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Evening star., 1961-04-07

the dinner gowns. the cock
tail dresses, and the evening
dresses Mr.. Okla designs.
Flat obi-inspired! panels.
and floor-length flowing pan
els give movement" to his
clothes which he insists must
be there.
No mincing tiny little steps
for the women for whom he
designs.
A shirt designed by Mr..
Okla is practically his own
fashion signature. OF white
pique, it has a high neck and
fastenS at one shoulder. 1t
looks like a clergman's shirt.
When he works he's tieleSs.
When he goes out a black
knit band encircles it.
This is his concession to
ties which he considers in
humane treatment for men.
Several variations of the
shirt exist. There's even a
full-length version in dress
form for women. A famous
mems fashion magazine is
working on a special layout
featuring the George Okla
shirt.
Okla smiled even more
broadly when his interpreter
told us this.
Okla has designed for
the Princess of the Royal
Family, Michiko the Crown
Princess, and even the EN-
press of Japan. In Tokyo, Mr..
Okla is known as the Dior of
Japan.
Wanting to know a little
more about Mr.. Okla, we
questioned him about his
family in Japan. Speaking
most distinctly he answered
us slowly, as if intoning a
lovely Japanese poem.
mo. l daughter, 20, is
junior miss designer. No. 2
daughter. 26, is hat designer.
No. 3 daughter. 18 in school.
No. l son. "a. works first time
designer in department store.
No. 2 son, 20, law college. No.
3 son, Is, school,"
Evening star., 1961-04-07

wear, but look to Paris for
evening fashion inspiration.
His custom salon in Tokyo
is filled with fabulous fabrics
of the East. However, Mr.. Okla
is a man who is internation-
ally oriented on the subject of
fashion.
For example, in Japan he
uses lots of buttons. In his
New York salon he finds
American women like Orien-
tai tie fastenings, and other
closures.
Mr.. Oka's talents have
been put to use even on Sew
enth Avenue in New York.
In 1858 he worked as a de-
signer-consultant for Spor-
tempos where he did sports
wear designing.
Anticipating our question,
his interpreter said, Mr..
Okla used the international
language Of fashion, sewing,
pattern-making. and got
along fine"
Mr.. Okla has a deep respect
for western clothes construc-
ton, and manages to incor-
porate the beauty of the
Orienta! fabrics into fash
ions that embody American
practically and Oriental
simplicity and beauty.
In Japan right now, Japa-
neSe women are generally
wearing Western clothes.
Even at some rigid festival
observances when the tradi-
tional kimono IS donned, we
were told after about two
hours, the kimonos are
parked, and the slim sheaths
worn underneath come into
view.
Incidentally Mr.. Okla feels
those tiny Japanese women
are getting taller all the time
now that they are eating
American diets.
The Oriental fashion sys-
tenn of wearing clothes in
layers is beautifully expressed
in a lovely dress and coat
ensemble for evening by
Okla.
1t looks like an organza
Joseph's coat, and is made
up Of twelve separate coats
worn on top Of each other in
filmy loveliness and in diff
ferent pale colorings.
Lovely Oriental touches
blend beautifully in many Of
Evening star., 1961-04-07
To Present
Donations

Donations totaling $1,000
will be presented by the Can
Ger Aid Group of Metropoli-
tan Washington to various
groups, at $50 pm. Monday,
at the Tifereth Israel Con-
gregation.
Those to receive donations
are DR.. Howard S. Madigan,
executive committee member
and service committee chair
man Of the American Cancer
Society-$3.900; DR.. Sanford
Leiken. chief of Hematology
Research at Children's Hos
pital-$4,200; and DR.. Calvin
Kloop, medical director for
the Warwick Memorial Clinic
$4,000.
The checks will be present.
ed by Mrs. Irving Gold, pres
ident Of the group.
Guest speaker will be Mrs.
Helen M. Rodgers, director Of
service, District division of
the American Cancer Society.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
FASHION
NOTEBOOK
By ELEM
Okla Spells Dior
To japanese Women

Take gold leaf from an
ancient japanese building.
get the silk worms busy, bor-
row some fashion inspiration
from a Samurai warriors
robe, and what George Okla
comes up with, is pretty fabu-
lous.
The President of Japan's
Fashion Designers Associa-
ton which he founded "a
years ago in Tokyo, is
fittingly visiting Washing
ton at Cherry Blossom Time.
Speaking through inter-
prefer Thomas Sato, we
smiled through a fashion con-
Evening star., 1961-04-07
By ELEM

versation with the genial,
silver-haired little man from
Japan.
The designer was guest OF
honor this morning at a
fashion showing at Julius
Garfinckel & Co.
Mr.. Okla will be at Gar
finckel'S all morning tomor-
row, in the Couturier Salon,
where his collection will be
informally modelled again.
A pioneer in Japan on the
subject of WeSterniZed cloth
ing for Japanese women. Mr..
Okla feels they are partial to
American styles for daytime
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Dr.. Parker


DR.. Elizabeth Parker. au-
thor of THE Seven Ages of
Women" will discuss her
book at a meeting of the
Chevy Chase Branch of the
National League of American
Pen Women tomorrow.
DR.. Parker is a pioneer in
Evening star., 1961-04-07

endocrinology and helped to
establish and operate the first
clinic in the field at George
Washington University.
The meeting will be held
at 2::30 pm. at the home Of
Mrs. Mitchell Dreese. Assist
ing Mrs. Dreese as hosteSses
are Mrs. Edwin w. Davis,
Mrs. c. A. Mathisen, Mrs.
Arthur L. Moran, sr., and
Mrs. Wilbert Stitzenberger.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Sunday Meeting

The Ark and Dove Society
Of the Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution will meet at
3 pm. next Sunday at the
home of Mrs. Leslie H.
Browne jr., in Silver Spring.
Plans for the coming year
will be discussed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Experiment in Best Ways to Use
Time of Teachers Gets Underway

A new experiment in the best
ways to use the time of teach
ers in Rockville's junior and
senior high schools got under
way this week with the opening
of schools throughout tn e
county.
The Rockville Project" an
nounced first by the Board OF
Education last Spring, is de-
signed to study the possibility
of using new teaching methods
and procedures tested favorably
in other parts of the country.
Among the educational prac.
tees to be tried are cooperative
or team" teaching, flexible
scheduling, greater use Of au-
dio-visual aides, use Of teacher
aides and instruction assistants
and more emphasis on the in
dividual students responsibility
Tor learning"
Participating in the project
are Broome Junior High and
the new West Junior High.
Forty members Of the Broome
staff returned early from sum
mer vacations last month to al
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07

lish usage and for the introduc.
ton of new ninth-grade courses
in world affairs and laboratory
science.
Algebra will be offered begin
ming in eighth grade, while sew
enth-grade students will be Of
fered the University of Mary.
lands new modern mathematics
course.
An active language labors.
tory will also enable students
Of French to compare their own
pronunciation with that OF ma
tive speakers on tape record
ings.
Broome's principal, E. p.
pat Moran warned this week
that the pilot program" will not
bring miracles overnight the
real test being the long.range
benefits and gradual strength
ening Of the program
Both the Montgomery County
Curriculum Study Committee
and participants In the Bird
Montgomery County Confer
ence on Education had urged
the establishment Of the pilot
Rockville Project"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07

We can't speak for the
youngsters, but so far as the
principals and teachers in most
Montgomery County schools
were concerned, opening day of
school this week was almost too
good to be true.
A late-day check Tuesday
turned up principal after prin-
cipal bemused but grateful,
indeed - over an almost COM
plete lack of the multitude of
problems which can, and do,
make schools opening less than
an eagerly-anticipated annual
event.
I've just been sitting here,
knocking on wood that the
whole year ahead goes as
smoothly one principal report.
ed happily. Things went so
well it was almost as though
those children never left school
last June"
aside from the fact that so
many of the youngsters were
all dressed up, right down to
their cleaning new shoes, you
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07

wouldn't have known it was
opening day." said another.
mot a tear in the crowd,
among our kindergarteners,"
the principal of a school in the
Bethesda area reported.
This unusual lack of un.
happiness" among kindergart-
eners and first-graders who had
never been to school before inn
pressed many of their teachers.
Said one:
"We'll never know whether
it's a credit to their parents
preparation, or to the careful
planning of our principals for
opening day - or to a new So
phisticated breed of children,
but most of these youngsters
acted as though they had been
through the whole routine be-
forei
Few Tears Evident
Paradoxically, the only tear.
full incident reported was the
case of a pre.schooler, bitterly
unhappy when he saw his old
er friends troop into class at
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07

tend a week.long workshop de.
signed to prepare them for par.
ticipation in the experimental
project.
A principal speaker at the
workshop was Dr. J. Lloyd
Trump, association secretary Of
the National Association of Sec.
ondary School Principals, Ma.
tional Education Association,
who from 1856 to 1860 directed
a national study of the Ideal
ways" of scheduling the time
Of both students and teachers
in junior and senior high
schools. His subject was THE
Junior High School of 1880"
Among the ideas considered
by the teachers at the work.
shop were more extensive use
Of community experts in civics.
science and geography and the
use Of both larger and smaller
class grouping for different
kinds of instruction, such as
demonstrations or discussion.
Broome this year will also be
pilot school for new programs
in the teaching Of correct Eng
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Young Denls
Attend State
Convention

A delegation of Montgomery
County's Young Democrats will
attend the annual convention OF
the Young Democratic Clubs OF
Maryland at the Great Oak
Lodge at Chestertown tomor.
row and Saturday.
Keynote speaker at the meet.
ing will be Michael Monroney,
executive assistant to the Post.
master General. Assistant Sec.
rotary of Agriculture James T.
Ralph will be the speaker at
the Saturday night banquet.
Convention activities will in
clude election of officers and
adoption of a platform.
Serving on the committee in
charge of arrangements for the
convention have been Joseph
O'Connell and c. Lawrence
Wiser of Montgomery County.
Wiser is also program chairman
and chairman of the constitu-
ton and bylaws committee, and
a member of the platform and
resolutions committee.
Other Young Democrats from
the county on the platform
committee are Walter Hansen
Edward Palamara and Philip
Sayre.
Challenges are expected to be
made to the credentials com
mittee to the admission of sew.
eral clubs in Baltimore and
other counties. Doris Solomon
of Montgomery, a member OF
the credentials committee, is ex-
pected to play key role in the
committees decisions.
The Montgomery delegation
is joining Western Maryland
forces in supporting Goodloe
Byron, Frederick attorney, for
the state presidency of the
Young Democrats.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Life Begins At Six

of nas
adhe
a wen tosc for the first
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Schools Opening Reported Smoothest in Years
by Ed Mervis

speck Of shade on the
grounds. If the P.TA hadn't
given us an air-conditioner for
the teachers room, / know a
few of us who wouldn't have
lasted through the day"
"You have to admit" was
one philosophical remark, "that
creature discomforts can inter.
fere with learning. Most of US
were pretty warm and perspir-
ing. Isn't that cold wave ever
going to get here?"
Colored tickets matched to
colored placards on school buses
kept transportation mixups to
a minimum at several schools.
Principals proudly reported
they'd missed none of the chill
dren, coming or going"
Special Treats
Special treats were the order
of the day in most school cafe.
terias, with menu items rang
ing from hot doges and water
melon all time favorites
among kids - to baked ham
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Exemption Seen
For Construction
OF Bomb Shelters

Gov. J. Willard Tawes said
this week he is considering
making the costs of fallout shell
ter construction deductible from
Maryland's three per cent in
come tax.
Announcing conference Of
state and local officials on Sept.
% In Annapolis TO blueprint
statewide civil defense prepar-
edness measures, Tawes said he
would back any legislation re.
quired to facilitate the rapid
expansion" Of Marylands pro.
gram for survival Of its citizens
in the event Of nuclear attack.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Might At Ball Park

Community night at the
Ball Park Friday, September
Is, will attract hundreds Of
local Senator fans. 1t is be-
ing sponsored by the Silver
Spring Board Of Trade, John
r. Calf, president.
A special section behind
home plate will be roped off
for the Silver Spring contin-
gent. Tickets for the Silver
Spring Night are on sale at
the American National Bank,
the National Bank Of Mary
land, Suburban Trust, Guar.
dian Federal Savings, Citi-
zens Building and Loan, Per.
petual Building Association
and at the mems department
of J. c. Penney Co.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07


! master plans for the county are
resolved.
THE county should not com
nit itself to the construction of
a network of sewers serving
125 square miles of unspoiled
countryside before we have de-
cided on where development is
to take place." the citizens group
declared.
The WSSC program calls for
the extension of II miles of
trunk sewers into new and UNI
developed areas of the county,
including, said the planning as
ISOLATION, every major stream
valley from Burtonsville, north
west to Laytonsville and then
southwest across the barnes.
town area to the Potomac at
Seneca"
No Open Spaces
This plan, they charged, con-
templates no room for the open
spaces south of Laytonsville
recommended in the Year 1000
report now under study by the
Council and the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
The county heads should also
consider related general plan
for future development in the
county being prepared by plan
ming consultant Harland Bar
tholomew, before it gives its ap-
proval 10 the sewer program,
they added.
This program contemplates
leaving no sizable area without
a trunk sewer within 20 miles
of the center of downtown" the
citizens group charged. "It
does not even contemplate such
breaks in monotony as are ar
forded by two-acre coming"
If the M-NCPPC and the
Council approve the sewer pro-
gram, the citizens group
warned, they will, In effect,
have taken "a large step toward
committing Montgomery Coun-
ty to pattern of uniform sub
division development outward
from the District nearly to Lay
louisville"
Pointing out that Planning
Commission figures indicate
about one.third of the anticipat-
ed population growth in the
county during the next 20 years
"can be accommodated in areas
which are already served with
trunk sewers the citizens stat
ed fatty:
Most of this program is, to
say the least, premature"
A wrong decision at this time
as TO where sewers should go
could be staggering in its
later qualifications, they warned.
IF sewers, schools and pri-
vate planning turns out to be
in the wrong locations, and
spread out across the whole face
of the county in a sprawling
pattern expensive to service, re-
quiring a network of roads cost
ly to build and maintain, and
not concentrated enough to sup
Continued from Page T.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Simmons Appointed

Appointment of George j..
Simmons to the newly created
position of Purchasing Agent
has been announced by Ameri.
can National Bank President
Warren H. Lasher.
Mr.. Simmons will assume du.
ties formerly assigned to the
banks auditing department. He
will also continue to perform the
duties of stock room supervisor,
a position he has held for the
past seven months.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07

Forest Grove Elementary and
leave him with his mother In
the schoolyard.
The SentinePs spot check re-
veaIed only one lost" child of
the 1884 officially on hand for
opening day-and this a first
grader who had simply decided
he was big enough to head on
home after school without wait
ing for his mother. When
Momma arrived, she frantically
reported him lost, then return
ed home to find her young
man wondering where she'd
been.
The Heat Got Them
About the only complaint
school personnel had to make
about the day was the heat.
II know it was 81 degrees in
a couple of those classrooms,"
one principal declared. "By
early afternoon some of the
youngsters in their new blouses
and shirts looked pretty wilt
ed"
At one school, there wasn't
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-09-07
Resolve Conflicts
Before Approving
Plan, Say Citizens
Premature and Should Not
Be Approved at This Time

Labelling the Washington Suburban Sanitary Com
missions fiveyear program for the county prema
ture the Montgomery County Citizens Planning Associa
ton this week asked the County Council to withhold its
approval of the program until its conflicts with proposed
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18
Students
Entertain
Employers

Seymour Wolfbein, deputy as
sistant secretary of the Depart
ment of Labor, will speak at
the third annual Montgomery
County Work Experience EN-
ployer-Employee Banquet We'd
nesday.
The banquet will be held at
z pm. at Brooke Manor Coun.
try Club.
Wolfbein will discuss MAN
Challenge of the 1905. /"
More than 200 seniors from
five Montgomery County high
schools are enrolled in the pro-
gram in distributive education,
diversified occupations and Of
flee education.
The group holds the BAN
quet each year to show employ
ers their appreciation for re-
ceiwng on-the-job training as
part Of their high school edu-
cations.
Participating schools include
Bethesda Chevy Chase, Cath.
ersburg, Montgomery Blair,
Richard Montgomery and
Wheaton.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18

An ambitious program for
boys and girls in the Bethesda,
Chevy Chase and Kensington
areas has been planned for the
summer by the Bethesda Chevy
Chase YMCA.
Bells Mill Day Camp, in its
18th year, win operate for four
two-weelx periods, beginning
June 26. Children win be taken
to and from the camp from the
following churches: Westmore-
land Congregational, Chevy
Cha ase Presbyterian, Chevy
Chase Methodist, Bethesda Pres
byterian, Bethesda Methodist,
Bradley Hills Presbyterian and
st. Paul's Methodist in Ken.
sington.
James McFall is in charge of
the camp for the fifth season.
Bannockburn Day Camp will
also offer four two w e e k
periods beginning June rs. The
camp. sponsored in cooperation
with the Bannockburn Commu-
nifty Club, is directed by Ber-
nard Blond for Bannockburn,
Burning Tree and Woodacres.
Summer Fun Club at the
YMCA Family Center, Old
Georgetown I'd. at Beach ave-,
win have three two-week ses-
sions, beginning July 8. Under
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18

To celebrate the forty-first
birthday of Civitan Interna-
tional and their own fifth birth
day, the Rockville Civitan Club
initiated six new members as a
commemorative gift to its
founders at the Shady Grove
Country Club last night.
Initiated into the club at the
birthday celebration were Rob-
ert w. Auber, Clifton w. Grim,
Thomas Keys, Art Lehman,
Clifford E. Taggart and George
Warner.
Highlight of the evening was
the presentation of Civitan's an
nual award to the Rockville
Citizen of the Year" Eugene
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18
Civilians Install Members
At Birthday Celebration

"Pat" Moran, principal Of
Broome Junior High School.
Featured on the program was
a cake-cutting ceremony by Rob-
ert Killion, the clubs first pres
ident, who was assisted by Cy
Campbell, Bob Heeney, and Les
Shores, past presidents; Charles
Demma, current president, and
Joseph Lynott, jr., president
elect.
Special guests included Cor
nelius Whalen, governor, and
William Sims, lieutenant COVER
nor, both of the Chesapeake
District of Civitan International,
who installed the new members
in a candlelight service.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18
Children's Play Re-Run
Scheduled for Weekend

costumes, settings, props and
sound effects.
The repeat performances were
arranged by the sponsoring
Rockville Town and Country
Club to meet the overflow from
an unexpected demand for tick
cts to the first run.
Mrs. John Haltwiners, the
clubs ways and means chair
man, said proceeds of the per-
formance will go to the groups
welfare fund.
Three silver dollars will be
given away to youngsters at
tending each performance.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18

Montgomery County young
sters win have a second oppor-
tunity to see the Rockville Little
Theaters successful production
of '"The Princess and the Swine
herd" at two additional per-
formances scheduled for Satur-
day and Sunday at 2 pm. in the
Rockville Civic Auditorium.
The production, based on a
Hans Christian Anderson fairy
tale and adapted for an all-adult
cast by Madge Miller, was first
performed early in March. Sen
tinel reviewer Cyril Helman
praised 1t for its Enchanting"
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18
B-CC YMCA Summer
Program Is Announced

the direction of David ]. Lewis,
YMCA executive secretary, it
will operate weekdays from
$3.50 am. to 1 pm.
A number of boys from the
area are expected to attend
Camp Let's, YMCA resident
camp at Edgewater. Further in
formation can be obtained from
the YMCA at Oliver 2-3713.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18
BOOknnObile

Friday, April 12-Burtons-
vile, 3:154:30; Kingswood
court, 3:154:30; White Oak,
3:15-4:30.
Saturday, April 22-Danes-
town, 9:15-10; Poolesville, 10:30-
11:30; Hyattstown, 12-1; Dafnas-
Gus, "a; Woodfield, 4:154:45.
Monday, April 24-Barnes-
vile, 3:15-3:45; Unity, 4-4:45;
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18

performances, including Ranger
Hal, Milton @. Ford, Pick Tenn
pie, Milt Grant, Fred Fiske, AL
Ross, Herb Davis, Hardin and
Weaver, Lewis Martin and
others.
The Cancer Aid Group pres
entity is donor of a yearly fellow
ship at Children's Hospital in
Washington which allows a ply
sician to devote his full time to
cancer research study. The
group also gives yearly to the
American Cancer Society and
the Warwick Memorial Cancer
Detection Clinic.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18

than 500 women, hopes the car
nival will help the group reach
its goal of $4,000, to be donated
to various career research So
cieties.
The carnival, featuring Jolly
Shows, Inc, is at the lower level
of the Plaza parking lot and will
be open from $50 to 10:30 pm.
Monday through Friday and
from 1 to 1890 pm. Saturdays.
Mrs. Marilyn Klevit and Mrs.
Doris Greenfield head the
groups carnival committee.
Mrs. Irving Gold is president of
the organization.
A number of area PERSONAL.
ties will be on hand for carnival
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18
Honenlakers
Meet

A talk on artificial flower
making by Mrs. Frances S.
Stewart, Bethesda, highlighted
the April meeting of the Silver
Rock homemakers at the home
of Mrs. Phyllis Bensing, Rock
Vile.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18

Broolmont, 3:15-4:3O; Oakview,
3:15-8:30.
Wednesday, April 26-Poto-
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18
Cancer Aid Group Carnival
Under Way at Wheaton Plaza

First outdoor carnival of the Cancer Aid Group is
adding holiday air at Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center
The carnival will through Saturday April 49, it opened
last night
The Cancer Aid Group local organizations of more
Montgomery County sentinel., 1961-04-18

Thursday, April 27-Harmony
Hills, 3:15-4:30; Chevy Chase,
3:15-8:30; Glenmont, 3:15-4:30.