Evening star., 1938-06-25
NAVAL ACADEMY .
CETSP'. W.A.FUND
100000 Included in 1l3
Projects for Sea Arm
of Service.

len allOtmentS Tor improvement
projects at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis. scheduled to cost approxi-
mately $3,400.000. were included in a
batch Of 1l3 projects announced by
the Public Works Administration to-
day for the purpose of extending and
remodeling existing plants and facili-
ties Of the Navy Department. The
total Of these Federal grants was
$27. 1888, 900.
Among them were $4,l22,000 for
Improvements at the Norfolk Navy
Yard. Norfolk Naval Air Station and
the Marine Barracks at Quantico, Va.
With orders for full speed ahead, the
Navy Department said all these prof.
ects would be under way by August IS.
Included in the P. w. A.-financed pro-
gram are such items as power plant
improvements. foundry building, high
frequency radio stations. improvements
to shipbuilding ways, structural as
sembly. quarters for personnel, stor-
age buildings and many other projects
at naval stations and yards on the
Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.
Allotments for Academy.
The program was divided into two
divisions. one including $ll ,402, 900 for
improvements to existing plants in
California. Maryland. Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, South Carolina, Virginia and
Washington State. A second division
providing for sl6.481 900 worth of
work provides for stations in Cali
fornia, Connecticut. the Great Lakes.
Naval Academy. Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania. Rhode Is
land, South Carolina, Virginia and
Washington State.
The Federal allotments for the
Naval Academy were as follows: $780,
900. laundry building; $3.50. 900, al
terations to mess hall; $4,000, dis
pensary building; $1,000, 900, new
quarters for officers: s250.O00, extern
sion of roads and services: 100000,
central heating plant; $4,000, stor-
age sheds. s490,000 replacement of
hospital facilities; $4,000, dormitory
for hospital corpsmen, and $685. 900
for enlargement OF the academy
chapel
All the work is to be done under
supervision of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks.
Improvements for. the Norfolk Navy
Yard were provided as follows:
sl,75oooo, pier No S; ss5. 900, extern
sion of power plant: s525 900. extern
sion of crane structures over building
ways and new cranes; 40,00O, COM
pletion of building ways.
Other Norfolk Items.
Other items in the Norfolk area are:
$3.50 900 for extension of overhaul
shops at the Naval Air Station; $780,
900, rehabilitation Of the fuel supply
depot; 100000. bulkhead and fill Ia
goon at the Naval Air Station: $3.50 900,
rebuilding storehouses Of Naval Supply
Depot; s400 900, new mess hall, Naval
Training Station. and s25,000, roads
and services for mess hall, Naval
Training Station.
At Quantico improvements connected
with the Marine Corps Barracks fol-
low: 1891 900. quarters for non-com-
missioned officers; $28l 900, services
for same; s450,0O0, improvements at
Marine Corps flying field; $4,000,
roads and services at the flying field;
$685.. 900. dispensary building; $3.50 900,
general storehouse, and $3.50, 900 for
new barracks building for the flying
field.
Presidential approval of $490. 900 in
aliocations for the Coast and Geo.
detic Survey. Commerce Department.
also were announced by the Public
Works Administration. These pro-
vided for "a field geodetic surveys.
with $4,000 allocated for such work
in Maryland and $4,000 in Virginia.
Indian Affairs Work.
Another batch of 68 allotments
totaling $453l3 900 were awarded to
the Office of Indian Affairs in the In
terror Department. Indian education
and irrigation play important parts in
this program for Far Western reserva-
tions
Allotments amounting to $1,3l9.234
for II non- Federal projects in Virginia
and 1921 .070 for two in Maryland were
announced late yesterday.
Among them was grant of SOC, 900
to Arlington County as the Federal
share of suburban street and storm
sewer Improvements that will eventu-
ally cost 100000. Alexandria also
received a $67,500 grant towards the
81, ~ k1En nm veIrh1ic
school building.
The Virginia and Maryland items
were included in a sixth list Of 323
allotments completing the first phase
Of the P. w. A. drive. The final
list brought the number of approved
projects under the new program to
1,755 and swelled the authorized funds
to more than $40 ,585. .o29.
Fewer Maryland Requests.
Greater New York obtained the
lions share OF the final list which
provided for work costing $88.396, 300.
Virginia, it was said, had submitted
many more projects than Maryland
and for that reason will receive more
substantial Federal assistance In
undertaking municipal projects.
The Virginia projects for which
allotments completing the first nom
Federal phase Of the P. w. A. drive.
The final list brought the number Of
approved projects under the new pro-
gram to l,755 and swelled the author
lied funds to more than $440, ,585 ,029.