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Show FARM LEADERS COMBINE ALL UNITS IN COUNTY . Farm leaders, representing the various communities and agricultural agricul-tural cooperatives of Utah county, coun-ty, agreed to combine the efforts of all agricultural units under the farm L-ureau during the year of 1938. Support was pledged to the stand taken by the farm organization or-ganization in opposing decision of the state tax commission with regard to assessment of farm lands and improvement. Frank G. Shelley, chairman of the tax and legislative committee of the farm bureau, points out that the action of the tax commission com-mission had opened up an excellent excel-lent opportunity for securing "fair and equitable tax legislation legisla-tion for' rural people,'' by emphasizing em-phasizing the present unfair and obsolete methods used. He brought out that investigations by the tax committee furnished ample support sup-port for the stand taken by farmers farm-ers and homeowners of the county. coun-ty. These findings were explained at hearings before the tax commission com-mission at which more than a thousand farmers and home owners own-ers made protests. "We have lost our right to be represented in taxation by giving complete power pow-er of assessment to an appointive appoint-ive commission, making our county assessors merely field men under the direction of, and subject sub-ject to arbitrary ruling of the state tax commission, and stripping strip-ping our county commissioners of all power as a board of equalization," equal-ization," declared Mr. Shelley. Through the refusal of the tax commission to reverse or compromise com-promise its decision the problem of preventing such action in the future becomes state wide according accord-ing to the farm bureau officers, and all forces have combined to secure satisfactory legisl a t i o n which will insure protection against such discrimination in the future. The practical, operation of the Dealers' act in the turkey hearing hear-ing recently conducted in American Amer-ican Fork, is an excellent example, of the benefits to be obtained by cooperative effort. The farm bureau bu-reau was largely responsible for this enactment of this law in 1935 and its amendment in 1937. The 1938 membership drive will be conducted during the first week in February, and it is expected ex-pected that 2000 farmers will become be-come members. I |