Evening star., 1952-06-14
Council Urged
To Pay Fu||-Tin1t
Juvenile Judge
Montgomery County
Ends Hearings on
Budget for 1923

montgomery county ana aQQl-
tional funds for specialized treat
ment Of emotionally disturbed
children was asked last night as
the County Council wound ur
hearings on the 1928 budget.
w. H. Sheridan of the Juvenile
Court Advisory Committee, sale
the salary was necessary to at
tract a properly qualified man tc
the position.
Mr.. Sheridan told Councilman
Harold Hammond he thought the
jurist's salary should equal thu
$4,000 paid the county attorney
He added:
1.-THE judge is not dealing with
realty or sums of money, but with
the very rights of children"
Mr.. Hammond said if the sal.
ary were set at $4,000 the council
would have to consider raising
other department heads salarie
to that figure.
Detention Home Need.
James v. Bennett, also of thu
advisory group urged the council
to appropriate an additional ST..
500 to provide psychiatric anc
psychological services for some
children who come before the
court. He also asked for an ad-
ditional $4,000 to subsidize 9
private home for use as a deten-
The county has no such facil.
tiles now. Children in trouble
either must be cared for in the
county jail or sent to the State
Training School.
In an unusual departure last
night, one county agency admitted
it was satisfied with the county
managers recommendation.
Mrs. Claude Mitchell, chairman
of the library board, said the
$244,750 recommended for the
library department was salts
factory although $4,000 less than
requested.
The department last year re-
ceived some 100000 to operate
its libraries and bookmobiles in
the county.
Extra Attorney Sought.
County Attorney David Mac
donald asked the council to give
him an additional assistant fol
the next year. This would pro-
vide five lawyers in the office.
Mr.. Macdonald said the cor
poration counsels office in the
District has one attorney fol-
every 23.6O0 persons. He sale
Montgomery County. however, has
one for each 41,500 persons. He
said an additional attorney would
cut this to l per $500 persons.
Robert E. Redding, of the Al.
lied Civic Group, urged the coun-
Gil to make slashes totaling $72,-
900 in the $25 million budget rec
commended by County Manager
Irving G. McNayr.
He recommended that the $780,
900 for the newly-born recrea-
ton department be eliminated
and that $4,000 be clipped of
the emergency fund cutting II
back to this years $4,000 figure
Another $4,000 should be clipped
from proposed increases in jani-
Itorial employees for the new county
Office building.
Mr.. Redding also urged the
council to appoint a budget anc
procurement officer. He said 8
budget officer who could cut
per cent off the budget would be
we'll worth the salary paid him
County Manager McNayr said g
budget officer might show 6
Statistical" saving but he doubted
if he would be able to produce
much actual economy.
Asks Prisoner Van.
Jack Wilton, who said he re.
presented the 800 special deputy
sheriffs in the county, asked the
council to provide funds to pro-
cure a prisoner van for the sher-
ifs Office.
MIR. McNayr, who sliced $4,000
off the sheriff's $63,875 request
had eliminated the van from the
budget. The county has no van
at present.
Mr.. McNayr's recommendation
for a economic base survey of the
county received support last night
from David Scull, president of the
Silver Spring Board of Trade.
Mr.. Scull said the County Coun-
ellis fundamental problem was
providing services requested from
funds realized from real estate
taxes. Such a survey would help
the county encourage commercial
development and seek light indus
trial facilities, he said.
Last nights hearing in the
courthouse at Rockville was the
last of three held on the man.
ager's proposed operating and
capital budget.
The Council now will continue
meetings with county department
heads. Its budget resolution with
accompanying tax rate increase
must be acted upon before July l
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