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J. Vinson Peter Dead At 65, Family Here For 200 Years John Vinson Peter, descendant of a long line of Mont gomery County political and business leaders, died last Saturday at his Rockville home of a respiratory illness. He was 65. Born March 14, 1898, Mr. Peter —a prominent Rockville businessman—was the son of Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Peter and Mary Gordon Vinson Peter. As a youth he served briefly in the Navy in World War I and after graduating from Rock ville Academy founded in 1921 his own insurance and real estate office in Rockville where he spent his entire life. Mr. Peter was a descendant of of Robert Peter who was born in Scotland in 1726 and came to Georgetown about 1752 where he set up a store. Robert Peter was a member of the Board of Commissioners when George town, then part of Montgomery County, was established in 1751. He later became quite wealthy. Over the years the family con tinued its leadership in the fields of commerce and politics. Mr. Peter's maternal grandfath er was Judge John Thomas Vin son of county circuit court, and his paternal grandfather was George Peter who served as president of the Maryland Sen ate. Mr. Peter’s birthplace was the old Peter home which housed the Rockville city government before the present City Hall was completed last year on the same site. Before moving to Rockville, the family lived for several gen erations at an estate just west of Big Seneca Creek, “Montevi- H. Robinson, Aviation Ace, Dead at 80 Funeral services were held Friday at Tyson Wheeler Fu neral Home, Rockville, for Hugh Armstrong Robinson, 80, pioneer aviation pilot and noted aeronautical engineer who suc cumbed earlier in the week to a heart attack. Burial was in Parkland Cemetery. Born in Neosho, Mo., in 1882, Mr. Robinson had lived in Tako ma Park since he came to the Washington area shortly after ' World War II to serve as man ager for the Webb Laboratories, a position he held until his re tirement several years ago. One of the earliest pilots of balloons, dirigibles and air planes, he was associated with the late Glenn H. Curtiss for 20 years as an experimental en gineer and was a co-designer of the early Curtiss planes. He as sisted in the designing and fly ing of the first successful hydro aeroplane and, as director of the Curtiss School at San Diego, was an instructor of the first Army and Navy pilots. In 1806, Mr. Robinson made his first parachute jump from a hot air balloon to begin an extensive career that led to his becoming a dirigible builder and pilot in 1906. Jon,.. Msfc : H. A. Robinson American PAINT SPECIAL! H Everyone attending our Grand Opening today will receive e Courtesy Discount Card en titling them to a 10% discount on American paint and related sundries, good for I year. Warehouse ■ Showroom Subsidiary of OLDA Contractors, Inc. 4215 Howard Ave., Kensington deo," now the home of Austin Kiplinger, Washington publish er. It was believed built by John Parke Custis Peter, a great grandson of Martha Washing ton. Mr. Peter retired about two years ago from the real estate and insurance business and devoted his time to his family and his remarkably wide cir cle of friends. He was an ardent hunter, an active Rotarian—having served as one-time vice president, treas urer and director of the Rock ville club— and was an active Democrat. He once ran unsuc cessfully for county commis sioner. Mr. Peter was a director of Montgomery County National Bank prior to its merger with Maryland National and served the latter bank as a member of the advisory board. ’ Beside his wife, Gertrude Veirs, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. John A. Malloy, 208 N. Van Buren St., and a sister, Mrs. Albert M. Bouic, 117 S. Van Buren St. There are three grandchildren, Nancy Peter Malloy, John Vin son Malloy, and Mary Gordon Malloy. Services were held at the home, 119 Vt S. Washington St., and burial was in Rockville Cemetery. Two years later he built the first American monoplane, which he exhibited publicly m collaboration with Curtiss. Mr. Robinson was the design er of apparatus aboard the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor which enabled Eugene Ely to make the first landing and takeoff aboard a battleship. In 1912 he went to France to a flying school at Juan les Pins, where he experienced the only air crash of his lengthy career. His hydroplane plunged into the Mediterranean and he swam to safety. During World War I he serv ed as an executive of the Cur tiss airplane plant in Buffalo and was a design and construc tion engineer of planes used during the conflict. He was as sociated with the Air Marine Plane and Motor Co. in Keyport, N. J., and later went into busi ness as a private consultant for a variety of companies engaged in aerial development. He re- EASTER SPECIAL WTjiiH Let Grants dress your boy up ... and keep your budget down fit JUNIOR BOYS' yfj EASTER SUITS IlKl 44 W. T. GRANT CO. 301 N. Washington Street Rockville, Md. 9:30 9:00 Monday through Saturday ill Will Over the Top! Cathy Southall, chairman of Richard Montgomery High School’s annual charity drive, looks happily at a report on campaign activity showing a total of $755.22, well over the original goal of SSOO. Funds raised in the drive will go to the Red Cross, Heart Fund, Cancer Fund, March of Dimes, Easter Seals and the D. C. Junior Village. tired from private business to accept the Webb Laboratories post. The author of numerous arti cles on aeronautics, he was co editor of the first book on fly ing, known as the Curtiss Book of Aviation, and was associated with several other publication projects . 11/ A k |Trr\ NEWSPAPERS, cast iron, IA/ A l\l IH I- RAGS - COPPER. BRASS, f I nil I LL/a ALUMINUM, ETC. I OPEN 7:30 TO 5:00 EVERY DAY j AND UNTIL 2:00 ON SATURDAYS MONTGOMERY IRON & METAL CO. 300 HUNGERFORD DR., ROCKVILLE, MD. PO. 2-3924 Mr. Robinson is survived by his wife, the former Estia Emma Hentks, of the family home at 8627 Flower Ave. in Takoma Park; two sons, Harold H. Robinson, of Silver Spring, and Hugh A. Robinson Jr., of Miami, Fla.; seven grandchil dren and seven great grand children. Temple Offers New Courses Courses in free lance writing, technical writing and editing, se.les promotion and publicity techniques, will be given in an eight-week Summer Institute by the Temple School of Modern Communications, it has been an nounced by Helen R. Settel, Dean. Workshop-seminars will be held Monday-Wednesday or ’I uesday-Thursday evenings be tween 7 and 10 p.m., and on Sat urdays, Dean Settel said, at the downtown premises of the school at 710 14th Street, N.W., ir Washington. If the demand warrants, workshops will be given at 7940 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, and at Mt. Ranier, Md. Each course consists of 45 hours of study, divided into 15 three-hour sessions, and costs SBO.OO. A certificate of achievement is granted each student who sue- i • • llf someone j j you know I i is moving... j • • • A friendly call by the • • WolcomeWagon Hostess * • will help them feel at • • * • Join in carrying on our • • community’s traditional • I spirit of hospitality. Tell J • Welcome Wagon the • • name and address of • J families you know who J • are moving. • • • EX. 3-7556 I • • A j j vvl/j -Yrl.] 1 I More fun than a barrel of monkeys . . . in. SPRING Montgomery County's Only Complete CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT STORE v ff FOR THE WELL-DRESSED £\) 40* ANGELS THIS SPRING |Jr / • hPPV time ...I dross-up tint* . . . apnnq. *no to nolp thorn, tim* whon toddlor girls ond boy look so C r*. *** , ?* W * n * oun 9 fl|| ongolie in littlo cooli with hoti ond bonnet* * o* ion* wit the grown-uo HTj match. And, bonooth thoir now coat* § oo t y like. thoy'll woor uiti ond frilly drossos *tyled \ c\ £>*> mmrnmmmmm jpmmtm** -■* -%r,- y ■■•.*>| /O I /F| BUSTER BROWN I IT'S A SPRING / IJ of Spring ,ho.. I SOMETHING JT TRADITION MMfor boy* ond gir in I FOR THE BOYS jTo woor booutiful, flattering 1 {,\ stunning stylo*. S*o us for 2: , . I Shots. And wo hovo thorn for 1H M 'l 9 Boys btcomt mm during ■ C f Srwtrf I# _ !=|s| Open until 9 P.M. every evening until Easter except Saturday Across from Court House—Rockville—-Customer Parking at Rear of Store cessfully completes the course. Dean Settel said all students will receive free guidance coun seling and job placement advice. Those who take the writing courses will be helped to sell apparel with appeal fmtn, young men end boyi! I neme brands styles I in this eree at Larry Alan's I I Opan until 9 p.m. Monday, Thursday, Friday 1/ P7\ I l * 225 N. Washington Street, Rockville, PO. 2-6726 their manuscripts to the mass circulation periodicals. A. L. Todd, author and fre quent contributor to "Holiday’’ and other magazines, will teach Free Lance Writing. Guest lec turers have been scheduled from the Society of Magazine Writ ers, in New York, to discuss PNJTI NP I MONTGOMERY J c 'rt I IIX C L COUNTY. MD, Thursday, April 4, 1963 suqn problems as “writing up your idea.” "presentation to the editor,” "Rewriting first and second drafts,” etc. A free cata logue is available at the school. A5