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TUESDAY
ISSUE
Only Montgomery County
Member of Audit Bureau
of Circulation.
04th Year . No. 05—Published Thro* Time* Weekly—Tueiday, Thursday and Saturday ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IV, 1941 • PAGES GArdaa 4-7700 §£ a Copy
Group on Access
To Schools to Meet
Five Agencies To Be Represented
In Effort To Provide Sidewalks
Montgomery County members of the five agencies
xmcerned with roads and sidewalks giving access to the
public schools will meet September 26 to plan cooperative
efforts in providing these facilities.
The meeting, the first of its kind, will be held in the
Board of Education Building in
Rockville at 8 p.m. It was
called by the Board's Advisory
Committee on Access, Safety
and School Transportation for
Children, which is composed of
13 lay citizens appointed last
June.
R. Ward Crary, chairman of
the committee, has invited J.
Newton Brewer of the Mont
gomery County Planning
Board; William B. Wheeler,
Wasshington Suburban Sani
tary Commission; William L.
Shook, district engineer of the
Maryland State Roads Commis
sion; Harold F. Breimyer, Mont
Damascus Fair Opens
2-Day Stand Thursday
Sixteenth annual Damascus Community Fair will be
held Thursday and Friday at the Damascus High School,
with more than SBOO in premiums.
The fair is sponsored by the Damascus Future
Farmers of America, Future Homemakers of America and
Parent-T eacher Association.
There will be no admission
charge and no entry fees.
Entries will be accepted form
5 p.m. Wednesday through 10
i.m. Thursday. Ribbons are to
be given for first, second, third
nd grand champion places.
Cages will be furnished for all
poultry and animals.
Agricultural judges are to be
selected by the Fair committee. J
Features will include a live
stock show at 1:30 p.m. and ®
junior horse show at 5 p.m.
Thursday.
Competitive classes are sched
uled in these categories: dairy,
beef, sheep, swine, poultry,
fruits, vegetables, hay, grains,
canned products, baked goods,
candy, soap, needlework, hob
bies and handicrafts.
Entries will be accepted from
the public for all categories ex
cept the livestock and horse
show, which are to be restricted
to school children.
Roger Day is overall chair
man for the fair.
Constitution Week
Wider observation of Constitu
tion Week was requested of all
Gaithersburg citizens by Mayor
Merton F. Duvall in an appeal
through the local press.
With continued subversive ef
forts to destroy the American
way of life and our free enter
prise system, the Mayor encour
aged citizens to give evidence
of their patriotism by public
display of the American flag
during Constitution Week, Sep
tember 17-23.
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SCIENCE AWARD WINNER— Dr. James A.
Van Allen (third from left), winner of the
Franklin Institute’s Elliott Cresson Medal, is
shown talking with friends at the Applied
Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in Silver Spring. Dr. Van Allen head
ed the upper altitude research group at APL
In the late 1940's and 1950’s and was a leader
rf“ 4 ‘“fri fmill SrMiiri
gomery County Board of Edu
cation; and a member of the
Montgomery County Council to
meet with the committee. Also
present will be staff members
from the different agencies.
Participants will discuss dif
ferences in the policies of the
five agencies on providing
: roads, sidewalks and other fa
cilities to the schools. Also un
der discussion will be the effect
of these differences on the se
-1 lection of sciiool sites and the
problems of pupil transporta
■ tion.
Damascus
FFA Cited
Nationally
Damascus High School’s
of Future Farmers
! of America will receive the
I Gold Emblem Award at the
. 1 FFA National Convention as
; a result of chapter accomplish
'! ments for the year just com
' pleted.
, Charles Cramer, Damascus
. FFA president, will be on hand
at the National FFA Conven
tion at Kansas City in October
1 to accept the chapter’s award
• and recognition.
I This is the second consecu
tive year that Damascus chap
ter has received this top rating.
Williamsport FFA Chapter of
Washington County also will re
ceive the Gold Emblem Award
during the National Convention.
Last year’s Damascus officers
1 included Tommy Poole, presi
dent; Chuck Cramer, vice-presi
-1 dent; Herbert Duvall, secretary;
Carl Cline, reporter; James
King, treasurer; Charles Brown
-1 ing. sentinel; and L. E. Tolley,
advisor.
; The chapter has been rated
: among the first five in the
; state for the last three years
• and has achieved a ’superior”
rating for the last five years.
In the discovery of the radiation belts
around the earth which now bear his name.
With him are (left to right) Frank Swaim,
George Bush, Dr. G. F. Pieper and Stanley
Kowall of APL's space exploration group.
Dr. Van Allen is now a member of the lowa
State University faculty.
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HOME AT I*A.ST—Four-month-old Susie Speidel, ready lor her
first trip home from Suburban Hospital, gets a brace of
beaming smiles from parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Spei
del of Rockville, and Mrs. Duane Eaton, registered nurse
in charge of Suburban’s nursery, bids her goodbye. Susie
has been the hospital's pet since she was born May 10, three
months premature and weighing less than two pounds. Since
then she has battled a case of pneumonia in addition to the
breathing difficulty normally experienced by premature ba
Miss Shugars
Will Direct
Health Fund
Miss Mary Jean Shugars has
been appointed director of the
Montgomery County HeaKh
Fund. Inc., an agency to pro
vide hospitalization, clinic care
and miscellaneous medical serv
ices to persons unable to pur
< hase them and are not eligible
through any other local agency.
Miss Shugars, who began her
work September 7, came from
the Hospital Service Agency in
Washington. She is a gradua*e
of Shippensburg, Pa., State
Teachers College and has done
graduate work at George Wash
ington University and American
University.
The Health Fund is an agency
which derives all its funds from
the United Givers Fund cam
paign and is a member of the
Health and Welfare Council.
Twins Association
Mrs. Laura Dittman, child de
velopment specialist, will dis
cuss "Child Development and
Growth” at a meeting of the
Maryland Mothers of Twins
Association at 8:30 p.m. Tues
day, September 26, at Bethesda
Methodist Church, 8300 Old
Georgetown rd.
Learn to Communicate
The complaint by members of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission that the Park and
Planning Commission failed to submit its plans to
them before they adopted their sewer program .re
minds us of a child who tries to blame others for his
own shortcomings.
The question here is not whether the planners
did not consult with the sanitary agency—and this
has been denied by the planning commission. The
planners claim their master plans were discussed in
preliminary form before the Coordinating Commit
tee, of which William B. Wheeler of the Sanitary
Commission is a member.
The real question is why Sanitary Commission
engineers have shown a regrettable tendency to
stand on ceremony and await a formal invitation
from the Planning Commission to discuss the plans.
This is the crux of the matter, because this is
what the sanitary agency’s complaint actually boils
down to. The planners didn’t invite as to discuss the
plans, say the sanitary engineers, and so we didn’t
consider them when we made up our sewer program.
When a public agency adopts such an attitude, it
is time to remind its officials that they are supposed
to serve the people, not themselves.
j It is a matter of public record that the Park
and Planning Commission held public hearings on its
master plans before adopting them. It is also a mat
ter of public record that representatives of the Sani
tary Commission attended the hearings.
Even before the hearings, there was a full notice
in the newspapers that the Planning Commission was
working on the plans.
If, somehow, the Sanitary Commission failed to
receive the information it claims it should have had,
either from its representatives who attended the
hearings or from its representative through hi 3 posi
tion on the Coordinating Committee, it is no one’s
fault except the Sanitary Commission.
This is not to say that the Park and Planning
Commission is entirely without blame. The planners
should have made every effort to acquaint the Sani
tary Commission engineers with the details of the
plans as they were being formulated.
If they did not, it still does not relieve, the Sani
tary Commission of the responsibility of taking the
initiative. All the sanitary engineers had to do was
to pick up the phone and call the planners. This
they apparently refused to do.
Another lesson to be learned here is the neces
sity for the Coordinating Committee to keep official
minutes of its meetings, and to send these minutes
to all of the agencies represented. Then there would
be no question of what was discussed and whether
everyone on the committee was notified of what was
going on.
Vitro Receive* Navy Contract
The U. S. Navy’s Bureau of |
Naval Weapons has awarded a
$585,000 contract to Vitro Lab
oratories in Silver Spring for ,
the continuation of engineering
services on one of its most mod
ern torpedo weapons systems
now in service.
The antisubmarine warfare
weapon system was recently de
veloped by Vitro on a previous
Navy contract. Details of the j
torpedo were not released lor
Established 1855
bies. During her weeks at the hospital, Susie showed “amaz
ing strength and vitality,” according to Dr. Francis J.
Troendle, pediatrician in charge. She weighed five pounds
when she went home last week. Mi’s. Eaton Is sitting in a
white rocker inscribed, "To All My Mothers from Susie
Speidel,” donated to the hospital by Susie's parents, who
lived at 2311 Pinneburg dr. Mr. Speiled is an art instruc
tor at Newport Junior High School in Kensington. The
Speidels have one other child, David, 6.- Brooks Photo.
security reasons.
Vitro Laboratories, a division
of Vitro Corporation of Ameri
ca, is systems engineering co
ordinator on the U. S. Navy's
Polaris, Terrier, Tartar and Ta
los missile weapons systems and
also operates the Air Force’s
Eglin Gulf Test Range, site of
development tests of medium
and short-range missiles, space
probes and electronic ocunter
meaauraa.
Antique Sale
Will Feature
HarixxQjiicon
In connection with the
third Antique Show and
Sale being held today
through Thursday at the
Parish Hall in Olney, the
committee for St. John’s Epis
copal Church has arranged to
have a "Grand Haimonicon or
Musical Glasses,” on exhibit.
This is an interesting example
of one of the novelties in mus
ical instruments which have
been invented from time to time
over the years.
In the 18th century musical
glasses became the rage in
Europe, particularly in England
and Germany. Gluck, Mozart
end even Beethoven composed
fer them. At first the music
was performed by means of dip
ping a finger in water and run
ning it over the rims of v/ine
glasses.
Several men are said to have
conceived the idea of producing
a regular instrument for the
glasses. One of them who did
was Benjamin Franklin. His in
vention consisted of specially
blown glasses mounted longi
tudinally on a spindle turned by
means of a foot treadle. He
called this a "harmonica.” In
1825 Francis Hopkins Smith of
Virginia patented his instru
ment which he called the Grand
Harmonicon. This consisted of a
box or chest on legs with a
sounding board. Mounted on the
sounding board were 25
stemmed glasses without bases.
As well as being musical instru
ments, all the examples are fine
pieces of furniture. The one to
be exhibited at the show has
been loaned by Miss Emma
Muncaster in whose family It
has been for many years.
There will also be on display
other special exhibits and a
varied showing of antiques for
sale by the dealers who are ex
hibited at the show. Luncheons
and dinners will be served by
the ladies of the church. The
proceeds of the show are to
pay for various improvements
to the Parish Hall and School.
Children’* Art Show
The Community Arts Associ
ation opened Its annual exhibi
tion of children’s paintings at
the Silver Spring Library, 8901
Colesville rd., last week for a
two-week run ending Saturday,
September 30. Children aged 6
to 14 enrolled in the associa
. tion’s creative art classes are
I the artists.
Collect the Trash,
But Don’t Dump
Where Planned
Citizens Oppose Location of New
Incinerators Wanted bv Council
J
Montgomery County residents strongly favor the
Council’s plan to take over refuse collection but they op
pose just as strongly the county heads’ proposal for dis
posing of the trash.
This was brought out clearly at a Council hearing
on the subject last week. .
Refuse is now collected by
the Washington Suburban Sani
tary Commission. About 40 per
cent of it is burned in the com
mission’s incinerator at Lyttona
ville and the remainder is
buriea in land-fills in Montgom
ery and Prince Georges coun
ties.
In deciding to take over the
service, the Council wants to
build a new incinerator on part
of the Poor Farm east of Route
70 S near Rockville and to ex
pand the sanitary agency’s
Lyttonsville incinerator near
Rosemary Hills.
Both locations ran into stiff
opposition, however, at last Fri
day’s public hearing.
Mayor Alexander J. Greene of
Rockville contended the Poor
Farm incinerator would "throw
a pall of smoke over the city”
and give passing motorists an
WSSC Plans
Storm Drain
Bid Opening
Bids will be opened on Sep
tember 25 for construction of
3,485 feet of storm drains de
signed to relieve flooding con
ditions in the vicinity of WU
consin ave and Leland st.. Be
thesda, the Washington Subur
ban Sanitary Commission re
ported this week.
The project, expected to cost
more than SIIO,OOO, will include
the installation of 15-inch
through 42-inch reinforced con
crete pipe storm drains in por
tions of Wisconsin ave., Inland
st., Strathmore st. and Welling
ton dr.
In addition, the WSSC this
week approved a $70,000 storm
drainage project, to enclose an
existing stream from Linden
ave. to Alta Vista ter., along
Maple ave. in the Alta Vista
area of Bethesda. The authori
zation is subject to a public
hearing to be held in the near
1 future.
The Alta Vista project in
volves installation of more than
1,500 feet of storm drain pipes,
ranging in size from 18 to 60
inches in diameter. The project
is bordered on the north by
park property.
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HEADS COMPUTER FACIIJTV— Vitro Laboratories of SUver
Spring has named George W. Lund head of the expanding
computer facility operated by the firm's research and study
department. Lund, who came here from Cook Technological
Center, Morton Grove, 111., lives with his wife ana two
daughters at 14006 Parkland dr., Rockville.
“adverse impression” of the
city.
Similar opinions were voiced
by residents of residential com
munities around Lyttonsville.
They also predicted that expan
sion of the incinerator there
would result In “a garbage
truck a minute” through their
areas.
The Council took the matter
under advisement, adding that
written statements would be ac
cepted from the public for 15
more days.
Planning
Film Now
Available
Suburban Maryland planner*
have turned to motion pictures
to help explain their activities
to residents of fast-growing
Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties.
A 20-minute sound and color
film, showing how planning
glides the orderly growth of
the two counties, has Juat been
completed by the Maryland-
National Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission.
It is available without charge
to business, civic and service
groups, as well as other Inter
ested organizations. Requests
should be addressed to the com
mission’s public relations office
in Riverdale or Silver Spring.
The film, entitled ‘Tomorrow
Begins Today,” also may be bor
rowed from libraries in Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
counties.
Since its establishment by
the Maryland General Assembly
in 1927, the bi-county agency
has expanded its jurisdicion
from 135 square miles with 60,-
000 inhabitants to 906 square
miles with a population of more
than 700,000.
During that time, the commis
sion has acquired approximate
ly 6,000 acres of parkland and
has adopted more than a score
of plans including a general
plan covering the 294 square
miles under the planners’ juris
diction prior to June, 1957.
The general plan Is now being
revised to include areas added
to the commission's Jurisdiction
since 1937. It is expected to be
completed late this year.