Evening star., 1949-01-20
Board Asks S225,00|
For Bell Vocational
School Alterations
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

4He bOdIQ OI EQuCdIlul Wallis
a deficiency appropriation Of
1925 900 for alterations to the Bell
Vocational High School formerly
the Powell SCHOOL, so the transfer
of vocational classes from the old
Bell Building, at Seventh and o
streets NV, can be completed i'm
mediately.
Meeting yesterday. the board
asked the Commissioners to seek
such an appropriation from Con-
gress.
/ Also requested was a deficiency
item of $4,000 to pay for the fuel
| the schools will use in the next few
months. School Supt. Hobart M
Corning said $306,030 had been al
lotted for fuel but that rising costs
made the extra money necessary.
He told the board coal prices
have risen about 6 per cent and oil
50. per cent since the appropriation
was obtained. s:s se
seeks Earmarked FunuS.
DR.. Corning also asked for Con-
gressional authority to use $4,000
available but earmarked for trans
fer of the vocational school to Gen.
tral-a plan abandoned last fall in
favor of the shift to Powell-and
s157 400 available for vocational
equipment, also earmars,ed for Gen.
trail.
In another action, the school
board asked Dr. Corning to study
further his proposal to use the S. j.
Bowen School as temporary store
house. Until last week, the school
was used as an annex to the Ran
dali Junior High School. 1t is no
| longer, needed because a new ad-
dition to Randall has been COM
pleted.
DR.. Corning said both the South
west Civic Associate and the Ran
dali School PTA have asked that the
children at nearby Smallwood Ele-
mentary School be shifted to Bowen.
The school superintendent indi-
Gated he favors the proposal, since
the Bowen School is a much better
building than Smallwood.
School Closing Approved.
Closing of the lexington Elemen-
/ tary School because it no longer is
needed in the area it serves was
approved by the board. Children OF
the lexington Schol will be trans
ferred to nearby Emery and Seaton
Elementary Schools after January
30, under the plan.
Results of a poll of teachers on
the sick leave plan approved by the
board and submitted to the Com
miSsioners we're announced by DR..
Corning, with rs per cent of the
1874 teachers supporting the board
plan.
DR.. Corning said 1925 teachers
were in favor of the present recon-
mendations, while 1876 were against
it.
Locals of the Teachers Union,
American Federation of Teachers
had asked that the board plan be
changed to include both the 10 days
annual leave, cumulative to go days
as recommended, as we'll as certain
aspects of the present plan, which
requires teachers to pay for their
own substitutes when sick.
Other Actions Taken.
In other actions, the schoo
board:
Voted to recognize the schoo
cafeterias as a part of the schoo
system and to draw up legislation
to put them under a central man.
agement. The cafeterias now art
operated as private nonprofit bust
nesses by the principals of each
school and had no official stand
ing in the school system.
Approved requests by the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra Associa'
ton and the Washington Heart AS
sociation that they be allowed tx
solicit school employees in their COM
ing drives for funds.
Placed the Brent and Wallacf
Elementary Schools under one prin'
cipal and the Bancroft and Ray
mond Elementary Schools under 9
single head.
Ruled that all school employe!
will have to take X-rays to checl
for tuberculosis during the last two
weeks of February.
Adopted a school calendar which
set the openinp day for school mex