Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-12-31

cost Of funerals through pre-
planning of burial arrange
ments, is announced.
School principal Dorothy CO.
burn of the North Kemp Mill
Elementary School, the only
School trying out the Amidon
Plan, reports that 1t isn't as
revolutionary as most people,
including the School Board
thinks.
Rockville's Urban Renewal
Director Peter CLANCY tells
Sentinel the city is confident
1t can begin to acquire pro-
perty before the end of the year.
The original time table had peg
ged September as the month
when acquisition would get
underway.
County teachers, through the
Montgomery County Education
Association, ask that their
starting pay, when they have a
degree be raised from $4700
to $4,000 per year.
Gov. Tawes hears earnest
pleas for maximum clemency
for three young Negroes SEN
fenced to die for raping white
girl. The Governor listens for
two hours to entreaties that
the trio, now on death row
awaiting execution, be freed
at once Observers say that
no such clemency hearing in
state history has attracted such
attention.
Maryland d-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
reveals its is considering alter :
ing its corridor plan radically
to allow for population mush-
rooms in Olney and Damascus.
At the same time, the planners
revise their estimates of the
growth Of Germantown down.
ward by 20, 900 people by the
year 1000.
Page F. Hopkins, Board of
Zoning Appeals member and
target OF conflict of interest
charges by a county civic
group, says his hands are clean
and that he is sat a complete
loss to know what they are
talking about"
County farmers worry about
light hay, corn and barley crop,
as drought plaques area. No
rain recorded for 26 days, and
Assistant State Forester Will
liam III Johnson, who is also
head Of the Division eof Fire
Control. reports that the only
tnlng that has kept the situa-
tion from becoming critical is
that the state has experienced
extremely light winds.
Council reaches tentative de-
cision to annex and rezone over
800 acres Of the Polinger tract
on Route 355. Controversy
over zoning for the tract had
caused developer Milton Pol
niger to pull out of earlier
annexation proceedings last
year. He refiled in the summer
for annexation by Rockville.
School Board learns that con-
troversial college question
aires filled out by Montgomery
County Junior College fresh
man will be burned by the Ed
ucational Testing Service, the
organization that administered
the research poll. They noted
that the "six package ship
ment cannot be returned, but
Will be destroyed by
burning"
County Council deliberates
over a request Of high-rise
apartment zoning In North
Bethesda on land owned by Alvin
l.. and Dorothy Aubinoe. Pc
tition pulls full house of op-
position from neighboring land
owners at public hearing.
State Sen. Gilbert GUIDE re-
ports that developers should
be denied access to major sewer
line extensions through the
Northwest Branch watershed.
The legislator successfully
sponsored bill last year CIV
ing County Council new legal
power to control development
through control of sewer lines.
Montgomery County's Citi-
zens Study Commission on AL
cohol Beverage Laws gains
Council majority recommenda-
ton for some liberalization of
the county's So-year -old liquor
control system. Council men,
bers are asked to give indi-
vidual recommendations on
specific revisions they favor.
Gaithersburg's Mayor and