‘Conflicts’
Report to
Be Aired
Frederic P. Lee, chairman
of the committee charged
with presenting a report on
conflicts of interest recom
mendations for Montgomery
County, will make his report
to the County Council No
vember 24.
No word on the content of his
committee report was forth
coming at this time. Lee was
appointed chairman of his com
mittee in one of the first moves
taken by the then new all-Dem
ocratic County Council last
year.
The committee was asked to
present its report by November
1 this year, although it was not
required to do so. The commit
tee is partly an outgrowth of
charges and counter-charges
traded by the Democrats and
Republicans in last year's hot
campaigning.
The Democrats put a plank
in their platform that they
would clean their own house, if
cleaning were needed, and so ap
pointed Lee and his committee.
Meanwhile, the city of Rock
ville recently adopted a charter
provision that makes it unlaw
ful for any city employe to ap
pear before the Mayor and City
Council on behalf of any other
party, or to actively work for
any other party for gain if that
party does work for the city.
The new regulation is only
one of scores reveiwed by Lee’s
committee which solicited legis
lation from municipalities
across the country.
Council Gets
Complaints
On 6 Drunks’
County Manager Melvin
L. Reese has been directed to
investigate and report on
complaints that drunks and
other disorderly persons are
causing a nuisance at and
near the county liquor dis
pensary on South Washing
st., Rockville.
The County Council Issued the
directive after receiving a let
ter from Glen J. Koepenick,
owner of Abode Hardware, next
door to the dispensary.
Koepenick wrote that the
drunks and others are scaring
customers away from his and
other stores in the shopping
center.
"If Montgomery County,
which prides itself on high in
comes, clean government and
low crime rates, chooses to con
trol the sale of alcoholic bever
ages both as a matter of good
public policy and as an added
source of revenue, it would ap
pear axiomatic that it should
also take the responsibility of
forcefully controlling the condi
tions created as a result of the
system if, for no other reason,
than to carry out its acknowl
edged “responsibility’’ . . he
wrote.
Koepenick cited the 1958
County Manager's Annual Re
port in which it was stated one
purpose of the county’s liquor
control system was to “foster
and promote temperance.” He
further noted that the County In
1958 derived a net profit of sl,-
058,821 from the sale of liquor,
wine and beer. “Are an y of
these funds being used to police
areas where dispensaries create
public nuisances?” he asked.
Koepenick has complained
about the situation before, both
as a businessman and as imme
diate past president of the Rock
ville Chamber of Commerce.
Present Chamber head, Lewis
Brooks, business manager of
the C&P Telephone Co. office in
Rockville, endorsed Koepenick’s
plea last week.
Loiterers and disorderly per
sons appear to be “directly at
tributable” to the liquor dispen
sary, Brooks wrote the Council.
None of the county’s other
liquor dispensaries have the
problem constantly facing the
Rockville store.
These unemployed habitually
hang around the liquor store
for lack of anything else to do.
Some stand on the sidewalk,
others lounge in cars and trucks.
When the policeman, on foot
or in cars, are not near the
liquor dispensary—and no foot
men have been on duty there
since last winter—merchants in
the shopping center must de
pend on the hired services of
deputy sheriffs. As a rule, only
one is on duty and he is primar
ily concerned with traffic.
Young GOP Dance
The Young Republican Club
will hold a harvest dance No
vember 20 at the Rockville
Civic Center, to welcome new
members. General admission
will be $1 per couple, but new
members of the club will be
given free tickets.
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ROCKVILLE’S NEW AUDITORIUM (see ar
row) for which ground is to be broken Sat
urday, will be on the spot drawn by the ar
tist in this aerial photograph of the Rock
ville Civic Center grounds. The Civic Cen
ter is in semi-circle at left. In center fore-
Let’s Proclaim Week
To End All ‘Weeks’
The County Council wants to
quit rubber-stamping "days”
and “weeks” for just any old
pickle packer.
They gave clear indication of
their intent this week by decid
ing to give more careful scru
tiny to future requests to name
such-and-such a day and such
and-such a week.
“It’s got to the point where
the original objective has be
come meaningless In some
cases,” said Councilman David
L. Cahoon.
“It seems to me we might
have to set up some kind of
policy on this,” said Council
President Stelia B. Werner.
The Council, and countless
governing officials across the
Van Doren Shouldn’t Have
Been Fired 9 Minister Says
A Silver Spring minister has
objected to the “pious moral
isms” of Dr. Norman Vincent
Peale-and.others “who claim the
current television scandals indi
cate a national moral crisis."
“It should come as no sur
prise that the television indus
try, controlled by the purchas
ers of over-priced luxury items,
gives us only what they consid
er to be valuable in marketing
their products," the Rev. David
Hicks MacPherson declared in a
sermon prepared for delivery at
the Universalist Church of Sil
ver Spring next Sunday. “The
pious indignation expressed by
Dr. Peale and others every time
the weakness of man appears
satisfies no one. It merely per
mits a grunt of satisfaction
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ground is the recently completed 150-car
parking lot that will serve both buildings.
Another, smaller lot will be built for the
auditorium. City officials hope that the pub
lic will be using the facility for centennial
celebration in July. Sentinel Photo.
nation are endlessly bombarded
with requests to proclaim offi
cial recognition of certain days
and weeks. Many such requests
are laudable —for instance, the
Council proclaimed November
19 “Equal Opportunity Day” on
behalf of the Unitarian Fellow
ship and Social Justice Chapter
in the county, and proclaimed
November B’nai B’rith Month
on behalf of B’nai B’rith lodges
in the county.
On the other hand, scores of
days and weeks are named else
where for less laudable causes.
A glance at the nation’s press
will reveal National Diaper
Week, Cider Week, Eat More
Pizza Week and similar com
mercially-inspired schemes.
from the righteous *we’ against
the sinners ‘they’.”
Mr. MacPherson, who is the
minister of the Universalist
Church of Silver Spring holding
services at 10501 New Hamp
shire ave., declared that “those
who are loudest in their praise
of Jesus and the heritage which
grew out of His teachings are
the first to ignore the kind of
moral imperative He taught.
‘The Christian movement
never would have had a Paul,
a Peter, or an Augustine if
those men had been castigated
and dismissed as Charles Van
Doren has been, for once it had
been known that they commit
ted wrong-doing they would
have been refused admittance
Auditorium
Work Starts
On Saturday
A long postponed goal will
be realized at 2 o’clock this Sat
urday afternoon when Rock
ville Mayor Alexander Greene
turns the first shovel of earth
for the city’s _ ambitious new
auditorium.
The only onp of it* kind In
Montgomery County at this
time, the auditorium will be on
the grounds of the Civic Center
on old Baltimore rd.
It will stand east of the
southern end of the Civic Cen
ter Mall, close by Rockville
Cemetery. Construction will get
under way next week.
Construction bid of $187,880
was awarded two weeks ago to
the John W. Wrathall Co. The
contract requires completion by
June 30 next year.
Main auditorium in the two
level building will seat 522,
while its social hall will ac
comodate 500 diners and close
to 700 dancers. A 150-car park
ing lot serving the Civic Center
proper will be joined by-another
one for auditorium parking.
School CARE Drive
The student congress at
Northwood High School will
sponsor a CARE drive at the
school November 20 through 25.
Korea and West Germany are
to be the recipient countries.
to the fold or cast out of it.
“Rather than fire Van Doren,
his employers should have
asked him if he were ready to
live a new life and should have
seen to it that the $129,000 he
got was turned over to a worthy
purpose—say an endowment
fund for professors’ salaries.”
Grand Jury
Names Listed
The Montgomery County
grand jury, made up this year
of six women and 17 men with
Fred L. Lutes as chairman, is
well under way in its task of
considering more than 100
criminal presentments.
They may either return a true
bill or ignore the State’s case
following a secret vote with
only jury members present.
And should they want to, they
can, at their own behest, investi
gate any criminal activity in
the county.
The grand jury is made up of
residents from each of the 13
election districts. This is done
so the broadest source of infor
mation is available to the jury,
should they wish to launch an
independent investigation.
Philosophy of a grand jury is
really a matter of checks and
balances, deliberately employed
to curb overzealous States’ At
torneys and police officials from
issuing warrants and bringing
people to trial without proper
evidence.
Members of the Montgomery
County grand jury are as fol
lows:
Fred L. Lutes, chairman; Wil
liam E. Birgfeld, Admiral
Thomas B. Nebbeth, William
T. Jones, Robert H. Schmidt,
Edward W. Beall, Anita C. Bog
ley, John Erwin, sr„ Raymond
Stevens, Melon Burke, Hershey
Ayton.
Also, William H. Clark, Ed
ward M. Castle, Bernard D.
Gladhill, Clarence Becraft, Mrs.
Bertha A. Walter, Katherine
Reutemann, Mrs. Jay Conger,
Leonard Daymude, William C.
Eacho, jr., Clifford E. Gasch,
Jeannette Skates, Charles F.
Welsh.
Mrs. Werner
Will Make
Transit Plea
The Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Mass Transportation
for the Metropolitan Washing
ton area was due today to hear
that Montgomery County is all
for rapid transportation, via
rail, road or high speed bus.
But they would not be getting
the whole story from Mrs. Stella
B. Werner, president of the
County Council. Mrs. Werner
and Herbert Reichelt, president
of the Prince Georges County
Commissioners, were invited to
appear before the Committee.
Mrs. Werner said Informally
Tuesday that for one, she was
dead set Against giving the
power to tax and condemn land
to a Federally-set up corpora
tion that would administer the
transportation compact In Mary
land, the District and Virginia.
"A government superstruc
ture with those powers could
wreck our local government,”
she told the fellow Councilmen.
Mrs. Werner took the advice
of colleague Stanley 8. Frosh,
however, who said, “I think it
is premature to express state
ments on the character of super
agencies, least we disrupt or
throw into imbalance our com
mon, ultimate goal.”
So she said she would stick to
presenting a resume of the
County's needs for organized
mass transportation. She was
not alone, however, in her de-
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Simpler Funerals Goal
Of Monday Meeting
Churches represented by the
Silver Spring Ministers’ Asso
ciation have been invited to join
other congregations in helping
to form the “Maryland Subur
ban Memorial Society,” an or
ganization to promote simpli
city and dignity in funerals.
Association pastors were in
vited Monday by the Rev. David
H. MacPherson. minister of the
Universalist Church of Silver
Spring, founder of the Memorial
Association program.
An organizational meeting of
backers has been called for 8:30
Joint Council, Planning
Meetings Are Proposed
Regular meetings between
members of the Montgomery
County Council and the
Maryland - National Capital
Park and Planning Commis
sion were proposed this week
by Stella B. Werner, presi
dent of the Council.
She said the Council should
Repayment
Ordered in
Azalea Theft
Two Rockville men were
placed on “probation without
verdict” Monday pending resti
tution for azaleas they alleged
ly took from the Rock Creek
Nurseries.
Police said Vincent J. De-
Glorgio and Frederick N. Wildt
admitted taking 22 azalea* and
two hemlock trees from the
nursery, located between Park
lawn Cemetery and Rock Creek
Park.
This is part of the 63-acre
tract now up for zoning change,
on which real-estate developer
Lawrence L. Levin want* to
build apartment houses. At a
public hearing last month be
fore the County Council, a num
ber of civic associations pro
tested the proposed change. No
decision has yet been made.
According to police, DeGior
gio and Wildt said they believed
the property and the plants to
have been abandoned, and they
offered to pay for the plants
they had taken. Owner of the
property, M. G. Coplen, said on
the witness stand that the area
had once been fenced, but that
in recent year* the fence had
"not been kept up.”
People’s Court Judge John B.
Diamond 111 said he believed
Degiorgio and Wildt had "used
extremely poor judgment.” but
that he did not feel a conviction
for larceny was justified. He
said he was placing them “on
probation without verdict,”
pending complete restitution to
owner of the property.
Dunphy Moves Office
William N. Dunphy, attorney,
announced the removal of his
Rockville offices thl* week to
the new Jefferscon building, 22
West Jefferson *t„ Rockville.
fense of county vs Federal pow
ers. David L. Cahoon said he
would "hesitate” at approving
a Federal corporation until the
problem has been studied more.
this Monday at the hospitality
room of the Co-op store, 8547
Piney Branch rd.. Silver Spring.
The non-profit organization
would seek to spare bereaved
families of “irrelevant and cost
ly funeral arrangements at a
time of great emotional stress.”
Those already behind the pro
gram are the Universalist
Church of Silver Spring, College
Park Unitarian Church, Temple
Emanuel, Temple Israel, Temple
Har Tzeon, Rockville Unitarian
Church and the Unitarian
Church of Montgomery County.
explore the possibility of joint
meetings starting next year.
She added that tentative ap
proval of the proposal had been
given by J. Newton Brewer,
chairman of the Montgomery
County Planning Board—a n
arm of the bi-county agency—
and Commissioner W. Lawson
King, of Gaithersburg.
The proposal would seem to
be an outgrowth of two things:
(l)a proposal by Councilman
Stanley B. Frosh that the Coun
cil—rather than planners—de
termine policy on futrue land
use; and (2) the now familiar
planning technique of devising
master plans that encompass
whole areas of the county.
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ings will be announced later.
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Rockville
To Get New
Shop Center
A new community shopping
center with seven stores now,
and five more plus offices later,
has just gotten under way at
the intersection of First st. and
Baltimore rd„ Rockville.
Builder and owner is the W.
Evans Buchanan Co. The com
pany will erect Its shopping
center on three acres of com
mercially-zoned land bordering
both roads.
Already signed up is a 7-
Eleven food store and negotia
tions are continuing for a drug
store, barber shop, beauty
salon and a dry cleaning shop.
The first phase of the center,
all under one roof, should be
ready for occupancy early next
year, according to a company
spokesman.
He said that the total develop
ment will represent an outlay
of around $225,000.
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Testing Is Topic
Montgomery County Parents
Organization for Hearing-Im
paired and Aphasic Children
will meet November 19 at 8:15
p.m. at Broad Acres Elementary
School, Becon rd„ Silver Spring.
Speaker will be Mrs. Louis
Rochmes, school psychologist
for the Board of Education. She
will discuss testing and evalu
ation of children in special edu
cation.
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