Montgomery County sentinel. [volume], January 17, 1963, SUPPLEMENT, Page B2, Image 12

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In This House Everything
Runs Like Clockwork
In some ways the Joe Ver
nicks of Kensington are at a
disadvantage.
They can't say, “I don't know
what time it is,” or ‘‘my dock
stopped,” or even as some of the
rest of us, ‘‘l don't even know
what day it is.”
When Hometiling goes wrong
with the clock In the Vemick
household —there’s another 100
or more keeping perfect time to
turn to.
Actually it’s hardly a matter
of “turning to” another clock.
They literally confront you in
every room and from almost
every wall.
The basement recreation
room is a virtual museum of
antique clocks most of them
Mr. Vernick’s specialty—antique
calendar clocks.
He has wall clocks, shelf
clocks, table clocks and cuckoo
clocks. There are clocks with
crystal pendulum bobs and
clocks with wooden movements.
Many of the clocks show In
addition to the hour, minute and
second, the day of the week, the
date and the month and the
phases of the moon.
One such clock, an early B.
B. Lewis, not only shows ail of
this, but the times of the sun's
risings and settings for the
latitude of New England.
All the clocks that work, and
tha majority do, are kept run
ning.
“He has an awful time just
keeping them wound,” says
Mrs. Vemick commenting on
her husband’s hobby. “And
when it comes to daylight sav
ing time . . . well, It gets a
little wild around here. He
spends a whole weekend trying
to get things organized.”
With 80 or 90 clocks all tick
ing away In the recreation
room, the visitor la immediate
ly impressed by the sound —a
sort of background symphony
as each clock with Its individual
tone and rhythm blends In.
The sound suggests that of a
brook running over stones. Mr.
Vemick thinks It's “very nice.”
The Garden Path
Mild winter weather, like
that of last week, is just fine
for most of us it can spell
serious damage In the garden.
Particularly with shallow-rooted
plants set out last fall.
Freezing and thawing of the
ground causes many plants to
heave, tearing away the roots.
A good mulch, acting as a sort
of blanket, prevents this dam
age. Well-rotted sawdust, peat
moss and straw should be placed
around plants after the ground
is frozen and kept there until
chance of frost has gone in the
spring. Be sure your plants still
are well mulched and in the
case of straw, weighted down to
keep it from blowing away.
If your holiday poinsettia has
lost its blooms, don’t throw the
plant away it's not dead yet.
You can have poinsettia blooms
year after year from this one
plant. Here’s how:
After the flowers have turned
yellow and faded the upper
parts of the stems are cut off.
Then store the plants In a cool
dry place such as your cellar
until May. In May, repot the
plant and put it in a sunny win
dow, watering it regularly. New
shoots will be produced. As soon
as these shoots are about six
inches long, cut them off and
put them in a good rooting med
ium any material that will
give good drainage. This could
be sand, perlite or vermicullte.
After the plants are rooted
put them in six-inch pots. Then
they should be placed in an area
where the temperature is about
60 degrees. Poinsettias are short
day long night plants and
flowers will be initiated when,
ever the dark period is 12 hours
or longer and the temperature
is about 55 to 65 degrees.
In order to give your plants
short days, you may have to
cover them with a black opaque
material in order to initiate
flower bud formation. If you
start giving your plants short
days about Oct. 10, they will
bloom for Christmas.
You can get helpful gardening
tips any time of the day or night
by calling PO. 2-5454. The infor
mation is recorded and changed
three times a week. On Mondays
from 8 a.m. till noon, there's a
five-day weather outlook.
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His wife, with good-natured
humor, suggests it might “be a
bit much.”
One of the remarkable things
about her husband's hobby is
that it is so recent. He bought
his first clock just three years
ago.
It began at a country auction
in Vermont. Joe Vemick start
ed bidding on an old clock just
because he liked it. He worked
on it, repaired it and before
long, his great love affair with
antique clocks and the intrica
cies of their movements was in
full swing.
Nothing in his background ex
plains It. He was trained as a
child to be a concert pianist
and as a young man did per
form with his brother, a violin
ist.
Now he Is a clinical social
worker at the National Insti
tutes of Health, working pri
marily with children. The Ver
nicks, who moved to the Home
wood section of Kensington in
1954, have three children—Ken
neth, 9; Andrew, 6, and Lee, 2.
Mr. Vernick now buys very
few of his clocks at auction.
Most of them come from other
collectors in swaps or trades
or through the sale list pub
lished in the Bulletin of the Na
tional Association of Watch and
Clock Collectors, Inc., to which
he subscribes.
From his contacts with col
lectors Mr. Vernick feels quite
sure that his is the largest col
lection of calendar clocks in the
country.
To keep his hobby going, Mr.
Vemick has gone into antique
clock and watch repairing. He
has quite a collection of
watches, too, one a calendar
watch which also shows the
phases of the moon.
One of his rarest clocks is a
skeleton clock in a glass dome,
made by the Ithaca Calendar
Clock Co. in about 1865.
He also has a collection of
early cash registers and wall
type telephones, all of which he
The County Club Date Book
Rock Creek
Women’s Republican Club
Mrs. Charles S. Bresler has
been unanimously elected presi
dent of the Rock Creek Wom
en’s Republican Club, the Irg|
est women’s OOP club In the
state. Mrs. Rresler Is the wife
of Charles S. Bresler, newly
elected Republican delegate to
the Maryland General Assem
bly.
Other new officers are: Mrs.
Jane V, de Long of Westmore
land Hills, first vice president;
Mrs. Robert H. Davidson of
Chevy Oiaae, second vice presi
dent; Mrs. Frank Kovac of Beth
esda, third vice president; Mrs.
Joseph M. F. Ryan, Jr, of
Springfield, fourth vice presi
dent; Mrs. Smith W. Brook hart
of Westmoreland Hills, record
ing secretary; Mrs. Edward T.
Tail of Bethesda, assistant rec
ording secretary; Mrs. Edward
G. Batty of Bethesda, corres
ponding secretary; Mrs. Julia
Terry of Chevy Chase, assistant
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Leonard Sllversteln of Bethesda,
treasurer; and Mrs. David W.
Ktndleberger of Wood Acres,
assistant treasurer.
Suburban Woman's Club
The Suburban Woman’s Club
of Montgomery County recently
donated $1,513.25 to the Com
munity Psychiatric clinic. The
club donation was made possible
by a highly successful benefit
luncheon fashion show held for
the purpose. The four-year-old
club has supported the Com-1
munlty Psychiatric Clinic for
three years. A total of $3,000
has been donated to the clinic
during this time.
Silver Spring Juniors
The American Home and sew
ing sections of the Junior Wom
an’s Club of Silver Spring met
jointly last night for a discus
sion by Mrs. Jane Elliott on the
Home Demonstration Agent’s
office in Rockville.
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The Old Station Clock Mrs. Joseph
Vernick and her husband and one of the
100-odd antique clocks in their collection.
has put in workable shape.
Mrs. Vemick shares her hus
band's enthusiasm for clocks
even if it means that vacations
are spent traveling from one
antique clock to another.
She admits It has Its hectic
Ladles Auxiliary
The Ladles Auxiliary of the
Hyattstown Volunteer Fire De
partment held its election of
officers at the home of Mrs.
Peggy Webb of Urbana. New
officers are: Mrs. Austin Wood,
president; Mrs, Peggy Webb,
vice president; Mrs. Earl Ed
wards, treasurer; Miss Anna
Norwood, secretary; Miss Jane
Mathias, corresponding secre
tary; and Miss Wilma Catron,
reporter.
Col. T. T. Chapter dA
The Col. Tench Tilgham
Chapter has won a state award
for good citizenship work pri
marily for sponsoring the Good
Citizenship contest in the Coun
ty. Greta Smith of Walter John
son High School won the con
test.
At its meeting last month it
was announced that membership
had been transferred to the
chapter by Mrs. Robert L.
Harper of Unity Lane, Rock
ville and by Mrs. Frank Mal
colm White of Dickerson. Mrs.
White’s mother, Mrs. Charles
G. Blake, now 94, has been a
member of the Frederick chap
ter since 1924.
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moments. There was the time
when she was holding a meet
ing in the basement and one of
the clock alarms went off. It
took some time she recalls to
track down just which clock
was sounding off.
| Chevy Chase Chapter DAR
At the last meeting of the
chapter, at the home of Mrs.
Roger J. Whiteford of Chevy
Chase, Mrs. Eliot C. Lovett,
Maryland State regent and a
chapter member told of the his
torical pilgrimage planned for
Feb. 22 to Annapolis which will
Include a luncheon at Carvel
Hall and tea later with Mrs.
Tawes at Government House.
Arrangements can be made
through Mrs. Lewis O. Bow
man, chapter regent.
Mrs. Lovett has received high
praise for her prompt action
and that of the Maryland
Daughters in aiding a renova
tion project at the Kate Duncan
Smith DAR School it Grant,
Ala. The school, estat llslied by
the DAR in 1924, has sn enroll
ment of 500 ranging from kind
ergarten through high school.
Woman's Club of Wheaton
The club wound up the year
by sponsoring a clothing drive
for needy families in lower
Montgomery County; put on
two puppet shows for area chil
dren and presented a check for
$225 to the Community Psychia
tric Clinic to aid in the clinic’s
operating expenses.
Women
Thursday, January 17, 1963
County Byways
The annual Christmas bird
count in the Tridelphia area was
the lowest since 1956 only 64
species as against last year’s 80
according to Vernon Kleen
of Laurel who led the volunteer
count group in the area. He
blamed it partly on the crusty
snow which made bird-watching
(and counting) so “noisy” that
many birds fled.
Water birds were particularly
scarce since all ponds and most
streams were iced over
although two mute swans were
sighted at Rocky Gorge. A drop
in the bluebird population over
previous years was most notice
able— one-tenth the usual num
ber. The unanswered question
is this the toll of chemical
insecticides?
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Fashion Show Provides
Nursing Scholarships
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The Woman's Auxiliary to the
Montgomery County Medical
Society marks on Monday its
fifth annual fund-raising fash
ion show to benefit its nursing
and medical study scholarship
fund.
The show and luncheon bear
ing the theme "Fashion Is Art”
will feature spring and cruise
fashions from Julius Garfinckel
at 12:30 p.m. at the Sheraton
Park Hotel.
The show, first held in 1959,
provides money for the Auxil
iary's scholarship fund for a
nursing student and a revolv
ing loan fund for a medical
student both administered by
the University of Maryland
Schools of Nursing and Medi
cine.
The scholarship for nurses,
however, goes back to 1949, two
years after the Auxiliary was
organized to "extend the aims
of the medical profession.”
At that time there was a
severe shortage of nurses and
the newly formed group com
posed of county doctor’s wives
proposed a scholarship to en
courage young women to enter
nursing.
With a membership of about
25-30. the group gave small
luncheons for a nominal fee pre
pared alternately by several
Auxiliary members. But as the
group grew, it became imprac
tical for club hostesses to pro
vide these luncheons so the
members turned to other fund
raising means, cake sales and
similar projects.
In 1959 the group turned to
fashion, put on a show, and
Simplicity Of Style
Marks Best Dressed
Every time you dress you
create a picture. Is it a master
piece or a cartoon?
Clothing leaders for Mont
gomery County Homemakers’
Clubs and 4-H Clubs learned at
a recent University of Maryland
Extension training meeting that
fashion the best look of the
time is governed by principles
of good taste concerning what
to wear, when to wear it.
"Simplicity is the basis of
smartness,” said Mrs. Catherine
M. Rhoads, Home Demonstra
tion Agent. “Ask any ‘best
dressed woman’ her secret and
she’ll say, ‘lack of clutter.’
"A few good costumes, smart
ly dressed up or down to suit
the occasion represents real
wardrobe dollars and sense. The
poorest of poor economy is a lot
realized so much fun and suc
cess, decided to make it an an
nual function.
Meanwhile, the scholarship
fund had increased with the ris
ing cost of education from S2OO
to SI,OOO a year. It also became
increasingly difficult for the
auxiliary to play the same role
in selection of scholarship re
cipients as they had done in
conjunction with high school
committees.
So in 1958, the auxiliary de
cided to turn over its money to
the University of Maryland
School of Nursing grants in-aid
fund, specifying that it go to
deserving Maryland girls, par
ticularly those from Montgom
ery County.
Last year the Auxiliary ini
tiated in addition a non-interest
loan fund for a junior or senior
medical student to enable him
to finish his studies.
Nursing scholarships so far
have gone to girls from Pooles
ville, Damascus, Rockville, Ta
koma Park and Hagerstown.
The organization, now swell
ed to 110 members, is headed by
Mrs. John Curry of Manor
Club; Mrs. Andrew Brennan of
Bethesda is secretary; Mrs.
Morris Perry of Silver Spring is
treasurer, and Mrs. Ira Wick
ner from Bethesda is show
chairman.
The luncheon and fashion
show will also feature an art
exhibit by members of the or
ganization. Tickets are $6 and
reservations will be taken by
Mrs. Ira Tublin, WH. 2-9559,
and Mrs. William Frank, PO. 2-
9172.
of inexpensive clothes that
quickly lose style and fit.”
Leaders who participated in
the trair.ing session are taking
the What To Wear When dem
onstration to their local clubs.
They’ll help others get the most
value from their clothing dollar
by planning and choosing wise
ly. If you want help with ana
lyzing your present wardrobe,
call the Home Demonstration
Office, PO. 2-2121, Extension
226, for the University of Mary
land bulletin “Wardrobe Dollars
and Sense.”
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