Evening star., 1951-02-20
Boone Supports
MontgoneryBi||
On School Board
Democratic Leader
Coils 9. O. P. Plan
Purely Local Issue
By J. B. Zotmon
Stor Stoff Correspondenf

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 20.-The all
Republican Montgomery County
delegations bill for an elected
school board last night received
the implied support of House Ma
jority Leader A. Gordon Boone.
Mr.. Boone indicated he would
back the Montgomery bill during
a debate which resulted in passage
of legislation transferring title to
school property from the Board of
Education to the Baltimore Coun-
ty Board of Commissioners.
Meanwhile, three-man Senate
Finance subcommittee was to meet
today to prepare a report on the
need for additional buildings at
the University of Maryland in
College Park.
Favorable Report Indicated.
None of the subcommittee men,
bers,. headed by Louis IN. Phipps,
Democrat, of Anne Arundel Coun-
ty, would reveal the results of
their inspection tour of the Uni
versity yesterday. However, all
indications pointed to a favorable
report tomorrow to the full COM
mittee.
1T was very enlightening," said
Senator John r. Fletcher, Repub-
lican of Prince Georges County, a
member of the investigating group.
II wish the entire committee could
have been there"
The third subcommittee mem
Der is Mason Shehan, Democrat,
of Talbot County. All three were
appointed last Friday under a bill
sponsored by Senator Omar D.
Crothers, jr., Democrat, of Cecil
County to clarity authority given
the university last year to issue its
own bonds for new construction.
Construction Plan Opposed.
In another legislative develop
ment, members of the General
Assembly last night received re-
port from the State Office Building
Committee recommending down
town Baltimore as the location of
any new State Office Building.
The commission recommended,
however, that no construction be
undertaken at this time because
of the, national emergency.
The commissions findings rep
resented a setback to Senator
Phipps' attempt to obtain favor
able action on his bill calling for
construction of a SIS million State
Office Building in or near Annap-
oils. The Senate Finance Com
mittee is scheduled to act on the
measure today.
The debate on the Baltimore
County bill started after Delegate
Chester Tawney, Democrat of Bal
timore, moved to send the measure
to the education committee be
cause it has Statewide implica-
tionS."
Bill Attacked By DIR. Pullen.
The bill had been attacked by
DR.. Thomas G. Pullen, jr., State
superintendent of schools, as set
ting a bad precedent which could
inject politics into the State'school
system.
Declaring the legislation was
"purely local." Mr.. Boone said:
1T is just as local as the Mont
gomery County bill providing for
an elected board of education"
Turning to the rear of the
House, where members of the
Montgomery and Prince Georges
delegates sit, Mr.. Boone shouted:
You. too, will want such bill. 4"
Minority Leader Anders R. Lof-
strand, jr,, of Montgomery County,
in siding with Mr.. Boone, said:
Il am glad to see the majority
leader recognizes House Bill 181
(the Montgomery School Board
bilD, is a local bill, and I hope
the Education Committee and the
House will treat it as such"
Tawney Motion Rejected.
The House then rejected Mr..
Tawney's motion by an 81-to-23
vote and sent the bill to the
Senate
A hearing on the Montgomery
bill is to be held this afternoon
before the House Education Com
mittee. of which Delegate Perry o.
Wilkinson. Democrat, of Prince
Georges County, is chairman.
A similar proposal for Prince
Georges is being studied by that
county's delegation. The group
has taken no action on it, how
ever. 1t was submitted by Daniel
M. Greene, chairman of the Laws
and Legislation Committee of the
Prince Georges County Civic Fed
Grafton.
Earlier 10 delegates joined in
sponsoring a resolution ito clarity
the position of the State with
regard to participation by the
United States in a world organi-
zation to prevent war;
The resolution reaf1rmed Mary
lands faith in the United Nations,
but it put the General Assembly
on record in opposition to the
idea of a centralized world gov
ernment which would abridge or
endanger the basic freedoms guar
anteed the American people by
their Constitution"