Show If Money Holds Out Sooner than many expected the special session of the Utah legislature wound up its affairs Saturday afternoon and headed for home home glad glad to end a session which promised at times to drag on for considerably longer glad to have cleared up much unfinished business and to have settled several important problems From the standpoint of economy economy- which was the basis for the session resulting from a gubernatorial veto of oC many appropriation items the items the session accomplished nothing Instead of trimming trimming trimming trim trim- ming appropriations which was the hope and intent of the governor the legislature legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture appropriated some more than at the regular session Governor Lee was compelled to give in to the legislature by accepting the unchanged original appropriation bill although he I did register his objection in a final message A surprising number of important matters malleIs were disposed of in the short week two session Among them were provision for popular election of members of the State Board of Education purchase of the building housing the Salt Lake Area Vocational School utilization of oC the State Crippled Childrens Children's Hospital creation creation creation crea crea- tion of a new State Department of Public Safety permission for prosecution of family deserters in other states without extradition to this state establishment of a system of trip single-trip fees for nonresident nonresident nonresident non non- resident owners of commercial trucks and settlement of oC the issue of purchase of or acreage near the This Is the Place monument Action was taken to liquidate the tate state retirement system and to bring public under the Federal Social Security program program-a a reaching far step which we suspect will prove wise in inthe inthe inthe the long run Perhaps the most important important important tant single legislative action was the adoption of a new program for aid to poorer school districts which establishes a new formula of extending aid only when local districts make a maximum effort This ma may well set a pattern forstate forstate for forstate state aid which will be more just and equitable than the equalization program which has been in effect in Utah in the past All in all it was a good session session- session session- that is provided the state doesn't run out ut of oC money before the end of oC the biennium t |