Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Grading 10 Start
Before July on
New Parkway
D. C.-BoItimore Rood
To Follow Alongside
Anocostio River

Anocostio River
Grading and paving Is expected
to start before next July on the
newly-approved Washington Balti-
more parkway route from the Blad-
ensburg Peace Cross to the far side
of Fort George G. Meade, via Green
belt and the Agriculture Expert
mental Station.
The dual highway, with interven-
ing park strip, eventually will come
down alongside the Anacostia River
ofhcials said, to join the proposed
South Capitol Street Bridge. They
regarded the final agreement on the
route as most important achieve
ment' to benefit the two cities.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission approved the
22-mile route to Fort Meade late
yesterday, acting on a final report
submitted by H. ]. Spelman, Dis
trict engineer of the Public Roads
Administration. From the military
post into Baltimore, officials said
the route is entirely up to the State
OF Maryland.
Strips to Be Acquired.
Much Of the parkway to Fort
Meade Is through Government
owned land, but there are a num-
Der OF strips which have to be con-
demned and acquired. These strips
lie between Bladensburg and Green
belt and between the latter and the
Agriculture Station acreage. For
this reason, officials are not now
prepared to give exact route details
From the experimental farms, how
ever, it will connect with Fort
Meade at Jessup road.
The Public Roads Administration
has a $4,000 900 allotment available
to grade and pave the 22-mile park
way. Plans are to be made later for
traf1lc overpasses and underpasses.
The Planning Commission also ap-
proved two bills introduced In Con-
gress to change the name of Bladens-
burg road in the District to Ohio
avenue and that OF Nichols avenue
east Of Anacostia to Missouri ave-
nue.. There was no objection to
these redesignations, as they do not
involve any interference with the
present system Of street naming.
Fort Drive Link.
Satisfactory progress" was re-
ported on plans to complete link
OF the Fort drive on Oregon avenue,
adjacent to Rock Greek Park, to
Fourteenth street. This section Of
the drive had been under discussion
previously with Capt. H. C. White
hurst, District highway director, and
Acting Director A. E. Demaray of
the National Park Service.
Approval was given to the sale OF
three acres of the property of the
Columbian Institute for the Deaf to
the District government Is a site for
a new receiving home. The acreage
is near Brentwood Park and was
rendered useless when Mount Olivet
road was cut of.
Transfer to the District Of a piece
Of small park strip at Rhode Island
avenue and M streets NV. to
straighten out the west-bound traffic
into Rhode Island avenue also was
approved. There will be no interfer-
ence with the small monument on
the park strip erected as a memorial
to Catholic nuns who died in war
service. Permission for the transfer,
however, has not yet been obtained
from the Park Service.
Joint Committee Favored.
Maj. Gen, U. S. Grant III, chair
man, reported that the commission
favors formation of a joint commit
tee to deal with regional highway
plans. Such action was necessi-
tated, he said, by legislation that
has passed the Senate and now is
on the House calendar providing
Federal aid in the construction of
interurban highways.
This new committee will include
representatives of the Maryland
Virginia Planning Commission, the
District government and the Public
Roads Administration. 1t will be
of great benefit, it was believed, in
solving postwar highway problems
in the Washington Metropolitan
Area.
Tomorrow the planning officials,
accompanied by j. c. Nichols of
Kansas City, Mo, will visit sites
chosen for temporary mobile hous-
ing units in sections east of the
War College. Several hundred of
these units are to be built to relieve
the acute shortage" of housing for
colored families in the area, it was
said. Max Wehrly of its staff re-
ported on the sites yesterday.
John Nolen, jr., director of plan
ming, has brought up to date a COM
plete map survey of hospital loca-
tions and facilities in the District
Under the Tydings bill hospital sites
are to be approved by the commits
sion hereafter.
The plan Mr.. Nolen has drawn up
includes not only the location, but
the type of hospital, the nature of
its control and the number of beds
in each. Latest addition to the
prepared map are the recently au-
thorized hospital requirements for
Georgetown and George Washing
ton Universities.