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Section Two

Twelve Pages

Indianapolis

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ACTION IS THE keynote of the modern club< woman's program, just as study meetings and social events were in the past. Tied in with this relatively new movement among women's groups is the progressive record they are making in legislative halls everywhere, When the 86th Indiana Geneéral Assembly convenes this month and next, elected Legislators will find an increased number -of club representatives registered as lobbyists, backing proposed legislation supported by their organizations. Beginning Thursday, women lobbyists will plan their lives around the 61 days of the legislative calendar. They will keep _a record of bills being intsvaues check those scheduled for readings and Watch for committee hearings. At the latter they often will be called upon to explain their reasons for backing a certain bill, Present during every legislative session, the lobbyists must _be alert"for “riders” which might cancel strides already made. They contact kKéy persons in their state organizations who can + their entire memberships against a destructive measure,

‘THE “WOMEN OF THE LOBBY” are well-fead. Before the session they collect the latest information on proposed legisiation from public officials and in-the-field agencies. Does the bill have a “past”? What are the détails of the present measure? How will it affect the future of the field represented? To all these queries the lobbyist will have a ready answer. Mrs. Wayne C. Kimmel, president of the Indiana Branch, American Association of University Women, will be in the State Houge Thursday morning to keep an eve on the. AAUW-indorsed kindergarten bill. “Also backed by the Association for Childhood Education, this is a permissive bill for recognition of kindergartens as an, integral, part of the public school system. It will make them eligible for staté support on the same basis as other elementary grades. AAUW members also will be working for legislation on reapportionment to include women, more women

on school boards, extension of the merit system and lowering

to 17 years the requirement age for entering schools of nursing.

Mrs. John A. Crawford is the only Indianapolis member of the state AAUW legislative committee who will lobby, Heading this. committee is Miss Mary K. Anderson; Mooresville. Other members Include Mrs. Robert Justice, Logansport; Mrs. Henry Lane, Jamestown, and Mrs. Charles Kellum and Mrs. Margaret Romine of Mooresville: Members of the Indianapolis Branch who will sit in ‘on committee are Mesdames Morris B. Paynter, R. R. Benson, Everett Schofield, Walter Huehl, J. P. Lahr, Marvin Curle, Robert Juday, Walter Leckrone and Karl M. Koons. Also Mesdames C. R. McCotter, Loren Harkness, W. C. Brandt, Noble Poole, WA: Clabaugh,-Milton-Eirod-and-K--Mark-Cowen and the Misses Frances Stalker, Frances Moder and Isabelle Drummond.

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N IN ACTION

By JEAN TABBERT and AGNES H. OSTROM

FOR THE FIRST TIME the Seventh District, > Indiana Federation of Clubs, will be a lobby group. Mrs. Royer K. Brown, president, will represent her or-

ganization. She is shown checking last-minute memos with Mrs. Clayton H. Ridge, her legislation chairman. The Seventh District plans to support the kindergarten bill and. the women-on-school-hoards measure ‘which would extend -provisions of a 1947 "bill to second and fifth class cities. State aid to public libraries will receive Seventh District backing, too. A primary concern of the Indiana Federation of Clubs will be support of the State Health Board's program. Mrs. T. E. Lashbrook. is. pictured studying charts with Dr. Leroy E. Burney, state heal commissioner, in preparation for work during the Assembly, She is the IFC legislation chairman. Aid will be given the State Advisory Health Council bill on tate *aid for full-time local heafth departments. In addition BHI}: to", help in“sure a mentally healthy people, the king vill measures to reduce the accident ton courts will he on the agenda. . 8 » , . 8 ‘nN ST LOBBYISTS FOR THE Indiana League of Women Voters will be Mrs. William Snethen of Indianapolis and Mrs. Drysdale Brannon of Marion, legislative co-chairmen named last month by Mrs. John L. H. Fuller, league president. A 24-member Steering committee of local women will serve by couples each day in each house of the legislature to follow progress of the bills. The group will sponsor legislation based on the report of the State Penal and Correctional Survey Commission.

In the last General Assembly if’sponsored the bill which made |

this survey possible, In -the photos, Mrs. Brannon goes over the report in league headquarters, while Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Snethen examine the educational building blueprints to extend training facilities at the Indiana Girls School with Mrs. James K. Northam of the school's board of trustees. League backing also will go fo the permissive city government constitutional

amendment to allow cities to choose their own form of government, :

THE INDIANA PTA CONGRESS will be busy watching the bills which support items in its legislative program. — Mrs. Joseph -W. Walker, Greenfield, president, and Mrs, Walter L. Caley, legislation chairman and lobbyist, will be at the PTA helm, ‘ .— They will back measures pertaining to recommendations of the Penal Survey Commission; codification of public health laws, non-partisan selection of juvenile court judges, state aid for public libraries, local option, lowering of requirement age for entering -nurses-training-and-all-points-related-to-education—sehools and school boards, including a required vision-testing program for all pupils in Indiana schools. Photos by Ruth Ann Hamilton, Times Staff Photographer

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