In County
Business News
Rockville’* well known Roll
on Tire Company, at 405 East
Montgomery ave., ha* a new
hand at the tiller—Balfour "Bill”
Lytton, who although new in his
job as manager, Is no stranger
to the community.
Reading his present and past
affiliations in the business and
civic worlds like opening doors
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In soma of the community’s
most reputable organizations.
"Bill" Lytton has done every
thing from becoming a notary
public to help organize the for
mer Regional Finance Corpora
tion, now known as Credit Fi
nance.
Other activities include posi
tions as a Boy Scouts commit
teeman, a member of the Mont
gomery County Sheriff’s office
in Rockville, a Civil Defense
auxiliary policeman, a member
of the Permanent Memorial
Committee of Rockville, and
memberships, in the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce and the
Midtown Merchants Association.
He also helped form the Rock
crest Citizens’ Association and
as one of its founders, was in
strumental in seeing that Rock
crest got a bridge over the
B & O Railroad.
Lytton was the accountant
and bookkeeper for the Rock
mont Motor Company and man
aged the old Milo Theater.
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Mary Jo Whidden, former
athletic instructor at Wheaton
High School, has become an As
sociate Member in the life in
surance planning agency of Ro
mack, English and Associates.
Miss Whidden specializes in
Insured Savings with her of
fice at 212 Guardian Federal
Building, Silver Spring, Md.
The firm represents Fidelity
Bankers Life Insurance Com
pany of Richmond, Va.
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Robert C. Christie has been
appointed associate counsel of
Suburban Trust Co., it was an
nounced by T. Howard Duckett,
chairman of the board and ex
ecutive committee of Suburban
Trust Co. and J. Robert Sher
wood, STC president.
Christie has spent most of
his life in Silver Spring, where
he now resides with his family.
He graduated from Montgom
ery Blair High School, attended
University of Maryland for two
years and George Washington
University for two more years.
He received his law degree from
Southeastern University in 1937
and was admitted to practice
In the District of Columbia the
same year.
Christie was employed in the
Trust Department of National
Savings & Trust Company for
six years before being inducted
Into service in November, 1940,
as the first draftee in Silver
Spring. After being discharged
as an infantry Captain in 1946,
Mr. Christie was admitted to
practice law in Maryland where
upon he became associated with
the firm known as Duckett, Gill
A Anderson. He is now a part
ner in this same firm which Is
presently known as Duckett,
Orem & Christie with offices in
Silver Spring and Washington,
D. C.
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William Bowie, president of
the Maryland Bankers Associ
ation and vice-chairman of the
board of the Suburban Trust
Company, Hyattsville, has an
nounced that a state-wide con
sumer credit conference will h*
held in Baltimore on March 3
at the Sheraton-Belvedere Hotel.
Homan B. Kinsley, assistant
vice-president of the Maryland
Trust Company, Baltimore, will
be in overall charge of the ses
sion. Kinsley is chairman of the
state bankers association’s con
sumer credit committee. He will
be assisted by Ted M. Huffman,
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credit committee and assistant
treasurer of the Suburban Trust
Company, Mount Rainier.
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M. J. Coyle, manager of the
Rockville Woolworth store, an
nounced this week that his as
sistant, William R. Booth, has
been transferred to the chain's
Manassas, Va., store. He will be
succeeded by W. E. Naegle, for
merly of a Woolworth store in
Philadelphia.
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A. G. Watkins store, at 400
E. Montgomery ave., Rockville,
will be the scene March 14-19 of
an art exhibition by members
of the Rockville Art League,
competing in the 1961 Motorola
Amateur Art Calendar contest.
Motorola will stage 20 such
exhibitions acros sthe country
in Mororola-franchised dealers’
showrooms, such as A. G. Wat
kins. Local three winners will
be submitted in final competition
at Chicago this June.
The three winners also will
be presented a Motorola port
able television, transistor radio
and clock alarm radio, respec
tively. Winners will be an
nounced at Watkins’ at 8 p.m.
March 16. Nearly 100 paintings
are expected to be exhibited,
according to League president
Wilma R. King.
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Mrs. Barbara L. Fenton, a
Twinbrook resident since 1954,
has entered the real estate busi
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ness after 15 years as a nurse.
Mrs. Fenton, who lives at 5905
LeMay rd., has Joined the sales
staff of the Hugh T. Peck real
estate office, 3 North Perry St.,
Rockville.
Sandy Spring
Firemen Save
Dallam Home
The skill of volunteer fire
men from three Montgomery
County departments and the
presence of a nearby farm pond
was credited with the saving of
numerous antiques and valu
able papers threatened by a
fire Monday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ken elm Dallam,
Dr. Bird rd., Sandy Spring.
“We will be forever grateful
to the firemen; they did a mar
velous job of saving things,”
[ said Mrs- Dallam the next morn
Ing.
The fire was discovered short
ly after 5 p.m. by the Dallam’s
nephew, James Dallam, 13.
James was in the den of the
14-room house, watching tele
vision. The Dallams were at
tending a breakfast of the Iron
Bridge Hunt at the time.
James went to the front door
to see if his aunt and uncle
were returning and saw smoke
curling down the side of the
house. He ran to the telephone
and called the Sandy Spring
Volunteer Fire Department.
Firemen found old wooden
roof shingles ablaze in the
vicinity of a chimney. They
contained the fire to the roof
but had to cut holes in the roof
over three third-floor rooms.
Water leaked through and
damaged three rooms on the
third and second floor and two
rooms and halls on the first
floor, according to Mrs. Dallam.
She said the house and Its con
tents were insured. She could
not estimate the loss.
Firemen drew water to fight
the fire from a farm pond 300
yards from the main house.
Sandy Spring firemen turned
in a box alarm shortly after
arriving, bringing out addition
al men and equipment from the
Hillandale and No. 2 Kensing
ton Volunteer Fire Depart
ments.
SENTINEL
Thursday, Fab. 25, 1960—-
Cabin John-Brookmont
Periodicals
Sought by
Library
By Sandy Rovner
OLiver 6-8863
The Little Falls Library,
which seems to have settled
down to a brisk 4,000-books-per
week circulation, is still in need
of back issues of several na
tional magazines, chief librarian
Mrs. Margaret Witze reports.
We must admit that we’ve
never given much thought to
how a new library was “back
stocked,” but Mrs. Witze tells us
that “attic clearing” donations
represent the most widely ac
cepted method for giving a li
brary a “past,” pointing out, for
example, that the new library
has already been given a com
plete set of National Geograph
ies dating back to 1920. Current
ly needed are issues of Scientific
American, 1958-59; Time, 1955-
57; U. S. News and World Re
port, 1955-60; Saturday Review,
1955-57 and any back issues of
Craft Horizons. Potential donors
should contact Mrs. Witze at the
library.
Notes From Abroad: The Mar
vin Schaeidermans, of Halbert
rd., who are spending this year
in England on a Rockefeller
Foundation Grant, have sent a
moreor-less open letter yla
neighbor Mrs. Anita Greenspan
to the community describing
their British way of life. We
thought the pointed compari
sons unusually interesting and
we herewith excerpt some com
ments from the self described
"disenchanted suburbanites”
who dreamt of “an apartment in
Chelsea of Kensington,” and
ended up “nine miles northwest
of London,” feeling “well
oriented, anyway,” in Osterly,
Middlesex, a community built
early in the 18th century.
On the house: “In its living
and dining rooms are still bells
which connect to a panel In the
‘breakfast room’—a butler
should know where to bring the
tea. Among the furnishings com
plete if a bit worn, are a piano,
a bedwarmer, a grandfather
dock, blue willow platters, and
dozens of little bross objet
d’art.
“As in even more modern
houses in Britain, the. water
pipes are stuck on to the house’s
exterior. That’s in case it gets
so cold that the water freezes,
it is ever so much easier to thaw
out the pipes than if they were
in the inside. Well, that’s valid
because kitchens, bathrooms
and WC are no warmer than the
outside. They lack even the
primitive heating arrangements
found in other rooms. We have
coal fires, gas fires, and parafin
fires. By building them, feeding
them, filling them, and damping
them we manage to-keep the
chill out at a cost not much
higher than our winter gas bills
at home. But it has been a mild
winter.
“We have controlled draughts
by encasing our windows in the
plastic storm windows forward
ed to us from Sears. Our neigh
bors are quite dubious about!
this because we cannot open the
windows to let in the fresh
smog. We no longer point out
that the house has cracks
aplenty for the ‘air’ to seep in,
for they then infer that ws
think the house not well built”
On shopping: “We don’t miss
the weekly supermarketing,
though. Walking a mile to and
from the store Is more fun than
walking two miles in It Our
shopping center has a post
office, a stationer, an off-li
cense, ironmonger, butcher,
dairy, grocer, greengrocer, a
children’s cloth shop where you
buy knitting supplies, a lady's
outfitters where you take the
drycleaning, and two chemist*
both of which are closed on
Wednesday afternoons and Sun
days.”
On schools: “All day long all
three children are in school.
They leave at eight-thirty a.m.
Susan and Sarah (5-yea rold
twins) return at 3:45, Josi (8) at
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WILLIAM SIMS, “Man of the
Year” selected by the Whea
ton Chamber of Commerce,
has been a member of the
Chamber the last seven years
and was Its treasurer last
year. It was for his “consci
entious and dedicated efforts”
in this latter capacity that he
won the award. He is a past
president of the Wheaton Civi
tan Club and is a certified
public accountant
4:15. They have dinner (a full
three course meal for a shilling
a day per child) at school.
“. . . We have a few com
plaints about the school. They
do teach the children and the
children are happy there. This
County Council school has a par
ticularly good academic rating.
“If you have been concerned
about the equipment in the Ban
nockburn School, you should see
this one. It is a church build
ing that was erected in 1859, ac
cording to the legend on its
cornerstone. (Another legend is
that it has been condemned
since 1930.) It is one level,
though, with an outside door to
every class-room, so while it
may cave in on the children, it
is not a fire-trap. It is, in fact,
very quaint and seriously over
crowded. . .
“Jose is the only Schneider
man who can multiply and
divide British money. Even
more important she has learned
to eat neatly with knife and
fork. This she was taught by the
headmaster. Besides overseeing
the table manners of some two
hundred children, this saintly
man teaches spelling, grammar,
dramatics and mining. He also
gives the cane, handles the
money, arranges the music, and
attends to the usual administra
tive detail entailed in running a
school.
“It Is not true that the schools
have signs saying ‘parents keep
out.’ Parents are encouraged to
come to the school as often as
twice a year. . .
This once-a-life year will end
September 1 when we sail for
home. It will be six-day transi
tion back to 81.10 hamburgers,
PTA and friends. Who finally
took over leadin gthe Brownies?
Here It is done by maiden
aunts.”
Research Center
Predicted Here
The area near Route 240 be
tween Montrose rd. and Fred
erick is destined to become one
of the greatest scientific re
search centers In the country,
and perhaps the world, the
Montgomery County Chamber
of Commerce was told last
night.
Dr. Ellis Johnson, director of
the Operations Research Office
of Johns Hopkins University,
said five organizations In this
area, including his own, will
employ approximately 10,000
people within the next three
years. Their combined budgets
will total 8150 million annually,
he added.
Declaring that “we research
people like company,” Dr. John
son said nine additional re
search organizations are expect
ed to locate near the highway
soon.
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Potomac
Where There’s Smoke There’s Not Always Fire
By Cissy Morgan
Sentinel Correspondent
The attractive and fashionable
wife of a prominent Federal
Court Judge visited the Glen
Road farm of Judge and Mrs.
Richmond B. Keech recently for
“a day in the country” and was
indoctrinated In the art of
spreading manure.
Given specific Instructions as
to the engineering manipula
tions of the “spreader” they
started off from the stable down
to the meadow with Mrs. Keech
throttling the tractor.
Her friend, having changed
from city tweeds to the conven
tional Potomac “jeans,” was
perched atop the spreader in
proximity to the operating
levers.
They sauted forth and reached
their destination with operating
procedure going smoothly. Na
ture’s tonic was flying and the
load was rapidly disappearing.
Reapportionment Bill
Backed by Goldstein
State Comptroller Louis L.
Goldstein wants to make It
clear that he supports the re
apportionment bill now before
the Maryland General Assem
bly.
Goldstein expressed his views
in a letter to Mrs. Thomas G.
Casey, president of the Mont
gomery County League of
Women Voters.
Declaring that his position
about the measure apparently
has been questioned, the comp
troller stated firmly:
“This Is to state that I voted
for that plank (for reappor
tionment) In the Democratic
platform and I am In accord
with the legislation that Is now
pending in the General Assem
bly increasing the representa
tion of the larger counties of
Maryland, as well as Baltimore
City."
He added he made his posi
tion known at a November
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As the top manure disappeared
the steam from the “old” started
to rise. Mrs. “City Friend”
looked over her shoulder to
check operations and found a
cloud of smoke arising from the
hot fertilizer, where upon she
let out the cry, “Alice, Alice,
stop we’re on fire.”
As soon as she learned that
this was nature’s natural process
she regained her composure and
completed her mission in good
fashion.
Recent fox hunting casualties,
Val Wilson and Claude Owen
are both on the mend. Mr,
Wilson returned to the office on
February 22 and Mr. Owen is
now at home and able to move
about the house. He says he is
retiring from fox hunting, but
those that know him feel that
he will always be there, maybe
not physically, but he will be
there.
The February 20 hunt sched
meeting of the county Press As
sociation.
“If the league wishes to know
my position on any other
matters of importance to Mont
gomery County and the State,”
Goldstein said, "I wish you
would inquire of me and I will
be glad to state my position
without equivocation, in the
future as I have in the past.”
Six Officers
Take Course
Six Montgomery County po
licemen will start to school soon
in a special training program at
the State Police Academy, Pikes
ville, where they will be taught
firearms techniques, criminal
law, crime investigations, etc.
Enrolled for the February 29
class are Pvt. Frank Billings,
Richard.T. Russell and Robert
F. Scheele. Signed up for the
class that starts March 7 are
Pvts. Alfred Allegra, Robert E.
Denell and Edward Ganley.
uled to meet at the Rexholm
Farm of the Preston King’s was
cancelled due to poor weather.
Mrs. King’s brother, Mr. Ray
Larcombe and his family had
come up from Warrenton, Va„
for the weekend to be on hand
for the meet. “Stonewall Jack
son,” the Larcombe family
Bassett was also a house guest
of the Kings.
The P-TA dance held at Ken
wood Country Club on February
19 was a huge success. Chair
>> man of the party Toni Madert,
n and her committee, were respon
• stole for the complete sellout of
1 tickets, the attractive table dec
s orations, and a big night of fun.
3 Ellen Ditzler was the teen
* age hostess of the week and in
t vited her friends to a “Gay 20’s”
t party at her River Road home,
! on February 21. The flapper
! style predominated. Kay de
Franceaux caught the eye of
all, dressed in an authentic
dress of the period, topped with
a purple ostrich plume stoll,
and wearing blue false eye
lashes.
Ray Little and Cherry Barr
were the Charleston contest’
winners, and Byron Maddox
provided the musical entertain
ment with his new electric
guitar.
The Potomac Pony Club Is
having a “dinner and fun night"
for members and their guests
on February 26 at the Kennels.
Dinner will start at 7:00 p.m.
Tillie Coleman is the entertain
ment chairman of the Club this
year.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Keppler
gave a cocktail party on Febru
ary 21 to honor two new neigh
bors, Mr. and Mrs. John Dicker
man who have recently moved
to Bronson dr„ and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Wilson, River rd.,
neighbors of the Kepplers. The
party was originally scheduled
for Valentine’s Day, but the
guests were literally snowed
out. This past Sunday’s snow
started too late to catch the
guests before they got up the
Keppler Driveway. Twenty
couples made it, met the new
neighbors, and feasted their
eyes upon Ruth Keppler’s Spring
decorations of yellow tulips and
white lilacs, and all were obliv
ious to the snow falling outside.
I’ve heard that... Lyn Carroll
Is visiting her parents in John
son City, Tenn the last word
heard from Cmdr. and .Jlrs.
William Bullis came from yMRca
. . . Florida vacationers lntKde
the George
Joe Kreegers, who left together
yesterday, the Jack OyiersTfho
are at Ft. Lauderdale an<Tslr.
and Mrs. Bill Rapley wh(Clift
t, last week ... the A1 Aftjah
i- Spring Horse Management
f Course Is slated for April 2jj*23
i- and 24. It is sponsored by the
. Arabian Horse Owners Foundap
l tion . . , Frank Harris is recu
. perating from a recent heart
’ attack. He is at Suburban Hoe
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• the Howard Kacys came from
■ Rio de Janeiro. They are due
: in Salvador March 4.
Marty and Ollie Carr enter,
tained about 75 of the neighbor
hood residents at a predance
cocktail party last Friday, •fhe
Carr’s newly decorated home, on
Edison rd., was jammed with
people on their way to Kenwood
Club to the P-TA Dance. The
house, in fact, was so newly
decorated that some of the jgjnt
was still wet
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