Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-17
Way Is Cleared
For Arlington
School Loan
'BungIing' Charged
As County Boord
lndorses Request

The Arlington County Board
has Endorsed the School Board
request for a State construction
loan, but only after blasting "in-
ept and badly bungled planning
by the School Board"
The county boards action last
night clears the way for the
School Board to apply for a $2.5
million State literary loan fund
transaction. The School Board
has that amount in bonds ap-
proved by the voters and will in
effect sell them to the State Re-
tirement Board, which would
place the money in the literary
fund.
The State agencies have not
given formal approval to the
plan. However, former county
board member Alfred E. Frisbie
and attorney Griffin T. Garnett
of the County Retirement Board,
Commemorative Attorney Will
liam j. Hassen and county school
officials have discussed the pro-
posal informally with State
representatives.
Possible Despite Suit.
The loan apparently would
permit the county to obtain the
construction funds regardless of
whether Attorney John Locke
Green pursues the suit which has
held up commercial sale of the
bonds.
The county boards statement
last night was read by George
M. Rowzee, jr., Republican.
The statement said, in part:
THE county board interpretS
this latest difficulty of the School
Board" as an indication that
more efficient, business-like
management was and is still
needed for school affairs. It is
poor business planning to con-
tract and eXpend funds which
have not been obtained"
Sells Bonds Gradually.
School Board Member Barnard
Joy, who attended last nights
meeting, said, THE policy fol-
lowed by the School Board in
selling bonds as construction
projects progress was one mapped
out by the School Board in con-
sultation with the county board.
1.-THE School Board has re-
Trained from selling all bonds
at one time because all the
money is not needed Immediately
and the board saved the cost Of
Interest on those bonds not yet
sold.
"The School Boards program
could have been carried out with
out difficulty in a normal COM
munity."
The loan plan was decided
upon as Mr.. Green announced
he would file two new suits chal-
longing the right of three Federal
employees to serve as School
Board members.
Mr.. Green Wednesday lost an
appeal for a rehearing of his
unsuccessful suit to Dust the
three board members when the
Virginia Supreme Court rejected
his petition. The court had
ruled on June 8 that an excep-
ton to a general law banning
Federal employees from holding
local or State Office was consti-
tutional.
Exception Explained.
The exception covers clerks
in the departmental service in
Washington" Mr.. Green said
today the board members ARE
not minor clerks or employees as
defined by the court in con-
STRUNG the acts of the legisla-
ture."
He said he would file a suit to
GUST board member Warren Cox,
an attorney in the Federal Hous-
ing Administration, because he
lis not in the departmental serv-
ice but is in an independent
agency"
A second suit naming Bernard
Joy and E. r. Draheim, both
employees in the Department of
Agriculture as defendants as we'll
as Mr. Cox, will assert that all
three are not minor clerks but
are administrative officers.