Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-12-05
Peter DaaOson's County Beat

Walt Scheiber, City Manager of Rockville,
has been attending the international City
Managers Association convention in Miami
In fact he gave a speech to the more than
600 managers from all over the U.S.A and
Canada. He spoke on establishing priorities
and balancing services I'll get more details
when he returns.
The Rockville Volunteer Fire Department
has had an illustTious career as a completely
Independent and volunteer department that
has fought fires well and managed its bust
ness in an orderly fashion. There has been
from time to time a hue and cry for at least
a fulltime paid skeleton crew equipped to
answer fire and rescue calls immediately.
This has been sidetracked many times but
understand something is going to be done
about it in few months
Don't be surprised IL the Rockville VOIun-
teer Fire Department requests from the
proper officials tax money in order to provide
paid crew. RockvilIe's fire department is
one of the few in the county that isn't sup
ported by tax funds.
This action will probably be welcomed by
the majority of the citizens living in the
Rockville area.
Some members of the Board of Education
are wondering why DR.. c. Taylor Whittier,
their superintendent and secretary-treasurer
of the Board, did not let them know some of
the details concerning the arrest and resigna-
ton of the school teacher in West Rockville
Junior High School, Dr. Whittier and his top
officials knew about the situation Monday
morning and the School Board met Monday
evening. l am positive the members of the
School Board are vitality interested in know
ing the facts of such situation and imagine
they would have preferred getting the infor-
nation straight from their Superintendent
rather than from the newspapers.
The Rockville Chamber of Commences
office may be closed by the time this paper
hits the streets. For some reason there has
not been forthcoming enough financial sup.
port for this office. And II can be said that
the efforts on the part OF the personnel and
the results of this work has been praise
worthy. 1t Is unfortunate that there won't
be any headquarters in the county seat where
interested persons can get information con-
corning industrial and business opportunities
In Rockville.
Lila Thomson, longtime newspaper and
advertising expert, has opened her own public
relations and advertising firm in the Abbey
Building, Rockville. She already represents
several local firms for whom she will do
advertising and writing. Mrs. Thomson has
been writer with the Baltimore Sum- News
week and several other newspapers. She has
also been an editor for several papers, includ-
ing The Sentinel In fact, she succeeded Elsie
White Haines in the forties.
Charlie Jarnison has been tapped by some
Democrats in the County to head the more
conservative element of the Democratic
Party. Johnson is an old hand at politics in
what is known as the practical sense He
calls spade spade and vote a vote He's
held many offices including that of County
Councilman. And if the Democrats thought
he retired to make lot of money and forget
politics, they know that that was not So He
might have taken time out but that old
wheelhorse isn't going to forget about politics
as long as he lives. AS matter of fact, there
are several Democratic leaders who have said
they would like to see Jamison run for Con-
gress from the Sixth District