Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
SCHOOL PROJECTS
FAVORED BY BOARD

| Oldle bOdTu Oh EQucdtlOn, ndu dp
peared before the commission Il
urge the approval. They said thu
state Board of Education alread,
has on hand $1,000,000 of the amoun
needed for the program.
The Is projects approved for i'm
mediate construction are for the fol
lawing districts: Christiana, $72,
900; Magnolia, $4,000; Smyrna spe
cial district, S225,0OO; Rehoboth
$500; Greenwood, $4,000; Odessa
$4,000; Dover special district fol
negroes), $2S,00O; Roxana, $4,000;
Georgetown special district, $780,
600; Caesar Rodney special district
$4,000; Delmar, $4,000; Sycamore
SS,340; Claymont special district
$4,000; Edge Moor, $4,000; Alfred
l. DUPONT district, $4,000.
The others approved were for the
following districts: Bethel, $4,000;
Cheswold, $4,000; Laurel special
district, $4,000; Lewes special dis
trict, $4,000; New Castle special
district, $9S.000; Harrington special
district, $S0,500; Milford special dis
trict, S250,000 Blades, $31 900; Mid
dletown, $4,000; Dover special dis
trict. 100000; FELTON,, $4,000;
Richardson Park, $250,000; Alexis
l. du Pont, special district, $780,
900; Minquadale, $5S,000; Woodside,
$4,000; Seaford, $21,0O.
Harry w. Eaton, prpesident of the
Wilmington Board of Education, and
S. NJ. Stouffer, superintendent of
Wilmington schools, also appeared
and asked for approval of a city
school building program totaling
$5, 100000 This the board deferred,
requesting more detailed informa-
tiOn.
The city program included two
new high schools, totaling $S,OO0,0O0,
at 81 100000 each; conversion of one
building of the old high school,
$500, 900; two grade schools, totaling
100000, and a junior high school at
100000.
Because the estimates were based
on prices of last February, the board
also deferred action ON the request
of DR.. William N. Henry and DR.. R.
S. Grossly for construction of
dormitory for $4,000 at the State
College for Colored Students, Dover.
In the school building program of
the State Board of Education was
included $4,000 for a demOnstra-
tion school to be located at Newark
and to be under the jurisdiction of
the University of Delaware and an
item of 100000 for a negro high
school in Sussex county.
Action on both these items was de-
ferred by the commission and conse-
luently they are not included in the
list of other projects approved.
1t was developed that school build
ng to cost $1,000,000 can be carried
)ut by the State Board of Education |
without the approval of the commits |
sion. This money was provided for |
1y act of the last Legislature and |
the commission has no
over any projects that |
ire to be financed with it.
Gerrish Gassaway, secretary of |
he commission, has been expediting |
of proposals so the |
States public works program can be
ined up as quickly as popssible, re-
ported he had recommended to the |
Mayor and Council of Wilmington |
hat they call in all boards and COM
missions for discussion of a public !
works program for Wilmington;
llsO, that he had received word from
he State Highway Department that
his body is investigating the pos
iibility of allocating $4,000 for the
North East Boulevard water project
If the Wilmington Water Depart
nent.
Mr.. Gassaway reported he had re-
,eived no answers to the following
To the Levy Court
# New Castle county on the Port
Penn sanitary project; to the Fed
raj Emergency Administration of
public Works concerning financing
# a project of the Wilmington
Board of Park Commissioners; to
he New Castle County Levy Court
additional information
n bridge projects; to the same body 1
oncerning their proposed activities ,
elating to sewer and water pro- {
GRATED towns, and to The Federal ;
Administration of Pub '
C Works concerning various pro- {
scts for the construction of jetties I
long the Atlantic Ocean and Della
are Bay. 6
The board deferred action on two !
squests for aid in obtaining i'm 7
rovements by the Federal govern G
ent to the Delaware City water q
onts. The requests were made by a
committee of Delaware City resi- I
ents. Specifically the requests v
ere for assistance in having the {
ederal government improve the v
NAL front there where the tide q
,cently washed away the bank, r
1oding part of the town, and for 2
isistance in presenting to the U. n
Engineer in presenting to the U. h
Engineer a request for improve 1,
ent to the north drain of Dragon n
un where break recently caused, r
)oding of farm lands. u
L. Lee Layton, chairman of the n
ederal Public Works Board for
elaware, sat in with the State Com n
ission and discussed some of the n
'ojects. &
The total of projects approved by
e State Commission for recon- h
endation to the Federal Board is r
wv $16,911,722, of which .$10,831,- /,
0 worth are Federal projects n
hich would be financed entirely
th Federal funds. The remainder :