Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-21
Schools to0pen
Tomorrow for
$4,000 Students
Parents Are Requested
To Enter Pupils
At Nearest Glasses

~ AuASt 0RtiS
At Nearest Glasses
Summer vacations are over fol
the estimated $1,000 Washington
students who will head back fol
classes in the Districts public
schools tomorrow.
The doors open at am. and par.
ents who are entering their children
for the first time should 60 to the
school nearest their home with the
child, its birth certificate and vac
cination certificate Principals oil
the schools will be on hand to sigr
up the children and place them
in classes.
Night school registration will be
held from 6 pm. to 10 pm.
The enrolment this year is not
expected to set record. But Supt
Hobart M. Corning and other Of
f1cias said 1t was impossible to pre-
dict just what it would be due te
several factors.
Figures May Be Down.
The ruling by Corporation Coun-
sci Vernon E. West, which requires
parents living outside of the Dis
trict to pay tuition fee for thei,
children, unless registered prior tc
July Is, may cut down on the num-
Der of pupils from nearby areas
The ruling was an Interpretation OF
the language of the Districts ap-
preparation bill. On the other hand
an increase in the elementary
grades Is expected because of the
large birth rate during the wal
years.
One top vacancy remains to be
filled in the school system. Still
to be appointed is a successor to
DR.. Edwin n. C. Barnes, who re-
tired as head of the music depart
ment for the white schools last
August 81.
DR.. Corning, in a special an
nouncement yesterday, called atten-
ton to the fact that classes for
shut-in pupils would begin tomor-
row also. For pupils who are unable
to go to school because of illness, the
teachers will 60 to their homes, he
said.
Convalescents Eligible.
Pupils who are convalescing from
some illness and expect to be out OF
school for two or more months are
eligible for instruction from the
Visiting Instructors Corps, provided
the attending physician certifies the
child is able to receive the instruc-
ton. Pupils who have severe physi-
cal handicaps which prevent them
from attending the special schools
provided for handicapped children
also are eligible for this service.
James T. Gallahorn, jr., principal
Of ths Webster Americanization
School, said day and night classes
at the school would get under way
tomorrow also.
This instruction, provided free for
thos5 preparing for naturalization,
is available Monday through Friday
from $50 am. to $3.50 pm. and at
nights on Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday from 1880 pm. to $50
pm. Glasses in government, English,
reading and writing, home making
and naturalization requirements are
offered. The school is located at
Tenth and H streets NV.
New Schools. Not Ready.
No new schools are ready for
classes as school opens tomorrow.
But two, the Slowe Elementary
School. Fourteenth and jackson
streets NE, and the Richardson
Elementary School, Fifty-third and
Blaine streets NE, are expected to
be ready by January l.
Both will relieve crowded con-
ditiohs, to some extent, in the COL
ored schools. Last year nearly T.
600 pupils were going to school part
time due to over capacity enroll
ments. All but about 800 were COL
ored boys and girls.
Although the National Education
Association predicted last week that
the teacher supply would be slight
ly better this year, DR.. Corning said
it was too early to tell about the
District situation. He said there
were plenty of applicants for tenn
porary teaching jobs, but how many
permanent, fully qualified teachers
apply for jobs will be determined
when regular eligibility exams are
held later this fall.
Salary Increases Cited.
Dr.. Corning said he was hopeful
that the salary increases granted by
Congress this summer would attract
teachers to the Washington schools.
DR.. Corning, the Board of Edu-
cation and Archie Hutson, who Is in
charge Of District construction, are
pushing to get authorized building
projects underway. Plans for 16
new schools or additions to schools
have been revised to bring the cost
down about per cent by eliminat-
ing q lot of the fancy touches
deemed necessary in former years
Most of these contracts will be ad-
vertised for bids within the next