Evening star., 1936-02-18
D. c. BILL MAY CO
TO HOUSE IN WEEK
Hearings Completed After
BIanton Clash With Doc
tor Over Funds.
BY JAMES e. CHINN.

The 1887 District appropriation bill
Is being whipped into shape today for
hts legislative journey through Con-
gress.
With hearings completed on the
t43,l00000 budget estimates-the
foundation of the bill itself-Chair-
man Blanton of the Subcommittee on
Appropriations made preparations to
have it ready for consideration Of the
House within a week.
The hearings were brought to q
close late yesterday after a score OF
civic representatives made pleas for
needed public Improvements which the
Budget Bureau failed to approve. A
few of them are expected to be
granted.
The final hearing was marked by
repercussions from the civic mass
meeting Sunday in Central High
School, when Blanton offered to fight
some Of the doctors leading the cam
paign for increased funds for the
Health Department.
Blanton Raps Doctors.
Obviously still angered over de-
velopments at the meeting, Blanton
was reported to have turned on DR..
Charles B. Campbell, chairman of the
Health Committee of the Federation
of Citizens Associations with this
statement: "I don't want to hear from
any more damn doctors"
DR.. Campbell was one Of group OF
civic representatives who asked to
appear before the subcommittee to
stress Health Department needs. Blan-
ton. however, is said to have declined
to listen to any further discussion of
health needs. DR.. P. A. McLendon and
DR.. Herbert P. Ramsey of the District
Medical Society," who had intended
to testify. left the Capitol after be-
ing told of DR.. Campbell's reception in
the committee room.
Blanton would neither directly deny
nor affirm the statement he is re-
ported to have made to DR.. Campbell
At the conclusion of the hearings he
said to newspaper men:
THE mass meeting Sunday was q
flop. Anything that was said In con-
nection with Dr. Campbell Is not on
the official record"
Blanton then turned to William Du-
vail, clerk of the Appropriations SUBJ
committee, and asked him to ascer-
tain whether Dr. Campbell is on the
District pay roll. IF he is" declared
Blanton, summon him up here for a
special hearing"
Sympathetic to Some Requests.
Although the outcome of the ap-
peal for additional funds for the
Health Department is in doubt, Blan.
ton. as we'll as other members of the
subcommittee, have indicated that
sympathetic consideration would be
given requests for additional accom-
modations at Eastern High School
and for retention of the tuberculosis
Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur
streets after opening of the new
adult tuberculosis Sanitorium at
Glenn Dale, Md.
The parade of civic representatives
started at 10 am. and continued
throughout the day. Virtually all
urged some improvement that the
budget estimates do not provide One
witness, however-S. H. Miller-a re-
tired school teacher-advocated re-
peal Of the widely discussed "red
rider" on the 1886 District appro-
priation act
Among the final witnesses were ].
/. Gammell of the Southeast Coun-
Gil of Citizens, who urged a four
room addition to the Buchanan
School, an increase in the personnel
of the Police Department and a
merger Of Columbia and Gallinger
Hospitals. and Thomas j. LlewellyE
Of the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations, who asked an additional
$4,000 for traffic lights, and $4,000
more for reflector buttons.
Marvin H. Mclean of the Brook
land Citizens Association urged re-
placement of the Brookland- School
with 16-room building having q
gymnasium, and Horace ]. Phelps,
chairman of the Library Committee of
the Petworth Citizens Association, in
dorsed an item in the budget for con-
struction of a new branch library
In Petworth.