Evening star., 1934-01-07
1885 SURPLUS FUND.
USE TO Be SOUGHT.
Hazen Says Supplemental
Estimates Involve ST.
100000 Total.

Drafting of supplemental estimates
calling for appropriation out of 1895
surplus revenues of sums totaling ap-
proximately s2,7oOOo0 for four long
delayed projects will be started early
this week under plans disclosed yester-
day by Melvin C. Hazen, president OF
the Board Of Commissioners.
Use of such a sum would obligate
approximately one-half of the esti-
mated surplus of District revenues that
would be piled up in the United States
Treasury from adoption Of the economy
budget as submitted to Congress by the
Bureau of the Budget.
Approval of the proposed supple
mental estimates would provide for
starting of construction on the first unit
OF the great Municipal Center, which
Congress has approved as the new home
of the District administration; made
available funds for completion Of the
Anacostia Junior High School; provide
for needed expansion of housing for
prisoners and guards at the District
Reformatory at Lorton, Va; and set up
funds for additional land for the pro-
posed new jefferson Junior High School,
for which construction funds now are
available.
Hold Projects Justified.
The supplemental estimates are to be
submitted in the near future to the
Bureau of the Budget for approval Tor
transmission to Congress, according to
Daniel
J. Donovan expected to receive direc-
tions at once to start work on the new
budgetary proposals.
District officials believe there is
ample justification as to the need for
all four projects, which were selected
out of a long list Of District improve
mentS which have not been provided
for in the past several years due to the
state of District finances and the econ
omy programs.
All four of the projects have had
congressional authorization and funds
have been appropriated in connection
with each in the past.
At the direction Of Congress the Dis
trict already has expended out of Dis
trict revenue more than $6,000,000 for
the purchase of land for the site for the
Municipal Center. It has been esti-
mated that the project, when COM
pleted, will represent expenditures of
between 20 and 80 million dollars.
U. S. Aid in Question.
During the next several years, under
National Capital development plans,
the municipal government will be re-
quired to Vacate the District Building,
which is to be taken over by the Fed
eral Government.
The proposal for appropriating funds
out of District revenues for starting
construction of the first unit of the
Center-which has an estimated cost
of $5 ,000-has raised the question
of to what extent the Federal Govern
ment would share in the cost of the
huge project.
There was no indication yesterday
whether this question would be con-
sidered in the supplemental estimates
for the Municipal Center to be forward
ed to the Bureau of the Budget
Commissioner Hazen said yesterday
he believed the supplemental appropria-
tion requests were justified by the fact
that as the proposed 1885 budget now
stands it will leave at the end of the
next fiscal year a surplus of unobligated
revenues totaling S5403,000, and this
does not include an estimated revenue
of $685., 900 from the legalization of the
sale of liquor in the District, now being
considered by Congress. Some estimates
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