Evening star., 1945-01-09
Gill; S Postwar Plans
For.Montgom!ery6e Get
Federation Approval
BY MRS. J. REED BRADLEY.

Commenting James w. Gill for
! his initiative in offering to the
Montgomery Postwar Planning
Committee number of proposals to
improve county government, the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
ton at meeting last night in the
Bethesda Elementary School urged
these proposals be put in specific
form at an early date to permit pub
lie consideration.
The Federation's standing COM
mittees were directed to report at
the February meeting their recon-
mendations on all of Mr.. Gills' pro-
posals that are put in definite terms.
The resolution was proposed by
Walter H. McClennon, chairman Of
the Legislative Legal Action Com
mittee.
Frown on Fund Earmarking.
The earmarking of liquor dis
pensary revenues for any specific
postwar projects was frowned on by
the Federation in a resolution
adopted at the suggestion of Lewis
B. Sims, chairman of the Public
Finance and Budget Committee. The
Board of County Commissioners
was asked to retain these profits as
part of the general revenues of the
county, available for meeting cur
rent expenses or reducing the fund
ed debt.
Mr.. Sims resolution also requested
the county commissioners to develop
and publish comprehensive and in
tegrated program of public improve
ments to be undertaken during the
postwar period, listing the individual
projects in the order of their urgency
and showing the cost and timing of
each project. 1t also advocated pub
lication in pamphlet form of five-
year budget for capital public i'm
provements, showing the amounts to
be financed from taxes and other
revenues and from bond issuances.
At the December meeting william
A. Rogers, Kensington, presented a
resolution directed against charter
workers, asking that the federation
sever all relations and interest with
any political group and that ''those
delegates who have violated the pro-
visions of the bylaws of the fedora
ton be denied the right to vote on
all questions that come before the
organization"
Reject Rogers Resolution.
Following a report from Richard
B. Barker, president of the fedora
ton, who had appointed himself to
study this resolution, the federation
voted to reject the first part of the
resolution on the ground that the
federation has never had any rela-
ton or interest with any political
group, and to strike the second part
OF the resolution from the records
of the federation.
The Federation indorsed Gov
OConor's four point educational
program; recommended that in
creased funds be allocated by the
State Legislature to the State De.
partment of Health so that it NAV
promote a program of control of
venereal disease in the State of
Maryland: approved the principles
OF the Lindsay home rule" bill, and
decided to drop for the present its
investigation of the collection of
garbage by the Washington Subur-
ban Sanitary Commission.
Reporting on this latter subject
DR.. Herbert Eaton said the only
hope of decreasing costs of present
collections is through the building
OF an incinerator for garbage dis
posal.
Because of the large number of
reports considered at the meeting,
1t was decided to call off the extra
January session proposed for jan
uary "a. 1t was left to the presi.
dent to decide whether an extra
meeting will be necessary before the
February meeting.