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Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
This Week
THURSDAY. MAY

THURSDAY. MAY Q
John I, Zerbe, National LAUNDERING
Manufacturing Association. addresses
Home Builders Association Of Montgom-
cry County dinner. pm. Kenwood
Chestnut Lodge Players. walk With
out Fear" Park and Planning Commits
sion, s pm.
Edward L. Erickson, Of the Washing
ton Ethical Society. is guest speaker at
Womens Alliance of Cedar Lane Uni
FRIDAY. MAY 10
Montgomery Prince Georges Insurance
Women dinner at Prince Georges Coun-
try Club.
Taloma Park Presbyterian Church,
Junior Choir Festival Workshop. Chill
dren 40 p,m,, adults $40 pm. Also
Rockville Little Theatre, "The Gaze
bo," Rockville Civic Auditorium, $3.50
pm. Also Saturday at $3.50, May IL, 49,.
B-CC High School Arts Club, Arts Fair,
3:3O-9;3O pm, school cafeteria.
SATURDAY, MAY IL
Montgomery County All Beef Club
Field Day, Agricultural Center, Gathers
burg, pm.
University of Maryland Alumni Day.
Ladies Auxiliary, Wheaton Rescue
Squad, banquet Park University Motel,
College Park.
MONDAY, MAY 13
Red Cross water safety INSTRUCTORS s
course begins at Montgomery YMCA at
pm.
TUESDAY, MAY IA
North Bethesda Junior High School,
P-TA meeting and Festival of the Arts,
7-10 pm.
Wheaton Women's Republican Club
visits Sen. ]. Glenn Beall and Rep
Charles McC. Matthias on Capitol Hill.
WEDNESDAY, MAY is
Senior Citizens Hobby Show, Youth
Center, Bethesda, 10 am.-7 pm.
THURSDAY, MAY IS
Montgomery County Mathematics
Teachers Association meeting and din
ner, $3.50 pm, Thomas Pyle Junior High
School, Bethesda.
DR.. Wood Gray speech THE Civil
War-Its Causes and Cure Montgomery
Junior College auditorium, $50 pm.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
DE Students
To Work At
". T. Grant

Distributive education-learn-
ing to work by working-will
be put into practice in a big
way at the w. T. Grant store
in the N. Washington Street
shopping center tomorrow.
Some 80 students from Cath
ersburg High School will staff
the store from top to bottom
in the local outlets third annual
"DE Day."
Regular store manager Ber-
nard Lotti will turn over his
post to Jerry Martin, a senior
at Gaithersburg. His assistant
will be Ken Brown. Students
will take over all other jobs in
teh store throughout the day.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
Q Butcher Job
CONTINUED from Page AID

feels that the County Manager
should have discharged the di-
rector of the department of in
formation and economic devel-
opment the day he made his
statement to the press"
1t also noted that Butcher
had been instructed to arrange
for the departure of Hassett
and that "it was the council S
intention that the directors
resignation be effective around
May 1st." The date of June 80,
which was set by Butcher, sis
unreasonable and unacceptable, q"
the statement said.
Butcher, who has served In
the managerial post for three
years, was given a salary in
crease of $1,000 in the budget
just approved by the council
for 1963-64, raising his pay to
S25, 500 a year.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09

ance requirements for school
construction were restored, the
group says, there would be plen-
ty of money left to hire the
teachers.
Two hundred teachers cost
$1.1S2 million, the group said,
but state aid would reduce cost
to the county to $4,000.
The unallocated funds could
be turned to teacher hiring any
time after June 80, the group
said, though the County Council
would have to declare an "emer-
gency" to do so.
Such a supplemental" appro-
priation would first require a
public hearing.
The committee has sent cop
les of its proposal to all council
and Board of Education men,
bers, a spokesman said. A COW
ering letter went with each, he
said, saying the data was in
formational. No formal request
for public hearing was being
made.
One of the groups main
points i'm its proposal is that
the restoration, coming from
surplus funds, would in no way
affect the county tax rate.
Endorsement for the plan has
come from the County Council
of PTA's, whose executive
board passed a motion unani-
mously favoring the plan last
Thursday.
'We endorsed any request for
a public hearing to deal in ways
in which the teachers can be
restored without raising the. tax
rate" Millard Cass, president of
the PTA group said Saturday.
He said such a hearing should
air at once the effects of the
teacher cut and any plans to
restore the teachers.
Meanwhile, County Clerk
James M. Bailey last week issu-
ed a Fact Sheet" on the deci-
sion which charted pupil-teach-
er ratios since 1850. The paper
was issued for the council, and
is reported to have been pre-
pared for a recent television
appearance by Council Presi-
dent John A. Floyd.
1t says that pupil enrolment
since 1850 is up 1925 per cent,
while the teaching staff in the
same period has increased 300.14
per cent.
at can only be concluded that
the Councils action was reason
able, in keeping, with official
standards, and will produce no
adverse effect on the quality of
education in Montgomery Coun-
ty," the paper states.
Opponents of the teacher cuts
hold that School Board research
office statistics showing that
over one-third-541 of 1,550-of
the county's elementary and
kindergarten classes are al
ready over the 30-1 pupil teach
er ratio, are more meaningful.
The School Board figures show
classes running as small as II
pupils per teacher, and as large
as 43.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
q John Birchers

CONTINUED from Page AID
do so because of the time linn
itatiOn. Her statement, which
was mailed to the Council this
week, favOrs repeal of the
measure.
A member of the Battery
Park Citizens Association, Mrs.
Burton also said that she had
arranged for the Birch Society
to use the Battery Park Club
house for a meeting Nov. 2,
1862. She said that the group
had rented the auditorium of
the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Rescue Squad for that evening,
"but when they (the Rescue
Squad found out it was a Birch
group, they backed out"
The Squad member in charge
of auditorium rentals, who de.
clined to identify himself, said
1--WE turned them down because
their check was made out
wrong. We couldn't even cash
it,"
Mrs. Burton said the Society
hopes to return the nation to
Constitutional government and
to retain the rights granted by
the first 10 amendments to the
Constitution"
She also asserted that the
only two immediate goals of the
organization were "The revela.
tion of a suppressed report of
the Senate Internal Security
Committee about communists
in government and a full in.
vestigation of the State Depart
ment."
She has never actively re-
cruited for the society, she said,
81 think that if you're at the
point where you think you need
us, you'll come looking for us.
We're looking for workers at
the grass-roots level-not just
dues-payers," she continued.
Mrs. Burton said she joined
the Birch organization ito meet
like-minded people who were
willing to listen to my views
without denouncing me as some
kind of a radical. In the society
we can keep ourselves better
informed by mutual contacts"
Locally she has opposed the
Metropolitan Washington Coun-
Gil of Governments, the pro-
posed formula for school aid
from the state defeated in the
recent legislative session, and
the mental health clinic under.
way in Silver Spring.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
Annexation Okayed

Annexation of a little more
than three acres of land on the
south side of Jamestown Road,
at Research Boulevard, was ap.
proved Monday night by the
Rockville Mayor and Council.
The annexation request was
filed by the Church of Christ,
property owners. Public hear,
ing on the matter was held
April %. The annexation be
comes effective June 20.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09

the county tax rate.
The School Board had asked
the County Council for 222 new
teachers to handle an estimated
500 new pupils expected this
fall. All but % were cut as part
of an economy program that re-
duced the tax rate by 10 cents.
The committee wants SLIPS
million surplus from last years
school budget shifted to pay for
the teachers. If part of the $780,
600 of the surplus already allo-
Gated to offsetting bond issu-
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
Secondary
Class Sizes
OF 80 Told

The Montgomery County
Board of Education learned
Tuesday evening that approx
mately two-thirds of students
enrolled in county secondary
schools next year will be in
classes averaging more than 30
students.
A list prepared by Superinten-
dent of Schools c. Taylor Whit
tier shows that with a seven
per cent reduction in the num-
Der of teachers in each school,
II of the 81 secondary schools
in the county will have average
class sizes ranging from 30.2 to
1913. Average size of classes in
the other ID schools varies from
26.8 to 29.8.
The seven per cent cutback
is necessary, DR.. Whittier said,
because of the Councils action
in eliminating 200 proposed
teaching positions from next
years budget.
Heated words flew at the
meeting when board member
Lucille Maurer suggested that
the County Council be invited
to sit in on a discussion of
teacher reassignment brought
about by the Councils action.
Board Vice President William
E. Coyle Immediately called the
proposal "a dramatization," and
objected to its "circus aspect"
He said that he would "be per-
fectly willing to make a report
to the Council" but added that
the Board should first "hold a
conclave among ourselves, open
to the public, of course, before
we open this thing up to the
whole county government"
His studies, he said, showed
that some secondary schools
had almost as many physical
education teachers as they
have English teachers" He ask
ed for an inventory Of teachers
by subject and by school on the
secondary level, as well as list
of class sizes in each school.
The discussion started when
Mrs. Maurer told of a call from
a student in Bethesda who said
that German was being dropped
from the list of courses offer
ed by the Walt Whitman High
School next year. Mrs. Maurer
asked when the Board would
"know the impact" of the cut,
and asked for a staff report.
Before DR.. Whittier could
reply, Board President Charles
w. Bell expressed surprise that
the staff would act on resched-
uling without board action.
DR.. Whittier said that in the
past these decisions had been
made by the principals concern
ed. 1T has never been a matter
for the superintendents action,
let alone board consideration"
he said.
Continuing member Lucy Ke-
ker noted that she would not
"Gke to see the board step in
and help carry out administra-
tive decisions. We're a policy
making body" she said, land
I'm afraid the schools won't
even open in September if we
enter the realm of administra-
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
Mack Appointed

Rockville City Councilman
Ed Mack has been named to
the Rockville Planning Commis.
sion as representative of the
city's governing body. Mack
succeeds Councilman Ralph
Williams whose term expired
May /.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
Neptune Gets Bid

Neptune Meter Company was
awarded a $1,000 contract Mon
day night for furnishing 100
water meters to the City of
Rockville. The city has over
5000 Neptune meters installed
in its water system.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1963-05-09
Group Urges Use
OF Surplus Funds
To Hire Teachers

The Committee for the Public Schools has plan to
surplus school monies to get the 200 teachers cut
from next years school budget back without affecting
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
Third Year For
Tchu|a, All
Stars Listed

For the third consecutive
year Tchula Girls Basket
ball team won championship
honors in the Holmes County
Basketball Tournament. Win
ming top spot for the boys
were the Durant Boys Team
at this annual event held in
the Durant High School
Gymnasium Friday and Sat-
urday.
Tchula girls defeated Du-
rant girls 44-42 in the finals
Saturday night.
Durant boys came out on
top in the boys play by de-
feating Holmes Agricultural
High boys 1874.
High scorer for the win
ming girls team was Mary
Ellen Pike, with 33 points,
and high scorer for Durant
was Charlene McNeer with
20 points. Other scorers in
the girls match were Jan
Jones, 8 and Susie Gwin, 3,
both of Tchula, and for Du-
rant were 10 Browning, "A,
nd Betty Myers, 8.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
NAIL Construction Is
Proceeding RapidIy....
WEATHER REPORT

Strong northerlY winds.
light snow and sleet with
an accumulation of snow
one to three inches deep
was predicted for Central
Mississippi late Wednesday
and today.
Light snow fell through
out much of Holmes Coun-
tY beginning around 500
a. m. Wednesday but did
not stick. The mercury was
down to 20 at 500 p. m.
and was expected 10 go as
low as 0 TO 5 above We'd
nesdaY night.
Holmes schools dismissed
around 500 a. m. as soon
as attendance reports were
made and many school
buses in some areas failed
TO show up.
Glasses will be resumed
when the weather mod
crates. according TO school
officials. Time will be
broadcast over Radio Sta
ton WXTN.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
Sewerage Grant
Issued BY Federal
Govt; Tax Up 1%

Citizens of Tchula approx
ed a proposed $144, 900 bond
issue for construction of
waste treatment facilities and
also a proposed city sales tax
levy of one per cent.
There was a total of 70 for
the bond issue and 80 against.
For the sales tax rs voted
for and So against. Of the
1913 qualified electors N
Tchula, Ill cast their vote
in the special election on
Friday, January 18th.
u S. Senator John Stennis
has notified Tchula officials
that a federal grant of $34,-
$50 has been approved to the
Town of Tchula for better
sewerage facilities under the
Water Pollution Control Act.
The grant was approved by
the u. S. Department of
Health, Education and We'll
fare.
Negotiations for sale of the
bonds has been completed
with Hamp Jones and Max
Allen of Jackson at an in
terest rate of 4.98 per cent.
Mayor Frank Wooten of
Tchula stated that the bond
liability is limited to revenue
from water and sewerage
services plus revenue from
the new sales tax.
The Tchula City Board has
worked tirelessly on a pro-
posed expansion of the city
limits which will incorporate
the residential section across
the lake and GWin.
Improvement of services
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24

From the cutlery that arose
one would think the entire
national debt had fallen on
our shoulders here in Missis-
sippi. 3
We like the idea Of a bal
anced budget, national and
state, (our own, too, if we
could ever manage it), but
we do not believe the nation
is destined to end up on skid
row because we don't have
one at the moment.
President Kennedy's $685.
billion budget is a blockbus-
ter - but the deficit envi-
stoned is not quite as much
as President Ike presented
in 1859, 12.4 billion, and that
was peacetime, too.
Mississippians will actual
ly pay less than one-half of
one per cent of the new bud
get, CAB to be exact and
even that is a lot of money
$474.240,0 900.
But Mississippi, poor state
that we are, gets almost twice
that much back from Uncle
Sam in Individual grants
and public projects. Hardly
a day seems to pass that we
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
Anrue! MOD Mothers March Set For
Thursday, January 81; Ladies Listed

North Street, Cedar Street,
Clifton Street, Jordan Street
and Pickens Street, Miss
Mary Harpole, and Mrs. Fan
ME Mae Cothran:
Vine Street., Andrews
Street, Pickens Road and
and Rogers Street, Mrs. Ruth
Moore, Mrs. Nell Sullivan,
and Mrs. Sue Mcclellan;
Depot Street, Swinney
Lane and Cemetery Street
Mrs. Carolyn Rinicker, Mrs,
Nell Dixon and Mrs. Betty
Tucker;
Williams Street, Chestnut
Street, Beall Street, College
Street and Church Street,
Mrs. Dora Berberette, and
Mrs. Kathy Rowell.
Immediately following the
March the ladies will be
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
ford Watson for buffet sup
per, at. which time proceeds
will be counted.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
Louie B Nichols
Presents Slides To
Rotary Club Tuesday

An interesting and infor-
native story on civic pro-
jects and improvements in
Lexington was presented by
Louie Beall Nichols at the
weekly noon luncheon meet
ing of the Lexington Rotary
Club on Tuesday.
Color slides of buildings
constructed in the past few
years, including the library.
the new Livestock Barn a
project of the Jaycees, ar
aerial view of Lexington, and
other new businesses were
shown and narrated by Mr..
Nichols.
DIN Dunn served as pro-
gram chairman and present
ed Mr.. Nichols to the group
Immediately following lunch,
Regular business matters
were discussed with Eugene
Herman, vice president pre-
siding in the absence of Wal
ter Sullivan, president.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24

A fascinating study of the
Pearl River Reservoir is con-
tanned in a book published
by the Bureau of Govern
mental Research at the Uni
versity of Mississippi.
James E. Sorrels, its au-
thor, traces the origin of the
reservoir from the earliest
years, when it was popularity
or unpopularly known as
"Mitch's Ditch to the sign
ing of a contract with Har-
bert Construction Co., Birm-
ingham for the huge dam.
The study was the basis for
a thesis on the same subject
for a Master of Arts degree
in political science by Mr..
Sorrels, now a Planning AS
sistant and Industrial Repre-
sentative of the Mississippi
A. and /. Board.
AS the reservoir is com.
pleted and developed it will
undoubtedly be the subject
Continued on Page Three,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24

were doing everything pos
sible to rush the construction
and installation. A represen-
tative has gone to New York
to try to rush the equipment
which is coming from that
state and Wisconsin.
The industry will manufac-
ture toilet tissue, napkins
and other related items.
Mr.. Turner and his family
are occupying the Whitworth
apartment in Pickens at the
present.
Homes will be needed for
six or eight families who will
come to Pickens to live when
MILF begins operations, he
said.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24

While we are congratulate
ing -. uM
Heartiest congratulations to
all of the people of Attala
County on their approval at
the polls last week of a
$500, 600 bond issue for a new
industry, Garan, a shirt
manufacturing plant. This
will help us over here in
Holmes, too.
Special congratulations to
Billy Mcmillan, publisher
and editor of The Star
Herald, which published a
splendid special edition sup
porting the bond issue.
A tremendous vote of con-
fidence in the industry land
Billy, too, We might add is
noted in the total vote, 1868
for and only Is against. This
was 68.4 per cent of all the
voters in Attala county par
ticipating. In K osciusko
alone "a per cent of the total
number of qualified voters
participated and only nine
voted against it.
Billy. also director of In
dust~iai DEVELOPMENT in Kos
ciusko, is doing a fine job of
if = and tn rood people of
Attala a~o ce~t2inlv backing
him up in 2 big way.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24

In accordance with the
current March of Dimes
Campaign the Lexington
Business and Professional
Women's Club and Jaycettes
will jointly sponsor tn e
Mothers March on Thurs
day, January 31st.
This event will begin
promptly at 800 p. m. at the
sound of the fire siren. All
residents who wish to con-
tribute are asked to turn on
their porch lights.
Streets and ladies who
will solicit are listed as fol-
lows:
Westwood Avenue a d
Spring Street, Mrs. Ellen
Schur and Mrs. Virginia
ChreStman;
Boulevard, Mrs. Dorothy
Gelston, and Miss Necie
Gwin;
Pine Street and Dyson
Street, Miss Frances Hinson,
and Mrs. Jean Mcclellan;
Race Street, Old Tchula
Road, Tchula Street and Hill
side Street, Mrs. Mary Ann
Ziegler and Mrs. Dora Pearl
ridwell;
C~arrollton Street, Carpen-
ter Street and Bryan Street,
Mrs. Peggy Frost, and Mrs.
Shirley Ables;
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
John Edwin Steen
Rites Wednesday

John Edwin Steen, well
known and highly regarded
resident of Durant, was the
victim of a heart attack at
his home Tuesday morning.
Mr. Steen was making his
truck ready to load yearlings
to take to a livestock sale
about Ills a. m. when he was
suddenly stricken. He was 70.
Funeral services were held
at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday from
the Durant presbyterian
Church, with the Rev. R. E.
WATSON, the Rev. Curtis Ellis
and the Rev. Durell Makam-
son officiating. Intermen Mt
was in Mizpah Cemetery
with Southern Funeral Home
of Durant in charge of ar
rangements.
A native of Madison Coun-
ty, Mr.. Steen was born on
December 20, 1890 at Cam
den. He and his family have
made their home in Durant
for the past So years, where
he leaves a host of friends.
Mr.. Steen was a member of
the Durant Presbyterian
Church, where he served as
deacon, a member of the Ma
sonic Lodge, and served as a
Military Policeman with the
Infantry in World War 1.
Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Iva Clover Steen, Du-
rant; a son, Thomas Clover
Steen, Pennington, New
Mexico: a daughter, Mrs. Ca
rol Steen Johnson, Durant; a
sister, Mrs. Tom S. Pittman,
Shreveport, Louisiana and
seven grandchildren.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
By Hazel Brannon Smith

Congratulations to the peo-
pie of Tchula on their beau
tiful new Post Office, dedi-
cation of which was covered
fully in this paper last week.
We appreciate the expires
sion of thanks" received
from several Tchula citizens
since last weeks paper came
out for our presence at the
dedication and the news and
picture coverage we gave it.
For rs years We have been
writing up the progress of
that community and assisting
every way possible when
called upon by any indivi
dual or group - and it has
always been a pleasure.
We shall continue to serve
you in every way possible.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24

Two truckloads of machi-
merry came in this week and
nine tecrnicians from New
York are readying the equip
ment for installation.
The Charles Di Carlo Co. of
New York is in charge of
getting the machinery ready
and the actual installation is
being done by Ross Company
also of New York. Seven To-
cal workmen are employed at
the present.
The main paper-making
machine, which will take
three months to install, is
expected to arrive in thirty
days. One part Of this mach
Inc, known as a Yankee
dryer, weighs twenty tons
and is ten feet in diameter.
The Yankee dryer is so
heavy it will be put in place
and the building constructed
around it. Only one section
of the building remains for
construction and this is ex-
pected to be completed with
In 80, days.
Mr. Turner, who is en-
ployed by MILF and will
continue with the firm when
it begins operations. said they
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1963-01-24
Mrs. B~|ankenship's
Rites Held FRIDAY

Mrs. Zenobia Lois Blanken-
ship, one of Durant's well
known and long time re-
sidents, died Thursday, jan
uary 18th at $50 a. m. al
Sanatorium after an extended
illness. She was SO.
A native of Durham, N. c.,
she was born on August 9
1873. She was a member of
the First Baptist Church Of
Durant and a charter mem
Der of the Durant Gamma
Club.
Funeral services were held
at 800 p. m. Friday IN
Southern Funeral Home Cha
pei of Durant with the Rev.
Durell Makanson officiating
Interment was in Mizpaf
Cemetery.
Survivors are four daugh-
tiers, Mrs. James M. Piggott,
Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Vic
toria Driver, Memphis; Mrs
Alton Lanfair, DuTant anc
Mrs. w. H. Hoover, Jackson.
She is the widow of the late
William Blankenship, who
was conductor for Illinois
Central Railroad out Of
Durant for many years.
Pallbearers were J. B
Cooper, Alvin NOVEL;. Julious
Guion, Henry Mckenzie
Clarence Robertson and Billy
Irhy.