Evening star., 1934-07-29
BUILDING SPURTS
|NPR|NCE GEORGES
Midsummer Action Involves
$2,000,0O0 for Schools
and Other Projects.
BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.


UPPER MARLBORO, Md, July g.
Midsummer finds one of the most
extensive improvement programs In
the history of Prince Georges County
we'll under way. More than 1000, 900
is being spent for school buildings,
roads, sewers and research centers.
The largest single project being de-
veloped in the county is the Fed
eral experiment farm at Beltsville,
where more than ST 100000 is being
spent to develop the foremost agri-
cultural research center in the world
At the University OF Maryland an
other half million dollars is being
spent on two new buildings, and an
addition to the dairy building, The
new structures are an arts and science
building and a women's dormitory.
The County Board of Education is
spending nearly half million dollars
on the first building expansion pro-
gram it has undertaken since 1880 A
new high school is being built at Sur
rattsville, while much-needed addi-
tions are being constructed adjacent
to present high school buildings at
Laurel, Marlboro and Bowie.
New School Buildings.
At the same time the elementary
school system of the county is bene-
fitting through the erection of several
new buildings and additions. One Of
the new structures is planned at Col
mar Manor, a town which has, here
tofore, been devoid of school facili-
ties. Children living in the town
have been forced to cross the danger
Gus Baltimore Boulevard TO attend
classes in Cottage City.
1t is this traffic hazard which led
the board to approve the construc-
tion of a Colmar Manor school.
The principal road improvement
project planned for the Summer is a
4-mile additional to the Lanham-
Severn road. This highway, when
completed. will form a new route to
Baltimore.
Widening of Central avenue and
construction of a much-needed new
steel and concrete bridge over the
Chesapeake Beach Railroad tracks at
Seat Pleasant also have added to the
attractiyeness of the county road sys-
tenn
One of the most extensive road OIL
ing programs in the State has been
completed in Southern Prince Georges.
This has given new and improved
surfaces to such heavily Travelled
traffic arteries as the Marlboro pike
and the Largo road
While work of this sort has kept
the State Roads Commission busy, its
force also has taken over the main
tenance of county roads and many
OF these are being permanently i'm
proved.
Numerous water and sewer lines are
being laid this Summer by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission, its chief project in Prince
Georges being the construction OF the
Northwest Branch trunk sewer from
Mount Rainier to Bladensburg at a
cost of Sl25,000.
Open Outlets to Go.
This work will complete the trunk
sewer and eliminate open outlets in
Hyattsville, Brentwood, North Brent
wood and BladenSburg, which have
been source of many complaints in
| recent years.
Altogether the Sanitary Commission
has about 5000 900 to spend in sub
urban Prince Georges and Montgom-
cry Counties this year. Prince Georges
will, of course, benefit from the new
! filtration plant and pumping station
at Burnt Mills.
I This extensive improvement pro-
+ gram. designed to make Prince
/ Georges one of the best developed in
/ the State, is being consumated with
minimum of county and State taxa
! ton.
A generous Uncle Sam. through the
/ Public Works Administration. is foot
/ ing the entire bill at the BeltSville
farm. and helping pay the cost of the
new buildings at the University OF
Maryland. the new county schools and
/ the new roads.