Davis County Clipper | 1947-04-11 | Page 2 | Local News

Wichita ichita Kansas I began to be he a agrain agrain agrain grain market and milling center as early as 1874 In l r 0 only 95 people in among the till population of the Unit Unit- United United ed ld States were foreign born horn In 1900 the proportion was 1365 one fifth of the population of the United States In 1900 the negro population was less than one Because l' l regular sources of tax lux revenue are arc not producing enough money to operate the time schools and to finance general community fume Cue functions dons in a number of oC sections of New York stale slate Governor Dewey Dewcy has sent bent a request to the stale slate leg leg- legislature legI legislature I to permit counties to levy new taxes on motor vehicles res ro restaurant r o I meals and drinks liquor I licenses amusements and a retail I tax of not lIot to exceed 2 per cent on all purchases except food and andl I drugs Due to the fact that pres pres- present present ent forms of taxation are arc not rais rais- raising raising ing fug sufficient money for schools and other oilier states may follow the example of New York