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Show Uniform Vehicle Tax Measure Killed by Utah Legislative Vote The Utah Legislature this week killed in the House a controversial con-troversial plan to equalize taxes on vehicles throughout the state. A rural-urban split killed the measure on a vote Wednesday 37 to 25. HB 15 would have established a procedure for imposing a uniform, uni-form, statewide tax on passenger cars and light trucks. HJR 1, proposing constitutional amendment amend-ment to allow exemption of property taxes on vehicles was included in the package. The resolution was defeated by a vote of 32 to 23. A high . point in the week's activity on Capitol Hill was made Tuesday at a hearing on legislation legisla-tion to outlaw trading stamps. A large crowd of citizens jammed jam-med the hearing room to offer pros and cons on the proposed legislation. In other action the Senate rushed through a bill which will withdraw from oil and gas leasing leas-ing a potash structure in the southern part of the state on which a major chemical development devel-opment has been started. Other measures passed in the Senate included two House bills to provide for state regulation of intrastate plane flights and a House bill to give vocational schools a share of the funds derived de-rived from school lands and a humane livestock slaughter act. |