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Evening star., 1962-12-30
BY BILL VEECK

The New York Giants and
Green Bay Packers meet today
in an awesome and elephantine
struggle before the usual stand
ing room only crowd. That
clicking sound you hear in the
background is the sound Of
television sets being turned on
all over the country.
AS you may have noticed,
people don't phone you on
Sunday afternoon anymore, ex-
cept during the halftime break,
They figure you're watching
The game.
Pro football. as any beer
hustler can tell you, has become
a National Pastime - that
phrase has a familiar ring TO
1t; where hare I heard 1t be-
fore?
Now. l don't want anyone To
get the wrong impression, ]
have been a baseball fellow all
my life and I guess I'm destined
TO run my course to the end
But that does not, ] hope, put
binders on my common sense,
Baseball Unrufflcd
A year ago, an Associated
Press poll OF sports experts
found. TO nobody's great sur
prise. that football was quite
probably going TO be our ma
tional game Of the future. This,
you will be happy 10 know. did
nothing 10 ruffle the compla-
cency OF organized baseball,
which believes It's standing
comes from a Higher Authority.
Baseball insists upon holding
10 the comforting belief that
we are not In competition with
football or any other form OF
sport or entertainment. We
are. though, The entertainment
dollar Is not a waterfall that
keeps cascadinR endlessly, II is
a pool from which only so
much can be drained. The more
people you find attending foot
ball games In the fall, the fewer
you will find attending baseball
games In the summer.
] have been a fan OF profess
sional football almost from the
day that George Halas brought
Evening star., 1962-12-30
Bisons Score
First Victory

Howard University, with six
players scoring in double fig
ures, scored its first basketball
victory of the season last night
by defeating D. c. Teachers
College, 77-64, in the consola-
ton game of the Gallaudet In
vitational tournament.
Paul Gist's % points were
high for Howard. Tony Upson's
20 led the Teachers. Howard
had lost six straight games be-
fore last night. The Techers
also are l-6.
Evening star., 1962-12-30
tits. - - ~

Hsifums. i7.i7. ~ ." "
Free throws missed Oeorgetown,
Barry z, Franz, Lopata, Devlin, ODon-
nell Western Michigan, Petr0n .,
Triplett . Newsome, Anderson, Snyder,
Personal fouls. oeorgetown, Lopata
peevlin y, Franz ., O'Donnell Grad
dock Western Michigan Street -,
Triplett ;, Petroit I, Griffin q volk-
erS ., Snyder . Baugh. Anderson.
Evening star., 1962-12-30

Haiftime: 1898.
Free throws missed: Navy, Terwil-
Tiger ., Krechting ,, Davenport >,
Konold. Kettelhodt Utah, Allen, Grain
3, Moon, Hawes 2.
Personal fouls: Navy. Krechting 2,
Davenport. Mack 3, Ross >, TerWil-
Tiger 3. Konold 3, Kettelhodt .. NAH
3, Moon 4, Thurgood 8, Kroeger .,
Thomas .
Attendance: 11,l3s.
Evening star., 1962-12-30

son a few seconds later and the
Penn standout sank the win
ming point. Ward led all scor-
ers with 27 points.
Evening star., 1962-12-30
HERE'S BILL VEECK
Pro Football Gaining
Prestige Over Baseball

row, the NIL owners, led by
Halas, George P. Marshall and
Bert Bell, rewrote the rule book
to unshackle the offense.
Bell Gets Credit
Most important Of all,
though. they were guided by a
wise commissioner, the late,
great Bert Bell. Bell was a
most unusual man to be ap-
pointed commissioner of any
thing. He had been through
the mill as a player, coach and
owner, which meant he had put
his muscle, his mind and his
money where his mouth was.
Operating on the simple
premise that the league coulo
prosper only II all its COM
ponent parts were prosperous
Bell protected the weak and lei
the strong take care OF them
selves. The player draft, tr
which the bottom teams get tho
pick Of the college crop, We!
his invention.
With the advent OF television
the new giant, he saw very
clearly that II each club wa.
left TO It's own predatory in.
stincts, those which happened
10 be located in the most de.
sirable geographic areas Woulc
profit so enormously, at the ex.
pense OF the others. that tho
league could easily degenerate
into a division Of the haves anc
the have-notS.
Television Plan
To prevent this from hap,
pening, he pushed through {
program by which the league
itself would sell all televisior
rights and divide the proceed
equally among all clubs.
/ speak here from persona
knowledge. After failing to sci
much the same idea 10 thu
American League specifically
and baseball In general durinl
the winter meetings OF 1862.
retired to New York 10 lick my
wounds. BY coincidence, Bel
was In town successfully ped
ding his television. I spent O
whole week end at Toots Shor',
nodding in silent agreement
Evening star., 1962-12-30

Halftime: 36-36.
Free throws missed. TcU-Hull
Wade, Mckinley, Bonds ., Fowler .
Rosick ?, CLAYTON 4. GWU-Adamitis
., Aruscauage, Checkan .. Clark 1,
pua4eS; Farrell 3, Holloman T. Legins
Attendance. 5000 (est.).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-19
Tightening
Car Towing
Rules Backed

The Citizens Traffic Board
pledged 100 per cent support
yesterday for George England
in his attempt to tighten regu-
lations governing tow opera
tors.
Mr.. England, director Of the
Department Of Motor Vehicles,
has said he believes action is
needed to prevent overcharges
and other abuses by some OPP
orators here.
A meeting Of District Off
Gals will be called in about 10
days to consider what steps
should be taken to improve the
controls, Mr.. England said.
The traffic board also APP
proved q 12-point program de-
signed to increase District
parking facilities.
The program which has been
proposed by q special commit
tee Of the board, recommended
a new parking authority. APP
pointment Of permanent traffic
court judges, acquisition Of ad-
ditional fringe parking sites,
underground parking facilities
and strengthening Of the Police
Departments Traffic Division.
Arnold Fine, board chair
man, presented certificates Of
award and $25 savings bonds to
two policemen named by the
board as Traffic officer Of the
Month"-PvtS. James E. Muir
ply and Calvin r. Willett.
Pvts. Willett and Murphy.
both Of the First Precinct. we're
honored for the arrest Of a
traffic offender. who turned
out to be a parole violator want
ed for HOUSEKEEPING. Several
thousand dollars worth Of
stolen goods were recovered as
q result Of the arrest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-19
PurkIund Bonds
For $50 Million
Sold at Low Rute

Bonds worth $50 million to
purchase park land In Mont
gomery and Prince y Georges
Counties we're sold yesterday at
the lowest interest rate Of any
issue sold by the two counties
this year.
The bonds were sold to Hal
sey, Stuart q Co., Inc, Of New
York. by the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission. The money
will be used to buy $500 acres
In Montgomery County and
1900 acres in Prince Georges
County.
The interest rate was 3.l376
per cent for SIS million in
Prince Georges bonds and S.152o
per cent for Sal million In
Montgomery.
The winning bid was the
lowest Of six submitted. Bids
were opened at q special meet
ing in the commissions Silver
Spring office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-19

A health-check trailer may
begin operation in the District
In January or February to
screen persons 40 and over for
q variety Of illnesses.
The mobile health center will
be designed to provide physical
inspection, weight, vision, hear
ing and glaucoma tests, chest
X-rays for tuberculosis, cancer
and heart abnormalities, blood
tests, blood pressure recordings
and electro cardiograms.
DR.. Murray Grant, the new
District health director, told the
District Public Health Advisory
Council yesterday that he has
decided to support the opera
ton Of the trailer for five
years las a study" not as a
new or permanent program.
He said no one Is sure that
the citizens aimed for will sup
ports the program and make 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-19
Fuirfux Tree Lighting
Slated This Afternoon

Songs by the Madrigal Choir
Of Fairfax High School were
on the program for the light
ing OF the community Christ
mas tree in Fairfax today.
William H. Moss. chairman
Of the Board Of County Super
vsors. was 10 throw the switch
at the pm. ceremony on the
courthouse lawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-19
Health roiIer Planned
To Detect OIdster Ills

success. But he said the po-
tential benefits are great.
THE savings to be derived
from the early detection and
treatment of chronic diseases
will be reflected in the con-
tinued productivity of the wage
Garner and family" DR.. Grant
said. He added that the medi-
cal center would also forestall
costly disqualification and pre-
vent premature deaths.
The study, therefore, will be
valuable to the whole Nation,
DR.. Grant said, whether the
trailer proves successful or not.
DR.. Grant estimated that so
persons per day could be
screened-l2,500 per year.
Probably, he said, three fifths
of those persons IS and older
and one fourth Of all others
will require some follow-up.
Test results will be provided to
private physicians or, when the
patient is medically INDECENT,
to the facilities of the Health
Department.
Two community health work.
ers will be required to promote
the acceptance and use Of the
medical center in the neigh
borhoods that 1t visits. The
annual cost will be $4,000 or
about 81 per person screened.
DR.. Grant proposes that the
program be financed through
June 80 from funds available
from the chronic disease and
heart control program in the
District. After that, the pro-
gram can be supported by the
Kerr-Mills Medical Assistance
to the Aged Act, DR.. Grant
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-19
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01

development of a theoret-
ical construct for the over
all design"
I'm having difficulty under
standing what this means"
complained Board member Paul
c. Howard.
at must mean plans
doesn't it?" asked Robert E.
Morrow. DR.. Wilson said it did.
Another was the goal of
development of the concep-
tual framework for communi-
cation and the involvement of
the varieties of agencies and
persons who are concerned with
curriculum, together with prac-
teal plans for the refinement
of existing institutional ma
chinery for communication and
involvement
Programs Planned
Under questioning by Board
members, DR.. Wilson said ex-
tensive workshop programs are
planned, starting this summer,
to work out curriculum design
for the county's school system.
Board member Clifford K.
Beck expressed concern over
the large number of teachers,
consultants and administrators
expected to participate in the
summer workshop.
won't there be some prob
lem involved in avoiding com
promise on these important sub
jects?" he asked. "In making
final decisions on what comes
out of the workshops, won't you
perhaps hit on the lowest COM
mon denominator?"
DIR. Wilson said she hadn't
thought about that much" but
felt teachers and specialists
"who can give us insights' and
scholarly consultants who can
guide us" should be included.
DR.. Beck said, however, he
was mot sure the involvement
of very large numbers of peo-
pie in the first discussion of
concepts and plans is not get
ting the cart before the horse"
my own feeling is that if
you put together five people
who are recognized experts in
their fields you stand a better
chance of developing a program
Continued on Page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01

Democratic Party and the coun.
ty government effective, broad.
based leadership.
I'VE look forward to working
together in support of our State
ticket and the outstanding, pro-
gressive and highly qualified
candidates for local elective of.
fees, who are being supported
by the Mahoney.Lee-Barrick
Sickles Democratic Club"
According to Club officials,
filing Of the slate marks the
joining together of Democratic
Party factions representing
moderate and liberal viewpoints
for the first time In a Montgom.
cry County primary campaign.
The groups State ticket in.
cludes George p. Mahoney for
Governor, Blair Lee, III, for
u. S. Senator, Samuel j. Bar.
rick for Attorney General and
Carleton r. Slckles for u. S.
Congressman,at-Large
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01
ACC Asks
One-Rate
Park Tax

A resolution coupling a rec.
concentration for a one.rate
park tax for all of Montgomery
County with concern over "year
to year" salary increases for de.
partment heads in the Mary
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission has been
adopted by the Allied Civic
Group.
The ACC met this week in
Silver Spring and repeated its
1861 recommendation that the
same tax be paid by the upper
and lower districts in the coun.
ty.
The recommendation was a
result of a study of the Commits
sion's proposed 1929 budget,
which continues a 13-cent tax
for the lower district and a s.
cent tax for the upper district.
"a substantial portion of fu-
ture park land will be in or adj
jacent to the upper county,"
said Robert M. Dor, chairman of
the public parks and recreation
committee of ACC.
"T'he upper county should
lend the same tax support to
these purchases as the remain
der of the county," he said.
Boris resolution asks the Park
and Planning Commission to
sponsor Legislation in the Cen
eral Assembly providing for
one taxing district for the entire
county.
Concern for continuing salary
increases was added as an
amendment to the resolution -
an amendment opposed by Dor.
1--WE feel" the amendment
said, chat the increases award
ed from year to year to these
department heads are making
their salaries out of line with
comparable governmental agen-
cies. We hope that this prac-
tice will not be continued auto
matically in future budgets"
Another resolution endorsed
a Maryland Senate joint resolu-
ton to authorize a highway
needs study by the State Roads
Commission.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01
M-L-B-S Slate of FiUe Candidates Files
For Democratic Central Committee

Five candidates for the
Democratic State Central
Committee of Montgomery
County this week filed as a
unit at the Board Of Educa-
ton Supervisors in Rock
vile.
All five candidates, four
of them incumbents, are run
ming on the Mahoney-Lee-
Barrick-Sickles Democratic
Club ticket formed during
February.
Filing we're William 3. Wheel.
er, Silver Spring attorney and
president of the M.LB-S Club;
Warren Browning, Bethesda at.
torney and past chairman of the
County Central Committee; Ray
v. Murphy, Silver Spring land
planning consultant; Mrs. Mar
saret Carpenter, Chevy Chase
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01

housewife long active in county
Democratic affairs; and Mrs.
James Fl. Mann, Poolesville
housewife who is president of
the Women's National Demo-
cratic Club.
Frank l.. Hewitt, Silver
Spring banker and real estate
man, and Mrs. Doris Solomon,
Silver Spring housewife, also
are candidates for the Central
Committee on the ticket. Hewitt
filed earlier this month and Mrs.
Solomon was expected to file
later this week.
ncumbents among the group
who filed are Wheeler, Brown
ing, Mrs. Carpenter and Murphy.
Wheeler said the joint filing
'fs an indication of the unity
and spirit of cooperation with
which this ticket will proceed
in the forthcoming campaign,
In the interest Of giving the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01
An Editorial


This weeks sharp cleavage in the thinking Of
School Board members concerning their role in cur
riculum development should serve to focus renewed
attention on the garng need for firm policy in this
vitality important matter.
To our mind the Boards primary function is to
lay down the broad outlines of the curriculum pro-
gram. It is for this that Board members elected:
to give purpose and direction to entire educational
SYSTEM not to rubber stamp staff recommendations.
And the very of the system is the determination
Of what should be taught the classroom and where
emphasis should be placed
From the outset, the conception of non-professon-
al School Boards, whether appointve elective has
been to citizens that they and else will
control the education of their children through their
representatives on the Board.
Accordingly the Board cannot transfer the final
responsibility for deciding the what and how of teach
ing to department head or any other employee how
ever wel[qualified. Such act would be similar on
larger scale, to the President of the United States
giving the Secretary of State final authority over our
foreign policy
This is not to say that the Superintendent of
Schools, than the Secretary of State should
be ignored in the discussions leading up to policy
decisions. Obviously DR. Whittier's recommendations
are necessary and desirable, the Board will have
DIS Hucn information as possible on particular queS-
ton before it acts And certainly DR.. Whittier should
be permitted to make decisions in matters which
policy has already been set by the Board.
But when curriculum is involved, we are in whole
hearted agreement with DR.. Clifford Becks observa-
ton that broad overall decisions cannot be left to
staff experts.
As another Board member, Robert Morrow, so
apty pointed out, Board members were not elected to
devote all even major portion of their time to
checking business and administrative details. These
duties can be performed by subordnates. The Board
of Education should have important work to do;
and what is important than school cIrricu-
um?
The Board has the responsibility for the end re-
suits of the educational program And its the respon-
sibiity of the staff to these end results
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01
Board Takes No Action
On Curriculum Control
Teaching Programs Report
Language Bothers Group

Heavy emphasis will be placed on improving teaching
programs in English reading, composition and spellng
geography industrial arts and business education in the
county's school system next year.
This was among the plans disclosed to the School
Board this week by its Office of Curriculum Development
in the first of four reports how is carrying
made by special committee of lay and pro-
fessional county citizens last year.
Using so-called "broken-front approach curriculum
planners said they will concentrate other classroom
subjects in future years, on this schedule:
196364-Science social science subjects such his
tory anhropology and political science English literature
and health, physical education and safety.
1964-65- Mathematics, foreign language, music, art
and home arts.
The staff progress report presented by DR. Elizabeth
c. Wilson, Director of Curriculum Development had
mixed reception from Board members.
One of their first points of concern the language
of the report, which included such tongue-wsters as
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01
County Press
Meets Friday

The Montgomery County
Press Association will hold its
monthly meeting March 2 at the
Silver Spring YMCA, $500 Hast
ings DIR.
Dinner will be served at $50
pm.
After dinner the association
and other members of the press
will tour the YMCA and hold a
swimming party In the new in
door pool at the Y.
There will be a show of sum-
mer fashions and bathing suits
put on by the Hecht Company,
a swimming demonstration by
former Olympic star Shelley
Mann and a demonstration by
the US Dolphin Divers, a scuba
swimming group.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01

tons of School Supt. C. Taylor
Winters professional staff in
curriculum matters.
Curriculum development
rests with the superintendent
and his staff" declared DR..
Breimyer, adding that eff this is
the year for curriculum devel-
opment," DR.. Whittier should be
"as free of administrative re-
sponsibilities as possible" to
work with his staff on it.
Others sharing DR.. Breimyer's
view said the Board should
avoid detailed dictation of cur
riculum and confine itself to ex-
pressions of opinion and broad
general approval or disapproval
of recommendations made by
curriculum planners.
Crux of Problem
Crux of the problem is that
no formal policy exists on how
the Board is to spell out courses
of study. While foreign Ian
guage teaching in elementary
schools and the recently-in-
itiated University of Maryland
math program have been adopt
ed through Board action, re.
sponsibility for all areas of cur.
riculum development remains
an open question.
1.-THE role of the board and
its staff in curriculum matters
is something that needs to be
resolved" said DR.. Whittier,
urging that a clear policy
should be established.
He said later, however, he
didn't think the board should
act in specific areas of curricu.
lum development unless it was
acting on his recommendations.
For the board to take it into
it's own hands to try to write
the curriculum would be
grievous error" DR.. Whittier
said.
The controversy over the
School Boards role in develop
ing teaching programs arose
when it met this week to dis
cuss the first of four reports on
how its Office of Curriculum
Development is putting recon-
mendations of a countrywide
Curriculum Study Committee
into effect.
Board members agreed with
DR.. Whittier that the program
is major step into important
new ground" designed to keep
the county's school system
knowing from a better-than-
average program to the best
possible program"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-01
Elimination
OF Flooding.
FillOrdered

In an unScheduled demon
Stration of community ire,
two dozen residents of Mary
vale took over this weeks
meeting of the Rockville
City Council to demand
and get - official action
against an offending neigh
Dor.
Spokesman for the group of
citizens who descended on the
city heads in mid-meeting was
c. L. Porter, $40 Crabb ave-,
who said their northeast Rock.
vile neighborhood has been
flooded by water from a closed
drainage channel on the proper
ty of Benjamin Rehman, 314
Crabb ave.
Rehman, the council was
told, owns two lots at the cor.
ner of Crabb ave. and Horners
la. About a year ago, he began
filling in drainage channel on
his land and has since succeed
ed in creating a dixie three feet
higher than the land level
around it.
Although Rehman put in a
small drainpipe to carry off
water, Porter said, it has proven
so inadequate that a small lake
about 80 feet long and so feet
wide and 21a feet deep at It's
lowest point-has developed be-
hind the channel.
The Rockville officials acted
swiftly on this complaint, order
ing Rehman to eliminate the
ground fill within three days or
face possible court action.
In other business at their
meeting, the Rockville city
heads asked their staff to report
within two weeks on two pros
pective sites for the second low
rent 45-unit housing project
planned in the city's urban re-
newal program.
Choice was narrowed to the
two sites after staff reports on
access roads, sewers and public
transportation eliminated a half
dozen others from consideration.