Evening star., 1953-08-04
Board Trims
School Budget
To FIT Funds
Montgomery Drops
Major Projects, Cuts
Down on Others
By Chorles A. McAleer


BY Chorles A. McAleer
Montgomery County's School
Board last night revised its
construction program for fiscal
1953-54 to keep within the $4
authorized by the county
council.
The board, meeting in Spe-
cial session at Rockville, trimmed
$3.2 million from it's original
budget request for capital i'm
by eliminating a
number Of school projects or by
cutting down others.
It was nearly midnight before
Board Member Wylie w. Bar
row moved to adopt, with some
changes. program recon-
mended by Assistant School
Supt. Richard E. Carpenter.
The major revision in DR..
Carpenters program was the
elimination by the board of
$230,000 for a Six-room, library,
kitchen and all-purpose room
addition to the Hillandale Ele-
mentary School. In it's place,
the board restored $177,000 for
a new eight-classroom Bannock-
burn Elementary School, which
had been recommended for post
ponement.
Restudy Ordered.
The board, however, adopted
the change subject to a provision
that the county's new school su-
perintendent. DR.. Forbes H. Nor
ris, conduct restudy of the Hill.
landale project. If it warrants
it then, the board added, the Hill
landale project may be restored
in place Of the new Oak Hill
Elementary School at Avenel.
Among construction projects
delayed for at least another year.
and the amounts originally
sought for each. were additions
to the following schools:
Carver High School, Rockville,
$534,000; Laytonsville Elemen.
tary. 100000; Lone Oak Elemen-
tary, $4,000; Poolesville High
School, $386,000; Rockville Jun
ior High, $28O,0OO; Wheaton
Woods Elementary, $285, 900;
Woodlin Elementary, sos, 900,
and Wyngate Elementary, $685.
600.
Also eliminated entirely for
this year were funds to acquire
sites for these projected schools:
Bradley Boulevard Elementary,
$4,000; Randolph Hills Elemen-
tary $4,000; Wilson Lane Ele-
mentary. $4,000, and a new ele-
mentary school north of the
Weller Road Elementary, Glen
mont-Wheaton, $45,000. Also
dropped were $4,000 to expand
the recreation area at the Rich
ard Montgomery High School,
Rockville. and $4,000 for a new
cafeteria at the Takoma Park
Junior High School.
More than one-fourth of the
81 million budget was earmarked
for the new North Bethesda
Junior High School. The board
kept in it's entirety the amount
asked originally, $1,291 900, to
erect the proposed 34-classroom
structure, which also will have
a library, gymnasium and other
facilities.
Other new projects slated in
clude:
Darnestown Elementary, six
classrooms. library, kitchen, and
all-purpoSe room, $4,000
(raised from $15O,OOO); an ele-
mentary school northwest of the
Four Corners Elementary School.
10 classrooms. office and health
room, $180,000 (cut from $780,
000; Oak Hill Elementary
School, Avenel, 10 classrooms,
library, kitchen and all-purpose
room, $250.000 (cut from $780,
000; Rock Greek Palisades Ele-
mentary, 10 classrooms, Office
and health room, $185,OO0 (cut
from $245, ,000), and Washington
Grove Elementary, 8 clasrooms,
library, kitchen and all-purpose
room, $215,00O (cut form $685.
00O.
Other Projects Approved.
The following new elementary
school additions. and number of
rooms, were approved:
Bradley Hills, 8 classrooms, Ii
brary, kitchen and all-purpose
room, $230,000 (cut from $780,
000); BurtonSville, three, $58,-
900; Clarksburg, two, $35 900 (cut
from $80,00O Germantown, two,
$4,000 (cut from $40, ,000); Park
wood, six. S120,000; Potomac,
four and connecting corridor and
driveway. $95,000: Rollingwood,
six, $4,000 (cut from $3.50, ,000):
Taylor, two, $4,000 (cut from