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Show BEAVER (UTAH) PRESS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 UTAH STATE MERLE B. MERKLEY Astociait Emitot PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Year. $3.00: 6 Mo. $2.00; (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) 3 Mo. eqt. HOW USED Here's what happens to the dimes and dollars you give to the March of Dimes which is being held this year from January 16 through 31 : Ha'lf remains with the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. It is used to pay for that part of medical care which a local patient's family cannot afford and. in emergencies, to supplement the national epidemic aid fund. The other half is sent to national headquarters. It is used for research to find means of preventing or curing the disease, d and professional education of highly-skille- d aid to chapters whose local treaspersonnel and for epidemic uries are exhausted. TTnvipvor thp mnnpv is distributed, all of it comes back of benefit in some form to the community in which it is raised. . . J It comes back in improved treatment metnoos, trained and cash when it is needed. Eventually, polio investigators say, it will come back in the form of a vaccine to protect mankind against infantile paralysis. You can help assure every victim of this disease the he needs it bv PiVinE Tiro Vii tnnct hnvp for n lnntr 1950 MARCH OF DIMES the to in increased amounts, NOW, much-neede- per-sonnc- City Recorder, for the Year Ending In Cool Cavern RECEIPTS Cash on hand, January 1, 1949 wants are getting the best possible care in what is said to be the world's largest uniform temperature refrigerator, a limestone cavern at Whiskey Creek, two miles from here. Reduced to powdered form, they constitute only a little over one- quarter of those bought by the government under its price support program for eggs, the cost of which is nearing the 100 million dollar mark. The government is required to maintain the price of eggs at 90 per cent of parity which is the price deemed fair in relation to the cost of things the poultrymen buy. The support price for eggs li 35 cents a dozen. Recently the nation's hens have been producing about S per cent more eggs than the public has bought. CCC Buys Surplus ll f Sinking Fund, January 1, 1949 Perpetual Care Fund Cash in Class C Money, January 1, 1949 General Fund-C- ity Taxes Merchant Licenses Rent from Administration Building Miscellaneous Income (liquor money) Streets and Sidewal- ksCity Taxes Parks and Public Propert- yCity Taxes Cemetery Lots Cemetery fees Cemetery Taxes Miscellaneous income (gravel) Public Safety Fund--City Taxes Fines and Forfeitures Dog Taxes and Estray Pound Special Police Miscellaneous Income Refund os Expense of Police Standby service from County Water System-W- ater System Customers Misc. income (water connections) Sewer Rental Sewer Connections Cemetery Care Fund Paving Tax Deed City Halls and Memorials City Taxes Beaver City Sinking Fund Redemption of Bonds (Sinking Fund) Purchase of Administration Building by Electric Light Revenue Fund City Taxes and Rent of Old Plant 3,847.90 1,088.62 125.00 66.43 An Essentia Institution 5,744.55 1,894.67 600.00 3,366.25 Just as a good banking connection 2,361.75 194.00 242.00 446.75 42.00 5,744.55 443.00 288.00 100.00 .75 34.00 250.00 BEAVER 9,865.14 389.76 1,269.50 245.00 650.00 50.00 94,-00- 0. Keg-Totin- JlettcM ta the Sdiiot, rrwwz truth that for Emerson. hr with $17 million out ot $;J7 million in iy-ib-4- CITY BRANCH OF THE MILFORD STATE BANK er flatter is essential to the success of any business, a good bank is essential to the success and welfare of any community. We feel that our bank is a strong link in the chain of progress of this community. Our many services and wise business counsel are always at your disposal. Come in anytime. We'd like to be of assistance to you. 3,382.95 The difference, after drvtaff. Is purchased by the commodity credit 1,723.05 corporation to an accumulated to tal now of about 2.33 billion eggs, ade-nuit- o 3,288.00 largely unsalable, either at home or abroad. 6,200.00 Meanwhile, the eggs must be 8,644.55 stored, and a great quantity of them has come into the Atchison TOTAL I 62,588.18 cave. MORE RANGE LANDS FOR LIVESTOCK Th,ey come principally by rail DISBURSEMENTS Writine in Country Gentleman, Fred Bailey says, "Work from some 50 drying plants in Kanis to start next spring on one of the largest reforestation and sas, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma General Fund-Of- fice and Texas. Some of these plants $ 62.69 Expense revegetation programs ever undertaken by the rorest service were built after the price support Official Salaries cut-ov1,685.50 forest plan went into effect. It is to include 4,000,000 acres of burned and Insurance and Bond Premiums 1,003.87 land and 83,OOO.OOOacres of range land in need of reseeding At the drying Donation and Contribution the eggs are 1,064.05 plants com . . . Forest Service officials estimate the program, when Election Expense 435.88 bought from poultrymen at 35c a Janitor Salary and .Expense 128.00 pleted, will enable the range lands to handle five to 10 times dozen. They are then handed to a Recreation Project 193.32 line of women, who break each Inas many livestock as at present. 232.50 Legal Accounting This is significant in the light of recent developments. dividual egg into a cup and smell 79.05 Assessing and Collecting one bad one each egg Individually This country is a big meat consumer. Yet leading authorities Miscellaneous Expense 113.66 whole a batch. on diet are now convinced that a still higher level of average spoils 266.50 Telephone and Telegraph are then sent by a conveyor Bond Interest paid 570.00 consumption is extremely desirable in order to build our health to They chamber and sprayed 332.88 Expense of Mayor and City Council .... and stamina as a people. Meat is one of the best sources of froma heating there into a drying chamber, 300.00 Inspector Building protein and protein, the scientists have found, is the food after which they are put into bar329.00 Expense Hospital element which does the most to create physical strength, resist- rels or, more rarely, cartons. Streets and Sidewalks-Opera- tion ance and mental morale. In many kinds of illness high-pr- o and Maintenance 1,094.76 Case Makes 10 Founds 47.43 Assessing and Collecting ... tein diets are now prescribed. A case of eggs, 30 dozen, makes Miscellaneous Expense 65.75 It is forecast that the nation's livestock population wil 10 pounds of egg powder. Parks and Public Property , increase very substantially during the next few years. Various On a 2,380.88 Cemetery Maintenance sample day, the storage reasons are responsible. One is our large supply of feed cave here contains 694 freight car Park Expense 383.62 31.68 Assessing and iCollecting grains and grasses produce which in many instances would loads of egg powder. Since a car be wasted entirely unless used for animal husbandry. An can carry an average of 1 3 6 pounds, Public Safety Fund of Police Salary and expense 3,761.61 other is that meat animals can be raised on either a small or the total in barrels stacked three Health Officer ' 300.00 wooden "paland four with high, scale almost anywhere. large 319.94 City Jail to comes between lets" about The projected increase in range lands under Forest Serv 79.05 Assessing and Collecting Miscellaneous Expense 68.95 ice direction fits in with these developments. The meat in This far from fills the 16 acres Maintenance of Fire Engine 662.88 dustry, in all its ramifications, is a big factor in American of the cavern. 100.80 Expense of Justice of Peace living and the American economy. The rest, except for about an Water System-Oper- ation and Maintenance acre covered by limestone pillars, 6,443.06 178 of them, Is given over to prunes, 1,747.60 Salary NUMBER ONE ISSUE Canals and City Ditches 1,209.45 raisins and dried milk. Miscellaneous Expense 35.00 There are 21,677 tons of prunes As the second session of this Congress got underway 541 carloads 5,038.06 Improvements on Water System 1,961 tons of raisins, 79.05 Assessing and Collecting, Water System news reports emphasized that the domestic issue of the great 43 tons of milk and 9,741 tons of Halls and Memorials-Asses- sing City both est concern to many Senators and Representatives of eggs. and Collecting 23.92 Real Estate Purchased parties was the cost of the Federal government, taxes and The areas where the prunes and 6,000.00 Bonds Redeemed deficits. raisins are stored, in stacks reach4,000.00 750.00 Improvements on Race Track The news reports said further that Congressional leaders ing almost to the 12 foot ceiling, in Sinking Fund, Dec. 31, 1949 Cash on 5,763.17 mi either side of the aisle which divides Republicans and are filled with a pleasant odor. The Cash on hand hand in Class C Money, Dec. 31. '49 66.43 do not smell. I )emocrats, were determined to do everything possible to cut eggs Cash in Perpetual Care Fund. Dec. 31. 1949 3,975.00 Neither Is does the which cave, Cash in Beaver City General Fund Dec. 1949 11,363.19 appropriations, to abstain from raising taxes, and to make clean, dry and evenly cold. the next budget show a surplus instead of a deficit at the TOTAL f 62,588.18 end of the fiscal year. These are splendid aims but it must be recorded that they St. Bernard Dogs Resumi g Chores are usually honored more in the breach than in the observ- Old BEAVER. CITY GENERAL FUND ance. Practically everyone is for rigorous economy for the PARIS, FRANCE After a lapse ASSETS other fellow, and for ample spending when the money will of nearly 50 years, the dogs of the St. of in Bernard the hospice Alpine benefit him. .1266531 snows are to be equipped again with Change Fund 15.00 That is why enormous pressure is exerted on Congress the 3,975.00 little kegs of liquor to wear in Ferpetual Care Fund 11,569.79 by groups of all kinds for bigger and better appropriations their rescue work. The St Bernard Beaver City Bank 5,763.17 And that is why Congress must have the courage to resist dogs, famous in story and cartoon Beaver City Sinking Fund Class C Money 66.43 the world were relieved of the if over, this pressure the nation is to avoid financial disaster, dov U. S. War Bonds 3,592.00 crnments, like, individuals, can spend beyond their incomes liquor barrels in 1900. National Defense Bonds 3,000.00 anu uissipaie ineir. resources only so long, ine only ditter-enc- c In the last year, so many persons Accounts Receivable Cemetery Lots 14.00 265.62 is that government can stave off the day of reckoning have been lost in the Alps that the Accounts Receivable, Beaver County monks of the hospice have decided Accounts Receivable. Water System 653.13 longer, but when that day does come, the repercussions are to restore the liquor. It is not Water System Supplies 179.51 felt everywhere. brandy, and never was, but marc, Paving Tax Deeds 2,052.77 The Hoover Commission, for one, has shown us how we 5.810.00 cheap distillation of grape skins Real Estate 833.04 can heavily cut the cost of government without undermining or a sweet beverage distilled by the Office Furniture from herbs grown in the Miscellaneous Tools and Equipment 1,510.05 any necessary function. Let this Congress do it and if it monks below Water System their monastery. 87,205.40 valley does, let it be given the thanks of a grateful nation. 13,066.40 Sometime ago a party of 30 Race Track 11,182.59 Italians seeking to enter France, Sewer System 4,730.46 where they hoped to find employ- Fire Engine 8,576.89 ment, were stranded in the St. Ber- Airport 16,000.00 nard pass and were rescued by the Old Electric Power Diesel Engine dogs. When two monks carrying Mr. A. G. Merkley TOTAL $180,061.25 flasks to revive the half frozen Publisher BEAVER PRESS some arrived travelers of the later, Heaver, Utah LIABILITIES party were in bad condition. Dear Mr. Merkley: The dogs used now are not of the St Bernard breed, but a cross Outstanding Warrants $ 206.60 "We have received many clippings of the fire prevention breed, 8,000.00 part bulldog, part terrier Bonds Outstanding (diesel engine) articles published by the newspapers of the nation during Fire Pre and 15.000.00 Tax Anticipation Note, Beaver City Bank part Pyrenees shepherd. vention Week last October, and have found the stories in the 156,854.65 Surplus BEAVER PRESS of special interest. Elizabeth, Philip to Get TOTAL $180,061.25 "We can be very proud of the nation's press for the part it is playing in helping safe guard our citizens form the many haz- Hunting Lodge in Africa ards of modern life, including those of fires. It the people are LONDON, ENGLAND. Princess informed, they will use care and caution, and lead happier, safer Elizabeth and the Duke of EdinWe cannot ourselves we have underlives. Therefore we wish ta commend you for your articles in the burgh will get a $5,600 hunting lodge is stood until us not to shape for it a interest of greater safety from fire for all citizens of your com- in darkest Africa. impossible munity. Maeterlinck. A government announcement said our lives in accordance with it. "Very truly yours, Kenya colony in British East Africa had decided to build the J. WENDELL SETHER. lodge as a wedding present for the Director of Public Information couple who have been married Total pxnpnditnrps of thp colleges of the State National Board of Fire Underwriters some two years. The lodge will stand on the lower increased from $10l2 million for the biennium ended Mount Kenya. slopes of 17,040-foo- t 1947 to $17V2 million for the biennium ended The word independence is united to the ideas There is good fishing In the river June, 1919. The miblic school svstem of Utah ex Jimp. beyond the front yard and big of dignity and virtue ; the word dependence, to the lust game is not far away. pended $G0 million in the two years 1948 and 1949, The building project is no "hurry-up- " ideas of inferiority and corruption. Bentham. two years, iy4o ano Job. The London announcement compared with $37 million in the $29 State and Federal funds accounted said there was no indication at 1947. visit of million of the $60 million total in 1948-4- 9, The use of history is to give value to the present present of any projected compared royal highness to Kenya. . hour and its duty. Jff December 31, 1949 - $1.25 , Stored by U.S. ATCHISON. KANSAS. More Cash in than 600 million eggs that nobody Cash in A First C1m Publication entered ia At Port OSce tt Beaver. Utah, of On grow of Mar. 3. 1879. is second dan mail matter, nadtr the Tekpkoae 24. AdTtrtuiag rates quoted m . STRONG Of Beaver City Corporation,, by Estella Thompson, toSTSsOCWIIOS AJKD G. MERKLEY Editor and Publiihtt I Eggs by Million ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 25. 1904 POLIO FUNDS REPORT ANNUAL FINANCIAL Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporaton $5000 Maximum Insurance for Each Depositor BEAVER CITY ELECTRIC LIGHT REVENUE FUND RECEIPTS Cash on hand Electric Light Revenue Fund $ 2,913.86 January 1, 1949 Cash on Hand Electric Light Revenue Sink 12,160.62 ing Fund, January 1, 1949 Cash on Hand R. E. A. Sinking Fund 500.00 Electric Light Customers 48,127.27 Electric Light Customers R. E. A 2,892.47 Sales Tax Connection Rent of poles from Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Deposits for Guarantee Deposits 846.79 292.76 39.00 85.00 TOTAL 67.857.7 DISBURSEMENTS Power Produced Plant operators Salary of Waterniaster, Maintenance and repairs Supplies and Expense pro-rate- 5.670.00 792.00 888.36 812.13 110.93 27.52 d Telephone , Transportation and Miscellaneous Distribution d Salary City Electrician, SI 1,080.00 180.00 41.50 418.93 5,546.45 110.99 pro-rate- Salary, R. E. A Supplies and Expense Truck and Transportation Maintenance and Repairs Telephone Reading, Rilling and Collectio- nSalary, meter reader Salary, office .Meter 1,101.74 485.00 150.00 249.20 Salary, ,R. E. A Supplies and Expense Administrative and General ExpenseSalaries, Officials Salaries, Office Salaries, R. E. A Office Supplies and Expense Insurance and Bond Premiums Legal Accounting Improvements on Electric Light System Bond Interest Paid Sales Tax Refund Guarantee Deposits R. E. A. notes paid Refund, Supplies Bought Administration Building from Beaver City Expense of Mayor and City Council .... Rent of Diesel Engine - 884.30 560.00 150.00 319.13 889.20 250.00 ,655.92 ,372.75 846.64 90.00 845.25 12.00 6,200.00 226.01 2,700.00 6.500.00 Refund on Bonds Cash in Bank Electric Light Revenue Fund December 31. 1949 Cash in Sinking Fund, Dec. 31. 1949 Cash in R. E. A. Sinking Fund, Dec. 31. 1949 8,803.96 15,287.87 500.00 $ 67,857.: TOTAL ASSETS Electric Light Revenue Fund $ 9,249.57 Electric Light Revenue Sinking Fund 15,287.87 R. E. A. Sinking Fund 500.00 Accounts Receivable, Beaver Customers .... 2,444.24 144.64 Accounts Receivable, R. E. A. Customers .... Accounts Receivable, Sales Tax 53.92 Electric Light Power System (new) 201,282.87 Electric Light Power System (old) 78,846.74 Electric System, Inventory 3,601.56 $311,416 TOTAL LIABILITIES Outstanding Warrants Guarantee Deposits Outstanding Revenue Bonds Reserved for depreciation (old) Reserved for depreciation (new) Surplus $ 345.61 388.50 i 91,000.00 25.481.91 45,357.62 148,842.76 $311,416. TOTAL STATE OF UTAH County of Beaver S3. I Fatulla Thnmnunn Pltw Poi-nrH- nf Upaver C.itV. Utah, bef of certify that the above is a full, true and correct statement sta true a and receipts and disbursements of Beaver City, Utah, ment of the condition of Beaver City. Utah, for the year end December 31. 1949, to the best of my knowledge. ESTELLA THOMPSON. City Recorder Passed and approved by the City Council of Beaver City. January 3, 1950. t'H CLARENCE A. KIRKHAM. iay STATE OF UTAH S3. ounty of Beaver . V. In 1 rA Aav tn TflnliarV, 1 T. li.. on her oath deposes sworn who Estella Thompson, being duly says that the foregoing annual statement is true to the her knowledge and belief. ESTELLA THOMPSON, City Recorao 19 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of January. S. G. HICKMAN, (SEAL) My commission expires June 15, 1950. Notary Pub Residing at BcaTer, i- - |