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Show Board to Test Lee Fund Veto A special meeting of the state board of education will be called soon to select attorneys for a court test on validity of Gov. J. Bracken Lee's veto of $20,000 department of education funds, said Dr. K. Allen Bateman, stats superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction, Wednesday. Wednes-day. Replying to the governor's letter let-ter of Tuesday in which he stood pat on refusal to maks available the money originally appropriated for educational research. Dr. Bate-men Bate-men noted that the board previously previous-ly stated court action would result if the money was not available by Nov. 15. Exact date for the board meeting meet-ing could not be set at once because be-cause of ths absence from the stats of eome board members. Dr. Bateman aaid. "I have difficulty following Gov. Lee's reasoning on this matter, since it Is my understanding that in at least two instances the finance fi-nance commission and governor have made vetoed funds available to stats agencies without being ordered or-dered by courts to do so," said the state superintendent "If the opinion of the attorney general ia to be Ignored by the governor, and he maintains all vetoes still are valid, except the one specificslly restored by court action, I cannot understand why he should msks some vetoed funds available and not others." Dr. Bateman aaid the latter reference ref-erence ia to hie understanding that vetoed funds have been made available avail-able to the Stewart training school. University of Utah, and to the state engineer for uee by the Colorado Colo-rado river compact commission. |