The News from Frederick, Maryland • Page 1

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88--NO. 173 Run I News-llrfOO FREDERICK, FRIDAY, MAY 7,1971 SECTIONS 20 PAGES FIRST SECTION SINGLE COPY IOC WEEKLY BY CARRIER 42c Buckeystown Post Office Robbed By GEORGE DORSEY Staff Writer The Buckeystown Post Office was held up this morning by two men, one armed, who tied up the Postmaster and a customer before making their escape. Police said the men entered the U. S. Post Office and general store in Buckeystown shortly after 9 a.m.

today. While they were stealing the federal post office money, a customer walked into the post office. The robbers stole his wallet. On their way out of the store, the thieves also took a six- pack containing soft drinks. The soft drinks were later recovered by police along Md.

85, north of Buckeystown. One of the robbers is believed armed with a small hand gun, according to postmaster William Boteler. Boleter said he was able to free himself a short time after the robbers left the post office. Both men had been tied and City Board Hears Action On Housing ByBILLGRADY Staff Writer At a mayor andaldermenmeet- ing last night, Frederick's building inspector said he halted construction on two Apple Avenue homes Monday because the cor- tractor failed to obtain a permit. Building Inspector Charles W.

Mock said he stopped work at 618 and 620 Apple Ave. Monday because the contractor, Carlton Carey had failed to obtain building permits from Mock. Mock said windows were boarded up Wednesday in what might have been an attempt to prevent him from observing ongoing construction and he contacted city police to obtain a warrant. Construction has ceased, Mock said. In related business, Mrs.

John L. Carnochan Jr. of the Calvary United Methodist Church sent a letter to the mayor and aldermen commending the direction of the recent housing survey. The letter said the community should assume the major responsibility of relocating families which are forced to move by condemnation. "The new housing development will solve some of the problem.

It will give people a chance to move up a little bit," Mayor E. Paul Magaha said. Forty-three homeowners have been sent condemnation notices and 139 have been sent repair notices with 45 days to comply with the building code, Building Inspector Mock said. President of the Board of Aldermen Donald B. Rice added a suggestion to send letters to those businessmen who have not complied with the sign ordinance with a 10-day warning.

In other business, the boai authorized Mayor Magaha to make an agreement with Fredericktown Mall Associates concerning a new sewer right-of- way for a line which has already been installed. The previous right-of-way was (Continued on Page A-5) thrown to the floor. Police issued the following description: Two young Negro males, one wearing a black wet-look vinyl clothing, the other wear ing brown or dark clothing with a fancy hat complete with feather. They were believed to have made their escape in a '65 or '66 silver gray Ford which was seen heading north on RU 85 at a high rate ot speed. State Police units, including a helicopter and canine patrol, were rushed to the scene.

Sgt. Ray Dietz of the Frederick City Police was called to make a composite likeness of the robbers. No one was hurt in the robbery and only a small amount of money was taken from the post office. It has not yet been determined how much was stolen from the customer, who has not been identified. After receiving the call from Boteler, State Police notified all area police departments and the Sheriff's Department in Virginia.

Ronald Lichtinger, FBI agent, was also called to the robbery scene and Frederick City Police set up inspection points around the Frederick bypass. Mandel Orders Guard To Expel Troublemakers From U. Of Md COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP)- Actingon information of possible renewed trouble on University of Maryland, Gov. Marvin Mandel issued an emergency proclamation from his Annapolis office today giving National Guard officials authority to ban anyone from the campus they deem necessary and to expel any troublemakers already there.

The move came as reports circulated to the governor's office that students were planning to take over one or more buildings on the campus and two 'ours prior to a planned massive noon rally on the university mall. There were reports that Renue Davis of the Chicago Seven, whose speech on campus Wednesday preceded by hours a student takeover of U. S. 1, was en route to the campus from Washington, D.C. Mandel's most recent proclamation read: "No person shall be allowed on or permitted access to or permitted to remain upon the college Park campus of the Uni- verisyt of Maryland, including the grounds, roads or buildings thereof, from 10 a.m., May 7, 1971, and until further notice, except those persons to whom permission has been granted by the adjutant general of Maryland or his fully designated agents; which permission when so granted, may be withdrawn as to any person or persons by the adjutant general of Maryland or his designated agents as he or they shall from time to time deem fit." A steering committee of from five to seven students reportedly had been selected to meet on the mall today and announce their decision of which buildings they wanted taken over, according to the University News Service.

A university spokesman said they had information which indicated the buildings selected for possible takeover by demonstrators included: The armory where ROTC classes are conducted, the administration buildings, the Asphalt Institute or the building 'ousing the wind tunnel in the engineering education complex. The spokesman said the demonstrators were not planning to tie up commuter traffic, nor to just weaken the university, but they wanted to close it. Meanwhile, university officials were expected to reveal today the names of six students suspended and two non-students banned from campus. Dr. Charles E.

Bishop, College Park chancellor, said Thursday night all eight were charged with criminal assault in connection with student-police clashed on the campus- They were "observed in the commission of a violent crime," Bishop added, during disorders Wednesday which led Gov. Marvin Mandel to invoke a curfew and send National Guard troops onto the sprawling campus. Other suspensions may follow as the investigation continues, Bishop said, noting that 48 persons- including 32 students- had been taken into police custody for various offenses. Meanwhile, the campus was relatively quiet with Guardsmen on standby nearby. No curfew was imposed Thursday night.

One minor incident was reported Thursday night, however. Authorities said about 50 persons, apparently members of the campus chapter for the Students for a Democratic Society, attempted to occupy the school's computer science building. Witnesses said the demonstrators entered the building without difficulty, but that they were soon cleared out by National Guardsmen and campus police. Students studying in the building at the time of the incident were also ordered to leave, the witnesses said. No arrests were reported.

Earlier Thursday, Gov. Mandel's special advisor on university matters, Phillip Kapneck, said he was disillusioned by Wednesday's disorders. "You have taken a giant step backward," Kapneck said in a statement which warned students they were mistaken if they felt "civil disobedience is a method of gaining points for your cause." Dr. Wilson H. Elkins, university president, also issued a statement on the disruptions, saying that the state's largest educational facility would remain open.

"The University of Maryland is going to remain open and a regular schedule of classes will be maintained," Elkins declared. "While we do not welcome the necessity of calling on outside forces, we realize under certain conditions we must do whatever is necessary." "I want to assure our public that the rights of everyone will be protected. We have taken steps to do this and will take any steps that may be required in the future," he added. Editor Of 'My Weekly Reader' Miss Johnson To Receive Honorary Degree From Hood Miss Eleanor Johnson of Frederick, is one of three women to be honored at commencement exercises May 15 at Hood College. She will receive the honorary degree of doctor of letters.

Miss Johnson is the cofounder and editor of "My Weekly Reader," newspapers for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. In addition to Miss Johnson, Mrs. James H. Wilson of Rockville, home economist and consumer affairs writer, will receive the honorary degree of doctor of science, and the honorary degree of doctor of laws will be awarded to Dr. Mabel Walker of Milford, N.

executive director of the Tax Institute of America. Dr. James E. Allen former U. S.

Education Commissioner and currently on the faculty of Princeton University's Wood- Miss Eleanor Johnson row Wilson School of Public ana International Affairs, will give the--commencement address at 9:30 a.m. in the Hod son Outdoor Theatre. Dr. Allen's mother, the late Susan Garrott Allen, was a native of Frederick and was graduated from Hood in 1900. She served as college librarian from 1899 to 1910, and as librarian and registrar from 1909 to 1910.

The Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, Titular Archbishop of Newport (Wales), will deliver the baccalaureate sermon May 14 at 7:30 p.m., in Coffman Chapel. Miss Johnson has been actively engaged in writing and publishing materials for children for the past 43 years. "My Weekly Reader" is published in seven editions and is read each week by millions of children throughout the United States.

Also, the pub- Continued on Page A-5) Top Racial Issues: Jobs, Law Enforcement, Housing By PHIL NIKLAUS Assistant Editor (Third of Four Articles) "Racists don't stand on the corner and shout nigger discrimination in the county is more subtle," said one black member Frederick's Human Relations Council. A feeling held by many mem- Unemployment Edges Higher WASHINGTON (AP) The government said today unemployment edged up slightly to 6.1 per cent last month. The jobless rate for blacks soared to 10 per cent, highest since January 1964. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the figures showed "the employment situation was essentially unchanged The report followed one of Tuesday which showed a new increase in wholesale prices, dampeneing President Nixon's efforts to battle inflation. Nixon has promised to bring over-all unemployment down to 4.5 per cent by the middle of 1972.

The April jobless rate was up one-tenth of one per cent over the 6 per cent rate for March, and was just below the nine- year high of 6.2 reached last December. Total employment was up slightly due mainly to more farm jobs. The work week for rank and file workers edged up slightly for the second month in EWSP4PER! a row and factory overtime was unchanged. But, after holding steady between December and March, the jobless rate for Negro workers moved up from 9.4 per cent to 10 per cent. The BLS said this was due mainly to fewer jobs for Negro women.

The unemployment rate for whites remained 5.6 per cent. For teen-agers the rate remained essentially unchanged at 17.2 per cent. The over-all unemployment rate of 6.1 per cent compared with a 4.7 per cent rate one year ago. Nixon says his drive to expand the economy through increased federal spending and easier money policies should reduce unemployment and the inflation rate simultaneously. But April's wholesale price index appeared to signal a new rise in the cost of living, since movements at the wholesale level usually translate Into consumer price increases.

bers of the Frederick comnvjnity is that racism has shifted from the blatant to a less obvious stage. Whether this can be classified as progress is doubtful. The reason that thesepractices have gone underground may be quite simply that racial discrimination is now against the law. Though less open and more difficult to define, however, it is felt that it is nonetheless present in certain specific areas in the county: namely, housing, employment and law enforcement. Although people vary in their attitudes as to which of the three is the most flagrantly discriminatory, these areas invariably surface in a vast majority of discussions on race relations.

"Whites don't want blacks to take their jobs," said John Gaither, who sees unequal employment opportunity as the county's biggest problem. "The point is that it's not the white's job it's the job of whoever is best qualified." One grievance within the black community concerning employment is that tests given to job applicants are administered by whites, for whites and are based on white culture. This complaint seems to be borne out by the factthatthe state employment office in Frederick employs 12 whites fuJl-time and only two blacks on i part-time basis. And the tests currently used date back to 1952 and 1961. "Most blacks must either leave the county or accept menial jobs," said Kathleen Snowden.

"Some can get the better jobs but for the most part they are just window dressing. The employment testing procedures expect blacks to know things that they have been prevented from knowing," she added. The responsibility for improving employment opportunities, according to George Dredden, lies with the government. "The government must take the initiative," he said. "They can't tell industry to clean up their house unless they do.

Just putting an Equal Opportunity Employer sign on the window doesn't guarantee it," Dredden said. Perhaps the most controversial source of friction between the races is the so called dual standard of justice. This idea has recently received increased notoriety in the county because of the hit run of Mrs. Eleanor Brown and the shooting (Continued on -tage A-5) Weekend Showers Possible Showers and thunderstorms this week dumped an inch of water over the county, raising streams and rivers and bringing welcome moisture to farms and forests. The Mo.iocacy River, reported about two feet below normal on Thursday, had risen a foot by this morning according to a spokesman at the Monocacy Filtration Plant.

The Potomac River at Point of Rocks is also reported a foot below normal, but both rivers are expected to continue rising as water from the mountains runs off. The Monocacy is reported somewhat cloudy but the Potomac is clear. The storms, which dumped .76 of an inch on Wednesday and an additional .02 of an inch yesterday, following .22 of an inch Sunday, brought relief to early crops in the area. But farm extension agent Allen Bryant said Thursday that farmers could use about one inch a week at this time of year, although the recent showers have brought a welcome end to a six-week dry spell. A flood watch was issued for the extreme portion of the state yesterday because of more than three inches of rainfall, but no problems with flooding in the Frederick County area were expected.

The threat of more rain is diminshed today, although the weatherman set a 30 per cent probability of occasional showers tonight. Temperatures were expected to rise naar 70 degrees today, dropping overnight to near 50 degrees. Saturday will be cloudy with highs in the 60s. The high temperature on Thursday was 70 degrees and the overnight low was 45 degrees. Total precipitation for the month is 1 inch.

Normal for May is 3.91 inches. Stock Market NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices declined on a broad front today as the market weighed the currency crisis and news of a rise in the jobless rate last month. Trading was brisk. HOGS ARE BEAUTIFUL! A CHANCE TO HAM IT UP President Nixon poses with an Iowa-inspired farm poster yesterday in his office as a prelude to today's "Salute to Agriculture" exhibit on the White House lawn and an address to an Agriculture Department ceremony honoring the nation's farmers. (AP Wirephoto) Nixon Salutes Agriculture Animals Graze On White House Lawn WASHINGTON (AP) The White House took on the trappings of a gentlemen's farm today with livestock grazing the spacious grounds and farm ma- Frederick Below State Average In Home Values, Rental Costs The median rent paid by Frederick Countains is S77 per month, while the median value of owner-occupied homes here is $17,700, according to the Maryland Division of Economic Development The county falls below the state average in both categories.

Median rent state wide is $110 per month and the median value of owner-occupied homes is $18,800. Montgomery County ranks number one in the state, with median rent of $165 and median home value of $32,700. Carroll County ranks seventh, above Frederick County, in median home value of $18,900 and the median rent of $107. Washington County is number 13 with a median home value of $15,400 and median rent of $66 per month. The lowest median home value ($7,900) and the lowest median rental ($41) occur in Somerset County.

The report also lists home values and rentals for cities in the state with a population of 25,000 or more. Frederick is not included. Bethesda ranked number 1 in the list of places with 25,000 or more inhabitants, with a median owner-occupied housing value of $41,800. It ranked number 2 in median rent with its rental figure of $181 per month. Bowie with only 740 renter occupied units out of 8,423 housing units, ranked number 1 in median rent, with a median rental of $225.

The principal reason for the very high median rental in Bowie is that it has no apartment houses and none of its single family units have fewer than three bedrooms accoring to the report. At the bottom of the rankings for both median housing value and median rental was Cumberland, with a median value of $11,800 and a median rent of $56 per month. The report noted that Baltimore, with its median housing value of $10,000 would rank lower than Cumberland. Rockville has a median housing value of $24,600 and a median rental of $149. Hagerstown has a median housing value of $13,400 with a median rental of $67.

Although excluded from the list because its population was less than 25,000 persons, North Potomac, in Montgomery County, had the highest median value of any place in the state, regardless of population, with its median value of $47,000. chinery dotting the manicured lawn. The pastoral setting marked President Nixon's "salute to Agriculture," a theme underlined by a photo in his office captioned "Hogs are Beautiful." There was more to the day, however, than a celebration of the good earth. The President invited 70 agricultural leaders to the executive mansion to discuss his farm policy. Part of Nixon's policy is a $400 million program to improve agricultural income and exports.

All but about $50 million of the program would go for loans. Another part would aim at increasing exports from the current $7.4 billion level to $10 billion. One of those not invited today a Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien, who said the President was seeking a political harvest. The President's farm-aid program, O'Brien said, is no more than "pre-1972 political hocus- pocus that doesn't even fool city slickers-- let alone farmers." The country fair appearance of the White House didnt come off any better in the assessment by O'Brien, who charged $100,000 was misused in setting up the affair. Antiwar Protesters Retreat WASHINGTON (AP) The street people faded in retreat from the nation's capital today, their design to stop the war by stopping the government frustrated but not abandoned.

The protesters had faltered against the government's overwhelming and well-prepared police and military power. Arrested by the thousands, they ran out of bodies. But not out of breath. "This country is going to have to deal with us," vowed demonstration organizer Rennie Davis. "It's not enough to put us all in jail because we're all willing to go to jail and stay there to end the war." The streets of Washington will see the protesters again in two months, Davis said.

In their absence, the capital today anticipated its first normal day since last Sunday, with no planned demonstrations, just controversy as usual. It could last a day. Saturday will see a march to a different beat when The Rev. Dr. Carl Mclntire leads a "March for Victory" he says will attract more demonstrators than attended a massive peace rally Apri! 24.

But the weekend events 211 differ markedly in both motives and makeup from the past days'. Nobody expects the middle-aged and middle-class followers of the fundamentalist minister to put on the show presented by the collection of young, hairy and uniquely dressed antiwar protesters. Certainly their tactics will vary. The antiwar people planned to close down the government by strangling the city's traffic. On the surface this didn't seem outlandish in a town that chokes on half an inch of rain.

But it turned out to be. From the very start, when 1 they were routed from a park campground Sunday, until Thursday, when fewer than 50 tired, bedraggled protesters showed up in front of the South Vietnamese Embassy to face 500 policemen, the demonstrators had not a prayer. They were greeted by 10,000 federal troops starting Monday, 5,200 city police, seemingly unlimited canisters of tear gas and a fast-breaking battle-plan that included street-sweeping arrests. There were more than 12,000 acrests, over 7,000 on Monday alone to set a record for a single day in a single city. Fire Log Fire calls reported during the 24-hour period ending at 10 662-6333 or 663-4400' CITY NONE COUNTY BOULDER ROAD, 10:44 p.m«, fire near White Rock, Lewis- own and Independents responded.

AMBULANCE CALLS: Emergency 11 Routine 5 JAIL POPULATION: Males 23 Females 2 'VWSPAPFRI.