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RESULTS ... If you have Something to sell use a Sentinel Classified Ad. You get residts. 106th Yor • No. 7 Wl ° ; KVILLI t MARYLAND THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1941 2 SECTIONS 2O PACES CArdta 4-7700 Tm Cants • Copy Budget Given Public Boost Vole Due This Week on Whittier Plan for School Expenditures The Board of Education is scheduled to reach a de cision on a proposed $23.3 million capital budget for schools this week, on the heels of a strong showing of citi zen approval at a public hearing Monday night. In a revised schedule of budeet meetings, the hoard in d icvifctru &uiruuie ot P-TA Council Will Discuss 1961 Budget Consideration of Montgom-; ery County's proposed school budget for 1961-62 will high light a general meeting of the county’s Council of Parent- Teachers Associations next Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Fairland Elementary School in Silver Spring. Bradley Patterson, of Bethes da, budget ‘chairman for the council, will lead a discussion which is expected to establish the group’s position on the op erating budget submitted by Dr. C. Taylor Whittier, superinten dent of schools. Among other matters on the agenda are a report on a State petition campaign with respect to teachers’ salaries, to be sub mitted by Mrs. Saul Miller, State and national legislation chairman; a report from the music committee by Mrs. Ed ward A. Dunton, music chair man, and a discussion of the Board of Education’s policy on school bus transportation. The council also is scheduled to consider a resolution from; the Highland View P-TA pro posing changes in by-laws af fecting voting and debating privileges of member units. Under the plan, each local would be given one vote in the council instead of the present; three; participation in debates on council business would be j restricted to executive commit- [ tee members or presidents, dele-1 gates or alternates from local units, and votes on the execu tive committee would be limit ed to elected members. Immortal Bard’s Birthday Fete Set Saturday Admirers of the immortal Robbie Burns will have an op portunity to celebrate the 202nd anniversary of his birth with fellow Scots of the Washington area at Elks Club in Washing- i ton, 919 H st., N.W.. Saturday \ night at 6:30 p.m. Festivities will be preceded i by a roast beef dinner and a discussion of the Bard and his writings by the Rev. Dr. G. M. Docherty, pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Tickets are available at $4.50 each. Information can be ob-1 tained by calling SP. 3-0695 or FE. 3-6072. Luxury Resort Hotels Get Boost From Plans Agency Resort hotels should be encouraged because they help provide outdoor recrea tion activities for city dwell ers in the opinion of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The planning agency express ed its view in recommending approval of an application for a change in the Montgomery County zoning ordinance to permit resort hotels as special exceptions in the R-R (half-acre minimum lot) and R-A (2-acre minimum 1 zones. The petition was filed by Moore & Linowes. attorneys for Torpet Enterprises. The firm re portedly hopes to build an eight story, $35 million resort hotel overlooking Great Falls between Mac Arthur blvd. and the Poto mac River. Scenic Asset* Cited In its recommendation to the County Council, the Commission expressed the hope that the pro mttimm Coonti St uttnel i uuugci meetings, me uuaiu [ set aside tonight and tomorrow night for disposing of the capi tal proposals, which amount to an increase of more than four million dollars over the current year’s figure for capital expen ditures. At Tuesday night’s hearing at the Richard Montgomery High School, an estimated 600 per sons turned out to give general support to the requests of Dr. C. Taylor Whittier, superinten dent of schools. They included representatives of major county wide organizations, including the Council of P-TAs, the Coun ty Education Association, the League of Women Voters, the Allied Civic Group, the Associa tion for Retarded Children and others. Few Objections Raised Although a few exceptions to specific items were recorded, most of the countywide groups applauded Whittier’s proposal for an expanded capital pro gram. The Allied Civic Group called for deletion of a portion of a five million dollar item for con struction of two new high schools which are not scheduled for completion until 1964. It called on the school board to expedite one of the schools, to be built in the east Wheaton area, and proposed that neces sary funds be retained in the new budget. However, the group's state ment added: “As to the remain der of this Item, except for 1 what is needed for planning, we feel it should be deleted from this budget. We do not ques tion the need for both schools . . . but think they should be budgeted in a budget which is ; closer to the time of expected ! completion.” The Civic Group also recom-1 j mended deletion of a $470,000 | appropriation for construction i of a gymnasium for Montgom ery Junior College. "The gym nasium problem while recogniz ably not perfect is not critical,” according to a statement sub mitted by Milton Rodes on be half of ACG. Economy Urged S. H. Ingberg, appearing as an individual representing no organized group, called for re newed efforts to reduce school construction costs, urged that the school board acquire build ing sites only as large as needed and objected to provi | sions for air conditioning in ; some county schools. "What justification can you | find for air conditioning the schools when less than 20 per j cent of the dwellings in the county are air conditioned?,” he inquired. Ingberg also sug gested that plans for expansion of Montgomery Junior College be submitted to public referen dum. In giving overall endorsement I to the budget proposals. Joseph (Continued on Page 16) posed zoning amendment "will be enacted in such a form as to encourage in the R-A and R-R zones the development of resort hotels which will take the best possible advantage of Montgom ery County’s natural scenic values and which will provide large facilities for outdoor recreation in quiet, rural sur roundings." The planners suggested ‘hat a resort hotel be located on at least 250 acres and that not more than five per cent of the site be occupied by buildings. Other Actions listed In other actions, the Commis sion’s Montgomery County Plan ning Board recommended ap proval of three zoning petitions and denial of four others. Those recommended for approval sure: By William C. Lindley, R-60 (single-family detached homes) to C-0 (commercial office build ing ) of land on the south side of River rd. near the B k O Rail road, Bethesda. ■m WLjr* * w [r ’ : 1 wL 1 JMM fw>lTr um i W k 1 riSsfe twmWfc' [ J/A J ■ • 5 H W s ' ■ //' A, v *\m i.X.h W ‘V ■ : a| W r JKI JPp ; m m / u-xl HMflf HLVi m CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PANEL-Dis cussing the future of Rockville’s central business district are, left to right, Irwin Schwartz, L. Ross Roberts, Stanley T. Lewis Questions Left Unanswered In Rockville Renewal Forum Rockville business inter ests agreed to take a closer look at the problem of re developing the city’s district Tuesday, after a panel dis cussion of the dilemma pro duced more questions than an swers. More than 50 representatives of varied business interests par ticipated in the forum, spon sored by the Rockville Chamber of Commerce as a feature ot its weekly luncheon meeting, and many displayed a lack of knowledge concerning urban re newal and other development j measures and their effects on I the city. The session produced, how i ever, strong sentiment for insti j tution of a program to arrest i decay in the downtown area. T. A. Ricketts, jr., a property ! owner and member of the panel, said he had visited the business district to question other mer chants about their views. He said he was asked questions ranging from "what is urban re newal?” to “what about the capital gains tax on the money I receive for the property if it brought me under a renewal program?” Ricketts said he also encount ered concern about the prospect of losing a sole source of in come through loss of land bought for redevelopment. Irwin Schwartz, operator of two apparel stores, observed that a merchant "has to sell his customer on location,” and said purchasers want to shop ‘‘where it is attractive and tllere is am ple parking.” Panelist Ross Roberts, a mem ber of the City Planning Com mission who emphasized that he spoke as an individual, told the group that Rockville has taken “a giant step” toward comply ing with urban renewal re quirements by its recent adop tion of a master plan. By Robert W. McChesney, jr., R-30 (low-density apartments) to R-20 (medium-density apart ments) of property at Glen and Holman aves.. Forest Glen. By Plummer M. Shearin, R-60 to C-2 (general commercial) of 811 Sligo ave.. Silver Spring. Recommended for denial are: By Plummer M. Shearin, R-R to C-l (local commercial) of land at Frederick rd. (Route 355) and Plummer dr.. Middle brook. By Wheeler, Korpeck & Clark, R-60 to R-10 (high-density apartments) of 10 acres in the center of the block bounded by Eton rd., Wayne ave., Manches ter rd. and a proposed extension of Schuyler rd.. Silver Spring. By Plummer M. Shearin, two petitions for the reclassification from R-90 (9,000 square-foot minimum lots) to R-R of two properties facing each other along Montrose rd. near Route 70S (new Route 240). and Theodore A. Ricketts, jr., who formed a panel to examine problems of redevelopment for the area at the Rockville Chamber of Commerce luncheon last Tuesday. Appointment of a chamber committee to inquire into the full details of urban renewal was proposed by Stanley Lewis, an architect. Question from the floor cen tered on the issue of using local capital or federal funds for re furbishing the central business district. Some speakers took the position that property owners should help themselves, while others insisted the city should welcome federal aid. Commemoration of Civil War Planned by Society The Montgomery County Historical Society is consid ering a long-range program commemorating significant Civil War events that occurred within the county. Initial plans for the program were discussed at a meeting held at the home of Roger C. Cohen, jr., head of 0 the society’s Civil War Centen ial Committee, who said the 1961 schedule of activities will in clude a tour of the Poolesville area in conjunction with the group’s annual pilgrimage. Cohen, who also is a member of the Maryland Civil War Com mission and the District of Co lumbia Round Table, pointed out that the Poolesville area was a focal point of military activity during the war. The many fords across the Potomac River above Great Falls near Poolesville were the subject of constant at tention by Union troops. 20,- 000 of whom spent the winter of 1861-62 in the area, he said. As part of its 1961 program, the society also plans a visit to the site of the Battle of ( Balls Bluff in Virginia, according to | Cohen. The historic encounter occurred when a mixed brigade of Union Troops under the lead ership of Col. Kdward Baker crossed the Potomac at Har rison’s landing with the inten tion of capturing a Rebel camp site near Leesburg. Future plans of the commit- i tee include commemoration of the 1862 crossing at White’s j Butler Terms Post ‘Challenge’ | Senator John Marshall Butler i (R-Md. has described his elec- j tion to the Senate Republican, Policy Committee for the 87th! Congress as “a challenging ■ assignment which I shall fulfill j to the best of my ability.” ‘‘The Senate Policy Commit-j tee.” said Senator Butler, “has made significant contributions to the legislative program of the Senate through it* study of legislation and its recommenda tions to senators. The commit- j tee has a unique opportunity ’ during the next four years to j help represent the 34 million voters who supported the Nix on-Lodge ticket and its platform of stability at home and abroad. "I shall show concern for country as well as party as a member of the committee and in times of conflict, I shall abide by the letter and the law of the Constitution, a living doc- j ument applicable to the prob i lems of 1961.” I A Century of Service A number of the merchants inquired about business forced out of operation by demolition and rebuilding arising from urban renewal projects. When no concensus of opinion was reached on how to attack the problem, chamber officials agreed to Join with the city’s Urban Renewal Advisory Coun cil in a move to bring experts on the subjects to Rockville to explain the program and its possible meaning to the city. •••'O'- - j- • Ford by Confederate troops, the first penetration of Union terri tory by the Army of Northern Virginia; Jeb Stuart’s capture of a Union wagon train between Rockville and Washington in 1863 and Jubal Early’s invasion of Montgomery County in 1864. Cohen said a number of mark ers also will be erected in var ious areas of the county. Members of the committee, in addition to Cohen, include Frank Howell. J. Conway Hunt, Thom as R. Hall, Albert Conradis, Abell Norris, Jr., Col. John B. Hinkle and Miss Martha Poole. Cohen said the group wel comes inquiries from prospec tive members, and also is anx ious to receive Civil War ma | terial in the form of letters, photographs, diaries, maps and other mementoes. Persons hav l ing such data are requested to contact either Cohen or the so ciety’s president, Thomas M. Anderson, jr. | Tawen to Attend J Local Democrats’ I Inaugural Fete Maryland Governor J. Millard ! Tawes has notified Montgomery 1 County Democratic officials 1 that he expects to attend, with ! his official party, the Donkey , Club Inaugural Ball tomorrow | night. The Ball, billed as a Demo : eratie workers celebration, will be held from 9 p.m. til 1 a.m. at i the Indian Spring Country Club. Governor Tawes and his par ty will be in attendance at the Downtown Ball festivities and plan to use a police escort in I order to put in an appearance at the County Ball. The Gover j nor plans to be accompanied by i the newly appointed attorney general of Maryland. Tom Fin an and Comptroller Louis Gold stein. More than 500 tickets had been sold by last Tuesday and Ball Chairman J. Donald Clag gett, jr., announced that a lim ited number of tickets would be on sale at the door. They may j also be purchased through Clag ! gett at 1804 Republic rd., Sll i ver Spring, LO. 5-0397. County Council Hail* Area Camp Fire Girls The achievements of Mont gomery County’s Camp Fire Girls will be officially recog nized by county officials the week of February 26. The County Council, at its regular meeting on Tuesday, adopted a proclamation desig nating the period beginning on that date as Camp Fire Girls Week and called on county citizens “to recognize tile civic and social services being rendered by the Mont gomery County Camp Fire ; Girls.” The organization has “trained hundreds of adult | youth leaders and given thousands of girls In this comity training in homemak ing, camping and other skills,” the resolution said, adding that its members par ticipate In “many community service projects, learning through these hours of serv ice how to take a useful part in the future activities of this county.” New Law On Pools Studied Council Calls For Hearing on Fence Measure Legal advisors to the Montgomery County Coun cil were asked Tuesday to prepare an ordinance re quiring protective fencing around all swimming pools, for consideration at a public hear ing at a date as yet unspecified. The council requested a draft of the ordinance after Richard J. Sincoff, assistant county at torney, reported on the inad equacy of existing laws de signed to prevent children and toddlers from tumbling into “artificial ponds.” The law con tains “many exclusions,” Sincoff said, and does not apply to swimming pools. The public hearing was pro posed although some council members expressed doubt that such a law is needed. Gaboon Not Convinced “I’m not at all convinced that the situation is such as to war rant our using our police power,” said Councilman David H. Cahoon. "However, there’s a possibility a public hearing will bring that out.” Councilman Stanley B. Frosh said “there seems to be enough demand for such protection as to at least justify a hearing.” Sincoff said a protective fenc ing law had been recommended by the County Safety Board, and said he had received a number of telephone calls urging such action. Available records show that four persons drowned in public pools and two in private pools from 1950 through 1959, he told the council. “One Too Many” Persons who have called him, he said, have been interested in specific incidents. "They're not so much concerned with wheth er we have another drowning in the next 50 years; they just take the position that one drowning is one too many,” he observed. The proposed new law would require fencing around "all (Continued on Page 3) Rockville’s Controversial City Hall Plan Slated for Overhaul Plans for a new Rockville City Hall, which stirred up a heated controversy when they were presented to the public recently, are in line for a major overhaul. Changes contemplated by the council include purchasing ad ditional land for the city hall and cutting back the size of the building to keep the cost to the budgeted $350,000. The land the council would add to the present city hail site is the three-fourths of an acre immediately east of the city hall belonging to the Vinson estate. The council, Monday, au thorized City Manager Walter A. Scheiber to contact Vinson heirs. To keep the total cost of the proposed city hall to $350,000 the council would cut the plans from 19,000 square feet to 16,- ,000. Healthy Bond Bids Received Sale of Issue Reflects Sound Market Condition of County The Montgomery County Council this week sold an sll million bond issue at a “favorable” interest rate re flecting improved marketing conditions and a healthy re ! gat'd by finance houses for the county’s economy. The 30-year bonds were sold to the lowest of five bid ders whose offers showed a uers wnose oners snowed a marked improvement over con ditions about a year ago, ac cording to the county’s finance director, Alex K. Hancock. Successful bidder on the issue was the New York financial syndicate. First National City Bank, which asked an interest rate of 3.4924 per cent. Total interest cost of the bonds over the 30 years, under the syndi cate’s proposal, will amount to $5,910,908. Higher Last Year The low interest rate on a seven million dollar bond issue sold by the county last year was 3.69 per cent, Hancock noted. The new, lower interest rate, he said, is an indication the coun ty’s position in the bond market is “relatively better.” Richard Case, the county’s bond counsel, said the bids received at Tuesday’s regular Council meeting were "much better than expected.” Case said the county “should be very happy about it.” Other firms bidding on the bonds, with interest rates and charges, were: , Chase-Manhattan, 3.5144 per cent, amounting to $5,948,275. Glore, Fargan and Company, 3.5475 per cent, amounting to $5,998,215. Harriman Ripley and Com pany, 3.5618 per cent, amount ing to $6,028,450. Halsey, Stuart and Company, 3.5643 per cent, amounting to $6,034,600. Includes School Bonds All of the bidding syndicates except Harriman and Ripley Company, based in Philadelphia, were from New York. The bond sale included $10.41 million for county school con struction, SIOO,OOO each for im proved parking facilities in Silver Spring, Wheaton and Bethesda, and $290,000 for building and equipping a fire station at Kensington. The entire issue was sold as general obligation bonds, Han cock said, but the parking fa cility expenditures are expected to eventually become self-liqui dating from parking meter receipts. Kennedy Names Rockville Man A Rockville man has been se lected by President-elect John F. Kennedy to fill one of the key Health. Education and Welfare posts in the new administration. Dr. Luther Terry, 49, assist ant director of the National Heart Institute and a member of the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was se lected by the new president for the position of surgeon general. He makes his home at 105 S. Van Buren st. A graduate of Tulane Univer sity's medical school, Dr. Terry has been in public health work since 1942, and a member of thej Johns Hopkins faculty since' 1944. A major elimination from the building would be the contro versial expansion area slated as rental space until it was needed for city offices. Scheiber said that the reduc tion in size and a possible relo cation of the city hall on the en larged site would necessitate complete new designs for the building, with expansion allow able to the side rather than to a possible third floor. In other business the council heard plans for a country club to service the Hungerford Towne area to be built by Don ald E. Gingery, developer of Hungerford Towne and the Courthouse Square apartments. Gingery, who appeared to ask annexation and apartment zon ing for the remaining three acres of the 20 acre tract ndw housing the Courthhouse apart ments, said he would build the BUSINESS . . . Special review and forecast sec tion featured in the Sen tinel today. ; Snowfall’s i Effect Told * | By Kordella Montgomery County has al -1 ready used 3000 tons more sand than it uses during an entire winter under normal conditions, 1 Public Works Director Joseph * C. Kordella said yesterday, 1 Speaking on “Montgomery . County and You” on Station ! WDON, Kordella said 8000 tons of sand were used during and ; after the 15-inch snow storm of December 11. The county usual ly uses only 5000 tons over the entire winter. A “tremendous job of patch ing” is in store for road crews, i Kordella said, because of the storm and the unusually cold weather that followed. Crews worked "day amd night” for one month and one day after the storm and plowed all streets at least three times, the main ones six to eight times. "I can’t recall a situa tion like this in the 15 years I’ve been with the county,” Kor della stated. The weather bureau told the county government that snow had not stayed on the ground i this long In Washington in 26 years. Kordella added that the bureau also advised him that I lost month was the coldest De cember in Washington since 1917. The public works director mentioned University blvd. from Wheaton to Four Corners. Bradley blvd. in Bethesda and Randolph rd. in Wheaton as some of the major current road construction projects in Mont gomery. Randolph rd. is signifi cant, he said, because it will serve as a “temporary circum ferential highway.” Kordella pointed out that Randolph rd. is an extension of Glenmont-Colesville rd. which connects with Columbia pike to the east. On the west it con nects with Montrose rd. which in turn hooks up with the new Washington National Pike. Deulh Decreed In Rape Case A 27 • year -old Washington handyman was sentenced in Cir cuit Court yesterday to die in Maryland’s gas chamber for criminally assaulting a Kensing ton housewife last March. The sentence was imposed by Judge Thomas M. Anderson, jr., on William Ralph, Negro, who was found guilty of rape follow ing a two-day trial last week be fore a three-judge court. Ralph also has been charged with attempting to rape a Be i thesda mother in her home and a Brazilian woman in Washing- I ton. club facilities as he completed the apartment project. Club facilities, which would be restricted to families in the apartments and Hungerford would consist of an Olympic sized pool, tennis courts, and ball fields. Gingery said it would be located on a six-acre tract ad jacent to Hungerford Towne. The council Indicated it was not satisfied with the size of the recreation area to serve that portion of the community. City officials are pushing for legis lation from the General Assem bly to give local governments power to exact public recreation land from developers. The council, also, appointed Marshall Armstrong as chair man of the Memorial Day Com mittee, and suggested the com mittee raise funds for a me morial in the form of a flag poJr to honor the city’s war dead. . H