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rur ni iTrriiAimi kiraniriA rtkJI UCCVI V IAIIDMAI PAGE EIGHT ' Thursday, January 17, 1957 THISCURIOUS WORLD By William 'Ferguson T.M. Rjee. U.S. Pat. Oft. n in n r ""If W-Www.7.W.'.v.v.w.v.w ess CI U n ft SMS1 UX5 SJV0FFATOX1N THAT S0AET1MES PROVES FATAL. fel ! iVMlV TO OTHER TYPES fr0rW7l mu2) w w s J r:.f Mi4 ri rf f m i w:mm f. f a l m YOU DRY A FLOOR WITH .if-: A WET CLOTH ar O0 !lAV;5:l J LEON HASTINGS JR., f 0 lit Seafercf.JDefaware." o "I 1 I ..I .tvvi III 1 1 IS SUSPENDED TO ATTACK. IT apitol News BY MELVIN PAUL Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN There appears strong sentiment in the Legis lature to provide more road rev enue for the State Highway Department. Leanings so far have been to ward an increased gasoline tax, and possibly higher license fees for trucks. Says State Engineer L. N. Ress: "We must insist on leg islative action this year." This is needed, the engineer said, so Nebraska can meet federal aid matching allocation. Ress said if Nebraska want ed to take advantage of all available federal aid, it would have to award $927,000 worth of contracts every week of the year. This would compare with the weekly average of the past two years of $500,000. The. matter of roads in gen eral will get sharp attention dur ing this session. A bill has been introduced that would require a state maintained road to any city or village located within five miles of a state highway. Sen. Frank Nelson of O'Neill introduced this bill, which would apply to any town having a post office, a school and at least one church. This has been interpreted as a move to get back on the high way system maintained by the state, some 900 miles removed by the 1955 Legislature. The appearance of the federal highway administrator, John A. Volpe, before the Legislature, added impetus to the matter cf more money to match federal aid. Nebraska, Volpe said, will have to raise additional road revenue to match all available federal aid funds. Said the administrator: "This probably could be accomplished by a one cent increase in the present six cent gas tax, or by a re-assignment of the present tax revenues now allocated to local governments, or by some combination of both." But, Volpe hastened to add. "I do not intend to tell the Ne braska Legislature what taxes it should impose to raise the highway improvement funds which will be needed. "The subject does not invite ready-made answers." Only seven states, he said, have more mileage of rural roads than Nebraska. "You have a real problem," he commented. Volpe said Nebraska must raise an additional $5 million to $6 million yearly to take prop er advantage of available feder al funds. He called for long-range high way planning. This thinking is the same as that of some state senators who feel that any in crease in road revenue should be coupled with a longer range program. Now, Nebraska lays out road construction programs on a two- year basis. There has been talk in the Legislature of not only a seven cent gasoline tax, but two cents above the regular rate for trucks only. Also being discuss ed is a higher fee for diese fuel. Diesel fuel now is taxed at the same rate as gasoline Robertson Case State Game Commission offi cials are casting anzious eyes at the Nebraska Legislature. The reason is the commission wants more money to operate during the 1957-59 biennium. Bu PUGNACIOUS. FISH OF HAWAII, IS USED BY NATIVES TO CATCH MORE STICKLEBACKS IF ONE ON A STRINS, OTHERS GOME AMD ARE TAKEN IN A NST. commissioner from North Platte, has been hanging like a cloud over the senate. Robertson was charged last May with shooting a quail from a public highway. Commission Director Mel Steen ordered a warden to drop the charge. This touched off a controver sy that has raged ever since. Some state senators have call ed for Robertson's resignation, but others questioned n even this might lift the cloud. The matter, they said, has been one primarily of public re lations and added that this can not be cured by legislation. Robertson steadfastly main tains he did not shoot the quail from a public highway and that all the fuss was the result of grudges within the department. He said he did not know of Steen's action beforehand. Steen has issued several state ments defending his action and stating that the filing of the original charge was "persecu tion and now prosecution." "In addition,", he said, "there Is grave doubt that proper legal grounds , ,ey er, existed for filing this complaint. Under these ; cir cumstances, it is proposed 'that we crucify a "fellow-citizen in the name of justice." The director had one final word today: That he doesn't believe will swallow what they are be ing told that they cannot have legislation and" progress they need because, at the very worst, i Mel Steen made a mistake." Polio . - . Final tabulations from the State Health Department on the. incidence of Polio " in Nebraska in 1956 are encouraging, offi cials said. .' 1 : " Al Rouse, director of the state polio division, said the number of polio cases in ,1956 was re duced by 33 per cent from 1955 and 75 per cent from 1954.' Rouse reported 186 cases in 956 as compared with 277 in 955 and .721 in 1954. : Kimball County ' got "hit the hardest in 1956 reporting 31 cases, or an attack rate of 700 per 100,000 population. This nor mally is considered epidemic proportions by. public, health of ficials, he said. Rouse said the rate of para lytic cases in 1956 was cut by 14 per. cent from 1955. In 1956, he said, 38 per cent of the cases were in persons over 20 years old. Bradley Quits Sidney R. Bradley, assistant chief of the Nebraska Resour ces Division, has taken a posi tion as executive director of the Des Moines, Iowa, industrial bur eau. Bradley has been with the Ne braska division since 1953, serv ing before that as executive as sistant of the Nebraska State Medical Association. - The assistant director said he changed positions because of a higher salary. The Des " Moines group was formed by businessmen of the city to attract new industry. Two Precautions Necessary Before Buying Hybrid Seed LINCOLN Hybrid sorghum growers should take two pre cautions before buying seed: 1. Know the man where you uy the seed. ' 2. Be sure the seed is a var iety adapted to your area. 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