Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
Thool Officials Push
appeal for Funds
Tor School Lunches
resent Gosh Available
70 Keep Program
o0'ns Till April !

s,sn eeFed by news that funds are
ENABLE Enable to keep the school lunch
os .am going until April /. schoo,
ssaciais this week plan to redouble
~, @ to prepare an appeal for
n rosaa Act funds to continue the
~. aln the rest of the year.
,ntas good news" Assistant Super
cob ioent Of Schools Robert L. Hay
Co,nr commented yesterday after
commissioner Mason's decision to
daus iue the program for 60 more
nlss Ine program had been sched-
~ nv 70 close next Saturday because
cns MS work Projects Administration
va. ~ no longer pay kitchen personnel.
NJ pay the kitchen personnel,
NJ. Mason and retiring Welfare
tusctor Conrad Van Hyning yes
oeroay decided to use sponsor
sI1oiitrioutions" administered by Mr..
van Hyning and previously used
S ,y 10 pay for food for the school
Inc sponsor contribution" con-
s.SCs OF about $155 900 placed under
siie control of the welfare director
Ior such things as the school lunch
VI penny milk programs.
with economy, said Harry Gard
iier' charged with administering the
program under Mr.. Van Hyning,
me funds can support both per-
sonnel and food for at least 60 more
Gays after next Saturday.
New Survey to Be Asked.
will ask school officials to make
survey to make sure all of the
a'fo0 children now receiving lunch
are absolutely 'necessitous cases."
Mr.. Gardner said. Mr.. Haycock
responded that this economy was
only natural and promised that
such a survey of the school lunch
rolls would be made. Mr.. Gardner
said his limited funds probably
would force him to cut the kitchen
personnel from 10 to 40 employees
as we'll as reduce the number of
Children receiving the lunches.
Meanwhile Mr.. Haycock and Mr..
Van Hyning are continuing to work
on an appeal for kitchen person.
mel funds from Lanham Act re-
sources on the basis of the coming
nursery school program. Such q
Kitchen as the well-equipped school
lunch center on Wisconsin avenue
near @ street NV. will be needed
to feed the hundreds of children
enrolled in the nursery schools, it
Is believed. If the Federal Works
Agency feels the serving Of hot
lunches to 'neceSsitouS' children
and to nursery school pupils is war
activity" Lanham Act funds will be
granted to hire personnel. Money
would still have to be sought to pay
for the food, however, because Lam
ham Act funds cannot be used for
that purpose.
May Appeal to Congress.
Commissioner Mason said yester-
day he has high hopes for grant
ing of Lanham Act funds, but is
keeping in the back of his mind
Vic Jlldb Oil oPPCal iAA5sRp
have to be made to Congress for a
regular appropriation to the Dis
trict to continue the lunches. The
Commissioner has asked Mr.. Gard
ner to watch costs and figures, 1t
was explained, to present to Con-
gress in case Lanham Act funds
do not come through.
Recipients Of lunches may have
TO be cut from 4,700 to around $500
or 5000 during the next two months,
MIR. Gardner said. This figure would
be about one-third of the Kitchens
10000 peak lunch capacity School
officials have hopes that later the
kitchen might be used to feed three
groups OF children - "necessitous'
children, nursery school children
and regular school children whose
parents are not able to be at home
to fix lunch for them. All but the
children would be re-
uuired to pay for the meal.