Evening star., 1938-08-13
INCREASE ASKED
IN POLICE COURT
PROBATION STAFF:
Heavy Case Load Is Cited in
Appropriation Request
of $119,880.
$1,758,099 IS SOUGHT
BY REFUSE DIVISION
Charge That Capital Falls Below
Proper Cleanliness Standards
Made by Department.
By DON s. WARREN.

Made by Department.
By DON s. WARREN.
Complaint that the probation staff
Of Police Court is carrying q much
heavier load than those of the District
and Juvenile Courts was voiced today
by Police Court judges as they re-
quested 1910 appropriations totaling
$11s,Sso.
Such q sum would be an increase Of
81, ,4so over this years appropriations
and the entire increase would 60 for
additional personnel-six additional
probation officers and the remainder
for q deputy clerk, an assistant
financial clerk, three bailifIs and
telephone operator.
Meanwhile, omcials Of the City
Refuse Division Of the District sub
mitted estimates totaling $l,75S ,099.
an increase Of rs per cent over funds
granted for this year. mostly consist
ing Of requests for more personnel and
additional equipment. Unless this in
crease is granted. officials said, there
undoubtedly would be protests from the
public about refuse collections.
3,S66 Probation investigations.
The probation stafI of Police Court.
with q stan of five oflicers and a clerk.
last fiscal year handled 1856 probation
Investigations and had 95l persons on
probation. the judges Of that court
said in justifying its proposed increase
in funds.
In contrast, they added. the pro-
baton staf1 of District Court last year
handled lii cases for investigation,
in addition to non-support cases num-
bering lot, and had but 629 placed on
probation. Whereas District Court
has asked an addition Of II workers
to its stan the Police Court asks but
IL persons, the lower court said.
Juvenile Court has staff Of 10, in
cluding II probation officers, the Police
Court judges said, and an active aver
age number of cases on probation OF
$40. Judges of Police Court asked for
no increase in the current sums of
$3.50 for books or $3l 500 for witness
fees.
The City Refuse Division asked an
increase from $403.73 to s622,S33 for
its street cleaning forces, including
an additional sum of $53,038 for wages
OF per diem workers, an item Of $685.
750 for new equipment and $4,000
for snow removal equipment.
Calls for 40-Hour Week.
The wage increase sum was asked
to permit the staff to be placed on .
full 4o-hour week, present funds limit
ing employment to 80 to 36 hours. The
sum is being saved this fiscal year by
furloughs.
1T is impossible with the present
force on limited hours to maintain the
city in state Of cleanliness even near
ly approaching proper standards for
the Capital of the United States" the
division declared. "The morale Of the
street cleaning force is sure to suffer
from continuation of furlougs"
Of6cials added that the present ap-
preparation Is the same as it was back
in 1920. whereas since then the cost
Of labor has increased by about 100
per cent and the mileage of paved
streets increased by about 200 per
cent.
In support Of requests for $50, $50
to buy new equipment, the division
declared that nearly four -fifths of
its fleet Of trucks is between eight and
thirteen years old. The division seeks
the purchase Of IA new trucks and
four new street fusher wagons.
Snow Unpreparedness Charged.
In urging provision of special fund
Of $4,000 for equipment for snow re-
moval, the division held that Wash
ington is relatively unprepared" for
snow troubles. Under present prac-
tice. which would be continued, per
diem labor costs for snow removal are
charged against appropriations for
street cleaning, highway, sewer and
water divisions. Of1cials warned. how
ever, that in cases Of severe winters,
the cost of snow removal may run in
excess Of $4,000.
For garbage, trash and ash collec-
ton and disposal, the City Refuse Dr.
vision seeks appropriations totaling
$4,000, an increase Of $135,500 over
the current funds, Much Of this in
crease, the division said. was needed
- ,,.oLn ,,x> onnd. for thA GRO pfje0 ~
the 4O-hour week and extended annual
and sick leave to per diem workers. In
the past, 1t edded, this need has been
covered by REDUCTION Of the frequency
Of garbage collections in the cooler
months. Any further reduction In
service, division officials warned, would
cause public protests.
An item of $4,000 was sought to
permit the division to meet needed
extensions of service to new homes
and subdivisions. It reported that
in the past fiscal year 1885 new
dwellings and 235 apartments having
2,l57 units, were completed.
Congress was asked to amend its
appropriation language so that the
District might collect garbage, trash
and ashes from apartments of as
many as four units whether or not the
landlords furnish their tenants with
heat. Holding that the present prac-
tice is discriminatory, the division
reported that some $50 Of 1850 duplex
apartments are furnished heat by the
landlord and therefore may not have
their refuse collected free by the Dis
trict. Many complaints have been
received on this ground, the depart
ment said. The cost Of full service to
such apartments would be an addi-