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Prince Georges
Schools Request
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Education Boord
Asks Bond Issue
For Construction

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In bonds to obtain funds for school
construction in Prince Georges
County this year has been recon-
mended by the County Board of
Education.
The board, which held it's monthly
meeting at Upper Marlboro yester-
day, adopted a resolution requesting
the County Commissioners to join
them in approving the bond issue.
The recommendations will be pre-
sented to the commissioners next
Tuesday.
Issuance of the bonds was au-
thorized by the last session Of the
Maryland Legislature.
Three New Schools Sought.
Under the program, two new
senior high schools and an elemen-
tary school will be constructed and
additions built on the Laurel High
School and Fairmount Heights Ele-
nlentary School.
Purchase of land for new high
schools, near Bladensburg and in
the Hyattsville University Park
area, and preparation of plans for
a new senior high school for colored
students at Fairmount Heights, also
are included in the program.
The first project to get under way
will be the Fairmount Heights Ele-
mentary School addition. A low bid
of $284, 900, submitted several weeks
ago by the j. D. Hedin Construction
Co. of Washington, was accepted
yesterday by the School Board for
this project. It calls for erection of
an eight-room, auditorium and
cafeteria addition to the present
eight-room structure.
Bids on a second project-con-
struction of a new Landover Hills
Elementary School-will be opened
at 8 pm, June "a, at the County
Service Building, Hyattsville. This
calls for a nine-room cafeteria and
auditorium building.
Bids to Be Opened Soon.
According to School Supt.
G. Gardner Shugart, bids for
the construction of new senior high
schools at Upper Marlboro and
Oxon Hill for four-room, cafe
terra and gymnasium addition to
the Laurel High School will be
opened within the next two months.
The Upper Marlboro project, he
said, will be named after the late
Frederick Sasscer, father of Repre-
sentative Lansdale G.. Sasscer, DEM
ocrat, OF Maryland, and one time
superintendent of schools and a
teacher at the old Marlboro Acad-
emy.
Both new high schools will include
IA classrooms and an auditorium,
gymnasium and cafeteria. Present
high schools in the two communities
will be converted to elementary use.
The new schools may be ready for
occupancy by September, 1948, Mr..
Shugart predicted.
!. New principals named yesterday
are Mrs. Jennie D. Clagett, Forest
vile Elementary School at Edmon-
ston; Miss Elizabeth Mcmahon,
Berwyn Elementary School, Colmar
Manor, and Harold Daugherty,
Bladensburg Junior High School,
for the University Park Elementary
School.
Helm Gets New Post.
John Helm, a teacher at Laurel
High School, was named supervisor
of transportation and purchasing
agent to succeed the late G. Russell
Hull. Miss Lillian Harvey of the
College Park Elementary School,
was promoted to visiting teacher.
New teacher appointments include
Ann Smithers for Edmonston FL
ementary School; Marvin Genuchi,
Surrattsville High School; Eleanor
B. Lung, Silver Hill Elementary
School. and Naomi Payne, Bladens-
burg Junior High School.
The board also appointed trustees
for three elementary schools for
colored students and. accepted the
resignation Of DR.. Paul c. Under
wood as a trustee at the Beltsville
Elementary School. New trustees
are Walter r. Davis, Brentwood;
Mrs. Pearl Matthews, Laurel, and
Roland Bowie. CamD Sprinps