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Show TAXPAYERS PREPARE FOR REDUCTIONS Senator LeRoy Dixon Comments Com-ments On Recent Provo School Election SALT LAKE CITY, Dec, 8 Extensive Ex-tensive preparations for the Introduction Intro-duction of several measures In the 1927 state legislature looking to-words to-words the modification of tax laws and the reduction of public expenditures expend-itures were taken at the meeting here Monday of the Utah Taxpayers' Taxpay-ers' association. The oeoomplishments of the organization or-ganization since its formation in the full of 1923 were reviewed by Judge H. H. Rolapp, president of the association, who also presided. He urged, among other things, that not only the public expenditures in bulk be printed, but also who gets the money. He would like to see "what the Jones company is getting and whose brother-in-law is getting a salary." Among those who participated in the discussion at the three sessions of the convention were Governor George IL'Dern, President George Thomas of the University of Utah; Dr. E. G. Peterson, president of the U. A. C. ; B. H .Snow, of the board of equalization ; O. W. Adams, of the Utah State National bank; M. S. Winder, secretary of the state farm bureau federation; .1. W. Pax-man Pax-man ; Dr. L. O. Snow, LeRoy Dixon, George H. Smith of the Union Pacific system, C. It. MeBride, P. P. Champ, O. W. Carlson, W. P. Kpperson, Carl R. Marcusen, W. E. McKell and A. B. Irvine. Senator LeRoy Dixon, former mayor of Provo city and treasurer of the board of education of the Provo city schools, talked on the tax committee and Its relation to the commission. He mentioned the recent school election in Provo, When the incumbent member was ousted as a result bf feeling on the part of the taxpayers as now organized, or-ganized, that expenditures must be kept down. - |