OCR Text |
Show Bill Giving S. L. Fort $42,000 For Housing Passed by House WASHINGTON. July 19 (UP) The house today passed and sent to the senate the $21,460,000 bill authorizing dozens of new housing and rehabilitation projects at army posts. work would be carried out under the 142.000 allocated that post in the army housing bill. However. Brigadier General Walter Wal-ter C Sween y. poet commandant, has requested a gymnasium for enlisted en-listed men. more barracks and a new hospital or addition to the present pres-ent one to care for an overload caused by treatment of C C C enrol en-rol lees. " The bill, sponsored by Chairman Lister B. Hill (D.. Ala.) of the house military affairs committee, authorises author-ises expenditure of S2.sao.000 for the army air technical training school. Chanute Field. 111., and S2.273.000 for a branch school at Denver, Colo. The bill authorises expenditure of $1S090.M in the United States. S3.302.3O0 in Hswaii and t3.CKJ7,00 in Panama. Projects in the bill, for which specific spe-cific appropriationa must be provided pro-vided in a separate measure, include: in-clude: i Fort Douglas. Utah. S42.000: Fitx-simmons Fitx-simmons general hospital, Colorado. S1.T70.000; Fort McArthur. Cel.. IIII.SOO: Presidio of San Francisco., Cal, S176.370. Fort Douglas officials said Monday Mon-day it waa not known yet what, |