Evening star., 1934-04-08
Control Board Proceeds
With 0rganization-Licens.
ing Several Weeks Away.
HIGHWAYS HELD READY
FOR TOURIST TRAFFIC
Business in State Over Easter
Season Shows Marked Gain
Over Last Year.

RICHMOND, Va, April Z (P(.-T'he
new experiment in liquor control con-
tinued to be topic of widespread in
terest in the Old Dominion this week
as the three member control board
went ahead with its organization,
content for the present to allow the
question Of supply to remain in
status quo.
Several weeks may elapse before
the inspection and licensing of private
firms desiring retail beer and wine
licenses can be completed SC as to
begin sale.
Meanwhile the board is giving
thought to mail order system for
distilled liquors, not only as means
of fighting bootlegging in sections
which choose to remain dry, but as a
possible means of decreasing the num-
ber Of State dispensaries. Chairman
S. Heth Tyler said the mail order
system might be less expensive and
more convenient than State stores in
sparSely settled areas.
Other Systems Studied.
The Liquor Control Board, return
ing from a visit to several other States
experimenting with liquor control, in
formed newspaper men at a confer
ence this week that it expected to
give careful and mature consideration
TO every step in setting up the new
State system in the belief that time
and mistakes would be saved
Virginia meanwhile prepared for
the tourist season. Henry G. Shirley,
State highway commissioner, an
nounced that while highway construc-
ton on the primary system would be
at the lowest ebb in several years.
maintenance of the roads already
constructed would proceed as usual
and that tourists could depend on
good roads. The commissioner has
made several personal trips to survey
the damage due to ice in the severe
Winter and Spring preliminary to
the active repair work now getting
under way.
Business Gain Noted.
Business during the Easter season
was reported as far above the season
in 1888 with some retail lines report
ing from so to 100 per cent increase
IN volume and improved collections.
Virginia'S resorts reported unusually
good Easter seasons and preparations
were being made for the usual Sum-
mer and late Spring events. The
Spring racing season opened with
the renewal Of the Deep Run Hunt
Clubs program at CurleS Neck Farm,
near Richmond. Next month turf
men from all over the East and the
Middle Atlantic section will visit
Warrenton for the annual Virginia
Gold Cup race. steeplechase.
Virginians this week held their
municipal primaries with a light vote
in almost every city. While a light
vote usually results in retention Of
incumbents the number of new coun-
cilmen and aldermen nominated by
the Democrats was large. Few cities
have Republican opposition.
c. c. c. Selection Begun.
The relief program, revamped to
meet II per cent reduction in funds,
will get under way in the State Mon
day under the V. E. R. A., Admins
traitor William A. Smith has an
nounced. Only about S500000 is
available for all types of relief during
April, as compared with 81 925,000 for
the c. w. A. alone during March.
Meanwhile the certification of 1000
new members of the Civilian Con-
servation Corps in the Sd Corps
Area has started, the enrolment being
for the third six months period. Vir-
ginia candidates will be conditioned
for work at Fort Monroe along with
those of the District of Columbia.
Virginia is expected to furnish 1.700
juniors, $50 veterans and IS cooks.
Director of Public Welfare Arthur
W. James has announced Statewide
inspection program covering ali public
institutions, including jails, prisons.
reformatories, aims houses, asylums
and hospitals. He says the purpose
is to correct conditions, eliminate fire
hazards and make unnecessary such
investigations as that now under way
by legislative commission studying
State insane hospitals. The establish
ment of the inspection work was made
possible by an act Of the 1884 session
increasing the supervisory authority
of the commissioner and removal of
the commissioner from the boards
Of the various institutions.
Licenses Soon Expire.
The time for using old automobile
license plates, extended once for Is
day period, expires April Is. John
@. Rhodes. director of the division of
motor vehicles, has announced that
the semi-annual inspection of auto
mobiles for safety purposes will be
during the month of May. All Vir-
ginia cars after May 81 must carry
stickers showing that inspection has
been made.
OF unusual interest to Virginians
this week was a brief ceremony in
United States District Court at Rich
mond, when Mrs. John Garland Pol
lard, the former Miss Violet Eliza
beth McDougall, became a citizen Of
the United States. Most Virginians
did not know that Mrs. Pollard, who
was secretary to four Virginia Gov
ernors, retained her Canadian citizen
ship. Her brother is Speaker Of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province
Of Alberta.
Mrs. Pollard now resides in Wash
ington, where former Gov. Pollard Is
chairman Of the Federal Appeals
Board for Veterans Compensation
Claims.
Robert o. Norris of Lancaster, fore
mer State Senator from the Northeru
Neck district, has been named assist
ant attorney general to succeed Cole
lins Denny, jr., resigned. Denny ens
tiers the private practice OF law -