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Clifford Graves and Bill O’
Brion spent from Wednesday eve
ning, November 26, until Sunday
afternoon, November 30, with
their families at Page. They are
both employed at the Mead de
fense plant.
Mrs. Ana Thompson spent the
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November 29-30 weekend at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sterner.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hibbs and
daughter, Lillian, of O’Neill were
Sunday, November 30, guests at
the Sterner home.
Mrs. E. A. Chichester returned
home Thursday, November 27,
from Hadar. She had gone there
the first of the wek to attend the
funeral of her sister-in-law.
State Capitol News . . .
Highway Discussion to Dominate
Spotlight in Legislative Session
LINCOLN—Highways will hog
the spotlight for a good share of
the 1953 legislature.
Amidst evidence of mounting
pressure to re-enact the penny-a
gallon increase in gas taxes and
to re-instate higher registration
fees, a Lincoln senator last week
said he plans to offer bills early
in the session which will provide
for a ton-mile levy on heavy
trucks and buses and for a new
division of the nickel-a-gallon
state gas tax.
Currently, the state highway
department gets two and a half
cents of each nickel; the counties
gegt 2.35 cents, of which a penny
goes for graveling rural mail
routes (Schroeder Law) and cities
and villages get .15 of a cent.
Howard Britt, the Lincoln
senator-elect, proposes that the
highway department take a
penny from the counties' share.
The counties would thus have
1.35 cents, of which only a half
cent would go to the Schroeder
fund. The amount for cities and
villages would remain unchanged
Obviously, such a plan won’t be
popular with the counties. But
Britt says, “The present practice
is to assign to the counties ap
proximately one-half of the g-'S
tax receipts although probably
less than one fourth of these re
ceipts come from traffic on these
roads. The re-allocation measure
will bring this into line. It will
put the secondary roads on a lo
on a self-help basis.”
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Gloom —
State Engineer Harold Aitken
last week painted a gloomy pic
ture of highway finance in Ne
braska. He told Tax Commis
sioner Phillip K. Johnson, during
hearings on Aitken’s 1953-’55
budget request that even if the
1949 revenue measures are re-en
acted, all the defects in the public
highway system won’t be cor
rected in 20 years.
To bring Nebraska’s roads to
“tolerable condition” by 1953.
would require spending at the
rate of $28,750,000 a year, he testi
fied. If Nebraskans want to elim
inate the defects found in a 1948
survey and still not remedied,
and wanted to do the job in ten
years, Aitken said, they would
have to spend $40,JD4,uuu a year, j
well over twice the present rate, j
Currently, the department has
something like $18,220,000 to
spend.
Aitken complained that he is
requested to present his budget
request on the basis of current
revenues whereas other depart
ments which are not supported by
special taxes, submit theirs on
the basis of need. He said he
thinks that the governor in pre- j
paring a budget recommendation, i
should consider the element of
need.
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Aide —
Governor-Elect Robert B. Cros
by has made first appoint
ment: Max Denney of Fairbury to
be administrative assistant to the
governor. Denney is the former
Jefferson county attorney who
handled Crosby’s outstate cam
paign.
The new governor said it had
been difficult to get Denney to
take the job and he was hur
rying to announce it “so that Mr.
Denney will have no chance to
change his mind.”
Statehouse gossip was that
Denney had been offered his
choice of the aide’s post or the in
surance commissioner’s job.
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Impact —
The Nebraska supreme court
this week has under advisement
a case which could have a terrific
impact upon the whole Nebraska
tax situation. It is the appeal of
a Johnson county landowner,
Lewis Laflin, from the action of
the state board of equalization
fixing valuations on farm land
and valuations in that county at
82 percent of the 20-year sales
price.
I The board last summer voted
to raise farm land valuations in
19 counties which had previous
ly been below 50 per cent of the
sales price.
They were raised io 50 per
cent. No action was taken on
lowering those over 50 per
cent.
Guy Chambers of Lincoln, at
torney for Laflin, pointed out
that 27 counties are assessed at
between 50 and 54 percent; 15
are between 55 and 59 percent;
another 15 between 60 and 64
percent; 20 between 6 and 69 and
between 75 and 79. Only John
eight between 75 and 79. Only
Johnson county is more than 79.
Deputy Attorney General
Clarence A. H. Meyer, defend
ing the board of equalization, ar
gued that the question was a pro
cedural one and that Laflin
should not have appealed to the
supreme court but should have
brought a mandamus action to
compel the board to grant John
son county some relief.
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Jam —
The Nebraska railway com
mission this week was preparing
for a jammed hearing room on
its proposal to assert jurisdiction
over commercial hauling of cer
tain commodities.
The commission has notified
both carriers and shippers that
it intends to take uniform rate
schedules on March 15, 1953, un
less cause is shown this week
why it shouldn’t.
Involved are dairy products,
live poultry, grain, seeds, pota
toes and other vegetables.
Miss Genevieve Brady oif Jack
son left Thursday afternoon, No
vember 27, after spending a week
visitng in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. James Holsclaw.
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ARRIVING FROM KOREA
Mrs. Joe Kubik received word
from her son, Tom Kubik, EN,
that he will arrive in the U. S. ,
about December 16 from Korea
where he has been for the past
eight months. Seaman Kubik en
listed in 1947 and served 18
months. He was called back to
duty in March, 192.
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