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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11

Council decides), and again
sells for top dollar because of
a false scarcity provided by
our governing authorities.
Needless to say, great furore
was undoubtedly made over
the three polluted Potomac
wells to help push this thing
through.
Having by this time become
so confident of reelection by
the unaffected down-C County
thousands as to become totally
insensitive to the will of the
people directly affected (the
landowners), some of the pres
ent Council members have dis
played an arrogance in the
planning and coming matters
las we'll as the present over
burdensome reasseSsment pro-
gram plus the tax rate in
creased which can best be an
swered by the voters in No
vember; and there are thou
sands who, no doubt, will ex-
press their disgust at the polls.
Yours for a more enlighten-
ed public.
Kay Bowling
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
College Site
Hearing Set

The Montgomery County
Board of Education has peti
toned the City of Rockville for
annexation of a 79.acre tract
where 1t will construct a new
junior college.
The land involved adjoins
board property on Rt. 355 and
is part of the old 412-acre An
derson farm now owned by de-
veloper Milton Polinger. 1t was
purchased by the Board of Edu,
cation shortly after Polinger &C
quired the farm from Judge
Thomas M. Anderson.
The college site would have
been included in the city
limits under an annexation peti
ton filed last spring by Polin.
ger. The Board of Education's
Independent annexation action
followed on the heels of a refer.
endum last week when the de.
veloper and his associates voted
to stay out of the city when re,
quested zoning could not be OBJ,
tanned.
A public hearing on annexa.
ton of the college site has beer
set for Nov. 10 by the Rockville
Mayor and Council.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
Vote A Positive No

The Congressional districts of Maryland need adjust
ing with democratic eye toward fair and equitable repre-
sentaon but the bill passed by last years State Legsa
re allegedy for this purpose misses the button like
cross-eyed seamstress.
The BILL fortunately forced to Nov. 6 referendum
Through the efforts of the Maryland League of Women
Voters of vital importance every person in the state
and especially Montgomery Countians.
The most cursory examination of the method of re-
srctng proposed in the bill should bring positive mo-
from every voter in the state
The bill proposes to jugge few existing district lines
and open up district composed of 100000 peo-
pie composed of Prince Georges and Howard Counties.
This district which would become the Eighth District,
would have one representative in the U.S. Congress
This is fairly close to the theoretical number of
Stituents congressman from Maryland should represent
But compare this with the First District eastern
Shores countless The 1860 gave that district only
243500 citizens little half those in the proposed
Eighth District.
Under the proposed redstricting law the First Dis
rc would have in Congress just like the 400 000
person Eighth District
On the other extreme there is the bullying Second
District
This district, made up of Hartford, Baltimore and Car
roll Counties has population of 62 $780, This district too
would have man in Congress
The Sixth District Montgomery Garrett, Alegany,
Washington and Frederick Counteshas $685. 800 citizens.
This is almost twice the number of people in the relatively
small First District but the representation would be the
same, one congressman
The ideal population per political district, the
mathematical average would be about 100000 OF course
this is too deaistc to be practical because people
.stantly on the move.
But it should serve good guide rule for Legisa-
tors drawing new redistrctng bill to replace the
hope will be defeated in November.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
From This Angle
The Ugly Ones

'"There is a roWdy strain in American
life, living close to the surface but running
deep. Like an ape behind a mask it can dis
play itself suddenly with terrifying effect 1t
is slack awed, with leering eyes and loose
wet lips, with heavy feet and ponderous cum
ming hands; now and then, when something
tickles it, it outlaws, and when it is made
angry, it snarls; and it can be aroused much
more easily than it can be quoted. Mike Fink
and Yankee Doodle helped to further it, and
Judge Lynch is one of its creations; and when
it comes numbering forth it can make the
whole country step in time to its own frantic
and irregular pulse-beat" This Hallowed
Ground by Bruce Cation.
The ugly ones who represent the rowdy
strain SO well described by Bruce Cation are
not members of any one race or are not con-
fined to any one state. They are present in all
areas of our country, the North as well as the
South, the East as well as the West. They
are found in all nations
The ugly ones are not always easily
recognized in times of peace, but in times
of trouble they come slthering out
smearing slime around themselves and
others. Someone once said, as with liquid
in a boiling pot, the scum of humanity
comes to the top in times Of turmoil.
The ugly ones, known as irregulars, were
present during the American Revolution, kill.
ing and plundering in New York State in the
name of both the Americans and the British.
They were present on the American frontier
during the Indian wars, killing and plumber
ing Indians and settlers alike; they were call
ed renegades then. They were present during
the Civil War as Quantrills guerilla band and
they burned the town of Lawrence, Kansas,
numbering more than $50 men, women and
children.
The outstanding qualities of the ugly ones
are lawlessness and lack of respect for their
fellow human beings and for human life.
They make their own laws, and ignore all 9th.
ers. They are quite capable of pulling on the
robes of responsibility and mounting pious
platitudes while they murder and torture
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
The Public Forum

MNCPPC to plan accordingly,
with no regard to the practi.
cality of such an order. Suisse
quently, they tossed back the
plan produced by the MNCP-
PC which apparently was a
watered-down version of some
of their ideas, and the battle
began in earnest to try to force
the MNCCPC to say their ideas
were good.
The five-acre coming is most
ly a tool to grant a dictator.
ship to the Council. 1t will in
spire good investments for
apartment owners and owners
of big down-County shopping
centers at the expense of the
up-County landowners. 1t also
will insure a better return for
the big developer who, having
already built up down. County
land and sold at a top dollar
because of a lack of competi-
ton up-County, moves out -
pays bottom dollar because the
original owner has been denied
use of his land, gets the Coun-
ty authorities to rezone be-
cause now there is a need (the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
Jurors As Lawyers

We hope someone will inject into this campaign soon
the proposal that Marands archaic law requiring uries
to be judges of the law well Of the fact needs to be
repealed.
This subject matter is properly matter for candi-
dates running for the State Senate and the House of Dele
gates to consider Surely two of them should pick
up the ball and run with this One of them should
introduce proposed constitutional amendment to rid the
state of this obsolete, nequtabe law.
Under the present system, attorneys and judges
land often doadvise jurors who know nothing about the
ncaces of the law They suggest to the juror what
legal framework he must stay within while arriving at
verdict But the juror completely disregard the advice
of the legal experts in the privacy of the jury This
as has been pointed out is not government by laws,
which is the principle federal constitution tried to lay
down. but government by men, subject to whms vagares
land caprice.
The Maryland Bar Association composed of lawyers
from all the state has voted in favor of repeating the
.provisionfoowed only by Maryland and Indiana among
the so staesand this should be the for the General
Assembly of Montgomery Countys elected
slegslaorsto to strike out the old law And then
Maryland voters in the 1864 election should approve the
question.
We do not quarrel with the system of having jury
of peers decree the fate of defendant on the basis of its
determination of the facts in But jurors know
nothing of the ntrcaces of the law this should be left
the judge to interpret for the jury.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
Time for Serious Reading
Welsh Rare Biz .

1t is fortunate that I am not asked to
make choice between the months of October
and May in which to live in Mungummery
County. When May is here, feel freed from
the bonds of winter and the May flowers are
reminder of the everlasting quality of our
spinning earth. Their presence upon the face
OF our gentle county hills make me believe
that long ago God covenanted with us Of
Mungummery to keep us supplied with wild
flowers and sweet grass.
But when October comes again, as full
and ripe as a yellow pumpkin and the
spangled trees stand out in a line against the
skyline, feel that this is the month during
which our county is most beautiful There is
sense of urgency here. This urgency shows
itself in the speed of crowds at football
games; the swiftness of the batted ball during
the World Series, the rush of students to
classes and general quickness of step by
the man on the street who just feels good
after the heat of summer has vanished And
one cannot help but become aware that win
ter is nearby and thus each day is enjoyed
more fully just as a soldier home from the
wars attempted to put life into each moment
of living lest each moment be the last
October is a month for sport in our coun.
ty and just motoring through the by-ways to
out-ofthe-way beauty spots such as Black
Rock, Wee Willie Wilkins Weeping Willow by
Hagthorn Pond, and the lockwood garden back
of the Rockville Civic Center
October is also month for planning ON
the winter reading. That Isl other people can
plan on what they are going to read gave
up reading sometime ago. After the war, I
admired Churchill, and still do, but it is in
spite Of his writing, not because of it. Then
tried to read the books was supposed to read
in college: such as The Decline and Fall Of the
Roman Empire, and The Decline of the West.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11

working on water and air pollu-
ton, milk and food programs
and "the total impact of con-
taiminants on people," and if
the new center is not in a spot
to pull together all this infor.
nation it will lose time, eff
cheney and effectiveness"
The HEW official disclosed
that his agency had had mo
clear offer of any free land in
North Carolina prior to the con-
gressional hearings" and that
Gov. Sanford's kilograms to the
House Appropriations Commit
tee came only after hearings
were concluded.
At the county level, County
Council president David l.
CahOOn points out that the
Rockville site was selected
from "at least o studied in
great detail" and that both
President Kennedy's science
advisor and the Gross Com
mittee on EnvirOnmental
Health Problems concurred
In the selection.
The National Capital Plan
ming Commission, the Washing
ton Metropolitan Regional Plan
ming Council and the Maryland.
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission has included
the site in its proposed general
plan for future county land use.
Arguments have been put
forth by Matthew M. Witen-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
Fleming View

With reference to your edi.
torial and Mrs. Schweinhauts
letter in your October 4 issue,
I would like to point out that
the Maryland National Capital
Park & Planning Commission
does not make the decisions
with regard to planning and
coming, but rather studies and
recommends to the County
Council = who, in turn, makes
the decisions. Furthermore,
the members are appointed by
their respective Council or
Commissioner members and
are undoubtedly more respon-
sive to their wishes than the
elected officials are to the
voters they are regulating.
1 am not acquainted with
Mr.. Guide, nor do l know what
prompted him to take the
stand he did, but 1 suspect he
recognizes the need to euro
the dictatorial policies of a
power-hungry council which
feeds a lot of idealistic propa-
ganda to thousands of voters
unaffected by up-County plan
ming and coming who thus keep
voting them back in because it
sounds good on paper, and be-
cause they have been told
falsely that it is suburban
sprawl that is causing their
taxes to rise. Nothing could
be farther from the truth.
AS / understand the contro-
versy,, a professional plan
ner" working for the MNCPPC
mot the business representa-
tive commissioners advised
the Council of the "ideaP
situation with vast open spaces
in the upper Montg. County
area and suggested that this
might be supplemented by
designating large areas for
five acre coming. Certain ideal
istic dreamers on the Council
apparently decided this would
be a "peachy" idea and would
appeal to a lot of wn-County
voters and ordered the
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Schotter Blast
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automobiles; non.existent train
ing programs; and the discon-
tinuance of fingerprinting of
candidates for deputy posts.
To these charges, Sheriff
Offutt answered: HE knows
nothing about the administra-
ton of this office whatsoever"
Offutt said many of the pres
ent practices of administration
complained of by Schotter are
the continuation of orders put
into effect by Sheriff Bennett.
''Many of these 1 plan to
change IL / am elected" OF.
futt said. "But there Is little
use I'm changing them now"
He said he has made arrange
ments for institution of a train
ing program for deputies when
he takes office. Offutt cited a
sharply increased work load as
justification for the retention of
the 26 deputies now on the
force.
AS for the ftngerprinting of
job applicants, Offutt said,
That's another question for
Mr.. Bennett. But so far as l
know, all applicants have been
and are being printed by the
County Police" he said.
Offutt said deputies on his
force are attaching his cam
paign stickers to their cars of
their own will. "Those cars are
their own. 1 certainly didn't
tell them to put the shckers
there" Offutt said.
On this point of auto stickers,
Offutt did some finger pointing
of his own.
''He (Schotter) was on Off
cial duty until the day of his
resignation and yet his car look
ed like a billboard" Offutt
said.
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spectrum

% 1t looks as though the lawyers
won't be choosing up sides this
.time in the judicial race. They
..1have in the past.
~ It's always a big talking point
when a candidate for a Judge
ship can say he has the backing
s0f a majority of the lawyers, or
mt least a large number support
ing his candidacy.
~ The way this is done is to
have lawyers who are enthusi-
.astically backing the candidates
circulate lists to which lawyers
add their names as individuals
Saying they support the candi-
date on whose list their name
appears.
-. Then a press release Is sent
out or ads are taken, or both.
mo one is at all sure 1Uhdt i'm
pact this has on the Uoters. 1t
'fnlpreSses some and doesn't inn.
!. press others.
- A telephone check of more
than a dozen lawyers this week
leads us to the conclusion that
mo such tactics will be tried in
!. the current contest between
.aWalter H. Norman and Plum
.Sner M. Shearin.
49, One lawyer said "sOme feel.
.ers have been made" but the
.Other III We called said they had
heard of no such plan. They
.were unanimous In their belief
slthat the Montgomery County
.Bar AssOciatiOn-as a group
sawill keep hands off.
y. .s' In the primary campaign this
.'year, hackers of Stedman Pres
colt, Jr. pushed through, after
"a hot Bar Association debate
with some parliamentary ma.
.gneuvering, a move to conduct a
.poll of bar group members as
(. TO their preferences in the race.
"A count of the preferential list
~ings showed Prescott first with
107 votes, John P. Moore second
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
Costs Again Main Topic
OF School Board Rally
Kay Bowling

examples of fine mentalities
cluttered with the confusion of
experimentation"
Another School Board hope.
full, Attorney Charles Bell said,
lit is more important for our
children to graduate from ordi-
nary buildings with sound edu-
C lions than to matriculate
through a series of cleaning
showplaces with mediocre edu-
cations"
Bell questioned why remedial
reading classes here are increas-
ing out of proportion to enroll
ments and criticized use of tax
money for empire building,
which" he said, "the present
School Board either condones
or supports"
Incumbent Board member
Harold F. Breimyer countered
that the school system needs an
adequate and capable" adrpin.
istrative organization for
quality education as much as it
needs good teachers. He cited
enrolment growth from $4,000
to $4,000 students here since
World War II.
With the exception of Leon
C who is not running for
election although he filed, all
C h DOL board candidates at
tended the meeting.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
by Barney Welsh

But when / read these books, / become ner.
vous and old spike wounds start to hurt. Then
took up reading highbrOw magazines and
newspapers like some of my friends who
moved into the subdivisions and took over the
county.
l used to get the New York Times and
hurry home Sunday morning and read the
Book Review Section, the Magazine Section,
and what Hanson Baldwin said about the
world But this depressed me so that only
read Section which carried the sports and
the automobile news. Finally, just bought
Section and the news dealer could sell the
rest of the paper without it. This worked out
alright until I lost interest in New York
sports.
1 read boys books now: such as Slower at
Yale Robin Hood and Tom Swift. When a
boy was too busy to read them but now that
I can't understand much else, I have been
able to read the material I was supposed to
have read when was twelve years old. I
guess there is no harm in this kind of reading
and there might be some therapeutic value to
it. At least one does not get a hangover
from it.
Yes, October Is fine month for the
changing of mental gears. We can plan to
throw away our summer paper backs and get
down the unread classics
had planned to use my reading time this
winter for further study of the Civil War. But
since the uprising in Mississippi, have lost
my enthusiasm for anything that reminds me
of the Great Rebellion. AS matter of fact, it
occurs to me that we Americans are playing
a needless game of charades in reproducing
these Civil War Battles such as Bunker Hill
and San Juan HILL and that We ought to stop
wasting our time re-enacting American His.
tory which is familiar to any but the most
ignorant ass. AS said am reading Slower
of Yale now.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11

School Board candidate S
clashed again this week over
rising costs of education here,
as they continued their pre-elec.
ton transforming of civic and
P-TA meetings.
This weeks free-for-all at the
West Rockville Elementary
School before an audience of
400 reached its height in a chal.
lenge by First District candi-
date William I. Saunders of
Ashton of the current favorable
comparisons of county school
building costs with those of
other comparable Jurisdictions.
Saunders pointed out that
modest costs.per-square-foot of
school buildings cited by incum.
bents running for reelection do
not reflect land costs nor out.
lay for such "frills" as televi.
sion sets, teaching machines
and other special experimental
educational equipment use d
here.
Saunders questioned why
children should be exposed to
the disturbing atmosphere of
our public schools level of ed
ucational experiment" and de-
clared county schools are "veer-
ing away from building mental
muscle and creating too many
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
by Les Kimble

their fellow human beings. They are not nee
essarily uneducated.
They can organize and make the laws
of a, nation as they did for time during
the French Revolution, and they can turn
those laws into vehicles of Iegalized MUIR
der. They can, as they did under that
Master Ugly One, AdoIph Hitler, murder
whole segment of the population and turn
Europe into chaos of blood and destruc.
ton while proclaiming their great status
as the master race and the savior of man.
kind.
Let no one confuse them with men who
fight revolution for their freedom, although
they VIII always be present during any reVo-
luton. They will not write and speak and
proclaim their ideas to the world for discus
sion and argument. Their arguments are dog.
ma and their ideas are law. They believe in
censorship by fear or by that ultimate weap-
on of censorship, assassination. They do not
have the ability or the intelligence necessary
to defend their ideas through argument and
discussion
They conduct sudden raids in the night
ana ambushes in the darkness to plant fear
In the hearts of their fellowmen They kid
nap, beat, whip, and MAIN. They burn and
dynamite buildings. They need the cover of
darkness or of mask or of authority
Honorable men cannot use the ugly ones
to achieve their purpose whatever it may be,
without soiling themselves. Mississippi cannot
allow the ugly ones, either of the state or out
slders to take the life of a French newspaper
reporter and destroy the law and order of the
community without being smeared with some
OF the dirt from the ugly ones. Those men in
mississippi who appealed to the ugly ones,
however inadvertently, and who failed to pro.
vide law and order are responsible for the
tragedy in Mississippi Let the people of Mis-.
sissippi and the people of every other com.
munity in this nation examine the words and
actions OF their public officials for any trace
oil appeal or of conformation to that element
that is present in all societies, the ugly ones.
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HEW Unit Fight

Continued from Page One)
livery at a political rally here
this week:
1--WE may have lost the battle
but we haven't lost the war.
have been working with our
congressional delegation and
with the Public Health Service,
and we are going to conduct a
very vigorous campaign for
this facility in the next session
of Congress"
"After ALL" he continued, "the
Public Health Service has said
that so per cent of those who
would be employed in the
health center already live in
Montgomery County, and that
the chief agencies with which
they will be working, namely
the Acc and NH, are also 10.
Gated here.
at seems to me that these
are pretty potent arguments,
and I am going to do my best
to see that they are not ig.
nored."
At HEW, a high official who
declined to be identified said
that if the center is moved to
an area remote from Washing.
tho well have to abandon the
entire concept of the center and
wind up with something other
than a totally integrated pro.
gram"
The Washington area, he said,
houses most of the agencies
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with 102 votes; Norman third
with IS and Shearin fourth with
6S. Note: Norman and Shearin
who 'lost" the poll won the pri.
mary.
So far, and there is reason to
believe this aviu continue right
on up to NoU. s, the Norman
Shed''in campaign is very high
IeveI and gettlemanly. Each is
saying nothing unkind about the
other so far as a0e hare been
able to gather, and each is sim.
ply content to discuss his olUn
qualifications.
Norman, the Republican, is
certain to pick up almost all of
the Republican vote and the sup.
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