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Start Here
Congressional approval of
pending appropriation bills
would permit the start of
construction on the new Bu
reau of Standards quarters
at Gaithersburg by next Jan
uary or February, the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce was
told this week.
Robert S. Walleigh, the bu
reau’s associate director for ad
mlnistrat'nn. sa ! d at a luncheon
meeting of the chamber at the
Rockville Plaza Motor Hotel
that both houses of Congress
have given preliminary an
proval to bills calling for an
initial construction outlay of
$23.5 millions. He said bureau
official are optimistic about the
prospects for final passage.
The funds. Walleigh said,
would be used to construct and
equip the first three buildings
at the installation, which will
occupy a 550-acre tract west of
Route 240 at Gaithersburg. They
would Include an engineering
mechanical laboratory, a radi
ation physics center and a
boiler plant.
Meanwhile. Walleigh re
vealed. the estimated cost of
construction for (he complete
center has risen from an orig
inal SB6 million to $94 million.
According to present nlans. he
said, the bureau will ■ emnloy
about 3000 persons- 600 more
than are on the payroll of the
Washington facility.
In describing, brieflv. the bu
reau’s functions. Walleigh said
the agency is faced with con
stant demands for the develop
ment of new standards of meas
urement. The atomic a<*e and
the international pro
gram have added to them, he
noted.
One of the features n' the
rsdi°Hon nhvsics renter will be
I !fhnr*orv for the orodin*'on
of atomic n-i-tVles “"Tester
than anv sn"ee now 'n exist
ence.” secerning to Wlleirh.
Twilns 't the “most danger
ous” section of the center, he
said It would he constructed
56 feet below ground and sur
rounded bv a concrete wall to
afford maximum protection.
The engineering mechanical
laboratory will include equip
ment capable of measuring
missile thrust “far greater than
the thrust powering any missile
in use today.” Accurate meas
urement of the rockets’ thrust,
he explained, is essential to con
trol the space vehicles.
Because of “hazards” and
lack of space, these facilities
could not be developed in a
metropolitan area, Walleigh as
serted.
Facilities to be built later, ac
cording to Walleigh, will be
“seven or eight” general labora
tories and an administration
building housing, among other
departments, a 200,000-volume
library and two auditoriums for
the use of scientists and others
participating in meetings under
the bureau's sponsorship.
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TURKISH DELIGHT is mirrored on the facet
of these three gentlemen from Ankara. Tur
key, when they encountered a pretty fellow
eountryman while obeerving Monday’* mu
nicipal election in Rockville. The girl to
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A Century of Service
Cost: $35,91
School a - Kjuaaitioning
Experiment Is Under Way
A $35,900 item for the first
classroom air conditioning in
Montgomery County public
schools was included in an $882,-
400 contract awarded by the
Board of Education Monday
night for construction of a 19-
room addition to the Wheaton
High School.
The contract went to Hill and
Kimmel, Inc., lowest of 12 bid
ders on the project with a cost
estimate of $846,557 exclusive of
the air conditioning equipment. -
Completion of the addition is ex- <
pected by April 15, 1961. j
Inclusion of the air condi- j i
Only 10 in State
Three County Students
Win Merit Scholarships
Three Montgomery Coun
ty high school students have
won national merit scholar
ships—two from Bethesda-
Chevy Chase and one from
Wheaton.
They are: Phillip H. Bowlas
and Gordon S. Huffman, jr„
Bethesria - Chevy Chase, and
Pauline H. Tesler, of Wheaton.
Only 10 students In Maryland
won the coveted awards.
Bowles, 4605 Hunt Ave., has
won the scholarship award of
the Aero Club of Washington
and will use it to attend the
California Institute of Tech
nology, where he plans to ma
jor in physics.
Huffman, 5810 Cromwell dr.,
has won the award of the Sears
Foundation, which he vrtll use
at Capital University to study;
humanities In the pre-ministry j
course.
Miss Tesler. 11607 Gail pi., j
plans to attend Radcliffe Col-
CD Sirens
To Sound
On Tuesday
Civil defense sirens will be
sounded Tuesday at 2 p.m.
but don’t take cover unless
you want to practice.
And, civil defense officials
hasten to add, it’s a good
idea to practice.
All radio and TV stations
will leave the air promptly
at 2 p.m. except, of course,
for Conelrad—64o and 1240
on the AM dial. President
Eisenhower will address the
nation on Conelrad between
2 and 2:30 p.m.
CD officials are asking the
public to note the signals—
an alert signal at 2 p.m. and
a take cover signal at 2:15 i
and take stock of their cir
cumstances. Traffic will not
be stopped but those wishing
to simulate actual emergen
cy conditions in their own
homes and businesses are
urged to do so.
Aysen Elsi, 16, who i* an exchange student
at Richard Montgomery High School and
also Junior Mayor of Rockville. The Turk
ish visitors, from left, are G. Boro, Ismet
Erustan, and A. Zoga. —Staff Photo.
tioning item was recommended
by Dr. C. Taylor Whittier, su
perintendent of schools, as a
“pilot” project to determine the
cost of operation of the cooling
system.
Dr. Whittier noted that Whea
ton as a major center for sum
mer school classes would be ah
appropriate testing ground to
determine the cost and ex
pediency of air conditioning in
the schools.
The addition will be built with
funds from a 1959-60 appropria
tion of $1,285,900, leaving $290.-
943 available for construction of
a gymnasium at the school, ac
cording to school officials.
lege and major in psychology.
These three are among the
1000 In the nation who have
won merit scholarships through
the National Merit Scholarship
program. The scholarships are
financial awards for four years
of college with annual stipends
ranging from SIOO to a maxi
mum of SISOO, depending on the
individual student’s need and
the costs at the college of his
choice.
Award winners were chosen
from the 10,000 finalists an
nounced In February. Montgom
ery County had 54 seniors
named as finalists who were
awarded “Certificates of Merit”
The National Merit Scholarship
Corporation, sponsors of the
program, stressed that “each
finalist is considered to be
academically and intellectually
qualified to be named a Merit
Scholar and only lack of funds
prevents awarding every one a
Merit Scholarship.”
Death by Razor
Ruled Suicide
County medical examiner Dr.
Frank Broschart issued a cer
tificate of suicide Tuesday for
a 73-year-old man who, appar
ently despondent over illness,
slashed his throat and both
wrists with a straight razor.
Dr. Broschart pronounced
Frank Jewett dead at 1110
Maple ave., the home of his son,
Walter Jewett, 34. The elder
Jewett was found by his daugh
ter-in-law lying on the basement
floor.
RMHS Glee Club
Offers Concert
A spring concert will be
offered by the Richard Mont
gomery High School Senior
Glee Club Sunday at 4 p.m. on
the lawn of the Rockville Civic
Center.
Works of Bach and Pales
trina, folk songs by Brahams,
and a medley of songs from
“My Fair Lady’ will be present
ed. John E. Preston is director.
Admission is free. If weather is
inclement, the concert will be
held in the gym of RMHS.
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DEATH WAS CHEATED Tuesday when Floyd Spong, jr., 5
(left), and his sister Terry, 4, were found unconscious
inside this icebox by their mother. Firemen at the scene
estimated that if several more minutes had elapsed, the
children would have suffocated. The children took out
the refrigerator shelves, climbed in and shut the door.
Icebox
T ragedy
Averted
Two Rockville children
escaped death by minutes Tues
day when their mother dis
covered them unconscious in
side a basement refrigerator.
The children arc Vicky and
Floyd Spong, jr., 4 and 5 years
old respectively. They are the
children of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
W. Spong, of 628 Lincoln ave.,
in the Maryvale section of the
city.
The boy and his sister were
given oxygen by the Rockville
Volunteer Fire Department res
cue squad and were treated and
realeased from Suburban Hos
pital.
Mrs. Spong said the children
were playing in the house dur
ing the afternoon when she sud
denly noticed they were quiet.
She began a frantic search that
led to the unused refrigerator.
Seeing the refrigerator racks
had been taken out of the box
and laid on the floor, Mrs.
Spong jerked open the refrig
erator door and her children
rolled out, blue and uncon
scious.
The boy later told his mother
that he just wanted to see what
It was like in the icebox so he
and his sister climbed inside. It
was not clear how the refrig
erator door slammed shut.
Mrs. Spong said the refrigera
tor had not been running since
last summer when her mother
and father occupied living quar
ters In the basement.
In Rockvill*
Fire Drives 16 from Condemned Shanty
One man was burned seri
ously in a fire Sunday that
routed 16 persons from their
five-room, condemned shan
ty in Rockville.
Robert Woods, 38, of 909
Stonestreet ave., was admitted
to Suburban Hospital with mul
tiple burns to his head, back,
legs and arms.
Rockville Volunteer fireman
George R. Hathaway, 32, suf
fered burns to the left side of
his face but was not hospital
ized.
Fire started from an unat
tended kitchen stove, according
to fire inspectors. The house
is owned by Mrs. Emily Harri
day, 50. Mrs. Harriday told po
lice she lighted the wood-burn
A Century of Servici
Auto-Truck
Crash Fatal
To Man, 39
Lloyd Edward San bower.
39, of Boyds, was killed
Tuesday when a truck in
which he was a passenger
was struck by a car report
edly being driven on the wrong
side of the road at a hairpin
turn near White Grounds.
Arthur Emanuel Onley, 44, of
Barnesville, driver of the car,
was chargpl with manslaughter
by vehicle, failure to reduce
{speed approaching a curve, and
failing to drive right of the cen
ter of the road.
Onley was scheduled to face
charges in Rockville People's
Court June 21. He was unin
jured in the accident which oc
curred at about 4:45 p.m.
According to police, Sanbower
was sitting on the passenger s
seat of a pickup truck being
driven north on Rt. 117 by Wal
ter Payne Melvin, 51, of Boyds.
As the truck entered the turn,
police said, Onley’s car came
from Melvin’s left in the north
bound lane and struck the truck
head on. Melvin was bruised but
not seriously hurt
Albert James McMurty, 51, of
Barnesville, a passenger with
Onley, also escaped serious in
jury. Police at the scene said
they believed excessive speed in
the turn caused the accident.
The accident occurred during
intermittent heavy rains and the
concrete road was slippery, po
lice said.
ing stove at 5 a.m., before
breakfast, and then returned to
bed.
The blaze was discovered by
Charles Wilson, an npstairs
tenant. He roused other resi
dents and had neighbors call
the fire department.
At one point as they fought
the fire, firemen were told a
baby was still in the blazing
building. The report was false.
Only after the fire was nearly
out did they discover Woods
was burned. He was seated
on the ground, leaning against
a tree, unnoticed among the
milling crowd.
Flames from the Harriday
home spread to the roof of a
house being constructed next
door by John Harriday, son of
Mrs. Harriday. Firemen ex tin
CGG Slate Wins
In Light Voting
Physician Gives SIOO
To ‘Sister City ’ Fund
A Rockville physician, who once fled his native Hol
land to escape Nazi oppression, has lent generous support
to a program designed to promote greater understanding
between his new home country and that of his former
enemies.
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Schlp
per, of Spring Lake Park, were
listed this week as donors of
SIOO toward a fund being raised
to send two Richard Montgom
ery High School students to
Pinneberg, Germany, this sum
mer under an exchange pro
gram sponsored by the Rock
ville Sister City Committee. A
total of $328 has now been
raised toward the goal of
SIOOO.
An underlying reason for his
Interest In the program. Dr.
Schlpper told the Sentinel, Is
the fact he has personal knowl
edge of the benefits of Interna
tional exchange visits such ns
the one (imposed to Rockville's
Sister City.
Tn 1934. while a student in a
high school near Amsterdam,
he said, he was sent to Scotland
to live with a Scottish family
for three weeks as an'exchange
student. And in 1938. as a med
ical student, he was a group
leader for 12 students who were
sent to England under a similar
program.
“Thev were wonderful! exoe
rlences.” he said. “Much greater
understanding can be developed
when you live In a private home
than when von merely visit as
a tourist and stav In a hotel.”
He said be feels such visits
not only oromote international
understanding but afford "won
derful Individual benefits” to
the students involved.
Dr. Schlpper was studying as
an intern when Nazi forces In
vaded Holland and he worked
closely with the Dutch under
"i-nimd before escaning to
Prance. He eventually reached
where he resumed his
med'cal studies In a London
hospital.
Another form of exchange
proemm gave Dr. Schlpper his
oonortupttv to come to the
United States in 1945. when he
was awarded a Rockefeller
Foundation fellowship for com
pletion of his medical studies at
Johns Hopkins University.
After work with the United
Stn*es Public Health Service
and a tour of duty V the Air
Force, in which he J served as
a malor in the medical corns, he
established his practice in Rock
ville five years ago.
He feels the Sister City pro
gram Is “very worthwhile” and
that the Rockville students will
reap rich rewards from their
visit to Germany.
“Despite what happened in
the war,” he observed, "the
Germans are very wonderful
people.”
Pinneberg leaders associated
with the exchange program are
attempting to raise funds to fi
nance a September trip to Rock
ville for two of their own stu
dents, who will attend RMHS
for the 1960-61 school year.
Members of the Rockville
Teen-Center will hold a bene
fit dance at the Center Satur
guished that blaze but estimated
its damage at SIOOO. Mrs. Har
riday’s house suffered an esti
mated SI2OO damage, according
to police.
After the fire was out, fire
men found a five-gallon can of
paint thinner and a five-gallon
can of paint near the Interior
stairway of the Harriday house.
The can of thinner had explod
ed, firemen said.
Meanwhile, city hall officials
said Mrs. Harriday had been
handed an eviction notice last
October 22 after the house was
judged a health and safety men
ace. The frame building had
neither running water nor toilet
facilities, city inspectors said.
Mrs. Harriday was sentenced
to pay a SSO fine or 30 days in
Jail November 23 for falling
day from 8 to 11 p.m. Admis
sion will be 50 cents for mem
bers and 75 cents for guests.
Funds will be turned over to
the Sister City Student Ex
change Fund.
The Rockville Sister City
Committee this week an
nounced that a photography
contest will be staged in con
junction with the fund drive.
Amateur photographers are in
vited to shoot city scenes and
send them to “Sister City,”
Care of Postmaster, Rockville,
Md. Those adjudged best will be
sent to Pinneberg in an album.
Contributions of $1 are Invited
with each entry. Sentinel
Photographer Hugh Gillespie
will judge the contest.
Pinneberg Fund
Donors Listed
The following new contribu
tions to the Sister City fund
were reported by the commit
tee this week:
Previously donated $213
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
J. Mack 5
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald J.
Schlpper ; 100
Ralph E. Williams 5
Louis E. Leipold .... 5
Total 4L.„. $328
Opponents
Suing in
Land Swap
A group of Bethesda resi
dents filed suit Monday to
stop a planned swap of about
four acres of land between
the school board and the
Park and Planning Commis
sion.
Their suit would void ex
change of three acres of the
Ayrlawn Recreation Center and
one acre of the Whittier blvd.
park site, both owned by the
planning commission, for four
acres of playground at the
Bradley elementary school site
owned by the board of educa
tion.
The school board wants to
build an elementary school on
the three-acre Ayrlawn site and
a high school on the Whittier
blvd. site. The citizens’ suit as
serts that the board’s land pro
posed for transfer to park use
“is not . . . more suitable for
playground and recreational
purposes than the land now
held by . . . the Planning Com
mission.”
They charge also that the
swap “would completely chan ;e
the character and nature of the
neighborhood . . and, as well,
constitute “an abuse of the dis
cretion vested in the . . . Plan
ning Commission.”
to get out of the house. But
People’s Court Judge Einar B.
Christensen suspended imposi
tion of the sentence a city hall
spokesman said.
He added that city files con
tained correspondence dealing
with the property dating back
to October 22, 1958, when Mrs.
Harriday was reminded of in
sanitary conditions at her house.
The fire recalled another on
Frederick ave. only several
blocks away last year that
claimed the lives of two little
girls who lived with their moth
er in another condemned house.
Some residents of other con
demned housing In the area
since have been relocated in
the city’s new Lincoln Terrace
low-rent, public housing proj
ect.
Weather Outlook .
Temperatures will stay at the
normal highs and lows of 69
and 49 through Monday with
chance of light showers by Sat
urday.
Koepenick
Tops Slate
For Council
By Steed Evans
Staff Reporter
Mayor Alexander J.
Greene, two incumbent city
councilmen and two new
councilmen were elected to
office in Rockville Monday
following a campaign that re
affirmed Citizens for Good Gov
ernment’s role In city politics.
Sworn in with Greene Tues
day for terms of two years were
Frank A. Ecker, Achilles M.
Tuchtan, Glen J. Koepenick and
Frank E. Williams. All were
members of a CGG slate.
Although It was a clean
sweep for CGG, independent
David Rosoff gave the en
trenched organization a healthy
scare -and what amounted to a
warning In coming elections—
by pulling Just 58 votes less
than Tuchtan.
A total of 1402 persons voted
Monday. That compares to
totals of 924 In 1968, 1556 In
1966 and 2600 In 1954. Mayor
Greene led the field with a more
than comfortable margin.
Totals for all candidates
were: Greene, 1151; Koepenick,
New City Heads
Take Their Oaths
Rockville’s 37th Mayor and
Council, seated Tuesday, imme
diately slapped a one-half hour
limitation on presentation of *ll
zoning cases.
In thejjitevast of expediting
hearing*, Mayor Alexander J.
Greene’s recommendation, con
curred In by the council, includ
ed in the half-hour restriction
time used by the applicant for
rebuttal when the application
meets opposition.
The new council also moved
up its meetings from Tuesday
to Monday* nights, effective
June 13 when the first budget
hearing is scheduled for the
1960-61 budget.
This was an effort to afford
local papers with mid-week
deadlines easier coverage of the
meetings and to permit council
and staff members opportun
ities to appear before several
groups which regularly meet on
Tuesday evenings.
The council also appointed
Councilman Frank A. Ecker to
the planning commission in
compliance with the state law
that a member of the council
also be a member of the com
mission.
963; Ecker, 883; Williams, 796;
Tuchtan, 792, Rosoff, 734; Ber
nard Joseph Magee. 436, and
Everett R. Horton, 401.
Rosoff served notice of latent
strength In piling up 396 votes
In ward Number 1. which en
compasses the city’s central
business district. A total of 377
votes were cast in that ward.
But Rosoff took a fall in ward
number three where he polled
222 of a total 574 votes. Tuch
tan’s backers saved their man
In this precinct with a turnout
of 407 votes.
Interesting to observers was
the fact that ward three, nor
mally the one with heaviest
turnout, lagged, though slightly,
behind ward one.
Rosoff, a civi! engineer who
lives In Hungerford Towne,
garnered more votes than any
independent who ever opposed
CGG. He did so with the besl
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Gaithersburg
Firemen Will
Sponsor Dance
The annual spring dance
staged by the Gaithersburg-
Washington Grove Volunteer
Fire Department will be held at
the Agricultural Center, Gaith
ersburg. Saturday, from 10 p.m.
to 1 a.m.
Gene Frock’s aggregation will
be the music makers. Tickets
will be available at the door.
Merle Ferguson, chairman of
arrangements, explained that
the dance benefits the Rescue
Squad of the Department.