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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1962 Page Five " CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION PRO-POSING TO AMEND ARTI-CLE XIII, SECTION 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF UTAH, RELATING TO TANGIBLE PROPERTIES EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. Be it resolved by the Legisla-ture of the State of Utah, two -- thirds of all members elected to each of the Houses voting in favor thereof: Section 1. It is proposed to amend Article XIII, Section 2 of the Constitution of the State of Utah to read as follows: Section 2. All tangible prop-erty in the state, not exempt under the laws of the United States, or under this constitu-tion shall be taxed in propor-tion to its value to be ascer-tained as provided by law. The property of the state, counties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal corporations and pub-lic libraries, lots with the build-ings thereon used exclusively for either religious worship or charitable purposes, and places of burial not held or used for private or corporate benefit, shall be exempt from taxation. Water rights, ditches, canals, reservoirs, power plants, pump-ing plants, transmission lines, pipes and flumes owned and used by individuals or corpora-tions for irrigating lands within the state owned by such individ-uals or corporations, or the in-dividual members thereof, shall not be separately taxed as long as they shall be owned and used exclusively for such purposes. Power plants, power transmis-sion lines and other property used for generating and deliv-ering electrical power, a portion of which is used for furnishing power pumping water for irri-gation purposes on lands in the State of Utah, may be exempted from taxation to the extent that such property is used for such purposes. These exemptions shall accrue to the benefit of the users of water so pumped under such regulations as the legislature may prescribe. The taxes of the indigent poor may be remitted or abated at such times and in such manner as may be provided by law. The legislature may provide for the exemption from taxation of homes, homesteads, and person al property, not to ' exceed $2,000 in value for homes and homesteads, and all household furnishings, furniture, and equipment used exclusively by the owner thereof at his place of abode in maintaining a home for himself and family. Proper-ty not to exceed $3,000 in value, owned by disabled persons who served in any war in the mili-tary service of the United States or of the State of Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such dis-abled persons or of persons who while serving in the military service of the United States or the State of Utah were killed in action or died as a result of such service may be exempted as the legislature may provide. The legislature shall provide by law for a annual tax suffi-cient, with other sources of rev-enue, to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the state for each fiscal year. For the purpose of paying the state debt, if any there be, the legis-lature shall provide for levying a tax annually, sufficient to pay the annual interest and to pay the principal of such debt, with-in twenty years from the final passage of the law creating the debt. Section 2. The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the State of Utah in the next general election in the manner provided by law. Section 3. If adopted by the electors of this state, this amendment shall take effect the first day of January, 1963. I, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, DO HEREBY CER-TIFY that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed by the regular session of the Thirty-Fourt- h Legisla-ture, 1961, as appears of record in my office. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah, at Salt Lake City, this 29th day of August, 1962. LAMONT F. TORONTO Secretary of State (SEAL) (10-- 5 11-- 2) Miscellaneous Notices Commencing at a point 82 rods South and 1840.7 feet from the Center of Section 3, Township 1 South, Range 1 West, Salt Lake Base & Meridian, which point is further described as being 368.9 feet East of the East line of 4th South Street Addition in Lot 6, Block 19, BRIGHTON FIVE ACRE PLAT, and on the North property line of 5th South Street; thence North 165.0 feet; thence East 52.7 feet; thence South 165.0 feet; thence West 52.7 feet to the point of beginning. Purchase price payable in law-ful money of the United States. Dated at Salt Lake City, Utah, this . 17th day of October, 1962. GEORGE BECKSTEAD, Sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah. By Harry Holley, Deputy Spencer L. Haycock Attorney for Plaintiff Date of first publication 19th day of October, 1962. (10-1- 9 11-- 9) SHERIFF'S SALE ORDER OF SALE In the District Court of the Third Judicial District in and for the County of Salt Lake, State of Utah. PRODUCERS FINANCE COM-PANY OF UTAH, Plaintiff, vs. UTAH VALLEY CONSTRUC-TION COMPANY, INC., GEORGE S. GRAHAM and CHARLES R. KNOWLES, Defendants. To be sold at Sheriff's Sale at the west front door of the County Courthouse in the City and County of Salt Lake, State of Utah, on the 13th day of No-vember, 1962, at 12 o'clock noon of said day that certain piece or parcel of real property situate in Salt Lake County, State of Utah, described as follows, to-wi- t: i SHERIFF'S SALE No. 136 936 In the District Court of the Third Judicial District in and for the County of Salt Lake, State of Utah. THE EQUITABLE LIFE AS-SURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, Plaintiff, vs. JOSEPH W. CHASE SR., also known as JOSEPH W. CHASE; MINERVA J. CHASE, also known as MINERVA CHASE, his wife; BROWN DISTRIBUTING COM-PANY, a corporation; YOUNG ELECTRIC SIGN COM-PANY, a corporation; CARTER INVESTMENT COM-PANY, a corporation; BENNETT LEASING COMPA-NY, a corporation; CURTIS COMPANY, a partner-ship; UTAH STATE TAX COMMIS-SION, Defendants. To be sold at Sheriff's Sale at the west front door of the County Courthouse in the City and County of Salt Lake, State of Utah, on the 30th day of Oc-tober, 1962, at 12 o'clock noon of said day that certain piece or parcel of real property situate in Salt Lake County, State of Utah, described as follows, to-wi- t: The north half of Lots 14 and 15, Block 3, PERKINS ADDITION, be-ing part of the south half of Block 16, Five Acre Plat A, . Big Field Survey. Purchase price payable in law-ful money of the United States. Dated at Salt Lake City, Utah, this 3rd day of October, 1962. GEORGE BECKSTEAD, Sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah. By Harry Holley, Deputy Wallace Hurd Attorney for Plaintiff Date of first publication Octo-ber 5, 1962. (10-- 5 10-2- 6) CAPS Croup Sets Lights on Jan. 17 For Education At the annual convention in Salt Lake City, PTA workers from all over the state were told to keep this date in mind Jan. 17, 1963. On that night all the lights in all the schools in Utah will be turned on. On that night people in Utah will join together in the schools to talk out the issues confronting education today. Leaders were instructed to be ready and en-thusiastic. This program is to highlight education's needs to the legisla-ture and the public. The eve-ning is scheduled early in the legislative session to help leg-islators see the problems that they will have to help solve. In a dramatic presentation the workers were asked and told among other things: Go home, find the problems in your educational community. Then broadcast them until we face our problems. We have no hope of solving them. Become familiar with your own needs, learn what other areas are doing to solve their needs. About 1,278 teachers left the classroom of Utah. This amounts to a 13 per cent loss. The U. S. average is 8 per cent. One of our classrooms for the handicapped children shut its doors this year. We had the class room, the equipment, and the children, but no teacher. About 212 teachers of those 1,278 went to other states to teach. The remaining 1,066 left teaching for other employment. Over 1,000 teachers left Utah teaching for other employment, i We have overcrowded class-- rooms, double session schools. We have great difficulty in the staffing of our schools. We need more special teachers and classrooms for the slow learners and the handicapped . and the accelerated student. We need more kindergartens we need more counselors. Utah has more children in school. They stay in the school longer. Utah has more children per household more children to educate. Utah makes a great effort in behalf of education greater than most other states in that a greater share of her state income goes to education, but the large numbers of children are hers, and her responsibility. Utah pays her teachers much lower salaries than do most of the other states, particularly the surrounding states thus explaining the general exodus. Man cannot live by devotion alone. On the other hand, Utah's taxes, property taxes are much lower than most of the other 50 states. Utah property taxes rank 43. In other words 43 states pay higher taxes than does Utah. Some pay three times as much. Have we the ability to pay for our schools? Utah is above the national average for income and consumer spending and has the most rapidly increasing income in the U.S. Directions were given about the "Lights On" meetings to help committees to turn the lights on to help relearn the impor-tance of education. Education should be looked on as an in-vestment and not an annoying tax. Ever since they put the Smoky Bear ads in the N. Y. subways there hasn't been a single forest fire in Manhattan. Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bay-onets, and are achieved first in the moral and afterwards in the material sphere. Mazzini. SUMMONS In the District Court of the Third Judicial District, in and for Salt Lake County, State of Utah ARDENE A. JOHNSON, Plaintiff, vs. BENJAMIN LeBARON JOHN-SON and WALKER BANK & TRUST COMPANY, a corpo-ration, Defendants. The State of Utah to the Above Named Defendants: You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon H. Ar-nold Rich, plaintiff's attorney, whose address is 206 El Paso Natural Gas Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, an answer to the complaint within twenty (20) days after service of this sum-mons upon you. If you fail so to do, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in said complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This action is brought for separate maintenance, for en-forcement and interpretation of the provisions of a trust between Benjamin LeBaron Johnson, Trustor and Walker Bank & Trust Company, Trustee, dated January 21, 1957, for a decree defining the property rights of the parties and to enforce a lien on the property of defendant including the real property lo-cated at 612 Tenth Avenue and 1231 Lyman Court, Salt Lake City, Utah, for the benefit of plaintiff for her support and maintenance. H. ARNOLD RICH Attorney for Plaintiff 206 El Paso Natural Gas Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah (10-1- 2 11-- 2) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. 2 A JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND ARTICLE XIII OF T HE CONSTITUTION O F THE STATE OF UTAH BY THE ADDITION OF SECTION 13, PROHIBITING EXPENDI-TURE OF REVENUE DE-RIVED FROM GASOLINE, OTHER MOTOR FUEL AND HIGHWAY USER TAXES, FOR PURPOSES U N R ED TO HIGHWAY USE. Be it resolved by the Legisla-ture of the State of Utah, two -- thirds of all members elected to each of the Houses voting in favor thereof: Section 1. It is proposed to amend Article XIII of the Con-stitution of the State of Utah by the addition of Section 13 to read: Section 13. The proceeds from the imposition of any license tax, registration fee, driver education tax, or other charge related to the operation of any motor vehicle upon any public highway in this state, and the proceeds from the im-position of any excise tax on gasoline or other liquid motor fuels used for propelling such vehicle, except for statutory re-funds and adjustments allowed thereunder and for costs of collection and administration, shall be used exclusively for highway purposes as follows: (1) The construction, im-- , provement, repair and mainte-nance of city streets, county roads, and state highways, in-cluding but not restricted to payment for property taken for or damaged by rights of way, and for administrative costs necessarily incurred for said purposes. (2) The administration of a driver education program. (3) The enforcement of state motor vehicle and traffic laws. (4) Tourists and publicity expense in any single biennium not in excess of the lesser of the following: (a) .5 percent of the total biennial revenues from motor fuel taxes, or (b) an amount equal to the 1959-196- 1 biennium. Section 2. The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the state of Utah at the next general election in tht manner provided by law. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electors of the state. I, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, DO HEREBY CER-TIFY that the foregoing Is a full, true and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed by the regular session of the Thirty-Fourt- h Legisla-ture, 1961, as appears of record in my office. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah, at Salt Lake City, this 29th day of August, 1962. LAMONT F. TORONTO Secretary of State (SEAL) (10-- 5 11-- 2) NOTICE Meeting to be held at 3955 So. State Monday, October 29, 1962, at 8:00 p.m. to ratify merger be-tween Associated Industries and International Diversified. By ED DeLYLE, President (10-1- 2) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. 3 A JOINT RESOLUTION PRO-POSING TO AMEND ARTI-CLE VI, SECTION 9 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF UTAH, RELAT-ING TO COMPENSATION OF . MEMBERS OF THE LEGIS-LATURE. Be it resolved by the Legisla-ture of the State of Utah, two -- thirds of all members elected to each of the Houses voting in favor thereof: Section 1. It is proposed to amend Article VI, Section 9 of the Constitution of the State of Utah to read as follows: Section 9. The members of the Legislature shall receive such compensation, not exceed-ing $1,200.00 a year for the leg-islative term and $10.00 a day expenses while actually in ses-sion, and mileage as provided by law. Section 2. The secretary of State is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the state of Utah at the next general election in the manner provided by law. Section 3. If adopted by the electors of this state, this amendment shall take effect the first day of January, 1963. I, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, DO HEREBY CER-TIFY that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed by the regular session of the Thirty-Fourt- h Legisla-ture, 1961, as appears of record in my office. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah, at Salt Lake City, this 29th day of August, 1962. LAMONT F. TORONTO Secretary of State (SEAL) (10-- 5 11-- 2) |