Evening star., 1946-09-20
Ado. Divisions
Ask S1,346,50
In '48 Budget
Parks, Planning Unit
And Zoo Heads Also
File Fiscal Requests
BY Henry A. Muslin


Budget Officer Walter l.. Fowle
gave the breakdown of requests a.
$566,000 from the tax assessors of
flee, 1924, 100 from the tax collector
office, $390,600 from the. auditor
office and $95,800 from the pur
chasing division.
Appropriations to the four de
partments for the current fsca
year show combined total of ST.,
202,816.91.
80. Three Other Requests.
Three other 1948 budget request
made public today included:
For the office of National Capita
Parks-$2,152,0O0, a figure almos
double the current outlay.
For the National Capital ParI
and Planning Commissioning ,50
or S16,500 more than the commits
sion is now operating on.
For the National Geological Parl
-$6l4, TOO, nearly 64 per cent NOR
than was appropriated for the fisca
year 1947.
Tax Assessor Edward A. Den
said the sum asked for his Office
represented the minimum sun
necessary" to the determining, levy.
ing and billing of about $4,000, ,00(
in taxes on real estate, persona
property, income, estate and inner.
itance and such.
Asks IL New Employees.
Mr.. Dent asked for IL new EN-.
ployes at total cost of more thar
$4,000 in salaries. Upgrading ano
reclassifcation of other employe!
would account for the major par1
of the increase of $104,600 sought
over the 1947 appropriation.
Funds sought by the collector!
Office are substantially less thar
the S355,045 now available. Ta>
Collector Guy w. Pearson pointee
out, however, that the current ap.
preparation includes an item Of
$138,64591 from the third deficiency
appropriation of 1916.
Discounting the deficiency ap.
preparation, additional money re.
quested by the collectors offic,
would go largely toward hiring two
additional parking meter collector!
and providing new Office supple!
and equipment.
Pilkerton Staff Additions.
Auditor Arthur r. Pilkerton asked
for seven new employees at a COM
bined added expense of more thar
$4,000 year to assist with the
job Of checking expenditures of all
public funds. Current ALLEGATIONS te
the auditors office total $685. ,544
Purchasing Officer Roland M
Brennan planned add two employees
to his office force, including chief
inspector of supplies, in asking that
this years appropriation of SIT ,82'
be increased He also asked fol
more than $1,000 worth of new
Office equipment.
Parks Superintendent Irving C
Root asked for $38,250 to continue
preservation and restoration worl
among the 100000 trees in the pari
system. He noted a tremendous
increase in diseased trees and harm.
full insects over the past five years
Another S6,750 was sought to buy
tools and equipment for combating
the diseases.
Park Improvements.
Park improvements, largely in.
volving rehabilitation of 26 of thu
city's TAB park reservations, woulc
require 1855 ,240, it was said, with
$4,000 earmarked for development
OF Melvin c. Hazen Park, between
the Bureau of Standards and Rocl
Creek Park, and $40 900 to begir
work in Brightwood Recreation Cen.
ter at Sixteenth and Kennedy
streets NV.
Three additional engineers, thre
landscape architects and a clerk
stenographer were asked to work ou
plans for deferred projects, for whicl
Sll9,7 TOO was sought.
An outlay of S72,7O9 was sough
for the park police, Plans for tn
force included restora ton of fou
priyates to bring it to prewa
strength, addition of 25 tWo-Wa
radios for motorcycles and of thre
radio-equipped scout cars to be use,
on 24-hour duty in outlying parks
Planning Aides Sought.
In asking for the increases owe
its 1947 ALLEGATION of $4,000, tn
Park and Planning Commission ear
marked S8747 for the hiring of
statistical analyst and craftsman
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III, chairman
pointed out that war-born problem
have built up big backlog of worl
Tor his limited staff.
The two additional employe
sought would enable the commission
10 present more adequately its pro
posaIs ana comments and to prepar
the necessary economic and Stats
tical Justification" Gen. Grant saif
The big increase in funds reo,,este,
for the Zoo would go largely towar
restoration of its seriously ru
down" plant to safe and present
able" conditions, according to D.
William H. Mann, director. H
pointed out that during the fiscs
year 1948 the youngest" Zoo struc
ture would be IL years old, while tn
office building would be 141.
Current allocations for the 70
amount to $685., 400. DR.. Mann sal
he would devote s125 900 of the aske
increase to reconstructing the mai
roadway between the Connecticu
avenue and Harvard street en-
frances. Another $50, ,221 would pa
the salaries of % additional person
mel.
An additional $1,000 will be neces
sary to keep pace with rising foo
costs for the 2,623 animals, bird
and other creatures, DR.. Mann sal,
Ino Va. Know Tho&