Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-19

yesterday by Mrs. Chloethiel
Kahl of Baltimore and Har-
riSburg.
This firm is the designer of
the overall program for the
District Highway Department.
Mrs. Smiths scheme in
cludes special lighting and
walls, landscaping and rail-
ings specially adapted, she
said. to the expected increas-
ing attraction of the area for
tourists and other pedestrians.
Invites Doubts
The proposal. as she outlined
it, would screen the depressed
section of the expressway, and
a tunnel entranceway, through
handspring, and other means,
including a pool, fountain and
plaza at Twentieth street.
The net effect of the pre-
misunderstanding at is OBJ
viously did a recognition of the
serious and far-reaching
changes in Washington's char
acter that will be Forthcoming
as a result Of the Federal high
way program was to re-
emphasize the significance of
NCPC's step in holding up
further action on the Inner
Loop.
Engineer Commissioner Fred
erick J. Clarke. reacting to the
Fine Arts Commission criticism,
said the park-line plan for the
E street expressway lis indica-
tive of the kind of treatment
planned for the entire inner
loop
Must Retain Architect
He said every consultant en-
cheering firm hired to design
any portion Of the inner loop
is required to retain an archi-
tect to be sure the expressways
are given proper aesthetic
treatment.
Highway Director Harold L
Aitken pointed out that the
controversial east leg OF the
inner loop also will be given a
buffer zone Of greenery on each
side. He noted that highway
engineers have planned to take
the entire block from Tenth to
Eleventh streets so that there
would be ample room for land
scaping the expreSSway. The
east leg is proposed to run from
the Eleventh street bridge to
Florida avenue Me-
Gen. Clarke said the inner
loops critics are wrong in de-
scribing the expressway as AN
eight-lane ditch"
At its meeting yesterday, the
commission also announced ap-
proval Of a brand-new design
for a $750,000 Theodore Roose-
welt memorial, including a IT.
foot sculptured figure Of the
former President. to be located
on Roosevelt Island, in the
Potomac.
Plan for Park
The commission yesterday
also heard a presentation by
the National Capital Planning
Commission of a plan to fin
ish reclamation and develop
ment Of the last remaining
uncompleted part Of the 900
acre AnacoStia Park.
The new plan, said the COM
mission, would reduce the SO
million cost envisaged under an
earlier plan. An estimate Of
the cost Of the new program
has yet to be made.
The two-mile section Of the
park covered by the plan ex-
tends from a point adjacent to
District General Hospital north
to the District line. Included is
the grounds of the new District
Stadium, for which $500 addi-
tional parking spaces could be
provided, NCPC said, if the plan
is carried through.
No work on this section of
the Anacostia River and park
has been undertaken since l941.
planning officials said. The
project has no relationship to
NCPC's hope to have the Ana
costa Boiling military reserva-
tions declared an urban renewal
area, officials said.
Included as proposals are:
l. Filling of Kingman Lake
to provide an additional SO
acres of land area south of
Benning road and thus enlarge
the recreation area.
2. Provision of a more ade-
quate marina" on the Anacostia,
north Of East Capitol street.
8. Increasing the net area of
the golf course by 10 acres.