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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1961 Page Three Great Books Leader Will Come to Utah Mrs. Susan Smith, the Great Books Area Director for Utah, Southern California, Nevada and Arizona, will be in Salt Lake City Thursday, February 23 to begin a six session workshop to train discussion leaders for Great Books study discussion groups. Mrs. Smith, who grew up in Shanghai and was educated ini England, has been a leader atj' institutes throughout the nation and in Europe, where she led the Great Books study tour last year. Sponsored by the Great Books : Foundation and the University of Utah Extension Division, 40 informal discussion groups cur-rently are meeting in various communities of the state to dis-cuss their ideas after reading such works as The Book of Job, Antigone, Machiavelli's Prince, The Communist Manifesto, Wal-de- n, Moby Dick, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Since most of the groups ope-rate under lay leadership, this training shop, to be conducted February 23, 24, March 2, 3, 9 and 10 on the University campus will give experience in planning a leading question, developing an idea, leading an aesthetic ' work, and other skills. Experienced leaders, persons organizing new groups among friends and neighbors, or mem-bers of study discussion groups interested in adopting the Great Books idea are invited to attend the free workshop. Upon regis-tration participants will receive free copies of the demonstration readings which will include the Declaration of Independence, Plato's Apology, Aristotle's Poli-tics, Macbeth and others. A refresher course for those who have had leadership train-ing will be held on Saturday, February 25, when members will discuss Aristotle's Poetics. Guard Ball Program Benefits Handicapped More than 700 Utah youngsters will play basketball during Feb-ruary so that other less fortunate children may walk some day. This is the theme of the second annual Bantam basketball bene-fit sponsored jointly by the Utah National Guard and the Utah Society for Crippled Children and adults. The benefit is co-ordinated with the Utah National Guard's Bantam basketball pro-gram. The benefit games were intro-duced in the state last year upon suggestion of Brig. Gen. Maurice Watts, assistant state adjutant. The 86 teams signed to play par-ticipated in the benefit games held in 14 cities in the state. Paid receipts totaling more than $1300 resulted from the games. The money was turned over to the Utah Society for Crippled Chil-dren and Adults. The success of last year's games has resulted in a repeat perform-ance again this year by the mid-get basketballers. However, the 1961 bantam benefit will see more than 120 junior teams par-ticipating in benefit games in at least 18 Utah communities. The general public is invited watch the junior teams play Co official regulation games. An charge of 50 cents per person will be charged with all proceeds being contributed to the Utah Society. Bantam basketball teams in the Salt Lake City area will launch the 1961 program in the National Guard Armory center on East Sunny side Ave. Other games will be played in the state on consecutive Saturdays until February 25, Gen. Rich said. Commercial Property Owners Pay 54 Of S.L. County Tax Owners of commercial and industrial property paid $22,-372,7- 8, or 54.9 per cent of the total property tax bill in Salt Lake County during 1960, ac-cording to a study completed by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. In the state taxes charged to commer-cial and industrial property was $47,092,069 or 54.2 per cent of the total charged to all classes of property. The Foundation study also shows that $14,673,167, or 36.0 per cent of all property taxes im-posed in Salt Lake County last year was charged to residential property; $729,035 to 1.8 per cent to agricultural property; $2,718,123 or 6.7 per cent to mo-tor vehicles and $256,759 or 0.6 per cent to other minor classes of property. These percentages compare with statewide averages of 31.7 per cent on residential property, 6.8 on agricultural property, 6.8 on motor vehicles and 0.5 on miscellaneous prop-erty classes. Foundation analysts point out that the total property tax bur-den in Utah totaled $86,962,502 during 1960, an increase of $3,-665,0- or 4.4 per cent over 1959. Property taxes charged in Salt Lake County amounted to $40,749,872 in 1960 and $41,-714,7- 47 in 1959. The study notes that the in-crease in property taxes last year was somewhat less than the increases for other major tax sources. Sales tax revenue in the state rose from $25,871,000 in fiscal 1959 to $28,735,000 in fiscal 1960, an increase of 11.1 per cent. The state collected $16,718,000 in individual income taxes in 1960 compared with $12,437,000 in 1959, an increase of 34.4 per cent. If the one-tim- e two million dollar "windfall" from the initiation of witholding is discounted, the state income tax increase was 18.3 per cent in 1960 over the previous year. The corporation franchise tax contribution to state coffers in-creased 13.8 per cent while mo-tor fuel revenue was up 7.0 per cent. The schools received the larg-est share of the property tax revenue in 1960, according to the report. Nearly two-thir- ds of all property taxes collected in Utah last year went to schools. The county share was 14.4 per cent of the total, while cities and towns received 15.4 per cent. f : , ' IplliflllllwP j k ! 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Sounds of America, NBC-T-V Friday, Feb. 17, Cer p.m. The hour long color will re-crea- te some of the distinctive sounds of American yesterdays and fantasies, setting them to music and dance. Composer - conductor Gordon Jenkins has written both words and music for this special Bell Telephone Hour. He will also conduct the chorus that serves as commentator during the pro-duction. "The Sounds of America" will originate in Disneyland, which has one of the nation's finest collections of "life size" Ameri-cana. The "Train to Yesterday" that launches the program is Disneyland's full scale model of a middle 19th century train. " Gordon Jenkins has built the "Sounds of America" around four central scenes. The first scene is a story book castle from the land of make believe. The second is a western dance hall; the third scene is a river, with the adventures it offers and the fourth is a small town Main Street on the day of the annual parade of the volunteer fire department. 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