Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1932, Page 7

| DISTRICT ROAD TAX FIGHT TAX BOOGT ABOLITION IS WON AS GOSTS INCREASE Arlington and Fairfax Dele- |Prince Georges Officials Must gates Amend Norfolk Bill Sign Levy in Few to Consolidate Levies. Weeks. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, BY GEORGE PORTER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. Staff Correspondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va, February 11.—By UPPER MARLBORO, Md. February amending a bill sponsored by the Nor- | 11.—With only & few weeks remaining ; folk County delegation Delegates Hugh 'before they must fix the tax rate for Reid and Edmund H. Allen yesterday | 1932 gnd sign the levy, officials of the succeeded in abolishing the district road | Prince® Georges County Commissioners’ levies in beth Arling.on and Fanr!ax;omcc are now studying the problem of Counties. ) | maintaining the present tax rate in the Abolition of the district road levies|face of additional expenses totaling in these two ccunties was one of the |more than $40,000. principal aims of the Arlington and| Three items, two of them resulting Fairfax County delegates at the present | from acts of the last Legislature, ac- session and the opportunity of amend- | count for the chief additional expense. ing the Norfolk County bill relieves | They are an increase of the appropria- them of the worry of piloting separate I tion for the county Volunteer Fremen's bills through the Assembly Association, payment by the county at As amended and subsequently passed |Jarge of the remainder of the interest by the House of Delegates, the bill per- |and principal on the Edmonston road mits counties employing road engineers ponds and the presidential election ex- or county managers to abolish the dis- | penses, trict road tax now in effect in all coun- tes of the State and substitute & gen- | Increase Contribation, €ral road tax: | ;oIn response-to widespread public de- e OHe Ananent ‘:25‘5‘“' the Legisiature last year author- The amendment was offered by Dele- | ¢ gate Allen of Fairfax County and ex- |A: tion from $5,000 to $15,000. plained by Delegate Reid cf Arlington | vise, in keeping with campaign v. Under the present law coun- | promises, the Legislature voted to have o r the entire county take over the two Ed- | ston T ond icsues, which for- | he commissioners raise the s contribution to the Firemen's road levies, by magisterial _dis mum levy under e be: erty owners in the vicinity of the Following the recent adcpticn of a | road. The two issues total $146,000 and county manager form of government by | the interest and pricipal due this year | B Arlington County, it was discovered that | is said to amount to about $14,000. no provision had been made for the abolition of the district road tax, be- Election to Cost $18,000. cause the people had voted to abolish| It is estimated that the coming elec- ! the magisterial districts, and that only |tion expenses will be approximately | & 40-cent levy could be laid. | $18.000. The desire of Fairfax County to permitted to abolish the district levy |ccurse, are anxious to maintain the was for the purposes of economy. Of- | present tax rate of $152. The ra ficials of that county felt that a large | to be fixed in March and although it is amount of money could be saved in the | too early to definitely predict what the purchase of equipment and materials rate will be, most of the commissioners and in the administration of the road |feel that, by various economies, they f funds. The amendment requires that | will be able to keep the rateat or near the taxes collected be spent in the the present figure. magisterial district in which raised. | Budget Is Up Today. be| All of the county commissioners, of , DEBATE TONIGHT House today started considera- | e e ‘The tion of the budget, or general appropri- | = 8 g e American University’s debating team ing order in the House | ch d Most of vesterday’s House session Night at 8 oclock. was consumed in arguments upon the , The local teem will take the afirm Porter bill to place an inspection tax | tive of the question “Resolved. of 5 cents a pound or oleomargarine. | Capitalism as a system of econg| 3 %% | organization is unsound.” The principal objection to the meas- ure, which was designed as a tariff to| protect the dairying interests of the State, was that it would impose an un- necessary burden on the poor people who are forced to use it in place of butter. 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