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Show i I THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1961 Page Thre Rep. Peterson said that small business incentive would be aid-ed by the President's proposal to provide a minimum credit of per-haps 10 per cent with respect to the first $5000 of new invest-ment. "This would guarantee a sub-stantial credit to a very large number of small firms," Rep. Peterson said. Peterson to Testify Before House Ways And Means Committee The House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings this week on the President's tax rec-ommendations. Rep. M. Blaine Peterson, the author of a small business tax! adjustment bill, will testify be-fore the committee next week. In his message to Congress the President recommended that tax credits for all business' for sums "plowed back" into the firm in new investments in plant and equipment which is an adoption of the Peterson proposal. "The President's recommenda-tion is not confined to small busi-nessmen, but it has the same goals as the bill I introduced," he said. i President Kennedy proposes a minimum tax credit of 10 per 'cent of the first $5000 of any new investment of plant and equip-ment. His overall proposal calls for a six per cent credit of new investment in excess of half of the current annual depreciation deduction on existing equipment but not in excess of the full de-duction; For investments exceed-ing the full deduction a 15 per cent credit would be allowed. Moss Introduces Bill To Alter Boundary Of Cedar Breaks Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah has introduced a bill to alter the boundaries of Cedar Breaks Na-tional Monument in southwest Utah by adding 111 acres to the southeast portion of the monu-ment and subtracting 129 acres from its northwest portion. The area would come from the Dixie National Forest and the area taken from the mnoument would be returned to the national forest. The Senator further said: "To protect grazing rights on the portion of the Dixie National Forest proposed to be added to the monument, I have made one major change in the bill as drafted by the Department of the Interior. My bill specifically provides that those holding such grazing permits shall have first considerations for permits on the 129 acres to be subtracted from the monument and added to the national forest. "I agree with Secretary Udall that the proposed changes will beautify Cedar Breaks National Monument and enhance its at-traction to visitors. We in Utah are fortunate that the Secretary of the Interior is so interested in improving the parks and monu-ments within our state." Senator Moss said this bill will place within the monument sec-tions of the rim drive which now lie outside. He said that this drive is the route by which visit-ors to the monument reach main points of interest on the rim of the canyon bowl. He said the change would af-ford protection to "a spectacular alpine flower meadow," and the unsightly fencing could be put where it would not be seen by visitors. Since the lands to be added are already in federal owner-ship, no land ownership, no land acquisitoin cost is involved, Mr. Moss said, the only expense be-ing some $8,400 to relocate the boundary fencing. Cedar Breaks National Monu-ment is situated about ten miles southeast of Cedar City, Utah. It was established by Presiden-tial proclamation in 1933. "The area consists of a vast amphitheatre almost half a mile deep and two miles from rim to rim. with spectacular cliffs of white, orange, deep rose, and color. It is easy to drive to from either Highway 91 or 89," he said. Th park values of the lands to be taken from the monument is secondary and the National Park Service sees no future need for them. The proposed change will result in a more natural bound-ary for this section of the mon-ument. Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he would like to do anyhow, even if he does not need the money. William Lyon Phelps. N LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1. In order to offset the need for increased bus rates, repeated demands have been made to our Utah Public Service Commission that they force the National City Lines of Chicago to refund to their subsidiary here, the Salt Lake City Lines, the unconscion-able, illegal dividends (over and above that which they were en-titled to), and which our PSC allowed to be drained from re-serves of the local bus firm here since 1946. Details of these ex-horbit-yearly dividends have already been published in for-mer statements by the writer, amounting some years to as much as 40 and 50 per cent in dividends, and as high as $90,-000.- 00 in yearly service fees, whereas a monopoly protected utility is rightly entitled to a net 6 per cent profit or thereabouts yearly. 2. Why is it that our Public Service Commission sits defiant-ly by and refuses to perform its sworn duty to regulate this pri-vate utility and force Salt Lake citizens to endure this bureau-cratic exploitation and abuse. 3. If our PSC were doing their duty, they would not even con-sider another public hearing or raise in rates until they had first forced the public holding com-pany to replace every cent of excessive funds unlawfully taken from the surplus earnings of the local ifrm. In private1 business, such wrongly removed funds, when discovered, would have to be speedily replaced to say noth-ing of the penalty that would be meted out to the guilty one. This is a parallel case exactly, and if individual members of Utah's PSC persist in doing nothing about this offense or offenders, then the public can have little or no faith in their further 4. To now whitewash this of-fense and go ahead with another expensive public hearing would be to degenerate the public hear-ings under this Commission to a mere sham and farce. It's a trav-esty on justice when we elect and appoint public officials and then as constituents we have to go to the vpense of hearings and go to the expense of hearings and court procedures to secure the very rights which public of-ficials were elected to protect. 5. If and when the bus com-pany is honestly in need of high-er bus rates, I am sure the pub-lic will be reasonable and go along in this matter, but until the funds in question have been replaced to buy new equipment and meet pay roll increases as claimed it would be adding in-sult to injury for the Commis-sion to grant increased bus fares. It is safe to predict that the com-mission will allow the increases asked for unless the public con-cerned can exert enough influ-ence and power to force the PSC to first demand return of the funds in question, and then, and only after this is done, would be the proper time to determine the need for further funds for the bus company. Lorenzo E. Elggren. Former State Senator and President of Consumers Welfare League. 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