Evening star., 1944-02-23

JIIIVVI HIIVWoIIIC
House-Approved Plan
Would Distribute $3.50 in
Second Year Of Biennium
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Feb. 23.-The ques-
ton Of increased appropriations for.
public schools was before the Vir.
ginia General Assembly again today
In the form of an amendment
Offered to the Senate Finance Com
mittee to raise the teacher unit dis
tribution from 5000 to $3.50 the Sec
ond year of the biennium.
The amendment to the appropria-
ton bill, which as approved by the
House calls for 5000 distribution
both years of the biennium, was
offered by Senator w. c. Caudill Of
Pearisburg. a committee member.
The amendment calls for no increase
over the proposed 5000 the first year
of the biennium.
Senator Aubrey G. Weaver. chair
man of the committee, said the Cau-
dill amendment would be acted on In
executive session Friday.
Pending before the House Appro.
priations Committee is the White-
head House bill providing an appro-
priation to raise the distribution per
teacher unit to $500 both years Of
the biennium. It was expected the
committee would act on the bill at
its meeting today.
Sunday Beer Ban Killed.
Following spirited public hear
ing which found representatives Of
the church divided on the question,
the House Committee on General
Laws killed the Massie- Warren
Campbell-Dodd bill which undertook
to outlaw the Sunday sale of wines
and beer throughout Virginia.
The committee voted, 9 to g., to
postpone indefinitely action on the
measure, which contained a pro-
vision under which counties, cities
and towns, through local optional
elections, could permit the sale Of
the spirits locally.
The House, by a vote Of 50 to Il.
passed the Boatwright House bill
permitting localities to enact or
dinances paralleling the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Act and thus OBJ
tain the fines and forfeitures which
now go into the State literary fund.
Budget Bill Studied.
A House Finance Subcommittee
today was studying the big $685.
00O, 900 budget bill to speed the work
of preparing it for presentation on
the floor of the Senate.
Before the House for consideration
today was DILL authorizing govern
ing bodies of counties, towns or cities
to release, If paid by January S, 1945,
the liability for interest, penalties
and accrued costs on unpaid taxes
on real estate for the year 1910 and
all previous years.
Also before the House was the
Fitzpatrick bill to amend and re-
enact section 1902, as amended, of
the Code Of Virginia, to allow courts
to sermit, juries trying capital cases
to Separate, on approval of defense
and State attorneys. 1t would also
increase the allowances. when juries
are kept together, from rs cents to
sl.25 for meals and for lodging
from 81 to So.
Deferred until tomorrow was ac-
ton by the House Schools and Col
leges Committee on resolution to
declare it the sense of the General
Assembly that students in State
supported institutions of higher edu-
cation should bear the cost Of their
instruction.
Loan Act Deferred.
A House subcommittee yesterday
took under advisement the proposed
Virginia Small Loan Act. After a
hearing which lasted nearly three
hours, the subcommittee was in
structed to consider only the regu-
latory features of the bill, leaving
the controversial matter of a change
In rates to the full committee. which
meets Tuesday.
The Senate Committee on Insti-
tutions and Education yesterday re-
ported the Baldwin joint House
resolution calling for all-Negro staffs
at Piedmont Sanatarium at Burke
vile and the Petersburg State COL
ony. The Baldwin resolution was in
line with recommendations by Gov.
Darden that STATS of the two insti-
tutions consist entirely Of Negroes.
Carrying out part of his program
for the consolidation OF State-sup-
ported institutions Of higher learn
ing, Gov. Darden yesterday signed
the House bill providing for the con-
solidation of Mary Washington COL
lege at Fredericksburg with the
University of Virginia. Under provi-
sions of the bill, both schools will be
under one board of visitors, which
shall be increased to permit the in
clusion of women.
The Governor also signed three
Senate bills, all introduced by Sem
ator A. E. S. Stephens, Isle of Wight.
providing for changes in convicts'
work laws; for allowance of time off
for convicts with good behavior, and
for payment of per diem wage for
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