Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1928, Page 14

COMMUNITY CHEST PLANS ADVANGE Budget and Fund Drive Dis- cussed at Welfare Conference. Details pertaining to the functioning | of the Community Chest in Washing- ton, with particular reference to the raising of a budget and expenditures of funds, were discussed by representa- tives from about a score of welfare as- sociations at a meeting in_the United States Chamber of Commerce Building yesterday. The discussions were led by Elwood Street, director of the St. Louis Community Chest, who is to assume the directorship of the Washington Community Chest on November 1. PMns also were discussed for making | available to the Washington Community Chest lists of all civic, religious and fraternal organizations in this city, to-| gether with all places of bu more than 25 persons are employed. In | addition plans were discussed for g ting a complete list of all wealthy pe: sons in Washington, to be used when the community chest begins its cam- paign for funds next. January. George W. Phillips, representing the disabled American veterans told the meeting of a proposed plan to organize an allied veterans’ association to be composed of representatives from the various veterans’ organizations in Wash- ington, to become a member of the Washington Community Chest. Among those attending yesterday's session were Mrs. W. A. Roberts, execu- tive secretary of the Washington Council of Social Agencies; Miss Ger- trude Bolling of the Instructive Visiting Nurses Society; Dr. W. P. Morrill, superintendent of Columbia Hospital; Linn C. Drake, director of Boy Scout activities in Washington: Gene Cole, superintendent of the Florence Crit- tenton Home; Miss Lydia A. H. Burklin, director of Friendship Ho William Knowles Cooper, general se the Y. M. C. A.; Campbell C. Johnson of the elfth Street Branch of the Y. M. C. A.: Mrs. Julius Lansburgh of the Social Hygiene Society, Mrs. Mar- garet Ford, director of the Travelers' Aid Societ Hettie Anderson of the . W. C. A, Walter Ufford of the Asso- ies and the Washington A."Capt. Ernest Army, and Rud g the Salv n West of the Juvenile Protecti : Maurice Bisgyer of the Jew Community Center and Mrs. Willia P. Elenberger, secretary of the Aid| ¢ Blind. Association for France now has 1,000,000 automobiles. etary of | AY 0. VL CL0E ASPHALT PLANT Private Firms Bid Lower Price Than That for Which City Can Do Work. A year of idleness faces the municipal asphalt plant as a result of underbid- ding by private firms for asphalt re- | pairs to roadways here, C. B. Hunt, | engineer of highways. declared in his annual report, submitted to the District Commissioners yesterday. Bids received during the closing days of the fiscal year for such repairs, the report states, were for the first time since 1914 more economical than the .| cost of such work by the use of the municipal plant, purchased in that year d operated continuously since then a result, by, provision of law in such case,” Hunt points out, “this work e placed under contract and the alt plant will be held idle, at least . \?g the one-year term of such con- ract. in his report is the fact that the aver- age age of the asphalt street pavements Never a Dull Moment Now! Tone perfection in Radio . . . Records .. at your Another point which Hunt stresses | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. SEPTEMBER 16. 1928—PART T.” T resurfaced in the District was in ex-| cess of 31 years, which he calls “a re- markable endurance record.” There were 123 items of such resurfacing, ranging from one to five squares in length. The construction of new road- ways comprised 84 items, ranging from one to seven squares in length. The total amount of funds appro- priated and deposited by corporations and others for disbursement by the .highway division was $4,479,461. In- cluded in this amount were the fol- lowing major items: Three hundred thousand dollars for paving new road-| ways, $900,000 for repairing old ro way pavements, $77.700 for const: tion and repairs of bridges and aducts, $310,000 for repair of suburban | roads, $50,000 for grading streets and | avenues, $789,161 for repairing pave- ments disturbed by other branches of the District government and by various | corporations, $1,486,500 for paving and | repairing roadways under the gasoiine | tax, road and street fund, which in- cludes $50,000 for asphalt pavements over 30 years old. 1 ‘Also included were items of $20.000 for the construction of a bridge over Rock Creek at Military road; $250.000 for construction of M Street Bridge over Rock Creek and $40,000 for recon- | struction of the Virginia abutment ati Chain Bridge. 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