Evening star., 1948-01-27
; Bills Affecting
Fairfax Before
Assembly. Today
Opposition Develops
Toward Referendum
On Alexandra Council
BY q sseff Correspondent Of The s,ar


On Alexandria Council
BY q sseff Correspondent Of The ssor
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 27.-Three
bills applicable to Fairfax County
will be introduced in the General
Assembly today.
Delegate Robert ]. McCandlish
jr, of that county said he will spon-
sof a measure to raise the salary OF
members of the electoral board from
81 to $40 day and will increase the
maximum allowed each member
from $3.50 to 5000 a year. He said
the present salary makes it difficult
to obtain persons to serve.
Another bill would increase to 81
acres the maximum amount of lane
the county government may OWL
legally. Chesterfield County nov
has such permission and Mr.. Nc.
Candlish said authorization is need.
ed for Fairfax because of the county
governments expanded activitie.
and the population growth in re-
cent years. Formerly, he said, thu
limitation was % acres.
The third bill, which would be
general in its application, woulc
raise from 10 cents to Is cents the
fee an election registrar could collect
from each person registered on days
other than those specified for reg
istration. 44
Referendum Bill Opposed.
Senator Andrew w. Clarke OF
Alexandria indicated there is some
opposition to a bill by Delegate
Armistead L. Boothe. Also of Alex
andria, calling for a referendum In
that city March 2 to determine
whether the City Council shall be
elected at large.
This bill was passed by the House
yesterday and now Is before the
Senate. Mr.. Boothe amended the
measure to provide that councilmen
elected under the present system, or
by the proposed at large method,
would serve three-year terms in
stead of two years.
This amendment, Mr.. Boothe ex-
planned, reinstated words of an
earlier act so that, in effect, the
bill now does not change the old
law except to call for a referendum
on March 2. He asked the House
to suspend constitutional readings
and pass the bill out of order SC
that early final action would give
Alexandria residents advance no.
tice and candidates for the council
more time in which to file. The
House passed the bill without OBJ.
lection.
Senator Clarke, however, said he
would ask that the Senate Com.
mittee of Counties, Cities anc
Towns defer action from today
until Thursday because some per.
sons who object to the plan desire
to be heard. He intends to support
the bill, he said.
Gn Alexandria, 1t was an
nounced today that a petition
circulated for the last two
months asking a court-ordered
referendum on the method of Sc
lecting city councilmen will be
filed If bill now pending before
the State Legislature to grant
such referendum fails to pass.
! The required number of sigma
lures have been obtained on the
petition for the referendum, its
sponsors declared.)
Bill on Telephones Entered.
Among new House bills was one
by Delegate M. G. Cox of Graysor
County to permit the State Corpo.
ration Commission to order an ex.
tension of telephone service in rura
areas upon petition of 10 or more
! persons.
Senators j. A. Hagood, of Glover
Walter c. Caudill of Pearisburg anc
w. Dennis Kendig of Kenbridge, all
physicians, introduced a bill tx
amend the country doctor" law
sponsored in 1912 by Senator
Charles r. Fenwick of Arlington
The bill would increase the amount
of 10 medical scholarships each al
the University of Virginia and the
Medical College of Virginia from
$500 to $1,000 year.
Left unchanged was the Fenwick
plan of requiring doctors to serve
one year in specified rural commun-
titles for each year of benefits from
the scholarship. The bill intro.
duced yesterday calls for a $4,000
appropriation.
The same three sponsors intro
duced another bill modelled after the
older law but setting up 500 an
nual scholarships for nurses. Thirty
scholarships would be provided.
Senator Harry F. Byrd, jr, of Win
chester introduced a bill to require
Virginia Governors to furnish the
State Library with all official corre-
spondence before they leave office
He said he hoped to avoid incidents
such as the series Of articles pub
lished by former Secretary of the
Interior Ickes and former Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau. Their
publication has been criticized In
some quarters.
Alcoholic Clinics Sought.
Senator James E. Gardner OF
Richmond introduced a bill appro-
priating $375,000 a year from the
profits of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board to set up clinics for
treatment of alcoholics. The money
would be administered by the State
Health Department.
Senator Robert c. Vaden of Gretna
sponsored a measure to require ap-
proval of the aeronautics division
OF the State Corporation Commission
before counties, cities or towns could
accept Federal funds for airport
construction. The objective, he said,
is to require better planning.
Virginia 6. O. P. Leaders