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Show DAWSON SAYS LOOPHOLE PLUGGED The House and Senate plugged a loophole loop-hole in the civil service commission act which permitted high cabinet officials last January to take up to $12,000 in taxpayers' funds when they went out of office. Such men as ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson and ex-tax scandalman vice with the former admin-they admin-they did not take during their ser-representing, ser-representing, they said, vacations LaMar Gaudel took large sums istration. FOR WORKERS ONLY In accordance ac-cordance with President Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's wishes, the new negislation prohibits top executive officers from accumulating vacation time, thus reserving the privilege for those to whom it rightly belongs the hardworking federal employe who stays on the job. FOREST LANDS Assisted by telegrams and letters from scores of Utah communities and organizations, I opposed a bill which would. I feel, ereatlv handi- cap the Forest Service in protecting our watershed areas. OTHER U 1 AMINo timer Utahns who appeared personally against the bill were City Commissioner Com-missioner Grant Burbidge.Salt Lake City, and Clarence White and Herbert Her-bert F. Smart, of the Utah Wildlife Wild-life Federation. I feel better administration ad-ministration of the present laws rather than such far-reaching legislation is the answer to the legitimate complaints of livestock live-stock men. SCHOOL LUNCHES Parents need not be concerned about the economy program's effect upon the school lunch program. The House voted a cash appropriation of $83,365,000 which with the addition ad-dition of food surplus donations will bring federal contributions next year to $147,000,000. This compares com-pares to $100,000,000 for 1952 and $133,400,000 for the current year. |