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Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
Norris Plan Differs
From McKinsey Co.

The Montgomery County
School Board is releasing today
Superintendent Forbes Norris
recommendations for the 1867
olp Grating budget with the
teacher salary proposals.
Included in the operating ex-
penses will be DR.. Norris plan
for reorganization of school adj
ministration, which he presented
to the board Monday night, and
appropriation requests for six
new top positions in the school
staff.
The McKinsey report, the $20,-
GOO administrative study released
last week, also recommended six
new top staff members but
differed from DR.. Norris in their
classification.
Where the McKinsey recon.
mendations call for an assistant
superintendent for elementary
education and assistant Superin-
tendent for secondary education
directly under the superintendent,
DR.. Norris is asking that the new
positions of director of elemen-
tary and director of secondary
education be under the assistant
superintendent of instruction.
He also wants the new office
of comptroller under him instead
Of the director of business affairs
as requested by the McKinsey
Seople. He would advance the
clerk to the superintendent to
deputy superintendent with
broader powers.
Board member Lathrop Smith
proposed that DR.. Norris start
recruiting Immediately for these
new positions but because of the
disagreement between the two
reorganization plans it was voted
that a committee of the board
be appointed to study the McKin-
sey recommendations and report
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
City agrees
On Annering
Home Tract

Rockville's mayor and council
reversed a previous stand and
agreed Tuesday night to annex
the 220-acre Meadow Hall subdiv.
ision, adjacent to Twinbrook For
est providing that Joseph Geer-
aert, the developer, can get def
mite commitment from the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission on the water supply for
the area.
The WSSC and the Maryland
National Capital Parks and Plan
ming Commission have water and
sewer, and planning jurisdiction
over this new area under the
terms of the home rule bill.
Mr.. Geeraert at this week 5
council meeting agreed to show
the Rockville Planning Commits.
sion his subdivision plats, al
ready approved by the MNCPP,
and which. he said, were design
ed to meet Rockville's new build
ing code.
The mayor and councils sur.
prise move came at the end of an
hours discussion in which repre-.
sentatives Of the Twinbrook Cit.
liens Association executive com
mittee and city manager John
Markland urged annexation be-
cause the advantages of having
the area Incorporated in the city
outweighed the problems involv.
ed.
Members of the council present,
Mayor Dickran Hovsepian, Alex.
ander Greene, James Robertson
and Wcndall Turner, had earlier
Indicated that although in unani.
nous agreement that the area
was a logical part of Rockville,
they would vote against annexa-
ton.
Their main arguments against
it were the difficulties with the
WSSC over the water supply, the
city's lack Of control in rezoning
Continued on Page g.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
MikkeH, Finland,
Librarian Tours
County System

Mrs. Adelheid Laro, chief
librarian Of Mikkeli, Finland, will
begin a five-day inspection tour
Of Montgomery County Libraries
Monday. Mrs. Laro arrived in the
United States January 30 for a
five-month study visit sponsored
by the State Department and the
Library Of Congress.
County library director George
Moreland says Mrs. Laro will
spend a day each in the Silver
Spring library, the Bethesda IL
brary, the main library in
Gaithersburg and a bookmobile.
Mrs. Laro has been librarian
in Tartu, Estonia, and at the Uni
versity of Helsinki.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
Late News Briefs

Rockville's city manager John
Markland is negotiating for two
additional municipal parking lots.
One will be the parking area
across from the county building
on Perry Street It would be open
to the public every night and all
day Saturday if Vincent Peters,
representative of the owners,
agrees to lease it TO the city. The
other, located off Commerce Lane
behind Radford's bakery, is own
ed by Ida b. Goodman who has
indicated that she will lease rent
free for three years if the city
agrees to pave the lot with blue
stone and maintain il.
Lila Thomson, editor OF the
Rockville shopper, resigned this
week as a director of the Board
of Trade. Mrs. Thomson said
she felt that the best interests
of the merchants would be serv-
ed by having "A merchant on
the board in her place.
The Allied Civic Group Monday
night urged four guarantees that
Maryland bus riders will receive
adequate service at reasonable
rates should the District of Col
umbia transit system be taken
over by a public authority. The
ACC wants riders, as well as bond
holders, TO have the right to go
to court if the sefvice is not ade-
alate or the rates. MOI reasonable.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
Young Democrats
Meet Wednesday

The monthly meeting Of the
Montgomery County Young
Democratic Club will be held
Wednesday at $3.50 pm. in the
hearing room, second floor, Park
and Planning Commission Build.
ing, $500 Coleswlle Road, Silver
Spring.
Montgomery County Demo
Gratis between the ages Of II and
40 are eligible for membership In
the club and are asked to attend
The meeting.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
Police Car
On Mercy Run
Has Accident

Three persons were injured, in.
Guiding a police officer, when a
Montgomery County police car on
a mercy mission struck two pri.
vate cars Saturday afternoon at
Georgia and Dennis Avenues.
T h e county police vehicle,
driven by Officer Bernhardt j..
Braun, Jr., 26. of Takoma Park,
was escorting Washington
police car carrying an emergency
blood shipment to Montgomery
County General Hospital in
Sandy Spring. Allegedly Fac
Hoffman, Al. of Silver Spring,
drove her 1850 Nash out of Den
mis- Avenue into the path of the
police car.
After striking the Hoffman
car, the police car veered off into
1856 Chevrolet, pulled to the
side Of the road by driver Mrs.
Mary V. Bales, 81, of Silver
Spring.
Mrs. Hoffman was charged
with failure to grant the right
Of way to an emergency vehicle.
Arthur F. Umholtz, 33, Of Silver
Spring, a passenger in the police
car was taken TO Washington
Sanitarium with possible internal
injuries by the Kensington Res
cue Squad. The rescue squad
also transported Mrs. Bales to the
sanitarium where she was treat.
ed for injuries to her right leg.
Officer Braun drove himself to
the hospital for treatment of a
cut lip and sprained right hand.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01

The civic group also wants at
least one of the five-man board of
directors for the proposed public
transit authority to be from Mary
land.
Judge Alfred Noyes of the Ju-
venile Court entered Suburban
Hospital Monday for observa-
ton and to undergo tests. A
spokesman for his doctor, DIR.
Gordon NJ. Smith, reported that
the Judge had had "sOme intes-
tinal trouble" but was getting
along nicely.
Colonel Henry c. StanWood,
Maryland Director of Selective
Service, today reminded students
that application blanks for the
April 19 Selective Service college
qualification test must be post.
marked not later than midnight
Monday. The test will be given
in this area at the University Of
Maryland in College Park.
Montgomery COunty's Super.
intendent of Schools, DIR. For.
hes Norris, speaking at the an
nual dinner of the Rockville
Methodist Mems Bible Class
Tuesday night, on "The Road
To Damascus" told the almost
200 members present that "hu-
manity is always on the march.
History is filled with roads and
the roads are filled with mems
fears, hates, dreams and ideals. ("
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01

false and misleading.
The McKinsey Report, which
blames most of the school system
ills on undertaking and poor
administrative practices, wa S
issued last week after a three
month survey which cost the
county $4,000.
Senseman Issues Statement
The architects statement, is
sued through chapter president
Ronald S. Senseman, charges
that no McKinsey employee is
familiar enough with construc-
ton and architecture to make
recommendations in those fields.
The consulting firm has rec
commended six Improvements in
the administration of the ten-mil-
lion dollar annual school con-
struction program, including the
hiring of small architectural
staff" by the Board of Educa-
ton.
The architects group con,
tends, There is not a single case
on record where actual expert
ence has proved that an archi-
tectural bureau is more economi-
cal than private architectural
services" The annual fees paid
to private architects for school
projects are about half a million
dollars.
= ALA chapter, however,
& ne see the need for a Board
education architectural staff
.ic' a degree" and has offered
% help organize such staff.
The architects suggest an "educa-
tor of high professional qualifica-
tions" as head of the school
architectural staff. The job of
the staff would largely be to
plan and coordinate school con.
struction and to select private
architects for school projects.
The architects group also criti-
cizes the McKinsey recommends
ton that a prefabricated school
be built in Montgomery County
as a test. The ALA chapter calls
the proposal beyond their scope
of activity as management con-
sultants".
School BOard-Council Meet
The County Council and the
School Board met Tuesday night
to begin detailed discussions of
the McKinsey recommendations.
Another joint meeting is sched'
uled next Wednesday.
Two controversies already
stirred up by the McKinsey Re
port were by-passed at Tuesdays
meeting.
Mr.. Benson failed to appear to
comment on his rebuttal. An in
quiry by County Attorney Char
les NJ. Irelan into McKinsey's
criticism of the county attorneys
office and recommendation for a
separate school board lawyer was
postponed until Wednesday.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
Two Montgomery
Officials Speak

Two Montgomery County Off
cials, finance director Alex x.
Hancock and chief assessor VIII
ton Allen. addressed the National
Conference on Housing Census
Yesterday at the Statler Hotel in
Washington.
The conference was sponsored
by the American Municipal Asso-
citation. the National Association
of Housing and Development
Officials, and the American So
ciety Of Planning Officials.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
Architects Criticize
McKinsey's Proposals

The second formal attack McKinsey and Company
recommendations for improving the administration of the
Montgomery County school system launched this week
when the Potomac Valley Chapter of the American Institute
of Architects issued statement questioning the validity
and objectivty" of the McKinsey survey.
School Finance Director Brian NJ Benson has previously
prepared 14page rebual to the Mcnsey Report calling
many of the management consutant firms conclusions
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
? Opposing
Democratic
Groups Vie

A split in Montgomery
County party ranks was re-
vealed Monday when two
separate groups of Democrats
announced their candidacy
for the state nominating
convention just before the prim-
airy filing deadline. The primary
election is May z.
In another last-minute develop
ment Victor A. Leisner, Wheaton
businessman, became the fifth
Democratic candidate for the Con-
gressional nomination from Mary
lands sixth District.
The convention slate put up by
the "old line" Democratic organi-
zation includes Frank ]. Morris,
William F. Hickey, Ruth E. Hay
es, B. II. McCeney, c. o. Bor-
deaux, James p Welsh, and John
P. Moore.
They are being challenged for
the seven convention seats by 9TH
er Democrats: Louis II. Cohen,
James II. Mann, Felix M. Putter-
man, Margaret Schweinhaut,
Alice w. Hostetler, Henry Graf
ton Doyle, Jr., David Cahoon, and
Shirley F. Barshay.
Candidates for the Republican
state convention are George A.
Moore, Henry K. McKark III, Ro-
bert A. Wallace, Marjory M.
Guest, James E. Bacon, Jr, VIII
liam C. Birely, Billy J. Tinnery,
Frank S. Pohanka, Jr., Mary E.
Caldwell, Helen H. Bukart, Ruize
0. Tyler, and James A. Buch-
anan w.
G. of C. President
Thirty-two year old Mr.. Leis-
ner is president of the Wheaton
Chamber of Commerce. He is
planning a new Wheaton shop
ping center and already operates
a shopping center in Burnt Mills.
In the Democratic Congress
sional primary Mr. Leisner will
slug It out with Orphans Court
Judge John r. Foley, County
Councilman J. Grahame Walker,
Silver Spring labor leader Frank
Powers, and Bethesda Chevy
Chase Rescue Squad chief Robert
C. Cremmins.
The incumbent, Dewitt S.
Hyde, serving his second term in
Congress, is unopposed for the
Republican nomination.
Two of the three Montgomery
County circuit judges, Kathryn
j. Lawlor and Thomas M. An
derson, must face the voters this
year. Stedman Prescott is not
up for reelection. Seeking the
two judgeships are county attor-
ney Charles M. Irelan, Lawyer
r. Duncan Clark, Juvenile Court
Judge Alfred Noyes, and lawyer
James c. Christopher.
Butler Challenged
Challenging incumbent John
Marshall Butler for his Senate
seat in the Republican primary
will be Brig General John d.
Markey, Frederick; Henry ]. Lac
que, Jr., Linthicum; Earl E.
Knepper, Clear Springs; and Fl.
John Redgrave, Clarksburg.
Fighting for the Democratic
senatorial nomination are George
p. Mahoney, former Senator Mil
lard f. Tydings, Andrew ]. Eas-
ter, and George Washington Viii
liams, all of Baltimore; Thomas
L. Christian, Anne Arundel Coun-
ty; and Roy l.. Pyle, Aberdeen.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01
Baltimore Opera
Additions Tuesday

The Baltimore Civic Opera
Company will hold additions for
new members to be added to it's
roster of soloists for principal
roles on Tuesday, beginning at
1880 pm, at the Baltimore Poly
technic Auditorium. North and
Guilford Avenues.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1956-03-01

on the ones to be included in the
1956-57 budget.
This report will be made at the
boards March 13 meeting. Mem
bers of the committee are to be
appointed by President Helen
Scharf this week.
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$1,000 Support
PaymentSet

A man sought by authorize.
for more than six years wa.
ordered yesterday to pay roughly
$1,000 to support a child borr
out of wedlock or face a jai
term.
Juvenile Court Judge Edith H
Cockrill showed surprise wher
the defendant told her that
until recently, he hadn't had 6
regular job. One reason was thai
he has suffered with "the f1u," hi
testified.
you haven't had the flu fol
six years, have you?" the judge
asked in doubling tones"
Other Troubles
The man told her, NO." but
he'd been beset by other trouble.
including a nervous breakdown
and an auto accident. The de-
PENDANT is colored.
A bench warrant for his ap-
pearance in Juvenile Court hac
been outstanding since March 80
1850. Court officials said this
was the longest period they could
remember.
The defendant had become
the father of three more children
since 1850.
Judge Cockrill ordered him TO
pay $50 Immediately and dig up
the rest of the court-ordered
support payments he owed or
face so days in jail.
Truant Before Court
In another case yesterday, a
l3-year-old girl, who school au-
thorities said had missed school
for Is days, was ordered sent to
the Receiving Home pending a
further Juvenile Court hearing a
week from tomorrow.
She told the court she had to
stay home to take care of a
younger sister. 1t was brought
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Welfare Services Urqed
Rather Than Institutions

Buildings alone will not solve
welfare problems, Commissioner
Robert E. Mclaughlin said yes
terday.
| He told the annual meeting
of the United Community Serv-
ices Family and Child Welfare
Section. in the National Press
Club. that the answer lis not
to build more and more insti-
buttons. but to provide services
in order to eliminate the need
for costly and sometimes fruit
less institutional care"
1--WE all know that it costs
many times as much to keep a
child in an institution as it does
to keep him in his own home OF
in a good foster home" he
pointed out.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said that, il
the pending fiscal 1857 budget
is accepted, the public works pro.
gram for welfare institutions
will be about 30 per cent rea-
LIKED. This summer, he added
will see the closing of the last
obsolete" welfare institution
Junior Village, which houses
neglected and dependent chill
dren and will be moved to the
District Village reservation.
The section elected Alexandel
B. Halves. attorney, to succeed
Mrs. David E. Bazelon as chair.
man. Mrs. Bazelon, who has beer
chairman for two years, received
a framed scroll from William j
Haggerty, UCS president, prais.
ing her for her leadership.
AS the result of her leadership
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Wanted: Family Life
Homes for 9ChiIdren

Catholic Charities of the Dis
'trict is looking for a home fol
Mary Jane, II, slender brown
eyed child who would be pref
tier if her face could reflect hap
piness for change.
Wants to Feel Wanted
For two years, she has beer
living in a girls school. She talks
of living in a real home with
parents a place where she
could feel she is really wanted
Her father died six years ago
Her mother is in the hospital.
The agency comedies it may
not be easy to develop this
lonely little girl into the attrac-
tive, responsive young woman
she could be. But it would be a
Irewarding experience for foster
parents willing to invest loving
care and interest for her.
The Jewish Social Service
Agency has 13-year- old Joel in
its care. Both his parents have
been hospitalized for some time
and their absence has made him
a troubled child.
Joel became deeply attached
to the home life his natural par
ents provided for him when they
were able. 1t will be a challenge,
agency workers say, to any fos-
ter parents to take him in when
he wants so to preserve his own
home and his own family.
He is an interesting boy-tall,
blond and handsome - with q
love for music and art, me-
chanics and hiking.
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WaShington's three privat e
agencies concerned with finding
foster homes for children lack
ing family life have made a
special appeal for nine such
homes.
They seek accommodations
suited to older children-the
class most difficult to place. The
age range varies, but it is be-
tween 10 and 10 on the average.
Each of the agencies cites one
of its children as typical of the
child in need of a foster home.
Family and Child Services has
a 10-year-old boy whom they
call Billy. His mother has been
in and out of hospitals for the
last five years. His father has a
job that keeps him out of town.
The father is either unable or
unwilling to get work that will
permit him to be with his son.
Eager to Please
AS a result of being Shunted
around so much, Billy has be-
come a confused little boy. He
lacks self confidence and, above
all, has a deep fear of being left
alone again.
He enjoys such normal-boy
pursuits as roller skating and
baseball. He applies himself to
his third-grade school work. In
fact. he is pitifully eager to
please everyone in general.
Family and Child Services
seeks a foster home for Billy
that is near or accessible to
Walter Reed Army M dical
Center.
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Purenthood No Port ime Job,
Family Problem Panel Aqrees

The Nations family problems
continually on the increase
will not be solved while parents
look on life at home as a part
time job, a distinguished three
member panel agreed here last
night.
THE changing face of family
life in the United States, where
children are denied guidance
and are not taught discipline
and leadership" is responsible
for the rise in family problems
in the United States, the pan
elists said. They held that is not
true in most foreign countries,
where home comes first"
The completely of American
society was singled out as re-
sponsible for parental neglect in
passing to children a respect for
law and adult authority.
The points we're made by
Judge Nadine Gallagher. of the
Municipal Court; Dr. William
Granatir. a local psychiatrist,
and Rabbi Balfour Brickner, of
Temple Sinai, at meeting of
the sisterhood of the temple in
the auditorium of the Woodward
g. Lothrop Chevy Chase store.
Mrs. Irving Schiller, president,
moderated.
Need for Rules
Unhappy home life will con-
tinue to exist" Judge Gallagher
said, so long as parents fail, by
example, to teach their young
sters the necessity for laws and
rules. The parents who fail to
get across the point that rules
are needed and should be obeyed
for the good of all society are
the ones who appear in my
court. Too little time is spent
raising the youngsters properly.
Those are the families split
by divorce or thrown into chaos
by delinquency problems she
added.
DR.. Granatir said the Nation is
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plagued with family problems
because too few parents make
life at home "a full-time job
He described that practice as
IAN unhappy evolution in the
American family group"
The psychiatrist called for an
increase in the availability Of the
parent when the child Is wrest-
ling with a problem and needs
sound advice.
Jewish Life Hailed
Rabbi Brickner hailed 1.-THE
Jewish home culture as opposed
to the American home culture. "
The Jewish parent, he said,
is more inclined to demand and
get obedience. At the same time,
"reminiscences and noncon-
formity are permitted to a de-
gree seldom found in other fam
lily groups.
The sisterhood, holding its last
meeting of the year, elected new
officers. They are Mrs. Harold
Blasky. president; Mrs. Joseph
Nellis. first vice president: Mrs.
Julian Raymond, second vice
president; Mrs. Milton Fleisher,
third vice president, and Mrs.
Bernard Rosen. recording secre-
tary.
Also, Mrs. Harold Strachan,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Louis Magidson. financial secre-
tary: Mrs. Louis Saul, treasurer;
and Mrs. Jacob Gichner and Mrs.
Schiller. directors.
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the citation said. "the subject of
welfare is much better under
stood and appreciated by the
Washington community today"
Mrs. Nelson Blechman was
elected vice chairman. Named as
Iagency delegates were Mrs. Irv-
ing Cantor, John Theban, Canon
Richard Williams, Miss Florence
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out that the mother did not live
in the same residence. The girl
is colored.
The court also heard four other
cases involving men charged
with not supporting their chill
Idren. The defendants were
picked up on bench warrants
over the week end,