Evening star., 1937-04-11
With the Associations
Seven Groups Come Out in Opposition to Tax Bills.
Eighteen Meetings Are Scheduled for
the Coming Week.
WEEKLY REVIEW.

p EVIEW OF the civic week from
Thursday, April /, to Thursday,
April 8:
BRADBURY HEIGHT6-Opposed
recommendation by House subcom-
mittee on Appropriations for $4,000
for repairs to Pennsylvania avenue
southease bridge and asked funds for
a new bridge; asked for a local post
office.
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE -
Criticized use of District streets by
through busses and heavy trucks with
out payment Of extra tax by their
owners.
WASHINGTON HIGHLANDS -
Asked additional play areas and recre-
ational centers.
FEDERATION (meeting April 3)-
Protested the imposition Of any more
taxes on the District than necessary to
meet the actual total of the 1888 Dis
trict budget; Endorsed plans for con-
structing an elevated roadway over
K and Water streets as a traffic by
Pocc 3dfolSo atlO1l o1 OIL 1tCLl
in the 1888 District supply bill for
start of construction of new Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast bridge and op-
posed proposed repairs to present span;
indorsed bill sponsored by Senator
King Of Utah to give the District parity
with the States in Fedora! funds for
Federal highway development; in
dorsed opening Vt Taylor street be-
tween Thirteenth street and Georgia
avenue; reiterated Endorsement OF
three proposed testing stations for
compulsory semi-annual automobile
inspection in the District; favored pro-
posed amendment to Districts safety
responsibility law providing for sus-
pension Of permits and tags If persons
with judgments against them failed
to settle within 80 days.
BLADENsBURG ROAD-Mapped
plans for fighting mosquitoes and asked
that the dump on Bladensburg road
between Thirty-flfth street northeast
and the District line be cleaned up.
CITIZENS OF TAKOMA, D. c.
Opposed raising District taxes or new
taxes for funds in excess of total OF
1888 District budget; protested use Of
Blair and Piney Branch roads for use
as through routes by heavy trucks and
buses; Endorsed the Neely-Pettingill
bill to abolish compulsory block book
ing OF moving pictures.
DUPONT CIRCLE-Acted to in
augurate a projected city-wide clean
up campaign Of public streets.
FOREST HILLS-Opposed any in
| creased taxation or new taxes other
than those necessary to meet the total
| Of the 1888 District budget.
Observation-Disclosures removal OF
Trafdc Director William A. Van Duzer
and the placing Of all traffic enforce
ment duties under the superintendent
of police: favored tax on all out-of-
| town trucks doing business in the
| District; favored extension of Mary
land and New York avenues and M
street northeast to relieve congestion
at Fifteenth and H streets northeast
MICHIGAN PARK-Opposed recent
bus rerouting of Tenth street to Ninth
street; asked Public Utilities Commits
sion investigation Of alleged improper
ventilation Of buses.
GEORGETOWN PROGRESSIVEs-
Opposed right and left turns at busy
intersections.
| COLUMBIA HEIGHTS - Opposed
President Roosevelt's plan to change
the Supreme Court membership;
opposed proposed increase in District
taxes to raise $4,000, 900; asked reyi-
sion Of building code requiring built-ir
garages for all new apartment houses
asked Commissioners to seek q defici-
ency appropriation Of at least 500, 0,00t
monthly for the remainder Of the As.