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Builder Says
New Round School Delayed
By Controversial Design
The unconventional design of the new Bushey Drive
Elementary School—one of the construction jobs which
brought criticism to the incumbent school boa I'd in the
recent election make it impossible to finish the circu
lar building on schedule.
Sydney Fishman, owner of 1
Fishman Construction Co., gen- 1
eral contractor, said this week 1
the controversial school build-; <
ing will not be ready by the i i
Feb. 1, 1963, deadline set by the!
contract.
“We won’t be able to finish !
on time because of the uncon- j
ventional design," he said. He !
made no estimate as to when
the job will be finished. <
Failure to meet the construe- 1 1
tion deadline could subject Fish- <
man to a liquidated damages
claim of SIOO a day for time 1
needed to finish the job after 1
the deadline. j 1
According to Fishman, the j ’
major problem is the installa-' i
tion of the 32 pre-poured con- j
Crete panels which will form j i
the circular walls of the three- i
story building. Installation of j
the first of the 27-foot-long pan- i
els took almost a full day last ]
week. !
Maynard E. McPherson, vice j
president of B&M Welding & i
Casbarian
Backed for
State Post
James P. Casbarian, county
banker, has been indorsed by
the Montgomery County Demo- J
cratic State Central Committee,
for the post of State Treasurer.
The longtime incumbent, '
Hooper S. Miles, has indicated
he will step down at the end of
his current term next January.
Casharian, vice chairman of
the board of Suburban Trust
Co., lives at 9008 Woodside Park,
Silver Spring. He was vice chair
man of the Citizens for Tawes
group during the primary elec
tion and chairman of Citizens
for Tawes in the November gen- i
eral election.
The only county resident seek-1
lng the post. Casbarian is a
former president ar.d chairman;
of the board of the Bank of
Maryland and is chairman of
the State Development Credit
Corporation. He was named by
Gov. J. Millard Tawes to a state
wide committee of bankers to
modernize Maryland's banking
laws.
The post is filled by joint j
ballot of both Houses of the
General Assembly every four
years. The legislature is sched
uled to convene early next
month.
Rockville
Park Laws
Adopted
A set of park regulations were
added to the I,aws of Rockville
Monday night by the city coun- j
cil prohibiting 24 specific acts'
from bothering the animals to!
littering.
The regulations had been dis-'
cussed at an earlier council I
meeting and copies were distri
buted to members of various
park committees in the city.
Listed as "conduct prohibited” I
were such things as carrying
fireworks, defacing or removing
any property or ground, selling
or advertising, making fires,
driving or pushing commercial
vehicles, and playing games in
volving thrown objects.
Driving is prohibited between
sunset and sunrise on park
grounds, as is washing cars, 1
parking (except by special per-'
mission), driving over 15 MPH
unless otherwise posted, and rid
ing bicycles and horses on any
areas not designated for that
specific purpose.
Violation of the ordinance
carries a maximum fine of SIOO,
or 30 days imprisonment, or
both. Snakes or other deadly
reptiles may be killed on sight,
according to the law.
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Iron Works, Inc., structural con
tractors for the job, agrees with
Fishman and also blames the
delay on unanticipated engineer
ing problems.
“Let's face it,” he said.
“When you depart front the
conventional, be it wine, wom
en or song, brother, you've
got problems.”
“It’s completely experimental
so you can't anticipate the prob
lems before you get the job un
derway,” McPherson said.
The wall panels, utilized for
the first time in this area on
the elementary school, boosted
the price of the school from $2,-
700 to $13,000, depending on who
is doing the estimating.
Fishman figures as much as
$13,000 could have been saved
if the School Board had author
ized the use of brick for the
walls rather than the concrete
panels. The panels cost about
SI,OOO each, he said.
But James H. Sheldon, direc
tor of school construction, says
Fishman's figure is too high.
Sheldon estimated the added
cost of the panels amounts to
only about 75 rents to $1.25
per square foot over the aver
age of other school building
contracts.
The 15-room building, which
will provide classrooms for
about 500 students, has 3,675
square feet of floor space.
Fishman said Sheldon recom
mended the use of brick rather
than the panels, but the School
Board rejected the cheaper con
struction method. Sheldon de
clined to discuss his position on
this.
Local ACA Criticizes
‘Liberal’ Voting Records
The Montgomei-y Chapter of j (
Americans for Constitutional j 1
Action this week criticized Con- j'
gressman Charles MeC. Mathias i J
and Senator-elect Daniel B. j.
Brewster for being too liberal I
in voting for non-defense spend- 1
ing.
Dr. David Lewis, of 11500 Colt
Ter., Wheaton, chairman of the
local group, announced that a'
circular showing the two repre-!
sentatives had approved more
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Yule Concert
Will Beneiit
i
Arts Center
A Christmas concert planned
as a benefit for the Montgomery
County Arts Center will be pre
sented by the Oratorio Society
of Montgomery County on Dec.
j 16, at 8:30 p.m. at the Unitarian
Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Be-'
! thesda.
Featured soloists for the con
j cert will be Cleomine Lewis,
! soprano, and Myfanwy Story,
contralto, widely-recognized vo
calists who were heard with the ;
concert last year. The chorus
j will be under the direction of ;
Dr. Hugh R. Hayward and will;
be accompanied by a full or- j
chestra in its presentation of
the Vivaldi “Gloria,” the Shep- i
herds’ Chorus from Menotti’s j
“Amahl and the Night Visitors” 1
and Christmas carols from for
j eign countries.
Cleomine Lewis is currently j
the director of choirs at the j
Metropolitan Church and is a
student of Todd Duncan, who j
has described her as his most
talented pupil. She has been
heard in the lead role of Tosca
with the Musical Playhouse of
Washington and last year was
featured in a benefit concert for
the U.S. Nigerian Foundation.
Miss Lewis’ co-star in the
benefit, Myfanwy Story, 1r a na
tive of Canada, where she made
her debut in the Winnipeg Musri
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Problem Walls Going Up
Workmen began hoisting these big con
crete panels Into place last week at Bushey
Drive Elementary School amid complaints
from contractors that the unconventional
design will force them to run over the Feb.
1 contract completion date. The panels, made
of pre-poured concrete, stand 27 feet high.
“The board went Into this
with its eyes open,” he said.
“The panels were approved
and that is that.”
Because of the experimental
design of the school, the Fed
eral Government gave the coun
ty $13,000 which will go to off
set the cost of four unusual
sliding panels. These panels will
be used to alter classroom sizes.
cal Festival as a winner of the
coveted Rose Bowl and contin
ued her studies in England.
After returning to the United
than $5-billion in non-defense
appropriations was sent to coun
ty Republican and Democratic
party leaders.
Oilier officers of the non
partisan. national conservative
political action organization lo
cally arc Fred Kendall, vice
chairman; Douglas Taylor,
secretary; and Dr. William
Stratum, treasurer. All three
live in Silver Spring.
The circular compared the vot
ing records of the two congress
men < Brewster won a Senate
seat last month) in 11 areas
considered important by the na
tional office of ACA. Their vot
ing records, although they rep
resent different parties (Mathias
is a Republican) was almost
identical.
Mathias' “conservative voting
average” was 27 percent during
1962, and 48 percent for the
two-year-life of the 87th Con
gress, placing him at 163rd out
of a possible 174 for Republican
Congressmen.
The Sixth District representa
tive was rated 87 percent, how
■ ever, by Americans for Demo
cratic Action, the Democrat pol-
I icy group formed out of the
| days of the New Deal.
Brewster rated only 17 per
| cent on ACA-backed voting. He
! and Mathias voted identically in
; seven of eight key roli-call
! measures.
| States to continue her work in
| New York, she made numerous
i appearances in the New York
| area and, on coming to Wash
j ington, has made a number of
appearances at Constitution
Hall. She currently is the solo
ist at Westmoreland Congrega
tional Church.
Tickets for the Oratorio Soci
ety benefit are available at the
Montgomery County Arts Cen
ter, 7927 Wisconsin Ave.,
through members of the chorus
and at Ellsworth Studios, 4611
Willow Lane, Bethesda.
The circular shape of the unique building
will be formed by 52 of these units. This
school, which generated controversy In the
recent School Board election. Is designed to
house about 500 students in 15 classrooms
when completed.
Sentinel Photo by Ed Mervis
Total cost of the school, lo
cated on Bushey Drive, just off ]
Viers Mill Road, is $494,740.
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The building was designed by
Diegert and Yerkes of George
town.
Ralph Offutt Wins Pos
In State Sheriffs Grou
Ralph W. Offutt Sr„ Mont- j
gomery County sheriff, has been
elected second vice president of
the Maryland State Sheriff's
Association.
At the group’s quarterly meet-.
ing, held Saturday at Motel
Washingtonian, a Montgomery
County deputy sheriff, Harrie,
E. Graver, Olney, was elected j
treasurer.
Eighty-six sheriff’s or dep
uties attended the meeting at
which Samuel A. Graham, sher
iff of Wicomico County, was
elected president. Other officers:
Paul C. Heberlein, Allegany, Ist
vice president; John Shallcross,
Prince Georges, executive secre
tary, and Howard A. Vermillion,
Calvert County, correspondnig
secretary.
Speakers at the event were
Col. James S. McAuliffe, head
UNICEF Cards
Sold Locally
UNICEF Greeting Cards, sold
for the benefit of the United
Nations Children’s Fund, are
now on sale at four suburban
Maryland locations.
They may be purchased at the
Wheaton Plaza and Silver
Spring branches of Guardian
Federal Savings and Loan As
sociation, the Union Trust Co
at Wisconsin and Western Aves.,
and at SCAN, 6871 New Hamp
shire Ave.
The designs, contributed by
internationally-known artists, re
flect the ethical and spiritual
values of the many peoples that
make up the United Nations.
of Montgomery County police?*
and James J. Cromwell, deputy
state’s attorney for Montgom
ery County.
Park Land
Purchases
Approved
The Maryland-National Capi
tal Park and Planning Commis
sion has approved contracts to
buy 214 acres of land in Mont
gomery County for $165,000.
Of the total acreage. 140 is in
the Commission’s Little Bennett
Creek Regional Park near
Clarksburg just south of the
Frederick County line.
Others lands included in the
contracts are:
Thirty-five acres along the
i Hawlings river near Sunshine,
! to help form the Patuxent river
watershed park.
Thirty-nine acres in Rock
Creek Park Regional Park
north of Rockville.
The planning Agency now has
over 9,000 acres of park land in
Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties. Of this
amount, approximately 7,000
acres are in Montgomery
County. The 214 acres were pur
chased with the assistance of
Federal funds under the Govern
ment’s new open space law.
These Federal funds will be
matched by money received
from Commission bond issues.
MONTGOMERY
COUNTY. MD.
SENTINEL
ifurißsy, December 6,1962
Tfeferral
iff School
Protested
Glenmont area parents are
going to protest to the county
school board deferral by one
year of proposed construction
of the new Glenallen Elemen
tary School.
The school, planned to relieve
Glenmont Elementary, was to
have been completed in 1964.
Under School Sup’t. C. Taylor
Whittier’s requested capital
budget made public yesterday,
it will not be finished until 1965.
The protest was voted at a
meeting Monday of the Glen
mont and Vicinity Citizens Asso
ciation. The group was told
some fifth grade classes at Glen
mont already have as many as
37 students in them. Some
fourth grade sections have up
to 34 or 35 pupils each, it was
reported.
I .ester Welch, director of
plannnig, school services, said
Glonmont’s enrollment Is now
770 pupils and it has a listed
capacity of 810.
Reason for deferral of Glen
allen, he said, was that home
construction in the area has not
developed as much as they had
thought earlier it would.
Also at the meeting, the civic
association criticized the pro
posed mass transit plan which,
they contend, favors Bethesda
and Kensington over Silver
1 Spring.
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