Evening star., 1946-04-03

tiles being claimed for private hous.
ing, especially for veterans. To thi.
1t added: The price OF construction
materials is not favorable, and the
labor, skilled and otherwise, is not
presently available to take care o1
the private housing needs and at the
same time supply labor for public
construction"
One of the big items left in the
bill was $l,29O,0O0 for continuing
construction of the South Capito
Street Bridge over the Anacostis
River Also untouched were prof.
ects for construction of an incin.
orator costing $283, 600, and for de,
velopment of a $4,000 new refus.
transfer station.
The beginning of huge 43-yeal
program Of expansion of the Dis
trict's water supply system alst
Jared we'll. the committee announc.
ing 1t approved eight of ten projects
Welfare Cuts Sharpest.
The sharpest cut in requests wa!
made by the subcommittee in thu
budget of the Board of Public Wei.
fare, this following an airing Of
many administrative and service
issues at the hearings. The welfare
requests had been shaved to Sl3,.
I'll 800 by the Commissioners. bu,
the Coffee group cut them back tc
SO 949 1888.
The board had asked for 402 extra
employees and the city heads had re-
duced this to 208 The Coffee COM
mittee cut it down to 81. 1t also
reduced funds sought for travel
communications. printing and sup
plies and eliminated all funds for
capital improvements.
The fund for board and care of
children was boosted by $4,000 over
this year. about half that sought by
the board as means of getting
more foster homes into use. The
committee granted five more social
workers to permit "a more thorough
screening of relief applicants.
The Coffee group declared it was
astounding" to note that 81 out
of every Sc" in the total budget
requested would have gone for
public welfare if the budget requests
had been approved. 1t stressed that
more than 20 per cent of the
amounts sought would have gone
for personnel.
School Requests Reduced.
School budget requests were cut
by more than 100000 to bring
the total down to $17,412,472. This
left intact more than $2,579 900 in
capital improvement items out OF
a budgeted request for more than
81, SIG, 900.
In cutting more than s1000,OOt
from the Health Department budget
to reduce expenditures to $3.50 900
the subcommittee said it had elm
mated all increases for new en-
ployes except six laborers to aid
in Kidding the District of rats and
pests. The committee called fol-
a vigorous campaign to remove
rodent harborages. through CO.
operation of health, police ano
refuse forces.
Requests for more than 80 en-
ployes for the Glenn Dale Tubercu-
losis Sanatorium were cut to At
The subcommittee said it believed
this would permit efficient operation
reopening of closed wards and adop.
ton of a 40-hour work week.
Disallowing about half of requested
additional employees for Gallingel
Municipal Hospital. the subcommit-
tee recommended funds for l20 ad-
ditional staff workers and As pupil
nurses Part Of the cuts in person
mel and equipment was based on
reports the new pediatric clinic
would not be ready for use until
late next fiscal year.
Extra Traffic Lights Denied.
AS predicted. the subcommittee
recommended $17,600 for financing
the work of the revived District
Motor Vehicle Parking Agency, to
meet mounting traffic congestion by
provision of of street parking
facilities.
But the subcommittee took sharp
slap at the Department of Vehicles
and Traffic plan for doubling the
number of traffic lights at many
intersections to improve motorists