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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Grand Jury to Hear
20 From Montgomery

Twenty Montgomery County
citipens, including all seven
members of the County
Council, were scheduled to ap-
pear today before a grand
jury investigating possible
conflicts of interest in coming
matters.
The grand jury's inquiry
was expected to center around
a civil suit filed last month
by Attorney David Macdonald
Charging improper influence by
Sam Fig. one of the county'S
leading real estate developers
in a coming case. Mr.. Fig has
emphatically denied the charge
The suit was filed on behalf
of Clifford c. Kaslow and
Ralph D. Rocks who sought
high-denSity coming of a 90
acre tract adjoining Mr.. Figs
property near Gaithersburg.
Mr.. Macdonald charged in
the suit that Mr.. Fig talked to
council members after they had
cast a preliminary ST. vote last
May % in favor of the coming.
1t said Mr.. Fig urged them to
change their decision because
it would adversely affect his
own property.
The council reversed itself
and voted against the rezoning
on June II after making an in
spection of the Kaslow prop
erty. Council members also
have denied they were ap-
preached by Mr.. Fig to change
their earlier vote.
Mr.. Fig has extensive land
holdings in the area around
his Motel Washingtonian and
Shady Grove Country Club on
Route 70-S. His land. near the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
BY THOMAS F. DIMOND
Star Staff Writer


A seventh grader at Gordon
Junior High and one at Jeffer-
son Junior High both work
with skeletons in English class
but not of the same animal.
Gordon's skeleton is the fun.
damental unit of a sentence
the subject, verb and direct
object, which the students di-
agram. "They don't diagram
the adjectives. but they car
pick them out" a teacher told
me.
Later I attended an English
class at jefferson, where the
teacher asked the students to
prepare a skeleton, not of q
sentence, but of an original
folk tale" They were to bring
this outline to class, where
they would fill it out as part Of
an examination on folk tales
they had read.
Don't write a rough draft
which you bring in and just
copy over" the teacher, Mrs
Cuemile Dunn, instructed. 1--WE
want to see your imagination
work in class"
On the blackboard behind
Mrs. Dunn were instructions or
composition, reminding stu
dents not to overwork the adj
jective very" ("only one pei
paper"), or to use the same OF
similar words like facts" anc
"factual" in the same para
graph.
Writing comes later in the
year for seventh graders al
Gordon. At first they will com.
pose sentences using word,
from a spelling or grammar les
son. BY the end of the veal
they will have learned to pu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

SHE SEEMED astoniShed
for a moment and then read
the words on Big Loo'S pack
age: you and Big Loo Are
Master of Any Situation"
She poked Big Loo with a
finger and he rocked. A clerk
came over.
Does it come with bat
teries?" she asked the clerk.
The clerk mumbled Eyes"
and tried to work the broken
Big Loo. He went away to get
some new batteries.
WELL" said the grand
m 9th er," it certainly does
not look like it will last very
long"
The clerk came back and
put in some new batteries,
but the boys had put an end
to Big Loo. He wasn't going
anywhere.
The clerk began grinding a
handle at the back of Big
Loo's head so that a small
record, somewhere inside the
robot, began turning and Big
Loo began to talk.
The grandmother Der t
down and tried to hear what
he had to say.
Whats he Saying?" she
asked the clerk.
The clerk leaned down and
listened for a while and
finally said, Hes saying, I
can pick things up"
"Oh," said the grand
mother, who shortly wan
dered away and began look
ing at the box King Zor was
In.
What wonderful madness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL

Mr. Dimond, The StoTs District edu-
cotton reporter, went back to school
TO Ieorn about the eity's eontrover-
sioI Jefferson Plan, O demanding
new junior high school curriculum.
To compare it with the stondord
junior high program, he divided bis
time between jefferson ond onother
school. Gordon, attending classes
for several weeks ct both. This is
the second of O series of six articles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

9th Graders Use Skeletons to Master Writing Mechanics

school they can go on to crit.
cal analysis and reading of lit.
Ierature.
1t is in the eighth and ninth
year that writing receives more
emphasis and grammar work is
extended by Gordon teachers
Eighth and ninth graders learn
about complex sentences, SUBJ
ordinate clauses, participial
phrases, and restrictive anc
non-restrictive clauses.
They also write a compost
ton a week of 100 words OF
more, depending on the ability
of the class. Occasionally these
will be extemporaneous. One
day Mrs. Lawlor put a list OF
topics my Locker, A Pep Rally,
A Dancing Class, MY Fishing
Spot on the board and told
the class to write about one of
them.
1.-THE first thing you're going
to do is put down a list of ideas
on scratch paper" she said
Then the first thing you write
is a topic sentence" After a
few more instructions from
her, the clasS'got to work.
At Jefferson, the habit OF
creative writing continues in
the eighth and ninth grades.
Mrs. Dunn, like Mrs. Lawlor,
finds her students weakest in
sentence structure, but some
times she DISCOVERIES a gem. like
the poem which an eighth
grader wrote, entitled The
Wind:
The mind blolDS through the
trees like the UhiStling
OF q tea kettle.
And the trees shake Nth q
tDild, conUuISiUe laughter.
Tomorrow: Social studies-theme!
versus events,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Headlights Tip Off Safe Robbery

A stolen safe containing
some $4,000 was recovered and
a man was arrested early today
because two policemen in a
scout car were blinded by the
headlights of an oncoming car.
The policemen, Pvts. Lowell
E. Bailey and Thomas F. Way
of the Fourteenth Precinct, re-
ported they were cruising south
on Minnesota avenue NE. when
a car coming in the other d.
rection blinded them with its
headlights.
The policemen turned around
to catch up with the driver and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

day on spelling, three days on
grammar and one day on liter
allure.
Spelling is highly formalized
by Gordon teachers. In my
first day with Gordon's seventh
grade, the class opened its
spelling books and students
took turns reciting the new
words. Mrs. O'Hara then spent
a time going over some of the
tricky ones which she had writ
ten on the board, like urgent, Z"
ornament" and presence"
What is another word for
'urgent'?" she asked. Someone
said important"
What is the difference be-
tween important and urgent?
Can something be important
but not urgent?"
Later on in the week the
class was tested on these new
words.
Most students at Gordon
read two books a year which
are assigned to a whole class.
Treasure Island" Man With
out a Country" David Copper
field" and the Odyssey" re-
ceive the most attention.
Some teachers also have
their students do independent
reading and turn in book re-
ports. Mrs. Sandra Lawlor re-
quires her Gordon students to
turn in two or three detailed
book reports a month. These
reports tell her whether or not
a student has read the books,
but she doesn't ask for criti-
ciSm.
THE junior high school is
not a time for specializing, but
to strengthen what is weak by
taking a little bit of every
thing" she said. Then in high
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

The police peereed into the
trunk and found a 300-pound
safe which, as it turned out,
contained an estimated $4,000
and had been stolen from the
Mighty Mo drive-in restaurant
at $3.50 Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. Investigating police found
the rear door lock of the res
taurant had been jimmied
open.
Police Insp. Howard F.
Mowry said the owner of the
car, Henry Mcmillan, %, a
presser, who lives in the 1400
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

THE ELECTRIC ra cing
sets of last year-they cause
fights at Christmas time
have added a new wrinkle.
Instead of cars, you can buy
trotters to zoom around the
track.
The war in Wet Nam is re-
Elected in the toy weapons.
The machine gun has come
back, and something called a
guerrilla gun"
There are little soldier uni
forms, as usual, but these
have been camouflaged.
Came across another gun
that shoots harmless pellets.
It's a big six-gun. With the
set come three remarkable
bottles. If you hit the bottles
they break. But you can put
them back together again.
You can do the same thing
with a Humpty Dumpty toy.
Safely inside a big box was
something called King For"
Zor resembles a dragon but
it must be a rem ark BILE
dragon. For For, according to
the words on the package,
Turns Toward Attacker;
HurlS Missiles When Hit;
Turns Away From Obstacles;
RoarS Out Loud" Included
with the purchase is a dino
Saur gun"
Boys continued to pass
from toy to toy on display.
Their hands darted out and
touched each object. They
were sort of frantic and
acted like time was running
out for them.
One of the pieces of ma
chinery they had busted was
big Loo"
Big Loo must be about two
feet tall. He looks like a robot
a n d is said to be Your
Friend From the Moon"
The Rambler watched a
woman in a red dress, old
enough to be a grandmother
several times, move up in the
confusion and look at Big
Loo standing on the floor
looking back at her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

point out his bad driving man
ners. But, the police reported,
the car Immediately sped off
1t finally stopped in the 5000
block Of Blaine street NE.
The driver jumped out. So
did a passenger and, to the
amazement Of the police, so did
another passenger who had
been riding in the trunk of the
late model sedan. The men
were in such a hurry to leave
one of them ran out of one OF
his tennis shoes, leaving it on
the pavement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

Like other courses at Jeffer-
son, English is organized in
units, or ideas" such as his
torical frontiers, adventure, let
ter writing, courage, the world
of doors. At the end Of each
unit students write a compost
ton and take a test.
Grammar and spelling are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
The
Rambler
-. Gets
Ready
By JOHN MeKELWAY

The wonderful madness is
Is upon US.
They say the day after
Thanksgiving it starts. And
last Friday it had started.
The ladies, heavy and de-
termined and arm ed with
umbrellas, attacked down.
town most of the day. They
have started to list now with
their bulky shopping bags.
The Rambler roamed in a
big department store and
tried to get used to the idea.
Small boys had taken over
the toy departm e mt. One
stood a few feet away from
the Frankenstein Horror
Target and fired plastic balls
at the contraption. He was
completely contented.
Another picked up a black
pistol and prepared to shoot
a beam of light at an "elec-
tronic target"
"Oh, dear" said a lady who
suddenly found herself in
the line of fire. She expected
to be struck by one of those
harmless" pellets that fly
around the house at Christ
mas time.
She moved quickly away
and went over and examined
a 10-foot decorated plastic
Christmas tree selling for
SIPS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

block of Euclid street NV,
was picked up at his home
questioned and charged with
HOUSEKEEPING in the case,
Two other men are being
sought.
Police discovered that the
lights on the offending vehicle
had blinded them, not because
they were set on high beam,
but because all the weight in
the trunk had lifted the front
end of the car. Police said Nc
MILAN had been riding in the
trunk to hold the rear deck
lid down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

included in these units, but for
the most part they are built
around literature. In the ninth
grade, English becomes a study
of type" literature-the novel,
short stories, Greek, Eliza
bethan and modern plays,
myths, epics and verse.
At Gordon the pattern is one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
School Head
Backs Track Plan
Rebuts Critic
Of Program
On Dropouts

District School Supt. Carl F.
Hansen yesterday denied a
school board members charges
that the track system for
ability grouping is undemo-
cratic and encourages school
dropoutS.
DR.. Euphemia Haynes, a
member of the District Board
of Education. told the board
November 20 that the track
program was creating a class
society and that the develop
ment of special abilities should
play a secondary role in the
schools. She said slow learners
were leaving school because
they saw no future for them
selves under the program.
Appearing on City Side" a
prefilmed interview program
telecaSt on WTOP-TV, DR..
Hansen said yesterday it was
the old method of heterogen-
eous grouping that discouraged
slow learners.
Il am of the opinion that
the most undemocratic kind of
set-up lis to have children as
signed to classes where they
cannot possibly function at
ALL" DR.. Hansen asserted.
Teaching at Medium
Il think that we ought to be
very sure that before we aban-
don the track system we know
we are getting into something
better than the accidental plac-
ing of children" he added.
Under Heterogeneous group
ing, DR.. Hansen said, a high
school teacher may face a class
with reading abilities ranging
from fourth to twelfth grade
level, forcing her to make a
choice in emphasis.
The chances are she's 60
ing to teach down the middle.
and those at both ends will be
neglected" the superintendent
said.
He said that the basic track
gives schools a holding power
over slow children who might
otherwise drop out because of
disbursement. In heterogen-
eous classes, "the slow child
drops out because he just can't
keep up" the superintendent
declared. LAS he experiences
this kind of learning, it's all
negative for him; he becomes
frustrated, angry, hostile"
DR.. Hansen said the home
sometimes is responsible for
slow learners being dissatisfied
In some cases parents are dis
appointed or chargrined by the
fact that a child in the family
is a slow learner, and this feel
ing Of anxiety carries over to
the child"
Need Housing Balance
In response to a question
about the racial composition of
the schools, DR.. Hansen said a
balance will be achieved be-
tween Negro and white pupils
only when a residential balance
is achieved through open hous-
ing.
The superintendent also said
a greater effort needs to be
made to teach children in slum
areas, where schools are shun-
ned by some teachers. What
we've got to do is make it clear
that schools where children are
the most handicapped should
have the most effective and eff
ficient teachers" he said.
He suggested the possibility
OF hiring people with qualifica-
tons other than professional
teacher training to COM
municate with and teach"
children in problem areas.
you don't have to have a
degree in literature to help
youngsters appreciate and un-
derStand some of the current
materials in science, for ex-
ample, or sports" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Empty Safe Stolen

Burglars broke into an Alex
andria store over the week end
and stole a 300-pound floor
safe, police reported. The safe
was empty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
Virginia Court UPhoIds
Alcoholic Blood Tests
Declares New Drunk Driving Statute
Doesn't Force ANY Self Inflammation

RICHMOND, Dec. (AP).-The Virginia Supreme Court
today upheld implied drunk driving law
ruling that the taking of blood samples for alcoholic analysis
violate the defendants right to refuse testify
against himself.
The the first involving the law to reach
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

Tomorrow: Social studies-themes
versus events.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-09-12
TEE
TO
GREEN
BY JIMMIE BOWMAN
HI Golfers!

HI Golfers!
! say golfers literally because
at this time of the season your
game Is about as good or as bad
as 1t is going to be after weeks of
hacking, dubbdng, practicing, hop
Ing and being a little lucky now
and then. Even your correspondent
was "on" for a while Sunday and
hit the front side in "a strokes at
the Sterhng Club tournament at
Phalen, st. Paul. (More on this
later.
The Sterling Club, had a we'll
run and well attended tournament
this past weekend. The weather
was perfect, the gallery was large
and the golfers turned in the low
est scores Of the year. Thanks to
Woody Mills tournament direc-
tori, James Hughes (score keeper)
and ole Dude Jimmy Lee, every
thing went off like clock work.
The winner in the mems division
was our heard from before friend
Ron McGinnis, whose dazzling 6S
beat his fiercest rival, Charles Nc
Kinnis "a cousin incidentally, by
one stroke. That missed putt Is
still haunting Big Mac this week.
(grin) - McGinrMs or McKinnis
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-09-12

these two Irish lads shoot the
game. (snlile).
The ladies champion was again
our old friend Ruth Landry, who
added TO her many trophies with
a fine game of 80 strokes. How
about a few more Of you gals pick
ing up the sticks and giving Lady
Landry" a bit more competition ?
My hat Is off TO her two compei-
tors.
Tho Sterling Club PIayOff
Say, det me tell you about the
Sterling playOff. We had one be-
fitting the us. Open, dad! w.
Mays, c. McKinnds, T. Cook, r.
McGinnas, BRO" Shelton and your
correspondent made up the field.
Everybody bumped that long ball
down the fairway. Bag Mac pumped
a high 7 iron 20 feet from the stick.
I bumped my best four wood about
rs feet from the stick. The others
were OFF the green In two. We ar
rived at the green and Mac and I
were feeling good with birdie"
putts staring at us. Wilson Mays
second shot hit a tree. Ron Nc
Ginnis just missed the green in
two. Cook dubbed his second and
was IS feet off the green In three
Shelton pitched In close for three
and the stage was set. The crowd
surged forward and stood patient
ly and expectantly around No. 1.
Old Pro. Cook, about 25 yards out
from the green, walked up to his
ball, set himself and executed the
''shot" Of the day! You guessed it,
a beautiful pitch and roll shot
which arched lazily in the air, hit
the edge Of the green and rolled
straight into the hole about 80 feet
away! The gallery was delirious,
and the rest Of US were dismayed
However, I lined up my birdie putt
and gave it all had. My putt went
straight and sure to the cup and
while everybody gasped, the ball
hung on the edge Of the cup and
went about foot and a half past
the cup. 1t was a good try and I
did get my par to tie Cook. We
were left for the 2nd hold after
Big Mac missed his birdie putt. On
hole 2, had honOrs. hit a firm
4 iron which hung on the right side
Of the green. Cook fell short. We
both pitched into the green to
within 10 feet Of the stick. I missed
my par and Cook made his. A wild
finish and a great win for low med
alst Ted Cook. I enjoyed every
moment OF this match and will be
back next Sunday trying to do 1t
again. OF course we all trooped to
the Sterling Clubhouse and really
set a course record on their smor-
gasbord table. Big Dan Pothier,
Texas Turner and Bro. Shelton
really became clubhouse champ
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-09-12

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SOSo-Sot0 SShabSSi
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ington medical secretary and
mother Of a 22-month-old daughter
was the winner Of a 1853 Ford
Country sedan by being one OF "a
third-prize winner In the "Go
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Her husband Is employed with
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Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-09-12
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STERLING CLUE HELD
GOLF TOURNEY AT
PHALEN GOLF cOURS


The Sterling Club Golf Tourney
was held, Sunday, September 8 at
Plmlen Coli Course.
Champion and winner was r.
McGinnds, Minneapolis with a 68.
Other winners were LIST Flight,
James Lee, st. Paul, rs; 2nd
FNght, H. Toussaint, st. Paul, SO;
3rd Flight M. wynangan, Mime
apoais, 90. The buffers Trophy
was awarded Ralph Ward, st. Paul,
120.
In the Women's Flight, Mrs.
Ra1th Landry, Minneapolis was
winner with a SO.
A buffet supper WAS served at
the Sterling Club In the evening.
Woodford Mills was chairman
Of the tournament.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-09-12
Sc. Peter CIdVeF
Annu0l Golf Tourney
Sunday Ar PhoIen

St Peter Claver Annual Coll
Tournament will be held Sunday
Sept. Is at Pfralen Coli Course
Tee OF time Is 10 am. There will
be both women and mems flights
Mrs. Mary Chantz and Charles
McFdnnies defending champions
win be seeking another win.
There will be merchandise prizes
as we'll as trophies awarded fol,
lowing the tourney at St Peter
Claver Auditorium, Central and
Oxford. Supper luncheon win be
served.
Jimmy Lee, chairman Of the
tournament invites all interested
persons TO attend the tournament
and dinner.