Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
3TADIUM
Work Crew Scores
In Race With Time

Doaru also runs the adjacent
two-acre Armory.
Chief users so far in sight
are the Washington Senators
baseball team, which signed a
lease Friday for 81 home
games on about rs dates next
year; George Preston Mar
shall's Redskins professional
football team. which will play
seven games this season. and
George Washington Univer-
Sity's football team, which has
scheduled four games-the first
OF which will be played Octo-
Der 7, when the stadium will
be dedicated.
President Kennedy has been
invited to attend the dedica-
ton ceremonies.
Three Firms Combine
To design and engineer the
complex structure, three we'll
known organizations combined
as a joint-venture company.
They are George A. Dahl of
Dallas, an architect: Ewin En-
cheering Associates of Wash
ington and The Osborn Co. of
Cleveland. engineers.
To build it, the Armory
Board in June, 1860, floated
$l9.8 million worth of 40 per
cent ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
20-year bonds.
Just to pay the interest costs
1881 1000 a year. So far, the
board has incurred interest
charges of more than 81 mil
lion while the STADIUM was
under construction.
Arrangements for uShers, SUI
pervisors, police and others to
handle crowds have been made
by the Redskin MANAGEMENT.
In addition. the Armory Board
will have a staff Of about Is
part-time and permanent en-
ployes to operate the stadium.
Mainly this will involve keep
ing it clean and ready for use.
First proposed more than IS
years ago, the project never
made much Roadway until a
scheme was Matched to finance
it through a public bond issue
un6er Government auspices.
The Redskins owner. Mr..
Marshall, is credited with hav-
ing dreamed up this idea. thus
setting the stage for provision
Of the land by the Federal
Government and other public
help.
The Stadium's season will
last about Sl2 months. begin
ming with baseball in mid-April
end extending through the
close of football as late as jan
uary /. Booked for next year
are about 85 days out of the
255-day season.
Under its l0-year lease. the
Senators will pay per cent of
the gross receipts. less taxes,
visiting clubs share and Amer
lean League share. plus OPP
Grating expenses. The baseball
club also will receive 20 per
cent Of gross concession sales,
to the Armory boards Is per
cent. during baseball games.
During other events, through /
out the year, the baseball club
will receive Is per cent OF gross
concession sales, to the Armory
boards l8 per cent.
The concesSionnaire is Dis
trict Sports Services. Inc.
The Redskins lease calls for
payment Of IL per cent Of gross
receipts. plus operating ex-
penSes.
The Armory Board-consiSt-
ing of James F. Reilly. chair
man; Mr.. Tobriner and Maj.
Gen. William H. Abendroth. E
commanding general Of the
District National Guards
already considering other ways
to have the structure earn
money and be useful to the
community. /,
The rent will be Is per
cent Of gross receipts, plus ex-
penses Of operation" says Mr..
Bergman, the boards manager
for both the Stadium and the
Armory. Anybody who's in
terested, we'll be glad to talk
to-"
Meanwhile. District Commits
sioner Walter N. Tobriner. a
of the District Armory
Board, which operates the sta
dunn, said he would not attend
the opening game because the
Redskins have no Negro players. I
Interior Secretary Udall an
nounced that he, too, will stay
away. and members of the Ma
tional Association for The Ad-
vancement of Colored People
said they will set up a picket
line TO rthe same reason.
Mr.. Tobriner said his deci-
sion was made to avoid any
impression he was "condoning
racial discrimination"