COMPARATIVE COSTS, PER PATIENT DAY, HOSPITALS, WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA

CAPITOL HILL SOUTHEAST CITIZENS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Washington, D.C., August 6, 1971.

RECOMMENDATIONS ON D.C. 1972-1977 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR SERVICES TO

AREA 5

SCHOOLS

While the cost of improving the schools in area 5 are not in the immediate future, many of these schools have been modernized or newly built or had additions within the past twenty years. The Capitol Hill S.E. Citizens Association has helped to secure:

10-203-Lenox modernization and perhaps addition.

10-210-Buchanan modernization and improvements.

10-224-Brent may need an addition but it has had one or more additions. 10-325-VanNess a great deal of money spent on that.

10-326-Tyler was a new building not long ago.

10-330-Watkins was a new building not long ago.

10-331--Bryan has had modernization on it.

J10-343--Elliot has had new-it may be a relatively new school.

H-10-312-Eastern High School is relatively new school.

Hine is the only new school that is not listed for improvements; it was and is the newest school; this Association has worked to secure all of the above improvements on the above buildings. This organization may have worked on other northeast schools but lacks data to include them.

Millions of dollars have been spent on Capitol Hill Schools in the last 20 years, as our territory extends to Northeast up to H Street, N.E. and to the Anacostia River east while south to North Capitol Street.

Apparently all of these schools needing work have been mistreated by pupils or someone or groups of roving juveniles.

The Capitol Hill Southeast Citizens Association objects to struggling again to secure money for improvements from Congress, when it has already appropriated money within recent years for good school buildings that were built on Capitol Hill.

The entire program for schools in Area 5 should be some painting and the replacement of all broken glass with plastic window panes. Allowance should be made for furnace or plumbing on a limited basis of repair, but the entire cost over the next years should not be more than one million dollar expense on the above buildings.

Where schools have not received any building help during the past 20 years the situation is different. However, to restore buildings, relatively new because no one assumes responsibility for care of school buildings is beyond reason.

This organization recommended last year that the principal be held responsible for the school building. If the principal is held responsible, the buildings will not deteriorate within a few years.

This organization recommends that overcrowding be eliminated by placing temporary buildings on present school grounds or by renting basements of churches or stores that are vacant. With the value of land on Capitol Hill so high and the constant shifting of population, the property owners cannot pay the taxes for the waste now existing.

LIBRARY

11-25-The Capitol Hill Southeast Citizens Association recommends airconditioning the Southeast Library as soon as possible.

11-20 This organization objects to rebuilding the library; the present one is quite adequate. Members and officers from this group visiting it to receive copies of your directions found one person reading and the rest wandering around using it as a gathering place. School is out and apparently few in that area use it during the summer. Each school building has a library; Hine pupils use their own and Eastern High has its own. Serious students and professional people go to the Congressional Library, whose annex is now being built. The Garden Club of Capitol Hill provided the present bushes and ground decorations now beautifying the present library. There is no new library to be built in 1978; the present basement under the one now standing there is used very little.

RECREATION

12-64-The Rosedale Playground has had a great deal of money spent on it at 17 and Gales Street, N.E. during recent years. Careful checking should be made to determine if over $1,000,000 should be spent there to enlarge or restore in 1973. Can the taxpayers in that area afford the high increase in taxes?

12-97-The Chamberlain School vicinity has a number of playgrounds near there. This organization opposes any land acquisition at Potomac Ave., Ives and 14 Street, S.E costing $635,000. If that land is purchased, it should be utilized so that it brings in additional taxes.

12-147-The Virginia Avenue playground near Ninth and Virginia Avenue cost the District money in recent years; this organization worked for the present S.E. playground at that location; it is not used much. When we visited it after having it enlarged, we found one child on it. Do not spend $467,000 in 1974; leave property on tax roll. Hire roving leaders to insist pupils use playground.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

15-3-Eastern Market, Seventh and North Carolina Avenue, S.E. The Capitol Hill Southeast Citizens Association approves of spending $220,000 on remodeling the Eastern Market in 1972. (It has also urged that the new Metro Station now called Marine Barracks be changed to Eastern Market.)

HUMAN RESOURCES

21-51-Remodeling the Power plant: this organization is not familiar enough with the problem to make suggestions.

21-52-Air-conditioning D.C. General Hospital: this organization imagines it should be done but has taken no action and is not familiar with the present conditions.

21-55-Garage facilities for D.C. General: this organization does not know enough about the situation, but it is sympathetic to any needs that can be handled at 19 and Mass. Ave., S.E. within the scope of that area.

21-56-Further study on part of this group before such an expenditure in 1976 can be justified.

21-60-Replacement of smoke stack at D.C. General in 1974 requires more study by this organization.

CORRECTIONS

The Capitol Hill Southeast Citizens Association has not studied any of these facilities in detail.

GENERAL SERVICES

28-12-The Association has voted in favor of this project and heartedly supports it in order to take street traffic off Capitol Hill. (Freeway)

SANITARY ENGINEERING

32-120-The Capitol Hill Southeast Citizens Association approves of Capitol Relief-area between Anacostia River and North and South Capitol Sts. 12 and H Streets, N.E. in 1974.

All of the program has been listed because as parts of the vast program arise the Association will make detailed study of all Area 5 projects. Thank you. ELIZABETH DRAPER, Corresponding Secretary.

[Reprint from the Washington Star, Aug. 1, 1971]

D.C. AREA GROWTH IS FASTEST IN U.S.

(By Harvey Kabaker)

Despite a decline in the District's population during the 1960s, the Washington metropolitan area was the fastest growing in the nation and jumped from 10th to 7th largest, according to a new Census Bureau report.

These are highlights from a report in the Census Bureau's latest series, "General Demographic Trends for Metropolitan Areas, 1960 and 1970.”

The report is based on previously published data, but for the first time the bureau has arranged the figures to view the metropolitan area as a whole, and to compare the District with the suburbs as a whole.

Three out of every four area residents now live in the suburbs, the report says, compared with about three of every five-63 percent-in 1960.

The statistics show that houses, on the average, are getting bigger in the suburbs but not in the District; that there are fewer persons per household in both places, and that overcrowding has eased a bit in the suburbs but not in the city.

Increases in the District's housing accounted for only 5 percent of the total housing increase in the metropolitan area between 1960 and 1970.

The suburban population grew faster in Maryland than in Virginia. Increasing from 698,000 to nearly 1.2 million, Prince Georges and Montgomery together leaped by 70 percent. Virginia suburbs increased by 53 percent-from 602,000 to 921,000.

The bureau counts Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William Counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church in the Washington "standard metropolitan statistical area," as well as the District and the two Maryland counties.

Population totals are: Prince Georges, 660,567; Montgomery, 522,809; Arlington. 174.284: Fairfax County, 455,201; Loudoun, 37.150; Prince William, 111,102; Alexandria, 110,938; Fairfax City, 21,970; Falls Church, 10,772. Although there were more homeowners in 1970 than in 1960, the proportion of homeowners declined both in the District and the suburbs.

In 1960, 49 percent of area homes were owned by the occupants, compared with 46 percent in 1970.

Home ownership declined in the District from 30 to 28 percent; in the suburbs, the decline was from 63 to 53 percent.

These figures, generally, reflect the boom in apartment building, especially in the suburbs, compared with the building of single family homes, or cooperative apartments, for purchase by the residents.

9TH LARGEST CITY

The net decrease in the District's population of 7,446 persons, to 756,510, maintained the city's rank as ninth largest in the nation. Of the 10 largest cities in 1960, only three experienced population growth during the 1960s, the report said.

The District's decrease occurred despite a "natural increase" of 93,000 persons, the report states, because of a "net outmigration" of 100,000 persons-13 percent of the city's 1960 population.

A "natural increase" of 1,400 in the white population was overshadowed by a "net outmigration" of 138,000 whites-40 percent of the 1960 white populationthe report notes. The nonwhite proportion of the population increased conse quently from 55 percent in 1960 to 72 percent in 1970. (The "nonwhite" population includes blacks and "other" races.)

By comparison, the nonwhite populations in the rest of the top ten cities ranged from 23 percent in New York City and Los Angeles to 47 percent in Baltimore. The outflow of whites means that 9 out of every 10 whites in the metropolitan area live in the suburbs-up from 78 percent in 1960.

The black population in the metropolitan area kept pace with population growth generally, and increased from 25 to 26 percent of the total. The Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies recently noted this stability over the past half-century, using Census data back to 1920.

The center interpreted the figures to mean blacks are migrating to the area, and increasing, at about the same rate as the white population. But the new black population seems to have been confined to the District, while whites found it relatively easier and more desirable to settle in the suburbs.

In fact, the Census report shows, the suburban black population more than doubled during the decade. But because the white population also increased, the "Negro and other races" comprise 9 percent of the total, compared to 7 percent in 1960. And Prince Georges County alone accounted for nearly 60,000 of the 101.000 new black suburban residents.

[Reprint from the Washington Star, July 7, 1971]

AREA BANKS SHOW RECORD DEPOSITS OF $5.8 BILLION

(By Bailey Morris)

Washington area bank deposits rose to a record $5,829,329,311 on June 30, on the strength of a healthy Virginia gain and a previously reported new high in District deposits, the latest condition call by the comptroller of the currency shows.

Since April 20, the date of the previous condition call, suburban deposits increased to $2.86 billion from $2.75 billion. As reported earlier, District bank deposits rose to a new high during that time of $2.967 billion from $2.914 billion. A substantial portion of the area-wide deposit increase was accounted for by banks in nearby Virginia, where funds rose from $1.23 billion in April to $1.295 billion.

All but two Virginia banks showed gains over the prior condition call, with American Bank rising more than $9 million and Arlington Trust Co. reporting a $16 million gain.

Of the 24 suburban Maryland banks, 17 showed increases over the April call and seven reported declines. Total Maryland deposits rose to $1.567 billion from $1.519 billion. Big gainers during the past two months were Suburban Trust Co., up $35 million, and Maryland National Bank up $8.6 million.

Over the past 12 months, big gains in Virginia were posted by American Bank, up $19 million; Arlington Trust, up $35 million; Clarendon Trust, up $28 million, and First Virginia Bank, up $23.8 million.

Showing sharp year-to-year increases in Maryland were American National, up $18 million: Citizens Bank & Trust, up $47 million; Maryland National, up $23 million, and University National, up $20.8 million.

Individual totals for Maryland and Virginia banks for June 30 are listed below, as well as those for April 20 and last June 30:

1 Includes only the suburban Washington deposit figures of Baltimore-based banks.

Residence

CHART 27

PLACE OF RESIDENCE OF PERSONS WHO WORK IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 1960 AND 1968

WORK IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Total.....

District of Columbia.

Montgomery..

Prince George.

Fairfax..

Arlington.

Alexandria.

Total suburbs...

Note: In chart 27 the estimated number of workers in the District of Columbia, 1968, was about 515,000. In chart 32 the estimated number of jobs in the District of Columbia, 1968, was about 567,000. The main difference between these figures is due to multiple job holders.

Source: Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, Transportation Planning Board, information report No. 32, "Travel to Work," September 1970.