Evening star., 1941-03-09
Planners Urqe
S6,7O5,859 for
Nearby Work
Maryland Projects
To Be Spread Over
Next Six Years
BY BEN III. PEARSE,

program for State institutions SUBJ
mitted to legislators here for study
yesterday calls for expenditures Of
s6,7O5,8 ,859 for projects near WASH
ington, approximately one-third Of
the total requested.
Prepared by the Maryland State
Planning Commission and the De-
partment of Budget and Procure
ment on the basis of needed capital
improvements to be spread over the
next six years. the estimates total
S18 500 051, exclusive of a S75,000,-
600 road program to be financed
from gasoline taxes. Capital i'm
provementS of the State institu-
tions are financed by bonds amor
tiZed by the State real estate tax
Of about % cents per 500 valua-
ton
For the next biennium, however,
the State Planning Commission and
Budget Department recommended
only S2,672,0OO, of which about
s704 900 would be spent in the near
Washington projects. To the sum
recommended may be added one of
sl,500000 for three chronic disease
hospitals, one on the Eastern and
one on the Western Shore and the
third at a site not yet chosen, to
replace the various county aims
houses.
Not Yet Approved,
Legislative approval has yet to
be given this project, although
claims have been advanced that
State institutions can be operated
more economically than individual
county homes. Approval would
bring the total for the next two
years to S4,172,0OO. The capital
Improvements program is one the
major problems to be decided before
the end of the current session Of
the Legislature and will be taken
up within the next week or 10
days.
The improvements include every
thing of a permanent nature from
land to buildings, boilers, potato
peelers, dormitories, books, Offices
and Office equipment, hearing-aid
equipment for the Maryland
School for the Deaf at Frederick,
and vocational equipment for the
training schools for white and
colored children.
NJ U. Estimate Largest.
The largest estimate of needed
improvements came from the Uni
versity of Maryland. which asked
Fay r. Do
S2,133,650 for the College Park de-
partments and $354.000 for the coll
ored branch at Princess Anne. Rec
concentrations for the coming bien-
MUM by the commission and budget
department amounted to 100000,
which would allow s65,OOO for the
Baltimore schools, 100000 for
projects at College Park and s35 900
for Princess Anne.
Next largest was the program
submitted by officials of the Chelt-
enham Training School for Colored
/ Boys in Prince Georges County.
totallng S1.3l7900 The Legislature
is expected to approve the COM
mission and budget department
recommendation of S255 900 for the
next two years. Recommendation
Tor l943-5 total S146,600 and for
1857 S255 900, a total for the six
year period of S668. 200.
Gets More Than Asked.
Only one institution can expect to
receive more than was asked for it,
the State Teachers College at
Bowie. which requested $4,000 for
gymnasium and $10600 for a
water system. The commission and
budget department recommended
100000, all of it to be allotted during
the next two years. The extra
5000 will be spent on the library.
The Maryland House of Correction
at Jessup, in Anne Arundel County,
asked S226,000 over the next six
years and was recommended for
5000 in 1941-3 and $4,000 in
l943-5, a total of S65,000.
For the Maryland Training School
for Colored Girls at Glen Burnie,
Anne Arundel County, a total of
S623,038 for the six-year period was
asked, of which 100000 was recon-
mended during the next two years,
S108,560 for 1895, and S2OS, $50 for
1851, total of S377120.
Program Subject to Changes.
The Maryland State School for
the Deaf asked for SIS 900. of which
the commission and budget depart
ment recommended $4,000 for the
next biennium. No recommendation
was made beyond 1943.
Of the $54500 asked for the st.
Mary's Female Seminary in st.
Marys County, $4,000 was recon-
mended, all of it to be spent within
the next two years. No recon-
mendation beyond that time was
made.
Requests for the military depart
ment. which includes repair and
maintenance of State National
Guard armories, were tentatively
set at 100000 for each of the next
two bienniums, of which the armor-
les at Silver Spring and Kensing-
ton would receive their proportion
ate share
While the program was designed
to provide a basis for long-range
planning for State institutions, it is
admitted that national affairs may
change the program on short notice.
Continuance of the present inter-
national situation requiring empha-
sis on national defense would curtail
the State program, and a slacken-
| ing in national defense efforts
would probably result in extension
of the State building program to
aid employment, it was said.
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