Evening star., 1941-08-17
Prince Georges Areas
Speed Changing Of
Street Names
HyottsviIIe Proceeds
With Shifts Despite
Councils Opposition

Work preliminary to installation
of new street names and house
numbers in communities of metro
politan Prince Georges County, Md,
is going forward briskly. it was an
nounced yesterday by Percy Wolfe
of the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Painting of new street names on
curbs in Hyattsville is proceeding,
though Hyattsville's Town Council
by unanimous vote refused Monday
night to take action on request OF
the Park and Planning Commission
that the names proposed for Hyatts-
vile streets be approved. The coun-
Gil previously had opposed installa-
ton of the new names in Hyattsville.
Brentwood to Weigh Shifts.
Mayor E. Murray Cover said he
was assuming full responsibility for
ordering the painting of new street
signs in Hyattsville. Regardless of
how he felt personally about the
matter, the Mayor said, he believed
Hyattsville could not stop installa-
ton of the new street names, since
the Park and Planning Commission
was empowered by the Legislature
to install them Neither the Mayor
nor Corporation Counsel w. Carroll
Beatty thought it the province of
the town to stop installation of the
new names, believing citizens wish
ing to fight the move should do so
through individual court action.
New names now are being painted
on curbs in University Park. The
Brentwood Mayor and Town Council
will consider proposed new names
tomorrow night.
The following changes have been
recommended for Brentwood by the
Park and Planning Commission:
=, Grape street to Arundel road, Hill
street to Bunker Hill road, Harris
street to Shepherd, Baker street to
Taylor, Campbell street to Tilden,
Dewey street to Upshur, Evans
street to Varnum, Fenwick to
Webster, Gasch to Windon road,
Hobson to Allison, Highland avenue
to Forty-first, Charles to Fortieth
place, Ivy street to Fortieth street,
Park avenue to Thirty ninth street,
Oak street to Thirty-ni place,
Pine to Thirty-eighth place, Legion
naire avenue to Thirty eighth place,
Prospect to Thirty eighth street,
Czarra drive to Arundel road, Will
liam to Volta road, Henry to Utah
road, Sheetz avenue to Quincy
street, Railroad avenue to Penn
wood road, Eldridge avenue to
ThirtY-eighth street, Haldeman
avenue to Forty first. Wynnmoore
street to Thirty-f1fth street, Thirty
ninth street to Thirty seventh place.
and Fortieth street to Cedarcroft
place.
Mount Rainier Changes.
New names also soon will be con-
sidered by the Mayor and Council
at Mount Rainier, where it is pro-
posed to change the names of only
IA streets. Edmonston has named
a committee comprising Councilmen
Francis p. James, first ward, and
Charles A. Saul, second ward, to
confer with Park and Planning
Commission officials regarding the
new system.
Berwyn and Berwyn Heights.
where Indian names are planned
for east and west streets, is study
ing proposed new names, and Mr.
Wolfe says similar names are
planned for Daniels Park and Holly
wood, which were not originally in
cluded in the general system but
have asked to be embraced in the
area. The Northern limit of the
remaining and REMEMBERING area
is the Edgewood road, north of
Branchville.