Evening star., 1933-07-08
PRESENT
PUBLIC PROJECTS
Sixth District Committee to
Study Montgomery and
Frederick Requests.
BY JACK ALLEN,

BY JACK ALLEN,
Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
FREDERICK, Nd, July 8.-The fate
of the project which it Is proposed to
carry out in Montgomery and Frederick
Counties with aid from the $4,000. .000,-
900 fund created by the Federal recov-
cry act rested today in the hands OF
the Public Works Committee for the
sixth congressional district of Maryland.
Applications filed by county officials
for loans needed to help finance por-
ton of construction programs totaling
several million dollars, together with
recommendations made by county and
civic leaders for projects OF Federal
nature, were taken under advisement
by the committee after they had been
submitted at the hearing here yesterday
and will be studied end reported to the
Public Works Committee for the state
within the next few days.
Representative David j. Lewis OF
Cumberland, chairman of the commit
tee which has charge of the ALLEGATION
of Federal recovery act moneys in this
district, said today his group probably
would be in position to submit lts
findings and recommendations on sixth
district requests at the next meeting OF
the State Committee in Baltimore Tues
day afternoon.
Montgomery Requests.
Included in the Montgomery County
applications before Lewis and his aides
Holmes D. Baker of Frederick ana
Thomas B. Finan of Cumberland-ar
commissioners to assist in the develop
ment of the $750,000 school construc-
ton program and the pretentiouS ROAD
program containing IA major items on
which estimates are not yet complete;
bv the MARYLAND National Capital PARK
and Planning Commission to help Win
the carving out of a $262 800 program
for developing and equipplng Sllgo
Greek. Rock Greek and Cabin John
Greek Parkways, and by the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commission 10
aid in the $403,Ol0 schedule OF water
and sewer projects it proposes 10 carry
cut in Montgomery.
In addition the town OF Takoma fark
MADE application for a loan with Wnlcn
to help finance the construction OF
$50 900 community house and jail ana
the purchase of $1,000 worth OF play
ground equipment: the town OF Glen
Echo filed an appeal for funds to resur-
face the streets of that municipality
and construct sidewalks-items Whlch
will require the expenditure OF approx
! mately $4,000, while section Of Chevy
Chase asked for loan needed to carry
cut a 1921 go schedule Of concrete gut
ter construction and street repairs.
Only one request for loan was made
by a Frederick County agency. Mayor
of
asked that a loan be made to assist IN
financing the construction of pipe line
to convey water from the receiver To-
Gated in the Catoctin Mountain. miles
west of Frederick, to point just west
of the city itself.
However, it was proposed by Former
Circuit Court Judge Glenn H. Worth
ington of the Monocacy Battlefield As
sociation Of Frederick County. that the
Monocacy Battlefield, privately
owned 15O-acre plot in this county, be
converted by the Federal Government
into a national military park as
strictly Federal project.
Back Gettysburg Highway.
All of the approximately so county
and civic leaders who attended the par
ley, together with Maj. E. Brooke Lee
of the State Roads Commission, lined up
SOlidly behind the proposal that the
Federal Government construct the pro-
posed memorial boulevard from Wash
ington to the Gettysburg Battlefields as
a national public works enterprise, fol-
lowing the route of the Old Trails Road
through Bethesda, Rockville, Gathers
burg and Frederick
1t was explained by Representative
Lewis that projects of county or mu-
nicipal nature approved by his commit
tee must be financed through the post
county or municipality involved. with
the Federal Government advancing 80
per cent as loan, while projects of a
Federal nature would be paid for en-
tirely by the National Government.
Construction of a number of projects
Of the latter type in Montgomery Coun-
ty were recommended to the committee.
The Board of Montgomery County
Commissioners, which Endorsed the
proposed Washington to Gettysburg
highway, urged in report read by DR..
George L. Edmonds, member of the
board, that the Federal Government
build an adequate highway. from Bur
louisville, four miles west Of Laurel. by
way of the Columbia pike across How
ard County, passing through Oak Mills
and Leicester into Baltimore City by
way of Wilkins avenue, and also asked
that the improvement Of Conduit road
as proposed by the War Department be
carried out with Federal funds.
The commissioners also recommended
that the principal portion of Montgom-
erys share of the main State highway
fund be spent on improving the exist
ing 20-foot highway between Burtons-
vile and Silver Spring.
o. M. Kile, Montgomery County
Civic Federation delegate, also advised
the committee that his organization
stood behind the Conduit road project
and the Navy Departments proposal to
build a $3,600,0O0 model ship testing
basin at Cabin John Park.
Applications Approved.
Approval of the applications Of the
Maryland National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Commission
also was contained in the commission
WHERE TO MOTOR AND DINE.
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