Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-02-10
Arlington Orders
Tax Avoidance,
Evasion Study
InstuIIment PIun
On Collections Also
To Be Considered

10 De O0nSl0eFe0
A study Of tax evasion and tag
avoidance" In Arlington viii b
made by an advisory committee
to the county board.
At its regular meeting yesterday.
the board unanimously asked Ito
Fiscal Affairs Advisory Committee
to undertake the survey.
Board Member Alan L. Dean.
who proposed the action, said sub.
jects to be covered should include
evasion Of tax obligations by per.
sons mo-ing from the county;
abuse or improper avoidance Of
taxes under the Soldiers and Sail.
ors' Civil Relief Act, and failure to
acquire Virginia and Arlington
auto tags.
Also to be considered by the
committee are the possibility Of
collecting taxes on an installment
basis and regulations covering the
bonding of contractors and their
employees.
Planning Group Increases.
In other business, the number Of
members on the Planning Commits.
sion was increased from . to Is.
The two minority members Of the
board, Republican Robert A. Peck
and Democrat Alfred e. FriShie.
unsuccessfully opposed the action.
After the vote, Mr.. Peck re.
marked that the commission "iB
now more round, more firm and
1more fully packed than ever be-
fore"
Appointed were six persons
nominated by the non-partisan
majority, although three Of them
drew votes from more than three
of the five board members.
Among those named to the com.
mission was the first woman ever
to serve with the group. Mrs.
Shirley Wheeler, q housewife. Of
1888 South Eighteenth street, .
member of the Citizens Advisory
Committee to the commission.
! Others named were Matt g.
Huppuch. chairman Of the Wiz.
ia-National Capital Park Au.
lthority: Kingsley Higgins, depart
ment store manager; Edward q.
Hincks, economist in the Execu-
tive Office of the President; Joseph
; Ingram, member Of the county
Public Utilities Commission and Q
=. Department of Justice attorney,
and James Sundquist, Of the Of
fee of Defense Mobilization.
Two Are u. s. Employees.
The board chairman. Robert w.
: Cox, and Commonwealth At.
= torney William j. Hassan agreed
!, that q suit filed Wednesday by
John Locke Green against Mr..
Dean would, If upheld, GUST Mr..
Dean and Mr.. Cox from the board
:, because they are Federal employees.
Another ramification Of the
4 court action may result In jeop-
ardizing sale Of $2.5 million in
= school bonds and $685.. 900 In park
and playground bonds, Mr.. Coz
said.
Mr.. Green, former county treas
urer, charges that section Of the
law providing that Federal EN-
ployes may hold local government
positions is unconstitutional.
The board held q closed session
with Mr.. Hassan after the regular
meeting to discuss the case.
4 # sale Of the school bonds 10
. held up, construction Of Wakefield
> Junior Senior High School would
i be delayed, school officials said.
t Other Board Actions.
'. In other actions, the board:
: l. Asked for q report at itS
I next meeting on the effect Of
= pending State legislation regard
e ing introduction Of the social
e security program into retirement
It plans.
2. Adopted an ordinance setting
o iup regulations governing reStau-
a rants and other food-handling
establishments.
3. Agreed to appeal to the fun
Federal Power Commission an ex-
e aminer's decision giving Potomac
s Gas Co. the right to construct
o a new pipe line from Fillmore
: street at Lee boulevard to Rosslyn.
i 4. Requested study Of . pro-
posed integrated finance depart
: ment by the University Of Viz.
: ginia Bureau of Public Admins
d ltration and by two Of the boards
d committees, Fiscal Affairs and
i Organization and Procedure.
81 5. Agreed to discuss at the next
: meeting, February %, creation Of
s Ia Redevelopment and Housing
Authority under the Federal
r Housing Act Of 1919.
/. Conditional Endorsement.
e 6. Gave conditional Endorsement
to resolution Of the Henry
County Board of Supervisors re-
: questing legislation to increase
e State contributions toward ex-
o penses of the Offices Of treasurer
and commissioner Of revenue. The
4 resolution asks that. the General
: Assembly provide for State pay
!, ment of one-half Of the cost Of
e these Offices. rather than one
i third. as at present.
Il The Arlington board authorized
d County Manager A. T. Lundberg
e to urge support Of the Henry
e County resolution If he finds that
S the proportion Of State work in
t the Offices is more than 20 per
= rent nf the total work had