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Show By SECOND-GUESSER The March of Dimes campaign cam-paign is to be wound up within the next few days, Vance Fish-Pi", Fish-Pi", county drive chairman, informed in-formed us today. A final tally of the collections will be made and the full report published in The News next week. Persons wishing to mail checks to the fund may make them payable to March of Dimes and mail or hand them to Susan Murdock, treasurer, Vance said. "There's still time for those who haven't contributed, contrib-uted, or those who wish to contribute con-tribute a little more, to Take a Poke at Polio," Mr. Fisher jointed joint-ed out. "Just make out a check for the amount you wish, and see that it reaches Susan Murdock." Mur-dock." Two state appointments came to Beaver County Tuesday morning, morn-ing, when Governor Lee released a list of recommendations for various offices. George Jefferson Jeffer-son of Milford was named to the advisory council to the state department de-partment of finance, and W. W. Seegmiller of Beaver was named to the state liquor commission. The Milford American Legion Le-gion basketball squad didn't show up too well in the state tourney held at Payson last week, but when fans consider that they only played four games all season, and only three league contests, we ' think they did pretty well. Losing their first game with Payson by a lop-sided score, they came back to clip Carbon on Thursday, then after the one-day one-day lay-off, lost to Ephraim on Saturday afternoon. Coach Lou Gribble, who expressed his appreciation ap-preciation for the way the boys I "put out" even tho they weren't at their best, said several spectators spec-tators complimented him on the Milford team and their fighting' spirit. "Those boys were on the wrong end of an 18-2 score before be-fore they - started hitting," Mr. Gribble said, "but they kept fighting all the way, and if they nad had a few games during the season, to sharpen their eye, there would have been ' a dif terent story." School Board President Joe C. Smith announces that the Beaver County Board of Education Edu-cation will meet in their offices in Beaver next Wednesday, March 9th. The meeting was postponed fro mthe regular date last Wednesday. For the benefit of folks who wondered about the power "outage" "out-age" about noon Wednesday, we are informed that it was caused by a bulldozer, clearing the road in Beaver Canyon, which pushed some trees into the power line. King Morris, tax assessor for our county, patted us on the back this week and said we're "one in a million" because we expressed the opinion that our taxes aren't too high. We believe there's lots more residents who feel the same, and can't feature anyone griping about the amount of taxes they pay. For instance, if you own a home that cost you $5,000 - and that figure represents its normal (not inflated) cash sale value, it is assessed at around $2000 for tax purposes. You pay a total of about $105 for taxes on this home, but what do you get for it? First, 15.9 mills of this total of 52.3 mills goes to state and state school funds, 4 mills goes to Beaver County, 13.9 mills to the Beaver County schools, and 15 mills to the City of Milford. Anyone who has children in school doesn't need to be told that he couldn't get much education, educa-tion, except thru o;r school system, sys-tem, for fifty bucks. The few dollars he pays Beaver County is used to pay salaries for the County Clerk, and other officers who serve him, the sheriff, who protects him, and to build the ! roads he drives over. There are many other services he receives, but these are the ma j or ones. Do you still think you pay too much taxes? It's not the taxes that Mr. King Morris collects from you that hurt. You're really hurt by the hidden taxes you pay every time you buy a loaf of bread or a suit of clothes. We have always resented these hidden hid-den taxes, most of which goes to the federal government. If you want to holler about taxes, let's all holler about the hidden taxes which we pay but don't see as the money goes out. |