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Nine hundred six signed yrf>; 44,000 to
go. And only a little mcJheqthan ilfvveek'remaining to
do the job. m
That’s the story of the current drive to register
new voters before the cut-off date of Sept. 24, after
which no new voters may be registered.
Listed at the bottom of this story are the places
where new voters may sign up in the evening in
public schools near their homes.
If you’re eligible to register you should do so
NOW! Everybody in the county wants you to—the
Republicans and the Democrats and chic, business
and community leaders.
At stake in the Nov. 6 election are: one U. S.
Senate seat, two seats in Congress: the governorship,
the State Comptroller, the seven seats on the Mont
gomery County Council, four seats on the county
school board and a host of local offices.
The Sentinel, to stimulate the new voter regis
tration drive is offering a number of rewards and
prizes to new voters in a “New Voters Registration
Sweepstakes.” Winners will be selected at random
by a group of civic and political leaders from the list
of new voters who registered between Sept. 4- 24
after the drive closes.
Among the rewards and prizes: an opportunity to
Public Forum
Letters to the editor —the Sen
tinel’s public forum —make in
teresting: reading:. Turn to Page
A4 for this week’s offerings
from citizens who speak their
piece.
108th Year • No. 11—Published Every Thursday * ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 19*2 Ard*s 4-7700 TWO SECTIONS ■ Cepy
‘Capricorn’
Is On Sale
In Rockville
Copies of the well-heralded
sequel to Henry Miller’s con
troversial novel, “Tropic of
Cancer” are on sale in at
least one supermarket in the
county, but indications are
that book dealers here are
avoiding it as the plague.
Miller’s “new” book, “Tropic
of Capricorn,” has just been
brought out in this country by
his American publisher, Grove
Press, although it has been
widely read in Europe since
1939.
A phone check of county book
dealers indicated this week that
they aren’t selling it here, or if
they are they aren’t saying so
to casual inquirers. But copies
were on sale this week at the
Rockville Co-op store, 213 North
Washington st.
County brandies of Bren
tano's, one of the largest area
book dealers, report they
have stocked no copies and
aren’t selling the new “Tro
pic,” although it is available
at the downtown G st. store.
State’s Attorney Leonard T.
Kardy, advised the book is
available in the county, said he
has not yet read it but intends
to.
“If it is the same content as
Tropic of Cancer”, we may have
to take the same action as we
did with that book in banning
Its sale,” he said.
He stressed, however, that if
he does take action "it wall
probably be byway of an in
junction rather than criminal
action.” explaining that in the
Yudkin case he had “no alter
native but arrest," since Yudkin,
he said, had “flaunted” the sale
ban.
Chevy Chase book dealer
Samuel Yudkin, who has been
found guilty of selling its pre
decessor in violation of Mary
land's obscenity laws, similarly
says he isn't selling it in his
county store, but does have it
at his shops at the Washington
National Airport and in Alex
andria.
“Normally, I would be glad
to put this book on sale, as I
did with Tropic of Cancer’,”
said Yudkin, to whom the Mary
land Court of Appeals has
granted a new trial on the basis
of the conduct of his original
trial here last December.
“But since I’m under Indict
ment for selling ‘Cancer,’ which
is a companion book to Tropic
of Capricorn,’ I feel that I will
wait to see what's going to hap
pen in the county.”
The appelate court found
Circuit Court Judge James H.
Pugh erred in refusing to per
mit expert testimony on “Tropic
of Cancer’s” literary merits at
Yudkin's original trial. Yudkin’s
counsel plan to Introduce a
string of experts on literature
and obscenity at his new trial,
which is slated for November.
The publishers hail “Capri
corn” as “in some respects an
achievement superior to the
first Tropic’ novel,” and say
that despite the ban on his
major writings he has “for
years been one of the most in
fluential figures In American
literature.”
Book reviewers have received
the book generally as “more of
the same" from Miller, one
terming “Capricorn” as the
latest "Tropic lor conversation.”
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‘I Quit’
Salary Stoppage Brings
Quick Employe Reaction
Employers sometimes expect employes to quit sud
denly—and in a huff. But this case was a little different.
William Bobrow, proprietor of
Elbe Market, 2522 University
blvd. w., Wheaton, agreed to
pay his nine-year-old son, Jeff
rey, for watching the store's
small parking lot.
People who weren’t supposed
to were using It And the idea
was to have Jeff tell them that
if they weren’t going to shop at
Elbe Market, please don’t park
here.
The agreed upon salary was
“about a dollar, sometimes a
dollar and a half.” It worked
fine for awhile.
But one day the boss caught
his new employe hanging
around a nearby toy store, The
parking lot watcher argued he
could see the parking lot
through the window of the toy
store.
But the boss had misgivings.
He stopped paying his new em
ploye for awhile.
Soon thereafter, the pro
prietor of the Elbe Market
got a letter in the mail. It
was from his new employe.
“Dear Dad,” the letter began.
“It is with deep regret that I!
am forced to submit my letter |
of resignation. You will have to
look for someone else to watch
your parking lot.”
It continued: “I took this job
with the understanding you
would be paying me a flat sal
ary for the day but since you
stopped paying me salary I am
forced to quit.
"May I remind you that you
owe me two Saturday’s pay. It
has been a pleasure working
for you. I am certainly going to
miss those delicious luncks.
Sincerely, Jeff Bobrow.”
But the story has a happy
ending. Jeff and his dad have
made up. “And what’s more,”
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Wheaton Library Opens Sunday
Mm. Phillip** Cordon, Jr., chairman of
the Wheaton Library Adivsory Committee,
smiles happily outside the new Wheaton
Regional Uhary, Georgia and Areola Aves.,
Wheaton, which will hold open house Sun
day from 1 to i p-m. and then be open for
meet Gov. J. Millard Tawes in his office in the State
Capitol, Annapolis, and a tour of the historic build
ing; a chance to have lunch with Sen. J. Glenn Beall
in the U. S. Capitol and a tour of the Capitol Build
ing; lunch with the entire seven-member Montgomery
County Council with Council members answering any
questions the new voter may have and picking up his
lunch tab; a SIOO U. S. Savings Bond donated by the
Montgomery County Sentinel; a $25 savings bond of
fered by Maryland National Bank; a SSO savings bond
donated by Rabinow Engineering Co., Rockville; an
other SSO bond offered by Bernard Siegel, owner of
River Road Country Club; additional $25 savings
bonds given by E. Brooke Lee, longtime county po
litical leader; Suburban Trust Co., and Rockville
builder Glen J. Koepenick; a $lO gift certificate from
A. Gude Sons, nurseries and landscapers, Rockville.
Meanwhile, the list of sweepstakes donations of
fered to stimulate voter registrations has been swelled
by more civic-minded contributors during the past
week.
Most unusual of the new offerings is one of a
$25 U. S. savings bond from the Cabin John Gardens
Corp., a cooperative housing group, which specifies
the bond is to be reserved for a new registrant in the
area precinct, which is 7-3.
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Jeffrey Bobrow
said the father with a slightly
prideful note in his voice, “I
think I’ll make him the man
ager.”
Spectrum
By THE OBSERVER
The Sentinel this week re
ceived a press release which
. should be of more than passing
interest, for number of reasons,
to Montgomery County voters.
We reprint it here in full:
“In a strongly worded letter
to local veterans groups,
Henry J. Noyes, Republican
candidate for the House of
Delegates, today scored the
candidacy of his Democratic
opponent Richard P. Abell.
Noyes hit Abell’s war record,
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All Tax Bills
Now Sent Out ,
Officials Say
It’s tax time again In Mont
gomery County and the fi
nance office said this week It
had sent out more than 95,000
tax bills to county property
owners or their agents.
If you or your representa
tive have not received one, of
ficials said, you or your agent
should call the revenue and
disbursements office at POp
lar 2-2121, extension 248.
All property tax bills are
due and payable now, and in
terest and penalties apply to
all tax bills remaining unpaid
after Sept. 80.
Wheaton
Library
To Open
Ceremonies marking the
opening of the new Wheaton j
Regional Library, Georgia
and Areola Aves., Wheaton,
will be held Sunday at 3 p.m.
and open house will be held
at the glistening new facility
Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
The structure was built at a
cost of $319,000 and has a ca
pacity of 150,000 volumes. It
will open Monday with 60,000
books.
Beside a community meeting
room seating 100 persons, the
library has a large main read
ing room seating 215, a chil
dren’s room, and a reference
room.
The library is the fifth new
one built by the county since
the public library system was
created in 1951. Others are Sil
ver Spring, Bethesda, Little
Falls, and Gaithersburg. The
new facility at Wheaton will
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business Monday morning. The opening
culminates an eight-year effort by public
spirited Wheaton civic and community lead
ers for a new library facility. Brief cere
monies will be held Sunday at $ pm.
In addition, James W. Church, president of the
Housing Corp., said another $25 bond is to go to any
neighbor whom the winner of the first bond identifies
as having persuaded him to get his name on the reg
istration rolls.
Other new contributions listed this week for the
first time include:
A $25 savings bond from Guardian Federal Sav
ings & Loan Association of Silver Spring.
A $25 “starter deposit” toward the opening of a
savings account from County Federal Savings & Loan
Association of Rockville.
A “top-quality” six-tube transistor radio, from
the First National Bank of Maryland, which has
branches in Rockville, Twinbrook, Kensington, Pooles
ville and Gaithersburg.
And the list of prizes is expected to grow.
There are ail estimated 45,000 eligible new voters
in Montgomery County who haven’t registered. Only
986 went to the trouble of registering in the past
week.
If you are an eligible new voter consult the list
below and go to the place nearest your home where
election officials will be sitting, waiting for you. Or
if you have a friend who hasn’t registered, urge him
to do so.
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6 Peeples to People 5 Encounter
County Health Officer William J. Peeples In
troduce* himself to Mrs. Iwell Olmstead on
the lawn of her home at 9505 Accord dr. in
the Concord subdivision of Potomac, during
his door-to-door tour of homes in the com
munity last Saturday. Dr. Peeples’ mission
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To Allay Fears
Peeples Reassures Homeowners
In Door-to-Door Potomac Tour
By Elly Bradley
Sentinel Reporter
It was “Peeples to people”
out in the Concord subdivi
sion of Potomac last week
end, as the county’s ranking
health official conducted an
unprecedented, door-to-door
survey of reaction to the
community’s well-publicized
water and sewer problems.
Dr. William J. Peeples, county
health officer, went from house
to house, talking with residents
of Accord dr., where most of
the furor about water pollution
and overflowing septic tanks
has been centered.
His mission, he said, was
to ease any anxiety about
health hazards which remains
In the minds of homeowner*
after his detailed report to the
County Council of two weeks
ago.
What he found, almost with
out exception, was less anxiety
about health hazards than about
the effect on property values of
widespread and what he termed
"often erroneous, misleading"
news reports on property values
in the community.
To a Sentinel reporter ac
companying Dr. Peeples, it
was hard to tell who profited
more from the face-to-face en
was to allay any vestiges of anxiety Concord
residents have about their well water sup
plies, and to distribute copies of his full re
port to the County Council on water contam
ination and septic tank problems In the
county.
counters —the health officer
or the Concord people he was
able to meet.
Saturday afternoon being
■ what It is, many residents were
■ not at home. Others, involved in
r litigation against the county,
J could not be contacted for legal
, reasons.
, But those whom Dr. Peeples
j did see received the benefit of
long, candid discussion of the
situation with him. They also
r got copies of the report on well
* and septic tank problems in the
i county which he presented to
t the Council in a two-hour ques
i tion-and-answer session,
i All appeared impressed with
the county official’s personal ef
fort to reassure them —and ex
pressed interest in the full text
of his report, which deals at
length with specific problems in
Concord.
Dr. Peeples said he hope*
to get a copy of hi* report
into the hands of every home
' owner in Concord, and may
make an additional effort to
' inform county realtors of the
1 "true facte in till* case,”
which they, in turn, can pas*
on to propective home buy
er* there.
Relaxed in their living rooms,
Concord residents repeatedly
said they were worried about
the economic impact of the ad
In addition to going to the roving boards of reg
istry, any new voter may sign up at the Court House
in Rockville during the day, Monday through Friday.
To lend support to the Sentinel’s drive to encour
age new voters, civic, business and political leaders
agreed to serve on the committee supervising the
drive and the awarding of the prizes.
They include: Chairman Ann Brown of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee; Chairman Don
Kendall of the Republican State Central Committee;
Helen F. Derryberry of the Montgomery County
League of Women Voters; William R. McCallum,
president of the Allied Civic Group of Silver Spring;
Richard Price, jr„ president of the Bethesda - Chevy
Chase Chamber of Commerce; Ross Roberts, presi
dent of the Rockville Chamber; Ward W. Fetrow,
president of the Montgomery County Farm Bureau,
and Richard M. Cooperman, of RMC Public Relations
and Advertising.
If you have any questions, call the Board of Elec
tion Supervisors at POplar 2-2121.
The listing of places where roving boards of reg
istry will be sitting between now and Sept. 24 follows.
Hours in all cases are from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
(Continued on Page A3
verse publicity on pollution, cit
ing one home sold within the
past week “at a substantial
loss."
The health officer told
them, however, that public
water could be expected in the
area “within a year to a year
and-a-half,” and pointed out
thl* service would ultimately
enhance their home*’ value
far beyond any "temporary
setback” they may have suf
fered In recent weeks.
Some homeowners who talked
with Dr. Peeples said that news
accounts of septic tank failures
and water contamination had
alarmed them sufficiently to
have their water’s purity double
checked in private laboratories.
But others, like Dr. Frederick
Hartsock, 9600 Accord dr., ap
peared willing to go along with
the county’s appraisal.
"The publicity’s been all out
of proportion to the situation
here,” declared Dr. Hartsock,
who added he feels "most people
are basically being pretty sen
sible” about newspaper implica
tions of widespread health haz
ards in the area.
“Frankly, I’m more worried
about m.v well going dry than
about all this scare,” Hartsock
said, with a chuckle.
(Continued on Page A10)
Politicking Time
Political developments are
coming thick and fast as the
Nov. 6 general election cam
paign gathers momentum. For
a roundup on what candidates
are doing and saying turn to
Page AS of this issue of Mont
gomery County’s leading weekly
newspaper.
Council Asks
Planners to
Study Issues
The county’s land plan
ning agency has received a
strong request from the
County Council for “immedi
ate” study of sweeping pro
posed revisions to the coun
ty’s subdivision ordinance,
that would develop
ment of residential commu
nities in areas without pub
lic water or sewers.
The Council dispatched the
request to the Maryland-Na
tional Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission which admin
isters county subdivision regu
lations.
Copies of the proposed amend
ments concerning water and
sewer service were submitted to
the planners for "early and
speedy rcommendatlon,” to
avoid undue delays in setting a
public hearing before the Coun
cil.
If adopted, the revised ordi
nance would:
• Require either central water
supply or centralized sewer sys
tem, public or private, to be
guaranteed by the developer of
all future subdivisions of from
15 to 50 lots, regardless of lot
sizes.
• Make it mandatory for both
central water and sewer facili
ties, public or private, to be pro
vided all future subdivisions of
more than 50 lots.
• Prohibit any subdivisions
containing five or more lots to
be served by septic tanks and
wells if two-thirds or more of
the land is determined to be
either "flood plain soil” or "un
favorable” for home develop
ment In the county’s new soil
survey.
No individual lot containing
more than 25 per cent of
either or both types of soil
would be approved for home
construction.
In presenting the proposed
amendments to the County
Council, County Attorney Al
fred H. Carter pointed out that
they do not. as drafted, exempt
from the requirement of either
central water or central sewer
( any subdivision above 15 lots,
, "even though such lots may be
| of two acres or more in size."
“This particular aspect of
| the recommendation needs
consideration. In my opinion,"
he said.
The new proposals, drawn up
on the recommendation of Coun
ty Health Officer William J.
1 Peeples and in cooperation with
Wesson Cook of the planning
commission’s staff, would have
far-reaching salutory effects on
controlling continued develop
' ment of "septic tank villages’’
in the county.
Adoption of a policy of "urban
services for urban development”
was one of Dr. Peeples’ strong
est requests in a recent report
to the County Council which
stemmed from widespread pub
licity on well water pollution
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