Evening star., 1942-01-24
$50 in Defense Bonds
Brought in Daily by
Teachers Campaign
Trade Boord Committee
is Told Of SoIes;; Lag
In Repairs Denied

An average of $50 worth of de-
tense stamps and bonds are being
sold daily in the public schools in
. voluntary buying campaign Of
teachers, the Washington Board Of
Trade Schools Committee learned
yesterday.
School officials told of the cam
paign at meeting of the commit
tee in Schneiders Restaurant and
at the same time, disclosed they had
received several requests from teach
ers asking permission to set up "de-
fense banks" in classrooms to per-
NIT children to buy stamps.
Division Supervisor Henry W..
Draper said that more than $2,l00
in bonds had been purchased in
Division l of the public school sys-
tenn alone. Miss May P. Bradshaw,
principal of Roosevelt High School
and chairman of a committee to
promote sales, told the trade board
body every employe of junior and
senior high schools had pledged to
purchase stamps each month.
Requests of teachers to sell stamps
in classrooms have been referred
to Franklin School authorities for
approval, members were informed.
School Repair Lag Denied.
Answering reports that the Dis
trict Repair Shop was "woefully
behind" in attending to repairs in
local schools, H. w. Draper, shop
superintendent, explained to the
School Committee that the backlog
of pending repairs is lighter than
it has been in many years. OF the
12.250 varied requests submitted to
the shop by school administrators
in the past 30 months. 1,l80 jobs
have yet to be completed, he said.
With present funds and personnel
permitting an average of 500 repair
jobs completed month, the shop is
little more than two months on its
work, Mr.. Draper said. He blamed
lack of funds for this condition,
which he said at one time had been
much worse"
I'VE have to look after 185 school
buildings and there are breakdowns
occurring hourly" the Superln-
tendent commented. He admitted
that a few requests for repairs were
as much as a year old, but said he
was prevented by lack of funds from
completing the jobs.
Would Change Pay Raise Bill.
The Schools Committee took ex-
ception to a Senate bill proposing
blanket increase of 331s per cent in
salaries of all custodial employees of
the public schools and in its place
made the following recommendation
to the trade boards Executive Com
mittee:
That caretakers and employees of
grades 2, and be given increases
of 20 per cent; grades and 6. a 10
per cent increase; grades Z and 8,
IA per cent increase, while grade 8
employees are to receive no increase.
Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, COM
mittee member, spoke briefly on the
need of more technical training in
schools to equip the business world
with more specialists. He said there
should be more must subjects" for
pupils rather than to permit them to
range over wide field in choosing
their studies.
Guests included H. X. Bosley, as
sistant principal of the Woodrow
Wilson: DR.. Elmer E. Newton, prin-
cipal of Western; Frank C. Daniel,
principal of Mckinley; N. A. Danow-
ski, assistant of Eastern; John F.
Brougher, assistant at Calvin Cool
idge; Lawrence G. Hoover, principal
of Central, and DR.. Carroll R. Reed,
assistant superintendent of schools.
George Keneipp. chairman of the
committee, presided.