Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-28
INCREASED FUND
URGED FOR DISTRICT
Appropriation Bill Sent to
Senate Would Make U. S.
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Michigan avenue by building the via
duct just north of the grade crossing.
AS reported by the Senate committee
the bill carries $4,000 for rent for TIT
House of Detention. The House elimi
mated the rental item with a view II
having the Womans Bureau and deten
ton home quartered in one of TIT
structures being acquired by the cit!
in the Municipal Center area, but {
number of local organizations appealed
to the Senate subcommittee on Distric
appropriations not to require this insti'
tuition to move again.
Another item allowed by the Senate
| committee was $45, 1000 to permit ap.
pointment of IS additional policemen
to enable the department to conduct 8
| training school for bluecoats without
reducing the number Of men on patrol
| duty.
The Senate committee made $500 00C
| Immediately available as soon as the
bill becomes law to buy a site and
begin work on the children'S tuberculosis
sanatorium, which Congress authorized
last year. OF this amount, $4,000 is
| new appropriation and the remainder
is the unexpended balance of an appro-
priation made by Congress last year.
In addition to making this amount
! Immediately available, the committee
| authorized the District to enter into
contract up to $530,000.
Under the Traffic Bureau, the Senate
committee reduced the item for INSTALL
ing electric traffic lights from 100000
allowed by the House to $4,000.
The provision placed in the bill by the
House. appropriating S25, 900 to make a
study of the power needs of the District
with view to establishing municipal
ly owned and operated service, was
eliminated by the Senate committee.
Under the heading of public schools
the Senate committee struck out
1855, 900 for a broom addition to the
Gordon Junior High School, but added
to other school items total of 1921 $50.
In the item for salaries of administra
tive and supervisory officers in the
school system, the Senate committee in
cluded pay for presidents of teachers
colleges in the salary schedule for first
assistant superintendent, which raised
the total for salaries in this group from
$664,50o to $669,5oo.
Salaries Are Increased.
For personal services of clerks and
other employees in the schools the
House item of $154,800 was increased
to $161 300. This increase of $500
included salary increases of $3.50 and
Two clerks to the presidents of teachers
colleges and one additional clerk.
An increase of $83, 100 was made in
the item for teachers salaries, making
the figure $6,272,000. In addition to
striking out the proviSo for transfer of
a number of kindergarten teachers to
the grade schools, the Senate commit
tee added language to include "for
teachers colleges assistant professors In
salary class with additional compen-
sation of $500 per annum each"
The fund for the Community Center
Department was raised from $40, 1000 to
$4,000.
For personal services in the care of
school buildings and grounds, the Sen
increases, making the total S806,e10.
Another increase of 1000 for trans
portation Of tubercular and crippled
pupils. The House had allowed $19.-
600 in two separate items, one for the
tubercular pupils and the other for the
crippled children. The Senate COM
mittee combined the two and made the
total $4,000.
Another important Senate change was
the striking out of a House provision
which read as follows:
mo money appropriated In this act
for the purchase of furniture and equip
ment for the public schools of the Dis
trict of Columbia shall be expended
unless the acquisitions of the Board of
Education therefor shall be approved
by the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia"
For personal services in connection
with the distribution of text books So, 1000
was added, raising the total item for
text books and supplies from 1921, 900
to $4,000.
Provide Gym and Assembly Hall.
The amounts added by the Senate
committee under the heading of public
school buildings and grounds were:
For the construction of four-room
addition to the Congress Heights School,
$4,000, an increase of $4,000, to pro-
vide for a gymnasium and assembly
hall.
For treatment of grounds, including
walks, sewers and water mains on the
site acquired In the Northeast for a
junior high school and platoon school
for colored pupils, $4,000.
For construction of an Groom addi-
ton at the Douglass Simmons School,
including the necessary remodeling of
the present building, $4,000
For the construction of a four-room
addition to the Deanwood School the
Senate committee raised the allowance
from $4,000 to 100000 to provide for
a gymnasium and assembly hall.
For purchase of site for an eight
room extensible building west of Con-
necticut avenue and north of Jenifer
street, and for the purchase of land adj
joining the Harrison School, the Sen
ate committee raised the lump sum for
purchase of ground from $3.50, TOO to
$458, 200, an increase of $97,500 for the
entire list of sites.
The Senate committee raised the item
for personal services for the free pub
lie library from $276, GAO to 1892, $50, an
increase of 1920 for salary increases.
H Street Widening Favored.
Under the heading of street and road
Improvement and repair, the Senate
committee provided for the widening
OF II street from Massachusetts avenue
to Thirteenth street northwest, whereas
the House had provided only for the
widening from Seventh street west
ward. This raised the allowance for
this project from 100000 to $4,000.
with authority to enter into contracts
up to the amount of $191 900.
Other street improvement items
added by the Senate committee were:
Oglethorpe street, Seventh to Eighth.
northwest, $500; Sixteenth street, CO.
lumbia road to Tiger Bridge, $136 900;
Nevada avenue, Rittenhouse street to
Runnymede place, $4,000: Bancroft
place, Twenty-third to Twenty fourth
streets, northwest 6,400.