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Anti-Park
resolution
is defeated
By M. SEAN KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The most recent troubles with the Shenandoah national Park began when Sen. Frank W. Nolen (I).) of Augusta County offered a small amendment to Senate Joint Resolution 348.
The original resolutionhad been submitted by Sen. Henry L. Marsh (I).) of Richmond, who wanted to urge Congress to limit the Secretary of Interior’s right of condemnation to acquire property for the Richmond National Battlefield Park within the county of Henrico.
Nolen’s addition would have urged Congress to establish that the only authorized boundary of the Shenandoah National Park “be that boundary which contains the acreage presently owned by the Department of Interior and known as the Shenandoah National Park.”
The result of this idea, if it ever should become Federal law, would be to prevent the Park ' from accepting donations of land that touches its present boundary.
Sen. Marsh had backed away from the whole idea and asked the Speaker of the House to kill it in the Rules Committee. When the resolution came before the House Rules Committee last Friday, however, the committee room was filled with people, many from Madison County, who do not want the Park to expand for any reason.The committee refused to kill the resolution on Friday and laid it over until Monday for another hearing.
On Monday when Marsh refused to come and defend the resolution, Speaker of the House Thomas W. Moss (D.) of Norfolk, refused to bring the matter up for discussion.
Nolan, however, would not quit and attempted to stick the idea onto House Joint Resolution 557, which was up for a hearing on the Senate side later Monday afternoon.
His quest was slowed after Sen. Joseph V. Gartlan(D.) of Mason Neck south of Alexandria read from the Shenandoah National Park Act, which makes very clear that the only way the Shenandoah Park can acquire land is by gift, either from public or private sources. By a vote of 8-7 the committee stalled Sen. Nolan again.
See Park, Page A-7
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