Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Leaders Seek Site
For New Stadium
Commissioners
Also Working
Out Financing
By HAROLD B. ROGERS

The newly created National
Memorial Stadium Commissions
has launched a program to find
a site and work out q financing
plan.
The site subcommittee Of the
Stadium commission will hold Q
closed meeting Saturday to con-
slider suggestions for site. This
was one Of the subcommittee
set up by the nine-member COM
mission in an organization ses-
sion late yesterday at the Capt.
toll. Senator Stennis, Democrat
Iof Mississippi, was named the
chairman of the commission.
Invited to Hearing
The site subcommittee, headed
by Senator Case, Republican Of
South Dakota, has invited the
following to Saturdays hearing.
Representatives of the District
Commissioners, the Fine Arts
Commission, the National Capitol
Planning Commission, the Wash.
ington Baseball Club, the Red.
skins Football Club, the Wash.
Iington Board of Trade and the
recently organized commission
to plan District auditorium.
Speaking for the Auditorium
c m ISIS on, Representative
Thompson. Democrat of New
Jersey, said his group will lay
before the Case subcommittee
information it has gathered.
Mr.. Thompson also said it has
dropped the idea of trying TO
consider stadium in connection
with the auditorium.
Bills Pending
Both Senator Case and Mr..
Thompson have pending bills to
reserve part of the area now
occupied by the National Train
ing School for Boys on Bladens-
burg road NE. for a stadium.
In addition to its chairman,
Senator Stennis. the stadium
commission named Representa-
tive Kearns, Republican Of
Pennsylvania. secretary, and
Representative Landlord, Demo-
crat of Maryland, vice chairman.
An appropriation of $4,000 to
meet expenses of the stadium
commission was passed late last
night by the Senate and sent
back to the House for approval.
The item was carried in the
second supplemental appropria-
ton bill.
Chairman Stennis announced
that the commission in executive
session had set up three sub
committees on the site, plans
and survey. and finance.
The committees. he said, would
report to the Executive Com
mittee. consisting of the three
officers and the two members
who will be appointed later by
the chair.
I The report is expected to be
ready to be submitted to the
new Congress when it meets in
January.
! The Site Committee consists
'Iof Floyd Akers, now out of the
city, who will be represented
temporarily by Fred Smith,
another commission member:
Senator Case and Representative
Landlord.
Finance Unit Named
The subcommittee on plans
and survey consists of Mr.. Smith.
Representative Thompson and
Senator Stennis.
The Finance Subcommittee
consists of John A. Reilly, pres
ldent of the Second National
Bank; Chairman Nicely of the
Senate District Committee and
Representative Kearns, Republi.
can of Pennsylvania.
The commission, Senator
Stennis said expects to hire a
secretarial staff to handle its
correspondence and hoped to
operate out Of quarters made
available by the Senate District
Committee.
Regarding the site several
members emphasized the situa.
ton is wide open"
The meeting Saturday on
possible sites will be a closed
session attended by commission
members and invited officials.
Senator Case said.
But proposals for a site would
be welcome, he said. If sub
mltted in writing to the com.
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