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Show DIVERSITY On-- .,, mm NCN-CIRCULATI- ii'RAnr- - mm MAR 1 i yUnf 7f t 4 1969 Aerials Dept. J of U Library alt lake City, Utah 04113 IPERIAI S ORDER DER5' SOUTH SALT LAKE NEWS Serving The Center Of Industry South Salt Lake Volume II Thursday March No. 13, 1969 11 t BENNETT JOINS IN BILL TO LABOR LIQUOR Senator Wallace F. Bennett, joined In sponsoring a bill to require a health warning label on bottles of alcoholic beverages con24 per cent taining more than alcohol by volume. ah, r The Utahn, who Is joining with In Sen. Strom Thurmond, sponsoring the measure, explained, 'Under our bill, an 'Injurious to health warning similar to that required now on cigarette packages would be mandatory on these alcoholic beverages,, with the additional warning that consumption may be habit forming. C., Eddie Johanson To Be Speaker Nephi Edward (Eddie) Johanson will speak during Madison Ward Sacrament Meeting, March 16th at 6 p.m. Eddie Is leaving Salt Lake City soon and will be stationed In Southern California. Eddie is the son of Nephi and Margaret Johanson residing at 181 E ast Whitlock avenue and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bauand Mrs. Jennie Morllng. mann, Eddie graduated from Granite High School In 1967. He has been at- tending the University of Utah and has been employed at Reams Sen. Bennett, who also the bill In the last session of Congress, pioneered In the Senate 13 years ago the effort to label cigarette packages with a health warning. "Now we are faced with a health and welfare menace equally if not more serious than that derived from cigarette smoking. Complications arising from the consumption of alcoholic beverages are sometimes far more serious tljan those resulting from cigarette smoking, he said. measure to allow County Governor Calvin L. Rampton signs Senate Bill No. 105. This is a must an file to taxes to These abate property $50.00. Commissioners up taxpayers application and have an income of less than $2,500 per year to be ellgable. A husband and wife must sign the application and have combined total Income of not more than $3,000. This Bill was sponsored by Senators C. Earl Alsop, Milton Yorgason, and Orren Greenwood. taxes to benefit citizens on fixed incomes except as outThere seems to be no other way to be lined in Senate Bill 105. Otherwise, year by year we reduce the Income these citizens thought-woulsecurity for them. ate d Sen. Bennett continued, "In addition to the purely health hazards of excessive drinking are the safety hazards Involved. A study by the Department of Transportation, for example, Indicates that as many as half the 55,000 American killed in car accidents last year died In acSigns, hats and buttons are being cidents Involving drinking. put away at Granite High following Granite Drops State Games the State Basketball Championships. Granites defeat The two defeats LOgan and Provo EDITORIAL Utah Drivers Most Sober? i i i i This week's U.S. News and World Report comments on the new Department of Transportation report on the familiar theme of driving after drinking. KSL had been drawing .attention for several years to some of the points stressed in the department's report For instance, that one half of all fatal single car accidents almost one half of all fatal multiple-ca- r accidents involve heavy-drinkin-g drivers. That the use of alcohol by drivers and pedestrians leads to some 25,000 deaths and 800,000 crashes each year: And that alcohol is the largest single factor leading to fatal crashes. The Christian Science Monitor, in an editorial a few days ago commenting on the Department of Transportation report said: "There are too many excuses made for the drinking driver today. Neither the social drinker nor the escape drinker should be tolerated on the highway." KSL agrees. Utah has the best law in the nation for dealfrig with this problem. Reports show that the law has already helped significantly in making our highways safer. For instance, a National Safety Council bulletin last week showed that Salt Lake City this year has the safest highways of any city its size in the country. The good work of the law enforcement agencies and rigidly enforced penalties from the courts are making driving a safer proposition, for us alL Serving The Community s Chambers of Commerce are organized primarily to promote and protect business. Their chief concern is good city government, reasonable taxation, healthy communities, etc. out the Voter leagues are concerned with the electorate-gettin- g information on platforms of parties and candidates-discourag- e minority government advocate and Other groups promote health, education, safety, delinquency control, fire prevention, wild life conservation, etc. Service organizations, such as Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions Clubs support and promote all these and more they deal with people on a personal basis in community life by assisting the blind, the crippled and those who are incapacitated phyically and mentally. Their concern is to provide facilities, equipment and programs for a healthier, happy people individually and collectively, that whatever is available is utilized ito the utmost and whatever is lacking, lend support to acquire it Service clubs work on the premise that a united people can withstand the onslaughts of tyrants and dictators, crime waves, war, pestilence, and hysteria. Service Clubs bring a sense of realism to community life. Lionism, one of the greatest of this group lends a powerful influence in the world and provides avenues of service to 34 of million men and women on a continuing basis. vote-diseminati- i ng at the hands of Highs stopped Granite from fullfllllng their dream of taking state. The activities of the past couple of weeks prior to the tournament helped stir up school spirit. These activities were comprised of pep assemblies and promotion of school spirit by members of various clubs who sold articles to back their team. ' i In Madison Plans P.T.A. Carnival The Madison School will hold its P.T.A. Family Carnival on Fri- day, March 14th, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. will be "Virginia City the theme this year. There will be carnival games, a country store, bake shop, and dinner served 'chuck wagon style with sloppy joes, hot dogs, hoagles and trimmings. Dont miss this annual affair. Make it a family night to remem- ber: ! Republican majority Caucas, deliberating on school finances. Senate Bill 10 came In for a good share of discussion. These are the programs that require Intelligent alfiatlon. Surely there will be a few more grey hairs as the Senators return home Thursday night after adjournment. The final outcome will be discussed, not only at home, but In the schools and other gatherings where the legislatures will receive some praise and lots of criticism. Gas Tax Is 50 Years Old The nations first gasoline tax Is now 50 years old - - and as as tax collectors are concerned 'the wish Is for many happy returns. far Oregon Imposed the first gasoline tax of one cent a gallon for road building back in February, 1919, noted R. A. Sovereign, chairman of the Utah Petroleum Council. Utah enacted a levy on gasoline In 1923, he said, and by 1929 every state and the District of Columbia taxed motor fuel. The federal government levied a tax of Its own In 1932, starting at one cent a gallon. Today, state gasoline taxes average almost 7 cents a gallon, Sovereign pointed out, and the federal tax Is 4 cents. The combined tax rate in Utah Is now 10? a gallon, he said. Meanwhile, the retail price of gasoline, except for taxes, Is approximately what It was back In the 1920s, Mr. Sovereign noted. Nationally, U.S. highway users are paying gasoline taxes at thq rate of $1 million an hour, or $9 billion annually, he said. Mr. SovIn ereign estimated that state and federal motor fuel tax collections Utah came to $46,554,000 last year, as compared to $705,000 In the first full year of the state tax. ' ' Gasoline and other special motorist taxes were originally Intended for roads, Mr. Sovereign emphasized, and they are still used exclusively for that purpose In most states, Including our own. In a relatively few states, however, a large sums of highway are diverted to non road purposes each year, user tax revenues He said that the road systems of these states noted. Sovereign suffer accordingly. |