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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-10

AUGUST l9-3 PM. Annual
Fried Chicken & Country Ham
Supper, Veg. & homemade
Rolls. Browningsville Band &
Picnic outside Woodfield Hall,
Woodfield, Md. Adults $1.50,
Children 75c. 4t-8-17
SEPT. annual Fried Chicken
& Country Ham Dinner at Da.
mascus Methodist Church. Spon.
sored by the WSCS beg. at 2
pm. Adults, $3.50; Children,
75c. 1881
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-10

WILLIAM n. DUNPHY
Jefferson Building
Rockville, Md.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Orphans Court for Montgomery County
has issued Letters Testamentary to
John NJ. Milton In the Estate of
BERNARD r. LOCRAFT
late of Montgomery County deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned 10 present the
same on or before the 18th day OF Feb
ruary next: they NAV othtrwise by law
tate. All persons indebted TO said Estate
are requested to make immediate pay
ment.
Given under my hand this End day OF
August. 1861.
JOHN II. milton
1876 Holly Street NV.
Washington. ID. c.
Executor 6t-772-9-14
Evening star., 1961-08-21

evidence submitted by county officials
and residents in support of a bill by
Representative Lankford to authorize
the moving of the ForeStville School, or
the building of new one elsewhere,
at Federal expense. The Air Force is
opposed to the bill as setting precedent
that might impede its construction pro-
gram in the future. The ForeStville
School is special case, however The
county bought the site before Andrews
was built. Even in the bases early days
the noise level was so low as not to be
Objectionable. But with the advent of
the huge jets the school and, indeed, the
whole community have been haraSSed
by the din.
Representative Lankford is right
in holding that the Government, which
has rendered the school virtually useless,
ought to bear the expense of relief.
And we indorSe, also, his plan for
congressional study of the whole jet
airport noise problem with a view to
protecting property owners against
depreciation of values caused by un-
foreseen airport developments.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Noisy Witness

Nothing could more effectively
drown out Air Force objections to pro-
posals for relief of jet y noise victims
in the ForeStville area near Andrews
Air Force Base than the tape recordings
played before House Judiciary sub
committee. The recordings were taken
in classroom at the Forestville School
as one of Andrews big jet transports
thundered overhead The voices of
children and teacher were lost in the
roar of the plane. Moreover, Prince
Georges County School Superintendent
William S. Schmidt stressed that such
ear-Shattering blasts occur many times
day-and will increase in number next
year, when the number of jet landings
and takeotfS will average about 1000
a day.
The recordings were part of the
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Mercury Speed-Up

In deciding to call off further
Suborbital flights, the National Aero
nauticS and Space Administration has
explained that the two up-and-down
trips carried out by AstronautS Shepard
and GrisSom have provided all the in
formation needed to begin the orbiting
phase of Project Mercury.
Accordingly, within the next few
days (perhapS tomorrow, a modified
Atlas missile will be launched at Cape
Canaveral in an attempt to put into
orbit two-ton Mercury capsule similar
to Shepard'S and Grissoms's. If all goes
well, the capsule-which will carry an
electronic "creWman Simulator" that
will breathe, sweat and talk" in more
or less human faShion-will make a
single celestial circumnavigation of the
globe, and then be recovered intact.
Next, given a success of this sort,
NASA apparently intends to move as
quickly as possible to put another of
these vehicles aloft, with a chimpanzee
aboard. And not long after that, again
assuming that all goes we'll, one of our
seven Mercury AstronautS will be sent
up on three es-around- -the-world
orbital flight. This could happen before
the year ends, not very much later than
the history making trips of Soviet
CoSmonautS Gagarin and Titov.
However, although abandonment of
the suborbital tests speeds up the time
table Of Project Mercury, NASA has
made clear that no unnecessary risks
will be taken. Ever since the projects
inception, the agency has acted in
keeping with the principle that every
effort must be made to insure that the
American astronaut, when he is fired
into orbit, will face no greater danger
than that faced by test pilot when he
tries out a high-performance airplane
for the first time.
This is an excellent rule of thumb.
and it is reaSSuring to know that it is
still being adhered to despite the pres
SureS of the space race and the natural
desire of Americans to catch up with
the Russians, and forge ahead, at the
earliest possible moment.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Church-Stote Issue

In rebuking Representative
Delaney in the church-state
debate, Lester Kimble cites
France, Holland, Belgium and
Mexico as horrible examples
of aid to parochial schools,
and the danger of letting
corrupt and tyrannical gov
ernments and churches con-
troll the school system. He
wonders how any American
can object to turning over
individual control of secular
education to the collective
action of the people through
the local and Federal govern
mental mechanism.
The Communists have SUBJ
stituted collective action for
individual liberties. Why
should we emulate the Com
munistS in taking away any
individual liberty?
It is automatic that public
tax-supported schools can
teach only that which meets
with the approval of the
majority. The result is the
sitting of minority ideas and
theories in social science,
philosophy, religion, medicine,
law, education-in spite of
absolute Constitutional guar
anteeS of freedom of speech
and religion.
Conversely, taxpayers in
the minority cannot prevent
a possible tyrannical majority
from using the public school
system as a vehicle for teach
ing Objectionable ideas, atti-
tudeS or propaganda. The
danger, then, of potentially
undesirable Federal control
is very real.
Many people believe pri-
Vately supported colleges can
compete effectively with tax
supported colleges. I predict
the coming of tuition-free
public college education, and
with that. the diminishing of
the number of private COL
leges, a loss to a free society.
One good way to aid tax
payers whose children attend
private or parochial schools
and colleges is to allow them
a liberal tax deduction or
allowance. Since the Govern
Evening star., 1961-08-21
ProVocotion in Tunisio

Tunisia'S President Habib Bourguiba
chose dangerously provocative way
OF further embittering the atmosphere
for the United Nations General As
Sembly debate on the French -Tunisian
problem which opens in New York
today. Asking for a week end of
nationwide peaceful demonstrations"
against the continued presence of
French military forces in Bizerte, Mr..
Bourguiba has actually been, toying
with the explosive and often hard-to-
control element of mob action. To
set this emotionaliSm loose, to encour-
age presumably unarmed and unor-
ganized crowds to assault the French
guarded barriers around the big air
and naval base, amounted to a thinly-
veiled appeal for new violence and
bloodShed.
Indeed, Mr.. Bourguiba'S own words
made fully clear his awareneSS that
demonstrations easily could touch off
new outbreaks of fighting in which the
TuniSians almost surely would suffer
the heavier casualtieS-juSt as they
did when he ordered their peace
siege" of Bizerte in July. If the
French fire on "calm, unarmed dem
onStratorS" on this occasion, Mr..
Bourguiba warned, there will be an
answer" What he meant by ian
answer" is not clear, but there is still
little doubt that he was taking a
deliberately threatful position in full
knowledge that it might have violent
consequences. 1t is more good luck than
otherwise that this has not been the
result
In other respects, too, Mr.. Bour-
guiba has taken an intranSlgenC atti-
tude against bilateraI French -TuniSian
negotiations for anything short of
speedy and complete withdrawal of
French forces from his country,
refusing French offer of consultation
on moves to establish "normalcy" in
the Bizerte area. Instead, he called
upon U. N. members to Choose be-
tween catering to France and fidelity
to principles"
Along with his determination to
throw the whole problem into the cir
cuS-like arena of the United Nations,
the TuniSian president has applied a
very apt expression to the Forthcoming
proceedings. He has predicted it will
be a grand deballage" the
opening of Pandoras box from which
all sorts of strange sounds and fury
and all kinds of misunderstanding may
well emerge. No doubt mutually
acceptable French -TuniSian resolution
of this crisis will be reached in due
time. But that time is not likely to
be brought closer by Mr.. BourguibaS
behavior or by the bitter words that
will be spoken in New York this week.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Bumptiousness in Tokyo

Soviet First Deputy Premier AnaS-
taS Mikoyan, while being treated as a
guest in Tokyo, has displayed the in
cred1bly bad manners (Which Nikita
KhruShchev apparently has made an
instrument of the Kremlin'S policy
around the globe) of saying threatful
things to his host. Thus, with a some
what Sickening intermingling of smiles
and froWnS, he has crudely warned Pre-
mier Hayato Ikeda that Japan, because
of its mutual security pact with our
country, could be dragged into war with
the USSR If events in Berlin erupt into
a general conflagration. And ne has
gone on to suggest that the pact should
be dissolved forthwith.
Well, the Japanese know more than
a little about the Russians. And one
thing they know, above all, is that the
kreml1n, despite a non-aggreSSion
treaty and all sorts of other pledges
and promises, attacked them in 1945
after our own country had already won
the war there. Since then, Washington
and Tokyo have been defensively allied
for very good and obvious reasons. In
the circumstance, neither Mr.. Ikeda nor
the bulk of Japan's people are likely to
be intimidated by Mr.. Mikoyan'S per-
formance. Instead, since politeneSs and
gracious behavior are deeply part
of their national psychology, this is a
thing that can hardly fail to make them
less enthusiastic than ever about the
ever-menacing Kremlin and its bump
tious emiSsaries.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Make 1t Easy to Vote

The rules governing voting in
national elections in the District of
Columbia, as just approved by the
House, undoubtedly follow the pattern
Of laws in most of the States in at least
three respects: A one-year residential
requirement; voting age of 81, and
restricted absentee voting rights. Yet
the present trend is toward liberalizing
such provisions in order to encourage
heavy voting and the removal of every
unnecessary barrier between the voter
and the ballot box. Several States have
reduced the residence requirement.
Ohio, for instance, requires only forty
days. Other States have reduced the
voting age to 18 and there is concerted
effort toward State legislation which
extends absentee voting privileges to
those kept away from the polls by illness
or travel
When the Senate District Com
mittee reports its version of a District
elections law, we hope it will be more
liberal in such provisions than the
House bill. AS Senator Kefauver has
written in letter to Chairman Bible
OF the Senate committee, the District
law should reflect the best ideas in
modernization of voting laws that have
become archaic. In so far as possible,
the District law should incorporate
every device that makes it easy to vote.
The administration proposals in such
respects, are preferable to those in the
House bill, and if the Senate approved
bill reducing the length of required
residence, the voting age, and facili-
tating absentee voting, such differences
should not be too difficult Of recon-
ciliation in conference.
The House bill contains no literacy
requirement, and none seems to be
planned for the Senate bill There
ought to be such requirement, such as
in the New York law. There are obvious
advantages in making literacy a quail
f1cation to vote. The discriminating
application of literacy tests, rather than
the tests themselves, have given them a
bad name. But their abuse elsewhere
should not result in the exclusion of
literacy qualifications from the District
law.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
DespoiI Mt. Vernon?

Newspaper accounts have
indicated that the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Com
mission has decided a sew
age plant at Mockley Point
across the river from Mt.
Vernon will not be built.
The Mattawoman Greek in
Charles County appears to
be the ultimate plan for
sewage disposal of Prince
Georges County. Sewage la
goons will be used temporar-
lily until the ultimate plan
can be implemented.
The Accokeek Garden Club
agrees with this intelligent
planning for the future of
southern Prince Georges
County.
However, it is understood
that the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Capital Park and Planning
Commission has given ap-
proval to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commits
sion to build a sewage dis
poSal plant on the shores of
PiScataway Bay opposite Mt.
Vernon as an alternate to
the lagoon plan noted above.
The Accokeek Garden Club
vigorously opposes any sew
age disposal plant in the
Piscataway Bay area. The
proposed lagoon system will
adequately relieve the stu
alton on an interim basis
until the Mattawoman Greek
plant can be established.
The area in which it is
proposed to erect this plant
has no need of such facilities
because the land usage pat
tern is rural residential with
large five acre home sites
and farms. Therefore no
economic use of the sewage
facilities can be made by
the area. 1t is a desecration
of unspoiled natural water
front and wooded areas of
great beauty.
In the future visitors Of
Mt. Vernon may have to
suffer the discomfort of
offensive odorS emanating
from the proposed alternate
plant.
In order for a few real
estate operators north of
the area to reap financial
benefit, this lovely area is
to be sacrificed.
Mrs. S. deb. Keim.
Secretary, Accokeek Garden
Club.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Animal Human Cancer Link Probed
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

procedure which probably
will produce a long series of
slow gains rather than any
sudden breakthrough."
y = y
There is a growing likeli-
hood that at least some, per-
haps even most, cancers are
due to some sort of filterable
virus. This probability is not
changed by the undoubted
fact that the viruses must
have suitable conditions for
action.
There are possibilities that
some kind of inoculation or
vaccination some day may be
possible. This actually has
been demonstrated for some
kinds of malignant tumors.
So promising are the leads
that the National Cancer
Institute of the Public Health
Service expended a total of
SIS million in experimental re-
search during the past year
and plans an equal expendi-
ture this year both for work
at the institute itself and in
grants TO other experimenters.
This is revealed in a report
by Director Endicott.
Viruses Must Be Identified
The first vital step, says
DR.. Endicott, is positive
Identification of various
groups of viruseS, especially
those found in animals. This
is necessary before there can
be any determination of a
positive relationship between
these viruses and cancer in
man. Also essential for fur
ther advance in this field,
says the report, are:
Development of a labora-
tory animal, probably some
sort of mouse whose viruses
and genetic characters are
known.
Detection agents for iden-
tifying viruses present in
such animals.
Increased availability Of
monkeys and other primates
for study of human viruses
suspected of causing cancer.
Provision and distribution
Of an adequate supply of
human malignant tissue and
human blood:
Design and production of
special research equipment,
such as a liquid nitrogen re-
frigerator, for indefinite
preservation of living cells
at extremely low tempera-
lures.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry priters' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS ore subject to condersd-
tion. Those not used tctu be
returned only Dhen accom-
painted By self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
THE PASSING SCENE
The Past Is but the Beoinnino'
By RALPH McGILL
Man walking upright at
q nm

Man walking upright at
8 pm.
Professor Francis o.
Schmitt began a recent talk
at the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology with a
1902 quote from H. G.. Wells.
In that year, Wells wrote in
THE Discovery of the Fu-
ture."
1T is possible to believe
that all the past is but the
beginning of a beginning e.
1t is possible to believe that
all the human mind has ever
accomplished is but the
dream before the awakening
All this world is heavy
with the promise of greater
things, and a day will come,
one day in the unending sue
ceSsion of days, when beings,
beings who are now latent
in our thoughts and hidden
in our loins, shall stand upon
this earth as one stands
upon a footStool, and shall
laugh and reach out their
hands amidst the stars"
TelescOping Time
Wells was thinking in
terms of centuries. Yet, a
little less than so years from
the day he enchanted mem
bers of the Royal Institution
in 1902, two men have Or
bited the earth, and main
tained conversation with it.
Two others have penetrated
outer space.
Even more revolutionary
news is ahead for us. From
any one of five laboratories,
within the next five years,
will come word that life has
been created by laboratory
processes.
Within this century man
may be able to beam light
signals to the stars.
A commentator has re-
minded us that Franklin D.
Roosevelt was considered un-
reliable because he gambled
two billion dollars on the (of
course impossible) prospect
of producing atomic energy.
He would, said the observer,
have been in danger of being
locked up as mentally dan
gerous had he asked the
Congress for a few billion
Evening star., 1961-08-21

ment is considered ultimately
responsible for the education
Of every citizen, it can right
fully allow any sum up to the
amount it saves by being re-
lieved of the responsibility.
A. LANCER.
Evening star., 1961-08-21

An extensive program of
epizoology now is being
developed by the National
Cancer Institute of the
Public Health Service. It will
consist of intensive study of
malignant growths in lower
animals and their possible
relationship to cancers in
humans.
1--WE have become increas-
ingly aware" says DR.. Ken
meth M. Endicott, institute
director, "of the widespread
occurrence of cancer among
animals in their natural
environments. This suggests
the possibility that some
common causes may be re-
lated in some way to cancer
in man, although there is no
evidence that cancers are
transmitted from animals to
man. The disease in both man
and animals, however, may be
a reaction to the same ell
vironmental or infectious
agents."
Leukemia and related blood
cancers, he points out, arc
among the primary causes of
death in hens and pulletS.
This has become a matter of
concern for the Agriculture
Department. Leukemia also is
seen in cattle and presents
a major economic problem
in both Germany and Den
mark. There now is evidence
that wild mice which lnhabit
granaries carry a virus which
causes a wide variety of
tumorS in other mice and
rats.
Perplexing Problem
"The most perplexing
problem to develop recently"
says DR.. Endicott, "is the re-
cent discovery that rainbow
trout in this country have a
high frequency of liver tu-
morS. This is a situation with
both health and economic
implications. Studies are
progressing to clarity the
cause of the disease. The
best possibility seems to lie
in analysis of some new types
of pellet diets on which most
of the trout now are raised.
"The current scientific
consensus is that a universal
cancer test is no more likely
to be found than a single
cause of cancer. Our dag
nostic research therefore is
oriented along the narrow
lines of specific cancer en-
titles. This is a long range
Evening star., 1961-08-21

bore bumper stickers read
ing: II Miss Ike"
I suggest that a special
bumper sticker be prepared
for use at the White House.
1t would read: II Miss Ike
Most of ALL"
Mrs. r. E. Bradford.
Evening star., 1961-08-21

@. Did Theodore Roosevelt
give the name Rough Rid
erS" to the men who served
under him in Cuba during
the Spanish-American War?
"A. N.
A. Newspaper correspon-
dents probably coined the
name. In writing about it,
Roosevelt said: For some
reason or other, the public
promptly chriStened us
Rough Riders At first we
fought the use of the term,
but to no purpose; and when
finally the generals of divi-
sion and brigade began to
write in formal communica-
tions about our regiment as
the Rough Riders we
adopted the term ourselves"
Evening star., 1961-08-21

dollars to send a man to the
moon. Yet Roosevelt has been
dead only a matter of Is
years, and the Congress not
only votes President Kennedy
funds for a moon visit by man
but is irked because we are
not abreast of the Russians in
readying for the journey.
How fast have things come
to man and earth? Professor
Schmitt provides an easily
mpre h ended illustration
which he calls a "Time-lapSe
caricature Of evolution" as
follows:
Suppose earth's age to
be five billion years. Com
press that span to one cal
endar year. Earth's birthday
would be January l. Giant
organic molecules capable of
reproduction appeared per-
hapS by February. Living
cells with microcosmic pat
terms of multicellular in
vertebrates with their feder-
alton of specially differenti-
ated sovereign cells come in
the late spring. Brainy
mammals arrived in October,
primateS in November, and g.
man walking upright, not
before 8 pm, on December
81. Recorded history began
in the last minute of the
year. Science as we know it
is only two seconds old -
this year we celebrate the
quadricentennial of the birth
of Francis Bacon, the found
er of the modern scientific
method"
Molecules and Men"
Professor Schmitt's bril-
liant paper deals with order
ing principles in the affairs
of molecules and men," But
he dramatizes very well, in
deed, the swift, inexorable
pace Of change - in earth
and in man himself.
He suggests, quite serious
ly, the possibility that SEN
tient beings, far surprising
man in scientific ability, may
exist on the planets of in
Vulnerable stars. Earth's
man" may. indeed, be some
where near the middle, not
the top, of evolution.
The bronze and iron ages
are behind us. We dwell in
the first minutes of the age
of science.