Evening star., 1950-02-21

mlCCee, In addltlOn to approving
the budget, also approved new
Budget Committee appointments.
w. Herbert Gill. assistant to the
president of the Washington
Gas Light Co.. was named chair
man. Members are Robert w.
Wilson. F. Elton Rogers, Mrs. De
Forest Van Slyck, Fred A. T combs,
William w. Parsons, John Hol-
land, Patterson H. French, Maui
rice L. Nee. Warren M. Andrews,
Morton Liftin, Philip w. Amram,
Jack Riley, Donald Mowbray, F.
Elwood Davis.
All except 13 of the 81 UCS
agencies are 3 given more Chest
funds than last year in the new
budget. A total of $1,917,787 is
allocated-most of it from the re-
cent 1850 Community Chest Fed
Grafton fund drive.
Eleven agencies, however, will
get the same amount as in 1949,
and two will get less. AS COM
pared with original agency re-
quests, the total for all agencies
is 80 per cent below requirements.
Wilson Explains Allegations.
Mr.. Wilson, the budget chair
man, announcing the ALLEGATIONS,
declared:
IF it is possible to assess
human needs in terms of dollars,
then we can say there will be
334.042.55 worth of unmet hu-
man needs in the District of CO.
lumbia this year."
This figure, he explained, rep
resents only the shortage in terms
Of an original pre-campaign
budget, not the difference be-
tween available funds and orig
inal agency requests.
The $3,991.719 area-wide fund
drive fell a little more than 10
per cent short of it's goal, al
though it raised about $130,000
more than the drive for 1949,
according to latest returns. Five
nearby communities share in this
fund, along with Washington.
Scouts Get Greatest Increase.
A total of $54,8 more than last
year is being distributed by UCS.
The top individual agency in
crease is in the s37,6o0 going to
the Boy Scouts. This is $1,000
more than in 1949. But in terms
of the Scouts total budget, the
increase is not out of proportion
| to those allotted other agencies.
Like most UCS agencies, the
Scouts receive additional income
outside the Chest. In the case
of the Scouts. this is expected to
amount this year to over $153, 900
more than twice as much as the
Chest allotment. For all UCS
agencies, the total of non-Chest
income is expected to be over
$1,253,o31. s
Other Agencies Also Raised.
Ten UCS agencies besides the
Scouts are slated to receive in
creases Of $4,000 or more over l949.
These are the Boys Club, Catholic
Charities, Family Service Associa-
ton, Foster Day Care, Friendship
House, Instructing Visiting Nurse
Society, Jewish Community Gen.
ter, Salvation Army, Summer
Outings Committee and Travellers
Aid Society.
Only /, six UCS agencies were
granted the full amounts allotted
to them in the original pre-
campaign budget. The needs OF
these agencies. all with moderate
size budgets. were so closely esti-
mated that. no further cut was
considered possible, officials ex-
planned. The group includes the
Social Welfare Department of the
Washington Federation Of
Churches, Episcopal Home, Foster
Day Care, St. AIMS Home, Wash
ington Home for Foundlings and
, Washington Housing Association.
The II agencies receiving the
same amounts as last year are
Episcopal Home, Florence Crit.
tenton Home, Hebrew Home
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, st. Vim.
lcent's Home and School. sho,