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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13

When is the Montgomery
County school board going to
act to eliminate trampoline
tumbling from the required
physical education program in
the junior and senior highs?
Are they waiting for a perma-
nent injury or for some teen
ager to be killed?
Last month our son suffered
a serious injury when he landed
on the mat after springing
from a miniature trampoline
and straddling a vaulting box.
He has two broken vertebrate
in his back and will be in a cast
for three months and a body
brace for another three months.
1t was just by the grace of God
that he wasn't injured for life.
He will not go back to school
until next September and will
have to keep up with his studies
with the help Of tutor the
county sends to our home for
two hours twice a week.
Compared with the pain, anX-
iety and inconvenience involved,
the cost of the injury is of sec.
ondary Importance, but it's still
a factor that can't be ignored.
We didn't have the school in.
surance and there will be a con-
siderable financial burden to
shoulder.
If the physical education de-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Where Was Simonds?

The latest issue of our "Edu-
Gator" again requires me to
comment. In the recent County
Council hearings on the school
budget the local Chambers of
Commerce presented their views
complete with charts, graphs
and Mr.. Stanley Greene. The
presentation was well done and
many of their points were well
taken however much / may dis
agree with their recommended
tons. The Educator" contains
a report of the budget hearings
and the views presented by var
ious groups but not the slightest
suggestion that the Chambers
of Commerce took part despite
the fact that this represents the
first time they have displayed
such interest.
have long suspected that
blindness is not an affliction Wis
tied only upon the sightless but
even this anomalous hypothesis
cannot explain how Mr.. ST.
monds could possibly overlook
Mr.. Greene. The more logical
explanation seems to be that
Mr.. Simonds hopes Mr.. Greene
and the Chambers of Commerce
will, if ignored, quietly go away.
1t is perhaps this same think
ing that prompts Mr.. Simonds
to lead us into partisan politics
while blandly ignoring the real
educational issues such as the
Amidon School and the recent
critical citizens study group re.
ports which your paper head
lined.
Please continue your able
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Signs Of sanity

The County Council has acted in the interest of
all Montgomery County taxpayers in approving size
able cuts in the School Boards budget requests.
The reductions, as pointed out by Council Pres
ident William F. Hickey, will not affect the quality
of education nor will it impede school officials in
their construction program.
The action is welcome and refreshing news to
those who have long awaited sign of resistance
by our elected officials against minority pressure
groups
1t also should sound warning to members of
the Board of Education The time has come for them
to call halt to demands which far in excess of
actual educational needs and which completely disre
gard the average citizens ability to foot the BILL
There is no reason, for example, why they should
budget funds during the 1852 fiscal year to build
schools for which contracts will not be awarded until
the beginning of the 1923 fiscal year. And surely
there more pressing educational needs than
gymnasium in high school that already has one and
a gymnasium in junior college.
These are the kinds of proposals that the School
Board should have turned down at the outset instead
of passing the buck to the County Council.
II has taken long time, but we hope that signs
of sanity in financing school system have at long
last returned.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
InexeusobIe Action

The Board of Education, by the very nature of its
activities, should cooperate closely with all other
Montgomery County agencies.
The acquisition of school sites and the construc-
ton of buildings have tremendous impact on the
pocketbook of every taxpayer. For this reason,
school officials should make every effort to coordinate
their programs with those of other public agencies
And above all, they should comply with the law.
Unfortunately, they have failed to follow both
these essential policies in awarding contract for
multi-milon dollar high school and in ignoring the
legal requirement for the review by the County Plan
ming Board Of their capital improvement budget.
About year ago. staff coordinating committee
of planners and School Board representatives warned
that the suggested site for the $28 million high school
squarey in the path of proposed street in the
Planning Boards master plan for the Kensington-
Wheaton area.
Despite this warning which was contained in the
committees official minutes sent to the School Board
school officials have gone right ahead to award
tract for the school on this very SITE Obviously when
the Planning Board received the application for a
building permit, the planning agency had alterna-
tive but to deny it.
The law in this case is Enthusiastically clear-no
building can be erected in the path of any proposed
street or highway in plan adopted by the Planning
Board
There can be no justification for the School
Boards action in not only dsregarding the advice Of
its own coordinating committee but the law itself
Not content with this high-handed move, the
School Board has brushed aside another law specifying
that the school capital Improvement program shall
be sent to the Planning Board for review and recon-
mendaons before the budget is adopted by the County
Council.
This law is couched in equally plain language
Yet the School Board has chosen to set itself above the
law by failing to send its capital budget to the Planning
Board in time for the planners recommendations
before the County Council takes final action by the
April Is deadline.
School officials should bear in mind that they
have just much responsibility to obey the law as
any private citizen If they are given free reign to
obey only those rules and regulations which they feel
suit them, we would have governmental chaos and
anarchy
Our county government, like our Federal govern
ment, is based on law, not men. The School Boards
behavior in the two instances mentioned here directly
violates this basic concept and is inexcusabe
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13

partment of the schools plans
to continue this program in
spite of the mounting accidents
and parental protests, the least
they can do is to make tumbling
on the trampoline and the min
iature trampoline an optional
activity, and one requiring the
written permission of parents.
This way all parents would at
least know of the program.
Those children whose parents
do not care to expose them to
such risks could then spend a
greater amount of time in some
activity that can more easily be
defended as contributing to
physical fitness.
Concerned Parent
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Fridays Are Days
Of Reckoning
Welsh Rare Bit

Now that the title of this column has
been changed and County Law is no longer
present have an urge to make a few re-
marks about the law Such is the contrari
ness of life
Friday is the day when all lawyers report
to the Circuit Court. Each and every Friday
has been designated by our Judges as motion
day." From $3.50 am. to $3.50 pm. we lawyers
sit around the court room like crows on a
fence waiting for our bag full of troubles to
explode. For the time being, all of the county
lawyers having business before the court on
motion day must put aside their office work.
or their trial work, or abandon their hunt in
the law library for the double leopard with
the long tail and join in the Friday conclave
and palaveration.
Now just what has happened i'm Mungum-
merry County, which enjoys a felicity denied
our less fortunate sister counties, that makes
it necessary for the judicial brains of the
entire area to convene once week, every
week in the year within the confines of four
court rooms in Rockville? If the court docket
is any answer, it appears that domestic strife
and the quest for ALIMONY in all of its
interesting stages is the reason that Friday
has been set apart from the other week days.
Fridays are now the days of reckoning;
the days when the defaulting husbands of the
county must appear to show cause if any
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Open Spaces

During the meeting of the
Montgomery County Council on
March 81, 1861, a proclamation
was issued declaring March 49,
25 to be Wildlife Week in Mont
gomery County. This proclama-
ton declared, among other
things, that it is now recog-
nized that there is a need for
open spaces. wilderness and
scenic areas including forests,
grasslands, streams and lakes
and also a need for long-range
planning to provide for multiple
use of our natural resources
soils, waters, forests, grasslands
and wildlife-through balanced
conservation for the future.
If these statements are true
and the County Council really
approves of open spaces, the
Continued on Page AID
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Feeble Effort

DR.. c. Taylor Whittier and his Physical Educa-
ton Heads made feeble attempt to convince men,
bers of the press that the of trampones is both
beneficial and safe
They didn't convince us.
Furthermore, even though the press conference
had been called at least 10 days prior to last Thursday
the information at hand concerning accidents on tram
polines was grossly inadequate. In fact the nforma-
ton given to reporters was misleading.
The use of trampolines and this includes minia-
te trampones, is compulsory in the physical educa-
ton program in the seventh eighth ninth and tenth
grades. And to say that accidents on these contrap-
tons was only % of all secondary school accidents
during the 195960 school year is misleading and ir-
relevant because the accidents reported included
throwing snowballs running into doors, accidents in
shops ETC. And it was impossible to find the number
of accidents in physical education.
1t is battling and almost unbelievable that school
officials are unable to give clear concise and accurate
information about a given subject However, they
don't seem to be able to with any degree of consistency
Like many questions that are asked school offic-
lals this one on rampoline accidents will have to be
explored further This subject is more serious than
was first suspected.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
MONTGOMERY

for the Arts Center. Not only
is he interested in things cul.
utral but his wife is an out
standing artist. Furthermore,
she was raised in the same cul-
tural atmosphere of Mrs. John
F. Kennedy. AS a matter of
fact, Mrs. Steers and Mrs.
Kennedy are step-half sisters,
If that is the proper way to
say it. Be that as it may,
Newton has the interest, the
drive, the intelligence and the
leadership to make him a per-
feet choice to head the grow
ing Cultural Center.
CARL H. STRANDBERG
and Glyn Nelson believe they
have discovered something.
They believe the Vikings land
ed on Cape Cod.
They investigated by aerial
Photographic Interpretation
and by extensive ground
photography.
Carl said that several promi-
nent historians have stated
that Vinland, the site of Lief
Erikson's landings in the New
World, was located along the
south shore of Cape Cod.
Carl Strandberg is interest
ed In this study not only be-
cause of his Viking ancestry
but because such a discovery
would have great historical
significance.
No doubt he will go to the
Cape with a group of ar
cheologists this summer to see
what they find when scientific
digging is done. Perhaps,
someone should tell Mrs. Tom
Candy about this. She is DR..
Candy, archeologist.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13

THERE APPEARS to be
two groups in the Rockville
Volunteer Fire Department.
And the first indication was at
the January meeting when a
new chief was elected to re-
place Billy Berry, a very popu-
lar leader among the younger
members of the department.
Winning election to replace
him was ]. o. Gartner.
Chief Gartner has resigned
not only his job as chief but
also from the fire department.
This leads us to believe there
is something more behind this
resignation than just "the
pressure of personal business"
as his letter said.
1t Is possible that Billy's
popularity was just too great
for his followers to accept
with grace a new chief. But
whatever causes, 1t Is unf0r-
tlInate that a division seems
to have created serious prob
lens for the department. A
volunteer group, especially a
fire department serving thou
sands Of citizens, needs soil
darity among the members.
We hope n strong leader can
heal the wounds that seem
evident.
MRS. GRACE SISSON and
Mrs. Ava Birely and a news
paper friend went to call on
Senator John Marshall Butler
in his well,appointed office in
the new Senate Office Build.
ing.
1t is evident that Senator
Butler, the senior Senator
from Maryland. likes his job.
1t is evident that he has en-
joyed belonging to the most
exclusive club in the world.
And it is evident that he would
like another term in the
United States Senate. We
aren't so sure he will get it.
AS a matter of fact, this SUBJ
ject was never brought up be-
cause the Senator had to rush
back to Baltimore.
The newspaperman-and it
wasn't Stanley's brother (he's
In Bermuda looked around.
He made notes:
1.-Two young ladies' in outer
office very attractive. A Mrs.
Lockwood was tall, blond and
efficient-a rare combination.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
By Peter DawsOn

Wonder if she is any relation
to Warren Lockwood, local
builder, flyer and sportsman
of note? No confusion in
office =. Everything well-or-
gained The Senator's Of
flee has green leather furni-
ture Senator Butler looks
like a Senator as he sits behind
big desk One gets the i'm
preston that he's on one poll.
teal track and that Senator
Goldwater Is the best engineer
for train to run on this track
=. A glass clown graces the
table in the Senator's office.
He didn't say who this might
remind him of from time to
time. We didn't bother to ask
either -.
always get the impression
that Senator Butler thinks
Maryland is In the middle of
Baltimore and might possibly
extend to Green Spring Valley.
1t Is only just prior and dur.
ing an election that he realizes
there is such a place as Mont
gOmery County and that there
are voters out there some.
where. Perhaps IL Is a wrong
impression but that's it. And
the visit did nothing to
change IL.
There is no doubt that
Senator Butler is a gentleman
of distinction. And If one goes
along with his thinking on the
track that he's on, then it is
easy to see why he has so
many friends in and out of the
State of Maryland.
Talked for a few minutes
with the Senator. He says he
has no plans for the coming
election in 1862. He's just
waiting to see what happens.
And we can bet he's wondering
what Teddy McKeldin is go.
ing to do. If that man gets to
the Senate of the United
States, you can bet that the
rest of the world will know
that he's there. And Senator
Butler has reason to wonder
just what the former Cover
nor of Maryland is planning to
do politically.
left the office. Had a nice
lunch at the Congressional
Hotel. And the political talk
with the two ladies proved that
Mrs. S. and Mrs. B. aren't just
two pretty ladies' interested in
politics. They know what it's
all about-this game of poll
tics"
DAVID SCULL, turning out
to be an important writer on
weighty subjects, has decided
that he can't take the presi-
dency of the Montgomery
County Arts Center, Inc. He
would have been ideal but the
people at The Sentinel are
happy that he's devoting so
much time and energy to his
new column. And they are
glad that he has decided to
talk about things other than
purely local politics.
NEWTON STEERS, one of
the most civic-minded men to
hit the county for a long time,
would make an excellent head
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Letters to the Sentinel

leadership and reporting activi-
ties in the educational field.
Heaven knows, Mr.. Simonds and
his Educator" have failed us in
both.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Silly Law Dropped

The County Council Tuesday voted to drop con-
sderation of a law limiting the number of pets a
person have Good.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13
Montgomery County
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Who's Next?

A Grateful Teacher
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-13

NEWTON STEERS, one of
the most civic-minded men to
hit the county for a long time,
would make an excellent head
Evening star., 1961-09-24

The idea next intrigued CHS, which
decided to wait until the fall of this
year to sponsor 26-week run.
Meanwhile, Chandler was appear
ing on the Lassie series and serving
as president of the Screen Actors
Guild; Robert Sterling was touring the
country with his wife Anne Jeffreys
in musical revivals, and pretty Chris
White, Washingtonian who made it to
the West Coast via Broadway, was
picking up needed experience via the
TV guest circuit.
Chris enacts Ichabod's daughter;
Sterling plays Madison Avenue type
who comes to the small town to run
a newspaper. "A luxury shooting
schedule says Chris, could make
the difference"
Evening star., 1961-09-24
By BERNIE HARRISON

NAW NEW show is not neces-
sarily new show, if you
understand the ways of TV.
The case of 'Ichabod and Me-" the
CHS series which premieres Tuesday,
is prime example.
George Chandler, whom viewers
may recall as Uncle Petrie on Lassie,
actually played sharp shrewd New
England character named "Ichabod"
as far back as 1856, on a Robert
Montgomery play. A year later, he
played the character in sequel.
This gave Chandler the idea that
maybe there was a series in a teSty
type of this general makeup, an idea
which lay fallow until General Elec-
trio picked up the cost of pilot film,
which ran season ago under the
title of Adams Apple"
Evening star., 1961-09-24
OLD TV ROLE.
BECOMES
THE CORE
OF A BRAND
NEW SERIES

Christine White,
B o b Sterling a n d
6 George Chandler
ore the stellar trio
of the series, Tcho-
bod and Me-
Evening star., 1961-04-09

interest in local projects. And promi.
nently in the text it stated that ''Dave
and his lovely wife Jean and their teen
age daughter Linda live in 'Hartsholm,'
a handsomely remodeled Colonial
home in the Conniteague district"
The story coincided with spring
school vacation, and when David said
at Friday night dinner: ri think we
ought to celebrate" he didn't have to
explain what. ',Just 60 into town and
stay at a suite in a hotel for a few
days." David said. ''See some old
friends"
'I'd love il" Jean said. Shopping.
See some shows
''See Gloria again, Linda said. ''Co
to the Museum of Natural History.
Ride subways."
They had almost a full week in
New York. 1t was Wednesday morn
ing when, via the agency, Mr.. Bodeker
located David Hart at the hotel.
ri don't know how to tell you" he
said. ''Nonpareil never made better
Evening star., 1961-04-09

time, but it was too late. Your whole
place burned to the ground"
At any other time David Hart might
have been crushed. But after all, he
was Mr.. Moreton, and you can't
crush real roots. ''I'll be right up"
he said.
Before he left town he was wise
enough to arrange sublet to cover
the period of rebuilding. He was pre-
pared for all eventualities. Except,
when he stopped off at the Conni-
league General Store, to have Doug
Swansea hand him a copy Of the
''Moreton Archive'' with its still
moist headline: ''Old Stebbins Place
Burns to Ground"
David Hart turned his car back to
New York City and let the insurance
adiusters and Mr.. Bodeker take care
of details and the sale of the property.
The apartment in which the Harts
now live is one of the most pleasant
and modern in the city. The cam
paigns of Mckenzie, Dillinger & Dia-
Evening star., 1961-04-09

ber of Commerce Campaign to select
''Mr. MOreton of 1860"
And, by no coincidence, at the very
same time the public relations depart.
ment of MOD saw to it that news
papers as far a6eld as Hartford, Water
bury and Great harrington received
stories explaining how the vast new
growth of Mckenzie, Dillinger & Dia-
mond might be explained by its Vice
President and Creative Director put
ting down roots in the charming New
England village of Moreton, Conn.
Perhaps the happiest day in David
Hart's life was the Thursday when the
''Moreton Archive" arrived in his
mail box with front-page banner head
lines announcing: "Mr. Moreton of
1860: Dave Hart"
Vou couldn't ask for better iden-
l. tifcation than that. The story
dweIt lovingly on David Membership
in Nonpareil No. l, with his help in
putting Moreton on the map, with his
Evening star., 1961-04-09

mond are now marked by a success
fully slick, urbane sophistication.
a nd this would be the end of the
"A story. Except that business
social visit took David Hart through
Moreton not long ago. He ran out of
cigarettes so he had to stop at the
Conniteague General Store. For better
or worse, Doug Swansea had sold out,
and new man was at the cash register.
David Hart bought his cigarettes.
''Nice country you have up here" he
said.
''Eye-yah, the new proprietor re-
piled. Mighty handsome new devel-
oPment going up ON the Old Hart Place
back down the road" The End
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-21
KING IS FINED

DECATUR, Ga.--A judge i'm
posed a suspended sentence and
a fine on Negro integration lead
er Martin Luther King, Jr., clos
ing a traffic charge case that
figured in the presidential cleo
tion.
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-21
TOO MANY DANES

WASHIN GTON (AP)--The
margin by which Americanwom-
en- outnumber, and outlive, men
is increasing.
The Census Bureau said yes
terday preliminary data from the
1860 census shows there were
100 women for every 81 men
when the count was taken last
April. In 1850, the ratio was 100
women to SO men.
Prior to 1850, men outnum-
bered women.
The 1860 canvass showed also
there were 81 million women
IS or older compared with rs
million men. In 1850, women in
this age group outnumbered men
by 6.5 million to 5.8 million.
Census takers counted 81 mil
lion females and 1873 million
males. In 1850 there were 76.l
million females and 75.2 million
males.
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-21

CHURCH GOD CHRIST. 1900 E. Roeser Rd. Rev. Charles
Wilson, pastor.
youth community fellowship will be held Sunday
April $50 pm. Morrison Warren will be the speaker
UNION BAPTIST CHURCH. 2849 E. Chapman Rd.. Rev. C.B
Allbritton pastor.
Missionary Society will hold its sixth annual Womans
Day services Sunday, 49, Mrs. Malinda Griffin will be
speaker the morning service.
Griffin the president of Zion Rest District Associa
of Mexico convention.
Frank Renwck of Scosdale will address the afternoon
recently attended the Laymens Leadership nst
Miami, Florida Mrs. Renwck has been active Chris
al and lecturer for several years.
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-21

Judge Oscar Mitchell levied a
fine of SIS and a six-month SEN
tence at hard labor against King,
who was placed on probation. The
fine already has been paid.