Evening star., 1952-08-30
aid Recipients
|ToGet 81 toss
Monthly Boost
Effective October !;
Girls Troining School
Riot Troubles Board

Public assistance recipients will
get increases ranging from 81 to
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 20 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 a
critical situation at the Industrial
Home School for Colored Boys
where, because Of budgetary lin
itations, 1t 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 Wei
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:
Old-age assistance. from $48.7O
to $3.50: aid to the blind, from
$51.55 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 $54.91 to
$59.18 for a single person and
from $73.29 to $3.50 for a family.
Assistance to 13,167.
AS of July. 1852, some 13,167
persons were receiving public as
sistance.
Mr.. Brewer, in reporting on the
National Training School for Girls
said that while the staff is well
trained and appears highly COM
petent, incidents such as last
weeks disturbance "are bound to
occur when we have only a min
imum coverage on the reserva-
ton"
He pointed out that Mrs. Eta
Tinsley was on duty alone in the
building when the disturbance
broke out. She had charge OF
90 delinquent girls.
Fred s. Kogod, vice chairman
OF the board, declared that 1--WE
shouldn't rest" until Congress and
the Commissioners realized the
situation. He said the institution
either should be closed up or
operated securely.
"It's ridiculous-one person with
all those girls" he said. He added
that the girls were there to be
trained.
Mr.. Brewer told the board COM
|mitmentS to the Industrial Home
School for Colored Boys have con-
tinued to be heavy. With the
boards limitation Of the popula-
ton at ITO for budgetary reasons,
he said, many boys have had to
be released.
Premature Release.
He said a total of 81 have been
released since June. and the popu-
lation now is 161.
obviously, it has been neces-
|sary to release many boys in the
community who in our best judg-
|ment we believe should receive
further institutional care" he said
OF the 1855 boys in the institu-
ton on August z, he pointed out
106 had been there only four
months or less and only 40 had
been there at least five months
He estimated that ordinarily eight
|or nine months are needed to ac-
|complish something with q boy,
"It is a dangerous situation and
one which gives all Of us q great
deal Of concern" he said.
MIR. Kogod compared the insti-
tuition situation to a "box Of
matches with q keg Of powder
alongside"
Here are children who have
been in trouble and they are given
to us to do something with" he
said.
Wompler to Speak