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Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Boards Nav
Ask Court
lest on
Wage Rates

A court test may develop on
the consdutionality of a Del
aware law allowing the Depart
ment of Labor and Industrial
Relations to set prevailing
wages for public construction
projects.
A committee of the Della
ware School Boards Association
(DSBA) decided Sunday to ask
the association membership to
approve such a legal test.
The resolution will be pre-
sented at the DSBA winter meet
ing Feb. 9 at William w. M.
Henry Comprehensive High
School in Dover.
Last week the committee
complained to the Department
of Labor and Industrial Re-
lations that the wage rates set
are TOO high.
School boards in lower Del
aware are concerned that the
new wage rates necessary in
school construction specifica-
tions will increase overall
costs 20 per cent or more.
Paul E. Baker, chairman of
the eight-man committee, said
the resolution to be presented
has not been worded. He is
president of the Dover School
Board.
The legal test would refer
to Section 69l3, Title 29 of
the Delaware Code.
Four other committee men,
bers we're at Sundays meet
ing in Dover High School. They
are: Howard T. West, Milton
School Board chairman; Robert
H. Reed, Dover, chairman of
the William W. M. Henry Board;
Max R. Corder, Milford board
president, and D. Ralston Pet
tyjohn, Georgetown boardpres-
ident.
If suit is brought it could
be by a school district planning
to build specific project. All
school boards in the state be-
long to the association.
The wage rates in question
were set last year after the De-
parmentof Labor and Indus
trial Relations was established.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Schools
Discussed
In Talk
Before Lions

An informative and stimulat-
ing talk was given by Peter
Williams, a native of Wales,
at the dinner meeting of the
Smyrna Lions Club Monday
night.
Williams is now member of
the faculty of the John Bassett
Moore High School in the Eng
liSh department.
He defined and contrasted
British schools with American
schools, and said that reform in
their system had begun in 1914.
We have to remember, the
speaker noted, that Britian is
one state, centralized, efficient
having one educational system.
The British ''private" school
is really public school and is
open for scholarships. "Educa-
tion is free if you work for it,"
he said.
They try to "create an in.
dividual";; to teach him to ''play
the game"
Challenging statements which
he read from 'Time" mag
azine, he said that he feels that
the British educational system
compares with any in the world.
British public school life is
based on examinations, he con-
tinued. There are three schools,
grammar, secondary, and tech
nical.
"College is free if you pass
the examinations, he said. The
speaker was introduced by
Joseph Orlando, a member
of the faculty at the high school.
William Minner, president,
announced that early plans are
being made for the annual Horse
Show, with tentative date set as
May l9.
A ladies night program is
scheduled for Monday, Feb. rs
and the zone social on March
%.
Terry Kingsbury, George Re-
tew, Fred Savage, and Aaron
Miller we're visitors from the
Wilmington Manor Lions Club.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Seeks Long,
Term Lease
For Ft. Miles

A meeting to discuss pos
sible future use of surplus pro-
perty at FIT. Miles is expected
to be held next month.
US. Rep. Harris B. Mcdowell
Jr., D-Del., leading the fight
to have surplus Sussex beach
front acreage turned over to
the state on a long-term lease,
announced the meeting yester-
day.
Mcdowell, angered recently
by an apparent Defense Depart
ment decision to give Delaware
only a one-year lease, has in
troduced Legislation to have the
FIT. Miles land leased to the
state fo- at least Is years.
Mcdowell said Robert Stead
man, an economic adjustment
adviser to the secretary of the
Army, had agreed to his sug-
gestion that John A. Bivens,
Jr., Delaware state planning di-
rector, be invited to the meet
ing.
The surplus properly involv-
es Ola acres at the fort-head-
quarters for the harbor de-
fenses OF Delaware Bay during
World War II.
Mcdowell said 35S acres
we're ceded by the state to the
government, l55 acres is held
under lease from the city of
Lewes and about 100 acres has
been transferred to the Navy
for other defense use.
The surplus portion of the
reserva zion contains numerous
buildings and along pier at Cape
Henlopen.
The military history of the
site dates back to 1873 when
Delaware ceded lao acres TO
the government to help estab-
lish the old Delaware Bread
water Military Reservation.
During World War ii the site
was expanded and developed
at a cost of about So million
The reservation contains about
LOO acres.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Legislators
To Return
To Dover
February 4

Monday, Feb. A has been
established as the date for the
return of the General Assembly
by leaders of the TWO houses.
House Speaker Sherman W.
Tribbitt, D-Odessa, said that
if the assembly is to remain
away from Dover for a pro-
longed period because of the
hearings of the Joint Legis-
lative Finance Committee, then
he wants it to be by decision
of the members.
"As it stands now," Trib-
bitt said, ''they are In recess
at the call of the chair. That
means that If they are kept
from meeting, it is by our de-
cision. | think that if they want
a lengthy recess they should
quit until a specified date"
Tribbitt has made no secret
of the fact that he thinks the
Joint Finance Committee hear
ings keep other members of
the assembly too long away
from the work they have to do.
Sen. Curtis w. Steen, D-Dags-
boro, president pro tempore of
the Senate shares that view.
The Joint Finance Commit
tee, completing its first week
of hearings, has interviewed
officials of only a relative hand
full of agencies.
The assembly will be In re-
cess on Feb. 7, Steen told
state highway commissioners
and they accordingly estab-
ished that date as the time
to make a field trip through
freeway projects in New Castle
County as guest of the Greater
Wilmington Development Com-
ell. Members of the assembly
are also to be invited.
Members of the highway COM
mission will also go the Green
Spring Inn In Maryland on Feb.
E to discuss mutual turnpike
problems with members of the
Maryland State Roads Commits
sion. This will be the third
between the two states
road agencies.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Statewide ImmuniZatiOn
To Be Launched Feb. II

wealth & Green Streets, Clay
mont; Mt. Pleasant Sr. High
School, Washington St. Ext. &
Marsh Roads, Wilmington;
Brandywine Sr. High School,
l400 Faulk Road, Wilmington;
Oak Grove School, Spruce Ave-
nue., Elsmere; Henry c. Conrad
High School, Woodcrest; Mill
creek Fire Company 3900Kirk-
wood Highway, Marshallton;
DeLaWarr High School, Chase
Avenue, Garfield Park, New
(Continued on Page Two)
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Death of Smyrna Family
Laid to Driver Fatigue

A collision which killed a
Smyrna man, his wife and their
son in a Pennsylvania Turn
pike tunnel, last April. has been
laid to the fatigue of a truck
driver.
The truck driver also was
killed.
The finding was laid down
January % by the Interstate
Commerce Commission after
an investigation of the wreck.
Killed in the mile Long Tus-
carora Tunnel in the truck car
wreck we're Burton F. Melvin,
46, of Smyrna; his wife; their
l6-year-old son, Anthony; and
John A. Ault, 49, Chicago
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Remove Snow

Town crews we're put atwork
at 10 pm. Saturday during the
snow -storn which struck the
state, with high winds. They
continued their work of clear
ing the streets and sanding
treacherous intersections dur
ing the weekendworking through
Sunday. They used a road grader
and snowplow. Work was car
rted along on Monday with re-
of snow from the down.
town area at street inter-
sections.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31

'Fournier Memorial Hall, 1900
Rowland; Fire Stations at--25th
& Market; 3rd & Union; New
Castle Ave. & "a; End Black
son.
New Castle County--Green
St. Elem. School, Common
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Sen. Boggs'
Bill To
Benefit Fire
Companies

Senator ]. Caleb Boggs (R-
Del) today introduced legisla-
tion to permit volunteer fire
companies to be classified in the
non profit category of the postal
laws.
Boggs, member of the Sen
ate Post Office and Civil Ser
vice Committee, said, SAT the
present time religious, educat-
ional, philanthropic, labor, vet
Grams and fraternal organiza-
lions, as well as the state
highway departments, are per-
mitted to mail matter to indiv-
iduals in the communities and
elsewhere at the non profit
rate. Certainly, think that
the service volunteer fire
companies render In COM
munity is an extremely i'm
portant one and since they OPP
crate almost exclusively on fin
ancial contributions received
from public spirited citizens,
they qualify and should be per-
mitted to send mail at the non
profit rate.
''h Delaware over so volun-
teer fire companies are in exis-
tence, protecting the lives and
properly of Delaware citizens.
In one instance, over 10000
pieces of mail were sent out,
giving a financial and activity
report of the company and re-
questing donations. Under ex-
listing law such a mailing would
cost the company approximately
$1,000 In first class postage.
This represents a sizable por-
tion of their operating budget
and precludes the purchase of
vitality needed fire fighting
equipment or safety equipment
for the men who serve as VOL
unteer firemen. If my bill were
enacted into law, the cost for
this same mailing would be
approximately $3.50, represent
ing substantial saving to the
company and the community
which could easily be translated
into created protection and
greater safety for the COM
munity and the fire fighters.
"The effectiveness and the
strength of our volunteer fire
companies In Delaware and
-throughosat the nation are de-
pendent upon community contri-
buttons which are received
through the solicitations of the
fire company. The enactment of
this bill would make 1t possib-
lie to devote a greater share
of those contributions to the
purchase of equipment to pro-
vide round-the o'clock effective
protection of community lives
and property. l hope that the
Committee and the Congress
will favorably consider this leg
islation and that volunteer fire
companies will be included in
the category allowing them the
non-protit rate presently being
utilized by SO many other nom
profit organizations"
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Legion Meet

The regular monthly meet
ing of the David C. Harrison
Post No. IA, American Legion
will be held in the new post
home on Clenwood Ave. at 7:30
p.m., Wednesday, February 6.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08

pansion of the assessment staff
to meet growing demands, in
GLIDING the prompt recruit
ment" of assistant assessor
aides already authorized by the
council.
1t called for an extensive pub.
lie relations program in which
taxpayers would be fully in.
formed of current assessment
policies and other activities and
urged that duplicate copies of
all tax bills be made so that
home buyers could receive them
along with the banks that fl
nance their purchases.
Homeowners specifically
should be informed of their
right to appeal reassessment of
their property and should be en-
couraged to do so if they are in
doubt, the report said. At the
same time, it suggested that the
council adopt a less compli-
Gated procedure for filing ap-
peals, and proposed that the
Appeal Tax Court conduct eve.
ming hearings at varied loca-
lions in the county instead of
requiring appellants to come to
Rockville for daytime hearings.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08

actually used for farms and that
deemed suitable for subdivision
or commercial use, the report
cited three examples of land
sales and windfall assessment"
during the period the preferen-
tial assessment law has been in
effect. Properties actually as
sessed at $3230, $205O and S4460
were sold for prices of $780,
900, $125,O0O and S11S,0OO re-
spectively, according to sales
records.
To protect the owners of land
actually used for farms, the
committee suggested that the
Supervisor of Assessments be
given the authority to reassess
property when it becomes APP
parent, for various reasons,
that it will be used for pur.
poses other than farming. Such
a step could be taken, it con-
tended, without involving legis-
lative action that would be
necessary to authorize other
changes.
Among changes in office pro-
cedures to improve the assess
ment program suggested by the
committee was a move that al
ready has been authorized by
the council. 1t provides for
mathematical calculation of as
sessed valuation of property
and other data through the use
of modern, automatic machines,
pointing out that the procedures
would give assessors more time
in the field to increaes their
productivity.
The report also suggested ex-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08
Tax Study Is Submitted to Council

Despite its controversial
role in some instances, the
Importance of farmland to
the asSessable base of Mont
gomery County is relatively
SMALL" a special Assessments
Review Committee for the
county declared this week.
In a detailed report on its
study of assessment problems
since it was appointed by the
County Council on Jan. Is, the
committee expressed the view
that existing law authorizing
preferential assessment of farm
land in the county should not be
repealed. 1t conceded, however,
that continued farm classified
ton of property suitable for
more valuable use is depriving
the government of large sums
of tax money in some instances.
The committees references to
the farm problem were among
46 recommendations made in an
extensive 75-page report submit
ted to the council on Tuesday.
Many called for minor changes
in the regulations to improve
the reassessment program but
several of them proposed drastic
revisions that would relieve the
heavy tax burdens of some
property owners while providing
a substantial overall increase in
the county's revenue.
One suggestion, that would
deprive the county of a relative
ly large source of money unless
substitute measures are pro-
vided, was that the tangible per-
sonal property tax be elimin-
ated. While it brings in more
than 81 million year, the COM
mittee said, tsl"very nature pro-
duces inequality and lack of
neutrality in its impact on tax
payers"
The personal property tax, the
report declared, has become
essentially tax on business and
farming" through which the
average farmer is required to
pay as much as $1,000 a year on
farm implements and livestock.
AS to the personal property
taxes on manufacturing inven-
tory and machinery, the com.
mittee noted that many areas
eliminate them or reduce them
sharply to induce industry. In
Montgomery County, however,
it said "the controlling con-
sideration is whether some sub
stitute source of revenue can be
found, and this is a decision to
be reached by the County Coun.
Gill;"
In pointing out the inequity
OF assessments of farmland
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08
. Permit Law
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the life TO every man, woman
or child resident in Montgomery
County it is entirely possible
that under this ordinance he
will have filed dozens of such
applications or run the risk of
a fine up to $1,000 or a Jail
sentence of six months.
ut is our opinion that this
ordinance has no chance of sur.
viving a court action. But it
would be incredible for a gov.
eminent body anywhere in the
United States of America to en-.
act such an ordinance. 1t is un.
believable that such a BODY
should even consider it 100
years after the conclusion of the
Revolutionary War in 1888.
Every person and organiza.
ton that cherishes fundamental
American civil liberties should
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08

protest this ill-conceived ordi-
nance" they concluded.
AS of Tuesday, according to
Council Clerk James M. Bailey,
a total of IA persons had filed
notice with his office that they
desired to speak on the pro-
posed ordinance. They did not
indicate whether they were for
or against the measure, Bailey
said.
Meanwhile, letter was mail.
ed to the council Teuesday by
c. Lawrence Wiser, president of
the Young Democratic Club of
Montgomery County, in which
he urged that the hearing be
delayed until early October.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08


Because of the proposals sig.
nificance," Wiser said, broad
public discussion of it is most
desirable"
He noted that the ordinance
would affect virtually every or
ganization in the county and all
of the substantial numbers Of
individuals in these organiza-
TONS Most of these groups,
he added, do not meet in the
summer land there has been
therefore no opportunity for
them to thoughtfully consider
the proposal"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08
City to Buy
BOuic Tract

ROCKVILLE = City Council
has voted to buy - for about
$4,000 = the so-called "Old
Bouic Tract" at Rockville Pike
and Veirs Mill Road. 1t will be
the first land acquired under
the city's proposed urban renew
al program.
Purchase of the tract of about
one acre that formerly housed
the longtime home of the Bouic
family, prominent in Rockville
history, was accelerated because
part of the land is needed for an
elaborate new traffic intersec.
ton to be built near the site.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08
Group Hits
Cingery on
Conflict

. The Montgomery County
Council was asked to look
into a possible conflict OF
interest" by Donald E. Gin
gerry, a member of the
County Pla amin g Board,
through his role as an off
cial of a real estate firm
legally at odds with the
planning unit on which he
sits.
The request, taken under
consideration by the council at
its meeting on Tuesday, was
filed by the Montgomery Coun.
ty Citizens Planning Assocla-
ton as the result of Gingery's
recent election as a member of
the board of directors of the
Seaboard Land Co. of Silver
Spring. The firm is the COM
plainant in a suit filed against
the Planning Board as the re-
suit of its refusal to approve a
subdivision plan in a decision
handed down in September of
last year.
Informed of the groups &C.
ton, Gingery said there was
nothing hidden" about his asso-
citation with the Seaboard con-
Germ, in which he said he had
"a small share of interest"
"As a member of the Plan
ming Board, l certainly wouldn't
vote on any matter that had
anything to do with the COM
pany," Gingrey declared. Fur.
thermore, its case is now before
the court and therefore is be-
yond the reach of the Planning
Board"
In a letter addressed to John
a. Floyd, president of the coun-
Gil, the planning association
cited newspaper reports of Gin
gery's election to the Seaboard
board of directors at a time
when the planning boards deci-
sion remains a legal issue.
I'm the view of the Planning
Association, acceptance by Mr..
Gingery of dictatorship in a
company at a time when that
company was suing the Plan
ming Board would be highly i'm.
proper" the letter declared. 1t
was signed by Ramsay Wood,
president of the association.
1--WE request the County
Council to inquire diligently
into these and any other circum-
stances bearing on the question
of possible conflict of interest
on Mr.. Gingery's part, with a
view to determining whether
the facts warrant his removal
from office as a member of the
Planning Board and the Plan
ming Commission" the letter
continued.
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. Charles Bell
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ers necessary training.

ers necessary training.
During our campaign and
since we have held office, we
did not and have nto believed
or said that the school system Is
all bad" Bell declared. "And we
have not closed our minds on
any issues. But our view Is that
learning is hard work on the
part of everybody and more dis
cipline is needed" he added.
The 38-year-old Rockville at
torney related how during the
campaign he ran into a law
school classmate and the latter
told him he was worried about
his children's education. His
friend, he said, had the feeling
that his children "fingerprinted
and played song games all the
time" and Bell said he talked
to many parents who shared
the same view.
"The county was headed in a
progressive direction and there
was too much experimentation.
We hope to reverse this direc-
ton and to slow this trend" he
said.
Bell said DR.. Whittier display
ed IAN extremely hostile atti-
tude" when the four newly
elected board members inform
ed him they wanted to launch
the Amidon plan. But after "an
awful battle" it will now start
in at least the one school this
fall, Bell said.
He said one of the majority
members, William l. Saunders,
had been named to handle
Board liaison with DR.. Whittier
on the progress of the Amidon-
type program.
AS far as overall progress in
making Roadway toward his
goals, Bell, who moved to the
county from the District Is
years ago, admits he's "disap-
pointed. Progress would have
been faster, he believes, If it had
not been for the three hOldOver
members of the board who now
constitute its minority.
He's also been surprised and
amazed" at the extent to which
controversy has been generated
by some of the majority bloc's
moves. Most of the major
issues+such as the teacher fin
gerprinting-police check ques-
ton = have been simple and
clearcut" to him and he doesn't
see why there should be so
much fuss.
Bell, a resident of 215 Beall
Ave-, Rockville, was a county
court administrative officer by
day while he completed his law
studies at American University
by night.
One of his major detectives,
he added, is to establish greater
rapport between the school
board and county teachers. He
feels some teachers do not agree
with board actions only because
of poor communication and lack
of understanding.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08
Club TO Banquet

The Gaithersburg-W Washington
Grove Neighborhood Garden
Club will hold its annual ban
quet luncheon in the private din
ing room of the Atomic Energy
Commission Aug. 13 at 1890.
Each member will wear a cor
sage of her own making, accord
ing to club member, Mrs. Mil
ton Collins.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08
King Attends
A Z

Tom G. King, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harrison c. King, Gathers
burg, is one of Is Maryland
youth delegates now attending
1868 sessions of the American
Institute of Cooperation, on the
campus of the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-08-08
Carnival Opens

A three-day carnival sponsor.
ed by neighborhood children as
benefit for the muscular dys-
trophy fund will open today at
1890 pm. at the home of
Sandra Wright at SOL Lincoln
St, Rockville. Serving with
Sandra on the carnival commit.
tee are Judy Terrell, Jimmy
Order and Patty, Donna and
Ronnie Foose.
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