General Account COUNCIL TO TAKE FUND ALLOCATION TO COMMISSION; CALLS FOR CHANGE IN PROTECTION OF LIONS BY PARKS Associated Chambers in March Session at Strath- more Last Night Protest Small Highway Fund to County for Coming Biennium So many matters concerning Tulare county came before the meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Tulare Coun- ty Council at Strathmore last night that for a time the council considered an interim meeting in this city, sometime late in March. A suitable date could not be decided upon however, and the Strathmore session was prolonged while a committee drew up a resolution protesting the amount of road money allocated to Tulare county by the state highway commission, and was instruct- ed to draw up two other resolutions; one denouncing the protec- tion of mountain lions and coyotes within national parks, and the other expressing the sympathy of the Council for the family of the late Congressman H. E. Stubbs, who represented this district for four years, until his death Sunday. Resolutions on an alleged un- fair discrimination against the county in relief appropriations and asking the permanent es- tablishment here of the preda- tory animal control campaign which has been so effective in the foot hill district, will be brought up at the next meeting of the coun- cil, which will be held in Porterville on the third Monday in March. This is to be the regular meeting time hereafter, instead of the first Mon- day in the month. Road Funds More time was spent by the Coun- cil on the road fund allocation than on any other of the several matters brought before it. The facts were brought out at a meeting of the Orange Belt Scenic Highway Associ- ation meeting; that Tulare is last of the 13 southern counties with which it is associated for highway fund distribution, in the secondary funds allotted, and is tenth in the amount allotted for primary funds; while its contribution to the state highway funds through gas tax payments is at least as great as the average county of the state and its road mile- age is one of the greatest. Ford A. Chatters of Lindsay point- ed out that the county has been go- ing to Fresno, where the division of- fice of the highway commission is located, to make its protests against the small amount allocated, while the allocation is made in Los Ange- les, on the recommendation, in this instance, of the southern division of the state chamber of commerce. The county is in the southern counties highway division and in the northern counties state chamber division, and the result is that it is almost entire- ly ignored in the recommendations, which seem to carry considerable weight with the highway commission. A. L. Evans, president of the Coun- cil, named C. B. Allumbaugh of Por- terville, John Bandy of Strathmore, and Ford Chatters to draw up the resolution protesting the road fund distribution, and it will be forwarded to the highway commission. Visit of Judges A committee, composed of the presidents of the 13 chambers of commerce associated in the Council, will, with another committee repre- senting the county bar, draw up the final program for the three-day visit here of the seven justices of the state supreme court: May 29, 30, 31, Presi- dent Evans announced. Evans re- turned yesterday from Los Angeles, where he saw the justices and was assured that the full membership of the bench would join in the Tulare county trip, arranged as a sort of celebration of the compromise, often recommended by the supreme court, of the long-drawn-out Lindsay- (Continued on Page Six)