Evening star., 1935-09-10
Kensington Man Is Awarded
Star Trophy at First Meet
ing of Season.
TELEPHONE MANAGER
INVITED TO SESSION
Montgomery Body Hears Com
mittee Reports Drafted Dur.
ing Summer Recess.
BY JACK ALLEN,
Staf Correspondent Of The Star.

BETHESDA, Md, September 10
Following the recommendation of its
Executive Committee, the Montgomery
County Civic Federation unanimously
voted to award The Evening Star Cup
to w. I. Cleveland of Kensington when
it met for the opening of its Fall and
Winter schedule at the local elemen-
tary school last night.
Presentation of the trophy, highest
civic honor attainable in the county,
was made by Col. Alvin B. Barber,
former president Of the federation and
himself winner Of the cup in 1929,
featured a meeting which otherwise
was devoted primarily to the receipt
of informative reports on public utility,
school and legislative matters.
Safety Drive Endorsed.
The only formal action which the
civic body took beside selecting Cleve-
land as the trophy winner was to pass
a resolution indorsing The Stars traf-
fic safety campaign and another in
viting Howard J. Waters, manager Of
the Wisconsin and Shepherd telephone
exchanges, to appear at the October
meeting.
Col. Barber, in his presentation
speech, lauded Cleveland for the high
ly efficient manner in which he has
served as chairman of the Legislative
and Legal Action Committee and for
his long and untiring efforts in behalf
of the federation"
Cleveland, in addition to being chair
man of the legal group, is vice presi-
dent Of the federation and president
of the Kensington Chamber of Com
merce. He IS regarded as an out
standing candidate for the presidency
of the federation next term.
Rates TO Be Discussed.
Waters will be asked to appear be-
fore the federation next month to
state the position of the telephone
company with respect to prior and
possible future reductions in the rates
of telephone subscribers in Montgom-
cry County and in an ecort to pro-
mote better understanding between
that firm and the federation.
The civic tody appealed to the
Maryland Public Service Commission
some time ago to direct the telephone
concern to set its rebates and rates
at the District Of Columbia scale, but
no formal action has been taken with
respect to county subscribers because
the entire Maryland rate question is
now before the United States Su-
preme Court.
Col. o. P. M. Brown, chairman Of
the Public Utilities Committee, recon-
mended in a report outlining the rate
reduction situation that the fedora
ton permit the question to remain In
its present status until the Supreme
Court disposes Of the matter next
month.
Reports Presented.
Exhaustive reports were presented
on the school building program pro-
posed by the Board of Education, the
successful civic campaign for aboli-
ton of the Rockville trolley line and
the county legislation enacted by the
last session Of the State Assembly.
The reports were submitted by
Rhees Burkett, chairman of the
Schools Committee; Brown, chairman
Of the Public Utilities Committee, and
Cleveland, chairman of the Commit
tee on Legislation and Legal Action.
1t was announced by President
Robert E. Bondy that the federation
will select its Nominating Committee
for the annual election of officers at
the October session and that the cleo
tion would take place the following
month.