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Veterans cemetery
plan considered
LOUISA — The state Veterans Affairs Commission is again trying to establish a cemetery for veterans, but at least one member doubts the latest proposal to build one in Louisa County will succeed.
“We need a cemetery for veterans in the state, but I don’t think this will go anywhere,” said State Sen. William Fears, D-Accomack.
Four commission members met privately with the Louisa County Board of Supervisors to present the proposal, Supervisor Willie Harper said Tuesday.
The commission does not need the county’s approval because the state bought the site in the historic Green Springs district in 1971 for a prison that was never built, but it wants to gamer as much support as it can.
“We want to do the request in the proper manner by going through the Board of Supervisors, who are the elected representatives of the county,” said Del. Gwen Cody, RFairfax, another commission member.
But the commission’s main problem will be the General Assembly, which refused to appropriate the $75,000 requested in 1982 to set up a cemetery in Saltville in southwest Virgina.
The federal government will pay half the costs for developing a state veteran’s cemetery, but the state must come up with the rest and the money for maintenance.
The General Assembly did pass a resolution in 1985 reiterating its support for a state veteran’s cemetery and suggested the commission consider the Louisa County site.
“We are going to do this one step at a time,” Mrs. Cody said. “What happened in Saltville won’t necessarily happen here.”
Legal fee reimbursement pondered
Fauquier County is studying a plan to pay legal expenses for employees found innocent of criminal charges brought against them while on the job.
Currently, Fauquier has no policy or program to compensate employees under such circumstances, according to County Administrator Steve Crosby.
Mr. Crosby said the plan is still in the talking stages, but the county wall look at a number of guidelines, including those that perhaps would put a ceiling on the how much the county would contribute to an employee’s defense.
He emphasized the county is considering a reimbursement plan and that the county would defray an employee’s legal expenses only if he is found innocent.
Crosby said the county would dip into its general revenue funds to cover such legal costs. The supervisors will discuss the plan at their Aug. 20 meeting.
Plane crash kills Loudoun man
A Loudoun County man was killed Monday in an airplane crash at Woodbridge Airport.
George Findley Griffith, 47, of Middleburg, was killed about 10:10 a.m. when the four-passenger 1974 Bellanca Model 1731A crashed in a heavily wooded area about 400 yards from the asphalt runway, according to State Police 1st Sgt. D. P. Garrett.
The pilot Harrison Johnson, 45, of Adelphi, Md., also was killed. A third man Lawrence Homing Jr., 29, of Severn, Md., is critical condition at Fairfax Hospital, a spokeperson said.
In addition to State Police, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
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