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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Open Space Primer

Everybody likes open spaces. Children like them.
NOMINEES like them Daddies like them. What is an open
space? 1t place where there are lots of nice trees It
also has green grass And it has nice streams to wade in
It also has BIRDS And sometimes rabbits and squirrels
and chipmunks, and opossums and raccoons.
Non-andowners like open spaces. Anywhere will do
for the open spaces for the nonandowners Landowners
like them But the landowners like open spaces where
their land isn't So that makes problem all of the
landowners like open spaces where their land isn't that
doesn't leave any land for open spaces, does it?
Planners like open spaces They have their job to do
Their job is make nice place for people to live in.
Nice places live in have open spaces The planners
we should have corridors satellite cities This is much
better way build communities where children and their
mommes and daddes live they say. corridor is long
row of houses and apartment houses and stores with buses
subways running along these corridors to get people to
where they want to CO. satellite city is sort of circle
with bunch of houses and apartments and stores inside
it, Beside building corridors satellite cities there is
other way make places for people to live That is the
way doing Just put lot of houses close
together and don't worry about open spaces 1t has taken
long time but people beginning to worry about the
way are doing it We should have open spaces,
they say The best way to do this and more people
saying to build these corridors satellite cities And
have open spaces in between them If don't do some
thing about open spaces pretty soon there won't be any
left And that trees and grass and ponds
and opossums and squirrels and chpmunks
AS we said at the beginning of this story everybody
likes open spaces But after agreeing that people don't
agree anything Where will the open spaces be? Every
body has different Do you know why it is such
big problem? Your daddy explain to you. The
who the land make money out of it if the
land has lots of houses it instead of just few houses
That the problem right there And of course everybody
has to have money.
So it will be up to our government to decide where
the open spaces will be though it will cost
people money We certainly hope they know that
there must be open spaces We think they do When they
decide where the open spaces will be- the people who
the land there will be very unhappy But that is often the
way The government cannot please everybody.
So, to end the story for now, the government will
have to decide very where these open spaces
going be- The government is getting lot of advice
this And they will be getting lot in the
future. We will be giving them some, too Good night!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Adopt 5 Acres

l am part owner of a 185
acre farm, on Great Seneca
Creek, in the Upper County. I
approve the proposed 5 acre
open spaces zone and hope it
will be adopted and applied to,
at least, some areas in the
County. l hope, also that the
Council will, in the near fu-
ture, make more use of the
present 1 and 2 acre zones and
apply them to additional areas
in the Upper County. Certain
ly, it is time for some change
in the continuous u acre zon-
ing in the major part of the
Upper County. In a County
having as high an average in
come as reported for Montgom-
cry, we certainly can support
many areas of estate, farmette
or large lot (2-5 acre. coming
in addition to the present Il
acre coming. This is true espec-
tally in places that should be
protected from intensive devel-
opment. For example, stream
valleys and adjacent areas,
thickly wooded areas and areas
of great natural beauty. We
should also preserve at least
some of our best farming
areas for future needs. We can
not purchase all of these areas
for public parks nor should we
allow them to be developed in
tensively. The only alternative
is large lot or agricultural zon-
ing.
Our concepts of the rights of
private ownership will have to
change as the population in
creases. Modern ideas of land
use control for the overall pub
lie good must be accepted by
private landowners. AS David
Hume, recent primary candi-
date for governor has asked
do we own the land or do we
hold 1t in trust for the future?
In trust for those who come
after us. ! want my grandchil-
dren to be able to see and en-
joy in Montgomery County a
virgin forest, a green meadow,
clean sparkling stream (such
as upper Seneca Creek is now.
/ say adopt the 5 acre zone
and apply it, along with the /
and 2 acre zones, to protect at
least these areas from inten-
sive development before it is
too late.
Harold b. Atkinson, Jr.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Here's A Noble Hobby
by Barney Welsh

c,,pboard and when we were boys there were
times when we had to eat standing at the
buffet This means without formal service.
There is an art to enjoying buffet. A
novice is overcome with the sight of a long
line of food laid out on white linen cleaning
with silver and flowers. He may think that
he can eat all that he sees. And so he goes
to the head of the table and gets plate,
napkin. knife, fork, couple of spoons and
starts to move He gets couple of salads
which cover half his plate and then puts
olives, radishes and celery on top of this, and
tops 1t all off with a couple Of kinds of
dressing.
Then he comes to the covered dishes and
the chef shows the lobster, or the Italian dish
or the chicken and the turkey. Not wanting
to discriminate, he takes a little Of this and
a little of that; and then he comes to the
roast beef. He takes slice of that. He needs
vegetables. He must have bread. So he goes
to the table and unloads this food and comes
back and gets some of the fish and eggs he
has missed. He then sits down to the soup
which has been placed at his seat. And now
there is a sight to behold: 10, the man, all
stomach and no brains. But how does the
experienced buffet expert go about it?
The real trencherman at the buffet walks
in front of each dish on the table. He decides
what kind of dinner he is going to have:
roast beef dinner, lobster dinner, an italian
dinner or fowl dinner He makes up his
mind on the main course and then he decides
what salad goes with it. Then he determines
which vegetables are appropriate and he pic
lures them on his plate. He then smiles to
himself seated contented and happy while
slipping an after dinner cocktail and congratu-
lating himself on his temperance.
And so he goes to the head Of the table
and gets a plate, napkin, knife, fork and a
couple of salads, and: well, you know the
rest. The dream of temperance gives way to
the fact of gluttony and the Mungummery
County buffet supper has once more con-
quered.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Takes Exception

With reference to your edi-
torial about the Tropic of Cam
Ger: If the mind is over-fed
with lust, be it ever so beau
tifully presented, it degen-
crates just as the body does
from over-indulgence.
Man is primarily a spiritual
being as is proven by the fact
of the Immaculate Conception
(or the Pure Thought in I'M
ion with its Creatorl.
In realizing this, we do well
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Howard at Rutgers

Joseph T. Howard, principal
at Four Corners Elementary
School, is one of IS elementary
school teachers and supervisors
attending the Earth Science
Institute at Rutgers University
this summer. The six-weeks pro-
gram sponsored by the National
Science Foundation is set up to
develop teaching techniques in
new geological subject matter.
The program ends Aug. 10.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Welsh Rare Biz )

1t has never really been discovered just
what the origin of hobby is. Some hobbies
are born of a physicians orders or a
spouse's commands. These hobbies, being
spawned of necessity, amount to no more than
work without pay and should be avoided.
Age and financial condition have great
deal to do with hobbies.
There is many a hunter walking around
our county popping gun at birds and rabbits
who would, if he had the funds, be shooting
tigers in Africa. Many of us who walk up the
canal would if we could find time rather
walk down the Appalachian trail.
There are a couple of hobbies that I
want to undertake some of these days. One
of them is to write an account of the court
houses in Maryland 1t would be fun to take
a summer off and browse around the court
rooms and listen to the snoozing ghosts
whisper their tales of legal ambushes and
dainty scandal A history of the county court
houses could be a history of Maryland in
miniature.
would also like to travel on a river boat
down the Mississippi to New Orleans but
will never be able to accomplish this dream
because to do so would take me away from
Mungummery County.
Marylanders who remove themselves
from our rolling green hills and silent valleys
for an extended period of time become iii.
And those Of Mungummery County who settle
upon foreign soil soon become sterile This
is natures punishment for deserters. really
don't know this astounding assertion to be a
fact, but 1 do know that those who desert
our county have been known to starve That
is why we eat so well in this county. 1t is
to prepare ourselves against the day that we
may have to move.
There is one type of eating in Mungum-
merry County that has become SO prevalent
that it can be called our county hobby. l
refer to the buffet supper. According to my
dictionary buffet" means a sideboard or a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Tropic Suit

Continued from Page u
case on both the argument
that MOreland's discretionary
power was usurped and that
the book has sufficient arts
tic merit to rescue 1t from
the realm of Obscenity.
IF we can prove either, Wen
win this case" he predicted.
Rosenberg pointed out that
the Massachusetts, Suprem e
Court recently reversed lower
courts decision that "Tropic"
is obscene, by 4-3 vote.
Among witnesses he hopes to
present, Rosenberg added, is a
u. S. District Court Judge for
Northern New York State who
has also ruled the novel is not
predominantly designed to ex-
cite the prurient interests of
today's average reader.
'"Tropic of Cancer" written
by American novelist Henry
Miller, was first brought out in
this country by Grove Press last
year. 1t had been published in
France in 1884.
Efforts to distribute it in this
country have been opposed by
authorities ranging from Gus
toms officials to scores of local
jurisdictions. The Post Office
Department, however, permits
its distribution by mail in in
terpreting a U. S. Supreme
Court ruling that to be consid-
cred too obscene for public con-
sumption 2 creative work must
be devoid OF artistic merit.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Leffers TO The Sentinel
The Public Forum

able that some Of our citizens
are so interested in the county
that they would like to have
its beauty preserved. In fact,
I liked Montgomery County as
it was when I moved here
from neighboring Frederick
County % years ago. However,
! am not in favor of running
rough shod over the bundle of
rights that go with the owner
ship of property to keep it as
it was then. To do so is an
other step toward socialism
under which no rights or free
doms exist.
These people who advocate
such controls over our prop
erty must believe as Franklin
Roosevelt's man Friday, Harry
Hopkins did, when he said that
the American people were not
capable of thinking for them
selves, they needed to be told
what was good for them.
am well aware of the pres
sure that Is being brought to
bear on the Planning Commits
sion and the County Council
by people such as Mr.. Akin
son as well as the Citizens
Planning Associations that are,
I believe, made up mostly of
people who are probably COM
paritive newcomers to the
county. These people have no
respect whatsoever for other
peoples investments. This is
the very reason expressed, in
my previous letter, disapproval
of our charter form of govern
ment which allows the people
of the up-county districts vir-
tually no representation, but
provides that they must help
to pay for the formation of a
Utopia. That seems to be the
dream of most of our down
county population.
/ am not a land developer
and I have no desire to make a
fortune and move to Florida
as Mr.. Atkinson suggests. My
simple desires are to see our
free enterprise system, our
freedom of choice and all
rights that 60 with the owner
ship of property, under the
Constitution of the United
States, preserved.
1t is my fervent hope that
the land owners of upper
Montgomery County will band
together and test the legality
of the taking away of the half
acre coming that was given to
them several years ago. The
modern concept seems to be
that we can destroy the indi-
viduaps incentive to progress
and therefore be self support
ing, as long as it is in the
interest of the overall public
good" and still remain a free
nation. This / do not believe
is possible.
No, Mr.. Atkinson, I'm not in
favor of losing any more of
our freedoms, no matter how
much it would benefit the
overall public good" 1 have
seen enough of them taken
away since the beginning of
the Roosevelt Era.
Louis E, SWeadner
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
Lend Use Planning

H. B. Atkinson, Jr. has
placed me among a group who
might make a fortune on
Montgomery County land and
then move to Florida. Accord
ing to my information there
have been more people who
have moved here from other
places, helped to get new laws
and regulations passed gov.
erning the native Montgomery
Countian's use of land that he
was born on, and then moved
on, than Montgomery Coun-
tians who have made fortune
on land and then moved to
Florida.
My arguments against the
modern concepts of land use
planning are based entirely on
the premise that we still have
a free economy in which a per-
son can invest in land zoned
for a certain use and be as
sured of that use when he de-
cides to develop it. Some years
ago our County Council placed
almost the entire Up-County in
a half acre zone. After that
time nuns rous investors
bought land at prices that
would enable them to develop
1t into half acre lots and make
a FAIR profit, but hardly
enough to retire and move to
Florida. Now our planners
want that coming taken away
from these investors in favor
of two, five, and in some areas
even ten acre zones, for "the
overall public good" Are these
investors expected to take a
terrific loss on their invest
ments because our planners
changed their minds? Will the
next step be to tell the land
owner that he must develop
his land into parks for "the
overall public good?"
Anyone who is informed on
such matters knows full well
that it is next to impossible to
even make a living farming
land now, much less produce a
return on ones investment
therein. While this proposed
orderly growth" is taking
place are the up-county land
owners supposed to lose inter-
est on their investments, and
pay taxes on their land while
preserving its beauty for
others to enjoy? I have never
heard anyone suggest that
some of the down county land
be reserved for open spaces. In
those areas, high rise apart
ment zoning is being granted
while in the up-county not
even enough RIO will be al
lowed:
Mr.. Atkinson, like most of
the people who advocate the
adoption of these new regula-
tons on the open land in Mont
gomery County, rationalizes
when faced with facts that in
volve the preservation of our
freedoms. / should like to ask
some questions that are peril
nent, l believe:
/. Is the bundle of rights
that goes with ownership
of property to be scrap
ped? If so, what incen-
tive is there for a person
to invest in property?
?. When will the zones, that
have been left out of the
proposed plan, be estab-
lished? Win it be done
piecemeal as individuals
ask for coming? If so,
how can it be called a
plan?
3. What law takes prece-
dence over the Bill of
Rights that makes these
proposed regulations con-
stitutional?
1t is extremely commend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09

to discipline our minds and
hearts as well as our bodies.
Mrs. James Nj. Wolfe, Jr.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-08-09
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Evening star., 1962-05-15

swore out a warrant against
Mr.. Peyton and the church soon
afterward voted Mr.. Peyton out
of membership.
During the course of the trial
yesterday. representatives Of the
church's board of trustees
agreed to accept. and Mr.. Pey-
ton to pay. 500 toward paying
for damage to the door.
The settlement developed q
hitch, however, when both sides
insisted the other should apol-
ogize.
IF the church apologies for
the accommodation and for
gives, wen pay" said Mr.. Pey-
tons attorney. George A. Park
er.
Church representatives, how
ever, said they don't have any
thing to apologize about.
Judge Howard, who said he
Evening star., 1962-05-15
InquestsHO|d
7 in Sayings

A District coroner's jury yes
terday held two men for action
Of the grand jury in two sepa-
rate homicides over the week
end.
In one case, John A. White,
36, of the 1000 block Of Benning
road NE, was held in the shot
gun Staying Saturday afternoon
Of Kelly M. Griffin. 81, Of the
same address.
Homicide Detective John c,
Wilson said Griffin, who was
released from the District work.
house at Occoquan, Va, Sat-
urday morning, was arguing
with White over again living at
the Benning road address when
the shooting occurred.
In the second hearing
Francis Leroy Jones, 26, of the
1900 block of Fairmont street
NV, was held for the grand
jury in the pool cue bludgeon-
ing Of Ellsworth Jeffris, SIS, Of
the 1900 block of Thirteenth
street NV.
Detective Wilson said the two
men had been drinking Satur-
day night in another apart
ment in the 1900 block of Fair
mont street NV. when an
argument broke out over a
woman. Detective Wilson said
Jones told police Mr.. Jeffris
tried to hit him with a pool cue
and that he took the cue away
from the older man and struck
him with it several times. Mr..
Jeffris died Sunday night at
the Washington Hospital Cen
ter.
Evening star., 1962-05-15

OAASCAnCh AAJNA SNs
Donald L. WeeSe said Mr..
Stokes was about five feet
Gway when, "he put his hands
Ip as If he was going to choke
ue.
II ordered him to stop and
hen I fired" said Policeman
Weese.
A grand jury begins an in
JURY into the riot today. Of
.icials said more than so wit
neSses will appear, including
20 policemen.
Mr.. Weese said he wounded
three or four" Of the six
Inti-white Muslims shot in the
riot in front Of a Muslin
Temple at midnight.
He said he answered a radio
all that officers needed help.
He said another policeman
pointed to q dozen fleeing men
In business suits and said, "get
those men"
He said he overlook some of
the men and ordered them to
tine up against q wall. They
cried out, "Why. why?" and
shen began what sounded like
3 religious chant. Mr.. Weese
said.
The policeman said several
Muslims were attacking his
partner. They were choking
him and beating him with his
baton" he said.
He ordered them to freeze, "
then fired at three or four OF
them around my partner. I saw
three Of them fall and then
I was Swamped," he said.
Doctors said Mr.. Stokes died
Shen a bullet pierced his heart
ana LETT lung.
Nine MuSlims subpoenaed de-
clined to testify on advice OF
their attorney.
Other policemen testified the
riot began when they stopped
to question two men as bur-
glary suspects. When one Of
the men resisted, said officers,
others rushed to their aid and
the riot was on.
The all-white jury Of four
Evening star., 1962-05-15
Church Fuss
Pends in Court

Municipal Court Judge An
drew ]. Howard. jr., has given
a former deacon and his church
enc month to decide which one
should turn the other cheek.
The deacon. Fillmore Peyton
66, went on trial yesterday for
destroying private property. He
is charged with breaking the
front door to the Pilgrim
Baptist Church. Seventh and
streets NE, last January %,
when no one answered the
door.
Pastor Charles w. Green
Evening star., 1962-05-15

paper Fund. which Is sponsored
by the Wall Street Journal.
Miss Verna ]. Dozier, Of Bal
lou. win attend q Syracuse UNI
versity seminar. Ben EdwalM
Holt. Of Hoffman Boston,
Arlington, win study at the
University Of Rhode Island.
Mrs. Wilma G. Shepherd. of
Cardozo, win attend q Pennsyl-,
vania State University seminar.
Evening star., 1962-05-15

men and three women returned
its verdict in % minutes. The
jurors said the decision was
unanimous.
Afterward. the Rev. Malcolm
K, New York spiritual leader
Of the Muslims, said, Il sat and
listened to officers describe how
they shot down unarmed men
in cold blood.
II can only say that I am
thankful there is a God in
Heaven to give real justice
when necessary"
Evening star., 1962-05-15

didn't appreciate such a case
coming before my court" con-
tinued the matter until June Il,
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Gordon M. Van Sanford said
the government win gladly drop
the charge If the parties can
reach an agreement by then.
Evening star., 1962-05-15
Mother Visits
Son in Red Chino

HONG KONG, May is (AP)
Mrs. Mary Downey Of New
Britain. Conn, crossed into
Communist China today to visit
her imprisoned son John in
Peiping.
Mrs. Downey Is accompanied
by her son William. It Is her
third trip 10 Peiping since
John, 81. United States Army
civilian employe during the
Korean War, was sentenced to
life imprisonment In 1854 on
charges that he dropped sup
plies to anti Communist agents
In Manchuria.
Evening star., 1962-05-15
To Present 'Mikudo'

The Mikado." a Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta, win be pre-
sented by the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church Choir at
8 pm. tomorrow, Friday and
Saturday nights to benefit the
choir fund.
Evening star., 1962-05-15
District Teachers
Win StudyG Grunts

Three Washington high
school teachers have been
awarded grants to study jour
nalism this summer. They are
part Of 465 awards totaling
100000 given by the News
Evening star., 1962-05-15
Auxiliary Convention

The 18th annual convention
OF the District Ladies Auxiliary
OF the Jewish War Veterans
OF the U.S.A. will begin at l0:3O
am. Sunday at the Mayflower
Hotel. Former District Com
missioner Joseph Donohue will
be the guest speaker.
Evening star., 1962-05-15
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Evening star., 1962-05-15
Jury Clears Policeman
In Shooting Of Muslin

LOS ANGELES May Is (AP)-A coroner's jury says the
police shooting of Black Muslin riot April ~ was
sstifiable homicide
The jury ruled yesterday the death Of Ronald T.
Stokes g. policeman testified he shot Mr. Stokes during
melee which officer shot and other Musms and