Evening star., 1933-11-27
Types Of Work Considered In.
cIude Road Widening, Alley
Improvement.
JOBS SOUGHT TO FILL
WORK QUOTA FOR 10000
$4S3,0 900 Expenditure on Park.
Giving Work to / 300, Is An
nounced by Finnan.

District civil works authorities TO-DAY
called upon citizens associations 10
submit lists of suggested highway i'm
provementS which might be made under
the new employment program.
Letters were sent TO the presidents OF
each CT the community organizations
by Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, director OF
highways
Officials became aware Saturday that
they would need many additional WORK
programs if they we're to be able TO
fill the quota of 10000 jobs allotted to
the District by Federal C. w. A. au-
thorities.
The letter to the citizens groups
states in part
Allotment of funds by the Civil
Works Administration TO the Highway
Department will afford us the oppor-
tunity of complying with many of the
requests previously made for street and
other Improvements within the territory
Of your association as well as those of
general interest to the city.
Advice Asked.
1--WE are now asking your advice an5
suggestions in formulating our final pro-
gram of work to be undertaken under
the Civil Works Administration. We
are especially desirous of undertaking
projects that will be of the greatest
value to your community and to the city
as a whole
While our engineers are carefully
studying conditions and are daily pre-
pairing projects for submission to the
Civil Works Administration, you are
more intimately acquainted with condi-
tions in your territory and can be of
material assistance to us. and at the
same time secure the improvement of
greatest value to you by submitting
projects for consideration"
Attached to the letters is a list of
rules which must be followed in adop-
ton OF c. w. A. projects, one of which
IS that the work must be possible of
completion by next February Is. Capt.
Whltehurst pointed out also that the
projects must be economically and So
cially sound and of the nature of a
permanent capital investment.
The associations were advised als0
'hat tlm2 would not permit COnSidera-
ton Of projects of a controversial ma
. ture involving major grade changes
Where extensive engineering study woulc
be necessary.
Suggests Types of Work.
I16 suggested as most suitable as fol-
lowing types of work:
Grading of streets and allevs. light
surfacing of newly graded alleys where
! conoltlonS warrant; construction of
low cost roadWays with a light base
/ ana treated surface; widening exist
ing maccadam roadways within limits
OF ownership lines; construction Of cul-
VortS and Improvements of drainage
CONDITIONS and construction of tenn
porary sidewalks where conditions per
NIT and warrant.
announcement Of a program of i'm
| provement for Washington parks. in
VolVlng expenditure of S483.0 and en-
ployment of 1900 men. also was an
nounced today by c. Marshall Finnan.
| superintendent of Capital parks
| work on the program. which has the
| approval of the Civil Works Administra-
tiCn, was begun today with approxi-
! mately 1000 men welding picks and
| shovels in various sections of the Dis
| trlct. The program. Mr.. Finnan said.
| VIII give employment to / 300 men each
| week until about the middle of Feb
ruary.
Wcrk on Swimming Pools.
| Scenes of the initial activities were
| the Rock Creek and Potomac PARKWAY
| Plney Branch. the National Arboretur1
Takoma and Banneker Recreation Cen
/ tiers and numerous smaller park areas
/ throughout the city
Under the new program. MI Finnan
SAID, work on swimming pools at the
Takoma and Banneker Centers also will
be pushed. Another pool is scheduled
for construction in Anacostia Park. but
this will have to come later, Mr.. Finnan
| said
Meanwhile, 500 civil works employees
are at work in Anacostia Park, accord
ing to Maj. Joseph D. Arthur jr, War
/ Department engineer for the Washing
! ton area, and about / 900 more are ex-
pected to be put to work there before
/ the end of the week. Part of their Job
! will be to eliminate mosquito breedinq
pools along the Anacostia River, it was
| said
! Civil works employees also are working
| at the Dale Csrlia filtration plant. on
! Conduit road near the District line
along the shores of Kingmans Lake.
! near Bennirg road northeast, and at the
| United States Engineer Reservation on
Eleventh street southeast, near the Navy
Yard.