Evening star., 1941-03-06
Prince GEORGES
Delegates Seek
Police Increases
3 More PutroImen,
z Desk Clerks and
Pay Roises Sought
BY BEN H. PEARSE,
Star Staff Correspondent.

approved for the county police force
at caucus of the Prince Georges
County Delegation yesterday
The delegation voted to introduce
the police bill and more than a
dozen others while hearing legisla-
tive requests from Hyattsville town
councilmen and from County Supt.
Nicholas Orem.
Mr.. Orem outlined the $500,000
bond issue for school construction
to relieve congestion in existing
buildings, which has been approved
by the Board of County Commission
erS. He also urged the delegates to
support the pending bill to establish
as a Statewide policy the elemen-
tary-junior-senior school system over
a period of years to replace the
present elementary-high school sys-
tenn.
Hyattsville Requests.
Alfred r. Kier, John L. Clarke
and H. Wilson Spicknall. Hyattsville
town councilmen, and Waldo Burn
side, town attorney, presented a six
point program, asking referenda on
a proposal to purchase pumper and
ladder truck costing about $4,000
for the fire department; on a pro-
posal to take in additional territory,
and to exempt the town from the
county street remaining project.
They also asked legislation to re-
1ictri1f "a m
ton in its four wards; to exempt the
town from State Forestry Depart
ment regulations, and to give the
town part of the county dog license
fees.
The police raises will be author
lied in bills providing a month
increase for all men who have served
on the force for a year or more, and
providing for an increase of S120
a year for each four years of service
after June /.
An identification officer will be
authorized at a salary of $1,000 a
year, but the police retirement plan
will be postponed for the present, it
was decided.
Other Measures.
Other measures to be introduced
will
Provide a $1,000 appropriation for
the Branchville Rescue Squad and
increase appropriations to the
county volunteer fire departments.
Raise the basic salaries of the
county commissioners from $500 to
$500 per year.
Authorize an increase to Is cents
in the tax rate of Fairmont Heights.
Create new ward and redesig-
nate the boundaries of the three ex-
iSting wards in University Park.
Grant the county commissioners
request for a relief man for the
county jailer.
Provide a 25-cent license fee for
bingo permits.
Dozen Bills Offered.
The delegation decided to take
no action on the request for a spe-
cial tax on police dogs and to delay
the bill for increasing the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commission
area until the exact designation of
areas seeking inclusion are deter
mined.
Meanwhile, more than a dozen
bills were fed into the legislative
mill yesterday as the session en-
tered the final stretch.
Five of the bills affecting trial
courts proposed by Sem
itor Charles c. Marbury are State
vide measures designed to modify
he 1889 act. They provide for in
the sick leave and vacation
If trial magistrates from Is to 30
lays year, require a $1,000 bond
If the court clerks who handle fines
and collateral, and permit magis-
rates to suspend sentence or costs
Dr. both after trial and judgment
instead of at the trial and before
Judgment has been pronounced. i
Broadens Contempt Powers.
They would also permit collateral
to be taken in amount less than
the maximum fine and authorize
nf11ct1on of summary punishment
FOR contempt of court by a fine of
not more than $40, or a Jail SEN
tence In default of fine.
One of the Montgomery County
delegation measures would author
re judges of the Orphans Court to
settle estates involving missing heirs
oy depositing the missing persons
share in a local bank and diStrib-
lting the remainder according to
usual procedure without waiting for
he missing heir to be located. If
unclaimed after seven years, the
heirs portion would follow
customary procedure, being turned
over to the county commissioners
for school purposes. The other
would permit the Orphans Court to
direct guardians to sell real estate
,f his ward in accordance with
Circuit Court practice. Under pres
ent law, such sales may be author
lzed by the Orphans Court only
f the property is appraised at $1,000
Dr. less.
Speedy Judgment Act.
Senator Peter of Montgomery
County proposed an amendment to
the speedy Judgment act to permit
filing of photostatic copies of prom
ssory notes and other papers instead
Of the original providing the origi-
nal is produced on demand before
Judgment is entered. Another bill
would eliminate Sundays, holidays
and half days in computing time
within which court papers must be
filed when the time allowed is seven
days or less. A third added Clarity
ing clauses in statutes relating to
liens.
A Statewide measure introduced
oy Delegate John S. White of Prince
Georges County would require COL
ection of a 25-cent fee for recording |
mortgages and other documents by
he Circuit Court clerk.