Evening star., 1951-12-10
Fairfax 10 Name
Executive on
Temporary Basis
Qualified Applicants
Permanent Choice
Unlikely by January,
By Mary Lou Werner

By Mary Lou Werner
The position of county execu-
tive probably will be filled by tenn
porary appointment when that
form of government takes effect
in Fairfax County January /.
Members of the incoming Board
Of Supervisors said today that a
inspection tour of War
wick County. Va, convinced them
it was important to have the rest
obtainable county executive.
With the government shift only
three weeks off, they feel it is
unlikely that a qualified person
can be found by that time.
We're still trying, but it seems
any good executive would be work.
ing somewhere else and would
need at least a month to leave his
present position" said Mrs. Anne
Wilkins, supervisor elect from
Falls Church district.
Applications Slow.
G. Wallace Carper, incumbent
board chairman from Providence
district, said applications of quail
fed persons have been slow COM
ing in. He said he thought a
temporary appointment would be
best until the right man could be
found.
The supervisors toured War
wick County. which has a county
manager government, to get an
idea how the new form of govern
ment should operate in Fairfax.
The county manager and county
executive operate similarly from
an administrative standpoint.
Mr.. Carper said he was con-
vinced after the inspection trip
that a county executive system
could save Fairfax a lot of time
and money.
A central purchasing depart
ment that buys for all depart
ments, including schools, won
unanimous praise of the new sup
ervisors. There has been some
question whether the school board
IN Fairfax would continue to do
its own purchasing under the
new government, but the new
supervisors agreed after viewing
the Warwick operation that all
county purchasing should be con-
solidated.
Also Handles Maintenance.
Mrs. Wilkins said the Warwick
purchasing set-up was called the
service department, and it also
handled maintenance Of all county
vehicles in addition to purchasing.
Everything that county buys
goes through the county ware
house, and all maintenance of
county cars and school buses is
handled at the county garage"
said Mrs. Wilkins.
A public hospital for the chron-
ically i'll also impressed the visit
ors. Fifteen counties and cities
send their aged i'll to the hospital
at a cost of about 50 a day, the
supervisors said. Such cases in
Fairfax have to be hospitalized
in private institutions at a cost
OF SIS to SIT a day.
The supervisors found War
wick school construction costs
far below those in Fairfax. One
22-room school with a cafeteria
and auditorium was built last
year for about the same expense
that Fairfax is preparing to lay
out for 12-room school.
Mrs. Wilkins said Warwick
County Manager L. G. Morris ex-
planned the school construction
costs were brought down with the
help OF a special committee.
Costs Scaled Down.
| After the original architects
plans were drawn and the cost
was too high, a committee of
county officials revised the plans.
The result was a construction bid
about half of the original estimate,
All landScaping and finishing
details at the Warwick schools
are done by the county public
works department, which reduces
the construction cost.
The public works department
IN Warwick also takes care of
trash and garbage collection.
There is one sanitary district in
the county in which all residents
are required to pay ST a month
for trash and garbage collection.
The refuse is disposed of in a
county-operated sanitary land
fill.
Fairfax County at present does
not provide any trash and gar
bage service.
In addition to Mr.. Carper and
Mrs. Wilkins, others who made
the tour were Supervisors Maurice
Fox and Arthur Shaffer, incum-
bents, and Supervisors-elect C. B.
Jett and Stuart DeBell and retir.
ing Supervisor c. B. sRunyon.