Evening star., 1950-06-28
Planning Unit
OF Five Named
Commission to Run
RuroI Development
Projects in County

The newly created Upper Mont
gomery County Planning Commits
sion was ready to 60 to work today
with the appointment Of its five
members by the County Council.
Named last night were Council
man Thomas c. Kelley, Darnes-
town; Frederick Gutheim of near
Dickerson, Marshall Davis, Ger
mantown; Kenneth Windham,
Laytonsville, and Lathrop E.
Smith, Travilah, president of the
County Farm Bureau.
They will serve for terms of one,
two. three, four and five years.
Youth Group Named.
The commission was set up by
the Council last week to draft
building inspection, zoning and
subdivision planning regulations
for the rural area. These func-
tions now are exercised in the
suburban area by the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
The Council also authorized
establishment of a commission
for youth for the county and ap-
pointed the following members:
Juvenile Court Judge Alfred D.
Noyes, Blair Lee III, vice chair
man of the Park and Planning
Commission; Audrey J. Mcdonald,
assistant county health officer;
William Roger. county Welfare
Board director, and DR.. Edwin w.
Broome, county superintendent of
schools.
The Youth Commission was di-
rected to study facilities available
in the county for the health. well
fare and morale of youth and to
recommend any new services
which it feels are necessary.
The group also is to cooperate
with the Maryland Commission
for Youth and to participate in
the White House Conference on
Youth in December in Washing
ton.
Redistribution Denied.
In other business, the county
heads denied two petitions for
commercial reclassification on two
lots on the north side of Ellis
worth drive near Fenton street,
Silver Spring, and rejected a petit
tion for reconsideration of its
approval of an application for
commercial rezoning of three
other lots in the same area.
A fourth petition for the re-
classification from residential A
to B (semidetachedD or CONNER
cial D of AZ acres on the
Wheaton-Kensington road op-
posite Jefferson street also was
denied. The applicant is Harry
G. Cole.
The two petitions for CONNER
cial use Of the Ellsworth street
property were filed by John r.
Reeves, agent for John j. Wach-
ter, Jeanne D. Wachter, Carl w.
Humphries and Lillian A. Hum
phries.
They are adjacent to three lots
which were zoned commercial by
a 4-to-3 council vote last Deem
ber, and are involved in what has
been termed by residents of the
area as "the Battle of the Bulge
Civic Group Involved.
Those three lots were the sub
ject of the reconsideration petit
ton filed by the Woodside Park
Civic Association. Inc.
Dissenting from the denial of
the civic groups petition were
Council President Frederic P. Lee,
Mrs. Dorothy Himstead and P. G.
Ligon. They claimed the Deem
ber decision was erroneous.
The council also changed the
name of the road from Route 2S
to Seneca road from Horse Hole
road to Berryville road.
Proposals for a sidewalk along
the east side of the Baltimore 81
Ohio Railroad underpass on Brad
ley boulevard and improvement of
Manning drive from Glenbrook
road to Fairfax road, both in Be-
Ithesda, were taken under advise
mani