Integration Speed-Up
White Principal Assigned
To An All-Negro School
Gerald G. Reymore, ad
ministrative assistant to the
superintendent of schools for
the past two years, will be
come the county’s first white
principal of an all-Negro
school in September.
Reymore, 38, has been trans
ferred to Rock Terrace Elemen
tary School in Rockville, where
he will head an all-Negro staff
of 15 teachers and a student
body of about 450.
He replaces Mrs. Margaret
Jones, who had been principal
at Rock Terrace since the
school was opened in 1951. Mrs.
Jones in turn will become the
first Negro principal at an
otherwise all-white school, Ban
nockburn Elementary.
Reymore’s post at the Board
of Education will be filled by
Alexander Gottesman, former
principal at Bannockburn.
Superintendent C. Taylor
Whittier, in announcing Rey
mof's transfer, said he feels the
move “will help the overall
transition’’ to full integration of
county schools.
In one sense, the assignment
is a temporary one, since Rock
Terrace is scheduled for con
version to non-school use with
in the next two years. After
that time, it likely will house
the county’s reading center and 1
Veteran Negro Principal
Submits Her Resignation
Miss Edith Throckmorton,
58, is retiring after 33 years
as a teacher and principal in
county schools.
Her resignation was an
nounced last week by Superin
tendent of Schools C. Taylor
Whittier.
Whittier said he had planned,
before receiving Miss Throck
morton’s letter of resignation,
to appoint her principal of
Rock Terrace School in Rock
ville.
By quit 11 n g now, Miss
Throckmorton is giving up
about S7OO a year in retirement
pay under what she would have
received by staying with the
system for only two
more years.
She has been principal of
Longview Elementary School
near Gaithersburg since the
school opened in March, 1950.
Before that, she had been prin
cipal-teacher at the old Sellman
For County Building
Majority at Hearing
Back Sligo Ave. Site
If the County wants to
build a Silver Spring County
Building with the least civic
reaction, it will choose a site
on which a public hearing
was held last Monday night:
a 101,600 square feet parcel
on Sligo ave. and Grove st.,
in the heart of what has
been called the “blighted
area” of Silver Spring.
Although an estimated 120
persons showed up at the hear
ing, only two had any real ob
jection. Everybody else, if not
enthusiastic, conceded before the
County Council that the Sligo-
Grove tract was the most feasi
ble among the last four pro
posed.
Still on the table are sites at
Anson st. (between First and
Second aves.) and at Alton Park
way (northwest of Fairview
rd.). A third site, highly contro
versial, behind the Silver Spring
Library on Colesville rd., has
been abandoned by the County.
The Maryland-National Capi
tal Park and Planning Commis
sion has at one time or another
recommended all of the sites on
which public hearings have been
held, including the Sligo-Grove
tract
The latter was proposed par
tially because planners feel a
County building in lower Silver
Spring could upgrade that sec
tion, now virtually discounted
by merchants acutely aware that
shoppers won't walk long dis
tances between purchases. Most
of the better stores are located
blocks away toward Colesville
rd.
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other special services facilities.
Reymore came to the county
in 1954 and taught social
studies and English at Sher
wood High School before be
coming Whittier’s assistant in
1957.
He holds a bachelor’s degree
from St. Olaf College in North
field, Minn., and a master’s de
gree from George Washington
University. He served 10 years,
from 1943 to 1953, with the
Navy, and holds a reserve rank
i of lieutenant commander.
School near Beltsville, Sandy
Spring, and Laytonsville school.
All are Negro schools.
Longview will be integrated
next fall. The entire all-Negro
teaching staff has been trans
ferred to other schools.
Miss Throckmorton holds a
bachelor's degree from Ship
pensburg State College In Penn
sylvania and has taken grad
uate work at Boston Univer
sity, University of Pennsylvania
and Maine University.
She said she is retiring at
this time because she has other
plans that she is not ready to
reveal at this time.
A resolution honoring Miss
Throckmorton for her long serv
ice in county schools was adopt
ed by the school board Monday
night. Miss Throckmorton, who
had been invited to be on hand
for a short ceremony, said she
was unable to attend. Whittier
said the ceremony in her honor
would be held at a later date.
proposed site is George A. Nu
gent, who owns one of the seven
parcels under consideration. The
County has, or can get, options
to the other parcels, but Nugent
so far has held out.
As he said last Monday, he
was one of the settlers in his
neighborhood and he can’t see
why he has to sell and get out.
Additionally, Nugent wrote Jack
Shank, right-of-way agent for
the County, private appraisals
of his property indicate it’s
worth as much as $4 a square
foot. The County has proposed
$2 although it believes Nugent’s
property to be worth $1.50 a
square foot, Shank said.
Mrs. George J. Gerlach, of
8211 Grove st., asked the Coun
cil for more time before they
make a decision in order that
she can rally neighbors who,
she said, have “heated objec
tions” to the proposed tract. The
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Long School
Year Bad But
Not That Bad
County teachers are un
happy at the late school
closing date scheduled for
next year, but most of them
are not willing to shorten
their spring vacation to al
low an earlier closing.
Parents and some school
board members have joined
with the County Education
Association in objecting to
the June 24, 1960, closing as
now scheduled.
However, Superintendent
of Schools C- Taylor Whit
tier says he sees no feasible
way of moving the date
back.
He told the board this
week that a poll of teachers
showed that 80 percent are
not in favor of shortening
their one-week Easter vaca
tion to allow an earlier clos
ing date.
Entrance
To School
Is Argued
A dilemma over the location
of the entrance to the new Gaith
ersburg Junior High School was
dumped back in the laps of the
Town Council this week by the
county school board.
The P-TA has complained that
the entranceway as designed
will create a dangerous traffic
situation because it will inter
sect Diamond ave. near a curve
in the thoroughfare.
At the time the entrance was
designed, say school officials,
the State Roads Commission
planned an early project to
straighten the Diamond ave
curve. Since then, however, the
project has been rescheduled for
two years hence.
Accordingly, the Town Coun
cil has asked the school board
to purchase additional land
along Diamond ave. and put
through another entrance far
ther from the curve.
Board members this week an
GOP Downs Democrats,
Donates More Blood
Republicans scored a two to
one victory over Democrats in
what may have been the blood
iest partisan battle in county his
tory this week in Potomac.
In a “blood, not ballots” con
test of rival party clubs, 67 Re
publicans and 34 Democrats vol
unteered as donors as a Red
Cross bloodmobile made its first
visit to the Potomac area.
Mrs. Stuart Tipton, vice pres
ident of the Republican Wom
en’s Club, called it a “clear vic
tory” for both for the GOP and
the Red Cross blood program.
“Our blood was redder,” said
a diehard Democrat.
Non-partisan Red Cross of
ficials were highly pleased with
the turnout and hoped other or
ganizations would pick up the
contest idea from the Potomac
clubs.
Of the 101 volunteers, 17 were
not allowed to give blood for
precautionary reasons.
Donors included the presi
dents of both clubs: Frank
Ketcham of the Democrats and
Mrs. Gerald Heitmueller of the
Republican Women.
Also contributing were Steve
McCormick, television moder
ator who declined to disclose his
party, and Gera'd Morgan, spe-'
cial assistant to President Eisen
hower, who showed no hesi-
Council agreed to keep the min
utes of the hearing open to com
munications until August 4.
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ORPHANED CHILDREN of the late James B.
Davis, jr„ who perished with his parents
and elder son in a Utah plane crash, leave
Christ Episcopal Church in Rockville after
the funeral services Monday. James B.
Davis, 12, and Diana Davis, 9, walk on either
swered that no more funds are
available in the budget for the
junior high project.
They suggested that the Coun
cil consider building an exten
sion to the school entrance, to
form a second intersection with
Diamond ave. to the east of the
first. That would permit the en
tranceway to be restricted to
one-way traffic and reduce the
intersection hazard.
Lester J. Welch, director of
school sites and planning, said
the County Public Works De
partment has agreed to confer
with the State Roads Commis
sion concerning the possibility
of trimming some hedges along
Diamond ave.
This would increase safety by
providing better vision, he said.
> taney in proclaiming his Repub
i Mean allegiance.
Ballet Busse
Appears Here
On August 3-9
1 The world-famous Ballet
: Russe de Monte Carlo will ap
pear at the Carter Barron Am
' phitheater August 3-9.
Starring as guest artist will
' be Alicia Alonso and featured
' will be Natalie Krassovska, lead
ing ballerina of the London Fes
-1 tival Ballet, and prima ballerina
Nina Novak, Irina Borowska,
' and Alan Howard. Igor Youske
-1 vitch will return as classic pre
' mier danseur of the company.
’ Principal new production is
: “Ballet Imperial,” first staged
in 1945 but completely restaged
1 this season. It is Balanchine’s
tribute to Marius Petipa, the fa
mous French dancer and chore
’ ographer recognized as the fath
• er of the classical ballet. Petipa
I was choreographer of the Im
-1 perial School in St. Petersburg
for nearly 60 years during which
! time he produced “Swan Lake,”
"The Sleeping Beauty,” and "Gi
' selle.”
’ v Tickets are now on sale at
• Super Music City, National
' Press Building, 1350 F st. N.W.,
and the Carter Barron boxoffice,
■ near 16th st. and Colorado ave.
N.W. Ail seats are reserved at
$1.75, $2.50, $3 and $3.85.
side of Victor R. Beauchamp, the dead man’s
father-in-law. Mrs. Beauchamp walks in
front, and Cleveland Davis, a cousin of the
deceased, is in the rear. The burial was at
Rockville Cemetery, where Mrs. Davis was
buried two years ago.— Staff Photo.
Familiar Story!
Rating Firm!
Insurance Ri
Revised automobile insur
ance rates for Maryland
including an average state
wide increase of 3.7 percent
for liability insurance
were announced yesterday
by two rating organizations.
The new rates became effec
tive today for most stock com
panies and smaller mutual com
panies.
The three largest auto-insur
ance companies in the state, all
mutual concerns, set their own
rates independently of the rating
organizations. But spokesmen
said the big three Nationwide,
State Farm Mutual and Allstate
—are likely to follow suit with
similar revisions in coming
months.
The changes were disclosed by
the National Bureau of Casual
ty Underwriters and the Nation
al Automobile Underwriters As
sociation.
In Montgomery County, re
visions are upward in all cate
gories of liability insurance but
somewhat downward for com
prehensive and collision insur
ance.
The rating organizations said
the revisions were based on
latest available statistics of ac
cidents and liability and repair
costs for the various sections
of the state.
They said bodily injury liabil
ity claim costs, "like almost ev
erything else,” have been caught
in the general inflationary!
spiral.
Here is a summary of the rate;
revisions, broken down by types j
of insurance:
Liability insurance for cars;
without male operators under
age 25: Montgomery County, in
creased from $1.40 to $2.60. In
creases in Baltimore City are
even higher, with changes in the
rest of the state varying from
an 80-cent reduction to a 40-cent
increase.
Liability rates for cars oper
ated principally by unmarried
men under age 25: Montgomery
County, up $13.20. Baltimore
area increases are considerably
more, those in the remainder of
the state somewhat less.
Liability rates for cars oper-
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ated by married men under 25,
or for “family cars” sometimes
operated by male operators un
der 25: Montgomery County, up
$8.40. Baltimore City increases
are about double the Montgom
ery amount, with increases In
remainder of the state only
about half the Montgomery fig
ure.
Full coverage comprehensive:
Montgomery County, reduced
about $2. Baltimore reductions
are about $4, with the rest of
the state generally unchanged.
SSO-deductible collision: Mont
gomery County, down about 12
percent, as in most of the state.
Baltimore area rates are down
between 8 and 20 percent.
SIOO-deductible collision: Mont
gomery County, down about 11
percent. Baltimore suburban
area, down about 22 percent. Re
mainder of the state, up about
5 percent.
Prince Georges County
changes are generally the same
as Montgomery’s.
Operators who qualify for
farmer rates will continue to
receive a discount of 30 percent
from regular rates because of
the relatively low-risk record of
this class of vehicle.
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MONTGOMERY
. COUNTY, MD.
Thursday, July 30, 1959
STC Branch
Opening Set
Suburban Trust Company, op
erating 14 branch banks in
Montgomery and Princes
Georges counties, will formally
open its handsome new branch
in the growing Wheaton section
Tuesday, according to J. Robert
Sherwood, president.
The new, three-story branch
is located at 2601 University
blvd., W., between Veirs Mill rd.
and Georgia ave. Hours for the
formal opening have been set
for 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., and the
general public is invited to in
spect the ultra-modern struc
ture.
The main banking floor of
this air-conditioned, elevator
building contains 10 tellers’ win
dows, safe deposit section with
modern vault, and large areas
for officers, secretaries and ac
count clerks. Two Drive-in Win
dows .open 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.,
plus a night depository, are pro
vided along with ample cus
tomer parking space. The lower
level has the new Personal Loan
Department, employees’ lounge,
records vault and storage room.
The new building is equipped
with the latest in lighting fix
tures, shaded by light control
louvers which are operated by
solar units, and is wired for
background music. Total cost of
the site, building and equipment
is in excess of three-quarters of
a million dollars.
Fred L. Lutes, vice chairman
of the board and executive com
mittee, Sherwood, and Joseph
Richards, jr., director, have
served as a special building com
mittee for this new construc
tion. Arthur L. Anderson is ar
chitect, and H. O. McAllister Co.
the builder.
World’s Fair
Plan Lauded
By Senator
Selection of Maryland as the
site for the 1962 "World’s Fair,”
has encouraged Senator John
Marshall Butler (R-Md.) to de
scribe the event as, "The event
of the century” for the Free
State.
An area of 1000 acres some
where in the Baltimore area is
being sought. About 250 acres
are to be set aside for parking.
The Spring of 1962 has been
chosen as a target date for start
of the fair, which should remain
in operation for at least one
year, Sen. Butler said.
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