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Spectrum
Personable Ann Brown who
packs political power—to such
a degree that she has risen
from a Garrett Purk house
wife to chairman of the coun
ty’|B Democratic State Central
Co-mmittee—has two sons on
the temporary payroll of the
Rockville Post Office.
Postmaster Hocker sa y$
their names came up on a
regular civil service rdfster
and they were not placed
ahead of other applicants.
* *
This column reported last
week that Blair Lee and 30 j
other Democrats had formed a
“Committee for a Democratic
Congress.” The item was signi
ficant in that everyone had been
wondering what Del. Lee, un
successful in his bid for U. S.
Senate nomination, would do in
the forthcoming election. Would
he sulk? Or would be get in
there and pitch with his Dem
ocratic fellows, willing to close
ranks or bury the hatchet or
whatever other cliche might
come to mind?
A few days later, the lady
dominated Democratic State
Central Committee announced
formation of a Democratic
Campaign Committee and lo
and behold there was Lee's
name on the list as county
liaison man with the congres
sional candidates who will be
running in the county—
Brewester, Sickles and Foley.
In practically the same mail
there was an announcement by
Lee of the formation of his
group which emphasized that it
was an “independent organiza
tion.”
What happened ivas that
the Central Committee was
thrown into a tizzy when it
got wind of Lee’s plans. So
they widely decided to deal
him in as best they could in
their campaign plans. Al
though it obviously is only a
move to keep up appearances.
“Oh, yes, Mr. Lee is on our
committee.” will no doubt be the
stock reply to voters who ask
embarrassing questions about
the sharp break between the
Centra] Committee and
vote-getting Lee. But only the
gullible will be taken in.
Earlier, Lee had said of the
campaign “It’s Ann Brown's
ball game,” and the remark
spoke volumes. So did Ann
Brown’s curt and extremely
111-advised remark in connec
tion with Lee’s long delayed
(and very reluctant) state
ment he would accept nomina
tion for the House of Dele
gates after his primary de
feat At that time she said:
“We receive lots of letters
from lots of applicants. His
will be treated no differently
from the others.” Did the
lady forget that he picked up
2L116 votes in Montgomery
County—more than any other
candidate even though he
was running against able and
popular Rep. Daniel B. Brew
ster who won only 5176 votes
here?
In any event, Lee's role in the
campaign is now known. He’ll
work for the Senate and House
of Representative candidates.
And that’ll be that He undoubt
(Continued on Page B 6)
High Legal
Honor Won
By Simpson
Joseph B. Simpson, Jr„ a lead
ing Montgomery County lawyer,
has been inducted as a fellow
of the American College of Trial
Lawyers, it was announced this
week by Los Angeles Superior
Court Judge Emil Gumpert,
chancelor of the college.
Membership in the college is
considered one of the highest
honors in American jurispru
dence and is limited to one per
cent of the attorneys in any
given state.
Simpson, 54, was state’s attor
ney for Montgomeiy County
from 1942 to 1946 and served
as president of the Montgom
ery County Bar Association in
1955-98. He has also been ac
tive with the Maryland State
Bar Association.
Simpson, who practices in
Rockville, was graduated from
Vanderbilt University and won
his law degree at George Wash
ington University.
He and his wife, Kathryn T.,
and their four children: Kathryn
Therese, 17: Adrian Elizabeth,
14; Joseph 8., 3rd, 11, and Chris
tine Vivian, 10, live in Takoma
Park at 7300 Cedar ave.
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William R. Thomas 111
Thomas
To Run
Again
The roster of incumbent
School Board members seek
ing re-election this fall was
made complete this week
with announcement by Wil
liam R. Thomas 111 that he
will run again to represent
the Third Council District.
Thomas, who is the current
School Board president, faces no
opposition so far.
A budget examiner in the Bu
reau of the Budget, Thomas
said his decision to campaign
was motivated principally by the
board’s record of the past four
years.
"I believe that record is a sub
stantial one, and one that de
serves and will receive wide
spread support from the citizens
of Montgomery County,” he
said.
He cited as examples the in
crease in teachers’ salaries, the
strengthened school curriculum
recommended by an independent
citizens’ committee, and inaug
uration of a new land acquisi
tion program that will result in
savings for the taxpayers.
Thomas said he felt his four
years of experience would en
able him to cope effectively with
the problems of the next four
years. Among these he included
completion of the curriculum
review program, more effective
organization of elementary
schools, and opening of a second
campus of the junior college.
Other School Board members
seeking re-election are Dr. Har
old F. Breimyer, Kensington,
Immediate past president; Rob
ert E. Morrow, Silver Spring, of
the First District, and Paul C.
Howard, Bethesda an at-large
member.
Other announced candidates
are William E. Coyle, Silver
Spring, and Everett H. Wood
ward, Silver Spring, both cam
paigning for at-large seats, and
William T. Saunders Ashton,
who is challenging Morrow.
Thomas, who lives in Garrett
Park, is married and has three
daughters, all of whom will be
attending county schools next
fall. He is a veteran of World
War 11, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia, and has com
pleted a year’s graduate work
in Business AdminHration at the
University of Maryland.
Prior to his election to the
Board in 1958, Thomas served
in the County Council of PTA’s,
local PTA work and other civic
organizations.
County’s Church Suppers
Are Colorful 9 Rewarding
The tantalizing aroma of country-fried chicken
and real country ham, potato salad made the way
grandmother used to make it and home-made, oven hot
rolls covered with honest-to-goodness butter. . . .
These epicurean delights are only a few of the joys
you experience when you go to a Montgomery County
church supper or picnic these lazy August days. A band
sometime plays out on the lawn under the trees and
sometimes there’s entertainment and the folks sit
around and talk about the little, but important, things.
The food is better than in the finest restaurants and
you can eat all you want for $1.50, only 75 cents for
the kids.
Family-style church suppers are advertised reg
ularly in The Sentinel on the classified pages under
“Coming Events.” Subscribe to The Sentinel—the
county’s best-mad newspaper—now and check the
church supper listings regularly. Call our circulation
department, GArden 4-7700.
uoing Begging
Are You A Missing Heir?
By Lila H. Thomson
Sentinel Reporter
A high and low search for
missing heirs to old estates
in Montgomery County cur
rently is under way by the 1
county’s Register of Wills. 1
Forty-four persons, benefici- 1
aries under wills or entitled toj *
receive residue of estates admin- 1
istered by the Orphans Court of i
Citizens Outburst Draws
Same from Mrs. Werner
County Councilwoman Stella
B. Werner, a dedicated and able
vote-getter in or out of an elec
tion year, is not above venting
her ire on the voters if she feels
the occasion warrants it. And
she did this week.
The gray-haired, mild-manner-
New School
Enrollment
Up by 6000
A record-breaking 92,020
public school students—6ooo
more than last year—will
start school Sept. 4.
Two days later, 17,000 Cath
olic parochial school students
will resume their studies, an in
crease of 900 over last year.
Officials estimate 9500 young
sters will be going to school for
the first time next month, in
kindergarten enrollments run
ning only 320 over last year. Of
these, 8840 will be admitted to
public schools.
Enrollments In all types of
elementary school will hit 71,-
000, over 3500 heavier than last
September’s, while combined
Junior and senior high school
registrations will be up more
than 3400 for a total of 41,000.
In public schools only, 54,
735 elementary school stu
dents will swell last year’s
total by 2753; junior high en
rollments will be up 319 to
20,340, and senior high schools
will welcome 2771 more stu
dents than last year, for a
new high of 16,945.
Non-public schools generally
accommodate about 19 per cent
of the county's school children,
with the Roman Catholic facili
ties taking over 15 per cent.
Opening of four new public
secondary schools in the coun
ty to take care of the popula
tion boom in this age group has
been announced for next month
by the School Board, which has
undertaken an unprecedented
building program.
Meantime, while school’s open
ing is still almost a month
away for county youngsters,
their teachers will return a
week early for pre-school con
ferences and preparation.
Orientation week for re
turning teachers and more
than 649 who are new to the
county will be held Aug. 27-31.
A special indoctrination pro
gram for school system new
comers will be conducted at
the School Board's Educa
tional Services Center in
Bockville Aug. 29-30.
The Montgomery County Edu
cation Association continues to
seek living quarters for hun
dreds of newly-arriving teach
ers. So far, reports executive
director Arthur D. Simonds, ac
commodations have been found
for more than 100. Persons will
ing to sell or rent housing to
the teachers should contact the
MCEA, PO. 2-5300.
Montgomery County, are legal
I heirs to sums of money rang
ing from $3,600 downward to
less than $2.
Where they are and why they
haven’t appeared to collect
their inheritances is unkown.
The sum held by the Register
of Wills office for the missing
heirs is nearly $22,000.
Since a large portion of the
money has been around a long
ed Mrs. Werner brought an ap
plauding group of citizens up
short at the County Council’s
meeting this week, when pro
longed handclapping broke out
after her motion to deny an
application for high-rise apart
ment zoning in fashionable
Sumner.
“I’m very disappointed to
see people in Montgomery
County behave like this,” a
flushed and visibly angered
Mrs. Werner said firmly.
She told the crowd of about
50 Sumner residents who op
posed the apartment that she
had been bothered with phone
callers attempting to influence
her vote on the application in
recent weeks, and said flatly she
doesn’t enjoy being “pressured”
into any decision.
“I’ve been informed you peo
ple were coming here today to
see how we would vote on this,
and that you would, in Novem
ber. vote against all Council
members who voted for the re
zoning,” Mrs. Werner added.
“This Council has many im
portant decisions to make, and
I wouldn’t want anyone to get
the impression I’m making this
one under the wrong motiva
tion.”
It Is the Coiniri’s role to
decide on zoning applications
solely on the basis of “best
land use,” Mrs. Werner ex
plained, not because a great
number of citizens favor or
oppose them.
Following Mrs. Werner’s com
ments, the Council unanimously
voted to deny the apartment
zoning sought by Laszlow Tau
j ber for a four-acre tract at
Massachusetts ave. and West
bai-d rd., finding there has not
been sufficient change in the
character of the single-family
residential neighborhood to jus
tify it.
The Council’s decision to deny
the application was made over
the rezoning’s approval by both
the Montgomery County Plan
ning Board and its staff.
‘Tropic’ Suit
I To Be Argued
Here Aug. 15
Attorneys for a Silver Spring
couple seeking to have the con
troversial Henry Miller novel,
“Tropic of Cancer,” returned to
public library shelves in the
county will argue, in a new trial
which starts Aug. 15, that Pub
lic Libraries Director George P.
Moreland was deprived of his
power to decide on the book's
merits by orders from higher
up.
Specifically, the lawyers will
point out that by ordering the
book removed from public li
braries, both State's Attorney
Leonard T. Kardy and County
Manager Mason A. Butcher pre
vented Moreland from exercis
ing his legal powers of discre
tion in the matter.
Counsel for Aaron M. and
Barbara LeVine will also put
on a parade of witnesses will
ing to establish the book’s ML
erary merit and influence a
- decision against its obscenity.
The Maryland Court of Ap
peals last month ordered new
trials on both the Levine’s civil
suit against the county and
criminal action brought by the
state against Chevy Chase
bookdealer Samuel Yudkin on
charges of selling the book in
violation of the state’* obscen
ity laws.
The appellate court’s findings
in both cases were similar, in
that the lower courts refused to
admit evidence on the book's lit
erary merits. In the Levine
case, however, it also found that
the basic issue of whether the
county librarian lacked discre
tion in the library ban was
overlooked.
Harvey Rosenberg, one of
two lawyers engaged by the
! Irvines, said he will base his
(Continued on Page A4)
Established 1855
time —some connected with
the estate of a Chevy Chase
resident who died nearly 40
years ago—lt would appear
legal owmers or their descend
ants have vanished.
Virginia Black, Register of
Wills for Montgomery County,
and custodian of missing heirs
funds, has just pulled out the
old records and kicked off a
hunt for the vanished. “The
money is here waiting,” she;
said, “and we want to locate the
owners and close the records
once and for all.”
If any of the lost heirs are
discovered during the search
and offer acceptable proof of
their claim, they will find Mrs.
Black has bank books for them
and that interest-bearing sav
ings acoouts have been set up
for each in a local bank. In
terest for some of the heirs has
added up to substantial sums.
For example, one of the
missing who was entitled to *
receive $2,876 eleven years
ago, now will collect $3,655.
Another originally due a lit
tle over a thousand dollars
has accumulated a bank ac
count of $1,359.86.
Nineteen heirs are concerned
with the estate of William G.
Missing Heir List
Published on B 6
A partial list of missing
heirs who are entitled to more
than $22,000 that has accumu
lated in the county’s Register
of Wills office is published on
Page B 6 of this week’s Sentin
eL Be sure to check to see If
your name of the name of a
friend of yours is on 1L
Carter who once resided at 16
Taylor st., Chevy Chase. Carter
died in 1923, leaving his estate
to his widow. The estate was
[encumbered by debts amount
ing to over $200,000.
The widow served as execu
trix until her death in 1944; a
son serv-'d after this, and still
later several attorneys were
used in this capacity. When the
estate was closed 11 years ago,
28 years after the Carter will
(Continued on Page A4)
Greene Heads
Committee on
Urban Renenal
Alex Greene, former mayor of
Rockville, this week was named
to head the city’s Urban Re
newal Steering Committee. Ap
pointment was made by the
Mayor and Council, subject to
Greene’s acceptance.
Mayor Ecker said Greene,
presently on a camping trip in
Canada, undoubtedly will accept
the appointment, even though
he holds membership on the
city's planning commission. The
former mayor’s “interest in ur
ban renewal and the city’s pro
gress will allow him to find time
to serve,” Ecker added.
Greene will replace Dean
Price, who resigned when his
job was transferred to Balti
more.
I
Dog Census Takers
Assistant City Manager Allan >l. Ofensend
instructs Rockville's teenage dog census
takers in the fine art of canine counting.
Left to right census takers are Oougiae
Strong Opposition
To 5-Acre Zoning
Aired at Hearing
Restaurant Agrees
To Equal Service
Silver Spring restaurant owner Samuel R. Crivella,
first to be charged with violating the county’s new anti
discrimination law, has agreed to serve orderly customers
in the future regardless of their race, color, creed, ances-
try or national origin.
Crivella’s pledge was accept
ed this week by the Commission
on Human Relations, with the
understanding that the restau
rateur will be subject to imme
diate enforcement measures if
he violates it.
While finding that Crivella
was guilty of proven violation
of the equal service law, the
Commission accepted an amend
ed stipulation from him by
which he “reserves the right to
determine . . . those who will
or will not be served for any
other reason or reasons than
those stated” In the ordinance.
In Its formal finding and
opinion in the case, brought
against Crivella by seven Wash
ington Negroes, the Commis
sion declares the language of
the amendment “does not in any
way impair the Commission’s
Dissolution of Rockville?
Ecker—Like Churchill
Refuses to ‘Preside at . .
ITEM; The City of Rockville,
needled and slightly axed at
times by the Maryland National
Capital Parks and Planning
Commission, in the matter of al
legedly interfering with plan
ning and orderly development of
the County by too many annex
ations of land, has received a
letter from said MNCPPC.
ITEM: The letter states, and
we quote: The Montgomery
County Planning Board of this
Commission at its meeting on
Wednesday, July 25, 1962, asked
me to offer you our planning
services as provided under
Maryland Law. We have similar
arrangements with Brookeville.
In essence, it involves the prep
aration of master plans, advis
ory comments on zoning appli
cations, review of subdivision
plats and other such services
that our staff and commission
are providing outside your jur
isdiction.
(Still quoting). We regret
that we have not extended
this invitation sooner, but tlie
work involved in developing
the General Plan for the area
has prevented us from doing
so.
i.Still quoting* The General
Plan, which will soon come from
Gray, Sandy Wiley, “Instructor” (Mensend,
and Rlcki Roscnberger. Standing behind
them are Paul Wharen and John Burton.
—Ed Mervia Photo
right or ability to enforce the
ordinance.”
A spokesman for the Commis
-1 sion said its members, not Cri
vella, have the right to deter
! mine whether the agreement Is
violated and that if an addition
al complaint of discrimination
i is received it can issue a “cease
i and desist” order without fur
ther hearing.
‘The Commission definitely
i retains the power to determine
l whether Mr. Crivella does the
■ right thing by his customers,”
i said Assistant County Attorney
Richard Sincoff, who carried the
I questioning for the conciliatory
; body at its lengthy hearing on
■ the Crivella case last month.
It was the first to be heard
! by the commission under the
■ public accommodations law
i passed in February.
the printers, proposes to en
hance the role of the small town
in the Upper County. This is in
direct contrast to the recent re
port made by the Public Admin
istration Service. In fact, we are
prepared to place special empha
sis on your particular planning,
zoning and subdivision problems.
(SDH quoting) As you real
ize, all the details concerning
tills proposal cannot be ade
quately presented In this let
ter. Therefore, will you kindly
let me know when I may ar
range for our staff to meet
with you at your regular or
special town meeting, at
which time, we can discuss
this nutter. (End of letter;
end of quoting).
The letter was signed by Jesse
L. Nicholson, the commission’s
executive director.
ITEM: When the letter was
read by Mayor Frank Ecker to
the Council, seen gasping, then
open-mouthed, were councllmen
Mack, Ross, Williams and Tuch
tan, ably assisted by members of
the city staff present at the
meeting, including the city's
planning staff.
ITEM: Unanimous questions
1 (Continued on Page B6i
Inside Features ...
Each week the Sentinel has
many highly readable features
on the inside pages . . . stories
about sports and women and
social activities as well as news
of Interest to people all over
Montgomery County. That’s one
reason the Sentinel is the coun
ty’s best-read newspaper.
Next Round
Coming Up
On Friday
J
By Elly Bradley
Sentinel Reporter
The dramatic and emo
tion-charged presentation of
views on a proposed five
acre zone for the county’s
rural areas, which drew a
first-night audience of al
most 500 last week, goes in
to its second act Friday
night.
Another full house of up
county property owners and
their attorneys is expected to
be arrayed against official and
unofficial land planners who
seek the new zone as a means
of forestalling widespread de
velopment of remaining open
spaces.
Their gathering, set for 8 p.m.
in the Richard Montgomery
See Editorial Page A4
High School gymnasium, will be
officially the third In two
weeks before a County Council
which must make the decision
to adopt the zone in the face
of virtually unanimous opposi
tion from owners of land it will
affect.
A first Council hearing on
July 30 died aborning at the
County Building when so
many property owners
showed up that It had to be
postponed for lack of suf
ficient sealing room.
Last Wednesday nights
three-hour session allowed only
a dozen of more than 30 sched
uled speakers to get their
views on the record.
Observers noted that lengthy
presentations tomorrow night
could carry the Council’s public
hearing on the controversial
proposal into a fourth session.
Overwhelmingly outn um •
bered at last week’s hearing,
spokesmen far two major
county planning groups which
i favor the zone took their stand
! before an openly hostile audi
ence and a Democratic election
year Council as concerned with
I votes as it is with land plan
ning.
The zone's principal advo
cates include representatives of
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commis
sion which approved it by a
9-1 vote and the grass roots
i “watchdog” Montgomery Coun
)ty Citizens Planning Associa
i tion, and one Individual, Harold
I Knapp of Germantown, a for
mer candidate for appointment
to the planning commission.
Lined up against them and
evidently ready for a fight to
the finish were attorneys for
! numerous landowners, as well
, as officials of the Montgomery
County Farm Bureau, Chamber
(Continued on Page BGt
Shooting
Mishap Kills
| Man* 25
Ronald R. Little, 25, of 2909
1 University blvd. west, Kensing
ton, a technical illustrator at
: Vitro Laboratories, Silver
Spring, was killed Aug. 4 whiiz
target shooting with two friends
on a farm in Norbeck. He was
! reported to have been hit in the
| back of the head as he raised
| himself into the line of fire
'after bending over to tie his
! shoelace. The shooting has been
i ruled accidental.
The victim was born in
Meyerstown, Pa., and was grad
! uated from the Lebanon High
| School. He served two and one
-half years in the U. S. Air
Force, and then went into the
Williamsport Technical Institute
| where he received his degree in
1 technical illustration.