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Show f i' Think straight, stud though alone; Youll pleaae self, your true friends sad your God. James Henry Darlington fin, timm gg o MSHUkTuAf Successor to Public Opinion Journal A WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE Number Thirty Volume One OF LOCAL AFFAIRS How Provo City Spends Its Tax Dollar City Commission Studies Treasurer's Chart how Analyzing Provo tpends its tax dollar brought to Almo B. Simmons, city treasurer, the appreciation of the city commission this week complete is he presented abreak-down chart showing a of the expenditures for 1937. of Interest the focused upon the items in relation commission various expense to the present project of constructing a mun!cl- - to the Utah Power and Light pal power plant. The city treas- company each and every month urer drew attention to the chart. ! for more than one thousand tour showing the largest single item hundred dollars", stated Mr. of expense during the year went ' Simmons. to pay the Utah Power end Light From the year 1925 to 1954 company's street lighting bill. the property owners from First "It will be noted that the East and Center street to Fifth amount paid to the Utah Power West paid a portion of the lightand Light company is much more ing of the whiteway. Since 19S4 than the total Interest paid on however this contract has been ALL the General Fund bonds. shifted to the general tax payers, The cost to Provo city for street without a raise in the tax levy. lights is more than $45 a day From 1929 to July 1938 the This means that a check is issued Individual property owners also paid a portion of the lighting of the streets from First South and University Avenue to Second North end First East, but this contract has also expired. Therefore from July 1938 until the expiration of the Utah Power and Light companys franchise the general tax payers are paying the entire amount for street lights, and, in addition, during 1938 and from now on, they are paying and will pay more than $80 more each month, than during 1937, for the lighting of the overpass down How And Where Provo City Spends Its Dollar (For the Year To Vfl Center street. Air. Simmons presentation of the following chart was the occasion for a detailed study of "Where Provo city taxpayers' dollar is going by the city commission. and Is here presented for the study of the readers of the Utah Valley News. It shows all items of expenses In dollars at the beginning of each line, and then follows each time a aeries of dashes, each dash representing S2uU or sny major portion over 1100. 1937) General Fund Equals $200.00 the Honorable Mayor and Board of Commissioners, t Herewith is submitted a chart showing how and where Provo city spent its tax dollar during 1937, . , 205.0- 0Mayors Expense 184.75-Commissio- Auditors Salary 1.200.00 Auditors Salary 1.020.00 Deputy 921.50 1300.00 661.53 1300.00 Auditors supplies expense and equipment Recorder-Clerk- s Salary Recorders supplies, and expense. Treasurers Salary supplies, and expense. 186.44-Treasurers 13.480.00 Police Department Salaries ' Police Department Equipment, Supplies and Expense Fire Department Salaries Fire Department Supplies, Equipment Expense 4.655.05 11,989.75 City Attorneys Salary City Attorneys Expense and Supplies Judge of the City Courts Salary Judge Pro Terns Salary City Court Expense 2.450.00 Irrigation Water Masters Salaries (2) 5398.59 Irrigation Supplies, Equipment and Expense. 1.500.00 City Machine Shop Mechanics Salary 87.28 Machine Shop Expense and Supplies .... 2.100.00 City 4,746.62 6387.77 425.00 4396.52 FAIR Premium lists for tha Utah Fair are off the presses and ready for distribution, according To Both T. Shaw, Manager. The lists for the September 15, 16, and 17 Fair are attraetivdy printed and covered and will serve as both a guide and a souvenir to eshibitorn. Prises offered for the 1938 Fair are, os the whole, a little larger thaa they have been In previous years. Those who desire these premium lists can get them by calling at the Connty Agent's or tha County Auditor's office in tha City and Connty building in Provo. Department supervisors In tha various divisions of the Fair also have a supply of them, or, the may be obtained from Manager Shaw at his office on the top floor of the Brlmhall bnlMlng at Brigham Young University. nature lovers, for the trails are ii all cleaned through the courtesy of Forest officials, headed by Ford Poulson and Vivian West. By evening be ready for the band concert which start at 7.30; then get a scat among the thousands who will listen to the prehike program in the Theater of so to the Plnee" commencing at S p.m Nest the 27 sky Sockets fired bjl American legion officials will be seen, and then the bonfire, and hit the trail to the top, or to rest till daylight when, at 4 a. m., the official party will start Its ascent to tha 12000-fotoy ot of Tlmpanogoa. . .... , 10,772.50 leave Immediately for the ecenea Bonds Paid City Physicians Salary 110.45HeaIth Department Expense and Supplies 1.413.89 Meat Inspectors Salary 194.28-Meat Inspection Expense 921.50 Milk Inspectors Salary 200.00.Milk Tests 480.00 Building Inspectors Salary 480.00 Wiring Inspectors Salaxy 1,999.78 J Sewer Department Labor and Materials 1,940.07 Perpetual Cemetery Addition Labor and Equipment 3,930.18 Sundry Expenditures (East Drain Expense Child Welfare Clinic, etc.) 384.1 5 Water Suit (Provo River Water Users vs. Provo City) 4i.150.70 L 1,133.71 s, re TOTAL DISBURSED, 1937 NOTE i wjm Dr. Alonzo Morley and singing. Miss Leona Holbrook of the B. Y. V. staff are also aiding in Plans and presentation of the program, while every service club in Provo has assumed special duties in carrying out details of the program and hike, such as providing transportation, lightacing, decorations, ramping comodations, and reception to the thousands of visitors. Following tho program, which will bo marked by participation by many prominent citizens, 27 sky Mirk Ms will b" shot into the air signifying the 27lli annual event at this theater, after which 27 girls with torches will liahl tile huge hnnflre, the dying ember, from which will In; the signal fur the beginning of the Tiiiipnnnois hike. J. "Chirk" Hart, general chair, naii, and diieilnr of (lie H. hii-ton-c , Child-Welfa- 1 1 .. the Theater of the Pines, wherq music and Indian dancing, under the brilliant lighting and with the aid of sound equipment installed especiall for the occasion, will feature the varioua numbers. The program proper starts at 8 p. m. but the famous Provo High School band will be there at 7.30 and give a bend concert for a half hour prior to the other numbers being introduced by Dr. de Jong. Assisting Chairman de Jong will be Augustus 1). Zanzig of the National Recreation association who will lead in community Culverts, Airport, Canyon Glen. Tennis Court and Sand Bar Removal Curbs. Street Paving, Extension of Water Mains, Sewers, etc. Misl. (Revision of Ordinances, 4th of July Donation. Clinic. 3,20 4.42 san-o- ne the beautiful scenes encountered by the thousands who will scale the 12000 foot Timpanogos in the 27th annual hike will be presented under the direction of Dean Gerrit ae Jong m Y Daughters of Pioneers Building Expense ,483.00 tho at One of Public Welfare Department ...Power Suit Expense 8 on of thrills of a lifetime. Paid to Utah Power & Light for Street Lights 45.00 (Over per day! Paid OVER One Thousand Four Hundred Dollars per month! 1937. Add $80.00 per mo. for 1938 lighting over-pasWest Center St.) 1.080.00 ea-rou-te so os to Bon d Interest Paid on Bonds 1.000.- 00 of will hikers Engineers Salary 6)937 Grave, Aspen hundreds Public Library Salaries Public Library Supplies and Expense City and County Building Upkeep 3.000.- 00 Following tha e pro gram a. Tkeater of the Pines at pro-hik- . , Telephone Service 3.102.00 318,726.1 FOR & Engineering Department Supplies, and Expense Street Department Labor 1.500.00 Superintendent of Street Departments Salary 12,80132 Street Department Expense 92738 Public Improvements Office Expense 1300.00 City Cemetery Sextons Salary 4.258.48 City Cemetery Labor 1.023.48 Cemetery Supplies and Expense 4,966.09 Park Department Labor and Salary 2,028.78 Park Department Supplies and Expense 1,685.80 Golf Course Labor 1322.89 Golf Course Supplies and Equipment ($694.00 Mower purchased in 1936 Paid in 1937) 2,580.84 Recreation Department Labor and Salary 993.22 Labor and Supplies for Recreation Department 11.198.05 Purchase of Property for Utah Valley Hospital 696.00 City Collectors Salary since May 1937. 469.03City Collectors Car and Expense 613.95 City License Department Supplies and Expense 4 READY ! 2,618.25 960.00 590.00 8.000.- 00 520.00 781.40 1.981-4- LISTS County h rs PRIZE COUNTY Heavy mud slides following the deluge down Frovo canyon Wednesday night caused postponement of the 27th Annual Timpanngos program and hike until July 22 and 23. The canyon is filled at several places with mud for hundreds of feet. It will lie a full week before travel is resumed, according to city officials who have been working at the scene of the slides. Access to the grove can be had by way of American Fork canyon, but postponement was announced by C. J. Hart, hike chairman Thursday afternoon. annual hor the successful climber will sign hike, nature lovers and students the roll and receive his budge and cltlsens from far and near upon reaching the summit, states will start on the trek to the top Mr. Hart. of Tlmpanogoe officially at 4 a.m. Hchcdnle of Events a classic over America. Mr, Roberts now live In California but is here to participate in the annual program and hike. Professor H. R. Merrill, almost as well known and as much a Inver of the great Mr. Roberts, will be present and participate In both program and hike. Program Features Preceding the hike, an unusual program baa been planned and Commissioner of Streets Salary of Streets Expense 1.500.00 27th Annual Hike Set for July 23; Thousands Expected to Participate. Robled by E. L. Timpanogou The schedule of events reitererts. who 27 years ago initiated ates Mr. Hurt, calls for the day the event which hai now become bring spent at Aspen Grove by si) Mayors Salary 1.800.00 Timpanogos Program And Hike Postponed twenty-sevent- . 9 Ji FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1938. INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED AT PROVO, UTAH DEPENDABLE l: General Fund bonds redeemed (1937) $5,000; Water bonds redeemed (1937) 31.000; Provo City's Debt reduced $36, 0(0. Note S: Public Improvements: f7.4S3.00 culverts, etc.; $13,473.20 curbs, etc.; $7,474 42 miscellaneous. TOTAL $27,420.62. (Also donated fll.19S.or, for Purchase of Property for Utah Valley Hospital.) Respectfully submitted by Almo B. Simmons, City Treasurer. V. U. physli ill rdili alinti rii parl-nirn- i. announces that hoy smuts nml police and forest service officials will he on hand to guldo llie record i i akin;: crowd whirl, Flr-,is aid will be available along the trail to the top. he stales, this bring also a rnnili-j-of the boy scouts and fnre-- t officials. For those reaching the top, a new badge designed by Professor E. M. Jensen, will be waiting, and ear Round Recreation Planned For Provo City By Leaders Fall, Winter, Spring Activities Outlined At Staff Meeting Held Here This Week Provo is to have d recreation, summer, fall, winter and spring, if the plans laid this week at the staff meeting headed by Jena V. Holland, supervisor, materialize for the coming year. At present the emphasis has been on summer recreational work, which ends Sept 1. Many people are ahat In for and girls who are out of school reasons who year-roun- varioua ahouid have and adult men and women. accent to recreational facilities, 5. Research and Survey of the and auch a variety fit events and entire city will be conducted, activities are available that a comwhere the moat delinshowing d is in plete program quency exists; and formulation of every way feasible, they decided. for the development ot more While Provo city will maintain plana playgrounds, poaaibly the neighof the the WPA part personnel, borhood type for 1939. will continue to finance (he ma6. Development of on adequate jority of the workers engaged In Winter sports program to anpply these activities, states Mrs. the needs of the public la winter year-roun- The following general projects were outlined at the staff meeting: 1. Shut in Services, wnerehy Ion directors will take re creation into tliu homes of individual children and adults who are con-- f ini d to tit, dr homes, and will uInu pioviile recreation for institutions housing individuate, who do not or participate in iiiiinicii:il 2. Ciuft Shops and llolihy Shops will lie inn inta lin'd for duy and ei'ciiing participation liy the pule lie. 3. A book drive will he conducted in Kfptcinhcr, which will add to the collection nf 4.1,000 bunks who h were roller led in the rail or !37 by Slate W. P. A. Kecrcuiiou directors. These hooks will h circulated throughout the Stale, piii ticulai ly to communities that (lo not Imvc school or public library service. 4. Public Activity classes for adults, Including dancing, exercises, games and sports for boys gi 1 activities. 7. The establishment of play ' school and play rooms for children of age to he operated on the year round basis. pre-scho- Carnival Plana lYoFrresIng At the regional Staff meeting of Recreation workers held Monday night in the City Court Room, the various committees on Operetta, Dance Review, Pnppet Arts and Show, Show, Hobby Craft exhibit, and Kiddies Carnival ail reported the work going iihrml on these events. Services To Be Held At Giles Ranch The Community Church aad Sunday School will hold their, service Ihis Sunday at We Ranch un the aoutb fork of Plf River. Following the servlet, annual Sunday School pli be held. All are Invited, leave (he Chnrch betwi and 11 o'clock. Si |