Evening star., 1943-05-19
Montgomery Divided
Into Five Districts
For Tax Review
Reussessments to Sturt
In First Area July |
Under New State System

Division of Montgomery County
into five districts, effective June l, to
facilitate the review and reassess-
ment of all real and personal prop
erty every five years, was an
nounced yesterday by the county
commissioners.
A law ordering ablishment of
such a system throughout the State
was enacted at the recent session
of the Legislature. Boundaries of
the Montgomery districts were de-
fined in a letter received yesterday
by the commissioners from the State
Tax Commission
District No. / will include lay
louisville, Clarksburg, Olney and
Damascus election districts; No. 2
will consist of Poolesville, Darnes-
town, Gaithersburg and Barnesville
election districts; No 3 will embrace
Rockville, Colesville and Potomac
election districts; No. 4 will be
Bethesda election district, and No.
will be Wheaton election district.
Tax Year Begins July l.
The State Tax Commission has
directed that the first district be
assessed in the taxable year begin
ming July /, and that the other dis
trictS be reviewed and reasseSSed
one each year, in the order of their
numbers.
The assessors will be appointed by
the commissioners from among a
list submitted by the commissioners
and approved by the tax commits
sion.
Approximately 200 high school
boys from the District and the
suburban section of Montgomery
County will be employed on county
farms during the summer, Otto W.
Anderson, county agricultural agent
told the commissioners
The youths will be selected from
400 now being recruited and will be
about double last years force. The
camps will be at Poolesville, Gath
ersburg, Sandy Spring and Damas-
Gus. The boys will be paid by the
farmers, but all other expenses ex-
cept food will be borne by the
county. The budget, which was pre-
pared by county school authorities,
calls for $1O,720, which will be in
cluded in the county's annual levy
soon to be adopted.
Mr.. Anderson also asked the COM
missioners to include in the budget
an item of 1900 to pay the county's
share of fighting Japanese beetles
in the county this year.
Mrs. Wells Named to Post.
The board appointed Mrs. Gene
We've H. Wells deputy clerk for the
eastern suburban area of the county
in place of Earl H. Griffith, jr., who
left Monday to enter the Army. TIC
succeed her as executive secretary
of the Montgomery County Civilian
Defense Council, the commissioners
named Mrs. Raymond j. Brungart
7419 Piney Branch road, Takoma
Park.
Mrs. Wells is a member of the
county delegation to the House OF
Delegates and a past president OF
the Women's Democratic Club OF
the county Mrs. Brungart has been
a resident of the county for the last
10 years She was born in Indiana
and formerly lived in Indianapolis
and Detroit. She served as assistant
editor of International Fire Fighter
publication of the AFL Internationa.
Association of Fire Fighters. Before
entering business she taught school
For several weeks she has beer
serving as executive secretary. Silver
Spring Victory Garden Office SHE
belongs to the Takoma Park Wom.
ems Club, National Women'S Clut
and ONCE Workers Union. Wash.
ington She has two children
Robert, II, and Marjorie, IA.
The commissioners awarded to thu
Suburban National Bank of Silver
Spring and the Farmers Banking
and Trust Co. of Rockville, $112,50(
each in Montgomery County four.
month tax anticipation certificates
The Silver Spring institution wa!
awarded $12,5O0 in county tax sale
certificates and $49,500 suburban
district street assessment certificates
all maturing in one year. The rate
OF interest on all the issues Is ~
per cent per annum.