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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-03-14
Welfare Expenses
Up Another S343

Expenditures for welfare work in
this county showed another in
crease for January, this time
S343.79, over the previous month
This is the fifth hike in five
months.
Costs through the county well
fare office for the month of Janu-
airy totaled 44,4918 80. The figures
were received from the State De-
partment of Public Welfare, Dr..
Alvin Thalheimer, chairman, and
do not include costs of administra-
ton.
The amount for January was
distributed among 937 persons, six
less than for the previous month.
Largest expenditure once more
was in the category of Aid to De-
pendent Children where SGT chill
dren in 178 families received S22,-
913.i, an average of S12873 per
family There we're ID new APP
plications with 10 being added and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-03-14

judges. For the past ten years win
ners we're determined by popular
ballot.
Sanders has already named his
chairman of the talent committee,
Mrs Roy H. Gale. Until wider dis
tribution of application blanks
can be made in area schools, par
Elephants are asked to contact Mrs.
Gale at 102 First Street, or address
a request for an application blank
to TABLETS, Terra Alta. Appli-
cations will be accepted by the
talent committee through Thurs
day, March 81.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-03-14

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gether Now as member Of The Garrett National Silver
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your FREE SILVER CLUB CERTIFICATE emitting you to
checking account customers will receive their free
tificote by mail soon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-03-14

Winner of the game will go to
the state finals, to be held the fol-
lowing week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-03-14

month"; club members will receive SILVER CLUB
CERTIFICATE by mall emitting them another place
attractive accessory listed the right above Just watch
your stainless add In time all you'll have complete
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-31
How Important Are
Apartment Extras?
By DANIEL POOLE
Stor Real Estots Editor

transient. They are drawn by
the certainty Of expense when
budgeting a fixed income, and
by the immediate availability
Of those built-in extras.
One builder, WI mas deveI-
oped every type and size
apartment community during
a short but successful career,
is Saul Ritzenberg. He empha-
sizes the Importance Of ex-
traS:
''I'm confident that the pub
lie will continue to respond to
real apartment values and we
intend, as in the past, to de-
liver maximum floor space,
extra features and good loca-
ton. In this competitive mar
ket, you can't succeed unless
you give the best"
AS with other successful
builders, Mr.. Ritzenberg's ap-
proach has proved worth the
effort. In the eight years since
it was started, Saul Ritzenberg
& CO. has expanded until last
year its total real e estate
values were estimated at $21
million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-31

Almost any builder will tell
you: It's those extra features
that help keep the apartment
field booming at an unprec-
edented rate in the Washing
ton area.
Such things as air-condition-
ing, swimming pools, balco-
MES and terraces have be-
come almost commonplace in
tn e record-shattering $4,000
units started in the last year
and a half.
These and other new extras
are found in the newly luxu-
rious garden-type apartments
as well as in the familiar
high-rise buildings now dot
ting both sides of every major
thoroughfare.
Although n ew buildings
and even apartment commm-
ities-open nearly every
week, there are always plenty
of families waiting to move
in, it seems.
They are DIR awn by the
maintenance-free living found
in an apartment, and by the
mobility afforded. the semi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-31

In the last IL months alone,
Mr.. Ritzenberg has opened or
started 10 major high-rise and
garden-type apartment pro-
jects throughout the metropol-
itan area.
His new downtown Washing
ton apartments include the
Churchill, Hampshire Towers,
Scott Circle Apartments and
the Canterbury House. In SUI
burban M arylan d, he has
opened the Sussex House and
M a rlow Madison. Northern
Virginia projects are Timber
lane Park Apartments, Bar
croft Towers, Pine Spring Vii
lage and Dolley Madison Vii
lage.
AS an added feature at the
Sussex House in Bethesda,
with its lobby fountain and
floating Stairwell, Mr.. Ritzen-
b erg commissioned painter
sculptor Alba Hicks to create
a distinctive lobby mural. Us
ing her unusual air-bruSh
technique, Mrs. Hicks brought
the colors Of the sea to her
mural. It's one of the extras.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
Teachers Note!

On Aug. % nearly 200
teachers gathered in the audi.
forum at Washington Center
to investigate a new organiza.
ton forming in Montgomery
County, The Classroom Teach.
ers Association.
At that meeting the several
Montgomery County teachers
who have been spearheading
the formation effort, attempt.
ed to make clear the obiec.
tives of the CTA and to clear
up some Observation-Disclosures
which are circulating in Ger.
tain quarters. AS a conse.
quence of that meeting a size.
able number of classroom
teachers affiliated with the
new organization.
AS acting chairman Of the
CTA of Montgomery County I
am concerned over our inabil.
ity to communicate effectively
with the over 5000 other
teachers whom we did not
reach on Aug. %. Since many
Montgomery County class.
room teachers are numbered
among the subscribers to your
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
COP Views
Seneca Cu+back Hit
by Gerda Crow
by Gerda Crow

Parks has revised the taking lines of Seneca
Creek Park so as to eliminate 935 acres of
TINS Montgomery County park find this a
niue less than amazing in light of the fact
mat Montgomery County is one of Marylands
three Dig suburban counties where there is a
fantastic population growth
The explosive development of suburban
concrete Jungles is producing an urgent de-
mana for park areas with recreationaI facill.
tles' An adequate acreage of park land is no
less essential to healthy suburbs than are DO.
nee and fire protection Skyrocketing values
OF suburban real estate intensifies the urgency
10 purchase tracts which in a few wears will
De surrounded by subdivisions and shoppine
eehters Park areas for future population will
De more scarce than any one Of us can visual.
ze IN III to 20 years and Montgomery County
now mas only approximately $50 acres OF the
almost $4,000 acres OF State Parks.
Your commission will certainly not he Iiv.
ing up to its responsibility II this and the
other suburban areas Of this state are neglect.
ed. 'eS'
wish to appear before the commission in
regard TO this matter as soon as possible
understand that you will not be in regular
meeting this September because of a field
"Trip TO Western Maryland Will Won nlease
ADVISE me when your meeting will be SEIZED.
uled in October?
Sincerely,
Gilbert GUIDE
State SenatOr-MOntgomery County
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
From This Angle
Devils Rearhorse

II you keep your eyes open, you will prob
ably soon see her perched on a shrub or some
other plant on your lawn alongside the road
or In the fields. Her color is green or light
brown You should have no trouble recogniz
ing her for she is one of the most awkward
and devilishlooking creatures on the face of
the earth.
Her slender body, which may be as long
as your hand, is topped by head fitted with
two large eyes resembling auto headlights.
Her four long legs stick out from her BODY
and bend sharply at joints to form a stilt.like
PLATFORM. Two long arms, jointed in three
places, are attached to the body Just below the
head The inside surfaces of those arms are
toothed like the jaws of an old steel bear
trap.
lou may see her sitting motionless on
one OF your evergreen shrubs with her BODY
reared back and her long arms half extended
LOOKING ike some strange devil constructed
at the directions of the mailman, she appears
TO be in trance or at prayer. Although her
proper name is praying mantis, she is also
called Devils Rearhorse, Soothsayer, and Nun.
II you stick out your finger toward her and
move it in circle about her, her head will
turn to follow. She is the only insect that can
turn her head like man.
AS she sits there seeming to be a part of
the shrub, an insect may venture within the
range OF those terrible arms. Like the laws of
bear trap, those arms will snap shut on the
insect. She will eat almost anything of a rea
sonaole size that moves-butterflies, bees,
beetles, and bugs She is an armed guard for
your garden and shrubbery
At this time of the year her gauzy wings
have grown to point where she can take to
the air. AS flier she looks like something
that small boy just learning to build model
alrplanes might have constructed, but fly she
can Nearly 100 praying mantises were found
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05

The School Majority is coming perilously close to DEM
onstrating public be damned attitude by holding firmly
to its announced plan to craand eventually eliminate
the Takoma Park campus of Montgomery Junior
College.
What the reasons for the school majority's OBJ
ousy strong desire to close the Takoma Park Institution?
And why, now, has the County Council majority sided
with the School Board majority and approved expenditure
of additional SIS million at the Rockville campus?
Here have the extraordinary spectacle of two
major governmental bodies taking an action-a major
action-with neither explaining to the public why
it is taking it. And yet, lot of money is involved
that not public be damned do not know what type
OF governmental action could be defined
Under previously drawn plans which have not so far
know been challenged facilities of the Takoma Park
campus and the Rockville campus would be adequate
to house future junior college enroments for at least four
years.
Takoma Park is very conveniently located for many
students living closer to the District The facilities there
have many years of usefulness ahead of them their
placement cost would be There will be great
rush of students in the next few yearnot only here but
all the nation The grim determination of the School
Board majority which is now, unfortunately supported by
the county governing body to be totally without
And yet there must be Otherwise this course
would not have been followed. Some day. perhaps the
public may be enlightened Meanwhile it only wonder
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
He'll Cancel

l will not renew my yearly
subscription to the Montgom-
cry County Sentinel. The rea-
son is that your paper is too
liberal, which does its best to
smear those who are in dis
agreement with liberal views.
For example, in your latest
Issue an article by Les Kimble,
there is a correlation of anti
communists with Nazi and
Fascist regimes, and with Hit.
Ter and Mussolini. OH, you
don't exactly state 1t in those
words, but one sort of gets the
idea. The liberals l know are
very much totalitarian in their
thinking, but to detract atten-
ton from their totalitarianism,
they accuse others of being to-
talitarian.
Subscriber
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
by Barney Welsh

He told me that l. Monty Gopher, was
important to the people Of Mungummery
County; and all my family too because was
q symbol to them of something. / didn't
understand this because all do Is live close
to the sweet earth and speak my mind and
try not to hurt anyone-Or IL 1 have to. to
do 1t quick and clean.
He told me that many people wanted to
meet me and that should put a sign out
with the Gopher name on 1t and post 1t on
my farm told him did not want to meet
many people and that, In spite Of the way he
had described me, that enjoyed sitting out
alone in the garden swing listening to Har.
lotta sing folk songs while the stars wheeled
around above
He told me that represented to him.
and to other people, the independence of
Mungummery County and the strength which
1t has had to grow and maintain its individ
uality while assimilating thousands of new
citizens. He said that also stood for respect
for the past: its architecture and old homes
Its beliefs and old doctrines, and even its
prejudices and superstitions. He thought that
l was not ruled by them, but in some respects
judged the value of present things by look.
ing at their ancient counterparts He predic
ted that the Gophers will be around long
time and that many of the new citizens will
gradually grow into Gophers
Yours Truly,
Monty Gopher
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
Public Forum

newspaper, you could do us a
tremendous service by inform
ing your readers about the OBJ
jectives of the CTA.
Our primary purpose is to
provide the classroom teach
ers with a voice on matters
where their opinions differ
from those of supervisors and
administrators. Consequently
we do not seek to compete
with any already existing or
CARNATIONS, but to supplement
them. We are endeavoring TO
provide the classroom teacher
with an organization for ex-
pressing pure, unadulterated
classroom teacher opinions
and views in precisely the
same manner as the already
existing principals organiza-
tons promote the interests of
principals and administrators.
l would like to issue an in
vitation to those Montgomery
County classroom teachers
who feel the need for such an
organization to join with US
and aid us in establishing as
democratic and effective an
organization as our combined
energies can create. For more
information you can contact
me at Walter Johnson High
School at EN-. $4,000 between
2:3O and 4 pm. any weekday
afternoon.
Robert p. Burke
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
New Hospital
Dedication
Set Today

A new four.story surgical
wing built as an addition to the
History Clinical Center of the
National Institutes of Health
at a cost of 81 million will be
dedicated at a scientific SEM
mar to be held today at 9 am.
In the center auditorium.
The ultra-modern circular
wing. which provides separate
operating suites for heart sur.
gerry and neurosourgery, incor.
porates the newest advances in
medical electronic and record.
ing equipment, according to
NH officials. Outstanding fea-
lures include three separate re-
cording rooms, special observa-
ton rooms and the most newly
developed communications sys-
TENS.
Those attending the dedica-
ton ceremonies will be well
coined by DR.. Luther H. Terry,
surgeon general of the Public
Health Service. The keynote
address will be presented by
DR.. Edward d. Churchall, a pro-
fessor of surgery emeritus at
the Harvard Medical School.
The dedication will highlight
a seminar program devoted to
THE Surgery Investigational
Programs of MIL" to be dis
cussed by three top officials in
the surgical field.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
Overdue Appointments

1t has been than five months now since the one
year terms of three members of the Montgomery County
Commission on Human Relations expired. And that's
long time for the appointing body-the County Council
to fail to reappoin them to their successors.
Why has the council failed to make these appoint
ments? The public has not been given clue And if the
council itself knows the has not seen fit to take
the public into its confidence
That it is not what could be called wildly enthusiastic
about the rights unit rather clearly demonstrated by
the council when in adopting its 196364 budget it ap-
operate for the entire year, exactly half of the
requested.
The relationship between the counclmen and their
civil rights unit (set up by this councils predecessors be-
came bit strained we suspect when the council held
public hearing whether the law under which the rights
unit operates should be killed and the Human Relations
Commssion-along with other county citizens
argued strongly against such
An estimated 1900 persons showed up at the public
hearing the question and when that many votes are
obviously vitality interested in ISSUE public office
holder tends to think and act somewhat cautiously.
We strongly suspect being very blunt, that majority
of this council would like to repeal the counys public
commodatons law outright and to eliminate the Human
Relations Commission altogether And that's why those
three appointments haven't been made.
We have high hopes however, that the council-if
only because of those 1900 has come to
realize that whatever it is have been doing here in
Montgomery County to cope with this enormous social
problem of Negroes demanding their overdue rights,
to have worked fairly well. There have been no
riots need for martial law, demonstrations even So
why should the council not concede this though it
may be very private concession only to itself, and
ahead and make those appointments that should have
been made five months ago?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
by Les KimbIe

In one week on the observation tower of the
Empire State Building, about 1000 feet above
the streets of New York City.
l have used "she" instead of the generic
he" here for very good reason AS the fall
weeks go by there is less and less chance of
seeing male praying mantis for the simple
reason that many males have been eaten by
the females He is faster than she, and in
many cases could easily escape, but he lust
doesn't seem to care and seems happy to make
the supreme sacrifice of himself as meal for
his mate. Some lady mantises have been
known to eat several mates in a week or so.
Inere are four species of praying mantis
In thefUS, one native and the other three
imports. About the time of the Spanish-Amer.
lcan war the European praying mantis came
III from France and another species from the
orient. Sometime later another oriental
species moved here. The mantis is probably
the only accidentally imported insect which
does more good than HARM Mantises of one
KIND or another are found throughout most
OF the continental United States
Sometime in the fall this lady will con-
sruct mass Of foam about the size of q
walnut and insert 100 to 300 eggs. The foam
rapidly dries and stiffens, forming leathery
yeliowbrown capsule for the eggs. If the mice
or woodpeckers don't eat them during the
WINTER the eggs will hatch in the warm DAYS
OF spring or early summer The tiny Young
mantlses Immediately begin eating other in.
sects and each other The mother never sees
her young for she dies in the fall after LAYING
the eggs.
In your walks along the road or in the
neids this winter you may find the walnut.
sized yellow-brown spongy egg cases of the
praying mantis attached to wild berry bushes.
grass STEMS or other plant stalks. Clip off
several egg cases and place them in YOUR
snruooery. Come spring, you will have the
oeVlIs rearhorse stalking insects for YOU
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
Monty Speaks Up
Welsh Rare BIZ

The Mungummery County Sentinel
Gentlemen:
l am writing to you because Barney
Welsh visited me couple of days ago and
told me that he needed to get fresh outlook
on life and was therefore taking leave Of
absence from all the things he was accus-
toned to doing. If that is So his leave of
absence will be dismal time.
He asked me to write column for him.
have never been writer before and know
OF non honey fide reason for me to pull Bar.
ney Welsh's columns out of a typewriter.
After all he has been paid for writing about
me, and l have yet to see the first dollar
from him. Perhaps you can mail the check for
this column direct to me and Sarana. Make
it out jointly to us cause we are feuding now.
1t may seem only natural for me to write
about him because he has had so much to
say ABOUT me, but that is not what am going
TO do On the contrary, am going to write
about myself and tell why it is that Barney
Welsh thinks that am important and worth
writing about even more so than writing
about the School Board or the County Council
ana the intricate paths they follow.
He visited me at Gopher Hills not long
ago. He had just lost two of his friends. who
were also his daughter Margarets, friends
TOO He had just taken licking in court the
week before and there is nothing like those
TWO things to make man mediate.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
On Conflicts
Blanche t. Cawton

The County Councils lack
of action in resolving conflicts
of interest, pointed out in your
editorial of Aug. 20, is deplor-
able. Having the responsibility
for making appointments TO
the various county advisory
boards and commissions, the
council should certainly take
the responsibility to insure
that the people in these posi-
tons of public trust are, and
remain, clearly free of con-
flicts of interest.
1t is unfair to the citizens
and taxpayers of the county
for any person with the slight
est chance for financial gain,
resulting from the actions of
public bodies, to be allowed to
serve on these public boards
or commission. Freedom from
possible conflicts of interest
should be a requirement for
appointment or retention re-
CARELESS of how truly honest
or impartial a man is or
whether or not he disqualifies
himself from voting on actions
that obviously affect his pri-
vate interests. After all, we
are only human.
There are many well quail
fled people in this county,
completely free of conflicts of
interest, willing to serve on the
planning or sanitary commits
sions. 1t seems, however, that
the ones appointed and retain.
ed are sometimes those with
the most political influence or
backing by financial interests,
with no other qualifications.
A head in the sand" atti-
tude by the County Council in
regard to conflicts of interest
is no way to insure honest, eff.
ficient government.
H. b. Atkinson, Jr.
Germantown
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-05
We're Corrected

Your front page column,
weekly News Review" makes
common mistake in attribut-
ing the new Congressional re-
districting plan advanced a
few days ago to the Maryland
Committee for Fair Represen.
tation.
1t was the Maryland Citi.
zens Committee for Fair Con-
gressional Redistricting which
advanced this plan. The Mary
land Committee for Fair Rep
resentation is concerned with
fair reapportionment of the
Maryland General Assembly.
while the MCC for Fer is con.
cerned with equalizing the size
of congressional districts for
the purpose of electing U. S.
Representatives to the House
of Representatives in Washing.
Ton, D. c.
The distinction is important
because both committees are
currently conducting fund and
membership drives. Both goals
are worthy, but donors, I'm
sure, would appreciate know.
ing for which of the two pur-
poses they are contributing. I
hope your readers will find it
possible to contribute to both.
Thank you for all the good
work you have done on behalf
of good government.
Roland /. Perusse
Chairman, Maryland
Citizens Committee
for Fair Congressional
Redistricting.