Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-26
Butler Demands
D. C.-Friendship
.Tieup at Once

| A demand that the Civil Aero
lnautics Board designate Friend
ship airport as a co-terminal
with Washington National with
out further delay" came today.
The telegram to James r,
Durfee, CAB chairman, came
from Senator Butler, Republic
can of Maryland, who last night
led the successful fight to shelve
proposals to build a new airport
at Burke, Va.
Behind Senator Butler. the
Senate voted Sc to 80 to kill a
request for $13 million to start
Burke construction. The action
leaves President Eisenhower's re-
quest for $34.7 million for Burke
up to the Senate Appropriations
Committee next January.
Demands Action
Senator Buffers telegram to
the CAB concluded there must
be no further dilly- dallying. I
demand that your board act i'm
mediately to safeguard the safety
of thousands of air travellers. -
The CAB still has under study
Commerce Secretary Weeks
Recommendation that Baltimore's
big airport be used as an interim.
Senator Beall, Republican of
Maryland. in post-mortem over
the Burke defeat, said the
Senate's decisive action" makes
it more important than ever for
Friendship Ito be used as a per-
manent co-terminal for Wash
ington Immediately.
UNLESS Friendship is set up as
a permanent Washington airport
to serve the area in it's own right,
there can be no adequate test
of its potentialities since the
airlines, passengers and other
interests would still be unable to
plan anything except along
temporary lines.
Wants Plan Tested
Friendship should be named
Washington'S airport immedi-
ately.
eff advocates of the Burke
project will want to talk about
their plan after the full capabili-
ties of Friendship have been
given a complete test, then it
will be their perfect right to
bring up the question of whether
Washington needs a third air IA
cility in addition to National and
Friendship.
In rebellion against further de-
lay. Senator Monroney, Demo-
crat of Oklahoma, moved to
amend the final supplemental
appropriation bill so as to pro-
vide $12.9 million to re-activate
the Burke project.
He stressed that the Govern
ment already had spent more
than ST million in acquiring land
there and protested that if all
the papers of all the studies and
Investigations made of the issue
since 1850 were laid end-to-end
they would pave the runways of
the new port"
While there are four Senators
from Maryland and Virginia OPP
posing the Burke site, Senator
Monroney said, There are 90
other Senators who are facing
death every time they come to
the overcrowded Washington
airport"
He was supported by Senator
Magnuson, Democrat of WASH
Iington, chairman of the Senate
Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee, who told the
Senate:
Danger Cited
week by week the situation
here is getting worse. Planes are
stacked-up at Washington air.
port more than any place in the
country except at the LaGuardia
Airport at New York.
I'm afraid something is go
ing to happen here. We need a
second airport for Washington
as soon as possible. The Fed
eral Government is going to have
to spend $50 million or there
abouts for a secondary airport
for the National Capital and we
had better do it soon"
Leading the opposition was
Senator Holland, Democrat Of
Florida, who was described in
the debate as chairman of the
special appropriations subcom-
mittee that has been assigned to
re-study the issue and report
back next January. He pro-
tested that the Civil Aeronautics