Show C ofa executives wi resolutions at salt lake meet two resolutions one asking the utah congressional delegation to urge abolition of addiss on taxes on fairs expositions and other pub lie functions and another favoring use of highway funds for major truck highways were adopted thursday at a meeting of the utah chamber of commerce executives association in salt lake city chamber of commerce officials from all sections of the state corn com of road conditions on al all 1 federal highways including U S highways 30 40 50 89 and 91 the tooele thoele county chamber of corn com merce was lauded tor for its it s fight to improve U S highways 40 50 thru the western part of tooele thoele county in addition to the resolutions two committees were appointed to ito study problems of 1 limiting cit ies les taxing power and raising ad dit ional revenue and 2 duplica tion of services rend rendered eTed by coun ties and their political sub dm divi the group backed a bill to the state legislature requesting that ab jenkins be granted the use of his race car for scheduled runs on the bonneville salt plats flats this sum mer mr jenkins gave his racer to the state and it is presently on dis ply in the state capitol building recommends abolishment of use tax earlier in the day at a board of directors meeting it was becom mended that the state use tax be abolished the use tax similar to the state sales tax is a 2 percent assessment on industrial equipment brought into the state for use in all types of construction cost ruction it goern it seem fair when cap itol is invited into the state to create new industry that we im pose a tax on the industry before it gets started the group of ex stated other recommendations recommend attens made by the board of directors were expansion of chamber of corn com merce and civic groups throughout the he state in a state wide tion ion to avoid regionally regional ity and bickering between communities in fights to attract new business and industry provision for a state wide study to set up an industrial formation clearing house for prospective busi ness and industry use in obtain mg information as to industrial possibilities possibilities proposal for a state wide organ chamber of commerce ex to cooperate fully with small communities in solving their problems back share the bide ride bill proposal to establish scholarships in research and natural resources with the assistance of present in austry in the state the group also backed the share the ride bill which was submitted to the legislature for action in the special session this state association is corn com of all the chambers of corn com merce in the state of utah much valuable work can be done by such a group and it is hoped that the various cities and communities of utah will give their wholehearted support to such an organization members of the executive board are J A theobald price W L warner jr richfield Bich field oren probert tooele thoele M R hovey logan and clayton jenkins provo |