Evening star., 1942-02-27
1943SchooI Budget,
Better Than 1942,'
Reviewed al Meetinq
HeinmiIIer Explains
Coins in items Despite
Construction Setbucks

School officials last night outlined
to about 100 Representatives Of civic
and parent-teacher associations the
status of the $14,297, $50 school bud
get for 1943, now before Congress.
Although expressing concern as to
the fate Of numerous building prof.
ects because of priorities, A. w
Heinmiller, assistant superintendent
of schools in charge of the budget
told the group at the Thomson
School that the 1943 estimates rep
resent a better budget than the
present one.
The Budget Bureau, he said. made
no changes in the estimates ap-
proved by the Commissioners except
to transfer q $4,000 item for the
equipment of the Kramer Junior
High School to a current supple
mental appropriation request and
to add a $4,000 item for in-grade
promotions authorized under the
Ramspeck Act. Transfer Of the
Kramer item, he explained, was tc
permit the acquisition of the equip
ment in advance Of the 1943 budget
which will not 60 into effect until
July /. The War Production Board
recently has approved project rat
ing for the materials necessary tc
complete Kramer as relief fol
the Anacostia Junior-Senior High
School
Two New Construction Projects.
Only two new construction prof.
ects are carried in the bill as n
stands, he said One is the $500, ,00C
Kelly Miller Junior High School al
Forty ninth street and Washington
place NE. to relieve the overcroWded
Browne Junior High in the colored
divisions and the other is the Abbot
Vocational School. The initial ap-
preparation for Abbot to be built In
Brentwood Park is already In the
present budget, but work has not yet
started. The 1943 item would pro-
vide money for completion.
Mr.. Heinmiller said some Of the
building projects denied In the
budget might be sought from the
Lanham Housing Act now before
the Senate Committee on Education
and Labor.
In the operation expenses OF the
schools, he continued, an increase of
some $817 900 was granted over the
current budget due to new positions
caused by new construction, q large
boost in the repairs items, rising
costs of supplies, and furniture for
the new buildings.
The increase of some $4,000 In
the repair item, he said, represented
the best progress made by school
officials in any single year. They
have long pointed out that despite
the addition of many millions o
dollars worth of school properties ir
the last decade. the repair fund ha!
remained stationary and in some
years has actually been less than
it was 10 years ago.
80 New Teachers.
Thirty-two teachers have been ap.
proved, Mr.. Heinrniller said, to sup.
ply new construction and alleviate
congestion in the colored schools
One librarian is also provided.
The school official cited th'
formation of flying squadron oI
custodians to meet emergency de-
mands as being included in the 5;
new custodial positions approved.
Mr.. Heinmiller was making hi
first appearance before the civil
representatives in his capacity a.
budget off1cer-a recently createt
post. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle
president of the board, presided ant
First Assistant Supt. Robert L. Hay
cock, in the absence Of Supt. Franl
w. Ballou, who was III, outlined SOM
of the policies that have guided tn
boards budget building.
Mr.. Haycock disclosed in respons
to query from the floor that tn
Kimball Elementary School may b
nearly completed without having Il
ask for priority on critical ma
| terials.
DR.. E. r. Harris OF the Federation
Of Civic Associations asked for a
additional superintendent for tn
colored division, saying that Firs
Assistant Supt. Garnet c. Wilkinsol
is overworked.
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