Evening star., 1947-01-24
Planning Board Sets
Boundaries on Section
OF Proposed Parkway

Tentative boundaries for the first
four miles of the Paint Branch
Parkway in Prince Georges County
were approved today by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The commission agreed to the
boundaries after they were pre-
sented at its monthly meeting by
Fred w. Tuemmler, executive direc-
tor of the Maryland-National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission.
The first four miles of the park
way would run from the point where
the branch joins the AnacoStia
River near College Park to the Naval
Ordnance Laboratory. The width
of the park strip would vary. No
built-up property would Abe bought,
commission spokesmen said.
The new Maryland parkway was
authorized by Congress last summer.
The 1948 budget carries $2,994 900
of Federal money that will be ad-
vanced to Maryland by the planning
commission, to buy this and other
parkways, one on Oxon Run in
Prince Georges County and another,
Little Falls branch, in Montgomery
County.
Counties Must Repay Half.
Half the money must be repaid by
county bono issues under Federal
law. |
The extent of the Oxon Run and
Little Fails branch parkway also was
approved today but tentative bound
aries were not established.
The first would extend down the
run from the District line to the
Potomac River and up the run from.
the District line to the Marlboro
pike. Part of the parkway lies inside
the District and already has been
bought.
The second would extend from
Dalecarlia Reservoir to Goldsboro
road, in Montgomery County.
The commission today approved
transfer of the right of way for the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
where it runs through the National
Airport, from the Civil Aeronautics
Administration to the National Park
Service.
Action on Hospital Delayed.
1t postponed taking a stand on the
proposed transfer of ST. Elizabeth's
Hospital from the Federal Govern
ment to the District until it can
study alternate plans for health and
welfare buildings carried in Engi-
neer Commissioner Gordon r.
Youngs six-year plan. Members OF
the commission also want to hear
the views of Government depart
ments and DR.. Winifred Overholser,
head of the hospital.
Long-range projects in the Dis
trict's latest transportation and
highway plan, especially express
ways and underground streetcars,
are being studied by the commits
sion in connection with its meetings
yesterday and today.
Study of the projects will be made
in relation to the commissions mas
ter plan under the city's new slum
act, according to Maj. Gen. U. S.
Grant III. chairman.
The act instructed the commits
sion to make such plan before
plotting individual slum-rebuildlng
projects.
Among the expressway projects to
be scrutinized by the commission,
he said, will be the proposed Ar1-
zona avenue expressway, which
parallels the westernmost leg of the
Fort drive.
Scrapping of Drive Asked.
Commissioner John Russell Young
yesterday urged that the drive be
scrapped and the land put back
into taxation. The right of way
for the drive is more than 80 per
cent under Government ownership.
Precedent was shattered for a
brief hour and a half yesterday
when reporters were permitted to
attend the planners session.
Until yesterday no newsmen ever
had been allowed to attend meet
ings on the ground confidential land
buying proposals are often discussed
and because it is feared officials who
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