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Show ppipi Lfiiig By Harry Marlowe Trends come and go in Utah politics but the one thing you can bank on is that the most of the people whether Republicans or Democrats, seem to prefer public servants with a sold, "middle of the road" program. Every legislature comes up with its share of "liberals" and "reactionaries" overworked words used to describe most politicians. The rest are "conservatives." Every legislature legis-lature a little "liberal" legislation gets through as well as "reactionary" 'legislation. But the big bulk of it, particularly particu-larly the best legislation of recent years, has come as the result of sorno healthy middle' of the road compromises. A good many of these compromises compro-mises came through the work of the Utah Legislative council. It I doesn't seem to matter who does the work on this Utah Legislative Legisla-tive Councill. It doesn't seem to matter who does the appointing to this group; the men appointed appoint-ed are, for the most part, earnest, hard-working, siow-to-excite men given to careful pondering of facts before reaching decisions. Can Act Quickly This is not to say that the council cannot act quickly. Its members can and have done so. It's just that these men know which way they are heading whe they act. The council for the next two years should follow along those same lines. If anything, the so-called "liberal" "lib-eral" element may claim to have been short-changed, because even the liberals on the council tend to be somewhat conservative. These 13 .Tien carry a lot of prestige. pres-tige. They will study some tough problems. And, if past performances perform-ances can be any criteria, the solutions so-lutions these men come up with to these problems might very well become the law of the state next session. For one thing, the council will have another two-year two-year period to dig into Utah's tax structure to see if there are any other overhauls needed. Board Agenda The whole field of city-county government cooperation and integration in-tegration if necessary will be studied. Labor management rela- Itions are on the agenda. Highway High-way financing and inter-state highway surveys will get the eye of the group. They will study underground un-derground water and flood control con-trol problems and ponder as to whether all water agencies should come undW one " head. Probably the hottest issue to handle han-dle will be the whole field of business and trade regulations and how far such regulations should go. In all, the council has 23 assignments, as-signments, included such things as feasibility of diking the east edge of Great Salt Lake, need of a State office building, stu- j dies of hospital and medical needs for the future, etc. Each time something comes up that is too hot to handle in the Legislature or a matter on which more factual data is need ed before legislative action thet chances are the Legislative Council Coun-cil gets the job of taking care of the problem. And the chances are good that they will da It |