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Speculation Is Rife
In Election’s Wake
Smog of political Indecision following in the wake of
last week’s GOP upset here had not lifted sufficiently early
this week to allow a clear picture of possible far-reaching
effects of change from liberal to conservative government.
Two important ingredients of any forthcoming action
were missing:
1. The GOP was not noticeably busy grinding its pre
election axe.
2. Finger-pointing within the Democratic Party’s top
brass has yet to develop. None-the-less, speculation on things
to come took on these political hues:
State's Attorney Leonard T. Kardy. Democrat, was re
elected and, in the process, polled 52,433 votes, more than
any other of the 14 Democrats who managed to keep afloat
in the County’s GOP tidal wave.
Some Democratic top brass are predicting Kardy will
place his popular vote on a. banner and wave it over the
collective head of the Democratic State Central Committee
In an attempt to emerge as party strong man.
Kardy lone-wolfed in his re-election try and did not go
along with the Democratic theme of run-as-a-team. At the
Democratic Wake election night at Indian Springs Country
Club, there was acrid exchange between Kardy and State
Central Committee chairman Ann Brown. Mrs. Brown is
said to have used unmistakable language in telling-off
Kardy and Kardy is reported (reliably) to have answered in
terms equally unmistakable. As the brass sees it, Kardy
(a CAP indorsee i has his political sights beyond county
lines for 1964 and thinks they will best be served if he is
able to call the shots for the Party, beginning now.
County Cental Committee chairman Ann Brown is try
ing to get together a meeting of Democratic precinct chair
men for next week. Reports are more than afoot that
pressure is building up to force the resignation of Mrs.
Brown, and two other members of the State Central Com
mittee, namely, Mrs. Dorothy Hostetler, Mrs. Stella Allison
(daughter of Mrs. Stella Weiner), and Frank L. Hewitt.
As the story goes, by sacrificing Hewitt, a conservative, a
deal will be made on Mesdames Brown, Hostetler, and
Allison, and the committee will be reorganized along "mod
erate” lines.
Mrs. Brown's strong supporters in the party are of the
opinion the meeting of the precinct chairmen should be
stalled in order to allow a cooling-off period. Otherwise,
they believe the attempt to dump the distaff members of
the State Central Committee may be blown into a full-scale
offensive when the meeting is held.
Mrs. Brown, reportedly, was informed this week that a
petition demanding her resignation was circulating and had
acquired 1,000 signatures. When asked if she would resign
In face of it, she is said to have denied such an intention.
She pointed out that she had been elected by over 12.000
voters and, hardly, would be scared off by a thousand. Last
week she made a similar statement when she told reporters
she "had no intention of resigning Just because things are
getting a little rough.”
CAP, the County Above Party organization, which saw
all of the candidates it indorsed prior to Nov. 6 swept into
office, is denying it will look to the Republican Party for
patronage plums when the winning GOP candidates go into
office. Spokesmen for the group say it is assumed ap
pointments to be made by the victors will be made on the
basis of "fitness of the individual to occupy the particular
post in question.” CAP said it plans to continue its bi-parti
aan activities and “will soon make known the manner in
which wa will operate.”
By virtue of re-election, 6th District Rep. Charles MeC.
Mathias climbs from 9th to 7th ranking minority member
of the District Committee and from 12th to 11th place rank
ing Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
Republican John A. Floyd, County Councilman-elect
who defeated Mrs. Rose Kramer in the sth District and
polled the top winning vote among all elected Republicans
here, is believed to be in line for the presidency of the new
council when the 5-2 GOP controlled body takes over. In
the meantime, Dave Cahoon, lame-duck council president,
has invited the five council members-elect to meet with the
present council to discuss "orderly transition of govern
ment”
Speculation Is rife about coming action of the new council
when, within the next few months, it faces up to the ap
pointments it will make on the Washington Suburban Sani
tary Commission, and three important Peoples’ Court judge
ships which become vacant next year. So far, no one has
reached for an answer.
The term of Willard Morris, Democrat on the sanitary
commission, will expire in the spring. In May, planning
commissioner Louis Gravelle (Republican) is slated to step
down, unless reappointed. That of Don H. Gingery (one of
the CAP organizers) expires the following year. When
John A. Floyd assumes his seat on the County Council, an
immediate vacancy will exist on the commission.
In the matter of the judgeships, terms of Juvenile Court
judge Alfred D. Noyes; Peoples Court judges John B. Dia
mond 111, and J. Grahame Walker, all Democrats, expire
in the spring.
At this point, the GOPers indicate no plans for whole
sale removal of top county officials and department heads.
New council members are operating strictly on a wait-and
see, take-it-easy, basis.
Appointment of department heads is subject to Council
approval. This includes the county attorney, health depart
ment, inspections and licenses, finance, recreation, public
works, libraries, the county manager and others. County
manager Mason Butcher was appointed some years ago by
a Republican council to the Job of Public Works director.
Present Public Works director Kordella also came in under
a Republican regime. Director of Finance Alex Hancock,
due to retire shortly, has served under both Democratic
and GOP rule.
Doleful, defeated liberal Democrats are shaking their
heads over possible confusion and calamity to come. On
the other hand, the Republicans say there’s much ado about
nothing and they’re far more interested in the right person
for the right job than they are in party labels and corridors
cluttered with Democratic heads.
Republicans In post-election postmortems are giving
little or no credit for their victories. to CAP. They have,
a h a matter of fact, said point-blank, if CAP had not come
into existence, they believe they would have captured all
seven Council seats and 10 in the House of Delegates
contest.
Democratic State Central committeeman Irvin Levine
added to the statement by telling the Sentinel he doesn’t
believe CAP won the election for the GOP but functioned,
instead, to save the 11 Democrats who were elected.
Dave Cahoon, member of the County Council defeated
in a try for the House of Delegates, came nearer to pre
dicting the outcome of Black Democratic Tuesday than any
other candidate. A week before Nov. 6, Cahoon said the
Democrats had to get out 70 percent of the registered
Democratic vote on election day, or “we’re in serious
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Walt Whitman Is Dedicated
Several hundred parents and well wish
ers attended Monday’s formal dedication of
the new Walt Whitman High School, Be
thesda. Tiie $3.6 million school was built to
accommodate 1500 pupils and already lias
New School
Needs Told
In Report
By Bill McAda
Sentinel Reporter
A detailed analysis of ac
tual and anticipated resi
dential growth in areas
served by 10 county elemen
tary schools shows two new
schools and 32 additional
classi'ooms will be needed in
these areas between now
and 1965.
But despite all this, it appears
likely that some students will
have to be shuttled from over
crowded schools to those with
a little extra classroom.
This complex analysis was
handed to the County Board of
Education Tuesday. The board
immediately gave its approval
to the recommendations.
Most pressing among the
demands brought on by real and
projected population explosions
over the county is the need for
two new elementary schools, one
to contain 24 classrooms and
another with 16.
Both must be ready for use
by the beginning of school, 1964,
the report says.
Existing schools included in
the report are Hungerford, Con
gressional, Glenmont, Georgian
Forest, Rocking Horse, Viers
Mill, Aspen Hill, Brookhaven,
English Manor, and Fernwood.
The report also offers recom
mendations concerning schools
now projected for future con
struction. These are Tilden
Lane, Carderock Springs and
Glenallen.
Briefly, here are the recom
mendations on each of the
schools covered in the report:
Hungerford The existing
IS rooms should be sufficient to
handle the expected student load
through the 1963-64 year. How
ever, two additional rooms prob
ably will be needed by 1965.
Congressional Overcrowd
ing will make necessary the
transporting of three classrooms
by bus to the new Farmland
Drive Elementary School, pro
jected for completion in timp for
the 1963 school year. Meanwhile,
growth at the school will require
five additional classrooms by
1965. It is recommended that
planning begin now for the addi
tion of six to eight classrooms.
Glenmont-Glenallen —• The 25
existing classrooms now at Glen
mont, will be sufficient to handle
the anticipated load through
1965-66. The projected 1964 open
ing of the 14-room Glenallen
school has become unnecessary
and it is postponed until 1965.
Georgian Forest Population
projections indicate the 21 class
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Early Deadlines
Set Next Week
Due to the Thanksgiving
holiday and the fact that
there will be no mail delivery
Thursday, the Sentinel will
go to press one day early next
week. All news and advertis
i ing deadlines ipitl be pushed
forward by 24 hours.
an enrollment of 1420. The school's choral
group, top left of photo, sang during the
event and Associate Justice Tom Clark of
the United States Supreme Court was the
principal speaker. —Ed Mervis Photo
At Hearing Nov. 27
City’s Urban Renewal
Plans to Be Revealed
A public information meeting will be held on Rock
ville’s urban renewal plans at the Civic Center Auditorium,
Tues., Nov. 27 at 8:30 p.m.
The informational session has
been called to give property
owners, business firms and res
idents, preliminary ideas of
Rockville's planning and urban
renewal staff. At the same time,
officials s'aid, it is hoped the
meeting will produce citizen
suggestions which can be incor
porated in the final urban re
newal pian to be presented
sometime next spring.
(.'ailing a n informational
meeting at this time, officials
added, "is in keeping with the
basic approach to the city's
urban renewal program, i.e.,
that the business community,
citizens, and the city govern
ment must work together on a
partnership basis.”
A city-wide meeting, it was
said, will leave "ample time”
for all segments of the com
munity to participate in final
ization. A public hearing will
be held on the formal plan
prior to approval in the summer
of 1963.
Work on the Rockville proj
ect has been proceeding under
a $104,433 Federal government
planning grant. City officials
have estimated that the total
cost of the project, including
the expense of relocating res
idents and businesses will be in
the neighborhood of net $2.6
million.
The Federal government is
Delegation
To Be Headed
By Miller
j
James R. Miller, Jr.. Rockville
lawyer and newly-elected GOP
member of the House of Dele
gates, will be chairman of the
County’s delegation to The
Maryland General Assembly.
Miller was chosen to head up
the group this week.
Miller, 31, is a member of the
law firm of Miller and Miller,
ver Spring. He
%f| has been a di
JIB rector of the
Committee for
LI Fair Represen-
Bk V" JaS lation and is a
Wm formpr pccsi
-Jr* dent of the
SKS/fT Rockville Jure
JH ior Chamber of
Miller Jr. Commerce. He
serves on the
executive committee of Camp
Echo Lake and won the Jaycee
Distinguished Service Award in
1957. He is married and has two
sons, ages two months and 14
months.
This week Miller told the
Sentinel the new delegation of
seven Republicans and three
Democrats will hold five public
meetings prior to January ses
sion of the legislature to discuss
its legislative program. One will
be held Jate this month and four
are scheduled for December.
Exact dates have not been set
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expected to pick up 75 percent
of the tab and the city will pay
25 percent. Percentage figures
also are "net.” “Net cost” of the
project means the difference
between what the city must pay
for the properties it must buy
under the program and what
it gets by reselling them. Net
loss is expected because of ad
ministrative, demolition and
other ultimate costs involved.
According to the timetable,
after the informational meeting,
the urban renewal plan will go
go to the City's Planning Com
mission for approval. Submis
sion to the Federal government
will be made in January. If
Federal okay comes through in
April. 1963, shortly thereafter,
the Mayor and Council will set
a public hearing date.
Acquisition of property and
relocations of those affected is
not expected to get under way
until next September.
Moorman
Officially
W inner
Final vote tabulations com
pleted Wednesday confirmed
Walter Moorman’s victory over
Plummer Shearin in the race for
judge of the Sixth Circuit Court.
Mrs. Rose Dawson, clerk of
the Board of Election Supervis
ors, said canvassing of the
county’s voting machines and
tabulation of some 900 absentee
ballots gave Moorman 36,923
votes against Shearin's 36,102, a
difference of 821 votes.
The final count gave Moor
man 159 more votes than were
counted In unofficial returns
tabulated election night.
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Sanitary Commission Expands
A new four-story wing will be added to the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commis
sion's headquarters building In Hyattsvllle
which is expected to relieve present over
crowded conditions and meet growth re
quirements through 1970. The existing WSSC
Top Agencies
Criticized in
Civic Report
Action Due Soon
Housing Bias Report
Is Under Study Here
A recent report of the United States Civil Rights Com
mission urging Washington suburban communities to seek
solutions to the area’s Negro housing problems is being
studied carefully by some Montgomery and Prince Georges
County groups, it, was learned this week.
The almost solidly white
Maryland suburbs were told by
the commission that it was one
of the commission’s "basic
findings” in a recent study that
“the problems of housing dis
crimination in Washington are
metropolitan in scope. The re
sponse to this problem,” the re
port adds, “must also be of a
metropolitan character.”
President Kennedy in his
1960 campaign promised flat
ly that he would seek to pre
vent discrimination in the sale
of federally-financed housing.
The Civil Rights Commission
has called upon the President
to issue an executive order ban
ning racial discrimination in
houses built or financed by fed
eral funds. He is expected to
do so soon.
It also asked the governing
body of the District, which is
now 54 per cent Negro, to adopt
regulations bantling racial hous
ing discrimination there. And
the District’s legal staff on
Tuesday reported to the Dis
trict Commissioners that they
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Coddled Kids?
Are suburbia’s kids coddled.
Author Peter Wyden, a former
Bethesda resident, thinks so.
And he says so in a humorous
way in his neew book "Sub
urbia’s Coddled Kids.” For a
review of the book, turn to
page 81.
Sewer Plan
Handling
Lambasted
County planners, the Coun
ty Council, the Washington
Suburban Santiary Commis
sion and area daily and
weekly newspapers were on
the receiving end of a blast
Monday triggered by the
planning and zoning commit
tee of the Montgomery Coun
ty Civic Federation.
At a Bethesda meeting with
about 75 Federation members
present, the committee lambast
ed the WSSCs five-year sewer
program as “senseless and a
waste of the taxpayers’ money.”
Then the committee sup
ported by the Federation—went
on to criticize planners, coun
cilmen and WSSC officials for
their handling of the program.
And newspapers were accused
of "misleading the public” In re
porting , the way officials
handled the plan.
The long-range trunk sewer
extension plan was approved
by the County Council Sep*. 26.
It has been under study by th
key civic group’s committee
since that time.
Events leading up to council
approval of the proposal touch
ed off the committee’s wrath.
Initially, the committee said,
issuance of the proposed sewer
program which plays an im
portant role In determining
future county growth—was sub
mitted by the WSSC to the
County Council "at the latest
possible date permitted by law
(Sept. 1). And the scarcity of
copies made review by dvic
groups "extremely difficult,”
the committee pointed out.
The Council after receiving
the proposal, over which It may
exercise veto power, held a pub
lic hearing Sept. 18, the com
mittee said. At the hearing, the
Civic Federation recommended
that the Council veto the Rock
Creek, North Branch, Reddy
Branch and Little Northwest
lines on the ground that they
represented Intrusions Into the
area designated for low density*
development shown In the pre
liminary general plan.
Also recommended was criti
cal review of the Paint Branch
sewer line because of its loca
tion on the fringe of a proposed
population corridor.
Similar views were aired by
the League of Women Voters
and the Montgomery County
Citizens Planning Association, it
was said.
Release of the proposed Gen
eral Plan by the Maryland-Na
tional Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission only two days
before the County Council had
to act on the proposed long
range sewer plan, confirmed the
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Teacher
Stricken,
Dies at 48
John M. Tomlchek, 18, a
science and visual aids teacher
at Richard Montgomery High
School in Rockville since 1958,-
collapsed and died while Shop
ping at Congressional Shopping
Center Tuesday afternoon.
Services were pending at the
Tyson-Wheeler Funeral Home.
Mr. Tomlchek, of 10419 Mon
trose Ave., Bethesda, was pro
nounced dead on arrival at Sub
urban Hospital where he was
taken by the Rockville Rescue
Squad. He apparently died of
a heart attack, hospital offi
cials said.
Surviving are his wife; a son,
John Jr., of Etna, Pa., and a
brother, Walter, also of Etna.