Evening star., 1934-04-19
SOUTHWEST JOINS
HOMES CONTEST
Citizens Association Names
J. P. S. Neigh to Head
Committee.

Southwest Washington citizens,
through their association. will partiei-
pate in The Evening Stars Better
Homes Contest, it was decided at q
meeting last night at the fourth pre-
cinct police station. j. P. S. Neigh,
artist and architect, was named chair
man Of committee to handle the
sections participation and its bid for
some of the s1,loO in prizes.
Numerous other matters Of impor-
tance to the Southwest section were
discussed at the meeting. presided
over by ]. M. Schafter, president.
Boys Club Announced.
Official announcement that a new
Boys Club will be opened in the Sec
ton under Police Supt. Browns plan
to sponsor a club in every precinct
was made by Capt. Jerry A. Sullivan
OF the fourth precinct, chairman of
the associations Boys Club Commit
tee. Capt. Sullivan said two floors of
a building at 10l4 D street southwest
had been furnished by the Daniel
Loughran estate, through John
Loughran, and will be conditioned and
furnished. The department already
has some money in its Boys Club
treasury, 5000 of which will be spent
Tor equipment and $500 for labor, and
1t is estimated that $3.50 to $500 more
VIII be needed for material.
dQnna will ha haIJ
hood House, 470 N street southwest,
at date to be announced later, to
raise this additional money, Schaffer
announced. The buildings equipment
WILL afford the Southwest section its
only gymnasium.
School Forces Cheered.
another announcement which
brought hope to the association. which
mas sought new jefferson Junior
High School Building for many years.
was that Representative Weideman of
Michigan will introduce an amend
ment to the District budget bill calling
1or Sl5O,OOO for the purpose.
DR.. Leon Gordon, chairman of the
associations Public Health Commit
tee, told the association that the Op-
tometrlsts' Society of the city has
oHered to conduct free eye exar1ina-
ions OF every child in Southwest
schools II Parent-Teacher groups or
otner organizations in the schools
make 1t known that such examina-
tlonS are desired. Already several
parochlal schools in the city have ac-
cepted the offer, DR.. Gordon said.
Medical Analysis Announced.
Dr. Gordon also announced that
the plan suggested some time ago by
stephen Kramer, assistant superin-
tendent of schools, in conversation
with Schaffer, to have a "complete
medical analysis" made of all children
IN some representative school of the
Dlstrlct, will be carried out shortly at
Jefferson Junior High School, through
cooperation OF Ralph w. Straw.
pfloge. principal. The plan was sug-
gested as a forerunner to a future
program calling for a Complete eY-
animation OF all children in All
schools
Riley E. Elgen, acting chairman of
the Public Utilities Commission dis.
cuSSed plans for improving the tran
slt situation in the southwest He
salo the old Four-and-a-half street
ana Anacostia car lines will be aban-
ooned and buSSeS will be substituted
on completion of the resurfacino m
Four-and-ahalf street this Sprina
ne SAID the commission also is con-
sloermg establishment of a bus line
on Twelfth street southwest to re-
lleve congestion on the Fourteenth
street car line.
Garden Project Outlined.
A garden project for the southwest.
outlined by r. L. King of the Emer-
gency Relief Committee, was indorsed
ny the association, which appropri-
ateo S25 for tools for those persons
not receiving them from relief sources
and are unable to buy them.
Harry Wender, chairman of the
associations Legislative Committee.
reported that Traffic Director Will
liam A. Van Duzer is considering the
associations request to make Sixth
street southwest a boulevard.
The association passed a resolution
condemning the proposed reduction
of the appropriation for the Public
Utilities Commission and recommend
ed that an amendment be inserted to
raise it again to 5000, as originally
called for, instead of $4,000, as pro-
vided in the present bill. 1t was
pointed out by Wender that the COM
mission regulates utilities to which
District citizens pay sums greatly In
excess of the amount paid In taxes
annually, yet it is proposed to cut