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Show THE WORD FROM BOULDER By Nethclla Woolsey A number of persons have already come forward wltli suggestions for changes in the laws. Some of these have been complaints against tho twenty-cent a-head Inspection fee on cattle sold. This fee was created by tho 1959 legislature through an amendment to the Utah Livestock Brand and Inspection Act which removed the five and one-half mill levy on cattle and horses owned and substituted a twenty-cent levy on cattle sold. The change was made, I am reliably Informed at the request of the Utah Cattlemen's Association, 1 recall listening to a discussion of tho proposed change at a state Cattlemen's convention. Two arguments were advanced. 1. It was not fair for growers to bear all the Inspection costs; other handlers should share lt. 2. More money was needed to enforce anti-theft law. II wonder if anyone considered the whopping difference between five and f half mills and twenty cents. If it had been two cents, it would have easily covered the difference between the number of cattle most owners have at the time the assessor calls and the number the owner sells in a year. Anyway, if there is to bo a change, it should originate with the cattlemen's association, since they asked to have It the way it is. This is another reason that all stockmen should belong to their (continued Inside) BOULDER local and state organizations find should take an active part in what goes on. There will be a state convention 1 early In December. This would bo the right timo for the cattlemen to ask the 1961 legislature to make changes, perhaps in the fee and also in the enforcement of the anti-theft act. LeFair Hall and Neil Jepp-sen left for Glen Canyon yesterday, hoping to join the CrewS of workers there. Truman Lyman will likely go as soon as ho recovers from a bad back ailment He went to Richfield Friday for treatment. Glen Ormond has recovered from his trouble so well and was reassured so much by the Salt Lake blood specialist that he has Joined tho fence-building crew in Circle Cliffs. Others working on the fence arc Otto Haws, Kay Coombs and Mac LeFevrc. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Lyman and Mr. and Mrs. HcberPoul-sen wero Salt Lake visitors this past week. Most of Boulder's teenagers attended a Firc-sidc meeting at Escalante last evening. Most of us women attended the Relief Society Fair and Fashion Show at Escalante on Saturday. It was a grand display of women's handiwork ranging from lovely three-piece suits, through rugs, quilts, to pillow-slips and doilies to a decorated fly-swat Ward Conferenco was held yesterday with six stake officers present These Included Dec Haws of the stake presidency, Usher Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson, R. Shakespeare, and James Mun-son. Lunch for tho visitors was served at Gertrude Or-mond's. |