Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-03-03
Two Senior Highs Included
in Works Favored by
Studebaker.
REPORT TO ICKES ASKS
TOTAL OF $625,999,
Sum Would Permit New Building
in As States and District.
$2,9s5,000 for Capital.

Plans and specifications for two new
school and new elementary school
are included in the % projects for
which public works funds have been
recommended for the District of Co.
lumbia by DR.. John w. Studebaker,
United States commissioner of edu-
cation.
DR.. Studebaker submitted report
to Secretary of the Interior Harold l..
1ckes. public works administrator.
asking that school needs be met in the
new public works appropriations to
the extent of $625, 999,022, to care for
new construction in As States and the
District.
The item for the District listed by
DR.. Studebaker was for % jobs total
ing So 1885. 900. Eighteen of the items
call for additions or improvements in
present school structures, and of these
partial provision for four was made
in the District appropriations bill as
already passed by the House and as
now pending before the Senate.
Six Land purchases Mdue.
In addition, the commissioners re-
port included six land purchases,
totaling an estimated S5l5,500 expen-
diture for still further expansion,
Including sites for junior high school,
two elementary schools. two schools
for crippled children and an addition
to one existing school campus.
;ot e do f1lhlIN
yesterday by DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of schools, upon his
return from Atlantic City, where he
spent most of the week attending a
convention of the Department OF
Superintendent of the National Edu-
cation Association.
DR.. Ballou explained that the list
had been prepared several months
ago before the use Of P w. A. money
had been considered. At that time
it was hoped to have them all, the
% building projects and the six land
purchases, included in the 1886
budget.
Projects Scaled Down.
All four projects for which the
House has voted funds we're scaled
down below the estimates made by
the Board of Education and the Dis
trict Commissioners. The largest Of
these was the addition of two senior
high school wings to the AnacoStia
Junior High School for which $780,
900 was sought. The House author
lied an appropriation Of S350,000 but
made available Immediately only
s250,000 for the work
The others for which the House
approved appropriations included an
Broom building and assembly gym
nasium as part of the j. F. Cook
School, on P street between North
Capitol and First streets. S155000
sought and $4,000 approved; 10
room addition and gymnasium at the
Eliot Junior High School, Eighteenth
and B streets northeast, $4,000
asked and $175,000 approved. and a
12-room addition to the Randall
Junior High School, I street between
Half and First streets southwest,
sl45,000 asked and 100000 approved
by the House.
Thirty thousand dollars each was
asked for plans and specifications for
the two proposed new senior high
schools. One of these would be
school for white students in the
northern section of the city, cor
responding to Eastern, Western and
Central, and probably located in or
near Manor Park. The other would
be located in Northeast Washington,
possibly on the tract now owned by
the school system just north of Ben
ming road and Twenty-fourth street.
1t would be for colored students.
School Cost S115,O00.
The proposed new elementary school
would be located on Bladensburg road
near Mount Hamilton and the esti-
mated cost would be S115,0OO. This
would be in addition to the system
that has seen Is new elementary
schools added to the system during
the past 10 years.
The estimated cost of a new Denni-
son vocational school was fixed at
s28o.0Oo. This owould replace the
present inadequate and obsolescent
structure for white girls on S street
Continued on Page 2, Column A.