Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-22
FART AK CHAMBER
!. NAMES WORKERS
President Allen Announces
Committees to Carry on
Years Activities.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Of Annandale was reappointed chair
man of the finance committee. Other
| members are, including Miss Ludema
| Sayre of Centerville district. j. S. Wiley,
Dranc-' lie district; E. c. Gibbs, Mount
Vernon district, and Thomas r. Keith.
Providence district.
Capt Thurlov White of Baileys
Cross Roads was reappointed chairman
! CT the publicity committee. with Mrs.
| NJ. c. Vosbury of Merrifield. Herbert
Blunt of Groveton and Miss Ludema
! Sayre of Fairfax as his assistants.
Education Committee.
( Education committee-F. S. McCand-
1ish of Fairfax, chairman; George c..
Smith of Franconia, Willie Sipes Of
Annandale, C. C. Carr of Legato, Mrs.
G. Ashley Money of Colvin Run, Mrs.
J. H. Mack of Mclean, Herbert Haar
of Lorton.
Public utilities-Edward c. Gibbs of
Mount Vernon, chairman; George B.
Robey of Fairfax. Thomas r. Keith of
Fairfax, j. w. Rust of Fairfax and
M E. Church Of Falls Church.
George Harrison of Herndon was
appointed chairman of the highways,
parks and planning committee. assisted
by Joseph W. Cox of Woodlawn, Car
roll V. Shreve of Falls Church, John
w Brookf1eld of Springfield. John W..
Rust of Fairfax and j. A. Wheeler
of Colvin Run. Agriculture and mar
kets committee-Franklin Williams Of
vienna. chairman: T. Bently Mason of
Accotink, H. B. Derr of Fairfax, r..
Cotton Lewis of Clifton, Senator Joseph
l. Bristow of Annandale, w. M. Nc
MAR of Floris and Harvey S. Clapp
of Woodlawn.
DR.. Harry Walker, new health officer
of Fairfax County, will be asked to head
| na
assisted by DR.. w. P. Cation of Wood
lawn, DR.. William Meyer of Herndon.
Miss Gladys Winfield of Fairfax, and
Benjamin hewitt of Fairfax Station.
Thomas r. Keith was appointed chair
man of the committee to study the
problem of county tax reassessments,
with power to select his own assistants.
Inasmuch as all county real estate
| will be reaSseSSed next year, 1t Is plan
ned to have this committee start an
educational campaign this Fall to work
| for an increase in the assessment OF
real estate from the present one-fourth
actual values to one more nearly tnd1-
cative of actual worth, accompanied by
corresponding decrease in the district
tax rates.
Named Representative.
I Capt. Thurlow White was reappointed
On the INTERPRETATIONS committee of the
Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria
! Chambers of Commerce. The commit
tee on the industrial development of
Cameron Run was expanded to include
the entire county. with Edward c. Gibbs
as chairman, assisted by M. E. Church,
George B. Robey, Mason Hirst Of An
Mandate, Miller S. Kielsgard of Fairfax,
John c. Mackall of Mclean, George K:
Pickett of Groveton, and C. H. Powell
of Baileys Cross Roads. j. n. Beattie
of Mclean, chairman OF the county,
! wide fire protection committee, will be
assisted by Lewis Coyner secretary OF
the Fairfax Fire Department; w. r.
Fravel. secretary of the Falls Church
Fire Department; Herbert Walker of
| Mount Vernon, M. w. Barnard OF
Iorton, superintendent Of the District
! Of Columbia penal institutions: L. l..
Freeman president of Vienna Fire De-
! partment: George Harrison OF the
| Herndon Fire Department.
| }; A new committee on Community
, League activities was formed to act as
o connecting link between the leagues
| AFFILIATED with the chamber: c. c. Carr
of the Legato League, chairman; Willie
Sipes, Annandale: Mrs. G. Ashley
| Money, Colvin Run: Stanley Gardner,
! Dranesville: Miss Nellie Lee hewitt,
! Potters Hill: Herbert Blunt, Groveton;
Rev. j. G. Sadtler. Mclean; Mrs. B. f.
Salisbury, Merrifeld, and Edward P.
Monroe, Woodlawn. -
Elected Director.
Edward C. Gibbs of Mt. Vernon was
elected a director at large to fill va
cancy Mrs. M c. Vosbury offered her
resignation as secretary of the cham
! Der, effective as soon as her successor
| can be secured. Opinion as to the ad-
/, visibility of appointing full-time sec
rotary at this time was divided. Mrs.
T vosbllry refusing to be a candidate for
this position. President Allen, Mr..
Keith and Mr. Webb were appointed a
specis4 committee to investigate the
| available sites for central office IN
| Fairfax and to report on both Office and
/ secretary at a special meeting of the di-
rectors to be called before August l.
! Capt. White was appointed chairman
Eof a special committee to interest high
class developers of real estate subdi-
County. According to Mr.. Keith, the
time Is ripe for bringing into the county
capitalists from Washington. Maryland,
! PHILADELPHIA and New York who are
engaged in establishing highly restricted
hrst-class subdivisions
John w. Rust presented to the d.
| rectors the plans being made by the Lee
| Boulevard Association for continuing
| the 2OO-foot boulevard from its present
! terminus at Fort Buffalo, through the
! Camp Alger tract near Merrifield to the
7 junction OF the Lee Highway and the
jackson Highway one mile west of Fair
fax. The original route OF the Lee
| Boulevard through Fairfax County via
| ida on the Little River pike and fol-
! lowing the Braddock road to Centerville
| having been turned down last year by
! the State Highway Commission, DR.. 5.
mr.. johnson. w S. Hoge and other Of
ficials of the Lee Boulevard Association
now are working to secure 200-foot
rigint-of-way through the county fol-
lowing an approximately straight line
from Fort Buffalo to Centerville. The
/ connecting spur authorized by the State
Highway Commission from Fort Buff
falo to the Lee Highway at Falls
| church, following the 60-foot right-o
way of the Leesburg pike they regard as
a temporary expedient only and state
/ floah National Park this narrow road
/ way will be unable to accommodate the
traffic.
" The Boulevard Association, through
1 Mr.. Rust, asked the chambers aid IN
having the State Highway Commission
establish this 200-foot road as far as
FAIRFAX or Centerville. The question
was referred to the highways commit
tee for investigation and report, with
the suggestion from Mr.. Keith that tne
chamber endeavor to interest the
governor personally in the necessity
Of providing through Virginia a proper
approach to the Capital City of the
Nation and the benefit to be derived
bv the State as whole from such q
boulevard. Mr. Keith pointed out that
! this would in no way affect the regular
mileage added to the State system IN
Fairfax County each year under the
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