Show Casually Observing Em with Cliff Day-By-Day Report From Your 1963 Legislator A DOUBLE DOSE When Senator Gordon Harmston and began that stretch on Capitol I served warning on Gordon that I'd expect him to contribute to the Day Legislative which 5 I have w ritten for the Standard each Last week 14 Gordon planned to get me some but being such a and hard-working he missed the 21 Thus his contribution IB a part of this week's column it's going to be a long The two together will Uptake a bit more but I'm T pure you souls m Vead each week Will enjoy Gordon's H THE SIXTH WEEK Time certainly has slipped from 89 when you read this there will be- only 14 and 10 working Ur left to finish our and do we have a lot To begin the which was j Speaker Charles did what in the had more or less expected He mimed a 1 consisting of 10 Republicans and seven THE ANNOUNCEMENT of 4 commit toe brought some pro- from the Demo floor who felt the ratio used not quite with the the GOP held How-T the protests just took time we still have the as announced by Speaker Ralph j is the of this powerful We worked on bills on then the board clean and 70 bills on the board See Page 10 Casually from page J were sent to with th first ones reported ou on Tuesday numbering an even co AS A SIDE FEATURE Monday afternoon we were privileged to hear a musical program presented by a mixed vocal chorus from Weber College to be known as Weber State We passed a bill a couple of weeks ago to change the name of this Also appearing for a brief few minutes were three Native Cubans who had left their homeland to seek employment for refugees from that Communist infested country There although brought tears to the eyes of many who have a deep feeing of compassion for those fine people who once enjoyed freedom and who want to again see their nation from the the Commie heel co ON we moved rather rapidly through the dozen bills placed on the calendar by the Sifting among which was one of the bills I was the chief It was KB By appropriating it will continue the eradication of among dairy and beef I had prepared a 15 or 20 minute speech on the bill that was so generally as I reviewed the general attitude and mood of the I took about 7 then answered a couple of quick and the hill received a unanimous vote of This means that if the Senate okays the state can continue their I very important co SOME OF THE other bills we passed included HB which allows in back pension money to a Civil War widow who should have received a monthly allowance for many She is nearing her Also okayed with little opposition was HB 14 that will regulate the tobacco vending machines in places of business where minors are allowed It's a good if and might make it a little more difficult for youngsters to buy House Bill an act prohibiting Immodest and nude photography in state-supported institutions was one of our institutions of higher learning had had this unhappy experience So it and happen in Utah co WEDNESDAY spent on Senate We had five reported out of Most of these had little implication with our so little needs to be said about I'm sure they were very important pieces of AN IMPORTANT DAY Gordon and I were very pleased to receive a delegation from the Roosevelt Chamber of who felt real concern about which relates to the definition of public utilities and electrical and enacting new sections to the code to prohibit duplication of electrical THE GROUT MET with the Senator and where we tried to explain our position and what the proposed law would include The six-man committee included Mayor Merlin Chamber President Calvin Vice-president Merrill Hollis Robert Bather and Floyd After our they met with officials of Uintah Power and Light and Moon Lake Electric who are lobbying for passage of the BETTER INFORMED- When this very representative delegation from our city left for I'm sure they felt the proposed piece of legislation was not designed to control free enterprise and would not have any mental effects on our but could be helpful in the future Delegations from home who have a problem are a very important part of and I express a deep feeling of appreciation for this group of busy men taking time to help us to a better job of serving our co THE LAST WORD-FRIDAY OFF We decided to e Washington's birthday on Taking a dav means we'll he doing some night work and perhaps some on Saturday Don't see how we can take care of what's ahead of unless we put in some long 30 MOTOR TO PROVO and Donald Bench 1 motored to Provo Sunday to spend the day with Bench's Grant who was just released from the Utah Valley hospital where he has been a patient for 4 |