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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Santa's Helpers Double-up
MSI Bids Taken

MSI Corporation, formerly
Missile Sites, Inc, of Wheaton,
has been selected for new con-
struction projects totaling SIS
million since the start of the
present fiscal year on July 1,
President Samuel N. Zarpas an.
nounced this week.
Newest contracts approved
for the firm involve construc.
ton of a ballistics laboratory at
Rocket Center, w. Va, at a cost
of $2,96S, 900, and a new junior
high school near Finleyville,
Pa. costing $1,6S5, 900. MSI
already is engaged in nine other
projects in Pennsylvania, Mich
igan, New York, West Virginia,
Missouri and Virginia.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Chamber Elects

Leon Sherman, of Icons
Mems Shop, Bethesda, has been
unanimously elected president
of the Bethesda-C Chevy Chase
Chamber of Commerce and will
take office at the annual install
lation dinner dance at the Ken
wood Country Club Jan. "a.
Sherman will succeed Richard
r. Price Jr. of Decatur Press
Other new officers include
Hugh B. Johnson Jr., first vice
president; Julius A. Lazarus,
second vice president; Mrs.
Jessie Hilderbrand. third vice.
president; Robert J. Smith,
treasurer, and Miss Mary 10
Whidden, secretary.
New directors include Mrs.
Ruth G. Adler, Nicholas Andris,
Robert w. Beall, C. Wayne
Bishop, Scott r. Brewer Jr.,
James c. Christopher, Henry j.
Conner, w. Sharon Farr, Joseph
w. Fortuna, Stanley r. Green,
Robert M. Hanson, Walter Hess,
Herbert ]. Korzendorfer, Paul
Lambert Jr., Robert w. Lebling,
F. Archie Meatyard, G. Edward
Nicholson, Edward N. Noakes
Jr., Edward D. Sacks, Edward
L. Stock Jr., and Cecil r. Yates.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Dividend Set

The Federal Land Bank Asso-
citation of Frederick, which
handles long-term federal loans
on real estate in Frederick,
Montgomery, Carroll and Wash
ington counties, has declared a
three per cent dividend to stock
holders of record as of Sept. l..
The payment will be made in
the near future to more than
$50 stockholders, according to
George E. Lechlider, director of
the association. AS of Dec. /,
Lechlider said, loans on record
amounted to more than S4,824,-
600.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20

has drawn him away from his
personal business, he insists 1t
has been to his advantage in the
long run.
Everything I've done in the
association has helped my bust
ness, because the more ideas
you bring back the better you
can compete to build a better
product for the less money" he
observed.
He paid high tribute to his
staff, asserting that he feels
perfectly free to devote his time
to the national post because of
the reliability of those he leaves
behind him.
He is the second builder from
the Washington area to head
the national group, the presi-
dency having gone to Edward
r. Carr, of Springfield, Va, in
1947.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
VITA Selected

Washington chronological AS
sociates, Inc, of Rockville, has
been awarded a contract by the
Applied Physics Laboratory of
Johns Hopkins University for
the manufacture of high quality
welded modules. to be used In
the Nays navigation satellite
system.
According to Harold NJ.
Briggs, VITA president, the
modules consist of electronic
components formed and welded
into special electronic circuitry
and then immersed in a perma-
nent epoxy plastic casing, each
one smaller than a book of
matches. VITA has also pro-
duced this special type of mod.
ule for use in satellite and
rocket-borne payloads, Briggs
said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Land Values Tn

Land values are continuing
to rise in Montgomery and
Prince Georges counties on the
basis of data compiled by the
Suburban Maryland Builders
Association in a survey of sub
division and lot improvement
costs compared to those of 1860.
In Montgomery County, the
study showed, lot improvement
costs rose from $2763 an acre in
1850 to $33O1 this year. The
average cost of unimproved lots
rose from $229O at $3.50 a
front foot to 1888 at S33.46 a
front foot.
Another trend disclosed by
the survey established that in
1860, four out of five subdivi-
sions in Montgomery County
were in the R-60 zone, while
today only three of the eight
surveyed were REQ and of the
remaining five, two were R.9O
and three were R-R.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Business Roundup
US. Home Builders Group
Elects Buchanan President

With work well under way
on more than 500 private homes
and /. 400 apartments in projects
ranging from LaValle near
Cumberland to Bladensburg, and
a 2S0-home job due to start at
Colesville in February, the
Rockville building firm of w.
Evans Buchanan is already
looking ahead to an active 1868.
For the most part, however,
the company can look for rela-
lively little personal advice
from its main boss, "Bucky"
Buchanan, who came up last
weekend with an assignment
that is likely to keep him even
buster than he has been as head
Of one of the Greater Washing
ton areas most active construc-
ton firms.
The Rockville builder was
elected president of the National
Association of Home Builders
in Chicago at its annual conven-
ton in Chicago, climaxing more
than Is years of close associa-
ton that began in 1945 when he
attended his first association
convention as the guest of his
father, ]. Wesley Buchanan,
who founded the firm "Bucky"
now heads.
A regular attendant at the
annual meetings, Buchanan has
devoted a great deal of his per-
so1al time to the organization
In the last five years through
his close association with the
Home Builders Association Of
Metropolitan Washington, the
largest affiliate of the NAHB
which he headed as president in
1858. He also has held variety
Of other offices, serving for one
year as secretary of the national
group.
While he comedies the NAHB
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
VitrO Selected

The Vitro Laboratories Divi-
sion of Vitro Corporation of
America has received two new
Navy contracts totaling S467,-
800, according to announcement
by Wayne G. Shaffer, director
of the firms Silver Spring lab
oratory.
A $362,500 contract was
awarded by the Bureau of
Naval Weapons for continued
research and development in
connection with Navy torpedoes
and associated fire control
equipment while the second,
amounting to S105,0O0 was
awarded by the Naval Purchas-
ing Office in Los Angeles, Calf,
for engineering services in the
field of measurement science.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Progress Reported

A number OF outstanding &C.
complishments" in the Wheaton
business community were cited
this week by the Wheaton
Chamber of Comerce In a
resume of 1862 activities which
contributed to the most success
fsil year in the chambers his
tory.
Membership in the trade body
increased more than 50 per cent
during the year, the report
showed, with So new members
having been signed up in the
last eight months.
Among principal steps taken
during the year was the crea-
ton of the new Consumers Ad-
visory Board as a means of adj
justing misunderstanding be-
tween area merchants and con-
sumers and improving relations
between them. The board, &C.
cording to chamber officials,
already is functioning effective
~, and has brought about an
improved business consumer
atmosphere In the area.
A major achievement during
the year was the chambers
distribution of a community
guide to Wheaton, the first to
be published in the community
since 1858. A total of 10000
copies were sent to area homes
and made valuable in business
places, providing complete data
ON the Wheaton areas residen.
tia1 and business status.
Throughout the year, the
chamber continued its efforts to
coordinate the activities of com.
munity civic organizations and
business interests, sponsoring
an elaborate Fourth of July
fireworks display along with
other events. A decal contest
conducted for high school art
students, to assist in the selec-
ton of the chamber emblem for
1883, brought still another COM
nunity faction into the coopera-
tive program.
The chamber has scheduled
its 10th annual installation din.
ner for Jan. IL at the Manor
Country Club, where Mrs. Char
lotte Martz will be seated as the
first woman to head the organ
ization as president.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Extra Dividend

Directors Of the Suburban
Trust Co. have declared an
extra cash dividend of five cents
a share, amounting to 20 per
cent increase, according to T..
Howard Duckett, chairman of
the board, and Robert ]. Sher-
wood, president.
The regular dividend of IS
cents a share also was declared
and both, amounting to 1928, 200.
will be paid Dec. 81 to stock
holders of record on Dec. II, the
bank officials announced.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20

Emmanuel B. Walter, Rock
vile insurance agent, has re-
turned from a week of advanced
instruction in commercial lines
at the home office of Federal
Mutual Insurance Co. in De-
catur, Ill.
The advanced instruction was
provided for top agents with
the company and was designed
to give them professional quail
fications in the business insur-
ance field.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Ford Graduate

James B. Sawyer, of Cave
Ford Corporation in Bethesda,
has graduated from the service
merchandising course conduct.
ed by the New York Ford Mar
keting Institute.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Gets New Post

Glenn r. Johnson, former as
sistant director of sales for
Jonker Business Machines, Inc,
of Gaithersburg, has been
named director of medical data
application for the firm, accord
ing to President Frederick
Jonker
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Merit Cited

Jim Davis, of Guy Stuart
Motors in Silver Spring, and P.
E. Coleman, of Grady Motors
in Bethesda, have been awarded
certificates of merit on complet-
ing special training sessions for
exclusive Lincoln Continental
statesmen in Detroit, Mich.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20
Handles Claims

Joseph s.. Cappellari, of Hy-
attsville, has been appointed a
field claim representative in the
Rockville office of the State
Farm Mutual Insurance Co.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20

Robert B. Hobbs, chairman
of the First National Bank of
Maryland, has been reelected as
a member of the Federal Ad-
visory Council from the Fifth
Federal Reserve District for
1863.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-12-20

SENTINEL S e6SEfS' HD'
Az Thursday, December 20. 1852
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
Not Cricket, Pole VouIting!

A lot of people in what is called the
sports world have worked up fussy
head of steam about Marine Corporal
John Uelses vaulting over a 16-foot-
high bar with the aid of fiberglass
pole. Some of them think it's mot
cricket" to claim new record because
the fiberglass shaft has more whip"
to it than did the poles of earlier days
fashioned at various times from ash,
hickory, bamboo, steel, aluminium or
goodness knows what.
Offhand, it seems to us that it mat
tiers not about Cricket" This is pole
vaulting and the lanky Marine from
Quantico happens, through long prac-
tice and diligent application to the
problem, to have found way to vault
higher than anybody ever did before.
If there had been fiberglass poles around
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
Dismal G. O. p. Outlook

NO one should underestimate the
political aStuteneSs of Senator Javits,
as liberal New York Republican. But
his party is in mighty tight situation
ii the Senator is right in his diagnosis
of what must be done to win a national
election.
Senator Javits thinks the G. o. P.
must join the mainstream of our
national life and must capture the big
cities" This last is not new suggestion.
But If the Republicans must compete
with and outbid the opposition for the
big city machines, which generally are
the private property of the Democrats,
what will happen to the main base of
G. o. P. support-in rural, suburban and
small-town America? Is this to be writ
ten off, or tossed up for grabs with the
Democrats?
In summing up, Senator Javits said:
"The hope of the Republican Party in
the future lies in the kind of Republi-
canism practiced in New York State"
Presumably this includes New York City,
the biggest of our big cities, and If this
is the case it is depressing prospect.
For this brand of politics, as seen from
where we sit, is an abomination. And
we doubt very much that there is any
future for the Republican Party in en-
bracing it. Perhaps the best hope for
what Is now the G. o. P. is that time
will bring about political realignment,
in which current party labels will cease
to count and in which the voters, re-
CARELESS of where they live, will have
real choice between liberalism" and
conservatism"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
Drivers Should Be Trained

Bills introduced in the Virginia
General Assembly aim at most praise
worthy objective-the training of young
drivers in elementary safety practices
before they are turned loose on the
highways In their own or their parents
cars. That there is need for such train
ing is evident from accident statistics,
which show that approximately % per
cent of the drivers in fatal crashes are
under Is. This is a high percentage,
considering the number of drivers in
this age group as compared with all
other drivers.
Two proposals are under conSidera-
ton at Richmond. One, by Delegate
Kossen Gregory of Roanoke, would au-
thorize the State Board of Education to
establish training courses in the
public schools from the ninth grade up
ward. Private schools also could qualify
for board-approved courses. The second
bill, sponsored by Delegate Harrison
Mann of Arlington, would go even far
ther. It would make completion Of a
driver training course a prerequisite to
issuance of a license to persons % years
or younger. AS with the Gregory bill,
either public or private courses could be
taken. Both bills would charge a IS fee
for learners permit, and the Mann
program would require an increase in
fees for regular drivers permits from
81 to 50.
Doubtless either plan is objection
able to some of the rural areas, where
teen-agers sometimes drive farm trac-
tors or other machinery on the public
roads without benefit of any permit
whatever and where any undue restric-
lions on their operation of trucks or
cars would be dimly viewed. But the
time long since has passed when youth
full drivers without proper training
should be allowed to take the wheel of
a car or truck that could main or kill
If only few lives would be saved by the
training courses, including the lives Of
the young drivers, the program would
be well worth the effort and money
involved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
Rules for RedeveIopers

The Redevelopment Land Agency
has determined wisely to review and
tighten up its procedures for disposing
of land to redevelopers on a basis of
design competitions In certain in
stances, this method of choosing private
developers has obvious merit. 1t pro-
yides, through competition, the oppor-
tunity for participation by variety of
private investors, which in itself is
desirable. 1t encourages diversity of
ideas which, in theory at least, should
produce a superior finished product.
However, the very nature of the pro-
cedural reforms now proposed by the
RIA suggests that the conduct of these
competitions in the past may have left
room for Improvement
In the future, for example, RIA
officials say among other things that
strict adherence to the competition
rules will be required, that answers to
requests for RIA interpretations of the
rules will be given in writing and made
available simultaneously to all the "bid-
derS," and that more pains will be taken
during the early stages to clarity the
detectives and requirements of the con-
tests.
1t Is understandable that the RIA,
in initiating such a new technique of
land disposition, would encounter prob
lens which need to be ironed out. But
the disposition of land, with all the
opportunities afforded for private profit,
is perhaps the most delicate area in the
entire field of redevelopment While
naturally anxious to arrive at the best
possible development, the agency must
be scrupulously careful to see that moth
ing occurs which might give one COM
petitor an unfair advantage over the
Others
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17

perature and Sallnlty and the
Importance of trace elements
like iron and manganese on
the life of the basic phyto-
plankton. Relationships of
this sort must be understood
to understand the primary
oceanic production.
"One of the biggest ad-
vances in recent years." says
the report, has been the cul-
turing of many species Of
phytoplankton so that they
can be studied in controlled
situations in the laboratory.
Another was the successful
isolation of nitrifying BAG
terra in the water, proving
that the important nitrifica-
ton process takes place in
water as well as in bottom
sediments.
Creatures living on and in
the bottom between Woods
Hole and Bermuda are being
subjected to a sort of socio-
logical study, with census
taking and a careful exami-
nation of Observation-Disclosures
of the species with each other
and with the sediments. In
shore bottom dwellers are be-
ing studied to learn what en-
vironmental factors deter
mine their seasonal breeding
habit.
Echo SOunder Used
1.-THE schooling habits of
fish are under scrutiny. One
approach has been to OBJ
serve their behavior under ex-
perimental conditions with
their eyes shaded or covered
by contact lenses. This has
required study of the optical
properties if fish eyes. Rowing
nomads of the sea, such as
tuna and other game fish,
are being investigated by a
tagging program in which
hundreds of sports fishermen
are taking part with inten-
sive long line fishing opera
tons"
Studies are under way on
the deeper scattering layer"
zone between surface and
bottom that scatters sound
and can be traced with an
echo-sounder. This layer mi
CRATES towards the surface at
night and sinks to deeper
water at dawn. Its movements
suggest that it is biological.
The sound Scatterer may be
the gas-filled swim bladders
Of some as yet unidentified
species Of fishes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
Wants Free-WheeIino

During construction of the
six-lane dual thoroughfare
on Bradley boulevard from
Wisconsin avenue to Colds
boro road in Bethesda a big
sign read: This improve
ment costs $4,000 per
mile" This was done to make
traffic flow more freely and
avoid traffic jams on the
boulevard.
After a years inconven-
fence to motorists during con-
struction and the expendi-
ture of a million dollars or
so, upon completion they i'm
mediately put up a traffic
light at Goldsboro road, and
a traffic light a block away
at Little Falls parkway, so
you have to stop twice to go
one block!
CORTLAND ID. Ferguson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
OAS Maneuverina

Much is being said of Mr..
Rusk's accomplishments at
Punta del Este. It undoubt-
edly was a very significant
move forward in our rela-
tionships with Cuba and the
GAS, but it seems that there
were a couple Of Guatemalan
diplomats who should be
given due recognition for
their share in the accom-
plishments of the conference.
Mr.. Rusk was hard-pressed
by Brazil, Mexico and Ar
gentina. They almost won
some ground from our side,
but these two little-known
Guatemalans threatened to
walk out and take with them
the four other Central Amer
lean countries. This Mr.. Rusk
did not want. So the ada
mant stand taken by the
diplomats-Foreign Minister
Jesus linda Lurillo and Am
bassador to the GAS Carlos
Urrutia Abaricio and their
colleagues Of Central Amer
lea stiffened the spine of the
United States members, and
won for us the results we all
know. If we want better le-
lations with our South Amer
lean and Central American
neighbors, we should give
them credit where credit Is
due. When we work together
for a cause, let's not take full
credit for ourselves.
nellie B. Wilkinson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
Let Nearby Virginia Choose

The Northern Virginia delegation
to the General Assembly is waging a
good and vigorous fight to save nearby
areas from needless time confusion dur
ing the daylight saving season here.
Chief target of the assault is bill
signed by 46 delegates that would keep
the entire State on standard time
throughout the year-revoking the law
which permits Virginia communities
conform to Washington's daylight
schedules.
AS result of a lively hearing be-
fore the House General Laws Committee
the time issue apparently has narrowed
down to choice between the all-stand-
ard-time bill and one by Delegate Rus
sell M. Carneal of Williamsburg calling
for Statewide daylight-saving time be-
tween the generally observed dates
from the last Sunday in April to the last
Sunday in October. A subcommittee has
been named to choose between these
proposals.
We think Virginia would be wise to
adopt the daylight saving plan provided
in the Carneal measure. However, as
Arlington Senator Fenwick and Dele
gate Mann forcefully argued, whatever
may be decided with respect to the re-
mainder of the State, Northern Virginia
ought to be permitted to adjust its
clocks to fit prevailing schedules in the
Metropolitan Area, as has been done in
the past under special law. Chaotic
time keeping otherwise will be in store
for Arlington, Fairfax County and the
other nearby areas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-17
Neither No Nor Yes

After ii days OF noisy but baSically
dull oratory full of poisonous proga-
ganda against our country, the Soviet
bloc and Fidel Castro's Kremlin- serving
Cuba have been properly and quite re-
soundingly rebuffed by the Political
Committee of the United Nations Gen.
eral Assembly.
Thus, by vote Of so to H. with 80
abstentions, the committee has rejected
Communist resolution (sponsored by
the Polish and Czech Reds) that would
have had the effect of formally accus-
ing the United States of conspiring to
commit military aggression against
Castros tyranny in Havana. The accu-
sation would have been implicit in the
resolutions language calling upon our
Government to put an end to its alleged
threat to Cuba's territorial integrity and
so-called political independence.
Gratifyingly enough, however, only
Cuba itself and the donation Soviet
bloc (Yugoslavia not included) have
voted for this exercise in palpably phony
propaganda. Virtually half the men,
bership of the u NJ, including such
newly independent Afro-Asian members
as Cyprus and the Malagasy Republic,
have scornfully turned thumbs down on
the thing. AS for the "neutralist" bloc,
although it all too often casts its ballots
with the Kremlin, it has overwhelmingly
declined to lend aid and comfort to
the Soviets in this particular instance.
Even so, there is reason to wonder
why these on-the-fence nations choose
to say neither Eyes" nor mo" on issues
that are clear-cut morally and other
wise. What makes them so wishy-
washy, like Pontius Plate, when it comes
to passing judgment on obvious Moscow
Havana lies in the U. NJ? The whole
thing adds up to a discouraging COM
mentary on the character of govern
ments that play both ends against the
middle and abstain rather than vote
forthrightly one way or another.