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Show FORMER RESIDENT DIES Relatives and friends in TMoab this week received news of the death of Mrs. Gillia Stocks Branson. She was a resident of Moab for many yars and died of an apparent heart attack near Tremonton while on her way to Moab for a visit. Funeral services, to be held in Mountain Home, Idaho, are pending. Survivors include in-clude sisters, Mrs. Ann Chamberlain and Mrs. Claude Irish; and brothers, Arch and Len Stocks, all of Moab.,, way in deliberations for reorganizing re-organizing three new departments depart-ments of state government," Sen. Preece said. "It looks like we will eliminate elim-inate th coordinating councils coun-cils but will retain the division divis-ion boards (such as the Board of Health and the Water Wa-ter Resources Board) with little or no charge," he added. add-ed. Both of Grand County's representatives in the Legislature, Leg-islature, Sen. Preece and .Rep. Peacock, voted alike on the two liquor control bills which were passed by ' . the House Friday after earlier ear-lier passage by the Senate. The voted for 'SB144 which tightens regulation of liquor locker clubs, but voted against ag-ainst SB145 which revamps the entire state liquor monopoly mon-opoly setup. "Sale of liquor in two-ounce two-ounce mind-botUes in some restaurants, which would be allowed under SB145, is not a whole lot different from serving liquor by the drink which was voted down by the people last November," Rep. Peacock said. "I believe this part of the proposed law would be almost al-most unenforceable. I am also opposed to SB145 because be-cause of the discrimination as to what restaurai.ts should be able to provide mini-bottles and those which would not be permitted to do this," he added. Meanwhile Gov. Calvin L. Rampton is having Atty. Gen. Vernon B. Romney go over the liquor bills with a fine tooth comb to determine whether they would stand up in the courts. The governor is pledged to sign the bills into law if they are constitutional. A seven-member watchdog committee to be provided would be little different from the Watchdog Committee Law enaced by the 19G7 Legislature, Le-gislature, some obscrver.5 say. The 1967 law was stricken strick-en by the courts on grounds that it did not provide for safeguarding constitutional ' rights of individuals who might be investigated. Rep. Peacock tried unsuccessfully un-successfully to amend out of SB145 a provision to require local agencies to match by 25 per cent local funds money mo-ney distributed by the state for liquor law enforcement. Present law calls for the state to distribute $1 million mil-lion a year from liquor pro-fits pro-fits to local government. SB145 would require that this money plus 25 per cent local matching money be spent for liquor law enforcement. enforce-ment. Rep. Peacock believes that it is impractical to differentiate dif-ferentiate between enforcement enforce-ment of liquor laws and other oth-er laws. Rep. Peacock supported SB10 providing for a singla 15-member board to govern higher education. This b'll cleared the House Feb. 28. "This bill allows a reasonable reason-able amount of autonomy for each university and college," he said. "It leaves the Utah Technical Colleg"s in Salt Lake City and Provo under the State Board of Education. Educa-tion. "I believe it is wise to leave the technical colleges separate from the academic-oriented schools," he continued. |
