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107th Yoor • No. 20—Published Three Times Weekly—Tuesday. Thursday and Satin ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1962 GArden 4-7700 22 PAGES §£ a Copy
School Head Denies
Student ‘'Pressure’
B-CC Principal Says Push for Donations
For Stadium Fund Drive ‘News to Me’
Published reports that stir
dents at Bethesda-Chevy Chase
High School are being “pres
sured” for donations of $5 and,
more in the current stadium;
fund drive were vigorously,
denied this week by the school's '
principal. Joseph J. Tarallo.
“If there’s any pressure of j
this "kind being put on our stu- j
dents, it’s news to me,” he said.
Tarallo said he has had no
report of such pressure from
either homeroom teachers or
faculty advisors working with
the Student Government Asso
ciation and its stadium com
mittee or from parents of
students.
“If there is any pressure at
all,” he said, “it could only be
from one or two over-zealous
homeroom representatives of
the SGA, w’hich is putting on
the drive and if this is the
case, I’ll certainly track it down
and put an administrative stop
to it.”
He especially questioned the
report that individual students
are being “dunned” for as much
as $5 each toward adding new
seats to the school’s stadium.
A drive to raise SIOO from
each of the school’s 62 home
room groups was undertaken
voluntarily by the students in
September, he said. Each home
room has at least 30 students,
he added, which would limit the
pro-rata contribution to just
under $3.30.
He said, however, that the
fund drive was not set up on
an individual basis, but that stu
dents have special group fund
raising activities such as bake
sales, point-spread contests dur
ing football season and Christ
ss.4 Million
Shelter Request
Given Council
Montgomery County’s Civil
Defense Advisory Board yester
day asked the County Council
to appropriate $5.4 million over
the next five years for a pro
gram of community fallout shel
ter construction.
The funds would be augment
ed by a Federal grant of $9.6
million over the same period.
A major point of the Board’s
recommendation was a strong
request for school shelters to
double as community shelters
and not be confined to provid
ing protection for students
alone.
"If school shelter capacity
were restricted to students in
that school, then, in the awe
some event of a thermo-nuclear
war, we would be left with a
nation and a county of orphans
unable to take care of them
selves in the post attack period."
a joint statement by Board
members declared.
William Armstrong, presi
dent. and James H. Henry,
member, represented the Coun
cil’s Advisory Group.
County Federal Opening
Has Governor as Guest
County Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Rockville
has opened its new modem of
fice building at Commerce la.
and Courthouse sq., with cere
monies attended by Gov. J.
Millard Tawes.
Governor Tawes. who was ac
companied by Attorney General
Thomas B Finan, told an au
dience of several hundred at the
dedication ceremony that it was
a "wonderful experience" for
him "to be opening, rather than
closing, one of these institu
tions.”
The Governor's reference was
to the State's current campaign
to close down savings and loan
associations which are not fed
erally insured.
County Federal carries fed
eral insurance on its savings ac
counts, up to SIO,OOO each. The
six-year-old firm now has assets
of close to $9 million, and is
paying 4‘* per cent dividends.
In a prepared speech at the
dedication ceremony, Governor
Tawes reiterated his defense of
his administration's handling of
the savings and loan situation
in Maryland, and denied that
the delay in setting up regula
tions on the industry was "due
HHrr tifitinin Sfitiwl
| mas card sides to raise their
| homeroom quotas.
“For a while there, we were
i having a homeroom bake sale
' every other afternoon after
j school," he said.
He said he would like parents i
whose children report they are
being "pressured” to contact
j him directly at the school.
Aid Sought
For Needy
Sister City
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Pinneberg Hit
Hard by Storm
Clothing, blankets and
canned goods are being col
lected this week by Rock
ville city officials in an
emergency drive to aid the
people of their stricken sis
ter city of Pinneberg, Ger
many.
Pinneburg, a suburb of Ham
burg on the northwest coast of
Germany, was among many
cities hit hard by the storm
which struck the country over
the weekend and left many per
sons homeless.
Rockville’s mayor Alexander
Greene, who has been in con
tact with the mayor of Pinne
berg since the disaster, has
called upon residents of Rock
ville and its surrounding area
to donate clothing primarily
for children and women
blankets and non-perishable
canned foods, which will be
shipped by air freight by Luft
hansa Air Lines.
Deadline for donations is
Thursday. Residents wishing to
donate items should bring them
to the new City Hall in Rock
ville or call the city hall at
[ GA. 4-8000 for a pickup by city
. vehicles.
! Pinneberg is about the same
• size as Rockville and is about
. the same distance from Ham
. burg as Rockville is from the
Nation’s Capital.
I Kitchen Burned
i In Derwood Fire
II The kitchen of a Derwood
( home was burned out this week
’by a fire which apparently
’ started when grease on a stove
5 1 ignited.
- j Fast action by firemen sue
i ceeded in putting out the blaze
.' before it spread to the rest of
• ■ the two-story frame house ad
t joining the kitchen shed.
’ I The house, which adjoins the
• Derwood Church, is rented by
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ramey
I from William Jeffers of Gaith
ersburg. Other residents are the
• Rameys’ granddaughter and
, her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Don
- aid O. Prichard. No one was
injured in the fire.
to any official indifference.”
"On the contrary," he said,
"it is due to the fact that old
line associations of the State
had established such a high
reputation for integrity • and
self-supervision that regulation
was not considered to be neces
sary.
"The incursion of the un
scrupulous money men into the
reputable, although unpoliced,
Maryland savings and loan busi
ness is a relatively recent phen
omenon,” he added.
Governor Tawes restated his
belief that the 1960 Tydings bill
which he vetoed-was “totally
inadequate to cope with the sav
ings and loan problem.”
He declared the measure had
been "legislated to death”
through repeated compromises
between opposing forces In the
General Assembly.
The Governor praised the role
played by reputable savings
and loan associations, such as
County Federal, in the economy
and said that the billions of dol
lars invested by millions of
Americans in them are "elo
quent expressions of the faith
the people of our country have
in these institutions."
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COALITION CANDIDATES—State Sen. Mar
garet Schweinhaut (center) files for re-elec
tion and Montgomery County Council
President David L. Cahoon files for a House
Schweinhaut, Cahoon First
Coalition Members to File
First members of a coali
tion to campaign for a slate
of local candidates dedicated
to good government for
Montgomery’ County was an
nounced this week when two
of its members officially
filed.
State Sen. Margaret C.
Schweinhaut filed for re
election and Montgomery
County Council President
David L. Cahoon filed for a
seat in the Maryland House
of Delegates.
Other members of the group
are Councilwoman Stella B.
Werner, Democratic Central
Committee Vice Chairman Ana
Brown and Del. Alice Hostetl*
“In our view,” Mrs. Schwein
haut and Cahoon said in a joint
statement, “with the record of
substantial achievement by the
incumbent local Democratic
office-holders, it is contrary to
the pubile and part interest to
contrive a local factional party
contest on State and national
issues.
“We believe the slate of local
candidates, recently announced
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OPENING, NOT CLOSING— Gov, J. Millard Tawes, center,
shows his pleasure in "opening, rather than closing” a sav
ings and loan association in the county, during the ribbon
cutting ceremony marking tjjV dedication of the new County
Federal Savings and Loan association building in RoakviUa.
of Delegate seat. Assisting them is Miss
Rose Dawson, member of permanent board
of registry, County Supervisor of Elections
office.— Mervis Photo
| by a statewide ticket, to be pri
imarily an accommodation of
j personalities iri the campaign
for statewide office rather than
a team for accomplishment.
“Pledge Our Efforts”
“We pledge our efforts to sup
port a team of county Demo
crats having a combination of
competence and determination
|to accomplish for the future a
; consolidation and extension of
I the progress of current Demo-
J cratic administrations.”
Mrs. Schweinhaut and Cahoon
fjointed out this progress has
1 been highlighted by:
Support for improved quality
of education.
Acceleration of general and
! comprehensive planning pro
! grams.
Expanded and accelerated
conservation, park and highway
j programs.
An evolution of solutions to
: metropolitan regional problems
in transportation, water supply
and stream and air pollution.
Encouragement of improved
human relations.
Reapportionment of govern
ment to make it more respon
sive to the public and economi
Established 1855
cal in its operation.
More equitable distribution of
State revenue to local govern
ments.
Promotion ol a more diversi
fied economic base.
improvements in the quality
of health, welfare, aged and
; youth programs.
‘More to he Doilr’
“These are the beginnings;
more needs to be done.” they
I said. “These are new frontiers
at all levels of government.
"Singleness of purpose, deter
mination and eomfietence should
; be our hallmark. We shall
work with a team of county
Democrats dedicated single
mindodly to the welfare of our
own county and completely un
committed to any statewide,
slate of candidates.
"We urge all precinct chair
! men, party workers and voters
jto exercise their freedom of
choice; reject the argument that
; support for statewide office
; seekers demands equal support
of local office-seekers who have
latched onto the statewide
ticket; and in turn support
State and local candidates on
their respective merits and not
on expediency.”
Lending a hand with the ribbon cutting are L. Ross Roberts,
left, executive director, and David E. Betts, president, of the
Federally-insured savings and loan firm whose assets have
grown to $9 million since its start in 1956.— tJl MervU Photo
Candidates Chosen
For CGG Conclave
First U. S.
Orbital Try
Successful
Montgomery County resi
dents joined the rest of the
country in its elation over
yesterday’s successful orbit
ing of Lt. Col. John H.
Glenn, jr., America’s first
astronaut to circle the earth.
Whether at. home or at
work, residents crowded
around television or radio
sets to learn if the 11th at
tempt by the National Aero
nautics and Space Adminis
tration would be successful.
A spirit of optimism pervaded
Cape Canaveral all during Mon
day night and early Tuesday
morning, but there were doubts
even as late as 7:30 a.m. as a
dense cloud cover hung over the
launch site.
A number of technical diffi
culties delayed the countdown
during the morning—with the
final delay coming a little more
than five minutes before the ex
pected launching time.
Meanwhile, the clouds had
been rapidly dispersed by a
strong North wind and reports
from Canaveral and recovery
sites for the Mercury capsule
all were that weather conditions
were near-perfect.
Glenn's Atlas booster lifted
off the launching pad at 9:47
a.m. and wHhin minutes the
Marine colonel was traveling at
17,345 miles an hour fastest
speed ever attained by an
American.
At presstime, NASA still had
not announced whether Glenn
would orbit the earth two or
three times. The fact remained,
however, that the United States
finally was in space.
Bantl Concert Sunday
The Rockville Municipal Band,
under the direction of Frank R.
Troy, jr., is presenting a con
cert Sunday, February 25 at 8
p.m.
The concert will be held at
the Rockville Civic Auditorium,
Edmonston dr. and Baltimore
rd., Rockville. The public is in
vited and the admission is free.
Ecker to Run for Mayor’s Post;
11 Others Seek 5 Council Spots
One candidate for Mayor
ville City Council will be offe
Government convention Marc
The convention will nomi
City Council election April 3
Sole candidate for Mayor is
Frank S. Ecker, now completing
his third term as a member of
the City Council. Incumbent
Mayor Alexander J. Greene al
ready has announced he will
not seek a third term.
Councilman Glen J. Koepen
ick also has indicated he does
not plan to run again this year.
Candidates for Council nomi
nation include A. M. Tuehtan,
Ralph E. Williams, L. Ross Rob
erts, Bernard J. Hasson. Ed
ward J. Mack, John M. Rausch,
Henry Redkey, Clyde D. Hardin,
William E. Woods, Mrs. Vir
ginia Reid and Mrs. Lee Jodi.
Names of candidates were an
nounced by William A. Linthi
cum, jr., chairman of the Com
mittee on Candidates.
Membership Is 317
At the same time, Edward J.
Mack, treasurer of the Rock
ville non-partisan league, said
CGG membership is now 317.
Almost all—3ll—paid dues in
time to qualify as convention
delegates with the right to bal
lot for nominees at the conven
tion.
Ecker was one of the earliest
members of CGG in 1954 and
was first elected to the Council
in 1956. He has served as the
Council’s member of the Plan
ning Commission and currently
is vice chairman of the Mont
gomery ‘County Cliapter of the
Maryland Municipal League.
He was chairman of the CGG
platform committee. He lives at
617 Marcia la. and is employed
by the Federal Bureau of the
Budget.
Seeking nomination by the
CGG to continue their service
to Rockville are incumbents
Tuehtan and Williams.
Tuehtan was appointed to the
Council to complete an unfilled
term in 1959 and was elected to
the city body In 1960. He has
also served as the Council’s
representative on the Planning
Commission, has been a mem
ber of the Civic Center of Com
mission and is active In P-TA
and Optimist Club work. In
1959 he was named “Man of the
Year” by the Hungerford Town
Civic Association. He lives at
1920 Gainsboro pi. and works
for the government as program
management officer in the
General Services Administra
tion.
Incumbent Williams
Councilman Williams is just
completing his first term. He
is a past chairman of the Civic
Center Commission and has
been active in P-TA work. Wil i
Hams is a partner in the ft. P.
Congratulations
JOHN GLENN
and
All Those Connected
With Your
Historic Flight
■ and 11 candidates for Roek
>red to the Citizens for Good
>h 2.
inate a five-man slate for the
10.
Clarke Company in Washing
ton, D. C. He lives at 209 Up
ton st.
The names of three current
members of civic commissions
will also be placed before the
convention by the Committee.
Roberts, vice chairman of the
Planning Commission, member
of the Urban Renewal Advisory
Council and formerly'a mem
ber of the Housing Authority,
helped draft the CGG platform.
He is employed in Rockville as
managing officer and a director
of County Federal Savings and
Loan Association and is also
president of the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce. He live*
at 304 Great Falls rd.
Hasson also is a member of
the City Planning Commission
and has served during the past
several years as a member of
the Board of Appeals and the
Rockville Housing Authority.
He is a member of the CGG
executive board. He is an at
torney and hearing examiner
for the Interstate Commerce
Commission and lives at 2309
McAuliffe dr.
Mack is a member of the
Urban Renewal Advisory Com
mittee and the Civic Center
Commission as well as treas
urer of CGG. He is a lieuten
ant Commander in the Naval
Reserve nd lias been active in
P-TA work in Rockville. He Is
employed as manager of admin
istration by Pneumo Dynamics
Corporation in Bethesda and he
lives at 626 Blossom dr.
Comeback Effort
Rausch, a former Councilman,
Is trying a comeback after
being out of city affairs for two
years. He served on the Council
from 1957 to 1960 and did not
choose to run at the end of hi*
second term. He has been chair
man of the Board of Appeals,
a member of the Planning Com
mission and was chairman of
CGG before its recent reorgan
ization. Rausch is an attorney
and serves as advisor to the
Board of Veterans Appeals of
the Veterans Administration.
He lives at 611 Mclntyre rd.
Another loqg-term member of
CGG whose name will be placed
before the March 2 convention
by the Committee on Candi
dates. Redkey has been active
In local civic associations and
the Co-op movement and is cur
rently vice president of the
American Consumers Council.
He Is a consultant on Rehabili
tation of the Handicapped for
the Department of Health, Edu
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