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Show WESTERN AMERICANA "i-- - Cr-J- - Of UTAH Lvpt. LllftAftlES; :.rsity of Utch yj,. , t. T' llfl 01974 WIS ORDER DEPT. " 111111 .. im 1. ii V - f "!""" "MPMwnmiMpniiPHi VOLUME 1, NUMBER 22 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Hunters Beware: and Taxes Pinching Utahns Pockets Aerial Telephone Lines Damaged by Shooting MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1974 nff lation would be getting some relief this year but that is not so. In January, the legislators boasted that their action in phasing-ou- t the state school property tax would INFLATION WILL NOT BE the only thing pinching Utahn's pocketbooks this year. Property taxes like everything else, are also going up. Most of us thought we Utah, Montana, and the Dakotas to Train Elderly Workers Four Rocky Mountain States will participate in a senior community employment project that will provide subsidized part-tim- e jobs to older workers in 1,331 26 States with $3,632,000 in Federal funds, the U. S. Department of low-inco- Labor announced today. Robert J. Brown, Assistant Regional Director for Manpower in Denver, said that under the one-yecontract with Green Thumb, Inc. (a subsidiary of the National Farmers Union), Montana, North ar Mountain Bell Combinationman Stan McGuire checks aerial telephone cable for gunshot damage. The heavy cable has smaller transmission wires inside that are cut when hit by shotgun pellets, .22 caL lead or high power rifle fire, interrupting telephone service for hundreds of families. Shooting damage often occurs in remote areas that are difficult to reach for repairs during winter months. Mountain Bell today asked hunters to avoid shooting at doves or other birds on or near aerial telephone lines. Shooters annually interrupt hundreds of telephone conversations and sometimes isolate entire communities in Utah by hitting overhead lines. In This Issue Suits 2 2 2 2 2 Small Claims Marriage Licenses Divorces 6 6 6 Legals Probate Court Confirmation of Sale .... New Partnerships Births 7 Bankruptcies Building Permits Bountiful Power Water Service Murray City Power Murray City Court City Business Licenses . New Corporations Supreme Court Calendar Third District Court Calendar Trust Deeds Warranty Deeds Quit Claim Deeds Mortgages Liens Uniform Commercial Code Filings Telephone Hook-up- s Tax Liens 8 .... 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 13 14 15 15 15 16 16 17 20 20 Mountain Bell Public Relations Manager Ken Hill said shotgun pellets, 22 shells as. well as high power rifle lead can easily penetrate the protective sheathing, cutting the small transmission wires inside. "We've had some communities isolated because someone shot through aerial telephone lines or used glass insulators for target practice," Hill said. A broken insulator allows the on wires to touch the cross-arm- s transmisvoice poles causing poor sion or complete service outages during stormy weather. He pointed out that many people in rural communities depend on the telephone to summon emergency services from neighboring cities. Hunters also rely on the phone for accidents help when shooting occur. "Those who shoot at telephone lines or insulators don't realize the hazard and inconvenience they create for families whose telephone service is cut off. I don't believe they know that someone's phone will go dead when they hit an aerial lin-e- otherwise they wouldn't do it," he said. The outer, plastic protective covering of cable is often damaged in the fall but the trouble does not show up until winter when water gets into the cable, shorting out telephone service. Many shooting incidents occur in remote mountain areas that are almost inaccessible for repair during winter months. "We are asking hunters to help protect the phone service of their neighbors by not shooting at wild game on or near telephone lines," Hill concluded. The willful damage of transmission lines is a violation of Utah Statutes punishable by a fine of up to $200 andor six months in tail. Legal Secretaries ct A Utahn National Director Re-ele- cut burdens. Now we find, as has happened so many times in the past, this savings has been eaten up by increases in county, city, and local school district tax levies. WHO SHOULD WE BLAME for the increases? Counties, school districts, cities, and towns have all had a hand in it The two biggest users of the state's $172 million of property taxes are the forty school districts and the twenty-nin-e counties. Schools use 61 Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah would each receive $50,000 in of the $172 million property tax or $36.5 Federal funds for 18 enrollment total. Counties use in Increases million. county propopportunities in their States. Funded under Title DC of the erty taxes will probably hit taxOlder Americans Act, Brown expayers harder this year than those plained, the project is aimed at of any other local taxing jurisdicmeeting "two real and pressing tion. Many county increases have needs commonly experienced by set new records. PROPERTY TAXES CAN BE persons who in three ways INCREASED have poor employment prospects: mill levy, by a the in a and income for additional need the by jump inassessed hike the valuations, or in a sense of need to regain the volvement with the community and by a combination of both. People pay little attention to these mainstream of life." No enrollee will be paid less than changes. AU most taxpayers care $2.00 per hour, with a maximum of about is the number of dollars they will have to shell out this year $3.00. The project will provide compared to what they had to pay with training last year. prior to placement in productive, GOOD NEWS. Total county work. community-servic-e part-tim- e property taxes will go up but Every attempt will be made to move or $1.9 million this year, them into unsubsidized employment 5.5, from $34.6 to $36.5 million. Tax in both private and public sector burdens in San Juan, Tooele, and jobs. Enrollees will work no more than Wasatch Counties will drop. Wasatch will go down 4 Millard 1,300 hours a year nor more than will go up but 1.2, Uintah, 1.3, 30 .hours in a given week. They will be employed at worksites in or Weber, 2.3, and Salt Lake, 2.4. nearby the communities in which Box Elder, Beaver, Tooele, and San Juan were reappraised by they reside. Enrollees will be employed in the State Tax Commission and new values put on the rolls this projects or. at facilities which ineducayear. Tax increases in these counvolve social, health welfare, tion, library, recreational end other ties were held down by state law. BAD NEWS. Five counties will services; conservation, maintenance experience property tax increases or restoration of natural resources; beautifi-catiothis year exceeding Washcommunity betterment or environand ington, 68.4, Duchesne, 66.3, mental quality efforts; economic Emery, 58.7, Summit, 55.8, and Garfield 45.8. Taxpayers development; and other services in 13, or 44 of the 29 counties essential and necessary to the will experience tax increases this These increases year of over are the result of either jumps in local levies, or hikes in assessed values, or both. SAME LEVY BUT HIGHER TAXES. Three of the four major Wasatch Front counties did not increase their tax levies this year. However, all will receive more money due to higher assessed valuations. Salt Lake County will get. $492,669. Taxpayers in Davis will pay $128,101 more and those in Utah County, $115,193 more. The Primary Election will be held Weber Countv cut their levy .50 this coming Tuesday, September mills but still received $81,004 10th, 1974. The polls will be opened more. ASSESSED VALUATIONS. dn the 582 voting districts in Salt Lake County at 7:00 a.m. and will Valuations in Duchesne County continue to be open until 8:00 p.m. climbed $26.6 million, or 80 this A list of the polling places will year, from $33.2 milion to $59.8 million. The county levy was cut be shown in both the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News. By .75 mills. Emerv Countv tions shot up $13.3 million, or checking with their voter card No cut was made in the each their district number, showing voter will be able to determine the levy. Summit County valuation went up 13 and the levy went place he or she will go to vote. If you have any questions, please up 3 mills. President Ford says inflation is call the County Clerk's Office, the ' the nation's number one or problem. the of Newspapers, League We agree. We also agree that to Women Voters, to help you. fight inflation, government must We encourage every registered voter TO GO TO THE POLLS THIS pull in its belt, and set a good COMING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER example. Some of our counties need to be reminded of this. 10th. 20, elderly-low-inco- en-rolle- es job-relat- ed 40; n; anti-polluti- 10. Macel P. Thurmond Mrs. Macel P. Thurmond of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been reelected a National Director of the National Association of Legal Secretaries (International) for 1974-7- 5 by its members in Utah, which includes chapters in Salt Lake and Ogden. She will represent the members from Utah at the NALS Board of Directors meetings for the coming year at Richmond, Virginia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Minot, North Dakota; and Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Thurmond is Administrative Assistant to Governor Calvin L. Rampton and has been a legal secretary for 17 years. She was instrumental in the formation of the Salt Lake and Ogden chapters and has held several offices in the Salt Lake Legal Secretaries Association, including three terms as president, and in 1959 and 1962 was selected Legal Secretary of the Year by her chapter. In 1959-6- 0 Mrs. Thurmond served as Fourth Vice President and as Legal Secretary of the Year Chair- man of the National Association of Legal Secretaries. Primary Election To be Held on September 10th 58. |