Evening star., 1946-06-20


highs, two vocational schools and
five senior highs. In addition it
includes increased play areas for
nine schools and new warehouse.
To benefit by the construction are
Edmonds, Maury, Madison, Pea
body, Hilton. Curtis, Hyde, Addison,
Van Ness, Bell, Harrison, Lovejoy,
Slater and Langston Elementary
Schools; Powell and Banneker Jun
ior Highs, Phelps and Washington
Vocational Schools, and Coolidge,
Spingarn, Armstrong, Dunbar and
Cardozo Senior Highs.
No Location for Headquarters.
Gen. Young felt adequate admin
istrative facilities are key to OFF,
cient operation and included an item
of 81 ,0O0, 900 for a new headquarters
without specifying any location.
School headquarters now spills over
the Franklin School at Thirteenth
and K streets NV. into several
other buildings.
Between $4,000 900 and $4,000 900
worth of construction to start the
program is now contained in the
1947 District budget still before Con-
gress and due to become effective
July /, if passed in time. Some
welfare construction is likewise car
ried.
Double Shifts Troublesome.
In connection with the double
shifts in schools the Engineer Com
missioner told his colleagues:
"The troubles of the Kimball
School have been widely advertised
and given ample publicity by the
understandable complaints of the
parents. The much worse and much
more extensive troubles of the double
shift Negro schools have received
practically no publicity"
The double shift at Kimball affects
$50 pupils. he said, while that in 20
colored schools affects more than
1000.
In the welfare recommendations
released yesterday, the figures were
divided into institutional and nom
institutional categories. Improve
ments for institutions were estimated
at $10,328, 1853 and the rest at
$23 $50 300. Again parts of both are
carried in the 1947 budget.
High lights Of the welfare picture
for the next six years, if approved
by the Commissioners, include the
transfer of the National Training
School for Girls and the Industrial
Home School for White Children to
Laurel, where the child welfare. CEN
ter ultimately will be built around
the existing District Training School
for the Feeble-minded. This is also
slated for enlarging.
New Home for Aged.
The Home for Aged and Infrm at
Blue Plains is to be torn down, ex-
cept for the new heating plant now
under construction, and rebuilt.
Removal of the Industrial Home
School for Colored Children from
Blue Plains to Laurel was suggested
by Gen. Young, although this was
not a part of the plan suggested by
Welfare Director Ray HUFF. If this
were done, the Engineer Commits
sioner said, it would leave only the
Home for Aged on the large
Blue Plains tract, which could be
scaled down and the land sold
for nearly enough to finance the
transfer.
improvements at the District Jail
will probably await the recommen-
dations of j. Ellis Overlade, Federal
prisons expert who is now reorgan-
izing the adult penal institutions at
the request. of the Commissioners.
Strengthening of the facilities at
Lorton Reformatory to include a
better canning plant, with deep
freeze facilities; a larger machine
shop, better garage and vocational
training items, is recommended,
however. Additional quarters for
overcrowded inmates at the male
workhouse are supported, plus facil-
tiles for greater segregation and
security in the women's division.
A new municipal lodging house
and new receiving home for chill.
dren are contemplated, and funds
for the latter have been on hand
for some time.
In the unconstitutional activities,
the study allowed increases for pay
ment of patients at st. Elizabeth's
Hospital, deportation of nonresident
insane and child care services
mainly on the ground that salaries
and prices are going up.
Gen. Young differed from Mr..
Huff, however, in the matter of
public assistance. Mr.. Huff wanted
an increase of more than 80 per
cent in the amount on the assump-
ton of increased cases as wartime
employment falls off. Gen. Young
recommended a 20 per cent increase
with the statement that in view
of the demands for postwar needs,
he questioned "the likelihood OF any
large amount of involuntary un-
employment in the District over the
next few years."
S; ~ - -