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THE OPENING CEREMONY of Rockville’s
Centennial celebrations was held Thursday
at the Civic Center, when Governor J. Mil
lard Tawes (center) was the main speaker.
He is seen admiring the first stock certifi
ln Rockville
City’s Centennial
Fete Is Kicked Off
Rockville observed its 100th
birthday Thursday as more
than 100 state, county and city
dignitaries gathered to hear
Governor J. Millard Tawes
praise Rockville for its enthus
iasm, progress, and prosperity.
The ceremonies, commemo
rating the incorporation of
Rockville on March 10, 1860,
kicked off a year of pageantry,
parades, contests, and exhibi
tions.
"I appreciate all you have
done towards progress and
prosperity,” Tawes told city
officials.
“I only hope other areas
over the state will catch some
of your enthusiasm so that in
due time we may point with
pride to Maryland as the first
state of the nation,” Tawes con
tinued.
Praising Rockville for avoid
ing “suburban sprawl” Tawes
said, “Rockville . . . has shown
a remarkable awareness of the
Importance of planning and dur
ing the past decade the city
has made provisions for an
orderly growth „ and develop
ment in the years ahead.”
Mayor Alexander J. Greene
defined the objective of the
year’s festivities to “educate
ourselves and our children to
the values that go into build
ing a community.”
Describing city government
as the base of our democratic
society, Greene said he hoped
the year would develop a “deep
recognition of our inheritance
and responsibility toward the
city government.”
Guests attending the cere
monies included Congressman
John R. Foley and state legis
lators Margaret C. Schwein
haut, Charles W. Woodward,
and J. Grahame Walker. Judge
Stedman Prescott, president of
Rockville Centennial. Inc., in
troduced Gov. Tawes.
Greene purchased the first of
1500 non-profit shares of Rock
ville Centennial. Inc., stock
from J. Hodge Smith, vice
president.
Smith estimated the coropora
tion will need between $20,000
to $25,000 from the shares
which will be sold to the public
and bought back with proceeds
of the various events. Any
profits will go to a charitable
or civic organization. Smith
said.
A historical pageant with a
cast of 400 has been set for the
last week In August, Smith
said.
The costumed pageant which
will depict the history of Rock
ville from the time of Indians
up to the present, will be pre
sented outdoors, probably on
the Richard Montgomrey High
School football field.
The professional pageantdi
reeting team of French and
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Maryhelen Sensabaugh will
write the pageant. The Sensa
baugh’s will arrive June 1 from
Florida to direct the pageant
and the other summer festive
ties.
Other events tentatively plan
ned for the summer to com
memorate the centennial are:
• An antique auto meet.
• A beauty-queen contest.
• At least a half-dozen pa
rades to be spaced throughout
the summer.
• Historical exhibits at the
Civic Center and in local store
windows.
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Alexander Greene
5 Named to Slate for City Election Due in April
Rockville’s mayor and two city council
men are among five candidates backed for
the city election April 25 by a nominating
convention held last Friday under the
sponsorship of Citizens Committee for Good
Government.
All but one—Glenn J. Koepenick—have prior
connections with CGG, the city’s largest political
bloc that swept into power In 1954.
The other four members of the slate are in
cumbents Mayor Alexander J. Greene and Coun
cilmcn Frank A. Ecker and Achilles M. Tuchtan.
The fifth candiate is Ralph E. Williams.
Two members of the present council, Joseph
C. Rodgers and John M. Rausch were not candi
dates for reelection.
The five-man slate was winnowed in three
ballots from a total of 10 nominees. About 200
persons attended the convention—to which 62
heads of city groups were invited—held at the
Civic Center.
None on the slate have filed, nor have other,
independent candidates. Filing deadline is mid
night, April 1. All candidates must present a
list with names of 100 qualified city voters who
have pledged their intention to vote. Write-in
candidates are not required to compile any
names.
Mayor Greene, 37, was elected to the Council
In 1954, was re-elected in 1956 and was elected
mayor in 1958. He is an examiner for the Bureau
of the Budget, chairman of the Montgomery
County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal
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cate sold to Mayor Alexander J. Greene by
J. Hodge Smith, left, vice president of Rock
ville Centennial, Inc. On right is Judge Sted
man Prescott, president —Staff Photo.
Butcher Is Named
Acting Manager
The County Council tapped
Public Works head Mason A.
Butcher to take over for
Reese as acting county man
ager until a successor can be
found.
Butcher has filled the job
before. The last time was in
1954 when Edward Beall re
signed. Then, as now. Butcher
stepped into the picture as
the council was te start
hammering out its annual
budget.
Butcher, 46, has been pub
lic works director since 1950.
While he devotes his atten
tions to Reese’s job, his assis
tant, Joseph C Kordella, will
run the public works division.
Butcher will not get extra
pay.
Frank Ecker
In Pinneberg
Visit to ‘Sister City' 1
Gets Off to Fast Start
(The Sentinel recently sent its editor, Roger B. Far
quhar, and Staff Photographer• Hugh Gillespie to Pinne
berg, Germany, for a story and picture report on Rock
ville’s “Sister City” and its people. The following is the
fourth in a series of stories on the subject.)
By Roger B. Farquhar
Sentinel Editor
The expression “Sister City” becomes “Schwesterstadt”
in German but we were soon to learn the deeper meaning
of the cultural exchange program that has been going on
between Rockville and Pinneberg as we began our excit
ing four-day visit.
After the royal welcome at
the airport we were driven to
the Park Hotel, Pinneberg’s
best, where we checked in. Din
ner, we were informed, would
be at 7 p.m. And what a din
ner it turned out to be!
The town’s top officials and
some of its leading citizens were
there. Places had been set at
the banquet table for 14. After
a round of formal introductions,
we exchanged the first of sev
eral toasts to the Sister City
program in fine German wine.
“We are very happy with our
relations with Rockville (pro
nounced Rock-veel throughout
our stay),” Herr Goldschmidt,
For Congress
Probe Won’t Deter
Taylor Candidacy
Claude A. Taylor, Chevy
Chase resident who is run
ning for Congress, said
Tuesday he would remain in
the campaign despite what
he called a “political move” to
cause him to withdraw.
Rep. Francis E. Waiter (a-
Pa.) confirmed reports that
“some sort of inquiry has been
launched” in connection with
Taylor’s administration of the
House Folding Room, on Capitol
Hill, from 1955 to 1959.
The inquiry, it was learned,
was launched about two weeks
ago by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the General
Accounting Office. Both agen
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Achilles Tuchtan
League and has liyed in Rockville nine years.
Greene, his wife and four children live at
11 Laird st., Rockville. He is a graduate of
City College of New York.
Ecker is a 38-year-old native of Wisconsin
and, like Greene, is an examiner for the Bureau
of the Budget. He was elected to the council in
1956 and ran unopposed In 1958. He holds a
doctorate in political science from the University
of Michigan. He lives at 617 Marcia ct. and has
four children.
Tuchtan is the newest member of the coun
cil. He was appointed last September to fill the
vacancy created by the resignation of Charles
W. Prettyman. Now president of the Richard
Montgomery High School P-TA, Tuchtan was
last year’s winner of Hungerford Towne Citizens’
Association good citizenship award.
He also is former president of the Rock
ville Boys Baseball Association. He is employed
by the General Services Administration, is mar
ried and lives with his wife and two children at
1920 Gainsboro rd.
Oldest of the candidates is Ralph E. Wil
liams, of 1008 Crawford dr. Williams is 51 and
a partner in the firm of R. P. Clarke Co., Wash
ington wholesale stationers who deal largely
in government contracts.
He also has lived in the city the longest—
-16% years. A former member of the board of
CGG, Wiliams was the city’s first recreation
committee chairman and presently serves as
chairman of the Civic Center Commission. He is
A Century of Service
the deputy mayor of Pinneberg
said. As the city’s official
translator, Gustav Allersmeier,
interpreted, Goldschmidt went
on;
“We welcome you as repre
sentatives of our Sister City
and It is wonderful to have
this visit from our American
friends.”
The ritual of the toast in Pin
neberg is worth describing. At
first, the waiter places small
wine glasses in front of every
one. Then he brings the bottle
and pours a small amount in
the glass of the host, or most
important person present. Not
until the wine is sampled and
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cies, however, declined com
ment.
Rep. Walter, head of the
Democratic Patronage Commit
tee, said he did not believe the
matter was a proper concern
for his committee. He conceded
that the probe of Taylor, a
Democrat, had been informally
called to his attention as com
mittee chairman but empha
sized that in view of the fact
that Taylor no longer was em
ployed as head of the folding
room, the committee had no
further responsibility in the
matter.
He said the General Account
ing Office, which handles fed
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Glenn Koepenlck
a graduate of the University of California and
has three children.
Koepenick, 39, owned and operated Abode
Hardware store in Rockville for seven years,
selling out to the Poch brothers last month. He
is former president of the Rockville Chamber
of Commerce and headed up the Rockville De
velopment Council for two years.
Koepenick Is a director of County Federal
Savings and Loan. He has built homes in the
area under the name of White Rock, Inc. He
lives with his wife and three children at 135
South Adams st.
The candidates got their 15-plank platform
this week. Scope of the platform is perhaps the
widest the city has seen. There were 10 planks
In the 1958 platform.
Chief planks this year:
• Under the new master plan, exercise Judi
cious control over apartment development: sup
port low density housing; attract light Industry
and commercial zoning compatible with the
city’s residential character.
• Cooperate with the School Board to es
tablish a junior college in Rockville.
• Work to improve commuter services and
highways.
• Give fullest support to state-wide urban
renewal referendum this year.
• Eliminate all BAO grade crossings in the
city limits.
• Hold down taxes to level consistent with
planned public works and maintainence of ade
quate public services.
Final Reese Plea:
‘Don’t Hike T axes’
Schools Hit
Funds Cuts
By Reese
Approval by the county
council of school budget cuts
recommended by outgoing
County Manager M. L. Reese
“can result only in unwar
ranted delays, overcrowding and
double sessions,” the county
school board said this week.
Reese, in one of his final acts,
urged councilmen to whack
$510,000 in operating expenses
off the 1960-61 budget proposed
by school heads. He also rec
ommended cutting $B.l million
out of money the school board
said it needed for new schools.
Reese’s proposed capital budg
et cuts, the school board said
in a statement, “must be based
on misconception or misinforma
tion.”
Board members were particu
larly caustic about a reference
in Reese’s budget message in
which the manager said he was
urging elimination of $300,00
that the board had requested
for planning new administrative
facilities to be located at Carver
High School.
The money in question, they
said, had been requested for ac
quisition of future sites for new
schools—not for the reason set
forth by Reese.
“It makes one wonder wheth
er Mr. Reese even read our
budget,” one school board mem
ber commented.
In another instance, school
board members said, Reese said
in his budget that he was rec
ommending approval of plan
ning and land funds for certain
new schools but he actually ap
proved only land funds, delet
ing planning funds altogether.
“We have firm plans to get
four new schools under con
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Ralph Williams
Outgoing Manager Proposes
Heavy School Budget Cuts
By a Staff Reporter
County taxpayers would continue to pay the current
$2.48 basic levy to finance a record $75.7 million budget
recommended by County Manager M. L. Reese for the fis
cal year beginning July 1,
The proposed expenditures represent an $8 million in
crease over this year’s outlay.
However, a $145 million boost in the county's assess
able base makes it possible to pay for the additional spend
ing without increasing the tax rate, Reese explained in his
budget message to the County Council last week.
While most of the added funds would go to the school
system, Reese made substantial cuts in the Board of Edu
cation’s money requests. These included slashes of $B.l
million in school construction and $510,000 in operating
expenses.
Funds for 5
New Schools
Disapproved
Construction funds for five
of the 10 new schools pro
posed by the School Board
for the coming year have
been eliminated by County
Manager M. L. Reese In his
recommended budget for the
1960-61 fiscal year.
The manager also:
• Rejected the Board of Edu
cation’s request for funds to
plan and buy a site for a new
junior college, and to air-condi
tion the Junior College Library.
• Reduced the board’s re
quest for furniture and equip
ment replacement by neatly
half a million dollars.
• Deleted the board’s pro
posal for money to place 1
employes on a 12-month basis.
• Slashed $300,000 from the
board’s budget for planning a
new administration building at
the Carver High School site.
• Cut in half the board’s
SIO,OOO request to continue the
classroom television program.
The five schools for which
construction funds were elimi
nated are Hillandale Heights
Elementary, West Bethesda
Junior High, Hollywood Junior
High, Parkland Junior High and
Wheaton-Kensington Senior
High.
In each case, Reese recom
mended that only planning and
land funds be appropriated. He
advised the County Council con
struction money should be allo
cated In future years when sites
have been obtained and the
School Board is ready to go
ahead with construction.
“I am quite sure,” he said In
his budget message, “this re
duction will not hamper the
school construction program. It
should also work to the coun
ty’s advantage when we attempt
to market bonds.”
There is no need, he added,
to show in the budget an “enor
mous” appropriation that "isn’t
going to be spent.”
He also emphasized the Im
portance of “co-operative
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Another Sentinel ’First*
New Food Section
The Sentinel’s big, regular
new Food Section is the first
of its kind ever published
regularly by a Montgomery
County newspaper.
It has been carefully tailor
ed to benefit our readers, not
the sprawling metropolitan
area, but those bent on shop
ping right here in our com
munity.
We believe that county
housewives will be eager to
examine local shopping bar
gains and general food news,
keyed especially to their In
terests and neighborhood.
You will want to make a
habit of reading The Sen
tinel’s food section every
Thursday morning before do
ing your shopping. No longer
will you have to wade
through page after page of
advertisements to find bar
gains at your nearby food
stores. Your community store
will be advertising in The
Sentinel’s compact food sec
tion.
Weather Outlook
Temperatures will dip 8 to 10
degrees below normal highs,
lows of 56 and 37 over the week
end but warming Monday.
Melted snow will equal one-half
inch precipitation.
Because of a court decision
last week, the manager’s reduc
tions can be restored only by
a 5-2 Council vote. Judge
Thomas M. Anderson ruled that
last year’s Council resolution
permitting additions to the
county manager’s school budg
et recommendations by e 4-3
majority was invalid.
In last year’s budget, Reeae
transmitted the School Board’s
requests to the Council with
out any changes.
The manager again recom
mended that $25,000 be appro
priated to set up an Economic
Development Commission. At
though this amount was ap
proved by the Council last year,
Reese said he had delayed
urging that the Commission be
established until the subdivision
and other regulations affecting
industrial development be
changed to enable such an agen
cy to work effectively.
“Specifically,” he told the
Council, "I feel strongly that
some method must be worked
out to permit outlying Indus
trial sites to be served with
sewer and wafer without hav
ing the Interested Industry bear
a disproportionate share of the
cost.
‘There Is no point In estab
lishing a Commission to attract
industry to the county unless
we have a complete and well
coordinated plan for providing
utilities to these industrial
sites.”
He added that "we would now
have one of the best scientific
and research industries in the
country” if such a plan were in
effect. He said the Industry to
which he referred has agreed
to wait in the hope that the new
regulations will be adopted
soon.
The manager also said he was
not recoj amending any new
funds for setting up storm
drainage districts to cope with
the problem of open drainage
ditches pending a Council deci
sion to proceed with such plans.
Last year’s budget included a
$25,000 item for a study of the
matter.
To enclose all of the open
drainage ditches could cost up
to S9O million, he said, adding
that such a program probably
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But our food section won’t
be confined only to food ad-'
vertislng. Tips on nutrition,
new recipes, hints on house
hold care and many other fea
tures of interest have been
selected to contribute to your
gracious, suburban way of
life.
Readers are encouraged to
write The Sentinel’s food edi
tor for informations on ways
to prepare special dishes, the
“how to's” of gardening and
canning, or to contribute
their own, special recipes.
Take advantage of The Sen
tinel's food section. Use it!
We’re putting it out for you.
In this issue, we offer the ad
vertisements of the biggest
food chains serving your
neighborhood. And we plan
to expand the food section
rapidly.
This is simply another in
a long line of “firsts” that
The Sentinel is achieving as it
grows in booming suburban
Montgomery County.