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Show UTAH POPULATION-TAf .1 XII I I I lv I? T . UTAH FOUNDATION'S Stitute . ! .The Future HELPER The TRENDS NOTED IN X THURSDAY, MAY LATEST RESEARCH Increases in the proportion of children and senior citizens in the population are among the for major factors accounting Utah's steadily rising tax burden. No scientist is more honored by the American people than Or. Jonas Salk. No one is more aware than Dr. Salk of the part played by individuals and organized groups in the great partnership of laymen and scientists that helped bring about the jj ture --r wow Dr. aalk nas emoarkea on a bold new ven. , . creation of a laboratory of life , . . again in with the public. He will direct the Salk Partnership Biological Studies, to open in 1963, at San Diego, Calif. Much of the support for the Institute will come directly from the people through contributions to the $15 million Salk Institute Building Fund, June 1 to IS. It will be a laboratory where scientists from many parts of the world will concentrate on achieving greater understanding of basic biological processes and will study the problems of life, health and dis- ease. What greater privilege than to be a shareholder in the search for knowledge that will help man make the best of his gift of life! not only upon the level of the state and local tax burden, but also on the types of governmental serviees provided. The proportion of state and local budThis conclusion was reported gets spent on education, or exinereased from 34 in by Utah Foundation, the non- ample, in 4 960. profit tax research organization 1942 to 48 in their current analysis of re- According to the foundation venue and expenditure trends in study, the shift from state public assistance to Federal Social Utah, According to the .Foundation Security (old age survivors, and study, population increases in the disability ibenefits) has been a age ,19 and under category and, major factor in the relative de-i- n the senior citizen (age 65 andjcline in the proportion of 6tate over) group amounted to 43 and local spending for public and 41 respectively during the welfare in Utah. In il942 approx I960 decade. The rise in the 20,miately 20 of all state and to 64 age bracket, on the other local expenditures in Utah went hand, was only about 17 in the for public welfare (excluding period, Next to Mississippi, Utah Federal Social Security), comhas the lowest proportions of pared with T In 1900. The study shows that total persons in tax producing (20-6age groups to total population payments in Utah for (Federal Social Security plus public asin the entire nation. Because of this changing pop- sistance were $9,6 (million in ulation distribution, the demand 1942, rising to $61.0 million in for governmental services has I960. iMost of this ris is acbeen increasing, while the pro- counted for by the increase in portion of tax producers in the Federal Social Security payments, state has been declining. The which rose from less than $0.5 net result of these trends, ac- million in 1942 to $42.2 million cording to Foundation analysts, in 1960. is an increased tax Iburden. In Nearly two thirds of the in19(50 state and local taxes in crease in state spending during Utah were equal to 9.77 of the recent years has been for inState's personal income. By 1961, creased school aid and for an this percentage had risen to 4 expanded state capital outlay level. progTam, the report continues. 31. (Utah) IODRNAD PAGE SEVCT 1962 UNCOVERING fkl tCU .I W livj 4) ry nkjjgLlfitp TthJ"" M. Goo V Stk. dllli ' "gsra " I If, A . Another develop- I19&1-5- 1951-5- 69-6- 1). dur-ha- killed high-rankin- 3 and 1959-6- 1, Between biennial state general expenditures (excluding employment se curity operations) rose by $197 million (from $161 million in to $335 billion in 3 Because of these increased state outlays (primarily for the school aid and the state building program), expenditures have exceeded revenues in three of tha past four bienniums. For the most part, these deficits were services. The Foundation report ob mot toy the use of surpluses and serves that these developments final balances accumulated had an important affect ing and after World War II, important (recent years has been the movement of population from rural areas to urban centers and from large core cities to suburban areas. Such population shifts, according to the report, have tended to accentuate the demand for increased govern ment spending in the fields of education, highways, health, san itation and other urban-typ- e Tie "Let us cover this affront to aesthetics with our own Sunday paintings," someone suggested. U.N. personnel from Ambassadors and g members of the Secretariat to janitors rallied to the call. Blanketing as it did the offending wall, the club's first exhibition in 1949 was as much a field maneuver in camouflage as it was an artistic undertaking. Today, though, the exhibitions held annually in the spacious public lobby of the General Assembly building are a prominent feature of Manhattan's artistic skyline. Each exhibition draws more than 100 entries and 200,000 visitors. Sponsored by the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, the shows also attract as guest exhibitors a parade of national figures whose fields are neither painting nor diplomacy. Last year, for instance, filmdom's Alfred Hitchcock displayed a 11.-7- 1 ment during THBY No interpreters needed "Beauty born of ugliness" would be an appropriate motto for the United Nations Art Club. The group sprang from indignation over a particularly offensive brick wall in the raw. temporary headquarters of tht world organization at Lake Success. train wrecks is because the en reason more people are gineer never tries to hug the in auto accidents than in fireman! This spring's guests included composer Morton Gould, with a sensitive pen drawing titled "Pianist's Hands," and movie star Vincent Price, with an elaborate pencil drawing of the Nativity. d And for fans of a certain singing idol there was aa oil composition featuring four elements of approximately equal prominence: three fragments of a musical staff and the signature: teen-age- "Paul Anka." ve SAY Of course a lot Must sit down CENTRAL COMMISSION doctors support health care for the aged. . . AND SUPPLY CO - Helper 1 Phone 472-569- ' il TS 159 m v R my We agree that all of our elderly should receive all the health care they need when they need it. The question is how health care for the aged can best be financed... and whether the program should be voluntary or compulsory ROC3S ooMPtmvNiw IATHMHOWMS FIK CA1ACE WHY WE FAVOR WHY WE REJECT VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS THE COMPULSORY PROPOSAL Voluntary programs are available now. They are private health insurance and prepayment plans for those able to purchase these and the s Law and other state and local policies those need help. for who programs helping ... Kerr-Mill- Health insurance now is available to all the aged everywhere, and more than 9,000,000, or already have it. s The Law enables the individual states to guarantee to every aged American who needs help the health care he 53, Kerr-Mill- to your boolaooo ao your tolophono Oo clooo mm r any f thousand offk aMt md witJm device thai cm tpd your buinw Mte, y9 w monyT A qvkk Mwphon call WW ... ri0M nr CALL: requires. In addition to the more than 2,500,000 Americans covered s Law is designed to benefit by old age assistance, the all older persons who can not meet the cost of a serious or prolonged illness. each state can pattern the program And, under to meet its own particular needs. Kerr-Mill- Kerr-Mill- s, The voluntary way avoids waste of tax dollars those who need help and by preserving the right to take care of themselves. Bill (HR 4222), now before Congress and all employers to pay a substantial increase in payroll taxes to buy health care for millions who can well afford to take care of themselves. The would force all King-Anderso- n wage-earne- rs It would not provide any help for the 3,500,000 not covered the group most in need. by social security It would lower the quality of health care with the Federal Government controlling standards of practice. The cost of the bill would be staggering even when judged of by the lowest estimates; yet, it would cover less than 25 an aged person's health care costs. Every hospitalized patient would be required to pay $10 a day for the first nine days. Many aged could not afford the $90. But the could easily afford the $90 and get a free ride at taxpayers' expense for the rest of their hospital charges. well-to-d- o by of helping the self-relia- nt It is bad medicine any way you look at it! HEIFER JOURNAL OFFICE SUPFLY WE BELIEVE VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS SHOULD BE GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL. THEY SHOULD NOT BE CAST ASIDE FOR A RADICAL, COSTLY, COMPULSORY, IRREVERSIBLE GOVERNMENT MEDICINE PLAN. IF YOU BELIEVE AS WE DO, WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN TODAY. TO VOTE AGAINST THE BILL (HR 4222). Oi lAUVlMSSlMSi xttoi mo THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION URGE HIM Your Congressman is M. Blaine Peterson His address: House Office Bldg., Washington D.C. For JFurther information ask your family doctor. CARBON COUNTY KEDICAl SOCIETY ? |