Evening star., 1933-10-17
FNE-YEAR NEEDS
OF SCHOOLS LISTED
Estimate of $345,80 Is
Reached by Fairfax Board
for County's Program.
BY q Stan Correspondent Of The Star.


FAIRFAX, Va, October 1.-THE Fair
fax County School Board at . special
meeting here yesterday drew up an esti-
mate Of school building and improve
meut needs for the next five years
amounting to &345 800 and decided to
postpone until January / the execution
Of its order barring wards Of the Wash
ington Board Of Public Welfare from the
county schools
The school building and improve
ments estimate includes the present pro-
gram for q new high school for Fairfax
and numerous other buildings for which
q loan has already been requested. The
new estimate. it was pointed out by
Supt. w. T. WoodSon, Is not to be taken
as definite commitment by the school
board as to what it will do during the
next f1ve years. It is for information
only, he said. and represents what
should be done II funds become available.
Followed Halls Request.
Preparation OF the schedule resulted
from a request by Dr. Sidney B. Hall,
State superintendent of public instruc-
ton, who recently was appointed by
Gov. John Garland Pollard as mem
Der OF the State Planning Board to
secure recovery information for the
State Advisory Board Of the Federal
Public Works Administration. The in
formation regarding school needs
throughout the State for the next five
years was sought by the Advisory Board,
it was said.
The schools and needed expenditures
to meet growing needs are as follows:
Clifton, $l1 900; Centreville. $40 600.
Forestville, $4,000; Annandale, $4,000;
Burke, $25.000; Lorton, $35, 100; Fran
coma, 5000; Groveton, $4,000; Snow
den. $25,000; Woodlawn s25,000: Nc
Lean, $4,000; Vienna, $4,000; Fairfax
elementary, $4,000; Fairfax High School,
$4,000, and Herndon, $4,000. Colored-
Falls Church, $4,000; Mount Pleasant,
$4,000; Vienna, $4,000; Gum Spring
$4,000. and East Woodford, 81 800.
Miss A. Patricia Morss, chief of the
Division Of Child Welfare, Board of Pub
lie Welfare Of the District of Columbia,
and Mrs. G. Ashley Money Of the Hem
don Chamber of Commerce, appeared
before the board to request that it give
more consideration to the matter be-
fore barring the wards ofsthe Board Of
Public Welfare from the county schools.
Debarment Extended.
Miss Morss also said she would like
representatives of the Board of Public
Welfare to be heard. so the School
Board extended the debarment to jan
uary l and set the November meeting
to hear the Welfare Board representa-
tives.
Frederick w. Robinson of Herndon.
School Board member who was not
present when the board voted to bar
the welfare children boarded in the
county. took issue with the board yes
terday, claiming that it was doing an
injustice both to the children and to the
people who are boarding them. He was
Joined by Herbert w. Williams of East
Woodford, who voted for the debar-
ment before but who has changed his
mind. They suggested that the children
be barred only from the more crowded
schools.
Robinson declared Fairfax County
owes an obligation to the District Of Co.
lumbia, claiming that the poor of the
county have been very fairly treated in
Washington, especially by the hospitals.