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Show By JAMES CONRAD Members of Utah's 27th Legisla-j ture moved into the business of 1 lawmaking this -week on Capitol : Hill, while mulling over in the back of their minds the broad legislative legisla-tive program outlined by Gov. Herbert Her-bert B. Maw in his general message. mes-sage. The Republican party for the first time in nearly a decade and a half is holding a major position in the Utah Legislature, and its overwhelming over-whelming majority in the House, combined with a Democratic majority ma-jority of only one vote in the Senate, Sen-ate, will determine the success or failure of the administration's program. Cognizant Of this fact, Governor Maw in the opening paragraphs of his address declared: "The people thru their votes have divided the control of the two houses between their major politi cal parties. The responsibility for what is accomplished by this legislature, legis-lature, therefore, must be equally borne by both groups. This divided divid-ed control can prove to be highly beneficial if the two houses will work harmoniously with each other for the general good, and if the legislature leg-islature will permit the executive branch of the government to cooperate coop-erate with it in all instances where cooperation will be helpful or beneficial." bene-ficial." On the whole', the governor's message may be viewed as an economic eco-nomic security program. Major proposals in his program include: MINING AND MANUFACTURE Amend Utah's taxation and regulatory regu-latory laws to encourage manufacturing manufac-turing enterprises to locate plants in Utah to process the state's raw materials. TOURIST INDUSTRY Retention Reten-tion of the State Department of (Continued on Page Four) CAPITOL DOME monthly installments paid by the recipient are included in state relief re-lief grants and are considered as capital expenditures by the welfare department. CENTENNIAL Immediate appropriation ap-propriation of $861,500 to cover Centennial Commission budget. $500,00 of this amount would be set up in revolving fund and probably would be returnable from fees received re-ceived at special centennial events. It ia interesting to note that the broad and varied legislative program pro-gram will be in the hands of a 1 group of lawmakers experienced in all phases of everyday life. For instance, in the Senate are four lawyers, three educators, four farmers, two dairymen, two power pow-er officials, two business men, an insurance man, a merchandise broker, a municipal employe, a druggist, a banker and an ex-publis'her. ex-publis'her. Still more representative of the people are the members of the House, where the membership is composed of five farmers, seven lawyers, two student veterans, three educators, tiwo dairymen, 14 business men, four railroad men, one former Wave, four housewives, one real estate man, one plumbing contractor, two government employes, em-ployes, one g-ardner, one engineer, eight livestock men, one labor leader, one coal mine operator, one office clerk and a mortician. (Continued from Page One) . Publicity and Industrial Deevlop-ment Deevlop-ment for promotion of a more than $70 million tourist industry in Utah. ROADS Increase from 4c to 6c per gallon in' tax on gasoline for a period of five years to initiate a 20-year $275 million road program at a minimum rate of $13,750,000 annually, an-nually, . to include $93 million in federal funds. (This program, outlined out-lined by federal and state engineers engi-neers at the governor's request, covers only construction, reconstruction recon-struction and maintenance of the state system). In addition the governor urged amendment of present motor fuel tax laws so as to place some tax liability on interstate truckers as I is now borne by intrastate truckers. WELFARE Repeal of county : property taxes for welfare purposes to offset increased gasoline tax. (This would reduce assessments on - homes, farms and other real property prop-erty 5 mills in most counties and more than 3 mills in all counties). Amendment of public welfare law whereby a welfare client's home "owned and occupied by him, and the lot on which it stands," may be the only real property disregarded in determining his public assistance grant. To allow the state to take liens on mortgaged property where |