Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-26
Gufheim Heads
Study Of Urban
Growth Affairs
Congressional Unit
Picks ConsuItunt
From 10 Candidates
By GEORGE BEvERIDGE

BY GEOHGE hEVEHADGE
A joint House Senate come
mittee today selected Frederick
Gutheim. Washington area city
planning consultant. to direct
the forthcoming Congressional
study Of problems caused by
urban growth in the Washing
ton Metropolitan Area.
The six man committee.
headed by Senator Bible. Dem-
ocrat Of Nevada, said Mr.. Gu
theim was selected after he
and IL other candidates for the
stan director post were inter-
viewed this morning.
The committee win meet
with Mr.. Gutheim later today
to discuss salary. staff prob
lens and policies for getting
the study underway immedi-
ately. The committee must
submit q progress report to
Congress by January 81.
Mr.. Gutheim, 40, is q resi-
dent Of Dickerson, Nd, and has
been involved. in numerous
planning activities in this area.
He now is employed with q
firm known as GALAXY, Inc, Of
Washington and will resign
that post to take the new job.
All six members Of the Joint
committee were on hand for
the first real working session
Of the committee.
Also before the group were
responses from 40 public agen-
cies throughout the area, list
ing the main problem subjects
on which they thought the
committee should concentrate
its attention.
These were the other candi-
dates questioned for the top
star Job:
Jerome M. Alper, washington
attorney; Lawrence N. Bloom.
berg, chief economist of the
Public Housing Administration:
Harry A. Boswell. jr., q builder.
president Of Harry A. Boswell
Co.; Clarence M. Dinkins. an
attorney; Col. william N. Egan,
an industrial engineer and
management consultant; Rob-
ert Garrabrant. who described
himself as active in the field Of
urban and suburban Develop
ment programs: Gustav Hertz
OF the San Francisco public
administration consulting firm
of Louis J. Kroeger and Assoc:
Albert Levy. who applied for
the job as an individual but is a
member Of a Philadelphia firm
/. which has conducted numerous
studies Of metropolitan devel.
opment problems in areas in
GLIDING greater Baltimore and
st. Louis; John P. Moore, an
! attorney; Oscar Sutermeister.
. city planning consultant: Ed
ward Turner. an attorney, and
Norman Wengert. professor of
government and politics at the
University Of Maryland.
Transportation Tops Problems
The committee also released
a tabulation of the problems
. most often mentioned by area
public agencies as the most i'm
portant facing the group. The
I most often mentioned were
mass transportation, highway.
. recreation and sewage prob.
. lens.
Following are the problem
, subjects with the number of
nLneo eacn was listed by the
area agencies:
Mass transportation, 80:
, highways. 20; recreation and
park acquisition, rs; sewage
/ disposal, 90; water supply, l9:
land-use coming. Is: silt and
industrial water pollution. is:
! lack of authoritative planning.
10; school shortages, o: hos
! pital problems, S.. taxes, 4;
public housing. 4; special prob
lens Of the District of Column
: bia, 5; parking, S, and taxi cab
: regulations, 2.
5 Members Of the Joint Com
: mittee besides Bible are Sena-
tors Beall. Republican Of Mary
land. and Morse, Democrat of
oregon. and Representatives
Smith. Democrat of Virginia.
Mcmillan, Democrat of South