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Show Face 2 Friday, April 12, 1957 THE UTAH STATESMAN THE UTAH A STATESMAN Atty General Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Governweot" HARRY B. MILLER, To Be Publisher 421 Church Street Phone EM At Dinner 49 Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Oiiice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate SI. 00 per year Published weekly at 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, Vol. 11; No. 14 Friday, April 1956 12, Due to being hospitalized, Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, will be unable to attend our Republican Regional Banquet May 2, 1957. We are indeed fortunate, however, for in his place the Honorable United States Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr. will be the guest speaker. As you know, Mr. Brownell is not only a great national figure but an outstandBUDGET CUT The big quesing speaker on subjects of the moment. tion facing Congress just now as how to cut the I (have We know there are good Re- no doubt that we budget. will cut it; the publicans who feel concerned only question is where and how about the budgetary problems much. There is much misunderconfronted both state and nation. standing about this process of If you should share this feeling, budget-cuttinand many people just pause to consider what to- fail to realize how complex a days situation would be if the problem it is. Lets examine some opposition party were in control. of the difficulties involved. The problems and cost of governIn the first place, the primary ment are inevitably mounting blame for (the size of ithe budget with the times but our current rest must on Congress, not the era of prosperty is certainly due to the good government we have President. Congress has instituted a number of new programs some enjoyed under our . Republican good, some bad which obligate administration, both national and the government to spend certain state. To continue this prosperity, amounts of money. The budget reand the quality of government the that is responsible for it, requires flects in these cases how much to is obligated spend, government the full support, financial and not how much the administration otherwise, of all good Republi- would prefer to spend. cans such as yourself. Some of these obligated expenPlease give your State Organi- ditures are tremendous. For exzation full support from your farm the ample, price support County. As you know, with the program and the soil bank profunds at hand they are only able gram obligate the government to at the present time to operate spend almost $4 billion during the your State Headquarters on a next year. Thats four thousand part-tim- e basis. The number of million dollars! And none of that tickets for your County, as well money can be saved by adminisas all other counties, was deter- trative economies the only way mined by your State Executive to cut that expenditure would be Committee. for Congress to enact a new and As the appointed Chairman for this occasion, I will appreciate your keeping me informed as to your progress. A. 1957 -- g, WASHINGTON Recent de- from the annual tax reductions. velopments in (the nations CapiThe bill would set up this comtol more clearly indicate that tax cuts next year are not only pos- petition between tax reduction and spending by providing for sible but probable. postponement of any of .the schedWhether or not the economy uled tax reductions, with respondrive in Congress continues at sibility shared jointly by the Presthe present rate, fiscal experts ident and the Congress, if new believe that there mil be a large spending payments threatened a balanced budget. However, none enough surplus to allow tax relief to be voted at of the cuts could be postponed this session of Congress and to for more than one year, which go into effect in subsequent years. means that the entire series of reductions would be put into efThus far, Congress economy fect in not more than nine years. minded despite some recently deOver the entire reduction peveloped administration opposition has considered appropria- riod, the bill would mean tax tion requests totaling $13 billion. savings, based on 1956 income Out of this $13 billion, the House levels, of $10.6 billion for individhas set its sights on cutting at uals and $4.2 billion for corporamuch-neede- d tions. least $800 million. Democratic Congressional leaders are reported to have informally agreed that if the present budget-cuttintrend continues, the surplus for fiscal 1958 would be more than the $2 billion now anticipated, and tax cuts might be voted before the end of the The bill is based on the belief that part of the higher revenue resulting from population growth and increased economic activity amounting to a net gain of more than $11 billion over the last three fiscal years should be returned to the people by means of forwardcheduled tax reducsession. rather than used' for inIt ds also reported that any such tions, creased spending by the federal move for tax reduction, to be ef- government. fective next year, would likely be in the form of increasing the present personal exemption from $600 'to $700, a Democratic perennial, as opposed to outright rate reduction. g Representing the latter school of thought, whidh includes southern Democrats and Republicans largely, is a bill introduced by a Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Sadlak of Connecticut. This bill is not entirely dependent upon how much Congress cuts current appropriation requests, but it would require the budget to be brought under control df the full effect of the tax reductions is to be realized. tax-writing The Connecticut legislators proposal is an entirely new concept in tax reduction, providing income tax relief for all taxpayers without increasing anybodys taxes and without setting up new discriminations by means of special relef provisions. Blue Cross Pays $2 Million to Utah Hospitals Blue Cross patients admitted to Utah hospitals numbered 21,084 in 1956, and they spent a total of 95,541 days dn the hospital. Hospitals dn Salt Lake County admitted 6,094 Blue Cross patients during the year. They spent days in the hospital. Each day in 1956, there were 261 Blue Cross members on the patient registers of Utah hospitals. Blue Cross members were admitted .to hospitals throughout the state every day of the year. For the care of hispitalized members, Blue Gross paid $5,560 to local hospitals each day in 1956. All licensed general hospitals in Utah, including those in Salt Lake County sponsor and participate in the Blue Cross Plan. 32,-42- 6 Fifty-seve- n Briefly, It would cut taxes for individuals in all brackets, including reducing the .tax base from 20 per cent to 15 per cent. The measure is attracting attention from the economy bloc in Congress because it would set up Blue Cross has an enrollment competition between increased of 143,569 members dn Utah and government expenditures as opa enrollment of 54 nationwide to posed tax reductions. million persons . The $2,039,240 If this bill became law, the tax- paid in hospital claims in Utah payers would be able to determine during 1956 represented 90.92 per for themselves how they would cent of total Plan income for the benefit during .the next few years year. less expensive farm support program. Another example of a fixed expenditure dn the huge interest we are paying on the national debt-- 10 cents out of every dollar the government spends. The administration can do nothing to reduce this $7 billion item for the comt ing year. One more example is veterans services pensions, Korean G. I. Bill, etc. which take a whopping $5 billion a year 7 cents out of every tax dollar. Here again, there is little the President can do to economize; if any cuts were made they would have to be made by Congress rather than by the President. To a considerable extent, then, the Presidents hands are tied when it comes to the budget in many areas, he merely forwards to the Congress the estimates of various agencies for how much it will .take to carry out programs authorized by Congress. Of course, he recommends savings wherever possible, and in thi3 connection I understand that the President trimmed about $4 billion from rock, bottom! agency requests before submitting the budget to Congress. Spring has sprung the old saying goes, so I thought with the advent of a new season the news around the captol would be new and inspiring. Well, sad, but true, the news has expired. I searched high and low for a little drop of news about anything, but all I could find was the news ithat the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council has a new director. Mr. D. James Cannon. His appointment fills a vacancy left when John Campbell resigned to take another position. Mr. Cannon has long been active in public affairs, so he should make an excellent director for the office. This week I thought maybe all of you would be interested in hearing a little about an office that is probably the most important in the building. Its the office that really keeps us in touch with each other and the outside world. Yes, you guessed it. Its chief operator. Mozelle has been one. She .collects pictures of all just that tiny little office on the here for 4 years but shes been her children at all stages of their third floor where the Telephone operating switchboards off and on life and papers her wall with operators are. What a hive of ac- since she was ten years old. When them. Talk to her about it sometivity that place is. There are four she was ten her parents owned a time its very interesting. operators who hold this building hotel, so she became the switchNext is Alice G. Clive who has together and that takes quite a board operator, which would be been here for 6 years. Prior to bit of doing especially the day quite a feat. Now Mozelle ds mar- that time, khe worked In the Teleafter a holiday. But they are ried and has seven lovely chil- phone Office, both here and In always happy and cheerful such dren. She is a member of the PBX Los Angeles. She also has worked good examples of women with a Club, presently acting as chair- as an inspector for Regal Cleansmile in their voice. The fiT9t man for the breakfast committee. ers and during the war, Alice one we meet is Mozelle Kimball, Her hobby is a very interesting (Continued, on page 4) |