Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-20
Fairfax Denies
Falls Church
Extension Need
Town Wants Only
To Increase Assets,
County Charges
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FAIRFAX, Va, May 20.-The
Fairfax County Board of Super
visors, in an answer to the annexa-
ton suit brought by the town Of
Falls Church in Circuit Court, has
denied an necessity or expediency"
for the acquisition of further terri
tory of the town.
The answer, filed by G. Wallace
Carper, chairman of the Board of
Supervisors; Commonwealth Attor-
ney Paul E. Brown and Robert j.
McCandlish, jr., who has been en-
gagged to assist in the defense of the
suit. alleges the present corporate
limits of the town are sufficient for
all its needs.
Among the advantages cited in
the answer as now afforded to county
residents as a whole, including those
living in the town, are transportation
to schools by a school bus system,
a school dentist for all school chill
dren, school nurses available for all
schools, health clinics and welfare
centers, with transportation pro-
vided for indigents; health centers
for the care Of infants and a fully
stated health department.
Debt Strain Claimed.
Further. it is charged the town
has nearly, if not already, reached
its debt limit prescribed by law,
and the only necessity for annexing
the property is to obtain more ter
ritory and assets whereby its an
nual revenue and borrowing capac-
ity may be increased" and the town
is in no financial condition to pro-
vide future Improvements for the
territory sought to be annexed.
Citing the annexation proposal as
but an effort to forestall and thwart
the proper growth of the urban and
suburban population Of the county
of Fairfax as a whole" the answer
claims development of the area does
not result from an overflow Of pop
ulation from the town or the pres
sure of business there. The develop
ment is a result of the efforts and
enterprise of county citizens. and
the close proximity of the territory
to the District of Columbia, from
which many Federal workers have
come for the duration of the ma
| tional emergency, the answer says.
Declaring the town is now unable
to extend its water and sewer sys-
TENS to take care of all its citizens
without their bearing the full eX-
| pense of any such extensions, the
answer set forth that the Federal
Government is constructing trunk
sewer line which ultimately will
serve not only the territory sought
! by the town, but also will be leased
| to the town This sewer line is ap-
proximately in the center of this ter
ritory and planned to suit its to-
Biography, will adequately serve the
| defense housing projects being
erected in the territory, the answer
| states.
Furthermore, it is asserted the
| town is at present unable to furnish
sidewalks, curling. cutters, street
lights, fire hydrants and properly
paved streets to all its citizens. the
| school population will be increa sed
greatly, and the corporation is not
now able to provide proper schooling
for its inhabitants.
Other Services Hit.
Since the town now empties its
waste into the Arlington County
sewerage system under a contract,
it is charged the additional waste
from the section proposed to be
annexed cannot be disposed Of in
the Arlington system, and also the
town is not able at present to pro-
vide enough water and has to pur-
chase some from Arlington County
or the District.
In the event the town should
become a city of the second class.
many of the services now provided
by the county would then be denied
the citizens of the corporation, the
answer declares.
The county says that not only
the interest of the town, but also
of the county. must be considered
and many persons in the territory
strongly object to changing from
government by the authorities of
the county of Fairfax to govern
ment by the town of Falls Church"
The proposed annexation has been
the cause of much bad feeling be-
tween the citizens in the section
proposed for annexation and those
in the town, creating an unhealthy
luminosity during the present grave
national emergency when all our
citizens should be united"
The three-judge court to hear the
annexation suit will meet July 81
and fix a date for the hearing. The
other two judges to sit with Cir
cult Judge Walter T. Mccarthy
have not been named yet.