The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-08
State Authority
Progressing With
Building Program
Application For PWA Grant
Of $6.000.000 Filed
This Week
(By Ohio Labor News Service)


Columbus, O.-Application for q
Public Works Administration grant OF
approximately $6,000,0OO was made
this week by the Ohio State Building
Authority, created by the 92nd General
Assembly with power to issue bonds
and contract for a $13,5O0,000 state
welfare building program.
Indications are that the Government
grant will be forthcoming, and little
difficulty is anticipated in disposing
of bonds issued by the Authority, ac.
cording to Dan A. Carmichael, Colum.
bus architect, chairman of the three
member Authority.
Other members of the Authority are
Ed Switalski, Portsmouth Labor lead.
er, Secretary, and William Konold
Warren, Treasurer. Edgar E. Baker
Secretary of the Newark Federation OF
Labor, is chief Inspector for the Au-
thority.
Actual construction will begin by
December 81, 1888, Carmichael said
on some part of the contemplated
project in compliance with PWA regu-
lations.
The Authority has been negotiating
with state officials for acquiring prop
erty on which the various projects are
to be constructed Under the law, the
state will then lease these properties
from the Authority, and rental pay
ments will amortize bonds issued by
the Authority over period Of 25
years.
Temporary headquarters of the Au-
thority have been established in the
Offices of Chairman Carmichael, but
the officials are expected to be located
within a short time in Offices in the
Wyandotte Building, West Broad
Street, Columbus.
Tentative projects contemplated by
the Authority include approximately
$9,OO0,OOO for new building con-
struction, with the remainder of the
$13,500,000 to be spent remodelling
and enlarging present state institution
al buildings.
Although subject to change, present
plans include the following new con-
struction:
Cleveland: Cleveland State Hospital,
two buildings, $500, GOO; Hawthendorn
State Hospital, six buildings, $1,4O0,-
600.
Apple Creek, Wayne-co.: six build
ings, $1,30O,OO0.
Toledo: Toledo State Hospital, three
buildings, $75O,000.
Massillon: Massillon State Hospital,
new cottages, $500,000.
Columbus: New receiving hospital
and other buildings, $550,0O0.
Orient, Pickaway-co.: New infirmary
cottages, 100000.
Cincinnati: Longview Hospital, two
convalescent cottages, $40O,OOO.
Gallipolis: Epileptic Hospital, three
buildings, $5OO,OO0.
Delaware: Industrial School, three
cottages, power plant, S250,O00.
Lancaster: Industrial School, two
cottages, 100000.
Marysville: Reformatory, hospital
100000.
Mansfield: Reformatory, hospital,
$2OO,OO0.
Sandusky: Soldiers and Sailors
Home, hospital, $25O,0O0.
Columbus: Health laboratory, $3.50,
600.
Columbus: Highway department
building, 100000.
Columbus: State Fair ground build
ings, improvements, $1,025,O 900.
Xenia: Orphans Home, new build
ings, $225,OOO.
The tentative remodelling program
includes:
Cleveland: Hawthendorne State Hos
pital, building additions, S270,O0O.
Apple Creek: additions, 100000.
Dayton: Dayton State Hospital, re-
modelling, $500,0OO.
Columbus: Remodelling and addi-
tions, State Hospitals, $95O,O00. \
Cincinnati: Longview Hospital addi-
ton 100000.
Gallipolis: Epileptic Hospital, re-
modelling, 100000.
Mansfield: Reformatory, remodel
ling, $4,000.
Athens: State Hospital, additions
and remodeling, $500,OOO.
Chairman Carmichael emphasized
that the above program was only ten
tative and incomplete. Additional de-
tails are expected to be formulated by
the Authority within a short time, and
the full program will be submitted to
PWA officials.