Show n Mayor Designates t i Group to Confer i On City Revenue I. I Names F. F Five Ive R Representative t Taxpayers to Counsel Commission f. f Speedy pe Y solution to Salt SaIt Lakes Lake's financial fi dilemma was forecast Tuesday Tues Tues- day when Mayor Louis Marcus appointed ap pointed a committee of five representative taxpayers to confer conIer with the city commission on suggested means cf el Increasing creasing the municipal revenue kIhe committee consists of Blair president of the Salt SaIt Lake Real kul Estate board bord chairman Paul F. F Keyser treasurer secretary of the A. A Keyser company A A. AL L. L Fish general manager af the Telegram Fred Tied J. J Heath president of the Second Sec Sec- ond nd ad Precinct Improvement league end and Mrs James H. H Wolfe representing represent represent- lag ing t women's organizations Mr Richardson announced he plans to ta call the committee together this I week to outline plans to be submitted I Ito to the commission for raising new r revenue e with which to balance the municipal budget this year Appointment of the committee by Mayor Marcus followed a meeting of the commission Monday with tentative taxpayers at which the city's financial situation was discussed k Mr Richardson at Mondays Monday's meeting meet meet- jug ing wholeheartedly indorsed a proposal pro pro- paul poul broached by the Telegram to slot machines expected to yield a minimum of annually He also expanded the proposal and advocated ad ad- voc ted licensing marble games and punch boards hoards Immediate licensing of all such devi devices es was urged Richardson sites after Mayor Marcus explained the cit city Is faced with a deficit of approximately ap ap- approximately proximately Upshot of the theRion Rion was that the mayor promised th the city's levy y of 12 mills would not b be Increased In his arguments advocating licensIng licensing licens licens- ing of slot machines Mr Richardson called WIed attention to the spasmodic closing up of ot the devices and pointed out oat that the best way of testing the J legality lity of the machines would be to license them and thereby make the operators assume the b burden of proof IS 85 to their legality |