Evening star., 1924-12-21
ARLINGTON COUNTY NEWS
CLARENDON. Va, December q

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CLARENDON. Va, December 20
Especially The proposal to bond Ar
Iingten County for improvements
about the Court House grounds. to
| include a new jail. fireproof record
room, central heating plant, etc, was
| given impetus at a meeting of the
board of supervisors last night, when
| heads of all civic organizations
| called into consultation by the board
decided on the formation of a citizens
| advisory committee to the board In
| working out the plans. E. c. Turn
burke, chairman of the board, pre-
sided
The motion authorizing the forma-
! tion of the committee. which was Of
fered by c. r. Taylor. president of
the Clarendon Parent Teacher As
sociation, provides that the committee
| shall be composed of all those present
at the meeting and that it shall be
the purpose of the committee to in
restigate the needs OF the county in
| this connection. secure estimates and
report It's findings to the board.
Arthur Orr of Lyon Park, chairman
of the Arlington District Good Roads
Commission, was elected temporary
chairman Of the committee. r. A.
Roseberry, president of the Del Ray
Citizens Association, was elected
temporary secretary.
A committee oh permanent organ
ization was authorized to consist of
the temporary officers and three
members from each of the ma gis-
terial districts of the county The
Work:-Washington district Mrs. S.
| +. Cooper. Organized Women Voters
OF Cherrydale; 7. II. Jones, president
of the Cherrydale Citizens Associa-
tion, and Henry Thomas. president OF
the Leeway Citizens Association.
Arlington dIstrict--R. +. Plymale,
| president of the Arlington County
Civic Federation and president Of the
Fort Myer Heights Citizens Associa-
tion; Mrs. Catherine NJ Rogers. presi-
dent of the Arlington County Or
sanized Women Voters, and ]. r.
Williams Jefferson district: w. L.
Varney of the town of Potomac,
Frank q. Campbell of Virginia High
lands. and c. c. Lamond, member Of
the school board. The committee on
organization, 1t was announced, will
hold it's first meeting the evening of
January 6 at Z o'clock at the Court
House.
County officials have had the pro-
posed improvements under consider
alton for several months. They have
expressed the need Of the improve
ments and are hopeful that the for
| nation of the citizens committee will
result In every citizen becomin g
thoroughly acquainted with the plans
and that a sentiment will be created
| in favor of the proposal
The proposed improvements were
at one time estimated to cost SIPS, 900
but this figure may be changed by
! the deliberations of the advisory
committee.
Views of the county officials rela-
tive to the improvements were ex-
planned to the meeting by Chairman
Turnburke, w. J. Ingram, super
visor of Arlington district: William
c. Cloth. commonwealth attorney:
William H. Duncan, clerk of the
court: Capt. John T. Talmon. county
superintendent of roads. and Howard
| E. Fields, sheriff. Other officials
present were w. E. A. McShea and
E. NJ. Shreve OF the school board, and
Prof. Fletcher Kemp. county super
intendent of schools.
In addition to those already men,
toned, the temporary citizens ad.
visory committee consists OF j.
Thomas Manning. president of the
Clarendon Citizens Association
James w. Head, president of the Bar
| croft School and Civic League; J. w.
watson. president Of the Arlington
Citizens Association: L. H. Martin OF
the Arlington County Civic Fedora
tion; A. ]. Rogers. president of the
! Ashton Heights Citizens Association
j. B. Bowman, president of the Park
Lane Citizens Association; c. E
Daley, president OF the Aurora
| Heights Citizens Association: w w
Deal president of the Highland Park
the Arlington Fire Department; A. 3.
Eaton. chief of the Clarendon Fire
Department; G. T. Rogers OF the Balls
ton Fire Department.; Mrs. N. Rex
Hunt. president of the Woman S
Civic Club of Clarendon: Mrs. H. G.
Gibson, president of the Fort Myer
Heights School League; DR.. G. c.
Lake. president of the Carne School
League; Lawrence Michael Of the
Lyon Park Citizens Association; H B.
Green of the Peoples Bank of Cherry
dale, C. P. Brittle of the Bank of Del
Ray and C. L. Adams of the town of
Potomac.
Bond Election Plans.
Arthur Orr, chairman of the Airing
ton District Good Roads Commission,
which is formulating plans for a
road-building program in the district
estimated to cost s691,576.ss, an
nounced today that the special cleo
ton to determine whether or not
bonds to that amount shall be issued
for the project probably will be held
about the 18th of February. The
committee appointed by the commits
sion to draft the petition, asking for
the bond election Is completing its
work, he said, and the petition will
be circulated for signatures about
January /. It is the aim of the com
mission, he said. to submit the petit
tion to the court about January 10.
Plans for construction of a perma-
nent home for the Arlington Fire De-
partment were discussed at a meet
ing of the department held Wednes-
day night. According to announce
ment by President Mossburg, the de-
partment owns a lot on Columbia
pike, on which it proposes to erect
the structure, and has assurances OF
$3.50 as a nucleus of a building fund
| It is proposed to erect the building
on the unit plan, starting off with q
| one-story structure large enough tc
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