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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07

and Fourteenth Amendments to
the Constitution of the United
States as well as the Constitu-
ton of the State Of Maryland"
Archer noted that the ques'
ton of using public money for
support of a medical institution
operating under a sectarian
medical code has never been
raised before the Supreme
Court. A case in 1899 under
which hospitals have been re
ceiving public funds did not
raise the question of discrimi'
nation against non-Catholic
physicians and patients in re-
spect to birth control or other
controversial practices.
The suit names as defendants
all members of the Montgom
cry County Council, the Silver
Spring Hospital Association
Inc, and the Holy Cross Hos
pital Of Silver Spring, Inc. Both
a temporary and permanent in
junction restraining the Silver
Spring Hospital Association
from conveying the site to the
Sisters of the Holy Cross was
asked.
1t also asks for the cancel
lation of the deed from Mont.
gomery County to the Silver
Spring Hospital Association on
the grounds that the county
had no power under state law
to make such an unconditional
transfer.
The plaintiffs in the case,
besides Archer, who lives al
9507 Monroe St, Silver Spring,
are J. E. Bloylock, 306 Stoning,
ton I'd; Stanley M. Levy. OF
9706 Cameron dr., and Charles
H. Myers, 1912 Floral St, all OF
Silver Spring, and Roger E,
Needham, 3206 University blvd,
West Kensington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
1859 Tax Forms
Mailed by State

There was something ex.
ira In each Of the 1869 state
income tax forms sent to
Maryland residents, State
Comptroller Louis l.. Gold
stein reported.
The something extra was
a fiscal report to better ac-
quaint taxpayers with ii.
nanciaI affairs of the state.
The report shows where the
states money comes from,
where Il goes, and the
states bonded indebtedness.
The report also lists the
addresses of various branch
offices Of the Comptroller,
as well rs the names OF the
administrative officers and
division heads of the office.
This Information, Gold
stein noted, 'is an aid to
residents who find IL neces.
sary to visit the office from
time to time"
"The fiscal report should
be studied" Goldstein con.
tinued, $50 that our citizens
may become fully aware Of
the numerous services rem
dered by their State and
just what such services are
costing"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07

A 40-acre estate near Brooke.
vile proposed for rehabilitating
chronic and acute alcoholic men
and women was to be the sub
ject of a public hearing today
before the Board of Appeals.
Drs. Earl H. Mitchell and w.
F. Cresswell, with offices at
2029 @ ST., NV, Washington,
D. c., were to announce plans
to conduct a convalescent home
for alcoholics at the former
home of ]. M. Sanders.
DR.. Cresswell said. that up to
but no more than 20 patients
would be accepted for treatment
at any one time. The two ply
sicians must first get a special
exception to operate the con
valescent home on residentially.
zoned land.
The Sanders estate-he is a
partner in the Hill az Sanders
auto agency in Wheaton--fronts
on the Mt. Zion-B rookeville I'd.
The main house has six bed
rooms to which others will be
added as the need arises, DR..
Cresswell said.
The Korzendorfer Realty com.
pany, Bethesda, has purchase
contract on record that indicates
final price of the acreage and
buildings may be $78,575 with a
first trust to be paid up in IL
years.
Drs. Cresswell and Mitchell
are the principal officers of a
corporation owning the tract,
known as Melwood Farms, Inc.
Settlement Of the sale sis i'm.
minent," DR.. Cresswell said.
The physician added that he
and DR.. Mitchell had an infor.
NAL get-together with surround.
ing neighbors not long ago, and
so far as could be determined,
there was no objection to the
institution.
The treatment home adults or
fronts properties owned by
Percy G. Lyon, Douglass Riggs,
James /. and S. Monk, L. p, M.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
After Furor from Pr
Council Fills
Two Vacancies

original motion for Sandison
was revived and he, like Mrs.
Angle, was appointed unani'
mously.
The appointments capped a
controversial two weeks during
which the Council found itself
defending its appointment poll
cies and disclaiming that the ap
pointments were meant to be
political in nature.
With Mrs. Williams resigna.
ton in hand and faced with the
expiration of Sandison's term
December 81, the Council let IL
be known that candidates for
the jobs were wanted.
When the Council had the
names of three women boosted
by the League of Women Voters
of Montgomery County an6
names of three others-includ
ing Sandison's-they said they
were ready to move.
The names were sent to the
Democratic State Central Com
mittee for what the Council
termed, political acceptability,'
over the warning by County
Manager Melvin L. Reese that
such referral was not in line
with the County's anti-patron
age merit employment system
Despite the Councils directive
that the sec not show prefer
ence among the six candidates
back came just two names: Mrs
Ruth Schiff and Earl A. Nash
These were the only two of the
six the Central Committee
knew, according to Committee
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07

The County Councils "pol'
icy on appointments" eye Of
the storm that howled wher
political screening of two
candidates for the County
Personnel Board occurred, is Q
little-publicised document re
leased by the Council back ir
October last year.
1t has only six main points;
. Impending vacancies will
be announced about six weeks
before they occul, and groups
or individuals are invited to sub
init nominees.
. Nominees names should be
in the Councils hands two
weeks before the job they seek
becomes vacant.
Names submitted to and by
the Council will be sent to the
Democratic or Republican State
Central Committees. Names sent
back by the latter two bodies
will be considered to be "polit'
ically acceptable"
. The Council will reserve the
right to make a choice of per
sons to be appointed. all names
must first go to the Council be
fore winding up with the State
Central Committees.
. Two persons will be con
sidered for vacancies, when pos
sible.
Q None of the above need ap
ply to committees, the function
of which may require persons
or representatives of groups,
with special or particular
knowledge.
The Council flared up when
the Democratic State Central
Committee--to the Councils
way of thinking-ignored point
number four: 1.-THE Council will
reserve the right to make O
choice of persons to be ap
pointed" etc.
In stating that only two CT
six persons forwarded to them
were politically acceptable
the sec quite bluntly made
their own choice. Ward w. Cad
dington, sec head, explained
that his committee knew the two
recommended and never heart
Of the others.
In a later, clarifying letter
from the Council to the sec, the
Council said, at occurred to the
Council that perhaps some of the
candidates are not known to the
members of the State Contra
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
w. C. Moulden
Dies at 81;
Was a Native

William c. Moulden, a life
long resident of Montgomery
County died December % at his
home on Washington St, Ken
sington.
Born in Rockville in August
1877, Mr.. Moulden married
Mary Avondale Beale in 1908
and brought her as a bride to
the house he had built on Wash
ington ST., where they lived
until their deaths. Mrs. Moul-
den died a little more than two
years ago.
Except for eight years during
the term Of President Woodrow
Wilson, when Mr.. Moulden was
a clerk in the u. S. Post Office,
he worked in the meat and
grocery business in the area.
He was a member Of the Bap-
fist Church.
He was one of four children,
with only one brother surviving.
He is also survived by three
daughters: Mrs. Eleanor Ger
venka of Washington ST., Mrs.
Clifford Thompson of Forest
Glen and Mrs. Herbert Nooten-
boom of Highland. Maryland.
Funeral services were held
Saturday at the Warner Pun
phrey funeral home with the
Rev. William Miller of the Bap-
list Church and Rev. William
Harris of the Warner Memorial
Presbyterian Church in charge
of the service.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
head ward w. Caddington.

head Ward w. Caddington.
Ruffled that their Instructions
were not fulfilled, the Council
two weeks ago wrote a letter to
the Central Committee, Clarity
ing its policy in all future APP
pointments to Boards, Commit
tees and Commissions.
Meanwhile, it was revealed
this week by Chairman Ward
w. Caddington, of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee,
that appointments to the coun-
ty personnel board have been
routinely cleared through the
DISCO in the past.
Commenting on the Juror
caused by the Councils seeking
political clearance, Caddington
observed: That's nothing new:
we've been doing it for years."
Critics of the move argued
that political evaluation of NOM
inees should play no part in
their selection as personnel
board members inasmuch as
members are charged with
maintaining rigid nonpartisan-
ship in operation of the county
merit system.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
New Hospital from Pr
Religious Issue Is Factor in Suit

patients according to creed"
Archer continued.
Archer told the Sentinel that
1T was fine IL the Roman Cath.
Ollie Church built a hospital, or
for that matter, any other de-
nomination. But when the hos
pital Is a mission of the church
for conversion, and not truly a
public hospital, then public
funds should not be used"
He claimed that plaintiffs
only wanted to see that the hos,
pital paid a fair price for the
land. "We aren't out to halt the
hospital"
I'VE are backing similar suits
in Louisiana and Kentucky, but
this Maryland suit is our
strongest suit because it is pro
posed to turn over public prop
erty Internationally to the Sis
tiers of the Holy Cross without
any real public control over the
proposed hospital"
The POAU, he explained, does
not itself sue, but backs suits
when invited to do so by local
residents. In this instance a
local attorney has been re.
tanned by the plaintiffs, and
the legal staff and research OF
the POAU has been placed al
the groups disposal.
Archer cited examples of doc
tors who were discharged from
Catholic hospitals in Albany
and Poughkeepsie, N. ", and
Springfield, Mass, for failing b
observe UNCONVENTIONAL restric
tons.
The Catholic Hospital Asso,
citation directives, according t.
the suit, "forbids the giving Of
advice about or the use of Ger
tain medically-recognized birth
control practices" These re.
strictions, Archer charged, are
not contained in the code of the
American Medical Association
The complaint charges:
1.-THE said directives are, by
their own statement binding
upon all persons associated
with a Roman Catholic hospital,
and, indirectly, upon the pa.
tents therein, and require that
the administrators of a hos.
pital maintain strict adherence
on the part of all physicians and
attendants to the aforesaid di
receives, thereby causing the
medical care of patients to be
inextricably dependent upon the
dogma and formulas of the
Roman Catholic Church :. =.
THE imposition of such q
sectarian medical code as sci
out in and by the aforesaid
directives. upon all patients
doctors and nurses connected
with the hospital which is part,
/ ~ supported by public funds
is a unconstitutional prefer
ence for the Rdherents Of a
single faith and an unconstitu'
tionaI discrimination against
the adherents of all other faiths,
In direct violation of the First
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
Women Sponsor
antique ShOsc

Bin Malone. radio and Tv per.
sonality, win open the 18th An
nual Antique Show sponsored
by the Woman's Club of Be.
thesda starting january rs at
the clubhouse. Old Georgetown
rd., Bethesda.
The show win last through
January % and win be open
daily from II am. to 10 pm,
except Friday when it win close
at S pm. Admission will be rs
cents and all proceeds viii be
used for the clubs educational
projects.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
Ednor Civic Group
To Hear Conway

John Conway. planning en-.
gineer for the Maryland-Na.
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, will discuss
land planning in the Ednor,
Ashton, Sandy Spring area at
a special meeting Of the Ednor
Civic Association to be held
Wednesday starting at 8 pm.
in the Sandy Spring Library.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
State Ups
Pay for
Sick Poor

Montgomery County, which
with the State helps to pay
hospital bills for INDECENT pa
TENTS, will pay less in the near
future. it was announced this
week by County Health Off
Ger William J. Peoples.
The State Health Department,
DR.. Peoples said, is ready to
take over so per cent of indi-
gent bills, while the Counties
will pay the remaining 20 per
cent. Until now, the split was
6O-4O.
County Attorney Alfred H.
Carter explained that the Gen.
eral Assembly last year passed
the 1920 pay bill, but with the
proviso that all participating
hospitals in the State be- sub
ject to standard fiscal audits
of their books.
The plan could have gone into
effect last July 1, Carter said,
except that wholesale accep-
lance Of the standardized audit
took time.
Montgomery County General
Hospital, Suburban Hospital,
and Washington Sanitarium and
Hospital each offer INDECENT
care to County patients, with a
$26-a-day, county-imposed cell
ing.
If one of the three hospitals
last year had an average cost
per-patient day of SOS, the State
paid $14.10 and the County
paid $1,000. The new ratio,
however, would have the State
shouldering $40 of the load
while the County picked up the
remaining S..
DR.. Peoples said that the new
rates win effect a saving Of be-
tween $500 and $4,000 a year
for the county at Montgomery
General alone. He added that
Montgomery General and Sub
urban Hospitals treat from 5000
to 1000 INDECENT patients a year,
Washington Sanitarium, he said,
handles relatively few mas.
much as their rates are highest
In the County.
Reluctance to bare their
books to County Council scru.
tiny last year held up contract
relationships with Suburban
Hospital and State County indi.
gent payments. The issue was
finally settled months after the
Council started negotiating for
contract renewal, however.
Issue At point was the method
BY which Suburban billed the
]. County: by actual patient cost
or by average patient.day cost
As 10 turned out, payments were
worked out ON average costs.
Montgomery County General
however, had arrangements
with the County whereby the
County would pay actual costs
or average per diem rates
whichever were the least. AS
It worked out. per diem rates
often were less since the hospi
tai - unlike Suburban and
others-charge varying rates
for rooms, etc.
Montgomery General, there
FORE lost a couple of thousand
dollars q year." DIR. Peoples
said. 1T has been a stone in
their craw," he added.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-07
SO Petitions from P.l
Many Seeking
Zoning Okays

themselves of an 18-month wait
ing period during which they
said they would file for I-3 zon-
ing.
The Council, however, denied
permission to withdraw, denied
heavy industry, and initiated
the I-3 zoning itself-to make
sure the land would be used for
light industry.
Other major zoning applica-
tons filed last week included.
. ia acres North of Brick
yard I'd, one-half mile East of
Falls rd., from two-acre to one
acre residential: Torpet Con-
struction Co.
. 34.2 acres fronting on
Fields rd., North of Shady
Grove rd., from Rural-Residen-
tial to Rio apartment: Fields
Road Corporation.
. 8.5 acres at New Hampshire
ave., Pisgah and Avenel rds.,
Hillandale, from R-90 to IL:
Coca Cola Bottling Co., Inc.
. As acres of Fair Hill Farm.
Olney, from Rural-Agricultural
to Rural-Residential, East side
of Georgia ave.: Edwin C. viii.
son.
. 14.2 acres at Ray dr., Mon.
roe st. and Seven Locks I'd,
Rockville, from Rural-Residen-
tial to IL: Monroe, Inc.
. 2.3 acres, Southeast quad.
rant of Shady Grove and Fields
rds., from Rural-Residential to
Commercial: Thomas r. Rick.
etts.
. SO acres at Ounce Or
chard, from Rural-Residential
to COMMERCIAL: Raymond T.
Johnson.
. Almost $4,000 square feet
at the Washington Industrial
Park, Shady Grove rd., from
Rural-Residential to IL: John
E. McKeever.
. Same location, 81 acres to
same classification: Mary Page
Hopkins.
II acres, Kings Valley
Farms, facing Bethesda Church
rd., Damascus, from Rural-Resi-
dental to R-30 apartment zone:
John w. Neumann, David Krup-
saw, Victor Ochsman.
. sos acres on the Norbeck
to Norwood I'd, from Rural
Agricultural to Residential
Estate Zone acre.: Springbrook
Construction Corp.
Q 80 acres fronting on both
Georgia ave. and the Norbeck-
Rockville rd., surrounding the
old Stonestreet store, from
Rural Residential to CONNER
call.
Cases will be heard three
nights a week from January
IA to March 10, whereupon the
Council will begin budget hear.
ings through April Is. Zoning
hearings will resume April Is
and continue through June 16,
Justice Douglas to Talk
Justice William o. Douglas
of the United States Supreme
Court, will address the Mont.
gomery County Council for So
cial Studies on communism in
Asia IN january ID at Gan N m
Evening star., 1960-05-12

delegates voted down the tight
er eligibility requirements after
Mrs. Rollin Brown. a former
president of the national PTA,
said she thought they would
be in conflict with the us
of the national organization.
Explains Stand
Mrs. Edwin Smell, chairman
of the PTA Education Com
mittee and the one official who
might have been affected by
the proposal, also explained her
position before the standing
vote was taken.
Her two children are in pri-
vate school, she said, not be-
cause she does not believe in
public education. but because
it is the responsibility of par
ents to provide the best pos
sible education for their chill
dren.
Il want public education to
be BETTER" Mrs. Smell told the
delegates. I'm willing to work
for it. Are you?"
Supporters of the proposed
change said PTA leadership is
effective if officers have close
contact with the public schools.
Evening star., 1960-05-12
Q. O. P. Votes
Soughtfor
Home Rule

District G. o. P. leaders hope
to round up enough additional
votes among congressional Re-
publicans to bypass the House
District Committee on pending
home rule legislation.
i think we're going over the
top" District Commissioner
Robert E. Mclaughlin said yes
terday after the first of what
may be a series of visits to
Capitol Hill on the vote-seeking
campaign.
Mr.. Mclaughlin and Carl L.
Shipley. chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee. yes
terday recruited what they hope
will turn out to be six G.. o. P.
votes for the administrations
backed measure to give the Dis
trict Governor and its own
legislative body.
Mr.. Shipley said the six in
clude Representatives Holt of
California and Robson of New
York. He said he preferred not
to name the other four until
they have had a chance to sign
Evening star., 1960-05-12

ton of opposing bills which
would have provided funds for
the construction of schools and
for pay increases for teachers.
Mr.. Brademas, member of
the House Education and Labor
Committee, said the Federal
Government must spend more
on public 'ucation to alleviate
the shortG Of ciassrooms and
teachers.
At the banquet, the PTA
Congress awarded honorary life
memberships, its highest award,
to Walter N. Tobriner, chair
man of the Board of Education,
and Birch Bayh, one of its area
vice presidents.
At the business session, the
Evening star., 1960-05-12

the discharge petition. which is
intended to bring the Senate
passed bill to the House floor
The total of petition signers
at last report had reached 1874
of the 219 needed.
Mr.. Shipley. who has made
no secret Of his lack of enthu-
siasm for the home rule meas
ure, said he is seeking to carry
out the will Of the majority of
Republicans, who favored the
bill in last weeks District pri-
mary. Mr.. Mclaughlin is a
strong backer of the bill.
Evening star., 1960-05-12
Tiqhter Rules on PTA
OHice-HoIding Beaten

Delegates District PTA convention have
voted down proposal to tighten eligibility requirements for
holding Office in the cty-wide organization.
After Ia hours of debate yesterday they defeated pro-
bylaws of the District Congress of
Parents which would have required officers to be
Evening star., 1960-05-12

District residents and either
public school employees or par
entS of children enrolled in
the public schools.
Under the existing bylaws.
any District resident can be
eligible for PTA Office, regard
less of any connection with the
public schools.
The effort to impose the ad-
ditional restrictions was one
of two controversies which the
delegates settled with their
votes yesterday, the last day of
the three day meeting in the
Departmental Auditorium.
The other controversy con-
cerned the election of a PTA
vice president for Area ",
which takes in more than 80
schools in the far Northeast
and Southeast. Mrs. Donald
Bailey was the only candidate
put up by the official nominat-
ing committee. But a group
of insurgent delegates on Tues
day nominated Mrs. George H.
Morris for the post from the
floor. They charged that Mrs.
Bailey represented a small
group in the area who were
not interested in following
democratic procedures.
Mrs. Morris Wins
The delegates yesterday gave
a resounding victory to Mrs.
Morris. The final count: Mrs.
Morris, 346; Mrs. Bailey, 217.
In uncontested elections, Mrs.
Elizabeth Goodman was chosen
vice president of Area II and
Mrs. William Baisinger as vice
president of Area VI.
Delegates did all the voting
at a lengthy business session
which started at $50 am. and
ended just before 2 pm. The
convention officially came to a
close last night as more than
1000 persons attended the an
nual banquet at the Sheraton
Park Hotel.
The main speaker, Repre-
sentative Brademas, Democrat
of Indiana, predicted tn e
Thompson bill on school con-
struction will be passed by Con-
gresS this session. 1t would
provide grants of 1925 million
to the States for school con-
struction the first year and
the same amount in matching
funds for each of two more
years.
Charges Opposition
Mr.. Brademas also predicted
that the attitude of the Eisen-
hover administration and of
Vice President Nixon toward
Federal aid to public schools
will be a major issue in the
presidential campaign.
Evening star., 1960-05-12
THE BEST-RIPENED ORANGES
ARE TINGED WITH GREEN

That's because of this years abundance of
spring rain and sunshine Natures own
chlorophyll tinged the golden surface of
the skin with green as the oranges
ripened on the tree. The green is only
skin deep; inside, the meat and juice are
fully tree-ripened and sweet.
Evening star., 1960-05-12
Charges Opposition

Mr.. Brademas also predicted
that the attitude of the Eisen-
hover administration and of
Vice President Nixon toward
Federal aid to public schools
will be a major issue in the
presidential campaign.
He accused the administra-
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Miss Palmer
Is Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Palm
er of Marshfleld, Mass, an
nounce the engagement Of
their daughter Roberta to
Ensign Richard Leslie Huber,
USCGR, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Worden Huber Of
Bethesda.
Miss Palmer is a graduate
Of the Northfield School for
Girls and is a senior at
Wellesley College. She is a
member Of the Junior League
Of Boston.
Ensign Huber is a gradu-
ate of Harvard College, where
he was a member of the
Hasty Pudding Institute Of
ITO. He also studied at the
Institute de la Grasa y sus
Derividos, Sevilla, Spain.
A June 10 wedding is
planned.