Evening star., 1934-01-03
Local and Nearby Projects
Included in List of Al
locations.
$4,000 is GIVEN RELIEF
GROUP FOR INFORMATION
$4,000 TO Be Used for Fish Gull
ture Station at Harrisons Lake,
in Charles County.

The Public Works ADMINISTRATOR
today made a long list of auotments
out of the small remaining amount OF
the huge $4,000. 100000 fund, including
several local and nearby projects.
An additional allotment was an
rounced for the installation of milk
processing equipment and other I'M
provements at the Beltsville. Md, agri-
cultural experiment station. More than
$1,000 900 already has been allotted for
this project. which is to be the largest
such experiment station in the country
The equipment, which will cost
$4,000, will be placed in the milk
products laboratory.
The P. w. A. also allotted Sl0,125 10
the Agriculture Department for in
S,aIlation of additional facilities in the
cafeteria of the EXtenSlble Building.
$4,000 for Fish Station.
Another allotment of $4,000 to the
Federal Emergency Relief Administra-
non for collecting and exchanging m
formation of value to work rellef
agencies was announced. The money
will cover administrative and field eX-
uenses of a technical staff, through
which will be established standards OF
operation. protection and accounting
for community relief organizations
throughout the country, including the
District.
An allotment of s75. 900 was made
for establishment of a fish cultural sta
ton at Harrison'S Lake. Charles County
Va. This project was recommended by
the Inland Fish and Game CommlS-
sion of Virginia, and will supply bass
and other pond fish for areas not now
sufficiently supplied, and also for prop
agation of shad, one Of the most eco
nCmic assets of Virg1nlaS commercial
fishing industry.
Fort Monroe. Va. gets S8l, 900 for
construction of a quarantine station
from a total allotment OF S2.944 600
allotted the Treasury Department for
construction Of six public buildings in
Guiding a s1525 900 Federal building
for San Antonio Tex: an S870,000 eX-
tension to the customs house at Den
yer; S270 600 quarantine station at
Port Townsend. Wash: Sl32 900 pub
lie health laboratory at Hamilton,
Mont. and a sGGOO0 inspection sta
ton at Naco, Ariz
S478,OOO for Wind Tunnel.
To encourage the construction of
high-speed military and commercial
planes. the P. w. A. allotted $500
to the National Advisory Committee for
AerOnautiCS for construction Of full
speed wind tunnel at Langley Field. Va.
The present tunnel does not have
wind velocity facilities for practical
testing of the modern planes. and the
new tunnel will be capable of prOduc-
{,,p ,rc 70
This tunnel is expected to be of in
estimable benefit to both the military
services and to commercial manufac-
turers for testing new high-speed
planes.
The Army ordnance depot at. Aber-
deen. Md, will share in an allotment
of S2309 49l for the purchase of ma
chine tool equipment to moderniZe ord
nance establishments throughout the
country No estimate of just what will
be spent at Aberdeen was available.
S1I0OO0O for Radio
From an allotment of S299 900 to the
Geological Survey for mineral resource
survey and land classification Mary
land will receive $4,000 The work will
be carried on in l9 States and Alaska
and will employ more than 100 en-
gineers and technical men now out of
work
There also was allotted S1.400,000 to
the Navy Department for construction
of radio communication facilities at
Pearl Harbor. Hawaii. and Summit. Ca
nal Zone, $4,000 to the Department of
Agriculture for establishment of a DEM
Onstratlonal paSturage project in the
Shawnee National Forest, Illinois;
100000 to the Navy Department to aid
IN construction of the Naval Hospital al
Philadelphia, for which S2250,000 al
ready had been allotted. S275,00 to the
Bureau of Plant Industry. Agricultural
Department, for construction in con-
neCtion with cotton and other expert
mental work in Mississippi. North Caro-
lima, Tennessee and South Dakota;
SITS 500 for school buildings and repairs
to existing buildings in the territory of
Alaska and Sl80000 to the Engineer
Corps. War Department, for deepening
the channel and turning basin at Fair
port Harbor, Ohio.
New Project Announced.
Meanwhile the soil erosion division of
the Interior Department announced an
other of the 10 initial soil erosion prof.
ectS authorized under an allotment OF
public works money. to be carried on
on the Limestone Greek watershed in
Jewell, Smith and Mitchell Counties in
Northern Kansas
The area on which control study and
investigation is to be made is approx
mately 10000 acres. and the area is
expected to serve as a Unconstitutional
area for most Of Northern Kansas and
much of Southern Nebraska.
F. L. Dul6V. Missouri soil fxnert has