Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-16
)GET HEAVY IN POUNDS AND DOLLAR.
New Howard University
Hospital Recommended

lmeQb, WHICH uhS JuIicuiCtluh
over both the hospital and the
university.
The Freedmen's- Howard shift
was one of several building rec
concentrations sent to Capitol
Hill by the Chief Executive.
Other Projects Noted
They included extra money to-
carry forward some of the largest
Federal construction jobs ever
planned for this metropolitan
area. Among them were three
major projects on Capitol Hill,
more buildings for Howard UNI
versity. Gallaudet College. Smith
sonian Institution, and others.
The Capitol Hill projects are:
extension of the East Central
Front of the Capitol. SIC mil
lion; cotinue construction Of new
Senate Once Building. $780,
900: acquisition Of more Capitol
Grounds property and construc-
ton Of additional House Once
Building. $40 million.
The Presidents Recommended
tion for 4 new Howard Univer-
sity hospital followed recon-
mendations by q special citizens
commission appointed by former
Secretary Hobby Of the HEALTH
Education and Welfare Depart
'ment.
Or. J. M. Nabrit. jr.. secretary
Iof Howard University. said ne
voiced the reaction OF President
Mordecai w. johnson. who
would be greatly pleased" with
the development. DR.. johnson is
returning from Liberia, where he
attended the Inauguration Of
President William Tubman.
Hospital Site Predicted
Site for the new hospital, he
predicted, would be Immediately
Isouti. Of the present Freedmen'sI
Ion the university grounds.
For Howard University's long
range construction program. the
budget carries $4,000 to plan.
Ia military science. physical edu-I
cation building, and home eco
monies building In 1857 fiscal
year.
The President also recon-
Imended IS million to be avail
able nationally by General Sery-I
ices Administration for starting
the so-called ease-purchase pro-
gram Of buying urgently needed
Federal buildings on the INSTALL
ment plan. GSA would use such
funds in its own discretion.
Outright appropriations we're
requested for projects already
authorized as follows:
| Smithsonian Institution: For a
new Museum Of History and
Technology to be erected on Con-
stitution Avenue between
Twelfth and Fourteenth streets,
NV, $33.7l2.000.
Gallaudet College: The second
stage Of an. overall construction
program, estimated at over So
million: would include building
Iof a classroom Laboratory. build
ing, and speech and hearing
clinic, roads. walks, and grading.
for which $2.547,0oo is asked for
1857.
The controversial Central IN
telligence Agency site for q
building already authorized by
Congress has not yet been fixed.
So the budget shows that S.
100000 was appropriated this
fiscal year. With at least two
principal sites involved, Lang
ley, Va, and one in Prince
Georges County. the President
reported to Congress that IAN
appropriation. of $40 million is
proposed for later transmission
Ito Congress) for the construc-
ton Of a headquarters installa-
ton"
Among the projects expected
to be recommended for construc-
ton under the lease-purchase
program are;
A Federal office building in
Southwest Washington; a So
million Civil Service Commission
building. site not yet decided;
and buildings for the Weather
Bureau, Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey, and Geological Survey, sites
not yet decided.
: An outright appropriation of
about 81 million was proposed
to strengthen research by the
National Bureau Of Standards.
also TO plan new buildings to
replace present inadequate re-
search facilities" Some Of the
laboratories were recommended
for construction outside the Dis
trict.