Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-18
u. S. Building Sites
Urgedin Boiling Shift
Officials Cite
End to Tempos
AS Possibility
BY GEORGE BEvERIDGE
star stan Writer

operations from Boiling Air
Force Base and Anacostia Naval
Air Station.
One possibility mentioned by
several officials was that some
Of the airfield land might pro-
vide new Office space that would
speed demolition of the old
Navy and Munitions Buildings
World War I tenpos, which
have withstood demolition eff
forts during four decades.
The two airflelds. just across
the Potomac from Washington
National Airport, contain nearly
1000 acres of Federally owned
land-more than twice the land
area of the entire Mall from
Capitol Hill to the Lincoln
Memorial between Constitution
and Independence avenues.
Early construction of the
Jones Point bridge over the
Potomac and of the AnacoStia
freeway along the east side Of
the two fields also will make
them highly accessible TO Alto
mobile traffic for the first time.
Services Won't Control
Statements by Air Force and
Navy SEo6eSlllc4l, however, in.
dicaGed that they want TO le-
tain tight control over all the
land and that they probably
would resist any move toward
uses Of a nonnilivary naCure.
Neither service reported flu.
ture plans which would use all
the available land. The Air
Force, however, disclosed it in-
tends to retain at Boiling a
hciiport and a landing field for
light aircraft"
The Defense Department an
nounced yesterday that the
Navy and Air Force will move
"current flight operation"
from Anacostia and Boiling to
other bases within the next
three years.
This acoion end the possibil.
ity Of other Federal uses for
the land were suggested two
months ago in the Quesada
Report which recommended
the Chsntiily tVa.' site fer
Washington'S second civil air.
port.
Suggested End of TcmpOs
Ccl. L. Il. Cucsada. as spe-
Gil ASSISTANT to the President,
strongly recommended the
transfer of flight operations
from the two military bases.
in a letter to the President
accompanying the report. In
a part OF the letter which
received little public attention,
the general ed6ed:
The transfer OF fight oper.
ationS from Boiling Air Force
Base end Anacostia Naval Air
Station would make this land
available for other govern
mental PURPOSES and would
permit the demolition and re.
movsl Of many unsightly tenn
por1ry buildings which have
marred the paris and avenues
of the Nations Capital for sew
ersl GccaGcs."
Asked tc53y what other
governmental pur- o5cs" he hid
in mind TO: the land, Gen.
Ques da sad he cid nov feel it
YVES my prcrogatlve to indicate
exact purpocc,i o. to try to solve
all the space Problems"
but discol. nusnce of fight
operations obviously will make
vast acreage CT land available"
he said. And Washington has
had trouble finding places for
new buildings = including the
Navy, Munitions end other
temporary buildings along Con-
stitution avenue. l saw pos
sible compatibility between
these two points"
Asked if he had confined his
thinking to military possible
ties, the General said he he'd
not. but stressed that he WIS
not intending to indicate any
Specific future uses.
New Opportunities Seen
A National Capital Planning
Commission Official said he felt
the fight operations transfer
"opens many new opportunities
for future uses which had not
existed before" ..
He urged that future uses Of
Boiling and Anacostia be stud
led as part of an analysis now
under way of Federal building
needs in the District of Co
lumbia.
He noted that the General
Services Administration in 1856
developed a i0-year Federal
building program which called
for the demolition Of the Navy
and Munitions Buildings be-
tween 1860 end 1862. The cues
ton Of new space for the Navy
and other military agencies oc-
cupying these tempos, however,
was not provided for in the
long-range construction plan,
he said.
F. Moran McConihe, public
buildings administrator, said
GSA has not directly considered
space possibilities at Boiling or
Anacostia. and that any such
consideration should be han
died through normal planning
channels" He said GSA pro-
vides space only when 1t Is
asked by an agency"
GSA Cites Need
GSA officials stressed. how
ever. that there is severe
need for new building sites
in Washington. They noted,
for example, that sites still
are being sought for the
United States Geological Sur
vey and the Weather Buree :.
And the 1856 GSA program OF
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