Election
Interest
Heightens
The hum of political ac
tivity in Rockville mounted
this week as candidates for
city hall and their backers
girded for election day, April
25.
First to file for office was
civil engineer David Rosoff, city
council candidate, who lives at
827 Bowie rd., Rockville. Rosoff,
37, issued this statement after
filing,
"I have taken this step be
cause I firmly believe the city
council should more nearly re
flect the attitudes of the entire
community. I am running in
dependently of any organized
group. . .”
Clear implication was that
Rosoff has decided to buck en
trenched Citizens for Good Gov
ernment power that has con
trolled the last three city elec
tions. CGG sprang from popu
lous Twinbrook which is older
than Rosoff’s neighborhood of
Hungerford Towne.
Rosoff’s hat in the ring lent
credence to rumored grounds
well of support for an opposi
tion slate to oppose five candi
dates endorsed last week by
CGG. More candidates—includ
ing other independents—are ex- J
pected to file for the council or
for mayor by the deadline,
April 1.
Already announced are Mayor
Alexander J. Greene (for
mayor) Councilmen Frank A.
Ecker and Achilles M. Tuchtan
(for council), Glenn J. Koep
enick and Ralph E. Williams
(also for council).
The five CGG-endorsed can
didates and Rosoff as well an
nounced formation of campaign
committees this week. For
Rosoff are Dorothy V. Cooley,
campaign manager, Henry J.
Giauque, treasurer, and James
T. Hughes, Charles W. Mallon,
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David Rosoff
Jr., Woodrow W. Steverson,
Frank Bliss, jr., Mary Mc-
Queeney, John D. McElroy,
William E. Wood and Olive Mil
gate.
Rosoff can count on Influen
tial support from Bliss, Influ
ential county democrat, Stever
son, president of the Hunger
ford Towne Civic Association,
and from McElroy, head of the
city’s planning commission
At the same time, Edward
J. Mack was named chairman
of a 15-man coordinating com
mittee mapping the camapigns
of the CGG-indorsed slate. Jean
Everhart, president of the Twin
brook Citizens Association, is
secretary of the group.
The committee has called a
special meeting tomorrow with
the candidates to iron out de
tails of campaign strategy.
The committee includes citi
zens from virtually every sec
tion of Rockville. One of their
jobs is to advise more than 50
Rockville business, civic and
social organizations that the
candidates are ready and will
ing to appear at public meet
ings.
In Wheaton
Early Start
Is Due on
New Library
Last obstacle blocking con
struction of a new Wheaton re
gional library was removed
Tuesday when the county pur
chased the last holdout tract
of land at Areola and Georgia
aves.
County Attorney Alfred H.
Carter said Mrs. Sadie Fritz,
66, finally consented to sell her
57,000 square feet for $50,800.
Condemnation proceedings were
to start against Mrs. Fritz to
day.
The 1960-61 county budget
contains $363,450 needed to
build the library which, accord
ing to county budget officer
Newton Butts, will be “com
parable to the Silver Spring
library.”
The Wheaton library was the
sole survivor this year in a
five-year library construction
program which ex-county man
ager Melvin L. Reese recom
mended be moved back one
year, pending adoption by the
council of a master plan of li
braries.
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NEAR THIS SPOT on the stairs of a Gaithers
burg home they found the body of Mrs.
Myrtle Lyles, of Gaithersburg, after three
Fund Drive Launched
For Camp Echo Lake
A $20,000 goal has been set for the annual fund-rais
ing drive for Camp Echo Lake, summer haven for hun
dreds of Montgomery County children who otherwise
would face drab vacation prospects.
The campaign, of which Stanley Betts has been
In Rockville from P. 1
Campus Type
Zone Okayed
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commodities such as drugs.
• Printing, lithographic, blue
printing and similar uses.
Minutes before passage of the
bill the council admitted motels
into the special exemption uses
of the zone. Such uses are de
cided upon by the Board of
Appeals rather than the council.
Motels as a permitted use
was featured in a similar
though less restrictive zone pro
posed by developer Morris
Kanfer, which was voted down
immediately after the Planning
Commission’s proposal was ac
cepted.
In a letter to the council
Kanfer stated he sought zoning
in 1958 for a motel at the junc
tion of Rt. 28 and the National
Pike, but withdrew his request
when the council indicated it
had no desire to zone the land
commerciaL
Later he submitted his plan
for the industrial zone includ
ing motels as a permitted use.
Shortly after he submitted
his plan the Planning Commis
sion came up with its own pro
posal noticeably lacking provi
sions for a motel, until Coun
cilman Joseph C. Rodgers,
Tuesday, questioned the omis
sion.
The council then voted to in
clude motels along with office
buildings in the special excep
tion uses of the zone.
In other action the council
authorized City Attorney Wil
liam A. Linthicum to write the
County Council asking county
cessation of taxation in Meadow
Hills which is incorporated in
to Rockville.
The area is now being dually
taxed by Rockville and the
county for recreation and for
planning. The county, since
the area was annexed into
Rockville, provides neither serv
ice.
The recreation tax, Linthicum
said, can be dropped by county
council action. The other will
have to go before the State
legislature when it convenes
next winter.
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fires in separate parts of Mrs. Lyles’ home
broke out simultaneously. —Hershey Photo.
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named chairman, opened aus
piciously last week when $1325
was received from donors
whose names were placed on
the camp's first honor roll 're
port. Eight organizations and
two individuals were listed as
the first contributors.
Funds raised in the campaign
will be used for operation of
the camp, situated in Frederick
County, and for amortization
of the mortgage on the camp
(See Photograph on Page B-10)
property, which is being pur
chased by a non-profit corpora
tion headed by Thomas L.
Coleman. According to present
plans, the camping season will
open early in July.
Preparing to open for its
sixth season, the camp plans
five two- week sessions for
underprivileged children, with
the first four for white chil
dren and the fifth for Negro
youngsters. The young camp
ers will be chosen on the basis
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Bankers To Meet
Group 2 of the Maryland
Bankers Association, embracing
Montgomery, Carroll, Frederick,
Howard and Washington coun
ties, will conduct a regional
meeting at the Peter Pan In in
Urbana on April 20.
of recommendations from Juve
nile Court, the Board of Edu
cation, the Family Service and
the Health and Welfare Depart
ments.
Ten cabins are available at
the 127-acre site, which afford
ed vacations last year for some
650 county children. Betts ex
pressed hope that at least that
number can be entertained this
year, and urged county resi
dents to support the drive tj
assure fulfillment of the objec
tive.
Contributions can be mailed
to Camp Echo Lake, Post Office
Box 5825, Bethesda 14, Betts
said.
Among major gifts received
during the first week of the
drive were contributions of SSOO
each from the Bethesda Ki
wanis Club and the Bethesda
Civitan Club. Other contribu
tors included the Women’s
Club of Chevy Chase, the Be
thesda Ki-Wives, Cub Scout
Pack 776, Colesville Baptist
! Chapel, J. M. Hadley and Alice
i S. C. Merchant.
SENTINEL
Thursday, March 24, 1960
Mrs. Lyles
Found Dead
In Home
Mrs. Myrtle Young Lyles, 50,
of 13 Hutton st., Gaithersburg,
was found dead Sunday after
noon in the smoke-filled interior
of her home.
County fire inspectors said
that evidence of fires had been
found in the basement, on the
stairway leading to the second
floor, and on an upstairs imp
ress.
An investigation to determine
if Mrs. Lyles started the fires
to take her life was started
Monday. Meanwhile, a post
mortem examination at Subur
ban Hospital indicated Mrs.
Lyles died from carbon monox
ide poisoning.
A hospital physician said that
internal specimens have been
sent to Baltimore for study by
toxicologists. Results will not
be known for 10 days or two
weeks, they said Monday.
Firemen found Mrs. Lyles
slumped on the stairway of her
home after neighbors reported
smoke coming from the house
at mid-afternoon. She was pro
nounced dead hy county medi
cal examiner Dr. Frank J. Bro
schart.
Fire inspector William H.
Berry said waste paper and rags
had been stuffed under - a base
ment fuel oil tank and ignited.
He also said the fire near Mrs.
Lyles’ body on the stairway had
eaten through several of the
stair treads when firement ar
rived.
Dr. Broschart recalled that he
sent Mrs. Lyles to Suburban
Hospital about four years ago
after she had taken an over
dose of barbiturates. She was
released in her own custody, he
said.
Mrs. Lyles, a native of Rock
ville, was divorced from her
husband some years ago, police
said. A married daughter, Bar
bara, lives in Virginia, they
said. The dead woman lived
alone.
Long-time acquaintances said
Mrs. Lyles was raised by the
late Hugh Carter, and his wife,
now hospitalized, of Washing
ton Grove. She graduated from
Gaithersburg High School
around 1928, they said, and
went into nurse’s training at
Garfield Hospital ift 1 Washing
ton for a short time.
According to Norman Jacobs,
of Gaithersburg, former plant
manager of the Thomas can
nery in Gaithersburg, Mrs.
Lyles was chief accountant for
his firm for around 20 years.
She worked for the C&P Tele
phone Company for some time,
friends said, before becoming
bookkeeper for O’Donnell’s Be
thesda restaurant from Janu
ary, 1956, until October, 1958.
Rape Victim
Tells Police
Of Attack
County police this week in
tensified their search for a
man who broke into the home
of a Kensington housewife
early Monday, forced her to
submit to him and then made
his escape.
Capt. Kenneth W. Watkins,
chief of detectives, described
the assailant in a special look
out as between 2b and 40 years
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of age, a Negro, about five feet,
10 inches tall, with a muscular
chest and very thick lips. He
was believed to be wearing a
zipper jacket at the time of the
attack, Capt. Watkins said.
Several suspects were grilled
and released, but Capt. Watkins
said he had a lead on another
man believed to fit the descrip
tion. He declined to release
further information.
If apprehended, the man
faces a capital burglary offense
charge of rape and felony
charges of sodomy and bur
glary.
Police reconstructed the
crime this way: the assailant
apparently entered the victim’s
home through a sliding garage
door that had not been fully
closed. The woman’s husband
was at work.
Entering the basement, tho
attacker then removed part of
the house fuse box, cutting off
all electricity.
The man crept upstairs to
where the 41-year-old woman
was asleep in a bedroom. Her
four-year-old son slept in a
room nearby. Waking her, the
man twisted his victim’s arm
and threatened to kill her and
her son if she cried out.