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Show Wilder ImS i'j-z- : S Death of ft movement to authorize 2 he sale of liguors and wines by the jink. B Tentative approval of homestead Ijid property tax exemptions in both 2 xuses. Putting the quietus on the proposal pro-posal to bar governmental employment employ-ment of persons whose spouses are Jainfully employed. fc These were highlights last week W; front line action at the twenty-&lrd twenty-&lrd session of the Utah state legislature, legis-lature, which on Monday began its fend day and its third to last week F lawmaking deliberations. Presaging interesting action to cme on measures of vital interest ft) the state as a whole was the introduction of several new bills. A mate-introduced old age assistance ifa places payments on a need basis Etead of the present $30 less in-jBSme in-jBSme basis. Another senate meas-proposes meas-proposes that school classes up and including the fifth grade taught by radio. A house bill Srohibits sit-down and stay - in Mrikes. limits oicketinsr and use of for services In criminal cases. Three bills are on the house table. The senate last week passed a bill providing for the revocation of a driver's license and registration of any motorist who fails to satisfy a judgment returned as damages for personal injury or property destruction. destruc-tion. The bill further provides that to regain the right to operate a motor mo-tor vehicle the delinquent one must either settle the judgment in full or make satisfactory arrangements to pay it in installments and give proof of future financial responsibility responsi-bility in the form of an insurance policy, real estate bond, or securities secur-ities posted with the state. The senate effected a compromise on the distribution of the aeronautic gasoline tax fund of nearly $50,000 by passing a bill allocating 75 per cent of the revenue to the airports where the fuel was purchased and 25 per cent to the state aeronautics fund for use as the aeronautics commission com-mission deems best. A major portion of the approximately approxi-mately 540 bills yet to be acted upon up-on are now in the hands of senate bor boycotts. pother new bills of interest pro-J.se pro-J.se extension of the period in jpfhich a preceding year's motor JJhicle license plates could be used April 1; authorize an appropriated appropria-ted of $100,000 for Utah's 1947 cen-jjnary cen-jjnary observation, and create . a jproduction-for-use program similar hp the "Epic" plan proposed in California. Cali-fornia. Q The lower house continued to gj'jnd an economy note when it reaped re-aped to approve proposed salary greases for three state officials, ifi did,' however, grant lesser raises j two. jThe house of representatives em-iatically em-iatically rejected the proposal to tualize state liquor laws by permitting per-mitting the sale by drink of hard jyuors or even light wines. ' The Lvik'islators showed plainly that sentient sent-ient is decidedly against any fur- and house sifting committees excepting ex-cepting those on house or senate calendars and those as yet unreported unre-ported by committees to which they were referred. Members of the seventh district legislative delegation set a new weekly record for the number of bills introduced by any one delegation delega-tion last week when they sponsored or cosponsored 15 measures. Senator Francis S. Lundell introduced intro-duced S. B. 254, unique in that it proposes the setting up of a 3-man commission to study the feasibility ! of instruction by radio for children up to and including the fifth grade. He also introduced a measure proposing pro-posing a constitutional amendment limiting the property tax to 15 mills within a city or 10 mills outside incorporated in-corporated municipalities, exclusive of liens to meet bonded indebted- sonatnr T.nndell sponsored S. B. 255, requiring school districts to contribute con-tribute to teachers' retirement fund, and S. C. R. 4, indorsing the Miller bill to lower interest rates on loans to agricultural improvement districts from 4 to 3 per cent. With Senator Arthur C. Ellett, he cosponsored S. B 273 and 288. The former appropriates appro-priates $2000 to the state junior livestock show at Spanish Fork. The latter establishes various roads as part of the state highway system. He also cosponsored S. B. 252, extending ex-tending to April 1 each year the period in which motor vehicle license li-cense plates issued the previous year can be used. Senator Ellett in addition to the two bills cosponsored with Mr. Lundell, Lun-dell, introduced S. B. 261, exempt-in exempt-in o- fnmilv automobiles from execu- er liberalizing and that unless aere are drastic changes in present-v present-v attitudes, the present law will fiain in status quo for some time come. phe homestead exemption movement move-ment was encouraged by house ac-3n ac-3n making the exemption bill and Jur allied revenue measures a special spe-cial order of business for ' Friday. lied measures which exemption pporters figure will compensate r loss of tax revenue if home-:ads home-:ads up to $2000 in value are not xed include a bill transferring oc-Lpation oc-Lpation tax revenues to the state jgh school fund, another diverting Joo.OOO a year in liquor sales prof-afe prof-afe to the same fund, another rais-ig rais-ig the mine occupation tax from le to two per cent on gross pro- IC lU OWW eds in excess of $100,000 and a urth increasing income taxes and ivering exemptions. In the senate a bill to exempt Jme furnishings up to $300 in value 1m taxation was advanced to third ,e ading without a dissenting vote. lis is taken to mean final adop- )n of the measure in the upper use. ... iTwo measures having to do with "lancing municipally owned util-ies util-ies brought clashes in the senate st week. Supporters of S. B. 107 iclared that S. B. 59 was written r promoters of municipal power ants, while those favoring the itter charged that S. B. 107 was private power company measure. The forty-first day of the current ission closed Saturday with 605 ouse and senate bills introduced, if this number only 67 had been V tion. Representative T. Earl Foote and others introduced H. B. 236, exempting exempt-ing farm produce stands from provisions pro-visions of the Sunday closing law. Mrs Maud B. Jacob also cosponsored this measure and with other introduced intro-duced H. B. 276, appropriating $25,-000 $25,-000 for a study of state school systems. sys-tems. Representative Selvoy J. Boyer joined others in introducing H. B. 245, permitting school districts to establish cumulative building funds and to invest the same. Both Senators Lundell and Ellett voted no on S. B. 13, providing for registration plates when he fails to satisfy a judgment for personal or moperty damages. All representatives representa-tives voted to kill the sale by drink bill. cted upon passed by ooui uuuo, Med, withdrawn or vetoed by Gov-rnor Gov-rnor Henry H. Blood up to Saturday Satu-rday night. An additional nine had C een signed by the governor, leav-c leav-c ig 529 measures still in the legis- 'tive hopper. " c A total of 34 bills are now await-- await-- the approval or disapproval of ' ' Sovernor Blood. Eleven have been ffled by house or senatorical ac-, ac-, on. Another 21 have been withdrawn, with-drawn, either entirely or because ''pome other bill has been substituted fr its provisions carried out in another. an-other. ' The senate has passed 12 measles meas-les which are yet to be acted upon ! n the lower house. Representatives iave passed a like number which ire now in the senate for action. ' Governor Blood has vetoed one bill, !Tf ixuie fees for' justices of the peace |