The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-21
Bond Issue Bill Signed
BY Governor
S.. 500, 900 For County Hos.
pitfalls And Sanatoria In
The Measure

Annapolis, April 80 The coun-
ties of Maryland will be the recipi-
ents of approximately $3,6oO,OOO OF
the S4.13O,OOO provided in the Bond
Issue Bill signed by Governor Her.
bert O'Conor within the Iast few
DAYS. Much of it will go to correc-
tional institutions, hospitals and
sanatoria, to which Governor pledg-
ed his aid when he declared. in his
inaugural Address on January IL,
1.-THE States obligation to the patti
ents in the mental institutions, the
hospitals for the tubercular and
feeble-minded must be met square
ly, and Accommodations Afforded IN
keeping with decent standards OF
living and disqualification
Despite the generous provisions
made for the various State-aided in
situations, however, even with this
additional $4,13O,O00 of bonds, the
bonded indebtedness of the State
will be reduced $9,671, 900 by Sep
TENDER 80, 1941, an about-face IN
the method of handling State fin
ances that cannot fail to win the
approval of every Maryland tax
payer.
$1,000, 900 to Penal Farm
Heading the list in amounts pro-
yided in the new Bond Issue Bill IS
the Maryland State Penal Farm, at
Breathedsville to which $l,200,O0O
has been allotted for completion
Of construction begun in 1881. Con
struction work there is being done
with inmate labor, of which there
are some 400 men, almost equally
divided between white and colored.
Brownsville State Hospital for
Negroes is given the next largest
amount, 100000, for additional
bindings and for service facilities
and quarters for personnel. This
institution, located near Annapolis,
took care of colored mental disease
patients to the number OF l,279
during the past year, and also has
training school for colored feeble
minded, in which 200 patients were
handled in 1888. Additional build
ings are being provided to care for
200 patients.
Rosewood Gets $4,000
Rosewood State Training School
for white feeble-minded persons, at
Owing Mills, Baltimore County, will
receive 8 total of 100000, for con-
struction CT laundry and power
house and equipment; for new dorm
itory and equipment; for enlarging
water supply system and treatment
plant and providing fire protection
for buildings; for undermining and
fireproofing of existing dormltorles;
and for x-ray equipment and other
hospital needs. Eleven hundred and
seventy-elght patients were handled
here last year.
Other allottments to hospitals and
sanatoria include $285,0OO to Spring
Grove: 100000 to Springfield State
Hospital; $1S3,000 to the Maryland
tuberculosis Sanatorium for addl-
tions at Henryton and Mt Wilson,
and for extension of city water sup
ply system at Eastern Shore Branch,
Salisbury. Eastern Shore State Hos
pital will get $4,000.
Higher Education for Negroes
In the educational field, $350,000
is earmarked for the Board OF Pub
lie Works for the acquisition OF
Morgan College for Negroes
The State Department OF Educa-
ton received 100000, of which
100000 is for new gymnasium and
eouipment at the State teachers
College, Towson, and a like amount
for remodeling college administers
ton building and dormitory build
ings at the State Teachers College,
Frostburg. Other provisions include
$4,000 for Cheltenham Scnool for
Bows. Chaltenham, Prince Georges
County, for power house, laundry,
gymnasium and equipment for each;
$4,000 for gymnasium at st.
Mary's Female Seminary, ST. Mary's
city: $4,000 for Montrose School
for Girls, Reisterstown, for Voca-
tional building and equipment;
100000 to the Maryland Training
school for Boys, Loeb Raven; $14,-
900 to the Maryland State School
for the Deaf, Frederick; AMI $4,000
to the Maryland Training School for
Colored Girls, near Glen Burnie.
In the allotment of 100000 to
the State Department of Forestry,
for the acquisition, improvement and
development of forest lands, parks
and recreational areas, Governor
O'Conor is carrying out another
Campaign pledge, bringing to real
ization one more plank of his party.
The final amount provided in the
Bill, SIZE, 900 to the Board of Public
Works for repairs and improvements
to the State House, at Annapolis,
is cne that will receive the apprOba-