Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-08
Telegraph Road
WideningGive
Work to Begin
On Acquiring
Rights of Way

Reconstruction and widening
Of Telegraph road from Fran
coma road to No. / highway
have been authorized by the
Fairfax Board of County Super
visors. and work will begin as
soon as all rights of way are
acquired.
The supervisors formally ap-
proved the project yesterday at
the request of the State High
way Department. Although the
State is in charge of highway
construction and maintenance,
the countys approval is neces-
sary because right-of-way money
comes from the county's second
airy road budget allocated by the
State.
o. T. Aichel. State resident
highway engineer in Fairfax
County. estimated it would cost
$4,000 to buy the necessary
rights of way plus an additional
$4,000 for damages. This makes
$4,000 to come out of the
county's total secondary road
budget of Sill million for 1854
SIS.
$lS9,000 for Construction.
Construction of the road prof.
ect is expected to cost $189, 900.
Half of this amount is to be pro-
vided by Federal highway aid
funds and the other half already
has been set aside from previous
secondary road ALLEGATIONS to
Fairfax County.
Slightly more than 8 miles of
winding. narrow Telegraph road
are to be rebuilt. The road now
has a 30-foot right of way, with
a width of about Is feet hard
surfaced. The reconstruction pro-
gram will provide a 60-foot right
OF way with a 22-foot paved road.
The supervisors were advised
that only one house would have
to be torn down for the widening.
The supervisors authorized the
highway department to condemn
property needed for widening II
1t cannot be bought.
A tentative time table for SELL
ing the first portion of q $40
million sewer bond issue was
presented to the supervisors by
Attorney Robert j. McCandlish.
Jr. The amount of the first is
sue has not yet been determined.
but will include funds to retire
the outstanding SO million bond
issue in sanitary district No. /
and begin some new sewer con-
Struction.
First Step April FL.
The first step is scheduled for
April 81, when the supervisors
are to advertise an ordinance
transferring sewer facilities of
sanitary district No. l to the
county to become the nucleus of
an integrated sewer system serv-
ing all heavily populated areas.
After a long list of intervening
steps. the supervisors should be
ready to sell the first block Of
sewer bonds on July 8, refund
the sanitary district No. I bonds
and proceed with new construc-
ton.
The supervisors authorized
Sheriff John Taylor to apply to
the State Compensation Board
for permission to employ four
new deputies. Sheriff Taylor
explained that the additional
deputies were needed to staff the
new. large county Jail.
1t was voted to amend the
county zoning ordinance so that
future special use applications
for certain establishments in
industrial zones must be adver-
tised. This amendment was
prompted by a recent incident
where residents near an indus
trial tract protested the opera
ton of an asphalt plant. No one
appeared to protest construction
of the asphalt plant when the
special use application came be-
fore the supervisors. and the
nearby residents said that was
because they knew nothing of it.
A resolution was adopted
placing the county on daylight
time on April Is. simultaneously
with Washington.