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Show Xlie uimhel HELPER WKT c-- UF I (Utah) ir ASSOCIAIIOS tnASSlAIf JOURNAL tATIOUAL DITORIAI ASSOCIATION W MOST APPROPRIATIONS FROM GENERAL FUND Washington ,News-Lett- er UTAH FOUNDATION STUDY POINTS OUT By ROBERT N. TAYLOR Washington Correspondent Although nearly 90 of all spe f clal APPLESAUCE FOR Government workers will that legislative appropriations Brr cost far more than the rate In- - in Utah are made from the genTHE GANDER THB JOURNAL, FUBLIBHrNO COSfPANY eral fund, such general fund apNow that the President has creases will produce. HELPER, UTAH comhad the steel Administration the with his way propriations account for only Perhaps Bland Am 8con4 OUm Matur At Tht Pott Offloa At Htlpcr. UUfe panies, numerous fellow citizens thinks the public would be more about one fourth of all state apcould wish he might turn his tractable if it knew less of what propriations. Moreover, the relaTHURSDAY, MAY 17, 1962 IUGI TWO and reporters, tive importance of the general fury on the prospect of Increas- is going on ing postal rates by over $33 a writers, editors, artists, engrav- fund has been declining during ton (not a mere $8). At least, ers, typographers and pressmen recent years. These facts were noted toy Utah he might explain why this would would be happier raking leaves? not "constitute a wholly unjusti- At least, there's no better way of Foundation, the private governmental research organization in fiable and irresponsible defiance hastening the managed state. an analysis of the state general of the public interest". YOUR PROBLEM, TOO fund. n this serious hour in our nation's history, (if we may borrow All Americans everywhere, The Foundation report explains some of his words) when we are whether they grow corn or not, that a substantial part of state devoting our energies to economic have a vested interest in their spending in Utah is made by formulas and recovery and stability and ask- country's best-knocrop. Be- means of statutory d appropriations. In addi ing union members to hold down sides eating corn in a variety of open-entheir wage requests .at a time forms, iwe all use an endless tion, present budgetary procedwhen restraint and sacrifice are stream of paper, cloth, and other ures in Utah permit agencies to fees, Federal aid receipts, being asked of every citizen, the industrial products made with spend American people will find it hard coatings and adhesives of starch and other (collections without additional legislative authorizato accept a situation in which a mostly processed by the Ameri- tions. Burof Urorn Government handful can (cornstarch tiny industry eaucrats can show such utter more than a third of the corn Another factor hampering sound fiscal management in Utah, accontempt for the interests of 188 sold outside of livestock feeding cording to the Foundation reAmericans. million channels. port, is the large number of sep If it was so wicked of VS. Each of us, therefore, has a arate funds established for state Steel to hike its price 3V4 per-'stain the "tapioca purposes. As of Janaccounting cent in the face of a 6 percent bills" (HR J0823 and 10833). " increase in costs, how come it is These bills would go a long way uary 1, 1982, the Foundation 189 separate funds for counted to so noble of our Government jn freeing the cornstarch Industry ask newspapers and magazines to from the threat of strangulation cash control purposes. Since each of these funds is a distinct legal pay 80 percent more in second by imports of cheap tapioca and fiscal entity, it is exceeding class postage rates, and third starch from low-watropical class mail users 40 percent more? countries. (Contrary to a worn-Hav- e ly difficult to secure an accurate the present keepers of;0ut misconception, only a tiny 'and understandable picture of the the Federal Establishment for- - portion of this tapioca imported state's overall financial condition. gotten that it was the basic func- - free of duty into the United Even more serious, according to tion of the post office to main-- 1 states goes into puddings. Most the Foundation analysts, ig that tain communications and to en-jit replaces domestic starch in the restrictions and limitations contained in the various funds courage the dissemination of in- -; making textile and paper create over our continent-wid- e in budgeting rigidity ducts,) 3USADIN0 TIME: 30 SECONDS. nation t And are those custodians The tapioca bills submitted and administration. Because of of our freedoms who should be by Congressmen Curtis (Rep) of these factors, some state functions We regret to report that progress in not our concerned with that traditional Missouri and OBrien (Dem) of and activities in Utah flourish, achievements that is, when it's applied to our growing responsibility unaware of thejminois and proposed as an while other activities may be number of publications that amendment to MR 900, the Trade inadequately financed. tax burden. , The study notes that after the would be done to death by such Expansion Act of !l62 are Or are they insensible signed to helo accomplish that sales tax was placed in the genWe've just been mi touch with the Tax Foundation, to the damage to both the na- equal tariff treatment by the OS eral fund by the 1955 Utah legWhich has come up with some fabulous figures i, to wit: tional morale and the economy t and the Common Market nations islature, the state general fund These questions become espe- which the President seeks for accounted for approximately 30 Federal, state and local governments collected nearly cially compelling when we real- the products of tropical count- of all Utah revenue. The per-- $55 billion in taxes in fiscal 1950, the government accounting ize that the same Administration ries. As matters stand, the Com- centage has steadily declined, and that expresses fear of an infla- mon Market has a 29 percent toy 1991 the general fund was .year ending just before the Korean War. tionary spiral and appears to de- duty on tapioca while the US has responsible for only about 24 In fiscal 1962 ending June 30, Tax Foundation estimates plore wage hikes in industry none whatever. Thus, the Euro- of total state revenue to Utah.., to and raises other plans postal pean starch industries have an According to' the Foundation "total tax collections will reach $143 billion. umbrella of protection against report, the sales tax is respon'On a per family basis, taxes have increased $1,380 to a of general excessive tapioca imports while sible for nearly 70 PROBATE & GUARDIANSHIP und revenue, but only about one . new the American pproducers high estimated at $2,530 this year. get NOTICES soaked in the flood of tapioca sixth of all state revenue In Utah. you'd like to clip this and send to your budget Consult clerk of District which is channeled into this t minded Court or the respective sign?) Representatives. country because it is free of duty ers for further information. here. By providing a duty only on excessive tapioca imports, the IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF tapioca bills would both' pore-serof "Mystery Personality" Guess the THE STATE OF UTAH, IN to our tropical tapioca proAND FOR CARBON COUNTY ducing friends their existing Glues Look Cash - You Win In ee irarket in this country the Matter of the Estate of duty-frt Be of good cheer: rise. HAROLD E. GHAFXN, Deceased. and help p-i- the US on an equal (Mark 10:49). basis with the Common Market. for comfort, we As we pray Notice To Creditors In 1952 --54, America was Imor lonely, sad no are Probate No. 2839 longer porting about J5 million pounds condiEstate of HAROUD E. CHAPTN, of tapioca starch per year. By no longer depressed by We circumstances. or tions Deceased. Creditors will present 1961, this had risen to 307 millrealizathe comforted by are claims with vouchers to the un- ion pounds. Uniess Congress each experience can dersigned at Helper, Utah, or to acts to provide tariff protection tion that into an made opportunity be S. V. Utizzette, Attorney at Law, comparable to that of the Comunderstandin to us grow for 178 South Main Street, Helper, mon Market, America remains ing. Utah, on or before the 6th day the tapioca dumping ground. And of September, 1902. the in tapioca production tropics AS JOSEPH MYERS is zooming, spurred by our own ca's largest industrial consumer Administrator of the Estate foreign aid program which of corn can compete on a fair of Harold E. Chapin, De- actually has built tapioca facilit- basis with the Common Market. ceased. A healthy, vigorous cornstarch ies. Date of First Publication, May Help! Write your Congressman industry helps protect our coun3rd, 1902, Date of Last Publica- to support the tapioca bills try's agricultural and economic amendment to MR 9900 so Ameri- tion, May 24th, 1962. Pukllihtd TburMtr ke bien During the current 1961-6- 3 nium, it is expected that general fund revenue will total $98.6 million, of which -- 66.4 million is expected to come from the sales tax. The ales tax also will provide an estimated $10 J million for the uniform school fund dur UNCOVERING tl ed He That Planteth a Tree ge Considering that South America's "impenetrable" Amazon jungle is probably the world's greatest remaining forest reserve, there's a to the recommendation of needs more trees pro-formati-on Yet that is., among the findings of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization foresters who. for over a decade have helped Brazil to catalogue its vast sylvan resources. Reporting on the work, Sir Henry nt e, director of the United Nations forestry division, said: "Before this exploration work, very little was known about these dense tropical forests, most of which have never been penetrated by the white man and are inhabited only by primitive Indian tribes. Now we have some idea of the extent and variety of the forest area. "Rich stands of mahogany have been discovered, and prom- - . ve Identity for the If It's ring that it and from Australia at that! ; most-importa- ing the biennium. A marked change in the allocation of general fund revenue has occurred in Utah during the past decade. The Foundation study shows that higher eucatlon of availnow receives over 30 able general fund revenue, comten years pared with only 23 ago. Welfare, on the other hand, of total general received 19 fund appropriations in 1981-6- 3, compared with more than 30 in 1991-0- 3. ising trial plantations of eucalyp- tus and other exotic species i have been planted." And that's where indigenous varieties had better look to their laurels. For, according to Sir Henry, Australian eucalyptus and Caribbean pine may yiew "10 or even 20 times the produo-tion of wood coming front the native-borforest." n Already there are new plots of eucalyptus "which have reached a height of 50 feet is 2Vi years a growth of torn inches per week," he said. Seeds of the eucalyptus a tree whose range of uses nm from rail ties to furniture to pate e first reached for South America from Australia, Sir Henry noted, adding: "One unexpected result is that visiting Australian foresters have found some species of eucalyptus growing better in the Amazon than in native Australia, and now Australia is buying eucabp-tu- s seeds from Brazil!" naner-makin- iljllp Money for the TO tjBeS loom Mow $600 arada bv Chy nuance Co. St MEdford Price Help your teen-ager-s do better home work t m By f Wabttw's New CoOafflata Dictionary, m copy Uarriam-WatxU- r. Look for the word Mar-- TMa It the dictionary hnr?M raw LI II f ll 51 $2000 (&ZV i E. 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It is well to keep in mind that a free press and a free people are an unbeatable team. UR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER IS A HERITAGE TO PROTECTI 4 Vllff 144 VAT Ml? Mlt tiff. f AS J |