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Show Hinder medh """"" " ' " " ii 1 1 1 n 1 1 BY HARRY MARLOWE : f A ; . I v v kutuk- ..... ft,4ifefc..W it W .iiw hriih GEORGE S. MORRISON Mr. Morrison has been appointed manager of the newiy created Denver zone for Pontiac Motor Division, largest geographically in the Pontiac sales organization. He previously was assistant manager of the Los Angeles zone for additional maintenance and purchase of new cars. This would eliminate the use of automobiles auto-mobiles by officers and employes em-ployes for driving to and from work. The governor had recommended recommend-ed such a pool, but had also suggested construction of an $86,000 garage on the capitol grounds to house the automobiles. automo-biles. The Senate committee on Highways, headed by Sen. J. Harold Reese (D-Bear River) however, recommended the facilities fa-cilities already set up by the road commission be used. Predictions cont.nued to f'y i-.Hmd legislative halts on Cap-oi Cap-oi Hill this we that Gov. J. Bracken Lee will call a special ess-ion of the Twenty-eighth Utah legislature before the year is out. These predictions are becom-nri becom-nri stroncer and stronger, especially es-pecially from Ihs old "Maw" 'icHon of the legislature, with diournment. of the 60-day reg- il?.'- session still a week away, j Sen. Lorenzo E. Elggren (D--iH Lnke) and Rep. Justin Stewart (D-Salt Lake) have been m;t insistent that a special ses-ion ses-ion wiU be necessary on wel-?av,e. wel-?av,e. especially since the appropriations ap-propriations bill provides even i "ss for public assistance than !he governor recommended in his "economy" budget. The bill rji-ovides $14,000,000 for welfare and the governor asked $15,060,-'00, $15,060,-'00, both against a department --nest of $19,000,000. R-p. Maurice Anderson (D-Springville), (D-Springville), majority floor lead-i-,in the House, wasn't particu-rly particu-rly satisfied with the amount in the bill, but said if the measure meas-ure was opened up for amendments amend-ments and the amount increased, a special session would then be a certainty. As a result, in the only real debate in the House over the $52,256,278 appropriations bill, a proposed amendment to raise the welfare figure to the amount recommended by the governor ' was defeated by a count of 22-31. After that the bill was passed by a vote of 42-10, with three Republicans Reps. William A. Brotherson (R-Boneta), H. H. Crouch (R-Morgan) and H. Rol- I and Tietjen (R-Monroe) claim-I claim-I ing the to'al appropriation was ! too h.gh. The seven Democrats ; against the bill Reps. Justin C. ' Stewart (D-Salt Lake), M. Phyl i Poulson (D-SaU Lake), Mrs. C. T,. Jack (D-Salt Lake), J. M. Bell (D-Salt Lake), W. G. Larson Lar-son (D-Magna), John P. Barton : (D-Beaver) and Sidney A. Els-. ' wood (D-Ogden) all claimed welfare appropriations were "too low." Speaking of special sessions, the governor indicated some t.me ago, according to certain legislators, that he probably will call one about next September, but not necessarily on welfare. Governor Lee is said to have observed that by next fall he will have a much better knowl edge of the needs in state government gov-ernment and could probably make recommendations that would assure a sound economical footing for the 1949-51 bien-; nium. He appeared almost certain. to veto some items in the appropriations appropri-ations bill and may send the entire en-tire measure back for reductions in some items. Higher educational educa-tional institutions, for instance, receive approximately $10,600,-000 $10,600,-000 in the appropriations bill against the governor's recommendation recom-mendation of about half that amount, and the Utah Water and Power Board is given $750,000 where the governor recommended recommend-ed nothing. Also, the bill gives $725,000 to vocational education, educa-tion, $225,000 to the Central Utah Vocational School and $500,000 to the Salt Lake Area Vocational School, as compared to a recommendation of no appropriation ap-propriation from the governor. Sen. Orrice C. McShane (R- thinkmg" and are far out of line in face of recent cost of living decreases and "leveling off" signs. Meanwhile ,the repeal of the welfare lien law came in for ome bitter discussion in the House, with those supporting retention re-tention of the law pointing out that its repeal would throw welfare wel-fare appropriations far out of line. With but a week to go, night sessions appeared likely in both houses. The Senate still has some appointments by the governor gov-ernor to act on in executive session as well as measures .iealing with labor, welfare and iquor, all of a most contro-ersial contro-ersial nature. Among appointments made by the governor so far are J. Wei ton Ward, Willard Democra: and member of the House in 1943 and the Senate in 1945 and 1947, to the State Tax Commission Commis-sion to replace Grant Brown, resigned; re-signed; J. A. Theobald, Price Kepublican, to the Publicity and Industrial Development Commission Commis-sion to complete liquidation of its projects; Roy W. Simmons Layton Republican, as state bank commissioner to replace J. Melvin Knapp, and Hal S. Een-lett, Een-lett, South Salt Lake Republican, Republi-can, to the Business Regulations Tommission to replace Oscar W. Carlson, a Salt Lake Republican. Republi-can. In addtion to the introduction of the appropriations bill, the end of the seventh week of the session saw the Senate passage for the third time since 1943 of a "horse race" bill to legalize legal-ize pari-mutuel betting at limited lim-ited race meets. The bill would limit meets to five days and restrict re-strict the number of meets in any one county to two per year vith a period of 30 days between meets. "Local option" is also provided by the bill. This measure passed 17-3 in the upper house after Senator McShane had pointed out that it "legalizes what we are already al-ready doing." He said if meets run in the state last year had been taxed on the basis provided by the bill it would have brought $15,000 to the state treasury. Voting against the bill in the Senate were Sens. Alonzo F. Hopkin (D-Woodruff), Day and James E. Burns (D-Bountiful). Sens. Taylor F. Brockbank (D-Salt (D-Salt Lake), Hyrum Gibbons (R-Logan) (R-Logan) and Marl D. Gibson (D-Price) (D-Price) were absent. During the week, the Senate also went on record in favor of a state "car pool," cutting down the number of state-owned automobiles auto-mobiles to a point where efficiency effi-ciency in state travel might be maintained. Surplus cars would be sold and the funds used for maintenance purposes on cars to be kept at the state road shops in Salt Lake City. Each department de-partment would pay a rental fee Beaver) suggested from the floor of the Senate that the University of Utah and Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural College be cut five per cent in the approximately nine million dollars to the two schools, and Sen. Elias L. Day (R-Sa!t Lake) wanted to knock down a Utah State Prison ap-propriaiton ap-propriaiton of $700,000 to $500,-000. $500,-000. He was also in favor of granting $100,000 to publicity purposes, while Sens. Lewis H. Larsen (R-Kanab) and Elggren wanted about $250,000 awarded to Publicity and Industrial Development, De-velopment, which was wiped out in the appropriations bill. Both said they had been promised the P I D would receive an appropriation ap-propriation after they voted to give ai motor vehicle registration registra-tion funds, which have supplied P I D in the past, to B and C roads. In setting up the appropriations appropria-tions bill, the joint appropriations appropria-tions committee, headed by Sen. Fred Milliman (D-Mammoth), figured estimated revenues at $26,000,000 from the sales tax and $15 million from general fund sources, giving a total of $41 million in unmarked monies. mon-ies. From these funds are appropriated ap-propriated $38,486,241, leaving a surplus of $2,513,759. At the same time a $5 million emergency relief reserve fund is not touched and is left as a "cushion" against any decline in estimated revenues or increases in public assistance, makers of the bill assert. Legislators who charge the appropriations total is "too high," do so on grounds that estimated es-timated revenues are "wishful |