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Cabin John
Bridge Will
Open Soon
Work on the Cabin John
Bridge linking Maryland and
Virginia sections of the Capital
Beltway has been stepped up
with a view to opening it to
traffic before Christmas, accord
ing to William L. Shook, Third
District Engineer for the State
Roads Commission,
While officials* are hopeful
that the bridge will be in opera
tion by mid-December, it will
not be completed in entirety un
til next spring. Shook said, in
view of a number of construc
tion features and landscaping
that cannot be chanced during
severe winter weather.
The $5 million Cabin John
Bridge is one of two crossing
the Potomac to complete the
beltway, which generally will
circle the Washington metropol
itan area. The other Potomac
crossing, the Woodrow Wilson
Bridge running from Alexandria
to the Maryland shore, is al
ready in operation.
Completion of the bridge will
open up one of the most direct
links between suburban Mont
gomery County and the new
Dulles Airport at Chantilly, Va.
Kardy Says
He’s Probing
Vote Circular
A campaign circular distrib
uted at the polls Nov. 6 in
support of four defeated mem
bers of the School board is un
der investigation by Mont
gomery County State’s Attorney
Leonard T. Kardy.
The circulars listed the name
of the “Non-Partisan Citizens’
Committee for Morrow-Thomas-
Breimyer-Howard.” Approxi
mately 66 names of prominent
citizens appeared on the hand
out as committee members.
Purporting to show a section
of the ballot on the voting
machine, names of the incum
bents Robert E. Morrow, Harold
F. Breimyer, William R. Thom
as, 3d, and Paul C. Howard
appeared on the circular in
clear black and white. Their
support was urged “for con
tinuing progress in education.”
Names of the challengers
were printed in gray and black
and type was garbled so as to
make them unintelligible. Kardy
said the garbling made the
names of the four challengers
look “like Russian words.”
Kardy said his office is look
ing into the Maryland’s corrupt
practices law in order to deter
mine whether or not it has been
violated.
Seedling Club
The Seedling Garden Club of
Rockville will meet on Nov. 28
at 11:30 a.m. in the home of
Mrs. Roger Black, 1413 Bradley
Ave. Highlight of the meeting
will bp a demonstration of
Christmas decorations by Mrs.
Malcolm Greenlee.
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Established, 1855
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Zen Den
Closed
By City
By Bill Me Ada
Sentinel Reporter
Rockville city officials Fri
day closed the Zen Den, a
newly opened coffeehouse
for teenagers, alleging that
the youthful owners of the
building had not complied
with the city’s fire and
building codes.
The closing of the club’s top
floor quarters in the two-story
building at 238 E. Montgomery
Ave. brought a howl from David
S. Deßiemer, one of the club’s
two owners.
“I can assure you this Ls not
the end of this thing,” he said
Monday.
Deßiemer, who owns the club
with William Drake, Jr., dec
lined to say what action he
plans, but he indicated he in
tends to do battle with the city’s
building inspection department,
If necessary 7 .
Senior Building Inspector
Clyde Erode said he ordered the
building’s upper floor closed
“because they did not comply
with our ordinances.”
Brode said the club would not
be allowed to reopen until the
building’s alleged faults are cor
rected.
He said he will be “forced to
swear out a warrant” for the
arrest of the two owners if they
conduct any business without
the okay of Brode’s department.
Specifically, Brode said De-
Riemer and Drake had vio
lated ‘ ordinances by installing
electrical wiring without a
permit; failure to correct fire
code violations regarding safe
ty devices such as hand rails,
door swings, and lighting; and
code provisions concerning
ingress and egress and pri
vacy in restroom facilities.
Brode said he had allowed the
club to be opened on the pro
mise of the owners that these
deficiencies would be corrected.
“I stuck my neck out and vio
lated the law myself, I guess,
but I wanted to give the boys
a chance,” Brode said.
He said the street level floor
of the building was not closed
"because of the lack of poten
tial congestion as compared
with the club floor.” The lower
level is being used by a group
sponsoring a rummage sale.
City Manager Walter Sehle
ber said the co-owners of the
building “had promised to take
care of the difficulties” found
on the upper floor.
The closing order came
about 4:30 p.m. Friday after
another inspection by Brode,
Schieber said.
Deßeimer said the first, he
and his partner knew of the
dosing order was about a half
hour after the order had been
posted. ‘They never indicated to
us before that they would close
the building,” he said.
He said that during the city’s
| Initial inspection some weeks
j ago, inspectors did say the defi
! ciencies would have to be cor
rected before an occupancy cer
tificate could be issued. “But
they didn't put any deadline on
it,” he said.
He said plans call for coirec
tion of the building’s alleged
faults as he and Drake work
along toward completion of the
; ClUb.
Deßeimer said “some of the
things they told us to correct
have been corrected.” He ad
mitted not all the claimed
deficiencies had been elimi
nated, however.
Deßeimer said the “sudden
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Turkeys Wait Philosophically As the Big Day Approaches
4 Fair Housing ’
Drive Launched
A group called “Suburban Maryland Fair Hous
ing. Inc.” was formally organized this week to push
for greater housing opportunity in Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties for Negro families.
The group feels the time—long expected by some
—has finally come to push for some integrated hous
ing in the virtually all-white suburbs because:
• President Kennedy is expected to issue soon—
almost certainly before the end of the year—his long
awaited executive order outlawing discrimination in
the sale of federally-assisted housnig.
• Nearly half of the more than 5000 area home
owners who a year ago signed “good neigbhor” pledges
(on integrated housing) reside in suburban Maryland.
• There is a slowly growing number of well quali
fied non-white home seekers who work in suburban
Maryland and desire to live nearer their work than
they are now able to do.
“Although the walls of housing discrimination
in suburban Maryland remain high and thick,” the
group says, “they have already begun to crack.
“In the past two or three years, a half dozen
middle and upper middle income Negro families have
purchased homes in previously all-white neighbor
hoods in suburban Montgomery County.” It con
tinued:
“These transactions were relatively unheralded.
They produced a minimum of community tension.
The neighborhoods are middle and upper-middle in
come neighborhoods. The families have occupations,
educational backgrounds, incomes and tastes similar
to those of their new neighbors, and most of them are
well accepted in those neighborhoods.”
“The organizers of the committee believe that a
free market in housing is as sound morally and eco
nomically as a free market in any other commodity,” a
committee spokesman declared.
“They believe that a man’s credit rating, based
on the type and stability of his employment, among
other considerations, and his financial resources, in
cluding income and savings, should be the sole de
terminants of his eligibility to buy a home.
“Thus the ultimate objective of this group is a
private housing and home finance industry that does
not discriminate among potential buyers on the basis
of their race, color or creed.”
Plans for a full-time, professionally-staffed office
supported by efforts of 250 committee members were
revealed by the group at a meeting Monday night held
in the Cedar Lane Unitarian Church, Bcthesda.
Elected president at the meeting was Rev. John
Wiiey Prugh, pastor of St. Andrews United Presby
terian Church, Rockville, and the new vice president
is Ralph E. Showalter. Bethesda. New secretary is
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Now The Computer’s Telling Us
How We Should Run Our Farms
% Will McAda
Sentinel Reporter
LEWISDALE—The com
parative budgeting method
of farm planning has stepped
into the electronic age here
in a pioneer program Mont
gomery County farmers and j
dairymen hope will mean j
more dollars in their pockets, i
The program, which leans ;
heavily on the lightning speed '
1 and analytical mathematics of
a University of Maryland elec-;
tronic brain, is being tried on
the 500-acre farm of Mr. and j
Mrs. Rudell C. Beall.
Watching developments are
50 or so farming families
making up the sponsoring
Montgomery Cooperative
Business and Farming Educa
tional Program and state
farm economists vitally In
terested in the state’s agricul
tural future.
Under the old comparative j
budgeting method of farm
planning, the farm owner took
his resources, land, labor, capi- 1
tal and equipment- and com
i bined them in certain ways to
iestimatc year s end receipts, ex
penses and profit*.
Different combinations of
plans are made and the profits
of each laboriously figured.
The one that appeared to be the
best-paying plan was selected
and next year’s farming operas
tion was mapped.
But progressive farmers knew
that this was at best a “trial
and error’’ method. And It al
ways involved hours of figur
ing sometimes more tiring
than following a plow-dragging
mule all day.
Tlie new method use* com
binations of resource* also,
but the speed of the electronic
computer makes It possible to
develop dozens of alternate
plans, finally designing the
best plan possible.
Technically, the improved
method is called linear program
ming.
But practically, it is simply
utilizing everything the farm
owner has In the best manner
to reap the maximum dollar
yield.
The maximum plan for the
Beall farm has been worked out
twice. Don Watkins, a farm pro
duction economist and director
of th* farming association,
Big Store, New Streets
Due In Urban Renewal
“To Bathe Or Not to Bathe’’
Voluntary Girls’ Showers
Backed By Advisory Unit
The medical advisory committee to the Montgomery
County School Board has recommended that girls be
allowed the option of taking or not taking a shower follow
ing physical education classes.
But it apj>ears that a written
excuse from the parent may be
needed if the girl wishes to
avoid a bath. As the policy now
stands, a note from a physician
is needed to avoid showering.
The committee made no spe
cific recommendation con
cerning such notes, hut Dr.
Robert E. Schneider, superin
tendent of the system’s health
and "saietj program, said lie
feels some type of Hole may
be necessary.
“I feel the parent should
make the decision of whether
the girl is to shower or not,”
Dr. Schneider said. He said a
note from home “would give the
teacher clear cut evidence of
the parents’ desire.”
Crescent Bride, supervisor of
physical education for the
schools, said he “doesn’t know”
whether the recommendation is
acceptable to his department.
“I’d want to watch it a while,”
he said.
If adopted by the board, the
recommendation apparently
would end controversy gene
rated by a group of county
mothers who protested pro
cedures that required their
daughters to take showers with
one another.
The mothers’ request ttiat
their daughters make the deci
sion to bathe or not to bathe
was taken under advisement by
School Supt. C. Taylor Whit
tier who had asked for a rec
ommendation from Dr. Schnei
der’s committee.
made detailed analysis of Beall's
meticulously detailed annual
records.
Watkins’ efforts—the pencil
and scratch paper technique—
took weeks. But it developed a
plan which said the Beall farm
would do best with so many
acres of alfalfa, so many for an
optimum number of dairy cattle,
and so forth.
Then the figures Watkins
used for his study were fed into
the computer.
Here are some of the ques
tions the computer successfully
took on:
How many acres will stand
continuous corn production?
WTiat are the fertilizer require
ments of com compared to si
lage? Could 150 head of feeder
pigs be raised on this dairy
farm? Should the operator
build a loading barn, herring
bone parlor or increase the herd
100 or more cows at an Invest
ment of $75,000?
In a little over five minutes,
the machine coughed out an
swers to these questions along
with five plans which electronic
analysis showed would prove
profitable for th* Beall farm.
Johnson
Sentenced
To Death
ANNAPOLIS —Joseph John
son, as 23-year-old Spencerville
Negro, was sentenced to death
here Tuesday morning, the
third of three men ordered by
Circuit Courts to die in the
July 20. 1961, rape of a Jfi-year
old white Hyattsvtiie girl.
Two brothers, James and
John Giles, also of Spencerville,
were sentenced to death by a
Montgomery County court Dec.
11 for their part in the assault.
Johnson's trial was held here
Sept. 27.
Tile girl told police she was
raped by the trio in northeast
Montgomery County after they
had knocked her boyfriend un
conscious. Two of the three ac
cused admitted having relations
with the girl, but contended she
gave her consent.
GOP ‘ Victory ’ Pete
The Republican State Cen
tral Committee will hold a- vic
tory luncheon Dec. 1 at Shady
Grove Country Club for the
GOP slate which overthrew
Democratic control of the coun
ty in the N6v. 6 election.
Corn silage, feeder pigs, young
stock, or cattle offered the best
possibilities the machine said.
But one of the five was the
best—cows. But not necessarily
for the entire farm. The com
puter called for diversification
into other agricultural pursuits
as well.
“When the computer back
ed up what Mr. Watkins bail
said. It gave me the confi
dent* I needed.” Beall said.
Now. he says, he wishes he
had planted more alfalfa and
not so much clover hay. “I
figured it to be a good deal,”
he said of the hay, “but the
computer plan says otherwise.”
According to the computer's
figuring, the alfalfa will yield a
few more cents per acre on the
Beall farm than will the hay.
Watkins, who works In the
county’s Adult Education Pro
gram out of Gaithersburg High
School, sees the new method in
a business sense. “Big busi
ness has been using computers
effectively for years,” he points
out. “It’s time we farm people
made use of them too."
He calls the new system and
method "a more precision way
to do business.”
Arts Center
Event To Be
A Cala One
The Montgomery County
Arts Center will inaugurate
its construction fund cam
paign in cultured fashion
Nov. 29, sharing local spon
sorship of an artistic closed
circuit television presenta
tion with the nation-wide
sponsor, the National Cul
tural Center, at the Indian
! Spring Country Club.
The tiwo-hour television fea
! ture, “An American Pageant erf
' the Arts,’’ will he preceded by a
dinner and an elaborate local
program In which participants
will be outstanding artists and
recognized personalities sur
rounded by an unusual decor
developed by local artists along
the evening theme of "Renais
sance’’ citing an area re-blrth
of interest in the arts.
Proceeds of the benefit, for
which some 975 dinner seats are
available at $25 each, will be
shared equally by the local and
national sponsors. Anticipating
a full house in support of the
first major benefit for the
arts center, Its sponsors have
expressed confidence that it will
bring in some $9,000 as a starter
in the fund-raising drive.
Among honored guests who
have already accepted Invita
tions to the fete are Press
Secretary Pierre Salinger and
! his wife; Agnes DeMille, nation
ally prominent dancer and
choreographer who is a daugh
ter of the famed Cecil B.
DeMille; Theodore Bikel, popu
lar actor and folk singer; Fred
eric Franklin, director of the
National Ballet, and Howard K.
Smith, widely-known news com
memorator.
In addition, invitations have
been sent more recently to
winners of major governmen
tal seats in tile county and the
State as the result of the
re<-ent election, a majority of
whom are expected to be pres
ent.
In line with the Renaissance
theme, guests at the benefit will
be assisted by IS young grace
ful usherettes and pages in
appropriate garb representing
the Montgomery County Ballet
Guild and appropriate music
will be provided by the Univer
sity of Maryland's Madrigal
Singers, appearing in authentic
j medieval costumes.
While principal activity will
j center on the decorated stage,
the artistic motif will be spread
through the dining room and the
country club's spacious lobby
and will include extensive wall
panel displays devoted to the
Renaissance theme and an ex
hibit of the award-winning
works of local artists. The dis
play will Include paintings,
drawings, prints, sculpture and
pottery.
In addition, a large panel
exhibit will include reference to
: all active ait groups In the coun
;ty and several preliminary
I sketches of the proposed new
Arts Center will be presented.
The center is to be built on a
seven-acre tract off Old George
town Road in North Bethesda,
recently donated to the art
j (Confnlued on Page S)
Youth Bowl Queen
Peggy Ellen Depends, Youth
Bowl Queen for the two
Thanksgiving Day football
clashes sponsored by the Rock
ville Optimists, gets special rec
ognition in a cartoon appearing
on Page 9. Plan to attend the
big game at RMHS stadium.
High Rise
Apartments
Are Included
Preliminary urban renew
al plans for the City of Rock
ville set for a test run at a
public informational meet
ing after Thanksgiving will
propose inclusion of a de
partment store in the mid
city area as well as signifi
cant realignment of streets.
The Sentinel learned this
week that the department store
proposal definitely Is In the plan
and will be outlined In detail on
November 27 when the Mayor
and Council take the wraps off
Rockville’s proponed physical
future.
Also definitely scheduled to
be unveiled will be a plan for
realignment of mid-city street*.
Extent of realignment Is un
known at this time but the
streets project la said to be “ex
tensive.”
A number of mid-city high
rise apartment* also have
come up from the drawing
hoards of the City’s planning
staff and will be proposed for
Inclusion In the urban renewal
program.
The seven-block urban renew
al area which the city proposes
to transform with the Federal
government picking up 75 per
centage of the net cost of the
project is bounded by Jefferson
from Park to Perry; Perry to
E. Montgomery; E. Montgomery
to N. Washington; N. Washing
ton to E. Middle Lane; follows
behind the N. Washington St.
Shopping Center to include all
the property of an E. Middle
Lane building supplies firm,
and all property alone E. Middle
Lane lo Hungerford Drive, with
the exception of the new shop
: ping area where Safeway Store
|is located. The west side of
Hungerford Drive from E. Mid
dle Lane to E. Montgomery ts
the eastern boundary of the
area.
The Sentinel learned, too, that
city planners have decided to
present a plan which will in
clude a greater amount of re
tailing area than now is included
In the mid-city district.
The amount of land which the
planners have devoted to a de
partment store location could
not be ascertained but It is
known to be sufficiently large
to have shown that additional
space will have to be allotted to
small stores and other satellite
businesses which follow depart
ment slore installations.
An “inexpensive” solution to
(lie congestion and hazards of
the E. Montgomery Ave.,
j Hungerford Drive intersection
Is scheduled In the urimii re
newal program and will be
discussed at the public meet
ing.
It is understood the city’s
preliminary plan to be presented
has been geared to the Year
2000 plan for the Washington
Metropolitan area, and has
taken into account the recently
released plan of the National
Capital Transportation Author
ity which contemplates Rock* .
vtllc a.s a terminal for its pro
i posed rapid transit system.
The November 27 meeting for
j unveiling Rockville’s urban re
newal planning will be held
at the Civic Center Auditorium
j at 8:30 p.m.