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Show house furnishings for personal property prop-erty taxes provide industrial compensation com-pensation for victims of occupational occupation-al diseases, fix a tax for noxious weed eradication, set up life insurance insur-ance cooperatives and reserve to the state, minerals in state lands and in navigable waters. , Representative Burton H. Adams of Pleasant Grove co-sponsored H. B. 66. He was named chairman of the state training school committee of the house and to membership on the following committees: agriculture, agricul-ture, appropriations, : corperations and military affairs.' - o By Uarda McCarty Governor Herbert B. Maw's pro-;Jm pro-;Jm for reorganizing the Utah Jtite government was introduced in e house of representatives Wed-iiday Wed-iiday in the form of a, bill of 40 as. It dissolves many . of the sting boards and commissions -d vests their duties and powers in ! major divisions, in addition to ;-.e executive, state, and attorney aeral's departments. Paid board members are to be ap--inted by the governor subject to aate confirmation. Salaries of :embers are fixed at $4,000. Non- :iid advisory boards are to serve. ;ne governor is to have wide pow- over state expenditures. Depart-i Depart-i :ents of state and attorney general a to remain practically as at pres-at. pres-at. The executive department, insisting of the governor and con-ritutionally con-ritutionally elected officials is to I -dude an executive secretary and sijustant general, board of pardons, ynning board, state highway pa-" pa-" ol, council of traffic safety, and :istry of motor vehicles. S Other departments are finance, piblic welfare, engineering, business illation, education, agriculture, iiih and game, health, publicity and tdustrial development, and indus-rial, indus-rial, and .tax commissions. The iiucation, health, tax, and indus-7 indus-7 rial departments would function :uch as at present. Business as usual and plenty of it lis been the rule in both branches lithe current Utah state legislature nspite failure of Governor Herbert , ; Maw's governmental reorganiza-.Jf reorganiza-.Jf un bill to reach the solons last J ;?ek as expected. In fact, the legislators kept noses o the lawmaking grindstone by in-a in-a Co. reducing many and sundry bills tary. iiring the past two weeks. Eighty-line Eighty-line saw the light of day in the ;nate. The house was not far be-lind be-lind with 69. Only one measure lei re- las passed both upper and lower 11 quan- iranches, H. B. 3, permitting Ogden ibet 3 continue with one city judge. . Many of the introduced bills seek : i&blishment of new commissions. Others ask existing state departments depart-ments to assume added duties or mm Mke departmental changes. Some tarry appropriations, while a few require additional tax levies. All in ill, the legislators are proceeding I tog familiar lines and in so doing Sving little heed to the sweeping Apartment-commission changes and eliminations proposed in Governor Maw's reorganization program. Among the more important measures meas-ures seeking departmental changes are five bills replacing the present public welfare department with a tf, i-member, full-time ' public welfare j commission; abolishing county ad-tinistrattve ad-tinistrattve boards, transferring the division of old age assistance to the W commission, and giving it juris-)f juris-)f Won over state schools, hospitals, y Prison, and, self-help associations, thiidren in custody of the' juvenile i murt, and all other welfare activi-les. activi-les. The bills follow recommenda- 3 tons made' in the governor's reor-knization reor-knization message. Other measures introduced during first two weeks of the session tould create a state course of study ornmittee to recommend school extbooks and changes in courses of housing authorities to underage under-age slum clearances; state board of orestry and fire control; state meat spection service; state board, ' of narmacy; state barber board; state "Prentice council; zoning commis-'OQ commis-'OQ and board of adjustment, and legislative reference bureau. Creation of these bodies may or tUi nt Wt in Govemar Maw's re-fsanization re-fsanization plans but their intro-uction intro-uction shows 'that the legislators " re not awaiting submission of the Organization program before air-6 air-6 their individual legislative de-lres- There was every indication, j10' that the lawmakers sought to tst e way for speedy considera-J011 considera-J011 of the chief executive's pro-ls pro-ls as embodied in the measure 20C Presented early this week. Ke i . e MlUer MU repealing allocation C 1800,000 annually to cities and 9C '?tles for streets and roads was 19C drawn with the understanding ,v a substitute will be considered t v tile reorganization program F been placed before the legisla-W legisla-W Q BUls introduced provide for orm traffic laws, abolish pri-lfy pri-lfy run-off elections, ask local op-'Q op-'Q on sale of liquors by the drink, 'Pt wage and hour regulations for 0 Estate business; exempt - all |