Evening star., 1942-05-27
School Board
RefusesUnifornl
Shift 10 Khaki
Cost Increase Believed
Offset by Fact Many
Cadets Have Blues

The Board of Education today re.
fused to change the present blut
high school cadet uniform to KHAKI
next year, despite prospect Of in.
creases in the cost Of the blue ones
Through its committee on student
activities. previously empowered tc
act for the board, the members de-
cided there would be little advant-
age in change.
Action was taken at a special
meeting of three school board CON-
mittees at the Franklin School. The
other two committees were the
Finance Committee and the Com
mittee on Community Use Of Build
ings and grounds.
Action taken by these latter two
groups, which must be presented for
approval at the next meeting of the
full Board of Education June 3
includes:
A proposed relaxation Of board
rules to permit duly authorized
civilian defense committees to stage
benefit programs in school build
ings and grounds to raise funds for
civilian defense equipment.
Changing the setup Of the schoo
budget to reduce the number Of
separate appropriations from more
than 80 to 7.
Many Already Have Blues.
The uniform proposal before the
student activities group was whether
or not khaki outfit, costing slightly
less than $1l. should be substituted
for the blue dress garb, which next
year will cost from 81 to SO more
than this year or about $33 in the
case of officers.
1t was estimated that from 200
to 300 blue uniforms must be bought
at the increased rate, but board
members felt that the shift to khaki,
while having advantages in extended
order drills and calisthenics over
the dress outfits, would have to be
purchased by much larger num-
Der Of cadets who already have the
blue outfits.
In agreeing to relax its rigid
regulations on the use of school
property for fund-raising events, the
committee on community use Of
buildings and grounds insisted that
permission for such uses should be
made only to civilian defense COM
mittees duly approved and author
lied by the Office of the Co-ordinator
for Civilian Defense. In addition,
all gross receipts from such benefit
programs, with the exception of
custodial and other necessary build
ing maintenance charges, must be
used for the purchase of civilian
defense equipment only.
The proposed new budget setup,
which will be applied to the 1914
school estimates, will divide the
school appropriation into the fol-
lowing categories: General admins
tration. general supervision and in
struction, vocational education un-
der the George-Deen Act, operation
of plants and maintenance. repairs
to buildings and grounds, auxiliary
education services, and teachers re-
tirement.
Elasticity Seen Added.
School Budget Officer A. w. Helm
miller told the committee the pro-
posed change will add elasticity to
the budget and would set it up ac-
cording to the functions of the
school system He said it has the
approval of District Budget Officer
Walter L. Fowler and the Bureau of
the Budget The Health Depart
ment budget has already been reor-
ganized along such functional lines,
Mr. Heinmiller said, and other mu-
nicipal departmental estimates are
slated to undergo the same revision.
Board members also indicated un-
willingness to compel by general
order that all school teachers remain
here until after the next Selective
Service registration June 30. DR..
Chester w. Holmes, who has super
vised the previous draft registra-
tions, said some 1900 to 1,5O0 teach
ers would be necessary to do the job.
He said he believed a sufficient
number could be obtained on a VOL
unteer basis from those remaining
here to avoid issuing a blanket order
for the more than 5000 teachers in
the whole system Normally the
teachers are allowed to begin their
vacations before the end of June,
and this will be followed, it was in
dicated, unless the requisite number
fails to volunteer,