Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

government reform and bond issue
While the campaigns for To-
County, and to a lesser degree
broader issues in the earlier part
of the campaign, considerable in
terest Is being expressed at the
last minute over a three-cornered
contest for member of the House
from the 9th district.
There also is an awakening in
terest over two proposed bond
issues, contest for the County
Board in Arlington County and
a proposed school bond issue in
Prince William County.
There remains, however, little
interest over two proposed con-
stitutional amendments-one to
permit cities of 10000 or more
population to consolidate court
systems with such number OF
judges as may be required, and the
other to allow the General Assem-
bly, to provide for consolidation
of county and city or county and
county school systems into single
system under a single board.
School Bond Issue
In the race for the House, DEM
ocratic Representative Howard W.
Smith, dean of the Virginia dele
cation. is being opposed by Tyrrell
Krum, Fairfax County Republic
can, and Clark T. Robb, Social
Democrat from Herndon. Mr..
Krum was defeated by Mr.. Smith
in 1913, and Mr.. Robb, q constant
contestant. always has trailed in
the voting.
Neither Representative Smith
nor Mr.. Krum has waged a vigor-
GUS campaign this year, and while
observers believe that an ex-
pected heavy vote in the Wash
ington area may cause Mr.. Smith
some trouble, his defeat is con-
sidered extremely unlikely.
In Arlington County, a three
way contest for a County Board
seat, a $7.450,00o school bond Is
sue and a $2,617.000 bond issue to
provide additional sewage treat
ment facilities will confront the
voters.
Board Chairman Daniel A.
Dugan, independent, is being op-
posed by Fred w. Bach, Demo-
crat. and Jacob Bechtel, another
Independent.
OF more interest to Arlington
voters is the referendum on the
school bond issue. Backed by
more than 5000 petitioners, the
school bond issue is being op-
posed by John Locke Green, Re-
publican county treasurer. Mr.
Green has held that the School
Board intends to build "coliseums
mausoleums and cathedrals" in
stead of classrooms, and that
needed construction should be
financed out of current revenues
and State grants rather than
through bonds.
Government Reform
There has been no opposition
to the sewage bond issue, which
has the backing of the LEAK
Walton League and the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac
River Basin. These funds would
provide for additions to the coun-
TVS sewage treatment facilities
Arlington, at present. dumps more
than half Of it's sewage raw into
the Potomac River. That which
goes through the treatment plant
receives only primary treatment
which removes about 80 per cent
Of the pollution from the sewage.
The Potomac River Commission
has warned that the river below
Washington may become septic
II corrective measures are not
taken at once. This. it is held
would endanger the health of area
residents.
Like Arlington voters, Prince
William County residents will de-
eide at the polls whether to issue
$2,400.000 in bonds for school i'm
provements. Major projects that
would be financed through the
issue would be a high school al
Manassas and one in the southern
section Of the county.
But by far the dominant local
issues are the referendums fol
government change In Fairfax anC
Loudoun Counties. In Loudour
the issue is less complex, with
voters being asked to decide only
for or against the county execu-
tive plan. In Fairfax voters must
first decide If they wish to change
the government form, and If so
must decide which form-county
manager or county executive
they prefer.
The Loudoun campaign has
, been conducted largely in the
local press, with one county paper
for. another against and a third
neutral. Observers believe that
reform will fail to carry in Tues
days voting, but that an attempt
for reform will come up again in
three years.
Supporting change In Loudoun
are the League of Women Voters
and the Loudoun Citizens for
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