Evening star., 1947-04-26
Board 10 Shift
Receiving Home
1oLaureI Site
D. G. Plans Repairs
For Temporary Use
Of Property in FoII

l oSS
OF Property in FoH
The Children's Receiving HON.
will be established temporarily a
Jolly Acres, property owned by tLt
District near Laurel, Md, this fal
when the home must evacuate spac,
allotted to it at Gallinger Hospital
the Board of Public Welfare decidee
yesterday.
District engineers already hav,
begun planning repairs at Joll,
Acres, the board was told by Ray
mond F. Clapp, principal assistan
to the welfare board director. TIL,
board will request the Commission.
ers to seek congressional action b,
which a $4,000 appropriation fol
construction of new Nationa
Training School for Girls can b,
used to condition buildings at Joll,
Acres.
Informed of the board action yes.
terday at its monthly meeting, Rep.
resentative Koran, Republican, O
Washington, chairman of the Hous,
Appropriations Subcommittee fo
the District, said the move was il
line with suggestions made recently
by him in his report TO DistricI
Commissioner Guy Mason. It wa.
MIR. Horan who condemned tn,
home last week, forcing officials tt
seek new quarters for it.
Hospital to Need Space.
Nondelinquent children at tn,
home will be transferred some time
next week to the Rapid Treatment
Center at Gallinger Hospital, bu
they can remain there only unit
autumn when the hospital will reec
the space for treatment of respira.
tory cases.
The delinquent children will b,
housed in the Dunbar and Lothro,
cottages at the Girls Training School
while the Lincoln cottage, which wa
condemned by Representative Ho
ran as a "fire trap" will be usee
by the clerical force at the insti.
tuition. Most of the staff of tn,
Children's Home, however, will b,
transferred to Gallinger with tn,
non-delinquent children.
Mr.. Horan's report was based OF
Nndings of two investigators fol
the House subcommittee They in.
spected the Receiving Home in tn,
midst of a minor riot among tn,
children last week.
Asked whether he would favor
the shift of 100000 in appropria.
tions for work at jolly Acres, Mr.
Horan replied: II don't know. We
will look into it."
Check Being Continued.
"We are going to continue oul
check into the welfare situation" he
continued. eve found conditions
that have to be corrected by some
body. 1t isn't our job to administer
welfare, but when we find things
wrong we have to bring it to the
attention of the District. The Dis
trict Commissioners do not have
the proper authority to handle the
situation, and we've got to get some
of the kinks out of it."
A. Harding Paul, vice chairman of
the Welfare Board, explained that
the condemnation by Congress of
the home was nothing new to the
board, because for many years they
had known of its defects and repeat
edly had requested the Commits
sioners to obtain an appropriation
for a suitable building. The building
for which $4,000 is available would
not be large enough to accommodate
all the children and as soon as it is
built, it will be used to house de-
linquent children only.
At its open session, the board ap-
proved payment of $45 monthly to
st. AIMS Maternity Hospital, Flor
ence Crittenton Home and the House
of Mercy for any period of care for
an infant after the mother has left
the hospital. The board agreed with
a recommendation that the rate of
$3.50 day for the care of children
at the Home for Foundlings be de-
MED because it was three times the
amount they were paying other in
stitutions for similar services. The
board insisted that all rates be uni
form.
Outside Sums Discussed.
The board also approved a sub
sidy to boarding homes of $40 a
month in addition to the present
rate paid for each child.
The question of reducing grants of
assistance to persons of who had re-
ceived lump sum of money from
some outside source was discussed
at length. Raymond Clapp, princi-
pal assistant to the welfare director
explained that only in a few cases
were persons found to who had been
given extra money and in each case
it did not amount to a large sum.
He reminded the board that public
assistance was based on 1941 living
costs and many persons on relief
had to use money allowed for cloth
ing and household expenses to buy
food. The board finally decided to
leave each individual incident to the
case worker concerned.