Evening star., 1940-03-10
Projects
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pleted at least during the first half
Of the new decade and possibly much
sooner, if the present rapid growth
Of the city continues.
The Budget Bureau, IN transmit
ting the 194l budget estimates to
Congress, apparently had sacrificed
some 100000 in school building pro-
jects to make possible a speedy COM
pletion of the new National Guard
Armory and the new central Public
Library. The bureau allowed $1,247,-
600 in building and land purchase
items. Among the principal school
building projects which were approx
ed by the Budget Bureau from the
so-called priority list" were the new
Abbot Vocational School, the Ana
costa Junior high school, and an
eight-room and assembly addition to
the SyphaX School. Funds were pro-
vided to prepare plans for the colored
senior high school on the site at
Twenty-fourth street and Benning
road, NE.
Construction cuts were made pos
sible, it was pointed out, because of
recent completion of P. w. A. school
building projects. The new Bunker
Hill School was occupied at the
opening of the new decade. The
new Banneker Junior High School
for colored pupils has just been COM
pleted and the new Calvin Coolidge
Senior High School and the large
new Thomas Jefferson Junior High
School, in Southwest Washington,
are nearing completion.
The new junior high school in
Anacostia is regarded as one of the
most necessary of school construc-
ton projects, to relieve serious
congestion which has made neces-
sary the operation of double shifts for
more than two years in the present
Ana acostia Junior Senior High
School.
The Benning road high school
project also is highly essential to
satisfy growing demand for a
secondary school in an area the
growth of which has been greatly
expedited by the completion of a
large colored housing project.
Moreover. all the existing colored
high schools are in the central por-
ton of the city and a "belt line"
school of this character has been
urgently needed to relieve an in
creasingly serious transportation
problem.
Key Bridge Project.
Soon after the beginning of the
past fiscal year P. w. A. grants were
made for a new span for Key
Bridge, at a cost of $4,000; for a
new S575,000 ward building and other
structures at Gallinger Municipal
Hospital; for improvement of water
works and sewers, $758 ,625; for new
fire alarm headquarters. and mod
ernlzatlon and extension of the fire
alarm system, $500.000, and for two
buildings at the District Training
School, Laurel, Md, $230000. All of
theSe construction items are in prog
reSS at the beginning of the decade.
The new Gallinger Hospital allot-
ment brought the total amount for
the hospital to S1,325 900 and pro-
Vlded for elimination of some of the
Old hre-trap wards. The new con-
structlon included a five-story ward
building, two-story morgue which
recently was dedicated and opened
for service, replacing the aniuuated,
inadequate structure on Maine ave-
nue. S. W., and three story extern
sion to the nurses home. The new
ward building soon will be available
for the treatment of tuberculosis
patients, providing 200 beds and re-
placing antiquated quarters which
have been in use for this purpose.
The fire alarm headquarters build
ing now is nearing completion in NC
MILAN Park and is an important
part of the current new housing
project for the District government
AS a part of this project the Dis
trict fire alarm system is being ex-
tended and modified and new fire
alarm boxes are being installed tc
keep pace with the growth of new
District residential and business
areas.
Sewer work under this program
includes about 1885 linear feet in
Klingle Valley; 1888 linear feet ir
the Good Hope road area; 4,980 linear
feet in the Macomb street area
about 800 linear feet of new sewer.
and repairs, and about 100 lineal
feet for the northwest boundary
trunk sewer.
Two days later, P. w. A., made 6
$5,70O000 award for the new District
municipal center.
When the P. w. A books for the
District were finally closed, after
3ls,146000 in loans and grants hae
been made for municipal construc.