| OCR Text |
Show Pag THE Two The Sun--Advoc- ate Iisued Every Thursday By The CARBON COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY "one newspaper, one coveraoe, one cost" Entered at the post office at Price, Utah, as second class matter under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate $4.00 yearly in Utah; $5.00 yearly outside state. Hal MacKnicht, Publisher Alex Bene, Jr., News Editor Jessie Holdaway, Society CORRESPONDENTS CarbonvUle VATTA OVIATT ARLENE WILSTEAD MRS. J. W. MAKI THELMA BALDWIN BETTY BRYAN LEAH JAMES AGNES S. JEFFS THELMA PIERCE Castle Gate Dragerton Hiawatha KenUvxrrth - NATIONAL .. Wellington EDITORIAL - - REVIEW OF UTAHS LIEN LAW There has been considerable discussion in certain neighboring states regarding the THOSE enactment of a lien and recovery law where WERE by the property of old age welfare recipients with certain exemptions and reductions, i3 THE pledged to repay advances made to such recipient after he is dead. Since Utah has hac DAYS- such a law in effect for over a dozen years, we may well review the results of such a law, Imaginative With the 'im Effects of the Lien Law WRITERS WERE (Ll2ltMlb 0WCE thought , position of the lien law in 1947, the average QUITE &OOPV-- rnumber of persons on the welfare rolls was reduced from 15,392 in fiscal 1947 to 10,956 for fiscal 1949 after full provisions of the law had been in effect. This shows a cut of 4,443 persons or 30 percent. At no time since then ha3 the number been above this figure, We note that for the first eight months of fiscal 1960, the average is 8,228. Now as to Costs For fiscal 1947, exold for assistance totaled penditures age with average monthly payments of $36.10. For fiscal 1959, the total outlay was exactly the same as the 1947 figure or However, a reduction in the number Years Ago Thirty-Fiv- e of persons receiving aid from 15,392 to 8,638 Twenty Years Ago and with average payments increasing to It was thirty-fiv-e The seven Eastern Utah coun years ago $64.33 or nearly double the earlier figure has San of June 19, 1925 that Price City exclusive of a ties, part been accomplished with no increase in the Juan which was tabulated and Carbon county as a whole was over-a- ll cash. The current average is $65.10. by thecounty Indian authorities, show a brought into the national limelight Other Effects During the 12 years population of 49,650 as compared with an unsavory affair that is and eight months since the lien law become with 46,458 in 1930, according to still recalled by many present reseffective, old age recipients have been paid a a tentative report made this week idents as one of the blackest days total of $81,062,147. In that time, recoveries by Otto B. McKinnon, district sup- in the history of this area. It was of $1,853,357 from 8,678 estates have been ervisor for the 1940 census. This on that day that a mob of about made. This means that the average was but shows an increase of 3,192, or 6.87 50 or more surrounded a police cara per cent for the past decade. Every in which sat Robert Marshall, $215. This is not a great deal of money. The one of the counties, except San Negro miner who had shot and major results of the law, as we view it, are Juan for which final figures will killed J. M. Burns, town marshal in the reduction of the welfare rolls so that come through the federal office, at Castle Gate. The mob took the only those in actual need receive assistance. showed increases for the past ten car with the Negro in it and drove In a discussion of the lien law, we do years. The counties are Carbon, southeast of Price where they prowell to remember that the purpose of the Emery, Grand, Uintah, Duchesne ceeded to carry out lynch law measure it not, as opponents have argued, and Daggett. against the Negro. Turning off on a side road a couple of miles out, to take the homes of aged welfare recipients. was in almost the crowd strung Marshall up on a Price It means simply that at his demise, the The heat a the tree on the Critchlow farm and it as during asimportant topic state will be in was a short time until his dead $143 BILLION FOR PROGRESS There are nearly 400 taxpaying, publicly - regulated, business - managed electric utility companies in this country. Demand for power service, by business, farmers, and domestic users, rises steadily. And just what do those 400 companies plan to do to meet the needs of the future? That important question has been answered by studies made by the Edison Electric Institute. Here are some of the findings : From 1960 to 1980, the generating, transmission and distribution facilities of setrabovexemptions mitTTs apedr America s electric power companies will in- - to us to be a fair and provision. There crease four-folPutting it precisely, the were those in the statejust who disagreed. companies now have a generating capability The Election An initiative measure to in 1980 the figure of 127 billion kilowats lien law was presented to the elec the repeal will be 492 billion. torate for vote at the 1952 election. The propPer capita use of electricity, which is osition was fully discussed with both argu one of the best indications of any nations ments and emotion. The final vote of 155,645 economic strength and living and working against repeal to 104,319 for repeal seems to last have ended organized criticism of what they standards, came to 4,525 kilowatt-hour- s year. In 1980 it will reach 11,800 kilowatt-hour- s called that awful lien law that would take for every man, woman and child in their homes away from old people. mmt Five girls and two boys were born at the Carbon Hospital durto the ing the week of June 9-- following: June 9: Mrs. John Peter Jensen, Castle Dale, boy; Mrs. Ivan Ross f day last took over the Alger Auto Purcell, Price, girL Allen Fredrick Mrs. 11: June on Main West street at Company girL Allred, Huntington, which includes the agency Price, June 14: Mrs. Hermann Buen-ninfor the Ford, the Lincoln and Price, boy. Fordson and a stock of June 15: Mrs. William Eugene Miller, Price, girl. g, Have bills got the Lion's Share of your budget? -- US FOR CASH! Loans for any worthy purpose on Signature only, car past week locally as the war in Europe, and it's no wonder, with the mercury sweating over the century mark, stopping at 100 degrees on Monday and climbing to body dangled limply from the rope and the crowd began to scatter. No attempt at concealment was made by any member of the lynching party. In fact, participation in 101 on Tuesday. the affair seemed to be a matter In the excitment of The Reverend John LaBranche, of boasting. moment some of the principals the recently ordained as a Catholic in the were so carried away evijnt said Mass at Sunday priest, they glorified themselves with where he served last sum- that such expressions as Its a proud mer before he had been ordained. day for me that I helped pull the of rope. the country. This is the way it looks. Due, largely, to John C. Forrester, chairman The news accounts of the day American Post of the continue in full detail stating that Needless to say, it will take a lot of the operation of the lien law, the welfare the Price Legion iron lung fund campaign, added to the diffimoney to make this possible. The Institutes rolls were reduced 30 percent. We may wel' was authorized Tuesday to select inexperience executioners. When culties of the estimate is that between now and 1980, $143 assume that costs over the years have like- a committee to investigate various Marshall still seen was that it investor-ownehave will utilid be spent by billion wise been reduced proportionally. We types of iron lungs and make ten- breathed after being hanged it ty companies for new construction. That, by noted that expenditures for old age welfare tative negotiations preparatory to was suggested that he be shot. way of comparison, is the dollar equivalent recipients since fiscal 1948, when the law the purchase of such an instru- No, let him suffer, was the cry of about half the national debt! And every was operative, total $81,062,147. Thirty per- ment in the near future. It was re- of the mob. Deputy sheriffs arnickel of it will come from private savings cent of this is over $24,000,000 as savings ported at the meeting that $1,500 rived and took the victim from that along the mob but again he was taken which can well be credited to the enactmen is now in the bankhasand of one kind and another. been pledged with that money by the mob, the rope rearranged law. of the lien In our own area our economy and probbut not turned in yet, the cam- and hung again. Letting his body indilaw lien of The Utahs operation able future economy is helped considerably paign goal is only about $200 hang so that his feet were just that many individuals formerly receiv- away. by the Carbon steam-electrplant at Castle cateswelfare off the ground the rope was tied payments were able and willing Gate. The potentials of this plant are limit- ing to a post. Then the slack was taless and the Utah Power and Light Company to care for themselves when the alternative Candidates for county offices ken up and suddenly released, this has spent, is spending and will continue to was that they give a lien on their property. can file any time now but none being repeated several times after with a has done so as yet, reports County which the crowd seemed satisfied spend millions in connection with this plant Furthermore, we note that Colorado, 337 has d liberal per Clerk B. H. Young. July 24 is the that life had fled. program, as the needs for the electricity grow. This last day for nominees to file for on welfare of age 1,000 persons over 65 years plant is tied in with our basic commodity, rolls office for the primary elections. 155, Celebration of Independence Day with Utahs compared coal, and its continued success will mean comPrice will this year be in the state at or well known is that It any continued success for all supporting indusare rodeo The being put grounds of a committee representing hands load as welfare a as large munity can have tries. in shape, new fencing put all the Boy Scout troops in the We have to acceptec is it support. willing preparatory for staging the city. It is in conformity with the Its also worth pointing out that gov- the responsibility, as a nation, of providing in,biggest show yet, the annual granting of all concessions for the ernment (that is, the taxpayers) will be one basic needs for those unable to care for Roost Roundup, schedat City Park and at the of the principal gainers from all this. Close themselves. However, we must also accept Robbers uled for Thursday, Friday and day to a quarter out of every dollar the utility the phlosophy of relative responsibility where Saturday, July 11, 12 and 13, under ballgrounds by the council a counaauspices of the Eastern Utah Ro- ple of months ago. there is capacity. companies take in now goes for taxes deo Association, an affiliated unit tional, state and local. busiJohn H. Redd, million of the Price post of the Amerilast Americans $100 spent year v Who can logically argue that we need nessman of this city, on Wednes four times the amount in- can Legion. comic books d. Sun-nysid- or furniture $25 to $2000 rap? e, CITY FINANCE CORPORATION 71 E. Main St Price MEdford ic open-hande- tip-to- p well-know- the kind of power that socialized power consumes the taxpayers money even as it destroys the sources of taxation? First Lesson And what did mother: Doting mammas little dear learn at school today? Eight year old: I learned two guys not to call me "mamma's little boy. SS Patient Man, But . . . The Freight Handler for Fleety-FleExpress was overpaid $25 on his paycheck. He said not a word about 'it. A week later the accounting department deducted the et overpayment. Freight Handler: "Whats the is short big idea? My paycheck $251 Warehouse Foreman: You were overpaid $23 last week. And you didnt say a word about it, incidentally. Freight Handler: OK. I know that! I can overlook one mistake, but when it happens twice, then its tune to say something! Progress Halted called out the little "Mama, in left charge of h.i small boy brother, "say something to Herbie. Why? Herbie? Whats the matter with the mother wanted to know. "Hes siting on the fjp'pef." came the response, and there's Lot of fly wa.ting to get on. 8 Bad First girl 23, 1960 f $6,-667,8- ' ASSOCIATION UTAH STATE Thursday, Juno PRICE, UTAH 95 Spring Glen Sunny side 1 E. n for vested in library books, according to Mark Murfin, elementary education chairman at the University of Miami. Start I dont see how you could become engaged to that old Mr. Waggs. He hasnt a tooth in his head and is nearly bald. Look at the Bright Side A boy living in the mountain country in the South went on a possum hunt one night and after the dogs had treed an animal, the boy climbed up to get it. But the limb gave way and the youngster tumbled to the ground and suffered a broken back. Friends carried him home and as they entered his house, they stood silent, afraid of what the boys father would say. The old man looked at his son for a long moment, pushed his whiskers back, and then said: "Well, it could have been worse. He could have fallen on one of the dogs. SS Cold Comfort Young Father Hubbard vent to the evpltoard To satisfy hunger ' throes, But there vnsn't a bite or morsel Second girl Well, my dear, you shouldn't be too severe on him he was bom that way. SS Antultjfe If ymi'te hit by a oar And knocked into slumber, in sight The best thing to take That visn't completely froze. Is the Ikensp number. SS SS Escapist Odd Ailment d The little man ran When it comes to picking up a down the street as fast as he could im-some 1 follows have an check, travel, while behind him ran the pediment in their reach. bartender of the local tavern in SS 'hot pursuit. A policeman stood Ileajiohtrri the Comer regard. ng the secne jon men of awesome Headwaitcrs, with amusement. grace. Can really pjt you in your place. an"Hey! yelled the bartender in angry voice as he neared the They in d, cate, With wave of hand. officer. Why don't you help me Both w here you g.t an I how you catch him? stand. The pol iceman looked surprised. SS "He told me you were racing "Would we go up, or down. If him for the price of a drink! he the elevator cables broke?, asked exclaimed. a stout lady pawner. "So I am, shouted the barS,rk and t.red of sjrh stupid tender. He d.dn't pay for it! questions, the elevator operator SS answered, "I,ady. that depends on No Seconds the kind of life vouve led! SS "Am I late for my dinner?" ask A hit of girls h'pe to lend a ed the ran- - hal pr:nee. ri-- b d and live off the Yes, every bodys eaten, an the cannibal k:r,g. fat of the landed RAMBILDK ARIWKIE PRICE, UTAH 1111 YOU GAVE ON GAG, TOO -A RAMBLER AMERICAN CUSTOM BEAT ALL COMPACT CARG IN MILES PER GALLON IN THE MOBILGAS ECONOMY RUN. red-fare- hu-ban- d IL Frt r onpamofu hired tm delivm$nutA'turr5 ered pnr$ f Amftrrt ? loot fieiui SUtinn rs priced b t least ' it trn by mzfop t h fattf other major b $. ear makers. KRAYNC 91 So 3rd East MOTOR CO. Pries, Utah |
