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propriation committees, the Governor pointed out that if the Commonwealth is going to build new classrooms and laboratories at its four-year colleges, construct seven new community colleges across the State and reduce overcrowding by geriatric and alcoholic patients in the mental hospitals, the State will have to raise taxes or resort to the Constitutional provision for borrowing. He noted that the provision has been in the Constitution For 40 years and said that it was put there for just such a purpose as that for which Virginia now needs it. Following a lengthy public hearing attended by more than 500 persons, legislation was introduced to permit local option on the sale of liquor by the drink. Also introduced were bills to make possible mandatory license revocation to keep habitual offenders off the highways, indeterminate prison sentences for persons convicted of felonies, use of metal studded snow tires on Virginia highways, shifting the operating costs of the State Division of Motor Vehicles from the highway fund to the general fund, easier right-ofway acquisition by the Department of Highways in certain instances, establishment of a statewide police standards commission, abolition of the Commission on Constitutional Government, a commission to boost Dulles International Air port, controls over door-todoor sales, and control of “nuisance” birds. Several conflict-of-interest bills also were presented. A package of 57 bills concerning highway safety has been submitted as a result of the Virginia Traffic Safety Study Commission’s deliberations. The measures call for stricter driver licensing requirements, sterner penalties for violators, a revision of law enforcement methods, and establishment of a new state division of highway safety.
Marsh To Request
Study Commission
On Agriculture
Roanoke, Jan. 17 -- Rep. John O. Marsh, Jr., said here today that he planned to request the Administration to appoint a study commission “to examine the long-range goals and the economic future of American agriculture.1'
“Recent reports that less that six percent of the American population are living on the farm have a tendency to be misleading,” he said; “these ignore two important factors:
1. “That associated with the production facilities of agriculture is a gigantic industrial complex ranging from farm machinery to marketing and packaging; and
2. "That although six percent of the population is engaged in farming, ifhe other nintyfour percent of Americans is nearly 100%, dependent upon
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