Evening star., 1937-09-30
MARINE SERGEANT
FIRST TO OCCUPY
GREENbELT HOME
J. M. Ashley and Family
Move Into 20-Month-
Late Settlement.
COMMUNITY MANAGER
DUE IN LATER TODAY
Farm Security Administration
Has Designated rs Families
to Take Up Residence.

The first family moved into Green
belt this afternoon, some 20 months
behind the schedule originally set by
the builders The community mana
ger and the postmaster are among
half a dozen additional tenants eX-
pected to move into the model low
income apartments later this after
noon.
Greenbelt's first family was headed
Corps.
Indentities of the 25 other family
tenants thus far selected have not been
announced by the Farm Security Ad-
ministration as precaution against a
deluge of statesmen, but several indi-
Gated their willingness to reveal their
names in advance of actually moving.
Among these are Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
D. Morrison and three children, 223
Eighteenth street northeast; MIR. and
Mrs. John P. Graham and two chill
dren, 1lO4 Queens street northeast
and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Burk aid
three children, 1853 Massachusetts
avenue southeast.
Roy S. Braden is manager of the
project and George Bryant holds the
commission of acting postmaster.
122 Units Are Ready.
With other approved families to be
picked shortly, Braden said 122 of the
885 housing units are now ready for
occupancy. Some of the apartment
houses are just being started while
others are not yet near completion.
Only those houses in D block are
ready to receive tenants. and these will
have to do all their buying outside the
community.
Although the post Office at Green
belt was opened OH September 27,"
according to statement by the postal
authorities, it actually was to throw
open its doors for handling of mail
today. 1t was found on September 81,
the opening date, that no equipment
had arrived and that painters and
other workmen were still busy on the
interior. This deficiency has been over
come.
Store Opens Tuesday.
Residents will be able to buy their
first food within the confines of the
community Tuesday when the Green
belt Consumers Service Co., Inc,
opens temporary grocery store. Rob-
erv E jacobson, assistant manager Of
the Conservers' Service, said stores
would be opened about November /,
If the buildings are ready by that
time" The grocery store will be
opened Tuesday in temporary build
ing, Jacobson said.
Braden, as the first resident and
first community manager of the prof.
ect, is in a typical role. When Arling-
ton County, Va, adopted the manager
form of government in 1882, Braden
was named first county manager and
was the first to occupy such a posi-
ton in the United States. He served
in the county post until 1886 when he
resigned to join the Resettlement Ad-
ministration, later supplanted by the
Farm Security Administration as the
managing agent for Greenbelt
Although painters were still busily
engaged in finishing up the interior
and workmen added finishing touches
to floors and other parts of the build
Ing, a moving van with more than
100 upholstered chairs yesterday
backed up to the Greenbelt Elemen-
tary School and unloaded its cargo
In the girls club rooms in the base
ment. A foreman in charge of the
workmen remarked:
Il hope they don't move in any,
thing more until we get the place fin
1shed"