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Highway Budget Items
Forecast Hearing Fight

funds totaling nearly $1.9 mil
lion are being sought along
with 100000 for start Of con-
struction of the Three Sisters
Islands Bridge which would tie
into the proposed freeway.
Funds for acquisition of right
Of way and start Of construc-
ton for a large interchange
connecting the south and east
legs Of the Inner Loop in
Southeast has been requested
totaling $546, 700.
East Leg Design
A request for $4,000 would
provide a start for right-of-
way acquisition and design of
the east leg Of the Inner Loop
which would run northward
from the huge interchange to
Florida avenue.
Funds for purchase of right
Of way - some Sill million is
being sought for the path of
the Southeast freeway from the
interchange to the Sousa
Bridge. An additional $423,8 800
is required to construct the
freeway from South Capitol
street to Seventh street.
With another $269,000 re-
queSted for the Anacostia free
way the eXpreSSway connection
between the Woodrow Wilon
Bridge and the East Capitol
Bridge would be completely
funded in fiscal 1868.
Another 1921, 400 is requested
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for the superstructure of q new
Eleventh street bridge. The
funds for the substructure have
already been approved by Con-
gress and construction is due
to start soon. 1t will connect
with the planned Southeast
interchange.
Northeast Freeway
In Anacostia, Nichols avenue
and Thirteenth street Sc.
would be tied into the new
bridge approaches at a cost Of
$242,500.
Design funds are also re-
quested for the Northeast free
way, to run from an inter-
change with the east leg at
Florida avenue to the District
line, tying in there with a pro-
posed third route to Baltimore.
Money sought for this item
totals $450.000.
Some planning money for the
center leg of the Inner Loop,
nearly $4,000, is requested.
Other items sought include:
Final touches on the South
west freeway, $4,000; paving Of
Seventh street NV. from G
street to Florida avenue, $310,-
900; widening of Rhode Island
avenue NE. from Fourth to
Fourteenth streets. $4,000,
and paving Of Branch avenue
Sc. from Minnesota to Penn
sylvania avenue, $l62, 500.
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Welfare Budget Rises
$4,000 for 1868

care Of an anticipated rise in
the relief rolls. No money has
been allowed for an increase,
constant for years here, in the
hard-core budget. Cuts in
checks for large families made
last November as an economy
measure probably would be re-
stored with about $4,000 Of
this amount.
Five more investigators to
police the rolls for cheaterS
would be added, at a cost Of
$21 900.
Increased staff would be pro-
vided to help rehabilitate people
on relief and possibly prevent
others from needing relief, with
the program costing about
$50, 1000.
About 1885, 900 would increase
the board rate for children
in institutions and foster
homes; 100000 would increase
the guard force at Children'S
Center at Laurel, Md.
Money for capital outlay
totaling $536,4OO is being
sought in the hard-core budget.
Almost all of it would be spent
to equip buildings replacing the
old dormitories at D. C. Village,
the city's home for the aged.
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Sewer Separation
Plun ENDANGERED

A program of separating
combined sanitary and storm
sewers to reduce pollution in
the Potomac River will have to
be suspended unless additional
funds are provided in the Dis
trict's Sanitary Engineering
Department budget, a District
official warned.
David V. Aud, department
director, said the separation
program is designed to prevent
the pouring of raw sewage into
the Potomac when the present
combined sewers overflow dur
ing heavy transforms.
The sanitary engineering
budget sent to Congress totals
$28,77l,000 a reduction of
$6,397 900 from the budget for
this year.
While the departments op-
Grating expenses will be in
creased $4,000, the construc-
ton program will be cut
$6,916,000.
If Congress approves legis-
lation to provide the increased
revenues, $3,297,O00 additional
would be earmarked for the de-
partment's construction needs.
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ST. ELIZABETHS
BUILDINGS ASKED

Three new buildings designed
to help mental patients return
to society with greater ease
would be provided at st. Eliza
beths Hospital here by a ST.
100000 appropriation in the
1868 budget presented by the
President today.
This new rehabilitation COM
plex, to be constructed on the
east side of the hospital
grounds. would provide $50 beds
and thus permit the deStruc-
tion of a wing housing $50 that
was built onto the original hos
pital building 80 years ago.
1t would include a three-story
building and two smaller CEN
ters for dance, music and work
therapy. A swimming pool also
is planned.
DR.. Winfred Overholser, su-
perintendent of the hospital,
believes the new facilities will
permit the staff to better pre-
pare patients ION their way
out"
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Parks Budget includes
Roosevelt Memorial

The National Capital Parks
budget submitted today includes
$1.4 million for production of
a memorial to Theodore Roo
sevelt to be erected on Theodore
Roosevelt Island.
The memorial, a standing
figure placed in front of a
granite wall on an oval-shaped
platform surrounded by a moat,
will be on a high point near the
center of the island.
The design of the memorial
has received approval by the
various agencies involved and
by members of the Roosevelt
family.
Other items included in a
capital outlay budget of $9.4
million submitted by the park
service:
Start Of design of an overlook
to be. one of the main focal
points along the Tenth Street
Mall in the redeveloped South
west waterfront, $73,500.
Start of a pedestrian mall
along Maine avenue to be part
of the new waterfront, $265, 900.
Park Development
Development of a park site
at Delaware avenue and 1
street in the Southwest rede-
velopment area, 1882 400.
Replacement of the White
House fence along Pennsylvania
avenue, which dates back to
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1870, improvement of the side
walk and new landscaping,
$347,000.
Completion of the parks
administration buildings on
Brentwood road, $1.l million.
Included in the National
Park Service budget is $206, 500
for restoration work on locks
and bed of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal above Seneca, Md.
Other parks money request
ed was for additional stream
valley parklands funds in the
National Capital Planning Com
mission budget.
Seek SIS Million
The agency is seeking $1.8
million to be spent equally in
the District, Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
In addition, the commission
requests that 100000 be al
lowed for final parkland pur-
chases for the George Wash
ington Memorial Parkway in
Montgomery County.
Congress was also asked to
allow $65,000 which will be
combined with $35, 900 from the
Washington Metropolitan Area
Conference and matched with
100000 from the Washington
Center for Metropolitan Stud
les to be used for an open
space study in the region.
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ZOOS 7O-YEAR CAPITAL PLAN
NOW A FEDERAL BUDGET ITEM

The replacement of obsolete structures at the Wash
ngon became Federal responsibility for the first
time this year.
BY act of Congress- this budgetary burden last year
lifted from District taxpayers. The bill amended the
1890 act which created the Zoo and enabled the Smith
sonan Institution which administers the Zoo to seek
capital construction funds for its improvement.
A $950000 item in the institutions 1863 budget
quest is aimed at beginning 10year program Of Zoo
Improvements, according to Dr. Leonard S. Carmichael,
the SmithSonians secretary.
First-year work would include reconstruction of the
Zoos roads, bird flight cage and improve
ments to the existing bird exhibition building, Zoo
Director Theodore Reed said.
The program envisionS the replacement in succeeding
years of the Zoo office building, built in 1906 the lion
house q89D; the antelope house 1899, closed to
the public because of its condition. the bear pits
(902-1910), and the monkey house G906).
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81 900 ALLOWED
BIRTH CONTROL

The Commissioners budget
asks for $1,000 to disseminate
birth control information in
Washington.
Last year the ComisSioners
were forced to shelve a birth
control program because of op-
position of Representative Ra-
baut, Democrat of Michigan,
who has since died. A long
time foe Of birth control, Mr..
Rabaut headed the House Ap-
preparations Subcommittee that
handles the Districts budget,
The District Health Depart
ment later proposed a SIT, 900
program to the Commissioners
for disseminating both birth
control information and devices
here.
City budget officials recon-
mended that the $4,000 be
dropped from the new budget
A $1,000 information only pro-
gram, however, survived.
The program will pay for the
printing of easy -to-underStand
birth-control pamphlets that
can be distributed at mater
nifty clinics.
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NAME FOR DULLES AIRPORT
MAY BECOME INTERNATIONAL

There growing possibility today that Dulles IN
ternationa Airport might have new name before it is
commissioned next October
international Airport is good monicker" Federal
Aviation Administrator N E. Halaby said during
press briefing the 1868 budget He said one in
terestng suggestion had been made designate the big
civil jet base Chanly Va, as Washington Inter-
national and the terminal building itself after the
late John Foster Dulles.
For the last six months in his conversations and in
FAA press releases, the name Dulles has been used
scantily
The airport given its name by proclamation of
former President Eisenhower AS Mr. Haaby pointed out
ANY subsequent President could whatever is ap
proprate The question is he said what right name
for gateway to the United States? What is the best
name in the national lnterest?'
1t was then that he mentioned International for the
airport itself and Dulles for the terminal.
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POLICE SEEKING
Sc NEW MEN

The Police Department
budget calls for 56 additional
policemen.
If approved, the increase will
bring the departments total
manpower up to 1900. At pres
ent, 2,844 police jobs are budg-
eted, with 1922 of these posi-
tions filled. Ten vacancies and
IL men absent on military leave
account for the difference in
the two figures.
Last year, Congress approved
a measure authorizing a 5000
man police force in the Capital.
Also included is $460,0O0 for
a new third police precinct
station house, replacing the
present building at Twenty
first and K streets NV. Police
officials plan to build the new
station on a tract at New
Hampshire avenue and M street
NV. An abandoned fire sta
tion is now on the property.
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Fire Department
To Add "a Men

Funds earmarked for the Dis
trict Fire Department include
$540,815 for "a additional fire
men-a personnel increase
made necessary when Congress
last year shortened the fire
fighters average work week
from 60 to Sc hours.
Deputy Fire Chief Alexander
j. Patrick, the departments ad-
ministrative officer, said the
additional men bring the de-
partment's total authorized
strength to 1922.
The new work schedule actu-
ally was put into effect on De-
cember 10. All but eight of the
authorized 81 additional men
are on duty. Funds to cover the
schedule revision for the bal
ance of fiscal 1862 are to be OBJ
tained through a supplemental
budget appropriation.
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BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star Staff Writer

District highway spending
proposals sent to Congress to-
day have so far eluded serious
roadblocks.
Despite sharp criticism by
highway opponents and rev.
enue shortage facing the Dis
trict, the highway budget con-
tains a number of major road
projects including several con-
troversial items scheduled for
the Inner Loop freeway pro-
gram.
The inclusion of these con-
troversial proposals means a
fight can be expected when the
program comes up for a hear
ing before congressional budget
committees.
Overall highway spending by
the District for fiscal 1868
would be $11.3 million, less than
$500,000 more than approved
for the current fiscal year.
About SCI Million
An additional $50 million win
be spent in Federal highway
aid bringing total highway ex-
penditures expected in the next
fiscal year to about $61 million
The bulk of the Districts
highway share -$7.5 million -
will be paid out of the special
highway fund with about $3.6
million coming out of general
fund revenues.
Biggest Singel request is for
the hotly disputed Potomac
Rived freeway. Construction
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BY BETTY MILES
Star staff Writer

The District welfare budget
sent to Congress today provides
no money for rehabilitation
and has only one important
new item-a request for money
to staff four new buildings at
Junior Village.
The fiscal 1868 request for
$21,677,000 is only $276,00O
higher than the current budget,
Some $45l,0 900 is sought for
IS new jobs at Junior Village,
to provide nursing assistants at
District Training School. and
money for in-grade salary in
creaSeS.
Eliminated is $4,000 of the
$553,000 formerly appropriated
to pay for District boys at the
National Training School for
Boys. Also eliminated are funds
to run the Temporary Home
for Soldiers and Sailors. District
payments to the training school
have been running about $780,
900 below the appropriation
for several years.
Transient Quarters
The Temporary Home for
Soldiers and Sailors at 921
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. pro-
videS quarters for transient
veterans in Washington.
If additional funds become
available, another $1,s20,000 in
operating expenses would be
proposed for the Welfare De-
partment.
The District Commissioners
spelled out the services they
have in mind in the "State of
the Nations Capital" report,
sent to Congress earlier this
week
Probably top priority would
be given to a work training pro-
gram for the unemployed, a re-
habilitation program that would
cost Welfare about 5000, 900.
1t would try to bring 1900
unemployed, able bodied and,
for the most part, unSkilled
workers into the. labor force.
Money for the emergency grants
to tide the workers over would
be in clud d e d. The program
would be developed co-opera-
lively with the Board of Edu-
cation. and would concentrate
on training in semiSkilled and
skilled trades.
ID. C. Submits Plan
This plan was submitted to
the Senate District Appropria-
tions Subcommittee during
hearings on the 1862 budget
last summer, but the money
was not allocated. The Dis
trict does not give relief to the
able-bodied unemployed.
Another $657,000 would take
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DISTRICT ASKS
DRIVER PERMIT
COLOR PHOTOS

Color photographs of
drivers would be attached
to. their District driving
permits if Congress ap-
proves a $65,000 item re-
queSted today.
George England, Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles di-
rector, said that no extra
charge will be made for the
licenses issued with color
photographs.
If Congress provides the
funds, Mr.. England said,
the color photograph pro-
gram will start July /. He
added that when drivers
want to renew their licenses
they will have to be pho
tographed and will no
longer be able to get their
permits renewed by mail.
The department director
said that two cameras will
be installed at the Munich
pal Center and one will be
placed in a vehicle that will
tour the neighborhoods.
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LIBRARY ASKS
$3,719,000

The District budget sent to
Congress proposes spending
$3,119,0O0 for operating the
public library system, but ear
marks no funds for construc-
tion unless additional revenue
is provided.
If legislation is approved to
supply enough additional rev.
ehue, the budget would be in
creased to provide $1,O84,O0O in
construction funds.
This money would be used to
build a Capital View branch
and a Palisades branch and to
buy a site for a third branch
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Subway Research Sum
OF 81 Million Asked

Congress was asked today to
provide 81 million for studying
chronological advances in mass
transit that could be part of
a modern subway system for
the Washington region.
The National Capital Trans
portation Agency, in an over
all budget of $6.5 million, sub
mitted the request.
The total figure also includes
81 million to be earmarked for
purchase Of right of way for
wide median strips along plan
ned highways and for parking
areas.
About 81 million contained
in the budget would be spent
on preliminary engineering
studies for a downtown subway.
Payroll Growth Asked
The new budget figure is a
jump of $3.5 million for pro-
gram and financing expenses
over the current budget Of
nearly 81 million. The agency
already has been authorized 81
million for land acquisition for
median strips along Interstate
Route 66 in Virginia and Route
95 in Maryland.
The budget request would
provide 80 new permanent po-
SitionS, bringing the total to SO.
The new positions would be
filled primarily by engineers.
Officials cite the need for
feasibility tests" of new tech
biological advances in mass
transit, particularly vehicle de-
sign. These would be vehicles
and possibly electronic devices
that could be developed within
, the next five years, which is
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the date that a subway system
could get rolling here if Con-
gresS gave the program early
approval.
c. Darwin Stolzenbach, Meta
administrator, said talks with
officials of General Motors and
General Electric have Indicated
that private industry is willing
to spend funds on mass transit
archaeological research if the
Federal Government makes a
start.
Should the So million re-
search request be granted, Mr..
StoiZenbach said, more funds
will be sought next year.
Plan Due in November
The feasibility tests would
involve new kinds Of equipment
that are not in the dream
stage" but practical enough to
be developed in time tor the
start of the Washington sub
way system.
At the same time, Mr.. StolL-
enbach added, preliminary en-
gineering can 60 ahead so that
If Congress approves the final
transit development plan de-
tailed engineering plans can
move ahead.
The agency expects to submit
a plan in November for down.
town subway with possibly one
or two radial lines with budget
requests for fiscal 1854.
Acquisition Of land for park
ing stations slong George
Washington Memorial parkway
in Maryland would be pro-
vided with part Of the So mil
lion request. This was turned
down in the last budget.
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Funds ALLOW
Only | New
D. School
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

The District can build, un-
der today's budget requests, ex-
actly one new school in 1868, at
a time when officials expect
over 5000 more pupils tn a n
planned capacity.
This would mean the equiva-
lent of five new elementary
schools and two junior high
schools to handle the overflow,
let alone predicted enrolment
for which schools are currently
planned.
But today's budget to Con-
gress actually pares capital
outlay for school construction
and improvement more than Sc
million below this years.
Supt. Carl F. Hansen termed
the budget "a passport to cri-
sis" unless something is done
on the Hill to give the District
needeQ revenue.
Its like handing a contrac-
tor a sand shovel to build a
skyscraper," he said.
Also Site Money
AS things stand now, the
District would receive only $2.7
million for new schools and i'm
provementS. This includes Sill
million for the Garrison Ele-
mentary School replacement on
Twelfth street between R and S
streets NV, the sole construc-
tion item. New building con-
struction for this current year
totaled $50 million.
Budget officials allowed site
money only. $431 900, for a new
junior high school at North
Dakota and Kansas avenues
NV.
! While 30 additional elemen-
tary school teachers we're also
added to the budget, DR.. Han
sen pointed out that there are
several hundred junior high
school students who should be
in basic classes. They are SLOW
ing down regular classes be-
cause there are not enough
teachers for additional basic
classes. There are also more
than TOO pupils on the kinder
garten waiting list who cannot
go to school at all.
The additional teachers were
included in a requested in
crease Of SIT million in OPP
Grating funds for 1868. Also
added were funds for books for
new schools, and four elemen-
tary school counselors.
S58.5 Million
The total budget request sent
to the Hill today was $58.5 mil
lion. more than $4.6 million less
than fiscal 1862. The 1868
budget asks $55.7 million for
operating expenses.
If Congress gets around to
passing a revenue bill, the
Commissioners may ask for an
additional $2.1 million in op-
Grating expenses, and ST. mil
lion in capital outlay funds.
Officials would not specify
what items they would request
in the budget hinging on the
revenue bill. One new junior
high school, the $2.7 million
Evans, was delayed pending
revenue action.
In the state-of-the Nations
Capital report, the Commits
sioners cited a need Of $1.3
million for new teachers in the
budget and more money for
textbooks, special teachers and
counselors.
They also recommended con-
Struction next year of two new
and replacement of one elemen-
tary school.
In today's request were plan
ming funds for two new ele-
mentary schools ano an addi-
ton to another, and money for
a junior high school and an
addition.
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D. c. BUDGET
. City Defers Request
" For $35 Million

library at an undisclosed loca-
ton.
The budget does not contain
funds for a proposed $12 million
new central library. Commits
sioner Walter N. Tobriner has
said that while a new central
library is badly needed. it must
be deferred until the city's need
for more schools and moderni-
zation Of District General Hos
pital is met.
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1927 million to consolidate the
buildings at District General
Hospital. The plans also pro-
vide for close to $40 million in
school construction money.
The operating expense funds
in the Shelved $35 million
budget package is earmarked
mainly for new jobs to main
tain or improve city services.
AS examples, nearly $l.4 mil
lion would be spent for addi-
tional teachers at all levels to
hold the line on the classroom
pupil-teacher ratio, while about
100000 would go for a work
training program for the I'm
employed.
Prospects Brighten
City officials believe pros
poets are Frightening for en-
actment of a revenue measure
during this session of Congress.
An effort is being made to
reach an early compromise on
Capitol Hill on various revenue
raising proposals. These in
clude combinations of higher
taxes, an increased Fedefal
payment to the District, and
legislation to include the city
in the federally impacted area
school-aid program.
At briefing on today's pro-
posed budget, District officials
said there appeared to be an
outside chance of winning a
revenue measure which would
yield as much as $25 million a
year. But. the officials said. it
is much more likely that the
additional revenue would be in
the SIT million to SIG million
range.
If Congress does pass a rev.
enue bill, the District then
would submit a supplemental
spending request. This spend
ing proposal, covering items
in the shelved $35 million Sec
end budget, would be geared |
to the expected yield from the
revenue measure. City officials
said the Commissioners have
not made firm decisions on the |
priority Of these budget prof.
ects.
Borrowing Possible
If the revenue bill did not |.
provide enough additional
funds to pay for all of the
spending proposals in the $35
million package, the District
then might seek authority to
close the gap through addi-
tional borrowing.
The financing for the budget
sent to Congress today would
include the final $18.7 million
Of a $75 million Federal loan
authorized for general fund
public works projects. This loan
was to have covered the city'sI
borrowing needs through the
fiscal year beginning July l.
1863. But, city officials said,
the District has had to acceler-
ate the borrowing rate because
of the repeated failure by Con-
gress to vote the city the full
authorized annual Federal pay
ment. The Commissioners are
asking Congress to authorize
the borrowing of another S75
million over a 10-year period.