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Show otoficuso Report j I - I Special Lawmaker Sessions Loom To Correct "Day of Rest" Act DY C. SHARP siHS'i.tl svssum of tlio i-.-l.itinv ptvtuMy will In by i'iv. (.'I.ivm I.. ' un:vn il'.is sumnior to ivo (;:,t vnp!un to inan- K,!u,,i'i'. from tho C'oiw-' C'oiw-' n Pay f 'ts' Law. Iiis .is indot.ittsi tYh. 1;) Vr A!!,v. ,"l'- Vornou R ..mnv sjavo an inU-rpivln-" of tho moaning of tlu' in arswor to K.iinton's ; uiry. lobort K- HaiTiday, oxoc-..iv oxoc-..iv vkv presidont, I'talv iv.ifaotmvn: Assi via! ior,, j h'.s attornoys interpret law so it wihiM force up ! ft.) pcr ivnt of I'tah mau-..ctur.i';! mau-..ctur.i';! firms to c'.oso o;u a wtvk. Imperils Industry :,Vtvti Sunday cUsm. he i. could nuke it difficult ' some manufacturers to ver on current contracts wl hamper them in compe-, compe-, v bidding en future con tracts. Aorosp.ioo Industries such I'fMvulcs, Thiokol and I.iiton probably would bo affected. Ilalliday said. Kep. C. tVMont Judd, (-den (-den attorney and principal .sponsor of the bill, disagreed wif! the attorney gonorai's opinion written by Jl. (Wright Vo'.kor. assistant attorney general. Judd disagreed also with the charge that the bill's Jangnage is faulty. Cites Key Word .The bill .specifically prohibits prohib-its the operation on Sunday of "places of business; open to the public," ho said. This plainly does not apply to manufacturing plants, he said. Kampton urged businesses or manufacturers who belie be-lie sv they should be exempt to continue to .operate on Sundays and await a court test. No criminal penally Is provided and a cour! injunction in-junction would bo the only jiioans of closing down the Sunday operations, ho said. After court action, the iflownior would call a special spe-cial session of the Legislature Legisla-ture if the court interprets the law ,ns did VoVlker. Tex ton Manufacturing The section of the law relative re-lative to 'manufacturing exempts: ex-empts: , "The sale of gxxls or rendering ren-dering of services essential or incidental to operations which are customarily continuous, con-tinuous, .seasonally or otherwise, other-wise, such as . . . the extraction ex-traction or processing of natural na-tural resources; manufacturing, manufac-turing, processing or assembly assem-bly plants whose equipment or processes require continuous continu-ous operation." Volker said the manufacturing manufac-turing phrase is subsequent to .the natural resource lan-quage lan-quage and is separated by a semicolon, making the two operations separate. Valker also held that tho law will require grocery stores and nurseries and so.l stores to close one day each week. The latter two classifications, classifica-tions, he pointeJ out, are nut reasonably classed as "necessary "ne-cessary to the maintenance of health, safety and life.'' i Anther section exempt? sales of food or drink at eating eat-ing places, thus presuming that grocery stores would not bo open. Ta conclude that grocery stores are as necessary to life as hospitals and pharmacies phar-macies could extend also to clothing stores, defeating the purpose of the law, he sa'd. Sale of goods or rendering render-ing sen-ices essential to travel, tra-vel, including rental of rooms, sales of motor fuels and strpplies. are exempted. Recreational Rec-reational activities also are exempt. Rnmpton said court clarification clari-fication of the impasse which has blocked sale of public bonds is drawing closer. A three judo federal panel pan-el in Arizona has held that a U. S. Supreme Court decision de-cision allowing all registered register-ed voters to participate in Ibond elections applies to both general obligation and revenue bonds. General obligation ob-ligation bonds are repayable from property tax. This case is now before the U. S. Supreme Court for a ruling. If the high court decides this issue by midsummer mid-summer a special session might be called to amend Utah's Constitution which now provides that only prc-property prc-property owners can vote in bond elections requiring repayment re-payment from property tax. Mayor Walter H. Maynard of Price was installed Feb. 20 as a new member of the 19-membcr Sstate Advisor Council on Local Affairs. He succeeds Murray Mathis whe did not run for reelection as Mayor of Price. This council, working with William G. Bruhn, director of local affairs for Ramp- ton, seeks to iron out wrinkles wrin-kles from proposed legislation legisla-tion and from operations of state government conducted jointly with a county and city governments. Two highway construction jobs in Emery and San Juan counties were advertised for bidding Feb. 21. These are for surfacing 10 imiiles of the new access rnd to Ha'i's C-ossing Marina Mar-ina on Lake Powell, San Juan County, extending from U-95 southwesterly, to be completed com-pleted in 100 working days, and j-ebulding six miles of fU-24, the road to Hanksville, from 1-70 near Green1 River to the Southwest, to be completed com-pleted in 100 working days. |