Evening star., 1937-10-31
SCHOOL CAMPAIGN
WAGEDBY CITIZENS.
Inadequacy of Conditions
In Bradbury Heights Is
Pointed Out.

Continuation of the Bradbury
HEIGHTS Citizens Associations f1gnt
for a school in Bradbury Heights was
indicated Yesterday by several oflcials
Of the association. In the meanwhile
the association is urging improved
school bus service.
"A survey has shown that there
are 300 children ranging from KIN
derrarten to sixth grade age IN Brad
bury Heights, yet the nearest school
3s 2 miles away. Other schools our
children must attend are as much ss
3 miles away. No adequate means OF
TRANSPORTATION has been provided for
them" President Henry w. Austin
said last night in summing up the
communitys school problem.
Distances Travelled.
The youngest children, those at
tending kindergarten and the first
three grades, must 60 miles to the
Orr School; those from the fourth
through the sixth grades must go 3H2
miles to the Randle Highlands School;
tunior high pupils attend Anacostia
Junior High, miles away, or Elliott
Junior High, miles away. Senior
high school pupils attend Eastern High
School, about miles from Bradbury
Heights. Mrs. May E. Bussell, vice
president Of the association and chair
man of the School Committee. said.
A few others attend Montgomery
County, Md, schools, which are only
2la miles away. No tuition is charged
there.
A school bus service, termed "inad-
eouate" by Mrs. Bussell, has been op-
Grated for the past several years by
the w. M. & A. Motor Lines. The
line runs from the District line and
Bowen road Sc, to Pennsylvania
avenue and along the Avenue to
Eighth street Sc. The bus does not
pass within a mile of either Anacostia
Junior High or Eastern High, which
1t Ia supposed to serve, and does not
pass directly by the Randle Highlands
School, according to Mrs. Bussell.
One Bus Not Enough.
The one school bus is not enough
to care for all the children who would
ordinarily use it, yet other buses have
refused to carry school children On
numerous occasions, Mrs. Bussell con-
tinued, the bus has been dangerously
overcrowded. Pupils unable to ride
1t either catch rides or are late.
Last winter. w. D. Willis, delegate
of the association to the congressional
hearings on school appropriations,
points out, an appropriation of $4,000
for two portable schools for the use
of the youngest children was passed by
the House of Representatives.
This appropriation was killed in
the Senate District Committee, when
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintend-
ent of the District schools. suggested
that school buses be substituted and
recommended that $4,000 be appro-
priated for that purpose. The bus
appropriation in turn was lost in the
Conference Committee.
Willis appeared before the Board
OF Education this year and urged
that provision be made in the school
budget for an eight-room extensible
school for Bradbury Heights. He es-
timated last night that such school
could handle about 200 to $50 pupils,
or the first five grades.
Provision was made in the 1889
school budget estimates for the pur-
chase of school site in the vicinity
OF Pennsylvania and Alabama avenues
Sc, but nothing was said about a
school, officials explaining that there
would be time to consider a school
after the site was acquired.