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Show County Budget For 1932 Adopted; Cut : Many Departments Commissioners Wield Ax To Cut $86 000 From 1931 Figures; Highways bhceci, Fair Appropriation Greatly Reduced. The Utah county budget for 1952 was adopted at a special spec-ial session ot the board of county J Using the hatchet in nearly every depa i In en t c t were trimmed to a minimum, vain a saving ovci last j cat ?86,fa?Se3larKct cut was made in the county highways fund which include the county fan y 780 a set up ! XSmtl county 800 'or The state capitol building, and the balance to be used for m.s- cellaneous expense. Fair On SnuiUer Scale While the commission was asked by a delegation from the county farm bureau to eliminate the county coun-ty fair this year, the board was reluctant re-luctant to wipe out this enterprise enter-prise entirely. It was pointed out by members of the commission that the fair might be conducted on a smaller scale than has been the custom during the past few years. Opposition to its elimination has been voiced by many citizens and taxpayers. Chairman Gillman declares. de-clares. It its asserted by friends of the fair that it ;s the greatest stimulus stim-ulus 4-H clubs r.nd other agricultural agricul-tural enterprises have. The fact that this amount has been set up in the budget does not necessarily mean that a levy must be made for it, Mr. Gillman ex-I ex-I plains. In view of the present economic : . conditions the boon! could not see f its Way clear io cut anything from the charity funds of the county. Using the past year as a criterion, it is doubtful if the present setup will be adaquate, Mr. Gillman explains. ex-plains. He anticipates a blanket cut of from 15 to 20 per cent in vho ; poor and indigent and widows' pension pen-sion funds from the amount now being paid to meet the ever-increasing demands on these funds. The commission did not believe it would be practicing true economy econ-omy to eliminate the county health j unit, but it trimmed this budget to 57100 for the present year. The total amount of 'this year's budget was' finally fixed1 at $423,- j 374.20 as compared with $509,997.50 i last year. A complete resume of . the budget is published elsewhere on this page. . |