Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-12
Prince Georges
.$500,000 Bond
|ssueAwarded
Assures EorIy Stort
Of County Highway
Improvements

The Prince Georges County COM
missioners yesterday awarded a
100000 bond issue to Alexander
Brown g. Sons, Baltimore, thus as
surfing an early start on proposed
highway and street lighting i'm
provements in the metropolitan dis
trict Of the county.
The bonds were part Of a $780,
600 issue authorized at the last ses-
sion Of the State Legislature. The
remaining 100000 are expected to
be sold next fall. A special tax will
be imposed on residents of the area
affected to finance the proposed i'm
provements.
The Baltimore firms bid, the low
est Of three submitted, included an
annual interest rate of IL per cent.
Payments on the bonds, which will
mature in Is years, are scheduled to
start December /, 1916.
Other bidders were Graham Par
son & Co., Philadelphia, whose
offer carried IL per cent interest,
and the Prince Georges Bank 81
Trust Co., Hyattsville, whose pro-
posed interest rate was 2 per cent.
Low Interest Rate Noted.
In accepting the bid of Alexander
Brown & Sons, the board noted that
the low interest rate shows the
county to be in excellent financial
shape" William A. Carson, president
of the board, asserted that the bond
issue lis the forerunner of other
issues to improve the metropolitan
area of the county"
A list of proposed improvements,
affecting virtually every major road
in the metropolitan district of the
county, was drafted last October by
the Advisory Board to the commits
sloners. The proposed program also
includes acquisition of land for
Fairgrounds and the planting of
trees along all approaches to the
metropolitan district from Washing
ton as well as along other roads
where landscaping is believed de-
sirable.
Rezoning Approved.
Six rezoning applications were ap-
proved by the commissioners. They
are:
Ollie E. Connell and John D. STAN
cliff, owners Of approximately two
acres on the north side of the Lam
ham-Severn road near telegraph
road, residential A to commercial D.
Thomas E. Jones, agent for lots
1913, section three, Good Hope Hills,
residential A to commercial D, and
agent for parcel of land at Naylor
road and Good Hope avenue in the
same subdivision, residential A to
residential c.
John H. Brooke. owner of IL acres
on the north side of Naylor road
near Good Hope Hills, residential A
70 commercial D.
! Marie B. Owens and Vincent A.
Sheehy, owners of lots 1927. Shep-
herds Second Addition to Hyatts-
vile, residential A to commercial D.
! Arthur F. Sengstack, owner of lots
1921, block. IA, Boulevard Heights,
residential A to residential B to per-
NIT the erection of semidetached
homes.
Reports on License Sales.
Circuit Court Clerk Brice Bowie
reported the sale of beer and wine
and peddlers' licenses totaling $I16
during November.
Judge Vincent A. Osterman of the
County Orphans Court, who is con-
quoting one-man campaign
against juvenile delinquency, told
the board that of the more than
1900 white pupils enrolled in county
schools, only II arrests had been
made by police since last September.
He added that only seven of the ap-
proximately 3,400 colored pupils in
the county had been arrested during
the same period. The commissioners
complimented Judge Osterman for
his work.
In an organization meeting, Mr..
Carson was reelected president OF
the board for 1916. Others reap
pointed are:
Linden -Briscoe, clerk to the
board; Waldo Burnside, attorney to
the commissioners; Miss Catherine
A. Ridgely, secretary to Mr.. Briscoe:
Mrs. Constance M. Hyde, stenog-
rapher; Miss M. Agnes Duvall, coun-
ty social worker; DR.. James G.
sasscer, physician to the county Jail
at Upper Marlboro, and Mrs. Ellen
T. Stamn c1erk