20-ACRE RECORDS CENTER HAS 400 MILES OF SHELVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00402R000100290040-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: June 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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in Greater Washington
SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1967
OBITUARIES
EVENTS TODAY
By Charles Del Vecchio-The Washington Post
This is part of the vast Washington National Records Center, Suitland, where Government papers fill 4 million cubic feet.
20-Acre records Center Has 400 Miles of Shelves
By Gail Bensinger
Washington Post staff writer
Wanted: track stars.
Apply: Washington National
Records Center, Suitland, Md.
You don't have to be able to
run a mile in less than four
minutes to work there, but it
sure would help.
The new storage installation
holds, in 20 acres of floor
space, 4 million cubic feet of
old income tax returns, used
money orders and a myriad of
other things virtually every
government agency has decid-
ed it just has to keep handy.
In all 20 stacks, as each fire-
proof storage section is called,
there are 400 miles of shelves.
The new Center, which the
National Archives renamed
the Washington National Rec-
ords Center after the "Federal
Records Center" sign was
hung above the front door,
was built to replace four old
storage buildings in Alexan-
dria and one in Franconia, Va.
It provides twice the
amount of storage space avail-
able in those five buildings,
which took just 15 years to
fill.
"We destroy about 100,000
cubic feet of records a year,
and bring in about two times
that much. It's a losing bat-
tle," said Daniel T. Goggn,
acting chief of the accession
and disposal branch (translate:
coming and going).
Goggin's branch keeps track
of comings and goings with a
computer that reduces two
million cubic feet of records
into two thick computer print-
outs. On the basis of that, em-
ployes are able to locate and
send out any particular items
requested by any agency w
in 24 hours. And they get
about 75,000 such requests building without wearing out
each month. Itheir shoes so quickly.
Goggin figures it will take Another innovation of the
about a year, starting early
last March, to complete the
moving chores, which are
proceeding at the rate of 9000
boxes - each measuring one
cubic foot - 'a day. In the
meantime, the entire opera-
tion is being run out of cen-
ters on both sides of the Poto-
mac.
Eventually, the Center plans
to furnish researchers and
other workers with electric
carts that will enable them to
whisk around the gargantuan
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new center is a macerator,
into which waste paper goes
and comes out "as stuff that
looks like cream of wheat,"
Goggin said. This will be
baled, dried and sold to manu-
facturers of pulp paper.
The unit has always sold
waste paper before, but when
it was whole the Center had to
burn all confidential records.
This can now be eliminated,
Goggin added, "and we don't
have to line up at the D.C.
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Area Fight
On Dirksen
Plan Is Set
Robert L. Weinberg, who is
running against State Sen.
Robert C. Fitzgerald for the
F a i r f a x - Alexandria - Falls
Church floater seat, urged the
voters yesterday to "make this
primary a referendum on the
Dirksen Amendment."
Weinberg, an Arlington at-
torney, has centered his cam-
paign for the July 11 election
on the charge that Fitzgerald
has strongly denied Wein.
berg's charge and has accused
Weinberg of misrepresenting
his vote for a 1965 State Sen-
ate resolution.
the resolution, which endorsed
a Constitutional amendment
allowing states to apportion
one house of their legislatures
by using factors "other than
population," for a nationwide
campaign aimed. at such an
amendment.
the campaign that, while he
supports the "one-man, one-
vote" principle and has
worked for fair reapportion-
ment, "I also believe that it is
possible to divide the State
into single districts of equal
population, considering also
community of interest; and I
am willing to give you the
right to vote on such a prop-
osition. My opponent would
"
eny you that right."
Weinberg said yesterday
in
,
emarks prepared for a Mason
ion to the State Senate would
1 .Assembly that the people of
fl
Arlington .Denies Rossl'yn ~? Expansion
By Katharine Gresham
Washington Post Staff Writer
The Arlington County Board
denied zoning requests yester-
day that would have enlarged
the Rosslyn -office building
area into an adjacent area to
the west, which is slated for
high rise apartment devel-
opment.
The denial of three office
building zonings followed a
lengthy hearing dominated by
a clash between Richard E.
Arms, planning director, and
representatives of the three
determined zoning applicants.
Arms argued that approving
the rezonings would threaten
the orderly evolution of Ross-
lyn, stifle office building de-
velopment in other areas and
(create insoluble traffic prob-
lems.
The applicants argued in
vain that although traffic
would increase, it would not
be as great as Arms projected
and d that the problem could be
met by competent engineers.
The demand for office build-
ing space in the Rosslyn area
overrides o t h e r considera.
tions, they argued.
Arms noted that only 60 per
cent of the available office
building space in Rosslyn was
under construction and assert-
ed that development of the
periphery might mean the
inner area would have vacan-
cies.
The County Board accepted
the planners' arguments on
(three 4-to-1 votes. Republicans ? A 12-story office building
Ned R. Thomas and Kenneth sought by the Rosslyn Devel-
Haggerty joined Joseph L. opment Corp. at the corner of
Fisher and Thomas W. Rich- N. 17th and Oak Streets.
ards of the nonpartisan Ar- ? A 12-story office building
lingtonians for a Better Coun-(sought by Ralph N. and Jayne
ty to deny the appeals. T. Smith at Key Boulevard
Only Republican County and N. Nash Street.
Board Chairman Harold J. ? A 15-story building at Key
Casto was in favor of approv. Boulevard and N. Oak Street
ing the rezonings, arguing that that would have been part of a
office building development of five-building p l a z a complex
the property was "inevitable." and apartment entrances. The
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