Evening star., 1945-10-09
Civic GroupHits
Refuse Service
In Montgomery
Asks Improvement
To Eliminate Peril
To County Health
BY MRS. J. REED BRADLEY.

Dy MINIS. D. hELD DhADLE1.
The Montgomery County Civic
Federation was urged last night to
request the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission to furnish
adequate and proper" refuse re-
moval service, or to acknowledge its
inability to do so. The resolution,
submitted by the East Bethesda
Citizens Association, was referred
to the Sanitation and Public Health
Committee for early action.
The resolution points out that re-
peated promises Of improvement
have failed of fulf1llment, and that
serious health hazard now exists in
the uncollected garbage. The method
of selection of commission members
by the Governor has made them
entirely unresponsive to the wishes
of residents, ths resolution declared.
The Capital Transit Co. is plan
ming to provide increased services on
Its established lines in Montgomery
County just as soon as a manpower
shortage can be corrected, Dean j.
Locke, company staff engineer and
head of the Federation Transporta-
ton Subcommittee, told the group.
Wants Service Self Supporting.
The company is anxious to provide
new services when manpower is
available on condition that the new
are self-supporting. New
lines no longer can be carried by
revenues from other parts of the
system, MIR. Locke said, now that the
costs of producing the service are
higher than before the war.
With correction of manpower
shortages will come restoration of
curtailed during the war in
80 far as justified by existing needs,
Mr.. Lock declared.
The status of postwar road prof.
ects in the county was the subject
of a report by Washington I. Cleve-
land, chairman of the Roads, Streets
and Bridges Committee. First in
the order of priority in State prof.
ects, Mr.. Cleveland said, will be the
Silver Spring grade elimination
scheduled for completion during
l945 and 1916.
Other improvements.
Another is the improvement of
the Columbia pike in Howard
County, which will give a direct
connection between Baltimore and
the Northwest Washington metro
politan area. Also planned for early
improvements are River road, be-
tween the District line and Potomac,
and Rockville pike on Route 40
north of Rockville.
] Mr.. Cleveland presented a report
On cnunty roads which had been
prepared by Willard F. Day, county
supervisor in which he recom-t
ilendsd three-point program. The
report urged that county commits
Hioiiefs adept a program of highway
tnatntetaafice and construction COW
eI1r1g atg least three-month period:
that any street or road taken over
by the county be formally accepted
by resolution adopted by the board
and that standards specifying the
quality and type of road construc-
tion to be used by developers in any
subdivision to be established and a
policy announced whereby no roads
or streets will be taken over by the
county unless they meet the speci-
fications.
Mr.. Day pointed out that borrow
ing will be necessary in order to
give the people of Montgomery
County the kind of roads they
want. AS soon as possible, however,
the county should put its road pro-
gram on current income basis,
Mr. Day said.
Traffic Lights Sought.
Mr.. Cleveland said his committee
believes that improved roads would
accrue in the county as result of
the trained leadership and active
supervision of Mr.. Day.
The Park Hill Civic Association
introduced a resolution asking the
commissioners to cooperate with
the proper authorities in the Dis
trict in securing traffic lights for
the intersection of Georgia avenue,
Eastern avenue and Blair road.
The community of Drummond,
Md, requested the federation to
ascertain by what authority the
at the Somerset School
has been denied to the children of
the area after school hours.
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