Evening star., 1940-12-19
Planners Obtain
Land for Two
Fairgrounds
Addition to Oxon Run
Parkway Is Among
Other Purchases

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission announced
today that it had acquired through
condemnation proceedings the only
remaining parcel of land needed to
complete Recreation Center No. 81
at Alabama avenue and Naylor road
Sc. and two entire squares of prop
cray for the Southwest Recreation
Center Immediately north of the new
Jefferson High School.
In number of other purchases,
1t was announced, an addition to
Oxon Run Parkway in Southeast
Washington had been made as we'll
as small but important" addition
to the Anacostia golf course, which
will enable linking it with the Fort
Dupont course now under construc-
ton; minor amounts of land along
the Potomac Palisades, small addi-
ton to Fort Drive east of Connecti-
cut avenue near Rock Creek Park
and another small tract in what is
known as the Bureau of Standards
Valley, east of Connecticut acenue.
Bliss Thanked for Gift.
The commission passed a resolu-
tlon OF thanks to Robert Woods
Bliss for his gift to the Govern
ment for a park of a portion Of
MS Georgetown estate.
Ihe planners approved in prin-
clple a proposition for extending In.
dependence avenue S.W. from Four
teenth street west to the Potomac
River Only distractions in it's path
are portion of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing and the
northernmost tip of the Tidal Basin,
How these obstacles may be over
come has not been decided.
chairman Frederic A. Delano and
poard members were to discuss this
afternoon what should be done about
the lack of parking facilities in the
/ Southwest section and the enormitv
OF the Government Office rental
problem.
Afternoon Agenda Crowded.
! The commission also was to pass
! on land purchase contracts for the
George Washington Memorial Park.
way in Maryland and Virginia, dis
cuss a proposal from the Civil
Aeronautics Authority to locate a
dock for oil tankers at the new
National Airport, decide on a site for
an alrplane radio direction beam
station somewhere in the park sys-
tenn" and probe the details of
defense housing project of unan-
nounced location.
Tomorrow the commission will
start the day with consideration OF
the new west central government
heating plant, to be constructed at
Twenty-ninth and K streets NV; a
proposal to group buildings for the
United States Court of Claims,
United States Court of Appeals for.
the District of Columbia, United
States Court Of Customs and Patent
Appeals and United States Board OF
Tax Appeals around the proposed
tOliver Wendell Holmes Memorial
Park, Immediately east of the Su-
preme Court Building. and to con-
struct new District Court for the
District of Columbia Building on
the site of the old Pension Office,
now the Government Accounting
Office, and proposed new pump
house to replace that Immediately
below Massachusetts avenue In
Rock Greek Park.
Fort Drive Up Tomorrow.
! tomorrow morning the commits
sion also plans to discuss legisla-
ton which it expects to sponsor or
which affects its work; hear further
recommendations on how the Fort
drive had best be constructed and
hear a report on the progress to
date of the fight to prevent an
amendment to the zoning laws to
permit buildings of 100 feet in the
District.
Tomorrow afternoon the COM
mission will have a joint conference
with committee of the Alexandria
City Council regarding zoning OF
property along Washington street,
the route taken by the Mount Ver-
non Memorial highway through
Alexandria. and consider a number
Of street closings.