Evening star., 1940-01-18
$11,@ Is Asked
To Remodel Allison
As Cripp|es' School
Boord of Education Also
Would Seek Authorization
To Change Its Use

The Board of Education today for.
warded to the Commissioners for
inclusion in the first deficiency bill
already before the Bureau of the
Budget an additional request Of
$l1 ,646.84 for repairs and alterations
to the Allison Street Health School
to make it available for the crippled
children now taught in special
classes at the Langdon School.
In addition, 1t was proposed to
seek authorization in the same bill
to change the use of the Allison from
health school for children with
positive tuberculin reaction to q
school for white crippled children.
Likewise the board asks that the
balance of the appropriation for
H40 providing for transportation OF
the health school pupils for the sec
ond term be reappr6priated against
the cost Of the repairs.
Action was taken at a meeting
yesterday. It has been strongly
pressed by members of the Kiwanis
Club who have contended the pres
ent facilities at Langdon are not
adequate for the 4s children en-
rolled.
Pupils Fight Transfer.
At the same time 1t was learned
q class at Langdon. representing
about third of the crippled pupils.
has formed an organization to op-
pose the transfer, because they like
it where they are. The Parent
Teacher Association of the school
will meet tomorrow night to discuss
the problem.
Principal items of expense in the
estimates prepared by w. A. Draper,
acting engineer in charge of the re-
pair shop, are painting, $500; a
special bathing tub, SLIPS; a loading
platform, STATS, and a driveway,
$1,000. The driveway would be in
rear of the present garden on the
Thirteenth street side and extend
around the building, connecting with
the court which separates the build
ing from the Dennison Vocational
School.
Health Schools to Be Vacated.
The two health schools, the Allison
for the white pupils and the Toner
for the colored, will be vacated by
their present pupils beginning Feb
ruary 3 on assurance from the
Health Department that all but one
of the children previously in the
schools can return to the regular
schools nearest their homes without
injury to any one. All but one have
been carefully examined by the
Health Department., according to
First Assistant Supt. Robert L. Hay
cock, and have been certified The
one, colored child, has been in the
hospital and has not been COM
pletely examined, he said.
The proposed changes have forced
regrouping of administrative units
in the system to provide places for
the principals of the Allison and
Toner Schools. Miss M. r. O'Brien,
teaching principal at the Allison, is
transferred to teaching principal of
the Polk School which was previ-
ously with the Gage and Henry
Schools under Miss Bertha E. Tay-
lor. Miss Taylor remains in charge
of the Gage-Henry administrative
unit. Mrs. B. N. McDufle, teaching
principal at the Toner, will become
teaching principal of the Wilson
School, which was previously under
Miss E. A. Lyons, together with the
Morgan School. Miss Lyons contin-
ues as administrative principal OF
the Morgan.
Anacostia Accredited.
Meanwhile, the board members
we're told that the Anacostia Senior
High School has been accredited for
two years by the Middle States and
Maryland accrediting organization
with the warning that certain
changes will have to be made II the
accrediting is renewed In 1941. The
changes include enlarging the library
to provide seating capacity for 1G
per cent Of the enrolment, q reduc-
ton Of the teacher load, and report
on the success of freshmen students
in college.
Two liquor license. protests were
forwarded on to the Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control Board together with
q list Of license applications not pro-
tested. The two protested renewals
OF class G licenses are at 440l Four
teenth street NV. and at 4132