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square miles. It's population is esti-
mated by the county managers Of
flee at 10000. Under the county
manager form of government, the
manager is responsible to the county
board. Permissive legislation has
been enacted by the Virginia Gen.
eral Assembly giving residents au-
thority to vote on changing to the
city form of government.
The county embraces several COM
munities such as Rosslyn, Clarendon
and Cherrydale, but there are no
incorporated towns within its bor-
ders.
Fairfax County, another area rich
in historical background, has shared
in the residential growth of the
metropolitan section. Because the
growth has been greatest in the Falls
Church area and other places along
the Arlington Alexandria border,
the county has feared some of its
territory may be annexed by its
neighboring county and city. Except
for recent years, Fairfax has been an
Agricultural county. 1t retains a
large rural area and its governing
body, the Board of Supervisors,
wrestles with such modern problems
as creation of sanitary districts for
the urban sections.
Government Projects.
Government projects within the
AIT square miles of Fairfax County
are Fort Belvoir and the Washing
ton Quartermaster's Depot The
county has five incorporated towns,
Clifton, Falls Church, Fairfax. Hern-
don and Vienna. The estimated
81 900 Fairfax County residents have
quick access to Washington via
buses, trains and good highways.
Montgomery County has come
to the fore a. a Government re-
search and medical center as we'll
as a high-type suburban Residential
community. The National Institute
Of Health and the Naval Hospital
and Medical Center, Bethesda, with
the Walter Reed Hospital Section
at Forest Glen, the Naval Research
Labor atory, White Oak, and the
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Labortory, Silver Spring, are among
the outstanding institutions in the
county.
Plans have been announced for
a huge Army Medical Center at For
est Glen and another large pub
lie health institution in the Beth
esda area. The county has indicated
it would like to have the Veterans
Hospital which the Federal Govern
ment tried unsuccessfully to locate
on the Nevius tract in Arlington.
All this led the publisher Of the
Record, of Bethesda Chevy Chase,
a county weekly newspaper, to carry
on its masthead Dedicated to the
Future of This Community as the
Health Center of the World"
100000 in Montgomery.
Montgomery's population, esti-
mated by County Supervisor J. g.
McNayr, at 100000, is concentrated
largely in the suburban section Of
its 497 square miles. The county
has given much attention to the
development of recreation areas in
its natural parkways along the Po-,
tomac, Cabin John valley, Rock
Creek and Sligo Greek. Its public
school system includes the only
public junior college in the metro
politan area, which is operated at
the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School. The world headquarters of
the Seventh Day Adventist denom-
ination is located at Takoma Park.
The county is governed by
Board of County Commissioners and
has a county supervisor. 1t will
vote next year on the establishment
of a charter form of government
with q county manager.
Because Of the heavily populated
suburban areas, county buildings"
have been constructed in Bethesda
and Silver Spring. These. in effect,
are branches Of the courthouse at
Rockville. Building inspectors, area
county commissioners Offices, police
courts, police stations and other
government agencies are located in
the suburban county buildings,
saving residents trip or phone call
to Rockville when they need to
transact business with certain pub
lie officials,
IL Special Taxing Areas.
Neither Bethesda nor Silver
Spring are incorporated but there
are IL special taxing areas in the
county governed by Citizens Com
mittees.
Six of the special taxing areas are
In Chevy Chase and the others are
Battery Park, Chevy Chase View,
Drummond, Friendship Heights,
North Chevy Chase and Oakmont.
There are 10 incorporated towns
in Montgomery. They are Barnes
vile, Garrett Park, Gaithersburg,
Glen Echo, Kensington. Laytonsvine.
Rockville, Somerset, Takoma Park
and Washington Grove.
Prince Georges, most populous Of