Evening star., 1946-04-03

Total Of $50
Housing Units
Montgomery Heads
To File Requests
For Veterans Today

Tor veterans oooy
A request by the Montgomery
County Housing Authority for 100
additional housing units for vet
Grams will be made today to. the
Federal Public Housing Authority,
bringing the total number OF units
sought to $50.
Authority to make such a re-
quest was given the local housing
group by the county commissioners
at their meeting yesterday in Rock
vile in response to veterans Pc
titions for additional housing facili-
ties. The commissioners announced
last week that portion Of Sligo
Valley Park, north of the Parkside
School, has been set aside as the
site for erection of temporary hous-
ing units for veterans.
The board originally requested
$50 units, including so trailers to
be used by veterans attending the
Washington Missionary College in
Takoma Park. OF the number of
units, rs dwellings and so trailers
already have been allocated to the
county by the FPHA.
Rents Not Fixed.
Alfred D. Noyes, president of the
board, said preparation of the site
to accommodate the units is under
way and their erection is expected
as soon as details of the transfer
are completed. Veterans desiring to
live in the units may apply to the
County Housing Authority in tho
Liquor Dispensary Building, Silver
Spring. Rents for the units have
not yet been fixed.
The commissioners approved the
inclusion of three road improvement
projects in the s375, 900 program for
this year adopted at their meeting
last week. The three projects, to
cost an estimated $1,000, are:
Cedar lane from the Baptist Home
for Children to the transmitting
tower of Station VOL, a distance
of 5000 feet; Cedar lane from Wis
consin avenue to Saul road, and the
Seven Locks road from River road
to Bradley boulevard.
County Purchasing Agent I. G..
McNayr was authorized to purchase
325 parking meters at a cost Of
$19,500 from the Dual Parking Meter
Co., Canton, Ohio. The meters will
be installed early in June along Wis
consin avenue in Bethesda.
| Bid Acceptance Ordered.
Mr. McNayr also was ordered to
accept the bid of G. G. Loehler for
repairs and alterations to the Rock
vile Office to be occupied by the
County Board of Election Super
visors. The Office formerly was used
by the Price Control Board. Mr..
McNayr said the work will cost be-
tween 5000 and $1,000.
The following parking regulations
were approved:
! One-hour parking from 8 am. ia
6 pm. along the south side of Will
low lane, beginning at the east side
Of Wisconsin avenue in Bethesda
and continuing east for IT'S feet, and
no parking at any time on the west
side of Forty-fourth street between
Willow lane and Elm street, Be-
thesda.
Erection of a stop sign on Pearl
street at Montgomery lane, Bethes-
da, also was approved by the board
Joseph R. Wiley, Takoma Park
who has just been discharged from
the service, was ordered reinstated
on the county police force, subject
to a physical examination.
Leonard P. Schloss received a per-
init to operate Glen Echo Park be-
ginning April 13.
The board accepted the resigna-
tions OF Theodore H. Hundley al
chief Of a survey party in the coun-
ty engineering department, Miss
Mildred Weaver as a clerk in the
purchasing agents Office and Mrs
Ruth Walker as secretary in the
office of Miss Edythe M. Turner
county home demonstration agent
Rezoning Hearings Ordered.
Hearings on three rezoning petit
tions were scheduled May 16 in the
Liquor Dispensary Building, Silver
Spring. They are:
Sam and Esther Fig, residential
A to c of part of the c. c. Glover
tract in Rock Creek Forest, 3:l5
pm, and residential A to CONNER
cial D of part of the same tract
$3.50 pm.
Ralph G. Shure, residential A to
commercial D of a parole of land at
Bonifant and Colesville roads one
mile north of Colesville, 3:45 pm.
Moe and Ethel Kaplan, residential
A to commercial D OF 1ll35 Old
Bladensburg road, Wheaton, 4 pm
A hearing on a request by Mrs
Pearle G. King to use her home al
Etchison as a boarding home for
children was set for 1880 am. Ma,
Z in the Rockville Courthouse.
4 Another hearing on a petition b,
Harry Wolfson for the reclassifica
tion from residential A to CONNER.
cial D of lots 64-67, Woodmont sub.
division, was ordered held at pm
May II in the Bethesda County
Building
North Brentwood 10 Hold
Town Election May s
North Brentwood voters will eleci
two councilmen to serve tvo vears