Evening star., 1952-04-11
Corning Sees
No Race |ssuein
School Transfer
Proximity Of Eliot
To Eastern High Held
To Be No Problem

10 Be No Problem
Supt. of Schools Hobart Nj.
Corning indicated today he feared
10 race relations problems with
Eastern High School in the pro-
posed transfer of Eliot Junior
High School from white to coll
bred students.
DR.. Corning yesterday suggested
transfer of both Eliot, at Eight
zenith and B streets NE, and the
Fairbrother Elementary School to
colored use next fall in recon-
to the School Boards
and Grounds Commit
tee.
Reminded at his weekly press
today of the proximity
of Eliot to the white Eastern High.
DR.. Corning cited the transfer last
year of Langley Junior High
School from white to colored use.
Langley. at Second and T streets
NE. is next to Mckinley High
a white school. This
transfer was made after a civic
but DR.. Corning said
good relations had developed.
Other Transfer Moves.
The SchCol superintendent was
not prepared to say whether fur
ther transfers would be recon-
men0ed for next fall.
He also proposed yesterday that
Terrell Junior High School be
used by colored elementary stu
dents next fall to relieve over
crowded conditions in the central
area of Washington. A new Ter
rell will be completed before
schiol opens in the fall to handle
the junior high students now at
tending the old building.
Asked about the condition of the
for use by elementary
puplls. he said he felt it was safe
and sound
The committee took the whole
natter under study. Public hear
ngs will be held later, and the
School Board will try to act on the
recommendations at the May
meeting.
Previously Discussed.
Eliot Junior High was UP
Tor discussion last summer. The
Board of Education eventually
transferred Langley from white to
colored students. DR.. Corning had
recommended Stuart Junior High
be shifted, but residents of the
Stuart area blocked the move.
after appearing before the School
Board.
In justifying his recommends
ton that the school be shifted to
colored pupils, DR.. Corning pointed
out that the combined enrollments
Of Eliot, Hine and Stuart Junior
Highs call serving that general
area of the city, is 1925. The
capacity of the three schools is
?, SOS. leaving 1,040 vacant seats.
In contrast, Dr.. Corning said,
three colored Junior highs, Browne,
Miller and Randall, have a COM
oined capacity of 1882, with 1858
enrolled.
BY next September, however, the
enrolment at the three will climb
to about 5000. giving the schools
.423 more pupils than seats, DR..
Corning said.
Others at Over Capacity.
The other seven colored Junior
high schools in the city also will
De over capacity next fall by some
634 pupils. DR.. Corning continued.
They are Banneker, Douglass,
Francis, Garnet-Patterson, Lang
ey, Shaw and Terrell.
Unless relief is afforded Miller,
Browne and Randall Junior Highs
oy next September. part time
classes will have to be started. DR..
Corning declared. He pointed out
that the enrolment increase in
The colored junior high schools is
very rapid"
In recommending the shift of
Eliot to colored pupils, Dr.. Corn
ng raised the proposed replace
nent for Hine Junior High from
near the bottom of the list of
some 70 projects to mo.
priority"
He also suggested that the
School Board ask for funds to add
10 rooms and boys gymnasium
% Eliot, because once it is turned
,ver to colored pupils lit will be
1lled to capacity Immediately"
The Fairbrother Elementary
School. at Tenth and E streets
S.W., is one of three white ele-
schools in the area. Their
otal enrolment next September
will be 637 pupils.
Other Schools Nearby.
DR.. Corning said that, if Fair
,rother Is transferred to colored
pupils, the Fairbrother children
an be accommodated by trans
erring some to the Amidon
school. three blocks away, and
he rest to four empty rooms in
he Jefferson Junior High School.
llso nearby.
Fairbrother School then would
'e used to relieve overcrowded
in five colored elemen-
ary schools in the Southwest
Ambush. Bell. Anthony Bowen.
}. j. Bowen and Syphax.
The use Of the present Terrell
Junior High School as an ele-
nentary school after the new
unior high is completed would
i've additional space in the CEN
raj part of the city. Terrell is
coated at First and M streets NV.
Colored schools to be helped by
his move would be Bundy, Cook.
'angston. Scott Montgomery.
simmons and Walker Jones.
'hese schools now have total OF
08 classrooms and will need l22
ext fall.
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