Evening star., 1951-10-31
NeWCountyPlan
Ends Jai|ing Of
Mental Patients
MeNoyr Tells Council
Of Arrangements at
State institutions

St0te institutions
Arrangements have been made
10 clear the way for immediate
pdmittance Of Montgomery County
rental patients to Maryland
Institutions.
County Manager Irving G. Nc
Nayr told the county Council
yesterday the plan will eliminate
the practice of lodging mental
Eases in the county Jail until the
proper papers have been drawn up
md approved by county and State
officials.
Under the new procedure, after
police are called to the home of
4 person suffering from a mental
disorder, they will call the Welfare
Board. The board then will sum-
mon two physicians. who will
make an examination and certify
that it is an emergency case, after
which the person will be trans
ported Immediately to a mental
Mr.. McNayr said the new sys-
tenn will not include chronic alco-
holics and drug addicts. He ex-
planned State officials are study.
ing this problem and expect to
provide program for them soon.
His announcement grew out Of
complaints by Mrs. Stella Werner,
a Council member, who said she
did not believe mentally i'll persons
should be placed in Jail.
Inspection staff Transferred.
In other business the Council
transferred the building and
electrical inspection staff Of the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission to the
county payroll, effective tomorrow.
The action is. in accordance
with a law passed at the last ses-
sion Of the General Assembly.
Only persons not included in
the transfer are William Barnes,
in charge Of building inspection in
the Silver Spring area. and John
S. Eaton, head of inspections in
the Bethesda area. Both men
have resigned, Mr.. McNayr said.
Anthony j. Scullen. jr., will act
as chief Of the Division of Build
ing Inspection of the Department
of Inspection and Licenses, at an
annual salary of $4,000. Building
inspectors named at $500 a year
each are:
Edwin D. Burdette, Arthur j.
Dinger. Thomas r. Hewitt, Merle
T. Jacobs, Herbert w. Layton,
Axel r. Samberg and Clarence P.
Courtney.
Electrical inspectors appointed
are Clinton F. Wadford and John
A. Cliber, also at $500 a year
each. Mrs. Nellie S. Morrison was
named license clerk, at $2,741 a
year; Mrs. Suzette Stewart as
clerk -typist, at s2.400 a year, and
Miss Elizabeth A. Dawson as clerk
Itypist, at $2,180 a year, all with
the Division of Building Inspec-
| Ition.
To Move Bethesda Office.
Mr.. McNayr said it is planned
to have the building and electrical
inspectors work out of Silver
Spring. The Bethesda Office will
be moved from the frame build
ing in the rear of the county office
building there to the Office build
ing itself. The county manager
said it has not yet been decided
what use to make of the frame
building.
Other appointments included
Paul j. Kotek and Walter Kurfees,
Washington, and Robert Lee Hall,
Wheaton, as police privates, at ST.
900 year each; William ]. Camp
bell, Overland, Mo-, as senior en-
gineer, at $4,000 q year; Miss
Louise D. Vance and Miss Ellen L.
Gregory. both of Chevy Chase, as
public health nurses, at $3.50 a
year each. and Miss Frances M.
Schoeler. Camden, N. j., as trav-
cling liberian, at $500 a year.
Zoning Petitions Denied.
| Three rezoning petitions were
denied, They are:
Light Development Corp, for
lthe reclassification from Residen-
tial A to Commercial D of nearly
five acres at Avenel road and New
Hampshire avenue extended.
Edith Schaffer, from Residen-
tial A to Commercial D of land on
Mample avenue opposite the Ia
koma Park police station and at
Lincoln and Cumberland avenues,
Takoma Park.
David E. Belts. attorney for Cap
Iitol Cadillac Oldsmobile, from
Residential A to Commercial D of
property on the south side of STAN
ford street about 100 feet east of
Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda.
Council President j. Louis Mon
arch announced that the new
building code adopted by the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission will. be
studied by the county manager
and county attorney to determine
what changes, if any, should be
made.
He said the study will include
the Board of Standards and Ap-
peals set up by the commission in
connection with the code. The
commission had rejected the
councils request not to appoint
such a board.