Evening star., 1950-04-27
Planning Group
Offers 100000
|nParkwayAid
Marketable U. S. Funds
To Help Acquire Link
In Potomac River Drive
By Nelson IA. Shepard

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission today allo-
Gated $500, 900 in matchable Fed
eral funds TO acquire the right OF
way for new four-mile link IN
the George Washington Memorial
Parkway on the Virginia side OF
the Potomac river above Spout
run.
Virginia and Arlington County
each is expected 10 appropriate
$l5O,000 as its share OF the cost.
This new link would extend the
scenic parkway from above Kew
Bridge along the top Of the bluff
to the Arlington Fairfax County
boundary line at a point Some-
where east of Mclean.
The planning commission at it's
morning meeting approved the
boundary lines for the project and
also the wording of the agreement
which now is subject to approval
BY the Virginia Roads Commission
and Arlington County officials
One of Finest Links,
The $600,000 involved in the
total cost will furnish the parkway
one OF its finest scenic links along
the Potomac, officials said. Plan
ming officials already are engaced
in getting options on land between
Key Bridge and Great Falls for
further extension of the parkway,
Action also was taken today to
transfer two small areas In the
Fort Dupont Park to the District
recreation Board for Supervi-
sion as Fairgrounds for young
children. Thomas c. Jeffers,
landscape architect for the COM
mission, had recommended turn
ing these areas over at MaSSachu-
settS and Alabama avenues and
another near Randle Circle. Fort
Dupont is the second largest park
In the District and is located east
OF the AnacoStia River.
Planning officials were meeting
today with the Executive Commit
tee OF the SeSquicentennial Com
mission discussing the planning
exhibit which will be shown in
the Corcoran Art Gallery In June.
A $4,000 allotment has been ear
market for the exhibit by the
seSqui officials Advising with
them was Arthur Stoneorov OF
Philadelphia, who had designed
a similar exhibit several years ago
for that city.
Opposition developed among
the planners today to the So
cial Security Administration 3
desire to provide permanent Offices
in Washington for the 5000
Baltimore workers of its Old Ase
and Survivors Insurance Bureau.
The opposition was aimed par
ticularly at putting up new
building at Suitland, Md. for the
small army of workers, as pro-
posed to Congress. A location
west of Seventeenth street and
south of Virginia avenue NV,
also was considered by the Federal
Deposit and Insurance Corp. II is
now housed in the National Press
Building.
The commission heard Com
missioner w. f. Reynolds of the
Public Buildings Service on these
suggested sites at its monthly
meeting yesterday. The group re-
affirmed its position that the num-
Der of Federal employees at Suit
land be limited strictly to 10000.
Meanwhile. the planners ap-
proved Mr.. Reynolds report on the
new dental school building for
Howard University. to be located
on the north side OF Griffith Sta
dium, next to the medical building.
The dental building will be a
three-story brick structure capable
OF adding two stories later.
A staff progress report was
made on the revised thoroughfare
plan for the Soldiers Home ground
TO take care of east-west traffic.
These changes are being taken I'D
with the Highway Department.
They are made necessary by the
transfer Of land for the veterans
hospital and proposed new Dis
trict medical center.