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Show Hoporf Shows Small In Property Tax Thi s noroaso Yoar was cut 2.60. . r.' "392 units of Utah government will extract from taxpayers $169,177,806 in property taxes come this November," claimed the Utah Taxpayers Association. This was revealed today in the organization's annual comprehensive com-prehensive report on property tax levies and estimated collections collec-tions for 1972. This year' s load .will be $1,297,000 more than the $167,-880,362 $167,-880,362 that was charged in 1971. Association spokesmen said that not since 1956 have property owners of the state experienced such a small increase. Between 1970 and 1371, the property tax jumped $13.8 million. "The small increase was the result of two factors: a 2.60 mill cut intheStateSchoolEqual-ization intheStateSchoolEqual-ization levy and the six percent growth ceiling imposed on taxing jurisdictions in the ten reappraised re-appraised counties," said the association analysts. 1972 school property taxes will decrease $303,517 while cities cit-ies and towns taxes will go up $561,149. Counties will jump $268,865 and Special Districts $815,112. All together there are levies for more than 200 cities and towns, 40 school districts, and 29 counties. In addition, there are scores of special levies for such things as mosquito abatement, abate-ment, water improvement, cemeteries, cem-eteries, libraries, fire protection, protec-tion, and sewage disposal "The complexity and pyramiding pyramid-ing is one of the things which makes it difficult for the taxpayer tax-payer to understandproperty taxes tax-es and to react intelligently," said the tax watchdog organization. organiza-tion. The largest cuts in this year's levies occured in the ten counties coun-ties which were recently revalued reval-ued by the State Tax Commission. Commis-sion. The combined over all levies lev-ies for county, the local school district, and the state school levy in Rich County was reduced 15.204 mills. This was the biggest big-gest cut. In Duchesne County, the over all levy dropped 14.018 from 67.99 to 53.972 mills. Cuts in Wasatch and Wayne County were over 12 mills. Emery, Garfield, Gar-field, and Kane Counties dropped drop-ped over 11 mills. On the low end of the scale of the counties reappraised, Morgan Mor-gan County's over all levy dropped drop-ped but 4.93 mills. In the North Summit SchoolDistrictinSummit County, taxpayers will notice a 4.18 mill cut and 6.74 in the . South Summit School District. In the 29 counties, other than those reappraised, eight increased in-creased their county purpose levies, lev-ies, four cut, and seven remained unchanged. The biggest jump was in Tooele County where the levy went up 4.25 mills, primarily for debt service to build a new county courthouse. "The Weber County levy jumped jump-ed L85 mills and Uintah County 1.30. Salt Lake County reduced their levy L08 mills, Utah County Coun-ty cut L50 mills, and San Juan Local Girls Are Invited to Enter Beauty Contest All girls between 18 and 23 in the district are invited to participate. par-ticipate. They should contact their local commanders for details. de-tails. The commanders of the various posts are: Robert K. Dusen-berry, Dusen-berry, Provo; Gary Lofgran,Ne-phi; Lofgran,Ne-phi; Dennis Finch, Lehi; Earnest Robinson, Levan; Lawrence Lynn, Springville; Arthur R. Gil-son, Gil-son, Eureka; Johnnie Bryan, Pay-son; Pay-son; George Hackford, American Ameri-can Fork; Wave Miguel, Mt. Maple; Map-le; Clark Allred, Spanish Fork; Vernon J. Ahman, Pleasant Grove; Bill Alvari, Orem; Albert Al-bert Van Ausdal, Santaquin; Max Horton, Goshen. The group also discussed ways to contact returning Vietnam veterans vet-erans to show them what the American Legion has to offer them. Utah Division Receives Beautification Award The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has been given a special award of merit for outstanding out-standing civic beautification during dur-ing the Salt Lake Tribune's Annual An-nual Civic Beautification contest. Credit for the award is due to the Green Thumb workers who do the landscaping work for the Division office at 1596 West North Temple in Salt Lake City. Green Thumb workers are retired men who volunteer their time to do landscaping work and other projects. pro-jects. They are paid for their services by the Federal Government. Govern-ment. In addition to the Tribune, the award was co-sponsored by Utah State University, Utah Associated Associat-ed Garden Clubs and Utah Association As-sociation of Nurserymen. County, .40 mills," claimed the Utah Taxpayers Association. Of the state's 40 school districts, dis-tricts, 15, including the 12 that were revalued, cut their levies, five increased, and 20 remained unchanged. Beaver School District Dis-trict with a 9.14 mill jump had' the steepest increase followed by Jordan with a 178 mill increase. Tooele District cut two mills. Ogden and Carbon also had slight reductions. Murray with 56,75 mills has the state's highest school levy, followed by 56.37 in Granite, and 56.13 mills in Beaver. Oil-rich Oil-rich San Juan has the state's lowest- 32.60 mills. The Utah Taxpayers said that of the 211 incorporated cities and towns in the state, 16 in creased their levies, 46 cut tax even though the state school ratpc mnct rf urMtV. A i ..... . a a r "iw.ii weie iu equauiiiiiuu levy aa cui cw. ... . & 1' cated in the 10 reappraised coun- taxpayers in some counties will institutes Set ties and 146 remained unchanged, not receive the Ml benefit of Cities with sharp increases the drop. Thev sav iumps in some were Hyde Park, up six mills, county and local school levies Lewiston, 5.50, Paragonah, 3.25, will totally, or partially cancel Riverton, 4, Cedar Fort, 5, Wash- out the savings. In Weber Coun-ington, Coun-ington, six, and Riverdale, four ty, for example, property own-mills. own-mills. Logan City cut their levy ers taxes will be cut only .73 seven mills and Delta cut 2.75. mills due to offsetting increas- THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1972 in each of the special areas. The spring institute is set for The Tucson Audubon Society in May 4, 5, 6 and May U, 12 and "Ogden City still has the dis tinction of having the highest levies in the state," claimed UTA, "Levies range from 106 to over 121 mills. The variation is due to special improvement districts in various parts of Ogden." Og-den." UTA spokesmen claim that es in tne county, and mosquito district levies. In Beaver County, school and county levy increases totally cancelled can-celled the 2.60 mill reduction and increased the over all levy 7.64 mills. Similiar offsetting increases are to be found in Tooele, Juab. Sanpete, Sevier, cooperation with the University of Arizona will sponsor twoAub-ubon twoAub-ubon Institutes of Desert Ecology next vear. The institutes will cover all phases of Sonoran Desert Life; geology, soil, plants, insects, reptiles, animals and birds. Recognized Re-cognized authorities will be on hand to guide the learning ex- 13. The summer institute will be held August 4 through 12. The site will be the Tanque Verde Ranch in the Rincon Mountain foothills east of Tucson. Graduate extension credit (2 units) is available through the University of Arizona. Enrollment Enrol-lment is limited to 60 partici pants for each institute. Forfur- periences. 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