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Show situation, and suggested adop-1 tion of retirement plan for state, County and city employes. While the governor agreed j with the Utah Association of County officials as to the need; for eliminating county property I taxes for welfare purposes, he! failed to touch on the subject of city and county participation in state liquor profits, a proposal urged by both county officials association and the Utah Municipal Munici-pal league. The governor touched brief, the State Tax Study Committee program which is expected to re. ceive a great real of attentiot during the session. This commit."" tee will recommend a $3,800,00, tax reduction to be attai'nw through a $700,000 reduction jr the property tax for roads ant streets; a $1,300,000 reduction if. property tax for welfare purpos es (as proposed by the governor and a $1,800,000 reduction in tht unemployment compensation tax the division of these river waters by UpDer Basin States Compact Commission. Livestock Industry Additional Addition-al financial support for livestock I shows, large scale research in poultry and livestock diseases, I control of predatory animals, I agricultural research, research I into supplementary range grasses, grass-es, fire control and soil conservation, conser-vation, plus studies into the advisability ad-visability into the establishment of meat and wool processing plants in the state. Mining and Manufacturing Amend Utah's taxation and regulatory re-gulatory laws to encourage manufacturing man-ufacturing enterprises to locate plants In Utah to process the state's raw materials. Tourist Industry Retention of the State Departmeent of Publicity Pub-licity and Industrial Development Develop-ment for promotion of a more than $70,000,000 tourist industry in Utah. Roads Increase from 4 to 6 cents per gallon in tax on gasoline gaso-line for a period of five years to initiate a 20-year $275,000,000 road program at a minimum rate of $13,760,000 annually, to include in-clude $93,000,000 in federal funds. (Thus program, outlined by fed- eral and state engineers at the governor I request, covers only ' construction, reconstruction and j maintenance of the state system.) In addition, the governor urg-I urg-I ed amendment of present motor ! luel tax laws so as to place some tax liability on interstate truckers truck-ers as is now borne by intrastate intra-state truckers. Welfare Repeal of county property taxes for welfare purposes pur-poses to offset increased gasoline tax. (This would reduce assess-i assess-i ments on homes, farms and other oth-er real property 5 mills in most counties and more than 3 mills in all counties.) Amendment of public welfare law whereby a welfare client's home "owned and occupied by him, and the lot on which it stands," may be j the only real property disr egard-, ed in determining his public as-! as-! sistance giant- To allow the state to take liens on mortgaged : property where monthly installments install-ments paid by the recipient, are included in state relief grants and are considered as capital expenditures ex-penditures by the welefare department. de-partment. Centennial Immediate appro-pi appro-pi iation of $861,500 to cover Centennial Cen-tennial commission budget ($500-000 ($500-000 of this amount would be set up in revolving fund and probably prob-ably would be returnable from fees received at special centennial centen-nial events.) Other recommendations by the governor favored approval of his State Veterans Advisory council report to be esubmitted during the session; urged graat tare to be exercised in deciding on advisability of purchasing Bushnell hospital property; requested re-quested study of the state prison UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME By James Conrad Members of Utah's 27th Legislature Leg-islature moved into the business of lawmaking this week on Capitol Cap-itol Hill, while mulling over in the back of their minds the broad legislative program outlined by Gov. Herbert B. Maw in his general message. The Republican party for the first time in nearly a decade and a half is holding a major position in the Utah legislature, and its overwhelming majority in the House combined with a Democratic Demo-cratic majority of only one vote in the Senate, will determine the success or failure ot the administration's ad-ministration's program. Cognizant of this fact, Governor Gover-nor Maw in the opening paragraphs para-graphs of his address declared: "The people through their votes have divided the control of the two house between their major political parties. The responsibility re-sponsibility for what is accomplished accom-plished by this legislature, therefore, there-fore, must be equally borne by i both groups. This divided con- j trol can prove to be highly bene-: ficial if the two houses will work' harmoniously with each other for the general good, and if the legislature will permit the exec- j utive branch of the government to cooperate with it in all in-1 stances where cooperation will be helpful or beneficial." On the whole the governor's message may be viewed as an economic security program. Major Ma-jor proposals in his program included: in-cluded: Agriculture First, creation of a non-partisan board, financed 1 by a $1,000,000 revolving fund, to facilitate construction of, small dams and reservoirs. Secondly, federal aid in construction of the Centra Utah water and power I project and an appropriation of $150,000 to enable the state to employ experts to study and to protect the state's water rights an the Green and Colorado riv-lts. riv-lts. This latter program to be carried out in connection with |