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Show Property Equalization Essential For School - Aid Equity TILL Orem-Geneva Times Equalization of property assesments is essential if Utah is ever to achieve any semblance of equity in its school-aid program. This was the conclusion reached by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization in its latest study of Utah's reappraisal program. Last year average assessment ratios for the various countries ranged from 6.31 percent to 20.28 percent, with the overall statewide average amounting to 13.98 percent. The ratio determined for Utah County was 19.28 percent. According to the Foundation report, Utah presently distributes more than $320 million in state operating funds to local school districts through a complicated formula involving weighted pupil units and the relative wealth of local districts as measured by assessed valuatioa School districts located in counties that are assessed at a higher-than-average ratio to true value tend to contribute more in local taxes and receive proportionately less in state aid than do districts which are located in couties that are assessed at lower-than-average ratios. In analyzing the inequities among the various school districts caused by assessment variations, the Utah Foundation study shows that Alpine School District contributed $314,968 more than its "fair share" of local taxes toward the cost of the basic program and consequently received that much less than its "fair share" of state aid for school purposes this year. Throughout the state, 24 school districts are contributing $3,163,800 more in local taxes and receiving that much less in state aid than would be the case if there was absolute assessment uniformity. Sixteen of the school districts, on the other hand, contribute $3,163,800 less in local taxes and receive that much more in state aid as a result of these assessment disparities. Foundation analysts emphasize that Utah's property revaluation program has done much to reduce property inequities among individual properties and property classes within the same county. Inflation and rapidly changing property values, however, have made it difficult to achieve and maintain equity and balance among the counties. As a -result, the assessment disparity among the counties is as great today as it was seven years ago when the present revaluation program was begun. To over come this problem and to keep all counties at more-or-less the same assessment level, the Tax Commission has proposed that annual adjustments in assessments should be made in the years between actual physical appraisals. This suggestion was also made in a special study completed in November, 1976, for the education committee of the Utah Legislature. The report submitted stated that "until the assessment rate disparity is corrected, the principle of fiscal neutrality, the heart of school finance equalization, can never become a reality in Utah." The Foundation report observed that by the end of 1976, property revaluation for tax purposes had been completed in 25 of Utah's 29 counties. Work in the remaining four counties (Carbon, Salt Lake, Sanpete, and Sevier) will Ije finished this year and the new valuations are expected to go on the 1978 assessment rolls. Despite the fact that the first round of revaluations will take about eight years to complete, it is expected that subsequent reappraisals should be completed, within the five-year cycle prescribed by law. Most of the delays in the first round of revaluations are the result of problems in getting the program started. Utah Foundation points out that present Utah law provides that there should be a deduction from state aid for school purposes whenever the valuation of the local district is less than the standard ratio of local assessment as prescribed by law. This provision, however, has never been enforced. If it had been applied, approximately $59 million would be deducted from the state aid distributions which are being made to local districts during the 1976-77 school year. If this provision of Utah had been applied, approximately $1,699,794 would have been deducted from the state aid going to the Alpine School District during the 1976-77 school year, according accord-ing to Utah Foundation calculations. HAS BCH 0H6 Of 1H6 MFUN pumfs of our 6ourr sve-ftM A M0OU? O ,o MsecuwRMoeviu5 wave NO MOON'. HR3 ZbMm q TU fOTRl MOONS Of M q MRIKI Planers i6 3i i WERE THE SPANISH "PIECE6-0F-EIGHT' COWS EVER USED IN THE UNITED STATES? WtH P6 IPrTE RS 1857 Leffer fa April 7, Editor 1977 WWKT IS A MINARET? ivn k m I I ' 1 II V-- - V " hl u i 1 1 1 f 1 1 f 1 1 ?. ! M ft V t viiniii.. IT IS A TALL, GRACEFULTOWER OFTEN FOUND ON MOHAMMEDAW MOSQUES FROM THE TOR THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED TO PRAY DOES THE YIHITE OF AN E6Q FORM PART OF A CHICK ? MO ! THE WHITE OF AW EGG AND, MUCH Or THE YOUC ARE NOT PART OF A CHICKEN.BUT FOOD ruic the U&VbLOPIKiS CHIClC '. flew Lightning Doctors Will Prevent Forest Fires Two Orem Men Pass State Bar Exam Dear Sir; Kelly Frazier's article of March 31st, intrigued me. I have a grand daughter same age, to, named Kelly. I really enjoyed her article - What The World Needs Now, and congratulate her on it. I hope my grand daughter same given name, is as alert and observing ob-serving as Kelly Frazier. I am nearly eight times the age of Kelly Frazier, and I therefore there-fore have had nearly eight times the living and experience that she has had. When she recommends peace, love, fresh air, better water, less pollution, and more joy, eliminate wars and make friends with all, I wholeheartedly agree and join her. But she did not tell us how these worthwhile worth-while goals can be achieved. At her tender age of 10, I realize her inexperience in choosing these recommendations. The problem is, how can these worthy and necessary coals be achieved? At her age one cannot have had enough experience to know the right answer; but at my age, I do have the right Rapid location of lightning strikes will be critical this summer, sum-mer, reports Rep. Gunn 'Mc--Kay (D-Utah). He said a new lightning detection system the BLM is installing at four western west-ern locations will help "keep an electrical storm from torching torch-ing our drought ravaged forests and ranges." Rep. McKay announced units are being installed in Burley, Idaho; Elko, Nevada andSusan-ville, andSusan-ville, California. A fourth unit will be installed later in Cedar City, Utah. McKay predicted the system would be in operation opera-tion by summer. A magnetic direction finder I belive answer. is the heart of the unit. It can detect a lightning strike up to 250 miles away with accuracy accur-acy within one mile. According Accord-ing to Mckay, the 500 mile diameter dia-meter survey area of each station sta-tion will combine to cover all or part of Utah, California, Nevada, Ne-vada, Idaho and Oregon. A list of 45 applicants who have passed the February bar examination was released Friday Fri-day by the Utah State Bar. Officials said applicants will be admitted to practice law in the state by the Utah Supreme Court during a ceremony April 8, at 11:00 a.m. at the Capitol. Chief Justice A. H. Ellett will officiate. The successful applicants include: in-clude: Jon M. Memmott and Allen "It comes at a critical time,' said McKay. "Potential for lightning ignited fires is very this vear because of the drought and with this new means Starr Thorpe, of Orem; Richard of detection we could conceivab- D. Bradford, William Kent save thousands of acres." Mcuuire oi nuvu; auu ieimeiu A. Rushton of Lehi. She says: "What the world needs to do is to better themselves them-selves and be proud of its accomplishments." ac-complishments." True, but How? That is NOT the goal of the present economic system, and NOT what the present economic system is exclusively interested in is NOT peace, love, truth, more joy, friendship, etc., but in PROFITS REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY CAN BE ACHIEVED. Just review the numerous current TV advertisments. Right now there is being waged a nation-wide intensive campaign to "improve the health of the public," by adding FIBRE to our diets, which supposedly will improve out elimination eli-mination of non-essentials. And what do you suppose these PROFIT-SEEKERS are advoacting as proper fibre, to accomplish this? They would like you to accept in your bread and breakfast break-fast cereals WOOD FIBRE. And you will be expected to pay for this WOOD FIBRE at current bread and cereal prices of approximately ap-proximately 2 12 to .10 cents per OUNCE. As Kelly sets forth: "What the world needs to do is to better themselves and be proud of its accomplishments," but this cannot can-not be accomplished with such, tactics as substituting WOOD FIBRE for proper food and with deceptive advertisements. One of our presidents, Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, put his finger on the solution when he declared that a proper democratic society should consist of "all the people, by all the people and for all the people. In order to insure the ideals Kelly sets, forth, the whole coontry, its natural resources, its brains and its wealth should be owned, enjoyed, en-joyed, utilized and administered, in consideration of all the people, by all the people and for all the people. With the free-enterprise, rugged-individualistic, competitive, dog-eat-dog society, so-ciety, it is impossible. If Kelly cannot agree with this, will she please advise us further just how her worthwhile goals can be achieved at present and become realities. Lckcridge Ledger The next three weeks will be devoted to getting new student officers for next year. The 8th graders can run for 9th grade president, vice president, secretary, secre-tary, studentbody president, vice president, secretary, program chairman, historian, radio reporter, re-porter, and news reporter. The 7th graders can run for 8th grade president, vice president, presi-dent, secretary and two stage managers. The stage managers must have had some electrical experience. They will be interviewed and judged and will not be voted on by the studentbody. Qualifications for all offices is a B average and no more than one unsatisfactory citizenship citizen-ship for the first three terms. Petitions were picked up through-out the week, filled out ana must be returned by the 12th. Primary elections will be next week, and the finals end on the 22nd. We hope to have a lot of participants. Student council is a lot of fun. Tuesday, our fourth Mat Dance was held. The students really had a good time. The citizens for this weeks and next becauseSpring Vacation shortened this week-are Eric McAllister for the 7th grade, Annette McEwen for the 8th grade, and Becky Peterson for the 9th grade. GoodWORK KIDS! News reporter Heather Hirsche 0 IS AO ACRYLIC1700D FL000I0S THIS UNIQUE PRODUCT of our scientific age has almost unlimited application in business, industry and educational facilities. 1 Strips (Herringbone) Strips (Brick) : J LJ Low cost Guaranteed Its tougher than epoxy terrazzo Easily installed over concrete or wood. Has a permanent finish that never neds WAXING or REFINISHiNG ' just sweep.. .spray clean. ..buff. Mfg. by E.L Bruce Co. Inc. nn LiU nn CZCGHATiriG CEUTER f Ads.-ns Ccr Cere ! VMMVJ i I 300 West 800 North Jk I Pi TC I I Orem, Utah 225-0839 C UUljuU2Of If f ft Pnfin O Ettie Lee Home C f Q LiiulbL ;? 4 a For Youth f I " 450 West Center Box 325 J, , Provo, Utah 84601 375-0880 I Compliments of C , V --Valley Floral. S - Wvl J Families Can Be Forever 1 ""Ssb S f I 663 North State L ji I V . I Orem Utah C ( ' I A I Universal Rent-All 3 354 South State i - x f Orem, Utah 224-1270 V f Pavlova Restcurcntc X X 1 lww 1074 South State C , " I Orem, Utah 224-5961 JF ; , n , 1 iKBHBBiK Ccaplinentsof IBBBIiBlllliMMBIHBBBIillHiHi M-Mcr Figarettes , ' ' 933 East 840 North ! Orem, Utah 225-8432 Eliminating The Insignificant Time is Limited, and the things that would take our time are limitless. We need to eliminate the insignificant. in-significant. We need to be selective in our choices, more discriminating as to trivia, more attentive to the things that mean most-for we never have time enough to do all we want to do or ought to do. As John Burroughs said, "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all tthe books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. . - Aside trom all the presses in the present, we must also take time to pause and plan and think ahead for the future. When we shoot at a moving target, we must shoot ahead if we are to hit the mark. If we are only trying to meet the immediate im-mediate moment, we see things only as they are-partly are-partly or altogether past. Many centures ago Seneca said: "Even if we paid strict attention, life would soon get ahead of us; but as we are now, life finds us lingering and passes us by if it belonged to another, and though it ends on a final day, it perishes every day." We have to take time to think, to reflect, to appraise the past, to explore beyond the present, to plan the future. "There must be," as Massillon said, "a certain desire to improvement and of acquiring instruction; a serious turn of mind, opposed op-posed to everything frivolous; a habit of Her brother realizes that. And so do my wife and I . . . most of the time. But sometimes Sunday mornings mean a ride in the country. . . sleeping late. . . receiving guests. Something, every Sunday. Then one day, watching her trying to read, I realized that filling her mind and heart and soul is a continuous process. It can't be restricted to days of the week. So Sundays in church have become part of our life style. We all are finding new insights, strengthening our faith, discovering ourselves and God. Our little girl needs help. To this Christian family that's the understatement of the year! Naomi's Beauty Shoppe 79 West 400 North Orem, Utah 225-3241 Pettys Auto-Body Pete's Auto Repair Paint Shop Co. 475 West 2000 South Orem, Utah 225-6771 retirement and reflection; a florin fnnctriir.tlfln mfit.hoHiral nrrnncrpmpnr nf life:..." And the faster the pace and the greater the pressure, the more we need solid foundations and our roots down deep. We have thoughtfully discriminating , everything that Uupont Identied Refinisher 1133 South State Orem, Utah 225-0662 Bill's Appliance Sales & Service 1135 North State Orem, Utah 225-2755 Compliments of A&K Cleaners 1250 North State Provo, Utah 375-2611 (No other Success 538 South State St. Orem, Utah 225-0796 to live and be as io , t takes our can compensate tor ScTt! "SZt tehw Hs) The loose Msker sequential, ic:5 s. state, c:::.i 225-4141 the irrelevant. We must not let our lives be broken into small pieces that get lost along the way, but live so that we can see a pattern, pat-tern, a plan, a purpose-so that each motion and 1 moment nas meaning. V Richard L. Evans Copyright 1961 Atesons Salt Lake City, Utah Used by permission All Coach R. V. Center 1374 West 800 North Orem. Utah 224-1 180 Hill Top Auto Work 1775 South 700 East Orem, Utah 225-0401 (Men & Women Cutting and Hair Styling) 483 East 800 South Orem, Utah 225-9142 Snelling & Snelling Personal 930 South State Orem, Utah 225-6050 Ace Rents Inc. 1745 South State Orem, Utah 225-4816 Corbet Trailer Sales Inc. 1562 North State Orem, Utah 225-0807 Vclker Monument 565 North State Orem, Utah 224-1181 (No Other Success Can Compensate For Failure In The Heme) A-l Vacuum & Sewing 355 South State Orem, Utah 225-8181 ri 1 nl 1. 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