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SATURDAY
ISSUE
Only Montgomery County
Member of Audit Bureau
of Circulation.
107th Yeor . No. 10—Published Tliic* Times Wi \ ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1902 0 PAGES GArdm 4-7700 Ctf a Copy
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ROCKVILLE’S OLD CITY HALL comes tumbling down to make way
for a 70-car parking lot at the rear of the new City Hall building. The
old house was built in 1888 by Judge Edward Peter as a wedding
Chamber Awards
Kuhn Cup to NIH
Two Girls Are First Recipients
Of Youth Recognition Honors
The Oliver Owen Kuhn Cup went to the National In
stitutes of Health for its new office building in Bethesda
during the annual installation dinner dance of the Bethes
ad-Chevy Chace Chamber of Commerce this week at Ken
wood Country Club. |
The cup awarded annually
for the year’s best physical con
struction job, was presented to
Dr. Luther L. Terry, surgeon
general of the U. S. Public
Health Service, who accepted
on behalf of NIH.
The Chamber’s new youth,
recognition awards— made this
year for the first time—went to
Dianne Crotts of Kensington for
her service to teenage and adult
victims of cerebral palsy and to
Gwynne Lourie of Bethesda for
her work as hospital aide at
Montgomery General Hospital
and Sharon Nursing Home and
for her other work with retard
ed children.
The Lawrence A. Funt Cup
for outstanding contributions in
building of homes was awarded
to Melvin J. Berman, Inc., for
the Tusculum Woods develop
ment.
Honorable mention in the
Kuhn Cup competition was
awarded George Sacks for re
development of a block of build
ings on Wisconsin ave. and to
Garden Construction Co. for its
new office building at Democ
racy blvd. and Route 240.
Distinguished service certifi
cates were presented to six Be
thesdans. Awards were made
to:
Mrs. Val C. Sherman for her
work with the American Field
Service.
Mrs. Eugene W. Weber for
her work as secretary of the
Montgomery County Curricu
lum Study Committee.
Dr. Charles Savarese for his
contributions in founding the
Poison Control Center at Sub
urban Hospital.
Louis Probst for supplying
the blind with Braille writers
and for repairing the writers
without compensation.
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Robert R. Furman for his
work as chairman of the Cham
ber's parking committee.
Walter Hess, Chamber retir
ing president, for his service to
the organization during the
past year.
Officers installed at the meet
ing were Richard R. Price, jr.,
Decatur Press, president; Hugh
B. Johnston, jr., Suburban
Florist, first vice president; Al
vin E. Kraus, Government Em
ployees Insurance Co., second
vice president; Julius A. Laza
rus, Lazarus Shoes, third vice
president; Robert J. Smith,
Metropolitan Federal Savings &
Loan Association, treasurer;
and Miss Mary Jo W'hidden,
Bankers Life Insurance Co.,
secretary.
Elementary Sc Secondary Education
Final IMI Final I Mil Par Cent
Actual KequcM Increase
Employes 4.250 5,329 25%
Funds $29,398,344 $37,470,058 28%
Montgomery Jr. College
Employes 88 128 45%
Funds $ 830,163 $ 1,100,478 33%
Instructional-Personnel Services
Employes 148 266 73%,
Funds $ 1,461,510 $ 2.638,923 80%
Business-Financial Services
Employes 521 688 32%
Funds $ 3,644,728 $ 5,195,355 43%
General Administration
Employes 19 42 121%
Funds $ 166.157 $ 353,557 111%
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A FAMILY AFFAIR County Council mem
ber William F. Hickey enjoys a little kibitzing
by his wife and seven children as he fills
in his formal application for the Democratic
nomination as Stale Senator in the May
primary. The 41-year-old Silver Spring at-
Budget
Assailed
Budget requests for county
school operation have increased
far out of proportion to enroll
ment within the past two years,
the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Civic
Council told the School Board
this week.
The substantial Increases in
employes and funds proposed
for the 1962-63 school year are
“unrealistic” in view of the an
ticipated enrollment increase,
the civic group said, urging that
they be reduced by “several
millions of dollars.’’
John Burton, representing the’
civic council, said School Supt.
C. Taylor Whittier and his staff
have found it “expedient and
possible” to operate the county
school system in recent years
with about 90 per cent of the
total number of employes re
quested.
He cited a request for 5546
employes in 1961, noted that
only 5026 were actually em
ployed.
While school enrollment next
September is expected to be up
only 14 per cent over Septem
ber, 1960, he cited the following
increases in school operation
funds:
torney is the immediate past president of
the Cot nty Council. Members of his family
include; (L-r.) Audrey, 5; Bonnie, 8: Gemma,
13, standing in rear: Mrs. Hickey, Karen, 6;
Brian, 3, on desk; Michael, 12, and Billy, 15.
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present for his daughter. The city used it from 1954 until this month
when the more than 50 employes stuffed into every nook and cranny
there moved into their new building. A. E. Brigham pf Rockville was
Lee and Brewster
Debate S&L Issue
Senatorial Hopefuls Defend Positions
During Joint Appearance in County
Blair Lee, 111, of Montgomery County and Daniel
Brewster of Baltimore, both candidates for the Democratic
nomination for a U. S. Senate seat, were reacting accord
ing to form this week.
They appeared on Kensington- Wheaton Democratic
Club program at Indian Spring
Country Club and:
Lee blamed the Tawes admin
istration for much of the pres
ent savings and loan scandal in
Maryland.
Brewster supported the Gov
ernor’s action in vetoing the
"weak” 1960 regulatory bill and
praised the Governor for “push
ing through” the 1961 bill.
Lee is a running mate of
George P. Mahoney, who has
been campaigning for the guber
natorial nomination by sharp
ly attacking the Tawes adminis
tration record. Brewster is on
the Tawes ticket.
Denies Connection
During the talks— in which a
number of candidates were
heard, including David Hume,
the only candidate for governor
present at the meeting—Brew
ster denied he had any connec
tion with any savings and loan
associations. His law partner,
A. Gordon Boone, and several
other Democrats in Baltimore
with whom Brewster has been
associated were officials of
Security Insurance Corporation,
in the thick of the 1961 General
Assembly controversy. Boone is
Majority Leader of the House
of Delegates.
Lee said the 1960 bill was not
"weak and meaningless” as
Tawes contended. “We could
have put some teeth" into the
Established 1855
bill "if there had been real in
terest in it.”
Hume called for abolition of
the county unit voting rule in
primaries and also backed reap
portionment of the General As
sembly.
Another senatorial candidate,
Elbert M. Byrd., jr., faculty
member at the University of
Maryland, called for a series of
debates by the senatorial aspir
ants so the public can distin
guish among them.
Carlton R. Sickles, candidate
for Congress-at-Large, said he
supported the President’s for
eign aid bill, medical care for
the aged and federal aid to edu
cation.
D. C. Lawyers
Seek Entry to
County Courts
A strong appeal from
Washington attorneys that
they be permitted to prac
tice in Montgomery County
without maintaining law of
fices here has been taken
under advisement by a spe
cially-recruited Anne Arun
del County judge, following
day-long arguments on the
request this week.
Under a recent court decree,
D. C. lawyers must have an of
j fice in Maryland or be associ
ated with an attorney who has
one, in order to argue cases in
the Circuit Court here.
At the hearing before Judge
A. Bowie Duckett, the County
Bar Association, represented by
Stedman Prescott, jr., said the
county court is caused frequent
inconvenience by failure of
Washington attorneys who do
not live here to answer docket
calls and by their numerous re
quests for postponements.
Available county lawyers, he
Implied, lose business to Wash
ington lawyers.
Attorney Jo V. Morgan, repre
senting Washington lawyers
seeking to have the require
! ment set aside, pointed out that
i the new regulation, in effect,
bars hundreds of qualified mem
bers of the Maryland bar from
practicing here.
He stressed that the Maryland
office requirement permits law
! years from as far away as Bai
| timore to argue eases In this
j county, while nearby District
lawyers are prohibited unless
they have offices here.
Arguing in favor of the ban,
Assistant Attorney General said
similar "housekeeping” rules
■ are exercised In other states, in
cluding nearby Virginia.
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low bidder on the razing job, which he did for $985. Demolition of the
building took place during this week’s sleet storm.
—Photos by Ed Mervis
$3 Million Slash
In Budget Ordered
By School Board
A vote-conscious School Board,
hesitant to bring on too much of an
increase in the taxpayer’s burden dur
ing an election year, this week ordered
School Supt. C. Taylor Whittier to
pare between $2V Z and $3 million
from the near-record $55.5 million
operating budget he has proposed for
the next school year.
The School Board has given
Whittier until Monday night to pre
sent his recommendations for items
to lie slashed from the budget “on a
priority basis.”
Board member Robert E. Mor
row introduced the recommendation
for the budget cut, saying he did so
“with regret.”
“This, however, is the year we
get teachers’ salaries increased, an
item which itself will cause a signifi
cant increase in taxes,” he said. “This
is not the year to make a large num
ber of improvements in the teaching
program.
Dr. Whittier’s request for $9.4
million more than last year’s oper
ating budget, he said, will require a
40 per cent increase in county funds.
“This is too much to ask,” Morrow
declared, and other Board members
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TOP TEAM Frank Alligood Heft, center),
president of the Silver Spring Lions Club,
presents the club’s football trophy to Mont
gomery Blair High School Coach Joe Good
while team co-captains Jerry Rieucci, led.
and Sonny Jackson look on. Oceanian was
agreed a 25 per cent rise in county
funds would be the most they could
ask for running the school system
next year.
Figures introduced by the County
Council of P-TA’s earlier indicated the
school budget increase, if granted,
brings a 67 per cent increase in taxes
for county citizens.
The School Board’s action came
this week after a public hearing on
the operating budget attended by rep
resentatives of 15 community groups
—and other objections from its presi
dent, William R. Thomas, that mem
bers were “taking the coward’s way
out” by asking Whittier to recommend
the cuts.
“We’d certainly never be able to
do this ourselves, since every one of
us has a pet item he’d like to see stay
in,” Thomas declared.
Priority Items
Priority items to be retained in
the budget, members agreed, are the
teacher pay raises and all funds direct
ly related to the 7 per cent increase in
enrollments expected by next Septem
ber.
These items, according to Mor
row, account for altout $5.7 million of
the $9.4 million increase over last
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the annual sports banquet of the Silver
Spring and Bethesda-Chevy Chase Lions Club
this week, at which the Blair team was
honored as champions of the county high
school league. Ed Mervl# Plioto