Evening star., 1953-03-05
Maryland u. Budget
Sails Easily Through
Finance Committee
BY the .Associofed Press


ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 5.-The
University of Maryland's $40
million budget sailed smoothly
through a finance committee
hearing yesterday on the
strength of President H. c.
Byrd's presentation. a dozen
ceiling high charts and a 6-foot
pointer.
The status of the States
Negro colleges prompted the
only discussion.
Senator Sybert, Democrat, of
Howard, again voiced his oppo-
sition to the States supporting
two Negro colleges in separate
localities-Morgan State at Bal
timore and Maryland State Col
lege at Princess Anne, on the
lower Eastern Shore.
He cited a recent statement
by the State Planning Commits
sion recommending no more per-
manent construction at Princess
Anne until its fate was decided.
"The planning commissions
statement was a misnomer," DR..
Byrd declared. "It shouldn't have
been made and the commission
had no business making it."
States Answer.
DR.. Byrd said the university
had asked for So million to de-
velop the small college the
States answer to separate and
equal education for Negroes
but the Governor wiped it out
of the budget.
"The Governor is opposed to
Princess Anne" DR.. Byrd added
HE doesn't want it,"
Senator Phipps, Democrat, OF
Anne Arundel, asked DR.. BYRD
if the real opposition to Prin-
cess Anne isn't pointed toward
doing away with the school SO
the State will have to admit col
ored students to College Park?'
DR.. Byrd said Senator Phipps
statement was essentially cor
rect"
wouldn't it be cheaper, y
asked Senator Sybert, "to spend
the So million at Morgan and
buy a farm for the agricultural
students at Princess Anne, in
stead of spending more money
on building Princess Anne?"
"You could do that" DR.. Byrd
answered. "but I don't think it
would be any cheaper in the long
rum"
Proud of Extension School.
DR.. Byrd said he was espe-
cially proud Of the university's
overseas branches. scattered
through Europe and established
with armed forces units in Ice
land, Greenland, Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia.
He said the overseas program
was entirely self-supporting and
that the university had prof1ted
about 100000 from it since it
was started in 1947. He said
the surplus was being held as a
shock fund in case the program
was halted abruptly because of
war or other emergency.
The extension classes, he said,
are set up through cooperation
of the armed services to permit
servicemen and their families
overseas to continue higher edu-
cation.
Figures Given.
DR.. Byrd said the increases
asked by the university's de-
partment heads for next year
amounted to 81 1886, ,724.50. The
Board of Regents trimmed it to
81 ,096, ,424, he said, and the Gov
ernor finally proposed a $581 ,306
increase over the present budget
DR.. Byrd gave this example OF
the way in which the university IS
allowance of $708, 1928 is spent for
agricultural research: Wicomico
County farmers came to the UNI
versity with a plea to do some
thing about their sweet potatoes.
They were cracking and unfit for
marketing.
The Agriculture Department,
through assistance of the Fed
eral Governments research plant
at Beltsville, developed a nom
cracking sweet potato that is
suitable for Wicomico County
land.
"The value Of this service to
yIyinovr,inA To,1yafx is for oroo fer