Evening star., 1949-07-12
Annexation Suit
Will Be Started
ByFa||sChurch
Council Proposes
To Take in Property
Valued at $4,000, 900

The Falls Church City Council
voted last night to proceed inn
mediately with an annexation
suit against Fairfax County which.
If successful, would increase the
present area of the city more than
seven times.
The Council also granted
City School Board request to re-
port to Fairfax County Circuit
Court that negotiations with the
county over transfer of schools
within the city have failed. The
city attorney was directed to seek
the guidance and further orders"
of the court.
Last June 2 Judge C. G. Ques-
enbery of Waynesboro. while sit
ting in Fairfax Circuit Court, ap-
proved the setting up of a city
school district separate from the
county. The County School Board
last week served notice it will not
turn over two of the city's three
schools. Falls Church High and
Oak Street Elementary, because
those schools. it says, were built
for the use of county students
Asked Court Ruling.
Falls Church went to court to
obtain control of the schools after
achieving second-class city status
last August.
The councils action in passing
the annexation ordinance was op-
posed by Harold A. Ward, chair
man of an Annexation Committee
set up by citizens associations of
the area surrounding Falls
Church. The proposed annexa-
ton would take in property val
ued at about $12,0000O0 for tax
purposes.
Mr.. Ward said he believes Falls
Church should consolidate it's po-
sition as a second-class city be-
fore attempting to enlarge. A
public hearing, he declared, should
be held before adoption of the
ordinance.
Mayor Albert NJ Orme and City
Attorney La Rue Van Meter said
Mr.. Wards request could not be
granted because the city did not
wish to disclose financial details
OF its annexation plans before the
court hearing.
Two Boundary Changes.
The annexation ordinance passed |
last night provided for two
changes for proposed boundaries
announced earlier. From Leesburg
pike, east of the city at the Will
kins property, the suggested line
now runs directly toward the
Bancroft Reservoir of the Alexan-
dria Water Co.. and includes two
estuaries of the lake. /
The other suggested change
would include Westmoreland road
west of the Arlington County line.
The boundary asked by the city
is a branch of Pimmit Run. Pim-
NIT Run is the boundary from
West Leesburg pike north to this
unnamed stream.
The Council granted permission
to the School Board to borrow not
more than $4,000. to be repaid
within one year. This amount, Mr..
Van Meter said, is only a fraction
Of the anticipated levy.
Asks Drainage Control.
City Manager Roy F. Dunn was
directed to prepare estimates on
control of drainage in the Oak
Haven and Timber Lane areas.
w. A. Van Allen, of COG Langston
Lane, said that from to inches
of water accumulates on his prop
erty after rain.
The council appointed Donald
S. Frady as city forester. Mr..
Frady's duties will include making
recommendations on planting,
care and destruction of trees.
A request by the Falls Church /
Volunteer Fire Department for
funds to purchase a new ladder
truck was referred to the Finance
Committee. DR.. w. D. Claudy,
drillmaster of the department, told
the council that present ladder
equipment is inadequate and
dangerous.
City Treasurer James E. Fer
guson reported his drive to collect
delinquent personal property taxes
has brought in $4,000 of approxi-