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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
by Gerda Crow

eminent, the education Of their children.
This needed change is proposed to give
the electorate closer and longer look at the
candidates and their PHILOSOPHERS. Each can.
didate will also have adequate opportunity to
present his views to the public. He will be
in the campaign for office the same length
OF time as those running for other county
positions.
How many candidates will be selected in
the spring primary?
Two from each district electing School
Board members, and four for the at-large
seats, When more than two people file for
district seat, the two candidates winning the
greatest number of votes will appear on the
November ballot. When the at-large members
are to be elected, and five or more file for
the candidates., the names of the four lead
ing contestants will be placed on the general
ballot
What does this accomplish?
1t removes the possibility of someone
winning with plurality vote when three or
more candidates run for the same district seat
ms mas happened in the past With the
number OF contenders reduced to two in the
spring primary, someone must win with a
cledr majority in November.
Since Montgomery County operates under
a closed primary system won't this prohibit
the Independent or decline" voter from his
right to select the candidates.
NO! 1t is physically possibly to lock the
Young machines to permit the decline" to
cast his ballot for School Board candidates
only He will not be able to vote for party
candidates on either slate.
Inc machine can then be reset to permit
the party registrant to vote for both his party
slate and the School Board candidates.
How can you support this proposed
change?
Write to James R. Miller Jr., Chairman
OF the Delegation from Montgomery County,
republican Office, the State House, Annapolis,
Mu Inc deadline is Feb. 14-next Thursday.
Inc chips are down. The pressures are
neaVy' Help your delegation fulfill its prom
Uses made to you Let them know that you
PACK them now as you did in November. Do
1t nowl
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
by Les KimbIe

and erecting tyranny there, to the great
danger, from so great dissimilarity Of a
Religion, law, and government, Of the neigh
boring British colonies :"
The Declaration of independence adopted
two years later changed this paragraph to
read: For abolishing the free System of
English Laws in a neighboring Province,
establishing therein an Arbitrary government,
and charging its Boundaries so as to render
1t at once an example and fit instrument for
introducing the same absolute rule into these
Colonies"
An incident involving the Senate Subcom
mttee on Constitutional Rights in 1855 shows
how impotent Congress can be on the matter
of separation Of church and state. This COM
mittee called hearings on violations OF the
religious provisions of our Constitution. Ready
to testify were: a Protestant clergyman and
Jewish rabbi from Connecticut about the sup
preston of birth control clinics under clerical
pressure; American Jewish Congress spokes-
men regarding the sectarian invasions of pub
lie schools; and spokesman for POAU, an or
ganization devoted to maintaining the Separa-
ton of church and state, who were prepared
to present a detailed and documented study
of public schools in Indiana taken over by
Catholic religious orders and of public high
schools in the South which were being ex-
plotted by certain Protestant groups.
Fear of religious controversy caused the
Senate Committee to cancel the public hear
ings and to substitute weak public survey
instead.
Due to political attitudes in our country,
the Supreme Court remains our best hope Of
keeping church and state separate. All Ameri-
cans who cherish their freedoms will give the
court solid support on this matter. American
Catholics can be proud that few Americans
have stood more firmly for the separation Of
church and state than two high public Off
Gals who also happen to be American Catho.
lies. They are President John F. Kennedy and
Supreme Court Justice William ]. Brennan Jr.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
Clissmann Retiring!
Sister City Visitors
Viii Meet Ne,U Mayor

Rockville area visitors to
Pinneberg, Germany, on a
scheduled July SISTER City" ex-
petition will meet a new bur-
germeister when they arrive as
the community celebrates its
annual rose festival.
Burgermeister Henry Gliss-
mann, who has held the city gov
eminent reins there for IS
years, is retiring Feb. %.
Glissman took the job in 1913
as the then community of about
10000 struggled to absorb TO-
600 war refugees who settled in
Pinneberg almost overnight.
Since then, Pinneburg-a sub
urb of Hamburg-has grown to
more than 10000 persons.
Gllssman is credited with
many civic and governmental
improvements, particularly In
planning, as the city tripIed its
population during his admins
trati0n.
He will spend a vacation in a
HarZ mountain retreat and then
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07

Skinner Gopher, the not so fleet of foot
ancestor of Monty and who was shot in the
back at the Battle of Bladensburg, served long
ago as the personal representative De Bonis
Non Cum Testamento Annexo, without truf-
files, Of his brothers estate.
That was all the Latin he learned, but,
during that singular period of fiduciary rela-
tionship, Skinner Gopher acquired an endur-
ing distaste for undertakers He was forced
to pay from the assets of the estate, first Of
all, this regally preferred creditor. Having
observed the exalter position enjoyed by NOR
ticians and having witnessed the commanding
handicap they are given by the Maryland
Legislature over other deserving creditors,
Skinner did two things.
First, he retained the lobbyist for the
morticians union in an effort to obtain a
liquor license for him. Skinner thought bottle
clubs were sleazy institutions, and he only
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07

can't see how, in all justice and reason, you
can equate bottle clubs on the one hand and
liquor law relaxation on the other.
1t appears to me that the first involves
an evasion of liquor laws that must be
stopped If we are to have clear-cut under
standing of exactly what we can and cannot
do. To say, as some do, that it is not fair to
eliminate the practice of permitting restaurant
customers to keep liquor bottles or to order
miniature bottles from nearby county dispen-
saries unless you allow restaurants to serve
their own liquor appears to me to be fuzzy
thinking. There is no qud pro quo involved
In this matter of abolishing bottle clubs. This
practice, which has grown up in the last few
years the Democratic administration,
l might point out-gives these eating places
no vested interest in its continuance.
Furthermore, If we accept the recon-
mendatiOn by their supporters to regulate
them. rather than abolish them outright, we
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
Lawyers Role

Mr.. Phillip Marcus has
lately extended his myriad ac-
tivities into the business of
Montgomery County courts
and attorneys. His letter to
the editor of last week char
acterizes the rule of the Cir
cult Court which requires at
torneys practicing before this
Court to have local offices as
"abhorrent monopoly" He ia
cetiously inquiries as to why
the Bar Association does not
prohibit Montgomery County
Attorneys from practicing in
the District of Columbia.
The fact which both Mr..
Marcus and the District news
papers blithely ignore is that
the Courts of the District of
Columbia for many years
have prohibited lawyers from
Maryland or any other juris-
diction from practicing there
unless they associate with a
District of Columbia attorney.
This is the only purpose of
the Montgomery County Cir
cult Court rule = to obtain
jurisdiction and control over
attorneys who practice before
this Court.
Perhaps Mr.. Marcus would
now like to comment on Dis.
trict of Columbia problems.
Maryland Attorney
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
Gophers Rise Again
by Barney Welsh

owned two of them from necessity. Second,
he wrote a will after mulling over the problem
of getting buried without paying an under
taker
1t was the peculiar provision In SINNERS
will that was responsible for Monty charging
into my office braying that dead bodies had
been found on part Of his SugarlOaf farm
"acluttering up the title to the whole dam
parcel"
1t developed that Monty had become
alarmed about all the talk Of year Two
Thousand and had entered into a contract
to sell out, kit and kaboddle, and go over to
Loudoun or Clark county in Virginia, where
people who owned land amounted to some
thing and weren't always being pot shot at by
planners who can't pillow a straight row.
Thus it was that the dead bodies on the
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07

considerable amount of pressure is be-
ing exerted in the legislative halls of Annapo-
lis to amend Montgomery County liquor laws
so some of our larger restaurants can serve
cocktails and highballs with their meals.
This same pressure is aimed at my pro-
posal to abolish the so-called bottle clubs in
the county, unless my move is accompanied
by my willingness to go along with some re-
Taxation of liquor legislation for restaurants.
Since have made no secret of my inten-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
SafetY Petrol

On behalf of the Aspen Hill
students, faculty and myself,
| wish to express appreciation
for the excellent article writ.
ten by Reporter Bill McAda
and the fine photography done
by Ed. Mervis in the Badge
of a Heroine article published
by your very fine paper, Mont
gomery County Sentinel, on
Jan. "a.
We are proud of Linda La.
Fond. We are proud of the
gentleman whose report of the
incident made possible the
good publicity of the worthy
work of the School Patrol.
These young unsung guards
of the safety of the children
of our county land state and
country, these patrols who
brave wind and weather, the
teasing and the hardships of
having to direct peers, these
boys and girls of above aver
age academic standing (above
average dispite much loss of
school time) and these same
children whose own conduct
must be exemplary at all times
in spite of all the foregoing
listed and ongoing obstacles,
these School Boy and Girl Pa.
trolls: all thank you for letting
the public know about their
work.
Suzanne j. Bandy
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
Groups Listed
In New Booklet

The Rainbow Directory" Of
Montgomery County's organiza-
tons, clubs and agencies is now
available to local residents from
the County Health and Welfare
Council, $50 Dixon Ave-, Silver
Spring.
Rita E. Beuchert, HWC direc-
tor, announced that there are
more than 600 organizations of
all types represented, including
agencies, business, civic, garden,
political, senior citizens, wom-
ems and mems activities, as well
as current representatives of
each group.
The information.packed bro
chure is distributed without
charge every year
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
Owners Speak

This letter is written on be-
half of the Upper Rock Creek
Land Owners Association COM
prised of over $50 members
who are the owners of over
IS per cent of the entire I'M
developed land in the Upper
Rock Creek Watershed. Our
members range from second
generation farmers to build.
ers and developers, and we
are deeply concerned as own
ers of land whose fate is be.
ing decreed by the Maryland
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission Staff.
We, too, are against econo-
mic waste and are for good
sound planning, but after
carefully reading the volume
ION Wedges and Corridors"
we seriously question whether
we are getting good planning,
and wonder too if our tax dol
lars are not being foolishly
wasted.
We are shocked and disap.
pointed to find that the Plan.
ming Staff has completely
ignored the great and real
GEORGIA AVENUE COR.
RIDOR.
Yet the GEORGIA AVENUE
CORRIDOR is a real and liv.
ing entity which contains over
half of the population of the
county and many of its princi-
pie centers such as Silver
Spring, Wheaton, Glenmont
and Aspen Hill, as well as
many of its major institutions,
schools, churches and hospi-
tails. No consideration is given
in this plan to either the con-
tinued new growth of this cor.
ridor along upper Georgia Ave.
nue.. Apparently the reality of
this area has been missed or
overlooked by the Planning
Staff.
We are shocked and disap.
pointed in reading the corridor
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
The Public Forum

plan to find that the report
gives not the faintest clue that
it understands the recycling
of urban development in the
built-up areas of a corridor
which is the direct result of
continued growth. 1t seems
much simpler to the Planning
Staff to account for growth
by merely adding another sup.
posedly self-contained satel-
lite city bead to the string,
which it claims is the way a
corridor is supposed to work.
Nothing could be further from
the truth. The changing his
tory of Silver Spring and
Wheaton reveal these changes
are directly due to growth of
the GEORGIA AVENUE COR.
RIDOR. Each new resident on
the frontier of the corridor in
many ways affect the economy
and physical makeup of the
entire corridor.
We get the impression from
the Planning Staff that non
use of land is considered good
use of land. Yet we are begin
ming to believe that non-plan-
ming is probably better than
the kind of planning we have
been getting, and that perhaps
we are wasting our tax monies
in this type of planning. Why
pay $4,000 to print an elabor-
ate report before it has been
adopted by the commission,
and which under the best of
circumstances would be sub
ject to considerable modifica-
ton, If not complete obliter.
alton?
Under these conditions, so
as not to be one who just OBJ
jects to the Staff Plans, we
feel that we can help more by
giving professional sugges-
tons to the Planning Commits
sion. In our positive approach
to help this commission, we
have decided to employ a pri.
vate consulting group to make
an independent analysis of the
economic, social and physical
character of the GEORGIA
AVENUE CORRIDOR, with
special emphasis on the ter
rain potential for residential
and open space development.
This completed study will be
delivered to the Planning Com
mission within three weeks.
This study, which is well under
way, will be added to the stud
les of the other corridors
being assembled by the Subur-
ban Maryland Builders AS
ISOLATION covering the entire
suburban Maryland area.
Frankly, we fell that the
Planning Staff and their pub.
lie relations department are
slowly wearing us out, and
may prevail in their plans that
are, in their opinions, ideal
for our children's children.
What about those of us who
are living today-our children
who are living today, in this
developed area from Silver
Spring, Wheaton, Norbeck
through to Olney-are we not
entitled to modern transporta.
ton, highways and conven-
fences? Are we farmers, devel-
opers and builders not entitled
under our free enterprise
system to develop our proper
ties to their highest uses sub
ject to the best interest of our
community?
If the National Capital Park
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07

ton to oppose any
extension of liquor
licenses to include
restaurants until 1
get the facts from
the 10-member inves-
tigating commission
which I have sug-
gested, the heat is on
as far as my bottle
club proposal is con-
cerned.
I have done much
soul searching and
mind-probing in this
matter and / Just
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07

return to the city to assume
many unofficial tasks.
Rockville area residents are
invited to join the Sister City"
visit in July that is designed to
strengthen the ties between the
two communities under the
People to People" program.
There will be stopOvers In
Paris, Berlin and Hamburg be-
fore the contingent arrives In
Pinneberg TO enjoy the "Fesi-
val of Roses" and participate in
a round of official and umoffi.
cial festivities.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
Captains Thanks!

On behalf of the Aspen Hill
School Safety Patrols, and
especially Linda LaFond, I
wish to thank you, Mr.. Mervis
and MIR. McAda for the nice
story and Photograph which
appeared in the Montgomery
County Sentinel.
We are all proud of Linda
for saving little Nancy's life.
Lionel Kier
Captain of Patrols
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07
Lip Reading Classes

A course in lip-reading for
adults handicapped by deafness
will start Tuesday, Feb. u at
1880 pm. at Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School and continue
through April 16. It is being
held under the sponsorship of
the Montgomery County adult
education program.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-07

& Planning Commission will
cooperate with the citizens, we
feel that the result can be a
successful plan for the con.
tinued progress of Montgom-
cry County.
Melvin A. Robinson
Chairman
Upper Rock Creek
Land Owners Association
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-05-12
The spies aim:
ACer1nan takeOver

whose passport showed him to have re-
turned from the United States to East Ger
many after the war, and who had since
come as a refugee to West Germany. He
spoke fluent American-accented English,
and talked glibly of his life in Chicago. His
assignment was to be friendly with the
girls in the American Embassy in Bonn and
pump them for information.
Caught I've a warehouse
When arrested, on a defector's tip,
this american" stuck to his story until
check with the FBI turned up the slip
his Chicago home address was warehouse.
He had used the passport of a real German
American and had prepared for his role
thoroughly - but not thoroughly enough.
There was an even more startling case.
Bogdan Stashinski, Russian agent, escaped
from East Germany to confess to having
murdered two exiled Ukrainian nationaIists
in Munich with diabOlical cyanide spray
gun that left no mark. Word of the defec.
ton reached the Communists with unnerv-
ing speed. 1t later turned out that the
closely guarded news had been flashed over
a secret radio by Heinz Felfe, head of the
Soviet espionage division Of the German
Federal Intelligence Service. Top spy
hunter FeBe sUus himself a Russian spy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-05-12

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Espionage has penetrated even the
fabric of the West German state. Alfred
Frenzel, a respected Social Democratic
deputy in the Bundestag and member of its
Defense Committee, was arrested a few
hours after turning over military secrets to
two Czech couriers, who were also arrested.
For four years Frenzel had been passing
the Czechs all the secret information he
received as a member of the Defense Com.
mittee, including details Of the MC-7O plan
for NATO military buildup.
Frenzel, a Sudeten German refugee
from Czechoslovakia, got Is years = maxi
mum for treason in West Germany.
Crest Of a wave
But these sensational cases are only
the crest of wave. DR.. Hubert Schrdbbers,
head of the cOunter-spy agency in Cologne,
told me: I'VE are confronted Hith an espiO-
mage campaign on dimensions neUer before
knOSu in history"
This fact = that spying in West Ger
many is not only more massive, but has
larger purpose than in other countries =
was confirmed by Cunther Maennel, an
officer of the East German Ministry of
State Security, who detected to the West.
Disguised in mustache and false hair-piece
(see top Ofpage) tOpreventlater recognition,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-05-12

NAAOA SOAN AA-~s @
is the undermining Of economic
and political institutions so that
UIbrioit and his Communist
regime can take OUer."
This is the key to mass
production espionage in West
Germany. 1t is aimed not only
at ferreting out secrets, but at
sowing confusion and distrust
among the West Germans, max
ing them feel Big Brother knows
all about them and what they
are doing.
How effective are the coun-
ter-measures on our side? It's
hard to say. The most potent
weapon is not detection, but de-
lection. The Communists dare
not trust their own agents. Amy
spy who has been in West Ger
many for a year falls under sus-
picion that he may have become
prey to the Establishments Of
life in the West and now be
working as a cOunter-agent.
But those who drop out
are replaced, and the grim silent
war for the mastery Of Germany
goes on. -THE sND
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-05-12

TINS WEEK Msss,I.. / moy "a. 1898
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-03
West Virginia Politics
Seen Luring ForIond

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug.
3 (AP)-The name of Joseph
S. Farland, United States
Ambassador to Panama under
two Presidents, entered the West
Virginia political scene today
as a possible candidate for the
G. o. P. nomination for Cover
nor.
Mr.. Farland's resignation was
announced yesterday by the
White House, after which
sources close to the Ambassador
said there was a possibility he
may seek political office. Mr..
Farland said friends had APP
preached him about running for
Governor of West Virginia but
that he had no such plans at
present.
A spokesman for the West
Virginia G. o. P. Executive Com
mittee said neither the State
group nor its chairman, How
ard v. Corcoran of Wheeling,
had any knowledge of Mr.. Far
lands possible candidacy. He
added, however:
1--WE welcome good candi-
dates. Ambassador Farland
certainly comes with good
credentials. He has proved him
self in Government service and
would be an able candidate
either as Governor or for the
United States Senate"
Mr.. Farland, a form e r
Morgantown coal executive and
banker, was appointed United
States Ambassador to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-03
Morse Rops
Steel Plant
Aid to India
BY the Associated Press

The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee engaged yesterday
in what Senator Morse, Demo-
crat of Oregon, called a foreign
aid battle royal" over the de-
STABILITY Of helping India build
its SIS billion Bokara steel
plant.
Pending when the committee
recessed was an amendment by
Senaor Lausche, Democrat Of
Ohio, TO deny assistance Ia
public projects that compete
with private enterprise.
1t presumably would ban
any funds to help get work
started on the Indian project.
Earlier, the committee voted
8 TO 8 to continue the year-to-
year foreign aid policy declara-
ton that any foreign nation
that discriminates against an
American because of race, color
or religion "is repugnant TO our
principles"
Senator Morse, in a Senate
speech, said the Unite States
offer TO help build the Indian
government owned plant was
"a proposal TO pick the pockets
Of the American taxpayers to
the tune of a billion dollars. a"
Senator Morse said he would
seek a record vote on the issue,
asserting he was unimpressed
by claims United States bust
ness favors the Indian project,
He said there may be a deal
so that steel could be produced
in India with "a pittance" To
labor there and then shipped
TO this country at low prices,