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Evening star., 1961-12-12
Gingery Charges Of 'Bombooz|e'
Stir Rood-Ropid Transit Battle

Brig. Gen. Frederick j.
Clarke, who only minutes be-
fore had been elected chair
man of the regional council,
attempted to smooth the
troubled waters.
The immediate issue, Gen
Clarke said, is whether the re-
gional council will pledge its
cooperation with Mr.. Stol-
zenbach's agency.
Gen. Clarke, who as Engi-
neer Commissioner won a fight
before the National Capital
Planning Commission to pro-
ceed with the Districts Inner
Loop freeway, said he Is hope
full Mr.. Stolzenbach can come
up with a rapid transit plan
that the region will accept.
Cooperation Pledged
The argument subsidized with
passage of a motion in which
the regional council members
pledged cooperation with Mr.
Stolzenbach's agency (witt
Mr.. Gingery abstainlng from
the vote).
Later, after Mr.. Stolzenbact
had departed, the council
passed another motion. This
ordered Mr.. Stolzenbach, if hi
should make any changes ir
plans already proposed by tbe
council, including highway
plans, he is to bring those
plans to the council for ex-
animation before making them
public.
In other action, the regional
council accepted the resigna-
ton. effective January 6, o1
Richard Kraft, the councils
executive director. Mr.. Kraft
has been the executive director
for the past three years and
has been a member of the
council for the past six years
Walter B. Schilling, assistant
executive director, has been
named acting director by the
council.
Evening star., 1961-12-12

affected by the Districts trans
portation system?
Why are the transportation
agency planners putting aside
the 1859 mass transportation
survey? Does this mean they
are abandoning the regions
highway plans?
Mr.. Stolzenbach answered
that no highways are being
abandoned, the District SUBJ
way plans are not ready yet to
show to anyone and when the
plans are ready they will be
brought to the planners.
Loop Actions Hit
If the plans aren't ready
yet. lashed out Mr., Gingery
chow could your agency come
up with abandonment Of the
Inner Loop"
What it means, Mr.. Gingery
said, answering his own ques-
tion, is that transit plans are
being superimposed on our
highway plans"
He added: Il don't have to
be hit over the head to under
stand what's going on and ]
don't like it."
The transportation agency,
Mr.. Gingery said, appears to
be ready to try to stop funds
for District highway projects
by opposing them at the Budget
Bureau.
If road funds for the District
can be stopped, Mr.. Gingery
said, then the same thing can
be done regarding Maryland
and Virginia highway funds. P"
Most major highway projects
in both States will require go
per cent Federal financing.
Suburban planners, Mr.. Gin
gerry said, could seek new legis-
lation tightening control over
the transportation agency. He
noted that approval of rapid
transit projects must first be
given by Maryland and Vir-
ginia before the projects can
be built.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
WHEN SMITH WROTE his

WHEN SMITH WROTE his
first article in 1925 there was
no mention of Hanson in the
Encyclopedias Britannica and
Americana nor in school his
tory books.
Americans of Scandinavian
descent became interested.
Who was John Hanson?
He was of a landed Mary
land family, born on a plan
tation known as Mulberry
Grove at Port Tobacco, Md,
on April 3, IT'S. So he was
go at the time of the skir-
mish at Concord, Mass.
His grandfather had come
to New Sweden" on the
Delaware in 1643, landing at
Fort Christina, now Will
mington.
Hanson did not serve in
the first Continental Con-
gress, so he was not one of
the "signers." He was living
in Frederick, Md, when he
was chosen to represent
Maryland in Philadelphia.
He died in 1912 while visit
ing a nephew who was the
proprietor of Oxon Hill
Manor and is buried there.
His grave is on the hill above
the Maryland end of the new
Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
Evening star., 1961-12-12

Of Baltimore. secretary, and
William A. Peat, jr., Of the
Baltimore area, treasurer. Also
listed as a new member Of the
board of directors is Thomas P.
Raimondi of Baltimore.
Political figures remove
from the list of officers and
directors, besides Delegate Cul-
yer, were Delegate A. Gordon
Boone, House Democratic floor
leader, who was a director; Del
egate Roy N. Staten, former
vice president, and Democratic
N a tional Committeeman
Michael j. Birmingham, for
mer director.
Still carried as attorney for
SFIC is j. Thomas Ellicott, a
law partner of Mr.. Boone. Mr..
Ellicott represented SFIC in
hearings before a General As
sembly committee last winter.
During the legislative hear
ings, it was disclosed that a
majority of SFIC stock was
held by two Canadian holding
companies. Officers Of the firm
said they did not know who
owned the Canadian COM
panies.
Small Holdings
Small amounts of stock were
held by the Baltimore County
politicians listed above and
several other Baltimore County
residents.
So far, Security Financial
has not been called on to make
good an any accounts. The
firm does not incur any liability
until a savings and loan COM
pany becomes defunct and its
assets liquidated.
Military Service Savings &
Loan. which had some So mil
lion in savings accounts, has
been closed under receiver
ship petition from the attorney
general, who claimed the asso-
citation is financially insoivent.
A final hearing on whether the
association will be liquidated is
scheduled in January. Officers
OF the firm are contesting the
receivership action.
Phoenix Savings & Loan. As
sociation is still open, and there
is a possibility that it might
be reorganized and continued
in business. Phoenix has some.
100000 in shareholders &C
counts.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star Staff Writer

The smoldering highway ver-
sus rapid transit argument
erupted into a heated verbal
hange yesterday when a
Montgomery County planner
decided. as he put it, to call a
spade a spade"
Donald E. Gingery, a Mont
gomery County builder and
member Of the National Capital
Regional Planning Council, told
the head of the National Capt.
tai Transportation Agency that
suburban planners aren't going
to be "bamboozled" by rapid
trans proponents attempts to
abandon plans for new high
ways.
Mr.. Gingery said he feared
that the transportation agency
has become "a hybrid monster
that is not going to work with
U.S."
In reply, C. Darwin Stolzen-
bach, administrator of tn e
META, now drawing up plans
for a rapid transit system, said
Mr.. Gingery was making "a
ridiculous assumption" and his
agency has no intention to
abandon highways.
Questions Arise
Mr.. Stolzenbach counter
charged that Mr.. Gingery's
charges reflect on the integ-
rity" of the transportation
agency.
The affair started out in
nocently enough with Mr.
Stolzenbach appearing before
the regional council with a rou-
tine request for cooperation
and guidance to aid his agen-
cy's planning program.
Then Mr.. Gingery started
with questions.
Why hadn't Mr.. Stolzenbach
brought his plans for a subway
for the District to planners in
Maryland and Virginia who are
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Speed Raised
On PARKWAY
40 MPH Limit
Set to Airport

That rs miles per hour speed
limit on the George Washing
ton Memorial Parkway, which
nobody obeyed and few under
stood, will be changed back to
40 miles per hour today from
the Fourteenth street bridges to
the National Airport traffic
light as fast as the new signs
can be put up.
Supt. T. Sutton Jett of the
parks office announced this
morning he will ask the Bu-
reau of Public Roads today to
consider going along with 40
mile speed limit for the rest of
the way from the airport to
Alexandria.
Breakdown Not Due
Mr.. Jett acted after being
told that reports were being
publicized that the IS miles
per hour speed limit. would
be enforced more strictly along
the four-mile stretch. The Star
was told by the Park Police that
they had received no such order
and asked Mr.. Jett If the
breakdown was forthcoming.
The parks superintendent ex-
planned that the Bureau Of Pub
lie Roads contract for a $1.2
million widening project along
the parkway specified a 25
miles per hour speed limit for
the safety of the workmen.
However. he said his parks peo-
pie are not sure the project had
reached the stage of construc-
ton where such a speed was
necessary at this point.
Half Of Work Done
Anyone who travels the
parkway knows that half of
the improvements, between the
airport and the bridges. have
long since been completed.
The southern half of the
project. between the airport
and the Alexandria traffic
circle. is barely started and
won't be finished until next
November.
Eventually, the southern
part will be remade into two
separate two-lane roadways
with a wide median strip. The
present four-lane road will be
rebuilt and become one-way
southbound and a new north
bound two-laner will be con-
structed.
Evening star., 1961-12-12

% THE 1928 ARTICLE was
printed in full by the New
York Times. 1t was sent to
the late Robert L. Ripley,
awho made the Presidents be-
fore Washington the subject
of one of his believe 1t or
Not" cartoons.
AS I remember it, Ripley
ssaid Washington was the
18th President and justified
it by listing all the Presidents
of the Continental Congress.
That made Peyton Randolph
the first President"
My candidate is John Han
cock, who was President of
the second Continental Con-
gress on July 4, 1776, when 1t
passed the Declaration of In
dependence.
The claim for HanSon's
first" is that on Monday,
November 5, 1881, he was
elected under the newly
adopted Articles of Confed-
Grafton president of the
United States in Congress
assembled"
With the surrender of
CORVALLIS army at York
town on October 10, there
was a realization that a new
nation had been born. The
second Continental Congress
on its last day, Saturday,
November 3, 1881, referred
pending m alters to the
United States in Congress
assembled. THAT was the
body that convened in the
same chamber (Independ-
ence Hall, Philadelphia on
Monday and elected John
Hanson of Maryland its pre-
siding officer.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
The
af11b|er
Learns About
Unknown President
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Herbert j. Stoeckel, a re-
tired Hartford newspaper
man who calls himself the
John Hanson biographer,"
stopped by the other day
Mr.. Stoeckel has been
working on the project for
10 years and still is a long
way from publishing. He says
the research is very difficult
and that is understandable.
He left a little booklet he
has written entitled 1.-The
Strange Story of John Han
son, First President of the
United States" 1t is pub
lished by Hanson House, 427
Main street, Hartford"
which is the address of his
apartment.
Now that the John Hanson
highway, "the magic carpet
to the beaches" has been
completed and the name
seems destined to stick, this
question will be often asked:
who was John HanSon?"
The booklet tells a fas-
cinating story of the rescue
Of one Of the founding
fathers from oblivion.
The rescue was begun by
a young Hartford news
paperman named Seymour
Wemyss Smith. He dis
covered" Hanson in his his
torical reading and became
intrigued with the fact that
no one among his acquaint-
ances had ever heard of him.
Smith left the Hartford
Courant to found a periodical,
the Financial Digest, pub
lished in Hartford. Stoeckel
was associated with Smith in
the magazine venture, helped
Smith in his research on
John Hanson.
In 1925 the Financial
Digest ran an article on
Hanson and again in 1928.
The latter article was en-
titled John Hanson, Our
Forgotten First President"
Smith wrote a book on
Hanson which was published
by Brewer Warren & Putnam
shortly after his death. He
was only 35.
Stoeckel has been carrying
the torch since.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
PORTRAIT PROBLEM
CityFunds
Giving One
Not So Easy

It's no easy chore for a lady
from Peoria. ILL.,, to get a por-
trait of her great-grandfather
away from District officials.
And it doesn't make any diff
ference that the portrait had
been sentenced to permanent
storage in a b-basement Of
the District Building.
This all became clearer and
clearer to Mrs. Clifton Frazier
as the months rolled by after
her request last spring to be
given the portrait of her great
grandfather, Philip Doddridge,
an early Virginia Congressman.
InitialIy Approve Idea
The Commissioners initial
reaction was that Mrs. Frazier
was more than welcome to the
portrait, which she said would
be revered and preserved in her
Peoria home.
Mrs. Frazier, who had been
in Washington as a delegate to
the Daughters of the American
Revolution convention, had
stopped by the District Building
to take a look at the portrait
of her ancestor. Instead of
finding Congressman Dod-
bridges likeness in some promi-
nent spot, Mrs. Frazier instead
learned that, because of "re-
arranging and redecorating"
the picture was resting in a
sue-basement storage room.
After indicating that Mrs.
Frazier could have the Dodd-
ridge portrait. which had a
history shrouded in mystery as
far as city officials were con-
cerned, they received a letter
of objection from a Washing
ton attorney. The lawyer,
Chauncey P. Carter, said the
painting might have substan-
tial value and there might be
many descendants of Mr.. Dodd-
ridge who would want the por-
trait.
The Commissioners, some
what wearily. referred the mat
ter to the Corporation Coun-
sells office. The question be-
fore Corporation Counsel Ches-
ter H. Gray was somewhat
complicated by the fact that
no one seemed to know how
the District got the portrait,
from whom and why.
Monetary Value Is Key
Today, the Commissioners
were informed by Mr.. Gray that
the fate of the Doddridge por-
trait cannot yet be decided, and
that its monetary value is KEY
to the answer.
Mr.. Gray said if the portrait
is worth $500 or more, it must
be auctioned off to the highest
bidder. Such an auction also
may be held if the picture is
worth less than $500, but would
still command a substantial
price.
On a somewhat depressing
note, Mr.. Gray said that if the
portrait has no value, city Of
ficialS may order it destroyed
by burning or consignment to
an approved land fill, cor by
such other means as are ap-
propriate. :"
Another alternative, which
did not seem to apply here, was
that the city regulations pro-
vide. for trade-ins.
The Commissioners decided
to have the portrait appraised.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
GIee Club Concert

The glee clubs of Washing
tons Dunbarton College and
Loyola College of Baltimore
will present a joint concert of
Christmas music at 8 pm. to-
morrow at Dunbarton, 2935
Upton street NV. The public
is invited.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Meter Ban Sought

The Brookland Citizens Asso-
citation last night urged the
District to remove parking
meters from Twelfth street NE.
and replace them with one-hour
parking zones to aid the area S
businessmen.
Evening star., 1961-12-12


bly, last winter which could
sharply restrict it's operations.
The legislation gives the firm
until June, 1868, to comply with
the regulations.
The new law will prohibit
Security Financial from insur-
ing accounts in any single saw
ings and loan association in
excess of 10 per cent of Sc
curity Financial's assets. The
firm currently lists assets of
$1.4 million but is insuring ac-
counts totaling more than $51
million in 80 savings and loan
associations.
One of the companies whose
accounts are insured by Sc.
curity Financial is Military
Service Savings and Loan AS
sociation of Montgomer
County, which was placed ir
receivership last month. An
other is Phoenix Savings and
Loan Association of Baltimore
which is operating under a
court-appointed "conservator."
Object Of Fight
Security Financial, which
was set up by a group of Balti-
more County Democratic lead
ers in 1859, was the object of g
bitter fight at the 1861 session
Of the General Assembly.
Delegate Joseph D. Tydings
now United States attorney fol-
Maryland. introduced the bill
to curb the activities Of the
company. He said the firm was
over-extending itself and that
it should be limited to the risks
it could assume in order to pro-
tect investors in savings and
loan firms it insures.
The Tydings bill was fought
by Baltimore County delegates
who were listed among SFIC's
officers and directors. They
claimed it would put the firm
out of business. AS a compro-
gave SFIC two years to comply
with the new restriction.
Since the bill was passed, all
the Baltimore County politica
figures have been replaced al
officers and directors.
Hopes to Meet Terms
David F. Woods, the new
president. said yesterday he
does not know yet whether
SFIC will be able to meet the
terms Of the new regulation.
Il hope we can, but I can
not say at this point whether
we will" he said.
Mr.. Woods said SFIC cur
rently is insuring accounts in
80 savings and loan associa-
tions. All but a few of them
are in Maryland, but the two
biggest are in Utah and Idaho
The Utah association has
shareholder accounts totaling
approximately $14 million. Un-
der the terms of the new law,
SFIC would have to have assets
'of $140 million if it wanted to
carry the entire risk of the
mise, the General Assembly
Utah aSSociation-or 100 times
its current STA million in
assets.
The alternative to this huge
increase in assets is for Security
Financial to find other insur-
anceS companies which will as
sumo part of the risks.
Mr.. Woods, who described
himself as a real estate man, a
free-lance writer and a former
public relations man, was elected
president of SFIC in July. He
replaces Charles F. Culver, a
State Delegate from Baltimore
County.
Mr.. Woods identified other
new officers as Edward j. Lynch,
a Washington lawyer, as vice
president; K. George Christian
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Loan Insurers Move
To Split Obligations
New Maryland Minimum
On Assets Effective in 1868
BY PAUL HOPE
Star staff Writer

Officers Of Security Financial Insurance Corp, private
Maryland firm nsung accounts in savings and loan
aons are trying to find other insurance companies which will
take part Of its risks the firms president said
To stay in business Security Financial must meet the
the terms law by the MARYLAND General
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-22
Legal Advertisement

MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MARYLAND
Notice to Contractors
Lump sum sealed bids vii,
be received by the Board of
Education at its Constructor
Office located in the single
story building at East Jeffer.
son and Monroe Streets, Rock.
vile, Maryland, until
400 PM, DIST
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1851
for furnishing all labor, mate.
rial and equipment necessary
to waterproof the exterior walls
of the Chevy Chase Elementary
School, located at Rosemary
and Hillcrest Place, Chew
Chase, Maryland, in accordance
with specifications prepared bv
the Construction Division.
Board of Education.
Each bid must be accom-.
panied by a bid bond for NOT
less than ten (10) percent of
the amount of the bid from =
Surety Company acceptable to
the Owner; if a certified check
is submitted in lieu of Bid
Bond, the Owner may require
a statement of such bidders
financial condition. The sue.
cessful bidder shall deliver to
the Owner a one hundred per.
cent 10000 Labor and Mate.
rial Payment Bond on ALA.
Form A-311, not less than ten
(10) consecutive calendar DAYS
after the contract award.
Specifications may be obtain.
ed from the Construction Divi.
sion, Board of Education, Rock
vile, Montgomery County,
Maryland, on or after Wednes.
day, June 81, 1861.
All work must be completed
by September /, 1861. No bid
may be withdrawn within
Thirty 800 days after the &C.
tual date of the opening there.
of.
Payment in full will be
made upon acceptance of work
by the Owner.
The conditions contained in
this Notice to Contractors" by
their issuance become a part of
the contract requirements.
The Board of Education re-
serves the right to waive any
informalities in or to reject any
or all bids.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
JAMES H. SHELDON
Director of Construction
1t-5S4-6-22
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Legal Advertisement
zONING AMENDMENT
DEPARTMENT OF


INSPECTION AND LICENSES
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.
Rockville, Md.
A public hearing on the fol-
lowing application for Zoning
Amendment will be held in the
Auditorium of the County Of
flee Building, Rockville, Mary
land, on
THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1851
AT 8 O'CLOCK PM.
or as soon thereafter as it can
be heard.
NUMBER C-611, Annie Bid
good Stinnette, Applicant, for
the Redistribution from the
R-60 Zone to the IL Zone of
part of Lot 16, Linden Subdivi-
sion, located at $3.50 Warren
Street, Silver Spring, contain
ing 20,740 square feet, more or
less, in the 18th Election Dis
trict, all as will be shown in the
application on file for public in
spection in the Office of the
Director, Department of Inspec-
ton & Licenses.
E. w. BUCKLIN
Director
Department of Inspection
and Licenses 1t-582-6-22
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-22
Sheriff's Sale

Sher1ff'S Sale
OF Valuable Personal Property
STATE OF MARYLAND,
Montgomery County, to wit:
BY virtue of Distraint for
Rent issued by Maynard Nc.
Pherson, landlord, and to me as
Sheriff of said County directed
at the suit of Maynard Nc
Pherson VS.. Neal Sadtler, I
have this 9th day Of June, 1861,
seized and taken into execution
all the right and title, claim, in.
terest and estate both at law
and in equity of the said Neal
Sadtler, of, in, to and about the
following described property,
to wit:
Small Wooden Table
1-20 Wood Work Bench
1-Yuba Saw-Smith VICE
Motor
1-Sanding Machine, Model
4O5
Table Top Saw
Portable Air Compressor
Craftsman Sander
Electric Hand Sander
Window Fan
1-Jointer
Coping Saw
SPEEDY Air Compressor
Pawn Kraft HOO Reuter-
STANLEY Electric Reuter-
Base
STANLEY Hand Saw
6-Wooden Kitchen Cabinets
2-Sheets Formica
sheet aluminium
1-Formica Top
Golf Bag, Z Irons & 8
Woods
cabinet Clamps
11-Sheets Plywood
Lot of Assorted Lumber
I hereby give notice that
will sell all the right, title,
claim, interest and estate both
at law and in equity of the said
Neal Sadtler, of, in, to and
about the above described
property to the highest bidders
for cash at a Meem Avenue
(rear), Gaithersburg, Mary.
land, on
WEDNESDAY,, JULY 5, 1861
AT 1880 AM.
Terms of Sale: CASH.
LUKE ]. BENNETT, JR.
Sheriff
Montgomery County
Maryland 2t.580-6-29
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-22
Sealed Bids

The Board of Education of
Montgomery County will re.
ceive sealed bids for furnish
ing the below listed items until
the dates and times shown. The
bids will be publicly opened in
the office of the Director of
Procurement at the Board of
Education, 300 E. Montgomery
Avenue, Rockville, Maryland.
Specifications may be obtained
at the office of the Director of
Procurement.
Bid #28-61, Ice Cream, Fri
day, June 80, 1861, until 500
PM, DIST.
IBID 1851, Milk, Thursday,
June 20, 1861, until 300 PM,
DIST.
zt-5s56-22
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

USED DITTO DUPLICATOR-
good as new SIPS at Rockville
Stationery Inc. in the Rockville
Shopping Center, PO. 2-6115.
1t-6-15
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-06-22

JUNE "a - 4 pm. on; Straw
berry Festival & Cold Plate.
Salem Methodist Church, Cedar
Grove, Md. Adults, SIPS; chill
dren, 75c. 2t-6-24
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NJ. j. CUFF
CONROY 4 WILLIAMS
342O Hamilton Street
Hyattsyille, Md.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. that the
Orphans Court for Montgomery County
has issued Letters Testamentary to
Eleanor l.. Fink in the Estate OF
MELVIN &. FINK
late of Montgomery County deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to present the
same on OF before the 23rd day OF De
cember next; they may otherwise by law
be excluded from all benefit OF said
Estate. All persons indebted to said
Estate are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this Goth day OF
June, 1851.
ELEANOR l. FINK
4 Noyes Court
Silver Spring, Md.
EXecutrix 6t-57S-7-27