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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
Pesky New Car
Welsh Rare BIZ

You might remember the trip which Goob-
er and Harlotta took into Loudoun County
during the heat wave this summer and how
they wound the windows up in my Marmon
Sixteen, vintage of 1888, in order to initiate
aforementioned Cadillacs and secure the seren-
ity of the passengers therein.
Anyhow, they secured only heat prostra-
ton, ruined Coolers peppermint shirt and en-
dured the humiliation of being shipped back
to the Mungummery County Sugarloaf Farm
of their father, Monty in the Gagged truck of
the Loudoun County Animal Rescue Squad.
Some of our best citizens travel to court in
Gagged vehicle every morning from our split
level, garden type detention home.
But Goober Gopher has pride and he re-
solved to acquire a brand new Buick Riviera
with undressing pistons and updraft fuel
pumps. After all, ballplayer who is waived
by the Senators and picked up by the Nets
isn't just an ordinary balplayer and that is
just what happened to Goober. So he goes
over to Whitley Miller's place and shoots his
salary for three years and gets a Riviera all
done up in white inside with genuine count
erfeit stick-shift, and equipped with all the
phallic symbols modern cars are adorned with.
OF course Goober wouldn't know phallic
symbol from Mr.. or Miss America all dressed
up in tights; he having been educated in our
public school system where they cut out all
frills and limit education to bare facts.
Well last Saturday, Goober took me for a
drive in his modern car He showed Sarana
and me all about the button to his left that
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
by Barney Welsh

operates the side mirror, the buttons that
make the windows go up and down, the but
tons that make the seats go backwards and
forwards. My but there were lots of gadgets
on the dashboard. There was air-conditoning
and temperature control. There was even
console, and Goober operated it with the rap
ture of one playing the organ of the National
Cathedral
1t had genuine imitation wire wheels and
a long low body which looked like speed. 1t
was nearly as pretty as my Bugatti, except it
wouldn't go as fast, or as far, or as long or
with as much noise or trouble.
Coolers Riviera has bucket seats which
are separated by this console device; so Har.
lotta said it wouldn't amount to much as q
counting wagon. told her that Goober prob
ably didn't think along the same lines that
she debut she only gave me sort of know.
ing smile.
So Goober seemed secure in his automo-
tive paradise until the fatal day of his discov.
cry. 1t had to do with the high powered radio,
with touch bars and station selectors He start
ed hunting for his favorite program about the
end of our drive. But he was unable to reach
his Tennessee station. He became worked up,
and his peppermint shirt started to fade and
run again. He couldn't find that Grand Ole
Opery Station with the Clinch Mountain Boys
and country music. So he gave the Riviera to
me and he drives the Marmon which has a
homemade built radio bearing the letters
RCA.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
by Gerda Crow

County has a ratio of IL to 1. The teachers
are more supervised than the students.
With more than 800 supervisors our
teaching staff is 500 over-supervised Most
Of these supervisors are certified teachers. II
SO%o Of 800 supervisors GAO were put into
teaching stations, the Center would have
sufficient teachers to fill the bill.
Obviously, the figures used are arrived
at by simplest arithmetic. The problem is not
simple But how else can the number of
teachers needed be determined than to divide
the number of anticipated students by the
desirable ratio?
Sometimes figures hurled at the Council
and Board are not accurate For one example,
contrary to the allegations of Mr.. Cass, PTA
Council president, the present Board has pro-
vided Superintendent Whittier with a super.
visory salary structure supporting at least
twice the number of supervisors supposedly
eliminated in Mr.. Cass's charges. Do the
10000 parents he purportedly speaks for.
back him in his inaccuracies?
II the public school system of Montgon1.
cry County is actually and honestly missing
teachers then this gap should be filled. II
the teachers are not missing, the Council and
Board should be permitted to go about their
business free of pressures no more useful
than to annoy and delay. 1t is appalling to
realize that some community and PTA
leaders are willingly giving the public the
impression that elected officials of the School
Board and the County Council would deliber-
ately try to weaken the school system their
own children attend.
1t is high time political differences and
opposition for oppositions sake be eliminated
from the education scene. The children's edu-
cational welfare has TO be the only issue
involved
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
Granting Of Appointments

Mrs. Helen M. Burton, Bethesda housewife who says
she organizer for the John Birch Society here in Mont
gomery County and who has been complaining about the
content of public school textbooks for the last five years.
had Monday night a 25-ninute hearing before the
Montgomery County Board of Education
The board listened patiently and is to be commended
for hearing her out The views of any citizen under
form of government important and public officials
should listen to them.
The courteous patient hearing that Mrs. Burton re-
ceved is in sharp contrast to the treatment accorded
of Parent Teacher Associations this Mr.. Cass
asked for appointment with the School Board to discuss
important fiscal matters which leaders of his $4,000
member group had spent great deal of time and serious
research Mr. Cass denied the appointment he sought
before the School Board This is strange way to handle
the public business.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19

cut away at Montgomery
County's only state park. Pres
ident Kennedy in his nation.
wide tour is seeking to empha-
size two-party support of
conservation by paying espe-
cial tribute to Americas two
foremost Republican conserva-
tionists, Theodore Roosevelt
and Clifford Pinchot. 1t would
be well if Governor Tawes
would follow the Presidents
example and cooperate with
Montgomery County's Republi-
can State Senator, Gilbert
Guide, in his efforts to save
Seneca Creek Park.
Anyone who has gone to
Baltimore via Route 20 and
Route 40 has passed Patapsco
State Park on the outskirts of
the Baltimore suburbs. Mont
gomery County suburbs, which
comprise Maryland's second
population center, deserve the
same consideration in park
facilities as do our fellow
Marylanders in the States first
city. 1 am sure that the Off
cialdom in Annapolis will find
a way to satisfy the real
estate developers without i'm.
pinging upon our county's only
state park-it is hoped that the
State Administration will give
heed to Senator Gilbert Guides
constructive arguments.
Roy H. Millenson
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19

Yes, the price of watermelon
Is really going up. We found
this out the first day our
daughter started to junior high
school. Facing orientation, off
she went, gay, happy, carefree,
notebook in hand, 35 cents for
her lunch carefully tucked in
her purse, and with two dot.
ing, misty-eyed parents watch.
ing her leave to meet the
school bus. Little did we real
ize what : beginning this was
to be.
Newly arriving seventh grad
ers, over 400 in all, to this
particular school necessitated
some preplanning by the school
personnel. The parents were
advised to allow their chill
dren to buy a lunch the open.
ing day as the cafeteria help
ers would provide a sumptous
feast. No doubt they did.
However, our daughter was
one among the few caught in
the devastating position of be-
ing at the end of the cafeteria
line. Too many new pupils, too
little help, and too much excite.
ment, slowed the ordinary
push-tug of the eating line, and
when the lenders" came along
they were greeted by a below
ing announcement that it was
time to clear all trays. The
four bites of watermelon hast
lily grabbed by our daughter
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
case No. 2

Three Montgomery County Negro youths now in
Death Row in the Maryland Penitentiary awaiting
ton in the gas chamber for rapng white girl The three
were unarmed by the girls admission they made
threats the girl not injured the girl had been
mted to state institution by the states attorneys office
before the trial because she beyond the control of her
PARENTS the girl first told police and later testified that
two of the boys raped her. then subsequently remembered
that all three had the girls reputation for chastity in her
own negnborhood was extremely bad" and her 21year
old escort of that night had previous convictions for drunk
eness larceny and disordery conduct There wit
nesses On the testimony of these two the three defendants
were sentenced to death.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
Public Forum

Maryland General Assembly
session which provided for the
establishment of the commits
sion on which you are serving.
You can understand, therefore,
my intense interest in how
you plan to conduct your in
vestigation of our liquor laws,
without any political or econ
omic pressures.
You will agree, I am sure,
that any substantial changes
in these laws will have a
marked impact on the county's
economic, social and political
life. All of you have lived here
long enough to see how our
present liquor laws have help
ed maintain Montgomery as a
choice residential and CONNER
cial community. And you have
had ample opportunity to COM
pare our reputation as a blue
chip" area with neighboring
Jurisdictions where the restric-
tons on the sale of liquor are
not nearly as stringent as
ours.
This Is not to say that the
people in these other areas are
in any way inferior to us. 1t is
merely that they apparently
prefer a different way of life.
They have permitted their
elected officials to put into
effect a liquor system based
on privately operated liquor
stores and taverns while the
people in Montgomery County
have consistently supported
the county-owned dispensary
system set up here immediate
ly after the repeal Of prohibit
ton.
In only three restaurants
and several country clubs in
our county is liquor also avail
able.
Nor do I mean to imply that
you should automatically OPP
pose changes in our liquor
laws. 1t is quite possible some
are desirable.
But certainly your recon-
mendations should be based on
facts. These can only be OBJ
tanned in a thorough investiga-
ton of how our laws have
worked for nearly 80 years
and an accurate estimate of
the possible effects of any re-
visions on all of us, not only
now but in the future.
l hope, consequently, that
your study will be as exhaus-
tive as possible and that you
will explore all alternatives to
the fullest extent. In this con-
nection, I am turning over to
your commission chairman the
various suggestions 1 have re-
ceived during the past nine
months.
If you feel I can be Of as
sistance in any way, please call
on me. My office is at your
disposal.
Sen. Gilbert GUIDE
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
Welcome. The Monitor!

new weekly newspaper The Maryland Monitor,
has now been launched in Montgomery County. And we
wish it well.
There should always be room for another newspaper
whose main purpose is to inform and enlighten. The
press has been called bulwark of freedom Many the
wrongs that have been righed by the press many
the officials that have remained conscious Of their
roles public servants-rather than masters-as result
of the press But more Importantly society and
government grow more and more complex there is an
ever growing need for the widest possible dissemination
of information which in turn leads to greater public
.lghenment The press long it lives up to its
possibilities, is good citizen The newspaper, if it
uphods the long and cherished = traditions of free
;press, will be welcome addition to our fine community
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
by Les KimbIe

diseases that infect rhubarb. 1t doesn't matter
how vague your ideas are about what infor.
nation you want. The librarian will usually
find way to help you.
In this world where so many individuals
seem to be running at breakneck speed to
find pleasures of one sort or another, it does
seem strange that many citizens never go to
the public library. Here are the keys to many
of the pleasures of the world, and most will
enrich your life.
What is your interest? Hunting and fish.
ing? Flying kites? The American Revolution
airy War? Building book cases or bobsleds?
Sewing or slide rules? The life of trapper
or Trappist monk? Gardening or galvon-
ometers? Water sports or water spouts?
Most subjects can be found in books at the
branch library or in one that can be obtained
at the central library
Assuming that you have an interest in
some phase of American history, say the War
OF 1872, it is possible for you to read history
books, fiction, biographies, and social studies
Tor that period until you are an expert in
that phase of our history. AS your knowledge
broadens and deepens, your interest will
grow.
Has your child expressed an interest in
some subject that you know little about?
Take him to the public library and ask the
librarian to help you. You will have started
him in habit which will provide pleasure
and profit to him for the rest of his life.
Someday some librarian is going to sur.
prise me. 1 am going to walk into library
after the librarian has had particularly try.
ing day. She will turn to me with swapping
eyes and say, what in the heck do you
want?" She will be equally surprised to see a
grin spread across my face and hear me saw.
BY gosh. I knew it. You librarians are not
perfect, after ALL"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
Scales Of Justice

I wish to address those Gym
les among us, who, in their
gross ignorance, maintain that
there are some places in Mary.
land at which exist double
standards of justice: one for
rich, one for poor, one for
Negro, one for white. Let me
dispel this unenlightened no.
ton.
To do this / need only point,
and with justifiable pride, to
the recent decision handed
down in the Zantzinger case.
This momentous de cision,
shaped in fairness, conceived
in the highest standards of
jurisprudence, should once and
for all quiet those cynics who
criticize 1.-THE Free State" for
employing double standards Of
justice.
Those untutored in the in
tricacies of Maryland justice
who criticize the august deci-
sion handed down in the Zant.
Finger case are criticizing it for
the wrong reasons. AS equita-
BILE as was this decision, per.
haps it is In line for a very
small bit of criticism-a very,
very small bit. Allowing Zant-
Finger time to harvest his
crops was fine, but this did not
go far enough. Why did not
the decision also include pro-
visions that would insure him
of having a television set in
his cell.
The decision also should
have allowed Zantzinger maid
service while in Jail. Six
months in Jail without maid
service is unthinkable.
So, misinformed, cynical, be-
lever in the existence of I'M
equal justice in Maryland, can
you not now see that the Zant-
Finger decision only refutes
your contention? Recognize the
facts-siX months is a long
time. Did not the poet say that
justice must be tempered with
mercy; and besides, the crops
have to be harvested.
A final note for those poi.
soned minds which will no
doubt rebel against the irrefu-
table proof just presented.
holding to the fallacious con.
tention that the Giles brothers
case" proves that justice is not
blind in Maryland. This case is
quite trivial, only three men
are to be executed. To submit
the Giles case as a counter
argument to the lofty thesis
presented here merely causes a
noble discussion to degenerate,
Let us recognize the facts;
they are there for all to see,
namely, that justice in Mary,
land knows no classes, nc
races.
Calvin o. Davis,
Washington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
Calvin o. Davis,
Washington.

Open letter to members of
the Montgomery County Citi-
xens Study Commission on
Alcoholic Beverage Laws:
My congratulations on your
appointment to a study group
which, in my opinion, is one
of the most important ever
created In Montgomery
County.
AS you know. I sponsored
the legislation at the recent
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19

The Sentinel revealed itself
true community newspaper
when in a recent column there
was stressed the Importance
of preserving the Seneca Creek
State Park located in our coun.
ty. II indeed seems strange
that at a time when President
Kennedy has announced a ma
tionwide tour on behalf of the
preservation of natural re-
sources, the State Administra.
ton in Annapolis is seeking to
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19
Free State JournoI
Case No.

William Devereaux Zantzinger, "a year old white
Southern Maryland farmer, convicted Of killing Negro
barnad by hurting drunken ephets at her and beating
her the head with began his sixmonth Jail
tence for his sordd crime this week after being allowed
period of several weeks by the court to harvest his
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-09-19

When skool taxes get excessive
Cut out what they call progressive
That's the rule I learnt at Grandpas knee
Give kids reading, numbers, spelling,
Don't vast time on Storie telling
What was good fore Cramps is good fore me!
/ didn't have no music, artn
Folderol like kindergarten
Let them learn there Lessons good as me.
BY Rose r. Kushner
Navajo times., 1963-12-19
TRIBAL COUNCIL
COOPERATION IMPORTANT


sent up a slow-day balloon about the Navajo Tri-
bal Council delegates awhile back since then find
mail is heavier than of the hickest smoke signals
coming from the Navajo people everywhere who said
to hit them again harder.
Again, it is very important to realize that the po
wer Of the c Council is limited for several reasons.
First the Council has to deal effectively with situa
tions that concern the Tribe whole and not ndiv
duals.
Second, the Council, if it is to be effective must
cooperate fully with federal state, local city govern
ments-and with each oher--because, to date it
has neither the money the experience to act indie
pendeny. This means that the Council S wishes must,
at many times give way the desires of these other
governments. Within the next few decades may we'll
become independent to degree but until then it will
remain "a state within state. Since the general goals
of the tribe overlap with those of these other govern
mens it would probably be mistake to try to be fully
independent. Total independence would isolation
which would have disadvantages than advantages,
and after ALL Navahos want to be and proud of
being Americans.
Third, the Counc il has control over develop
ments, especially of economic nature, which
off the reservation the steel, railroad and team
sters unions decide to STRIKE living conditions will
become very difficult for those off the reservation.
Life will be worse the reservation.
But, given these limitations, what is the RESPONSE
bity OF the Council to the people? The individual COun
Gilman must find out what the people who elected him
to office thinking about. He must take the time to
listen to them talk. Then, he should carry their ideas
WI tn him to Window Rock, and to with other
Councilmen who have done the as he try to de-
eide how to solve the problems the Tribe faces
The Councmen will often disagree among them
selves to what to do but this is to be expected and
even good If there was always agreement there would
be no need for a Council The Council will make mis-
takes but these will be good mistakes because they
made by Navahos trying to help other Navahos They
will learn from sometimes being wrong.
What is the responsibility of the people to the Coun
Gil The people must help the they elected to the
Council by listening to his ideas what should be done
at Window Rock they think he is wrong they should
tell him that he is They should realize that the
Tribe is not just the people from Chnle, Shiprock
Navajo Mountain, but all those who live the reser
vatiOn.
And forget dear readers that it is always
the people (Navaho) who must take the blame credit
for conditions, and whether not affairs in
public life are in good hands.
Chairman Nakai, serious young man, has many
times stressedhis program which would provide more
schools, jobs welfare for the aged recreatonal and
tourist facilities and development of industrial and
and agricultural potential Let be forever mindful
of the past yet work in the present toward resolving
the intolerabe conditions existing today after ALL
Navajo times., 1963-12-19
:Letter TO the Editor

Mr.. Patrick Nelson
Superinte ndent
Law 6 Order Department
Fort Defiance, Arizona
Capt. Edward Boggie
Law 6 Order Department
Tuba City, Arizona
Mr.. Howard Cor man
Police Committee
Navajo Tribal Councilman
Ganado, Arizona
Dear Gentlemen;
AS we all know, the Navajo
Police have a high standard of
public respect, have great respon-
sibility to the public to uphold
the law on the Reservation.
Unfortunately our Leupp police
unit here. their responsibility to
uphold the law is so lax and it
/ s a sorry SituatiOn--it seems a
mistake for them TO be out here
and furthermore it reflects the
department from the top on down.
My concern and irritation is,
there are numerous partyS OF
peyote ritualism going on week.
ends around Leupp and Tolani Lake
area for several months now. The
community has at numerous times
brought this up to my attention
and have expressed their feelings
that they are denouncing the peyote
rites that goes on in their own
community. And | myself vigor-
ously oppose this SO call peyote
party too, therefore am bringing
it to your attention for action.
Furthermore | like to empha-
size real strongly this infiltra-
tion of peyote cult should stop
entirely, directly from your de-
partment. Some kind of effective
measure should be made to stop
the Sc doings The Leupp police
unit are here to safeguard and be
our watchdog against this kind
of fanatic cult.
One would thin, that the two
police are conspiring with the
peyote members or perhaps both
might be members of the same
for that reason there i S no action
on their part against this faction.
II this should be the case the
two should be removed from Leupp
area and let someone take over
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