Evening star., 1946-01-06
Arlington Board
Urges Ban on
SaIaryAppea|s
Delegates Instructed
To Offer Bill After
Treosurer's Action

The Arlington County Board, as
the result of the action of County
Treasurer John Locke Green in by
passing the board to take an ap-
peal to the Circuit Court for salary
increases denied by the State Com
pensation Board, yesterday instruct
ed county Delegates in the Gen
eral Assembly to seek an amend
ment eliminating the right of elec-
tive officers to take salary appeals
to the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Green took his appeal to Cir
cult Court on December %, after
the State Compensation Board had
refused to allow 81 ,26O.91 for salary
increases for his Office employees.
Following the appeal, Board
Chairman F. Freeland Chew and
Members Edmund D. Campbell and
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Magruder said
Mr.. Green should have made his
appeal to the county board rather
thar to the court.
Substitute Motion Made.
The board also asked that in
salary appeals the decision of a
joint board, consisting of three
members of the State Compensa-
tion Board and two County Board
members, be final.
Board Member Basil M. DeLash-
mutt offered a substitute motion
asking Legislature representatives
to confer with Commemorative At
torhsy Lawrence w. Douglas on
the possibility of an alternate ap-
peal. 1t was lost for lack of sup
port. &....'.
The board appropriated $4,000
from the contingent fund with
which County Clerk H. Bruce Green
will set up an induction record
system of servicemen from the,
county.
Appropriation Opposed.
Mr.. Green told the Board that
eacn of the County's two Draft
Boards have over 5000 recorded
draftees. The clerical cost of setting
UP the records is so cents per name,
he said. Mr.. Green said his office
already has almost four books filled
with discharge records.
Mr.. Chew and Mrs Magruder both
objected to the appropriation, on
grounds that the best record of ser
vicemen in the country is in Wash
ington and that since recording of
discharges is on a voluntary basis,
the County record always will be in
complete.
Mr.. Campbell. who was elected
Board chairman at yesterdays meet
Ing, said the County faces many
serious problems" a result of it's
growth.
These problems. he said, can be
solved by the adoption of charter
Incorporating Arlington as a city.
Hanrahan Named Clerk.
County Manager Frank C. Han
rahan was named clerk to the board
with A. T. Lundberg, County Serv-
ice Department head, as acting
clerk.
In letter to the board, Harry
K. Green, commissioner of revenue,
pointed out the necessity for added
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assessors who will make this years
reaSsessment.
Mr.. De Lashmutt suggested NOV
ing the Welfare Department to the
Health Department Building at
1900 North Edison street. The
matter was referred to Mr.. Lund-
berg.
A request for an appropriation
of Sc, ,433.20 for the construction of
a sidewalk from North Columbus
to North Edison streets. on Lee
boulevard, was referred to the
county manager to determine State
participation in the cost of the
project.
Mr.. Lundberg told the board that
work on plans for a proposed court
house addition had progressed to
point where it now is necessary
to employ an architect. 1t also is
necessary, he said, to study space
allocations for local and State Of
fees.
The board approved expenditures
for the past two weeks of $685.
651.29, including a payroll of
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