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Show BEAVER COUNTY TAX LEVY IS LOWERED FOR COMING YEAR- seven mills, 1.2 mills less than last year, will be the Beaver County property tax levy, it was announced today by W. G. "Smoky" White following fol-lowing the regular monthly meeting of the Beaver County Coun-ty Commissioners on Tuesday. The breakdown of the levy shows a 4-mill tax for general purposes, 1 mill for county roads, 1 mill for library maintenance, 210 mill for exhibits (advertising, (advertis-ing, fairs, etc.), 210 mill for weed control, and 410 mill for the county indigent fund. The county has a total assessed valuation of $5,777,837, Mr. White revealed. Of this, Milford's valuation was placed at $1,111,780, with an additional two million dollars "utility" valuation. Minersville has a $90,678 valuation, and $20,962 in utilities, while Beaver's valuation val-uation was placed at $595,000, with an additional $586,000 in utilities. From the above figures, it will be noted that more than half the total valuation of the entire county lies within the boundaries of the City of Milford. Valuation for the county was slightly less than last year, Mr. White said, because of decreased activity in the Western Beaver County mines. ALLEN MAHONEY SUFFERS BROKEN ARM Allen Mahoney-4-year-old son : of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mahoney, i was rushed to an Ogden hospital Tuesday evening for special' i treatment of a broken arm, suf-1 fered when he fell while playing ; on the porch at the Herman Uffens home. 1 Playing with other children, Allen bumped into one of the i boys and fell from the porch, t breaking his arm at the elbow. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Patterson I and baby son visited over last r week-end at the home of Mr. j Patterson's mother, .Mrs. LaVern r Patterson. I THE CONSUMER SURVEY On Monday of this week I representatives of The News began distributing questionnaires question-naires ..for ..The ..News-Utah Stale Press Association Consumer Con-sumer Survey. The questions asked were mainly regarding needs of the various families for the immediate future. The answers lo these questions will help the manufacturers to prepare to fill your needs to divert the "short" materials into manufacture of things you want to buy. v. At the bottom of the questionnaire ques-tionnaire are a few personal questions. It .is desirable but certainly not necessary that you answer these questions. There is no possible way for anyone to identify the person answering the questions, but if you don't wish to fill out that portion of the form, skip it and fill in the other blanks before mailing in ,the prepaid envelope. Results to date are highly gratifying. Of the 100 questionnaires ques-tionnaires distributed in the first iwo days, more than half have been returned. If yours isn't in please mail it today. "HIS EXCELLENCY" AIDS INJURED BOY SCOUT There's nothing like having a governor and a general for a friend. Ask Clyde Eddie Tanner, Tan-ner, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tanner of California. Eormer Milford residents. Eddie was one of several thous-ind thous-ind Boy Scouts at the Centennial Encampment in Southern Utah ast Friday. Riding a horse, he was thrown from the animal, suf-'ering suf-'ering a broken arm and shoul-ler. shoul-ler. Scout officials took him to Salt L,ake, and attempted to arrange jassage for the youth on a com-nercial com-nercial airline, but the agent ob-ected ob-ected on the grounds the trip night be uncomfortable for ddie. Governor Maw was con- tacted, and he phoned the state adjutant general, Brig. Gen. Wallace Wal-lace West, who authorized the trip to the Physicians' and Surgeons' Sur-geons' Hospital at Glendale, Cal., in a national guard plane. "There's nothing like friends in high places," says Eddie. |