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Show MEMORIAL FUND TO BE DIVIDED AMONG COMMUNITIES The $Sii,0U0 memorials fund which tho Utah county commission commis-sion lms raised by taxation since jivt5 will be distributed to various communities on a population basis, usinjr t'10 -ll) official federal census as the standard, members of the Utah county commission said today. Commissioners said they recognized recog-nized that 19-10 figures are ' now inacurate in many communities, but pointed out that it is the only local official' census available. Any other figure, they said, would be onlv estimate and subject to dispute dis-pute from contesting agencies. The amount to be received by Orem, which has officially asked for aid in remodeling the Virginia Manor into a veterans' center and memorial, will be pro-rated on this basis. One undecided question is whether small communities adjoining ad-joining Orem, including Edgemont, Vineyard, and Lake View, wish to throw their lot in with Orem on the memorial. If this is the case, said Commission Chairman George A. Cheever, their population will result in an added amount to be paid by the county toward the Orem project. In 1945 the county commission began levying an amount sufficient suffi-cient to net about $30,000 annually an-nually toward a memorial fund. The amount now stands at $86,000, according to County Auditor Karl Bennett, with a few thousand still to come in from last year's taxes. Only amount spent from the county memorial fund so far, according ac-cording to Commissioner Sylvan W. Clark, is $10,000 for the Provo Veterans' Center, to which the county holds title and has leased I on a long term basis to the Provo Veterans' Council. The commission commis-sion later loaned the Spanish Fork American Legion $3000 from the fund for purchase of a Legion home, which that organization has repaid, Commissioner Clark said. |