The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-04

J state hospital commission program
with the city of Jackson and the CO.
unity Of Kinds jointly and the state
and the Federal government, each
| putting up one third. A 30-bed hos
pital is proposed. devoted largely tc
teaching and working with the me
| dical school.
The Senate spent one morning de-
batting a bill to create a committee
to study flood control in the water
shed of the Yazoo River and its tri-
butaries. finally passing the measure
with a S12,500 appropriation.
Repeal of prohibition stirred the
House again; after the Price-Ross
local option bill had been killed.
Rep. Bowen Qttawamba), offered a
bill calling for a statewide referen-
dunn on repeal; but Speaker Walter
SilIers sustained a point of order
that Mr.. Bowen's bill could not be
introduced except under Rule IS,
which prohibits introducing of a bill
covering matter rejected by the
House except under certain condi-
tons. Despite the ruling. the House
Temperance Committee approved
the bill.
A House-approved bill was passed
by the Senate which would extend
powers of the Central Farmers Mar
ket Board to permit leasing part of
the site in north Jackson for CONNER
cial purposes, but with amendments.
The Senate also passed a bill set
ting a $500 minimum pay scale for
county superintendent of education.
Also passed by the Senate was a
House-approved bill setting maxi
mum and minimum speed limits for
highway highway-traffic.
Meantime House committees kill
ed a bill to increase the Highway
Patrol to 200 members; and bills to
change sales tax exemptions.
A bill to consolidate Columbia In
dustrial and Training School for
whites and the same type school at
Oakley for negroes, under one board
was approved by House committee.
In other actions the House passed
bills to:
Remove the governor from the
Lime Plant Board.
Increase the amount which may
be paid to sheriffs for victualing
prisoners from the present maximum
rs cents per day to $1.00 per day.
Provide that the director of the di-
vision of instruction in the state de-
partment of education shall super
wise music education in the state.
Fifteen bills of a local and private
nature.
Proposed repeal of the Mississippi
Bureau of Investigation was approx
ed by the Senate judiciary commit
tee.
In other important committee act
ion, the Senate conservation commit
tee voted unfavorably on a bill by
Senators Frank Smith of Greenwood
and Fred Jones of Inverness calling
for establishment of a state depart
nent of conservation. The bill would
have abolished the state Game and
Fish Commission, the state Forestry
Commission the State Board of Park
Commissioners, the state Board of
Geological Survey and several agen-
cies, placing them under the one de-
oartment of conservation.
Passed by the Senate were mea-
sures that would:
Authorize the Surplus Property
Procurement Commission to employ
five instead of three field represen-
tatives.
Regulate installation and equip
ment used in storage of liquefied
compressed gases.
Exempt from sales tax purchases
made for drainage districts.
Among other measures passed by
the House were:
An act to prohibit the criminal
abuse of any public school teacher
by making persons convicted of I'm
or abusing" any teacher
while that person was in possession
of a deadly weapon guilty of a fe-
lony.
An act requiring that all motor
vehicles owned by the state or "any
agency, department or political SUBJ
division thereof, have the name of
the department, agency or political
subdivision painted thereon and to
provide for the enforcement there
of
An act requiring all state officers,
highway commissioners, department
heads of state, state commissioners,
state boards or other state agencies
to file annual reports to the secretary
of state on or before June 80 of each
year.