Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-08
ayor-Council
Ask More COPS
For Night Duty
Citywide Cleanup
Started to Erase
Health, Fire Peril

Launching war on after-dark
rowdyism and the "Sneaky Pete"
set, Rockville officials Tuesday
called on county police for extra
protection.
At the same time, Mayor Dick
ran HoVSepian announced that
letters had been sent to Women's
organizations asking their aid in
citywide cleanup.
Purplish reports of street cor
ner might life" touched off the
Town Councils decision to seek
more police protection.
Police at Rockville promptly
countered that they can spare
only two patrol cars and few
foot policemen on Friday nights
to cover the city
Hovsepian and the Council said
they would ask the County Coun-
Gil for aid at an early meeting
perhaps next Tuesday.
Letters explaining the cleanup
idea were mailed earlier this
week to the Rockville Home
makers, Inquiry, Junior
Woman's, Womans and Garden
Clubs and the League of Women
Voters.
The letters were based on a
survey made by three-member
committee appointed by the
Mayor and Council shortly after
they took office May 3.
Bottles and trash littering sew
eral streets, principally Com
merce and Middle Lanes, are mot
only unsightly, but a. health and
fire menace" the Council pointed
out.
To combat the problem, tn
Council plans to post signs in
stores where alcoholic beverages
are sold, warning buyers of the
ordinance against littering
streets.
If the existing ordinance needs
to be strengthened, it will be
done, officials added.
City Manager John Mcdonald
reported at Tuesdays meeting
that II new trash cans have been
ordered for strategic" corners
throughout the business section.
Keep Rockville Clean will
be painted on each trash can.
Council members did not ask
the women's organization out.
right to take part in a scrub
brush campaign" to clean up the
county seat, but they limited
Tuesday they would like the clubs
to organize such a move.
Following is the 11-point re-
commentator made to the
Mayor and Town Council by the
committee which Investigated
means Of beautifying Rockville:
!. We find that the bottle and
other litter is confined principally
TO Commerce Lane near Perry
Street; the Commerce Lane pub
lie parking lot, and to Middle
Lane in the vicinity of the County
Liquor Dispensary. We find fur
Their that the greatest accumula.
ton occurs from Friday night
through the weekend.
2. We find, further, that the
principal streets in the business
area are trash and dirt.littered
to an unnecessary degree and
that rears of some business
establishments appear to collect
unnecessary amounts of trash.
3. We consider these conditions
unsightly, unsavory, uninviting
to residents and visitors and, in
many instances, definite fire
hazards.
4. II is our recommendation
that these problems be attacked
through city.wide cleanup week
to be proclaimed by the Mayor
and Council and given wide publ.
city through newspapers, local
radio stations, civic and other or.
CARNATIONS.
;. To inaugurate this week, the
city street cleaning department
should pick up, sweep up and
clean up all trash and debris in
the areas mentioned in para.
graph l above. In addition,
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