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AUTOGRAPHS, PLEASE Butch Israel,
right, Richard Montgomery High School
football star named All-County “Back of the
Year” put his autograph on a cast worn by
Rod Breedlove of the Washington Redskins
Cahoon Says: We Must Know
Development Growth Patterns
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Montgomery County officials must know
the kinds of development patterns that will
characterize the county’s growth in order to
prepare now for financing the necessary pub
lic services.
This was the message brought to a com
bined meeting of the Rockville Chamber of
School Choristers Present Festival
Takoma Park Junior High
School’s A Cappella Choir and
ninth grade chorus will present
the annual ‘Winter Holiday
Music Festival” at 8 p.m. Tues
day, Dec. 12 in the gymnasium.
More than 100 students will
participate in the concert, sing
ing music in celebration of both
The Christmas Fund For 90 Is Receiving Excellent Response
This week The Sentinel initiated an annual drive
for a Christinas Fund for 90 of our senior citizens who
are in various Nursing Homes in the county.
These older citizens are solely supported by Coun
ty funds. And these funds run to about $3.25 a day
which is barely enough to feed them. As a matter of
fact, the private Nursing Homes lose money on these
patients but they feel that this method of caring for
our elder citizens is better than having a county-owned
and operated Old Age Home.
The idea of this Christmas Fund for 90 is to get
at least SI,OOO so that each of them can receive a use
ful gift on Christmas morning. Most of them need
and would appreciate nightgowns, bathrobes, slippers,
and perhaps, some cash.
More importantly, however, we believe these won
derful senior citizens will appreciate more the idea
that there are those of us here in the county who re-
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team, while another RMHS team member.
Bob Pine, waits his turn. Occasion was the
Rockville Lions Club’s annual banquet this
week for their local high school’s football
team. —Ed Mervls Photo
Commerce with other chamber presidents by
County Council President David L. Cahoon.
Speaking at the Shady Grove Country
Club December 6, Cahoon warned against a
continuation of the growth pattern that has
characterized the Washington-Metropolitan
area since 19a0.
The Council President said that such a
pattern would make serious inroads on the
County's ability to finance schools, highways,
police protection and other essential services.
“We don’t want to see another Wheaton
stretching over the horizon as far as Fred
erick County,” he declaimed.
Instead, Cahoon supported the idea of
concentrated clusters of population along
heavily travelled corridors, with satellite
cities. This is the plan proposed in the Year
2,000 blueprint.
Although Cahoon had been scheduled
to speak on the three-area watershed plans
prepared by the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, Cahoon
studiously avoided any mention of the three
proposals.
In answer to a question, however, the
Council President said he was concerned over
the plans’ failure to show clearly their pur
pose and objective.
In answer to another question, he em
phasized that there was “nothing personal”
in his opposition to the three plans.
Mr. Cahoon, in exchanging views with
J. Newton Brewer. Vice Chairman of the
Planning Commission, indicated that the
Council would hear a review of county plan
ning by Harland M. Bartholomew, consul
tant to Planning Commission, this week.
Christmas and Hanukkah. Four
of the compositions to be per
formed have been arranged
especially for the chorus and an
instrumental group of 12 play
ers.
Prepared by Mrs. Ethel Os
teen and John Scott of the
school’s music department, the j
program will also Include two'
folk dances choreographed by
Mrs. Osteen and performed by
a group of girls from the ninth
grade chorus.
An overflow audience attend
ed the winter music festival
last year, and the sponsoring
P-TA anticipates an equally
large turnout for the perform
ance next week.
member them not only at Christmas but maybe on
the other days of the year.
At one of the homes is a fine old lady who was
at one time one of the most popular workers in the
county government. We’ll call her Mrs. Raymond.
That isn’t her real name.
When she worked for the county, Mrs. Raymond
was always doing little things for her fellow workers.
They loved her. And while she didn’t make a big
salary, she made enough to keep her in fairly good
style. When she grew older and had to retire, she
received a pension check of about $75 a month.
This wasn’t much, but it was enough to supplement
a little she was able to make working a few days a
month.
But it wasn’t too long before she couldn’t work.
She became iIL Had to go to a hospital. The hospital
Butler Announces
He Will Not Run
For Senate Again
Gives Personal Reasons
For His Surprise Decision
In a surprise move late this week, Maryland’s Re
publican Senator John Marshall Butler announced he will
not seek re-election next year for a third term in Con
gress.
The announcement, which put Marylacd politics in the
national spotlight, has had two
major aftermaths: widespread
guesswork as to who will run
on the Republican ticket for
Senator in Butler’s place next
year, and a biggar-than-ever job
for Republicans hopeful of
swelling the 35-member minor
ity strength they now hold in
the Senate, where the Demo
crats now have 65 seats.
A flurry of speculation that
former Republican Governor
Theodore R. McKeldin might
seek the Senate seat to be va
cated by Butler was squelched
within hours by McKeldin him
self, who said he has no inter,
est in it.
“If conditions are right, if the
people want me, I would con
sider running for governor,”
McKeldin said, adding that his
interests and training have al
ways been “In the administra
tive, rather than the legislative
field.”
Additional speculation that
Butler might make a try for the
governorship following his Sen
ate service was dispelled by
both a spokesman for Butler’s
office— who said the Senator
“will be retiring from public of
fice and politics”— and Butler,
who told reporters he has no
immediate plans to return at
some later date to public life
and service.
The 64-year-old Butler is a
Baltimore attorney. He served
on the Baltimore City Service
Commission from 1947 until
elected to the Senate in 1950.
His retirement from politics,
he said this week, will be for
"compelling personal reasons.”
He acknowledged that his wife’s
health was a factor in his deci
sion to step down after his sec
ond term ends next December.
Early comment on Butler’s
decision came from a highly
placed Democratic party offic
ial. Clarence Long, acting State
party chairman, said he felt the
decision "was a great break for
Maryland” and said he was con
fident Butler could not have
won re-election.
Long said there were two ob
vious reasons why Butler could
not have been re-elected one,
what he called Butler’s “dismal
voting record and negative
thinking,” and the other, that
Butler was "faced with the ob
vious fact that Maryland Dem
ocrats are putting forth a
strong ticket for 1962.”
Congressman Daniel Brewster
of the Second Congressional
District filed Monday for the
Democratic nomination to op
pose Butler, running on a ticket
headed by Governor J. Millard
Tawes.
Also seeking the Democratic
nomination for U. S. Senator is
Del. Blair Lee 111, running on
an insurgent ticket headed by
gubernatorial hopeful George P.
Mahoney.
Established 1855
Rockville First
In State to Get
Report Award
The City of Rockville last
week became the first Maryland
municipality to receive an award
for excellence of financial re
porting, when the Municipal Fi
nance Officers’ Association of
the United States and Canada
conferred its certificate for dis
tinguished financial reporting
on the city.
The only other Maryland ju
risdiction to have received the
award is Montgomery County.
In making the presentation,
Joseph F. Clark, executive direc
tor of the association, noted that
of the more than 1,100 local and
state governments which have
submitted financial reports to
be judged by the association’s
special review committee since
1946, only 123 have met the asso
ciation’s standards for excel
lence of reporting.
Of these, three are states,
seven are counties, nine are spe
cial districts, 13 are Canadian
provinces and 91 are U. S. muni
cipalities.
Rockville's report was prepar
ed by Albert W. Gault, the city’s
director of finance.
•Council Is Feature
Montgomery County Health
j and Welfare Council will be
• featured at the monthly lunch
eon meeting of the Welcome
I Wagon Club of Silver Spring
at 12:30 p.m. December 12 at
Junior’s Restaurant.
Mathias Against
Big River Dam
Rep. Charles MeC. Mathias, jr. (R-Md.) has stated
his opposition to a large reservoir on the Potomac River
at River Bend unless its compelling need can l>c proven. sSBBtm
In a discussion with the Army Engineers about the H9HH|
construction of dams along the Potomac, Mathias said he I yjjyHßi
prefers to see reservoirs built in the upper portions of the fSP
river. _
Mathias, who lives in Freder
ick, said that the upper state
communities could attract new
industries and the reservoirs
would provide a great potential
for recreation. This has been
shown at Deep Creek Lake in
Garrett County, a popular rec
reation area for water sports.
The Congressman is in favor
of making the C&O Canal into
a national park, but he says he
will keep an open mind on the
River Bend proposal. The reser
voir would flood about 35 miles
of Canal between River Bend
and Brunswick.
Recently Mathias made a trip
up the Canal to Cumberland
and followed the tributaries of
the Potomac to their source. He
said that dams on the north
branch will triple the flow of
water at Luke, Md.
More water, he said will mean
bill took every penny she had been able to save. Then
she was destitute.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Raymond has no family. But
her friends have been loyal. As a matter of fact,
many of them gave her money for many months.
But often times friends aren’t able to continue a pro
gram of giving. They have obligations of their own
that become more pressing as years go by.
There was only one thing for Mrs. Raymond to do.
She applied for assistance from the county. She
wasn’t able to live anywhere but a rest home. She
has been in one for many years. And one by one her
friends have passed on. Now she is completely alone.
She doesn’t complain but it isn’t difficult to picture
her Christmas morning when she receives a gift from
you.
Children aie iemembei-cd rm Christmas. This is
as it should be. Family and friends ate remembered
County Is Ordered
Not to Establish
Public Taxi Stand
Must Show Judge It’s Needed in Silver Spring
If the County Council and their
Director of Public Works intend to go
through with efforts to establish a public
taxicab stand across from the bus ter
minal on Pershing dr. in Silver Spring,
they’ll have to convince a Circuit Court
judge by Dec. 28 that there is a real
need for it.
On a petition from the owners of
Silver Spring Taxi, Inc., which now
serves the area from a private stand
adjoining the terminal, Judge Thomas
M. Anderson has ordered county officials
to hold up any plans they have to put
in the public cab stand or remove a
number of metered parking spaces.
His order was directed to all mem
bers of the County Council, County Man
ager Mason Butcher and Director of
Puhlic Works Joseph Kordella. It pro
hibits them from permitting use of the
roadways in the 900 block of Pershing
dr. for a public on-street cab stand and
also prevents them from eliminating any
of the existing parking meters in the
block.
The County Council on Nov. 28 au
thorized Butcher and Kordella to proceed
with plans to establish the public stand
on a trial basis, leaving the exact number
and location up to them after learning
from Kordella he wasn’t entirely sure
how many taxi spaces were actually
needed.
Owners of Silver Spring Taxi, Inc.—
Lee and Lucille Jones of Miami, Fla.,
and their son, Lee W. Jones, jr.—in
structed their attorney to take court ac
tion following the Council's decision, de
claring they were acting not only in their
own interests but for other landowners
and business and professional men in the
block.
Their attorney, John C. Tracey, pro
tested the Council’s “arbitrary, discrim
new industries and "in short,
jobs.”
The large dam at River Bend
Is perhaps the most oontrover
sial of any of the 23 proposed
by the Engineers for the basin.
It would flood Seneca, and in
undate about 21,000 acres of
rich farmland along the shores
of the Potomac.
The River Bend reservoir is
the key proposal in one of four
plans for basin development ad
vanced by the Engineers. In the
other three plans the Engineers
propose other dams in the basin
to compensate for not having
one at River Bend.
They feel that the River Bend
dam would give Washington
flood and drought protection
and provide more water storage
than any of the other proposals
at a lower cost.
inatory, unreasonable and capricious” ac
tion on the ground that there had been
no evidence presented to the Council of
the necessity for the public stand, aside
from statements by representatives of a
competitor—Yellow Cab Co. of Silver
Spring—which is seeking it.
On the contrary, their petition de
clared, repeated opposition to the public
stand has come not only from area mer
chants and landowners but from the
Traffic Committee of the Silver Spring
Board of Trade as well as its board of
directors.
When asked to give his reasons for
recommending the stand’s establishment,
they charged, Kordella told the Council (
“the reason the entire matter was pre
sented was solely on the basis of a re
quest by the attorney of the Yellow Cab
Company.”
Against Kordella’s opinion that the
stand should create little additional traf
fic congestion, area businessmen main
tain the on-street cab parking will ham
per traffic flow already congested by
buses from the terminal during peak
hours.
The Jones’ petition says they hava
invested more than $150,000 in the off
street stand for Silver Spring Taxi, after
repeated refusal by the county to estab
lish a public cab stand.
The Council’s approval of the public
stand now, they claim, amounts to “inter
ference” with the free enterprise system
and “direct governmental subsidization of
a competing business.”
Silver Spring Taxi, which has been
serving the area for 31 years, maintains
an indoor heated and air-conditioned
waiting room on its lot—accommoda
tions which, its petition said, are extend
ed to the public at all times.
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FILES FOR RE-ELECTION—Mrs. Edna P. Cook, 8319 Piney
Branch rd., Silver Spring, has filed for re-election to the
House of Delegates of the Maryland State Legislature. She
will run as a candidate on the Democratic ticket In the May
15, 1962, primary election.
too. But we should never forget our older citizens
who, through no fault of their own, no longer have the
health or the wealth or the ability to do things for
themselves.
It is a sad thing to find yourself in such a situ
ation. And the tragic part of all of this is that this
could very well happen to you, to a member of your
family or a dear friend.
The Sentinel doesn’t ask for a big donation. It
would be far nicer if hundreds of our readers could
send in a little so that Christmas morning will be a
really merry one for more than 90 of our senior citi
zeas.
Make your check payable to The Christmas Fund
For 90, care of The Sentinel, 215 East Montgomery
ave., Rockville, Md. Every penny will be used to
buy appropriate gifts for more than 90 old folks.
Your name will be published unless you would rather
we didn’t.