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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

breakers believe they got 9
better break" in the District
than elsewhere.
This view directly contra,
dicted Mr.. Acheson's attitude
Senator Bible noted.
The United States Attorne!
admitted the common talk tina
"our courts mollycoddle Grim,
inals and that criminals fee
that they may commit crime.
without serious regard to the
possibility of severe sentences
This assumption, and this
type of public utterance, are
simply not based upon fact"
the city's chief prosecutor
maintained.
The House voted to increase
minimum sentences for crimes
which have had a marked
upsurge" in the District, Will
liam K. Norwood of the Metro
politan Washington Board of
Trade noted. He said the Or
ganization's directors wanted
those minimums increased.
THE criminal has more pro-
lection than law-abiding citi-
zens in the District" Mr.. Nor
wood said.
Mr.. Acheson cited statistics
to show that the average Dis
trict Court sentence is Sub
stantially more severe" for al
most every felony than aver
age sentences by other Federal
and State courts.
He agreed with Mr.. Tobriner,
president of the Board of Com
miSSioners, tn at mandatory
minimums were "Self-defeat-
ing" Juries tend to acquit de-
PENDANTS rather than send
them to prison for long terms,
they said.
Senate committeeman turned
to Corrections Director Donald
Clemmer and got the same
argument.
I'VE do not favor high mini
NUNS because they make it
harder to run a prison." said
the director of five local jails
and reformatories.
Chairman Bible asked for a
breakdown of hometowns of
the 1,700 felons now impris-
oned in the District ito find
out if these prisoners lived here
or if they came to the District
because they thought local laws
were soft on crime"
MFR. Glemmer said that a Is
year-old study showed that a
heavy percentage of convicts
either were born in the District
or had lived here for 20 years
or more.
Committeeman obviously
were impressed with the argu-
mentS against a strict criminal
sentencing law from the men
responsible for enforcing that
law, Senator Bible said the fact
that the District compared
favorably with other cities
in its crime rates was small
consolation"
Due for thorough analysis
are the three most widely dis
cussed sections of the House
bill-modifications of the law
on admission of criminal con-
LESSONS, of the insanity defense
and of police "detentions" as a
substitute for arrests for Ques-
tioning of suspects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

from the two Senators, both
Westerners, who heard the plea.
They were District Commit
tee Chairman Bible, Democrat
of Nevada, who promised an
"open-minded" examination on
another day, and Senator DOM
mick, Republican of Colorado
who said he would have to be
S hown that gun licensing
stopped crime or identified
criminals.
The committee was advised
by Mr.. Tobriner and Mr.. Ache
son to junk almost all of the
big parts of a House bill
analysed today.
They favored a minor Sec
ton increasing punishment for
robbery and establishing two
degrees of burglary.
Their opposition to manda-
tory minimums, sprinkled lib
orally through the House bill
for numerous crimes, came as
Police Chief Robert v. Muir
ray reported that crime in the
Nations Capital continues to
increase.
Serious crime reached a
record high during the 12-
month period ending last
month, Chief Murray said.
He refrained from recon-
mending minimum sentences,
as such.
But I will state to this
committee that I do believe
that punishment of the Grim
inal does deter crime and I do
think that crime prevention
might be well served by an urg-
ing of the courts to impose
greater penalties" the Chief
added.
Chief Murray also said that
police, in interviewing GRIM
inals, have found that law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
Hospital Meeting

James o. Proctor, supervisor
of adult education in the Balti-
more public schools, will speak
at an annual meeting of the
Maryland, District of Col
umbia and Delaware Hospital
Association next Wednesday at
the Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

AT PANORAMA we were
met by National Park Ranger
Don Black, a naturalist.
He said the annual ex-
travaganza or spectacular
lit has to be a show-business
term) would be at its best
in the middle of next week.
1t will be a good show for
the next two weeks.
We drove south through
the tunnel under a shoulder
of Mary's Rock and soon the
jutting granite jaw of Stony
Man Mountain was on the
horizon.
Its forest blanket was
something like-superior to
rather-those chromatic eff
fects Scotch and Irish
weavers achieve by using
local vegetable pigments to
dye their homespun yarns.
Ranger Black said there is
much dispute among nat
uralists as to what weather
conditions bring about the
highest colors.
Some say an early frost
helps; some say rain is bad;
some, that it doesn't mat
ter. The day is losing, the
night winning, and they
hibernate. AS the sap de-
parts, all that matters is the
pigment left in the leaves.
Well, this fall there has
been no killing frost on the
mountain. The small plants
along the roadside are still
in leaf.
There had been no rains.
National Park rangers are
on the alert. The woods are
like finder.
The colorS have never
been higher.
At Skyland, a group of
50-year-old rustic cabins and
modern row motel rooms,
we learned that weekend
accommodations have been
sold out for three months.
Cabins are still available
at midweek at less than the
rates charged by motels on
the highway.
1t will be open until Oc-
tober % and Big Meadows,
a more modern caravansary
will close a week later.
I asked Ranger Black to
identify by color the trees
on a distant mountain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

pital. He said it could jeopar-
die the affiliation of three
medical schools with the hos
pital and cause a gradual
deterioration" of medical SER
vices at the hospital.
DR.. Schultz said the impact
of the ruling will be so serious
that he believes several of the
top men at the hospital will go
elsewhere - not Immediately,
but in time"
Loss Of hard-to-get specialist
doctors, he said, endangers the
present program in which the
hospital is used as a training
ground for the three local medi-
cal schools.
Deans To Meet
THE schools can't continue
their affiliation with The hoSpi-
tai unless we keep our top
staff" said DR.. Schultz. Eve
must keep people of sufficient
caliber and background to
satisfy the medical accrediting
boards"
The deans of the three medi-
cal schools are so disturbed
about the ruling that they have
arranged a special meeting
with the District Commissioners
this afternoon to discuss the
problem.
The opinion comes at a time
when there is already turmoil
within the Public Health De-
partment because of the
proposed reorganization Of the
agency.
Mr.. Gray said in bis opinion
that 'the existing arrangement
between the District and local
medical schools whereby medi-
cal officers receive compensa-
ton for teaching medical stu
dents is violative" of a Federal
conflict-of-interest law which
became effective in January.
Penalty Provided
This law prohibits any EN-.
ploye of the District or Fedora
Government from receiving
any salary from a privat
source as compensation 70
services rendered the Govern
, ment. It also makes the givin,
or receiving of such compen,
sation criminal offense anc
provides a penalty of $4,000 OF
one year in jail or both.
At present, 81 of the top doc
tors at District General Hos
pital receive extra compensa-
ton from the medical schools,
ranging from about $1,000 to
$4,000 a year.
After receiving the opinion,
the Commissioners ordere ID
copies of the ruling distributed
to all District medical person.
mel and authorized revision of
the City's personnel regulations
to comply with the new ruling.
The Commissioners deferred
any discussion at their meeting
of what steps they could take
to ease the impact of the rul-
ing until after their meeting
with the deans of the medical
schools Of Georgetown, George
Washington and Howard Uni
versitieS.
Commissioner John B. Dun
can said after the meeting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
StateMayBack
Montgomery
School SIashes
Reversal of Stand
limited After Board
Airs Controversy
BY JAMES B. ROWLAND
Star Staff Writer

BALTIMORE, Oct. 1O.-The
Maryland Attorney Generals
office may reverse or tone
down its preliminary opinion
supporting charges that the
Montgomery County Council
violated State law in cutting
the 1963-64 school budget by
SIT million.
The indication came here
yesterday at the end of an all
day hearing held by the State
Board of Education on charges
of the Montgomery County
Council of Parent-Teacher AS
sociations against both the
county council and local schoo,
board. The association con-
tends the county's failure to
spend a school surplus and re-
fusal to appropriate funds fol
supervisors, clerks and profess
sional help, and 200 teachers
sank some phases of the school
system below State standards.
The budget cuts were de-
Tended Yesterday by Council
President John A. Floyd and
Assistant County Attorney
Lawrence L. Speelman. The
local school board also stood by
its own budget cuts, and asked
the State not to act on the PTA
charges pending a Circuit
Court decision on a loca
school suit contesting some Of
the County Council budget cuts
The case will be argued Octo.
Der ID.
Some Montgomery Schoo
Board officials earlier werl
hoping for a State order re
versing at least some of tn
council budget cuts which
could now be used for hiring 8
!, additional teachers needed TO
overcrowded classrooms. Tn
: council Tuesday denied a schoC
request for an emergency ap
preparation to provide the 8
: teachers.
: Assistant Attorney Geners
} Matthias j. DeVito, counsel t
/. the State school board, sal
last night he would have +,
study the transcript of yester'
days hearing and seek clarifi'
cations of statutes that provide
the backbone for the PTA
charges.
Assistant Attorney Genera,
Robert Murphy, after a pre-
liminary review Of the 30-page
PTA petition, advised the
board August % that if the
charges were true, the county
council appeared to be in
violation of State law.
Mr.. DeVito said he could
offer the board four alterna-
tives: Cd a State order direct
ing the county school board to
expand its suit against the
county council, 90 State in
tervention in the county suit,
with additional charges filed
against the county council, 90
a State order telling the school
board to approve the funds in
1964-65, or "a recommend no
action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
The
Rambler
Asks Thut
No Leaf Fall
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Oft have I travelled in the
realm of gold-but not oft
enough.
Yesterday we drove to the
Blue Ridge, which is now a
motley Of every other color.
Not a cloud in the sky
a vapor trail of a plane
so high that it could not be
seen.
A turkey buzzard was
soaring in the updraft.
Tuesdays cold front had
cleared the air. Seldom has
the Shenandoah Valley been
so exposed.
The realm of gold, if one
must be literal, was on the
way up the Blue Ridge on
the broad winding highway
tn at ascends the little
Thornton River to its top
most spring. We had a date
at Panorama, a midway in
terchange on the Skyline
drive on the saddle of the
Thornton Gap.
For the first 1000 feet of
the ascent we were in a
forest Of tulip poplars,
those tall symmetrical trees
which show spots of gold in
late September and become
all gold in October. This
forest was gilded by the
morning sun.
But as they do not grow
above that level, the color
changed to green as ears felt
the reduction in atmospheric
pressure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
Ruling Bars Doctors
Medical School Pay
Gruy Opinion Bans Outside Jobs
Of District General Stuff on Duty
BY CHARLES ID. PIERCE
star staff Writer

The Districts legal office ruled today doctors who
work for the city longer accept outside pay teaching
while duty.
The ruling. presented District Commissioners by
Corporation Counsel Chester Gray Immediately attacked
by John Schultz medical director of General Hos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
D. c. Officials Oppose
Stiff Minimum Terms
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

The Districts top law enforcement officials today urged
Senate committee to lift stiff minimum sentences from the
omnibus, ant-crime bill which has passed the House.
But Commissioner Walter NJ Tobrner and United States
Attorney David Acheson wanted hand licensed by
Control Of pistols met resistance in active passive form
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

that he believes 1.-THE best
solution to the problem is to
pay salaries which are ade-
quate so the doctors don't have
to rely on outside compensa-
ton.
Some Exceptions
THE second best solution
would be legislation to exempt
the doctors from the provisions
of the new Federal law"
Mr.. Duncan said he under
stands some exemptions from
the provisions of this law have
already been granted for GER
tain Federal employees.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Duncan said
the ruling requires an immedi-
ate halt in the outside COM
pensation to the doctors.
A high-ranking District Off
cial, who declined use of his
name, said there would be no
prosecution of the doctors or
medical schools for violation of
the new Federal law because
the present arrangements had
been approved by a 1859 cor
poration counsel's opinion. now
superseded by the new ruling.
Walter N. Tobriner, president
OF the Commissioners. said he
does not think District employees
should be permitted to make
arrangements for additional
salaries from outside sources or
work they do for the city.
IF the present compensation
Tor the doctors is too low for
the services required" said Mr..
Tobriner, "the obvious answer
is to increase the compensa-
ton"
DR.. John c. Rose, dean of
the Georgetown University COL
lege of Medicine, indicated his
strong support for continuing
the cooperation between the
three schools.
THE quality of patient-care
at District General Hospital is
very, very high because of its
line physicians who are work.
ing there" he said. They have
university association and re-
search facilities available to
them"
Barred in U. S. Employ
Another dean commented:
This decision will definitely
decrease the quality of medical
care for District citizens. He
asked that his name not be
used because he and the other
medical school representatives
were not scheduled to make
their pleas to the Commission
ers until later this afternoon
Physicians working for the
Federal Government are not
permitted to make double pay
for outside teaching jobs.
While the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
encourages federally employed
doctors to teach in medical
schools, they must take annual
leave If they get paid. But if
there is no compensation, they
can teach on official time. In
either case, the doctors must
have prior approval from the
Surgeon General.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
THE UGF AT WORK
Pets, Pals Tighten Hospital Life

from Pets and Pals keeps talk
ing but slowly backs off to an
other area.
Finches, parakeets, cockatieIs,
macaws, monkeys, dogs, skunks
and chinchillas have been in
the menagerie taken to the
hospital.
Patients have liked monkeys,
birds and skunks best, Mr..
Tuck reported.
OceIOtS Trained
I'VE expect them to like the
ocelots that we have just
trained, too." he added.
Mr.. Tuck is a physicist with
the Government, and has con-
nections with a pet shop.
Among the eight members of
Pets and Pals are a PhD., an
author, a department store
buyer. clerks and housewives.
Although most of their effort
has been at st. Elizabeths, Pets
and Pals have visite d other
HOSPITALS too
Mr.. Tuck recalls with a
chuckle the day he went to do
a show for pSychiatric patents
at Washington Hospital Center.
Il arrived with a parrot un-
der one arm, a monkey under
another. and a chinchilla in a
hand cage.
The guard obviously
thought I was reporting for
treatment.
He directed me to the ward.
But he told me as gently as
possible that he didn't think I'd
be able to take my pets with
me-"
/ The D. C. Mental Health AS
ISOLATION is one of 143 agencies
sharing in the United Givers
] Fund. currently conducting a
: drive for $50 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
Climbs Leash

They saw Peanuts, a squirrel
monkey, climb his leash like a
sailor.
They watched Terry, a ter
rier, do special obedience tricks.
And they looked at Petunia,
a skunk of powder-puff size,
who is still only decorative and
not yet a trained performer.
When the show was over, the
entertainers circulated among
the patients, who were encour-
aged to ask questions and
touch the pets if they wished.
One patient, a woman, al
lowed a finch, half the size of a
parakeet, to sit on her finger.
She smiled. This was the first
expression on the woman's face
in months, a nurse reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
By BETTY JAMES
Star Staff Writer

The st. Elizabeths patients
struggled in one by one and sat
down with blank expressions,
prepared to be bored.
Then four volunteers from
Pets and Pals appeared, each
with a bird or animal, and the
show began.
Within minutes, the patients
frightened.
They watched Ned Tuck, or
ganizer of Pets and Pals and a
member of the D. C. Mental
Health Association, a Unite d
Givers Fund agency, put Blue
Boy, a blue and gold macaw.
through his PAGES. Blue Boy
took money out of Mr.. Tuck's
pocket, stood on his head,
played dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10
Gives Two Chances

"Our show is both a visit
from a pet and a person." Mr..
Tuck said. Many times if
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-10

the pet misses the tent would avoid with per-
scores. son."
On the other hand the pet Animals and birds
sometimes break through pushed patients patient
make contact that the fear the entertainer
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-21

1862, in Montgomery County
was the housing hygiene ordi-
nance passed by the previous
Democratic County Council,
February, 1862.
This act, to improve County
sanitary conditions, calls for
the abolition of all outdoor
privies by July l, 1866. To
avoid condemnation of their
homes by the County, owners
of dwellings with privies must
put in facilities that meet
health standards, items that in
clude a well, septic tank, chic
rinator, kitchen sink, hot
water tank, toilet, lavatory
basin, bath, and assorted
plumbing amounting to about
$500.
Many of those owning privies
in upper Montgomery County
are Negroes, who own their
own land, whose families have
lived on the same property for
nearly century. This properly
was obtained originally by
observation-disclosures, some
times as a gift when freed
from slavery after Emancipa-
ton and the Civil War, or by
the dint of hard labor at SOC
per day splitting fence posts.
If the modern descendants of
these Woodworking freedmen
are today unable to come up
with $500 to replace outdoor
privies, the County will con-
denim their homes and evict
them from their own land and
property, allowing them to
shift for themselves in metro
politan Washington where
Negroes are tenants on some.
one else's property.
The valuable property of
these evicted Negroes will then
be bought up at depressed
farm prices by down-County
spectators all too willing to
construct $4,000 to $4,000
homes to be sold to white
people.
The present liberal philos-
ophy of the Democratic Party
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-21
On COP Views

Does Gerda Crow really ex-
pect people to feel sympathy
for those poor oppressed Re-
publicans who rose to power
primarily by means of a COM
pletely unprincipled smear
sheet? What other paper has
she been reading that has been
filled with diatribes, myths,
red behring's and scare
threats? l haven't read those
papers. On the contrary, 1 feel
the legitimate press should be
congratulated on their recent
unbiased reporting and respon-
sible editorials.
Concerning her desire for
support for non.partisan
school board election, I'm for
it. Strangely enough, the law
already says we have it, but
her column states and it is OBJ
vious that we now have Re-
publican majority on the
school board. A primary will
give more time to create in
terest and learn where candi-
dates stand on issues, but will
it prevent candidates from at
tending Republican rallies -
or Democratic ones or keep
them from accepting partisan
sponsorship and party pres
sures?
If the Republicans were
really interested in a truly
non-partisan school board, why
weren't they nonpartisan be-
fore the elections? There
should be more realistic pro-
vision for making it nonparti-
san now.
Mrs. w. +. Gilbert
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-21

missions professional staff, by
those dissatisfied with the pro-
posed General Plan, because
their private interests were
overlooked, is miSdirected. The
"Year 1000 Plan" and it's cor
ridor concept, was conceived
by the National Capital Plan
ming Commission and the Ma
tional Capital Regional Plan
ming Council. The Park and
Planning Commissions staff
simply based their General
Plan for the County on this
proposal for guiding the fu-
ture development of the en-
tire Washington area -
proposal which has been en-
dorsed by the President OF the
United States and many area
officials, planners and civic
groups.
The selection of Route 70S as
the principal corridor in Mont
gomery County was also made
by the regional planners, as
can be seen by examining the
original year 1000 Plan" is
sued in May 1861. 1t should
be quite clear to everyone why
Route 70S was chosen. 1t is
the only limited access, high
speed express highway passing
through Montgomery County.
The suggestion, in the letter in
your February 7th issue, that
Georgia Avenue should be con-
sidered as a corridor is pre-
posterous. Georgia Avenue,
like Connecticut Avenue, Wis
consin Avenue or New Hamp-
shire Avenue, is another sub
urban extension of city street
wider than some, with a low
speed limit, numerous cross
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-21
Needed Controversy

DeVOtus Fenlinis
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-02-21
Privvy Law

The most significant act af.
fecting Negro civil rights In