Evening star., 1941-07-30
County Asks
j. ). Funds for
Roads, Schools
Montgomery Board
Also Authorizes
Highway Looms
By Staff Correspondent of The Star.

By q Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, July 30-An-
ticipating higher labor and mate
rial costs, the Montgomery County
Board of Commissioners has author
ized temporary loans to be repaid
out of portion of next years rev.
enues to finance a road construction
program and has also appealed to
the Federal Government for assist
ance in widening other highways.
Because the present national de-
fense program has resulted in an in
flux of thousands of additional per-
sons to the Greater Washington
area, the commissioners also have
appealed for S1,000000 in Federal
funds to augment the school con-
struction program.
The program of financing roads
out of a part of 1912 revenues was
approved at yesterdays meeting and
provides:
Issuance. when needed, of S89, 900
in temporary certificates of indebt-
edness to mature on or before Sep
tember Is, 1912, to be redeemed by
a similar amount which the State
Roads Commission estimates Will
accrue to the county from the / n
cent lateral road State gasoline tax
on October l, 1912.
Issuance, when needed, of 100000
worth of certificates to mature on
or before July l, 1912, to be re-
deemed by a similar amount from
the wholesale profits from the distrl-
button of beer, which was described
as "conservatively estimated
Anticipate Rising Costs.
The commissioners asserted that
"because of world conditions. money
available for road construction ex-
pended in the construction season
of 1941 probably will produce
larger amount of road improvement
than a similar expenditure made IN
1912"
OF the road building projects ap-
proved, these would be paid Tor oy
proceeds from the lateral ROADS
funds credited now to the county or
from the loan certificates on ls4z
revenues from this source:
About 1000 feet of the seven
Locks road connecting Little River
road with Bradley boulevard, Whlch
would be of concrete or oltumlnous
macadam, Is feet wide.
About miles of River ROAD ex-
tending northwest from the emo OF
the present approved State highway
west of Potomac. of concrete or Dl-
luminous macadam to width OF 10
teet and graded to width OF ~ 1eet'
Other Projects Foreseen.
Other road projects which would
be undertaken this year either with
county construction or by contract
are:
The Whites Ferry-Martinsburg
road.
The road from Laytonsville to-
ward Unity. of bituminous macad-
am to a 16-foot width.
The road from Comus to Miles
Corner.
In the measure calling for Fed
eral assistance for widening prof.
ects. the commissioners asserted in
creased motor traffic has arisen
from the defense population and
program in the Greater Washing
ton area and "is now crowding to an
extremely dangerous extent num-
Der of the arterial highways leadlng
through Montgomery County INTO
the National Capital"
It is entirely beyond the financial
ability of either the State of Mary
land or the county" to widen these
thoroughfares, the resolution de-
clared. Assistance was asked in
widening the following;
Colesville pike from Franklin ave-
nue. at Sligo parkway to White
Oaks for distance of 3 miles at an
estimated cost of 100000.
Includes Georgia Avenue.
Georgia avenue from north end OF
oliver oDl lllS DuSuICoo AIoCl ASN "
Olney. a distance of II miles, at an
estimated cost of 100000.
Rockville pike from Rockville to
Frederick County line through
Gaithersburg. Clarksburg and Hy-
attstown, a distance of 20 miles, at
an estimated cost of S500,000.
In asking for s1Oo0,o0o of assist
snce in school-building program
the commissioners declared "the up-
foreseen growth and population
throughout suburban Montgomery
County directly incident to the de-
fense program of the Federal Gov
ernment now appears certain tc
crowd the public school system ol
Montgomery County beyond capac-
ity in the immediate future, ever
after the county government shall
have expended $4,000 of current
county tax revenue in construction
OF additional schoolhouSes ant
schoolrooms for the next "a
month period"
The resolutions were approved
unanimously.