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Show FARMERS PLAN UNITED FRONT Farm leaders, representing the various communities and agricultural agri-cultural cooperatives of Utah county, have agreed to combine the efforts of all agricultural units under the Farm bureau during dur-ing 1938 announces Frank Shelley, Shel-ley, American Fork, vice-president of Utah County Farm bureau. bu-reau. Support is pledged to the stand taken by the farm organization in opposing decision of the state tax commission with regard to assessment of farm lands and improvement he states. Mr. Shelley, who is chairman of the tax and legislative committee com-mittee of the Farm bureau, points out that the action of the tax commission has opened up an excellent opportunity for securing secur-ing "fair and equitable tax legislation legis-lation for rural people" by emphasizing em-phasizing the present unfair and obsolete methods used. Backs Farmers' Stand He finds that the investigations by the tax commission furnished ample support for the stand taken by farmers and homeowners homeown-ers of the county. These findings were explained at hearings before be-fore the tax commission at which more than 1,000 farmers and home owners made protests. "We have lost our right to be represented in taxation by giving complete power of assessment to an appointive commission, making mak-ing our county assessors merely field men under the direction of and subject to arbitrary ruling of the state tax commission, and stripping our county commissioners commission-ers of all power as a board of equalization," reports Mr. Shelley. Shel-ley. 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 legislation which will insure protection against such discrimination in the future the vice-president says. The practical operation of the produce dealers act in the turltey hearing recently conducted in American Fork is an excellent example, believes Mr. Shelley, of the benefits to be obtained by cooperative effort. Th Farm bureau bu-reau he holds was largely responsible re-sponsible for the enactment of this law in 1935 and its amendment amend-ment in 1937. Utah County Farm bureau is at present preparing plans for its drive for 2,000 farm membership member-ship in the week beginning Fet 1, under direction of President David H. Jones and his aides. . |