Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1929, Page 11

SUBUKBAN NEWS. SCHOOL BULDIG CROUPS ARE NANED o= Prince Georges Board of| Education Also Studies ‘Ap- plications for Teaching. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., June 13. —Appointment of three buiiding com- mittees, study of applications for teach- ing positions for next year, and con- sideration of matters brought to their | attention by delegations, featured the regular meeting of the Prince Georges | THE EVENING PARTICIPANTS IN SURRATTSVILLE SCHOOL SPRING FESTIVAL County Board of Education. Reopening of the Seabrook School was urged by a delegation from Sea- | brook, comprising R, Lee Van Horn, George W. Morgan, Blair Riggles and A. J. Thomas. It was pointed out | by an official of the board that the | Seabrook children might be withdrawn from the Glenndale School, which they now attend, and have their own classes re-established without cost to the county by the transfer of one of the Glenndale teachers to Seabrook. After lengthy discussion the board finally took the matter under advisement. To Build Sidgwalk. Granting the request of a delega- tlon from Capitol Heights, the board authorized an appropriation for the construction of a sidewalk in front of | their school, subject to the approval | of the trustees. According to Supt.| TRIBUNAL SIGNS - ANNEXATION ORDER { }Court’s Action Gives Alexan- | dria Territory in Jefferson and Arlington Districts. Special Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY _COURT- HOUSE, Va,, June 13—The final order through which Alexandria will acquire approximately four square miles of territory in_Jefferson and _Arlington magesteriai districts of Arlington Coun- ty on January 1, 1930, was signed here this morning by the special tribunal STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY JUNE 13, 1929. which /heard the annexation proceed- ings ipstituted against the county by Alexandria. The order vides that Alexandria must pay Arl $500,000 for pub- lic improvements in annexed area within six months after the order be- comes effective, with interest at 6 per cent. Assume Potomac’s Indebtedness. In addition the city must also as- sume the entire indebtedness of the town of Potomac, located in the an- nexed area, amounting to $119,000. Of ll;n! sum ;9:21‘))0&)0u for bonded indebt- edness an ,000 is for cert! indebtedness. R The sum Alexandria must pay the county was set by agreement of coun- sel yesterday, when the court recon vened to determine the valuation of permanent improvements in the terri- u::y which it recently awarded to the city. Counsel for the county, in its brief to the court, asked for $1,061,726.93 for public improvements in the tes tory annexed. Of that amount, $145, 207.75 was asked for George Mason RLE SUBURBAN NEWS, . High School, $93,712 for Mount Vernon Elementary School, $391,701,74 for per- manently improved roads, streets and sidewalks, $99,000 for the bonded in- debtedness of the town of Potomac, $20,000 for the certificates of indebted- ness of Potomac, $297,813 for the school debt of the county exclusive of bonds, $674,000 for county bonds out- standing for schools, $750,000 for other county bonds outstanding. ‘Water Indebtedness Discussed. In addition, counsel for the county also claimed that inasmuch as Alex- andria would obtain approximately 18 per cent of the entire area of the county by the court’s decision the city should pay 18 per cent of the county’s 11 bonded indebtedness for water, which would be $311,905.34. The tri- judges who composed the bunal and awarded Alexsndria all of the territory it sought in the proceed- ings are Don D. Halsey of Lynchburg, Frederick Coleman of FPredericksburg and E. W. Hudgins of Chase City. Home Damaged by Fire. FREDERICK, Md., June 13 (Special). —The home of Dr. Hamilton J. Slusher, | 522 Elm street, was badly damaged by fire of undetermined origin. The blaze riginated in_the basement. While the fire was confined to the basement and | first floor, the building and contents were badly damaged. The residence had been recently remodeled TN PEERLESS FURNITURE CO. [ “Good Buy”’ PUT OFF TO JUNE 18 Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 13.—The case of Edgar D. Peper of 2125 G street northwest, Washington, who is charged with bigamy, was continued until June 18 when called in Police Court this morning, to allow Commonwealth's At- torney Albert V. Bryan further time to investigate before proceeding with the prosecution. It is alleged that Peper married Vivian R. Deeton of 626 Twenty-second street northwest, Washington, in this . ;:‘lty on June 1 while still wed to Vilma | Peper, who lives in New Mexico. | Peper was arrested at his home in | Washington early Tuesday morning on of Schools Nicholas Orem, the property | line is to be moved back 10 feet and the county to bear one-third of the, paving cost, the town one-third, while | the -other third is to be raised by public subscription. Knowing the board contemplates as- signing only 10 teachers to their school next year because of reduced enroll- ment, the same delegation asked that the present faculty of 11 teachers be retained. The board promised this would be done in the event the enroll- ment next Fall increased to the legal requirement for that number. Mrs. Minnie Brook, Mrs. Keller and George Finger comprised the school's delega- tion. A request of the Parent-Teacher As. sociation of the University Park School that six grades be authorized for that school was approved. Contract for the digging of an artesian well at the Oxon Hill School was awarded F. N. Heg- man, his bid being $4 per foot. One other bid was received. Flag Donated. A donation of a flagpole and flag by the trustees of the Columbia Park School was accepted. The Peth Church School bus line to Brandywine was ordered extended to Cheltenham, a dis- tance of about one and one-half miles. Diplomas for the high school graduates were authorized. The building committees appointed the Hyattsville Elementary School, Dr. Paul Herring, Charles W. Clagett and G. Sherman James. For the Cheverly-Tuxedo School, Ray- mond Bellamy, C. L. Metcalf and Fred W. Gast. For the addition to the Riverdale School, Brice Bowie, E. B. Dunford, M. D. Campbell, R. P. Caruthers, J. H. Baines, J. McDonald, Dr. C. A. Cary, ‘Mrs. Bernice Salsbury and Edward Glading. FAIRLAND HIGH SCHOOL HOLDS COMMENCEMENT Closing Exercises Are Held in Parish Wall of St. Mark’s Church. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 13.—The commencementexercises of the high school at Fairland were held last eve- ning in the parish hall of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Fairland, in the pres- ence of a large gathering. The princi- pal, Abell Norris, presided; the address %o the graduates was delivered by Henry Breckbill of the University of Maryland, William H. McCeney of the county Board of Education presented the di- plomas and the invocation and bene- diction were by Rev, Dr. Hall, rector of St. Mark's Church. The decorations were unusually attractive. The graduates were E. Clarke Adams, Thelma L. Dodson, Mae E. Duvall, Marion M. Harding, A. Graeft Briggs, W. Leroy Harper, Carl L. Kruhm and W. Ralph Love. More than 6,000 text books'printed in several languages in the Braille type have been placed in the National Insti- OPEN HEARING SET ON ZNNG PLEAS < Park and Planning Commis- sion Disapproves Five of Seven County Petitions. BY GEORGE PORTER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., June 13.— Seven applications for zoning changes in Prince Georges County, five of which * | have been disapproved by the Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning Commission, yesterday were set for pub- lic hearing before the ceunty commis- sioners on July 16 by James C. Black- well, county clerk. One Plea Fully Approved. ‘The only application which has becn fully approved by the Park Commissior is that of John F. Wooten of Berwyn for reclassification of acreage on the west side of the Washington-Baltimore Boulevard, near Columbus avenue, lf.!l;el-nd, from residential to' commer- clal. Another application was aéh;y the pl lvania avenue southeast, for ication of lots 1 and 18 to 23, in Brad- bury’s subdivision No, 1, from residentiai to commercial. The Park Commission approved only such reclassification of lots 18, 19 and 20. Applications Disapproved. The applications disapproved by the Park Commission are: Petition of Mrs. C. J. Puhrman, 4210 Rhode Island avenue, Brentwood, Md., rezoning of lots 3 and 4, block 18, Brentwood, from residential to com- mercial. Petition of Elmore Power, College Park, Md., for reclassification of acre- age on east side of Washington-Balti- more boulevard near Calvert street from residential to commercial. Petition of Claude Gfibert, College Park, Md.,, for reclassification of acre- age on west side of Washington-Balti- more boulevard near Calvert street from residential to commercial. Pgtition of Otway B. 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