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Show Beaver City Dads Okeh Sales Tax Increase Beaver's city council approved, ap-proved, at a special meciing Tuesday afternoon, the proposal pro-posal to increase the Utah sales tax to 3 7o, with c of the tax to be rebated to cities through- . out the state. While most non-metropolitan communities are officially opposing op-posing the proposed increase, which opponents claim will benefit Salt Lake City to the detriment of the smaller communities, com-munities, the Beaver city coun-il coun-il felt that with the heavy revenue rev-enue from tourists during the summer months, Beaver would also derive major benefits from the tax split. The council also placed themselves them-selves on record as opposed "to any change in the present method meth-od of distributing B and C road funds." In other action at the special spec-ial meeting, councilmen discussed dis-cussed power and water rates for a proposed new "ice building" build-ing" plant planned for the Beaver Bea-ver Highland Dairy, and made a contribution of $300 to the Beaver Lions Club civic improvement im-provement committee, which will be used to "help bring good television to all the people of Beaver City." Hal Lund, representing the Lions Club, pointed out that more than $500 had been raised for this purpose by private contributions, con-tributions, and the Lions had used $200 from their projects fund, and they felt that with the $300, to defray cost of materials ma-terials and equipment needed at once, the television committee commit-tee could make great progress in their efforts to bring TV to Beaver City. u |