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But the idea of really making the whole washington environment more beautiful for everybody, nobody really took hold of. I thought as long as I'd been involved in suggesting to her and then in trying to help get something going, I should try to do something myself. So in addition to giving about 1800 cherry trees on Haynes Point with Andre Meyer. I anonymously am giving this jet off of Haynes Point which will be a watermark for Washington, and which will be about 250 feet high, and I hope will make the landscape more lively and prettier and interesting.

Q:

A much larger version of what you have out here.

Lasker:

That's right. We had great difficulties with this because we found that there wasn't enough power to power the jet at the site at the tip of Haynes Point. Mr. Balph Becker has gotten PEPCO people. who are the power company, to donate the cost of bringing the power lines to the tip of Haynes Point so that we can now go ahead with it, and I hope it'll be ready by fall.

Q:

What is that costing?

Lasker:

Well it's costing about $160,000, to do the jet, and the cost of the power line is about , which





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