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Show 0 nrn i iw n nfv ' 101 9 Road and w nnnun unuur governments spent million during 1949, in uer person of c.atp as of toe UUh a research anu " tiM . 5 .uted a I DCDV'I N BT 1AA '' dsli" A - g the counties spent $2.7 million general operation required an ex- weeds, penditure of $1.9 million; hospitals grounds, GOVERNMENT . There's no indigent care accounted for $1.7 million; and other expenditures omounted to a total of I2.fi million last year, according to the Utah Foundation tabulations. During 1949, coUnty governments spent their money for the following major purposes in the ratios indicated; roads and streets, 30 ; general operation county hospitals and Indigent poor. county sheriffs. 6f,: airt m agriculture and removal of noxious 2.5; ; bettei bourbon! hi STRAIGHT and buildings fjre control and prevention. 2rf provision for debt retirement, 1.5; and miscellaneous expenditures, 13.5. Total 1949 revenues of the counties of the State were approximately $9.6 million, or an overage of $14 per person. Property tax payments provided the largest single source of county income, with collections for county purposes amounting to a total of $6.9 million. This was 19.7', of total property tax collections for all levels of government of nearly 3.5CJ; FOUR Mm YEARS OLD B OURB ON WHISKY $35 million. The report states that county governments In 1949 received $1.5 million or loT of their revenues from grants-in-ai- d made by the State and Federal governments. Licenses, fines, and fees, collected by the counties amounted to $580,000 last year, while service charges provided $410,000. All other receipts amounted to "Fixed Income" Plight Is Political Issue Says Preston L. Jones The plight of the "fixed income'' under the fair deal group was cited this week by Dr. Preston L. Jones, GOP candidate for Congress. Dr. Jones accused his opponent, Walter K. Granger, of $264,000. with ("cooperating wholeheartedly The Utah Foundation report the new and fair deal states that Utah law requires de ers who have, within the short tailed annual county financial reports, but compliance is not com- tain uniform accounting systems." plete. According to the report, a The letter suggested that the Mumajor weakness of the present fi- nicipal League and Association of nancial reporting of Utah's county County Officials establish a Comgovernments is the absence of mittee of Uniform Accounting to uniformity among the reports of meet within the next 30 days with the various counties. This makes the Tax Commission to begin planinformative financial comparison ning for the installation of uniof one county with another a form accounting in local governdifficult and hazardous process. mental units. The Utah Municipal Following an earlier Utah Foun League, at its September annual dation report recommending uni convention, adopted a resolution form accounting and reports for pledging full with local units of government, the the Tax Commission in carrying Utah State Tax Commission set out the project. the machinery in motion for the The Utah Foundation points out adoption and installation of unt-fo- r that the state of Utah now rem systems of accounting for all quires banks, insurance companies, units. The public utilities, and other kinds local governmental chairman of the Tax Commission of private business establishments addressed a letter to the execu- to conform to rigid standards of tive secretaries of the Utah Mu- uniformity in their accounting and nicipal League and the Utah State reporting procedures. If such reAssociation of County Officials quirements are deemed advisable stating that the State Tax Com- for private business, they would mission will undertake to follow seem to be even more important its constitutional and statutory to insure good management and mandate "to see that counties, proper control of city and county cities and towns adopt and main- - public funds. The HELPER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, space of two years, reduced the value of tlie American dollar by 50 per cent." In 1 i4 o, the year Representative Granger was elected to office, said Dr. Jones, the dollar value and the purchasing power of SI were equal. Today, 10 years later, the purchasing power of $1 amounts to approximately 60c, the Republican office-seekpointed out. He asserted wasteful government spending, both during and between wars, has brought about the Instability of the American dollar. "And", he continued, "we are told that is the record Walter Granger is proud to stand on." Dr. Jones said those hardest hit by devaluation of the dollar are the fixed income groups the wage earner, the holder of government bonds, the life insurance the beneficiary. annuity holder, the pensioner and the disabled veteran living on his disability allowance". "And yet this is the very group whom the "Dealers' would have you believe they have brought eternal freedom from want", he er JOURNAL (Utah) PAGE FITS 1950 GOP hopeful declared. "We know that republicans America must b.e a prosperous nation if it is to be a healthy, free nation", said Dr. Jones, "but we also know that waseful government spending on one hand and crippling regulations of business on the other hand, will not bring prosperity. "These things bring eventual stagnation with the accompanying devaluation of the worth of the dollar. The time has arrived for the people to throw these phony money lenders out of the temple of government.'' 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But that freedom has been attacked here recently-ju- st as it has been attacked in other parts of the world. One of the most serious threats to individual freedom has Compulsory been the threat of Government-dominate- d Health Insurance, falsely presented as a new guarantee of health "security" for everybody. WEIGH THE FACTS. In the American manner, the the case against it. Medicine-a- nd people studied the case for Socialized THE PEOPLE medical They found that Government domination of the people's affairs under Compulsory Health Insurance means lower standards of medical care, higher payroll taxes, loss of incentive, damage to research, penalties for the provident, rewards for the improvident. They found that no country on earth can surpass Amer-ica- 's and progress. 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