Evening star., 1941-03-02
10Civic Units
Will Meet
This Week
Three Associations
To Discuss Buses
In Northwest Area

In Northwest Area
Nineteen citizen association meet
ings. in addition to the 3lst ami
versary dinner of the Federation
of Citizens Associations, are sched-
uled for the coming week.
Proposed changes in the rates,
routes and transfer system Of buses
operating in the Takoma-Chllum
Heights area will be discussed by
three of the groups in that locality.
The Manor Park Association,
meeting tomorrow, will take up the
bus issue in addition to a report
on the tax-exempt property in the
District. The Citizens Association
of Takoma, D. c., following nom
nations of officers, will also Iron
out" the bus situation. This group
also meets tomorrow. The third
to discuss bus transportation Will
be the Chillum Heights Association,
meeting Friday, at which time w.
B. Bennett, secretary and assistant
to the president Of the Capital
Transit Co., will speak.
Francis j. Sette, engineer for the
Rural Electrifcation Administra-
ton. will speak on "A Subway, the
Solution to the District Traffic
Problem" at a meeting Of the Co
lunbia Heights Citizens Associa-
ton Tuesday evening. Col. Luther
r. Maddox, president Of the group
also announced yesterday that the
association would reiterate its stand
for a subway system in the District
as a means of solving the traffic
problem and would take up the
question of a sales tax for the
District.
Mrs. Katherine R. Lewis, assis-
tant director of public information
of the Red Cross, will speak on
Red Cross work in the District OF
Columbia at a meeting Of the Pro-
gressive Citizens Association Of
Georgetown tomorrow night.
A meeting of the Bradbury
Heights Citizens Association. sched-
uled for Thursday, has been post
poned until next Monday, March
10. it was announced by Henry w.
Austin, president. Mrs. Henry Grat-
tan Doyle, president of the Board
of Education, has been invited to
speak.
A proposal to incorporate the
association and discussion of the
Overton plan will be the principa,
business undertaken by the
Metropolis View Citizens Associa-
ton tomorrow night. After the
business session, general dancing
to hillbilly music will be provided
it was said by Vincent Boudron
president. In order to accommodate
those who wish to attend the dance
the association will meet in the
hall of the Bunker Hill Post OF
the American Legion, 800 Monroe
street NE.
Following is the complete sched-
ule Of the 19 citizens associations
meeting this week and the anni-
versary dinner of the federation:
Monday.
Citizens Association Of Takoma
D. C.-Auditorium. Takoma School
Piney Brach road and Dahlia street
NV, 8 pm.
Dupont Circle-Maylower Hotel
4:30 pm.
Forest Hills-Ben Murch School
Thirty-sixth and Ellicott streets
NV, pm.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS School
1902 Forty-fourth street NE, 8 pm
Manor Park-Auditorium, Whit
tier School, Fifth and Sheridan
streets NV, 8 pm.
Metropolis View-Bunker Hill
Post, American Legion, 300 Monroe
street NE. 8 pm.
Progressive Citizens Association
of Congress Heights - Congress
Heights School, Nichols avenue anc
Raleigh street Sc, 8 pm.
Progressive Citizens Association
of Georgetown-Curtis School, 324;
o street NV, 8 pm.
Tuesday.
Columbia Heights-Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church, 141C
Columbia road NV, 8 pm.
North Cleveland Park-3923 Win
dom place NV, pm.
Southeast Council-No. II police
precinct, Nichols avenue and Chicago
street Sc, 8 pm.
Wednesday.
Association of Oldest Inhabitant:
old Engine House, Nineteenth anc
H streets NV, 7:30 pm.
Federation-Anniversary dinner
Mayflower Hotel, $50 pm.
Friendship-Janney School, Wis
consin avenue and Albemarle street
NV, 8 pm.
Thursday.
Connecticut Avenue-An Souls
Memorial Church Hall, Connect
cut and Cathedral avenues NV,
pm.
Northeast Conference.-The IL po-
lice precinct, Seventeenth street anc
Rhode Island avenue NE, 8 pm
Washington Highlands - 3S24
First street Sc, 8 pm.
Friday.
Chillum Heights-Keene School
Blair and Riggs roads NE, 8 pm
Randle Highlands-Orr School,
Twenty-second and Prout streets
Sc, 8 pm.
Saturday.
Mount Pleasant-Mount Pleasant
branch public library, Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NV, 8 pm.
% New Members
Are Enrolled
Twenty-eight new members have
been admitted to the Arkansas Ave-
nue. Community Citizens Association
in the last month. it was announced
in the Traveller, the organization's