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Show Utah Foundation Voters Must Decide Vntprc will havo in Ann;A Voters will have to decide whether they want property tax relief or a food tax exemption. This was the conclusion of Utah Foundation, Founda-tion, the private tax research organization, in a study of the initiative proposal to exempt food from the state sales tax. This initiative proposal is one of several HMHeitiimi IBaDar I Community oriented, non profit activitytings will be accepted ac-cepted no later than Tuesday noon for publication in the Bulletin Board. Main St. Merchants Meeting There will be a redevelopment review meeting for the Main Street Merchants Association at the Bagel Nosh on Thursday, Thurs-day, Sept. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Lutheran Church Services Begin this Sunday Sept. 14, at 10:30 a.m. at the Episcopal Church on Park Avenue in Park City. Come and join us! For more information call 649-7889 or 649-7556. Infant Death Syndrome Workshop There will be a Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) workshop held on Sept. 26, 27 and 28 at Snowbird. The cost is $10 per person. There will be several speakers from other states and presentations from support services. If you have an interest in attending this workshop, please call the Summit County Health Department at 649-9072 and talk with Gail or Christy. You may also contact Marcia at 582-6994 or Sharon at 532-3333 or 272-2837. Well Child Clinic The Summit County Health Department will be sponsoring a Well-Child Clinic on Monday, Sept. 15 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. This clinic will be held at the Memorial Building. The services ser-vices include: health history, height and weight measurements, health record keeping, immunizations, skin test for tuberculosis, complete physical examination, counseling coun-seling and health education regarding child rearing, and referrals to appropriate health and social agencies. The emphasis of the service is to provide quality, preventive health care to children. Children who are ill, should be seen by a private physician, so as not to expose others to the illness. Those needing immunizations only should attend the monthly Immunization Clinics. If you have been contacted by the Public Health Nurse, if you have not been to a Well-Child Clinic before, or if you have not attended the clinic for a year, the Health Department encourages you to come. There is a $1 fee for each child seen in the clinic. For more information, please call 649-9072. Homecoming Coming Park City High Schoolwill hold its annual Homecoming festivities on September 19. The Miners will host Dugway High in the opening league game on that day, starting at 4 p.m. The varsity game will be preceeded by a J.V. game at 1:30 p.m. Homecoming festivities will be detailed in next week's paper. 3,',; Vehtclp:Repistratioh aW n Vn A representative from the Department of Motor Vehicles is available in Park City each Wednesday, 2-4 p.m., at the Memorial Building. Registrants must bring current vehicle registration and certificate of title to obtain Utah registration. Phone 649-9327 or 336-2401 for further information. Fastest Growing Sport Needs coaches! Get involved with the largest youth sports program in the state. Coach Youth Soccer for one of Park City's 12 teams. Call 649-9461 and volunteer TODAY! Thanks! Park City Ski Team Sign-up The Part City Ski Team will begin its fall dryland training program the second week in September. Anyone interested in the local Alpine Junior Racing Program should apply immediately. im-mediately. The program will be limited in numbers, and we have many members returning from last year, so don't wait! For more information write to: Park City Ski Team, Box 108, P.C., Utah 84060, or stop by the Memorial Building and pick up an application. Bea's Tours Join Bea Rummer Wednesday's at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Building. Included in the personalized weekly tours of historic Park City will be local points of interest (City Hall and its dungeon, and the evolution of local buildings), local architecture, highlighted by tidbits of history not always found in the history books! Tours last approximately two hours, with plenty of time to ask questions. $1 per person. The 1981 Ride & Tie The 1981 Ride & Tie is scheduled for July 18, 1981. All Parkites interested in working on a committee are encouraged en-couraged to volunteer by calling Ken Clausen, 649-7497. Highrollers The men's soccer team practice every Monday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. Play in the S.L.C. league this fall. Call 649-9461 for more information. Chamber Office Hours The Park City Chamber of Commerce will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, beginning Monday, Mon-day, Sept. 8th. New Hours for Clinics To better serve the public, the Summit County Health Department Depar-tment has changed the scheduling of its monthly clinics. Beginning in September the Blood Pressure Clinic will be held on the first Tuesday of each month from 2 p.m. to 5 pjn. On the second Tuesday monthly, there will be an Immunization Im-munization Clinic, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Both of these clinics will be held at the office, located at 467 Main, across the street from the Post Office. The Well-Child Clinic will be held on the third Monday of each month from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., at the Memorial Building. If you have any questions regarding the services offered by the Health Department, please call the office at 649-9072. Wait Until Dark' Tryouts The Intermountain Actors Ensemble will hold tryouts for the production of "Wait Until Dark" on Sept. 15 and 16 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Building. The production will play for two weekends starting the second weekend in November. There are parts for two women and six men. David Gomes is directing direct-ing for I.A.E. For further information you can call him at 649-8360. ' measures which will be decided upon by Utah voters in November. Foundation analysts point out that a food tax exemption exemp-tion would reduce state revenues by approximately $(!0 million per year, and that if such an exemption is approved by the electorate in Between November, it is extremely unlikely that the property tax relief program begun in 1979 could be continued. In fact, the Governor recently recommended that the Legislature Le-gislature temporarily suspend sus-pend the property tax relief program this year to help meet a prospective revenue shortfall in 1980-81. Choose Officers The newly formed Park City chapter of the American Association of University Women will meet on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. The organizational meeting will be held at the home of Bitsy Salomon, 2524 North Lucky John Drive in Park Meadows. After a short program featuring a speaker, the group will elect officers and set the program for the 1980-81 year. All degreed women are invited to attend and affiliate with the Park City group. For information call Pat Whitfield, 649-8422 or Rosemary Kelly, 649-6640. Community Education Classes Are you interested in one of the following classes? Typing, Spanish Cooking, Conversational Spanish or French, Shop (including metal and wood work), Mathematics, Gymnastics, Gym-nastics, Remedial Reading, Automobile Maintenance, Tap Dancing, or other classes. Tap Dancing classes will begin Tues. Sept. 16. If you wish more information, call Nan Mc-Polin Mc-Polin early morning or late evening at 649-9417 or leave name and phone number at Park City Board of Education at 649-9671. Food Tax II the food tax is eliminated, it would add to the revenue shortage and probably require re-quire an increase in some other tax. According to the Foundation, a $60 million reduction from a food tax exemption is equivalent to one of the following: 1. A statewide property tax hike of 10.8 mills ($10.80 per YOUR F AND LOTS OF OTHER PARTS, TOO. Once a year it's a good idea to give all of them a little doctoring up. Call your licensed heating contractor, plumber or furnace dealer and have him do a simple check-up on your furnace. He will: Exemption or Property Tax $1,000 assessed valuation), or 2. An increase of 0.82 in the state sales tax rate on nonfood items, or 3. An across-the-board increase of about 192 in Utah's individual income tax. At the present time, approximately approx-imately half the states provide pro-vide for an exemption on food items. Most of the states (including Utah) that adopted the tax in the 1930s do not exempt food. States that imposed the tax in later years, however, generally provide for such an exemption. Parkite's Son Drowns Michael K. Whitfield, 29, died recently in an apparent drowning. He evidently was attempting to cross the Kern River in California's Tulare County during a solo horseback horse-back trip into the Sierras. Mr. Whitfield, son of Robert W. Whitfield of Park City, was born Decembers, 1950 in Chico, California. An honors graduate and member of a championship football team at Lee Vining High School in California, he served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Whitfield, who ...... "i a . a ' Ai t v .:-wmSi$! -im. I'M: According to the report, "contrary to popular opinion, opin-ion, the greatest tax savings from a food tax emption would not go to the poor and the elderly but rather to the wealthy." The study presents pre-sents data showing that the tax savings from a food tax exemption to a high income family would be more than twice that for a "poverty-line" "poverty-line" family. Similarly, the tax savings to a retired couple generally would be small compared to that received by a high-income family. The study explains that while a high-income family was an avid outdoorsman, lived most recently in Reno, Nevada. He is survived by father Robert, of Park City; mother Barbara Montemagno of Truckee, California; brother bro-ther Jon, also of Truckee; grandmother, Ruth of Le Mesa, California; an aunt; an uncle; cousins and a niece. Memorial services will be held in Mammoth Lakes, California on Saturday, September Sep-tember 13. CI HAS 71-91 FLUE Inspect flues, and clean them if necessary. Clean or replace filters Oil motor Check blower belts Check automatic controls con-trols (pilot, burner etc.) n Mv MUUMAIIN tVKL For more than I In NotspapiT Thursday, may spend a smaller proportion propor-tion of their income on food that a low-income family or a retired couple, the dollar expenditure for food usually will be greater. Thus, the tax savings from food tax exemption ex-emption also would be greater. great-er. Among the major arguments argu-ments presented for exempting exempt-ing food are the following: il) A food tax exemption would make the sales tax less regressive ; ( 2 ) Food is a basic necessity of life and should not be taxed; (3) Exempting food would give everyone the equivalent of two weeks groceries each year. (4) About half the states currently do provide for such an exemption. (5) A tax on food adds to its cost and therefore is inflationary. (6) Low income families and the elderly frequently fail to take advantage of other special tax credits and rebates as provided by law. Arguments against exempting exempt-ing food, on the other hand, are listed as follows: (1) Since a food tax exemption would provide larger tax savings to the wealthy than it would to the poor, it is an extremely inefficient way of furnishing tax relief to low income families: (2) The A properly maintained furnace saves fuel, saves you money and has less chance of mechanical failure during the heating season. Get the bugs out now, before the cool-weather cool-weather rush. Your furnace and you will feel better for it. fifty years, people serving September 11, 1980 Pw') Relief exemption might necessitate a tax increase in one or nwi e of the other major taxes 3i It would greatly complicate the tax collection machinery, machin-ery, especially for the small business establishment. (4) By exempting food from the state sales tax but not from local taxes, it would create additional administrative burdens. (5) It would reduce state general fund revenues by 132 and cause serious disruptions in essential state services, such as welfare, health, safety, education, etc.; (6) Since part of the lax is collected from out-of-state tourists, it would require added tax on Utah residents. The Foundation report notes that further complicating complicat-ing the Utah financial picture pic-ture is another initiative proposal appearing on the 1980 ballot which would roll back property assessments to the 1977 level and limit the property tax to 12 of this artificially defined market value. This measure would reduce local property taxes by $75 to $100 million per year. If both this measure and the food tax exemption were approved in November, it could create havoc in Utah state and local finances. people |