Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 294, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 February 1975 — Page 7

ERA given only 50-50 chance of reaching Senate floor

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - If the equal rights amendment reaches the Senate floor, it likely will be without recommendation for passage. The resolution to ratify the proposed 27 th amendment was voted out of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee’s

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Legislature at-a-glance By The Associated Press House Passed H 82099, the key item in the Democrats’ multimillion-dollar tax relief program, a bill for uniform sl,000 state income tax exemptions, 66-34. Senate Changed a proposed constitutional amendment on governor and lieutenant governor succession, SJRI, to require a new governor chosen by the legislature when both offices are vacant be from the same political party as his predecessor. Elections House Elections Committee approved a bill to increase the time allowed for voting in a general election, either by machine or paper ballot, from one minute to three minutes. Education Rep. Paul Hric, D-Hammond, chairman of the House Education Committee, introduced a resolution calling for a task force to study legal problems of school discipline. Ways and Means House Ways and Means Committee approved two more Democratic tax bills, one including Gov. Otis Bowen’s request to take the sales tax off eyeglasses, dentures and hearing aids.

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general Maw subcommittee Wednesday night without recommendation. Committee Chairman Martin K. Edwards, R-New Castle, said he would give the resolution only a 50-50 chance of reaching the Senate floor. “In fact, it might very well

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fail,” Edwards said. The full committee was scheduled to act today. The resolution, HJRI, passed the-House 61-39 but reportedly is five votes short of the 26 needed to clear the Senate, which defeated it 33-16 two years ago.

spokesman said. Sales as projected Wednesday from partial reports for the previous week climbed to 4.2 million tickets, the commission reported: The

School district wants to rent classrooms

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The general law subcommittee heard two hours of testimony from 30 persons, both opponents and proponents of the ERA. The hearing attracted about 750 sign-toting spectators. Among those testifying for the resolution were Sen. Thom-

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spokesman said sales had averaged 3.92 million tickets weekly since the Aug. 9, 1974, opening and had risen every week since last Jan. 3. The figures are “exactly on

He said he knows of no precedent for renting rooms in operating schools to private enterprise. Falling enrollment confronts many school boards in California and in other parts of the nation. With it comes divisive decisions on which schools to close. But state law bars commercial use of school property and also restricts its use by other public agencies.

as J. Teague, D-Anderson, Senate sponsor of the resolution; U.S. Rep. J. Edward Roush, DInd; Willis Zagrovich, president of the Indiana AFLCIO, and Elmer Blankenship of United Auto Workers, Region 3. Opponents included Rolena Jackson, chairman of the Stop

target with what our projected sales were going to be,” said Deputy Director James Dickerson. “We feel that as the television has more exposure, this thing will continue to dimb.” Broadcast advertising began recently, and televised draw-

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ERA Committee; Jane Toner Scott, owner of the Anderson Herald; Dr. Phillis Irwin, a medical doctor, and Julia Becker, a high school student from Fort Wayne. Teague said the ERA would not cause chaos with state laws on equal rights and that women

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receive “special legislative treatment” through higher Social Security payments would not lose them if the ERA is ratified. “My view is that instead of taking away, the legislature would extend them to widowers.”