Evening star., 1934-03-13
M0NTG0MERYUN|T
RETURN
Civic Federation Would Re-
store Federal and Teach
erS' Scales.
BY JACK ALLEN,

Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, March 13.-Im-
mediate restoration Of Federal en-
ployes' is per cent cut in salary and
return by the l934-1935 term of
Montgomery County public school
teachers wages to their former level
was advocated by the Montgomery
County Civic Federation in two reSo-
lutionS passed at its meeting here last
night.
The Committee on Schools spon-
sored the measure asking for return
of the 10 per cent cut to the teachers
when the budget for the new fiscal
year beginning July l is passed by
the county commissioners. The reso-
luton was passed unanimously.
Judge r. Granville Curry, Hugh
M. Framton, H. D. Amiss, S. H. Miller,
Robert F. Fleming. Joseph Dematre,
George w. Davis and o. M. Kile
spoke in favor of the wage cut re-
storation and declared that such ac-
ton was necessary to maintain the
high standards Of the school system
and to provide Montgomery's school
children with capable instructors.
Brown Debates Issue.
Only one delegate spoke against the
teachers wage cut restoration in the
debate preceding the vote on the reso-
luton, 0. P. M. Brown, holding that
the reduction was an economy step
affecting all county employees, and to
return the teachers salaries to their
former scale would require similar
action in all county departments.
The federation adopted an emer-
gency resolution introduced by Franz
ton in urging that Government work.
ers be returned their IS per cent re-
duction and voted down a substitute
by the Executive and Advisory Com
mittee proposing S per cent reStora-
ton as of February l last and S per
cent on July next Framton's
resolution passed by an overwhelming
majority on an aye-and-nay vote.
The civic body passed unanimously
resolution proposed by the Com
mittee on Finance and Budget as a
substitute for the George c. Shinn
resolution calling upon county Off
cials for complete information re-
garding the purchase of a S42 ,404.7 rs
site for liquor warehouse at Silver
Spring.
Under the terms Of the resolution
the county, will be asked whether any
competitive offers of land for the
warehouse were sought by or submit
ted to the commissioners or the
Liquor Control Board and II such
offers were sought or submitted, how
and in what manner, together with a
list of all proposals submitted and
considered, with the locations and
prices at which the different tracts
were offered: Oil what basis the value
of Sits a square foot was arrived at,
at what rate each of the parcels OF
land in the tract purchased was
assessed; in view Of the uncertainty
of the volume of business that might
permanently be handled by the Liquor
Control Board. what reasons aCtuated
the commissioners to purchase any
land for this purpose at this time;
what disposition will be made OF the
land should the volume of business
by the Liquor Control Board not
justify the erection Of building for
warehouse purposes.
School Bus Record Praised.
The Committee on Public Safety.
reporting on a probe of measures
taken to safeguard the lives of chill
dren riding county school busses, dis
closed that during the 10 years bus
transportation has been provided stu
dents, no deaths or serious accidents
have occurred. and resolution COM
mending school officials for mainte-
passed unanimously.
The report revealed that 2,400 chill
dren-approximately one-fourth OF
the county enrollment-ride daily on
"a busses. which travel a total of
1000 miles daily. A blanket insur-
ance covers all students, while busses
are examined monthly by insurance
representatives.
A resolution from the Committee
on Roads. Streets and Bridges indors-
ing constitution out of Federal funds
OF the proposed EdStein Codstdi nisH-
way and advocating the by-passing OF
cities, including Washington and Bal
timore, with adequate feeder roads
from the coastal highways into the
cities, also was passed.
DR.. George L. Edmonds presented
a measure from the Rockville Cham
ber of Commerce urging abandonment
Of the Capital Transit Co.'S street car
line between Washington and Rock
vile and substitution of modern bus
service 1t was referred to the Public
Utilities Committee.