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BEST SUBDIVISION AWARDS —Winners of the County-spon
sored awards for the “Best Subdivisions of the Year” line up
with members of the judging committee and County Presi
dent William F. Hickey (left, center) to accept their plaques
at a meeting of the Council this week. Left to right: Marvin
Blumberg, Irving Diamond and Herschel Blumberg, officers
Rock Creek Woods in Kensington
amL-Flint Hill in Bethesda have been
the best subdivisions of the year
■ —in Montgomery County.
Decision was made by a committee
appointed by the Montgomery County
Council. Awards are designed to encour
age land developers to make maximum
use of trees and natural topography in
subdivisions.
First award for best subdivision with
lots averaging less than 10,000 went to
Rock Creek Woods on Connecticut ave.,
a half mile southwest of the avenue’s
future intersection with Viers Mill rd.
Flint Hill won the award for sub
divisions with lots of more than 10,000
square feet but less than an acre in size.
It is situated just south of River rd., a
third of a mile west of Wilson la.
Honorable mention in the 10,000 or
Board of Education Okays
Plans For New Jr. College
Plans for a second junior college in Montgomery Coun
ty moved ahead this week with the approval by the Board
of Education of a proposal that the new 1,500-student
facility be completed within the next three years.
The School Board was urged by a special advisory
group to begin construction of
the second community college 1
"as soon as possible” to relieve :
crowded conditions at the exist
ing Montgomery Junior College
in Takoma Park.
Final negotiations for pur
chase of the proposed 89-acre
site for the second junior col- 1
lege campus, on Route 355 north
of Rockville, are pending the :
city’s annexation of the prop
erty. A hearing on the annex- :
ation request has been set by
the Mayor and Council for Dec.
18.
School Supt. C. Taylor Whit
tier said at the school board’s :
meeting this week that a re
quest for $3.8 million to get the
new junior college under way i
may be included in the 1962-63 <
County Police Department
Promotes Five Officers
The promotion of Lt. Frank
R. Griggs of the Police Depart
ment’s Juvenile Aid Bureau to
Detective Lieutenant in charge
of the Rockville station’s detec
tive bureau heads a list of five
police force promotions an
nounced by the county this
week.
Det Lt. Griggs, whose promo
Rock Creek Woods And Flint Hill Have Been
Named The Best Subdivisions Of The Year
budget he will submit next
month.
The Junior college advisory
group, headed by former school
board member Willard McGraw,
told the board the new facility
can anticipate an eventual en
rollment of as many as 3,000
students as it accommodates
more and more of the increas
ing number of high school
graduates in the county each
year.
Montgomery Junior College,
with a present enrollment of
2,100 students, can anticipate
more than twice that number
within the next decade, said the
committee, which was appoint
ed last year to look into pro
tion became effective with the
others on Wednesday, will fill
the vacancy created recently by
the retirement of Det. Lt. Jesse
B. Day from the Rockville bu
reau.
In another promotion, Det.
Sgt. Albert D. Harris will be
transferred from the Silver
Spring detective bureau and
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larger class went to Granby Woods on
Muncaster rd., about two miles northeast
of Redland.
There was no award for subdivisions
larger than an acre in size.
Members of the committee are offi
cers of seven groups in thejgounty.
Site planning and architecture for
Rock Creek Woods was by Charles M.
Goodman Association, with development
by Bancroft Construction Company.
“. . . The committee believes Rock
Creek Woods has been unusually suc
cessful in preserving the natural terrain,
minimizing erosion, conserving trees and
natural growth, and achieving a sense of
serenity and spaciousness not often as
sociated with lots of this size.” The lots
average something more than 8000
square feet. There are 79 houses in the
subdivision.
of the Bancroft Construction Co., builders of the subdivision
which won first award with lots averaging less than 10,000
square feet. Rock Creek Woods, accepting their plaque from
Mr. Hickey; W. Lawson King; member of the Montgomery
County Planning Board, presents the first place award for
best subdivision with lots of more than 10,000 square feet to
posals for four new junior col
leges in the county.
State funds totalling $5 mil
lion for the construction of jun
ior colleges in Montgomery and
other counties were voted in the
last session of the legislature.
Mayor Greene Named to
Council of Maryland League
Mayor Alexander J. Greene
was elected to the council of
the Maryland Municipal League
at its 14th annual convention
held in Cumberland last week.
More than 240 miunicipal offi
cials attended the convention to
discuss the ways of meeting in
creased population growth, the
need for more open space, the
methods for financing local gov
ernment and Improving manage
ment techniques.
Panel sessions were held to
discuss the problems of zoning,
made a lieutenant In the Juve
nile Aid Bureau in Rockville.
Detective Cpls. Thomas E.
Hardesty, William H. Jessie and
Guy V. Lewis were promoted to
detective sergeants. Hardesty
and Lewis will remain in the
Rockville detective bureau while
Jessie will remain in the detec
i live bureau in Silver Spring.
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Flint Hill site planning and archi
tecture was done by Keyes, Lethbridge,
and Condon, with development by Ben
nett Construction Company, Inc. It in
cludes 42 houses.
“The lots in Flint Hill,” the com
mittee said, “'have a wide variety in
shape and size. The location of each' ,
house on its lot was carefully studied in
order to relate it to the topography, con
serve existing trees, and achieve pleas
ant outlooks. Monotony and regimenta
tion have been completely avoided, and
the project has been unusually success
ful in meeting the objectives of this com
petition.”
Granby Woods with site engin
eering by R. K. Maddox, and house lo
cation, adaptation of stock plans and de
velopment by Morris and Shreffler
Builders, Inc. has 32 houses in its
first section. A second section will have
Rockville Is Finalist
Rockville is one of 22 final
ists for the All America
Cities Award for the second
time in seven years. The lo
cal community won an award
for good government and citi
zen participation in civic af
fairs in 1954.
The competition is nation
wide and sponsored by the
National Municipal League
and Look Magazine. Final
awards to eleven cities will
be made after hearings in
Miami, Fla.
recreation, budgeting, refuse
collection and disposal, snow re
moval and international muni
cipal cooperation. A resolution
was passed urging the State of
Maryland to appropriate funds
to continue the water pollution
control grant-in-aid program to
local governments.
The League also established a
committee to study the ways
and means of meeting local re
sponsibilities in the protection
of citizens in the event of local
attack.
Frank B. Griggs
*'Established 1855
Edmund J. Bennett, president of the Bennett Construction
Co. which developed Flint Hill, while Blair Lee 111, chair
man of the County Council’s Advisory Committee on Soil
Erosion, Natural Topography and Open Space Planning, and
Julius Hoke, president of the Montgomery County Civic
Federation, look on. —Photo by Ed Mervis
Lockwood Group Drops
Offer to Assist Club
Met with an “antagonistic” response to their offer
to take over the financially-harassed Lakewood Country
Club outside Rockville, a group of private investors this
week dropped their offer and left club members and di
rectors holding their same old bag of troubles.
Withdrawal of the offer
climaxed a two-hour meeting
between some 1,500 members,
directors and the investment
group headed by Montgomery
County housing developer War
ren M. Lockwood, which had
been called to discuss two sep
arate plans for salvaging the
affairs of the long-stymied coun
try club.
The Lockwood group proposed
to come up with more than $1
million to straighten out the
club’s tangled financial affairs
—5400,000 for completing the
building of the Lakewood club
house and other facilities; $500,-
000 to buy the 174 acres of land
now owned by, Glen Hill Club
Estates, Inc., and another SIOO,-
000 to take over the interest of
the club’s original founders—
Albert D- Harris
33 houses.
“The committee recommends honor
able mention for this subdivision because
of its comfortable domestic character,
and the pleasant way in which its houses
are located in their woodland setting.”
Members of the committee included
Julius Hoke, {sesdent of the Montgonw
ery County Civic Federation; Mrs.
O’Neal Johnson, president of Federation
of Montgomery County Women's Clubs;
Blair Lee, 111, chairman of the Soil
Erosion Committee; William R. McCal
lum, president of the Allied Civic Group;
Lathrop Smith, chairman of the Mont
gomery County Soil Conservation Dis
trict; Arthur Stellhom, director of plan
ning for the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission; and
Warren Vinton, president of the Mont
gomery County Citizens Planning Asso
ciation.
Troy V. Post. William Allen and
Leroy W. Pickett.
In return for this, the Lock
wood interests sought to own
and operate the club, maintain
ing the board of directors as an
advisory group.
Under the second plan, ad
vanced by the board of direc
tors, the club’s construction
would be completed by the land
owners and a professional man
ager would be hired by the
membership to run the club.
Both plans, including diver
gent proposals for handling out
standing financial obligations of
the club, were sent In writing to
members last month, under In
structions from District Court
Judge Leonard P. Walsh—in
whose hands suits against the
founders now rest—that they
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William EL Jessie
WSSC Budget
Will Boost
Service Rate
Average of Three Dollar Increase
Has Been Proposed for Next Year
Increases averaging three dollars annually in charges
for both sewer use and refuse collection were proposed for
Montgomery County residents this week as the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commission announced it would
like to raise its rates next year.
The rate Increases are called
for In a 1962 budget proposed
by the WSSC, which seeks $40,-
727,000 In operating funds—
more than three-quarters of a
million below 1961’s all-time
high appropriation.
An increase of three cents—
from 19 to 22 cents—per 1000
gallons of water used Is sought
In sewer rates, for an estimated
jump In cost of about $3 annu
ally to homeowners.
A flat 25-cent a month rise
In refuse collection charges—
from $2.23 to $2.50 would
similarly cost county residents
served by WSSC $3 more a
year.
The current water rate of 25
cents per 1000 gallons would
remain unchanged, under the
Commission’s proposals for next
year.
Need for the increase in
sewer rates lies in rising costs
of using the District’s Blue
Plains disposal plant and to a
multi-million dollar sewer line
construction program, the Com
mission said.
The rise in the refuse collec
tion rate is intended to cover an
anticipated deficit of over $137,-
000 in the service next year.
The collection service has been
operated at a loss of about
$250,000 annually In recent
years.
Reduction In the overall budg
et, according to James J. Lynch,
WSSC treasurer, who prepared
it for the commission’s appro
val, Is due to reduced expenses
for the new sl2 million Potomac
water supply and development
project, which is near comple
tion.
A public hearing on the
budget has been set for 8 p.m.
in the WSSC meeting room,
4017 Hamilton st., Hyattsville.
Total revenues for the year
ahead are estimated at $19.5
million. In addition, the WSSC
also proposes to float a sls mil
lion bond issue next year to fi
nance its budget costs.
Capital construction outlay
alone next year is planned to
total $22.5 million, with a major
item construction of water main
and sewer installations costing
$8.2 million, to be financed by
front-foot assessments on prop
erty owners.
In addition to the $5.5 million
sewer projects, the budget con
templates outlays of $3.3 mil
lion for water supply projects,
$3 million for storage drainage
projects and another $2.4 mil
lion for installation of house
connections.
Population served by WSSC
facilities by the end of 1962 Is
expected to be well over the
650,000 mark in both prince
Georges and Montgomery Coun
ties.
Harvest Square Dance
The P-TA of Holiday Park
Elementary School, Wheaton,
will hold its Harvest Square
Dance, Fri., Nov. 10, from 8:30
p.m. to 12 a.m.
The proceeds of the dance
will be used for the needs of
the Holiday Park School chil
dren. Admission to the dance
will be 75c per couple.
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Thomas E. Hardesty
Mutual Lifts
Freeze On
Deposits
Declaring its freeze on de
posits this week was “legal,
moral and proper,” Mutual
Security Savings and Loan
Association has announced
its seven offices In suburban
Maryland are now honoring re
quests for withdrawals up to
S2OO and that the firm expects
to remove all restrictions on
withdrawals by mid-week.
At the same time, Its board
of directors, made up of Mont
gomery County businessmen,
has expressed full confidence
in the firm’s ‘‘stability, policies
and management” under Rob
ert H. Symonds, "who remains
and has always been” Mutual’s
president.
"Mutual Security, frankly,
was caught short by the unfav
orable publicity afforded Fam
ily Home Savings and Loan,”
%ld a Tnembev- PSsfcid spokes
man for the board of directors.
He said the firm paid out
over $40,000 in withdrawals last
Saturday. By Tuesday, new re
quests had risen to $70,000,
from about 40 depositors. The
total was over SIIO,OOO by
Thursday.
Could Jeopardize Accounts
‘‘lf this ‘run’ had continued,"
he said, “it could have seriously
jeopardized the other $3 million
in savings accounts until the
corporation was able to re
trench by liquidating sufficient
assets to cover the with
drawals."
The temporary freeze was
put Into effect simply to allow
time to convert Investments in
to cash to meet the demand, he
said.
"Jhis has been done and will
continue to be done until all
withdrawal demands are met,"
he said.
Mutual Security expects to
honor “any and all obligations,
regardless of amount," by mid
week, the board member said.
“It’s plain to see that in or
der to continue to pay our high
5 per cent annual dividend, a
savings loan company must in
vest its deposits as rapidly and
profitably as possible, keeping
only a relatively small cash bal
ance on hand,” the spokesman
declared.
“When a ‘run’ such as this
begins, the one thing this type
of business needs is time to
convert so-called ‘frozen assets’
into cash to meet its depositors’
requests.”
Deposits Continue
A steady flow of deposits has
somewhat offset the surge of
withdrawals in recent days, he
revealed.
“Every office in the system
has received increased deposits
from present savers. One of
fice alone showed a net gain
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