Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-14
School Project
LIST Includes
d Proposals
Small Outlay Will Bor
Many Needs, BoIIou
Tells Civic Groups

Some % school construction items
were submitted last night to the
Board of Education for inclusion in
the 1943 school budget on the heels
of the 1912 estimates which were
reported to the House yesterday.
Approximately 100 representatives
of civic groups and parent-teacher
associations appeared before the
school officials at the Thomson
School and filed statements of their
needs.
Many of the requests were for
recreational facilities and many
others for minor repairs to present
buildings. Supt. of Schools Frank
w. Ballou noted an increasing de-
mand for clerks to assist elementary
school principals. Other additional
personnel was sought.
Small Allowances Cited.
In a brief address at the conclu-
sion of the filing of requests, DR..
Ballou told the group the small
allowances for maintenance and re-
pair of buildings and grounds would
not permit carrying out of many OF
the needs. He pointed out that the
school officials had sought some
S750,OOO in the repair fund while the
amount allowed by the House Appro-
priations Committee report yester-
day was only 100000. One OF the
requests filed was from the George
town Progressive Citizens Assocla-
ton asking that 100000 be appro-
priated in this item for 1913.
Requests for $4,000 to $50 900 were
made for teachers for the shut-in
children for 1943 as we'll as for lib
new teachers in the colored schools.
Expansion of the number Of speech
teachers, especially in the public
schools, also was urged.
Yesterdays budget reported to the
House provided for four new school
construction projects. The more
than 20 sought for inclusion next
year included 16-room extenslble
replacement for the Birney School:
a new Junior high between Gordon
and Deal Junior Highs; an addition
to the Randle Highlands School; re-
placement of the Peabody
School; an additional wing at Eliot
Junior High; an elementary school
at Mount Olivet road and Childress
street NE: a junior high school on
Mount Olivet road and completion
of the Calvin Coolidge Senior High.
Requests Are Listed.
Also completion of the Paul Junior
High: an additional school in the
vicinity of the Douglass-Simmons
School: a u to 15-room addition to
Banneker Junior High; four-room
addition to the Morgan School; an
eight-room addition to the Logan
School; an addition to Armstrong
Senior High; site and first four
rooms of an eight room elementary
school at Fifteenth and Hamlln
streets NE; new roof at Macfar-
land Junior High School; addition
of a wing and gym to Taft Junior
High a replacement for the Cranch-
Tyler; a new colored elementary
school in Brookland: an elementary
school in Bradbury Heights on a site
at Hillside road and Alabama avenue
;. E. and auditoriums for the Wood
ridge, webster, Harrison and Ru-
dolph Schools.
DR.. Ballou warned Of the difficulty
of getting gymnasium auditoriums
after the school was completed.
we can't get an assembly hall in
lieu of classrooms, he told the citi-
zens. explaining that the officials
had better luck when the auditorium
was included in the original unit OF
the structure.
One delegate asked for a SWIM
ming pool in his area but added that
until this was possible a wading pool
would do.
A letter filed with the board by
Mrs. Robert M. La Toilette, jr., COM
planned of the playground at the
E. V. Brown School, which her son
attends.