Evening star., 1938-01-09
PR0JECTS0UTL|NED
FOR NORTH RANDLE
President Farren Draws Up
Prospectus After Study
of 1899 Budget.

A new Pennsylvania avenue bridge,
legislation banning nonresident pu.
pills from District schools without
payment Of tuition, and local suf-
frage are among the principal aims
for 1888 Of the North Randle Com.
munity Citizens Association as out
lined by President William s. Farren
last night.
Also included In the list are:
Better equipment for the police
and fire departments; more police
ofdcers and police substation in
Benning.
A permanent elementary school at
Minnesota avenue and E street Sc,
the site Of a portable school now.
Paving Is Sought.
Paving Of Minnesota avenue north
Of Pennsylvania avenue Sc, paving
Of Massa chusetts avenue east Of Ana
costa Park, cutting through and paw
ing M street east of Minnesota ave.
nue., and improvement OF several
other streets in the area.
Better municipal disqualification
facilities.
Playground facilities and equip
ment in Fort Dupont Park.
A few fire boxes.
Subways throughout the District,
including a line out either Pennsyl-
vania or Massachusetts, avenue Sc.
The fight for Pennsylvania ave-
nue. bridge is no new fight" Mr..
Farren said. I'VE have long recog-
nized the bridge as narrow, rough,
totally inadequate for It's traffic and,
with its bottle-neck approaches, a dan
gerous traffic hazard. We are graft
fled to see an item in the District
budgets to start a new one. We
hope to see it approved by Congress"
The District is spending approx
mately s25o,Ooo year to educate
nonresident children We feel this
throws an unfair tax burden on local
citizens. We are, therefore, working
for a law banning them, except as
they pay tuition or their parents
pay taxes to cover the tuition"
Nearby children are attending Wash
ington schools under the ruling in
the Lois Kemp case last year, when
children Of parents working, but not
living in the District, were permitted
10 attend Washington schools.
Everybody recognizes" he con-
tinued, "the value of local suffrage"
Fire Equipment Old.
mo. 19 Fire House, the one assigned
to us. has, I understand, the oldest
equipment in the city. Some Of it is
"a years old. Recently the District
has received several new trucks and
engines. We do not expect the new
equipment, even though we need 1t
more than other parts of the city, but
We do ask that the equipment being
replaced by the new equipment be
transferred to No. l9. consider this
only fair Mr.. Farren continued.
Our police equipment is almost as
bad. In recent meeting it was said
that the scout cars were too decrepit
to catch speeders. Not only this, but
| our precinct, No. II, is decidedly un-
dermanned. With the largest territory
to cover, it has one of the smallest
forces of any precinct. We ourselves
oAS 11Oll lllC SldllOIl llOuS6.
We are fighting for substation on
the Bennings site as recommended by
Maj Ernest w. Brown. We regret
that the Budget Bureau did not ap-
prove the substation item. but are
working to have it reinserted In the
District appropriation.
Gallinger Condition Cited.
"Gallinger Hospital is not able to
take care of its patients as 1t should
A S450000 medical building at GAL
linger conversion of the old Tubercu-
losis Hospital at Fourteenth and Up
shur streets NV. into a receiving
home for Northwest Washington, and
hiring of at least 100 new employees
would materially help alleviate the
improper conditions. While realizing
that such Improvements might result
in increased taxation, I personally
am willing to be taxed to obtain the
| right health conditions and the care
| Of the sick
North Randle Is almost entirely
| without fire alarm boxes. For several
years the association has worked for
some and has had several locations
| approved. Recently two boxes were
| installed within two blocks Of each
other in Benning, but we are still lack.