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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1968
Page
28
Lees Choate notes Ralph T. Smith can handle pressure, contrasting his leadership style with Senate Majority Leader W. Russell Arrington. Smith often uses a soft sell approach to persuade GOP colleagues that his plan benefits their constituents, as he nears a potential second term as speaker.
The State Board of Higher Education approved a roughly half billion dollar boost to higher education funding for operations and construction to be sent to the General Assembly. Ralph Smith, the likely future speaker, navigates GOP dynamics, housing bills, and a reform agenda as he prepares to lead a party facing taxes, highway needs, and education priorities in the coming session.
Illinois faces higher welfare costs as public aid critics demand larger allowances for housing and essentials. The proposed 1969 71 welfare budget tops 1.3 billion with state funds about 712 million and federal 599 million, up from 872 million current.
Gov elect Richard Ogilvie has spoken briefly with President-elect Nixon about federal tax sharing to ease Illinois’ fiscal burden and hopes to discuss further at the Palm Springs governors’ conference. Experts warn that definitions and funding sources must be clarified, with little expectation of sizable federal aid while Vietnam remains unsettled.
The note suggests Ray Page may take a federal role, with Governor elect Ogilvie selecting a replacement if he wins. It mentions a high school basketball coach as a potential future choice. A boy with poor penmanship is assured a future in medicine, and while First Ladies arrive and depart, car junkyards persist.
A Orange County planning chief outlined two paths for reform to a National Municipal League audience: district based reapportionment with weighted voting and charter reform creating a county executive. The plan reduces county board size from 87 to 21 and provides a streamlined executive structure with departments in finance law health public works planning personnel social services and parks. The report notes the Illinois association will discuss one man one vote and weighted voting as well as moving toward a city manager style county government.
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