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Show Alcohol Education Measure Approved By State Senate STATE CAPITOL, Salt Lake City, Marchx 7 (U.W Measures requiring re-quiring instruction in Utah's schools on the harmful effects of alcohol, narcotics and tobacco and setting forth educational policy were approved today by the state senate. Both house and senate turned from consideration of their own bills to take up measures already passed by the other ibody. Unless legislators stop the clock, but three days including today remain re-main in the 23rd session. Backed by Locals The education measures approved approv-ed by the senate were backed in the house by Reps. Maude B. Jacob and Selvoy J. Boyer, Utah county Democrats; Wilmer J. Maw and H. A. McFarlane, Weber Democrats, and H. R. Pond, D., Cache. The house passed an amendment amend-ment to state water rights laws. Before turning from its own bills, the senate passed four measures, including a bill to provide machinery machin-ery for creation of cemetery districts. dis-tricts. The measure was sponsored sponsor-ed by Sen. James A. McMurrin, D;, Cache. ' Killed by the house yesterday after a heated "labor versus business" busi-ness" debate was the proposed state wages and hours act. The bill would have extended provisions of the federal wages and hours act, which effects only interstate concerns, to businesses operating within the state lines. Compromise Measure A compromise old age assistance assist-ance measure placing aid on the 'basis of actual need was voted by the senate. Income and all help from other sources will 'be taken into account in making aid payments pay-ments if the bill is enacted. Sponsors of the compromise measure said they believed it would reduce Utah's old age assistance as-sistance roll from 13,500 to 10,000 and would permit payment in full to those retained. Cuts made in other, types of relief because of lack of funds could also be restored. re-stored. The old age bill which the senate sen-ate finally adopted was introduced by Sen. Will R. Holmes, D., Box Elder, who worked it out when opposition developed to" other bills before the senate. Amendments to correct mechanical me-chanical defects in the direct primary pri-mary law were approved after the senate had refused to do away with the runoff election by voting down a proposed substitution of bills. The direct primary amendment amend-ment as originally introduced contained con-tained a provision for registration ' y,tr r.r,Tti, Tl- Kill urn e rldf Pli tH but passed with little opposition on reconsideration after this phase of it had been deleted. Resolution Passed The senate passed the "working "work-ing wives' resolution substituted to the bill approved by the house I by the committee. The resolution asks public officials to voluntarily volun-tarily avoid hiring men or women wo-men with . husbands or wives working. It , also approved the proposed $10,000,000 Uintah Basin , improvement district, which would create a railroad from Springville to 'Vernal. A PWA grant and bond issue would be used to finance fin-ance thc project. Thc house killed a measure appropriating ap-propriating $75,000 for continuance continu-ance of the state conservation and research foundation which included in-cluded construction of an experimental experi-mental and demonstration smokeless smoke-less fuel plant. It also voted down a measure to require railroads to have full crews of six men on all trains or more than 50 cars. Sleet looks white because it contains air spaces. |