Evening star., 1953-09-20
District Budget
Seeks 10 Add
1,725New Jobs
Additional Employees
Would Cost More
Than $5.l Million

II District government agen.
cies have their way in fiscal 1855,
their total work force will DO
bigger by 1,725 full-time en-
ployes.
Summaries of 1855 budget es-
Inmates released yesterday in
dlcated the cost of the proposed
additional jobs would be more
than $5.1 million. This would
represent nearly three per cent
of the overall budget estimate Of
$185.5 million.
The largest new Job claim was
put in, as it usually is, by the
public schools, which ask 448 ad-
ditional positions, mostly teach
ing. Public Health requests 408
new jobs, Metropolitan Police.
230; Public Welfare. 204, and
Sanitary Engineering. 104.
Only four agencies asked for
no job additions; Washington
Aqueduct, Surveyors Office, Ma
tional Capital Parks and National
Geological Park.
Departmental Percentages.
The Budget Office also released
data showing the percentage that
each departmental estimate
would take from the total re-
quested appropriation. BY de-
partment:
Schools-22 per cent.
Health-18 per cent.
Sanitary Engineering-9.3 per
cent.
Police-77 per cent.
HighwayS-7.6 per cent.
Welfare-6.5 per cent.
Compensation and Retirement
Fund expenses-5.3 per cent.
Fire-3.7 per cent.
Aqueduct-3.2 per cent.
Corrections-3 per cent.
Recreation-2.1 per cent.
General Administration and
Courts-1,7 per cent each.
Library-1.5 5 per cent.
National Capital Parks-l.S
per cent.
Buildings and Grounds-1 per
cent.
Licenses and Inspections-.7 Of
per cent.
Zoo, Vehicles and Trafic; the
per diem workers pay increase
requested in a supplementary
estimates of one per cent
each.
Civil Defense supplementary
estimates incorporated into six
other departmental budgets; and
the Regulatory Agencies OF
one per cent.
Corporation Counsel and Debt
Service-.2 of one per cent each.
Executive, Veterans Service,
Civil Defense Irregular estimate),
Surveyor, National Guard-.l OF
one per cent each.
The Commissioners announced
yesterday the organizations that
want to testify in the public
hearing on the budget slated to
begin at 10 am. Tuesday. The
list:
Federation of Citizens Associations.
Federation OF Civic AsSociations-Dr.
c. Herbert Marshall president. -
Washington Ga!ins BSsrd iI9srd OF Trade-HarF'
Washington Taxpayers Association
Rufus, S. Lusk. president;
ciation and Commissioners Building
Code Advisory Committee-Charles J.
International brotherhood of Electri.
cal Workers--C. F Prellen.
League of Women Voters-Mrs. Wall
Palisades Citizens Association-L. P.
Washington Urban Leasue-Mrs Kline
Connecticut Avenue Citizens Associa-
tion Uptown Connecticut Avenue Bust-
nessmens Association and Uptown Lions
Club--JoSeph L, Miller.
Michigan Park Citizens Association
Mrs; Edward A. Kane. ..
tznNtHn Manor Pars as.,ts Citizens Association
and Order Of Railway Conductors
Citizens Committee on Minimum
Wage-Harry c. Lamberton.
District Mental Health Association
G. Howland Shaw. president.
Health School Parent Teacher AsSo-
Tesone Kenneth r M Gillespie.
Muscular Dystrophy Association-Mrs.
William Witkin.
United Cerebral Palsy OF Washington
William Bsumrucker, jr.
Abram Simon Parent-Teacher Asso-
cia ation-Joseph Ramsey.
Citizens Committee on Music in Pub.
lie SchoolS-Mrs. Edith Blau.
Junior Village-D. c. Home for Chill
dren-Mrs; Maree German. Mrs. liens
StatheS Mrs; Herbert H, Carpenter.
Jewish Social Service Asency- and
Iewish Foster Home-Mrs, Joseph
Communications Workers OF America.
Local 2300--Miss Josephine Piccola
Social Work Joint Committee on Conn
munity Problems-Mrs. Leah Lachen-
bruch
United Community services-Ru@en
" Schneider. Mrs. David Bazelon. Glenn
washington Chapter Of Americans for
Democratic Action-Ben Segal preSi-
Progressive Party OF the District
Mrs Gertrude Evans.
ciation-Edward G. Dixon.
Wheatley School Parent Teacher As.
socistion-Mrs. Nathan Ksplan.
Gas Masks Burn
PUSAN. Korea. Sunday. Sept