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THIS ISSUE 13.412 (Subject to 11,905 Paid AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1909 104th Year - No. 4 ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2*. I*s* " “ McCeney Out; Scramble On Kyle Believed Leading Field Of Contenders A no - holds barred scramble is on for the Coun ty Council seat of B. Hous ton McCeney who said he will resign today. McCeney was appointed gen eral counsel for the Maryland- National Capdtol Park and Plan ning Commission last week. He succeeds the late Charles M. Ire lan. McCeney, 36-year-old resident of the County for 10 years, will get an annual salary of $12,000, he said. He will start work for the Commission next week. He also said he sought the job for one month, with his three year part-time job as associate counsel for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and his experience as a Council man as his biggest trump cards. The Council has 30 days in which to name a successor. At least one Councilman —David L. Gaboon —does not want to name McCeney’s successor for one or two weeks, In order that the widest possible field of candi dates may be screened. Meanwhile, however, would-be councilman from the Fifth Council District (where, like Mc- Ceney, the candidates must live) are stumping for Democratic support. Two names lead all the rest: • Joe M. Kyle, 33, lawyer and a member since last April of the Board of Appeals. • Robert Romero, lawyer and, relatively, a political dark horse who debated filing for the Council and then reneged before the last primary election. Both have written letters to the governing Democratic State Central Committee, offering their candidacy. Kyle also has written in his candidacy to members of the County Council. Other reported candidates in clude Leonard S. Blondes, law yer and organization - backed candidate for 13-31 precinct chairmanship who all but knocked out incumbent Ray V. Murphy, chieftan of the still powerful Democrats for ’SB last October. Another possible candidate is Robert T. Snure, one-term Coun ty Councilman who was not en dorsed to run again last election by members of the State Cen tral Committee. He refused to say last week that he would not accept renewed endorsement, should it come. Quiet on the matter is SCC chairman and titular party lead er in the County, Ward W. Cad dington. He said he has not con sidered calling a special meet ing of his committee for the purpose of endorsing candi dates. When asked if he had a per sonal preference, however, his reply, “No comment,” indicated that he does have a choice. Cad dington could give considerable endorsement to a candidate by coming out for him personally, without SCC backing. Central Committeemen Mur phy reportedly would like to see fellow 58’er C. Darwin Stolzen bach go after the job but he knows Caddington and other organization Democrats on the Central Committee and on the Council wouldn’t go along. Councilman William F. Hic key observed that he would sup port a move to hold some kind of special referendum vote to replace Councilmen who resign, but that he wouldn't initiate such a move. He commented that appointment by the Coun cil is a “delicate” thing, and, "I would not want to see the Coun cil get into a dispute on it.” Woman Loses Tongue A 34-year-old Woodbine wom an lost the tip of her tongue Monday in an auto accident police said occurred on the Ol ney-Laytonsville rd. They iden tified her as Mrk. Sophie Cornett. She was admitted to Montgomery County General Hospital, Olney.' 3M"'icn (Ml Smtind Annual Review 1959 Was Eventful Year for County By Steed Evans Staff Reporter January State Police officer urges adoption of a chemical test for drivers suspected of being drunk . . . School Superinten dent C. Taylor Whittier urges support of $34.1 million oper ating budget . . . J. Millard Tawes takes oath as 59th Mary land Governor . . . National, State CD heads clash with coun ty advisory board which advo cates shelter, not evacuation .. . Planners ask for new industrial park zone . . . School Board sets 1961 as target date for full school integration . . . School Board approves total SSO million budget . . . Pepco announces second line of electrical towers . . . Court denies Crumps right to adopt foster son; orders Gaithersburg city heads to pay back $7400 in fees. February Frederic P. Lee named head of conflict of interests commit tee .. . ex-Councilman Charles H. Jamison revealed as agent for sale of publicly-owned golf course land . . . Suburban Hos pital announces plans to build new wing . . . Bethesda “corri dor” is outlined, antipathy feared ..; grand jury holds four accused of conspiring to photo graph Rockville redhead . . . youth killed as teenage fiance, a learning driver, crashes . . . Sisters of Holy Cross announce plans for $3 million hospital . . . liberalized liquor laws sought... Rockville turns down Santa Contest Winners Listed First-place winners of the Sentinel’s Santa Claus Letter Contest are: Ricky Shelton and Lois Elaine Hackey, both of Gaithersburg, Rodney Bout well, Silver Spring, and Karen Ballentine, of Rockville, each of whom won $5. Winners of $2.50 each were: Johnny and Alan Trail, of Rockville, Susan Nicol, of Washington Grove, Sharon Hackey, of Gaithers burg, and Sheila Edwards, of Silver Spring. - jJUF '• 1 m■•+*+****"'■ '■SlV' ij u i ?mr?"*** '' -Sa \ 'i*,+ %"" . \ Vir#' - SLA * • i "A. .. a %JU f A HALF-HIDDEN BULLDOZER plows through the smoking ruins of the old County Poor Farm, demolished last week to make i way for a new County JaiL The worm is V N V " v Happy New , Year Everyone! pavilion bids: “too much.” . . . teenage code takes shape . . . "Biggest” tax hike, budget seen . . . Dog control law praised, blasted. March $72 million budget presented by Reese . . . County dairymen support Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers in milk price war . . . Congressional Plaza in Rock ville started . . . Dairymen feel economic pinch from continuing dairy war.. . Passenger, permit less driver, killed in car crash . . . Conservationists, upper Rock Creek residents fight plan for “dream city” of 10,000 at Redland . . . Two sisters die needlessly in slum house blaze, mother escapes as red tape snarls public housing project. April Gaithersburg gets new dial phone system . . . Fiery death of two sisters speeds opening of Rockville’s Lincoln Terrace housing project . . . Del. Blair Lee 111 freely admits “axing” teacher salary bill ... Washing ton Grove’s Mayor Irvin Leroy McCathran dies . . . Juvenile Court gets power to fine van dals’ parents . . . “Limit apart, mentis to eight percent i n Wheaton * Kensington” (Stell horn) . . . County Council ap proves 30-cent tax hike . . . Kaiser freed on narcotic charges . . . Sentinel Wins five prizes to sweep State newspaper contest ... Bourdeaux backed for judge ship . . . NIH starts vast build ing program . . . Howard Coun (Continued on Page 4) Dr. Angle Heads Medical Staff Dr. Robert G. Angle has been re-elected president of the med ical staff of the Suburban Hos pital, and Dr. John E. Cassidy, vice president. Dr. Seruch T. Kimble was elected secretary treasurer. Dr. Austin B. Rohrbaugh suc ceeded Dr. Arch L. Riddick, who served as chief of the de partment of surgery for 16 years. Dr. Riddick will continue to serve on the medical staff. being done by the Regent Demolition Co. The farm had been unused for mahy years. A county maintenance center will be built near the site. Staff Photo. EDWARD A. BARTLETT, prin cipal of Northwood High, has been appointed Director of Personnel for Montgomery County schools effective Feb ruary 2, filling the vacancy caused by the death of William G. Pyles last October 8. He will be paid $11,500 annually. ‘Dimes’ Pleas To Be Mailed To Residents More than 91,000 individual appeals for the “New March of Dimes” campaign to prevent crippling diseases will be mailed out in early January to Mont gomery County residents, Ralph G. Shure, 1960 campaign chair man for the County’s Chapter of the National Foundation, an nounced today. Each appeal will contain an envelope which gives area resi dents a personal way to partici pate in the National Founda tionn’s program of prevention and research. This year funds go to fight birth defects and arthritis as weJJ as .polio. “As leader in the fight against crippling diseases,” Judge Shure declared, “the National Foundation must have more support than ever to finance its vital programs of patient aid and medical research.” As funds become available to the County chapter, he pointed out, financial assistance will be provided to children through age 18 who suffer from arth ritis or certain birth defects. As in the past, victims of paralytic polio will also be aided. “Concerted public support of the ‘March of Dimes' was re sponsible for the Salk vaccine,” Judge Shure stated. “Similar support now will, we hope, en able us to find answers to at lease two more of the nation’s major health problems.” New Glee Club The newly formed glee club at Our Lady of Good Coun sel Catholic High School, Whea ton, performed for the first time December 15 at a mothers’ club meeting. A Century of Service S2O Million Apartment Plan Told by Sam Eig Eig Plea On Zoning Wins Okay A tailor-made zoning ex ception, carved out of the county’s zoning code at the request of county land devel oper Sam Eig cleared the County Council Tuesday. Effective immediately, any body who wants to—or can af ford to—may put a golf course or a country club on commercial or industrial properties. But nobody, other than Eig has ever wanted to, according to informed county administra tors. The reason is clear: taxes on industrial and commercial land, and the cost of the land itself, are much higher. Golf courses and their club houses in the County are now located on residentially-zoned land, where they exist as special exceptions. Eig appeared before the County Council September 1 this year and told of his plans to build a golf course on 139 acres he owns adjoining his Motel Washingtonian. But he had a problem. He owned plenty of residen tial land on which to put a golf course as a special exception. But the closest borders of that land were several hundred yards away from Ilia Shady Grove Country Club at the motel, and this would be too far for golfers to walk, he said. Golfers, he said, like to tee off and end their game right at the club house. So he asked the Council to let him use 35 acres of commercial ly-zoned land around the motel as part of his planned golf course. On it would be the first, ninth, 10th- and 18th holes. A special amendment to the zon ing text would do the trick, he said. Council President Stella B. Werner signed an order seven days later setting a public hear ing October 20. Meanwhile, the technical staff at the Maryland-National Capi tal Park and Planning Commis sion issued a report that went along with the special exception, but urged that golf course and country club use of commercial and industrial land be tempo rary, not permanent. Eig goes along with that. Several weeks later, however when the Planning Board learned that just one landown er—they didn’t mention Eig by name —wanted the special ex ception, they advised the Coun cil that one-man zoning subvert ed the intent of zoning practices. But the technical staff is only advisory. Their report was overridden by the Council and by the Maryland-National Capi tal Park and Planning Commis sion. Two of the commission ers, John A. Floyd and Louis A. ‘ Gravelle, agreed with the tech staff. An uneventful public hearing was held October 20. It was followed by the Council unani mously granting the zoning ex ception December 22. The fol lowing day, Eig duly filed rou tine request for the zoning use. Wheaton Toy Gift Seventy boys at a Laurel, Md., boys’ home got surprise toys last week from Wheaton High School students who took part in the student council’s annual "adopt-a-chiid” program. Drunk Is Found In Court Room Lester Doye, 43, of Mason dr., Rockville, spent Saturday In a little post-Christ mas cele brating, much to the disdain of Montgomery County police. Hauled before Judge Christ ensen In Rockville People's Court Monday, he pleaded guilty to a drunk charge and received 15 days —for sleep ing off his drunk under the bench in Circuit Court Room No. 8. Special Boys’ School Finally Wins Legal OK A psychologist’s fight to build a living-in school in Montgomery County for boys with emotional prob lems cleared it? first major barrier recently when the Board of Appeals granted an ap peal to construct the institution on residential land at Fairland. Opposition from neighboring residents was the handicap faced by Dr. Frank W. Dinwiddie, who testified at four days of public hearings before the Board Oc tober. Neighbors advanced the opin ion disturbed teenage boys would constitute a safety men ace to property owners around the proposed school at 14000 Robey rd., Fairland. In granting the zoning special exception, the Board Specified that boys at the schoo.' must he accompanied by adults outside the school building. It also re quired that the Institution must be turned over to a non profit organization. Dr. Dinwiddie said the school will be operated by a new cor poration known as “Youth Re habilitation Center, Inc.," of which he is the principal officer. Partners are Dr. Randolph Unique Driver Training + ■ * . < - •" * • Plan Urged by Committee A driver-training program for high school students that 1 would triple participation and halve operating costs has been proposed to the Board of Education by a lay advisory committee after an eight-month study. The program would radically change the present system of teaching driver education in order to cut dovfrn on costs, im prove the quality of teaching, and allow for the maximum number of student participation. Under the proposed program, patterned on a Norfolk, Va., plan now in its fourth year of operation, one instructor would direct 10 students In 10 cars on a special practice course by short wave hook-up. Each car would have a senior student who had completed the course, received his license, and had a perfect driving record, as a stu dent volunteer. The program, approved by both police and insurance com panies, would allow more com petent teaching of good driving principles because the instruc tion would take place outside of NIH Animals to Be Housed On 513-Acre County Farm Although nobody’s talking money yet, it would be fair to “guesstimate” that by the time the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, is through, It will have spent three-quarters of a million dollars to buy and equip its new farm for labora tory animals near Poolesville. Purchase of the 513-acre farm along Club Hollow and Elmer School rds., southwest of Pooles ville, is still in the title-search ing stage. But Floyd W. Cregger who has dairy-farmed the acreage the last 21 years, has sold his 83 Holsteins, hay, feed and ma 'chinery. He has purchased a house on a small lot not far away in Martinsburg. His clearing out added to the fact that NIH holds an option to buy early next year would argue strongly that the deal Is closed in all but fact. Estimates of up-county farm land costs vary, Cregger, who should know the land after all these years, allowed that SIOOO an acre might be a top figure. Assuming that a large daily bam, a main house with two tenant houses and a quonsel hut i Frank, psychiatrist, and Dr. Thomas Christensen, pediatri cian. School fees will be about $250 a month, Including psychother apy as well as regular training in academic subjects, Dr. Din widdie said. The 18.5-acre tuact will be purchased in several weeks from a Dr. David Bleil, for $28,000, Dr. Dinwiddie said. Architects Kea & Shaw of Hy attsville, have designed a low level dormitory school building that should cost approximately $70,000, Dr. Dinwiddie revealed. Money to build the school will come from appeals to various foundations in Montgomery and rince Georges counties, and the District of Columbia. Boys eight to 15 years of age will be accepted upon referral from all three jurisdictions, Dr. Dinwiddie said. Dr. Dinwiddie was chief psy cologist at Maryland’s Spring Grove State Hospital and in charge of the children’s pro gram there. He and his corpora tion will take over operation of the Elmwood Manor School for Boys, Savage, Mr., on Jan uary 1, he said. normal traffic. Once the stu dent had passed the classroom and off-street practice, he would be taken for a minimum of a half-hour of actual driving in traffic. The off-street practice fields would be constructed at each school at a cost somewhere be tween S7OOO and S9OOO, depend ing on the particular terrain. The fields, approximately 250 by 250 feet, would present a first year capital expenditure of less than SIOO,OOO, but there after cut operating costs from this year’s $119,000 to less than $75,000. Under the present system of teaching, each pupil is taught Individually, necessitating 19 teachers to handle about one third—or 1700 students—out of the total eligible tenth grade. Under the proposed system, each teacher would handle 10 students at a time, cutting to eight the number of teachers needed to handle the entire 4600 eligible students. At the present time, the pro gram costs approximately s6l per student. The proposed pro gram would cut costs to about $25 per student. | now on the farm would increase its cost over the land's price— and remetfibering NIH has said “modern water supply, waste disposal and animal buildings will be constructed,” a "guess timate” of about *750,000 seems firm. NIH wants to transfer i‘s limited number of horses, cows, swine, etc., from leased acreage on the Eugene B. Casey farm between Rockville and Gaithers burg. NIH reportedly will In crease (he size of its menagerie. Animals are used as living ex periments in medico-scientific research of a humane nature. NIH Is the medical research arm of the U. S. Public Health Service and conducts work in the fields of cancer, heart dis ease, menta' health, dental dis orders, neurology, blindness, al lergy, arthritis and other dis eases. A committee of NIH officials headed by Chris A Hansen. 3615 Marengo rd., Springfield, Is pur suing negotiations for site pur chase. Charles H. Jamison, ex- County Councilman and real es tate broker, represents owners of the land who he will describe only as a ’'syndicate.” Weather Outlook Temperatures will stay around normal highs, lows of 44 and 29 through Saturday, with some rain likely Thursday or Friday. Colder Tuesday and Wednesday, warmer Thursday, Project Would Serve ‘Complex’ Near His Motel Plans for a huge apart ment project, possibly cost ing 320 million, located next to Sam Eig’s Motel Wash ingtonian, Gait hersburg were revealed by Eig yesterday. Attorney Plummer Shearin * said he would file a zoning ap plication for Eig, requesting the change of 34 rural-residential acres west of US. 240 to the R-10 (apartment) zone. The proposed development Is on a tract of land located in the middle of a 139-acre golf course Eig plans to construct ifi the near future. While Shearin said no draw ings of the apartments have been made, he disclosed that Elg's plans call for an eventual 1300 apartment units on the tract. He said it costs $1 million to build 150 units at 1000 square feet per unit. Thirteen hundred apartments, therefore, would cost more than $8,666,000. But an associate of Elg's, Robert Mc- Keever, later said, “we ll spend S2O million.” Tenants of the huge develop ment would be drawn from the 15,000 to 20.000 persons working for future Government and pri vate research and development organizations and nearby indus trial parks, Shearin said. Only a little more than two weeks ago, large sewer and water lines serving the adjacent industrial complex at Shady Grove rd. and U. S. 240 were authorized by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Location of two industrial parks less than a mile from the proposed apartment develop ment caused Etg to go ahead with the project. These very de velopments—one owned by Eig —constitute sufficient, required change under the law of neigh borhood character to warrant the apatrments, Shearin con tended. Furthermore, the attorney said, tenants in Elg’s industrial park across the highway from his Motel, have requested Eig to provide housing for their em ployes. Civic reaction to the proposed apartments Is certain to be sharp and critical, most observ ers agree. The zoning applica tion comes at a time when an accelerating rate of apartment construction in Montgomery County has many citizen’s or ganizations, stirred up. Also, the Maryland-National Capitol Park and Planning Com mission will hold a public heat ing sometime early next year , to discuss the overall apartment-.- | issue. Only last Tuesday, County i Councilman Stanley 11. Krosh : advocated a Council public hear ing where citizens could get their views on the record. The proposal was shelved in order to allow the Planning Commission to hold its hearing first. Shearin confessed to a ten dency to become "almost lyr ical” when he told of the new apartment development. He de scribed the tract as "panoramic” i in concept and view, situated among gently rolling slopes with a stand of Umber to the North. Three lakes on the sur rounding golf course wijl fti'r thcr enhance the apartments, he added. If the apartments ixvome a reality, they will certainly be a i (won to existing and proposed industry and research whoso (lersonnel directors/ daily face the twin problems/of turn-over and recruitment, ciyuaed by the relative scarcity VTf nearby housing. \y. ■■■&% The Atomic Energjf Ootnmle sion at Germantown lost scores of Its employes when It made Its move from Washington, S - cause of lack of housing ans. long distance workers had to cover daily. The same prospect must face 1 the National Bureau of Stand- 1 aids when it moves to its future! 1 (Continued on Page 4) J