Evening star., 1935-04-09
Kramer Hopes House Will
Agree to Reservations
Made by Senate.
ALL BUT FOUR PLANKS
ARE RETURNED BY ACT
Acquisition Of Junior High School
Site Written In for Added
Funds.

item in the District appropriation bill
as passed yesterday by the Senate
will give the school system "a real
square deal" Stephen e. Kramer, first
assistant superintendent Of schools,
said today.
I'VE would be able to make q fresh
start" said the school officer. For q
number of years we have had to fight
against accumulated shortages. If the
House agrees to all the items restored
in the bill by the Senate, the public
schools will be brought up to a con-
dition where they need not make
further large demands on Congress.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou. superintendent
Of schools, said he considered the
Senate action very satisfactory"
Most Of Items Included.
As approved by the Senate, the ap-
preparation bill contains all but four
items asked for by school officials and
only one Of these was necessary to
meet what was termed an acute stu
alton. This was for $50, 900 to con-
struct an eight-room school on
Bladensburg road northeast. Both the
Wheatley and the Webb elementary
schools. which serve that section, are
seriously congested and the COM
munity is rapidly building up, Dr.
Kramer explained.
Other requested items not contained
in the bill are $4,000 for construc-
ton of second floor at the unfin-
ished Sheppard School on the Kalmia
road; $4,000 for a second floor to
the Harvey School in Foxhall Village,
and $4,000 for an assembly -gymna-
SUM In the Whittier School.
Is Items Restored.
The Senate restored to the appro-
priation bill Is construction items
which had been stricken out by the
House. In addition it wrote in an
appropriation of $185,000 for acqui-
sition of new Jefferson Junior High
School site in Southwest Washington.
Most important among these re-
stored items is the $140, 900 appropria-
tion for beginning construction on q
new Dennison Vocational School for
girls, DR.. Kramer declared. Because
Of the location and facilities Of the
present school, on S street, east of
Fourteenth, many girls should at
tend or be kept by their parents in
other schools, DR.. Kramer explained.
The school was built in 1879 and at
one time was condemned as unit for
occupancy. Extensive improvements
were made in order to bring 1t up to
minimum requirements.
Want "a Rooms.
School officials hope to locate the
new girls vocational school to the
rear Of the tuberculosis Hospital at
Fourteenth and Upshur streets. They
plan a 24-room building, constructed
especially to meet the needs of such
an education. It's total cost would be
$3.50, 1000.
DR.. Kramer said he thinks enroll
ment in the schools will be more than
doubled by the change in location.
Next in importance was listed the
restoration Of $190, 900 for construction
of an addition to the Paul Junior High
School, Ninth and Quackenbos streets
in the Brightwood section. The old
Brightwood School, Georgia avenue
and Quackenbos street, which was
abandoned years ago, now is being
used to accommodate the overflow
from the Paul Junior High. This is
one Of the most seriously overcrowded
schools in the District.
Grimke Item Restored.
The colored section of southeast
Washington will receive greatly en-
hanced educational facilities, If the
Senate action Is approved by the
House. The bill contains the restored
item Of $4,000 for reconstruction of
the Grimke School, Fifth and G
streets southeast, and the addition of
IL rooms to the present s-room struc-
ture.
DR.. Kramer pointed out that favor
able action on the $l55,000 appropri-
alton on an eight-room annex to the
Ketcham School In Anacostia, lust of
Good Hope road, would permit aban-
donment of the ancient six-room Van
Buren, annex. This Is a three-story
structure and has no central heating
plant. Its $50 children alternately
shiver and perspire, according to their
proximity to the old-fashioned stoves
with which each class room Is
equipped. It was built in 1881.
The Senate bill contains a s115.000
item for replacement Of one of the
Districts smallest schools, the Bunker
Hill School in Brookland, near the
Franciscan Monastery. School OFF,
cials hope to replace the present four.
room structure with a modern eight.
room building, DR.. Kramer said.
Overcrowding Noted.
Final inclusion of the $155, 900 item
for an eight-room addition to the
Truesdell School, Ninth and Ingra-
ham streets, would permit elimination
OF an old four-foom building now be-
ing used and relieve a serious over
crowding, DR.. Kramer asserted. He
said the present modern eight-room
unit at the Truesdell School was at
tached to the old four-room building,
but that q large number Of school
children in the neighborhood prohib-
tied demolition of the old structure.
One of the most serious needs in
Washington secondary schools, said
DR.. Kramer, Is the erection Of q
senior high school to serve the thickly
populated northern section Of the city.
The Senate bill recognizes this by its
appropriation of $4,000 to be used
mainly for drawing plans and specifi-
cations for such structure. The new
high schools which probably will cost
in the neighborhood of 81 500, 900, is
to be located on the site already owned
by the District at Fifth and Van
Buren streets. DR.. Kramer explained
that the Roosevelt and Central High |