Evening star., 1951-06-27
Bethesda Area
Library Tax Rate
Cuf to4Cents
Council Also Raises
MeNoyr's Salary
Retuins Erwin

Retuins Erwin
Bethesda area residents will pay
a special library tax of only 4
cents per $100 of assessed evalua-
ton next fiscal year, instead of
the present 6 cents, because its
library will not be part of the
new countrywide library system.
The cut was approved yester-
day by the County Council, which
also:
l. Voted to raise County Man
ager Irving G.. McNayr's annual
salary from $10,750 to $4,000.
2. Decided to retain James F.
Erwin to manage the liquor dis
pensary system. which the county
will take over from the Liquor
Control Board, a quasi-public
agency scheduled to go out of
existence Sunday.
Another Penny Cut.
Bethesda's special library tax
had been decreased from 6 to 5
cents when the new budget for the
1852 fiscal year was passed by the
council last week. But the coun-
Gil decided yesterday that an
other penny should be Topped off
to eliminate double taxation of
Bethesda residents.
The double taxation would come
about by virtue of the fact that 2
cents of the $2.03 basic tax all
county residents will pay next
year will go to maintain the new
Department of Libraries.
The Bethesda Library Associa-
ton requested the additional
1-cent decrease after deciding not
to join the new library system
until next year. Had they joined,
the special tax would have been
eliminated entirely, as will be the
case in Silver Spring.
Silver Spring has library tax
of 4 cents this year. Beginning
Sunday, the Silver Spring library
and its two branches at Wheaton
and Four Corners will be supported
by funds of the new library de-
partment, which will receive an
appropriation of $206,759 for its
first year of operation.
Four Others Join.
Four other community libraries
besides Silver Spring have con-
tracted to become part of the new
library department. The Council
yesterday approved contracts with
library associations from Silver
Spring, Garrett Park, Kensington,
Gaithersburg and Sandy Spring.
Two other community libraries
besides Bethesda have declined to
join the system. They are the
Libraries of Rockville and TakomaI
Park.
-Councilwoman Stella Werner Of
Bethesda said the Bethesda Ii
brary has decided to wait one year
before contracting with the new
department because it wants toI
straighten out it's own affairs first. u
Salary increases were approved
for Mr.. McNayr and 18 other
county officials and employees
Money for the raises-totalingI
$5,600-was provided in the new
budget. None of the employees in
volved was eligible for the 5000
annual cost-of Living increases
voted for most county employees
last winter.
Councilman George Nesbitt said
Mr.. McNayr has been criticized
for recommending a salary in
crease for himself in the proposed
budget he drew up. The criticism
is not justified, Mr.. Nesbitt added,
because the salary increase for
the manager was recommended at
the councils insistence.
Other Pay Raises.
Other wage raises were ap-
proved for:
County Attorney David Mac
donald, from $3.50 to $4,000;
Director of Finance Alexander K.
Hancock, $3.50 to $e.25O; Depart
ment of Public Works Director
Mason A. Butcher, $4,000 to
$8,500; Police Chief Charles NJ
Orme. $4,000 to $500.
Also, Joseph Kordella, highway
engineering chief of the Depart
ment of Public Works, $4,000 to
$6,500; j. o. Harvey, chief of the
highway construction, mainte-
nance and equipment division of
the Department of Public Works,
$500 to $1,000; Wilton T. Allen.
chief assessor, $4,000 to $4,000;
Sidney I. Wolfson, executive as
sistant in the Department of
Health, $5,45O to $3.50.
Also, Francis K. Metzger, as
sistant supervisor of assessments,
$4,000 to $3.50: Garner w. De-
vail, assessor, $4,150 to $4,000;
Roland Waddill, assessor, $4,000
to $3.50, and seven other asses
sors, from an average of $4,050 to
$4,000.
The council appointed Mr.. En-
vim to be director of the new
Department of Liquor Control at
an annual salary of $500. Mr..
Erwin, who lives at GIT McNeill
road, Silver Spring, has been gen.
eral manager of the dispensary
system since February, 1850.
He was appointed general man
ager by the Democratic-dom-
mated Liquor Control Board,
which is doomed to die Sunday
under an act of the recent Mary
land Legislature creating the new