Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-02-16
bill 10 Ask Cut
In Income Taxes
Held for Schools
Lynch Measure
Would Apply Only
To 1879 Pupil Goin
By Alex r Preston
Sior Sfufs Correspondent

General Assembly VIII feceive q
bill Monday to permit counties
with rapid gains In school enc
|rollment to collect money that
otherwise would be saved by tax
payers under the Byrd atlt0na-
tic income tax reduction law.
Delegate Edwin Lynch Of Fair.
fax revealed plans for the law
after the Assembly recessed yes
|terday for the week end. This
may be the final long Weekend
recess before adjournment on
March 8. Monday Is the deadline
for introducing bills.
Mr.. Lynch said his measure
would apply to counties where
the school enrolment increases in
ANY year by 10 per cent or more
Iover the previous years. The local
governing body could pass an
ordinance making 1t possible to
collect the full income tax. and
1.-THE county would retain any re-
|duction, II any. due the taxpayers
under the Byrd law. which already
has been signed BY the Governor.
Exclusively for Schools.
The Lynch bin would require
THAT the money thus collected
he used exclusively for school plr.
poses. lis
Mr.. Lynch said the proposed
law would help counties such as
Fairfax, which have difficulties In
meeting school problems because
lof rapid growth.
Alexandria Delegate Armistead
Boothe also will introduce . bill
Monday to authorize the State
Highway Department to take over
and maintain the 2a-mile por-
ltion Of Shirley Highway that
passes through his city,.
The highway came under city
Jurisdiction when Alexandria am
nexed territory from Fairfax
County on January ]. In return
for the State assuming respon.
sibility for the highway, Alex
andria would forego its share OF
State road funds, based on mile
lage Of primary highways, that 1t
would collect for the 21a miles
within its borders.
Other legislation being pre-
pared includes a bill by Mr.. Lynch
providing for a Statewide presi-
4 Dental preferential primary.
similar to the one to be held IN
New Hampshire next month. II
would not be binding upon the
presidential electors but would
serve merely to determine the
sense Of the voters on candidates.
LIE proposes to hold the prefer
ential vote In conjunction with
the regular primary which this
year will fall ON July Is.
2 Arlington Bills.
Two bills relating to Arlington
were introduced by Delegates J..
Maynard Magruder and George
Damn Of that county yesterday
/ One would permit a referendum
to be held this year on changing
1.-The method Of electing members
lof the County Board and also
whether their number should b
Increased from I'VE to seven. 4
i A petition bearing the names of
I200 or more voters would have To
jbe presented to the court BY
i August and the court then would
order the referendum to be held
,lalong with the November election.
/ One question on the voting
machine would read: "Shall the
members Of the County Board be
!. elected biennially for four-yeak
terms =. 2"
:, The other question would be:
"Shall the membership Of the
4 County Board be increased from
live to seven?"
!, AT present, one member ID
elected every year and two are
lelectel every fourth year. AL
NOW serve four-year terms.
i Would Ease Bond Sales.
The other Damm-Magruder bin
lIsets up an optional method for
] the sale Of county bonds. Tech-
i meal In detail, it was described by
Mr.. Magruder as q law to obyiate
/ difiiculties that frequently arise
with bonding companies. It should,
he said, expedite the preparation.
Issuance and sale Of bonds. II In
mo way affects existing constitu-
ltional requirements for referen.
ldums on bond issues In counties,
he said.
| Mr.. Magruder and Mr.. Damn
also sponsored a bill to revise the
inheritance tax laws. At present,
Ia widow. for instance, must pay
an inheritance tax on all money
held in a joint bank account, un-
less portion Of 1t Is legally earned
lby her. The bill would apply the
tax to only one-half the estate
(which had been held under joint
Ownership.
/ Mr.. Lynch introduced q bill.
general in application, to author
lie counties to impose q tax on
.ltrailers and trailer camps, as re-
lquested by the Fairfax Board Of
supervisors on Wednesday. This
measure Is the result Of q similar
llaw, local In application to Fairs
flax, being thrown out as lncon-
Institutional by the State Supreme
Court recently. The court, in
EFFECT, held that the problem Of
licensing trailer camps was not
peculiar to Fairfax alone.
4 Would Earmark Funds.
! Senator Fenwick introduced an
Iother bin designed TO get more
money for the States mental hos
Ipitals. It would earlnark all fees
Ireceived from paying patients h
mental hospitals for use by the
mental institutions.
! he sponsored another bill irl-
posing q penalty Of s. q week for
refusal to furnish information ON
liability TO pay for mental hospital
tpatients. The penalty would be