A $9 million appropriation for capital improvements at Louisiana State university in New Orleans will be earmarked in the composite LSU bill, two New Orleans area legislators announced Friday.
Rep - elect. Arthur A. Crais, Eighth Ward, and Rep. James E. Beeson, Jefferson parish, said they would push the entire overall' capital construction bill for LSU. The bill will total $23,100,-000.
The two legislators said they are especially interested in an allocation of $9,025K220 for LSUNO, They said the signatures of all senators from the First and Second Congressional Districts wil] be sought on this request.
The LSUNO funds, if secured, would be for a library, classroom building, administration building, shops, cafeteria, and extension of utilities; These structures would be in line with the master plan for the lakefront campus.
Crais and Beeson said the LSUNO appropriation is. needed because of the expanding student enrollment at the university.
An enrollment of 2500 students at LSUNO is expected next fall. The branch was established here in 1958 with an all freshman class; by 1961, LSUNO will have freshmen through senior classes..
A classroom building, science building, and central utilities plant are presently under construction or out on bids at LSUNO.
However, shortcuts may have to be made in certain parts of the new structures because oil lease money granted the school did not provide as much revenue as anticipated.
LSUNO* also is renovating tfre last of temporary buildings available for classroom space. The university, since its inauguration has been housed in structures that once made up the old lakefront naval air station.
Crais said he had "great interest in promoting the welfare of! LSUNO."
"LSUNO is something New Or-! leans has needed for the last 50 to 60 years," he said. "With adequate funds I'm sure the, school I could be built up so beautifully | that the rear areas of the Seventh and Eighth Wards will be called I'the downtown university sec-jtion.1 " i Other LSU requests to the Leg-
islature when it meets May 10 will include:
School of medicine, New Orleans, $1,500,000 to match federal funds for an expansion of the school on Tulane ave. at the Charity hospital site. /
LSU at Alexandria, a new branch, $1,200,000 to include a classroom and laboratory building, utilities and gymnasium-auditorium.
Experiment stations, 4-H Club camps, $700,000.
Baton Rouge campus, $10,675,-; 000, including gymnasium for! men; music facilities and auditorium for laboratory school; nu-j clear reactor facilities; auditorium; facilities for poultry, dairy science and fine arts; remodeling and alteration of existing space; additions to central air-conditioning, aild modernization and extension of utilities.
