The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1947-06-26
AT THE
ST ATE
CAPITOL
With
GEORGE C. PHILPOT
State Representative

I was not able to give you an
account of the General Assembly S
activities last week because of the
amount of work that was done and
the very late hour of adjournment.
The weeks sessions opened at o:OO
%. m. June 9, and closed 500 a. m,
June Is. We held session almost con-
tinuously during the days. The
Saturday session lasted from 1000
a. m, Saturday, until 800 a. m, on
Sunday morning, with short recesSes
for lunch and supper or waiting on
the Senate to act on some bills. OF
course, the clocks were covered
about five minutes before midnight
Saturday and all transactions were
dated as of Saturday.
The long session and delay was
caused by the inability of some con-
ference committees to compromise
the House and Senate differences
on certain bills. The two outstanding
tough bills were the school bill, No.
S. B. 48. and the appropriations bill.
shall not attempt to list all the
bills passed or acted upon the past
week, but will mention some of i'm
portance to Noble county.
The school bill was finally passed
appropriating nearly $86,000,000 a
year to schools. This is nearly what
the OSA proposed at the Christmas
holiday meeting in Columbus. 1t is
about $2,000,000 below the Senates
version and about $2,500,000 above
what the House passed. This will
be great help to the teachers since
the Ballard amendment requires "a
of the increase over Senate Bill 80
of two years ago must be added to
the teachers present salary. An
eleventh hour agreement allows
school boards to increase the faculty
if needed and there is 80 pupils to
the teacher.
The appropriation for buses and
rehabilitation will help although
they were cut considerably below
what the figures asked for by the
Department of Education.
Tuesday the House passed the
Ferguson Fitzpatrick bill which
makes striking by employees of the
state or any subdivision of the state
illegal. Penalties under the law are
stated. This bill was hotly contested
and attempts were made to amend
but defeated.
The Van AIKEN bill placing some
regulations upon labor and labor
organizations was passed by both
Houses after the Senate wrote
substitute bill for one passed by the
House which was accepted by the
author.
S. B. No. 287-Shurtz Cramer-
Was passed by both Houses. This
bill renameS state route which
passes through Caldwell as Eighty
third Division Memorial Highway"
The strip mining which was of
fered by Rep. White passed the Sen
ate this week. Vote was 80 to 2. We
can expect this to become law as
Governor Herbert was interested in
some kind of strip mining regula-
ton. This bill is not very drastic but
will help restore the strip mined
land and will not work any great
hardship on the operators.
The turnpike bill by Senator
Winter was defeated in the House.
There was great deal of opposition
and very little, if any, public de-
mand for this type of road.
The bill to provide additional
compensation or salary raise for
certain county officials passed. This
bill was sponsored by Senators and
Representatives of both parties.
Commissioners, auditor, treasurer,
county clerk, recorders, sheriff,
prosecutor and engineers are af-
fected by this bill.
Other bills passed early made
salary increases possible for both
the probate and common pleas
judges. The judges pension bill was
killed and voters will be permitted
to vote on an amendment to the con-
stitution next November which if
passed will make the probate judge
term six years instead of four. An
other bill passed a few weeks back |
allows the consolidation of the pro-
bate and common pleas judges into
one office.
The Cramer bill which would |
have permitted retired teachers to |
AGLOA n w was oGLCdLCN
This surprised me because we have |
heard SO much talk about teacher |
shortage and a few weeks before |
the House passed a bill granting |
teachers certificates to two year
graduates in order to get more |
teachers No consistency / have |
learned this winter not to expect |
consistency from legislature.
The Cramer- -Monahan- Yoder bill |
allowing redistricting of school terri
tory by the county board of edu-
cation passed. Some amendments of |
minor Importance were added, |
others defeated. This bill should |
help answer the complaint made by |
the cities against some rural areas |
which have some high schools To-
Gated four or five miles apart.
My bill III. B. No. At Which
permits a board of commissioners by
unanimous vote to abolish a coun-
ty welfare department, passed the |
House, May 20. 1t passed the Senate,
June II, with only two opposing
votes. 1t rests on the governors |
desk
A companion bill known as the
Mahoney Carney George Philpot |
bill passed both houses about two
weeks ago. This bill puts the con-
troll of the county welfare depart
ment in the board of commissioners.
These two hills should enable /