Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
REALTORS GIVE OK.
TO CRAMT0N BILL
ArIington-Fairfax and Alex.
andria Board Endorses
Measure.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GROVETON, Va, February 18.-The
Arlington Fairfax and Alexandria Real
Estate Board at its dinner meeting at
the Belle Haven Golf and Country Club
here ON Saturday night went on record
as indorsing the purposes of the Cram
ton bill for the extension of the park
way system Of the District of Columbia
along the shores OF the Potomac River
into Virginia and Maryland.
While certain provisions of the pres
ent bill were not entirely satisfactory
to all the members. the board felt the
idea of park from Arlington Memorial
Bridge to Great Falls should be Endorsed,
and decided to enlist the cooperation
of the Virginia State Chamber of Com
merce and the National Association of
Real Estate Boards in an effort to Sc
cure passage of the bill at the pres
ent session of Congress.
Committee Appointed.
w. S. Hoge, jr.; Guy Church and
John Graham were appointed a COM
mittee to confer with Representative
Cramton and other persons to aScer-
tain what the board can do to further
the passage of the bill. The same COM
mittee, with the secretary, Mrs. Ruby
Lee Minar, was instructed to outline to
the national association the Importance
to Virginia of the passage of this act
and to ask the association to work for
its passage through the member asso-
Citations in every State in the Union.
A discussion of the necessity for
action during the 1880 session of the
Virginia State legislature on the bill
which will be introduced to create the
Virginia Metropolitan area of Wash
ington, enlarging the powers of the
present Virginia Park and Planning
Commission, as outlined by w. l..
Bragg on February at Annandale. at
the joint meeting Of the Chambers Of
Commerce of Fairfax and Arlington
County and Alexandria City, and the
Real Estate Board, resulted in the
boards decision to refer this question
to the legislature committee of the
Virginia Real Estate Association, of
which Leroy Brown of Richmond is
chairman. This committee will be
asked to cooperate with the local COM
mittee from the different agencies in
Northern Virginia, which will endeavor
to have an appropriation for park and
planning work put in the governors
budget and passed by the next legis-
lature.
Signboard Committee Named.
w. C. Clever of Clarendon and
Charles Smith of Lyon Village were
appointed a signboard committee and
instructed to endeavor to have the
Arlington County Board of Supervisors
pass an ordinance regulating the loca-
ton of signboards along the highways.
1t was also decided to communicate
with the billboard committee Of the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards in Chicago, which has been
working on the problem for number
of years and has compiled informa-
ton of assistance to local boards.
The board decided to present to the
Arlington County Board of Supervisors
the resolution adopted at the last meet
ing disappearing the granting of per-
NIT to the Auth Co. for the erection of
an atbattoir in Arlington County. The
action at the boards last meeting was
not unanimous, but letter from Col
U. S. Grant, Sd, which was read at
Saturdays meeting resulted in putting
the board on record as unit. Col.
Grant wrote that while he had no OBJ
lection to an abattoir as such, the
members of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission were unan-
imous in their disapproval of the loca-
ton of an obattoir on the proposer site.
Any industry Of this type, with
permanent and expensive plant such
as Mr.. Auth has proposed to erect.
would interfere with the development of
this section of Arlington County as
planned by the commission, said Col.
Grant.
President X. A. Brumback has APP
pointed Guy Church chairman of the
Northern Virginia Bureau committee.
to be assisted by w. S. Hoge, H. c.
Morris, c. W. Fitch. C. A. Keefer and
John M. Minar. This committee will
incorporate the bureau and arrange to
put it on firm financial basis with
permanent organization and definite
budget.