Evening star., 1942-05-27
.FramIpton Gets
Montgomery.
zoning Posi- .
Bethesda Justice
Succeeds Austin in
Enforcement Job

By q Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, May 27.-Sub-
stitute Trial Magistrate Hugh M.
Frampton of Bethesda has been ap-
pointed zoning enforcement officer
for Montgomery County.
Named to the post by the county
commissioners. Mr.. Frampton will
work jointly for the county and the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. The
county and the commission will
each pay Mr.. Frampton s750 an
nually.
Mr.. Frampton succeeds F. Byrne
Austin, who resigned the post to
become clerk to the supervisors of
election. AS zoning enforcement Of
ficer Mr.. Frampton will investigate
zoning violations in the county and
coordinate county zoning activities
with the planning commission.
Hamilton Gets Defense Post.
The commissioners also appointed
S. Murray Hamilton to the Executive
Committee of the county Civilian
Defense Council. Mr. Hamilton has
assumed the post of district AFRAID
warden, replacing Trial Magistrate
Dor\ld De Lashmutt, who resigned
because of pressure of duties as ap-
peal agent for Selective Service
Board No. at Rockville.
Appropriations of s41616 for emer-
gency medical supplies for the
county defense organization and a
grant of $3.50 for arm bands for 500
afraid wardens and $50 clergymen
were approved. The medical supplies
are to be stored in the Washington
Sanitarium in Takoma Park
All county employees who can be
spared will be given a holiday on
Memorial Day, the commissioners
decided.
Special Police.
The following special police were
re-appointed for so days at a salary
Of $50 month beginning June /:
David Blssett, Robert Kuster, Up
ton Curtis, Daniel c. Barnes, Earl
Chesley, Stanley Harding. Carl
Hurlebaus, Erwin Moore, George w.
Price, ir.: John A. Smith, Harry
Turner and William R. De Vries.
For the same period, J. Frank
Allnutt, Frank Wightman and j.
Spencer Fisher were re-appointed
school guards at s125 a month.
A letter was read from the District
Commissioners stating that the
county commissioners request to
purchase a lamp post from the Dis
trict could not be filled. The lamp
post was to have been placed in
front of the county courthouse to
replace one which was damaged.
The commissioners also were in
| formed that the application last
week of the Rockville unit of the
Red Gross Motor Corps for the pur-
chase of uniforms for the unit by
the county was made in error.
Charles M. Irelan, assistant counsel
to the board and chairman of the
county Red Cross, said that the petit
ton was presented without his
knowledge.
Zoning Applications.
The following applications for re-
zoning, public hearings on which
were held May 13. were approved:
Annie and A. J. Wade, lots 6, 7
and in block B, Oakcrest, Takoma
Park, from residential A to resi-
Dental C.
Cecil H. Gillon, lots 1-9 and lot S.
in block SIS, B. F. Gilberts addition;
lots is in H. w. Miller's addition
and property between lot l and Hud-
son avenue on east side of Flower
avenue, Takoma Park, from resi-
Dental B to residential c.
Carl P. Browning, lots 81 in block
C, Browning subdivision, Takoma
Park, from residential A to resi-
| Dental C.
Mrs. Thomas E. Hardy, lots 1922,
block II, Pinecrest SUBDIVISION, and
lots 22-30, block A, B F. Gilbert sub
division, Takoma Park, from resi-
dental A to residential C.
Mrs. Bessie V. Miller, lots i-3,
block 5. Glen Echo, from residential
A (non-conforming) to CONNER
cial D.
Ralph F. Crane, IS acres bounded
by Piney Branch road, Long Branch,
Park Knolls subdivision and Glen
view avenue, Takoma Park, from
residential A to residential C..
The commissioners disapproved
the application of R. L. McCary to
rezone lot 7. block B. section 2 Of
Flower Avenue Park, Takoma Park,
on the grounds that it would be
spot coming"
Six hearings on rezoning are
scheduled for today in the county
building in Bethesda One applica-
ton, that of Monroe Warren, to re-
zone section l of Columbia Forest
from residential A to residential c,
scheduled for hearing today, has
been withdrawn. officials said there