Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-15
BUDGET GROUP
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these notes had been negotiated after
canvass of the situation with Gpv-
ernor Baxter. and with the implied,
If without the formal approval of the
Executive Council. and that 1t Is up
to the State of Maine to retire these
notes by appropriation. The notes
had been signed by the President
and Treasurer of the University.
Governor Baxter replied that he
did not think Col. Strickland had the
right to assume that the State was
under a moral obligation to pay the
notes; that the Governor and Council
had simply accepted the Coloners
communication and placed it on file.
Col. Strickland stated that that
gave the banks the idea that the
State would some time see to it that
| the notes were paid.
To that, Governor Baxter replied
that he would have to file a protest
for that was taking advantage Of the
| neutral action OF the Governor and
| Council, and that they had said that
| it still remained an obligation to the
University. The Governor stated
that he had been particular not to
obligate the State in any way.
! The attention of the budget commit
tee was called to a report on the Maine
College of Technology, made by
Charles 3. Breed of Boston. Mass.
president of the Back Bay National
Bank of that city and a graduate of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. This report is contained in
H. Tat pm
June 80. 1922. and in its the writer
dwells on the university's need of a
new power plant, a hydraulic labora-
tory. and the development of spe-
cialized highway engineering course.
Augusta State Hospital
The Augusta State hospital was rep
resented by Col Albert J. Stearns of
Norway of the State board of hospital
trustees. DR.. Forrest c. Tyson, super
intendent, and Samuel Tobcy, steward
and treasurer of the Institution. Re
quest was made for an appropriation
of $475,S65 for each of the two coming
fiscal years. In each of the fiscal years
1922 and 1929 an appropriation
of $3S2,024 was granted. New construc.
ton desired at the hospital consists of
! nurses home where the nurses may
be housed and may have some home
life outside of the hospital buildings.
This building is estimated to cost about
100000 The crowded conditions at the
institution were pointed out by the
speakers.
Bangor State Hospital
Dr. Carl j. Hedin, superintendent,
and William Thompson, steward and
pital at Bangor. asking for an appro-
priation of S5O2,434 in 1924 and
$2S7644 in 1924-25. The item of new
construction and permanent improve
ments amounts to 100000. A new
dormitory for male patients is sought.
School for Feeble Minded
The Maine School for Feeble Minded
at West Pownal was represented by DR..
Stephen j. Vosburgh, tn esuperinten-
dent The estimate asks for $4O7, 900
for the next fiscal year and $685., 1000
for the following. A new dormitory
for boys costing $4,000 and new
administration building at a cost Of
100000 are desired
Maine State Prison
A new cell block costing $66, 900 is
sought for the Maine State prison for
the fiscal year 1924, and the fol-
lowing year a new wing is asked for.
this to cost 100000. The appropria-
ton asked for the coming fiscal year
is $1G2,052, and in 1924-25 s1S9,O53.
Hon. Leslie Boynton of jefferson.
member of the board of prison COM
missioners, represented the prison.
Women's Reformatory
The need of a new wing to accom-
MEDIATE the diseased women at the
State reformatory for women at Show
hogan was emphasized by the repre-
sentatives of that institution, Rev. l.
b. Mower Of Waterville of the board
of trustees, and DR.. Goa NJ. Johnson,
superintendent. The item of new con-
struction ana permanent improvements
for 1924 amounts to $22SS3, and for
1924-25 $4,000. The entire appropri-
alton sought is sS3,O1s for the first year
and $103,G30 for the second.
| Mems Reformatory
!
OF trustees. and Harold L. Donnell, xu.
perintenden.. presented the request OF
the State reformatory for men at
South Windham, asking for an appro-
priation of $119.o60 for the first year
and $217,260 for the second. For the
first year permanent improvement and
new construction is estimated at $780,
! 000, and for the second $4,000. A
new industrial building and an instit -
t!onal building constitute the princi-
pal request in this item.
Maine School for Deaf
Appropriations of $4,000 for the
first year and $51,610 for the second
we're requested for the Maine School
for the Deaf, Portland, represented
by Charles w. T. Cooling of Portland,
trustee. and Elizabeth r. Taylor, SUI
perintendent.
| tuberculosis Sanatoriums
| Ralph A. Jewell of Fairfield, chair
man of the Board of Trustees of Tu~
Gerculosis Sanitorums, Harry r.
Pipes of Pressure Isle, and DR.. John
II Shaw. superinten lent. spoke in ia
vor of the appropriation for the Cen
tral Maine Sanitorium at Fairfield,
asking for $4,000 the first year, and
Sl56,O00 the second. They spoke of
the crowded conditions there and of
the desire for a nurses home to ac-
c1mmodate 80 nurses. New construc-
! ton desired in 1924 is estimated at
$4,000.
A children's building with so beds
is the renuoSt of the Nnrtharn Mama