Evening star., 1936-04-07
DR.. BOCOCK CITES
REQU|REMENTSAT
D. c. BILL HEARING
Increases in Personnel and
Maintenance Are Held
Necessary.
SIS, ,700,0 900 U. S. SHARE
URGED BY CIVIC GROUP
Restoration of Federal Sum to
Budget Bureau Recommends
ton Is Asked.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

The need for more nurses. labora-
tory personnel and a social service
staff at Gallinger Municipal Hos
pital was stressed at today's hearing
of the Senate Subcommittee on the
1887 District appropriation bill.
The subcommittee asked DR.. Edgar
A. Bocock. superintendent, to present
further information on the require
ments Of the institution as a result
of number Of instances cited at a
previous hearing by Mrs. Lester Bu-
chanan to show the need for increased
maintenance and personnel. Mrs.
Buchanan has been taking part IN
efforts to improve the facilities Of
the hospital.
Mrs. Buchanan and Mrs. r. Thomas
West also attended today's hearing
1t is understood DR.. Bocock reiter-
ated the need for the items mentioned.
Cut From 81 to Is.
When the Commissioners we're
preparing their estimates last Sum-
mer. an increase of 81 in the Gall
linger staff was suggested. The COM
misSioners recommended Al new posi-
tions, the Budget Bureau cut it to 20
and the House made it 18.
The subcommittee also heard a
group of colored doctors from the Med
ical Chirurgical Society, who Endorsed
the general proposal to increase pub
lie health funds in the House bill.
The delegation included Drs. Paul B.
Cronley, H. A. PoindeXter, w. F. Nell
son, H. c. Scurlock, Charles A. Allen,
Francis Dyer, F. A. Whitney and r.
Frank Jones.
Restoration of the Federal share
of the bill to the Budget Bureau
recommendation of $500 900 was
urged by NJ. G. Brown of the Barry
Farms Citizens Association.
Calling attention to the large en-
rollment in Armstrong High School,
the Northeast Boundary Citizens Asso-
citation asked for $500,000 to start
new senior high school at Twenty
fourth street and Benning road mort
east on land already owned by the
Government.
Branch Library Asked
This organization, represented by
H. D. Woodson and 2. F. Ramsaur,
also asked fer a branch library in
the Far Northeast and purchase of
land for the Watts Run Parkway.
George w. Beasley. president of the
Federation of Civic Associations. urged
several additional building projects in
the colored division of the schools sys-
tenn. He said that under the House
bill the ratio of school funds is slight-
ly more than rs per cent for white
schools. The items he proposed would
! give the white schools about so per
cent, which, he said, was the former
| ratio.
A. F. Elmes requested an increase
in the amount for the equipping and
refurnishing Of Shaw Junior High
School.
Further testimony in support Of
fairer Federal payment toward the
total in the bill was heard yesterday
afternoon. J. Nelson Anderson Of the
Federation of Business Men's Asso-
Citations urged restoration Of the lump
| SuiIl, WIuCI IIlc E1OuSc CuI 1IOIl SOg-
TOO, 900 to $2,700,0 900.
Carruthers Presents Petition.
Earlier, the petition of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations for
Federal payment of 7,500-the
amount originally recommended by
the Commissioners to the Budget Bu-
reau-was presented by L. A. Car
ruthers, chairman Of the federation's
Fiscal Relations Committee.
1t is understood members Of the
subcommittee also displayed interest
in the proposal advanced by the fed
Grafton a few days ago that per-
manent commission be created to de-
termine each year what the Federal
share should be, based on the needs
Of the city. Such q commission. it
was pointed out, could take into con-
sideration the large amount of Fed
eral property and the added cost of
planning municipal Improvements to
conform to the requirements of
National Capital.
A plea for 1870 additional policemen
and additional funds for installation
of traffic lights was presented by
L. c. Crawford of the Traffic Com