Evening star., 1936-04-04
BOOST IN HOUSE
P[AyGROUND|TEM
ALSO REQUESTED
Lusk Slated to Appear to
Oppose Any Increase
in J0bIeSS Relief.
UFF0RD SAYS S1,5O6,O2O
is FAR SHORT OF NEED
Miss Borchart Asks Senatorial
Group Cut Rider Banning Out
side Jobs to Employees.
BY J. A. OLEARY.

Requests for several additional
school buildings. more teachers for
the system generally. and an increase
in the House allowance for operation
of Fairgrounds were laid before the
Senate Subcommittee at today's
hearing on the 1887 District appro-
priation bill.
Rufus S. Lusk, secretary of the
Washington Taxpayers Association,
also is slated to be heard today in
opposition to any increase in the
House figure of s1,5O6,OOO for unem-
ployment relief next year. His con-
tention is there is no longer depres-
sion in Washington and that a large
! number of persons from other places
have come to the District and been
| added to the relief rolls in the past
few years.
A plea for $500 900 to build the pro.
posed Northern High School, for which
land has been bought at Fifth and
Sheridan streets northwest, was made
by delegation from Takoma Park,
Manor Park, Sixteenth Street Heights
and Chillum Heights. The group was
accompanied by Senator Frazier. Re-
publican, Of North Dakota. and among
those who spoke were w. C. Magathan,
Walter Trey, Mrs. Mary Lamond White
and Mrs. Henry Morton Phillips.
Playground Aid Urged.
Mrs. Carroll Johnson, first vice
| president of the Citywide Playground
Council, will urge the Senate to re-
store sl2.345 TO the bill, approved by
the Commissioners but cut out by the
Budget Bureau. to keep more of the
Fairgrounds open for longer periods
of the year. She pointed out that out
of 100 play centers only "a are on full
time
The need for larger teaching force.
particularly in Junior High Schools,
was emphasized by Mrs. G. H. Colling-
wood of the Mcfarland Junior High
Parent-Teacher Association.
Funds to provide a stadium for
the Woodrow Wilson High School and
also a new wing for the Alice Deal
Junior High School were requested
by a delegation which included Mrs.
C. D. Wright. Mrs Burton K Wheeler,
Mrs. Wilbur LaRoe, jr Harold Smith,
Paul Williams and George Dieffen-
bach.
Holds Sum Insufficient.
Walter S. Ufford of the Monday
Evening Club told the Senate group
yesterday the 81 ,506, ,020 allowed by
the House for unemployment relief
for the year beginning July l will not
be sufficient to take care of the un-
employables whom the District al.
ready is dropping from the relief rolls
because of a shortage of funds for the
remaining three months of the expir-
ing fiscal year. Congress recently ap.
propriated s35O,OO0 of District funds
to help meet the immediate problem
confronting employables, but local
welfare officials figure s258,000 more
is needed for the period from now
until July /.
Mr.. Ufford was accompanied at the
Senate hearings by Dr. j. Hillman
Hollister of the Federation OF
Churches; Ray H. Everett. local chap
ter of the American Association Of
|
Roberts, executive secretary of the
Council of Social Agencies. Mr.. Uford
also asked for restoration Of the
Budget Bureau recommendations for
personal services in the Public AS.
sistance Division of the Board of Pub.
lie Welfare.
Appeals for Teachers.
| Miss Selma Borchardt of the Teach.
ers' Union asked for elimination Of the
House rider, which would prohibit any
District employe with a salary Of
s2,400. or more year from accepting
any outside employment. If it is not
stricken from the bill, Miss Borchardt
suggested that it be modified to permit
such outside work if superior officer
finds it would not interfere with Of.
fetal duties.
Miss Borchhardt also made a plea
for $4,000 recommended by the
Budget Bureau to prevent curtailment
of teaching in crowded schools, and
$4,000 for automatic promotions in
groups B and D of the teachers sal-
ary schedule.
Mrs. E. Morgan pryse of the Legis-
lative Committee of the District Fed.
Grafton of Women's Clubs urged resto-
ration of the Federal share of the
| bills to the budget recommendation
of S5,700,o00, instead of the House
figure of $2.700,000. She also sup.
ported the estimates for health and
education items.
A delegation from the recently
formed District of Columbia Legis4
lative Council, headed by Mrs. j. NJ
Saunders, appeared in support Of
school needs generally, and particu-
larly an adequate teaching force and
transportation for the School for
Crippled Children.
Urges More Police.
Mrs. Ernest Howard, jr., of the Dis.
trict Federation of Women's Clubs
made a plea for 116 additional men
for the Police Department and 80
more men for the Fire Department.
An increase in the fund for night
schools from $9l 900, allowed by the
House. to the $4,000 recommended BY
the Commissioners, and the setting
| ASIDE Ol oAO,UuU VI LIlc IOIdl IOr LQe
reopening Of night-school classes at
Western High School. was urged by
a delegation representing group Of
organizations in the west end Of the
city. The delegation included Dorsey
Hyde, Mrs. Charles Goude. Mrs. Belle
Cutler Parker and Mrs. j. r. Lyddane.
Richard C. Darnell. president Of
the Hillcrest Citizens Association,
asked for purchase of land for new
school and recreation center for the
Hillcrest-Summit Park area in the
southeast.
Lieut.. Col. Orwell johnson, director
general of the r. o. T. c. Associa-
ton, filed a petition in support of
the rider placed in the current ap-
preparation act last year, prohibiting