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Show JO jChristensen Vetoes I Increase in Service Charges Salt Lake City Commissioner Joe L. Christensen has turned thumbs down on a proposal to increase garbage and sewage collection col-lection fees as a means of raising rais-ing badly needed funds for the city. Mr. Christensen replied to the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce committee on city finances which had suggested the increases as a fair way of getting more revenue. The chamber committee said it did not feel it fair to raise . some $400,000 annually by raising rais-ing business taxes as had been proposed by several commissioners. commission-ers. It offered the service charge increase as a partial substitute. Park Commissioner L. C. Rom-ney, Rom-ney, who proposed the business tax boost, said he realized there were inequities and the plan was to make fair adjustments. |