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Show UNiV 0P mAy 1 the Utah lhh 4 SAlTe cirrif? Tax 4 Vol. 10; No. Weekly Newspaper Dr Good Governme i. II Three Utah mayors pledged to to secure passage of a one per cent statewide sales tax increase 'in the 1957 State Legislature this week. Spearheaded by Slay or Adiel F. Stewart, the plan to boost city and county revenues by increased taxes, was immediately approved by the mayors of Ogden and go "all out ed to . V Salt Lake Ci ay Hi list a .d Logan. tPd'i)b Setts Forth fcighttTenetts I believe that the Republican platform, presented to America at the National Convention in August, will in substance be the expression of these principles applied to the human problems of In self-relianc- e en-erpri- se anti-poli- o - salfttj, Of GOP Basic Program today and tomorrow. President Dwight D. Eisenhower made this prediction in a recent speech to the Republican Central Committee in Washington. He also noted the eight principles, most important to him and which form the basic platform of the GOP party. Now no Party has a monopoly on brains or idealism or statesmanship, the President said in explaining why he is a ReWe Republicans and Democrats alike; by the same publican. devotion to freedom and human dignity; by the same high purposes for the nations secur- ty and its peoples welfare. Within our hearts and minds, all hings that are vital to the ReBrief . . . public, we cannot be partisans. We are all Americans. Jack C. Turner, Vernal, is now "But in the practical pursuit of serving as Commissioner with national objectives, we differ in the Utah State Fish and Game our methods, in our tradition, in Commission. our philosophy of governments He fills the vacancy left by responsibilities. the late J. Allen Browne. He continued "I believe the ReTurner has an active interest publican Party, in Its methods in conservation and fish and and traditions and broad philosogame problems. He has partici- phy: pated in several Game Department aerial surveys and fish "Offers the best hope of prestocking operations. and vigserving the orous independence of individual Americans; "Best serves the nation in the Optimism is being expressed in Congress this week for the search for peace with justice and "second try farm bill which freedom; omits a return to rigid high price "Best fosters a competitive supports, the clause that led to economy whose purpose President . Eisenhowers veto of is a wider prosperity fairly an earlier bill. shared; The bill is built around the Best keeps economic decisionPresidents original $1,200,000,000 making in the hands of the people soil bank program. and out of the hands of government; Utah State Road Commission "Best answers the concern of this week okehed use of $35,000 people for the meeting of their to build an access road to Flam- human needs; "Best assures our children, and ing Gorge damsite on the Green River in Uintah county. their childrens children, the The board also announced heritage of an America rich in all equipment is now completing a the resources of nature, dynamic higher road to the brink of the in great traditions and ideals and canyon at the Glen Canyon dam purposes. site, a second dam included in The President continued, The the Upper Colorado River Stor- Republican party . . . reject(s) age Project. any attempt to treat (individual citizens) merely as members of pressure groups or as serial numUtah this week raised the age bers in the files of a government limit for children eligible to re- office. vaccine He listed eight principles and ceive Salk bringing another 70,000 Utah chil- presented them to the GOP group "for examination, or correction dren into the ranks. or amplification. The first is this: Salary increases from $280 to The individual is of supreme $290 were granted to Maxine Wilson and Grant Wayne Jensen importance. You, your family, and from $210 to $225 monthly your neighbors, the people down for Ann Stone, all deputy clerks the street people everywhere in city court. The Salt Lake City every American of every race and court. The Salt Lake City Com' creed should enjoy equally the mission approved the advance. (See REPUBLICAN Page 2) The proposal is for statewide tax increase from 2 to 3 per cent. According to Mayor Stewart the State Tax Commission would make the collection and distribute the returns to cities and counties after removing the cost of administration. Need for the increase was pointed out by Mayor Stewart in a review of city operating costs. Estimated revenues, he said, are not holding up and a new source of income is imperative. We are operating on an extremely narrow margin at present and could easily be embarrassed at the end of the year with a de... ficit on our hands. the new proposal. Mayor Stewart a fair tax that treats all alike. He urges early grouncfvVoric, on he tax issue to ready presenta'- ion of the bill to the Legislate in January, 1957. No formal proposal has been made as yet. Mayor William W. Owens of Logan and Raymond S. Wright, Ogden, approved the plan and pledged support for leg-slati- v ve backing. Lee To Ask Stop Order On Taxes Gov. J. Bracken Lee wont be stopped in his fight to get a case in the Supreme Court on the matter of tax monies being used for foreign aid. According to the Governor he will lile action with the Supreme Court, asking them to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury President Paves Platform Highway. from disbursing any funds in the support of foreign countries under the Foreign Aid Appropriations Act "on the grounds that Governor Proclaims such acts and expenditures of funds thereunder are unconstitutional. ' First step in the Governors plan of action was to withhold Utah Hospitals will acquaint the public with their purposes his U. S. income tax payment for and functions during National Hospital Week, May through 1955. This step backfired last hospital tours, displays and other local programs, the Utah State week when the Internal Revenue commission seized $1,203.10 from Hospital Assn, has announced. his account in a Salt Lake bank. Gov. J. Bracken Lee has officially proclaimed the week in The Governor now goes to bat Utah. The proclamation signed by the governor read in part: as a U.S. citizen protesting use "Whereas the continued high standard of hospital care is pos- of tax funds. The action has not sible only through the publics understanding, appreciation and yet been filed. support of hospitals, I urge all of the citizens of Utah to observe National Hospital Week from May 6 through May 12. Another part of the story which hospitals have to tell during Hospital Week lies in the realm of facts and figures. Hospitals Open House 6-1- 2, Statistics compiled from a survey of Utahs hospitals and their 1955 operations show that 94,891 or one in seven Utahns were hospitalized during 1955. Another one in every six Utahns was at Utah treated as an hospitals. In addition, the survey showed that 4,884, or one in every 47 non-farworkers, were employed by Utah hospitals last year. The monthly payroll for Utahs hospitals totals $1,090,080, while yearly expenditures for supplies for Utah hospitals total $6,350,691. out-patie- nt m Most Utah hospitals will bring this story to the public during National Hospital Week by conducting local hospital tours and other similar functions. beHind-ithe-scene- s Gov. J. Bracken Lee and John H. Zenger, chairman of the public relations committee of tho Utah State Hospital Assn., look at the Hospital Week proclamation just signed by the governor. Hospital week is Mav 6-1- 2. . |