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Show SCHOOL BOARDS : DEMANDMNE TAX ! They Arc Resentful at Attitude Atti-tude of Companies, Kirk ham Says. ! Refusal of mining companies to pai I the 3 r cent net proceeds -tax provided pro-vided for , in an amendment to the A state constitution, passed at the I'jAJm election, may rnusn nchoil officials- . Co hfore the next. HKJiion of the let-islature let-islature in a . ret liatury spirit and demand de-mand iniiio lasfiion of a more exacting exact-ing lumtiicr tlMii if the existing tun hern p;id without r"ltsncr, according ac-cording to Traticls W. Klrkham. ftste ilirector of vocational eduration, whs hits hint returned from a trip through the state in the Interest of an extension exten-sion of the school program. School hoard members In oijtsld d'. IrlotK are resentful ner the attitude of the mining companies in protecting lh" ta. Kirkh:tm lcres. "I was told th.tl financial budeets et school dmttlcl h hud been made tiB In reliance upon payment by mining companies of the net proceeds tax, approximately ap-proximately three-fifths of which si to go to public, education." Klrkham uuai-td "Wnlrtrtca of teachers have I been advanred from 10 tn 15 per cent trt meet higher living conts. In fsct, l t he money has hc-n sient in anticipation antici-pation of its collection. The total tsx would have brought in clone to $1.00T-W)a. $1.00T-W)a. but the bulk has been protested and a small portion paid. Passu of the constitutional amendment, however, how-ever, has made possible the collection of such mine taxes, and are deemed necessary to meet school needs." |