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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1951)
State Capitol News— Solon Breaks Up Meeting of Unicameral’s Government Committee with Walkout By MELVIN PAUL Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association Lincoln—The week started out quietly enough in the legislature The labor committee, by a 6-3 vote, killed Sen. George Syras’s bill to close the Milford trade 9chool. Dr. Frank D. Ryder, state health director, said he was thinking of taking a VA job amid reports of legislative pressure for his resignation. Sen. Arthur Car mody failed to get enough votes on the floor to raise his partisan legislature bill. And the law makers wrestled with the peren nial problem of school land leases. It was just a routine legisla tive week—until Friday after noon, when most of the senators had their cars pointed home ward. Then, as a crowded hearing room sat shocked, Sen. W. J. (“Lefty”) Williams, not the most predictable legislator, broke up a meeting of the government committee which was consider ing two of William’s bills, both dealing with the reorganization of the state administrative de partment. Gov. Val Peterson had ignit ed the outburst when, answer ing a quastion asked by Sen. Sam K aver, he admitted that he was "not too enthusiastic" about the Williams bills. The governor questioned the value of the research that it was in adequate and ha urged the committee to make a much more careful study of adminis trative departments before ap proving the bills. The measure—LB 315 and 316 —are the result of a report by the legislative council committee on reorganization of state govern ment, of which Williams was a member. They propose, among other things, setting up a depart ment of taxation and finance which would, for instance, col lect the cigaret and gasoline taxes now handled by the department of agriculture. The governor said the legis lative council committee talked with Agriculture Director Rufus Howard only 15 minutes before [arriving at Us conclusions. Instead of a legislative com j mittee making such a study, the 1 governor suggested, the job might I better be done by a “little Hoov j er commission” as proposed in the 1949 legislature by Sen. Tom ! Davies, of Lincoln. At any rate, | he said, the task should be hand led by "qualified personel” and I not senators who “are not train ed and are not able to spend their full time at the job.” That’s what got William’s goat. He jumped to his feet and mov ed that the bills be killed. Bitterly he said, “When we’ve done everything possible and then to have the governor of this state stand before this commit tee and say that members of the legislature are not trained and not qualified ...” W'hen Chairman Karl Vogel ruled him out of order, Williams asked to be excused then stomp ed across the statchouse rotun da, through the senate chamber and into the cloakroom where he jammed on his hat and left the building, a bitter man, indeed. • • * Reject $50,000 Investigation— Earlier the same day, "Lefty" had done better. He was named chairman of a seven-man com mittee to study the operation of the state assistance department to see if something could be done about red tape which Williams said was doubling the cost of the aid program m soon counties. “Lefty’s" colleagues had reject ed a proposal by Sen. Charles Tvrdik, of Omaha, that $50,000 be appropriated to hire a private management consultant firm to make the study. Tvrdik’s argument was much like that to be made in the af ternoon by the governor. Legis lators aren’t experts in assistance matters, he said. Why not haw some real, professional efficien cy experts handle the job. And another thing, "Where on God’s green earth would a legis latiw committee find the time?” he demanded. But the senators liked better the proposal of Speaker Ed Hoyt, of McCook, who suggested that the legislative council reference bureau, a research agency, be called upon to help. The vote was 25-11 and as soon, as it was announced, Lt.-Gov. Charles Warner pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket and named Williams as the commit tee chairman with these mem bers: John Beaver, of Beemer; Rob ert McfNutt, of Lincoln; Dwight Burney, of Hartington; Sam Klaver, of Omaha; Otto Prohs, of Gering and C. E. Metzger, of Cedar Creek. Williams said the group’s first meeting would be this Saturday with public hearings set for fol lowing Saturdays until the probe is finished. * * m LB 1 Is Having Rough Going— The first bill to be introduced this session — not surprisingly labeled LB 1—is having some pretty rough going. Sen. Arthur Carmody, of Trenton, is sponsor ! of the measure which would set up under the department of ag riculture a division of wheat util ization. It would be financed by a levy on each bushel of wheat grown in the state. This levy, 5 mills at first, was later cut to 2 and the bill was amend ed to make make participation voluntary instead of compulsory. Sen. William Hern, of Chad* ron, a chairman of the agricul ture committee which kept the bill bottled up for a couple of weeks after its hearing, is one of its staunchest foes. So is Sen. Chris Metsger. of Ced ar Creek. They badgered Car mody with questions as the bill came up for its first floor test. But Carmody managed to get 27 votes to have the bill advan ced against only eight dissents. This week, as it came up for second reading, the enemies were plotting more amendments. • ♦ * No More Fireworks On Independence Day— No big blowout this Fourth of July. That was assured when Sen. Sam Klaver’s hotly-contest ed fireworks ban bill cleared final reading with 38-4 vote and its emergency clause still intact. That’s the clause which makes a bill law as soon as it’s signed by the governor. There had been reports of an attempt to knock off the emer gency clause—making the bill ef fective somewhere around the middle of August—so that there could be one last glorious pyro technical binge this Independence day. * * * 'Tired of frying To Save World Defeat is something you have to learn to live with in the legislature, as any veteran who has seen his pet bill voted down can tell you. This week, Senator Earl J. Lee, of Fremont, knew defeat and he was a little weary of it. 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Let somebody else do it for awhile.” 9 Enlistments Are Reported Sgt. James R. Lyons, of the ar my and air force recruiting sta tion at O’Neill, has announced j the following enlistments from the area: For regular army: Sidney J. Frahm, of Page; Charles L. Berg strom, of Ewing; John L. Bohn, of Inman; Clement J. Cerney, of Naper; Carl B. Schrad, of Ewing; Thomas K. Ressell, of O’Neill; Edward A. Hynes, of O’Neill. These men went to Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., for further process ing, training and assignment. Air force enlistees include: Julian F. Thorell, of Bristow, and Clyde K. McCormick, of Valen tine. The last two men were sent to Lackland air force base, San An tonio, Tex. Garry Wilson Is Named President— The Lucky Clover 4-H club met at Pat Osbom’e Wednesday, March 7, at 8 p.m., to organize their club for 1951. New officers for the club are: Garry Wilson, president; Alvin Leudtke, vice - president; Betty Osborne, secretary and treasurer; Lorell Pickering, news reporter; Lila Hull, leader; Pat Osborne, as sistant leader. The next meeting will be at at Albert Carson’s on April 6 at 8 p.m., unless other arrange ments are made. After the meeting a lunch was served. Boys and birls in Holt county are welcome to join. — Lorell Pickering, news reporter. “Voice of The Frontier . . . WJAG . . . 780 on your dial! ST. PATRICK’S DAY DANCE AMERICAN LEGION BALLROOM O’NEILL “Where the Big Bands Play” SATDRDAY, MARCH 17TH Admission: $1 Per Person (Tax Inch) AMAZING TEST PROVES PICS FID FOXBILT PIGTRATE CAN AVERAGE 15 EXTRA LBS. 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