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Show County Taxes Show Increase Orem-Geneva Times September 26, 1974 TILL The total property tax rate imposed for city, county, school, and other purposes in Orem during 1974 was increased by 1.00 mills, according to an analysis prepared by Uu!i Foundation, the private tax research ort;nization. Orem's overall property tax levy in 1974 is 84.46 mills ($ per $1,000 assessed valuation). This compares with a total levy of 83.46 mills in 1973 and in 1970. The following tabulation shows the trend in Orem's total tax rate since 1950: YEAR 1950 1960 1965 1970 1973 1974 TOTAL MILL LEVY 53.35 79.84 90.09 88.96 83.46 84.46 Approximately 58 of the total property taxes charged in Orem this year will go for school purposes. The Foundation report indicated in-dicated that 27 of the property tax collected collect-ed in Orem will go for municipal purposes, 11 for county purposes, and 4 for special district purposes. A comparison of the 1973 and the 1974 property tax levies in Orem by purpose is as follows: PURPOSE 1973 1974 Municipal 23.11 23.11 School 48.85 48.85 County 9.50 9.50 Special District 2.00 3.00 TOTAL 83.46 84.46 The 1973 school levy includes 1.6 mills imposed by the state for school purposes. Despite the elimination of the 1.6 mill state property tax levy in 1974, the Foundation Founda-tion observes that total property tax rates still rose in many communities. Of the 58 major Utah municipalities located in counties that were not revalued this year, the overall rnillrate was raised in 27 cities and reduced re-duced in 31. The total average rate for school, municipal, county, and special district purposes pur-poses in these 58 communities rose from 83.90 mills ($83.90 per $1,000 assessed valuation) in 1973 to 84.24 mills in 1974. Foundation analysts point out that another factor that may affect overall tax burdens is new economic development. For example, major economic activities inDuchesne County raised that county's assessed valuation by 80 in 1974. Even though the county levy in Duchesne County was reduced slightly this year, total taxes charged by the county rose by 66. The average tax payer, however, will realize a reduction rather than an increase in-crease in his county taxes because the increased in-creased taxes will be borne by the owners of the new property added to the tax rolls. Throughout the state, approximately 55 of the property taxes charged this year in the cities under review by the Foundation will go for school purposes, 23 for municipal purposes, 17 for counties, and 5 for special districts. Five years ago, school levies accounted for nearly 60 of the total, with 22 for municipalities, 15 for counties, and 3 for special districts in the major Utah cities. MOVING isn't half so HEcTiC... When it is followed by a Welcome Wagon call! Phone. 224-1841 - !lomine$s Sought For Commission Carpools save money. Two in a car cut commuting costs in half, three divide the expense ex-pense in thirds. Dr. Walter D. Talbot, Utah State Superintendant of Public Instruction is seeking nominees for appointment to fill a vacancy on the Professional Practices Advisory Commission. Nominations shall be made by written petitions stating the name of the candidate, his or her address, present educational education-al assignment, and school district. dis-trict. The nominee must be the holder of a certificate applicable appli-cable to his or her educational assignment issued by the Utah State Board of Education, must be currently employed in the Utah Public School System, and must have been so employed for a period of at least three years. Nominees' petition must be accompanied by the signatures of at least 50 educators and must designate the address and educational assignment of the signatories. The appointment will be for the balance of a two-year term ending June 30, 1975. Applicants must be in the category of classroom teachers. Nominations must be submitted to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before the 15th day of October, 1974, by mailing or delivering nomination nom-ination petitions to: State Superintendent Sup-erintendent of Public Instruction, Instruc-tion, 1400 University ClubBuild-ing, ClubBuild-ing, 136 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111. The Utah Professional Practices Prac-tices advisory Commission came ca-me into existence as a result of House Bill 89, the Educational Educa-tional Professional Practices Act, passed by the 1973 regular session of the State Legislature. This Act provided for a Commission Com-mission of eleven members selected sel-ected from professional personnel, per-sonnel, six of whom must be classroom teachers. Among the powers and duties of the Commission enumerated in the law are the following: (1) Advise State Board on criteria cri-teria of professional practices ...(2) Establish procedures for receiving and acting on alleged all-eged violations of standards of ethical conduct. (3) Conduct hearings and make appropriate recommendations to the State Board. (4) Issue warnings or reprimands repri-mands or recommend revocation revoca-tion or suspension of certificates. certific-ates. (5) Administer oaths and request presentation of documents. docu-ments. (6) Adopt rules and regulations reg-ulations for its own government. (7) Make recommendations for the improvement of the education edu-cation profession. Was robin sou ceusoe A EAL PERSON ? yK'.HEW&s Alexander Selkirk, TP 50M OF A 'SCOTTISH SHOEMftKEg. ME DO 2 AND 2 ALWAYS MAKE 4-? Not RlwbvsI TRe mixture of Z QUfiRTSCFWKTER AND 2 QUARTS OF ALCOHOL ISU0T4QUP)RTS BUT 3 QUARTS BECAUSE THE MIXTURE r PEOPUCE-5 A CONTRACTION OF VOLUME1. hovj can fish survive in ocean Bottoms under pressure of alm0st4tons of water to r..THE SQUARE INCH? BOWES CONTAINING FLUID. 1HIS VOW UQUIDITV FLUID YJrtWW PRSN(5 OUT FLUID WITHOUT PRp351N5 M.EUftBLg THSM 1D MAIWT&INlflglR SHAPE pWDStWBLWE! HCW DID OCEANS BECOME SfiLTy? IP O? COUNTLESS AGES. 6 ALT HAS BEN FL0WW6 INTO OCEANS FROM RNERS AND CRKK5(TMgl(?VflTfeR5 CARRYING ROCK PPRnCLE5.Mkl6RRLS AND SALTS TttffT HPrVE INCREASED THE OCEANS SAHUITy Student Survey Taken As students return to school this fall, high school principals, teachers, and parents are looking look-ing eagerly for answers. Many of them are revealed in The Mood of American Youth, a recent re-cent study by the National Association As-sociation of Secondary School Principals and the Gilbert Youth Research Corp. of New York. The study shows that most students stu-dents today want to work within with-in the system. Many students perform volunteer work through the school, their churches, and other organizations and many more are interested in doing so. Interviews with high school students throughout the nation probed their attitudes on education, ed-ucation, work, school activities, activit-ies, parents and family, marriage, mar-riage, politics, religion, the use of leisure time, and the future of American society. The survey sur-vey shows that students today are cautiously optimistic about their life as adults of the Eighties. Eigh-ties. Young people feel: -- that their schools are providing pro-viding them with a satisfactory education (77; 99 plan to finish fin-ish high school). that high school students should have the opportunity to work part-time during the school year (84). that happiness at home (927c) is more important than fame (less than 2); a good family life attracts far more high school students (74) than a lifetime of interesting experiences exper-iences (25)). that participation in politics pol-itics is distasteful, but that voting is a civic responsibility; 78 plan to vote in every election for which they're eligible, eli-gible, but only one in ten would be willing to run for public office. of-fice. -- that social reform should be accomplished peacefully through community service rather than radical upheaval; 43; are already involved in community service; 59 would like to be more involved, and over 40 plan to expand or continue con-tinue their involvement after high school. -- that goals are important and that hard work will be necessary nec-essary to achieve them (95). -- that those goals will center around completing an education (35), finding a job (52), and settling into marriage and a family (46). -- that most difficulties with their parents are a result of communication problems, ra ther than deep ptuiosophical division. Less than 5 of the students expressed strong disagreement dis-agreement with their parents' ideas on politics, clothing styles, sty-les, choice of friends, religion, reli-gion, education, drugs, and work; but 16 said they could not accept their parent's ideas on sex. that overpopulation (23) and ecology (36) are today's two most important global issues; is-sues; poverty (20) and the threat of a third world war (21) were also much on students' stu-dents' minds. that political change can be accomplished by working within the government. Over 50 feel that the present constitutional con-stitutional government serves U.S. citizens well; less than 6 said it should be abolished in favor of another form. The full report on the Mood of American Youth will be released re-leased by NASSP in October. The National Association of Secondary School Principals is a non-profit association serving 35,000 secondary school administrators, admin-istrators, headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area. - - is, i - i "MS! null nth Louise Portridg Did you go to the State Mental Men-tal Hospital Open House? If you didn't you missed something. some-thing. Even if you didn't go, there was a very good turnout. turn-out. I know, because I did go. We have a remarkably fine establishment there at least we do on the Geriatrics Ward, where I do volunteer service. I'm sure the other departments are as good. I don't care what you say, Dearie, we ALL have mental lapses, you as well as I. Our State Mental Hospital is a darned good place to be in such circumstances. cir-cumstances. I went shopping, as sometimes some-times happens, and I ran across an item in my favorite market mar-ket that was three for a dollar. dol-lar. Now, even if I hadn't particularly wanted that item, I'd have bought it for old time's sake. How often these days does one find anything that comes three for a dollar? As it happens, this item was something some-thing that could be used to make a main dish and a tasty one, too, and I carried off my prize with a wonderful glow of self congratulation at having really accomplished something. On this same trip I passed the small plots of flowers that brighten the corners and non-corners non-corners where they are. Since winter is coming as sure as anything, I grieved for the flowers flo-wers so soon to die and a thought came to me: Why don't the city and the business houses involved, invite the citizens of Provo to come and help themselves them-selves before snow flies, to take these plants and give them a warm home for the winter? Most especially the red geraniums? ger-aniums? It somehow goes against nature to leave red geraniums out to freeze. Red geraniums belong, in winter, on snug kitchen window sills. I'm still sorting papers and I run across things. For instance, in-stance, a very yellow and brittle brit-tle clipping tells me that at the first radio broadcast of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, my cousin Eddie P. Kimball that's Edward Partridge Kimball, was at the Tabernacle organ, and his son Ted same name as his father was handling the announcing. . It's nice these days when one is more or less lost in the shuffle, to be reminded that his folks rather HAD folks. Another tattered bit reminds that in October, 1915, the studentbody of BYU which then numbered one thousand, climbed the "Y" mountain and went on up fo Maple Flat to celebrate Founder's Day. What the clipping doesn't mention is the huge 'medicine ball" that was lugged up there and inflated in-flated somehow for a game or tWO.t Medicine Balls were six feet in diameter. Just imagine, after such a climb, having the strength to push such a thing around. Who was there, other than father and I? Pres. Brim-hall, Brim-hall, for one. Joseph B. Kee-ler, Kee-ler, and James E. Talmage. They had to make it on shank's ponies, you know. There were no tote-goats or four drive any -things in those days. The trail up, my father surveyed as he did the "Y no matter what anyone says. There's to be a poor crop of pine nuts, the paper says. We used to say that a poor crop of pine nuts meant anopen winter. But since everything is haywire these days, let us not count on it. I saw beef advertised somewhere some-where for, I think, sixty-eight cents a pound. It wasn't close enough for me to get to in The Green Darnit, so I lost interest. But does that price sound believable to you, Dearie? Selah. The bus plays a key role in balanced transportation and an economical one, since it utilizes the existing network of streets and roads. Until further notice all new Certificates of Deposit and all savings accounts will pay the following per annum interest rate: YOU'RE INVITED TO AN OPEN HOUSE AT UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY'S NEW HUNTINGTON PLANT Utah Power & Light Company cordially invites you to attend an open house at the new $137 million Huntington generating plant to be held on October 4 & 5 rrom 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. i i The plant is kxated seven miles northwest of Huntington, Utah, on State Route 31. Pro ceeding the open house visitors will see a short morion picture ETvvJr describing the construction of the plant from open field to finished structure. And during the informative tour following the movie, you'll see facilities like a giant electric generator that turns 3,600 revolutions revo-lutions per minute, coal pulverizers capable of grinding coal to as fine as flour at the rate of 10X3,000 lbs. per hour, and the eight story tall electrostatic precipitator that traps 99.5 of the fly ash released from burning coal and keeps it from going up the plant stack. This 430,000-kilowart generating unit is the largest on Utah Power's generating system and incorporates the latest technical improvements for efficient generation of electricity from low-sulfur coal. This is a special opportunity for you and your family to leam first-hand about how electricity is generated and to see the extensive safety and environmental protection measures incorporated in and around the plant. Utah Power & Light Company hopes to see you at their open house at Huntington Plant. JtV ... 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