Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-25

immediate neighbors into actor
will become city-wide.
The model block project in
the north is bounded on the
south by P street, on the north
by @ street, on the east by
New Jersey avenue and on the
west by Fifth street. The sin
gle-block Franklin street BIZ
sects the area.
Families living in the area are
clearing their Easements, attics
and yards of debris which has
accumulated over a period of
months and, in some instances,
years.
The junk includes broken
down furniture, toys, boxes,
rags, papers, stoves, mattresses,
trunks, refrigerators, baby car
riages, bed springs. wood and
junked automobiles. Also, there
are the smaller things like
rusted cans and broken glass.
Police Offer Help
The project of scrubbing the
neighborhood's face Is COOP
erative venture. The District
Sanitation Department assigned
three trucks last week to haul
away the debris. Second pre-
cinct headquarters detailed two
patrolmen to accompany the
trucks and to give the residents
whatever help they need.
Sixth grade pupils at Scott
Montgomery School prepared
cleanup posters and neighbor-
hood merchants co-operated
by displaying the posters prom
inently in their stores. F. w.
Bolgiano and Co. volunteered
a ton of topsoil to the neigh
borhood Identification effort.
Barber and Ross Co. will con-
tribute lumber for window boxes
and the shop class at ]. F.
Bundy School will build them.
The Union Wallpaper and
Paint Company will supply the
paint for the boxes.
Two vacant lots-the chill
dren call them Boot Hill-long
have been neighborhood eye
sores. Members of the Peren-
NAL Garden Club of George
town and a professional land
scape engineer have surveyed
the lots and plan a possible
rock garden treatment to trans
form them into beauty spots.
Self Spurred Project
The cleanup project was
the idea of the Urban Service
Corps headed by Benjamin ].
Henley, an assistant superin-
tendent of schools. Mr.. Henley
said the area was chosen as a
pilot cleanup project because
some of the residents indi-
Gated they care about their
homes and were interested in
improving their surroundings.
1--WE are trying to show that
a neighborhood can be improved
voluntarily" Mr.. Henley said.
1--WE hope our efforts here will
have an effect on others"
Nathaniel Dixon, principal of
Scott Montgomery School, and
Miss Antoinette Gardner, ex-
ecutive director of Northwest
Neighborhood House, are CO.
chairmen of the project. They
predicted the cleanup effort
will be successful because "the
people living in this area want
it cleaned up and are willing to
do the job themselves"
A real sprakplug in the effort
is Mrs. Cornelia Jones, a grand
mother. Mrs. Jones spent about
three days visiting every family
in the two-block area to ex-
plain the purpose of the pro-
ject. Miss Gardner credits Mrs.
Jones with getting the resi-
dents Gin a cooperative mood"
Set Childrens' Curfew
About II residents met with
Miss Gardner and Mr.. Dixon
at the school in December to
discuss the project. That first
meeting, Mr.. Dixon said, re-
vealed that the residents were
not satisfied with the state of
their neighborhood. They COM
planned that Franklin street
was used by outsiders "as if it
were an alley"
Mr.. Dixon said people living
outside the area would park on
Franklin street late at night to-
drink and then toss the beer
cans and liquor bottles from
their cars. Operators of trucks
would park their loaded We