Evening star., 1949-08-03
$1,101,597 Bid
For Hospital
Addition Studied
Prince Georges Heads
Due to Act Today on
$500, 900 Bond Issue

A conference was 10 Oe Helu 10.
day at Upper Marlboro to decide
whether the Prince Georges
County Commissioners will accept
$1,1O1, 597 bid for expansion Of
the Prince Georges General Hos
pital, Cheverly. The conference
also will determine if the county
is prepared to sell an 100000
bond issue to cover the county's
share of construction costs.
The commissioners, for the Sec
ond straight day. were to meet
with DR.. A. K. Besley. hospital
superintendent. and Harry w.
Penn, assistant superintendent.
who will succeed DR.; Besley on
September /.
Today'S session was to follow
routine tax hearings of the COM
miSsionerS in which protests
against recent new building as
sessments in the Marlboro elec-
ton district were to be studied.
The hospital meeting was slated
10 DeSlll dI q p.IIl.
Yesterday, DR.. Besley and Mr..
Penn appeared before the COM
missioners to obtain such ap-
proval. The commissioners voted
to accept the bid and were pre-
pared to authorize sale of the
bonds when Commissioner T.
Hammond Welsh demanded a
more detailed accounting of the
proposed expenditures. The entire
action then was postponed until
today.
Besley Reports on Bids.
DR.. Besley reported the B. and
J. Construction Co. of Washing
ton, was the lowest of eight bid
ders submitting proposals at the
hospital last Friday. The bids
ranged from $1,101, ,597 to $1,27l,-
$50 and were for construction OF a
110-bed addition to the existing
100-bed hospital and for erection
of a new central heating plant.
Plans called for the sale of the
$500 900 in bonds to the highest
bidder August "a, with the bonds.
to be issued in denominations OF
81 900, maturing annually over a
25-year period. The remaining
money would be supplied by the
Federal Government.
Asserting he wanted to be sure
the county kept within its pro-
posed $1,20o,0o0 limit for the ex-
pansion program, Mr., Welsh
warned that added expenses in
CURED in the building project
would bring it over this amount
and asked for a breakdown of all
expenses.
Told of Additional Needs.
He was told that approximately
100000 additional would be
needed for architects fees and an
1estimated $51,50O for equipment
not included in the bid. This, Mr..
Welsh argued. would bring ap-
Lproximately $4,000 over the
limit and still would not include
other incidental expenses such as
attorney fees, money needed for
advertising and preparing the
bonds and so forth.
DR.. Besley said other money
would be available to meet this
added expense from surplus funds
on hand already from a previous
hospital bond issue.
In other business, the commits
sioners voted approval of two
separate road construction and
repair programs for the current
fiscal year following a meeting
with County Engineer Arthur w.
Tayman.
One, estimated to cost 5000, 900.
would provide for bituminous sur
facing of a 67-mile total of por-
tions of 81 gravel roads through
out the county. The distances
range from one-tenth Of mile
to nearly four miles.
The second would call for an
expenditure of about $136,600 for
new or reconstruction of 19 old
roads and five bridges and ap-
proaches. The project would pro-
vide for grading, drainage and
gravel surfacing.
Tax Exemption Asked.
A request by officials of the
Leland Memorial Hospital in
Riverdale for a tax-exempt status
by virtue Of their now being a nom
profit institution was referred to
the county tax assessors Office
for study. The Landover Hills
Baptist Church was granted a tax
exemption for its parsonage at
7003 Allison street, Landover Hills.
Requests to accept Naval avenue
and Spring avenue in Lanham as
county roads were rejected by
the commissioners on the recon-
mendation of Clarence L. Tucker.
Samuel o. Willett and Howard I.
Beall, ST., county road examiners.
designations of George r.
Shepp, effective August IS, as a
relief desk man for the county
police force, and John M. Collins,
effective yesterday, as a parole
probation officer for the county
were accepted.
Columbia Preparatory