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Show Thompson News By VIRGINIA GRUVER Bessie Davis left the 1st of July for a visit with her neice in Denver. She did not return home until the 7th. She had a very nice visit. The 17th of July, Bessie took another jaunt but this time to Helper to visit and have ,a get - together with her brother. She said before be-fore she left that there was a family type picnic planned and just what else she was not sure of. Tuesday, Mr. Earl Butler, But-ler, one of Jessie Jeffries' bosses paid a visit to the plant here in Thompson. Mr. Butler brought two gentlemen also from Salt Lake City with him to look over the plant. They had Mr. Bob Fine from Moob meet with them to make plans to set up another loading and unloading pump and also another floodlight for the yard. They all had lunch at the Silver Grill, our local cafe, then back to work on the plans for the plant before returning to Salt Lake that evening. Wednesday Betty Jeffries Jeff-ries and my son Kenny took a quick trip to Grand Junction, Colorado, on business. Returning with them were Betty's three nephews, Butch, Ronnie, and Kelly Myers for another anoth-er visit this summer. Friday afternoon Joe Jeffries and Kyla Chambers Cham-bers went to Grand Junction Junc-tion to pick out the trailer trail-er which will be their home in the near future. The date the trailer will be brought out is not known yet. The dat(e of Joe and Kyla's marriage has still not been set. Late Friday afternoon Judy Delanty brought Su- zie home to her parents, Jeff and Betty Jeffries. With Judy was her 3 girls and her grandmother, Lu-lie Lu-lie Clark. Judy is Betty Jeffries sister. Everyone went to the train depot Saturday afternoon to watch Judy's oldest girl Dana aboard the Zepher on a trip to Salt Lake where she will visit with her father's parents. Saturday, Boyd Frame took his uncle Bob Myers horse, which he had borrowed bor-rowed for the bear hunt, back to Grand Junction, Colorado. Saturday visitors to the Jess .Jeffries was the mother mo-ther to the boys that are visiting the Jeffries and their sister Debbie and Cousin Cheri. Lori returned return-ed to Grand Junction Saturday Sat-urday afternoon taking Kelly Myers, one of the boys and leaving both of the girls. Both girls returned re-turned to Grand Junction Sunday with their aunt Judy as she returned to Delta, Colorado', Jesse Gruver isn't getting around much, he spends his time in his trailer house. His back and legs have been bothering him real bad as usual. It still stays hot in Thompson. Guess that says the same for the whole country. I don't know where it's cool. and indicate a possible deficit in the 1971 fiscal year, greater cutbacks in subsequent quarters may be necessary." He reported that the slowdown in state revenue reven-ue collections became noticeable no-ticeable last March coincident coin-cident with a national recession. re-cession. Exempted from the cutback cut-back are appropriations for public assistance and medical assistance or payments pay-ments to school districts from the uniform school fund under the school support program. The State Board of Education Ed-ucation must cut its administrative ad-ministrative expenses by two per cent, as must institutions in-stitutions of higher learning learn-ing which are supported from the general fund. Welfare Cut The Department of Social So-cial Services and Division of Family Services also must take a two per cent cut from their appropriations appropri-ations for administration and other expenses. The Tax Commission must take a similar cut, but the Highway Department, supported sup-ported from earmarked highway revenue, will not be affected. Action by the Legislature Legisla-ture will be necessary to transfer money to be saved sav-ed by the cutback to the uniform school fund for allotment to school districts. dis-tricts. The Legislature, whether wheth-er it meets this summer in special session, or a new Legislature to meet next January, will face problems of balancing the state budget. Rampton referred re-ferred to a deficit of between be-tween $1 and $2 million as of June 30. Welfare Deficit Costs for public assistance assis-tance and medical assistance assis-tance are continuing to run into the red, indicating indicat-ing state financial problems prob-lems ahead. Raymond A. Jackson, state public safety commissioner, com-missioner, reported t o Rampton July 17 that fewer violations of liquor laws are oca,-than oca,-than durin7 ' eral yeai.sK Pa,, He arned lThei'e are sti i fction,, ofth ' trol Act ai f-: investigation : ment by J fancies the pt0 : increase." .He reported iv. Luor Law En V D'ion during' year of operatj' 81 arrests for violations. q5;' Lake County, Carbon, 10 in 111 Gl'and, f0Ur and wtch co; "e each in Too ". Morgan and E0 '. counties. : . 75 complaint, eght persons ty, six were convic-was convic-was acquitted, 19 " J1118, no action I k!.n, .on e and ' stl" is pending 0 Jackson pointed 0-' the enforcement ( spent $250,000 durir fiscal year ended k !t has a similar sp. ation for the nesi year. Cities and towns are required to sr,' million given t from State Liquor C Commission profit,, quor law enforV They must match , quarter of a mil!,( liiquor law enforc-from enforc-from their own fun;, |