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Show Under The Capitol Dome ' By J. J. Cahoon Special Representative Utah State Press Association Salt Lake City (Special to the Bingham Bulletin) When Gov. Herbert B. Maw vetoed SB 65, to provide a rebate of gasoline gaso-line tax on fuel used in farm equipment not operated on the highways, he virtually admitted that the Twenty-fifth Legislature Legisla-ture had tied up state funds so tightly that the governor is unable un-able to get his hands on even a few thousand dollars of state money. When the governor vetoed the gasoline tax rebate measure, he contended that no money to administer ad-minister the act had been set up by the legislature and at the same time he admitted, at least by . inference, that he could not get his hands on enough money to operate the proposed rebate system. This was a direct refutation refu-tation of his earlier veto of SB-196, SB-196, to allow diversion of sales tax, when he contended that he could divert the sales tax funds without legislative approval. In other words the governor denies that he can find $20,000 for the rebate setup, but ho believes he can find $1,600,000 for the welfare wel-fare institutions, such as the mental hospital, training school they are responsible. If they do, j the chief executive will have on- ly one alternative calling a special session of the legislature j to straighten out the financial I tangle. I One of the senators, in urging 1 the governor to approve the gasoline tax refund measure, pointed out that if the governor I could find money for state make-! make-! work projects and to aid in es-I es-I tablishment of a parachute fac-, fac-, tory at Manti, he should be able j to find a few thousand dollars to operate the tax rebate sys-' sys-' tern. The governor could have replied and probably did that those transfers were made in a different biennium, under ' a much different appropriations bill, and with the approval of a , rubber-stamp legislature. Things 1 have changed on capitol hill. I It is evident that in vetoing SB G5 the governor had no political po-litical move in mind. He evidently evident-ly sincerely believed that the administrative cost of the bill, together with the lost revenue to the state would not counter-! counter-! balance the favorable side of the bill aid to the farmers of the state. In both houses of the legislature, legisla-ture, agricultural proponents of the cas tax refund measure had Mr. and Mrs. Alt Ivie Tuesday. Miss Helen Georgelas was a visitor in Salt Lake City Friday. William Basetes recently returned re-turned from a two-weeks' vacation vaca-tion at San Bernardino, Calif. Mrs. Pat Williams of Magna was a visitor here Sunday. Gus Callas and son, Sammy Callas, were overnight guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Sams of Layton on March 25. Mr. and Mrs. Sarris returned home with Mr. Callas and spent next day visiting Mrs. Callas. Mrs. Violet Carter was a visitor vis-itor in Provo Monday. Fred Neilson spent Tuesday visiting in Salt Lake City. Pete Basetes was a visitor in Salt Lake City Sunday- Mrs. J. M. Fine of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Annie English of Philadelphia were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Myles McDonald and dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Rose Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Josenh McDonald McDon-ald enjoyed a theatre party at Salt Lake City Sunday. Mrs. Adaline Harrison of Copperton Cop-perton was a visitor of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Anderson Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carl and Mr. and Mrs. Renold Marcon of Bingham enjoyed golfing at Salt Lake City Sunday. Louise Long and Alice Ivie spent Tuesday in Salt Lake City. . Mrs. Robert Burke recently returned home from St. Mark's hospital. Max Ivie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alt Ivie, is recovering from a recent re-cent appendectomy at St. Mark's hospital, Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bullock and son, Don, were visitors of Mrs. Charles Nichols of Union Wednesday. Mrs. Arthur Caldwell of Lehi was a visitor in Copperfield Wednesday Wed-nesday and Thursday. Mrs. Myles Anderson and family were visitors in Herriman last week. L. Rowen was a visitor in Salt Lake City Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Golish spent March 25 in Salt Lake Citv ments were served by Mrs. Harvey Har-vey Halverson and Mrs. Malcolm Mal-colm Robertson. Prizes were given giv-en by Mrs. Nick Nevers and Mrs. Marvin Cowdell. ' The Lucky Thirteen club will be guests this evening of Mrs. Malcolm Robertson. A seven o'clock o'-clock dinner will be served and the remainder of the time spent sewing and visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Jones of 6C Telegraph and children, Ker-rv, Ker-rv, Karl and Kathleen, are planning plan-ning to move Saturday to make their home in West Jordan. Mrs. Julia Charlotte Johanson Norman, 84, widow of Mons A. Norman, Mt. Pleasant, died March 24 after a long illness from heart disease and complications. A daughter, Mrs. John W. Anderson An-derson of Copperfield, was with her for two weeks preceding her death. Mrs. Norman was born in Goteborg, Sweden, July 27, 1858. She married Mr. Norman in Sweden. They joined the LDS church and emigrated to Utah, making their home for a year in Fountain Green before settling set-tling in Mt. Pleasant. Six of Mrs. Norman's 12 children survived her. She left 31 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren. Mr. Norman Nor-man died in 1939. Funeral services ser-vices were held Saturday afternoon after-noon in the North ward LDS chapel my Bishop O. M. Aldrich. Attending the services were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Anderson Ander-son and Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Robertson and family, all of Copperfield; Cop-perfield; Mrs. Gordon Jensen of Bingham and John W. Anderson Jr., a student at the University of Utah. Mrs. James Malkos was hostess hos-tess to eight small guests at her home recently honoring her small son, Nicky, on his third birthday. Games were played and a luncheon served. Guests were Joan Carl, Frankie Marcon, Jerry Burke, Johnny Gardikis, Peggy Ann Callas, Pauline Pan-talone Pan-talone and Jimmv Mannos. Mrs. John Nicolaides of Salt Lake City was a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. .Nick Malkos. Helen and Kathcrine Mannos were overnight guests Saturday at the home of her sister-in-law and brother, Mr. and Mrs. John Mannos. ' Mrs. Charles Ivie of Green Ri-ver Ri-ver was a guest at the home of and tuberculosis sanatorium. Having vetoed SB-196, which would have legalized the sales tax diversion Governor Maw is now laced with the question: "How are these institutions going go-ing to operate after July 1st?" Of course, the governor indi-1 cated when he vetoed SB 196 that he believes or at least he j says that he has the power to I transfer funds from sales tax revenue, but before any trans-1 i'er is made he must convince several other persons, some of 1 whom already have expressed doubt as to the legality of such a diversion. These persons include in-clude the other two members of the Board of Examiners, Secretary Secre-tary of State E. E. Monson and Attorney General Grover A. Giles, and the state fiscal officers offic-ers who would be directly in charge of the transfer and who also would be liable on their official of-ficial bonds if the transaction later proved illegal. With the attorney general already on record re-cord against the legality of such a transfer, Governor Maw is -certain to find plenty of hurdles when he attempts to juggle these funds. The governor probably will attempt to bluff it through, and he may win merely because no one will come forward to question ques-tion him. The old age welfare group, which might have opposed oppos-ed such diversion of what they consider their sacred fund, will probably say nothing because they will realize that they are better off with the governor handling the transfer than with the legislature doing it. Also the governor made a friend of . the old age group when he ve toed SB 220, the legislature's welfare bill. Regardless of personal per-sonal views. Dolitical office hold- only one argument to offer in support of the bill, and that was that the farmers shouldn't have to pay a tax on gasoline used in farm machinery not operated on the highways of the state. The chief argument against the bill was that it contained strictly class legislation aimed I at aiding only the farmer. The measure was amended in the house so that other parties, exclusive ex-clusive of the farmers, using fuel I for non-highvuy purposes would not receive such a benefit. It is hard to see why one class of non-highway users should receive a benetit, by way of a I tax refund, while some other non-highway fuel user would have to pay the tax. This was the principal argument presented present-ed against the bill by Senator Lynn S. Richards, D., Salt Lake, who said, '"If we are. going to grant such tax relief, let's give it to everyone using fuel for non-highway purposes." Another argument against the measure was founded on the premise that farmers of the state are in all probability the greatest great-est beneficiaries of the highway system because of the thousands of dollars which have been expended ex-pended to construct and maintain main-tain the roads on which they transport their crops to markets. Representative B. H. String-ham, String-ham, R., Vernal, opposed the bill on the house floor with the observation ob-servation that there was no way to prevent farmers from using this tax-exempt fuel in their automobiles except to trust in their honesty. Argued Mr. String-ham: String-ham: "Don't put this temptation in front of us Utah farmers. Kill this bill and help keep the farmers farm-ers honest." i The envernnr HiH ers hate public fights, so the other oth-er state officials may close their eyes and let the transfer get by. But there is still another hurdle for the governor, and that may prove a bit tougher. That is the senate membership, and while the members themselves may not take court action to block the governor, it would not be surprising to see a "John Doe Citizen" file such a suit, aided and abetted by. some of the legal rights of the senate. However, should this action fail to happen, the possibility remains re-mains that the state's fiscal officers of-ficers would refuse to make anv such transfer of funds for which |