Evening star., 1941-04-17
Schools Seek $4,000
To Offset Drain on
Supplies by Defense
ReereotionoI Activity
Also Cited os Cause
For Deficiency Request

The Commissioners will be asked
to approve an appropriation of s30,-
900 in the next deficiency bill to
replenish fuel, gas and electricity
supplies overtaxed by recreation,
draft and national defense uses of
school buildings during the last
year.
The Board of Education voted to
seek the supplementary appropria-
tion yesterday, explaining that the
amount would cover both require
ments for the remainder of the
school year and stock school bins
with enough coal to cover the be-
ginning of the next year in Sep
tember.
Taking advantage of unexpended
balances in the funds for school
officers and teachers, the members
approved a widespread program of
guidance In the junior and senior
high schools temporarily until the
end of the school year. Drawing
on the same balances, they also
approved the temporary assignment
of assistant principals to 10 junior
high schools. All of these items
have been sought in schools budgets
unsuccessfully.
Earlier, the members used left
over funds in the teachers salary
item to hire nearly 80 temporary
teachers to reduce the load in the
colored schools for the remainder
of the school year.
Woodworth Promoted.
The money becomes available
through turnover in the school per-
sonnel by retirements, deaths and
designations.
L. F. Woodwork, physical ed
ucation teacher at Central High
School. was given temporary pro-
motion to assistant principal of
Central. He succeeds j. F.. Brougher,
who was named temporary princi-
pal of Calvin Coolidge Senior High
School, due to the military service
of Principal Thomas J. Holmes.
A. B. Finlayson of the Morse Twin
ing School, was promoted to admin
istrative principal of the Birney
School.
Miss Mildred Green, principal of
the Blake School, was named ad-
ministrative principal of the Henry
Polk School, replacing Miss Bertha
E. Taylor, who was transferred to
administrative principal of the
Addison Curtis Hyde school unit.
From unexpended balances in the
fund for school custodians, addi-
tional custodians were approved
until the end of the year to increase
the care of the school grounds and
buildings.
Approve Name for School.
Board members approved recon-
mendation of First Asst Supt. Gar
net c. Wilkinson that the new COL
ored high school to be built at
Twenty-fourth street and Benning
road be named for DR.. Joel E. Spin
garn. DR.. Spingarn was instru-
mental in obtaining officer training
camps for the colored during the
World War. He established the
Spingarn Award in 1918. which goes
annually to colored person for out
standing achievement. For many
years prior to his death DIR. Spingarn
was associated with the board of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People. He
died in 1899.
,Ioi 1,a
mending the name of a white person,
DR.. Wilkinson told the board men,
berS it was for DR.. Spingarn's con-
tribution to "inter-racial under
standing.
He remembered u.s. he said. st
want to remember him"
Expenses for gas, fuel and elec-
tricity for new schools entering the
school system this year amounted
to $18,914, against an estimate of
$13,179, Asst. Supt. j. j. Crane told
the members. In addition, national
defense uses cost the schools $18 ,928,
against a SIS 1000 allowance for those
expenses. These two items leave
the schools with deficit of $6,434
for the remainder of the year and
a need of $23 ,566 to stock up the
reserves for the beginning of next
year according to school custom, he
said.
Traces Deficits.
Part of the deficit was attributed
by Supt. Frank w. Ballou to the ex-
ira use of buildings by Draft Boards
last fall and another part was laid TO
the fact that school oficials no long