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' HOCKYILU. MARYLAND THURSDAY. OCTOBER S. ITS* 2 SECTIONS—22 PAOES T, n Cent* a Copy
Reese Sell
Budget R(
Is Clarified
Manager Will
Again Take
Direct Action
Montgomery County Man
ager Melvin L. Reese was
directed by the County
Council this week to prepare
his own version of the next
school board budget.
At the same time the Council
announced it would accept the
budget prepared by the school
board, and act on it.
According to formal action
taken this week, the Council
will use Reese's recommenda
tions merely as advice, given
after “a complete and thorough
study ... in the same manner
in which county departmental
budgets are handled . . .”
Thus the last shred of doubt
that Reese will play an authori
tative part in acceptance of next
year’s school budget was erased
by the Council.
While public hearings will be
held only on the budget submit
ted to the Council by the school
board, the Council will go into
those public hearings well
briefed by its top administrator.
The seeming paradox was
brought about by a question of
legality of Reese's past prepara
tion of school board budget. He
refrained from handling the last
one, presumably on advice from
lawyer-members of the County
Council.
The solution seems tailor
made to satisfy state law and
the county’s charter govern
ment.
Until last year, Reese submit
ted a funded school board bud
get. When this practice was
questioned last year on grounds
that the school board was not,
In fact, a department or agency
of the county government, Reese
left the school budget alone.
But last week, County Attor
ney Alfred H. Carter ruled that
Reese did have the authority,
under the county's charter gov
ernment, to submit a school
board budget.
The resulting situation was
the upshot: the council will
get two budgets but will act
officially only on one. They will
formally consider later whether
to submit to referendum the
self authority to vote 4-3 to in
crease any Reese-recommended
school board item. A 5-2 vote is
needed now to increase any
school board budget item.
Drainage
Projects
Approved
Construction next Spring :
of S72O,CKX) worth of storm j
drainage in Croydon Park,
Rockcrest and the South
Washington st. area was ap
proved by the Rockville
Mayor and City Council in
a marathon session that
lasted until 1 a.m. yesterday.
Thus the city took first steps
toward implementing recom
mendations contained in a wa
ter, sanitary and storm sewer
program completed only weeks
ago by professional consultants.
The recommendations were
one part of an overall city plan
being hurried In completion by
the city in time for celebration
next year of its 100th year of
Incorporation.
The Mayor and City Council
directed the firm of Hayes, Seay,
Mattern & Mattern to proceed
immediately with plans to in
stall a combination of open ditch
and closed pipe storm drainage
in the city's three worst drain
age areas.
At the same time, city heads
ordered their engineering staff
to prepare plans for construc
tion in Spring of an additional
storm drainage in Lincoln Park.
Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mat
tern recommended expenditure
In their plan of $1,234,000 for ul
timate storm drainage facilities
in the three areas.
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City Adopts
New Law on
The City of Rockville has
a new conflicts of interest
law. It was adopted Tues
day by the City Council and
calls for a fine of SIOO and
30 days in jail for violators.
The new amendment to the
city’s charter spells out:
• No contract shall be let or
awarded except on the basis of
competitive bidding, in which
any official or employe of the
city is financially interested and
from which he may profit.
• No city official or employe
j may represent any person, cor
poration, etc., before the Mayor
and City Council or before any
department or administrative
service of the city.
The new legislation will be
come law November 25 unless a
petition for a referendum vote
is submitted. None is expected.
The new law is believed to be
the first of its kind in any in
corporated city of Montgomery
County, and may be the first of
its kind in the State.
The hard-hitting “conflicts”
law came at a time when Mont
gomery County is deep in its
own investigations of how to
eradicate the evil from govern
ment. An advisory committee
headed by Frederic P. Lee is
studying information solicited
from across the country and is
charged with making a report
to the County Council by the
first of next month.
Rockville’s new conflicts law
was nurtured along particular
ly by Mayor Alexander Greene,
a member of the once powerful
Citizens for Good Government
organization with whose help he
was elected to the Council be
fore being elected Mayor.
The CCG and the Twin brook
Citizens Association are on rec
ord of long standing to do some
thing about conflicting Interests
on the part of city officials and
employes and their private pur
suits.
The city’s administrative staff
has been working on the fledg
ling law since last Fall and the
final draft was drawn by City
Attorney William A. Linthi
cum, jr.
At the same time, the City
heads voted to revise upward
from SSOO to SIOOO the charter
prohibition against awarding
contracts without first adver
tising for bids.
Three Men
Held in
Dope Case
Three men charged with
possession of marijuana
were ordered held for the
grand jury, at a preliminary
hearing in Rockville, Mon
day.
John B. Auldridge, of 4113
Everett st., Kensington;
Thomas N. (Toby) Tate, of 220
Allison st., n.w., Washington,
and William Carr Fulton, of
Baltimore, were arrested
August 21, by police who said
they acted on Information sup
plied by Jay W. Kaiser, of Nor
beck rd„ Rockville. Auldridge
and Tate were arrested together
at 1:30 a.m. In Wheaton; Fulton
was arrested In Baltimore, later
the same day.
Police said they found mari
juana on Tate’s person at the
time of the arrest. Shortly after
they went to Auldridge’s home
and found four vials, believed
to contain marijuana. Fulton
had no marijuana at the time
of his arrest, but police said he
admitted using it.
Chief Judge Einar B. Christ
ensen, of People’s Court, said
he considered the evidence suf
ficient to hold all three men
for the grand jury. Tfe reduced
bail for each from S3OOO to
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ORDERED TO LOSE WEIGHT enough to get into the size coat
he’s trying on, County Fire Alarm Dispatcher James K. Nich
olson is going on a diet. If he goes down from his present
260 pounds to the recommended 175 pounds, “Jimbo” Nichi
olson will be able to fit into the coat he’s trying on for size.
—Sentinel Photo.
County Is Firm!
Losing 80 Pounds Is Going
To Be Challenge for Jimbo
Montgomery County has
got a weighty problem to
deal with namely 260-lb.
James K. JSficholson, fire
alarm dispatcher.
Nicholson has been Informed
that he must lose about 80
pounds in six months if he ex
pects to get his next in-grade
raise.
Nicholson, 28. Is affection
ately known as “Jimbo,” a com
bination of the nick-name Jim
and Jumbo, of elephant fame.
He lives at 10 South Adams st.,
Rockville.
The directive to shed weight
is in line with county person
nel requirements that apply to
public safety employees. Inas
much as overweight is regarded
as a health hazard by doctors,
the County keeps up a constant
program of paring extra lard
off its policemen and fire offi
cials.
In pressing the weight-loss
program, Montgomery County
has followed the lead of Wash
ington, D. C., where 400 police
men the last two months have
averaged individual losses of 13
pounds.
Basis of the position is that
the public must be protected.
An overweight policeman, for
instance, would have little
chance of nabbing a fleet sus
pect in a street chase.
At the same time, Nichol
son’s job of dispatching fire
He's Frothing
Credit Beer Sales
Are Hit by Reese
There’s a leak in the dike
of Montgomery County’s
alcoholic beverage control
laws and the flow has Coun
ty Manager Melvin L. Reese
fairly frothing.
It’s not the hard stuff, but
beer he’s worried about. Accord
ing to Reese, a “considerable
volume” of brew is delivered to
customers via the charge ac
count in local grocery stores.
There is no law forbidding
grocery stores with class “A"
licenses from selling beer on the
cuff along with the groceries.
But the fact that a customer
can call his grocer and order
beer on his weekly account con
stitutes a social problem, ao far
as Reese Is concerned.
Such transactions are bad in
a county that has a strict liquor
control law, Reese said this
week. In the first place, he said,
how can the grocer know that
his customer isn’t drunk at
home?
fighting equipment demands
split-second reactions which
could not be made If, perhaps,
he should suffer a coronary at
tack. ‘
The order to lose weight came
after Nicholson ended his first
year of probation with the coun
ty. A routine physical examina
tion followed, and Dr. William
J. Peeples, County Health Of
ficer, laid down the dietary law.
The County 1s not in the so
cialized medicine field, however,
so Nicholson will have to con
sult his private physician in his
fight to lose weight.
If he is able to show he Is
losing weight when time for his
next raise rolls around, he’ll get
it, County personnel officials
said.
Jimbo is a man of voracious
appetite but he once lost 17
pounds in one month under a
doctor’s care and he is confident i
he can do it again. "It really
doesn’t make much difference
to me,” he asid, "except that I
feel good now and what’s wrong
with that?”
Jimbo is captain of Company
No. 3, Rockville Fire Depart
ment, and has been a member
of the Department for 10 years.
His weight has never slowed
him down in responding to fires.
“Shucks,” he said the other
day, “I used to weigh only 10
pounds less than I do now when
I played high school football."
Local law forbids the sale of
alcoholic beverages to tipsy cus
tomers.
Secondly, on-the-cuff pur
chases of beer by down and-out
residents isn't going to help
their condition nor that of the
county that eventually wind up
as their custodian—either in jail
or ss their welfare keepers.
Thirdly, Reese said, what's to
stop a bass-throated juvenile
from calling the corner grocery
and ordering some groceries
and a case of beer “for dad.”
Maybe it’s actually Junior who
wants it.
Reese wants people to step up
and pay cash for their beer,
thereby in one stroke circum
venting the tipsy adult with no
cash—and the Juvenile.
But the county’s beverage
laws are prescribed by the
State. In order to stop the sale
of beer on the cuff, Montgomery!
County would have to get the
£tota taw amended.
A Century of Service
Kimmel Told
To Pay $2411
To Ex Tenant
Owner George P. Kimmel of
the Rockville Shopping Center
has been ordered to pay $2411
in damages for locking a ten
ant out of his store.
Baltimore Federal Court said
Kimmel, 75, should pay the sum
to Toy Fair, Inc. for rent the
firm paid and for fixtures and
merchandise they had to leave
in the store.
Firm officials charged in a
suit that Kimmel changed the
lock on the door of the store
they were renting from him as
they were in the process of
liquidating their business. Kim
mel testified he took the action
because he was convinced the
merchants were going to leave
owing him money.
In Rockville
Doivntown
Build-Up
Is Urged
The city of Rockville
needs to launch a detailed
land use and development
plan, incorporating a re
juvenated central business
district and more apart
ments and rental houses.
These were among the chief
points brought out in an analy
sis of a recently completed pop
ulation and economic base sur
vey, part of an overall master
plan the city is rushing toward
completion.
Author of the analysis is Mor
ton Hoffman, urban and eco
nomic consultant under con
tract to the Maryland State
Planning Commission.
Preparation of his report, and
other field surveys that pre
ceded it, was partially financed
through an urban planning
Survey Copies
Are Available
Copies of the new analy
sis of Rockville’s population
and economic base are avail
able in the Twinbrook and
South Adams st. public li
braries, and the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce lias
a copy for public, perusal.
Copies will be loaned by
the Rockville Planning Com
mission, located In the city’s
Civic Center, Old Baltimore
road.
Also, copies can be read
at the City Hall.
grant from the Housing and
Home Finance Agency.
The heart of Hoffman’s re
port to the city was contained
in a nine-point summary:
• The city, like other rapidly
growing suburban communities,
has its crowded shopping facili
ties, but location here of a
"name” department store would
attract many shoppers who now
go to Silver Spring.
• Fresh new population fig
ures—stressing the youth of the
city's citizens, should aid in the
realignment and improvement
of public works and capital im
provements of the future, par
ticularly schools and recreation
facilities.
• Careful consideration must
be given to the growth of indus
try. The city doesn’t have much
industry, but what is there con
tributes 25.4 percent of the total
city tax base. This is consider
ably higher than Silver Spring,
Bethesda, and other suburban
county communities. Neverthe
less, a program to attract more
should be given weight.
• Definite consideration
(Please Turn to Page A7)
Is Finod $l6O
Near Fatal Alcoholic Content
In Specimen Convicts Driver
A driver who testified he
had only four beers was
fined $l6O last week after a
urine test showed enough
alcohol in his system to kill
a weaker man.
"In all my four years as a
People’s Court Judge, and my
five prior years as a trial
magistrate, I have never heard
of an individual with such a
high percentage of alcohol in
his system," eommentod Judge
Adult Education
To Sign Up 6000
County Has 67 Merit
Scholar Contestants
Sixty-seven students from
11 high schools in Montgom
ery County have qualified as
semi-finalists in the National
Merit Scholarships Program
for 1960.
This is a nationwide scholar
ship program to identify and as
sist students of outstanding
ability. Some 550,000 high school
students throughout the coun
trfy took a three-hour qualify
ing examination last spring,
and the top 10,000 of them have
been selected as semi-finalists in
Merit Scholarships.
These 10,000 will take the
scholastic aptitude test of the
College Entrance Examination
Board, December 5, and those
who successfully pass this test
will then become finalists. It is
expected that about 95 per cent
will pass the December test.
In the final phase of the com
petition, high-school grades,
extra-curricular activities, school
citizenship, and leadership qual
ities of the students will be de
Election Is Due
204 Democrats File
For Precinct Posts
Democratic weather forecast for the next 20 days ln
Montgomery County: hot and stormy.
All the ingredients are there as voters in 88 precincts
hew to the pleasurable battle of electing chairmen and vice
chairmen.
The county-wide contest
started officially at 4 p.m. Tues
day when Ward W. Caddington,
chairman of the local Demo
cratic State Central Committee,
stood up in party headquarters
in Rockville and jangled a little
hand bell, marking the end of
filing time for candidates.
He sat down and counted
names of 204 registered Demo
crats who want to lead their
precincts. Elections will be held
simultaneously the night of Oc
tober 27.
Contests are slated in 30 pre
cincts, centered in the amor
phous-shaped 13th district that
blankets Silver Spring and
Wheaton, the 7th district com
posed of Bethesda, and the 4tn
that is made up of Rockville.
Incumbent chairmen and vice
chairmen in 13 districts face a
fight for their chairs as an un
Old Story
County Youth Winner
Of U. S. 4-H Honors
Montgomery County’s rep
utation of providing national
and international 4-H
champions in the dairy judg
ing field was upheld this
week.
John L. (Jack) King, jr„ 17,
of Woodfield, on Monday be
came the latest ln a long line of
countians to be a member of
the Maryland 4-H judging team
that won the national 4-H Judg
ing contest at Waterloo, lowa.
Teams from 33 states competed.
Maryland won the contest in
1957 with Montgomery County's
Roberta Messer, daughter of
Einar B. Christensen.
He sentenced Edmund A.
Windolph. 47, of Dawsonvllle,
to pay $l5O or spend 30 days
in jail on one charge of driving
under the influence of alcohol,
and $lO on a charge of driving
on the wrong side of the road.
The concentration of alcohol
in Windolph’s urine specimen
was .52 per cent.
Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, labora
j tory specialist, told the Sen-
I tinel a level of between j 0 and
termining factors in the awards
of scholarships.
Tlie scholarships are provided
by approximately 100 business
organizations, Inundations, and
individuals, which participate
In the program.
Names of the winners will be
announced about May 1, 1960.
The National Merit Scholar
ship Program was founded In
1955 with grants of S2O million
from the Ford Foundation and
$500,000 from the Carnegie
Corp. of New York. Through its
program, over sls million worth
of scholarships have been
awarded by various sponsors,
and over 3000 students are now
holding merit scholarships at
some 400 colleges in the United
States.
Students in Montgomery
County who qualified as semi
finalists, listed by schools:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High
School: Deborah Bernhardt,
Howard E. Bond, Philip H.
Bowles, Richard S. Brown,
(Please Turn to Page A7)
usually largt turnout of new
faces join the fray.
It’s early to tell yet, but rea
soned observers will be watch
ing to see if a hard-core faction
alism springs up again in party
ranks.
Pre-primary clashes last year
between the Democrats for ’SB
and the United Democrats
threatened for a while to dif
fuse the party’s power into sec
tional battles.
Ray V. Murphy appears to
some to be the leader of unor
ganized ’sßers this year, while
Leonard C. Blondes, an attor
ney, could be the leader of the
dormant United Democrats—
which he headed last year ln his
precinct, 13-31.
Murphy and Blondes are pit
ted against each other for chair
manship of that precinct this
year. Murphy is the incumbent
chairman.
Mr. and Mrs. Aliie Messer, of
near Gaithersburg, serving as a
team member. It also won the
1955 National title when
Roberta's sister, Patricia, was
on the team.
Both “Bobby” and “Patsy”
went to England with the United
States teams and both won the
International competitions.
The man who has consistent
ly been behind the highly suc
cessful Montgomery County
contestants is Koscoe N. Whipp,
associate county agent. He has
held the post for man years.
This year's winner will partici
(Please Turn to Page A4)
.60 would kill many persona.
More than .60 would be fatal
in virtually all cases, he said,
Windolph pleaded guilty to
two lesser charges of not hav
ing his registration card or his
permit in his possession when
he was arrested August 30. The
judge dismissed there counts.
Arresting officer Joseph Me
Hargue, of the County Police
Department, said officials at tha
laboratory that tested urine
• Please Turn to Page B 6)
Weather Outlook
Continued hot with tempera
tures 7 to 10 degrees above the
normal high of 70 In the day,
51 at night. Scattered showers
Saturday or Sunday.
Great Variety
Of Courses
Being Offered
Want to take a course in
conversational Russian? Or
investment planning? How
about lip reading, or tailor
ing or typing or conversa
tional French and dressmak
ing?
All of these and many more
are included in this year's adult
education program due to stait
soon under the sponsorship of
the County Board of Education.
A total of 6000 persons parti
cipated in last year’s program
and more are expected this year.
There are a whole raft of
courses (too many for the Sen
tinel to list) such as farm me
chanics, welding, woodwork and
art. Also: square dancing, self
improvement, millinery, radio
Call POplar 2-3981
For More Details
Persons wishing more In
formation about the adult
education program than the
Sentinel was able to aet
forth In this story should
call the Adult Education De
partment of the Board of
Education at POplar $-8981.
Questions will be cheerfully
answered.
theory and practice, shorthand,
light opera productions and
symphony orchestra.
Want a few more?
Here they gre, then: Slip cov
ers, health: and physical educa- "
tion for men and women, ceram
ics, blueprint reeding, parent
guidance program for parents of
pre-school children, landscape
planning, drafting, bookkeeping,
clothing construction, water col
or, oil painting, re-upholstering
and refinishing and the list goes
on.
Chances are If It's any form
of self Improvement and you're
Interested In It, the board of
education has It. If they don’t
have It, and enough people are
Interested, chances are they can
get It —If not this year, certainly
by next.
Classes are held In county rec
reation centers and public
schools. Registration for the
courses will be held storting
the week of October 19.
Best feature of all Is that the
registration fee Is only $5 per
semester. All persons 16 and up
who are not regularly attending
a day school program below col
lege level are eligible to enroll.
A semester consists of either
12 two-hour session or 10 three
hour sessions. For classes that
meet for two sessions each
week, the registration fee will
be $lO for the two semesters
consisting of 24 two-hour ses
sions.
School’s Out
For 2 Days
Next Week
Montgomery County
schools will be closed next
week on Thursday and Fri
day to allow teachers to at
tend the Maryland State
Teachers’ Convention in
Baltimore.
Unlike some conventions, this
will be a serious business de
voted to bringing teachers up to
date on the latest developments
on teaching techniques, prob
l*m* and their rotation*.
The convention will be held
next Thursday and Friday at
the Fifth Regiment Armory l n
Baltimore. More than 12.000
teachers from all over the State
are expected to attend.
♦hf l 'lL.f ohn ~ 6n ’ P res *dent of
the Motion Picture Association
of America, will address the
opening general session. His
•peech will be “We Must Put
Our Best Minds Forward ”
Other specially invited speak
*r* wil * *>* Dr - Gerald Wendt
who will speak on “The For<L
seeableWorld of the Future”
and John Clardl nnoirv JJi?’
of the Saturday Review. Ciardi
wtii answerthe question “W h *
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