Evening star., 1939-05-07
Eight New Plants
For Schools Urged
By D. T.. Citizens
Another Site, Additions
To Present Building
Asked for 1941

Eight new school plants have been
recommended by citizens to the
Board of Education for inclusion in
the 1941 school budget estimates.
The majority of the requests are
for requirements of old buildings.
but a new school Is being urgently
sought for the fast-growing Metropo-
lis View section and a junior high
school is being asked in the far
Northeast section.
Requirements sought include the
Brookland, the Stanton, the Doug
lass Simmons, the Cranch-Taylor
buildings, the Randle Highlands and
the Hine Junior High.
In addition. a site for a new school
in the American University Park
area has been petitioned for.
Additions Sought.
A number of requests for addi-
tions to present schools are being
asked-for the Taft Junior High
School, 10 rooms, including gymna-
sium; the Ketcham-Van Buren. 8
rooms; the Morgan, rooms; the
Phillips Wormley; 4 rooms. and the
Lafayette, completion of its 6 un-
finished rooms.
Efforts also are being made to OBJ
tain auditoriums and assembly hall
gymnasiums for several schools, par
ticularly in view of the recent ruling
of the fire marshal against the hold
ing of meetings in first-floor corri-
dors or putting down chairs in the
corridors.
Such requests are made for the
Stoddert School, in which case the
fire marshal made his ruling, an
auditorium; the Woodbridge, an au-
ditorium, gymnasium; Amidon Fair
brother-Rossell, meeting place;
Lovejoy, auditorium; the Bowen
Greenleaf, auditorium: Wallach, au-
ditorium; the Logan, an auditorium.
Radio Equipment Asked.
Installation of radio equipment
similar to that now experimentally
put in the Woodrow Wilson High
School by the Home and School As
sociation has been requested as part
of the standard equipment of new
schools and particularly for the new
Jefferson Junior High School in
Southwest Washington.
Other schools are seeking replace
ment of outworn furniture or plumb
ing fixtures, painting, resurfacing of
grounds, and other repairs.
In connection with new school
buildings, 1t is understood that ef-
forts are being made for a suitable
site for the new Abbott School pro-
vided for in the 1910 supply bill as
passed by the House.
School officials had considered the
idea of locating the school at Thir-
teenth and Upshur streets partly on
land planned for the use for a new
Wilson Teachers College, which, If
the Abbott was located there, was
to be pushed around the corner of
Fourteenth and Upshur facing on
Fourteenth.
Hinges on Supply Bill.
If the new teachers college can
be restored to the supply bill, school
officials and the community feel 1t
should be located on the Upshur
street tract, but community opinion
and the Park and Planning Com
mission feel there is not enough
room there for the two schools and
recreation center which the COM
mission has planned there.
School officials are anxious to get
the new teachers college, but also
want the long ng-needed new Abbott
which was substituted for the teach
ers' college item by the House Sub
committee on Appropriations. They
considered the Upshur street site
largely because the Abbott must be
erected on land owned by the Dis
trict and because the Upshur street
tract is readily accessible from .
transnorfatjon mint of view,