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Show f ) I i Page Eight i FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Tourist Meeting to Discuss Ways For Communities to Hike Profits "How Your Community Can Profit from the Travel Business" will be the theme of the 1962 Travel Institute and annual meet og Utahns, Inc., according to D. James Cannon, director of the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council. A highlight of the day-lon- g meeting, to be held February 26 at the Hotel Utah, will be a noon panel discussion on "Your Com-munity and the proposed Can-yonlan- ds National Park." The panel discussion on the proposed park will be an infor- - mational bonus for those attend-ing the meeting. The position of the National Park Service and what it has planned for the area, as well as other discussions of wildlife, the natural resources and state lands within the region will be pre-sented. Activities will begin at 8 a.m. with registration. C. J. Olsen, acting president of Utahns, Inc., and member of the Council, will call the meeting to order at 8:55 a.m. Ned Winder, president of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce will give a greeting, after which the first speaker, Dr. Osmond L. Harline, will talk on "Values of the Travel Business to Your Community." Dr. Harline is di-rector of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Utah. The emphasis on this year's program will be mostly on in-formation about the state and how individual communities in Utah can give the tourist busi-ness a shot in the arm. For instance, the first panel. "Forming a Representaive Visi-tor Committee in Your Commu- - nity" will have representatives of motels, petroleum companies, drug firms, colleges, restaurants, federal agencies, etc. The second panel will be en-titled "Accentuate the Positive. Eliminate the Negative in Your Community." The third panel will be the Canyonlands and the fourth will discuss "Where Do We Go From Here?" At 3 p.m. the annual meeting of Utahns, Inc.. will be held. It is an organization of citizens of the state interested in promoting Utah's growing tourist industry. Utah products will be featured as prizes during the one-da- y in-stitute. Commercial, Industrial Owners Pay Property Tax Bulk in Utah 0.60 per cent to other property categories. The Utah Foundation study shows that the total property taxes charged in Utah . during 1961, amounted to $94,233,249. This total represents an increase of $7,270,747, or 8.5 per cent, over the amount of property taxes for the preceding year. Utah schools are the principal recipients of the property tax in Utah, acocrding to the Founda-tion report. During 1961, prop-erty taxes allocated for school purposes (both state and local) amounted to $62,167,057, or 66 per cent of the property tax to-tal. Property taxes imposed by counties were $15,069,527 (16.0 per cent of the total), city and town property taxes equaled $13,642,608 (14.5 per cent), spe-cial district taxes amounted to $3,203,886 (3.4 per cent), and bounty taxes totaled $150,171, (0.1 per cent) last year. Owners of commercial and in-dustrial property pay more than half of the total property tax bill in Utah. This was disclosed in a study just released by Utah Foundation, the private tax re-search organization. According to the Foundation report, taxes charged against commercial and industrial prop-erty amounted to $51,646,597, or 54.8 per cent of the total prop-erty tax burden in 1961. Utah's residential property owners paid $29,166,961 in property taxes last year, or approximately 31.0 per cent of the total charged on all property categories. Other major categories include agri-cultural property,' $6,313,802, or 6.7 per cent of the total; motor vehicles (passenger and trucks) $6,410,480 or 6.8 per cent; and unclassified property, $695,409, or 0.7 per cent. The study emphasizes that the above percentages are all based on statewide averages. There is a wide variation in the structure of the property tax base among the respective counties of the state. For example, residential property accounts for more than half of the total property tax in Davis County, compared with 31 per cent for the state as a whole. In San Juan County, on the other hand, only 1.4 per cent of the property tax came from the owners of residential property, with commercial and industrial property taxes making up 95.6 per cent of the total in that county. Similarly, property taxes charged against the agricultural property varies from 1.6 per cent in San Juan County and 1.8 in Salt Lake County to 59.5 percent in Rich County. Total property taxes charged in Salt Lake County last year amounetd to $43,946,701. Of this total, $24,462,598 or 55.66 per cent was charged to commercial and industrial property, $15.-389,74- 6, or 35.02 per cent to resi-dential property, $790,179. or 1.8 per cent to agricultural property, $3,039,245, or 6.92 per cent to motor vehicles, and $264,933, or Gov. Clyde Proclaims Feb. Heart Month Governor George D. Clyde proclaimed February to be Heart Month in Utah in a statement signed Friday in his office. The governor said leading heart authorities agree that med-ical science is on the verge of important break-through- s. He called upon local citizens to help speed the research advances so urgently needed to alleviate the suffering and protect hearts in the state. "I urge our citizens, through their business, civic and service organizations and in their family circles to assist in achieving this victory by contributing gener-ously to the Heart Fund of the Utah Heart Association," he said. The Heart Fund drive begins here tomorrow and will continue all month. It will reach a high point Sunday during Heart Sun-day weekend when thousands of volunteers will ring doorbells in the residential areas of the state to receive contributions from their neighbors. The Utah Heart Association is an affiliate of the American As-sociation, the nation's only vol-untary health agency dedicated exclusively to combating heart and blood vessel diseases, which account for more deaths each year than all other causes of death combined. extended to city and county of-ficials through the Utah Muni-cipal League, Utah State Asso-ciation of County Officials, the Utah Manufacturers Association, Associated General Contractors, Utah Bar Association, Bankers Association and other business and civic organizations. "There will be a minimum of speech making at the Aircade," Mr. Blood declared. "The audi-ence will actively participate in 'give and take' questions and answers. It's a perfect chance to find out first hand what is hap-pening in Congress on such vital issues as national security, fed- - Panel of Experts Will Meet With Utahns on March 9 A panel of articulate experts from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States will fly to Salt Lake March 9 to discuss vital national issues with the poeple of Utah and surrounding states. The one-da- y meeting, called Aircade for Citizenship Action, has been announced by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, host organization. The meeting will be at the Hotel Utah at $7 per person, including a noon luncheon. Discussions will begin at 9:00 a.m. and continue until 3:30 p.m. Some 500 to 600 leaders in business, industry and civic af-fairs and expected for the local Aircade. "Salt Lake City is one of 15 key cities in America selected eral aid to education, medical assistance for, the aged, unem-ployment benefits, labor union power, tax reform, minimum wage legislation, federal spend-ing and other timely topics." The Aircade panel will be headed by Richard Wagner of Chicago, president of the Na-tional Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest federation of business organizations. Arch' N. Booth, executive vice president and articulate spokesman for the National Chamber, will preside as discussion leader. The names of other panel members has not yet been an-nounced, but the National Cham-ber of Commerce said they will be "business leaders of outstand-ing reputation all authorities on specific categories of legis-lation." The first Aircade will get un-der way in New York City, Feb. 26 and jump to Providence, R.I.; then to Syracuse, Columbus, Ohio; Charleston, W. Virginia; Spartanburg, South Carolina; Pe-oria, Illinois, Kansas City, Mo.; Austin, Texas, then to Salt Lake City. From here it goes to Long Beach, San Francisco, Portland, Bills, and finally St. Paul, Minn. The last Salt Lake Aircade was held in 1958. for this important series of meet-ings, Howard L. Blood, Utah's Aircade chairman said. "Discus-sions will center around vital issues before the U. S. Congress, the American people, and the world." The basic intent of the Aircade is to stimulate citzens to express their views effectively on major national issues, and to learn the issues first hand from people on the scene. "Discussions will be strictly on a non-partis- an basis and both political parties will be well rep-resented," he said. Special invitations are being Range Conditions Improve in Utah Range conditions on the pub-ii- c domain in Utah continued to be heartening during January, according to reports received at the U. S. Bureau of Land Man-agement district managers. R. D. Nielson, BLM state di-rector for Utah, said most of the district managers reported con-siderable new precipitation in the month and conditions more promising than for the past few years. Livestock wintering on the public ranges for the most part were said to be in good condition. In Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele and Part of Juab county, snow cover over most of the district was ade-quate and there were no particu-lar problems in watering live-stock. Weather continued cold, which prevented rapid melting of snow. There is to much animal cou rage in society and not sufficient moral courage. Mary Baker Eddy. !llllllljllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIII!llllllllllllllllllllllllHim I Mews Preview j Former President Eisen- - hower still plans to give his strong backing to Automaker George Romney for the 1964 1 Presidential nomination ... 1 The President's standby anti- - Recession program is winning strong business support . . . Strong labor opposition is de- - veloping against President Kennedy's trade tariff pro- - 1 gram . . . Tunisia still wants to join NATO by 1964. 1 mnmiiiHKfmtiiifmHuiininiimiHHiitHnMimiituiiTiiniuiiiiiiiittiiitniimmi)im r&syX-- 4 SPECIAL HA !-- ,". :w MESSAGE W , ''AM- - utahns FR0M DAVID S. KDMG Member of Congress SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 CHANNEL 2 1:50 P.M. 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