Montgomery County sentinel. [volume], August 08, 1961, TUESDAY ISSUE, Image 1

About Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974

Image provided by: University of Maryland, College Park, MD

                
TUESDAY
ISSUE
10th Year - No. 4?—Published Thraa Tim*i Weekly—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND TUESDAY, AUGUST I, I*4l 8 PAGES GArdee 4-7700 5£ a Copy
Statement by Tawes
On Reapportionment
Gets Little Reaction
Repeats Pledge
Made During ’SB
Campaigning
Montgomery County’s "sec
ond-class citizens” have reacted
to Gov. J. Millard Tawes’
latest statement on reapportion
ment about as emphatically as
the Governor has acted on the
matter in the past.
Mirroring the Governor’s
slowness, county leaders have
shown little enthusiasm for the
statement by Tawes last week
that he will back reapportion
ment efforts at the next meet
ing of the Legislature.
According to reapportionment
backers, Tawes has paid little
more than lip service to giving
more equitable representation to
the more populous sections of
the State.
They say he has not used the
full influence of his office and
position as party leader in the
fight for reapportionment.
Tawes in a letter to the Mont
gomery County Democratic
Central Committee again
pledged his support, but turned
down the group’s request for
the appointment of a commis
sion to study apportionment and
districting problems in the
State.
Need Action, Not Study
"What we need is not more
study but action,” Tawes said.
"I intend to support the reap
portionment bill in the next ses
sion of the General Assembly
with all my strength as Gover
nor and my position as leader
of the Democratic Party.”
In his strongly-worded let+er.
Tawes asserted:
“Maryland cannot afford a
system that makes second class
citizens of its urban dwellers.”
No Response
There was no response to the
Governor’s letter by the county
‘Gallon Club’ Members
Bolster Blood Program
Giving always seems to come
easiest for those who give the
most. That’s why the Montgom
ery County Red Cross appealed
especially to some 750 donors
who have already donated a gal
lon or more blood to the Blood
Program in Montgomery Coun
ty
These- donors were asked to
“hypo” the summer doldrums
In blood-giving by making
another donation at the Blood
mobile visit, Monday, August 14,
between 3 and 7:45 p.m., at the
Chapter House, 2020 East-West
hwy., Silver Spring.
‘The response has been won
derful,” said Mrs. Lucy Ragon
net, volunteer blood recruitment
chairman. "Already almost 100
of our ‘Gallon Club' donors have
responded, and we expect more.
We would also like to get more
first-time donors for Blood
mobile visits in our county.”
One of the donors August 14
will be Sgt. Byron Souder, of
the Montgomery County Police
Department, stationed in Be
thesda. He will be donating the
pint that will bring his total of
Red Cross blood donations to
five gallons—a total of 40 pints
—an outstanding record. He
WSSC Booklet
Now Available
A newly revised Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
"Water-Sewage” pamphlet, con
taining concise information
about the functions of the
WSSC, came off the press this
tyeek.
The pocket-size brochure is
available on request from the
Commission's Public Informa
tion Office, 4017 Hamilton st.,
Hyatts ville.
Designed primarily for dis
tribution to new WSSC custom
ers and students, the brochure
includes a brief description of
the agency’s water supply and
sewerage systems, WSSC rates
and Commission oiganization.
In addition to the new bro
chure, copies of the WSSCs
annual report and the Potomac
River water supply develop
ment project book also may be
obtained free of charge from
the Commission* Public Infor
mation Office.
™ gnicra Cvmfhi Scitinel
committee, whose chairman,
Warren Browning, said the com
mittee has no plans to meet
soon.
"We probably will not meet
until next month,” he said.
Browning himself had no \
comment on the Governor’s |
letter. “I have not had a chance
to study it.”
Maintenance of "responsible ;
and responsive” goverment de
pends on a system of fair repre
sentation, Tawes said emphasiz
ing that Democrats in Maryland
should continue their work to
secure a reapportionment of the
State Legislature "so as to as
sure a fair representation in
that body.”
Waits on Redistricting
While voicing his support of
reapportionment, the governor
said he would rather wait for
the electorate to decide on the
additional issue of redistricting,
which awaits action by the
voters next year.
At that time, voters will be
asked to take their stand on the
recently-created Eighth Con
gressional District made up of
Prince Georges and Howard
Counties. Petitions for referen
dum on the redistricting have
been circulated with consider
able success.
“I believe in first things
first,” he told the Democratic
committee. "I want a reappor
tionment bill enacted in 1962.”
Describing the present coun
| ty unit system of voting in pri
maries for State officials as
“antiquated,” Gov. Tawes said
1 one of its results has been the
selection of candidates who do
j not represent a voting ma
' jority.
Reapportionment of the Gen
j eral Assembly, - he declared,
; would ease this problem, per
haps bring on a reappraisal of
i the county unit voting-system.
also expects to bring with him
a son, and possibly a daughter,
to make their contributions to
the Red Cross Blood Program
which he so unstintingly sup
ports.
Bloodmobile appointments
may be made early by dialing
JU. 8-2515 (and “walk-in” donors
will be welcome, too).
County Is Location of August
‘’Book of Month Club’ Selection
A Washington Grove author
drew heavily on Rockville and
other points of interest in Mont
gomery County in writing a
book which has been selected
as an alternate August selection
for “Book of the Month Club”
members.
Jack L. Salamanca of Wash
ington Grove is the author. The
ft mmmmr wt w v ■■■■■■■■■■■
-A Wut r.'.:
w■ Vrr M T
LOCAL AUTHOR—Washington Grove author Jack Salamanca,
whose latest novel, “Lilith” has gone into its third printing
and is an August alternate selection of the Book of the
Month Club, relaxes at his home with family pet Fritz.
Montgomery County points of interest figure prominently
in Salamanca’s book. —Photo by Ed Mervis
' /vv
91 .
j r I
■r jmm ■
.jjfij
Bf 1 " * ' J
W
4 ‘ SIP '
SAFETY FlßST—County PoHce Pvt. Ronald W. Wotenpool is
at the wheel of one of the county’s fleet of 1961 police cruis
ers. Each of the 23 new cars is equipped with seat belts,
padded dashboard and visor, and anti-fume device.
Teachers Receive Grants
From Language Group
Two area teachers of language
handicapped children are taking
special courses in their fields
with the assistance of a group
of parents, teachers and others
interested in those handicaps.
The Montgomery County As
sociation for Language Handi
capped Church presented schol
arships to Miss Helen M. Collins
of Rockville and Mrs. Rubye
Frye of Washington.
Miss Collins, with the hearing
program in the Special Educa
tion Department of the Mont
gomery County Education De
partment, is studying at Syra
cuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.
Miss Frye, a member of the
staff for the Kendall School for
the Deaf in Washington for a
number of years, will study at
the District of Columbia Teach
ers College.
Each received a SIOO scholar
ship from the association, which
was formally organized just two
years ago.
One of its purposes is to aid
teachers of language handi
book, recently serialized in a
national women’s magazine, is
called “Lilith.”
In it the town of Rockville is
thinly disguised as “Stonehurst”
The principal character becomes
a patient at a mental institution
called “Poplar Lodge,” which
bears a striking similarity to the
county’s Chestnut Lodge.
capped children in expanding
their knowledge in their fields.
The association meets month
ly during the fall, winter and
spring seasons to keep its mem
bers informed of progress in
work with language handi
capped children. A number of
prominent speakers has ap
peared before members to dis
cuss developments and tech
niques.
Membership exceeds 50, al
though there are a number of
other children with such handi
caps whose parents benefit
from activities of the associa
tion.
Sidney Rattner of Silver
Spring is president of the group.
Burke Wins Award
Charles Burke, owner of
Town & Country Electric Co.,
300 East Montgomery ave.,
Rcokville, has won an RCA Vic
tor scholarship to the National
Radio and Television Dealers
Institute of Management this
week at American University.
Salamanca’s characters walk
down Montgomery avenue in
"Stonehurst” to the drug store
—as Rockville residents do—go
to Great Falls for a picnic, and
complete in a jousting tourna
ment with a contestant called
"The Knight of Damestown.”
Although the author says his
locale "is not anything like a
1 literal or faithful transcription
of Rockville,” he admitted it is
natural that people living in this
area will draw similarities be
tween the places he mentions
and actual points of interest
here.
“A good deal of circumspec
tion was called for in identify
ing such a place as a mental
institution,” he emphasized.
"Towns and place names will, of
course, be familiar to people
'rom this part of Maryland."
He stressed, however, that
although his novel is placed in
a fairly contemporary period
just after World War II —any
attempt to compare actual per
sons now living in the county
with those in his book should be
avoided. His characters are
strictly fictional, he said.
"Lilith,"published by Simon &
Shuster, is the Washington
Grove author’s second novel, his
first being "The Lost Country,”
dealing with the area around
Charlottesville, Va., which was
published in 1958.
A full-time writer, Salamanca
now is writing a play, according
to his wife, the former Mlml
Norton, a neict of prominent
Potomac landowner Ray Norton.
Members of Salamanca’s own
family have been county resi
dents lor mon than 30 years.
Established 1855
Stiff Primary Fight Forecast
Lee Sticks to His Guns; Will
Run for United States Senate
Silver Spring Resident
Gets Civil Defense Post
A 38-year-old Silver Spring
man has been named assistant
director for training, education
and public affairs of the U. S.
Office of Civil Defense and Mo
bilization.
He is John E. Cosgrove, 3952
Lantern drive, whose nomina
tion was approved by the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
on Friday.
Cosgrove was named for the
position by President Kennedy
on July 24. Formerly the assis
tant director of training and ed
ucation of the AFL-CIO, he will
be responsible in his new posi
tion with OCDM for policy guid
ance and coordination of gov
ernment-wide public information
programs on civil defense and
mobilization, and civil defense
training programs for local,
state and federal officials.
In accepting the appointment,
Cosgrove said he considered it
“an honor” to be invited to work
in an agency “of such central
importance” as OCDM.
“I have been generally ac
quainted with its work through
bringing its program into the
workers’ and adult education
projects with which I have been
associated. As a lecturer in the
School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University, I am es
pecially aware of the nature of
the threat we face.”
Pointing out that much ot the
"training, education and public
affairs work of the program is
Spook Does It Again
In Finding Lost Boy
The sure nose and sharp
bark of Spook —a Metropoli
tan Police Department K-9
Corps dog led searchers to
the recovery of a lost three
year-old boy in upper Montgom
ery County over the weekend.
The lad, Martin Wooster, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Woo
ster, 2108 Seminary rd„ Silver
Spring, had been missing for
more than 10 hours in a wooded
area outside Boyds, where the
family had gone on an outing.
Almost 200 area policemen,
firemen and neighborhood vol
unteers . . . and Spook . . . had
joined in the search before the
dog’s bark sounded just after
■Kim
i |L '
■ JH *
, K v. JH -Mtm
'
W jfl
TAKES KEV CD POST—John E. Cosgrove of Silver Spring,
receives congratulations from Sen. Richard B. Russell of
Georgia, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
an Us appointment aa an assistant director of ths U. C. OX
t
carried on through other gov
erment agencies, he described
the purpose of his new assign :
ment as “to provide policy guid :
ance, coordination and stimula
tion.”
A native of Keokuk, lowa,
Cosgrove received his pre-legal
training at St. Ambrose College,
Davenport and graduated ffom
the University of Notre Dame
Law School with honors in 1948.
He was admitted to the lowa
bar the same year.
During World War 11. he
served as an aerial gunner with
the Army Air Corps for three
years.
Cosgrove, a Democrat, was
appointed attorney, Office of the
Solicitor, Department of Labor
in 1950. In 3951 he became Di
rector of Education. lowa State
Federation of Labor, AFL, and
in 1954 was appointed Assistant
Director .of Education, Ameri
can Federation of Labor, a posi
tion he retained with the merg
ing of the labor movements in
1956.
of r
He directed labor movement
participation in the 1955 White
House Conference on Education
and 1959 White House Confer
ence on Children and Youth.
He is a member of the Board
of Trustees of tfye Joint Com
mittee on Economic Education
and has been Consultant to the
Secretary of the Department of‘
Health, Education and Welfare
on National Education matters.
dawn Sunday from a thicket
about a thousand yards from
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nel
son Griggs on Baltimore rd.,
from which he had wandered.
Aside from a few scratches
and mosquito bites the little boy
was physically unharmed by his
night on the loose. Searchers
said that aside from grumpi
ness over the break in his nor
mal eating and sleeping habits,
he appeared undisturbed by his
experience.
It was Spook who was
credited with scenting out and
identifying the man accused of
raping and beating an Ashton
woman last Spring.
Spurns Tawes Offer of Place
On Incumbent’s Ticket in 1962
Backers of Blair Lee, 111, for
a seat in the United Stafcs Sen
ate were jubilant thte week over
the strong hand taken by Lee in
formally turnir < down a bid
from Governor Tawes to join
the administration ticket next
year as a candidate for Con
grepsman-at-large
Lee’s decisive statement put
ar. end to all speculation aDout
his intention to st<CK to his guns
and run against Tawes in next
year’s Democratic primaries
During the past week, con
cern had arisen about how
would respond to Tawes’ offer
to join the incumbent gover
nor’s slate in his bid f.r
another term—an offer which,
if accepted, would have had the
effect of bringing Lee into the
camp of the man whose admin
istration he has sharply criti
cized.
“I refuse to bite” at the
“political plum” Tawes offeied,
Lee announced firmlv.
The popular Montgomery
County Delegate to the Mary
land General Assembly left no
doubt where he stands, in a’
statement Issued this weekend.
With his refusal to ally himself
with Tawes, he has widened an
established rift in Democratic
circles which promises one of
the hottest fights in the State’s
history.
Labeling Tawes offer an at
tempt at “political manipula
tion,” Lee said m his forthright
statement that he viil be an
“anti-Tawes candidate” because
the U. S. Senate "In this peril
ous hour needs men rather than
puppets.”
Tawes’ offer was “surprising,”
Lee declared, ‘in view of the
many legislative disagreements
that we have had in the last
three years.
“There can be little doubt that
this is just another example of
the Tawes-Hocktr technique of
dangling plums in the path of
political opponents. I refuse to
bite.”
His referenco to Hocker had
First Aid Course
A Red Cross Standard First
Aid course will begin Tuesday,
August 15, at 8 p.m. at Mont
gomery County Red Cross
Chapter House, 2020 East West
hwy., Silver Spring. To register
for the class, phone the Cnapter
House, JU. 8-2515, weekdays 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
fiee of Civil Defense and Mobilization. Looking on in back
ground is Sen. Stuart B. Symington of Missouri, a member
of the committee which approved Cosgrove’s nomination by
President Kennedy on Friday. —CPI Photo
j #"
Blair lie, 111
to do with George Hocker, a
lobbyist for brewery Interests,
friend and advisor to Got.
Tawes, who has been charged
with influencing tne governor’ll
decisions.
“If candidates continue to be
bought off with this sort of poll*
tlcal manipulation,” Lee assert
ed, "the Democratic voters will
ultimately be deprived of a fair
choice in the primary election
and our party will lose its tradi
tional vigor and vitality."
The possibility of an alliance
by Lee with other anti-Tawes
candidates remained open fol
lowing his statement, with Lee
indicating he would wait a tew
weeks before deciding on run
ning mates for the nomination
of candidate-at-large and other
posts.
An earlier alliance of Lee
with Rep. Daniel Brewster pro
posed by the Staten "new era”
Democratic movement was
broken up when Brewster last
week decided to accept Tawes’
offer of running for the Senate
on the administration ticket
next spring.
The Young Democrats had
been hopeful of running Brew
ster for governor, Lee for the
Senate After Brewster’s ac
ceptance of the Tawes proposal,
L*e was asked to also join the
governor’s slate as the nominee
for candidate-at-large.
“I, for one, will remain as an
‘anti-Tawes candidate,” Lee de
clared. “I will seek election to
the United States Senate.’’
Lee’s action puts him in the
position of running against his
erstwhile ally, Brewster, for the
Senate seat