Evening star., 1941-12-31
10 Afraid Sirens
Ordered by Board for
Montgomery County
Delivery Within n
Days Expected; Funds fo'
Medical Supplies Voted
BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. 31.-Resi-
dents of Montgomery County today
were assured of ample warning IN
case Of air raids following an ap-
preparation by the county commits
sioners yesterday of $9080.50 for the
purchase OF 10 electrically operated
sirens to be delivered within 81 days.
Forty sirens, including SO 2-horse-
power sirens, one 5-horsepower and
one IA horsepower siren, Will be
placed at strategic points. Thirty
sirens will be installed on auto
mobiles, whose operators will dash
through the countryside warning
residents who are unable to hear
the regular sirens.
The money will be taken from the
county's contingent fund.
In a letter to the board Circuit
Court Judge Stedman Prescott, CO.
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of the County Civilian Defense
Committee, commended the COM
missioners for the foresight YOU
have shown in acting so swiftly to
protect the lives and comfort OF
Montgomery County residents"
Vote First-Aid Funds.
The commissioners also approprl.
ated s4,772.14 for necessary medical
and surgical supplies to equip IL
casualty stations and 80 flrst-aio
posts throughout the county. Each
station will have four doctors. folll
nurses and four nurses aides in at
tendance and will be organized along
the lines of an Army battalion
casualty station. The supplies viii
be delivered within 10 days.
DR.. Dexter M. Billiard of Rock
vile, chief of the medical service o1
the County Civilian Defense Council
who appeared before the commits
sioners in support of his request fol
the funds, announced the following
locations of the casualty stations:
Takoma Junior High School
Montgomery Blair High School
Woodside Elementary School, Ken
sington Junior High School, Chev!
Chase Elementary School, Bethesda
Elementary School. Glen Echo Firt
House, new Rockville High School
Lincoln Park High School for col.
ored in Rockville, st. Martin:
School in Gaithersburg, Sherwood
High School in Sandy Spring
Poolesville High School and Damas-
Gus Elementary School.
-, iot tNr
also will come out of the county''
contingent fund. DR.. Bullard sale
his service already has about 10(
county physicians ready to go int
action.
Rezoning Petitions Granted.
The following rezoning petition
were granted:
A request by James w. Gill, at
torney for the owners, for the re
classification from residential A to {
of land located on both sides O.
Cedar avenue in Takoma Park i'm
mediately adjoining Eastern avenue
in Washington.
A request by Judge Ralph G
Shure, agent, for the rezoning from
residential A to c of property O,
both sides of the intersection o
Maple and Lee avenues in Takon;
Park. Both petitions had been ap
proved previously by the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The commissioners denied a peti
ton by Elisha Hanson, attorney TO
the Sanitary Grocery Co.. for tn
rezoning from residential A to com
mercial B of land at the intersection
of Lincoln and Howard avenues il
Kensington.
The group received the resigna
ton of Miss Elizabeth M. Hanson a
supervising nurse of the Health De
partment effective January 13. Mis-
Hanson said she has been called mt
active service in connection with tn
present emergency.
All county Offices will be close
New Year Day.