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TUESDAY
ISSUE
Only Montgomery County
Member of Audit Bureau
of Circulation.
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1962 4 107th Year • No. B—Published Three Timas Weekly—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday It PAGES GArdeu 4*7700 Cp£ a Copy
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ENJOYS TALKING AND PLAYING PlANO— Pierre Salinger, Press
Secretary for President John F. Kennedy, was the speaker Friday
evening at the fifth annual dinner of the Woman’s Suburban Demo
cratic Club held at Shady Grove Country Club. Mr. Salinger said
people want to know all there is to know about what is going on in
the world and the President’s role in world-wide affairs. He pointed
out that there are only eight newspapers in the United States which
Adolph Gude Will Head
Flower and Garden Show
Adolph E. Gude, jr„ of A. |
Gude Sons Co., one of the
area’s largest nurseries in
Rockville has been named !
chairman of the 12th annual
National Capital Flower and
Garden Show coming to the:
D. C. Armory March 8 -14. |
Gude, his wife and three
daughters live in Rockville.
Gude Is a past president of
the Middle Atlantic Florists As
sociation and Maryland Nurs
erymen Association. A. Gude j
Sons Co. recently won a national
award given by the American ;
Associatio Nurserymen for pro
viding materials on the land
scaping of the Lord & Taylor I
Department store here.
The annual Flower Show is
sponsored by the Allied Florists
of Greater Washington and has
come to be known as one of the
most beautiful shows in the na
tion. It annually draws upwards
of 100,000 visitors.
In past years the show has
been opened by such well
known persons as Mrs. John F.
Kennedy, Mrs. Dwight Eisen
hower, Mrs. Richard Nixon,
Mrs. John Eisenhower, Mrs.
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BETHKSDA COUNTY BUILDING— Offices in
the county building on Wisconsin ave. in
Bethesda— housing the police station, court
rooms and other facilities—will soon be
Annual Business Review and Enuecast Issue
Speech Maker and Piano Player
Adolph E. Gude
Earl Warren and Mrs. Harry
Truman.
The Flower Show is made pos
sible through the cooperation of
the National Capital Garden
Club League, made up of garden
clubs from the Washington
Metropolitan area.
Funeral for Judge
Christensen Will
Be Held Today
Funeral services will be held
this morning at 10:30 in St.
Luke Lutheran Church, Silver
Spring, for Judge Einar B.
Christensen who died Saturday
at George Washington Univer
sity Hospital following a heart
attack.
The chief judge of the Mont
gomery County People’s Court
was a native of Oslo, Norway.
He was reared in the Boston
area and came to Montgomery
County 25 years ago. He re
ceived his law degree from the
University of Maryland in 1924.
Judge Christensen, 64, was
an active Democratic leader,
holder of various elective of
fices and a leader in civic and
business circles. He was a
member of the Montgomery
County Orphans’ Court from
1943 to 1947. He also served
as Trial Magistrate for Silver
Spring and Takoma Park be
fore he was appointed to the
People's Court in 1955.
Judge Christensen is sur
vived by his wife, Emily, a
daughter, Carole G Buch of
Baltimore, and his mother,
Bertha Christensen of Foxboro,
Mass.
occupied. Attractive screen on the building
hides space for automobile parking..
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carry full texts on the press conferences held by the President. He
said he thought political debates are highly important and that in
his opinion the debates between Kennedy ahd Nixon were the most
important factor in putting Mr. Kennedy in the White House. After
dinner, the popular press secretary sat down at the piano and played
one of his own compositions. The guests indicated their pleasure by
prolonged applause. —Photos by Ed Mervis
Business to Reach
New Peaks in ’62
By EDWARD COWAN
(United Press International)
WASHINGTON tIJPIi Business is going up!
That’s the unanimous forecast for 1962 by government econ
omists.
They expect the economy to chalk up new records for pro
duction, profits, income and employment. There is, however,
some disagreement over how high the new peaks are likely to be.
Continuation in 1962 of the broadly based business expansion
which began in the spring of 1961 is expected finally to haul un
employment below 6 per cent of the labor force. It persisted at
about 6?; per cent through 1961 to the dismay of the Kennedy
Administration.
Yet, with the business upswing expected to lose speed in the
second half of 1962, prospects are dim that the jobless rate will
fall below 5 '2 per cent.
Prices, which were fairly stable In 1961, may begin to move
up some months from now as production approaches capacity.
Economists are hopeful that rising productivity and moderate
wage settlements will temper price rises and prevent any wide
spread, large advance.
Interest rates also are expected to go higher, although not
sharply. As business and use of credit expand, some rise in bor
rowing costs is inevitable, say Federal Reserve officials.
The big quetions in the 1962 business outlook are: What hap
pens to the economy as production approaches capacity? Can it
continue to expand at a brisk clip, boosting incomes for a grow
ing population and creating jobs for 1.2 million new members
of the labor force? Or is a slowdown inevitable?
The experts agree that it is harder for any economy to ex
pand when it is close to full use of resources than when it is
coming out of a recession with lots of idle men and machines.
This explains the projected slowdown in the rate of rise in the
second half of 1962.
Almost everyone says the key to expansion after mid-year is
business spending for expansion and modernization of factories,
refineries, warehouses, shipping offices, packaging plants, etc.
Government officials are hopeful that as unused capacity
shrinks and costs start edging up, businessmen will decide to
expand and replace existing equipment with newer, more effi
cient, models. Lines in which such investment is considered more
likely are cement, paper and paperboard, machinery, food proces
sing, glass containers and possibly steel.
As for the consumer, despite talk about his holding back,
Commerce Department aides say he has been shelling out his
money about as fast as ever. That is, consumer spending has
been rising in step with personal income. However, consumers
have been plunking down a bigger proportion of their dollars
for services and correspondingly less for goods.
Autos, where consumer demand shifts most from year to
year, look exceptionally good for 1962. Industry sources are
talking about sales of 7 million cars. Production of new cars has
been high since September. Government officials wonder whether
it can be expected to increase and give further lift to the econ
omy in 1962.
Autos are a major reason steelmakers anticipate a good year
In 1962. The steel industry expects to do better in the first half
of the year as steel users lay in extra inventory to hedge against
a possible steel strike at mid year. Production Is expected to hit
105-110 million ingot tons, compared with 97.5 million tons in 1961.
Sometime after it signs a new contract with the United Steel
workers union, the industry is expected to raise steel prices. How
much may depend on the contract and on how heavily the Ad
ministration leans on both sides.
Prospects also are bright for home building. Government
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Established, 1855
School Board Puts
Okay On Budget
Having put its stamp of approval
on a $16.5 million building budget for
the next school year, the County
School Board this week turned its at
tention to two major items of unfinish
ed budget business— a near-record
$55.5 million operating budget and the
problem of whether to provide substan
tial ‘ funds for fallout shelters in
schools.
A public hearing on the 1962-63
operating budget proposed by School
Supt. C. Taylor Whittier will be held
by the Board at 8 p.m. Wednesday in
its new Educational Scivices Center
on the Gaithersburg rd. in Rockville.
A special meeting of the Board to
consider fallout shelter funds will be
held after final decision is reached on
the Operating budget. No funds for
shelters are sought in the building bud
get approved by the Board over the
weekend, despite requests from county
groups that as much as $5 million be
provided to protect children in the
event of nuclear attack during school
horn's.
If the School Board decides to ask
for shelter construction money, it can
seek a supplemental appropriation
from the County Council.
Just about three-fourths of the
building budget approved by the
School Board is sought for secondary
school facilities— an area considered
critical by school officials because of
mushrooming enrollments anticipated
in the county’s junior and senior high
schools in the next few years.
Largest single item in the $12.4
million budgeted for secondary schools
is a request of $3.8 million for a second
junior college in Rockville.
Because of the size of this request
for the Rockville campus, Board mem
bers took a close look at proposals for
funds to construct a library extension
and a new gymnasium for the Mont
gomery Junior College in Takoma
Park—and slashed them both.
Some Board members, led by Rob
ert E. Morrow and former president
Harold F. Breimyer, argued that a re
quest of almost one-half million dollars
for the Takoma Park gym would “jeo
pardize” chances of favorable Council
action on the major Rockville campus
request.
Joining in the motion to delete the
gym fund request was Dr. Clifford K.
Beck, who argued with the others that
it was “untimely” and should be de
County Schools to Host
Conl'ah on Certification
The county's public school
system will serve as host for the
first Maryland state wide meet
ing on teacher certification
scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
January 25 in the auditorium of
the Educational Services Center,
850 N. Washington st., Rock
ville.
State Superintendent of
Schools Thmas G. Pullen, jr. (
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SILVER SPRING COUNTY BUILDING
Work is almost complete on this new county
building on Sligo ave. in Silver Spring and
It will be occupied within the next lew
layed at least a year until after the
Rockville campus is a "reality.”
Compromise was reached with a
motion by Mrs. Lucy Keker that the
gym appropriation lx? cut back $70,000
to “the nice round figure of $400.01)0.”
The Board also cut the fund request
for the library extension to $150,000
from $169,000.
More than a dozen other revisions
in Dr. Whittier’s original budget re
quest were voted by the Board in its
day-long session Saturday. Notable
among them were:
—Provision of $139,000 for a new
cafeteria and kitchen at Damascus
High School, in addition to more than
$25,000 already asked for an addition
to the up-county school. Testimony at
the Board’s public hearing earlier in
the week had disclosed that, because of
limited cafeteria space, Damascus stu
dents now have their lunch periods
scheduled in shifts from mid-morning
to past 1 o’clock in the afternoon.
—Postponement of plans to build
a new Alta Vista Elementary School,
which would have allowed the existing
school to be converted to a special edu
cation center for the county's retarded
pupils.
Representatives of teachers groups,
P-TA’s and the Association for Men
tally Retarded Children had told the
Board at its hearing that estabishment
of the proposed Ata Vista center in
1964 was unsatisfactory, since it woud
mean many handicapped chidren would
have to continue bussing long distances
to the present center in Sandy Spring
for two more years.
The Board’s decision to open four
classrooms at Stephen Knolls Element
ary School for the retarded next fall Is
expected to relieve this problem, as
well as provide a centrally-located
down-county center for teaching the
retarded.
—Deletion of a proposed $117,810
for two additional classrooms, library
and other facilities at the Rock Creek
Forest Elementary School, after dis
cussion brought out that the school
population in this area appears to be
levelling off. Mrs. Keker and Mrs. Ely
Maurer voted against this action.
—Reduction by $66,500 of a $614,*
000 request for an addition to the
White Oak Junior High School, after
staff revised its estimate of building
costs.
—Paring of $24,000 from funds
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plans a series of such meetings
for county school superinten
dents and their personnel de
partment staff members to dis
cuss the new teacher certifica
tion requirements.
The first session will be con
corned with the general applica
tion and following ones with the
problems of the local school sys
tems.
weeks. The new building houses police sta
tion, courtrooms and other facilities,
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! Rezoning Freeze
Asked by Board
The Board of Directors of the
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber
of Commerce wants a freeze on
1 1 zoning changes In the area
bounded by Wisconsin ave., Ar
-1 lington rd., Old Georgetown rd.
' i and Bradley blvd.
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The board said it will ask
. the County Council to hold up
any rezoning in the area until
■ the Park and Planning Com
. mission completes a plan for
that section.