The State Compensation Com mission upheld its ptevious deci sion approving salat y increases for Prince Edward county officers last week after a com'cience with a delegation from u.e board of supervisors. Chairman Edward Carter and W. W. Vaughan, of the board of supervisors, reviewed the salary and office expense situation in Prince Edward county, in confer Farmville Jayeees Toueh Off Debate Move To Divorce Issue Of Pol! Tax A. i ufrmille .1 ni : Che.uiber of Commerce delegation of 12 mem bers mtioluci ;l. Thursda' night, a resolution calling for tm Hate J I’rce organratmn to divorce it self from p litical matter;; and from the p< 11 tax issue, in parti cular. The re lOluhon was present ed fcv V F Watkins. Jr . at a regional meeting in the Virginian Hi tel. Lynchburg While the proposal w.i- unoffi cial and didn't come to a vote it touch'd off a lively discussion among Jayeees as to whether ad v eating abolishment of the poll tax was a partisan Question or whether it involved better gov ernment ' State Vice President Ed lane, of Richmond who pre sided at the meeting, ruled the proposal could not come to a vote because it was not on the agenda for the parley The Javcee state board f di rectors twice has unanimously passed rcs-lutions advocating throwing out the poll tax and has requested chapters throughout Virginia to state their opinions by ; a referendum vote
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County Officers' Salary Increases Upheld by Board
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