Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-02-23 | Page 3 | Latest News from The Intermountain West

Latest News From The Intermountain West Utah Nevada Ut h Idaho Nevada Montana MOTOR VEHICLE BillS APPROVED I 4 Idaho House Also Cuts Sum for States State's Advantages nOISE BOISE Idaho Feb 23 Dy 23 The Associated Press Four Press Four bills billsby billsby b by the th uniform laws las committee to provide an theft anti motor re- re vc hide act a uniform registration act uniform licensing of o operators and chauffeurs and a uniform act regulating the Ur operation ot of o motor vehicles on highways are aro now nowr r acly for tor enactment by the nine nine- nineteenth nineteenth te nth Idaho legislature These sour four bills were Tuesday subjected to the committee of tho whole b by bythe bythe the tho representatives amended to to snake ka them effective on January 1928 and given glnn iven recommendatIons recommendations for tor passage Amendments to the act Ir ers were ero approved ed whereby 20 per pel cent of ot tho the license proceeds are to go eo to Application ton tion for tor or operators licenses mu rout must t be belI lI ade to tl county count assessors lIMe sors SI O G Tn In line Une with tho the approved program to keep proceeds It the th four-cent four gas s-as tax for tor the g general highway fund lives tives killed through Indefinite post post- postponement a bill which proposed that all tag tax receipts receipt be return return- returned ed cd to the counties where here collect- collect el d J and apportioned a among high iv way ay y districts This action met bit bit- bitter bit ler lee ter opposition from the Twin Palls Falls delegation ot of Governor II H C t I In- In In Increased B admonition against creased cras d appropriations was wa evi- evi evidenced evi evidenced when the house bouse amended the ibe Idaho publicity bill by cutting from Irons from to the appropriation ap- ap for tor national advertis- advertis ing ot of the th states scenic attractions ind nd resources I Introduction o ot of now new bills was featured f by the report ot o the and penal Institutions I report which ultimate of tIle the present penitentiary and pur pur- pur- pur purchase purchase chase ot of a new penitentiary site cite suitable tor for farming and nd other in- in industries In that the penitentiary penitential may be made mode supporting self-supporting through prIson labor FOR rOK e state ate te affairs committee i bill approved by the tho senate makes a a 1 appropriated ap- ap by the 1917 1317 legislative c SeMI on tor for erection of o a memorial I 1 10 vo Governor Frank Prank A Alike Alik like amount In money and pledges has been raised by the Memorial association