Evening star., 1938-06-27
?. P.W.A:PAVESWAY
FOR FIRST WORKS
OF SPENDING ACT
Hopes Boosted for Early
Consideration of D. c.
Projects.
TOTAL NOW RELEASED
REACHES $51,5Oe,478
$205, $685. Allotted in Grants
and $24,2s2,5 800 in Loans,
1ckes Announces.
By NELSON M. SHEPARD.

BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.
The Public Works Administration
paved the way today for the first
new projects originated and sub
mitted under the 1893 spending act,
which was signed less than a week
ago by President Roosevelt, by ap-
proving 81 allotments for a total of
$4,907, ,457. A total of $51 ,509,478 of
P. w. A. funds was released by Ad-
ministrator Ickes today.
Initiation of this second phase of
its program boosted the hopes for
early consideration OF major items
in the $18,150,000 list of projects
submitted last week by the District
Commissioners. At least three of
these, two court buildings and . tu-
berculosis ward for Gallinger Hos
pital. already have been appropriated
by the P. w. A. Examining Board.
Administrator Ickes had announced
recently that preferred items on the
District program would receive prompt
consideration. Now that the P. w. A.
is launching this new phase of its
program it was expected several of
the more important items in the Dis
trict list would receive allotments soon.
Allotments Total $205,382,887.
The new projects announced today
added to the 1,766 non-Federal pro-
Jects approved last week, and bring
the total allotments to $205, ,3S2, ,8S7 in
grants and $24, ,2s2, 500 in loans.
I'VE are following through on our
drive for speed" Administrator Ickes
said. If towns and cities match our
pace, we will have a highly success
full program. But if q municipality
fails to keep up with our speed, it
will be left behind and cannot parti-
cipate.
Il repeat again. it is up to the cities
and they must play their part" Mr..
1ckes added.
Work in Virginia.
There were no allotments for COM
munities in this area among the
new projects approved.
The'P. w. A.. however, announced a
series OF Federal allotments for work
Of various kinds ip which govern
mental S6uk m Maryland and Vir-
g1nia shared considerably
These allotments included: 10000
600 for 178 projects of the United
States Coast Guard, $2,690, 900 for 48
surveys and improvements under the
direction of the United States Geo.
logical Survey, $2.356,671 for IL prof.
ects under the direction of the De-
partment of Agriculture and $50, ,500,-
600 for is phases of Federal reclama.
ton construction.
Construction at Beltsville.
Department of Agriculture officials
stated that all of the s2,356,671 al
lotted to that department will be ex-
pended for various kinds of construc-
ton work in connection with activities
at the Beltsville. Md, research center.
They range from new experimental
laboratories to ofiice buildings and
garages.
The funds are allotted to various
bureaus as follows:
Animal industry, $3l3,50O; Belts
vile Research Center, 1861 400, In
cluding $500.000 for q new laboratory
and administration building, $320,o00
Tor fencing the entire area, and $141,-
400 for two wells and 10 water
treatment units.
Biological Survey $75,885, for a su-
perintendent's residence, garages and
other outbuildings; Bureau of Daiv
Industry. $1o0,1oo, for dairy barns,
animal hospital and general repairs;
Food and Drug Administration, $780,
600, new laboratory for pharmacoIoey
and vitamin work; Forest Service,
$5l ,486, laboratories. etc.; Bureau Of
Plant Industry, $2ss800. for expert
mental work, new roads and outbuild-
lngs, ETC., and Soil Conservation Sery-
ice, $4,000. for minor buildings.
Geological Survey Fund.
In the allotments for the Geological
survey, designed primarily for surveys
OF floods and droughts and mapping.
$4,000 will be spent for the repair and
Improvement Of river measurement
stations and $4,000 for topographic
and geologic surveys in Virginia.
Improvements of Coast Guard sta
tions and facilities in Maryland ac-
counted for $933,sl0 of these allot-
'ments. The funds will be spent as
follows: $l34,750 at Ocean City, $3.50
at North Beach station, $66,50o at
Depot, Md; $1,000 at Curtis Bay rifle
range and $750,46o for station struc.
lures and equipment at Depot.
Approximately $734,O00 will be ex.
pended for similar purposes ut Coast
Guard stations in Virginia. These
stations and the allotments are:
$257,250. Smith Island; $4,000,
Assateague Beach station: S21,50o,
Metomkin Inlet station $4,000, Par
ramore Beach station; $4,000, Hog
Island station: $4,000. Cobb Island
station: $78.5oo. Cape Henry station:
$168,000. Washington radio station;
$4,000. Popes Island station; $4,000,
Wallop station; $4,000, Little Machi-
pongo; $4,625, Virginia Beach station;
$1,000. Norfolk. sand $4,000, Little
Island station. All items in the $780,
100000 reclamation program are for
work in Far Western States.
Hospitals and other public health
facilities led In the new list of non.
Federal projects with school buildings
second In order.