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Show Gain Weight on Potatoes, No Grain County Passes Budget Of $676,438 For '48 I- I V - : 1 'Or , K - " : 1 .... i1- " V l Twenty head of lean, underfed Aberdeen Angus steers are gaining weight on a diet tha eliminates grain at Flanders, N. J. They are shown eating the unique potato-salt-molasses fare on the M Eugene K Denton, right, New York business man. The tests are under supervision of Prof. William Jungdahl, left, Rutgers University animal husbandryman. The Utah county commission today to-day passed a 1948 budet of $676,- ! T?A, which members said will allow al-low a county levy of 6.7 mills next yoar if departments are able to stay within the budgeted figure. Present county levy is 7.32. Should expenditures exceed the budget to any appreciable extent, however, it might necessitate set-; ting the levy above the 6.7 mark, according to Chairman George E. Oheever. i Th.: 1018 budget hi $127,173 less ' than the revised 1017 budget of ' $:;o::,7l3. Ifuwovcr, since commit ! jiionitr. bsjvn previously estimated .f lOD.OOO of the revised figure will! go unnpcnt, the bU'lget is only a'roiiinl $20,000 less than anticipated antici-pated 1!47 oxnenditures. The 48 ' figure, ua pas:;ed was .shaved down by the commission from department depart-ment requi'sls which totaled $098,-000. $098,-000. Principal difference in the '48 budget over the current year is the absence of a welfare fund. Whereas Where-as the county spent $156,260 in the welfare department in 1947, nothing was necessary for this item next year because the state has taken over the load. - Obviously dissatisfied with salaries sal-aries for attendants at the county infirmary, Albert Kopp, president of local 50, State, County and Municipal Mu-nicipal Employes, AFX,, asked the commission why they were lower than many other county employes and lower than attendants at the state hospital. Kopp's questions came at the public hearing which preceded the budget passage. Chairman George A. Cheever of the commission replied the county could not hope to compete with i the state hospital In this matter, and that he believed infirmary attendants at-tendants "are justly paid according accord-ing to the scale for similar work throughout the state." Concerning the question of salaries sal-aries generally, Mr. Cheever said: "We don't feel we have a high scale of wages, but we feel it is fair when considered with comparable com-parable work throughout the Btate. i "A lot of our employes would like more money, but we were elected by the people and we are trying to be fair all the way around. We are simultaneously bombarded with requests for high- er wages and lower taxes, and we don't feel justified in going very far either way." Kopp asked the commission when it planned to inaugurate a retirement system for county employes, em-ployes, for which authorization was given cities and counties by the last legislature. Chairman Cheever replied: "We are not ready to make any definite defi-nite decision on this at the present time." County Clerk Verl G. Dixon told the commission he wished to go on record as believing that the $20,-000 $20,-000 set up for elections next year was not sufficient. While nothing definite is known, he said, many are of the opinion that the new election laws will result in an election elec-tion costing just as much as before. be-fore. The last presidential election elec-tion cost the county $22,791. Mr. Dixon pointed out that increased county population since then will necessitate more districts and added expense. The commission, after briefly debating the matter, 'Iceketbair xHf Kisv H - ; ' I lf ill i vtAv i tv fAx i I ; v h TLX 1 f k - decided to leave it at the $20,000 figure. Only two persons attended the public hearing in addition to county coun-ty department heads. They were Mr. Kopp and Ed. M. Rowe. Mr. Rowe offered no comments or objections ob-jections durhag the hearing. s i iii i At Lakewood, N. J., they've put basketball on ice. Here's the season opener between Lakcv.-i cJ and Laurel-in-the-Pines, as the referee throws the bsl: o football-helmeted centers. |