Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-16

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Republican State Finance Com
Committee chairman; B. Caro-
District Committee chairman.
Board Lists School
Construction Priority
To Cure Double Shifts
The Board of Education has re-
jected three different proposals
made by the District Commissioners
to end part-time instruction for
some children and instead has sug-
gested the city heads assign high
priorities to permanent new schools.
The Commissioners had suggested
erection of several cheap temporary
school buildings, longer hours for
schools on double shifts and use OF
buses to take pupils to less crowded
schools
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, superin-
tendent of schools, told a board
meeting yesterday that only one of
the suggestions would be partially
applicable to solve the situation. 1t
may be possible in spring and fall
for elementary school part-time
classes to begin at $50 am. instead
OF 8 am. and run to 4:45 pm. in
stead Of 4:30 pm. But in the winter
months this extra time would result
in sending children on the second
shift home at dusk, an unsafe hour,
DR.. Corning said.
TempOraries Become Permanent.
Cheap temporary buildings are all
one-story and take UP more space
than permanent building would,
DR.. Corning told the board. In ad-
dition, they are supposed to be
Temporary" but tend to stay in use
for years to the detriment of the
community.
Extension of the two-shift junior
high school hours any further than
the present system of 8 am. to 5
pm. would get the students up too
early to travel long distances to
class in the morning and would
send them home in buses full of
Office workers. DR.. Corning said.
The suggestion of transporting the
1000 youngsters now on the two
shifts around the city in buses is
impractical because of the traffic
hazards. disciplinary problems and
confusion involved, particularly for
younger children, DR.. Corning said.
Priority Needs Decided.
The new schools already author
lied by Congress to which the city
heads should give immediate pri-
GRITTY are the Richardson Elemen-
tary, Kimball Elementary addition,
Logan Elementary addition, Miller
Junior High School and Randall
Junior High School addition, the
board decided.
II appropriations are made as re-
quested for 1867, priorities also
should be assigned to the Sousa
junior High School and the Walker
Jones and Male Elementary Schools,
the board said.
While most Of the students at
tending school part of the school
day are colored the most serious
overcrowding Is at the Kimball, at
Minnesota avenue and Ely place
Sc, for white students, DR.. Corn
ing said. The construction planned
could relieve part-time classes for
2,485 Of the 4,015 elementary school
pupils on part time and for all of
the 3,135 junior high school students
on part time, he added.
The board also decided the fact
that a child walks past beer parlor
on the way to school-or perhaps
even eats lunch there's no reason
to protest the sale of beer at deli
catessen located beyond the legal
limit of 800 feet from a school build
ing
In hotly discussed decision, six
OF the nine members voted not to
support the objection of their prin-
cipals and superintendent to issu-
ance of beer license to the Super
Delicatessen, 2451 Good Hope road
Sc. The delicatessen will be opened
by two veterans 600 feet from the
back of the Stanton School at
Hamilton and Good Hope roads Sc.
School officials had asked the board
to request the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board not to issue the beer
license on the ground that the STAN
ton has no restaurant and children
would eat lunch at the delicatessen.
Home Drinking Cited.
If you are going to keep a child
from knowing there is a glass of
beer in the world, you will have to
keep him away from home, where
his father is drinking one," DR.
James A. Cannon, physician mem
Der of the board, said.
George E. G. Hayes and John H.
Wilson, lawyer members of the
board, said that once an establish
ment was beyond the legal 300-foot
limit, the board had no right to in
terfere with the right of a man to
earn living by selling legitimate
commodity.
Adelbert w. Lee and Mrs. Velma
Williams voted to uphold the OBJ
lection of schools officials. Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, president,
was not obliged to vote.
Dr EOrnino told the hoard ho