Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-19
Budget Includes
Ath|eticSupp|ie,
For First Time
Schools Would Get
SIS, 900 Item With
$28 Million TotoI
By Colt HendIey, Jr.


school athletic program was calico
for in the school budget reported
out by the House District Com.
mittee today.
The committee recommended
that $4,000 be appropriated to
buy athletic equipment for the
high schools-the first time in
history such funds have been
recommended. The schools now
must run their athletic program
on the gate receipts, with the
result that they usually go in the
red and do not have sufficient
equipment.
The committee also directed
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
to study thoroughly" the present
methods with a view toward es-
tablishing a working fund for
athletics, administered centrally
A report on this thorough
shake-up of the 1anguishing ath-
letic program must be submitted
to the committee by DR.. Corning
before January /. the committee
directed.
$28,001, 800 for Schools.
The athletic item was contained
in the total school appropriation
of $28,001 300, which the COM
mittee recommended.
This was $500, 400 less than the
Commissioners asked be allotted
to schools when they sent the
budget to Congress. However, the
cuts were made in such a man
ner that no major items of i'm
portance were lost to the schools.
Under the present athletic set
up. each high school must operate
its program separately. financed
solely from gate receipts.
The committee report revealed
the following schools lost money
on their athletic program during
the 1889 school year: Anacostia,
$273; Mckinley. 81, 6S6; Roosevelt
1856: Woodrow Wilson, 1882;
Armstrong, $133; Cardozo. STA
and Dunbar, $1,806.
Schools which managed to exc
out q profit were: Coolidge, 500;
Central. 1858; Eastern, $219;
Western, 1923; while Phelps broke
even.
Losses During Year.
Total gate receipts for the white
high schools were $35, 805.16 with
expenditures amounting to ST.
013.33 more than the income. The
colored schools collected a total of
$18,375.80 in receipts which left
them with loss of $1,815.75. A..
Included in those totals are the
funds of the Interhigh School
Athletic Associations. The white
association collected $8,468.90 and
ended up with balance Of $944.0 4
while the colored association COL
lected $4,636.44 and had a balance
Of $238.35. The schools contributed
funds to the two athletic associa-
tions.
The committee recommended
$4,646.000 for capital outlay-the
furnishing and construction of
schools, improvements to schools
and acquisition of sites. This is
$754,000 less than was asked by
the Commissioners.
Construction projects requested
by the Commissioners, and ap-
proved by the committee, are:
Beginning Of eight-room addi-
ton to Bunker Hill Elementary
School. $270,000: beginning Of
an eight-room addition to the
Davis Elementary School, $270,-
600: beginning of an eight-room
addition to the Keene Elementary
School, $270,000; beginning con.
struction of a eight-room elemen.
tary school in the vicinity of River
Terrace NE, $287 900; beginnins
an addition to the Francis Junior
High School, 100000; beginning
construction of a new Junior high
school in the vicinity of Pomeroy
road and Stanton road Sc, $780,.
600: beginning construction of 9
new building to replace the Ter.
rell Junior High School, 5000, 900
The committee also approved
$1,250,000 for continuing con.
struction Of the Spingarn High
School. now being built at TWEEN.
ty-fourth street and Benning roac
NE: the transfer of $35, 900 from
previously appropriated funds Il
complete the second floor of ont
wing OF the Burdick Vocationa
High School; transfer of $79,00t
from funds already appropriated
for the completion of the seconc
floor Of the Slowe-Elementar,
School.
A sum Of $4,000 was recon-
mended for drawing up of plan.
for the 16-room building to re.
place the Seaton Elementar,
School, and $4,000, to complete
plans of the new building to re.
place the Armstrong High School
Money also was approved fol
the following proposed projects.
Land for a new elementary
school In the vicinity Of Mississippi
avenue and Stanton road Sc.
land to allow the stadium at Dun.
bar High School to be shifted 81
an addition to the school can b.
built; land for the new building tx
replace the Shaw Junior High
School. and land for new ele.
mentary school in the vicinit,
OF Ninth and Barnaby streets S.
improvements Cut Out.
The committee eliminated TIT
request for $4,000 to rewire Cen.
trail High School, saying it coule
wait. Also cut out were funds t,
repair the armory floor at Eastern
High School, to install a HON.
economics laboratory at Roosevelt
High School, to renovate the stag,
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