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Show - V " l tr- j SENATOR NORRIS Many people know about Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska and bis record In the U. S. senate, extending ex-tending over a third of a century. But in Nebraska he is honored for more than the anti-injunction bill, the Tennessee Valley authority and the "lame-duck" amendment. Nebraska has the only unicameral, unicam-eral, or one-house, state legislature in all of the 48 states. The one-house one-house system began in 1937 and has 43 members elected on a non-par-l tisan ticket. This reform Is the handiwork of George W. Norris who devised the plan, spent his own money to campaign cam-paign and work for it. Through the efforts of Senator Norris, Nebraska has a huge grid system which, in connection with irrigating a million acres of land supplies electric power to farms and towns. All except one or two private pri-vate electric utility companies have been taken over and added to the public power system. Senator Norris made his home at McCook until he died there in )44 |