Evening star., 1950-02-21
Lane Increases
Budget 10 Meet
Hospital Needs
Requests for Funds
Also Would Pay
For U. of Nd. Work
BY the Associated Press

ANNAfOLlS, rep. Zl.-GOV.
Lane now says the State needs
s143,667,7S1 to operate during the
fiscal year 1851.
He added an extra $601 ,729 to
the budget last night, more than
half Of it to cover increased money
to pay Maryland hospitals for
treating poor people.
The rest was for assorted odds
and ends which have come up
since the 1850 legislative session
started.
Gov. Lane completed his money
program for the coming year by
also calling for s3,872,700 in bond
issues to finance what new con-
struction is needed. These items
do not figure in the budget itself.
Major allocations include $685.
600 for the University of Maryland
to construct industrial arts and
physics buildings. Also recon-
mended was an ALLEGATION of $780,
900 for development of Bayside
Tax Cut Bills Offered.
The Governor offered bills to
carry out his promise that the
property taxes would be cut.
One of them would set the next
years tax rate for State govern
ment purposes at cents on the
500 valuation. That is less than
half the present tax, and the low
est ever.
Written into a series of other
bond proposals were clauses de-
signed to depress the State prop
erty tax rate in future years.
These would hold down the
State tax to the bare amount re-
quired to service outstanding
bonds. Heretofore the rate has
been calculated to meet any con-
tingency and a stable reserve
has accumulated in the bond an
nuity fund.
Jim Crow Repeater Moving.
While Senate and House files
were loaded with bills introduced
on the last day allowed for the
purpose. a dozen or so measures
which have been under study for
the last two weeks moved along.
Among them was the familiar
Jim Grow" repeater. which would
erase the law requiring segrega-
ton of Negroes and whites on
intrastate railroads and steam
boats. Since the Baltimore &
Annapolis shortline abandoned
rail passenger service. Jim Crow
applies only to the Chesapeake.
Bay ferries. 1t never was enforced
very widely. And after the bay
bridge is constructed. it would be
useless.
Previous efforts to forbid segre-
cation have passed one house or
the other. but never made the
trip through both.
AS the Senate Finance and
House Ways and Means Com
mittees leafed through the
supplementary pages in the ad-
ministration's budget books, other
delegates prepared to hear the
pros and cons of keeping banks
open on Saturdays.
Hearing Is Scheduled.
The House Banking Insurance
and Social Security Committee
scheduled a hearing on a bill to
abolish Saturday holidays author
lied in 1947.
But the budget remained the
weightiest matter.
Most of the money Gov. Lane
sought in his supplemental budget
would 60 to general hospitals for
treating such persons unable to
pay their own bills. The Governor
asked 1881 ,805 to bring the total
appropriation for the medically
INDECENT to $1.724.714.
That's what the hospitals orig
inally asked and what both fiscal
committees suggested Gov. Lane
allot after hearing the complaints
of hospital spokesmen.
The only other big items in the
supplemental budget were $50 900
to pay half the salaries of Balti-
more City assessors and SAC, 900 to
make the citys ice boat ship
shape.
To pay the new appropriations,
Gov. Lane suggested drawing on
half the General Emergency Fund,
or s250,000; spending $50,000 that
would lie idle in the account for
outpatient medical services, and
writing off all but $13,564 expect
ed in the treasury surplus
Three Major Projects Proposed.
He offered separate "contin-
gency" appropriation to use any
additional surplus from current
revenues to restore the emergency
fund to its original $500,000
His construction program, to be
financed by bond issues, includes
these major projects, in addition
to the Bayside Park and Univer-
sity of Maryland work:
To start an institution for de-
fective delinquents, $1,000,000.
For utilities, land, a new dormi-
tory wing for women and a new
gymnasium wing at Morgan State
College, SAP, 700.
To accommodate more than 100
youths at the Training School for
Boys when st. Mary's Industrial
School closes this July, 1852, 900.
Gov. Lane also recommended
$2,800,000 for improvements at
Spring Grove State Hospital and
Rosewood Training School.
He said this could be financed
by savings in the $40 million men
tai hospital construction program
authorized last year.