Evening star., 1941-02-27
-Four Hearings Listed
On Legislation for
Prince Georges
Delegation Will Begin
Conferences With
Citizens Monday
BY BEN III. PEARSE,
Star Staff Correspondent.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 27-Four
hearings on legislative matters af-
fecting Prince Georges County have
been scheduled here within the next
two weeks, Delegate Ralph w. Pow
ers, chairman of the county delega-
ton, announced today.
The delegation met last night with
the county commissioners to discuss
proposed legislation wanted by the
county board, but both groups de-
clined to talk about the program
until it can be whipped into final
form, which is expected to be within
q few days.
However, among matters con-
sidered were the measure to author
ize pay raises and increase the size
of the county police force. and ap-
pointment of county engineer and
an assistant for the county jailer,
it was learned.
Meanwhile, the Delegates intro
duced four bills in the House, one
relating 10 adjustment of taxes on
corner and irregularly shaped lots
in Riverdale, one taking the Sea-
brook area into the Washington
Suburban Sanitary District and two
dealing with zoning and billboard
control on Central avenue and
Largo road.
First Hearing Monday.
The first hearing is set for MOn-
day night, when the Prince Georges
County Federation of Citizens As
sociationS and the county Chamber
of Commerce will present their leg
islative programs before the Dele
gates. The hearing will start after
the Monday night Assembly ses-
sion, which opens at o'clock and
usually adjourns shortly afterward
following introduction of bills, Mr..
Powers announced.
Town officials of Hyattsville will
come to Annapolis for hearing on
their legislative needs Wednesday at
8 pm, while hearings for oppo-
nents and proponents on two bills
will be heard March 10 after the
opening of the night Assembly ses-
sion. One of the bills provides a
81 bounty on fox scalps and the
other extends the Prince Georges
regional district to include those
portions of the Lanham, Seat Pleas
ant, Kent, Spaldings and Oxon Hill
districts which are not now within
the boundary of the Metropolitan
district.
Hearing on Bond Issue.
A hearing has been set for March
II on the Bladensburg town charter
bill and the proposal to authorize
issuance of $4,000 in bonds for the
ington Memorial Parkway, which in
Prince Georges County would run
from the District line to Fort Wash
ington, the Federal Government to
contribute an equal amount The
project is part of plan to construct
parkway from Mount Vernon, on
the Virginia side of the Potomac
River, to Great Falls, and thence
southwark on the Maryland side
and through the District to Fort
Washington. Montgomery County
already has taken similar action.
The bill to take the Seabrook area
into the Suburban Sanitary District
probably will be amended later to
include also the Forrestville and Ad-
more communities, from which many
requests to be included have been
received, Mr.. Powers said.
The Riverdale tax adjustment bill
would authorize the Mayor and
Council to adjust taxes on corner
and irregularly shaped lots, where
application of front-foot benefit
assessments would be unfair.
The roadside control measures
limit roadside signs to 80 square feet
on Central avenue from the District
line to Patuxent River, and give the
county commissioners zoning au-
thority on the Largo road between
Defense and Grain highways.