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Show 2 Verittl brttt Wednesday, May 2, 1984 " i 71)l0 YOU KNOW THAT THISIS; Area boy injured in shooting By Jack Wallis ! r-l y-rrrrwrm LOT ) Tax Freedom Day According to tax studies, yesterday was the first day this year that you could count your income your own. Everything you have earned from the first of the year to May 1 will be needed need-ed to pay your federal, state and local taxes. This is why May 1 is called "Tax Freedom Day." May 1st is also celebrated as a springtime festival and in some countries coun-tries as Labor Day. In Russia it is a time to show off military strength through marching parades of soldiers and equipment. Sometimes it is a time for outdoor athletic events. Even though warm spring weather has not yet arrived this year, we hope May will give us some better days to enjoy outdoor activities. But back to taxes. Tax Freedom Day is computed by the Tax Foundation Founda-tion of Washington, D.C. This year an extra day was needed to meet our tax obligations because of the increase in state and local taxes. Federal taxes have supposedly gone down slightly. This year and last, Tax Freedom Day fell on May 1, but this is leap year and has one more day. In 1982 the date was May 3 and 1981 May 6. Slight tax cuts have decreased the amount of time necessary to work to pay taxes since 1981. Another viewpoint, according to tax studies, is to break down the regular 8-hour day average earnings as to where the money goes. The average worker in 1984 will spend two hours and 40 minutes on the job each day just to meet his tax obligations, the largest item in the family budget. Shelter takes the next largest slice, one hour and 34 mintues. Food takes one hour and four mintues, transportation 42 minutes, medical care 36 minutes, clothing 21 minutes, recreation 20 minutes, and all other items combined combin-ed take 43 minutes of each 8 hour work day, according to the report. iBeportby Korean veteran memorial Thirty years later, you'd think that the only remaining survivors of the Korean War are Hawkeye, Klinger, Radar O'Reilly and Hot Lips. Actually, there are 5.7 million veterans of the Korean War living in the United States, veterans of the struggle to protect South Korea from Communist aggression. America joined join-ed 16 other nations in the fight to retain re-tain for South Korea the rights and privileges of democracy; in that struggle, strug-gle, 100,000 members of our armed forces were wounded, 54,000 killed. The sacrifices made by these men and women are reflected in the freedom enjoyed by the people of South Korea today, but they are not reflected in the United States. If not for the reruns of MASH, it seems our struggles and victory there would be virtually forgotten. A year and a half After a memorial to our veterans who served in Vietnam was dedicated, an effort is underway Vernal Express (USPS 6580-8000) Published every Wedneidoy ond Friday (or $ U.00 per year in area ond $20.00 per year out of area by the Vernal Expreu Publishing Compony, 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal, Utah 84078. Second clait poilage paid at Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah 84078. POSTMASTER: Send addrest changet to VERNAL VER-NAL EXPRESS, P.O. Box 1010, Vernal, Utah 84078. Jock R. Wollii Publiiher Steven R. 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According to financial analysts and politicians, the money lost through tax cuts is made up by increased tax takes generated by larger incomes pushed by increased incentives. Several years ago Chrysler Motors Company was on the brink of bankruptcy and needed a bail-out. Today To-day it is generating the greatest profits pro-fits ever experienced. Some of the reasons for the come-back were that employees were willing to take pay cuts and work harder to get the big auto company back on track. Now it will be interesting to see how these new profits are shared. If taxes are equitable and the money from taxes spent wisely, most taxpayers tax-payers don't complain too loudly about the tax burden. But when taxes continue con-tinue to increase and government spending continues to go rampant, taxpayers tax-payers have a right and an obligation to complain. Some way must be worked out to stop uncontrolled deficit spending in the federal government. We wish our representatives in Washington would be more responsible concerning indeb-ting indeb-ting the future generations of our country coun-try by their deficit spending policies. Somehow a goal should be set up to establish a deficit Freedom Year when the debt of the nation would decrease instead of continually increasing. Someone ought to figure out how long we will have to work to pay off the federal debt. The result may put some perspective into the size of that debt as working four months out of the year just to pay our personal taxes does. Senator Orrin Rich to similarly honor those who served in Korea. A Senate bill co-sponsored by 62 senators, including myself and Sen. Jake Gam, authorizes the construction of a Korean War memorial on public grounds in or around Washington, D.C. No taxpayers' money will be used to erect the monument, only private contributions. con-tributions. A committee charged with raising the necessary funds has already been organized; its members include former President Gerald Ford, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. Matthew Mat-thew Ridgeway, Notre Dame president, presi-dent, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh and Sen. Paul Laxalt. The Secretary of the Interior and other government officials will select a site for the memorial and approve its design. Maintenance will be provided provid-ed by either the Department of Interior In-terior or the District of Columbia, depending on where the monument is located. Such a memorial is a fitting tribute to the men and women in the United States Military who did so much so ensure en-sure freedom for the people of South Korea. Members and followers of the famed 4077th, undoubtedly, would agree. PUBLIC FORUM UTTERS TO THE EDITOR Wtiat n your x""0' the f is wlremM Imihi tiom ill rMrff cnntfrniflq any titt pHinn! 10 hf Umtoh Bovn Whitf tht o no frclion O 10 cnnin! or fMy)tii Ima'h muM t Submitted itluvvly to tt 0"d bV the xifw'i lull nom VTno'ir (font nvmtm ond (XkMH NomM m.nt b D""M O" pnl''(Hl Ni't bid nviy b iihh d tn 90ml foym ,t 0nfl'htl AH ln' o .pf lo(K1n' nn Cleaning helps Dear Editor: I want to express my appreciation to the youth of the Marsrr Stake for Uirir volunteer work In cleaning up the Maescr Highway. After our long winter months, there was much trash lining the roadway. It is so much more pleasant to drive that route now. Hopefully everyone will lx concerned enough to stop throwing un wanted items along our streets. Those who take trash to the city dump also need to be mindful of its tendency to "fly away" enroute unless it Is tied down or covered Let us all take pride in our community com-munity with a little extra carp. Sincerely. CAROL P. FELTCH A 13-year-old Mountain Home boy, Matt Nielson, was injured in an accidental ac-cidental shooting at the home of a Bluebell resident Monday evening about 8 p.m. Matt, who is the son of Gary Nielson, was shot in the chest area with a 177 caliber pellet rifle. He was transported to the Duchesne County Hospital by EMTs from Altamont. He was later transported by Life Flight to Salt Lake City. No update on the boy's condition was available Tuesday. The incident was investigated by Duchesne County Sheriff's Deputy Travis Mitchell. Democrats... Continued from page 1 will be represented by Grant E. Clark, John J. Pehrson, Steve Hilton, Kay Gotfredson, Dan Ewell, C.N. Maughan, Robert Clifton, Luis Cosgrove, Boyd Maughan and Steve Pittman. The 25 district will be represented by Rock Bowman, Kenneth Kindt, Greg Darlington and Gayle Kindt. The 26 district will be represented by David Gallagher, Jack E. Frost, Dorothy Frost, Lynn R. Bird, Howard Farmer and G. Allen Stebbins. At the convention the county delegates will develop a party platform, plat-form, meet the candidates for state and county offices, and select the 16 delegates to the state convention. The state convention will be at the Salt Palace June 15 and 16. Speaking at the convention will be gubernatorial candidates for the democratic nomination Kem Gardner and Wayne Owens. Other candidates for state offices that will be at the convention con-vention are Roland Uresk and Bruce Baird. Uresk is a candidate for the State House of Representatives from District 55. Baird is running for the third congressional seat and will oppose op-pose incumbent Howard C. Nielson. Harold Gregg, who has announced that he will run for a seat on the county coun-ty commission, will also be speaking at the convention. Although they have not made a commitment to speak at the May 3 convention other candidates for state office may be on hand to address ad-dress local members of the democratic party. J Road Traction A Gripping Story More and more of the nation's na-tion's 140 million motorists are getting a better grip on winter, thanks to a new type of auto traction device. The device is easily in-stullcd in-stullcd on drive wheels, it is constructed of lightweinht aircraft type steel cable. It's eusy to install, because there are no complicated hooks or fasteners. The cables, manufactured by Campbell Division of McGraw Kdison Co., manufacturer manu-facturer of tire chains, are the first significant improvement improve-ment in auto traction products prod-ucts since the advent of tire chains in 1 904. The rucd steel ht(js provide superior superi-or traction and yet are tuieter in operation on dry pavement with minimum vibration. In recent tests by the National Safety Council's Committee on Winter Driving Driv-ing Itn.nrd cables outperformed outper-formed snow tires by 8'J percent and studded snow tires by B7 percent. Vernal Express ISP There Something foe Everyone.., V t verywrw ... in the A CLASSIFIEDS L .1 ft J r"T-T ' ? ) I 'a i L. T Sin THE VOICE OF BUSINESS This 'reform1 is bankrupt By Richard L. Lesher, President Chamber of Commerce of the United States This is a package deal. Take it or leave it. You can have the following three things: $1 million in cash, a new home of your choice, and a nice case of leprosy. That's it. All or nothing. Now, you say items one and two are of certain interest, but item number three you could do without. Sorry, that's not possible. Laugh if you will a this implausible predicament, but it is precisely the choice, or non-choice, the House of Representatives offered the Senate when it hastily passed a bankruptcy raw "reform" package that contains two much-needed reform measures and one ill-conceived and ill-disguised sop to Big Labor. First the good news. The bill would reform the 1978 changes in bankruptcy bankrupt-cy law which made declaring bankruptcy more attractive to individuals in-dividuals who may be capable of making mak-ing good on many, if not most, of their obligations. Even some of the sponsors of the 1978 bill recognize that they made a serious error in making it too easy for people to declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy laws are supposed to allow individuals and businesses of good faith to begin anew if they become overcommitted and cannot despite their best efforts meet their obligations. (The very concept of bankruptcy replaced the ancient alternative alter-native of debtors' prison.) Bankruptcy Bankrupt-cy was not intended to allow people to get away with stealing from businesses that extended credit through credit cards or deferred payment pay-ment plans. This portion of the bankruptcy law bill should be passed posthaste. Congress Con-gress has waited too long already. The second party of the bill would reconstitute the present bankruptcy court system, which the Supreme ilv -Si:- " i ... i i. 1.'.', ' i ' i -r-' - Mi -w'JL 1 j ' j r -TV;'"' LEARNING FROM one bad experience, Ken his home on 1500 North to curb any flooding that Phillips placed a five-foot retention wall around may occur this year. Crime... Continued from page I The response lime to criminal (nonemergency) (non-emergency) calls rose above the five minute mark last year. The department1! depart-ment1! goal is to keep the average response down below the five minute mark. In 1W13 the department met this goal and brought the response time to four minutes. The response time average to all calls was four minutes 30 second. Court recently ruled was unconstitutional. unconstitu-tional. This, too, is a good idea. Bankruptcy courts, like everything else, should be run in accordance with the Constitution. It is the third part of the bankruptcy bankrupt-cy bill which, frankly, stinks to high heaven. It is a blatant attempt by labor unions to blackmail Congress into passing their special interest legislation legisla-tion by attaching it to serious reforms. The changes in the law the labor union bosses are seeking would be a grave mistake and are only slightly less repugnant than the underhanded manner man-ner in which they were railroaded through the House of Representatives. The changes sought by the labor union bosses would overturn a unan-mous unan-mous Supreme Court decision in the Bildisco case in which the Court ruled rul-ed on February 22 of this year than when a company files for bankruptcy and is therefore able to abrogate all its contracts with creditors and others it may also abrogate its union contracts and begin to renegotiate for different contracts. This means that a firm sliding into bankruptcy due to an abusive union contract which forces featherbedding or overly high wage and benefit packages may change those features of the contract which drove it into bankruptcy. The labor unions want to pass their "reform" measure which would give preference to labor contracts and require re-quire that all concessions in a bankruptcy come from creditors, stockholders, non-union employees and management. Even if it was the union contract which caused the bankruptcy, there would be nothing the company could do to keep itself going and save the jobs of its employees. Union organizers clearly hope to use such a special advantage as an organizing tool "Join our union, and if the com ,11 Survey.. Continued from pog I and 200 West to Ino North and loo South, The survey results will be used by a task force committee to determine what should be done, if anything, to improve the central business area. pany has bad times, everyone but union members will have to contribute to saving the company." Even the AFL-CIO has some sense of shame over the special interest nature of this "reform." Unlike other bills before Congress, this one rolled through the House of Representatives with no hearings, no testimony and no markup. No amendments were allowed. allow-ed. No committee report was issued. Everything happened within 48 hours, and the final vote was not recorded. Thus, the American people will never know how their congressman voted on this important legislation. That is how ashamed members of Congress are of what they just did to pay off political debts to the AFL-CIO. As long as this special interest section sec-tion of the Bankruptcy Reform Bill is attached to the legislation, it is better to have no bill than to pass such a flawed flaw-ed piece of work. The disgraceful scene of congressmen con-gressmen and women fawning all over the labor union bosses does provide two interesting lessons. First, it makes the case for the line-item line-item veto requested by President Reagan. The line-item veto would allow a president to strike out such nonsense without having to veto an otherwise sound piece of legislation. Second, it shows that Congress can act quickly when it wants to. The foot-dragging foot-dragging that Congress has exhibited in coming to grips with runaway spending spen-ding can no longer be explained to the American people as the inherent caution cau-tion and deliberate slowness of the legislative process. We can get prompt action on such important issues as soon as the Congress Con-gress pays as much attention to working work-ing men and women as it does to the threats and campaign contributions of Big Labor. V , I . Lapoint timber company reports burglary reat Lakes Timbrr of Lflpoint, reported a burglary to the Uintah County .Shrriff'g office Thursday, April 26 at approximately 6:43 a m. Over ll.oon in prnprrty was takrn in the morning brrak in iVpuly Carlos Kord with thp Stwirfs office is still investigating in-vestigating the incident. I 7 i |