Evening star. [volume], May 22, 1936, Page D-10, Image 58

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MINING SCHOOL
BILL ISPROPOSED
Separate Measure May Be
Offered If Funds Are
Held Up.
A separate bill to provide $100,000
for the National Training School for
Girls may be introduced if the ap
propriation fails to materialize in
either the 1937 District supply bill
or the deficiency bill.
Alarmed by the deadlock over the
supply bill, institution authorities
said today it was hoped the District
Commissioners would see fit to urge
a bill on behalf of the training school
if funds are not provided through one
of the other measures.
The Commissioners already are on
record as approving funds to employ
teachers for the school for the first
time in its history and to restore the
antiquated buildings to usefulness.
Under the new superintendent, Dr.
Carrie Weaver Smith, W. P. A. work
ers already are painting and patch
ing about the grounds and basements.
Thrust into Limeugni.
The institution which has cost the
District only $328,470 in maintenance
during the past five years, was thrust
into the limelight recently when
Chairman King of the Senate District
Committee and other members of the
committee found conditions there were
deplorable.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who also inspected
the school, was so shocked at what
she found on a visit there that she
invited all the inmates to a White
House party to get them away for a
few hours.
The Board of Public Welfare has
recommended that the plant and
equipment of the school be rehabili
tated as follows:
1. Alterations in the Washington
building providing for a combination
auditorium and_ gymnasium, a central
kitchen, centra’l laundry, school of
domestic arts and an apartment for
the institution’s employes to replace
the existing dormitories.
2. Alterations in the Shaw Build
ing, modernizing the heating layout,
installing additional electrical outlets
and establishing additional toilet
room with showers.
3. Replacement of existing obsolete
plumbing in the Administration Build
ing.
Remodeling Urged.
4. Remodeling of two bams, one to
be used as a white girls’ dining and
recreation hall and the other to be
used as a white girls' school building.
5. Construction of brick cottages
with a minimum capacity of 25 in
MiUl/VO vUtii.
6. Remodeling of sewage and heat
ing systems to provide for the ex
panded plant.
7. Equipping of the remodeled and
new buildings.
School authorities said that if the
hoped for funds are received one of
the projects they hope to start is a
public tea room, near Conduit road,
to be run by the girls. If an old
building there can be renovated a
suitable money-making project could
be initiated this Summer, the loca
tion being ideal for passing motorists.
PLANS SPRING SHOW
Woodridge Garden Club Boae
Peony Exhibit Is Tonight.
The Woodridge Garden Club will
hold its annual Spring rose-peony
show tonight in the Presbyterian Sun
day school Hall, Twenty-second street
and Rhode Island avenue northeast,
from 8 to 10 o’clock.
Entries will be admitted until 6:30
p.m. today. There will be a number
of exhibits of the newer and better
varieties of roses and peonies. The
public is invited to attend. There will
be no admission charged.
Dr. James A. Gamble is chairman
of the show.
RANDOLPH-MACON BEST
IN COMPETITIVE DRILL
Washington and Lee High School
Cadets Beaten at Pront
Royal.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FRONT ROYAL. Va., May 22.—
Randolph-Macon Academy won an
interschool military drill with Wash
ington and Lee High School of Clar
endon here Monday. Randolph
Macon scored 97.50 points, Washing
ton and Lee 94.75.
The judges were James B. Golden,
United States Field Artillery; Maj.
Marlon M. Voorhees, United States
Cavalry, of Front Royal Remount De
pot, and Capt. Buckner M. Creel,
United States Cavalry. The competi
tion Included all forms of close-order
drill, with a series of freak and tree
movement exercises. The drill was
held in acceptance of Randolph
Macon's challenge.
Foisoni 500 Rabbits.
Noting that jackrabblts were de
stroying his growing wheat, C. F.
Shafer of Hugoton, Kans., put out
poison and next day found 500 dead
rabbits.
TOWN OFFICERS CHOSEN
FOR CAPITOL HEIGHTS
Clarenc Swick Reappointed Presi
dent of Council and Mrs.
Conner as Clerk.
Special Dlipatcn to roe star.
CAPITOL HEIGHTS. Md., May 22.
—Clarence H. Swiclc was reappointed
president of the Town Council of
Capitol Heights at its organization
meeting Wednesday night. Also reap
pointed were Mrs. Irene A. Conner,
clerk, and Albert D. Adams, building
inspector.
William O. Sweeney was named to
the new past of roads and trash super
visor at a salary of $100 a month,
while William Simmons was given the
post of sanitary inspector.
Three new baliffa were appointed.
They are Norris Simpson. Walter Hen
derson and William Wells.
The council Instructed the clerk
to write the Prince Georges County
Board of License Commissioners re
questing its aid in closing liquor es
tablishments at midnight.
Old Fort Rebuilt.
Texas is reconstructing old Fort
Parker, Limestone County, scene of
the story of Cynthia Ann Parker’s
capture by Indians.
NEW PAVING URGED
Citizens Ask Sidewalk Along
Widened Colesvllle Pike.
■t tclal Dispatch to Tbs Star.
SEVEN OAKS MANOR, Md., May
32.—A resumption urging the State
Roads Commission to complete paving
of the shoulders on the newly-widened
Colesvllle Pike and to build a sidewalk
on both sides of the pike from Sligo
Creek Bridge to Franklin avenue as
adopted last night by the Seven Oaks
Manor Citizens' Association.
The association went on record as
disapproving any commercial toning
in Its territory.
Immediate erection of signs in the
community which state “Children
Playing” will be asked of the county
commissioners. Improved sewage con
ditions in the neighborhood will be
sought by the group during the Sum
mer. The association will reconvene
in September, when election of officers
will be held.
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dating back: to 1836.
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