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.SENTINEL COUNTY? M MtV
—Thursday, January 7, 1960
A2
State Ups
Pay for
Sick Poor
Montgomery County, which
with the State helps to pay
hospital bills for Indigent pa
tients, will pay less in the near
future, it was announced this
week by County Health Offi
cer William J. Peeples.
The State Health Department,
” Dr. Peeples said, is ready to
take over 80 per cent of indi
gent bills, while the Counties
will pay the remaining 20 per
cent. Until now, the split was
60-40.
County Attorney Alfred H.
Carter explained that the Gen
• eral Assembly last year passed
the 80-20 pay bill, but with the
proviso that all participating
hospitals in the State be sub
ject to standard fiscal audits
of their books.
The plan could have gone into
effect last duly 1, Carter said,
except that wholesale accep
tance of the standardized audit
took time.
Montgomery County General
Hospital, Suburban Hospital,
and Washington Sanitarium and
Hospital each offer Indigent
■ care to County patients, with a
. $26-a-day, county-imposed ceil
• ing.
If one of the three hospitals
last year had an average cost
per-patient day of $25, the State
I paid $14.10 and the County
paid $10.60. The new ratio,
however, would have the State
shouldering S2O of the load
while the County picked up the
, remaining $5.
Dr. Peeples said that the new
! rates will effect a saving of be
tween $7500 and SIO,OOO a year
■ for the county at Montgomery
• General alone. He added that
Montgomery General and Sub
urban Hospitals treat from 3000
to 4000 Indigent patients a year.
Washington Sanitarium, he said,
handles relatively few inas
much as their rates are highest
in the County,
Reluctance to bare their
books to County Council scru
tiny last year held up contract
relationships with Suburban
Hospital and State-County indi
gent payments. The Issue was
; finally settled months after the
Council started negotiating for
contract renewal, however.
Issue at point was the method
I by which Suburban billed the
County: by actual patient cost,
or by average patient-day cost.
AS It turned out, payments were
worked out on average costs.
Montgomery County General,
however, had arrangements
with the County whereby the
County would pay actual costs
or average per diem rates,
whichever were the least. As
it worked out, per diem rates
often were less since the hospi
i tal unlike Suburban and
I others—charges varying rates
I for rooms, etc.
Montgomery General, there
fore, lost a “couple of thousand
dollars a year,” Dr. Peeples
said. "It has been a stone in
their craw,” he added.
Women Sponsor
Antique Show
Bill Malone, radio and TV per
sonality, will open the 11th An
nual Antique Show sponsored
by the Woman’s Club of Be
thesda starting January 26 at
the clubhouse, Old Georgetown
Id., Bethesda.
The show will last through
January 29 and will be open
daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.,
except Friday when it will close
at 6 p.m. Admission will be 75
, cents and all proceeds will be
used for the dub’s educational
projects.
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by the outgoing manager. Larry Isaacs, right. Isaacs, who
has managed the Rockville store for over two years, is mow
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Man Files
For House
One of seven Republican leg
islators who successfully with
stood the Democratic surge in
Maryland in the last election
has filed for the Sixth District
congressional seat presently
held by Democrat John R. Foiey.
Charles McC. Mathias, jr.,
only Republican representative
of Frederick County in the
House of Delegates, said in
Annapolis that he had filed
"with a deep recognition of the
serious job to be done.”
A 37-year-old native of Fred
erick where he has practiced
law for the past 10 years, Ma
thias has previously served as
assistant attorney general of
Maryland and as city attorney.
He cited the need for a new
standard of representation, add
ing that “an enlightened and
balanced view will be necessary
on economic, social and moral
issues."
“It is this new challenge and
larger responsibility for repre
senting the District that have
been factors in my decision to
run for Congress. During the
campaign I intend to engage in
forthright discussions of spe
cific issues.”
Foley upset former Rep. De-
Witt S. Hyde in the last Con
gressional race and has already
indicated he will be a candi
date to succeed himself.
11
1959 Tax Forms
Mailed by Stale
There was something ex
tra In each of the 1959 state
Income tax forms sent to
Maryland residents, State
Comptroller Ms L. Gold
stein reported.
The something extra was
a fiscal report to better ac
quaint taxpayers with fi
nancial affairs of the state.
The report shows where the
state’s money comes from,
where It goes, and the
state’s bonded Indebtedness.
The report also lists the
addresses of various branch
offices of the Comptroller,
as well as the names of the
administrative officers and
division heads of the office.
This Information, Gold
stein noted, “is an aid to
residents who find it neces
sary to visit the office from
time to time.”
“The fiscal report should
be studied,” Goldstein con
tinued, “so that our ciUsens
may become fully aware of
the numerous services ren
dered by their SUte and
just what such services are
costing.”
Recently Adopted
Appointment Policy
Of Council Is Told
The County Council’s "pol
icy on appointments,” eye of
the storm that howled when
political screening of two
candidates for the County
Personnel Board occurred, is a
little-publicised document re
leased by the Council back in
October last year.
It has only six main points:
• Impending vacancies will
be announced about six weeks
before they occu, and groups
or individuals are invited to sub
mit nominees.
• Nominees’ names should be
in the Council’s hands two
weeks before the job they seek
becomes vacant.
• Names submitted to and by
the Council will be sent to the
Democratic or Republican State
Central Committees. Names sent
back by the latter two bodies
will be considered to be “polit
ically acceptable.”
• The Council will reserve the
right to make a choice of per
sons to be appointed* all names
must first go to the Council be
fore winding up with the State
Central Committees.
• Two persons will be con
sidered for vacancies, when pos
sible.
• None of the above need ap
ply to committees, the function
of which may require persons
or representatives of groups,
with special or particular
knowledge.
The Council flared up when
the Democratic State Central
Committee—to the Council’s
way of thinking—ignored point
number four: “The Council will
reserve the right to make a
choice of persons to be ap
pointed,” etc.
In stating that only two of
six persons forwarded to them
were “politically acceptable,”
the SCC quite bluntly made
their own choice. Ward W. Cad
dington, SCC head, explained
that his committee knew the two
recommended and never heard
of the others.
In a later, "clarifying” letter
from the Council to the SCC, the
Council said, “It occurred to the
Council that perhaps some of the
candidates are not known to the
members of the State Central
New Hospital from P.l
Religious Issue Is
patients according to creed,”
Archer continued.
Archer told the Sentinel that
“it was fine If the Roman Cath
olic Church built a hospital, or
for that matter, any other de
nomination. But when the hos
pital Is a mission of the church
for conversion, and not truly a
public hospital, then public
funds should not be used.”
He claimed that plaintiffs
only wanted to see that the hos
pital paid a fair price for the
land. "We aren’t out to halt the
hospital.”
“We are backing similar suits
in Louisiana and Kentucky, but
this Maryland suit is our
strongest suit because it is pro
posed to turn over public prop
erty unconditionally to the Sis
ters of the Holy Cross without
any real public control over the
proposed hospital.”
The POAU, he explained, does
not itself sue, but backs suits
when invited to do so by local
residents. In this instance a
local attorney has been re
tained by the plaintiffs, and
the legal staff and research of
the POAU has been placed at
the group’s disposal.
Archer cited examples of doc
tors who were discharged from
Catholic hospitals in Albany
and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and
Springfield, Mass., for failing to
observe denominational restric
tions.
The Catholic Hospital Asso
ciation directives, according to
the suit, “forbids the giving of
advice about or the use of cer
tain medically-recognized birth
control practices.’’ These re
strictions, Archer charged, are
not contained in the code of the
American Medical Association.
The complaint charges:
“The said directives are, by
their own statement binding
upon all persons associated
with a Roman Catholic hospital,
and, indirectly, upon the pa
tients therein, and require that
the administrators of a hos
pital maintain strict adherence
on the part of all physicians and
attendants to the aforesaid di
rectives, thereby causing the
medical care of patients to be
inextricably dependent upon the
dogma and formulas of the
Roman Catholic CSiurch ....
"The imposition of such a
sectarian medical code as set
out in and by the aforesaid
directives, upon all patients,
doctors and nurses connected
with the hospital which Is part
ly supported by public funds
is nonconstitutional prefer
ence for the adherents of a
single faith and an unconstitu
tional discrimination against
the adherents of all other faiths,
In direct violation of the First
Committee and, if that is the
case, the Council would appre
ciate in the future an indication
of that fact from the Commit
tee.”
Cad dington had not received a
copy of this letter when he was
questioned on Ita contents by a
reporter. In reply to an offer to
read the letter over the phone,
Caddington said, “I’m not going
to make any comment on It,
even If you read It.”
Caddington reportedly said
that when his committee made
its two recommendations to the
Council, he understood it to be
of political significance and that
he was a “politician.”
On this point, the Council
wrote that in connection with the
Personnel Board—it administers
a merit, rather than patronage
system—the Central Clmmittee
should also confine its recom
mendations to “whether or not
the prospective appointees would
assist the Democratic Party in
maintaining the merit sys
tem ...”
Two Named
To County
Welfare Unit
The Rev. Merrill W. Drennan,
pastor of the Milllan Memorial
Methodist Church, Wheaton,
and Mrs. Gerald D. Morgan, of
Query Mill rd., Travilah, were
appointed to the six-member
Montgomery County Welfare
Board Tuesday by the County
Council.
Rev. Drennan will fill out
the unexpired term of Rev.
John F. McClelland, former
pastor of Christ Congregational
Church, Silver Spring, who re
signed from the Board last
month to accept a charge in
Billings, Mont.
Mrs. Morgan, the wife of a
top legal aide to President
Eisenhower, will fill out the un
expired term of Mrs. Thomas
C. Kelley, Poolesville, who re
signed last fall because of in
creased home responsibilities.
Both terms will last until May
31, 1964.
Factor in Suit
and Fourteenth Amendments to
the Constitution of the United
States as well as the Constitu
tion of the State of Maryland.”
Archer noted that th ques
tion of using public money for
support of a medical institution
operating under a sectarian
medical code has never been
raised before the Supreme
Court. A case in 1899 under
which hospitals have been re
ceiving public funds did not
raise the question of discrimi
nation against non-CathoJic
physicians and patients in ire
sped to birth control or other
controversial practices.
The suit names as defendants
all members of the Montgom
ery County Council, the Silver
Spring Hospital Association,
Inc., and the Holy Cross Hos
pital of Silver Spring, Inc. Both
a temporary and permanent in
junction restraining the Silver
Spring Hospital Association
from conveying the site to the
Sisters of the Holy Cross was
asked.
It also asks for the cancel
lation of the deed from Mont
gomery County to the Silver
Spring Hospital Association on
the grounds that the county
had no power under state law
to make such an unconditional
transfer.
The plaintiffs in the case,
besides Archer, who lives at
9507 Monroe st., Silver Spring,
are J. E. Bloylock, 306 Stoning
ton rd; Stanley M. Levy, of
9706 Dameron dr., and Charles
H. Myers, 3312 Floral at, all of
Silver Spring, and Roger E.
Needham, 3206 University blvd.,
West Kensington.
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Asked Near Brookeville
A 40-acre estate near Brooke
ville proposed for rehabilitating
chronic and acute alcoholic men
and women was to be the sub
ject of a public hearing today
before the Board of Appeals.
Drs. Earl H. Mitchell and W.
F. Cresswell, with offices at
2029 Q st., N.W., Washington,
D. C, were to announce plans
to conduct a convalescent home
for alcoholics at the former
home of J. M. Sanders.
Dr. Cresswell said, that up to
but no more than 20 patients
would be accepted for treatment
at any one time. The two phy
sicians must first get a special
exception to operate the con
valescent home on residentially
zoned land.
The Sanders estate—he is a
partner in the Hill a—* Sanders
auto agency in Wheaton—fronts
on the Mt Zion-Brookeville rd.
The main house has six bed
rooms to which others will be
added as the need arises, Dr.
Cresswell said.
The Korzendorfer Realty com
pany, Bethesda, has a purchase
contract on record that indicates
final price of the acreage and
buildings may be $78,575 with a
first trust to be paid up in 12
years.
Drs. Cresswell and Mitchell
are the principal officers of a
corporation owning the tract,
known as Melwood Farms, Inc.
Settlement of the sale ‘ls im
minent," Dr. Cresswell said.
The physician added that he
and Dr. Mitchell had an infor
mal get-together with surround
ing neighbors not long ago, and
so far as could be determined,
there was no objection to the
institution.
The treatment home abuts or
fronts properties owned by
Percy G. Ligon, Douglass Riggs,
James I. and S. Monk, L. P., M.
W. C. Moulden
Dies at 82;
Was a Native
William C. Moulden, a life
long resident of Montgomery
County died December 29 at his
home on Washington st, Ken
sington.
Born in Rockville in August
1877, Mr. Moulden married
Mary Avondale Beale in 1908
and brought her as a bride to
the house he had built on Wash
ington st., where they lived
until their deaths. Mrs. Moul
den died a little more than two
years ago.
Except for eight years during
the term of President Woodrow
Wilson, when Mr. Moulden was
a clerk in the U. S. Post Office,
he worked in the meat and
grocery business in the area.
He was a member of the Bap
tist Church.
He was one of four children,
with only one brother surviving.
He Is also survived by three
daughters: Mrs. Eleanor Cer
venka of Washington st, Mrs.
Clifford Thompson of Forest
Glen and Mrs. Herbert Nooten
boom of Highland, Maryland.
Funeral services were held
Saturday at the Warner Pum
phrey funeral home with the
Rev. William Miller of the Bap
tist Church and Rev. William
Harris of the Warner Memorial
Presbyterian Church in charge
of the service.
Ednor Civic Group
To Hear Conway
John Conway, planning en
gineer for the Maryland-Na
tional Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission, will discuss
land planning in the Ednor,
Ashton, Sandy Spring area at
a special meeting of the Ednor
Civic Association to be held
Wednesday starting at 8 p.m.
in the Sandy Spring Library.
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Patients suffering from first
acute symptoms of alcoholism
would not be brought to Mel
wood Farms, Dr Cresswell ex
plained. Rather, he said that
patients referred to his offices
from other institutions which
already had administered early
treatment, would be accepted
for convalescent treatment
Dr. Cresswell said that while
he and his partner are internal
medicine specialists with co-spe
cialty experience with alcohol
ism, psychologists and psychi
atrists will be available for con
sultation with their patients.
Patients would be accepted
for a minimum of two weeks, he
said.
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Many Seeking
Zoning Okays
themselves of an 18-month wait
ing period during which they
said they would file for 1-3 zon
ing.
The Council, however, denied
permission to withdraw, denied
heavy industry, and initiated
the 1-3 zoning itself—to make
sure the land would be used for
light industry.
Other major zoning applica
tions filed last week included.
• 114 acres North of Brick
yard rd., one-half mile East of
Falls rd., from two-acre to one
acre residential: Torpet Con
struction Co.
• 34.2 acres fronting on
Fields rd., North of Shady
Grove rd., from Rural-Residen
tial to R-10 apartment: Fields
Road Corporation.
• 8.5 acres at New Hampshire
ave., Pisgah and Avenel rds.,
Hillandale, from R-90 to 1-1:
Coca Cola Bottling Co., Inc.
• 45 acres of Fair Hill Farm,
Olney, from Rural-Agricultural
to Rural-Residential, East side
of Georgia ave.: Edwin G. Will
son.
• 14.2 acres at Ray dr., Mon
roe st. and Seven Locks rd.,
Rockville, from Rural-Residen
tial to 1-1: Monroe, Inc.
• 2.3 acres, Southeast quad-'
rant of Shady Grove and Fields
rds., from Rural-Residential to
Commercial-1: Thomas R. Rick
etts.
• 9.9 acres at Quince Or
chard, from Rural-Residential
to Commercial-1: Raymond T.
Johnson.
• Almost 25,000 square feet
at the Washington Industrial
Park, Shady Grove rd., from
Rural-Residential to 1-1: John
E. McKeever.
• Same location, 2.1 acres to
same classification: Mary Page
Hopkins.
•12 acres, Kings Valley
Farms, facing Bethesda Church
rd., Damascus, from Rural-Resi
dential to R-30 apartment zone:
John W. Neumann, David Krup
saw, Victor Ochsman.
• 80.5 acres on the Norbeck
to Norwood rd., from Rural-
Agricultural to Residential-
Estate (one acre): Springbrook
Construction Corp
• 9.2 acres fronting on both
Georgia ave. and the Norbeck-
Rockville rd., surrounding the
old Stonestreet store, from
Rural • Residential to Commer
cial-1.
Cases will be heard three
nights a week from January
14 to March 10, whereupon the
Council will begin budget hear
ings through April 15. Zoning
hearings will resume April 18
and continue through June 16.
Justice Douglas to Talk
Justice William O. Douglas,
of the United States Supreme
Court, will address the Mont
gomery County Council for So
cial Studies on communism in
Asia on January 14 at 8:30 p.m.
in Leland Junior High.
After Furor from P.l
Council Fills
Two Vacancies
original motion for Sandison
was revived and he, like Mrs.
Angle, was appointed unani
mously.
The appointments capped a
controversial two weeks during
which the Council found itself
defending its appointment poli
cies and disclaiming that the ap
pointments were meant to be
political in nature.
With Mrs. Williams’ resigna
tion in hand and faced with the
expiration of Sandison’s term
December 31, the Council let it
be known that candidates for
the jobs were wanted.
When the Council had the
names of three women boosted
by the League of Women Voters
of Montgomery County and
names of three others—includ
ing Sandison’s—they said they
were ready to move.
The names were sent to the
Democratic State Central Com
mittee for what the Council
termed, “political acceptability,”
over the warning by County
Manager Melvin L. Reese that
such referral was not in line
with the County’s anti-patron
age merit employment system.
Despite the Council’s directive
that tile SCC not show prefer
ence among the six candidates,
back came just two names: Mrs.
Ruth Schiff and Earl A. Nash.
These were the only two of the
six the Central Committee
knew, according to Committee
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Ruffled that their instructions
were not fulfilled, the Council
two weeks ago wrote a letter to
the Central Committee, clarify
ing its policy in all future ap
pointments to Boards, Commit
tees and Commissions.
Meanwhile, it was revealed
this week by Chairman Ward
W. Caddington, of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee,
that appointments to the coun
ty personnel board have been
routinely cleared through the
DSCC in the past
Commenting on the furor
caused by the Council’s seeking
political clearance, Caddington
observed: ‘That’s nothing new;
we’ve been doing it for years.”
Critics of the move argued
that political evaluation of nom
inees should play no part in
their selection as personnel
board members inasmuch as
members are charged with
maintaining rigid nonpartisan
ship in operation of the county
merit system.
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