Evening star., 1948-02-17
McLean-LangIey
Sanitary District
Proposed in Bill
Clarke Sponsors
Plan for Change
In Fairfax County

By Alex R. Preston

tary districts and providing Tor
special sanitary district in the Nc
Lean-Langley area of Fairfax
County, are to be taken up this
afternoon by a committee of the
State Senate.
Senator Andrew W. Clarke of
Alexandria and Fairfax, patron of
the measures, has asked that the
Senate Committee on Counties
Cities and Towns hear some resi-
dents of the Mclean area who have
expressed opposition to some fea-
lures of the legislation.
Two hearings on bills by Senator
Charles R. Fenwick of Arlington
have been set for tomorrow. At 10
am. the House and Senate General
Laws Committees will hear argu-
ments on the Fenwick bill to
tighten child labor laws. At 8 pm.
the Senate Finance Committee will
hold a hearing on Fenwick bill
to levy a 1-cent-per-pac excise
tax on cigarettes to raise funds to
assist localities in meeting their
share of hospital construction costs
under the Federal Hill-Burton Act.
Hearings Scheduled.
At the same hour. the House
Finance Committee will hold hear
ings on three sales tax measures
which have been introduced in the
lower chamber.
Another bill by Senator Fenwick,
to implement the Halliburton Act,
was passed by the House and sent
to the Governor yesterday. 1t per-
mits governing bodies of counties to
make gifts of money or property to
nonprofit hospitals.
Among new legislation introduced
was bill by Senator Harry F. Byrd,
jr, of Winchester, to permit huS-
band and wife to divide their income
equally in filing income tax returns,
making them eligible for lower in
come brackets.
Senator Clarke sponsored two new
bills to amend the Fairfax County
subdivision law Under proposed
changes, the Board of Supervisors
could regulate the density and dis
tribution of population. in addition
to powers already authorized. A
new section would provide that in
case of a petition protesting zoning
changes, the supervisors would be
required to refer the minutes OF the
Board of Zoning Appeals to the
County Planning Commission for
review. The planning agency would
make it's findings known at the next
regular meeting of the supervisors
at which final action would be re-
quired.
Would Extend Law.
A feature of one of the bills would
be to extend the 1946 Fairfax sub
division control law to include
municipalities.
Delegate Armistead L. Boothe of
Alexandria introduced two bills. One
was at the request of the North
Ridge Citizens Association. 1t would
require that when the owners of 20
per cent of the property in an area
to be rezoned file an objection, the
City Council would have to approve
the change by three-fourths vote
to make the change valid. The same
vote would be required if the owners
of 20 per cent or more of property
within a radius of 500 feet of the
area in question have filed an OBJ
lection.
Delegate D. French Slaughter of
Culpeper introduced a bill to mod
ernize the law regulating the produc-
ton and distribution of milk. He
said it had the Endorsement of the
Virginia Dairy Products Association
and the Virginia Milk Producers
Association.
The measure would require out
of-State milk to be designted on
label and distributors who import
milk could sell only Grade A pas
turized milk.
Delegates Harold Singleton of
Amherst County, and Robert J. NC
Candlish il, of Fairfax County,
sponsored bill permitting children
who will be six years of age within
six months after September l, to
enter public schools. At present a
child must be six years of age on the
opening Gay VI ScllOol.
Delegate William J. Gibson of
Fredericksburg, offered a bill to
raise from two to rs acres the max
imum amount of land any veterans
organization chartered by Congress-
such as the American Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars, would be
permitted to own in the State.
Principal attention of the House
was devoted to a bill whose chief
patron is J. Maynard Magruder of,
Arlington, to prohibit the establish
ment of branch banks in any Vir-
ginia city of $4,000 or more in
habitants"
Bill Debated 3 Hours.
Sponsored by the Virginia Bank
ers' Association, the bill took up
nearly three hours of debate after
Mr. Magruder said it was designed
to preserve the independent unit
system of banking which, he de-
clared, resulted in a banks profits
being retained in the locality instead
of being drained outside the State
by parent financial corporations.
A1leE d UdllIc III WlllSll dbtCIIlpGo
were made to amend the bill, the
House advanced the measure to a
stage for final action today. Mr.
Magruder unsuccessfully sought to
waive the constitutional readings
and have the bill passed yesterday.
Among bills passed by the Senate
was one by Delegate Edmund T.
Dejarnette of Hanover County, re-
pealing the law which sets 20 years
and six months as the maximum age
for students participating in athletic
contests. If the House concurs in
minor amendments, the bill will
permit the Virginia high school
league to set the age limits.
The House Committee on Game
and Inland Fisheries reported a
bill to increase hunting and fishing
licenses generally and to Segregate
the two types of funds so that each
type of sport would support its own
restocking and conservation pro-
; gram.
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