Evening star., 1939-03-24
New Building
Is Urged for
Wilson College
eochers' Structure
Held Inadequate
And Unsofe'

Pleas for funds to construct a new
building for the Wilson Teachers
College at Eleventh and Harvard
streets NV, were given serious con-
sideration today by the House Ap-
preparations Sub com mi ittee in
charge Of the 1910 District supply
bill.
The appeal was made by Miss
Selma Borchardt of the Teachers
Union, who told the subcommittee
the present building is inadequate
and unsafe"
Periodically, she declared, classes
musl be discontinued while struc-
tural repairs are made to make the
building safe.
Miss Borchardt suggested that
the new Teachers College be located
on District-owned property at Thir-
teenth and Upshur streets NV.
She also urged the subcommittee
10 provide funds for a new Ameri-
canlzation adult center and a mod
ern building, for vocational educa-
ton, as well as for the appointment
OF two teachers of Spanish for the
elementary schools.
Miss Borchardt was the last of 20
witnesses who appeared before the
subcommittee late yesterday. ureinp
appropriations for diversity of i'm
provements.
Plea for Parking Space.
washington I. Cleveland, manager
OF the District Motor Club of the
American Automobile Association.
proposed that provision be made IN
the new appropriation bill for es-
Establishment Of self -liquidating off,
street parking facilities. Washing
tons parking problem, he said, can
not be solved at the curb"
Among his other proposals was
that the District include in future
building permits provision that all
buildings, residential as we'll as busi-
ness, contain off-street parking space
!or as many cars as will be involved
IN the normadl use of the structures,
The subcommittee was requested
by George E. Keneipp, manager of
the Keystone Automobile Club of
washington. to provide funds to
keep Il additional school play-
grounds open during the summer
vacation period. He called attention
specifically to the sudden and unex-
pected' increase in child deaths i'm
mediately following closing of the
schools last summer.
Asks Funds for Library.
Walter D. Cunyus, president of the
Conduit Road Citizens Association
requested funds for establishment of
q new branch library building in the
Conduit road section. Harold J.
Clay president of the Rhode Island
Avenue Citizens Association. urged
among other things funds for ex-
tension OF the Taft Junior High
School.
Other witnesses included Mrs
George c. Thorpe, chairman of the
Women's Safety Committee of the
A. A. A.; Mrs. Mabel M. Hub
Del OF the Kenilworth Citizens
Association. Harry S. Wender of
the Southwest Citizens Associa- :
ton. William H. Lowder of the
trinidad Citizens Association. Mrs
walter S. Ufford. chairman of the
Legislative Committee of the South
west Children's Council: Mrs. w. M
Flinchum of the Metropolis View
Citizens Association: E. ]. Read of
the Southeast Council of Citizens
Associations, Edward r. Clarkson of
the Journeymen Bookbinders' Union.
Frank j. Coleman, secretary of the
Central Labor Union: G. A. Walsh of
the Graphic Arts Association, Mrs
Frederick H. Brooks of the Board OF
Directors Of Children's Hospital,
Sidney R. Katz Of the MARYLAND and
District Industrial Union Council,
Phillip Bonosky of the District
Workers Alliance, Howard D. Wood
son Of the Northeast Boundary Citi-
zens' Association and Culver 3
Chamberlain, president of the Ca
thedral Heights Cleveland Park Citi-
zens' Association.
On1cials of various special boards
and commissions are scheduled to
appear before the subcommittee to-
day to explain items affecting Their
own organizations in the 1910 budget.