Evening star., 1944-10-19
Students 10 Get
Time0ffforYu|e
Post Office Jobs
Glasses to Continue
For Others, However,,
Board Decides

The Board of Education will ex-
cuse all children over IA years of
age, with satisfactory marks and
written permission from parents. to
work In the post Office or stores
during the last four school days be-
fore Christmas vacation begins De-
cember %, 1t was decided yesterday. -
Glasses will continue for the rest
OF the students, however. Last year
both as a fuel-saving measure and
wartime employment concession.
all schools were closed the four
days and the Easter vacation short
ened to make up.
This year the fuel situation does
not warrant closing of schools
before the scheduled Christmas
vacation, Robert l.. Haycock, super
intendent of schools, said. Board
members requested strict observ-
ance of child labor regulations by
employers.
School Addition Funds Asked.
Funds for an eight-room addi-
tion to the Kimball School, Mime
sofa avenue and Ely place Sc, now
forcAd to operate on a double shift
because of overcrowding, were re-
quested by the board to be placed
by the Commissioners in the first
deficiency item sent to Congress.
The board also asked that funds
for construction of an eight-room
elementary school in the vicinity of
Fifteenth and Hamlin streets NE.
be included in the deficiency re-
quest.
High school seniors and all vo-
cational school students will, with
permission of parents, have chest
X-rays for tuberculosis such as
those taken of 1000 school en-
ployes during the summer, the
board also decided. In addition, tenn
porary teachers holding positions
for more than a month were or
dered to be X-rayed.
Request for Nursery.
A request for demountable nurs-
cry school building on the site of
the old Van Buren School, v street
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
NE. was forwarded by the board to
the Federal Works Agency. Housing
developments have risen so rapidly
in the Anacostia area that no space
| is left for badly-needed nursery fa-
cihties, Mr.. Haycock said. The de-
mountable building will be erected
after the old Van Buren is torn
down and will utilize its light and
water connections.
The board refused to release the
Addison School in Georgetown to
the District Commissioners for per-
manent use as health clinic, on
! the grounds the site will be used
for new school or playground
later. The Commissioners had asked
for permanent release so that they
would be free to spend considerable
funds revising the structure.
License Again PROTESTED.
For the third time in five years
the board protested proposed issu-
ance OF a license to sell beer and
wine for consumption off the prem
ises at a grocery store at 301 P
street NV, 900 feet from Arm
strong High School On the evil
dence Of F. A. Gregory, principal,
that some of the 1900 students buy
groceries in the store, the board for
warded a protest to the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board. The store
applied in 1899 and 1910 for a IL
cense, but was denied it on similar
protests by the board. DR.. G. w.
Wilkinson, assistant superintendent,
said
Twenty student nurses from
Emergency Hospital will Join the
63 Garfield Hospital nurses now TAX
ing courses at Wilson Teachers COL
lege. the board decided.
After long discussion on the ad-
visibility of increasing use of paper,
the board members decided to in
crease its use more than $50 per
cent by sending copies of rules of
the board to 164 schools and by
sending minutes of board meetings
twice a month to SO schools and
supervising principals. More than
$4,000 sheets of paper will be added
to the $4,000 normally used by the
board each year, it was estimated.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith and Adel-
bert w. Lee, members, urged the
increase to enable school employees
to see the rules they are being asked
| to carry out