Show W washington SHI N nis ni S FRO KOM pur OUR congressman W K ac GRANGER ANGER c D duang th the p past twee week three free important at and far reaching legislative measures were baase passed if by the house 11 HR it 2536 H HR R 2798 and HR if R 2795 HR H R 2536 an act to amen amend d the present vocational rehabilitation for rehabilitation tion of provides an act p nellt industrial a w workers cra as well as soldiers whose dis disability abill ty is non service com connected arted the provisions of the A mendicant men dment to the act liberalizes the ilia law to the extent that all schools school public or private te may qualify as re habilitation t institutions n it it further hsc liberalizes the administration feat urs ures of the bill in that heretofore the states late band and the government were on a 50 50 5 bais the amendment acendra cut provides that the government shall assume loo per cent of adminis tr tra A tion tans costs and all other costs still on the old 50 50 basis the present a nien shan dment in no wise affects legislation that is currently under the veterans administration H R 2798 the road read funds of the various states state contain roughly goo of fed federal er 1 funds 60 rall mil ho bon of wha which ch would revert to the federal government overn on july 1 1943 and the remainder would revert on july 1 1944 to prevent cut this ir loss ot of federal aid funds theah the house u or on 1 tuesday passed HR 2798 8 which provides that all the road mad funds now apportioned to the states will remain to thew their credit until one year after the present emergency the bill also amends end the definition w en 01 Cori construction n in the federal highway act to t allow 1 I 1 ow federal participation on on a a an equal basis with the states in the purchase as a of rights of way A further provision directs the bonami commissioner s inner of public roads to conduct a study of the need for the possible routes ittes of and probable cost cast of a a system of e express pima s highways axy and to report to congress congre within six months A further pm provision ion which Is if of special interest to utah would make available A an n additional 15 for access roads ds to raw materials aro A present it limitation italian of 10 upon the construction m on of act reached nich inch roads has alm almost wt been reached laid iid the limitation h has prohibited ac cess to sources of raw materials which have been regarded as vital HR ER 2795 a bill to amend the budget and Acco accounting act of 1921 pre provides vides for far the sale and exchange of government pra property perty between laim government munt t agencies it further provides in anticipation of the close 0 of the war the a distribution of government prope property rt y that will il necessarily necessarily be in the possession 0 of t the a govern ment meet it provides that government agencies geric te holding sue such h property wt will III from time to time take an inventory 11 f the same and report the same t to special committee to be set et up p tue under ander the provisions of the act the A hole hal purpose of 1 the act 1 is to con can aral the sale and disposition of go gov emment property at the end of the war so as A to prevent the thing that thai happened after the last wherein government property was disposed of in a manner and to an extent that w was detrimental 1 to A all kinds kind of bus messes I inasmuch as we will have a much larger army amy and much more irm property perty the necessity for such a bill 1 is very apparent |