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“1 DON’T REALLY BITE,” this lost bird-dog
seems to be saying to Mrs. Robert J. Glea
son, a director of the Montgomery County
Humane Society, who found the dog wan
dering in Wheaton Shopping Center Sunday.
It was wearing dog tags issued in Norfolk,
Va., so Mrs. Gleason took it to a veterinarian
Trash Strike
Delay is Won
Union Awaits
Legal Ruling
From State
Word that Maryland At
torney General C. Ferdinand
Sybert will look into the
Washington Suburban Sani
tary Commission's authority
to bargain with organized
labor forestalled a possible
strike this week by blue col
lar workers and garbage col
lectors.
Local 929 of the American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employes, which
claims a WSSC membership of
500, has been trying to open
negotiations on labor question*
with the Commission for more
than a year.
A union spokesman said the
"big beef” is lengthening of
trash and garbage collection by
the WSSC without increasing
personnel and sometimes actu
ally decreasing it. Six - man
crews, Including the driver,
should operate the trucks, the
spokesman said. He added that
the union hopes, in addition, to
establish a grievance procedure.
Base pay for the unskilled la
borers, he said is $53 per week
and the WSSC has twice in the
past two years granted pay
raises of one cent an hour—one
cent for each year.
Pay, however, is not an issue
at this time, he said.
Chief gripe of the union is
that WSSC officials say they
have no legal authority to recog
nize the union as bargaining
agent. A bill to accomplish this
was peddled by union officials
to nearby Maryland legislators
during the last session of the
General Assembly but died fori
want of a sponsor.
After the Monday night meet
ing at which union members
voted to delay striking until the
attorney general rules, President
Arnold S. Zander, of the inter
national. wired Gov. J. Millard
Tawes that the situation had
become “urgent.”
He said he acted because of
"continued interrogation of em
ployes regarding their union af
filiation.” Charging that such
activity is “intimidation of the
rankest order.” he told Tawes
the union would “await further
word from you.”
The Washington Central La
bor Union (AFL-CIO) voted
Monday to “give every support
to the local union. And Mary
land State AFL-CIO officers
have already voted to back the
garbage collectors.
WSSC officials have consist
ently refused to recognize the
union in the absence of guiding
legislation. They have, instead,
sided with past court decistons
holding that such agencies may
remain aloof from labor unions.
In a telegram to Attorney Gen
eral C. Ferdinand Sybert, the
union "provided him with ex
amples of numerous legal prece
dents concerning recognition of
public employe unions by pub
lice employers,” the spokesman
declared.
Curling is Elected
Marian L. Curling, an English
teacher at Gaithersburg High
School, has been elected to a
two-year term as president of
the Maryland Chapter, Delta
Kappa Gamma Society.
to await the owner. The happy reunion
came Tuesday, when S. R. Jackson, who
recently moved to Wheaton from Norfolk,
broadcast an appeal for the dog’s return.
The pointer had wandered away Sunday
while playing with the children.
Staff Photo.
Town Heads
To Appeal
Fee Ruling
Nine past and present
elected officials of Gaithers
burg will fight a recent
Montgomery County Circuit
Court ruling that seven of
them, and the estate of one
who is dead, must pay back
$7400 they received as fees
from the city.
They are divided into two
groups. The first group that
will take its collective case to
the Maryland Court of Appeals
as citizens are Councilmen E.
Russell Gloyd, Rodney M.
Thompson, John W. Griffith,
Charles P. Fox, George W. Mar
shall, G. Sprigg Ward and- ex
mayor Harry C. Perry. The
estate of the late councilman
Samuel B. Briggs also will be
a party to the appeal.
The second group to appeal
the ruling is composed of mem
bers of the Gaithersburg Coun
cil that includes Griffith,
Thompson and Gloyd, and newly
elected Milton Walker and John
R. Thomas.
The first group will appeal
on the grounds that while they
did receive fees from the city,
they did so as independent
workers, not as councilmen.
The City Council will appeal
in the belief that Circuit Court
Judge Kathryn J. Lawlor's rul
ing is so sweeping and broad,
it “straightjackets” the city in
its dealings with businessmen.
“Any citizen of our town is
entitled to haul us into court
if he doesn’t approve of our
stewardship, but we don’t like
the tenor of this thing,” a
spokesmen for the citizen-Coun
cilmen said.
The Councilmen are entitled
to receive S2O a month salary
while the Mayor, Merton F. Du
vall, is entitled to S3O. Duvall
has never drawn the money, he
said, nor was he ever named in
a suit charging illegal accept
ance of fees from the city.
"I felt it tthe practice) was
wrong,” he had stated earlier.
Harry Shaw
Will Leave
WSSC Post
Harry B. Shaw, chief engineer
for the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, will go on
leave May 29 and retire this
August.
T. Earle Bourne, Chairman of
the Commission, accepted
Shaw’s request for retirement
"with reluctance.” Shaw is 60.
He joined the Commission in
1920, left in 1926, and returned
as deputy chief engineer in 1938.
He was named chief engineer In
1951, He lives in Hyattsville.
County CD Effort
Montgomery County Civil De
fense officials tomorrow and
Saturday will conduct a problem
based on simulated attack con
ditions resulting from the na
tion-wide drill held April 17-18.
Strike Threatens
Funeral Home
The threat of the first
strike of a Washington area
funeral home loomed today as
union officials planned to is
sue an ultimatum to the War
ner E. Pumplirey Funeral
Home, Silver Spring.
Emmett C. Etheredge, busi
ness agent for Ix*cal No. 2,
Office Employes Internation
al Union (AFL-CIO), said yes
terday that if Mrs. Warner
E. Pumphrey fails to recog
nize the union as a bargain
ing agent for her nine em
ployes, he would order a
picket line thrown around the
funeral home at 10 a.m. to--
day.
Etheredge said the union Is
trying to better working con
diUons of Pumphrey employ
es, some of whom, he said,
occasionally have to work as
long as 100 hours a week for
an average of $1.50 an hour.
Mrs. Pumphrey said she was
"shocked” by the development,
adding that pay and working
conditions at Pumphrey’s Silver
Spring business were well above
average for the area.
She also said she would resist
unionization of the funeral home
with every means at hand. "I
can’t see funeral homes being
unionized. We’ve been in busi
ness since 1854—1 just can't un
derstand this.”
Milk War
Still On
In Area
There was no let up in the
area’s milk supply war this
week as Chestnut Farms
(Sealtest) Dairy found new
sources of supply of out-of
state milk.
A major Sealtest supplier,
Penn Dairy of York, Pa., was
banned from shipping more
milk into the state after official
tests showed bacteria counts
higher than the acceptable Mary
land standard of 200,000 per
cubic centimeter.
Spokesmen for Sealtest said
their dairy has stepped up ship
ments from its Lancaster, Pa.,
receiving station to make up the
difference. Out-of-state impor
tations have remained steady at
about 20,000 gallons a day, they
said.
Meanwhile, governors of the
Maryland-Virginia Milk Produc
ers Association were to vote to
day on a proposed Federal milk
marketing order that would
establish minimum prices for
local dairy farmers.
_lt would set an average price
of $5.40 a hundredweight, as
against a current Association
price of $5.95.
Sealtest officials have said the
dairy is willing to meet this
price but objects to paying an
additional 40-cent premium for
high-quality milk as demanded
by the co-op.
Dr. William J. Peeples, Mont
gomery County health officer,
said state health officials this
week are inspecting facilities of
the banned Penn Dairy. If the
dairy can lower the bacteria
count of its milk, its shipments
may be readmitted to the state.
Piipiei fminffl Seifier
o ports Culture Center
Is Proposed by Stanley Frosh
Stanley B. Frosh, fresh
man County Councilman,
this week called for a study
by a new committee of the
possibility of the County
building a sports-culture cen
ter similar to one now in op
eration in Belgium.
Frosh envisioned a four-audi
torium center that could be uti
lized by the performing arts and
by basketball and tennis players.
In a flow of rhetoric unbroken
for several minutes, Frosh
painted a picture of a structure
that could be used by all Mont
gomery County residents, includ
ing those who like to bowl or
listen to concert orchestras.
Furthermore, he said, the
county doesn’t have any place
to stage conventions and such a
building as he proposed could
attract large groups of persons
out of crowded Washington.
His remarks came after the
County Council examined a four
page memorandum from Coun
ty Manager Melvin L. Reese
that set guideposts for a com
mittee of 25 to study recrea
tional activities in Montgomery
County.
Specifically, the committee’s
task would be to relate the
County’s recreational activities
Teens Speak Their Piece
At 6 Youth City ? Meeting
By Joan Stern
Staff Reporter
A drag-strip :s Rockville’s
greatest need, according to teens
who took over the city council
men’s seats Tuesday night.
Twenty-eight Carver and Rich
ard Montgomery High School
students, and seven exchange
students ended a two-day "Youth
City Program” sponsored by the
Rockville council and the Amer
ican Legion by electing a Mayor
and Counci' and city staff mem
bers. They met in lieu of the
regular council meeting ft* dis
cuss such teen problems as van
dalism, teen center regulations,
and additional facilities needed
in Rockville.
A drag-strip, the junior states
men said, would cure the high
way practice of "dragging.”
Dragging is a sport in which
cars from zero miles per hour
accelerate as fast as possible in
a race to a designated finish
line. It entails a great deal of
“laying rubber” or "peeling the
tire” one youthful enthusiast
said.
The students felt they could
do little to stop vandalism, al
though “Mayor” Mandy Evans
of Richard Montgomery High
School quipped “Young people
should do something, because
adults haven’t been able to do
much.”
Although suggestions were
made for a campaign against
vandalism, including films show
ing the ugly results of vandalis
tic acts, posters, and rebukes
from non-vandalistic teens, these
were generally held ineffective
by the group.
As one boy put it, "How do
you rebuke somebody when he
is a senior and you are a lOtii
grader?”
It'was pointed out that a film
showing the horrible aftermath
of automobile accidents was
shown at one high school with
out appreciably dampening the
spirits of the tire-squealers.
"Councilman” Patty Bouic said
it made most kids sick to hear
of vandalism, but she was not
sure what this majority of teens
could do to stop the few.
The students unanimously
agreed teens should have a hand
in drawing up teen-center regu
lations and in carrying them
out.
The junior council members
suggested that membership in
the center be easily obtainable
but necessary for a teen using
the center and that all members
take full responsibility for their
guests, including paying for any
damage they or their guests
might do.
A “Judge” and "jury” would
handle misdemeanors, with pen
alties of suspended membership
of various lengths to fit the
crimes.
In addition to a drag-strip
they called for additional tennis
courts and swimming pools, a
golf course, and more stop signs
within subdivisions to slow down
cars where children play In the
streets.
Councilman Erbil Kiziroglu,
an exchange student from An
kara, Turkey, now studying at
Northwestern High School, sug-
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to specialized organizational
groups in the county such as the
Board of Education, the Reve
nue Authority, and the Mary
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
The committee was an out
growth of a Council inquiry sev
eral weeks ago that sought to
explore how much money the
County is paying the M-NCPPC
for facilities it took over from
the Commission some years ago
on a 75-25 percent basis with the
county paying the lion's share.
Briefly, Reese’s four guide
posts called for:
• Analysis of the existing
recreation program and evalua
tion of its accomplishments and
overall objectives for the subur
ban area.
• Development and expansion
of recreation activities in the
recreational district boundaries
and the whole county.
• A probe of recreational dup
lication by the county Recrea
tion Department, the M-NPPC
park operations and the Board
of Education’s extra-curricular
activities.
• Comprehensive recommen
dations to meet bgslc park rec
reational needs to eliminate
overlapping and duplication of
services and any confusion that
might exist in this field.
gested more parks with walking
paths. People in the United
States, she said, need to do
more walking.
Those participating in the
council meeting were Mayor
Evans, Councilmen Bouic, Kizi
roglu, Woodrow Hancock of
Richard Montgomery, Theis
Hogsberg, an exchange student
from Copenhagen, Denmark,
now studying at Richard Mont
gomery.
Appointed to staff positions
were City Manager, Kenny
Tuchtan of Richard Montgom
ery; City Clerk, Linda Reid of
Richard Montgomery; City At
torney, Ronald Claggett of Carv
er; Director of Public Works,
Charles Morrison of Richard
Montgomery; Director of Fi
nance, Cecile Hackey of Carver;
Director of Recreation, Lynn
Burkhart of Richard Montgom
ery; and Director of Planning,
Guiliano Turone, an exchange
student from Milan, Italy, now
studying at Northwestern High
School.
Belt Jr. High P-TA
The Belt Junior High School
P-TA will hold its final meeting
of the school year at 8 p.m. next
Tuesday in the school gym.
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LUCKY PASSENGER in the automobile which
claimed the life of Otis Ship* of Gaithers
burg Saturday is assisted Into the Gaithers
burg Rescue Squad ambulance by department
members. Rodney White, chief dispatcher
for the county, looks on at ■ right, while
holding the stretcher, in white coat, is Joe
A Century of Service
County Gives Up
On Library Site
Wheaton Library Site
Hearing is Scheduled
A public hearing on the
purchase of a little more
than two-and-a-half acres of
land bounded by Georgia,
Hermitage and Areola aves.,
Silver Spring, as a site for a
Wheaton Regional Library
has been set for 3 p.m., May
26, in the Rockville County
Building.
About one-and-a-third acres of
the tract facing Georgia and
Hermitage aves. is already un
der option to the county for $43,-
000. The county has not been
able to secure options on the re
maining portions, but the Coun
ty Council Tuesday decided to
go ahead and include that por
tion in the public hearing for
purposes of discussion.
The proposed combined sites
are located about three blocks
North of the Our Lady of Good
Counsel Catholic High School.
The Montgomery County Li
brary Board and the planning
staff of the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission have approved of the
site, according to County Man
ager Melvin L. Reese.
In Suburbia Today
Read About Mothers
Going Back to Work,
A growing trend toward
jobs for mothers whose hus
bands are away at the office
and whose children are in
school most of the day is dis
cussed with sharp insight in
this edition of Suburbia To
day appearing with this
week’s Sentinel.
'The author ought to know.
She Is Mrs. Margaret Halmy, a
working mother of two boys.
She teaches women to reduce
and according to Suburbia To
day, she is one of 3.5 million
married women, with children
Over six, who have returned to
work on a full or part-time
basis.
lioland. On the stretcher Is Charles J,
Llewellen, 23, of Brownsville, who was a
passenger of William A. Moori. Moon was
charged with manslaughter by auto and fail
ing to drive on the right. His car collided
with Shipe’s, police said, when Moon fell
asleep at the wheel,-—Photo by ttershey.
The Planning Commission
recommended two sites as more
desirable, but the Council ig
nored them on recommendations
by Reese.
The first consisted of 5.1 acres
on Bluridge ave., behind a build
ing occupied by the Equitable
Savings and Loan Association
and extending Northward to the
Southern limits of the Catholic
high school.
Reese told the Council that
the site’s owners did not want
to sell at this time and he rec
ommended against instituting
condemnation proceedings.
The second site was across
Georgia ave. just North of Blu
ridge ave. but this would be un
feasible, Reese said, because it
already is zoned for commercial
use.
Wheaton area citizens have
sought a library somewhere
near the proposed area for a
long time. They also have sug
gested that the library be com
bined with a youth activities
center, but Reese and the Coun
cil, generally, looked with dis
favor on the youth center pro
posal. It will not be a part of
the public hearing.
Mrs. Halley's Interesting ac
count of her return to work Is
only one of many readable fea
tures contained in this Issue of
Suburbia Today, colorful roto
gravure supplement magazine
that’s catching on all over the
country,
For instance, there’s an up
roarous piece by cartoonist Rob
ert Osborn titled “How Much
Lawn Are We Going To Mow?”
Osborn, you know, is that tal
ented fellow who draws people
and things to fit a feeling,
rather than a shape. He is the
author of such articles as “War
Is No Damn Good,” "Decline
of the American Male,” and "Os
born On Leisure.”
Police Station
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Plan is Axefrl
After Protests
A highly controversial pro
posed site for a Silver Spring
county building and police
station next to the Silver
Spring library on Colesville
rd. was abandoned—for the
second time—Tuesday by the
County Council.
At the same time the Council
instructed County Manager Mel
vin L. Reese to investigate the
feasibility of constructing the
building in southern Silver
Spring, presumably on Fenton
st.
The Maryland-National Capi
tal Park and Planning Commis
sion several weeks ago recom
mended a site on Fenton st. be
tween Easley st. and Sligo ave.
One of the reasons this site
was mentioned, It was said by In
formed sources, was that a
county service building In that
area might tend to upgrade an
otherwise commercially blighted
area, too far from shopping cen
ters to attract more than occa
sional pedestrian traffic.
At the same time, county offi
cials pointed out that land in
the area suggested by the Plan
ning Commission has sold as
high as from $6 to $8 a square
foot and to top it off, there are
buildings on much of the land.
Abandonment of the so-called
library site came a week after
a capacity-house public hearing
drew Indignant response to the
proposal from scores of neigh
bors and self-styled planners.
Chief t among their objections
was that the character and op
erations of a police station next
to the library and close to a
Catholic school for gifls would
greatly lower the high residen
tial standards of the- Woodslde
Park community.
Other main objection was that
location of the building so far
east on Colesville rd. was con
trary to the Silver Spring mas
ter plan that cuts off commer
cial development, close to the in
tersection of Fenton st. and
Colesville rd.
County Manager Melvin L.
Reese heard the Council’s di
rective with a dour expression
on his face. It was Reese who
three weeks ago stated that the
Colesville rd. site next to the li
brary was the only desirable
and available site for the build
ing.
At that, he was incurring the
wrath of many Silver Spring
residents who turned out in
force August 1957 to protest the
county’s plans to erect the build
ing on the same site. That hear
ing produced harsh reaction to
the fact that part of the library
site was owned by Frank L.
Hewitt, jr., Washington Subur
ban Sanitary Commission Com
missioner who this year Is pres
ident of the Silver Spring Board
of Trade.
The Council circumvented any
possible conflict of interest re
garding Hewitt and the site this
year by deciding before the hear
ing that they would leave the
price of the site up to a con
demnation Jury if purchase
were approved.
Summing up his feelings over
the abandonment of the site,
Reese said: ‘The Southern Sil
ver Spring area is too close to
the District Line, too close to
Takoma Park and too far away
from the center of the District
served by the police station.”
It is unlikely, as a result of
the Council's action, that police
and other county employes at
the existing Silver Spring sta
tion will get any relief from
the cramped quarters they now
share on Georgia ave. near
Colesville rd., at least tills year.
Grant 11olrIs
lash ion Show
The W. T. Grant Company,
Rockville, will hold a live fash
ion show in its large display
windows oil Saturday. The fash
ion motif is summer cottons and
sportswear,
The show Is scheduled for
noon on Saturday, followed by
other showings at 2 and 4
I o'clock.