| Show REDO ASKS REPEAL OF JS RACING BILL expected attack upon the redd racing law began at thursdays session of the state legislature bills calling for the repeal of the act under which racing has been permitted in utah for two years with pan betting were introduced almost simultaneously in the senate and the house of representatives charles redd of la sal representative from san juan county who introduced the original measure at the session of the legislature two years ago and exerted himself at that time to have it passed presented the repealing bill in the house the similar bill submitted in the senate was introduced by senator henry W stable of bountiful representing davis and thoele tooele counties advocates of this movement to repeal the racing law complain that it has resulted in long race meets and failed to meet the expectation at the time it was passed that it would advance the raising of fine horses in utah opponents of repeal insist that through adding the racing feature to the state fair the fair association has been able to get along without yit hout asking for a large appropriation from the state and also has made some substantial improvements at the fair grounds which would have been impossible without the returns from racing these improvements they say continue steadily in years ahead if racing remains as a feature of the state fair but will stop if the redd law is repealed with return of th necessity of asking for an tion for the state fair As some of the legislators who were against the redd bill in 1925 havi said that they would favor continuing the law on the statute books if the racing period should ie limited i about twenty days during the stat fair opponents of repeal expressed jioie that they could save the racin act by amending it so as to limit racing to the desired shorter period and making fall meets solely a means of assuring adequate revenue for the fair association during the recent campaign mr redd as a candidate for reelection reelect lon to the house stated that he would introduce the bill calling for the repeal of his own measure the utah welfare league and other organizations have been working for months to have the racing law gnp ed from the statutes miss beatrice meador sister of C J meador of mbaba who has been taking training as a nurse at san jose calif has just completed a three year course and has successfully passed the california state examination for registered nurses mrs C J meador will leave for san jose next week to visit miss beatrice |
