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Evening star., 1961-11-26
Installation

The Cancer Aid Group held
an installation ceremony last
evening for the 1862 officers
at Solomon's Restaurant.
Newly installed president of
the group is Mrs. Jack Rosen.
A program followed the
ceremony.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
PEG Event

Miss Alice Hutchins Drake,
author of Little Prayers for
Stressful Times" will be the
speaker at the monthly
PEG reciprocity luncheon at
1890 pm, December 6. The
luncheon will be held in Bar
ker Hall of the YWCA.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

SWerson, the WeIl-known
cortoonist, created this
and several other whim-
sicoI designs for the
Forers, q line of cords
corried by Julius Gor-
finckeI g Co. The price
is about IS cents q cord.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

what's available in Washington, here is q
sompIing from card shops, department
stores and galleries around town.
Above, sketch Of the Capitol by
Charles Overly is reproduced on white with
q red border 1t says "Merry Christmas
and best wishes for happy New Year"
inside, sells in boxes of IS for 81. so, and
is exclusive with Woodward & Lothrop.
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-12-23
NEIGHBOR
As THYSELF'
By BObbie Colqulit

Due to the cold rain and very
inclement weather last Satur'
days Tag Day was not as sue
cessful as expected. The chill.
dren stayed out as long as they
could but had to come in when
the rain started. The children
who helped to sell tags were:
Curley Ldghtfoot, William Jones,
Phyllis Lightfoot, Kenneth Ray
on, Tyree Curry, Robert Earl
Jones, Arnola Curry, Jerome
Little, Adrain Majors, Dolores
Albright, Pamela Colquitt, Corky
Thomas, Nicky Thomas, Cheryl
Walden, Noble Mcdowell. Also
a thoughtful neighbour viii n j..
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-12-23

lsobbie COiIu,t, Thank You to
all who took part in the Second
Annual Tag Day and especially
to the thoughtful youngsters:
for without their help there
would not have been a Tag Day
at, all.
The funds raised from Tag
Day will be used to make as
many Christmas baskets as pos
sible. Although we would like to
do more, we are thankful for
what we can do. The families
who will be given baskets will
be notified to come to the Xmas
Tree Party on Christmas Eve
to pick up their baskets which
are gifts from the Citizens of
Robbins.
Tag Day is an annual affair
and will be held each year some
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-12-23

a glorious service December 20,
1861 -"CHRISTMAS DAY"
The theme for this Christmas
Day message is UNTO us A
SAVIOUR IS BORN" What bet
ter way can you start off the
Lord anniversary than in
His house; the place where His
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-12-23

time in the last week in No.
vembe or the first week i'm De-
cembe. y. ..- ....... 4 g.
We are hoping that in the
coming years Tag Day will grow
and we will be able to help more
families. Tag Day is sponsored
by Mr.. Ernest Maxey, President
OF the Village of Robbins; Pastor
Stephens, of the Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church and Mr. Frank
Blocker of the Robbins Eagle
Press. Be sure to let your child
attend the Christmas Tree Party
at the firehouse on Christmas
eve night. Candy and other fine
treats will be there for them
to enjoy. We would like to
express our thanks to Mr.. Shaw
for donating the lights for the
tree, and everyone else who
has taken part in this party
for our children. All clubs wish
ing to contribute to the party
ere asked to contact the Robbins
Eagle.
Contributions are also needed
for the Christmas baskets which
are given to needy families dur
ing the holidays.
Be sure to attend the dinner
held on Christmas day at Mt.
Calvery Baptist Church. This
affair is being sponsored by the
pastor, Rev. Anthony, and other
leading citizens
The Swimming Pool Commit
tee Is holding "a big rattle at
the Village Hall ON December
BIRD. Tickets may be purchased
from any member Of the COM
mittee for a television with
combination stand and a 26-
in bicycle.
During the Forthcoming holi-
days don't forget to do a good
deed for deserving neighbor.
Invite somene to your home or
help the old and sick.
In closing / would like to ex-
tend to all a Merry Christmas,
and ask that you remember the
theme of this column - "Thy
Neiuhbor As Thyself,"
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The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-12-23

always willing
to lend a help
ing hand aided
us in 8 e Iii n 6
tags also Mr..
William Minor.
who sold $S.4C
worth of tags
The total col
lected from the
tag sale, $32.76
I'd like to say
9Th onE VOaIs In
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-12-23
Page S
THE ROBBINS EAGLE
Saturday, December 20, 1861

honor dwells? Come and share
with lis this blessed service OF
Divine Worship. Everyone is
welcome.
Evening star., 1961-05-17

115 volt plug-in model with quiet operation
handsome Thin-Line styling and re-usable ali
filter. Automatic adjustable thermostat.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02
A Few Words
Moment to Cherish
By Kent Palmer
By Kent Palmer

One day the mails bring gaily wrapper
package, marked for opening on just one day.
That helps the youngsters realize that Christ.
mas is really coming.
Then Dad says it's time to buy the tree.
And the evening spent in decorating the bright
newly cut evergreen is almost as much fun
as Christmas even. After that the piles of
presents under the trees grow, imperceptiblv
at first but with an increasing momentum.
It's against all rules of the house to pick
up one of the packages to test it for heft or
rattles.
Then, finally, Christmas eve itself arrives.
The last-minute shopping is done. The larcer
is heavy with wonderful holiday foods.
Bedtime comes only too soon, but sleep
comes only too slowly. There's long time
of lying there in bed willing sleep to come.
But it can't be DONE When it finally does. it
sneaks in and catches the child unawares.
Suddenly it's Christmas morning The an.
ticipation is almost over. But there is still a
time of waiting Everybody, mother says, has
to get on his robe and slippers and gather at
the tree at the same time.
And then the moment just before the
presents are open - that's the greatest mo.
ment of the year. It's filled with meaning.
partly incomprehensible to the children, but
it's an extension of the moment when the
shepherds stood outside the stable, when the
Magi found they were on the right road to
Bethlehem.
It's moment to cherish the elimination
of all the good things of the year fleeing by
and the promise of the new year just ahead.
It's Christmas day!
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

watershed should be reforested
almost none of it isl before
any but tiny dams are built;
and beavers are good at that.
Gradually, at small annual
cost by yielding steady jobs in
this depressed area and a
steady growth in the flow of
the river, natures wilderness
can be transformed into a
much better one. Caverns are
common and make good els
terms. Added storage could be
developed by burning out the
coal beds for power to do the
work of transformation. Then
surface storage could add no
useful service, specifically not
pleasant aquatic facilities.
With its floods minimized the
river itself can serve better.
So damn the dams! Let's build
a rivera nice, clean one.
AS for sewage, pollution
can be removed locally, and
the water recirculated. Huge
and expensive trunk lines
waste the water and invade
the best farm land because it
is flat and easily severed.
They discourage suburba n
sprawl in the hills of home
where we all want to live
while we let crops and cattle
live on good flat land not
punctured by corridors built
to produce traffic jams at
downtown bridgeheads.
A competitive, single-tax sys-
tenn could work this out using
arbitrary zoning decrees in po-
litical planning" If our Park
insonian politicians must build
a pyramiding bureaucracy,
let them pyramid its buildings
too, vertically and out of the
traffic lanes, instead d of
sprawling out o ver the
metro" till it splits at the
seams. We only have part of
a continent, you know.
Alden Potter
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

tain at this years Adult Farm
ers' Banquet held at Peter
Pan Inn on Thursday, Novem-
ber 16. Another small group
will be chosen to sing songs of
the Christmas season at the an
nual Gaithersburg business
mems banquet at the Washing
tonian on December 16.
The school is literally in a
state of pandemonium. A cute
little blonde number enrolled in
the freshman class Tuesday and
set the male population on its
ear. She is Kathy Bourge, sun
kissed from California. Her new
next-door neighbor freshman,
Pete Goldsmith, had a date with
her Friday night, much to the
envy of many of the available
senior boys.
Four Gaithersburg Juniors
Anne Burke, Bob Campbell,
Frank Wilson and Bob Field
have been selected as Gathers
burg's candidates for the Amer
lean Foreign Exchange Stu
dent Program. They now eager
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02
Prize Underestimuted

The Sentinel stays on guard
in its editorial. ("Prize Under
statement") and news report
(Nov. 16) on the River Bend
Dam. AS to the statement of
the Army Engineers that this
dam would provide maximum
storage at minimum cost; gov
ernment planners are as sub
ject to conflict of interest as
the rest of us. Because it pays
off for them, they love to
dream-up big, crash-projects
and underestimate their cost
benefit ratio in fooling all the
people all the time, even
themselves. We must ask,
then, since the damsite is down
river and would begin sitting
up with every flood in the
whole watershed, how long
can the original capacity re-
main available?
What about that really big
storage project in Lake Meade
behind Hoover Dam? Its pro-
moters greatly underestimated
the rate of sitting up; so in an
attempt to maintain storage
capacity, tributary dams are
being projected and built to
put off the evil day of reckon
ing. This leads to a vast in
crease in the surface area of
the storage basins and a cor
responding loss through evapo.
ration. The supply is curtailed
at an increasing rate with no
eventual escape from the di-
lennma other than to use the
water as close to the water
shed as possible, as by tunnel
ing the Colorado Rockies (al-
ready begun) to bring the
water to the eastern slope.
The Appalachians are diff
ferent; but storage under
ground has advantages that no
dam can have. Evaporation
and silt and pollution are elimi-
mated, and the water stays
cold and clear. We are not
living in Ancient Rome or
Babylon; so why use the old
methods which have, for the
most part, left on by ruins?
Modernizing by crash.projects
is, however, wasteful. The
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02
Letters
The Public Forum

inc and choose the members
of the County Council. Not SO
the Planning Board. Changes
will require State legislation.
Having received in effect a
vote of mo confidence" from
the elected County Council and
from many sectors of the COM
munity, the members of the
Planning Board should have
the courage as public spirited
citizens to rise above the con-
troversy and to tender their
designations. Thus can be end
ed a confusion that can only
result in hampering tn e
growth of the county, burden
ing the public with large un-
necessary costs and inconven-
ience, and delaying plans ur.
gently needed for the county
to continue its development as
a good place to live and do
business.
Darius v. Phillips
Chevy Chase, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02
A Few Words
And 50 begins the long wait.


While the rest of the world is worried
about the status of a city called Berlin; while
chimpanzees are being orbited around the
world in space; while the United Nations is
concerned with its weighty considerations
the children are looking forward to this
months big day.
And the period of time between now and
then is a period of time that seemingly will
never pass.
Days drag slowly and, with the events
that build more and more toward the Decem-
ber 25 climax, the sense of anticipation is
heightened until the youngsters can hardly
stand it.
The feeling can well be described as deli
cious
Everything points toward the day. Deco
rations in the city and the suburbs go up.
Parents have secret conferences al, which the
children are not welcome, in a wonderful sort
of way. Newspapers, magazines and televi-
sion carry mouth-watering advertisements.
Stacks of Christmas cards are on hand
awaiting addressing. slow trickle of cards
appears in the mails a trickle which soon
turns into stream.
Christmas carols begin to replace the Sec
ular tunes of the rest of the year on radio
The December chills foretel the coming
of snow, and nearly every child joins with
Irving Berlin in dreaming of white Christ
mas
The suspense mounts as the days pass.
Soon the newspapers are counting the remain
ing shopping days. Churches hold their Christ
mas parties and special Christmas concerts
bV the choirS
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02
Kiwanians Elect
1862 Officers

Walter ]. "Doc" O'Connor was
elected president of the Kiwanis
Club of Rockville at its recent
meeting. Others named to of.
flee for 1862 include:
Jerry Heitmuller, first vice
president; Whitley Miller, second
vice president; Charles Bell,
treasurer; Lou Grossman, Sec
retary, and Paul Magee, Bill Tai
bott, Paul Hubanks, Ross Rob
erts, Bill Copenhaver, Dick Ray
and Martin Quigley, members
of the board of directors.
The Kiwanis Club is selling
Christmas gift wrappings this
year to raise funds for its char
liable projects. Persons inter.
ested in supporting the sale
should contact Paul Magee at
the Record Shop, 235 E. Mont.
gomery ave., Rockville.
The club will hold its sixth
annual Christmas party for the
Crippled Children's Society of
Montgomery County on Dec. II.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

large city hall building. Din
ence between the Gothic and
Romansque architecture.
Richard MOntgOmery's cheer
leaders are busily preparing for
the basketball season. The ten
cheerleaders put their heads to-
gether and came up with some
snappy motions to go along
with the basketball Flight
Song" New cheers and high
school spirit will highIight the
basketball season which starts
on Friday, Dec. 8 with a game
at NOrthwOOd.
The Future Nurses of Amer
lea at Richard Montgomery are
collecting clothing, toys, and
small household items to con-
tribute to the State Institution
for the Mentally Retarded in
Baltimore. The Future Nurses
are working hard to help these
needy and are asking all the
students to contribute any
items they no longer use.
Sixteen teams have been set
up for girls basketball intra-
murals. The games started on
Wednesday, Nov. 20. The girls
have named their teams after
TV programs and current hit
tunes. For instance: Yogi Bears,
Bristol Stompers, Corvettes,
and Nameless.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

tide" will be crowned. Richard
Montgomery's candidate for
the miss Yuletide" crown, Bar
bara Duquette, will be running
against girls from Wheaton,
S sherwood, Poolesville, and
Peary. Barbara, who is captain
of the RM Cheerleaders this
year, is also the best looking
senior girl" according to mem
bers of the senior class.
The members of the Amer.
ican Field Service were in for
a real treat at their last meet
ing before the Thanksgiving
Holidays. At this meeting, held
on Tuesday, Nov. %, our for
eign exchange student from
Italy, Dindina Buffa, gave a
talk and showed slides of her
native country. Most of the
slides were of famous land
marks such as st. Marks Ca
thedral, the canals upon which
the famous gondolas sail, and
dina also explained the differ
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

Photo by Ed Mervis
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

large city hall building. Din
ence between the Gothic and
Romansque architecture.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02
Goifhersburq News Notes
BY Dusty Cunningham

Singing in gay Christmas Spirit will be the 180
students participating in the annual Christmas Choral Con-
cert in our gym at pm The gem of the entire
will be the traditional singing of GLORIA in Exceis Deo"
This medley of Christmas songs will be sung by all the
members OF the choral group with special solo part by
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

Bill Bond, a Junior from Airing
ton, Va.
Other star attractions are: a
girls trio-Joan Gartner, Aletha
Garrett and Norma Jackson
they will sing Hear the Bells"
The other big attraction is the
newly organized robed choir.
They will song, among other
things, "Adoreamus te Christie"
while sporting new gold luster-
loom satin stoles with olde Eng
lish G's embroidered on the
chest in a royal blue.
Bill Earl, who has been the
head of the music department
here at Gaithersburg for IA
years, says that this years con.
cert promises to be bigger and
better than ever.
"Bernardine" Smash Hit
"Bernardine" scored a hit as its
presentation here Friday and
Saturday, November II and 18.
With James Scanlan as director,
the extremely humorous COM
edy well complimented the al
ready fine reputation of the
Dramatics Club.
Music Department - Aletha
Garrett (ukelele and song styl-
ist), Norma Jean Reffit (tap
dancer) and Pat Lowery (accor-
iionist) were chosen to enter
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

ly await hearing from the New
York office which candidate will
be chosen to go. Each of the
candidates feels confident that
he or she will be chosen. After
having spoken to the candidates
l found out that they all want
to dispell the untrue propa-
ganda spread about our coun-
try abroad.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02
RMHS HighIigh+s
BY Sandy Webb

The Rockville Jaycee's sponsoring the annual
'Miss Yulede Dance" which is to be held in the Rich
ard Montgomery High School gymnasium tonight from
to 80 Inermssion entertainment will be provided by
The Magical MacLaurys The cost is 75c stag and ST 25
drag. Also, during the of the evening" Miss Yule
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

REHEARSAI4-Newton l. Steers,
jr, candidate for the Republican nomination
for Congressman-at-large and the first Re-
publican to file for statewide office, tries
out his campaign technique on his 3-year-
old son, Ivan, and two corgi pups perched
on the observation platform" of station
wagon which his dad has equipped to drive
all over the state of Maryland in the next
IL months. Steers says his Congressional
express" is "fast becoming my office away
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-12-02

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Evening star., 1961-09-17
2OOth-Yeor
Birthday Set
By Strusburg

STRASBURG, Va, Sept. 16
(SpeciaD - This Shenandoah
Valley town, midway between
two Civil War battlefields. will
begin a week-long celebration
Monday of the 200th anniver-
sary of it's founding.
The town, 81 miles from
Washington, D. c., on Route H..
lies between Fishers Hill and
Cedar Greek, where Confeder-
ate and Union troops met. The
town was held alternately by
both sides.
Trenches and artillery pits
dug. by Gen. Sheridan's troops
remain outside the town.
Earthworks from which a
Union general watched for
Stonewall Jackson-who came
from the opposite direction
still overlook the community.
Many Colonial homes also
are in the area.
A pageant. Our Glorious
Heritage" will be staged on
Friday and September "a. The
Fort Belvoir band will be fea-
tured in a parade Saturday
DR.. Edward w. Baunan of
/ Wesley Theological Seminary,
Washington. will speak at a
community service the morning
of September "a.
The town, originally called
Staufferstadt after its founder.
Peter Stauffer, was incorpo-
rated in 1851 as Strasburg
after the capital of Alsace.
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Russian Embassy Fire
Inside Job,' U. S. Says

That fire in the Russian EN-
bassy last Saturday was ar
inside job, the State Depart
ment has told the Russians.
Publicly rejecting a Soviet
claim that the fire was set by
someone entering from the out
side. the State Department
yesterday issued this state
ment:
After a thorough investiga-
ton by the appropriate author
tiles, it has been determined
that there is no substance to
the Soviet allegations that the
fire at the Embassy on Septem-
ber 9 was started by someone
entering the Embassy from the
outside"
In other words, the fire, by
accident or design, was an IN
side affair. Joseph w. Reap,
department press officer, said
Richard H. Davis. Deputy As
sistant Secretary of State, gave
this finding orally to the So
Wet Minister Counselor, Mix
hail N. Smirnovsky, Friday
night.
Washington police and fire
investigators remained silent
about what they found when
the Russians called them in last
Saturday night to investigate
the third-floor fire. 1t was un-
derstood, however, they found
that some papers. draperies.
window frames and two beds
we're burned in the room of
Ambassador Mikhail Menshl-
kov.
Mr.. Reap did not say so but
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Ballet Society Head
ToAppeoI School Edict

Mrs. Jean NJ. Riddell. presi-
dent of the National Ballet So
ciety, said yesterday that she
would reapply to the Mont
gomery County Board of APP
peals for permission to operate
a ballet school in Potomac, Md
Two earlier requests for per-
mission we're dismissed by the
board of technicalities. after
residents of Potomac objected
to plans for the school.
Mrs. Riddell said that she
would reapply so that I'll be
able to explain what we want
to do in Potomac. I'm sure
that once I've had a hearing
and explain our purpose, there
will be a lot less objection from
the residents"
Mrs, Riddell's attempts tc
explain how the school will be
constructed were blocked at the
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Freeman to T ak
At Dedication
Of Watershed

CULPEPER, Va, Sept. 16
(SpeclaD Secretary of Agri-
culture Orville L. Freeman will
be the keynote speaker next
Saturday at the dedication of
the half million dollar Noun
tain Run Watershed project
near here.
The three am project,
which provides water and soil
conservations measures for 28,-
700 acres in central Culpeper
County is two miles south Of
here off Route 29.
The Federal-State financed
facility was voted the outstand-
ing watershed project in the
nation by the National Water
shed Congress earlier this year.
The watershed in conjunction
with individual conservation
farms. provides flood i;reven-
ton and water storage.
Evening star., 1961-09-17

it is an open secret that Ameri-
can security agencies keep
watch on comings and goings
at the Embassy. Since the fire
happened at 4:30 o'clock in the
afternoon, it is assumed the
mysterious arsonist would
surely have been seen if he
had broken into the normally
lmpregnable Embassy at 1925
Sixteenth street NV.
Furthermore, Mr.. Reap said
the Russians indicated, in max
ing their protest against this
unprecedented criminal act,"
that the alleged arsonist had
sneaked into the building
through the third-floor rear
bedroom.
The investigators decided
that no one had entered from
the outside in broad daylight
and that the small size of the
hole in the window where the
intruder allegedly got in pointed
to an inside job.
Mr.. Reap said he had no idea
why the Russians would cause
the fire or whether it was set
Intentionally or accidentally.
The Russians said they put
the blaze out themselves and
then protested directly to Sec.
retary of State Rusk before
firemen and police were called
in several hours later.
Asked for comment on the
American statement, a Rus
sian spokesman said the En-
bassy might have something to
say tomorrow.