Evening star., 1933-01-23
DISTRICT CITIZENS
HEARD AT CAPITOL
Many Present Views at Hear.
ing of Appropriations
Subcommittee.

Citizens of the District had their op-
portunity for hearings on a number of
important National Capital develop
ment projects today before the SUBJ
committee drafting the District appro-
priation bill.
William NICK Clayton headed a group
favoring zone transportation system
and asked that Edwin Young and
George E. Sullivan of the Public Utili-
ties Committee of the Federation OF
Citizens Associations should be heard.
A group headed by Representative
Stephen w. Gambrill, Democrat, Of
Maryland, sought an appropriation OF
$4,000 to be made Immediately avail
able for making a study Of viaduct or
bridge over the tracks and right Of way
of the Metropolitan Branch OF the Bal
timore g. Ohio Railroad, so that New
Hampshire avenue could be extended to
the District line with a promise from
the road commissioners OF Maryland
that hook-up with the Maryland. sys-
tenn would be made, providing new
arterial highway which would material
ly shorten the distance to Baltimore.
General Program Urged.
In connection with this group, Lieut..
Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, impressed upon
the District subcommittee the need for
a general longtime program OF major
construction work for the District OF
Columbia which would include high
ways, schools, sewers, parks and play
grounds and other activities so that
each would not be in competition with
the others for appropriations annually;
Others in this delegation included
Thomas Joy, president OF the Cnlilun
Heights Citizens Association; InomaS
P. Llewellyn, representing the Feoera-
ton of Citizens Associations; Commls-
sioner Needham c. Turnage, who repre-.
sented the interests Of the Masonic anu
Eastern Star Home; Charles w. Nor.
ris. Secretary of the Washington Board
of Trade; H. j. Overman, chairman OF
a special committee from the Ch1llum
Heights Citizens Association; Charles
A. Langley, who was president OF the
Chillum Heights association for 81
wears: Mrs. I. M Evans, representing
the Potomac Park citizens in Prince
Georges County, and Wallace Streater,
an attorney.
This delegation called the attention
of the District Subcommittee to the
fact that the extension of New Hamp-
shire avenue had been authorized by
act of Congress, March 3, 1918, under
which assessments for benefits had
been levied against abutting property
owners from whom $52,995.31 had been
collected and paid into the general
revenues. Commissioner Turnage had
figured out that this amount, with in
terest during the period that has
elapsed, would have amounted to $685.
770.45.
Representative Gambrill and other
speakers said that those who had paid
this money 18 years ago for benefits
now feel that they should enjoy the
benefits for which they had paid.
Commissioner Turnage emphasized
the fire hazard at the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home, to which access is
had only over a narrow lane with a
rickety bridge, over which fire apparatus
could not pass.
Walter S. Ufford and A. j. Driscoll,
president of the Midcity Citizens Asso-
citation, and Evan H. Tucker, president
Of the Northeast Citizens Association,
are appearing as a special committee
on unemployment relief for the Mon
day Evening Club.
Others to Be Heard.
j. M. Schaffer. president of the
Southwest Citizens Association, Is to
be heard regarding appropriations Tor
Jefferson Junior High School
George C. Shinn, with the Committee
on Bridges of the Washington Board
of Trade, is also scheduled for hearing.
Sidney M Smoot is heading dele
cation to present a petition in the in
terest of unempoyment relief for single
men,
Vernet A. West has asked for hear
ing regarding Brown Junior High
School appropriations.
Mrs H. B. Clarke, president Of the
Truesdale Parent-Teacher Association,
is to be heard regarding conditions at
the Truesdale School.
Kenneth Armstrong, representing the
Burroughs Citizens Association, and
other organizations in the vicinity of
the Taft Junior High School are to
present a plea regarding the proposed
cupola for that building.