Evening star., 1932-07-06
URGE WITHDRAWAL
FROM BYRD PLAN
Arlington Civic Federation
Adopts Resolution at Lyon
Park Session.
eDec,aI D,.patch to 1Y,e star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYON PARK. Va, July 6.-By a
vote of % to is the Arlington County
Civic Federation. here last night,
adopted a resolution offered by the
Road Committee, through its chair
man, Monroe H. Stockett, putting the
organization on record in favor of Ar
lington County withdrawing from oper-
alton Of the Byrd road plan.
In addition, the federation decided.
on motion of La c. McNemar. to ap
point committee of five to draft rea-
sons for the body's action for distribu-
ton among the voters Of the county.
Those named for the committee are
MFR. McNemar, chairman; Arthur Orr,
Mr.. Stockett, NJ. D. Medley and Walter
q. Varney.
Rules of the organization were sus-
pe4ded to permit persons other tAan
members to participate in the diScSs-
sion and many, including Delegate Hugh
Reid and members of the County Board,
took advantage of the opportunity to
express their views.
Board Members Speak.
Harry A. Fellows, chairman OF the
County Board; Lyman N. Kelley. board
member; Mr. Stockett, Mr.. McNemar
and Arthur Orr lead the opposition to
the plan in the discussion.
Chief reasons advanced by these
speakers for desiring the county to
withdraw were that the county, under
Its new form of government recently
adopted, is making great strides in road
development with prospects Of even
greater progress in the future.
They pointed out that the Law was
enacted primarily for the beneffs Of
rural counties that cannot under the
law levy for roads and are really in need
OF help. These counties, they said,
would receive first consideration and
those counties that are permitted under
the law to levy and can afford to do SO,
would be sadly neglected.
Fellows Explains Program.
Fellows declared that under a pro-
gram of road development adopted by
the board all of the roads of the county
will have been improved within the next
two or three years and expressed the
view that the gas tax received from
the State will be sufficient from then
on to care for all Of the county's road
needs. At that time, he said, the
county will be in good position to take
on other needed development.
Fred A. Gosneu, the only member of
the county board favorable to the
serted that he had been assured that
the ALLEGATIONS are not to be based on
road mileage or area, but on what the
various counties have been spending on
road maintenance and construction in
the past. The money the county will
save, he said, would fully pay for the
establishment of a modern sewer sys-
TEN.
Cites State Generosity.
Delegate Reid declared that the State
Highway Commission had been most
generous in the past and that it could
be depended on to do the fair thing in
making ALLEGATIONS to the county under
the plan. The primary purpose of the
act, he said, is to shift the burden of
road construction from the home to the
automobile. He expressed the fear that
ing on to the gas tax If it withdrawS
from the plan.
Pointing out that the county board
contemplates the enactment of an ordi-
nance permitting the staging of boxing
bouts within the county, resolution
offered by Arthur Orr and adopted
urges the imposition Of substantial
license tax, "sueh as given percentagn
of the gross gate receipts and that th9
proceeds thereof be covered into the
FIRE fund"
After it was brought to the attention
of the meeting that the county board In
making a study of the sewer needs of
the county with a view to eventually
installing modern system, 1t was
voted to request the board to admit the
Sanitary Committee Of the federation
to all OF its deliberations.