Evening star., 1942-05-31

Much Opposition to Change in Zoning
The Problem of Wartime Child Care
BY JESSE c. suffer-
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
opened hearings last week the District l943 supply bill Of $685.
$4,000 Commissioners seeking the addition appoxi
mate s2sooo to cover new hrehouse new police station
branch library Anacosa and to out the
creating the Board Of Recreation
Public Utilities Commission seeking additional
increase its stan to deal with wartime transportation problems
Health Ocer Rutland asking cost OF inspection
Of boarding houses.
The Commissioners Thursday requested the House and
legislation which strip
its administrative and transfer them to the Comm
Under this plan the board would be continued
This effect part Grifenhagen
plan which not avob regarded by either the District citizens
or Congress
On Wednesday the District Committee approved
follows Substitution etha chamber the
District
corporations shipping goods here when contract of
sale is not consummated here exempt
public schools from forbiddng they
work night during the to
nx Uniform license fee for ambuances: to give the Police
partmen discretion assigning officers temporarily to the
to make minor amendment to the law Tor the
retirement judges and to authorize extension OF
railroad the Navy Yard
The report of the survey by
leased that Washington with IS trac fatalities
dropped fourth place For 1910 held h place
The trac the Of cities above
500 Districts 1s4 death record Of IS compares
with 72 fatalities 1940 70 in 1899 and 81 in 1888
The vehicles bring the rate down dur
ing the last half possible similar reduction Of trac
communities the Districts relative standing may be u
changed anticipated that there Will be fewer deaths
vehicles throughout the gasoline restricted sections OF
the country.
Civic and Official Opposition to Zonins Change
The Randolph bill to zoning to permit the
operation boarding houses in restricted and semi
meeting with strong and merted oppo
explained that this proposal was to give
Of the the would require
the operation roomng and boarding houses
zoning Commission limited might be
spokemen for the of homes in the
restricted zones fighting earnestly
blighed semideached sections The
sonng designed handle effectively just such situations for
protection OF the private home sections
Capital Planning Commission and
other officials opposed to the measure.
House hearing Thomas S. Settle,
executive secretary of the planning commission stressed an i'm
poant point small benefit for few
through result injustice to
endanger development suggested that
Congress would itself much work by leaving such
the authority the Commissioners
and the zonng Commission.
o bill override the judgment
which seeking protect the citizens
and to hold the private home sections
Day Care for Chldren-A Wartime Problem
Can tell me where can find place to leave my
6monhold baby? I've just Washington to take job
and have nobody to take Of baby
while husband in the service and I've got to look
With this quotation in the
Community Service magazine Mrs Alice Coe Mendham chairman
Committee for the Day Care of Children opens
interesting statement Of this local need.
extends beyond the confines OF the District into
where the limited number Of instu
workers entirely inadequate to meet the
school and
only take Of their normal load Settle
institutions anaed with the Community
emergency caring for children OF women
WHIT have go to work daily.
Teachers and this special
lied and suitable places will have to be found in various
neghborhoods OF this definite and urgent war
time community job
funds being sought from the District Com
Lanham Acts for carrying
mothers just cannot be let down.
the OF children and
Country interested this work
influence Of the needed insure
be made with the chairman Mrs Alice Coe
addressing the Council OF Social Agencies
committee headquarters through
tesy Of the council
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