Evening star., 1946-06-26
FundsRequested
For School Site
In B|adensburq
Shugort Also Asks
$4,000 to Build
Vocational Addition

land on which to construct a new
high school in Bladensburg and for
money to erect $35 900 addition to
the present Bladensburg High School
for use as county vocational educa-
ton center has been presented to
the Prince Georges County COM
missioners.
In letter to the commissioners,
who held their weekly meeting at
Upper Marlboro yesterday, County
School Supt. G.. Gardner Shugart
asked that approximately $4,000 be
appropriated to buy a 25-acre site
IN Bladensburg for the new school.
Location of the land was not re-
vealed.
Mr. Shugart told the county heads
the school would have an eventual
enrolment OF from 1000 to 1900
students and would replace the
present Bladensburg High School,
which would be turned over as an
elementary school,.
Fund Denied in Spring.
The School Board last March
asked the commissioners to include
$4,000 in this years budget for pur-
chase of the same ground, but it
was not granted, Mr.. Shugart said.
The county now would be able to
buy the tract at lower price, he
added.
The proposed addition at the
present school would be used fol-
vocational training for high school
boys during the day and as a vet
erans' job training center at night
the school superintendent explained
Such a building Is urgently needed
Mr.. Shugart said, pointing out that
a building in use for the same pur-
pose. but on a halliday basis, at
the University of Maryland campus
during the last two years will nc
longer be available to the county
Such a program probably would
have to be discontinued If new facili-
ties are not built, he said.
When the new high school is
finished, the school addition would
be reconverted to a cafeteria, Mr.
Shugart said.
Zoning Changes. Authorized.
Five zoning changes were ap-
proved by the commissioners, in
cluding three from residential tc
industrial zoning. The latter in
cluded petitions by Joseph P. Blon-
dell for reclassification of property
on the east side of Kenilworth ave-
nue. driver road, adjacent to the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tuxedo;
H. D. Friedman for reclassification
of the Leapley tract and part of the
Owens tract, north of Tuxedo road
and the B. g. o. Railroad tracks
Tuxedo. and the Berwyn Fuel &
Feed Co. for reclassification of prop
erty on the west side of the B. G O.
Railroad to the north of Thomas
avenue, extended, Berwyn.
Also approved were the petitions
of Marion E. West for reclassifica-
ton of part of lot As and lots 26 and
81 at ALL Silver Hill road, Suitland,
from residential to commercial, and
Michael and Anna Liberatore for
reclassification Of lots 13, IA and Is,
block B. Defense highway, near
Fifty-sixth avenue, Villa Heights,
from residential A to residential B.
Permission to operate a garage
and filling station on property at
lots l, 2, II and 10, block AZ, section
2, Beltsville, was granted Arnold C.
Baker.
Assessment Hearing Set.
The commissioners announced
they would hold a tax assessment
hearing for residents of the county's S
second election district in Bladens-
burg at 10 am. July 80 in the County
Courthouse.
County Engineer Arthur w. Tay-
man was directed to examine street
conditions in the Coral Hills special
improvement community and make
recommendations, following a plea
by j. E. Prince, president of the
Coral Hills Citizens Association, that
recently completed hard-surfaced
streets were beginning to crack.
A delegation from the Colored Co.
operative Association of the county
fifth district, which asked that the
7-mile T. B.-Accokeek road be hard
surfaced, was told that such work
was included on the county secondary
road improvement program for l947
and would be started next spring
Ralph Lancaster, president of the
group, said three school buses use
the road daily.