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Toduy Tou.i-3o.i5u FREDERICK, M A R Y L A N D 2 1 7 0 1 F R I D A Y . JULY 18 . 1975T I I K E K

SEC TI O N S SECTIONPRICE: TEN CENTS

City ponders rent controls AstfOHautS shuttle

between spaceships

By M.A.MALIK

Staff Writer ,

The mayor and Board of Aldermen

decided Thursday night to study thelegality and desirability of adopt ing arent cont ro l o rd inance deba r r ingl and lo rds f rom increasing rent ofresidential premises by more than 7 percent .'The proposal to adopt the ordinance,

mooted at the instance of countyo f f i c i a l s , t ouched off a two-foldcontroversy among he audience.

. NAACP President Lord Nickens urgedthe mayor and board to enact th eproposed law "so the poor people of thecity have a chance to survive."

' Paul Gordon,of Meadowdale Lane, onthe other hand, warned that adopt ion ofth e measure will precipitate a suddenupswing of rent hike because it wouldstrike panic among most landlords.' H e pointed out that rent control laws

were found unworkable, in many cit iesand counties and ultimately the poorpeople, wh om he measure w as expectedto benefit , suffered due to it.

Gordon maintained that the proposedordinance would prove self-defeatingand futile.

Apart from th e debate over th e meritsof .the measure, a controversy ensured

over the l ega l i t y of the proposedordinance.

C i t y At to rney W . Milnor Robertsopined, "Legal ly I don' t think th e city

h a s a n y a u t h o r i t y to pass th eordinance."He said the state law, under wh ich the

proposed m easure is envisioned, expiredon July 1, so that the city would now bel e f t w i t h no legal foundation for theant icipated law.

Bu t B a r b a r a Brightful of countyC o m m u n i t y Serv ices Age ncy , whoS p o n s o r e d th e d r a f t o r d i n a n c e ,disagreed wi th this view. She saidal though th e expirat ion of the state lawdisables the counties from adopt ingsuch a measure , an y incorporatedmunicipal i ty has the inherent authorityto adopt it. She said she checked withappropriate state officials about it andw as assured that the proposed law wouldbe lawfully adopted.

Th e Maryland Rent Control Law RealProperty Art icle 8-209 (f) . The MarylandRent Control Law was first enacted inthe 1973 legislative session and wasapproved by the Governor on May 24,1973 and took effect July 1,1973.

The law contained an expiration dateof July 1, 1974. It was subsequentlyreenacted for an addit ional 'year, withcerta in changes during the 1974 sessionand is now scheduled to expire on July 1,

1975. The current law provides, asfollows:

"The governing body of any countyand Bal t imore City ma y enact laws,

ordinances or regulat ions concerningrental fees covered by this sect ion.These laws, ordinances and regulat ionsshal l supersede th e provisions of t h iesection."

Th e e x p i r a t i o n of the state la wprevents Frederick County f r o m passingan y r ent control law at the county level.Th is prompted the county officials toresort to the city for enac tment of the

' measure1, as according to t h em th e city

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S P A C E C E N T E R , Houston ( A P ) — Ina sp i r i t of good-humored camaraderie,Apollo astronauts and Soyuz cosmonautsexecuted the i r own brand of shuttled i p lomacy today in a series of visitsbe twe e n t h e i r linked orbita l homes.

The r e was much back-slapping and

Je f fe r son man killed

in construction mishapA 28-year-old Jefferson man was

crushed to death Thursday morning at aconstruction site at the Severna ParkShopping Center on Md. 2 at McKinseyRoad when a section of the boom of acranefell on h im..According to Anne .Arundel County

Police, Morgan R. Webber Jr. died ofmassive internal injuries after the boomof a Link-Belt crane he was dismantlingfell on h im.

Police explained that the crane'sboomis .typically put together in sections andthat the dismantling process involvedthe removing of steel pins from thevarious sections of the boom and thatprior to the removal of the pins fromeach' section, the section w as supposed to

be blocked andtied. ,J .J- ,. ^. -.Webber, according to police'reports,

was under the boom, that apparentlywas not blocked and tied, whe n he askedSamue l D. Lowman of Myersville, wh ow as assisting Webber, to go get ahammer .

Lowman reported to police that as hewas walking away he heard the boomgive way and saw the heavy metalsection fall on Webber and crush him.

Th e fatal accident, which occurredshortly before 10:30 a.m. Thursday, w asat a D e w e y Jo rdan con t rac torsconstruction site.

Webber was taken to North ArundelHospita l where he was dead on arrival,according to police.

In other police activity, Gary W.

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h a n d - s h a k i n g a s spacemen movedt h r o u g h ' a tunnel connect ing the twoships.

Hosts took visi tors on television ourso f th e respect ive craft, family picturesw ere pro udl y displayed and mealssha r ed .

Cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov pointed atelevision camera out the window overRussia as he gave visiting Vance D.Brand a high-alti tude t ravelogue of hishome land , a vast stretch from the BlackSea to the P acific.

As the spacemen continued t h e i runprecedented space journey, Soyuzcommander Alexei Leonov and Brandmade early morning transfers to theother 's craft.

It was the first of three t ransfers onthis f inal day of l inkup on the f irs tinternat ional space mission.

Th e f ive spacemen also arranged af a re we l l ceremony and a televised ne wsc o n f e r e n c e la te r today, to answer

quest ions submi t t ed by newsmen inHouston and Moscow.

Leonov was the first of the Russiancr ewmen to visit Apollo. Amer icansThomas P. Stafford and Donald K.Slayton visited Soyuz for nearly threehours Thur sday after the docking of thetw o sh ips 140 miles high.

"1 am very happy to be here, Leonov' sta ted as he sl ipped through th e Apolloha tch and was greeted by S t a f f o r d andSlayton.

Stafford showed off the Americanc o m p u t e r aboa rd Apollo and toldLeonov, "I t is a very smart computer ."

Th e Soyuz does not have an onboardcomputer and instead relies on groundcontrol for m aneuvering calculations.

Le onov i nspec t ed t he astronauts'dining area and remarked: "There's"very li ttle room here, but af ter all,nobody has to do any dishes."

Kubasov greeted Brand with a signthat read: "Welcome.aboard Soyuz."

' V

Congress, Ford unable

to agree on energy plan

Commissioners get

industrial park ideasBy DEBORAH DEASY

Staff Writer

No w - hat th e Frederick CountyCommissioners have granted conceptualapproval of an industrial park, they'retrying to find out what makes one work.

Lee Potterfield of the WashingtonCounty Off i ce o f Economic andCommuni ty Deve lopment came toFrederick Thursday to sharebackground on that county's successfulindustrial development.

Potterfield urged the commissionersto consider establishing an EconomicDevelopment Commission. He suggestedthat the commission be made of a cross

section of county people, electedby heirrespective professions, and approved bythe County Commissioners. "They allshould be doers;" Potterfield added.

He told the commissioners that theymust choose a means of f inancing anindustrial park , be it with state loans ort h r o u g h a n i ndependent " group.Washington County has financed theland acquisition and development of itsindustrial park through the WashingtonCounty Indust r ia l Foundat ion, anindependent, non-profit organization.

Potterfield noted that if an industrialpark is set up right, it can pay for, andperpetuate itself , through the necessarycommerce and employment it provides.

Th e industrial park concept beingreviewed by the commissioners wouldpurchase , develop and sell land toindustrial clients. The actual building offacilities, according to restrictions,would be the responsibility of theincoming industries.

Th e seed for Washington County'sindustrial park was planted in the early1960s but it didn't really get off theground and moving until 1970. Acreagewas •purchased for $1,400 per acre,(located near an interstate highway)grading work done, water added, androads put in to accommodate th eindustrial clients.

The county has collected 13 industrialclients in the last five years.Their actualindustrial park (200 acres) houses onlyeight of those industries, with fivelocated in other areas of the county.

- Washington County's Office of EconomicDevelopment ha s also helped existingindustries expand.

"When you sell to such clients, it'smuch better if you can show them theavailable public works, rather than tellth em, 'we can get them for you,' "Potterfield noted.

Potterfield further explained that thereal key to a successful industrial parkisunse l f i sh cooperation between hostcounty an d clients.

Air conditioned phone booth

This phone booth near Frederick Junction has had the glass

shattered by vandals making for natural air conditioning.Vandalism

of this type has cost the C&P Co. many thousands of dollars in

Frederick County. (Photo byCharles Kelley).

Group home opponents

file answer to appealByLEESHORT

Staff Writer

William E. Kl ine and Barbara H.Kline, w ho have been bat t l ing a proposalto establish a group home at 13 W. ThirdSt. since February, have filed wi th th eCircuit C ourt their answer to FrederickGroup Homes, Inc.'s appeal of a May 20Board of Z oning Appeals decision that,r u l e d th e G r o u p Ho m e s zoningcert ificate ha s been issued in error.

Freder ick Group Homes on June 13

filed an appeal of the Board of ZoningAppea l s rul ing , cha rg ing t ha t th eboard's d e c i s i o n w as a rb i t r a r y ,capricious, unreasonable, and contraryto law.

Th e answer to the appeal, filed by theKlines, denies the allegations set forth inthe Frederick Group Homes appeal.

The legal battle began on Jan. 16 whe nFrederick Group Homes appl ied for azoning cert ificate that would permit agroup home at 13 W. Third St. in a B-2zoning district.

On Jan. 27, the zoning certificate wasissued to Frederick Group Homes by c i t y -zoning inspector Michael E. Pue J r .

The Klines fi led an appeal of the

' i s suance of the zoning cert ificate withthe Board of Zoning Appeals on Feb. 7,arguing that Pue had issued the zoningcert ificate in error in that he hadmisinterpre ted sect ions 10.206 and 13.101o f the Frederick City Zoning Ordinance.

Specif ically, the Kl ines argued thatP ue should have referred the case to theBoard of Zoning Appeals instead ofi ssu ing t he zoning ce r t i f i ca t e byadministrat ive rul ing.

After holding public hearings on themat t e r on March 18, April 1 and April15,

the Board of Zoning Appeals decided onMay 20 t h a t Pue had made an error inissuing th e zoning certificate.

That decision gave r ise to FrederickGroup Homes' appeal a l leging that thedecision was "contrary to the clearlanguage of, and a reasonable andlogical interpretat ion of, sections 10through 13 of the Zoning Ordinance ofFrederick City."

\ " G r o u p h o m e , " a c c o r d i n g toFrederick Group Homes' appeal , is a"principal permit ted use" in a B-2zoning distr ic t and, therefore, theestabl ishment of a group home in such a

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• WASHINGTON ( A P ) - With presentoil price controls due to disappear Aug.31, Congress and President Ford aredeadlocked over how to shape a newpetroleum pricing program.' "W e should work for some sort ofcompromise that's in the best interestso f this nat ion of ours, pulling togetherinstead of pulling separate ways," saidHouse Comm erce Committee Chairm anHar l ey 0. Staggers, D-W.Va.

Staggers spoke Thursday after theHouse f inished congressional action on abill extending exist ing oil pr ice con-

Mandel orders

crackdownon speeders

A N N A P O L I S (AP)-Gov. M a r v i nMandel ordered a crackdown today ondrivers w ho exceed the 55-miles-per-hour speed l imit .

Th e governor said he has instructedState Pol ice not to issue any warningsand not to give any second chances.

"Every violator wi l l r ece ive aspeeding t ick et carrying a f u l l fine and aappropriate penalty," Mandel said.

Th e governor sa id he has asked statecourts to show no leniency towardspeeders and to impose maximumpenalt ies in speeding cases.

Mandel said he i s acting partially atthe request of Frank Zarb, director ofthe Federal Energy Office, who ha sasked all governors to help enforce thespeed limit as an energy conservationeffort.

Th e governor said he is in totalagr eement w i t h Zarb's position and thathe is additionally concerned about thegrowing number of highway accidentsan d fa t a l i t i e s caused by speedingdr ive rs .

Stocks decline

NE W YORK ( A P ) — Stocks declinedagain today in the face of a r ising bankp r i m e lending rate.

The 10:30 a.m. D ow Jones average of30 industr ia ls was down 3.28 at 861 ev en,w h i l e losers opened up a 3-2 lead overgainers on the New York StockExchange .

t ro ls w h i l e ro l l ing back cur r ent lyuncontrolled oil prices in a way expectedto p r o d u c e a Ford veto. Staggersexpressed a "hope he wouldn't veto it."

The House's act ion came after aSenate committee took steps towardki lling Ford's plan to hike the controlledprice of domest ic oil over the next 30months. By a 9 to 5 party-line vote, theInter ior Comm ittee sent the f u l l Senate aresolution rejecting Ford's proposal. Asimilar resolut ion is expected to reachthe H ouse soon.

The House is returning to work on anontax energy bill approved by theCommerce Committee as a companionfor its recently passed energy tax bill.Th e ta x measure is in a Senate

commi t t ee .The House passed 239 to 172 legislationcontinuing the government 's authority tocontrol the price of U.S.-produced oiluntil Dec. 31 nstead of letting he law dieAug. 31. The vote was far short of thetwo-thirds majority needed to overr ide aveto.

The bil l also would roll back thecurrently uncontrolled price of so-called"new oil" from more than $12 a barrel tothe Jan. 31 level of $11.28 a barrel.

Sixty per cent of U.S. oil, known as"old oil," sells at a controlled price of$5.25 a barrel . Th e remainder,defined as"new oil," is not subject to price controlsand sells near world-market prices.

'Generally, oil from wells wh ich went intoproduction more than three years ago issubject to the $5.25 a barrel price ceiling.

Ford's plan, which a simple majori tyo f either th e Senate or House can kill byadopt ing a resolution disapproving it,would phase out the existing system ofprice controls on domestic oil productionover 2 M £ years, thereby el iminat ing thecur r ent two-tier pr ice program.

Unde r wh at the President terms his"compromise oil decontrol plan," pr iceceilings on domestic oil, the $5.25 aba r r e l , w o u l d be pha sed upwa rd ,reaching an est imated $13.50 a barrel forall U.S. oil product ionby the end of 1977.

Inside The News

*

Former CIA agent tells of Dr. Olson's last daysRobert Lashbrook, a former CI A

employe and the last person to see Dr .Frank Olson alive, has been located andhas told what he remembers of those

days inNovem ber, 1953 whe n

Olson w asgiven the drug LSD by the CIA and thenapparently committed suicide severaldays ater.

Th e Washington Post reports in itsFriday edition, that Lashbrook is now ahigh school science teacher in Ojai,Calif., 80 miles north of LosAngeles.

Lashbrook told the Post he remembersmany details of the meeting at whichthe hallucinogenic drug LSD was givento Olson and three other top levelresearch scientists at Fort Detrickwithout their knowledge.

He also remembers accompanyingOlson to New York City to see apsychiatrist after Olson had an adversereaction. And he remembers waking upin their hotel room to find that Olson ha dplunged through the loth-floor window tohi s death on he sidewalk below.

"I woke up because there was anoise," Lashbrook said, "I turned on hel ight and noticed Frank wasn't there. Isaw the shade. It was one of thosepull-type window shades and that w asgoing around~and around and the window

w as broken...And he n I saw him downon the sidewalk below... There'sa trainstation there, and a number of peoplewere running from th e train station toth e sidewalk..."

Asked w h a t he did then, Lashbrooksaid:

"As I recall, I called the (hotel ) desk. Idon't recall (wha t I said) except toinform th em, and ask them to callsomeone ...I put on my clothes andwaited ...I igured hepolice would

arrivesooner or ater."Asked if he left the room, he said, "No,

I did not. I stayed in the room It was10 floors up, a distance away. If I'd gonedown, what could I have done, becauseas I say, I saw people running overwher e he was... I igured he policewould be want ing to ask quest ions of(me)."

In the four weeks since th e CIA'se x p e r im e n t s w i t h LS D w e r e firstdisclosed, no one has contacted hi m

about the matter, Lashbrook said. Th eRockefel ler commission did not contacthim befo re i t wrote i ts report onimp roper or illegal CIA activities. Hisfo rmer col leagues at the CIA have not

contacted him, nor have congressionalinvestigators.

And except for one t ime a week or twoa f t e r Olson's death, he has not contactedthe Olson family in the intervening22years, he sa id .

Th e Olson family announced at a press

Army confirms LSD experimentsBALTIMORE (AP)-The Army ha s

confirmed a report that it conductedexperiments using LSD and other"incapacitating agents" on soldiers andstudents at bases and medical centersthroughout the country in the 1950s, but aspokesman insists the drugs were neveradministered wi thout a subject'sconsent,

-Ye t a psychiatric researcher at the.time of the experiments adds that mostof the subjects were "mostly unletteredand rather naive" soldiers brought in

from around the c ountry for theexperiments an d were given leave t imeas a reward for volunteering.

Lt . Col. Hugh G. Waite, the A r m yspokesman, said T h u r s d a y ap r e l i m i n a r y r e a d i n g of classifiedrecords retrieved by the Army showedn o e v i d e n c e that persons wereunknowingly administered LSD in theexpe rimen ts, w hich were conductedbetween 1956 and 1959.

Th e W a s h i n g t o n Post repor t edT h ur s d ay t h a t th e Army and the

University of Maryland Medical Schooltested LSD on hundreds of persons,sometimes without their knowledge, inthe late 1950s.

Th e Post quoted unidentified civilianresearchers as saying the experimentswere conducted under a contract be-tween the Army's Chem ical WarfareLaboratory and the medical school'sPsych iatr ic Inst i tute in Balt imore.

According to the paper's sources, th e

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conference from their Old Braddockhome last week that they are preparingto sue the C IA forseveralmillion dollarsfo r "illegally and ne g l i g e n t l y "administering LSD o Dr. Olson and for

subsequent cover-ups of true details andreasons for his death.Mrs. Alice Olson said at the conference

t h a t sh e just found out about he rh us band ' s participation in the LSDexpe r iment a month ago by readingn e w s p a p e r reports o f CIA drugact ivit ies.

"For 22 years," she said, "the onlydetails th e family knew of the m mediatec i r c u m s t a n c e s sur round ing FrankOlson's death were that h e w a s taken toNe w York to see a psychiatrist and thathe j umped or f e l l to his death."

In a two hour telephone interview,conduct ed by the Washington Post,Lashbrook went step-by-step throughsome of the things he remembers fromthat period of his life.

"Of course, the whole thing shook meup qui t e a lot,"he said."And asa matterof fact , I was leery of getting a hotelroom high up in a hotel. If Olson haddecided to do something like that , why

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Words of tcisdom

This is the final test of agent l eman — h i s respect forthose who can be of no possibles e r v i c e to h i m . — WilliamPh e l p s , Amer ican educa to r ,1865-1943.

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Dr. Olson's final dayscouldn't I? " ,

Lashbrook said he was one of as manyas four CIA employees present whenLSD was given to four top level scientistsfrom the .'Army's biological warfareresearch , center at Fort Detrick inNovember -1953. He did not receive thedrug then, hesaid, but he had earlier.

Th e drug wa s administered on the firstnight of a three-day secret seminar —documentsiindicate it was Wednesday,Nov. 18 — and the scientists were not toldabout i t until afterward.

By the .following Tuesday, Olson haddeveloped such severe reactions thatLashbrook took him to New York. Olsondied early Saturday morning.

Lashbrook* said he did not tell the NewYork police x investigating Olson's deaththa t LSD I was' involved because hewasn ' t sure the drug, administered morethan a week earlier, was responsible forth e death.\ " j . . It was certainlycontroversial as to what the direct causean d effect might have been," he said.

While, he waited for the police, hesaid,he telephoned a fellow CI A employe inW a s h i n g t o n , D.C. , a s well as thepsychiatrist, a doctor with a highsecurity clearance who had been doingresearch on LSD, to inform them of thedeath. . . ,-

"I t h i n k ' everybody got prettyfrightened at that point," hesaid. Askedif there was a great deal of fear withint he CIA as a result, he replied,"Certainly:'

1'

Lashbrook, 57, lives in Ojai with hiswife and three children in a three-storyhouse surrounded by a chain-link fence,according

1to special correspondent

Robert Myers. Th e neighborhood is anattractive,'semirural, older section withcomfortable houses.

He said the C IA was his principalemployer from 1951 to 1963, aft er whichhe went to work; for the Ventura Division

of Northrop Corp . A chemist byprofession, he has a Ph D and is listed in^ ' A m e r i c a n Men and W o m e n ofScience." »

f . . ' Another CIA employe who was in t he .room when Olson.was given LSD, Dr.Sidney Gottlieb,, is listed in the same'publication as aj biochemist who, from1951 on , was.,a "consultant, U.S.Department.of Defense."

Lashbrook' said Gottlieb was the agenthe telephoned in Washington to inform.him of Olson's death.< V .Lashbrook said he was only one of "aDum ber of" CIA'operatives who acted as•liaison with a wide variety of LSD estingprojects in the Arm y, and in the NationalInstitutes of Mental Health._ The CIA reportedly has refused toc o m m e n t . . o n . a n y aspect of wha t ,

• ha p p e n e d 'i n those drug-testing,'programs.

• A July 11 letter the CIA to John Marks'of the Center for National Security.Studies here notes:

1"Please be>advised that the CIA did

-riot provide any documents or any other

'writ ten material on 3 -this 'topic to the"Rockefeller commission." It is signed'-Charles E/Savige for Robert S. Young,"Freedom of Information coordinator. -

Lashbrook's account does not squarein severalMmportant respects with anaccount given to the Washington Post

.Thursday by Armand D. Pastore, wh owa s assistant night clerk at New York's

"Statler Hote l ; in 1953. Pastore is now.manager of the D iplomat Motor Hotel in'Ocean City, M d.

-Lashbrook said the police arrived inprobably not more than 10 minutes, and

-that he was awakened by Olson'sOccident sometimeafter 3 a.m._, Pastore said it couldn't have been'after 3 a.m: because the doorman whonotified him'of the accident went off duty,at 2 a.m.

"Sometime before 2 a.m. the doormancame to me and told m e someone cameout the window," Pastore said. "He was

'-lying on. the sidewalk when I got thereand he was still alive an d trying tomumble something but I couldn't makeit out. It was all garbled and I was trying

to get his name. We got a priest, and hestopped mum bling before they got him inthe ambula nce. '

"I went an d checked at the desk an dsa w there were tw o people there. I went

. up and started toknockand hen decided•there might be trouble so I sent down for

Cthe police and waited ...waited aboutone hal f-hou r and then I went in with the

" police. We opened the door and there wa sthis fellow sitting in the bathroom with

.his head in his hands. He had on his' undershorts or his pajamas. He wasn'tdressed." ;

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Olson w as broke up something awful." 'Lashbrook said he was told at the time

tha t th e scientists he worked with ha dagreed among themselves in advance •tha t they would be given LSD, bu twithout knowing exactly when it wouldbe administered.

"I t was m y understanding tha te v e r y o n e invo lved ha d agreed inprinciple," he said. "I was not presentwhen this wa s done."

Some of. the scientists had taken LS Dbefore, and for some it was their firsttime, he said. Olson, he said, was afirst-timer. He did not recall whether adoctor waspresent, butsaid, "...Therew o u l d have .been on e immediatelyavailable."

Lashbrook said he did not attend an yother "meetings where Olson or thepeople who worked with him were givenLSD but he refused to say whether heha d participated in other meetingswhere people were given LSD.

The meeting on Nov. 18, 1953, beganwith a technical discussion that includedthe subject of LSD, Lashbrook said. Inthe evening, when work wa s over and thescientists were in a "free period," no tdiscussing business, the LSD wasadministered. "I think it was in anafter-dinner liquer or something likethat."

Lashbrook said he was "not too sure"whether someone on the inside, or theoutside, decided wh o should be givenLSD "and in any case, I don't reallywant to name them."

He didn't want to comment on whetherthe drug was put in the drinks before orafter they were brought into th e room.

"You see, I don't really know a lot of

things .. . I don't really know what 1should say and what Ishouldn't."

As Lashbrook recalled it, Olson acted"no different from anyone else," afterbeing given LSD. "The general effect issome agitation, confusion. In general theeffect is such it makes it d i f f i c u l t for aperson at night to go to sleep, and as 1recall, tha t went on : People jabbereda w a y until late at night an d early th enext morning ."

He recalled* no emotional upsets ortendencies tow ard violence.

Early the following week, Lashbrooksaid, he learned that Olson wa s showingsigns of being upset. "...Somewhere,

. and I don't know exactly where, th edecision was made that D r. (Harold)

Abramson (a New York psychiatrist)wa s probably in the best position to helpout. He was familiar , 'h e ha d donepioneering work with the ma t e ria l . . . Iguess arrangements were made fo rOlson to see Dr. Abramson."

Al th ough Lashbrook knew Abramson ,they said little to each other, he said,because someone ha d briefedAbramsonon the case before theyarrived.

"W e just didn't walk in cold," he said.Lashbrook said he saw no signs of

undue disturbance in Olson on theFriday night before he died.

"If he had , I would have stayed up allnight with him,"hesa id . "We had dinnerat the hotel together. He seemed quiten o r m a l . . . j u st s m a ll talk. He didn't talkabout anything that bothered me ...Wh at probably happened wa s that thissort of brought ou t something in the pasttha t bothered him, and I never reallywa s able to determine just exactly whatthis was."

SHA presents updated study

on future county road needs

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drugs were tested on persons at bothlocations, as well as at the Aberdeen,Md., Proving Grounds.

While insisting that participants werefully aware that LSD and other morepowerful hallucinogens were being ad-ministered, Waite conceded that thesubjects "were not 'always informed ofth e specific time in which th e drug w asbeing adminis tered to avoid whatscientists call the 'placebo' effect."

Th e placebo effect refers to thephenomenon whereby drug experimentsubjects exhibit th e responses expectedof the drug they have been told is beingadministered, even when they are givena harmless substitute.

Waite said th e Army will seek todeclassify as many of the records aspossible wit hout endangering nationalsecurity. Th e University of Marylandsaid Thursday it had destroyed its testrecords after a state audit followingcompletion of the work.

Dr. G erald D. K lee, who was a senior

psychiatric researcher on the facultyduring the period, confirmed the Postrepor t a n d said some o f t h eexperim ental methods used in theresearch may be questionable by today'sstandards. He added that universitypersonnel did not follow up on the test,subjects to determine the drug's nowwell-documented longrang e effects.

Klee said most of the subjects weresoldiers brought in from posts aroundthe country for the experiments, andwere '.'mostly unlettered and rathernaive" and were given leave time as areward fo r volunteering.

"There wasasplit authority situation"between the civilian researchersand themilitary, according to Klee. "They wereto ld diffe ren t things by diffe ren tpeople."

In St. Petersburg, Fla., a retired A r m ycommander confirmed Thursday that he.was one of more than 100 persons at Ft.Bragg, N.C., in 1957, who was given LSDas part of an Army experiment.

But Ret. Maj. Gen. Lloyd Fellenz saidall the people were volunteers wh o

knowingly participated.Fellenz was comm ander of the

Chemical Research and DevelopmentLaboratory at the Army's EdgewoodArsenal in Maryland when he took partin the controversial LS D experiment atFt. Bragg.

"A t most over a three-year period,maybe 100-150 people were involved inthe experiments — al l volunteers," saidFellenz, who ran the experiment. "Wenever gave th e drug to anybody wh ohadn't volunteered. All who ook it knewthey were going to get it, but notnecessarily when."

Tests proved LSD to be "toounpredictable" as a non lethal chemicalweapon, Fellenz said, and the programwas abandoned in 1958.

"W e weren't quite sure what anindividual wa s going to do," he said."Some were happy as a bird dog; theywanted to get up and sing. Others wantedto get up and punch somebody."

Fellenz defended the experiments as"a damn good program," saying them i l i t a r y w a s d o i n g research in"incapaci ta t ing chemical compoundswith the idea of finding some type ofchemical that was humane. Somethingt ha t wouldn't hurt anybody, just lay

-them out for a half hour or an hour.

Something to put them out of action,until we could pick them up and put themin jail. And among the compounds wasLSD." A s commanding officer of theprogram, Fellez said, he volunteered.

"I wanted to know more about it, and Igave my . persmission for it to beadministered,"hesaid.

Fellenz said he was observingmaneuvers at Ft. Bragg in iggf Amedical officer in charge of tne 'v /*program wa s with him.

"It was cold. I took a cupof coffee. Th ecompound drug was in the coffee. I knewI was going to £et it, but I didn't evensuspect it was going to be at that time,"Fellenz said.

First, his muscles tightened in hisarms an d legs. Then he started gettinghot flashes, he said. "When I got thesecond hot flash I recognized the factthat I had been given LSD."

Fellenz said h e wa s part ia l lyincapacitated, his eyes dilated, his senseof balance wa s thrown off and he wasuncertain about what he was going to do."There was a constant feeling of nausea,

a great thirst and hallucenogenics —spiraling, pulsating, vivid — every timeI closed myeyes."

By DEBORAH DEASY

Staff Writer

It's cheaper to upgrade or reconstructan existing road tharuo build a new one.

T h e M a r y l a n d S t at e H i g h w a yAdm in is t r a t ion would bu y tha t , an d the i rupdated study of Frederick County 'sroad needs for the next 20 years shows it.

R o b e r t H ajzyk , Area Director ofPlann ing for the Maryland Departmentof Transporta t ion (DOT) told localo f f i c i a l s Thu rsday, "We're lookingforward to more reconstruction than

new construction."The study proposes reconstruction

w o r k o n e x i s t i n g roads f o ra p p r o x i m a t e l y 8 1 p er cent of thereported needs as opposed to abou t 18pe r cent new construction.

Group home(Continued From Page A- l )

district is not subject to Board of ZoningAppeals approval and the issuance of azoning certificate is therefore within th epower of Pue as zoning inspector.

Frederick Group Homes ' appea la l leged tha t th e Board of ZoningA p p e a l s , therefore, exceeded ftss ta tu tory appellate jurisdiction in thematte r , tan tamoun t to a usurpation ofthe legislative authority of the Mayorand Board of Aldermen to rezone and,therefore, asked the Circuit Court to setaside the decision of the Board of ZoningAppeals .

In answer to the appeal, th e Klines

argued tha t if the legislative bodyintended to include group homes as aprincipal permitted use under B-2 zoningdistricts, it would .have stated so in theordinance.

Th e Klines alleged that the Board ofZ o n i n g Appea ls dec ided tha t theconstruction of the city zoning ordinanceindicates th at the proposed group homeuse was "conditional" and is thereforeno t ou tside the board ' s s ta tu to ryappellate jurisdiction.

T he Klines fu r th e r contend thatFrederick Group Homes' option to buythe house at 13 W. Third St. expired onJu n e 30 and , no t being renewed, thequestion no w before the court has,therefore, become moot.

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A s prescribed by law. the StateHighway Administration under DOTmust provide a planning frameworksuch as the needs study fo r approval bythe Mar y land General Assembly an delected officials in each study area.

So. in k e e p i n g with the law.representatives from the State Highway

A d m i n i s t r a t i o n visited Frederickyesterday to present their study an dfield an y questions concerning it.

Th e studv itemizes so called "criticaland non^critical needs for the years1977through 19%.

A n d i d e a l l y it s h o w s D O T ' Scapabili ties for th e next 20 years. But thestate doesn't make an y promises.

' Gera ld Cichy of the State HighwayAdmin istration explained that th e studyis a general indicator of priorities an dmay be used a long range planningdocument .

According to Cichy, state roads showan overall 10 per cer.t deterioration,while public needs are up and availablefunding is down due to a depressednat ional economy.Cichy also noted thatth e de te rio ra t ion ra te in WesternMarylan d is two per cent higher than thestate average.

H a j z y k summed . up the problem,"There's no t enough money to makeperfect roads," hesaid.

The study calls for about 17 miles ofreconstruction on 1-70, including 15 miles

- from the Washington County line to 1-270

Jefferson(Con t inued From Page A- l )

Athey, 17, of East Second Street, was

charged with fleeing or attempting toelude a police officer, driving th e wrongwa y on a one-way street, an d failure todrive in the designated lane of trafficshortly after 1:30 a.m. today following abrief chase.

Aft er th e brief chase taken up by Pvt.M. L. McCarthy , Athey wa s chargedwith fleeing the o f f i c e r on West SecondStreet, driving the wrong way on RecordStreet, a n d . failure to drive in thedesignated lane on Church Street.

His trial in District Court is set forAug. 5.

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and a 2.5 m ile stretch of reconstructionfrom 1-270 to Md. 1 4 4 A (East PatrickStreet ) .

Th e slate also lists th e need to relocate1-70 for a length of 3.C miles from Md.H4 A to east of I jamsville Road.

Reconstruction is also slated for 10miles of 1-270 near the MontgomeryCounty line.

Approximately 15 miles of U.S. 15,known as the Emmitsburg Pike, calls fo rreconstruction work, too.

However, th e state provides no datesof completion in the study.

C o u n t y Commissioner Donald L.

. Lewis asked the highway panel wh ywork scheduled on U.S. 15 for 1975 hasbeen delayed to 1977.

H ajzyk f ie lded Lewis ' s inqu iry ,explaining that state red tape and theneed for new public hearings ha ssuspended progress.

Commissioner Paul.Crum encouragedth e H i g h w a y Administration to bec a r e f u l abou t dum ping si l t andp o l l u t a n t s i n t o w a t e r w a y s near

construction, warning the panel thatsuch activity is harmful.

Thom as G. Mohler, District Engineerfor the State Highway Administration,assured C rum that the Water ResourcesAdministration must no w grant permitson an y highway construction.

He also told those gathered that theAdministration now contacts MarylandSenators and Congressman to seek theirhelp in cutting federal red tape an dexpediting federal approval of state roadprojects.

Mayor Ronald Young quizzed he stateofficials on why a local t raffic study,supposedly started more than a year

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When discussion turned to the topic ofi n c r e a s e d t r a f f i c ' on t h eMyersville-Middletown Road, Moehlersuggested that the county might be ableto wor k a trade-off arrangement therebymaking th e state responsible for itsmaint enance. Mohler added, "And Iknow th e County Commissioners arebetter horse traders than I."

The road is presently in need ofe x p e n s i v e i m p r o v e m e n t a n d t heComm issioners tend to 'cringe when thesubject of funding it arises.

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