Evening star., 1948-12-01
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In Inauguration
Housing Search
Papers to Garry Blanks
Seeking Information
On Available Rooms

mittee will enlist the aid of Wash
ington newspapers next week in
arranging for rooms to accom-
modate the thousands expected at
the Inauguration.
Housing information blanks will
be carried in all newspapers.
Washington area residents willing
to rent a room will be asked to
clip, fill in and mail blanks to the
Inaugural Housing Committee.
This was made public today by
Mrs. John McClintock, head Of the
housing unit, as preparations went
forward to open a housing head
quarters on the second floor OF the
building at the northeast corner OF
Pennsylvania Avenue and Four
teenth street NV The headquar-
ters is expected to be ready early
next week.
Mrs. McClintock said she hopes
thousands of Washington and
nearby Maryland and Virginia resi-
dents will let the committee know
they are willing to take in guests
for all or part of inaugural week,
January 16 through %. The inaugu-
ration itself is on Thursday, jan
uary 20.
HOuSe-t House Canvass Likely.
we may have to make house
toulouse canvass to find enough
rooms for the enormous crowds eX-
pected," she said, referring to
prediction of 100000 visitors made
by Inaugural Chairman Melvin D.
Hildreth.
A survey is under way to de-
ternine how many visitors can be
housed in military, school and
other similar facilities during all
or part of the week. Railroads run
ming excursions here for the inau-
guration are expected to keep their
Pullman coaches in the yards here
so they can be used as sleeping
quarters.
Other inaugural developments
include:
The Packard Motor Car Co. made
available to Mr.. Hlldreth from now
until completion of the inaugura-
ton q new Packard as his official
car.
Oklahomans to Attend.
Gov. Roy j. Turner of Oklahoma
told Mr.. Hildreth yesterday that
a special train will bring $50 to
300 Oklahomans to the inaugura-
ton. He said the Oklahoma State
Society in Washington will provide
the States float in the parade.
The Concessions Committee,
headed by retired Police Inspector
Richard Mansfield, decided to set
up a system of licensing food and
other peddlers and to grant food
concessionaires the right to oper-
ate temporary stands along the pa
rade line of march on Inauguration
day. Details are now being worked
out.
The Special Events Committee is
lining up floats for the parade and
putting various groups in touch with
concerns who make a business of
preparing them.
Snow Removal Planned.
The Commissioners Snow Remov-
al Committee decided at special
meeting yesterday on plans for
clearing the streets in case of snow
before or during the Inauguration
ceremonies.
It was decided that services of the
various branches of the city's en-
gineer services, the Parks Service,
the Capital Transit Co. and both the
Police Traffic Bureau and Depart
ment of Vehicles and Traffic would
be modified for duty. In the event
of a heavy snowfall, it is planned
to call on the Army for help in
clearing the assembly and disband-
ing areas.
The line of parade will not permit
the use of salt mixed with sand,
because the melting ice would short
circuit the third rails of the transit
lines and stop all streetcar traffic.
Snow, Sleet Possible.
In event of snow the day or night
before, the division of sanitation
will plow the line of parade and will
sand the street just before the pa
rade. If it SHOWS early the day be-
fore, 1t is planned to clear the snow
from curb to curb.
The work of clearing the area of
the parade east of Fifteenth street
has been assigned to the sanitation
division and west of Fifteenth street
to the Highway Department.
According to William A. Xanten,
superintendent of the division of
sanitation, records kept in his Office
since 1900 show that Washington
has either had snow or sleet during
the week of January 20 three-quar-
tiers of the time. 1t has either
showed or sleeted SO times during