Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-19
CHAMBER TO URGE
VIRGINIA PARK PLAN
Arlington Body's Agent viii
Tour State in Behalf of
Nearby Project.
BY LESTER n. INSKEEP.
Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

CLARENDON, Va. September 10
Designation Of a speaker to 60 through
out the State in behalf Of the Cramton
bill, passage of resolution of protest
/ against the method being employed in
| the filing of delinquent tax suits and
the adoption of the committee report
to have an election on a change in
county government in November, fea-
tured the Fall meeting last night of
the Arlington County Chamber of Com
merce.
On the motion of Walter U. Varney,
Hugh Lee Kirby, a member of the
board of directors of the commerce body,
was designated as a speaker to address
all of the other 80 chambers of COM
merce or commercial bodies represent
ing each county in the State to describe
and otherwise explain the benefit to
the entire State embodied in the Cram
ton bill.
Show Value to State.
The resolution stated that it was un-
derstood that the National Capital Park
| and Planning Commission would desig-
nate two persons to accompany Kirby,
taking with them drawings, plans and
pictures showing Arlington County and
Washington as they are now and as they
will appear If the State joins with the
Federal Government in the development
into park of Virginia's side of the Po-
tomac River from Mount Vernon to
| Great Falls.
1t is felt by the chamber that it is
! necessary to promote the proper interest
| throughout the State to insure an ap-
preparation by the next General Assem-
bly, for Virglnia's participation. Kirby
is donating his time for the speeches.
The resolution of protest against the
tax suits was offered by Ashton G.
Jones, president of the chamber, and
adopted with but one dissenting vote.
The resolution states that more than
1000 suits for the collection of de-
linquent real estate taxes have been filed
against the citizens of the county to sell
their property for non-payment of taxes
and that many of these do not run
back of 1927. These suits are brought
without the mailing of any notices to
those sued, method that, according
to the resolution, imposes large and I'M
necessary costs on the taxpayers.
Notice Of Suit Asked.
The resolution calls upon the super
visors to notify all delinquent taxpayers
of the intention to bring suit and then
TO give them so days in which to make
payment without the imposition of the
''exhorbitant cost" now imposed
Jones stated that many of these suits
are filed against property owners who,
because of foreclosure proceedings or
for other reasons, do not know that
the taxes have not been paid and would
be glad to pay them If notified. Robert
H. Forman objected to the resolution
IS worded because he said, it was adj
dressed to the board of county super
visors and the minutes of the last
meeting of that body showed that Su
pervisor B. M. Hedrick had so strongly
protested the filing of the suits without
notice that he and Commemorative
Attorney William G. Cloth had nearly
come to blows about it, Jones replied
that, while Cloth is bringing the suits,
he is doing so under instructions from
the board of supervisors and it is the
duty of that body to instruct him to
send notices.
There was not dissenting vote to
the adoption of the report of the county
, government committee, which worked
with the similar committee of the Civic
Federation in the study of the available
forms of government and Joined with
1t in recommending the county man.
ager form, advocating that the matter
be voted upon at the regular November
election.
Engineer Is Speaker.
The featured speaker of last nights
meeting was Allen j. Saville of Rich
mond, former coming engineer for the
county. He was invited to address
the body on the subject of adequate
sewerage and to recommend the action
TO be taken to insure its immediate
installation in the county
Saville's talk was mostly technical
and followed to large extent the plan
that was prepared by County Directing