Evening star., 1940-01-14

The Board of Education has needed
FUNDS to BE- possible carried in the first deficiency bill
cuoed Wouo provide furniture and supplies
Coolidge High School Also funds to complete
the equipment of other buildings teachers and
other urgent needs.
New Building Needed for Wilson Teachers Coleee
The old building Eleventh NV
for the Ormond has outved its usefulness
and not suited its college had the
misfortune to be erected 35oot fill tributary
Tber Greek and its the middle section
failed to solid foundation
About six years continued settlement
open uneven Conditions were
50 alarming that for the Board
abandon the building.
Engineering borng made followed by an ap-
preparation building was spent on
this building which had cost only $4,000 to build.
The front walls of the portion down.
foundations underpnned put SUPER
structure The strengthen foundation
as to ston settlement and tn o tie the STRUCTURE together &C ~
collapse.
The college returned to the the building
that major catastrophe Since then
the building has been under the regular
buildings slight settlement opening
cracks in the plaseng Steel sash are hard to omen or will not
all and sometimes plasterng
from the ceilings In the basement there remains
the selement-a which top
door-frame by nearly inches
Engineers that the building actually
years. They say
would probably building
not the evidences OF continued the foundation
eassung
there to their families.
The foregoing conservative statement of the and
fail measure up to the ideas OF the civic who
earnestly petitioning for the erection of building
Aside from the defects in the existing structure it is not well
located strucuray adapted to its teachers college
The National Capital Park Planning Commission after
exhaustive study of the problem selected suitable site
teachers college the frontage the north side Uphu
between Thirteenth Fourteenth This
Of the grounds of the old tuberculosis Hospital.
Immediately adjacent the educational
center the District Elementary junior high senior high
schools located what the original There
Library,
the Health School will be turned
crippled children Nearby there other elementary and high
schools would available
practice teaching by students of the teachers college
erection building Wilson College
another problem. What with
building? This will have answered competent
engineers and the Congress which rules
Crippled Children Education Boosted by Capper
local Kiwans Club proposes
part remodeng
building Thirteenth and Allison
crippled present being
Quoted Langdon Building adapted
such at expenditure of between three and four thou
dollars The of the required remodeng
ascertained definitely.
The chief advantages of the change the
High permit
instruction of the pupils beyond the sixth grade by teachers from
the Junior high school.
highly praised by Senator
Arthur Cappr of for its interest The
man of many interests enterprises and he goes into all of
them wholeheartedy The welfare wbng conentnen of
the voeess and people OF the District Columbia
among his hobbies
Senator has taken the stand that there must be
available for the education the crippled boys and
girls District every business
and trade organization is ready to back him up.
Kiwanis Senator have taken hold
problem practical way opportunity
organizations help by prompt
affirmative action.
District Legislative Programs in the Making
indications consolidated legisla
tive the District before the third session of the Seventy
sixth Congress there will be The House
District Committee scheduled morning
time the session being prepare
Commissioners have sent to the Budget Bureau five
pieces of District legislation which they desire advocate before
Congress- They follows:
l. Retirement pensions Of the judges of the Municipal
Police and Juvenile Courts reaching the of 64
least IL consecutive The scale benefits
the pan graduated according to the length Of time
served
Permit the Commissioners to accept and maintain
Municipal Center development for policemen
killed in the line of duty.
the District Unemployment Compensation Act to
exempt unemployment payments distributing newspapers
Establish regulations governing professional engineers
organization regulation cooperaves such
organizations
pending providing for the retirement of the
judges.
Commissioners result of the of the defense
the District have decided Congress deficiency
consolidate the nine stations
report of the Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Capt another recommendation
this report will the appointment
the marshal member of the Co-ordnating Committee
The Committee the District expected to formulate