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Show Democratic Lawmaker Has Influence in Right Places that as of that time, we were no longer without "precipitation." "precipita-tion." As a matter of fact, it was snowing like crazy! Said Dean: "Like I said, make your wants known in the right place ." There's just nothing like having hav-ing friends in high places, and members of the 33rd session of the Utah State House of Representatives Repre-sentatives saw their majority House leader demonstrate just what results can be obtained by the correct approach to intelligent intelli-gent patronage. Majority House Leader Ernest Dean (D-Utah), concerned with the drought conditions throughout through-out the state during the past season, suggested that should emergencies arise as a result of any further drought, it could well be the responsibility of the House of Representatives to draft some sort of emergency legisla tion designed to alleviate hardships. hard-ships. He requested that a committee com-mittee be appointed to periodically periodi-cally report progressive conditions condi-tions over the state concerning precipitation, etc. Fellow legislators were inclined in-clined to spoof the majority leader some going so far as to insinuate that he intended to try to legislate the weather and that they just didn't believe it could be done. One well-meaning wag volunteered with great dignity to read the weather report in the daily newspaper. Dean had the last laugh. Within the hour a fellow representative rep-resentative asked leave to report |