Evening star., 1952-08-30
Aid Recipients
Get 81 10 IS
Boost
Effective October |;
Girls Troining School
Riot Troubles Board

Public assistance recipients will
get increases ranging from 81 tol
IS a month, effective October /,
under a decision of the Board Of
Public Welfare yesterday.
The increases, made possible by
higher matching payments avail
able to the District under the
Federal Social Security Act. still
will leave payments Is per cent
short of minimum living costs.
The present lag is % per cent.
Board members at yesterdays
meeting expressed continued con-
cern over the situation at the Ma
tional Training School for Girls,
scene Of a recent riot.
They also heard a. report of all
critical situation at the INDUSTRIAL
Home School for Colored Boys
where, because of budgetary lin
itations. it has been necessary to
release an unusually large number
Of boys.
Not Chargeable to ID. C.
Increases in the Federal con-
tribution under the Social Secur-
ity Act, as provided by an amend
ment this year, permit higher
grants to public assistance recipi-
ents, with no increase in the Dis
trict appropriation, Acting We'll
fare Director Donald D. Brewer
told the board.
It means the department can
pay an estimated 81 per cent Of
the present budget standard based
on 1850 prices. rather than the
80 per cent now granted.
The change in average pay
ments as of July, 1852, effective
October /. is contemplated as
follows:
4 Old-age assistance, from $48.7O
to $3.50; aid to the blind, from
/ i$5I.55 to $3.50; aid to dependent
children, from $23.93 to $25.67 per
eligible person; aid to the disabled,
from $54.81 to $59.08, and general
public assistance, from $54.9l to
$59.18 for a single person and
from $73.29 to $3.50 for a family.
| Assistance to 1857.
AS of July, 1852, some 1857
persons were receiving public as
sistance.
4 Mr.. Brewer. in reporting on the
National Training School for Girls,
said that while the staff is well
trained and appears highly COM
ipetent. incidents such as last
weeks disturbance "are bound to
occur when we have only a. min
imum coverage on the reserva-
Ition."
4 He pointed out that Mrs. Eta
Tinsley was on duty alone in the
building when the disturbance
broke out. She had charge of
I22 delinquent girls.
Fred s. Kogod, vice chairman
OF the board. declared that I'VE
shouldn't rest" until Congress and
the Commissioners realized the
situation. He said the institution
either should be closed up or
loperated securely.
"It's ridiculous-one person with
lall those girls" he said. He added
that the girls were there to be
TRAINED.
Mr.. Brewer told the board COM
lmitments to the Industrial Home
School for Colored Boys have con-
ltinued to be heavy. With the
boards limitation Of the popula-
ltion at ITO for budgetary reasons
he said. many boys have had te
be released.
Premature Release.
He said total of 81 have beer
! released since June. and the popu.
lation now is 161.
obviously, it has been neces.
lsary to release many boys in the
community who in our best judg.
Iment we believe should receive
further institutional care" he said
Il OF the 165 boys in the institu.
= ton on August Z, he pointed out
= log had been there only foul
months or less and only 40 hao
lbeen there at least five months
lille estimated that ordinarily eight
llor nine months are needed to &C
/ llcomplish something with a boy
/ 'It is a dangerous situation and
one which gives all of us a great
, ideal of concern" he said.
: Mr.. Kogod compared th insti-
tuition situation to a "box Of
-Imatches with a keg Of powder
4 alongside"
Here are children who have
been in trouble and they are giver
> to us to do something with" he
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