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Writer Castigates
Foes of Teachers
Do teachers have to put up with more nonsense
than anybody? A famous writer thinks they do and
says so in “Suburbia Today” which is included in this
week’s Sentinel.
Most of the problem, says Sloan Wilson, author
of “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” comes from
“problem parents, town busybodies and overconserva
tive school board members and administrators with
bird brains and iron hands.”
Teachers in the suburbs, particularly, “have to
stomach a diet of nonsense,” the former public school
teacher and education editor of the New York
Herald Tribune also believes. There are “cranks of all
persuasions” and “self-appointed vigilantes” and too
staunch friends of the teachers and penny pinchers
who don’t know that good schools cost a great deal
of money.
For his interesting treatment of this important
subject and his suggestion on what concerned parents
can do to help, see the article “Let’s Free Our Schools”
in Suburbia Today in this issue of The Sentinel.
Rules Outlined
For Hearing on
Meeting Permits
Prospective speakers at the Aug. 14 public hearing on
a proposed ordinance to require advance permits for public
meetings have been advised to register with the County
Council clerk if they want to be certain they’ll be heard.
President John A. Floyd, of
the Montgomery County Coun
cil, said this week the council
intends to follow the same pro
cedure invoked last April at 'ts
two hearings on the county's
public accommodation law if
the number of scheduled speak
ers Indicates it will be advisable.
As yet, the council has set no
time limit on the meeting, which
will be held at 8 p.m. in the
auditorium of the County Office
Building.
However, Floyd said he as
sumed it will be "the usual pub-
County Offices
To Get Direct
Phone Service
Montgomery County gov
ernment agencies will be
available to telephone callers
by direct dialing as the result
of a modern mechanized
phone system now under con
struction and scheduled to go
into operation Sept. 21.
Under the new program,
eounty officials pointed out,
callers familiar with the num
bers to be assigned will not
have to rely on the central
switchboard through which
most calls are now distri
buted. According to the
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co. of Maryland,
which Is installing the new
system. It is expected the
change will reduce the load on
the switchboard by at least 30
per cent.
The new system, called
Centrex, will be housed in the
county’s new $500,000 under
ground emergency operating
center and will go into service
with about 500 direct lines
covering county police, fire,
public works, library, court,
civil defense and administra
tive telephones. Single num
bers will be available, instead
of two, for fire emergency
service, and Instead of four
for police calls.
An Editorial
Compromise Solution
A great deal of heat has been generated and
publicity given the teacher fingerprinting-police
check issue which has developed into a full-blown
controversy in Montgomery County.
A great deal more heat and controversy
will be generated when the dispute is aired again on
Aug. 28 at a meeting of the State Board of Education
and again on Sept. 16 when a teachers’ suit seeking
to block the local School Board’s order on the subject
is argued.
To say that this order of the School Board is the
most controversial one in recent decades is not, we
believe, indulging in overstatement. In no other case
have (1) teachers gone to court to fight their
superiors, and (2) the State Board of Education specif
ically countermanded an order of the local School
Board as has been done in this case. This issue, then,
is an extremely important one. It is, obviously, a
problem of extraordinary proportions yet a solution
must be found.
The Sentinel does not believe it should be neces
sary for teachers to resort to the expense and bitter
ness of a court battle. Nor is it healthy for the local
School Board and the State Board of Education to
lock horns in bitter dispute. They should work
together.
The impasse has arisen because the local School
Board majority has insisted that the county police
department not school personnel officials as at
present should be the ones to process and interpret
reports on fingerprint cards that come back from the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. The School Board
minority, some county groups, undoubtedly a vast
majority of all the teachers and this newspaper think
this is not only a needless procedure but a bad one.
A vast majority of school systems do not even finger
print their teachers, let alone force all of them to
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lie hearing time, 8 to 11 p.m.,
i with the length of time allotted
to individual speakers depend
i ing on the number who indicate
i they will want to be heard.”
As was the case in the public
accommodations hearings,
Floyd said, the speakers will be
i heard in the order they register
with the clerk, James M. Bailey.
■ As of Tuesday afternoon, Bailey
1 said only four persons had noti
fied him of their intention to ex
press their views.
The proposal was put forward
by Dr. Thomas M. Wilson who
urged specificially that it be
held in time to make the new
law effective In advance of the
Aug. 28 civil rights demonstra
tion in Washington.
Under the law as prepared for
council consideration by County
Attorney Robert G. Tobin Jr.
“no person shall engage in, par
ticipate in, aid, form or start
any parade or public assembly
unless a permit therefor shall
have been obtained from the
County Manager.”
For .definition purposes, it de
scribes parades or public assem
blies as “any parade, march,
procession, meeting, assembly,
ceremony, show, exhibition,
pageant, or demonstration, or
any similar display, in or upon
any street, sidewalk, public
park or recreation area, public
building or parking lot in Mont
gomery County.”
Thus, it would have no effect
on meetings held in private
homes or other types of private
property. It also specifically ex
cludes funeral processions or ac
tivities of a governmental
agency “acting within the scope
of its functions.”
The ordinance provides that
applications for such permits be
made at least three days prior
to the proposed parade or pub
lic assembly, but conceivably
offers a broad outlet with the
added provision that “the coun
ty manager in his discretion
may waive this requirement for
good cause shown.”
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The Rider Survived
A 7-year-old boy riding the bicycle pic
tured beneath the wheels of the auto above,
escaped with little more than superficial in
juries, when the impact apparently threw
him aside a split second before his bike
went beneath the car wheels. Thomas Ed
win Long, of 12613 Flack St., Wheaton, was
Folk Singing, Beauty Contest
To Enliven Annual County Fair
An old-fashioned “hooten
anny” and a beauty contest
will brighten this year’s
Montgomery County Fair
scheduled for Aug. 19-24, in
Gaithersburg.
The group folk singing will
be held as a fair finale Aug.
24 at 8 p.m. and the contest for
the “fair queen” title will be
held opening night on the fair
grounds.
Sixteen pretty and talented 4-
H girls from throughout Mont
gomery County, including city
girls from Silver Spring, Whea
ton, Chevy Chase, Rockville,
and even one with a Washing
ton, D.C. address, have been
named as candidates.
They are: Betty Ann Duda,
3512 Inverness Drive, Chevy
Chase; Marilyn Sampson, 12301
Femmont Lane, Silver Spring;
Sue Eckhardt, 13510 Layhill
Road, Wheaton; Nora Lee Wil
liams, 6008 Walhonding Road,
Washington, D.C.; Sharon Ann
Garrett and Sherry Whipp,
Rockville; Nancy Lee Lechlider
and Carolyn Ann Mills, Gaith
ersburg; Janet Hargett and
Jean Dorsey, Boyds; Kathy
Poimter and Becky Schaeffer,
Germantown; Mary and Gloria
King, Clarksburg; Melinda
Lange, Poolesville; and Nona
Brown, Barnesville.
The girls all have several
things in common. All have
been members of a Montgom
ery County 4-H Club for at least
two years.
One, Nona Brown, Is secretary
of the important Montgomery
County Beef Club which an
nually holds a cattle sale at the
Montgomery County Fair, to
which buyers from all over the
Middle Atlantic States come.
Another, Melinda Lange, is a
founding member and secre
tary of the county’s newest 4-
H Club, the Montgomery County
Rabbit Club. Gloria King is a
former Cherry Pie Baking
Queen.
The 4-H club pageant and
Parade of Floats, culminating in
the crowning of the 4-H Mont
gomery County Fair Queen, will
take place at 7:30 p.m. on Aug.
19. The floats, designed and
made by nine area 4-H club
groups, the Woodfield, Layton
sville, Colesville, Poolesville,
Sheep and Swine, Holstein, Jer
sey, Etchison and Beef 4-H
Clubs, will be judged for beauty
and merit
The Montgomery County Sen
ior Council and the Future
Farmers of America will also
have a float in the Parade. The
candidates for Queen of the
Montgomery County Fair will
ride in hay wagons as they en
ter the Parade grounds. The
queen, who will be chosen by
the chance spinning of a wheel,
will be accompained by her
court, following the big event,
to the Show Ring on the Fair
Grounds, where a Square dance
for all will be held opening
night. There are 1500 4-H Club
youngsters In Montgomery
County.
released from Holy Cross Hospital after
treatment for leg lacerations obtained when
he rode through a stop sign at Flack Street
and Weller Road and into the path of an
auto operated by Carmilina Byrne, of Sil
ver Spring. Police said no charge was
placed against the driver. —Ed Mervis photo
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Melinda Lange, 16, Poolesville, holds a live rabbit with
four feet that may bring her luck when she competes Aug.
19 for the Montgomery County Fair Queen title. She’s
also secretary of the newly-organized Montgomery County
4-H Rabbit Club. She and her brothers and sisters have
50 rabbits. —Deane Heller photo
He’s A Scotsman!
Rockville Resident
Praised for Honesty
How honest are you?
If you stepped into a public
phone booth, in a strange town
miles away from home, and
found a stylish handbag full of
money, would you go miles out
of your way to leave it with the
State Police?
Hugh Gillespie did.
“I don’t know what all the fuss
is about,” Gillespie told the
Sentinel this week. “Anyone
would do the same, don’t you
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Sentinel readers will be titillated each week from now on by
Kchnapsy and the group of assorted neighborhood dogs
whose activities he masterminds. The strip above Is a sample
of the wit that Bob Schoenke has put Into Ills exciting new
Established 1855
put the lie to the traditional
image of the dour and thrifty
Scotsman.
Last Friday night Mr. and
Mrs. Gillespie of Rockville and
their two daughters, Barbara
and Jane, were returning from
a vacation in Canada. They
stopped to make a phone call
near Williamsport, Pa. Gillespie
found a handbag in the public
phone booth. It contained S4B
and identification papers which
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Shoplifters
Sentenced to
Year In Jail
Three men and a woman
were sentenced to a year In
jail in Rockville Tuesday for
shoplifting.
Judge Philip Fairbanks of
Rockville Peoples’ Court con
victed each of the four Dis
trict residents of three
charges of robbery brought
by three county department
stores.
The four, who pleaded not
guilty, were identified as:
Catrina Louise Price, 36;
Clarence Watts, 29; Timmie
Lee Bean, 27, and James
Roosevelt Mason, 26.
Det. Lt. William Jessie
said the quartet was appre
hended at the Robert Hall
clothing store, Rockville, July
18 and they were also accused
of taking clothing from
Colony Shop, 26 E. Montgom
ery Ave., Children’s Center,
28 E. Montgomery Ave., both
in Rockville.
Suspect Held
In Damascus
TV Thefts
A 24-year-old Baltimore man,
one of three arrested in con
nection with a series of tele
vision thefts in Carroll County,
has been charged by Montgom
ery County police with two sim
ilar larcenies from a Damascus
electrical supply store.
According to Detective Lt.
William H. Jessie, formal
charges have been placed
against Paul A. Macura as the
result of an investigation in
which Baltimore city and Mary
land State police cooperated
with local officers. Two other
suspects are still being sought
in connection with the Mont
gomery County incidents, in
which the Damascus Electrical
Co. was burglarized twice with
in a month, with a total loss of
television and radios valued at
more than $2200.
Macura was arrested with
two other men in Baltimore
after a high-speed chase that
was brought on when their auto
was involved in a traffic vio
lation. After the three were ap
prehended, police found eight
stolen television sets in their
car Lt. Jessie said.
While none of the sets were
among those taken from the
Damascus firm, an intensive in
vestigation linked Macura with
the county break-ins, the lieu
tenant said. A key factor, he
added, was the similarity of
forced entries involving all of
the burglaries under probe by
police from the three jurisdic
tions.
Lt. Jessis said a detainer
against Macura has been filed
with Carroll County police by
local authorities, pending dis
position of the charges filed
there.
The Damascus Electric Co.,
operated by William and Vin
cent Wood field, was burglarized
on June 22 and again on July
19. On each occasion, eight tele
vision sets were stolen, and
the second time a transistor
radio was added to the loot.
Tydings Picked
As Delegate
Joseph D. Tydings, U. S At
torney for the District of Mary
land, will be the Department of
Justice delegate to the 1963
general assembly of Interpol,
it was announced this week by
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy.
Tydings will join other dele
gates from the Departments of
Treasury and Defense at the
assembly in Helsinki, Finland,
Aug. 25-28. The International
Criminal Police Organization Is
made up of law enforcement of
ficers from 87 countries.
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the first time by the Sentinel. And it will run only in the
fast growing, rapidly expanding Sentinel. See more Schnapsy
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Ed Clements
Ed Clements
To Be Blair
Cage Coach
By Robert Guy
Sentinel Sports Editor
Edward Clements, a grad
uate of Montgomery Blair
High School in 1956, re
turned to his alma mater
this week as newly-appointed
head basketball coach and
chairman of the physical
education department.
Clements, who last year was
an instructor and asistant track
coach at Northwood High
School, has been involved with
area athletics for 10 years.
After graduating from Blair,
Clements attended the Amer
ican University where he was
a three sports star, captain of
the NCAA Eastern champion
basketball team, leading hitter
as a catcher on the baseball
team and Mason-Dixon Confer
ence high jump champion.
Upon graduation from AU he
attended Penn State and earned
his master’s degree In education
and also coached the Nlttony
Lion frosh basketball team.
Northwood, Clements coached
the Indian JV hoop squad but
gave that up last year in favor
of coaching the American Uni
versity frosh team. At AU he
worked under his former coach
at Blair and AU, David Car
rasco, now Eagle Athletic di
rector, and former coach at AU,
Jim Williams, now head coach
of the Eagles.
Clements, who Is married to
a former college classmate Dee
Lundy and the father of a three
year-old son, Jeff, is only 25.
Blair Principal Richard Wag
ner, who taught Clements at
Blair in 1956, says that youth is
in Ed’s favor. “We were looking
for a young and spirited re
placement for Ed Moffatt who
was transfered at the end of the
school year. Clements’ creden
tials are many and we are con
fident that he will get the
athletic program rolling again
at Blair.”
Northwood Principal Harold
Packard expressed only mild
shock at losing Clements and
said, “you must expect to lose
a young man like that who has
had such a fine start in teach
ing. I am only glad that he has
decided to stay in the county.
Blair must certainly benefit by
his addition to its staff.”
Belair Club
Breuk-in Told
Thieves broke in to the of
fices of the Connecticut Belair
Club Inc., Rockville, and stole
an 800-pound safe containing
about $175, according to the de
tective bureau of the Wheaton-
Glenmont Police.
The robbery occurred between
12:01 a m. and 7:30 a.m. last
week, according to police. The
empty safe was found on Gay
nor Road, about three miles
from the club site.
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who’s dying, being born
and getting married in
Montgomery County.
Boy ‘Pilot’
Gets Only
Light Term
A 17-year-old Derwood
youth, who already has spent
more than nine months in
jail while awaiting trial, was
given a suspended sentence
Monday for his role in the
death of a girl passenger in
the crash of a plane he was >
flying last October.
Judge Walter H. Moorman
ordered a three-year sentence In
the Maryland House of Correc
tion for David A. Price, who
had pleaded guilty to a man
slaughter charge at a hearing
last Thursday, and then sus
pended the term in putting the
youth on probation for a two
year period.
Fatally injured when the
plane crashed near Laytonsville
at night last Oct. 19 after Price
had taken it up without permis
sion, was Bernadette Flint of
Baltimore, who was described
as the fiancee of the defend
ant’s brother, Samuel, who also
was a passenger. The two
brothers escaped with painful
but not severe injuries.
In imposing sentence, Judge
Moorman gave consideration to
the fact that the boy had re
mained in jail since his arrest
three days after the crash be
cause of his father’s inability to
obtain money required for bond.
Nevertheless, he lectured Price
sternly and warned him that he
would be returned to prison for
another two years if he failed
to return to school or misbe
haved in any manner.
According to testimony at the
trial, young Price had been em
ployed at the Montgomery
County Airpark until a short
time before the accident and
had received several lessons in
flying. He did not have a li
cense, however, and admitted
that he had flown planes on
several other occasions without
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“I didn’t hsn permission,” he
told the court, “but I never tried
to hide It from anyone.”
Price testified he invited his
brother and his fiancee to fly
with him about 10 p.m. the
night of the crash and had been
aloft for a few minutes when
“a control jammed,” shortly
after the engine stuttered brief
ly. Despite his efforts to level
the plane, he said, it plunged
downward and crashed nose
first, throwing the girl out al
though he and his brother were
held in their seats by safety
belts.
The youth said he had been
employed at the airport for
about two years until he quit
his job several weeks before the
fatal crash after being criticized
by a superior for “things I
didn’t have anything to do
with.”
In his final argument Assist
ant State’s Attorney Alfred Bur
ka told Judge Moorman that
the boy had been "unanimously
liked” by employes at the air
port and said he felt the acci
dent was largely the result of
“poor judgment, particularly
from the standpoint of taking
passengers with him when he
didn’t know anything about the
plane.”
After entering a plea of
guilty at the start of the trial,
defense attorney Bernard Welsh
concluded his case with the
contention that an acquittal
would be justified under the
circumstances Involved. He said
he was convinced the boy felt
no sense of danger at the time
"because he thought he was a
good pilot.”
Despite the tragic climax,
Welsh declared, “this boy did
just about what any other boy
of his age might do if he was
deeply interested in aviation it
was Just this type of interest
that produced the Lindberghs
and the Earharts.”
Four Slightly
Hurt in Crash
Four persons suffered minor
injuries Tuesday afternoon in a
two-car collision at the inter
section of University Boulevard
and Colesville Road, Four Cor
ners.
David B. Meyer, 35, of West
minster, and his wife, Elsie, 31,
were released from Washington
Sanitarium after treatment for
minor cuts and abrasions, and
Mrs. Margaret Hardesty, 44, and
her son, Larry, 17, underwent
similar treatment at Holy Cross
Hospital, where they also were
released a short time later.
Montgomery County police said
the colliding autos were oper
ated by Meyer and young Har
desty.