Evening star., 1950-05-03
State School Aid
Awaited
ByMontgomerY
Council Completes
Action on S584, 900
In Gronts, Looms


ell today awaited a total Of $5S4..
700 in State loans and grants for
school construction. Receipt Of the
funds is expected within a few
lays,
Council members yesterday
signed papers for $S42.o00 loan
and a $242 900 grant,
Earlier. in q lS-minute ls1iSla-
i've session. the council received
TWO bills and set a hearing for
I:30 pm. next Wednesday in
Courthouse on a meas
Ire introduced Monday to pro-
vide for an sSo0.o00 bond issue
20 establish public parking lots in
The Bethesda business district.
One of yesterdays measures
would extend the boundaries Of
he Silver Spring business district
to take in several small CONNER
cial properties.
Tax Fee Bill Introduced.
The other would set a 81 fee
to be paid by persons receiving
certificates Of payment or nom
payment Of taxes for four years
and a 25-cent fee for each addi-
tional year covered by the GER
tiflcate. Both bills were spon-
sored by Councilman j. Douglas
A third proposal. submitted by
County Fire Marshal Charles H.
Howe. jr.. called for a l0-cent
fire tax rate in the Gaithersburg-
Washington Grove fire area. Res
idents of Gaithersburg and vicin-
ity now pay a 10-cent fire tax
while those In outlying sections
of the fire area pay a scent tax.
County Attorney David Mac
donald explained that under the
State grant-in-aid bill for school
the county must put
up So for each 81 in State funds.
He added the county has spent
1926. 900 for the following school
projects; Somerset. Oak View.
Viers Mill Village. East-West
East Rockville. Home
wood, Rolling Terrace. Alta
Vista and Glenmont Elementary
Schools.
3 Zoning Applications Denied.
In other business. the council:
/. Denied three zoning applica.
tions and approved one.
2. Set hearings next month on
four proposals for street improve
ment projects in Silver Spring and
Bethesda.
3. Appointed James A. Bu-
chanan, 4th, of Rockville, as high
way inspector at $4,000 a year and
William B. Mckinney, Silver
Spring, as highway inspector at
$2.860 a year.
4. Deferred action until next
week on request by State WAL
fare Director J. Milton Patterson
to recommend appointments to
the county Welfare Board. The
new appointees would succeed
Adolph E. Guide and G. Gregg
Everngam, whose terms expire
May 81.
Petitions Are Identified.
The three zoning petitions de-
MED were filed by:
William P. and Emma P. Good
man, residential A to commercial
D OF a lot on the east side of Flow
er avenue about 600 feet north of
PIney Branch road, Silver Spring.
Harry G. Cole, residential A to
B (two-family homes) or CONNER
clal D of Az acres along the
road near
Jefferson street. Kensington.
Esther M. MilStead, residential
A to c (apartments) of land in
the New Hampshire Estates sub
division. In rejecting this applica-
ton, the council rescinded the ac-
tion of the former county commis-
Sloners, who had approved the pc
tltlon in December, 1948. The
council noted. however, that its
decision was confined to the recon-
ing OF portion of the property.
Redistribution Approved.
Approved was the application Of
Arts Curry for the reclassification
from residential A to commercial
D Of a lot on the south side of
College avenue about l10 feet east
OF Georgia avenue, Wheaton.
Hearings were set on the follow
ing street improvement projects:
Woodmoor Circle, Silver Spring.
and Broad street in the Lone Oak
subdivision, Bethesda. $3.50 pm,
June 6; Barrett lane from Bradley
boulevard to Audubon road, Be-
thesda, and King street from
Georgia avenue to Eastern avenue.
Silver Spring. $3.50 pm, June IS.
All will be heard in the Rockville
Courthouse.