Evening star., 1950-01-30
School Grant, Bill
On Committee
Calendar Today
Battles Proposals
Due to Go Through
Virtually Unchanged
By the Associofed Press

By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 3o.-The
Governors $45,0o0,000 outright
grants for schools bill comes up
for important consideration in
committees of the General Assem-
bly, today.
A Senate Finance subcommittee
will touch off the deliberations
when it meets to consider amend
ments that would require the To-
calities to match the State grants
on $3.50 basis.
Then later in the day a Joint
meeting of the Finance Commit
tee with the House Appropriations
Committee will take up the bill
at a public hearing.
All indications were. though,
that Gov. Battles proposal would
breeze through virtually unaltered
by amendments.
Gray Submits Proposal.
Senator Garland Gray put be-
fore the Senate Finance Commits
tee the school building recon-
mendationS of the State Tax
Study Commission which he head
ed: These called for matching
funds and also embodied a num-
Der of MINOR proposals that differ
from the Battle hill
Chairman Robert o. Norris Of
the Finance Committee turned
these over to three members for
study and recommendations. The
subcommittee Republican S.
Floyd Landreth of Galax, and
Democrats A. E. S. Stephens Of
Isle of Wight and Robert Y. But
ton OF Culpeper-have expressed
themselves as personally against
the matching fund requirement.
Mr.. Landreth and Mr.. Button
were among a half dozen Sena-
tors who replied to Senator E. o.
McCue last week on the Senate
floor when Gov. Battles successor
surprised the group by attacking
the administrations outright
grant proposal as "paternalism"
and a dole" Later, Mr.. Stephens
said he would have risen also to
reply but he thought those who
spoke took care of the situation
we'll enough.
Bill to Set Up City Introduced.
On the House side Delegate
Robert Whitehead had said he
favors matching funds. But in
the House - as in the Senate -
there appeared no movement of
appreciable strength to change
the Governors proposal materi-
ally.
The administration view is that
an emergency exists and that the
situation justifies the grants right
pow-but not as a matter of fu-
ture State policy.
In the House of Delegates there
was an official, formal introduce
tion of Delegate Lewis A. Nc
Murran's charter bill for the pro-
posed city of Hampton Roads.
The charter and enabling act
look to the consolidation of New
port News, Hampton, Phoebus and
the counties of Elizabeth City and
Warwick into a f1ve-borough mu-
nicipality called the city of Hamp-
ton Roads.
The Norfolk delegation is
against such a name for the pro-
posed city in the belief that it's
identity with the port of Hamp-
ton Roads might be threatened
If Greater Newport News took
the ports name for it's own.
One legislator and a former
member of the Legislature
sounded off over the week end
for the benefit of home folks"
regarding Gov. Battles school
program and a bill by Senator
Harry F. Byrd, jr., to change the
method of selecting county school
boards.
In Bristol, State Senator
George M. Warren said it would
be next to the impossible" to ask
localities to match the $45, 900 900
which Gov. Battle proposes to
grant for school purposes.
And in Roanoke Leonard G.
Muse, former State Senator and
a member of the State Board of
Education, gave his Endorsement
to the election of county school
boards by county boards of super
visors.