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Show Taxpayer burden Dear Jack: After my family and I being a subscriber to the Vernal Express since 1893, 1 am going to take this opportunity through" your friendly and informed paper to state my views on the much talked about seventeen million dollar school bond. I guess I could stop here and say vote no, but I will state some of my reasons. First, just look at the nine pages of delinquent taxes for Uintah County and ask the people why they did not borrow the money to pay them. Second, every farm and ranch needs new equipment, but they cannot buy t, they have to get along with the old equipment they have now. Third, we have too many transients and free riders in our schools. On Friday the 28th of January, myself and some other taxpayers made a tour around the Uintah High School, and Jr. High. We counted sixteen out-of-state cars. The owners of these cars are not taxpayers or they would have had Utah license plates. I am sure had we made a tour of the Todd, Lapoint, Naples and Maeser schools we would have seen considerable con-siderable more out of state license plates. As those are the parents that drive their children to schools. (Elementary (Elemen-tary schools.) The parents of these transient children have the jobs that our local taxpayers should have. That is the reason Uintah County unemployment is so high. Don't get me wrong we need good schools and quality education, but don't forget the more important thing and that is the home and human interest. Today most parents have to work to pay taxes and other expenses. Therefore the children are left without any home life, that's why there is so much juvenile delinquency. What we need most of all is a change in the laws so taxpayers would be the only people qualified to vote on the bond election. In regards to our school board elections, elec-tions, it is all right for the candidate to be appointed where the vacancy occurs but in as much that the school board handles the larger part of the county money, every qualified voter in the county coun-ty should vote like they do for the rest of our county officials. Also the public should vote for the school superintendent. Sometimes in the past where the superintendent has been appointed by the school board regardless of whether he is qualified or not, they keep him on until he retires and no one has the guts to fire him. If he were elected we would |