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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18
By Bob Considine

stone "A people which takes no
pride in the noble achievements
of remote ancestors will never
achieve anything worthy to be
remembered with pride by re-
mote descendants" MaCauley.
The climate, a memory OF
things past and other lures have
made this area the traditional
redoubt or last stamping ground
of the nations retired ilitary
man. More than 100 retired gen.
erals live in or around FIT. Sam
Houston, including such World
War II commanders as Simpson
of the Ninth Army, Hodges of
the Seventh, and Krueger-who
in the Louisiana war games be-
fore Pearl Harbor gave full
credit for victory over Gen.
eral Drums Army to his OBJ.
scure executive officer, 1t. Col.
D. D. Eisenhower. 1t was the
first time Ike's name had ever
appeared in a nationally circu.
lated news story.
The former President was
married here in 1916 to a pretty
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18
MeGuffey's Reader

Recently t h e Lakewood
School of Twin Lakes, Wiscon-
sin, had quite a controversy
about using McGuffeys Read
ers to educate the pupils. This
brought to mind that in the
1905 in Washington County,
Maryland, McGuffey's Readers
were used to give us a good
Elementary school education,
for which we were all thank
full, and from McGuffey's new
Eclectic Speaker pubishde in
1858, / would like to quote the
following:
There Is a GOD
Every THING in Nature
proclaims the existence of a
GOD. 1t is written upon the
painted pebble and the vario-
gated shell, upon every blade
of grass and every leaf of the
forest. 1t is written upon every
star whose glittering sheen
lights up the blue depths of
the illimitable expanse, and
upon every grain of sand on
old earth's bosom.
1t is equally proclaimed by
the rafting thunder, and by
that "still small voice." the
volcanoes flash and the light
ning's glare, by the cataract's
roar and the gentle purling of
the brook, by the rushing
whirlwind and the gentle
zephyr. II is proclaimed by
the raging storm, prostrating
everything before it; and by
the gently dropping shower,
bring Joy and healing on its
wings, by the grooming of the
forest and the rustling Of the
corn fields; by the angry tu-
multi OF the oceans giant
wales, and the beautiful rip
ping Of "Loman's placid
laINe."
- 1t is written on every page
of Natures volume, and pro-
claimed by every voice that is
sues from her laboratory. We
see throughout nature an evil
dent unity of purpose and de-
sign, a beautiful and har-
monious system Of laws, so ar
ranged that in the Universe,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18

taxes. They don't have to be
shared with the tax collector,
as do most cost savings or
higher earnings. For example,
If your are in the 500 tax
bracket, a tax saving is worth
twice as much as a cost saw
ings or an increase in income
of the same amount. Some
mutual funds are set up to
provide long term capital
gains. Variable annuities pro-
vide tax-favored benefits. Oil
and gas producers mot re-
finers, manufacturers and dis.
tributors of Oil products) en-
joy basic tax advantages. New
small business" investment
companies are tax favored.
Gifts of capital assets to men,
bers of your family income
taxes by spreading income
more venly. Trusts for minors
produce tax savings.
So you see, there is an an
swer for the man with tax
problems.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18
Request To Press

This is a request to the press
and the community. The re.
cent book-b a ming by our
county authorities is advertise.
ment enough for a book not
worthy of such publicity. 1t
should not be banned, as it will
be of some value to the psy-
biologist, and to the objective
intellectual as erotic realism,
1t Is not for the non-objective
reader nor is it for children,
but then neither is non.
abridged Shakespeare.
While you busy do-gooders
are arguing pro and con, and
the press is having a hey.day
with a "hot" story, your chill.
dren are obtaining copies in
nearby places, where this ban.
ming of books is frowned upon.
You have done more harm
than the author by making
so much righteous noise.
s True censorship, morally, is
the simplest thing, but no one
seems to have the power OF
reasoning in this direction. Go
to your book dealer and tell
him about any book on his
shelf which is unfit for young
minds. He is interested in serv.
ing his customers, and If you
and your friends inform him
of your feelings about any.
thing on his shelf that you
consider trash" he will not
sell it to the children.
Banning a book is not PRO.
lection" when it advertises the
name and author of the book
on the front page of every
newspaper in the area. Your
children have access to worse
than this in the dog-eared,
dirty, mimeographed and type.
written stories which have
been passed around classrooms
since long, long ago. If you are
truly concerned, watch your
children and know what they
read. Teach them to enjoy
good literature, by enjoying II
yourself, and recommending
their reading material. Give
them a healthy attitude to.
ward procreation, a God.
given treasure, and don't as.
sociate it with filth in your
daily newspapers, which are
accessible to all who are able
to read, whether able to rea.
son, or not.
Mrs. VIM. nj. Walsh
Clarksburg, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18

Separation Of Stofe
And Church Urged

To isolate basic beliefs from
politics would remove prin-
cip1es from politics and gov
eminent. Let me suggest, then,
that separation of church and
state is needed because of false
doctrines incorporated in
social studies" 1t follows that
parents alone should be re-
sponsible for the education of
their children and pay full tu-
ition for all advanced" sub
jects, the only exception being
martial needs which must be
expedient in regimenting
training in stereotyped
courses.
The Sentinel editorials of
Nov. 8 give pointed advice in
this field; for compulsory pub
lie schooling cannot afford to
experiment, or offer the in
novations required for prog
ress. Stereotyped information
builds q store of knowledge
that is soon outmoded even in
the three Rs. Venturesome ex-
periments have to stand the
test of time, not just in getting
by exams, but over periods Of
competition as long as a life
time.
Experiments en- masse are
even more absurd than no ex-
periments, for they cannot
possibly extend into all the
needed diversions which pri-
vate, tuition financed schooling
could provide were public pa
ternalism forced out in favor
of full parental responsibility.
One need not be a Catholic to
see the validity of standards
that are not prescribed by a
single authority but are de-
, cided by parents freely associ-
ated and, like a business cor
poration, neither subsidized
nor taxed to promote the sys-
tenn of instruction.
Alden Potter
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18
Letters
The Public Forum

as illimitable as GOD himself,
there is not the slightest clash
or confusion. Millions on mil.
lions of worlds roll on their
orbits throughout space, con.
tinually passing and repassing
each other, and treading their
intricate mazes and devious
labyrinths with ever mis-.
taking their course, or inter.
fering with each other. United
to this is a nice adaptation of
means to the end, and which
point to their auhtor as GOD,
essential, uncreated, eternal,
whom to deny is the greatest
folly of which man can be
guilty, and whom to confess
and adore is an act of his
highest wisdom.
Fred H. Grimm,
Gaithersburg, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18

One of the strange facets
of all this Juror over the
"Tropic of Cancer is the ap.
parent inability of so many OF
our citizens to realize that the
primary point at issue here is
what constitutes obscenity OF
pornography. No one has de-
Tended obscene or porno
graphic material. The great
majority of Americans, and
that includes those who be.
lieve the "Tropic of Cancer
to be a genuine work of liter.
ature, believe that those who
sell or deal in pornography
should be taken before Our
courts to determine the fol.
lowing: "a Is the material in
question obscene?; ~ Did the
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18
Thanksgiving Service

There will be a Thanksgiving
Service at Grace Methodist
Church, Gaithersburg, on
Thanksgiving morning at 10
am.
Reverend Malcolm Wright
Epworth Methodist Church, will
conduct the service and Rev.
erend Andrew L. Gum, Pastor
of the Grace Methodist Church.
will bring the message for the
morning.
This union Thanksgiving
Service is open to the public
and everyone in the community
is welcome.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18
1.-THE home 1 redeemed from
the savage wild,

1.-THE home I redeemed from
the savage wild,
The home I loved as a
father his child,
The corn that 1 planted, the
fields that I cleared,
The flocks that l raised and
the cabin 1 rear's,
The wife of my bosom
Fare well to We all!
In the land of the stranger
/ rise or l fall"
He fell just three months
later, with all the others at the
Alamo. But his spirit and theirs
permeate this old place, where
not even routine Saturday night
blood-lettings in the poorer
quarter disturb tranquility.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18
New Rochelle Alumnae
Hold Dessert-Bridge

The College of New Rochelle
Alumnae Association will hold a
dessert.bridge at 8 pm. Dec. 2
in the Ursuline Academy High
School auditorium, $500 Forest
rd., Bethesda. Door prizes, do
mated by local merchants, will
be awarded and coffee will be
served.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Radar Tower
Storm Battered
Topples IntoOcean

WASHINGTON Up = A Navy
admiral with a rescue fleet re-
ported today 81 am very pessi-
mistic that anyone can be re-
covered" from among the men
who went down with the Texas
radio tower off the North At
lantic Coast.
Rear Adm. Allan Shinn report
ed about 3:45 p m. nearly
eight hours after the storm-bat-
tered tower sank that noises
heard from the wreckage "are
weaker and more random"
Some four hours earlier a Navy
destroyer captain had picked up
noises and possibly shout" via
listening devices. He said he felt
this showed some men survived
in an air pocket in the huge struc-
ture.
Shinn, talking to a neWsman by
radio-telephone from the carrier
Wasp, reported that skin divers
had been unable to reach the
wreckage.
Shinn estimated the tower sank
on it's side and that the topmost
part is 100 feet below the surface.
The tower of a type called
Texas Towers because they were
copied from offshore oil rigs in
the Gulf of Mexico - was part of
the Air Force warning system.
A sort of "Radar Island" it
was triangular in shape, 81 feet
tall and 1877 feet long on each of
the three sides. Three huge domes
laden with electronic equipment
rose from the top.
The tower, damaged in last
September's hurricane, Donna, had
been under repair when hit by
Sunday nights raging winds and
high seas. It was situated sc miles
east of Barnegat Light, N. j.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
By Fritz Witt
Associated Press Special Service

WASHINGTON Up = The fed
eral government will continue to
play an important financial role
in Alaska Affairs, President Eli
senhower's budget showed today.
Requests for upward of $50
million to be spent on federal ac
tivities in Alaska during the year
starting July are included in
Eisenhower's final budget sent to
Congress today.
Again the President asks the
maximum $6 million annual tran
sitional grant, which would bring
the total since Alaska Statehood
to 1928 million. The Alaska Om-
nbus Act authorizes $28 million in
these changeover grants through
1864.
Earmarked for water project ac-
tivities by the Army Engineers
are $845, 800, including 100000 to
survey the proposed Rampant
Canyon dam site and $150,000 for
planning a flood control project
at Fairbanks.
A total of more than $12 mil
lion is proposed for expenditure
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
including $2,343,000 for school
construction and planning at nine
sites.
In his message, the President
recommends sale of the govern
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Rotary Foundation
Fellowship Awarded
To Anchorage Girl

EVANSTON, Ill. Up - Rotary
International announced that 81
year-old Anchorage girl, Janet M.
Mohr, has been awarded Rotary
Foundation Fellowship for study
abroad during the 1961-1962 aca-
demic year.
Miss Mohr, 1856 graduate of
Anchorage High School, holds
Bachelor of Arts Degree from the
University of Wisconsin and now
is working toward a Masters De-
gree there.
The Anchorage girl, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Mohr,
plans to use the Fellowship to
study French colonial history at
one of Europe's major universities
in preparation for a career with
the U. S. Government.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
SOviets Launch
Mystery Rocket

- WASHINGTON Up - The So
Wet Unions mysterious missile
shot over the Pacific looked to
American experts today like a
prelude to an effort to stage a
spectacular space experiment on
the eve of John F. Kennedy's
inauguration as President.
Such a space shot - perhaps
an effort to put man in orbit
would be intended as a grim re-
minder to the new President and
the world of the Soviet military
might
The Navy reported today that
three Soviet radar-equipped range
ships spotted early last week now
have reached the usual Soviet
missile target area, 1000 miles
southwest of Hawaii.
In the past, such Soviet ships
have arrived two or three days
ahead of a shot to make ready
for their role of helping track
missile and check it's accuracy.
The Soviets surprised Ameri-
can watchers Friday night by
launching mystery rocket.
The director of MoscoW's
Planetarium, Viktor azikin,
termed. the Air Force anounce-
ment "pure invention" American
authorities are convinced the ra-
dar station did not spot a missile
like object.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Eisenhower's Budget Proposal Would
Give Alaska Upwards of $50 Million

ment- owned Alaska Communica-
tons System "to private enter
prise for operation and develop
ment under appropriate regula-
tory supervision"
The budget asks $63 million for
operation and maintenance of the
system and contemplates mo sig
nificant expansion" pending the
recommended sale.
'Legislation should be enacted"
the President said, ITO incorpo-
rate the Alaska Railroad and
place its operations on the same
basis as other federal activities
of this type"
The President also called at
tention to subsidies to local-serv-
ice airlines, including Intra-Alas-
ka operations, and other air &C
tivities which, he said, continue
to he excessive" The Civil Aero
nautics Board expects to spend
SOL million on Alaska subsidy
operations.
Other amounts requested for
Alaska activities include: $685.
900 as the expected state share
from sale of Pribilof Island seal
pelts; 100000 for the Arctic
Health Research Center; S133,200
for National Park Service pro-
grams.
Appropriations in the budget
included: Operation and main
tenance of Nome Harbor $50, 900.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
INDIAN HEALTH ACTIVITIES
BUDGETED FOR $52,2s2,000

WASHINGTON An appropria-
ton of $52,292,00O for Indian
Health activities in the year be-
ginning July l was proposed TO-
day in President Eisenhower's
budget.
The amount is $2,16O,000 more
than was budgeted for these ac-
tivities last year.
The Indian Health program pro-
vides medical care and public
services for Indians under
federal care and for Alaska Ma
tives.
New replacement hospitals are
expected to be opened during
1961-62 in Keams Canyon, Ariz.,
Kotzebue, Alaska, and San Car
los, Ariz.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Boundary Commission
Will Hold Hearing in
Nome January %

JUNEAU Up = Chairman Paul
ChOquette of the Local Boundary
Commission said the state group
has scheduled additional hear
ings to gain public comment on
the preliminary report on Borough
Government issued last month.
Choquettee said new hearings
have been scheduled at Kodiak,
Palmer, Seward, Homer, Kenai,
Nome, Valdez, Cordova and Big
Delta, as well as Anchorage and
Fairbanks, where previous hear
ings have been held.
The additional hearings, Cho-
quette said, were scheduled sin
recognition of the subject mat
ter and the demonstrated interest
in local government"
The preliminary report on Bor-
ough Government was prepared
by the Legislative Council and the
Local Affairs Agency. The two
state agencies will submit their
final report to the Legislature
shortly after it convenes Jan. %.
Copies of the preliminary re-
port, Choquettee said, are being
mailed to the mayors of the COM
munities where the new hearings
have been scheduled, along with
request that the mayors arrange
for and announce the meeting
place.
The scheduled hearing for
Nome is 1870 p. M, Jan. 28
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
u. S. Bans Travel to
Cuba for Americans

WASHINGTON Up - The u. S.
today banned travel by Ameri-
cans to Cuba because this country
can no longer provide protection
to Americans there
The travel embargo takes effect
in about 48 hours.
An exception is provided for
persons whose travel to Cuba is
regarded by the State Depart
ment as ''being in the best in
terests of the United States"
This includes newsmen and
businessmen with previously es-
tablished interests in Cuba.
A similar off-limits ban now
applies to four Communist coun-
tries with whom the United
States has no diplomatic rela-
tons.
Those countries are Red China,
Albania, North Korea and North
Wet Nam.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Unalakleet Hoopsters
Due Here Jan. 2O-21

Basketball fans will he treated
to a pair of games between Nome
Hi and Covenant Hi of Unalakleet
on Jan. 20 and 81.
Not much is known about the
boys from the east end of Norton
Sound other than that they do
have a gym and Alfred Moses, a
former student of Nome Hi, is
one of their leading players AL
fred was considered an excellent
prospect when he was in Nome
last year.
This will be the first clash be-
tween the two institutions and
should gave the fans a real treat.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
THIS HOW YOUR TAX
DOLLAR COMES AND GOES

WASHINGTON R - This IS
where your federal tax dollar will
60, under the fiscal 1862 budget:
National security, 81 cents.
Interest on debt, IL cents.
Veterans, cents.
Agriculture, cents.
Paying off debt, 2 cents.
All other, Is cents.
And this where the budget dol
lar comes from:
Individual income tax, SIS cents.
Corporation taxes, Is cents.
Excise taxes, IL cents.
Other receipts, 8 cents.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Civil Defense
Office Will Move
Its Headquarters


Civil Defense organization will
move its headquarters to Fair
banks after Gordon Severson, its
new director, assumes his duties
Feb. Is, Gov. Egan said today.
Egan said there were no plans,
at least at the present, to shift
CD Headquarters eventually to
Anchorage.
The governor told his Monday
morning news conference that
Severson's office, whose home is
in Fairbanks, will be on the rail-
belt, "where the major portion of
the states poulation is located.
Severson, now deputy director
of the Division of Veterans At
fairs, was named to succeed Vern-
on Metcalfe, Civil Defense direc-
tor for the past 18 mnths, at the
same time Egan annunced Met
calfe's resignation.
"The governor indicated on Jan.
3 that he wanted my resigna-
tion," Metcalfe said. "He implied
he planned to name a new Civil
Defense director by the first of
February"
Egan announced Metcalfe's res
ignation Saturday.
While Metcalfe declined to go
into reasons why Egan had asked
for his resignation, the CD direc-
tor indicated that the resignation
of four CD attack warning con-
trollers in Anchorage in Septem-
Der was at least in part to blame.
The controllers quit because
they said Metcalfe had made no
effort to contact them since as
Stunning his state job.
Asked specifically if Metcalfe
was fired or if he resigned volun-
tarily, Egan told his news con-
ference only.
eve are going to have new
Civil Defense Director"
Severson has been deputy
director of the State Division Of
Veterans Affairs since that Agen-
cy was established within the
Department of Commerce.
He previously had served as
deputy commissioner for the Alas
ka Veterans Affairs Commission
and as battalion adjutant and ad-
ministrative assistant with the
Alaska National Guard at Juneau
and Nome.
Severson is a veteran of both
World War II and the Korean
War. He holds the Bronze Star
Medal, the Purple Heart and the
Combat Infantry Badge.
On other subjects, Egan had this
to say:
Fiscal budget: Asked if reports
that the next budget would run
some IL million dollars more than
the fiscal 1861 budget, or some
$58k million, were true, Egan re-
piled:
~ can't make any statement on
what the budget will be until I
get back drom the Inauguration
of T~~@Ixyl
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Mary Black Is
Selected Alaska's
Junior Miss

odluIudy evening III packed
auditorium, Miss Mary Black of
Fairbanks was chosen Alaska's
Junior Miss to represent the state
in the National Junior Miss Con-
test which will be held March
1924 in Mobile, Ala.
Mary was chosen from a group
of four lovely young ladies': Clar-
ice Hardy, Nome; Teresa Hanson,
Anchorage and Martina Oyou-
mick from Unalakleet.
The girls were judged on many
points, among them: talent, poise,
character, personality, and social
grace. To be viewed by the judges
and audience, they came out into
the audience on a ramp in sports
attire, and formal wear. They
then presented their various tai
ents: Martina gave a speech on
what Statehood Means to Me"
Mary played piano solo, "Arctic
Sunset" her own composition;
Teresa gave dramatic presenta-
ton, and Clarice sang Summer
time" For the final appearance
on stage, the young hopefuls came
before the crowd in formal at
tire.
While the judges were compar-
ing notes and making the mo-
mentous decision, the "Oogruk"
dancers performed. Karl Wom-
bacher was master of ceremonies.
Mrs. Warenberg of Nome furnish
ed piano music accompanied by
Don Grettie and Devon Alexander
on the saxaphone and drums.
Judges were: Mrs. Jeff Bayer,
chief stewardess of Alaska Air
lines; Miss Wanda Jarell, acting
chief stewardess of Wien Air
lines; Rev Harold Diehl from An
chorage, and Maj. Kenneth Lille,
Senior Army Advisor of Juneau.
After the judges decision, Mayor
Steffen Andersen placed the white
fur-trimmed green velveteen robe
and jade-studded ivory crown on
Mary and helped her to the throne
which was covered with a polar
bear skin.
A gala round Of events planned
in the girls honor began Friday
morning on their arrival and con-
tinued until forenoon today.
This has been the first major
pageant of this kind in Alaska.
The Nome Junior Chamber of
Commerce feels it has been a
very successful and worthwhile
project.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-01-16
Thompson Trophy In Order

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calf. Up - The crew of a record
breaking B58 Hustler Bomber will
receive the 1861 Thompson
Trophy, the Air Force says.
The supersonic, four-engine
Convair turbojet streaked over the
Califronia-Arizona desert Satur-
day at an average speed of 1894
70, nearly 100 miles per hour
better than a record set two days
earlier in another B58.