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109th Year • No. I—Published Every Thursday TWO SECTIONS ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1943 OArden 4-7700 10# ■ Copy
$1.5 Million
Is OK’d for
Jr. College
Takoma Park
Status Still
Under Cloud
Tempers flared this week
as majority members of the
Montgomery County School
Board rammed through a 4-
3 vote to add $1.5 million
more to the Rockville Junior
College campus project.
“When someone proposes a
project that costs the taxpayers
several million dollars,” minor
ity member Dr. Clifford K. Beck
protested, “they should be able
to support that proposal with
facts. I have seen no facts, to
date, that justify any deviation
from the original plan.”
The Rockville campus contro
versy erupted in June when ma
jority board members voted to
approve the new school build
ing, and to eliminate the Ta
koma Park campus when the
new school could accommodate
the county’s enrollment needs.
Minority members of the
board have failed in efforts to
force the newly-elected mem
bers to admit that they intend
to sell Takoma Park in the
future. Majority members, how
ever, insist that they do not in
tend to sell the older campus
until all county students are ab
sorbed into the Rockville facil
ity.
Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, state
superintendent of schools, had
warned the local board, earlier,
that they might lose state aid if
they disposed of the Takoma
Park campus.
This week minority members
asked Lester J. Welch, acting
school facilities director, and
county consultant James McCon
nell, why college enrollment
had recently been curtailed by
10 per cent, while expansion of
the Rockville campus was being
considered.
“Are we going to sabotage the
Takoma Park campus?” Beck
inquired. Joined by Mrs. Lucy
Keker, Dr. Beck demanded a
clear definition of the majority
intention. Woodward shot back
angrily, “When people talk out
of two sides of their mouth
they are confusing the issue.
The minority members are not
going to agree with us no mat
ter what we say.”
The revised plan, which
brings the total outlay of money
spent on the Rockville campus
to $6.15 million, details alloca
tion of space for technical and
humanities centers. Welch said
six areas of the new campus
had not yet been identified for
specific use.
“It is ludicrous for us to plan
a facility and hope to find
Justification for expansion
later,” Dr. Beck protested. “Is
there a possibility that all of the
Takoma Park students can be
put into the Rockville school?”
McConnell, professor of edu
cation at Stanford University,
said "I don’t think I will live
long enough to see Takoma
Park closed.”
Despite strong objections by
the minority members, the
school board voted 4 3 to ap
prove the revised Rockville
campus plan.
ACG Unit
Is Headed
By Laney
Culbert Laney, 9008 Eton
Road, Silver Spring, was ap
pointed chairman of the Educa
tion Committee for the Silver
Spring Allied Civic Group, Inc.,
according to the club’s presi
dent, Milton M. Rodes.
A veteran civic worker for
almost two decades, Laney has
served on the ACG Education
Committee since 1957. The fa
ther of seven, he is a program
analyst with the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations.
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County Fair
Offers Many
Attractions
GAITHERSBURG One
interesting event after an
other will kick off the 15th
annual Montgomery County
Fair at the Agricultural Cen
ter scheduled this year for
Aug. 19-24.
On the evening of Aug. 19 the
4-H Fair Queen will be crowned
followed by a square dance in
the fair show ring. There will
be a parade and numerous 4-H
Club floats.
On Tuesday starting at noon,
numerous Kids’ Day events will
be highlighted by the annual
turtle race, frog jumping com
petition, and pie-eating and
greased pig chase contests.
Free stage shows featuring
Minnie Pearl, country music
chanteuse, and a variety show
will be held Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
each day.
A new attraction, recently re
vived at the fair, is Story Book
Lane where real animals in
nursery book settings will be on
view for the small fry.
On Friday and Saturday there
will be free horse shows on the
fair grounds featuring running,
jumping and quarter horse
events that draw expert horse
men and women from the Wash
ington area.
Friday will be 4-H day at the
fair and the big 4-H and Future
Farmers of America beef sale
will start at 9 o’clock that night
Concluding highlight will be
the hootenanny to which area
folk singers and musicians have
been invited.
A total of $47,728 in cash will
be given out in prizes to win
ners chosen from among the
10,000 entries—more than 4200
of them animals—in this year’s
event.
New Ford Awaits Some Lucky Countian
This week the Montgom
ery County Sentinel is begin
ning a seven-and-a-half-week
subscription campaign.
For years this newspaper
has enjoyed a good circula
tion, both within and outside
of Montgomery County, As
with each week’s issue an
other permanent record in
the history of Montgomery
County is compiled, we
would like to make this his
torical record available to
more residents and others in
terested in the growth and
future of the county.
It was not a hasty decision
to have this campaign, but
the idea has been under con
sideration for a year. During
this time several plans were
considered and advice asked
from other members of the
profession as to the best type
campaign to have.
Recommended most highly
by the trade was Liner Cir
culation Service. This firm
was contacted and a contract
signed whereby it will be in
complete charge of the con
test.
Not only is Liner the old
est of these firms, it is the
best. Elsewhere in this issue
is a two-page advertisement
giving the details and in
formation on the contest. As
the name implies “Every
body Wins,” in a Liner cam
paign—the salesman, the
subscriber, the newspaper,
and the community.
School Head Says:
Change In Teaching Philosophy
Top Goal of Majority on Board
The new School Board
majority is more interested
in changing the educational
philosophy of the county’s
school system than it is in
effecting economies, School
Board President Charles W.
Bell said this week.
“Many people have the idea
that our main interest is cutting
back on school spending and
lowering the tax rate,’ he de
clared.
“That simply isn’t true,” he
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Bell
added. Our
main interest
right from the
start has been
changing the
education
al philosophy
of our school
sys t em,” he
said.
“We are in
terested
in economy, of
course, and have made some
progress along this line,” he
continued. “School Supt. C. Tay
lor Whittier voluntarily halved
his school construction budget
right after we were elected,” he
pointed out.
“But our big objective is to
bring about changes that will
Win A FREE Ford!
Circulation Campaign
Lauiwhed by Sentinel
A fantastic campaign, in which a brand new 1963
Ford Falcon 4-door station wagon is being offered as top
prize, is announced today by the Montgomery County
Sentinel.
The new auto, obtained from
Hill and Sanders, metropolitan
Washington’s oldest Ford deal
ership, was purchased yesterday
by Sentinel management, and
will go to the winner complete
with sales tax and license paid,
complete with heater, radio and
whitewall tires. There is no fine
print or hidden gimmicks in this
offer.
This gleaming “Princess Snow
White” first prize award will be
presented to the most industri
ous person in the Rockville
trade area on Friday, Oct. 4, at
the climax of a short seven and
a half weeks’ campaigrt
But “Princess Snow White” is
not the only prize. There will be
a second prize of $750 cash.
There will be third, fourth, fifth
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This “Princes* Snow White” Ford Falcon 4-
door station wagon will go to the t>erson
who obtains the most subscriptions In the
Montgomery County Sentinel "Everybody
Wins” circulation campaign, announced to
day. Seen here are, from left, William (!.
McLaughlin, vie* president and general
lead to teachers being given
more direction and command,”
he said.
Bell feels one of the biggest
achievements of the four-mem
ber majority has been the deci
sion to launch the Amidon Plan
next month in the new North
Kemp Mill Elementary School.
Under the plan, teachers are
carefully directed and basic
subjects reading, writing,
mathematics, spelling, penman
ship, speaking, grammar,
science, United States history
and geography—are emphasized
heavily. Firm classroom con
trol and discipline is to be exer
cised by the teacher and there is
to be at least one hour of home
study by each pupil in prepara
tion for the next day’s lesson.
Bell still hopes that more than
one school possibly four ele
mentaries can be using the
Ambidon Plan this fall and
eventually many more, If not
all. He says he does not con
sider use of the plan's prin
ciples is experimentation be
cause he believes the plan has
“already been proven highly
successful.”
It may not now be possible,
however, to expand the pro
gram to more than one school
this fall, he pointed out.
Amidon teaching, patterned
and sixth place prizes described
completely in a two-page ad in
this issue.
Although the campaign offi
cially opens next Wednesday as
the Mqptgomery County Sen
tinel moves to increase its
already growing circulation
lists, there is nothing to stop
aggressive persons who like to
win a new car from taking new
and renewal orders to the paper
immediately.
Not only is this magnificant
automobile being offered as top
prize but one of the best fea
tures of all is the fact that
Everybody Gets Paid for results
produced as the campaign goes
along. So eager is this news
paper to obtain additional
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manager of Hill A Sanders-Wheaton, Inc,
from whom the car was purchased; J. M.
Sanders, president; Mr. and Mr*. Thorne
Lane, of Liner Circulation Service, contest
managers, and Michael K. McDade, Sentinel
circulation manager.
Sentinel Photo by Ed Mervls
Established 1855
after a system started at the
District’s Amidon School, and
one which has attracted national
attention, is substantially differ
ent from prevailing teaching
methods in the county and it is
not easy to prepare a school
for it, Bell said.
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After Car’s Brakes Failed
Mrs. Alma Mae Stowe, 924 Maple Ave.,
Rockville, grimaces in pain after her car
crashed into Dodson’s Texaco Service Station
on Hungerford Drive last week. She told
Officers Charles Carter, left, and P. Hrap
ehak her brakes failed as she was entering
the service station to have them checked.
Surgeons’ Parley
The Maryland Chapter of the
American College of Surgeons
will hold its annual meeting on
Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Com
mander Hotel in Ocean City.
The program will include a
number of speeches on the sub
jects “Treatment of Acute
Thrombophlebitis and Its Com
plications” and “Pulmonary Em
bolism.”
All teachers will be volun
teers and, hence, more loyal to
the program, Bell pointed out.
On the basis of using volunteers
only, he said, it is more difficult
to staff schools and time is
needed to give the extra teach
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Pedestrians and station attendants In her
path, however, forced her to veer into the
service station building causing about S3OO
damage to her car and an unestimated
amount to the building. Her mother and
three children In the car at the time were
uninjured, Mrs. Stowe was not hospitalized.
Urban Renewal
Model on View
ROCKVILLE—A three-dimensional scale model of
the city’s ambitious urban renewal plan is now on display
in City Hall.
Urban Renewal Director Peter
L. Cheney said the $2550 model
Just to start the ball roll
ing, so to speak, and to add
a little incentive for prompt
action on the part fo those
who intend to participate in
the subscription contest, this
newspaper will award SPE
CIAL prizes consisting of
$25 each to aggressive
"early starts” making the
best showing up to and in
cluding Monday night, Aug.
19.
These special cash prizes
are in addition to the regular
20 per cent commission, a
minimum of $125 in sub
scription collections (both
new and renewal) is neces
sary to qualify for a special
prize, and, after all, this is a
comparatively small amount
and easily obtained.
Then, too, there’s still an
other $25 cash prize on top
of the above offer to be given
for extra effort and substan
tial results during the first
week of the contest —also
easily obtainable as more
fully outlined in the big two
page announcement in this
issue.
It is easily possible, there
fore, for anyone to earn SIOO
in cash, or even more, during
his or her very first week in
the contest, while at the
same same time accumulat
ing a big total of votes to
ward winning one of the
major awards.
ACLU Hits
Dr. Wilson’s
Permit Plan
measuring 53 by 58 Inches will
remain in the lobby of City Hall
for two to three weeks.
After that, he said, It will be
loaned to banks and commercial
establishments for further pub
lic viewing.
The model was made from
plans, maps and photos, furnish
ed by the city, by the firm of
Lester Associates of Thorn
wood, N. Y., which specializes in
such models.
’The same firm will be making
a $650,000 three-dimensional
model of all five New York City
boroughs for next year’s world’s
fair that will include every
building in the city.
Cheney pointed out the Rock
ville model clearly shows the
new traffic plan under the ur
ban renewal plan, how the
underground parking arrange
ment will work, and because it
is three-dimensional the true
relationship between the various
buildings.
He said it Has prepared on a
stale of one inch being the
equivalent of .'>o feet.
A major feature of the plan,
Cheney added, is that it will be
used as a working model for
the urban renewal plan as it de
velop* over the next few years.
Existing buildings on the model
will be Individually replaced
with new buildings when their
exact design becomes known.
Deadline Looms
For Fair Ishih*
Saturday Is the deadline for
placing advertising In the Sen
tinel’s big, annual supple
ment put out In observance of
the colorful county fair.
Fifty thousand copies of the
Hentlnel will be distributed
next week and advertisers
may still take advantage of
this tremendous opportunity,
if they have not already
done so.
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bullet in your heart? Normally,
of course, It’s fatal! You’ll find
story on Page A4 that could
had a happy ending.
Licensing
Of Meetings
Stirs Storm
A proposal to require per
mits before public meetings
could be held in the county
was hit this week as being
illegal and an “intrusion up
on elemental human rights.”
Two civil rights groups
strongly criticized the proposal
of Dr. Thomas M. Wilson, a
County Councilman, on which
a public hearing will be held
at 8 p.m. Aug. 14 In the County
Office Building Auditorium.
“Presumably, this ordinance
is intended to ‘protect’ the
County Council from any spill
over from the ‘March on Wash
ington’ on Aug. 28,” a Joint state
ment released by the National
Capital Civil Liberties Union
and the Montgomery County
Committee on Democratic Prac
tices said.
Rev. Thomas B. Allen, for the
MCCDP and Mrs. Harold L.
Ickes on behalf of the NCCLU,
a branch of the American Civil
Liberties Union, pointed out
that the proposal “would not
School Heads
Seek Ruling
County educators will seek
a ruling from their attorney
on what stand, If any, they
should take at the Aug. 14 on
Dr. Wilson’s controversial pro
posal to license meetings.
The action was taken after
School Supt. C. Taylor Whit
tier said the proposal raises
many questions that need an
swering about meetings held
in school buildings.
Dr. Whittier said a total of
24,906 meetings were held in
school buildings last year by
civic, P-TA, religious, recrea
tion, adult education and other
groups.
apply anywhere within the city
limits of Rockville, the seat of
county government.” And it
added: “Actually, its thrust is
directed against civil rights
demonstrations in the county in
general.
“When one reads the language
thoughtfully it becomes ap
parent that many routine as
semblages must he officially
sanctioned,” they continued.
“Dozens of examples of ac
tivities occur that would be
drastically hampered. Any rec
ognized religious body that
chose to hold its services out
side of its own sanctuary is
forbidden to do so unless li
censed by the County Manager.
Other activities that are often
held on public ground include
public school oriented affairs,
neighborhood Christmas carol
ing, church bake sales, street
games, rice throwing at newly
weds, Hallow’en trick or treat
activity, church picnics and the
like.
“Any of these could be Inter
preted as an ‘assembly cere
mony, show, exhibition, pageant’
(the language of the proposed
ordinance.)
“Moreover,” they declared,
“according to a strict reading of
the ordinance, every single per
son, however low his station in
the group or affair involved,
who ‘shall engage in, participate
in, aid, form, or start . . .’ any
of the forbidden activities must
file his own application.
“Thus, it is conceivable that
the county manager will receive
literally hundreds of applica
tions with regard to every single
event. It Is plain that the ordi
nance is not a matter of concern
only to the leadership of the
county but to every single per
son who is a resident of Mont
gomery County who seeks to
live a normal life here.
“During a calendar year ol
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