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Evening star., 1963-02-11
WILLIAM S. WHITE
UItro-LiberoIs, Beaten on Senate Cog,
See Vice President as Villain of Piece

The most virulent sniping
campaign against Vice Presi-
dent Johnson since he agreed
to take second place in 1860
- thus making possible the
election Of the K edy-
johnson ticket by holding the
moderate South - has now
been opened by ultra liberals
in both parties.
The occasion for this new
"get- johnson" drive is the
failure once again OF ultra
liberal reformers to persuade
the Senate to compromise the
right Of free debate which has
historically been the greatest
protection in this Govern
ment for political minorities.
Baked as so m any times
before by the Senate itself in
attempting to harden the gag
rule, they have turned upon
the Vice President as the
villain Of the piece. AS the
Senate's constitutional pre-
siding officer, required to be
an umpire and not a parti-
san. he chose to interpret the
Senate rules as they are. The
pro-gag forces unsuccessfully
demanded, however, that he
abandon impartiality and is
sue novel rulings, In t their
favor, which would have
amounted to a repeal of the
rules of debate by. a single
man not even a member of
the Senate.
The two party leaders, Sem
ators Mike Mansfield of Mon
tana for the Democrats and
Everett Dirksen of Illinois for
the Republicans, wholly sup
ported Mr.. Johnson In this
right and inevitable conduct
inevitable If he was to con-
tinue to be a presiding officer
over the Senate and not a
partisan in its internal con-
troversy. So did a great ma
Evening star., 1963-02-11

Elmhurst and DoWner's
Grove, La Grange and Oak
lawn. Those are the names
that used to be in Shanty-
town. Look at the college kids
on the el platforms. Their
dads drive trucks and their
granddads carried hods.
For more than a century
Chicago has been lying in the
gutter. But as she lies there
she keeps one eye on the stars.
Copyright, 1963)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
WSSC Contracts
Affects County

Five contracts affecting Mont
gomery County were among II
awarded by the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
last week for storm drains,
water mains, sewers and house
connections costing $246,331.
Directly affecting the county
were contracts awarded to
Madeira Corp, Silver Spring,
for storm drains costing SIT, 1924
in Springbrook Manor; Ven.
tresca and Sons Inc, $11,268
for water mains, sewers and
house connections in Hillandale;
and Joseph Canova Inc, $9,410
for water mains, sewers and
sewer house connections serv.
ing Graft Gardens Apartments,
and $4127 for similar services
in Regency Estates.
Affecting both Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties
was a contract of $8,400 to the
Metropolitan Utilities Construc-
ton Corp. for house connections
in varied subdivisions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
WIS Student
Has Choice of
4 Scholarships

1t was Il difficult decision
for Stephen ScOlnik to make
when he enrolled at ClarksOn
College Of Technology in
POtsdam, N. Y, for a summer
course in mathematics.
Difficult simply because the
Walter Johnson High School
junior had to make his choice
from not one, but four schoI-
arships offered to him as a
result of his outstanding
work i'm science and mathe.
MATES during the past three
years.
The son of MIR. and Mrs.
Samuel ScOInik of 800 Cal.
vert Place, KensingtOn, Ste-
phen also was offered sum-
mer scholarships in science
Or math at Howard Univer-
sity and American University
In Washington and Assump.
ton College in Worcester,
Mass. Single college scholar.
ships Offered to juniors are
unusual, according to school
officials, and as many as
four at one time are a rarity.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Parking Lot
Action Held
Up for Year

The Montgomery County
Council indicated Tuesday it will
defer action for at least a year
on suggested changes in regula-
tons affecting the county's four
parking lot districts.
With enactment of local laws
limited to the May legislative
session, the council told Public
Works Director Joseph c. Kor-
della it would withhold any deci-
sion on the plan until more COM
plete information is available.
The action came after Kor-
della told the council a profess
sional report on the four dis.
tricts = involving Bethesda,
Spring, Wheaton and Montgom-
cry Hills - has been completed
but is being withheld pending
receipt of recommendations
from the districts themselves.
Under consideration by the
council are proposals to expand
the districts and to increase the
tax rates currently in effect.
Although Kordella indicated he
would be able to provide more
detailed information before the
end of the legislative month,
President John A. Floyd said
the council probably will not act
until next year.
The council did approve, how
ever, a request by Kordella for
a So million bond issue he said
is needed Immediately to sup.
port Improvements within the
districts that would enable them
to meet demands expected in
the next 10 years.
In deferring action on the
four existing districts, the coun.
Gil also decided to take no action
at this time on a request by
Milton Polinger, are developer,
for creation of a fifth district in
the western Chevy Chase Sec
ton.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Shriver Named
To Boy Scout
Circus Position

Peace Corps Director Sargent
Shriver has been named honor
airy chairman for the 1868 Boy
Scout Circus, to be held May "a
and Is at the DC. Stadium.
Sponsored by the National
Capital Area Council of the Boy
Scouts, the circus will feature
the performance of some 10000
Scouts, many of them represent.
ing Montgomery County units.
1t will be devoted to a demon.
stration of a wide variety of
scouting activities.
Shriver will preside over the
opening ceremony on May "a at
7:45 pm, devoted to the pro.
gram theme, Fit for Tomor.
row." A former advisor of the
Chicago Area Council of Boy
Scouts, he currently is a mem.
ber-at-large of the National
Council and serves on the Lay.
mans Committee of the Cath.
Ollie Committee on Scouting for
the National Council.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Council Tax
Position Hit
By Educator

The County Councils 10-cent
reduction in the county tax rate
has been termed penny wise
and pound foolish" in the cur
rent issue of the Montgomery
County Education Associations
monthly publication.
In an editorial entitled "A
Week of Infamy" and contain.
ing a picture of Arthur D.
Simonds Jr., its editor and exec
utive secretary, the Montgomery
Educator expressed the conclu.
sion that the councils action in
curtailing educational activities
while reducing the tax rate was
misguided and misinformed."
For a yearly saving of $12 for
the owner of a $4,000 home, the
editorial said, "class sizes will
be larger, counselors will have
increased loads, secon dairy
schools will have less admins
trative assistance, intra-school
communication will be reduced,
fewer children will have driver
training, less will have compe.
tent physical instruction and
the child with severe adjust
ment problems will have less
chance for help.
IF there was mandate from
the people in the last election,
it was for economy with no de-
duction in quality" the Educa-
tor added. But even the new
budget consultant John Briggs
admitted the reduction in num-
Der of teachers would be a
change of level of service"
In conclusion, after terming
the council action misguided
and misinformed," the editorial
asserted: "They have misinter.
preted their mandate from the
people and misjudged the values
set by our citizens for their
schools"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16

with a fixed tolerance or degree
of accuracy.
Upon the completion Of each
problem, the computer prints
the correlation coefficient, the
variance of each variable, the
averages, and some intermedi-
ate statistical totals.
The punch card input was de-
signed because Of the simplicity
Of putting the Individual data
items into the formal required
by the computer and also to
permit the c0mputer to process
hundreds or thousands Of prob.
lens without interruption Of
any kind, other than printing
the answers.
Blanche & Associates, Inc,
was organized in 1855 by DR..
Ernest E. Blanche, formerly
ckief statistician of Logistics
Division, ca, Army General
Staff at the Pentagon, in order
to supply mathematical and
statistical services to govern
ment and commercial organiza-
tons. Within a year its volume
had increased to such an extent
that the firm opened its own
data processing installation.
Now the firm has AZ IBM punch
card machines of all types and a
1401 computer with four mag
netic tapes in its new three
story building at 10335 Kensing-
ton Parkway, Kensington.
The firm has over 100 en-
ployees on its regular payroll.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Students Earn
AAA Mention

Two Wheaton High School
students have been commended
by the American Automobile
Association for their entries in
the annual school traffic safe.
ty poster contest.
Selected for special mention
in the AAA's nationwide con.
test designed to encourage stu.
dents to think about traffic
safety were Carolyn Walter,
16, of Farthing Drive, Silver
Spring, a junior, and Lee Van
Auken, II, 1929 University
Blvd, senior. Their posters
urged fellow students to ride
One on a Bike" and Always
Signal"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16

Charles H. Knight Jr., Of
Kensington, an advertising
assistant with Mutual of New
York, has been selected as the
Outstanding Young Adver-
Using Man of the Year" by
the Advertising Club of New
York. He was selected for the
award on the basis of his first
years performance in adver-
Using and for a critiGue on
the ad industry that he sub
mitted in connection with the
nationwide contest sponsored
by the New York club.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Bonds Sold
ALLOW Rate
ByRockville

A $690,000 bon issue was sold
by the City of Rockville last
week to the Suburban Trust Co.
of Hyattsville, lowest of four
bidders on the transaction.
Suburban called for a bond
rate of 2.52 per cent, according
to City Manager Walter Schei-
Der, who said it was the lowest
cost seen in the Washington
area in recent years. Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commits
sion bonds were sold several
weeks ago for a 2.99 per cent
rate, while oMntgomery County
bonds in January drew a 2.96
per cent figure, he noted.
All of the bids received by
Rockville last week were be.
low these figures, with the
highest amounting to 2.S1 per
cent, Scheiber said. Second
to Suburban Trust was Alex
Brown and Sons, of BaIti.
more, wit ha proposed rate of
2.78 per cent.
Payable over a 15-year period,
the funds will be devoted to
general improvement projects
in the city during the coming
year, Scheiber said. About $780,.
600 will be spent for acquisition
of new park land in the city
and major portion of the sum
will be devoted to widening of
the Park Rd. railroad underpass
in downtown Rockville, accord
ing to the city manager.
The bonds were. sold at a
special meeting at which the
Council also approved purchase
of II acres of land behind the
w. Rockville Elementary School
for park purposes at cost of
$4,000. Purchased from Barney
Welsh, prominent Rockville at.
torney, and members of his
family, the new property will
be designated as Welsh Park,
Scheiber said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Psychiatric
Clinic Names
New Director

DR.. Charles Simmons, former
clinical administrator Of Chest
nut Lodge in Rockville, has been
named medical director of the
Community Psychiatric Clinic,
Inc, in Bethesda.
A former assistant professor
In the psychiatry department of
the Dallas Veterans Admins.
tration Hospital, DR.. Simmons
was selected to fill a position
that has been vacant for almost
a year. He is a graduate Of the
University of Oklahoma and
also has received special train
ing through special hospital
service in Norman, Okla, and
Dallas.
The Bethesda clinic is a non
profit corporation governed by
a citizens board and operates
as an out.patient psychiatric
clinic for Montgomery County
residents. 1t serves both adults
and children as a member of the
Health and Welfare Council OF
the county and is a beneficiary
of the United Givers Fund.
Established in 1885 as a one.
day-a-week clinic in Rockville,
the UGF facility now has two
staff psychiatrists, three psy.
biologists, two psychiatric so
cial workers and an administra.
tive staff of three in addition to
the new director.
DR.. Simmons, his wife and
two children live at 5003 Acacia
st. in Bethesda.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Heart Fund
Renews Its
Appeal

February was a bad month
for the Montgomery County
Heart Fund - in more ways
than one.
The heavy SHOWS in the eli
mactic month of a severe win
ter brought on many heart
attacks caused by overexertion.
The cold weather accelerated
the death and disability of older
folks, who just can't seem to
stand the cold weather. And it
showed on Heart Sunday -
the day the Heart Association
counts on to raise a large part
OF the money it needs to carry
on its work in the County.
Last year the fund collected
$4,000; this years returns to
date show $4,000. Judge j.
Grahme Walker, chairman of
the 1868 campaign, says that
unless additional funds are
raised, Services to our COM
munity will be sharply cut
back"
Of funds raised by the asso.
citation in the County, 60 per
cent remain here to carry on
public and professional educa-
ton programs and direct serv-
ices to patients. Another 20 per
cent goes for nationwide
research the Association says.
The other 20 per cent goes to
the state Heart Association.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16

Maryland.
This method utilities punch
cards to feed the input test data
into the computer, which there
upon performs all the required
computations and prints all the
answers for each problem on a
page. Depending upon the size
of the numbers, the computer
takes half a second to a second
to handle the input data and the
calculations for each item.
A correlation problem which
requires about three hours of
work by statistical clerk with
a desk calculator can be com.
pleted by the 14O1 computer In
less than half a minute.
Correlation analysis is a sta
tistical technique which is espec-
tally useful when many tests
are made, using many variables,
20 or 80 or 40. Such testing is
common in the fields of public
health, medicine, biometrics,
psychology, sociology, and atti-
tude or preference studies in
any field. For example, teachers
may rate students on each OF 40
different characteristics or abili-
ties. In order to obtain the
mathematical relationship be-
tween each pair of the 40 vari-
ables, it is necessary to compute
78O problems. Based on the re-
sulting 7S0 pages of answers,
there will be no significant re-
lationship between some pairs
Of variables, while others will
show definite relationship, and
still others will indicate the
need for further study.
Although most correlation
problems are in scientific fields,
this mathematical relationship
may be computed between two
or more variables In many other
areas where a large enough
sample Of data Is available. For
example, 1t is possible to COM
pute the relationship between
attendance at baseball games
and the average daily tempera-
ture, or the sales Of beverages
and temperature, or the sales Of
cars and the average family In.
come. &
When these correlation CO.
efficients are considered along
with the measure of variation
of the individual variables ian
index called variance or STAN
dard deviation, some definite
conclusions can be stated, along
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
WI Student Posts

Lloyd Etheredge has been
elected Student Government
president at Walter Johnson
High School. Other officers
ted are Brian Frosh, Student
Council vice president; Bill
Ekhart, Student Council trea.
surer; VIII Gray, Student Coun.
Gil Sergeant-at-Arms, and Linda
Conway, recording secretary.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16

Charles ID. Roberts of Chevy
Chase, who is 80 years old,
was the Oldest Congressional
Medal Of Honor winner of the
24O who went to the White
House recently to meet Presi-
dent Kennedy. He joined Or
vile e. Bloch and his wife
from Rockville as Mont
gomery County's two repres-
entatives at the gathering.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
State TB Post

Mrs. Robert H. Burkart has
been elected to the board of di.
rectors OF the Maryland Tuber-
culosis Association. She was
elected a representative direc.
tor, from Montgomery County,
at the associations 59th annual
meeting May Z in Baltimore.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Attends Conference

Mrs. Milton Heyman, of
Rockville, who has been an
active volunteer in the trans
cription of reading material into
braille for blind students, was
among delegates to the annual
conference of the National
Braille Club in Washington this
week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Connecticut Avenue
Extension Near

The Regal Construction Co.
of Upper Marlboro has been
awarded a S1,0S7, 1876 contract
for extension of Connecticut
Ave. from its juncture with
University Blvd. in Kensington
to Veirs Mill Road.
Plans for the project, cover
ing a distance of 1.34 miles,
were announced by John B.
Funk, chairman-director of the
State Roads Commission.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Chief Analysist

DR.. Solomon Schneyer, of
Kensington, has been named
head of the analysis section in
the Program Analysis Branch
of the National Institute of Gen.
eral Medical Science, based at
NH in Bethesda.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-05-16
Blanche Firm Speeds
Correlation Analysis

A highspeed method of performing correlation ana
yss the 1401 elecronic compuer has been developed
and programmed by Ernest E Blanche Associates Inc
of Kensingon largest commercial data processing firm in
Evening star., 1963-04-07

touring car. surrounded by suf-
fragettes on their way 10 WASH
ington. The car. he noted, had
plenty Of headroom. II was.
In fact. open-air.
Mr.. Spingarn went on 10 be-
come q Federal Trade Commits
sioner under President Truman.
for whom he also served as an
administrative assistant. His
father. J. z. Spingarn. was
president Of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement OF
Colored People In the thirties
and Spingarn High School here
Is named for him.
Now an attorney here, Mr..
Spingarn lives at 1900 @ street
NV.
AS the high point Of his lat
est crusade. Mr.. spingarn has
armed himself with the statis-
tics on head and leg room in
American cars. and is planning
q march on Detroit 10 present
his case 10 the auto makers.
He would drive. he explained.
but It's Just too cramped be-
hind that wheel for such a
long trip.
Evening star., 1963-04-07

1t could shape the future of the
island.
1T appears to u.s." Mr.. Udall
wrote, that the design and
carrying capacity of a desirable
bridge should be dependent
largely on a decision as to the
type of use best suited for the
Island"
Last year. Mr.. Udall urged
the State to withdraw its
original bridge bids under the
assumption that once the span
was built private development
would preclude preservation of
the island as a natural seaShore
area.
He later said that construc-
ton Of the bridge. in itself,
would not bar preservation of
the island because the State
had not planned any roads,
except in a portion earmarked
for a State park. The original
bids were rejected. however,
because the lowest was for SIT
million, 100000 more than the
General Assembly had appro-
priated.
The State already has plans
for a 640-acre park on the is-
land near the suggested bridge
location, but plans to allow
private development on the re-
mainder Of the island north of
the Virginia State Line.
Evening star., 1963-04-07

headroom and six inches more
legroom."
He quoted Abraham Lincoln
az saying, "A mans legs should
be long enough 10 reach the
floor of his car, but his head
should not reach the roof"
And finally, he called on Mr..
Ford 10 become "the business
Moses who will lift the yoke Of
bondage from the legions Of
outsized motorists and lead
them into the Promised Land
of real car comfort"
Mr.. Spingarn. who said he
would be happy 10 rellnquish
his post OF Provisional Chair
man Of the Inner Space
Crusade when q leader of suf-
ficient stature and girth comes
along. said Mr.. Ford 80 far las
shown no signs Of taking over
the movement. Similar COM
munications 10 General Motors
yielded no greater satisfaction.
/ Crusading Is nothing new for
Mr.. Spingarn. He has a picture
Of himself taken in Central
Park In 1912. at the age Of four.
seated on the radiator Of q
Evening star., 1963-04-07
Fast Inmate FIees
At ST. EIizubeths

A fleet-footed inmate of st.
Elizabeths Hospital outdis-
tanced guards and escaped into
nearby woods yesterday al
though his arms were hand
cuffed behind his back. He j
still being sought.
Hospital officials identified
the man as Sherman Carter,
II, who originally was COM
mitted TO the hospital In Au-
gust, 1859. after being found
not guilty on a housebreakiag
charge by reason Of insanity.
Carter had been on condi-
tional release for about a year
but was being sent back t. the
maximum security section OF
the hospital yesterday because
doctors feared his condition
had worsened. hospital officials
said.
40 Chrber was geJtlng out OF
q car near the maximum Sc
curity section. he bolted and
quickly outdistanced his pur-
surers. He was seen in the
woods near the Rosemo.t
cemetery, suitland parkwSy
Sc.
Later yesterday. other re-
ports reached police that the
man was seen In the $500
block Of Elvins road Sc. and
under the Alabama avenue
overpass on Suitland Parkway.
Doctors at the hosT al said
he was not dangerous TO others.
He was described as q Negro.
5 feet II and las pounds and
wearing green clothing.
Evening star., 1963-04-07
$1,000 TAX
Future Dark
For Seers
harrington

Even though they peer into
the clearest crystal ball, palm
lists must foresee a cloudy fu-
ture for themselves in Airing
ton.
It seems that the County
Board is determined to double
the price Of prophecy.
Although acknowledging that
he Is not too familiar with the
occult, Vice Chairman Ernest
D. witt yesterday said:
Il want to emphasize that
have nothing against palmists,
soothsayers, mediums, mystics
or phrenologists. But as busi-
nessmen are required to pay
tax. 1t seems to me that even
mystics should contribute their
share. How does $1,000 a year
sound?"
Board Member Roye Lowry
said 1t sounded just fine, though
perhaps q little low.
At present the license fee for
fortune tellers Is $500. The
business privilege tax In other
categories such as retail mer-
chants, professionals and mo-
tel operators Is based on gross
receipts and varies from 20
cents TO SO per 500.
Aware that a levy might be
challenged II II we're enacted
for punitive purposes. the
board members stressed that
they are not turning hands
down on the palmists. but
nevertheless directed that prep
arations necessary to impose
the 1000 tax be made.
Evening star., 1963-04-07
he WANTS INNER SPACE -
Big Driver Asks Detroit for Cars That Fit

squeezed his bulk into one De-
troit product after another, but
the result was always the same:
arrested circulation, shortness
Of breath. muscle cramps and
knots on his head. The big lux
ury models, he said, are Just as
shy Of space for limbs and head
as the compact cars.
In fact, he found. some Of
the compacts actually have
more inner space than cars
weighing twice as much. The
compact he finally settled on
he describes as only "the lesser
Of evils"
In a telegram 10 Henry Ford
I'd, Mr.. Spingarn explained
that he had deserted Fords
after "a years. more in sorrow
than In anger.
II intensely dislike creeping
into a car like q midnight thief,
bowing my head 10 avoid scrap
ing the roof. and assuming the
natal position with my knees
under my chin as I drive" he
told Mr.. Ford.
Couldn't you ut least put
out a limited edition Of smallish