Show question Ou estion of school aid revived in state senate proposal ot of tho utah senate monday that the proceeds of the revenue to be derived by the state fro from a tax on beer should tie be do voted to the support of junior colleges brought to the front just how it la Is proposed sed that junior colleges in utah ahall be supported two years yeara ago in snow college for tho fiscal amr 1932 33 and undertaking to add weber college tor for the year the legislature provided that one halt the cost otter after this athla year should be borne by the districts or counties count les from which the junior colleges would draw their support this year dixie college at st 81 goorge george Is also making application to join the publicly su supported ported colleges I 1 ego all three of these theae Ins titu eions have been operated in the past by the tha L 1 D S church the church Is giving them up or in the case of dixie la Is about ready to do so ao the communities served by these institutions argue that the work ot of these thes e colleges must be continued at some place available to the students or they will in the majority of cases bo be added to the list vt of the unemployed furore in legislature the colleges have been BUR UP ported in the put past in part from tuition fees fec mid and in part from church contributions the circumstance which creates the present furore in the utah legislature about junior colleges to Is that it la Is proposed that the state general fund assume the burden which until the present has been upheld by the church A bill la now before the ilia utah house presented by an m advocate of junior colleges which proposes to amend the law inny of two years ago sn BO that the entire support outside of tuition toes tees ahall bome from the state tho the junior college question was ill thrust rust to the fore ore late last week by a resolution from the house committees committee which desired to know wether it should provide in the cef jal appropriations bill for the support ot of junior coll egea and it named tour of tham tito the list included thet the three named above and branch ag rl ri cultural collego at cedar city which does doea junior college and high school work always supported by state the branch litts haa elways aldaya been supported by tho the state plus tulion fees and somo some contributions from the federal goyen for A r p 5 the high school work iron county school district furnishes about 30 80 a student which la Is not up to vio the average cost por per student in practically any high school in t the he state the answer to the legislature to die committee on appropriations in its final form was that the ap bill should carry amounts or all four colleges me men tionna in n the event that hat this could be dopa don without interfering unduly with tha program of the legislature the budget request of the branch agricultural college which has about 25 junior college elege atu dents dent was close to weber has junior college students registered this year omitting the gymnasium classes and those attending the summer school and business courses it was ready to ask for the coming blen plum snow with possibly students was peeking eking ve in its budget Te request quest about while it was understood that dixie with mother another students would be glad to be welcomed into the fold of the state junior colleges with an appropriation of for the biennium blenn lum agree to reductions these figures would have added tn the burden of the state general fund flo however weyer it la Is understood that since the committee of nine reported the possibility of keeping the budget within the estimated revenue and was against additional taxes for the state general fund the supporters of the junior colleges we are willing that the budgets be pared the branch to weber to about snow to 36 and dixie to 10 which would mean a total of labout the appropriations committee camittee bill wat wall due out monday but un UD der the circumstances surrounding its work this year that was ini possible Ilo however wever a preliminary report la expected out aut ihan althea a day or two which may possibly give still another not of ct figures in the meantime meant no bill has beer been presented to the present logis 1 lature ture which would sot up tho the ma by which the junior colleges could obtain any support frai ardai the regions in which they hue file situated and which they would and which heiy would moat intensively intone ivelise serve the law in codified version adds continued on pago page i 4 0 o t |