Evening star., 1948-01-19
Planners Ask
S6Groups toAid
Capital Program
Grant Calls Meeting
To Get Opinions on
District Development

Planning Commission today invited
SO District area organizations te
send delegates to meeting January
% to organize a Citizens Advisory
Board on the Plans of the National
Capital and Its Environs.
Practically every professional, busi-
ness and civic organization, as well
as the churches, would be included
on this board to advise the commits
sion in drawing up its plan for the
Metropolitan Area. Maj. Gen. U. S
Grant III, chairman, called the
organization meeting for 4:30 pm
in Room A, United States Chamber
of Commerce.
A letter from Gen. Grant to each
organization stressed that the plan.
ming commission "can be assisted by
some well-considered and fully in
formed expression of the overall
nonofficial citizens views and inter-
ests in the comprehensive plan or
which a report is now being pre-
pared for publication"
Group Called Essential.
The planning chairman pointed
out that such citizens advisory
council has been organized success
fully in several other cities. Ar
advisory group of this kind, Gen
Grant said, Is "an essential step ir
guiding the development of the city
or metropolitan region in the best
interest of all its inhabitants"
Publication of this soncalled COM
prehensive plan which is to serve as
a guide for future development o1
the Capital and its environs, is
scheduled by July l. Harland Bar
tholomew, st. Louis planning ex-
pert, and his staff of six are work.
ing on the plan under a $4,000
allotment.
In addition, the commission is eX-
pending $19,65O for studies of COM
munities and neighobrhoods under
its own staff headed by John Nolen
jr., director of planning. Another
sum of $10,650 has been turned over
to the Census Bureau to get data
on the low fifth income group in
the District.
Msgr. O'Boyle to Air Group.
All this information will be fitted
into the urban redevelopment plan
under which Congress has proposed
to change the face of blighted areas
in the District.
Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle,
who Is to be installed here Wednes-
day, was included as representative
of the Catholic churches in the city
The INSTRUMENTATION Council
Of Churches and the Washington
Federation of Church also were in
vited to send representatives.
The list of organizations includes
the Chambers of Commerce in
neighboring communities. Other Or
ganizations invited to participate
include:
Advertising Club OF Washington;
Womens Advertising Club Of Wash
ington; American Institute Of
Planners; District American Legion;
American Society of Landscape
Architects; American Veterans,
Committee, Greater Washington
Area Council; Washington Metro
politan Chapter, American Institute
of Architects; District Department
of Amvets; Arts Club; Association
of American Railroads; American
Automobile Association, District OF
Columbia Division; Keystone Auto
mobile Club.
Bankers, Lawyers to Assist.
District Bankers Association, Dis
trict Bar Association, Women's Bal
Association, Junior Board of Com
merce, Washington Board of Trade
Board of Trade, Silver Spring, Md;
Master Builders Association, Wash
ington Building Congress, District
Building and Loan League, Building
Owners and Managers Association
of Metropolitan Washington; FEEDER
alton of Businessmen Associations
District Business and ProfesSiona.
Women's Club.
Capital Transit Co., United States
Chamber of Commerce. Chesapeake
s. Potomac Telephone Co., Washing.
ton Industrial Union Council (CIO)
Federation of Citizens Associations
Citizens Council for Community
Planning, Federation of Civic AS
sociations, Columbia Historical So
ciety, Committee of 100 on the Fed
eral City, Council of Social Aencies
District Council of Engineering and
Architectural Societies and Electric
Institute of Washington.
American Society of Civil Engi-
neers, District Society OF Profes-
sional Engineers. Graphic Arts Asso-
citation, Home Builders Association
Hotel Association, Institute OF
Traffic Engineers, Interdenomina-
tional Council of Churches, Citizens
Associations, Interfederation Con-
ference, Interstate or Intercity bus
lines. Jewish Community Center
Washington Central Labor Union
Library Association, District Medical
Society, Metropolitan Health Coun-
Gil, Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
Motion Picture Theater Owners
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