Evening star., 1946-03-25
FWAReportPuts
DC. Work al
a Millions
Funds Eurmurked
For 4l Projects Here,
Survey Reveals

$4,000, ,000, 900 in public construc
tion for the day when manpowe
and materials again are available
the Federal Works Agency said il
q report today:
But even should this program b,
carried to completion, it still woule
fall short of the bulwark desired
against the eventuality of lear
days, the report emphasized in call.
ing for more planning.
Compiled from a national surve,
of the FWA's Bureau of Community
Facilities, the report covered bott
Federally aided planning and that
conducted by local governments
without outside assistance. Includ-
ing proposed highway construc.
ton, the Nation as of last Decem-
ber 81 had laid plans for $9,942,.
$4,000 worth of public works.
d. C. Earmarks $42 Million.
OF this amount, the District hao
$42 900 earmarked for Al prof.
ects carried in the report, in addi-
ton to $2,410,000 tabled for two
other projects since the survey was
completed.
The survey was made in connec-
ton with the FWA program by
which funds advanced by the Gov
ernment for actual planning OF
projects are repaid when con-
struction starts.
Not included in the report, but
tabled for District construction by
the War and Navy Departments
are projects running into many
more millions.
The District either has received
or applied for total of $470,625 in
planning money for IA projects
These include the K street overpasS,
the Highway Bridge at Fourteenth
street, Dupont Circle underpass and
recreation department facilities.
Projects Are Listed.
TWenty-nine other projects total
ing $12,561 900 have been planned
by the District government without
Federal aid. Nearly $4,000,000 of
this, will be spent for new streets
and highways, repair of them or for
sewer, water and sanitation prof.
ects.
Nine items, totaling Sc, 1850 900, are
for school construction and addi-
tlons. These include the Richard
son Elementary School, Fifty-third
end Blaine streets NE, $433, 100;
Van Ness Elementary School, Fourth
and M streets Sc, $685., 900; Banne-
ker Junior High School, Georgia
avenue and Euclid street NV, $780,
600; Bell Vocational School of
Brentwood. $1,110,0o0; Cranch-Wal-
ZACH Elementary School, Eleventh
anA G streets Sc, $675, 600; Ben
ming Elementary School, Minnesota
avenue and Benning road NE, $685.
900; Randall Junior High School,
First and I streets S.W., $685., 400;
kelly-Miller Junior High School,
Forty ninth street and Washington
place NE, $780, 900, and Springarn
High School, Twenty-fourth and
Benning road NE, $2,100,000.
Building at Home Planned.
Other items include construction
at Receiving Home for Children in
Brentwood Park, $285, 600; heating
plant for the Home for the Aged
and 1nf1rm, $375, 900; a health center
at Seventh and o streets NV,
$375 900, and a transfer station for
the city's refuse division, $4,000.
A children's hospital and clinical
pathological laboratory are proposed
for Gallinger Hospital at cost OF
$870000. An incinerator will be
built at West Virginia avenue and
Mount Olivet road NE. for 1897 600
High on the list of works proposed
by the Army is a $29, $4,000 addi-
ton to the new War Department
Building at Twenty-first street and
Virginia avenue NV. The Navy is
planning an annex to its department
headquarters at $46, 100000.
The Corps of Army Engineers has
planned a number of projects, in
cluding the Sal, 100000 water system
improvement program. The corps
has $413,000 for construction of a
pier in the Washington Channel i'm
provement plan and has $138, 900 for
reclamation of Anacostia river flats,
an old program interrupted by the
war.
George H. Field, Bureau of Com
munity Facilities commissioner
said the survey was an answer to
a request for more information
made last summer by Senator Mur-
ray, Democrat, of Montana, chair
man of committee to study and
survey problems of small business
enterprises, and Representative
Colmer, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman of committee on post
war economic policy and planning.
Program Held Inadequate.
Bearing out the recurring pleas
OF Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
Federal Works administrator, for q
great stockpile of planning as in
surance against "leaf-raking" days,
the report said:
"The total volume of completed
plan preparation falls far short of
the volume of construction of State
and local public works required to
meet needs which may arise within
the next few years. Additional en-
phasis should be placed on compile
tion of the drawings and specifica-
tions."
This referred to $4,404 ,316, 900
worth of construction-about half
of the proposed total-which has
been brought up to design stage"
without Federal assistance. A "con-
siderable portion" of this may not
be completed without Federal aid,
the report said.
OF $30.000,000 appropriated by
Congress to lend for planning, $13,-
248,000 had been advanced Decem-
ber 81 to assure groundwork for
1854 ,932, 900 Of construction-about
half of it in New York State.
Applications for similar loans to-
falling $29,076,000 were being re-
viewed-about twice the amount of
funds remaining for planning.
Many Agencies Consulted.
The Community Facilities field
staff contacted 1890 Government
units and decided plan preparation
should be stimulated ito a larger
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