Evening star., 1951-02-14
Council Raises
Pay Of 2,O86 in
County Employ
Increases Ronee
From 500 to $500;
Bond Issue Sold

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will "hold experienced personnel,
thereby reducing the increased
turnover that has been occurring
In recent months
The council also:
l. Approved sale of a $50 mil
lion, 30-year county bond issue to
Union Securities Corp. of New
York City, the lowest of six bid
ders. at an effective interest rate
OF Ito per cent.
2. Accepted the county man
ayers temporary appointment Of
Morgan L. Tenny as clerk of the
council to replace John D. Nc
Elroy, who has been ordered
back to active duty in the Army
March /.
The pay raises voted yesterday
affect 2,086 employes-al but 1874
OF the county's total working
force. The increases are retro
active to February l and will cost
the county more than $450, 900
annually. The council authorized
use of $188,320 to make the pay
adjustments for the rest of the
current fiscal year.
Most to Get $500.
Most of the employees will get a
5000 increase, the figure decided
on by the council and the person.
mel board in view of an estimated
612 per cent rise in the cost Of
living over the past year. Police
men will get $300-$200 as a cost
adjustment and $100 as
a straight pay increase recon-
by the personnel board.
The county's 212 wage employees
will get a 5-cent-an- hour boost,
which averages slightly more than
S100 year.
Exempted from the pay in
creases were 73 teachers who have
not yet been accepted for pay
ment at the basic wage scale and
Ill county and county State en-
ployeS who now receive more
than $3.50 per year, or who are
part-time employees, members of
special boards paid on a per-
basis or department
heads.
Bonds for Construction.
The $50 million bond issue is
to be used for various construc-
ton projects: $3.77 million for
schools, $123 million for county
buildings, $750.000 for roads and
S150,000 for Bethesda parking
lots.
The Council was obviously
pleased with the low rate of in
terest it was able to obtain on
the bond issue. 1t was pointed
out that the county had had to
pay 2.21 per cent on its previous
sale Of bonds last May, whereas
all six bids on yesterdays issue
were at effective interest rates
below 2 per cent.
The total cost to the county of
the latest bond issue will be
S1,694.013.50 over the 30-year
period.
Mr.. McElroy, who will be as
signed to the Office of the Judge
Advocate General of the Army at,
the Pentagon, has been clerk of
the council since September, 1949.
Before that he was assistant clerk
under Plummer N. Shearin.
Mr.. Tenny, who will succeed Mr..
McElroy while the latter is on
military leave. has been an ad-
in the department Of
and licenses for tho
past year. He lives at IL Warwick
street, Garrett Park. The job
pays $4,000 a year.
Other Appointments.
The council approved these
other appointments. all replace
/. Albert E. Atkinson, jr., 6806
Forty-sixth street, Chevy Chase,
to be a guard in the county jail at
an annual salary of $2,420.
Q John w. Warrington, Old
road, Branchville, to
be an inspector with the Depart
ment of Public Works at an an
nual salary of $3,740.
3 William B. Mckinney, 804
Easley street, Silver Spring, to be
an inspector with the Department
of Public Works at an annual SAL
airy of $1,000.
4. Almus r. Speare, 124 East
Diamond avenue, Gaithersburg, to
be an instrument man with the
Department of Public Works at an
salary of $2,86O.
5. Mrs. Kathleen P. Pricer, 303
North Adams street, Rockville, to
be a secretary with the Depart
ment of Public Works at an an
nual salary of $3.50.
so Attend Hearing.
6. Holmes Whirley of Rockville,
to be janitor at the Department of
Public Works at. an annual salary
Of 1890.
The Council also held another
hearing on the question of how
sidewalks are to be paid for along
Georgia avenue, which the State
Roads Commission is now WIDEN.
ing into a dual road in Silver
Spring.
About SO persons attended the
hearing. It was concerned only
with the 1.73-mile section Of
Georgia avenue extending north
from Montgomery Hills. Most of
them protested any assessment for
the sidewalks, which will cost an
estimated $4,000 for that Sec
ton. County Manager Irving Nc
Nayr has proposed that the county
and affected property owners split
the cost of the walks, But the
Council has yet to decide the
method of financing.