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Show Hearing Is Set On Utah County Budget Dec. 12 Utah county's budget hearing 1 will be conducted Thursday, December 12 in the county com-; com-; mission offices. In that day taxpayers and organizations or-ganizations are invited to sit with the commission and ask for a lower budget or a higher budget in any or all departments and give their reasons why. But action on the budget will begin before that day. The county commissioners have set a meeting meet-ing for Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock when they will meet with a special committee from the three school districts Alpine, Provo and Nebo which will discuss dis-cuss with them the possibility of including in a budget an appropriation appro-priation to take caxe of medical and dental work for needy school children. Committee to Meet Commissioners J. W. Gillman, H. A. Robertson, and William J. '. Johnson, and county Attorney W. Stanley Dunford will discuss with i this committee the legality of such j an appropriation. In the past i any county funds Tor health pur-I pur-I poses has been only for examinations, examina-tions, not corrective work. The county health unit was cut out entirely last year. The special committee is composed com-posed of the following: Dr. Sidney Sperry, chairman; Provo district Superintendent H. A. Dixon; Mrs. Achsa Paxman and Mrs. I Stanley B. Bonnett; Nebo district' Superintendent Owen L. Bar- i nett; Mrs. Wells Cloward, Spanish Fork, and J. E. Bird, Springville, board president; Alpine district i Superntendent David ' Gourley, Pleasant Grove; Leo Hansen, Lehi, school supervisor, and Mrs. Eva Gillespie, Orem.. Budget estimates, substituted by various departments of the county are being checked by the commissioners. A slightly higher budget for next year seems probable. |