Evening star., 1947-10-23
County Selects
Woman Jurors
For First Time
IS Chosen on Panel
For November Term
In Montgomery

Fifteen women are included In q
panel Of 48 jurors selected yesterday
by Montgomery County Circuit
Court Judge Stedman Prescott for
duty during the term OF court OPEN
ing November 10 in the Rockville
Courthouse.
The women will be the first Of
their sex to serve Oh a MONTGOMERY
County jury under a law passed at
the last session of the General As
sembly, thus breaking a long-stand.
ing tradition of all-male juries In
the Free State.
The panel was drawn from a box
containing the names of 200 pros
pectlve jurors. When court con-
venes next month, grand jury
foreman will be named. The next
~ persons selected will constitute
the grand jury along with the fore
man. while the remaining Is will
constitute the petit jury.
Complete Panel Chosen.
Yesterdays panel includes the
following:
Roger B. Bogley, Derwood; S.
Merhle Haines, Laytonsville; Miss
Esther w. Beall, Clarksburg: Will
liam o. Young, Germantown; Mrs.
lada F. Bodmer, Dorsey w. Will
liams and Sarah G. Sellman, all of
Poolesville; Mrs. Ethel l.. Speare,
Ralph P. Ripley, Charles A. Beard,
Miss Edith A. Koiner, Henry w.
Conner, Mrs. Hazel L. Beall, and
Bradley c. Karn, all of Rockville.
Also, James A. Hyslop, Burhnard
S. Leizear, Albert o. Denham,
Christian Kronenbitter, George w.
Price, jr., Andrew j. Kessinger, w.
James Widmayer and Louise E.
Lyons, all of Silver Spring; Charles
Wolfrey, and David H. Frederick,
Spencerville; H. Elgar Bryan, Belts
vile; Charles w. Fawley, jr.,
Travilah.
Also, Charles L. Crawford, j. For
est Walker, Leslie M. Mullican and
Mrs. Mary P. Anderson. all of
Gaithersburg; Aubrey G. Richmond,
Lawrence A. Darby, jr.. and Alton
8. Parker, all of Bethesda; Mrs.
Helen H. Kerby. Mrs. Mary Ellis
Perry, Mrs. Jewell G. Nolan, Mrs.
Eugenia r. Arnold and Mrs. Gather
inc H. burlington, all of Chevy
Chase.
Also, Edgar c. (Sam Rice, ASH
ton; Eugene Harris, and Oscar c.
Martin. Oakdale; Jane r. Knox,
Glen; Arthur E. S. Hallman,
Barnesville; Mrs. Jenny G. Fulton,
Dickerson; William ]. Day. Damas-
Gus; Earl K. Linthicum, Brown.
ingsville; William F. Walker, Ken
sington, and Hugh O. McKinnie,
Takoma Park.
Baseball Player Named.
Mr.. Walker is chairman of the
Montgomery County Liquor Con-
troll Board; Mr.. Rice Is a former
Washington baseball player, and Mr..
Kessinger is In charge of the ac-
QUESTION of land in the Silver
Spring business district for parking
lots.
Only nine of the Is women in
cluded in the panel could be reached.
Five of the nine are housewives.
two are employed at the Chestnut
Lodge Sanitarium in Rockville, one
is employed at the General Account
ing Office and one employed at
the Montgomery County Farm Bu-
reau Office in Rockville.
Mrs. burlington, who lives at
402 Warwick place is a former COL
umnist for The Star where she
wrote column entitled over the
Back Fence which appeared on
the woman's page. Mrs. burlington
wrote under the name of Isabel
Hackett.
May Be Unable to Serve.
Although she expressed willing
ness to serve on jury, Mrs. Tur-
lington said she was uncertain
whether she could find the necessary
time since she is working on
project" She refused to reveal the
nature of the work.
Before coming to The Star in
March, l945, Mrs. burlington was
newspaper reporter and worked
at the Washington Bureau of the
Christian Science Monitor for seven
years.
Nov am a typical housewife"
she declared. II have three chill
dren, two of whom are in college
and one who is Junior at Wilson
High School"
Four Desire Duty.
Four other women also expressed
doubt as to whether they would 10
able to serve. They are Mrs. Spear,
receptionist at the Chestnut Lodge
Sanitarium; Mrs Hazel Beall, a
bookkeeper at the sanitarium; Miss
Esther Beall, a secretary in the
Farm Bureau offite in Rockville,
and Mrs. Nolan, who said she Is
under care of physician.
The other four of the nine women
interviewed expressed a desire to
serve. They were Mrs. Bodmer,
Mrs. Fulton, Mrs. Kerby and Miss
HNioer