Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1926, Page 12

TAX ASSESSORS CALLEDTODFEW Columbia Heights Citizens Believe Capital Should Have 16 More. The relatively small number of tax assessors in the District of Colum- bla compared to other representative clties w 'ul.nde by the Columbia | Heights Citizens' A in St Stephen's P 3017 Four- | 1eenth street, A tabulated list of about . prepared by W I anton, Citizens' Advisory | councilman and former’ president of this association, showed that Wash- ington should have at least 22 a: sessors, whereas, it was pointed out, there are six, only are assessing District ®onal property. The matter was real and per- referred to the utive committee for further con- leration. Another matter referred this committee was a resolution presented by il L. Bushons, requir ing that gl] tax-exempt property of the District and Federal Governments and the varieus public utilities be publicly listed. It was voted to refer these qu-stions also to the congre: committee headed by Repre- mentative Reid, meeting next Monday to consider the needs of the District. Member Drive Approved. Concurrence in the committee membey tion of O from November 1 nd ,Annn\mt'llnnl made members, 'h& h-(l by Tho A. King, chairman of the membership committee, had Leen appointed to co-operate. The committes will be augmented by all nflirPrS of the a ation. Alton B. v, president, pointed to the Citi- ) ouncil as evidence nf the influence wielded by citizens’ essociations. Columbia Heights' goal was set at 1,500 new members. Dr. 1. F. Kebler, chairman of the committee on public health, read a r on poison ivy and urged a cam to eradicate the obnoxious wrowth, that the subject e brou, tten 'nn of school ithoritie uggested ithat warnings be |1I, ed in conspic s in the public parks and e new ducted by t Association: was voted ommittee y J. Clin- the public committee, and adopted, urge the Public Utilities direct the W of the north side, as b matter of safety to school chil- dren. Storm Sewer Urged. Installation of a storm sewer in the Benning section was urged in reso- lutions passed as a means of permit- ting further development of the Northeast section of the city. The Commissioners will be asked to erect suitable street lighting poles on Ken- von street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. Action was taken reit- erating the association’s former stand favoring the merger of all street rallway systems. New members _elected G. D). Pfeiffer, Mrs. Edith H. Hunt- er, Mrs. Robert A. Dellett, Miss Eleanor E. Walker, Mrs. H. J. Hunt, Building & Owners’ Co.. 1. H. Mer- rill, Mrs. Harvey S. Irwin, Mrs. An- nie M. Easterling, William R. Mar- ceron and Frank J. Sobotka. It was announced that hereafter on the second Tuesday of each month committee chairmen would assemble their committees in rooms to be pro- vided in the Columbia Heights Com- munity Center to consider actlons taken by the association and thresh out problems referred to the respec- tive committees. The regular asso- clation meetings ‘wiil be held on the first Tuesdays, as usual. President Carty presided. were Mrs. . The proposed law to make compul- sory the keening of lll books in the Philippines i h or Span- 1 1l Wash out your insides with Water Take an occasional draught of Pluto Water to keep as clean internally as externally” 1t's like trying to jerk out a tooth with a string to take dry physics. 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