Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 14, DeMotte, Jasper County, 4 March 1949 — Rural Bloc Wins On Time Issue [ARTICLE]

Rural Bloc Wins On Time Issue

House Approves Central Standard Time Measures As Passed By Senate Big city forces were caught off guard yesterday as the House of Representative rural bloc won a victory for Central Standard Time over a time referendum. The vote came on a divided committee report with a majority recommending amendment of Senate Bill 1 to call for a time referendum and the minority advising passage of the bill in present form. Previously passed by the Senate, the bill would establish CST as the only official time in Indiana. After the minority report was substituted for the majority report by a 42-36 vote, the House

adopted the Central Standard Time recommendation and sent the bill to second reading. Rural forces struck just" before closing of the day’s -session when many of the urban representatives had gone. Not voting on the measure were three Indianapolis representatives, four from Fort Wayne, two from Lake County, one from Evansville and one from South Bend; The move further complicated the muddled time situation. Earlier, the House had passed a bill calling for a 1950 referendum giving the voters their choice <ii SCT, Eastern Standard Time oi a combination of the two.

But, the Senate then amended the bill to call for statewide csT. $ s Speaker Robert H. Heller yesterday named Representatives Robert S. Webb, Arcadia Republican, and Harry T. Latham Jr., Indianapolis Democrat, to a conference committee to try to work out an agreement with the Senate on the House time bill.