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Show Tax Equalization Board Meets He ID The Journal offers Its advertisers as complete a circulation thru this district as It is possible to se secure A circulation which Is al- R The board of county commissioners this week have been sitting as board of tax equalization and, according to County Commissioner C. R. Fahring, many protests have been made. VOLUME XXIt-NUM- BED 52 In the majority of cases, however, the protests have not been made against irregular or improper assessments, but have been made by individuals who felt the tax rates were not in proper proportion to business conditions. This is a true condition, according to Commissioner Fahring, but one about which little can be done. "Jhe county assumed heavy burdens during boom times and it now is necessary that the obligations be met. Bonded Debt Is Heavy A graphic picture of the bonded indebtedness which hangs over the taxpayers of this state is pre- SENATE BILL 1712 IS ENTITLED "A BILL TO ENCOURsented in the May issue of the AGE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY, TO Utah Taxpayer, official organ of the Utah Taxpayers association. FOSTER FAIR COMPETITION, AND TO PROVIDE It is shown that in some counties THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN USEFUL FOR the ratio of bonded debt to assessPUBLIC WORKS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" ed valuation runs up as high as 12.04 per cent, while the state avCOLLECTING STATE SALES TAX erage is 5.37 per cent. Only one county, Wayne, is without bonded Indebtedness. During the past two weeks much consideration, both up ine following tabulation is for state and locally, has been given to a movement by the United 1931 and shows the relation by per States cent of the costs of assessing and government, embodied in senate bill 1712, to overcome collecting taxes as compared with present unemployment by increasing production. the amount collected. Thi3 takes The idea, as conceived by President Roosevelt, is to into account the actual factors, principally salaries, of the officers eliminate unfair competition, set up a standard of ethics for charged with these two functions: each and every industry which would control problems of Pet. hours of labor, mar6.03 production, transportation, sales, wages, ways reliable. Helper, Carbon County, Utah, Friday, June 9, 1933 i Daggett 3.S6 3.35 3.00 2.77 2.60 2.49 2.44 2.34 2.27 2.00 1.98 1.90 1.81 .....1.78 Duchesne Wayne San Juan Emery : Sanpete Washington Juab Uintah Garfield Millard Piute Sevier Grand Beaver Rich Davis Carbon 157 1.55 1.50 1.48 1.45 1.37 1.36 1.31 1.25 1.23 1.20 1.17 1.14 1.05 1.38 '. Wasatch Box Elder Tooele Morgan Iron Cache Summit Kane Salt Lake Weber TTtah ' Average It will be noticed from the above tabulation that the cost of collection in Carbon county is well down in the list. HELPER DAY, JUNE 21 Thieves Loot U. SMail MAIL POUCHES AT HEINER AND CASTLE GATE ARE ROBBED Postal money orders in the sum of $65 and parcels of unknown value were secured sometime Friday night when robbers looted the mail pouches at Castle Gate and Heiner, according to a report turned at 3:30 a. m. Friday of last week by Conductor C. C. Ware upon the arrival of his train at this point. Conductor Ware reported that the depot at Castle Gate and the exchange mail box at Heiner had been broken into, and subsequent investigation revealed that two bags had been secured at the former place, and one sack from the Heiner box. During Saturday morning and afternoon the stolen pouches were found discarded along the railroad right of way, one of them containing several empty envelopes. The matter was reported to postal authorities and the local sheriffs office, and investigations now are being made. HELPER DAY. JUNE 21 Carbon Band Leaves f or Contests The Carbon county high school band, winners of the recent state contests held at Logan, left Monday evening for Evanston, 111., on a special train, where they will enter the national band contests to be held June 8, 9 and 10. Owing to illness, Band Director Williams of the high school was unable to accompany the band east, and A. B. Caseman of Helper, director of the prize winning Helper junior high school band, went in his stead. keting and other important factors in the conduct of business. Unfair competition under this bill would be eliminated thru the fixing of minimum sales prices, mandatory hours of closing and other similar regulatory mandates, and would be enforced thru federal prosecution and fine in a sum not to exceed $500 for each and every offense. (This bill passed in the senate Wednesday evening.) Government Will Force the Issue The various businesses and industries in each community will be given an opportunity to draw up their own agreements and, failing in this, the federal government will step in and arbitrarily establish a code of business ethics. All will be compelled to abide by this standard of ethics regardless of their personal wishes in the matter. Employes may organize if they wish, and will be given the right to bargain collectively with employers so long as their demands shall not be construed as being detrimental to the welfare of either business or the nation. It is clear, therefore, that under this bill industry is faced with the alternative either voluntarily to establish itself into trade associations or else delegate that responsibility to some governmental agency. Experience teaches that if the government is forced to step in, the representative will not necessarily come with experience in the particular industry or business, nor be conversant with its difficulties and problems; and the code may, therefore, not be favorable to the industry or business thus organized. For that reason, it behooves each community to lay its own plans for organization without further delay. Local Business Men Now Organising Coincident with this governmental rule affecting the conduct of private business comes collection of the general state sales tax three fourths of one per cent. At first glance this seems a harmless, negligible tax and hardly worthy of consideration. Its sins and virtues are better appreciated when it is understood this tax, unless collected from the purchaser, is collected out of the net profit of a given business, and that the cost of collection and payment to the state will approximate 1 per cent. Thus, should one be doing business on a 5 per cent margin, 20 per cent of the net profit will go to the state; on a 4 per cent margin the state would get approximately 25 per cent of the net profit thru direct tax and collection cost disbursement. This places the tax in its true light and gives evidence of the necessity for organization and group action. At this time a movement is under way to consolidate the business enterprises cf Carbon county into a subsidiary group, cooperating with a state organization. The purpose of this group will be to anticipate governmental action by drawing up a code of ethics and devising an economical and convenient manner of paying the special state sales tax. In addition to the mass meetings held during the past two weeks in Salt Lake, a number of meetings have been conducted in Helper and Price with M. W. Ross, secretary of the Helper chamber of commerce, who has been meetings, supplying such information attending the as has been requested.. Following a meeting of businessmen of Price and Helper in the Grill cafe club rooms here Wednesday evening, plans were formulated whereby the two cities will draw up their own ethical code and work together in the matter of meeting the state sales tax. up-stat- e More money For RFC Carbon County Commissioners Dave Parmlee, C. R. Fahring and Wm. Reed returned last week from Salt Lake where they went to se cure additional RFC money. Eight thousand dollars was given to CarHELPER DAY, JUNE 21 bon county to meet immediate Max Vezzetti and LeRoy Smith needs, according to Commissioner returned from Colorado the latter Fahring. part of last week to assist In the Members of the relief contact Supreme Bakery shop. committee are urging that where HELPER DAY, JUNE 21 possible those now receiving relief COMING I7VENT8 should assist themselves with gardens and in all other manner posRainJune 10 Saturday, dance, sible, as the federal relief funds bow Gardens. smaller each moni::. are June 10 Saturday, Standardville HELPER DAY, JUNE 21 Day, celebrated at Helper park. Say your rend it In The Journal. June 21 Wednesday, Helper day. MATT BIONDAGE IS HOME Matt Biondage returned to Helper this week after a two weeks absence during which time he attended the national convention of the Slovene National Benefit society in Chicago as a delegate from this district. While there Mr. Biondage put in two days visiting the century of progress fair and expressed the opinion that one could put in two months at the same pastime and still not see everything. HELPER DAY. JUNE 21 Mark Sepas, proprietor of the Dainty Pastry shop, left last Friday for San Francisco where he will take a special course in cake and pastry baking at the General Mills Bakery school. Mark was one of five young mm chosen from Utah to receive th 'a special PRICE 5 CENTS June Scltll re ay lanoarctviiie GOVERNMENT MOVES TO CONTROL ALL INDUSTRIES EIGHT PAGES Old Glory Observes Birthday Cars Needed to Ik tf 1 - V. . Transport Men to Town V P ANNUAL CELEBRATION TO BE HELD IN THE HELPER CITY PARK CARS NEEDED I Standardville day, annual cele- bration of the residents of that K If f :: 1 rs I ) lr HM Proudly displaying the Stars and Stripes along with their regimental colors a United Stales marine color guard is shown taking part in a military ceremony ivhere the highest honors are accorded Old Glory, adopted as the symbol of our country, June 14, 1777. The birthday of Old Glory, most beautiful of all national flags, is June 14. Our flag is not only the most attractive in design, but it is also truly representative of the nation, for in its blue field there are 48 glistening stars, representing each state of the Union. More than a century and a half has passed since the Star Spangled Banner was first flung to the breeze. Step by step it has kept pace with the forward march of the nation. It stands for patriot ism, loyalty and fidelity to the ideals of America. Long before the Stars and Stripes became the symbol of our great nation, there were scores of flags representing the hopes and aspirations of our forefathers. Co lonial flags show anchors, beavers, rattlesnakes, pine trees and vari ous other insignia. Some of them bore the words, "Hope," "Liberty," or "An Appeal to Heaven." A favorite motto beneath the rattlesnake design was "Don't Tread on Me." But all of the earlier types disappeared when on June 14, 1777, the continental congress resolved "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." In the intervening years it has remained unchanged, save only for an occasional variation in the number of stars and stripes, when authorized by congress, and the addition of a star for each new state. Today our flag is much the same as it was 156 years ago. Governor Blood Will Attend Helper Day Celebration Street Dance graduation and Sports the their daughter Planned their CAROLINE STEIN GRADUATES Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stein attendexercises of ed the Caroline from University of Utah, held from Sunday to Tuesday night. They home were accompanied to here by Mrs. J. Blumberg of Salt Lake, who will visit at the Stein KIWANIANS WILL ATTEMPT residence for several weeks. THE BIGGEST CELEBRATION HELPER DAY. JUNE 21 EVER, HELD LOCALLY DAVID CAVENAH GRADUATES Helper day, the event by which other similar occasions are gauged David Cavcnah, son of Mr. and this year is to be observed WedMrs. Dick Cavenah of Helper, was June 21, will be even a bignesday, graduated this week from West- ger and better event than those of minster college in Salt Lake City, previous years, according to F. P. Mr. and Mr3. Cavenah going up Fisher of the Helper Kiwanis club, Wednesday evening to attend the to whose care has been entrusted services, being accompanied by the duty of malting the celebration Mrs. A. G. Deuel. outstanding. Of signal importance is the fact that Governor Henry H. Blood has announced he will attend personally this year, while last year he found it necessary to have Secretary of State Milton H. Welling attend in his stead. The City of Helper has achieved state-wid- e recognition thru its annual Helper day event, which was conceived and instituted several ago by the Helper Kiwanis ycar3 ' and the day of sports and v r i- ' i club, free entertainment now being on planned will be no previous celebrations. Stores Will Remain Open Differing from celebrations of previous years, the stores of Helper this year will remain open dur ing the day between the hours of 8 a. m. and 11 a. m., and between 4 and 8 p. m. A baseball game will be staged between the Provo Timps and Helper Miners at the local park, athletic events will be held thruout the day, a big free barbecue will J Crawford, Frank be served to several thousand visiOmaha, Neb. gardener, tors, and the evening will see all seems to be EctUng younper every day Almost totally bald making merry at a gala free dance two years ago. a mysterious on Main street, during which time hi on fuzz began sprouting traffic will be diverted thru side ecalp. and today he has a fairly streets. abundant crop of hair LikeWednesday, June 21, is Helper wise. Feveral new teeth are apof his this year, and it will never do back day in the pearing to stay at home and have friends Crawford's only exmouth it seems to tell you what a wonderful time planation is that an undo cut they had. Plan to be here run in his family, yourself 11 itttU at tho ase of ill). and bring the family. ! f - A Check Artist Makes Fast Dicker Someone called L. R. Eldridge, proprietor of the J. C. Penney company store at Price Friday of last week, gave the name of a prominent Price business man, said he was sending a stranger over with a check he had just made out, and asked whether Mr. Eldridge would cash it inasmuch as the banks had closed for the day. Mr. Eldridge, desirious of serving, assented. So far, so good. The stranger arrived promptly, made a few small purchases and presented the check in the sum of $66, which was promptly cashed. Not so good. Shortly after, becoming suspicious of the proceedings, Mr. Eldridge checked back on the phone call and found that it, like the check, was spurious, and started out to look for the stranger. A man answering the description was located in Helper by Mr. Eldridge after he, Marshal C. A. Knobbs, and M. P. Street, manager of the local J. C. Penney company store, had gone on a quiet search. He was accosted in a pool hall by Mr. Eldridge and is said to have made a threatening movement of hand in pocket which caused Mr. Eldridge to believe he was armed. Mr. Eldridge left the building to locate Marshal Knobbs, and during his absence the stranger fled. His course took him down alleys and over back fences until he finally was found on the rear porch of the Tony O'Berto home. He gave the name of George Brooks and is said at first to have admitted cashing the check. Later it is understood he denied he was the man wanted. He is being held in the county jail at Price and information available at this time indicates he has a previous police record. The moral of thi3 story is to verify phone calls when checks are to be cashed. HELPER DAY. JUNE 21 88, Grows New Hair. Teeth J. Robert Loftis jr., son of Train Master and Mrs. J. R. Loftis of Helper, was graduated this week from the University of Utah. The commencement exercises and program were witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. Loftis who had made the trip into Salt Lake for that purpose. i n JUNE Z New Fruit Stand Is Opened A new fruit and vegetable market is being opened in Helper this week, just north of the Oakland hotel on Main street, under the proprietorship of C. S. Dawson and J. E. Pinegar, this establishment supplementing one at Price. Fresh fruits and vegetables will be handled at all times, according to the season, and the local establishment will be operated by Walter and Earl Basinger and H. C. Norton. Their advertisement appears on page 5 of this issue. HELPER DAY, Mrs. R. P. JUNE 21 Barrall is spending the week in Grand Junction ing with friends. HELPER DAY, 5p.v HELPER DAY, JUNE 21 Helper Bailers Head State League THREE YEAR JINX IS BROKEN AS THE MINERS TAKE TOP PLACE IN WIN -- TWO-GAM- E The various managers of the Helper Miners baseball eam, the members and supporting fans are wearing smiles of pleasure these days, and well they may, because last Sunday the local ball nine broke a jinx of three years standing and walked into first place in the state league hy defeating the and Salt Lake Holaum EaUers 6-- 5 8-- The standing of the state league teams and the results of Sunday's games follow: Standing of Teams - W L visit- JUNE 21 vour read it in The Journal. Pet .....5 4 .536 Helper G 5 .545 Provo 4 4 .500 Holsum Bakers 4 6 .400 Royal Bakers Games Sunday's Holsum Helper Provo 11-Royal Bakers Carmoni and Vecchio of the local team are leading the state league with averages of 533 and 4S0 respectively, their nearest of Holsum competitor being Bakers with an average of 435. Th'se percentages were compiled prior to lust Sunday's games. 6-- YOUNG LOFTIS GRADUATES HELPER DAY. community, will be observed Saturday of this week at the city park in Helper with a sports program and baseball game, and the residents of Helper again are being asked to furnish cars with which to bring the miners and their families into town for the day, and return them home that evening. The Grill cafe has been asked to prepare luncheon for 600 guests, thus giving an estimate of the number who will attend. The caravan will form at the-cithall in Helper at 7:30 a. m. Saturday and proceed to Standardville, leaving that place at 8:30, and arriving back in Helper at 9 o'clock, and the races commencing in the city park at 9:30. Those wishing to furnish cars for the occasion may meet at the city hall, or proceed directly to that point if necessary. The Program Standardville day money in the sum of $650 has been printed, good only in trade, and will be distributed to winners in the following sports events during the day: 9:30 Races. 9:30 Boys horse shoes, ages 14 to 18. 11 :00 Boys tennis, ages from 10 to including 15. 12:00 Luncheon. 1:30 Baseball game. 3:30 Men's horse shoes. 3:30 Ladies and girls tennis. Water sports during the day. 9:00 Dance at Standardville to complete the day's celebration. The program is sponsored by the Standardville Amusement and Athletic association, and members must have membership cards for the day. 5-- 6-- Ev.-en- HELPER DAY, JUNE 21 City Swimmir Pool Is Opep The Helper city swimrniD-undethe management of and Harold Patteriek, now is open to the public, and is enjoying increased patronage each day. Messrs Patteriek have installed a new heating unit which should be ready for use the latter part of this we"k, keeping the water at a constant temperature varying between 75 and SO degrees. The water, which is secured from the same source as the city drinking water, is changed regularly and will be kept strictly within all sanitation requirements. Season tickets are available for adults or children at ?3: family season tickets, $5; single adult admissions, 15c; student admissions, 10c; and suits may be rented at 10 cents per swim. u.e |