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Show Continuing Education Center in Moob Seems Assured After House Action A continuing Education Center for higher education in Moab appeared to be assured as-sured Tuesday when the House of Representatives passed a Senate - approved bill authorizing this center and continuation of one already al-ready operating in Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton is expected to sign this bill into in-to law. Still remaining as of Tuesday Tues-day was for the Joint Appropriations Appro-priations Committee to retain re-tain line item appropriations of $130,000 for the Roosevelt Center and $50,000 for the Moab Center. Enactment of the appropriations appro-priations bill was to be one of the final actions of the Legislature due to end its 60-day session Thursday. Substitute SB14 was called out of sifting committee along with a series of other bills dealing with junior colleges. col-leges. This bill abolished Roosevelt Roose-velt Junior College and provided pro-vided for continuing education educa-tion centers in the Duchesne County seat and in Moab. Rep. Jesse J. Peacock, R-Orangeville, R-Orangeville, credited Rep. Danniel S. Dennis, R-Roose-velt with agreeing to an a-mendment a-mendment to provide for the Moab center and with battling bat-tling along with Sen. Ralph A. Preece, R-Vernal, and Rep. Peacock for enactment of the bill. If all goes well, Utah State University will start operating operat-ing the center next fall in the Grand County seat. Sen. Omar B. Bunnell, D-Price, D-Price, Rep. Peacock and Sen. Preece fought a hard but losing battle to retain two judges in the Seventh Judicial District which now. covers Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan and Sanpete San-pete counties. SB62 was passed by the House Monday and by the Senate a week ago, providing provid-ing for reassignment of district dis-trict judges. Until their present terms expire, however, both Henry Hen-ry Ruggeri and Edward Sheya Jr. will continue to serve as judges of the Seventh Sev-enth District with headquarters headquar-ters in Price. The new law also removes Sanpete County from the Seventh District and adds it to the Sixth District of Which Ferdinand Erickson, Monroe is the judge. Two new judges will be provided for the Third District Dis-trict which will include only Salt Lake and Tooele counties. coun-ties. Daggett and Summit counties coun-ties will be added to the Fourth District with head headquarters in Provo. Sen. Preece was disappointed disap-pointed that SB144 and 145, which were signed into law by Gov. Rampton Monday, will necessitate raising the appropriation to the Liquor Control Commission. Gov. Rampton announced that the commission would need its appropriation raised to purchase liquor inventory from $2.5 million to $3 million mil-lion and $100,000 more for other purposes. The governor asked 75 questions of Atty. Gen. Vernon Ver-non B. Romney on how the two new laws shall be administered. ad-ministered. He said he could have asked ask-ed just as many questions concerning the old liquor laws, since enforcement was not adequate under the old setup. Rep. Peacock was one of six House members selected last week to try to break the deadlock on public scnool financing. His committee recommended recommend-ed raising the added state money for public education from $11 million to $11.5 million, mil-lion, compared with the Senate Sen-ate -recommended $16.1 mil- lion. , vjj House members were standing firm on allowing a one per cent sales tax increase in-crease with no other tax increases, he said. Emery County, by permiting a two mill local school district property pro-perty tax levy increase ($2 per $1,000 property valuation) valua-tion) could get much more in added state aid, he said. |