Evening star., 1951-06-21
SIS Billion Program
Of Military Building
Sought by Marshall

Defense Secretary Marshall to-
day asked Congress to approve as
quickly as possible a $6,561 ,262, ,00C
military building program, includ-
ing $7,783,400 worth of District
projects.
Virginia would have the third
largset amount of projects of any
Of the States-$268, ,295 ,030. Mary
land projects would total $201.-
641, ,065.
Gen. Marshall said the building
program was dictated by the cur
rent international tension" and
the Defense Department said Con-
gress would be asked to appro-
pirate $4.5 billion to start the pro-
gram ''in the near future"
Hearings to Begin Monday.
Chairman Vinson of the House
Armed Services Committee said
his group would start hearings, on
the program Monday.
Almost one-quarter of the work
SIS billion Worth-is secret and
included in this are new overseas
air bases designed to give this
country a ring of strategic bases
around Russia.
Officials would not discuss these
plans in detail, but it is known
that they include air bases in
France, Italy, North Africa, Eng
land and other territories under
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization as well as some in the
Middle East.
Air Force Secretary Thomas K.
Finletter made a recent trip to
Turkey, the Middle East and
Europe, during which he discussed
these plans with officials Of the
countries involved.
The plans also call for con-
struction of longer runways and
improvements to bases in Japan,
Okinawa, and elsewhere in the
Pacific. Air bases in Alaska are
planned.
Secret Projects.
The program includes vast sums
for secret projects for the Army
and Navy and a large portion of
these will go for construction of
bases in NATO countries.
AS reported in The Star earlier,
the Air Force will receive the
largest share of the projects-$3.-
584, ,48O,0 900. Earmarked for the
Army is $1.8 billion and for the
Navy $1.1 billion.
The largest single item is more
than STA million which the Air
Force proposes to spend on Ohm
stead Base in Pennsylvania.
Projects in District.
Projects in the District would
be:
Walter Reed Medical Center,
$2.084 800; Anacostia Naval Re-
search Laboratory, $4,075, 200;
Naval Communications Station.
1901 Nebraska avenue NV, $685.
600: and Naval Gun. Factory, ST.
ol8,400.
The Army proposed spending
$24, ,292, 500 at Fort Belyoir and
the Navy 81, 100 at Henderson Hall
in Arlington, $3,218,100 at the
Naval Proving Ground at Dahl
gren, Va, and $2,499, 800 at the
Marine Corps Schools at Quantico,
Va.
Virginia Plans.
Other Virginia projects in
cluded:
Army-A. P. Hill Military Res
ervation, $411, 900: Fort Eustis, |
$45, ,903, 900; Fort Lee, 1921. 700;
Camp Pickett. $1.083, 500; Rich
mond Quartermaster Depot, $3,-
$4,000; Fort Story. $2.344, 900:
Vint Hill Farms, $155,0o0; York
River Camp Perry, ammunitionI
loading point. $21 .409, 900; Hamp-
ton Roads staging area, $7,470 800.
Navy-Naval auxiliary landing
strip, Capron, $4,o97, 500; MAS,
Chicoteague, S12,827 900: FADTC.
Dam Neck. $220.000; NAB, Little
Creek, SAL ,279,730: Naval Ship
yard, Norfolk Portsmouth) i,
$8,O33, 300: Naval supply center,
Norfolk. $12.764, 400; Naval Hos
pital. Norfolk area, $16,250,000
MAS, Norfolk, $13,125,20 public
works center, Norfolk, $1,674, 800;
MAS, Oceana, $21, 500; Naval
Hospital, Portsmouth, $685., 900:
NMD, Yorktown, $1,590,600
Air force-Langley Field, $19.-
$4,000.
$S7,S64,40 for Aberdeen.
In Maryland, the Army would
spend $37,864, 400 at Aberdeen
Proving Ground. $260,000 at the
Army Map Service at $500 Brooks
lane in Montgomery County. $29.-
603,750 at the biological warfare
center at Camp Detrick and $18,-
077,500 at Fort George G. Meade.
Also in Maryland the Navy
would spend $1,650, 900 at the Be-
thesda Naval Medical Center, So
923,500 at the David Taylor Model
Basin at Carderock, $4,350,00 at
the Naval Ordnance Laboratory
at White Oak and $1,669, 300 at
Cheltenham,