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Show high when compirjj large schools becails sheer "volume 6 : savings by larger Jr ' our small schools Th. setting values, J ( are In smaller cUfiJ more opportunity for dent participation, m0I portunity for student identification!! assistance, more J hood for a better pJZ ; school relationship, J" opportunity for prese tion of traditional vaw and thereby more lW hood that our children-;, f get the kindof education J training that most J in these valleys want the. . to have. One cannot find & investment than in (J proper development w training of minds and bod ies. We urge your in the educational procejs in Beaver County, y have concerns either support of, or in oppoSi. tion to, a program or prjc tice in the school system your visit or telephone coj! tact is invited. Yourschoo Principal, the Superintend dent, or your Board mem. ber is no farther away than your telephone. The schools belongtofte people all the people, In addition to being tie heart of the community hope a bit of you heart is there too. (1) Utah Foundation 16. 13, Sept. 20, 1976. higher than Beaver. If compared similarly, Beaver would have been 56th in 1976.) Milford, 1950 - 10th, 1960 - 16th, 1965 - 7th 1970 - 13th, 1975 - 28th, and 1976 - 15th (applying the same re-evaluation data to Milford as with Beaver above Milford would have been 27th in 1976). The reasonable conclusions con-clusions to draw from these figures are that although taxes always seem high one will note that BeaverCity's taxes have dropped in com -parison to the other 68 cities from 18th from the highest in 1950 to 56th from the highest in 1976. In the same tune Milford City's taxes have also dropped, from 10th from the highest in 1950 to 27th from the highest in 1976. These figures fig-ures lead me to believe that, as suming our two com -m unities studied (as I believe be-lieve they are), we have either been getting a better bet-ter return on the tax dollar dol-lar as the years have progressed pro-gressed or valuation has been increasing faster than in the other 67 cities. I believe after a study of the data that our cities have been producing abetter return re-turn on the tax dollar. We in the School District Dis-trict also try conscientious -ly to produce a good re -turn on that large portion of your tax dollar used for Education in the schools of Beaver County. We strive for efficiency and quality production. Our costs per pupil are By Sup I. Lynn Haslem i B Superintendent of Schools O Most people care about how their money is spent e specially when it is spent by someone other than them -selves? Many, before parting part-ing with the "long green", want to know how much of the United Fund gets to the charity, how much of the Cancer Fund gets toCan-cer toCan-cer research, prevention, or cure; how much of the Boy or Girl Scout donation gets to the actual program, how the donatio n to a Church is used, but particularly how the "donation" ("extraction" ("extrac-tion" unless willingly given) of taxes is used. It may be interesting for Beaver County school patrons pa-trons to learn that of 69 Principal Utah cites compared com-pared by the Utah Foundation Founda-tion (1) the two communities of Beaver and Milford are included and are noted as follows: (from the highest rate of tax) Beaver, 1950 18th, 1960-35th, 1960-35th, 1970 - 52nd, 1975 55th, and 1976 44th (the year 1976 figures are misleading mis-leading as there were 12 cities involved in re-e re-e valuation that year forcing forc-ing lower levies in 12 cities, which to that time had been |