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Show in Utah amounted to $76.6 mil- Government assumed respond AMERICAN FORK C! HZF.N THURSDAY. DECEMBER 19, iS74 lion (12.0 percent of total spend- bility for the major adult assist ing) in the 1974 fiscal year. This tance programs, such as old-age .. . .... ... .... .... sum was down from the fiscal assistance, aid to the blind, and sjiending in Utah outlined in the heasth and hospit; 1973 total of m-i million. In aid to the disabled. Ltah Foi.r.dation report include l.on (4.0 peretm: rals - $25.4 mil rctnt). and natural Januarv. 1974. the Federal Othir mninr l tmpymu un.j oilj rar icauui t - w umuon Km r- fits - R5 million (5.4 percent), cent). I $.u t, x-l H ? . .r.:uti?n j i ... t . .Jh drill! j L- h lU JfNMit ( J a For the first tinv the sales tax surpassed the property tax la'st year as the leading producer of state and local tax revenue in Utah. This was reported by Utah Foundation, the tax research organization in their latest analysis of state revenues and expenditures in Utah. According to the Foundation study, state and local sales tax collections in Utah (including $5,4 million in sales tax collections collec-tions transferred to the income tax to pay for a $S per person tax credit) amounted to $174.5 million in the 1973-74 fiscal year. Total property taxes charged in Utah during 1373 and collected in the 1973-74 fiscal period, on the other hand, were equal to $170.6 million, Utah's individual income tax, the third leading for tax producer, accounted $90.0 miilion in fiscal 1974. State revenue collections exceeded ex-ceeded state expenditures in Utah for the fifth consecutive tergessi Etta! Dies in Am. Fork Funeral services for Etta Roseline Burden Bergesen, 83, of American Fork, who died of causes incident to age Sunday in the American Fork Hospital, will be Thursday (today) at 11 a.m. in the American Fork Ninth Ward Chapel, 673 E. 300 N. Friends may call at the chapel prior to services. Mrs. Bergeson was born Nov. 17. 1891 in Chicaeo to William year. The Foundation notes that state revenues totaled $654 million mil-lion compared with state expenditures expen-ditures of $G39 million in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1974. , Foundation analysts emofca- sized, however, that the $15 million mil-lion revenue excess does not represent an addition to free surplus, since' substantial amounts were appropriated and ' committed to projects for which expenditures were not actually made in fiscal 1974. Balances in the restricted accounts at the close of the 1974 fiscal year, for example, were $30.5 'million greater than they were at the end of fiscal 1973. These restricted res-tricted balances previously had been committed for various purposes pur-poses and therefore are not available for general appropriation. appropria-tion. Total state revenues in Utah rose, by only .$20 million or 3.2 percent last year. This unusually unusual-ly small revenue increase in fiscal. 1374 is accounted for by the fact that (1) several onetime one-time "windfalls" were recorded in the fiscal 1973 revenue totals, (2) very little gain was reported in the state individual income tax collections during 1974 because of the 1973 tax law changes, (3) total Federal grants-in-aid to Utah were reduced slightly last year, and (4) the state property tax levy was reduced. Education continues as the number one item of expenditure. expendi-ture. The Foundation analysis shows that state expenditures for education amounted to $289.3 million, or 45.3 percent of ail state spending, in the 1974 fiscal' year. Included in this total is $101 million for higher education, educa-tion, $163.8 million for stat aid to local school ' districts, and $21.6 million for all other education educa-tion purposes. These expenditures expendi-tures do not include amounts spent by local school districts from funds raised through local sources. When all funds are included, in-cluded, state and local expenditures expendi-tures for education in Utah exceeded. ex-ceeded. $400 willion last yar. Tots I state highway expenditures expendi-tures (including state aid for local roads) amounted to $113.1 million, or 17.7 percent of all state spending in the 1S74 fiscal year. A cwback in Federal aid for highways aloiifc with a leveling level-ing off in motor fuel tax collections collec-tions resulted in a gain of only $1.8 million, or 1.6 percent, in highway spending last year. Public welfare expenditures always k WELCOME GIFT (Sift (Srrttfiratffi and Mary Jane Lamkin Burden. IT, On Sept. 7, 1923 she married i i Adolph I. Bergeson in Provo. She received her education n Chicago schools and worked there for a time before moving to Provo where she worked for the Knight Woolen Mills. After World War I, she moved to Bremerton, Wash., where she worked for J.C. Penney Co. She and her husband lived in Bremerton for 35 years, moving back to Utah in 1959 and making their home in American Fork. She was active in the LDS Church in the Relief Society of the Ninth Ward. She had been a member and madam president of Fraternal Order of Eagles "Auxiliary 192 in Bremerton. Survivbrsnciude her husband and several nieces ar.d nephews in Utah County. Burial wiil be in the Provo City Cemetery. 'J w t i m 6 Mi ' J L "iL 'to -to- 'W' as I Along with our famous low-cost auto protection comes a promise of prompt, personal service. So you don't have to give up a thing to get our low rates. You just have io take advantage of them ... " " " 1 ask out oui (ift (rrl;(tfst?s Robinson's Sporting Goods Co. American Fork J. Ralph Bin nail 120 N. 100 E. - AF fcifna id..-- 1 LI! u li 7zm is - m ess 'm c STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY Home Office: Bloominqton, Illinois Uisd ru::us::g Surg rtf Mindy Gean Phelps, 15 month old daughter of Bob and Lena Gean Phelps of American Fork, died December 17 in Chicago following surgery. She was born September 11, 1973., in American Fork to Robert R. and Lena Gean Gur-ney Gur-ney Phelps. Survivors, parents, brothers, Rusty and Joel, American Fork, Grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Maddux, American Fork, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Phelps, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mr. and Mrs. Douald Gumey, Pleasant Plea-sant Grove. Great grandmother Mrs. Rolena Flanders, Pleasant Grove. Funeral services pending. c: wmm pt esf f .nftja Smt ill uaittteSii'fcrVV MFC" I 3 Atmtk'n Cstpzt Buyers! SCULCTU"?D SHAGS SHACS SftfJ f6 3 YOUNAIT ...WSHAVIIT! ,vco:s hst - km savii S IWn IK IK m mm m k:tr.G W v w w w w wwVw V W J w :; . W w v- ' W W v. O : o The following babies arrived at the American Fork Hospital during the past week: December 8- Boy to Ronpld and Terry Fetgatten Blue of Provo. December 8-Boy to Gene and Andrea Murdock Piiday of Or-em. Or-em. December 8- Girl to DeMar and Patricia McKinney Young of Am. Fork. December 9- Boy to Don and Carla Christen Forbes of PI. Grove, December 9- Girl to Robert Binsham of PI. Grove. December 10- Girl to R. Lane and Connie Beverly Dean of Lchl. December 10- Boy to Harlan K. and Gaylcne Walker Niel3on of Am. Fork. December 10- Girl to Hcber and Doris Taylor Dakcr of PI. Grove. Decern! ' 13- Boy to Fred and Joyce Heslington Denya of Orem, December 13- boy to Ro;;er J, and Cathy Taylor Frederick of Am. Fork, December 13- Girl to Don L. bnd Gwen Watklns Miller of Am. Fork. December 14- Boy to Craig D. and Christine Ivins Wllkins of Am. 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