Evening star., 1944-07-12
Fund
Given Schools
In Montgomery
Steps Token to Insure
Seniority on Jobs
For Servicemen

The Montgomery County Board oi
I Commissioners yesterday appropri.
ated $159545 for county school i'm
provements to meet emergency needs
and took steps to insure senior rat
tngs to servicemen who return tc
their county jobs.
The school appropriation, to be
covered by certificates of indebted
ness for one year, amounting tc
Sl60,000 was voted after a detailed
report of proposed school improve
ments was submitted by Francis K
Metzger, president of the Board OF
Education, and Supt. of Schools
Edwin w. Broome
The largest ALLEGATION of school
funds will be used to construct five
new classrooms each at the Rockville
Elementary, the Woodside Elemen-
tary and the Montgomery Hills
Junior High Schools, and four new
rooms at the -Four Corners Elemen-
tary School. These projects are
estimated to cost $135, 900, with halt
of the funds being allocated under
the Lanham Act.
Other Proposed improvements.
Other proposed improvements in
clude SIS 900 for construction of four
additional clasSrooms at the Rock
vile Colored High School: two addi-
tional clasSrooms and a shop at
Sherwood High School, Sandy
Spring, $4,000; additional rooms at
Westbrook School, Bethesda, $4,000,
and heating and sanitary improve
ments at the Clarksburg Elementary
School. $1,000.
In addition. $1,000 will be spent
for site improvement, drainage and
ground treatment at the Bethesda
Elementary, Leland Junior High,
Bethesda-C Chevy Chase High, Alta
Vista Elementary and the Rockville
Elementary Schools. and $4,000 will
be used for health improvements in
the county's colored schools. Re-
modelling of cafeterias in schools to
meet health needs will require ap-
proximately $4,000, according to the
program.
In its program to insure fair
treatment to returning servicemen,
the commissioners directed Joseph
Cantrel. counsel, to draw up an ordi-
nance that would grant reinstate-
ment of members of the armed
forces to their old jobs with no loss
in seniority for the time spent in
military service
Returning servicemen would be
required to apply for re-employment
40 days after leaving the armed
forces.
Will Follow State Law.
Board Chairman Lacy Shaw said
the ordinance would follow closely
the State law. Gov. O'Conor had re-
quested that the county adopt a
measure similar to the States.
The commissioners were informed
by the District Commissioners that
a recent traffic count indicated the
need for a traffic light at the inter-
section of Georgia and Eastern ave-
nues at the District line. A confer
ence was requested to discuss meth
ods of raising funds for installation
of the lights.
The commissioners voted to pay
part of the cost of purchasing a
moving picture protector to be used
by the health department in educa-
tional work
The following appointments were
approved:
Mary Frances Shelton. Gathers
burg, assistant Juvenile Court clerk,
$1,000 year: Miss Isabel Dicks,
Rockville, temporary clerk to aid in
the county tuberculosis program. $l8
week; Luther G. Burdette, Hyatts-
town, county police department desk
clerk to succeed F. H. Grimm Gath
ersburg, resigned. s145 month, and
Everest Moxley. Damascus, and
Fielding T. Sheriff., Bethesda, emer-
gency policemen, SITS month.
Charles E. Benson, Glen Echo, and
Frank Daniels, Silver Spring, were
named justices Of the peace.