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Show SENATOR TALKS TO LIONS ATMEET1NG Featured by a brief but interesting account by Senator George Jefferson of some of the work of the recent state legislature, the regular luncheon lunch-eon meeting of the Milford Lions club was held yesterday in the Union I I'acifc dining room, with Vice Presi- dent O. F. Hubbell presiding in the ' absence of President R. E. Ellings-i Ellings-i worth. Eleven Lions and two guests j were present. , With one two-year term in the lower house of the state legislature as a background, Mr. Jefferson's re-i re-i cent service in the senate has been : notable for his interest in and sup-I sup-I port of sane legislation, at the same time gaining for himself an equally state-wide reputation for clear-thinking and implacable fighting for those i things he conscientiously thinks are !est for the state as a whole, and his j remarks were listened to with rapt 1 attention by those present. The mat-j mat-j ter of analyzing and getting underway under-way toward final passage of the voluminous recodified state statutes . had taken a large part of the time of the legislature much longer, Senator Jefferson said than any of those j originally sponsoring the revision had ; anticipated. The principal relief to taxpayers of the county will come, he said, from the fact that a county levy j for state road purposes will not be : ni a d e hereafter. He mentioned ; the new retail sales tax of three-; three-; fourths of 1 per cent and also the I new truck and bus revenue law, into I which has been incorporated provis-j provis-j ions which should insure a general ! compliance with the law and result- ant increased revenue for the state, i The cigaret and banking laws have j also been tightened up somewhat, he j asserted. |