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Patriotic
Rites Due
Thursday
Montgomery County men
who gave their lives in de
fense of democracy will be
honored Thursday in a series
of Memorial Day activities
ranging from solemn reli
gious rites to a colorful
parade.
A highlight will be the 19th
annual Memorial Day parade
sponsored by the Mayor and
City Council of Rockville in
which almost 100 marching
units and floats will participate
starting at 2:30 p.m. In contrast
to the solemnity of the religious
services, it will be a gay event.
The parade will form at the
Rockville Library, East Jeffer
son and South Adams Streets,
and proceed east on Jefferson
Street to the Richard Montgom
ery High School. There the cere
monial will assume a more som
ber role in brief memorial rites
to be held adjacent to the high
school stadium.
Guest speaker for the pro
gram, at which surviving Medal
of Honor winners from Mont
gomery County will be honored,
will be State Sen. Gilbert Gude.
Mayor Frank Ecker will preside
as master of ceremonies.
Throughout the area, the day
will be observed as a holiday
by all major business establish
ments, including banks, and
governmental offices. All
schools will be given an extra
break by getting an added holi
day on Friday, due to the fact
that it was not necessary to
utilize any of the five days set
aside in anticipation of heavy
snow conditions during the past
winter.
In Bethesda, special services
will be held at 9:45 a.m. at the
Bethesda Monument at Wood
mont and Norfolk Aves. under
sponsorship of the Military
Order of The World Wars.
Music by the falter Johnson
High School band and a drill by
the Civil Air Patrol Cadets will
be among features of a program
climaxed by an address by Col.
Justice M. Chambers (USMC-
Bet) Deputy Director of the
office of emergency planning In
the executive office of the
President.
Silver Spring will be the
scene of two separate services
starting simultaneously at 11
a.m.
The Knights of Columbus of
Montgomery will hold their
sixth annual Memorial Day
mass at the Gate of Heaven
Cemetery, 13705 Georgia Ave.,
highlighted by Holy Com
munion. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Philip
J. Brown will be the celebrant,
with the sermon to be delivered
by Rev. Joseph Byron.
At the same time, Cissel-
Saxon Post of the American
Legion will hold its traditional
commemorative rites at the
National Guard Armory, Wayne
Ave. and Fenton St. Members
of all veterans’ organizations in
the Silver Spring area have been
invited to participate, along with
the general public.
In Damascus, Col. E. Brooke
Lee will be guest speaker at a
service sponsored by the Da
mascus Post of the American
Legion at 10 a.m. on the grounds
ow the Legion’s home on Lewis
Drive. Music will be provided
by the Damascus High School
band under the direction of Matt
Kuhn.
Wilbum-Cassell Post of the
American Legion in Kensing
ton will conduct Its Memorial
Day rites at the Ernest Park
Memorial at 11 a.m. Among
speakers will be Kensington
Mayor Victor Gentilini.
Along with the local rites,
members of a number of vet
erans organizations in the
county are planning to attend
the annual Memorial Day pro
gram at Arlington National
Cemetery.
BarneKville Bills
‘Lilith’ Producers
The estimated cost of the
motion picture “Lilith,” much
of which is being filmed in
Montgomery County, has gone
up by an unexpected 1300.
A bill in that amount was
submitted to the producers by
the Barnesville Town Council
to compensate for use of the
town’s streets and traffic in
terference resulting from the
operation in the Barnesville
area.
The bill said that some 30
horses and riders in the movie
cast had used the town streets
on May 17 and 20, but neglect
ed to mention the numerous
visitors who also turned out
to see a Hollywood group in
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Leonard T. Hardy
D.C. Judge
Excoriates
Prosecutor
State’s Attorney Leonard
T. Kardy’s indignant denial
that he used his public office
to further the interests of a
private client will be probed
by a powerful committee of
the Montgomery County Bar
Association.
President James C. Chris
topher of the county bar group
said Kardy had asked that the
association’s grievance com
mittee probe the findings of Dis
trict Domestic Relations Court
Judge John H. Burnett that
Kardy had acted improperly.
“I am certain the grievance
committee will accommodate
his wishes,” Christopher said
Sunday.
„.Committee chairman J. Doug
las Bradshaw was out of town
over the weekend and could not
be reached for comment on the
case which has set off a furor
in political circles.
Other grievance committee
members, besides Bradshaw, are
attorneys Robert W. Beall, Ix-o
Bender, John Ritterpusch, and
Charles W. Woodward Jr.
Kardy stands accused by
Judge Burnett of using the pub
lic office he holds to get a
District bellhop to sign waivers
of appearance in an Alabama
court. Judge Burnett gave Kar
dy a blistering castigation in
court, accusing him of offering
to drop assault and battery
charges against the man, as
state’s attorney, if he would sign
a waiver declining to appear in
an Alabama divorce action
brought by the man’s wife who
was Kardy's private client.
“If it were up to me,” Judge
Burnett declared in his castiga
tion of Kardy, “I would send
the whole record of this case to
the Governor of Maryland and
let him investigate it.”
Kardy’s incomplete answers
to questions by Judge Burnett
brought from the jurist an
angry charge that Kardy was
withholding information about
his role in the case and the
statement that the county’s
chief prosecutor was “a liar and
a big liar.” The judge added:
“I am ashamed of him as a
fellow lawyer.”
Testimony by the bellhop, Mi
chael J. Spatola, 1500 Massa
chusetts Ave. N.W., that Kardy,
acting as state’s attorney, offer
ed to drop the assault and bat
tery against him if he would
sign the waiver, was branded
by Kardy as a “lie.” He said
the charges were dropped at
the request of the wife, a nor
mal and proper procedure in
his office.
President Christopher empha
sized the bar association’s griev
ance committee is "an indepen
dent group” and he would do
nothing about the case until the
committee has studied the
matter. He said the committee
could recommend disbarment or
that no action be taken. Or it
could ignore the judge's com
plaints, he said.
He said he was sure the bar
association as a whole would
abide by the findings of the
grievance committee "whatever
they may be.”
Piney Branch Sewer
Contract for construction of
an extension of Piney Branch
trunk sewer from its present
terminus near Hollywood
Branch to the Fairland Road has
been awarded by the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Com
mission lor $104,524,
Apartment Zoning Asked
For Site Near White Oak
An application has been filed
by Franklin R. Immerman As
sociates, Inc., to rezone 9.5 acres
off Columbia Pike near the
White Oak interchange from its
present industrial status to per
mit apartment construction.
Submitted by Attorney C. Ed
ward Nicholson on behalf of the
Immerman firm, the request
proposes a change from the ex
isting 1-3 (industrial park use)
zone to R-H or R-20, which
would permit high-rise or mul
tiple-family medium density
development.
According to Immerman, a
major reason for the request
was the fact that adjacent land
has been acquired for park use
by the Maryland-National Capi
tal Park and Planning Commis
sion. As a consequence, he
pointed out, the property is less
desirable for Industrial use and
more suitable as an apartment
site.
Immerman said he preferred
the R-H apartments in that area
because the rough topography
of the land “would lend itself
to the new high-rise type of de
velopment that calls for lots of
green space around it.” He said
Alertness
Cited in
Sex Arrest
SILVER SPRING An alert
investigation of a “Peeping
Tom” complaint early last
Thursday led to the arrest of
a suspect on two more serious
charges along with the lesser
offense, county police officials
reported.
Pvts. Jack W. Hall and Ber
nard Deffinbaugh were credited
by Detective Capt. Fred Thrail
kill with clearing up two sepa
rate cases in a matter of min
utes after apprehending a man
they t hoy gh t "looked aus
picious” as they Approached the
Summit Hills Apartments from
which the “Peeping Tom” com
plaint originated.
Edwin M. Polk, 33, of Balti
more, was being taken to the
apartment for possible identifi
cation, Captain Thrailkill said,
when the officers heard hyster
ical screams coming from
another section of the building.
They traced the screams to the
apartment of a 30-year-old
woman who moments before
had been subjected to an
attempted rape, the officer said.
As a consequence, Polk was
charged with assault with intent
to rape and burglary as the
result of his forced entry to the
apartment, along with the
charge that brought the police
men to the area initially. Held
under bond totaling $22,000, he
was scheduled to appear in Sil
ver Spring for a preliminary
hearing on Monday.
Captain Thrailkill said the
attempted rape victim reported
she was dozing in her apartment
when an intruder threw a cloth
over her face and held a steel
object against her neck. The
man left, however, when the
sexual attack failed.
Public Is Invited!
New School Group to Hold
Its First General Meeting
Montgomery County’s Com
mittee for the Public Schools
will hold its first general meet
ing on Wednesday, June 5, in
the third floor auditorium of
Woodward and Lothrop’s Whea
ton Plaza Shopping Center.
Open to the public, the meeting
will begin at 8 p.m.
A nonpartisan, fact-finding
organization of county residents,
the committee was formed
to “support continued Improve
ment of public education In
Montgomery County.”
Major items of business on
the agenda includes a report on
past activities of the committee
and plans for the future, as well
as election of 15 members to the
executive board for one, two,
and three year terms.
Among the topics which P. P.
Claxton, Jr., chairman of the
committee’s interim executive
board will discuss in a recap
of the organization’s actions,
are: the committee’s (1)
Testimony on March 28 before
the County Council at public
hearings on the 1964 school
operating budget; (2) Research
into current and projected pupil
teacher ratios; (3) Action rela
ting to tiie primary election of
detailed plans have not yet been
drawn for the project.
Also filed recently with the
county’s Inspection and license
department was a request for re
zoning from R-R (rural residen
tial) to R-20 (multiple-family
apartments) of 48.9 acres east
of Rocklawn Cemetery north of
Randolph Road near Rockville.
Samuel Selsky, contract pur
chaser of the property, said no
specific plans for the develop
ment have as yet been prepared.
League Asks
Delay on
Floyd Bills
Montgomery County’s
League of Women Voters
has urged the County Coun
cil to defer action on four
pending bills that would
change the merit system
status of several top county
officials.
The major effect of the bills,
all introduced by President John
A. Floyd, would remove the
director of personnel, the clerk
to the County Council and the
director of information and eco
nomic development from merit
system classification. As a con
sequence, any of the three could
be removed from office by the
County Manager without the
right to appeal, a privilege
granted all merit system
employes after they have suc
cessfully completed an 18-month
probationary period.
The Floyd bills would also
place the department of inspec
tion and licenses and the police
department under supervision of
a director of public safety, a
position temporarily held by the
County Manager because a
permanent appointee has not
yet been selected. E. W. Buck
lln, director of inspection and
licenses, thus would attain a
merit system status he never
fteftrbefpri* although the chief
of police has been in that cate
gory for almost nine years.
Although the proposed change
in personnel status has raised
eyebrows in some political quar
ters following its introduction,
no one appeared to oppose it
when the bills were submitted
to public hearing last Tuesday.
The League expressed
no views at the hearing
because the matter was still
under study, Mrs. William Gar
rott, president, said. She em
phasized that the group still
has taken no stand other than
to call for extensive delibera
tion before a final decision is
reached.
Since the bills were intro
duced, she said, the league feels
there has been insufficient time
for county officials and citizens
to make an adequate appraisal
of their effect. Because of the
extreme importance of the jobs
involved, she added, the women
voters believe further study
should be given.
Under the legislative program
of the council, failure to act by
May 31 would assure at least
another 11 months of study
time before the proposed bills
could be enacted.
members of the Board of Edu
cation; and (4) Dissemination
of Information relating to school
business to Montgomery Coun
tians.
Fifteen residents from repre
sentative sections of the County
have been nominated for posi
tions on the Board. They
include: W. B. Akin and Harry
Simms, Silver Spring; Lee Cona
han, Rockville; Mrs. Herbert S.
Hyatt, Damacus; and Michael
March, Chevy Chase, for one
year terms; Wayne Birdsell and
Thomas Israel, Silver .Spring;
William L. Frelenmuth, Damas
cus; Mrs. Sylvia Pechman,
Bethesda; and Walter G.
Schweitzer, Jr., Rockville, for
two year terms, and Mrs. Peter
H. Schiff, Silver Spring; P. P.
Claxton Jr., Bruno Weinschel,
and Mrs. H. Arnold Karo, Be
thesda; and Alexander Greene,
Rockville, for three-year terms.
Passes Bar Test
Howard W. Hermann, of 709
Monroe St., Rockville, was one
of 13 law graduates from
American University who re
cently passed the District of
Columbia bar examination.
Established 1855
3-Cent Tax Rate Cut
Asked For Rockville
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Old Maddox Home Goes Up jjL.Smake!
The 80 year old, three story home built by the
Maddox family and occupied by them for
three generations is fired by the Rockville
Volunteer Fire Department last Sunday at
the request of tiie owners, the First Church
of God, to make way for future church addi
Zone Dispute
To Be Settled
By Williams
Councilman Jerry T. Williams
is expected to cast the deciding
vote today in a Brookmont
apartment proposal that occu
pies a major role in the contro
versy over development along
the Potomac River.
Williams’ vote will settle a
3-3 tie reached last week on two
of four requests for rezoning
sought to permit high-rise apart
ment projects on adjacent
tracts at MacArthur Boulevard
and Brooks Lane. The other two
were rejected by 5-1 votes.
Williams declined to vote on
any of the projects last Tuesday
because he was not present
when they were aired at public
hearing. He said, however, he
will study records of the hear
ing as the basis for his decision
today.
The council’s failure to reject
all of the rezoning requests
brought an expression of "dis
may and disappointment” from
the Potomac Valley League,
which represents civic groups
in the area.
“If this application is granted,
it will cause as much furor and
disruption in Montgomery Coun
ty as the Merrywood project
has caused in Fairfax County,"
according to H. Steward Dunn,
president of the league. The
Merrywood rezoning, on the Vir
ginia side of the Potomac River,
has been one of the major zon
ing controversies in the Greater
Washington area in recent
months.
S.S. Jaycees
Elect Anastasi
Joseph G. Anastasi has been
elected president of the Silver
Spring Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Other officers: Samuel
T. Seymour, international vice
president; Ward J. Wilkie, ex
ternal vice president; Donald
Colvin, secretary; Arthur H.
Klotz, treasurer, and Joseph W.
Powers, legal counsel.
Directors for the coming year
will be William Cave, Herbert
S. Ginsberg, Richard C. Ridg
way, and Francis E. Yateman.
tlons on Maple Avenue, Rockville. Here Pvt.
Bill ('lark left and Lt. Dick Ream watch the
old frame, stuccoed structure collapse after
training exercises were held. Sentinel Photo
By Ed Mervls.
Spectrum
The Sentinel is going to miss
a lot of news on Tuesday as it
hurries to press Monday because
of the Memorial Day holiday.
JUDGESHIPS
It’ll be an upset if Hodge
Smith and Phil Fairbanks don’t
get the two People’s Court
judgeships and Bud Noyes
misses out on reappointment
as Juvenile Court judge.
The appointments arc a long
time in coming although the
Council’s Republican majority
has had many months to think
about this problem. The Repub
lican-dominated leglisative dele
gation at the last session pushed
through a bill raising the pay of
People’s Court judges from
$15,000 to $17,000 and the pay
of the chief judge from $15,500
to $17,500. Also the terms were
increased from eight to 10
years.
GGP County Councilmen
indignantly denied a report that
they had agreed to reappoint
Noyes in return for the higher
salaries and longer terms which
will benefit the GOP appointees
to the two other Judgeships.
And the truth of their denial
seems to be borne out by the
long delay in reaching final
agreement on the judgeship
appointees. All three terms
expired May 1 and here it is
almost June. We understand the
holdup was caused by strong
disagreement among the Repub
lican councilmen on Noyes. All
three appointments sound fine
to us and we’re sure Smith,
Fairbanks and Noyes if those
are the three named will bo
more than acceptable to the Bar
Association and the public.
ACCOMMODATIONS
The Council was scheduled to
vote Tuesday on John Henry
Hiser’s proposal to repeal the
public accommodations ordi
nance. And if the informal poll
of all seven councilman made
by the Sentinel about three
weeks ago means anything, the
ordinance will be retained
possibly by a six to one vote.
You can have one guess which
vote the one dissenter belongs
to in that estimate. We hope the
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Merchants
Take Stand
On Tract
ROCKVILLE Mid-town
merchants have voted to
establish a fund to fight
granting of major commer
cial zoning to the Anderson
Tract, just west of the city’s
borders.
President Irwin Schwartz said
the group authorized use of the
fund to oppose such granting of
commercial zoning by either the
City Council or the County
Council.
Milton Polinger, principal
owner of the big tract and
spokesman for the developers,
has said he would seek rezoning
of 28 acres to commercial from
the County Council.
His decision to approach the
County Council for the rezoning
followed breakdown of negotia
tions between him and the city
government over annexation.
During the annexation discus
sions, city officials Indicated
they were willing to grant
Polinger five acres of commer
cial. The developer, however,
held out for more.
Schwartz said the business
men with interests in the center
of Rockville Indicated at the <
meeting they would not object
to granting of lip to 10 acres of
commercial zoning to Polinger. I
Blit more than that would be
unacceptable, he emphasized.
At the businessmen's meeting, j
no opposition was expressed to !
major apartment and Industrial
r ezoning Polinger seeks for the j
same tract.
City officials have refused to 1
yield to Polinger’s demands I
because of their fear that a
major commercial development
adjacent to the city would seri
ously jeopardize commercial
development of the center of j
the city under the proposed
urban renewal plan.
At the meeting, the business
men decided to meet again on '
June 21 and to invite an official!
of the urban renewal program i
to address them.
l Accident 9 at NIH
A new and powerful drug is
now aiding high blood pressure
sufferers as a result of an “ac
cidental” discovery at National
Institutes of Health. For details,
turn to page 82.
Budget Up
In Spite of
Lower Levy
ROCKVILLE—City Man
ager Walter A. Scheiber has
proposed a 1963-64 budget
of $3.3 million calling for a
three-cent reduction in the
city tax rate which is now 78
cents per SIOO.
The recommendation if ap
proved would give the city its
second tax rate cut In two years.
Scheiber last year proposed a
five-cent tax hike but the City
Council, instead, gave city resi
dents a two-cent tax rate cut
City operations can be finan
ced with a lower tax rate of 75
cents during the coming fiscal
year In spite of his suggestions
for increased spending, Scheiber
said.
This would be possible, he ex
plained, by growth which has
broadened the city’s tax base
and by recent reassessment—
by the county —of approxi
mately two thirds of the pro
perties In the city.
He said his budget proposes
"a program of service and ac
tivities of a quality higher than
that of any previous year.”
If the requested tax rate is
approved by city heads it will
be a continuation of the trend
started in 1954 when a nonpar
tisan faction called Citizens for
Good Government seized control
of the city government to re
main in power ever since.
When CGG initially was elec
ted, the tax rate was 90 cents.
It fell to 72 cents in 1958-50 and
has not been above 80 cents
since that time. During the last
nine years, the entire city gov
ernment has been overhauled
and many new services added
and improvements made.
Scheiber said that the year’s
highlights under his budget pro
posal would be:
• Beginning of property ac
quisition for the city's elaborate
urban renewal program.
• Rebuilding of the Park
Road Underpass.
• Beginning of construction
on the long-awaited Rollins
Avenue Bypass to make possible
the closing of the Halpine Road
grade crossing.
• Construction of a 90-car
parking lot at the Civic Center
Auditorium.
• Purchase and development
of more park and recreation
areas.
• Surfacing of five more
miles of streets with “Smooth
seal.”
• Construction of much
needed storm drainage facilities
in Croydon Park.
Current year’s budget is $2.6
million —about $700,000 less
than the new one proposed by
.Scheiber. A doubling of spend
ing for capital Improvement*-
from $526,000 to $1 million Is
proposed for next year and an
Increase in operating funds was
asked from $1.4 million to $1.6
million.
Biggest single item in the
budget is $543,200 proposed for
13 street projects and th* an
nual drivpway construction pro
gram. Most extensivp street pro
jects are construction of the
Park Road underpass, budgeted
at $197,000, and design and
right -of -way acquisition for
three major relocations - East
Montgomery, East Jefferson
and Monroe. All are linked to
the urban renewal plan design.
Scheiber asked for $88,250 to
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Hearing Asked
By P-T A Head
On Budget Cut
The State Board of Education
has been asked to hear a com
plaint that State law was vio
lated by Montgomery County
officials in their reduction of
the annual school budget.
Millard Cass, president of the
Montgomery County Council of
Parent - Teacher Associations,
said he had offered to appear
before the State board in sup
port of a charge that the coun
ty action was In violation of
Article 77 of the Annotated
Code. He said the move was
made after the county school
board declined to hear a PTA
complaint on th issue.