Evening star., 1948-02-01
ArIingtonCe
sApproved by
County Board
$4,000 Survey Also
Will Include Check
Of Dwelling Units

A population census of Arlington,
which will cost more than $4,000
and will be paid for by the School
Board, was approved by the County
Board yesterday.
The County Board agreed to re-
quest the Census Bureau to make
the survey, which will be termed
a school census but which will in
clude the adult population and the
number of dwelling units in the
county.
Approval also was given to plans
of the County Electoral Board to
have a private firm get voters lists
in shape so that present registfa-
ton books can be purged and a
system of serially numbered index
cards set up for the "a voting pre-
cincts which Circuit Judge Walter
T. Mccarthy is scheduled to create
in the near future.
The Board voted to appropriate
an estimated $10,776 for the work
plus $8,946 for equipment which will
be used in the new system.
Regional Planning Group.
In addition the board adopted an
ordinance to. permit Arlington to
cooperate with other northern Vir-
ginia communities in the operation
of a regional planning commission;
established mental hygiene clinic
and adopted classification and pay
scale plan for county employees.
Chairman Barnard Joy of the
schbol board, declared the census
is needed as a guide in the present
building program, to determine the
most effective use of present school
facilities and as a basis for the
development of longtime plan
for school facilities.
Plans of the Electoral Board were
presented to the board by Secretary
Bankhead T. Davies. Mr.. Davies
pointed out that the law requires
old registrars to certify names of
registrants being transferred from
their districts to new precincts. This
must be done, he said, before the
lists can be purged. Names of per-
sons to be purged from the books
must be posted by May % and hear
ings held on July 3, he said.
Recommended by County Unit.
Adoption of the ordinance per-
riaitting participation in the North
ern Virginia Regional Planning
Commission was recommended by
the County Planning Commission.
A number of other localities have
approved similar ordinances.
The mental hygiene clinic will
be operated with Federal and State
and county funds on a ratio Of two
for one. The board reappropriated
funds in the budget for the county
alcoholic clinic, which will be alb
sorbed by the mental hygiene clinic,
ana these fI1nds constitute the eoun*l
tvs contribution. 49, 4
II the county makes Sthe same
$4,000 appropriation in next years
budget that it made for the cur
rent budget, the Federal and State
Governments will appropriate $12,-
600 and the county will have an
$4,000 mental hygiene clinic In
1948-49.
Details of the job classification
and pay scale plan. which will cost
the county $4,000 in the l948-4e
fiscal year, will be worked out in
conference Friday night, the board
decided.
New Rates Effective.
The board also appropriated $780,
600 to pay cost of the new scale for
the five months remaining in the
current fiscal year. The new rates
are effective as of today and will
be reflected in pay received by en-
ployes on February Is.
THE board adopted an amend
ment to the county ordinance regu-
lating nursing homes which excepts
homes built before September /,
1916.
A communication from Repre-
sentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, disclosed that the Federal
Government has let a contract for
the superstructure of the Lee boule-
ward bridge over the Boundry Chan
mel and that work is expected to be-
gin in the near future.
xThe board also voted to consider
a resolution by the Arlington Bar
Association that the county in
efease its contribution To Judge Nc
Carthys salary so that he will re-
ceive $4,000 annually instead of