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Show CArm-- : Page Eight America vcaci ie county. utah 'TrTTff "ywFvy 'ZXJSJS&XZEZLsrizz .SLKJ . Monday, October 23, 1933. Iv it? ggjg re rr CITY OFFICIALS DESERVE YOUR VOTE it tt 4 a 4 i .A Y,; 'A - W A s t ! Jf j h , fryy U H. R. PEDERSON OLOF. I. PEDERSON For Commissioner 41 M i s For Auditor - 4 at the com Candidates for should have of the beheve voters that Logan Election, City ing a report, so they may know what has been accomplished during the time that this Administration has held office. Ve, the undersigned Corporation and it is customary the affairs of such a Corporation who have those for managed If the report shows good stockholders. its to a to give report officials have and the successfully and honestly management are then their they worthy of considerdischarged duties, only ation for Logan City is a College Town and a Temple City and more than ordinary progress is expected of it. We desire to give to the tax payers a report of the extraodinary progress of our City since 1926 when this Administration first took office. Logan City is now a large In 1925 the assessed valuation of Logan City was $6,619,554.00; in 1933 it is $4,733,549.00 a reduction in assessed valuation of of a mill making 28.49. The levy has also been reduced in 1933 is practhe revenue a total of nearly 33f. ; so that Citys 1925 in a it was saving to the tax tically one third less than that much received the as City payers of approximately $35,00.00, more taxes eight years ago. The city, at that time,' had no road equipment, no tractors, no scarifier nor grader, and without this equipment no permanent work could have been done. We have spent $21,000.00 in new road equipment. The total amount paid out in orr Electric Light Department is $371,233.08, and it has been carefully figured out that during the past five years the savings to the people of Logan in rates, as compared with the State rate, is 303,339.00. This is actually the amount that the people would have paid additionally to the Power Company had they been serving the City exclusively. The increase in revenue from the Plant since 1926 is $65,000.00 per year, and now that we need not spend any more money in the Electric Light Department for improvements, it is possible for Logan City to pay its bond indebtedness during the next seven or eight years. January 1st, 1926, the Citys total bond indebtedness was $530,000.00; on the first of January, 1934, it will be $480,000.00. This makes a decrease in bond indebtedness during this Administration of $50,000.00. The total amount spent on the Electric Light Plant of $371,233.08 is all paid for and the tax payers are also aware that no taxes have been levied for the Electric Light Plant during the last two years. Not only has the Plant been the last two but of Electric have we the taken $24,000.00 out years, Light fund to help in our road work. During the past two years we have gravelled and oiled twenty-tw- o miles of streets, at a cost of $60,000.00. This, however, is not all paid for, as we are owing and nearly $5,000.09 for labor. $15,000.00 for oil for this-ye- ar This amount will be paid out of next years budget. We doubt if there is a municipality anywhere that has been able, during the last two years, to accomplish the work that Logan City has accomplished. We find from reports that most municipalities have not been able to meet their bonds and interest, while Logan City has never defaulted on any of its obligations. Inasmuch as you have heard some complaint from the employed we believe that it is fair and just that the tax payers should know what has been done during the past sixteen months in the line of creating labor for them on our streets. Logan City has paid to the unemployed during the past sixteen months $28,421.17, and this has been distributed to over five hundred persons. This amount is exclusive of R.F.C. money that has come to our City for the aid of the unemployed. On February 1st, 1932, the regular employees of Logan City voted voluntarily a reduction of salaries of ten percent in every department, and on August, 1932, they voted voluntarily another salary reduction of ten percent .These reductions in salaries during this period amount to $22,959.65 a saving to the tax payers of this amount. We have in our City the finest employees in every department that can be found any where. The heads of each department are men of ability and each is working for the best interests of Logan City. It would be disastrous to disrupt an organization that is so well trained and willing to assist the City Commission and the tax payers during a period of depression such as we have been passing through. We know of no City nor public employees who have been willing to accept such large reductions as have the Logan City employees, and they have not diminished their efficiency, but have labored just as faithfully and zealously as they did before. Most public employees elsewhere have refused to take any cuts in their salaries. In adding up the figures of the amounts spent in Capital expenditures (this means outside of the cost of operating the City Government), as stated, we have spent $371,233.08 on our Electric Light Plant, $21,000.00 on road equipment, $60,000.00 on oiling roads, and $33,000.00 on our water system making a total of $485,233.08 Practically half a million dollars. This is all paid for and wre have reduced the bonded indebtedness of our City $50,000.00 besides all of this has taken place during these eight years. If now, after we have given you the actual conditions of our City, the voters believe that a change is necessary, and if the candidates of the opposition can better handle the City affairs and be of greater service to the public than the present Administration, they are then entitled to the votes of the people. You are well familiar with the stand this Administraton has taken on our greatest asset the Cty Electric Lght Plant. We realize that no candidate today dares openly take any stand nor make a public statement detrimental to our Plant. It is indeed easy for them to state that the are one hundred percent in favor of the Electric Light Plant. The question is: If it comes to a test would they be willing to stand firmly against the Utah Power and Light Company and others who have tried for years and would be glad today to see our plant fail. None of the candidates on the opposite ticket thus far have declared themselves either for or against a renewal of franchise to the Utah Power and Light Company a year hence. Would the voters feel safe in casting their votes unless they were positively sure that the candidate, if elected, would refuse a renewal of franchise? This is the only vital issue before the voters at this time. Should the Power Company receive a renewal of franchise it is not hard to fore-se- e that the Plant may eventually go into their hands. The people of Logan have stood by this Administration one hundred percent, and we have thus been able to carry through the program which has proven the best thing that Logan has ever had. It is at this time necessary that the people vote for candidates who are united on this great question. We cannot succeed if there is a difference of opinion on this vital question, and we, therefore, feel that the voters should play safe and vote for candidates whom they know will REFUSE THE POWER COMPANY A FRANCHISE RENEWAL should ask for it. they With respect to the salaries of the City Officials that is, of the Mayor and Commissioners it is doubtful that man who has sufnnent time and ability and knowledge to any manage our City s affairs would be anxious to take office because of the salaries. The Mayors salary is now $54.00 per month and the Commissioners salaries are $40.00 per month, and if a man is sPend the time necessary to look after the as it should be done, he will earn two or three times more.City No doubt you have been hearing stories that there should be a change in the City Administration. However, there can be no difference between the City Administration and any other large Corporation. If the management is capable and is honestly managing the affairs of the people, why should a change be so important? We know that civil service men have a for life and even m our own City men have held office for job more than twenty years and received more than five times the salary yearly that the present City Commission receives. How many of you home owners in Logan realize and really appreciate the work that has been done on the streets in the last two years? If you have a home to rent or a City lot for sale, we believe that you will be greatly benefits by the splendid roads in our City today; and furthermore, when the taxes have been reduced approximately d during the past eifdit years, that m itself should be evidence to the people that it is dangerous to change the City Administration and get others in office who may not be willing to build onto the foundation that has been laid for a better and greater Logan City. of our tax payers are of the Many that the Power and Light Company is paying a opinion tax to the Utah heavy City on the distribution system and meters. In over the looking records we find that on this property Logan would receive $569.69 per year and the City schools $534.09 making a total of $1103 78 an amount too small for consideration. In closing we urge upon all voters to go to the at the rnmary tleetion tomorrow and cast your votes for polls your choice ,n0t reain at home thinking that all is well fkS one-thir- e c,andldates of yur choice will be successful. It is vote that counts. We who have labored diligently for ltd bwe tebTnt tl fUf Citl arf Spendinr hours early and late, is duty of every voter to go to the Primary Election and cast your votes on Tuesday, October 24th. We earnesUy appeal to the voters of Logan City to cast your votes for the present Administration. We feel that the will be benefited greatly if the Administration is allowed to cary on the program that we present have now begun, and we assure you of an even greater success in the future by the application of our years of experience and of our knowledge gained by work-m- g for the best interests of Logan City. For an and more successful Logan City we ask that you consider the facts herein stated and if these great attainments appeal to you we ask for your cooperation and your votes. OLOF I. PEDERSEN, Commissi oner. YUR -- A. G. LUNDSTROM, Mayor. Now that you have read this encouraging report of the present City Officials make up your mind to go to the polls at tomorrows Primary election and give them your vote of confi- dence and appreciation. (Paid Political Advertisement) |