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WORKS PLAN OFjINTEREST TO CITYrTelegrams From PWA Region- -al Director Are Received \♦Here. ;:ALLOTMENT OF FUNDS DEPENDS ON CONGRESSVSImprovements To Local Fire' Houses Contem- :Iplated. ■Telegrams received today by the city and by the County Board of j Education verified yesterday's; blanket announcement by PWA au-; . tnorities that the fire house and new high school projects arc definitely on the new construction program ■which Congress will be asked to support ^The Public Works Administration had identified these as two of the twenty-one Maryland projects on ^hich work could begin, provided the Administration's pro-posed new' spending program is approved.Officials of both the city and the school board, asked to wire whether they would be interested in the projects on file, if the new- legislation is passed, replied that they were very' much interested.The answers, independent of each other, were wired to M. E. Gilmore. Regional Director of the Public Works Administration. New YorkCity.Mr. Gilmore had telegraphed to City Engineer Elmer St.C. Maxwell and to Robert L. Warfield, president of the Frederick County Board of Education, asking them, with regard to their respective projects, asI designated by numbers:“Please w-ire whether or not you will be interested in project you now have on file with Public Works Administration if national legislation .is ;passed substantially the same as existing legislation.Mr. Maxwells reply, made upon the instruction of Mayor Culler, was that the city is vitally interested in the fire projectMr. Warfield's reply, following his consultation of Superintendent of Schools Eugene W. Pruitt, was that the Board of Education was “very much interested in the school plan.The high school application was for a grant of §245.250 to aid in J carrying through a program designed | to relieve over-crowding, and esti^v mated to cost in all, S545.000. Im- 0 provement of the' Lincoln High School situation and aid to some county schools, as well as construction of a new Frederick High School, are embraced.The city fire project includes not only the proposed construction of a new house for the Citizens Truck Company, but also improvements at the United and Junior engine 5 houses- The Government is asked j L to provide 516,155. or 45 per centj^ of the total estimate of S35.900. !The Government is emphasizing!* that outcome of the projects is kur- j -rounded by an “if. namely, wheth- j er Congress approves the Govern- j __ ment's new spending plan. Wheth- j ‘ er the local projects would have i c any chance of receiving a grant un- c der the previous Federal aid plans. r‘ existence when they were Sled.csnot known. Nearly one-third of j ] e grants designated in this state, jt . _ XI____ J n-milH Iider the proposed new plan, would , to the University of Maryland, j
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Frederick, Maryland, US
Thu, Apr 21, 1938
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