Evening star., 1933-12-10
$50 MONTGOMERY
WORKERS GET Jobs
22 C. w. A. Projects Show
Demand for Skilled
LaborerS.
Nv . staff correspondent of The Star.

BY staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, December g.
: With more than $50 men and women
already at work on % Civil Works Ad-
ministration projects in Montgomery
County, plans were ready today for
launching at least six more projects
early next week, with others in view
for the near future.
The new projects are widening and
grading Cedar lane near New Cut road;
construction of stone base on the
Seven Locks road; construction Of q
stone base on the Dusiess road; extern
sion of Perry street in Rockville from
Jefferson street to Maryland avenue;
construction of stone base for De-
Selum avenue at George street in
Gaithersburg, and raising OF the side
walk at Frederick and Diamond ave-
nues in Gaithersburg.
Other projects not yet announced are
being studied by the State and County
Civil Works Administrations.
Twenty-eight projects have received
the approval or tentative approval OF
the State organization. Mrs. Walter E.
Perry of the county administration ex-
planned that by tentative approval was
meant that the State body had author
lied start of work after an incom-
plete study.
George W. Davis, manager of the
United States Unemployment Service
for Montgomery County, said today that
the greatest effort is being made to get
persons to work on all authorized G.
w. A. projects in a minimum OF time.
Thursdays pay roll-the latest-indi-
Gated $50 Jobs were filled on 18 projects.
Since then four more projects have
been started, but no census OF the num-
Der employed will be available until
next Thursday when the pay rolls Will
be submitted
While most of the jobs call for
laborers, there are a number of de-
mands for skilled mechanics. Mr.. DAVIS
stated. The civil works Office also Is
trying to create projects for persons In
clerical and professional classes. A
number of openings exist for men ex-
perienced in survey work and Tor men
trained in construction and sanitary
projects.
The Unemployment service to date
has registered approximately 2,lOO un-
employed or partly employed persons
and is endeavoring to complete the
registration of all the countys unem-
DlOy6Q Uy OcCcLlUCI H.
Interviewers from the re-employ-
ment Office will receive applications
next week at the following times and
places:
Monday, am at the Bethesda
County Building and 2 pm. at Glen
Echo.
Tuesday. 8 am. at the Silver Spring
County Building and 2 pm. at the
Sandy Spring fire house. -.
Wednesday, 8 am. at the Fairlands
Garage and pm. at the Gaithersburg
fire house.
Thursday. 8 am. at Damascus, /
pm, at Germantown and pm. at
Boyds
Friday, am. at Poolesville, l pm.
at Dickerson and 3 pm. at Barnes
vile.
The C. W. A. project giving work to
the most people is the leveling, grad
ing and general cleanup in progress
on the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission property In Rock
Greek Valley. Here approximately 200
men have found employment. The
Planning Commissions quota in Mont
gomery County is 227 men. Two days
ago it put 25 men to work in the Hy-
County doing similar work
Other C. w. A. projects in Mont
gomery include the following: Repairs
of storm damage to roads in Silver
Spring, grading and renovating at
practically all schools in the county,
building a retaining wall along Conduit
road in Glen Echo, laying a gravel
roadway between Spencerville and Pa
tuxent, constructing stone base on the
Sycamore Landing road, work as cleri-
cal assistants in the Public Health
Office, construction work on the Daw-
sonville-Poolesville road, remodeling the
interior of the old court house, work
as clerical assistants in the c. w. A.
headquarters and in the Welfare Board
Offices throughout the county; copying
of records in the court house looking
to study Of the county's slum dis
tricts. repairing Rockville sidewalks,
surfacing and grading Rockville streets,
diet and sanitation work in the public
schools, widening and grading the
Goldsboro road, widening the Coles
vile Layhill road, constructing
stone base on the Gaithersburg- Goshen
road, widening New Cut road between
Glen and Travilah, constructing a stone
base on the -Travilah road and
widening and improving the Layhill-
Brookeville pike at Norbeck.