Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1936, Page 10

BEACH AID FUNDS URGED BY GROUP Hréservation Association to . Ask Roosevelt’s Help Under New Law, “President Roosevelt will be requested 0 speed relief fund allocations to all beach preservation and protection proj- efts which have the necessary engi- ngering approval. “A resolution to this effect was adopt- ed yesterday by the tenth ‘annual meeting of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association at the National Research Council Building. “The association asked the President to take action under authority of a new law of last June, making it the policy of the Federal Government to provide financial assistance for beach preservation after the Beach Erosion Board has submitted reports with rgcommendations for the amount of fimancial assistance based on the Fed- eral “interest” in different beaches. Col. Earl I. Brown, chairman of the United States Beach Erosion Board, in addressing the session, said the bpard would welcome suggestions from officials and citizens of shore-front States about how the Government can determine the amount of such Federal “nterest in different beaches and provide sufficient Federal financial as- sistance for their protection from coastal erosion.” Yardstick Is Sought. 8o far, Col. Brown said, the board has been unable to devise a “yard- stick” to measure the Federal interest. Up to now, he explained, the only Pederal interests outlined are in pro- viding recreation, providing protec- tion for property from which it de- rives taxes and in providing protec- tion for the lives of citizens. He sug- gested communities make preliminary surveys and submit outlines to the hoard of engineering needs and other “ Gther speakers at the meeting dis- cussed engineering aspects of beach preservation work and the questions of public and private ownership of beaches. J. Spencer Smith, president of the association and of the New Jer- y State Board of Commerce and ;avlgmon, in his annual address said more and more people today were ask- ing- why they must pay fees for the privilege of bathing in the ocean, while other people are allowed to hold title te ocean-front property and excltae the public from it. Considers Fee System. Mayors of several ocean-front cities said they did not see how they could continue to protect and maintain their beaches unless they resorted to charg- ing fees to out-of-town visitors. J. Raymond Tiffany, counsel to the association, suggested it might be wise for States to begin reclaiming title to ocean-front property. He sug- gested creation of sectional interstate beach conservation commissions on the Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific and Lake coaste. Dr. Albert L. Barrows, executive secretary of the National Research Council, which sponsored the creation oY the association in 1926, welcomed the delegates. Frederic P. Reichey, borough clerk and treasurer of Brad- ley Beach, N. J., replied for the as- sociation. Brig. Gen. Max C. Tyler sent a mes- mage pledging continued support of the Corps of Engineers of the Army to the work of the association. He suggested the association now seek State laws along the lines of the new Federal beach protection act. Report- ing on some of the Beach Erosion Board's activities, Gen. Tyler re- vealed that recently it had received an application for a survey of beach conditions in Rhode Island from the State Planning Commission there. Suggests Congressional Aid. Representative McMillan of Charles- ton, S. C., advised the association to arouse local interests to make known their beach protection needs to Con- gress. Representative McMillan said it was necessary for Congress to en- act even broader legislation for beach preservation than the present law, but that this could be done only after the association had organized all the 1pcal groups in the different States in & united drive for its enactment. H. E. Weatherwax, field co-ordi- nator of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, described the technical work on the North Caro- lina beach protection project and dis- cussed the service's desires to establish & number of seashore national recrea- tion areas. He said the National Park Service has selected 11 sites on the Atlantic Coast that would be suitable for this purpose, based on their prox- imity to centers of population and q,hzr factors, and that he hoped to he able to tell the next meeting of the association that Congress had sanctioned acquisition of some of these ADD DAYS TO YOUR WINTER VACATION Escape Highway Hazards of Long, Gruelling Trip South. 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