Evening star., 1949-03-04
School Incentive
Fund Bill Due in
Assembly Today
Plan to QuodrupIe
Stote Aid Expected
To Win Heavy Support

By J. B. Zotmon
Stor Sioff Correspondent

Stof SIoTr correspondent
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. A bill
to quadruple the State incentive
fund for school construction is ex-
pected to be introduced today in
the General Assembly.
Sponsors Of the measure, which
is due for support from % of the
% county delegations, described it
as an attempt to aid counties
whose credit has reached the
breaking point"
They estimated it would raise
the States annual contribution
for school buildings from sl,276.-
l41 to $5.104,564.
At present, for each | cent lev
led by county to finance school
construction, the State adds an
amount sufficient to provide $50
per pupil. The maximum State
contribution is $40 per pupil. based
on a maximum of cents levied by
a county.
Montgomery Would Get S764,2SO.
Under the new proposal. the
State would contribute up to $40
per pupil for each 20-cent tax I'M
posed by a county for schools.
For Montgomery County. the
maximum annual State allotment
under the bill would be s764 1890.
as compared with S66.985 under
the present maximum. These fig
ures are based on pupil po,,ula-
ton in the county for the 1948-49
fiscal year.
Prince Georges County would
receive $977.640 as compared with
$158,242 under the present law.
Estimated figures for other coun-
ties include:
School Construction Urged.
Led by Mrs. Irma Bogdanoff,
president of the Prince Georges
County League of Women Voters,
representatives of county organi-
cations visited the Prince Georges
delegation yesterday to urge leg
islation for school construction to
meet needs in the county.
Included were representatives OF
the Federation of Civic Associa-
tions, Federation of Women's
Clubs, County Council of PTAs,
County Teachers Association,
Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club, American Association
of University Women. the Home
makers Clubs and various smaller
groups.
Delegate lie Roy Pumphrey told
the group the county delegation
knows the problems and is max
ing an effort to improve the
schools.
The Senate yesterday passed a
bill raising the fee for a Calvert
County retail peddler's license from
s25 to $3.50 and for a wholesale
peddler's license from S25 to SIS.
Jury Change Approved.
Another Senate-approved bill
would exclude Montgomery and
Frederick Counties from provisions
of a State law requiring a stay. in
certain cases. of judgments grant,
ed by courts in the two counties.
Also passed by the Senate was
a bill increasing from 72 to 90 the
number of names from which
Jurors can be drawn in Prince
Georges County.
In the House. the Montgomery
delegation introduced bills which
would:
/. Give county commissioners
and incorporated towns in the
various counties the power to
amend fire prevention codes.
2. Authorize the Takoma Park
Council to condemn property for
public purposes.
Montgomery Delegation Chair
man Anders r. Loftstrand, jr., sub
mitted bill authorizing the Mayor
and Council of Rockville to levy a
service charge for trash and
garbage collections.
Tidelands Resolution Passed.
The Senate completed action
on joint resolution urging the
Federal Government to "reaffrm'
the right of the various States to
control over tidelands.
1t asks the Maryland congress
sional delegation to oppose pend
ing legislation calling for Federal
control over marginal waters and
the land beneath them.
The House session was brief and
taken up mainly with indorse-
ment of committee reports on
local bills.
The Delegates passed and sent
to the Governor a measure pro-
viding for a full exchange of in
formation about prisoners between
the Department of Correction and
the Department of Parole and
Probation.
The Labor Committee of both
houses held hearings on two bills.
There was no opposition to a
measure to require building con-
tractors to pay a wage rate fixed
by the Department of Labor and
Industry on State jobs.
Several minor amendments,
mostly of a clarifying nature, were
offered to a bill which puts the
six or seven laws now covering
child labor into one. The bill was
drawn up by a commission ap-
pointed by the Governor after the
l947 session.
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