Show WHAT GOES ON HERE ri T BY BYS S til A. A I. I TIPPETTS r d f SENATOR From 1 SANPETE Seventh Week Written on Friday Feb 23 And it shall come to pass in inthe inthe inthe the last days says ays the good book I doubt it very much We Ve are in the last days of this legislative legislative legislative legis legis- sessi session n and not a single bill of major importance has passed and been signed by the Governor Word Vord has just come to my desk by the gripe vine that the Governor has vetoed the school bill No 75 and that he is going going going go go- ing to veto the appropriation bill in toto if we dont don't change I it drastically to suit him The Governor also told us in inno inno inno no uncertain terms today that he ic would veto any bill that did not permit the sale of the prison prison son site property So what If economy is what we want why not do away with the legislature leg leg- slature That would save money money mon mono ey in more ways than one The Governor is going to do most of the law making anyway It seems to me that we are only shadow boxing or could it be that hat I am just getting tired and touchy ouchy I can also report First The bill to turn Snow back to the church is js dead and the he bill to make it a branch of the he A. A C. C is gasping for breath I have tried twice today to get gett it t out of the Education committee commit- commit tee ee without success The other Junior Colleges want to turn this his problem over to the Legislative Legis Legis- Council for study during the he next two years If I cannot lift ift the bill tomorrow or Monday Monday Mon Mon- day I am afraid it is lost But Buthe Buthe Buthe he lifted it and high Ed Second The bill passed by bythe bythe the he House to reapportion representation representation re reo re- re presentation in the legislature by y giving each of the 29 counties coun coun- ties ies a senator is claimed to be unconstitutional and any way wayt it t has very little chance of passing passing pass- pass ing ng the Senate We Ve simply cani canot can- can i ot muster the necessary twelve votes otes I have been assigned the touchy ouchy problem of working out outa I a compromise proposal in a last desperate effort to break the deadlock I have done so so but it L has little chance of accept- accept ance nce This may be another problem problem pro- pro blem lem turned over to the Legislative Legis Legis- Council Third I listened for a few minutes to the House debate on the he bill to change our big game license laws Among other things the he bill would repeal the present present present pre pre- sent buck bucklaw law and substitute a combination buck and doe license li license li- li cense which would permit any hunter to kill either a buck or a doe without a special doe license Amendments were being being beng be- be ing ng offered on all sides so it may be a different bill entirely when it reaches the Senate Arguments for the bill are that it would prevent a few lucky individuals from hogging hogging hogging hog ging all the special doe dge permits permits permits per per- mits and that it would eliminate ate the problem areas where the deer herds have become too large for the range to carry Idaho has always permitted the killing of either bucks or does and it is claimed this state ranks at the top in the number of deer killed year after year and that she has very few problem problem pro pro- blem areas Fourth Both houses of the legislature spent Washington's birthday as guests of Geneva Steel Co at its great plant near Orem and not once were we reminded that we should vote or not vote for any bill We Ve had a fine dinner every lady received a lovely orchid and andall andall andall all of us received a forceful I lesson in American industry's tremendous power to produce In any anyone one day we produce three times as much steel as all the rest of the world com com- Why are we so afraid of the future Fifth I am going home day day- tomorrow after Sunday to get some advice from the home folks Well VeIl Ill I'll soon be seeing you A. A I. I Tippetts Senator from Sanpete P P. P S S. S Rep Hurst of San Juan told this this- one on his neighbor Sen Don Adams He said he saw Don holding a good sized pig in his arms so it could eat the apples right off the tree take a long time to fatten a hog that way observed Mr H Hurst u r l' S t. t Yep replied Don but what's time to a hog |