Evening star., 1940-05-09
District Bill
Is Increased
|$1,4O6,624
Senute Subcommittee
Report Envisons No
Realty Tox Boost

Increased $1,406,624 above the
House approved total of $48,291 TIT,
the revised 1941 District appropria-
ton bill will be reported this after
noon to the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
The changes and additions, made
by the Senate subcommittee headed
by Senator Overton, Democrat, of
Louisiana upset a number Of House
plans and provide for more generous
treatment Of the public schools, and
particularly those municipal agencies
that deal with the poor, the sick
and the INDECENT
The subcommittee also went
step in advance of the House and
wrote into the bill new provisions
calling for two far-reaching surveys
one looking toward possible estab-
ishment of municipality owned and
operated automobile parking sta
tions; the other designed to develop
a comprehensive five-year program
of Capital improvements that would
anticipate the Districts future needs
through the 1947 fiscal year.
Senator Overton said assurance
had been given by Maj. Daniel J..
Donovan, auditor and budget officer,
that the increases recommended in
the House bill by his subcommittee
would not put the District in the
red at the close of the coming fiscal
year, thus removing a specter of a
higher real estate tax.
Provides for New Sites.
Approaching the need for addi-
tional school facilities, the subcom-
mittee added 1903 $50 to the House
bill for the purchase of three sites
and the preparation of plans for
three new buildings that would result
in consolidation of nine existing
elementary schools. This program
contemplates the combination of the
Cranch, Tyler and Van Ness Schools;
the Moore and Twining Schools and
the Brent, Dent. Lenox and French
Schools.
The subcommittee also eliminated
from the House bill a legislative
rider that would force all non-
resident pupils to pay tuition, and
inserted an item providing $4,000
for preparation Of plans for a new
building to replace the Wilson
Teachers College, stipulating it
should be erected on a District
owned site at Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV.
The House bill designated the
property at Thirteenth and Upshur
streets as a site for the new Abbott
Vocational School, but the Senate
subcommittee decreed 1t should be
located In Brentwood Park.
To the appropriations approved by
the House for Gallinger Hospital,
the Senate subcommittee added
$39, $40 to provide for "a additional
employes-l0 nurses, 10 attendants
and 4 laboratory technicians. And
as substitute for the House plan
to segregate delinquent from nom
delinquent children in the Children's s
Receiving Home by placing the nom
del1nquents In foster homes, the
subcommittee added $3,675 to the
bill to begin construction of a new
receiving home on land now owned
by the District, fixing the limit of
cost at $75,000.
Other Additions.
Other additions made to the
House bill include:
IAN item of $47,50O to pay the
salaries of Is additional policemen.
2An increase of $3O,130 in the
appropriation for the Health De-
partmenJ to provide for eight addi-
tional general public health nurses
and to equip two dental clinics and
provide for two dentists and one
dental assistant in the Southwest
Public Health Center.
sAn item of $4,50O for installa-
ton of an elevator in the Southwest
Public Health Center and one in the
Children's Building at Gallinger
Hospital.
Am increase of $500 for old
age assistance so that pensions for
the needy blind can be raised from
$50 to $40 a month.
Increase for Handicapped Children.
@An increase from $4,000 to
$22 400 for the education of handi-
capped children, with a provision
stipulating that the teachers shall
be drawn from the personnel of the
public schools.
6IAn increase from $25,OO0 to
$4,000 for original stocking of the
Southwest Branch of the Public
Library in the Jefferson Junior
High School.
IAN item Of SIS, 900 for construc-
ton of new refuse incinerator in
the industrial zone of the Northwest
section north of New York avenue.
eAn item of $40, 900 for construc-
ton Of a wall around the District
jail.
91An item of $25, 900 for conssruc-
ton of a new bakery at the Dis
trict Reformatory at Lorton, Va.
10-An increase from $500 900 to
81 ,000,0 900 for public assistance to
provide additional help for admin
istration Of the food-stamp plan for
distribution of scent milk and
Federal surplus commodities to re-
lief clients.
u-An item of $150,000 for pur-
chase Of food stamps from the
Federal Surplus Commodities Corp.
to be expended under regulations
(See D. c. BILL, Page AID