Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-16
Bill Gives Five
Area Projects
|S11S Million
Senate Disupproves
So Million Rise in
U. S. Payment to City
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS

The Senate today voted more
than $118 million for five big
construction projects in the
Washington area but denied So
million toward the Federal pay
ment for the District.
The five big construction prof.
ects. among several others for
this area are:
Central Intelligence Agency
headquarters at Langley, Va,
$40 million: State Department
annex in the District. $44.9 mil
lion; Jones Point bridge. SLAB
million; annex to a Walter Reed
Army Medical Center building,
$4.2 million, and a new head
quarters of the Air Research and
Development Command at An
drews Air Force Base. Sc million
The Senate took this action
when it passed and sent back
to the House the SIT billion
supplemental appropriation bill.
1t carries funds for a huge list
of Federal and District of CO.
lumbia services. Most Of the
money, by far, in the measure
is for military construction
around the world, including
several projects in this area.
Final Chance for Fund
Refusal by the Senate of the
extra SO million for the Federal
share-authorized when Con-
gress passed the $40 million rev.
Ienue act last March-means that
this is a lost cause at least for
this session of Congress.
The House previously had re-
Ijected urgent appeals from the
city heads for raising the FEEDER
al payment from $40 million to
$23 million.
District officials had made it
clear that while the District will
not go into the red due to loss
of the SO million, the city will
not have available in this fiscal
year the usual 81 million in re-
serve funds for contingencies.
The Senate in approving the
report of its Appropriations
Committee. headed by Senator
Hayden. Democrat of Arizona,
ADDED $807.490 to the amount
approved by the House for sew
eral District Government serv-
ices This brought the total for
the District in the supplemental
bill for this fiscal year up to
$17.135.6s4.
Hospital Pay Funds
Among the items added to the
bill by the Senate was $l4O,5OO
to provide for salary increases
of interns and resident physi-
clans at the District General
Hospital and $14.50O for first-aid
assistants instead of interns on
emergency ambulances.
The bill gives Metropolitan
police $136,200 to provide %
man-years of employment of
police privates. This would allow
the department to build UP to
the authorized strength of $500
men and to buy six additional
automobiles.
The Senate also approved an
additional sum of $25, 900 to pro-
vide the total requested $215,O0O
for purchase of a site in the
Southwest redevelopment area
for the Fire Departments repair
shop and engine house No. Z
Also added to the bill was
I$469, 900 for construction of a
detention unit at the Children's
Center. Laurel, Md.
The $40 million CHA teadquar-
tiers would be somewhat restrict
ed by certain language carried
in the Appropriations Commit
tee report.
1.-The committee directs" said
the report, that the agency
shall plan to house all head
quarters. personnel of the agen-
cy within the sum provided.
The same fund had been pre-
viously approved by the House
1.-THE committee further di-
reefs" continued the Senate
group. that none of these funds
shall be obligated or spent until
the chairman of the National
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