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108th Year • No. 4 Published Every Thursday ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND THURSDAY, JULY 28,1982 GArden 4-7700 TWO SECTIONS * C °PV
Spectrum
The Observer
Big Democratic question: Is
Don Claggett’s resignation as
precinct chariman a harbinger
of things to come to the party
as a result of the State Central
Committee’s by-passing influen
tial Democrats in other factions
when it made appointments to
the party's House of Delegates
slate?
Claggett ran in the primary
on the Mahoney-Lee ticket
and missed nomination by 21
votes. As precinct chairman
and vice chairman for ten
years in the Glenmont-Whea
ton area, he is a party wheel
horse of no small proportions.
When the State Central Com
mittee sideswiped him, he
made no bones about his feel
ing on the matter. In short,
he lost no time saying he
should have been given “prime
considerationthat he doesn’t
think he can work with the
present State Central Com
mittee. Cpshot was he
turned In his precinct chair
man resignation.
Claggett's action is first pub
lic testimony that the bitter,
three-way primary split among
the Democrats is carrying over
into the general election. It is
seen by some as forerunner of
others to develop as the liberal
element in control of the State
Central Committee attempts to
turn its hold on party reins into
a showdown fight with middle
of-the-roaders and conservatives
in the party.
Still others see committee ac
tion as manifestation of “pure
female spite” which would rath
er grind, a personal axe for per
sonal grudges than look to the
more objective matter of strong
vote-getters for the party.
These same strategists say
the female-dominated seven -
member committee has fallen
into “the hands of the smart
girls” and that a
tish petticoat brigade lacks the
kind of political sagacity needed
to pull a party together for a
general election.
The political forecasters of a
big blow in the Democratic
party see the deft and adroit
hand of State Sen. Margaret
Schweinhaut in State Central
Committee appointments and
say general Democratic indig
nation will best be seen in No
vember by the size of the vote
cast for GOP State Senate can
didate Gilbert Gude.
One upper county business
man, long active in party af
fairs, currently is taking the
Schweinhaut influence in the
appointments so much to
heart, he is giving discreet
voice (at this time) to a pro
posed Democrats for Gude or
ganization.
Louis B. Butted, Democratic
voter of Silver Spring, voices
other democratic opinion by
saying “The committee should
take notice that many Mont
gomery County Democrats, in
cluding myself and all those I
am able to Influence, will show
their opinion of the Commit
tee's defiance of popular opin
ion by refusing to support its
selections in the November
election.”
Blair Lee, by-tsissed by the
committee, has sounded a warn
ing note in the direction of Com
mittee chairman Anne Brown
by saying of the November
election, “lVp Mrs. Brown’s ball
game.”
Republicans interested In
electing Republicans to office in
November are hoping no special
signifigance will be attached to
the early return of Brent Bozell
to Montgomery County. Bozell.
red-headed right-winger with a
red-headed wife and several red
headed youngsters, ran for
House of Delegates four years
ago, chiefly heating the tom
toms for right-to-work legisla
tion. The less conservative
members of the GOP were none
too happy with his candidacy at
that time. Now Bozell is about
to return home from Spain,
hell - bent -for - hartford, with
an explosive manuscript in hand
which will be published in book
form. The title Is reported to be
“Why Earl Warren should be
Impeached."
Bozell is author of a previ
ous book entitled “The War
ren Court: A Dissenting
Opinion.” He also c o-authored
“McCarthy and His Enemies.”
He Is former president of the
Montgomery County Conserv
. ative Club and was co-chair-
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Rockville
Boy on Bike
Hit By Car
A 7-year-old Rockville boy’s
leg was broken in two places
last Saturday when he was
struck by an automobile while
riding a bicycle near his home,
according to Montgomery Coun
i ty police.
Larry Evans, of 1114 Agnew
dr., was admitted to Suburban
Hospital after being struck by
an auto operated by Robert K.
Schaefer on Edmonston dr. near
Wade ave. Police said the boy
rode into the path of the car
after peddling from in front of
a parked ice cream truck.
The lad was taken to the hos-
I pital by the Rockville Volunteer
Fire Department rescue squad.
; Police said no charges were
! placed against Schaefer.
College
Plan Told
By Frosh
Over 300 acres of vacant
land in the North Bethesda
area should be reserved for
a new internationally-ori
ented university to be named
for the late United Nations
Secretary-General Dag Ham
merskold, the County Coun
cil was told this week.
Sponsor of the proposal,
which would involve some land
in the Cabin John watershed
area and all of the Corby tract
recently discarded by planners
for development of a county
cultural center, transit terminal
and federal government use, is
i Councilman Stanley B. Frosh.
Estimates are that by the
time the post-World War II
bumper crop of babies is ready
for college “there will probably
not be enough berths in all the
Maryland universities to accom
modate the Montgomery' County
high school graduates worthy of
college educations,” Frosh said.
“The time is nigh, if not al
ready past, when the state
and county should have a
close look at what we’re do
ing in the field of university
training and university plan
ning.”
The Park and Planning Com
mission has agreed to give the
county “some land” for cultural
purposes, he pointed out al
though the master plan allows
for residential development of
this area. Frosh suggested the
Council ask the commission to
“reconsider and reserve this
for a fine university.”
Financing of the university,
Frosh said, could come from
other sources in addition to state
and county funds. He cited fed
eral funds which might be
available under the Juvenile De
linquency Act to promote train
ing of enforcement officers, and
the possibility of funds from
the national and foreign govern
ments for training foreign stu
dents in agriculture and gov
ernment.
“With a university named
after Dag Hamnierskold ori
ented toward foreign studies
and training,” he said, “other
nations might be interested in
endowing a chair or course of
study.”
In addition, he said, Montgo
mery County is becoming "Sci
ence Center, U.5.A.,” and the
area north of Bethesda is the
beginning of "Science Alley,
U.S.A.”
The county’s burgeoning re
search and development com
plex would welcome a nearby
university from which to draw
new talent, he added.
He urged the centralized loca
tion for both the university and
the art and cultural center
which some planners feH should
be situated closer to the District
Line when they removed it
from the final master plan for
the North Bethesda-G arr ell
Park area.
Carlton Sickles Feted
At Testimonial Dinner
Carlton R. Sickles, Demo
cratic candidate for Maryland’s
Congressman-at-large, was feted
at a testimonial reception at the
National Democratic Club in
the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel in
Washington Monday night.
Sickles will oppose Republi
can candidate Newton I. Steers
m the general election Novem
ber 6.
In Rape Case
Group Seeks to Aid
2 Sentenced to Die
Formation of a citizens
group to aid in the further
legal defense of two Spen
cerville (Md.) Negro broth
ers sentenced to die in the
rape of a 16-year-old white
girl last July 13 was an
nounced this week.
The Maryland Court of Ap
peals last Wednesday unani
mously upheld the imposition
of death sentences against John
Giles, 22, and James Giles, 20,
in Montgomery County Circuit
Court last Dec. 11 by Judge
James H. Pugh.
Chairman of the group form
ed at a meeting of about 50 per
sons at Colesville Methodist
| Church Thursday is Mrs. How
jard F .Ross, 319 Quaint Acres
! Drive, Silver Spring, who for
merly employed the boys’
i mother, Mary, as a domestic.
The boys’ father, John, is a
j church and bank janitor. Both
| parents worked at Marvin
Memorial Church for 13 years.
“The enormity of tile death
sentence under the circum
stances of this case is what
has shocked people into act
ion,” Mrs. Boss declared this
week. “Unfortunately,” she
added, “the whole story of
tills case cannot be given in
one newspaper item. It was
not revealed to the jury.
“Considering the seriousness
of the offense the trial was so
short as almost to merit the
(See Editorial on Page A4)
term ’perfunctory,’ ” she con
tinued. “In two statements to
authorities before the trial the
girl indicated that one of the
accused had not even bothered
her. There was no threat or
violence of any kind on the part
of the boys toward the girl.
There are other facets to the
case which make us feel that we
must do everything possible to
save the lives of these two
young men.”
Both the American Civil Lib
erties Union and the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People partici
pated in arguments before the
Maryland Court of Appeals.
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ALL SET FOR THE HULA —Apparently so thrilled that his
toes are curling Bradd Mlzell puts a Hawaiian lei on pretty
model Amy Holt ss the two prepare for their roles in tlie
Hawaiian fashion show to be presented by tlie Katherine
.Mlzell Modeling Moppets as a feature of the Montgomery
County Supper and Bazaar to be held July 31 at Sherwood
High School in Sandy Spring. Formed this summer to pro
mote civie. social and philanthropic activities in Montgomery
County, the Moppetts are composed of former niemliers of
the Keye Hearts, who raised some SIOO for the Montgomery
County Heart Fund in benefit performance* staged during
the past two yean. (See Story on Page A7)
Both have indicated they will
appeal the ruling of the state’s
highest court to the United
States Supreme Court.
Basis of their appeal, ac
cording; to Hal Witt, attorney
for tlie Giles brothers who
are now in tile “Deafli Row”
of the Maryland Penitentiary,
Baltimore, will he a legal at
tack on the Maryland constit
utional requirement Ilia!
juries must be the judge of
the law as well as the fact.
There were no Negroes on
the panel of prospective jurors
from which the 12 jurors were
to be chosen, the committee also
has pointed out.
In addition, the committee
states, the court did not allow
the court-appointed attorney,
Stedman Prescott, Jr. to de
velop a line of questioning
aimed at bringing out evi
dence as to the girl’s charac
ter.
One of the boys, John, denied
to police and during his trial
that he had relations with the
girl. His brother, James, and
another youth, Joseph R. John
son, Jr., 21, also of Spencerville,
claimed the girl consented.
Johnson's trial is pending after
transfer to Anne Arundel Coun
ty Circuit Court.
All three youths, according to
committee spokesmen who have
been studying the case, say the
trio has asked for lie detector
or truth serum tests but to no
j avail.
Petitions asking Gov. J. Mil
lard Tawes to commute or
change tlie death sentence are
being distributed to commit
tee members and a drive for
signatures is being organized.
Tlie petition states the com
mittee’s belief that the sent
ence imposed by Judge Pugh
was “excessive and harsh in
the circumstances of tlie
case.”
Group members also hope to
raise funds to pay legal fees and
court costs.
Other officers of the new
group are Lewis I. Maddocks,
vice chairman; Mrs. R. J. Glea
son, secretary, and Mrs. James
Roberts, treasurer.
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THROUGH tills unit al the old Burnt Mills Water Filtration
Plant on Colesville rd., near Four Corners, waier poured for
distribution to much of tlie suburban area. But tlie plant is
no longer needed for wuter purposes and tlie buildings are
being converted for use as Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission office space. When tlie conversion is completed,
rented space on Pershing dr.. Silver Spring, will be vacated.
The move is exjiected to lake place this fall.
NAACP Joins CORE
In Rights Unit Criticism
The Montgomery County chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People will
throw its weight behind the Congress of Racial Equality
and other critics of the conduct of the county’s first public
hearing of a discrimination complaint.
Mrs. Adolph Williams, presi
dent of the county’s NAACP
chapter, made the disclosure at
a meeting of the county’s new
Human Relations Commission
which was marked by protests
from other integrationists about
the manner in which witnesses
were ruestioned by both the
county's attorney and 'counsel
for the restaurant owner
charged with illegal discrimina
tion against Negroes.
She told Commission mem
bers the NAACP had been
reluctant to express Its “dis
tress over the conduct of tlie
meeting” publicly liecause It
preferred to discuss specific
criticisms personally with
them.
Acting Commission chainnan
Mrs. Robert W. King of Bethes
da said her group would be
glad to have oral complaints
Polio Vaccine Feedings
Start Here in October
County residents of all ages
from three months up will be
encouraged to undertake a new
series of oral immunizations
against polio this fall, during a
concentrated Health Depart
ment drive to wipe out the crip
pling disease.
Local health officials and
physicians plan to cooperate in
a statewide mass oral polio vac
cination campaign which has a
kickoff date for the first week
of October.
Present plans of the county
health department cal! for estab
lishing a number of centers
throughout the county to which
children and adults will be
urged to come on a given day
for the first of three "feedings"
of the oral vaccine.
Three separate doses of tlie
new live virus Sabin vaccine
must be administered at inter
vals of about six weeks, to
protect individuals against the
three known strains of polio.
Area residents receiving their
first fepdings in October will be
required to return at the speci
fied intervals in November and
January for their second and
third doses.
While the mass immunization
clinics will be conducted for a
single day at the six-week Inter
vals, area physicians have
agreed to make the new vaccine
available to patients in office
visits for about a week sur
rounding the time of the clinics.
The County Health Depart
ment will make the vaccine
available at no charge, but plans
to encourage donations of 25
cents per dose from recipients,
a spokesman said.
Metropolitan areas surround
ing Washington and Baltimore
are participating in the drive
initiated by the Maryland Slate
Department of Health.
Health officials seek the "co
operation and active participa
tion of professional and volun
presented In a joint meeting
with NAACP representatives.
“We have the greatest con
fidence in the Human Relations
1 Commission,” Mrs. WiLii am s
said later. "It’s unfair to judge
‘ it on the basis of its initial hear
' ing, hut we would like to dis
_ cuss with them the manner in
which we feel future hearings
might be conducted.”
Subject of the complaint is
the Commission's marathon July
11 hearing on the complaint of
seven Negroes that they were
refused service at Crivella’s
Wayside Restaurant in Silver
Spring.
The county's new anti-dis
crimination ordinance makes it
illegal tor all public accommo
dations but bars and taverns to
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tary groups, clubs, labor, indus
try, church and civic organiza
tions and interested individuals
in each community” in promot
ing widespread turnout at the
special clinics.
“The ease of administration
by mouth and' the efficacy of
the attenuated live virus Sabin
preparation make it tlie instru
ment of greatest promise to
bring the incidence of paralytic
polio already at its lowest
point on record due lo the wide
usage of Salk vaccine to the
On the Inside Pages ...
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schools, people, events, local government developments
and a wide variety of subjects are there in abundance.
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Montgomery County’s leading newspaper every week.
• General News—Be sure to read Sentinel
Rejxater Elly Bradley’s interpretive piece on rec
ommendations on the school system in the highly
touted Public Administration Seivice report. Turn
to Page A3.
• Sports—The big local sports story this
week was the 11-1 upset victory by St. Mary's
over Optimists Midgets which hi-oke the Midgets’
11-game winning streak. It’s on page 81.
• Women’s and Society—For full details on
the colorful 42nd annual dinner and bazaar of
Montgomery General Hospital Tuesday turn to
Page A7.
• Editorial—On Page A4 you’ll find a strong
editorial on the cases of two Spencerville brothers
who are now in Maryland’s “Death Row” on a
i rape conviction.
• On other inside pages you’ll find lots of
news about, churches, research and development,
county business and numerous obituaries.
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GOP Starts
Fund Drive
On Aug. 1
The annual “Neighbor-To-
Neighbor” Drive of Montgom
ery County Republicans will be
held during the month of Au
gust, with the official kick-off
day being Aug. 7.
Republican workers in all 93
precints will be going door-to
door in an all-out effort to meet
their $25,000 goal. Official
badges and receipt books desig
nate the workers.
Each worker will distribute
brochures listing information on
all Republican candidates run
ning for office in Montgomery
County, as well as those run
ning for congressional and
gubernatorial seats.
Workers will also have regis
tration forms available for
those who have not yet regis
tered.
Merchants
Will Hold
Sales Spree
Prizes galore and slashed
prices are promised by mid
town Rockville merchants for
their big annual sale scheduled
for next weekend.
The August 2-3-4 event will be
highlighted by such gifts as a
1952 4-door Dodge sedan to
some lucky ticket holder by
Mark Motor Co., two SSO back
to-school wardrobes by Young
Colony Shop and Children's
Center, $25 gift certificates by
Miller Fields Buick and Mark
Daniels, a $159.95 General Elec
tric stereo set by Town & Coun
try Appliances, a pair of match
ing Danish walnut occasional
chairs by Modem Furniture and
many more by mid-town mer
chants participating in the sales
event.
In addition to the prizes, mer
chants will slash many of their
prices. Larry Allan Men’s Wear
will reduce all swimwear by 50
per cent, Children’s Center and
Young Colony will knock 10
per cent off all new winter out
er wear, and A. G. Watkins will
drop the price of an 8-cubic foot
refrigerator to $149.95.
Other stores are expected to
offer equal or better bargains
during the three-day selling
spree. They’ll announce their
offerings in next week's Sen
tinel.
vanishing point,” said Dr. John
H. Janney, chief of the State
Department of Health division
of epidemiology.
Only a medicine dropper
and a lump of sugar or a
spoonful of water are requir
ed to feed it to persons of
any age, lie pointed out.
Both tlie Medical and Chi
rurgical Faculty of Maryland
and the state chapter of tlie
American Academy of Pedi
atrics have endorsed the mass
oral immunization program.
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King Post
Is Won
By Jones
For the record, Gaithers,
i burg farmer W. Lawson
King says it’s “wonderful”
that he has been replaced by
Damascus contractor Everett
R. Jones as a Montgomery
County member of the Mary
land-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
“At least we’re keeping this
j Posl *n the family,” he says, ex-
I plaining that he and Jones are
not. only first cousins but that
JJcnes’ brother-in-law is married
j to the Kings' daughter.
Jones, long active in up-coun
ty civic affairs and currently a
member of the county’s Board
of Appeals, was named to the
planning post by the County
| Council Tuesday.
Although King sought a
second term, he failed to win
tlie Council’s nod over wide
spread speculation as to pos
sible conflicts of Interest In
his planning decisions.
The Council’s selection of
Jones came after more than six
weeks of speculation as to a
possible successor to King.
It was arrived at on the third
round of voting on a slate of
four nominees which also in
cluded Olney real estate de
veloper Donald R. Lambome
and internationally-noted plan
ning consultant Frederick Gut
heim of Dickerson.
Jones’ nomination was en
tered by Council member
Jerry Williams, also of Da
mascus, who described him as
a “qualified and conscientious
man who will be a credit to
the county on the Commis
sion.”
King was nominated by Coun
cilman Grover Walker q| Gaith
ersburg, who failed, however,'~tb
support him on the second or
third ballots.
Lam borne’s nomination was
offered by Councilman William
F. Hickey, while Gutheim was
named by Mrs. Stella B.
Werner.
On th first and second bal
lots, Mrs. Werner, Stanley
Frosh and Council president
David Calioon supported
Gutheim.
Jones was backed in the first
two rounds of voting by Wil
liams and Joe M. Kyle, with
only Walker switching votes,
from King to Lambome, on the
second balloting.
Mrs. Werner initiated the final
unanimous vote tor Jones at the
start of the third ballot and
was quickly followed in her
switch by Hickey, Walker and
Cahoon. Frosh held out his sev
enth vote momentarily and was
the last to join in.
An earlier attempt by Frosh
lo defer appointment of the new
commission member until after
the County Council election in
November got nowhere for lack
of a second.
Mrs. Werner said she threw
her support to Jones because
“it was obvious there was not
a chance in tlie world of get
ting a fourth vote for Mr.
Gutheim after that second
ballot.”
Jones had been her "second
choice” all along, site said, be
cause of his “long and consider
able interest in planning and
his excellent reconrd of service
on the Board of Appeals—even
though he’s not a lawyer.”
Now serving his second term
on the zoning appeals board,
Jones has been a member of
the upper county Board of Ap
peals, the old Upper Montgo
mery Counly Planning Commis
sion and the Damascus area
planning committee.
President of the Jones of
Damascus, Inc., plumbing firm,
he holds a degree in engineer
ing from Maryland University
and was planning and design
engineer for the creation of a
public utility company for
Damascus.
Jones is a native of Damas
cus, where he grew up on tlie
family farm and served as the
first president of the Future
Farmers of America chib
which he helped form in high
school.
He was an organizer of the
town’s first volunteer fire com
pany and was a member of the
county government charter
committee’s board of directors
in 1947.
An active Methodist, he has
been a construction supervisor
for the Methodist Board of Mis
sions in Africa.