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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald EDITORIAL Children are scared For a week war has literally been in our living rooms and on our kitchen tables moments and hours after it happened. From the minute that Operation Desert Storm began last Wednesday in the Persian Gulf, TV's all over America have had 24-hour coverage of the moment to moment events with instant replay! No one wanted to have war. But we do, and now we must do all we can to stop it and bring our troops home. They need our support. Our children also need our support. When they can turn on the TV and see bombs and missiles being fired and exploding and people running around with gas masks on, they are touched by the war. And many of them are scared. A whole lot of family communication needs to be done al this time. Little children do not understand how far away Iraq and Saudia Arabia are and they might be afraid that a bomb will drop on their house. The older kids read the papers and when they read about security tightening at key places in Utah and about bomb threats at BYU and Springville High School, they must wonder if terrorism is starting here? Tuesday National Guard units from American Fork, Blanding, Price, Nephi, Murray, Provo and Ml. Pleasant were put on alert. They will probably be activated in the next lew days. It has already reached a point where everyone knows someone who has become involved in the war. We adult Americans have not experienced instant war in our homes before. It is hard enough for us to deal with. Our children need our attention and listening cars. They need to have their fears and questions answered the best way we can. Income tax check-off for homeless On any given day, 1 ,d00 to 2,500 people are homeless in Utah. The State Homeless Coordinating Co-ordinating Committee would like to remind Utahns about the opportunity to assist homeless home-less persons. Utah taxpayers can a.s homeless persons in our slai when filing their -1990 Utah Income Tax Returns. A checkoff check-off on the tax form allows taxpayers to contribute money from their tax refund to the Homeless Trust Fund. Line 2, schedule D, page 2 on the long form, and line 12, ArtShop Calendar of Events Q Art of Lithography - lecturedemonstration If ri r -1 n -i A.irl , v" oot., reD. v, i p.m. Mnonop By Todd Frye, Koda Lithographik pringtrilte Jterato (UPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Phone 489-5651 Publisher Martin W. Conover Editor Patricia Conover Managing Editor . .Betty Lou Bailey Entered as second class matter at the Post Office Springville, Utah 84663 under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1897. Subscriptions in Advance per year $15.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $18.00 Per copy 50C Delivered by carrier, per month $1.50 Member Utah Press Association PMRofix a i i it Electronic Repair Service 233 South Main Springville 489-9521 Computers We also repair TV's, Stereos and VCR's All .York Guaranteed For 90 Days Ho Charge Open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily Saturdays by appointment - January 23, 1991 page 1 on the short form provide pro-vide an opportunity to taxpayers taxpay-ers to contribute to homeless services. Donations of $1 and greater may be made. The income tax check-off was established by the Utah Legislature in 1988. Last year 41 ,053 Utah taxpayers donated over $305,000 to help homeless persons. Services funded by the check-off include emergency food and shelter, self-sufficiency and employment programs, pro-grams, transitional housing, and treatment for homeless mentally ill and substance abusers. ab-users. timitmmmmm immmm man PollCG TOpCrf Springville Police Sargent Dave Davis reported that police po-lice have been handing out a large number of Red Tag notices no-tices to citizens. There is an ordinance in Springville that says that city streets cannot be used for storage of vehicles or for parking lots. During the months of November through March police issue Red Tags to vehicles that are left on the street over night. During the rest of the year vehicles cannot be left for more than 48 hours. Vehicles need to be off the streets so that plows can remove re-move the snow. Springville police handled a bomb scare at Springville High School Friday. A person with an Arabic accent called with a bomb threat. Police went to the school and found nothing. "These kinds of crank calls are serious and if the person is caught who made the call they can be charged with a second degree felony for causing a catastrophe," said Davis. "It is a serious crime." Craig Torgerson, 935 South 600 East, Springville, was arrested ar-rested and charged with two counts of trespassing, intoxication intoxi-cation and possession of paraphernalia. para-phernalia. He was caught on Hillcrest Drive trying to get into homes. He had also been in the Brookside area doing the same thing. Police are investigating a child abuse case, and they have a suspect in a theft of services case at Johnson Tire. Englund Hardware lost $1 28 in a fraud case; Fat Jack's Pizza Piz-za lost a deposit bag containing $842; and juveniles shot a $200 window with BB guns. Springville Police handled 1 36 calls last week including 29 animal related. The ambulance had 11 calls and the fire department de-partment I. Mapleton Police had 12 calls, three for (he ambulance. am-bulance. Tax planning time again Every family should have at,' least bne--a person who payV' the bills, allocates savings, and plans major purchases. For the tax planner in the family, the, IRS offers the following tips, j If you file a 1040 return and are eligible to itemize, now is a good time to check your records to be sure you are ac-; cumulating this year's earning statements, receipts, cancelled checks, and similar records that document sources of income, in-come, deductions, or tax credits. cred-its. All such records should be kept at least three years after you file your tax return or two years after the tax is paid, whichever is later. Records of major purchases, such as a home, should be kept indefinitely. indefi-nitely. This is the last tax year that personal interest expense, such as interest charged on credit cards, is deductible at all. For the 1990 tax year 10 of personal per-sonal interest items arc deductible deduct-ible if you itemize your deductions. deduc-tions. To claim the Child and Dependent Care Credit you will need the name, address, and taxpayer identification number of your child care provider. If you can't get the identification number, maintain main-tain records to document your attempt to get this lnlormation. If you expect to receive a tax refund this coming tax filing season and you haven't already begun filing your tax returns electronically, consider it. Electronically filed refund returns usually produce refunds re-funds much faster and with far fewer errors. If you are claiming a dependent de-pendent on your return who is two years old or older, be sure that he or she has a social security se-curity number. That social security number will be required re-quired on your tax return. Teens end clcohol A teen taste for alcohol-- Seventy percent of high school students surveyed say they drink at least once in a while. Of those, 31 said they drink once a week; 29 said they drink once a month, and 26 said they drink "almost never". Twelve percent of the 2,000 students surveyed by Chrysler Motors said they drink a few times a week: two percent said they drink every day. Thanhs, Velda Editor: Velda Widdison retired about a month ago after working work-ing for Springville City for 25 years. For 23 of. those years she was city treasurer. I worked for her and with her for 20 years, and I can't begin to tell you the respect and admiration I have for her, both as a person and in doing her job. Honesty and loyalty to the city was always foremost with her. She was quick to learn, going from almost antiquated billing methods to the newest, modern computers. She came early to work and stayed late, never working by the clock. She had to be really down to take off on a sick day. She worked many days in pain, which I wouldn't ever have State finances bright Even though the nation appears to be slipping into a recession, Utah state finances remain reasonably bright. At least, that is the opinion of Utah Foundation, the nonprofit non-profit tax research organization, organiza-tion, in its analysis of budget prospects for 1991-92. The foundation report points out that after struggling throughout most of the 1980s, Utah state finances have improved im-proved dramatically over the past three years. Not only was the state able to meet all q(f its legislative commitments in 1987-88, 1988-89, and 1989-90 1989-90 without across-the-board budget reductions, but it also was able '. nclude each of thes . . r with sizable - i month, i iovernor Ban-gei Ban-gei ler submitted a state operating operat-ing budget of $3,1 38,374,000 for the 1991-92 fiscal year. This represents "an increase of $108.9 million, or 6H over the amount authorize 1 for the current (1990-91) fiscal year. The proposed operating budget will fund a total compensation package of 5 for teachers and state employees. Approximately Approximate-ly 3 of this compensation package would be for a general salary increase and the remaining remain-ing 2 would fund increased fringe benefit costs to n ain current health insurance and retirement benefits In addition to lh. 'gular operating budget, ' .--governor also recommended 323.6 million mil-lion for capital outlay and $68.5 million for debt service. Thus, the total budget suggested suggest-ed by the governor amounted to $3,530,421,000, or $153.5 million more than the total authorizations during the current cur-rent (1990-91) fiscal year. Foundation analysts point out that a substantial portion of these budget expenditures will come from restricted funds (federal aid, departmental col Cities seek to soften Truth-in-Taxation lav The Utah League of Cities and Towns (ULCT) appealed to the legislature's Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee Commit-tee at its December meeting to support changes in the Truth-in-Taxation property tax law, which the league wants to introduce in-troduce in the January legislative legisla-tive session. The committee took no action. The ULCT says the present formula that triggers the 14 page newspaper ads and public hearings is misleading and too restrictive. They advocate a change from a revenue-based trigger to a purely rate-based formula. They also want to reduce the size and liberalize the wording of the 14 page notice. In ; testifying against the proposal, Taxpayers Association Associa-tion spokesman Howard Stephenson Step-henson told the committee that the law hasbeen effective in reducing the growth in property proper-ty taxes. Before passage of the law, property tax revenues in Utah were increasing at an average rate of 12 per. year. , Since enactment, property tax revenues have increased only 7fio Opringvillc CJorald COMMENT PAGE known about if I hadn't known her so well. She didn't complain. com-plain. She never asked for over-time pay. When the auditors told her to be firm with delinquent accounts, she was, but she worked with them and did not leave them feeling without dignity. Unfortunately, her health has not been good the last while, so her retirement so far has not been too good. She has the best skills and knowledge of the medical profession working for her, and Pm sure she will soon be pushing the speed limit again. Springville citizens, when you meet her, tell her thanks for a job well done. She deserves de-serves it. Margaret Carter lections, local property taxes for the minimum school program, pro-gram, and other taxes and fees dedicated for special purposes), Utah's non-highway activities are financed mainly from general gen-eral fund and uniform school fund revenue receipts. Recommended Recom-mended appropriations in 1991-92 from these two funds total $1,727,884,600, or about $97.2 million more than total authorizations for 1990-91. The foundation analysis points out that current revenues reve-nues are expected to generate a total of approximately $100 million in surplus funds during the 1990 and 1991 fiscal years. The governor's budget pro-, posed that these surplus funds be used to finance special onetime one-time supplements to the 1990-91 1990-91 and 1991-92 regular appropriations. appro-priations. In addition to the proposed allocation of these surplus funds, the state still would retain nearly $53 million in its "rainy day fund" to meet future emergencies. Utah's proposed budget for 1991-92 also recommended added bonding of up to $80 million. These bond funds would be used to finance a building program of $50-60 million and a highway and water development program of $20-30 million. This new debt would be partially offset by the scheduled retirement of $44.3 million in general debt during the 1991-92 fiscal year. When the 1991 Utah Legislature Legis-lature meets on January 14, it also will face the thorny problem prob-lem of necessary revision in the property tax system brought about by a decision of the Utah State Supreme Court in July, 1990. Foundation analysts ana-lysts point out that it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, im-possible, to solve this problem without creating some significant signifi-cant lax shifts. 3 per year, he said. Stephenson suggested that if changes are to be made to the law, they should first be agreed to by the group that originally hammered-out the law, which included representatives from cities, counties, school districts, dis-tricts, the Tax Commission and the Taxpayers Association. He said that a rate-based formula would receive as many complaints com-plaints from other taxing enti- , tites that the revenue-based, law now does. He suggested that the law should be triggered trigg-ered when either rates or revenues reve-nues increase. The gift of life after death - Most people would permit donation of a loved one's organs or-gans after death, but fewer than half plan to donate their own. A recent Dow Take Program Pro-gram on Transplantation poll of 1,012 adults revealed that 89 would permit a donation of a relative's organs; only 45 said they'd donate their own. ftlan needs a friend Dear Editor: I am writing in hopes you may be able to assist me in my search to find a friend or friends to correspond with. I have no family, and the so called friends I had prior to being incarcerated, turned out to be just fair-weather friends. It seems to me, out of sight, truly is out of mind. ' Since my incarceration, I've come to realize how important it is to have communication with those in society, and I don't have anyone writing or visiting me. I'm all alone, and I've been forgotten, and that hurts more than you can know. It is so important to know someone in the free world knows you exist and cares. I am a 38-year-old male in the Indiana Dept. of Corrections. Correc-tions. I am 6', 200 lbs. with brown hair and green eyes, and I'm of French and Indian decent. de-cent. Prior to incarceration, I participated in a variety of activities such as dancing, swimming, horseback riding, and photography. Now, I spend the majority of my time furthering furth-ering my education and body building. I am currently working work-ing on two associate degrees one in welding and one in industrial in-dustrial maintenance. If you would publish my letter in your paper, hopefully, it would catch the interest or attention of someone, anyone who has known the pain of loneliness I live with constantly, constant-ly, and is willing to extend their friendship as I reach out. This is my only hope of reaching reach-ing out, and I promise to promptly answer anyone and everyone who cares enough to respond to my plea. I realize I have made mistakes, mis-takes, but haven't we all? I " realize my .mistakes and corrected cor-rected them'to the best of. my ability under my present adverse ad-verse circumstances. I hope my being incarcerated will not prevent you from showing compassion and helping as I reach out. f I want to thank you for j your time. I sincerely appreci- j ate any and all consideration j and assistance you are willing j to extend. ? Respectfully yours, j Greg Smith 31429 j P.O. Box 41-31429 Michigan City, IN 46360 i Senior news j Members of the Springville- Mapleton Senior Citizens will; be going to the Utah State! Legislature on Wednesday,! February 6. A bus will leave! from the center at 10 a.m.! Transportation and a box lunch! will be furnished by the orga-! nization. Please make reserva-.; tions by calling 489-8738 or; 489-4268 no later than Mon- day, February 4. jj The senior clinic is open-each open-each Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call for an appointment.; The January dinner will be Friday, January 25. A good program has been planned.) And memberships are due and are $3. Be prepared to show your 1991 membership card at; the door or purchase a new! one. 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