Evening star., 1946-03-27
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Site Approved
For Housing
DemountubIe Units
To Be Erected for
Veterans Families
By J. B. Zotmon

By }. B. Zotmon
Added impetus has been given the
movement for veterans housing in
Montgomery County with the selec-
tion of the portion of Sligo Valley
Park north of the Parkside School
and extending to the Forest Glen
Indian Spring Club road as the loca-
tion Of demountable units for ex-
servicemen and their families.
In a resolution adopted yesterday,
the county commissioners accepted
the offer OF the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion for the use of the park site for
this purpose.
The Federal Public Housing Au-
thority announced last week it will
allocate to the county a total of
ITS housing units for veterans, of
which so were to be used by former
servicemen attending the Washing
ton Missionary College in Takoma
Park. The commissioners have ex-
pressed the hope they will obtain
an additional IS dwellings in the
near future.
Conveniences at Hand.
The board noted yesterday that
the section of Sligo Valley Park in
which the units will be erected Is
improved by a half-mile of concrete
park drive extending south from the
Forest Glen road and that the dwell
ings can be conveniently and eco
nomically" placed on each side OF
the road.
Water is available in the i'm
mediate vicinity and a main inter-
ceptor sewer already traverses this
section of the park, the commits
sioners pointed out. They added
that electricity and telephone serv-
Ice have already been extended to
this location.
County Public Utility Agent Al
bert E. Brault was requested to
seek public transportation to and
from the site. If such service can
not be obtained the commissioners
said rthey would attempt to fur
nish transportation facilities them
selves.
The County Housing Authority
set up last week. was authorized
to administer the veterans hous-
ing program and to cooperate with
the FPHA in the erection and
maintenance of the units.
Road Program Approved.
A comprehensive road improve
ment program for 1916 was approved
by the board. Cost of the work totals
1915, 900, Of which the Federal Gov
ernment will pay $65, 900 and the
State $4,000. The remainder will
be paid by the county out of the
s5,0000o0 bond issue authorized at
the 1945 session of the State Legis-
lature. The following projects are
included In the program:
Thompsons Corner to Comus
road, miles Of the Barnesville-
Dickerson road, River road from
the Piney Meeting House road to-
ward Seneca, ~ miles along the
road from the State road through |
Jerusalem Village, 2 miles of the
road leading through the big
woods" from the Barnesville-
Beallsville pike to the bridge, three
quarters Of mile on the road south |
Of the highway from Norwood Cor
ner to the Colesville pike.
One mile on the Prather road
from the Gaithersburg- Goshen State
road, continuance of the Kemp Mill
road for distance of IL miles to
the Four Corners-Wheaton road
from the Glemont- -Colesville road,
Goshen Gaithersburg road from the
Etchison-Damascus road to the
Howard County line at Mullinix
Mill, Bowies Mill road from the
Olney-Laytonsville road to the Nor
beck-Redland road and the Capital
View-Kensington road south of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Policemen Reappointed.
The commissioners reappointed
81 emergency policemen for go days,
beginning Monday.
States Attorney Joseph B. Simp-
son, jr., notified the board he has
appointed Mrs. Brenda E. Smith,
Gaithersburg, as a clerk in his Office.
A delegation representing the
Potomac School Association, led by
F. Moran McConihe, urged the con-
struction of four classroom addi-
ton to the school, The group also
asked that manual training shop
and gymnasium be erected and that
the school cafeteria be enlarged.
Mr.. McConihe said the proposed
addition of two classrooms, as
recommended in the report of the
Board of Education made public
recently, was inadequate" He
added that the school now has an
enrolment of 155 and is so over
crowded that the pupils are forced
to use the library and auditorium
as classrooms.
No action was taken by the COM
missioners pending receipt of the
1867 budget from the Board of
Education.
A hearing on petition by George
I. and Lucy A. Cartner for a permit
to operate property on the Rockville
pike midway between Rockville and
Bethesda as nursing home was
postponed to noon Tuesday.
The board set II am. April 8 as
the date for hearing in the Rock
vile Courthouse on the reassess-
ment of part of the Rockville dis
trict.
D. G.. Girl Named Head