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103rd Year • No. 10 ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1959 Established 1855 by Matthew Fields Five Cents a Copy
Psychologists
To Interview
1186 Students
Early Detection
Of Emotional
Problems is Aim
About 1186 children will be
referred to school psycholo
gists for discussion or treat
ment of their personal prob
lems, the county’s chief school
psychologist revealed this
week.
Dr. Cecille Finley, who heads
the system’s staff of 6 psy
chologists, outlined the functions
of her department at a meeting
of the Board of Education Tues
day.
She said one important aim of j
the service is to detect personal
maladjustments as early as pos- \
sible, when treatment and cure!
is quicker and easier.
Dr. Finley said a child's prob
lems generally can be classi
fied into one of the following
four categories:
• Specific disability, such as
motor-visual difficulties.
• Severe maladjustment, creat
ing extreme tension within the
child.
• Emotional disturbance,
which requires therapy or other
psychiatric assistance.
• Retardation, calling for spe
cial classes or special training,
for the teachers working with
the child.
Dr. Finley emphasized that no
psychiatric treatment is admin
istered by her staff. Instead,
where it seems necessary, the aid
of appropriate agencies is enlist
ed, she said.
Classrooms
Planned for
Handicapped
Montgomery County’s first
classrooms designed specifically
for physically handicapped chil
dren received the approval of the;
Board of Education this week.
A special wing for the handi-:
capped youngsters was included I
in preliminary plans for a new)
$366,000 Forest Knolls Elemen- 1
tary School accepted by the Board
Tuesday.
Tile plans contain also a wing
of seven regular elementary
school classrooms.
Construction is expected to get;
under way about May 1 and be ;
completed by about January 1,!
1960 on an eight-acre site near
Four Corners.
The handicapped children’s!
wdng will include four special j
classrooms, occupational and
physical therapy rooms, an ex
amination room, a special dining 1
room and other facilities.
Also included in the plans arc
an all-purpose room, a regular
cafeteria, library, administrative
quarters and conference rooms.
Construction of the special
facilities will mark a "mile
stone" in county school history,
Board Chairman .Mrs. Rose C.
Kramer noted.
The plans were explained to the
Board by Arthur L. Anderson,
designing architect.
Handicapped children now arc!
being taught in regular class- j
rooms designated for their use, j
in Silver Spring Intermediate. I
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B^TI U n^ T T L,
CD Report
Adoption
Is Asked
Sherley Ewing, Maryland
Director of Civil Defense, this
week was charged with “rais
ing a straw man issue” in his
dispute with the County Civil
Defense Advisory Board over
interpretation of Federal civil
defense survival plans.
An evaluation committee of the
advisory board last December is
sued a report to the County Coun
cil calling for abandonment of
evacuation plans. New weapons
and constantly reducing periods
of warning make evacuation ob
solete, the report declared, and a
shelter program should be em
phasized.
Ewing warned that- if the
Council were to adopt the re
port, the county might experi
ence difficulty getting Federal
aid for civil defense because
Federal plans call for evacua
tion, in some cases.
Worthington Thompson, acting
chairman of the advisory board,
Tuesday told the Council, “Your
advisory board . . . finds nothing
in its report which is inconsistent
with the National plan.”
“Time is growing short,” he
continued. “The board feels Mr.
Ewing has raised a straw man is
sue which has sidetracked con
sideration of major recommenda
tions of the report and has de
layed preparation of subsequent
I parts of ‘Survival in the Missile
; Age’ (a committee report).”
The Council directed County
Manager Melvin L. Reese to ask
Ewing to meet with the Council
to tell it whether it would bo
| eligible for Federal aid funds if
it adopts the committee report.
Some of those funds would be
j used to build a display of proto
type bomb shelters in Montgom
' ery County. The display, first of
; its kind in the country, was
strongly recommended by the ad-
I visory board.
But with Ewing in control of
! state CD aid, using Federal funds,
| it would appear unlikely that the
county could get the needed |
money for the display, Reese ad-j
1 vised the Council.
Look at Hooks
Won by Talbott
Circuit Court Judge Kathiyn;
;J. Lawlor yesterday ordered the
j city of Gaithersburg to show tax
records to Roy L. Talbott, Gaith
ersburg resident.
Talbott two weeks ago won a
| suit alleging some present ami
past members of the city council
illegally paid themselves feesj
! from the city treasury.
Jewish Humor
Elihu Platt will speak on the
‘history of Jewish humor at the
; Kensington - Wheaton Iladassah
meeting, liar Tzeon, at 8:30 p.m.
I Monday.
Our Snou Liquor Laws
Sentiment Still Strong
For Tight Whisky Rules |
Last of a Series
By Bolt Bernstein
Staff Ki’iHirtt’r
At least two groups of citizens display a marked lack of!
sympathy for the “little man” who is denied the luxury of 1
sipping a cocktail at a bar or restaurant in Montgomery |
County.
These are the clergy and the
traditional “drys" who, not sur
prisingly clamor for legislation
that would be even more restric
tive.
“I don’t, feel too sorry for
anyone who can't get a drink
here," one minister remarked
recently. “A n d I certainly
wouldn't favor any liberaliza
tion of tile laws. If anything,
the ones we have should Ik;
tightened.”
Like religion and politics, our
liquor laws arouse endless de
bate that rarely sways anyone
from his established views.
At the other end of the spec
• trum from the clergy are the
tavern and restaurant owners,
; who despise the laws as dis
! criminatory, unfair, and say
: some, possibly even unconstitu
tional.
Closer to the attitude of the
! clergy is that of law enforce
-1 ment officers. They insist that
any liberalization would lead to
severe police headaches.
Most observers will concede
that the present laws are “snob
bish,” since they allow liquor to
| be served by the drink only at
! country clubs and three fashion-
J able restaurants.
Most would agree, too, with
tile public officials who private
ly describe the laws as “incon
sistent,” “wacky” and “ridicu
lous.”
The free-for-all arises over the
, question of what, if anything,
1 should be done about it.
County Police Superintendent
James S. McAuliffe leaves no
doubt of his position. Logical or
not, he says flatly, the laws have
given us a “clean” county.
“We're content with the pre
sent statutes,” he stated. "They!
keep out the night clubs and the
, roadhouses that are always the
trouble spots.”
A State police officer echoed j
McAuliffe’s remarks, warning!
that the free flow of liquor in- 1
! variably leads to more assault
teases and drunk driving acci
dents than docs beer and wine!
i drinking.
The forces for liberalization
are numerous. But they also - are
diversified, and as often as not j
fight among themselves over!
what specific changes should be
made.
Tavern owners, for example,
quite naturally object to any
plan (such as that in effect in;
the District) permitting pouring
| licenses for establishments in
! which food sales constitute a
i major share of daily receipts. j
\ ("Confusing” and “unenforce- j
i able,” they maintain.)
Neither taverns nor restaur
ants would like to see fraternal
and veterans’ organizations
given pouring licenses unless.
they get the same privilege.
Chain grocery firms, each of
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Mother, 29,
Hangs Self
In Basement
A 29-year-old Veirs Mill Vil
lage mother of four, who had
j been a mental patient, was found
hanged to death in the basement
of her home Monday, afternoon,
police reported.
County Medical Examiner Dr.
i Frank J. Browharf issued a cer
tificate of suicide in the death of
Mrs. Ann Layshorn Let-master,
! of 12321 Dewey rd.
Mrs. Leemaster was found
| hanging from a bed sheet, loo|>ed,
I over floor bracing, by an upstairs I
tenant, Mrs. A. C. Clayton. Her i
husband is a foreman for a
) Wheaton construction firm.
Model Basin Move
Senator J. Glenn Beall (R-Md.)
this week, announced the Depart
ment of Defense has requested
s3lß,<)<tt) for additional construe-!
tion at David Taylor Model Basin, |
,j Cardcroek.
A Century of Service to Montgomery County 3 SECT,ONS - 24 pages
New Liquor I
Laws Are
Being Urged
By a Staff Reporter
County liquor laws were in
the legislative spotlight this
week as interested forces
jockeyed for the post position
at Annapolis.
Principal development was an
announcement by Delegate Alger
Y. Barbee that he wants to intro
duce legislation which would
permit pouring licenses to be
issued to fraternal and veterans’
groups and to hotels of 100 or
more rooms.
His proposal met with imme
diate resistance from several
civic and governmental loaders
and from restaurant and tavern
owners.
Meanwhile, County Manager
Melvin L. Reese told the County
Council yesterday he hopes to
draft legislation which would
plug a loophole in the present
laws by making bottle clubs il
| legal.
Bottle clubs now are oper
ated by a few veterans and
fraternal groups, and there is
no law specifically banning
them.
The County Licensed Beverage
Association, comprising all
taverns and restaurants now
licensed to serve beer and wine,
,; reportedly was considering draw
ing up its own bill as a counter
move to Barbee’s proposal,
i The Association is opposed to
the granting of any pouring
\ licenses (which permit the serv
! ing of hard liquor by the drink)
unless its members are granted
the same privilege.
Barbee is a member of the;
' Alcoholic Beverages Committee
!of the State Assembly, which j
must pass on all bills dealing ;
with liquor control.
Barbee said he proposed to tie
in his liquor measure with
abolition of the present tax on
business and manufacturing in
; ventories in the county.
Opposition to his proposal was
voiced by Mrs. Stella B. Werner,
President of the County Council,
and by representatives of the
Rockville Ministerial Association.
Under a 1933 provision, the
only pouring licenses In the
i county are at Oiney Inn, Old
Anglers Inn and Normandy
, Farm.
A fourth restaurant, Shady
Grove Country Club, serves
! liquor by the drink under a pro
vision that allows country clubs
to sell drinks to ail comer,s.
Builder Told
Housing Unit
Now ‘Ready’
The builder of the Lincoln |
ter. low-rent public housing proj
ect in Lincoln Park. Rockville,
Tuesday said he received a letter
from the Rockville Housing Au
thority accepting one of the
project’s 10 buildings as “ready
for occupancy.”
The who 1 e project was due
for completion last November.
Sidney Fishman, of the Fishman
Construction Co., Rockville, has
contended that all of the build
ings have is*cn ready for occu
pancy lor more than a month.
Housing Authority inspectors,
however, have refused to accept i
i the buildings on the grounds of |
defects in workmanship. j
1 Couple is Burned
Mrs. Ruth Davis, 50, of Darnes
town, yesterday was admitted to.
| Suburban Hospital with bodyl
burns suffered when her dress
caught fire from a wo<kl stove in
her home. Both site and her bus
j baud, whose hands were burned
,| putting out the flames, were in j
' satisfactory condition.
Silver Spring to Get
$3 Million Hospital
- - -A.-A
t|l
REPORTERS QUIZ Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan, left, Mother
Constantine and Robert T. Snure at Tuesday's press conference at
which,lt was announced that the long-awaited Silver Spring Hos- 1
pital will be built within lwo years with the help of the Sisters
of the Holy Cross, who will staff and administer the hospital.
Staff Photo,
As Car Hits Bridge
Girl Learning to Drive
Hurt , Boy Friend Killed
A 25-year-old Com us man
was killed Sunday when his
expected fiancee, 18, a begin
ning driver, lost control of a
car that crashed into a bridge
near Barnesville. Two other
j occupants were injured seri
ously.
In Suburban Hospital is Nancy
! Wright, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Wright, who injured
her loft knee and was cut on the
right side of her head; Samuel
Baugher, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Baugher, Poolesville, who
broke both legs and his pelvis;
Son ja Kinna, 15, daughter of Mr.
(See Photograph on Page, A-5 ) i
and Mrs. Russell Kinna, of
Comus, who suffered a compound
fracture of the right leg, frac
tured facial bones, and other in
juries. Ail were reported doing
"satisfactorily.”
Killed iii the crash was
I Thomas K. Kinna, 25, brother
i of the injured hoy and owner
ot I lie death car, a year-old
sedan. Kinna died of a frac
tured skull and “multiple ex
treme injuries.”
Mrs. It. L. Wright, injured
girl's mother, said that Kinna,
an auto parts salesman, had been
teaching her daughter to drive
; liis car. "Just the other day he
told rnc she was going to make
i a fine driver. We were going to
l mail her learner's permit back
Monday and register lor a
driver’s test,” she said.
"But now,” she said, “I don't
know if Nancy will ever want to
drive a car again.”
Mrs. Wright believes some
thing went wrong with the car
in Its downhill dash that ended
against a concrete bridge abut
ment on Rt. 109 one-half mile
north of Barnesville.
"There had to Is; something
wrong. Tommy was a very care
ful boy who would never have
let Nancy drive wrong,” she said,
I Police have no explanation of
I the- accident, other than the car
1 was "going at, apparently, a very
i high rah 1 of speed.” Their report
i traced the ear's progress south
j on IU. 109. dow n a long, sweeping
j curve to the driver's left.
The car ran off the east side
! of the road, skidded back across
the road and crashed head-on
, into a bridge abutment. The
impact was so great it pushed
j the engine's radiator back into
j the front seat.
1 1
The accident terminated a day! 1
i that started in church and con- >
tinued through an afternoon of;
dancing at the Kinna home. Mrs.. 1
Wright guessed that her daugh-|<
ter was driving the Baugher boy j t
home when the accident occurred <
at 2:50 p.m. 1
She also said that her daugh- 1
ter and Kinna “were on the 1
verge of announcing their en- 1
gagement.” Her daughter, a
graduate of St. Patrick's Acad- '
omy in Washington, formerly *
worked for the American En-
j cyclopedia.
Police suspended traffic J
, charges until Miss Wright leaves
the hospital. *
Pavilion
Bids are
Rejected
All bids for const ruction of '
a new city pavilion were re- 1
jectod by the Rockville Mayor *
and Council Tuesday. ‘
City heads immediately ap
pointed Councilman Frank Ecker ! j
to head a “re-evaluation” commit-!,
; tee to study the whole* project.
! and re|>ort back in one month. ;
Mayor Alexander Greene re- ,
asserted his faith and that of the;,
Council in the "continuing need” ,
for a pavilion and said the rc- j,
; jeetion of the bids in no way (
: changed iiis desire for a pavilion. ■
Rejection of the eight bids <
lowest was approximately S2O-1, ■ I
(MM) by the Fishman Construction 11
' Co., of Rockville came on a
i motion by Councilman Charles I
Pretlyman who said: i
“We've gone over what we i
| planned (to spend.) If we award
this bid. we will commit our* 1
selves to a bare shell.”
| The pavilion was conceived;
i two years ago and I lie elly !
planned to s|x*nd about SI7S,<MM) |
for it. It was planned for a trai l
in front of the Rockville Civic |
| Center. |
Wins Eagle Scout i
Alan Morse, 11, son of Mr. and i
; Mrs. Malcolm Morse, Chevyi I
Chase, will take iiis otli as an i
i Eagle Boy Scout tomorrow at the, i
I Rockville Methodist Church.
Catholic Order Will Contribute
$1,490,000 to Launch Project
A 150-bod Silver Spring General Hospital, expandable to
300 beds, will be built at Forest Glen rd. and Sligo Creek
pkwy. within two years.
Such a hospital, long a “dream” of Silver Spring in
terests, will be made possible by the decision of a Catholic
order to proceed with a new hospital in Montgomery County.
Announcement of the 83 million hospital was made joint
ly by trustees of the Silver Spring Hospital Association and
Mother Constantine, Provincial of the Eastern Province of the
Planners
Seeking
Tax Hike
A throe-cent tax increase—
a one-cent hike in the plan
ning tax and two cents more
on the park tax—has been
proposed by the Maryland-
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission to sup
port expanded operations.
If approved, the tax boost
would bring the planning, or ad
ministrative, tax of the planning
body to four cents for each SIOO
of assessed valuation. The pres
ent park tax paid by suburban
residents of the county is 10 cents.
A proposal that rural areas of
the comity not included In the
present park taxing area should
pay a five-cent tux for the firs!
lime is still under study by the j
county’s legislative delegation. It
may be enacted at the current
session of tile General Assembly.
Sixty percent or $4.3 mil-;
lion of total proposed budget;
of $7.3 million would be used for
new park land purchases, offi
cials said. Almost all of the pro-i
posed two-cent park tax increase!
would go toward interest and
principal payments on money bor-|
rowed for new parks.
The budget proposes Issuance
of $2.3 million in bonds for park
land purchases. Of this amount,
$1.5 million would be used for
Stream Valley park acquisition
under the Federal Capper-Cram
ton Act. and SBOO,OOO for local
park sites.
Another $350,000 in bonds would;
(Continued on Page 3)
Here’s the Answer:
Why Should Bad Weather
Close All Our Schools?
The superintendent’s office
hits issued a statement design-,
ed to reduce parental con
fusion over school-closing poli
cies in inclement weather.
When parents are uncertain j
as to whether schools are to be
closed, they should keep posted
via their radios, the announce
ment advised.
Radio stations and school ad
ministration offices have been!
deluged with telephone inquiries
on several occasions in recent,
weeks when moderately stormy)
conditions have- prevailed.
Schools were dismissed at mid
day on one occasion and failed
to open at all another day last
month.
Some parents have questioned
tin* policy lx!caH*c in both in
stances roads were passable in;
many parts of the county.
But the oil Inals explained
that whatever derision Is made,
it must apply uniformly to all
areas.
Final decision rests witli .Su|x*r
intendent C. Taylor Whittier,
who acts on the advice of Trans-
I<ortation Director Richard
Ream.
Ream liases his recomincnda-1
lions on first-hand observation
of conditions in various ureas of
the county, and on reports from
such agencies as the police and
road departments.
Because of tire difficulty oi i
Weather Outlook
Cold today followed by tempera
tures warming to about 4 degrees
above the normal highs and lows
for this time of 45 and 28. Pleas
ant weekend expected with per
haps a trace of rain on Sunday.
Sisters of the Holy Cross.
The association's contribution
will be the 10.2 acre site, ideally
suited for an easy-access hospi
tal, and approximately SIIO,OOO
in cash. Of the cash amount,
$102,500 Is expected soon from
the Maryland State Roads Com
mission representing payment
for 14.7 acres recently purchased
; from the association. Originally,
: the site was 23 acres.
Sisters of the Holy Cross will
contribute $1,490,000. Mother
Constantine said, while an addl
' lional $650,000 can be expected
' from the Federal Government in
i Hill-Burton funds.
A community I'uiid drive
I sparked by the hospital asso
ciation will seek $750,000.
The general hospital is the 11 th
to be operated by the Sisters of
the Holy Cross throughout the
Nation. Others are in Ohio, In
; diana, Illinois, Utah, Idaho and
I California.
j The Holy Cross Sisters had
i formulated plans last year to
, erect a 200-bed hospital on their
t own property but these have been
i deferred.
I President Stephen J. Ryan, of
j the association, and trustees An
j drew J. Kesringer and Robert T.
j Snure negotiated the present
! arrangements witli Auxiliary
! Biship Philip Hannan, of the
Washington Archdiocese, and the
, Sisters of the Holy Cross. They
began last December 13 and were
successfully concluded Feb
' ruary 7.
The association w.ls founded
in 1944 but two fund drives and
other attempts to build a hos
pital failed. The site was pur
chased principally with S4O,(MM)
given the association by-the
county government. s'
Key Club ..Plans
The Montgomery Blair High
School Key Club will participate
; In the Capital District of Key
I Clubs convention March 6-8 in
! Baltimore.
halting the complex machinery
necessary to open schools, any
decision to keep schools closed
must be made by 7 am. Under
such circumstances, all radio
stations are notified immediately.
if crucial roads are too muddy
or icy in any part of the county
at that time, Ream explained,
schools must lx* kept closed in
all parts of tin* county.
11c* said this “all or nothing 1 ’
policy is made necessary by two
factors: tin* extreme difficulty
that would lx- involved in inform
ing some SIMM) employes which
schools arc iix - n and which are
nof; and the fact that teachers,
administrators and custodians
do not necessarily live in the area
in which they teach.
If the closing policy were nut
uniform, for example, some
schools might open only to find
the building unheated or inade
quately staffed, officials said.
The for ma 1 announcement
said:
“Although it is understand
able that parents want to know
when their children will In:
coming home, they sometimes
make It Impossible by tying up
tile phones for the schools to
lie notified tlicit they are to
close,
“Our advice to those seeking
information dm mg a stoitn is.
don't phone but listen to your
radio.”