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Show Legislative Council Hears About Controversial Bills Controversial bills in. state legislature were discussed by Representative Willard Hale Gardner Thursday morning at the meeting of the Women's Legislative Council in Provo. Following his address, candidates candi-dates were introduced for the 1973-75 biennium of the Women's Wo-men's Legislative Council. Mrs. Marion J. Clark of Orem presided pre-sided at the meeting and the candidates were introduced by Mrs. Sterling Ballard of Spanish Span-ish Fork, chairman of the nominating nom-inating committee. Mrs. Harry Hardman introduced the speaker. speak-er. Representative Gardner stated stat-ed that 660 measures have been introduced into Legislature. Of these the House has acted on 200 and the Senate on 90. In his opinion one of the most controversial bills is the Deseret Land and Livestock Purchase bill. He also discussed discuss-ed the Metropolitan Transit Authority issue and several, methods for tax cutting. He said the Landlord and .Tenant Bill also has created much controversy con-troversy but probably wouldn't be passed on as it now stands. Following his address, a short business meeting was held after which the lady candidates can-didates stated their qualifications qualifica-tions for election. Voting will be held March 29 in the Women's Wo-men's Council Hall with polls opening at 8:30 a.m. This will be the final meeting of this bi- ennium. A luncheon and installation in-stallation of officers will be held at 12:30 that day at the Riverside Country Club. Special Spec-ial speaker wil be Mrs. Calvin L. Rampton. |
