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to the item, it would eliminate from
the P. w. A. project for the Municipal
Center provisions for a Police Court
Building. That would leave P. w. A.
funds for proposed buildings for the
Municipal and Juvenile Courts.
$4,000, 1000 d. C. Stadium.
In the secondary list of unallotted
projects is the Inflated stadium for
the District, costing S5,000000 1t is
the only other District project listed
among the whole 6,8O8.
This secondary hst-for which little
or no hope is seen-includes bona-f1de
construction projects long sought by
local communities in every State. They
had never reached first base in the
months past. The totals of projects
in this list, which include the pre-
ferred list, show Maryland is down
for % at total cost of $12,130,974
and Virginia for 107 at a proposed
cost of S19,252.5 .583.
Ten Maryland Projects.
The 10 special projects in Mary
land on which work could be started
at once provided funds were available
are:
Bel Air, storm sewer, $4,000 loan,
1884, total, $l6,364; Jericho Park,
disposal plant, 1892 grant, $4,000
estimated cost; Brownsville Park.
staff building. SAG, ,593 grant, s137.770
estimated cost; Havre De Grace,
streets, $4,000 loan, S63820 grant,
Sl41 800 estimated cost; Rising Sun,
disposal plant, S2l273 grant, 1856
estimated cost; Elkton, high school,
SIS $500 grant, $4,000 estimated cost;
Washington County, municipal build
ing Sl02.29l grant, S227,3l5 estimated
cost; Pikesville, inf1rmary. s51, 900
loan. $4l.750 grant, $92720 estimated
cost; Pocomoke City. municipal build
ing, s2l ,083 grant, S46,850 estimated
cost; Calvert, school, S2l 300 grant
$4,000 estimated cost.
Virginia Projects Approved.
For Virginia the same kind of ap-
proved projects include: Norfolk,
building, $56,7 700 grant. $126,000 esti-
mated cost; Giles County, building.
5000 grant, $4,000 cost; Prince
Edward County, school, $40 500 grant,
500 600 cost; Elizabeth City, stadium,
Sl5.75O grant, $4,000 cost; Fairfax,
water works. $23 3,400 grant, $4,000
cost: Staunton. disposal plant, S109.-
800 grant, $4,000 cost; Petersburg
paving. $4,000 grant, $4,000 cost;
Richmond, street improvements, $22,-
050 grant, $4,000 cost; paving. $751;
$50 grant. $4,000 cost; paving, S34,-
$50 grant, $4,000 cost; Roanoke
bridge Sl27800 grant, S284,000 cost;
Front Royal. addition to high school
I S17,100 grant. $4,000 cost; Stockton
armory, $30,600 grant, $4,000 cost
Front Royal, disposal plant S23 ,40C
grant. $5200 cost; Clintwood. school
$45,O00 grant, 100000 cost; Norfolk
school addition, $35,100 grant, $78.-
900 cost; paving. 500 900 grant, $140,-
! 900 cost; arts building, $45.000 grant
| 100000 cost: Chatham. Office build
ing, $33,750 grant, $4,000 cost; Peters
burg. school, $113.850 grant, $253, 200
cost; Arlington County, street i'm
provements, 100000 grant. 100000
cost; Lexington, town hall. $25650
grant, $4,000 cost; Richmond, mu-
scum, $67,500 grant. $l50,000 cost.
The list of total projects as Of
March 3 is a convenient handbook
for members of Congress in finding
what happened to municipal pro-
possls still pending before P. w. A.
The s2,659,o7S ,o6S string tied to it
calls for loans of s1,492. .332,772 from
P. w. A. and grants totaling $1,166.-
744,296. The loans would be repaid
at per cent interest. Municipal
and other securities acquired by Ickes
are sold to the investment public
through the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. Such sales in the past have
netted S5,000000 in profits, all of
which is turned into the revolving
fund.