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Show Fire Safety jf . iiiiiji uiuaMi i ? if I Local Government Cost in Utah AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN THURSDAY. AUGUST?, 1975 Rifling Clubs to "PS County Totaled $41,791,000 in72comPete in Horse Show By Chief LeRoy Griffin Editors Note: Chief Griffin of the American Fork Fire Department will write a series of articles to aid citizens of the community in educating their children chil-dren against the hazards of fire. Below is the fourth in a series of articles to be submitted by Chief Griffin for publication in the Citizen. Citi-zen. You Can e Alerted! If you have reduced the chances for fire to start in your home and if you made it harder for a fire to spread, it's time to talk about fire warning - what can alert you to a fire. For years, many devices have been available. But they were expensive and required connection connec-tion to the electrical system because batteries were not considered con-sidered fail-safe. Now the National Fire Protection Association's Asso-ciation's committee on Signaling Signal-ing Systems has revised its standard stan-dard on household fire warning systems. The new standard permits per-mits units powered by batteries, if they have a built-in method of alerting the householder when the batteries grow weak or something isn't working properly. proper-ly. According to the standard, the basic detector should be placed between your bedroom sleeping area and the rest of the house. The purpose is to provide a defense against fire in another portion of the house while occupants occu-pants are asleep in the bedrooms. Additional smoke detectors can be placed in other areas of the house for even earlier warning. In homes with two or more bedroom areas, a basic detector should be located in each area. A detector in the bedroom itself would be a wise investment if there is a special need, such as an invalid or a bedtime smoker. Although your nose is a more sensitive detection instrument than any mechanical gadget, when you're asleep, the smoke detector will sense the fire long before you do. The detector is located at the ceiling while your nose is at bed level. Furthermore, Further-more, while people sleep their smoke detection apparatus is submerged behind several layers of sleep-induced insensi-tivity. insensi-tivity. To add extra time to a warning warn-ing from the basic detector, all bedroom doors should be closed. Local units of government (school districts, county, municipalities, muni-cipalities, etc.) in Utah" Countv spent a totai of Hl,79l,(iu for general government purposes during the 1971-72 fiscal year. This fact was revealed in an analysis of local government finances prepared by Utah Foundation, the private research organization. The analysis an-alysis was based on the 1972 Census of Governments conducted con-ducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. According to the Foundation report, expenditures for education educa-tion accounted for $27,217,000 of the local spending total in Utah County. Other major areas of local spending included roads and streets - $1,715,000; health and hospitals - $1,461,000; police and fire - $2,291,000; and Cora B. Adamson Dies; Funeral Held Tuesday Funeral services were held Tuesday in the Highland 2nd LDS Ward chapel for Cora Lar-aine Lar-aine Beck Adamson, 56, of Highland High-land who died Friday, August 1, 1975 at home of a stroke. She was born Jan. 1, 1919 at Highland to Stephen F. and Maggie Orr Beck. She married J. Le Grand Adamson Oct. 10, 1941 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Tem-ple. Survivors include her husband, hus-band, four sons and one daughter, Stephen L. Adamson, American Fork; Eric E Adamson, Adam-son, Charleston, W. Va.; Mac J. Adamson, Logan; Joel David Adamson, Highland; and Lor-aine Lor-aine Adamson, Ventura, Calif. Also surviving are her mother, six brothers and three sisters, Malcolm Beck, American Ameri-can Fork; Dalian Beck, Pleasant Plea-sant Grove; James Beck, Lay-ton; Lay-ton; Duane Beck, Logan; Ther-on Ther-on Beck, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Arlen Beck, Detroit, Mich.; Vaughn Beck, Lake Charles, La.; Mrs. Roma Beck Pearson, American Fork; Mrs. Calvin (Maybelle) Mills, Pleasant Grove; and Mrs. William (Vivian) Monson, Colfax, Calif. Burial was in American Fork Cemetery. There's only one thing more irritating than a young executive execu-tive who takes himself too seriously. ser-iously. That's a mature executive execu-tive who does the same thing and ought to know better Overheard in a conference room: "Well, it's time now to take up the main point of this meeting, but since we have run out of time, we will have to discuss it at our next meeting." Abstract intelligence knows what to do, but social intelligence intelli-gence knows how to get it done. To be ruined in your own way is some comfort. When so many people would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villainy of the world to be ruined after one's own pattern. JCPenney s Boys' underwear sale. Sale 3 for 2.60 Reg. 3 for 3.25. Boys' T-shirts and double back briefs. Both 50 Fortrel polyester 50 combed cotton knit lor comfort and absorbency. White only. Sizes 8-16. T-shirts and briefs for pre-school sizes 2-7. Reg. 3 for 2.89. Sale 3 for 2.31. Use Penney Charge American Fork all other - $9,107,000. General revenues received by lueal units within Utah County during the 1971-72 fiscal year totaled $42,447,000. Included in Ihis figure was $19,860,000 from stale and Federal grants-in-aid; $13,351,000 from property tax collections, $1,926,000 from other local taxes; and $7,309,000 from charges and miscellaneous revenues. Foundation analysts emphasize empha-size that the above revenue and expenditure figures were for general government purposes only. Excluded were revenues and expenditures for local water and electric utility operations. opera-tions. At the close of the 1971-72 fiscal year local government units un-its in Utah County had a combined com-bined outstanding general indebtedness in-debtedness of $20,534,000. Again this figure excluded any debt incurred for utility purposes. For the state as a whole, general gen-eral revenues received by local units of government during the 1971-72 fiscal year totaled $391.1 miliion, and general expenditures expendi-tures for this same period amounted to $375.7 million. In addition to these general financial finan-cial totals, another $30.2 million revenue and $25.1 million in expenditures ex-penditures was for local water and electric utility operations. State and Federal aid along with the property tax accounted for more than 80 percent of all general revenue received by local units of government in Utah. The report shows that State and Federal aid amounted to $167,514,000 or 42.8 percent of the total; property tax collections collec-tions were $147,389,000 (37.7 percent); per-cent); other local taxes equaled $20,208,000 (5.2 percent); and charges and miscellaneous produced $56,065,000 (14.3 percent). per-cent). Local expenditures for education educa-tion in Utah totaled $234,180,000 in 1971-72 and were equal to 62.3 percent of all spending. By comparison, com-parison, education accounted for only 45.7 of all local spending in the nation as a whole. Other major areas of local government govern-ment spending included fire and police protection (6.2 percent in Utah and 7.2 percent in U.S.); roads and streets - $18,277,000 (4.9 percent in Utah and 5.9 percent in U.S.); general administration ad-ministration - $13,477,000 (3.6 percent in Utah and 3.6 percent in U.S.); parks and recreation -$11,276,000 (3.0 percent in Utah and 2.2 percent in U.S.); health and hospitals - $11,267,000 (3 0 percent in Utah and 6.6 percent in U.S.); sanitation and sewage - $10,898,000 (2.9 percent in Utah and 4.6 percent in U.S.); and natural resources -$10,141,000 (2.7 percent in Utah and 0.6 percent in U.S.). Total general indebtedness of local units in Utah at the close of the 1971-72 fiscal year amounted to $.318,799,000. An additional ad-ditional $56,519,000 in local debt had been incurred by local units for utility purposes. The Foundation Foun-dation report observes that the total debt of local units in Utah was equal to $354 per capita, an amount about 39 percent below the U.S. average local indebted ness of $r80 per capita. District 10 Riding Clubs President Presi-dent Jim Green stated August S-9 will be the dates for the annual competition. The show is free and open to the public. It's more entertaining than a rodeo! Activities will begin Friday night at the Pleasant Grove arena ar-ena starting at 7 p.m. with the following events: team barrel racing, trailer racing, potato race, ribbon pull, water race, hide race, Pony Express, calf roping, pole bending, keyhole rare, team roping, and wild cow milking. Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at the American Fork race track the following events will be held: "2 mile rat e, 3.30 yard, I '8 mile. T8, '7 mile, relay race, and chariot race. Itiere will be an equestrian parade in PI. Grove at 6:00 p.m. The evening show will begin at 7:00 p.m. with the following events at the PI. Grove arena: cow cutting, drills, men's western wes-tern pleasure, calf roping, ladies western pleasure, team roping, ladies barrels, stock horse, ribbon pull, pairs pleasure, plea-sure, single poles, and wild cow miikmg. The clubs that are competing in the show are: Mt. Timp Riders, Rid-ers, I atigos, Utah County Sheriff's Sher-iff's Posse, Roughouts, Am. Fork Bridlettes, Am. Fork Men, I ehi Men, l akeside Horse Club, Sooners, and Cedar Valley Riders. When zest departs labor becomes drudgery. 1 Let us help you gel to know your new community as quickly as possible. 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