as eye catchers for the boys and
girls.
CONTINUED on page sevenl