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19 Key Democrats Hit Council On Apartment Zoning Master Plan ‘Undermined’ Group Contends Nineteen Democratic pre cinct chairmen in the Ken sington-Wheaton “planning” area have sent a letter to the County Council strongly criticizing it for recent apart ment rezoning actions in their communities. The development was immedi ately interpreted by some as | being a highly significant one bearing on the growing apart ment house controversy inas much as the solidly Democratic group was directly criticizing an all-Democratic County Coun cil, something that normally does not happen—particularly with an election only a few months away. “Recent actions by the Coun cil and the planning board (of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commis sion), in granting rezoning petitions for apartment houses! in the Kensington-W heaton planning area,” the group wrote, I “have seriously impaired public! confidence in the effectiveness j of the zoning plan.” The Democratic chairman said they were “deeply concerned | about the trends in planning and zoning” because of the fact that in the six months from May to November, the planning board and the council increased by 300 per cent the potential for apartments in the area. The area Involved contains 24 per cent of the county’s registered voters and 26 per cent of the registered Democrats, the chairman pointed out. “Ninety six per cent of the Kensington-W heaton families, have purchased houses in the area on the assumption that it would remain an essentially single-family residential com munity,” the letter declared. “Now they see this assumption threatened by recent decisions of both the planning board and the council,” they said. “Last May, the planning board j staff in its preliminary plan Firm Wins SIOO,OOO Contract Airflow Co., 400 South Stones street ave., Rockville, announced last week that it won a SIOO,OOO contract to manufacture 20 spe cial air conditioning units for the Navy’s anti-submarine train ing program conducted at Port Washington, N.Y. The units will have to control temperatures ranging from 60 to 100 farenheit, Warren Hansen, Airflow president said. The contract came from Ereo Corp., of Riverdale, prime con tractor for the U.S. Navy. The units will be installed in train ing booths similar to the famil iar Link-type trainer used to familiarize pilots with “blind” flying. Hansen said his company will work on the contract until about June next year. Airflow is a newcomer to Rockville, moving here in mid- May this year. Hansen lives a) 12700 Connecticut ave., Wheaton. TCA Backs Contest A “best decorated home” contest was sponsored by the Twinbrook Citizens' Association between December 21 and 28. Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges in originality, Santa Claus, religious and elec tric lighting categories. The contest has become a tra dition in the community, along with the annual summer picnic. Winners will be announced at TCA monthly meeting January 21. RUGS • Cleaned • Stored • Repaired WALL-TO-WALL CARPETS Faultlessly Cleaned IN YOUR HOME Phong For Details BELL RUG SERVICE 7001 Arlinqton Rd., Rthesdo 01. 4-0200 (for Kensington-Wheaton) pro posed an additional 1287 units— making a total of 1970. In Sep tember, overruling its profes sional staff, the planning board made a further addition of 478 units—raising the figure to 2448. In November, the council further enlarged this program by ap proving an additional 400 units— bringing the grand total op portunity for apartments to 2848,” the Democrats said. The group said it supported the proposed master plan of the planning staff “as best reflect ing the desires of area resi dents.” It also lauded a December 10 editorial in The Montgomery County Sentinel titled: “Apart ment House Crisis.” Copies of the editorial were reprinted by Ray Murphy, Democratic State Central Committee member who principally brought about the chairmen’s letter to the council. The 19 Democratic chairmen and their precincts were: Rita C. Davidson, 13-35; Ray V. Murphy, 13-31; Eugene C. Zaek, 13-33; Stuart P. Brock, 13-27; Eugene F. Peters, 13-38; Jennie M. Clessner, 13-36; Claude J. Desautels, 13-29; Mary Jo Bowman, 13-37; H. Rowland Ludden, 13-40; Gilbert B. Les senco, 13-26; Mary L. Rilev, 13-24; James P. Bull, jr., 13-28; Louis H. Cohen, 13-x7; Edward F. Daly, 13-30; John A. Hillman, 13-25; James R. Miller, 13-32; Leo K. Koepfle, 13-14; Irving A. Levine, 13-34; Juanita Saied, 13-1. Make Reservations Now For Publicity Workshop Reservations are now being accepted for a one-night pub licity workshop to aid officers and publicity chairman of Mont gomery County groups scheduled for February 5 at 8 p.m. in the County Building Auditorium, Rockville. The name of the organization and its representative(s) that will attend should be sent to the Montgomery County Press Association, sponsor of the event, at 204 East Melbourne ave., Silver Spring, Md. At the event, a panel of ex perts from daily and weekly newspapers, area radio stations Publicity Workshop Registration Montgomery County Press Association 204 East Melbourne Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland Enclosed is our check for $ for the follow ing representatives from our organization who will attend the 1960 Publicity Workshop, sponsored by the Montgomery County Press Association on Friday, Feb ruary 5, 1960, at 8 p.m. in the County Building Audi torium, Rockville: Name Address Name Address Name Address Registration fee (registration limited to three (3) per sons per organization:) $5.00 first representative 1.25 second ” 1.25 third ” Please send workshop tickets to: Name Address Signed Title Name of Organization fjiiißnaw NOW YOU CAN A 111 * ave! 1 attic Whof. Left of Our WOOL JERSEYS 98' Whot’i Left of Our WOOL SUITINGS 98' Whof. Left ef Our WOOL COATINGS 1.19 WOOL FELT, it" I,id* 1.98 „ muslin Jrßlh ,*i Special Group ef Discarded Patterns 10 c * 15 c MANY OTHER BARGAINS TEXTILE TOWN 105 NORTH WASHINGTON RQ. 2-4777 O. H. Perry, Auto Firm Owner, Dies Oliver H. Perry, 66, owner of the Rockville Motor Company for more than 30 years, died Wednesday of a heart attack at his residence, 107 Aberdeen rd., Rockville. He was buried Saturday from the Tyson Wheeler funeral home, Rockville. Burial was in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Perry was a native of the District of Columbia. He brought his bride, the former Dorothy Moore, of Alexandria, to live with him in Rockville when he founded his business. Rockville Motor Company, Inc., held the only Ford fran chise in the County seat. The business is located on Com merce la„ and in addition to selling Ford cars and trucks, also deals in tractors and farm implements. Extremely active in city life during his youth, Mr. Perry served 13 years as a City Coun cilman under Mayor G. Lamarr Kelley and Douglas M. Bland ford. He also was a member of the Rockville Baptist Church, was a Mason, belonged to the Rockville Rotary Club and the Henderson-Smith-Edmonds Post 86, American Legion. Also during his youth, Mr. Perry was an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman and went on many' such outings with former Judge Charles W. Wood ward. He is survived by his wife, of the home address, and three brothers: Walter D., of St. Petersburg, Fla., Paul F., of Bethesda, and Earl Perry, of Kensington. and Washington television sta tions will offer helpful advice. A $5 fee will be charged each organization sending a repre sentative to the workshop. An additional charge of $1.25 will be made for each additional delegate from the same organ ization, with a limit of three representatives from a single group. Proceeds from the proj ect will be used to support the MCAP s Journalism Scholarship at the University of Maryland. Arthur P. Brigham, public in formation officer, of the Wash ington Suburban Sanitary Com mission, is general chairman of the workshop. Wp * : Oliver H. Perry V ///// Beginning Saturday, January Prices Slashed on I of Fine Winter Coats Thurs. - Fri. Offered at Extraordinary 9:30 to 9 I , I f Sa.,iOn^ / • Fine Imported and Domestic // / W Wools/ ll] . / n : £?• ! Stttyl ON JfxA; “ te'Z’”:" *64" 1 nDcrccc A' XU'n. 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WASHINGTON STREET ROCKVILLE \A >@9^ Parking At Our Door GOP Census Patronage To Be Doled Out Soon Almost 3000 Marylanders, most of them Republicans, will be hired soon to take the 1960 general census in the State. The jobs will last between two and four weeks. Maryland's 163 crew leaders will earn up to $15.50 a day while the far greater number of census tak ers will get about sl2 a day. They will work out of dis trict offices in Frederick, Balti more, Salisbury, Towson, and College Park. Directors of this office will earn $24 a day, ac cording to Government sources. Inasmuch as this is a Repub lican administration, most of the jobs will be handed out to GOP faithful. Slight catch to the jobs will be that any party of ficial, say a precinct chairman or a member of a local State Central Committee, will have io resign his party job to take on the census chore. This is made mandatory un der the Hatch Act which pro hibits Government employes, even temporary ones, from tak ing part in official partisan ac tivities. GOP State Central Commit tee Chairman David Scull of Sil ver Spring, said Saturday that he has not yet received requests for names of nominees for the census jobs, although he ex pects to. GEICO Wins Award for Its Building The Government Employees Insurance Company received the Oliver Owen Kuhn award last week for its new office build ing in Bethesda, “one of the most outsanding projects in the Bethesda area in many years." The award was made by the Board of Directors of the Be thesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce. It goes annually to a person or a group respon sible for erection of a perma nent, concrete improvement benefiting the community. GEICO occupies a 28-acre site off Western ave. behind and to the west of the Woodward & F N TIN FI montgomebt Jtl'l I IINCL COUNTY. MD. Tuesday, December 24, 1959—’ Lothrop department store. 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