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Show w BEN '- - sr A A t LOMOND BEACON, Fob. 1. 1979, Pago 8 " i ' w-- t y 'V y, ' v.J n , St- r - ' ' 7 . x 7- - j? v'H , V V,' v, ; .V 7 ; H ' 'y,M'J' ' $ - . 7 77,,V S 4C-- 7 v7.7nl 'y s?fp27 ibcr V ' - . .4 3fi0S8iesaee are a unique bunch. They are pictured here. Aaron Hancock is the son of Reed and Marylou Hancock, Bobby Cannon is the son of James and Mary Cannon, and Wade Holmes is the son of Ron and Dixie Holmes. BOYS ASSOCIATION WAHLQUIST JUNIOR HIGH Booster Club officers. Officers Robbie Smout, son of Ron and Shirley Smout; Mike Salazar, grandson of Reese and Della Salazar; and Brent Bunnell, son of Keith and LaRae Bunnell, keep activities a rolling with the Eagles. officers by Charles B. Lockwood, r, The and Glen Perrins, Reporter In 1850, a well known Easterner said that some day a person would be able to buy a ticket on a railroad and be in California in a week. This statement at the time seemed as impossible as the fantasies of Jules Verne story. People then thought that a railroad would never be built and be able to face the hazards of the West. It was already known that there was a killing desert to be crossed. 1 was known, also, Old-time- feteS HO at Wahlquist Junior in 1978-7- 9 But visionaries looked at it differently. They realized that with the proper backing, by the government, a railroad would be built to the Pacific, and that it would open up the West for set- beyond the Missouri. As the name implies, they were pointing for the Pacific Coast, although they only built 5 miles of track. The locomotive that was used on this : . line was tlement. But, oddly enough, the Union Pacific Railroad, which eventually spanned the continent, was not the first line to lay tracks beyond the Missouri. The Pacific Railroad of something to see. It was me of the first to be built in this country. It had high wheels in the rear and small ones in the front. The smoke-stac- k was tall and looked like an old blonder bus. first that was the first The Pacific railroad, Missouri, company was the to build tracks So Railroad of Missouri, that built tracks beyond the Missouri. It wasnt very much, but it was a start. It wasnt until Lincoln's time, that the Union Pacific was given the go ahead to build a railroad which soon would span the nation! crib Sub to Ben Lomond Beacon Jg way. Indians would be a problem, too. One man siad, I wouldnt buy a ticket on it for my grandchildren. Railroads, it was thought j in the early day, would be good, or useful only to 'connect big cities for the of purpose carrying passengers and freight, but a railroad to California, 2,000 miles away, seemed impossible. - 4 ; ; I NARROW GAUGE railroads through the rugged Rockies were an integral port of Colorado's development during the past century. Some of those steam trains uch as the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (oboe) between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico, are still operating, reports the and offer scenic and historic "trips in yesterday." (Photo courtesy Colorado Travel Section and Glen Perrins) Old-Time- r, Its inflation that lulls Inflation and not the reappraisal program Is the chief culprit in raising and taxes property destroying uniformity among the counties in Utah. This was the conclusion reached by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization, in its analysis of the first cycle of Utah's reappraisal program. The Foundation found that the reappraisal program has been very successful in reducing the inequities that existed among individual properties and property classes. Uniformity of assessments within the 28 counties that completed the first cycle of the reappraisal program Improved dramatically. The program, however, has failed to reduce inequities among the counties. The average variation in assessment ratios among counties actually has risen from 18 per cent in 1970 to 24 per cent in 1978. ' counties. The average assessment ratio in the ten were counties that reassessed in 1072, for example, had declined to 7 J4 per cent of current market value by 1978. Salt Lake Cbunty, which was reap- praised last year, had an average assessment ratio of 19.35 per cent in 1978. This lack of uniformity among counties creates serious inequities In the distribution of state aid to schools. The Foundation study shows that eleven Utah school districts currently contribute 83,928,000 more in local taxes and receive that much less in state school aid than would be the case If there were uniformity in local assessments among the of the counties. Twenty-nin40 school districts, on the other hand, contribute 13.928,000 less than their "fair share in local taxes and consequently receive that much more in state aid than would be the case if were amwsmmt there e When counties art first reappraised, the Foundation uniformity. Foundation analysts notes that they come reasonably dose to meeting conclude that equalisation of the 20 per cent aaaeesment property assessments is the essential If Utah is ever to of objective reassessment program. achieve any semblance of In Its school aid and Inflation rapidly fair Allocation of state values property preymn. changing simn cause a dalerioratlM In aid far school operations is assessment ratios and a lack baaed mahdy oa the number ol uniformity among the of weeded pepd ( V1 the relative wealth of the respective school districts as measured by assessed it .(i tW;l valuations. The report suggests that many of the refill snoj Q03H U-VO- CfeoOo oo iti tn present inequities among counties could be eliminated if annual adjustments are made to pHo assessments in the intervening years between reappraisals. Such annual adjustments not only would reduce the discrepancies that exist among the various counties of the state, but also would spread the total tax adjustment over a longer period, thus reducing the trauma that usually follows revaluation after long intervals. PIPU naSFUSRC . HAVICu im TRANSMISSION PS03&GM8? 5 CO ko.jo00 iki lit' ip tuivti TQAt::utt8:i tuki-u- ? vJl(MiMmojUiii'Hi emu. isJrwTii n f. (III ().l itiii mciuota CHANoma transmission piuio. and adjusts bands, pater extra OASxrrs. 'In Z&XJRONCKCtAlC OmSMONMSci kSAT NNANCWOONAPPaOVlOCOtOlt MOST MAJOSCSIOt CAROS 3jV ACCtmtO till' V;V,M (it Ml HVtil!Vl?fi t$ M'HiitV M I 111' |