Evening star., 1933-07-06

6cIlSlIlB COll SIldIuUcI VI NOIilIiicICc StllO
the Gaithersburg Town Council also
will present requests to the Public
Works Committee.
The Civic Federation's school pro-
gram will be presented by Bondy and
will include the following items:
Poolesville School, addition to present
building, $4,000; Sandy Spring School,
new four-room unit, $22 ,000 Damascus
School. new four-room unit, $22, 900;
Gaithersburg School, new four-room
unit, $4,000; first unit of new West
ern Suburban District High School,
$165,000; first unit of new Eastern
Suburban District High School. $685.
600; Alta Vista School, new four-roem
unit, $4,000; Fairland School, new
four-room unit. $4,000: Chevy Chase
Elementary School, 12-room second
unit, S85 600: Rockville Coiored School,
building. $4,000; Woodside School. i'd
dition to present building. $4,000;
Rockville School. new four-room unit,
s55 900; Bethesda Elementary School,
Sl2, 900; Germantown School, addition
to present building, $4,000; sites for
schools. $85 1000: necessary equipment,
| 1000.
County Could Issue Bonds.
It was explained by James, chairman
Of the Civic Federation's Committee,
that it has been estimated the program
could be financed successfully under
the terms of the recovery act. The
county's share, $526,000. or 10 per cent,
could be raised through proceeds from
authorized bond issues, If the Federal
Government would advance $225 900, or
80 per cent Of the cost.
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Grafton includes construction Of q road
from Boyds toward Germantown. i'm
provement OF the Brownsville road, ex-
tension of the Viers Mill road from
| Wheaton to Rockville, all in the north
ern rural section Of the county; filling
in between the electric railway tracks
on Connecticut avenue, widening and
improving of Wisconsin avenue, exten-
sion of Massachusetts, avenue to River
road and to Glen Echo and Cabin John,
all in the western suburban district,
and extension of the East-West High
way from Silver Spring to Takoma Park
and toward Hyattsville, extension OF
Sixteenth street. paving along Sligo
Creek from North Woodside toward Ia
koma Park by way Of Dale drive and
the extension of Jones Mill road to
Capital View, In the eastern suburban
district.
In addition the Civic Federation has
approved a number of strictly Federal
projects which probably will be brought
up. They include widening and i'm
proving of CONDUIT road, as proposed by
the War Department several years ago;
construction OF q model ship-testing
basin at Cabin John Park, as planned
by the Navy Department: construction
of the bridge over the Potomac River
at Great Falls, and construction Of the
proposed Lincoln Gettysburg Memorial
Highway.
Plans for Conduit Road.
The War Departments plans for Con-
duit road call for widening Of the road
from 20 to 80 feet from the District Of
Columbia line through to Great Falls.
building a new bridge to replace the
narrow span at Cabin John Park, re-
surfacing the macadam thoroughfare
with concrete and eliminating number
of dangerous curves. The work will cost
approximately 100000, it has been
estimated.
The proposed model ship-testing basin
Of the Navy Department, which it IS
planned to build just west Of the bridge
over Cabin John Greek and just south
of Conduit road. would cost approx
mately $3,600,000, civic leaders have
been told.
A committee composed Of President
j. Harry WEIGH, Emory H. Bogley, Col.
Thomas E. Hampton and Samuel E.
Stonebraker will present the program
to the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce,
which recommends improvement Of Wis
consin avenue as planned by the county
commissioners, widening and improve
ment Of the Old Trails road from Rock
vile through Frederick and on to the
west and completion Of the county
administrations school program.
Pushes Belt Line Highway.
In addition the Bethesda group will
urge that the proposed belt line high
way around the Capital be constructed
from Baltimore to Silver Spring, thence
over the East-West highway to Be-
thesda and down Bradley boulevard to
the proposed new bridge over the Po-
tomac at Great Falls. It also will ask
that the Rockville Potomac road be
widened. improved and extended to
connect with the belt line highway at
the bridge.
Appeals requesting that funds be al
located to widen and improve the Old
Trails road from Rockville through to
the western boundary Of the State will
also be presented by representatives Of
the Rockville Pike Citizens Associa-
ton, the Gaithersburg and Rockville
Town Councils and the Rockville Cham
ber of Commerce.
A resolution from the Rockville Pike
Business Association asking that money
for widening of the Rockville pike from
Bethesda to Rockville to width suf-
ficient to accommodate four lanes Of
traffic also is scheduled to be submitted
to the committee.
The widening and Strengthening OF
the Kensington-Forest Glen road to
connect with the Garrett Park road,
construction of proper approaches and
an overpass over the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad tracks at Kensington, widen
ing and Strengthening of Connecticut
avenue from Chevy Chase to Kensing-
ton, with sidewalks along that thorough
fare. and extension of the Jones Mill
road to connect with the Forest Glen
Kensington road at Capital View is to
be recommended by the Kensington
Chamber of Commerce.
Under the recovery act $500 900
will be donated to the State OF Mary
land for State highway construction,
while projects of strictly county ma
ture will be financed on the 70-30
basis: Federal projects within the