Show ij published every thursday national NATI EDITORIAL WILLIAM B D WALLIS editor and nd publisher mum NA c 4 JACK n WALLIs managing Mana aing editor edilo essy JOHN E JONES TOTO arna news editor entered as second class matter at the post office at vernal utah on march 13 1000 under the act of march 3 1870 1079 subscription halos bat in in advance 4 00 one year in utah strictly 4 50 one year out of state published at t vernal county sat beat of uintah county center of rich agricultural and mineral A ashley S C valley R repair C P a shop guaranteed U A RAD RADIO A AND T television F ll 11 SERVICE prompt I 1 pick up a rod Do dull delivery livery service 4 ja west u main phone Pho 46 0 EARN 6 on your money bonev iii 41 41 id AT basin lomis loans inc 74 E main phone 72 vernal utah T 11 UTAH 0 40 i on 10 gallons ons of gasoline aso ine A MW M W NON 77 I 1 4 t 11 everywhere in utah car your gasoline dealer who must collect these taxes from national tex owners pay 1 00 tax lax on every you belv beeh that ga bavoline voline taxes are much too high more INCK 10 gal gallons ion of gasoline they buy and more thinking people are coming to agree what do does a tax this high on a you think basic commodity like grohne really make sense G gisslin Gi solin taxes across the nation amount HIGHWAYS AND GASOLINE TAXES to a 50 sales tax laband and that s your ga gasoline uline retailer naturally favors of the roads that the motoring public needs lie he believes believe rive five times as ai high as the tax in fair and reao reasonable taxation for this purpose hut but rate on luxuries like diamonds feels feel that hat taxes on have now reached unreason kieren 21 and mink coats coals ably high levels level ile he alio believes believe wit tint all special taxes on the should be dmd only for highway pur how did gasoline taxes got get pone yet last year out of every automobile tax ax dollar SS tolle cled ed by the federal government from so 10 high well since world highway users more than ihan 40 cents cent went for non highway gasoline taxes tair war II if there have been three nr pom s if these tax lax were dedicated pur up 51 in the fiderak fit leral gasoline for h highway 1 crease hway purposes pur poc poes ther would be no need for the latest increate in the hie federal tax lax in tr ton yr years lax ta r atone alone this brought the federal tax to 4 cents a gallon in addition to the state slate tax of 6 cents a gallon looking of at it another way in the he last ten cars gasoline in the taxes have skyrocketed sky rocketed 51 act the th price of gasoline itself has risen only SJ 15 during the same period tho Gese llao tox Is 82 a year for gasoline taxes gallon by gallon commisso com these taxes add up to a lot of money rach each year the lexington Lox ington A mur average motor vehicle owner in this state slate pays 82 for york ti gasoline taxes alone just a few dollars less than UM the average weeks pay for most people I 1 |