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Complete List of High School Science Fair Winners ah\Page A-8 Barney’s Pen Sentinel columnist Barney Welsh remembers a fine foun tain pen he bought in college and that leads to a commentary on the times in which we live. Turn to Page A-4. > * 108th Year • No. 42—Published Every Thursday ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND THURSDAY. APRIL 11. 1943 TWO SECTIONS OArd** 4-7700 |Q£ a Copy 2 Apartment Zonings OK’d By Council Members of the County Council split among them selves Tuesday in overriding recommendations of the County Planning Board and its staff in approving two zone changes to permit apartment construction. By identical votes of 4-2, but with slightly different lineups, the Council approved an R-20 rezoning of a portion of the Farklawn Cemetery site off Rockville Pike at Randolph Road, for which Earl Foreman is contract purchaser, and R-H zoning of a tract east of the B & O Railroad tracks at Lay tonsville owned by Charles S. Faller and others. Planning officials recommend ed denial of the Foreman re quest on the ground that it was not in accord with the master plan for the vicinity of Rock ville. However, a majority of council members agreed with the applicant in his contention that the apartment dwelling units approved in the Rockville plan were insufficient to meet housing needs in the area. President .John A. Floyd and Mary Hepburn voted against the change, while Kathryn Diggs abstained on the ground that she was absent when the issue was debated before the council. All other members approved it The Faller request brought opposition from the planning board and its staff on the con tention that the proposed change, would not conform to the zon ing plan for the Lyttonsville- Rosemary Hills area. Their op position was brushed aside, however, with the assertion that recent apartment zoning near by has brought sufficient change in the character of the neighborhood to warrant the reclassification. In this instance, Floyd also objected and was supported by Dr. Thomas Wilson. Mrs. Hep bum abstained because she had not heard the original argu ment, while the remainder of the council voted for the project. Four other zoning changes were approved by unanimous votes of the council. They in cluded: • Portions of Blair Subdivi sion at Philadelphia Ave. and Fenton St. in Silver Spring from R-60 to C-2. at the request of the Council itself as a move in conformance with the mas ter plan for the Silver Spring business district. • Two lots of Woodmont Sub division on Auburn Ave. in Beth esda, also at the request of the council, from R-60 to C-2. Broome Jr. Will Offer Irish Play An original operetta, “But Is He Irish?” will be staged by Broome Junior High School May 3-4 at 8 p.m. each night at the school. Written and composed by Frances Ankeny and Henry Benedict, Broome teachers, the operetta concerns a politician, John O’Sullivan, who is seeking reelection as mayor in a town with a large Irish population. Leading roles are played by Ronnie Thompson, Lisa Sim mons, David Brown, Jackie Hes ford, Loreda Rosen and Carol Peacock. Members of the chorus bring the cast to 100. FOR FAST RESULTS USE THE SENTINEL WANT ADS! PHONE TODAY GA. 4-7744 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Mon.-Frl, 9 am. -12 Sat. OUR DEADLINE: TUESDAY, 4:00 P.M. flfci- m Cnwti Sfitiirl Spectrum Juvenile Court Judge Alfred D. Noyes is virtually certain of winning reappointment, it has been learned this week. Republicans, who wanted to oust him when his reappoint ment comes up soon, had nothing against Noyes who lias held the job—and won na tional recognition in it —for 17 years. They simply wanted to get one of their own in the job. Noyes is a Democrat. The GOP-dominated council’s decision on Noyes was a tough one, however, because of his jtopularity. If they threw him out simply to get a Rejniblican in the job, it could backfire. And they knew it. But despite this some of the more aggres sive party champions still argued he should go. Now it seems a majority of j the council has swung around in favor of reappointing Noyes —even though it’ll make some of the more enthusiastic GOP stalwarts unhappy. Those who usually know about these tilings say the ! other two judgeships up for : grabs—posts now held by J. Grahame Walker and John B. Diamond, both Democrats — are certain to go to Repub lican appointees. But Noyes is safe. The new GOP appointees will ■also be m a somewhat better positum than their predecessors. ' Pay for the People’s Court asso- ; ciate judgeships will go up from j $15,000 to $17,000 a year and the salary of the chief judge of People’s Court from $ 15,500 to $17,500. Also, under the terms of a bill jmshed through the re cent General Assembly, the terms of each judge will be ex tended from eight to 10 years. Ostensibly, this move is to make the judgeships more at tractive to leading lawyers and attract higher caliber attorneys. Actually, of course, this is a factor but the good old GOP will undoubtedly be somewhat ahead with their new appointees taking over at the same time the higher salaries and longer terms go into effect. Some are wondering what the relationship is between Noyes’ expected reappoint ment and the salary and length of term changes in the other judgeships. We under stand the Democrats didn’t op pose the job improvements enacted in Annapolis even though they’ll benefit GOP appointees. * * * Makeup of the five new ap pointees to the Democratic State Central Committee i interest ing. Warren Browning and Charles Jamison will be voting one way on some sensitive mat ters while the other three Margaret Car/jenter, David Ca - 1 hoon and Dick Salem—will be voting the other. Margaret Carpenter is not entirely pre dictable, however. Actually, the net effect of the appointments is to perpetuate the slim margin on the commit tee enjoyed by the liberal fac tion that swept the primary but was knocked cold in the general election. The old members Bill Wheeler and Frank (Jimmy) Hewitt will, when the pa tronage cards are on the table, (Continued on Page B-l) Group Accepts Asburv Home J The Asbury Methodist Home in Gaithersburg announced last week that it has been accepted as a charter member of the American Association of Homes for the Aging. The association, founded late in 1961, is sponsored by the National Council on the Aging. Asbury Home opened in 1926. It has accommodations for 160 men and women. Racial Law Legality Is Questioned Both sides in the fight over the county’s public ac commodations ordinance are planning to go to the law books. The Rev. Kennth B. Wentzel, ■ chairman of the Human Rela tions Commission, said yester day he has asked the County Attorney’s Office for a formal opinion on possible conflicts be tween the ordinance and the newly enacted public accom modations law. The opinion, which will be ready early next week, is ex pected to re-state in precise legal terms state Attorney Gen eral Thomas B. Finan’s “infor mal" opinion—given at a com mission dinner last month—that the two laws are not in conflict. Opponents of the ordinance have said that their stand at the April 24 public hearing on its repeal will also be based on the law. Henry J. Noyes, Jr., a Rock ville attorney who was the first to sign up to speak for repeal of the ordinance, said yesterday that its opponents will marshal “a number of prominent local attorneys to speak against the illegality of the present ordi nance.” “It was illegal when origin ally passed,” he said. “The county never had the authority (under the express powers act of 1957) to get into the area of civil rights.” Three of the four men now signed up to appear for repeal of the ordinance are lawyers. As of yesterday 17 had signed up to speak against its repeal. Meanwhile, a group calling itself the “Concerned Citizens" has enlisted prayer on the side of those who wish to retain the ordinance. Mrs. Norma H. Duffin, the group’s organizer, said they plan four prayer vigils between April 12 and the public hearing 12 days later. The group, which Mrs. Duffin said is “about 50-50 white and Negro,” also plans to attend the hearing. Their plans, she said, are to sit quietly before the council, heads bowed, and pray for re tention of the ordinance. Zone Change In Damascus Authorized Rezoning of 14.7 acres in downtown Damascus, planned as the site of an extensive re gional shopping center, was given formal approval of the County Council Tuesday by a unanimous vote. Initiated by the council itself as a move to reverse a denial of the zone change by a 5-2 vote of its predecessors last year, the action converted the property owned by James C. Dulin from residential to com mercial. The tract lies directly behind an existing small busi ness section in the town. The controversial site was purchased early last year by Dulin, a former Washington banker and national treasurer of Goodwill Industries, who ap plied for the zone change short ly afterward. It had been re fused on a split vote in which opposition was expressed by Councilmen Jerry T. Williams and Grover K. Walker, the only two members of the for mer council who were reelected last fall. According to Jerry Cook, Da mascus realtor who represented Dulin at the zoning hearings, the shopping center has been planned as a tri-county facility, to serve residents of nearby Howard and Frederick Counties as well as Montgomery. In an earlier story about the zoning request, it was erron eously reported that developers had options on the property and were preparing to begin “picking them up.” Actually, Cook pointed out, Dulin was lull owner of the site before any | change in zoning was requested. Hassle Snarls Pay Hike For 2000 County Aides *' V • El B. W M Hwggr km K m - • -9 EEEEfi^SaS __________ Watching It Burn This old house lit up the sky near Norbeck Saturday night, and then burned to ashes while firemen, more fearful of a spreading blaze in the tinder-dry area than the fate of the abandoned structure, poured water into the surrounding brush. The County Fire Marshal’s Office said that when Laytons ville, Sandy Spring, Rockville, Kensington and Hillandale Companies answered the fire call, the blaze in the two-story In Maryland-Delaware Contest 5 ‘Better Newspaper’ Prizes Given Sentinel Five awards in the 1962 Maryland-Delaware Better Newspaper Contest were won last week by the Mont gomery County Sentinel. The feat enabled the Sentinel, oldest paper in Montgomery County, to continue its winning ways in the annual contest initiated four years ago for Maryland newspapers and ex panded last year for the first time to include newspapers in Delaware. Top awards given the Sentinel in the latest contest by the judges— members of the Vir ginia Press Association in clude: • First place in typographical excellence—weeklies. • First place in social news writing—weeklies. • Third place in feature writ ing—weeklies. Trash Burning Emergency Ban Still in Effect An emergency ban on open trash burning in residential areas of Montgomery County remains in effect this week de spite the rainfalls of Monday and Tuesday, County Manager Mason Butcher has noted. The prohibition against burn ing of trash, leaves and debris outside of incinerators will con tinue until the county gets enough rain to bring fire haz ards to a minimum, Butcher said. Any change will be decid ed on by the county fire mar shal after consultation with iorest rangers in the rural area of the county, he added. The ban was imposed last Thursday after a widespread outbreak of brush fires result ing from high winds, low hu midity and parched ground, the county manager pointed out. Ordinarily, trasli burning on private property is permitted j between the hours of 4 and 10 1 p.m., when prevailing winds | usually slacken. Established, 1855 • Third place in spot news writing—weeklies. • Third place in sports writ ; ing—weeklies. In the 1960 contest the Senti • nel won first place among the • big Maryland weeklies in gen i eral excellence, second place for typographical excellence, and first in best news photo. In the 1959 contest, first one held in recent years, the Senti nel again walked off witli the top general excellence award as well as first place for best news picture, second place for best editorial —in daily and weekly i competition; second place for community service and second place for typographical excel lence. Purpose of the contest is to stimulate high quality news paper performance among the 70 or more daily and weekly newspapers throughout Mary land and Delaware. The contest is sponsored jointly by the Maryland-Dela ware Press Association and the journalism department of the University of Maryland. Rivalry among the entrants is keen. Prizewinners received their awards at the annual Maryland Press Institute held last Friday at the University of Maryland, College Park. Contest judges are rotated each year and previous Judges Included members of the New Jersey Press Association and various journalism professors at colleges and universities scat tered through tiie mid-west and | west. Individual Sentinel winners in the most recent contest in cluded Jane Day, society editor; Les Kimble, columnist; Joe Bou chard, former sports editor, and Roger Farquhar, Sentinel editor. This year’s judges also indi cated that if there had been a i fourth place in the best editorial ; contest open to all dailies and weeklies, it would have gone to I the Sentinel. frame building was already too far gone to atop. The nearest source of water was a hydrant one-half mile away, from which firemen shuttled water to the site. Firemen do not know the origin of the fire, whose damage is estimated at S3OOO, and so far have not even been able to And the owner of the long-abandoned house. Sentinel Photo by Ed Mervis School Plan Re-Use Is Rejected Use of an existing school plan to save approximately : S6OOO and two months in an “urgent” building schedule was disapproved Tuesday by the county School Board. The school staff asked board members to approve re-use of | plans for an already built school designed by the architec tural firm of Cohen, Haft and Associates for the proposed 1 Seven Locks Elementary School. Need for the school is urgent 1 i due to rapid growth of the area I j it will serve, school officials I I said, and using the already ; drawn plans would not only pro vide S6OO in savings but would I speed design on the facility by I two months. Board member Mrs. Lucy ( Keker, arguing for using the already drawn plans, question ed members opposing the school ’ staff's recommendation as to their reasons for taking such a stand but she was unsuccessful. Supporting re-use of the plans with Mrs. Keker was Board member Clifford K. Beck. Opposing the suggestion were Board President Charles W. Bell, Everett H. Woodward and William E. Coyle. Board mem ber William I. Saunders ab stained. The board then approved hir ; ing of Architect Rhees Burkett to draw a new set of plans. MrM. Burgunder Heads Planned Parenthood Mrs. B. Bernei Burgunder, Jr., Bethesda, has been elected head of Planned Parenthood of Met ropolitan, D.C. succeeding Mrs. Philip W. Thayer. A total of 12,500 patient visits were recorded at planned par enthood clinics during 1962 and the number of clinics held monthly has increased to 70. A campaign report showed the group’s fund drive is with in 13 per cent of its $45,000 goal. Trio Jailed In Rockville Safecracking Three Rockville men have been jailed in lieu of SSOOO bond each on housebreaking and lar -1 ceny charges stemming from a ' safecracking in which almost i SIOOO was taken from a Rock ! ville roofing firm. ’ Arrested last Friday, the day after the break-in, as the result I of an investigation by county , detectives from the Rockville police station were James B. Brunner, 27, 331 Lincoln St.; I John A. Noland, 26, 35 Moore I Drive, and George Williams, Jr., Tuckerman’s Lane. According to detectives, the theft, occurred at the office of H. T. Harrison and Sons, 14630 ‘ Southlawn Lane, after intrud ers gained entrance by using an ' open skyway on the roof. A | large safe containing $965.70 was forced open through the use of heavy tools available in the establishment. The break-in was discovered the following morning and with in 24 hours the three men were arrested on charges resulting from an investigation by detec tive Cpls. Gabriel Lamastra and Thomas Thear, police said. A preliminary hearing on the theft charges has been set for April 29. No-Hitler Hurled by Steve White Sherwood High baseball won ; sweet revenge Tuesday over the Montgomery Blair nine. Paced by the no-hit perform ance of sophomore pitcher Steve White, the Warriors i downed Blair 4-0 to repay the Blazers for the 5-4 win over the Warriors last year which net ted the Blazers the county base ball championship. Pitching flawlessly, White would have also picked up a no-error game had It not been for an error in the seventh by 1 Sherwood shortstop Dennis! I Heinbuch. I Mirror, Mirror ... What’s one of the better ways to mirror community life In a community newspaper auch as the Sentinel? With pictures, of course. And the Sentinel has many of them. See for yourself in this issue! Party Lines Followed in Board Split By William H. Smith Sentinel Reporter A long-awaited pay raise affecting most of Montgomery County’s 2000 employes has been sidetracked by a dispute between majority members of the Personnel Board and the County Council. The deadlock was brought to light Tuesday when the Repub lican-dominated council Issued a statement asserting it had re fused to adopt the new salary schedule proposed by the Demo cratic • controlled Personnel Board because of its opposition to salary provisions affecting eight members of the police de partment. Within a few hours after the council adjourned Its meeting, however, Personnel Board mem. bers Louis A. Palmer and Grace Angle denied that the overall salary schedule was affected by the eight jobs at Issue. Their position was disputed by Hal Lackey, chairman of the board and Its only Republican mem ber. County Manager Mason Butcher, who apparently sup. ported the stand of Lackey and the council, said he would at* tempt to arrange a conference as soon as possible for recon sideration of the controversy. At issue are the positions of the captains of the detective bu reau and the juvenile bureau, five detective lieutenants and one Juvenile lieutenant. Un der existing policy, they re ceive four per cent higher pay than officers of similar rank in the police department, a differ ence favored by the Personnel Board Democratic members. Palmer and Mrs. Angle In sisted, however, that the extra pay Is not provided in the new overall salary schedule under consideration. Instead, they con tended, it has been approved as a matter of policy established before either of them were ap pointed to the board. The extensive council state ment noted that the Personnel Board submitted its revised personnel regulations to the council on Feb. 19, calling for a pay increase for most county employes averaging about four per cent. Since the first report was received, however, it said a minority report had been sub mitted by Lackey. A major issue in the Lackey report called for elimination of the four per cent pay differen tial granted the eight detectives and juvenile officers. He based his argument on the contention that n o such differences are provided by other administra (Continued on Page A-3) Sites Switch For School, Park Okayed A switch In park-school sites between the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Com mission and the county School Board has been approved by both agencies. Through an earlier arrange ment reached this week, the School Board will turn over eight and one-half acres of its Parkland site to the planners for development as a park ad jacent to the proposed Parkland Junior High School and the planners will turn over to the School Board the same amount of land at its Norbeck Junior High School site for develop ment into a park. Land value of the two sites is said to be approximately the same.