Evening star., 1953-03-21
Bill Would Authoize
Borrowing by County
To Build Schools
BY a stuff Correspondent Of The Star

BY Stuff Correspondent Of The Star
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 21.-Prince
Georges County would be author
lied to borrow up to sos million
for school construction in the
next two years under a bill in
troduced in the Maryland Cen
eral Assembly by the county
delegation.
The six member Prince
Georges House group also put
in a resolution yesterday to
direct the county commissioners
to appoint a 21-member COM
mission to study the proposal
that urban communities of the
county be consolidated into one
Maryland city"
Montgomery County Delegates
Kathryn Lawlor, j. Douglas
Bradshaw and j. PAUL Marshall
joined to sponsor a bill to pro-
vide that. for State taxing pur-
poses, county assessors would
assess property at actual value.
It would allow county govern
ments to determine the percent
age of actual value at which
property would be assessed for
local taxing purposes.
Tax Court Bill Rejected.
The bill was introduced as the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee voted unfavorably on a
companion measure by Mrs.
Lawlor to create a State tax
court to handle county assess
ment appeals. Both measures
were recommended by the So
called Case Commission.
The Senate, meanwhile. re-
jected a measure by Senator
Anders r. Lofstrand, jr., Re
publican, of Montgomery, to
require kindergartens through
out the State. At present only
Baltimore City and Montgomery
County have complete public
kindergarten systems.
The Senators approved a bill
by Senator John r. Fletcher,
Republican. of Prince Georges to
increase his ,county's School
Board from three to seven men,
bers, six to be appointed by the
Governor and one by the county
commissioners from their own
membership. The measure now
goes to the House.
Hearing Reset for Wednesday.
A hearing on that bill and
two other Prince Georges meas
ures-one to create a new de-
partment of finance, the other
to grant broad home-rule pow
ers to the county commissioners
will be held here at II am.
Wednesday. It originally had
been set for $3.50 pm. Tuesday.
but was put back a day because
it conf1icted with the county
commissioners budget hearing
back home.
The Prince Georges delegation
also introduced bills to authorize
Riverdale to borrow up to $50,-
900 for storm water drainage and
to allow Forest Heights to bor-
row up to $4,000 for a COM
munity building.
The Montgomery delegation
offered a measure to allow the
County Council to pay county
Circuit Court judges additional
compensation of $4,000 each
over their State salary.
Memorial to Congress.
Senator Louis L. Goldstein,
Democrat, of Calvert County, and
Delegate Richard E. Lankford.
Democrat, of Anne Arundel
County, joined in sponsoring
identical House and Senate res
olutions memorializing Congress
to enact legislation giving Mary
land the right to grant the vote
to civilians residing on Federal
reservations in the State.
They introduced the resolu-
tions after the attorney general
ruled the bills they had put in
earlier to extend the franchise
to such civilians would be of no
avail without prior permission of
Congress.
The Senate approved and sent
to the Governor a measure to
increase the st. Marys County
School Board from three to i've
members.