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Show Bills Introduced to Legalize Curb Meters in Utah GHOST OF S.L. ISSUE BOBS UP IIITVOHOUSES Identical M e a s ures Come as Surprise Action By JENNINGS PHILLIPS A ghost of parking meters slithered through Utah's legislative leg-islative halls Tuesday to haunt members when house and senate received identical bills to legalize municipal operation opera-tion of the nickel-in-the-slot devices. Introduced unexpectedly, the .measures would empower Utah Hies to license and regulate the ' use of streete by motorists, through establishment of sones and Installation and operation therein of 'mechanical meters de-! de-! signed to measure or exhibit the ; period of time allotted by ordi-' ordi-' nance m such sons for the privi-1 privi-1 lege of parking." ' Sponsored' In the senate by Sen-' Sen-' ator Wendell Grover, Salt Lake, and in the house by Representative Edward Ed-ward H. Watson, Salt Lska, ths bills i reached the legislature aa the park-' park-' lng meter swan song still was echo-leg echo-leg In" Salt Lake City. Only recently the city commission ordered out the SOO meters on the streets after the manufacturer re- ' fused to accede to a contract, draft-' draft-' ed by the city commission, for 100 mors devices. Arbitration Sought Introduction of the bills climaxed ' an exciting morning session in the senate, where It was decided to refer re-fer the old age pension Issue, over which the upper' house is dead- ' locked, to the federal social security hoard for arbitration. A house session saw pasaags of two resolutions calling for state constitutional amendments to create cre-ate a new method of financing school equalization. Accompanying the parking meter bills, as the afternoon session opened, was a proposal to set up a ; "little AAA" In Utah. Tha bill would place the state in line with . the federal soil conservation and ' flood control program. " The measure, by Representative T. W. Jensen, Sanpete, calls for establishment es-tablishment of state soil conserva- tion districts, a state conservation - committee and a program of regu-. regu-. lation and discontinuance of land use practices contributing to sell ; wastage and erosion. Provides Soil Program The act empowers the state to participate in any erosion program of ths federal government, including includ-ing payment of benefits. An appropriation ap-propriation of 18000 Is contained to finance organising districts and committee work for tha next fiscal jrear. Other new measures Included one regulaUng and licensing sale of health devices. A measure to give working men's associations and societies and labor unions the right to obligate them-aelves them-aelves and members to carry out stipulations of employment contracts, con-tracts, another to prevent officials of cities and towns from performing official services, unless fees are paid In advance; another to make the unauthorised removal of hide or , 'pelt or wool from the carcass of an animal a misdemeanor, and another ' directing the state land board to convey to the Price River Water Conservation district all the state's property rights therein, also were introduced. Compromise Loetns The last measure was to pave the way for a debt compromise between , the state and settlers of the district and to permit district reorganisation. reorganisa-tion. After getting nowhere In debate on old age pensions, the senate, over protest of President Herbert B. Mew, voti i to ssk the federal social security board to express a preference prefer-ence for one of the two welfare plans before the upper house. 1 One deals only with pensions and (Ceatfcned OR rue Sena) . (Collin One) PENSION FACES SENATE BATTLE (Coaurae froca rase Om tha othar, administration sponsored, call for a complete program In .which all bsnoflclsrles would receive re-ceive assistance on a basis of in- dividual need. i Tha education raaolutlons paasad tha housa, with only Representative Wllford M. Burton, Salt Lake, dis-I dis-I seating. Their author, RapraaantatiTa Rapraaanta-tiTa Milton B. Taylor, Harrisvilla; Floor Leader P. a Marthakia and other school bloc mambars urged support tor tha measures, which, they said, would provide equalisation equalisa-tion of education opportunity without with-out Increasing property taxes, Tha resolutions call for amend-mints amend-mints to the constitution that would ' set up a uniform school fund Into which would ba diverted interest from stats land funds and othar revenue to equalise between rich M and poor achool districts. Tha housa saw tha withdrawal f ona of the basic bills of tha com-. com-. mitteo of nine exemption program, an action which led to predictions that no exemption will emerge from this session of the lawmakers. Tha bill would have placed a 2 par cent service tax on advertising and fees of doctors, lawyers, engineers, engi-neers, architects and othar profsa-1 profsa-1 aional men. It waa aimed at plugging plug-ging in part the revenue gap resulting result-ing from lost property taxes. Representative Heber Bennion Jr., Daggett, committee of nine "shep-1 "shep-1 herd" of the exemption measures In the house, withdrew the bill with , tha explanation that the attorney general had held Its provisions to be unconstitutional, - , That the senate president at least feels that old age pensions are of snore importance to the state's welfare wel-fare than a homestead exemption was evident from his remarks during dur-ing Monday's debate on the former. Must Choose Aged "If ws must choose between homestead tax exemptions, or other things, and adequate relief for the needy aged," he declared during a ' verbal passage with Senator Ira A. Huggins, Weber, "then we must . choose the aged." "I for one," retorted the Weber county solon, one of the leaders of the movement in favor of a balanced bal-anced welfare program, "am not going to take food from the mouth of a needy child to place it in the mouths of the aged. Just because the latter group has an organized lobby." One of Senator Maw's conciliatory amendments would limit ths state's contribution to the pension fund to 12,100,000 per year. He insisted his messure would not upset the balanced budeet Governor Henrv H Blood has proposed to the lawmakers lawmak-ers for ths coming biennlum, but others differed. , Senator Ward C. Holbrook. Davis, cited estimates to show that If the old age pension program la adopted and othar party pledges are carried out a general fund deficit of $3,000,000 will be Inevitable. $30 Monthly Asked Senator Maw's bill would give every needy person over 69 years of age a $30 monthly pension, with , the law itself defining what constitutes con-stitutes need. The opposing bills would permit the state welfare board to decide the amount of an individual's pension after investigating investi-gating tha financial responsibility of relatives and other factors bearing bear-ing upon his need. Senator Maw's program would be financed by liquor revenue and the sales tax. Ths other bills would draw their financial support from the sales tax exclusively. Liquor revenue has been earmarked by Governor Blood to balance the biennial bien-nial budgst Prior to debate on pensions Monday Mon-day the senate reconsidered H. B. 6, extending to four years the time In which the state may sue a de-faulting de-faulting official or his bondsmen. |