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Show would be restricted to legal residents resi-dents of the area affected. II. J. R. 1 calls for a constitutional constitu-tional amendment to provide for split legislative sessions. It aims to correct existing conditions caused by a jam of bills at the end of the present sixty-day session ses-sion by prpoviding a recess during dur-ing which legislators may better familiarize themselves with proposed pro-posed legislation. Approval of the bill to provide ior a study of occupational diseases dis-eases included in the workmen's compensation act. It sponsors expressed ex-pressed hope that the study will result in reports upon which action ac-tion by the 1941 legislature may be based. The liquor mark-up bill provides pro-vides for an increase in the price of liquors by a 50 to 60 per cent mark-up and in wines of from 40 to 50 per cent. A senate-passed measure pro- Fixing by both legislative branches of $400,000 as the state's biennial contribution to the teachers' tea-chers' retirement fund. Passage by the lower house of bills providing for local option by counties, cities and towns; educational study; women's eight hour day; marble machine regulation; regu-lation; repeal of the average monthly inventory law; setting up of medical cooperative and for amendment of the constitution constitu-tion to permit split legislative was more than $800,000. Several measures to lessen the state's burden had been introduced and the approved one is regarded as a compromise. The senate passed the bill Friday. The retirement fund now contains more than $900,000. Payments to date have been about $68,000. The local option bill passed the lower house by a vote of 37 to 21. Under it counties, cities and towns can decide whether they will have state liquor stor- vides lor treatment of ailing miners at the state tuberculosis hospital to be erected at Ogden. Another will enable the state to participate in federal aid to education if proposed national legislation is enacted by congress. Unemployment compensation is clarified and simplified by anther an-ther approved bill. O sessions. Approval by the senate of measures to appropriate $25,000 for a study of occupational diseases; dis-eases; to increase the mark-up price of liquors and wines; to put the state highway patrol under civil service, and to place health departments of first and second class cities under civil service. Killing by the senate of a bill proposing to tax natural gas and by the house of a measure to raise the mine occupation tax. Out of a melange of nearly 90 bills approved by either the upper up-per or lower house last week these are considered outstanding! in importance to the state at large. Only one the teacher's retirement measure won the e i . . , , es, provisions being that one-fourth one-fourth of a political entity's registered re-gistered voters may petition for an election. If a majority decide against the sale of liquors, it will be unlawful to operate state liquor stores or make sales in the area. The educational study bill provides pro-vides for the establishment of a commission to investigate the state's various school systems with a view of reporting educational educa-tional needs to the 1941 state legislature. The measure calls for an appropriation of $25,000. Commission Com-mission members will serve without with-out pay. tic- women's eight-hour bill as adopted extends the 8-hour law to all industries trades and occupations excepting canneries and concerns packing perishable ujjpiuvai ui oom Drancnes. Up to Saturday night, with sine die adjournment but four days away, the legislators had acted upon approximately 220 of the 640 bills introduced. Forty-three have been passed by both houses and signed by the governor. These include five resolutions re-solutions and memorials. Twenty-two Twenty-two have been killed and 43 withdrawn for one reason or another. Nine have been tabled. On Monday there were 57 senate-passed bills awaiting action by the house and 74 house passed pass-ed measures awaiting action by the senate. Ten bills passed by both branches were awaiting approval ap-proval or disapproval of Governor Gover-nor Henry H. Blood, who has thus far vetoed but two measures. One disapproved because of a technical defect has been repassed. repass-ed. The adopted teachers' retire- ..... , pviWUHU.V goods. Domestic servants are not included. The marble game regirrallon bill creates a state board of a-musement a-musement control to regulate the licensing and taxing of marble machines, pin games and similar devices in which the element of skill predominates. Its supporters support-ers favored a tax large enough to put the machines out of business. busi-ness. Repeal of the average income law ended many months of opposition op-position on the part of business and industry to what they held to be harmful burdens imposed by its provisions. The repeal vote was 48 to 8, revealing large measures mea-sures of support from all legislative legis-lative elements. The health cooperative measure mea-sure puts a form of socialized medicine into effect. If passed by the senate and approved by the governor the organization of medical cooperatives will be permitted per-mitted by law. Under the bill as amended the state board of health would direct the cooperatives, coopera-tives, membership of which ment fund bill limits the state's contribution to the fund to $400,-000 $400,-000 each biennium. The retirement retire-ment system is costing the state general fund more than $600,000 for the current biennium. The request for the ensuing biennium No. (3) Three, Murray Lode No. 2 (Two), Murray Lode No. One and Murray lodes, Sur. No. 5323 Sherman No. 2 lode, Sur. No. 7133 Honesty lode, and Sur. No. 7139 Jackson No. 2 and Jackson No. 7 lodes. I direct that this notice be published pub-lished in the Bingham Bulletin at Bingham, Utah, for a period of nine consecutive weeks. C. W. SCHAD Acting Register First date of pub., Mar. 10, 1939 Last date of pub., May 5, 1939 |