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BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
RICHMOND. Mar. 6.-The Gem
eral Assembly headed into the
home stretch today after a House
Saturday night cleared
the decks for showdowns on ma
jor issues during the final week
Of the session.
With exceptions made for rev.
enue bills and resolutions, the
House began considering only
Senate bills and House measures
with Senate amendments, and the
Senate began taking up only,
House bills Or Senate measures
amended by the House.
AS the Senate reconvened it:
faced an avalanche of 20l bills
passed by the House during it's
stand of more than IA hours Sat-
urday and early Sunday, which
also saw 81 bills killed and a
dozen or more resolutions ap-
proved. Among the measures
killed was the Magruder bill for
a limited local option rent control
law.
A bigger hurdle for the Senate,
however, was the budget bill, now
before the upper chambers FL
nance Subcommittee for consid-s
Grafton Of the 81 million addition
tackled on by the House for teach
ers' salaries.
Another Fight Possible.
The appropriations measure, to-
falling $599 million since the House
increased its figure by the 81 mil
lion, probably will be considered
by the entire Senate Finance
Committee tomorrow. But it's fate
may be decided in advance by the
subcommittee's recommendations.
If the Senate fails to okay the
House-approved figure, it means
another battle between the two
chambers. And the House minor
ity group mustered it's greatest
strength when it added the teach
ers' 81 million to the bill by a
62-to-33 vote.
Most of the House fireworks
were expected to come over the
Byrd Senate bill for provisional
income tax cuts. Here again the
big debate isn't likely before to-
morrow.
Byrd Proposal Has Chance.
Delegate Robert Whitehead,
leader of the House minority bloc,
already has promised fight
against the measure. Because tax
cuts have popular appeal, how
ever. the Byrd proposal was seen
as fairly sure of getting through
the House.
Before winding up their long
session at 1890 am. yesterday,
the House passed some so local
and uncontested measures and
then took up controversial bills.
Measures passed included the
Boatwright bill to make labor
unions subject to State anti
monopoly law; the. Bailey bill to
put more enforcement teeth in
the unfair sales act; the Bridg-
forth bill to have the State pro-
vide architectural plans and serv-
ices for school construction, and
the Crockett bill to let youngsters
under 16 hunt or fish without
having to buy licenses.
Among the bills killed were the
BoatWright bill to penalize a
union for picketing against or
levying fines on persons working
in non-union shops; the Spencer
bill to establish fisherman's pre-
serve off Ocean View, Norfolk; the
Locher bill to set up a State re-
volving fund for loans to produce
market authorities. and the Hite
bill to enable appointment Of well
fare boards by governing bodies Of
counties and second class cities.
Magruder Argues for Bill.
Backed by delegates from Ar
llngton, Alexandria and Fairfax,
the Magruder rent control measure
died without a recorded vote. A
loud chorus of mos" smothered
the motion to advance the bill to
a final reading.
Delegate j. Maynard Magruder
OF Arlington put forth the prin-
cipal arguments in favor of the
measure. He was joined by other
delegates from the area near
Washington.
The measure simply would al
low the governor to impose rent
controls in localities in Virginia
where the local governing bodies
requested such controls. Mr.. Ma
gruder contended.
Delegate John B. Boatwright Of
Buckingham argued that the
House already had expressed it's
opinion by concurring with the
Senate in a bill to decontrol all of
Virginia He was joined by Dele
gate Delomater Davis of Norfolk,
in opposing the bill.
After heated debate of few
minutes, the House took it's voice
vote.
Alexandra City Council
Votes to DecontroI Rents
The Alexandria City Council
today voted to decontrol rents.
The~ote, on a motion by Coun-