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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Hearing Set ct.
For Shelter
Construction

The County Council will
hold a public hearing at 2
pm. Nov. 7 (14th) on a pro-
posed amendment to the
building code which would
require contractors to include
adequate structural provisions
for fallout shelters in future
construction.
The Council announced the
hearing after County Attorney
Alfred H. Carter said construc-
ton standards are needed so
that homeowners and others
wishing to build fallout shelters
on their premises would be
guaranteed the buildings would
not require extensive structural
alterations in the process.
At the same time, the Council
said it is considering establish
ing a position of shelter engi-
neer within the Civil Defense
Office. He would be responsible
for checking the quality of shell
ter construction and making
sure standards would be COM
piled with.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26

Design for the county's first
school-in.the-round, which has
drawn criticism for its birth
day cake" appearance, won the
official nod of the Board of
Education this week.
The 21s-story, pre-cast con
crete structure is to be located
on Bushey DIR. east of Veirs
Mill rd. and west of Connecticut
ave. extended. 1t is budgeted
for construction at $75,000.
At its regular meeting this
week, the School Board also au-
thorized its staff to investigate
the possibility Of acquiring ad-
ditional land for the school site,
which is now limited to six
acres-two acres smaller than
the standard established In the
county for elementary school
sites.
Estimates were the school
board might have to spend as
much as $4,000 an acre to ac-
Quire adjoining property, since
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Unique SchOOI-M-ROund
Gets official Approval

sign offers both efficiency and
economy, reducing outer wall
area which is a costly part OF
construction and a cause of
heat loss In winter and heat
penetration In summer.
In recommending approval of
the plans TO the School Board.
School Supt. c. Taylor Whittier
declared that "the elongated de-
signs OF a few years back, in
which classrooms were extend.
ed side by side along an almost
endless corridor will soon be as
outmoded as the one-room
school with its tower and wall"
Fluorescent lighting and
forced draft ventilation have
made the compact design pos.
sible, the Board was told.
A record turnout Of area citi-
zens was present to hear the
board give its approval to the
plan. Many Of them had OPP
posed the "futuristic" design at
earlier board hearings.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Anti-DiscriminatiOn Law
Urged Here by NAACP

In her letter, Mrs. Williams
strongly attacked police for sup
porting the management of a
skating rink in barring Negro
teenagers.
How long must Negroes be
Inundated and degraded" she
asked, before the County Coun-
Gil win see fit to enact legisla.
ton to protect the rights Of all
county citizens?
How many Human Relations
Commission studies must be
made before Negroes in Mont
gomery County can be free to
eat in a restaurant, to stay in a
hotel, to go skating on a Sun
day afternoon"
If the Council claims to repre-.
sent all of the people OF the
county, Mrs. Williams said, 'it
can do no less than to legislate
in the interest of all the people"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26

mary judgment should come up
for hearing within 10 days or
two weeks after filing, prob
ably on a Friday"
Under original earlier suit,
brought by Aaron and Barbara
Levin of Silver Spring, County
Manager Butcher would be en-
joined from banning the distrib-
ution of "Tropic of Cancer" in
public libraries. The couple
argues Butcher has no right"
to ban the book, since it was
purchased with county funds for
public consumption.
AS a result of this suit, the
County was given until Nov. 10
to show cause why it should not
end its ban.
In backing Carter's try for a
court test, Council members
made it clear their only inter-
est is in settlement of the con-
troversy not in taking sides
on the books merits.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Council Names
Seven Chairmen
For Committees

Delegates to the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Civic Council have
been named to head seven
standing. committees, according
to Council President Milton M.
Burke.
They are:
Membership Frederick D.
Hunt, 1909 Carvel rd., Be.
thesda; constitution and by.
laws Ira Shesser, 1900 West
Coquelin ter, Chevy Chase; leg.
islation, legal action and public
finance Wilson r. Maltby,
1919 Cedar Ia, Bethesda; roads,
streets and coming, Arthur E.
Hald, jr., 9917 Holmhurst rd.,
Bethesda.
Schools, welfare and recrea-
ton Mrs. Arthur w. Stet-
son, 5007 Rodman rd., Bethesda;
publicity c. Jay Iverson,
$50 Worthington dr., Bethesda;
and sanitation, public health
and safety - DR.. Marco Rabin-
ovitz, 1904 Traymore st., Be
thesda.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26

much OF 1t Is suitable for com
mercisl coming. This is twice
the highest amount previously
paid for school site acreage for
the Walter Johnson High School
in West Bethesda.
Plans for the circular elemen'
tary school we're prepared by
the architectural firm Of Del
CERT g. Yerkes. who have
achieved a reputation for their
advanced designs.
Designed to make maximum
use of a limited plot, the IS
classroom school will house ma
jor community rooms such as
the cafeteria and library on one
level.
Wedge-shaped classrooms are
placed alongside each other in
an outer ring and are connected
by circular Railways which will
enclose the eye or center Of the
school.
The architects believe the de-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Master Plans
Do Not Suit
The Council
By Vote Of 80, County Council
Returns Plans to MCPPC for Study

Master plans for controlling Montgomery Coun-
tvs future growth were back square in the laps Of
their creators today following the County Councils
refusal to accept them as "a clearcut guide" for
coming decisions.
The plans, almost three years in the making by
the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the subject of numerous public hear
ings before both the Commission and the Council
were rejected by vote of 3d. with Council Presi-
dent William F. Hickey and member Grover X. Walker
dissenting.
Offering long-range plans for development of the
Upper Rock Creek and Northwest Branch watersheds
and the Gaithersburg- Rockville area they were
classed as unavoidable even though they bore the
stamp of approval of the areas official planning group
David Cahoon led the attack on the plans with a
two-page declaration of what he termed their made
quacies" He charged that the three blueprints
have not gained community acceptance and that they
present neither desired goals practical means Of
achievement"
He said that the county has looked to the master
plans for guidance in breaking up urban sprawl, in
concentrating future development and creating open
space areas, in establishing satellite cities and
trolling density erosion and pollution, but the plans
fa to present clear-cut guide to meet these needs
"The proposed concentrations of development are
inadequate in both size and range of uses" he de-
cIared, adding the plans present mo substantial de-
vices for preventing sprawl between the develop
ments they do suggest.
Lack Basic Data
Cahoon also criticized the plans for "a lack Of
basic data" topography, soil conditions, economics
and fiscal elements Of future planning.
Council members Stella Werner and David Fresh
said they hesitated to vote adopting of master plans
in view of their possible conflicts with other major
blueprints for future county growth-notably the
Year 1000 Plan and the Forthcoming report Of noted
planning consultant Harland Bartholomew
$50 much has happened since these master plans
were first drafted" said Mrs. Werner, II feel we
ought to ask the planning board to get all the cur
rent information they possibly can about studies
and surveys-then relate them to these plans"
Said Frosh-"We still have an unparalleled OPP
portunity to move forward in cooperation with the
Planning Commission and its staff, once we are in
wholehearted agreement about where we're going
Continued on Page y
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26

Passage of legislation ito pro.
tect the rights of all county citi-
zens" has been urged on the
County Council by the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
The appeal came in a letter
to Council President William F.
Hickey from Mrs. Mary Y. VIII
liams, president of the organ
ization's Montgomery County
branch.
The councils Human Rela-
tons Commission last month
recommended the adoption of
an anti-discrimination law af-
fecting all places of public ac-
commodation in the county.
County Attorney Alfred Carter
has advised the county heads,
however, that they lack author
ity to enact such legislation.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Council to Hold Hearing
On Cab Stand Question

arguments will be set on the
agenda.
Council President William F.
Hickey said the county heads
felt a need to Clarity their ac-
ton last week, when they
found themselves ahead Of
schedule on their agenda and
acted on the proposal before its
expected to be heard.
The Council was charged
later with "railroading" the taxi
stand through in the absence of
representatives OF the Silver
Spring Board of Trade who had
planned TO voice their opposi-
ton at the announced time.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
NOrthrOp
Takes Over
Judgeship

Maryland gained the first
of its two newly-authorized
Federal Dis trict Court
judges this week when for
mer Montgomery County
State Senator Edward S. North
rop was sworn in as Judge.
Northrop, a native and life
long resident of Chevy Chase,
received his commission from
the United States Attorney for
Maryland, Joseph D. Tydings,
at a ceremony attended by
hundreds of friends, members
of the judiciary and high State
officials.
The courts two active judges
-Rozell c. Thomson and r.
Dorsey Watkins, were joined
by Judge Calvin w. Chestnut in
welcoming Northrop to his new
post in what is regarded one of
the busiest courts in the entire
country.
Congress authorized two adj
ditional District Court judges
for Maryland last year to ac-
commodate the load of civil
cases pending on the crowded
calendar.
Present for the ceremony
were Governor J. Willard Tawes
and former Governor Theodore
r. McKeldin, who heard Mont
gomery County Circuit Courts
Chief Judge Thomas M. Ander-
son praise Northrop's tremen-
dous ability, great honor and
high integrity"
Northrop, who is 80, lives at
9001 Clifford ave-, Chevy Chase,
with his wife, two sons and a
daughter.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26

Opponents of a proposed II
vehicle taxicab stand in the
heart of Silver Springs shop
ping district will have a chance
to give the County Council their
views, after all.
The Council this week de-
cided to "hold in allegiance" its
informal decision Of last week
to permit the removal of IL
metered parking spaces on
Pershing DIR. off Fenton ST., and
said it will welcome express
sions from interested citizens at
its next regular meeting Tues
day morning.
A definite time for hearing
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Chapter Meeting

The meeting of Erasmus
Perry Chapter, Daughters OF
the American Revolution, pre-.
viously announced for October
81, will be held on Saturday,
October %, at ] pm. at the
home of Mrs. George J. Kuch,
1902 Bradford rd., Silver
Spring. Mrs. Eliot c. Lovett,
state regent, will be guest
speaker.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26

of the public libraries here.
Condemning the book-banning
without court order "a form
of censorship dangerous to our
free society (which has led to
abuse elsewhere and is likely to
lead to abuse here" the citizens
federation declared no need for
the ban has been shown by
either Attorney Leonard T.
Hardy or County Manager
Mason Butcher.
Butcher has ordered the book
out of circulation in the librar-
les contrary to the judgment
of the head of the library sys-
tenn" the ACC said, adding that
Hardy "has intimidated stores
in the county from selling the
book.
The ACC, which represents
about 70 citizens associations in
the county, said neither the
county manager, states attor-
ney nor the police are qualified
as experts on the subject of
obscene literature.
Presented at the groups
meeting as an emergency reso-
luton" which requires second
ing by at least five different
member associations, the mo-
ton received spontaneous "sec-
onds" from almost a dozen
members.
Favor Hi-Rise
!. In another major action, the
ACC lent its support to the pro-
posed 'lligh-rise" apartment zon-
ing ordinance for the county,
declaring that t, with proper
supervision, the regulation can
prevent misuse of apartment
coming.
They pointed out that the new
RH zone would not change
existing zoning but would pro-
vide more stringent regulations
on green space and occupancy
limits.
RI coming should be granted
only to those areas for which
land use Is shown to be COM
patible with the location, they
said.
No Housing Ordinance
The ACC also decided, after
more than an hour of debate to
oppose the county's proposed
housing hygiene ordi nance.
Members argued that the limit
ed be n eficial detectives" it
might achieve could be arrived
ut better within the framework
of existing laws and "by less
Objectionable provisions.
Specifically, the group said
the code would impose "restric-
tons of individual rights" on
property owners through inva-
sion of their privacy by county
Health Department agents in
inspecting homes.
Imposition of criminal penal.
ties for failure to get the de-
tailed regulations on physical
conditions of homes without
regard to whether such failures
endanger the public welfare,
safety, health or morale and
would thus further violate citi-
zens rights to the quiet enjoy
ment of their private property"
was also strongly criticized.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Art Show Saturday

The Art Show and Sale,
sponsored by the Congress.
slonaI Plaza Shopping Mer-
chants Association will be held
this Saturday, October 20. IL
was postponed last Saturday
because of rain.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
'Tropic Of Cancer
To Get Court Test
OF Its Obscenity

With the blessing of the County Council, County At
toney Alfred H. Carter this week took steps to bring the
controversial best-seling Tropic of Cancer to court
test of its obscenity
The book last week banned from public libraries
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-26
Citizens Protest
Butchers Action;
Want Book Back!
Allied Civic Group Votes to Have
'Tropic of Cancer Put Back in Library

Montgomery County's powerful Allied Civic Group
this week strongly urged the County Council to rescnd
the ban the bestselng Tropc of Cancer and
that the county heads put the book back the shelves
Evening star., 1961-04-09

This was, simply, the home
of the rich art collector
thrown open to the public
more or less as it stood.
There are more of these than
you might think and the
finest of them all is the Phil
lips Collection.
The reasons for the all
around excellence of the COL
lection, both as a group
of paintings and sculptures
and as an intensely operat-
ing institution of public edu-
cation and pubic pleasure
can Dc summed up in two
words: Duncan Phillips.
This philanthropist, en-
thusiaSt and scholar has been
the presiding genius OF the
collection since its founda-
tion in 1919. sPassionately
interested in modern art and
its sources" -Tr. Phillips has
devoted much of his own
scholarship to the revelation
of those sources in the great
art of the past. AS the COL
Evening star., 1961-04-09
EDUCATION
FORUM

QUESTION: Do you believe
in summer study abroad? My
daughter, only a college fresh
man, not yet 19 years old,
wants to spend the summer in
a school in Switzerland. Will
she gain more than she would
if she went to a camp as a
counselor, or took courses at a
midwestern university? Isn't
our educational system as good
AS any to be found abroad?
Where can I get a list of recog-
nized foreign schools?
ANSWER: By all means, if
you can afford it, let her go
to Switzerland. to France, Ger
many or even to Japan. I be-
lieve in summer travel for COL
lege students. Ten weeks spent
in a foreign land viii give your
daughter far more than she
can ever get from books or lee
lures. She will gain more than
a summer spent at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, no matter
how nice that may be, or a
summer as a camp counselor.
Many colleges encourage
their students to go abroad not
only for the summer but for
longer periods. And they get
credit for it, too. Thousands of
American students will be found
in every part of the world this
summer, all the way from Len
ingrad to Rhodesia. met many
students in Europe last sum-
mer, and almost without ex-
ception they we're happy with
their experiences.
An excellent 26-page booklet,
Summer Study Abroad" has
just been published by the In
Stitute of International Educa-
ttion. 1t lists scholarship oppor-
tunities for numerous programs
in all fields in IA European
countries, six Latin-American
nations, three countries of the
Far and Near East and various
award projects in Canada. AS
a service to our readers, if you
send me stamped self-ad-
dressed envelope, care of this
newspaper, I will mail you a
copy of this booklet without
charge.
QUESTION: You constantly
talk about opportunities for the
gifted child. Recently you wrote
that we do not have enough
good programs for them. But
what happens to the average
child? I must confess - my
child is average. He only gets
between 10 and rs per cent in
high school. He is a sophomore
Evening star., 1961-04-09

Summer" in which clouds
are as emphatic as the pat
tern of hills and farmland
they balance. Hill Town
Pattern" and fantastic rock
formations in Road in the
Black Hills" as well as his
Windy Autumn" carry de-
sign emphasis into abstract
idioms. Charm and pic
turesquenesS pervade such
paintings as white Town in
the Hills" Small Town
Slum," his airy Marina"
and Summer Shadows"
Mr.. Rittase had extensive
art training at Carnegie
Tech, Art Institute of Chi
cago, Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, the Corcoran
School and elsewhere. He
won a Tiffany fellowship, was
curator of schools at the
Pennsylvania Academy and
assistant resident manager of
its summer school at Chester
Springs, Pa. He is presently
exhibition chairman of the
Arts Club of Washington,
and an active member of the
Landscape Club, OF which he
is a past president.
Evening star., 1961-04-09

lection grew, he devoted time
also to planning a new wing
to be added to the Phillips
home.
Last November the wing
was opened. 1t was designed
by New York architects
Wyeth and King with the
collaboration of the Wash
ington firm of Howe and
johnson. and the active par
ticipation of both Mr.. and
Mrs. Phillips.
Enough time has now
elapsed for Washington art
bluffs to have spent time in
the new wing and to come to
the conclusion, If they have
an ounce of sensitivity for
these things. that the build
ing is a marvel.
The exterior of the new
wing at once establishes it as
new museum architecture
the machine for looking
and binds new to old in both
the color. a sandy rose, and
the motive of squares, which
seems distracted from the
late Victorian surface of the
original 1897 structure.
The combination continues
within. The machine achieves
the ultimate perfection of
being invisible. The lighting,
borrowed, in principle at
least. from stage electricians,
has fleXibility and total con-
troll. Intensity varies so that
each picture gets exactly the
amount it needs. The shape
of the light is controlled so
there are no scallop shells of
shadow. In picture after pic
ture the custom fitted light
brings out things you never
saw before.
The walls, the rugs, the
furnishings, are cheerfully
complementary, never OBJ
strusive. The rooms open one
into another to invite COM
parisons in depth.
Proportion is the final Sc
cret of the new wing. The
rooms are exquiSitely bal
anced in width, length,
height, to fit the measure of
man to the measure of art.
This kind of balance, this
kind of measure, have long
been the speciality of the
Phillips.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
New Annex to Phillips Masterpiece
OF Modern Museum Desiqn

Museums in Europe started
out, naturally enough, as the
nationalized private collec-
tions of princes. the nation
alization process having been
achieved either by confisca-
tion or gift. The pictures of
princes tended to hang in
the places where princes
lived, namely palaces, which
were often nationalized along
with the pictures.
This historical fact set a
style for museum design
rather like Charles Lambs
diScoverer of the joys of
roast pork. This boon to
mankind was discovered, ac-
cording to Lamb, by the ac-
cident of having a house
burn down when it was oc-
cupied by a young and ten
der pig. For a long time aft
erwards, the historian con-
tinues, whenever anyone
threw a pork dinner, he put
a pig in a house and burned
down the house.
Museum design for decades
followed a similar course. Be
cause the original public col
lections came with palaces
already attached, it was felt
only decent, when establish
ing a new public collection,
to put it in a palace, even if
you had to build the palace.
This was true even in Amer
ica, a land from its begin
nings bereft of both princes
and palaces.
Machine for Looking
This infuriated modern
puritans Of art, who, as is
well known. are absolutely
the worst kind of puritans.
Pillars and pediments, they
said sulkily. are strictly for
Evening star., 1961-04-09

Philip Robin, elected to the
staff of the administrative
vice president.
The organization sponsors
forums at which students seek
to understand national and
international problems.
Mr.. Crank received his
bachelors degree from Har-
ward in 1859. He was elected
to the board of directors of
the forum during his first
year at the law school. His
address is 1000 Cathedral ave-
nue. NV.
Mr.. Robin, who received his
bachelors degree from Prince
ton in 1859, has been active
in the forum since his first
year. His address is 1900 Ca
thedral avenue NV.
\ X X
Two Washington students at
Cornell University are among
Evening star., 1961-04-09

pigeons. An art museum
should be a machine for
looking at pictures. This. it
must be noted, was early in
the neotechnic age, before we
all began to have second
thoughts about machines.
In the 1930s, opportunity
knocked and the puritans
answered, Since the cube of
glass seemed to be the form
demanded by such diverse
functions as work and wor-
ship, sleep and play, not un-
naturally it was discovered
that the function of the art
museum, too, dictated the
form of a glass box. Boxes
of glass, and sometimes of
windoWless concrete, prolif-
Grated across the land and
still doi At one time it was
proposed, and actually tried
out, to put the pictures on
an endless belt and seat the
visitors in a comfortable au-
ditorium to watch as the art
went tearing by.
The American conflict be-
tween pciace and machine
for looking was finally re-
solved by the late, great
Frank Lloyd Wright. The
architects last major work,
the Guggenheim Museum in
New York, boldly combines
the total efficiency of the
museum as machine with
the quite tangible lift of the
spirit most Of us get from
being in space that is big,
enclosed and rounded.
Meanwhile, however, while
the palace old guard and the
dedicated mechanics battled
in brochure and in buildings,
a third style of American art
museum came into existence.