Evening star., 1943-01-26
Health Project
Fund Formula
Reported Near
Porron Says Types
For District Weighed;
Hospital Beds Urgent

SSf'sa' HS1S ~ SSht
Surgeon General Thomas Parral
revealed today in a letter released
through Commissioner Guy Masor
that an agreement between thu
Federal Works Agency and the Fed.
eral Security Agency on the type
of public health projects which car
be carried out to advantage under
the terms of the Lanham Act nov
is pending and probably will bt
available within the next few days
The letter was in connection with
the $256,774 item for miscellaneous
public health services that last week
drew a blast from Mr.. Mason
against the United States Public
Health Service because approval OF
the application had been delayed
A PHS spokesman later revealed
that money could not be allocated
from the Lanham Act for such pur-
poses.
DR.. Parran said in his letter that
when the agreement had been
signed, the Public Health Service
would be in position to recommend
to the Budget Bureau that it ap-
prove all or part of a 100000 re-
quest for Lanham Act funds made
by District Health Officer George c.
Rutland.
Hospital Beds Urgent.
The Surgeon General said the rec
ommendation would concern that
part of the program for which there
is imperative immediate need" and
added that the most urgent is for
additional hospital beds.
This dangerous situation should
be relieved without further delay ~
DR.. Parran wrote of the bed prob
lem.
Another development in connec-
ton with Commissioner Mason's at
tack came in report by Henry J.
Sullivan, regional FWA director, to
Davit V. Auld, acting director of
PWA projects for the District. Mr..
Sullivan revealed that of the $685.
744 asked for public health services.
FWA had eliminated s42,l31 be-
cause it constituted capital invest
ment and because it concerned prof.
ects over which final decision as 10
policy had not yet been made.
The regional director said that a
request for $40 ,464 to carry on the
housekeeper aide program also
might be eliminated. He added that
he would like to see this project
retained. but that he realized 1T
may be controversial at the present
time" and did not want to see the
remainder of the program delayed
over consideration of this one item.
S6,235,O00 Allotted.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
out of S11, ,534, 700 in District applica-
tions for Lanham Act funds, ap-
proximately S6,235 900 had been
allotted and part of the projects
involved already are under con-
struction. Requests representing
S632 900 still are pending, while the
remainder have been withdrawn, re-
placed or tabled.
Some of the approved projects
still are awaiting priority rulings by
the War Production Board. These
include a 30-inch trunk water main
to Boiling Field Naval Air Station,
for which s230,000 was allotted; "a
inch trunk water main in Anacostia,
S273, 900: a 10000 ,000- gallon pump at
Dalecarlia, s16.200; 10000, ,000-gallon
reservoir at Fort Reno, $500, 900 !;
two $4,000 000-gallon water pumps
at Dalecarlia, $1,000 construction
of Stanton Elementary School in
the vicinity of Twenty-fifth street
and Alabama avenue Sc, $4,000,
construction of the Merritt Miller
combination elementary and junior
high school at Forty-ninth street
and Washington place NE. 1922,
500; 100-bed venereal disease addi-
ton at Gallinger, S2l8,0O0, 54-inch
gravity main from Dalecarlia filtra-
ton plant to Georgetown Reservoir
s671 900, and a 150-bed maternity
and 135-bed general addition al
Gallinger, 1886, 500.
Now under construction are the
Patterson School Building, estimated
to cost $4,000, and a S550,00O addi-
ton to the filtration plant at Dale
carlla, but the order on the latter
project is expected to be rescindeC
by FWA because of later develop
ments.
Work on $798,900 storm sewer
on South Capitol street is expected
TO begin during the spring, while z
100000 project for the paving OF
Oklahoma avenue NE, and for in.
cidental storm drainage for The
Anacostia Park dormitory project, a
well as for paving B street Sc, cas-
of Nineteenth street, is scheduled Il
start within a week or two.
Recreation Projects Halted.
A S235, 900 project calling for de
velopment of nine recreation site
and another providing for expendi
ture of s478,000 on 20 recreation site
were begun, but recently wer
stopped by order of the War Pro
duction Board.
Action still is pending on appllca
tions requesting allotment of $1,000
for construction of the Birney Ele
mentary School; 1851 900 to pur
chase two recreation centers for wa
workers. one white and one colored
$4,000 to renovate District prop
critics so as TO establish a Southeas
DAY care center. and $218.350 as a
overall sum for renovation, renta
or purchase of ID recreation center
for war workers, locations Of whic
still are to be determined.
Eight projects have been deferre
for the duration. These provid
$4,000 for additions to the fir
alarm system, $83 900 for a sewag
treatment plant at the Distric
Training School near Laurel. $45 go
for an addition to Bunker Hi
School, S47.850 for three comfol
stations, s495 900 for a $4,000, ,0OC
gallon reservoir at Fort Totten, $50
900 for refuse trucks, S770,0 900 for
36-fnch water main and S101 On