Show so the taxpayer may know the utah state press Asso association cration and its 60 odd members individually aro are urging passage of five billa bills in the 1953 session of ibo the utah legislature these bills oft requested by many public minded citizens from varied walks are designed to modernize utah publication laws these statutes especially as they concern the small cities of tho the tw third rd class i to townships county commissioners and school districts 4 long on 9 have been archaic A 1 states on all sides of utah and throughout the i na a tion long ago ago brought their laws of this category up to dalo dac abo sponsors of these bills in in utah feel it is time oui our ghate kept pace times have changed when the present lawa were written the smaller governing bodies spending ding hundreds of dollars when today they spend hundreds ims is of thousands bembera Mem bera of the utah state press association and thou thousands of taxpayers believe citizens aro entitled f through 1 their tax receipts to know where these monies ire are going these samo same publishers pledge their fullest efforts to inform taxpayers through the news columns of theli paper a erlof the answer 1 where the millions are going 10 U of aho five bills on publication laws are is com paulo I 1 n i bills of these three one concerns cities of the third d I 1 class s and ton townships ships another tho the county ind tha other tho the school districts they t thosa tax supported govern ingi bodies to their official meet ings f both regular regula r and suchy publication could include reports on 4 expenditure i sto to whom the 4 imaney was paid for what and exception 14 i amado in ui t payrolls le teachers contract salaries which woUld bo shown in a lump jump sum 1 ar I I 1 tho tile taxpayers hayo 0 wright to know these things boino may aig items some email small but still vital to painter j may want to know why sinca sina ho pays taxes to the school district and had bid on a small aja job why he given oven the contract perhaps his is bid av as again maybe a 4 school board lm i members brother living ih tho the next count county is a painter ghisi this Is is just an example meaning in no way to 0 cast glances but such things and much much worse do happen or our pow paper headlines aro are pure puro fiction tho the say but a newspapers papers responsibility Yea Ye true to a degree only 4 fundamentally ily it esthe responsibility of the govern ing abdy tho members of which were elected and are diw tax monies for performing their jobs abs governments 1 arid ad bocar society today are complex A myriad of details detail woften of ten I 1 is s involved in a single govern mental transaction many of these details would bo be revealed in I 1 result what was done who di did i d it or 1414 tia it and how much wa what painter received a minor job is not news to a general public betit but jt is news to those alio ano may leave h ave bid the sama same job but of course that is minor still for counties cities to towns or school boards in in utah may to purchased in colorado why I 1 for how bucht weekly newspapers news usually are much smaller t okra operations t tons than their corresponding governing bodies much but still weekly newspapers write and publish for their readers more critical editorials than do th tho seven day a week newspapers weekly cealy nes newspaper newspapers paper ai aim to be watchdogs watch dogs for the ta taxpayers iiA jers do not noi feel they should be with alth the responsibility many weeklies are one it man kan and alid shops 44 9 often they atre are forced to coyer cover nie meetings tings after they are are hold but meet with Buch responses ab oh tho the arent typed yet 1 I il dont know ichen ill get to it or well they did dola AwA few things hinie tonight bui but wo we cant release anything duncil the imin ute sare approved and mind i d you somo times another away wai the email small publiA er just cant ellitt spend 40 houra i s a week try ing to chase down dig out those things almost all publishers i must i suppa supplement mont q i their newspaper jn income come with i commercial meral printing which also has a deadline f bet weekly newspapers I cheat their 1 city ity cousine cousins tho dailies when it cornea comes to critical editorials Another cry will an arise se from the tax supported boje goje governing I 1 ng boales bodles bod les 4 11 I 1 8 too costly ve wo cant afford it who cant afford itt ilithe on the actions ortho officials inthe mannar manner proposed the officials fici als will do a job spena tax money kp nuch more wi widely these proposed lills bills will snot inot cost sm money oney save money for the taxpayers V i ii so be much for the th three ethree companion bills each is is needed 1 4 bach such r t laws lawi aron arent it the kind ever repealed they are too popular test these bills for two years and BOO see where any opposition arises i it wont he be from the taxpayers the electors briefly the fourth hill bill asks an increase in the legal rate of advertising of from 10 cents to 15 cents per line the present ten cent law was written in compare practically anything you buy now with the 1919 price of such items and see t why wily the publishers ask for such ruch an exor bant increase of 60 50 per cent compare div an for instance taxes publishers pay taxes too finally the fifth and last bill asked by utah weekly newspapers this bill was suggested to them it conce corns M s initiative and anal measures nea the bill would allow the state to handle such initiative and referendum issues in a manner maimer similar to the way the law provides for handling constitutional amend amendments bather rather than the costly publicity pamphlet procedure used in the last election lowthe on the welfare lein law the proposed bill would give the state the alternative the choice of publishing such information so everyone in the state would be given an opportunity ito road read it this proposed bill would have saved the state many thousands of dollars last year murray eagle |