Evening star., 1942-04-08
D. +. Heads Ask
$13,263,965 for
Wartime Needs
Program Adoptes
For Civic Facilities
Under Lunhum Act

Request for ALLEGATION of $13,263,-
965 to the District government out
of the $40 900, 900 fund carried in the
Lanham Act for wartime utilities in
the Metropolitan area, will be filed
with officials of the Federal Works
Agency under a program adopted
today by the Commissioners.
Included in the program will be
additions to Gallinger Hospital and
the District tuberculosis Sanitoria
at Glenn Dale, Md, 10 new tempo
rary school buildings and additions
to 2 other schools, improvement Of
20 to Is playground areas to re-
place recreation grounds taken by
the Federal Government. highway
and sewer and water facilities to
care for defense housing in va
rious communities.
Formal List Prepared.
District Budget Officer Walter L.
Fowler and David Aud, Engineer
Department official, were directed
TO prepare the formal list, applica-
ton and justification for funds and
to transmit them for the commits
sioners to the F. w. A. The funds
sought are only for facilities in the
District or operated by the District
Government.
Officials of the Metropolitan areas
in Maryland and Virginia will
formulate their own requests fer
ALLEGATION of funds from the F. w. A.
The Lanham Act provides $40, 900 900
for utilities in the Metropolitan area
and s30,000,000 for housing.
The commissioners explained that
the schedule adopted today vas the
first request and that they might
find it necessary to file supplemental
requests later.
Gallinger Dormitory Sought.
Yesterday the Commissioners re-
ported a plan to reduce District
costs and the number of patients
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital by erec-
ton of dormitory at Gallinger to
serve as nursing home for HARM
less senile persons now under care
at St. EliZabeths.
They are asking an ALLEGATION Of
s18l5,000 for the Health Depart
ment for the construction of a dor
mitory building having $50 beds at
Gallinger for the housing of the
aged cases which may be shifted
from st. Elizabeths and for the
erection of 250-bed addition to the
Glenn Dale tuberculosis institution
for the care of patients there. Some
of the fund also would go for tenn
porary housing for nurses, physi-
clans and attendants. OF the sum
sought for the Health Department,
100000 will be needed, officials said,
for the building for senile patients
at Gallinger.
The largest sum sought is for SAN
itary engineering, amounting to-
S6.798,150, for sewers and water
mains to serve defense housing
areas. and for new reservoirs at Fort
Totten and at Fort Reno a pumping
station for a section of the Dale
carlia Reservoir and for the provi-
sion of II refuse trucks.
School Projects Listed.
For the public school system the
Commissioners are seeking alloca-
ton of s1,415 900, for the II tempo
rary school projects, mostly in the
Anacostia and Northeast areas. The
school projects are:
A junior high school. at Forty
ninth street and Washington place
NE.
A 10-room- gymnasium addi-
ton to the Taft Junior High School.
An eight-room elementary school
at Forty-ninth and Hayes streets
NE.
Completion OF six clasSrooms at
the Bunker Hill Elementary School.
A new Junior high near Idaho
| and Wisconsin avenues NV.
A four-room elementary rchool
near the Stanton Elementary School
in Southeast Washington.
An eight-room elementary school
to be erected on the Morse -Twining
Replacement site or at Third and K
streets NV.
A four-room elementary school for
Third and G streets NE.
A four-room elementary school on
S street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets NV
An eight-room elementary school
for the Birney playground site
An eight-room elementary school
for the Deanwood playground site
in Northeast Washington and an
eight-room elementary school for
the Garfield playground site.
Funds for Fairgrounds.
For the Community Center De-
partment the Commissioners are
asking s500,0oO for the improvement
of playground sites, already owned
either by the District or the United
States, which are intended as re-
placements for the many recreation
areas taken over by the United
| States.
No structures will be erected
under this plan
These requests total $l2058, $50
and 10 per cent is added for leeway.
bringing the total request to
3,263,96