Evening star., 1934-05-05
NUCLEUS FORMED
FOR Countrywide
AID IN. CONTEST.
Modernization Plans Are In.
dorsed by Many Civic
Groups.
CENTRAL PROMOTIONAL
COMMITTEE IS NAMED
Improvement Drive Will Be Pre-.
sented as Community Project
in Every Section.
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.

Citizens of Montgomery County
what Is expected to be an intensive
home improvement and moderniza-
ton campaign that will make itself
felt in every community in suburban
Maryland between the Prince Georges
County line and the Potomac River.
enthusiastically indorsing The
Stars $1,000 Better Homes Contest,
now in progress, representatives OF
citizens organizations-in the met
ropolitan area Of Montgomery County
at a special meeting set up a central
committee to foster the contest as a
community project in every section.
Contest Commended.
Called together by Robert E. Bondy,
president of the Montgomery County
Civic Federation, the group adopted
q resolution commencing The Stars
contest as q meritorious movement
and recommending the participation
in it of home owners in Montgomery
County.
Those present at the meeting were
designated as the Central Committee,
and authorized to invite representa-
tives from each of the citizens asso-
Citations not represented last night
to serve with them. The group also
named an Advisory Committee, whose
duty it is to contact the various citi-
zens' associations in each section of
nearby Maryland, and enlist their
support in the campaign.
Those named to the latter COM
mittee we're: E. ]. Murphy for the
Chevy Chase area; w. S. Magill,
Kensington and vicinity; L. c. Odell,
Brookmont, Cabin John and Glen
Echo sections; S. E. Stonebraker.
Bethesda and surroundings: Mai.
Philip Poston, Silver Spring. and
Charles w. Hopkins, Woodside.
Woodside Park and nearby suburbs. A
representative from the Takoma
Park region Is to be named.
Mr.. Stonebraker was named tenn
porary chairman of the Central Com
mittee and authorized to call meet
ing of the group in the near future
to proceed with neighborhood cam
paign set-ups.
Among groups represented at the
meeting last night were the Kens-
ington Chamber of Commerce, Be-
thesda Chamber of Commerce, Brook
mont Civic League, Alta Vista Com
munity League, Chevy Chase Citizens
Association, Garret Park Citizens
Association, Cabin John Park Citi-
zens' Association, Chevy Chase Gar
dens and others. Mr.. Bondy pre-
sided.
Displaying keen interest in the
movement to renovate and beautify
homes and gardens, the citizens. who
met in the County Building at
Bethesda, indicated the campaign
would be pushed on every front. util-
izing the array of promotional ma
terial prepared for the purpose by
The Star.
An attractively arranged eight-page
final entry blank was distributed
among the association representatives
present. This new form supplants the
temporary entry blank which was
first distributed. It contains sug-
gestions for renovizing and Is at
tractively illustrated.
A sufficient number of these has
been prepared by The Star to satisfy
the needs of each citizens association
conducting a drive in its community.
It will be supplemented later with
literature describing the purposes of
the contest and listing the prize
awards.
Federation to be Told Plan.
The contest plan will come to the
attention of the whole Montgomery
County Civic Federation at its regu-
lar meeting a week from Monday,
Mr.. Bondy announced. The session
last night was called by action of
the federation's Executive Committee.
1t already has been indorsed by the
Kensington and Bethesda Chamber
of Commerce.
In taking the initiative in sponsor
ing the contest in Montgomery
County, the representatives of that
areas citizens associations aligned
themselves with the organized citizens
OF the District and Of Arlington
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