Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
.WiretapProbe
Called For by
Mrs. Stone
Arlington Conflict
On Issue Cited
To Legislature
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
Star Staff Writer

RICHMOND, Feb. "a - Ar
lington Delegate Kathryn Stone
has called for a legislative in
vestigation Of telephone wire
tapping in Virginia.
She said the County Board,
in her own area has taken
conflicting attitudes on the
prictice. The board recently
authorized a resumption of
overlapping in certain police
investigations.
1--WE have never had any
consideration Of it in Virginia.
Federal court decisions on this
subject are very important on
our approach. I'm personally
very much opposed to wire
tapping because it invades the
right of privacy, but I realize
there may be some important
exceptions when it should be
permitted" Mrs. Stone said.
She introduced a resolution
in the General Assembly yes
terday that would direct the
Virginia Advisory Legislative
Council to make recommended
lions prior to the 1864 session
OF the Legislature.
Sterilization Hearing
The public will be given one
more chance to express itself
on a House approved bill per-
hitting voluntary sterilization
of adults. Chairman Harry
Stuart of the Senate General
Laws Committee said yester-
day he has called for a public
hearing at 3 pm. Monday on
the measure which passed the
House on Thursday, II to 20.
The amended bill no longer
applies to persons under 81.
Chairman Howard H. Adams
of the House Appropriations
Committee announced he will
call for special order of bust
ness to take up the proposed
$1.4 billion budget bill for the
next two years on Wednesday.
His committee reported the
measure, proposed by former
Gov. Almond, with a net de-
crease of $4.5 million and still
dependent upon enactment of
an income tax withholding
law to keep it in balance.
Without the income tax with
holding plan, the budget would
be about $27 million out of bal
ance.
In a surprise move, the House
General Laws Com mittee
voted IA to 3 to send back to
the floor a bill to repeal the
charter of the American Nazi
Party of Arlington.
The measure is sponsored by
Delegate Harrison Mann of Ar
lington and previously cleared
the committee only to be sent
back as being too controversial.
Mr.. Mann offered a proposed
substitute bill, designed to &C
complish the same end, by
prohibiting the incorporation
Of any political party in Vir-
ginia (neither the Democratic
nor Republican parties, nor any
other parties, aside from the
so-called Nazis, have obtained
charters which are automati-
cally available under Virginia
law.
Concern Felt
The committee action came
after a closed session in which
some members expressed fears
that the proposed substitute
bill would adversely affect the
Defenders of State Sovereignty
and Individual Liberties. This
organization was formed dur
ing Virginia's massive resist
ance" days when the state was
set on course of a defiance
of Federal court orders to de-
segregate public schools.
The General Laws Commit
tee also sent to the House, by
Ia vote of 10 to 7, a bill to place
all of Virginia on daylight saw
ing time from the last Sunday
in April to the last Sunday in
October, anlong with most OCH
err Eastern States. The bill faces
stiff opposition next week.
Delegate Stone of Arlington,
succeeded in prying the bill out
of committee.
The same committee, how
ever. killed Mrs. Stones bill to
establish a State minimum
wage of rs cents an hour.