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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah. Thurg. Mar. 3, 1955. SFC Howard Edwards, and wife, Sue Edwards, left Delta Sunday after a visit of ten days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Edwards. Ed-wards. They were driving to California Cal-ifornia and then up the west coast to Taconia, Wash. SFC Edwards has an assignment to the Far East the fourth for him, and leaves March 7. Mrs. Edwards will remain re-main in Tacoma during his ab-J sence, or will join him overseas j later, if possible. Sngarville VENICE DAVIS Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jordison, of Salt Lake City, visited over the weekend in Delta with their , mother, Mrs. Madge Christensen. j WH OUR WANT ADS A LITTLE INVESTMENT IN A CLASSIFIED AD WILL PAY BIG DIVIDENDS 5 lines or less 50c or 3 times lor a ...$1.00 cnecK rour spring . Needs Fertilizer I Poultry equipment I Starter Mash jr-pw. Baler Twine $0 You can get it V better and lor less money at your jC Co-op. f Mrs. Leo Davis and Don made a trip to Salt Lake City to visit Leo Davis who is in the Veterans hospital. hos-pital. He is doing splendidly and better than was expected. Mr. Virgil Losee and friend, Or-land Or-land Turley, from Dugway, visited over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Losee. Mr. and Mrs. Rom Shields from Ogden, spent the weekend with friends and relatives. Mrs. Shirlee Shields visited with Doreen Shields a week in Salt Lake City returning Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. George Jenson and Thelma made a trip to Salt Lake City this week taking Thelma for medical care. Sunday night the meeting was given by the Bishopric. Talks were given by, Roxy Losee, Lily Mem-mott, Mem-mott, Virgil Losee and Orland Turley; Tur-ley; a song by Lane Losee, and song by Veola Memmott and Jean Jenson, accompanied by Shirlee Shields. Mr. and Mrs. Bus Thomas and family visited at Garrison with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thomas and family over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. June Hinckley and family made a trip to Provo last week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mienhardt are visiting friends and relatives in California for a week or ten days. Bob Oppenheimer is out hunting lions again for a week or ten days. On his last hunt they got three large ones. Keep up the good work, Bob. The Garden Club met at President Presi-dent Faye Clark's home on Friday night for the election of new fficers.. A nice lunch was served to eight members and the Bishopric, Bish-opric, Harold Jensen and Frelen Shurtz. The new officers are Stella Shurtz, President; Venice Davis, Vice President; Eve Shields, Secretary Sec-retary and Treasurer; and Doris Abbott, Reporter. We hope these new officers will take on new life, and do a good job, last year all the officers had new babies. We hope it doesn't repeat this year. GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over Leland Ray Wilkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Wilkins of Lynn-dyl, Lynn-dyl, is returning home this week with his release from the U. S. Navy, after service of four years. He was on the USS Sandoval. Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Morley left Delta Monday for Las Vegas, Nev., on business and a visit of several davs. SAVE! ORDER YOUR MEMORIAL MONUMENTS AND MARKERS DIRECT FROM MR. CHILD, the Owner and Manufacturer. the Middleman's or Ag-Commission. Arvile Child MR. CHILD (the only authorized salesman for his firm) will be in this territory next week taking orders for Memorial Day delivery. Drop him a card at his Sprincrrille address. No obligation ob-ligation for call and estimate. MEMORIAL ARTS COMPANY "ROCK OF AGES" FRANCHISE ISO North Main Sorir.aville, Utah J 1 ill.- i ii miii-.a- - 4h .1 fc'n -TAmm 1 1 1 Turn About The battle between the Eisenhower Eisen-hower forces and Congressional Democrats over the proposed $20 per person income tax reduction is one of the most astounding developments devel-opments in Washington in a long time. Here we see the party which maintained itself in power for twenty years by using Harry Hopkins' Hop-kins' formula of taxing and taxing, spending and spending, and electing elec-ting and electing, as well, one might add, as warring and warring making a bid for popular favor by pushing through what is actually a rather modest little tax cut, while the party which was clamoring clam-oring to regain power during all those years by promising drastic economy, a balanced budget, and lower taxes, is denouncing the move in such terms as blackjacking, blackjack-ing, monkey business, and cruel injustice. The Eisenhower bill, to which the Democrats attached the personal per-sonal income tax reduction as a rider, was not intended to be a bill to reduce taxes, but rather one to forestall certain tax reductions which were due to occur automatic ally next April 1, in corporation income and excise on automobiles automo-biles and other items. It is as if the Republicans have taken unto themselves the "Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect" theory of government, and the Democrats are trying to put obstacles ob-stacles in the way of their doing it. Whether this is the case or not, Republicans, high and low, were screaming their heads off last week-end at this manifestation of Democratic "irresponsibility". Eisenhower "blasted" the Democratic Demo-cratic plan, while our own Rep. Dawson called it an attempt to buy votes at $20 per head at the expense of those living on pensions pen-sions and fixed incomes. Much was made, by Republicans, of the fact that the budget hasn't been balanced, yet. Now, while it is obvious that both parties have done a full turnabout turn-about on this tax question, and so are behaving in an inconsistent manner, it would appear that the Democrats have the strongest case, at the moment; with common sense on their side. If they also happen to be playing politics with the issue, then so be it. If, as the Republicans claim, a $20 income tax cut to everybody represents cruel injustice, it is fair to ask, to whom? Is it cruel to politicians who would like more money to control? Is it cruel to bureaucrats who, through lack of funds, may yet be forced to cut down on the number of burdensome burden-some questionaires they deluge us with, to be iilled out and returned under threat of 10 -ears in prison and $10,000 fine? Or is there something some-thing cruel in the idea of permitting permit-ting ordinary people who earn their money in factory, farm, or business, by their own efforts, from keeping a little more of it to do with as they wish? Is there any reason why, if it be spent by the people who earn it, that same money wont go as far in the channels chan-nels of trade as it would if the government took it and spent it? As for Dawson's remark about buying votes at $20 a head, how can the amelioration of an exorbit ant tax rate, however slight, be regarded as buying anybody? We all have the right to vote for any candidate or party that will give us lower taxes, and let Dawson not forget it. As for the cry that the federal budget is not yet in balance, 'let those who controlled things for the past two years tell us why they didn't balance it. It is a debatable de-batable question whether or not the federal budget should be balanced, bal-anced, or could be without bringing brin-ging on depression, under our existing ex-isting system which uses debt for By Dick Morrison money, but we need not debate that point now. They promised to balance it they accepted the responsibility re-sponsibility for balancing it and since they failed to do so the burden bur-den of making explanations rests upon them. Let them explain the matter, if, in fact, they actually understand it. It would be easy to conclude that, since both parties have done their turnabout on the tax question, ques-tion, it could be settled very easily now, by simply voting the Democrats Demo-crats back into power. However, that solution would be too easy, and it wouldn't work. Both parties have double-crossed us on their promises in these matters, and many others. It has become clear that a party behaves differently when in power than when out The party out of power always deplores, de-plores, and opposes, the excesses of the party in power. What we need, therefore, would seem to be some sort of arrangement under which the policies of the party in power could be ignored, and those of the party out of power allowed to prevail. Sales Tax Loophole At this writing, the Utah legislature legis-lature is nearing the close of its 1955 session, and, as usual, it has appropriated a great deal of money, mon-ey, and has come up against the hard necessity of finding revenue to cover appropriations. According to the "Under The Capitol Dome" column in the Chronicle last week, the total of state expenditures for the coming two year period will be some $140 million, or about $70 million per year. Of this, a little over one third will be accounted for by the state general fund, about one third by schools, and a little less than one third by the projects which are financed by such earmarked funds as fish and game and other fees and motor fuel taxes. The legislature doesn't have much control con-trol over either school or "earmarked" "ear-marked" funds, but only over the general fund, and, in actuality, it seems, it doesn't really have much control over that. However, in order to raise the necessary money, the legislators are considering several tax increases in-creases and extensions, and it is expected that income for the bien-nium bien-nium will reach $144 million. Income In-come and corporation taxes may be raised, and sales taxes extended exten-ded to cover beer, cigarettes, and oleomargarine. The state budget will probably be balanced, and in this connection it should be said that, unlike the federal budget, the Utah state budget certainly should be kept in balance, as a matter of prudent business management. man-agement. The responsibility for the "coining money and regulating the value thereof, so important in the fiscal operations of the federal government, and its debt management, manage-ment, does not rest upon the State of Utah, nor upon any other state. For this reason chiefly, the question ques-tion of balancing the Federal budget bud-get should be regarded in a diff erent light than that of balancing the State and lesser budgets. So, since the State budget should be balanced, and sources of rev enue are being sought, it seems appropriate to point out what seems like an unwarranted loophole loop-hole in the sales tax. This per tains to certain of the service trades which are required to col lect the 2 tax on materials, but not on "labor". Specifically, it applies to the auto repair business, for example. Repair bills usually consist of a charge for parts, to which the 2 sales tax is added, plus a charge for "labor", to which it is not. The ruling which permits exemption of he "labor" charpe from the 2 tax on such bills would seem to be i nusconstruction of the intent of th law. The sales tax was never a little luxury is good for every man ...so enjoy X J . .. f&v ! - Y. N i . v :ji : .. -.- ,v ji t turn stiuigiitBOURBONwhiskey 6 years old NOW it AND PRICED TO PLEASE intolKltd tu be ;l'.c.lbL- to wuges paid to labor, as such, of course. But the service charge shown on such bills as the "labor" charge is not that in fact. While it Is usually computed on the basis of the time required by a mechanic to do the work, it includes not only the amount actually paid to him by the employer, but also an amount intended to cover cost of shop space and facilities as well. The so-called "labor" charge on such bills may be twice as much as the mechanic earns; the difference, incidentally, in-cidentally, often is not enough to cover the owner's actual overhead, though it is intended to do so. The point is, though, that the 2 sales tax should logically be extended to apply to the whole amount of such repair bills, since the "labor" charge pertains only indirectly to wages actually paid to labor; and the imposition of the sales tax would not have any effect upon the actual remuneration remunera-tion received by the mechanic who did the work. Uncanny Can Can I've seen it all now. I've been around a little in my day, to places like Kansas City and San Francisco, Fran-cisco, and I had an idea I'd seen about all there was to see of life, but now I know that, up until Saturday night, I had only seen part of it. But I've seen it all now. The ultimate, the consummation, the limit, the final touch, was what I saw down at Deseret Saturday Satur-day night, at the Ward Reunion party. I'd heard of him before, but seeing is believing. Not since that female impersonator at the Old Hippodrome in San Diego had I seen anything like it, and that wasn't as good. Virl Jacobson, all dressed up in a ballet skirt, red bodice, and wide open spaces, was not only out of Oak City, but out of this world, on the stage there, in the flesh, giving expression to his new art form. But Is it new? Is it art? And, for that matter, is it a form? I wondered. In any case, he was a vision in red and black, when he tripped light fantastically out from the wings, this pirouetting ballerino, as he went into the Can-Can. And if any of you people who were there, and maybe some who were not, are curious about the matter, I can give you reassurance. Before the act, we were all back stage. I would be, of course. I was there to assist with another number. Was standing next to Virl for a moment, and I decided to find out. So when he looked the other way, I stuck a pin in the one nearest me, and he didn't even flinch. So that's how I know, folks, those were falsies. Wesley Sampson, now living in North Las Vegas, Nev., visited in Delta Saturday and Sunday. OAKCkfY Mae H. Shipley SjssiSBiM Tour To I Hawaiian Islands A new grandchild for Mr. and Mrs. John Hersleff of Delta is the baby girl, 7'i pounds, born Feb. 22 to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kusch, Grand Canyon, Ariz, The Primary had a valentine party instead of their regular work a dance and fishpond. They served valentine cookies and pop corn balls. Mr. and Mrs. Morrey Anderson and sons were Oak City visitors last week from Overton, Nevada. Misses Margaret Sheriff and Mar gene Anderson were home for the weekend. A welcome home party and dance was held Saturday night honoring returned service men. El-wood El-wood Lovell, Fred Anderson and Scott Sheriff. 'We are glad to have these boys home again. At sacrament services Sunday evening Elwood Lovell gave a fine report of his experiences while in the service especially his stay in Korea. Junior Sunday School meeting was held Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Zella Lovell. Mrs. Angie Lyman has returned to her home at Rexburg, Idaho after being here the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Pike and daughter were Oak City visitors last week. Palmyra Stake, at Spanish Fork, is sponsoring a Friendship Tour to the Hawaiian Islands, which will include the Temple, and invites members of other stakes to join them. Anyone interested may get more information and the itinerary by writing to Mildred Ream, Spanish Fork, Utah. She will also make reservations, which are limited. The tour offered is a good opportunity op-portunity for a pleasant trip, and not expensive. The price is $350.00, plus an Island Tour, a boat trip and to Pearl Harbor. This cost includes meals, and tips and extras ex-tras will take another $50.00, possibly. poss-ibly. 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