Evening star., 1953-03-26
Liquor Bill
Splits Nearby
Delegations
Divide $3.50 on
Neiehborhood d Plan
Of Vetoing Sales
By Gene Goodwin
SfoF Staff Corrasnondanf

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Sfor Staff Correspondent
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 26.-A
Statewide bill to bar liquor and
beer shops in neighborhoodS
where a majority Of property
owners object has split both the
Montgomery and Prince Georges
House delegations right down the
middle.
Three delegates in the Mont
gomery group and three in the
Prince Georges delegation favor
the bill. Three delegates in each
group oppose it.
AS the bill stands, after tenta-
tive approval by the House yes
terday, Montgomery is included
in its provisions, but Prince
Georges is exempt.
Montgomery originally had
Joined Prince Georges in an
amendment to exempt both
counties from the measure. But
when Delegate Kathryn j. Law
lor, Republican, switched her
vote to make it 3-to-3 split in
the Montgomery delegation,
Montgomery'S representative on
the House Alcoholic Beverages
Committee, Delegate Gilbert
Guide. Republican, withdrew the
Montgomery amendment.
House Backs Inclusion.
Yesterday Delegate ]. PAUL
Marshall, Montgomery Republi-
can, made an attempt on the
House floor to put the Mont
gomery exclusion amendment
back in the bill. He left it up
to the House to decide. BY a
voice vote. the House ruled that
the bill should stay as it is, with
Montgomery included.
The other Montgomery op-
ponents of the bill, besides Mr..
Marshall. are Delegates j. Doug
las Bradshaw and Robert A.
Wallace. For the bill are Dele
gates Julian P. King, Guide and
LaWlor. All are Republicans.
The three Prince Georges
proponents of the bill made no
move to chop out the amend
n1ent that would exclude their
county. Their strategy report
edly is to let the measure 60
over to the Senate, where they
hope they can convince Senator
j. r. Fletcher, Republican, of
Prince Georges, that their coun-
ty should be put back in.
Prince Georges Opponents.
Opposed to the bill in the
Prince Georges group are Dele
gates Albert r. HaSSel and ].
Frank Lillard, jr., Republicans,
and Perry o. wilkinson, Demo-
GRAFT Delegates Harry E. Taylor.
.jr. and William R. Hughes, Re-
puhlicans, and Leroy Pumphrey,
Democrat, are fighting against
exempting their county.
The bill, introduced by Dele
gate A. Gordon Boone, Democrat,
of Baltimore County, would pro-
vide that a majority of prop
erty-ownerS within 800 feet of a
proposed alcoholic beverages
esta abliShment in an incorporated
community could block the Ii
ce11Se. In agricultural areas the
radius would be half a mile and
in all other areas it would be 400
feet.
The bill still faces final ap-
proVal in the House and then it
must go to the Senate.
On another liquor matter, the
House Alcoholic Beverages Com
mittee gave a favorable report to
a bill to grant a liquor license to
Joe Rose, proprietor of Rose Hav-
en- Yacht Club, near Annapolis.
The committee, however, tackled
on an amendment requiring a
referendum on the bill this June
in the 9th election district,
which is a beer-and-wine only
district by local option.
Vetoed in 1851.
Mr.. Rose has been trying for
the last three sessions to get a
bill through to allow him to sell
liquor at his fancy yacht club.
It was passed in 1851, but the
Governor vetoed it. This years
bill still has to face the full
House and Senate.
The House yesterday rushed
passage of a bill increasing
liquor taxes from $1.25 to $1.50
a gallon, but returning so cents
of the levy to the counties. It
would mean a kickback of about
$136,000 a year to Prince
Georges, and about $4,000 to
Montgomery.
And in the Senate, tentative
approval was voted on a measure
boosting grants from the State
school incentive fund by $4,758,-
44O, starting in 1855. That
would mean an additional
$465, $50 for Montgomery, and
$513.38O for Prince Georges.