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) " C~LORADO INFO HhATIOtT .wsletter. - !llursda..Iz...J!!lro~l - Pn"e 2. On Tuesday Gov. Thornton approved SB 22, HE 65,SB 9. and HE 74. He vetoed HE 46. The vetoed bill would have exempted from state taxes the sums received from coal miners' pensions.- The reason, he said, was that it would have sh~wn special preference for one cl~ss of pension receivers. SB 9 was the anticiTJation warrants bill for the state homes for the aged. Much s9p.culation had been made as to whether Gov. Thornton would sj,.<'O it. As now env::'3:ged, 0. "pilot" test home Vlould be established at Trinidad, and if ~his proved succesful. other homes would be estab- lished in oth~r areas of the state. Initial operations would be small to see r,ON it would worl{ out. Objeotive of ~he measure was to rel~eve the stat3 honpital at Pueblo of elde:>:-l', people not insane. who would go for care on a volunteer basis -- m d pay, for such care, or at least part of it, from old-aGe pensi:ms and other sources of income. HE 74 woul~ a~:ow people to carryover net operating losses for four years on thei? state income taxes, like the federal provisions. SB 22 is the Fort Lewis school bill--authorizing the transfer of the liberal arts college at Fort Lewis A & M,'rrCSp6~~S to D;rango. The Duranp;o str,',ctur~r accordinr; to plans, would be financed from future as.. '..,ell as current levies for the Fort Lewis institution; the S~n Juan Basin area was strongly in favor of the move. HB 65 inoreases the motor vehicle operator's license fee from !,J;l for three years to ~2 for three years and chauffeur's licenses from ~2 for one year to ~5 for three years. Under the old law 75 centu out of the $1 went to counties and 25 cents to the department of revenue, while the new law gives 50 cents to counties and $1.50 to the revenue department. Counties are strongly op~osed to the decrease in revenue, Gov. Thornton said. and he is in favor of legislation next assembly that would split the fee between state and cOID1ties. -----------... The eighth supplemente,l budget :l.n t'1e 18-month state highway budgetary period enc1.ing JV,ly 1, involving about (~l million for more highway constructi')~, was a pproved by GoV. Thornton. J~ajor new projects are:- co~p16tlo~ of a new grade separation and underpass and highway through Cast:6 R)cl< as a '?3- rt of US 86-87; construction on US 24 from Limon to &5~O~; pu;cchase of rigpt-of-way for a four-lane road on US 85 between Erighton and Fort Lupton; stabilization and 011 surfacing on state h~c,m'd.Y 51 north of '"Iray; construction from Bur- linston south on the sarr,i;l road; r",placement by culverts of five narrow bridges on US 40; construction of a new bridge on US 6 in Debeque canyon. Clarence Koch, Jefferson County commissioner, announced at a meeting of the County Il.ep,:LliM,n Central Committee in Golden his intention to run for re"e}.flC ~:"(1n in Nc:v<3mber. Koch has served for one term..... III Denver I s i.Iayor.' N6wtor. de:,}.Bred h.imself in favor of direct repeal of the pe rsonal property tax 0:1 h()11Seb,c:l(: goods. A campo.ign in alliance with civic; g"'oupi, was plar,;~ed.. Newtun saii' thtit he has already conferred with Ira Van D:cs:;.l, A:':1.p&hJe COU:1ty assessor. ani' secretary-treasurer of the Colorado Assessors Association..... -------------------------------------- , ~ " ~589