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THURSDAY
ISSUE
104th Year - No. 67—Published Thr*. Times Weekly—Tuesday, Thursday and S ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND THURSDAY, AUOUST 3, 1961 TWO SECTIONS—2O PAOIS OAiden 4-7700 50 • Copy
Silver Spring Man
Ordered Held For
Grand Jury Action
Stanley Fairfax
Claims Woman
Wasn't His Wife
A 53 - year -old Silver
Spring mechanic accused of
the murder of his 29-year
old common law wife was
ordered held for action of
the Montgomery County grand
jury this week after a hearing
at which key witnesses told of
the victim’s last hours.
Ordered held without bond
was Stanley B. Fairfax, a laun
dry mechanic at the Soldiers
Home, who, according to police,
has denied that the woman,
Mrs. Margaret Fairfax, was his
wife.
In a Writ of Habeas Corpus
Hearing Wednesday in the 6th
Circuit Court, Judge Kath
ryn Lawlor Shook set bond ;
for Fairfax at $30,000.
The police officer also told j
Chief Judge Elnar B. Christen
sen in Silver Spring Peoples
Court that the accused related
after his arrest that he had
pushed Mrs. Fairfax on a bed
during a quarrel when she re
turned home in the wee hours
of a night out last week.
“If that killed her, that’s the
breaks,” Fairfax was quoted as
saying.
Testimony by Dr. Kenneth R.
Nelson, a pathologist who per
formed the autopsy on Mrs.
Fairfax, indicated that the wom
an was strangled as the result
of “forcible application of pres
- , sure by hand, on the throat.”
Mrs. Fairfax’ activities prior
to her return home were de
scribed by William H. Hoover,
who revealed he had been see
ing her for about a month be
fore meeting her at a tavern in
Northwest Washington the
night she died.
He testified he and Mrs. Fair
fax Joined some friends at a
table, but that “suddenly she be
came nervous” and left. He was
told her husband had come into
the tavern, which surprised him,
he said, because he “didn’t even
know her last name was Fair
fax.”
Before the hearing, Assistant
States Attorney James R. Miller
had requested the victim’s name
in the warrant for Fairfax’s ar
rest be listed as “Margaret
Haas, also known as Margaret
Fairfax.”
Hoover said his companion
later phoned him to meet her at
a nearby drugstore and they
went back to the tavern until it
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Montgomery Players Realize Dream:
New Theater Building in Bethesda
The play’s the thing—and it’s
even better if you can present it
In your own theater.
That’s been the thought of
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INSPECTING PLANS for conversion of Camp Inverness
pavilion into a 200-seat theater for the Montgomery Players
are Jack Barker (left), camp owner and director, and
Thomas Bagg, Players’ construction director.
Old J?Qsnioned Bargain Days Begin Today In Rockville
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Planning
Survey
To Begin
Six George Washington
University graduate students
will begin interviewing resi
dents of three Montgomery
County areas August 7 to
collect essential planning infor
mation for the Maryland-Na
tion Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The survey will assist uni
versity officials in setting up
an electronic data processing
system for the commission, in
accordance with a $38,500 con
tract approved by the planning
agency last January.
The project involves gather
ing data on every area of activi
ty in Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties and making
the information readily avail
able on cards handled by the
electronic equipment.
Areas involved in the initial
survey are Silver Spring, Coles
ville and Burtonsville. Questions
will include family incomes,
number and ages of family
members, and time and method
of travel to and from work.
All of the interviewers will
carry identification. Each inter
view will take about 10 minutes.
No names will be used in the
reports.
Both university and commis
sion officials urged residents of
the three areas to cooperate.
Those not home during the day
will be called by the students to
arrange for a suitable interview
at night
Mennonites
Sponsor Camp
Seventy children from the
Gaithersburg - Laytonsville area
leave from the Goshen Church
in Laytonsville Monday morn
ing to attend a two-week sum
mer camp sponsored by the
Mennonites at Honeybrook, Pa.
A full program of organized
recreation, including swimming
and horseback riding, will be
offered the youngsters during
their afternoons and evenings.
Bible study classes will occupy
their morning sessions.
the Montgomery Players, who
after 32 years at the same stand
will be moving into a home of
their own.
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WHAT A FlKE—This young man is standing in complete awe
of the power of the flames that enveloped the vacant Sav-
Moor Drug Store at the corner of Veirs Mill rd. and Univer
Planning Board Recommends
12 Zoning Approvals, 4 Denials
Approval of 12 zoning peti
tions and denial of four others
has been recommended by the
Montgomery County Planning
Board.
All of the opinions have been
forwarded to the County Coun
cil, which has final zoning au
thority.
The 12 recommended for ap
proval are:
By Frank L. Anderson, R-A
(agricultural residential, 2-acre
minimum lot size) to R-R (half
acre minimum) of four acres
on the west side of Georgia ave.
just south of Williamsburg Vil
lage, Olney.
By James R. Miller, R-R to
1-1 (light industrial) of 13 acres
at the end of Dover rd. near
Horners la., Rockville.
By J. B. and Maurice C. Sha
piro, R-R to R-90 (9000 square
feet minimum size lots) of 321
acres on the south side of Rock
ville-Norbeck rd. at Bel Pre rd.
near Manor Park.
The Players have been pre
senting their productions at
Leland Junior High School since
their inception.
Now Jack Barker, owner of
Camp Inverness on Seven
Locks rd. in Bethesda, has of
fered them use of a large open
air pavilion for conversion into
a theater for dramatic and mu
sical presentations.
Plans, done by architect J.
Richard Andrews, have been
drawn for converting the pavil
ion into an auditorium seating
about 200. There will be space
for parking at least 75 cars at
the theater.
Irvnig M. Day, sr., is heading
a finance committee which is
campaigning to raise $15,000
for the conversion. Funds will
be raised through the sale of
SIOO, six per cent, 20-year bonds,
and through tax deductible con
tributions. A SSO or more con
tribution will entitle the giver
to have his name on a seat in
the theater.
Work will begin this month,
with completion scheduled in
late spring of next year—in
time for the final play of the
season. Earlier plays will be
presented at Leland. Thomas C.
Bagg is Players’ construction
chairman.
By David E. Betts, 1-1 to 1-2
(heavy industrial) of two acres
along SOuthlawn la. near Hor
ners la., Rockville.
By John W. Neumann, two
applications for rezoning from
R-R to 1-3 (industrial park) of
160 acres bounded by Fields rd.
and Route 70-S near Shady
Grove.
By Leonard Kapiloff, R-R to
C-l (local commercial) of prop
erty near the intersection of
Muncaster Mill and Redland
rds., Redland.
By Walter W. Dawson, R-R to
1-1 of property on the south side
of Southlawn la. east of North
Horners la., Rockville.
By Bartholomew B. Cayne,
R-90 to C-l of land on Boetler
rd. east of New Hampshire ave.,
White Oak.
By Kardy & Brannan, attor
neys for Inger Lancaster, R-20
(medium density apartments)
to C-2 (general commercial) of
Housing for Elderly Asked
By Commission on Aging
The County Council was
asked this week to provide hous
ing, recreational facilities and
other projects for older people
under a new Federal law de
signed to meet the needs of the
nation’s elderly.
In a letter to the Council,
Montgomery County Delegate
Margaret C. Schweinhaut, chair
man of the Maryland Commis
sion on the Aging, said the new
law provides for construction of
dining facilities, community
buildings, infirmaries and low
rental housing.
‘‘lt opens up a very exciting
possibility for pioneering in the
field of housing the elderly,”
she declared.
Under the new law, adminis
tered by the Housing and Home
Finance Agency, both public
agencies and private organiza
School System Gets
New Office Manager
Montgomery County’s Board
of Education this week hired a
retired Navy captain to manage
and coordinate the functions of
its three major administration
buildings.
He is Avery Pabst, who has
a broad background in the man
agement and supply fields. He
was hired at a salary of $6,747,
to run the Monroe Canter (the
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sity dr. last Monday evening. Three fire companies. Silver
Spring, Kensington and Rockville, answered the call and
put out the fire. No estimate of the damage was given.
land on the west side of Wis
consin ave. near Battery la.,
Bethesda.
By C. Edward Nicholson, R-60
(single-family detached homes)
to C-2 of 8716 Georgia ave., Sil
ver Spring.
By Clarence N. Smith, R-60
to R-10 (high density apart
ments) of 8601 Carroll la., Sil
ver Spring.
Recommended for denial are:
By Samuel N. Carpas, R-90 to
R-20 or R-30 (low density apart
ments) of 12207 Georgia ave.,
Wheaton.
By Burton F. Steffen, R-60 to
C-0 (commercial office building)
of 4730 Maple ave., Bethesda.
By John W. Neumann, R-30
to R-20 of land at Blueridge
ave. and Amherst ave., Whea
ton.
By C. Edward Nicholson, R-90
to R-10 or R-30 of land at Geor
gia ave. and Shorefield rd.,
Glenmont.
tions would be permitted to
sponsor the construction proj
ects under 50-year Federal loans
which could be repaid from
rents collected from persons
over 62 who can afford the low
cost housing.
Mrs. Schweinhaut told the
Council that the county might
try construction of facilities for
the aged “on a modest basis
and as a pilot project?" She in
dicated there would be an “over
whelming demand” for it.
In informal discussion of the
letter, Council Member David
Cahoon said he felt the county
should “explore the possibili
ties” of developing such facili
ties. He suggested private build
ing organizations in the county
might be interested.
Lacking a quorum, the Coun
cil took no action on the mat
ter.
School Board's main adminis
tration building in Rockville),
the Washington Center (old
Carver High School), and the
Lincoln Center.
Under his direction will be
the control of the administra
tion buildings’ office space, re*
■ production lacilities, switch*
, boards, cafeterias, parking
i spaoa and custodial operations.
Fennell Gets
18-Year Term
For Murder
Reafus Fennell, 43, of Wash
ington, who was convicted of
second degree murder in Circuit
Court, was sentenced Wednes
day to the maximum of 18 years
by Judge Katheryn J. Lawlor
Shook.
In sentencing Fennell, Judge
Shook said he had been “ably
represented” by legal counsel
and that the jury had the choice
of first-degree murder, second
degree murder or manslaughter.
After listening to all the evi
dence, she said, the Court felt
that it was murder in the first
degree—but that it was not up
to the Court to decide.
Fennell was found guilty of
shooting his common-law wife
after an argument earlier this
year. He claimed the shooting
occurred accidentally in a
struggle over its possession, but
failed to make clear how it had
gone off three times.
Senator Goldwater to Address
County Republicans August 14
Sen. Barry Goldwater, na
tional Republican leader, will
address the citizens of Mont
gomery County at Walter John
son High School at 8:15 p.m.
Monday, August 14.
The Goldwater visit is being
sponsored by the Republican
1961 Neighbor to Neighbor Com
mittee which has launched its
fourth consecutive yearly drive
for door to door collections of
funds and support.
Bill Kyle and Bebe Petrou, co
chairmen of the Neighbor to
Neighbor Committee, announced
that Senator John Marshall But
ler will introduce Senator Gold
water. Others who have ac
cepted and are expected to
attend are Senator J. Glenn
Beall, Congressman Charles
McC. Mathias, Maryland’s Re
publican State Central Commit
tee chairman D. Eldred Rine
hart, National Committee
woman Mrs. Robert Bonnell and
National Committeeman Ted
Miller.
“The acceptance of Barry
Goldwater to speak in Montgom
ery County points up the excel
lent chance of the Republican
Party to win Statewide and
local seats in the 1962 election
here in. Maryland,” said Kyle.
“National and local political
experts are viewing Maryland's
coming election with interest.
Attacks on the present Demo
cratic State leadership have
ban lavalad from ovary quar
Officials Agree
Tax Relief Could
Spur New Shelters
Pests May
Be Halted
Next Year
County Manager. Mason
A. Butcher has told the
State Department of Agri
culture that Montgomery
County may seek state aid
next year in controlling flying
insects which beset the area in
the summer.
“We’ve received a few com
plaints about these pests,” he
informed . the County Council
this week, and said that he has
asked state officials about how
the county “can do something
about them.”
“They have nothing to offer
regarding gnats,” he reported,
but spoke more hopefully of
the possibility of controlling the
black biting flies which fre
quent the area.
He referred to a bulletin from
the Department of Entymology
at the University of Maryland
which described them as prolific
breeders which cause consider
able discomfort to residents
within a distance of four miles
from the Potomac River.
“If we could move the Poto
mac, we’d be all right, I guess,"
he remarked.
On mosquito control, Butcher
reported the state offers to pay
50 per cent of the costs of any
program which local areas Insti
tute. Prince Georges County
has a limited program, he said,
in which the state contributes
50 per cent, the county another
25 per cent and individual com
munities or citizens groups the
remaining 25 per cent.
Butcher said he has advised
state authorities to “consider we
have some interest” in pest con
trol and has suggested they in
clude a provision for state aid
to the county in their budgetary
considerations for 1962.
Wiser is Elected
By Stoneybrook
C. Lawrence Wiser has been
elected president of the Stoney
brook Civic Association. Other
officers are:
Marsha Phillips, vice presi
dent; Vincent J. Capasso, treas
urer; Dora Olson, recording sec
retary, and Jo Comstock, corre
sponding secretary.
ter. and the chances for a
change of administration grow
stronger every day.”
Kyle continued, “We urge all
citizens of Montgomery County
to join us August 14 to hear the
dynamic ideas of Senator Gold
water.”
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Congressman
And Council
Discuss Matters
Agreement that “some
sort of tax incentive” would
spur individual homeowners
and business firms to build
the civil defense shelters
urged by President Kennedy
was reached between members
of the County Council and
Eight District Congressman
Charles McC. Mathias in an in
formal meeting this week.
Council members recalled that
a bill for tax exemptions for
construction of air raid shelters
In Maryland failed of enactment
in a recent session of the legis
lature in Annapolis.
Both they and Mr. Mathias
agreed, however, that recon
sideration of such a measure
might be timely in the present
state of international tension.
Asked later whether he would
sponsor legislation along this
line in the Congress, Mr. Ma
thias said he will "review the
situation and see where we
stand in the matter. ”He ex
plained the question of states’
rights may be involved in any
federal legislation.
All agreed a strong federal
policy in civil defense is needed
now.
Council President William F.
Hickey and members Stella B.
Werner and David Cahoon met
with Mr. Mathias for luncheon
in his office to discuss “matters
of mutual interest.”
Also In the delegation were
County Manager Mason A.
Butcher, County Attorney Al
fred H. Carter and members of
their staffs.
Other Subjects Discussed
Among the subjects covered
were the bill to continue school
aid to federally-impacted areas,
which the Congressman said
"still has some chances, al
though the general school aid
bill may be lost.”
Also discussed was the pend
ing urban affairs bill, on which
Council members expressed
their position as “not neces
sarily” that the of the National
Association of County Officials.
NACO has opposed the measure
as a "big city bill," they said.
Indications are, Mr. Mathias
told the county heads, that this
legislation “is probably dead”
for this session of Congress. He
added, however, that 85 per cent
of the nation’s people are living
in urban areas and that “it is a
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Jerry and Bethany Cook's Da
mascus band will be on hand
for music. The Cook band, with
its highly trained troop of
youngsters, is well known
throughout Montgomery Coun
ty and for years has played at
major functions in the area