Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-03
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Highway for
Glover Park
Would Enhance
Beauty, Auto
Group Insists

a highway LnrOugn GLOVER
Archbold Park would enhance
rather than destroy the recrea-
ton area, the American Auto
mobile Association told a Senate
committee today.
Arthur E. Miller of the AAA |
sided with Mrs. Isabel c. Moore
of 3106 Chain Bridge road NV.
in favor of building a road.
Highway proponents are up
against the powerful opposition
of Interior Secretary Udall,
Senate Majority Leader Mans
field and six District citizens
who urged preservation of the
park this morning.
Mr.. Miller told the Senate
District Committee that he took
a walk through the Northwest
Washington park yesterday. 1t
is far from the "cathedral-like
area" praised by park preserva-
tionists, he claimed.
"OvergrOwn With Briers"
1.-THE area is overgrown with
honeysuckle and briers E.
edges of the park rise sharply
on either side of a creek" he
testified. Dead trees IN various
stages of decomposition have
fallen.
Large stones end pieces Of
pavement dumped in the park
years ago still litter the
ground"
Mrs. Moore, who has lived in
the vicinity of the park for q
years, supported the AAA argu-
ment that the highway is ur-
gently needed. District officials
eventually need to link Three
Sisters Bridge traffic with
Maryland's Route 240 some
where in Northwest Wash
ington.
without the park road. Fox
hall road will have to be
widened, Mrs. Moore said. Al
ready, she declared, Nebraska
and Massachusetts, avenues, as
well as Foxhall road, are major
traffic arteries with none of
the safeguards of major high
ways.
Would Transfer Land
Senator Mansfield has intro
duced legislation to transfer to
the United States the only
District-owned land in the park
"a 100-foot-wide strip along
the stream valley.
Testifying today in support
of the Mansfield bill were
Robert L. Robinson. of Foxhall
Community Citizens Associa-
ton; Mrs. Charles M. Clegg
of the Georgetown Citizens
Association and the Federation
of Citizens Associations; Col.
H. C. Fellows of the Spring
Valley-Wesley Heights Citizens
Association; Mrs. Robert Burns
of the American University
Park Citizens Association; Paul
Bruce Bowling of the Nature
tConseryancy, a group dedi-
Gated to preserving wilderness
areas, and Peter Glickert of the
Capitol Hill Southeast Citizens
Association.
Mr.. Glickert asked that In
return for the District strip in
the park, the United States
give the city a comparable
strip of land on the west bank
of the Anacostia River between
the Sousa and East Capitol
street bridges for a road.
Morse Hits Swap
A different land swap, pro-
posed by the District Demo-
cratic Central Committee,
would kill the Mansfield bill,
according to Senator Morse,
Democrat of Oregon.
The Democrats have suggest
ed that the Federal Government
give the District sites for four
schools in exchange for District
land in the park.
This would "muddle" the
legislation introduced by Ma
jority Leader Mansfield, Sen
ator Morse claims. The Oregon
Democrat attacked the ex-
change proposal on the Senate
floor last night, although his
local party colleagues had
stressed that their exchange
would save the city $4.6 million
in school site costs.