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Sen. J. Glenn Beall
River Road
Construction
Is Scheduled
The State Roads Commission
has called for bids on another
project In the accelerated pri
mary highway construction pro
gram for the Washington su
burban area of Maryland.
John B. Funk, chairman-di
rector of the State Roads Com
mission, signed an order adver
tising construction of River rd.
(Maryland Route 190) from the
District of Columbia to Winston
dr., a distance of 2.3 miles.
Another contract from Win
ston dr. to the Capitol Beltway
will be advertised next month,
Mr, Funk said.
River rd. is one of a number
of key radials into the District
from surrounding Maryland
communities scheduled for im
provement under the State
Roads Commission’s accelerated
construction program on the
primary highway system.
Bids on the project from the
D. C. line to Winston rd. will be
opened August 22.
Postmaster Installed
Lee C. Hocher, new acting
postmaster in Rockville, will be
Installed Into office in a cere
mony at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the
City Post Office.
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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY -Mr. and Mrs. Wal
demar Habersat 104 Croyden ct., Silver
Spring, share the honors in cutting a special
cake in celebration of their 50th wedding
anniversary this month. The occasion was a
surprise partv riven to Hie couple by M
O'smntii Seottotl
Senator J. Glenn Beall may
throw his hat into the ring as
a candidate for the Maryland
governorship next year, it was
reported this week.
A press dispatch from Balti
more quoted Beall as admitting
he has been approached by
State Republican leaders to run
for the office. The Senator
said, however, he has not given
his boosters a firm reply, since
there is a question as to
“whether I could best serve
Maryland as a member of the
Senate or as its governor.’’
Beall disclosed he plans to
travel throughout the state
after Congress adjourns to
learn what Marylanders feel
are their major needs of the
future. He indicated he will, at
i the same time, try to determine
how he can best serve them.
Although former Gov. Theo
dore R. McKeldin has not yet
filed his anticipated bid to re
turn to the State House, he is
the only other major Republi
can candidate on the horizon.
Political circles anticipate, how
ever, arriving at a choice for
their nominee without a pri
mary battle between more than
one candidate.
Clay Tennis Court Asphalting
Has Area Citizens in Arms
Spare the county’s clay coui-ts
from asphalting, 400 Silver
Spring residents urged the
Maryland-National Capital Park
! and Planning Commission this
; week, and tennis buffs won’t
have to join country clubs to en
| joy clay court play.
In a petition to the MNCPPC,
the indignant “users and
I parents of users” of two tennis
! courts at the Argyle Recreation
Center on Forest Glen rd. join
; ed with other area residents and
"ordinary taxpayers” in asking
that the six remaining clay
courts in the county not be as
phalted.
“We strenuously object to as
phalt courts,” they declared,
j “They’re hot, hard on the feet
and extremely wearing on ten
jnis balls.”
For these, and the fact that
low members of the Montgomery County
Recreation Department’s "Senior Citizens
Club,” at the Bethesda Youth Center this
week. The Habersats note their golden anni
versary August 28, but will be out of town
then.—Photo by Mervis.
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ONE OF THREE spanking new automobiles to be awarded to
lucky ticket-holders at the Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment’s carnival, opening Monday night, gets the rain from
one of this week’s aftei’noon downfalls wiped from it. by
fire department member Dennis McLaughlin, while fellow
volunteer Carlton Thomas offers him the protection of an
they are “generally less pleasur
able” and “usually considered
inferior to clay courts,” the peti
tioners pointed out, important
tournaments are not played on
asphalt.
There are now about 40 as
phalt tennis courts in the coun
ty. The six remaining are
scheduled to be asphalted late
this summer, and most addi
tional courts planned are to be
similiarly paved, the petition
said.
“The citizens of Montgomery
County are public - spirited
enough and the county certainly
has adequate means to maintain
clay courts,” tthe citizens wrote.
“It should not be necessary
for residents of our county to
join private country clubs in
order to enjoy the advantages
of such courts.”
Not One , Not Two , but Three . . .
CD Office Here is Swamped
With Inquiries from Public
“There hasn’t been anything
like it since the U-2 incident,”
said Howard Cook, public infor
mation officer for Montgomery
County’s Civil Defense center,
referring to the flood of in
quiries received from area resi
dents after President Kennedy’s
preparedness message last
week.
Calls to the center have in
creased from less than a hand
ful a day to half a hundred, he
said, adding he has no indica
tion how long stepped-up pub
lic interest in air raid shelters
and survival plans will last.
Best advice he can give his
callers now is to “build a shel
ter, stock it well, and if that
siren goes off, get down below'
and fast,” Cook said.
Cook is one CD official who
feels the populace’s best!
chances for survival in the j
event of nuclear attack lie in j
having a fully-equipped fallout
shelter. Mass evacuation, he
feels, is impractical, because at
tack would come too suddenly
for large numbers of people to
flee from target areas.
He quoted a Johns Hopkins
University authority as saying
attempts at mass evacuation
would “merely redistribute the
carcasses.”
Support for Cook’s advocacy
of shelters has been echoed by
a number of county officials,
including County Council Pres
ident William F. Hickey, who
says “survival Is of prime im
portance. Every home should
have a shelter.”
President Kennedy in his mes
sage to the nation last week
strongly urged shelter construc
tion upon every homeowner
as “the very least you can do
for yourselves and your famil
ies. You owe it to them.”
The likelihood of as much as
an hour’s advance notice of an
enemy attack is remote, Cook
Mathias Names
Rockville Man
As Assistant
Rep. Charles M. Mathias, Jr„
has announced the designation
of Robert S. Hudspeth as ad
ministrative assistant on his
Washington staff. Hudspeth has
been legislative assistant to the
Congressman since January 3.
Previously, he served on the
staff of Congressman George
Meader during the 86th Con
gress. He is a graduate of Van
derbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn., and the American Uni
versity Law School, Washing
ton, D. C. He is currently a
member of the Marine Corps
Reserves, 13th Infantry Batta
lion, Washington, D. C.
The new administrative as
sistant lives at 717 Woodbum
rd., Rockville, with his wile and
I daughter, Naney.
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umbrella. Why they didn’t wait until the rain had stopped,
they didn’t say but it was evideht they were determined
to keep this and the other two give-away cars in spic and
span condition for viewing by carnival visitors. The grounds
on Rockville Pike will be open eveiy night from Monday
thi'ough August 19. —Photo by Ed Mervis
continued, adding that about
the only warning people are
likely to get is the “take cover
immediately” alert the three
minute, rising and falling wail
of sirens.
Evacuation plans are on hand
and have been publicized, Cook
said, but many more fallout
shelters in all types of business,
industrial and residential build
ings are a “must,” he tells his
questioners.
Cost of residential shelters
can range from as little as sev
eral hundred dollars to close to
$2,000, depending on how the
homeowner “wants to go about
it,” Cook explained. The Civil
Defense office has available, on
request, copies of the official
CD specifications for building
and supplying such basement
or outside underground facilities
j— a booklet which is fast be
j coming a runaway “best seller"
: across the nation. It is avail
xCble free.
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PLAYGROUND ART—Kathy Kelley of Hun
gerford (right) points out to coordinator
Lynn Burkhardt her winning entry in the
Rockville Recreation Department’s play
ground area contest last week. Kathy’s was
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The Montgomery County cen
ter will also provide area resi
dents with a listing of local shel
ter contractors and building
supply firms- as well as firms
offering reasonably-priced radio
active fallout detectors.
Among the county’s present
standby Civil Defense facilities
listed by Cook are equipment
for four aimy hospitals capable
of accommodating 200 casual
ties at Laytonsville, Damascus,
Poolesville and Gaithersburg
and six forward-treatment cen
ters in elementary, junior and
senior high schools throughout
the county.
The CD official urged county
residents to get first-aid train
ing which would come in handy
following an attack. At pres
ent, he said, there are "not
many” persons who have had
any CD preparedness instruc
tion.
Bernard Lolsell, director of the Rockville
Art Gallery. Most of the paintings will be
sent to Pinneburg, Germany, as part of the
"Sister City” exchange program. Photo by
Ed Mervis.
Fire Department
Carnival Opens
Monday Night
Bradley Blvd.
Construction
To Be Ended
There will be jubilation
abounding in Bethesda and
points west late this month
with the end of two years of
tra ff I c-tangling construction
work on Bradley blvd.
The Maryland Roads Com
mission this week announced
that final paving of the busy
thoroughfare should be fin
ished within the month, prob
ably within two weeks.
One side of the road has al
ready been paved for most of
the distance, according to L. E.
McCarl, road commission chief
of construction, and, with work
progressing on the rest of the
highway, he said he “could see
no reason” why it shouldn’t be
open in about two weeks.
Speculation as to how opti
mistic McCarl’s prediction is
was voiced by arear merchants
who, while hoping his promise
comes true, still have their
fingers crossed about it.
Some sort of celebration will
be in order, they agreed, if con
struction is completed on
schedule.
Rockville Man
To Represent
Group at Meet
DePauw University in Green
castle, Ind., will be the site of
the seventh Management Train
ing Seminar of the Lambda Chi
Alpha Fraternity. More than
300 undergraduate and 50 alum
ni members are expected to at
tend the five-day leadership con
ference August 27-31.
William J. Clark, 11007 Ral
ston rd., Rockville- a student at
the University of Maryland, will
represent his chapter at the
seminar. Clark has served his
chapter as social chairman and
president.
It’s carnival time again in
Rockville. One of Montgomery
County’s biggest events—the
Rockville Volunteer Fire De
partment Carnival—opens Mon
day night for a gala 12-night
run.
Carnival grounds on Rockville
pike will be open each evening
for the games, rides, conces
sions and other fun which make
carnival time “fun time” for
old and young alike. Dancing
and floor shows will be fea
tured nightly.
Rockville’s carnival is the
largest in the area and the only
one staged in permanent build
ings on the department’s own
carnival grounds. The dance
hall alone, where the floor
shows and well-known bands
are presented for dancing, con
tains 2,100 feet of elbow room.
In its past 24 seasons, the cax--
nival has been so successful
that it is the biggest source of
revenue for the Department.
Largely because of the carnival,
Rockville residents—u nlike
those other urbanized parts of
the county—pay no fire tax. Yet
area residents receive, at a mo
ment’s notice, fire and rescue
service of five pumpers- a res
cue squad truck, and two am
bulances with qualified and
trained personnel. Fire depart
ment members on their own
time, take courses In first aid
and intricate fire service from
the American Red Cross and
University of Maryland Fire ex
tension Sendee.
Rockvillites and people from
as far away as West Virginia,
flock to the carnival mainly to
have a good time. For a 20-cent
admission, they get a chance at
a big grounds prize given night
ly and access to the many game
stands, amusement rides, floor
show, dance partition and re
freshment stands.
Most popular attractions are
the two bingo stands and the
automobile give - aways. Out
standing prizes are awarded at
the bingo stands and this year
three automobiles, shiny and
new, will be given away. In
1935, county residents, in a spe
cial referendum, gave the Fire
Department and other non
profit community and church
groups the right to hold raffles
and bingo games.
The rides are operated by a
commercial firm. Everything
else is staged or staffed by the
75 volunteer firemen and their
families, plus friends of the de
partment who donate their
time.
i All pri zes —including the
automobiles, and the items like
I vacuum cleaners and record
j players as grounds prizes—are
j bought by the Department.
I Nothing is donated except the
j time and work of the volun
teers.
The carnival cateis to the
family trade. Only soft drinks
are sold, and any incipient
i rowdyism is discouraged by the
police and the firemen them
selves. The closest thing to
“big” trouble the carnival has
ever had was thq escape of a
mouse from the “guess-which
hole” mouse game. This game
is no longer used.
This 25th annual carnival
August 7 to 19 at the Rockville
VFD carnival grounds on Route
355 (Rockville Pike) at Richard
Montgomery dr., in Rockville,
promises to be one of the best
ever put on.
Outdoor Concert
Planned by Band
Sunday Evening
Another In its summer series
of concerts will be presented by
the Rockville Municipal Band
tomorrow night at 7 o’clock on
the Rockville Civic Center lawn.
The band is under the direc
tion of Frank R. Troy and is
sponsored by the City Recrea
tion Department. There Is no
charge for the concert.
Numbers to be presented will
Include “Star Spangled Ban
ner,” “Stepping Along,” “Saga
of the Hills,” 'To a Wild Rose,”
"My Old Kentucky Home” < with
Buzzy Troy as soloist), “New
Horizons,” "American Fron
tiers,” "The King and 1” and
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