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Show West Side Legislator Gets Start On Aid To Utah Aged Warning fellow legislators that he intended to fight for increased aid to Utah's aged pensioners, Rep. Wallace A. Peterson, (D- Salt Lake) opposed with vigor the bill introduced last week before be-fore the House which proposed a $350 per month pension to City Judges. Subsequent amendment to reduce the sum to $300 per month, but the West side repre-, repre-, sentative only compared this to the "measly $72 per month we offer the old folks. Where is this money coming from?" "I don't think it's right in any way that we show preference in ; the matter of security for people ! of retirement age," Rep. Peterson Peter-son said. "The older citizens in my district are the people who have paid taxes all their lives and raised the families that now make a large segment of our voters and taxpayers. How have we the right to ask them to exist on the miserable sum of $72 per month and at the same time offer of-fer a man fortunate enough to have secured a legal education the sumof $300 or more a month. "The lawyer, the judge have an opportunity to provide in some measure at least for his security in his retirement years. Our lay people have, to a great extent, been pressed to the limit to keep up with current responsibilities. They haven't the means to provide pro-vide retirement funds for themselves." them-selves." Rep. Peterson, addressing the House in opposition to the bill, resorted to forceful sarcasm as he warned House members that he would expect "the same generous gen-erous frame of mind when we present our bill to allow our old age pensioners $100 per month instead of the shameful $72 per month we now allow them." |