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Show ! i t Page Eight FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1957 THE SALT LAKE TIMES " What Is Iff j (Continued from Page 1) 'fragmentize' the GOP between 'conservative' Republicans and 'modern' Republicans. Washing-ton Daily News, Nov. 9, 1956. "But for the Republicans' pur-poses, it is the tail which they can use to wag the dog before the public." Thomas Stokes in Newark News, Nov. 16, 1956. "I can't define a 'modern Re-publican' because the qualifying adjective makes the phrase mean ingless." Sen. John W. Bricker, U. S. News and World Report, May 3, 1957. "Q. Would you spell out or de-fine the difference between your philosophy of modern Republi-canism and the so-call- ed New or Fair Deal policies of the Demo-cratic Party? "A. Well, and again I have done this, I assure you before but fundamentally the difference is this. I agree that there are many functions now performed by the government that would have been unthinkable only as much as 50 years ago. But this is what I would say. "If we have respect for the kind of economy, for the insti-tutions that have brought us to where we are today, with our 0( productivity and our power and our advance in every type of civilization on the intellectual, the educational, the health, and moral side, we will understand we must preserve the initiative of the people, which in my opin-ion, means government as close as possible to that person where he can take the maximum in-terest in it and influence it to the maximum degree. "If we don't have that kind of thing, he begins to say money comes from Washington or help comes from Washington free and he wants more all the time, be-cause itis coming from an out-side source. Where is is paying all or part of that, he says, 'Let's look at this with a jaundiced eye.' "So the difference is this. I be-lieve that first of all the gov-ernment must be honest fiscally. I fail to find any such philosophy in what you called the New Deal. I believe in the decentralization of power geographically, back to the geographical units where it is best exercised, and finally, I believe in preserving the sound-ness of our money, in the in-terests of all of the people who are going to live on pensions and retired pay." Dwight Eisenhower, press conference, Jan. 30, 1957. Do torney. Other candidates for na-tional president are: Nelson Lan-cion- e of Columbus, Ohio, now second vice-preside- nt; and Jack Knowles, of Oklahoma City, state president of the Young Demo-crats of Oklahoma. The convention program in-cludes a speakers' list that reads like a Who's Who of the Demo-cratic Party: Adlai Stevenson, Governor Harriman of New York, Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas, National Chairman Paul Butler, Governor Clement of Tennessee, Senator Humphrey of Minnesota, Senator Allan Bible of Nevada, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Frank Church of Idaho. Utah Democrats Charter Buses for Reno Convention (Continued from Page 1) will include banquets, luncheons, all meetings of the convention, and a side trip to Lake Tahoe. All reservations must be in the hands of Dix by October 31. His telephone number is EM where he can be reached in the evenings. His address is 426 South 4th East, Salt Lake City. This is the first time in the 25-ye- ar history of the Young Democratic national organization that its convention has been held in a far-weste- rn state, Dix said. President of the national organ-ization is David Bunn, of Denver, Colo. First vice president, and a candidate for the top job is Philip Burton, young San Francisco at- - Foundation Notes Overlaps in Taxing Districts The abundance of special tax-ing districts has greatly compli-cated local property tax stration. This was the conclusion reached in a special study re-leased by Utah Foundation, the private, non-prof- it governmental research organization. According to the Foundation report, the problem of special districts is particularly acute in Salt Lake County where the total number of separate taxing jurisdictions has increased from seven to twenty-nin- e during the past 25 years. The fact that the boundaries of most of these dis-tricts overlap each other further complicates the matter. At the present time, Salt Lake County must be divided into 44 separate tax areas, each of which has a diffent total property tax levy. This year (1957), the total levy varies from a low of 34.5 mills ($34.50 per $1,000 assessed valu-ation) in one area of the Jordan School District to a hich of 77.6 mills in an area which is now part of South Salt Lake. The study notes that there are currently four taxing areas in Salt Lake City with a different levy applying in each one. Mur-ray has two taxing areas and South Salt Lake also has two. Even the small towns of South Jordan and Riverton each have two separate taxing areas within their boundaries. Twenty differ-ent tax rates are applied in vari-ous parts of Jordan School Dis-trict, and eighteen taxing areas are found in the Granite School District. Foundation analysts observe that "this jigsaw character of government has greatly ham-pered local property tax admin-istration,?' They mention that during recent years, Salt Lake County has been repeatedly late in meeting tax calendar dead-lines. This year, for example, some property owners in the county did not receive their valu-ation notices until nearly two months after the legally pre-scribed deadline of May 21. In one year, Salt Lake County was seven months late in submitting its assessment reports to the State Tax Commission. While there may be a number of other factors accounting for these delays, such as inadequate personnel and machines, local officials attribute a large part of this blame to the complications resulting from these overlapping taxing juris-dictions. The Foundation's study points out that Utah's 1957 Legislature provided a possible solution to the problem by enacting the County Service Area Act. This new law provides that the county may furnish special types of services to unincorporated areas and fix the rate of county service area taxes and fees required to pay for these "municipal-type- " services. Creation of such a county service area in Salt Lake County could do much to elimi-nate the necessity for many of the special districts, which per-form only a single service in a limited area. In addition, such a move would also correct the in-equity of city taxpayers subsidiz-ing the cost of "municipal-type- " services provided by the county to non-cit- y residents. The new law provides, how-ever, that the initiative for the creation of such county service areas must begin with the Coun-ty Commission. As of the present time, the County Commission has taken no action to establish such county service areas in Salt Lake County. Rawlinqs, Others, Blast (Continued from page 1) their own. But the fact is, and this launching of the satellite shows it, that the Kremlin has given full support to its scientists and engineers, while our govern-ment has not given anything like comparable support to our ex-perts. "The Russian achievement is visible proof that the Admini-stration has failed to understand the amount of effort which is needed by our country in basic research and in applied engineer-ing if we are not to become in-ferior to the Russians in air-atom- ic power. "It is proof also that the Ad-ministration has been leading l the people to believe that we have a national security which in fact we are already losing. "At the same time as we repair our defenses, we must drive more vigorously than ever for a pro-perly safeguarded international control of all these weapons of war. The purpose of all our armaments is peace. "But the United States cannot make a successful drive for peace any more than it can protect the safety of the nation if it allows the initiative and the leadership in the weapons race pass to the Soviets. "We call for an all-o- ut national effort to regain our position in the armaments field and to lead the world in a drive for peace." strati For those who enjoy whiskey best, there is no finer quality than Belmont. I STRAIGHT BOURBON BELMONT DISTILLING COMPANY LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA "Sl Vote for f gS ? TF fp fR ' Cmm'ss'oner A successful businessman . . . Former newsboy who has become a builder, townsite developer and construction executive. An outstanding community and church leader. A lifelong resident of Salt Lake City. The BEST man for the City Commission position. Primary Oct 22 Final Election Nov. 5 103 proof CavalierVodka the perfect "plus" proof iM that's changing SL. M the vogue AVj as American as the Pony Express Ivf CAVALIER yrynxrA the great American V JUll. 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