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health, rehabilitation and Ii
braries.
Taxpayers appeared in sup
port of a variety of items in
the Commissioners request
for SAT million spending in
addition to the $268.1 million
voted by the House. They also
urged increasing the House
passed annual Federal pay
ment of $50 million to at
least $33.5 million, asked by
Commissioners.
Asks $36 Million
John O'Rourke, representing
the Federal City Council, main
tanned in a letter to Senator
Byrd that the payment must
reach $36 million Immediately
to cover costs of running the
Nations Capital. This is not
Ia contribution" he wrote,
but rather a basic responsibility
of the Federal Government
which from 1879 to 1921 paid
half the municipal budget.
The $36 million would be about
IA per cent of total spending.
Senator Byrd almost guar
anteed subcommittee restora-
ton of $241 900 to maintain q
police-fire medical clinic. The
House cut off funds for part
time doctors at the clinic and
ordered medical services for Of
ficers at D. c. General Hospital
"I couldn't believe this item
was cut" testified Mrs. Ernest
w. F. Howard, president of the
Columbia Heights Citizens AS
Sociation. IF it were not SO
serious, it would be laughable
to think that officers should
be sent to a charity hospital,
to sit up against the wall and
wait to be treated by internes. -
Cites Agreement
1t. Alden C. Kefauver, jr.,
president of the District Fire
mems Association, said MAIN
tenance of the clinic was a
contractual agreement made by
the District government with
every member of the police and
fire departments when they
Joined.
Turning to other matters, the
chairman said he wanted a
$4,000 study tracing felony ar
rests through court to be made
by the Citizens Crime Comis-
sion of Metropolitan Washing
ton. Robert c. Simmons, jr.,
and Mrs. Sally Orrison rep
resented the commission.
William A. Roberts, vice
president of the Federation Of
Citizens Associations, stressed
the need for a minimum Fed
eral payment of $685. million
and spending allowances of
$294,3 1892 for a second precinct
experiment to improve living
conditions, 1890, 900 for 81 more
policemen and 81 million in
Federal funds for snow removal.
Seek Library
Seven witnesses, including
10-year-old Francel Maria
Trotter, from Southeast, asked
the subcommittee as a delega-
ton for $4,000 in construc-
ton funds for a new Capitol
View branch library. The
house approved $4,000 for
plans; the Commissioners did
not seek building funds.
But residents of the COM
munity protested that hundreds
of children waited in line for
hours to read books furnished
by inadequate bookmobiles in
their area.
Senator Byrd praised Miss
Trotter for the finest presenta-
ton today" when she read
from a scroll she wrote her
self:
"Our parents have told us you
have the power to give us our
library. If we read more, we
might become teachers, doctors,
chemists and other useful men
and women. Please help us
today"
Urging immediate library
construction were the Rev.
Harold Johnson, of the Hughes
Methodist Church; Aloyious
Briscoe. president of the East
Capitol Resident Council; the
Rev. Eugene ]. Farrell, assistant
pastor of st. Luke's Catholic
Church; Pasty L. Allen, presi-
dent of the Marshall Heights
Civic Association; Conrad Belt,
aged Is, of the Capitol View
Junior Civic Association, and
Mrs. Maggie B. Trotter, chair
man of the Capitol View Lii
brary Committee.
Other witnesses were:
James H. Lemon, president
of the Hospital Council of the
National Capital Area, who
asked for Sc per outpatient
visit and $34 per impatient
charges for INDECENT patients at
private hospitals-the same rate
the city sets for care at D. C..
General.
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