February 12, 1945 to April 09, 1945V
At the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Frederick
unty, Virginia, held in the Supervisors Room over the Clerk's Office on Monday,February
I945.
P.- R- 'E- S -E -N -T
C. M. Rosenberger, G. W. Lemley, H. M. Fout, William Carpenter
H. C. Light.
The minutes of the Regular I,4eeting held on Monday January 8, I945
the Special meeting held in the Supervisors Room on January 22, I945 were read and
roved.
T. W. RUSSELL, RUTH McNEIL, I. FRED STINE, HARRY L.McCANN AVID F..W. PINGLEY.
The reportsof T. W. Russell, Superintendent of the County dome,
th McNeil, Home Demonstration Agent, I. Fred Stine, County Agent, Harry L. McCann,
ounty Treasurer and F. W. Pingley, Game Warden were read and approved.
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RIGHT OF WAY - NORTHERN VIRGINIA POWER CO.
Mr. C. E. Babb representative of the Northern Virginia Power
Company appeared before the Board and requested that the Board to give them a Right of Way
over the land of the County Home for the erection of a Power line and also to contract to
pay a mininum charge 'of $5.66 per month for Power line service.
Upon motion of G. W. Lemley and seconded by H. M. Fout it was
unaminously decided and ordered to give the said Right of Way and to contract for Power
Line service for the said amount.
( SECONDARY ROAD SYSTEM
On account of War time conditions and after considerable discussion
upon motion of H. C. Light and seconded by William Carpenter it was decided that no
equests for additional mileage, to the Secondary Road System, would be made for the
ear of I945.
VIRGINIA FOREST SERVICE FOR FIRE PREVENTION
Upon motion of H. M. Fout and seconded by G. E +. Lemley it is
ly ordered that there be appropiated $20.00 to the Virginia Forest Fire Service
or Advertising Matters.
ON FOXES
Mr Croswell Henderson and J. R. Brandon appeared before the Board
nd discussed the matter of Bounty on Foxes. No action was taken.
DEPUTY SALARY
Upon the motion of H. C. Light, seconded by G. W. Lemley, and
sed by the unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, it is resolved that this Board gol
record requesting John B. Bywaters, Sheriff of Frederick County, to apply to the State
ompensation Board for an allowance of fifteen hundred dollars ($I500.00) per annum for
employment of an additional deputy sheriff. This resolution is adopted pursuant to
joint resolution of the committees representing the Common Council of the City of
ichester a..d tti-e Roard - -of Si�marvinnrc AT Freder-ink Cmm+M P&ss2d. at a- mPAM —na of thaca
committees held in the Council Chamber in Winchester on January 25, I945, at which meeting
(Major Rice M. Youell, Commissioner of Corredtions•of the Commonwealth of Virginia, urged
the Sheriff of Frederick County to employ an additional deputy sheriff to be used as a
guard at the Frederick County jail.
FIRE PREVENTION
Upon motion the following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS the forest of our county are being cutover rapidly in
order to provide lumber for essential war industries, and such logging operations have
created heavy slashings and serious fire hazards, and
WHEREAS the State forest wardens are finding it increasingly
difficult to employ men and to provide transportation for fire fighters, and
WHEREAS far too many fires occur in this county, of which nine
out of ten are man - caused and preventable, and
WHEREAS there is great danger that destructive forest fires will
occur during the Spring fire season unless a supreme effort is made by all citizens to
prevent them from starting, and,
WHEREAS this Board is cooperating with the Virginia Forest
Service in the prevention and control of forest fires and wishes to extend all possible
assistance in this war emergency,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVER THAT each citizen of Frederick
County be requested to be extremely careful to prevent forest fires, and that they fight
small fires and report all fires to the State Forest Wardens. All citizens are also
requested to observe the following forest fire prevention rules:
SMOKERS
Crush Out your cigar, your cigarette, your pipe ashes.
Hold Match until glow is gone.
Break or Pinch to be sure it's out ... Dead Out
Never Throw a burning match, cigarette, cigar or pipe tobacco
in brush or grass.
CAMPERS
Drown your campfire; then stir and add more water before you leas
BRUSH BURNERS
Build Fire Break. Rake or plow•a clean strip wide enough to
hold fire.
Have Tools and Help. Haye rakes and water ready. Call in your
neighbors to help control fire.
Burn After 4:00 P. M. when calm. Burn down hill and against
air currents.
Put Smoldering Fires Opt. Drown with water. Cover with earth.
be sure every spark is Out.
SAW MILLS
Spark Arrestors: Install and keep in repair.
Mill Yard and Slab Pit: Locate safe distance from forest as
required by law. Fire proof the mill yard and around
slab pit, by cleaning up and burning all inflammable
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CO- ORDINATING COUNCIL FOR POST WAR PLANNING
Upon the motion of H. M. Fout, seconded by Wm. Carpenter, and
ssed by the unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, it is resolved that this Board
o on record approving and endorsing the Co- ordinating Council for Post War Planning of
nchester and Frederick County, an organization formed for the purpose expressed in
Article II of its Constition, as follows::
"Its object shall be the co- ordination of the post -war planning
activities of the several civic and fraternal bodies of Winchester and Frederick County to
the end that these bodies unite in the creation and support of a single Master Plan of
post -war action, dedicated to the orderly conversion of their united war activities into
a united, prosperous and effective peace action."
The Clerk of this Board is directed to send an attested copy of
this resolution to the Executive Committee of the Post War Planning Council, composed of
Frank Armstrong, Chairman, P. L. Hockman, Secretary- Treasurer, Frances Beverley, Assistant
Secretary, Dr. E. T. Clark, Walker McC. Bond, Grant Pollock and Mrs. Harold Bornn.
BILLS APPROVED
Accounts totaling $2,I25.I2 were approved and ordered to be paid
from the General County Fund by warrant numbers 8360 to 8397 inclusive and Livestock
Claims and F. W. Pingley Salary totaling $II9.30 were approved and ordered - to to paid from
e Dog Fund by Warrants numbers 7II to 7I3 inclusive.
It is ordered that the Board do now adjourn.
,Clerk C i - I a ,Chairman
At a Special Meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Frederick
ounty, Virginia, held in the Supervisors Room over the Clerk's Office on Thursday
eb. 26, I945.
P- R- E- S- E -N -T
C. M. "osenberger, Chairman, G. W. Lemley, H. M. rout, William
Carpenter and H. C. Light.
INVENTORY COUNTY HOME
The Board spent the forenoon at the County Home making an
inventory of its personal property.
BUGDET - SCHOOL BOARD
The Frederick County School board appeared 'at 2:00 P. M. before
the Board and presented their Budget for the year I945 -I946 and after considerable dis-
cussion and upon the motion of H. 14. Fout and seconded by H. C. Light the following
resolution was unanimously adopted; Resolved that this Board appropriate for the fiscal
year of I945 and I946 the sum of $I2,000.00 to the School Board.
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On motion of H. M. Fout and seconded by H. C. Light it is ordered
'Ithat the General County levy for the year of I945 -I946 be forty ($0.40) cents on the
I00.00 Valuation and the County School Levy be one ($I.00) Dollar on the One Hundred
P,
$I00.00) Dollars Valuation. H. M. Fout, William Uarpenter and H. C. Light voting for the
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..motion and G. W. Lemley and C. It. Rosenberger voting against it.
�pp It is ordered that the Board do now adjourn.
`oft 2 ,CLERK — ,Chairman
At the Regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Frederick County, Virginia, held in
the Supervisors Room over the Clerk's Office on Monday, March I2, I945.
P- R- E -S- E -N- T
C. M. Rosenberger, Chairman, G. W. Lemley, H. M. Fout,.William carpenter and
3. C. Light.
The minutes of the Regualr meeting held on Feb. I2, I945 and the Special meet
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eld on February 26, I945 were read and approved.
REPORTS: T. W. RUSSELL, F. W. PINGL EY, H. L. McCANN, RUTH McNEIL and I. FRED STINE.
The reports of T. W. Russell, Superintendent of the County Home, F. W. Pingley,
Warden, H. L. McCann, Treasurer, Ruth McNeil, Home Demonstration Agent and I. Fred
Stine, County Agent were read and approved.
BOUNTY ON FOXES
Upon motion it was unanimously ordered that beginning on March I5, I945 that
the Board of Superivisors reinburse the Game and Fish Protective Association for bounties
piad by the Association on all foxes legally killed within the boundaries of Frederick Co.
on a fifty -fifty basis which the County;s share one Dollar on each fox killed except that
during the legal hunting season b.e fifty cents on each fox instead of one Dollar.
DIMS
It having been brought to the attention of this Board that The Board of
Engineers far Rivers and Harbors proposes to build certain dams on the Shenandoah River;
and on motion of H. C. Light and seconded by G. W: Lemley it was resolved that this Board
go on record as opposing the construction of these proposed dams and the Clerk of this
of this minute
Board is directed to send a copy /to the Board of Supervisors of Clarke County.
PUBLIC WELFARE
Mr. Walker McC. bond appeared before the Board and presented the Welfare Budget
for the year of I945 and I946 and after-some discussion and on motion it was rejected on
account of the proposed increase in salaries to the amount of Two Hundred and Fourty Dollar
SCHOOL B04RD EUDGE�
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The Frederick County School Board appeared before the Board and presented their
Budget for I945 and I946 and after some discussion of the same, G. W. Lemley ma de the
following motion Resolved that the Board appropriate $20,000.00 instead of $I2,000.00 as
was passed at the Special meeting held on February 26, I945 and to increase the general
County Levy from $I.40 to $I.50 on each one Hundred Dollars valuation. There was no
second to this motion.
Upon motion of H. M. I'out and seconded by William Carpen -t'er the following
Resolution was unanimously adopted ; Resolve that the Board appropriate for the year of
I945 and 1946 $18,000.00 instead of $I2,000.00 that was appropriated at the Special meeting
held on the 26th day of February I945.
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BILLS APPROVED
Accounts totaling $3,245.49 were approved and ordered to be paid from the
General County Fund by Warrant numbers 8398 to 85I9 inclusive and Livestock Claims and
F. W. Pingley Salary totaling $I09.50 were aprroved and ordered to be paid from the Dog
Fund by Warrants 7I4 to 7I7 inclusive.
DAMS
Upon motion the following Resolutions were unaminously adopted.
WHEREAS, the Board of Engineers for Ribers and Harbors has for consideration
the report on a comprehensive survey of the Potomac River and its tributaries, authorized
by several acts of Congress; and
WHEREAS, the District and Division Engineers have recommended an elaborate
comprehensive plan for the development of the Potomac River and its tributaries; end
WHEREAS, the proposed plans for this project include the construction of large
resorvoirs, impounding acres of water along the Shenandoah River, a tributary of the
Potomac River; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Fagineers for Rivers and Harbors has appointed the 3rd
day of April, I945, as the place, when and where protestants against the work above
recommended may appear to be heard, and may file objections in writing; and
WHEREAS, it is the opinion of some competent investigators that the said report
and recommendations for the development of the Potomac River and its tributaries go beyond
the directives contained in the several acts of Congress of the United States inasmuch as
Congress contemplated a program for flood control, whereas the present plan is not needed
in this section at this time, and which can better be supplied, if and when needed, by
modern steam plants within economical reach of the Maryland and West Virginia coal fileds;
and
WHEREAS, the construction of the proposed reservoirs, at a cost to the tax-
payers of this'country of more than two hundred million dollars, would inundate large
areas of fertile and productive land bordering on the Shenandoah River; they would destroy
the economic structure of the small communities and counties adjacent to the Shenandoah
materials to attract industry to compensate for the productive land destroyed by water.
River which are dependent upon the fretile areas that the proposed reservoirs would
overflow, and the remaining area, not inundated, would lack the necessary raw products and
Moreover, that waters receding during the dry summer months would leave large
(areas of mud and marshy land which would render the Shenandoah River unattractive for
recreational purposes and would injure the scenic beauty of this river.
Morevver, that many land marks associated historically with the growth and
(development of the Shenandoah Valley, the State of Virginia, and the United States would b
Idestroyed, and that the report does not of itself demonstrate the soundess of its propos
for the justification for such serious and damaging interference with the life of the
people of this section.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF FREDERICK COUNTY,
AF FOLLOWS, TO -WIT:
First: For the reasons hereinabove set forth said board of Supervisbrs doth
oppose the recommendations contained in said report; and
Second: That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors is hereby petitioned
(respectfully to disapprove the recommendations contained in the said report; and
Third: That the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Frederick County is
lempowered to take all necessary steps to bring this protest to the attention of said Board
of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, and to s end a copy of this resolution to said
oard.
It is ordered that the Board do now adjourn.
,Clerk , ,Chai
At the Regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Frederick County, Virgi
held in the Supervisors Room over the Clerk's Office on Monday April 9, I945.
P- R- E -S- E -N -T
C. M. Rosenberger, Chairman, G. W. Lemley, H. M. Fout, William Carpenter and
H. C. Light.
The minutes of the Regular meeting held on the I2th day of March, I945 were
read and apporved.
REPORTS-. F. W. PINGLEY, RUTH McNEIL, J. SLOANE KUYKENDALL, W. L. HOOVER, I. FRED STINE AND
HARRY L. MCCANN.
The reports of F. IV. Pingley, Game Warden, Ruth McNeil, Home Demonstration
Agent, J. Sloane Kuykendall, Commonwealth's Attorney, W. L. Hoover, Superintendant of the
County Home, I Fred Stine County Agent and Harry L. McCann were read and approved.
RADIO
Lee Grant, City Manager of Winchester appeared before the Board and requested,
that the Board include in their Budget for I945 and I946, $250.00 for maintenance of
Radio Equipment used by the Sheriff of Frederick County and the Winchester Police. Upon
emotion it was unanimously decided to include said amount.
WELFARE BUDGET
Walker Bond and J. W. Richard, appeared before the Board and presented the
(Welfare Budget for I945 and I946 as originally presented after same discussion and on
I motion of G. W. Lemley and seconded by H. C. Light the Budget was approved as originally
presented. G. W. Lemley, H. C. Light and C. M. Rosenberger voting for the motion and
H. M. Fout and William Carpenter voting against it.
BILLS APPROVED
Accounts totaling $2,I85.43 were aporoved and ordered to be paid from the
General County Fund by warrant numbers 8520 to 856I inclusive and Livestock Claims and
F. W. Pingley's Salary totaling $87.95 were aporoved and ordered to be paid from the Dog
Fund by warrants numbers 7I8 to 723 inclusive.
It is ordered that the Board do now adjourn.
a v Clerk
Chairman