Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-15
Foes in I States
ToUrge Fight on
Fairfax Airport
Supervisors Aid
Will Be Sought at
Hearing Tonight

Opposition to the new airport
site at Burke, Va, spread in Mary
land and Virginia today as resi-
dents of the affected area pre-
pared to appear before special
meeting of the Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors at 8 o'clock
tonight.
The Virginia opposition stems
principally from more than so
families within the 4,520-acre
tract and others living near it.
At tonight's special meeting, they
hope to win the supervisors sup
port in fighting for relocation of
the airport entirely outside Fair
fax County.
Although the supervisors met
with Commerce Department off,
Gals before the site selection was
announced, they said they never
approved it's location. Most Of
them seemed to feel that the Gov
eminent would put the airport
where it wanted to regardless of
any action they might take.
Recalls Fight on Nevius Tract.
G. Wallace Carper today said
there appeared to be little recourse
for the affected residents. The
only hope he could see for chang
ing the location would be to drum
I'D enough opposition to win con-
gressional support. He recalled a
similar instance in Arlington.
where the Nevius tract was Sc
lected for a veterans hospital site.
THAT site was under fire several
years, and it really did some good
there" said Mr.. Carper.
The Government condemned the
property, but the hospital site was
changed to the Soldiers Home
grounds in Washington.
Some congressional indignation
already has been kindled in Mary
land, which has the new Friend
ship Airport near Baltimore. which
many Free Staters had hoped
would become the Washington
National Airport's auxiliary field.
Duplication Ridiculous"
Representative Devereux, Re-
publican. of Maryland, called the
new airport plans "one of the
most fantastic stories of bureau
cratic waste in the history of the
country"
He said 81 million already has
been appropriated for the job and
$14 million authorized. When fur
Their requests for funds come up,
he said he would fight them.
The Maryland Representative
said spending SO much money to
duplicate" facilities available at
Friendship is ridiculous. He also
asserted that it would be unwise
to have both major Washington
airports located across the Poto-
mac River from the city, since
bridges would be bombed in case
of an attack.
Travel Time Similar.
Senator O'Conor, Democrat, of
Maryland, said use of Friend
ships splendid" facilities would
be "a substantial saving to the
taxpayers.
Representative Miller, Republic
can, of Maryland also looked
with disfavor" on the Fairfax
County site, "since this is time
when the demands for national
defense on the public treasury are
so great"
To answer complaints that
Friendship is too far from Wash
ington. Mr.. Miller declared travel
time from the new Burke airport
would be only 10 minutes less than
from Friendship.
Representative Smith, Democrat,
of Virginia, who represents the
congressional district in which the
airport site is located, meanwhile,
has said he plans no intervention.
Mr.. Smith said he had received
no direct protest" about the site
selection and observed that the
law gives the Civil Aeronautics
Administration final authority to
select a site.