The Washington times., 1935-06-21
30 JOBS LISTED.
IN PROGRAM
FOR AREA
Low Rent Plan for Capital
Among Requests; Other Jobs
For Arlington, Montgomery

For Arlington, Montgomery
Funds for 80 projects, totalling
SAT, 760, 1884, have been requested
for the District Of Columbia and
nearby counties of Maryland and
Virginia out of the new. 1880
million dollar works-relief allot-
ment, q survey revealed today.
Out of this amount, only 81.
7S7,279 for projects here and in
Arlington county, Va. and Mont
gomery county, Md, has received
the approval of President Roose'
welt and is available for immedi-
ate use.
For the country at large, since
the works relief bill was enacted,
April 8, the President has ap-
proved 301 projects, amounting to
$1,306, 86s,160.
d. C. Gets $1,36O,3OO
Washington received a total of
1880, 300 under the act itself ana
an additional $474.889 OF the un-
appropriated balance under the
Hayden Cartwright act for high
ways, roads, streets and grade
crossings.
For similar work, the entire
State OF Virginia was given
$9,309, 647. so and Maryland 81
717.518.
President Roosevelt has placed
into use $75O,000 for Navy De-
partment projects in the District,
including improvements at the
Navy Yard, the Naval ObSerV-
atory, Naval Research Laboratory
and Naval Magazine at Bellevue
and the Naval Air Station at
AnacoStia.
With these projects all ap-
proved, the President is now con-
Sidering one other local project,
calling for an expenditure of
$500 for improvements at the
Soldiers Home National Gene
terry.
Other Plans Studied
Remaining projects, officials
said, are now in the process of
"going through the mill" They
are being studied and gone over
by all the agencies connected
with the vast works program and
may be depleted. amended or
passed as requested.
One of the earliest, Washington
projects, funds for which were
requested on May 2, is still under
consideration. It contemplates
construction of two wings on the
National History Building of the
Smithsonian Institution, at a cost
Of $6,490,00O.
OF greater interest to Wash
ingtonianS are two loW-rent houS-
ing projects. calling for an expen-
diture Of $1,000, 600. One of these
projects would require 100000
and the other $4,000 900, both
having been promoted by the
housing division of the Public
Works Administration.
A total of $6,316,885 has been
asked by the War Department for
local construction. Three projects
requested by the department call
for reconstruction, new buildings
and other improvements at the
Army Medical Center, $3,513,019;
reconstruction, new buildings ana
other improvements at Fort
Humphreys, $1,233,253, and re,
construction, new buildings and
other improvements, quarter
master depot, $1,570,613.
Census Annex Asked
Construction of a census annex,
at a cost of 81 900 900, which it is
estimated would pay for itself
in 10 years, is requested by the
Census Bureau, which points out
that under present conditions,
with the bureaus activities scat
tered all over Washington, there
is great loss of efficiency, while
valuable records are being de-
Stroyed for lack of space, and
factory operations suitable to low
rental areas are being conducted
in high-priced office buildings.
David a Lynn. Capitol archi.
tect. is seeking 100000 for con-
Struction of a nurses home for
Columbia Hospital. The an.
nouncement Of the filing of the
application includes the state.
ment:
"The Capitol architect states
that one of the buildings now
used to house nurses is an an
Cient frame structure, in
wretched condition, and hardly
more than a SIum except that
it is clean and neat. For Is