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County's Oldest,
Biggest Weekly
107th Year -48 Published Every Thursday * CKVILLE, MARYLAND THURSDAY, MAY. 31. 1942 OArden 4-7700 20 PAES
New Pool
Opens in
Rockville
One of the largest swim
ming pools in the Rockville 1
area opened Memorial Day.
The $200,000 project is a
private facility on five acres
of land adjacent to Wood-1
mont Country Club, called
Rollins Park Recreation Cen
ter.
Intended to be used by
tenants of Rollins Park Apart
ments and homes in adjoining
Montrose and Rollingswood
subdivisions, the Center includes
the Olympic-size pool, diving
poo], junior and wading pools.
An ultra modern bath house
facility also has been con
structed.
The apartment develop
ment and subdivisions to be
served by the swimming pool
includes 250 homes, 1200
apartments and several pro
posed office buildings. Lo
cated near Congressional
Plaza, between Rockville pike
and Montrose rd., the S2O
million project is about 60 per
cent completed.
Final stage of the apartment
construction gets under way
this summer and will consist of
four 7-story buildings overlook
ing the adjacent golf course.
Apartments and the recrea
tion center were designed by
Cohen, Haft Associates, archi
tects and consulting architect,
Arthur P. Becker. Construction
is in the hands of Merrimack
Engineering Corporation of Be
thesda. It represents a joint
developing effort of Milton and
Howard Polinger, Stanley Raku
kin and Arthur P. Becker.
Montrose Elementary School
slated to open in September is
located in the development. The
developers recently dedicated
over five acres of land In the'
area for a public recreation cen
ter. The public facility will
present a baseball field, picnic
ground,s tennis courts and
shelter.
Hume Sees
Tawes on
Seating
ANNAPOLIS— David Hume,
an overwhelming Montgomery
County favorite for the gover
nor's nomination in the pri
mary, went to bat for county
voters last week in an unherald
ed visit with Gov. J. Millard
Tawes.
Hume turned up at the start
of the special session on reap
portionment in Annapolis "in
no official capacity whatever,”
but disclosed he had stopped by
the governor’s office to make a
strong plea for pure reappor
tionment in the House of Dele
gates.
He said he had recom
mended that the governor
consider hacking any move to
have the counties represented
strictly on the basis of popu
lation —a setup which would
benefit populous counties
such as Montgomery and
Prince Georges substantially.
‘‘Somewhere along the line,”
he said, “a lot of wonderful peo
ple in Montgomery and Prince
Georges gave me a helping
hand. Instead of just saying
thank you, I felt I must drop
everything and demonstrate to
them the way I feel about their
need to be fairly represented in
the legislature.”
He said he opposed appoint
ment of new candidates for the
House of Delegates on State
Central Committee recompiend
ations. describing it as "a
shameful resort to undemocrat
ic methods.”
Hume, who said he has "no
Intention at this time of being a
candidate for anything in 1966,”
indicated he would remain in
Annapolis as an observer until
the General Assembly complet
ed its action on reapportion
ment.
"The people of Montgomary
and Prince Georges counties
must be recognized,” he declar
ed. “A great deal hinges on it.”
Graduation Date§
A total of 3887 Montgomery
County high school seniors will
graduate in exercises scheduled
lor June 13, 14 or 15.
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IT’S A BIG DAY' when a giri's mother takes her to school and
gets her ready to enroll in kindergarten next school year.
Debbie Schnider, 13001 Ardennes ave., Rockville, had her big
moment last week when her mother drove her to Twin brook
. Elementary School and the Jik* lady. Miss Shela Belkin, a
Gutheim, Smith and Knapp
Boosted for Planning Post
The names of three prom
inent up-county residents, all
long active in planning, were
recommended to the County
Council this week in its con- J
sideration of a possible suc
cessor to Planning Board -
member W. Lawson King.
Offering the Council a choice
of its three recommendations
was the Montgomery' County
Citizens Planning Commission,
which urged the county heads
not to “limit (their) field of
choice to those to make formal
application” for King's job.
The citizens’ group said it be
lieved any of its three nominees :
would serve if appointed. They
are:
Internationally - recognized
planning consultant Frederick
A. Gutheim of Dickerson, di
m-tor of the Washington
Center for Metropolitan
Studies, who is a former
member of the Upper Mont
gomery County Planning
Rural Bloc Dies
By ElJy Bradley
ANNAPOLIS The
marbled halls were cool, but
the atmosphere in both
chambers of the State House
in Annapolis seethed as
Maryland’s lawmakers met
head-on this week to resolve
an issue which has been a
thorn in their sides for al
most 100 years.
The issue just how to stop
the tail from continuing to wag
the dog in General Assembly de
cisions.
Anyone who had thought, as
one misguided political observ
er put it, that it was “all going
to be pretty cut and dried” sim
ply because the legislators were
under court order to do their
job, obviously had another
think coming before the special
session was many hours under
way.
It became apparent early
that, before it was ail over,
members of the House of Dele
gates in their blue chairs and
State Senatois in their red
Commission and the National
Capital Regional Planning i
Commission.
Lathrop E. Smith of Boyds,
one of the original members of 1
the Upper Montgomery County :
Planning Commission, who also ;
Sandy Spring
Will Honor
Librarian
The community of Sandy
Spring will pay affectionate
homage to Miss Beatrix Moore,
librarian at Sandy Spring for
many years, Sunday, June 3 at
3 o’clock, at an “open house” to
be held‘at Sandy Spring Com
munity Library.
The entire community, in
cluding children, has been in
vited to turn out in Miss
Moore's honor. She is retiring
this summer.
chairs might consider a black
and blue color scheme more ap
propriate in any future redecor
ating of State Houe chambers.
Passage of the watered-down i
bill giving urban areas four,
less seats in 1966 than Tawes'
original reapportionment bill i
called for came only after more,
than 20 hours of spirited debate
which one observer likened to
"a circus without a ringmaster."
It reflected a substantial con
cession on the part of suburban
legislators, led by Del. Alger
Earbee of Montgomery County,
who got the compromise move
ment rolling in House Judiciary
Committee consideration.
Barbee and Del. Charles
Woodward were the only two
members of Montgomery’s
delegation, however, who
backed the compromise meas
ure In House voting.
With passage of the new for
mula for permanent apportion
ment in 1966, the rural counties
managed to hold on to much of ;
their long domination of the
House of Delegates.
From the outset, feeling
was high both for and against
guidance counselor, checked her vocabulary and diction as
part of the tests given each child when they're registered.
Here Debbie Is being asked hi say “onion.”
sentinel Photo li> Tom il nestis
served on the short-term charter
Council's advisory committee on
planning in the upper county.
He is a former member of both
the County Council and the
School Board, and an active con
servationist who handled David
Hume's campaign for the gub
ernatorial nomination in the
county.
Harold A. Knapp, jr., of
Germantown, head of the Fall
out Studies Branch, Division of
Biology and Medicine at the
Atomic Energy Commission,
whose critiques of county plan
ning action and progress have
won him renown in the county.
His detailed statement of views
on local planning has had wide
spread distribution here.
All three of the nominees meet
qualifications of up-county res
idence and Democratic party af
filiation which King's successor
must have.
Board member King's teim is
to expire June 14. but he has
1 applied for reappointment.
Hard in Reapportionment Battle
Gov. J. Millard Tawes’ bill to
carry out the court order for
reapportionment.
Powerful rural legislators
who have long dominated the
law-making process- cried they
were fighting for their lives,
while spokesmen for the under
represented more populous
areas such as Montgomery
County expressed equal deter
mination to win for themselves
every bit of additional power
they could.
Rural opposition to any gain
in legislative power by the ur
ban counties is based as much
in “resentment” as it is in sim
ple polities, one observer noted.
“They think we’re all a
bunch of Intellectuals and cos
mopolites down here outside
Washington who don't really
have the interests of the rest
of the people in the state at
heart,” he commented.
“We can talk all we want to
about our superior schools, hous
ing codes and road systems in
Montgomery County,” he added,
"but every time they hear about
them their backs are up and j
Established 1855
Court Takes
| Custody Of
2 Children
ROCKVILLE A young cou- j
pie lost custody of their two
children, aged two and six
months, at a Monday hearing
in juvenile court investigating
1 the three-story fail of the old
er child on the morning of May
I 19.
, According to police, the girl
fell from an apartment window
, at 1:25 a.m., after being left
I unattended since 8:30 the prev
, ious night, except when looked
in on by a neighbor. Tlie par
ents did not return until 4:45
’ a.m., police said, and were then
told of the accident.
The youngster was found out
, side the building by another
■ neighbor. She was not serious
ly hurt.
The 2-year-old girl has been
- placed in a temporary foster
• home and her 6-month-old sister
has been left with the parents
! under the supervision of the
,! Montgomery County Welfare
I I Board. The couple is now living
1 near Gaithersburg.
we’re face to face with an un- j
yielding resentment we’re going ]
to have to overcome somehow!
before they believe we're with
, them.” '
Neither Gov. J. Mi 11 ar d
Tawes’ emergency call nor the
J mandate from the court ap
peared to have any immediate
| effect on the almost-solid op
| position of rural lawmakers to
giving the rural counties more
• muscle.
The special session s opening
day was marked by persistent
questioning of Royce Hanson,
chair-man of the Maryland Com
mittee on Fair Representation
on “what the court might do if
we didn't do anything here.”
“I think it’s Important that i
we not give the court a chance;
to find out what it’s going to
do,” Hanson retorted.
i
Asked by another Delegate
whether any legislature else
, where in the nation has re
fused to follow a similar court
order. Hanson retored, “Not un
til this time.”
| Outright refusal to act on the
j court s mandate -or sufficient
Rockville Budget
Asks 5c Tax Hike
Another Candidate Chosen
Peeples Considered
For Baltimore Job
Dr. William J. Peeples,
Montgomery County health
officer, was under serious
consideration for appoint
ment to Baltimore City’s
chief health post but nar
rowly lost out to another
contender, it was learned
this week.
The veteran health official
here was one of five top rank
ing medical administrators
throughout the country under
consideration for Baltimore
City’s health commissioner job.
The Baltimore vacancy will
occur July 1, upon retirement of
Dr. Huntington Williams.
The $13,000 post will go to Dr.
Robert E. Farber, assistant
Healtli Commissioner of Balti
more since 1955. The salary will
be upped at that time but Balti
more health department offi
cials are not discussing amounts
at this time.
Dr. Peeples was one of five
medical men recommended by a
special physicians committee ap
pointed by Baltimore Mayor
Harold Grady to recommend ap
pointees for the job. the Senti
nel learned this week. At the
same time, it was learned Dr.
Peeples did not seek the recom
mentation. “When a member of
the committee called me.” Dr.
Peeples said, “I told them I was
not looking for a job but had
no objection to being recom
mended.”
Dr. Peeples' job with Mont-
New Tax
Sources
Sought
Exploration of additional
sources of revenue for public
school support, olher than in
creases in real estate taxes, has
been announced by the Mont
gomery County Council of Par-!
ent-Teachers Associations.
A committee will be set up J
shortly to look into the matter. J
The Council's resolution to set
up the explorations committee
was passed last week when new
officers were Installed.
New officers include Millard
Cass, president: Bradley H. Pat
terson, Jr., first vice president:
Mrs. F. M. Bowers, second vice
president; Mrs. Donald R.
Bianco, secretary; Mrs. Arnold
Ordman, assistant secretary,
and Dr. Lawrence Haynes,
treasurer.
i stalling to carry any chance for j
final action past tonight's dead-j
line—would have crippled the;
populous countries chances of
reapportionment before Novem
ber.
Delay sufficient to carry en- i
actment of reapportionment i
until after tomorrow would
have required a three-fifths vote j
i of both houses —a majority 1
which urban legislator* ex
pressed no hope of being able
to muster.
Members of the county’s del
egation and several who hope
to be next November—were pre
pared for an extended stay when
’ they arrived, and they weren’t
disappointed.
Joining forces In most in
stances with the Prince Georges
delegation whose constituents
ialso stood to gain four new
! House seats under the adminis
tration bill the local legislators,
fought vigorously for early,
passage.
! Adding to the early pressure'
for prompt action by the Mouse
was an amendment offered by
1 the county delegation which:
. i called for establishment ofi
ginnery County pays $18,065
per year, $16,151 of which Is
paid hy the State,
Others recommended for the
Baltimore job were Dr. John D.
Porterfield, Deputy Surgeon
General of the United States,
Dr. George James, head of New
York City's health department;
Dr. Roscoe Handle, chief medi
cal officer of New Jersey, and
Dr. Farber..
In Budget Message
Town Needs
Manager,
Duvall Says
GAITHERSBURG Hir
ing of this community’s first
town manager and first
town bailiff is proposed in
Mayor Merton Duvall’s
1962-63 budget given to the
Town Council Monday night.
Duvall told the Council the
town’s present tax rate of 60
cents would support his pro
posed expenditures of $125,171
for the coming fiscal year with
out the necessity of a tax in
crease.
Biggest single item in the
budget request is $48,000 which
Duvall said is needed far. rpad,
street, sidewalk and curb and
gutter work. Both Summitt
and Diamond aves. need major
improvements, he said.
As Gaithersburg grows,
Mayor DuvaJl said, the ad
ministrative load becomes
heavier and a full-time town
manager Is now needed.
He budgeted an item of $6500
for hiring of a manager,
possibly around the first of
next year, and said he hoped a
young, professional municipal
administrator earning some
where between $6500 and S9OOO
could be hired, after careful
screening.
“This town is going to
grow If people will let It,”
.Mayor Duvall said, “and we
have now reached the point
where town affairs need
morn direction and attention
than we are able to give It
in our time.”
An item of $5500 was budg
eted by Duvall for a town
bailiff.
“We have no criticism of
county or state police.” DuvaJl
said, “but there are times when
we need police protection and
it is not at our fingertips.
“We need somebody to
serve notices and to warn
people about violating town
• Continued on Page A3i
early filing dates for a second
primary to be held July 17.
The prlmary-vx.-Ktate < 'en
tral Committee selection of ad
ditional candidates proved an
other major stumbling bloek
in the special session.
As could be expei-ted, factions
of the House which maintained
their control over local State
Central Committees In this
month’s elections- favored ap
pointment of the candidates by
Gov. Tawes on committee rec
ommendations, while those who
didn’t appeared to favor giving
the voters the ay in a new
primary.
The original Tawes proposal
was to have state central com
lttees In the various counties
nominate the additional dele
gate* who would then be "de
clared” nominated by the Gov
ernor.
The long day*—and nights—
of debate were not without
their lighter moments.
Early in the proceedings,
House members laughed appre
ciatively at the message related
(Continued on Page A 3l
SchooVs Out Soon
l— — And Sentinel columnist Bar
yiey Welsh tells us how at least
•ne teacher himself feels
jb hen It’s time to bid students
/arewell. See “Tom Sawyer Re
f visited,” Page A-4.
Approval
Would Bring
Rise of 52 c
A five-cent increase in the
Rockville tax rate has been
| recommended to the City
I Council by City Manager
! Walter A. Scheiber.
The development follows
recent enactment of 37-cent
county tax rate hike, which
Rookvillians also must pay,
and a proposal by the Rock
ville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment that a new 10-cent
fire tax be enacted. The
fire tax proposal was un
opposed at a recent public
hearing and is expected to
win approval soon.
If the Scheiber proposal Is
approved by City Council it
would mean a 52-cent tax in
crease on all property in the
city for the next fiscal year as
a result of the three-way
squeeze.
Biggest single increase in
Scheiber’s proposed budget is
an Item for payment of interest
rates on money borrowed in re
cent years for major building
projects.
“The city manager Is cog
nizant of the fact that Rock
ville taxpayers are faced with
an Increase of 37 cents in
county taxes in the coming
year, as well as a new fire
tax of up to 10 cents,” Schei
ber said in his budget mes
sage.
“However,” he added, “I see
joq. alternative to an Increase in
the municipal tax rate if the
city’s taxpayers are to continue
to enjoy services of the same
quality they have received in
the past few years.”
Scheiber also hastened to add
In his message that his pro
posal to increase the city tax
rate from 80 to 85 cents per
SIOO valutalort would still leave
1 the tax rate “at less than the
90-cent rate In effect in the
city from 1947 to 1954.”
The owner of an average
Rockville home, with an ac
tual value of SII,OOO. will pay
city taxes next year of $63.07,
Hchelber said. This compares
with a 1054 tax on the same
house of $66.78, he added.
Actual dollar and cents in
crease of next year’s city tax
bill over the current year’s
on the same $14,000 home
will be $3.71, if his 5-cent tax
' hike request Is approved, Schei
ber said.
A public healing will be held
on the budget in City Hall
June 15.
“Over the past few years."
. Scheiber told the City Council,
j "Rockville residents have had
much to be proud of in their
, city government. The respon
siveness of the government is
attested to by two All-America
City awards. Service levels
have boon maintained or tn
creased in all categories of
municipal activities.” He added:
"New facilities such as the
Civic Center, Teen Center, City
Hall and Civic Auditorium have
been built or acquired.”
The Sehetlier budget totals
$2,678,199 as compared to
on Page A3)
Roads Rost
Is Won l>v
Connlv Man
David M. Baldwin, of Little
dale rd., Kensington, was ap
pointed chief of the highway'
safety coordination division, ac
j cording to federal highway ad
! ministrator Rex M. Whitton.
Baldwin will work with fed
,eral, state and local government
agencies lo promote highway
safety and reduce traffic acci
| dents.
j Earning his B.S. and M.S. de
grees in civil engineering at the
j University of Illinois, Mr. Bald
win served as traffic engineer
for the National Safety Council
for 13 year* and as executive
secretary ol the institute of
‘.Traffic Engineers from 1956 to
the present.